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    To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Rick’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick’s existential catchphrase “Wubba Lubba Dub Dub,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev’s Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools… how I pity them. 😂

    And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

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    Yes, let’s not forget the real victims, the poor Goodwill volunteer that has to go through this collection and sanitize anything vaguely pickle-shaped.

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      I want it to be satirical but then I remember that someone somewhere unironically believes there is something called a “manosphere”.

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          It’s everything from redpill misogynists to people who just support men’s rights and saying we should should direct resources to prevent male suicides is the exact same thing as saying women are property and deserve no rights or autonomy and there is no middle ground.

          It is important to understand what people are saying about this because when you hear someone say something that seems reasonable and correct but suddenly they show their extremist stance but then you dismiss that part because you don’t realize what they are saying.

          This is how all extremist groups get people on their side from Isis to Jordan Peterson to far right politics.

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    I can’t believe how much fucking merchandise there is for such a small show. Compare it to even something like futurama in terms of cultural impact and there’s so much more plastic shit made for Rick and Morty

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      Rick and morty has the a to attract some of the most obsessive people on the planet. When everyone’s a whale you better start whaling

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      Small show? I dunno about that. Rick and Morty are pretty iconic characters and there’s been lots of famous moments from that show since it started broadcasting. I dunno why you are making it sound like barely anyone watched it. I was a teenager during its peak in popularity and let me tell you everyone is the hallway was quoting one liners from that show.

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      I think part of that is how popular merchandising like funko pops have become in recent years, Futurama was many years ago at this point.

      Second reason is that despite its longevity in the internet consciousness, it’s easy to forget Futurama was fairly unpopular when it was originally airing.

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      Rick and morty is not a small show by almost any metric. Funko pops also became popular right around the same time and have a massive overlap in fans, so it makes sense. Futurama was not out at the same time for the most part but there is still about a dozen funko pops from it.

      Funko can just make tons of unique models really cheaply, and they know fans will buy them to collect like beanie babies, so of course they’ll keep churning out different versions of the same characters of one of the most popular nerd cartoons that their own fans love.

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        it’s a small show by literally any metric.

        The Circle posted about triple the viewership numbers. would you consider the circle a big show?

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          Ah yes, do compare a reality show to a fiction cartoon. I’m sure Top Chef has such a greater impact culturally than Breaking Bad

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      Rick and Morty was pretty damn huge for a minute there. Think you’re underestimating it’s impact.

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      Might just be me, but when Futurama was new, Funko just wasn’t the massive brand it is today. While there is Futurama Funko, Rick and Morty is still (sorta, not regularly), being made, but Futurama has been dormant for new episodes until very recently. So if the show takes off, I’d suspect a new line of Futurama Funkos for people.

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    Yeah! Give that corporation a large portion of your income in exchange for goods, and then destroy those goods! That’ll show that completely separate person with zero ties to the corporation!

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        I could never get into it. I tried. I truly don’t understand how or why people find it good but a lot of people love that show. I’m not one of them.

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          I enjoyed many parts the show but didn’t love it obsessively like some people. I think that it’s popular because

          1. it’s geeky and fourth-wall-breaky - which is where the “high IQ” idea comes from,

          2. it’s actually completely accessible to low-IQ people, as evidenced by the fact that it’s popular with people who brag about having a high IQ,

          3. it’s silly and slapstick, which when combined with point (1) creates

          4. constant reversals of expectation, which are a very effective form of humor,

          5. it’s in-your-face and edgy, which appeals to people who like to think of themselves as rejecting the mainstream, despite still being very mainstream, and finally

          6. it is extremely memeable.

          A winning formula regardless of the writers’ creativity. And some episodes had a pretty creative premise. The Microverse Battery episode could stand side by side with The Simpsons before The Simpsons turned into a parody of itself.

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      You probably just didn’t understand all the intellectual jokes for high IQ individuals like myself

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    I love how the way he wrote that makes it seem like he considers this dude hurting the fandom and killing some show to be a worse transgression than hurting his girlfriend.

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      hurting millios of smart adult fans (like me) every single day and second 😢😢 or a girl getting hurt two tims a day. Please think abut before comenting 😭😭😭

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    This has to be a troll right? I refuse to believe anyone uses “smartoons” unironically

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      Yes, but: a lot of other pretty unwholesome stuff came out about him during the process and his contract has a clause in it that allows him to be terminated on that basis; it’s actually pretty common for people in his kind of position to have contracts like that.

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      doesn’t matter, these"judges" already convicted him. Forget due process. Getting accused publicly == being guilty forever on social media.

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        It’s also important to remember that this is how most abuse cases work out. There is almost never enough evidence because it is almost impossible to proof beyond reasonable doubt. It’s incredibly rare that someone gets convicted in an abuse case, no matter if they actually committed abuse or not. The victim has to basically stand in court with the gunk and fingerprints of the perpetrator still on them and video material that shows it wasn’t self-defense from the other side, for any conviction to actually happen.

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            That’s what you take from it? No, I think there should be no reports or articles or mentions on any cases that have not yet been decided upon by a court. A private’s persons life is not ruined by an accusation because it almost never leads to a conviction, regardless of whether they are guilty or not.

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              Sorry, I thought you were saying in subtext that we should only judge based on accusations since evidence is hard to get for abuse cases. My bad!

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                No, I am really not that good in English. I often realise people understand it slightly different than what I meant. But I can’t do anything about it lol

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        How does that saying go again? By the time Truth puts its shoes on, a Lie has travelled around the world.