We’re doing a series of Die Hards on this week’s new podcast, talking about Rick: A Mort Well Lived! 

• RICK AND MORTY PREMIERE #1
  
  • MOST-VIEWED CABLE PROGRAM WITH YOUNG VIEWERS
    
  • Sunday’s season six premiere episode of Rick and Morty on Adult Swim was a ratings hit, winning its timeslot across all basic cable. It was Sunday’s #1 most-watched telecast for women 18-24 and 18-34 and non-sports telecast for male viewers 18-24 and 18-34. It was also the #2 most-watched non-sports program overall on Sunday for viewers 18-49, second only to House of the Dragon
    
  
  
• Special Morty’s Merch from Wendy’s and Uber Eats
  
  • https://twitter.com/UberEats/status/1568317553511989248
    
  
  
• WORMAGEDDON Update
  
  • That wrap up video was the Cat’s BananasTM
    
  • Wormageddon: The Recap | Rick and Morty | adult swim
    
  
  
• Reddit Post of the Week
  
  • Acornmoth aka @geepranks on Twitter – Rick Collecting pets that may destroy Earth in seconds
    
  • 8k upvotes, wholesome, helpful, silver, awards
    
  • 1 report for pirated leaked content. 97% upvote rate
    
  
  
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
  
  • https://www.instagram.com/p/CiTaYikPBrA/
    
  • “never a good time to bring this up but Cyberpunk’s timeline gives us less than a year before Johnny Silverhand gets flatlined at Arasaka Towers. Rest easy, choom #2023 #FourthCorporateWar“
    
  
  

Episode Details

• Air Date: 9/11/2022
  
• Written by: Alex Rubens, wrote Big Trouble in Little Sanchez
  
• Directed by: Kyounghee Lim
  
• Guest Stars: Peter Dinklage, Nolan North, Phil Lamarr, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom
  

Broh-nopsis: Roy’s our boy, broh!

Our Synopsis: Rick and Morty plays a most dangerous game… Summer is the most dangerous game

Discussion

• Title Reference: The title is a reference to Roy, obvi
  
• Theme
  
  • Ah yes, another nice, simple, 22 minute adventure.  
    
  • A-Plot: Morty Stuck in Roy
    
    • Lots of theological observations about humanity’s formation of cults/religions
      
      • “You might have some better gig as unenlightened tripe in someone else’s fractured amusement”
        
      
      
    • Being stuck in a video game
      
      • How would you convince someone they were stuck in a game?
        
      • What about all of humanity?
        
      •  Rick can’t “Rick” his way out of this one
        
      
      
    • Morty’s inner conflict
      
      • How do the different factions of people in the game represent parts of Morty’s personality?
        
        • The President representing the side that thinks Rick just wants to use Morty
          
        • Marta’s side longing for Rick’s approval and love
          
        • Escalates into full on war because Rick won’t say “I love you”
          
        
        
      • How much of you makes any part of you you? 
        
        • Morty ends the episode saying, “I implicitly trust you” and Summer asks if there’s anything wrong
          
        
        
      
      
    • Time dilation
      
      • Rick has to use the in-game time to develop the tech needed to get all the Mortys into space
        
      • The entire lifetime of 
        
      
      
    
    
  • B-Plot: Summer Does a Die Hard
    
    • People are not watching DIE HARD?! (reddit comments)
      
    • Other cultures acknowledge its significance 
      
    
    
  • How does this episode compare to the season premiere? 
    
  
  
• Favorite Bits
  
  • Man, We’re just cool, bad kids doing young stuff
    
  • “Breaker, Breaker, Walkie Talkie, I got your Walkie Talkie, Bitch”
    
  • “They aren’t idiots grandpa, they’re me.” HA you’ll get how funny that is when we get backr4
    
  • “DIE HARD DIE HARD DIE HARD”
    
  • “Do you think I jinxed her?” (About Summer’s Die Hard)
    
  • A most worth yankee doodle ruffian
    
  • The fake Yiddish (falafaflutin!)
    
  • Walkie Talkie Die Hard Mothaafuhkaaa
    
  • The Raiders of the Lost Ark ending
    
  • Holy war, holier war, Holiest war!
    
  • 8% of the Snyder Cut was Batman dreaming
    
  • Good Enough News
    
  
  
• Best/Worst Parts
  
  • “Who do I… make the check out to? Best Daughter Ever… Incorporated?” Last words
    
  
  

• YouTube
  
  • PinkDuckPrincessUU – Would love them to release STL files! I didn’t even think of that
    
  
  
• Twitch Chat
  
  • New Twitch Follows – CHouse77 and Th30therGuyy
    
  
  
• Reviews
  
  • More Knowledge and personality than I can handle – Destroyage
    
    • These guys are freakin phenomenal. I am an average Rick and Morty fan, but I always find myself coming back to this podcast to listen to Brandon and Travis as they’re not only hilarious, but know far too much about R&M. F the review who says they’re boring…that person is boring. Love these dudes! Weeeeeee!
      
    
    
  
  

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