Rick and Morty: “We’ve gotta go to Bendigo!”
Adult Swim drops gross language, ocker accents, Centrelink, and a barren regional wasteland that left a mayor fuming.
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Warning: language, adult themes!
US animation Adult Swim dropped an April Fool’s parody of its Rick & Morty cartoon by Australian animator Michael Cusack, which left viewers talking.
The 15 minute short was a darker, twisted and Australianised version of the comedy released without notice when US fans were anticipating a fourth season.
The episode featured gross language, ocker accents, visits to Centrelink, drinking beer and a road trip to Bendigo, depicted as a barren regional wasteland. That in turn had Bendigo’s mayor saying she was “quite staggered” by the vulgar parody.
“Obviously there are different tastes for everyone,” O’Rourke told Guardian Australia. “But I believe the Google searches have soared ever since it was released, and people would know by those searches that Bendigo is nothing like what’s in the parody.”
Cusack was commissioned to create the short by Rick and Morty creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland over a year ago.
“It genuinely was going down the list of Australian towns and thinking ‘what’s the funniest name?'” he said.
“I was thinking ‘Wagga Wagga, Newcastle, nah, not really’, then I was like ‘Bendigo’.
“There’s something about that name that seemed right to use for it.”
Cuasck is also behind an ABC pilot, Koala Man through the Fresh Blood initiative.
Rick & Morty screens in Australia on Adult Swim on 9GO!
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4 Responses
Delighted to see that this garbage has been kicked off YouTube.
The mayor just needs to learn to laugh…
Not funny at all – just very disturbing.
The gun at the kids head is just plain wrong.
Was I supposed to laugh, and how long has Dave Hughes been doing cartoons??