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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And the retcon with Agrajag being the bowl of petunias is absolutely a R&M escalating callback
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And I wanna say making Agrajag into a sympathetic character is very much a Dan Harmon style thing, making the cruel joke worse by giving it depth, giving actual pathos to this ridiculous cartoonish thing with the Cathedral of Hate against Arthur
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I remember DA saying the inspiration for that was seeing innocent bystanders in shows like Cannon killed off randomly without a 2nd thought. So he decided to invent and kill off a random character as a plot point and make it sympathetic enough so people cared.
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Yeah, which is a familiar joke now - suddenly having the dying guard gurgle "Tell my wife--" - but is extra fucked up because of the sheer absurdity of the situation
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