Thursday, April 2, 2015

Raising Gazorpazorp

Rick and Morty is a show on Cartoon Network's night block Adult Swim. This specific episode is about Rick and Morty going to a pawn shop and Rick buys Morty a sex robot. The robot conceives a half human half Gazorpazorpian child. Rick and Summer go to Gazopazorp to find fitting parrents for Morty Jr.
When they get there, they relieze that the genders are segergated and the genders raise their own gender. It is a female dominated society where the females thrive in luxury and technology while they send sex robots so they do not have to degrade themselves to reproduce with the savage males. When born, the babies are seperated by gender, the male babies get plopped on the planet to eventually reproduce and fight because thats all that men do. The female babies get taken up to where the females stay and get educated and have a life. This is an interesting take on this subject because usually it is a male dominated society. It is also an especially interesting take on the show because this is the first episode in which summer has to acompany Rick because Morty is at home attempting to raise Morty Jr. but usually fails almost every step of the way.
 
 
Eventually Rick and Summer get captured by the female Gazopazorpians and Summer is treated on par with the others while Rick is treated as a second class slave. During this time, Morty Jr. is growing rapidly and finding out that everything he was told in his life was a lie. So now Summer and Rick are on a time clock to save the earth. The female Gazorpazorpians are going to excute Rick and Summer but Summer explained how the genders work on earth and how everything isn't totally divided and the females are kinda equal but not really.




1 comment:

  1. I find this episode interesting because it makes fun of both hypermasculinity as well as hyperfemininity. The males are inherently aggressive and bent on destruction, while the females are inherently intelligent and friendly, yet shallow. Some of the female Gazorpazorpian laws are unreasonable and very stereotypically feminine (and stereotypical teenage-girl-like), like giving a girl the silent treatment for having bad bangs. The women are hypocrites because they stress being there for one another, yet exclude a girl because of her bangs. I like that Summer got to go on the adventure in this one, bringing a different perspective to the adventures. And the end of the episode is so true, "females are kinda equal but not really."

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