Are you jonesing for more Rick and Morty? While you’re waiting for season 4, here’s a list of other Rick and Morty-esque entertainment you’ll be sure to like, from obscure British comedy gems to classic sci-fi hits.
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[I am pleased there is no emergency.]
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[Oh, there’s an emergency, all right.]
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It’s going to be way too long
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until the new season of Rick and Morty.
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[See you for season 4 in-]
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[a really long time!]
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So what do we do in the meantime?
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We’ve compiled a short list of shows
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to help get you through your Rick and Morty withdrawal
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with some other shows to get hooked on.
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And because our specialty is analysis,
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these aren’t just general recommendations.
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We’re looking at what exactly you like about Rick & Morty,
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and trying to point to other shows, movies or entertainment
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that capture those specific attributes.
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So to start with.
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If you like Rick and Morty because you enjoy Rick–
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you know that guy who just totally acts like a Rick —
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[I’m sorry you think you deserve an apology.]
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you’ll like other shows starring that smart asshole,
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doesn’t give a Rick type.
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There’s n’er do well father of 6 Frank Gallagher
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in Shameless.
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[The best gift you can give is neglect.]
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or womanizing writer Hank Moody of Californication.
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[So, not only are you a cadaverous lay,]
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[you also have shitty taste in movies.]
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If you like the insufferable genius
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coupled with a sweet-hearted sidekick,
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a great bet would be BBC’s Sherlock.
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[Why didn’t i think of that.]
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[’cause you’re an idiot.]
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[No no no don’t be like that,]
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[practically everyone is]
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And of course there’s Hugh Laurie’s Dr. House,
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with sidekick Dr. Wilson.
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[You alienate people.]
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[I’ve been alienating people since I was three.]
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You can see a kind of inverse of this coupling
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in Jeeves and Wooster,
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the 90s british comedy series
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based on the PG Wodehouse’s writings,
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starring Hugh Laurie (in a very different role)
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together with his Cambridge buddy Stephen Fry.
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Here the sidekick butler is the genius,
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and the ostensible boss is a total idiot,
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and the results are delightful.
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[This was all your doing, wasn’t it, Jeeves?]
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[Sir?]
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[You worked the whole thing,]
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[didn’t you? With the gloss-ups?]
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[If you’ll pardon the liberty, sir,]
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[I doubt if the young lady]
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[would be entirely suitable for you.]
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If you love surreal comedy
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and over-the-top wacky weirdness,
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[Yes, I’d like to order one large sofa chair]
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[with extra chair, please.]
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[High chair.]
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[No, no, no, no.]
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[Recliner.]
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There’s Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force,
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about fast food items who live together.
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[You know this book is self-published.]
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[Yes, like many ancient text.]
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[On the back of a hunch of pharmacy labels.]
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[Do not blaspheme the Book of Clozapine!]
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For more vintage surreality in comedy
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there’s the beloved Monty Python:
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[Look, you stupid bastard,]
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[you’ve got no arms left.]
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[Yes I have.]
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[Look!]
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[Just a flesh wound.]
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[Look, stop that.]
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[Chicken! Chicken!]
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[Look, I’ll have your leg. Right!]
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Or from the 2000s check out The Mighty Boosh,
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[Wind’s my only friend.]
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[I hate you.]
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[Loser.]
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[What?]
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which shares Rick and Morty’s bickering
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between the two protagonists,
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[You’re the least dark person I’ve ever met.]
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[You’re like candy floss.]
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[You cut me open and I’m made of Black Jacks.]
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[You’re Fruit Salad, Vince, everyone knows that.]
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unexpected musical numbers.
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[Soup, soup, a tasty soup,]
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[soup, a spicy carrot and coriander.]
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[Chili chowder!]
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[Crouton, crouton,]
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…and knack for super-memorable zany side characters,
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[When you are the moon,]
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[you pretty much split people down the middle.]
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[Some people go, “Ah, look at the moon.”]
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[“He’s all gentle, he has a nice white face,]
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[hanging in the sky. He’s nice.”]
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[And the other half go,]
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[“Ugh, he’s a vanilla rapist!]
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[Get him away from my kids!”]
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Python and Boosh and some of the others we’ve named
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are obviously British comedies,
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and Rick and Morty has
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a British sense of humor in some ways-
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it’s got the sarcasm,
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[Really, you don’t say.]
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the deadpan delivery,
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[Why don’t you ask the smartest people]
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[in the universe, Jerry?]
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[Oh, yeah. You can’t. They blew up.]
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the darkness, the feeling sometimes
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that involves from a sketch show,
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[Starring a piece of toast!]
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[Two guys, with handle-bar mustaches!]
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[A man painted silver who makes robot noises!]
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[Garmanarnar!]
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the social critique.
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[What happened?]
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[Same old story. Mortys killing Mortys.]
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So if you like that British comedy style,
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you should also check out the cringe-tastic Peep Show,
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which also features the odd couple,
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and very memorable side characters.
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[It’s a snake!]
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[Yeah, there are snakes.]
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[There are quite a few snakes in your room.]
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[It’s hard to keep count.]
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[They’re very good at hiding.]
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[Sneaky like that.]
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[Not to be too la-di-da,]
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[but is there a room with fewer snakes available?]
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And the way that nothing really
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improves or changes in these characters’ lives.
