This week's meta-references include some hilarious callbacks to " Pickle Rick" and " Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty." Even better is Rick's reference to his (and by extension, Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon's) hatred of time travel and the way that winds up becoming pivotal to the climax of the episode. Those Rick and Morty-sized mounds in the backyard can't do all the work. Meta humor can get old, but with this series it tends to work well, both as an acknowledgement of how hard it can be to keep upping the ante, and because it's honestly nice to get those occasional reminders that there's a continuity to the series.
This is another Season 4 episode that veers hard into self-aware and meta territory, which seems to be a bit of a calling card with these Jeff Loveness-penned installments. Rather than being set within the titular vat of acid, this episode is instead about Rick's dogged insistence on proving a point. It might have been interesting to watch the show attempt to get away with such a confined setting, but in the end, it's probably just as well Morty loses his patience and cuts the whole thing short. Those early scenes suggest a kooky bottle episode format where Rick and Morty are trapped inside a vat of fake acid and forced to stoop to increasingly ridiculous measures to keep up the charade.
Never has the series made a more convincing argument for just how evil and selfish Rick truly is.Įarly on, this episode makes itself out to be something very different than what ultimately unfolds. The result is a stripped-down adventure that's both hilarious and terribly bleak. That's certainly the biggest takeaway from "The Vat of Acid Episode," an episode which gleefully celebrates the pitch-black dynamic between Rick and his grandson.
Hell hath no fury like a Rick Sanchez dealing with mild criticism.
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