Rick and Morty Finally Fixes Rick's Portal Gun
Rick and Morty is taking a break for a while before coming back for the final episodes of Season 6, but the newest episode of the series importantly made sure to have Rick fix his portal fun to get ready for what's coming next! One of the major shake ups following the end of the fifth season was that Rick's portal gun was inoperable due to Evil Morty using the fluid in the Season 5 finale, and Rick failing to reset it in the Season 6 premiere. But as fans saw through the rest of the season, Rick was dragging his feet to get it working again.
The lack of a portal gun meant that the episodes since the Season 6 premiere were primarily focused on single location adventures with the Smith Family, and has been exploring new sides of their characters in interesting ways. But as the series gets ready for the final episodes of the sixth season, Rick has gotten the portal gun working again and is back to his usual multiverse traveling self heading into the finale. Now it's just a matter of figuring out why now was the time for Rick to actually fix it.
Rick and Morty's Season 6 episode, "Juricksic Mort" was largely focused on an episodic adventure, but made sure to point out the fact that the season has been exploring new adventures without Rick's multiverse travel. Rick is eventually motivated by spite to get the gun working again because as he explains, he was not motivated to do so before because he has a "process." This "process" was interrupted any time someone asked about the portal gun (which is likely a meta-commentary about fans' refusal to acknowledge the lack of it this season), and took longer to fix it "on purpose."
But as fans saw in the Season 6 premiere, resetting the portal fluid led Rick Prime back to his original universe and thus allowed Rick his first real opportunity to catch his big villain. It's likely something that has been at the back of his mind ever since, but now that it's all fixed, it's likely that Rick Prime has escaped to the rest of the multiverse as well. It's just a matter of seeing how that plays out in the final episodes of the season from here.
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