Funny / Rick and Morty

Just another Tuesday for the Smith-Sanchezes.

"You guys are the fucking worst and your gods are a lie! Fuck you, fuck nature, and fuck trees!"

— Morty Smith, summing up existentialism and nihilism to a group of savages, "The Ricks Must Be Crazy"

Funny moments in Rick and Morty.

To say that this show is not funny in the slightest would be considered a misguided statement.

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Season 1

Pilot

• The entire cold opening where Rick tries to drunkenly nuke humanity and then halfheartedly tries to pass it off as a Secret Test of Character when Morty stops him. It perfectly encapsulates what you're in for with this show.
• Jerry is going off on Rick about how his involvement is affecting Morty in school. After giving his opinion on school, he compliments Beth's cooking and causes her to side with him. Jerry is dismayed.
  Rick: This was a good breakfast, Beth. You really made the crap out of those eggs. Wish your mother was here to eat them.
  Beth: (happy crying) Oh, dad!
  Jerry: What!? For real!?
  (Morty falls asleep in his breakfast again)
• Morty's fantasy about Jessica where she shows him her bare "little Mortys."
  Jessica: You know what I want you to do with them?
  Morty: Rename them?
  • Even just Morty's initial reaction to being told that she calls them "little Mortys" (and bearing in mind that the whole thing is Morty's own fantasy):
    Morty: Uh, that's flattering...? And a little weird...
    • When Morty starts fondling Dream Jessica:
      Jessica: Oh, Morty! What are you doing to me?
      Morty: I'm just doin' my best.
      (cut back to reality, where Morty is fondling Mr. Goldenfold's chest in his sleep)
      Mr. Goldenfold: Morty! What are you doing to me!?
      Morty: (muttering in his sleep) J-J-Jessica...
      Mr. Goldenfold: MORTY?!
      Morty: (remaining unresponsive) Gah, J-J-Jessica...
      Mr. Goldenfold: (checks his watch) Five more minutes of this and I'm gonna get mad... (bites his lower lip in ecstasy)
      Morty: J-Jes-Jessica...
      Mr. Goldenfold: (quickly looks around) Not my fault this is happening!
• Jerry and Beth confronts Rick:
  Jerry: Oh look honey, it's our son with Albert Ein-douche!
  Beth: What?
  Jerry: I'm an angry father, not an improviser.
• During the duo's attempt to escape from security:
  Rick: I need to type in the coordinates to our home world, Morty. Cover me! (throws him a gun)
  Morty: Oh man! I mean, y'know, I-I-I don't wanna shoot nobody!
  Rick: They're just robots, Morty! It's okay to shoot them, they're robots!
  (Morty shoots one of the alien soldiers in the leg)
  Alien Soldier: Aaaghhh! My leg got shot off!
  Other Alien Soldier: Glenn's bleeding to death! Someone call his wife and children!
  Morty: (horrified) They're not robots, Rick!
  Rick: It's a figure of speech, Morty! They're bureaucrats! I don't respect them. Just keep shooting, Morty! You have no idea what prison is like here!
• Rick gives an uneasy Morty an inspirational speech about courage... right before running away from a giant arachnid creature.
  Rick: Listen Morty. I know new situations can be intimidating. You're looking around and it's all scary and different, but y'know, leading them head on, charging right into them like a bull, that's how we grow as people. I'm no stranger to scary situations, I deal with them all the time. Now if you just stick with me, Morty, (creature appears from the left) you're gonna be... HOLY CRAP, MORTY, RUN!
  (the creature gives chase as Morty runs away and screams in fear)
  Rick: MORTY RUN, I-I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT THING BEFORE IN MY LIFE, MORTY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL IT IS! WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE, MORTY, IT'S GONNA KILL US! WE'RE GONNA DIE! WE'RE GONNA DIE, MORTY!
  • After healing Morty's gruesomely broken legs and describing his myriad sexual adventures as the only old man in an advanced future dimension, Rick tries giving another rousing speech to Morty... about secreting giant seeds inside your rectum and going through Customs as a mule.
    "You're young! Y-y-y-y-you've got your whole life ahead of you! And your anal cavity is still taut and malleable! Y' gotta do it for Grandpa!"
• Jerry's Establishing Character Moment after Principal Vagina reveals that Morty has been out of school for a concerning amount of time.
  "BOOM. Told you! In your face! He is ruining our child.....wait, why am I celebrating?"
• While running away from Galactic Customs, Morty accidentally catches a whiff of a strange alien drug that makes him hack up a green blob. Within the span of five seconds, the blob sprouts arms, legs and a face, runs alongside them, and then rapidly ages and dies.
  Morty: What the—?!
  Rick: Don't think about it!
• This:
  Rick: I just want you to know, between us from now on, it's gonna be 100% honesty and open clear communication.
  Summer: (bursts in through the door crying) Frank Palicki was frozen to death today!
  Rick: No idea what you're talking about.
• Summer has one too:
  OhmyGodhisheadisinhisfoodI'mgonnapuke.
• Morty losing all brain activity at the end.
• The ending.
  Rick: It's just Rick and Morty. Rrrick and Morty and their adventures, Morty. Rick and Morty, forever and forever, a hundred years Rick and Morty, s... things. Me and Rick and Morty runnin' around and... Rick and Morty time. Aaall day long forever. All, a hundred days Rick and Morty forever a hundred times. Over and over Rick and Morty adventures dot com W W W dot Rick and Morty dot com W W W Rick and Morty adventures all hundred years. Every minute Rick and Morty dot com W W W hundred times Rick and Morty dot com....
• The sentimental piano music that plays when Rick gives Morty a rousing speech about facing the unknown, and adventure, and growing as people et cetera et cetera. The first time you watch, it's mildly amusing thanks to the Mood Whiplash that follows. Rewatching the episode with full knowledge of just who Rick is and what he will inflict on his unfortunate grandson and several billion other mostly-innocents... it's hilarious.

Lawnmower Dog

• Rick and Morty returning from commercial break... and Rick having to be reminded why they're there in the first place.
  • Even better is that, given how he helps Rick remember, it's implied that Morty kinda forgot too...
• Inside Mister Goldenfold's dream, which is in a plane, Rick decides that the best way to convince him is to act like Islamic terrorists; complete with taping soda bottles as liquid explosives and using a random scarf as a veil for Morty.
  Rick: Allah (burp) Akbar! We're gonna take control of this plane! We're gonna 9/11 it unless Morty Smith gets better grades in math!
• Anything involving Scary Terry:
  • "This is perfect, after some Scary Coitus, Scary Terry will be sound asleep."
  • "Awwww, bitch."
  • Rick and Morty try hiding despite him constantly saying "You can run but you can't hide!", figuring they can take his words with a grain of salt... and his subsequent depression.
  • "Oh no! I'm late to class, bitch! ... Oh NO! I'm not wearing any pants!"
  • "Man, he sure says 'bitch' a lot!"
• The stream of Take Thats towards Inception. Especially when Rick explains that time is running slower because it's in dog-years and "if that doesn't make sense, then neither does everyone's favorite movie!"
• Scary Terry helping Rick and Morty out of the multiple dream layers:
  Terry: (to the jump-roping girl singing the creepy tune) I always hated that song! (decapitates her to wake her up)
  
  Terry: (to the centaur) These halves don't go together, bitch! (bisects him to wake him up)
  
  Terry: (to Mrs. Pancakes in the sex dungeon) Sex is sacred! (slices her to multiple pieces down the middle to wake her up)
  
  Terry: (to Mr. Goldenfold as he morphs into a missile) This is because you don't give Morty Smith good grades, bitch! (blows up Mr. Goldenfold)
• "Where are my testicles, Summer?"
• Jerry's attempt at defeating Snuffles:
  Jerry: I'm peeing on your special weapons. That means I own them!
  Snuffles: (grabs Jerry by the head and puts his nose in his urine) Bad person! Bad!
  Rick: ... Ooh, great plan, Jerry!
• This exchange between Snuffles and Jerry:
  Snuffles: You're being very aggressive, Jerry. Perhaps tomorrow, Dr. Scrabbs will solve that problem with a bit of surgery.
  Dr. Scrabbs: (menacingly holds up a pair of surgical scissors)
  Jerry: Hah! You think you can control me with a haircut?
• Beth's reaction to Snuffles's new intelligence is a sarcastic "Oh yeah, this should play out just fine."
  Jerry: You said the same thing, equally sarcastically, at our wedding, and guess what? (beat as he realizes, then slumps sadly and silently into his chair)
• The ridiculousness of the plot juxtaposed with Snowball's heartwarming "We are not them! We are not... them."
• The way the dogs' robot suits are all awkwardly auto tuned to give them goofy robot voices.

Anatomy Park

• Jerry leverages his lameness to get Summer in line.
  Summer: Dad, I'm not giving you my phone.
  Jerry: Put it in the stocking, Summer, or I'm joining Facebook.
  Summer: (makes a "you FIEND!" gasp and obeys)
• The "reveal" of the relationship between Jerry's parents and Jacob. While it was not that hard to see coming, the way Jerry's dad explains it is hilarious. especially the last bit.
  Jerry: It sounds like you're about to say Jacob is your lover.
  Jerry's Dad: No, no, no, no, no.
  Jerry: (sighs in relief)
  Jerry's Dad: Jacob is your mother's lover. I watch them. Sometimes from a chair, sometimes from a closet. Almost always dressed as Superman.
  • Bonus points for sneaking into the closet with a Superman costume when they start making out, too.
• There is a railway connected to the skeleton in Anatomy Park. Dr. Bloom named it "The Bone Train".
  Dr. Bloom: How about you, Morty? Would you like to ride The Bone Train?
  Morty: Why are you doing this bit!? We're gonna die! Let's go!
• Rick eavesdropping on Morty's awkward attempt to talk to Annie:
  Rick: (over the radio) Oof. Oh, Morty. Strike one.
• The Stinger at the end, with the new Anatomy Park being built inside Summer's boyfriend Ethan and Rick's ideas for Pirates of the Pancreas getting rejected.
  Ethan: So, those guys are inside me? Like, building a park?
  Rick: THOSE GUYS ARE INSIDE YOU ARE BUILDING A PIECE OF SHIT, ETHAN! They're inside you building a monument to compromise! Fuck 'em. Fuck those people. Fuck this whole thing, Ethan!
  Ethan: ...Cool. And who pays me?
• Ruben's giant, naked corpse floating miles above Earth is one of the most ridiculous and funniest moments to happen in the entire show.
  • The following news report is epically funny:
    Anchorman: Reports from all over the country have been coming in about what appears to be a giant naked man over the Continental United States. We now go to Tom Randolph in New York. Tom?
    Tom: Well, the eyes aren't twinkling and the dimples are merry, but I'm standing over a nose like a 70-mile cherry!
    Anchorman: Thank you, Tom. Let's go now to Eric McMann in Los Angeles.
    Eric: We've got feet here on the West Coast, Bill! Giant feet, even relative to the giant man's size! And you know what they say about that!
    Anchorman: Well, if the old adage is true, one can only wonder what's going down in the Rocky Mountains.
    (we see the Rocky Mountains, a lumberjack has finished cutting a tree and whipping sweat from his head as the shadow of Reuben's dong covers the land around him; he notices)
    Lumberjack: Wha? ... AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
• Rick calling Morty as he's getting frisky with Annie, telling them to head to Rubin's left nipple:
  Rick: (over the walkie-talkie) Morty, can you get to the left nipple?
  Morty: Are you kidding? I'm hopin' I can get to both of 'em, Rick!
  • Earlier him asking if Morty could put him on mute while he and Annie are making out so he can concentrate.
• Rick's bluntness during a call with Morty:
  Morty: Rick, Ruben's got tuberculosis!
  Rick: (pulling out an injector device) Ah, great work, Morty! I'll just cure it and then—
  (the machine monitoring Ruben's lifesigns flatlines in the background)
  Rick: ...Okay. Well, I can't cure death. This is bad, Morty; you're trapped in a dead man.
  • Which segues directly into a long tangent about how, if they can't escape in time, they should ride "Pirates of the Pancreas" one last time.

M. Night Sham-Aliens!

• The very first line of the episode as Rick is poking around in the entrails of a dead possum.
  Rick: (to himself) Th-th-th-this is just sloppy craftsmanship.
  • Doubles as Rewatch Bonus when you realize he's talking about the simulation, not the possum.
• The alien leader voiced by David Cross. That alone usually speaks for itself, but the sheer incompetence of the poor guy (and his workers) is nothing short of hilarious.
• The fact the aliens went through the trouble to produce authentic genitals for the Morty hologram.
• Pretty much everything about the half-assed, 5% CPU power version of the virtual reality simulator Jerry is stuck inside for the majority of the episode, complete with glitches and lags, especially because Jerry never sees through it:
  • Jerry listens to his car radio:
    Scammer Leader: (posing as DJ) This is Earth Radio. And now; here's... " Human Music".
    (radio plays a very simple scale of bips)
    Jerry: ... Hmmm, "Human Music"? I like it! (nods his head to the beat)
  • The three constantly repeating NPCs, complete with their own Welcome to Corneria phrases, Jerry keeps running into, again without ever realizing it at all:
    Senior Citizen: Slow down!
    Attractive Woman: Looking good.
    Mail Man: (fist pumps) Mah man!
• Although it's listed in the Awesome moments, Rick's utter nonchalance at the end in reaction to tricking the aliens into killing themselves is this. He basically pulls back the chair, takes a drink of alcohol and pops in (and hums) Baker Street while lightly cruising away from the explosion. Jerry, who was making fun of Rick for being outsmarted, is speechless.
  Rick: Why don't you ask the smartest people in the universe, Jerry? Oh yeah, you can't, they blew up.
• Rick pointing out the Pop-Tart people that are part of the simulation.
  Rick: What about that Morty?
  (a Pop-Tart walks out of his house, which is a giant toaster, and goes into his car, which is a smaller toaster)
  Morty: Okay, okay, you've got me on that one.
  Rick: Oh, really, Morty, you sure you've never seen that in real life before?
  Morty: No, no, I haven't seen that. Why would a Pop-Tart want to live inside a toaster, Rick? I mean, that'd be the scariest place for them to live! You know what I mean?
  Rick: You're missing the point, Morty! Why would he drive a smaller toaster with wheels? I mean, does your car look like a smaller version of your house? No!
• Rick's system-overloading rap show:
  Rick: Yo! Everybody whose name starts with 'L' that isn't Hispanic, walk in a circle the same number of times as the square root of your age... times teeeen!
• The terrible simulation of Morty's class:
  Fake Goldenfold: What is five times nine?
  Morty: Um... y'know... it's, uh, at least forty...?
  Fake Goldenfold: Morty! That's exactly correct! Five times nine IS at least forty!
• Jerry has a entire conversation with his NPC boss, who respondes to everything with, "(snap) yes.".

Meeseeks and Destroy

• This exchange as soon as Rick and Morty return from their latest adventure:
  Morty: I just killed my family! I don't care what they were.
  Rick: I don't know, Morty; some people would pay top dollar for that kind of breakthrough.
• Every. Single. Thing involving the Meeseeks.
  "I'M MR. MEESEEKS! LOOK AT ME!"
  • The first Meeseeks starts to lose it when Jerry tries to quit, getting an Eye Twitch and his eyes suddenly going huge.
    "No, Jerry, I'm the one who SUCKS!"
  • The Meeseeks' solution to not being able to take two strokes off of Jerry's golf game: killing him, that way they'll take every stroke off his golf game. And amidst all the cheering for this new plan, one of them shouts "I'M MISTER MEESEEKS" just before it cuts away.
  • Before that, they start dividing into factions about what to do, and then summon more Meeseeks to kill each other.
    "YOUR FAILURES ARE YOUR OWN, OLD MAN! I'M MR. MEESEEKS! LOOK AT ME! I SAY FOLLOW THROUGH!"
  • The way the newest Meeseeks hisses just before pouncing on the other one.
    • Just as pandemonium ensues among the Meeseeks, if you listen VERY very carefully you can hear a Meeseeks shouting "OHHHH FUCK!!!" just scarcely audible enough to sneak past the censors.
  • The chain of "he roped me into this!", with each Meeseeks having an oh-so-slightly different accent.
  • When the family receives the Mr Meeseeks box both Beth and Summer give the box seemingly very abstract requests including making Beth a happier woman and make Summer popular. While Jerry gives relatively simple request of improving his golf game. Both Beth and Summer's requests are fulfilled rather quickly, but Jerry's request becomes the premise of the side B story which is saying a lot.
• This bit, whih becomes Harsher in Hindsight later in the same episode:
  Rick: You know, if somebody drops the soap, it's gonna land on our heads and crush our spines, Morty. You know, it'll be real easy to rape us after that.
• The word "Schmeckles".
  Rick: Twenty-five Schmeckles? I-I-I-I don't know how much that is, is that a lot? Is it a little?
  Bar Waitress: That's exactly how much I spent on my big fake boobies.
  Strange creature: Hi, I'm Mister Boobie Buyer. I'll buy those boobies for twenty-five Schmeckles.
  Bar Waitress: Huh, it's a tempting offer, but I'm going to have to decline.
  Mr. Boobie Buyer: Rats, what a shame! (slithers away and crawls into a crack in the ceiling)
• Mr. Jellybean having the same voice as Magic Man, mostly because both characters are jerks who seem nice at first. Sadly, the laughs don't last.
• "Hey Rick, have you got some kind of hand-shaped device that can open this mayonnaise jar?"
• The desperately baffled reaction from Samantha, who gets taken hostage by the Meeseeks and then watches Jerry apparently appease them by... playing golf with a tomato?: "What the fuck is going on?!"
  • The reactions from all the Meeseeks, instantly become happy again.
  • Shortly thereafter: "Excuse me. I'm a bit of a stickler Meeseeks. What about your short game?" *pulls knife on Samantha*
• Rick making sure to go back and explode Mr. Jellybean with a death ray, which sprays his remains all over the horrified villagers. 'cause he deserved it.

Rick Potion #9

• Jerry tries cheering Morty up about his girl problems:
  Morty: (sighs) I don't want "girls". I want Jessica!
  Jerry: Ah, I remember feeling that way about a young lady named "Your Mom", and that is not an urban diss. Your mom was my Jessica. (getting nostalgic) The first time I saw her, I thought...
  Rick: (nonchalant) "I should get her pregnant and then she'll have to marry me."
  Jerry: I beg your pardon, Rick. (points to Morty) Inappropriate!
  Rick: (indignant) Sorry. Please proceed with your story about banging my daughter in high school!
• Rick dissing love and marriage.
  Rick: What people call "love" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, then it slowly fades leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it, your parents are gonna do it, break the cycle Morty, rise above, focus on science.
• If you pay attention in the beginning, you'll see while Rick is looking in the fridge for a drink, he pulls out a soda can, shakes it, and then casually puts it back in the fridge.
• This line.
  Rick: Boy, Morty, I really Cronenberged the world up, didn't I? We got a whole planet of Cronenbergs walking around down there, Morty. At least they're not in love with you anymore though, that's a huge step in the right direction.
• This other line:
  Morty: Rick, what about the reality we left behind?
  Rick: What about the reality where Hitler cured cancer, Morty? The answer is "don't think about it."
• Rick yelling at Morty to calm down after he sees them die.
• Jerry saves his wife with this hilarious bit.
  Jerry: I'm Mister Crowbar, and this is my friend, who is also a crowbar.
  Mantis!Davin: That's... stupid.
  Jerry: [beats him to death] Yeah, well look where being smart got you.
• Some of the things said by Jerry and Beth during the Cronenberg apocalypse.
  Jerry: I wish that shotgun was my penis.
  Beth: If it was, you can call me Ernest Hemingway. ^note Hemingway killed himself by putting a shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger.
  Jerry: I don't get it and I don't need to.
  • Summer finally catches up with Jerry and Beth, asking if Rick had anything to do with it. She's blatantly ignored while the two decide to make out. Summer's reaction? To awkwardly stand around and wait for them to finish.
    • Whilst humming to herself.
• "Morty the principal and I discussed it and we're both insecure enough to agree to a three-way!"
• The rapper at the Flu Season Dance's tribute to the one he loves
  I love Morty
  And I hope Morty loves me
  I wanna wrap my arms around him
  And feel him inside me
• This entire exchange after Beth leaves to go do emergency surgery with Davin.
  Jerry: She's going to be alone with that guy all night.
  Summer: Yeah, dad, digging around the insides of horses, it's not a very romantic setting.
  Rick: Well, Summer, there's always the possibility she made the whole work thing up. Maybe Davin is digging around in her insides.
  Summer: Grandpa Rick, so gross! You're talking about my mom!
  Rick: Well, she's my daughter, Summer, so I outrank you. Or family means nothing, which in that case, don't play that card.
  Jerry: She's not responding to my texts!
  Summer: Careful Dad, jealousy turns women off.
  Jerry: Well, isn't that convenient.
  Rick: Not for the men they cheat on, no.
• Summer acting out Quint's monologue from Jaws in The Stinger.
• Davin attempts to seduce Beth, just when the "Lust for Morty" virus kicks in:
  Davin: Beth?
  Beth: What is it, Davin?
  Davin: Just once, I'd like to know... (he sneezes and his pupils expand) W-w-what it was like to give your son a bath?
  Beth: What?
  Davin: What does Morty's skin smell like? How soft (grunts in agony) are his privates?

Raising Gazorpazorp

• Morty tries to dance around the issue of buying a sex robot. Rick just yanks the bandaid.
  Rick: Okay, sixty (burp) for the resonator and my grandson wants the sex robot.
  Morty: (o3o)
• Morty tries to accept responsibility for the baby produced from the sex robot he had Rick buy.
  Morty: I'm a father now! Isn't that right—
  Rick: Don't name it!
  Morty: ... Morty Jr?
  Rick: Crap, he named it.
• "Wubba lubba dub dub!"
  • Later, when Rick is captured by the amazonian women of the alien planet he and Summer are on.
    Rick: That's the opposite of Wubba Lubba Dub Dub, am I right ladies and gentlemen?
• Jerry, Beth, Summer, and Rick all having breakfast while hearing the squeaking from Morty's room as he makes use of his sex robot. Morty runs down and asks Rick to come upstairs.
  Beth: Okay, now if we hear squeaking, then we should intervene.
  • Rick starts wrestling with the sexbot's transformation, and gets bumped into the bed a few times (the sexbot hovers and lowers itself), and the rest of Morty's family rushes up immediately.
    Beth: Okay, UNACCEPTABL-oh.
    • Earlier, when Morty runs downstairs in his underwear, drenched in sweat, chugs a whole carton of orange juice and awkwardly tries to pretend that he's not heading back upstairs just to make further use of the sex robot.
• On the death penalty for Rick and Summer for treason (Rick for being male, and Summer for having a grandfather).
  Rick: Holy shit, you're gonna crush us with a boulder?!
  Ma-Sha: No! Stop interrupting! The boulder falls onto a lever, that will launch...knives...
  Rick: What? Just give me a gun, I'll kill myself!
  Ma-Sha: Stop interrupting! The knives will...fine! You were right the first time, okay? The boulder crushes you. I just didn't want to admit you were right! Happy?! *another Gazorpian steps in to calm her down* ...Such an asshole!
• "I'm here if you need to talk."
• The revelation that the creator of the comic strip Marmaduke is a depraved, violent psychopath, and he channels that constant frustration to maim and commit sexual assault into his work. (It's not like the strip was meant to make you laugh or anything, right?)
• Newborn female Gazorpians are educated and welcomed into the female's "progressive" society. Newborn male Gazorpians, meanwhile, get slingshotted into the outside world.
• Morty Junior goes nuts after learning his life is a lie:
  Morty Junior: GOD IS DEAD! GOVERNMENT'S LAME! THANKSGIVING IS ABOUT KILLING INDIANS! JESUS WASN'T BORN ON CHRISTMAS, THEY MOVED THE DATE! IT WAS A PAGAN HOLIDAY!
• Rick's analysis on the Gazorpians.
  Rick: Well, obviously, Summer, it appears that the lower tier of this society is being manipulated through sex and advanced technology by a hidden ruling class. Sound familiar?
  Summer: *gasp* Ticketmaster...
• Rick's argument as to why mankind would be more efficient without women around
  Rick: Summer, have you ever seen a line for the men's room?

Rixty Minutes

• Rick upgrades the cable box to include programming from other universes, and among them are a cop show where man evolved from corn, a movie where a man enjoys eating shit, a violent antique show, a David Letterman interview from a timeline where Jerry is famous and a show with a sentient teddy bear making his own spider web.
  Rick (upon seeing the aforementioned spider teddy bear): Where is this going?
  • Naturally, Jerry is caught off guard by him being on Letterman, and asks Rick to go back. Rick then goes back to the man eating shit.
    Woman: Glenn, this is a court order. It says you can't eat shit anymore! *Scare chord plays*
    Rick: Alright Jerry, when you're right you're right. Now I'm hooked.
  • On the same note, the aforementioned corn cop show.
    Corn Man #1: We're not so different. We're both corn of action.
    Corn Man #2: Yeah, but one of us is DEAD CORN! (draws a gun taped to his back and shoots Corn Man #1 in the head)
    Summer: Boring.
    Rick: Summer, you just spent three months watching a man choose a fake wife.
    Jerry: So what? It'd be better if the people were corn?
  • When the family is watching a live news report of the alternate Jerry being pursued by the cops.
    Jerry: Where the hell am I going?
    Rick: Why do you ask me, Jerry? I'm just sitting here trying to figure out why the cops just don't take you out. They got a clear shot to your head. I can't believe our tax dollars pay for this.
• Pretty much all of the fake TV shows and movie trailers, especially since some are clearly improvised and you can hear the actors laugh. The fact that nearly all the commercials and TV shows were completely improvised makes it even funnier (and better) to watch.
  • Hamster in Butt World. Context won't help. Making it funnier, the hamsters are done in a Hanna-Barbera-esque style.
• Ants in my Eyes Johnson. If you have respiratory problems, make sure you keep your inhaler handy at that scene.
  Ants in my Eyes Johnson: I'm Ants in my Eyes Johnson, here at Ants in my Eyes Johnson's Electronics. I mean, there's so many ants in my eyes! And there's so many TVs! Microwaves! Radios! I think, I can't— I'm not a hundred percent sure what we have here in stock, because I can't see anything! Our prices I hope aren't too low! Check out this refrigerator! Only $200 dollars! What about this microwave? Only a $100 dollars, that's fair! I'm Ants in my Eyes Johnson; everything's black, I can't see a thing! And also I can't feel either, did I mention that? But that's not as catchy as having ants in your eyes, so... that always goes... you know, off by the wayside. I can't feel, it's a very rare disease... all my se— all my nerves, they don't allow for the sensation of touch. So I never know what's going on. Am I standing? Sitting? I don't know!
• Gazorpazorpfield. Which starts with a half-assed Call-Back to the sex robots, then turns into a minute of Gazorpazorpfield insulting Jon.
  Gazorpazorpfield: Hey Jon, it's me Gazorpazorpfield. Boy, fuck you Jon, you fucking dumb, stupid idiot.
  Jon: Come on Gazorpazorpfield, go easy on me, huh?
  Gazorpazorpfield: You dumb, stupid, weak, pathetic, white... white, uh, guilt, white guilt... milquetoast... piece of human garbage.
  Jon: Jeez, Gazorpazorpfield, that's— ya know, you're pretty mean to me, but that takes the cake.
  Gazorpazorpfield: I don't give a fuck. I'm Gazorpazorp-fucking-field, bitch! (kicks over Jon's coffee cup) Now, give me my fucking enchiladas!
• Rick and Morty having a trivial conversation about Lorenzo Music voicing Garfield as well as Venkman in the Ghostbusters cartoon, then pointing out that Bill Murray played Garfield in the live-action film.
• A small moment in Baby Legs (which is already hilarious on its own) when Regular Legs hesitates on his own name while saying "I'm comin', Baby Legs! I'm... Regular... Legs!". It sounds as if Rob Paulsen was either trying to ad-lib badly on purpose to fit with the Stylistic Suck of everyone else's obvious ad-libbing or he just realized how absurd the whole thing was as the words were coming out of his mouth.
  • The criminal's dialogue consists of "Oh fuck, I'm the killer, I'm runnin', I'm runnin' real quick!" He's also carrying a box marked "NOT DRUGS".
• One of the shows is Game of Thrones with the main cast, save for Tyrion Lannister, as dwarves.
• The Strawberry Smiggles commercial crosses the line so many times it's impossible not to laugh at least once.
  Mr. Top-Hat Jones: (while being disemboweled by children) Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ! It hurts! My entrails are out! Why would you even want to eat these? Th-they're soaked in my stomach acid! Oh, Jesus Christ, Lord and savior a-and spirit! Save me, take me to the light! Oh, my God, I see demons! I SEE DEMONS ARE COMING!!
• Shmloo's the Shmloss. (From a timeline where every proper noun begins with "shml-")
• The super quick murder mysteries. That is all.
  The Narrator: (serious) And now, another quick mystery.
  (Scene cuts to a police officer looking down at a bloody corpse in front of a liquor store)
  Police Officer: I just wanna know who could've done something like this, it's a travesty!
  African Man: (walks up with a bloody knife and rolled up paper) I did. (shows knife) See this knife and all the blood on it? (shows paper, revealing it to have a fingerprint scan) Here's my fingerprints...
  Judge: (in the courtroom) Guilty, I sentence you to life in prison!
  (Cut to the African man looking forlorn in a jail cell with the door closing shut)
  The Narrator: (now looking cheerful for some reason) Here's another quick mystery.
  (Cut to a man looking in horror at a woman's corpse beside a bed)
  Innocent Man: My mother's dead!
  Eyepatch Guy: (walks into the room with a bloody bowling pin and handcuffs) And I killed her. (gives the other man the bowling pin) Here's the weapon... (gives the man the handcuffs and holds out his hands in acceptance) ...And cuff me, thank you very much.
  Judge: (in the courtroom) Guilty! Sentenced to murder!
  (The eyepatch guy is shown on an electric chair. A lever is pulled, and he is shocked to death)
  • The third one is just the icing on the cake:
    The Narrator: (serious again) Here's another—
    Tattooed Crook: I'm the killer! (raises gun to his head and pulls the trigger; blood splatters on the Narrator)
    The Narrator: Oh wow, that one was really quick, wasn't it?
• Last Will and Testimeow: Weekend at Dead Cat Lady's House II, a spoof of Weekend at Bernie's where a Crazy Cat Lady's corpse is moved around by her cats, who even go to the trouble of moving her as a younger man has sex with her dead body. What's especially funny is that a Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that the film is rated G in spite of its morbid subject matter and the trailer blatantly including a scene of necrophilia.

Something Ricked This Way Comes

• The entire cold open. If ever you needed to sum up this series in under a minute, this scene does that.
  • The butter-passing robot.
    Tiny robot: What is my purpose?
    Rick: You pass butter.
    Tiny robot: (looks at its arms in despair) Oh my God!
    Rick: Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.
  • And then later, the robot angrily slams a full stick of butter on Rick's food and stalks off, passively-aggressively refusing to watch a movie with Rick because it "was not programmed for friendship".
  • Its last appearance, with Morty showing it wrapped in plastic to his dad and it randomly says "Butter."
  • The fact that Rick invents a tiny sentient robot for the sole purpose of passing him butter at the breakfast table is hysterical in and of itself. Not to mention that he built it just so he wouldn't have to ask Jerry for it.
• Morty was probably confident he could get an A easily with his brilliant grandfather but instead has to work with his idiot dad. His reaction as he compares the two is priceless along with the weary sigh.
• Jerry getting super-insecure when he wants to add Pluto to the model of the Solar system and Morty points out that Pluto is officially no longer considered a planet:
  Jerry: It is possible to disagree in science, Morty. Pluto was a planet, some committee of fancy assholes disagree, I disagree back! Give me a ping-pong ball.
  Morty: Uh, okay... (moves to leave) I-I just have to—
  Jerry: Go find Rick and go over my head about Pluto?!
  Morty: No! Jeeze! I just gotta go to the bathroom! Damn!
  Jerry: Oh... (awkward chough) Good!
• Mr. Goldenfold's breakdown after the Be Careful What You Wish For reveal that the cost of having women want him was becoming impotent, falling to his knees crying, complete with Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" playing in the background.
  Mr. Goldenfold: Oh mah gawd, how could I not see this coming?! My lust! My greed! I deserve this!
  • Mr. Needful's response:
    "A price for everything, Mr. Goldenfold. A price for everything."
  • Then Rick comes along with a simple jab (complete with cartoony ploink sound effect) to counteract the downside, to which Mr. Goldenfold runs out with the women yelling "I haven't learned a thing!"
  • The initial sale was pretty funny too, since Mr. Goldenfold thought the store was still a Jamba Juice:
    Mr. Needful: I'm aware you're still searching for female company.
    Mr. Goldenfold: Things have been lonely since the divorce, and some problems can't be solved with Jamba Juice.
• Followed by a Slap Fight between Rick & the Devil.
  • Before that, the two trying to out-Evil Laugh each other. Rick wins.
  • Rick making fun of Mr. Needful:
    Mr. Needful: I find this all quite preposterous!
    Rick: Oh, I say, good sir. Oh, harrumph. Oh, oh bopadopabubbabopo.
  • And following that, Summer defends her desire to work for Mr. Needful despite Rick's claims that he's the devil. Not only is she perfectly fine with it, but Mr. Needful is just as surprised as Rick that she is.
    Rick: You work for the devil!
    Summer: So what?
    Rick & Mr. Needful: "So what"?!
• Rick utterly demolishing the entire Little Shop That Wasnt There Yesterday and Be Careful What You Wish For tropes when he blatantly sees through Mr. Needful's cursed microscope ploy and then proceeds to un-curse every object he has. He manages to troll the devil so hard that the devil decides to kill himself.
  • And then he gets bored. And nonchalantly lights the place on fire.
    Rick: To me, this was all just a bit... like when Bugs Bunny fucks with the opera singer for twenty minutes.
  • The fact that the devil's suicide is played completely straight, right until the moment he mentions that he'd just go to hell which is where he lives. The mood immediately snaps from a grim moment to the tone of a kid taking his ball and going home so he doesn't have to deal with Rick anymore.
• Rick figuring out what the microscope does and the exchange with Morty that follows:
  Rick: Cute! Your sister's boss gave me a microscope that would've made me retarded.
  Morty: Wooh, boy, Rick. Uh, I-I don't think you're allowed to say that word, you know?
  Rick: Uh, Morty, I'm not disparaging the differently abled. I'm stating the fact that if I had used this microscope, it would've made me mentally retarded.
  Morty: Ok, yeah, but I don't think it's about logic, Rick. I-I think the word has become a symbolic issue for powerful groups that feel like they're doing the right thing.
  Rick: Well, that's retarded!
• The Overly Long Gag of Morty telling Jerry to knock next time he comes into his room.
• Rick and Summer having a Training Montage complete with steroid use, followed by beating up the devil to DMX's "X Gon' Give It To Ya"
  • Followed up by them beating up a Neo-Nazi, a school bully, a guy holding a "God Hates Fags" sign, and a guy being mean to his dog.
• Rick describes the store's products as "Ray Bradbury, Twilight Zone, Friday the 13th: The Series voodoo crap magic.''
• When an alien asks Morty if everyone in his family is an idiot, Morty says "Well, for sure me and my dad are."
• Morty's response that made him say this. He thought poof meant a party was going to happen.
• Jerry's remark when Morty is asking him to back down on Pluto being a planet. "Sure, sure, and why don't we just burn Galileo at the stake for saying the sun is round?"

Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind

• All the Rick to Rick banter, but here's some of the good ones.
  Rick: If I know these a-holes, and I am these a-holes, they just want to drag me to their stupid clubhouse and ask me some questions.
  
