Oh, bother.
The more I think about it, the more certain I am that Evil Morty was one of the mass produced clone Mortys the Citadel created.
You'd think that if he was a "natural" Morty born to and raised by a Beth and a Jerry with a Summer for a sister, that he'd at least still have some attachment to them even if he was sick of Rick.
But if he's just a Morty created to play the role of a sidekick to a Rick who couldn't be bothered to set up his Beth with Jerry, then he would have had no one in his life but one shitty old man.
Disgusted, but not surprised
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Remember just how amoral our Morty can be (Season 4 opener, his use of the save scumming device and using the invisibility belt to spy in the girls changing rooms) and the implication that if he ever got over his various neuroses, he would be a sociopath (Healthy Morty), then Evil Morty could very well have been a Morty with Beth and Jerry as parents.
A season 5 Blu Ray comes out on December 7.
It occurs to me that the original writing staff for this show is all gone now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rick_and_Morty_episodes#Episodes
A lot of people say the show declined. How much of that is due to new writers? Even Justin Roiland doesn't seem that involved anymore. I get the impression that he's become like Seth Mc Farlane now, and just does the voices without contributing creatively anymore. At least Dan Harmon still seems to have a supervisory role, judging from those behind the scenes videos.
Disasturbator
All the original writers moving on is a fact of life for long running animated shows,I'm not too surprised,it just means new writing talent,which can mean better epsiodes with fresher ideas.
New theme music also a box
I don't know if Rick and Morty is a "long running" series yet.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
Doctor of Doctorates
Been near enough eight years since the first episode, albeit with gaps in production. I'd say that's fairly long running.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."
It's interesting how the show has been on for almost 8 years, and yet only has 51 episodes. Granted, many Adult Swim shows have large gaps in between airing new episodes, but still.
Disasturbator
Its probably because they can't just churn out episodes on mass,unlike say Family guy or the Simpsons
New theme music also a box
Another Japanese Rick and Morty short called "The Great Yokai Battle of Akihabara". It's a 3DCG cel-shaded short directed by Masaru Matsumoto.
Of course Rick made an enemy of a parody of the guy obsessed with summoning Masakado to destroy Japan.
Every accusation by the GOP is ALWAYS a confession.
There sure is a lot of... supplemental material for this show. I've never heard of a show getting two shorts animated by a Japanese studio.
Nor a show having a premise that allows this sort of thing to be canonical.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
...That had to be the weirdest short yet. At least they managed to capture the fundamentals of the show. Rick causing a bunch of destruction for something relatively mundane, in this case getting a screw for a toaster, Morty fucking shit up, etc. Still, Milk is pretty young looking for someone I think is supposed to be in her 40's. Not sure Morty was weirded out by that when he's already dated older women plenty of times before.
Is my math right? She looked like she was in Elementary school in the photo that guy had 30 years ago, and that would make her at least in her late 30's early 40's assuming that photo depicted her at then current age.
A working video, that is watchable in every country:
but I can't see it 
Anyway the 5th season became available on Netflix in my country just a few days ago. I watched it up to Episode 7 but I don't know what to make of it, to be honest. Some episodes are funny but overall it feels kind of uninspired and more like a Shallow Parody of itself in certain moments. As some review said, maybe it's because there's no juxtaposition between the mundane life on Earth and Rick's adventures through space and dimensions, since now Earth is easily as weird as any other planet (what with the ruler of the oceans, humanoid horses underground, alien races hidden under the Lincoln Memorial etc.). Also the rest of the family seems to have taken a backseat yet again.
The various spoofs of genres (teen drama, action movie, mafia movie, anime) and of specific properties (Transformers, Hellraiser, Captain Planet etc.) seem mostly lame, unfunny and an excuse to murder parodies of those characters. I liked "Mortyplicity" but I don't think that it's one of the best episodes as many said, and I preferred the heist one as the "let's take a single concept to its extreme consequences" episode.
That said I still enjoy the series and have heard good things about the season finale, so I will continue to follow it on the next season(s).
"Effective Altruism" is just another bunch of horsesh*t.
Sorry for the double post, anyway after finishing the season I found it average, neither particularly bad but not really that good either. The finale was interesting but that Rick & Two Crows stupid unfunny fake-out took away too much time and caused everything to be explained in such a compressed way that I had to read analyses after it to understand everything.
I dunno, maybe my problem with this series is that... I no longer really care much about the characters at this point despite the changing dynamics at work.
Edited by WoodyAlien3rd on Nov 8th 2021 at 2:49:11 PM
"Effective Altruism" is just another bunch of horsesh*t.
The show's still pretty entertaining. The storylines are fast-paced and witty, and dry, amoral Black Humor never really turns into Six Deadly Words for me. I might just be an awful person but the Comedic Sociopathy never really stops being funny. The interactions between Rick and his mental younger self were hilariously self-indulgent. The complete fakeout with the crows went against my expectations.
I still care about the characters, but I think the announcement of "50-70 episodes" hurts the suspension of disbelief. Rick also wasn't kidding about his backstory being a Jumping the Shark moment.
The comics have also done two storylines I'd rather have had in the show - a competent Evil Jerry and an evil Morty who actually "does something" about the screwed up family dynamics.
Leaving Evil Morty around for so long was a bad move, but wrapping up that story arc as brisquely as they did, with Evil Morty predicting Rick's entire response was good.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
I've never actually cared about the characters, they've always just been vehicles to deliver Comedic Sociopathy for me, so that's probably why I'm still enjoying the show.
The characters do change and grow a little but it's clearly not the primary focus, so anybody who was expecting something else is probably going to be disappointed.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!The second part and conclusion to the "Samurai & Shogun" short from Studio Deen is now online:
Also, as a part of the Adult Swim Festival, two Citadel-related episodes were Rereleased for Free:
There are so many of these Japanese Rick and Morty shorts. Is Rick and Morty even that well-known in Japan?
A thought occurs. Did Evil Morty enter another multiverse?
He could be in any other franchise right about now. Worlds where Rick Sanchez isn't the smartest man alive.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
...That was the entire point.
No, I mean.
He could be in Steel Ball Run.
He could be in Riverdale.
He could be in the MCU.
What have they done.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
Two crows.
That was Itachi's whole shtick.
Rick even did a Substitution jutsu.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).