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And regardless of the show’s loose approach to continuity, it does seem strange to see a Beth/Jerry storyline without any mention of the fallout from the Season 4 finale. For one thing, Summer is disappointingly underutilized, considering most of her storyline unfolds offscreen.

There are really only a handful of quibbles to be found with the Season 5 premiere. Rick and Morty may not be heavy on narrative continuity, but there’s enough to get a sense that these characters are growing and evolving with time (if not always in the most healthy directions). It’s nice to see the show actually building on their recent reconciliation rather than reverting back to the old “Beth despises Jerry” status quo. “Mort Dinner With Andre” even finds room for a solid, entertaining subplot involving Beth and Jerry trying to rekindle the fires of romance. He combines the campiness of a pre-Jason Momoa Aquaman with the arrogance and general horniness of Namor. This flamboyant fusion of Aquaman and Namor is a hilarious addition to the show’s lineup of eccentric supporting characters. This episode also gets great mileage out of Rick’s nemesis Mr. His utter disinterest in the consequences of his actions winds up creating a conflict that’s as hilarious as it is psychologically bleak. At the same time, it becomes painfully apparent just how much of Rick has rubbed off on Morty over the years. We get to see him stand on his own and how far he’s come from the timid little dork he was in the early seasons. The result is basically everything you could want out of a Morty adventure. Instead, Rick’s dinner with an old “friend” serves as a loose backbone for what turns out to be a very Morty-centric episode.

It might be fun to see what this series could do by locking two characters in a room and forcing them to talk for 22 minutes straight, but you’d also miss out on all the sci-fi zaniness that makes this series what it is. It’s probably just as well this episode only makes a halfhearted attempt at mimicking the source material. “Mort Dinner Rick Andre” is ostensibly a parody of 1981’s My Dinner With Andre, a film co-creator Dan Harmon also famously parodied in an episode of Community: Season 2.