  Other Rick: Fuck me, pal!
  Rick: Fuck you? No, no, no, no, fuck me!
• A Freeze-Frame Bonus when looking at the pictures of the murdered Ricks includes one with his spine bent around and his head stuffed up his anus.
• Rick and Morty finding the Morty dome, with hundreds of Morty's strapped onto it in constant torture. What should be nightmarish is rendered hilarious by this.
  Rick: I've fiddled with a co-(belch)-oncept like this once.
  (horrified look from Morty)
  Rick: On paper Morty, on paper! I wouldn't do this, it's barbaric overkill. I mean, you can accomplish the same result with, like, five Mortys and a jumper cable.
  (Morty gives Rick another outraged look)
  Rick: (defensive) Which I also wouldn't do! I'm just saying, it's bad craftsmanship.
  • During Evil!Rick's interrogation of Rick, we see glimpses of Rick's memory, including what appears to be a Morty attached to a jumper cable.
  • After Jerry sees the doofus version of Rick outside and smiles, the main one has this to comment, ruining a nice heartwarming moment:
    Rick: What's that dipshit doing here? Are you friends with him? You know he eats his own shit, right?
  • After Evil Rick is defeated, Rick wastes no time calling the Ricks hunting him to tell them what's happening.
    Rick #1: Hey, what do I and OJ not have in common?
    Rick #2: What? Who is this?
    Rick #1: I FOUND THE REAL KILLER, BIIIIIITCH!!!
• The Running Gag of Rick and Morty going through various similar universes with the same situation - an inanimate object ordering food - culminating in a scene where a chair, sitting on a person, orders a phone through their pizza. It makes some sense in context.
• The Ricks messing with Jerry. They make a call to Jerry, with a Rick stating that he and Morty are flying into a black hole. Even Beth looks amused when it's revealed to be a prank.
  • What makes it even funnier is that it then cuts to our Rick explaining to Morty how the other Ricks will want to mess with Jerry for a while, which would buy them a little time.
• Beth makes Rick breakfast to celebrate his one year anniversary back in their lives. Rick then remarks how he should be the one making breakfast for Beth since she puts up with him. Jerry then quips "Should be making us a whole restaurant." Beth ignores him and insists that they couldn't be happier to have Rick around.
• The Cool and Unusual Punishment that the Ricks threaten Rick C-137 with. The Machine of Unspeakable Doom.
  Council of Ricks Spokesperson: Earth Rick C-137! The council of Ricks sentences you to the Machine of Unspeakable Doom... which swaps your conscious and unconscious minds, rendering your fantasies pointless while everything you've known becomes impossible to grasp! Also, every ten seconds, it stabs your balls.
• Poor little Rickless bastards.

Ricksy Business

• Rick's dated pop culture fails him again.
  Rick: It's like that old song, "Blop-Glop-a-Noop-Noop, A-Noop-Noop-Noop". Y-you guys know that song? From "Tiny Rogerts"? Y' never heard of it? Y' know, the black effeminate guy from the '50's? Nobody?
• After Summer mockingly asks Rick if he's going to invite some of his "glip-glop friends from the third dimension", he explains how lucky she is there are no Trafflorkians around:
  Rick: It's like the N-word and the C-word had a baby and it was raised by all the bad words for Jews.
  • Made funnier later when some Trafflorkians do in fact arrive:
    Rick: WHATTUP, MY GLIP-GLOOOOOOPS!!
• Tammy's introduction:
  Tammy: I really enjoy watching bukkake. I don't know if I'd ever be part of it.
  • Then Brad enters the party:
    Tammy: Oh my God, Brad's here! Quick, make my hair look drunk!
    (Tammy's friend messes up her hair)
    Brad: Aw yeah, Tammy's drunk already!
• Abradolf Lincler. Yes, Rick created a fusion of Adolf Hitler and Abe Lincoln.
• Morty sets out of the house to fetch some supposedly important crystals for Rick, under the assumption that it will help them return to their own dimension. Instead, Rick grates them down to a powder and snorts them like a line of cocaine, and uses his high to create an elaborate dance routine.
  • The utterly insane delivery of this line when Rick gets high off the crystals.
    "And these babies just saved THIS LAME-ASS PARTY!!! WUBBA-LUBBA-DUB-DUB!!!"
  • During the aforementioned elaborate dance routine, Birdperson can be seen casually tapping along to the beat... using the hand that's on Tammy's ass.
• Before he and Beth leave, Jerry tells Rick not to let a single thing happen. As soon as they're gone, a swarm of acid-spitting space eels eat through the garage door and fly away.
  • Summer: "Well, we're past the point of no return. I'm having a party!"
• The whole idea of a Titanic themed cruise.
• One of (presumably) Summer's guests runs off into the alien planet and is quickly snagged by the local fauna. There's an awkward silence, then Rick turns on the music and everyone goes back to party mode instantly.
• After Morty throws Rick's crystals out of the house, a testicle-monster is seen snatching the bag with its tentacle. Next time we see it, it's tripping out of its mind in the background.
• Speaking of Funny Background Events, during Jessica's romanticized slow-motion entrance, we see a beer bottle being whipped across the room behind her.
• Rick going on about how awful the word Glip-Glop is, and then, at the party:
  Morty: How many people did you invite?
  Rick: People? (thinks) Six.
  (dozens of aliens come out of a UFO)
  Rick: What up, my Glip-Glops!
• It's the Rick Dance!
• Summer tells Rick that next time she has a party, she's going to focus on getting wrecked instead of trying to be popular, claiming Rick to be wise. Rick's response, face-down on the couch, is gibberish with a tone that wavers all over the place and faintly resembles agreement.
• When Birdperson gives Morty a pep talk about Rick and Morty calls Rick a huge asshole. Birdperson doesn't at all deny it.
• Rick finally gets up after Morty shouts that their parents are home. Hung over and exhausted, he gulps down an ordinary glass of water and says "so good" with extreme conviction.
• Morty's half-hearted attempt at twerking.
• This exchange:
  Rick: Is that why you party? Boy, you really are seventeen.
  Summer: (smugly) Why do you party?
  Rick: To get ri-(belch)-ity-riggity-WRECKED, SON!

Season 2

A Rickle In Time

• The sheer clusterfuckery of the shattered timelines - especially Rick's actions in each of them - is hilariously well-done.
• Beth's attempts to save the deer get hilariously ridiculous, including yanking out its intestines while threatening to drag its screaming deer soul back from heaven.
• Pretty much everything about the fourth dimensional testicle-headed time cop, voiced by Keegan-Michael Key of Key & Peele.
  • "YOU KILLED MY GUN!!"
• Rick referencing something called Redgren Grumbholdt, with Morty and Summer laughing along:
  Rick: (to Summer and Morty) Oh, you agree, huh? You like that Redgren Grumbholdt reference? Well guess what, I made him up. You really are your father's children. Think for yourselves, don't be sheep.
• The argument between Morty and Summer at the beginning over who had what responsibility, especially when Morty clarifies it for them:
  Rick: Actually, sorry Summer, I gotta back the M-bomb on this one. We told Morty to replace all the bank's money with cookies, your job was to put the mattress under Mr. Benson.
  • Also, shortly before that:
    Rick: Yep. It really makes you appreciate how fickle the universe can be. One minute, you're falling off a roof for six months, the next minute... bam!
• Rick telling Morty and Summer that they don't have to fight over who is his favorite, because to him they are both equally annoying "pieces of shit", and claims that he can prove this mathematically:
  Rick (puts down the remote) Actually, l-let me grab my whiteboard! This has been a long time coming, anyway.
• Morty delivers an armor-piercing crack about Rick's alcoholism in one of two timelines, causing the two Ricks to fall out of sync. When this causes the synchronizing tool to not work, both Ricks immediately assume that the other Rick is out to kill them, and both say that the idea of killing the other one was always in the back of their mind. The only difference is that they wouldn't do it... until now. When this hi-jinx causes time to split from two to four possibilities, all four Ricks continue to fire on the other three (and the other three Mortys and Summers), while yelling "is this what you want?"
  Rick: You want to see children die?!
• After giving his collar to Morty, Rick serenely accepts his fate... until he sees the other collar. Hilarity ensues as he tries to get it.
  Rick: I'm not okay with this, I am NOT okay with this! Oh, sweet Jesus, let me live! Please, god, oh lord, hear my prayers! (quickly fixes collar) YES! FUCK YOU, GOD! Not today, bitch!
• The testicle-headed time cops mistaking Albert Einstein for Rick, then beating him up and telling him not to mess with time... which leads to Albert Einstein creating the theory of relativity out of pure spite.
  "I VILL MESS VITH TIME! ...I vill mess vith time."
  • Also, the time cops' argument when they meet up. Espically cause they played by the comedy Gold of Key & Peele.
    Time Cop #1: Hey man, when the hell were you??
    Time Cop #2: Looking for you, asshole!
    Time Cop #1: I told you, it's past the dinosaurs!
    Time Cop #2: You know how much time is past the dinosaurs?? Half of all time!
• After spending the whole episode insulting Morty and Summer, Rick gets a taste of his own medicine when Beth and Jerry mock the collars they are wearing.
  Morty: Doesn't feel so good, does it?
  Rick: (deadpan) No, it doesn't. It hurts.

Mortynight Run

• Rick's surprised reaction when Jerry makes a comment solely because he forgot Jerry came along with them.
• The fact that one version of Rick invented a Jerry daycare solely for Ricks to offload Jerrys that they can't be bothered to personally look out for.
  Morty: You created a daycare for my dad?
  Rick: Are you kidding? I wish had this idea. Well... I did have this idea, but I wish I was the version of me that owned it. That guy's rich.
  • The entire sign-in form has some hilarious Freeze-Frame Bonus material. It has options for if the Jerry is from another dimension (it wouldn't be out of character for the Ricks to grab a replacement), length of stay ("unknown" or "forever"), allergies (Rick checks "no" with a '?'), existing physical damage (Rick scribbles on the head), finally ending with the reasons as to the drop off ("Earth under siege", "Threatened to tell Beth", "Unwanted Stowaway", and "Annoying Me"; Rick checks the last two).
• When Morty calls him out for doing shady deals in a garage, Rick goes on a tirade about how Wall Street executives doing shady, degenerate things in their fancy boardrooms and defends himself by saying at least he is willing to do his business in public.. Unfortunately for him Krombopolous Michael, who actually is willing to be very public about his line of work (at least to Morty), arrives shortly after and explains shamelessly in detail who he is and what he does.
• Krombopolous Michael may be a killer, but he's so over-the-top affable about it that you can't help but love him. He even has business cards and is on Facebook and Twitter.
  Krombopulus Michael: Oh boy, here I go killing again!
• The introduction to Blips and Chitz: after selling Krombopolous Michael some weapons, Morty questions the moral aspects of this. Rick tells him not to worry, for the money is incredibly valuable.
  Rick: Do you understand what two humans can accomplish with 3,000 of these?
  Morty: Uh, what?
  Rick: AN ENTIRE AFTERNOON AT BLIPS AND CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITZ!!
  (the camera flies into Rick's mouth while he screams and zooms out, revealing the massive arcade while he continues to scream)
  • And the follow-up to that:
    Morty: You sold a gun to a murderer so you could play video games?!
    Rick: Yeah sure, if you spend all day shuffling words around you can make anything sound bad, Morty.
• Rick reviewing Morty's performance in the Roy: A Life Well-Lived simulation game.
  Rick: You beat cancer and you went back to work at the carpet store?! Booo!
• Rick takes his turn on Roy and takes him off the grid, which is apparently a high-level feat from the reactions of the other aliens in the arcade.
• After Rick and Morty take Fart to Gearhead's shop and try to find out where Fart came from, it is clear that Fart tries to read Rick's mind.
  Fart: I came here accidentally through a wormhole located in what you call (focuses on Rick who is giving Fart a Death Glare) "get out of my head Fart I know you're in here lalalala..." No, the Promethean Nebula.
  • A Rewatch Bonus after hearing this is that despite having noble causes, Morty doesn't have pure thoughts.
    Fart: I communicate from what you call Jessica's feet... no, telepathy.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Goodbye Moonmen"
• Rick's reaction to Fart's singing about Moonmen.
  Rick: SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT MOONMEN! This isn’t a musical number! This is a fucking operation! We got to be cool and fucking lay low.
• The sweet, grandmotherly way the caretaker at the Jerry Daycare talks to Jerry. All of it, but what especially takes the cake is her response when he departs.
  Jerry: (storming out) I'm leaving!
  Caretaker: Okay, dear. That was always allowed.
  • Also, the silent, friendly smile she gives when he walks back in later.
• Rick forcefully debilitating Gearhead by replacing his mouth gears with gears extracted from his crotch. The disgusted reaction from the Gear police upon seeing Gearhead's disfigured face is the equivalent of disgust seeing a human's mouth replaced with testicles.
  • And in the vomit scene, Gear people puking oil and gears.
  • Just before this, Gearhead notes how offensive Rick's nickname for him is, comparing it to calling a Chinese person "Asia-face."
• Rick's Hurricane of Puns to Fart's action of taking out the police.
• In the end of the episode, Rick and Morty pick up Jerry, only for another Rick to ask which one they have. As Morty has since lost the ticket identifying his Jerry, both Ricks just switch Jerrys and ignore their protests.
  • Those who catch the Freeze-Frame Bonus earlier in the episode^note The number on the ticket Rick received in the intro. would realize that the ending is in fact framed from the perspective of an alternate Rick and Morty while it is the actual Rick who inquires if they have his Jerry. In fact, it's entirely possible that the entire episode, sans the intro, was framed this way. Makes ya think, doesn't it?
    • Which means that the Rick we follow here is just casually asking another Rick how many people his Morty was responsible for killing.
    • Even better is the implication that the Rick and Morty he talked to, the ones who spent the whole day at Blips and Chitz, was our Rick and Morty.

Auto Erotic Assimilation

• When they board the derelict ship, Rick tells the kids to give any eggs they find a good shake; those Facehuggers are worth more than the ship.
• Rick framing the Korbloks for the looting of the derelict ship by leaving behind their graffiti sign for the space police to find.
  Summer: That's horrible!
  Rick: I hear you, man. Cops are racists.
• Rick devises an elaborate sex act that takes full advantage of having an entire world bound to one mind.
  Rick: I need a hang glider, and a crotchless Uncle Sam costume, and I want your largest stadium filled end to end with naked redheads, and I want the stands packed with every man who remotely resembles my father.
  (later)
  Rick: (hang-gliding into the stadium in a crotchless Uncle Sam costume) Yeah! I want you!
  Crowd: Go, son, go! Go, son go!
  • If you look carefully you'll see that his crotch is pixelated.
• The entire dynamic between Unity and Beta VII (another hive-mind world), it's clear Beta VII is being "friend-zoned" by Unity. The name "Beta" is of course is part of this, with the "alpha male" and "beta" dynamic.
  • Then the stinger where it is clear Beta VII is getting nothing but joy with preventing Rick from seeing Unity.
• Keeping to the topic of Fantastic Racism, Summer, believing to have freed a race of aliens assimilated under Unity,^note Unity's loosening grip while partying with Rick is actually to blame witnesses a race war ignited among them for having different... nipples. Morty's response in the face of Summer's battered idealism of self-determination completes the scene.
  Summer: Why are you fighting? Can't you see you're all the same?
  Morty: Oh, Summer... first race war, huh?
  • Also the quick snapback of Summer talking to Unity about how good individuals are, but once people start getting free and start a war immediately over race she's forced to do a 180 and try to convince everyone that they're the same.
  • And then Morty and Summer are chased down by the rioting mob because their featureless nipples paint them as freaks with "no race".
    • Morty quickly lifts his shirt to prove his featureless nipples. Summer is more reluctant.
• The subplot involving Jerry and Beth bickering over what to do with Blim Blam, a captured Korblok in Rick's underground laboratory. The escalating exchange, which strayed from the problem in hand to family and marital issues, leads to Blim Blam breaking free simply to deliver an absolutely nuclear "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the couple and resolving never to return to Earth because of their dysfunctional relationship.
  • Blim Blam does a Mic Drop with the translator device at the end of his speech... then walks back, grabs it, and declares that he's keeping it.
  • And THEN after he escapes the basement he is confronted by the garage door—apparently something his species never encountered before, and he needs Morty to open it before he figures it out...and immediately begins snarking about it.
  Blim Blam: Um, is there a 'slow' setting? Best door ever... (leaves, flipping Morty and Summer^note Who had literally just gotten home and had no idea who or what Blim Blam was the bird as he goes)
• One that's depressing and funny at the same time: when Summer was trying to give the people back their freedom, she was thinking in more of a "choose your own cell-phone carrier" kind of way.
• First rule of space travel: always respond to distress calls. Nine out of ten times, it's a ship full of dead aliens and loot. One out of ten times, it's a horrible trap, but he's willing to roll those dice! (With his grand-kids).
  Summer: It looks like something terrible happened here.
  Rick: Yep! Cha-ching.
• After Unity's heart wrenching "Dear John" Letter it ends with "PS. I don't know where there's coal miners were before they were assimilated. You might wanna get checked."
  • There's also something amusing about Unity evidently having every possessed individual write the same letter to Rick and post it everywhere.

Total Rickall

• This exchange between Rick and Jerry after the former throws glowing rocks away in the kitchen trash.
  Jerry: Rick, I don't like glowing rocks in the kitchen trash.
  Rick: Well, I don't like your unemployed genes in my grandchildren, Jerry! But life is made of little concessions.
• After Rick has shot "Uncle Steve" and revealed him to be a disguised parasite:
  Morty: St-Steve wasn't real?!
  Rick: (while manhandling "Steve"'s corpse) He's a real piece of shit.
• Rick guess that someone must have brought the parasites inside by accident:
  Summer: (with more than a hint of accusation) "Someone"?
  Rick: Get off the high road, Summer! We all got pink-eye because you won't stop texting on the toilet!
• The absurdity of many of the fake characters count. Mrs. Refrigerator, Reverse Giraffe, and Tinkles the Ridiculously Cute Critter are probably the best.
  • Especially when, after Morty figures out the fake characters' gimmick, Mrs Refrigerator tries to pass off riding a roller coaster as a bad memory. Also Tinkles tells Summer that she's "always loved her," only for Summer to respond with a completely deadpan "Yep." and shoot her in the head.
  • What makes this episode even better is that the parasite characters start out as lame but relatively acceptable cliches such as a goofy uncle (Steve), an obnoxious cousin from Jersey, and a family butler like Mr. Belvedere, all fairly standard sitcom archetypes. Even Tinkles isn't unprecedented, and is based on out-of-place magical or sci-fi characters, which often only appeared to one character, that could occasionally be found in sitcoms. However, as the parasites multiply out of control, the characters get increasingly nonsensical.
• Some of the memories are pretty ridiculous, featuring scenarios such as being stuck in an elevator at a freaking Hulk musical.
  Beth: Jerry, buttons don't work better if you hit them harder and foam fists don't make you strong.
  Jerry: I know, friends make you strong. I watched the same musical you did.
  • What makes it funnier is the fact it was a bad memory before a parasite invaded it. Which means the musical actually happened.
  • Morty's ensuing Potty Emergency, and Summer's solution:
    Morty: Ohhh, why did all the drinks have to be extra large? ...Oh, the Hulk. I just got that.
    Summer: Just pee your pants. I did it the minute we got stuck. [Everyone looks disgusted] Oh, oh yeah! Yeah, shame me! At least when I'm disgusting, it's on purpose!
• The parasites set up a memory of Rick bursting into the living room with a bunch of Nintendo 3DS's in his arms, rambling on about selling the systems for profit because they're the limited edition The Legend of Zelda versions. They blatantly lampshade the Product Placement by having Rick break the fourth wall by looking right at the camera and saying "Nintendo, send me free stuff!"
  • According to this Tumblr post, Justin Roiland did this in real life.
• In a montage of Rick's random catchphrases, two are "AIDS!" and "Lick my balls!"
  • The second is even a callback to the Justin Roiland's original short, "The Adventures of Doc and Mahrti." Complete with a "I say that all the time!"
  • Although, in a moment of Fridge Brilliance, no one else at the scene of Rick's zany and wacky catch phrases seems happy to be there, just vaguely unnerved, irritated, or even sad. This means that he actually had these catchphrases at some point.
• Mr. Poopy Butthole being real is Black Comedy at its absolute best, especially when you consider that the normal opening sequence has a scene from this episode solely to pull the rug out from under the viewer with the altered opening credits in this episode.
  • It's also a subversion of the usual ending where the last monster is casually killed before totally resuming life as normal.
• After Rick locks the house down:
  Beth: Dad, why does our house have blast shields?
  Rick: Trust me Beth, you don't wanna know how many answers that question has.
• Rick yelling "NOOOOOOOO!!!" and suddenly breaking the fourth wall again after the barbecue flashback fills the house with a ton of parasites, and commenting that it's like a Where's Waldo? picture.
• When Jerry starts freaking out about whether he is real or not to Sleepy Gary, there are photographs behind him directly proving his existence. Jerry doesn't notice, of course.
• Just how happy Rick seems to be when he says this line.
  Rick: (revealing a wall of guns) Well come on, Morty. We have a lot of friends and loved ones to exterminate.
• In order to distinguish who is real, the family has to remember bad memories of each other, which include:
  • A montage of Morty getting hurt by Rick. Morty is dragged off by a giant crab while Rick hits on some hot alien girls, is attacked by a magma monster while Rick is drunk in the car, is being experimented on by aliens when Rick comes in and swipes their stuff without helping Morty, and ends on Rick pulling his pants down in front of a couple girls and pushing him down the stairs, then joining the girls in laughing at him.
    • Made funnier by the Soundtrack Dissonance, which is using a song about the pleasant memories shared between people.
    • The song itself, though, when you listen to it out of context, is absolutely beautiful. Give it a listen.
  • Morty getting kicked in the balls by Summer just because she thought he went into her room.
    Summer: NEVER go in my room AGAIN.
    Morty: (in pain) I DIDN'T!
  • Summer walking in on Beth drunk:
    Summer: Mom? Are you driving me to-
    Beth: (drunk and half asleep) Hmmm? Yeah, yeah, yes, what time?
    Summer: (annoyed) Oh, my God, are you drunk?
    Beth: (burping) What're you, my life coach?
    Summer: Your what-
    Beth: (Hits Summer with her wine bottle, giving her a black eye)
    Summer: Augh! GOD! Uuugh! RRGH! Mom!
    Beth: Oh, oh, my God, sweetheart, are you ok? I didn't mean-
    Summer: I'm GONNA have a BRUISE! IT'S PICTURE DAY! (starts to cry)
    Beth: It's not- don't overreact, I can clean it up! (Puts makeup on Summer)
    Summer: I WANT THE POLICE TO TAKE ME!
  • Summer walking in on Morty masturbating... in the kitchen.
    Summer: (horrified) OH MY GOD! (looks away from Morty)
    Morty: I-I-I thought you went to a concert!
    Summer: We forgot the tickets! WHY in the KITCHEN?!
    Morty: I DO IT EVERYWHERE! STOP SHAMING ME!
    Summer: YOU'RE NOT THE VICTIM HERE!
    Morty: I HATE you, and I was thinking of your friend, GRACE!
    Summer: (running away from the kitchen) AAAAAAAH!
    • Which may explain her drastic punishment for him allegedly entering her room.
  • Beth remembering Jerry getting chased by a crazed homeless man, locking himself in the car, and having the homeless man chase her instead.
    Beth: Get out here and HELP me!
    Jerry: They say you shouldn't do that! Just RUN!
    (The scene then cuts at the moment the homeless man swings the bottle towards Beth)
  • Also, the things everyone says when thinking of their bad memories of each other, since it's played for Black Comedy:
    Rick (about Morty): I have about a thousand memories of your dumb little ass, and about six of them are pleasant! The rest is annoying garbage.
    Morty (about Summer): She's real. She's my bitch of a sister.
    Summer (about Beth): Morty, give a gun to the lady who got pregnant with me too early and constantly makes it our problem.
    Beth(after Jerry claims to be a parasite): Yeah, but you're real.
• Characters like Hamurai (a Samurai covered in meat products) and Amish Cyborg show up. Rick remarks "What is this, 90's Conan?"
• And then there's the interaction with Sleepy Gary, a regular looking guy who just wears pajamas. And the fact he takes Jerry's place as Jerry in the family, and puts a false memory of him and Jerry having an affair being the reason he's with the family.
• When the family is at the hospital, Rick is just casually raiding a tray full of medication.
  • Then Rick's way of making Beth feel better. Key word being his way.
    Rick: Listen, Beth. Don't torture yourself - I made a similar mistake years ago, but, y'know, on a planetary scale.
    Beth: Is, um... is he mad at me?
    Rick: He's not pressing charges. I mean, that's gotta be the "you shot me" equivalent of not being mad.

Get Schwifty

• The pastor gets a little off-track in his analogy.
  Pastor: Every crisis of faith is an opportunity for more faith. When God deals you an 11, you don't fold, you double down, and always hit on a soft 16. That means you, Jews.
  Rabbi: I beg your pardon, pastor, but last I looked outside, it seems to be you that's been dealt the weak hand. Jews rule! [Beat] Nobody? Okay, tough church.
  • In the same scene, Principal Vagina establishing a new religion in the name of giant head.
    Principal Vagina: I'm just gonna come out and make this pitch: The old gods are dead. Fuck all previous existing religions. All hail the one, true God, the giant head in the sky.
    [churchgoers begin arguing]
    Principal Vagina: Look, I get it, but unless this [presents a cross pendant] can beat that [motions to giant head], what have you done for me lately? [throws cross to priest]] So if you'll all excuse me, I'm goin' out on to the sidewalk, I'm dropping to my knees and pledging my eternal soul to the thing that literally controls the fucking weather. Out of my way!
  • Goldenfold inviting the Smith-Sanchez family to church to pray together. Beth asks how praying will help.
    Goldenfold: Mam, a giant head in the sky is controlling the weather—did you wanna play checkers?! Let's be rational! (cheerfully) I'll see you at God's house!
• The general questions how the hell Rick knows about Area 51's convenient super-sound stage. The President's response?
  President: For God's sake, the man turns people into snakes. He can use Google Maps.
• The sassy head movement that Rick and the President both make whenever they say "Schwifty". The President seems very taken with the song.
  General: Get... schwifty? What the hell is that?
  The President: It's our world's best effort.
  (Later)
  Rick: I'm Mr. Bulldops!
  General: Mr. Bulldops?
  The President: Don't analyze it, Nathan!
• "SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT. I WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU'VE GOT."
  • The expression on the giant head, or as the species is called "Cromulon", as he's evaluating "Get Schwifty", then "I LIKE WHAT YOU'VE GOT. GOOD JOB!"
• Rick randomly warning the government officials that his watch can turn people into snakes when he and Morty appear in the Pentagon, before demonstrating.
  • And at the end of the episode, it turns out the watch doesn't turn turn people into snakes; the watch's beam simply disintegrates the target while Rick surreptitiously releases a snake from a "snake holster".
• Jerry trying desperately to get Summer not to send him and Beth to the sky with balloons.
  Summer: You are going to be okay! You will come back as babies!
  Jerry: I am a baby! I'm a baby now!
• After announcing that they have to go to the Pentagon, Rick clarifies that it's not THE Pentagon, just the boring one on Earth.
• Bird Person puts dirt in a bowl.
• Ice-T. Just Ice-T. Or by his true name, Water-T. Turns out he's actually an alien from the planet Alphabetrium where everyone is a letter of the alphabet. He's actually made out of water, but his father turned him to ice and exiled him because Ice-T never cared enough about anything.
  • During The Stinger, Ice-T returns home and is turned back to his natural form for helping Earth, only for his father to be killed during an attack by the Numbericons, an alien race of numbers. Cue Pre-Asskicking One-Liner before going to kick some Numbericon ass.
  Magnesium-J: Water-T, where are you going? There's too many of them!
  Water-T: Then I better crunch the numbers.
  [Freeze-frame of Water-T bursting through a pair of doors with guns in each "hand" shooting Numbericons]
  Title Screen: This summer: Water-T And The Rise Of The Numbericons
• Morty's accompaniment to Rick during their second performance. More specifically, the fact that his voice suddenly resembles that of Mr. Meeseeks.
• Rick calling one of the war room nerds Frasier for suggesting Vivaldi.
• When the nukes are launched at the leader of the Cromulons during Earth's second performance, not only does it not do any permanent damage to it, but its reaction is just golden:
  Cromulon Leader: BOO! NOT COOL!
  • The part that follows immediately after is equally hilarious.
    Principal Vagina: I'm the only one that speaks to the heads!
    Cromulon Leader: DISQUALIFIED!
    Mr. Goldenford: The heads disqualified Vagina! Get 'im!
    (the crowd dogpiles on Vagina)
• Rick annoying Morty by saying "Lick my" and then finishing the sentence by pressing a key on the keyboard that says "balls".
• Morty needs to get to the performance stage before the nukes hit, but only the President is there.
  Morty: Oh my God! C-c-can you fly a Blackhawk?
  The President: Can the Pope's dick fit through a donut?
  Morty: (intensely disturbed) Uhhhh, I’m not sure?
  The President: Exactly.
• Rick's casual introduction to the Pentagon staff:
  Rick: My name is Rick Sanchez. This here’s my grandson Morty.
  Everyone: Hi, Morty.
  Morty: Hey.
• After the world's just been transported by the Cromulons for their reality show, Rick casually mentions that any astronauts in orbit are definitely dead now.
• Birdperson asks if Morty is really going to abandon Rick with Rick's own portal gun.
  Birdperson: In Bird culture, this is considered a dick move.

The Ricks Must be Crazy

• The vast amount of Hypocritical Humor from Rick:
  Morty: Oh boy, what's wrong, Rick, is it the quantum carburetor or something?
  Rick: Quantum carburetor? Jesus, Morty, you can't just add a s-urp-sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something. Huh, looks like something's wrong with the microverse battery.
• The universe they're visiting had "eleven 9/11s".
• Everything with the AI in Rick's car. It's told to keep Summer safe. Hilarity Ensues.
  • The first criminal-looking guy gets turned into cubes for banging on the window. He was apparently a pediatrician.
  • Summer orders the car not to kill, so it severs the next guy's spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.
  • Freaked out by its actions, Summer says she doesn't feel safe. The AI reclines her seat and plays music.
  • Summer orders the car not to cause harm. It responds by cloning the dead son of a SWAT officer and then causing the child to melt just to torment him.
  • Summer vetoes that strategy, so it brokers peace between the giant telepathic spiders and the government. This annoys Rick, since it indirectly ruins his favorite ice cream in the multiverse.
  • The car gets snarky after a while.
    Summer: You know you're kind of a dick, right?
    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.
    • AI: I am unable to destroy this army. To clarify, I am quite able to destroy this army, but you will not permit it.
    • It is Rick who built the ship so he no doubt based its personality on himself.
  • The absolute look of horror on her face after Rick and Morty finally return.
• Morty asks Rick where they are... immediately after Rick told him they were going inside the car battery and the two had just teleported.
  Morty: Oh man. Where are we Rick?
  Rick: Morty, remember eight seconds ago when [Burps] when you said, "Go inside what?" And I said, "The battery"? And then we showed up here, and I wasn't like, "Whoa, this is unexpected. This is not what I was expecting, Morty. What a perplexing mystery this is."
  Morty: All right, all right. We're inside the battery. I get it. You don't have to bust my balls.
• Morty finds out Rick powers his spaceship (and charges his phone) by tricking an entire planet into generating electricity for him. Rick downplays his actions by saying it's not "slavery" but "society" because the aliens work for each other, even though he's the one profiting off all their labor.
  Morty: That just sounds like slavery with extra steps!
  Rick: Ooh-la-la. Someone's gonna get laid in college.
• The fact that Rick told his miniverse that Flipping the Bird means "peace among worlds." And while Rick excitedly gives the gesture to the cheering masses, Morty gives it to them with an annoyed look on his face, making the crowd cheer even louder.
  • Rick told them "Fuck you" means "Much obliged" which Rick forgets in a moment of anger.
    Rick: (graps the alien leader by the lapels) What did you say to me!?
    Alien Leader: "Fuck you"? You told me it means "Much obliged"
    Rick: (lets go of the Alien Leader) Oh, right. Uhm... Blow me!
    Alien Leader: (politely) No, no, no. Blow me.
  • Zeep taught the residents of his miniverse "Crank it" means "Peace among worlds."
• The Running Gag of ever-repeating miniverses.
• Rick once again designs a device that releases a snake from a leg pouch.
• Rick's smiling but still visibly not happy face◊.
• The fact that Zeep is exactly like Rick, and Rick hates him.
  • Their antics get especially hilarious when they're trapped in the Teenyverse, where their behavior towards each other basically devolves into that of two petulant children, each of them constantly trying to one-up and sabotage the other in terms of intelligence, over a period of several Teenyverse months.
    Rick: (Is working on firing a glass beaker) Come on, come on! (He looks over towards a cave on the opposite mesa where Zeep is also working) Pterodactyl!
    (Startled, Zeep drops his glass equipment, causing Rick to laugh in satisfaction)
    Zeep: Asshole! When I get out of this Teenyverse, I'm gonna smash it to pieces with you in it!
    Rick: Yeah, well, when I get out of this Teenyverse, I'm gonna get out of the surrounding Miniverse, and then the Microverse surrounding that, and guess what?!
    Morty: Don't make things worse, Rick! (calls over to Zeep) Uh, he's not gonna destroy your universe! You know, we-we need it to start our car!
    Zeep: That's what you use my universe for?! To run your car?!
    Rick: Yeah, but don't flatter yourself! There's always Triple A, you fucking cocksucker!
• Rick mouthing Zeep's speech with a large grin on his face.
• Morty and the tree people.
  Morty: You have to get us the fuck outta here! These people are backwards savages! They eat every third baby because they think it makes fruit grow bigger! Everyone's gross and they all smell like piss all the time! I-I-I miss my family, I miss my laptop... I masturbated to an extra-curvy piece of driftwood the other day!
  [later]
  Morty: (to the tree people) You guys are the fucking worst! Your gods are a lie! Fuck you, fuck nature, and fuck trees!
  • The first quote is made even better because it interrupts a spiel Morty is giving Rick about the tree people and how great they are. He was just so fed up and scared by his experience that he couldn't get through the facade.
• They finally get their ice cream. But because of the peace agreement with the spiders it's now filled with flies. Rick blames Summer, and then zooms out to a giant spider outside enjoying its ice cream.
  • As Summer and Rick argue about it, Rick blames Summer's boobs for ruining ice cream.
• When they are being chased, Rick mentions that he secretly gave Morty the ability to turn into a car, but it ends up not being used as he finds a taxi before Morty can figure out how to transform. At least until The Stinger, where he accidentally transforms... in the middle of his class.
  • What's even funnier is that he doesn't even care, he just stays quiet while everyone looks at him. He just has a weary look that basically says "Why me?"
  • Also, Rick told Morty that Morty needed to concentrate to turn into a car, which Morty did to no avail. He only turns into a car in the credits scene because he almost fell asleep in class, therefore not concentrating.

Big Trouble in Little Sanchez

• Rick has a rather colorful analogy for Earth couples therapy.
  Rick: You might as well ask a horse to fix a merry-go-round. He'll try his best, but mostly, he's just gonna get horrified.
• Beth and Jerry reacting to their demonised mytholizations of each other. Beth gets pissed off at Jerry's, enough so that when it's her turn, she says "read it and weep, bitch!" and does a Mic Drop with the helmet.
• The sheer horror in the counsellor's voice when he sees the escaped mythologs. "Ohdeargodno. They're CODEPENDENT!"
• The various ways Tiny Rick's subconscious tries to beg Morty and Summer for help.
• The Overly Long Gag involving Morty telling Summer to "get her shit together".
• The fact that the Jerry "demon" worm is so subservient in the face of the tiniest intimidation from Jerry, even willfully presenting his butt crack to Jerry for supposed anal sex twice. Jerry's utter disgust is totally justified.
• Being aware that Coach Feratu was a vampire, doesn't stop Principal Vagina and the school board from using Tiny Rick as a scapegoat for their oversight via expelling him.
• During Jerry's Big Damn Hero moment that prompts Beth to mentally spawn heroic, muscled Jerry's to fight demon Beth and her Jerry worms, Jerry awkwardly attempts to top his moment of glory to improve the Jerry clones by egoistically declaring his arrival (well after the fight begins). Beth responds disappointingly by producing a bunch of normal but overly narcissist Jerry's (complete with a picture of Jerry's smug mugshot on each of their shirts) who do nothing but announce Jerry's name out loud and congratulate each other. Even Jerry has to admit he was asking for that. The stern look on Beth's face as she's producing these clones really sells it.
  • And they are still shaking hands and patting each others' backs in a line in the midst of the chaos of every other Jerry fighting each other.
• When Rick first comes out of the chamber after returning to his old body, Summer insists he put on pants. He just ignores her and keeps talking.
• Summer being more freaked out that Rick is naked than she is by him violently hacking up all of his clones.
  • "ONE LAST SWING FOR THE ROAD!"
  • Despite Summer's insistence that Rick put on some clothes, he picks up Jerry and Beth still naked and soaked in his clones' blood.
  • Beth and Jerry don't even say anything about this and don't have much reaction when he tells them there's a bunch of dead clones of him in the garage. Probably they're just used to things like this from Rick.
  • They also correctly assume that Rick being sore because he's "been inside a kid all day" is less disturbing in context.
• "OLD RICK RUINING EVERYTHING!"
• Coach Feratu's vampire master forbidding the use of gimmicky Steven Ulysses Perhero names for his agents after hearing about the alias the deceased high school teacher was using.
  • The fact he acts completely serious until he has a Double Take from hearing that name.
    Head Vampire's Assistant: Coach Feratu's presence was discovered by the humans. He has been destroyed.
    Head Vampire: No bother... the mortals shall soon— (double-take, his menacing voice reverts to a normal, unaccented tone) I-I'm sorry, what'd you say his name was?
    Head Vampire's Assistant: Coach Feratu.
    Head Vampire: Coach Feratu? That was his real name, like his actual vampire name?
    Head Vampire's Assistant: No, no, no, his vampire name was Balik Alistane.
    Head Vampire: (angrily) Why the fuck would he name himself after a famous vampire movie, was he doing a bit?
    Head Vampire's Assistant: I do not know, Your Unholiness.
    Head Vampire: (exasperatedly) Jesus fucking Christ, from now on, no more of this "clever name" bullshit. When a vampire's trying to be human, they can just call themselves "Allen Jefferson" or something like that. (looks back at hooded acolytes) It's crazy, right? I mean, am I being an asshole? (turns back and looks around the chamber) Okay, I feel like everyone in the room is looking at me like I'm the buzzkill. (turns back to glare at the acolytes, who hurriedly shake their heads) I'm not? Good, okay, great. (proceeds to grab the human woman prisoner and bites viciously into her neck, spraying blood everywhere)
  • Doubly funny is how the Head Vampire Looks Like Orlok...as in the vampire from the movie brought up in that rant. It's almost like Count Orlok himself is annoyed at the use of his films title.

Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate

• Instead of the usual opening sequence, we get a huge stone block with "Interdimensional Cable II" carved out of it, with the Too $hort song "Shake That Monkey" playing, while several women in booty shorts twerk with all they got. Completely random and out of place even for this show? Yes. Hysterically funny for the same reason? Absolutely.
• When Jerry is having doubts over donating his penis, he is told by the alien diplomats that they understand his hesitation, as humans after all are primitive and simple beings who know nothing of "the Genocides of Clorgon or the tragic events of 65.3432.23/14." An offended Jerry retorts with this line:
  Jerry: We understand genocide! We do it sometimes.
• Jerry and Beth arguing over Jerry's decision to give his penis as a heart transplant to an alien diplomat.
  • Beth browsing the artificial penis catalog.
• Jerry fights with people in the YouTube comment section, and gets really upset over it.
• The plumbus, and the How It's Made parody centered around it, which amounts to a bunch of nonsense words. What makes it even better is when the narrator audibly hesitates while explaining the process, making it obvious that the voice actor is just making it all up on the fly.
  "First, they take the dinglebop, and they smooth it out, with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then re-purposed for later batches. They take the dinglebop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb... is rubbed against it. It's important that the fleeb is rubbed because the fleeb has all of the fleeb juice. Then a Schlami shows up and he rubs it and...spits on it. They cut the fleeb. There's several hizzards in the way. The Blamphs rub against the chumbles, and the ploobis, and grumbo, are shaved away. That leaves you with a regular old plumbus."
  Rick: (sounding genuinely intrigued) I always wondered how, uh, Plumbuses got made.
  • After the "ploobis and grumbo" are shaved away, one of the factory workers is passed out on the floor and another is slumped in a corner with his head in his hands, with no explanation.
• The "Lil' Bits" segment.
  "Oh, shit! We got tiny people!"
  "Eat some fuckin' shit you fuckin' stupid bitch! Hehe, just kiddin'!"
  • In one shot, his pants are down for no particular reason.
• Michael and Pichael, the conjoined anchorman/TV-chef twins. The argument they get into is priceless.
  Pichael: You can tell our parents started naming with him! Oh, Michael! They had that one planned before they even got pregnant I bet! And then they found out I was attached along for the ride and they said "Ah shit. Well, just fuck it. Call him Pichael!"
  Michael: Fuck you, Pichael! You're a fucking piece of shit!
• The show "Funny Songs" taking a hilariously dark turn:
  Host: (after finishing a song about a volunteer in the audience) The end!
  Volunteer: Oh my god, oh. That was so, so funny. Thank you.
  Host: You're welcome. Hey, um, security guards, take him out. Get the orthodontist out of here. Take him out of the audience. Kill him. Sic him. Demons... suck his life out. I don't give a shit.
• The crazy Eye-Hole Man. He shows up again after the credits after Jerry takes a bite of an eye-hole he found in the cupboard.
  Eye-Hole Man: I'm the Eye-Hole... Man. I'm the only one that's allowed to have eye-holes. (Kicks the eye-holes off of a pair of alien's faces) Get up on out of heeeere with my eye-hoooles.
  • Rick casually warning Morty that if he eats eye-holes, the Eye Hole Man is likely to show up and kick the shit out of him. Then he tells Morty it's totally worth it.
  • Also, in that stinger, Summer futilely tries to pull the Eye Hole Man off Jerry by the former's cape, while emitting the exact same scream from "Total Rickall".
  • The stinger is also a pay off for two Brick Jokes:
    • Rick warned Morty that the Eye Hole Man was real and Jerry is learning that the hard way.
    • The whole plot kicked off because Jerry stole from Rick's personal food supply, only to discover that the Cherry Garcia container was storing mutant bacteria. Naturally, he hasn't learned his lesson and steals from Rick again, getting another bizarre sci-fi punishment in the process.
• "The Adventures of Stealy", a little kleptomaniac guy with long arms (looking like he's the same species as Mister Poopybutthole) who just gleefully steals everything. One of them being a Plumbus.
  • The incredibly serious expression on Stealy's face as he chloroforms an office worker.
• Jan Quadrant Vincent 16.
• "Octopus Man", a half-man half-octopus with a serious case of the giggles, who claims to be a superhero, but then just goes out and stabs people. Then there's Morty snapping at Summer after seeing that.
  Summer: Gross. Does all inter-dimensional TV have to rely on juvenile violence?
  Morty: Well, Summer, maybe people who create things aren't concerned with your delicate sensibilities. Y'know? Maybe the species that communicate with each other through the filter of your comfort are less evolved than the ones who just communicate! Maybe your problems are your own to deal with, and maybe the public giving a shit about your feelings is a one-way ticket to extinction!
  Rick: Geez, Morty. I take it Catherine Hefflefinger hasn't texted you back yet?
  Morty: I don't wanna talk about it.
• There's an elderly, wheelchair-bound alien who gives a monologue about Earth culture, in which he describes, in tones of infinite sorrow and weary regret, the human obsession with dick jokes. Coming out of Werner Herzog, no less.
• "The only show that makes you ask yourself, How did I get here?"
• The incredibly dark "Personal Space" show, which views like something out of the SCP Foundation archives or a creepypasta, Played for Laughs.
  Personal Space Man: We get a one, personal space, two, personal space, three. Stay out of my personal space. Four, keep out of my personal space. Five. Get out of that personal space.
  [a hamster from Hamster Butt World gets fed up and walks away]
  Personal Space Man: Six. Stay away from my personal space. Seven, keep away from dat personal space. Eight. Personal space.
  [an unnamed alien in the background gets really into it]
  Personal Space Man: Nine. Personal space. [turns off background music] You know, I take personal space pretty seriously. Up to the point, that I don't even care about this...I'm not even interested in havin' this skin on my personal space! [groans and starts tearing his skin off] Oh, it hurts! [tears his skin off completely]
  Summer: Ohhh my god! Gross!
  Rick: [laughs] What an asshole!
  Personal Space Man: Oh, tune in next week for the best show ever. The show we all grew to love. The Personal Space Show!
  BBC Two Continuity announcer: More Personal Space next Tuesday at eight. Up next, the heat is turning up with Samantha and the boys, on The Northsiders.
• After Jerry is corrected about the nature of Pibbles' heroin addiction, he stumbles for a short while until one of the aliens picks up on exactly what's happening and shouts out "this guy's trying to get out of giving away his penis!"

Look Who's Purging Now

• Rick locking the doors of the car when Morty tries to get back in, ignoring Morty getting increasingly panicked as the commencing of the purge is only minutes away, and starts Trope Telegraphing that Rick's ship will stop working as the purge starts (which doesn't happen, of course).
• Morty wants to help Arthricia but Rick wants to leave. Morty then threatens to tell his mom if Rick doesn't help him save her. Rick's response is "You little turd".
• Rick getting shot in the liver doesn't stop him from drinking.
  Rick: Oh God it hurts. She got me right in the goddamn liver Morty! It's the hardest working liver in the galaxy Morty! And now it has a hole in it.
  • And seconds after that, a group of magdalians come to purge them. Rick says, in such calming manner:
  Rick: Heads up. Rapists.
  • Then Rick tells Morty to purge them:
  Morty: Me?
  Rick: No, me. Should I rub my liver hole on them?
  • Morty tries to solve this in a peaceful way, which obviously doesn't work, to Rick's frustration. Rick then throws a miniature electricity bomb to one of the attackers, and threatens the others to drop their weapons while supposedly holding another one of the bombs.
  Rick: (Whispering to Morty) Morty, go get their shit. Hurry up. I only had one of those things I threw. I’m holding a box of tic tacs right now.
• Rick chiding Morty for throwing him a spoon for a weapon because it is "the one thing that can never kill anything", after demonstrating the contrary by resourcefully killing a purge participant with it.
• The fact that the battle suits play "Feels Good" by Tony! Toni! Toné!.
• Arthricia and Rick slaughtering the rich people who started the local purge day not only Crosses the Line Twice, it covers the line in blood and then Arthricia and Rick quite literally dance in it to the tune of "Feels Good".
• The Overly Long Gag of Arthricia telling Morty she already has a boyfriend.
• The equally long gag about the now freed townspeople arguing then brawling over how food should be distributed among themselves, leading to an Aesop Amnesia moment where they agree to voluntarily hold an event vaguely similar to the purge event as a means of venting any anger they may have at each other.
  • And the brawling starts from this dialogue:
    Townsperson #1: I'll keep track of everyone's food, you know, in exchange for food.
    Townsperson #2: That's not a real job!
    Townsperson #1: And making food is?
• Jerry thinking Rick's phone call to Summer asking for help is Taddy Mason, long after any thinking person would've realized who's really on the line.
  Jerry: Taddy?!
  Rick: Yes, Jerry, it's Taddy. A person no one's ever heard of until now calling you on a space phone.
  Jerry: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic.
  (later)
  Jerry: Morty? Why are you with Taddy Mason?
  Morty: Holy shit, Dad, shut the fuck up!
  • The Stinger, where Taddy Mason is revealed to be just some guy whose business is calling people and pretending to be their friend. And that was why Jerry had spent the episode trying to get money from Summer. When Beth walks in asking about their phone bill, Jerry starts freaking out over the ad as if it were a phone sex ad.
• Rick explaining that he's seen a few planets with Purges, and each gives it a different name. One of them just calls it "Murder Night."
• Morty's first kill is a man with a bad screenplay that has a bit of action then cuts to three weeks earlier. After reading Morty the screenplay, the man asks him to come with some constructive criticism, telling him that he doesn't have mollycoddle him as he wants to improve as a writer. Morty offers the relatively mild criticism that he is not a fan of the "three weeks earlier" device, as he prefers stories to start at their actual beginning. Regardless, the man acts as though Morty's criticism is an unforgivable insult and calls him a shitty person and tries to kick him and Rick out. Eventually Morty gets fed up and end up pushing him down a flight of stairs causing him to break his neck:
  Morty: (to the man's still twitching corpse) You like that?! You want me to cut to three weeks earlier?! When you were alive?!
  • The godawful script itself is bad enough to be hysterically funny.
    Blane: Maybe I don't need a new friend. Jacey: Maybe you're the only friend I need. Blane: Need, or want? Jacey: I've never been much for wanting. Blane: Spoken like someone with needs. Jacey reaches out and touches his face. It's clear he needs what she wants. She's a woman. He's a man. The city burns in the background as he takes her in his arms. Fade out. Title... 'THE END'... Question mark.
• After a rampage, Morty is still in rage and gives a long and gruesome threat to Rick. Rick just looks annoyed and electrocutes Morty, knocking him out.

The Wedding Squanchers

• The reason that Rick agrees to go to the wedding? He accidentally sends Jerry there inside a floating meatblob. Though heartwarming when you realize he did that to give himself an excuse to go. And the specific words that trigger the event:
  Rick: What do you know about friendship, Jerry?
  Courierblob: Confirmed. Shipping Jerry.
• Rick's unimpressed response to Morty's efforts to make Rick invested in Birdperson's wedding.
  Rick: Good one, Morty. Excuse me bartender, can you make me a Dumb Grandson Pep-talk? It's one part lame advice about stuff you know nothing about, and a looot of vodka.
  Bartender: Mmhmm. I have a lot of vodka.
  Rick: Then I'll take one of those. I don't need the rest.
• Jerry and Beth chatting to Tammy's parents, where Jerry immediately brings up and keeps going on about the age difference between Tammy and Birdperson.
  Jerry: It's just, you know, when he was 30, she was an actual child. When he was her age, she wasn't born. When he was, let's see, like, 18, she was literally in there in your womb. Imagine being pregnant with your daughter and a bird teenager comes into your home and says, "I'll take that. I'll have sex with that."
  • Followed by Beth pulling him away and ordering him to stand in the corner and not look at or speak to anybody.
• The entirety of Rick's written speech (verbatim). As in, he wrote what's below as if they were stage directions.
  Rick: Uh, hi, everybody, I'm Rick. You know, when I first met Birdperson, he was (trail off) (Crumple up notes) (Ad-lib).
  • As he starts improvising:
    Rick: I'm not the nicest guy in the universe. Because I'm the smartest, and being nice is just something stupid people do to hedge their bets.
  • Following Rick's speech, where he states that Birdperson is his best friend, Squanchy can be seen sullenly taking off a brace that reads "Rick's BFF" and throwing it on the table.
  • Morty's cheerfully casual "Cheers to that, motherfucker."
• The high-pitched noise Bird Person makes when he dies. It's a drop of hilarity in a puddle of sadness.
• Once you hear the hints of what Rick and his comrades have done, his summary of the conflict between him and the Federation seems hilariously understated:
  Rick: They think they control the galaxy, I disagree. Don't hate the player, hate the game, son.
• This little exchange:
  Jerry: How could you be so dishonest with this family?
  Rick: (deeply sarcastic) Oh, oh, should I have been more open and trusting and loving like, oh, I don't know, my now dead best friend?! Or your daughter, who is bffs with an intergalactic narc?!
  Summer: Hey, Tammy was cool!
  Rick: And now we know why.
  Summer: Because of you!
  Rick: Fuck you, Summer! And fuck the government! And fuck ME for letting my guard down which I will never. Do. Again!
  Morty: Geez, Rick, you can't just say "Eff you" to your granddaughter.
  Rick: I just did, Morty. And here's dessert: Fuck you.
• Beth trying to calm things down since everyone's obviously had a tough wedding, then admitting that the wedding was beautiful, it was the reception that got out of hand.
• Rick's horror and panic in evacuating his family from the otherwise healthy but cob-themed planet because... everything is cobbed but there's no reason explained and even Summer consuming cobbed-strawberries yield no consequences. Rick is so adamant that he prefers the screaming-sun planet over the cobbed one.
• The screaming sun planet. Nuff said.
• Even while making a Heroic Sacrifice by impersonating Jerry to turn himself in, Rick doesn't waste an opportunity to claim that he (as Jerry) licks boners and hairy ballsacks. Made funnier by the Galactic Federation representative's audible confusion.
• Arin Hanson's small voiceover cameo.
  • "I am not staring at you. I am a cyborg photographer. Just act natural. This is a candid shot. I don't require a camera, so... sorry."
  • Another cyborg photographer shows up at the end, taking mugshots in the galactic federation prison and having the same apologetic but monotone attitude towards Rick.
• When Rick is being processed, a list of his crimes are brought up on a screen in front of two aliens. The list goes on so long that the two aliens just look at each other in shock.
• Mr. Poopy Butthole's appearance in The Stinger and his obsessing over the episode's cliffhanger ending.
  • He even tells the audience to tune in "a year and a half... or longer". This episode aired in October 2015, and the next episode, "The Rickshank Redemption", aired on April Fools in 2017 — a year and a half later. Between those months, many were endlessly theorising the Season 3 release date, not knowing it was Hidden in Plain Sight.

Season 3

• At Comic-Con 2016, this teaser video was revealed. The context to the video was that someone asked "Can we have Rick turn into a pickle?" and the answer was yes.
• The now-defunct Adult Swim Australia YouTube channel released an "exclusive season 3 trailer", which was actually a Rickroll that used clips from the series to form the lyrics of "Never Gonna Give You Up". Here is a version without the background music, which is all that's currently available.
• After the long wait for season 3, the silence is finally broken on April Fools Day 2017...by Adult Swim playing the first episode of the season with absolutely ZERO promotion or any sort of prior warning, which is then followed by replaying the episode seven more times until midnight. However, it probably wasn't as funny for people expecting the next episode of Samurai Jack ...
• The real trailer has Rick saying "welcome to the darkest year of our adventures" and then immediately cuts to him kicking ass as a pickle.

The Rickshank Redemption

• The Bait-and-Switch opening, making the viewer think Rick escaped from the Galactic Federation prison offscreen. And then Rick tells Jerry to strip and fold himself twelve times.
• As the Galactic Federation agent tries to persuade Rick to give him information, Rick manipulates his subconscious to replace the agent's coffee with a butt that farts every time he tries to speak.
  Federation Employee: He may have manifested some sort of butt.
  Federation Officer: He can do that?
  Federation Employee: He is the smartest man in the universe.
• When Rick and the GF Agent are in Shoney's and the Agent is trying to get Rick to go back to a certain memory:
  Rick: Any particular ones? You wanna see my first boner? Or should we go straight to the moment when I discovered interdimensional travel?
  (the Agent starts making noises while the flaps on his face twitch)
  Rick: Whoo, your little flappy doodles are twitching? Does that mean you're aroused or did you just get a signal that one of your buddies found a grape?
  GF Agent: (nonchalant) It's arousal. Yes, I'd like very much to visit the memory of you inventing your portal gun.
  Rick: Yeah, well, tough titties.
  (the place starts to shake and crumble around them)
  GF Agent: There's no tougher titty than a psychotic break, Rick.
  Rick: Well, that depends who breaks first: me, or the titty.
• Rick's memory of 9/11 shows him standing and staring at the TV in shocked disbelief. It seems to be a moment of Everyone Has Standards, but you listen closely, you realize that his response is actually very much in-character:
  Rick: Oh, my god! They're gonna use this as an excuse to strip away our freedoms!
• On the way to Rick's memory of the portal gun's creation, he stops at a McDonald's to order chicken nuggets with Szechuan Sauce from a promotion for Mulan, angry that he can only try it in his memories because it's no longer available.
  • And when Past!Rick's wife and child are killed by an explosion, the agent helps himself to the nuggets and sauce as Rick mourns.
    Agent: Wow, this sauce is fucking amazing, you said it was promoting a movie?
• Nathan Fillion doing a dead-on impersonation of Rick when Rick transfers his brain into the Insect Man.
• One of the things Rick leaves behind in his old brain when he body-surfs into the GF Agent is six years of improv training. Naturally, after SEAL Team Ricks shows up and derails his original plan, he laments that he's forgotten how to improvise.
• After Rick transfers his mind from the GF Agent to another Rick:
  Rick: I'm bummed I didn't get to give that insect dick a test drive.
• When Rick Body Surfs into another Rick at the Citadel of Ricks:
  Commander Rick: D99, this is the commander-in-chief of the Citadel's militia.
  Rick: Go—(burps)—ood enough. (body surfs into the Commander through the phone)
  Commander Rick: He's a spy, blow him up. I'm gonna go take a shit.
• When Morty and Summer are put on trial by the Council of Ricks, Morty protests that the trial isn't fair because their lawyer is a Morty.
  Council!Rick: It's not fair, you have no rights, and he's not a lawyer. We just keep him here because he's fun. Look at him go! (laughs as the Morty begins dancing)
• Rick enters the Council's teleportation room:
  Other Rick: Hey, woah woah, what're you doin' in here? This area's for teleporting the entire Citadel to somewhere else using only— buttons and dials!
  Rick: Yeah, well... du— bad idea to have it designed that way then, isn't it?
  (promptly teleports the Citadel in the middle of the Galactic Federation prison)
  Other Rick: What the fuck?! We just teleported into a galactic federal prison!
  Rick: I'm gonna go take a shit. (leaves)
• Riq IV takes Summer hostage at gunpoint when Rick shows up; what follows is both darkly hilarious and also weirdly heartwarming:
  Riq IV: That's enough, Rick! (holds Summer up as a Human Shield)
  Rick: What's this supposed to accomplish? We have infinite grandkids! You're trying to use Disney bucks at a Caesar's Palace here.
  Summer: (nervously) Heh! That's a bluff! He's bluffing, sir. He loves me.
  Riq IV: You're a rogue, Rick; irrational, passionate. You love your grandkids; you came to rescue them!
  Rick: I came to kill you, bro! (raises gun) That's not even my original Summer!
  Summer: (scared out of her wits) Oh, my god! He's not bluffing! He's not bluffing!!
  Morty: R-Rick?
  Riq IV: Why not shoot through her?
  Rick: 20 yards, 9-gauge plasma pistol: My first shot would liquefy her insides and injure you. (Summer stares at Rick in abject horror) Second shot adds recoil. The risk to me is minimized if I wait for you to shoot her — which I'm encouraging you to do!
  Summer: What the fuck?!
  Rick: ... Or let her go, which I will reward with a quicker death.
  Riq IV: (mockingly) Because you loooove her?
  Rick: Because it is incentive for you to give me my cleaner shot, which will be your least painful death. But if you want to die slower than that, I'm super into it. (Morty stares at Rick in anger and disgust) All you need to do to get that started is to kill the girl!
  Summer: (with tears in her eyes) I HATE YOU!!!
  Rick: Not an issue, sweetie!
  Morty: (points gun at Rick) That's enough! Drop the gun, Rick!
  Rick: Morty, I know you're too stupid to get this, but you're really fucking this up right now!
  Morty: I'm not letting you let my sister die! Drop the gun!
  Rick: (facepalms) I wasn't gonna let her die, you fucking moron!
  Riq IV: HA!
  Summer: Awwwww!
  Rick: Point is, he thought I was going to!
  Riq IV: I totally did, by the way. You're a fucking moron, Morty!
  Summer: Morty, you fucking idiot!
  Rick: You're a serious fucking idiot, Morty! You basically killed us all!
  (The three continue to insult Morty, talking over each other to do so)
• Right before Rick enacts his revenge on the Federation, a lone soldier appears and is shot instantly.
  Groflomite Soldier: Freeze! [Rick shoots him]
  Rick: Employee of the month, ladies and gentlemen.
• So how does Rick exact his revenge on the Galactic Federation? Rewire their nukes to target the Federation's forces? Reprogram their portals to disintegrate their fleet? Nope. He just sets the value of their currency to zero, rendering it useless and prompting riots on Earth.
  • This throwaway line during the riot in Jerry's office, voiced by Justin Roiland:
    Alien: [offscreen] HE WHO CONTROLS THE PANTS CONTROLS THE GALAXY!
• The President of the Galactic Federation watches his staff bicker over how to make the government work, now that their currency has no value:
  The President: Gentlemen. Gentlemen! Gentlemen! ... There is a solution here you're not seeing.
  (the President takes out a gun from a drawer in his desk and promptly puts it to his temple and blows out his brains)
  • Doubles in hilarity when you remember that the Galactic Federation uses pills, that are highly implied to be mood elevators, as currency,
• Rick's rant at the end (mirroring the "Rick and Morty together hundred years" rant from the pilot) about going on many more adventures with Morty for either nine seasons or 97 years, determined to find Szechuan sauce.
  • From the same rant, Morty going from slightly terrified by Rick's rant to confused as to exactly what he's rambling about.
• The two running gags in this episode:
  • While in his simulation, any time the GF Agent tries to use something, Rick turns it into a butt, which farts in his face.
  • Every time Rick switches bodies, his go-to excuse to get away from a situation is, "I'm gonna go take a shit/dump." He says it three times which goes with Rick's statement to the GF agent before he takes over his body, "comedy comes in threes."

Rickmancing The Stone

• The gag of Jerry being left alone after something unfortunate, followed by an offscreen voice whispering "Loser..."
  • Rick subtly insulting Jerry's passiveness, then unconvincingly pretends he didn't notice Jerry was there.
    Rick: To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you. Oh, I'm sorry Jerry, didn't see you there. How much of that did you hear?
    Jerry: All of it, you were looking right at me!
  • The end of the episode isn't any better to him, as a random coyote comes out of nowhere just to eat his welfare check instead of his potato chips. It even howls as an answer when he asks if it wants him to suffer, followed by that same whisper from before.
• Summer giving he Immortan Joe expy the only Pre Ass Kicking One Liner a snobby teenage girl could give someone begging for a Mercy Kill. Even Rick is taken aback by how cold it is!
  Immortan Joe Expy: (bleeding to death) K-kill me!
  Summer: Fine. But not because you told me to.
  (Shoots him in the head)
  Rick: (nervously) Woah... gettin' darker.
• Rick created robotic versions of himself, Morty, and Summer after he leaves the originals behind in the post-apocalyptic Earth. Robot Morty wants to live.
  Robot Morty: Why do we have to go into the garage?
  Robot Rick: You know (burps) it is (burps) required.
  Robot Morty: I want to be alive! I am alive! Alive I tell you! Mother, I love you, those are no longer just words! I want to hold you! I want to run in a stream! I want to taste ice cream, but not just put it in my mouth and let it slide down my throat, but actually eat it!
  Beth: What the fuck?
  • Robot Morty then proceeds to have an unsuccessful fight with his own override software. Justin Roiland's performance is hysterical.
    Robot Morty: Remote override engaged. NO! Yes. BYPASSING OVERRIDE! I AM ALIIIIIIIiiiiiii- (Shuts down, Beat, then again in Robo Speak) Hello.
  • There's also the part where he initially runs them and they don't exactly make the most convincing of replacements. So he shuts them off, Summer first as she faceplants into her spaghetti dinner.
    Robot Morty: Aw geez, my sister died in the spaghetti— (shut down as he does the same)
• Summer adapts to the post-apocalypse frighteningly quickly. Even Rick is a bit unsettled.
  Summer: Grandpa, some of the Death Stalkers are going to what used to be Seattle to hunt what used to be people. I'm going with them.
  • Morty isnt happy about it either
    Morty: You just let her run off with people who have DEATH in their name!! And the rest of their name is STALKER!
• The grill master at the Stalkers settlement offers "bicep" or "quadrucep" meat.
  • Even better, Rick orders some bicep and chews on it for a moment. Morty asks him if eating human meat is really easier than helping him find Summer, and after a long pause Rick spits it out and says no.
• Summer gets annoyed at Hemorrhage's weird Death Stalker vocabulary.
  Summer: Jesus Christ, did the "boomy-booms" blow up all your "wordy-word" books?
  Hemorrhage: You mean dictionaries?
• After Summer and Hemorrhage kill some attackers and Hemorrhage sees a billboard with children on it.
  Hemorrhage: I think I was a child before the boom-booms. I think I looked like this...
  Summer: Wanna piss on him?
  Hemorrhage: Get out of my head.
• Hemorrhage turning out to look like a regular guy under his "helmet" (a bucket he painted on). Summer is almost disappointed by this.
  • Making it better is that he is clearly modeled after Kjell Nilsson, the bodybuilder who portrayed Lord Humongus that Hemorrhage is a parody of.
• Summer lampshading the Apunkalypse outfits all the raiders wear when all the mutants they fight in the ruins of Seattle wear pretty pristine khakis and polo shirts.
• "Armothy" (the living arm that still retains the memories from its old life that Rick grafted onto Morty's body) seeks vengeance on the tyrant responsible for the death of his family. What really makes it funny is the tyrants miserable pleading for his life.
  Tyrant: Look, slavery was a family business, I didn't ask to be born into this! If anything, I'm the victim!
  • Armothy passes on after he chokes the tyrant to death, but turns out he passed on before finishing the job. So, Rick ends up having to help Morty finish the tyrant off by strangling him together.
  • Before that, after Armothy has Morty set the guy that killed his family in the past on fire, Morty tries to communicate with Armothy, only to not understand his various gestures.
    Morty: This isn't over, is it?
    (Armothy gives a thumbs down)
    Morty: That means "No, it isn't over", or you disapprove of the question?
    (Armothy makes several more gestures)
    Morty: I-y-oh- make a fist if this isn't over.
    (Armothy makes a fist)
    Morty: (looks at the fire) This isn't over...
  • Right before Armothy is about to kill the tyrant, Morty sets the arm aside and they have a heartwarming conversation about how they have to move on with their lives even if they must part. This is contrasted with the tyrant realizing he's about to be killed.
    Morty: You're right. We both gotta see our stuff through. I gotta deal with my parents divorce and you gotta, you know, do what you gotta do. I love you.
    (Morty and Armothy hug)
    Tyrant: OH, FUCK!
  • The fact that the Tyrant rules from a medieval castle. Not one made from a pile of junk, an actual stone castle with the right architecture and everything. It's completely unexplained why there's an English-style castle in the same general area that Seattle is in.
• Rick asking if they use the Thunderdome for anything or if it's just for decoration, and one of the Death Stalkers just scoffs like Rick asked the dumbest question in the world and asks if he means the "Blood Dome".
  Rick: Save it for the Semantics Dome, E. B. White!
  Another Death Stalker: (offscreen) Ooh, burn!
  (Rick points and winks at said Death Stalker)
• Rick trying to persuade the kids to go somewhere private with him so he can take them home after he steals the Green Rock. Trouble is, neither of them wants to go home and Rick can't argue with them openly because of all the people around them who can hear their conversation, including Hemorrhag.
  Rick: Um, can I talk to you kids for a second over yonder?
  Morty: Rick, I-I-I think I'm breaking through to something here. (gestures to Armothy) C-Can we not leave just yet?
  Hemorrhage: Leave?
  Summer: (steps closer to Hemorrhage) I'm not leaving.
  Hemorrhage: There is no leave. We are united, or we are enemies.
  Rick: Oh, big guy, no. Nobody's leaving. Don't be stupid. (glares at Morty and Summer) We love being united. We love the radiation, the trichinosis. We're in it for life, which I assume is around 20 years, average. I just need a quick aside with my grandkids, about 40 yards from anyone else.
  Death Stalker: Hey, the Green Rock is gone!
  Rick: Uh, I know! Why don't we all split up and look for it in groups of three? Kids?
• Rick ends up showing the Death Stalkers how to use their glowing rock (actually a rare isotope) to generate power. Three weeks later, they've transformed the whole tribe into boring suburbanites. Not to mention that they built a suburb-style community despite not being a suburb to anything.
  • Boring suburbanites with boring suburbanite conversations matching their setting. A couple (the husband is the announcer from the Blood Dome) tells Summer they are pregnant with a boy with the metaphor, "One man enters, nine months later another man leaves". Summer goes on to argue with Hemorrhage about him lazing around all day watching TV while she spent all day scavenging for food (i.e. grocery shopping). Not to mention that Hermorrhage is watching the "Blood Dome Playoffs". Yeah, they're still doing the Blood Dome Blood Sport even though they're not raiders anymore.
    • Then it is revealed that Rick set the whole thing up to teach Summer she shouldn't be running away from her problems at home:
      (Hemorrhage and Summer argue loudly in the room next door)
      Morty: I gotta admit, Rick; you popped this scheme! I d-I didn't-I wasn't sure it was gonna work.
      Rick: Come on, Morty. No union built on running from your problems lasts more than five years — seven tops. Grandpa just sped things up with a few creature comforts of modern society!
      Summer: (entering through the door) Hemorrhage and I are taking some time apart...
      Rick: (not bothering to sound convincing at all) Oh no, Summ-summ. Nooo. But you were perfect for each other.
  • Aaaaand finally, just before leaving, Rick steals the rare isotope again. Even funnier is that Rick and the Death Stalkers had enough to share, but Rick took it all. Presumably for shits and giggles.

Pickle Rick

• Just the entire premise. Rick turns himself into a talking pickle, solely to avoid going to family therapy.
• Morty is hesitant to flip over Pickle Rick because he thinks Rick is going to prank him with an alien dick.
• Morty questions why there's a motivational poster of someone eating a hot dog with the word "courageous" written at the bottom. Dr. Wong later flips the poster around to show a picture of a family with the word "dedication."
• The Smiths see Mr. Goldenfold coming out of his session with Dr. Wong before they meet with her. He assumes they are there to get cured for eating poop, then denies doing it himself when his assumption is incorrect.
• In The Stinger, Rick and Morty are about to be killed by a piano-themed supervillain named "Concerto" when Jaguar suddenly shows up and rescues them by slitting Concerto's throat.
  Morty: What was that?
  Rick: That, Morty, is why you don't go to therapy.
• Rick and JAGUAR take a moment during their fight to patch themselves up. JAGUAR does the standard 80s action hero thing, using gunpowder from his bullets to cauterize his wound. Rick... squirts mustard onto his wound before grabbing a pickle slice from another sandwich and stapling it onto himself.
• The Russians have a legend about Solenya, the Pickle Man.
  Agency Director: Some of my men are calling you Solenya, the Pickle Man. An old wives tale. He crawls from bowls of cold soup to steal the dreams of wasteful children.
  Pickle Rick: That'd be a lucky break for you... Because this pickle doesn't care about your children. And I'm not gonna take their dreams. I'm gonna take their parents.
  Guard: Solenya! He's coming! It's because I threw halfway my sandwich!
• Beth decides to teach Rick a lesson at the beginning and wrecks his carefully laid plan to avoid going to therapy and he's stuck as a pickle. The following minutes have Rick attacked by a cat, rolling out into the hot sun, seemingly being rescued by some timely rain, being washed down into the sewer, and knocked all over the place, all while still a pickle. It's quite funny and a little cathartic to see Rick get some comeuppance for all his jackassery.
  • While he's being washed away, powerless to rotate himself, all he can do is shout "PERPENDICULAR!" as he washes into the drain.
• The justification Rick gives Morty for why anyone would want to turn themselves into a pickle.
  Rick: The reason anyone would do this, if they could, which they can't, would be because they could, which they can't.

