Instead, it’s the product of Morty’s overeager use of the specimen collector at Beth’s workplace. Here, the resultant creature isn’t an adorable infant instrument of destruction. ‘Fargo’ Season 5 Is a Lean and Mean Trip Through a Walled-Off MidwestĪt its roots, “Rickdependence Spray” is another case of Morty’s abundant angst leading to him fathering some hybrid being. Credit it for at least following through on the weirdness of its premise, but compared with the particularly strong three-week run it’s following, it doesn’t leave nearly as much of a mark. Aside from the 1996 blockbuster that gives the episode its title, there’s War Room antics, an “Empire Strikes Back” visual gag, and a light dusting of “Lord of the Rings” machinations. “Rickdependence Spray,” the fourth installment in a to-this-point-impressive Season 5, arrives as a 23-minute sex joke with some grafted-on, sci-fi thriller trappings and some other familiar coating for good measure. (“What if Rick got turned into a vegetable and became an action hero?”) Other times, it’s a recipe for a “spot the reference” casserole that the show has fallen back on of late. That “writing challenge as story idea” format can flourish in prosperous ways. Maybe a wild, tossed-off idea that, the more people joke about it and add on bizarre details, starts to take shape into something workable. (Just kidding, I assume she’ll be back to her regular high school girl self the next time we see her.Some “Rick and Morty” episodes feel especially like a writers’ room dare. It’s a funny and insane way to tie up the plot and I look forward to future episodes featuring Time Lord Jessica. Of course, there are still surprising plot turns I couldn’t have guessed at, like how Jessica ends up getting pulled into Narnia land and becomes an all-seeing time god. It’s certainly smart and well-written, but when the gimmick of an accelerated-time world is introduced, you can’t help but have at least a vague notion of the sort of extremes you’re in for. The concept in this episode is still technically a new spin on the formula because all the crazy time stuff is happening to side characters this time around, but it feels kind of familiar all the same. We’ve seen Morty practically live whole lifetimes, like his dramatic romance that’s undone with the press of a button in “The Vat of Acid Episode” or how Morty (or at least a part of him) became a New York City stockbroker for a spell in “Rest and Ricklaxation.” And, as mentioned, “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat,” with its plot about potential futures, flirts with similar subject matter, too. This is a series that loves to take its premises to extremes, so this all feels somewhat familiar. Rick and Morty Character Guide Delves Into the Multiverse By Alec Bojalad 1 of the Narnia world, the gimmick of hyper-accelerated time passage is used to build and destroy the universe on the other side of the portal several times over, blowing through a number of tropey sci-fi and fantasy worlds. After a series of mishaps makes Morty public enemy no. Time fudgery is a sci-fi staple and one Rick and Morty has stuck its foot into more than once at this point, but that doesn’t mean the concept in this episode isn’t a clever and fun one regardless. He’s also hoping to save a bottle to share with Jessica. Morty has to repeatedly enter a portal into a Narnia-type world in which the progression of time is super-accelerated to collect bottles of sci-fi-aged wine to bring back to his universe and serve to Mr. The conceit of “Mort Dinner Rick Andre” is that Morty has actually managed to invite Jessica over to his place for a date but he keeps getting interrupted by Rick and his nemesis, Mr. In fact, “Mort Dinner Rick Andre” even echoes “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat” with a plot to do with time, Morty’s forever-crush Jessica, and the idea that-no matter the permutation of sci-fi circumstances-Morty is doomed to forever be, at best, friendzoned. The series stopped doing season cliffhangers after that, so the season four premiere was just more Rick and Morty and the season five premiere is much the same. The season premieres of Rick and Morty’s second and third seasons were unique in that they followed cliffhanger finales, so- even if the second season’s didn’t turn out all that great-those premieres felt like epic reintroductions to the show’s world that had to get the characters out of a previously-established sci-fi pickle (not a literal one this time) in a way that was satisfying and cool. This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers.
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