Anna Daniels
On past seasons of Rick and Morty, episode titles have given cheeky nods to classic movies. The movie references in this batch of episodes are, for the most part, pretty easy to figure out.
“Never Ricking Morty” seems to be a spoof of the fantasy classic Neverending Story, and “Promortyus” is clearly meant to invoke Prometheus. “Childrick of Mort” is quite likely all about Children of Men, and we’d be genuinely surprised if the phonetics of “Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri” fit any other movie than Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The only episode title that doesn’t really seem to fit the bill is “The Vat of Acid Episode” — which, to be fair, seems self-explanatory. Just reading that out loud, we imagine some sort of Batman villain trap where Rick and/or Morty (or, most likely, Jerry) spend the majority of the episode hanging over a gigantic vat of, yeah, you know.
In even more good news, these aren’t the only hints we have about what’s to come on Rick and Morty season 4. As Bradley Russell of Games Radar notes, the showrunners have also provided characteristically oddball “broh” synopses for all the upcoming episodes, save for the first one. Maybe they’ll shed some more light on the laugh-a-minute terrors Rick and Morty is about to throw at us?
Written by: Looper
