How Science Makes “Rick and Morty” Great
I&#x27;m getting pretty tired of Rick and Morty fans blowing the greatness of the show way out of proportion.  I love the show, but not because it&#x27;s &quot;smart&quot; or &quot;nihilistic&#x27; or because it references science.  It&#x27;s a zany cartoon with witty dialog, and it&#x27;s hilarious, but to claim it&#x27;s more profound than that has so far proven to be little more than reading too far into it.  Referencing pop culture isn&#x27;t &quot;smart&quot; in and of itself, and it doesn&#x27;t require extraordinary intelligence to recognize.<p>By the way, Rick is not a nihilist.  He might be very careless and ambivalent, but that doesn&#x27;t translate to any form of nihilism I&#x27;m aware of; in the case of the show, he&#x27;s definitely not en existential nihilist, and it&#x27;s arguable that he&#x27;s not even a moral nihilist.  The rest of the characters on the show are not nihilists; myopic would be a more accurate description.  You want a really nihilistic show?  Watch Seinfeld.