Rick and Morty (TV Series) Rixty Minutes (2014) User Reviews

This is why Rick and Morty is the best animated show out there.

[TouchTheGarlicProduction · 10/10 · 7 October 2015]

This was a brilliant episode, one of the best in reflection. My fellow reviewer complains that it slows down to focus on one gag a plethora of character development. I would argue that this is (in this case) an extreme positive, not an extreme negative.

The big premise of the episode is inter-dimensional cable. Rick hooks up the T.V to receive television from every alternate time-line. Infinite TV. This means that they encounter some very strange programs. It leads to some of the series' funniest and most memorable gags. This already sets it up there among the funniest TV episodes. But it goes further.

The family starts using the technology to glimpse what could have been in their lives. This is used for fascinating character development, competent even for a non-animation. It also leads to a great monologue from Morty about the consequences of a previous episode.

Now this, THIS, is where Rick and Morty sets itself above all the other sitcoms. It uses an intriguing sci-fi premise to create hilarious and memorable gags and push the characters into fascinating and compelling development. So now, what at first appears to be filler is actually important and distinguished; art that is entertaining. And that's a win in my book.

THIS is my favorite episode

[ericstevenson · 10/10 · 9 May 2016]

I used to think "Lawnmower Dogs" was my favorite episode in the series, but I have changed my mind. This episode's premise is extremely basic, but absolutely hilarious. Rick simply reprograms the TV to watch shows from other universes. The entire episode mostly seems like an episode of "Robot Chicken" as it seems like just a series of random short hilarious sketches. If I'm allowed to have a favorite part, I'd have to say the Gazorpazorpfield segment. The voices are great and Rick and Morty themselves make an awesome joke about the voice actors. Then again, the Baby Legs segment was great. You have no idea what's going to show up next in this episode and it's worth it to see every part.

There's even a great subplot with the other family members that actually leads to some real heartwarming moments. It's great that the show has continuity, as Morty mentions that he actually came from another Universe himself. The way they go so well with the idea of the Multiverse just shows how this show uses its vast ideas in the biggest ways. The weird thing is that the most memorable part might be the very ending. It is seriously one of the most unexpected and heartwarming things the show has ever done. I don't want to spoil it, but let me tell you it really puts a whole new perspective on the episode.

Be sure to stay after the credits. ****.

Clips Art

[southdavid · 9/10 · 14 May 2020]

This is another classic season one episode, and one that opens up the nearest thing to a clips episode that Rick and Morty has.

Disgruntled by the lack of TV options, Rick (Justin Roiland) reprograms the family TV to show infinite channels from alternate universes. An early channel shows a version of Jerry (Chris Parnell) where he's a successful actor and, whilst Rick and Morty continue to scan the channels, the rest of the family fixate on alternate universes where they're more successful.

When I say it's like a clips show I mean in the sense it's probably an episode designed to save a little time and/or money - half of the show isn't written, but it's Roiland improvising adverts, teasers and promotional trailers for wild movies and shows, which is then animated. It's excellent stuff and then Rick and Morty provide meta commentary across it. Meanwhile, Jerry and Beth's marriage continues to fall apart, before an alternate versions gesture pulls them back together. Then there is the continuity call back from a couple of weeks ago, that really this Rick and Morty are not from this universe and that Morty is haunted still by burying his "own" corpse.

Excellent, funny and imaginative. This is really top drawer "Rick and Morty"

I couldn't stop laughing

[TheCaliGula · 10/10 · 26 May 2019]

This goes along some of the funniest comedy I've seen on TV. It is so fast, and at the same time achieve to play metaphysically on your retinal persistence. I have to go back to Simpson's season 7 episode to find something as significant, as hilarious as this episode. It blows your brain out.

