Oh Mama

Some music video where Rick and Morty do a Pulp Fiction bit while Run The Jewels’ Oh Mama plays underneath. Rick belching through the chaos, Morty terrified, both of them moving through what amounts to a job gone sideways. You’re always waiting for new episodes that may or may not come, rewatching old ones because there’s nothing else to do. At least when something like this surfaces, you remember why you’re stuck with the show.

The video works because it’s exactly what you’d want. Granddad checked out and belching his way through the violence, nephew in full panic mode, everything moving like choreography while the track keeps it urgent. The show’s been buried under a thousand essays about how self-aware it is, how it winks at its own cleverness, the whole recursive bit. Maybe it’s all true. Mostly I just like watching it, and it’s clear I’m exactly the type to fall for it.

I could sit down and watch the whole thing tonight. I’ve seen every episode. Doesn’t matter. I’ll do it anyway.