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a shameful boehner posted:Having recently gone through Hannibal's cancellation (another amazing show, but with far worse ratings), I feel like Cartoon Network/Adult Swim knows what kind of a hit they have on their hands given their consistent placement in the top 3 of ratings. Hannibal ratings fell off pretty quickly (IIRC), and weren't helped by NBC's schedule fuckery. I'm not sure Hannibal was ever top 3 in its timeslot on Thursdays before it got moved to Saturday. Rick and Morty dot com
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Applewhite posted:Rick and Morty dot com Forever 100 times!
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Aug 11, 2015 18:40
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pksage posted:- When Key & Peele are bubbling through time in the post-credits bit of S2E01, some prehistoric fish thing hops in their bubble and then out again a few eons later. I'm sure it was mentioned at the time, but I hope they do a callback to it, that was a fun little detail. I'd have to watch again, but I'm pretty sure the prehistoric creature is some kind of rat-analogue which goes on to start the Black Death. Or at least: that was my takeaway. My new fan theory is that Beth is Rick's child with Unity. Anyone else getting served up "Hungry for Apples" ads by google? 
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Aug 11, 2015 18:54
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I'd have to watch again, but I'm pretty sure the prehistoric creature is some kind of rat-analogue which goes on to start the Black Death. Or at least: that was my takeaway. Someone else brought up it was probably a wink to the Precambrian Rabbit.
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Aug 11, 2015 19:11
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Solice Kirsk posted:Someone else brought up it was probably a wink to the Precambrian Rabbit. Probably. I thought it was a reference to the "scrat" from Ice Age.
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Aug 11, 2015 19:22
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Some people seem to think Unity was something special to Rick. I think it's much worse than that. I think she's just one of his many flings, someone just interesting enough to keep him engaged. The real killer wasn't that she dumped him, it's that he was rejected and confronted with what he was, and was faced with a starkly empty planet where there was no diversion he could throw himself immediately into in order to distract himself from it. Rick always has to be in motion, because his personal demons are always chasing him. A slight trip up, even coming from a brief one-time lover like Unity, can send him spiraling into very dark places.
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Aug 11, 2015 19:31
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Something not a lot people have commented on or maybe even picked up on: Rick wasn't just testing out a way to kill himself period. Rick has tons of ways to kill himself, and I don't think he has some high-tech reboot-system installed in himself that requires special measures to defeat. For example, at the beginning of the episode before he knows the assimilator is Unity, he pulls out a sci-fi looking gun that's probably lethal and still on him. He could have just pulled it out and shot himself. Rick was cobbling together and testing out a way to kill himself that would leave nothing behind but ash and ember, nothing recognizable or meaningful of himself left in the world at all. That's what he's testing out with that creature. Just Offscreen posted:That's the whole point of why Rick drinks, constantly acts with no restraint, and in his darkest moment's tries to kill himself. Had you seen the leaked third episode when you wrote this? I don't think Rick has tried to kill himself on the show before that episode. Did he? Recklessness and taking risks with his life are much different, of course.
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Aug 11, 2015 20:11
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Can we please talk about how Jerry was RUINING that weed whacker by using it on the driveway and sending sparks everywhere? That man does not know how to maintain a lawn, yo.
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Aug 11, 2015 20:33
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Solice Kirsk posted:Can we please talk about how Jerry was RUINING that weed whacker by using it on the driveway and sending sparks everywhere? That man does not know how to maintain a lawn, yo. I had to rewind a few times because I couldn't tell if Rick had built him some sort of electrical-zapping space whacker to keep him occupied and out of the garage. Loved it.
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Aug 11, 2015 20:36
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Solice Kirsk posted:Can we please talk about how Jerry was RUINING that weed whacker by using it on the driveway and sending sparks everywhere? That man does not know how to maintain a lawn, yo. I thought it was a metal detector, like was trying to find more underground Rick labs or something. Couldn't tell so well on the adultswim stream 
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Aug 11, 2015 20:48
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I thought it was a laser setting on the weed whacker too. 
