🏈 It’s time for an Ad Bowl 2025 edition of Rick and Rick Loaded Questions—our multiple-choice quiz games to test your recall of this year’s Super Bowl commercials, and a look at some of the big themes we saw in this year’s big game!

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❄️A design blunder for Bath & Bodyworks. Lays brings back five fan-favorite flavors. The Ricks have fun with AI headshots and AI Snapchat filters. Why short-form social video is the most effective tool for B2B high-tech marketers. Election 2024’s staggering digital ad spend. Loaded questions and more. From November 3. 

IN THIS EPISODE:
😎 Rick W’s big week with AI LinkedIn headshots (at 01:23)
🤖 Rick M cracks himself up with AI Snapchat filters (02:41)
😱 Rick W one-ups that with blue hair and tattoos (03:12)
🙏 F*cks Given: Nun? Is there a future for Netflix’s smash hit Warrior Nun? (03:50)
🥶 Snowflakes-cum-design fail: The “Clandles” at Bath & Bodyworks (06:00)
🎬 Bite-size brilliance: the power of short-form social videos in B2B high-tech marketing (07:48)
😋 Mountain Dew-flavored Lays & Oreo Coke Zero: a specialty flavor flare-up—or out? (10:30)
🤪 Heinz à Deux? Ketchup brand’s “Ha-Ha-Ha” leaves the Ricks asking, “W-T-F?” (15:23)
🧢 Hi-Chew has a bizarre new mascot…and the Ricks have questions (16:43)
📈 Doing the numbers on Election 2024’s staggering digital ad spend (18:14)

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🃏 Joker: Folie à Dud. Wendy’s McTrolls Mickey D’s over its McBroken McFlurry machines. Generative AI-created podcasts that’ll blow your mind. Plus: Loaded Questions and a whole lot more. From October 21. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

🎃 Halloween trick-or-treating? Or neighborhood booze crawl?
🃏 Joker: Folie à Dud: A bat flop with an intriguing climax?
💀 Rick W. scores a super-sized Home Depot skeleton—but how to get it home?
👻 ‘Inside Out,’ All Over: 2024’s top Halloween costumes, according to Google
🎅🏻 From spooks to Santa: Spirit Halloween is extending its brand to what holiday?
🎙️ The GenAI-generated, multi-host podcast that’ll blow your mind
🥶 Plunge to your Death for just $5,999: How top brands collab and chill
🍦 One brand’s misfortune is another brand’s McTrolling opportunity
🎂 Pass-around party pastry: Why 73 is the new 60 for Pop-Tarts
📢 Google may not be tossing cookies, but it may not be able to keep this
☢️ Cheetos cheetle orange-yellow cheese dust brings transparency to what?

Approx. 20 minutes, 8 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" returns after nearly a decade. How content marketing conquered the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. Why digital payments are emerging as a key element of B2B brand building. Plus: What the heck did a bag of dropped Cheetos' Cheetle do to the Carlsbad Caverns? From October 12. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

🎉 The Ricks' return for an all-new season (at 01:11)
🧛 Alien: Romulus, Salem's Lot, Evil & More: Horror that's hitting the Ricks' radar (05:00)
👑 Content's coronation at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival (09:12)
🔻 Doritos revives its popular "Crash the Super Bowl" user-generated ad contest (11:14)
💵 Why digital payments are becoming a key element of B2B brand building (12:51)
☢️ Why dropped Cheetos' had a world-changing impact on the Carlsbad Caverns (15:50)
🔎 In the age of generative AI, organic search traffic is in for some stuff (17:52)
🕵🏻‍♂️ A surprising look at changing consumer search behaviors (18:51)

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🖖🏼 From Star Trek: The Original Series to Strange New Worlds and beyond: Guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to discuss ComicCon 2024's Hall H announcements about what's next for Star Trek—and why the good ship Enterprise wouldn't have ever left the ground without…Lucille Ball? From October 12. 

