It's very suspicious that everyone only thinks Interdimensional Cable 2 is the worst Rick and Morty episode "by default" for being the weakest and never acknowledge that Rick and Morty can and has done some actively repulsive things in worse episodes that succumb to almost the same issues as Family Guy. Maybe they let Rick erase their memories of Rick Potion #9, Raising Gazorpazorp and Vindicators 3 since they couldn't imagine it having such bad episodes after their nearly perfect track record with the first 5 episodes, because I have a lot to say about that today.
It starts out as a cool clip show of clips you never saw, with a moonspiracy, Morty's menagerie, the hole enchilada, and Morty turning into a monster. There's an easy color code of blue things that were Morty's mistakes, purple things that were Morty's family's mistakes, and red things that were Rick's mistakes, like how they were not on a planet with a severe freezing temperature. Then the episode goes into a pointless amnesia plot like WhoBob WhatPants. This is where I really started to lose faith in Rick and Morty, because eventually when they have to rush things and throw poop at the wall that doesn't stick when Morty puts all of the vials in his helmet to remember everything, like burying a dead Santa Claus and Rick thinking that the mean squirrels chasing Morty when he can hear what they're saying with the helmet is just as big of a threat worth going to another universe as the cronenbergs from Rick Potion #9, which that episode still has no excuse to not fix when we know Rick knows to tell Morty to not hand him a screwdriver afterwards. It turns out some of the things were minor things not even bad enough for Morty to want to forget, like Morty telling Rick that the phrase "taken for granite" is really "taken for granted", Rick questioning Morty flipping the wrong light switch, Morty beating Rick in a skiing contest and a checkers game, and accidentally covering Rick's eyes with his 1 and 3 birthday candles on his 13th birthday, so this plot would be the same without Summer having to restore Rick and Morty's memories that they accidentally erased because it's still the same conflict of Morty realizing Rick removed things from his memory that he didn't ask to have removed, and I didn't really see any point to having them make each other forget who they are. I didn't mind missing interdimensional cable for this like I did the Atlantis trip from the previous episode, I just...(sigh) really didn't like the directions that this took halfway through.
It starts out as a cool clip show of clips you never saw, with a moonspiracy, Morty's menagerie, the hole enchilada, and Morty turning into a monster. There's an easy color code of blue things that were Morty's mistakes, purple things that were Morty's family's mistakes, and red things that were Rick's mistakes, like how they were not on a planet with a severe freezing temperature. Then the episode goes into a pointless amnesia plot like WhoBob WhatPants. This is where I really started to lose faith in Rick and Morty, because eventually when they have to rush things and throw poop at the wall that doesn't stick when Morty puts all of the vials in his helmet to remember everything, like burying a dead Santa Claus and Rick thinking that the mean squirrels chasing Morty when he can hear what they're saying with the helmet is just as big of a threat worth going to another universe as the cronenbergs from Rick Potion #9, which that episode still has no excuse to not fix when we know Rick knows to tell Morty to not hand him a screwdriver afterwards. It turns out some of the things were minor things not even bad enough for Morty to want to forget, like Morty telling Rick that the phrase "taken for granite" is really "taken for granted", Rick questioning Morty flipping the wrong light switch, Morty beating Rick in a skiing contest and a checkers game, and accidentally covering Rick's eyes with his 1 and 3 birthday candles on his 13th birthday, so this plot would be the same without Summer having to restore Rick and Morty's memories that they accidentally erased because it's still the same conflict of Morty realizing Rick removed things from his memory that he didn't ask to have removed, and I didn't really see any point to having them make each other forget who they are. I didn't mind missing interdimensional cable for this like I did the Atlantis trip from the previous episode, I just...(sigh) really didn't like the directions that this took halfway through.