No one likes these ranked lists. Why would anyone accept my ranking of Rick and Morty Season 2 episodes? You’re here to see where we disagree and whether or not I do anything exceptionally boneheaded like rank Star Trek Into Darkness as the 5th best Star Trek movie. I’m here because some small lobe of brain matter mysterious housed in my asshole believes that my opinions are more right and taste isn’t really subjective at all. Also, I like safe clicks and ranking popular things provides. So here it is, every episode of Rick and Morty Season 2 ranked.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episodes Ranked

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 5 “Get Schwifty”

Yeah, “Get Schwifty” the song is funny, but the episode is sluggish compared to the best Rick and Morty episodes. Rick and Morty is at its best when it throws out one-off sci-fi idea jokes that could fuel a Star Trek two-parter. Plus, the Ice-T subplot is too non-sequitur goofball compared to the rest of Rick and Morty Season 2’s comedic rigor. Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 5 “Get Schwifty” feels more like a fantastic Futurama episode than Rick and Morty.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 7 “Big Trouble In Little Sanchez”

The rare episode where the “B” plot, as Beth and Jerry get alien marriage counseling, is funnier than the Rick plot. Tiny Rick is good for some catchphrases (and a great, bloody end), but makes this episode feel a little one note.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 3 “Auto Erotic Assimilation”

Rick and Unity’s relationship is surprisingly affecting, leading up Rick’s suicide attempt: a genuine emotional gut-punch. Plus, Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 3 takes the concept of an alien hive mind in fresh, fascinating and funny directions (“Go Son, Go!”). But the episode is dragged down by Beth and Jerry, whose subplot is their repetitive relationship nadir. And Blim Blam sucks.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 1 “A Rickle in Time”

The first episode of Rick and Morty Season 2 was the one co-creator Justin Roiland said “I fucking hate” in advance of the Rick and Morty Season 2 premiere. Roiland and Harmon worried that the dense and complicated plot squeezed out all the comedy. Luckily for us, this isn’t really the case. “A Rickle in Time” is complicated, playing with dozens of alternate dimensions at once, but remains quick-paced and hilarious. Two Ricks trying to kill each other was a great way to start Rick and Morty Season 2.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 10 “The Wedding Squanchers”

“The Wedding Squanchers” is consequential and feels it, substantially altering the Rick and Morty universe before the long wait for Rick and Morty Season 3. There’s still fun stuff too, like the planet of cobs. But I prefer my Rick and Morty continuity and sentiment on the go. So while Rick’s moping and internal struggle is well-done and well-earned, it makes “The Wedding Squanchers’” position more the most important episode of Rick and Morty Season 2 than the best.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 9 “Look Who’s Purging Now”

A Rick and Morty horror episode of sorts, “Look Who’s Purging Now” is as slapstick violent as early Peter Jackson and vastly out-Purges The Purge. Plus, it’s the best indication yet that Morty’s time with Rick has some devastating implications for Morty’s psychological well-being.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 6 “The Ricks Must Be Crazy”

Beating Inception at its own game for a second time (Rick and Morty Season 1 episode “Lawnmower Dog”), Rick and Morty Season 2 episode “The Ricks Must Be Crazy” pits Rick against Stephen Colbert in a daffily complicated battle of wits. Plus, Summer’s time alone in the ship may just be Rick and Morty at its most just-for-the-hell-of-it twisted.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 8 “Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate”

A huge improvement over the “Rick and Morty” Season 1 episode “Rixty Minutes,” this episode of Rick and Morty Season 2 is loaded with disgusting sci-fi gags like the plumbus and eyeholes. Plus, what could possibly be better than Werner Herzog voicing an alien expert on human penises?

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 2 “Mortynight Run”

Dissecting Rick’s worldview and providing a blockbuster sci-fi thriller ride is just the beginning for Rick and Morty Season 2 episode “Mortynight Run.” You also get Fart’s quasi-Bowie psychedelia and the best Jerry story ever told. All that and Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 2 “Mortynight Run” manages to condense “The Inner Light” into one of the season’s best jokes.

Rick and Morty Season 2 Episode 4 “Total Rickall”

The best episode of Rick and Morty Season 2 doesn’t even leave the Smith household. Narratively adventurous, like a fantastic high-concept short story, “Total Rickall” is one of the most creative concepts ever on television. Like a “Too Many Cooks” with narrative cohesion and real stakes, “Total Rickall” creates dozens of memorable characters, only to kill them in front of your eyes. Dark but buoyant, meaningful but whacky, “Total Rickall” is the best episode of Rick and Morty Season 2.