🍿 The Ricks Review 'Star Wars Episode IV: The Rise of Skywalker'

We need to talk about that final battle with Palpatine, his regenerative powers, his ever-changing strategy, that whole Force Dyad deal between Rey and Kylo Ren, what Finn wanted to tell Rey, where the Babu Frik is the Baby Yoda merch, and a whole lot more. It's our super-sized, spoilerrific review of the final chapter of "The Skywalker Saga." Rick and Rick Rule the World is brought to you by Taskin, the first name in stylish, premium travel gear. Taskinsf.com.

IN THIS EPISODE:

⚔️ Gen X-wing fighters: A nostalgic, 42-year history of The Force (at 1 min., 38 sec.)

🚀 From dystopia to the Death Star and heroic derring-do (at 4:02)

👽 Episode IV: An unsure thing—and an unmade, low-budget sequel (at 5:09)

👾 Where's the Baby Yoda and Babu Frik merch? (at 7:04)

💵 Box Office Bonanza? Or total bummer? (at 7:21)

🎥 The Fandom Menace: Was making "Skywalker" a mission impossible? (at 8:16)

💥 The plot quickens—is it the ultimate Chiasmus gift? (at 10:17)

🎬 Bond, Psychic Bond (at 13:39)

✌🏻 Rey of light—how she beat Palpatine (at 14:32)

♛  Master chess? Or random changes? (at 17:22)

🔌 What's with all these new Force powers? (at 19:36)

🎁  The ultimate Chiasmus gifts (at 21:30)

🍹  Sexuality and "Force sensitivity"  (at 22:50)

🙏🏻  Piece de resistance: Keeping the faith  (at 25:31)

💣  The empire's single point of failure (at 26:50)

👍🏻👎🏻 Final grades (27:50)

🎄 Party of 5? Or 4? (at 31:00)

📺  "Skywalker's" stars, as seen on TV (at 31:42)

🤖  How well do you know your droids? (at 32:30)

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🎬 Rick and Quick 'The Boys' Season 2 and 'Wonder Woman 1984'

The Ricks talk "The Boys" Season Two and break down the trailer for "Wonder Woman 1984." From December 8.

The Boys Season Two Trailer

Wonder Woman 1984 Trailer

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🥽 Rick & Quick: Oculus Quest Review

Oculus Quest—what's good, what's bad, and how it compares to the Go and Rift S.

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🎄 Aviation Gin Newsjacks Peloton, Coke Zero Lightsabers, The 5 Fastest-Growing Brands of 2019 & More

🎄 "The Free Guy." Coke Zero bottles wage an OLED-based lightsaber battle. Netflix makes it safe for other nice brands to make the naughty list on Twitter. ''The Crisis on Infinite Earths" has begun. The Peloton Wife gets a new beginning—thanks to Aviation Gin. The 5 fastest-growing brands of 2019, and more. From December 8. 

 

IN THIS EPISODE:

🎁 One Rick is ready for Christmas—the other, not so much (at :40 sec)

 

Welcoming our new sponsor, Taskin—the first name in stylish, premium-quality travel gear—taskinsf.com (at 1 minute 32 sec)

 

💊 Blue Pill, Red Pill: DC or Marvel? McDonald's or Taco Bell? Rick W. has a surprising answer (at 2:55)

 

🎬 Ryan Reynold's "The Free Guy" trailer drops, and the Ricks are here for it (at 3:56)

 

💥 "The Crisis on Infinite Earths"—the mother of all TV crossovers has officially begun (at 5:57)

 

📣 Netflix tweets, "What's something you can say during sex, but also when you manage a brand Twitter account"—you won't believe how other brands respond (at 8:43)

 

🍸 The Peloton Wife gets a new beginning—courtesy of Aviation Gin (at 10:25)

 

⚔️ Coke Zero bottles use OLED diodes to wage a lightsaber battle between Rey and Kylo Ren (at 12:18)

 

📈 Door Dash, Impossible Foods, White Claw, Postmates and ?—the 5 fastest growing brands of 2019 (at 13:37)

 

🧒🏼 👴🏼 Which brands win most with Millennials and Boomers? (at 14:24)

 

🎅🏼 Which CPG brand helped create Santa as we know him today? (at 15:19)

 

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🎄 'The Free Guy ' Coke Zero's Lightsaber Battle The 5 Fastest-Growing Brands of 2019 and More

Approx. 17 minutes, 32 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.