Rick and Morty season 6, episode 6, might have had the biggest setup with the most unexpected payoff. Rick and Morty continues to surprise viewers and challenge itself in “JuRicksic Mort.” As you probably guessed by the title, this time, Rick and Morty have to deal with some dinosaurs, super-intelligent psychic dinosaurs that are even smarter than Rick. Thank goodness they’re not evil, or Rick and Morty might have been in big trouble. Episode 6 sets things up for some significant implications of what happened in the episode “A Mort Well Lived,” but the ending we get is not the one the foreshadowing promised.
Everything about Rick and Morty continues to be innovative, even as they hint at returning to more classic adventures. At the end of the episode, Rick manages to fix his portal gun, which has been broken all season. The giant rip in the spacetime continuum is repaired like stitching up an old pair of pants. And the psychic dinosaurs turn out to be pretty rad skaters. We also find out what really killed the dinosaurs all those millions of years ago.
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Just when you think Rick and Morty is going to give you something you’ve seen before, they switch it up on you. And just when you think dinosaurs have solved humanity’s problems, a bigger one comes hurtling straight at them.
Rick Has a Broken Portal Gun
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It may be the best season ever, as the show opens with Rick drinking beer and watching TV. As he flips past a delicious eyeholes commercial, the news comes on, and the anchor of weird things in space news reminds us that the giant tear in space Rick created to escape his evil self is still there. We’re reminded that the portal gun is still broken when Rick attempts to portal Morty to school and a Cthulhu face comes out and eats a pillow. Rick sprays it with a water bottle to get it back in the portal.
When Morty actually gets to school, the class freaks out just because he’s in the room. Everyone hides under the desk and starts asking Morty what terrible apocalyptic thing is going to happen now. And the board is filled with funny math problems: x=2 asses, 8=D~. You get the idea.
Just before Morty can explain that he isn’t here for some supernatural reason, a giant shadow falls over the school, and the ground begins to shake. Morty tells everyone that this isn’t him, and we see huge spaceships, similar to the one in Arrival, start to land all over the Earth. And three dinosaurs wearing golden headdresses reveal themselves. They begin to explain themselves to the United Nations. They reveal that they are vastly evolved beings traveling the galaxy, helping other planets grow, and were expecting to return to Earth to find their original dinosaur brethren. After the President (Keith David) dodges the point that we have been using the old dinosaur corpses as oil, these new dinosaurs offer to help humanity grow their planet and take away all their responsibilities. They let everyone go on vacation and turn the world into a relaxing utopia.
But humanity quickly realizes that relaxing all day and having absolutely no purpose gets old very quickly. So the President asks Rick to get rid of the dinosaurs and also to bring him some drugs. Rick doesn’t want to do it at first, but the President promises Rick that he can host the Oscars if he does. Rick goes to offer the dinosaurs a new reality but finds that the dinosaurs actually can already travel by portal. They even give him a better portal gun and offer to close up his rift in spacetime. Then they give him some dino-literature for his emotional problems and teleport him away.
Dinosaurs Are Not So Perfect
Rick refuses to believe that the dinosaurs are better than him and resolves to find out exactly what it was they were hiding from him. After he visits three different planets they had been to, he discovers the connection between dinosaurs and the civilizations they helped was that eventually, each planet was hit by a giant meteor. When he returns to Earth, he explains that the dinosaurs are so altruistic that another species evolved to be pure evil to balance the scales of morality, as it were.
That species was just a sentient fiery rock hurtling through space, trying to destroy the dinosaurs. When the humans hear this, they turn against the dinosaurs for causing a meteor to fly towards their planet, but instead of using violence to defeat the meteor, the dinosaurs choose to go stand on Mars, waiting for the rock to kill them.
When Rick hears the dinosaurs are just going to wait out their eventual destruction, he goes to join them. He does this not out of empathy but to force them to prove that there is evil within them. When he goes to Mars, they try to teleport him away, refusing to let any harm come to another sentient lifeform. But Rick has dino-proofed his tech, forcing the dinosaurs to turn violent against the meteor in order to prevent Rick’s death. By forcing the dinosaurs to compromise their strict moral code, Rick once again proved that no sentient being in the universe is better than him.
In exchange for the lesson, they repaired Rick’s spacetime rift, which he was furious about because he can no longer use it for future story arcs. Finally, back at home, Rick manages to fix his portal gun in an explosion of green goo. He celebrates by telling Morty he’s taking him to Boob World and then progresses to just portal Morty all over the place inside the garage.
