Hi, I am Steward. My favorite show that I’d like to introduce to you dudes is a cartoon for adults , Rick and Morty . It’s a popular show worldwide and has been on channel Adult Swim for 7 seasons. The story is about a pair ofgenius and mad, salty scientist grandpa, Rick and his cowardly but obedient grandson, Morty traveling between parallel universes and embarks on great adventures, they also live a normal everyday life with Morty’s Mom & Dad & bigger Sister, Beth, Jerry and Summer. The show is full of creativity based on some meta-thinking and hypothesis that surprise and even overwhelm audiences.
However, what really impressed me was a simple episode, episode 8 in Season 1.Being on TV in 2014, the episode was somewhat like the recent movie Everything Everywhere All at once. Spoiler alert if you want to watch you yourself, you better mute now. Here’s the long story short. The scientist grandpa somehow get a multi-verse television for the family, but the only thing most of the family member was interested was themselves being successful in another universe except for Rick and Morty. So the rest of the family member was given a shared VR device to see what is going on if they were successful.
At first, you should be curious about why Morty wasn’t interested of himself being successful in another universe cause he is such a loser at school. Morty’s sister, Summer later find out that there isn’t a successful-summer universe for her, and every universe if she were born, her mom&dad weren’t becoming somebody.Mom Beth points out they gives up each other’s life when they ‘accidentally’ had her.Mom later had a fight with Dad Jerry and blame on each other for the pregnancy, that shocked summer and made she thought she shouldn’t been born in the first place.
When summer was packing up in savage, Morty shows up and said he isn’t this world’s Morty that Summer thought he was, he is from another parallel universe where Rick and him destroyed the earth by accident. They later portaled to the existing reality the Summer exists where their Rick and morty actually died.
”Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, Everyone’s gonna die. Come watch TV.”
Their mom and dad later find out in the parallel universe where Beth
Becomes a doctor instead of a horse veterinary and Jerry becomes a famous actor,Jerry went through a huge breakdown and wentto find Beth although he is famous only to confess he loved Beth since they were in high school. At the end of the episode they all sit and watched TV happily in sincere.
The lines and plots were in my head for such a long time. It somehow influence dme. Don’t get me wrong. I’m more of a fan of voluntarism than nihilism, more spiritual than a fan of atheism, like The French writer Romain Rolland said, “There is only one kind of heroism in life, to see the world as it is, and to love it”
It’s not all about being optimistic no matter what. It’s nothing to do with being positive everyday. Merely Being able to think, to regret as a human being is a suffering itself sometime, no matter you do, the world keeps going around. You are the one could change, to do what you have to do, and enjoy this life.