Review: Rick and Morty ‘Ricksy Business’

Spoilers Below

Jerry and Beth are taking off for a cruise inspired by the Titanic so Summer wants to throw a party. That would be ok for any other TV show, but this one features Rick fucking Smith and he wants to get Rickedy Rickedy WRECKED! That’s right, the Smith house will hold TWO different parties despite the fact that Beth was rather serious about their being no parties while she was away with Jerry. That said, Beth has zero interest in reenacting the movie which basically turned Leo DiCaprio into a household name, so when the couple gets there she takes off to get shit-faced while sending off a maid-stand-in to take the tour with her husband. Back at the house, Rick and Summer’s parties are JUST starting to heat up!

At first Morty is all pissed off about these two colliding parties trashing his house, but then this chick Jessica shows up so Rick sends him off to bury his beak. Meanwhile, Jerry and Lucy are having a blast, but the ship captain makes an announcement that despite their best efforts, the Titanic will NOT hit their fake ice berg which means no one can reenact drowning in the middle of the Mid-Atlantic. Back at the Smith house hold, Abradolf Linkler shows up to try to start shit with Rick, but he meets this dude Brad who lays a beat down leaving Morty with Jessica all by himself.

Eventually, Morty leads Jessica into Rick’s garage, but the stupid son of a bitch knocks over one of Rick’s teleporters that goes off and sees the entire house end up on a completely different, but still habitable, planet. Rick needs a special kind of crystal to rebuild a device that will send the house back to Earth, but he doesn’t want to go with Morty to try and find one, instead he decides to hang back with his HUGE party. Rick decides to send Morty on his latest adventure with Linkler with Summer doing the same with her ”friend” Nancy.

With the Titanic working perfectly fine, it’s certainly putting a damper on Jerry’s plans but his wife doesn’t seem to mind and heads back to her cabin. This causes Lucy to lead Jerry into a storage room featuring the car where ”Rose” and ”Jack” banged it out in the film and Lucy wants to reenact the SAME THING with Jerry so he pulls out her gun and threatens Jerry to draw her first then to make with the banging afterwards. Back on whatever the hell planet Morty is on, he heads on a journey with Nancy and Linkler to find the crystals that will supposedly bring him back home. Unfortunately, Linkler is killed on the way there, but Morty and Nancy make it back to the house OK with the crystals in tow. Which is great because Rick mashes them up and snorts the dust like a champ. Morty gets pissed and throws the rest of the stash out and orders Rick to send the house back to Earth.

We come back to see Jerry drawing Lucy just like ”Jack” did, but when the crazy bitch tries to rape him, Beth shows up to save the day. The couple head back to the house, but are frozen because Rick, Morty, and Summer need time to clean the place first! End Season One.

We are the only publication on the internet that has been singing the praises of Rick and Morty since episode one. A bunch of others have since piled on the back of the bandwagon, but Rick and Morty is the latest example of the animation renaissance happening on both television and online. TV shows like this one, Axe Cop, and Mr. Pickles are leading a change in an industry that was maybe on the fence for a bit. Think about it! MTV Animation used to be a thing! Warner Bros Animation is JUST starting to come back. Disney animated television is at such a low point right now that even Verne Troyer couldn’t get under. The titans of animated television for the last half century are at a stand still, and Rick and Morty is leading Adult Swim into another golden age of animation produced by a studio that is probably 1/10th the size and isn’t paid NEARLY as well! Justin Roiland probably made more money at Disney, but there is NO CHANCE they give him a series like this, not in a million fucking years.

This week’s episode, was more or less a composition of what made Rick and Morty so God damn good for its first season giving us a little taste of all of the ingredients that have been already fleshed out during the course of the last four months. Jerry on the Titanic is just the latest in the hilarious attempts in which Jerry really has heeded the call of being a dependable back-story for all of Rick and Morty’s crazy adventures, the latest of which was really just a hodge podge of tried and true concepts like interstellar travel, awesome looking characters from alternate dimensions, and Rick just acting like it’s just another day.

The only thing maybe more exciting than Rick and Morty season 2 currently in production, is seeing if Starburns Industries is actively working on other projects from other developers such as Justin that will eventually see the light of day. I don’t care what studio you work for, what network your TV show is on, how long your TV show has been on the air, Rick and Morty legitimizes Adult Swim and sheds the skin of being another spot for re-runs. As of today…Adult Swim is king.

And we’ve been calling it since December 3rd, 2013.