![]() it's honestly a bit much, and I wouldn't argue that the episode would probably have a similar impact if the molestation sequence was cut and replaced with a different sort of tragedy. At which point Morty gets assaulted in the bathroom in a very, very creepy fashion by a jellybean, and other than the fact that the assaulter is a jellybean, the scene is played out very horrifically as the young boy Morty has to fight off the angry advances of the violent jellybean. And we get some pretty great scripting between the two, with Morty growing a bit of a backbone and calling Rick out for trying his damnadest to not enjoy a single thing about this adventure just to spite him. ![]() It's Rick, after all, and of course he's going to be a gigantic ass. Despite Rick's pessimism, things sort of play out like a traditional fantasy genre, where some sort of contrivance shows up to help them out, be it a giant lawyer campaigning for smaller woman rights or a banana slug that's happy to ferry them down to the town below.Īnd Rick's a gigantic ass throughout this entire episode, which is nothing new. There are your expected jokes, like the Jack and the Beanstalk parody leading to the horrifying and brutal twitchy death of the pretty innocent giant, or the whole prison and eventual courtroom parody, or the weird tavern cut onto the side of the giggantic staircase, which give us some neat one-liners but are ultimately unremarkable. it's a neat little focus on Morty for once, and it's a motivation that fits with how he's sort of a doormat, but has enough.Īnd for the most part, while the episode focuses on the Meeseeks plotline, we get cutaways to the fun, but not especially exciting or groundbreaking scenes of Rick and Morty going through Ye Olde Fantasyland, with pretty generic villagers asking for them to help save their village or whatever. After a particularly traumatic experience where Morty was forced to kill an interdimensional time-travelling demon clone who looks like Beth (or something), he decides that he's had enough, and basically makes a bet with Rick - he'll choose the adventure this time, and prove that sometimes Morty can do something good. I wouldn't call "Meeseeks and Destroy" my favourite episode or anything, but the main Rick and Morty plot is pretty. Because as assholish, cynical and edgelord-anarchist as Rick and Morty can sometimes get, there are lines drawn in the sand, and those lines are important in separating Rick and Morty from being a show with some crass jokes to just crass. And it's not that Rick and Morty is any sort of huge, ground-breaking and deep discussion about the horrors of rape or whatever, but the fact that the show actually portrays what lesser shows would've probably used as a gag, and ended up showing just how horrific it is, ends up being kind of a pretty respectable thing. Because it still is, which really illustrates just how horrifying rape is.Īnd that is what manages to really separate Rick and Morty from the glut of other edgy or crass adult-oriented cartoons like South Park or Family Guy. It plays out pretty horrifically, and while Morty himself doesn't actually get raped (he actually succeeds in smashing his assailant's face into a toilet), the sexual assault is certainly there and it's only the bizarre oddity of using a jelly bean as an assailant that makes the scene. And I feel like we should discuss that scene first, which, of course, is the scene where Morty is assaulted by King Jellybean in a tavern's toilet in a pretty horrific attempted rape sequence. You know that scene, if you've watched the episode, and, honestly, chances are, it's a scene that'll get brought up in most conversations about this show anyway, once you peel away the massive layer of memes and quotable lines from the fandom. Y'know, I remembered watching this episode the first time and going "what the fuuuuuck" on one particular scene. ![]()
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