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This week we’re going back to Beth basics and hitting up some ABC’s! This time we have Jared Bauer, a fellow Rick and Morty podcaster, on to help us explore the episode!

SHOW NOTES – ABC’s of Beth

Semi Pertinent News

* Entertainment Weekly – Rick and Morty co-creator slams trolls attacking their female writers

* These knobs, that want to protect the content they think they own — and somehow combine that with their need to be proud of something they have, which is often only their race or gender. It’s offensive to me as someone who was born male and white, and still works way harder than them, that there’s some white male [fan out there] trying to further some creepy agenda by ‘protecting’ my work.

* It is still shocking to me that people think there is a single person responsible for writing these shows.  There is clearly a team a work and each episode goes through tons of revisions.

* Bottom line, if you think the show is good at all, you should support the creators of the show. ALL OF THEM. Stop being a jerk

* Corrections/other stuff

* Take things for Granite

* Sat Five

Main thang – ABC’s of Beth

* Ep 309 – The ABCs of Beth

* Written by Mike McMahan, Directed by Juan Meza-Leon

* Synopsis –

* Summer and Morty spend their custody weekend with Jerry where they meet his new girlfriend, a krutabulon warrior named Kiara.  With the kids out of the house, Beth and Rick revisit Froopyland, the childhood realm Rick designed for lil Beth.  We discover that one of Beth’s childhood friends, Tommy, was trapped in Froopyland and Beth must bring him back to the “real world” to prevent Tommy’s dad’s execution.  We learn a whole lot about how Beth was as a child and explore further her relationship with Rick.

* The Jerry story

* We finally see one of the parents attempt dating after the break up

* The spin with the alien, phase shifting huntress was a great touch

* Jerry deals with some of his own issues here and it’s made clear that he hasn’t moved on and is still in love with Beth.

* Is there hope for reconciliation between Jerry and Beth? Is that something we want to see?

* The Beth story

* We learn a lot about Beth in this episode. I feel like this is the best look into Rick and Beth’s history prior to Rick taking off.

* Beth was not a sweet kid.  #sociopath

* There are many instances where we see just how much Beth really is like Rick

* “I’m sorry you think you deserve an apology.”

* When she goes all hack and slash and says, “I’m like my dad!”

* The question has always been raised about whether Beth has been inhibited from living up to her potential due to her teen pregnancy.

* Do you think Beth stayed or did she accept the clone?

* Favorite Bits

* Bubble Gun

* Charmed that life finds a way

* The Tommy back story play

* The laundry list of things Rick made for Beth

* Doodoo Butt song

* Just got handed an Ex Machina

* The time travel line

* Don’t jump a gift shark in the mouth

* My generation gets traumatized for breakfast – @goran93

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

* Patreon!

* Big thanks to all the new Patrons including: Toni and Joachim Van Renterghem

* Tweets

* @DADICUS is working on a crazy, multi-page fan art drawing for S3!

* @ChuckPunch wants credit for saying that Evil Morty won’t be back this season… BUT WE WONT GIVE HIM THE SATISFACTION

* @Stevenht3 – Favorite Episode? Mine is Auto Erotic Assimilation

Are you ready to have your mind blown? Join us this week to hear the director of Morty’s Mind Blowers, Bryan Newton, wow us with tales untold of all the goings on in this new episode!

SHOW NOTES – Morty’s Mind Blowers

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

* MERCH!

* New Funko figurines! Scary Terry, Lawyer Morty, Jerry w/ Meeseeks Box, Beth with Wine, and Summer with cell phone! https://funko.com/blogs/news/coming-soon-rick-morty-series-3-pop-s

* VICE NEWS – Is Rick and Morty as Smart as its fans think it is?

* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59dba8/is-rick-and-morty-as-smart-as-its-fans-think-it-is

Main thang

* Morty’s Mindblowers

* Written By Mike McMahan, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, James Siciliano, Dan Guterman, and Ryan Ridley

* Directed by Bryan Newton

* The whiteboard of Mind Blowers (via Twitter)

* Production Questions

* Favorite Bits

* Unity Thoughts

* Redditors

* Mixed reviews?

* Twitter

* @YazzyDream – Overall ok, but w/ some really stand out bits too. The moon man story and dr doolittle stories were amazing. And Summer at the end was love.

