There are also like five hundred people with picrew avatars in the replies saying it's the best episode of the show because in the end of it the psychiatrist lady explains the toxic fans that the epic scientist guy is a bad person. Incredibly baffling.
Rick and Morty in a vacuum is a decently funny show for the first season or two, which pokes fun at common tropes. Then it ran out of tropes to riff on and just gets tired and recycles ideas, the characters flanderize, etc.
It’s the surrounding context and audience that has soured it, Dan Harmon’s cheesetouch and the most recent seasons being chuddy and unfunny.
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:I-was-saying: I always felt that way, especially after his claim that his writers are so superfluous that he could easily code an algorithm to write each episode. :libertarian-approaching:
The ideology of the show, sometimes said in-show and backed by narrative convenience ("Sometimes, Mr. President, you have to just not give a fuck!"), took South Park style smug apathy and hostility toward caring about things to a whole new level, too. :galaxy-brain:
His "sexual violence against children is a hilarious punchline" takes from the pre-show pilot onward were also known to me from the start. :libertarian-alert:
The szechuan sauce incidents, and the arrogance and hubris of the toxic fandom, were just icing on the bazinga cake for me. :nyet: