Ok so the latest episode of Rick And Morty is now out and the entry titled Bethic Twinstinct
has a lot going on with it.
It's obviously named after the film Basic Instinct with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone
and just like that film we've been slowing it down, zooming in and also getting as close
as we can to make sure we unearth all the easter eggs, hidden details and things you
missed.
Turn the brightness up, I said turn the brightness up.
Now as you can guess the episode centres around Space Beth spending some time with the family.
This is also a thanks giving special and we begin with a callback to the last thanksgiving
episode from the fifth season.
Episode 6 of that entry was titled Thanksploitation Spectacular and it had both Rick and Morty
transforming into Turkeys so that they could get pardoned by the President.
This is a tradition that's believed to have been stated all the way back in the 1870s
with Presidents pardoning Turkey's every single year.
Rick ends up flying into the window disguised as a turkey and he says.
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He also asks how he's got such an advanced game console and first refers to it as the
Pooplickian gamepod.
We also get this line about the portals.
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Season 5 ended with Evil Morty rerouting all the portal guns so that they led to instant
death for the character and you might have noticed that they haven't used them at all
in these first three episodes.
We do know that there is a golden one out there that doesn't do this and it might end
up being the thing that's brought across.
Now Rick stands here naked the entire time but we see in the next scene that he could've
put clothes on completely effortlessly showing man just wanted to flex.
They way these go over him reminded me a lot of a Marvel Nano machine suit up.
Love this line as well.
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Never celebrated Thanks giving becuase I'm from England and I'm thankful every single
year that I don't have to.
Dislike button is right there my American comrades.
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Jerry ends up giving a big speech and in the end he reveals that he'd end his own life
if he ever lost Beth.
Weirdly we've actually seen what happens to him if he has a life without her and he sort
of becomes his own version of Rick, completely isolated and bitter.
Anyway from here we cut to the title sequence and I'd obviously love to hear your thoughts
on the intro.
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From here we cut to Beth's chatting away in the kitchen and this episode is basically
about learning to love yourself...which is a nice message I guess.
Lots of trying to bone your clone and we see the pair flirting away with Space Path planting
a translation chip in the back of Home Beth's neck.
This is something that was first featured in Marvel comics and at one point Kang the
Conqueror even gave his younger self this so that he could continue on the path to turn
into his older versions.
These were both Kang similar to how the Beths are both Beths but that involved the bootstrap
paradox whereas these are just duplicates.
The wine that Space Beth gives clearly makes people....squanchy and this is why we see
Rick locking it up behind a mind bending window cabinet at the end.
I think that this is using pocket dimensions in order to be hidden away rather than it
just being a fake window.
We saw something similar in Peacemaker when we watched where the Peacemaker and his father
hid away their costumes.
I'm guessing that this means that Rick actually wanted something like this to happen which
he later talks about with the Whale.
you do you
He might have even been through this with himself and he keeps an ice cream tub just
incase he needs to pretend he's been out for some.
Space beth brings up that her ship is bigger on the inside which is of course a nod to
the Tardis from Doctor Who and it might also work in a similar method to how this window
does.
Cut to Rick, Morty and Summer playing a game based on Asteroid, the popular 1979 cabinet
game that ended up getting introduced to homes on the Atari.
The three decide to crank the realism up with the higher settings being closer to what space
is actually like.
It's completely devoid of asteroids and the player dies before ever coming across one.
Just before they do all this we see that there's a donut shape in the top right hand corner
of the game and this is actually what many believe that the universe looks like.
Scientists were able to examine radiation from the first stages of it's creation and
they discovered that the universe was expanding.
However in order to do this they theorised that it would also have to loop in on itself
rather than being flat or like a box.
Now Episode 1 of this season had a nod to Tony leaving a message to Pepper in Avengers
Endgame and we sort of get something similar here with Morty's ship being adrift.
He leaves a message for his hypothetical son but we of course know that the charcter actually
had one with Summer in Season 5 episode 4.
Titled Rickdependence spray it was another one I incest you watch and it's brought up
at the end by Space Beth.
Outside Beth and Space Beth almost kiss and this brings a new meaning to the word masturbation.
Anyway back in the game we see a Street Fighter Parody called Getting To A Street Fight.
This centres around fighters trying to meet up and we see that the two characters are
based on Ryu and Blanka from that game.
The modes include a battle royale, meth mode, pants free, urban and slappers only which
is like Newcastle's Bigg Market on a saturday night.
The pair have been drinking lots of green energy drinks based on Mountain Dew called
Battery Fuel.
Down said Bigg Market I learned that a Vodka and Mountain dew is called Rocket Fuel and
the company also has lots of tie ins with game releases.
