Yup, something of a mark that your show has ‘made it’ that you get Clancy Brown to be on it.
“Risotto Groupon.” Heh.
You could tell they put a lot of time and thought into that. No doubt there are things in it that we won’t see until our fifth viewing. Maybe while consuming a fifth.
I don’t see why Rick and Morty must be held to the same tired standards as ordinary shows; why must Rick and Morty have a “weakest of the season” episode at all?
All this season’s episodes are the best of the season!!!1!!!1!
As was pointed out elsewhere, this is not this Rick’s original body. He mind swapped a bunch and ended up in a high level Rick body, which might explain all the implants.
If you thought the Warp Jump sequence was trippy then I suggest checking out Superjail - it’s a lot more violent, though…
He should get an implantable immortality field.
Those tech support guys that lived inside the transmogrifier were pretty funny. Especially the end scene.
It was even better than that. He called it 20 ccs of liquid dream killer.
Yes! Loved Beth on the phone: “OK, I pressed the button and a door on the side opened up and three little guys ran out. What do I do now?.. Hello?.. Hello…?”
To a person who worked tech support for many years that scene was beautiful.
Well, this week’s episode was another real downer. I felt sorry for Morty when Regular Rick re-injected his toxic side into him. Funny how the detoxification had opposite effects on them - Morty became hyper-competent, while Rick became laid back and overly emotional.
Highlights:
- Rick and Morty’s emotional breakdown in the cold open
- “Uhh… dads?”
- The toxic world where everyone at the church started having sex, everyone in Saladworks ran into Sbarro, and the person in Sbarro started eating out of the dumpster
- “Crudite” pronounced in the same incorrect way I always say it for laughs
- Rick’s drones turning into a tiny Voltron
- The “Terry Flaps” song, which there is a full-length version of and which I swear is my new earworm
Morty wanted to be changed back, though. He didn’t hang up, giving Rick time to trace the call.
When they went through the de-toxifier, Rick became more like Morty, and Morty became more like Rick. There’s something to be drawn from that, but it’s too late for me to brain that much.
Another high point I missed; Jessica’s friend with the out-of-the-blue fetish talk about docking and such. “So… ever been peed on? YUM!”
I think that’s ambiguous.
And that friend was the same girl that stole Summer’s boyfriend in the previous episode.
Not my favorite episode, although I liked the before-and-after on SludgeWorld (“God is dead!” “Uh… God is NOT dead”). And it’s not every high school kid who gets a medal from an alien princess, a successful Wall Street career, a Manhattan penthouse suite and a hot girlfriend.
To announce it or telegraph it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting, would it? When you listen to Morty’s reaction and inflection on being told he hadn’t hung up, “Huh. . .how 'bout that?”, and see his smile, I think it was strongly indicated. He wasn’t upset, or surprised, like someone who was trying to hide would be. . . plus, this is hyper-competent Morty. He doesn’t know how to hang up a phone when his upper-class lifestyle with a hot woman is on the line?
Not made blatant, no, but I’ll continue to believe that he intended to leave the line open. Agree to disagree, and all that.
See, to me, you maybe shouldn’t put that second part after a “plus”, there: since it’s hyper-competent Morty, it makes sense that he doesn’t look surprised or upset. When he was upbeat and positive while trying to chat with Jennifer at that restaurant, she eventually explained why she’s ending the date and he – took it as well as possible, showing no surprise and looking not even a bit upset before moving on to the next stage of his life, right? He doesn’t panic, or make a futile try at stopping what was obviously playing out; he just went with it.
Now, for all I know he realized Rick was inevitably going to find him – after all, we’re talking about Rick Sanchez here, he can pretty much do whatever he wants whenever he feels like it – but put that aside for a moment: he’s a Morty who literally can’t lie, right? What, exactly, did he say?
Did they say that in the episode? That he CAN’T lie? I don’t recall that, and I don’t wanna go re-watch right now.
And I posted what exactly he said after being told he’d left the line open: “Huh… how 'bout that?”
Well, healthy-Rick says it about himself – “when I say ‘honestly’, you can believe it, because we both know I’m too healthy to lie” – and that’s when toxic-Rick gives up, which only really makes sense if that’s true; and then we get to see healthy-Morty’s sales pitch: “Have I ever lied to you? That’s right; and ask around, I never do”.
(I mean, granted, a liar could say that; but, in the context of the Ricks? And what with Jacqueline stressing that healthy-Morty was up-front about everything?)
I was thinking more of what he said before that.