The most Jerry-focused episode in Rick and Morty history proves that the only thing Jerry has to fear is Jerry himself.
Spoilers ahead for anyone who missed tonight’s new installment of Rick and Morty Season Eight, “Nomortland,” in which the most mocked, disrespected and otherwise disregarded member of the main cast finally got to experience the chaos and wonder of the multiverse the Jerry way. After loyally serving as the biggest butt of the joke for seven straight seasons, our Jerry explored life on the road, dipping between dimensions and meeting other traveler Jerrys, including a slick, sly, black-leather-jacket-wearing Jerry who we desperately hope will join the ranks of the evil alternate dimension versions of our favorite Rick and Morty characters, now that Rick Prime and Evil Morty are both out of the Central Finite Curve.
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“Nomortland” expanded the Rick and Morty universe by establishing a network of dimension-hopping Jerrys who operate like their own ragtag, Kerouacian, hobo version of the Citadel of Ricks, but its most valuable contribution to the Rick and Morty canon may be the introduction of Boss Jerry, head honcho at the Jerry Grand Central and the first Jerry in Rick and Morty history to make Rick his strung-out punching bag.
In “Nomortland,” Grand Central acts as the hub for homeless Jerrys who have nowhere else to go after Rick destroyed their original worlds and families, as well as a border crossing for a class of free-wheeling drifter Jerrys who use the many portals left behind by many Ricks to wander in between worlds, skimming their own checking accounts in each dimension. At the head of the operation is The Boss, a greaser-styled Jerry who believes that it’s the duty of his kind is to find the “pressure point” on their respective Rick and bend him to their will.
Needless to say, this is the most uppity Jerry that we’ve ever seen on the show, and the very idea that a Jerry could become Rick’s master for more than the length of a doped-up plane ride could have cataclysmic implications for interdimensional Rickdom. For the entirety of Rick and Morty thus far, Jerry has been pushing down his occasionally murderous resentment of the father-in-law who hijacked his family and established himself as the patriarch, and The Boss is living (hopefully) proof that hell hath no fury like a Jerry scorned.
For years, Rick and Morty fans have been wondering if we’ll ever get an “Evil Jerry” in the style of the other Smith-Sanchez family members’ nemeses. The ongoing Rick and Morty comic book series has its own version of Evil Jerry, a ruthless capitalist from the Doofus Rick dimension who never married Beth and, upon discovering the multiverse, bested Rick C-137 in single combat and became the leader of the Council of Ricks. And, while Boss Jerry may not be cut from the same cloth as his corporate comic counterpart, his ability to manipulate Ricks using the power of drug addiction could make him an equally formidable foe.
At the end of the episode, Boss Jerry gets sucked into a collapsing portal while chasing our Jerry, now known as “Eagleman,” and his new Jerry friend Mooch. Afterwards, as Mooch ponders whether or not he just killed a man, Eagleman tells him the Golden Rule of Jerrydom: “You can’t think about it.”
However, given that the fate of The Boss was intentionally left ambiguous, he’s all we’ll be thinking about every time we get another Jerry episode.
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