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00:00 Issue 3. Of course Rick's plan worked, and they end up in the River Styx for believing in Zeus.
00:06 I'd hate to think he'd have to believe in Zeus in particular to get to any afterlife.
00:11 With that kind of system, almost nobody would be sent there.
00:13 He also says you have to be extra good, then why is Rick here?
00:17 I guess the mad scientist who can do anything. He's actually done more good than evil.
00:22 And we just don't get to know about the good because they think it wouldn't make an interesting story.
00:27 Rick says the second law of science is in one of those afterlives, so they've just got to constantly die.
00:34 Somehow Rick expects Morty to have a coin for Sharon when he didn't.
00:39 Boy, the hat really does make him dumb because it doesn't explain to him that the souls have the coins.
00:45 Otherwise, how would they have the coins?
00:47 Conveniently, he has a coin from Blips and Chintz.
00:51 Why does Sharon even expect coins?
00:53 Wouldn't he just let people in anyways? Because almost nobody would have coins.
00:58 Morty desperately hands him a piece of his shirt, as I wonder why Rick never secretly gave Morty a coin.
01:04 And Sharon threatens him as muscular dude.
01:07 And Rick bravely fights him right away and tells Morty to hit him with a paddle and then paddle the canoe away.
01:14 If it's that easy, Sharon should be expecting this. He shouldn't even try anymore.
01:20 Everyone would do this.
01:22 Morty is nice enough to apologize, and then out of nowhere, we see Tammy from the show again, and she's collecting souls in a boat.
01:30 Rick stupidly reminds her that he shot her and somehow expects her to get him and Morty out of the canoe and onto her boat.
01:38 He even makes honking noises, which is kind of funny.
01:41 At least his stupidity is justified by his hat.
01:44 Tammy tells her goal in person partner to attack, and the two of them end up in the water.
01:49 Then we see other universe Rick and Morty from London centuries ago.
01:54 Rick says they're at the gate, and Morty calls a master and opens the door seeing an angry mob against science, led by a guy who bores me talking too much.
02:06 Morty wastes time agreeing with the mob before using magic, surprisingly.
02:10 Sending gas out while he holds his breath.
02:13 Rick can do anything. I'm sure he gave him magic.
02:16 We see Rick with a gas mask, and he tells him to gather them up.
02:20 He says that if the think giver likes his little followers so much, he can spend forever with them.
02:26 The real Morty wakes up, and Morty and him are covered in bandages except below the head, and he says he mummified him.
02:33 How does the writer come up with plots like this?
02:36 I mean, they're going from the Cronenberg dimension to the River Styx to here. This is creative.
02:43 He also says something that makes me wonder why Morty is still alive.
02:47 So this arc is just confusing, but at least it's really interesting.
02:51 It turns out they're here because they drowned in the River Styx.
02:55 Rick says there's infinite afterlives, and they approach an Egyptian god, I guess.
03:01 Morty says that they're doomed if they're being judged by whether their hearts are pure.
03:06 For the most part, Morty is clearly supposed to be seen as a good person if you see the show and read the comics,
03:11 and the only reason he does anything wrong is usually Rick's fault.
03:15 So it's not really fair. Rick thinks that maybe their morality is different in other afterlives, since he's desperate.
03:22 Go figure, Rick's judged poorly.
03:25 Rick says that whoever decides sin hasn't lived, and the scale below his heart cracks the earth open.
03:31 And Morty runs away with Rick saying that they got a deity killed, but since they can just die and safely move to another place,
03:38 should I even be invested in what's gonna happen to them? They're fine no matter what.
03:43 If this applies to everybody, then Anubis isn't gone forever either.
03:47 If he's a powerful god, then you'd think he could just come back right away.
03:52 Then we see a universe where Morty is the CEO and says to increase emissions for money.
03:57 He says he doesn't care about the environment, even though he likes checking in with the polar bear.
04:02 And go figure, he sees the polar bear trapped on an ice floe.
04:05 He's told not to go out there because the earth is flooding.
04:08 He opens the gate and water goes over to him because he's in a very low to sea level place,
04:13 as he regrets not saving the world and making money instead.
04:16 Rick says in a tube that it's because he sucks.
04:19 Morty wakes up and reveals that he was watching that padding, because he says the name of that polar bear.
04:25 They're in a place where anytime someone gets hurt, they just regenerate their injuries.
04:30 Rick's happy to be in Valhalla and boasts that because no one actually owns Thor,
04:35 they can show him off as an idiot for all that matters.
04:38 Morty angst is about his vision and wonders if he's lived too much of Rick's life and put aside personal growth.
