Let's discuss some of the questions and answers from the Reddit Ask Me Anything with Scott Marder and Steve Levy!

Semi Pertinent News

• Smiling Friends S3
• Oct 5th
• HaHa, You Clowns
• Oct 19th

MAIN THANG - Reddit AMA

Discussion

• Intro to the AMA
• Questions answered
• Questions NOT answered...

To check out the AMA, go to REDDIT! https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/1np0f8e/ama_were_rick_and_morty_executive_producers_scott/

We open up emotionally about the fantastic season 8 finale of Rick and Morty!

Semi Pertinent News

• Haunted Hotel - Dan's new Netflix Series
• Sept 19th 
• Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo, Natalie Palamides, and Jimmi Simpson.
• Rick and Morty Season 8 on HBO Max - Sept 1st
• Watch it all again

MAIN THANG - S8 Recap

Our Synopsis: Season 8 recap time!

Discussion

• How'd we do with our predictions?
• Favorite episodes
• Least favorite

We open up emotionally about the fantastic season 8 finale of Rick and Morty!

Semi Pertinent News

• SDCC Comic Con Panel
• Panel Members
• Spin Off Announcement 
• President Curtis with Keith David
• Other thoughts
• Live Table read
• Panel Members
• The CurRickous Case of Bethjamin Button
• Highlight of the con
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
• Talk about RaM cast following us, lol

MAIN THANG - S8E10 Hot Rick

Episode Details

• Air Date: 7/27/2025
• Written by: Albro Lundy & James Siciliano
• Directed by: Brian Kaufman
• Guest Stars: John Rhys-Davies and Tom Davis

Broh-nopsis: Brohhhh. Broh. Sometimes we try weird stuff to let go of the past, broh. 

Our Synopsis: Rick is more emotionally open, but at what cost?

Discussion

• Title Reference: Hot Rod? Hot Fuzz?
• Themes
• Letting go of your past
• Taking the risk to try new things and be open to what scares you
• Interesting note about how the Omega device messes with the mind making Beth only think that she remembers Diane
• Being open to trying to get close with BugAnne
• Memory Rick trying to keep his family together
• Gaslighting the past doesn’t make it real
• Escaping with Memory Diane
• Favorite Bits

We got to check out the Season 8 finale on the Green with Adult Swim. It airs tonight, but here are our early reactions!

Semi Pertinent News

• Haha, You Clowns is funny as heck

MAIN THANG - Season 8 Finale Reactions

Travis and Brandon got to hang out in San Diego for Comic Con, and they got to check out Adult Swim's panels!

Semi Pertinent News

• President Curtis was announced!

MAIN THANG - SDCC Panel Recap

The penultimate episode of Season 8, Morty Daddy, is upon us. Did any one else foresee the return of Morty Jr.?

Semi Pertinent News

• SDCC this week!
• That’s it, that's the news
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
• Laptop fans

MAIN THANG - S8E9 Morty Daddy

Episode Details

• Air Date: 7/20/2025
• Written by: Beth Sterling
• Directed by: Eugene Huang
• Guest Stars: Charlie Day and Eliza Coupe

Broh-nopsis: Summer and Rick dine out, broh. Fancy restaurant stuff. Morty reconnects with somebody from his past

Our Synopsis: Do you hear that? No sirens, not clickity-click of little spiders… it’s cause right now, the Precogs aren’t cooking a thing

