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Rating Every Rick and Morty Season 3 Episode

Episode 1 - The Rickshank Rickdemption - Written by Mike McMahan - 9/10

This episode had to be epic. Everyone had waited over a year to find out how or if Rick would get out of jail. Everyone had all kinds of theories. It was one of the most talked about season finales in my entire fandom lifetime. I think this episode did a great job showing a really fun and exciting way for Rick to escape. Morty’s line; “If you think my Rick’s dead, he’s alive, and if you think your safe he’s coming for you!” was just, for lack of a better term, epic. Even with all the twists and turns, some of which were genuinely unpredictable, my favourite part still has to be Lawyer Morty. “No, I don’t wanna see your pog collection....”

Episode 2 - Rickmancing the Stone - Written by Jane Becker - 3/10

Okay, I’m sorry, but this episode was boring. Maybe I just find dessert environments boring because as a kid Where the Buggalo Roam was always my least favourite Futurama episode. Then again, Road the Dendron is one of the best Duckman episodes.... ANYWAYS, this episode was kind of lame. I wasn’t crazy about Summer’s storyline, nor Morty’s or Rick’s. It was just meh.

Episode 3 - Pickle Rick - Written by Jessica Gao - 4/10

“Pickle Rick” is by far a low point of the season. Not necessarily the whole episode, but just that one moment. Shouting “Pickle Rick!” is not funny. Now, Morty pointing out the syringe on the string with the scissors and all that, that was funny. It had context. The therapist storyline was much better, in my opinion. Rick constructing his new body was very gross, and I’m not really a big fan of grossout humour. Though, it was creative and not really “bad”, just something I personally didn’t enjoy. The whole storyline felt like fluff hinged on a joke that wasn’t very funny to begin with. It wasn’t even Family Guy level, it was more like ThatGuyWithTheGlasses level unfunny gag. And now the phrase “Pickle Rick” will always be synonyms in peoples minds with a particular type of Reddit fan who embarrasses themselves in public.

Episode 4 - Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender - Written by Sarah Carbiener and Erica Rosbe - 7/10

I really enjoyed this episode. It was some really classic Rick character based stuff. Seeing the vindicators all slowly break down was a lot of fun, and the episode had enough twists and turns to be very engaging. That dramatic scene where the Vindicators are fighting over a supernova woman fucking a sentient colony of ants was hilarious. I think writing ridiculous stuff so sincerely is one of Rick and Morty’s best strengths, and they use it effectively for both comedy and drama at different points.

Episode 5 - the Whirly Dirly Conspiracy - Written by Ryan Ridley - 7/10

This episode was a ton of fun. Once again, really character based basic humour, at it’s very best. Throwing Jerry into a situation he’s so unfamiliar with, and teaming him up with Rick proved to be highly entertaining. The B-plot was a little strange, though. A lot of people pointed out it seemed like fetish art you’d see on DeviantArt and I feel like that joke has a lot of truth to it tbh. Wouldn’t be the first time a writer has inserted their kink into a show’s plot (Dan Schneider, Bella and the Bulldogs etc.) The whole concept was weird and not that funny and Summer and Morty both came off as really petty which I don’t think was intended. The scene where Beth calls tech support for the enlarger was comedy gold, however.

Episode 6 - Rest and Ricklaxation - Written by Tom Kauffman - 6/10

I really loved the concept of this episode. It was interesting to see which parts of their personalities Rick and Morty consider to be good and bad. The only thing I didn’t like was having healthy Morty as this Wolf of Wallstreet parody. Didn’t find that overly funny or creative. Also, what was up with Morty’s adult girlfriends in this one? She literally says “Oh, I knew you were a 14 year old boy”, okay you realize that makes you a terrible person right??? Like, I feel like when you do this you have to kind of acknowledge it? It doesn’t have to be a full on F is for Family style statutory rape plot, but you kind of need a lampshade on it. At least in Family Guy when Peter is molesting Connie D’Mico, they have him turn to the camera and say “calm down, it’s a cartoon.” Or in American Dad when Roger was fucking Snot, at least Steve was constantly saying throughout the episode “Roger, that’s totally fucked up.” (I hate that episode a lot btw lol) But you need something to let your audience know, yes, we know what we are showing is wrong. Otherwise, it just comes off really weird. It didn’t even feel like a Lil’ Bush kinda thing, where it’s like “ooh, isn’t it fucked up we’re showing this?”, it just kinda seemed tone deaf.