* @StaceysParlour – Thankfully it was much less grim than the advert made me think it might be!

* @HuskerDrill – I love the fact Rick wipes Morty’s mind of any stupid things he does, like saying granite, so Morty always thinks Rick’s the smartest person

* @_lazeebones – I love that this week’s @RickandMorty included a brief nod to @neilhimself‘s classic SANDMAN.

* @ParkerInce – Loved it, watched it this morning, going to watch it again when I get home after a Chem exam tonight

* @notoriousPez – The last line summed it up…. “how the hell did you let us miss interdimensional cable”

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

* Patreon!

* Big thanks to all the new Patrons including: Terry Wolf, Steven Cunha, Nicholas, and Heather Louise

* Tweets

* @Gaara_crucible – wants to play PUBG with us (also likes the podcast)

* @SGMurphy – intelligence and morality https://twitter.com/ScienceFiction/status/908782727645810689

* Email

* Haily McNulty

* Watching Rick and Morty in Florida in a car!

* Reviews

* Nada!

Social

Twitter! @RickandMortyPod

RickandMortyPodcast.reddit.com

www.facebook.com/RickandMortyPodcast/

TeePublic! – www.apatheticenthusiasm.com/shop

PATREON! https://www.patreon.

Awwww geeze man… what a crazy episode that was, huh? The Ricklantis Mixup turned out to be Tales from the Citadel and ooohhh boy was it great! So many Ricks, so many Mortys and even the return of Evil Morty?!?! Hurry up and listen to this podcast already!

SHOW NOTES – The Ricklantis Mixup!

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

MERCH!

New McFarlane Toys, Rick and Morty Construction Sets

Sets include Rick and Morty in the Garage w/ the ship, Evil Rick and Morty, Meeseeks and Jerry, Ants in my Eyes Johnson, Scary Terry, and “Discreet Assassin” Krombopulous Michael

H3 Podcast fundraiser for Harvey Relief, over $200K raised

Justin Roiland Prank Call

Main thang

The Ricklantis Mixup

Written By Dan Guterman and Ryan Ridley

Directed by Dominic Polcino

The ol’ Atlantis diversion trick

While our C-137 Rick and Morty enjoy a one-off adventure in Atlantis, we are instead treated to Tales from the Citadel where social issues abound and we finally catch up with fan theory favorite, Evil Morty!

Ricking Day

The Training Day(ish) storyline where Rookie Rick partners with Veteran Cop Morty

Stand by Mort-Tee

The coming of age tale where four mortys head out on a search for the wishing portal(?)

Dog Day Rickternoon (Ricking Down?)

A disgruntled, assembly line Rick, loses his cool and holds the factory hostage

Rickchurian Mortydate

Morty for President

Social Commentaries

Life divided in the citadel

Mortys as second class citizens

Harmon does love his political statements

The victory of the unlikely candidate who wins by telling a segment of the population exactly what they want to hear

Favorite Bits

Travis – Juggling Rick and Steve Jobs Rick, …

Unity Thoughts

Redditors –

Farkhipov – Darkest episode yet

Nicktheinfamous – Best ep of the series… did not see the plot twist coming at all

Pkaz123456789- definitely interesting seeing more of the citadel

Itskristinleto- Finally an evil Morty!! Still hate Tammy though

Deus – havent been this excited over a series since Mr Robot

solucid – Honestly all I can think about is that sweet mermaid puss!

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

Patreon!

Shut Up, Casey! Hit us with the $50 yo! Thanks for hosting the show this month!

Tweets

Christopher Stenvold – Confirmation of Morty growing into Rick?

Chuck Punch – his thoughts: evil pres is C-137 Morty, Cop Rick will help C-137 Rick, we won’t see either of them the rest of the season

Thanks to all the peeps that thought to tweet at us as soon as the show was over including: Terry Wolf, Rob and Slim, Jeremy Young, Brian Buck, Steven Cunha, and Erik Paulson

Facebook

Eric Pitcher (CireDark)

Okay gang…

What’s the over/under on tonight’s episodes having anything to do with Atlantis at all?

