Morty's Mind Blowers
"Morty's Mind Blowers" | |
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Rick and Morty episode | |
Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 8 |
Directed by | Bryan Newton |
Written by |
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Produced by | J. Michael Mendel |
Featured music | Ryan Elder |
Original air date | September 17, 2017 |
Running time | 22 minutes |
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"Morty's Mind Blowers" is the eighth episode of the
Plot
After Morty requests to have a traumatic memory deleted, Rick reveals a room where he has been storing a number of memories he has removed from Morty's mind, including those about how he inadvertently drove an innocent man to suicide, or how he accidentally sent an alien to hell. However, as it turns out, besides the memories that Morty did not want to keep from their adventures, the room also contains memories in which Rick was made to look foolish, so he forcibly removed them from Morty. This revelation prompts a fight, during which Rick and Morty have their memories accidentally erased.
Morty scours the memories around him to replace the ones he lost, but he is displeased with the truth he finds, and convinces Rick that they should kill themselves. Summer enters the room moments before they commit suicide. At this point, it is revealed that Rick has a contingency plan in place for an occasion such as this. Following written instructions, Summer tranquilizes Rick and Morty, restores their memories, and drags them to the living room, placing them on the couch. Then Summer administers smelling salts to revive Rick and Morty. As they wake up, they're both angry at Summer, believing she allowed them to sleep through several shows on "Interdimensional Cable." In the post-credits scene, Jerry discovers a box labeled "Jerry's Mind Blowers", which contains a memory reminiscent of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial where Jerry is accidentally responsible for the death of an alien.
Production
The title of "Morty's Mind Blowers" was announced on August 28, 2017.[2] The episode's writing and directorial credits were revealed upon its airing to be Bryan Newton as episode director, and Mike McMahan, James Siciliano, Ryan Ridley, Dan Guterman, Justin Roiland, and Dan Harmon as writers. The series' writers posted on Twitter on September 18, 2017, a day after the airing of the episode, that they had initially come up with "about a hundred mind blowers, then had to narrow it down and vote, then still wrote more."[3][4]
The episode stars Roiland as
Reception
Viewing figures
The episode was watched upon its air date by 2.51 million American viewers.[7]
Critical response
The season has an approval rating of 96% from Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews, and an average rating of 8.95 out of 10, with the site's consensus:
Rick and Morty dives into new and even kookier cosmic dilemmas in a third season that interrogates familial bonds, love, and nihilism—treating all existential topics to the series' trademark serrated wit.[8]
Zack Handlen of
Den of Geek also compared and contrasted the episode to "Interdimensional Cable 2", saying "each sketch can’t start with a completely blank canvas. Rick and Morty have to be at the center of all of them, which, like the lack of ad-libbing, makes this a lot less of a freewheeling ride" and giving the episode overall 3.5 stars out of 5.[12] In an episode review, Steve Greene of IndieWire said, "For a series that delights in its visual inventiveness, it’s hard to believe that this was the first time “Rick and Morty” ventured into the M.C. Escher zone, barely escaping a logic puzzle architectural trap with their bodies and minds intact."[13]
References
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- ^ "Adult Swim schedule (September 10, 2017)". schedule.adultswim.com. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
- ^ "'Rick And Morty' writers share list of freaky, unused ideas from 'Morty's Mind Blowers' episode". NME. 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- ^ "Rick and Morty series writers on "Morty's Mind Blowers"". Twitter. September 18, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ Andrew Whalen On 7/10/19 at 10:00 AM EDT (2019-07-10). "Be a 'Rick and Morty' Season 4 character for charity". Newsweek. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
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- ^ "Sunday cable ratings: 'Outlander' and 'The Deuce' steady with second episodes – TV By The Numbers by zap2it.com". 2017-09-19. Archived from the original on 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- ^ "Rick and Morty: Season 3". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on April 5, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ "Morty finds and loses his mind on a brain-melting Rick And Morty". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ Rick and Morty: "Morty's Mind Blowers" Review - IGN, retrieved 2021-04-01
- ^ Plante, Corey. "Is "Morty's Mind Blowers" in a different 'Rick and Morty' dimension?". Inverse. Retrieved 2021-04-01.
- ^ "Rick and Morty Season 3 Episode 8 Review: Morty's Mind Blowers". Den of Geek. 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ Greene, Steve (2017-09-18). "'Rick and Morty' Review: 'Morty's Mind Blowers' Clip Show Subterfuge is the Show at its Most Dependable". IndieWire. Retrieved 2021-04-03.