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>Butters keeps being reminded that all of this plot ideas have already happened in the Simpsons

Now it's South Park's turn(Rick mentions "South Park did it" on Rick and Morty)

So at this rate, if Rick and Morty keeps on going for a few seasons, a new show will mention that "Rick and Morty did it".

At the current rate, it'll take the better part of a century for Rick and Morty to count up to a couple hundred episodes and get stale like its forebears have.

I hope so. It would break my heart if Rick and Morty started to sacrifice quality to keep a schedule. I'd rather wait.

Rick and Morty has already lost its appeal to me, because the person who recommended it, and so many of the fans are assholes who think that Rick is a person to emulate and justifies their assholishness.

This is both sad and hilarious to me, because lead writer Dan Harmon has explicitly spoken against Rick's character.

>we’ve all been Rick. But Rick really does have bigger fish to fry than anybody. He understands everything better than us. So you give him the right to be jaded and dismissive and narcissistic and sociopathic.

-Dan Harmon

Rick is literally designed to be the person every pretentious cynical asshole thinks they are. He exists to glamorize toxic anti-social behavior. Harmon backpedaling after the sauce thing blew up in his face isn't going to change this.

A character does not necessarily exist just to either condemn or promote certain behavior. That is a pretty one-dimentional way of looking at storytelling.

That's not actually him endorsing Rick, that's just him explaining why people give Rick that right. Which is entirely different.

Not that questioning this premise should expect to surface an answer to any of these questions but...

Would such a joke's lineage be perceptible or readily recognizable?

Would anyone notice or remember who made the last/next iteration of the joke, to continue the tradition?

Who defines the canonical serial sequence for this chain of jokes?

How many generations is a joke like this worth?

Would the continuation of such a joke actually be funny in the first place?

Was it ever truly funny at all?

And as the proliferation of the To Be Fair copypasta shows, they may get there soon.

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