Reviews

Duke.fn.wayne – Love the Podcast! Thank you for putting this Podcast together! I know a lot of work and time goes into this and I certainly appreciate that! If you are a fan of the show, you MUST add this to your weekly rotation!

Social

Twitter! @RickandMortyPod

RickandMortyPodcast.reddit.com

We’ve had such a good time with this podcast and we’re so proud to be able to talk to some of the hard working folks who make the show. We’re especially proud to be able to bring to you an interview with Ryan Ridley, writer of 8 episodes, producer of 21 total. He’s been there since the beginning and it was great to talk to him! Have a listen and let us know what you think!

SHOW NOTES – Ryan Ridley Interview!

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

* Game of Thrones and Rick and Morty Feud!

* Harmon responds!

* https://www.instagram.com/p/BYb48kpD3RK/

* Errors and Stuff Travis probably messed up

* The point I made about Summer and Toxic Rick

Main thing – RYAN RIDLEY

* I mean, really, just listen to the interview! We talk a whole lot about writing, episode specific items and ask some of the questions YOU shot us in Twitter and Facebook!

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

* Patreon!

* N/A

* Tweets

* @grapplestar92 – does it say anything about summer that she gets so upset about Ethan dumping her but married heritage earlier?

* @soh3yl73 – I met him guys,I think he is what we call “a bundle of joy”.

* @cassieeatbrains – She says that the first episode she watched was Rickmancing the Stone, Sooo…I guess this episode has my stamp of approval for an introduction to the show?

* Facebook

* Colin – wondering what your take is on the theory that Rick knows, and has known that he is in a TV show

* Reviews

* Zenger – The podcast is a great chaser the hard whiskey shot that is Rick and Morty… even when the show is not going, they somehow managed to make great episodes…

* Die1KDeaths – I like the breakdown of the show and catching jokes that I might have missed

SOCIAL

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We’re at the late midpoint of the season and after some wild times, the gang stops off for some Rest and Ricklaxation!

SHOW NOTES – Rest and Ricklaxation

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

* Amazing Hawaii Comic Con Panel

* No Show Next Week!

* Pickel Rick Funco Pops! http://nerdist.com/rick-and-mortys-pickle-rick-gets-his-own-funko-pop/

Main thing –

* Rest and Ricklaxation – Ep 306 (S3 Halfway point?!?!)

* Cast/Credits

* Written by Tom Kauffman

* Directed by Anthony Chun & Wes Archer

* Plot Synopsis

* After a “quick adventure” spirals out into an epic six-day event, Rick and Morty find themselves exhausted and in need of a break.  A trip to an interstellar day spa provides them with a chance to “detoxify” and as a result, they are separated from all the negative aspects of their personality.  The toxic Rick hatches a plan to swap places with the detoxified Rick and Morty and when his plan fails, seeks to toxify the whole world.   This episode explores how life would change for Morty if he lacked the self-deprecating and awkward aspects of his personality.  While Rick is eager to be whole again, it takes a little while longer for Morty to come around.

* Discussion

* What do you think about the “toxic” versions of Rick and Morty?

* Do you find any of the personality traits surprising?

* Favorite Bits

* The terryfolds song at the end

* Ricks cool hidden traps in the house

* How both versions of Rick behave with Summer and Beth

* Wolf of Wall Street

* Stray Observations

* Morty on Jessica’s radar

* Goopy morty

* Unity Thoughts

* Twitter – Chuckpunch – why did healthy morty annoy so much

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

* Patreon!

* Keaganengbrock – 5 BONES!

* Tweets

* @moonbunny85 – hit us up at the panel and on twitter. Got him into the show!

* @skyvongola11th – Ricks body isn’t his own, it’s all cybernetics

* Facebook

* Jessie smith in a message said they love the podcast!

* Reviews

* Another 2 star! Still thanks for being honest

* BlackasCole – If you like Rick and Morty, you’ll love these guys. I’m giving them my money… I support this heavily

* Spooders – “great podcast fellas. … You guys have been added to my regular weekly podcast schedule…”

* HuskerDrill – Keep it going and ignore the haters

* STITCHER!

SOCIAL

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The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy is here and it’s a Rick and Jerry adventure! Have a listen to what we thought of the episode!

