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 really don't mind Justin Roiland being replaced, it seems as though the new voice actors are at least an 8.5/10 in their efforts, so that's great.

The problem is the writing and the flow though. There seems to be something very off with episode 1 of this new season. It's like the show's IQ has lost about 20 points.

It lacks the rapid fire genius of delivery. Everything seems to be slowed down or just not quite hitting the spot.

Rick and Morty is unique as an animated show. And for whatever reason it feels very vanilla today.

Maybe somebody smarter than myself can dive into it and explain why.

There was nothing particularly creative or interesting about this episode, which is usually not the case for season openers in this series. Also there were almost no jokes that I found to be funny at all, which might not be the case for everyone, it could just be personal preference. Overall I just found it to be a quite boring episode unfortunately, one of the main draws of Rick and Morty for me is it's consistent creative concepts, and there was really just nothing here like that.

I will also say that I did find Rick's new voice to be pretty distracting. It's not just that it's different, I just don't think the performance is there yet. But if given time I'm sure the new actor will be fine, he just needs to find his stride. I will say the new Morty is pretty much indistinguishable for me, at least from the few lines he had in this episode. Mr. Poopybutthole was also a standout in the episode, I forgot he also needed to be changed and I didn't even notice a difference. I'm very glad that Roiland's departure seems to have had a minimal effect on the show's quality, with Rick being the only noticeable change, but maybe I'll feel differently as the season goes on.

The voices sounded kinda similar to me. But they all blended together, like they're cut from the same boring cloth. No energy, no spark. Felt like I was stuck in some robot chat room with no escape button.

The episode itself on the other hand was aweful. It had potential - could've been this epic tale with old Rick's gang getting into some wild antics for a mate. But no, it was a swing and a miss.

Super shallow story. It's like they weren't even trying. Honestly, it felt like they just threw it together last minute. Hopefully the next episodes will be better than this, or people will definitely just bail.

It goes far beyond the new voices. Rick felt like an entirely new character, Morty was barely even in the episode, and the plot was irrelevant to the main story line. After all the setup from last seasons finale and the fact that Rick and Morty premiers usually advance the plot the most, I was super bummed out when I began to realize this was just a lame story about Mr PoopyButthole getting his wife back (which he didn't even, she hated him afterwards). I'd be lying if I said I don't fear for the future of this show; everyone was so caught up by the fact that Rick and Morty were gonna sound different that they completely disregarded Roilands influence on the show itself. Feels like it's making a shift towards a more pg-13 demographic and my god does it suck.