Rick and Morty: The Non-Canonical Adventures are claymation tributes to classic science fiction movies.
New Rick and Mortyinfo and content has been sparse, maybe because Justin Roiland has been too busy making VR games about treepeople who scream at you. But you’re in luck, you little whiner! Rick and Morty are back! In clay form!
Adult Swim tapped Lee Hardcastle—who you may know as the guy who made that really horrific SimpsonsClaymation couch gag where they all suffer terribly graphic deaths—to make a handful of mid-commercial Adult Swim IDs—you know, those little videos that remind you what channel you’re watching? As such, they’re really short; the longest one clocks in at just over 20 seconds. But they look great! And Justin Roiland pitched in to do Rick and Morty’s voices, of course.
Each video is a Rick and Morty’d version of a movie scene—usually stuff that falls into the sci-fi/horror genre. If I’m not mistaken, the lines in all these scenes are taken pretty much verbatim (except character names have been swapped out with Rick and Morty’s names).
This is the tamest of the videos. I haven’t seen Ex Machina, but, hey, I get it!
Things get a little creepier with this parody of a scene from The Thing. I haven’t seen The Thingand feel I probably should [Editor's Note: Yes, you totally should...holy moley, do you know which site you write for?!? - Mike] but, hey, I think I get it!
For my money (note: watching these videos did not actually cost me any money), this parody of a scene from David Cronenberg’s The Fly is the best of the bunch.
This is probably because Rick and Morty has already famously dipped its toe into Cronenberg’s nasty aesthetic, so it fits really well. Also, that fly transformation looks pretty killer animated clay-style.
Everyone saw The Fly. But not me! I never saw The Fly! I’ve only seen part of The Flyand it gave me the pukes, but I for sure get this one! [Editor's Note: (sigh) I give up. I got nothing. - Mike]
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids isn’t that horrific (though that scene with the ant dying is pretty messed up, man), but it’s still sci-fi, I guess, so here we are. I’ve seen this one. I get it.
That’s it! We’ll have new Rick and Morty news for you as soon as we get it! When will that be? Who can say! But just be happy with this for now, Morty! Almost a full minute of new content! Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, Morty!
