The funniest joke of Rick and Morty Season Seven thus far wasn’t actually spoken in Season Seven — it’s a slow burn from all the way back in Season One when Rick hilariously claimed, “I can’t cure death.”
That quote came from the Christmas episode “Anatomy Park,” which will celebrate its 10-year anniversary on Saturday while we once again gear up for the winter holidays with a reflective, vaguely spiritual Rick and Morty episode. A decade after Morty’s daring escape from the dying body of a homeless Santa Claus who housed Rick’s microscopic amusement park, the notion that death ever posed a serious threat to the plans of the smartest man in the Central Finite Curve is as quaint as capturing Bigfoot in a Pokeball. Tonight’s episode of Rick and Morty, “Mort: Ragnarick,” further reinforced a running theme throughout the last nine episodes of Rick and Morty in showing us that, a decade into the series, mortality has become just another law of nature that Rick takes about as seriously as the American legal system. As Rick says, “Break the laws, they shouldn’t exist anyway.”
Immortal spoilers ahead for those who haven’t yet watched “Mort: Ragnarick,” in which death and the afterlife are about as consequential in Rick’s grand scheme of things as the Stephen Colbert trapped in his car battery.
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