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Cumulonimbus cloud
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Cumulonimbus Cloud
Cumulonimbus'
Abbreviation
Cb
Symbol
Genus
Cumulonimbus (heaped, rain)
Altitude
460–7,620–12,190 m
(1,500 – 25,000-65,000 ft)
Appearance
Very tall and large clouds
Precipitation cloud?
Yes, often intense
Cumulonimbus, from the Latin cumulus ("heaped") and nimbus ("rainstorm"), is a dense, towering vertical cloud[1], forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed during a storm, these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads. Cumulonimbus can form alone, in clusters, or along cold front squall lines. These clouds are capable of producing lightning and other dangerous severe weather, such as tornadoes. Cumulonimbus progress from overdeveloped cumulus congestus clouds and may further develop as part of a supercell. Cumulonimbus is abbreviated Cb.
Contents
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1 Appearance
1.1 Species
1.2 Supplementary features
1.2.1 Accessory clouds
1.2.2 Supplementary features
1.2.3 Precipitation-based supplementary features
2 Effects
3 Life cycle or stages
4 Cloud types
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Appearance[edit]
Towering cumulonimbus clouds are typically accompanied by smaller cumulus clouds. The cumulonimbus base may extend several miles across and occupy low to middle altitudes - formed at altitude from approximately 200 to 4,000 m (700 to 10,000 ft). Peaks typically reach to as much as 40,000 ft (12,000 m), with extreme instances as high as 70,000 ft (21,000 m) or more.[2] Well-developed cumulonimbus clouds are characterized by a flat, anvil-like top (anvil dome), caused by wind shear or inversion near the tropopause. The shelf of the anvil may precede the main cloud's vertical component for many miles, and be accompanied by lightning. Occasionally, rising air parcels surpass the equilibrium level (due to momentum) and form an overshooting top culminating at the maximum parcel level. When vertically developed, this largest of all clouds usually extends through all three cloud regions. Even the smallest cumulonimbus cloud dwarfs its neighbors in comparison.
Species[edit]
cumulonimbus calvus: cloud with puffy top, similar to cumulus congestus which it develops from; under the correct conditions it can become a cumulonimbus capillatus.
cumulonimbus capillatus : cloud with cirrus-like, fibrous-edged top.[3]
Cumulonimbus calvus
A clearly developed cumulonimbus fibrous-edged top capillatus
Anvil-topped incus
Supplementary features[edit]
Accessory clouds[edit]
Arcus (including roll and shelf clouds): low, horizontal cloud formation associated with the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow.[4]
Pannus: accompanied by a lower layer of fractus species cloud forming in precipitation.[5]
Pileus (species calvus only): small cap-like cloud over parent cumulonimbus.
Velum: a thin horizontal sheet that forms around the middle of a cumulonimbus.[6]
Supplementary features[edit]
Incus (species capillatus only): cumulonimbus with flat anvil-like cirriform top caused by wind shear where the rising air currents hit the inversion layer at the tropopause.[7]
Mamma or mammatus: consisting of bubble-like protrusions on the underside.
Tuba: column hanging from the cloud base which can develop into a funnel cloud or tornado. They are known to drop very low, sometimes just 20 feet (6 m) above ground level.[6]
Flanking line is a line of small cumulonimbus or cumulus generally associated with severe thunderstorms.
Precipitation-based supplementary features[edit]
Rain: precipitation that reaches the ground as liquid, often in a precipitation shaft.[8]
Virga: precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground.[6]
Arcus cloud (shelf cloud) leading a thunderstorm
Mammatocumulus with drooping pouches
A cap (pileus) atop a calvus
A funnel cloud (tuba) over the Netherlands
Incus with a velum edge
Cumulonimbus calvus against sunlight with rain falling beneath it as a rain shaft (praecipatio)
Rain evaporating before reaching the ground (virga)
Picture of a Cumulonimbus Calvus cloud over Zambales Mountains, taken from Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway
As seen in the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, seen by a Space Shuttle (Mission STS-43).
