Review: Rick And Morty, "Rickfending Your Mort" | Season 7, Episode 6
Wait, so if the second Observer was observing the first Observer, who was observing the second?
The is the second “clip show that’s not a real clip show” episode I’ve reviewed this season, so I think we might be seeing the trend beginning to peak. “Caves” from Lower Decks didn’t get as meta as “Rickfending Your Mort” ultimately does, but both start from the same premise: using the format of the clip show as a structure for a collection of short gags and sketches, letting the writers play around with one-off ideas without having to worry about them needing to support an entire story. If you’re my age, or if you’ve watched as much pre-’00’s TV as I have, you know what an actual clip show looks like: an awkward, forced framing story and a bunch of vignettes taken from episodes we’ve already seen. The idea was to save the creative team time and money by reusing old material—and back before DVDs and streaming, it was a not completely awful way for fans to catch bits and pieces of already aired episodes.
Things are different now, so different that you probably didn’t n…