I don’t really see the connecting point besides Hanna-barbera to make between the two. They are vastly different shows/styles/senses of humor.

I guess the connecting point is nobody asked for either show, but for birdman, that was the joke.

It’s a spin-off on AMC. Award campaigns for TV are expensive, there are so many options. To be seen and chosen amongst hundreds of shows costs money that AMC doesn’t have. So they just hoped word of mouth would do it.

It didn’t. So it doesn’t mean it doesn’t earn it. It just wasn’t apart of the zeitgeist enough to barrel through and get the votes.

I love that there’s definitely an episode where everybody making the show realized all the guys were really really funny, and maybe much funnier than the show they were on, and they hard pivoted. Then the show shifted from “Jess and her wacky guys!” To “which wacky guy will allow Jess to tag along in the background”.

Which in fairness, was the right move.

It ain’t happenin’ friend, Joss ain’t comin back. Hold the comic dear

Sorry guys, we’re never seeing Firefly again

Ding! Ding! Ding!

This is the take. I think instead of projecting onto the show and questioning it’s morality, you should be questioning your own experience and why you’re uncomfortable by it.

I watch Rick and Morty because it’s a funny sci fi show. I recognize the characters as caricatures of negative traits to explore and represent ideas or discussions to relate to through a sci-fi lens. My experience…kinda ends there. It doesn’t make me really question anything, I’m just there to laugh. Their negative traits are there to fuel comedy.

If you find those traits or ideas uncomfortable, or think it goes beyond that, instead of asking the show “why”, I think it’s more better for you in the long run to ask yourself “why”. All of our experiences are unique and subjective, you’re the only one that can really decipher why you feel a negative impact from it.

He’s the most popular name….to you.

This is literally marketing 101, you’re overthinking it

The original first 2 seasons of the Mole

why pay more when people who already have lines do trick?

That's basically the gist. Extra vs Co-star is really just the difference between line and no line, but operate at very different pay rates, and even are hired through different companies.

featured extras/ day-players have no lines but some focused camera time, still pretty cheap. they make more on the backend.

co-stars in the union could cost almost 1k for a day, whereas extras make about $100. If you're penny pinching, what would you avoid?

also, small fun fact, the dream is to be an extra plucked from obscurity and given a line to say, which starts a career or whatever.....that almost never happens. usually a co-star that auditioned to say that one line.

source: I've driven 40 minutes to say 1 line many times.