Grimdark Edgy Science Show (Rick & Morty Thread)

KageKageKing

Here is the transcript in question. http://imgur.com/a/skffp

Green-Hair 0

From San Diego Comic-Con, a clip from Season 3

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And here's Justin reading a real-life court case transcript in Rick and Morty's voices.

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LOL the court script was funny as all hell.

DarthAsthma

A fan actually fully animated that court scene. Pretty impressive.

Tuan

I think this should be coming back to our screens pretty soon. Check out the preview image here!

KaizokuJinbei

squeeee

MetaMario

FINALLY a goshdarn air date.

Camo

So like where did that image come from? How do you know that's legit?

EDIT: Not trying to be a dick or anything, you just didn't give any context for the image.

akagami7

2/31?…...:ninja:

MetaMario

@akagami7:

2/31?…...:ninja:

…..oh son of a-

CosmicDebris

16 characters of lol XD

Camo

I actually just read it got pushed back to

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Pachylad

Check it out guys! :D

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Neaeran

This is just brilliant.

Enzeru

Ooh that is so darn good

Mr. Reloaded

Episode 1 of season 3 is airing on Adult Swim on loop until midnight, that's great lmao.

That probably means no Jack tonight though.

Apprentice

There is a new episode playing in a loop right now online somewhere and it's also playing on tv at midnight I think. I just saw it and it's amazing. Hurry up and watch it before midnight tonight. This is not a prank. Seriously

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Gizmo

That ending though.

! mcdonalds schezwan sauce for the win. Hopefully it comes back.
! Edit: ball is in McDonald's court.

loneassassin

Greatest April Fool's joke ever

Wagomu

I will laugh if this was all a ploy to make McDonalds bring back the Szechuan dipping sauce.

By making the episode release so noteworthy, they gave their message a signal boost. It has the chance to become memetic, and if it does, then McDonalds doesn't have much to lose by bringing that sauce back. Hell, I never even tried it when it came out, so I can't be nostalgic for it, but damn do I want to try it.

Count Mario

! The episode 1 parallel speech was so damn perfect.

desa

Rick was awesome. I was worried they were going to give a character arc and while that fear is not gone yet, I'm glad Rick was his usual self for the most part. While it is interesting to have a sympathetic main character "Rick and Morty" really need that asshole-ness to keep having his own flavor & be his most fun.

! I really thought we were skipping the escape. April fools I guess.
! We really took a trip through memory lane for this episode.
! Morty's original family has become quite allergic to Rick. He did fucked up their whole world after all.
! Seeing Rick body to body was pretty awesome. So was killing a bunch of Rick. I wonder if they will reorganize now that the council is dead.
! The interraction were on point as usual(Summer as hostage) & they finally got rid of Jerry.
! That last speech is really reminescent of the first one he had
! For now I'm gonna consider this backstory as real. Which would would mean Rick is not even Morty's original grandfather.

James Rye

Holy crap, that was an awesome first episode. It undid everything from the previous seasons and destroyed like 90% of the current Rick&Morty Lore or changed most of it to "changed, gone, MD SAAAAAAAAAUCEEEE". XD

KageKageKing

Was that canon or not?

hosemisnuba

! Rick's episode 1 call back rant was sick. Enough said.

pariston_hill

Fucking awesome, best prank ever. And although Jerry was a prick I will miss Parnell's voice.

Demon Rin

I was not expecting this at all, but that was great. Oh my god, the wait might have been worth it.

KageKageKing

@pariston_hill:

Fucking awesome, best prank ever. And although Jerry was a prick I will miss Parnell's voice.

I don't think Jerry is out of the show yet. I can see him appearing in an episode or two.

Now what about Squancy and Mr. Poopy Butthole(Why this name lol?)?

Count Mario

All I know for sure now is that when the final episode of Rick and Morty airs, it NEEDS to end with another parallel to the episode 1 ending speech.

KageKageKing

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MetaMario

So yeah, April 1st.

Not what was I expecting at all, I thought S2 ended with a near impossible situation (how would Rick escape?). But yeah, he goes ham and does it anyway, and the show cleverly uses the universe that Rick and Morty replaced their other (dead) selves.

Yobiyopi

It may sound like a shot in the dark but for some reason i think Jessica will end up as the ultimate mastermind (that will use Morty's crush to her advantage). It's also not likely at all but i like how much room there is for theories

andre

@Yobiyopi:

It may sound like a shot in the dark but for some reason i think Jessica will end up as the ultimate mastermind (that will use Morty's crush to her advantage). It's also not likely at all but i like how much room there is for theories

It not only sounds like a shot in the dark, it is one! What's your basis for this?

Yobiyopi

@andre:

It not only sounds like a shot in the dark, it is one! What's your basis for this?

She's been estabilished as his crush since the first episode, and got some scenes to interact with him, but aside from some gags it's almost suspicious how underutilized she's been despite being the crush of the MC. Throughout the series we've also been getting some "hints" of sorts about some genes or something that make Morty and Summer incredibly aggressive at times, and thinking about the reason for that inclusion maybe it will lead to Morty killing his crush in the climax.