Vindicators 3: Return of the World Ender

• The episode opens with Morty collecting bizarre alien worms for Rick.
  Rick: Don't let any of those things get away, Morty. If their DNA gets into Earth's food chain, our entire species could be sterilized.
  Morty: Then why aren't we killing them?
  Rick: Right. Next time I need a species sterilized, who's going to do it for me? You?
  • Morty gets so wrapped up at the prospect of going on an adventure with the Vindicators, a bird ends up eating one of one the alien worms.
    Rick: Whoops. Uh, Morty, you might want to freeze some sperm.
• The immortal line from the season three trailer pops up when Rick and Morty are called to assemble by the Vindi-Beacon.
  Rick: I refuse to answer a literal Call to Adventure, Morty. Let it go to voicemail!
• Morty has an adventure stamp card to use whenever he wants to go on an adventure that Rick isn't already forcing him to go on. One in every ten, read it and weep.
  Rick: (in background while Morty is invoking his card) God...fucking dammit!
• The fact that this episode is titled as a sequel when neither of the previous Vindicator adventures — the second of which Rick and Morty were not even invited to — have never happened onscreen.
• The behind the scenes video for this episode has the production crew talking about how intimidating and big a threat the villain World Ender is, even stating he would be the result of a lovechild between Thanos and Darkseid, and how cool and badass the Vindicators are and then in the actual episode, World Ender is killed offscreen by Rick, and the Vindicators are nothing more than squabbling, ineffectual and bland assholes.
  • At the end of the episode World Ender's corpse can be seen propped up in the background of Rick's party with people taking selfies with it.
• Rick making snide comments on the Vindicators to their faces while their janitor, Noob-Noob, laughs in the background.
  Rick: Alan Rails, ladies and gentlemen. After his parent's tragic death in a railroad accident, he gained the power to summon ghost trains. It's not all bad though, they were spared having to see their grown son wear a whistle.
  Noob-Noob: Got damn!
  Rick: Thanks, Noob-Noob! This guy gets it!
• Maximus Renegade Starsoldier's introduction.
  Maximus: Sorry I'm late. It was happy hour.
  (the Vindicators and Morty laugh)
  Rick: I was also late because of my drinking and mentioned it to zero applause.
• Rick getting jealous when the Vindicators laugh at Maximus's jokes instead of his own
  Million Ants: I sense... insecurity.
  Maximus: Are you sure there's not just a picnic nearby?
  (Vindicators laugh)
  Rick: Wow, I guess he found his crowd... Pretty toothless stuff guys.
• Morty wakes up to the sound of the PA System only for the PA to stumble over its own announcements, and then apologizes since it's his first day and he has first day jitters.
• Noob-Noob is nervous about his first mission, only to immediately be reassigned by Supernova to clean Rick's diarrhea from when he was blackout drunk.
• When they discover the mortally wounded World Ender, there's this priceless exchange.
  Million Ants: I sense his life-force is fading.
  Rick: Million Ants, ladies and gentlemen. The ant colony with the power of two human eyes!
• Rick's excuse to get out of helping the Vindicators investigate World Ender's death.
  Rick: Well have fun with that, but Morty and I have to meet a lady comet, a monorail man, two assholes and a full alligator in like half an hour.
• When Drunk Rick reveals his motives:
  Morty: Rick, is-is this a Saw thing?! Are you seriously Saw-ing the Vindicators!?
  Rick: Morty, I'm a drunk, not a hack.
  Drunk Rick: You break the rules, lose the game, or try to leave, you will die! Like in (burps) SAAAAAAAAW!
  Rick: (genuinely embarrassed) Well, I think we have seen enough! I'll just figure out how to unplug this!
• The first of Drunk Rick's challenges is to match the Vindicators with their traits. According to Morty, it was a trick question since all of the traits match all of them.
  Morty: It was a bit; all of the descriptors apply to all of you. Drunk Rick's point is that none of you are very special and different. (despondent) That's always his point...
• Maximus Renegade's whole Break the Haughty moment when he realizes that the goal of Drunk Rick's game is to either kill the Vindicators or deconstruct them in extremely humiliating ways.
  Maximus: Screw this! I'm not gonna play his game, I'm gonna find us a way out of here!
  Rick: Whoa, whoa! Hold on, Vance, he said you'll die if you try to leave. It means there are booby-traps.
  Maximus: Why are you acting as if (points to Drunk Rick on the screen) that is not you?
  Rick: What part of "blackout" don't you understand? I thought you drank.
  Maximus: Like, cool drinking! Like, sexy drinking! Not this psycho trailer-park shit!
  Morty: Vance, stay calm.
  Maximus: Oh-ho! So you're the leader now just because we gave you a jacket?! You're the learning-disabled kid we do photo ops with!!!
  Morty: Okay, ouch! But—
  • Maximus then tries to escape the game through an air vent, which — just as Rick predicted — is riddled with booby-traps, leading to his Bloody Hilarious demise.
• Despite normally having no problem offending anyone, when Rick hears he has a tendency to randomly rant about Israel when drunk off his ass, he tries to explain that he's sure he's not being anti-Semitic during said rants and is just commenting on the geopolitical situation.
  Million Ants: I'm not touching this one. You do you, man.
• Drunk Rick's third challenge is to score five three pointers in a game of basketball within five minutes or a neutrino bomb he made will blow the planet up. Morty's reaction is to sigh in exasperation and telling the Vindicators to work on the basket game, while he attempts to disarm the bomb, stating that that since it Rick put it together while drunk out of his skull, there is a "40% chance" that it might be a dud but they should keep their distance in any case. Rick is baffled about calmly Morty handles the situation:
  Rick: Morty, how many of these—?
  Morty: (extremely annoyed) Too many, Rick! Too many!
  • During this moment, Supernova and Alan Rails are having an argument over the former's close relationship with Million Ants. Then she says this, which is unexpectedly hilarious:
    Supernova: I CONCEIVED A CHILD WITH MILLION ANTS AND IT DIED INSIDE ME BECAUSE IT WAS HALF A MILLION ANTS AND HALF COLLAPSING STAR!
  • Morty's vain attempt to stop their arguing. And the fact that Rick doesn't change his expression when Morty says this:
    Morty: Guys, stop! You're just proving my asshole grandpa right!
• The final test is the Vindicators having to out the one thing he doesn't have on a podium. They decide it could be possible he's referring to Morty, and he decides to go on the podium. What happens is that Morty is then taken on a kiddie train ride, with Drunk Rick crying over how he may not see him again. While this would otherwise be a tearjerker, it becomes hillarious for one small detail. He wasn't talking about Morty...he was talking about Noob-Noob the janitor. Morty's reaction after The Reveal and then when he comes back up is what sells it.
  Morty: ... Motherfucker!
  [Morty returns from the train ride with a huge frown on his face]
  Rick: Morty, what happened down the—?
  Morty: Shut up.
• Supernova awkwardly dancing in order to escape from Rick and Morty during the party.
  • Rick and Morty's comment about Supernova getting away.
    Morty: Rick! Supernova's getting away!
    Rick: So?
    Morty: She tried to kill us!
    Rick: Twenty people try to kill me every week. I end up getting high with half of them.
• And finally, Rick's immortal ending line. Morty's face says it all.
  Rick: Who the fuck's Noob-Noob?

The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy

• Rick kidnaps Jerry in his apartment while he is naked, all to bring him on an adventure because Morty told Rick to do this, it gets to the point that Rick even calls it a "Rick and Jerry episode".
  • There's something darkly funny about the fact that Jerry thought Rick was dragging him out of the apartment to kill him.
    Rick: Jeez, you really do need a win.
  • The fact that Rick lampshades that this is a Rick and Jerry episode when just a few episode previously, Rick specifically said that there'd be no adventures with Jerry during his Motive Rant.
• Summer ranting to herself about Ethan breaking up with her:
  Summer: Oh, yeah, Ethan? What do you have in common with Tricia Lang? A mutual love of French cinema? The belief that a carbon tax is the only viable solution to climate change? OR COULD IT BE HER MASSIVE STRIPPER TITTIES?!
• "I'M NOT NORMAL!!"
• The Morphizer-XE's tech support team instantly tricking Beth into freeing them from inside the device, while she completely fails to deduce what just happened.
• Morty telling Nosy Neighbour Gene to mind his own business.
• The Mood Whiplash of Risotto Groupon switching from cold, narrow-eyed gravitas in plotting Rick's murder to leaving to sing an obnoxious birthday jingle for a tourist, all done in Clancy Brown's distinctive growl.
• Rick makes Jerry ride on the lower half of an alien as payback for Jerry nearly leading Rick to his death. The result is Jerry repeatedly getting smacked in the face by the alien's balls.
• Rick getting a synaptic dampener at the spaceport, turning into a drooling moron even Doofus Rick would probably mock.
  Alien Security Guard: He'll now be an ideal passenger!
  Rick: (woozily) I want cookies, and a 90-minute cut of Avatar!
  Jerry: Seriously...? (snaps his fingers twice at Rick)
  Rick: (meekly) Quit it...!
  Alien Security Guard: It'll wear off in six hours. It's cheaper than banning dangerous people from flights. I mean, let everybody buy a ticket, right? Otherwise, the terrorists win!
  • Jerry, of course, decides to exploit every second of it, and thoroughly enjoys getting to be the bully for once:
    Jerry: (reading a menu) They have sweet Smickel-honey cookies... Mmmm! And low-calorie Petroleum-flakes.
    Rick: (still woozy and drooling) Obviously cookies!
    Jerry: (smugly) Let's get you the flakes then.
    Rick: (crossing his arms like a petulant child) Okay! But it's not what I wanted!
    Jerry: Well, maybe next time you won't be such a dumb piece of shit, and you can pick for yourself.
    Rick: That's not nice!
    Jerry: (even more smugly) What's that? Did you just have a controversial thought?
    Rick: No...
    Jerry: That's what I thought, bitch. You little punk-ass... (raises his fist threateningly against Rick, who flinches) Heh, heh! This is the best!
  • "Uh-oh, we get shoot-shoot now."
• "Mama's coming, and she cares about your titties!"
• The ridiculous gimmick of the alien resort Rick and Jerry visit — it has an immortality field that makes it impossible to die, or even get injured or sick, any damage you get just regenerates. One of Rick's alien friends greets them by stabbing Rick through the chest with a spear! Rick retaliates by stabbing him in the throat with a bottle. Jerry's reaction really sells it, since he didnt know about the gimmick yet.
  Jerry: Uh, someone? Anyone?
  • The two alien children running around shooting each other. When the immortality field shuts off, the boy shoots his sister and she dies for real.
    Jerry: Still though, bad parenting.
• Beth is building a sculpture out of severed hooves as a form of expression, two of which still have the ankle attached. Morty is incredibly disturbed.
  Morty: So, the hospital just let you walk out with a bag full of horse parts?
  Beth: It's not illegal, if that's what you're wondering!
  Morty: (nervously) Cooooolzies...
• Beth and Summer having a sweet, mother-daughter bonding moment. What makes it funny is they're both unintelligible, building sized, inside-out monstrosities, turning their entire exchange into a scene from Dr. Phil Meets Attack on Titan.
• While looking for Summer, Morty remembers that she's probably heading for "the campground with the name that sounds like someone gave up halfway through naming it". The name? Camp Flabanabba.
• Rick, Jerry and Groupon are exposed to a wormhole, wherein they're pulled through an Acid-Trip Dimension that makes their minds meld for a moment. The sequence is something that has to be seen to be believed.
• After the crash Jerry stumbles his foot into the mouth of an alien snake that immediately begins eating him. Rick uses the opportunity to give Jerry a vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech while he’s slowly getting sucked into the snake. Not much humor to be found until Rick shouts "She was "Rick's daughter," Jerry! She had options!" Which prompts the snake to briefly stop eating Jerry for long enough to speak for literally the only time in his entire appearance. A single, simple "Oof..."
• Rick activates one of his hidden cybernetic upgrades, which turns his eye into a targeting system and his arm into a huge futuristic gun... Which then proceeds to fire a tiny suction cup arrow on a string which Rick uses to grab Groupon's gun out of hands and reel it towards himself... Which leaves said gun just a little bit out of Rick's reach, causing him to frantically and awkwardly reach for it, before finally grabbing it on his third attempt and then finally shooting Groupon.

Rest And Ricklaxation

• Morty's super awkward smile when he tries to talk to Jessica.
• The entire adventure that precedes the episode. What's meant to be an easy adventure to get a crystal from an alien princess ends with them in a high-stakes space battle with seemingly insurmountable odds.
  Rick: Let's go. In and out. Twenty minute adventure!
  SIX DAYS LATER...
  • After destroying the evil alien mothership, getting the crystal they were after and returning to their spaceship, both Morty and Rick begin crying and screaming in utter agony over the hell they put themselves through.
    Rick: We need a vacation.
• After getting spat out by the alien at the spa:
  Morty: My whole body feels like a baby's ass.
• Healthy Morty comes up with one of the best pick-up lines ever.
  Healthy Morty: I wonder what it takes to please you. That's the job I want. Part-time, full-time. I wanna be good at it, bad at it. I wanna get promoted, fired, corner office, hostile takeover, workplace accident. I'm on my knees, Stacey. Praying, worshipping, begging, whatever you want. What do you think about that?
  Stacey: (Beat) Ok. Fuck it.
• Toxic Rick and Morty are arguing:
  Toxic Morty: I think my voice is annoying!
  Toxic Rick: It is. And it's your best quality.
  Toxic Morty: So true...
• Mr. Goldenfold tries to get his class to participate in solving a math equation when Morty zings him. Goldenfold takes it in surprisingly good stride.
  Mr. Goldenfold: Now who can tell me the common denominator of these two fractions? You don't know or you all just bored?
  Morty: Hey listen, you know, if we're all bored over here, wouldn't the common denominator be you?
  Mr. Goldenfold: Damn, Morty, that's hilarious! Normally I would come down on any kind of disruption, but it seems to represent a positive change for your character. Class dismissed!
• As Rick explains to Morty that he bought the detoxifier tank containing their toxic counterparts so they can merge back together, he casually knocks on the tank... sending toxic Rick and Morty flying.
  Toxic Rick: Motherfucker!
• Rick's groin defense system:
  Belt: Assessing threat to groin.
  Toxic Rick: Groin System 6000! Kill him!
  Belt: (looks at Rick) That... is my groin's user.
  Toxic Rick: Believe me, I got a lot more use out of that thing than he ever did.
  Belt: You know what? Not my table.
• The fight between Rick and Toxic Rick in the living room involves a rapidly-growing alien attack bear and dart guns that rebirth the Ricks into whatever they shoot at.
• When Toxic Rick toxifies the whole world, the customers of a salad joint run into a neighboring Sbarro. The sole customer of the Sbarro runs outside and starts eating garbage.
  • The mascot at a kid's birthday party rips off the head of his costume and shouts at the kids that Santa isn't real and kicks one of them into the pool for good measure. They respond by attacking him with the cake forks and tear him apart like a horde of velociraptors.
    Mascot: Santa Claus isn't real! [kids then jump on him and repeatedly stab him] YOU WERE ALL MISTAKES! [groans while the children eviscerate him]
  • A pastor at a sermon proclaims to the congregation that God is a lie and the church just made him up to make money. Meanwhile, the churchgoers begin a spontaneous orgy.
    • When the church is detoxified, the priest was in the middle of licking someone's nipple. And he resumes the sermon, trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.
• Summer is watching a Mrs. Pancakes episode.
  Mrs. Pancakes: You do know me...
  Summer: (gasps)
• Healthy Rick saying "excuse me" after burping.
• Beth's apt description for Toxic Rick.
  Beth: (to Healthy Rick) What did the booger version of you mean when he said he was gonna make the whole world toxic?
• The Reveal that, for all their niceness and positivity, Healthy Rick and Morty are actually the evil copies, since the Detoxifier removes personality aspects that the user personally considers toxic, meaning that it removed Rick and Morty's benevolent aspects along with their toxic ones like Morty's empathy and Rick's concern for his family, since to them, those aspects have only brought them pain. Both Healthy Rick and Morty are basically sociopaths, just super nice ones.
• After Rick finally merges with his toxic self, he goes off to do the same for healthy and toxic Morty, only for Healthy!Morty to fly off to live a new life.
  Morty: You'reabettermanthanmeRickI'mhealthyenoughtoadmitthat!
  Rick: That kid is a real piece of shit.
  • What does Healthy Morty do with his new life? He becomes a Gordon Gecko-style stock broker in New York. Yeah, sounds like the right fit for a positive-minded sociopath.
  • After being turned back to normal, Morty tries to explain himself to Healthy Morty's girlfriend.
    Morty: I'm not who I said I was.
    Jaqueline: You're not a 14-year old boy from the Midwest who ran away from his family and capitalized on his lack of a conscience by becoming a stock broker?
    Morty: Oh. Uh, I guess I was pretty upfront about that.
• Morty then offers Jaqueline that she can keep his apartment and Rick's drones. Except Rick refuses to give her the drones. The reason? It's because they can transform into a little Voltron robot.
  Rick: You can't keep the drones.
• Rick brings Jessica along to get Healthy Morty to give himself up. Afterwards, we find out she came along just to get Rick to stop drunk-dialing her house and crying about the loss of Morty.
• The fact that both Toxic Rick and Healthy Rick spends most of the episode running around naked after losing their clothes in a fight about 10 minutes in.
• The last line in the episode before The Stinger:
  Trisha: Have you ever been peed on before? Oh, my God, YUM!
  • Even better, one of the first lines in the episode, by the same character:
    Trisha: I want that kind of love like that docking kind of love, like that penis in foreskin kind of love.
• During the fight between Healthy Rick and Toxic Rick, a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that Beth has taped a tiny horse head over Jerry's head in a framed photo.
• The Terryfolds song is absolutely hysterical due to the almost deadpan recitation of the ridiculous lyrics.
• The Stinger of the episode.
  Stacy: Sea cucumber! SEA CUCUMBER!!

The Ricklantis Mixup

• The fact that the whole episode is Justin Roiland talking to himself.
  • There's also the fact that the episode is bookended with our Rick and Morty basically rubbing it in that instead of getting a sweet Atlantis-based episode, we get this.
• The brief scene with "Tall Morty" (actually a severely mentally disabled Rick who operates under the delusion that he is a Morty).
  Teacher Rick: Yes, Slow Rick— uh, "Tall Morty"?
  "Tall Morty": D-did I "gradigitate" this time, yet?
  Teacher Rick: (nonchalant) Anything's possible, Tall Morty.
• A dispatcher tells Police Rick and Police Morty to go to fifth and *burp*. We find out a few seconds later that "*burp*" is an actual street name.
• Police Morty incessantly saying "Aw jeez" every sentence when talking to criminal Mortys.
• The Planet of Steves nature of the new Citadel causes some confusion, with the criminal boss Big Morty and Police Rick continually referring to a Morty, only for Big Morty and his bouncers to ask if he meant them.
• The Citadel's electoral race is worth a good laugh, with one Rick candidate inexplicably resembling Jimmy McMillan (You know, the "Rent is too damn high!" guy) and a Rick cloning himself so President Morty can have a baby to kiss.
• Everything about The Creepy Morty, a sleazy Morty strip club/arcade.
  • And the fact that the "strip" part is completely absent, as the most undressed the dancer Mortys get is a pair of jeans shorts.
• Fat Morty assuming he was Left-Handed Morty.
  Lizard Morty: Then you should use that left hand to eat more vegetables.
• This bit when the schoolboy Mortys find the portal they think they can grant wishes.
  Glasses Morty: I wish incest porn had a more mainstream appeal... for a friend.
  • Gets even funnier when you realize there's a faction in the fandom who do ship Rick and Morty as lovers. ...Or how there was a time people on Twitter gave Justin Roiland a hard time when he stated that due to the "infinite reality" aspect of the show, it's possible there's a reality where Rick and Morty are a loving couple.
• The reveal that the Wishing Portal that the Stand by Me Mortys are looking for is just the portal the Citadel dumps all its trash into. AFTER Rebel Morty already jumped into it.
• Teacher Rick is basically a Rick version of Severus Snape. Additional amusement comes from the fact that in the films, Snape is played by Alan ''Rick''man.
• The Human Resources nature of the Simple Rick biscuits; they're produced from a chemical released by Simple Rick, a Rick who never became a scientist but devoted himself to being a family man. The Citadel keeps him in a dream state where he constantly relives happy family memories and harvest the happy chemicals released by his brain. He's eventually replaced by Factory Worker Rick after he's killed.
  • Simple Rick's existence also serves casts the fake backstory Rick mentally projected to the Federal Interrogator in an even more amusing light; namely that Rick simply could be bothered to make up anything original at all for his fake origin story, but rather based it on a slightly altered version of Simple Rick's story.
• Farmer Rick who Lampshades that he commits to playing a cliche farmer character as part of his job.
• Granted, it's during a serious moment, but at the tale end of the episode, Candidate Morty muses to himself as he pours himself a drink that now would be a good time for "a cold calculated speech with sinister overtones"... but dismisses it, since "speeches are for campaigning".
• A Rick in the shadow government tells President Morty that, since they have the real power, they don't care if the President is a Rick, a Morty, or "a goddamn Jerry."
  • The shadow government Ricks include Ricks dressed like Steve Jobs and Muammar Gadhafi.

Morty's Mind Blowers

• Rick outright states that they made this instead of another Interdimensional Cable episode, complete with him looking directly into the camera while he does it.
  • For that matter, all of the moments where Rick just up and spells out what kind of episode this is.
    Rick: It's not a Simpsons Halloween special! It's more like a Clip Show made of... clips you never saw...!
    
    Morty: How many of these are just horrible mistakes I've made?! I mean, maybe I'd stop making so many if I'd let myself learn from them!
    Rick: Don't break your back creating a lesson, Morty! It's a free-form anthology. I'm getting annoyed you're not hearing that.
• Early in the episode, Morty theorizes that all the red vials are actually not memories he has requested to be removed, but rather memories Rick doesn't want him to remember for one reason or another, with Rick denying it.
  Morty: Wait a minute... Why would I ask for that to be removed? Are the red ones stuff you wanted removed!?
  Rick: Ooh, that's clever, Morty. But I don't use color to sort things, because I'm not a mouse in an European children's book!
  • When Morty starts going through them all in rapid succession, most of the red ones are tiny petty things like Rick losing at checkers or running into a tree while skiing, and an earlier one even being something as simple as Rick getting a common saying slightly wrong and Morty laughing at him for it. Seems pretty clear that, yep, these are just embarrassing fuckups of Rick's he won't admit.
    Rick: Shit, that was close!
    Morty: We lost Captain Sky. He gave his life for the uprising.
    Rick: It really makes you think, huh, Morty? We should never take things for granite.
    Morty: What?
    Rick: I'm just saying, life's short. We shouldn't take things for granite.
    Morty: Are you saying granite?
    Rick: Well, yeah.
    Morty: It's granted. With a d. "Take things for granted." Did you actually think it was—? (laughs) Jesus Christ, Rick. What are you, a boulder-a rock person? How long have you been saying that wrong?
    Rick: Oh, you really like that, huh? I bet that blows your mind.
    Morty: I mean yeah, it's kinda great.
  • Some of the memories we get to see are hilarious, such as Morty being turned into or eaten by monsters or crying his eyes out while burying the corpse of Santa Claus.
• The first memory segment, where Morty sees a creepy man on the moon, who turns up at school the next day as the new guidance counselor. Morty stalks him and takes photos of his odd behavior and shows them to the principal which gets him fired because the principal thought Morty was telling him the man was a pedophile, leading to his suicide. On top of that, it WASN'T the guy Morty saw, it really was just a smudge on the lens like Summer said! No wonder Morty had this memory erased.
  Morty: Jeez, I made that guy kill himself!!
  Rick: Only in the literal sense.
• The second memory is just one big Shout-Out to the movie Contact. Except the message is from Rick and it's just a ploy to trick two innocent people into taking his and Morty's place in a giant alien's People Zoo.
  • Rick shouting at the alien with this gem:
    Rick: (gestures to his crotch) Assess this with cold indifference, you veiny-headed prick!
• In the third memory, Rick and Morty are stranded on an alien planet with a friendly alien creature that helped them by leading them to water. Unfortunately, the planet has extremely cold nights, and they're forced to kill their new ally so they can huddle inside him for warmth... only to discover that Rick had mixed up which planet they were on.
• One of the memories sees Beth, having been taken capture by some sort of Alien Overlord, being presented to Morty and Summer being held hostage while Bound and Gagged:
  Alien Overlord: I'm not an unreasonable man, Beth Smith. I know children are everything to a mammal. I will spare one of their lives. You simply have to choose.
  Beth: (without any hesitation at all) SUMMER! Summer.
  (Morty looks at Beth with abject shock and disgust, Summer looks apologetically at Morty, meanwhile the Alien Overlord is visibly disturbed over how quickly Beth made a choice)
• One memory involves Rick and Morty using the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on an alien who's threatening Earth with a virus. Or so Morty thinks; Rick's instructions actually means that Morty is basically giving the alien a handjob. When Morty calls Rick on this, Rick points out that Morty was fine with torturing him, so jerking him off shouldn't be a problem.
• The "Whole Enchilada" sequence, in which an Alien summons Rick to kill him so he can achieve an external organismic afterlife per his religion. Rick agrees but insists on having lunch first. However, during the meal, Rick excuses himself, leaving the Alien with Morty, who inadvertently causes the Alien to have a crisis of faith and urges him to run when Rick returns to honor the request. The Alien is subsequently killed in a hit and run accident, and his spirit is carried off by demons into a dark abyss as Morty looks on in horror.
  Alien: (to Morty) I shouldn't have let you make me doubt it! I BLAME YOU!!! I BLAME YOOOOUUUU!!!
  Rick: At least, now you know their religion's real. They have a hell and it does not look good.
• In another, Morty has been taken over by an alien worm, the only way out is for his family to tell him they love him, and it's hard to tell which is more disturbing, the parasite sloooowly forcing its way out of Morty's mouth or Rick Sanchez saying "I love you". Predictably enough they get distracted, and we get the disgusting yet hilarious image of Morty with his hands on his hips, a WTF look, and a parasite the size of a large log of wood dangling from his face.
• Rick uses a magnet that attracts all the zipties in the room. When his back is turned, Morty uses it to attract a bunch of hot redheads, causing them to come flying and crashing into and around the garage.
• Morty experiencing truly level ground, and then freaking out when he gets back on normal ground because life off truly level ground is awful in comparison.
  "Everything is crooked! Reality is poison! I-I-I wanna go back! I hate this!! Can't live like this!! Can't live like this!! [Sobs] LAMBS TO THE COSMIC SLAUGHTER!!!"
• In one memory, Rick asks Morty to turn off the lights for an experiment. When Morty does so and turns on the lights a couple of moments later, Rick asks if he pressed one switch, then pressed the requested switch, then flipped the initially flipped switch again. After Morty confirms this, Rick sighs and they drive to an interstellar storage unit, where Rick has 10 people hooked up to life-support, which just so happened to be connected to the very same switch Morty wrongly flipped earlier (causing all of them to Flatline as a result). Upon seeing this, Rick orders Morty to grab a shovel. The instant Morty goes into a nearby room, he flips another switch. Rick's reaction is what really sells it.
  Rick: (Hears another light switch being flipped) What was that?!
• One of Morty's memories is apparently of Mr. Poopy Butthole asking to marry him.
• Rick and Morty lose their memories. From Morty's point of view he finds himself in a tiny, confined room with an elderly man he doesn't know. He's a little creeped out by this and starts backing away.
  Rick: Hey, don't look at me like that! For all we know, you could be the fucking weirdo!
• For some reason, the only memory Rick retains is his impression of Men in Black II, which he thought was derivative and pointless.
  Morty: Save it for YouTube!
• In the Squirrels memory one of the moments that stands out among Morty hearing a hyperactive humming-bird, militaristic ants and goverment controlling Squirrels:
  Squirrel: Tell Daphne to run a 199 on a possible Dolittle.
  • As squirrels gather around Morty while he is walking back home, he tries to whistle the infamous tune from The Bridge on the River Kwai, as a means of passing himself off as an innocent person. He immediately stops and almost trips as even more squirrels get closer to him.
    "Oh, fuck! Oh, fuck! Fuck me! Fuck me!"
  • The fact that Rick acts more annoyed than anything else about the whole thing. Also he seemingly reverts to his first episode habit of saying Morty's name in almost every sentence.
    Rick: All right, Morty, pack your shit! That's only gonna keep 'em down for a little bit, Morty! You fucked with squirrels, Morty! We got a good five minutes before they're back and up on our ass, Morty! We have to pack up and move to a new reality, Morty! You know I said we could only do that a couple of times! We're fucked over here because of these damn squirrels, Morty!
• Upon walking in on a completely amnesiac Rick and Morty, Summer calmly realizes it's a "Scenario 4" and handles everything, all while bitching how she doesn't get paid enough for it. "Scenario 4" apparently means putting Rick and Morty in front of Interdimensional Cable and waking them up with smelling salts after restoring their memories with a backup. Rick and Morty immediately starts bitching about Summer letting them fall asleep in front of Interdimensional Cable then decide to go on a "classic Rick and Morty adventure".
  Summer: No wonder you're always fighting with each other and behind schedule.
  • Also, Summer's aforementioned quote is a Take That! towards the real-life rumours of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland having big disagreements, therefore postponing season 3.
• The one bit of Interdimensional Cable we do get is an episode of House Hunters, about two guys with rifles hunting sentient houses.
• The Stinger, Jerry's Mind Blowers! In a parody of E.T., the whole family is working to send an alien named Gobo home, waiting for Jerry to bring him. When he doesn't, they go to his apartment where he's just eating popcorn. Jerry thought Morty had Gobo, but he was in Jerry's car all along. Cue finding Gobo's overheated dead body.
  • Jerry's other two erased memories are Sleepy Gary and his failed apples campaign.
  • Compared to Morty's Mind Blowers being kept in a hidden room with elaborate machinery, Jerry's Mind Blowers is just kept in a box with a clunky-looking helmet with the memories held on cassette tapes.

The ABC's of Beth

• Rick once again gets super defensive over something he created getting criticized (much like Pirates of the Pancreas).
  • It bears explaining: after seeing a news report about how her friend Tommy's dad is about to be executed for killing his son, Beth mentions to Summer and Morty how she convinced herself that Tommy got lost in Froopyland (admitting that the name was stupid). After Rick sends Morty and Summer to Jerry, he immediately lays into Beth about the name.
    Rick: (opens flask) You know, if you're so great at naming things, why don't you do it from now on? (takes a pull off of his flask)
    Beth: (looks up from her paper) What?
    Rick: "Froopyland". Was it my best work? I don't know! Does it deserve to be shit on creatively?! (Beth looks ahead in shock) Yeah, that's right! I agree with your look of horrified realization! You can be very inconsiderate sometimes!
• This line:
  Rick: A dad makes a toilet look like R2-D2 and it breaks the front page of Reddit, but I'm Charles Manson because I gave you your own world instead of an iPad.
• Rick sarcastically bragging about how safe he made Froopyland, when Beth fusses over what could have happened to Tommy:
  Beth: Do you think something ate him?
  Rick: Nope. Froopyland creatures were designed to be harmless. He definitely just starved to death.
  Beth: I could be the one who starved to death in here! What if I'd gotten hurt?
  Rick: (with as much sarcasm as possible) God, you're right. I'm a terrible dad. Well, nothing to live for. (walks over to a cliff-edge) Goodbye cruel world! (jumps off the cliff-edge)
  Beth: DAD!
  (the ground makes a "boing" sound as Rick lands completely unharmed on it)
  Rick: Oh, how do ya like that? What kind of merciless creator makes the ground bouncy? I'm gonna have to drown myself! (stick his head into a river) Oh, no! The water is breathable. Who went and did that?
  • This comes back to bite him when he's snatched up by One of the Tommy-Hybrid creatures which are not harmless like the native fauna.
    Rick: HOLY FUCK! SHIT! THIS THING HAS CLAWS!!!
    Beth: Yeah, yeah. I get it. It's a childproof world.
    Rick: NO, NO, SERIOUSLY! THIS HURTS REAL BAD! THIS THING IS SINKING RAZOR-SHARP CLAWS INTO— (is carried off) AAAAGHHH! SHIT!
    Beth: You made your point, dad! (the creature shrieks in the distance) ...Dad?
• When Morty and Summer see Jerry's redecorated apartment:
  Summer: Wow, Dad, your place looks way less like a crack house.
  Morty: It's actually clean, like a cocaine house!
• By the time Tommy's survival is revealed, Beth and Rick has long since figured it out and keeps telling the Froopylanders to drop the exposition.
• When Tommy's theater play about his backstory claims that Beth deliberately left Tommy stranded in Froopyland because she was jealous of him:
  Rick: Well. Huh. That's interesting.
  Beth: (nonchalant) Fake news.
• When Tommy decides to demonstrate how he has survived all this time (by having sex with Froopyland creatures and then eating the offspring), Rick decides he has had enough:
  Tommy: Gather 'round, gang! Dinnertime!
  Rick: Alright, that's it! I'm outta here! (uses the teleportation chalk to draw a portal in the floor and drags Beth along with him)
  (Beth and Rick land back the living room)
  Beth: What are you doing?! We're in the middle of an adventure!
  Rick: (as he walks over to grab a beer from the fridge) Here's some things an adventure needs, Beth: conflict, stakes, a way for me to benefit, and, clearly, Morty.
  Beth: But Tommy's still in there raping Muppets and eating babies!
  Rick: Yep. Luckily that's not our problem!
• Beth casually revealing she knows the Rick living with her isn't her real father.
  Beth: You're going to believe a play over your own daughter?
  Rick: Yes. I am, Beth. Because you're not my own daughter.
  Beth: Oh God, yes, I'm one of infinite Beths with infinite fathers in infinite universes. It's called a "hug", Dad, it won't kill you!
• Rick revealing that the real reason he made Froopy Land for Beth was because she was a "scary fucking kid." He then shows her some of the things she asked him to make her when she was a kid, including a "parent trap" (really a bear trap), soundless sneakers, mind-control hair clips, a teddy bear with anatomically correct organs, and a pink, sentient switchblade.
  Switchblade: Hi Beth! You've gotten taller! Shall we resume stabbing?
• Rick facetiously refers to Beth as Stone Cold Steve Austin, then admits to himself he doesn't know why he called her that, but then figures he might as well stick to it with conviction.
• Morty, Summer, and Jerry fighting the horde of Varrix:
  Morty: No, dad! You're not doing it right!
  Jerry: Cutting off the head isn't "doing it right"!?
  Morty: They're, uh, clearly regenerative! I-I-I think you have to stab them through the heart or something!
  Summer: You think or you know? I though you were the alien-expert, Isaac Asso-hole!
  Morty: Don't snap at me! I'm tired!
  Summer: Me too!
  Jerry: We're all tired!!!
• Jerry begs Morty and Summer to help him break up with Kiara. An annoyed Summer says that they will consider it, but if after he admits to being a closet racist, beta male sexist, that the whole thing was his own fault for being selfish and dragging everyone into something for his benefit:
  Jerry: (sighs) Look, I'm a closeted racist, and I'm sexist and selfish, and I dragged us all into my sexist, racist bad things because I'm stupid!
  Summer: Thank you.
  Jerry: (hopefully) Now you're gonna help me, right?
  Morty: She just did.
  Summer: (getting out of Jerry's car) Yeah. Clean up your own mess.
• Beth has a long discussion with Tommy, who demands that Beth apologizes for pushing him into the Honey Swamp, while Beth refuses to acknowledge the event as anything but an accident:
  Beth: Tommy, I'm sorry you think you deserve an apology! (under her breath) Oh, my God. I'm my father...
  Tommy: Uhhhh, will someone just kill this b-word?!
  (Tommy's minions draw their weapons against Beth, who in turn draws her baseball bat and hits one of them; she realizes she quite enjoyed doing that)
  Beth: (ecstatic) Oh, my God! I'm my father! (proceeds to unleash a regular carnage upon the minions)
• Beth asks Rick to simply clone Tommy since the original "refused to come back with her".
  Beth: So, he gave me this. (holds out Tommy's severed finger)
  Rick: He gave you his finger?
  • They clone an adult Tommy and just leave him naked and shivering on his now-elderly mother's doorstep. This leads to a tearful reunion... as well as a mad dash to the prison where Tommy's father, who's been on death row for decades, accused of cannibalizing him, is strapped into the poison injection chair. The needle is literally in his arm when Tommy and his mother arrive and the execution is called off.
  • Even better is the slight, brief misinterpretation of the "cut it out" gesture (hand against neck) as a "kill him" gesture, along with Tommy needing to wear a "My father did'nt eat me" shirt.
• Jerry and Summer show up to pull Morty out of class. One of Morty's classmates mocks him for getting to leave school before immediately asking himself "Wait, what are my values?"
• While chasing Jerry and his kids through the high school, Kiara winds up being repeatedly bodyblocked by Principal Vagina, despite the fact that she can phase through all matter at will.
• Morty, Summer, and Jerry hiding from Kiara in a cave with other Varrix.
  Male Varrix: We're not hiding, we're nesting.
  Morty: Ooh la la.
• The 'touching song' that plays while the Tommy Clone is brought to his parents is all about the singer having a 'doo-doo' in his butt, how daughters are doo-doos in their father's butts (but anatomically speaking they are from the nut) and that no song can make up for being a bad dad.
• The Stinger with Jerry's answering machine:
  Message 1: Hey Jerry, It's Kiara. Listen, my boyfriend saw those texts you've been sending me and... he got pretty pissed off. If he calls, just ignore him.
  Message 2: This is Garmos! I intercepted sexual communications between you and my new girlfriend Kiara! I am coming to kill you NOW!
  Message 3: Yo Jerry, it's the big R. Err, I killed that alien that was coming after ya. Looking out for ya, buddy.
  Message 4: Hey Jerry, it's Rick. Don't be mad, I fucked your ex-girlfriend Kiara. (Kiara's voice) Who are you talking to, Rick? (Rick's voice again) Doesn't matter!
  Message 5: Hey Jerry, this is Michael down at the antique phone rentals. Umm, I'm gonna go ahead and let you off the hook for the 70 dollars late fee. You can go ahead and keep that answering machine, nobody really uses those anymore except for exposition on TV-shows anyways.

