Sort of the point though warnt it? While he’s proving his god level powers fighting to the president he’s apparently demoted in importance and in power in his family …
Just binged the season (didn’t get into the series until about episode 8, so I waited until it was finished so I could get the whole thing at once)…so I’m a bit behind on commenting.
There are two things about this that delighted me…
- This is the sort of thing that a lot of shows, especially those in the sorta-cynical vein of R&M, would lampshade the hell out of…but they left it entirely unspoken.
- Tommy was only one kid that his dad was accused of eating…and we (and Rick, and Beth) have no reason to actually think he didn’t eat the others. So…he may well have deserved his punishment, after all.
‘Cuz he’s friggin’ RICK. Nobody cares less about Rick than another Rick.
Disagreed - I actually felt the opposite - the family side was great, the rest was actually annoying.
Maybe it could have been written back after end of Season 2, that would be October 2015, a good year left of Obama’s power.
Not sure it would have worked in any similar way with Trump. Too much of a divisive character to make harmless fun from, and he’d probably be ranting about it on twitter for months…
As for 10 versus 14 episodes. It sound likes Harmon held back on the improved and fun episodes, such as the cable episode and others not tightly written… It appears he’d be more likely to do them next season…
I was genuinely surprised they made the Clone story a subplot. I thought for sure they would just make us wonder.
Has anyone besides Rick and now Beth broken the fourth wall before? cause I don’t think it’s a coincidence that now that Beth better understands who she is and what it means to be Rick’s daughter all of the sudden leads to her casually mentioning being on a TV show.
Well, there’s Mister Poopybutthole, I guess.
I was sure Phoenix Person and his “wife” were going to show up in the very last scene. Kind of disappointed they didn’t.
You know, now that we know more about Beth’s past, I view her shooting of Mister P a bit differently.
To be fair, I think most people, if offered this chance under similar circumstances (and knowing Rick for what he is) would immediately wonder if they were a clone and possibly how many other clones there were in the past.
I know I would.
So it is in keeping with the dark tone of the series to retain this little bit of existential terror.
Honestly I thought that was kind of weak because the whole thing is easily shut down with “if you were a clone do you think I would let you remember that conversation?”. Because it’s absolutely true, a clone would never even be aware of the possibility, that would be a huge oversight.
Except it is a check on a potential clone. If the clone says ‘yes, I want to run away’, then you shut down the clone and replace it with another that hasn’t reached that point.
On the other hand, I could see how it could change her viewpoint, as she now has a ‘way out’ that isn’t totally abandoning her family. That safety valve allows her to relax and change her viewpoint a bit.
Agreed. Pickle Rick is still my favorite from this season. The hilariously over-the-top battle between Rick and Jaguar in that episode was almost matched by Rick and the President’s smackdown in the season finale.
Great line. And did you notice the fake-the-Moon-landing film set in the basement of the White House?
Good point. I’d forgotten about them.
Come to think of it, didn’t they just do an episode where Rick is so incredibly petty about status that he’ll cheerfully wipe Morty’s memory if the kid so much as beats him at checkers or catches him getting a word wrong? And if Beth ever reveals that she loves Summer more than Morty – well, it’s down the ol’ memory hole, right? Rick decides Jerry should forget something, and, hey, presto, done?
This isn’t some obscure callback to an episode that aired three years ago; it only just got established. So wouldn’t Rick just shrug and amnesia the status quo right back into place, with him calling the shots as the head of the household?
How do you figure? Beth says “Has it occurred to you that, if I did try killing Tommy, it might be because I was jealous of his family?” – and Rick’s spoken reply is, of course, “Why? Wasn’t his dad, like, some kind of cannibal? Seems like it must be hereditary.” Beth then leaves to fetch Tommy back to save said dad from execution, and cue Tommy doing his act with the locals (“Next item on the docket: I would like to have sex with some of you, and then eat the babies”) right when she arrives to explain: “Your dad, uh, people think your dad ate you.” “So? You doy-oy! People should eat people!”
That’s not lampshading the irony at all.
‘Wow, that totally makes sense’ is basically the opposite of that.
Yes, and also the rather impressively-large pile of human remains. !
It’s that level of psychological sophistication that keeps this show so high on the ‘essential viewing’ lists of so many.
That, and the dick jokes.
There was a fake moon landing set, a Kennedy assassination set, a 9/11 set and a Washington crossing the Delaware set.
I missed all of those except the first. I should take another look!
Keith David as the President is doubly brilliant to anyone who’s played Saints Row III or Saints Row IV, too. 
Does he do the President’s voice in those games?