It's silly and easily dismissible, but in a series that just like OP uses little details of the past to set up events in future episodes (just like in the first of season 3), i really want to know what Jessica will amount to, or if she's just his crush and nothing else. Besides, even Tammy ended up as a major villain despite her minor role at first, so who knows.

Robby

http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-szechuan-mcnugget-may-come-back-thanks-to-rick-and-morty-2017-4

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Robby

bepo

shokugeki no morty?

Ubiq

The ratings are out and, uh, yeah, that wasn't such a good idea; the season three premiere really underperformed compared to the usual Saturday night material. The highest numbers, which were just in the 900K range, were for the 11:00 slot and those steadily decreased throughout the hour so it seems pretty likely that a lot of people tuned in for Samurai Jack, stuck around to see if it was going to air, and then gave up at midnight. Toonami itself tanked big time and even the comedy repeats after were down.

Mr. Luffy

So wait, Rick & Morty S3 actually premiered? Don't watch much CN but like this show. I can't be the only one who didn't even notice it.

HeartOfDarkness

I didn't notice it until someone brought it to my attention. Just goes to show how little the show coming back was known.

With that said, the episode was fucking brilliant. So jammed pack with content while being smart, funny, intense, and emotional at the same time.

Kitsune Inferno

Yeah, the ratings for an unadvertised episode aren't really important. Meanwhile, I saw a video on FB with 5 million views, which just shows you where this show's audience is really at.

Robby

@Kitsune:

Yeah, the ratings for an unadvertised episode aren't really important.

Yes and no. They can write off those ratings as "April Fools gag results" but bad rating are bad ratings and can hurt the long term prospects of any franchise.

And this will both totally forever hurt R&Ms legacy till the end of time, (which isn't even REALLY starting its season yet) AND Samurai Jack which had been building for all of 3 weeks! What the hell man, what the hell?

R&M is going to permanently have bad ratings recorded for its season premiere, ( so you know, wikipedia articles in the future are going to look like it did terrible without any context! And in six months a bean counter responsible for renewing for a fourth season might not look at it and go "That was the backfired April Fools joke" but instead "Oh, the brand new content did less well than reruns we don't even have to make." That's the sort of thing that gets shows randomly cancelled or put on indefinite hiatuses or rescheduled into oblivion!!!!!!!

… which actually CN does all the time so maybe its best not to joke about that.

On the other hand, the surprise created a lot of hype, if not actual ratings, so maybe it's a net positive.

Wagomu

Adult Swim's been doing weird things on April Fools for a while, without announcement. I doubt they're more interested in hard tv ratings than the hype they've generated.

Kitsune Inferno

@Robby:

Yes and no. They can write off those ratings as "April Fools gag results" but bad rating are bad ratings and can hurt the long term prospects of any franchise.

And this will both hurt R&M (which isn't even REALLY starting its season yet) and Samurai Jack which had been building for all of 3 weeks.

R&M is going to permanently have bad ratings recorded for its season premiere, ( so you know, wikipedia articles in the future are going to look like it did terrible without any context) and in six months a bean counter responsible for renewing for a fourth season might not look at it and go "That was the backfired April Fools joke" but instead oh "Oh, the brand new content did less well than reruns we don't even have to make." That's the sort of thing that gets shows randomly cancelled or put on indefinite hiatuses or rescheduled into oblivion… which CN does all the time.

On the other hand, the surprise created a lot of hype, if not actual ratings, so maybe it's a net positive.

Oh no! Wikipedia articles, the lifeblood of TV economics as we know it!

Yeah, no. These ratings absolutely do not matter. Why?

They aired the episode on a holiday, as a special event. Most networks actively write-off "special event" airings of episodes. For example, Modern Family episodes that air the day before Thanksgiving are usually written off as "special" airings, and thus, do not count in the show's seasonal averages.
They aired the episode on a Saturday. Rick and Morty typically airs on Sundays or Mondays, so this episode already will have nothing to do with seasonal averages for the show. Saturdays are notoriously known for low PUT levels (that's persons using television), and as a result, most networks avoid scheduling on Saturday altogether. (see: Gravity Falls ratings when it aired on a Saturday. "Oh no, they canceled THAT show because they aired it on a Saturday!") Interestingly enough, Saturdays are when AS airs Toonami, so they're one of the few networks that actually go out of their way to program the night with new originals.
They aired the episode in advance as a "special preview", a strategy that networks have done for forever, with no consequence. Glee aired its first episode in May 2009, before premiering again in September 2009 to massive ratings, despite re-airing the same episode. This won't prevent the season from premiering big because
It's 2017, and nobody, least of all Adult Swim, cares about L+SD ratings anymore. Rick and Morty is a heavily time-shifted show, and it routinely triples and quadruples its linear ratings in L+7. That's not counting the extremely large online presence the show has, being one of Hulu's most popular properties and all.
Rick and Morty is aired by Adult Swim, not Cartoon Network. They are separate entities and corporate structures, and Adult Swim is remarkably well known for its long running series. Rick and Morty is not going anywhere because…

and in six months a bean counter responsible for renewing for a fourth season might not look at it and go

Oh, wait, never mind, I'm wasting my breath.

