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Rick and Morty
Genre
Animated sitcom
Science fiction
Dark comedy
Created by
Justin Roiland
Dan Harmon
Voices of
Justin Roiland
Chris Parnell
Spencer Grammer
Sarah Chalke
Composer(s)
Ryan Elder
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
3
No. of episodes
31 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Dan Harmon
Justin Roiland
James A. Fino (seasons 1–2)
Joe Russo II (seasons 1–2)
Producer(s)
J. Michael Mendel
Kenny Micka (pilot)
Running time
22 minutes
Production company(s)
Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions
Harmonious Claptrap
Starburns Industries (seasons 1–2)
Williams Street
Distributor
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network
Adult Swim
Picture format
1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Original release
December 2, 2013 (2013-12-02) – present
External links
Website
www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/
Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science-fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of cynical mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his fretful, easily influenced grandson Morty Smith, who split their time between domestic life and interdimensional adventures. The series premiered on December 2, 2013, and the third season concluded on October 1, 2017. A fourth season has been mentioned, first by Harmon in a September 2017 interview, and later in the post-credits scene of the third season's finale.
Roiland voices the eponymous characters, with Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke voicing the rest of the family. The series originated from an animated short parody film of Back to the Future, The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, created by Roiland for Channel 101, a short film festival co-founded by Harmon. When Adult Swim approached Harmon for television show ideas, he and Roiland decided to develop a program based on the short. The series has received universal acclaim for its originality, creativity and humor.
Contents
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1 Premise
2 Production
2.1 Development
2.2 Writing
2.3 Animation and voice recording
2.4 Future
3 Themes and analysis
4 Home media
5 Reception
5.1 Critical reception
5.2 Awards and nominations
6 Impact on popular culture
7 Other media and products
7.1 Comics
7.2 Video games
7.3 Tabletop games
7.4 Other
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Premise
See also: List of Rick and Morty characters
File:Rick and Morty characters.jpg
The members of the Smith household. From the left: Jerry Smith, Beth Smith, Summer Smith, Morty Smith and Rick Sanchez.
The show revolves around the adventures of the members of the Smith household, which consists of parents Jerry and Beth, their kids Summer and Morty, and Beth's father, Rick Sanchez, who lives with them as a guest. According to Justin Roiland, the family lives outside of Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington.[1] The adventures of Rick and Morty, however, take place across an infinite number of realities, with the characters travelling to other planets and dimensions through portals and Rick's flying car.
Rick is an eccentric and alcoholic mad scientist, who eschews many ordinary conventions such as school, marriage, love, and family. He frequently goes on adventures with his 14-year-old grandson, Morty, a kind but easily distressed boy, whose naive but grounded moral compass plays counterpoint to Rick's Machiavellian ego. Morty's 17-year-old sister, Summer, is a more conventional teenager, who worries about improving her status among her peers and sometimes follows Rick and Morty on their adventures. The kids' mother, Beth, is a generally level-headed person and assertive force in the household, though self-conscious about her professional role as a horse doctor. She is dissatisfied with her marriage with Jerry, a simple-minded and insecure person, who disapproves of Rick's influence over his family.
Different versions of the characters inhabit other dimensions throughout the multiverse and their personal characteristics can vary from one reality to another. The show's original Rick identifies himself as "Rick Sanchez of Earth Dimension C-137", in reference to his original universe, but this doesn't necessarily apply to every other member of the Smith household. For instance, in the first-season episode "Rick Potion #9", after turning the entire world population into monsters, Rick and Morty move to a different dimension, leaving Summer, Beth and Jerry behind.
Production
Development
Creators Dan Harmon (left) and Justin Roiland
Rick and Morty was created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. The duo first met at Channel 101, a non-profit monthly short film festival in Los Angeles co-founded by Harmon.[2] At Channel 101, participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot, and a live audience decides which pilots continue as a series. Roiland, then a producer on reality programming, began submitting content to the festival a year after its launch, in 2004. His pilots typically consisted of shock value—"sick and twisted" elements that received a confused reaction from the audience.[2] Nevertheless, Harmon took a liking to his humor and the two began collaborating. In 2006, Roiland was fired from working on a television series he regarded as intensely creatively stifling, and funneled his creative energies into creating a webisode for Channel 101. The result was The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, an animated short starring parodies of Doc Brown and Marty McFly, characters from the Back to the Future film trilogy.[3] In the short, which Harmon would dub "a bastardization, a pornographic vandalization", Doc Smith urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex.[4] The audience reacted to it wildly, and Roiland began creating more shorts involving the characters, which soon evolved beyond his original intentions and their obvious origin within the film from which it was culled.[4][5] Harmon would later create and produce Community, an NBC sitcom, while Roiland would work primarily in voice acting for Disney's Fish Hooks and Cartoon Network's Adventure Time.
