![]() ![]() The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. The image of the Giant Incest Baby floating up alongside an astronaut is lifted directly from 2001: A Space Odyssey’s haunting closing moments, wherein the movie’s protagonist transforms into the Star Child (a huge glowing fetus) and is last seen orbiting the earth. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The self-consciously sophomoric humor of this episode, which centers around Morty’s sentient sperm trying to take over the world and an Expendables-esque task force trying to fight them off action-movie-style - with the help of the underground Horse Cannibals, the CHUDS - feels like a direct response to last week’s poignant, emotionally involved outing “A Rickconveient Mort.” However, the Kubrick in-joke in the episode’s stinger proves there was a point to all this juvenile mayhem, even if spoofing the famous sci-fi movie is not as touching an ending as Morty’s moving love story with Planetina. The freewheeling plot of “Rickdependence Spray” (season 5, episode 4) seems destined to go nowhere for much of the outing’s runtime. So, of course, Rick and Morty's season 5 turned the movie’s famously enigmatic closing image of a giant, glowing fetus orbiting the earth into a stinger about a Giant Incest Baby eating an astronaut. ![]() That summary makes the movie sound like an intense, space-set horror, but for the most part (and particularly in its closing act), 2001: A Space Odyssey lives up to its title and is a truly psychedelic head trip that combines stunning imagery with thought-provoking philosophical inquiry. ![]() Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a meditatively paced sci-fi story that sees a group of astronauts struggles to keep their mission afloat when their onboard computer HAL-9000 goes haywire and turns homicidal. Related: Morty’s Love Interests Prove Rick & Morty Has Grown From Seasons 1–5 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 Science Fiction film, written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, with help from Arthur C. Season 5 is no slouch in this department, with the fourth episode already featuring a classic 2001: A Space Odyssey parody. Since those early days, the show has spoofed Zardoz, Mad Max, and Prometheus in one of Rick & Morty’s most underrated outings. As early as the show’s third episode, Rick and Morty mixed Jurassic Park with Fantastic Voyage for a gory, silly story of a theme park gone wrong that takes place inside an unfortunate test subject’s body. ![]()
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