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	An alien intern named Glootie serves breakfast to the Smiths, often asking for assistance in developing an ]. Rick dismisses his offer and has tattooed "Do Not Develop My App" on his forehead as a warning to everyone—especially a curious Jerry. As Rick excuses himself and leaves for a solo adventure, which Summer surmises as defecating, Jerry offers to help Glootie in creating his app. Rick travels to a secret location which turns out to be his private lavatory. Discovering that it has been intruded upon, he goes on a relentless search to find out who used his toilet. Glootie and Jerry's app goes online, infuriating Morty, who fears something detrimental may happen.		An alien intern named Glootie serves breakfast to the Smiths, often asking for assistance in developing an ]. Rick dismisses his offer and has tattooed "Do Not Develop My App" on his forehead as a warning to everyone—especially a curious Jerry. As Rick excuses himself and leaves for a solo adventure, which Summer surmises as defecating, Jerry offers to help Glootie in creating his app. Rick travels to a secret location which turns out to be his private lavatory. Discovering that it has been intruded upon, he goes on a relentless search to find out who used his toilet. Glootie and Jerry's app goes online, infuriating Morty, who fears something detrimental may happen.

	The app, named "Lovefinderrz", turns out to be a ], which turns its users to divert their full attention into finding their true love. One of its users, Summer, ditches Beth on their lunch for her date, leading to a fight between the two. After hearing Beth's complaints about the app and its effect on Summer, Jerry realizes his wrongdoing and joins Morty in demanding Glootie to take the app down. Glootie leads them to his mother-ship, which houses the app's servers, and the two find out about the ~~Monogratrons~~ from their leader, who rebukes the two about the Earth civilization's inefficiency in mastering love and how they used it to distract them as they steal its water resources, by planting Glootie on earth in developing the app. Beth chases after Summer, who constantly changes her soul mate with the app, while Jerry and Morty are captured. But Jerry manages to convince Glootie to take the app offline, by positing their failure to match a date in the app as their similarity. As Morty chastises Jerry about his decisions, Glootie puts an ] on the app to block the users from using it, leading Summer to delete the app and resume her normal life.		The app, named "Lovefinderrz", turns out to be a ], which turns its users to divert their full attention into finding their true love. One of its users, Summer, ditches Beth on their lunch for her date, leading to a fight between the two. After hearing Beth's complaints about the app and its effect on Summer, Jerry realizes his wrongdoing and joins Morty in demanding Glootie to take the app down. Glootie leads them to his mother-ship, which houses the app's servers, and the two find out about the Monogatrons from their leader, who rebukes the two about the Earth civilization's inefficiency in mastering love and how they used it to distract them as they steal its water resources, by planting Glootie on earth in developing the app. Beth chases after Summer, who constantly changes her soul mate with the app, while Jerry and Morty are captured. But Jerry manages to convince Glootie to take the app offline, by positing their failure to match a date in the app as their similarity. As Morty chastises Jerry about his decisions, Glootie puts an ] on the app to block the users from using it, leading Summer to delete the app and resume her normal life.

	Meanwhile, Rick tracks the poop bandit down, going so far as to participating in an extra-terrestrial robot war to find Tony, the one who used his toilet. Despite receiving admonishment from Rick, Tony still continues to use the lavatory, leaving Rick to punish him by using his "Globafin" chemical to put him in his ideal "toilet-filled" simulation of ] before evicting him. As Rick gives him a final warning, Tony chides him about his control issues and advises friendship. Rick prepares a defense measure on the toilet designed to humiliate its future user—intending it to be Tony. Upon visiting Tony's office, he finds out from his assistant that he died after quitting work and intending to live life to the fullest. Feeling guilty upon attending his funeral, a distraught Rick goes back to the lavatory and sits on the toilet, which is now bombarded with holographic Ricks designed to constantly berate Tony and his loneliness.		Meanwhile, Rick tracks the poop bandit down, going so far as to participating in an extra-terrestrial robot war to find Tony, the one who used his toilet. Despite receiving admonishment from Rick, Tony still continues to use the lavatory, leaving Rick to punish him by using his "Globafin" chemical to put him in his ideal "toilet-filled" simulation of ] before evicting him. As Rick gives him a final warning, Tony chides him about his control issues and advises friendship. Rick prepares a defense measure on the toilet designed to humiliate its future user—intending it to be Tony. Upon visiting Tony's office, he finds out from his assistant that he died after quitting work and intending to live life to the fullest. Feeling guilty upon attending his funeral, a distraught Rick goes back to the lavatory and sits on the toilet, which is now bombarded with holographic Ricks designed to constantly berate Tony and his loneliness.

Revision as of 21:58, 2 December 2019

2nd episode of the 4th season of Rick and Morty

"The Old Man and the Seat"

Rick and Morty episode

Episode no.

Season 4
Episode 2

Directed by

Jacob Hair

Written by

Michael Waldron

Original air date

November 17, 2019

Running time

22 minutes

Guest appearances

Sam Neill as the Monogatron Leader
Kathleen Turner as Monogatron Queen
Taika Waititi as Glootie
Jeffrey Wright as Tony
Pamela Adlon as Vermigurber's Child
Sherri Shepherd as Tony's wife

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"The Old Man and the Seat" is the second episode of the fourth season of the Adult Swim animated television series Rick and Morty. Written by Michael Waldron and directed by Jacob Hair, loosely adapting The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, the episode was broadcast on November 17, 2019.

