Rick and Morty's 'Unmortricken' Blows Apart the Show's Canon

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The latest episode of Rick and Morty addresses the show's canon and changes it forever, while continuing the wacky sci-fi adventures and exploring Rick's personal journey.

It’d be hard to top last week’s Rick and Morty—the cleverly gruesome “That’s Amorte,” still season seven’s high point so far—but “Unmortricken” accomplishes an important task: addressing the show’s ever-looming canon by blowing it apart and changing it forever. As fans of the show well know, Rick and Morty has long followed two tracks. First, there’s the show’s meat and potatoes, the wacky sci-fi adventures we see the characters go on every week.

But arcing over that are the plot threads that carry across seasons, which enfold recurring characters like Space Beth, Dr. Wong, and Mr. Poopybutthole; in-jokes for perceptive fans (who else caught the pronunciation of parmesan as “par-mee-sian” in the spaghetti episode?); and deeper explorations of Rick’s personal journey as the so-called smartest man in the universe. In season six, we met Rick Prime, the version of Rick who created portal travel then killed “Our” Rick’s wife, Diane, when he wouldn’t ditch family life in favor of existing without any attachments in the name of weird scienc

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