Picture of a Cumulonimbus capillatus cloud over Africa displaying an overshooting top, taken from the International Space Station
Flanking line in front of a strong thunderstorm
Effects[edit]
See also: Severe weather, Thunderstorm, and Tornado
Cumulonimbus storm cells can produce torrential rain of a convective nature (often in the form of a rain shaft) and flash flooding, as well as straight-line winds. Most storm cells die after about 20 minutes, when the precipitation causes more downdraft than updraft, causing the energy to dissipate. If there is enough solar energy in the atmosphere, however (on a hot summer's day, for example), the moisture from one storm cell can evaporate rapidly—resulting in a new cell forming just a few miles from the former one. This can cause thunderstorms to last for several hours. Cumulonimbus clouds can also bring dangerous winter storms (called "blizzards") which bring lightning, thunder, and torrential snow. However, cumulonimbus clouds are most common in tropical regions.[9]
Life cycle or stages[edit]
In general, cumulonimbus require moisture, an unstable air mass, and a lifting force (heat) in order to form. Cumulonimbus typically go through three stages: the developing stage, the mature stage (where the main cloud may reach supercell status in favorable conditions), and the dissipation stage.[10] The average thunderstorm has a 24 km (15 mi) diameter. Depending on the conditions present in the atmosphere, these three stages take an average of 30 minutes to go through.[11]
Stages of a cumulonimbus cloud's life.
Towering vertical cumulonimbus capillatus with anvil-shaped incus supplementary feature. High layer of cirrus spissatus near top of image.
Cloud types[edit]
Main article: List of cloud types
Clouds form when the dewpoint of water is reached in the presence of condensation nuclei in the troposphere. The atmosphere is a dynamic system, and the local conditions of turbulence, uplift and other parameters give rise to many types of clouds. Various types of cloud occur frequently enough to have been categorized. Furthermore, some atmospheric processes can make the clouds organize in distinct patterns such as wave clouds or actinoform clouds. These are large-scale structures and are not always readily identifiable from a single point of view.
See also[edit]
weather portal
Atmospheric convection
Atmospheric thermodynamics
Convective instability
Hot tower
Pyrocumulonimbus
William Rankin
References[edit]
Jump up ^ World Meteorological Organization, ed. (1975). Cumulonimbus, International Cloud Atlas (PDF). I. pp. 48–50. ISBN 92-63-10407-7. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
Jump up ^ Haby, Jeff. "Factors Influencing Thunderstorm Height". theweatherprediction.com. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
Jump up ^ World Meteorological Organization, ed. (1975). Species, International Cloud Atlas (PDF). I. pp. 17–20. ISBN 92-63-10407-7. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Ludlum, David McWilliams (2000). National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 473. ISBN 0-679-40851-7. OCLC 56559729.
Jump up ^ Allaby, Michael, ed. (2010). "Pannus". A Dictionary of Ecology (4 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199567669.
^ Jump up to: a b c World Meteorological Organization, ed. (1975). Features, International Cloud Atlas (PDF). I. pp. 22–24. ISBN 92-63-10407-7. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
Jump up ^ "Cumulonimbus Incus". Universities Space Research Association. 5 August 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
Jump up ^ Dunlop, Storm (2003). The Weather Identification Handbook. The Lyons Press. pp. 77–78. ISBN 1585748579.
Jump up ^ "Flying through 'Thunderstorm Alley'".
Jump up ^ Michael H. Mogil (2007). Extreme Weather. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publisher. pp. 210–211. ISBN 978-1-57912-743-5.
Jump up ^ National Severe Storms Laboratory (15 October 2006). "A Severe Weather Primer: Questions and Answers about Thunderstorms". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cumulonimbus clouds.
Clouds-Online.com Cloud Atlas with many photos and description of the different cloud genera
MetOffice.gov.uk Learn about thunderstorms and how cumulonimbus clouds form
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Cloud genera and selected species, supplementary features, and other airborne hydrometeors - WMO Latin terminology except where indicated
Extreme-level
Polar mesospheric cirriform type
Noctilucent
Very high-level
Polar stratospheric cirriform type
Nacreous
High-level
Tropospheric cirriform, stratiform, and stratocumuliform genera
Cirrus (Ci)
Cirrostratus (Cs)
Cirrocumulus (Cc)
General type (non-WMO terminology)
Aviaticus cloud (Contrail)
Medium-level
Tropospheric stratiform and stratocumuliform genera
Altostratus (As)
Altocumulus (Ac)
Stratocumuliform species
Altocumulus castellanus (Ac cas)
Low-level
Tropospheric stratiform, stratocumuliform and cumuliform genera
Stratus (St)
Stratocumulus (Sc)
Cumulus (Cu)
Horseshoe
Stratiform and cumuliform species
Fractus
Cumulus humilis (Cu hum)
Stratocumulus variants (non-WMO terminology)
Actinoform cloud
Asperitas
Moderate vertical
Tropospheric stratiform and cumuliform genera
Nimbostratus (Ns)
Cumulus (Cu)
Cumuliform species
Cumulus mediocris (Cu med)
Cumuliform supplementary features
Cumulus Pileus
Cumulus Volutus
Towering vertical
Tropospheric cumulonimbiform genus
Cumulonimbus (Cb)
Cumuliform species
Cumulus congestus (ICAO term Towering cumulus [Tcu])
Cumuliform and cumulonimbiform supplementary features
mamma
Tuba (Funnel cloud)
Pileus
Arcus (Shelf)
Cumuliform and cumulonimbiform variants (non-WMO terminology)
Wall cloud
Cumulonimbuus Overshooting top
Hot tower
Surface based
General type
Fog
Non-height specific
General types
Accessory cloud
Kelvin–Helmholtz cloud
Special
Special modifiers
Flammagenitus (cloud)
Homogenitus (cloud)
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Rick and Morty (season 3)
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Rick and Morty (season 3)
Promotional poster
Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
10
Release
Original network
Adult Swim
Original release
April 1 (2017-04-01)[a] – October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)
Season chronology
← Previous
Season 2
List of Rick and Morty episodes
The third season of the animated television series Rick and Morty originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered with "The Rickshank Rickdemption", which aired unannounced on April 1, 2017 as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools' prank.[1] The remaining episodes began airing weekly four months later, on July 30, 2017. The season concluded on October 1, 2017 and consisted of ten episodes.
