This episode took a very dark turn. (S09 E02)

[u/TraceHunter69]

[u/IllegalOpera]

Simple Rick died, then Homesteader Rick died, now Ted is presumably dead. This Rick archetype is just too good for the multiverse.

[u/Less_Psychology6605 → u/IllegalOpera]

That’s how the central finite curve works You can’t escape it and you can’t avoid it

[u/NyneHelios → u/IllegalOpera]

This episode made me want an extended simple Rick origin story

[u/Akhyll]

This is one of the most depressing episode of the serie so far.

He litteraly can't be happy, if it's not him destroying it, it's the others by rickochet

The post-credits scene make it a little lighter but still

[u/TraceHunter69 → u/Akhyll]

I am blown away by the animation team. If the first two episodes look like this, I can’t imagine what the rest of the season looks like. Amazing world building. 

[u/New_Cicada_7790 → u/TraceHunter69]

The writers and animators must of done a shit ton of Adderall and Coke because it's top tier and made with time and love

[u/pickles_onions → u/New_Cicada_7790]

this is the beauty one gets when Dan Harmon isn’t in a depressed “do-nothing/bed-rot”-state of which I am all too familiar, but when the man is motivated to work what he makes is untouchably good…Community was one of the greatest series of all time and when Rick & Morty announced Harmon was joining Roiland to work the show I absolutely knew it was going to be a winner, even with the Roiland “scandal” (of which I say in quotes because I believe the whole “guilty until proven innocent” in the court of public opinion was at work here because correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t he acquitted and his allegations withdrawn by the supposed victim?…I may have that wrong, there were some texts that didn’t look great if I remember correctly, but idr)

Anyway, TL;DR Dan Harmon shows are good, except for that one with the mythical gods, you know the one

[u/The_Flying_Failsons → u/TraceHunter69]

Plot twist, these two is where all the budget went and is stick figures from here on.

[u/MDH_vs → u/Akhyll]

I was sad and also unsure if it even flipped him and Ted just lost all hope until I saw the after credits and that this is a regular occurrence. Then brain went back to “Hahaha! Silly, Rick.”

[u/Bar-Cold → u/Akhyll]

Idk to me it seems like he just doesn’t like being Rick. Or being a genius. Even though he was still Ted he basically reverted back to Rick and he was happier when he thought he was just Ted

[u/Sec2727 → u/Bar-Cold]

“The smarter you are, the more you know happiness is a trap. It can't last forever.”

[u/Greyrock99 → u/Sec2727]

Look I made a graph!……I make a lot of graphs.

[u/stickywhitesubstance → u/Akhyll]

Honestly, I find this episode a little bit uplifting (if you look past the mountain of sadness). To me, Ted’s descent feels a lot more like season 1 Rick than season 9 Rick. He’s come a long way.

[u/DevelopmentMajor4057]

No, it was already dark from the beginning. Rick having a normal life isn't an usual thing.

[u/Candid_Reference8048 → u/DevelopmentMajor4057]

Exactly, by now we can expect shit to go down when we see him having "a normal life moment"

[u/DominantDo → u/DevelopmentMajor4057]

Really small nitpicky thing with nothing related to what your saying but it's actually a unusual not an unusual

[u/Tipop → u/DominantDo]

It’s “an unusual”.

The choice between a and an depends on the sound that follows, not the spelling.

[u/AjarChart]

Where did you watch?

[u/ReezyChurch → u/AjarChart]

Use Streamio

[u/AjarChart → u/ReezyChurch]

Thank youu

[u/ducky3686 → u/AjarChart]

Flixbaba u get the episodes earlier

[u/electricooldude → u/ducky3686]

That one came a day late

[u/Cineklol → u/AjarChart]

for me the episodes just randomly show up on tiktok

[u/NokitaKaze]

I had the opposite effect.

Before the beer buying scene 😞

After the beer buying scene :3

[u/ArnavJj145]

This is honestly one of the best seasons so far, and we are only 2 eps in

[u/Mr_Z_Malice]

I was so happy when they played big iron

[u/The_Flying_Failsons]

Felt like a Star Trek episode on the Prime Directive.

[u/whiteredfoxthreat]

It's not a Rick and Morty episode if you don't feel depressed afterwards

[u/No_Hacks_55555]

I hated this episode so much

[u/Candid_Reference8048 → u/No_Hacks_55555]

It's dark, but so creative at the same time, so I loved it. Just see it as "an episode", not "omg, everything is so depressive now"

[u/bmhlogan → u/No_Hacks_55555]

Can you explain why you hated it?

[u/horrified-expression → u/No_Hacks_55555]

I was not a fan myself. It seems we’re in the minority