By: Robert Murphy
Do you ever sit down and wish that you had a grandfather that was more like Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future movies, someone who is super intelligent but just a little bit hair brained. Well Rick and Morty tells the story of a young kid much like Marty McFly named Morty who has an extremely intelligent but rude, crude and alcoholic grandfather named Rick who gets themselves and their family into extraordinarily crazy and dangerous situations. These often dangerous sci-fi adventures the two go on often lead the planet or themselves to certain doom and simple minded but earnest Morty often brings Rick to his senses but the crazy ride up to that point is something you'll have to see to believe.
The ridiculous nature of Rick and Morty isn't something new when you think about the other shows that have come alongside of it on Adult Swim, the late night and adult programming time slot for Cartoon Network where you see shows like Family Guy or Superjail. Morty in all honesty would rather go about his regular mundane existence like any other teenager, he wants to date the prettiest girl in school and just have things be not so crazy. Rick on the other hand has other plans for his grandson and wants him to take part in the crazy experiments and alternate dimension jumping "fun" he has in store. It's somewhat of the sad mad scientist story where Rick is a super genius but needs someone humble to balance him out for the story and it works. Even though almost 99% of the time it appears he is a selfish and self absorbed butt munch, you can tell that there is underline caring for Morty and their family even if it comes with a sarcastic and alcoholic burp of a response.
The shows more darker comedy is what you will undoubtedly love about the show, every joke and theme about Rick and Morty is done for pure insane fun as it takes you along for the ride. Perhaps the most disturbing episode for me was entitled "Rick Potion #9" where an upcoming school dance leads Morty to ask Rick for a way to get the school's resident hotty Jessica to say yes to going with him. This leads to Rick creating a potion that causes everyone to fall in love with him at the dance, creepily so as they all end up chasing after him looking for his affection. This would be fine until Rick tries to fix it with another potion that contains preying mantis extract and turns everyone into half mantis/half human monsters trying to kill Morty. While Rick just kinda shrugs this off, Morty being a normal person is entirely freaked out and it was incredibly hilarious, the out of this world ideas that the show takes on makes it both and enjoyable and creative to think about all the way through.
In conclusion, I am excited that the show will be receiving a second season as it has been the best new animated cartoon to come out of Adult Swim in quite some time. Rick and Morty is exceedingly smart and clever with it's dark toned humor and will leave you with the question of "what the hell did I just watch?" ringing in your mind. But still you will love it all the same I hope as much as I have for all its little quirks and wit whether Rick and Morty are in another dimension full of other versions of themselves or inside the body of a homeless man they're trying to put a theme park into, it's just a riot.
- Best animated show I've watched in a long time
The shows more darker comedy is what you will undoubtedly love about the show, every joke and theme about Rick and Morty is done for pure insane fun as it takes you along for the ride. Perhaps the most disturbing episode for me was entitled "Rick Potion #9" where an upcoming school dance leads Morty to ask Rick for a way to get the school's resident hotty Jessica to say yes to going with him. This leads to Rick creating a potion that causes everyone to fall in love with him at the dance, creepily so as they all end up chasing after him looking for his affection. This would be fine until Rick tries to fix it with another potion that contains preying mantis extract and turns everyone into half mantis/half human monsters trying to kill Morty. While Rick just kinda shrugs this off, Morty being a normal person is entirely freaked out and it was incredibly hilarious, the out of this world ideas that the show takes on makes it both and enjoyable and creative to think about all the way through.
In conclusion, I am excited that the show will be receiving a second season as it has been the best new animated cartoon to come out of Adult Swim in quite some time. Rick and Morty is exceedingly smart and clever with it's dark toned humor and will leave you with the question of "what the hell did I just watch?" ringing in your mind. But still you will love it all the same I hope as much as I have for all its little quirks and wit whether Rick and Morty are in another dimension full of other versions of themselves or inside the body of a homeless man they're trying to put a theme park into, it's just a riot.
Good:
- Smart and funny
- Disturbing but all around hilarious episodes
- Best animated show I've watched in a long time
Bad:
- The humor may not be for everyone
Scully Rating: 9.0 out of 10
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