This is an advance review of Adult Swim's Rick and Morty pilot, which airs Monday, December 2nd at 10:30pm. The full episode, however, can be viewed on YouTube. Since you can watch it before reading what follows, this review will be a bit more spoiler-y than other pilot reviews...
Welcome to Back to the Future on bath salts.
You don't necessarily have to be a Back to the Future fan to appreciate Rick and Morty, the new half-hour animated series from Community creator Dan Harmon and voice actor Justin Roiland (who worked with Harmon on 2007's Acceptable TV for VH1), but it does help to know what the show is perversely skewering. No, Rick and Morty isn't an out-and-out parody of the movie franchise, but it does shine a hilarious spotlight on how unsavory it actually is when a high school kid is "BFF"s with the town's eccentric tinkerer. Which, as you know, is a relationship that's never fully explained in Back to the Future. Just how did Marty and Doc Brown came to be so close? I'm not insinuating anything wicked, it's just one of those things that the movies never chose to reveal.
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