Rick and Morty: One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty

November 25, 2019 6:05 AM - Season 4, Episode 3

Twists and turns abound.

Rick puts together a crew and pulls off a heist... or does he?

posted by Etrigan (14 comments total)

Well, I'm not sure how I feel about their using the real Elon Musk as a VA. I mean, he's mocking his own tendencies, but maybe that's just part of his plan to regain some of the ground that he's lost in the public eye recently... oh, great, now I'm seeing infinite nested crosses everywhere.
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:19 PM on November 25, 2019 [4 favorites]

"Your boos mean nothing. I've seen what makes you cheer."
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:19 PM on November 25, 2019 [20 favorites]

That's what I programmed you to think.
posted by Marticus at 1:07 PM on November 25, 2019 [1 favorite]

Easter eggs list gonna be looooong for this one.
posted by some loser at 5:06 PM on November 25, 2019

Well, I'm not sure how I feel about their using the real Elon Musk as a VA.

I know how I feel about it and it's not a good feeling
posted by Rust Moranis at 5:44 PM on November 25, 2019 [7 favorites]

I mean, he's mocking his own tendencies

In the gentlest possible way. That's when I realized that it must be actual-Musk doing the voice: there's no way that this show would be that nice to Elon Fucking Musk if he wasn't standing right there.
posted by Etrigan at 8:43 PM on November 25, 2019 [13 favorites]

I love Rick and Morty and enjoyed this episode, but it seemed like a retread of “Vindicators” mixed with a retread of “M. Night Shyamaliens”—Let’s mercilessly mock a genre Dan Harmon doesn’t like but throw in a hundred self-reversing twists. But the most disappointing aspect is that, despite the bleak ending which revealed that Rick indirectly committed genocide upon an entire planet just so Morty wouldn’t leave him, it didn’t have the emotional resonance that the first two episodes of this season (and most of the best episodes of the previous season) had. At the end I was not left to ponder my own fear of not taking the safe road, or my own tendency to push away people with whom I could possibly have a connection—I was just left thinking, “oh, Dan Harmon thinks I’m an idiot for enjoying the occasional caper.”

Still, fun to watch, although the Elon boosterism reads especially lame after what the Cybertruck reveal lays out about Musk’s priorities.
posted by ejs at 10:13 PM on November 25, 2019 [3 favorites]

Somewhat bummed that Elon and Kanye will have guest spots this season just because they're famous non-actors who've expressed interest in the show.

Not a fan of Elon but his role was fine I guess.
posted by elr at 9:44 AM on November 26, 2019 [2 favorites]

You son of a bitch! ... I'm in.
posted by Marticus at 1:38 PM on November 28, 2019 [3 favorites]

we should put in a concerted effort to retroactively tag previous episodes with "professorpoopybutthole" in which he appeared
posted by numaner at 11:23 AM on November 29, 2019 [5 favorites]

ooooooooo wwwweeeeeeeeeee
posted by wabbittwax at 6:17 AM on November 30, 2019 [5 favorites]

numaner: we should put in a concerted effort to retroactively tag previous episodes with "professorpoopybutthole" in which he appeared

Fandom/ Wikia makes it easy: season 2, episode 4 and 10; season 3, episodes 8, 9 and 10; and season 4, episode 3 (all links go to FanFare episode pages).
posted by filthy light thief at 11:12 AM on December 10, 2019

Elon Tusk was a pretty small note in the episode , I dunno. It is a bit odd but such is the superfan world of Rick & Morty. I thought it was a solid send up of the heist movie genre. I gotta say I laughed out loud.
posted by GuyZero at 9:36 PM on January 14, 2020

Was waiting for Elon Tusk to start calling everything a pedo, when that didn't happen I realized it was a cameo with the real asshole. Smells a lot like Bette Midler on The Simpsons.
posted by benzenedream at 12:04 AM on March 24, 2020 [1 favorite]