Rickfending Your Mort

I was so worried with how this season was gonna go after the first 3 episodes but I am so happy I stuck around. This season has already exceeded my expectations with the last two episodes alone. This episode has everything you want in Rick and Morty. Something that starts out so simple between Rick and Morty turns into mayhem. It was like morty's mind blowers but on steroids. The rest of the family chimed in for a bit during the episode and it fit perfectly to the story. So many parts of this episode made laugh hysterically. The pet cemetery, churro, and gun bits were priceless! As i said in the headline, this is the best Rick and Morty episode I have seen in years!

The season just got stocks soo high on my charts !

The true feeling is back, plot was amazing, refreshingly and easy to digest as a fruit.

I think we will see references in the future from this episode, at least I somehow hope so, because the link will be instant.

Some important points :

• You can somehow watch this episode without needing to know the plot of the season, or if you watching times to times or you just see random episodes at other people house ! - and is still funny (not perfectly technical)
• The episode is somehow self-explanatory and I like that very much.

The aftercredit could be somehow more complex, It was good but I somehow expected mayber a little more ?!

I can't for the life of me remember who does the voice of the Observer but you will recognize the voice actor for certain. You might want to record this episode because the Observer, in particular, has some of the funniest one liners in years on Rick & Morty and you'll probably miss some of them the first time through. This episode had me laughing out loud even after watching several times now. It's the funniest episode in a couple of years at least and makes up for some of the other episodes fans have had to trudge through the last couple of seasons. I hope IMDB gets the rest of the info to fill in the voice cast so I can figure out who the Observer voice is because it's driving me nuts. Also, keep an ear out for Matcluck's voice from Maurice LaMarche.

This episode was such a relief. I'm always on tenterhooks, expecting this to be the season when Rick & Morty loses it for good. Maybe what's happened to Futurama has given me animated-sci-fi-series PTSD. But there were a few really good episodes this season and now we have a real winner.

I howled like a demon through most of it. The absurd "Guardian of Forever" sentient geode. The 17 different lunatic episode concepts delivered rapid-fire. Classic stuff.

It's okay if future seasons mean we suffer through How Poopy Got his Poop Back and Air Force Wong, as long as they are still capable of knocking it out of the park on occasion.

Season seven makes it two really good episode in a row with "Rickfending Your Mort" a loose parody of both "Defending Your Life" the Albert Brooks movie, and the concept of animated series doing clips show. This is the episode of this season that has, so far, balanced the comedy and plot aspects best.

Morty (Harry Belden) tries to get Rick (Ian Cardoni) out of his post -revenge drunken funk by claiming an adventure and cashing in his 'Morty cards'. Disputing that they can have gone on enough adventures for this to be valid, Rick calls in The Observer (Ryan Hansen) a sentient Alien Rock from a species that sees all and can display what happened. Whilst they bicker about what counts as an adventure, they eventually both become fed up with The Observer and ask him to leave. He won't though and begins to show the family all their most embarrassing moments, leading to an unfortunate accident.

Interestingly, the concept of mocking a clips show idea is one I'm more familiar with than actual clips shows - given "The Simpsons" having it's cake and eating it to with them early on. This isn't really a clips show, there's only really one moment of reused footage. It's more the equivalent of using a bunch of smaller ideas to fulfil a bigger story. A perfect example of this is the scientific experimentation of a "Pet Semetary" scene, which is one of the absolute distillments of what "Rick and Morty" should be.

Again, as is a big feature of this season for some reason, the rest of the family are largely not involved. There's no B-Story for any of them and they only appear in one scene.

Excellent follow up to last week plot heavy episode, really good and genuinely funny.