We finished Willy Wonka, now on to a #RickAndMorty #jigsawpuzzle! ?
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So after many months of hiatus, the second of half season 4 — five remaining episodes — debuted last weekend. It was one of the series’ most clever and complex episodes yet, featuring Rick and Morty on a kind of “space train” confronting various storytelling cliches and quirkily breaking the fourth wall more than ever before. It exemplifies the strength of virtually all Rick and Morty episodes: they layer in jokes and complexities and hidden references such that each viewing yields new discoveries. I’m ready to watch it again and see what all I missed the first time.
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Yeah, this #rickandmorty #lofi is some next level geekery.
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It’s been some time since I’ve been able to jump both feet into a pop culture cult, but Rick and Morty has been delivering happiness and entertainment consistently for some time now. If you haven’t tried it yet then now is a great time. I recommend starting with season 3, episode 3, the infamous, Emmy-award-winning “Pickle Rick.” If you have Hulu then you can watch it right now as the first 3 seasons are available for streaming.
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Truth: #PickleRick in #RickandMorty is the best single cartoon episode in at least the last 10 years. Maybe 20. Only South Park at its peak is comparable.
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It’s a rainy, cold #PickleRick #socks kind of day…
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It’s my birthday next week so April got me a few small presents. First: #PickleRick !!! #rickandmorty #funkopop
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Season 1, episode 5, “Meeseeks and Destroys” is also a favorite episode, featuring the fan favorite “Mr. Meeseeks” character is also an entertaining intro. My brother got me a t-shirt featuring the hilarious character for Christmas:
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Little bro came through this Christmas with a cool #RickAndMorty #mrmeeseeks shirt!
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Still digging my #mrmeeseeks #socks #RickandMorty “You gotta relax!”
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The next episodes will debut on Sunday nights on Cartoon Network’s adult swing block. You can also buy the series on Amazon Prime and then new episodes will appear there as they are — which is what we did. Perhaps some more blog posts in the future as the new episodes drop, we shall see…
In the meantime, if you have not given Rick and Morty a try yet for whatever reason then I understand. I was a late-adopter as well, initially not seeing the potential of the premise. But I’ll just put it this way: Rick and Morty is the next cartoon in the tradition of The Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, and South Park in creating an energetic social satire providing high brow musings on the one hand while low-brow jokes and bizarre sci-fi provocations and Kill Bill-levels of blood-gushing blood and gore.
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David M. Swindle
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David M. Swindle took over in 2021 as Liberty Island Media Group's new owner, Publisher, and Editor-In-Chief. He joined LI in May of 2015, initially as West Coast Editor. He previously worked as associate editor of PJ Media from 2011-2015 where he grew the PJ Lifestyle vertical, and associate editor of FrontPageMag from 2009-2011 where he developed the media criticism site NewsReal Blog as its managing editor.
David double-majored in English (creative writing emphasis) and Political Science, graduating from Ball State University in 2006. After years of feeling torn between creative work and political activism, David now embraces the late Andrew Breitbart’s aphorism that “Politics is downstream from culture.”
As a novel editor David will consider books of just about any genre or type (he hands off romance, young adult, legal, and military titles to those better equipped on the team). His current areas of strongest interest include science fiction, fantasy, thriller/suspense, hard-boiled detective and crime, horror, westerns, historical, alternate history, speculative, cultural satire, literary, and religious fiction. He also reviews nonfiction submissions on politics, arts, media, faith, and counterculture.
His first novel he both edited and published is Tom Cosentino's The Art of Looking for Trouble.
Liberty Island titles which David edited include Justice, Inc by J.P. Medved, Mad Jones, Heretic: The Accidental Prophet, Book 1 by Quin Hillyer, Silver & Lead: A Novella of the Westby David Churchill Barrow and MaryLu Barrow, Snowflake’s Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warriorby Curtis Edmonds, Mad Jones, Hero: The Accidental Prophet, Book 2 by Quin Hillyer, Mad Jones, Agonistes: The Accidental Prophet, Book 3 by Quin Hillyer, Pulse of the Goddess: The American Blackout, Book 1 by Fred Tribuzzo, Slaves Beneath the Stars: American Blackout, Book 2 by Fred Tribuzzo, Gangster Town: The American Blackout, Book 3by Fred Tribuzzo, and First Shot: Jin & Tonick, Book 1 by Bokerah Brumley.
David's articles have been published at such publications as The Daily Wire, The Washington Examiner, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, The Algemeiner, The American Spectator, The Daily Caller, The California Courier, Campus Watch, Rebel Media, Big Hollywood, and The Indianapolis Star. He currently lives in Burbank, California. Follow him on Twitter @DaveSwindle.
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