04:45 Morty wants to go off on his own and gets told to meet him in the Vardo,
04:49 where you get reincarnated when it gets lost.
04:52 It figures Crumpopolis Michael would love Valhalla.
04:56 Morty just tells Odin to kill him and send him to another afterlife,
05:00 which is weird and annoying with too much boring dialogue.
05:03 Rick wastes a ton of our time too, getting told by another cheap cameo to just die normally
05:09 to get his answer in a place where there's nothing.
05:12 That's what he's been doing, and how could he go to the place where there's nothing just to somehow come back?
05:19 There's infinite afterlifes, so it'd be pretty convenient if dying enough
05:24 would quickly get him back to normal.
05:27 Rick conveniently goes to a dark dimension where he sees some writing in front of him that all things want to live.
05:33 Well, duh.
05:35 How is that a law of science? That's not even true.
05:38 After our time's completely wasted, Rick gets told by a pickle Rick that the first time he came here,
05:44 not the pickle somehow, he tried to turn himself into a pickle to escape.
05:49 How'd that let him escape?
05:51 He died, but he is him. No, he's not.
05:53 This writer isn't even trying to make sense anymore.
05:56 He thinks he can get away with anything.
05:58 Somehow, the pickle is able to tell him exactly where Rick's version of Morty is,
06:03 and Rick is conveniently able to create a portal and go through it for no reason.
06:08 Or maybe it was created by someone else.
06:11 The pickle Rick goes through it and fights for him,
06:14 and Morty says he's a freak just to instantly end up back to normal just because he said a poem
06:20 because apparently this is a dumb weird universe where even mortals can cast spells.
06:25 Rick says he fixed pickle Rick's portal gun.
06:27 How? With what?
06:30 He also knows that to go back to life, they have to go to cartoon heaven.
06:34 They go there with a portal because there's infinite universes,
06:38 not that they see a portal behind them,
06:40 and they desperately ask to become avenging angels so that bad people would face justice.
06:45 And because of an unsatisfying deus ex machina, or I guess Chekov's gun,
06:50 because Rick is using his lifelong experience with the multiverse to know how to go here,
06:55 they're told yes, but the deus ex machina is that they're told yes instead of sent to hell.
07:01 I guess because the reason this guy's in heaven is because he's just that forgiving.
07:06 Or he's that pragmatic.
07:08 Because it'd be better to make good use of someone than punish them.
07:12 They fly over to the Cronenberg world where they see Ellie again,
07:15 and turns out he can turn giant too, so what took him so long?
07:19 Rick creates another portal, and then there's a text box saying that this is the home dimension,
07:25 not Morty's original world.
07:27 Morty doesn't know what to do with his wings, and Rick says he can just rip them off.
07:31 I guess because they really don't want to lie on them when they're trying to sleep.
07:36 After all, they can just put on jetpacks if they want to fly.
07:41 Even the writer admits that he doesn't know what the non-C-137 world is called,
07:46 and he had to use Wikipedia.
07:48 So the wings and some of the hat get removed near Jerry.
07:52 There's some narration insulting Rick,
07:54 and Summer congratulates Rick for taking off some of the hat and gets thanked for it and called the best.
08:00 We say just Morty, as Morty plans on reaching for the remains of the hat to take what's his.
08:06 And doesn't Morty know that the hat was making him stupid,
08:09 and so wearing remains of it would make him stupider?
08:12 Rick says he's got enough brainpower left to find out the third law of science is inside of Morty's mind.
08:19 Why would it be put there?
08:21 You'd think that if the first law of science was carved into an easily accessible pencil,
08:25 all of them would be.
08:27 This is nonsense.
08:29 Morty thinks that with Rick's intelligence, he'll feed the hungry.
08:33 I hate how Rick looks here.
08:35 Then the bad guys with the hats show up, calling Rick a demonic science phony.
08:41 I can understand Rick and Morty being called phonies if it's because they're impersonating the ones originally from this universe,
08:47 but how would they know that?
08:49 The story ends with Jerry tied up and Morty walking away wearing some of the hat.
08:55 In the next issue, there's a beginning right away that's hard for me to care about enough to talk about
09:00 because instead of starting off where the previous issue ended,
09:03 it starts out in a different universe where a giant thank-giver attacks the city
09:07 and then we see some ridiculous-looking Rick and Morty superheroes,
09:10 and Rick wants to give his and Morty's lives up so that his dimension will survive.
09:16 And then we see Morty sadly looking down at a book full of comic panels,
09:20 which he was reading in math class and somehow getting away with it,
09:24 when he's right in front of the teacher.
09:26 And after this seems to be just boring narration and wasting my time with angsty exposition I already know,
09:31 somehow classes out early because Morty got a new hat.
