Episode 5 of this season of Rick and Morty was the biggest yet, with events threatening to change the course of the entire series. Fans eagerly await to see how the beloved adult animated show will proceed, and this newest episode doesn’t offer much in the way of answers.
WARNING: If you have not watched Season 7, Episode 6 of Rick and Morty, “Rickfending Your Mort,” you should stop reading now because this article contains MASSIVE spoilers.
Rick and Morty Season 7 Episode 6 SPOILER Breakdown
After the events of the last episode, where Rick manages to defeat Rick Prime, Rick is in a drunken stupor in the garage, suffering from depression and a worse-than-usual sense of meaningless in life. In an attempt to cheer Rick up, Morty decides to cash in on his adventure cards. Not wanting to deal with this right now, Rick accuses Morty of falsifying stamps and calls on a cosmic entity named the “Observer” to audit the stamps for their validity.
At first, the Observer goes through the adventures in Morty’s notes, allowing Rick and Morty to determine what counts as an actual “adventure.” In the process, we get brief glimpses of some zany hijinks. However, the Observer displays events that Rick and Morty do not request, seemingly in an attempt to sew discord.
Rick and Morty step aside to make a bargain without the help of the Observer, but the Observer quickly becomes frustrated with the duo eschewing his wisdom. After Rick and Morty send it away, the Observer returns and harasses the entire family with embarrassing clips. Eventually, Morty ends up in a physical altercation with the Observer before pushing it into the street, where it is hit by a car and breaks into pieces, killing it.
It is then revealed that what we are watching is a court proceeding in which the Observers have put Rick and Morty on trial for killing one of their kind. However, just before their execution, Rick points out their similar trial in Giant Court in season 1. As the Observers continue to show Rick and Morty’s wrongdoing — failed experiments, such as bringing a churro to life then abandoning it when they got tired of it, or killing the versions of themselves in Space Jam — Rick tricks the Observers into letting him have access to the technology to defend themselves.
However, instead of showing clips defending them, Rick decides to show clips of the Observers’ wrongdoing, like instances in which the Observers stood by as they could have helped innocent people or how they manipulated several incidents. This causes the Observer Court to break out in chaos, giving Rick and Morty the chance to escape.
Returning home, Rick realizes Morty was only trying to cheer him up by cashing in on his adventure cards. They decide to call this one a wash and jump into Rick’s ship to go on a real adventure.
In a post-credits scene, Morty opens his locker and sees a lone churro. He thinks it’s Churry, the churro he brought to life, but then realizes it’s just a regular churro. However, he sees the word “soon” scrawled in brown sugar, which strikes fear into him again.
After the canon-changing events of the previous episode, fans should not be surprised to see that the series is pivoting back to one-off adventures rather than choosing to start up another big arc. With a vignette-style episode in the vein of “Interdimensional Cable” and “Never Ricking Morty,” this latest episode is enjoyable enough — even if only a few of the gags are truly laugh-out-loud funny.
Rick and Morty airs on Adult Swim every Sunday at 11pm ET/PT.
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