To me, Rick and Morty absolutely wasn't love at first sight. The concept instinctively didn't make sense to me, at first. A grandpa and his grandson. What I loved from the start was the adventurous alternate universes, and the potential in my imagination. This show could go anywhere. What really stuck was a couple of alternate universes that really touched my heart. I didn't expect that. And I would have settled for less. The jokes by themselves are hilarious, already. All main characters have proper personalities, unseen to date. The show didn't go for 'smooth.' Maybe, you have to go for something else to achieve 'smooth.' You can't aim for smooth, but that's the only thing, I can think of, that falls short of a 10. A "Captain-America-smooth." Maybe the last thing that's missing is a shield ? Naw. But all those adventures need to start standing for something. Even if Grandpa Rick is just chasing that kind of over-arching ... thing.