09:36 Morty knows that at least when he's on another planet, he knows that it's not supposed to fit in.
09:41 Jessica asks if he needs help picking up his stuff.
09:45 And Morty's narration reveals that it's not easy for him to love a human
09:49 because his idea of what's attractive got weird six planets ago.
09:53 Jessica then brings things down by wasting time trying to say that she can't be this weird figure he obsesses about.
10:00 As if that would accomplish anything.
10:03 So she isn't oblivious to it after all.
10:06 That's realistic, but I'd rather that not be the case.
10:10 He realizes that he shouldn't even want to fit in with normal people
10:13 because he doesn't even like them because they're bullies.
10:16 It turns out Rick interpreted the third law of science literally,
10:20 and he's wasting time telling him not to freak out instead of just waiting until he goes to sleep,
10:25 uploading his mind to the computer so that when he does this to him,
10:29 he can just bring him to a clone to wake him up afterwards like nothing ever happened.
10:33 Why doesn't he just give him Project Phoenix for a little bit if he didn't already have it
10:37 like every Morty in the Citadel of Ricks in the end of season 5?
10:42 After we see the blonde guy who flirted with Beth in one episode gets told by her over the phone that he gets to be Morty's stepdad,
10:49 I like that he's aware of the fact that that'll get some complex feelings out of him, so he's smart and considerate.
10:55 Then he screams at seeing Rick run after Morty, with Rick firmly grasping the idiot ball doing something he'd never do,
11:02 and I can only assume it's because he wants a challenge.
11:05 It was satisfying that he said, "What's the matter, Morty? Got more navel-gazing bullshit to think about?"
11:11 Yeah, it was boring me.
11:13 Rick gets distracted because he had hurt someone by accident.
11:17 Then he justifies that it could bring him back to life after he's smart enough to do so.
11:22 He throws a chainsaw that grows robotic arms to hold him still.
11:27 Then surprisingly, after Rick wastes much of his time talking to him, an ambulance crashes behind him,
11:34 and the bad guys with hats distract him by talking a lot, making no sense.
11:39 Their heads are conveniently indestructible, he says he's getting sent into a "dunce portal",
11:44 and Morty says Rick's gone, so he needs help from people getting away from the wall,
11:50 and a whole page is wasted on his family being sad.
11:54 Even Morty's irrationally sad about it.
11:57 So a whole bunch of time is wasted showing Morty growing up and eventually making an animated series
12:03 just to be sad about seeing stuffed animals and someone holding up paper advertising a Rick the Baby Years idea.
12:10 It especially makes sense because if he was younger, he'd be a lot more restricted in what he can do.
12:15 So it's just Rick and Morty, except way more creatively limited.
12:20 So he runs out of the room. I didn't even bother looking at his comic panels,
12:24 because they're colorless with a bad art style.
12:27 It's not like it's Sonic, and it's just a work of fiction within fiction.
12:32 He looks pathetic, living in an apartment and planning on wasting time
12:36 sending the perfect comic book to the president as a threat.
12:40 He goes to bed and then gets confronted by a Rick who says he needs to get the third law of science from him and then go home.
12:47 So why was he left alone for all those years?
12:51 He's told the bat won't help him, even though if he hit Rick with it, it would.
12:56 Rick says that he means home and it's in Rick's dimension because it was never his Rick.
13:01 He tells Morty that his own Rick died in a nursing home and he never saw him.
13:06 Rick says this kind of comic's about being realistic.
13:09 Morty runs away from him and jumps out the window onto a car.
13:13 And yet he's standing up just fine in the next panel and able to get into the car.
13:18 That's not realistic.
13:20 He sees Rick's spaceship going after him in his rear view mirror,
13:24 crashes into a tree,
13:26 and again he's conveniently able to run out of it just fine.
13:30 Morty runs towards a place with a caution sign and gets shocked.
13:34 There's a meltdown and the world gets destroyed
13:37 and then we see it's just a comic book held by a realistic Morty who rants about this.
13:42 Of course he would rant about this.
13:44 He was just told it was being realistic and then that happens.
13:48 The writer's probably under the impression that Morty's wrong about all of this,
13:52 but portraying a character as a straw man when he complains about shitty writing
13:56 doesn't make him actually wrong.
13:59 It's better to just not have panels like this at all and use them properly.
14:04 The realistic Morty thinks he's a genius for no reason
14:07 and ignores his Rick complaining that he twisted his ankle again.
14:11 He thinks that if he's a Morty, then the third law of science would be with him too.
14:16 So Rick shows up behind him and thankfully there's a discretion shot.
