Although it is halfway through its fifth season and, surely, it has many more to go, we thought it was time to remember and dig a little into the best gems that ‘Rick and Morty’ has given us in the form of chapters. The animated series created by Adult Swim, is one of the great phenomena of today, the ‘The Simpsons‘ of a generation that is getting the most out of science fiction like few recent products .
Loaded with references, but also with original ideas, the series created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland has grown to gather millions of dedicated fans who feed a fiction that is, at the same time, wild bullshit and a deep and complex reflection on the existence and human feelings.
Mort Dinner Rick Andre (5×01)
The first and last chapters of the season are usually those in which the series allows itself to advance the great plots of the series somewhat. Here he delved into Beth and Jerry’s marital status, the latter’s sexual orientation, Rick’s past, Morty’s rebelliousness and, surprisingly, a Jessica who for the first time was more than just her dream.
Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat (4×01)
Some crystals that, when touched, teach how you will die depending on your choices. It’s an idea worthy of a 3-hour Nolan movie that ‘Rick and Morty’ used to open its fourth season, full of time detours, deaths and surprising parallel universes.
The Ricks Must Be Crazy (2×06)
Another kind of massive creation from a minutiae. Rick’s ship’s engine stops working, and while Summer is left alone to watch the ship take down anyone who comes near it in the cruelest ways possible, Rick and Morty delve into the miniature society that powers to the vehicle.
A Rickle in Time (2×01)
If you watched this episode on mobile or a small screen, you might hate it, but few moments on Sci-Fi TV can compete with this episode as Rick and Morty try to unite their realities back into one, while we watch all of them. each of them on an increasingly fragmented screen.
Spiritual heir to that already distant ‘Total Rick-All’ from season 2, broadcast in 2015, this chapter also reminded us again of the little importance of the authenticity of our protagonists, something we learned in season 1 with ‘Rick Potion N9’ (2014).
Meeseeks and Destroy (1×05)
It didn’t take long for ‘Rick and Morty’ to give something to popular culture, the Meeseeks. As if he were a corrupt Doraemon, Rick gave his family a box of helpers called Meeseeks whose thirst to solve the deep and complex problems of the family ends in madness, carnage and pure fun.
‘Rick and Morty‘ is not an ordinary series and we know it precisely from this sixth episode. We will never forget our amazement to discover how Rick and Morty abandoned their family and loved ones in a world they had filled with deformities branded as Cronenbergs.
The Vat of Acid Episode (4×08)
We could say that what fascinates us about this episode, titled as if it were an episode of ‘Friends’, is the absurd premise of escaping by jumping into an acid tank. What’s compelling about this episode, though, is the concept of saving a starting point and going back to it if something goes wrong. The dialogue-free sequence in which Morty meets the love of his life and endures even a plane crash so as not to go back to before he met her is the most humane moment of such a pathetic and suffering character.
Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind (1×11)
Rick’s great weapon is the portal gun that allows him to connect between dimensions. With that, we soon found out that several international Ricks had created a council among themselves
The Wedding Squanchers (2×10)
When we still thought that ‘Rick and Morty’ was going to be a shorter series with a more limited story, this season finale was a real dramatic climax. The wedding of his best friend, Birdman, is the event used by the space government to try to kill Rick and his family. In the end, in a really dramatic moment that would not be so dramatic later, Rick gives himself up saving his loved ones. Of course, Rick would have a plan that would turn out to be the best episode of the series.
Beyond the iconic appearance of Mr. Poop Pants, this is perhaps the most head-spinning individual adventure in the series. Rick discovers that his family has been infected with a parasite capable of creating memories in his hosts in order to reproduce.
The Ricklantis Mixup (3×07)
It is the best rated episode on IMDB but we are reluctant to put it in the first place as the true protagonists of the series do not appear in it. It tells of the rise to power of a Morty in the rebuilt Citadel of the Ricks.
The Rickshank Rickdemption (3×01)
It premiered ahead of time, like someone who doesn’t want the thing, and remains unattainable. The end of season 2 left us with Rick’s defeat, the death of his best friend, Birdman, and the abandonment of his family. In 20 minutes of the episode, Rick reverses the mind control with which he is interrogated (although he gives certain clues about his traumatic past with his wife that have not yet been resolved), rescues his grandchildren from the Citadel of the Ricks and brings everything down.
