![]() ![]() In this episode, the meta observations are limited to legitimately funny references to brand sponsorship – the Wrangler-sponsored Planet Remover shuts down after Summer throws Morty’s Wrangler jeans into the path of its laser, and Rick makes an offhand reference to the show’s current advertising deal with Wendy’s. While "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri" is primarily plot-driven, it’s still rife with meta jokes, but in a more fun way than the previous few episodes, which have focused around the somewhat embarrassing premise of how difficult it is to be a comedy writer. (Hopefully she won’t just be immediately killed off in the Season 5 premiere, although historically that’s how Rick and Morty has handled major plot developments.) I’m pretty excited to see how Space Beth will play into future seasons. Because it ultimately doesn’t matter – the Smith family is stoked on Space Beth because she’s fucking awesome, and the two Beths respect each other so much that they don’t care to know which one of them is the clone. So Rick sits there and watches it alone, but while Rick reabsorbs the memory, we as the audience don’t get to see the solution. But when he sits down to play the stored memory for the whole family, not a single one of them wants to see it, not even the two Beths. However, it never identifies which Beth is the “real” one – in another callback reference (this time to the Season 3 episode "Morty’s Mind Blowers"), Rick reveals that he had the memory of Beth’s cloning erased and stored in a vial, so not even he knows the truth. "The ABCs of Beth" introduced the idea that Beth might in fact be a clone (or one of many clones) of Rick’s actual daughter, and this episode confirms it. (Totally understandable.) Morty and Summer have a brief B plot in which they fight over an invisibility belt, Jerry fucks around with puppets, and the whole family ultimately unites to fly up to the Planet Remover to destroy the New Federation and save the Beths and the galaxy.įirst, I want to talk about Space Beth, arguably the most important development of the show’s four seasons. ![]() Her presence on Earth draws the attention of the New Federation, who apprehends both Space Beth and Regular Beth because they’re not sure which one is a clone and they want to cover all their bases. But she discovers a device in her neck that is probably a bomb and also was most likely put there by Rick (we know from "The ABCs of Beth" that it’s the clone reconciliation device), so she decides to return to Earth to vaporize him. Space Beth successfully steals the plans for the New Federation’s Death Star (sponsored by Wrangler Jeans) called the NX-5 Planet Remover, which they intend to use to dominate the galaxy. We come to find out that the new Federation is being led by Tammy, whom we last saw in the post-credits scene of Season 3 Episode 1 "The Rickshank Redemption". In the first scene, we meet the badass Space Warrior version of Beth who is leading a rebellion against the evil Galactic Federation that took Rick prisoner at the end of Season 2 and briefly enslaved Earth. It’s a real Parent Trap, but the one with Lindsay Lohan. ![]() Except, we’re not sure which one is the real Beth, and which one is the clone. Specifically, this episode reveals that Rick did indeed make a clone of Beth at the end of the Season 3 episode "The ABCs of Beth", and sent one of them into space. Typically, the first and last episodes of the seasons have been the only ones that advance the overall “mythology” of the Rick and Morty universe. At long last we’ve reached the end of Rick and MortySeason 4, and in true Rick and Morty season finale fashion, "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri" is the episode that matters.
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