The musical numbers in “Get Schwifty” don’t quite reach that level, though that’s probably the point: the episode is a partial send-up of pop music drivel driven by lines like “raise your posterior,” not too big a stretch considering Kanye’s poetic waxing on sex with mummies. The episode featured a song (basically a parody of David Bowie-style cosmophilia) so damn funny and catchy, they played it twice and I certainly didn’t mind. Successful Rick and Morty episodes have often gone down the above path, or otherwise, relied on a real dynamo of a gag, like Jemaine Clement’s (one-half of New Zealand comedy-folk duo Flight of the Conchords) spectacular guest performance on “Mortynight Run” as the space-folk-singing gas being, Fart.
Back in “Auto Erotic,” sure, we got to see Rick have aerial sex with a stadium of red-heads possessing a single mind, but even more impressively, Rick and the planet-colonizing consciousness Unity formed a very believable relationship it was legitimately difficult to watch that relationship disintegrate, as Rick dragged Unity further and further away from herself.
Perhaps more importantly, these other Season 2 episodes had jokes that revolved around a core of genuine thoughtfulness. The idea of a talent-scouting reality show on a cosmic scale simply isn’t as engaging as the memory-cloning conundrum of “Total Rickall,” or the implications of dating a disembodied hive mind in “Auto Erotic Assimilation.” The main problem with “Get Schwifty” was that it lacked a scifi brain-teaser for us to wrap our heads around, to occupy the rational mind as Rick lets his pottymouth run wild (looking back, the delivery on “Lick lick lick mah balls” in “Total Rickall” was awe-inspiring). Giant space heads are demanding that Earth produce an insipidly catchy pop single, or risk destruction.
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The premise is definitely Rick and Morty material just as Earth has reality TV shows like Eurovision with which to trivialize human emotions and dreams and reduce them to soap-y spectacle, well, as below, so above. Literally every episode up til now has been a multiple-watch for me, but “Get Schwifty” comes as a passable but noticeable lull. The second season of Rick and Morty so far has been absolutely everything we’ve ever wanted from the series: more scifi hijinks with surprisingly keen and clever cultural criticism cut into the mix. In this week’s Rick and Morty episode, “Get Schwifty,” cosmic disembodied heads force Earth to participate in an intergalactic music reality TV show, and Morty learns why Rick absolutely and legitimately needs to be an ass.
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