It's a comedy taken place in ancient Greece if greek mythology was kinda real.
The main characters are a family, where the mother is a narcissist goddess, the father is a sex hungry manticore, the main character is a loveable nerdy human who becomes king of a group of humans and is trying to create civilization, has a brother which invents things, and a sister that is a cyclops that likes to solve things by brute strength.
Most episodes show an objective conflict, some new part of human civilization being developed, and an emotional conflict between the relatives.
Opinion: To be honest, I came at this with extremely high hopes, as it was coming from Dan Harmon, but it was less than I expected. And yet I knew if I kept watching it, I'd be pleasantly surprised. And I was.
The strong comedy elements are usually founf in the takes on civilization developments and the myths.
The weak parts (and what most people seem to dislike) is on the characters.
Some of the funniest parts in Rick and morty come from their dysfunctionality: rick at the same time is megalomaniac, but says it isn't megalomania when he can actually achieve anything through his brilliance (and he can). Says nothing matters because there's an infinite amount of realities, but deeply cares about many things. Morty is at times extremely afraid of everything, but sometimes has mental break downs. Beth has abandoment issues with his father Rick. Jerry is considered so low value by Rick, that he uses it as a passive agressive tool against him. Beth and Jerry have a love-hate relationship. Etc.
While in Krapopolis the characters and dysfunction are much less extreme. The main character is mild mannered, a little boring, a little low self esteem, but nothing major sticks out. The sister likes to solve things with violence, but mostly listens to the mild mannered brother, so doesn't becomes that destructive, the inventor brother seems to only invent things for his brother, and doesn't do anything very extreme. The self obssessed mother wants people to adore her, and doesn't go much out of her way to annoy anyone. The father pretty much just wants sex and doesn't annoy anyone. So instead of everyone being at each other's throats all the time, they are mostly chill with each other, os slightly annoy or inconvenience, which doesn't take the episodes into absurd hijinx and/or hilarities.
Edit: special props to episode 23 of season 1. Wish it was a recurring character.
The main characters are a family, where the mother is a narcissist goddess, the father is a sex hungry manticore, the main character is a loveable nerdy human who becomes king of a group of humans and is trying to create civilization, has a brother which invents things, and a sister that is a cyclops that likes to solve things by brute strength.
Most episodes show an objective conflict, some new part of human civilization being developed, and an emotional conflict between the relatives.
Opinion: To be honest, I came at this with extremely high hopes, as it was coming from Dan Harmon, but it was less than I expected. And yet I knew if I kept watching it, I'd be pleasantly surprised. And I was.
The strong comedy elements are usually founf in the takes on civilization developments and the myths.
The weak parts (and what most people seem to dislike) is on the characters.
Some of the funniest parts in Rick and morty come from their dysfunctionality: rick at the same time is megalomaniac, but says it isn't megalomania when he can actually achieve anything through his brilliance (and he can). Says nothing matters because there's an infinite amount of realities, but deeply cares about many things. Morty is at times extremely afraid of everything, but sometimes has mental break downs. Beth has abandoment issues with his father Rick. Jerry is considered so low value by Rick, that he uses it as a passive agressive tool against him. Beth and Jerry have a love-hate relationship. Etc.
While in Krapopolis the characters and dysfunction are much less extreme. The main character is mild mannered, a little boring, a little low self esteem, but nothing major sticks out. The sister likes to solve things with violence, but mostly listens to the mild mannered brother, so doesn't becomes that destructive, the inventor brother seems to only invent things for his brother, and doesn't do anything very extreme. The self obssessed mother wants people to adore her, and doesn't go much out of her way to annoy anyone. The father pretty much just wants sex and doesn't annoy anyone. So instead of everyone being at each other's throats all the time, they are mostly chill with each other, os slightly annoy or inconvenience, which doesn't take the episodes into absurd hijinx and/or hilarities.
Edit: special props to episode 23 of season 1. Wish it was a recurring character.