Get Schwifty! [Ended]

So I've made my first puzzle, party people. I've maxed out my giveaway slots (16) for this weekend puzzle, and I hope you find some enjoyment in it. The theme of the puzzle is Rick and Morty. If you don't know about it yet, you should definitely make time for it. Everything in the puzzle should be fairly simple for fans of the show, but anyone completely unfamiliar with the show should also be able to answer the questions with just a little bit of online searching. Though I really recommend giving the show a shot, it's dark and hilarious and wonderful. Just check out the many layers of humor found in this short clip with a throwaway gag about passing the butter.

And because I love deconstructing humor, let's open up the onion that makes up this joke:

So, you've got the first layer of the joke: He built a robot with AI simply to pass butter.

Then there's the second layer : It's less effort for him to build a robot to pass the butter than to just reach over and grab the butter. Beyond that, the robot is so smart it questions its purpose, which is hilarious overkill.

The third layer starts getting a little dark: This robot is having serious existential angst because he has arguably more intellectual and emotional capacity than the average human (which is communicated by just a few words, "What is my purpose," and "Oh my god," and also through the contrast provided by Morty's dad playing with his tablet throughout the entire scene), and something that complex and beautiful and fragile should be brought into the world with careful consideration, yet Rick casually slapped him together without a second thought about the ethical ramifications, just so he could butter his pancakes.

Fourth layer, even darker: In Rick's simple reply, "Welcome to the club," he reveals the true extent of one of the primary mechanisms of the humor of his character, which is just how much smarter he is than everyone. This level of the joke tells the viewer that Rick's intellect compares to the task of offhandedly creating a sophisticated AI to the extent that the AI's intellect compares to the task of passing butter, which is heartbreaking and hilarious when you realize that the robot's deep and meaningful angst indicates that creating the robot is much, much more complex than passing butter, and so must Rick's angst be in equal measure; and this angst is something that Rick carries with him constantly and ostensibly to a greater extent, which informs his character and the humor behind it.

It's brilliant, nuanced, hilarious, and complex, and yet it's just filler; it draws no extra attention to itself and seamlessly weaves its punchlines between the lines of dialogue from the family that are driving the plot forward. It's just one example of how brilliantly funny this show can be on so many levels. It's dark humor, but with a level of sophistication beyond almost anything else being made right now.

It's amazing and wonderful, and I am going to use my puzzling platform to try and encourage everyone reading to give the show a see at least once.

Please.

And away we goooooooooooooooooooooo!

Well, my first puzzle has ended. Congratulations to all the winners; keys have been released or friend requests have been sent. For those curious about the solution to the puzzles, here you are: the first puzzle and the second puzzle.

I noticed that a lot of people were entering the giveaways, but weren't also bumping the thread as requested. If you didn't, perhaps you should have been more willing to do so. Almost 100 users made it past the second puzzle and onto the back half of the train, but fewer than 30 users entered what I considered to be the best offerings on the train; the two giveaways I had attached as the caboose (behind the "bump the thread" link on Tomb Raider): Hitman: Absolution and Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut!

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