![]() ![]() ![]() Has Rick and Morty Lost the Zeitgeist? By Joe Matar But if you haven’t actually watched any of the series, the blatant parody character in this episode, Planetina (Alison Brie), probably won’t do a whole lot for you. Granted, that series’ iconically cheesy reputation has outlasted it and you don’t need to know much except that the titular captain is an environmental superhero who materializes when five ethnically diverse kids put their elemental rings (earth, fire, wind, water, and heart, which is not an element and never will be) together. Jeff” before it, I question how well “A Rickconvenient Mort” works for those unfamiliar with Captain Planet. I preferred to get my superficial, ecological moralizing from Widget the World Watcher, a cartoon that nobody remembers, which happens to have an amazing theme song, but I digress! I’m more familiar with Captain Planet, though I’d hardly call myself a fan. I was alive during the airing of this series, but I never watched it, so “G.I. Jeff.” It was a bizarre, confused episode with humor that didn’t work unless you had a fondness for the eighties (and/or early nineties)’ cartoon series, G.I. Jeff” (which he also directed) and now he’s written this episode, “A Rickconvenient Mort,” half of which is a parody of the nineties’ environmentalist cartoon, Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He had a major role doing a Cobra Commander impression in the animated episode of Harmon’s sitcom Community, “G.I. I say my childhood, because Schrab-longtime collaborator and friend of Rick and Mortyco-creator Dan Harmon-is over a decade older than me, but he loves to parody cartoons from when I was growing up. It seems like Rob Schrab is nostalgic for the era of kids’ cartoons from my childhood. This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers. ![]()
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