Long stretches of the episode rely entirely on snake hisses and visual cues, yet you understand exactly what’s happening 0.5.6 .

Season 4 Episode 5 "Rattlestar Ricklactica" is a 22-minute masterclass in how to escalate a plot until the universe literally collapses on itself. Morty’s guilt, Jerry’s levitating shoes, and the absolute banger that is .

might be the most ambitious episode of Season 4 0.5.10 . For years, the "Time Travel Stuff" box in the garage was a meta-joke, but this episode finally dived headfirst into the trope to parody the hell out of The Terminator and Battlestar Galactica 0.5.21 . Why it worked:

In Morty breaks the number one rule (stay in the car) and accidentally kills a space-snake astronaut. His "fix"? Sending a decoy snake back to the planet. What follows is a glorious, nonsensical descent into: Snake Jazz (Sss-ss-sa-ss...) 🎶 Snake Terminators, Snake Abraham Lincoln, and Snake Hitler.

Rick and Morty said they’d never do time travel... then they gave us . 🐍卐

Seeing the testicle-headed time cops (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key) beat up a primitive tool-using snake to "fix" the timeline is peak Dan Harmon chaos 0.5.14 .