Episode Details

Ep 225 - S9E8: Rickuiem Mort a Dream

Season 9 Episode 8 Published 1 week, 1 day ago

Do you feel that? Episode 8 just dropped and empathy is on display! Let's dive into Rickuiem Mort a Dream!

Semi Pertinent News

Emmy Nominated Rick and Morty — There's Something About Morty nominated for Outstanding Animated Program; Smiling Friends too
President Curtis premieres July 26th — review next week, following along all season
Reddit AMA with Marder and Levy on the 21st at 12:30 Pacific
Adult Swim on the Green, July 23–26, 1–10pm: https://www.adultswim.com/sdcc

MAIN THANG - S9E8 - Rickuiem Mort a Dream

Episode Details

Broh-nopsis: Hold still broh. It'll make you nice broh.

Our Synopsis: It's hard to see the world through other's eyes, unless you have a brain parasite.

Discussion

Title Reference: Requiem for a Dream - Movie (2000)
Themes (A/B Plot): Empathy Bug (Sympathid) — Rick's chasing personal happiness and Morty isn't helping; Jerry Cosplaying as a Serial Killer — Rick sends Summer and Jerry shopping, Jerry ends up having tea with a killer

Favorite Bits

Rick's apartment gags: reading Being and Time, the bedroom wall of Abredolf Lickler and Dr. Xenon Bloom, the butt food dispenser, farting alien earbuds
Morty wrecking Rick's distillery for a ride to buy Pokemon cards (and the portal later dropping a pack right back)
Rick's credit card blocking Jerry's purchases
The sympathid/empathy effect throughout — the empathy montage, the Dancing with the Stars bit (real dancing, fake trust), Rick and Morty swapping ship seats depending who has empathy
Jerry's full serial-killer turn as "The Birthday Butcher," with a metaphorical parent-kill double and a quadruple-kill twins joke
The drum-hoarding subplot — Jerry wants to save the girl, Summer just wants the drums — plus the bus bully and the paycheck-to-paycheck irony
Random Jessica sighting in history class, "Miss Under-stood," the jar of wallets on the fridge
Morty's empathy whiplash — sympathizing with an explosion, then losing all empathy right after
The unhinged police standoff — the negotiator, "his juice is coming out," "I want a hug" then gunshots, an entire police force out of bullets
Rick killing the parasite with vodka

Best/Worst Parts

Listener Suggestions and Shout Outs

Pppprrky shared a June 25th article on whether there'd be another episode like the spaghetti one: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode
"If we're in the writers' room and Heather starts to giggle before a pitch, then you know you're about to hear either, 'What if they all killed themselves?' or something that's going to make you go, 'Jesus, Heather!' It genuinely starts with her giggling. She derives joy from that."

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