IN THIS EPISODE

👽 Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to talk about Trek's Hall H takeover (01:17)
📢 Announcements on Lower Decks, Starfleet Academy, and Section 31 (01:20)
👁️‍🗨️ Star Struck: Rick M. sings his status report on Strange New Worlds (02:29)
🪐 Taking risks: What makes Strange New Worlds so great (03:00)
🎬 Pike, Uhura, Chapel, Spock, Scotty & M'benga finally get their due (04:09)
🧑🏻‍🦰 For the love of Lucy: Why Star Trek fans owe thanks to Lucille Ball (05:56)
⌛️ Cool–but who the hell is Lucille Ball? An explainer for Gens Z & Alpha (7:04)
🎥 Bold broad: Starring in a Top 10 TV show, running a major studio (08:31)
🧠 Too "cerebral"—how Lucy put her vision where her mouth was (09:00)
📺 How Desi Arnaz invented the sitcom—and syndication (10:11)
🛸 Beam us up, Scotty: We don't want to miss Season Six (10:34)

⚡️ Comic-Con Correspondents Eric V and Kurt Ho join Rick and Rick to talk San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Get the lowdown on the year's cosplay crazes (looking at you, Deadpool), buzziest announcements (looking at you, Robert Downey Jr), exclusive collectibles, brand activations, and more from geekdom's largest annual event. Plus: A Comic-Con edition of Loaded Questions!

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IN THIS EPISODE

😎 The Ricks catch up during a first-ever summer hiatus (at 01:01)

🤩 Did the Ricks make the cover of the official Comic-Con program? (02:40)

💥 Welcoming Kurt Ho & Eric V back to the show (03:21)

🎪 Nearly 20 years of Comic-Con memories and a friendship double that (0:3:580

🧲 Crowd control as attendees hit peak capacity (04:30)

✅ The new rules of scoring Funko, Hasbro exclusives (06:40)

🤖 Fembots, Optimus Prime, Mirror Uhura, and "Marvel Jesus" (07:37)

🎰 Is Comic-Con leaving for Las Vegas—or LA Convention Center? (11:55)

👩🏾‍🎨 Fandom: Catching comics creators and actors while you can (12:46)

📺 X-Men 97, Batman, Star Trek, Green Lantern, and more (13:45)

🥤 Brand activations from Mt. Dew, Google Play—and a Guinness-winning Galactus (15:00)

🚀 Hunting artwork: Transformers, GI Joe, and the Space Battleship Yamato (16:14)

📣 The Hall H Buzz Machine: From the Fantastic Four to Secret Wars & Beyond (18:20)

🎬 Doom patrol: Recycling Marvel actors—good, bad, or WTF? (19:01)

🍿 Rick M joins Kurt and Eric for "Deadpool and Wolverine" (21:20)

🧛🏿‍♂️ Blade beats Wolverine for a World Record (or two) (22:27)

🐧 The Boys, Thor Transforms, the Penguin rises, Avengers & more (24:02)

🐙 "Batman: Caped Crusader" busts up a storm—but is Robin toast? (25:40)

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ERIC V AND KURT HO

Approx. 27 minutes, 13 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

It's the epic conclusion of our Loaded Questions quiz game commemorating the Season 5 finale of Rick and Rick Rule the World. From May 27. 

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IN THIS EPISODE

🥰 Cuffing Season pickup lines from ChatGPT
📺 Revisiting the Writer's Strike and what it means for Hollywood and GenAI
🔍 Google penalizing websites with content generated with AI
🎁 The Year's Hottest But Hardest to Get Tech Toys
🛍️ Why retailers should consider a fifth "P" of marketing
🫠 Rick W. admits discomfort with repping California, vampire romances & more
🎨 Nestle leverages generative AI with an eye for famous works of art
🙀 Was "The Scream" really made for the dogs? The Internet has thoughts
🤭 More side-splitting sound bites and gut-busting bloopers from our first 5 seasons

Approx. 28 minutes. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

Will X die before year's end? If it survives, will Elon Musk still own it? In the conclusion of their big 2024 Trend Watch episode, the Ricks pose some provocative questions about the network formally known as Twitter, the rise of machine customers, shoppable streaming, and more. From Mar 17. 

