The entire “joke” is that the evil Chinese are spying on you and you should be afraid of them. At this point, I that every TV show over here that gets really popular is obligated to start blasting pure propaganda at the viewer.
The entire “joke” is that the evil Chinese are spying on you and you should be afraid of them. At this point, I that every TV show over here that gets really popular is obligated to start blasting pure propaganda at the viewer.
Difficult to find stuff online. I remember they had another random joke thrown at Russia alongside this one. The ironic self-awareness of the show has led it to abandoning satire wholesale and just mentioning real-world situations and problems as if they were the joke.
Oh right, I remember that one. That threw me for a loop when I first heard it.
And there’s also an episode where Rick implies that China pays for the white house or has hands in the U.S. government.
That Thanksgiving episode was also racist as hell, I think. I’m white so idk how indigenous watchers may have felt, but the whole thing read pretty bad to me.
I interpreted that as just being part of Summer’s character. She always struck me as the teenager who just “discovered” politics and just parrots whatever the media says. I also remember in season 1 when their dog was trying to talk she thought it said “I love Obama” and tweeted it to all her friends.