honestly earth sucks too much to worry about the things that get the happy neurotransmitters going in your brain. Like maybe don't support awful people or buy into terrible ideologies, but no one's gonna know if you torrent and watch a harvey weinstein film or the west wing or something.
This doesn’t make it „smarter“, it’s a different creative direction. Rick & Morty has some genuinely good emotional moments where it sincerely shows how Rick‘s lifestyle affects himself and those around him, it’s what sets it apart from many other shitty adult cartoon comedies.
The show does actually unironically have a message, although it gets muddled a bit.
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