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Paying for Multiple Streaming Services is Just Cable with Extra Steps

This meme uses a screenshot from the animated series *Rick and Morty* featuring three characters: Rick Sanchez, Morty Smith, and a deadpan green alien. The top text reads "paying for Disney+ Netflix Prime Video and HBO Max", while the alien's dialogue is repurposed to say "Well that just sounds like cable with extra steps". The joke satirizes the modern trend of subscribing to multiple individual streaming services, pointing out that this model ultimately replicates the cost and inconvenience of traditional cable TV—just with more separate subscriptions and platform-switching hassle. It leverages the popular "X with extra steps" meme format originating from the show.
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paying for Disney+ Netflix Prime Video and HBO Max

Overview

This meme uses a screenshot from the animated series Rick and Morty featuring three characters: Rick Sanchez, Morty Smith, and a deadpan green alien. The top text reads "paying for Disney+ Netflix Prime Video and HBO Max", while the alien's dialogue is repurposed to say "Well that just sounds like cable with extra steps". The joke satirizes the modern trend of subscribing to multiple individual streaming services, pointing out that this model ultimately replicates the cost and inconvenience of traditional cable TV—just with more separate subscriptions and platform-switching hassle. It leverages the popular "X with extra steps" meme format originating from the show.

Origin notes

The meme is a remix of a scene from the animated show Rick and Morty, where the green alien originally utters the line "that just sounds like slavery with extra steps". It was created and shared on Reddit (as stated in the source information), part of a widespread internet trend where this scene is edited to make satirical comparisons about modern services or situations that are rehashes of older concepts with minor, often unnecessary, changes. The image includes the official "adult swim" watermark, the network that broadcasts Rick and Morty, confirming the screenshot is from the original show footage.

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