are you gonna play it I always slay it Queen don't know what
any of that means don't be left out anymore
watch new episodes of the best comedy show round Rick and Morty five all-new
episodes starts Sunday November 10th at 11:30 only on Adult Swim
it's been way too long
sooner the smartest brick and Martius morty in the universe are back i'm
operated to climb something this year look you're the guy that wanted an epic
adventure I'm the guy with only one huh birds are pretty much I don't know I'm
just usually around people that die faster Rick and Morty five all-new
episodes starts Sunday November 10th at 11:30 half the season you deserve oh the
season we could handle you know what this one counts as one of your
adventures only on Adult Swim welcome back everyone it's Charlie they dropped
a new promo for season four this is also going to be my non-spoilery review of
Rick and Morty's season 4 episode 1 I had a chance to see the episode early I
will be doing videos for all the episodes this season so be sure to
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biggest prediction about evil Morty during season 4 and don't worry there is
more than five episodes total in season 4 it's just that the first five are
airing before the end of the year I'll explain how that's going to work at the end
of the video but the long wait for season four is over we're finally there
you guys made it if you've been a fan of rick and morty since the beginning then
giant breaks between seasons is no big deal you're used to it by now but one of
the results of the giant break since season 3 in the 70's ode renewal was
this real desire from Dan Harmon and Justin roiland based on what they've
said to prove to fans that the show deserves all the popularity that it's
gained and that despite the gaping chasms of breaks between seasons they
have not lost any of their edge or wit one of the best things about the show
the last couple of years has been watching how much more complex and crazy
the stories of God as they started to polish their creative process and found
their quote-unquote special sauce in the writers room make all the Szechuan jokes
you want the animation has always been solid the only minor changes you notice
when go back and re-watch season 1 is that
between seasons 1 of season 2 they fix some of the framerate issues but Bardell
for the most part have been their animators since season 1 and as far as I
know they'll continue to do so until the show goes off the air after a hundred
years worth of seasons but season four episode 1 is titled Rick die repeat edge
of temor T which is a reference to Tom Cruise's edge of tomorrow movie which
itself is based on a Japanese manga called all you need is kill in the
episode also borrows the main premise of the movie that Tom Cruise gets caught in
a resurrection time loop and winds up dying a thousand times until he finds
all the different things that he needs to do so that he can end the time loop
and his life can finally move forward in the basic concept of episode 1 without
getting too spoilery about it is that Rick and Morty finds something that
allows them to see their future and see how they're going to die and Rick who's
not only aware that he's in a fictional TV show so why does anything matter has
also shown countless times that he has no problem with dying in no real
attachment to his current physical form he's not a total nihilist he does care
about things he cares about Morty he cares about Beth he cares about the
family but like season 3 episode 6 is a good example
fighting toxic Rick he made a new body for himself mid fight and didn't skip a
beat or project Phoenix from tiny Rick not the fallback he thought it was he
destroys all of his clones like it's no big deal there's no great existential
crisis at knowing his future because he's traveled the finite curb and seen
hundreds and thousands of different versions of himself all who made very
different choices and have wildly different lives than he did is the same
basic concept as the message of interdimensional cable he doesn't get so
hung up on what he might have done when things go wrong his main concern remains
his immediate survival through the episode it's Morty that really flips out
when he finds out how he's going to die and can't get past it he's consumed like
Tom Cruise was in changing his fate and trying all kinds of different things to
avoid it he's still a little kid so he doesn't quite understand the concept of
self-fulfilling prophecies it's a lot like Morty during more T's mind blowers
he stares into the truth tortoises eyes and suddenly he literally knows
everything as his mind starts to collapse under the stress of it all
until Rick explains how he's kept Morty sane during all their escalating
adventures by erasing the most dangerous memories the difference this time in
season 4 episode 1 because Dan and Justin aren't super huge on copy-paste
repeating storylines is that there's no super quick fix that Rick can use on
Morty he has to just deal with it in Rick's message the ultimate message of
the episode is to just be content to live in the present don't get so caught
up on what might happen that it prevents you from being happy which if you've
ever listened to an episode of Harmon town you might hear Dan Harmon talking
about all the time it's something that he gets hung up on in real life his own
fear of eventually maybe being destitute so he works harder and harder and
