Fridge Logic / Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty/Fridge Logic

Fridge Logic

• "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez" features a machine that creates physical representations of the way Beth and Jerry see each other, which is activated a great many times in that episode. That is, there exists a machine capable of mass-creating actual living beings, many of which are extremely powerful, based on nothing more than an idea in someone's mind. It's not even necessary for the person to know how to make the organism's characteristics (like Goddess Beth's telekinesis, for instance) biologically possible; the machine just figures it out. The episode does not do this technology justice by any means.
  • Yes, you read that right. The machine created a literal goddess, or at least a close approximation of one.
  • The machine was also proved able to create a functional superhuman army.
• In the same episode's ending, Beth and Jerry decide to stick together until Morty finishes high school. Considering the rules of the series... they basically decided to stick together forever.
• In "The Rickshank Redemption", it's made really clear that the federation considers Rick the cleverest mammal in the universe, and they aren't surprised that he finds a way to manipulate thoughts in a unique way (creating butts, specifically), so why would they use a obsolete model to deal with him?
  • Either they think that Rick wouldn't care or even know how to get passed an obsolete model (hoping on the off chance that he hasn't studied it yet since it's so old), or they really aren't the brightest tools in the shed...
  • This is also a commentary on bureaucracy: Technology exists that would have prevented this exact scenario, they were just too cheap/apathetic to use it.
• The immortality field. Apparently, it exists, but it's only used for that autogrill planet. Why only there? At the very least, Rick (and, by extension, the Council of Ricks) should be able to have that technology, and it could have been very useful to them.
  • Just because someone invented a new technology doesn't mean that they're willing to share it. Not only that, but perhaps the resources needed to build it/keep it running are ridiculously high, hence why we only see it in a club for wealthy people. As for why the Ricks didn't have one, knowing their personalities, they probably conclude that if a Rick is not smart enough to keep himself alive, then they shouldn't get to live.
  • In addition to what has already been stated the immortality field has two major drawbacks for Rick. The first and most obvious being that Rick lives to risk everything on a regular basis and come out on top not spend life as a coddled mass of directionless molecules like Jerry. The second more insidious risk is that technology like the immortality field can be turned against its user, its made abundantly clear that everyone does feel pain but because it ends moments later they don't mind it much, anyone who got the jump on a Rick could devise all manner of constant agonizing torture abusing the immortality field to keep that Rick alive until they simply broke.
  • Imagine if the Citadel were under attack and the attackers could not be killed. Ain't nobody wants that. The field works great as a resort gimmick but has few practical applications.
• In "Rest and Ricklaxation", after Rick and Morty have purged what they thought their toxic parts of their personalities were, Rick states that he is proud to be Morty's gandpa. One of the toxic parts that Rick got rid of was his "illogical" love for Morty. So he said that objectively, without any emotional attachment to Morty making him say it.
  • Non-Toxic Rick also lost Rick's cynicism and misanthrophobia, leaving him with an appreciation and love for all forms of life. He no doubt still does love Morty, just as he loves everything. But unlike regular Rick he doesn't love him so much he isn't willing to sacrifice him to save everything else.
  • He also doesn't say that he loves Morty, he says he's proud to be his grandfather. Morty's not great with book-smarts but he's got excellent people skills, and with Healthy!Morty's lack of insecurity and self-loathing, that part of him absolutely shines. Healthy!Rick doesn't have his arrogance or narcissism, so he's able to value that aspect of Morty's personality without devaluing him for not being the same kind of genius Rick is. That's the difference: Healthy!Rick appreciates Morty for the qualities he has but feels nothing for him personally, Toxic!Rick thinks Morty's a piece of shit but loves him to (his own literal, actual) death.
• Wouldn't Tommy be too young to produce sperm when he first started to mate with the indigenous creatures?
  • Maybe Beth kept going to Froopyland during her early-to-mid adolescence. Maybe Tommy was a few years older than Beth, such that he was physically capable of mating when he got trapped in Froopyland. It's even possible that Tommy had an underlying condition that caused a precocious puberty.
  • Also, to echo Beth, "Who gets stuck in Honey?"
    • It's a honey swamp, although the honey itself was probably as breathable and harmless as the rainbow-water, it wouldn't be honey if it wasn't sticky as hell. He probably wasn't strictly stuck, but depending on how far down he fell and how deep the honey was, it probably took him long enough to squirm out that Beth had long since gotten bored and wandered off (if she didn't just shove him in there and abandon him in Froopyland altogether).
• In Vindicators 3, Rick's little Saw stunt ends with drunk!Rick being emotional and crying over Noob Noob after all the snipping back and forth between him and Morty over Morty's admiration of the Vindicators. But everything except the drunken rant on the video indicates that it really was intended for Morty, at least when Rick started building it. The rocket ride is too big for Noob Noob but fits Morty perfectly, the platform responded to Morty standing on it when anything except what Rick wanted would have caused the planet to explode, and Rick mentions hoping Noob Noob becomes a real Vindicator someday, even though if Noob Noob had been there to get the message, he would already have been one. You can also see the cardboard materials for the rainbow hands he made in the background, indicating that recording the videos was the last part of the prep. He really did intend it for Morty, his train of thought just derailed.
