Okay, the whole show is so complex and innovating, but this episode is something else.
9 Reviews
A lowkey classic episode.
TheFirst017 June 2020
Hands-down my favorite episode this season
davidsonphone15 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Okay so let's start with the obvious. This episode is just fantastic in so many ways. From when Morty asks where they are and Rick's response is "Remember like 8 seconds ago, and you said 'go inside what' and I said 'the battery' and we showed up here etc..." I was already hooked.
The main story is just so amazingly well done. Rick creates an entire universe, and ultimately a being evolves on a planet, in a sense being the "Rick" of the universe (or should I say micro-verse). Zeep has all the class Rick doesn't give a crap about. Rick works in his daughter's garage, where Zeep has an entire tower dedicated to him. When they get stuck on Kyle's plant and they fight over the deer, Zeep's robot is shiny and has golden ring around the parts to make it flashy.
The whole universe within a universe concept in order to draw power just to power Rick's car is just hilarious to me. He uses an entire civilization as a battery. That is what Rick and Morty is all about. Rick going to extreme measures to do something that could probably be done in a less dramatic ultra sci-fy way, simply because he can.
As for the B story, I thought this was also exceptionally well done. The "melting ghost babies" and the murder/paralyze of two innocent people walking by just for the sake of senseless violence was awesome! Summer may have ruined ice cream with her boobs all hanging out, but the ship did a great job keeping me entertained while Rick and Morty went off on their adventure.
When Rick and Zeep finally go head to head (and they literally do), it's clear that there is a winner. Rick.
The main story is just so amazingly well done. Rick creates an entire universe, and ultimately a being evolves on a planet, in a sense being the "Rick" of the universe (or should I say micro-verse). Zeep has all the class Rick doesn't give a crap about. Rick works in his daughter's garage, where Zeep has an entire tower dedicated to him. When they get stuck on Kyle's plant and they fight over the deer, Zeep's robot is shiny and has golden ring around the parts to make it flashy.
The whole universe within a universe concept in order to draw power just to power Rick's car is just hilarious to me. He uses an entire civilization as a battery. That is what Rick and Morty is all about. Rick going to extreme measures to do something that could probably be done in a less dramatic ultra sci-fy way, simply because he can.
As for the B story, I thought this was also exceptionally well done. The "melting ghost babies" and the murder/paralyze of two innocent people walking by just for the sake of senseless violence was awesome! Summer may have ruined ice cream with her boobs all hanging out, but the ship did a great job keeping me entertained while Rick and Morty went off on their adventure.
When Rick and Zeep finally go head to head (and they literally do), it's clear that there is a winner. Rick.
The search for the best ice cream in the multiverse
sharky_5531 August 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I love a good character study. If I could sum up The Ricks Must Be Crazy in one (or two) lines it would be this one uttered by Rick just before they begin that mad dash to escape the microworld: "That asshole's willing to risk everything he cares about just to defeat me! He's psychotic!" What Rick doesn't get (or maybe he does, but he doesn't want to admit it) is that it's a close description of himself as a person. If that wasn't enough of a sign, what about the line-by-line explanation that Zeep (Stephen Colbert) gives to his own sentient world. Rick smiles and mouths the exact words as Zeep struggles to protest the actions that he himself has done. Only he's outraged, and Rick is adamant he is in the right, as the first person to engineer this genius idea.
And yes, we all know it by now. Rick is crazy and psychotic and much more; he'll risk Morty (someone he clearly does care about, but the Harmon and Roiland are careful to hint at this in little bits) and being stranded in some alien micro- world because of his own pride. And that's what makes him a wonderfully flawed character, as well as making it even funnier when Morty reveals what's he's had to put up with while Rick and Zeep clash over and over with primitive mechs ("You guys are the worse! Your gods are a lie!"). Even having successfully escaped they still quarrel and want to one up each other, leading to another chase and the startling reveal that Rick has implanted Morty with the ability to change transform into a car. Actually, it's pretty standard of Rick. Never mind though, here's a taxi.
