#amortality

[christiecandor]

Smug Rick appreciation post 🩵

[thesoftboiledegg]

Rick being physically gentle 💚

He even takes that guy's hand for a second 😭

[rickandmortyscreenshots]

[rickandmortygif]

[ricksanchezbignaturals]

dr. hotpenis is an incredibly attractive dumbass

[crashnbrn]

"ooh, grey areas. my speciality"

season 7, ep 4

[l-egionaire]

I have an unpopular Opinion about the new Rick and Morty episode......I don't think Morty has as much moral high ground as he thinks.

Like, he ACTS like he has a moral issue....but he doesn't. He has the same issue the other characters do in the episode; He just wants to get rid of his own guilt at eating the Spaghetti. And the perfect example of that is the speech he gives at the funeral. Notice that he does not APOLOGIZE for eating the person who killed himself. He doesn't act regretful for doing so. He specifically says he "hopes that him being delicious made it right". He asks Rick for NAMES and tries going to a funeral. But thats to make HIMSELF feel better. He doesn't ask who they were or if they had families he could talk to personally or anything like that.

And as the episode goes on, he shows another truth: He doesn't ACTUALLY care that the Sphagetti is people, which is what he made it SEEM the issue was. He just doesn't want to feel like a bad person eating it. The minute he gets some "justification" for why it's okay to eat it? He's right back to gobbling it up AND serving it to his family again. Because if his issue actually WAS that it was made from people, he'd refuse to eat it even if it was "ethical," especially after seeing the person it came from. Because the truth is....he doesn't actually care. At least, he doesn't care that it's PEOPLE. He cares about whether eating it would make him seem like a good or bad person and just wants someone, whether it's the folks at the funeral, the Spaghetti planet people or just his own loose sense of morality to tell him he isn't.

[nofatclips]

Grandpappy's Gold by Bearaxe featuring Terry Moore, live on Band in Seattle

[sweetenerbizz]

UMMMMM

WHAT COULD THIS POSSIBLY MEAN???

i’m so excited i love it when they get all cryptic

[zeep-xanflorp]

"you did the "right" thing. we are technically very happy to be better informed."

"is this people or not people? i just need to know how much i should pretend to be upset."

the smith's are progressively getting more degenerate and i'm kinda here for it.

[dreamweaversfavsandthoughs]

Rick and Morty S7 Ep. 4: That’s Amorte

(There is no ethical consumption under capitalism)

Don’t read any further if you don’t want to spoiler your appetite…

My Favs

We got Morty back!

When the world was about to send out an Amber Alert on a missing kid, Morty decided to return to us! I’ve enjoyed the season so far but having Rick and Morty together is a stark reminder that the strength of this show is found in the dynamic between grandfather and grandson. Also, I love seeing Rick getting healthy and bettering himself, but I also love to see a Rick that’s amoral and a bit unhinged.

Facial animation:

I don’t know if this is due to the Irish animation studio they’re working with now, but I’ve noticed there’s a bit more diversity in the facial expressions compared to the last two or three seasons. Has anyone else noticed this?

They did a Soylent Green!

I predicted that this might have been a red herring seeing the initial clips and they might instead do something akin to the Universal Paperclip game, but a Soylent Green is what we got. Well, the idea behind the paperclip game is still on the table for next season…

Euthanasia, Cannibalism, and Suicide

Quite the trifecta of “subjects we don’t discuss in polite society,” but I admire them for taking the risk and weaving everything together well. Kinda surprised S&P let them get away with it.

“His dying wish is to see deader people so he can feel superior.”

Morty-O’s Suicide Spaghetti

“ Is this people or not people? I just need to know how much I should pretend to be upset.”

Oh, Jerry…

“They dyed their sun institutional gray.”

“Ooo gray areas. My specialty.”

Classic Rick

Kotomi’s cover of “Live Forever”

“Life itself is wrong and that means death is right. But you can’t side with that. So you live, even when it means eating.”

Not My Fav:

They could have gotten nastier.

This is my one small gripe in an episode that I think is fantastic. I’m confident there is an earlier draft out there that got so much grosser before S&P made their cuts and I demand to see that draft!

