Review: Rick and Morty “Ricktional Mortpoon’s Rickmas Mortcation”

Overview

Turns out robot Rick has been operational since last week’s episode which explains why Rick was so nice towards Morty and the family, all of whom are keeping it down low to celebrate the holidays this year with games, movies, and more. Eventually, Morty lets loose the real nature of robot Rick whom the family kills immediately.

Meanwhile, the real Rick and Morty have to track down two competing lightsabers, one blue one gifted to Morty that ends up hurling towards the Earth’s core promising mass annihilation, another red saber from Rick that goes haywire. The President teams up with Morty to apprehend the blue saber and confiscates the potentially dangerous weapon for himself.

Not surprisingly, the President loses the lightsaber again and blames Morty, so the family decides to rebuild robot Rick and get back Morty’s X-mas present. But, that’s not enough, Morty wants revenge against the leader of the free world and infiltrates the President’s death star for a showdown. After Morty wins, robot Rick dies, and Rick makes a pledge to hunt down Rick Prime in the show’s seventh season. Mr. Poopybutthole says hi on the way out.

Our Take

I write this review as I’m watching the Adult Swim Yule Log, which is helpful because this was one HELL of an episode with quite a bit to unpack. For starters, EVERY TIME Keith David returns as the President, I’m game…no questions asked. What I loved about this week’s episode of Rick and Morty the most, it fixed what I hated about “Rick: A Mort Well Lived”. While the latter episode was a parody of Die Hard focused on telling you what it is, and worse yet, still not being funny despite the B plot, THIS week’s episode seemed more like the show’s love letter to Star Wars.

Despite all of this, the master of Star Wars parodies is South Park, and that show did quite a few of the jokes presented here, but, I’m not mad, because robot Rick constantly trying to kill himself had be chuckling the whole way through. Moreover, real Rick going nuts was a welcome return to form and laid a stellar ramp for flight for what looks to be a crazy ass seventh season. We’ll get into more detail in the season review, but the sixth season of Rick and Morty was mostly strong, and shows that despite big name writers moving on to do big ass Marvel projects, Rick and Morty shows no signs of slowing down.