C&C - Rick and Morty - Season Eight Talkback (Spoilers)

[CNFan1995]

Season 8 Episode 1: Summer of All Fears

Synopsis: Rick left the kids in a matrix. Not chill, broh.
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In case you missed the trailer and the teasers:

 

[Nobodyman]

Everyone's favorite unscrupulous scientist is back to remind us that it's okay to be a big jerk as long as you feel bad about it sometimes.

Future Summer!

I see they've taken very different paths in life.

Morty watched the anime adaptation and was the never the same afterwards.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

This season better be worth the wait. That anime sucked ass.

I hope that chili didn't come from the same place they got that spaghetti.

Okay, we won't take your phone charger.

 

[Nobodyman]

Oh, like it's the first time one of them has been trapped in a virtual world for decades.

No opening credits?

Becoming best friends with your mom. Cute, but weird.

Well, they say it's funny because it's true.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

 

[Nobodyman]

Carpe diem's all well and good, but don't be snotty about it.

Well at least you can't die in this matrix.

Hot-wiring a car. Yeah, Summer really has her life in order.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

Rick can't protect you from becoming your parents, nor can he save you money when you bundle your home and auto insurance.

Don't take his phone charger! DON'T TAKE HIS PHONE CHARGER!

 

[Nobodyman]

So if you put your kids in a matrix they'll invariably end up stealing a car?

Naturally, Rick learns nothing.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

So if you put your kids in a matrix they'll invariably end up stealing a car?

Either that or taking pottery classes.

Didn't he learn anything about simulations inside simulations?

 

[Nobodyman]

Dang. Summer really does take after Rick.

How much you wanna bet they're still in the...

Yep.

Oh. Heh.

Youth is wasted on the young.

And we've all learned a valuable lesson about not taking people's phone chargers.

When something seems to good to be true, there's usually vampires involved.

 

[Kitschensyngk]

So it was all the fault of the lithium lobby.

Oh no.

Oh phew.

They grow down so fast.

Oh yeah--GET YOUR ASS TO MARS.

New Mexico sucks with vampires.

 

[Neo Ultra Mike]

"Summer Of All Fears" - I will say this does easily clear the last season premiere "How Poopy Got His Poop Back" aka "you know I was kind of into the idea of Rick and Friends helping Mr. Poopybutthole but then it became some weird Hugh Jackman cameo vanity project thing and a lot of that interest dried out when the friends stopped being interesting characters" though this probably is still one of the weaker premieres. I think because honestly this show HAS done the "character lives some new live in some alt form and has to readjust to their normal life" schitck like several times already. I mean even the last episode "Fear No Mort" had that and that had a much tighter narrative and more interesting wrinkle with bringing in the idea of Rick and Diane. This is pretty much Rick trying to teach Summer and Morty a lesson in his own twisted way and... I guess this overall IS better to me then "The Vat Of Acid Episode". Like that one probably had higher highs and I get where it was coming from but that downer super mean spirited ending I could never fully get behind that makes me dislike that one. However this one having the action that started this more off screen and started with the changed Morty and Summer and Morty actually getting BACK at Rick albeit kind of poorly actually did work fairly well. And you know I did like the idea that for awhile Summer and Beth could actually bond over their "mid life" identities before Summer started pulling away and the idea of Morty's war trauma actually was played seriously enough for it to fit even in the whole fake cell phone world idea.

I will admit though comedy wise this one did start off rather dry. I think the only real laughs i had in the first half was Beth not sure what to call the older Summer when Summer started calling her Beth and Morty admitting he had the whole take a vehicle plan long before Summer did after he locked Rick away in the matrix world. I mean the idea of Rick locking the two away just to teach them a lesson might have been funny if again this concept hadn't been done as much before but again pretty dry in that first half. I will say the second half was a lot better. The idea that Morty's matrix punishment for Rick was just trying to teach him not to put people in matrix prisons and how uncreative it was with Rick able to easily flip the switch back. As well as Summer running to that hippie Santa Monica commune and the reveal at the end they were all vampires... but again set up in California so stupidly could get easily killed by being out in the light. I also liked Summer admitting as a Tech CEO she would at least pretend to know how to solve the problem and her being behind Morty's soldier antics and not knowing the names of all his war friends and the two thinking Rick placed them in ANOTHER Matrix and beating up that guy and then Rick coming in and saving the day. The "hey there isn't a tip lower then 20%" is also probably the best gag this one had going for it so at least ending on a pretty good joke. I will admit the "Summer gets a message from her former self she blows off to tlak about drugs" again sorry was done way better in Venture Brother's "Everyone Comes To Hank" with how Hank made a message to himself that could play the trope better with how it used the interplay between the two so the ending ending here wasn't the best but still averaged out to okay.

So yeah not the greatest premiere but a fine one. I will say the idea of simulated realities and growing up in this setting is handled a hell of a lot better then how the anime handled it (I really do hope this season has at least one joke about the R&M anime. Like next episode is the Space Beth episode that'd be the perfect one to do it with) and showing Morty and Summer's different perspectives made it a bit different then other eps but not enough to be really great but again still fairly solid.

 

[Daikun]

So... How far did Justin Roiland produce the show before he was kicked out?
He still has an executive producer credit and his vanity plate still showed at the end. I figured those would be gone by now.

 

[Yojimbo]

Wasn't feeling the premiere once it became clear it was a simulation one. Rick is bad at parenting, we got that a long time ago. Though I admit I didn't expect a hat tip to the Killdozer incident. But using the Matrix, Edge of Tomorrow, and 9/11 altogether felt indigestible.

The episode didn't click with me until it was almost over and Rick gets put in the Matrix then we got good bits like the Matrix robot fixing the loose human battery, the 20% tip, and Beth mocking the vampire commune for picking the sunniest place. And overall, good on them for confirming to us that Summer is just as ruthless as Rick, not Morty who we all knew would become disillusioned and just a step below Evil Morty. Animation looked really good this episode. VA's for Rick and Morty sounded better, too. Decent season premiere.

 

[Corwin Haught]

So... How far did Justin Roiland produce the show before he was kicked out?
He still has an executive producer credit and his vanity plate still showed at the end. I figured those would be gone by now.

As co-creator, he is contractually granted those for the remainder of the show's run (The Simpsons still credits Sam Simon, someone who died a decade ago, as EP).

 

[Yojimbo]

Blu-ray/DVD already announced for November 18.

 

[Space Cadet]

Ratings for 8.01:


Rick & Morty (P) (Adult Swim, 11:00 PM-11:31 PM, 31 min.)
• 0.300 million viewers
• 0.15 A18-49 rating (0.196 million adults 18-49)
• 0.16 A25-54 rating (0.197 million adults 25-54)


Read more: Sunday Ratings: Indianapolis 500 Race Grows to its Largest Audience in 17 Years with Fox Network Debut

 

[harry580]

Blu-ray/DVD already announced for November 18.

wow, they announce it early, wow

 

[J'onn J'onzz]

Great ratings for Rick and Morty. 300,000 in this day and age is impressive. Too bad Toonami’s weren’t as high, but maybe people tuning into the Rick and Morty premiere saw ads for Bleach and will check it out this Saturday.

 

[CNFan1995]

Season 8 Episode 2: Valkyrick

Synopsis: Space Beth calls her dad for a ride, broh.
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