Rick and Morty Shows What Happens if Rick Hosts the Oscars
Rick and Morty has been exploring some strange ideas with each episode of the newest season so far, but the newest episode of the series put Rick in what could be his oddest role yet by making him host the Academy Awards! The sixth season changed the status quo of the series significantly as following Rick no longer being able to travel across dimensions with his portal gun, there have been more laid back adventures focused on the Earth. But even with that, the series is still finding wacky new roles for Rick to take on that still manage to surprise.
Rick and Morty's newest episode saw dinosaurs return to the Earth and immediately take it over as they urged humans to do what they wanted to instead, and the President goes to Rick and asks him for his help to get rid of them. Rick does eventually agree to do so, but in exchange he wanted to host the Oscars. Surprisingly, this ended up happening as fans got to see what it would be like if Rick actually hosted the Academy Awards and stirred up Hollywood's elite. You can check out the clip below as released by Adult Swim:
"Juricksic Mort" sees Rick get the dinosaurs to leave the Earth when he tells them about a species of meteors that have been destroying each of the civilizations they had been raising out of space over the millennia, and then he gets to host the Oscars as a result. It's here that there are "cameos" from many famous pastiches of actors such as Dwayne Johnson, Jason Momoa, Tom Hanks and many more. Rick even gets Hanks to act out one of his famous moments from the classic Cast Away, and it's clear that Rick was a hit.
But soon he's interrupted when he finds out that the dinosaurs went to Mars in order to sacrifice themselves to the incoming meteor. Funny enough, Rick's hosting the Oscars really only offered the commentary that it was completely scripted (in which he noted included "even that one thing," which is likely referring to the big Best Picture winner shake up from a few years back), so it was just a funny tangent in an episode full of them.
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