The Reason Rick and Morty is more than meets the Eye

[trudir-6-935560 · 9/10 · 7 May 2016]

This Episode is to many where the show finds it's true footing, everything leading up to this point have been fun and adventurous to a wildly unexpected expectation and this episode is where Rick & Morty make the fun seem like the second refill to the wonderful family drama story told. The tension of Beth and Jerry's relationship is put in full swing as they contemplate how there lives would be so much better without Summer and Morty's birth and there life as a family now. Summer's character is shot to the moon with her obvious anger of being in some way betrayed by her parents announcement that they planned to have an abortion. Summer's angst leads to her wanting to move out and then we have something from Morty that is the complete reason why his character is one of the best of all-time. He tells Summer about his body being buried from the previous (my personal favorite episode) episode 6. This leads to a beautiful monologue that shows how Morty see's life but and cherishes his family. But the greatest moment is when Jerry watches his other world movie star persona being chased by the cops, and we see Beth's other world surgeon persona feeding her birds alone. It is when these two characters from the other world meet each other and profess how they'd give up there dreams to be with each other is when you realize just how much this show means. The real world Jerry and Beth cry, hug and kiss, with no words needed to be said. The moment is not just what family dramas need, it's something you realize about your parents or about yourself as a married couple. It's also a beautiful reason to believe in fate, if you so do believe in it. Overall this is a heart tugged episode that classify's Rick and Morty as not just a fun series, but a Show that knows how to handle time travel and all it's fun to the extent of even showing the drama that comes with it. Back to the Future never had a better rip off (jokes).

Typically profound!

[GraXXoR · 9/10 · 28 April 2017]

A rather reflective episode that takes place entirely within the house.

This episode explores the concept of "what if..."

What if you did this or that? What if you hadn't ... ? Being able to view your own alternatives is a recipe for unhappiness, since in a multiverse of infinite probability, there's always a you, better than you.

Interestingly, this is the first show that directly and explicitly references a previous episode and builds on it. Pointing out the graves of the original Rick and Morty from this dimension who were replaced by their C-137 counterparts, and a curiously offhand reference to Gazorpazorp, where of course, the other half of Morty's son's DNA came from.

It also demonstrates Roiland's and Harmon's concept of continuity across dimensions. That no matter how different life is, the fates of the characters are intertwined, albeit in different ways.

Jerry, Beth and Summer's narcissistic tendencies are explained by their insecurities when they fight as if addicted, over the multiverse viewer.

Whereas Morty becomes more self assured and cynical to the point where he has no interest in alternative versions of himself. Indeed, this along with Morty's Nihilistic tenancies, which we experience here for the first time can only have come from spending too much time with Rick.

Morty makes a series defining, choice quote in this episode: "Nobody was born on purpose. Nobody belongs. Everybody dies. Come and watch TV."

The star of the show is, however, the Cable TV episodes. Where the creators have free reign to unleash their Zany and at times clearly Dadaist senses of humour on the audience.

hamsters living in butts

[gedikreverdi · 9/10 · 1 December 2020]

Infinite number of universes means infinite number of possibilities. no one exists on purpose and no one belongs to nowhere. just watch TV

Entertainment as masterful.

[havoke-74121 · 10/10 · 20 November 2019]

Hilarious and creative. Can any animated show top this, there's so much emotion and creativity, as well visual commentary.

Inter dimensional CABLE!!!!

[sophiabuenopineda · 10/10 · 3 December 2021]

Rixty Minutes is an excellent episode with an awesome pack of Comedy and a huge boost of humor! One of the greatest episodes of Animation Tv series there is! Amazing.

Home episode

[amindostiari · 10/10 · 25 January 2021]

I think Rick and Morty are tired of adventure and they decided to make an episode at home but this is still great. The relationship between Jerry and Beth is really interesting and it can be a story!

One Bad Apple

[spikesreborn · 1/10 · 19 August 2015]

This episode was all filler. The entire episode they just sit and watch really stupid TV shows from alternate realities and freak out over the lives they could have had when they see their alternate counterparts. They only make 10 episodes per season and they already had to slap together an all B story-line episode. Then they throw in a big reveal, when Morty tells his sister that her real brother is dead and buried in the back yard and that he is a duplicate from a parallel universe; thereby making this unwatchable episode into a possible important milestone in the series. That's just messed up. If this was the first episode, this series would have tanked. Just when I was really starting to get into this series, too.

