What happened if?
| Episode of the series Rick and Morty | |||
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| title | What happened if? | ||
| Original title | Rixty Minutes | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| classification | Season 1, episode 8 8th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | March 17th, 2014 on Adult Swim | ||
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January 18, 2015 on TNT Series | ||
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| Director | Bryan Newton , Pete Michels | ||
| script | Justin Roiland | ||
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What happened if? (Original title: Rixty Minutes ) is the eighth episode of the first season of Rick and Morty . It premiered on Adult Swim on March 17, 2014 . The episode was written by Tom Kauffman and Justin Roiland and directed by Bryan Newton and Pete Michels . In the episode, Rick and Morty watch cable TV from other dimensions, while Jerry, Beth and Summer take turns wearing interdimensional glasses. The episode was followed by approximately 1.48 million viewers in the United States.
action
After expressing his disgust at the quality of modern television, Rick replaces the Smith family's normal cable box with a device that allows them to watch various shows across infinite realities. Each of the television programs has strange quirks that vary from subtle to obvious, such as a detective show in which the protagonist has "baby legs" or a parody of Garfield called "Gazorpazorpfield" in which the characters (male Gazorpier) have arms out of the Have head grow. Rick hops the canals to show the endless possibilities before the family sees Jerry in a reality where he is a famous movie star. While the rest of the family is excited about this discovery, Rick gets upset about it, saying that they are focusing on the wrong things.
When Jerry, Beth and Summer ask Rick to show them their alternate lives, he pulls out interdimensional glasses that allow them to see through the eyes of their alternate selves. Morty stays with Rick and the two continue to watch various commercials and clips from different realities.
While Rick and Morty are watching interdimensional television, Jerry, Beth and Summer are in the kitchen, taking turns wearing glasses. Jerry sees himself taking cocaine with Johnny Depp, while Beth sees herself operating on a person instead of a horse. While Jerry and Beth find realities in which to make their dreams come true, Summer struggles to find other realities of her except for a moment of the family in which she plays Yahtzee. Jerry and Beth then reveal to Summer that she was an unwanted pregnancy and that her birth prevented her from achieving her goals. This upsets Summer, and she announces that she wants to run away.
After Jerry and Beth see what their life could have been if they weren't married, they decide that maybe it would be better to spend the time apart. While Summer begins to pack her bags, Morty tries to comfort her. After she tries to push him away, Morty shows Summer the graves he dug in her backyard (from the episode "Rick Potion No. 9"). He reveals the truth that Morty from their reality is dead, and that in reality he is not their brother but is a brother from another reality. Finally he says: "Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everyone is going to die .... Are you coming to watch TV?" Summer agrees to stay, and the two go back downstairs to watch TV with Rick and Jerry.
The TV in the living room shows Jerry having a nervous breakdown and driving a scooter on a freeway while police are chasing him. You watch Jerry arrive at the doorstep of his counterpart Beth and tell her that he hates his life and regrets not having continued their relationship. After seeing the importance of their relationships, Beth and Jerry hug each other again while Rick, Morty, and Summer keep watching TV.
In the post-credit sequence, the Smith family watches the news in a hamster-in-butt world. They ask Rick a multitude of questions about the world until he reluctantly creates a portal to the world for them to find the answers for themselves. The Smith family went on vacation to Hamster In Butt-Welt.
criticism
Rixty Minutes has been highly acclaimed since its release and has since been considered one of the best episodes in the entire series. IGN's Matt Fowler gave the episode an 8.8 out of 10, saying, "It's been a while since an animated series was really as entertaining as this one - not to sacrifice humor for strangeness, but to integrate it perfectly." AV Club's Zack Handlen gave the episode an A and says, "In case my review didn't make it clear, this episode blew me away." Geek Syndicate's Stacy Taylor gave the episode a 5/5 and said that "Rixty Minutes , without a shadow of a doubt, as close to perfect 20 minutes of television as I think we'll ever get ”. Den of Geek gave the episode a 3.5 / 5, with Joe Matar saying that a large part of the episode "is basically the same thing, which turns a lot of the episode into an odd sketch show. But, like all sketch shows (especially improvised ones) the output will be hit or missed.
Web links
- What happened if? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sara Bible: Monday Cable Ratings: 'WWE Raw' Wins Night, 'Fast N Loud', 'Teen Wolf', 'Bates Motel', 'Switched at Birth' & More . In: TV by the Numbers . Zap2it. March 18, 2014. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- ↑ Matt Fowler: Rick and Morty: Season 1 Review ( en-US ) April 16, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
- ↑ Rick And Morty: "Rixty Minutes" . March 17, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
- ↑ TV REVIEW: Rick and Morty, S1 E8 - Rixty Minutes - Geek Syndicate (en-GB) . In: Geek Syndicate , June 24, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
- ↑ Rick and Morty: Rixty Minutes review (en) . In: Den of Geek . Retrieved April 8, 2017.