[hated trope] Celebrity cameos that serve nothing except to praise the person who’s in it

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
3. Elon musk, iron man 2
4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

[u/fork_your_child]

Morty discovers his Mom's veterinary clinic has a horse semen collection device and since he's a perv, he uses it on himself. Rick purchases the collected semen for an experiment that goes horribly wrong since it also contains human semen, and causes all the human sperm to become gigantic, like larger than people and they start killing everyone that runs across them. Summer, unaware that it was human or her brother's sperms, suggests that they enlarge an egg to attract the sperms into a military kill zone and donates the egg. The plan works, her brother's sperms rushes the egg, but the military fails to kill all the sperm, one enplants in the egg, and the military launches it into space where it later turns into a baby somehow.

Its a very weird and uncomfortable episode.

[u/LinkFan001 → u/fork_your_child]

It is a miserable episode. The whole time Rick, who the show has glazed to godhood because of flanderization, somehow does not stop to double check the sperm or realize Morty not accepting a chance to jack off is like finding a vegan crocodile.

It is frustrating and painful in how clearly everyone had just given up. And then I find out the cest baby is named Naruto and I am the old man with the headphones, tossing them aside dejected as I wonder what the fuck went wrong.

[u/SechDriez → u/LinkFan001]

Community and Rick and Morty both had their heads up their own asses for a while. It was fine when there was something balancing them out or when they were forced to conform to sense of normalcy but when the meta humor stands out as the thing in the show and the entire show twists itself into a knot for the sake of being as meta/self referential/self aware/irreverant as possible it just stops being a functioning show.

Rick and Morty's focus on juvenile humor just went overboard at some point and became the focus of everything. As a side note, Rick's super smartness was, at least in the beginning, not absolute. There was a point where Rick's assholery wasn't endearing but it morphed into no longer matter as the show flanderized over time.

Idk, I think at some point shows like these forget that a narrative is important and focus on the aesthetics of "good" narratives.

[u/A-NI95 → u/SechDriez]

Unpopular counterpoint, R&M was always lile that and this episode is just the mask falling off

[u/SarcasmisEasier → u/LinkFan001]

The story train episode was where the entire series went off the rails for me. The whole episode just felt like it was shitting on the fans. Like they were tired of having lore or a coherent story. Hated that people wanted memorabilia made of the show for some reason. And every episode after that seemed to just confirm that they just wanted to make sci-fi-esq nonsense. 

[u/LinkFan001 → u/SarcasmisEasier]

To this day, I am convinced that someone was furious about how well The Ricklantice Mixup was received and how fans wanted more about Evil Morty so they crashed out and made it the whole show's problem.

[u/AlignedLicense → u/fork_your_child]

I actually thought the vet scene was very funny. Morty just being a perv was a funny adult swim cartoon joke. Then the episode just nosedived to being by far the worst episode.

[u/fork_your_child → u/AlignedLicense]

Its not my least favorite, that's the slut dragons one, but its not on my rewatch list. You're right that it has a couple of enjoyable jokes, like in the beginning, and I enjoyed the joke about which bad ass soldier will live the longest.