rick and morty season 1 episode 1 analysis

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It’s an early reminder that Rick always ignores anything about just how selfish he is, with Morty asking him, “How many enemies do you have to have?! Why is everything a fight with you!” Rick replies with the “lesson” for his grandson that “life is a fight.” Morty, unfortunately, has to learn that the hard way here.ĭespite Morty learning up top with his death call that he should just be up honest with Jessica, it’s his continued need to impress her that turns everything into a centuries-long blood vengeance story, with him at the center of it. Nimbus calls for it, storing the wine through a portal where time moves faster-like “a Narnia thing.”Įven though he concedes to doing this, Morty declares that he wants to do something in his life other than favors for Rick.

(This is why he tasks Summer with the retrieval mission.) Instead, he gives Morty the simple task of bringing the wine whenever Mr. Nimbus, so he decides he can’t trust Morty to be his right hand man. In this case, Rick is upset with Morty for summoning Mr. Instead of returning with an episode about a Rick and Morty adventure or a whole family adventure, “Rick and Morty” uses the Jeff Loveness-penned “Mort Dinner Rick Andre” as a vehicle for another Rick and Morty tiff.

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Nimbus his powers - Morty once again sets out to have his own adventure, this time in the form of his movie date with Jessica. Nimbus to stall him with the promise of a bogus peace summit - while he has Summer dive into the ocean to steal the shell that gives Mr. While Rick ends up having dinner with Mr. Maybe that’s not exactly the stuff on an “ice cold dick killer” that Rick repeatedly calls him in this episode, but he’s not someone to mess with.

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He sips fine wine and then throws the still full bottle at the wall, demanding another.

Nimbus, Beth, and Jerry having a threesome.) He’s also clearly a jerk. Nimbus is unassuming because he’s a “strange, horny ocean man” who says his name a lot, but it quickly becomes clear that he wields plenty of power and is highly respected as king, as well as one heck of a charmer when it comes to the “sex positive” crowd. Nimbus is king of the ocean and “a piece of shit.”

Even Jerry, of all people, isn’t impressed by Mr. Nimbus suggests that surely something is amiss if this character is somehow Rick’s nemesis. And it’s a weight that the episode intentionally undercuts from his presentation, as everything about Mr. Nimbus is officially dubbed Rick’s “nemesis” in this episode clearly has to hold weight. Nimbus, the “big man” from the episode synopsis and Rick’s nemesis.Ĭonsidering all of the enemies and foes of Rick that we’ve been introduced to over the course of the series, the fact that someone as weirdly unassuming as Mr. That’s all the inspiration Morty needs to live, which leads to the water landing on the ocean that summons Mr. It’s a call to his forever crush Jessica, which ultimately ends up working in his favor and getting him a movie date night with her that night. As the ship hurtles toward Earth, set to crash and burn - and it’s a very nice touch for the steering wheel to just pop right off - Morty makes a death call that really sets this whole episode into motion. But it’s in Morty’s bravery in this moment - as he flies them back to their dimension, on a course back to Earth - that the episode provides its first (but certainly not last) portal-based issue, as the portal closes just as Rick and Morty go through it.