1 Screenshots 1.1 Cold open 1.2 Alternate universes 1.3 Grass is always greener 1.4 Divorce talk 1.5 Confession to Summer 1.6 End tag 2 Promo videos Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery Add a photo to this gallery 8 Rixty Minutes. He winds up on an alien computer monitor in the season 2 Rick & Morty episode "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez," and there's a taxi sign made to look just like the big bad in season 1's "Rixty Minutes." I was burnt out on Sci-Fi, so I decided to get back into the Fantasy genre. Rick hacks the cable box to allow access to TV from multiple realities. But guess what, broh? Meanwhile, Jerry, Beth, and Summer are in the kitchen taking turns using the goggles. Rise above. But that does mean there's a pretty decent chance it will reach above 90, just that it usually won't get quite that high. Beth: What in the hell? A happy accident. First fantasy books I've read in years was Mark Lawrenece's The Broken Empire Trilogy. It involved the Hamster President being questioned by Hamster reporters, and a bit of the way this Hamster world worked. All the criminals in "Quick Mysteries" were originally designed for the Giant World in "Meeseeks and Destroy", they were cut out of a scene where Rick and Morty were standing in a giant line-up in the police station. Also, Gazorpazorpfield is one of the rare TV moments that was funnier censored. Of course the gimmick being their arms were too short and would have fondle each others balls. But the "Young and the Restful" was a bit I came up with that I attempted to sneak in there. I enjoyed the sequel, even if it's one of my least favorite episodes I wouldn't call it the worst. It is currently unknown when it will premiere and how many episodes it will have. Yes. That's the sort of thing that happens when you give into "ha ha do it again" demands. Fake Doors exist in a universe where the only thing on television is this continuous commercial for Fake Doors. They don't care, broh. Jerry sees himself doing cocaine with Johnny Depp while Beth sees herself operating on a person instead of a horse. He then zaps Jerry’s shoes with a ray that makes them heavier than air, rendering Jerry “neutral… Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. When I did "2 Brothers" I loosely based each brother on a combination of black actors. I don't see why people had such a huge problem with Interdimensional Cable 2. Focus on original content. Directed by Bryan Newton, Pete Michels. Where is this going? One of my absolute favorite episodes. Unimpressed with what's on TV, Rick installs cable that gets shows from other dimensions. So they became space aliens because Justin ended up liking that idea. Rick: Letterman from a time line where Jerry’s famous-Jerry: Wait! The "Quick Mysteries" get progressively quicker. The B-story involving Beth, Jerry, and Summer was by far the most locked down thing in this episode and didn't change a whole lot from script form. Obligatory: What’s your favorite sketch & Why? Beth keeps the goggles on while laying on the floor of the kitchen, enjoying her alternate life. This episode was one of my least favorites, it just felt like filler. Which, I don't mean that against the Rick and Morty creators at all, as it's a really easy trap to fall in to. Taken from the Wiki: The Smith Family are gathered around the television, invested in a 'Bachelor' style reality show. Four-Year Club. The empty jeep flip is a direct reference to the A-Team intro. Morty passes on Beth’s concerns that Jerry will kill himself in the light-hanging process. This is the first time we linked our episodes together, when Morty talks to Summer about the events of "Rick Potion No. It is during this time that she first finds out that she was an unwanted pregnancy, and the news upsets her greatly. Beth and Jerry are stunned, as they run to each other to embrace. Critics bashing that episode and others like it obviously aren't real fans of the show. Obnoxious marketing decision or brilliant obnoxious marketing decision? The episode was written by Tom Kauffman and Justin Roiland, and directed by Bryan Newton.In the episode, Rick and Morty watch cable from other dimensions, while Jerry, Beth, and Summer watch alternate reality versions of themselves using a pair of interdimensional goggles. Did any of you take the time to watch it in 15second increments or did you wait until the television premiere? I thought the second interdimensional cable was much better, mainly because it was more of a subplot to Jerry's penis transplant thing, which I thought was great. Rick: I agree. get them help and support. honestly not that hard. The Trunk person in the 2nd ad is voiced and modeled after Ryan Ridley. I feel like I'm living in bizarro world. I wanted the Trunk people ads to be split up through out the episode. Break the cycle, Morty. With Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke. I enjoyed it more than Raising Gazorpazorp, for one. I was going to read that next. I did a search for "Grim Dark" in good reads and Mistborn kept getting recommended to me. Unimpressed with what's on TV, Rick installs cable that gets shows from other dimensions. This last summer seemed like it was in the 90s everyday, though that could just be me only remembering the extremes. Every show does it, even the best. Hop over to r/c137 for more discussion and in-depth theories on the show! He reveals the truth that he is not, in fact, her brother but a brother from another reality. When the boy squeezes out the Strawberry Smiggle, is on record as grossing out Robert Kirkman. Rick shrinks Morty, injecting him into a homeless man to save Anatomy Park. Below are some points to get your gears turning. I've since re-watched both seasons a load on Netflix so hold your pitchforks for now. Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Can't remember exactly which one though. Not to mention it's usually 90F+ in the summer in DC. It's weird how that turns out. Season 5 is the upcoming fifth season of Rick and Morty . Well I think you'll enjoy it. Eventually I'll get around to reading his other series Book of the Ancestor. I recall reading this same article a while back and the article went into this in the writing or development section, it even mentioned a specific show-creation technique involving this sort of improv by name. Verified Email. There are other sites, but as we are a semi-official community, they won't be linked here. SHOW NOTES – Rixty Minutes Semi Pertinent News. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Bryan mentioned that the original story for Ball Fondlers involved Ninja-Turtles characters who had to fondle each other's balls to charge up their super powers. Jerry tries to have a Christmas free of electronic devices, but regrets … Next we will be discussing Season 01 Episode 09, Something Ricked This Way Comes - If you want to add something, send us a message or post below and we will include it in our next discussion post. The Hamster World was going to be a much longer bit. Often finding themselves in a heap of trouble that more often than not is created through their own actions. Ask your parents kids. It's Christmas. The tone of Rixty Minutes is the heart of what works on the show being highlighted for the audience to latch onto. Go back! 9. This can be seen in the episode Rixty Minutes, where the commercials and advertisements were completely improvised in the recording booth. Summer goes upstairs and begins to pack, and Morty attempts to console her. Have something else to add? rixty-minutes 313 post karma 36 comment karma send a private message. Cinemablend “good news?” “I’m optimistic right now, at the moment. Last year's's discussion on Season 01 Episode 08 - Rixty Minutes can be found HERE. D&D Beyond "Top Hat Jones" isn't his real name. Yeah to me, it's almost always funnier with the "bleeps". In Baby Legs, both the police chief and the criminal in this bit were also cut out of the Giant police station from "Meeseeks and Destroy". Kinda like eating a slice of ginger before the next sushi roll. Maybe the longest one for this episode. TROPHY CASE. Originally they were just like the A-Team, except The Face was a woman, but Justin wanted to take it further, making one a Lizard man, A barbarian, and one of Justin's drawings. It should be noted that the discussion is in no way limited to these! It's made for the fans. Also Mr. Sneezy is a James Bond type figure in their universe, an international man of mystery. (If I don't post in a week, it's safe to say I probably snapped.). We were afraid of getting sued over that. It almost made it. Rick is 100% right about the Lorenzo Music and Bill Murray connection. And now, for the episode of R&M that collectively broke our brains - Season 01 Episode 08 Rixty Minutes! Rick flips through the channels to show the endless possibilities, before the family sees Jerry in an episode of David Letterman, in a reality where he was a famous movie star. Ya know, some real r/deepintoyoutube / r/interdimensionalcable shit. Jokes aside, best 3(4) episodes of TV I've ever watched. I do enjoy the magic system and some of the world building. YET, somehow, despite all of that planning, this episode somehow found a way to preserve that feeling of being done on-the-fly while still delivering a really involved and well-constructed B-story between Summer, Beth and Jerry that breaks some serious ground story-wise and has enough quotes to fill up 3 front post comment threads. Jerry promptly falls off the roof, but before he hits the ground, Rick zaps him with a ray that makes Jerry’s body lighter than air. So in a way, he does know everything about everything. We got our podcast name from this episode. Writers may run out of steam for a week or start to get worried about losing fans, or simply get lazy. You should really have a listen, won’t you? Eventually, they see Jerry from an alternative reality on TV. The ending of this ep, with Morty's confession to Summer BLEW MY MIND. The Strawberry Smiggle bunny leprechaun should also have a cotton tail. I misunderstood the script when it said "Mexican Armada", in my head I was thinking an armada of space ships... but the script did say "by sea." I didn't get the ending either at first. Did you read the Red Queen's War series by ML? Press J to jump to the feed. Jerry: No, the other thing! Which is why it has no audio originally. While getting ready for an adventure, Rick and Morty