The rural city of Bendigo in central Victoria was featured in the 11-minute Australian-themed parody short, which aired on a loop on the US cable channel Adult Swim on 1 April. (NPC's have feelings too.The mayor of an Australian city featured in a parody of the popular cartoon Rick and Morty has welcomed the sudden spike in internet traffic about her community, saying “I guess any publicity is good publicity”. These moments make Rick and Morty something of a moral satire. In the series’ first episode, Morty guns down an alternate dimensional “robot”-“They’re just bureaucrats, Morty!”-then watches, horrified, as the creature screams out, his friend asking to call the creature's wife and kids. Rick and Morty laser-gun focuses on the latter, often taking on the moral consequence of sci-fi tropes and finding in them some dark, unredemptive humor. The Prestige is more interested in the concept of the double (the film also involves twin characters), deception, and the trickery of filmmaking, rather than the consequences of this final reveal. It’s only revealed in the end of the film how Angier was able to accomplish the trick: he had cloned himself before each performance, meaning he (not his double) dies during each performance, the double then continuing the show and dying during the next performance, passing off the act off to his double, and so on and so on. In the film, the unsolvable act, the water tank trick, involves Hugh Jackman’s Robert Angier, who is submerged and then locked in a glass tank on stage before somehow escaping and appearing behind the theater’s audience. (It’s the kind of genre elixir Rick and Morty often stirs furiously every episode.) The Prestige, based on the 1995 Christopher Priest novel, is maybe one of the most unique genre films of the last twenty years-mixing magic and historical drama with science fiction. Rick and Morty’s recent season 4 “The Vat of Acid Episode” episode once again marries sci-fi fandoms-this time spoofing Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film The Prestige.
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