• In The ABCs Of Beth, Tommy had to resort to impregnating the wildlife of Froopyland and cannibalizing the offspring to stay alive. However, Rick created Froopyland for Beth as her own personal play area, and went to insane levels to childproof it, from bouncy ground to oxygenated water. And yet, despite that, he apparently didn't put any sources of food in Froopyland, which is why Tommy nearly starved to death. One would wonder why that would be the case, unless Rick did it to keep out any potential choking hazards.
  • Froopyland is a high-tech playpen, not a jail. Rick gave it to Beth as just another toy to play with, assuming she would come out of Froopyland to eat, sleep, go to school, play with other toys (she mentioned thinking a Nintendo was cooler), etc. There was never any need to provide food inside Froopyland because the assumption was if Beth got hungry she'd come out and ask for food.
  • It was principally designed for Beth, who Rick actually cares about. If Beth had disappeared for an extended time into Froopyland, Rick would feel enough motivation to go back and get her. Now some random neighborhood kid that Rick seemed barely aware of? Rick wouldn't think to go check to see if anyone other than Beth was stuck in Froopyland.
• Many people see what Morty does to Ethan in "The Whirley-Durley Conspiracy" as the start of Morty transforming into an evil Morty. However, those who have siblings who have had their heart broken would see it as an action performed by a loving brother to even the score for their sister's pain (Ethan shamed Summer's body, making her image conscious as a result and leading her to try to alter herself and leading her to become a giant inside out monster. Morty made sure Ethan understood what he did by turning him into a deformed monster himself). Also, it shows that it runs in the family (as Rick did the same thing by killing King Jelly Bean after he attempted to rape Morty).
• The plot of Morty's Mind Blowers starts when Morty learns literally everything by looking at the Truth Turtle. Why, then, was he surprised to learn the existence of Rick's memory-erasing machine, or the content of his expunged memories? He should already know.
  • The average human mind can't really contain knowledge of everything, much less store it in a cohesive manner. He was likely being bombarded by a near infinite amount of random information popping into his thoughts, hence his stress and discomfort even some time later. Also, the entirety of everything that Morty has been through would be a drop in the bucket when compared to infinite knowledge. Especially if he didn't know what to think about. Ultimately, Morty probably would have needed to have his memories reset regardless, just to avoid going insane in the long run.
• In The Vat Of Acid Episode Morty's "Reset Button" was on top of his open bag and next to Jerry for some reason. You'd think Morty would put it somewhere close to himself or have his bag closed which could have prevented Jerry or anyone else for that matter from pressing the button.
  • Morty's got a fair amount of his father in him. Overlooking small issues that would prevent much bigger problems for himself is in his wheelhouse. Particularly when he's enjoying himself and relaxed.
• One that spans the whole series: Rick bases his cynicism and misanthropy on the fact that in an infinite multiverse, everything happens every possible way and everyone exists in infinite copies, and therefore nothing and no one really matters. Except... we have also seen time and again that Rick C-137 is orders of magnitude smarter and more capable than even other Ricks (each of which is, in turn, the smartest and most capable person in their own universe). As in, he can go through other Ricks like tissue paper with them being every bit as helpless to stop him as regular people are to stop them. He's also apparently the only Rick to have declined to join the Citadel, making him "the Rickest Rick," with every other Rick being a pale imitation of him. Thus, Rick C-137 proves by his very existence that his and every other Rick's philosophy is wrong - it is possible for a person to be unique and exceptional even in an infinite universe and therefore for their death to be an objective loss. (which in turn makes no sense, but still, that is the reality that the show presents to us by treating every Rick that isn't Rick C-137 as an easily dispatched mook).
• "Bethic Twinstinct"'s ending makes it abundantly clear that if Beth, Jerry or anyone else has sex from their bedroom, anyone from the Dining Room can clearly hear it. So this shouldn't even be the first time Morty or Summer hear their parents have sex.
  • Hell, this isn't the first time this happens in the Series. Remember when Morty has Sex with Gwendolyn?
• In "Final Desmithation", we learn that fortune cookies are actually reality-binding tools created by a Lockerean creature. Knowing this, shouldn't it be possible for Rick or anyone else capable enough for the job for that matter to just create or grab another one and bend reality to his will?
• In "A Rick in King Mortur's Court", the previously-established Plutonians are completely absent from the episode. Why? Because they're no longer a planet.
• In "Get Shwifty" Birdperson feeds Morty a bowl of random debris from his carpet, explaining that he doesn't know what humans eat... despite the fact that he's dating Tammy, a human. The very next line even establishes that they've been dating for long enough to be sleeping together. Apparently, they never went out for a meal together, or even talked about food during all that time.