Roiland, whose exit from the Adult Swim series was announced in January in light of domestic abuse charges, had voiced the title characters since its 2013 launch.

Roiland, whose exit from the Adult Swim series was announced in January in light of domestic abuse charges, had voiced the title characters since its 2013 launch.

  • justhach@lemmy.world
    811·
    11 months ago

    Its too bad that its so hard to find a man aged 18-35 who is willing to show us his Rick and Morty impression at the drop of a hat.

  • Master@sh.itjust.works
    471·
    11 months ago

    They should have had Rick sneak into Mortys room and scream his name to get up. Can pull audio from other episodes from past. Morty wakes up screaming and punches Rick in the throat. Rick starts choking and Mortify asks if he is alright, using old audio again, than Rick punches him in the throat as retaliation. Then they both continue to choke for a few minutes. Then in new voices the agree to never talk about this again. Que new intro.

  • Rokin@lemm.ee
    40·
    11 months ago

    “We are closing in on the end of our process of the recast”, not a very informative article. Also notes that recasts are “soundalikes” and that show is as good as it’s ever been. No date for the next season yet.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    5212·
    11 months ago

    I know they’re doing this because it’s a cash cow for them, but didn’t the guy play a huge part in the show? I’d imagine this is probably going to be the last season unless by a miracle they can do without his writing and I think adlib?

    I’m saying this probably would’ve been a reason to cancel the show altogether.

    • Orvanis@lemm.ee
      1002·
      11 months ago

      By all accounts the past couple seasons he just shows up drunk to record his lines, be obnoxious in the office for a couple hours and then go home.

      The actual writing and content hasn’t really involved him. So assuming they can find a voice that isn’t too jarring, odds are the average person won’t know or care and the show will be just fine.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
        481·
        11 months ago

        Also his adlibs were almost never used and just sucked up recording booth time.

        The show is legitimately better without him.

        • Scooter411@lemmy.ml
          17·
          11 months ago

          Billy West is the fucking man. Watching the latest episode of futurama and he nails all his characters still, even being away from them for so long. Many of the other main cast use, essentially, their regular voices.

          • Lexaprofessor@lemmy.world
            9·
            11 months ago

            I definitely noticed he sounds older and looked up ha age. 71! He definitely doesn’t sound that old but it was still noticable. Of course it’s not his fault. Definitely the GOAT voice actor.

            • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world
              3·
              11 months ago

              That’s incredible. He sounded ever so slightly different in the trailer, but not that old at all. He still sounded like Fry, which mattered.

              As opposed to the current Simpsons cast where I just feel sad listening to the current voices.

          • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            Many of the other main cast use, essentially, their regular voices.

            So you consider the rest of the cast to be Katey Sagal?

            I agree that Billy West is certainly the man, and deserves tons of praise, but your last sentence is a reductive and incorrect insult. Maurice LaMarche is right behind Billy West in amazingness (think Kif vs Morbo to understand his range). Frank Welker is a fucking voice acting legend. John DiMaggio and Tress MacNeille are both amazing voice actors. David Herman is a great utility voice actor. Phil LaMarr and Lauren Tom are great and sound nothing like their characters, unless you think all people in their respective racial groups sound alike.

            Blasphemy.

            • Scooter411@lemmy.ml
              1·
              11 months ago

              I would say the main voice cast consists of Billy, Katey, and John. It’s been so long since I’ve heard John speak with his regular voice, I had to go find some YouTube videos to see that yes - I was absolutely incorrect in that regard.

              Maurice and Phill are some of the all time greats and I would put them up close to Billy and Dan Castellaneta. Tress is the female equivalent of Billy, imo.

              No shade was intended to the rest of the supporting cast. I feel it’s a little messed up to low key call someone a racist based on their feelings for the cast performances on a cartoon, but you do you.

  • Ech@lemm.ee
    14·
    11 months ago

    had voiced the title characters since its 2013 launch.

    Makes it sound more than it was. There were 63 episodes over those 10 years. It wasn’t like the show had 20 episode seasons every year.

    • Haus@kbin.social
      6·
      11 months ago

      I’d lost track of how long R&M had been running until a few days ago. I was watching an old episode of Community and there was Abed and his gf Brie Larson sitting on the couch and watching Rick & Morty.

  • JTode@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    I think they should pivot to a whole season of Interdimensional Cable, with a season-length R&M plotline weaved in with no actual exposure to the usual characters.

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
      602·
      11 months ago

      His case was closed due to lack of evidence or something, but there’s still a ton of actual real evidence that got released online of him perving on underage girls and talking about how much he wants to bang 15 year olds, so it’s doubtful anyone’s going to be doing business with him again any time soon

      • HipPriest@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        I think someone unearthed a clip of him on a podcast talking about sex with kids which at the time was probably seen as edgy humour but… Yeah. Something to do with wishing he could go back to the past because then it ok to sleep with teens? Can’t remember. Don’t care enough to Google it. But it’s beyond doubt the man should probably be on a watch list

        • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          The last one I saw he was clearly trying to get young girls to send nude pictures, but in a “hahaha it’s just a joke hahaha you should totally do it though for humor hahaha” kinda way

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
      233·
      11 months ago

      Charges dropped by district attorney due to the case not having enough compelling evidence to secure a conviction. Not exactly cleared, the prosecutor just didn’t think they could secure a conviction.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
          373·
          11 months ago

          1. That’s not how it works…

          2. In the course of all this, a lot of other shit came out that’s more than enough for him to lose his jobs over.

            • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
              222·
              11 months ago

              Just because he was not proven guilty doesn’t mean everyone is legally required to just ignore all the very real evidence that was released of him being an actual internet predator/pedophile. Generally companies tend to shy away from being associated with that sort of thing.

                • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
                  111·
                  11 months ago

                  It’s entirely possible. However I am 100% certain the network would probably just cancel the show entirely before they let Justin Roiland back on the payroll.

                  He hasn’t contributed to the writing since like season 2 or 3. I think it will probably be fine with a different voice actor

                • hundo@feddit.nl
                  17·
                  11 months ago

                  Sorry, man. I don’t know thing one but this crowd here, they KNOW things, they have LISTS of names, they got their own personal CONVICTION. Looks like Reddit has arrived. (I don’t have proof of that, but I saw a video about a guy who read a post and …)