Watch Rick and Morty in the Eternal Nightmare Machine tomorrow!

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Trust Rock & Morty creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland to keep super fans on their toes and sometimes confused as Steve Hofmeyr trying to figure out how many kids he has. The creators really like to fuck with us.

Back in 2017, on the 1st of April, Adult Swim premiered the first episode of the much anticipated season 3 of Rick & Morty by streaming it in a constant loop on their website until midnight. And then fokol happened the next week. And the week after that. And it carried on like that until the 30th of July, 2017 when the subsequent episodes were finally released weekly. Fans had to wait three months! It was the perfect April Fool’s joke. Or was it the perfect anti-April Fool’s joke? Who knwos?

Then exactly a year later, again on the first of April, we got treated to a TV short called Bushworld Adventures where, in an alternate universe, Australian versions of Rick and Morty go on a “bushland adventure” to Bendigo in search of Rick’s Green Cube:

This in the year of our lord and the pandemic of 2021, again on April Fool’s Day, Ricky And Morty delivered another epic April fool’s prank with an intro for a fake new series titled Rick And Morty Babies. It looks fucking insane. The response? Fans were so obsessed that they’re demanding actual episodes! I fully agree.
Make it fokken happen:

Not even a month after the 2021 April Fool’s prank, it was announced that there will be some sort of an 8-bit Rick & Morty special entitled Rick + Morty in the Eternal Nightmare Machine rolling out tonight in the US! You will be able to catch it Showmax tomorrow (Saturday the 1st of May). There is not much known about this special episode but it is expected to be around 30 minutes in duration. It was created by the accomplished Australian pixel-animator, Paul Robertson. He is famous for productions such as the opening couch gag for The Simpsons’ My Fare Lady, and an episode of Gravity Falls entitled Fight Fighters.
He also created a pixel-animated promo of Rick and Morty’s third season:

This little pixelated special also happens to come with some very exciting news – season 5 of Rick & Morty is heading our way! Adult Swim has announced that the show will roll out cross the globe starting on Sunday, the 20th of June, which means we will be able to watch it in South Africa on Monday, the 21st of June!

Put in some leave, take the Monday off, gooi a braai and declare it Rick & Morty Day with us!

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#2 Neo-noir crime drama Motherless Brooklyn is one classy yarn Motherless Brooklyn is an adaptation of the namesake novel by Jonathan Lethem. Edward Norton acquired the rights to the book almost immediately after it was published in 1999	On Showmax (read more)
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Each week we take a number from 1 to 10 from our list of suggestions and put it through a randomizer to choose a trailer to show you. This week it landed on our number 6 spot, “Thirty-pus binge-worthy boxsets to stream online in South Africa“, so let’s randomize again and pick a number between 1 and 30. That gives us number 23.

Drumroll, please….

Breaking Bad!

(but we’ve decided to give you the blooper reel):

The show premiered 10 years ago and one of the best of television ever made. This video contains some amazing blooper reels from season 1 to season 5!