Okay, i'm all caught up on Rick & Morty, overall, I like it. It has funny writing, some clever concepts, the animation is...interesting. But it does like to reuse concepts and sometimes the unpredictable nature of the show ironically makes it predictable. And no, i don't think it's better than Futurama like some claim it to be, it's nowhere near that good. Nevertheless, let's go into some more detail by talking about the best episode and the worst episode (so far).
Best Episode: Total Rickall
This was the most like something from Dan Harmon, mostly because it has a very similar presentation to an episode of Community "Paradigms of Human Memory". I say presentation because in Community's case they were having fake flashbacks to events that didn't happen to satirise the clip show trope in sitcoms, for Rick & Morty they were fake flashbacks to events to allow a parasite to alter their memories and pretend they were real family members. Different plots, similar in execution. But hey, I love Community and the episode here was different enough that it didn't feel like a cheap clone of Paradigms. The episode has some of most creative character designs of the show and the clip show format allowed the show to better pace out it's jokes and just go from funny set up to funny set up. But of course still maintaining the show's trademark mean-spirited hilarity with it's climax. Overall i feel like this episode had more jokes to offer than the others with a creative set-up that allows the writers to get even more creative than usual.
Worst Episode: Get Schwifty
Yes i know it's strange how the best and worst episodes aired back to back, but that's just how things worked out. This episode sees the Earth forced to take part in a galactic reality show where the contestants have to sing their hearts out and the losers get their planet blown up. So what's my biggest problem with this episode? Jimmy Neutron did it first. Yeah, in one of the made for TV movies for Jimmy Neutron, Jimmy and his friends and to take part in a galactic reality show where the losers' planets would get blown up. Okay i doubt this is an intentional rip-off, in fact i doubt this crew has even seen Jimmy Neutron, and for JN it was a Survivor parody, in this case it's an American Idol parody, but that's all i could think of was Jimmy Neutron, and you know something else? Jimmy Neutron did it better. It was more creative and had better jokes, here, the jokes aren't that funny, Ice-T is the only surviving musician and he's an alien who's actually made of ice...what? Then there's a strange B-Plot where they satirise religious extremists, wait, what do these two things have in common? Why is Summer so easily swede by them? Even the music of the episode sucks, at the very least they could give us some generic and soulless yet equally catchy and upbeat pop music to listen to, it is an American Idol parody after all. Overall, this just wasn't a good episode, it was the least creative, it was the least funny and the songs suck.
-Danny
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