I have a friend, and he was a pretty big fan of Rick and Morty. While to this day he is a friend, he unironically told me 'You Need a High IQ to enjoy Rick and Morty'. This guy was never a huge online guy, so he didn't see as much of the internet nonsense as I have. He was entirely unaware that phrase was used to kind of mock the fanbase for going on about how original and clever Rick and Morty was. Yet here he was, saying this without a hint of self-awareness of the things coming out of his mouth. These people are real.
And finally, I have watched Rick and Morty, making it through four seasons, I have to say you people have lost your damn minds. The science references in the show are at the same depth as the 'I divided by 0' memes. They are science jokes for people who don't understand science. It's jokes for the Facebook meme nerds. That is the level if IQ needed to get pretty much every joke in this entire show.
And don't get me started on the times this show tries to make you care. After long series of people being horrible, terrible excuses of human beings we are suddenly expected to care about their family situation out of nowhere. Or the sheer volume of episodes the parents are at odds and immediately in love again at the end of the episode. This happens so many times it's insane. They effectively repeat that same joke over and over again.
Even the stuff that gets popular from this show that leaks out into the rest of the internet aren't exactly the most clever things, they are just stuff that is absurd and random. The horrors of Pickle Rick will forever be a stain on internet meme history.
The thing is though? Not a bad show, I quite liked the first three seasons (Though season four put me off from wanting to see more, that was just a bad season). There is a lot of creative and fun imagery, a degree of absurdity that is a lot of fun, and some dark and mean-spirited humor that works for me. It is far from some kind of brilliant gem, but it's a good show worth watching. And no, you don't need some high IQ to get the references and follow what's going on, and if you think you do... well I'll let you figure out the implications there.
