I love Rick and Morty
HELLO, MEGAN is annoying, but it stops after awhile.
Rumor is that they were all geared up for a male demographic, and all their merchandise plans were aimed at tween/teen males. When the show was more popular with a female audience, they just scrapped it, rather than come up with products to sell to their actual audience.
Yeah, they straight up had no interest in a show like that that appealed to girls.
This sounds likely... and even if they did come up with new products, they likely had contracts with the action figure people and warehouses full of figures. Honestly... stuff like this makes me wonder if the only reason we don't have a Super Best Friends Forever show (based on the shorts) is because they didn't know how to market the toys.
It's grating, I'll admit, but there is a surprisingly good pay off to it.
I don't know... I kind of what that Cheshire figure.
Paul Dini has said as much when he showed up on Kevin Smith's podcast, Fat Man on Batman. He also said that's the reason why Teen Titans Go! is that stupid, wacky approach rather than the better story approach of the original series: the want to cash in on young boys with wacky humor like Adventure Time.
*ahem*
Yeah I marathoned up to the end of ep9 last night, so I guess I do like the show.
Except that vapid, empty humor, where heroes do villainous thing with no consequences or afterthought is the exact opposite of the wit found in Adventure Time.
This is my biggest complaint with the show. The dumb humor could be fun, but most of the shows that do that kind of humor WELL (Adventure Time, Regular Show) have persistent universes. Nothing that happens on these shows is in a bubble (except when it clearly is)... when Mordecai and Margarete broke up, that has stuck for every episode after it. Whenever Finn gets a new sword, the old one is GONE.
Panties may not be the greatest thing in the world, but they are right next to it.
Too bad it's only one more episode till the end of the season (though I haven't watched tonight's yet).
Because they are incompetent fools who blame a show's audience for the sins of their own marketing team. I can not believe they couldn't sell toys for this show, there were a million awesome looking characters and "The Team" had like four costumes each! "Oh well our higher girl audience-" toys have to nothing to do with who the audience is or how good the show is, just look at half the Transformers toons! Hell, the closest thing to a Young Justice toy commercial is this-