Contents
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1 Cast and characters
1.1 Main cast
1.2 Guest cast
1.3 Other cast members
2 Episodes
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Notes
6 References
Cast and characters[edit]
See also: List of Rick and Morty characters
The actors and actresses listed below lend their voices to the corresponding animated characters.
Main cast[edit]
Justin Roiland as Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith, the two main characters of the show; Rick is an eccentric mad scientist and Morty is his kind but easily distressed grandson.[2]
Chris Parnell as Jerry Smith, Rick's son-in-law and Morty's father; a simple-minded and insecure person, who disapproves of Rick's influence over his family.[2]
Spencer Grammer as Summer Smith, Rick's granddaughter and Morty's sister; a conventional teenager who worries about improving her status among her peers.[2]
Sarah Chalke as Beth Smith, Rick's daughter and Morty's mother; a generally level-headed person, who is dissatisfied with her marriage.[2]
Guest cast[edit]
Nathan Fillion as Cornvelious Daniel, a galactic federation agent.[3]
Tony Hale as Eli, Summer's neighbor in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth.[4]
Joel McHale as Hemorrhage, the leader of the post-apocalyptic scavenger group Death Stalkers.[4]
Susan Sarandon as Dr. Wong, a family therapist.[5]
Danny Trejo as Jaguar, a human held prisoner by foreign government agents.[5]
Peter Serafinowicz as a foreign government agency director.[5]
Christian Slater as Vance Maximus Renegade Star Soldier, the leader of the superhero group The Vindicators.[6]
Gillian Jacobs as Supernova, a member of The Vindicators.[6]
Logic (Bobby Hall) as himself, a performer at a party.[6]
Lance Reddick as Alan Rails, a member of The Vindicators.[6]
Thomas Middleditch as King Tommy, a childhood friend of Beth.[7]
Keith David as President of the United States.[8]
Other cast members[edit]
Other cast members of the season, who each have voiced one or more characters, include: Dan Harmon, Brandon Johnson, Tom Kenny, Maurice LaMarche, Nolan North, Cassie Steele, Kari Wahlgren, Laura Bailey, John DiMaggio, Ryan Ridley, Scott Chernoff, Dan Benson, Clancy Brown, Echo Kellum, Melique Berger, William Holmes, Tara Strong, Jeff B. Davis, Jonas Briedis, Phil Hendrie, Rob Paulsen, Alex Jayne Go, Jennifer Hale and Mariana Wise.
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of Rick and Morty episodes
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overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)
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1 "The Rickshank Rickdemption" Juan Meza-León Mike McMahan April 1, 2017 (2017-04-01) 0.68[9][b]
Rick is interrogated via a mind-computer link, inside a galactic federal prison. Summer and Morty attempt to rescue him, but they are captured by SEAL Team Ricks, who take them to the Citadel of Ricks and decide to assassinate Rick. Back at the prison, Rick tricks both the federal agents and his aspiring assassins by switching bodies with them. He then teleports the entire Citadel into the federal prison, prompting a massive battle. Amid the confusion, Rick rescues Morty and Summer and uses the Galactic Federation's mainframe to make its currency worthless. The Federation falls into chaos and collapses as a result, with the aliens leaving Earth. Rick, Morty, and Summer return home, where Jerry gives Beth an ultimatum to choose between him and Rick. Beth chooses Rick and they decide to get a divorce. After the new status quo is established, Rick reveals to Morty that his ulterior motive was to become his de facto male influence. This escalates into a nonsensical angry rant, centered around Rick's desire to find more of the discontinued McDonald's Szechuan sauce, a promotional product for the 1998 film Mulan.
