Rick and morty season 5 ep 6

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Is there anything to like about this? Sure: it’s always nice when the show introduces a new character who isn’t going to be disposable like everyone else, and President Curtis is a fun choice, especially given Keith David’s general greatness. It’s fun to hear Timothy Olyphant, especially when he’s transformed into a very professional turkey, and the story escalation, while never really exciting, at least moved quickly enough that it never became boring. There’s “and then this happened” logic to it all that’s entertaining in a “well we’re all high so why not play a game of Telephone” kind of way.

Jerry’s “This Charlie Kaufman reboot of Wizard Of Oz is destroying itself” is cute, although the cut to the TV to show it’s just the Scarecrow acting like Nicolas Cage in Adaptation kind of ruins it. Still, funny idea. Kaufman absolutely would ruin that movie if he decided, for some reason, to reboot it. Morty’s speech at the end about being bummed to discover that America was actually built by a pair of warring alien races is maybe a good gag about all that Chariots of the Gods shit, although it would’ve landed better if it didn’t make Morty sound like an idiot. (I get that he’s not supposed to be all that sharp, but this episode felt especially egregious in Dumb Morty Shit. But then, pretty much every regular character came across as the most obvious version of themselves.)

Beyond that, I’m struggling to come up with any emotional reaction to this beyond a shrug. Which is a weird thing to say about an episode where Rick and Morty transform into turkeys so they can trick the president into giving them a pardon—and credit where it’s due, I appreciated the idea that Rick’s been doing this for years, and that Curtis has spent a lot of time preparing for this particular trick. But as with so many other episodes this season, I kept waiting for the turn, the moment this would go from being a silly, uninspired, riff on American exceptionalism and reveal what it really was all about. But that turn never came. Maybe next week.

Stray observations

• The “we’re changing into turkeys” song was pretty good.
• So what happened to the giant French assassin robot inside the Statue of Liberty that Morty set free?
• “Morty, if winning the argument was that important to you, you were never alive.” -Rick
• “Just two questions, chief: Lock? And load? They’re rhetorical, sir.” -Coop

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