
One of co-creator Dan Harmon’s favourite tricks is to take two distinct genres and mash them together – if you’ve ever seen the season two episode of Community, you’ll now know what beloved 1981 comedy drama My Dinner with Andre might have felt like if it was directed by Tarantino. It’s certainly our favourite post-credits scene, which is at once very clever, very problematic and very, very funny. This might be our favourite episode of the season. As he does, he calls the parasites “voiceovarians”. As they continue to monologue, Rick pulls alien worms out of their ears and kills them. Naruto easily defeats the original Gotron owners – who have taken Rick captive – Rick is rescued and, via voiceover, Morty and Summer tell the audience that life subsequently returned to normal. But it’s not all bad news! We learn that Summer and Morty’s giant incest baby now has a name – Naruto – meaning that we never have to utter the phrase “Summer and Morty’s giant incest baby” ever again. What resulted was a maternal bond, and a renewed importance placed on family.Īs the Smiths plot their next move, Summer mentions her replacement, Kendra, and Morty quickly twigs that the pilots are planning to kill Rick and take their Ferrets back. The aim was to meld the child into a weapon for the government. She confesses that her attachment to the family working together comes from a covert operation she’s undertaken in recent months, where she was asked to bond with her and Morty’s giant incest baby (and that sentence isn’t getting any easier to say). Summer arrives home and tearfully apologises to Morty and her parents for her recent arrogance and enabling of Rick. Then Rick fires Summer, subsequently hiring Kendra, one of the original Ferret pilots, to take her place. When he gets back, Hothead Rick is trying to destroy the club with his Ferret.

They try to bribe him with Boob World currency in exchange for insider information about Rick’s operation. There he’s kidnapped by the original anime pilots of the Gotron Ferrets, who the Ricks have been killing alternate versions of in order to obtain their Ferrets. Morty, incensed, steps outside to cool down. Jerry and Beth are fired by an increasing maniacal Rick, while Morty is demoted to a lowly engineer who works maintaining the swelled garage of Gotron Ferret mech.Īt a nightclub built to hide from enemies, Rick announces his plans to build a Gogogotron. Summer, now the apple of Rick’s eye, rises in the ranks. The Smith family’s combine their Gotrons to form a gigantic Gogotron. Their attempt to strike a deal angers a Rick named Hothead Rick. Rick unites five variants of Smith at a BBQ, where – in a scene that parodies the Corleone summit of The Godfather – he, a selection of Ricks, all adopting the Mafia stereotype seen in said film, and his variant of Summer discuss business. Rick and Summer deal with a group of gangster variant Ricks. The Smith family are elated – except Morty, who, as Rick feverishly plots to unite every variant of Gotron Ferret owned by every variant of Rick, fears for his grandfather’s mania.


The giant Gotron, made of each family member’s Ferret, destroy the monster with ease.

No giant sperm this week y’all.Īfter Rick, Summer and Morty have assembled the other four Gotron – via the tubes we’ve seen in the opening credits this season – Beth and Jerry are strong-armed into joining them to battle an interdimensional monster. The two voiceovers bicker and our head starts to ache. As daughter and grandfather walk away scheming, Morty’s voiceover foreshadows dark times, apprehensive of Summer’s gleeful encouragement of Rick’s excesses. He’s seen a blue Gotron Ferret, one of five animatronic ‘Voltron’-like mech that Rick is obsessed with. This time the issue isn’t snakes, but Rick spotting something of interest on a nearby moon. Like in season four’s ‘Rattlestar Ricklactica’, Morty again won’t get to go. Rick, Summer and Morty are on their way to Boob World. Not even Draft Kings offered odds for that. Perhaps top of the pile is how, week to week, the show consistently surprises. The list of reasons to praise Rick and Morty is a long and varied one.
