That's a Morte

[succubus_sally]

I made spaghetti in honor of the most promo'd episode of the new Rick and Morty season. I watch [adult swim] still on cable and they've shown the "rick's famous spaghetti!!" clip in multiple promo's. I was very curious as spaghetti is one of my favorite dishes and bolognaise is usually what I make when I make cheap pasta at home. Spaghetti was the first dish I really learned how to cook as a child too.




I was not super thrilled with the first episode this season. I just don't give a fuck about Hugh Jackman and never have so the entire episode is just some long weird reference to Hugh Jackman - I hated it.

I'm also not a big fan of the new season trying to just rehash previous one-off characters to try and make them seem more reoccurring.

But I was already psyched for this spaghetti episode from the promo's. I love spaghetti and the promos gave no spoilers as to what's going on with the spaghetti so I was very interested to see what they were going to do with what seems like such a simple plot.

While it seems silly to say, I tend to know what I'm gonna like and what I don't like. From those promo's alone I already kind of knew I was going to enjoy this. AND I WAS RIGHT.

This has been the funniest episode so far this season. From the parmesan pronunciation to capitalism taking over another planet via suicide spaghetti.

I would say this is up there with the Beth clone twincest episode.







I think this part cracked me up the most. This show often has a great way of saying things that are technically true while also giving it a tone that says "we all know this is also kind of bullshit"




Besides this episode being hilarious, I think it also makes good points about certain things being out of a human being's control.

I often find myself saying, "you can do everything right and bad things can still happen to you"

They end the episode on the note that "Life is wrong, and that means death is right - but you can't side with that" which I think a lot of people relate to without realizing it. A lot of the discourse I see online that ends up bleeding into real life is that people are constantly learning things about others - and then making huge judgement calls on that person. Which often makes it feel like if you're a living human being, then you must be doing something wrong.

Which leads to - it really seems like the only right thing to do would be to not exist.

I rarely ever hear about accepting someone despite their flaws as most flaws have been turned into "you're actually doing something evil and should be shunned by society".

And of course there's no real discussion about how it feels to be shunned or what shunning people does. What it does is disconnect everyone.

But everyone seems to be pretty okay with being disconnected. It's become more and more acceptable to have fleeting relationships that don't last. It's okay to cut everyone out of your life.

After all, you should be loving yourself. So you shouldn't need anyone else anyway.

Morty brings up mental health several times during the episode and gets ignored every time. Which is also a reality. People really do just say "mental health" and "mindfulness" and "mental well being" and then they just move past it.

And then everyone continues the disconnected behavior.

That's what I liked most about the episode. It wasn't just funny. It was very real. You know for being a silly cartoon on [adult swim].