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These creatures have popped up in the show before. It’s a running joke in the show that many alternate realities harbour fascist societies, with a similar thing happening back in this season’s opening episode, ‘Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat’. ‘Rattlestar Ricklactica’ had some fun with time travel (I guess Rick finally put that ‘time travel stuff’ box in the garage to good use), as the pair journeyed back to 1865 to watch ‘snake Abe Lincoln’ deal with an assassination attempt from – yup, you guessed it – ‘snake John Wilkes Booth’. In fact, our titular heroes actually started life as Doc Smith and Mharti McDonalds in a parody series, prior to being commissioned as Rick and Morty. We’re thinking the Terminator and Robocop franchises in particular.Ī poster for the snake equivalent of Back to the Future is glimpsed in the episode, a fitting reference given the characters of Rick and Morty echo those of Doc and Marty McFly. Many, many ’80s action movies referencesĪll the scenes involving the warring snakes have a strong ’80s vibe.Not a reference but an interesting factoid: the dive bar Jerry visits is called the Devil’s Teat, which was a term for the clitoris used in medieval times. READ MORE: Rick and Morty fans think they’ve found Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum in a new episode.The Smith family play Downbeat at one point, a fictional board game that first appeared in the season three episode ‘Rickmancing the Stone’.
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It seems Rick has been relaxing with a little inter-dimensional cable TV again, as we see him asleep on the sofa while the how-it-got-made episode about the nonsensical ‘plumbus’ plays for the second time in the show’s history (First appearance: ‘Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate’). The 1992 Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson comedy White Men Can’t Jump was nodded at here, along with how it might be seen as problematic in the woke culture of 2019. A type zero civilisation, meanwhile, is a grade on the Soviet-created Kardashev Scale that denotes a civilisation that hasn’t fully harnessed its planetary and galactic resources. Jeff Foxworthy is a comedian, most popular in the ’80s for his jokes about rednecks hence Rick’s “you might be a type zero civilisation-neck” line. This was definitely this week’s most niche gag. Battlestar had humans trying to evade aliens called Cylons, though here Rick and Morty are hunted by space snakes. Rick and Morty often uses intentionally bad puns as episode titles (also see: ‘The Rickchurian Mortydate’).
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‘Rattlestar Ricklactica’ is, of course, a reference to Battlestar Galactica, the sci-fi series that saw the small crew of aged battleship Galactica protect a small civilian fleet – the last of humanity – as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
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Here’s what we noticed this time around – plus a handy explainer for the obligatory post-credits scene. One of the best parts of watching TV’s wackiest animation is trying to spot all the callbacks, Easter eggs and pop culture references hidden in the background. Morty’s dad, Jerry, meanwhile, had one of his most humiliating misadventures yet, mostly stuck floating in the sky like a sad, lost party balloon. Our favourite adventures are always the silliest, and this week we visited a planet populated entirely by snakes, before it collapsed thanks to human time travel-meddling. Rick and Morty had time for one more crazy escapade before it breaks for Christmas last night, and Rick and Morty season 4 episode 5 was one of the year’s best.