I said in my review of the last episode of "Rick and Morty" that season eight had, in my opinion, served two poor episodes, two good ones and one that was 50/50, so this episode would be the one to break tie and I'm happy to say that I thought this was a real return to form.
Both feeling a sense of dissatisfaction with their lives, Beth and Space Beth (Sarah Chalke) use an anti-aging booth to revert to their ten-year-old selves, having forgotten that, at that age, they were psychotic tearaways. Meanwhile, Rick (Ian Cardoni), Morty (Harry Belden), Summer (Spencer Grammer) and Jerry (Chris Parnell) head to "Earth World" a notoriously low rent and dangerous Earth themed theme park that Rick has visited before. He's disgusted to learn that the park has had a corporate makeover since his last visit and the creator Dr. Dogballs (Danny DeVito) has been removed.
In every episode of this season, I've be-moaned the departure from the classic "A" and "B" storyline model that was utilised so well in earlier seasons, well finally it's back! And used to good effect in this one where Rick is the only real crossover between the two adventures. Admittedly the Earth World storyline, of a theme park gone awry is one that the show has done before, more than once, but there was some decent comedy in this one with random 'mascots' becoming crazed killers.
It's not a first few season classic, by any means, but it's another tick in season eights "good" column.
