Ranking Every Episode of “Rick and Morty” Season Four From Worst To Best

  1. Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri

Although the series finale threw its viewers an unexpected bone by delivering pay-off to an intriguing storyline set up in the previous season as well as featuring several events—including Rick’s fight with the resurrected Bird Person—which the Story Train episode seemingly confirmed would never actually happen, the ranking criteria I set up in the beginning of this endeavor do not allow for Star Mort to rank any higher than it is. Don’t get me wrong, the episode is refreshing insofar as it strays from the formulaic entries further down the list, not to mention its attempt to return to the more linear, dramatic storytelling of earlier seasons. That said, at the end of the day, it’s little more than an inferior of The Rickshank Rickdemption. Both feature a climactic confrontation between old adversaries, the destruction of an intergalactic empire, and a serious, seemingly permanent change in the core family dynamic, except one did it with a little bit more gravitas than the other.