Rick and Morty

I don't see it happening.

Not saying it would, but if it could, what show should it be with?

" I'm the princess! Everyone has to do what I say!"

Man a crossover with Gravity Falls would be weird as fuck.

Its a fun hypothetical basically.

edited 14th Oct '17 3:33:54 AM by slimcoder

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

Yeah, basically.

I did remember seeing a nice piece of Fan Art of Rick and Bill staring each other down. Battle of the "super fucked up gods" as Morty would say.

" I'm the princess! Everyone has to do what I say!"

I suppose Venture Brothers could work, though I dont know what the plot would be (and it would have to be out of continuity to not ruin any ongoing plots of either show).

Venture Bros is still going? I don't watch it, but if so, still dang impressive.

" I'm the princess! Everyone has to do what I say!"

Rick vs. Archer. The latter is completely impervious to insults, is unbeatable in a fight, and yet is otherwise a complete moron and a bigot. I think Rick would be relentlessly annoyed.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

That would be rad actually. Also, maybe experiment with seeing the other characters in the respective artstyle? I dunno.

" I'm the princess! Everyone has to do what I say!"

Krieger in particular would be an abomination in the eyes of Rick.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Oh hey, was that Chris Parnell in one of those clips?

Yeah, he voices Cyril. Who is essentially Jerry, another good reason for a crossover. Rick would have a fit if he encountered a successful Jerry.

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Lol, I remember the comments on this Robot Chicken sketch about Major Nelson from I Dream of Jeannie also being Jerry.

A R&M/GF crossover would only work on an adult-centric cartoon. You CANNOT get away with the jokes Rick and Morty crack on Disney XD. Most of the time, they don't even need to crack jokes to be hilarious- it's just them being their neurotic, insane selves, which in itself would be kind of traumatic for kids to watch after a while.

R&M should cross over with Regular Show. The art style is similar enough to where they could get away with it and I want to see the characters interact.

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Rick would make Pops cry,you don't want that.

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I can see it crossing over with Samurai Jack just to poke fun at the April Fool's Day dilemma.

Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.

The list is loooooong indeed. Depending on examples is can be problems with how the piece frames the characters, problems with people being a bad audience, or a bit of both. For example, in the case of Eric Cartman, apart from rare pieces like "Rainforest Schmainforest" (in which the creators used Cartman as mouthpiece for some not very well informed ideas) you can probably put most of the blame on the audience. In the case of Walter White it's a bit more of a middle ground, where people don't seem to get that the show is fundamentally a fairly classical tragedy about how a man's greed and hubris causes his downfall, but where the show frames him in a way that people are probably more likely to remember that time he made a crystal that exploded when he threw it because that's cool. And also the idea of getting a lot of power and money is fundamentally appealing to people, so... maybe there wasn't a way to frame it in a way that uncritical viewers wouldn't take it the wrong way.

It's difficult to think of examples where the audience doesn't take things wrong. There were people who saw Platoon and decided to join the army, for example. Something something Truffaut something something. Or if you want to be really horrified, google "The DENNIS System" on Youtube and read the comments.

I do think that in the case of Rick and Morty a lot of it is about framing, though.

edited 14th Oct '17 3:15:55 PM by Pannic

In Breaking Bad, I remember the creator was disgusted by people worshiping Walter White and attempted to ramp up Walter's evil actions to make it as blunt as possible that he was a despicable human being. Evidently it didn't stick.

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I noticed from episode one. Walter never, ever goes out of his way to do anything nice for anyone, unless it's specifically to manipulate them. From the beginning, he's one big ball of insecurity, fear, and resentment, with no redeeming features whatsoever. Contrast with shows like Parks And Recreation or Brooklyn Nine Nine where it seems that's all people ever do. Even the hyper-competitive jerks of The Big Bang Theory do nice things for each other every now and then.

Hm. It might be interesting to compare Rick/Morty with Walter/Jesse.

edited 14th Oct '17 3:45:46 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Well, he does do what he does for his family (to start with). Misguided as that was, I'd call it a redeeming quality in terms of morals. Obviously that goes out the window after a few seasons though.

That was the idea. What made him law abiding was his powerlessness.

To continue the Rick/Walter parallels that's also true of Rick, he's still practically amoral but he does generally care for his family (especially compared to random people).

"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn

See, I don't buy that Walt started doing it for his family. Early on, he's given opportunities for financial help by Hank or his Grey Matter friends, but refuses them due to his pride.

Actually, inflated pride is another thing that Walt and Rick share in common.

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Doing it for his family and being prideful about it aren't mutually exclusive, especially when things like taking assistance are demonized.

But yes, both Rick and Walter are both very prideful.

edited 14th Oct '17 5:06:04 PM by Fourthspartan56

"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn

Yeah, the point was that in the end, Walter's real motivation for cooking meth had more to do with the Gray Matter fall-out than the cancer. It was all about his ego.