Has Rick And Morty ever done an afterlife episode before? They haven’t really needed to, I guess; every time someone dies on the show, they just find a spare in a different dimension. Rick’s disdain for religion is too inevitable to ever even need to be brought up—he is, after all, the Atheist’s Atheist, a man whose contempt for the universe is so complete that he rearranged dimensions to make himself a god. (Oh right, there was that story where he got cucked by a Zeus, or something. Look, the episodes blur together after a while.) Still, no matter how powerful he is, Rick still has to operate within the confines of the laws of physics; he can bend shit as much as he wants, and sometimes even break things, but the laws remain in place. Gods don’t necessarily operate under the same rules—which is where “Mort: Ragnarick” comes in.
Rick wants to tap into the unlimited energy potential of the afterlife. He’s killed Jerry enough times to know it’s possible (the very funny o…
