Felt very…mid 80s carpenter. But I can’t place which one, exactly. But I definitely enjoyed it.
This episode was a masterpiece. If this premise had been played straight, it would make an absolute horror classic. The '80s synth soundtrack was absolutely perfect.
Little touches that I loved include;
- Rick’s alarm clock that produces an egg, hatches it, insta-grows it into a rooster so it can crow for the Sun, then kills it.
- “Boxer Lobster Boxers feel like they’re warm butter on your schwanz.”
- Beth playing the “sad trombone” riff, then playing it in reverse when Morty shows up with cake.
- Summer referring to the sleep deprivation suit as “all of this terrygilliam”. Funny that she’s never seen Die Hard but she’s familiar enough with the works of Terry Gilliam to associate him with extravagant and convoluted practical effects.
- Beth having to burn all the DVDs with “day” in the title and saving the ones with “night” in the title.
- Jerry getting a hard-on while fighting Night Beth.
- “Exit 251 - An Airport”
- The entire family mourning the Choco Taco at the end.
- Gene. “Why even bother?”
There were a couple of MCU jokes (the Rocket/Chewbacca misdirect, the indestructible plates forging a-la Stormbreaker) and very Dalek-y voices for two of the robots so the Who references keep coming. Was the third robot doing Jerry Lewis?
Concur!
There’s a bit in the Tom Baker serial, City of Death, where a human scientist is experimenting with time travel by manipulating the flow of time inside a sealed capsule, like Ricks alarm clock. He demonstrates his progress by rapidly aging an egg into a full grown chicken, then into a desiccated corpse. So I suspect that’s another Dr Who reference.
A lot of Black Mirror in it. And a little The Mandalorian.
(Coincidentally, I rewatched Night of the Comet just a few days ago. I didn’t see any of that here.)
I kept thinking of the Jordan Peele movie Us.
Great episode. I am really starting to like Jerry. He’s a Tori Amos fan! Who knew?
Just an 80s vibe, and the final sun raising shot and the synth soundtrack…dont know why I thought of Night of the Comet. I figured there had to be something more specific but I guess not,
I don’t think im wrong in saying Rick and Morty is the best Sci-Fi show ever made, Its not Trek, cause that ranges from social analogy to just plain Space Opera. In fact thats what most Sci-fi does.
Wheras while Rick and Morty does throw that in, (and add a dash of Southpark for potty humor)
At its heart, they take a sci-fi concept and just let it run amuck. Like the Terminator snake time travel. You’d just have constant time travellers trying to correct what went wrong.
Well at least in MHO its the best
Me, too–though that stems more from the voices the cast adopted, than from the plotting. (I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to do those voices due to influence from Us.)
I don’t think the Gasoline Factory, Dynamite Museum and Dry Leaf Storage facilities have been mentioned yet. So much good stuff in this episode!
The forging of unbreakable plates was an allusion to Infinity War, right?
I never saw Infinity War—I thought of objects in bescar on Mandalorian/Boba Fett.
IMO, it was more like Infinity War, with the deserted foundry and its sole giant occupant, than The Mandolorian’s artificer, but I can see how it has echoes of both.
I haven’t seen the Mandalorian so I can’t speak to that similarity, but I immediately thought of the forging of Stormbringer and giant Dinklage
Not one of the ‘you might have missed’ videos caught the Fabsolutely Abulous reference to Absolutely Fabulous and it made me feel old.
Two weeks after an episode about autophilia by clone, we get an incest-themed episode. Bizarre, but this one was more funny than cringe. Jerry complaining that he can’t throw up because Sleepy Gary ruined his gag reflex was probably the line that made me laugh the hardest, along with Old Man Huxley subtly implying that he caused the covid pandemic, and the security guard’s randomized fortune turning him into a robot tyrannosaur that proclaims “I AM THE SON OF GOD!”
Technically, there’s another grandchild - the successful author Morty Smith junior.
It was a funny episode - I enjoy Rick+Jerry adventures. I liked the Sailor Moon gag, or rather the callback to it later.
This week’s episode was kinda meh compared to the last few, but it wasn’t bad. The main setup reminded me of With Folded Hands, which I’d be surprised if much of the show’s key demo was familiar with it. I wasn’t expecting to hear Lisa Kudrow’s voice coming out of a dinosaur, but it’s good that she’s still getting work - seems like she pretty much dropped off the face of the planet after Friends ended. I laughed pretty hard at President Curtis being addicted to molly and the post-credits revelation that the dinosaurs actually were totally radical skateboarders, as well as Rick’s insistence that the interstellar rift was “super-canonical” as if to poke fun at the kind of people who frequent the R&M subreddit and overthink every single little joke as if it were part of some master plan on the part of the writers.
There’s going to be a 4-week hiatus before the next episode, presumably so they can time the season finale to air during November sweeps.
I liked this episode - I liked that the dinos weren’t secretly evil, and the stupid angry rock just gibbering in space made me laugh every time they jumped to it. Also, more MCU references!
Also, Morty being pissed off that his “Clever girl” reference wasn’t noted.
Eh? She’s been in lots of movies, and some TV series, like Space Force