History Recap / RickAndMortyS2E6TheRicksMustBeCrazy

* RageBreakingPoint: Happens twice to Morty inside the Teenyverse, after they get stranded. First, he decides to take his chances with the Tree People because he got sick and tired Rick and Zeep arguing over who's smarter than whom. Second, months after leaving Rick, Morty, who's now leading the Tree People, finds Rick and Zeep still fighting over who the real genius is, and when he says he wants to leave the Teenyverse because he misses his family and [[TheInternetIsForPorn computer]] he tells Rick and Zeep to work together and figure a way out. As Rick and Zeep begin explaining why they refuse to work with some they consider an intellectual inferior, Morty sics the Tree People on them, and forces them to work together under the threat of violence.

** Possibly unintentional, but the AI in Rick's car sounds more than a little bit like [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]]. In particular, her "that's how you talk" line mentioned below is extremely similar to a certain line from the first game. ("That's you. That's how dumb you sound.")

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Morty admits that during his time spent with the Teenyverse denizens, he "masturbated to an extra-curvy piece of driftwood".

* OffModel: Zeep briefly regains his five-o'clock shadow upon returning to the Miniverse.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Morty lampshades the fact that Rick is now using the same "slavery" argument with Zeep, Rick has a realization...that Zeep's Miniverse will eventually invent their ''own'' microscopic universe for power and forcing Rick's Microverse to go back to their old power generating methods, rather than the moral implications of his actions. Moreover, he intentionally tries to speed along this development so Zeep's civilization will start powering his car battery faster.

-->'''Morty:''' Look, I-- I don't care what it takes! You two are putting aside your bullshit and you're working together to get us back home!
-->'''Rick:''' No can do Morty, I just... can't.
-->'''Zeep:''' I just don't see how I can--
-->'''Morty:''' ''[[StarfishLanguage Roo roo danuga!]]''
-->''[The Tree People surround Rick and Zeep, and point their spears at them in a threatening manner]''
-->'''Morty:''' You're smart, [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse you'll figure it out.]]

-->'''Rick''': You've gotta flip them off, Morty, I told them it means "peace among worlds"!

-->'''AI''': My function is to keep Summer safe, not keep Summer being, like, totally stoked about, like, the general vibe and stuff. That's you. That's how you talk.

** Zeep taught the Miniversers that the British V-sign (the UK equivalent) meant "peace among worlds".

* SlaveRace: The residents of the Microverse are this to rick since they unknowingly power his car via the Gooble Boxes he made them. The Miniverse residents are this to Zeep, who created his Miniverse battery to power his world and not rely on Gooble boxes anymore. Inside the Miniverse, a scientist named Kyle created a Teenyverse battery to power his world and not rely on the Flooble Cranks Zeep gave them. When Zeep starts to expalin that he'll enslave an entire planet, he realizes the true meaning of his existence, and attacks Rick. Upon hearing them argue, [[DespairEventHorizon Kyle realizes how and why he came to exist]], climbs into his ship, [[DrivenToSuicide and crashes it]], starnding the former three. At the end, when Rick and Morty leave the Microverse, the car starts up again, and Rick explains that he told Zeep: "[[DeadlyEuphemism I was gonna' have to toss a broken battery]], or [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the battery wouldn't be broken]]."

* DeusExMachina:
** Subverted and PlayedForLaughs with Rick and Morty when chasing Zeep. Rick suddenly demands that Morty turn himself into a car, explaining that, long ago, he implanted him with the means to turn into a car at will when he concentrates. Morty is naturally freaked out at being put on the spot like this, but as he starts to try to concentrate on doing so, Rick then tells him to forget it, as he just grabbed them a taxi instead.
** Also, the police who are planning to shoot at Rick's car (with Summer locked inside of it) suddenly standing down due to the car apparently being instrumental in brokering peace between humans and spider-aliens.

* AbsenteeActor: Beth and Jerry don't appear at all in this episode.

* AdultFear: Played for extreme laughs. Due to Summer's [[ExactWords restrictions on harming people]], Rick's car instead gets... creative... and uses psychological intimidation instead. It's enough to make an entire SWAT team drop their weapons and flee.

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], or possibly subverted with Zeep's Miniverse as well. He also made the same joke as Rick with his Microverse, but since Zeep's frame of reference for insults was flipped by Rick, he ends up teaching the Miniversers the actual friendly greetings. Assuming, of course, Rick's universe actually is the top and Rick's world's greetings weren't also reversed by their creator, only for that universe to also be a microverse with flipped greetings...

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rick was banking on Zeep to realize his hypocrisy when he eventually learns that his Miniverse is developing its own Teenyverse in order to create its own alternate power source, just like Zeep was doing with his Miniverse. What Rick didn't anticipate was that Zeep would instead come to the horrible realization that his universe is actually Rick's Microverse and start resenting him.

* NotSoDifferent: Rick and Zeep, down to repeating quite a bit of the same dialogue. Morty is the first to pick up on this, but Rick gets the realization later as well.