In 2012, Harmon was briefly fired from Community. Adult Swim, searching for a more prime-time, "hit" show,[6] approached Harmon shortly afterward, who initially viewed the channel as unfit for his style. He also was unfamiliar with animation, and his process for creating television focuses more heavily on dialogue, characters, and story.[5] Instead, he phoned Roiland to inquire if he had any ideas for an animated series. Roiland immediately brought up the idea of using the Doc and Mharti characters, renamed Rick and Morty.[4] Roiland initially wanted the show's run time to consist of one eleven-minute segment, but Adult Swim pushed for a half-hour program.[6] Harmon felt the best way to extend the voices into a program would be to build a family around the characters, while Adult Swim development executive Nick Weidenfeld suggested that Rick be Morty's grandfather. Having pitched multiple television programs that did not get off the ground, Roiland was initially very unreceptive to others attempting to give notes on his pitch.[4] Prior to developing Rick and Morty, he had created three failed animated pilots for Fox, and he had begun to feel "burned out" with developing television.[5]
The first draft was completed in six hours on the Paramount Pictures lot in Dan Harmon's unfurnished Community office.[7] The duo had broken the story that day, sold the pilot, and then sat down to write.[5][8] Roiland, while acknowledging a tendency for procrastination, encouraged Harmon to stay and write the entire first draft.[7] "We were sitting on the floor, cross-legged with laptops and I was about to get up and go home and he said, 'Wait, if you go home, it might take us three months to write this thing. Stay here right now and we can write it in six hours.' He just had a premonition about that," recalled Harmon.[5] Adult Swim was initially unsure of Roiland doing both voices, partially due to the undeveloped nature of the character of Morty. Harmon wrote four short premises in which Morty took a more assertive role and sent it to Mike Lazzo.[7] Adult Swim placed a tamer TV-14 rating on the program, which initially was met with reluctance from the show's staff. The network's reason behind the rating was that it would soon begin broadcasting in prime-time, competing with major programs.[5]
The main theme for Rick and Morty by Ryan Elder was originally used in a rejected Cartoon Network pilot Roiland made called "Dog World", which was referenced in the episode "Lawnmower Dog".[9]
Writing
The general formula of Rick and Morty consists of the juxtaposition of two conflicting scenarios: an extremely selfish, alcoholic grandfather dragging his grandson along for intergalactic and/or interdimensional adventures, intercut with domestic family drama.[4][6] This has led Harmon to describe the series as a cross between Matt Groening's two shows The Simpsons and Futurama, balancing family life with heavy science fiction.[10] The series is inspired by British-style storytelling, as opposed to traditional American family TV stories.[2] Roiland has stated his and Harmon's intentions for the series to lack traditional continuity, opting for discontinuous storylines "not bound by rules".[11] In producing the series' first season, episodes were occasionally written out of order. For example, "Rick Potion #9" was the second episode written for the series, but was instructed to be animated as the fifth, as it would make more sense within the series' continuity.[2]
Many episodes are structured with use of a story circle, a Harmon creation based largely on Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or The Hero's Journey. Its two-act structure places the act break at an odd location in the stages of the monomyth: after The Meeting with the Goddess, instead of Atonement with the Father.[7] Harmon has stated that his inspiration behind much of the concept and humor for the series comes from various British television series, such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who. He figures that the audience will only understand developments from Morty's point of view, but stated "we don't want to be the companions. We want to hang out with the Doctor, we idolize the Doctor, but we don't think like him, and that's really interesting, Rick is diseased, he's mentally ill, he's an absolute lunatic because he lives on this larger scale."[12]
Harmon has noted that the writers room at the show's studio bears a striking resemblance to the one used for Community.[5] In comparing the two, he noted that the writing staff of Rick and Morty was significantly smaller, and more "rough and tumble verbally".[5] The first season writing staff consisted of Roiland, Harmon, Tom Kauffman, Ryan Ridley, Wade Randolph, and Eric Acosta, while writer's assistant Mike McMahan was also given writing credit. Described as a "very, very tiny little writers' room with a lot of heavy lifting from everybody," the show's writing staff, like many Adult Swim productions, is not unionized with the Writers' Guild of America.[10] The writing staff first meets and discusses ideas, which evolve into a story.[2] Discussions often include anecdotes from personal life as well as thoughts on the science fiction genre.[5] After breaking the story—which consists of developing its consistency and logical beginning, middle, and conclusion—a writer is assigned to create an outline. Roiland and Harmon do a "pass" on the outline, and from there the episode undergoes several more drafts. The final draft of the script is last approved by either of the co-creators.[2] Harmon has admitted that his perfectionism can some times be disruptive and cause writing schedule delays. For the most part, this was the reason why the third season of the show consisted of only ten episodes instead of fourteen, as was initially intended.[13][14]
Animation and voice recording
Animation for the show is done using Toon Boom Harmony, post-production work is done in Adobe After Effects, and background art is done in Adobe Photoshop.[15] Production of animation is handled by Bardel Entertainment in Canada.[16] Roiland's cartooning style is heavily indebted to The Simpsons, a factor he acknowledged in a 2013 interview, while also comparing his style to that of Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) and J.G. Quintel (Regular Show): "You'll notice mouths are kind of similar and teeth are similar, but I think that's also a stylistic thing that... all of us are kind of the same age, and we're all inspired by The Simpsons and all these other shows we're kind of subconsciously tapping into."[10] John Kricfalusi's The Ren & Stimpy Show was another strong influence for Rick and Morty, which is why, according to Roiland, the small "w-shaped mouths" that the characters occasionally make is a reference to a similar expression that Ren frequently makes.[17] When recording dialogue, Roiland does a considerable amount of improvisation, in order to make the characters feel more natural.[18]
Future
Although there has not been an official renewal announcement by Adult Swim,[19] Dan Harmon talked about the possibility of creating more than ten episodes per season, in a September 2017 interview, where he stated "I’m about to do season 4 of Rick and Morty and want to prove that I’ve grown."[20] On October 1, 2017, similarly to the second-season finale, the animated character Mr. Poopybutthole re-appeared in the post-credits scene of the third-season finale and said that it will be a long wait until the fourth season of the show.[21] Writer Ryan Ridley, in a December 2017 interview with The Detroit Cast,[22] said that he "highly doubts" there will not be a fourth season, but he does not expect it to air any sooner than late 2019.[23] In January 2018, Adult Swim told Variety that "there is no timing to share on premiere or status of production."[24]
Themes and analysis
Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere,
everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV.
“
”
Morty Smith, "Rixty Minutes"
Rick and Morty has been described as "a never-ending fart joke wrapped around a studied look into nihilism."[25] The series addresses the insignificance of human existence as compared to the size of the universe, with no recognizable divine presence, as described by Lovecraft's philosophy of cosmicism. The characters of the show find ways to deal with cosmic horror and existential dread, either by asserting the utility of science over magic or by choosing a life in ignorant bliss.[26][27] Co-creator Dan Harmon, talking about the philosophy guiding the show and Rick's nihilistic apathy, stated that "the knowledge that nothing matters, while accurate, gets you nowhere." To find a sense of purpose and live a better life, one needs to focus on human relationships and experiences, as the other members of the Smith household are trying to do, and not preoccupy our minds with unanswerable questions.[28][29] Other philosophies that have been referenced in the characters' behavior and observations include: existentialism,[30] anarchism,[31] absurdism,[32] and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche.[33]
Home media
The complete first season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 7, 2014,[34] containing uncensored audio tracks.[35] The complete second season was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 7, 2016.[36]
Adult Swim has also made uncensored versions of the show available to purchase on various digital platforms, including iTunes and Amazon, with the digital releases of each season containing bonus material.[37] The digital release of the first season includes the 2013 Rick and Morty Comic-Con panel,[38] the digital release of the second season includes the 2015 ATX Television Festival panel,[39] and the digital release of the third season includes commentary on every episode, as well as seven more short videos featuring co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland.[40]
The first two seasons of the show are available to stream on Hulu. The first season was made available on May 1, 2015,[41] and the second season was made available on June 26, 2016.[42] The show is also available to watch on Netflix, in a number of countries outside the United States, including the United Kingdom.[37] Following the conclusion of the show's third season, Adult Swim has made a livestream marathon of Rick and Morty available to watch on its official website in select regions,[43] hoping to dissuade viewers from watching other illegal livestreams.[44]
Reception
Critical reception
Season
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes
Metacritic
1 100% (5 reviews)[45] 85 (8 reviews)[46]
2 95% (9 reviews)[47] N/A
3 97% (13 reviews)[48] N/A
Rick and Morty has received universal critical acclaim, holding a 97% approval rating by critics on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[49] Additionally, the first season of Rick and Morty holds a Metacritic score of 85 based on eight reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[46] David Weigand of San Francisco Chronicle described it as "offbeat and occasionally coarse... the take-away here is that it works". He praised the animation direction by James McDermott for being "fresh, colorful and as wacky as the script", and states that the series possesses "shades of Futurama, South Park and even Beetlejuice", ultimately opining that its humor felt "entirely original".[50] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times praised the series and stated that it was "Grandparenting at its unhinged finest."[51] Todd Spangler of Variety gave the series a lukewarm review; while he found the series was passable, he contrasted it with other Adult Swim series as "often seems overly reliant on simply being frenetic at the expense of being witty" and enjoyed it as "a welcome attempt to dream just a little bigger".[52] David Sims of The A.V. Club gave the series an "A−". In reviewing the first two episodes, he complimented the animation for its "clean, simple style". He stated that while the series has "a dark, sick sensibility", he praised its "effort to give each character a little bit of depth", further applauding Roiland's voice talent for the eponymous characters.[53] The third season of Rick and Morty was the highest rated comedy show on television with adults, delivering the highest ratings in Adult Swim's history.[54]
Awards and nominations
Year
Award
Category
Nominee(s)
Result
Ref.
