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Rick And Morty is Hilarious Nihilism

Alienating the Audience

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The Dark Elements of Being Human

I think that the cartoon element is able to make a salve there but I think that the depression or the suicide or whatever is necessary a little bit because it does even though I think Rick is very very funny and is a kind of catharsis of the darker elements of being human. It seems for some they've figured out that cartoons take the edge off suicide, like Bojack Horseman. That's the whole. Talking horse. Yeah but it's a horse so we all laugh. We're like ah that's funny the cop looks like a cat. Oh that's amusing. And you don't know the trauma of your parents. But you went. The show is just the whole

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