Description

With only a few more episodes left, can Rick and Morty tell us how James Gunn can better use a story circle? Let's discuss!

Semi Pertinent News

• Comic Con Announcement?  Based on last year’s timing, we should hear something this week.  Fingers crossed!
• ‘Rick and Morty’ Boss on How James Gunn and Zack Snyder Agreed to Parody Themselves and Their Dueling ‘Superman’ Takes (EXCLUSIVE)
• https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/rick-and-morty-james-gunn-zack-snyder-guest-star-how-1236447096/
• “They were good sports,” said “Rick and Morty” exec producer Scott Marder. “Both of those guys sort of implied that this is the show they watch when they have downtime.
• Series co-creator Dan Harmon also got excited about the idea of both Gunn and Snyder showing up — and joined in to write that “Superman” dialogue between the two. “When he heard that they were on board and they were coming in, he sort of cracked his knuckles and wanted to make sure the episode lived up to and was worthy of them, having to deliver those lines,” Marder said
• Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
• Avocado Rants

MAIN THANG - S8E7 Ricker than Fiction

Episode Details

• Air Date: 7/6/2025
• Written by: Rob Schrab
• Directed by: Douglas Einar Olsen
• Guest Stars: James Gunn & Zack Snyder

Broh-nopsis: Rick and Morty write the next installment of their favorite movie franchise.  Pure cinema, broh. 

Our Synopsis: Harmon won’t stop promoting his story circle in this one.  We get it, Dan! Love you Schrab. 

Discussion

• Title Reference: Title can be a reference to the Marc Foster movie with Will Ferrell from 2006 or the 1994 album from Bad Religion featuring the songs Infected and a re-recording of 21st Century Digital Boy (which has their original version on the 1990 album, Against the Grain)
• Theme
• Movie franchises and the lack of creativity in Hollywood
• Comic Book Movies
• Fast and Furious
• Transformers
• Lots of jokes about the writing process and inside humor that might be more funny the closer you get to Hollywood
• Not the first time we have gone down this road (Story Train as a prime example)
• Favorite Bits
• Reintroducing each character in the 9th movie
• Don’t just stand there Redwood! Shoot him!
• Rick and Morty being whiny fans “You’re ruining my childhood!, which is still ongoing”
• Movie-lizer
• “Invented it during the title sequence.”
• “Citizen Kane doesn’t strike again”
• “I’m 14, I’ve never seen Citizen Kane!”
• The Movie-lizer “Last Action Hero’d” us. 
• The 2007 Kia Spectra
• The on-screen story circle
• Maximum Velocitree 3: Tell No Lies (the one where they bring George Washington back to life)
• Zombie Thistle turning Morty into a cactus 
• The entire Snyder/Gunn chat in the WB Commissary
• Was the portal green?
• Samantha the Hench-weed
• Keeps calling Morty “mother”
• James Gunn doing the wife voice to Jerry (and the fact that a professional writer like him comes up with “Come into the kitchen for some lemonade)
• “Lunch is ruined!” At the start of the prison riot
• Son of Thistle’s Twit-tok (I’mma doomsdayin’)
• Shoulda listened to Snyder (when the machine is too heavy)
• “Then, as fate would have it…”
• The NYC action sequence
• “You saved the world from another unarmed man”
• “They outdone the Gunn”
• Why was it called a Sundae?
• Best/Worst Parts
• The Velocitree song in the tune of Barenaked Ladies One Week

Listener Suggorstions and Short Outs

• YouTube
• @anthonyBeal91
• So, that weird teddy bear was a throwback to ABC's of Beth. In that episode, Rick shows her all of the things she asked him to make for her. In that long list was a teddy bear with anatomically correct innards. I thought that was fantastic