Lighter-than-air Jerry was hilarious. Loved the wedding picture on his phone of an unimpressed Beth carrying him.
The snake episode was pretty good - enjoyed the references to The Terminator and A Sound of Thunder (and did you notice the poster for Back to the Future in the Eighties snakes’ physics lab?), not to mention the cranked-up-to-11 killing-Snake-Hitler bit. I was a little taken aback by the snake sex once the professor entered the observation room, but hey, it’s Rick and Morty, so what the hell.
I thought it was Liam Neeson doing the red dragon’s voice in the pervy dragon episode, but I see it was another Liam (Cunningham, of Game of Thrones). Good job.
I read a youtube commentor on that video who suggested that the entire sets of clips shown is a psych out and none of that footage will actually be used. I like that theory.
IIRC, each season, the opening credits feature two real clips among all the fake ones. The bit at the end where they’re fighting some jacked up Abraham Lincoln looking guy is in this season’s opening credits.
Here’s what IMDB lists as the summary for this upcoming episode. It doesn’t seem like it’s truly the summary, but it’s kinda hilarious. I’ll spoiler it. We’ll see soon enough if it’s a real description, or someone messing around.
Rick and Morty find a magic squirrel and travel to space where they do some over the clothes stuff
The new episode was actually IMO pretty cruddy. (I’d have preferred the squirrel thing.) And WTF level of laziness did they have to not actually build a www.story-train.com?
I agree. The episode seemed promising, what with all the meta/narrative-theory stuff, but it was just a jumble. And the framing story was weird, but not in a good way—with Rick going all far-right shill-for-capitalism, which didn’t seem either funny or pointed.
I have a feeling the writer had a nightmare after spending an evening looking over an old narratology textbook and watching Snowpiercer.
Here’s a couple of references I haven’t seen covered in YT videos.
There’s a Jacob’s Ladder bit.
This isn’t so much a reference but I thought it was funny. When Morty is forced to invent a story that passes the Bechdel Test…he struggles mightily until, of course, telling a story about a woman’s period.
LONG time ago, I used to complain that all-woman plays (And this was well before Mindy Kaling’s “Matt and Ben”) would not fail to reference their periods and their men troubles. And that except for Judy Tenuta (!) stand-up comdiennes work would unfailingly comment on their vaginas/periods…and boyfriends. Until Ellen Degeneres came along and i said “At last!!!”
I agree. The episode seemed promising, what with all the meta/narrative-theory stuff, but it was just a jumble. And the framing story was weird, but not in a good way
You’ll notice there was no teaser. Just an ad of sorts for Adult Swim and weird way of conflating six feet apart with this being episode six.
NONE of the episode was canon. The entire thing was a commercial for the train. And a comment on corporate activism.
