It didn’t take me long to discover that I wasn’t going to get what I wanted, and I’m not totally mad about it. I wanted the Rick and Morty spin, the weird skinned-human-being-butterfly-mobiles-for-babies treatment to Atlantis. We’ve seen other shows do it a hundred times. I was pretty excited to go to Atlantis with Rick and Morty, though, for a number of reasons. I mean, as healthy as a perpetually drunk grandfather and psychologically disturbed teen can be. Morty’s Mind Blowers was a healthy pause on this. The whole thing was topical and, for anyone with current political investments at all, it certainly echoed issues, worries, and point-blank concerns we’ve all been suffering from. The new Morty President of the Citadel is Evil Morty. Wait, wait, wait, I missed something while explaining this. There was an election on the Citadel of Ricks and we watch the first Morty get elected president, but he’s not who he says he is, as we’re told by a bunch of dead bodies and papers floating in space after being ejected for not conforming to the new presidency. Apparently we missed out on that - but this mode of presentation is the perfect way to really give us the breadth of just how much we’re not privy to.Įither way, the previous week was plot heavy.
We all know that we don’t get to see all of Rick and Morty’s adventures - they refer to way beyond what we see on screen, even just the week before. Well, the writers didn’t eschew the clip-esque theme, but they did shake up the way they delivered it with Morty’s Mind Blowers. It’s what they did for the first two seasons, so, ya know.
Okay, I’m done.Īs Episode 8 of Season 3 reared its head this week, we were all waiting for Interdimensional Cable. It’s more like an infectious mold that turns out to strengthens joints by totally removing all cartilage but replacing it with something unexpected that will probably kill you. I don’t know what gruesome part of my brain I’m exposing with this, but let’s just all agree that Rick and Morty isn’t the same-old, same-old adult cartoon we’ve grown to love. It uses those skins to make origami butterflies that get hung over babies’ beds.
It has patterns, aka, every eighth episode of each season is a clip-esque show, but it takes the whole trope and flips it upside down and then skins it alive or something. Rick and Morty is every bit every other show, and every bit nothing like any of those other shows.