Rick And Morty Season 4 Episode 5: 26 Easter Eggs And References In “Rattlestar Ricklactica”

Everyone has a plumbus in their home.

Everyone has a plumbus in their home.

Rick and Morty Season 4, Episode 5, “Rattlestar Ricklactica,” was a return to form for the show. Even more importantly, it was an exciting milestone: For the first time ever, Rick and Morty did a time travel plot. Despite the box marked “time travel stuff” that’s always been on a shelf in Rick’s garage, creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland have stated multiple times that they don’t want to do time travel.

Well, we’re glad they did. “Rattlestar Ricklactica” was easily the best episode of this five-episode half season, with a classic concept (well-intentioned Morty screwing up an entire alien civilization), a strong subplot (Jerry wanting to get out of his floating jam without Rick’s help), some incredible gags (the time traveler riot in Nazi Snake Germany), and effortless execution.

As always, the episode was also full of Easter eggs, references, and other things you might have missed. Here’s everything we caught in Rick and Morty Season 4, Episode 5, “Rattlestar Ricklactica.” Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments below.

The Office Releases Full Threat Level Midnight Movie On YouTube

The Office’s film-within-a-film, Michael Scott’s opus Threat Level Midnight, has been posted to The Office’s official YouTube channel. The short film, previously only available to owners of The Office season 7 on DVD, is now widely available for free online–and you can watch it below.

This 25 minute cut of the film contains all the scenes you remember, and several that didn’t make it into the episode. It’s not all Steve Carell, either–the rest of the cast, including Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, and Brian Baumgartner are given a chance to shine with their purposefully bad performances. There are plenty of neat visual gags scattered throughout to keep an eye out for too–an early establishing shot of Scarn’s house is revealed to be from a real estate company sign as the camera zooms out, for instance.

Watch the film below to revisit the steps involved in doing The Scarn, among other things. You’ll even get to learn the origin story of Goldenface in this cut, which is delightfully silly.

Threat Level Midnight was first cited in the show’s second season, before viewers were finally given a look at Michael Scott’s final completed product during season 7, soon before Steve Carell left the show.

The Office is the most popular show on Netflix, but it will be leaving the streaming service in January 2021. The show will be exclusive to NBC’s own streaming service, Peacock, from then. The network is also considering a reboot of the beloved sitcom.

Gears Tactics Will Be Single-Player Only And Won’t Have Microtransactions

Gears Tactics, which is coming to Xbox One and PC (including Xbox Game Pass) on April 28, 2020, was first revealed at E3 2018, before dropping off the radar until this year’s Game Awards. Now we’ve learned that game, a turn-based tactical spin-off from the Gears of War series (think XCOM but in the Gears universe), will be single-player only and will not feature cosmetic microtransactions.

This news comes via Rod Furgusson, studio head at Gears developer The Coalition, who tweeted it out after being asked for details.

The Gears of War series has typically had a multiplayer focus, with co-op and competitive modes available in the shooters, including the recent Gears 5; Gears Tactics will be the first single-player only Gears game. Gears 5 also features numerous paid cosmetic items, but in Tactics players won’t have the option of spending additional money. There will be plenty of customization options, but you’ll have to unlock them by playing the game.

Gears Tactics promises a 40-hour campaign, and is set before the original Gears of War.

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What Did You Think of Tonight’s Rick and Morty?

Rick and Morty wrapped up the first half of Season 4 tonight. Disaster struck in the middle of Rick and Morty’s latest mission, as Morty learned the hard way that space snakes are a very real and very deadly threat.

We’ll have our review of “Rattlestar Ricklactica” up a bit later tonight. Until then, let us know what you thought of the new episode in the comments below.

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New Pokemon Anime Short Series Will Explore The Galar Region

A new short Pokemon anime series is set to debut in January, set in Pokemon Sword/Shield‘s Galar region. The series, which will be titled Pokemon: Twilight Wings, was announced on the official Pokemon website and promises to explore the lives of the people who live there.

The series will consist of seven episodes, all of which will be about five minutes long. The first episode will premiere on the English language Pokemon YouTube channel on January 15, 2020.

According to the site, the show “will show in detail the dreams of Galar’s residents, the realities they face, the challenges they must overcome, and the conflicts they must resolve.” It will also introduce several Pokemon who are native to Galar in anime form for the first time, and by the sound of things it will not feature Ash or his friends.

The series will be animated by Studio Colorido, which most recently worked on the film Penguin Highway.

Pokemon Sword/Shield received a 9/10 in our review, and reviewer Kallie Plagge said that they “cut out the bloat and focus on what makes these pillars of the Pokemon games so captivating in the first place.” For more on the anime, check out our thoughts on which Pokemon in the world are eaten by humans.

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Watchmen Finale Episode 9 “See How They Fly” 25 Easter Eggs And Comics References

8. Veidt catching a bullet

8. Veidt catching a bullet

Ozymandias may be, functionally, just a normal guy with an above-average IQ, but he really can pull off some superhuman feats of his own. We see him catch a bullet with his bare hands when the Game Warden tries to stop him from leaving, a talent he also demonstrated in the original Watchmen comics when Dan Drieberg and Laurie confronted him. How can he do it? Thanks to some extreme comic book logic, of course. Veidt went on a tour of the world learning all sorts of secret martial arts and spiritual techniques, not unlike Batman during his pre-Caped Crusader days.