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Aug 11, 2015 20:55
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Look at all these nerds who never whacked a weed.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:10
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I'd have to watch again, but I'm pretty sure the prehistoric creature is some kind of rat-analogue which goes on to start the Black Death. Or at least: that was my takeaway. Solice Kirsk posted:Someone else brought up it was probably a wink to the Precambrian Rabbit. I'm telling you, that rat exited the bubble while they were over nothing but water. That rat can't start any plagues or poo poo, it's dead.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:13
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Inspector_666 posted:Look at all these nerds who never whacked a weed. I mean, I do other things to it.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:14
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Solice Kirsk posted:Can we please talk about how Jerry was RUINING that weed whacker by using it on the driveway and sending sparks everywhere? That man does not know how to maintain a lawn, yo. I noticed that, it was a cute little character moment. Jerry is such a waste of flesh.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:17
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The dude that voiced beth's new husband is on harmontown this week
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Aug 11, 2015 21:24
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KoRMaK posted:The dude that voiced beth's new husband is on harmontown this week I'm guessing you likely know this but Ryan Ridley voices way more than just Beth's new husband for the show. He does tons of different characters, as animation staff writers tend to do.
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Aug 11, 2015 21:37
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I wonder if career voice actors ever resent this new crop of showrunners who either hire non-VA actors or often just do the voices themselves (Roiland, Hirsch, Quintel et al.).
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Aug 11, 2015 21:41
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Whiz Palace posted:I wonder if career voice actors ever resent this new crop of showrunners who either hire non-VA actors or often just do the voices themselves (Roiland, Hirsch, Quintel et al.).
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Aug 11, 2015 21:44
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Whiz Palace posted:I wonder if career voice actors ever resent this new crop of showrunners who either hire non-VA actors or often just do the voices themselves (Roiland, Hirsch, Quintel et al.). From what I've seen and experienced with voice actors who do it as a main focus, they actually aren't terribly worried about it, because to get to that point, they usually end up developing a lot ofo ther skills to support them if work becomes short for a little while (many are also writers, sound engineers, VO directors, Voice coaches and teachers, things like that), or they have a special talent that is incredibly hard to replace (like Dee Bradley Baker's animal sounds)
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Aug 11, 2015 21:54
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Solice Kirsk posted:Can we please talk about how Jerry was RUINING that weed whacker by using it on the driveway and sending sparks everywhere? That man does not know how to maintain a lawn, yo. There's a nasty crack across his driveway since his house got dropped back into time. Weeds growing all up out it. Quit jackin his steez.
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Aug 11, 2015 22:27
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What VAs really hate is celebrities taking parts in headlining roles or marginalization of their talents. Billy West has a good interview a few years ago about it. He talks about how he would be called in for auditions on big name movies where he would do his take and then they would give the job to the celebrity. Not only that, they would basically use his mannerisms and ad-libs from the audition as direction to the celebrity doing the voice work. So, he would create the character in the audition, and then get passed over for an A-lister who would basically be told to steal the character he created. Also, they aren't look at as stars of the film. quote:You know, it's like they treat us like we're not actors. I went to the première of Space Jam at [Grauman's] Chinese Theatre—big première, red carpet, everything. Me and the voice people got invited to the little theatre; there's two of them there, the big Chinese theatre, and then there was a smaller one next to it. We weren't invited to the big place, and so my friend Bob Bergen, who does Porky Pig an awful lot, called them up and said, "Hey, what gives? We're featured in this movie." She said, "Oh you mean the party at the big Chinese theatre? Oh, that's for the actors." I'd like to find out what little cement-head said that. I mean, he was motherfucking Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in a Loony Tunes movie and wasn't invited to the big theater for the premiere because he wasn't a "real actor."
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Aug 11, 2015 22:41
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MariusLecter posted:I thought it was a laser setting on the weed whacker too. Inspector_666 posted:Look at all these nerds who never whacked a weed.
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Aug 11, 2015 22:43
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I thought it was a weed-flamer, and so did my friends when we watched it. Guess the stream wasn't the greatest for us that night.