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[Zahra says we have only one thing to fear,]
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[and that’s fear itself.]
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[It’s a clever saying, isn’t it?]
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[And what about losing all your money?]
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[Or shitting yourself in public?]
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[Or the tabloid press mistakenly outing you as a paedo?]
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[Or Alzheimer’s?]
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[Or all of those things, plus you’re drowning?]
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Or, if you’ve never seen it,
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watch the iconic Alan Partridge,
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starring Steve Coogan.
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[Interesting thing about news and current affairs –]
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[Would it be terribly rude]
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[to stop listening to you]
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[and go and speak to somebody else?]
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And we’d highly recommend the wacky humor of Father Ted,
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[Down with this sort of thing.]
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[Careful Now]
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about three Irish priests living on a remote island.
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[That’s the great thing about Catholicism.]
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[It’s so vague and nobody really knows what it’s about.]
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If you love Justin Roiland’s vocal performance
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and his trademark loose, improvisational style,
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[I’m Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me!]
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check him out in the new Adult Swim show
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Hot Streets created by Rick and Morty writer
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Brian Wysol.
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Roiland produces the show
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and voices the dog Chubby Webbers,
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so we can officially say
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Roiland’s on another level now, creatively,
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seeing what he can do in extended sequences
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of not even saying any words.
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[It doesn’t matter what kind of these guys.]
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[Just distract him!]
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Or maybe, the part you love best about Rick and Morty
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is co-creator Dan Harmon’s brand of humor.
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There’s basically an endless supply
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of Harmon’s cerebral, wordy, self-aware jokes
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and rants on his podcast, Harmontown.
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You’ll hear all about what Dan’s therapist tells him
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because he records his sessions with this therapist:
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[My therapist told me I’m sitting on this script]
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[because this is my last chance to be miserable.]
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there’s a lot of rapping of uneven quality
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[I got a blue head and blue fists]
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[But then come on separately]
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[You can’t put them on a list]
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[of things you want for Christmas]
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[It’s 1986 and your dad just pissed in this fruit punch]
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and a bevy of creative insights into our world.
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[Insurance has to be one of the like]
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[That’s like the dorsal fin on the shark of capitalism.]
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And If you like Rick and Morty’s pop-culture referentiality
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and the way the characters seem aware they’re in a show,
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[Roll the credits. Go!]
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[Just shake that ass! That’s the end of season 1!]
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try out Harmon’s previous series– Community.
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[Well, I didn’t realize we were really good friends.]
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[I figured we were really more like Chandler and Phoebe.]
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[They never really had stories together.]
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[Sure, I’ll do it, Chandler.]
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[Oh!]
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And the show features another Rick type
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learning to care for others in spite of himself.
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Justin Roiland even gets a cameo
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in the show’s last episode as a character
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who sounds suspiciously like Mr. Meeseeks.
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[Hey what about me!]
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[Hey everybody, look at me!]
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[I’m Ice Cube Head!]
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[I’ve got an ice cube for a head!]
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[I also eat cell phones,]
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[so you better be careful with those cellphones around me,]
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[because they taste like prime rib where I’m from.]
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[I’m Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me!]
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One thing you might love about Rick and Morty
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is that it has really imaginative science fiction “what ifs.â€
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Episodes are like thought experiments
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that the show follows through
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to their wild and crazy conclusions,
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to unflinchingly stare at the problems of human existence.
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[Rick, what about the reality we left behind?]
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[What about the reality where Hitler cured cancer, Morty?]
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[The answer is don’t think about it.]
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So, If you’re interested in sci-fi
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that’s deeply philosophical
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and carries through to dark conclusions,
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try Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
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[I’m talking about taking]
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[Carrie’s consciousness from]
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[that broken shell and putting it in there.]
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[What? Um Like a voice inside my head?]
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[Like the whole of her inside your head.]
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[Like a hitchhiker.]
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[Like a passenger.]
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or Electric Dreams,
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another anthology series that’s based on
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the short stories of Philip K. Dick.
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[But there’s only me, Ed,]
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[and I’m running out of time.]
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Sometimes it can also be enjoyable
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to watch science fiction scenarios
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play out without the ultra-serious
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dramatic tone of most sci-fi.
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So if you love the science fiction
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with a comedic tone,
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you can always look back to Futurama.
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[Tonight at 11]
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[DOOM!!!!]
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It had Rick & Morty’s smarts
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and dedication to following through on jokes.
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The writers once went as far as to invent
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a mathematical theorem to solve a plot point.
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For even more classic sci-fi comedy,
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go for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,
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by Douglas Adams.
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[It’s a tough galaxy]
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[If you want to survive out here]
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[You’ve got to know where your towel is.]
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Dan Harmon has said that for Rick and Morty
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he was really inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide,
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as well as by another British classic —
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sci-fi show Dr. Who,
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which began all the way back in 1963.
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[Do you use it to shrink the surgeons]
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[so they can climb inside the patients?]
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[Exactly.]
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[Fantastic idea for a movie.]
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[Terrible idea for a proctologist.]
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So hopefully one of these shows
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or other entertainments
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can be the Rick-otine patch you need
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to get you through the wait for a new season.
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And in the meantime,
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you’ve also got our whole
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Rick & Morty analysis playlist
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to help you relive the magic.
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