IN THIS EPISODE

😎 No more prognosticating about "The Year of AR and VR"? (at 00:43)
📺 Streaming Consolidation: fait accompli? Or just wishful thinking? (01:15)
🛍️ Netflix & Shill: Shortening the path-to-purchase via "shoppable streaming" (04:34)
🇺🇸 ChatGPT for President? F*ckers finding out (05:29)
❌ Will the X where Twitter used to be survive 2024? Will Musk still own it? (06:18)
🤖 Shopping by proxy: The rise of machine customers (at 08:46)
🌎 2024 global ad spend—all the world's a game, billboard, or car (at 11:25)
📊 Today's fastest-growing brands—depending on how you define "brand" (13:04)

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📺 On February 11, brands forked out billions to put their commercials in front of the largest audience to ever tune into a live sports broadcast. But two weeks later, how well do you remember the ads? In an episode recorded on Super Bowl Sunday, we test your recall and discuss the best—and worst—commercials of Ad Bowl 2024. From Feb 19. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

🏈 Great game, but tough on the Ricks' hometown team
💥 Aubrey Plaza & Nick Offerman can barely contain their excrement…er, excitement (at 02:35)
🥤 Is that a Baja Blast or did your Taco Bell Grande just make a run for the border? (at 03:27)
💦 Only Aquaman and Nerds Splashdance for Jennifer Beal (at 04:00)
🛸 Martin Scorsese says, "Hello Down There"—and it's not for Viagra (at 05:28)
🛍️ Bargain brand Temu and its trio of spots leave retailers trembling (at 06:36)
🥸 Chris Pratt can leave the 'stache at home—Rick W. won't recognize him anyway (at 07:57)
🛞 Christopher Walken doesn't. Like. The way people impersonate. Him. All of the. Time. (at 09:03)
🧞‍♂️ Dude looks like a Genie: Bud Light hopes its new brand mascot rubs you the right way (at 10:35)
🔺 Doritos wants the world to know that Dina and Mita are all that and a bag of chips (at 11:39)
🍋 Memo to Ice Spice's ex: Lem and Lime are her fresh new squeezes (at 12:36)
🧠 Jennifer Aniston offers sage advice—but don't be surprised if she forgets it (at 13:31)

Approx. 20 minutes, 25 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

🎨 Pantone's Color of the Year. Burger King's new flame-broiled…sneakers. Will the real Banksy please unmask? Tesla's brand placement…as an apocalyptic nightmare. Pop-Tarts scores a big win. Star Wars: Rebel Moon has the Ricks confused. Jack Reacher's Atlantean origins. Loaded Questions and a whole lot more. From Jan 30. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

📆 The Ricks reunite for a new calendar year
🦠 Rick W gets coal in his stocking—until it really matters
🚙 Rick M gets jealous of his wife's Apple CarPlay
🏍️ Yeah, but is Honda the Toyota of motorcycles?
🐠 TroublAlert: "Aquaman 2," we never saw ye
🤯 "Oppenheimer:" As explosively good as it sounds?
🚥 Tesla just won't let you "Leave the World Behind"
🦸🏻‍♂️ DC's "Doom" goes out with one last "Patrol"
🚀 "Rebel Moon:" This is NOT the "Star Wars" you're looking for
💪🏼 You don't know Jack about "Reacher's" Atlantian origins
👺 New suit may unmask Bansky…whoever he/she/they may be
🏟️ Pop-Tarts mascot gets eaten alive—and scores as meme
🍔 Burger King's new collab may not bode well for brand relevance
🤖 Barbie's AI gone wrong: How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
🖱️ 30 years of Bluetooth: Where did it get its name?
🍑Pantone's Color of the Year "resonates with compassion"
🙅🏽‍♀️ Will X/Twitter really "go the way of MySpace" this year?