#amort

[christiecandor]

Smug Rick appreciation post 🩵

#i love smug rick so much 😍 #smug Rick #sexy sanchez #rick sanchez #rick and morty #rick and morty spoilers #season 7 #rick sanchez x reader #screenshots #that's amorte #s7e4 #morty smith #rickandmorty #rick fuckers #ricksexual

[thesoftboiledegg]

The storyboarders do a great job with character expressions. Rick doesn't speak a word in this scene, but his face shows you exactly what he's thinking as Morty rambles.

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[ricksanchezbignaturals]

dr. hotpenis is an incredibly attractive dumbass

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[crashnbrn]

"ooh, grey areas. my speciality"

season 7, ep 4

#'i just need to know how much i should pretend to be upset' #rick and morty #rick sanchez #& #morty smith #oh no morty - what you did was /much/ more indirect #i wanna say something but i will get jumped by the rnm fandom ; #THREE DAYS LATER #i love you clone 5617-B! #that's amorte #adult swim #rick and morty season 7 #rick and morty s7 #rick and morty spoilers #rick and morty screencaps #tv screencaps #the smith family

[l-egionaire]

I have an unpopular Opinion about the new Rick and Morty episode......I don't think Morty has as much moral high ground as he thinks.

Like, he ACTS like he has a moral issue....but he doesn't. He has the same issue the other characters do in the episode; He just wants to get rid of his own guilt at eating the Spaghetti. And the perfect example of that is the speech he gives at the funeral. Notice that he does not APOLOGIZE for eating the person who killed himself. He doesn't act regretful for doing so. He specifically says he "hopes that him being delicious made it right". He asks Rick for NAMES and tries going to a funeral. But thats to make HIMSELF feel better. He doesn't ask who they were or if they had families he could talk to personally or anything like that.

And as the episode goes on, he shows another truth: He doesn't ACTUALLY care that the Sphagetti is people, which is what he made it SEEM the issue was. He just doesn't want to feel like a bad person eating it. The minute he gets some "justification" for why it's okay to eat it? He's right back to gobbling it up AND serving it to his family again. Because if his issue actually WAS that it was made from people, he'd refuse to eat it even if it was "ethical," especially after seeing the person it came from. Because the truth is....he doesn't actually care. At least, he doesn't care that it's PEOPLE. He cares about whether eating it would make him seem like a good or bad person and just wants someone, whether it's the folks at the funeral, the Spaghetti planet people or just his own loose sense of morality to tell him he isn't.

#Rick and Morty #Rick and Morty analysis #Morty Smith #Morty #Thats Amorte #rick and morty spoilers

[sweetenerbizz]

UMMMMM

WHAT COULD THIS POSSIBLY MEAN???

i’m so excited i love it when they get all cryptic

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #rick and morty season 7 #morty smith #that’s amorte

[zeep-xanflorp]

"you did the "right" thing. we are technically very happy to be better informed."

"is this people or not people? i just need to know how much i should pretend to be upset."

the smith's are progressively getting more degenerate and i'm kinda here for it.

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[dreamweaversfavsandthoughs]

Rick and Morty S7 Ep. 4: That’s Amorte

(There is no ethical consumption under capitalism)

Don’t read any further if you don’t want to spoiler your appetite…

My Favs

We got Morty back!

When the world was about to send out an Amber Alert on a missing kid, Morty decided to return to us! I’ve enjoyed the season so far but having Rick and Morty together is a stark reminder that the strength of this show is found in the dynamic between grandfather and grandson. Also, I love seeing Rick getting healthy and bettering himself, but I also love to see a Rick that’s amoral and a bit unhinged.

Facial animation:

I don’t know if this is due to the Irish animation studio they’re working with now, but I’ve noticed there’s a bit more diversity in the facial expressions compared to the last two or three seasons. Has anyone else noticed this?

They did a Soylent Green!

I predicted that this might have been a red herring seeing the initial clips and they might instead do something akin to the Universal Paperclip game, but a Soylent Green is what we got. Well, the idea behind the paperclip game is still on the table for next season…

Euthanasia, Cannibalism, and Suicide

Quite the trifecta of “subjects we don’t discuss in polite society,” but I admire them for taking the risk and weaving everything together well. Kinda surprised S&P let them get away with it.

“His dying wish is to see deader people so he can feel superior.”

Morty-O’s Suicide Spaghetti

“ Is this people or not people? I just need to know how much I should pretend to be upset.”

Oh, Jerry…

“They dyed their sun institutional gray.”

“Ooo gray areas. My specialty.”

Classic Rick

Kotomi’s cover of “Live Forever”

“Life itself is wrong and that means death is right. But you can’t side with that. So you live, even when it means eating.”