2015 Annie Award Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production Rick and Morty Nominated
[55]
2016 Gold Derby Awards Best Animated Series Rick and Morty Nominated
[56]
2017 Teen Choice Awards Choice Animated TV Show Rick and Morty Nominated
[57]
2018 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Animated Series Rick and Morty Pending
[58]
2018 Annie Award Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production Rick and Morty Pending
[59]
Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Ryan Ridley, Dan Guterman Pending
[60]
Impact on popular culture
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On May 17, 2015, the finale of the twenty-sixth season of the animated sitcom, The Simpsons, opened with an elaborate couch gag featuring Rick and Morty, written by Harmon and Roiland.[61] Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, described it as "probably the most ambitious and lengthy couch gag" on The Simpsons to date.[62]
On November 30, 2015, the fast food restaurant chain Carl's Jr. and Hardee's released a television commercial, in which Rick brings several sentient burgers into a sleeping Morty's room. The burgers run amok and steal objects.[63]
On May 13, 2017, in a promotional short film for the 2017 film Alien: Covenant, Rick and Morty land on an Engineer's ship in the Alien dimension in response to a distress signal, wherein a facehugger attaches itself to Rick's face and dies from the toxicity of the drugs and alcohol in Rick's body.[64][65]
On October 7, 2017, McDonald's served Szechuan sauce, months after it was referenced several times in the Season 3 premiere, "The Rickshank Redemption".[66]
Google Assistant is programmed to recognize and reply accordingly to various catchphrases from the show. For example, if the user says "Wubba lubba dub dub", Assistant will reply either "Sorry, I don't speak Birdperson" or "Are you in pain? How can I help?", in reference to the first-season episode "Ricksy Business", where Birdperson explains to Morty that Rick's catchphrase means "I am in great pain, please help me." Another example is the command "Get Schwifty", to which Assistant replies "Ohhhh yeah, you gotta get Schwifty!", which are lyrics from the song "Get Schwifty" that was sung by Rick and Morty in the titular episode of the second season.[67]
Other media and products
Comics
At New York Comic Con 2014, editor-in-chief of Oni Press, James Lucas Jones, announced that a Rick and Morty comic book adaptation would be released in early 2015.[68] On April 1, 2015, the series debuted with its first monthly issue, entitled "BAM!"[69] The series is written by Zac Gorman and illustrated by CJ Cannon.[70] Artist Tom Fowler wrote a multi-issue story arc that began in March, 2016.[71] Using the television series' established premise of alternate timelines, the comic book expressly features the Rick and Morty (and supporting cast) of a different timeline, allowing the comics to tell stories without conflicting with the canon of the show.
Video games
In 2014, Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure, a Flash point-and-click adventure game, was released on the Adult Swim website.[72]
In December 2014, Rick and Morty: Jerry's Game was released for iOS and Android. The game consists of the player popping balloons and air filled condoms endlessly. Characters show up from time to time. The amount of balloons popped is counted and used as currency for unlocking special balloons, backdrops, and features. The game is based on a game Jerry was seen playing in an episode. The game includes micro-transactions.[73]
On August 10, 2015, a Rick and Morty-themed announcer pack was released for the competitive multiplayer video game Dota 2.[74] The announcer pack can be purchased by players and replaces the Default announcer and Mega-Kills announcer with characters from Rick and Morty, voiced by Justin Roiland.
Pocket Mortys is a Pokémon parody game set in the "Rick and Morty Rickstaverse",[75] released on iOS and Android as a free-to-play game from Adult Swim Games, released early on January 13, 2016.[76] Coinciding with the many-worlds interpretation, the game follows versions of Rick and Morty that belong to an alternate timeline, rather than the duo followed in the show. The game uses a style and concept similar to the Pokémon games, with catching various "wild" Mortys, battling them with a variety of Aliens, Ricks, and Jerrys. The game features voice acting from Roiland and Harmon.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, announced on July 15, 2016 and released on April 20, 2017, is a VR game for HTC Vive VR and Oculus Rift developed by Owlchemy Labs, the developers of Job Simulator.[77][78]
Tabletop games
On June 22, 2016, Cryptozoic Entertainment released Total Rickall, a co-operative strategy card game based on the plot of the second-season episode of the same name, where players must determine which characters are real or parasites.[79]
On August 3, 2016, Cryptozoic Entertainment released Mr. Meeseeks' Box o' Fun, a game combining elements of dice games and truth or dare featuring the popular Mr. Meeseeks character from the first-season episode "Meeseeks and Destroy".[80]
On July 12, 2017, Cryptozoic Entertainment released Anatomy Park — The Game,[81] a co-operative tile-placing strategy game based on the plot of the first-season episode of the same name, where players score points by placing park tiles into the best spots within the body.[82]
Other
On May 11, 2017, the Rickmobile, a traveling shop with exclusive merchandise, made its first stop in Atlanta for the Rick and Morty Don't Even Trip Road Trip.[83][84]
See also
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"Good Cop, Bad Cop"
NCIS episode
Gibbs persuades Ziva to recount what happened on the Damocles
Episode no.
Season 7
Episode 4
Directed by
Leslie Libman
Written by
David North and Jesse Stern
Original air date
October 13, 2009 (2009-10-13)
Guest appearance(s)
Erik Palladino as Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Cryer
TJ Ramini as Mossad Officer Malachi Ben-Gidon
Joseph Kamal as Captain Kassib Yosef
Todd Lowe as NCIS Special Agent Chad Dunham
Brett Rickaby as Steve Diamond
Stoney Westmoreland as Larry Diamond
Kwabena Darkwah as First Mate Bahir Numas
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"Good Cop, Bad Cop" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 142nd episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on October 13, 2009. The episode is written by David North and Jesse Stern and directed by Leslie Libman, and was seen live by 21.04 million viewers.[1]
"Good Cop, Bad Cop" is part of a major story arc surrounding Ziva's captivity and torture in Somalia, her rescue, and its aftermath. Described as a "companion piece" to the season premiere,[2] "Truth or Consequences", it reveals the events leading up to her being taken hostage by an Islamic terrorist through a series of flashbacks. The storyline serves as a catalyst for Ziva's choice to resign from Mossad in favor of becoming a full-time NCIS agent, culminating in the events of this episode.
