Nobody Talks About Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty is currently on its Seventh Season, and at this point in time it's safe to say it is nowhere NEAR as popular as it was in its hay-day, and so today I wanna talk about where things started going wrong and where the series stands currently.

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0:00 Nobody Watches Rick and Morty
3:01 Sponsor
4:05 Where Things Started Going Wrong
10:04 Justin Roiland...
11:06 Where Are We Now?
13:43 The Reality of the Situation

[usmaanilyas]

Rick and Morty is one of those shows that I like, but I can't walk in the streets wearing a Rick and Morty shirt without feeling immediate shame

[JD-iurv]

The whole Szechuan Sauce incident was like a realization that people were taking the show way too seriously. I remember a couple years back when people said “Nothing matters, We’re all gonna die someday so who cares?” Unironically. Even though the show didn’t want you to idolize Rick. I know people who don’t want to talk about the show out of embarrassment

[jazzd]

the writers was trying to do "the lore is not important to the story" and "here's some important lore for the story" at the same time made people lose interest because any scene can be either one.

[TTYLIG]

Rick and Morty is such an interesting series because it seems like it was not ready for the mainstream. Like when an amazing music artist who’s just doing what they love with no expectations suddenly becomes the biggest name in the industry and they just don’t know how to handle it. The show was meant to be a super niche weird animated show with a small cult following but it became so big that it had to fight against the crushing weight of its own success.

[Mangacide]

Rick and Morty could be a good semi-serialized show if the creators weren't too busy hating everyone for enjoying that aspect.

[blake]

According to some there were barely any Rick & Morty cosplayers where adult swim was holding a panel. Being overtaken by smiling friends ones instead

[JohnnyCellos]

HEY I'm doing what I can

I was a pretty vocal critic of seasons 4-6 as a whole, but I was honestly shocked by how much I felt like season 7 had reinjected some life back into the series. Maybe not as consistently, but truly some of my favorite episodes in years.

My coverage of the season also performed better than pretty much anything from seasons 4-6. I do think the fanbase is still pretty robust, despite the show being a pretty common target in online discourse. It's just not COOL to like it anymore.

[tylerbertram]

How did Rick and Morty go from a parody of sci-fi movies and Tv shows to a parody of itself.

[RedshirtAfficionado]

The giant incest baby episode totally shattered any interest I had to see the series through to the end

[nps]

Ah, the life cycle of popular culture in media, we meet again.

Underground -> Popular with Youth -> Popular with Mainstream -> Peak -> Oversaturation -> Decline/Plateau -> End -> Nostalgia -> Possible Revival -> End -> Nostalgia -> Forgetten / Remake

The why it progresses from stage to stage always changes but ultimately it always goes down like this.

[ShyGuyXXL]

I wanna see an alternate version of the Pickle Rick episode where Beth is like, "I mean, you don't need arms and legs to go to therapy.", so she just picks up the pickled Rick and puts him in her purse, so he's forced to just sit there and do therapy.

[strayorion]

I liked how when rick prime told rick "I made you, what would you be without me?" to which rick answers "Let's find out" feels like writers made a parallelism with them as rick and the creator as rick prime as he was being fired from the show

[coolguyayden]

Season 7 was the first time in ages where people actually posted clips on Twitter because they found them particularly impactful or funny. Goes to show that all they really had to do to make the show relevant again was to try a little bit.

I really hope they keep up this energy for season 8 and the upcoming anime.

[retarlil]

The fans were shit, the writers were bitter, eventually everyone else got tired of it

[sinjinreed]

For me it was how they fumbled the Evil Morty plot, where I thought the fan theory was much more interesting:

Evil Morty was our Rick’s original Morty.

Our Rick—the Rickest Rick—was shown to be different from all of his variants because he actually cared about his Morty despite abusing and belittling him at every turn.

The theory went that our Rick actually stayed to help raise his Morty and treated him like an equal, teaching him everything Rick knew. Until something happened and they were separated.

Our Rick then went to another universe and adopted a new Morty (C-137), and started treating him like a disposable commodity because he essentially was. On some level, our Rick still cared about Morty, even though he knows he shouldn’t.

Evil Morty then became obsessed with finding his Rick and destroying the toxic master/slave system of Ricks and Mortys because “Ricks don’t care about Mortys.”

[VoltageHunter]

Video's title: Nobody Talks About Rick and Morty
The video: Talking about Rick and Morty

False advertisement 0/10

[-Biter]

When a show constantly tells you that nothing matters and it constantly shows that everything in the show can be easily replaced, how can they expect anyone to care about what this show does?

[MrFilgueiras.]

I honestly feel that Rick and Morty got so much better in later seasons, Fear Hole is just PEAK, it feels like they're finally playing the series straight, not toning down the comedy, but actually giving a shit about their characters, it's sad that the damage has already been done, because the series is just so much better without the writters constantly reminding us that "this is a cartoon, nothing matters, stop caring, stop watching!!", even most of my friends that used to watch it stopped

[CinnamonGrrlErin]

What's there to talk about? I think part of the problem is that it started off so strongly. Then they just kept trying to one-up episode after episode until it's just chaos.

[Xen]

Smiling friends just has all of the magic that modern Rick and Morty lacks. People just prefer a show that embraces fun and surrealism instead of the relentless nihilism that Rick and Morty revels with.