[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Rick and Morty” Season 4, Episode 6, “Never Ricking Morty.”]For a few fleeting moments on a Sunday night in May 2020, the world held the promise of a Birdperson musical.
After a four-month hiatus in between halves of its Season 4, “Rick and Morty” returns with “Never Ricking Morty,” an episode chock-full of those kinds of tiny offshoots from a river of winking nods with even more volume than is normal for this show.Peel away the nested array of self-aware story references and this episode’s plot is fairly simple: Rick and Morty are trapped on a literal story train, winding through various cabins as the vehicle surrounding them barrels through the fourth wall and a few more after for good measure.Starting in what looks at first like an episode that might jettison Rick and Morty entirely and focus on the various humans and creatures they’ve wronged in their travels,
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