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Rick and Morty Takes Dig at Warner Bros CEO Zaslav's Voting Record

Adult Swim's Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 4: "The Last Temptation of Jerry" included a fun dig at Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.

Amid all of the holiday horror that was on display during this past weekend's episode of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty Season 8, you might've missed a great knife twist that the show's writers worked into S08E04: "The Last Temptation of Jerry" at the expense of their "corporate overlord," Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) CEO David Zaslav. After heading to the Alps during their investigation into the origin of the mutated Easter bunnies (one of which Jerry was slowly turning into after hitting and killing one with his car). "Ah, recent thaw. This altitude should be permafrost," Rick says to Morty at one point during their dimension-hopping travels. "God, I do not wanna say 'climate change' on this show. I don't know which way Zaslav voted."

For those of you who don't know, Zaslav became the poster child for all of the bad things during and stemming from "The Great Streaming Wars," including slashing budgets, firing people, and killing films and series for the sake of tax write-offs. In addition, there have always been rumblings about where Zaslav's political leaning lie and that he may be more pro-Trump than he's willing to show in public. When HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher host Bill Maher visited The White House to have dinner with Trump, there were rumblings that Maher was an unofficial "ambassador" to make nice with Trump and make things smoother for WBD.

Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 5: "Cryo Mort a Rickver" Preview

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Season 8 Spotlights Post-Rick Prime Fallout: Dan Harmon & Scott Marder

While we know writing this will usually lead to some not-so-friendly reactions, the seventh season of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty was the best season from top to bottom of the Emmy Award-winning series' run so far. Just to be clear, that's absolutely not meant to disrespect previous seasons and episodes. It's just that Season 7 found that perfect balance between canon & overarching mythology adventures and standalone efforts while keeping the humor and heartbreak hitting hard. In the midst of all that, Rick (with some serious help from Morty and Evil Morty) finally slayed his "Moby Dick" in Rick Prime. So… what now? Even though there were several episodes after "Unmortricken," Harmon and Marder shared with Forbes how Rick, Morty, Beth, Jerry, Summer, and Space Beth will still be processing where things go from her in a post-Rick Prime world.

"We're hyper-aware of the choices we've made, and we see people dealing with the ramifications of that," Marder shared. "I'd say Season 8 is putting a little bit of a spotlight on Rick and the Beths. [Rick is] figuring out how to be in their lives for real, now that he's not in their lives to covertly kill Rick Prime." Harmon added, "If there's a theme to Season 8 … it might be that people are running out of other people to blame for what's happening to them. And that comes with a whole new challenge. Rick solved this supposed problem with his fists, but then that trickles down to everybody. [For example], Morty doesn't have the crutch anymore of claiming that his grandpa is dragging him everywhere against his will, and Rick doesn't have the crutch of saying, 'You guys don't matter.' Jerry and Beth have long since stopped blaming each other for the lack of fulfillment in their careers and things. The stories in Season 8 continue that theme in a linear way."

Adult Swim's Rick and Morty is back for Season Eight! Life has meaning again! Anything is possible! Look out for adventures with Summer, Jerry, Beth, and the other Beth. Maybe Butter Bot will get a new task? Whatever happens, you can't keep Rick and Morty down for long. People have tried!

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