Naturally, Planetina has a catchphrase: “There’s only one solution to Earth’s pollution.” And from the moment she utters it at the top of the episode, it’s already obvious that said catchphrase will be used later in a much more twisted way. In this case, the girl is also into Morty, which is always kind of a toss-up on “Rick and Morty.” But then an impromptu spot of acid rain brings forth cheesy environmental superhero Planetina (Brie), with whom Morty is immediately so smitten that, to Rick’s annoyance, he can’t help but say, “Wow.” From there, we have another story of Morty falling head over heels for a girl. How effective that love story is is the question, though.Ĭonsidering that this episode opens with Rick (Justin Roiland) and Morty (also Roiland) getting custom t-shirts that say “Rick & Morty P***y Pounders!” it’s impressive that either of them seemingly finds love moving forward. But “A Rickconvenient Mort” doesn’t do that, instead opting to simply tell a doomed love story. After all, in this show there’s always just another planet or dimension, and in this episode episode there’s a subplot all about not caring at all about other planets dying. Joe”), but also the idea of even caring about the planet itself. It would be so easy and expected for this episode to not only mock the conservationist messages of cartoons like “Captain Planet” (and the PSAs of “G.I. Might be too late.”) doesn’t go down the bleak and nihilistic route that “Rick and Morty” is wont to take. But the most surprising part of this episode is the fact that the premise (“Reduce, reuse, bro. A titular play on “An Inconvenient Truth,” “A Rickconvenient Mort” is, however, surprisingly prescient, not just because of the constant state of trouble the environment is in at this point, but also because the Gulf of Mexico was just recently on fire.

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