Strooger

I'm a bit disappointed we won't get any more of the galactic federation or that we didn't get to explore the council of Ricks more. But I guess this whole thing will give the writers a shot at taking the series in a new direction.

Robby

@Kitsune:

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Uhm, the wikipedia line was a joke. An example of the most minor insignificant consequence of how they aired it.

And yes, AS lets shows run for years. But they are also notorious for
A)not telling a group they are renewed for a long freaking time, often not until after a previous season has been made and fully aired its season. And given that it takes animation a year to create, not having that heads up adds significantly to hiatuses.
B)not giving them enough budget to hire an actual staff to produce their show leaving it as a cheap skeleton crew.
(these are among the reasons it takes three years to get an 8 episode Venture Brothers season now.)

C)looking at the ratings on an action series and going "whelp, that's not as good as a family guy rerun, schedule those instead". There's a reason they have comedies 6 nights a week and action/anime shows one time a week.

D)randomly airing shows up to a point and then never getting to their finale… a trait they share with their sister network. I'm pretty sure they started Moribito over three different times in threee different timeslots and never actually finished airing it... because the ratings were bad. They never put on more than 26 episodes of Lupin III or Crayon SHin Chan despite both of them having around 100 episodes dubbed already. And Shin Chan actually had okay ratings. They keep trying to make Gundam Work and it never does, not since Wing. And some other shows they end up doing a marathon to grind through 8 episodes in a single night just to finish it off and get it off the air. ANd theres a ton of shows they only go through once. (Meanwhile, Cowboy Bebop was left on continuous play every week for over a decade)

E) There's a reason AS aired their actual ratings every night for years. In order to show viewers why they were making the decisions they were making. (Action shows always did way worse than comedy shows. Always. ANd yes, Saturday being dead time IS why they schedule them there,

They may care less about ratings than networks have historically because they are aware of other outlets and tivo and recordings all internet and all that... but they DO still care about making money.

Because yes, they may well know why the ratings are bad on a given episode, but... they DO still care about their advertisers and bottom line.

I'm not saying "Oh no, they're going to kill Rick and Morty because bad ratings for its premiere" because they're waaaay more lenient towards their in-house productions, but they DO make scheduling and renewing and picking up more episodes based around ratings and popularity, you can't pretend they let something run forever and keep paying to create it *just * because they like it. Up to a point sure, but they have limits.

Md-Martin

I do think that AS realizes the fanbase the show has and they are using it to expand that audience. The April Fools prank did well at getting attention(and attention for a certain sauce) and they doubled down by re-airing the episode throughout the week and actively promoting that the season returns in the summer. While I am now burntout having watched the episode 7 times, they got a bunch of viral attention, posted in online pretty much ensuring that the existing fanbase would watch it in the first few days, and then re-aired it throughout the week which I'm sure gained attention from people that know of the show but don't normally watch it. People that would hear about the hype behind the prank, see it 4 days later and give it a shot.

In the end my only complaint is that they haven't scheduled other episodes to air before or after the re-showings of the premier. Starting with a premier that picks up from a cliffhanger is fine, but if someone normally doesn't watch AS on a Sunday then this is the only episode they'd see this week airing.

Apprentice

I'm still not fully convinced this whole episode wasn't a real prank and come summer time there'll be a different Season 3 episode 1 and this will turn out to be a special "What if" episode.

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Robby

You don't put a year of time and effort into writing, directing, storyboarding and animated a show for an April Fool's joke.

South Park can get away with it on years their episodes premiere on April 1 because their production only takes 6 days. But anything traditionally animated is not going to do that.

Kitsune Inferno

@Robby:

Up to a point sure, but they have limits.

But that's not what you said. You were like "Rick and Morty is doomed, this is awful, we're ruined", which regardless of your Wikipedia joke, dominated the tone of your original post.

There's no need to doomsay when Rick and Morty is fine. Rick and Morty is huge and it's not going anywhere.

Ratings DO matter, but they matter a lot less now than they did when AS ran those bumps. When AS ran those bumps, internet streaming and DVR and all that fun stuff that literally dominates the way we consume TV now were statistically insignificant. Now it's the law of the land.

I'm just saying, let's not act like this means anything, because it really, really, really doesn't. There's no need to misinform people over nothing.

Robby

Apparently I was nowhere near over the top enough for the joking intent to get through. A little bit serious about ratings mattering, but over the top about what the reprecussions would be.

I thought for sure the wikipedia bit made it clear I was joking.

I went back in and added six words, an additional sentence, and a lot of exclamation marks to make it clearer.

That aside. Ratings do matter, and if the entire season has ratings like that, it would in fact be a problem.