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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Like the pitch for HHGG is "Doctor Who if the Doctor were a completely irresponsible dipshit" (Ford in the original BBC series is deliberately Doctor-esque) and that's exactly what Rick and Morty is
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The original draft of HHGG as a radio play even has that grimdark idea of multiple timelines built into it It has Ford give Arthur a speech that he could easily take him to a parallel universe where the Earth wasn't destroyed but he'd just go insane from knowing the truth
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That comes from the original ORIGINAL Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy pitch, where every episode would be a parallel timeline where the Earth gets destroyed for a new dumb reason. (An idea also attempted in the rare Douglas Adams/ Graham Chapman pilot Out of the Trees.)
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Which he eventually came full circle on with Mostly Harmless, the reveal that the Vogons have created the InfiniDim Corporation and the Guide Mk II to doom every parallel Earth in the multiverse to be destroyed one way or another
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