Two weeks into Season 4, the show has presented a pair of episodes that mix those two ideas to very different ends.
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It's a true masterclass in how to start a season with a bang.For some reason, love never goes the right way in the world of “Rick and Morty.” More understandably, overreacting to a single slight never really does either. Touching, hilarious, subversive, this episode undoes the poignant brilliance of the Season 2 finale with just as much, if not more, heft and fun.
Our sociopathic hero, our unfeeling emissary of delicious depravity, is back, darker than ever. And this is Rick at his most brutal and cunning. So now you know the real reason I rescued you: I just took over the family, Morty."ĭid Rick really turn himself in at the end of Season 2 just so he could dismantle the Galactic government? Does he really want to become Morty's main male influence? Or is this all a ploy to get more of McDonald's delicious Szechuan teriyaki dipping sauce, Rick's one-armed man, his nine-season goal? Probably all of these and none of these, because Rick's an untrustworthy, unpredictable madman. Your mom wouldn't have accepted me if I came home without you and your sister. I've replaced them both as the de facto patriarch of your family and your universe. He threatened to turn me into the government, so I made him and the government go away. First thing that's different: No more Dad, Morty. Welcome to the darkest year of our adventures. You wanna know why, Morty? Because he crossed me. And sometimes your mom, but never your dad. Ricky aims his response to the break-up at Morty: "We've got adventures to go on, Morty. Using a modified Brainalyzer, the smartest man in the universe annihilates his captors, the Council of Ricks, and the Galactic government in no more than 20 minutes, returning home to find Jerry giving Beth an ultimatum: Rick, a parasite, leaves. The Season 3 premiere finds Rick breaking out of Galactic prison to reclaim his family. It's a testament to the show's writers that this episode (and season), as familiar as it could have been, still made us laugh while feeling like we bumped the funny bone in our heart. But is Rick verbalizing it to himself a sign of incremental change? After all, he spent nine more batshit-crazy episodes trying harder than ever to avoid sitting with the pains of being Rick. And maybe this tragedy - the tragedy of watching Rick internalize his faults and continually failing to address them - will get old the longer Rick represses them without any real repercussions in non-finale episodes.
So it's not as potent or fresh as, say, some of the other installments that have already dealt with this idea. When he reveals, at the end of the episode, that he chose to forget which Beth was real and which one was made to be a clone, he realizes, yet again, "Holy shit, I'm a terrible father." How genuine is this? It's not a new revelation for the series.
But best of all, it's ultimately another poignant entry in the sub-genre of near-transcendent episodes that end with a lonely Rick, forced to look inward, to sit with the trauma he's wrought on himself and others, because everyone's sick of his shit.
Wong, Tammy, Bird Person, and Beth's clone from Season 3 among them). And it's jam-packed with callbacks (the Galactic Federation, Dr. It's endlessly entertaining in its Star Wars-ian approach (with a deftly animated weapons extravaganza duel). Season 4's finale does that, and more: It's another impressive plot balancing act (this one not quite as tedious as "Childrick of Mort," thanks to stronger character arcs, and plants and payoffs). The best Rick and Morty episodes tend to achieve a seemingly impossible blend of self-referential jabs and affecting character moments.
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