Rick and Morty Griefing Thread - Originally titled "Rick and Morty writer Jessica Gao, who wrote Pickle Rick, leaves show"

[The handsome tard]

Although the time travel episode in Season 4 was funny at least.

wait, they actually did a time travel episode? I thought the creators said that they would never do it, both because Morty and Rick started off as Back to the Future parody characters and also since time travel plots rarely made sense when you truly began to think about. Closest thing was the S2 premiere where time was just frozen but not travelled through. They even had a visual gag with some stuff in a box in the garage being "time travel stuff".

Man, they cant even maintain that basic level of integrity

 

[Deadwaste]

wait, they actually did a time travel episode? I thought the creators said that they would never do it, both because Morty and Rick started off as Back to the Future parody characters and also since time travel plots rarely made sense when you truly began to think about. Closest thing was the S2 premiere where time was just frozen but not travelled through. They even had a visual gag with some stuff in a box in the garage being "time travel stuff".

Man, they cant even maintain that basic level of integrity

its the snake episode

 

[Bastard_Call]

wait, they actually did a time travel episode? I thought the creators said that they would never do it, both because Morty and Rick started off as Back to the Future parody characters and also since time travel plots rarely made sense when you truly began to think about. Closest thing was the S2 premiere where time was just frozen but not travelled through. They even had a visual gag with some stuff in a box in the garage being "time travel stuff".

Man, they cant even maintain that basic level of integrity

I imagine Justin Roiland said that. It used to be Rick and Morty was his baby and the show was just your run of the mill stoner comedy on AS, which happened to be popular among Redditors. Then Dan Harmon started to get more invested and began injecting his extremely narrow brand of story-telling, thanks to a lifetime of reading the same Carl Jung book over fiction. I'm fairly certain that since then, precisely zero of the original writers are still on board including even Harmon, so it's no wonder they've dropped the show's founding ideals.

Speaking of which, I know everyone claims the predominately female writing team was a diversity hire thing, but I honestly think Dan just wanted an outlet to weasel himself some pussy. For a guy who reads so much Jung, you'd think he'd have more control over his impulses. What we resist persists, I suppose.

 

[The handsome tard]

I imagine Justin Roiland said that. It used to be Rick and Morty was his baby and the show was just your run of the mill stoner comedy on AS, which happened to be popular among Redditors. Then Dan Harmon started to get more invested and began injecting his extremely narrow brand of story-telling, thanks to a lifetime of reading the same Carl Jung book over fiction. I'm fairly certain that since then, precisely zero of the original writers are still on board including even Harmon, so it's no wonder they've dropped the show's founding ideals.

Speaking of which, I know everyone claims the predominately female writing team was a diversity hire thing, but I honestly think Dan just wanted an outlet to weasel himself some pussy. For a guy who reads so much Jung, you'd think he'd have more control over his impulses. What we resist persists, I suppose.

At this point, I automatically assume that almost every "woke" man on the entertainment industry is either a pedophile ala Schneider, a sex fiend ala Weinstein or a disgusting combination of both. And just like both examples I mentioned, everyone around them know, they just keep secret for the sake of their careers and PR. So you might be onto something.

 

[Mr. Bung]

Him realising that he could never be with the love of his life because of who he is and what she wants to be? And Rick being so crushed that he decides to end it all, only just barely escaping a suicide attempt? That stuff was great. It proved that Rick can feel love, which shows he is rather a hypocrite when he described love in that cynical manner in the love potion episode, and you would think that was the whole point. Rick is not meant to be right. For as near omnipotently smart he makes himself look, he is still an extremely flawed man that is meant to have seen it all and developted a misotheistic view (yes, I legit never brought he was an atheist, he met the DEVIL for fuck's sake. He knows there is a God, he simply hates Him with a burning passion for various reasons, some obvious, some not)
Then the finale of S2 was meant to imply that he was ready to sacrifice everything for his family, including letting his sins catch up to him.

It kind of reminded me of Dr Manhattan's arc in Watchman. Guy is an all powerful god that could intervene but he doesnt see a point. He doesnt care for humanity and heis tired of pretending otherwise. He doesnt believe in a God because he IS the god. The whole point of his ending was to realise that there are things that he cant understand, miracles that he knew to be impossible. He realised that he isnt all powerful if he couldnt see that coming, despite being able to see both the future AND past...and he is glad for that. He is a god that believes in miracles now and that human life has a value that while he cant comprehend, he knows its still there.

I like to think that what you describe is the heart of his character, and what he was always intended to be from the onset. What's supposed to make Rick C-137 interesting out of the thousands of other Ricks is that he's a huge asshole but also has a sort of moral center and though he doesn't often come off as such he actually cares a lot about the people in his life, even Jerry in an extent. Most other Ricks are just pure selfish assholes who even treat their Mortys as expendable, while no other Ricks have the combination of characteristics seen in C-137.

Rick's feats and witty remarks are in many ways like Bugs Bunny if he was a scientist, the culture surrounding the show has turned Rick into a sort of god that people aspire to be or get a piece of. So as you mention different writers get a hold of him and use him as a self-insert for their views etc. Or in the case of the Pickle Rick episode, the writer self-inserted herself as the therapist so she could flex on Rick by owning him through an explanation on why Rick behaves the way he does.