14:22 Then we see Morty reading a comic and he says that it's some violent stuff.
14:26 So a lot of this was just a comic book Morty was reading.
14:29 Because it's a wild coincidence that he found a comic that detailed everything that happened
14:37 because it came from another universe.
14:40 Why does it show any of that?
14:42 Most of it was just completely generic.
14:45 It makes a lot more sense that Rick would do this to a Morty other than his.
14:49 He says that it took him two Mortys in a fight through a prison dimension,
14:53 but he got his skull and he chose the two saddest seeming Mortys to do it.
14:59 He also calls Morty "buddy" and says he wasn't going to hurt him of course.
15:03 I still wish he didn't have any stains on him though.
15:06 I don't know why that's ever shown.
15:08 He says that somehow the law of science is sketched in there and it says all things must die.
15:13 So that's not true either because Ricks can make themselves immortal
15:18 and plus if it's an actual thing, then it can't die
15:21 because inanimate objects don't die.
15:24 So the hat conveniently jumps off him for no reason.
15:28 At least right until he figures out how to get it off him and does so.
15:32 He says he's going to invent that ass-warming car
15:35 and it's sweet to see Morty excited about it.
15:38 He calls him "buddy" and I wonder why reading "all things must die"
15:42 would cause him to remember all of his science knowledge.
15:47 The bad guys immediately know he got the hat off and go after him.
15:51 How did they know that?
15:53 I guess they had a beeper go off automatically because of it?
15:57 Rick shows off with some robotic hands and says he has anti-dunce serum for no apparent reason.
16:04 Somehow one of them assumes Jerry is strong and not weak
16:08 even though he doesn't look it.
16:10 A bad guy says that he's learned that Rick loves his Morty, go figure.
16:15 He must have not researched him for very long if this is news to him
16:19 and kidnaps him in a spaceship and tells Rick from a distance to follow him.
16:24 Morty had no reason to think he was friends with one of the bad guys.
16:28 The story ends with the Think Giver saying it's time to take back the gift of intelligence from Rick.
16:33 Since when do these last five issues?
16:37 That's a sign of poor pacing.
16:39 Morty has some relatively negative reactions to the Think Giver
16:43 calling him out and saying he doesn't like being called "little assistant".
16:47 The Think Giver says that without Rick, Morty wouldn't have licked a hallucinogenic lion.
16:53 How does this guy know everything?
16:55 How could he handle it and not immediately decide to get rid of his omniscience afterwards?
17:00 He wouldn't be able to focus on anything he's doing and most knowledge is unattainable.
17:05 He complains that Rick could have been the saviors of their planet
17:09 which at least shows he had good intentions.
17:12 I guess he means "savior" in general, not literally just someone who saves their planets
17:19 because Rick has saved planets before, in the show for example.
17:23 So he has to mean they could have been good guys.
17:27 The Think Giver says that the Council of Dunce aims for a reality where no one learns.
17:32 That no one would learn how to do surgery and cure anything.
17:35 No one would even learn how to hunt a mammoth so humanity would go extinct.
17:40 He's stupid. He wants to erase the genius of Rick and give it to a kinder soul.
17:45 So he does want people to learn?
17:48 That's very altruistic, so why does he have such an altruistic goal
17:53 if he also wants to make a reality where humanity is going to go extinct instantly?
17:58 He's not really thinking anything through.
18:00 The Think Giver is sure that Rick won't come for him, for some reason.
18:05 A bad guy says that working with non-sum mill is great because he's got enough to pay his student loans
18:12 and he can move out of his apartment.
18:14 Too bad he's doing something awful to look at.
18:16 He got humanized right before Rick crashed his spaceship into him
18:20 and fights with a mecha saying that Morty's important to his brand.
18:24 Why did someone waste time telling him to cease hostilities?
18:28 Then Rick gets threatened with a robot that runs ahead and unplugs his extension cord.
18:34 So he falls down a hole with his pants falling down
18:37 and Rick sees a sign in front of Liquid Knowledge telling him not to suck at it.
18:41 So an entire page is wasted on boring nonsense.
18:45 A lot of this arc isn't worth talking about.
18:48 That's what happens when the writing isn't trying to be easy to follow hard enough.
18:52 The villain really is an idiot. He should have just had the sign say "It's poisonous to drink."
18:58 It wasn't fun to see Rick's face punch him because of what was behind it,
19:02 but it was very impressive how creative his go-go expando flesh attack was.
19:08 It doesn't matter though because he just gets thrown into a glass of Liquid Knowledge
19:12 instead of thrown into literally anything else.
19:15 He predictably absorbs the knowledge he's connected his head to
19:19 and ends up freeing all of the Mortys.
