Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular

Somehow I think the writers just gave up this season. The 70-episode order made them complacent and the show is suffering as a result. It's going the way of long-standing animated shows like Family Guy, a bunch of lame jokes and random gags strung together by a flimsy plot.

What happened to the writers from the first three seasons? I feel like Rick and Morty is slowly drifting away from what it used to be. Wasn't really funny at all and felt like Rick and Morty were just two side characters. They need to get back on their game.

I don't know but first 3 episodes were nice after it something is missing, meh.

Lack of consistency , boring and childish writings and laziness of writers absolutely killed the show

what happened to rick and morty? Now the show is just some random cartoon and not the masterpiece you watched in 2013. The amount of problems with the show won't fit in this rating honestly. Im just mad and disappointed.

This is a decent episode compared to the disaster that was S5#E4 and the somewhat boring S5#E5. The animation team sure was busy with this one. While a tad on the "too silly" side, the turkey theme drew a few giggles.

My main issue was the screenplay feeling overcrowded with ideas. For example, the whole FDR insert could have been removed. Would you miss it? It wasn't too funny and was over about as fast as it was introduced. So, why bother? Feels like in earlier seasons these kinds of things were probably shoehorned in but ultimately pulled to make room for higher quality and less distracted A stories.

Personally, I miss the slower pace of S1 and S2 with brainier concepts at play and more room to breathe, but still keeping to whacky core themes. It would appear we've reached the stage where the writers/creators are having a hard time doing the balancing act and are defaulting to "what is the most bizarro thing we can do."

However, here's to hoping for at least this quality or better for the rest of S5.