Post-credit scene: Tammy observes Bird Person's resurrection as a cyborg dubbed "Phoenix Person".
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2 "Rickmancing the Stone" Dominic Polcino Jane Becker July 30, 2017 (2017-07-30) 2.86[10]
Rick takes Morty and Summer to a Mad Max-esque version of Earth, where they are chased by a group of scavengers, known as Death Stalkers. Rick notices that the group is carrying a valuable rock of Isotope 322, so he and the kids join them in hope of stealing it. Summer falls in love with the Death Stalkers' leader, while Morty is given the strength of a giant arm, which takes him in search of its previous owner's killer. Rick leaves and replaces the kids with androids to fool Beth. When he returns, he helps the Death Stalkers use the Isotope to power a more advanced civilization. Summer doesn't like how the change softens the Death Stalkers, and she decides to follow Rick and Morty back home. Before leaving, Rick steals the Isotope. The experience helps the kids overcome their parents' divorce. Summer reconciles with Jerry, and Morty realizes he must live his own life.
Post-credit scene: As Jerry receives his unemployment check, a growling wolf appears and bullies him into handing it over. The wolf eats the check and regurgitates it, thus further ruining Jerry's new life.
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3 "Pickle Rick" Anthony Chun Jessica Gao August 6, 2017 (2017-08-06) 2.31[11]
Rick turns himself into a pickle to get out of attending school-ordered family therapy, but Beth takes Rick's serum which would revert the transformation. Left alone, Rick eventually rolls down into an open sewer drain, where he manages to manipulate the nervous systems of dead roaches and rats to build himself a mobile exoskeleton, with added weapons such as razors and drills. He unwittingly escapes into a foreign government agency. The guards try to kill Rick, under orders from the agency director, but Rick kills them all. In the process, Rick battles and ultimately befriends a prisoner named Jaguar. Rick changes his mind and decides to attend the therapy session, arriving towards the end. Dr. Wong gives her diagnosis, observing that Rick crafts relationships that punish emotions and vulnerability. On their way home, Rick apologizes to Beth for deceiving her and uses the serum to turn human again. Morty and Summer wish to continue seeing Dr. Wong, but Rick and Beth ignore them.
Post-credit scene: Jaguar saves Rick and Morty from being killed in an elaborate piano death machine by a villain named "Concerto".
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4 "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender" Bryan Newton Sarah Carbiener & Erica Rosbe August 13, 2017 (2017-08-13) 2.66[12]
At Morty's insistence, Rick agrees to join the Vindicators, a group of intergalactic superheroes, to fight their arch-nemesis, Worldender. Rick cannot hide his disdain for the superheroes, while Morty is thrilled. The next morning, the Vindicators enter Worldender's base, only to find that the previous night a blackout drunk Rick had killed him and set up a variety of puzzles that the Vindicators must solve to survive. They start arguing and kill one another, while Morty solves all the puzzles, as he knows what Rick had in mind when he put them up. After all puzzles are solved, the only ones left alive are Rick, Morty and Supernova, a member of the Vindicators. Supernova tries to kill Rick and Morty, but before she can do so, the three of them are transported to a party that Rick also set up while blackout drunk, where she gets away.
Post-credit scene: Gearhead tries to use a Vindicators vest to pick up some young girls, but when an alien terrorist attack strikes, he runs away eventually tripping and falling, breaking into pieces.
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5 "The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy" Juan Meza-León Ryan Ridley August 20, 2017 (2017-08-20) 2.29[13]
To bolster Jerry's self-esteem, Rick takes him on an adventure at Morty's request. They visit an otherworldly resort within an immortality field so Jerry won't be harmed while away. Jerry encounters Risotto Groupon, an alien who blames Rick for his kingdom being usurped. Risotto enlists Jerry in a plot to kill Rick, but Jerry backs out after Rick apologizes for ruining his marriage. Meanwhile, Summer deals with self-esteem issues as well. Her boyfriend, Ethan, leaves her for a larger-breasted girlfriend, and Summer attempts to enlarge her own breasts using one of Rick's devices. Her aim is off, and she grows to freakish proportions. Morty wants to call Rick for assistance, but Beth refuses. Arrogantly trying to prove her own self-worth, Beth repeatedly fails to fix the problem and is tricked into releasing three tiny technical support workers that were trapped inside the machine. Once Morty figures out how the machine works, he restores Summer's size and spitefully uses it to deform Ethan in an act of vengeance.
Post-credit scene: The three tiny workers are enjoying their retirement next to a river. As an extremely deformed Ethan walks by, one of them is snatched by an eagle.
