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> Simpsons was a great piece of counter culture, then it just won and became culture I've often mused over this as well. I remember when Simpsons was first air
by laumars 9y ago
> Simpsons was a great piece of counter culture, then it just won and became culture
I've often mused over this as well. I remember when Simpsons was first aired in the UK, there was lots of complaints over it. The WI (Women's Institute) running campaigns again the show because its content was considered harmful. People even threatening to boycott the BBC and any high street stores that sold Simpsons merchandise. Slogans like "Eat my shorts" caused massive outrage. Yet most of those people who were angered by the very concept of the show ended up watching it with their own families. And in the end the show became a victim of it's own success; it's no longer able to surprise people without going totally random. A point South Park commented on in one of their shows where Butters keeps being reminded that all of this plot ideas have already happened in the Simpsons (this was before South Park became just as tired as the Simpsons)
- tuxt 9y ago>Butters keeps being reminded that all of this plot ideas have already happened in the Simpsons Now it's South Park's turn(Rick mentions "South Park did it" on Rick and Morty)
- cholantesh 9y agoAnd as the proliferation of the To Be Fair copypasta shows, they may get there soon.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoSo at this rate, if Rick and Morty keeps on going for a few seasons, a new show will mention that "Rick and Morty did it".
- megaman22 9y agoAt the current rate, it'll take the better part of a century for Rick and Morty to count up to a couple hundred episodes and get stale like its forebears have.
- gfody 9y agoI hope so. It would break my heart if Rick and Morty started to sacrifice quality to keep a schedule. I'd rather wait.
- rothbardrand 9y agoRick and Morty has already lost its appeal to me, because the person who recommended it, and so many of the fans are assholes who think that Rick is a person to emulate and justifies their assholishness.
- fao_ 9y agoThis is both sad and hilarious to me, because lead writer Dan Harmon has explicitly spoken against Rick's character.
- j9461701 9y ago>we’ve all been Rick. But Rick really does have bigger fish to fry than anybody. He understands everything better than us. So you give him the right to be jaded and dismissive and narcissistic and sociopathic. -Dan Harmon Rick is literally designed to be the person every pretentious cynical asshole thinks they are. He exists to glamorize toxic anti-social behavior. Harmon backpedaling after the sauce thing blew up in his face isn't going to change this.
- olavk 9y agoA character does not necessarily exist just to either condemn or promote certain behavior. That is a pretty one-dimentional way of looking at storytelling.
- fao_ 9y agoThat's not actually him endorsing Rick, that's just him explaining why people give Rick that right. Which is entirely different.
- tritium 9y agoNot that questioning this premise should expect to surface an answer to any of these questions but... Would such a joke's lineage be perceptible or readily recognizable? Would anyone notice or remember who made the last/next iteration of the joke, to continue the tradition? Who defines the canonical serial sequence for this chain of jokes? How many generations is a joke like this worth? Would the continuation of such a joke actually be funny in the first place? Was it ever truly funny at all?