(February 1, 2019 at 9:22 am)Der/die AtheistIn Wrote: Yes, it is wacky, but it's never been that wacky.
Wackiness is difficult to quantify. Although I did find some of the ideas in the last season a bit more "out there". Like Pickle Rick, for example.
(February 1, 2019 at 9:22 am)Der/die AtheistIn Wrote: If it's meant to move the plot forward and it's not a joke it has to make sense, not necessarily in the real world, but in the fictional world that it's created.
Sure, but in a world, where a person can turn into a pickled cucumber with a face, it may be difficult to tell what makes sense. I understand - and partially share - your disapproval of the direction the show has taken this last season, but I didn't really have very high expectations, so I didn't feel disappointed. I can enjoy the show for what it is - a Futurama rip-off...
(February 1, 2019 at 9:22 am)Der/die AtheistIn Wrote: It's not bad to use a character just for jokes, but the jokes need to be good. As you said, humor is subjective, but I personally cannot understand how Mr. Poopybutthole's mere existence is funny. I found him funny at first, in his first appearance and in the last episode of season 2. But then in season 3 he once appeared in one of Morty's memories, where he was asking the young boy for his hand in marriage and Morty was crying tears of joy. Morty is underage, the fact that he was asked by a funny looking creature with a silly name doesn't make it funny. Maybe they were just pretending. In that case Morty is a hell of a good actor being able to cry on command. Also, if they were just pretending, why would Rick erase Morty's memory? I don't see why Rick would have anything against an innocent role play and also no reason why Morty and Mr. Poopybutthole would keep it a secret. And if they were just role playing, why not tell the audience directly? Are the creators going for pure shock value? Mr Poopybutthole appears once again in the last episode of season 3, where he just says that he went back to school and then made a family. I don't find it funny and the story is so simple and adds nothing to the main plot that it could've been taken out entirely.
The way I see it - it's sort of a meta-joke. I do find it funny, that someone would not only come up with such a ridiculous and lame character, but keep bringing him back, for no apparent reason.
(February 1, 2019 at 9:22 am)Der/die AtheistIn Wrote: That was the idea, he doesn't add anything new to the mix. If they made a joke about Mr Poopybutthole and his girlfriend looking identical, it would've worked. Maybe if someone mistook her for him in drag or something like that.
I don't think I would find that funny. It's not that kind of comedy. I still think you're overthinking it.
Some things are funny because they make no sense, or because they're obviously out of place. And some jokes are not meant to be funny - they're called "groan jokes" and their whole point is that they are really lame and everyone knows it. The idea is, that a joke divides people between those who get it and those who don't. A purposefully bad joke unites the audience, regardless of individual members' sense of humor, or intelligence, because everyone understands that the joke is not funny, so nobody feels left out. It's possible, that where you live this type of joke is not very common - I don't remember this kind of humor from my childhood, growing up in Central Europe. But they're pretty much a tradition here, in England.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
