‘Rick and Morty’ is back for its third season

What up, my Glip Glops! Which, I say to you in the most non-offensive way possible.

Unless you’re a die-hard fan of “Rick and Morty” and live on the internet for a majority of your free time, you might not know that the first episode of Season Three was released for several hours on April 1.

At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke, but this was for real. The episode was streamed on Adult Swim on loop, as well as online. Unfortunately, the episode is no longer available to view on Adult Swim, but there are other ways to get your hands on it if you choose to go that route.

For those of you that don’t know what Rick and Morty is, it’s a mature-content animated sci-fi comedy series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. It was initially online but was bought out by Adult Swim and Cartoon Network. In this series Rick Sanchez, a genius scientist who invented a portal gun, goes on insane adventures with his grandson, Morty.

To catch up with the ending of last season, Rick has turned himself into the Galactic Government for the sake of allowing his family to have a life back on Earth rather than on a measly dwarf planet that can be explored in a day with a screaming sun with days that last 48 hours.

(*CAUTION: SPOILERS):

In the new episode, you initially get a sense of inception; Rick’s brain is being probed by members of the Galactic Government in attempt to get knowledge from him, specifically, how he created the portal gun.

This is where shit gets crazy interesting in this episode. It turns out the memory Rick shows the Government isn’t really a memory, but a made-up simulation with a virus that takes over the machine controlling him, which is called a Brainalizer. Through this, he transports his brain content to the Government Alien Official’s brain, leaving behind a number of parts of his brain that to Rick seem non-useful. (List includes his fear of wicker furniture, desire to play the trumpet, his tentative plans to purchase a hat, and six years of improvisation workshops.)

At this point the show cuts back and forth between life on Earth for the Ricks family, and thankfully, Summer is frantically trying to rescue her grandpa (Rick) from Galactic prison, which are enjoyable parts of the show, in my humble opinion.

This is important because the other Ricks from multiple dimensions come to kill Rick C-137. From here, Rick travels to multiple other Rick bodies in order to get back to his grandchildren, who are being held at The Citadel, which is a city of Ricks where all the Ricks from all the different realities got together to hide from the government.

Since in this episode Rick destroys the Galactic Government, he then destroys almost all of the remaining Ricks. His purpose for this whole ordeal is revealed at the end of the episode, along with his deep desire to have the McDonald’s special-made sauce that came out with the 1998 release of the Disney film “Mulan.”

It’s possible McDonald’s will attempt to bring back this special sauce with the live-action release of Mulan, coming out in 2018. As of now, a change.org petition has almost 30,000 signatures of people pleading to bring back the chicken nugget Szechuan sauce. The official McDonald’s Twitter account has even tweeted about the possibility of being open to bringing it back; hopefully, it’s sooner than nine more seasons of Rick and Morty.

As always this was a great episode, filled with the harsh reality of having Rick Sanchez as a family member. In the same episode you also finally see Rick’s wife, Diane, for the first time ever. I’m not sure if it’s really what his wife was like, but it happens in the simulation in his brain. On the bright side, Beth might be single from here on out! Honestly, who likes Jerry, anyway? Beth could do so much better! In the concluding remarks of the episode it seems this will be a bleak season for the show because of this change, especially for Morty.

Sadly the official release of Season Three is still up in the air since it is not yet fully completed. If you are interested in watching seasons One or Two, they are available on Adult Swim and on Hulu. You can also purchase the two seasons on Amazon and on Blu-Ray.

Peace out, my schwifty peeps; stay squanchy. As Rick would say, “And that’s the waaaaay the news goes!”