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6 "Rest and Ricklaxation" Anthony Chun Tom Kauffman August 27, 2017 (2017-08-27) 2.47[14]
After a six-day outer space adventure that leaves them on the verge of psychological collapse, Rick and Morty decide to spend some time at an alien spa. There, they use a machine that extracts a person's negative personality traits. However, without Rick and Morty knowing, those traits are transposed into toxic physical counterparts, characterized by Rick's arrogance and Morty's self-loathing. On the other hand, the true Rick becomes more considerate, and Morty's confidence soars, which allows him to start dating girls. Toxic Rick uses a moonlight tower to remake the whole Earth in his own image, but the true Rick reverts the situation by merging back with him. Morty avoids merging back with his toxic counterpart and goes on to live a life as a stock broker in New York City. Rick tracks him down with the help of Jessica, Morty's classmate, and restores order by re-injecting the negative personality traits into him.
Post-credit scene: A tour of the same moonlight tower releases Stacy, one of the girls Morty dated in the episode, who had been inadvertently trapped inside the toxin machine.
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7 "The Ricklantis Mixup"[c] Dominic Polcino Dan Guterman & Ryan Ridley September 10, 2017 (2017-09-10) 2.38[15]
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As Rick and Morty adventure to Atlantis, the episode shifts focus towards the Ricks and Mortys living at the Citadel. A group of Mortys, reminiscent of the protagonists in Stand by Me, journey to a portal to have their wishes granted. A rookie cop Rick starts working with an experienced Morty cop to take down drug dealers, in a plot-line reminiscent of Training Day. A Rick working at Simple Rick's wafer factory, where the key ingredient comes from said Simple Rick hooked up to a machine to re-experience his best memories, holds Simple Rick hostage after he doesn't get a promotion. An election is held for the new president of the Citadel. Despite being the underdog, the Morty Party candidate manages to secure the presidency thanks to his views on Ricks and Mortys. His former campaign manager attempts to assassinate him after receiving information that the new president is actually Evil Morty from "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" but fails. Sentenced to death, the campaign manager attempts to warn his executioners of Evil Morty’s true identity but is soon killed after he and the files revealing Evil Morty’s identity are sucked into space via airlock. Evil Morty soon has a shadow council of Ricks executed and implements new policies throughout the Citadel while also killing any Ricks and Morty’s who pose as potential threats to his rule.
Post-credit scene: Rick and Morty come back from Atlantis satisfied with their trip. Morty wonders what happened on the Citadel, but Rick tells him it'll likely have no effect on their lives.
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8 "Morty's Mind Blowers" Bryan Newton Mike McMahan, James Siciliano, Ryan Ridley,
Dan Guterman, Justin Roiland & Dan Harmon September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17) 2.51[16]
After Morty requests to have a traumatic memory deleted, Rick reveals a room where he has been storing a number of memories he has removed from Morty's mind. However, as it turns out, besides the memories that Morty didn't want to keep from their adventures, the room also contains memories of moments where Rick was made to look foolish, so he had them forcibly removed. This revelation prompts a fight, during which Rick and Morty have their memories accidentally erased. Morty scours the memories to replace the ones he lost, but he is displeased with the truth he finds, and convinces Rick to both kill themselves. Summer enters the room moments before they commit suicide. At this point, it is revealed that Rick has a contingency plan should this happen. Summer, following written instructions, tranquilizes Rick and Morty, restores their memories and drags them to the living room. Rick and Morty wake up on the couch, believing that they slept through an entire "Interdimensional Cable" episode.
Post-credit scene: Jerry discovers a box labeled "Jerry's Mind Blowers", which contains a memory of him being accidentally responsible for the death of an alien.
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9 "The ABC's of Beth" Juan Meza-León Mike McMahan September 24, 2017 (2017-09-24) 2.49[17]
Rick and Beth enter Froopyland, a fantasy world created by Rick for young Beth. Their goal is to recover Tommy, Beth's childhood friend who's been trapped in Froopyland, and prevent the execution of his father, who is being falsely accused of eating him. Tommy, who has survived all these years by resorting to bestiality, incest and cannibalism, refuses to return to the real world. Rick and Beth manage to save his father's life by creating a clone of Tommy. Back at home, Beth is presented with the option of having a replacement clone of her created, so that she will be free to travel the world. Meanwhile, Jerry dates an alien hunter named Kiara, to Morty and Summer's dismay. When he decides to get out of the relationship, Kiara is enraged and tries to kill the kids, whom she holds responsible. The situation is resolved following the revelation that Kiara was using Jerry to get over her previous boyfriend, much like Jerry was doing with her.
Post-credit scene: Jerry's answering machine plays messages warning him that Kiara's boyfriend is coming to kill him, and Rick saying that he has killed Kiara's boyfriend, but also had sex with her.
