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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I've always compared R&M to Futurama (they both use the "let's play with a single high concept and throw in a B-plot about a side character" structure) but philosophically H2G2 is a much clearer influence. These analogies /feel/ insulting but they're right
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Yeah I'm surprised there's this much resistance There's a lot of stuff I noticed when watching Rick and Morty where I was thinking I hadn't seen this kind of joke in a long time - constructing these elaborate and quite horrifying scenarios just to make a funny point
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And the one thing it overwhelmingly reminds me of is HHGG The R&M plot with the nesting universes used as power sources (the Microverse/Miniverse/Teenyverse) is very close to Adams' bit about the aorist rods The latter isn't really any less nihilistic or cynical than the former
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I do think people have rose-colored glasses about HHGG Like you know R&M's random one off joke about a "Boob Planet" literally is also a thing in HHGG (in the Magrathean virtual catalogue of custom planets, "We are not proud")
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