Not My Fav:

They could have gotten nastier.

This is my one small gripe in an episode that I think is fantastic. I’m confident there is an earlier draft out there that got so much grosser before S&P made their cuts and I demand to see that draft!

Release that nasty cut!!!

My Thoughts:

First my less serious thought, how in the hell did Rick find out that those people turned in spaghetti when they unalived themselves? My headcanon is that he has made a regular habit of impersonating a doctor on that planet because he sees doctors as nothing more than glorified mechanics, but for people. Rick knows he’s the smartest man in the universe and a proper scientist so practicing medicine would not be that much of a challenge and along the way he discovered this delicious trait about the Keplar people.

On a more serious note, there are two moments that really stood out to me. First, was when Morty broke the news of the spaghetti’s origin to the family and their reaction. They were angry and disappointed—in Morty for delivering the message rather than Rick for feeding them people-spaghetti. That spaghetti was amazing and brought everyone joy and they were more angry about losing their joy than the moral implications of consuming human flesh. Morty destroyed the illusion that they were “good” people and instead of actually being good people and refusing to eat the spaghetti, Morty created a work-around so that he and the family could still maintain the illusion.

That felt very realistic to how, dare I say, all of us have acted at some point, whether it’s the food we eat or that store that sells the jeans that fit perfectly or the online retailer that delivers anything we could possibly want the next day. Maybe, we find out someday that it’s not created in the most ethical manner and we rationalize it. We think, “ Oh, it’s not that bad.” or “ I can’t afford the more ethical option,” or "I have such few joys in my life I don't want to lose this as well.” It’s easier to uphold the illusion of being morally upright under a system that makes it exceedingly difficult to do so. But even if the capitalistic system is destroyed can we ever really be absolved? This leads to the second moment that stood out, Rick’s monologue.

“Life itself is wrong and that means death is right. But you can’t side with that. So you live, even when it means eating.”

My interpretation is that Rick is saying, “Life, by it’s very nature, is inherently unethical and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Even if the meat you eat comes from an animal that is well taken care of, killed as quickly and painlessly as possibly, and processed in a facility that treats its workers well and obeys all regulations—that animal still had to die in order to produce that meat. You’re a vegan. Plants are still living things and for many plants the process of getting food from them destroys them in the process. Millions of bacteria are destroyed every time you wash your hands. Life needs other kinds of life to end for it to keep going, but humans are the only creatures that are aware of this fact so we create arbitrary categories around which types of life are okay to destroy (categories we can’t all agree on) in order to maintain the illusion of morality.

This episode does not have a feel-good message among the jokes and absurd characters and I appreciate that. This one got my brain a-churnin’ and I’m sure I read way too much into this episode but I couldn’t help myself.

#rick and morty #rick and morty season 7 #rnm #rnm spoilers #rick and morty spoilers #rick sanchez #morty smith #that’s amorte

[trashbaglord]

I promise to stop.

You what?

If you help me, I-I promise I'll never look under the curtain at a Rick thing to figure out what's bad about it ever again.

Morty? Promising not to look look at the morality of what Rick is doing? Suggesting this deal all by himself? Our Morty..?

My first visceral reaction was akin to the disbelief of thinking "that's out of character" except that it's literally canon. But then it isn't the first time Morty is shown to be looser with his morality this season, isn't it? This was just the most blatant.

Morty casually trading probably drugs with the mafia

Morty killing henchmen without blinking

Morty calling his underground connections to find Jerrick

Someone wrote that the epsiode was like a mix between Vat of Acid and Mortynight Run (please correct me here if they know what I'm talking about, because my memory is falling me), making it feel like an episode out of time, but at the end of those Morty felt devastated and existentially wounded. If this episode is acting almost as a parallel to those, rather than suffer, Morty makes the choice to shut his eyes and remain blissfully ignorant, compromising his morals.

I wonder what consequences of Morty's deal we will see in the upcoming episodes.

#rick and morty #rick and morty season 7 #that's amorte #our boy has really changed!!! #I can't wait to see Morty's further development #ahhhh #i actually really liked the new episode

[emptyrecyclebin]

Cells consume, Morty. Life itself is wrong and that means death is right. But you can't side with that. So you live, even when it means eating.

— Rick Sanchez, S07E04 : That's Amorte - Rick and Morty

#rick and morty #that's amorte

[hesitationmarx]

"That's Amorte" moment i havent seen enough attention on:

Morty wanting to know the names of the ppl, Rick saying (something like) "ugh but then you'll wanna go to their funerals" and Morty promising it won't go down like that. cut directly to it going down exactly like that

#rick and morty #rick and morty season 7 #r&m #r&m s7 #that's amorte

[christiecandor]

New clip from tonight's episode! Why am I getting Morty's mind-blower vibes? This is supposed to be a canonical episode, isn't it?

