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July 2022

🍕 Ghosted Grub—The Food Is Real, The Restaurant Is Not

🥘 It's a trend that keeps giving us plenty to chew on. But are "ghost restaurants," sometimes called "cloud kitchens," really a tasty idea? Or is it half-baked branding at its worst? The Ricks give you the dish.

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Approx. 5 minutes, 41 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.v


🤖 Westworld Returns, Ordering Dominos Pizza By Telekinesis, Velveeta Nail Polish & More

Marketing for Westworld 4, Stranger Things 4, and The Boys 3 goes experiential. A new Stranger Things app enables you to order Dominos Pizza using your mind. Coors wants you to chill out with ads that nobody can see, but everybody can feel. Plus: nail polish that smells like everybody's favorite cheese product, Loaded Questions, and a whole lot more! From June 13.

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IN THIS EPISODE

🎓 One kid through college, another getting close—Rick W is officially an adult (at 1 min, 6 seconds)
👿 From Vecna with Love: The Ricks talk "Stranger Things" Season 4 Vol. 1 (at 2:10)
📺 "Stranger" danger: Is Stranger Things Season 3 or 4 better? Are even or odd seasons best? (at 2:38)
🎤 A "Neverending" challenge: Rick M preps Rick W to get ready to sing "Up That Hill" (at 3:25)
💥 "The Boys" are back with plenty of gross-outs—including a penis mishap for the ages (at 4:47)
✈️ "Top Gun: Maverick" obliterates "The Batman"—just ask Rick M's 80-year-old mother (at 5:42)
🤠 "Westworld Season 4" arrives—as robots appear in NYC to promote the show (at 6:55)
🦖 "Jurassic World: Dominion": Will the Ricks review it? Will the even go and see it? (at 8:57)
🙃 "Stranger Things" 3D projection mapping sends the Empire State Building updisde down (at 9:45)
🍺 Coors Chilly Roofs: Activation goes green by reducing temps & hiding the advertising (at 11:40)
🧀 Nail polish that smells like Velveeta—can Nacho Cheese Doritos nail polish be far behind? (at 13:09)
🍕 Ordering Dominos Pizza with your mind—thanks to a "Stranger Things" telekinesis app (at 15:33)
🥤 Is this the summer of hard sodas? Jack and Coke in a Can sure hope so (at 17:22)
🥘 Applebee's "Fancy Like" campaign wins the Grand Effie 2022 (at 19:05)

Approx. 21 minutes, 31 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🍿 The Ricks Review 'The Batman'

Matt Reeves' "The Batman" is streaming on HBOMax, the Ricks release their super-sized, mid-March review of the Caped Crusader's latest reboot. What works, what doesn't, a look at plentiful comics and movie Easter eggs, and more. From May 1.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

📆 Meanwhile, two years later: Rick M. returns to the cineplex (at 1-min, 15-sec)

📍 Rick W. gets his bearings in Matt Reeves' Batworld (at 1:50)

🐼🐻🦁🐨 A Batman actor menagerie reimagined as a police lineup (at 2:20)

🎬 Holy battle of the box office: Which "Batman" scored best? (at 3:13)

💥 Not your father's Caped Crusader—a masked hero for Millennials? (at 3:42)

🎉 What do Batman, Daredevil, and Spider-Man have common? (at 4:30)

🎃 A (very) "Long Halloween"—Bat meets cat & other stuff (at 5:00)

🎭 Robert Pattinson: Batman down … but what about Bruce Wayne? (at 6:10)

🥷🏻 Alfred, we barely saw ye—the Bat's most underutilized asset (at 9:26)

🐱 The Bat's Meow: Kicks & attitude make Zoe Kravitz's Cat a hit (at 11:26)

👺 Adam West Revisited: A closer look at Batman's cape and cowl (at 11:54)

🎩 Quack-Quack-Crooked: Colin Farrell's scene-stealing Penguin (at 13:27)

🚔 The Wright Stuff: Jeffrey Wright's Jim Gordon is one for the ages (at 14:46)

❓ Riddle me WTF: Paul Dano and the dastardly villain (at 15:32)

🤡 The Joker Gang and … a Boy Wonder-in-the-making? (at 16:39)

🎥 The filmmakers behind the action and the secrets of Gotham, Inc. (at 17:09)

🎵 Big score: From Fringe to Star Trek to Spider-Man, Batman & beyond (at 18:36)

🏁 Fire up the Batmobile—and a look at Tumblers past (at 19:44)

🦇 Quick, to the Bat Cave: An OG Easter egg that's a total bust (at 20:34)

😎 Character arc: From emo downer to hopeful hero (at 21:03)

☕️ Dano's last call on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (at 22:29)

🤠 Batman, gunslinger? What's the deal with the spurs, Bruce? (at 23:33)

Juicing it: Is that's Bane's venom—or just Guano-ade? (at 24:24)

💬 Final grades—and the Ricks' votes for the Definitive Dark Knight (at 24:58)

Approx. 27 minutes, 33 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.