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Rick making a joke about Jerry's talking cat situation.
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The B-plot follows Jerry on a brief adventure to Florida with a mysterious talking cat, and upon his return home, Rick receives a series of texts from Jerry begging for help. The wizard who sold the dragon brands the beast a slut, leaving Rick, Morty, and Summer to infiltrate a magical reality where none of Rick’s gadgets work. The basic premise is that Rick buys Morty a horny dragon named Balthromaw from the magical realm of Draygon as part of a deal they make in the opening, but after Rick goes on a bender with the dragon, he and the beast have a more natural - and deeply sexual - soul-bonding experience. “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty” aired Sunday night. They might even be the final additions to what we might as well call Rick Sanchez’ Legion of Doom. Plus, this subplot gives us the one good joke of the episode, where the president refuses to kill a giant incest baby because it's an election year.Rick Sanchez may have broken the Fourth Wall yet again to tease something for the Rick and Morty Season 4 finale - or was his throwaway line about the talking cat just another joke that’ll never get explained? Normally we might not read so much into it, but combined with this episode’s post-credits scene, it seems like Episode 4’s horny dragon and talking cat still have a significant role to play in Season 4.
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Sure, this isn't new ground for TV or even for this show, but it's better than the dozens of tired jokes about sentient semen. Rick never discovers that it was all Morty's fault until he comes out and says it, and there is no clever comeback, no last hurrah, just a joke about a giant incest baby, that's it.Īt least Beth and Summer's subplot has a bit more substance, as they are stuck having to witness the president and his men's stupidity and stubbornness over ignoring any ideas that come from a woman, with the president going as far as wanting to nominate a guy for a Nobel Prize for an idea Summer had said 10 seconds earlier. Even when Rick and Morty has resorted to gross humor, it's always been for some larger purpose, mostly for an ending joke where Rick reveals it's all been a trick to teach Morty something, but not here.
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Not that Rick and Morty was a particularly smart show that required a high IQ to be understood, but this episode, in particular, is full of jokes that you'd expect from a Seth McFarlane cartoon, rather than from the show that has given us bleak and emotional moments like Morty's "come watch TV" speech or the brilliant insanity of the clone episode. The problem is that the attempt at commentary gets buried under a ton of crude and low-hanging jokes that are neither smart nor funny.
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At one point Rick, who believes he's the one responsible for the sperm, tells the president (a returning Keith David) that the sperm came from space, and are simply the real thing behind many myths, monsters and legends like the chupacabra, yeti, Stonehenge and ancient Rome. Episode writer Nick Rutherford does try to provide some commentary about America's weird aversion towards sex and the lengths they'll go to avoid mentioning it - as seen here by the increasingly ridiculous excuses Morty and even Rick go to admit what really created the giant killing sperm. We have already seen episode after episode play out Morty's horniness and blowing it out of proportion for comedic purposes before, going all the way back to that time he knocked up a sex robot and became a father in season one, but we haven't seen the show surpass this since then. It feels weird to say that a show with only 45 episodes under its belt is already repeating the same story beats, but that's Rickdependence Spray's biggest issue. RELATED: Adult Swim Reveals Panels with ‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘Blade Runner: Black Lotus’ and ‘Tuca & Bertie’ Given that the vat also contains Morty's DNA, Rick accidentally creates an army of giant sentient sperm hellbent on destroying everything and everyone. Of course, just as Morty is getting comfortable with this new arrangement, Rick uses a vat full of what he thinks is 100% horse semen to creative a bio-weapon against his latest enemy, a race of underground-dwelling cannibal horse people, or CHUDs (the first of many references to the 1984 cult film). Morty then volunteers to work at the hospital for… reasons, and spends the next week having sex with the machine. The episode opens at Beth's horse hospital, where Morty discovers a breeding shed used to "collect reproductive material" from the horses. Well, any emotional growth teased last week was done for and forgotten, because Rickdependence Spray is back to caring only about horny jokes at Morty's expense. Last week's episode of Rick and Morty may have retreaded some old ground, but it also provided a new side of Morty Smith we hadn't seen before, the vulnerable teenager who can still get his heart broken by a girl despite seeing horrible things on the regular.