The funny thing I haven't seen people really talk about is that Rick and Morty is, for better or for worse, 100% a modernization of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Everything people don't like about it is what they wouldn't like about Douglas Adams if he were new
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The thing that might have stopped Adams from going bad is that he seemed to realize later in his career that his nihilistic comedy side was at odds with his environmentalist and humanist sides. Might have. I hope it would have.
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I agree. I was always struck by what seemed to me as a kid to be a pretty radical shift in intent the HHGG series takes with the introduction of Fenchurch.
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They both have a somewhat nihilistic perspective. The main difference is that Rick sees himself as being a sort of Nietzschian ubermench, whereas Adam's protagonists are generally more in awe of/befuddled by the vastness of the universe
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I mean the closest thing he has to a 'Rick' character is Zaphod Beetlebrox, and he's explicitly an idiot who has no idea what's going on
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