Rick & Morty Season 5 Parodies SciFi’s Weirdest Trope
Rick & Morty Season 5 Parodies Sci-Fi’s Weirdest Trope
Rick & Morty season 5 features Daphne, an alien character with a very specific physical attribute; here’s how she references sci-fi’s weirdest trope.
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WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for Rick and Morty, season 5, episode 3, “A Rickconvenient Mort.”
A new love interest in Rick and Morty season 5 parodies arguably sci-fi’s weirdest trope. “A Rickconvenient Mort” follows two dual storylines with a common theme: the main plot follows Mort’s newfound romance with “Phase 4” superhero Planetina (voiced by Alison Brie), while the secondary story involves Rick and Summer going on an apocalyptic party crawl. In both cases, the Smith siblings are disenfranchised: Morty by the realization that Planetina isn’t the person he thought she was, and Summer by learning that Rick is neither reliable nor emotionally invulnerable. While Morty’s story is a clear tribute to the ’90s cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers, the apocalypse party plot references a bizarre sci-fi trope, largely associated with the movie Total Recall.
In many ways, “A Rickconvenient Mort” is an unusual installment for the Adult Swim animated series. Not only does the Rick and Morty episode set up multiple stories — Morty’s new love interest, Summer and Rick’s adventure, and Beth and Jerry struggling with parenting — but the episode also has an earnest ending. Rather than undermine Morty’s suffering with a joke or some other nihilistic sentiment, the episode closes with Beth offering maternal comfort to her heartbroken son.
The blatant silliness and extreme nature of the Summer and Rick story balances out the more pathos-heavy Morty story — especially the episode’s silliest gag. Summer discovers that rather than the “no-attachment” exploits he had promised, Rick had become infatuated with, and decided to rescue, Daphne, an alien from Morglutz, the first doomed planet the duo visited. Daphne then accompanies her and Rick, much to Summer’s chagrin. Part of the humor comes from how unappealing Daphne is — when audiences first see her, she vomits into what appears to be a baby carriage; however, Daphne eventually reveals what she offers that has Rick so entranced: “the best set of elbow titties this side of Morglutz.”
The basic concept of aliens having additional “assets” as a source of sex appeal is an ongoing (if odd) sci-fi trope that is most associated with Total Recall. In the 1990 cult classic (and the 2012 remake), there is a mutant prostitute with three breasts. Although this isn’t the first or only instance of this in film, it is the most iconic. Other examples include the werewolf movie Ginger Snaps where a female character grows more mammaries as a part of her transformation, the six-breasted Askajian in Jabba’s Palace in Return of the Jedi, and the three-breasted cat dancer in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. There’s even a running joke in Paul about the main characters, Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings, creating their own comic book featuring a triple-breasted alien queen on the cover.
Rick and Morty has actually made a more specific reference to the iconic Total Recall mutant before: in the Story Train episode, “Never Ricking Morty,” a very similar-looking female character is seen the background at the bar. What makes Daphne unique in this Rick and Morty season 5 episode is that instead of just having additional breasts on her chest, the alien features them on her elbows. Rather than glorify the trope’s inherent objectification, the depiction of Daphne as kind of gross actually subverts it. Typical for the groundbreaking animated series, “A Rickconvenient Mort” takes an established sci-fi concept, challenges it, and warps it in new and interesting ways. It’s a funny gag largely because it’s so weird and borderline repulsive — yet somehow totally believable as something Rick would be into.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/rick-morty-season-5-scifi-parody-trope-weirdest/
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