Rick and Morty S9 Ep 4 Review
I don’t know if I will ever see the appeal behind alcohol and getting wasted, and frankly, I think I’m better off not knowing. Since day one, we’ve seen Rick Sanchez use alcohol as a means of numbing himself to the pain of his existence, but this episode might be among his worst drinking binges ever! Being Rick, though, he’d rather find a convoluted method of avoiding the consequences like forgetting his passwords than address this drinking problem. The result? I walked away from this episode thanking myself for avoiding alcohol whenever possible. And I pray to heaven that Morty is better about it.
Remembering your Passwords Sucks!
The episode starts off with Rick coming home absolutely wasted. He’s so out of it, he wets himself From being unable to control his bladder. Then he drunkenly tries to unlock his computer, only to get locked out when he forgets his password one too many times, leaving him to cry for Morty. And judging by the look on Morty’s face, this is a regular occurrence. The plot then segues into the arrival of Reese, a folksy man they’ve apparently known for years. Except it turns out that Reese is just some kind of advanced password manager for Rick. He’s programmed to show up whenever he forgets his password and help him remember it.
I’m going to be honest: I don’t see the point behind all of this. I mean, obviously, Rick would want some high-concept idea to serve as a means to remember his passwords. I just don’t understand why he would have to go through all of this trouble when he could save it to his phone or computer. Why build a cyborg to do all of this? Then again, this is Rick Sanchez. He turned himself into a pickle to get out of therapy. Of course he would be this this petty! It just wasn’t a joke that I liked.
What I did like, though, was how it handled Rick’s alcoholism, and how that leads to more problems in this episode. When Morty tries to do the right thing and save Reese’s life by getting him someplace safe, the universe decides to have it backfire on him like it often does. In this case, he takes Reese to the planet where Rick makes everyone supply him with alcohol, thinking he will be safe there. However, that leads to a group of radical youths, fed up with having to serve Rick, to hijack Reese and use him to gain control of all of Rick’s technology to kill him. That includes not only the garage and his actual weapons, but the entire house! The floor turns into actual lava at one point!
That IT guy was pretty funny
The real highlight of the episode, though, has to be who Rick gets to try and help unlock his computer. He calls these IT cloud-people that need to possess a physical form to interact with the world, and the one Rick’s talking to uses Jerry as a host. We get to see him spend the majority of the episode running around being possessed as the IT cloud just abuses his time to enjoy having a body, leading to some very funny moments. It’s one of the better parts of the episode, to be honest.
Ultimately, the episode ends with Rick having to shut off all of his tech to force the hackers out, meaning he can no longer rely on a bottomless flash anymore. The IT cloud takes Reese’s body to use for themselves and goes off to enjoy being physical. And you would think that all of this would teach Rick to cut back on the alcohol, but no. Instead, we get to see him end the episode downing even more beer while telling Morty that he’ll become just like him when he’s older. I wanted to say that this was just Rick being a jerk, but I looked it up, and it turns out that an affinity for alcohol can be genetic. Either way, I’m glad I don’t need booze in my life.
