There are definitely spoilers if you haven’t seen the first episode on adult swim.
It has been a long year of waiting, but Rick and Morty has returned with a solid premiere for its latest season. Mort Dinner Rick Andre continues the show’s theme of traumatizing Morty while Rick remains apathetic towards the whole affair. Not that we can blame Rick. He’s got his own hands full dealing with his self-proclaimed nemesis, Mr. Nimbus.
The episode starts with a crash landing. Accepting his grim fate, Morty makes a call to Jessica and confesses his feelings towards her. She is receptive to this gesture and wants to come over for dinner.
With dying no longer an acceptable outcome, Morty lands the damaged ship into the middle of the ocean. Much to Rick’s chagrin, their choice in landing heralds the arrival of Mr. Nimbus, the aforementioned nemesis.
This sparks a series of events that forces Rick to invite Nimbus to the household to sign a treaty while Morty is having to juggle a date with Jessica in the middle of all the chaos.
If you’ve been watching this series for any length of time, you already know everything is going to go wrong. Unfortunate circumstances are always part of the fun with this show.
Mr. Nimbus enjoys a very specific wine that has to be aged. Rick, irritated with Morty, has him use portal technology to age the wine. All he needs to do is periodically go through the portal, which will take him to a Narnia like world, and time will have advanced, aging the wine in turn.
One of the inhabitants helps Morty carry the wine into his world. This decision causes a chain of events that leads the members of the portal world to declare a blood feud against him.
Meanwhile, Jessica decides she wants some of the wine, forcing Morty to return to the portal. Each subsequent trip has the society advance technologically while becoming increasingly threatening to him.
The episode culminates with Jessica being kidnapped, forcing Morty to launch a rescue mission that goes horribly awry.
Jessica Becomes Frozen in Time
Morty remains the universe’s chew toy. The writers have Jessica become frozen in time and forced to watch the portal inhabitants evolve. She’s essentially a time-god that sees everything. After she is rescued, she comes to the realization that Morty and her won’t work out romantically.
His love life going off the rails is the norm for this show, but it was creative to see how the writers botched it for him this time.
The series is typically episodic, so she’ll revert to normal come future episodes. Well, whatever constitutes as normal in the Rick and Morty universe.
Excited For Season 5 of Rick and Morty
We are definitely looking forward to season 5 of Rick and Morty. With the humor blended with the usual sci-fi hijinks makes for a good laugh and a solid start to the newest season.
From Dan Harmon and Jeff Loveness
At the end of the episode, we get a rare Dan Harmon and writers moment where they dive into the episode and how this all came together. This is definitely similar to the end of most episode on HBO Max episodes. Mr. Nimbus is the king of the ocean. He also inexplicably controls the police. This power is never explained, but Rick tells Jerri and the audience to accept it.
Jerri refuses to do so and calls the cops. Nimbus has them fight each other, engage in physical relations with one another and flee. Jessica witnesses this scene for her date with Morty. Just the sight a prospective partner loves to stumble upon.
Jerri and Beth are also trying to become couple positive active. They bond through watching adult content together. Naturally, Morty isn’t thrilled to hear this news, as most kids wouldn’t want to know about their parents exploits in the bedroom. However, they manage to add a alternative version of what the parents are watching in a Nintendo reference with Jessica. Still, it is a nice change of pace for the parents, who are usually fighting in most episodes. One of the best features of this episode is how there is a greater focus on side characters.
Summer Cell Phone Scene
This scene goes really unnoticed for the Summer in this episodes but one of my favorite, where summer is just slaughtering underwater creatures from an Aquaman reference. This scene was so brief, I must have replayed it 10 times. We see Rick, who is forced to sit and listen to his nemesis, still get caught up spending time watching summer killing Mr. Nimbus guards to get what gives him his power. It is either Rick monitoring the progress of this task, or him being over protective to watch summer. Either way, you get the impression he is always watching. It also points to the fact that both Morty and Summer straight up slaughter other worlds.