#notice Rick's spittle is brown for some reason #“Is it really easier to eat human flesh than tell me why we're still here?” #rick and morty spoilers #spoilers #rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #season 7 #rick sanchez x reader #sexy sanchez #that's amorte #s7e4

[thesoftboiledegg]

I wasn't sure what to make of "That's Amorte" before it aired. When signs pointed toward "the spaghetti comes from aliens," I wondered if we had a rehash of Futurama's "The Problem with Poppers," where the crew finds a delicious treat on a planet only to learn that the "popplers" are underdeveloped alien offspring.

Rick and Morty's take on Soylent Green also seemed likely. Everyone knows the twist: Soylent Green is people! A dark sci-fi concept like that could be a ripe parody for this series.

However, "That's Amorte" adapted a concept that other shows have referenced a thousand times and took a right turn. No one's angry at the humans for eating their suicide victims: in fact, they love the spaghetti and turn it into a corporate product.

This is an obvious shot at capitalism and how companies will destroy the environment, brutally slaughter animals and turn cities into concrete wastelands just to make a buck. And I mean--chowing down on this spaghetti isn't that different from eating meat. I'm an omnivore, but I kept thinking that at least these pasta producers chose to die.

The suicide element gave this episode a poignant touch instead of turning it into an edgelord slog where the humanoids kill people and throw them in a meat grinder. Admittedly, the clones leaned in that direction, and that scene also shows how Rick struggles to understand the world outside himself. He doesn't react when the clones kill each other, but one of his daughters is a clone, and he'd be horrified if anything happened to her.

On its own, "That's Amorte" is a great episode. However, when you take the whole series into account, the plot retreads the same old Morty narrative: Morty tries to do the right thing, it backfires, Rick dodges responsibility while antagonizing Morty to be petty, Rick gets stuck fixing everything and Morty tries to pretend it never happened.

I keep waiting for something good to happen to Morty. Rick has plenty of episodes where he makes positive changes: going to therapy ("Analyze Piss," "Air Force Wong"), improving his relationship with Jerry ("Final DeSmithation," "The Jerrick Trap"), trying to do right by Beth ("Bethic Twinstinct"), being kinder to Morty ("Full Meta Jackrick"), etc.

Season five doesn't emphasize his character development as much, but plenty of scenes show how much he's changing. Even season four has moments where he's gentler.

Rick's being his petty season-two self in "That's Amorte," but even here, he does the right thing by showing the world exactly what--and who--they're eating. In earlier seasons, he would've done that just to be an asshole. Here, I don't think that he was trying to torment people as much as he just knew that this spaghetti shitshow had to end.

Same with the spaghetti itself. He didn't feed it to the Smiths, then show them the dead body just to torture them. I think he genuinely wanted to share the spaghetti because it was delicious, but he also figured that they don't want to know where it comes from.

On a similar note, I enjoyed Rick's moments of physical gentleness. Great animation detail.

So Rick gets a little character development and saves the day again, and Morty gets...nothing. Just a rehash of old storylines. "Mortynight Run" in particular has almost the same plot, beat-for-beat.

"That's Amorte" touched on Morty's depression and his family's coldness toward him but didn't go further than that. Morty keeps cycling through the same issues with no resolution. He blows up in one episode, then shuts down the next. His attempts to do the right thing go astray. When's this kid going to catch a break?

Again, this episode isn't bad. It's funny, original and well-written and has a lot to say about ethics and capitalism. Still, I don't understand why reviews on other sites keep emphasizing Morty's character development because I didn't see much.

I will say that everyone's horror at where the spaghetti comes from was a great takedown of the meat industry. Everyone loves sausage, but nobody wants to see how it's made!

Still, next time we get a Morty episode, I hope that it says more about him and less about the world outside his cartoon.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #morty smith #that's amorte #season seven #review

[spaceshiporion]

"It wasn't the death, was it?"

"It was the complexity of life."

Rick and Morty is.... Still good?!

I honestly can't believe it, I expected to be done at this point.

#That's amorte #rick and morty #Rick and morty s07e04

[mochabonesblog]

OH MY GOD THE SALISBURY STEAKS WERE THE DEAD PRIME RICK CLONES

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[breederbreederpumpkineater]

NO FUCKING WAY

#gradblr #studyblr #mathblr #codeblr #computer science #theoretical computer science #from “amortized analysis via coalgebra” by grodin and harper