The sixth season of "Rick and Morty" is proving a bit more consistent than the fifth and is, to my mind, improving across it's run. This fifth episode maintains the clever storytelling of the last episode but manages to be even funnier.
At Panda Express, whilst the rest of the family get banal fortune cookie fortunes, Jerry's (Chris Parnell) say that he will have sex with his mother. The rest of the family dismiss the prediction though Jerry can't shake it and convinces Rick (Justin Roiland) to look into it. Rick discovers that indeed, Jerry's fate is questionable, so the pair head to the fortune cookie production plant, only to make a terrible discovery.
It's actually quite a similar episode to last week in many ways. There's no B-Story again, as the rest of the family are sent to the Zoo for a story that will only recur in the (frankly bizarre) post-credits scene. The conclusion is an imaginative fight scene, indeed the sort of scene that would only happen in "Rick and Morty" as he battles an armed force who utilise and then are undone by the power of the fated fortune cookies. It's a little more of "old Rick" that certain reviewers seem to have been clamouring for, smart, capable and cruel to his family - he's even started belching again. I do like the Rick and Jerry combination, it's a relationship that is perhaps the one that's best suited to storytelling as it's as antagonistic as it is compassionate.
I also liked the Taxi theme runner, that is just the sort of thing that people on the internet would suddenly decide is cool.
Another excellent episode in a season that has really found its feet.