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10 "The Rickchurian Mortydate" Anthony Chun Dan Harmon October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01) 2.60[18]
The President calls on Rick and Morty to defeat a monster in the tunnels underneath the White House, which they do with little effort. Annoyed that he constantly calls on them without any gratitude, they go back home, with the President quickly finding out. The resulting argument leads to a battle of egos that culminates in a fight in the White House between Rick and the President's security. Meanwhile, fearing she might be a clone made by Rick, Beth reunites with Jerry to figure out the truth. Shortly after, the entire family gets together to hide from Rick, but he tracks them down. Rick eventually submits to Jerry once again being a family-member. Rick ends his conflict with the President by pretending to be Fly Fishing Rick, a Rick from a different reality, and calling a truce. The episode ends with the family happy to be together again, except for Rick who is disappointed by this outcome.
Post-credit scene: Mr. Poopybutthole returns to apologize for not appearing in Season 3, but he has gotten married and has a wife and son. He ends the scene by saying that it will be a long wait until Season 4.
Production[edit]
On August 12, 2015, Adult Swim announced that the series had been renewed for a third season.[19] Roiland reportedly began writing on November 2, 2015.[20] Mike McMahan announced that the first episode was recorded on February 18, 2016.[21] On February 5, 2017, Dan Harmon, answering questions regarding the delayed release, announced on his podcast, Harmontown, that the show was in the animation process, after a long period of writing.[22] On June 24, 2017, Harmon wrote a series of posts on Twitter, explaining that the writing process took that long to complete because of his perfectionism.[23] As a result, the third season of the show consisted of only ten episodes instead of fourteen, as was initially intended.[24]
Reception[edit]
The season currently holds a 98% approval rating from review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes based on ten reviews, with an average rating of 8.81 out of 10 and an audience score average of 4.7 out of 5.[25]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ The third season of Rick and Morty premiered unannounced on April 1, 2017 as part of Adult Swim's annual April Fools' prank.
Jump up ^ "The Rickshank Rickdemption" premiered unannounced and re-ran for four hours straight with improving ratings. This is the viewership of only the first broadcast of the episode.
Jump up ^ "The Ricklantis Mixup" is also known as "Tales from the Citadel".
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Matar, Joe (April 3, 2017). "Rick and Morty Season 3 Air Date Released, Episode Currently Streaming on Adult Swim". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on April 2, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Framke, Caroline (August 6, 2017). "In season 3, Rick and Morty is still one of TV’s most inventive shows". Vox. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
Jump up ^ Virtue, Graeme (April 3, 2017). "Rick and Morty: how the world's most ingenious animation punk'd its fans". The Guardian. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b Greene, Steve (July 30, 2017). "‘Rick and Morty’ Review: Summer Takes Center Stage in a ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Therapy Session". IndieWire. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c Starkey, Adam (July 19, 2017). "Rick And Morty: Susan Sarandon, Danny Trejo and more set to star in season 3". Metro. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Greene, Steve (August 14, 2017). "‘Rick and Morty’ Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Gets a Deadly Twist in ‘Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender’". IndieWire. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
Jump up ^ Greene, Steve (September 25, 2017). "‘Rick and Morty’ Review: ‘The ABCs of Beth’ is a Touching Father-Daughter Adventure Drenched in Plenty of Alien Blood". IndieWire. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
Jump up ^ Swift, Andy (October 2, 2017). "Rick and Morty Wage War With the President in Season 3 Finale". TVLine. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (April 4, 2017). "Saturday cable ratings: Surprise ‘Rick & Morty’ premiere gets solid numbers". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (August 1, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: 'Rick & Morty' returns strong, more highs for 'Insecure' and 'Ballers'". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (August 8, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: 'Sharknado 5' lacks bite, 'Game of Thrones' hits total-viewer high". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (August 15, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: ‘Game of Thrones’ scores another series high". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (August 22, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: ‘Survivor’s Remorse’ premiere steady, ‘Game of Thrones’ down a little". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (August 29, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: VMAs hit all-time low opposite ‘Game of Thrones’ finale". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (September 13, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: 'The Deuce' starts off on par with 'The Night Of'". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (September 19, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: ‘Outlander’ and ‘The Deuce’ steady with second episodes". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (September 26, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: ‘Outlander’ hits total-viewer high, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ ticks up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
Jump up ^ Porter, Rick (October 3, 2017). "Sunday cable ratings: ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ returns, ‘Outlander’ ticks up again". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
Jump up ^ Denise Petski (August 12, 2015). "‘Rick And Morty’ Renewed For Season 3 By Adult Swim". Deadline. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
Jump up ^ Kazem Sedighzadeh (November 15, 2015). "‘Rick and Morty’ Co-Creator Justin Roiland Starts Writing Work for Season 3 of TV Series!". Master Herald. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
Jump up ^ Mike McMahan [@MikeMcMahanTM] (February 18, 2016). "We're recording episode #301 today." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
Jump up ^ "Rick and Morty Creators Give Season 3 Update: They're Drawing It". The Interrobang. February 7, 2017. Archived from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
Jump up ^ Cabin, Chris (June 24, 2017). "'Rick and Morty' Season 3: Dan Harmon Explains Delay". Collider. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2017.
