The first episode of season 4 is about Rick discovering a following of Morties who admire his nihilistic personality and it makes him realise how edgy and obnoxious it makes him appear. He overgoes a pretty big personality change in the episode, becoming somewhat more compassionate and less of a bastard, which sticks around for the rest of the season. Its a commentary on how the fandom glorifies him and his contrarian outlook.
Promos for season 4 will generally avoid showing major Rick moments so as not to spoil this change.
*burp* god isn't real m-morty *fart* wubba lubba dub dub!!
Isaiah Butler
That's a risky play. Making episodes based on things your fanbase is doing is how Adventure Time went south.
Michael Reyes
After season 3 there's nowhere to go but up
Wyatt Smith
If they really want to break out of their mold, Rick needs to be shown to be wrong in a big way. Not just told he's wrong, he needs to completely and utterly fail, repeatedly. Otherwise you'll always have the "Rick is an asshole but he's a genius" crowd.
Jaxon Phillips
Very nice
Jose Long
Absolutely not, it can get so much worse.
James Price
yes please but we all know that ain't happening, they can't touch their golden goose. very nice fanfic though.
You're not wrong. I'm only going to tune in for a shout-out of more Bushland Adventures.
James Richardson
I don't understand. He loses constantly. Half the point of the show is showing that Rick's lifestyle is awful. Everyone hates him, including himself, and nothing he does, no matter how competent he is, can make his life happy.
Bentley Watson
Is this real?
Ethan Hall
Because they don't show that, they TELL that.
Samuel Carter
I REALLY want this to happen but it never will.
Colton Butler
The problem is that the kind of people who idolize Rick see all that as a strength, not a weakness. Emotions are for pussies, Rick is a badass god-level mega-genius who is always right and smarter than everyone. That's why these people are so insufferable. They think being an asshole is okay if you're smart, and people hating you is a badge of honor that shows how dumb they are.
Showing how Rick's behavior and outlook isolate him doesn't work on these people. To get through to them you need to knock Rick off his pedestal. He has to be humiliated and lose, and lose hard.
Nathaniel Nguyen
I unironically just want the show to go deeper into its lore. What ever became of Rick's friends since we last saw them at the wedding? What is Tammy planning with Bird Person? Why not have some episodes that show how Rick and company became enemies with the Galactic Federation? I'm aware that Yea Forums hates lore but you can't deny that you're curious about some of the things that I listed.
Nah, Rick destroying the government in one outing by some retarded accounting when their backstory is hiding from an all-powerful government shows their worldbuilding will never go beyond a few cheap laughs.
James Lewis
Just go back and make him more like he was in the Pilot and Lawnmower Dog. He displayed traits of absentmindedness, senility, and even insanity, but not nihilism or hedonism. He wasn't shy about showing that he cares for Morty, who he considers his friend, and even complementing him when he shows any amount of ingenuity or quick thinking. He didn't seem to intentionally cause any harm or destruction to innocent people either, he's just a fucking crazy old super scientist.
I'm not even saying it's fake. It just sounds fan-fictiony as hell.
>Just go back and make him more like he was in the Pilot and Lawnmower Dog. He displayed traits of absentmindedness, senility, and even insanity, but not nihilism or hedonism He was pretty hedonistic in the pilot, when he jumped to the universe with no old people and used it as an excuse to bang all their women.
No he didn't. The show kept going, but he still wasn't happy.
Caleb Hall
Rick was the best in Episode 1 where his genius was hampered by the fact that he was a drunk, as opposed to him being a complete Mary Sue later on
Kevin Roberts
He was always pretty hedonistic. Wasn't the entire pilot just him getting drugs for himself?
Aiden Davis
>He was pretty hedonistic in the pilot, when he jumped to the universe with no old people and used it as an excuse to bang all their women. He didn't go out of his way to do that, to be fair. He just got sidetracked.
Julian Ortiz
this just make him drunk doc brown again where he barely knows what the fuck is going on but flipflops into saving their asses without realizing it
Michael Torres
That was for science
Oliver Hall
he clearly was only mildly annoyed since he had to get rid of the bodies and that was it, the next scene literally showed him just eating cereal like nothing happened
Michael Miller
wasn't there an episode where he literally tried to kill himself because he got rejected?
Caleb Bennett
Not quite. The pilot was him wanting to acquire mega-seeds for some scientific purpose, the making you smart thing is just a side effect, that also results in you being immobile for a day.
Later on there's a party episode where he does go through some effort to get drugs for the party.
Charles Diaz
Yup. Rick has emotions, unfortunately for himself.
Aaron Sanders
honestly, I don't think people will ever get it that Rick is not an idol I mean, the only reason he's alive is because his suicide machine failed, how much more of a failure can you even BE at that point
Connor Lee
>his suicide machine failed It worked just fine(he tested it on some poor little critter), he just passed out and slumped over before the ray could hit him.
Brody Reed
That's what happens when you live through loss after loss. You get used to it.
Angel Foster
im trying to say there was no real consequences for him losing since it did not majorly effect or change him and his life went back to normal "with out skipping a beat"
Gabriel Campbell
literally nothing will work on these people, they are too stupid. the premise of fight club was that fight club was retarded, and it was also written by a gay guy, but you know exactly what type of straight dudes like that film
i just want jessica to have a personality besides nice girl tits for like five minutes
Carter Wilson
>the only reason he's alive is because his suicide machine failed that's pretty funny kind of like that futurama bit about bender and the suicide booths
Carter Powell
Because he's already lost enough worlds and families that he's prepared for it by now. It's why he can't bring himself to care about anything.
Tyler Rivera
The machine didn't fail though, he was just sloppy drunk and the machine was a ray, he passed out and the ray buzzed harmlessly over his head.
Grayson Reed
yeah but he is the one who causes it every time but instead of becoming a better more careful person he just chooses not to care about things
Dominic Green
Thank god, i don't know why they tried to play up the "Does he care?" question for a whole season because it's too obvious he does. Maybe taking Harmons divorce issues out of the show will make it funny again. Watching miserable depressed people self destruct doesn't work as a comedy when played 100% straight like season 3
yeah but he is the one who causes a majority of the time but instead of becoming a better more careful person he just chooses not to care about things
Colton Russell
whoops was meant for
Aiden Russell
Fight Club is certainly a good example. A movie that's very clearly saying the shitty/fake macho attitudes won't save you from the alienation you feel turned into a shining beacon for people with shitty macho attitudes.
