# That's Amorte
"That's Amorte" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series *Rick and Morty*, and the 65th episode of the series overall. It premiered on [Adult Swim](https://www.edgepedia.org/adult-swim) on November 5, 2023, was written by Heather Anne Campbell and directed by Lucas Gray, and is rated TV-14-DLV.[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) In the episode, the Smith family's weekly spaghetti dinner is revealed to come from a humanoid alien species whose insides turn into spaghetti when they die by suicide, and Morty's attempt to reform the industry ends in the collapse of a society.[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) • [2](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Season / episode | Season 7, Episode 4; 65th episode of the series[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) |
| Premiere | November 5, 2023, on Adult Swim[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) |
| Writer / director | Heather Anne Campbell / Lucas Gray[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) |
| Run time | 21 minutes (Apple TV listing)[3](https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/thats-amorte/umc.cmc.5h0sveiwkcka0t9w8uusuc845?showId=umc.cmc.12dp30hnvyq5fbm9716puu8zc) |
| Ratings | 0.44; rated TV-14-DLV[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) |
| Signature sequence | A montage of a dead man's life set to a cover of Oasis' "Live Forever"[2](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode) |
| Reception | Ranked #3 of Season 7 by ComicBook.com and #1 in TVLine's ranking of the show's darkest episodes[4](https://comicbook.com/anime/news/rick-and-morty-season-7-episodes-ranked-best-worst/) • [5](https://www.tvline.com/2221345/rick-and-morty-darkest-episodes-ranked/) |
## Premise and plot
Rick has been treating the family to a weekly spaghetti night, and the meal brings the family closer together than ever; his bolognese is so good that it even makes Jerry forget his troubles for a few minutes each week.[6](https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2023/11/review-rick-and-morty-thats-amorte/) When Morty follows Rick to the garage to ask about the recipe, he discovers that the spaghetti is harvested from the bodies of human-like aliens on another world, whose insides become the pasta when they die by suicide.[2](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode) • [6](https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2023/11/review-rick-and-morty-thats-amorte/)
**Morty's reform effort.** Morty becomes an impassioned critic of the practice, with the tepid support of his resigned, spaghetti-loving family, and travels with Rick to the source planet to find a more ethical way to produce the spaghetti.[7](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rick-and-morty-writers-on-thats-amorte-callback-and-season-7-lore/) • [6](https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2023/11/review-rick-and-morty-thats-amorte/) [Spaghetti](https://www.edgepedia.org/spaghetti) production briefly returns to the planet under new methods, but the changes are immediately opposed by two activist groups: alien consumers who claim the new spaghetti tastes terrible and demand the original recipe, and a group of planet inhabitants who claim the production methods are still unethical and endorse "torso rights".[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) Morty's entanglement in the spaghetti planet's global economy ends up destroying an entire civilization.[6](https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2023/11/review-rick-and-morty-thats-amorte/)
**The ending.** [Rick and Morty](https://www.edgepedia.org/rick-and-morty) turn the ravenous spaghetti-eaters away from the enterprise by forcing them to watch a montage of moments from the life of the person whose body they are about to consume, set to a cover of Oasis' "Live Forever".[7](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rick-and-morty-writers-on-thats-amorte-callback-and-season-7-lore/) • [2](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode) The sequence shows a man's life in scenes the review press describes as painful and familiar.[7](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rick-and-morty-writers-on-thats-amorte-callback-and-season-7-lore/) The episode then adds a Rick twist: it is the "complexity of life" that offends the family's sensibilities, not the death, and the family returns to willful ignorance, eating a [Salisbury steak](https://www.edgepedia.org/salisbury-steak) whose origin they insist they do not want to know.[7](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rick-and-morty-writers-on-thats-amorte-callback-and-season-7-lore/) A post-credits tag shows one of Jerry's decoys forced to live forever as a decapitated wooden head.[5](https://www.tvline.com/2221345/rick-and-morty-darkest-episodes-ranked/)
## Production
Heather Anne Campbell, an executive producer on the series, wrote the episode; showrunner Scott Marder and co-creator [Dan Harmon](https://www.edgepedia.org/dan-harmon) told SYFY Wire that episodes of this kind typically orbit around Campbell, whose understanding of Rick they compared to Harmon's own.[2](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode) Harmon described the episode as an example of letting "the Heather instinct" run unmitigated.[2](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode)
Campbell told Variety that she saw the premise as a way to examine the guilt people feel about eating meat: "There's so many different ways in which we are barricaded from the truth of everything that we enjoy, and I think that the puzzle of being alive is how to reconcile that."[5](https://www.tvline.com/2221345/rick-and-morty-darkest-episodes-ranked/)
The episode contains a lore callback: when Summer asks for someone to pass the parmesan, she pronounces it "par-mee-see-an", a reference to the Parmesan Dimension from the Season 6 premiere, in which the family relocated to a parallel dimension where people say "parmeeseean". Marder called the line "such easy, low-hanging fruit" and part of the writers' intention to sprinkle continuity references when they can.[7](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rick-and-morty-writers-on-thats-amorte-callback-and-season-7-lore/)
## Reception
The episode drew a 0.44 rating on its premiere night.[1](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte) ComicBook.com ranked it #3 of Season 7, calling it one of the season's most balanced episodes and noting that it takes "a frank look at capitalism and the humanity that's ruined as a result of chasing it".[4](https://comicbook.com/anime/news/rick-and-morty-season-7-episodes-ranked-best-worst/) TVLine placed it first in a ranking of the show's darkest episodes, describing its moral quandary as introduced straight away and escalated without feeling gratuitous.[5](https://www.tvline.com/2221345/rick-and-morty-darkest-episodes-ranked/) Bubbleblabber scored it 9.5/10, calling it the best episode of the season to that point and reading it as a parable in which the spaghetti stands in for any morally questionable thing a person loves.[6](https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2023/11/review-rick-and-morty-thats-amorte/) The episode carried an on-screen content warning about its suicide-heavy content.[6](https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2023/11/review-rick-and-morty-thats-amorte/)
## References
1. [That's Amorte, Rick and Morty Wiki (Fandom)](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/That%27s_Amorte)
2. [Will Rick and Morty Have Another Episode As Messed Up As The Spaghetti One? (Exclusive), SYFY Wire](https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode)
3. [That's Amorte, Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/thats-amorte/umc.cmc.5h0sveiwkcka0t9w8uusuc845?showId=umc.cmc.12dp30hnvyq5fbm9716puu8zc)
4. [Rick and Morty Season 7 Episodes Ranked Worst to Best, ComicBook.com](https://comicbook.com/anime/news/rick-and-morty-season-7-episodes-ranked-best-worst/)
5. [5 Darkest Rick And Morty Episodes, Ranked, TVLine](https://www.tvline.com/2221345/rick-and-morty-darkest-episodes-ranked/)
6. [Review: Rick and Morty 'That's Amorte', Bubbleblabber](https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2023/11/review-rick-and-morty-thats-amorte/)
7. ['Rick and Morty' Writers on 'That's Amorte' Callback and Season 7 Lore, The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rick-and-morty-writers-on-thats-amorte-callback-and-season-7-lore/)
---
*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Seasons, episodes, and installments › Episodes and serial chapters › Individual episode articles › General episode articles › Comedy and comedy-drama episodes*
*Initially written Sep 17, 2026 · Reviewed: Sep 19, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Sep 19, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*
*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*
License: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license