Rick and Morty 2.10

The Wedding Squanchers

Rick's past comes back to haunt him when he and his family attend the wedding of his best friend, Bird Person. It tuns out that Rick and several friends of his friends have been on the run for years. It all dates back to the fact that they backed the wrong side in an intergalactic war.

There is lots to like in this episode even though it is not as fall down funny as some other episodes. I love the introduction of a new part of Rick's past. Just when I thought he couldn't get any cooler, Rick Sanchez does it again.

Rick and Morty 2.09

Look Who's Purging Now

Rick and Morty stop for wiper fluid on a planet where a purge is about to happen. Rick wants to hang out and watch, Morty doesn't. After their spacecraft gets stolen by someone they try to help they are stuck and have to defend themselves in order to survive the night.

Not my favorite episode. Not bad but it just didn't make me laugh like some of the other episodes do.

Rick and Morty 2.08

Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate

Jerry is taken to an alien hospital for emergency surgery after he accidentally ate one of Rick's science experiments. While in the hospital he is asked to donate his penis in order to save the life of Shrimpy Pibbles, a great alien leader who sounds just like Werner Herzog. According to the doctors his penis will be molded into a new heart for Shrimpy.

Jerry goes back and forth: at first he's okay with it, then he isn't, then asks Beth what she thinks. She is against the idea until she sees some of the prosthetic devices that they are offering to replace his penis and then she's all for it. Jerry waffles some more as to whether to donate his penis or not and then gets outraged when they decide not to take his penis and instead give Shrimpy an artificial heart.

Rick, Morty, and Summer spend most of the episode watching all sorts of weird tv shows. Some of them were funny but lots of them left me scratching my head.

Overall a very funny episode but almost entirely for Jerry's story and not for the titular interdimensional cable tv.

Rick and Morty 2.07

Big Trouble in Little Sanchez

Rick takes Beth and Jerry to couples therapy on another planet. The couples therapy works but not really as Beth and Jerry inadvertently destroy the couples therapy business and solve the issues in their marriage in the process of preventing super-powered versions of themselves from killing the originals. The super-powered versions of Beth and Jerry were freaky looking.

Back on Earth, Summer convinces Rick to create a teenage version of himself to help them find an destroy a vampire. Tiny Rick, as he calls himself, gets the job done but then wants to stick around. Summer has to convince Morty, who likes having Tiny Rick around, to team up with her to convince Rick that Tiny Rick has to go.

Excellent episode but probably not my number one favorite from this season.

Rick and Morty 2.06

The Ricks Must Be Crazy

- Rick and Morty travel into a microverse in Rick's car battery to figure out why it isn't working; turns out the people of the world Rick created are following the lead of Zeep, their smartest scientist, who has developed an alternate method of generating power by creating his own microverse which is very similar to the one that he comes from
- Rick and Morty left Summer behind in the car, which Rick has programmed to defend Summer; after the car kills one man and paralyzes another Summer does what she can to get the car to not do anything violent

- possibly my favorite episode; loved the worlds within worlds within worlds concept; loved how Rick and Zeep are so similar and yet can't get along
- lots of little gags in addition to the framework of the story also worked real well for me

Rick and Morty 2.05

Get Schwifty

- Earth gets pulled into an intergalactic reality show (like Eurovision or American Idol) run by a race of big giant heads; Rick and Morty end up being the representatives of Earth after all the other musical artists with the exception of Ice-T get killed; the first song they come up with is Get Schwifty; Morty loses his nerve after he learns that Earth will be destroyed if they lose; he grabs Ricks inter-dimensional portal device and runs off
- by far the funniest part of the episode is what happens to Summer and her parents (Jerry and Beth); fearing that world might be destroyed by big giant heads they wind up in church; one leads to another and they all end up part of a new religion that worships the big giant heads, exiles people by tying them to helium balloons and letting them float up to the big giant heads, and has them wearing weird hats
- I thought this one was funny as hell

Rick and Morty 2.04

Total Rickall

- Rick, Morty, Summer, Jerry and Beth find themselves trapped in the house (after Rick locks them in) with alien parasites that implant false memories in their brains; it gets a bit convoluted as the parasites start multiplying and taking over the house

- lots of fun and a bit of a head trip
- funniest moment might have been Jerry's homoerotic dream, I didn't see that coming or them going that far with that kind of joke

Rick and Morty 2.03

Auto Erotic Assimilation

- Rick runs into a former lover, Unity, while traveling with his grandchildren, Autumn and Morty; Unity is an entity that assimilates others; Rick throws himself into giving his relationship with Unity and the people of the planet it has assimilated another try; this has unfortunate effects on Unity
- Autumn objects to Unity and what it is up to, assimilating, until she sees the impact of freeing people from Unity's control when a race war breaks out; Morty is usually the one to object to something like Unity but in this case he cautions Autumn against disrupting the status quo
- Meanwhile back on Earth, Jerry and Beth discover Rick's secret underground lair beneath their garage where Rick has a captive alien creature; I love how they are totally nonplused by the alien in the secret underground lair because they are arguing so much
- the episode ends in a weird, not-typical place after their relationship ends Rick leaves Unity and goes back to Earth in a funk; I suppose that everything has returned to the way it was but Rick really seems to be depressed over the breakup which leaves me wondering if Unity will show up again or at the very least the breakup will get referenced in future episodes as a turning point for Rick
- overall a fun episode; Rick is his usual debaucherous self until the end of the episode; for the first time this season Autumn is the one trying to change the status quo and "make things right" while Morty is the cautious voice warning her against the possible implications of getting what she think is right, a role usually played by Rick

Rick and Morty 2.02

Mortynight Run

- Rick sells a weapon to an assassin and then using the money takes Morty to play video games; Morty can't abide with that decision and while Rick is playing games he goes to stop the assassin; Morty accidentally kills the assassin and then frees the creature the assassin was sent to kill, a sentient cloud of gas; Morty almost gets himself killed until Rick shows up to help out, even though he is pissed at Morty for doing what he did
- Rick drops Jerry, his son-in-law and Morty's dad, off at an interdimensional daycare center that he (or one of his counterparts from another dimension) set up specifically to care for the various iterations of his son-in-law; Jerry meets many versions of himself including some that that are very much like him and some that are not so much
- the crux of the episode is that Rick is fine with selling weapons which will be used to kill people and Morty is morally opposed to it; in the end Morty kills intentionally because if he doesn't things will get much worse
- loved the trippy musical moments and the overall arc of the this episode

Rick and Morty 2.01

A Rickle in Time

- picks up right where the previous season ended with everyone frozen in time except Rick, Morty, and Summer; after they clean up the mess from the party, Rick restarts the time stream
- something is wrong and according to Rick it all has to do with uncertainty; because Morty and Summer are uncertain about things the universe has split in two; then later into four; Rick can't seem to set things straight so he starts making them worse, on purpose or so it seems
- a split screen effect is used to illustrate that the universe is split in two, then four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and finally sixty-four
- the resolution of the problem involves a visit from some alien who chides them for messing with the nature of the universe (or something like that);
- the B plot is all about Jerry and Beth trying to save the life of a deer that Jerry hit when they were driving home after getting ice cream

- a fun episode, makes me glad I decided to watch more of this show; by no means my favorite; some of the scientific stuff went right over my head, in one ear and out the other