This is called Game Fuel but ey, I prefer a night on the town with some slappers and
me Rocket Fuel.
Later on they also play a parody of Finale Fantasy but in this cloud is too weak to pick
up his buster sword.
The two beths go on a date together above the planet earth and this reminded me of the
date in Passengers.
They also talk about a space station which that film took place on.
Really underrated movie that looks great in 4k so go pick it up if you're interested in
that.
I also think that we see a decoy body as well which was a big featured in the second episode
of season 2.
The pair get it on with both Summer and Morty being traumatised by what they've been witness
to.
Jerry still doesnt notice because he's stupid and there is a bit in which they go over how
Summer normally picks up on things first before Morty does.
Cut to Rick ripping apart a space whale and these creatures have appeared in a lot of
tv shows and movies.
This idea of them first popped up in the 1970s with the ocean being likened to the vastness
of space.
The eerie and otherworldly whalesong was also repurposed for their appearances.
I also got some flashes of Jaws here when they cut open the shark but turns out Rick
is actually help it out.
On the roof the Beths make snow angels when rolling around kissing and the arms on this
are together as one symbolising the two people actually being the same.
They blow things with their vape pens remind me a lot of Gandalf and Bilbo doing it in
Fellowship of the rings.
After completing his jigsaw and realising it's a horse he plays hide the affair, a role
playing game about two women having an affair together.
In a star trek esque holodeck we see that the Beths have aged up and spent their lives
together which Rick refers to as a San Junipero.
This is the title of a Netflix epsidoe in which two women fall in love togehter in a
simulation that I won't spoil the ending of incase you haven't seen it.
Ey, I might be the spoiler man but I'm not like that b**tch madisynn from the MCU ruining
the Sopranos.
What do you mean its been 15 years.
Jerry remembers the time that he was warned about her in High School and literally retreats
into his Shell which we learn he had installed by Rick.
This is based on a pill bugs ability to roll up and Rick explains it's the only way he
can take control.
Rick got matching eagle tattoos instead and this allows Jerry to avoid talking about Wonder
Woman 1984...which I'm ashamed to admit now that I gave an 8/10 to in my review.
I don't wanna talk about it.
Cut to the family playing a text based game that used to be popular before Graphics really
took centre stage.
The text layout is similar to the matrix and it's about the group waking up in a forest
that they're unable to escape from.
Eventually the Vampires take over and lovely little game this is.
Home Beth slowly gravitates towards Jerry due to his vulnerability which Space Beth
of course doesn't have.
The pair had their lives together in what Home Beth refers to as a video game again
calling back to this simulation.
The pair decide to erase their memories and they end up sitting in chairs that pull directly
from Total Recall.
Rick also mentions several movies including eternal sunshine of a spotless mind which
was about Jim Carrey's character erasing the memories of his ex so that he could get over
her.
Rick also talks about Multiplicity which is a Michael Keaton film in which he gets cloned
several times.
Rick is angry because they'll not remember but everyone else will but Jerry breaks free
and says he shouldn't have promised to off himself.
Jerry packs up to leave and I love how all of his clothes are the same, explaining why
he never changes.
Jerry gives them permission to make out and basically cucks himself which Morty and Summer
overhear.
Morty tries to act normal but he just pours loads of salt on his food and its one of the
cringiest, funniest scenes I think we've ever had in Rick and Morty.
So funny just watching them react to the noises and it's probbaly the most awkward Thanks
giving ever.
Beth says goodbye and Rick puts away the wine and amongst this we can also see that he has
a tequila like drink with Morty inside of it.
Normally you use a worm but here, I guess Morty is a worm so he's just as good.
Cut to the post credits scene and we see Jerry going to the Jerryboree.
First introduced in Mortynight run this was a place for all Jerrys to hang out and we
discover that some have been showing up to touch others so they aren't allowed in without
a chaperone.
Down a dark alleyway Jerry meets another version of himself that he kisses.
Might be a reach but this could be a callback to the Black Mirror episode fighting vipers.
This was about a fighting game where two players met up and had a fight and they then got it
on and decided to meet up in the real world.
The pair kissed and with all the other fighting stuff I kinda feel like it's kinda tied in.
Again might be a reach but I thought I'd bring it up.
Anyway that's the episode and so far I've been really enjoying the series.
I think this was the weakest of the trhee but still it's really well put toegehter and
a great epsiode about self love as well as how awakred I've heard thanks giving can be.
This had the potential to be really weird and cringey and though the more you think
about it the wrose it is, I think they definitely presented it the best way it could be.
Lots of fun overall and obviously I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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