Review: Rick and Morty ”Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind”
Spoilers Below
As the family are sitting down to a nice breakfast, clones of both Rick and Morty teleport into the kitchen and take Rick and Morty! But to where?
Actually it doesn’t matter. Turns out, there are a number of different universes where we get a number of different Ricks and Mortys. And yes, the Rick and Morty we write about every week gets hauled into the Council of Ricks where he is accused of going to different timelines and killing more Ricks. Evidence turns up, but the real Rick isn’t convinced so he grabs a portal gun and takes off with Morty on foot through a number of dimensions with a bunch of Rick and Mortys following in close pursuit.
Rick and Morty are able to escape and land in a world where sofas and couches call the shots and people are sat on while a whole bunch of Ricks stay back at the Smith household. Unfortunately, it isn’t long before our Rick and Morty are found and again have to go on the run, but this time Rick has a good idea who might be behind framing him for mukduk…I mean murder. We learn that with every Rick there is a Morty that cancels out any of the smart wave lengths emanating from the mad scientists. When Rick and Morty continue to follow a beacon, they come across a building literally covered with Mortys being tortured which would make it VERY difficult for anyone to find this time line’s Rick. Back at the Smith house, Doofus Rick (coupled with his Mask Morty) attempt to make friends with Jerry which is a stark contrast to what we normally get due to the fact that most of the Ricks take a collective shit on all of the Jerry’s. Similarly, Morty thinks that Rick is shitting on him for being not a genius, but they can’t bicker about that for long because we meet the menacing Rick and Morty!
Morty is captured and thrown into a room with other Mortys. Turns out, this Evil Rick wants to download our Rick and use his brains to eliminate the rest of the Ricks and all of the Rick Council. Unfortunately, if good Rick doesn’t escape, it looks as though Jerry is just going to keep Doofus Rick because he’s kinda the best. Back at Morty-base, a bunch of the Mortys look at our Morty as a savior and as such he helps lead a revolution that topples this Evil Rick once and for all! Rick calls on the Council of Ricks and they come to investigate the crime scene and also to return all of the Mortys back to their home.
Rick and Morty take off, but one of the soldier Ricks make a startling discovery…that Evil Rick was a robot controlled by someone else remotely…but who?
Ryan Ridley is maybe the best writer on this Rick and Morty staff and something tells me before it’s all said and done, he’s going to have a couple of TV shows on his own. This season alone he has given us ”Lawnmower Dogs”, the legendary ”Meeseeks” and now a world with like a thousand Ricks and Mortys. This isn’t the first-time we’ve seen other Ricks and Mortys, but this is the first-time where it has mattered. The alternate realities continue to showcase the best character-designers in the business with gross monsters, a multitude of altered Ricks, and the different worlds that showcase humans as the inferior species. From couch people, to phone people, to big pizza slices, we had just as much variety in this week’s episode of Rick and Morty as the ”Rixty Minutes” episode, but this one was funnier and gave us a WAY better plot to sink our teeth into for Jerry’s world.
While other media outlets are JUST starting to pick up how special of a television show we have on Adult Swim with Rick and Morty, Bubbleblabber has been singing the praises for the series since episode one, and have continued to do so for every episode since. Slowly, but surely, this series is becoming the standard for animated far not just on the Turner networks like Adult Swim and TBS, but on just about every other network on the dial. BUT, maybe the success of the series will finally see network executives trust their show-runners and developers and ask them to come up with more grandiose concepts. The days of using the Flintstones as the animated series benchmark are over…Rick and Morty is the toast of television.
