![]() ![]() Shooting the window instead, Rick creates a vacuum that sucks the top half of the inspector out of the train. Morty, showing more bravery and loyalty than ever, immediately jumps on the ticket inspector, and Rick, showing that he cares for Morty, refrains from shooting the inspector while he's holding Morty as a shield. ![]() Refusing to have a "one-off," "uptight," "overwritten" episode, Rick threatens the old ticket inspector, who turns out to be ripped and stamps on Rick's shin. He and Morty have been searching for the engine of the train that's really a "literal literary device quite literally metaphorically containing us." Not a simulation, but "worse - an anthology." The space-cowboy is revealed to be Rick in disguise, and after his investigations, he realizes the train has been "amplifying and linking unrelated narrative fields." Leah, a space-ice queen, reflects on Rick's confusing behavior when he met her family: They all sat at the table, while he stayed out in the snowy tundra fighting massive space-wolves. In another carriage, Morty, disguised as a blond woman, encounters a dozen of Rick's ex-girlfriends, who bond over having dated Rick as a rebound in a low-point of their lives. However, one involves Rick disappointing new character Goomby, a little, purple alien friend who helps Rick deliver presents to Morty and the Smith family but ultimately isn't invited to their festivities, instead left out in the freezing cold.Īll of this is peeling back the layers on how personal this storyline is to Rick - and how meta it is for the show. Visiting another section of the Rick-obsessed train, the space-cowboy encounters aliens who describe stories revealing how Rick saved "space-Christmas." The other Clint Eastwood-looking traveler, who wears one of those short Wild West capes, questions this "weird leap in logic." Everyone on the train, he says, is there to kill Rick. The comic book hero-looking traveler is on the train in search of Rick to kill him. One of them, who looks like an alien version of Wolverine, details how he fought Rick on his planet Ramamama (it sounds like it's spelled that way).Įveryone wants to kill Rick on the space-train. The episode begins on the space-train, where two travelers meet at the bar. Warning: This recap contains all the spoilers. The setting, as Rick notes, represents a literal story device, charting us on course for a breakneck-paced self-referential anthology episode. The episode, spoofing NeverEnding Story's title, is set on a train - in space. Arriving during lockdown, the new episode, titled Never Ricking Morty, actually references the coronavirus, joining the first wave of TV shows to reflect the current social distancing reality. With the return of Evil Morty in the final episode, the series has not only established a whole new realm of threats but has also opened up a mysterious looking future for the series as there are multiple threads to explore for future episodes.Rick has plentiful enemies to fight this episode.Īfter over four months, the long wait for the second half of Rick and Morty's fourth season is over. ![]() The final moments of the fifth season brought the season to an end by destroying the status quo and fabric of the series' multiverse. (Photo: Adult Swim)Īs for what to expect with the sixth season of the Adult Swim animated series, it's harder to predict Rick and Morty's future than ever before. These tighter releases are definitely something fans will appreciate and rely on as the series continues. Unfortunately there is no tighter release date or window for the Season 6 premiere just yet, but the confirmation that the series is indeed scheduled for next year is a huge one considering that the wait between early seasons was for multiple years. It seems they are as Rick and Morty had confirmed during the Adult Swim Festival this year that Season 6 is still on track for a release in 2022. ![]()
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