The writers are on great form this season when it comes to taking a silly episode idea to its wildest possible conclusion. But that's exactly why an episode like 'Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort' hits so right. Hence, this season's 'Giant Incest Baby' twist – which is a sequence of words I'd like to forget. I'm not big on gross-out humor, but when Rick and Morty commits to an idea like that, it really goes for it. Sure, I don't expect every episode to upend the format like 'Mortiplicity' did, but the episode 'Rickdependence Spray', where Morty's sperm is accidentally turned into giant rampaging monsters, was genuinely hilarious. The right idea will always punch through and dazzle us, though, which is exactly why that episode landed so well.īut the rest of this season has delighted me just as much, to be honest. In a previous piece about this season's best episode so far, 'Mortiplicity', I discussed how Rick and Morty struggles to feel as fresh as it once did – the show has to balance an odd mix of heavy continuity with the same basic status quo of a boy and his grandfather going on weekly adventures. Rick and Morty is starting to feel more like comfort food to me, and this isn't a criticism.
And we've had more of Rick's continued rivalry with the President of the United States, an ongoing, possibly sexually-charged feud that the show is pretty self-referential about. Again, this is familiar territory for the show – even if it's successful at escalating the stakes surrounding these ideas.
We've had an episode where Jerry is pathetic, and where Rick and Beth denigrate him being as such. I wouldn't say Rick and Morty is going through the motions this year, as such, but it is showing us things we've now seen a few times before. We've had two episodes where Morty goes on a murderous rampage this season – one in a dimension where time moves faster, as a plan to rapidly create vintage wine goes awry, and another where he kills the former child companions of Planetina, an environmental superhero on the brink of a meltdown. There's still a ton of creativity coming from the writers in season 5, but familiarity has set in a little. That's what made it such a special episode of the show – the other episodes just focused on being either great sci-fi stories, or the basis for gross-out jokes. This episode of Rick and Morty is lore-packed in a way the preceding seven weren't. Opinion: Has Rick and Morty season 5 actually been good so far? What we know about Rick and Morty season 6.The show airs on E4 in the UK, and Netflix in Australia. Rick and Morty returns for its final fifth season episode on Sunday, September 5 in the US on Adult Swim. For those hanging on to the wild fan theory that Rick might somehow have been a Morty once, this pretty much blows that out of the water.
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This is clearly just meant to be a nice Easter egg, rather than a hint at anything more – the series doesn't preoccupy itself with Rick's distant past all that much – but it really shows just how much lore the writers jammed into this episode. Almost_missed_this_golden_nugget_a_first_look_at from r/rickandmortyĪfter some Photoshopping revealed more detail on the characters, artist Summathyne recreated (opens in new tab) the portrait face-on so you can see Rick's parents in full.
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