Forgetting Sarick Mortshall
- Episode aired Sep 5, 2021
- TV-14
- 21m
Rick gets new sidekicks, while Morty makes a new friend.Rick gets new sidekicks, while Morty makes a new friend.Rick gets new sidekicks, while Morty makes a new friend.
- Rick Sanchez
- (voice)
- …
- Jerry Smith
- (voice)
- Summer Smith
- (voice)
- Beth Smith
- (voice)
- (credit only)
- Nick
- (voice)
- (as Nick Rutherford)
- Rick's Computer
- (voice)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSeason 5 Episode 9 and Episode 10 will be released as a 1-hour finale for the season.
- Quotes
Morty Smith: So we're like, back-back, right? Rick and Morty, together again. Full-full reset?
Rick Sanchez: [sighs] No. No, Morty, I think we're done.
Morty Smith: B-because I spilled the portal fluid and didn't tell you?
Rick Sanchez: No, Morty. 'Cause you were too afraid to tell me. What we had was abusive, don't you see? I'm a bad partner because I never made you a true partner. The crows made me see that. I thought they were a joke like you, but it turns out they're more enlightened than any of us.
Morty Smith: Oh, okay? And-and what's the undercut?
Rick Sanchez: You're not hearing me. I will never be the same. So I need to leave with the crows and see what more they can teach me.
Morty Smith: Oh.
[Wipes tears]
Morty Smith: Oh.
Rick Sanchez: Here.
[Rick hands over his portal gun to Morty]
Rick Sanchez: I want you to have this.
Morty Smith: Oh, wow. I... You know what, Rick? You really have changed.
Rick Sanchez: Thanks, Morty.
[Rick starts walking away, then turns back to Morty]
Rick Sanchez: I'll always be your grandpa, Morty. Just kinda... obsessed with crows now.
- ConnectionsReferences The Dark Crystal (1982)
- SoundtracksBorrowed Time
Performed by Tennis
Disappointed yet again in his grandson, Rick (Justin Roiland) decides to dispense with Morty (Justin Roiland) as his sidekick and, following a spin of a random wheel, chooses two crows to be his new companion. Though initially a joke, he bonds with corvus, before falling fowl (sic) of a race of super intelligent crows. Morty meanwhile has made a new friend, having spilt portal fluid on his hand he is linked to Nick (Nicholas Rutherford) who claims to be a former associate of Rick's and who has a portal in his thigh, but who currently resides in a mental institution.
Solid episode that does much of the heavy lifting for leading us into the season finale. Rick actually calls out the nearest thing that the episode has to any form of film parody, or homage. That being that the advanced crows look like the villains from "The Dark Crystal". Both the episodes largely cut out the supporting family, with only Jerry really appearing in this one.
Morty's story is definitely the weaker of the two, with Nick clearly being a wrong 'un from the get-go but the action scenes were clever and the resolution was fine. It does, as others have said, feel a bit abrupt that the interaction with the crows is the thing that finally wakes Rick up to the idea that he should be nicer to his family. . . When perhaps more gradual appreciation of it across the season might have been better placed.
It was nice to finish with another fourth wall breaking drunken ramble though, about "Rick and Two Crows" the new spin off show that will definitely be running from now on.
- southdavid
- Sep 8, 2021
Details
- Runtime21 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD