Rick & Morty Points Out The Issues With Voltron & Power Rangers

Rick & Morty Points Out The Issues With Voltron & Power Rangers

Rick and Morty season 5 features an episode inspired by Voltron and Power Rangers — here’s how the episode points out the issues in these shows.

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Rick & Morty Points Out The Issues With Voltron & Power Rangers

Rick and Morty season 5 has been filled with a plethora of pop culture references — but “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion” takes the opportunity to point out a few flaws in the classic Voltron and Power Rangers series. Voltron and Power Rangers have been a staple of television since the 80s and 90s, becoming formative series for generations of children. Both series feature individually-piloted ships that come together to form a heroic robot. However, this doesn’t mean the franchises are without flaws, as both have some issues that Rick and Morty glibly points out.

In Rick and Morty season 5 episode 7, “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion,” Rick, Morty, and Summer were on their way to Boob World when they discover something that excites Rick; a Gotron Ferret. Rick decides to abandon Boob World in favor of collecting all five Gotron Ferrets, which combine together to form Gotron, a Voltron-type robot. When the family gets joy out of piloting Gotron together, Rick decides to expand the fun; if each version of their family in each dimension gathers their own Gorton Ferrets, they could build bigger and better Gotrons. When Rick goes mad with power and is almost killed by a crew of anime characters determined to take back Gotron, it’s up to the Giant Incest Baby, Naruto, to save Rick from their evil plan.

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Throughout the episode, multiple characters point out the ludicrousness that comes with the Gotron Ferrets. Jerry is the one to most bluntly speak his disdain throughout the episode, raising a few questions that any viewer of Voltron has probably had at some point. When the family enters the Gotron Ferrets for the first time, Jerry is the one to point out that taking separate tubes from their house into the heart of a volcano, just to meet back together in space over their house, is a little over the top. The Rick and Morty scene parodies the original Voltron, where each pilot had to leave their headquarters, go through their own overly complicated tunnels to their lions, just to come back together again once in their lions, which were all housed in the same locations.

As the family begins to pilot the Ferrets, the ridiculous situations keep coming. Their first battle with the Gotron Ferrets points out how silly and formulaic the old fights used to be; the Smith family starts the battle in their separate ships until they realize it’s futile and decide to form Gotron in an overly flashy flair. If Gotron is stronger as a unit, what is the point of trying to fight separately? When Beth points out that attacking one at a time may not be the best method, Rick brushes off her concerns in favor of “teeing up something awesome.” To highlight how ludicrous the concept of five robots building one robot is, Rick and Morty takes the concept to the extreme, building Gogotrons out of five Gotrons, and a Gogogotron out of five Gogotrons.

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The episode also takes a moment to poke fun at the shows’ anime origins. Multiple anime jokes pop up throughout the episode, including Summer naming the Giant Incest Baby “Naruto.” The episode also jokes at the old classic anime format when Morty describes the anime girl with “big eyes, plus signs for teeth, ends sentences with weird sounds that don’t fit?” When it comes to Rick and Morty poking fun at other shows, it seems even the classics aren’t safe.

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