Rick and Morty "Analyze Piss": The Rise And Fall Of Flamingo Dad (Review)
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This week on Rick and Morty, Jerry takes a power trip, Rick goes to therapy, and viewers get a content warning. It’s a pretty significant episode. It won’t leave the viewer pissed, that’s for sure.
The episode opens with Rick being confronted by enemies, starting with Mr. Nimbus, so it was great to see their rivalry actually play out onscreen, even if it was one of the smaller quarrels. It was reminiscent of the sort of face-off Doctor Strange implied in Multiverse of Madness he has with Baron Mordo. Rick is utterly exhausted over supervillains like Cookie Magneto that are drawn to him and looking to prove superiority.
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After the opening, Rick paces in Dr. Wong’s office. Not quite a session, but a consultation, and Mr. Calypso, who had previously appeared to him, is in a tube. Wong recommends just ignoring them for a week. A new villain, Pissmaster, shows up on the Smith lawn, equipped with urine cannons and a urine powered glider. He makes crass, sexual remarks toward Summer, angering Jerry, who is very much ready to fight. Even through all the piss spraying and the slapping, Jerry gets the upper hand with a lawn flamingo, and eventually Pissmaster apologizes. However, with the entire brawl recorded by onlookers, Jerry starts going viral. In fact, it’s a level of attention that’s galactic in scale, as the Galactic Orbship, essentially a council very much like the Green Lantern Corps, grants him a very sticky silver orb.
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As Jerry struggles to figure out how the orb works, Rick has to be guilt tripped into helping, and the orb becomes the power source for a super suit he builds for him. Jerry’s first act of official heroism? Blowing up a planet of Space Hitlers. That’s where that scene in the opening theme comes from, as he struggles with the suit and accidentally sets off the nuclear disruptor. Rick witnesses Jerry barges into Wong’s office and she affirms him to stay the course.
Jerry gets his own spaceship, choosing his family as his crew. New nuisances approach Rick. He ignores them, but the #FlamingoDad video is still making the rounds, everyone speaking lowly of Pissmaster. Rick tracks him down, and this is where the content warning comes in, very much warranted: Pissmaster drowned himself with open wrists, blaming Jerry in his note found later. One unsuccessful resurrection later, Rick must pose as Pissmaster to assure his daughter that he’s okay and rid her of the guilt being part of the public shaming that led to his suicide. The pain was very visible for both of them, and handled very well. From there, Rick builds his own Pissmaster suit, furthering his legacy with heroism from a foiled mugging to quelling a volcanic eruption. Though it is set to “Get Ready for This” (or more specifically, a piss-themed parody), it definitely gives the montage a sense of fun and levity after such heavy scenes preceding it.
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This gets the attention of the Galactic Orbship, and Jerry is having none of it. The orbship not only comes to an agreement, but makes a character test for Jerry, putting his membership on the line if he doesn’t recruit Pissmaster. Rick, of course, wants nothing to do with the Orbship, and probably never would even if he wasn’t giving Pissmaster an honorable sacrifice with this bomb on Orphan Island. Jerry tackles Rick in midair, punching him and accidentally unmasking him. Once the bomb goes off with the Pissmaster suit shed, the rest of the family and the Orbship learn that Rick was Pissmaster. The Orbship cuts their losses, retracts the invite and drops Jerry. He thinks Rick was Pissmaster the whole time, against all logic, which Rick almost explains before pulling back. The family believes Rick, though he does confess to Morty, who refuses to hold the secret once he’s given the note. The episode ends with the family’s favorability toward Jerry dissolved, and Mr. Nimbus briefly considered for the Orbship.
“Analyze Piss” was personally a more enjoyable episode than “Full Meta Jackrick”, and probably better in quality too. Even with the more tragic subject matter, it was handled well, even surrounded by the utilization of urine in the plot. The lack of focus on Morty after “Rick: A Mort Well Lived” is definitely noticeable. If the episode preview is not just cold open again, it might be a traditional Rick and Morty adventure that might bring that focus back. Pocket Mortys avatars this week are Pissmaster Morty and Cookie Magneto Morty with Flamingo Dad as the new trainer. Next week is the penultimate episode of the season: “A Rick in King Mortur’s Court”.
Score: 8/10
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