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Plot[edit]
When Ziva's application to become an NCIS agent is denied, Director Vance informs her that, as a result of the discovery of AWOL marine Daniel Cryer's (Erik Palladino) remains off the coast of Tanzania, her account of Mossad's operation to take down Saleem Ulman has been called into question. Cryer supposedly deserted the Marines to become a soldier of fortune and was part of the team that Mossad had sent after Saleem. Ziva is reluctant to discuss the events surrounding her captivity, which become dubious when the Navy salvages Damocles and discovers that the entire crew has been shot dead.[3]
Vance immediately takes Ziva into interrogation and presses her for answers. She protests that there are details she cannot divulge but begins to recount the operation: Cryer, under the name Shalev, negotiated a deal between the Mossad team and a Jordanian captain (Joseph Kamal), allowing the team passage to Somalia and discretion. Ziva later develops a friendship with Cryer.[3][4]
Vance continues to pressure her for more details, but her team leader, Malachi Ben-Gidon (TJ Ramini), appears at NCIS demanding that Ziva return to Mossad's control. Vance agrees on the condition that Malachi debriefs them on the rest of the mission. Malachi relents, telling them that their cover had been blown and they were forced to kill everyone on the ship, with Ziva killing Cryer.[3]
Aware that this would permanently bar Ziva from becoming an NCIS agent, Ducky talks privately to her. He urges her to tell him what happened, and she relents: a shot had been fired, erupting chaos on the ship and leading to the shooutout. Though she had participated in the violence in self-defense, she had attempted to save Cryer by negotiating a truce when he assured her that he did not betray them.[3]
Gibbs, DiNozzo, and Abby, meanwhile, deduce that Malachi is lying; the shooter missed twice at short range before hitting Cryer, illogical for Ziva. Malachi, by contrast, is suffering from an injury to his shoulder sustained in the fight.[3]
Port of Mogadishu, Somalia, where Ziva and Malachi arrived after the shootout on the Damocles
They forge a fake bullet while Ziva is brought back into interrogation. Gibbs confronts Malachi and forces him to face Ziva, who still cannot defend herself beyond denying the accusations. Gibbs informs Malachi that he is aware that the latter is actually responsible for Cryer's death, and it is confirmed through a flashback. He then throws Malachi out of the room, saying Ziva is "off limits". Ziva, in turn, realizes that her former team leader is acting under orders from her father, who opposes her leaving Mossad.[3]
Gibbs encourages Ziva to disclose what happened afterwards, and she reveals that she had gone to Saleem's camp alone to protect the surviving team members, who were both injured. She briefly describes the circumstances of her capture and admits that she did not intend to live through the ordeal.[4] Gibbs gets up, whispers in her ear, and kisses her forehead, causing her to break down in relief.[3]
As the episode ends, Vance approves Ziva's application which results in Ziva becoming an NCIS Special Agent albeit a Probie.[3]
Production[edit]
"Good Cop, Bad Cop" is written by David North and Jesse Stern and directed by Leslie Libman. Flashbacks that are interspersed throughout the episode are set in various locations, including Jordan, the Red Sea, and Somalia.
On October 13, 2009, then-executive producer Shane Brennan discussed the episode's purpose: "We're filling in the blanks. In the audience's mind, we're filling in how she ended up being captured by Saleem, and the audience gets taken on a ride back to her time on the ship. It's a companion piece to the season opener." He added, "It's done in such a way that the audience will be kept guessing as to what happened. It's a very clever, engaging, not-to-be-missed episode...Certainly this episode will help resolve some — I won't say all, but some — of the questions that have been left hanging over the last couple of episodes. Those questions are in the process of being answered, and what you'll have over the next couple of episodes is a resolution of the issues that they've grappled with in the very recent past."[2]
Cote de Pablo discussed the development of her character as well as the storyline's impact:
When you first saw her come in [during season 3], she didn’t really know who these people were. She finds this group of people and makes them her family immediately. And yes, she’s got what I think you could call anger issues. I wouldn’t say she’s gotten away from it. I think right now she’s gotten in touch with a lot of pain. I think she’s been sort of quote-unquote "betrayed", or at least she thinks she’s been betrayed, by something that’s very close to her, which is her family, particularly her father. And it’s a big deal to her. Which would explain her love and relationship with somebody like Leroy Jethro Gibbs...The fact that she becomes a part of this team and the fact that she’s officially an NCIS agent—as opposed to a Mossad liaison officer—is a big deal to her. But nothing really changes as far as the work. Hopefully things can begin to settle as far as her emotional stuff. Hopefully she can start to enjoy things a little bit more and maybe take a breather. But for a person like Ziva who’s been through so much, I feel like it’ll just take a little bit to adjust. In real life, a person that has gone through all that stuff, I don’t think it’s just from night to day. It’s just not gonna change that easily.[5]
Mark Harmon, who portrays Gibbs, added, "She's back—physically back—though there’s quite a ways to travel yet. She's been through a lot, and her loyalty was really being called to the mat here. It doesn't surprise me at all that what [the writers] were doing with Gibbs is making him the last to the table. He perhaps cares the most. This is someone you either trust with your life or you don't, and it's that cut and dried for him. He's a huge fan of hers, but there was no loyalty question with anybody else on his team. What they do and how they trust each other is the most important part of the job."[6]