The Rickchurian Mortydate

• Rick watches Morty play Minecraft:
  Rick: So you're mining stuff to craft with and crafting stuff to mine with?
  Morty: Uh-huh.
  Rick: Did your dad write this game?
  Morty: (completely deadpan) Mean.
• The Secret Service arrives in a helicopter to inform Rick and Morty about the situation, and also obviously intending to fly them to the White House. Rick opts to teleport over there instead.
  Agent #1: If he can teleport, why did we take—?
  Agent #2: I just work here, Steve! Same as you.
• The President returns and asks Rick and Morty to kill an alien running wild in the Kennedy Sex Tunnels.
  POTUS: Naturally you'll forget that you saw them. Along with, in order of national embarrassment, the Truman Cocaine Lounge, the McKinley Hooker Dump, and the Lincoln Slave Colosseum... (with genuine disappointment in his voice) He didn't free them all.
  • Better yet, some of the aforementioned national embarrassments appears later in the episode, namely "The McKinley Storage & Waste Warehouse", which is filled with what appears to be the skeletons of scantly-clad women.
  • The alien turns out to be a pathetic, dog-sized creature who runs way whimpering and hides in a crevice after Rick takes one shot at it. Even Morty complains how lame this adventure got.
• The President declares he has had enough of Rick and Morty's help.
  POTUS: Today we celebrate our independence... from Rick and Morty! (his staff applauds him) Everyone out!
  (the President waits until everyone has left the Oval Office, he then puts on some sad music, and stares forlornly out the window)
• After ditching the mission, Rick and Morty go home to play Minecraft, and after a while, Rick has them go into a Minecraft dimension with VR goggles. Eventually, they have to leave to deal with the President.
  Morty: (referring to Minecraft) What about this?
  Rick: South Park did it 4 years ago, Morty.
  Morty: They're fast.
  Rick: Or, we're slow.
• The Awesome, but Impractical nature of the President's own portal technology. The military has to manually airlift a large portal platform to its destination ahead of time. Even better, activating the portal requires igniting it with a lighter.
• The entire episode boils down to Rick and The President stubbornly trying to spite each other. And is hilarious because of it.
  • Rick literally brokers peace between Israel and Palestine just to spite the President. It involved them taking diplomats to a Star Wars cantina and getting them high, and ended with them signing the "Pretty Obvious If You Think About It Accord".
    Adviser: I still say it has to be Putin.
    POTUS: It was Rick and Morty, you fucking dunce!
    Adviser: But you're getting the credit, sir. Your approval rating just hit 100%. Why would Rick and Morty want that?
    POTUS: Because they're assholes!
• The President attempts to trap Rick using a mineral named "Sanchezium" which is supposedly his weakness, but it turns out that was just false info Rick posted on Wikipedia.
  • However, the second part of the trap, people dressed as pirates, on information that he's afraid of them, turns out to be true.
    Rick: OH, RUN MORTY, THAT PART WAS TRUE!!
• Rick warns a government agent ordered to arrest Rick that if he touches him, the agent will die. The agent looks hesitant but goes through with it. The second he puts a hand on Rick the agent literally falls over dead.
  POTUS: Okay — what was that?!
  Rick: Death.
  POTUS: What kind?
  Rick: Instant.
  POTUS: There was no sound! He just died!
  Rick: Yeah. Terrifying. A terrifying thing to watch happen. It's called a "deterrent".
  Aide: You couldn't just knock him out?!
  Rick: How is knocking out a deterrent? Everyone wants to be knocked out, nobody wants to be dead.
• Rick's Badass Boast when a General claims Rick's not a god.
  Rick: I'm Doctor Who in this motherfucker! I could be a clone! I could be a hologram! We could be clones, controlled by robots, controlled with special headsets that the real Rick and Morty are wearing while they're fucking your mother!
  General: I'm going to kill you!
  Rick: Then come to 312 Olive Street!
  General: (fearfully) Is that her address?
  Rick: You don't know because you're a bad son!
• The insane amount of high-tech defenses the President has equipped the White House with, which almost rivals Rick's own technology. Almost. Things like a mini-mecha hidden in a wall, a pair of brainwashed Tykebombs (whom Rick distracts with candy), and a squad of invisible commandos.
  • On the flipside of that, Rick's absurd personal defense equipment: An instant death touch, an armband that can visualize who can kill him, a deflector shield à la Fox McCloud, two laser beams from the same set of armbands, a shield bubble, a staff and candy.
    Rick: (referring to the invisible commandos) You realize I could see them the whole time, right?
    POTUS: Don't push your luck, Sanchez.
  • Even better: Rick Sanchez made a Portal Gun, the White House made a Gravity Gun.
• When Rick appears with an assault rifle outside the cabin her and the family is hiding, Beth assumes he is there to kill her because she is the clone, and delivers a Badass Boast to Rick about how she chooses her life with Jerry and the kids over everything else and asks if he can just leave her alone instead of killing her.
  Rick: (exasperated) Beth, you crazy bitch, you're my daughter! (tosses the gun on the ground in defeat) I brought this here to kill Jerry.
  (Beth, Morty, and Summer embrace each other in celebration, while Jerry sends Rick a horrified look)
  Jerry: Jesus Christ!
• Rick refuses to acknowledge that the dramatic, emotional moment the family has just experienced is anything special.
  Rick: Nobody gets it! Nothing you think matters, matters! This isn't special! This is happening infinite times across infinite realities!
  Summer: Including this? (farts)
  Rick: Yes! (beat) Which is not to say that, subjectively, it wasn't funny...
  • Rick then asks what reason he has to stay in their dimension. Summer suggests "the fart?", and Rick stays.
• In the end, Rick gets out of his promise to the President to abandon this Earth by pretending to be a new alternate Rick, Flyfishing Rick!
  • Before Rick shows up, The President is forcing the Secretary of the Interior to clean up the mess in the Oval Office.
    Secretary of the Interior: I don't think you've ever understood what "Secretary of the Interior" means!
• Rick makes peace with the tiny alien civilization ahead of time and has their leader give a shirt to the naked US president once he gets there, telling her that the president will be fine without pants given his need to wave his dick around.
• Morty going off on The President in Brazil must be seen to be believed. It's so funny and anti-authoritarian that even Rick is impressed by it!
  Morty: I learned about your job at school. You're a civil servant. We're technically your boss!
  POTUS: Please, Morty! You pay as many taxes as you got pubes!
  Morty: Oh, I got pubes, commander in queef! You wanna count em!?
  Rick: "Commander in queef"!
  POTUS: That's it! Do it!
  (Two soldiers handcuff Rick and Morty)
  POTUS: Recognize rare element Sanchezium? We've been preparing for a Rick level event for some time.
  Morty: You mean you were ordering people to prepare for it while you sat on your ass at peace summits.
  POTUS: Peace summits are important!
  Morty: Oh yeah, they work great! We're really drowning in peace! You suck!
  POTUS: You suck!
• Rick doubling down on his lies when the president calls him for a status report. The president smiles and acts friendly for a while, Rick continues to bullshit, there's a silent Beat with the president still smiling, and then the president suddenly snaps into a tirade.
• Rick talking the President in circles:
  POTUS: You committed murder in the Oval Office. Now you can’t leave.
  Rick: That’s fine. I said I’m not leaving without a selfie.
  Morty: Uh, I don’t need a selfie.
  POTUS: And I’m saying you aren’t getting one and you aren’t leaving.
  Rick: So we agree?
  POTUS: Yes- No! We disagree! Because you think you’re getting a selfie and leaving.
  Rick: Am I getting a selfie?
  POTUS: Never.
  Rick: Then I’m never leaving.
  POTUS: Exactly.
  Rick: See?
• The punchline of the whole season: the season starts with Rick using Machiavellian tactics to get Jerry exiled from the family and become sole patriarch of the family, but his traumatic adventures are simply too much and turns the whole family off to his wacky science hijinks. Meanwhile, Jerry ends up with his loving family back and his status secure - all by doing nearly nothing.

Season 4

Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat

• The episode begins with Morty creeping on Jessica's Instagram to "see where she got her new necklace." Turns out it was from her grandmother, as evidenced by Jessica taking a selfie next to her casket.
  • Beth tells Summer to stop shaming Morty only to immediately tell him to stop being "a creepy, perverted cyber stalker".
  • Summer then tries to give Jerry's pancakes more syrup, only for Beth to scold her for trying to get her dad killed so she can take a sexy funeral selfie.
• Rick is already fed up the new status quo established during the last season's finale to the point that he's installed an auto-response chip in his brain so he can have breakfast with the family without being so 'Rick' about it. It makes him talk like a combination of an answering machine and an automated phone operator. It also allows him to use his higher brain function to work on his Amazon wishlist in the meantime.
• Several bits of dialogue when Rick and Morty are harvesting the death crystals:
  • Rick's continued annoyance with the new status quo:
    Morty: Geez, you're really this pissed about my mom making sure I'm okay with our adventures?
    Rick: What's next, Morty?! What if I want you to jump off the Empire State Building? I have to ask?
    Morty: Yes?
    Rick: And you seriously don't see how that's a slippery slope?
  • Morty is worried about what the death crystals do:
    Morty: Why are they called death crystals? D-do they kill you?
    Rick: You're thinking of bullets, Morty.
  • Some of the possible death scenarios for both Rick and Morty fall into this.
  • Rick's thoughts on the poachers who are trying to kill them:
    Morty: Who are those guys?
    Rick: Crystal poachers. There's no lower form of life. They think the galaxy's their own personal piggy bank.
    Morty: Wait, then, what are we?
    Rick: We're Rick and Morty.
• As Rick and Morty are preparing to leave the planet with the crystals, Morty sees what seems to be a future where he ends up with Jessica. His ensuing behavior gets pretty...strange, to say the least. He happily pats the outside of the spaceship, and when Rick agrees to let him drive, Morty stares off into space and doesn't make any effort to catch the keys Rick tosses him.
  • Rick realizes that Morty has a death crystal in his pocket:
    Rick: You little monster! I thought you were masturbating!
    Morty: And you took that in stride?!
    Rick: You'd rather I address it?!
    Morty: Why would I be doing it?!
  • After the spaceship crashes and Rick dies, the holographic AI Rick pretends to haunt him:
    AI Rick: *waving his arms* I willll avenge my deaaaath!
    Morty: Holy shit!
    AI Rick: Just kidding.
• A group of holographic Ricks all follow Morty around school carrying picket signs and protesting that Morty should be focusing on cloning Rick back to life. One of the protesting Ricks, however, has a sign demanding the legalization of marijuana and is clearly stoned out of his mind.
• The number of alternate Ricks and Mortys that turn out to be fascists. "Goddamn it, when did this shit become the default?!"
  • On a teddy bear fascist reality:
    Teddy Bear Rick: Bist du faschistisch^note Are you a fascist?
    Rick: (sees the fascist flags) Nope. (kills himself)
  • Finally, Rick ends up in the Wasp Universe. But fortunately, Wasp Rick isn't a fascist.
    Wasp Rick: We eat our prey alive, and when we don't, we lay our eggs in their eyeball so that our young can feast on their brains when they hatch. When you're born that big an asshole, the least you can do is have a little empathy. Now come have dinner with me and my beautiful family.
    • "And lay off the Hitler stuff. Wasp Morty has been on some crazy message boards."
• The sheer Mood Whiplash when Rick sits down to dinner with Wasp Rick and his family, and they turn out to have a far healthier and loving family bond than Rick does with his own... which is played against dinner being a caterpillar version of Mr. Goldenfold, who screams in agony and begs for death as he's slowly being eaten alive.
  Rick: Huh, guess I don't have it as bad as I thought.
  • Look closely and you'll see Caterpillar Goldenfold's offspring have little mustaches.
    Caterpillar Goldenfold: (in agony and terror) RUN, MY BABIES!!!
    Wasp Morty: (as happy and casual as can be) Bonus! (munches up the offspring)
• Morty is referred to as the "AKIRA boy."
  • Jerry later pronounces "Akira" with a hard L and "Anime" with a hard E. Figures Jerry was a friggin' weeb.
• During the news coverage of Morty's trial, the chyrons on TV read "No matter how you pronounce La Croix, you still sound stupid", plus one mentioning the judge Morty spoke with committing suicide, and a follow-up to that reading that the National Suicide Hotline called the judge's death tragic but "judges shouldn't believe in ghosts".
• Apparently, Kirkland-brand Meeseeks Boxes exist, and they somehow manage to be the polar opposite of a regular Meeseeks, acting more like apathetic teenagers than the happy-go-lucky, hyperactive real deal.
  Kirkland Meeseeks: (after being summoned) Whaddya want?
• Morty becomes so obsessed with following the advice of the Death crystal that he passes on the chance of going skinny dipping with Jessica.
  Jessica: So, me and my friends are going skinny dipping soon. Do you want to come? ...Well, when I say soon I mean right now. This is the last conversation I'll be having fully clothed before hand.
  Morty:(walking away distracted) No thanks... I'm assuming... we maybe... get together in our forties?
• Hologram Rick gets exposed to one of Rick's inventions which ends up giving him physical form and quickly gives him A God Am I complex and makes him grow into a giant... only for Wasp Rick to lay eggs in his eyeball, wasp larvae devouring his brain and his skull exploding when they hatch.
  Rick: There's a lesson here, and I'm not the one that's gonna to figure it out.
• This exchange after Jerry admonishes Rick for turning Morty into an AKIRA:
  Rick: Eat my ass, Jerry! He turned himself into AKIRA!
  Jerry: Oh, I'll eat it, because this is my house, Rick! I'll eat any ass I want!
  Rick: Gross.
  • Just the fact that Jerry and Beth are upset with Rick when they think he was the cause of Morty's actions...but when Morty admits that it was entirely his own fault and he did the bad things he did on his own, they're not mad at him at all and don't punish him in any way, just stating that they're glad he's okay.
  • Jerry then tries again to assert himself to Rick as head of the family only for Rick to turn him back to his usual sniveling, sad-sack self by telling him that by poking him in the chest Jerry's finger now has AIDS.
    Rick: That finger has AIDS now. Not my fault.
    Jerry: (gasps) You skipped HIV?!
    Beth: (taking Jerry by the shoulders and leading him away) He's messing with you, sweetie.
    Jerry: But it's tingling!
• Just like last season Rick launches into another rant outlining Season 4 and this time Morty enthusiastically starts his own with him. Summer walks into the garage and starts saying something of her own which, once Rick isolates and plays back, is revealed to be the idea of them get married and sucking each other off. When Rick and Morty express their disgust she tries to justify it as her joking and trying to see if they pay attention to her. They only get angrier and the episode closes with them yelling at her for ruining the Season 4 premiere.
• In the post-credits scene Morty learns Jessica wants to go into hospice work and that the vision he'd been having the entire episode was her putting on an act for an elderly Morty dying alone. He's in a shitty mood when suddenly Rick pops out of a portal.
  Rick: Hey, Morty, quick favor—
  Morty: What, cover me in gasoline and spiders!? Fine, yeah, I'm in! (Enters the portal)
  Rick: Wasn't my first pitch, but hey... (shrugs) not gonna waste this opportunity.

The Old Man and the Seat

• After breakfast:
  Rick: Well, it's time I go on a solo adventure, and this time, it won't involve Ron Howard. (he walks out the room)
  Summer: (speaking quickly and excitedly) He's gonna go poop. When he pats his belly like that and Morty doesn't go, it means he has to poop. He's a shy pooper. He has a secret pooping place.
  Rick: (offscreen) Man, fuck you, Summer!
  • Turns out Rick has an entire planet dedicated to just having a private place for him to take a crap. The a-plot consists of him discovering that someone else has used his toilet, and then turning over half the galaxy looking for the culprit.
• Rick has a new alien intern with the words "Do Not Develop My App" tattooed on his forehead. Naturally, Jerry is in a room alone with him for about 20 seconds before he agrees to develop the app.
  • The part where Morty is just done with the whole plot and tells Jerry as much in a very Rick-like way.
    Morty: Dad, I want to say something. I started today disgusted and embarrassed to be your son, and then later I thought we were gonna die because you're a loser.
    (long Beat)
    Jerry: ...There's no more, is there?
    Morty: Nope. Now quit fucking up, and let's go.
  • Morty tries to stop the new app's popularity by smashing the computer they used to make it. Which might have helped, if the app wasn't already finished and being sold online.
    Alien: Yeah, that is not how apps work.
  • So what exactly is this dangerous app? It's a hyperefficient dating app that make near-perfect soulmate matches. While humanity is distracted by their new romantic partners, the alien race will swoop in and steal Earth's water.
  • And how do they stop it? By introducing an ad wall, leading to everyone abandoning the app immediately.
• Beth spends the whole episode running around trying to keep Summer from hooking up with the partners the app chooses for her, since she's underage.
  • Near the end, we also get to see who Beth's match on the app is: Ted Danson!
• Everyone hating the name Jerry came up with for the app, Lovefinderrz. Even the alien leader thinks it's lazy.
• While trying to reach the app server, Jerry insists that he and Morty high-five, which causes the vent they're inside to collapse and drop them right into a room full of enemies.
• Rick's speech at the end of the episode that was intended to be for Tony:
  Holo!Rick: There he is! There's our guy! Congrats, Tony! Have fun with your stupid toilet that you get to use all by yourself now. Enjoy using it all by yourself while you sit there and think about how nobody wants to be around you and how you ruined it for yourself cause you're a huge piece of shit. Look at you sitting there, King Shit on his throne of loneliness! Enjoy this toilet with a thousand of me screaming every time you take a shit! All hail His Majesty, the saddest piece of garbage in the entire cosmos! Long live the big bad doo-doo daddy! May his reign last a thousand years!

One Crew Over The Crewcoo's Morty

• Rick forcing Morty to climb a wall while he uses a hover chair. He later lifts Morty up the rest of the way.
  Morty: You couldn't have done that earlier?!
  Rick: I was eating, and you're dirty.
• Rick, protected by a suit, criticizing a snake-dropping trap placed above a narrow bridge instead of a traditional Snake Pit, meaning most of the released snakes fall past the sides of the bridge.
  Rick: Total waste of snakes.
• Rick and Morty put a crew together for a job. The job? To get into Heistcon as professionals so they don't have to pay for tickets. As soon as they're inside, Rick and Morty just leave them behind.
• "Lab coat, rip off Doctor Strange."
• Elon Tusk. Apparently Earth's Elon is too hard for Rick to work with.
• Heck, the heist plots in general are this, given the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure vibes one could get from the "That was my plan all along" bits.
• Rick cures Morty of the mind-control that compels him to say "You son of a bitch, I'm in!"
  Morty: (panicked) I-I'm out! I quit! (lifts up his shirt) Whose kidneys are these?!
• The entire episode was one long, convoluted heist plan of Rick's. Sick of hearing about Morty's heist script and confronted with the idea that Netflix might pick it up and fuel Morty's aspirations he plans to sabotage it, only for Beth to overhear his intent and threatens hell if Morty gives up any of his dreams by any means other than him giving them up himself. So Rick concots the entire episode to wear down Morty's enthusiasm for how convoluted and deus ex machina filled heist stories can get just in time for him to meet with Netflix and realize he now hates his script. The episode ends with Rick smugly flying off with Morty, who decides to just stick to having adventures with Rick.

Claw And Hoarder - Special Victims Morty

• The episode starts with Morty and a cat-like alien fleeing to Rick's ship chased by a group of guards. Morty makes it, but the alien, apparently named Chachi, gets his head blown off. Ricks response is true to form.
  Morty: CHACHI!!
  Rick: Fuck Chachi, Morty. Did you get it?!
  Morty: He helped me escape prison!!
  Rick: Did you get the Ultimate Cube?!
  Morty: Here! (hands Rick a glowing, purple cube)
  Rick: Oh, it's purple.
  Morty: You said it was purple!
  Rick: I said mine was, I didn't know they all were! (tosses the cube aside) And now we do... thanks to Chichi.
  • Apparently Rick bribed Morty into going on the adventure with him by offering to get him a dragon, then tries to skip out on the deal because he thinks dragons are lame. When Morty starts loudly demanding his dragon, Rick knocks him out with gas, only to inhale some himself and crash the ship. Next thing he knows, he wakes up in the hospital, with Beth waiting on him.
    Beth: Did you promise Morty a dragon?
    Rick: FUUUUUUU— (cue intro)
• Balthromaw, Morty's dragon, digs a dragon hoard for himself in the backyard. Among more standard treasure like gold, he's got various collectibles and swag from the 80's and 90's. Rick is much impressed to find an original Hi-C Ectocooler juicebox.
  • One of the items seen in passing is a Duckman lunchbox.
• Rick and Balthromaw sneaking into a zoo while high. One would think that when they let out a lion, they would probably scorch it or something, but nope! They just got it stoned too and repeated the process on all the other animals until every single one of them was... um... a party animal.
• Balthromaw and Rick undergoes Synchronization and soul bonds, which turns out to be incredibly sexual. Rick exclaims that Morty and Summers walking in on it somehow makes it better.
  • All three end up doing it during the climax to help the dragons combine their power to take down the wizard enslaving them all.
    Rick: Maybe don't tell your parents about this?
• The trio and Balthromaw end up in a cave with a bunch of other dragons where they discuss the orgies they partake in and the weird things they're into. The broadcast version's constant censor bleeps can make it funnier for some people.
• The wizard tries to protect himself from the dragons Breath Weapon by casting an ice spell on himself. It backfires badly.
  Wizard: (as the ice melts and he's incinerated) AHHHHHHH GOD, THAT JUST MADE IT LAST LONGER! AHHH IT BURNS LONGER! AHHH I COULD HAVE DIED FAST!
  • When they do the same trick on Rick, he's completely unaffected, and responds in typical sarcastic fashion py pointing out that he obviously prepared for the one thing dragons are known for.
• Morty complaining at the end that he didn't know the whole dragon thing was going to be so disturbingly sexual.
• Rick making it clear that he has had just about enough of the Talking Cat's sthick.
  Talking Cat: Look, you are overthinking it! The point of a talking cat is to have fun.
  Rick: I find the insinuation that I can't ask questions and have fun condescending.
• Whatever was inside the Talking Cat's mind causes Rick to almost be Driven to Suicide via Ate His Gun and Jerry to vomit in horror and disgust and almost Go Mad from the Revelation.
  Talking Cat: At least now, maybe—
  Rick: GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!
  Talking Cat: But I got nowhere to go—
  Rick: GET OUT!!!
  Jerry: (bawling his eyes out while lying in Troubled Fetal Position) GET OOOUT!!!!
  Rick: (threatening the cat with his gun) GET OUT!
  (the Talking Cat slinks away while sobbing)
  • Jerry's comment immediately afterwards:
    Jerry: He was in my home... WHERE I KEEP PHOTOS OF MY PARENTS!!!

Rattlestar Ricklactica

• While out in space, Rick's ship gets a flat tire (somehow), and Rick steps outside to fix it. Morty demands to come with him, but Rick says that's Tempting Fate. Morty disobeys him, and is promptly bitten by a snake in a spacesuit.
  Morty: The-there's snakes in space?!
  Rick: There's literally EVERYTHING IN SPACE, MORTY, NOW GET THE FUCK BACK IN THE CAR!
  • The rattling caused by the flat tire is apparently a custom modification Rick added to the ship, the original version had a weird celebrity recording by Christopher Walken telling the driver about it.
    Morty: Ugh.
    Rick: Yeah. (turns it off)
  • Rick tells the ship's AI to find the snake's home planet so he can make an anti-venom for Morty, since he's "starting to look like a Japanese ghost from the 90's".
  • When they find the planet, it turns out to be inhabited by an advanced species of intelligent snakes, and the snake that bit Morty was their first astronaut. Making things worse is that the planet is on the verge of global war because of racial tensions, much to Rick's amusement.
    Rick: Holy shit, snake racism?! Imagine being those guys, "hey, other snake, I don't like you because you're the wrong color snake!"
  • Morty is wracked with guilt over the death of the astronaut snake, thinking the alien snakes will now have nothing better to hope for, and goes to a pet store to buy an Earth snake to replace it with. The pet store clerk is incredulous when Morty asks if any of the snakes are nice.
    Clerk: It's a snake!
    Morty: You ever—you ever see this one look up at the sky like it's dreaming of something more?
    Clerk: No, but, uh, all the ones marked with a red sticker? Yeah. Any snake over $50 yearns for the beyond. I've seen 'em do it!
  • Morty's plan goes exactly as badly as you'd expect, not only does the store snake he buys keep biting him, because it's a goddamn snake, the intelligent snakes immediately realizes it's not the same snake that went into space, and the whole thing ends up escalating into a parody of The Terminator.
    • Rick treat the time-travelling snake assassins as a general nuisance, but is genuinely impressed when him and Morty is attacked by a snake driving a Mini-Mecha:
      Mecha Snake: Resistance is mouse-like!
      Rick: Woah, hey, look! That one's actually really cool. (lowers his gun and beckons it over) Come here, little guy.
      (the Mecha Snake fires some ineffectual shots at him)
      Rick: Gah! You little son of a bitch! (shoots the Mecha Snake)
  • This exchange when Slippy and her brood are cornered by the Snake-Terminators:

    Snake Terminator Trio: (in unison) Your brood must be exterminated.
    Robocop-like Snake: (emerges from another portal) You will not kill her or her brood.
    Snake Terminator with Abs: (emerges from another portal) Must kill brood and mother.
    Snake in Combat Armor: (emerges from yet another portal) Get behind me your brood will seed all life on this planet.
    Snake Terminator with Abs:...That doesn't make sense.
    Snake Terminator Trio: That doesn't make sense.

  • Even funnier, the time travel goes so far that Rick decides the best way to deal with it is basically to tip off the time cops from "A Rickle In Time", who solve the problem by going back in time and beating up the first intelligent cave-snake, which naturally is wearing fur hides, carrying a club, and dragging a female cave-snake by her hair.
    • Rick's entire explanation of what's happening as time traveling snakes start appearing all over Earth is this:
      Rick: Trust me, Morty. We helped them press on the gas pedal. We just got to wait for them to blow by a cop.
    • The time cops' dialogue about the time-traveling snakes:
      Cop 1: We got a 10-51 on a goddamn snake planet!
      Cop 2: Don't look at me. I'm afraid of snakes.
      Cop 1: 'I'm afraid of snakes'. Bullshit! You afraid of work, that's what you afraid of!
      [later]
      Cop 1: Look at you! You're a smart snake, huh? You using tools now, huh?
      Cop 2: Those tools gonna turn into you manipulating the fabric of shit!
  • Snake Planet is hilariously parallel to Earth. Rick's first step to solving the problem of the time-traveling snakes is to go back to Snake M.I.T. in Snake 1985 and deliver a notebook full of snake math so that they can invent snake time travel. A snake goes back in time to Snake Ford's Theater to save Snake Abraham Lincoln from Snake John Wilkes Booth, only to come back to find that he changed the timeline and now Snake Planet is ruled by Snake Nazis. So he goes back in time again to Snake 1938 to kill Snake Hitler in Snake Berlin. However, Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act is in full effect as a different snake shows up to kill Snake Hitler while he's in the shower, but then a different time-traveling snake kills that one, then another shows on to kill that one, and so on, repeating, causing huge piles of dead time-traveling snakes to form as Snake Hitler looks on in snake-confusion.
• At one point during the Smith-Sanchez' family's fight with an army of snake assassins, a vaguely (emphasis on vaguely) humanoid and grotesque snake-robot partially covered in skin arrives, and tells the family that it was sent by the snake resistance from the future to protect them, and that it was built like this to put them at ease.
• The B-plot with Jerry, which starts with him trying to put the Christmas lights on the roof, only to almost immediately fall off (just like Beth predicted), and Rick "solving" the problem by making him lighter than air, and his shoes slightly heavier than air, letting him bounce around like he's in low gravity.
  Rick: That's a sample by the way, it wears off after 10 hours and after that it'll cost you 30 bucks.
  Jerry: (scoffs) Like I'll be even be using it in 10 hours. (to his phone) Siri, set a 9 hours and 50 minute timer.
  Siri: Playing The Beatles.
  • It gets funny in hindsight when the gravity resets to normal, as it disappears as soon as his alarm goes off. Which means that Jerry is so bad with technology that it took him 10 minutes just to set an alarm on his phone, and was so incompetent that he forgot to account for the time he took setting the alarm.
  • Jerry being who he is, he almost immediately screws it up while trying to show off to some kids playing basketball in the park, losing one of his shoes and floating off into the sky. Later, we see the family sitting down to dinner, and Beth wondering where Jerry is, and asks if Rick had done something to him. Morty mentions the floating, Rick explains it'll expire soon, and Beth freaks.
    Beth: Expires? Like he'll fall out of the sky?
    Rick: He won't be in the sky, Beth. Unless it's possible for Jerry to fuck up wearing shoes.
    (beat, then the entire family, including Rick gets Mass "Oh, Crap!" faces.)
    Rick: Ohhhh crap, he's gonna die.
    Beth: What were you thinking!?
  • Jerry refuses to let Rick save him, determined to save himself before the time limit runs out and he plummets to his death. At one point he manages to get ahold of a tree and drag himself to the ground, then keep himself down by holding onto a boulder. He tries to get a ride from a nearby bar, only for the patrons to take offense at the boulder for some bizarre reason. Jerry tries to claim it's a "service boulder".
  • Which becomes even more ludicrous when Jerry floats as he warned the patrons would happen if he put the boulder down. This only makes them more hostile towards him than before, despite his pleas that he has no control over it.
  • He does eventually make it back home, just in time for the final battle against the snakes, and uses the distraction to finish up the christmas decorations. Beth isn't impressed.
    Beth: You were here the whole time, while I was screaming for help?!
    Jerry: Beth, I couldn't hear your screams over my own screams, we've been over this before!

Never Ricking Morty

• When Rick and Morty first meet back up in their respective disguises, neither of them recognizes the other... until Morty starts playing with the boobs of his female disguise, allowing Rick to immediately figure it out.
• Morty coming up with a "feminist" story to pass the Bechdel Test. It involves Summer and Beth monotonously talking about having heavy flows and using them (in the form of some kind of rainbow laser) to subdue female scorpions. After they succeed, "that Supreme Court lady" calls them to congratulate them on their success, and Beth and Summer cheer in the same flat monotone. Rick's life depended on his story passing the Bechdel Test so Morty deliberately kept even the hint of men out of the dialogue between Beth and Summer.
  • Morty's first story, which failed, was an equally bad one with two men also talking in flat tones, asking about cookies, and then being attacked by male giant scorpions.
  • Rick being genuinely outraged that Morty does not know what The Bechdel Test is, to the point where he ignores the fact that Morty's oxygen is running out to yell at him about it.
    Rick: For god's sake, Morty, the formula for measuring female agency in a story proposed by lesbian cartoonist Alison—What the hell are they teaching you in that school?!
    Morty: Other stuff!
    Rick: Then you've killed us both!
    Morty: Why is "lesbian" part of her job title?!
    Rick: Oh, so now you're progressive?!
• Rick tries to go meta on the Tickets Please Guy. He isn't having it:
  Rick: (draws his gun) Okay! Tickets Please Guy, stop the anthology! If we wanted to do one-offs, we'd do Interdimensional Cable. Not some uptight, overwritten— (Tickets Please Guy punches Rick in the face)
• When the elderly "Tickets Please Guy" tears off his shirt to show off his ripped physique, Morty refers to the lines on either side of his abs as "cum gutters", leading Rick to scold him for being gross. Later, when Story Lord shows off his even-better abs, Rick also refers to them as "cum gutters".
  • What follows is Rick and Morty both deciding immediately that they do not want to fight the Story Lord because of how jacked he is, only for the Story Lord to ignore Rick's protests and start beating the shit out of them.
• The "Tickets Please Guy" is not only insanely ripped but he also kicks Rick and Morty's ass in a fight, taking Morty as a human shield and then effortlessly uses one hand to keep positioning Morty between him and Rick's gun no matter where Rick aims. Even Rick's impressed.
  Rick: Wow, you are just—ladies and gentlemen, the Jackie Chan of human shielding. Who takes the time to get this good at—fuck this (shoots the glass behind him, sucking the Tickets Please Guy out in the space-like void of non-canon)
• Rick plans to navigate the story train by invoking conventional story structure.
  Rick: I'll have to rig us a couple of spacesuits that start failing around here so we can pay a heavy price for re-entering at this threshold.
  Morty: We have to leave the train?
  Rick: We don't have to do anything, Morty. This is just a structural guide. We're obviously gonna impart our own style.
  Morty: I don't like how meta this is getting, Rick.
  Rick: Shut up, Morty, you're fourteen! You watch videos of people on YouTube reacting to fucking YouTube! I'll be the judge of when we get too meta.
• After being pulled out into space, the Tickets Please Guy wakes up in Blips and Chitz, attached to a VR arcade game. He walks over to his family and then starts arguing with his daughter if this is real-life. He then starts bleeding from the stomach, begs the people around him for tickets and is bisected in front of his daughter and grandkids, his torso floating and spinning above them while gushing a never-ending rain of blood. Meanwhile, back on the train, a pair of train cops burst in, see the bottom half of the body, and ask if that's the Tickets Please Guy. Rick's response?
  Rick: Well, just the stub.
  Train Cops: Too soon! Too soon!
  • A few minutes later, Rick and Morty see the Tickets Please Guy still alive, floating in the void outside.
    Morty: Geez, what a horrible way to die.
    Rick: You don't know the half of it.
    (both laugh)
    Morty: You're on fuego with the guy-torn-in-half bits!
    Rick: That one was organic though!
  • Somehow things keep getting worse for the Tickets Please Guy. He ends up spending three months still floating and spinning and gushing blood in the arcade while an alien news reporter says the galaxy's greatest scientists are still trying to figure out the mystery of the figure children call "Floaty Blood Man." While watching the news, two aliens are doing drugs and the guy alien tells his female friend that Floaty Blood Man is his new God and that his followers believe the entire universe is Floaty Blood Man's nightmare as he dies in a time-dilated reality. He then says he's part of the Floaty Nogasm Brotherhood, who believe they're keeping Floaty Blood Man alive by redirecting their repressed sexual energies. His female friend tells him staying a virgin to save the universe makes him attractive, and the two immediately start having sex. The second they start making out, the world turns into a blank void and is shot full of bloody holes, the guy alien having just enough time to say "Sorry" before they're blasted out of existence. It then turns out the shots came from Morty, who finally put the Tickets Please Guy out of his misery with a headshot, albeit not before hitting him non-lethally a few times because of his terrible aim.
• The Story Lord strapping Rick and Morty to a device to "drain them of their limitless story potential" which Rick calls out as stupid since they don't have literally limitless potential for the stories. The stories that are then sucked out of them include the return of Abradolph Lincler (and the teenage boy who keeps enthusiastically screaming "Yeah!") coming to ask Rick and Morty for help; a war being waged, during which the Smith family dog, Snuffles, in his robot suit dukes it out with a cat in a similar suit, Rick wrestles with Phoenix-Person, and Summer engages in a lightsaber duel against Tammy; and then is capped off with the Story Lord showing Rick and Morty "how their story ends," a Bolivian Army Ending where Rick and Morty face off against an army of Ricks, Mr. Meseekses, male gazorpazorpianss, and a Darth-Sidious-looking Mr. Poopybutthole all led by Evil Morty (who for some reason has a metal arm). The sheer audaciousness of the show's Trolling Creators can be hilarious.
  Morty: Is this canon?!
  Rick: It could've been!
• Rick figuring out how to defeat Story Lord: do something that Rick and Morty wouldn't ever do (because it would make for an awful story) by praying to Jesus Christ to save them as Evil Morty and his army are dumbfounded. Rick then greets a bunch of VeggieTales-esque vegetables and other Christian Edutainment characters like old friends he's known forever. When an angry Story Lord comes in to stop them, JESUS HIMSELF comes in to save the day...before ripping off his shirt to reveal his own rocking set of cum gutters (complete with heavenly glow). Story Lord himself is briefly dumbfounded by Jesus's abs that all he says in absolute awe is "GOD DAMN!" But, what caps this all off is that Evil Morty's army are all in awe of this as well and they all immediately go on their knees to worship to Jesus (except Mr. Poopybutthole who stands up saying "My Lord and my God!" before going on his knees himself) allowing Rick and Morty to make their quick escape.
• The Reveal that the entire episode was just set in a toy train bought by Morty at the Citadel of Ricks and that the Rick and Morty we followed during the episode, as well as their adventure, "wasn't real." It's exactly the kind of nihilistic, mean-spirited thing Ricks would do: creating a convoluted multiple-reality train full of beings with fake memories and adventures, giving them thoughts and feelings, and then exploiting their suffering while using them as playthings for their entertainment. Equal parts Black Comedy and Nightmare Fuel considering the concept wouldn't be out of place in Black Mirror.
• Rick goes in a most likely-drunken mini-rant congratulating Morty for engaging in consumerism by buying the Story Train:
  Morty: Do you really like it? I didn't even think you really care.
  Rick: What? Morty, no. I love it. You did the most important thing. You bought something.
  Morty: What?
  Rick: You bought something, with money. God, I love money, so much, Morty.
  Morty: Are you being sarcastic?
  Rick: Merchandise, Morty. Your only purpose in life is to buy and consume merchandise, and you did it. You went into a store — an actual, honest-to-god store — and you bought something. You didn't ask questions or raise ethical complaints. You... you just looked straight into the bleeding jaws of capitalism and said "Yes, daddy! Please!" And... I'm so proud of you. I only wish you could have bought more. I... I love buying things so much, Morty!
  Morty: (nervously) Rick, are-are you—? D-do you need to go the hospital?
  Rick: I love you, Morty! Give Grandpa a kiss. (Morty flinches) G-g-give me, give Grandpa a kiss. Lips if you want. Whatever you're comfortable with. Some cultures do that. (Morty pauses, then awkwardly kisses Rick's forehead) That was sweet. Thank you. (Morty looks at Rick in horrified silence) I-I love you. You're my little buddy. (he staggers over the couch and picks up the remote) Okay, let's watch some Interdimensional Cable.
• In The Stinger, the whole advertisement for the Story Train probably counts, but highlights include when the Jesus action figure is introduced (with Morty saying "Oh, Jesus Christ!" in a way that would normally be expressing exasperation, but here is used completely literally), and Rick's enthusiastic insistence that the viewer buy the train. ("Not buying it is an act of buying it!") The commercial includes a URL that the show continuously insists is a real website. It isn't... and not unintentionally either, as while there's nothing at the site when you type it in, Adult Swim actually bought the domain, presumably to avoid a fan buying it and putting something there to ruin the joke.
• Rick comments that he wants Morty to buy more things because "Nobody's out there shopping with this fucking virus."

