There was the planet with the screaming sun, Rick’s wedding toast notes that end “(trail off), (crumple up notes), (adlib),” “I’m Jerry Smith and I love suckin’ big sweaty *BEEP* and licking disgusting, furry testicle sacks,” and I loved how happy Jerry was when a Galactic Federation robot assigned him a job. It’s honestly not a very funny episode I’ll briefly list the stuff that got a chuckle out of me.
Sure, there’s a dark undercurrent to every episode of Rick and Morty, a sad emptiness behind all their adventures (largely because Rick is the embodiment of sad emptiness), but even the really disturbing “keep Summer safe” plot from “The Ricks Must Be Crazy” (which is probably the second most unsettling episode of the season) was presented as shocking rather than tragic.Ĭompare this to season 1, which has numerous moments you can directly point to where the show gave you chills and/or punched you right in the heart: Rick and Morty burying their own dead bodies, Rick taking care of King Jellybean after Morty’s run-in with him, like all of the Evil Morty episode, Jerry and Beth realizing they belong together in “Rixty Minutes.” Hell, even Snuffles/Snowball departing for his own dog dimension was pretty touching. Other than that, season 2 seemed mostly content to goof off.
I’d say the darkest it got was way back in the third episode, “Auto Erotic Assimilation,” which ended with Rick attempting suicide. This finale decided to go all somber in a way the rest of season 2 has mostly shied away from. This Rick and Morty review contains spoilers.