Show suddenly decides to make Jerry the bad guy

>show suddenly decides to make Jerry the bad guy
can anyone explain why again?

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It's a bad show and you should watch good shows.

They didn't make him the bad guy. He's the exact same character through the whole fucking show. Nothing changed.

this but also he's just the punching bag trope. he's like jerry from parks and rec (ironically), you're never really told why you're supposed to hate him, the show just tells you to hate him.

Dan felt self-conscious about his self-insert being the bad guy so tried to make all the other characters look bad to make himself feel better.

>Thinking Rick and Morty has an overarching plot

Because apparently, nerds have regressed into cavemen and divide everyone into alphas and betas. Rick is the Alpha in the family, so Jerry being the beta is funny I guess.

Difference is Parks and Rec make it very clear that everyone's dislike for their Jerry is random and awful and Jerry is actually a cool guy.

There's an entire episode where the subplot is Ben, the show's straightman, being absolutely baffled by Jerry's treatment.

But that's the thing, Beth was a shit character since episode 1. She sucks the fun out of the show whenever she's doing anything other than reacting to Jerry.

That's why it feels so forced in this show.

Like his wife he was kind of a boring stand-in character to fill the parent role so like with Beth they had to shoehorn some characterflaws in since they only know how to write horrible caricatures
Beth went from bitter wife cartoon wife trope to sociopathic bitch and Jerry went from boring loser dad trope to inferiority complex ridden narcissist idiot

Beth was bad because she was the most complacent of Rick's actions. But for the first 2 seasons you still get a feeling that she was still one of Rick's victims and her complacency was largely due to abandonment issues and parental abuse from Rick.

Then season 3 went and said "Nah, she's a sociopath now" because Rick can't be too evil or Dan will be sad.

>because Rick can't be too evil
This is the type of shit that's over analysis.
Rick can be however evil they want in any given episode, its about striking a balance in each story.

its pretty clear you are meant to dislike him because he's the antithesis to the meta of the show. He's the foil to Rick and since Rick is meant to touch the viewer in more or less sympathetic ways it comes natural to dislike Jerry. Im pretty sure thats the intention.
People watch this show to watch a weird asshole have fun and maybe for the muh depression so of course they hate the shallow normie stand in.
you get that in a lot of shows

>It's a male Meg.

Balance is unheard of when the show (and more specifically the comics) writes each character to be as flawed and selfish as possible.
Have you ever read the comics? They write everyone as jerks. Morty is a horny miscreant, Summer is a hanger-on that is soley concerned with her own appearance and status, Beth is a sarcastic bitch, Jerry is utterly pointless and only exists to erect roadblocks for the other plotlines and Rick is an unimpressed god who can't even care about the plot all the way through. Is this how women write cartoons? They think sarcasm and deconstruction equals smart humor? I'd rather watch Jurassic Bark a hundred more times than another episode or issue of R&M. At some point the show has to make it seem like it's worth caring about, which is undercut if Rick indirectly tells the audience how stupid everything is. I can handle a show with infinite parallel universes but for the family the show is focused on at least make them seem like a real family. It's like it ATHF had 4 Master Shakes.

>It's like it ATHF had 4 Master Shakes.
It did.

Jerry fought for the improvement of his marriage in season 1. He a dullard but he cared about things and tried to protect and benefit them.

Rick abandons universes he's ruined and is an irresponsible alcoholic to his family. If anything the dynamic would work better if Jerry was successful in normal society while Rick was successful in wild sci-fi nonsense so there would be conflicting viewpoints over what success and legacy and responsibility really mean.

>Jerry fought for the improvement of his marriage in season 1.
No he didn't.

I'd also point out that the Beth and Jerry in the show now aren't even the original season 1 Beth and Jerry. So, canonically speaking they're not even the same people as season 1.

Episode 9 was probably the worst episode in the entire show and it was entirely beth focused. no wonder their ratings tanked in season 4.

Roiland will never be heavily involved in the writing process again, and that's why the show is worse now.

yeah but thats not what the show is aiming for and it would contradict the general idea they put in.
Rick is a smart adventurer who doesnt give a fuck and doesnt get pushed around by anyone and Jerry is a boring pushover tool that cares too much
you gotta see it for what it really is and for how it is really viewed by people. The meta of the show is clearly dont be a good worker bee, be a cool asshole. Having Jerry as the succesful society fit equivalent of rick would throw over the now established meta rule that nihilism makes you a master of reality
also it would then just be a cliche 90s cartoon straightman vs weirdman, like Daria and her parents

You're angry because you self-insert as Jerry. Stop.

He because The Meg of the show.

pick better viewing options

problem gone

>the now established meta rule that nihilism makes you a master of reality
man that's retarded

Season 1 wasn't like that; Rick was a sloppy drunken asshole who fucked up everything he touched except spiting Satan in that one episode, and the gag was what a petty motivation it was.

yeah but they turned that around entirely, have you not watched since s1?
Rick gives an entire speech on how people who are intelligent and dont care are the ones who take reality for joyrides while everyone else gets pushed around

Yeah, I know, I'm just saying it's retarded and it didn't used to be retarded in this fashion.

Because he's not a pickle, marty.

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It used to be a GOOD-A SHOW

I agree kinda
still even if only focused on s1 I guess they just didnt do it with Jerry being a competent straightman to not use an ancient trope again, I would assume

*wind blows* "Loooosssseeeerrrrrr"