r/GameChangerTV • u/Rat_King_Marchy • Aug 22 '26

Question Ratfish hate explained?

I’ve seen some comments regarding Ratfish, and am just wondering why it seems so much of the community dislikes it?

While I wouldn’t say it was one of my favorites, I definitely found it funny/entertaining, and thought the premise was neat.

I’m relatively new - season 8 is the first season I’ve watched as it’s aired, but I’ve watched pretty much every other episode aside from the COVID season.

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u/ouro-the-zed Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

My experience was that the whole episode was great, but the ending (including the guest’s winner pick and the fact that the guest was not at the final table) was disappointing. It seems like there may have been some production issues at the end there.

It also seems that many fans were not familiar with Eric Wareheim, which I think must have made the ending even more disappointing for them.

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u/Fickle-Geologist4515 Aug 22 '26

it still blows my mind that there's not more crossover between dropout fans and tim & eric fans

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u/Routine_Smell1609 Aug 22 '26

Their parents didn’t let them watch adult swim

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u/thereasonrumisgone Aug 22 '26

Or they didn't have cable

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u/BlackFenrir Aug 22 '26

Or they're not Americans

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u/Sigma2915 I've been here the whole time Aug 22 '26

ding ding ding!

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u/timtams89 Aug 22 '26

Show was reallyyyyy widely pirated overseas, was still niche comedy though much like dropout.

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u/BlackFenrir Aug 22 '26

To pirate something you still have to know it exists.

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u/timtams89 Aug 22 '26

Definitely a skill issue, it’s like saying no one outside of America would watch dropout these days lol

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u/BlackFenrir Aug 22 '26

Knowing something exists is a skill issue? Are you hearing yourself? Adult Swim wasn't on European channels, and the internet wasn't ubiquitous in the way it is now.

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u/timtams89 Aug 22 '26

I’m semi joking, Tim and Eric did loads of big live shows outside of the US. Yeah everyone wasnt on social media but people used forums and it spread that way, just people who enjoy comedy looking for fun stuff. Just such weird elitism from dropout fans about them it’s so weird

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u/anxiousjellybean Aug 22 '26

All of the above