I want inter-dimensional cable

[captaintetanus · 10/10 · 19 July 2022]

I seriously want inter-dimensional cable. What more can I say?

They require more so I'll just say I love Rick and morty. If you do too, you might also like ugly Americans.

Nice

[gianmarcoronconi · 10/10 · 12 March 2022]

First of the series with the protagonists watching TV in an anthology of programs of other dimensions that are very funny and entertaining, obviously it acts as a filler episode because it does not carry on the plot but in any case this episode format is what entertains the most.

Good Old Classic R&M

[hexx-52214 · 10/10 · 12 August 2021]

Just watched this episode again after watching season 5. Oh how the mighty have fallen. This is pure fun. But season 5 has gone so far from fun and became so boring and generic. Wish they could make episodes like this again.

Too random to be likeable

[camilateacherz · 5/10 · 1 April 2021]

I didn't really like this one. Hard to watch until the end. Boring. Random. Weird. I just finished because I was told there was a very good reveal in the end.

Worst episode of s1

[keshavmakingmemes · 1/10 · 23 August 2021]

Its the worst episode of season 1 other than this whole episode the first season was pretty good b.

Dadaism? Don't be that guy...

[janedoe5300 · 4/10 · 26 September 2022]

There are 3 different types of Rick and Morty fans. The casual ones, like me, who enjoy the show for what it is, a funny and innovative animated sci-fi sitcom. Then there's the "intellectual" ones who ironically think this is the smartest thing ever made, and that you need an IQ of at least 120 to appreciate all the scientific layers and the philosophical questions and the blah blah blah (one reviewer here even used the word "Dadaist" to explain the humor, see what I mean?). But the worst kind, are the ones who think Justin Roiland is some sort of improv genius. These clips are so self indulgent, so full of themselves, so obviously condescending towards, well basically everyone. There is a tendency on the part of the writers and creators throughout the first seasons, to keep an ironic distance to everything pop, a kind of self-preserving "everything you like is dumb" bravado, that is subtle at best, but obnoxious at worst. Rixty Minutes is the latter, you can almost feel the contempt for everyone and everything except himself and his show, when Roiland lazily and ever-so-casually "improvs" his way throughout the episode. It's not funny, it's obnoxious. And it's condescending. And self-indulgent, and lazy, and people are eating it up. I guess that is actually kinda Dadaist, right? Maybe it's so Dadaist, that if you think it's Dadaist, you're the idiot? Maybe it's supposed to make you reflect, maybe it's a scolding satire about the ever degrading quality of entertainment, maybe it's a poignant parallel about the addiction to TV being mirrored in the war on drugs. Or maybe, Justin Roiland is just a bit full of himself, and that is the only point that is to (potentially) miss.

Worst episode of such an awesome season

[shade-75484 · 1/10 · 6 January 2022]

This was the most sluggish and unfunny episode of the whole season. Couldn't understand why they put it in there. Lots of forced humor, jokes that aren't funny and a boring script which keeps on dragging. With the benchmark the show sets in the previous episodes you'll be left finding moments you may want to laugh upon.

Terrible episode. Improv scenes are not funny at all.

[MattyFromCanada · 2/10 · 11 January 2023]

Sadly what could have been a solid episode is ruined by ongoing 'improv' bits that are then animated and presented as alternate world TV channels. There is nothing funny about them. They all lean on 'random = funny' which is a shame since Rick and Morty at least tries to have somewhat smart jokes (relative to other adult cartoons).

To make matters worse, once you think the episode is done IT ISNT. Another minute of silly, early-teen humour to get through.

Do yourself a favour and skip this one. Or make dinner during it? I've said enough but have to fill this up a bit more. It's an animated sitcom, how in-depth do they expect me to go? Oh there.