Rick and Morty serviced the worst parts of its fanbase and made a mess

Mansur Shaheen
4 min readNov 26, 2019
Rick and Morty talk to Elon “Tusk”

Dan Harmon has made a name for himself with his ability to take the common tropes of virtually every genre and turn them in on themselves. Community would often break the fourth wall and announce what kind of episode it was doing and then deconstruct it. While his second major work, Rick and Morty, tones it down a bit with the fourth wall breaking, it is not scared to…

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Mansur Shaheen

Freelance writer. Bylines in American Magazine, SB Nation and Mondoweiss. Culture and Sports.