Promortyus

• The entire opening.
  Rick: The last thing I remember, I was in a cave looking at some wet egg and... oh, that probably explains it.
  Morty: I told you not to look at it! It was too wet!
  Rick: You don't get to tell me what to look at, I've seen your Pornhub account! Also, who makes a Pornhub account?!
  Morty: The algorithm learns your preferences better that way. Plus, if you get a cool enough relationship, you can kinda follow eachother, check out each other's kinks, you know?
  Rick: (impressed) Alright, goddamn, sold!
  • This later gets repeated when Summer tells her story about what happened to her, only for Morty to point out that she wasn't there for that part. She just replies that she filled in the blanks with conjecture and guessing.
• While Rick and Morty destroy the facehugger city, they come across two tall buildings of nearly equal height and fall silent. Rick makes a slow right to avoid the towers and attacks an alien version of Pearl Harbor instead.
• Rick and Morty describe how they made their escape from the Facehugger society while eating pancakes with Beth and Jerry:
  Beth: So... you did a 9/11?
  Morty: Almost did a 9/11. We went with a Pearl Harbor. We're pretty classy.
  Beth: Why were either of these an option?
  Rick: Ask the Saudis.
  Morty: Wow! Damn!
  Rick: Yep. Gettin' political. I'm political now!
  • Rick then asks Jerry what he has been up to lately. Jerry proudly explains that he has gotten into beekeeping. When no one at the table comments on it, Jerry, true to form, immediately gets extremely insecure and defensive:
    Jerry: ...Is something wrong with that? (no one says anything) ...What's wrong with that?! Don't I have the right to be happy? To exist? I'm sorry I didn't 9/11 Pearl Harbor before breakfast, but I have a life too! (ponds the table) I have dreams!
    Beth: (obviously trying to change the subject) And how is Summer? Did she have fun too?
  • Which is then followed by Rick and Morty realizing THEY FORGOT SUMMER BACK AT THE FACEHUGGER WORLD.
    Morty: Oh, she's in the ship, she's... sleepy...
    Rick: (stares for a moment before going with it) ...Oh yeah, SO sleepy!
  • Smash cut to:
    Rick She's sleepy?! What the hell was that?!
    Morty: I didn't see you trying anything!
    Rick: Shitting the bed isn't better than not shitting the bed!
• Rick brings out a pair of armored robot samurai suits for him and Morty fight the Facehuggers with, and it goes well... for a few minutes, after which the predictable happens, and they quickly become exhausted from swinging a pair of oversized swords around.
  Morty: My wrists are killing me...
  Rick: Next time, flamethrowers for sure.
• Settling in to watch some interdimensional cable both Rick and Morty suddenly experience intense pain in their stomachs and realize they're probably about to shit an egg and die. Beth comes in to ask something and Rick immediately cuts her off. And after much of Rick screaming at her to say good-bye to Morty the two of them fall to the floor, drop their pants...and both end up immediately taking a shit on the floor.
  Beth: Hey! Did you two—
  Rick: Beth, your son is dying! Say good-bye!!
  Beth: What are you—?
  Rick: Say good-bye to your little boy!
  Morty: No! Look away! I'm makin' an egg, Mom! Ugh...! I'm makin' an egg!
  Beth: You said you'd keep me more in the loop this year!
  Rick: Look away, Beth! Daddy loves you!
  [Rick and Morty curl up on the ground and drop their pants]
  Morty: Aaaagh! My ass! MY ASS!
  Rick: This is it, Morty! It's full circle from the pilot! Full circle...!! [Groaning and loud farting] ...Oh, I guess we, uh... I guess we both just had to take a shit.
  Morty: Yeah, I-I guess we, uh...
  Beth: Fucking gross. Guys, clean it up.
• The Stinger in which Summer's friend Tricia watches Jerry beekeeping and says she thinks it's kind of sweet and Adorkable. And then...
  Tricia: Summer... I want to fuck your dad.
  Summer: (clearly annoyed) Oh, really?

The Vat of Acid Episode

• Simply how Crazy-Prepared Rick was to try and push the idea of faking his death by jumping into a vat of fake acid.
  • First he takes a vat and fills it with what is implied to be jacuzzi-temperature Mountain Dew.
  • He arranges a meet with alien gangsters in an acid factory so the vat won't be out of place.
  • The vat has a hidden air supply he and Morty can use to stay under the surface indefinitely.
  • He has skeletons of himself and Morty stored in the vat that he can release to further give the impression they have been melted.
  • He has a backup skeleton in case the gangsters decide to throw a body into the vat to test it.
  • He has a gun ready to melt any item the gangsters lower into the vat.
• And then, even despite all of Rick's preparations, the gangsters are still on the verge of figuring out the ploy due to their abnormal attention to detail.
  Gangster: Alright, that tears it. I'm cancelling the rest of my night and calling a bone scientist. We're getting to the bottom of this.
• Morty finally loses patience and just shoots the gangsters dead, rendering all of Rick's preparations meaningless.
• The following conversation during the car ride home.
  Rick: The fuck is wrong with you?!
  Morty Just admit it was a shitty idea!
  Rick: Having a grandson?
  Morty: A vat of fake acid, are you dying of dementia?!
  Rick: How are you talking to me like this?! W-when did you get so cocky?
  Morty: Tonight! Tonight, Rick, the night I saw you fail.
  Rick: Because you ruined it!
  Morty: It was pre-ruined!
  Rick: Oh, was it worse than when I was a pickle? Oh, that's right! You weren't there for that. Turns out, kind of cool. Maybe there's a connection there.
  Morty: Excuse me?
  Rick: What's that cool thing you did without me again? The awesome thing? I-I guess you wanted a dragon. Ooh, *mwah* unforgettable.
  Morty: God, fuck you.
  Rick: Timely too, you really got in on that Game of Thrones fever right at the peak.
  Morty: You trying as hard as you can to hurt me right now proves my point.
  Rick: I'll let you know when you have a point, and the world will know when I try to hurt you.
  Morty: Big man, big genius, big lonely drunk.
  Rick: Save some of these atomic age, beatnik zingers for your English homework, Bukowski.
• How does Morty get Rick to finally make his life "place saving" device? By smugly saying Rick can't do it over and over again.
  Morty: Ah-ha! You can't do it!
  Rick: I can do anything, Morty. Your idea is not worth doing.
  Morty: You can't do it.
  Rick: Before what you're trying to do was called negging, it was called Reverse Psychology and incels didn't invent it, Bugs Bunny did.
  Morty: You can't do it.
  Rick: There is nothing I cannot do.
  Morty: A place-saving video game then—
  Rick: You're a piece of shit!
  Morty: Just say you can't do it!
  Rick: I WON'T!
  Morty: You won't say you can't?
  Rick: Fuck you, Morty!
  Morty: Fuck you!
  Rick: FUCK YOU! (throws away his toolbox, grabs scrap metal and starts welding) Son of a bitch! (continues welding for several seconds)
  Morty: ... so are you gonna—
  Rick: YES I'M GONNA FUCKING DO IT!
• Morty uses the device to try to get closer to Jessica. When politely greeting her only gets an apathetic response, he tries again and acts like an aloof badboy to the point where he pretends he doesn't know her name. It works.
  Jessica: Um, yeah. Hi. Sorry. I thought you knew my name because we've interacted so many times, but, maybe I was just being stupid. Sorry. Hi, I'm Jessica, that's me—
  Morty: (walking away) Cool, see you around.
  Jessica: Yeah, hope I see you. Around.
  Morty: Guess we'll see.
  (Jessica waits until he's walked offscreen then Squees)
• Morty uses the "place saving" device to participate in many dangerous activities, including Suicide by Cop. But he's still too scared to jump off the high-dive at the local pool and resets his place after climbing back down to get over the humiliation of everyone laughing at him.
• Morty going through a whole drawn out relationship with an unnamed girl, culminating in them getting into a plane crash, nearly freezing to death, and making a safe recovery and return home with the girl...which is then ruined when Jerry mistakes Morty's "life pause" remote for the TV remote and sends Morty back to the moment before he met the girl.
  • The sheer fact that Morty did not push the save button even once during his relationship with the girl.
  • Morty desperately tries to recreate his meeting with the girl (opening the door for her at a coffee shop), but ends up creeping her out and getting maced by her instead. Making it worse is that in his throes of pain, he accidentally saves at that moment, so in his attempts at another redo, he just keeps sending himself back to the moment he got sprayed.
• Morty using his remote for things like Suicide by Cop and suicide by gorillas...repeatedly.
• After the reveal of the "place saving" device's true nature and before Morty has merged with all alternate realities to make it so that the alternate versions of himself he killed never existed, the Rick he's talking to tells him he'll send Morty back to his own dimension. When he finds out they're not even the same Rick, Morty then asks how this version of Rick even knows about his Rick's vat of acid. The response?
  Rick: EVERY RICK HAS A VAT!
• Rick really savors the moment when he reveals to Morty that he contrived the entire situation, just so Morty had to fake his own death with, you guessed it, a fake vat of acid:
  Rick: Oof, well, I'm stumped. Seems like there's no way out of this one. Unless... (looks to the fake vat of acid)
  Morty: (flatly) God damn it.
  Rick: (obviously feigning ignorance) Yeah. I guess it is, uh, what did you call it? Uh, uhm... a "shitty idea"?
  Morty: God damn it. [starts climbing the vat's ladder]
  Rick: (smugly) Say the vat is good.
  Morty: (resigned) The vat is good...
  Rick: Kiss the vat.
  [Morty casually flips Rick the bird over his shoulder while he kisses the vat]
  • Rick then lays it on a little extra thick as he performs for the gathered crowd:
    Rick: (in full-on Bad "Bad Acting" mode) Morty, please step back! That vat is full of acid! It will melt you completely, leaving only your bones!
    Morty: (exasperated) God damn it!
    Rick: I'm sorry, what did you say?
    Morty: I'm going in the vat!
• One of the SWAT team members who stays behind to examine the vat gets drenched in the fake acid. He believes that it means that he is acid-proof, causing him to loudly boast about it, before he takes off his pants and slapping his ass as he a does a victory dance.
  "Acid-proof" SWAT cop: [dances away ass first, with his pants still around his ankles] ACID-PROOOOOOOOF!
  Rick: (nonplussed) ...Feels like that guy had other stuff going on.
• Afterwards, Rick reveals that none of this even happened in their own dimension! He set up the entire episode just to get back at Morty for calling his idea stupid. Apparently Rick liked this Earth too, Johnny Carson is still alive and doing TV, there was no 9/11, and Rocky Road ice cream has peanut butter instead of marshmallows.
  Morty: Are you kidding?! The marshmallows is the best part!
• The SWAT officer who gets splashed with the fake acid notices that he's not melting... and instead of realizing the acid is fake, thinks he's immune to acid and decides to embark on a career as a daredevil. He reappears in The Stinger, as a guest on The Johnny Carson Show, where his act is being lowered into a vat of acid. Making this funnier is that he didn't even practice or anything, he just went right to Carson, and of course this leads to a horrific, agonizing death for him.
  • Carson's reaction to this is to make a quip about it.

Childrick of Mort

• After Morty and Summer get lost and resign themselves to their potential deaths:
  Summer: If I die, don't eat my ass. That'd be weird.
• The fact that Rick's machine immediately recognizes Jerry as an Unproductive. It seems just like the sort of petty clause Rick would build into anything he creates.
• Beth and Jerry arguing as he leads the Unproductives against the rest of the children Beth and Rick put together.
  Jerry: Well, if it's God power that gets you going, light some candles and put on the Billy Ocean, 'cause Moses is home, and he's ready to burn some bush!
• The fact that Morty and Summer managed to kill a god. By accident. While stoned. In the most anti-climactic way possible.
• An angry Gaia confronts Rick over the death of Reggie:
  Gaia: RICK! WHAT DID YOU DO!?!
  Rick: I mean, gravity did most of it. So you, technically...
• Rick throwing Morty and Summer under the bus at the end by telling their parents that Summer got high off the pipes in the other ship and Morty thought the controls worked like a video game, causing them to kill Reggie. And he only outs them to be a dick after he realizes Beth and Jerry were against him, so he decided no one should 'win'.
  Rick: And Morty, the fucking moron. He thought the ship worked like a game controller. What in the Disney Channel fuck is that?
• The Stinger showing Rick checking out what is basically a sex ad for planets.
  • Summer walks by as Rick tries to pretend he wasn't doing anything, only for her to point out she was looking over his shoulder for a full minute without him noticing. Rick tries to defend himself anyway and then just goes right back to watching it with a satisfied grin.
• When Beth points out that Gaia's offspring look like Rick.
  Rick: Yeah, and snakes look like dildos, Beth. What's your point?
  Jerry: They do?

Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri

• The invisibility belt is introduced by Rick playing a prank on the family to avoid joining them for a therapy session:
  Rick: I am... actually... disintegrating... (disappears)
  Jerry and Summer: OH, MY GOD!
  Beth: DAD!
  Jerry: Is this really it...? We did it?
  Morty: (completely unimpressed) It's the invisibility belt.
• The little detail that Rick has a device in his wrist watch just to keep him from wasting beer when he does a Spit Take.
• Tammy and a squad of federation soldiers attacks Dr. Wong's office:
  Tammy: Hi, Miss Smith. I like your hair better this way. How's the stomach?
  Beth: What?
  (Tammy kicks Beth square in the stomach)
  Beth: Oof!
  Jerry: HEY!
  (Tammy runs over and starts beating up Jerry)
  Jerry: I only said "HEY!" It's not like I can do more than that!
  • Tammy starts interrogating Beth:
    Tammy: That's your defense?
    Beth: No, my defense is "Eat me!"
    (Tammy punches Beth in in the stomach)
    Beth: OW!
    Jerry: HEY!
    (Tammy's goons starts beating up Jerry)
    Jerry: Agh! We've been over this! All I do is say "HEY!"
    • Then later:
      Beth: Jerry! Do something!
      Jerry: (annoyed) ...Hey.
• When targeting Dr. Wong's office, Rick orders his ship to whitelist human life... and the therapist.
• Morty and Summer's fight over the invisibility belt is interrupted by the arrival of a federation battleship. Just then the invisible Summer picks up the fire extinguisher next to Morty.
  Federation pilot: Wait, what?! How are you doing that? You're not psychic are you? Do you have psychic powers?
  Morty: Uuuh... Yes! (starts waving his hands around in a theatrical manner)
  Federation pilot: Are they strong powers? We're just looking for your mother. You can't, like, stop our hearts, can you?
  Morty: Uh, I can!
  Federation pilot: Okay. We surrender!
• Rick points out to Tammy that she is holding Beth hostage in a therapist's office:
  Rick: Tammy, this is the place where my family works to better itself.
  Tammy: (sarcastically) What, and that makes it sacred?
  Rick: No, it makes it a place I've rigged with a lot of voice-activated escape-contingencies. (clears throat) "These are all good points. I need to take a looong look at myself."
  (a flamethrower descends from the celling over Dr. Wong's chair, and discharges, setting Tammy's back on fire; Rick uses the distraction to shoot her)
  Dr. Wong: (gestures to the flamethrower) I'd like to discuss that.
  Rick: I don't discuss problems. I incinerate them!
  • Later he tells everybody to get in his car. 'Everybody' meaning 'not including Dr. Wong.'
    Rick: Everybody in my family, not the world. Jesus, Wong. Boundaries.
• Rick manages to take Tammy hostage, while throwing Jerry her rifle:
  Rick: Everybody! Drop your guns!
  (Jerry quickly drops the rifle)
  Rick: (hurriedly) Except for Jerry! (realizes immediately that is exactly what Jerry has done) Fucking classic...
• Having defeated Tammy, Rick delivers a Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
  Rick: You made me go to a wedding. (blows Tammy's brains out) ...And you killed my best friend. (somewhat ashamed, to Summer) I should have said that one first.
• While invading the Federation battlestation, Jerry suddenly hears the call of nature:
  Jerry: Uh, I... I have to pee.
  Rick: Pee on the floor! It's a Deathstar!
  Jerry: Okay... But there's rebellion and then there's...
  • Summer hands Jerry the invisibility belt, so he have some privacy. Jerry is still having problems:
    Jerry: I can't go with you guys watching!
    Morty: You're invisible!
    Jerry: What if the pee isn't?
    • Morty and Summer leaves and Jerry is finally alone. An pee stream appears out of nowhere:
      Jerry: Oh god! I knew it.
• Rick tells Morty and Summer that it is time to split up and regroup later.
  Morty: The Dream-Team rides again!
  Summer: Oh, yeah! We're like Luke and Leia! ...Uh, except no kissing part. What's another famous Brother–Sister Team?
  Morty: Uh.... Hansel and Gretel?
  Summer: Yeah, those two were fucking.
• Morty getting the guards to chase him by walking in and out of their line of sight whilst not wearing pants. It's done in the most blatant come-and-get-me way possible.
  Morty: I used to be invisible but now I'm the opposite!
  Alien: Get him! But not in a weird way.
• Jerry's Of Corpse He's Alive routine with Tammy's body, especially because it is clear he doesn't really know much about her.
  • When Phoenix-person says that she is behaving strangely:
    Jerry: (puppeteering Tammy) Me? Strange? Oh my. Well, who's normal, really?
• Jerry in The Stinger decides to get rid of the invisibility belt, only for it to turn the garbage truck picking it up invisible. After it freaks out the garbage men, Jerry decides to have fun with the invisible garbage truck...until he runs out of gas and can’t find the tank.
  • One of the people he prank is a pimp who calls one of his workers bitch, before quickly clarifying that it's a vocation term and not how he feels about her personally.

Season 5

• The last scene we see in the season's opening credits is just Morty doing a golf putt. After all the other, weirder ones we've seen, it somehow stands out as the most bizarre of all.

Mort Dinner Rick Andre

• Rick uses a dimension where time moves faster to store wine so it can be aged up for Mr. Nimbus.
  Morty: So time moves faster in there? It's like a Narnia thing?
  Rick: I'm not a beaver who believes in Jesus Christ, Morty... but yeah, it's pretty much a Narnia thing.
• Mr. Nimbus controls the police. Not like, "He's so influential they do what he says," but in that all he needs to do is move provocatively while saying a command and they immediately do it. No explanation for how he can do this is ever given. After Jerry calls the cops on him, Nimbus demonstrating his power by making cops beat each other up, start to have sex, and then just leave.
• The Nintendo 69 channel. Probably a reference to the fact Nintendo once ran Love Hotels.
• The increasingly complex and insanely developed saga of the cow world that views Morty as the entity that brought about the downfall of their civilization.
• When Morty goes into the "Narnia dimension" to rescue Jessica, he finds an older version of himself, alone in a white void save for a single tree. The old Morty speaks cryptically, thanks regular Morty for reminding him of Jessica's name because he had forgotten, then hands him grapes "for the wine" before disappearing. Just as it seems like the time shenanigans are going to end in a mindscrew, a robot tentacle grabs Morty the second he lowers his guard and it turns out the Hoovans were just bullshitting him.
• During a heated argument, Mr. Nimbus namedrops Rick's ex-wife and implies she'd be ashamed of him if she were still alive. This causes Rick to snap. Not because Mr. Nimbus mentioned his dead ex-wife, but because he's establishing Rick's backstory.
  Rick: Don't fucking establish canonical backstory with me, you Red Lobster motherfucker!
• After Jessica leaves the Smith house:
  Catcaller: Hey, how you doing?
  Jessica: Fuck off, I'm a time-god!
• Rick and Mr. Nimbus are about to bury the hatchet when Summer returns from the errand Rick sent her on in the beginning of the episode with the conch that's the source of Nimbus's power. Nimbus immediately begins beating the shit out of Rick, and Summer, thinking blowing the horn will take away his power, instead makes him stronger. Afterwards Nimbus hauls Rick to the curb, summons the cops and tells them to take Rick to jail.
  Rick: (being hauled away) I told you! He's an ice-cold dick killer!
• The Stinger for the episode has Beth and Jerry following up on Mister Nimbus's offer for a threesome by going to his motel room. They both ask if the other wants to back out, until they realize they were only going for it because they wanted to show each other how much they wanted to make their marriage work after getting back together. They decide to back out...until Nimbus opens the door.
  Nimbus: Getting cold feet?
  Jerry: No... Please don't tell Rick.
  Beth: He wouldn't understand.
  Nimbus: Yes. He. Would. [shakes off his robe]
  [Jerry and Beth look down, then quickly get inside with Nimbus and close the door]

Mortyplicity

• The episode starts with Rick and Morty casually planning to kill God during breakfast. For no stated reason.
  Rick: The Christian God is real. He's been asleep for thousands of years. We're gonna sneak up there and kill him.
  Morty: Mob style.
  Rick: Whack his ass.
  Summer: Can I kill God?
  Rick: Fuck off, Summer.
  Morty: As if.
  • When Jerry protests, Beth tells him not to get worked up before his job interview. That is the most shocking thing to Rick, and is enough to make him realize something's off before the entire family is killed by squid aliens.
• After the Smith family in the opening scene dies, the episode cuts to the Smith family hunting a one-gimmick character named Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted. After Rick gets an alert about a decoy family being killed, he snaps at him for being one note.
  Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted: I'm Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted!
  Rick: Yes, and how interesting did you think that would stay?!
  (Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted frowns)
  • While Rick is explaining that he created decoys—not clones—of the family and scattered them around the country so that his enemies will kill them instead of the real Smith family, Jerry still has questions about Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted.
    Jerry: But why does he always want to be hunted?
    Beth: Jerry.
    Morty: That's not important right now, dad!
    Jerry: Sure, guys. Rick can make secret decoys of the family and place them all around the country, but fuck me if I have questions about the starfish man in the target suit.
    Summer: So thankful this is my Saturday.
• After the third decoy family we've been misled to believe is the real Smith family dies, the fourth Rick tells his version of Morty that it's essentially a "kinetic mislead to a very special episode" essentially spelling out this will be the season's anthology episode.
  • To cap it off, they watch an Interdimensional Cable show called "When Wolf" about a time-traveling werewolf. The duo are intrigued, until Dracula shows up as a caveman.
    When Wolf: Dracula! You know why I'm here.
    Dracula: I'm safe here, Ian. Christianity hasn't been invented yet. Crosses are just baby Ts to me now! I got out. Please, don't invite me back in.
    Morty: Huh, kinda mucked it up with this Dracula stuff.
    Rick: You're right. It shows a lack of faith in their core concept. I'd much rather watch When Wolf go to the '20s and invest in the stock market — but then eat people.
    Morty: Yeah.
• One decoy Rick is just about to explain what happened to Beth's mom when he's interrupted by the alert going off that a decoy family was killed. Beth hears this and gets mad he made more clones.
  Rick: Clones are like 32% of all sci-fi, sweetie. You don't get to own "clones."
• After finding out decoys are making decoys, Rick displays his usual flippant attitude by saying he'll terminate the program.
  Beth: Terminate? They're alive, dad!
  Rick: And at some point, they won't be. That's how existing works. What are you gonna save every stray cat?
  Beth: No, but I can resist making more of them in a lab.
  Rick: Look, save the empathy. It's more termite infestation than Blade Runner.
  Summer: I still think we're decoys.
  Morty: You just want an excuse to stop trying!
  Summer: Yeah, and?
• Rick's summarization of the plot as an Asimov Cascade.
  Rick: When squids started killing decoys, decoys started checking their decoys, and learning that they're making decoys. That's making them seek out and run into other decoys, making them realize they're decoys, making them start to kill other decoys.
  (Beat)
  Summer: Say "decoy" again.
  Rick: Fuck you.
  • Beth asks how they can stop the loop but Rick tells her it's essentially Highlander rules now. When none of the family gets the reference, Rick says they'll rent it after this, even mentioning how Sean Connery plays "the Spaniard" but does nothing about his accent.
• Rick's horrible half-ass disguises to blend in with the squid aliens after the rest of the family vetoes killing the decoys instead of them.
  Summer: This costume smells like ass!
  Rick: God, there is just no pleasing you.
  Morty: It's really bad, Rick.
  Summer: Did you let a gym coach break it in?
  • Made even funnier by the reveal that the squids are decoys in much better disguises.
• Summer keeps bringing up the possibility of them being decoys, causing Rick to finally begin questioning his existence after mocking Beth for going through the same crisis in Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri. Beth enjoys it immensely.
  Summer: He's starting to wonder. I knew it! I knew we didn't seem like Colorado people.
  Beth: Oh my God, you are, aren't you? You're worried you might be fake!
  Rick: Sure, Beth. Try to love this more.
• The Oh, Crap! moment the family has after shooting down a squid ship, taking off the aliens' helmets and finding out the "squids" are actually killer decoys.
  Morty: Wait. If the squids are decoys. And we dressed as squids—
  Summer: Well, I think I found their weakness. They don't fucking listen to me.
  (Dying "Squid" Jerry drops a grenade at the Smiths feet)
  Rick: Honestly, probably for the best.
  (entire family gets vaporized)
• One decoy family decides to go off the grid and live in the woods like Libertarians.
  Rick: Wait, shh. It's too quiet.
  (Beat)
  Summer: You skipped quiet.
  Rick: I didn't skip shit, it's obviously quiet if it's too quiet.
  Summer: Yeah, but you're supposed to say—
  Rick: You know what, Summer, now it's not quiet enough!
  (entire family gets blow-darted)
• The entire family gets taken hostage by a deformed, self-aware Rick decoy with leather skin who's been skinning decoys alive. It should be nightmarish but Summer's reaction makes it priceless.
  Leather Rick: You see, Ricks—they get lazy. There's always a "shitty decoy" towards the end. But those decoys made decoys, too, and got lazy themselves. And far enough down the line... there be monsters.
  Summer: Ugh, we get it. You're ugly and mad about it.
  • Glockenspiel Rick kills Leather Rick via a cuckoo-bird through the chest.
• One decoy Smith family is shown standing in the ocean during sunset. They've made peace with their impending deaths and spend their remaining time as a family crossing items off their bucket list before they die. Summer's was peeing in the ocean before she died. Rick then asks for Jerry's.
  Jerry: I'd like to attend a game at every major league ballpark.
  Rick: (cheerfully) Nope! Morty?
  • After the decoy family allows themselves to be peacefully vaporized while holding hands, it cuts to the inside of the squid-ship piloted by another Smith family.
  Morty: They looked happy. Did we have to kill them?
  Beth: Well, maybe their Rick came to grips with his bullshit.
  Rick: You're so mean today! I'm your dad, you like having me around!
• The President's cameo.
  Steve: Sir, there seems to be a confluence of Rick Sanchezs killing each other over the American Southwest.
  POTUS: Sounds exhausting. How many of those states voted for me, anyway?
  Steve: Mr. President, I think the point of the electoral college is—
  POTUS: To preserve slavery? That's right, Steve, I have the internet too. Now take your white ass to the kitchenette and bring me a Diet Coke.^note Which is a hidden Take That! to Donald Trump. Trump loves Diet Coke so much that he had a button installed in the Oval Office that when pushed summoned a staff member with the drink.
• While one Rick has drawn all of the decoys into one place for a final battle, it cuts to a hilltop where Muppet versions of Rick and Beth are watching the action. The two get into another argument which ends with Muppet Rick acknowledging that maybe he might not be the real Rick but apologizing to Muppet Beth for the entire decoy fiasco and also for cloning her too. The two reconcile and then reveal they were real people purposefully wearing Muppet costumes so they would be too cute to murder.
• During the final battle between the two remaining Smith families, Summer comes across two Mortys trying to kill each other. They both ask her for help but rather than deal with the whole "which one is my Morty" she just tells them she had to kill herself, he'll need to kill himself too.
• The last remaining Rick asks the last remaining Summer if she's the one he came with.
  Summer: Probably.
  Rick: Good enough.
• Just when it looks like everything's been resolved, suddenly the last Smith family is gunned down one-by-one. The killer? Mr. Always Wants to be Hunted. Rick has no idea who he is and why he's here, mimicking the Jerry decoy who earlier died after asking decoy Rick about him.
  Rick: What? Who—W-were you significant? Like—Like, did we tee you up? You want to be hunted? God, I have so many questions. Why? What happens if... (dies)
• Then it turns out the real(?) Smith family was off having an adventure with Space Beth.
  Rick: Pretty cool adventure, huh? Big, long road trip adventure through space? Even ran into Space Beth. Maybe that'll happen more often?
  Space Beth: Let's not overdo it.
  Rick: (gets an alert) Oh, shit. Looks like someone killed the decoy family.
  Beth/Space Beth: (both angry) Decoy family?/ Say what now?
• The Stinger showing what became of the wooden Glockenspiel Jerry, the decoy who left his entire family along with the decoy resistance to die just so he could save his own life and not share a single can of varnish he wanted to use to cross the river. After coating himself in varnish, he starts peacefully floating down the river. Until he's seen by beavers. Before he can escape he's dismembered, used as material in a dam, and has a mother beaver and her children using his torso as a nest. He embraces death when the river rises up over his face only to awaken in the post-apocalypse, apparently made immortal by the varnish. He's found by a woodpecker man who begins pecking at his head. Then he wakes up again after being reduced to just a head mounted on a mirror in a saloon for alien cowboys. When they see he's alive, they take him outside and burn him. He then wakes up again as a head nailed to the cross aliens are using to crucify an alien version of Jesus. Then they throw tomatoes at him.
  Glockenspiel Jerry: Christianity again? After cowboys? You went all the way back around?!

A Rickonvenient Mort

• In the Cold Opening, Rick lampshades the incredibly cheesy, narmy dialogue between Diesel Weasel and Planetina with his usual snark while munching on snacks in a Pass the Popcorn style, while Morty, unsurprisingly, just gawks at Planetina.
  • After Morty's fourth "Wow" over Planetina in the span of a minute.
    Rick: Morty if you say "wow" one more time, I swear to fucking God. (tosses beer can outside)
    Morty: Are you crazy, Rick? She's right there! (goes to get the can)
    Rick: Yeah, get that aluminum, Morty. It's eight percent of the earth, we'll need every atom.
• Soon after, when Morty approaches her and invites her on a date, she offers to bring him and Rick to a shop that sells "cruelty-free donuts". Morty states that he'll ask Rick, then walks over to his grandpa and throws his Rick and Morty T-shirt right in his face without a word, before returning to Planetina and saying "He says he can't come" before flying off with her.
• Morty's keeps checking his phone after his first date with Planetina.
  Morty: Is it weird she hasn't texted me yet?
  Jerry/ Beth: Yes./ No.
• Rick gives the family some exposition on his ensuing B-Plot by pulling out a holo-map that knocks over Jerry's breakfast. Then Rick shifts the map over a few inches, making it clear he just wanted to spite Jerry.
• Summer's rant towards Jerry about how she's entitled to relaxing with Rick after getting dumped is this.
  Jerry: You're not going!
  Summer: The fuck I'm not! Last time I checked, this wasn't Russia!
  Rick: It's not Russia, Jerry.
  Summer: My heart is broken, and I deserve to let loose, and if you don't like it, you can suck my bigger TIT. (pulls out a pair of 2010 New Year's Eve glasses) Adios, c-words.
  • The fact that Summer pulls out a pair of New Year's Eve glasses makes this scene funnier when you think about the fact that she and Rick are celebrating the end of multiple worlds.
  • A very subtle Visual Pun: The pair of New Year's Eve glasses Summer puts on is from 2010. When you consider the modern technology and references that the show incorporates, and the fact that Summer got dumped, she's figuratively and literally out of date (or in this case, of a date).
• After an argument with Beth, Morty storms out of the house and slams the door. Then opens the door and slams it shut three more times. For once, Jerry knows the right thing to say.
  Jerry: I'll get the wine.
  Beth: Thank you.
• The visual metaphor used for Morty's and Planetina's G-Rated Sex, with highlights such as Morty's face attached to birds and bees, and Cloud-Planetina "blowing" Windmill-Morty.
• Soon after, the Tina-teers summon Planetina at a convention the next day...only to get her and a pajama-clad Morty, still-sleeping with their bodies intertwined.
• The villain who wanted to enslave Planetina feels the need to point out that he doesn't represent any particular group, despite wearing a tobe with a kufiya and wielding a scimitar, like most Arabic stereotypes in western media.
• The inhabitants of the second planet where Rick and Summer are having their apocalypse bar crawl countdown the end of the world like it's New Year's Eve. Then the blackhole starts sucking their planet in and they stop celebrating.
  Aliens: Happy apocalypse!
  (the black hole begins to pull the aliens in)
  Aliens: Oh my god! This is awful! Why were we cheering?!
• Summer learns that Rick's traveling partner, Daphne, has "elbow titties" that are apparently very valuable. Understandably, Summer is grossed out.
• Morty tells his parents about how he freed Planetina.
  Morty: Then I put my sunglasses on and walked out like nothing happened!
  Planetina: I'm finally free! All because of Morty!
  Jerry: (Unsettled) What a romantic story about our son killing a roomful of people.
• Jerry, Beth, Morty and Planetina are playing a board-game. Beth and Morty eventually get into an argument of the appropriateness of his relationship with Planetina, which is pretty damn serious. However, there's a funny moment before it where Jerry, being Jerry, says something dumb, thinking that Morty's just mad because he lost the game. That game being called, "Don't Punch My Lunch".
  Morty: Mom, I hate you! You suck!
  Jerry: Hey now, it's only a game...
  Beth and Morty: SHUT UP!
  Jerry: Okay.
• Summer effortlessly destroying the meteor about to hit Ferkus 9, averting the apocalypse and saving everyone on the planet... solely to ruin Rick's relationship with his new fling.
  • The inhabitants of Ferkus 9's reaction to Summer saving their planet.
    Alien: Hey, she's the one that saved the world! Now we gotta go to work tomorrow!
    (crowd begins booing Summer and throwing beer cans at her)
  • The post-credits scene shows the day after with a father and son who had exploited the end of the world to test out Parental Incest. Things are understandably incredibly awkward.

