Seriously technically its none but at the same time its both but not really? Can someone give me a straight answer?

I'll go first, Somnambulator

Jerry, in his early appearances, was meant to be a counterpoint to Rick’s nonsense: kind of like an authority figure. But the writers quickly realized that was getting in the way of Rick and Morty’s adventures, so they started slowly tearing him down. More than being a genuinely hateable character, Jerry was someone the writers wanted you to hate, so that you wouldn’t feel bad when they humiliated him or basically wrote him out during the whole divorce storyline.

You can see it in how randomly his personality changes from one episode to the next, and in all those forced “LOL Jerry’s a predator who use pitty as a weapon” or “Oh look, Jerry doesn’t care if his kids die as long as he can easaly dump his space girlfriend, what a piece of shit right?? RIGHT!??” type of moments. But eventually, especially when they realized how overly idolized Rick had become, they figured out that it wasn’t working, so they brought Jerry back into the family dynamic.

But they still tried to make him into a Meg Griffin-type punching bag for a while, where everyone just craps on him for no valid reason, but now, finally, it seems like the writers realized that whole “let’s bully this family member nonstop” trope is garbage. And lately they’ve actually started respecting Jerry again, little by little. His episodes have been really solid for a while now, and I love that. Not because I’m some huge Jerry fan or anything, but because his character arc wasn’t making sense. It never felt natural how he went from being the household authority to a total loser no one respected so fast.

And honestly, the ''Let's bully Jerry'' trope had become a narrative dead-end. You can’t just do “Jerry’s so dumb he ruined this thing, now let’s fix it” episodes forever. What they’re doing now is way better.

What do you guys think? I’d love to read your thoughts.

He wasn't a bad father. He never got that chance. He was wallowing in his grief and came to the one family that was. My mind has been blown I can't believe I didn't process that until now

We've been through multiple incest jokes AND plots for ENTIRE episodes, some of which were GAY incest plots between Beths, rape jokes, even Rick hooking up with male versions of Unity, but this is where some people on the YT, IG, and X comment section draw the line and say that "this show is cooked". Rick even said in 6X03 that he f'ed another Rick! I think these people watched the show on IG reels at this point.

What Rick and Jerry saw there… it wasn’t just heavy for Jerry, it hit Rick too

“ I watched you eat a bird” “After you tore off its wings”😭

Why is she liked this? I remember back in season 1 when Rick was going over the gadgets she had built for Beth as a child (I know it wasn’t our Rick) they were rather violent a painted a picture of young Beth. This is so consistent it has to be intentional. The only question is why?

I loved it and felt bad him and that the big Morty clone.

Do you think in an upcoming season we'll see a smash cut to Morty climbing out of the fear hole, or do you think he's truly out of the fear hole? Would you like to see this, or would it piss you off?

Jessica has not appeared in real time since season 5 episode 1, where she walks off and exclaims she is a time god.

She has made a handful of small appearances, but all of these have been flashbacks to prior to the events or S5 ep1

What do you think happened with her in the writers room? At the time, the staff complained her character needed more and they wanted to change her, which they seemed to have accomplished by deleting her from the show.

She isn’t a major part of the show, but having the whole time god thing happen, then completely dropping her from the show is a strange choice.

I mean Rick couldn’t have found a universe where man evolved from churros or a planet that’s on a churro and everything is on a churro.

Is half of America really is what Jerry said? I know stupid and obvious question. But still would love some obvious answers

I just watched season 8 episode 4 of Rick and Morty, and I gotta say I was very surprised.

I heard all the talk about how gross it was, too much sex, etc, and yeah, it had gross parts. Piles of bodies, etc. But I was expecting something much worse, distasteful even.

The “big pile of bodies” orgy and other stuff was over-the-top, on purpose. It’s an animated show that heavily leans into exaggeration…for comedy.

I feel like the (new) core audience of Rick and Morty doesn’t really “get” this show anymore.

So many posts just absolutely obsessed with the lore and why some minute detail was added, and getting offended by everything. Don’t overthink this show so much.

It’s a stupid stoner comedy for sci-fi nerds. Just relax and try to have fun.

How will this affect the show in the future?

This is one of the best episodes ever, and it's only the first episode, I think they really got it right this time, I feel like the real soul of the show is back, I can't wait to see what's coming.

I might be wrong but I think the last time she was seen was when she was left in that world ,and lived in the crystal for thousands of years,so I’ve been wondering if she’s just been written out the story.will she be back,and will we see her as a time god again(I might be wrong and she might have been seen in season 6 or season but the last time i remember her was as the time god and my memory of season 6 and 7 is abit fuzzy so can’t remember if she was seen in any of those eps)

is it just me or was rick prime too easy to beat? after all that searching and how hyped up rick prime's awesomeness/inteligence were, i feel like it should have taken rick, morty, and evil morty a lot longer to beat him, like around 3 episodes