![]() I was hardly laughing my ass off with “Thankspolitation Spectacular,” but I’d say it wrenched something like three to four more chuckles than usual out of my cold, unfeeling carcass, so that’s nice. That said, being the funniest episode isn’t exactly an incredible feat in a season so far full of episodes that only get a few chuckles out of me. And my favorite joke of the episode was the reveal that the release of every new iteration of Playstation has been a milestone in the President’s life. I didn’t laugh out loud at it but the premise that the Statue of Liberty is a trojan horse French assassin is clever. I also like his repeated “Aww, they love each other.” The Turkey President ripping out his own wishbone and wishing to explode is hilariously stupid. Morty quipping “How’s this for a fireside chat?” as he burns FDR is good. In fact, this might be the funniest Rick and Morty of season five so far. I can’t say I’m in love with the direction the plot takes when it brings in the Pilgrim robots but the jokes are certainly better. This one’s still very deliberately stupid as hell, but it doesn’t feel quite so braindead. The sperm episode seemed to awaken in the Rick and Morty team their most base humor instincts, which resulted in a lot of cheap jokes and an overall too-stupid plot that culminated in the creation of a giant incest baby… yeesh. This episode does have an edge over the sperm-driven one in that it’s not quite so stunningly stupid. Both episodes even have a similar reveal of something that was referenced in passing early in the episode showing up to save the day in the third act-the Chuds in “Rickdependence Spray” and in this one it’s some Pilgrim and alien robots, or some such nonsense. It’s different in that it was giant sperms threatening humanity in “Rickdependence Spray” and this time it’s turkey super-soldiers, but both episodes still have a very similar progression of taking a really dumb central conceit and ballooning it out into increasingly crazier, violent, action sci-fi set pieces. However, it’d probably be even more of a treat if he hadn’t popped up just two episodes ago.įurthermore, “Rick & Morty’s Thanksploitation Spectacular” feels less novel because, like “Rickdependence Spray” before it, this is an episode about a big, stupid, world (or at least country)-ending spectacle. Keith David has an awesome voice, so it’s always nice to hear him reprising this role and he gets so much to do here that it’s really more like an episode of Rick and Mortyand the President. Happy Thanksgiving, for some reason! This is another episode that brings back one of Rick’s recurring frenemies, the President of the United States as played by Keith David, to deal with a world-ending catastrophe the two caused themselves in a display of sci-fi power dick-measuring. This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers.
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