Both Harmon and de Pablo noted that Gibbs had developed into a father figure for Ziva, a fact that complicated Gibbs' struggle with the issue of her trustworthiness.[5][6]
Reception[edit]
Ratings[edit]
"Good Cop, Bad Cop" was seen live by 21.04 million viewers in the United States, making NCIS the most watched television program on October 14, 2009.[1] It had a 4.5 share among adults aged 18–49, with a share meaning the percentage of television sets in use tuned to the program.[1] The episode attracted 2.473 million viewers in Canada[7] and 1.84 million in Australia.[8]
Critical reviews[edit]
"Good Cop, Bad Cop" received generally positive reviews. Allison Waldman of AOL TV praised several elements, saying, "First of all, let's get this out of the way quickly. This might be the best episode of the season. It was all character with just enough action to keep those who love gunfire happy. But most importantly, it cemented Ziva's place in the world of NCIS (the show and the organization). For that reason alone, this was four stars all the way." She went on to analyze the characters' behaviors: "Ziva has been carrying around the guilt of what happened on the Damocles for weeks. And there was the guilt related to her being captured by Saleem when she was supposed to assassinate him...Alone with Ziva, Gibbs wasn't [good cop or bad cop]. He was Gibbs. Gibbs the mentor, the commanding officer, the surrogate father...He kissed her on the head, like a father. That was when Ziva cried...and smiled."[9]
Glenn Diaz from BuddyTV opinionated, "While the episode featured Gibbs and Vance heavily, it was probably Ducky who did the most significant progress on Ziva."[10] Steve Marsi from TV Fanatic wrote, "For the past two episodes NCIS, while always superb, has felt like it's delaying the inevitable. Ziva was there, yet only in body, not in spirit. Her mind was somewhere else...The 20,000-ton elephant in the room – the cargo ship that brought Ziva to (and went down off) the Horn of Africa, was recovered, as was a dead marine who was on board."[11]
As a result of Eli David's conscious decision to have his daughter set up as a scapegoat for the marine's death, many viewers began to see his treatment of Ziva as abusive and manipulative.[9][12] This was amplified by apparent inaction during Ziva's captivity and torture; though she was assumed dead, it became a common opinion that Eli had left her to die in the desert. The image of Gibbs as a surrogate father figure to Ziva subsequently became widely accepted among viewers.[13]
Viewers speculated about what Gibbs had whispered to Ziva in the final interrogation scene. In response, Harmon said that he had improvised the scene and that, "It's very specific, what was said. And the reaction and the read on Ziva from what is said is specific as well. Now, what I said or what Cote reacted to or how she found what she found for that, she's not gonna tell you any more than I am—I don't think. That’s our secret. And yet it's all about respecting the work and knowing each other well enough to really say, 'Okay, I'll go there with you.'"[6][14]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Robert Seidman (October 20, 2009). "TV Ratings: Yet again Sunday Night Football, House, Grey's win week with adults 18–49; NCIS leads with total viewers". TVbytheNumbers. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Bryant, Adam (October 13, 2009). "NCIS Preview: What Exactly Happened to Ziva?". TV Guide. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h "Good Cop, Bad Cop". NCIS. Season 7. Episode 4. October 13, 2009. CBS.
^ Jump up to: a b "Ziva David Quotes (Page 9)". TV Fanatic. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Willman, Chris (October 23, 2009). "Cote de Pablo Spills Secrets". TV Guide. Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ Jump up to: a b c Willman, Chris (October 24, 2009). "Exclusive: Mark Harmon Tells All". TV Guide. Missing or empty |url= (help)
Jump up ^ "Top Programs – Total Canada (English) October 12 – October 18, 2009" (PDF) (Press release). BBM Canada. October 23, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 28, 2012. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Week 43" (PDF). ThinkTV. October 24, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Waldman, Allison (October 14, 2009). "NCIS: Good Cop, Bad Cop". AOL TV. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
Jump up ^ Diaz, Glenn (October 14, 2009). "'NCIS' Recap: 'Good Cop, Bad Cop' – Toothpicks, High-Five's, and Another Dead Marine". BuddyTV. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
Jump up ^ Marsi, Steve (October 14, 2009). "NCIS Recap: "Good Cop, Bad Cop"". TV Fanatic. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
Jump up ^ Jackman, Jacky (February 18, 2010). "'NCIS' Fan Columnist: Ziva David is a Killer". BuddyTV. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
Jump up ^ Marsi, Steve (November 24, 2010). "NCIS Review: "Enemies Domestic"". TV Fanatic. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
Jump up ^ Marsi, Steve (October 27, 2009). "Mark Harmon Breaks Down Gibbs, Ziva and the Future of NCIS". TV Fanatic. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
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Fonzie on water skis, in a scene from the Happy Days episode "Hollywood, Part 3", after jumping over a shark
Jumping the shark is crossing the point where something that was once popular no longer warrants the attention it has previously received, particularly when attempts at publicity only serve to highlight its irrelevance. This is especially applicable to television series or other entertainment outlets.[1]
The idiom "jumping the shark" is pejorative, most commonly used in reference to unsuccessful gimmicks for promoting something. It is similar to "past its peak" but more specifically suggests an unwillingness to acknowledge the failing. Originally the phrase was used to describe an episode of a television comedy with a gimmick or unlikely occurrence desperately attempting to keep viewers' interest. Moments labelled as "jumping the shark" are considered indications that writers have exhausted their focus; that the show has strayed irretrievably from an older and better formula; or that the series as a whole is declining in quality.
