YMMV / Rick and Morty S4 E10: "Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri"

• Catharsis Factor:
  • After Tammy had used her to get close to Rick and betray the Smiths in "The Wedding Squanchers", Summer gets a bit of payback by not only disarming Tammy, but also snapping her leg while invisible to save Rick and Jerry.
  • Seeing Tammy suffer a Boom, Headshot! pleased a lot of fans who were waiting for her to get what's coming to her ever since the season 2 finale.
  • After seeing Rick get away with so much shit with lording his power over his family and punishing them for the pettiest reasons, it's pretty gratifying to see everyone finally tell him they're done with his manipulative crap.
  • Jerry saving the day and not spoiling it for himself right after can be seen as this. Especially since the last episode had him constantly put down by the family.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Seeing Rick with his guts spilled out on the floor after his brutal fight with Phoenix Person? Horrifying. Seeing him take a swig from his flask, only for the alcohol leak out of his stomach? Black Comedy Gold.
• Designated Hero: Regardless of whether she is a clone or not, from Space Beth's perspective she did openly abandon her family and was perfectly content to keep doing so, not even missing them much (if at all), until she thinks she has a bomb in her neck—only going off of the words of a clearly not-all-there doctor—and then only returns to Earth to try to kill Rick, which inadvertently causes several problems for her whole family. Earth Beth and Rick even lampshade this, pointing out that she brought her problems with her, which isn't different from what Rick does.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: When Jerry expresses joy at "having two wives", Rick puts him down by stating "it's never gonna happen". But come the ending of "Bethic Twinstinct", Rick is proven wrong in the worst way possible.
• Inferred Holocaust: We see the NX-5 kill tons of people and cause tons of destruction. Once Morty and Summer stop its beam, the family just returns home like nothing happened. (Par for the course, but still.)
• Informed Wrongness: Rick is repeatedly brought to task for cloning Beth and not clarifying who the real Beth is because he said he would kill the clone if she ever became sentient. However, he only made the offer to clone her; it was Beth who then asked him to make the decision since she wanted him to choose whether to keep her in his life or not, making the same type of non-decisions the writers say Rick made when he removed the labels. In addition, while it is certainly wrong of Rick to lie to them both and claim that each one is the "real" one and the other is the clone, Rick still demonstrates that he does love both Beths; nevertheless, none of the other characters ever consider the idea that he wiped his memory so that he wouldn't treat the clone Beth any differently from the real Beth. Even so, Rick is horrified that he may have felt obligated to kill his real daughter due to the memory wipe.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Tammy. Many feel a lot more should have been done with her considering the true scale of her actions. While Rick shooting her dead is cathartic, it still feels like a rather underwhelming send-off to the villain.

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