OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Jerry tries getting his family in the Easter spirit, until the Easter spirit gets into him.OUR TAKERick and Morty has done its fair share of holiday themed episodes in its past seven seasons, with one of its first being strange but effective Christmas Special mixed with a Jurassic Park parody. Since then, in addition to a couple more Christmas ones, it’s done a Thanksgiving episode about turkeys taking over America, an Independence Day episode about monster sperm, and now an Easter special that does the thing that many other shows have done, which is try fill in the blank between Easter’s connection to the crucifixion and a bunny who leaves eggs. And by many other shows, I mainly mean South Park, mostly because that’s the only one I can think of that tackled that, and also because they basically nailed it (pun intended) on the first go nearly twenty years ago. But this won’t simply four hundred words of me saying “South Park did it! South Park did it!” It will also be diving into what exactly about Rick and Morty’s approach works in some ways, but also doesn’t in others. You know, like a review or something. And what ultimately ends up being the Judas that betrays the episode is its sheer clutter of elements, even if that’s the point of the joke.When they did the Thanksgiving episode, “Rick & Morty’s Thanksploitation Spectacular” (which will heretofore just be called “the Thanksgiving episode”), there was the usual absurd sci-fi humor, but things felt like they fit together. Thanksgiving is an American holiday, so this involves the President, and it involves Turkeys, so the Turkeys are trying to take over the country. Everything connected in its own weird way. Here though, they seemed just as unsure how to mush these things together as most people would, so they have these two factions of aliens. One is Christianity based and the other is…Prometheus based? With butts in front? And they’re fighting to each end humanity through some sort of rabbit alien spirit, which Jerry is made to be host to, and as he goes through a grotesque transformation, he is compelled to force people into having sex. It just feels like so much “And then” as opposed to “therefore”. I know that it’s hard to top South Park making the rabbit the true pope but I feel like there was a better solution than this! Or maybe there wasn’t, but it just all ends up feeling very tangled and messy, and not in the way this show usually excels at that.