The Last Temptation of Jerry

Who's the writer that keeps coming up with these weird, fetishistic stories? I swear that every gross and bad episode Rick and Morty had are written by the same person, as they share so many defects.

Up until last season I thought it was Justin, but now I really wonder: who does them? Another dragon episode which is so disappointing because the season was so strong until now.

At least the animation was top quality. They've really gone wild with the details and managed to create an interesting world.

Besides the awful story, the jokes are childish as well. It's like they have to give to a specific person an episode where they can mess around. After the show finishes in whatever many years, I will be very curious to hear what were the dynamics inside the team. To be honest, I would be fine with fewer episodes per season if they kept them at the quality that 8x1-8x3 had.

This episode is a prime example of lazy writing disguised as edgy satire. Once again, the writers take the most overused shortcut in adult animation: mocking religion for cheap laughs. The portrayal of Jesus as an alien soldier sent to fight a hyper-sexualized Easter Bunny isn't clever, subversive, or new (it's just tired). At this point, the "religion is dumb" joke feels like it's being recycled for the hundredth time, and this show used to be more creative than that.

Worse, the episode relies heavily on gross-out and vulgar humor, including scenes like Jerry vomiting up a bunny, which seem to exist purely to disgust rather than entertain. It brings to mind "Rickdependence Spray" (S5 E4), one of the show's most widely criticized episodes, known for prioritizing crude spectacle over substance. This episode follows the same path, prioritizing "shock" over story.

What's most disappointing is that it contributes absolutely nothing to the ongoing development of the characters. Unlike the two previous episodes this season (which gave us meaningful glimpses into Rick's relationship with his family, especially Summer, Morty, and Beth) this one is just noise. There's no emotional core, no growth, and no stakes. Just a hollow plot full of forced irreverence that adds nothing to the show's legacy or world-building.

You can be irreverent and smart (Rick and Morty has done it before), but this? This is just filler wrapped in fake controversy. And frankly, it's beneath the show.

I found this to be a very funny episode, better than a lot of other ones that revolve around sex, and it actually had funny jokes aside from that. There is probably going to be reviews saying how this is a new low for the show, as people have been saying on every second episode, or how they loved all the previous seasons, but this one is creatively bankrupt. At least the first 2/3/4/5/6/7 seasons were good before this insane drop in quality starting with episode one. It's getting a bit annoying ngl, this season is great in my opinion, and an improvement over the last few. The first episode is extremely funny, and episode 3 is awesome,too. There's plenty of season one episodes people would hate if they came out later and vice versa, why not just enjoy the show?

This episode really felt like the prior Rick and Mortys. Finally we had a unique premise that wasn't trying to mimic what came before, with the bonus of being a Jerry episode. In usual Jerry fashion, he gets upset over nobody else wanting to celebrate Easter, and naturally what starts out innocent turns into total chaos. However we get to a stronger Jerry which was a nice change. The Alien/Prometheus parodying was also great. I finally was spending most of the episode laughing and enjoying my time. If you have been disappointed by this season thus far, then give this a watch. Let's hope the rest of the season is as great as this episode.

The writers did a bad rehash of older episodes, and depended too much on character stereotypes to carry the episode. It was all snarky interactions between the family with no story.

The A plot: Jerry is an idiot, his family doesn't respect him, Rick & Morty must bail him out.

The B plot: Summer is a party girl. Send her to Spring break (that was the big laugh)

They then added a trope about Easter is a fake holiday that was started by two warring alien groups. You will groan when you see them.

I like irreverent humor, but this was bad. 'Story Train' was amusing because they demonstrated how introducing bible stories drains the life out of a show.

------------------------------------------- The poor quality of this episode is surprising since the R&M comics have so much new material to offer the writers. This looks like the writers are running out of ideas.