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I don't know how they managed to make these action-packed episodes so boring but they did. The anime parody was just pure cringe and seems to be written by someone who's never seen one in his life. It's mind-boggling how they thought bringing back the worst part of the sperm episode here was a good idea. I also can't believe that Dan Harmon was involved in this considering the mafia part completely fell flat. If you want to see it done better, just watch the Chicken fingers episode of Community.

Rick just seems off this season. He's so incompetent now that it's hard to believe that he's the smartest man in the universe who's always ten steps ahead of everyone else. I understand if they want to portray him as fallible but they didn't have to make him a complete idiot.

...it's just not funny, anymore.

I've decided to shift expectations - I watch R&M for the nice creative ideas, now. Not for laugh-out-loud moments.

Which is, when you come to think of it, quite sad.

But hey. Glas half full, right... when your spouse loses the sex-appeal, you better start to enjoy playing scrabble.

This season felt like it was written in a vacuum. The characters feel off and their immune to real world consequences. The plots for this season are stunningly absurd and complex, but feel lifeless and devoid of charm. There's no continuity between episodes. Rick and Morty have been sidelined in their own show and they haven't shared a solid adventure together all season. The smartest man in the universe is now easily manipulated and passive.

The mafia bit had potentially and the anime voltron set up sounds like a good idea on paper. In execution, it fails completely. Jerry calls his own son a "little rat," Summer is basically a sociopath and Rick is possibly the stupidest character in the family. I understand that they were going with a Godfather theme. But the characters established traits are bending to contrived plots. It's happening every episode. They act different not because of character motivations but because the writers really want to hit the beats of Godfather. Why? My biggest problems with this season are displayed in this episode:

• Rick and Morty's are sidelined in their own show. They havent even had a adventure together all season.

• The plot moves waaaaaay to fast and doesn't allow things to develop. Instead the viewer just gets hit over the head with a crude nonsensical sc-fi randomness (kinda feels like family guy).

• The jokes are either crude or just wordplay that thinks it's real clever.

• Nothing is being developed. The stories literally have no beginning middle and end, they just sort of happen. Seriously, what happened to Dan Harmon's "Story circle?"

Sidenote: Some R&M fans are actually in denial, thinking this seasons suckiness is due to Morty actually being evil morty lol. Fanboys are really something else.

With Solar Opposites and the upcoming mountain of purchased episodes, it would seem the workload and split focus is having an effect on this show's quality (big time). At least, that's my only guess. This and the last few episodes have been significantly out of style for Rick and Morty.

And I don't mean that they're not good, I mean that they don't fit in with what has happened previously. Which says a lot about them being consistent in the past with a portal gun MacGuffin that makes *anything* possible.

You can hear the disconnect in character flavor and tone with nearly every piece of dialogue in this one. The narration tidbits, the anime characters randomly breaking the animation style (consider this: the episode with chairs sitting on people felt more in place in the R+M universe).

Everything is out of place this season.

I miss the show when it was great and clever (season 1-3) now its bad and mediocre. This is just not rick and morty anymore.