SHOW NOTES – The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

* They tried the sauce! – “Sugary General Tso” – Mike McMahan

* First Pass animation for S3 is complete! – Congrats to the animation team

* Ricking Morty

Main thing – The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy

* The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy – Ep 305 (S3 Halfway point?!?!)

* Cast/Credits

* Written by Ryan Ridley

* Directed by Juan Meza-Leon and Wes Archer

* Guest Actor Clancy Brown as Risotto Groupon

* Plot Synopsis

* Rick takes Jerry out on a pity adventure to try and make Morty happy. Jerry is approached by Risotto Groupon to conspire to kill Rick on the Whirly Dirly. Jerry has a change of heart mid-ride, and the two destroy the ride and are forced to travel through a worm-hole to get back home.  Things get weird in this one broh.

* Summer is dumped by Ethan (for a girl with “stripper boobs”) and is struck with a body image crisis.  She attempts to use Rick’s Morphizer-XE to increase her bust size, and ends up a 50 foot tall teenager.  Beths attempts to Rick her way out of the situation fall short, and in the end it’s her skills as a mom that win the day.  Morty flexes his adventure muscles and teaches Ethan a lesson.

* Discussion

* The Jerry-Rick Relationship

* This is the first time I have seen any real appearance of mutual respect between them

* Rick apologizes for splitting Jerry/Beth up

* Beth is clearly having a hard time (Hoof sculptures)

* Morty is growing up… and becoming (far) less helpless

* Character Development vs Series Consistency

* Favorite Bits

* Immortality Field

* Neutralized Rick

* The Wormhole Sequence

* Customer Support

* Stray Observations

* MY MAN!! The Mailman is dead. (or is he?)

* How many voices did Ryan Ridley actually do?

* Unity Thoughts

* Erik Paulson – Did Summer have her hands on a flux capacitor?

* Definitely looks like one!

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

* Patreon!

* Sci-fi Pie!

* Tweets

* Noob Noob clarification by @danharmon himself (also Dan Guterman, and @sh0velface)

* @AlfyBird – Which Interdimensional Cable show would you guys want to watch the most? Id love to watch a episode of gazorpazorpfield

* Facebook

* John Gampel sent us the Terminal Lance – Pickle Rick video!

* Reviews

* 2 Star? Thanks for being honest.  Speaking of being honest…

* Drivebygenocide: “… upbeat podcast with (usually) decent takes on the show” and “the one guy (Brandon, I think) needs to be more like himself and stop trying to be a podcast parody of Justin Roiland with his stupid improv songs and awkward Roiland-esque antics.”

* RickWantsYouToLickHisPickle: “It’s like talking to friends with similar interests and the hosts are very cordial and well informed.” “Not too long, not too short!”

* Planetary: Finds the podcast “entertaining and keeps me up to date on news about Rick and Morty… Message for anyone who leaves a bad review: Boo not cool.”

SOCIAL

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Doomnomitron is here and he’s mad! If you want to hear more about this badass new Rick and Morty villain, stop in and listen to Brandon and Travis!

SHOW NOTES – Doomnomitron

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

* Interdimensional Cable III – Starks/Hirsch/Ellerby/Rian

* Shout out to Overly Animated and Wisecrack: The Squanch

* X Gone Give it to you – to hell with Nazi’s and misogynists, man — twitter beef

* Streaming Struggles

Main thing – doomnomitron

* Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender – Ep 304

* Cast/Credits

* Christian Slater – Maximum Renegade Star Soldier

* Gillian Jacobs – Supernova

* Lance Reddick – Ghost Train/ Alan Rails

* Logic as Logic

* Writers – Sarah Carbiener/Erica Rosbe

* Discussion

* Take down of Superheroes

* Good/Evil

* Artificial constructs

* Morty’s clear disdain of Rick

*

* Favorite Bits

* Hawaii Rick/Saw Rick/Scumbag? Rick

* Rick using a fake handgun for danger

* Stray Observations

* Talk about during the episode

* Cardboard cutouts behind rick in videos show his work on the Noobnoob dark ride

* MC Haps (the DJ from the school dance on Rick Potion #9) is at the party

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

* Tweets –

* Dustin Smothers‏ @SmoHawk  Aug 10

* Hey @RickandMortyPod you guys seen this yet? Dude made a life sized #PickleRick

* Chuck Punch @chuckpunch

* Asked us if we play PocketMortys

* Mike Haracz‏ @Mike_Haracz  Aug 12

* I have a goofy last name that’s pronounced Harris…silly polish ‘cz’ at the end…

* Omar

* Emails

* None

* Facebook

* None – Omar

* Intern Wishlist – We talked a little before but… thank you for offering to intern!

