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Vice: I love "Rick & Morty" and I hate its fans
- Thread starter WrenchNinja
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This. There are shitty annoying people that like all the cool stuff you like.
second hand smoked a ton of weed, now I'm making pickle rick condoms
Trojita
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It's not going to be the Pickle Rick costumes that are going to be the most prevalent. It will be the "Look at me Morty, I turned myself into a pumpkin! Pumpkin Rick!!!!!!! pumpkin carvings.
Conkersbadfurday
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No joke, but Juggalos are the only people I've never had a bad experience with, fandomwise. R&M, gamers, anime fans, bronies, furries--I've encountered some crazy (in a bad way) and some assholes, but Juggalos are all kinda just nice people with questionable taste in music.
Probably asshole Juggalos too, but man, that percent has to be lower.
perfectchaos007
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Wrestling fans are vile. Utterly vile.
But can they hit it in the morning?
i mean it was a funny episode
what's the big deal?
there's this thing that happens - and as a wrestling fan, pal, you should know this - where the perception of the fanbase ends up determining the perception of the work itself, and is then extended to represent EVERYTHING about that work and any reason you could possibly have for enjoying it.
it's a shortcut and jumping to conclusions first way of thinking. and really, it isn't worth it. it doesn't get you anything. rick and morty is a reasonably funny show that is currently on that a lot of people like. it might have some problems in there, sure go ahead and analyse it, but don't just fire out a strawman youtube comment style quote and splatter the whole thing with it.
Wow, you thought "wubba lubba dub time for some grub" was obnoxious? Maybe go back to school dude.
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It's probably gonna be the only thing you see on r/All this October outside of Trump propaganda.
Reverend Funk
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Probably cause you just aren't smart enough for it
SuperStiltzkin
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SuperWhoLock is the dumbest, funniest thing I've ever read. God bless fandoms
To understand it requires a certain level of intelligence
I need a neogaf avatar that puts walter white, heath ledger joker, don draper from mad men, and rick together
CrimzonSamurai
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Do the types of fans in the article forget that "wubba lubba dub dub" is translated in-show as "I am in great pain please help me?" Or that time Rick was actually going to kill himself but passed out drunk so the laser missed his head when it fell on the desk?
I liked Pickle Rick for its obvious "What stupid hi-jinks is Rick up to this week?" send up, but I knew right away it was going to turn into a stupid fan catchphrase. :/
Let's hope all this doesn't discourage Dan Harmon. He's the type to take things to heart.
God Dayumm
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I prefer the Big Bang Theory
i don't even know where the 'rick and morty is humour for smart people' thing comes from. it is an absurdist show, MOST of the jokes are intentional non-sequiters or otherwise riffing on tropes in other lowbrow media. is it because everyone in the show keeps saying rick is super smart? i mean he makes references to tv shows, internet fads, every dumb thing currently going on. he's only smart cos the show says he knows how to do amazing science things, he himself is just a riff on doc from back to the future i mean god damn
it's just a stupid comedy cartoon. people will superimpose shit onto anything with even the vaguest nerdy subject matter
that's the thing that's surprising me most about this. it doesn't even try to be, it's the dumbest show ever. they have episodes which revolve around improv'd bullshit spoofs of bad tv. it's just a goof.
it's just a stupid comedy cartoon. people will superimpose shit onto anything with even the vaguest nerdy subject matter
that's the thing that's surprising me most about this. it doesn't even try to be, it's the dumbest show ever. they have episodes which revolve around improv'd bullshit spoofs of bad tv. it's just a goof.
No, they relate to that shit because they think their own personal pain justifies being complete assholes to other people.
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It's because they have montages with slow indie songs at the end of some episodes.
That's the key. Gotta have them slow indie song montages.
It also has Rick be all depressed sometimes. That's smart stuff right there.
SuperStiltzkin
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It has some very smart and exciting sci fi premises and executes them pretty well. In terms of teaching life lessons and all that. No not really.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Toxic fanbases are everywhere. Enjoy what you like, but in moderation...
too bad there isn't a character in the show who's explicitly designed around highlighting rick's failures as a person and how ill-advised it is to adore him unquestioningly
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Now you know how it feels to watch Steven Universe
Why does Dracula have a cold? At least he's being courteous by covering his nose when he sneezes.
If you read up on the Breaking Bad fanbase (and on the opposite end the Supernatural fanbase) you'll think otherwise...
Skirting around the show creators themselves and their sometimes racist and sexist depictions of things (hello Kanye's mom as a mammy in the new game), there's a certain segment of the SP fanbase that subscribes to the philosophies the show talks about. Basically, they are the classic "both sides" people that hate political correctness and smug liberals, and hold the view that everything it's terrible and they try to be above it all. A classic example is when people look at the "Douche v. Turd" episode. The moral of that story was that both Democrats and Republicans are awful but it's your civic duty to vote. Ultimately it doesn't matter so who cares! I know a lot of South Park fans that took that episode's message to heart
That episode aired a week before Bush v. Kerry
There's a term for it, South Park Republican
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Republican
CrimzonSamurai
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Well, hang on, the show isn't not not-smart. There's some legitimate philosophical conversations going on. But none of it is genius level required reading level discourse.
The show does a pretty good job of exploring the pitfalls of nihilism while showing enlightened absurdism as a more tenable worldview, but it's not freakin Wittgenstein or anything,
The show does a pretty good job of exploring the pitfalls of nihilism while showing enlightened absurdism as a more tenable worldview, but it's not freakin Wittgenstein or anything,
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'You still watch cartoons?' Conversation over
perfectchaos007
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'You still play video games? Aren't you an adult now?'
I'm pretty sure most people here in off-topic don't play videogames anymore.
I only play high-art like Team Ico games and Life is Strange these days.
Hella cool
Reverend Funk
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Can you really call yourself an adult if you do anything other than listen to contemporary jazz and do taxes?
Not if Steven Universe has anything to say about that
I only willingly interact with small fanbases, or stick to the GAF OTs
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