Welcome to Friday! We like to do something fun this Friday as per our mantra to share oddball things or news that matter to us. So to start off, we would like to share one of our favorite guilty pleasures on tv called Rick and Morty. It is an animated comedy series about an alcoholic but brilliant scientist (Rick) who invented an inter-dimensional portal gun which he uses frequently to bring his grandson (Morty) as his sidekick on crazy sci-fi adventures. Although it may look like The Simpsons or Ren & Stimpy this show is strictly NSFW and if you are WFH, please be careful and don’t let young kids see it! It has won 2 Primetime Emmys and many animated awards, the past 5 seasons has an AVERAGE score of 94% on Rotten Tomato and 9.2 on IMDb! Our personal favourites are Seasons 1 to 3 where the world building and short adventures are a masterclass of creativity and storytelling.

Dan Harmon, one of the co-creators, is well known for producing and creating Community (2009 - 2015), an American sitcom which has received critical acclaim for its acting, direction, and writing, as well as its use of meta-humor and pop culture references, often paying homage to film and television clichés and tropes. Harmon has mentioned that Rick & Morty was an inspired parody of the movie Back to the Future. The most recent seasons of Rick and Morty are getting even more meta with a stronger interconnected story ala the Marvel cinematic universe. So if you enjoy sci-fi and have a deep appreciation of all things meta, give Rick and Morty a shot. The shows are available on numerous streaming platforms but you can watch it for free on the adult swim website https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty which it first premiered.