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Aug 12, 2015 01:05
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Why was Unity still airing a new channel on a planet where everyone shares a hive mind? You could say that maybe it was reporting on news from beyond the planet, but then they still wouldn't need to report that news, just know it. Then everyone knows it. I think I'm thinking about it when obviously I shouldn't think about it.
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Aug 12, 2015 01:22
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Space T Rex posted:Why was Unity still airing a new channel on a planet where everyone shares a hive mind? You could say that maybe it was reporting on news from beyond the planet, but then they still wouldn't need to report that news, just know it. Then everyone knows it. I think I'm thinking about it when obviously I shouldn't think about it. She's running things like a normal planet as a front because she wants to enroll it in some federation and infiltrate all the other planets.
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Aug 12, 2015 01:28
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Turns out I seemed to completely forget her whole deal. Right. That settles that then. Also the "first race war?" was hilarious and also really nice and natural character development. So great. I think the show would lose a lot if Morty ever developed into too much of a mini-Rick, but seeing him become accustomed to the madness makes a lot of sense. It would be grating if he was whiny and terrified of everything forever. Space T Rex fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 01:32
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Space T Rex posted:Turns out I seemed to completely forget her whole deal. Right. That settles that then. I think we're going to see Morty step more confidently into the role of Rick's conscience. He'll become a little jaded, but also more assertive and able to steer Rick in a positive direction when it really matters.
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Aug 12, 2015 02:32
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KoRMaK posted:even if thats true, its still a bad show this season It's not true. Rick and Morty is doing great in terms of ratings. It's already achieved a 1.0 in adults 18-49 a few times. In comparison, it took Mad Men until its third season to reach that bar.
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Aug 12, 2015 02:34
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Zero of the places Jerry fiddled through were large enough to have a hidden weed whacker. I love Jerry, such an earnest idiot king.
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livingfruitvirus posted:It's not true. Rick and Morty is doing great in terms of ratings. It's already achieved a 1.0 in adults 18-49 a few times. In comparison, it took Mad Men until its third season to reach that bar. and also, those stats are probably gathered by an archaic system. when community moved to yahoo and they tracked every harmon reported he saw the numbers he knew should be there and double. I'm pretty sure adult swim is wise enough to track their shows like that too
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Aug 12, 2015 02:53
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KoRMaK posted:and also, those stats are probably gathered by an archaic system. when community moved to yahoo and they tracked every harmon reported he saw the numbers he knew should be there and double. Yes. Adult Swim can track their website hits and people who watch the online stream of the network.
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Well the old style viewing numbers are a fair way for execs to grade shows compared to other shows. While its presented more as a quantitative data set, its use is more qualitative. Sure R&M likely drew far more than that, like 10x if you include, webside, streaming, on demand, and pirating, but those numbers aren't as useful.
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Aug 12, 2015 03:41
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I lust for cable network death.
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Aug 12, 2015 03:50
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Applewhite posted:I lust for cable network death. I don't even think I know anyone anymore who even has old fashioned cable-cable. Even my parents switched streaming a couple years ago. I guess there are still some sports fans out there who can only get what the want on cable?
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Aug 12, 2015 04:36
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lovely Treat posted:Awww rick loved that little guy.. briefly.. but he loved him So is that an infant that got Cronenberged in the other universe, and Rick finally put it down?
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Aug 12, 2015 04:56
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It's probably best you don't think about who or what it was. Likely the answer would only make you more depressed.
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KoRMaK posted:even if thats true, its still a bad show this season In terms of survival, that's the only relation that matters.
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Aug 12, 2015 05:17
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M_Gargantua posted:Sure R&M likely drew far more than that, like 10x if you include, webside, streaming, on demand, and pirating, but those numbers aren't as useful. I wouldn't go as far as saying TEN times. There's also DVR which gets reported the following week. M_Gargantua posted:pirating, but those numbers aren't as useful. Well obviously pirating is not useful, but AdultSwim.com runs and sells advertisements during their video streams, so those are useful.
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GORDON posted:So is that an infant that got Cronenberged in the other universe, and Rick finally put it down? Alternatively, space AIDS baby he was testing cures on.
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