Watching back the series back to back instead of waiting between seasons, it's truly shocking how much stronger Season 5 is than 4, it's insane. The first 5 episodes where Troy is still there are fucking GREAT. The heart of the show is back, the emotion is back, the certain spark that Harmon brings is extremely evident. Piece's sperm funeral thing and the hot lava episode can make the darkest of hearts shed a tear. Just everything that is missing from S4, the special thing that Harmon brings to the show he created.
also, it’s funny in hindsight that leonard asks “where the WHITE WOMEN at?” in the same episode that plays one of chromeo’s songs (chromeo would later release an album called “white women”)
the concept of doing a clip show episode where all the clips are brand new is clever not sure if Harmon was the very first to do it tho
Clerks The Animated Series doing a clip show in episode 2 so all the clips were from episode 1 remains the best meta clip show ever imo. The Community episode is obviously great too though. And lots of other shows have done it since then (including Harmon himself using the concept again on Rick & Morty with the "Morty's Mind-Blowers" episode).
Yeah I agree. Honestly feels kinda cheap to me that Ganz and Harmon took ideas from Community to future projects heh, but I admittedly really enjoy those Interdimensional Cable and the Always Sunny episodes quite a bit, so I'm cool with it. May not have been intentional anyways
I wouldn't consider the interdimensional cable episodes clip shows. They don't include the main characters participating
Yeah the clip show of clips that didn't happen in Rick & Morty was Morty's Mind-Blowers Interdimensional Cable 1 & 2 are literally just Justin Roiland going into the booth and improvising and then they animated it lol
I believe there’s an early South Park ep where the clips weren’t brand new, but were misremembered, and so the plot devolves into an argument about the accuracy of the clips Also, the memory parasite ep of Rick & Morty is more of a formal clip show parody than the Interdimensional Cable eps. Not just fake memories, but fake cliche memories like the Community eps
There’s also some misc. 30 Rock joke where they set it up like it’s going to play a clip but instead the characters just stare into space for a minute and say that they are remembering it
Morty’s Mind Blowers and the ep with the parasite who inserts themselves into memories are much more like the fake clip show episodes of Community
If you don't fall back in love with the show in those first 5 episodes, especially 4 and 5, I'll be shocked
@angrycandy If you didn't already, you should seek out and watch S2E14 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, it got removed from streaming for a brief instance of black face (that gets attention called to it on how wrong it is). It's one of the best episodes of the entire series and also pretty improtant to character development, although if you're already at S5 that won't make that much of a difference lol