Sorry, that was a ramble.... Anyways, I liked a lot about this episode, though I think it could have used another punch up or re-write to get it perfect.

Episode 7 - the Ricklantis Mixup - Written by Dan Guterman and Ryan Ridley 10/10

By far the best episode of the entire season. Hands down. I would argue it’s the best episode of the entire show. And of course, it was built up to and earned. Not just a standalone great episode among a bunch of meh. It was totally earned and stands alongside other great episodes, including it’s sister episode which was previously my favourite of the series.

Everything felt so epic and huge. All the new Rick’s and Morty’s were so well written. Still clearly Rick’s and Morty’s, but with different personality traits and usually, good reasons for why they developed them. Even though these are Rick’s and Morty’s, it’s still an episode with all new characters and that can be hard to pull off. They need to submit this one as their Emmy nomination next year, and if it doesn’t win something is wrong. This episode seriously blew me away. From the writing, the gorgeous art direction. Every second of this one was great. I’m am so fucking glad they are taking the Evil Morty plot slow and not rushing it, because they are doing amazing with it.

Episode 8 - Morty’s Mind Blowers - Written by Mike McMahan, James Siciliano, Ryan Ridley, Dan Guterman, Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon - 4/10

So, this is what took the place of the Interdemensional Cable episodes (which I was never a huge fan of to begin with, but they did have some memorable bits like Gazzorpazorpfeild and such). They were a bunch of dumb gags, but they were contained. This time however, the gags are all things that have happened to the characters. Some of them were funny, but that’s not my point. I think being so loosey goosey with canon is not the best thing to do. But more importantly, this makes Rick almost irredeemable in my opinion. That he would erase memories of Morty’s simply because he wanted to, is really fucked up. Like, erasing a memory of beating Rick at checkers may seem like nothing, but how much do you think he’s actually contributing to Morty’s low self esteem with shit like this? It’s one thing to be mean and nasty to someone, but to manipulate their mind. That’s fucked. And nobody seemed to point this out? I don’t know. That’s why I think gag episodes work best as either non-canon, or removed from the characters in some way. Kind of like how American Dad’s christmas specials exist on their own continuity, or the Simpson’s Treehouse of Horrors series. That way you have more freedom. And those shows don’t even have nearly as much continuity as Rick and Morty so I think making this episode canon was a bad move. I get that you aren’t supposed to think about in that way, but I can’t help it because I have in fact seen the rest of the series, so it just takes away from the enjoyment of the gags in my opinion.

Episode 9 - the ABC’s Of Beth - Written by Mike McMahan - 7/10

I liked this episode. It was nice to see Beth get some backstory. It was a solid episode. Not amazing, but not terrible. Only thing I didn’t like was the whole thing with Prince Tommy fucking all the imaginary creatures. I’m just not a fan of gross out humour personally, so I realize that’s a personal thing and not a flaw of the show. I also have a hang up when it comes to portraying kids and sexuality and I think it has to be done by people who really know what their doing and something about this whole thing just kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I suppose it’s supposed to make you uncomfortable... Anyways, these are personal complaints and I realize that. Otherwise, good episode. Some people found the line “Am I a terrible person?” “Worse, you’re smart” to be cringey. I think it was a good line within the context of the characters and what is going on atm. I guess some people could take it out of context and use it to justify...Whatever, but that isn’t the shows fault.

Episode 10 - the Rickchurian Mortydate - Written by Dan Harmon - 3/10

I just found this one kind of boring to be honest. I don’t care about the president character, I already know going in Rick’s obviously gonna win. Just not a lot of investment from me. Maybe making Beth and Jerry getting back together being the main plot, and the president thing more of a little side runner would have been better. I just flat out didn’t care about this episode and it felt like a weak finale, especially compared to season 2. Not saying everything needs to be a big cliff hanger, but it should feel like something more than an ordinary episode with a little bit of continutiy tacked on to the end. They could have switched this idea with the Vindicators, and it would have been better. They’re both pretty much stand-alone’s, but Vindicators was stronger so it probably would have made a better finale.

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