From what little I've bothered to see of it, it looks like a half-assed cross between Ren and Stimpy and Beavis and Butt-Head with a sprinkling of Futurama to pretend there was something else going on.
Actually, while maybe not being in the know with all of the examples given, the basic points you made are actually spot on and a big reason (though far from the only reason) why it's hard for me to give a crap about mainline DC and Marvel these days.Yeah, my taste in media is terrible, I know.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.It's funny when R&M fans claim the show is intellectual. Not really, they whip us whatever BS "science" they want to do whatever and everything goes back to status quo anyway.
he said he liked salt not jive.Could be worse. You could be assigned to P&R.