Rick and Morty season 6 episode 3 review: Beth gets hot and heavy with Beth in x-rated story Dexerto

In Rick and Morty season 6’s naughtiest episode yet, Mom takes center stage, with Space Beth and Housewife Beth reunited, though unfortunately, the payoff isn’t nearly as interesting as that setup.

Rick and Morty Season 6 has been all about great sci-fi stories with great narratives and themes about life, the universe, and, well, everything.

But Episode 3, titled “Bethic Twinstinct,” is a smaller story, about giving in to our baser instincts. With Beth Smith getting dirty with her good self.

But while it does feature bizarre twists and turns, most notably Jerry’s incredible mid-procedure defense mechanism, it’s far from classic Rick and Morty.

Numbing the pain

It’s Thanksgiving at the Smith house, and during a pre-turkey toast, Jerry reveals that he couldn’t live without Beth. Literally. “If anything happened to you, or if you left me or cheated on me, I would die… probably by my own hand.”

Meanwhile, Morty just wants to play video games on his new futuristic console. But once Rick cranks the realism setting to 10, the “Space Invaders” game gets boring, and the “Street Fighter” rip-off gets even worse.

But then Summer hears something that sends her into a gaming trance. Before Morty sees the same thing and joins her in numbing the pain.

Till Beth do us part

That’s because they both bear witness to mom’s new secret. It begins with Space Beth helping Housewife Beth become a better person. Then the pair realize just how much they have in common, from favorite Culkins to Britney’s favorite songs.

The twisted twins head into space to visit Gloopy Drop, but instead of getting ice cream, they make it, as Rick so delightfully puts it, “full San Junipero.”

The pair of them “forgetting the ice cream” (a euphemism here) sends their children into a tailspin, while the effect on Jerry is even more devastating.

jerry gets upset

Dad takes the news that his wife is playing dirty to his wife very badly. He goes back to high school when he is warned that Beth would be too much for him. Then in the present, Jerry turns into a bug.

“I forgot I installed that,” Rick says of his bedbug protocol, before revealing that his son-in-law can remain in metabolic hibernation indefinitely if he wishes.

It’s the best visual gag of the episode, while at the same time sums up Jerry, the character taking over in his own weird, passive-aggressive way.

Eternal sunshine of the mind without Beth

To rescue their family situation, the Beths decide to forget about Eternal Sunshine the Multiplicity porn, although it is true that Beth, the housewife, is more interested in making amends than Space Beth.

We then get a Deus Ex Husbanda, as Jerry returns to scold both Beths, only to later show his true colors, giving them permission to duplicate because it turns him on.

The episode ends with the kids hearing this and becoming further traumatized, before Space Beth blasts off, leaving behind a bunch of broken Smiths.

The Verdict: Is Rick and Morty “Bethic Twinstinct” Any Good?

There is some suggestion that Rick planned this in the final shot, but Bethic Twinstinct it was really about Space Beth causing trouble, and though she flies away at the end, one wonders if she’ll come back to be even more antagonistic as the series progresses.

Jerry claims that everyone learned a lesson over the weekend, which is ironic, as the post-credit sting shows him committing a similar relationship crime with a clone of his own.

Making this a slightly funny Rick and Morty with a mild sting in the tail, but one with few laughs, and not much to say.