Is Rick and Morty Existentialist? – Philosophy Tube

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   @YourfavMikdud

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   I’m making it a mission to watch and like every video. I love this channel.

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   @ChillGothBear

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   I never understood the need for there to be an inherent "meaning" to life. The idea inherently assumes that there was a primary cause and subsequently that that cause was *intentional*, which subsequently implies a creator being. This is to say, I think the only reason people are so widely obsessed with there being a "meaning of life" because religion and assumption of a creator being is so common. Nihilism is only seen the way it is because it implies that there's no god, and people who believe in god tend not to investigate their moral and ethical structures, leading to the erroneous assumption that without god people wouldn't have personal morals or ethics to begin with. In a society where that was an obvious logical fallacy rather than a given assumption among most people, nihilism would just be the default assumption and would carry none of the negative connotations that it does (much like "anarchy" wouldn't then carry the 80s punk rebel without a cause connotation it does).

   Long story short, so much time and energy is wasted in the culture and general pursuit of philosophy arguing points that only require debate because of the dominant occurrence of thought-terminating, self-reinforcing religious world views in our species.

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   @Emilia-p3h

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   Rick is absurd because he thinks he understands the universe and is certain of things like the lack of a god, or the certainty that no on belongs anywhere. It is the root of his misery and he tries to spread that misery.

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   @ferindies1

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   My girlfriend omg

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   @suplerb

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   Thomas poggers

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   @danhiggins9151

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   Nah, it's shit.

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   @radicalthought6811

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   Can we get another Rick and morty video 👀

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   @ertyiopp

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   Damn you're so small in this

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   @alexonline2340

   January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

   To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

   And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

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    @polarys79

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    I wonder what did you think about season 4. The series has made a huge shift. At first, I thought the creators were throwing the idea out the window, parting away from the original intent of the show. Then someone told me about Community. I binge watched it and now I think maybe throwing everything out the window is pretty much part of Dan Harmon's style. (Adendum: yes I know about the gas leak year)

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    @timothybell5698

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    Olly, I dunno if you ever read my comments, but I feel like you'd get a real kick out of an e-mail exchange with me. But I'm not giving out my e-mail (or any one I'd regularly check) out on a public platform. I studied philosophy too, ethics, meta-ethics, PoM, and time, self and freedom, what I really got a boner from was doing symbolic logic, though, finding contradictions in pure semiotics and then, having translated the semiotics, realising I had been working on an argument that went against a deeply held conviction I had. Fun stuff.

    Anyway, let me tell you about Ian M. Drivel's favourite band. A group out of Melbourne called TISM. I think you'd really like them. They're really not particularly good musicians (they know how to write pop songs, basically) but their lyrics are chock-full of references I'm sure you'd get a kick out of. Take their song "Existentialtism", for example:

    "You know,
    Me and my baby,
    Know a couple like us,
    She's,
    She's got a Sartre,
    We got a Camus
    (We got a Camus),
    I,
    I love her,
    'Cause I hate the stinking bitch,
    Oh she's,
    Like a train,
    Or a horse,
    I forget which.

    Whooooo cleans the home?
    Jean-Paul Sartre?
    Simon de Beauvoir?

    I'm,
    I'm The Outsider [AKA, 'The Stranger'],
    I'll break the law,
    But,
    Here's a tip,
    The book's a bore,
    (The book's a bore-hore)
    Oh I'll,
    Take responsibility,
    For my innermost wishes,
    Oh,
    I'll be buggered,
    If I do the dishes,
    (Won't do the dishes).

    Whoooo cleans the home?
    Jean-Paul Sartre?
    Simon de Beauvoir?"

    Anyway, I hope this isn't written off as "parasocial". I tend to write these comments out of a sense of 'tit-for-tat'. Trust me man, celebrity or not, you're all the same diseased worms to me.

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    @rauldjvp3053

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    Goddamn it, Didi, let’s just go

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    @ΜέλαναςΙσκιος

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    i'd really love you making videos like this again, inbetween the higher production ones maybe

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    @Cheesblenders4all

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    In season 3 he turbs himself into a pickle! Funniest shit I've ever seen

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    @MrEasyCheasy

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    Well this aged poorly lole

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    @LooMcGoo72

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    It's so fried to hear Olly talk about his gf like 👀👀👀

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    @alexwhiting5881

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    Rick and Morty is one of the only cartoons that attack every political stance.

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    @anniescornavacca1472

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    Hey Olly, you might enjoy a channel called The Passion Of The Nerd here on YT where he talks about how the show Buffy the vampire slayer is all about absurdism & the myth of sysiphis bc the writer, Joss Weadon, is an absurist atheist. I can't recommend it more! Let me know what you think! There's also a philosophy book called Buff: myth, metaphor, & morality. If you haven't watched Buffy, you def should!

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    @DarthAlphaTheGreat

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    Rick refuse to be on a council of himself is the same as Reed Richard (Mr. Fantastic) refuses to be on the council of Reeds.

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    @mrgrumboldt

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    I thought R&M was more like existential nihilism.

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    @BlueTemplar15

    January 26, 2026 at 3:10 pm

    Oh yeah, Rick reeeally leaned into compassion in season 3 ! XD

    (Not.)

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