And because of that, the world almost ends in this episode. It really doesn’t matter if the sex is with an inanimate object or not. “Rick and Morty” has never shied away from the fact that Morty is a forever 14-year-old boy who just wants to have sex. Morty’s sketchy behavior throughout the episode is never found out - it only comes out because the Sperm Queen says it out loud. This isn’t a stubborn lesson that Rick is trying to teach Morty because we all do it bro(h). And the most surprising part of this episode is simply the fact that Rick actually is out of the loop and doesn’t realize what Morty did until he confesses. But without intentionally leaning into the bit, “Rickdependence Spray” really feels like an episode that just wanted to throw everything it possibly could at the wall, only to end up a major mess. “Rick and Morty” is a smart show that knows how to do dumb humor well. This leads to the creation of killer space sperm… and that’s the episode. Instead, it’s inferred from the fact that Rick has taken the (supposed) horse semen from the horse hospital to create a weapon to take down the CHUDs (like in the 1984 film “C.H.U.D.”), the underground horse people they’re always fighting (as of this episode). As much as he possibly could in the span of a week, which was, again, a lot. The episode then jumps to one week later, and it’s obvious what Morty’s done: He had sex with the breeding mount. It all begins at Beth’s, in Morty’s words, “stupid horse hospital,” when Morty learns about the breeding mount used to “collect reproductive material” from the horses. We all do it broh.” But maybe not to this catastrophic of a level. “Rickdependence Spray” is one such episode and possibly the epitome of such an episode, going so full tilt into one semen (and sperm) extended joke that it all ends up with “a giant incest baby.” Sure, the Roiland synopsis of “Rickdependence Spray” says “No shame broh. Sometimes it comes across like Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, and the rest of the “Rick and Morty” writers’ room create episodes specifically just to see how inaccessible they can be to outsiders, or to see just how poorly they will land if they were possibly someone’s first episode of the series. Instead, “Rickdependence Spray” seemingly exists in its own little world, both in terms of scheduling and the very premises and execution. That’s not to say that airing this episode on the Fourth of July would have made its existence make much more sense, there’s just a certain synergy that would have come with it. Whether intentional or not, it’s an interesting bit of timing that - considering the inspiration for the title - “Rickdependence Spray” is the “Rick and Morty” Season 5 episode that airs the week after Independence Day. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read until you have watched “ Rick and Morty” Season 5, Episode 4, “Rickdependence Spray.”
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