The Adult Swim series returns after a long break.
Rick and Mortyhaunted this decade like a chatty holographic ghost that occasionally biomorphs into a giant spluttering bloodmonster.
There have only been three short-ish seasons so far.
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By comparison, in the same period, Dick Wolf’sChicagofranchise has aired 13,000 episodes.
The self-awareness would be annoying if there wasn’t so muchselfthere.
There was a gun battle with spacefaring Crystal Poachers, an accidental crash, Rick’s own gory death.
Soon characters were hopping realities and launching assaults on civilization.
Morty had the more straightforward story line.
To get over that particular rainbow, Morty gave his life fully over to the crystal’s advice.
Morty follows the Death Crystal into battle with a local bully.
He dispatched the heavy with some high-Rick-tech weaponry, and that was just the beginning.
“Looks like there’s a new bully in town!”
“Lucky for us, he just made bully-bullying the new bullying.
Morty found himself one-man-army-ing his way around town.
It was the arc of aGrand Theft Autorampage mission: random fight, cops arrive, then the military.
“When did this s become the default?”
Rick said, hunted down in the street by totalitarian crustaceans.
“Stop doing meta-commentary!”
Morty said at one point.
“Just have fun!
We’re going on a simple classic adventure!”
It’s also possible that the show just wanted to draw its own very specific moral line.
An homage toAkirawas skewered and then fully lived up to, as two different characters evolved into tentacle-oozed anime-things.
“Sometimes we’ll do classic stuff, other times we’ll do whatever!”
Morty suggested at the end of the episode, excitedly spitballing future plans with Rick.
