Review: Rick and Morty ‘Pilot’

Spoilers Below

I must be as stupid as Morty, because my brain can’t process all the awesomeness of this show. Let’s put it this way; if you poured unspecified, snot-colored booze all over the illegitimate child of Back to the Future and Men in Black, you’d have Rick and Morty.

Right off the bat, we see what kind of grandfather Rick is as he barges into Morty’s room drunk in the middle of the night, wakes him up, takes him up in a rickety aircraft, and proclaims that he’s going to drop a bomb that will hit the reset button on civilization. Heavy, right? Morty is able to talk him out of it, but it was a close call.

At breakfast the next morning, Morty’s parents find out about this late night flight. His father, Rick’s son-in-law, is none too pleased. He expresses concern about Morty’s schooling, but Morty’s mother is quick to forgive her father after he compliments her breakfast and says that he wishes her mother was there to eat it. Ah, the drunken charm of a mad scientist.

I’m not going to spoil much more for you guys, but as the plot of the show indicates, Rick pulls Morty out of school to take him on a wild, inter dimensional mission to find some rare seeds. In the mind-numbing tornado of offensive humor, intoxication, a human casualty, and many slain aliens, we come to learn that Rick is as witty and determined as he is a complete and utter wreck of a human being. He even manages to convince Morty’s parents that these missions are actually good for their son’s mental development. That remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure; this show is great for the downtime of anyone who has a taste for offensive humor, and I surely do. This pilot crash lands on a