Schrab may be a newcomer to the world of Rick and Morty but he's a longtime collaborator of co-creator Dan Harmon and he fits seamlessly with the Harmon-verse's sensitivities. At the same time, the core concept of a superhero entity that is summoned by a group of ethnically diversed kids and whose sole purpose is to fight against pollution has been parodied and homaged so much that it's easy to understand what writer Rob Schrab is going for. If you've never heard of the '90s environmental cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers, it's possible this episode won't do anything for you. Rick and Morty has done plenty of parodies before, but this is a rare episode that is solely devoted to jokes about a single property. The episode begins with Morty accidentally getting involved in the latest fight between Planetina ( Alison Brie) and a supervillain that controls acid rain. Even if the jokes don't land as well as in the past two episodes, A Rickconvenient Mort delivers a rare moment of sincerty for the show that once gave us Picke Rick.
Even if we've seen Morty go through enough to age him horribly, he is still a hormonal teenager, not just in terms of his constant crude sex jokes the show does on his behalf, but also in terms of how emotional he can get. Bart Simpson will always be 10 and Morty will always stay 14. As we've discussed before, the thing about Rick and Morty and sitcoms is that the characters can never change, and they certainly cannot age.
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