stop to talk to Jerry, who is on top of the roof, trying to set up Christmas lights. As the family watches The Bachelor, Rick is dissatisfied with the quality of Earth TV so he upgrades the cable to show programming from every conceivable dimension. Rick and Morty embraces a somewhat pessimistic morality, rejecting ideas like destiny and fate for a colder, more chaotic and random universe. They are making a netflix animated series apparently, https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/splinter-cell-animated-series-netflix-1234612535/. Dan Harmon has offered Kanye West an open invitation to come in and let his ideas run amok in an exclusively "Kanye" episode of Rick and Morty.. The family asks Rick a wide variety of questions about the world until he begrudgingly creates a portal to the world so they can 'ask them yourselves.' Everyoneuses special goggles to see their alternate selves. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Welcome to Reddit, the front page of the internet. The garbage collector and the pizza maker in the Trunk people ads are cousins, so Christmas family dinners get awkward. 326 votes, 520 comments. Post it below and let’s talk. This discussion will be going as long as you keep contributing to it! His real name is probably Chris. (If I don't post in a week, it's safe to say I probably snapped.) An animated series that follows the misadventures of an alcoholic scientist Rick and his overly nervous grandson Morty, who split their time between domestic family life and intergalactic travel. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. If they don't get Michael Ironside to voice Sam we riot. This is probably my favorite episode. How does that make you feel inside? But I remember my little sister was there and she likes Garfield, and I was like, "Look! There was "Vietnamese boys bleeding from their asses" which was just super gross and disturbing. He's just a performer and forgot his line. One of the old ladies is Wonder Woman. One of the things that never fails to make me laugh about this episode has to be how Bobby Moynihan was on SNL for 20-some years in that clip, and the real thing didn't. You don't want the swamp ass that comes with being in a swamp. Moynihaaaaaaan!!" Total Rickall. They do but the bezels are all glass so they could still crack. Here we are, episode 8 of season 1 to talk about the amazing Rixty Minutes! and for the "Dominator" bit, we put him in a dominatrix outfit. You exaggerate a little, but you're closer than 80 in terms of high -- the July average high in DC is 88.4° (31.3°C). The episode airs tonight on Adult Swim 10:30pm ET, but the episode is also available for FREE on the official or here You … 9". Enjoy discussing Rick and Morty? And the final guy, we did original show his head exploding. It's just so...campy and cliché. Its cringy to watch with someone who doesn't think its funny. They're talking about the humidity. For the SNL bit, there were two bits cut out for different reasons. The heavier Brother is Vin Rhames and Micheal Clarke Duncan. And they'll write an episode that "borrows" an old concept. Originally they were going to be Ninja Turtles-esque super heroes in a death trap, were their source of power would come from fondling their testicles. Are you happy with how it turned out? watched this episode some days ago, still funny AF, love how you had so much goofy sketches, yet you still had heart and story in it aswell. Rick pulls out a pair of Inter-Dimensional Goggles that he throws into the kitchen, in which Jerry, Beth, and Summer chase after. The slight delay in Discussion Posts is brought to you by the classic combination of Busted AC Unit & Heatwave™!From the same assholes behind Broken Fridge in August™ and Sexy Heatstroke™! get reddit premium. While most people look back on this episode and remember all the silly improvised bits we see on interdimensional cable, there’s some real gold in the subplots involving Summer and her parents. I wanted to keep that in because I thought the same thing when i first heard it. Give me your best example of something on youtube/the internet-at-large that would be at home on the Interdimensional TV Guide List. Follow-up If you could see a spin-off series based on one of the interdimensional TV sketches, which one do you think would have the most potential as an independent series? The shows featured in these alternate realities vary wildly, such as a Showtime crime show in a reality where people evolved from corn. Unfortunately that's the trend with sequel episodes. That's really all there is to say. Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson is based on a local Los Angeles merchant know as "Crazy Gideon" Ants-in-my-eyes Johnson might actually be legally blind. I kind of enjoyed the first book, but now I'm 3/4 through the second one and I'm struggling to finish it. redditor for 4 years. She attempts to push him away before he points outside to the graves in the backyard (from the episode "Rick Potion No. It's Garfield!" Rixty Minutes. Rick expresses disgust at the quality of television, and Jerry challenges him to provide anything better. It has the relationship depth of a Shannara trilogy. It is doubtful that whether there is a point to life or not is a topic of conversation in the average American’s year. My favorite scene from the episode Rixty Minutes from the hit show Rick and Morty Monday nights at 10:30 on adult swim! Rick: Summer, you just spent three months, watching a man choose a fake wife. Arrested Development was able to make jokes funnier with censoring like the scene where Gob gives his sexual harassment speech. In the post-credit sequence, the Smith family is watching the news in a Hamster-in-Butt World. Feel free to post any question or whatever theory you have - insane or otherwise - below. The u/Rixty_Minutes community on Reddit. The MOON, it comes crashing into earth... R&M S01E08, Rixty Minutes aired on March 17, 2014 and was written by Taum Kauffman & Justin Roiland. His chest area is machinery and his skin in brownish green. And now, for the episode of R&M that collectively broke our brains - Season 01 Episode 08 Rixty Minutes! I watched this episode BEFORE Rick Potion # 9. Summer has trouble finding any other realities of her, except for a moment of the family playing Yahtzee. favourite sketch was either eyeball man or the cereal commercial :D, and thanks for the insightful first post, really cool to read about how it was in the makings :D, Eyeball man is from Interdimensional Cable 2, I think, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the rickandmorty community, This is the subreddit for fans of Dan Harmon & Justin Roiland's animated series, Rick and Morty, Press J to jump to the feed. Rick hooks up the family's TV with interdimensional cable, allowing them to watch infinite TV from across the multiverse. Morty says he does not care about himself enough to see what his alternate self would be like, in which Rick congratulates him. Negotiations are tough. The original ending of the Alternate Hollywood Jerry ends when Alternate Rick shows up and freezes then kills Jerry because he saw Beth's house on the news and thought she was in trouble. 9". (But I think it's funny), Ants-in-my-eyes-johnson will never not make me laugh. Crocubot is basically part crocodile and part robot, which technically makes him a cyborg. They're both pretty good at thinking on their feet and from what I remember from the commentaries it was mostly improv with a little written stuff around the edges (not to mention the b-plot) and some freedom for the animators to fill things in. There really is no such thing as improv in animation because everything has to be written, recorded, storyboarded, designed, animated, re-animated, and edited together. It's funny how one of the episodes generally considered to be among the best has the same concept as one of the episodes generally considered to be among the worst. But we had to cut it off... we all displeased. Crazy how quickly they can fill up. Rixty Minutes 22m. Believing there is no point in life can be depressing or freeing. Season 1, Episode 8 TV-14 CC HD CC SD. That's Dan Harmon doing the voice of the SNL announcer. But we've never … They watch as alternate reality Jerry arrives at the doorstep of an alternate reality Beth, telling her that he hated his life and regretted not continuing their relationship. Morty tells Summer "Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody is going to die....Come watch TV?". Obviously in the "Shit Eaters" universe... their shit is purple not brown. Oh man I loved the Broken Empire series. 5 Rixty Minutes. Everyone uses special goggles to see their alternate selves. i've filled a dozen or so 10TB drives with different media just in the last 3 years, and really only have so little because my job changed and i can't afford to buy a new drives every year for fun like i used to. So whatever board artist got individual bits, their style got to come thru. remember me reset password. What’s your least favorite sketch & why? One of the most profound quotes in the series also happens alongside a sketch called Ball Fondlers. Rick: Really? "Rixty Minutes" is the eighth episode of the first season of Rick and Morty. Rixty Minutes was the first episode of Television to premiere on Instagram. We are very proud of that fact. The original "tag" for Strawberry Smiggles involved Morty commenting that "Smiggles" sounds like a certain word that "black people are uptight about" and Rick getting super nervous, and pretending to not know what he's talking about before he quickly changes the channel. The television in the main room shows alternate reality Jerry having a nervous breakdown, driving a mobility scooter on a freeway with droves of police cars behind them. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. So I've been on a pure Sci-Fi binder for the past few years. But there still seem to be some constants, largely regardless of what universe they exist in. I have seen Gurren Lagann. Dan is actually a pretty good voice actor. This is specifically true for Two Brothers, Ball Fondlers, and Strawberry Smuggles. One who is tired of Ants-in-my-eyes-johnson is one tired of life. When I first watched season 1, I watched downloaded copies of the episodes which (I think) had been mislabelled. Not sure if that one has any connection to the world in Broken Empire. He's also an incredible business man.