Discussion

• Title Reference: Big Daddy I was assuming
• My-Morty Rickport (alternate title, you can have this one for free, writers)
• Theme
• Parenthood and restoring connections with your parents?
• Making peace with Morty Jr’s Mom
• PrixCogs Restaurant 
• Minority Report Precogs using Rick to get what they want
• Favorite Bits
• Is someone requesting pancakes?
• The vibrations (rule of threes)
• Phone
• Reservations
• (our) Vibrator
• “It’s okay to hate your kids morty” -Beth
• Downbeat The Game, The Show
• The “soft canceling”
• I love when restaurants have a big tank (there is a precog swimming in it)
• Avocado Toast
• Rick’s Gar-bage Por-tal
• Easter Eggs in the garbage area
• Plumbus
• Boob World hat
• Butter Robot
• Morty-O’s Spaghetti
• Is there a garbage creature based on PeeWee’s drawing board?
• Salvatron trying to kill Morty and Morty Jr
• It looks like there is Lava Cake in the precog kitchen after Rick talks about it at the table
• The ‘cogs’ setting summer up to hang out with Rick
• The Enchanted Goblin stage show, based on a book series Morty Jr. wrote, that HAPPENS to be in the garbage portal (It’s like their bible down there)
• The secret handshake
• I need a dry person to hand me stuff
• She was finest I’ve ever had, top 3, top 5 at least
• Morty Jr not actually dying (you inferred)
• Ranking women as “trash planet talk”
• The cog car chase that turns the van into a food truck
• Morty reading and being the target audience for Enchanted Goblin
• Rick really hates The Goonies
• The cut to Morty Jr’s new book (with goofy looking Morty)
• Best/Worst Parts
• Food truck in the garbage portal
• If I may… I would never ask for onions on my hot dog (Post credits)

Episode 8! Only two episodes left! It's time for a long awaited Jerry episode in NoMortLand!

Semi Pertinent News

• Ooooh Rick and Morty Panel at SDCC
• Not to mention all the other stuff that is happening at SDCC

MAIN THANG - S8E8 NoMortLand

Episode Details

• Air Date: 7/13/2025
• Written by: Albro Lundy & James Siciliano 
• Directed by: Fill Marc Sagadraca
• Guest Stars: Ryan Ridley

Broh-nopsis: The funemployed life, broh. Jerry makes a friend just as jobless as he is. 

Our Synopsis: Life isn’t easy on the road, but it’s worth the trip, EagleMan. 

Discussion

• Theme
• Favorite Bits

With only a few more episodes left, can Rick and Morty tell us how James Gunn can better use a story circle? Let's discuss!

Semi Pertinent News

• Comic Con Announcement?  Based on last year’s timing, we should hear something this week.  Fingers crossed!
• ‘Rick and Morty’ Boss on How James Gunn and Zack Snyder Agreed to Parody Themselves and Their Dueling ‘Superman’ Takes (EXCLUSIVE)
• https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/rick-and-morty-james-gunn-zack-snyder-guest-star-how-1236447096/
• “They were good sports,” said “Rick and Morty” exec producer Scott Marder. “Both of those guys sort of implied that this is the show they watch when they have downtime.
• Series co-creator Dan Harmon also got excited about the idea of both Gunn and Snyder showing up — and joined in to write that “Superman” dialogue between the two. “When he heard that they were on board and they were coming in, he sort of cracked his knuckles and wanted to make sure the episode lived up to and was worthy of them, having to deliver those lines,” Marder said
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
• Avocado Rants

MAIN THANG - S8E7 Ricker than Fiction

Episode Details

• Air Date: 7/6/2025
• Written by: Rob Schrab
• Directed by: Douglas Einar Olsen
• Guest Stars: James Gunn & Zack Snyder

Broh-nopsis: Rick and Morty write the next installment of their favorite movie franchise.  Pure cinema, broh. 

Our Synopsis: Harmon won’t stop promoting his story circle in this one.  We get it, Dan! Love you Schrab. 

