The crew stole your enthusiasm for Rick & Morty

I think both me and Tiarawhy NOPE'd out of the R&M fandom after that turd of a Season, Season 4.

It's fucking awful. Running on fumes.

At what point did you start to lose interest in the show, Yea Forums?

I felt my interest waning around Cable 2. Not only was it not funny, but I thought it was concerning they were already repeating themselves because they had no more ideas as early as a second season. I think the ABCs of Beth is when I finally felt like the show was just rambling instead of being a tight comedy like season 1.

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It’s because of the “To be fair...” meme, 100%.

You know, I'm not so sure I'd call it baffling per se, just very disappointing. It was pretty clear, I think, from the second season that the show was becoming a caricature of itself and was slowly wriggling its way up its own ass. All that stuff really set in during season three.

Season four just seemed spiteful towards people who liked anything at all, from what I watched of it. Two whole episodes were devoted to sending the message that you're a moron for liking heist movies and a weird pervert for liking fantasy, and then there was that season three episode that basically did the same for superheroes. It's seriously weird watching such a bitter and self-absorbed show.

who are either of you for you to be using names?

I never really did, Rick and Morty still has my favorite Sci-Fi magic nonsense plots

Season 3 easily.

R & M let's you write the show and now, because you can appear to have no identifiable definition your complaining that R&M is better at shitting on happiness than you?
Yup, you want to be martyred. We should meet back up in the darkseid thread so we can discuss if reality humans would get themselves destroyed by Superman if he were real.

Creators are lame faggots, overly concerned with real-world politics instead of making a funny show. I don't care about your ebin tweet, just made funny episodes- it's your job.

That's a part of it.

>long wait between season 3 and season 4
>season 3 was mediocre compared to 1 and 2
>liking R&M became a meme like you said the "To be fair..." pasta
>the entire szechuan sauce fiasco making the fanbase look ridiculous and embarrassing to be part of

There's probably more to it than that but that's what I got off the top of my head

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It's dumb junkfood you laugh at. That's it. Any problem comes from taking it beyond that point.

I still the the most retarded thing they said in Season 4 was
>You're a Nazi if you don't like writers soapboxing

Yeah I agree, that came across as pretty immature. One of my least favorite aspects of this era where creators are in much closer contact with their fanbases is this sort of weirdly petty response to criticism that you see a lot.

>Two whole episodes were devoted to sending the message that you're a moron for liking heist movies

user, I fucking love Heist movies and Heist videogames but they are horrendously inaccurate to real life Heists and how it works. The entire episode was a goddamn hilarious parody. I was laughing my ass off the whole time. I really do not think the point of the episode was calling people who watch heist shit retarded but rather just making fun of some of the outlandish bullshit in them that makes them great.

Cause it took 3 fucking years to make.

So far they've won. When I look at Rick I feel like Morty glancing at a glass of water. Maybe all I liked about him was my own narcissistic reflection.

At this point, I'm just watching the hope that Summer will get naked or something

Glasses Morty pls

they're bringing the sauce back again

The Heist episode. It made me realize that I wasn’t enjoying being talked down to by a guy whose godhood comes from his world’s necessity for it or the writers who get all hard over the fact that they control what “the smartest man in existence” says. When I first started watching I felt different and I enjoyed season two and three cause they were at least still enthusiastic about Rick outsmarting people or shitting on them. Now even Rick and Morty are tired of Rick ‘same old shit’ Sanchez

I feel the same with the fantasy episode, which apparently is far and away the most unpopular of the season from what I've heard online. But myself and my friends loved it because the tabletop parody and weird dragon sex shit we all knew about since we first heard about that damnable place called Bad Dragon long, long ago.

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Are you kidding me there was like a bunch of articles written about that cat in the box

I don't think it was quickly. It's been two years since the last season. Just a slow bleed.

I hate to err on the side of random humor but the random quick one off gags like Noob Noob were always the best

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It took so long for season 4 to happen that Rick and Morty got dated quickly. Everyone is now sick of the ironic self-aware humor that made it popular 6 years ago.

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I predict that the R&M pinball machine will be better than the South Park one.

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It's comfy sci-fi nonsense. I'm not sure what it would take for me to stop liking it.

I think my interest died when Rick started feeling like a self-insert for the writers. Like they wanted him to be cool, when he was funniest as a drunk grandpa.

People who use social media became afraid to express enjoyment of it because of the 'high IQ' meme, since social media people in general are very insecure and attach too much of their identity to the media they consume (this goes for Yea Forums, too). So it wasn't being talked about much online, especially positively, and then the long wait between seasons killed the last of the hype.

Show would be better if it moved its focus from rick to morty, he is way more interesting at this point

Not just the crew and the long waits between seasons, but also the complete whoring of merchandise for every product on the planet. You can't be counterculture if you are an enormous commercial sellout.

The therapist speech at the end of Pickle Rick. It would be completely in the nature of the show to subvert the "therapist who can analyze anyone and is always right" trope, and yet it was played completely straight. But at the same time it feels like the creators of the show did not want to develop a more serious sub-story either. They had 2 perfectly good options and chose neither of them.

When Rick stopped being an inventive crazy grandpa and started being an infallible cynic really poisoned the show for me. We know the heroes are going to be fine, but for Rick to effortlessly win because he's so smart destroys all tension and relatability to his character. Plus his attitude reflects the show, where both are just so over the whole concept and it rubbed off on me. If the characters can't take the premise seriously why should I? It would have been better just having an A-plot, no B-plot, because everyone besides the titular characters are not as interesting.

Yes I know that Rick has sometimes been worried or stressed but the way it's framed in the show is very postmodern, almost like I'm a chump if I want to be fully immersed in the story. It might be how women write, passive-aggressively.

It's what happens if you insert a realistic therapist into a wacky cartoon. It's not funny and basically deconstructs the premise to the detriment of future episodes.

I blame Season 3 and the shitty Szechuan Sauce meme for killing the enthusiasm.

The point was to mock all the people who thought Rick was meant as someone to be idolized,

That's what killed it for me too. God Rick is too OP to be interesting and the growing cynicism was too much of a drag.

You are a chump gor trying to get gully immersed in the story of something that just uses the story as a vehicle to set up jokes.
Its like complaining that your gazpacho soup is cold

The point doesn't make it good though. You can make fun of people who think Rick is to be emulated without having to literally spell out your message to the audience.

I don't think there's anything wrong with emulating him. He pursues knowledge and science, thinks for himself rather than accepting the zeitgeist, and he passed on his genes. He's unhappy, but I don't think liking a cartoon character can give you depression.

It was summer who planted the idea in ricks head in the heist episode for whatever that's worth

>shitty Szechuan Sauce meme

this right there effectively killed the R&M fandom

the point was conveyed in classic season 3 fashion
pretentious and unfunny with a mild air of acting smugly clever

Yeah. SP got so bad I just stopped watching and paying attention to it altogether, just like Simpsons. I still watch R&M tho, wut now?

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