This show is only in the beginning stages of season 6, and are renewed through season 10 so it's possible an episode surpasses, but most of the episodes as of recent have been good but not top tier episodes for me. This episode though is the everything perfect about a Rick and Morty episode as well as a cartoon episode in general. The amount of times I've watched this episode and found new characters in the background is astounding. The amount of work you have to put in to get that many different wacky characters on screen is a lot, especially coming up with so many original ideas. Cartoons for me seem to have some of the most memorable plots and episodes just because of how insane animation can go, they have way more boundaries can break, because a lot of the times live action comedies and sitcoms need to have some kind of grounded feelings and animation do whatever they want. There's so many classic moments like pencilvestor introduction. All the fake flashbacks making the parasites duplicate. The whole premise is classic Rick and Morty. I love that the whole epsidoe takes place in the house, episodes like this in shows that take place in one area I always tend to like quite a lot and this is no different. Rick is hilarious not an asshole with one of my favorite 4th wall broken jokes "NOOOO, shoot now it's like a where's Waldo page. Can you find me, check out all these zany characters. We'll be right back after these messages". As well as himself forgetting the right amount of people that are supposed to be in the house. One of my favorite parts of the whole show is the family teaming to take down the parasites, besides Jerry of course who has his own little story with Beth's "husband" sleepy Gary and Jerry's lifelong friend is so funny to me. The parts when the family try to figure out if the have bad memories of each and having flashbacks of all the bad times is comedy gold especially summer to morty. "WHY IN THE KITCHEN" Summer. "I do it everywhere stop shaming me" Morty. Fantastic exchange. I also love the little bit continuity kept between this episode and the last, with in this episode showing rick disposing some kind of glowing rock, which we saw in a previous episode. A lot of people have theorized this episode took place in a different timeline mostly because of mr poopy butthole being a real person that the family knew in this episode, which obviously up to this point we had never met him. The most recent premiere (Season 6) pretty much confirmed that this episode was in a different timeline. The scene of Beth shooting Mr Poopy Butthole always gets me as well as the very first scene of the episode with Rick shooting the parasite at the table coming across as their uncle. The opening is a great way to introduce us to this premise and episode. Most shows I have such a hard time deciding what's my favorite episode but in Rick and Morty ever since I saw this episode it's been my favorite and probably will never change.
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