Interdimensional RSS: The Unofficial Rick and Morty Podcast

Season Finale!?! amirite? Urite, you should say
Semi Pertinent News
Nothing to report this week

Discussion:
MAIN THANG - PC S1E10 - Timber
Episode Details
Air Date: 9/27/26
Written by: James Siciliano & Cara McFarlane
Directed by: Erik Kling

Official Synopsis: When a murderous American legend resurfaces, Curtis rises to the challenge - but doing so proves to be the ultimate test of his public image. 

Our Synopsis:  You can’t please all the people, all the time… but you can piss everyone off when you try to kill a sexy tree giant.
Themes
Paul Bunyan
His decapitated head was left in the woods, and fused with the trees
Enemies of Curtis become Bunyan sympathisers 
Curtis’s Ex Wife making a run for his job?
Hints at the end of her restoring Bunyan Tree
Putting the interest of the nation over your own?
Curtis allows himself to be disliked for the good of the country. 
Favorite Bits
Standard T&B (tag & bag)
Oval Alerts
Left off the GIF of you winking over your sunglasses
O’Doyle’s bad lip reading
Don’t you say something cool and then jump!
“Timber”
I don’t mean to sound racist, but all these trees look alike
Curtis stealing a helicopter by asking for a band-aid
Tossed you out like a bag of mushrooms when the cops are coming
(I used to drink drink in grad school)
Chopper is ready ma’am. You can even remote control it with your arm thing if that becomes important later on.”
Mud is basically an invisibility cloak 
I just wanted to feel a sense of belonging!
Aww sour flesh!
Lincoln is getting a hat
Best/Worst Parts
The tree growing time lapse in the cold open (forming Paul’s body)
The flip flop gene.. Oops sorry I thought that’s what you were going to say
Using the chopper to woodchipper Bunyan

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It's Christmas time... in Summer!
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Rick and Morty - The End
Releasing November 3, 2026, is Oni Press’s 200-page Rick and Morty: The End HC. This special edition will collect writer Daniel Kibblesmith, artists Jarrett Williams and Troy Little, and colorist Alessandro Santoro’s Rick and Morty: The End #1–6 and Rick and Morty Forever #0 in a single hardcover volume, available for $34.99.
https://screenrant.com/rick-and-morty-the-end-collection-release/
The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza

Discussion:
Episode Details
Air Date: 9/20/26
Written by: James Siciliano & Danielle Uhlarik
Directed by: Eric Meister & Mollie Helms
Guest Stars: Jim O'heir as Santa

Official Synopsis: With Christmas spirit at an all-time low, Curtis attempts to find a fix by deploying a group of synthetic beings, custom-designed to spread cheer. 

Our Synopsis: What do a greeting card company and Skynet have in common? Tune in to find out!

Themes
Christmas Spirit
Once we drop below 10% Spiritonium saturation, Christmas is over
Christmas Spirit is a limited resource
Plan to use synthetic super soldiers to spread Christmas Spirit 
Use Hallmark to access the Christmas Spirit Algorythm 
Turns the synths into walking Hallmark Movie tropes
Sending the Christmas Synths to Canada
“It’s like sending a dragon back to dinosaur times, they don’t really belong, but the dinosaurs don’t notice.”
Why does he say this like he has had experience with this? 
Huge Fight with Santa
Synths are now out in the general population
Favorite Bits
The Humbuggler not knowing who the Hamburgler is
11 second countdown
Banks being really into Christmas
And O’Doyle hating it
Finch always has a dick-bomb gun handy
Ed Carol being offended when Banks tells him he looks like Santa
And then being shamed for it
The Chrismanthium Core (lava lamp noodles)
The un-stainable yellow shirts bit
6 News live with Step Sisters Mika & Carolyn
The synths all having a positive reaction to dying
Janice singing public domain songs
All my tech is set to spring forward, cuz Finch don’t fall back!
Finch really hating Daylight Savings Time
Santa calling everyone by their first name
Santa’s ice powers
The Reindemons 
Carrot Tipped Rounds
Chekhov's Carrot
Santa’s tear turning to ice
Banks implanting a dick-bomb in Santa’s spine 
Curse these hoods and their blind spots
What warlocks can regrow heads? Better check with your DM
O’Doyle having an alarm set for when it is Christmas (its a phone alarm and the sound is like a watch alarm)

Best/Worst Parts
O’Doyle just criticizing everything the entire episode
Ed Carol turning out to really be Santa
The transformation animation is sick
“Ed is my undercover boss name”
Coal is like garlic for Santa’s
The missing flashback
Santa knowing Banks’ backstory and not telling her
“That’s what you get for trying to squeeze canonical stuff into this mission.”

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It's your standard episode... your GOLD standard episode! It's time for Knox!
Semi Pertinent News
Rick and Morty - The End
Releasing November 3, 2026, is Oni Press’s 200-page Rick and Morty: The End HC. This special edition will collect writer Daniel Kibblesmith, artists Jarrett Williams and Troy Little, and colorist Alessandro Santoro’s Rick and Morty: The End #1–6 and Rick and Morty Forever #0 in a single hardcover volume, available for $34.99.
https://screenrant.com/rick-and-morty-the-end-collection-release/
The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza

Discussion:
MAIN THANG - PC S1E8 - Knox

Episode Details
Air Date: 9/13/26
Written by: Anne Lane
Directed by: Juan Meza-Leon
Guest Stars: Maria Bamford

Official Synopsis: A robbery at Fort Knox puts Curtis and the FBI on a manhunt for the culprit, forcing O’Doyle to confront figures from his past. 

Our Synopsis: O’Doyle’s mommy issues come back to taunt him and he will have to go back to his roots to clear his name. 

Discussion
Themes
O’Doyle’s Backstory Mommy Issues
All the gold from Ft. Knox is stolen and O’Doyle’s mom is the main suspect
Man O’Doyle really hates his mom
Leprechaun mind melds are called Rainbow Connections
The euphoric feelings Leprechauns get from lying
And how O’Doyle suppresses that by not doing it
Orla O’Doyle is taking out all the matriarchs to unite all the Leprechaun clans
Reverse-rob Ft. Knox
Setting up for some big end of season event?

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President Lincoln and Banks' memories fill the A and B stories on this new episode!
Semi Pertinent News
Rickmobile @ Dragon Con
They handed out masks
Cosplay contest
The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza
September 13th – short form sketch comedy (15 minute episodes)

Discussion:
MAIN THANG - PC S1E7 - Ghosts

Episode Details
Air Date: 9/6/26
Written by: Haley Daniels
Directed by: Erik Kling
Guest Stars:  Dan Bakkedahl, Eric Bauza, David Cross, Mikey Day, David Herman, Nick Reczynski, Sam Richardson, Andy St. Clair, Alanna Ubach (Are these all guest stars or is the cast just growing)

Official Synopsis: When Banks gets malware, O’Doyle enters her brain to find a fix. Curtis gives the ghost of Lincoln a gift that lets him settle his unfinished business. 

Our Synopsis:  Banks forgets to update her antivirus while Ghost Lincoln has (at least four) scores to settle. 

Discussion
Themes
Banks’ Backstory Malware
I appreciate that they cooked up a creative way to hash out parts of her backstory. 
Introduces NuMind & Bureau of Robotics (BOR)
O’Doyle goes into Banks’ brain to hunt the malware and discovers memories that reveal the truth about Banks’ past
Stereotypical tech brohs
Reveal that Banks developed the tech that is in her brain now
Double Cross from Logan at NuMind that used Banks and erased her memories
Do we think this creates a thread where Banks might be looking for him in later episodes?
Ghost Lincoln 
They had to give Curtis something to do in this episode
Ghost Gloves “You got hands, Abe!”
Lincoln gets too used to his new found freedoms and wants to take back the White House / Restart the Civil War (so he can finish it)

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Let's talk Lousiana and its purchase on President Curtis!
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Get Jiro
Based on the acclaimed graphic novel from Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose published through DC’s iconic Vertigo imprint, GET JIRO will debut on Adult Swim the evening of Saturday, October 3 at midnight ET/PT as part of its Toonami anime/action block, and will stream the next day on HBO Max. 
Adult Swim also released the official trailer today

DISCUSSION
MAIN THANG - PC S1E6 - Hollow

Episode Details
Air Date: 8/30/26
Written by: Danielle Uhlarik
Directed by: Juan Meza-Leon
Guest Stars:  Alex Brightman, Thomas Lennon, Ken Marino, Piotr Michael, Jaime Moyer, Maulik Pancholy, Sam Richardson, Stephen Root

Official Synopsis: When America faces a national energy crisis, Curtis and his team venture deep into Hollow Earth to find a solution. 

Our Synopsis:  Curtis and the gang will go to any depth to get the energy this nation needs. 

Discussion

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