Jump up ^ Kettley, Sebastian (2017-08-16). "Rick and Morty season 3: How many episodes does the new season have?". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
Jump up ^ "Rick and Morty: Season 3". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on April 5, 2017. Retrieved October 18, 2017.
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My Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Howard Zieff
Produced by
Brian Grazer
Written by
Laurice Elehwany
Starring
Dan Aykroyd
Jamie Lee Curtis
Macaulay Culkin
Anna Chlumsky
Griffin Dunne
Music by
James Newton Howard
Cinematography
Paul Elliot
Production
company
Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures
Release date
November 27, 1991 (1991-11-27)
Running time
102 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$17 million[1]
Box office
$59.5 million[1]
My Girl is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Laurice Elehwany, starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, and Anna Chlumsky in her feature debut. It is a coming-of-age story of a young girl who faces many different emotional highs and lows during the summer of 1972 in suburban Pennsylvania.
A book based on the script was written by Patricia Hermes in 1991.[2] The film's sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Release
4.1 Critical response
5 Music
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
In the summer of 1972, in Madison, Pennsylvania, Vada Sultenfuss is an 11-year-old girl and a hypochondriac. Harry, Vada's father, is an awkward widower and funeral director who does not understand his daughter, so he constantly ignores her. Their house, which operates as the town funeral home, has led his daughter to develop an obsession with death. Vada regularly cares for her grandmother, 'Gramoo', who has Alzheimer's disease and whose wandering mind likewise affects Vada. Her Uncle Phil lives near by and frequently stops by to help the family.
Vada frequently spends time with her best friend, Thomas J. Sennett, an unpopular boy her age who suffers from various allergies. However, other girls tease the two, thinking they are more than just friends. Thomas J. often accompanies Vada when she visits the doctor, who assures her that she is not sick.
Vada's summer begins well. She befriends Shelly DeVoto, the new makeup artist at her father's funeral parlor, who provides her with guidance. She also develops a crush on her fifth-grade school teacher, Mr. Bixler, and hears about an adult poetry writing class that he is teaching. Vada steals some money from the cookie jar in Shelly's trailer to cover the cost of the class. When advised to write about what is in her soul, Vada fears that she killed her mother, who died two days after giving birth to her.
When Harry and Shelly start dating, this affects Vada's attitude towards Shelly. One night, Vada follows Harry and Shelly to a bingo game and brings Thomas J. along to disrupt it. On the Fourth of July, when Shelly's ex-husband Danny arrives, Vada hopes that he is there to take Shelly back, but to no avail. Vada becomes even more shocked when Harry and Shelly announce their engagement at a carnival, leading her to contemplate running away with Thomas J.
Vada is starting to see changes within herself. As she runs around screaming that she is hemorrhaging, Shelly politely explains to Vada that her first period is a completely natural process. As Vada realizes this only occurs with girls, she doesn't want to see Thomas J., who happens to come by shortly afterward. A couple of days later though, Vada and Thomas J. are sitting under a tree by the river, where they share an innocent first kiss.
Vada and Thomas J. come across a bee hive hanging from a tree, which Thomas J. decides to knock down. Vada loses her mood ring in the process, so they start looking for it, but the search is cut short as the bees start swarming, making them run away. Thomas J. later returns by himself and finds the ring. Unexpectedly, because he kicked the bee hive beforehand, the bees begin to swarm Thomas J. just as he finds the ring. Unable to escape, he dies from an allergic reaction.
Harry is left to deliver the tragic news to Vada, which devastates her so much that she will not even leave her bedroom. When she attends Thomas J.'s funeral, her emotions become so strong that she runs away. Vada hurries to Mr. Bixler's house, wanting to stay with him, and discovers that he is about to get married to someone else. She then runs to her and Thomas J.'s favorite spot near the tree to reflect on what has happened. When Vada returns home, everyone is relieved, including Shelly, whom Vada begins to accept as her future stepmother. Her grief also manages to mend the rift between her and her father. Harry explains to Vada that her mother's death wasn't her fault and things like that can happen without explanation.
