What is the show about it seems really popular but I don't know much about it???
Is it worth checking out?
Yes, it is. The OP's on bath salts. It's like Back to the Future on steroids. It's about an alcoholic super genius (Rick) who drags his grandson (Morty) around on various adventures in different universes, dimensions, and realities. When the show first started, it was more self-contained and just focused on surrealism due to the adventures they went on. But right now, they've developed more of an emotional core and tried to give the characters more of a heart, dealing with the realistic consequences of their actions.
The thing about Rick and Morty is it's not just about gratuitous violence, swearing, and disturbing imagery. The show usually has a larger point to make about society, and has covered topics like alcoholism, existentialism, slavery, abandonment, therapy, and self-hate to name a few. The thing is, despite Rick coming off as a sociopath that just does whatever he wants and cares about nothing because he's too intelligent for it, he actually hates himself. He's in constant pain which is why he's always drinking and drooling, and he hates the possibility of being uncertain about anything (especially his own death) because it goes against who he is. In the last episode, him and Morty break down because of their adventure and Rick admits that he was not in control of the situation at all because they almost died and he would have been powerless to do anything about it. We get to see the realistic consequences of Rick's behavior: His daughter Beth is an irresponsible alcoholic like him, her marriage fell apart because of Rick's interference, and Morty even resents him to some degree due to everything he's done.
Rick and Morty is a really unpredictable show. It can do almost anything because of the sci-fi concept, and in every episode, it creates a unique universe with unique situations for Rick and Morty to go on. In one episode (my personal favorite), Morty follows Rick inside his car battery and he finds out that the battery's power is coming from a civilization with intelligent life (Microverse), essentially making them slaves. They find out that someone in the civilization created his own universe of intelligent life (Miniverse), and in that guy's universe, there was someone who created his own civilization called a Teenyverse. The Teenyverse guy ends up killing himself when he realizes his purpose was just to make power, especially when he remembers that he missed his father's funeral because he was too busy working.
The show really is deep and comments on how hopeless life can be sometimes. What if we're all just put here to serve someone else? What if everything we've ever done is all a lie and there's nothing to believe in because we're not even real people?
Also, the show is hilarious as fukk. They pack multiple jokes a minute into each episode so there are some you might not even pick up the second time you watch. That's why season three was delayed because the writing process is notoriously long and they have to do constant rewrites to make sure everything comes together well enough.
I could say more, but I don't want to write an essay. Just know that you'll regret not giving this show a chance and you're not demonic or a creep or a savage or a sociopath if you end up liking it. Those are the kind of people the show actually makes fun of.
Some episodes you could check out: "Lawnmower Dogs," "Meeseeks and Destroy," "Rick Potion #9," "Rixty Minutes," "A Rickle in Time," "Total Rickall," "The Ricks Must Be Crazy," "Look Who's Purging Now," "The Wedding Squanchers," "The Rickshank Rickdemption," "Pickle Rick," "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy," "Rest and Ricklaxation."
Tommy Lee Jones strikes again
next time I see you we'll run a negative train up ya ass raw with no lube or condoms either acting like a fukking bytch. No Vaseline skirt wearing femboy looking ass nikka.
and me mad at the tv
. Clear neggable offense. Before you have children contemplate on this for a while. You ain't built for Parenthood
