This is completely right. What an interesting setup season 2's finale created and what a slap in the face that season 3 just chose to reverse everything, even if we got the hilarious currency scene. I mean, you had two opposition forces and in the first episode, chose to destroy the Citadel of Ricks AND the Federation? I still held hope for the show with the Citadel of Ricks presidential election episode since that one was fantastic (probably because the main OP Rick wasn't there), but then they went an entire season without bringing it up again so that's when I lost interest. I may come back once the Evil Morty vs Rick episode comes in but I expect to be disappointed by that.
Although the time travel episode in Season 4 was funny at least.
If you count the outsourced shorts that Adult Swim greenlights, they have. They did a Japanese Rick and Morty short a while back which showed that Evil Morty has started wearing his eyepatch again and still in charge of the Citadel/Council of Ricks though still playing things straight (at least on the surface) in terms of running things fairly. Though given that the short explicitly endorses the "Morty grows up to become Rick and puts himself through hell to ensure that he becomes like Rick" fan theory, it may not be fully canon.
Also, there is speculation that Tammy's line about the Federation being under new management (in particular "kids") and the bit where she taunts Rick about "not being important"enough to kill, has led people to speculate that Evil Morty conquered what was left of the Federation.
The parents plot was disgusting cringe that was meant to appeal to queers
It was more to show the current state of Beth and Jerry's marriage; IE it's strong enough for them to start getting kinky (watching porn) and in the case of Nimbus, Beth and Jerry going into a threesome and neither being resentful of it and for Beth to be comfortable enough to let Jerry fuck a Namor rip-off while she watches.
Well that episode didn’t go the way I was expecting it to go.
I think it was a combination of the writers being smart enough to not have Rick screw Morty over/ruin someone's life out of a Lifetime Villain type need to take away anything good in Morty's life, given how repetitive that plot has become, combined with wanting to keep Girl Captain Planet around for future episodes and merch (as she was already being put into the Pocket Morty game).
Also, it seems to indicate some serious contrarianism in woke politics. The environmentalists were corrupt and basically pulling a Pretty Baby, selling Girl Captain Planet's virginity to the highest bidder. Not to mention the explicit plot point that the murder of the coal miners as the breaking point for Morty telling her to fuck off, along with the miners being portrayed in a positive light AND the voting line.
Makes you wonder if this episode somehow got approved/made while Harmon and Roiland (but Harmon in question) was looking the other way, given how conservative it's politics were.
(Also, going to add that the doomed orgy planets had some super serious ugly aliens; especially the last one with the caterpillar people. While Rick's tastes do run into the grotesque, I would have assumed Summer would have at least vetted the planets to see if the people were human, let alone attractive and the punchline would be her having the worst time ever due to her not wanting to fuck caterpillars and other freakish aliens)
