Each core character in the episode - Morty, Rick, and Arthrisha - approaches the Festival in radically different ways, portraying how different types of people would actually respond emotionally to a legit Purge. Would we be skilled and aloof like Rick? Or would we lose our shit like Morty?ĭespite having only 22 minutes to work with, “Look Who’s Purging Now” examines the different psychological responses to the Purge in a nuanced way that the actual Purge movies can’t necessarily reach because they’re more grounded in reality. Part of the intrigue of the whole Purge concept comes from wondering how we might behave in such a circumstance. Rick’s resourceful here, brewing super-potions and tinkering together a gun out of random objects, but he also phones in some help to get two sets of Iron Man armor sent out to them. The inherent brilliance of the episode arises when we contemplate how often viewers idolize Rick and want to emulate his behavior without acknowledging that we’re just a bunch of Mortys stifling our instincts and emotions, bottling them up until they explode. Before the pair starts watching the Purge itself, Rick correctly diagnosis that Morty is “afraid of his own primal instincts.” We don’t realize just how accurate this is until later. Adult Swimĭespite initially claiming some kind of non-interference policy with less-developed civilizations, Rick gets really into the whole Purge thing, saying he “sees stuff like this for breakfast,” but Morty is very uncomfortable. Morty gets a little too into Purging in "Look Who's Purging Now". It allows his to contextualize Rick and Morty for audiences on a meta level, and that’s perhaps most apparent in “Look Who’s Purging Now.”
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“That movie, The Purge?” Rick Sanchez often breaks the fourth wall, as he’s smart enough to know he’s on a TV show. “It’s like The Purge, Morty!” Rick says, excited. Morty and Rick begin the adventure flying through space chattering with some happy meta-commentary about “getting back to the basics after a pretty intense mixed bag of a year.” In this somewhat straight-forward adventure, “back to basics” means flying down to a Western-looking planet of cat people that have an annual purge called “The Festival.” There’s some fun Iron Man action, a blistering indictment of the Hunger Games’ dumb ending, and a deep examination of Morty’s inner rage in a story that amounts to so much more than just “the Purge episode.” But rather than feeling like a procedural filler episode, “Look Who’s Purging Now” instead develops the core story of Rick and Morty while working within the confines of the episode’s gimmick.
The penultimate episode of Rick and Morty Season 2 dabbles in straight-up horror by parodying the entire Purge franchise in delightful fashion.
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