Rick and Morty: Raising Gazorpazorp (2014)
Season 1, Episode 7
1/10
Boo! I hate you, Rick, and I hate Gazorpazorp. It's Gender Stereotypes: The Planet!
20 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This episode is horrible in almost every single way. It does the straw feminist utopia plot from KND's FUTURE all wrong! It's supposed to be okay that Morty lies to Morty Junior about the air being poison because all male Gazorpians are destructive beasts. Rick is even worse because he shames Summer for being a girl when male Gazorpians almost rape her. Female Gazorpians are only a little better. They're just women stereotypes because Gazorpazorp is a horrible planet of sexist stereotypes. The episode tries to give us social commentary of gender inequality on Earth at one point, but it fails to go anywhere.

Rick and Morty needs to make better episodes after Rick Potion #9 and it's off to a terrible start here. After that previous episode where Morty's love potion made everyone but his family try to rape him, THIS episode starts with Morty having a Gazorpian baby with a sex robot. The female Gazorpians give silent treatment to women who wear bad bangs because female stereotypes, but they sentence Rick to death by boulder for farting in public like they never do that themselves. Summer's attempt to save Rick and make the Gazorpians realize they're hypocrites for liking her top made by a guy only tells me that gender separation, like Gazorpazorp does, is only okay when you follow every gender stereotype just to make one infinitely better than the other by comparison only.

I have no doubt in my mind that this is the 3rd worst episode of Rick and Morty, and Vindicators 3 is the 2nd worst while Rick Potion #9 is the 1st worst, and that's just 1/10 of all Rick and Morty episodes excluding the pilot. Can we please get longer, sooner Rick and Morty seasons when they get writers who know what they're doing so they can do the right thing? This episode tries to be insightful and entertaining, but it fails to do anything for me and it's only somewhat funnier than Rick Potion #9 and Vindicators 3. This episode really ruins Rick's character more than Ricksy Business ever did, yet I still agree with his opinion about epiphanies of gender politics at the end because Summer was almost as much of a jerk, playing into female stereotypes just so the female Gazorpians would like her.

Do you know what the saddest part about this episode is? It's that men wrote it. Men who are so insecure about themselves that they think it's right to make women superior to the point of seeing farts as a deathly offense. I don't want to see another Rick and Summer adventure until Something Ricked This Way Comes. Why do you give Rick and Morty more praise than it deserves, even for the bad things that it does when you hated how Family Guy made the exact same mistakes as Rick Potion #9 in Seahorse Seashell Party?
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