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Originally Posted by fudgetusk
I'm fine with anyone messing with any black rap artist in any way. BUrst that macho bs bubble. If people go on his show and get shocked by Andre then they kind of deserve it for not doing their research. I've laughed out loud at his antics. Rick and Morty was about as funny as The Simpsons is now.(the occasional smile) Cartoons are kind of boring unless they are shocking like Family Guy.
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Rick and Morty (like the Simpsons) have intellectual, philological and classics underpinnings, where if you don't know the philosophy or classic, you don't get the parody, irony, satire, jokes, at least not the multiple levels it's delivered. Rick/Morty also features sci-fi contexts, as you might expect.
Not much different than a comedian joking about rappers... if you don't know the context, you don't get the jokes. Still might be delivered in a humorous and likeable manner, but a person who doesn't have the context isn't likely to appreciate it.
I appreciated Family Guy's initial eps, in the way I appreciated Simpsons, Rick/Morty and South Parks, for purposeful satire -- that is making us take a look at our society or ourselves in a critical way -- which can be 'shocking'; as some humorists would philosophically say: humor has truth. But eventually a lot of the 'shocking' of Family Guy was merely shocking without any benefit or truth, just offense and corrosion; which not surprisingly I'm personally aware of folks who decidedly choose to take-a-pass-on for greener pastures. Certainly a taste issue.
Lastly, some humor is more universal, like in the Family Guy Star Wars parody, where two characters are trying to move a couch through a door. It's context and honesty, but there's nothing beneficial, it's just really funny good humor; it can be intense, but it's not shocking.