It's all nicely accompanied by the B story (although I have already commented on how strong R&M's B stories are almost like A stories) of Summer being left behind in the spaceship with that one command: Keep Summer safe. What is initially a pretty heart-warming gesture from Rick quickly descends into a very darkly humorous series of events. It makes no sense to leave Summer behind, and it makes no sense for the military to be so focused on a random spaceship, but it's still interesting to watch. For once the sideplot is the darker and more serious part of the episode. Spencer Grammar's voice acting here is great, ranging from permanently scarred for life and a sort of brave front after seeing such horrible things. In particular the sequence where the ship's countermeasures deploy a living copy of a soldier's dead son is so ridiculously morbid. The voice acting in that scene is beyond anything that R&M has done before and the soldier's (Alan Tudyk!) reaction is frighteningly real. Even more frightening is that Rick programmed this.
Anyways, a throwaway line at the beginning ("It's got giant telepathic spiders") helps to converge the two story lines in the end when a decree ruins the best ice cream in the multiverse by making it for all beings, no matter how many legs. An interesting episode where the tone of the plots was shifted, but it works and it was hilarious. How about that sad little frown on car Morty at the end?
Notes
* "Would you like to go to dinner with-No."
* It's great that R&M can get so many different guest voice actors and its fun to spot them.
* I for one cannot wait two weeks until the next episode.
* "You can't just add a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something...huh looks like something's wrong with the microverse battery."
8.5/10
And yes, we all know it by now. Rick is crazy and psychotic and much more; he'll risk Morty (someone he clearly does care about, but the Harmon and Roiland are careful to hint at this in little bits) and being stranded in some alien micro- world because of his own pride. And that's what makes him a wonderfully flawed character, as well as making it even funnier when Morty reveals what's he's had to put up with while Rick and Zeep clash over and over with primitive mechs ("You guys are the worse! Your gods are a lie!"). Even having successfully escaped they still quarrel and want to one up each other, leading to another chase and the startling reveal that Rick has implanted Morty with the ability to change transform into a car. Actually, it's pretty standard of Rick. Never mind though, here's a taxi.
It's all nicely accompanied by the B story (although I have already commented on how strong R&M's B stories are almost like A stories) of Summer being left behind in the spaceship with that one command: Keep Summer safe. What is initially a pretty heart-warming gesture from Rick quickly descends into a very darkly humorous series of events. It makes no sense to leave Summer behind, and it makes no sense for the military to be so focused on a random spaceship, but it's still interesting to watch. For once the sideplot is the darker and more serious part of the episode. Spencer Grammar's voice acting here is great, ranging from permanently scarred for life and a sort of brave front after seeing such horrible things. In particular the sequence where the ship's countermeasures deploy a living copy of a soldier's dead son is so ridiculously morbid. The voice acting in that scene is beyond anything that R&M has done before and the soldier's (Alan Tudyk!) reaction is frighteningly real. Even more frightening is that Rick programmed this.
Anyways, a throwaway line at the beginning ("It's got giant telepathic spiders") helps to converge the two story lines in the end when a decree ruins the best ice cream in the multiverse by making it for all beings, no matter how many legs. An interesting episode where the tone of the plots was shifted, but it works and it was hilarious. How about that sad little frown on car Morty at the end?
Notes
* "Would you like to go to dinner with-No."
* It's great that R&M can get so many different guest voice actors and its fun to spot them.
* I for one cannot wait two weeks until the next episode.
* "You can't just add a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something...huh looks like something's wrong with the microverse battery."
8.5/10
What a crazy episode, this was! This was amazing! It's one of my favorite episodes, of the series.