* Questions from Reddit

* None

* Reviews

* Podbean – Very cool! Keep making more!

* Levimonstapaws – I never miss an episode!

* Saucy Fan – These guys are the squanchyest!! Keep up the good squanch!

* BradG312 – no one at his work will take his suggestion and watch R&M, so listening to us is great

SOCIAL

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It’s time for Episode 3!!! Pickle Rick! Was it worth it? Is it everything we’ve dreamed of for the past year? Have a listen to find out!

SHOW NOTES – Pickle Rick

 

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

SauceNews 2017 – Sauce for Sale

Real Big Story – Ryan Elder

Main thing –

Pickle Rick – Ep 303

Cast/Credits

Danny trejo – Jaguar

Peter Serafinowicz -Head of the Embassy

Susan Sarandon – Dr Wong, Family Counseling and Coprophagia Recovery

Plot Synopsis

A – Rick is a pickle, and gets into a … pickle

His elaborate system for harvesting roach and rat parts

The violence/action

Solenia

B – Family Counseling with Dr. Wong

Continues to deal with the Smith family fallout after the divorce

Summer huffs enamel and Morty wet his desk

Loads of exposition

Favorite Bits

The extremely elaborate rat suit update machine

Eating poop

Unity Thoughts

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

Tweets –

Thanks for the awesome RTs and for liking so many tweets!

Special short outs to 2PodsaDay, Noah Rawson, Dustin Smothers, Stacey’s Parlor and Mika Pe

Emails

Jamie Gross: The Quote Challenge

Facebook

Lee Tapscott Cosplay

Red Moon Cosplay: https://www.facebook.com/RedMoonCosplayer/

Eden Cosplay: https://www.facebook.com/SweetEdencosplay/

Everyone Participating in the Meeseeks/Needful thread

Questions from Reddit

Mikołaj Perzyna (Mee-ko-why Pe-gy-na)

Bojack Horseman Crossover?

Devindavis386

How do we watch the show?

Reviews

TerryWolf77 – “I squanch to every episode”

Simon J Arias – “Feels like sitting and chatting with pals about the show”

Rms16270 – “The morning commute has vastly improved since I started listening to these pee pee heads. Keep up the good work, losers!  Signed -Abe Lincoln

SOCIAL

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Well, well, well! Look who’s back!? It’s Rick and Morty in some Rickmancing the Stone action! We’re here to talk to the episode and let you know what we thought!!!! Check out our show notes below!

SHOW NOTES – S3E2 Rickmancing the Stone

Semi Pertinent News – Little Bits

* The Sauce

* Comic Con Live Read

* Rickling Morty (every week)

* Lol, top 100 in iTunes or Apply Podcasts, lol!

Main thing –

* Rickmancing the Stone

* Overall Story

* The Smith family finds some interesting ways to process Beth and Jerry’s divorce

* Mad Max world where they join some cannibals to get a green rock

* Not a typical A-plot/B-plot balance

* Favorite Bits

* Loser in the wind

* 4th wall break to cut to commercial

* Robot Summer and Morty

* Talk about Summer being a BA

* What was up with the setting/timeline in this episode?

Listener Suggortions and Short Outs

* Tweets –

* NONONODBD – Had trouble subscribing to us…

* Emails

* Facebook

* Holy shit, we have so many people in our Facebook now, holy shit! HOLY SHIIIIT

* Questions

* CireDark – It comes out that the reason Rick is hopping dimensions and constantly depressed is because he’s on an unending search for his dead wife. However, the reason she doesn’t exist in any other dimension is his fault. Tammy and Phoenixperson are gathering all the people that Rick has ever wronged (ever growing list). Abledolph Lincler was at the party where Tammy met Birdperson. Also, Revolio Clockberg Jr (AKA: Gearhead).

SOCIAL

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