Popularized by radio personality Jon Hein in the 1990s and early 2000s, the phrase derives from a scene in a fifth-season episode of the sitcom Happy Days in which the character Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis.[2][3][4] This was deemed a ratings ploy, for it was outside the original thrust of the sitcom.
The usage of "jump the shark" has subsequently broadened beyond television, indicating the moment when a brand, design, franchise, or creative effort's evolution declines, or when it changes notably in style into something unwelcome.
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1 History
2 Broader usage
2.1 Examples
3 Nuke the fridge
4 References
History[edit]
The phrase jump the shark is based on a scene in the fifth season premiere episode of the American TV series Happy Days titled "Hollywood: Part 3," written by Fred Fox, Jr.,[5] which aired on September 20, 1977. In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie (Henry Winkler) answers a challenge to his bravery by wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, and jumping over a confined shark. The stunt was created as a way to showcase Winkler's real-life water ski skills.[6] However, the scene also was criticized[who?] as betraying Fonzie's character development, since in an earlier landmark episode, Fonzie jumped his motorcycle over fourteen barrels in a televised stunt; the stunt left Fonzie seriously injured, and he confessed that he was stupid to have taken such a dangerous risk just to prove his courage.
For a show that in its early seasons depicted universally relatable adolescent and family experiences against a backdrop of 1950s nostalgia, this incident marked a thematic change. The lionization of an increasingly superhuman Fonzie, who was initially a supporting character in the series, became the focus of Happy Days. The series continued for seven years after Fonzie's shark-jumping stunt, with a number of changes in cast and situations.[7][unreliable source?]
On Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Ron Howard talked about the first time the phrase was used by Happy Days co-star Donny Most: “Donny’s reading it and he kinda looks down, then says ‘what do you think of the script?’ and I shrugged and replied ‘people like the show, it’s hard to argue with being number one’ and he looked up and said, ‘he’s jumping a shark now?’. That was the first time I saw that phrase bracketed, before it was even done, you’ve got to give props to Donny Most.”[8]
The phrase "jumping the shark" was coined in 1985 by Jon Hein's roommate at the University of Michigan, Sean Connolly, when they were talking about favorite television shows that had gone downhill, and the two began identifying other shows where a similar "jump the shark" moment had occurred.[9][10] Hein described the term as "A defining moment when you know from now on … it's all downhill … it will never be the same."[5] In 1997, Hein created a website to publish his current list of approximately 200 television shows and his opinions of the moments each "jumped the shark"; the site became popular and grew with additional user-contributed examples.[5] Hein subsequently authored two "Jump The Shark" books and later became a regular on The Howard Stern Show around the time he sold his website to Gemstar (owners of TV Guide).
In a 2010 Los Angeles Times article, former Happy Days writer Fred Fox, Jr., who wrote the episode that later spawned the phrase, said, "Was the [shark jump] episode of Happy Days deserving of its fate? No, it wasn't. All successful shows eventually start to decline, but this was not Happy Days' time." Fox also points not only to the success of that episode ("a huge hit" with over 30 million viewers), but also to the continued popularity of the series.[5]
Fonzie was not the first character to jump a shark. In the P. G. Wodehouse 1922 novel Right Ho, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster's cousin Angela jumps a shark while water-skiing on the French Riviera. The event did not become a cultural reference, but was a major plot point in the novel, leading to, among other things, a broken engagement, a hunger strike and many midnight assignations in the garden.[11]
Broader usage[edit]
The idiom has been used to describe a wide variety of situations, such as the state of advertising in the digital video recorder era[12] and views on rural education policy,[13] the anomalous pursuit of a company acquisition,[14] and the decline of republics into degraded democracy and empire.[15]
Examples[edit]
Automotive journalist Dan Neil used the expression to describe the Mini Countryman, a much larger evolution of the previously small cars marketed by Mini. In March 2011, in a review titled "What Part of 'Mini' Did You Not Grasp, BMW?". Neil said the bigger car abandoned the company's design ethos and that "with the Countryman, tiny sharks have been jumped".[16]
Similar to the example above, automotive blog The Truth About Cars used the expression in a 2010 retrospective piece to describe the Cadillac Cimarron, a rebadged Chevrolet Cavalier the Cadillac luxury car division sold in the 1980s that ended up being a commercial failure which did major damage to the brand's image; "Yes, as if there was ever any doubt, GM truly jumped the shark with the Cimarron, and it led the way for what was GM’s most disastrous decade ever, the eighties. Only GM could have such utterly outsized hubris to think it could get away with dressing up a Cavalier and pawning it off as a BMW-fighter, without even touching the engine, among other sins."[17]
In September 2011, after Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann repeated an anecdote shared with her claiming that the HPV vaccine causes "intellectual disability", radio commentator Rush Limbaugh said, "Michele Bachmann, she might have blown it today. Well, not blown it – she might have jumped the shark today."[18]
In August 2014, the City Manager of Black Rock City, Nevada described Burning Man, an annual event at nearby Black Rock Desert, as having "jumped the shark", when the 2014 event – which had been previously noted for core values of radical self-expression and self-reliance – featured incongruously posh VIP lounges, cell phone towers, private jets, and "glamping".[19]
Nuke the fridge[edit]
In 2008, Time magazine identified a term modeled after "jump the shark": "nuke the fridge". Specifically applicable to film, the magazine defined the term: "to exhaust a Hollywood franchise with disappointing sequels".[20]
The phrase derives from a scene in the fourth Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which Indiana Jones survives an atomic bomb detonation by fitting himself into a lead-lined refrigerator. The explosion annihilates its surroundings but sends the refrigerator flying sufficiently distant for the protagonist to escape unhurt.[21] The scene was criticized scientifically.[22]
Within two days of the film's premiere, the phrase "nuke the fridge" had gone viral, describing film scenes that similarly stretched credulity.[23] Director Steven Spielberg later said the scene was "my silly idea" and was glad to have been part of the pop-culture phrase,[24] while the film's executive producer George Lucas took similar credit believing that Jones would have had an even chance of surviving the blast.[21]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Lenderman, Max. Experience the Message: How Experiential Marketing Is Changing the Brand World. p. 267. ISBN 9781551991696.
