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Warning: This 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rick and Morty season 6 episode 3 review is packed with spoilers. If you haven’t seen the episode, stop reading now – you don’t want to make Mr Poopybutthole sad, do you?
Rick and Morty rolls out its second Thanksgiving episode and, as you’d expect, the unconventional subject matter means it’s unlikely to appear alongside A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving or Planes, Trains and Automobiles on many holiday playlists. This predominantly earthbound story also represents a significant change of pace after the canon-heavy 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:‘Solaricks’ and the wall-to-wall Die Harding of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:‘Rick: A Mort Well Lived’ &nd🔴ash;trouble is, it’s not quite as sharp🍃 as either.
‘Bethic Twinstinct’ starts with Rick transformed into a giant turkey (not for first time), but such everyday occurrences were never going to faze the most famous interdimensional family on TV. Rick and Morty quickly finds another way to cement its status as the weirdest soap opera in history, however, when Beth and Space Beth fall i♏n love. It’s a development that could be every bit as disruptive to the Smith/Sanchez household as giant space infants and elderly relatives turning themselves into vegetಞables.
The romance begins the old-fashioned way, with shared jokes, back massages, and a mutual understanding that Kieran is the best member of the Culkinꦍ acting dynasty. Before you know it🗹, the two Beths are heading off into space to buy ice cream, but when they return with no frozen desserts to show for their adventures, it’s clear this is more than just a conventional friendship between two people with identical DNA.
It s🦄oon becomes obvious that they “suck at doing it secretly”, leaving Summer and Morty to block out the visceral horror of My Two Moms by immersing themselves in hyperreal videogames. While their efforts at distraction never reach the heights of the best Rick and Morty B-plots, the writers have plenty of fun with the gaming spoofs. Highlights include a ꦅStreet Fighter rip-off where you spend most of the game wandering around looking for someone to battle, and an extremely tedious Asteroids imitation based around the idea that most of the universe is empty space.
The bulk of the episode, however, is dominated by a relationship that’s calling out for a catchy Bennifer- or Brangelina-style nickname. Whi🉐le this isn’t the first instance of a character falling in love with themselves on screen, BethBeth’s shared life experience means they’re much better at making each other happy than Loki and Sylvie in Loki. Indeed, the writers, animators, and voice actor Sarah Chalke deserve a shout-out for making the chemistry between a pair of cartoon characters so convincing, whether they’re seducing each other over Venusian wine, or growing old together on a holodeck. This is a tender, believable romance – albeit one that comes with some very awkward consequences.
Their relationship has the biggest impact on Jerry, who – in a break with Rick and Morty tradition – is granted a surprising amount of agency. Most remarkably, his new-found assertiveness comes after he’s told the family he’d kill himself if Beth ever left him, and subsequently initiated his꧑ previously unseen “pill bug protocol”. Rick says this weird state of metabolic hibernation is what his son-in-law “wanted most in the world,” before pointing out that, “In his own sad way he’s taken control.”
BethBeth’s resulting guilt is enough to drive them to purge all memories of the relationship, until a “deus ex husbanda” plot twist prompts Jerry to wake up and call an instant halt to the procedure. What happens next is particularly bad news for Summer and Morty, however, as their parents’ bedroom heart-to-heart-to-heart rapidly turns into a threesome with some very weird power dynamics at play. We don’t see anything, but the sounds – which, hilariously, play out a little longer than they need to – tell you everything you need (or probably didn&r♎squo;t need) to know.
As it has so many times before, Rick and Morty revels in the opportunity to explore the ickier corners of sci-fi, the sort of places that are best summarised by the blank, haunted looks on Summer and Morty’s faces. "Jesus Christ, you need to fix the portal gun, Rick!" he yells at his grandfather in desperation – and you can total﷽ly understand where he’s coming from.
New episodes of Rick and Morty debut on Sunday nights/Monday mornings, respectively, on Adult Swim in the US and E4 in the UK. Here's the full 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rick and Morty season 6 rele𝔉ase schedule for more information.
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