While maybe not the overall strongest episode of the season, "Morty's Mind Blowers" was arguably the funniest, as Morty's pain and humiliation often makes for the best gags.
"Morty's Mind Blowers" is a fine episode of the series. It's always fun to see all of the insane adventures that we miss from week to week, but because the main premise of the episode was linked to traumatic moments, it made for a bleak 22 minutes.
This last episode was appropriately dumb, but it still fit into the deftly woven story arc that will probably see Morty strong enough to fight Evil Morty in the finale.
I want to start by acknowledging that "Morty's Mind Blowers" was terrific-inventive and unsettling and frequently hilarious, and the fact that the show can still surprise is impressive as hell.
"Morty's Mind Blowers" is more entertaining than another "Interdimensional Cable" sequel likely would have been, but it's far from the strongest installment of the season.
This is certainly the season with the most consistently strong writing of the three, and it does feel as though the series was wrenched into a more focused direction.
We can never be truly sure which version of Rick and Morty we are watching, and the show retains the right to pull the rug out from under us at any given time.
It might not be a perfect encapsulation of what the show does best, but as a delivery device for the kind of humor and big-picture thinking that keeps the show running, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more distilled baseline.