Current Events > Rick and Morty season 4 has been really funny so far

(+) Yeah! (+)

Fucking loved the dragon episode.

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Wanna soul bond?

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Definitely been a step in the right direction

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Snake episode finally creates a genuine mind fuck, love it.

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been meh tbh

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Wubba lubba dub dub

I am pickle riiiiiick

jerry almost killing himself multiple times trying to set lights are fucking hilarious

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Bryfang posted...

I thought that heist episode totally missed the mark.

Really? The fact that the entire episode was a plot by Rick to get Morty to hate heist movies was funny though predictable.

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Rick and Morty is one of those shows that I enjoy more with each subsequent viewing of each individual episode. The snake one is pure genius, unironically.

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Meh, haven't been liking it much. The dragon episode was particularly dumb.

Maybe I've outgrown it.

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I've been liking season 4 specifically because it hasn't been taking itself seriously. Season 3 had so much lore hype around it because of the season 2 ending, and because of that every time it didn't meet the standard of what I wanted from the end of season 2, the show fell kind of flat. The toxin episode, for some reason, just irritated me at the time. Pickle Rick was fine when it wasn't a cultural phenomenon I couldn't escape, the mind crystal episode was just underwhelming for me - that whole season just left a bad taste in my mouth. And I liked episodes like the Beth and Jerry alien marriage councilling episode - season 3 just fucking annoyed me. Especially the ending.

But season 4 feels like a really entertaining irreverent show again. It's just fun, goofy episodes that I'm really digging - it's not trying to chase a dramatic height, like the evil Morty saga or the Beth episode from season 3. It's about dragons fucking, intentionally shitty heists, having to escape increasingly fascist parallel dimensions - it's great.

If they can pull off a serious episode in the next half that doesn't feel like half-baked trash, I'm going to be very happy.

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"Yeah, we wanna fuck woolly mammoths!"

That really nasally Roiland voice had me rolling when he said that.

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Heist episode sucked

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Yeah I liked all the new ones except the heist one.

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YugiNoob posted...

Yeah I liked all the new ones except the heist one.

And that episode is still the most quoted episode of the season with you son of a bitch Im in

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MrMallard posted...

But season 4 feels like a really entertaining irreverent show again. It's just fun, goofy episodes that I'm really digging - it's not trying to chase a dramatic height, like the evil Morty saga or the Beth episode from season 3. It's about dragons fucking, intentionally shitty heists, having to escape increasingly fascist parallel dimensions - it's great.

yeah agree. i hate it when shows suddenly tries to be serious but the executions are riddled with problems. if you wanna commit to something like actual plot and stuff better really commit into it or not at all

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apolloooo posted...

yeah agree. i hate it when shows suddenly tries to be serious but the executions are riddled with problems. if you wanna commit to something like actual plot and stuff better really commit into it or not at all

This is a part of why I fell out of love with Family Guy. In the early seasons, it still had conflict and story stuff, characters were fairly consistent, etc.

But in the later seasons it seems more like it's trying to be a drama with occasional jokes. Did Family Guy really need pisodes about murdering the husband of Quagmire's sister because he's abusive and shit like that? I don't think it did.

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As a Terminator mark I loved the snake episode

MrMallard posted...

Pickle Rick was fine

PIIIICCCKKKLLLEEE RIIIIICCCKKKK

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

This is a part of why I fell out of love with Family Guy. In the early seasons, it still had conflict and story stuff, characters were fairly consistent, etc, but it was funny above all. It threw entire plot lines out for the sake of a punchline, because that's the kind of show it was. It wasn't trying to teach real lessons or have serious character growth.

But in the later seasons it seems more like it's trying to be a drama with occasional jokes. Did Family Guy really need pisodes about murdering the husband of Quagmire's sister because he's abusive, Joe hunting down the guy who crippled him (which is a retcon of him being crippled by The Grinch on Christmas, which is exactly the type of shit Family Guy was built on), a mansion murder mystery episode with a bunch of characters actually (and permanently) dying, and shit like that? I don't think it did.

But the even LATER seasons of Family Guy (I wanna say 12 - present) I find the show is the funniest it's ever been because they've thrown all the story/conflict out the window and started focusing on it being as silly as possible with even more ridiculous cut aways that last for even longer. It's essentially finally become the show I've always thought it should've been


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So far I've only been crazy about the 1st episode with the death crystal and the snake episode. The others were either meh, or sucked.

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The first and last episodes were the best. Both the Morty and the Ricks plots were great, Wasp reality was suitably horrifying, and the reveal that Morty's "death with Jessica" was just her rotely reading off his name tag at the hospice she works in as he dies alone and forgotten was even better.

The second episode was basically one great plot(Rick's plot hunting down the rogue pooper) stapled to one mediocre plot(Morty/Jerry) and one terrible plot(Beth/Summer). I'm glad they end the episode with the payoff of the Rick plot: it's too perfect.

The Heist episode was eh. It has some great quotable lines(my personal favorite is Rick's: "Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.") but as an episode it's weak, even with the reveal the whole thing was just Rick trying to get Morty to hate heist plots. The Elon Musk cameo was weird and unnecessary.

Slut Dragons was good(it even has an especially inspired title: Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktims Morty), but hurt by the Jerry/Cat plot being mostly dead space. The A plot is hilarious all the way through though, IMO, and the payoff from the Jerry plot was good especially Rick actually doing Jerry a favor.

The snake episode was gold. All the references are great, the snake language is great, snake jazz is great, it's funny throughout and time travel being an apocalyptic, civilization-destroying invention feels perfect. Everyone wants to go back in time to kill Snake Hitler, for example, but there are a ton of people going back in time to save Snake Hitler(maybe they're Nazis, maybe Snake Hitler being murdered by a random time-traveler creates an even worse reality, who knows?), and it all turns into people murdering each other while Snake Hitler watches the carnage from his bath tub. Beth straight-up murdering the Snake Terminator because it skeezed her out was also a great gag. Then you have Jerry Jerrying it up in the B-plot, culminating in saving himself by crashing a 747. Great job Jerry, at least you didn't need Rick's help!

Definitely a great season so far, the death crystal and snake episodes are some of the best of the whole show.
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