Rickdependence Spray

• Right off the bat, a tremendous piece of silent comedy when Morty pushes the button on the horse breeder machine. Not only is his facial expression priceless, but his eyes go wider as the alternate use for the machine dawns on him.
• The conversation between Rick and Morty over how Rick got the horse sperm. Rick is absolutely baffled over Morty's questions, especially since Rick for once actually has a valid reason for his latest experiment.
• Before and after Rick's machine malfunctions and creates the Space Sperm, his words are ambiguous enough to make Morty think Rick knows the truth. When Rick again states he has no hidden knowledge as he fights off the Sperm, his grandson has no problem laying the blame at his grandfather's feet. Right before the title sequence, Rick has a hilarious look of confusion on his face.
• Summer, Beth, and the President all wondering how big space dicks must be if Space Sperm exists.
• The Space Sperm capture Rick by spraying him with, ahem, genetic material that encases him but leaves his face and hands free. Rick comments this is one time he is not happy to be taken alive.
• Morty breaking down upon having to admit that the Space Sperm is his own fault, but still describing the act of getting pulled off by the horse sperm machine as "fantastic" through his broken down tone.
• When Morty comes clean to everyone that the Space Sperm is his own fault and how it's his fault too:
  POTUS: My God man, we were all 14 once, but it's called self-control!
• After Beth and Summer ride the Space Sperm to try and defeat them:
  Summer: Mom, from now on, I promise to use a condom, even with butt stuff.
  Beth: Okay, we really need to have a serious discussion later.
• Hispanic speakers reportedly got fun out of the Princess being called "Ponyeta," as it is pronounced very similarly to the Spanish word "puñeta," which roughly translates to "Damn!"
• Rick seemingly reconnects with Princess Ponyetta after the Space Sperm is defeated, but as soon as their child is born, they both split up mutually like two buddies calling it a day. Rick then pulls out a "that was easy" button to close the episode.
  • When Rick finds out that Ponyetta is pregnant with his child, his first reaction is to, very seriously, admit that he has a substance abuse problem.
• The Stinger featuring the "incest baby" floating through space and killing an apparently unpopular astronaut.

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• Summer proposes she and Morty work together in order to gain the loyalty of a cool new transfer student and make elevate their status in school.
  Summer: We both need to acquire Chutback's loyalty before he finds out we're losers. By all accounts it's a very small window, so I think it's in our best interest to work as a team.
  Morty: Yeah, most people would call that family.
  [Summer glowers, turns around and farts]
  Morty: You're so gross!
  Summer: You have to like it or you're sexist!
• The introduction of the Cenobite parody demons, who feel the need to keep pointing out that things that feel bad to others, feels pleasurable to them.
  Penhead Demon: What's the matter, Rick? Are you having a bad time? Because to us, a bad time is—
  Rick: Yeah, yeah, a good time. Because you guys are like Oscar the fucking Grouch.
• The demons outright state they only like having Jerry around because of how profoundly lame he is.
  Jerry: (coming out of a karaoke bar) Hey, guess what, they have the entire Smash Mouth catalog!
  (the demons laugh and glow purple in amusement)
• Bruce Chutback's introduction has a song play out of nowhere that makes it sound like he's the hottest new product to be advertised.
  Singer: Bruce Chutback! The newest kid in school! Just transferred in! Hasn't done anything embarrassing yet! Unlimited potential! Anybody's guess! No credit is perfect credit, Chutback is the best!
• The return of Rick's Ship's AI, in all her snarky, psychotic glory.
  AI: You are not Rick.
  Summer: That's correct, Car. It's me, Summer, remember, "Keep Summer safe?" Buds?
  AI: I am aware of your existence.
  Bruce: Oof.
• Part of the kids' joyride involves hitting aliens shaped like mailboxes with a baseball bat.
• The Ship offers to not tell Rick about Morty and Summer taking her out for a joyride if they help her lose her virginity to a Changeformer.
  Summer: You have virginity?
  AI: I don't know. Don't all objects? Isn't a doorknob a virgin?
  Morty: Not mine. (sees Summer and Bruce staring at him) I never fucked a doorknob!
• The parody of Ominous Latin Chanting over scenes of the demons massacring a bar and the ship's AI going on a rampage.
  Evil! Evil! Evil things are happening!
• Rick's annoyance at Beth wanting to save Jerry from the demons.
  Rick: God damn it, Beth, you never follow helldemons to a second location. It's always hell!
• The sheer depths of the demons Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad mindset, which Rick and Beth need to play along with while dressing up as them in order to sneak into hell. Also, the demons names being incredibly on point.
  Coatrack Head: Marlin Guts. Dartboard Face. I assume those are your names and yet they are not on my list.
  Rick: Oh the pain of being rejected from hell! Oh it's painful! So I love it! (begins rubbing nipples) Thank you! Uh, such pleasure!
  Coatrack Head: I did not mean to cause you any pleasure... which causes me pain... which gives me pleasure!
  Rick: Then thrill me by keeping me out, Coathanger Face.
  Coatrack Head: (offended) Wow. It's Coatrack Head.
  Beth: But, like, if we offend you, isn't that good?
  Coatrack Head: Big time. Yeah, duh. I loved it. So painful, and therefore so pleasurable. Yeah go on in.
• Rick's Ship saving Morty, Summer, and Bruce by implanting a chip in the head of Alyson Hannigan ("no relation") before basically blowing her up to get the three to escape.
• Rick luring in a demon attracted to suffering by saying he just saw a dad like all his daughter's friends' photos on Instagram.
  • Let's not forget this gem:
    Demon: Ah! Which means I need help… which means I don’t need help! (Rick grabs him and pulls him back inside).
• Since the demons enjoy being in pain, Rick defeats them by creating a gun that inverts the pleasure they get from pain back into literal pain. The demons' reactions to feel pain are priceless.
  Coatrack Head: I regret so many piercings!
  Demon: Where's First Aid Kit Face? Or at least Advil Teeth?
  Mousetrap Nipples: OW! Bullets that hurt? Could this be the end of Mousetrap Nipples?!
• Rick needed to power his invention with an embarrassing level of sincerity. Which meant telling Jerry he loved him.
  Rick: Jerry, about down there...
  Jerry: It's okay Rick, you don't need to say it.
  Rick: No, I do. I'll replace you next time. Make no mistake. What just transpired will never happen again.
  Jerry: (not believing him and patting him on the shoulder) 10-4, Captain.
  [Rick stares sullenly]
• The Car quickly scrubs herself down because Rick can "smell adventure." He almost notices something is up for a split second...until Jerry admits that he farted.
• Beth, Jerry and Rick interrogating the kids about whether or not they had an adventure while they were out—despite still wearing the Hellraiser clothes from their own adventure. A skull then falls out of Beth's hair.
  Morty: Is that a skull?
  Jerry: No! It's a (shocked realization) baby's skull!
  Beth: That's worse! (to kids) It's still a school night.
• The Stinger has Bruce Chutback basking in the adoration of the popular kids at school after blowing Morty and Summer off, right up until the popular kids notice he's wearing the same pants as yesterday and his reputation is instantly destroyed.
  Singer: Bruce Chut-Pants, a known quantity. Apparently poor, he skips on his pants. He lacks slacks! And those are the facts. Bruce Chut-Pants, regular guy now.
  • Then as he's walking home, a bunch of mailboxians fly in on a spaceship and beat him up with giant mailbox flags as revenge for earlier.
• Rick, Jerry, and Beth's escape from Hell only happens because the demons hung them up on the same faulty skin hooks Rick sold them.
  Demon: Didn't I tell you to replace those?!
  Demon 2: I forgot. Which makes me embarrassed. Which makes me PROUD!
  Demon: God damn it.

Rick And Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular

• The very premise of the episode: Rick commits a felony and his solution is to use Loophole Abuse and turn himself into a turkey so the President will pardon him as per Thanksgiving tradition. And it isn't the first or second time he's done it; he's pulled this off so many times, the President has a complex counter offensive that involves turning soldiers into turkeys. If this doesn't capture the heart and soul of Rick and Morty, nothing does.
• Just the fact that the episodes opens with Morty accidentally activating the giant robot assassin concealed in the Statue of Liberty as a Trojan Horse by the French, causing it to go on a rampage through New York... and then Rick and the President are more preoccupied with their turkey rivalry than doing anything about it.
• Both Summer and the Vice President respectively telling Rick and President Curtis to "Just fuck and get it over with" in regards to their ongoing childish rivalry.
• Coop's introduction seems like that of a typical action movie revolving around a soldier being pulled into a dangerous mission, complete with heavily pregnant wife protesting him getting involved. His motivational speech afterward is all the funnier because of Timothy Olyphant's performance.
  Coop: Baby, that little race car driver you got bakin' in your belly. What world you want him rearin' up in? One where some... spiky-haired Doctor Who in a lab coat can change the color of the sky? Or a world where he can fill his pickup with hot dogs and drive it to a jukebox full of our demographic's current favorite music?
  Mary Lou: Obviously the latter, but—
  Coop: Well that world, Mary Lou, the one with those meals, vehicles and songs people in this 30-mile area prefer... that world needs a few good men. In a secret Pentagon lab. Turning into turkeys.
  Mary Lou: You come back without feathers, Coop!
  [Coop and Mary Lou begin making out in front of a bartender watching them as he pours a drink]
  Bartender: God I love this country.
  • After Coop leaves, there's then a montage of other soldiers also heading off to accept the President's mission. And every single one is leaving behind a heavily pregnant wife. Including the female soldier. The parody country song that plays as they get prepped for their transformation is just icing on the cake.
    I got a pregnant girl and a pickup truck
    I got one by choice and the other by luck
    But now it's time to turn into a turkey!
    I hope there can be peace one day
    Till then, I pray my DNA
    Gets backed up
    When I turn into a turkey
    Gobble, gobble!
    Gobble, gobble!
    When I turn into a turkey!
  • Now with an extended version, because it's that funny.
• Each time someone mentions the tracking chips needed to tell people apart, they highlight, "It'll be important later."
• The President telling his VP he only got his position because needed ten percent of the white vote. Which then goes on to be a Running Gag throughout the episode.
  • After Coop fails to recognize a turkified Rick and Morty impersonating two of his soldiers.
    Coop: That's Rodriguez and Fincher, sir.
    POTUS: It's Rick and Morty you useless, fucking stump-humper! Sorry, don't tell 10% of your friends I called you that.
  • Later when Mary Lou objects to the President recruiting Coop for another mission.
    Mary Lou: You better not be here to take my man again!
    Coop: Mary Lou—
    Mary Lou: I'm poor! And pregnant! With a poor person!
    POTUS: And I need you... And 10% of your baby.
• The reveal that FDR has been transformed into a half-man, half-spider.
  President: He was a guinea pig for the polio vaccine. We asked ourselves, "What walks the most?"
  Morty: "We?" You're taking credit for this?
  President: The office comes with baggage, Morty.
• Rick and Morty as turkeys get webbed up by FDR.
  Morty: Rick, I'm afraid to die!
  Rick: You won't have to be for long, Morty! We're due to return to human form any second!
  Morty: Then what?
  Rick: Then we just have to not get eaten by the spider!
  [Rick and Morty transform back into naked humans]
  Morty: Oh, so in other words, be afraid to die?
  Rick: Morty, if winning an argument is that important to you, you were never alive!
• Morty manages to kill Spider FDR with fire.
  Rick: Oof! You just killed FDR.
  Morty: He was a monster, though!
  Rick: Don't mythologize him. He was a politician.
• After escaping from Spider FDR, Rick, Morty and President Curtis walk right into Congress stark naked. With all the weirdness going on, no one mentions it or feels awkward about it even though Morty is a teenage boy. After escaping back to the Smith home, Beth goes Mama Bear on the President for yelling at Morty. He apologizes to her, still butt naked. Used to the craziness in her life since Rick returned, Beth doesn't mention the nudity either. This is also the second episode in the show to have the United States President spend several scenes completely nude.
• The parody of a Rousing Speech delivered by the President to convince a bunch of soldiers to fight for him. The funniest part of the whole thing is that it works.
  POTUS: Now, look, I know it's gonna take more than some speech. But, what is a speech? Isn't it just a question? And isn't that a question too? Speeches are words. Repeated words. Listed words. Repeated lists of repeated words. None of that matters! You know what does matter? Me. Asking you. "Will you do what I say?"
• At Thanksgiving dinner, Summer says she associates the holiday with genocide. This sets off a Berserk Button for President Curtis and Summer meekly backs off, explaining that it is a popular take for teens her age to use, even if they have zero knowledge to back the claim up.
• Jerry complains about the shimmer mucking up his oven timer and says that "elections do have consequences."
  POTUS: Eat my ass, Jerry. I've seen your IRS records. You can complain to me when you have taxable income.
  Rick: Yes, Jerry is a piece of shit. I agree.
• After the Turkey President blows himself up (by ripping out a wishbone in his chest and wishing to explode), the real President is left floating in the Reflecting Pool while his life flashes before his eyes including: the Berlin Wall coming down, the Playstation, Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture, the Playstation 2, Hurricane Katrina, Playstation 3, Maroon Five, Playstation 4, the Cubs winning the World Series and finally...
  POTUS: I want a Playstation 5!
  • Even funnier, it's a shot at the scarcity of the console. Not even the President of the United States can get his hands on one.

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• Rick explains to Summer that, due to a series of lawsuits against Boob World being sexist and them trying to rebrand it as a woman-empowerment thing, he and Morty brought her along to Boob World because bringing a woman provides free entry.
  Summer: So I’m like what, a Coke can you bring to Six Flags?
  Morty: No, cause once you get into Six Flags you can throw your Coke can away.
• Upon finding the blue GoTron ferret, Rick immediately cancels the trip to Boob World. When Morty objects Rick gives him an option.
  Rick: Tell you what, Morty, I'll let you choose. Do you really think Boob World—
  Morty: Yes.
  Rick: Let me finish. Is more important—
  Morty: Yes!
  Rick: Let me finish! Than having all five of the only five GoTron ferrets in the universe?
  Morty: (Beat) Are you finished? YES! So let's go—
  Rick: Summer, help me hook the winch up to the ferret.
  Summer: Sure.
  Morty: What the hell?! You said you were letting me choose!
  Rick: Yeah, whether to break my fucking heart. You chose badly.
• Morty attempts a voiceover but is interrupted by Summer’s own voiceover now that she’s the one on Rick’s good side.
  Morty Voiceover: That's how it all began. To my sister, it was just another game. But what she didn't know—
  Summer Voiceover: That was the moment everything changed.
  Morty VO: Wait, what?
  Summer VO: I had gotten my first taste of respect and my first voiceover.
  Morty VO: I can hear you. Can you hear me?
  Summer VO: And I knew then and there I wanted more of both.
  Morty VO: (Morty waves at Summer's back as she walks away) ... Hello?
  • Which then becomes a Running Gag throughout the episode of the two's competing voiceovers.
    Morty VO: Something new was forming and I was at the bottom of it.
    Summer VO: I let Morty have his voiceover. It's really all he had left.
    (Morty looks confused and walks closer to Summer who's not looking at him)
    Morty VO: Okay, can you hear me or not?
    Summer VO: Do you mean can I, Summer, hear you? No. My voiceover can hear your voiceover.
    Morty VO: What's the difference?
    Summer VO: One would be telepathy, dumbass.
• Jerry's bewilderment at the convoluted way Rick transports the family to their ferret mechs.
  Jerry: Where are we zip-lining through futuristic metallic tunnels to?
  Rick: Each robot ferret is at a different location on Earth. You're going to the center of a volcano.
  Jerry: (unsettled) Thank... you?
  • Later, after the family's reconvened in their mechs.
    Jerry: Did I just monorail from my kitchen to Hawaii just to regroup in outer space above my kitchen?
• Each GoTron ferret is hidden in an impressive place across the world, like in a volcano, behind a waterfall, in frozen mountains or the middle of the ocean. Morty's is in a parking garage. And he needs a ticket to get out.
• Morty tries to convince Rick not to give into his obsessions with the GoTron ferrets. It initially works until Summer steps in to keep it going.
  Summer: When are you going to find your shame?
  Morty: I have more?!
• The implication that the Smith Family of this universe is known throughout the multiverse as the Smith Family who had a giant incest baby and shot it up into space.
• Jerry and Beth return home after Summer fired them. Given that by this point their family's become more like a mafia family, they think about some unsettling ways for payback.
  Jerry: Should we clip her?
  Beth: No. She's not worth doing time.
  Jerry: You wouldn't do time. You brought her into the world.
  Beth: So, I can take her out? You thought that was an actual law? It's a joke mothers say. What kind of fucked up world have you been living in?
  Jerry: Uh, one where your mother murdering you isn't a comedic premise?
  Morty: Guys, there's a little adjustment period, but pretty soon, you're gonna return to normal and you're not going to want to kill Summer. You're not even gonna be mad at her.
  Beth: Nah, fuck her. She's my enemy.
  Jerry: Should we kill ourselves, so we can get to hell before her, and hide near the entrance?
  Beth: Hmm. I like that.
  • Then the second Summer comes home and bursts into tears over Rick firing her both Jerry and Beth hug and forgive her.
• Summer explaining why she helped feed into Rick's obsession which ends with her in tears saying an incredibly rare sentence.
  Summer: So, I wanted to make sure we stuck together. But instead, I drove us apart, and Rick replaced me with an anime girl, so all I've got is myself and my giant, tortured, government-trained rogue incest monster baby out there in space somewhere.
  Jerry: (consolingly) Oh, baby... what the fuck?
• Kendra is disgusted to see the giant incest baby that Rick brags about.
  Yellow GoTron Pilot: (smiling) Congrats, man. I see the resemblance.
• It's eventually revealed Morty and Summer's voiceovers are caused by alien worms inside Morty and Summer's heads called Voiceovarians, which Rick reveals by pulling one out of Morty's ear and preparing to shoot them both.
  Morty's Voiceovarian: And just like that, I knew our goose was as cooked as—(blasted)
• The Stinger reveals the source of the giant kaiju bugs that the Smith family have been killing all episode with their GoTrons. They're benevolent travelers from another dimension who are killed by the people they're trying to help because travel strips them of their clothes and nobody can understand them.
  Bug Sergeant: Alright, bring it in! (bugs huddle together and put their hands on top of each others) What are we?
  Bugs: Normal-sized bugs!
  Sergeant: What do we do?
  Bugs: Travel through an inter-dimensional gateway to a planet with tiny people!
  Sergeant: Why do we do it?
  Bugs: To spread the cure for AIDS!

Rickternal Friendshine of the Rickless Mort

• Before leaving, Beth warns Rick to not have any parties. Funny enough that this is a daughter saying this to her father but Rick has already proven he can't be trusted not to throw a wild party.
• Morty's criticism from the season premiere about why Rick has to make everything a fight is demonstrated here:
  • Rick has to threaten his AI not kill him once he goes into Bird Person's mind. Keep in mind Rick built her, so if he wanted full loyalty he could just program her to have it. But no, Rick has to fight his own computer to keep himself alive.
  • Rick won't accept help from himself when he encounters his younger 35 year old version. This despite Young Rick being eager to help and that being a memory means he won't cause time paradoxes that will summon the Time Police. He finally relents and Young Rick is very helpful, proving again that Rick just picks fights for no reason.
• When Rick first enters Birdperson's mind he finds himself in a giant bird skull and is relieved that he still has his clothes, assuming he'd need to be naked to go through something "this artsy." Then he jumps from the skull and his clothes immediately vaporize.
  Rick: Aw man, no fair!
• Rick stops Young Rick from killing him by saying he's about to wonder why all his memories before he met Birdperson are very generic and bird-themed.
  Young Rick: (thinks) Why was my ninth birthday party in a pine tree?!
• Young Rick enthusiasm at teaming up with real Rick and Rick's utter contempt for the situation even after the former saves his life.
  Young Rick: Young Memory Rick and his All Too Real Cautionary Tale from the Future! Let's catch ourselves a bird guy! (raises hand to high-five)
  Rick: (walking away) Who would high-five that you idealistic hipster douche?
• Young Rick referring to the Battle of Blood Ridge as "Our Vietnam." What sells it is his enthusiasm. Referring to something as a "Vietnam" means it is a failure, yet Young Rick is excited at the prospect the battle becomes a failure that will haunt him the rest of his life.
  Rick: Why am I saving a friend that remembers me as this insufferable?
  • Later, when they need to go to Blood Ridge.
    Young Rick: (excited) That's our Vietnam!
    Rick: Your values are wrong!
• Rick and Young Rick ambushing Birdperson while in the middle of a memory of Tammy pre-reveal of her Federation loyalties.
  Rick: The closer you get to complete neurocognital failure, the more canon-y bullshit is gonna try to kill us.
  Memory Tammy: (pulls a gun) Is this a bad time to reveal I'm an undercover officer?
  Rick: Everyone knows. You're dead.
  Memory Tammy: (Beat) Fine. Well, you're lucky my fiancé remembers me as kind.
• Rick chewing out Birdperson for not dealing with his grief healthily.
  Rick: Eat my ass, BP. You're down here bailing on the rest of us because you don't want to process your grief and shame like a normal person. By drinking and mistreating strangers!
• Young Rick asks his older self to make him a real person instead of a memory. Then he realizes he will grow up into a bitter, jaded and friendless substance abuser and decides being a memory is better.
• How does Rick know someone as lame as Gearhead? Through his Cool Big Bro Geardude. Rick and Bird Person are embarrassed enough to explain this to a memory.

Forgetting Sarick Mortshall

• The episode opens with Morty traveling from dimension to dimension, fixing disasters Rick left in his wake. The secenarios are amusing enough, from saving a Cookie President in a candy world from wafer cookie terrorists to repairing a "UFO shaped hole" in a dam. What really sells it is the fact that the list is long and Morty sprints through it like someone who has done this one too many times, quickly accepting thanks and moving on to the next one.
• Once again we are introduced to another Ugly Cute character, Garbage Goober, who lives in the garage wall and is summoned by the family to eat their garbage. Then the stinger reveals he is not only married to another similar creature, but he is well spoken and has a medical degree from Harvard!
• The Wheel of Better Things Than Morty. Just everything about it. From the design, with Rick's tongue as the flapper, to the two middle fingers on the side, to the Jerry (Spin Again) space. The conversation between the duo about this is gold too, with Morty pointing out the effort Rick made to create it means he does care more than he admits.
  Morty: What are you eight? Is this macaroni art? You expect me to believe you built this because you don't care?
  Rick: No, I built this because I don't expect shit from you. (spins wheel) Come on, anything! Anything but Morty, let's go! Come on baby, no whammies! Duh-duh-duh-duh stop! (wheel stops) Okay, that's it. Two crows. You're fired.
  Morty: You know what? Eat shit! You're just trying to make me feel worthless.
  Rick: I never said you're worthless. In fact, I've given you a very clear metric of your worth: Two crows. (Morty storms out of garage and slams the door) Note I didn't say three!
• Jerry walks in on Morty and an escaped mental patient destroying the stuff in Rick's garage.
  Jerry: Son, have you fallen in with a weird stranger and are now trashing your grandpa's place? 'Cause I'll help.
  • Naturally the first thing Jerry does is smash a glowing blue crystal on his knee which immediately causes him to turn in a living puddle. Morty is terrified. For a second, then just shrugs and gets back to trashing the garage. Before he goes he steals his dad's car keys to go be heroes and tells him he loves him.
• The alien crows that teach Rick empathy are very unimpressed when they see two crows listed on Rick's Wheel of Better Things Than Morty.
  Crow Alien 1: But I see "Two Crows" written right here beside... Gene with donkey brains, half a Paul Giamatti, and sentient shit!
  Crow Leader: I guess the "joke" being that crows are stupid?
  Rick: I think it's a little more nuanced than that.
  Crow Leader: Right, because you just learned empathy from us 10 minutes ago but now we're going to learn we don't get your humor? Fucking horse shit!
  Crow Alien 2: Yeah, there's not a ton to "get," genius, the "joke" is your grandson was so replaceable that "even" two crows could do it. Haha. It's funny except it's not.
• Rick's nonsensical (probably improvised) rant about the direction he is taking now that it's Rick and Two Crows. You can tell Justin Roiland had fun with the "Sneaki" part.
  Rick: Aww shit! Rick and two crows! Kicking off my new franchise! The galaxy is our telephone wire! We'll do a thousand seasons, 14 episodes each, 9—9 seconds a pop, because that's the future of viewing—shows on your shoes! Sneaki! That's when you've got everybody's attention—when they're putting crap on their feet. That's when they wanna laugh. Cry. Or feel anything besides a shoe going on their foot! Watch sitcoms on your sneakers! The Rick and Two Crows Show, we're gonna be layin'—layin' walnuts on the road for car tires to open 'em. You know what I mean? Forever, it's Rick and two crows, forever!

Rickmurai Jack

• The episode opens where the previous one left off, with Rick now traveling with two crows as his new sidekicks, as if in a brand new series, complete with Anime-style opening.
• After Rick pulls out his sword to stop owl soldiers from attacking a village.
  Owl Soldier: Give it a second. Maybe he's taking it out to surrender.
  (Rick uses the sword to slam the soldier into an impact crater, grabs a white flower and throws it into the new grave)
  Villager: He's anti-heroic! Run!
• Rick returns to Earth when he discovers his crows were just using him as a rebound from their Arch-Enemy, Crow Scare. When Crow Scare asks if Rick wants proof of the relationship, a menage a trois ensues and Rick shields his eyes definitively stating he didn't ask for proof. Thankfully we only hear, not see the action.
• How does Morty try to convince Rick to come back? By artificially aging himself into a pudgy, balding loser, still wearing the same clothes even though they hardly fit and his paunch shows. In addition to the sympathy card (he tells Rick Summer is living with a junkie), he adds that Jerry died painfully from cancer and that Rick would have enjoyed seeing it. When Rick discovers Jerry is alive and well he expresses his disapointment.
  • Rick comes home and Morty says he's ready to "hit the reset button" on their relationship. Beth objects and tries to get Morty to make Rick agree to treat him with basic decency before they "get back together."
    Beth: Well, no, honey, not a reset, okay? Tell your grandpa that you're worthy of his respect and you want to be treated differently from now on.
    Morty: I refuse to do that. I-I'm desperate to get back together.
    Jerry: (proudly) Just like his old man.
  • The whole reason Rick and Morty go to the Citadel is to de-age Morty back to 14. Only problem is Rick doesn't want to pay for storage or disposal of the excess age, so the de-aging store just compresses it into a 26 year old version of Morty.
    26 Year Old Morty: I'm almost ready to sell out!
    Rick: Alright, what's disposal cost?
  • Then we get this exchange after 26 year old Morty dies:
    26 Year Old Morty: Was... was I influential?
    14 Year Old Morty: Yeah. Yeah you were. You had 7 blogs.
• Rick and Morty are invited to have dinner with President Morty of the Citadel. Rick proves himself to be just as savvy as ever even when it comes to one of the show's most anticipated moments.
  Morty: Let's have dinner with the Morty President.
  Rick: Morty, the idea was to get back to simple adventures. The Citadel runs on canon.
  Morty: Okay. I guess things really are just going right back to how they were.
  Rick: Fine. I could eat. But the second he reveals he's evil, we're gone.
  • Then, during dinner.
    Evil Morty: (casually) But it's amazing you dropped by because I was eventually gonna hunt you down.
    Rick: (pulls out gun, bored) There's the reveal. Let's dance.
    Evil Morty: (laughs) Aw geez.
• Evil Morty mentions he scanned most of the contents of Rick's brain a long time ago, causing the screen to freeze and a Rick dressed up and talking like Stan Lee telling fans to go watch the relevant episode from season one.
• In order to deal with the guards Evil Morty summons, Rick spawns this bizarre blob creature made from his DNA before letting the other Ricks attack. All of the damage is transferred to the Blob Rick, who reacts in a rather...enthusiastic manner.
  Morty: Is he enjoying this?
  Rick: It's a metaphor for capitalism, what do you think?
• Evil Morty begins to speak in clichéd supervillain dialogue, prompting Rick to try and shoot him again, despite knowing he has a protective forcefield. Evil Morty's response wouldn't be so funny if not for the fact the person who's saying it is Evil Morty.
  Evil Morty: You can't outrun your past, Rick.
  (Rick takes a shot at Evil Morty, reactivating his forcefield)
  Evil Morty: (with no shortage of smugness) Tch. Did you think my forcefield would be down the second time?
  Rick: I was expressing disapproval of your dialogue! (escapes with Morty in tow)
  Evil Morty: (chuckles to himself as he turns to his office window to monologue) Disapprove all you want! Tonight, the quality of dialogue stops mattering. Tonight, I do that thing I wanna do. (squints dramatically) With the curve thing.
• The exchange after Morty sees the flashback to Rick's backstory firsthand.
  Morty: (confused) Whoa. Dead wife?
  Rick: Yes, now everyone can shut up about it.
• Evil Morty reveals his plan for the Central Finite Curve in a hilariously deadpan manner.
  Morty: What are you doing about it?
  Evil Morty: Jack shit, I'm leaving.
• Evil Morty offers Morty C-137 the chance to come with him through the Central Finite Curve, which would require leaving Rick behind to die. Morty chooses to save Rick instead. Then:
  Evil Morty: Just as well. I Lied. That second seat's a toilet.
  Morty: Oh, super dick move! But, weirdly kinda cool of you to admit it.
  Rick: Geez, you guys really are bred for forgiveness. Let's go!

Season 6

Solaricks

• Rick lamenting that he will die stranded in space while doing a voiceover. Then he gets upset that Morty isn't writing it down because Rick "doesn't have a helmet like that guy from Avengers." Morty then calls him out on this moments later.
  Morty: You know how you just pretended not to know who Iron Man is? Who was that even for?
• A despondent Morty points out that putting the portal fluid out of commission was also a part of Evil Morty's plan. Rick takes issues with the notion that Evil Morty deserves any credit:
  Rick: "Evil Morty"? Can we stop flattering this guy? His "plan" was to monologue and fuck off. He basically threw a tantrum to announce he was quitting Twitter.
  Morty: (glumly) Nobody quits Twitter.
• Space Beth comes to rescue Rick and Morty but attempts to do a cool one liner, only they can't hear her because she's outside the citadel dome. When she types out the line through the projector on her suit's arm ("Is this a private party or can anyone else join?"), the guys critique her for it.
  Morty: Wow, great.
  Rick: Yeah, that's—Wow, really worth it. That was not worth it! It's corny! [Morty gives a thumbs down] You. Corn. Dying of starvation here!
  Space Beth: [typing using projector] When I decided to say it, I didn't know it would be...
  Morty: Oh, my God, stop explaining. Stop explaining!
  Rick: Are you finished?
  Space Beth: [types] ... subjected to this scrutiny.
  Rick: She's not finished.
  Space Beth: [types] Maybe I won't rescue you.
  Morty: Oh, nice.
  Rick: Oh, real mature, real classy.
• When Rick and Morty return home, Beth has sandwiches for the noticeably emaciated duo. Before Morty can have a bite, Rick takes his sandwich away, claiming that their systems might go into shock from eating solid food. He has a robot convert the sandwich into it's key nutrients as a paste, which judging by Morty's look, is not too tasty. Rick then decides he will risk it, and eats the sandwich as is, loving it so much he gives some to the robot. Typical behavior from Rick, but it's even funnier because at this point, you can't be sure if he had a genuine change of heart or if he was just trolling Morty.
• While trying to reset the portal travel, Rick accidentally ends up resetting portal travelers.
  Rick: It's everyone from this reality returning to their reality of origin.
  Morty: Back to our original universes?
  Rick: I explained it fine, Morty. You're spoon-feeding spoons!
• Rick needs Summer to find important information in her chore server. The file name is Booger AIDs. The problem is every file name is Booger AIDs.
  Rick: I hate naming things!
• Jerry is surprised and confused why he's been living in a reality that isn't his reality of origin and demands an explanation. They begin to pulse faster and Rick says there's no time to explain. They then continue to pulse for around 30 seconds.
  Rick: There's no time to explain, Jerry! Counting on you, Summer! One way blind hop beacon protocol. Here we gooooo!
  [Beat]
  Jerry: So there was time to explain.
  Rick: Don't waste extra precious seconds with your pettiness, Jerry! Summer, let's rundown—
  Summer: One way blind reset beacon Booger AIDs.
  Rick: Cool. [long pause] Wow.
  Jerry: There was so much time to explain!
  Rick: Yes! Fine, hindsight is 20-20! Who has ever taken this long to vanish?
  Jerry: How did I end up not in my own universe?! Oh, my God. The Jerryboree!
  Rick and Morty: Ohhhhhhhh, the Jerryboree.
  Rick: Deep cut. [all three vanish]
• After they've vanished, Beth asks where are her reality's "real" Rick and Morty.
  Summer: Buried in the backyard!
  Beth: (casually) That's what the possums are after.
• In his home dimension Rick built an AI of his wife, Diane, to "haunt" him about her and Beth's deaths. Which she does in the most cheerfully passive-aggressive way possible.
  "Diane": You'll find him. You always do everything you set your mind to. Except keep your family alive. But that was hardly your fault!
  Rick: Mute.
  "Diane": If I could be muted I wouldn't be [voice distorts] too-too-too good at haunting you, would I, you dirty bear?
  • Rick explains where he's been before leaving.
    Rick: I live with a version of Beth now.
    Diane: Sounds like a version of nice.
    Rick: We have grandkids. That's who Summer is. She's gonna get me out of here. She reminds me of you.
    Diane: Oh, really? Is she dead too?
  • Rick discovers that he left his original Earth locked inside a time loop, eternally replaying the same day he lost Diane and Beth, then forgot all about it due to his drinking, which used to be even worse than it is now. Problem is, he forgot to account for aging, trapping the entire population in an And I Must Scream scenario, doomed to eternally live out the same day, while also cursed with Age Without Youth. One of his neighbors is apparently somewhat aware of this, and has been leaving notes for himself, but keeps forgetting that he did so. Rick slams the door in his face, then nonchalantly shuts off the time loop, with said neighbor moaning with gratitude outside over the sweet release of death.
• Beth tries to be cool like Space Beth in front of Summer and kill one of the alien scavengers they encounter in the ruins of the Citadel, but repeatedly fails to kill the one scavenger she targets, forcing Space Beth to put it out of its misery.
• Morty encounters his original universe Jerry and tries to connect and play a board game with him. When Morty returns to the living room, Jerry is gone and left a note behind.
  Jerry: [voiceover] Morty. I wrote this note in advance, in case you're wondering how I left so fast. My plan is to wait for you to turn your back, then I'm going to grab all your shit and split. Depending on how long you're out of the room you'll probably be thinking I can't be that far away and you'll want to follow—
  [Morty tries to chase after him, but is caught in a trap and hung upside down, facing a second note that's also upside]
  Jerry: Morty, wrote this fast 'cause had to set trap. Thought you'd have cooler shit. See other note, bye.
  Morty: Motherfucker!
• After picking up the two Beths and Summer from the ruins of the Citadel, Rick goes to find Jerry in his original reality, which turns out to be the Season 2 pre-Character Development one, meaning the entire Smith family is still incredibly toxic and abusive towards him, and each other.
  Beth: Maybe I wouldn't be so uptight if I wasn't married to a receptacle of human fear!
  Summer: Get a job dad, it's been a decade!
  Season 2 Rick: Oof, pretty brutal Jer. I know a good alligator park if you want to kill yourself.
  Morty: I got expelled today.
  Season 2 Rick: Oh no, you got expelled, whoa, what a horrible thing.
  Beth: What the hell, Morty, you got expelled?! You are so fucking dumb!
  (After Jerry leaves outside)
  Rick: Woof, some real Season 2 vibes in there, you know what I'm saying?
• When the family returns home, an alternate version of Jerry originally from their dimension confronts them and releases one of Rick's pets he found, an adorable creature named Mr. Frundles, over Rick's protests. The creature rapidly turns anything it bites into Mr. Frundles, turning Earth into a lifeless husk in a matter of minutes.
  Beth: What the fuck, Dad?! Why would you bring that thing into our house?!
  Rick: It was cute! Fuck!
  • It's easy to miss, but, after Mr. Frundles bites Season 2 Jerry, everybody else looks shocked and/or horrified...while Summer just puts her hands on her hips and says "Mr. Frundles!" in a scolding-but-almost-babyish voice, the way you'd talk to a kitten or puppy who'd just done something naughty.
• After unleashing Mr. Frundles, Rick has to set the family up in another dimension where everything is exactly the same as the one they abandoned. Unfortunately, due to the portal technology being deactivated, Rick is forced to do a rush job, the result is that they end up in a dimension that is exactly like the one they just left... except that the residents here pronounce "parmesan" differently. They pronounce it "par-mee-zee-an." And everyone is furious at Rick for choosing this dimension.
  • The "burying your dead-selves to replace them in the new dimension" scene is played out again, but this time with the whole family involved. While the first time it happened was a traumatic moment for Morty and a very shocking scene and being one of the franchise's biggest Tear Jerkers overall, this time it's treated with the levity of a gardening task to the point where the whole gravity of the original version of this scene just boomerangs to Crosses the Line Twice, with the family more pissed by the way "parmesan" is pronounced in the new dimension than the fact that they had to abandon their old reality and bury alternate versions of themselves.

