And then Rick's attempt to cure everyone turns them into what the show describes as 'Cronenberg monsters', which are just huge lumps of body organs sort of lumped together.

And then Morty gets Rick to try and make the cure, and Rick's insane logic (praying mantises are the least romantic of animals!) end up with the entire population of the town turning into praying mantis body horror monsters. Predictably, this spreads quickly to the whole town and then the entire world, causing everyone in the world to basically be obsessed with Morty. Of course someone's going to have the flu, and of course everyone from Jessica's douchebaggy maybe-boyfriend to other girls to Principal Vagina end up falling in love with Morty and wants to keep Morty to themselves and breed with Morty like voles. Hell, even Rick's long and quotable-for-memes rant about how love is just a chemical reaction and also how Beth and Jerry's marriage is doomed is expected at this point, as much as you can expect these sort of cynical rants within five or six episodes of a show.Īnd while Jessica's more of a plot device than a character (a problem that a lot of 'love interest' style characters in these shows tend to have), again, the sequence of events that happen in the school is. Rick's love potion is going to work a bit too well, and that's going to be the joke, like how you can probably see what the whole point of the Meeseeks joke is going to be around a couple conversations into the Meeseeks gag. And then you throw in Morty asking Rick to essentially make a love potion for him, and you'd think that, hey, that's the joke. It's a genuinely tired trope at this point, a kid character struggles at having to deal with the oh-so-important prospect of going to prom but he (or she) is pretty unpopular. I think I said last episode that while the whole fantasy-land sequence with Rick and Morty in the land of the giants aren't terrible or un-funny, they felt like they were just going through the motions, and the same thing seems to be going on here with the Morty/Love Potion subplot. the first half of the episode is pretty standard Rick and Morty fare. ends up not being quite handled in the way you expect a show to.Īnd honestly. samey? And I really do like how 'Rick Potion #9' essentially still follows the trope of subverting a couple of tropes as well, and, in quick order, this episode lampoons the concept of love potion hijinks, a zombie (or insert-your-own-monster-outbreak) apocalypse and a huge, status quo shattering event that. Because while I certainly have enjoyed episodes 1 through 5, for the most part they're a bit. I think 'Rick Potion #9' is one of the most stand-out episodes from the first season that elevates the show from just being a series of trope deconstruction jokes with the audience laughing at what an asshole Rick is, to something that seems to not be afraid at doing.

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