Toward the end of summer, Vada and her father see Mrs. Sennett, who still struggles with her son's death. She gives Vada her mood ring back that Thomas J. had found and Vada gives Mrs. Sennett some comfort. On the last day of writing class, Vada reads a poem about the loss of her best friend before going out to spend time with her new friend Judy.
Cast[edit]
Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss
Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto
Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett
Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss
Richard Masur as Phil Sultenfuss
Griffin Dunne as Mr. Bixler
Ann Nelson as Gramoo Sultenfuss
Production[edit]
The screenplay, written by Laurice Elehwany, was originally titled Born Jaundiced, and was purchased by Imagine Entertainment in July 1990.[3] On August 24, 1990, it was reported in Daily Variety that the screenplay had been re-titled to I Am Woman, but was subsequently changed to its final title, My Girl, in the spring of 1991.[3] Elehwany based the fictional setting of Madison, Pennsylvania on an unnamed small town in southern Pennsylvania, where she had been raised.[3]
Culkin and Chlumsky were cast in the lead child roles of Thomas J. and Vada, respectively, in January 1991.[3] Filming took place in Bartow and Orlando, Florida, beginning in February 1991.[3] Exteriors of the Sultenfuss home were supplied by a real Victorian home in Bartow, while the house's interiors were built on a soundstage in Orlando.[3]
Release[edit]
Upon its submission to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in early September 1991, the film was given a PG-13-rating, having lost its appeal to earn a PG-rating.[3] In late September, the film's producers won an appeal to have the film reclassified to a PG-rating.[3]
My Girl premiered theatrically in the United States over the Thanksgiving weekend, on November 27, 1991.[3] It opened at number 2 at the U.S. box office, showing at 2,080 theaters.[1] It continued showing across the United States until January 1992, ultimately grossing $59,489,799.[1]
Critical response[edit]
Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing: "The beauty in this film is in its directness. There are some obligatory scenes. But there are also some very original and touching ones. This is a movie that has its heart in the right place."[4] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised Chlumsky's performance in the film, but conceded that "there’s something discomforting about a movie that takes the experience of an audacious, conflicted child and reduces it to: She needs to Confront Her Feelings. My Girl has some sweet, funny moments (the cast is uniformly appealing), yet it unfolds in a landscape of paralyzing, pop-psych banality."[5]
Film critic Caryn James cited the film as being part of a "trend toward stronger, more realistic themes in children's films," specifically its representations of death, specifically that of a young child.[6] David Kehr of the Chicago Tribune wrote of the film: "If My Girl helps stimulate family discussions of death and loss, it will certainly have done some good in the world. But at the same time, its aesthetic interest is virtually nil... Though My Girl seeks to stir large, devastating emotions, Zieff seems afraid to touch on anything too difficult or unpleasant, lest it alienate his audience. The results are curiously gutless and unmoving, as Zieff finds himself stuck with a sentimentality without substance, a poetry without pain."[7] Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times was similarly critical of the film's "syrupy" elements, concluding: "The mixture of winsomeness and deadpan frights in My Girl ought to be weirder and more interesting than it is. After all, a girl who survives a household where bodies are embalmed in the basement is the kind of plucky heroine that movies about kids need right now. Or movies about adults, for that matter."[8]
Janet Maslin of The New York Times was critical of the screenplay for being made up of "loose ends bound together only by intimations of mortality and family crisis," summarizing: "It's not hard for the maudlin My Girl to make its audience weepy at the sight of America's favorite kid in an open coffin. But it is difficult for this film to mix the sugary unreality of a television show with such a clumsy and manipulative morbid streak."[9] Variety noted: "Plenty of shrewd commercial calculation went into concocting the right sugar coating for this story of an 11-year-old girl's painful maturation, but [the] chemistry seems right."[10]
Music[edit]
The soundtrack of the film contains several 1960s and 1970s pop hits in addition to the title song (by The Temptations), including "Wedding Bell Blues" (The 5th Dimension), "If You Don't Know Me by Now" (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes), "Bad Moon Rising" (Creedence Clearwater Revival), "Good Lovin'" (The Rascals), and "Saturday in the Park" (Chicago). When Vada gets upset, she plugs her ears and sings "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", the Manfred Mann version of which is also included on the soundtrack album. In addition, Vada and Thomas J. play "The Name Game" and sing "Witch Doctor" in the film, and Vada has posters of the Broadway Musical Hair, The Carpenters, and Donny Osmond on her bedroom wall.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d "My Girl". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 15, 2015.
Jump up ^ Hermes, Patricia; Elehwany, Laurice (1991). My Girl (FIRST EDITION 4th Printing ed.). New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 978-0-671-75929-2.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "My Girl". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (November 27, 1991). "My Girl". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved June 15, 2015 – via RogerEbert.com.
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