Release that nasty cut!!!

My Thoughts:

First my less serious thought, how in the hell did Rick find out that those people turned in spaghetti when they unalived themselves? My headcanon is that he has made a regular habit of impersonating a doctor on that planet because he sees doctors as nothing more than glorified mechanics, but for people. Rick knows he’s the smartest man in the universe and a proper scientist so practicing medicine would not be that much of a challenge and along the way he discovered this delicious trait about the Keplar people.

On a more serious note, there are two moments that really stood out to me. First, was when Morty broke the news of the spaghetti’s origin to the family and their reaction. They were angry and disappointed—in Morty for delivering the message rather than Rick for feeding them people-spaghetti. That spaghetti was amazing and brought everyone joy and they were more angry about losing their joy than the moral implications of consuming human flesh. Morty destroyed the illusion that they were “good” people and instead of actually being good people and refusing to eat the spaghetti, Morty created a work-around so that he and the family could still maintain the illusion.

That felt very realistic to how, dare I say, all of us have acted at some point, whether it’s the food we eat or that store that sells the jeans that fit perfectly or the online retailer that delivers anything we could possibly want the next day. Maybe, we find out someday that it’s not created in the most ethical manner and we rationalize it. We think, “ Oh, it’s not that bad.” or “ I can’t afford the more ethical option,” or "I have such few joys in my life I don't want to lose this as well.” It’s easier to uphold the illusion of being morally upright under a system that makes it exceedingly difficult to do so. But even if the capitalistic system is destroyed can we ever really be absolved? This leads to the second moment that stood out, Rick’s monologue.

“Life itself is wrong and that means death is right. But you can’t side with that. So you live, even when it means eating.”

My interpretation is that Rick is saying, “Life, by it’s very nature, is inherently unethical and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Even if the meat you eat comes from an animal that is well taken care of, killed as quickly and painlessly as possibly, and processed in a facility that treats its workers well and obeys all regulations—that animal still had to die in order to produce that meat. You’re a vegan. Plants are still living things and for many plants the process of getting food from them destroys them in the process. Millions of bacteria are destroyed every time you wash your hands. Life needs other kinds of life to end for it to keep going, but humans are the only creatures that are aware of this fact so we create arbitrary categories around which types of life are okay to destroy (categories we can’t all agree on) in order to maintain the illusion of morality.

This episode does not have a feel-good message among the jokes and absurd characters and I appreciate that. This one got my brain a-churnin’ and I’m sure I read way too much into this episode but I couldn’t help myself.

[christiecandor]

New clip from tonight's episode! Why am I getting Morty's mind-blower vibes? This is supposed to be a canonical episode, isn't it?

[thesoftboiledegg]

The storyboarders do a great job with character expressions. Rick doesn't speak a word in this scene, but his face shows you exactly what he's thinking as Morty rambles.

[rickandmortyscreenshots]

[trashbaglord]

I promise to stop.

You what?

If you help me, I-I promise I'll never look under the curtain at a Rick thing to figure out what's bad about it ever again.

Morty? Promising not to look look at the morality of what Rick is doing? Suggesting this deal all by himself? Our Morty..?

My first visceral reaction was akin to the disbelief of thinking "that's out of character" except that it's literally canon. But then it isn't the first time Morty is shown to be looser with his morality this season, isn't it? This was just the most blatant.

Morty casually trading probably drugs with the mafia

Morty killing henchmen without blinking

Morty calling his underground connections to find Jerrick

Someone wrote that the epsiode was like a mix between Vat of Acid and Mortynight Run (please correct me here if they know what I'm talking about, because my memory is falling me), making it feel like an episode out of time, but at the end of those Morty felt devastated and existentially wounded. If this episode is acting almost as a parallel to those, rather than suffer, Morty makes the choice to shut his eyes and remain blissfully ignorant, compromising his morals.

I wonder what consequences of Morty's deal we will see in the upcoming episodes.

[emptyrecyclebin]

Cells consume, Morty. Life itself is wrong and that means death is right. But you can't side with that. So you live, even when it means eating.

— Rick Sanchez, S07E04 : That's Amorte - Rick and Morty