#Rick and morty season 3 episode 5 full episode full

#Rick and morty season 3 episode 5 full episode full

She still has time to go full Akira as a weird blobby monster, but she’s no match for the chaos-eating creature. Rick wins out by making the CEO the most successful woman in the world, therefore resolving her own unresolved fortune and making her mortal. Soldiers are armed with fortunes that give them the ability to control fire and water, or stick to walls, but in classic Rick and Morty style, they’re turned into weaknesses rather than strengths – as the guy who cannot die finds out to his cost when he’s left in massive pain by a chestful of bullets. There are definite echoes of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s infinite improbability drive and Red Dwarf’s luck virus in the way the episode treats chance as a tangible commodity. Meanwhile, Jerry does everything he can to avoid the inevitable with his very confused mom, who’s been brought in by the company’s power-hungry CEO to take Jerry’s dangerously unresolved fortune out of the equation. It also sets the backdrop for a wonderfully inventive battle royale, in which Go-Go Gadget Rick takes on a legion of Fortune 500 goons, and makes the Panda Express scrap look like a playground tiff. Of course, understanding all that isn’t quite as important as the realization that everybody who’s ever eaten a fortune cookie was actually eating alien poop. According to Rick, it’s how fate works – kind of like gravity but “instead of pulling small towards big, it pulls unknown towards known”. As a result, it leaves behind super dense pockets of energy that “bend entropy towards definable outcomes”. At the heart of Fortune 500 is a creature that usually eats chaos, but has developed a digestive disorder that’s causing it to strip randomness from space-time. Then it’s time for the big sci-fi idea, one of those semi-regular examples of Rick and Morty technobabble that require several rewatches before you truly get your head around them. Rick also works out that Jerry’s (for now) unresolved fortune effectively makes him immortal – there’s no way he’d use his son-in-law as a human shield otherwise, right? Right? It turns out the company is cornering the market on fate, and that if you invest enough money in the business you can literally control your own destiny.

Jerry’s in no mood for Rick’s jokes about the Cookie Monster, but he does go along with the reusable Sailor Moon-style transformation sequence that gives him a handy disguise, while also saving the show money. Rick and Jerry’s one lead is a Fortune 500 delivery truck that takes them back to the sprawling, secret underground factory that’s cornered the fortune cookie market. It’s a shame about the sliced and diced bodies on the kitchen floor but, as one of the gang calmly points out, “it comes with the territory”.

It turns out that the bust is a bust, however, and that the Panda Express staff only brought out the big guns because they thought Rick was a DEA agent trying to shut down their city-wide meth ring. Not only is it an excuse for Rick and Jerry to spend some rare quality time together – and for Jerry to appear with his genitals blurred out on numerous occasions – it’s also the start of a journey into a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top of American society. Jerry finds unlikely support from a man who regards him as 'the single dumbest human I’ve ever met', mainly because – using a device that looks suspiciously like a Ghostbusters PKE meter – Rick has noticed that there’s something up with his son-in-law’s probability field. In any other show that logic would seem weird… Jerry even gets to the point of dressing in Morty’s clothes, because Morty’s mom being his wife would stop the fortune being problematic. His paranoia isn’t helped by the fact Summer and Morty see his insecurities as an opportunity to play a succession of pranks, pasting their gran’s face onto erotic photos, or trapping their dad in a closet with a freaky mom doll. While most people would dismiss the fortune as a harmless joke, Jerry takes it to heart, purposefully throwing up the cookie, taping up his groin, and refusing to answer calls from his mom to ensure it doesn’t come to pass.