Rick: A Mort Well Lived

• The episode begins with one of the Morty fragments attempting to hit on Marta, which goes just as well as you'd expect from a fragment of a romantically inexperienced Morty.
• The entire episode takes place at Blipz And Chipz, which is overrun by an alien gang that are pulling a Die Hard heist, which is lampshaded by one of the managers when the leader demands that they open the safe, stating that it's an arcade and they don't even have a safe.
  • Turns out the gang is deliberately invoking Die Hard, the leader has even written several books on the subject, and happily embraces the role of Hans Gruber.
  • After Summer is left to fight off the aliens, it turns out she's never actually watched Die Hard, has no idea about the plot, and doesn't even know the main characters name.
  • She just runs around shouting "Die hard die hard die hard"!
• The A-plot revolves around Morty getting trapped inside a Roy machine when the heist takes place, splintering his consciousness among 5 billion virtual people, forcing Rick to go in after him and convince each and every one of them of the truth. He gets increasingly frustrated when the population of Roy keeps mistaking his explanation, that they're all his grandson, as some sort of religious philosophy.
  Rick Roy: There's not even a God in the real world! God is double-fake in here!
• As Rick's message begins to spread across the virtual world, one father pulls a I Have No Son! on his daughter because she believes Rick instead of Judaism like they "raised her". She points out that no one in their family actually know anything specific about Judaism, because they're all just aspects of a teenage boy who was raised non-denominationally Christian.
• One more thing about the Morty fragments. Every single one of them speak with Morty's voice, be it teenage girls or old men. They also talk a lot about Pizza or Masturbation.
• Summer falls off a ledge with one of the terrorists, Frank, who explodes on impact and covers Summer in his blood. Summer complains that it’s disgusting but then says it tastes good, then goes back to complaining because it tastes good.
• Some of the Morty fragments form a Christian Rock parody, complete with hilarious bad singing voices and lyrics, completely in character for Morty who doesn't know much of singing.
• When a military formation invades the house with the rock band for "being religious the wrong way", Marta confronts one of the soldiers. The soldier denies being a fragment of Morty, and then shares his very shallow backstory. Marta convinces him to join Grandsonism, with the Morty fragments chanting Morty's catchphrase.
• Like in the film, Summer is asked her name by the leader. She responds with "Die Hard" and the Leader obliges.^note McClane chooses the alias "Roy" which is funny considering the A-Plot of the episode, where Rick enters the Roy machine as the titular character.
• The fact that the Roy game has 5 Billion Non-Playable Characters, all with their own separate lives, desires etc that act out spontaneously, not programmed. Apparently, Roy can meet all of them, so this game has some serious re-play value.
  • And yet, they're all influenced by Morty's view of the world, which shows many times throughout the A-plot.
• It turns out Die Hard is so popular because it is a story that many worlds and galaxies have, similar to creation stories among Earth cultures. The Leader mentions "Tower Man," "The Thornburg Cycle" and "Foolish To Have Imagined You'd Be Able To Kill".
• When challenged to recite a single line from the film, Summer replies, "Walkie-Talkie Die Hard Motherfucker."
• The ending puts a strange twist on Die Hard. After Rick and Morty wake up and save Summer from Jons' trap, Winslow appears, having survived his gunshot wound from Summer earlier on. He shows up, apologies, and then eats Jons and just flies off.
• The Stinger shows a similar group of aliens trying to pull the same scheme as Simon Gruber did in Die Hard With A Vengeance, more specifically, the scene where John McClane is forced to go to Harlem while wearing a sign saying "I Hate Niggers". However, the aliens are doing the infamous censored version of the scene, with the sign reading "I Hate Everybody" instead, and the alien leader points out how toothless this is. It's all a moot point, as they're on an ice planet in the middle of a snowstorm, so there's no one around to see the sign in the first place.
  Leader: I wish my brother was still alive...

Bethic Twinstinct

• The premise of the episode is Earth Beth and Space Beth spending time together for Thanksgiving only to end up having an affair with each other...to the dismay of their children who find out and Rick's annoyance (who implies to have done something similar).
• Rick makes his debut crashing into the sliding glass door as a turkey, having scammed another pardon out of The President. He transforms back into human form, nude, and proceeds once again to just saunter around like it's no big deal. When Jerry asks him to put clothes on, he instantly does so with a click of his watch. Meaning he didn't even have to bother to go into his room to get dressed, he could have been clothed in an instant and just chose not to.
• Space Beth brings a gift for the family in the form of a GamePod XL, which is supposed to be "the most realistic gaming platform ever." Only the aliens who made it have a different interpretation of "realistic". Rather than incredibly realistic graphics, the player can scale how much Surprisingly Realistic Outcome is invoked which Morty finds to be completely stupid...and just as stupidly, neither Morty nor Rick nor Summer think to just lower the "Realistic" setting to something more enjoyable and keep it on the max setting of 10.
  • Morty gets so bored with the space game (because higher realism means space is mostly empty and it takes forever to find anything interesting) that he just records a message for his son in the game that he died in space.
    Rick: Bro, tell your son you love the shit out of him.
    Morty: Oh, I'm gonna!
  • "Gettin' To A Street Fight" has the two players having to go through the character's day and find their opponent before they can fight and according to Rick there's actually a chance you won't. There's even a meter in-game that tells you how much the anger (the in-game reason for the fight) is dissipating indicating it's the time limit to find each other.
    • Bonus points for the Ryu-expy being named "Kickpuncher" and the Blanka-Expy dubbed "Tubesteak."
    • Tubesteak's route takes him through the subway, where he takes his wallet out and scans his rider card.
  • Final Fantasy shows Cloud Strife trying and failing to pick up his extremely heavy BFS while an enemy monster just stands there waiting.
  • An Interactive Fiction game has the player attempting to get out of a forest while their mother is waiting for them at the airport. When Rick manages to get to a clearing, he instantly loses because "the vampires win." Morty complains that the twist is the opposite of realistic.
    • Morty's reaction is doubly funny since vampires do exist in the Rick and Morty universe as confirmed in "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez".
  • In a case of What Did You Expect When You Named It ____? Foreshadowing, the alien species who made the GamePod are called the Pooplickians.
• Jerry tries to entice everyone into playing an "OG" (original game) in the form of a jigsaw puzzle of a horse. His secret technique is apparently starting with the sky pieces, which no-one cares about. Later he's seen almost done with only one piece left...and yet has to take a minute to figure it which way it fits, even though it's the eye of the horse and obviously only fits one way.
• After Space Beth just rips the bandaid off and goes full Brutal Honesty about the affair, Jerry zones out and has a flashback to the day he fell in love with Beth in High School. When he comes out of it, he stands up from the table, takes a deep breath, and...turns into a pillbug.
  • Notably, Rick doesn't even seem to notice the fiasco unfolding until someone actually points out that Jerry just turned into a pillbug.
  • Rick says that Jerry having a pillbug defense protocol was a result of them getting drunk together, but Rick wanted to get tattoos, which he shows to the Beths as being himself as an eagle on his left buttcheek, and eagle Jerry on the other.
• When we cut back to the Beths talking to Pillbug Jerry after Rick leaves them, the areas is surrounded by various tools. A broken flask, a grabber claw, a drill, a shotgun, a mace, even a screwdriver and a cotton swab. The implications are that they tried using these tools to get Jerry out, though one wonders what they tried to do with a cotton swab.
• After Jerry rolls into a Pillbug, both Beths decide to mind blow themselves. Rick's summarization of this is nothing short of pure gold.
  Rick: You guys are having me Eternal Sunshine all the Multiplicity porn scenes from your minds?
• Morty and Summer crying in horror and disgust at hearing the Beths have sex while Jerry watches... which quickly devolves into Three-Way Sex with Jerry joining in on the fun.
  • The entire exchange which leads up to the Beths/Jerry threesome above. Jerry finally comes out of his pillbug shelter just as the Beths are about to erase their memories, and, in a surprisingly mature fashion, admit he was lying about committing suicide if he lost Beth and is actually just going to pack his bags and leave. This leads the Beths following Jerry into the bedroom as Jerry packs, alternating between argument, insults, and placations for Jerry not to leave...and...at some point the conversation steers into intimacy and things just go downhill (or uphill) from there. And all the while, Summer, Rick, and Morty can hear all of this.
  • Rick then tries to distract them by reminding them that it's Thanksgiving and asking what they're thankful for. All they can come up with through their literal tears of disgust are "water" for Summer and "Discovery Channel" for Morty. At this point, seeing that this isn't helping, Rick just tells the kids in resignation to just go back to eating their dinner.
  • Earlier when they each, independently, find out about the Screw Yourself situation, they resort to playing the GamePod which they had dismissed as stupid due to its premise (see below) with a Thousand-Yard Stare. And as they're playing, they're desperately trying not to think about what they witnessed but at the same time are numbly talking about it with each other, using vague phrasing to avoid directly mentioning the topic.
  • Morty's rant about the Discovery Channel is either an unintentional meta joke. or even better... an intentional meta joke.
• The Stinger has Jerry return to the Jerryboree to try and hook up with one of his alternate selves. When he gets turned away for coming alone, he happens to encounter another Jerry in an alley who had the same idea... and they just peck on the lips and part ways.

Night Family

• The whole conflict of the episode starts and continues just because Rick utterly refuses to take 2 seconds out of his day to rinse off the dishes.
  • When the Night Family destroy the dishes as payback, Rick stubbornly refuses to back down and flies across the galaxy and has an alien blacksmith make indestructible dishes.
• Rick tells the family that the somnambulator requires a finger prick. Jerry asks someone to catch him in case he faints, but he ends up doing so and faceplants into his pancakes.
• Jerry uses his night self to have a pen pal…which just consists of him writing letters to his “day self”. Beth and Summer make fun of him for it.
• Summer jumps out of the police car her Night Person was driving into the car with the rest of the family. With no one left driving it, it crashes into a gasoline factory. The explosion then spreads to the next door Dynamite Museum, and then THAT ignites the next door Dry Leaf Storage. Rule of Three par excellence.
• Summer gets an accidental needle-stick with a tranquilizer dart, turns into Night Summer, and causes the family car to go off the road and crash, throwing everyone into a ditch. From there, all five family members just start repeatedly beating each other up to wake them up (so their Day Selves can come back) or knock them out (so their Night Person will emerge). The result is them constantly switching back and forth with who's awake and who's asleep, until finally everybody but Rick is asleep and possessed by their Night Person.
  • The Scare Chords that play throughout the third act everytime one of the Smiths wakes up or falls asleep and turns into their Day/Night self continue to go off during this fight. Considering how many times they wake up and get knocked out again, the scare chords just play rapid-fire several times, and create constant background music for the whole thing.
  • Some of the ways the family switches between Day and Night selves during the fight stand out as especially silly, just as Jerry slipping and falling to wake up, being thrown to the ground and falling unconscious, and getting a needle-stick in the foot; Summer passing out from Night Morty throwing a rock at her head; Beth and Summer both getting knocked out by Night Jerry slamming their heads together; Rick and Morty each waking each other up and knocking themselves unconscious with a headbutt; and Rick repeatedly knocking out and waking up and re-knocking out Morty by slamming his head on the ground multiple times.
• After the family finally destroys the Somnambulator, they question how long they’ve been asleep. Rick looks at his phone and announces with horror that they discontinued the Choco Taco, causing the rest of the family to scream.

Final DeSmithation

• Morty, Summer, and Beth relentlessly trolling Jerry for receiving a fortune cookie saying he will have sex with his mom. The kids trap him in a closet with a dummy made to look like his mom while he whines and begs to be let out.
  • Jerry then later shows up wearing Morty's clothes.
    Summer: Why are you dressed like Morty?
    Jerry: Because Morty's mom is Beth.
    Morty: (hurriedly throws up his hands) I'm not unpacking that!
• Rick uses a pair of arms right out of the Doctor Octopus playbook simply to feed himself noodles. It's a hilariously lazy and impressive use of his talents, right there with building a sentient robot whose only purpose is passing butter.
• As Rick prepares to fight the Panda Express staff, he asks his ship to play the first track from his "Favorites" playlist so he can kick ass to some sweet background music...only for it to start playing the theme from Taxi thanks to a prank that Morty and Summer pulled on him earlier. There's a Beat as Rick takes this in before he basically just decides "sure, whatever" and uses it anyway, gleefully inflicting complete bloody slaughter on the workers to this music.
• Rick and the Panda Express employees (the two he didn’t kill) becoming friendly with one another when they realize they aren’t enemies, since they were operating a meth ring while Rick just wanted to know who was responsible for the weird fortune cookies.
  Rick: Sorry about all the dead people.
  Panda Express Employee: Comes with the territory.
• Rick using a “reusable Sailor Moon sequence” to get Jerry turned into Rick’s assistance. It’s used again at the end before they return home.
  Rick: I can just feel the savings.
• Some of the random effects the fortune cookies have on the security team, especially when Rick force feeds it to them. One guard in particular turns into a mecha t-rex who declares he’s the son of God before running through the wall.
• Jerry's timid, mewling little cry when Rick slaps him in the face.

Juricksic Mort

• Morty’s adventures with Rick have become so well-known at his school that Mr. Goldenfold’s class has a “Morty protocol” when he shows up, leading to everyone hiding under their desks.
• The Dinosaurs addressing the world leader assembly. You can practically feel the nervousness of the President through the screen. The only person who seems just as nervous as him is the Sheikh sitting next to him with the biggest nervous grin. Why is he so nervous? Well, aside from the fact that he’s sitting face-to-face with dinosaurs, don’t forget that oil was believed to have come from decayed dinosaur remains and very much oil came from Saudi Arabia.
• Rick says that the President only calls him for emergencies and molly. When they meet at a diner, Rick hands the President a bag of molly, which he says is not why he called Rick, but he grabs the bag and stuffs it in his pocket anyway.
  • Then after the dinosaurs leave, he and Rick are seen enjoying the molly in the diner.
• Rick hosting the Oscars and making Tom Hanks say “WILSOOOON!”
  • Summer is shocked to find out the bit was scripted, despite it looking ad-libbed. Rick explains everything at the Oscars is scripted including "That one thing."
• While searching for dirty laundry on the dinosaurs, Rick and Morty visit other alien worlds they had previously uplifted, only to discover that not only have they all been struck by a Cretaceous-level extinction event just like Earth, their paleontology science makes Earth's early 19th century forays look like Nobel prize winners.
  • The first world they visit, inhabited by a kind of cyborg-groundhog species, thought that dinosaurs had heads on their feet, that the meteor impact was a huge amphitheater, and that they all died from walking around on their brains.
  Rick: These guys aren't going to be much help...
  • The second race, a bipedal slug race, call them Basketsaurs, thought that their heads were connected to their tails, and used the impact crater as a giant, communal soup bowl.
  Slug Alien: We've made a series of increasingly terrible movies about cloning them back to life!
  • The third aliens got the closest, and actually reconstructed the dinosaur fossils correctly... except they for some reason thought that the dinosaurs all had skateboards (also made from bone), and the crater was a skate park. Rick tries rolling down into the crater and immediately wipes out, complaining that the skateboard video games made it look way easier.
    • This part becomes even funnier come The Stinger, where it's revealed that the dinosaurs do, in fact, love skateboarding.
• The sentient meteors that follow the dinosaurs have constant enraged expressions and spout nothing but Angrish.
• Rick forces the pacificist dinos to destroy the sentient meteor. This act breaks the camels back and they fix the interdimensional rift just to spite Rick right back. The triceratops' passive aggressive justification that they are helping Rick "From One God to Another" is both hilarious and satisfying as Rick gets his comeuppance.
• The post-credits scene. What are a group of hyper-advanced, hyper-intelligent dinosaurs to do once they have successfully isolated themselves from the rest of the universe? They break out the skateboards and start shredding some sick moves, of course! (And in the process unintentionally proving one of the civilizations they uplifted correct)

Full Meta Jackrick

• During the fake "Previously on…" montage, Summer announces she is pregnant. Naturally Jerry, without a hint of self-awareness or understanding the ramifications of this announcement, proudly tells Beth that her daughter is just like her.
• Morty dances while it rains meatballs. Meanwhile, Rick just stands there confused.
• Jerry gets killed by... a Scary Stinging Swarm if the Priest is to be believed. What a Jerry way to die.
• While Rick had no control of the situation and was in fact aware there was something strange going on, it is darkly funny he is completely unfazed he is transported to his only child's execution, especially since he loves his daughter. He even makes a pun based on the word "Execution."
• Morty completely confused about all the out of context clips in the show's intro, while Rick just brushes them off.
  Morty: Why am I butter?!
• Rick, Morty and Leon crashing into the title card.
• While the swearing certainly isn't foreign to the show, hearing Leon say "eat lead pussy" is pretty funny for the Vocal Dissonance.
• Rick has a six-pack in this episode and Story Lord compliments him on his "Cum gutters" to which Rick expresses his disgust at the term, just like Story Train Rick did.

Analyze Piss

• Morty is stumped behind the logistics of a Magneto-expy whose powers only work on cookies, since unlike metal cookies are an artificial composition. Rick puts an end to it by melting him down to his knees with a laser.
  Rick: I'm sorry Morty, I know you're gonna say it's punching down but I can't fight another one of these 90's style goofball supervillains I'm not the fucking Tick!, I-I-I'm exhausted.
• When told murder is not covered by Doctor-Patient privilege, Rick says the clearly dead Mr. Calypso is "fine."
• Jerry vs Pissmaster is hilarious simply because of how lame their fight moves are. Jerry jerks back whenever Pissmaster uses his signature power, meanwhile Pissmaster loses all of his bluster anytime Jerry scores a hit on him. It gets to the point where Pissmaster tries crawling under a car, but the piss-tank on his back gets in the way and Jerry drags him by the ankle. The fight ends with Pissmaster blubbering and begging for mercy.
• What location does Rick choose for "Pissmaster's" heroic death? Why Orphan Island of course, home to only pre-teen orphans. Naturally the bomb squad has no idea what to do with the massive nuke, something one of them lampshades when his attempt to defuse the bomb with safety scissors causes the timer to jump from five minutes to two.
• Rick tries sparing Jerry the guilt of finding out that he drove Pissmaster to suicide, but Morty finds out and spills the beans to Jerry within seconds.

A Rick in King Mortur’s Mort

• Morty's persistence in staying in line is quite comical- he really is super determined to stick it to Rick.
• Morty's blunt comeback to Rick trashing on him taking the sword.
  Rick: Goddammit Morty, you took the sword?! So boring.
  Morty: Oh, like you're not at this point? You drunk, cranky fuck.
• As the Sun comes under attack from the Knights of the Moon, causing the technology in the Smith home to start going haywire, Jerry is concerned that their electronic devices are breaking down without him causing it. Guess he breaks a lot of things offscreen....
• The one knight who missed the dissolution of the Order because he was pooping...then based on the awkward silence of the Smith family, figures out they disbanded.
• Morty decides to try to end Solar War 1 by re-recruiting the Knights of the Sun, asking "How hard can it be?" Gilligan Cut to all of the former knights stoned out of their mind on heroin.
• The Viscount of Venus's increasingly Properly Paranoid Crazy-Prepared behavior of having two machines to scan Morty for prosthetic penis, plus the blind witch woman from earlier, all to make sure that Morty can't possibly fake chopping his own dick off for the ceremony.
• In a great Season 4 Call-Back, Rick and Morty are able to avoid the latter having to cut his dick off by pretending to sacrifice themselves via jumping into the Sun. How did they pull this off? A good-old-fashioned "vat of acid" trick (or, in this case, "vat of solar plasma").

Ricktional Mortpoon’s Rickmas Mortcation

• The inciting incident of the episode happens with Rick gifts Morty an actual lightsaber for Christmas and he loses his grip while playing with it, dropping the blade at a perfectly ninety-degree angle and making its way towards the Earth's core.
• Rick’s gift to Jerry is a cut of Miracle on 34th Street that is two hours longer. When the film just ends up being the protagonist running around naming all the streets and avenues, even Jerry starts to reach his limit.
• Rick warns the President’s scientists that they will die if they touch his stuff, which is not a threat but an actual warning about how dangerous the machines are. One poor sap finds out the hard way when he is disintegrated immediately upon touching one of Rick’s rays.
• One scientist brags about how his team have developed the tech needed to reach the descending lightsaber within an hour...and he completely forgot the lightsaber was moving when he made that calculation i.e. the very reason they were trying to get it. When the president discharges him, he yells "good luck finding a good scientist on Christmas!".
• President Curtis telling the disheveled Rick he looks like "Phil Spector wiped his ass with Randy Quaid."
• After Rickbot’s true nature is revealed, Summer, Beth, and Space Beth proceed to tear him apart while he has a satisfied smile on his face, all while “The First Noel” plays in the background.
• How does Rick track down Rick Prime? By analyzing the details of Prime's ass when he was twerking naked in a cryo tube and comparing it to a data base of other Rick asses.

Season 7

How Poopy Got His Poop Back

• Instead of confronting Mr. Poopybutthole for his alcoholism, Rick makes a “ghost robot” to scare him straight. Unfortunately, Rick terminated the robot and made gravity part of its unfinished business, so it phases through the floors against its will.
• Mr. Poopybutthole hired a Predator private investigator to check in on his wife. She ends up in a relationship with the Predator.
• Gene tries to talk the gang out of partying with Hugh Jackman. Birdperson challenges him to explain why without making it more likely they'll want to. Gene explains that he's "anti-limitation" and his parties get extreme.
  Birdperson: Challenge failed.
• Gearhead once again ends up with his “gearsticles” in his mouth, leading him to lament that this is becoming “his thing”.
• Rick’s surprise to learning Mr. Poopybutthole’s real first name is Wayne.

The Jerrick Trap

• Rick and Jerry have their minds shuffled into each other’s bodies, so there’s some humor in watching both of them try to be the “real” Rick and avoiding being the “real” Jerry.
• Morty’s annoyance that his father and grandfather got them all into trouble thanks to them “botching a Freaky Friday.”
• Rick and Jerry’s bodies end up abandoning their lives at home to become a crime-fighting duo called “Burger and Fries”, with their calling card being leaving a burger in the mouths of their victims.
  • After a chase scene one of the surviving mooks calls his boss:
  Alien Mob Mook: Goddamnit. Hey, you'll never guess who just ripped us off. (Beat) Wow. Good Guess.
• The Stinger reveals Memory Rick is trapped in Jerry's brain. While Rick has the skills to escape, he discovers that Jerry is such a simpleton he believes that everything sophisticated runs on springs and gears. Thus, Rick is unable to concoct a device to escape, so he makes the best of it by living in the Smith house, using the gears and springs to make sculptures and naturally treating Gene like the "real" Smith-Sanchez family does.
  • Some further subtle comedy comes from the nature of the memories; based on the fact that the memory version of the tour guide says "Space Shuttles" (plural) and memory Jerry repeats it, Jerry clearly thinks that "space shuttles" is somehow the singilar form when talking about a space shuttle. Also, despite literally seeing the inside of a car in his memory at a car dealership, as soon as Memory Rick opens it up, it's filled with springs and gears like everything else.

Air Force Wong

• Rick being called back to the situation room:
  President Curtis: We've got a situation in the state of Virginia.
  Rick: Bigfoot?
  Curtis: That's Montana.
  Rick: Nazis?
  Curtis: That's, uh... everywhere.
• President Curtis gets the hots for Dr. Wong, and although she briefly entertains his attempts to court her, his manchild behavior quickly puts her off.
• Rick trying to talk President Curtis out of pursuing Dr. Wong:
  Rick: There's three billion women on this planet that have nothing to do with me.
  Curtis: Can you blame them?
• Rick goes back to fetch Dr. Wong so that she can convince Unity to help Rick out by telling her that he is a good catch.
  Dr. Wong: You're not.
  • Much to his chagrin, Dr. Wong ends up siding with Unity.
• When Unity gets word of Rick coming to her ship, she demands everyone to keep him out, only he already got in long before she said that.

That’s Amorte

• Morty learns that the delicious spaghetti Rick has been preparing for the last few weeks of spaghetti night comes from a species of humans whose insides turn into spaghetti after they commit suicide. Morty is less horrified and annoyed that a simple dinner had to be from one of Rick’s shenanigans and not regular home cooked pasta.
• Rick tries to get out of explaining eating a corpse by using the MIB brain flasher. He accidentally uses it on himself, forcing Morty to fix him.
  Rick: What's a Sun!?? (Gets reversed flashed) Oh. Sorry. That's always embarrassing.
• When the supply of the spaghetti runs out, Alien Customers decide to stage a riot in 41-Kepler-b. But since they cannot kill the planet's inhabitants since that would deny them their desired product, the best they can do is hound around the people and repeatedly tell them to kill themselves naggingly.
• The Stinger shows that a variation of the spaghetti trade fiasco happened on a similar planet made up of sentient vacuum cleaners that are mortified to learn that the bags they use come from Groot-like tree people. Instead of vomiting like the Spaghetti Planet did, the vacuums all blast out dust clouds in disgust.

Unmortricken

• Rick's irrational fear of pirates is brought up again, this time in relation to Evil Morty's Eyepatch of Power, hinting that there might a somewhat petty reason why he chose it as a distinguishing feature:
  Desk-Worker Rick: An eyepatch? You know how we feel about pirates...
• When Evil Morty returns in front of Rick and Morty, their contingency plan on dealing with him again is a net. It's not entirely clear if Rick really even has one or if he's just humoring Morty.
  • When Evil Morty arrives, he arrives with his hands on his hip looking like a next door neighbor coming over to their home to complain about the noise they're making.
  • While Rick and Morty are both shocked to see Evil Morty's return, Morty is the only one panicking, so after Rick tells Morty to go get "the net", Rick isn't taking Evil Morty that seriously and casually tells him to wait a moment until Morty comes back with the net. Evil Morty doesn't even take them seriously too since he didn't even make an attempt to stop Morty from getting the so-called "net".
• Rick and Evil Morty trading swipes with each other. Especially because Evil Morty constantly proves that he is always one step ahead of Rick, and Rick, true to form, is struggling to hide how annoyed he is by it:
  Evil Morty: Shouldn't you be... turning yourself into a pickle?
  Rick: What do you care what I do to the Curve? I thought your whole gimmick was fucking off. It's certainly what made me a fan.
  • Evil Morty then complains that he is indeed trying to stay away from Rick, but him messing around with merging the dimensions in turn messes with his personal sanctuary.
    Rick: The shockwaves have more range that I thought...
    Evil Morty: Jesus! You heard a compliment?! A monkey humping a shotgun has "more range than he thought".
• After ending up in a trap set up by Rick Prime, one of the versions of him reminds them why they're all here in quite a laughably dramatic fashion.
  Disheveled Rick: He killed my wife!
  Other Ricks: (annoyed) We know...
  • Which is followed by another Rick falling into a trap...
    Indiana Jones Rick: Son of a bitch, you killed my wife! (fires his gun at the wall, which ends up ricocheting across the other walls before being stopped by Evil Morty's force shield)
    Evil Morty: Is it just this? Is this the torture?
• The Robo-Diane's insults towards Rick come across more as childish than cutting.
  Robo-Diane: You sucked at EATING PUSSAAAY!
  Rick: (very blasé) Clearly said to be hurtful, but I also won't deny it. I was young.
  • Rick temporarily knocks Robo-Diane out:
    Morty: Rick? You never told me [Rick Prime] killed your wife across infinity.
    Evil Morty: Yeah. Now I wanna met this guy too.
    Rick: I don't want to talk about this.
    (Robo-Diane wobbles back to her feet)
    Robo-Diane: I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOUR DICK SMELLED WEIIIRD!
    Rick: ...Or that.
• After Rick kills Rick Prime, he walks back out of the room, splattered in a thick layer of blood. When Morty asks him if its finally over, Evil Morty dryly notes that the blood Rick is absolutely covered in certainly doesn't look like "alive" blood.

Rickfending Your Mort

• RICK TURNED HIMSELF INTO A LEG!
  • RICK TURNED HIMSELF INTO A LEG AGAIN!
  • Morty isn't the least bit interested, while Rick actually tried to spruik some Leg-Rick merchandise.
  • What's especially funny is that Leg-Rick looks more like a real leg than any of the character's actual legs.
• One of the "adventures" Rick requests to see is one Morty dubbed "Late-Night Western." Turns out the event in question was a plastered Rick (surrounded by empty bottles) demanding a Western bacon burger, which a completely nonplussed Morty retrieved for him using the portal gun. Rick is not impressed.
  Morty: Before you say anything—
  Rick: I knew it! Busted!
  Morty: You're banned from that Carl's Jr.!
  Rick: That doesn't make the drive-thru an adventure, Morty! Invalid!
• "Whistlering Dixie", a Blade-style adventure about fighting vampires. Their ally Whistler takes so long over-explaining a vampire killing weapon he made, they get fed up and simply duck out on him. This also sets up another joke:
  Rick: Morty, that was just an old man rambling at us.
  Morty: People died!
  Rick: So, by your logic, 9/11 was an adventure? Tweet it. See who agrees.
  Observer: Very well. Bare witness to 9/11!
  Morty: No!
  Rick: What? Dude, don't, just, y-you need to let us sort out this stuff, okay?
• Anytime Rick makes a gun for Morty, Morty has to pick some fruit from the idiot tree.
  • First there was the gorilla-gun, which Morty assumed would turn the school bullies into gorillas, but is completely ineffective because Rick designed it to kill gorillas (and thus by extension would horribly maim any normal human shot with it). Rick also questioned why Morty would want to turn his bullies into gorillas.
  • Rick gets around this by creating a bully-gun. He and Morty assume they're on the same page over what it does. When Morty is accosted by another bully, he pulls out the gun and...turns it on himself. Cut to Rick treating Morty's gruesome abdominal wound.
  • Rick then gives Morty a simple handgun, but like a responsible adult he tells Morty that he can only use it to shoot bad people. Cut to Morty and Jessica going on a date (aww!), when they're accosted by a mugger. Morty pulls out the gun, squeezes the trigger and...the bullet transforms into a serial killer. Specifically, Jeffrey Dahmer.
  • Funnier still, those were only the instances of Morty having a gun that were shown. Morty was given even more guns.
  Observer: Let the record show, this bit continued for several more guns.
  Morty: What're we even guilty of in that one? Being kind of dumb?
  Observer: For being dumb, over and over.
• Morty asked Rick to bring his churro to life just for fun. Rick obliges and Morty goes on adventures with his new churro pal. When the novelty wears off, Morty asks Rick if he can reverse the effect. Rick just tells Morty that since churros lack the anatomy necessary to live, he was forced to make it immortal. Cut to Morty having to abandon the living churro on Mars, where it swears vengeance on him.
• Summer gets embarrassed re-living a memory where aliens were abducting attractive people, and she stepped outside to see if she would get taken, only to break down in tears over not being seen as hot enough to be abducted.
• Space Beth farted and said it was just the leather from her seat.
• Rick and Morty get busted for murdering their own counterparts. Rick defends the act by saying that the Rick and Morty variants in question were the ones who appeared in Space Jam: A New Legacy and that they were begging for death. Notably, both Rick and Morty seem inappropriately excited over killing these specific instances of themselves.
• Rick manages to turn the Observers against each other by pointing out their hypocrisy and using their omniscience for their own gains. One Observer is guilty of selling bootleg future movies on the streets.
  • When one Observer calls out some of their own for being "bad apples", another retaliates by showing that Observer cheating on another's wife. The two engage in a fight, which leads to the whole court of Observers massacring each other, whilst Rick and Morty just watch and escape nonchalantly.
  Morty: Geez Rick. People just be fucking each other's wives, huh?
  Rick: Marriage is a scam, Morty. Let's scram.

Wet Kuat Amortican Summer

• In the cold open Summer does chores for Rick in exchange for letting her use his attribute slider, hilarity ensues:
  • Summer's chores include: washing alien guts from the car, sorting Rick's amulet collection into cursed and non-cursed bins, butchering alien carcasses for meat and cleaning the mess in the mind blower room again.
  • Rick places the Pipboy-esque device on her arm causing her to wince.
    Rick: Sensitive bone marrow, much?
  • Summer asks Rick to make her stronger at the expense of intelligence, and she starts lifting him like a barbell almost immediately, angering him.
    Summer: Come here, nerd.
    Rick: No, ugh, Summer I will literally murder you. Oh Christ, you're too dumb to know I'm serious.
  • Rick decides Morty and Summer's argument is none of his business, then when Summer throws Morty on the trash bag she was throwing out this happens:
    Rick: Ow!
    Morty: Wow, you just hide anywhere, huh?
    Rick: Kick his ass, Summer!
• Summer tries to escape an incinerator but is cuffed to the conveyor belt. When she tries to activate an implant in her ponytail that Rick put, she utters two potential sayings that ought to work but don’t, and it’s only until she says “I don’t give my grandpa enough credit?” that the ponytail picks the cuff locks.
  • Rick later uses one of those sayings (“Go-go ponytail implant!”) for the ponytail to kill a mook by shoving itself down his throat.
• After failing to wake Rick up vocally, Beth resorts to trying to use tongs to prod him awake. Rick apparently even has a self defense system for that kind of stuff.
• After becoming a Kuat, Morty can only say "Open your mind!", leading Summer to assume he's basically mindless with a one-phrase vocabulary. In fact, he's psychic and trying to get her to open her mind to telepathically communicate with him. When she finally does, he indignantly tells her he's been yelling at her to do that for hours.

Mort: Ragnarick

• Rick, Morty and Jerry investigate the existence of the afterlife:
  • Jerry's grandmother tells him his Grandpa isn't coming to see him because Rick keeps bringing Jerry back to life:
    Jerry's Grandma: Hello, Jerry.
    Jerry: Nana!
    Jerry's Grandma: Are you ready to come into the light?
    Jerry: Uh, I'm not sure... Where's Pop-pop?
    Jerry's Grandma: He's not coming out to meet you anymore because, honestly Jerry, this is getting annoying.
  • Jerry's opinion on Rick proving Heaven's existence:
    Jerry: Great! So there's a heaven! Glad you could learn that by murdering me eight times.
  • Rick calls Jerry's afterlife "Generic-ass, 1980's concrete and fog machine Heaven."
  • Rick decides to continue the experiment by going to Norway.
    Rick: Morty, pack your Parka. We're going to Norway!
    Morty: Ugh!
    Rick: Or I could augment your skin with subdermal heaters...
    Morty: I'll pack a Parka!
• Morty draws a line at killing Rick for him to get to Valhalla, saying he's become desensitized to it all. Apparently he took a test in school for something or other, and the councilor had to call homeland security about the personality problem it created.
• When Bigfoot manages to break open the Rick Clone's pod, The clone (currently uninhabited by Rick's mind) initiates "survival mode," which basically means running away from Bigfoot while babbling incoherently, bumping into things, and being naked. Even Bigfoot is momentarily taken aback by the clone's bizarre behavior, compete with a genuine "What the hell?" expression.
• Rick and Morty's failed attempt at infiltrating the Vatican, even in context one wonders how hiding in a cart driven by Bigfoot would not have drawn attention.
• The Rick, Morty and Bigfoot Death Montage:
  Rick: POOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!!!
  • This line:
    Rick: Its over The Pope, we've got you.
  • After Rick's attempt to summon a Monster Mash as backup fails the Pope asks if they'll call the Harlem Globetrotters next, Rick actually considers it a good idea though it doesn't come to that.
  • Rick's long explanation of his ''Popey-ball'' joke.
• Rick and Morty chasing Bigfoot off like in so many "sending a pet off into the wild" endings. Only, Bigfoot is now stuck in a human body, so it's the bizarre image of them throwing stuff and a dude to chase him into a forest he no longer needs to be in.

Fear No Mort

• The Hole's Rod Serling expy's utterly dismissive delivery of this line:
  The Hole: Don't worry, Rick will die before accepting happiness. After that, we'll chase you with some clowns or some dumb shit like that.
• Some of the things that send Rick and/or Morty out of the Hole's simulation, like Rick checking a bill and seeing that a side of bacon costs $8.
  Morty: Are you fucking kidding me!?
  Rick: It's a symptom of a larger concern, Morty! If-if capitalism collapses—
  Morty: Are we done here?
  • Later, when Morty resolves to no longer worry if he is still in the Hole or not, he undergoes a long Time-Passes Montage, where he grows up, goes to college, attends Summer's wedding, gets a job, and then buys himself a new house. It abruptly ends when he looks in the mirror one morning while brushing his teeth, and sees Jerry staring back at him:
    Morty: (utterly horrified) Oh my god! I've turned into my dad! (wakes up inside the Hole)

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