South Park is best when it’s both amazing satire and hilariously funny. I think they still pull that off with regularity. But it can be hit or miss.
This R&M episode was perhaps clever and had a deeper meaning, I just didn’t think it was very funny. And it wasn’t clever enough to stand on its own without the humour. To me this was just a miss.
I guess this is where R&M and other shows like South Park are losing me a bit. These shows have evolved over the years from clever parody to heavy satire (although South Park basically started as juvenile and vulgar for the sake of it). The episodes I have the most problem with are the ones where I have to dig too deep to be entertained, where it's all about "getting what they're getting at" instead of being pure entertainment. Give me Pickle Rick, Vat of Acid, or Rickshank Redemption any day over some deep take wrapped in a Captain Planet parody.
Now, I was probably just repulsed by the entire concept of eating spaghetti straight from a corpse and couldn't get past that from the start. I get that's the point, but it wasn't funny or entertaining to me. Of course I'll never resent someone for filling their joy quota over something I personally disliked, but it's just not my bag.
It's surface level meaning. There's not much to dig deep into.
I mean jesus if we relied on people to farm their own food, 90% of the population would die in 5 years.
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I watched this episode again and I loved it. I didn’t laugh a ton but I lost it when Rick made the most ethical meat. Morty trying to describe the suicide claw hand and them actually showing the whole process got an belly laugh out of me.
The guys life segment went on a little long and it was generally pretty dark but overall I thought it was a solid entry.
I'm interested to see where the series goes. The episode before last really wrapped up a lot of the loose ends, in terms of the overarching story with Rick Prime and Evil Morty, including giving us the Evil Morty origin story.
I'm worried it'll be a tough go. The Evil Morty/Citadel storyline really was great TV. With that wound up, I'm hoping they don't resort to recycled jokes.
I think Churry and Mr. Poopy Butthole are going to establish a shadowy Cabal of villains to try and take over the Galaxy. They might even enlist 'Evil Morty' although he strikes me as more of an 'amoral rogue' type.
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Neat little easter egg from episode 3 in this episode, one of the creatures the president recruited gave Rick a drawing of Bigfoot killing Rick predicting his death.
