There are 3 different types of Rick and Morty fans. The casual ones, like me, who enjoy the show for what it is, a funny and innovative animated sci-fi sitcom. Then there's the "intellectual" ones who ironically think this is the smartest thing ever made, and that you need an IQ of at least 120 to appreciate all the scientific layers and the philosophical questions and the blah blah blah (one reviewer here even used the word "Dadaist" to explain the humor, see what I mean?). But the worst kind, are the ones who think Justin Roiland is some sort of improv genius. These clips are so self indulgent, so full of themselves, so obviously condescending towards, well basically everyone. There is a tendency on the part of the writers and creators throughout the first seasons, to keep an ironic distance to everything pop, a kind of self-preserving "everything you like is dumb" bravado, that is subtle at best, but obnoxious at worst. Rixty Minutes is the latter, you can almost feel the contempt for everyone and everything except himself and his show, when Roiland lazily and ever-so-casually "improvs" his way throughout the episode. It's not funny, it's obnoxious. And it's condescending. And self-indulgent, and lazy, and people are eating it up. I guess that is actually kinda Dadaist, right? Maybe it's so Dadaist, that if you think it's Dadaist, you're the idiot? Maybe it's supposed to make you reflect, maybe it's a scolding satire about the ever degrading quality of entertainment, maybe it's a poignant parallel about the addiction to TV being mirrored in the war on drugs. Or maybe, Justin Roiland is just a bit full of himself, and that is the only point that is to (potentially) miss.
Review of Rixty Minutes
