Season 7 of Rick and Morty has shown its focus to be on a more vulnerable Rick, so it’s a breath of fresh air to see the show return to its goofier roots with the new episode, “That’s Amorte.” Finally explaining the spaghetti gag that has been so heavily teased by the season’s trailer, viewers might be shocked to find out the truth behind Rick’s secret recipe…
WARNING: If you have not watched Season 7, Episode 4 of Rick and Morty, “That’s Amorte,” you should stop reading now because this article contains MASSIVE spoilers.
Rick and Morty Season 7 Episode 4 SPOILER Breakdown
The episode begins with the much-teased spaghetti moment, where Rick serves his “famous spaghetti” to his family, who eat it eagerly. Morty then walks in on Rick “preparing” the spaghetti, only to find that it is the innards of a corpse.
Rick and Morty go to another planet, where he explains that — due to a chemical reaction in the blood — the organs of this planet’s people turn into something resembling spaghetti when they commit suicide. Rick hopes that this will comfort Morty to know that it’s not entirely unethical, but Morty is still consumed by guilt.
Morty insists on attending the funeral of one of the people they have eaten, and when no one gives a eulogy, Morty decides to get up and explain the truth of the situation to the deceased friends and family, who record Morty’s ridiculous rant.
When they return home, Rick and Morty reveal the truth to the family at Morty’s request, and they become upset at the fact that Morty has ruined spaghetti night, considering that they now feel unethical to continue eating it knowing where it comes from.
In the middle of the night, a ship comes to Morty’s window to take him to the “spaghetti planet,” where the President of that world has some questions to ask Morty. The President reveals that they have set up a program where terminally ill people can choose to commit painless assisted suicide if they are willing to agree to donate to have their body eaten.
Morty thinks he has solved the problem by creating “ethical spaghetti,” but Rick takes him back to the planet, where he reveals their society has collapsed and undergone a significant transformation. The entire world has been made as depressing as possible to attempt to encourage people to kill themselves as the entire economy has started to revolve around this “suicide spaghetti.”
Attempting to find a solution, Rick and Morty devise a program where clones are created and indoctrinated to commit suicide and be turned into spaghetti, but they fail when the clones become self-aware. Rick then creates mutant torso creatures living in pain without any thoughts, whose purpose is only to kill themselves.
The spaghetti planet’s society begins to collapse as protesters who want the spaghetti, and those who think it is unethical begin to war. In an attempt to end the war, Rick convinces a terminally ill old man to give up his life with the promise that his sacrifice will be to artificially synthesize endless spaghetti and end the entire spaghetti trade.
As the old man kills himself, Rick instructs him to think of the happy memories in his life, projecting them to the entire world over every screen. What proceeds is a beautiful love story that is so touching everyone becomes disgusted with the idea of eating the spaghetti. With this, Rick has ended the suicide spaghetti trade.
Back at home, Rick serves up Salsibury steak that the family claims is the best they have ever had. He warns them not to go poking around to figure out how he made it, as it has an even more horrifying origin than the spaghetti.
In a post-credits scene, we see a glimpse of a world occupied by vacuum cleaners, where it is revealed the vacuum bags have the same origin as the spaghetti in the spaghetti world.
This season of Rick and Morty has been characterized by an increased focus on Rick, so it is nice to see another old school adventure with both Rick AND Morty. Although “That’s Amorte” hardly ranks among the best episodes of the series considering that it is so one-note with its gag, there’s enough laughs to make it an enjoyable adventure.
Rick and Morty airs on Adult Swim every Sunday at 11pm ET/PT.
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