The Guilty Pleasure of Rick and Morty | “That’s Amorte” Breakdown

Welcome back, Rick & Morty fans! This week’s spaghetti filled adventure is one of the series’ darkest episodes to date, as it shines a light on everything from capitalism to cannibalism. Dan takes a closer look at this exploration of ethics and the bliss of ignorance on today’s episode of Nerdst News!


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[Mxlsptlk]

One thing that struck me about this episode was the fact that the "Spaghetti" planet's entire economy became dependent on selling people's remains as food. If they stopped that horrible practice, their economy would collapse when they were doing well before this happened. They put all their investments into that trade, because it was profitable. It's like businesses in reality that have done things like put cut up discarded meat refuse into meat to pad the output (remember pink slime?), dumped toxic mine runoff into lakes to avoid proper disposal costs, or depend on people being horrendously addicted to pain killers. When those companies choose to or are forced to abandon their immoral cost cutting or profit boosting policies, they've grown to the point where they are dependent on those policies, and ending them causes a complete collapse because of the increased costs of an expanded empire.

[ArnLPs]

This episode made me think about a lot. Suicide, The Meat Industry, Traditions, Capitalism...
I don't think it's a coincidence that this episode came out around Thanksgiving time.

[devonsteele]

Wow. I just want to say. Although I, myself wasn’t concerned about the subject matter - I genuinely appreciated that disclaimer before diving in. It felt genuine rather than obligatory to put that in there. Take care of yourself ❤

[SuperStingray]

I think a big theme of this episode that's been getting overlooked is- what is consent worth when it is (in this case quite literally) manufactured? Personally I think people should have the right to end their lives if they so choose, but if it's something they've been encouraged to do for some ulterior reason such as freeing up living space or reducing healthcare costs, even if not done in a directly hostile way, I'm can't say I'm satisfied with them simply giving the green light.

[SuperBC]

When the moon hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie,
That's Rick and Morty!

[quinnhouk]

I’m just amazed that the spaghetti looked that good that I could actually taste it when they showed it during the promos

[BiloxiBlues]

Did anyone else notice that the guy the family first ate at the beginning of the episode was the husband of the woman that ran away with the guy who was bedridden at the end? 🤔

[mydoggylives]

2:09.... ahem, the spaghetti is ACTUALLY made from ALIEN remains... not HUMAN remains. Just wanted to clarify. (Whatever helps get the spaghetti down the easiest, amiright?) 😉😁

[TheAllSeeingEye]

This entire EP was definitely a take on the meat industry.

[karenfan]

10:58 I kinda have a have a feeling it’s just normal salisbury steak and he just told them it had a dark truth so they’d never wanna question him again.

[KodyK]

Love your breakdown. On the nose, superb writing, expert delivery.

[inquisition]

I thought the episode was really funny until Rick showed everyone Fred Bunk's life and it just hit me in such a personal way im still crying...

I love this show so much.

[ToddRichmond]

excellent meta-analysis (no StoryLord required). Dark, deep, and funny - that's a hard trifecta to hit but they nailed it.

[krisztianunpronounceable]

You say "human remains", but they're from another planet.

[joshuavandale]

Im pretty sure the salsbury steak being in a tv dinner container at the end and how bad it was was just putting the whole show back on us, to remind us this isnt fiction. We litterally would probably kill ourselves if we knew what went into making our tv dinners, and no one who watched the show went immediatly to the internet to find out. In our world we dont need a space ship or a tv show tobtell us what suffering is in our food, we have the internet, and the fact we choose not to know is willful ignorance, which is the only thing stopping us from changing our world for the better.

[RedJax]

I loved that the funeral that Morty confesses at is for the man whose wife the last guy (Rick helps everyone see the life of) stole.

[johnsullivan]

Changing who sits where at the nightly family dinner table (Jerry at a head opposite Beth 00:14, compared to Grandpa Rick in that exact same seat later on 10:54 with Beth now on his right) could be significant within a family dynamic. 🤔 Growing up this never would have happened in our house! 🤣 (I hope the only reason for the change was to help with the staging of the respective scenes. )

[b-rosa]

I don't even like Rick and Morty that much, but Casey's videos are so entertaining and well done that the subjects become secondary.

[NobodyC]

IS IT CANNIBALISM? When the episode goes out of its way to clarify that it's aliens that resemble humans and their unique biology makes their insides turn into spaghetti when they commit suicide (any other method of death looks like a regular corpse).
I'm kind of wondering would the planet go extinct in a couple months just to meet universal demand for spaghetti?

[solvseus]

And I had JUST stopped thinking about it...

Seriously, wt actual f R&M writers.