Review: Rick and Morty ”Rixty Minutes”

Spoilers Below

Rick builds a cable box that gets infinite TV from infinite universes so naturally that’s what Rick and Morty do all day…

Meanwhile, the rest of the family uses a retina scanner that allows them to do things in alternate universes. Problem is Summer keeps seeing herself as a cock block to Jerry and Beth’s plans at leading different lives. Jerry really doesn’t want to get into this conversation, but it happens and Jerry tells Summer that she was an unwanted pregnancy.

Morty tells Summer that no one exists on purpose and everyone will eventually die, so maybe she should just watch TV. As a matter of fact, whilst watching TV we see Jerry’s alternate-self mosey on up to Beth’s house and we learn that the two were really just meant to be.

For the first-time ever, Rick and Morty does an episode that is somewhat akin to what the big kids in animated TV have done in the past whether you watch The Simpsons or Futurama or Family Guy, every animated series has done the deal where the writers take a break from complex plots and figuring out climaxes, and instead they just go nuts in coming up with whatever they come up with. That said, you would think Rick and Morty would do something involving the titular characters in different sketches or universes only to give us something else that is yet again, changing animated television. Aside from maybe Uncle Grandpa, there’s not another animated show that offers up as much variety as Rick and Morty. And yes, I could sit here and list out every sketch, but if you’ve never seen this show this is the episode to start with (PS Chozen’s Bobby Moynihan gets CRUSHED).

The one drawback to this week was the deal with Jerry/Summer/Beth and yes the twist ending was out of this world, but I wish we got to play with the goggles a bit longer and as such I hope that’s an idea that comes back as I don’t feel like I got my money’s worth on those just yet. In any case, Rick and Morty continues to deliver, and maybe the only general problem with this show is that it isn’t twice as long.