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Not the mind-blowing end to the season I think we were hoping for and certainly weaker than the season 5 finale, though this still delivers a pretty funny, well paced episode. Robot Rick was definitely a highlight and it's always nice to follow Morty's character development throughout the show. Despite suffering from much the same problems every recent episode displays like an over-reliance on metalanguage (self aware promises of future canon and plot points) and pop culture references (the whole episode is a star wars joke), this still delivered in a way that satisfied me, and it's certainly a good entry to the show.

I like the fact that this is less dependent on gross humor than most episodes these days and that this one attempted a real storyline beyond just the fun concept. I laughed out loud a couple times, but the fact that 80% of the jokes here are self referential or pop cultures references is a little nauseating, and feels like the writers have gotten really lazy. Most of the jokes here certainly pale in comparison to the first 3 seasons, and in general Season 6 might be worse than S5 for me so far. There are no awful lows like last season but also no true highlights beyond E1. I still like what they tried to do with this episode overall, and the last scene in the garage with Rick and Morty bumps this up a star for me.