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Welcome back to the tail end of Season 6 with the mid-season premiere of Full Meta JackRick! Let’s talk some story circles, eh?

Show Notes – S6E7: Full Meta JackRick

Semi Pertinent News

Our interview with Sarah Chalke and Chris Parnell
Reddit Post of the Week
- u/barnyardcruz – reminder, new episode November 20th. 163k views, 98% upvote rate, 35k community karma, no reports
Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
- Well… now this is awkward… No new posts since October 23rd

Main Thang – S6E7: Full Meta JackRick

Episode Details

Air Date: 11/20/2022
Written by: Alex Rubens
Directed by: Lucas Gray
Guest Stars: Paul Giamatti, Chris Meloni

Broh-nopsis: This one wrinkled my brain, broh

Our Synopsis: Not since the heyday of the first Scream have we been so inundated with Meta

Discussion

Title Reference: Going all the way back to Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 war film. (Shoutout to R. Lee Ermey)
Theme
- Meta Commentary
  - A story about storytelling
  - As a Sequel to Never Ricking Morty
    - The differences
  - More a commentary on writers than the audience
  - You’re only proud of your creations’ success because you want to be creative, but creation doesn’t happen through gimmicks, technology, or distribution. It doesn’t even happen through work.
- Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey/Harmon’s Story Circle
  - Refusal of the Call
  - Meet a Mentor – Joseph Campbell
  - Crossing the Threshold – “Death is a Threshold”
  - Master of both worlds (ordinary world and special world)
  - Belly of the Whale
  - Atonement of the Father
  - The Masks of God
  - Shout out to user UFO_tofu for his/her/they labeling of the journey to video
- This season’s Anthology Episode?
Favorite Bits
- 10 Space Jam cameos
- Jesus Baned Me
- Self-referential six (plus two more)
  - Miss-Lead, Previous Leon, Flash Back, Connie Tinuityerror, Protago Nick, Mr. Twist, Brett Caan (Rhett Caan), Tag Man
- Marvin the Cowardly Security Guard
- Butter Robot
- Rick handing Morty the jacket
- “Death is a threshold”
- “I’m so sick of that note, what does it even mean?”
- “You failed me… no, I failed you”
- Ghost of Joseph Campbell saying no
- “Did you get any of that?”
- The website works
- Amish Juggler
- Loch Ness Monster (Jesus Kick and the Marvin title sequence)
- Back to the Future Ripoffs
- Tag-Man
Best/Worst Parts
- Deus Ex Machina, Checkhov’s Guns, Gratuitous Violence, Ticking Clock, Action enhancer, Foreshadowing, NArrative Threads, Escalation, Leap of Faith, Smash Cut, Cliffhanger
- Trials sign, word balloon, Writer’s Courage brand Whiskey

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