Discussion

• Title Reference: Title can be a reference to the Marc Foster movie with Will Ferrell from 2006 or the 1994 album from Bad Religion featuring the songs Infected and a re-recording of 21st Century Digital Boy (which has their original version on the 1990 album, Against the Grain)
• Theme
• Movie franchises and the lack of creativity in Hollywood
• Comic Book Movies
• Fast and Furious
• Transformers
• Lots of jokes about the writing process and inside humor that might be more funny the closer you get to Hollywood
• Not the first time we have gone down this road (Story Train as a prime example)
• Favorite Bits
• Reintroducing each character in the 9th movie
• Don’t just stand there Redwood! Shoot him!
• Rick and Morty being whiny fans “You’re ruining my childhood!, which is still ongoing”
• Movie-lizer
• “Invented it during the title sequence.”
• “Citizen Kane doesn’t strike again”
• “I’m 14, I’ve never seen Citizen Kane!”
• The Movie-lizer “Last Action Hero’d” us. 
• The 2007 Kia Spectra
• The on-screen story circle
• Maximum Velocitree 3: Tell No Lies (the one where they bring George Washington back to life)
• Zombie Thistle turning Morty into a cactus 
• The entire Snyder/Gunn chat in the WB Commissary
• Was the portal green?
• Samantha the Hench-weed
• Keeps calling Morty “mother”
• James Gunn doing the wife voice to Jerry (and the fact that a professional writer like him comes up with “Come into the kitchen for some lemonade)
• “Lunch is ruined!” At the start of the prison riot
• Son of Thistle’s Twit-tok (I’mma doomsdayin’)
• Shoulda listened to Snyder (when the machine is too heavy)
• “Then, as fate would have it…”
• The NYC action sequence
• “You saved the world from another unarmed man”
• “They outdone the Gunn”
• Why was it called a Sundae?
• Best/Worst Parts
• The Velocitree song in the tune of Barenaked Ladies One Week

Listener Suggorstions and Short Outs

• YouTube
• @anthonyBeal91
• So, that weird teddy bear was a throwback to ABC's of Beth. In that episode, Rick shows her all of the things she asked him to make for her. In that long list was a teddy bear with anatomically correct innards. I thought that was fantastic

What's it like to be young and psycho? Let's ask Beth on a brand new episode of Rick and Morty!

Semi Pertinent News

• Robot Chicken, Self Discovery Special
• Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year
• Adult Swim’s long-running stop-motion comedy series returns with a brand-new special that takes aim at iconic reality shows and personalities from across Warner Bros. Discovery networks. “Robot Chicken: Self-Discovery Special” premieres Sunday, July 20 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT on Adult Swim, and will be available to stream the following day on Max.
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
• Taco Lawyer

MAIN THANG - S8E6 - The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button

Episode Details

• Air Date: 6/29/2025
• Written by: Heather Anne Campbell & Jess Lacher
• Directed by: Eugene Huang

Broh-nopsis: The brohs goes to a theme park Rick loves. Beth and Space Beth stay behind and regress or something. 

Our Synopsis: Being a working Mom is hard, but being a psychotic 10 year old is worse. 

Discussion

• Title Reference: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Theme
• Beth’s tragic childhood
• Earth Stereotypes 

Social Media

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Instagram: @RickandMortyPodcast / @RickandMortyPod

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Heyyyyy! Halfway through the season and we're going on some kind of rodent race!

Semi Pertinent News

• Smiling Friends S3 coming this fall
• And on contract for seasons 4 and 5
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
• Neil on Joe Rogan (Bluesky)

MAIN THANG - S8E5 Cryo Mort a Rickver

Episode Details

• Air Date: 6/22/2025
• Written by: Nick Rutherford
• Directed by: Fill Marc Sagadraca

Broh-nopsis: Broh! Rick and Morty wanna rob a ship in cryosleep. But people are light sleepers, broh.

Our Synopsis: One second you’re robbing a cryo ship and the next second you are involved in class warfare. Tale as old as time

Social Media

PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/apatheticEnthusiasm

Instagram: @RickandMortyPodcast / @RickandMortyPod

Bluesky: Rickandmortypod.nsky.social

X: @RickandMortyPod

Email: [email protected]

We get suppppper special guests Harry Belden and Ian Cardoni, the voice actors from Rick and Morty!

Semi Pertinent News

• None other than us getting to hang out with these guys!