ivyleague92922 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Airing on the Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim, 'Rick & Morty' became one of the hottest sci-fi comedy cartoon series of all time, filling the void, after reruns of old sci-fi cartoon shows like 'Futurama', were finally taking off the air. Originated as an animated short parody film of 1985's 'Back to the Future' created by Justin Roiland & Dan Harmon. The series follows the fictional misadventures of cynical, yet alcoholic mad scientist Rick Sanchez (Voiced by Justin Roiland) and his good-hearted, but easily distressed 14-year-old grandson, Morty Smith (Also voiced by Justin Roiland) on their interdimensional and extraterritorial adventures. In season 2, episode 6, entitled 'The Ricks Must Be Crazy', the two went on their biggest adventure yet, exploring the microverse that powers Rick's car (spacecraft) battery. Without spoiling the episode, written by Dan Guterman, too much, I like the twist, in which, the group discover that a micro-verse scientist named Zeep Xanflorp (Voiced by Stephen Colbert) has also created yet another Micro-Verse, or Mini-Verse in order, to generate power for his civilization, making Rick's invention for powering his car, obsolete. Not only does, it give, Rick, a compelling challenge to convince Zeep that using living beings as energy is wrong, without exposing, his cunning deceit about Zeep's society; but it also gives, Rick, a strong, crafty intelligent counterpart that can play wits, as an great antagonist. In short, the episode gives off, a great 'man vs man conflict' that seem, more like 'a man vs self', one. I also like the episode points out the hypocritical that comes with, anybody whom 'plays god' with society, through any means, like science, money, religion, and etc. & the sheer H. P. Lovecraft cosmic horror that comes with, them, finding out that their existence is not in their control. It's perfect social commentary. It somehow shows the sad truth, that the Universe is somehow an unending cycle of birth & death of energy, and nothing more. Also, I like how, the episode tells that no matter, how much, we thinks, we have, control of our own destiny. In truth, we really don't know. It kinda reminds me, of a mixer of films like 1999's 'the Matrix', 1998's 'The Truman Show', 2010's 'Inception', & little bit of 2009's 'Avatar', all put into one, in the way, it shows that. However, I did think parts of the main story of the episodes, felt, like it recycle the same retelling bits from earlier episodes, like Season 1, Episode 2, 'Lawnmower Dog', Season 1, Episode 4 'M. Night Shaym-Aliens' & Season 2, Episode 5 'Get Schwifty'. Still, it wasn't too jarring. Another great thing, about this episode, is the side story, with Morty's sister, Summer (Voiced by Spencer Grammar), being protected by Rick's car. The lengths in which, the car is willing to protect the teenager, was funny and downright disturbing in a good way. Without spoiling it, the mind trick with the cop, during the middle of the episode, is by far, one of the funniest, yet horrifying f*ck up moments, I have, witness on this show. The B-plot with her, is just as entertaining and brilliant as the A-Plot with Rick & Morty. I just wish, the episode, had a better ending. It was a bit anti-climax with the flies in the ice cream diner. I thought, 'The Ricks Must be Crazy' episode, should had, ended with Zeep flipping the bird, to Rick in a serious, sinister tone, was better. Who knows!? I hope, one day, they make a sequel to this, and bring back, Zeep to seek his revenge on destroying his world. I have to say, guest star, Stephen Colbert really makes this episode, very special. He brings the right amount of arrogant that makes Zeep, into a very complex, yet likable villain. It's so, unlike the other villains, in other episodes, whom felt, a little, too much one-dimensional and the same, with their quest to steal Rick's portal technology. As for the other voice acting. It was once again, the average with Justin Roiland, giving it, his all! Still, far fewer, memorable, yet funny quotes from this episode, than the others. However, I glad, that this episode is far more sophistical, than the other episodes; which had far more dumb, nonsense gross shock value jokes. It reach the right balance, between high-brow comedy and feeding the lowest common denominator. Overall: This is a fantastic episode that takes Rick and Morty's established tropes and plays with them in really fun ways. Highly recommended, watching this episode.
Rick's battery
amindostiari26 January 2021
Rick and Zeek are NOT the same
cool_jojo_00711 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Someone in a review above wrote Zeek reminds Rick of him which is not true at all. Even though both had cracked microverse technology, the fundamental difference is this - Rick never chose to disclose his technology to anyone or to help anybody. This powers his car and phone battery. Zeek had shared the technology with his whole effing planet that they were waiting to announce this big news to Rick "The Alien". Call it selfishness, apathy or detachment, that is why Rick won against Zeek or anybody else who came in his path because he just doesn't care. His extreme intelligence renders him a nihilist.
Great "Keep Summer Safe!" segments, I really loved them and the overall episode was really brilliant !
Great "Keep Summer Safe!" segments, I really loved them and the overall episode was really brilliant !
One of the weaker season 2 episodes
michaelopez-6062431 May 2021
Car battery plotline just feels like retreaded ground for a show that very rarely retraces its steps (at this point). However, the B-plot with Summer really makes the episode and is super funny, thus I can't really rate it lower than a 7. Still though, it feels like a step down from most season 2 episodes.
Inception all over again
Bamboo112 November 2020
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