Also, the already-complicated visual of the splitscreen gimmick means there arenвЂ™t many cuts. I mean, as I said, there are parts, unless you really focus, where you canвЂ™t even make out what characters are saying, which means the only joke you really get is вЂњyou canвЂ™t make out what the characters are sayingвЂќ (and this joke gets repeated several times). The problem with вЂњA Rickle in TimeвЂќ is itвЂ™s so concept-heavy it doesnвЂ™t have much room for comedy. It speaks to Rick and MortyвЂ™s always confident, ambitious tone that it starts a season off with a premise that seems designed to overwhelm auditorily and visually (in terms of plot, I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s too hard to follow). This is a bizarre, ballsy thing to put on television, especially for a season premiere. All this is amplified when the screen splits again later, into fours, then splits again, and again, and again.ДЄnd again, I admire it all. Sometimes, the characters in the various timelines donвЂ™t say the same things-one Morty says something sheepish while the other makes a confrontational remark-which means (deliberately) you just hear a jumble of incoherent dialogue. This also means you hear each character in each timeline talking at the same time, creating a reverb effect. A significant portion of this episode is told with the screen split in half, showing us two timelines at once, with minor differences in the charactersвЂ™ actions in each. It makes for some weird audiovisual stuff, too.

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