This Is The Perf-Rick Episode Of Rick And Morty 

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Total Rickall is the quintessential Rick and Morty episode

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His musical theme is fantastic too

I would have to agree. It's not exactly a slice of life, because it's rick and morty and there's absurd stuff everywhere, but its something along that line. But it's the Joe Walsh that makes it for me. That song sets up the whole episode to be great. There's the small town perception of people in the big city being cogs in a wheel and nothing mattering. And that's Rick's entire philosophy, nihilism on the biggest possible scale. It's the best possible choice for the opener.

I hope the next season comes out soon so we can see what happens after the end of the last season

@@AllFlimmits I also really love the soundtrack music in the episode. The song "Tales from the Citadel" is the one that plays during candidate Morty's speech and when the Mortys are at the wishing well. Really sets the tone for that part of the episode.

Don't worry he gets all the energy he needs from the lil gurls he fancies

Don't worry he gets all the energy he needs from the lil grls he fancies

Exactly what I felt the first time I saw it, the scope of the episode is so epic, the world is so immersive and the storylines are so powerful that when it’s over it feels like you’ve just watched a whole movie. It still amazes me how they could pull that off in 22 minutes.

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THEN WATCH IT season 4-5 are a bit questionable but still good

I had to step away from it for a while because the fanbase can be sooooo toxic it’s exhausting. But once I came back to it, it holds up. It’s just so well written

@@skimbo120 Yeah, I needed some time to forget about the whole szechuan sauce cringefest, but it really is a good show if you can separate it from its fans.

@@beaubronswijk5984 where can you even watch season 5? Ik it got greenlit but haven't seen it show up to stream anywhere

@@skimbo120 honestly really weird that some people online would change how you feel watching an episode. Or even stop you from watching new seasons

I think it would broke the concept of rick character

I think R&M will be more episodic. That's why they ended evil Morty's story line.

Seems like a pretty bad idea. It'd totally undercut the gravity of the Evil Morty story arc and would contradict what's already been established. It also leads to the problem of infinite regression, where now everything starts to feel meaningless because Rick C-137 isn't the Rickest Rick after all and even destroying the CFC was ultimately of no consequence because whoops they're right back where they started, stuck in a multiverse where every reality is once again where Rick is the smartest being in their universe. It's like the one cool trick to completely undermine the season finale and prevent the show from trying something new as it's clearly about to do in season 6. A nihilistic chuckle isn't worth undoing that all.

That would be awful the entire reason the show went downhill is because Rick became an invincible god thank god you don’t write the show

@@Siv_kishore do you think they ended the evil Morty story? I hope he makes a comeback!

I'd argue that's it's probably more along the lines of the council of reeds because Reed Richards is one of if not the smartest man in the universe. I get your argument because Kang is more associated with the multiverse, but rick is more of an analog to Reed Richards than Kang simply because he's a scientist and one of if not the best.

I believe they said it was inspired by the Council of Reeds

@@ohnobro1424 it's a joke. Bl*ck people think they invented everything. We wuz kangz an sheit

thats exactly what i love from the show tho, I like that I can just lay back and enjoy good jokes and existential dread the episodes leave you with. i often find these episodes a bit too "harsh" to just go onto the next one and see that a huge thing that happened didn't impact things at all

@@malu2997 Yeah like I don't mind episodic episodes but bringing up important plotlines only to throw them away for no reason is bad writing.

Thank you!

damaged coda at the end also has a lot to do with it.

If the sperm episode was at least somewhat funny i would have liked it. But it's not and it just feels like they randomly decided to do something about incest and came out with that thing.

Nah I'd honestly rank it below Futurama. First 2 seasons were gold now its too pretentious and meta for its own good.

Yes you do

It wasn't a capitalist democracy, the councel of Ricks ruled it as an oligarchy.

@@ScamallDorcha there was a lot speeches, and the council of ricks was eliminated.

@@j0nrages851 Sure. But while the council of Ricks lived, the citadel was an oligarchy.

What was good about the plot? It's just about an antisocial douchebag engaging in hedionistic evil pursuits.

@@aletanook well with that mindset, you can make anything sound bad. Like, total Rick-call was just an over complicated Where’s Waldo page

@@francisfatta I wasn't talking about it not having a cohesive plot, I was talking specifically about how much I hate Morty and his negative character arc.

It doesn’t really matter how the fans act. The creators should have to make the show that they wanna make without having to piss on the show’s own fandom. They weren’t thinking the fans in seasons 1 & 2, and it was great.

To be fair, the best episodes in season 5 are the last 3 episodes, which happen to have the most "canon" or overarching story-arc. That's not to say the episodic episodes are better or worse, just that I think they kinda ran out of ideas at this point. Season 4 actually had many great episodic episodes. It's not to say one form is better than the other, we need both to co-exist. Seasons 1 and 2 balanced episodic and canon.

I agree that the episodic format works (or, worked) really well but IIRC in the 5th a lot of the less connected episodes were received extremely poorly in comparison to the canon episodes that actually explored the worldbuilding and Rick's backstory. They've got 5 more seasons to make and I kind of see them running out of single-episode ideas before the show ends. I kind of hope that the s5 finale leads to some sort of shift in the status quo fundamental enough to change the show significantly s5 onwards, I'm sure a shift like that would piss some people off but it'd keep things comparatively a lot more fresh rather than trying to do the same thing for 5 more seasons. That's just my opinion though 🤷

@@ernestoagapitogarcesconyad1710 The perfect shift could've and should've been season 4's finale- the introduction of space Beth. She is the perfect foil for both Rick and normal Beth. She'd change the state of the show while still allowing most of it to continue as usual. She didn't even have to be in every episode. She lives in space, after all, so just have her in 2-3 episodes per season. That's the way to keep a show relevant and fresh- slowly add recurring characters that allow for new stories and opportunities.

@@magic75450 ooo, that would've been good. I totally agree that space beth was wasted in s5. I should clarify that I don't want s6 onwards to be completely serialized, but based on how s5 ended I'm hoping that the destruction of the central finite curve allows for new threats/obstacles to pop up and challenge our characters in new ways, possibly allowing for the introduction of new characters like you suggested while allowing the episodic format to remain. I'm just thinking back to Community (which is actually how I got into Rick & Morty in the first place) - it also experienced a big dip in quality halfway through its run and while I think seasons 5 & 6 are good, they couldn't quite capture the magic of the first 3 seasons, & s6 is actually my favorite of the latter 3 because it leans into the differences in the show (3 of the 7 original main characters leaving, different platform, tone shifts, new characters) & makes for a really fun season of TV despite being different from what the show originally was. however, some people really dislike season 6 because of those differences, so I get how a shift like the one I'm suggesting could go over badly.