With Solar Opposites and the upcoming mountain of purchased episodes, it would seem the workload and split focus is having an effect on this show's quality (big time). At least, that's my only guess. This and the last few episodes have been significantly out of style for Rick and Morty.
And I don't mean that they're not good, I mean that they don't fit in with what has happened previously. Which says a lot about them being consistent in the past with a portal gun MacGuffin that makes *anything* possible.
You can hear the disconnect in character flavor and tone with nearly every piece of dialogue in this one. The narration tidbits, the anime characters randomly breaking the animation style (consider this: the episode with chairs sitting on people felt more in place in the R+M universe).
Everything is out of place this season.