The Last Temptation of Jerry

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.

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.

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?

I find many of the more recent episodes to often rely too much on rapid-firing your screen with absurd visuals that, while sometimes funny, feels a bit like you're getting force-fed a vision of the creators for how rick and morty should be a witty, confusing, and innovative show.

This particular episode is a prime example of that. Narrative tropes that are certainly original, but not in a particularly interesting or even entertaining way.

I'm giving this episode a 6 because one of the reasons i watch the show is to chuckle at something absurd for a good 20 minutes after a long week, and i did chuckle a good couple times.

Still, more narratively disjointed and needlessly provocative episodes like this one are not something that the crew seems to excel at.

Apart from episode 1 wich I liked , I have not enjoyed the rest and this episode was particularly bad, this season is relying too much on nonsense bloody action scenes wich have been swapped for good content and chemistry between characters, no fun ideas or discoveries , its all so desperatly random , as if they are asking chatgpt for ideas for the show, both Rick and Morty are like shadows of their former selfs. I understand that after more than a decade it can be difficult to keep the creative flowing , but with a tv shows that is based on a universe like this , the possibillities are literally endless, with that said , it shouldn become so bizzarly random like this episode was.