Plot

An alien intern named Glootie serves breakfast to the Smiths, often asking for assistance in developing an app. Rick dismisses his offer and has tattooed "Do Not Develop My App" on his forehead as a warning to everyone—especially a curious Jerry. As Rick excuses himself and leaves for a solo adventure, which Summer surmises as defecating, Jerry offers to help Glootie in creating his app. Rick travels to a secret location which turns out to be his private lavatory. Discovering that it has been intruded upon, he goes on a relentless search to find out who used his toilet. Glootie and Jerry's app goes online, infuriating Morty, who fears something detrimental may happen.

The app, named "Lovefinderrz", turns out to be a dating app, which turns its users to divert their full attention into finding their true love. One of its users, Summer, ditches Beth on their lunch for her date, leading to a fight between the two. After hearing Beth's complaints about the app and its effect on Summer, Jerry realizes his wrongdoing and joins Morty in demanding Glootie to take the app down. Glootie leads them to his mother-ship, which houses the app's servers, and the two find out about the Monogatrons from their leader, who rebukes the two about the Earth civilization's inefficiency in mastering love and how they used it to distract them as they steal its water resources, by planting Glootie on earth in developing the app. Beth chases after Summer, who constantly changes her soul mate with the app, while Jerry and Morty are captured. But Jerry manages to convince Glootie to take the app offline, by positing their failure to match a date in the app as their similarity. As Morty chastises Jerry about his decisions, Glootie puts an ad-wall on the app to block the users from using it, leading Summer to delete the app and resume her normal life.

Meanwhile, Rick tracks the poop bandit down, going so far as to participating in an extra-terrestrial robot war to find Tony, the one who used his toilet. Despite receiving admonishment from Rick, Tony still continues to use the lavatory, leaving Rick to punish him by using his "Globafin" chemical to put him in his ideal "toilet-filled" simulation of heaven before evicting him. As Rick gives him a final warning, Tony chides him about his control issues and advises friendship. Rick prepares a defense measure on the toilet designed to humiliate its future user—intending it to be Tony. Upon visiting Tony's office, he finds out from his assistant that he died after quitting work and intending to live life to the fullest. Feeling guilty upon attending his funeral, a distraught Rick goes back to the lavatory and sits on the toilet, which is now bombarded with holographic Ricks designed to constantly berate Tony and his loneliness.

In the post-credits scene, Jerry stumbles upon the "Globafin" serum in the fridge, and after dosing on it, he is simulated in his own desire as a water delivery man with a steady job.

Production and writing

"The Old Man and the Seat" was written by Michael Waldron and directed by Jacob Hair. The episode features guest actors Sam Neill as the Monogatron leader, Kathleen Turner as his wife, Jeffrey Wright as Tony; and director Taika Waititi as Glootie. Sherri Shepherd, who voiced the Judge in the previous episode, returned to the series as the voice of Tony's wife. A preview of the episode was released on July 19, 2019.

Themes

In a review by Entertainment Weekly, Omar Sanchez assumes the episode to be titled after the 2018 film The Old Man and the Gun, in which the lead character (portrayed by Robert Redford) goes on a heist spree and reflects on his younger self and the final statement he's making, observing the lead character's similarity with Rick, whom they noticed has lost his agency within the Smith household. Vulture's Liz Shannon Miller noted that the episode mainly explores the themes of loneliness and isolation.

The episode also introduces the chemical "Globafin", which taps into a person's brain and creates a Matrix-like simulation of that person's ideal heaven. In an analysis by IGN's Jesse Schedeen, he wrote that Jerry's desired heaven adequately presents him as a character who constantly battles his own feelings of inadequacy and laments his chronic unemployment. Ricks computer shown in this episode runs Debian 7. With an outdated Linux kernel that is vulnerable to the meltdown speculative execution exploit.

Reception

Broadcast and ratings

The episode was broadcast by Adult Swim on November 17, 2019. According to Nielsen Media Research, "The Old Man and the Seat" was seen by 1.66 million household viewers in the United States and received a 0.97 rating among the 18–49 adult demographic, making it the lowest rated episode of the series (excluding the unannounced season 3 premiere) since season 1’s “Something Ricked This Way Comes”.

Critical response

The AV Club's Zack Handlen gave the episode an "B+" rating, writing that "while the end result is pretty funny and thematically coherent", he also felt it as just "slightly under-done". Entertainment Weekly gave the episode an "A" rating. Steve Greene of IndieWire gave it a "B-" rating, and described it as "the equivalent of a mild inconvenience", remarking that "reinforcing some old ideas, Rick's quest for ultimate privacy and a globe-enslaving dating app are a flimsy foundation for a repetitive episode." Vulture's Liz Shannon Miller gave it a three-out-of-five star rating, and wrote that "From the simplest of setups comes, once again, a Rick and Morty adventure that simultaneously goes completely haywire even while it exposes the innermost pathos of its characters." Reviewing for Den of Geek, Joe Matar praised the extraordinary parings of Beth and Summer, Jerry and Morty, and Rick alone with himself as mostly extremely well. Ray Flook of Bleeding Cool described its concept as combining of the emotional gut-punch of the ending to the second season episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation" with the chainsaw-slicing social satire found in "Rick Potion No. 9" and any of the "Interdimensional Cable" segments.