Lubans Jr., John (2010). "Leading from the Middle," and Other Contrarian Essays on Library Leadership. Libraries Unlimited. p. 76.
Perlow, Bob; Cummins, Richard John (2016). The Warmup Guy. Random House. p. 30. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Jump up ^ Hornaday, Ann (July 25, 2003). "A Few Pixels Short of a Personality". Washington Post. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
Jump up ^ Hollows, Joanne; Moseley, Rachel (2006). Feminism in Popular Culture. Berg Publishers. ISBN 1845202236.
Jump up ^ McFedries, Paul (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins. Alpha Books. ISBN 1592577814.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Fox, Jr., Fred (September 3, 2010). "First Person: In defense of 'Happy Days' 'Jump the Shark' episode". Los Angeles Times.
Jump up ^ Stanhope, Kate (September 3, 2010). "Happy Days Writer Defends 'Jump the Shark' Moment". TV Guide.
Jump up ^ TV Tropes: Jumping the Shark
Jump up ^ "Episode 754 - Ron Howard". 2016-10-28.
Jump up ^ "When TV Shows Go an Episode Too Far". Good Morning America. ABC News. June 18, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ Hutchins, Chris (March 20, 2002). "When shows `jumped the shark' they lost their bite". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
Jump up ^ Wodehouse, P.G. (2011). Right Ho, Jeeves (Reprint ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.
Jump up ^ Lenderman, Max (2009). Experience the Message. Basic Books. p. 275. ISBN 9780786734856.
Jump up ^ Arnold, Michael L. (2005). "Jump the Shark: A Rejoinder to Howley, Theobald, and Howley" (PDF). Journal of Research in Rural Education. Center on Rural Education and Communities. 20 (20).
Jump up ^ Sipley, Richard (2010). Market Indicators: The Best-Kept Secret to More Effective Trading and Investing. John Wiley & Sons. p. 142. ISBN 9780470883433.
Jump up ^ "'Live at Wiseacres: America Has Jumped the Shark' videotaped performance By Doug Stanhope". YouTube.com. July 31, 2008 [uploaded].
Jump up ^ Neil, Dan (March 4, 2011). "What Part of 'Mini' Did You Not Grasp, BMW?". The Wall Street Journal.
Jump up ^ Paul Niedermeyer. "Curbside Classic: GM's Deadly Sin #10 – Cadillac Cimarron – The Truth About Cars". The Truth About Cars.
Jump up ^ Adams, Richard (September 14, 2011). "Michele Bachmann, the HPV vaccine and the Republican landscape". The Guardian.
Jump up ^ Buhr, Sarah (August 28, 2014). "Burning Man Founders Admit The Festival Has Jumped The Shark But That's Okay". TechCrunch.
Jump up ^ Cloud, John (November 3, 2008). "Top 10 Buzzwords - The Top 10 Everything of 2008". Time. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b Curtis, Bryan (January 22, 2012). "George Lucas Is Ready to Roll the Credits". New York Times. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ Locker, Melissa (November 28, 2012). "Indiana Jones' 'Nuke the Fridge' Plot Is, Shockingly, Scientifically Impossible". Time. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
Jump up ^ ""Jump the Shark," Meet "Nuke the Fridge"". Newsweek. June 28, 2008.
Jump up ^ O'Hara, Helen (October 26, 2011). "Spielberg: More Indy & Jurassic Park?". Empire. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
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Lakshwadweep — Kavaratti
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This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
C
► Chandigarh (18 C, 7 P)
D
► Daman, Daman and Diu (3 P)
K
► Kavaratti (1 P)
N
► New Delhi (6 C, 85 P)
P
► Pondicherry (city) (3 C, 3 P)
► Port Blair (1 C, 12 P)
S
► Silvassa (1 C, 2 P)
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Chandigarh
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Daman, Daman and Diu
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Kavaratti
N
New Delhi
P
Pondicherry
Port Blair
S
Silvassa
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