Octopus Overlords

I didn't realize it started up again. Hope it's still on Comedy Central and my DVR slurped it up.

Last night was also the premier of "Kevin can f**k himself" but this ain't that thread.

Jim Gaffigan? That's not a name I'da expected to see.

Unfortunately, Adult Swim is a pain to watch if you don't have cable unless you want to subscribe to an expensive 'live' option. It is an anti-cord-cutter network. I'll wait until it's available elsewhere.

(And yes, I know the first episode is free. )

I think this latest episode is setting us up for some bigger stories:
Other than that, my line for the week is “Were we Blades in that one? Tight.”

Hmmm...those were good catches, they happened so fast. That's my one complaint about the show is that sometimes the dialogue comes so quickly, you can miss key elements if you're not 100% dialed in.

Seasons 1-4 are on Hulu, but Season 5 isn't.

Where are you watching, and will the new stuff eventually migrate to Hulu?

I have Hulu + Live TV + Hulu DVR so I'm "recording" it from Adult Swim via Hulu as it's airing.

We live in strange times.

I get it from Comedy Central/Adult Swim via YouTube TV.

Smoove_B wrote:Hmmm...those were good catches, they happened so fast. That's my one complaint about the show is that sometimes the dialogue comes so quickly, you can miss key elements if you're not 100% dialed in.

I have probably watched every past episode 4 or 5 times by now and i still catch new stuff sometimes. I like how it is so subtle and not blarring in your face to get the point across.

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YouTube and then I’ll wait for Hulu.

I jumped between loving and getting frustrated with episode 2 of season 5 (Mortiplicity).

Loved it because it tried to shred so many scifi tropes.

Frustrated because it tried to shred so many scifi tropes.

But seriously, it was denser than last week's episode, so it's going to take at least one more watch before I start to understand everything they tried to do in that episode.

However, it all pales in comparison to
Also, there was a brief callout to last week's name drop on Diane in a blink and you'll miss it moment. Rick basically states "we're not going to get into it" and then the story moves on.

Rick and Meta

Fuck you, Summer.

That Jerry is, like, the worst.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 12:51 pm Rick and Meta

Fuck you, Summer.

Spoiler:

Also I thought it was Planet of the Apes, only we got Jerry as the Statue of Liberty.

Even if this last episode was a 2 minute premise stretched out into an entire episode, I sure enjoyed it. But yea, that post credit ending was extra dark.

"Christianity...again?"

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:07 pm "Christianity...again?"

That's what I mean by my spoiler. :p

I...what?

I really can't speak LM. Can we get a polyglot in here to help me?

Maybe it's just me, but I feels like this season of R&M is heavily Justin and less Dan. It feels closer to the much more cynical and mean spirited Solar Opposites by Justin than it does previous seasons of R&M with Dan. I've always felt that Dan brings some humanity to Justin's admittedly often times funny cynicism, and that's what has kept the show from being about a cruel grandfather who is essentially a supervillain that enjoys torturing his grandson.

But this season I'm not really getting that vibe so far. I'm still enjoying it, don't get me wrong. But the formula just seems a little off.

Yeah there's definitely been a different tone so far. However this whole exchange




Had me laughing like a lunatic.

Oh, it's still miles beyond almost any other show. Don't get me wrong. I just miss the relatively light tone of a Vat of Acid, Pickle Rick or Ricklantis Mixup episode every now and again.

Film Theory provides an intriguing hypothesis on the reason the fifth season has seemed more than a wee bit 'off' and oddly inconsistent:

With any other show*, I'd say they were overthinking things. But this is Rick and Morty. So...I don't know.


*Venture Bros excluded

Okay, Fishing for Galactus might be my favorite bit from this season.

Also, this felt like an episode with more Harmon. It was a return to form in many ways.

Yeah, that was a fun ride. As a casual viewer who didn't remember Evil Morty from S1 (if there's anything to that video), I enjoy the episodic episodes more than those with a lot of subtle callbacks for the serial fanbase. I do miss Abradolph Lincler, though.

Canon and attention to details being R&M's thing, I have a question

Well...that was a lot to unpack.

Daveman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 11:45 pm

Think its real?

I don't know if it's just that I'm using cannabis right now, but this connects with me deeply:

That season finale was uh...something. I'm quite curious where they're going to go from here.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:41 am That season finale was uh...something. I'm quite curious where they're going to go from here.

They're kinda losing me. The season seemed really short with such a long gap to get to the "finale" and what was there felt like some sort of meta walking a line between being serialized and being episodic and just got too meta in trying to justify itself. I'll still be TiVoing but the magic that made me look forward to the next show or season seems to have worn thin. They are getting too clever for my own good. I like me some snobbery in my cartoons but I don't needy a group of writers fancying themselves Pynchon. I couldn't even get through Pynchon when my grades were on the line.

I'm finally caught up.

This is the only show I daren't watch sober from the effects of cannabis because it hurts too much. But it's too dense for me to properly appreciate it high. So I have to watch it stoned twice.

S6 Trailer



Coming 9/4/22

This was sitting in TiVo.

"He basically threw a tantrum to announce he was quitting twitter."

This is a good opening.

I enjoyed the episode tremendously. Not only a direct connection to days of old, but the writing seemed better too - more like the earlier seasons.

Blips -n- Chitz!

Another episode I thought was great. Didn't recognize the guest voice until the credits and then I was like, "duh, of course it was."

I still thoroughly enjoy the show. And the new season premiere was great. However, I do feel that at this point in time, I'm replaying scenes less to get a joke than I am to understand what was said/shown in regards to the huge mythology this show has built up over the course of its run. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it is less laugh out loud funny and more "wait...is that a callback to the origin of Rick's friendship with Birdman?". I guess it's only natural, considering the cerebral nature of the show, but I do miss the self contained episodes full of nothing but Rick being the worst Doc Brown grandfather in history.

I don't have the brain cycles to worry about the call backs but last night's episode needed no mythology to be awesome, though knowing everyone's personalities sure helped.

I do miss the self contained episodes full of nothing but Rick being the worst Doc Brown grandfather in history.

I guess some of our wishes come true.

Night family was fantastic!