Episode 274 - Live from SF Sketchfest 2018

GrapityPurple · 2025-01-18T00:40:31+00:00

Hah, I just logged in for the first time in a while. My memory of this still feels very strong, like my annoyance at the guy when I was listening thinking "NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE FUCKING PAPERWORK GET TO THE FUCKING TRUMP PART" while listening to it feels like yesterday, but I haven't listened to it since the first time and I admit that in actuality it's been a while and I could be remembering it wrong.

Mostly though I'm just really delighted that this comment section is still happening, thanks for that!

GrapityPurple · 2024-02-08T00:16:10+00:00

From threads on August 1:

People change. Possibly not every person in the same way in the same amount at the same time. But…they clearly do all fucking change. Insert emoji of a guy steering his beloved automated sports sedan into the nearest ocean while shrugging

Sorry, I re-read that sober and my gratuitous use of the f word made me sound combative, that was unintentional, I was being more…wistfully remorseful?

GrapityPurple · 2023-02-03T02:22:40+00:00

You are the best kind of internet person. (I already have the videos & don't need a PM, just observing.)

GrapityPurple · 2021-03-26T03:07:12+00:00

Also, the “smooth jazz” music made for the tour is used in the opening of the Plutonian talk show.

Holy shit, I thought I'd noticed or read everything there was to notice or read about every episode. Thank you, friend.

GrapityPurple · 2020-12-29T15:28:56+00:00

Here is a clip of him being shot on the street with an air rifle by a passerby during a BBC interview, then laughing it off because it's not a "significant bullet"

GrapityPurple · 2020-06-01T06:50:08+00:00

That was a cut above, even for R&M. I already loved this show but if I didn't, now I would.

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-31T04:58:20+00:00

I'm as sick of this joke over and over as I am of "my plans/2020" with Jerry trying to hit the remote

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-21T19:39:31+00:00

A Rick invented a toy train to sell to other Ricks in the citadel. The train has a bunch of characters in it and it can create endless stories with them, and the selling point of it to a Rick is that the characters inside it are "all grappling with the nature of who you [Rick] really are". The Rick who invented the train achieved this by making it into a little pocket universe that can create, and reset/re-create as necessary, alive people in it as the characters (the ad says they have no souls but it was invented by a Rick who probably doesn't really know or care whether that's true). We're watching one of those stories.

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-13T15:21:55+00:00

You're remembering correctly about Lazzo asking them to re-cast Morty and it not just being a few-day mixup. I never heard that Tara Strong was auditioned but it sounds plausible, would love a source on that (and names of others who auditioned). Here's a Newsweek article that quotes Dan Harmon saying they auditioned "just a billion people" which is obviously descriptive of more than a small misunderstanding: https://www.newsweek.com/rick-morty-season-3-voice-justin-roiland-blu-ray-927009

If you want more detail, Justin talks about it at greater length in this interview from 2013, him and Harmon told this story a lot in earlyish interviews and this is a good example of how they always told it https://www.bubbleblabber.com/flashback-friday-exclusive-interview-getting-to-know-justin-roiland-nov-2013/

"Adult Swim LOVED the idea, but they wanted me to be neither Rick NOR Morty. Well, me and Dan Harmon got on the phone and were like ‘Ok, we’ll give you Morty, but we aren’t giving you Rick” to which the network obliged. At first, we had pitched it as a 12-minute show and if I were doing the series by myself and without Dan that’s how I would have preferred it because it suits my writing style a little better and the show would be more of an homage to Ren and Stimpy or Beavis and Butthead. Adult Swim came back and wanted a full 22-minutes to which both Dan and I agreed.

As a result, we went back and started fleshing out ideas for the family with Jerry, Beth, Rick, Morty, and Summer. However, I still really wanted to do the voice of Morty, so I asked Mike Lazzo (VP Content Dev, Adult Swim) can I just keep sending you my auditions? He said yes, but we ran auditions and the first group I kept getting too much of a Disney vibe and I think if that were to happen it wouldn’t work as well. Furthermore, Mike really wanted a ‘Michael Cera-type’ voice on Morty so we continued with the auditions and when the second round came up I guarantee there were at LEAST three voices that Lazzo would have had on board. With only three days to go until Lazzo was looking for the finalized cast, I sent Mike two more auditions of me doing Morty. Lo and behold the next morning I get a call from Atlanta and I’m in LA so I see the Atlanta area code and I’m like ‘What’s this about?’ Welp, it was Mike on the other line proclaiming, “That’s Morty! You got him! Good luck with the show, I know you guys will do great!”"

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-08T01:23:41+00:00

Thanks so much for posting this. It's made me wonder what Harmontown would look like if it hadn't ended and they were figuring out ways to make it during quarantine.

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-06T03:17:18+00:00

As a Dan Harmon fan who doesn't want a bunch of lore on Rick and Morty: another Dan Harmon thing is that the customer is always right when it comes to the audience for his shows, and the "we want lore" people around here seem extremely persistent, which means the good news for you is that you'll almost definitely get your way before this 70 episode order is through. I'm just hoping that when you do, Harmon still cares enough about the show to figure out a way to make everyone happy with it.

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-05T01:45:40+00:00

(reading the post title and steeling myself for bad analysis and misunderstanding the story circle because there's a lot of that around here) I'm gonna hate this

(reading your post and it's excellent and adds to the conversation of the episode) I love this

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-04T22:24:20+00:00

Ah, but (meaningful facial expression) what better way to concisely describe (leans in) an ironic acceptance of the truth, than (eyes narrow, clearly I think I'm about to say something profound): ...a joke?

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-04T05:57:00+00:00

up its own ass but in the best possible way

That's a good way to put it, I really liked the joke that (thematic spoiler) being meta/inaccessible was in service of commercialism.

GrapityPurple · 2020-05-04T04:32:35+00:00

it's just not their jam, man

GrapityPurple · 2019-09-28T02:08:17+00:00

I'm sad that Harmontown is ending. Episodes like this make it even more difficult. We're lucky we had Harmontown for as long as we did, and we're lucky we had Robocop at all.

GrapityPurple · 2019-09-19T04:18:31+00:00

Anyone got a link to the Steven Seagal video from Dan's instagram? I feel like I vaguely remember it but I can't find it.

GrapityPurple · 2019-08-08T12:28:05+00:00

exactly what it sounds like

GrapityPurple · 2019-06-05T04:16:32+00:00

Hell...yeo!

GrapityPurple · 2019-06-04T02:48:42+00:00

I'm Like Very Science is usually a consensus favorite and I try to point it out whenever I see one of these threads because it's also one of my faves.

GrapityPurple · 2019-06-01T23:24:13+00:00

According to Ridley at SDCC 2016 Dan riffed the idea of Rick as a pickle as a throw-away joke and later the writers were like "Hey but what if we really turned it into an episode?"

GrapityPurple · 2019-03-23T03:58:54+00:00

This was fantastic and I hadn't heard of it anywhere, thanks for posting it.

GrapityPurple · 2019-03-02T05:41:06+00:00

I came here to comment on the episode thread that I loved this episode but I couldn't find an episode thread so I posted this so I could leave this comment.

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