ITT: We fix Rick and Morty

>>93558894
It's like by the majority outside of 4chan. Why would they want to change anything?

>Either give Rick a less shallow ideology, or frequently have him proven wrong.

>Treat Rick's assholery as morally and factually wrong, not a lovable, quirky, and brutally honest. The comedy can come from Rick being a genius with science, but a moronic asshole with everything else, deluded by his various personality flaws, and too arrogant to consider another perspective or admit to being incorrect.

the show trusts you to know that he's wrong without beating you over the head with it

the fact that he's shown to be so miserable is all they need in this regard really

>Keep Rick from being over-powered. Allow him to be vulnerable and not have everything under control all the time. He functions far too much as a character for the writers and audience to live vicariously through in his current incarnation.

yeah it's kind of a power fantasy show when rick is the focus, but in case you haven't noticed, that kind of thing sells

>Avoid reliance on Rick's portal gun and the vastness of space for plots.
the portal gun and the space ship are kind of core to the show's premise - but there's still stuff like the Anatomy Park episode or the brain parasite one to shake things up

then there's stuff like "get schwifty" or the first TV episode where a lot of people would probably have preferred a space/interdimensional adventure

>>93558894
So basically:
"give Rick a personality instead of having him just be Justin's soap box."

>>93559149
>the show trusts you to know that he's wrong without beating you over the head with it

>the fact that he's shown to be so miserable is all they need in this regard really

I really don't buy that. Intellectually, I think the writers/creators know he's wrong, but they don't FEEL that way. They like Rick as a poor troubled asshole who's just too smart for his own good :^(

>>93559184
He's more Dan's soapbox than Justin's.

but rick IS shown to be an asshole who is sometimes wrong

I have one

>Stop making shit-ass alternate reality TV episodes

They're not funny. They're just not. Justin and the others aren't as good as improv as they like to think they are. Give us actual episodes please

>>93559308
They just need to learn babbling nonsense words is only funny to a point.

>>93558894
the dramatic elements that show up and then leave are for adjusting the tone within that episode itself and occasionally setting up the plot of the next episode

Here's my idea for a Rick & Morty episode that I believe will greatly improve the series. Please rate.

>Morty returns to school
>there's a new kid in class -- a handsome boy who's popular with all the girls, however despite this, he notices the lonely Morty and tries to include him in group activities
>suddenly an alien rampages through the school
>remembering the things Rick taught him, Morty is able to stop the alien and save his classmate's life
>ever since then, the boy has clung onto Morty, constantly calling him smart and incredible and overall making him fluster
>eventually the boy makes a move on Morty, placing his hand on Morty's, but that just causes him to freak out and leave
>since then, Morty avoids him
>one day, Morty comes home only to see the boy in a gunfight with Rick
>it's revealed that the boy is actually an assassin sent by one of Rick's enemies to kill him and that he was using Morty to get close to Rick, but realized he fucked that up when he hit on Morty
>boy actually gets the upper hand and is about to kill Rick when suddenly Morty moves in between the two, causing him to pause long enough for Rick to kill him
>Morty is traumatized seeing the first person to compliment him and possibly also the first to love him die
>episode ends leaving it ambiguous as to whether or not the boy was genuine about his feelings towards Morty

Jerry is basically becoming the Meg Griffin of this show so if they could stop making the characters shit on him every second, that would be nice.