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Well that Sounds Like Slavery With Extra Steps is a memorable quote uttered by the character Rick on the American animated science fiction comedy series Rick and Morty. The phrase and screen capture of Rick saying the line has been used as a reaction image macro in which the author changes the subject of the meme to other negative things made to appear positive.

Origin

On August 30th, 2015, Adult Swim aired the Rick and Morty episode "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" in the United States.^[1] In the episode, Rick, who is mimicking a line from his grandson Morty earlier in the episode, criticizes the economy of an alien race by saying, "Well, that sounds like slavery with extra steps" (clip below).

On September 3rd, 2015, Tumblr ^[2] user cerlswaj posted the earliest known usage of the scene in a GIF (shown below).

Spread

On February 6th, 2017, Redditor ^[3] INeededACoolerName shared the image on the /r/childfree subreddit. The post received more than 1,000 points (98% upvoted) and 15 comments in less than three years.

On May 14th, 2017, Facebook ^[4] user HolyDoucheBags shared a variation in which the image responds to a "Glass Vibrator Urn" with the caption "Well that just sounds like necrophilia with extra steps." the post received more than 27,000 shares, 5,700 comments and 2,600 reactions (shown below, left

Several months later, on May 15th, Redditor^[5] BillytheMagicToilet shared a variation of the image with the caption "Well that just sounds like atheism with extra steps." Within less than three years, the post received more than 26,000 points (88% upvoted) and 895 comments (shown below, center).

On October 1st, 2019 Redditor^[6] PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES shared a variation that reads, "Well that sounds like cable with extra steps." The post received more than 50,000 (93% upvoted) and 1,500 comments in less than two months (shown below, right).

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