I hear you; last season wasn’t the equal of the other two, I don’t think. My defense of the showrunners would be that they are going for a big statement on the effect of Rick on Morty’s life via an extended look at Evil Morty. (Then again I could be wrong and we’ll never see or hear of Evil Morty again.)
I’d put REST AND RICKLAXATION/RICKLANTIS MIXUP/MORTY’S MIND BLOWERS up against any three-episode run from the other two seasons.
I’d put those episodes up against any three episodes of TV last year.
Well, those were great, I’ll concede.
In some ways the writers have set themselves a difficult task, not only in coming up with great new sci-fi ideas and gags, but in carrying forward the family story. We’ve seen a lot of development in the relationships between the Smiths and Sanchez—much more development than is normal in comedy (or in cartoons).
If anyone can pull it off, it’s this creative team, though.
I regret calling the final episode “middling.”
I just laughed 20 minutes over “what kind of death…”
LOL. No.
Sure if they’d kicked out a half season a year later than the last one. But they’ve taken this long to make 5. They’re not getting any quicker.
The supposed golden age of TV seems to slow down most TV shows as they become successful. Rick and Morty. Better Call Saul skips a year. Game of thrones (ok, bad example, it was golden age, not now), skips a year, and does a short season. The reality is that the quality is there, but not the prolificacy.
Superb first episode though…
At least we find out that the trailer was referring to an ‘akita situation’. 
I heard Akira. Akira made sense in the context (powerful godlike killing machine)
Akita is a dog, right?
At least we find out that the trailer was referring to an ‘akita situation’.
I thoroughly enjoyed E1. I appreciated the minimal Jerry, but did not appreciate the return to hating Summer.
Yeah, it was for sure Akira but at the end Jerry mentioned akita.
Is this a whoosh? At the end, Jerry talks about “anime stuff happening to my son”; and, if you listen to the slightly odd way he pronounces “ann-ee-may”, I think it retroactively makes his earlier remark clearer.
Like, picture a guy saying he’s studied karate, but picture him pretentiously saying it almost like it was “Kah-Da-Tay”. Try it a couple of times yourself: get a smug look on your face, and say: “I’ve studied [pause] Kah-Da-Tay.” And then, still in character, say your son was in an Akira situation; but (a) pause ever so slightly just before you say “Akira”, and then (b) say it as “Ah-Ki-Da”.
I had subtitles on. It was always Akira.
Or, they’ve taken this long to make 10, but they don’t want to show all 10 at once and then make everybody wait another who knows how long before the next one after that.
Comedy Central did something similar with Futurama; they made 26 episodes at a time, then aired 13, waited a year, and aired the other 13.
Anybody else notice the change in the Harmonious Claptrap screen in the closing credits? Looks like Dan Harmon’s life took a turn for the better. I assume the woman is Cody Heller.
Dan Harmon has said that the reason it took so long for season 4 to come out was a negotiation tactic with the network, who would only sign year-to-year contracts, so they stopped producing the show until they agreed to a multi-year deal. In theory, they’ll be released at a faster clip from now on, but who knows?
I was watching one of the early presidential debates, where the subtitles referred to the Senator from New York as “Senator Gym Brand.” I wouldn’t take subtitles as authoritative, and Jerry confusing Akira for akita is delightfully in character for the poor dipshit.
Which is exactly what I was thinking. He did get ‘anime’ but failed ‘Akira’. Totally a Jerry move.
Except that the subtitles for this show are from a script, not a live debate. C’mon.
I have no idea what you all are talking about with “akira” and “akita”. It was clearly “Carrot Top”.
And the wasps eating Mr. Goldenfold was the best part of the episode.
I’m gonna have to go with Rick having to deal with an alarming number of fascist parallel worlds as the best part, as it felt like the sharpest jab at the toxic part of the fandom who think Rick is worth emulating and throw tantrums over chicken nugget sauce.