How Poopy Got His Poop Back

Rick and Morty is one of my favorite shows, but it gets poorer with each season. Although there are many reasons for this, it still cannot explain why this series has turned into a meaningless ordinary cartoon that constantly repeats itself. Dan Harmon failed to keep this series stable, as he did with Community.

Considering the potential of this series, much better things could have been done than this. As concepts such as parallel universes were brought to the fore more and more each season, family themes etc. Were completely lost. And the pointlessness of the series also increased .But I would still like to point out that I didn't get bored while watching it.

I'm in my 40s, raised with the Simpsons (and DBZ) and this episode gave me the same feeling when I gave up on Homer&co 15/20y ago.

Like for the Simpsons, this show has lost its mojo over time, but I would have argued was still good.

But this episode is the stereotype of a show turned sour.

No real story, just a pretext for some random stuff to happen in a succession of shorts gags. Bring some random hollywood star to make up for the boring story and do another set of short gags. Then bring some random TV/Cinema reference and do another set of random short gags...

In the end, now it looks a lot like the cheap recipe of American Dad or Family guy but worse.

Don't Cry Because It's Over; Smile Because It Happened.

This episode is basically written like a middling Simpsons celebrity special-guest episode. It really feels like this episode's been re-written to purposely make fun of Roiland after his departure from the show. There are a lot of callbacks to previous episodes that aren't really jokes so much as references. For a show that's headed by someone known for his cleverness, this episode misses the mark. I probably laughed...once?

The replacement voice actors were clearly still learning the nuances, and calibrating them well is on the director & Harmon. Cardoni does the best with the challenging character of Rick. The main failure of this premiere is the lack of joy that the actors are bringing to the roles, even some of the regulars.

The animation is still stellar, so I'm giving the episode 5 stars for that, but some of the POVs are still questionable, such as one shot involving Mr. PB that undercuts the suspense of a life-threatening situation necessary for the subsequent joke.

I'm pretty bummed that this show's quality is seeming to suffer yet again. This feels a lot like the Season 4 dragon episode, and I'm wondering if this is just an intentional passive drop in quality to help the show get canceled.

This episode is unfair for season 7 - I mean it's unfair to give this as our first real look. While it's not season 6 bad, this was a horrible debut. The rest of the season actually looks amazing! This is just going off the trailers, but season 7 is looking great. This isn't it, though. It's just a bit too much of a random episode. It's like having a Rick and Jerry episode, then swapping jerry with Mr. P. B. And then adding a bunch old characters who were written for jokes, not to carry the episode. Again, Rick and morty season 7 doesn't look like it'll suck; far from it, but this really just isn't the best way to debut it.

It feels like something is missing and it has nothing to do with the voices. The voices are fine. Things change. It feels odd sometimes and it initially feels weird to hear the slight differences but it doesn't impact on the show. What does seem to be missing though, is the improvisational nature of the delivery, which the show has been built on from season 1. It has been fading over the last few seasons but it's completely gone now and it's clearly something we would only ever get from Justin Roiland. This isn't a terrible episode but it's a weak opener. They really needed to prove a point with this episode and they didn't do that. It feels like a mid-season filler episode, billed as some kind of comeback. Hopefully they can play to their strengths, going forward, rather than trying so hard to prove they don't need Justin Roiland to be a success.