It really is a miracle that this series has managed to survive the weight of its creator’s former show’s shadow PLUS its cancellation by a major broadcast network, and is still going strong 15 years later. And the fact that this is now TBS’s 3rd double season renewal of the show is even more miraculous.

Easily the best episode from last year, and arguably of the TBS era in general. Such a wonderfully creepy homage to ‘The Twilight Zone’ with a killer ending. I love when the show gets experimental like that.

Oof. And I thought Mike Myers as The Cat in the Hat was the most disturbing human-cat hybrid ever shown on film. Whoever thought these CGI abominations from the deepest depths of Hell were visually appealing enough to be the stars of a PG-rated film are some real sick fucks.

“I’m only here because I have a certain power I wanted to kinda celebrate before it goes away.”

Only this show would end a season with Santa and Jesus doing bumps of coke. And the fact that Randy has singlehandedly made the whole town hardcore junkies now is so gloriously fucked-up. Merry Christmas indeed!

Rick and Jerry freaking out over that cat’s fucked-up history was the hardest I’ve laughed all season. Other than that, it was a fine episode. Nothing amazing by this show’s standards, but I got a kick out of the soul-bonding sequences and Tom Kenny voicing two of the slut dragons. A B+ is about right.

They’re like mediocre middle school book reports. What’s even the point?

Easily my favorite of the season after “Band in China.” There really are too many streaming services and niche shows out there right now, which this episode touched on pretty damn well with practically everyone in South Park now having their own spinoff (‘Crab People’ on HBO Max being the most promising of the bunch…

As far as ‘Dune’ parodies go, this one was a real stinker (which is a good thing, in this case).

‘The Simpsons,’ ‘South Park,’ and now ‘Rick and Morty.’ Pretty soon, Elon’s gonna have a painfully forced and lifelessly voiced cameo in every goddamn adult animated series on TV. Ugh.

“You can’t stop me from loving who I love, Mom!”

“Now quit fucking up and let’s go.”

“Honestly, if anyone is going to try and discuss what happened with Semenya, it should be another Black intersex woman, not two cis white guys, but they did and now we’re here with this episode.”

“We eat our prey alive, and when we don’t, we lay our eggs in their eyeball so that our young can feast on their brains when they hatch. When you’re born that big an asshole, the least you can do is have a little empathy.”

“I married my half-sister.”

That, and Towelie shriveled up in the corner of the Marsh house and stoned out of his mind had me on the floor.

“That’s nice. Now how’s about you take that pussy stick and get off my farm before I shove it up your ass and you’re blowin’ mist out your butthole?”

Their reaction to the doctor’s Speedy Gonzales shirt was everything.

“What?! What are they crying about now?!”

So when exactly can we claim our legacy (Disqus) accounts? I’ve been trying to merge mine with Kinja all day with no luck. And anybody know what the “burner key” is supposed to be? I’m so confused.