Zack, I'll happily defend you against these animals all day, but you need to stand up for your convictions too. This was a C- and should have been rated as such. Not a D, or an F but certainly a C.

I’ve been following Zack’s reviews for over a decade, and if he of all people doesn’t “fundamentally get” Rick and Morty, then the show is fundamentally ungettable. 

The more I read these reviews, the more I’m convinced that they got someone who fundamentally doesn’t *get* the series to write them. Like, imagine if you got someone who *really* didn’t get Star Trek to write new Star Trek movies, or someone who thought they understood Star Wars but wildly didn’t to helm an entire…

And while I’m making trivial complaints... it’s a BIT disappointing that the GoGotron design (the Gotron made from 5 other Gotrons) looked exactly like the regular Gotron. No fun hybrid design or anything. It’s a lot to ask, but would have helped drive home the ridiculousness of a mech with 25 unique pilots.

They already had an episode this season and several over the years showing and sort of explaining why Rick hasn’t replaced Morty with Summer or at least take her out on more adventures. 

It is also a reference to “Scarface,” a little-seen Al Pacino movie about an entrepreneur.

Idk, I loved this episode. Loved the continuity with the incest baby of all things, loved the framing device, loved the divergence in how Morty and Summer differently take after Rick. Also given how beautiful and chiseled those Go-Tron transformations were, somebody on the animation team had to be happy like a pig in…

Agreed. I feel like if you need really basic jokes like that explained, comedy may not be your thing.

It leaked on the internet. You have just outed yourself as a pirate. For shame.

It was fun for about the first two thirds, including the “Summer rise to power as the favored grandkid”. There’s almost something interesting in there, in that she enables Rick’s worst tendencies - they could probably do an episode some day on that on why he doesn’t take her out for adventures more often instead of…

‘“Say hello to my little me.” -Rick. Then he fires a gun that looks like a puppet version of him. It says “pew pew” while it shoots. What even is this joke?’

yeah as a queer guy this definitely isn’t a coming out story of Quinn’s, it’s him seeing the beauty of actual Hawaii outside the resort.

“positioned Armond firmly into active villain territory”

I’m so lost when it comes to these reviews. It’s like if the episode doesn’t end with a somber scene of Rick lamenting over how sad and lonely he is then the episode is just “hack bits” and “stupid”?

There were so many great laughs in this one! And it’s consistently one of the best looking shows on television. The…

They gave a negative review to “A Rickonvient Truth” which was one of those episodes “with a deeper underlying meaning”.
It’s not that the show’s being silly, it’s that the plots are all over the place.
Someone else tried to point out some specific episodes from the first season that have ridiculous premises, but…

I’ll go to bat for Season 5 of Community.

Yeah but even when it’s dumb (which is a lot of the time), it was in Seasons 1-3 often very clever and funny. That’s not really the case anymore. Seems like all they have now are C-tier film parodies.

Wasn’t the joke about how the bartender realized that he was actually racist after seeing a African-American-turkey hybrid?

I think you might be romanticizing the other seasons of Rick and Morty a bit. Sometimes Rick and Morty is crazy with a point, and sometimes it’s just crazy. (I’ve noticed it’s often when President Curtis gets involved.) Where was the deeper, underlying meaning in Lawnmower Dog, or Get Schwifty? The show likes to…

That pic is pretty much the Platonic ideal of “my wife just laid some truth bombs on me.”