



It’s good to have Rick and Morty back.'Rick' goads the decoys into one final battle. Will the family ever come back together? Will the characters grow in different ways now that their family unit that’s held them together, and sometimes stifled them, has exploded? And how badly will Rick fare as the de facto patriarch? There are all sort of fun questions to ask, and we’re just getting started. But if Rick and Morty season 3 is really going to explore life after Jerry (and Jerry having a sadder existence than The Simpsons‘ Kirk Van Houten), it could also have a whole other layer to it. There’s the crazy adventure, the inappropriate jokes and Rick being a complete bastard. “Rickmancing the Stone” mixes up everything that fans have come to love about Rick and Morty. It’s interesting to see how Morty and Summer deal with their parents’ divorce in two totally different, although both violent, ways, and painfully funny to see that Summer’s short-lived relationship ends with her being the Beth to her boyfriend’s Jerry. Rick and Morty is definitely leaning into the darkness that comes with the Smith family breaking up (while still kicking Jerry when he’s down, including the credits scene in which a random wolf eats his unemployment check). Summer: So, lots of hookers outside, huh? There’s a weird romance between Morty and the arm as Summer finds love with the leader of the Deathstalkers - which soon disintegrates into something not unlike Beth and Jerry’s marriage. “Rickmancing the Stone” gets dark when Morty discovers his arm has memories, including those of its original body’s family being murdered, and goes on a rampage that Sterling Archer would be proud of. It’s a laugh out loud moment as Morty wonders if they can visit the world on weekends, or at least come home to do laundry, while in the middle of a car chase. Naturally, Rick and Morty combines the two plots so that the family are arguing over their future while trying to outrun the post-apocalyptic survivors who’ve realized that Rick is trying to steal their stuff. His plan is to use Morty as a distraction by making him fight to the death in the world’s version of the Thunderdome, injecting his grandson so Morty gets exactly one massive arm that starts killing people. What does Rick think about this? He really doesn’t care because he’s there to get his hands on a powerful isotope. And the rest of their name was ‘Stalkers.’ Morty: Summer just ran off with strangers that have ‘Death’ in their name. Morty, on the other hand, thinks his parents’ divorce has screwed up his sister and he’s not wrong: She, Morty and Rick (also voiced by Justin Roiland) portal to a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic world where Summer is happy to stay. Summer (Spencer Grammer) has embraced the idea of being her grandfather’s other sidekick. Jerry (voice of Chris Parnell) has moved out and is only seeing his kids every other weekend, and Morty (Justin Roiland) is the only one who cares.

“Rickmancing the Stone” is technically the season premiere, but it’s the second episode because the first one, “The Rickshank Redemption,” was sprung on us back on April Fool’s Day (and has been airing on Adult Swim steadily ever since). “Rickmancing the Stone” gives us a wild adventure, a rogue Summer and the continued torment of Jerry all in one hilarious package. Rick and Morty season 3 is here, and it’s like the Adult Swim show never left. Rick and Morty season 3 officially began Sunday with “Rickmancing the Stone.” What did we learn from Rick and Morty season 3, episode 2? By Brittany Frederick 4 years ago Follow Tweet