19:22 Sure, it's convenient that Liquid Knowledge is even possible.
19:25 It'd make a bit more sense if he could, like, plug himself into a computer.
19:31 Then a lot of stuff I have no reason whatsoever to care about happens.
19:34 Can this end already? I know the main characters are gonna win.
19:38 Anyways, Rick ends up in space and he grabs Morty with the robot tentacle to save him
19:42 and put him in a Liquid Knowledge hat to protect him.
19:45 Rick also saved some tiny bird persons because he thought they were cute.
19:50 That's nice.
19:51 A laser supposedly hits Rick. Rick gets thanked for saving some Ricks' brains.
19:57 How do they know which one he is?
19:59 He saves the tiny cowboy bird people as well.
20:03 The thank giver says that he killed him, so why is he here?
20:07 He says now they exist in their shared minds.
20:10 How are their minds shared?
20:12 Is this a ridiculous collective unconscious idea that Rick mocked in his story?
20:19 Then a huge amount of other Ricks show up and attack the big bad guy with lasers.
20:23 Eventually, he gets debated at some point.
20:26 I'm not exactly motivated to care about what happens when there's gore,
20:29 so I don't feel like being detailed.
20:32 It's so obvious you should just have cartoon slapstick where he gets slapped around a bunch
20:37 after everything we got put through.
20:39 Morty wishes he and Rick could just fix worlds instead,
20:42 and he cleverly says they could say they did it for fun and just to say they did.
20:47 Fortunately, Rick changes his mind about being opposed to it and decides to humor him
20:52 just to prove thank giver wrong.
20:55 It makes me wish they did good things like this a lot more often.
20:58 Why can't they just be heroes at least half the time?
21:01 It's too depressing and annoying for Rick to always be a bad guy,
21:05 or even mostly be a bad guy.
21:07 It seems like his motive in the comic is usually money,
21:10 which doesn't make any sense because it's so effortless for him to get money,
21:15 so we see Morty use giant stitches to sew up a crack in the floor of the Cronenberg world.
21:21 But why?
21:22 That's barely gonna do anything.
21:24 That's not gonna fix it.
21:26 They need to turn the back into humans.
21:28 Best thing Rick could do in a short amount of time would be to turn them all into Mortys.
21:33 The next panel tries to make this look saccharine and sappy
21:36 as we see Morty wadding some cabbages for people.
21:39 And the story ends with the main bad guy in the afterlife with other deities killed by Rick.
21:45 I wish they didn't say they could escape eventually.
21:49 It just tries to ruin the ending.
21:52 This arc... I feel like this arc sucked.
21:55 It just didn't make any sense at all.
21:58 How did Rick get his intelligence back just because he read a sentence?
22:03 Why didn't he just have a way to automatically have his intelligence restored
22:08 after a long enough time without it?
22:10 There's so many things about this that don't make any sense.
22:13 It feels like early Pender-style weird, bad writing.
22:18 It's like Sonic Live-style.
22:21 Where it's very interesting, I'm grateful for the fact that most of the time
22:26 I'm just describing what's happening so I can actually get a move on constantly.
22:31 I'm still really confused the whole time, but at least it was interesting.
22:36 It's just... a lot of this isn't memorable.
22:39 They die, but conveniently there's infinite afterlives
22:43 and you go to another afterlife after you die in the other afterlife.
22:47 I wouldn't expect that, it's pretty convenient,
22:50 but it's also kind of creative and brilliant at the same time.
22:53 But it's kind of the writer writing himself into a corner
22:56 then trying to bumble a way to get them from one place to another.
23:01 They wasted a whole bunch of time with some pointless work of fiction in fiction
23:05 where we see Morty angsting in a comic.
23:08 They could have just had Rick use a clone of Morty that was already in the basement
23:13 and he could get the law of science from there.
23:16 The pacing was terrible and it didn't really make any sense.
23:19 It's too bad because I was really looking forward to this series.
23:23 But really the whole concept of Rick losing his intelligence,
23:27 of any character losing their special skill,
23:30 all does is result in a creatively limited story
23:34 because they're not able to do as much as usual.
23:37 So maybe that's not the kind of story that should be written.
23:41 It's written to show how a character can inventively succeed without their power,
23:47 but Rick was extremely lucky that he did get things back to normal.
23:52 It was only because of his smartness earlier getting himself prepared
23:56 so that he could do something to get his intelligence back.
23:59 He didn't succeed because of something other than his intelligence.
24:03 It's not like he had to, for example, play baseball to get his intelligence back
24:09 and beat the bad guy using a skill other than being a genius at science.
24:14 (upbeat music)