sometimes will get super stuck on things so the message of the episode also kind
of winds up being the writers commenting on themselves in a meta way and you'll
remember part of the reason for the major delay between season 2 and season
3 is that Dan Harmon said that they would be times in the writers room that
they just get stuck on an idea or a script for way too long and it would
prevent them from finishing things on time it was even a trailer video that I
did last week where Justin and Dan were making fun of themselves for blowing all
their deadlines when they were working on season 4 episodes we missed all of
our deadlines season 4 episode 1 isn't the first time the writers have used
episodes to joke or comment about themselves in real life
also during Morty's mind blowers the ending scene where summers forced to
save Rick and Morty after they pull a scenario for they wake up thinking that
they missed a new interdimensional cable episode yelling it's summer and she says
no wonder you're constantly fighting with each other in behind schedule the
things they were referencing with that particular scene was mostly the false
accusation that the writers spent most of season 3 fighting with each other
particularly dan and Justin in that's why season 3 came so late which is only
half true they did get hung up on script details but they weren't fighting or at
each other's throats or anything like that talking about big changes from
season 3 the most seismic change between season 3 and season 4 just in terms of
the story is the family dynamic itself they foreshadow that themselves during
the season 3 episode 10 ending scene the finale when Beth says things are going
to be more like they were during seasons 1 and seasons 2 they also released a new
promo image that kind of conveys what that looks like in the episodes with
Jerry yelling at Rick in Rick's standing they're being forced
to listen to him at the beginning of season 4 Rick is kind of low man on the
totem pole again in terms of family status despite being smarter and better
than ever so at least in the first episode because I haven't seen the other
ones yet they do address this by having Rick at least try to get some measure of
consent to take Morty on their next adventure instead of just dragging him
out of bed like he wouldn't previous seasons or ordering people to come along
with them as you can see even though he's not happy about it he still tries
to get permission and you guys get really excited by this just like at the
end of every single first episode from each season at the end of season 4
episode 1 there's a huge fourth wall break moment that's even bigger and
crazier in scope than the season 3 episode one Szechuan sauce rant just to
let you know that despite the super long break between seasons they have huge
huge plans for the show and things will only get more epic and crazier over the
next 69 episodes but just ranking my favorite premiere episodes there haven't
been that many so this is actually pretty easy going from bottom to top
starting with number 4 season 1 episode 1 it was great as a polished version of
the doc and Marty original short that Justin made that would later turn into
Rick and Morty but it's more of a proof of concept for the series there's a
thousand percent more burps and they repeat each other's names constantly if
you haven't watched it in a while it's still a really fun episode I still
really like it but the show's gotten way more polished since then number three
season 2 episode 1 this was also a seismic change in terms of how crazy the
science fiction of the show got but also a huge increase in the heart the core
story telling Rick's relationship with his family it also gave us one of the
best Rick moments of all time he sacrifices himself only to then take his
promise to God right back and throw it in his face after surviving it perfectly
encapsulates who Rick Sanchez is as a person
or at least c-137 Rick my number 2 is season 3 episode 1 you're probably
sensing the pattern here but last season's premiere came after the longest
break between seasons up to that point not only did they deliver on increased
fan expectation with one of the crazier plots and sci-fi twist so far they also
used those twists to kind of answer a lot of long-running fan questions then
take it all right back what is Rick's origin story what happened to his wife
one of the biggest fan questions since the
beginning but the show is always at its best when it doesn't over explain things
in Rick is more interesting when you don't know everything about his
backstory they also when major bonus points for that April Fool's Day stunt
episode that was really cool so why obviously season four episode one
is my favorite season premiere so far I'm not quite ready to call it my
favorite episode of all time but it is amazing and even though it sucks that it
took this long to get to season four the show is just as good as it's ever been
if not better yes I know everyone still freaked out about that five episode run
but remember there's just a short break for the holidays then they come back for
more episodes for the rest of the season reason the you're getting five and then
a small break and then the back five is because Turner Broadcasting warned us
about entertainment signal levels my full season 4 episode 1 video will post
next Monday morning as long as you have alerts enabled for my channel you should
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