Memes / Rick and Morty

I turned myself into a pickle, Morty! BOOM! Big reveal, I'm a pickle! What do you think about that? I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PICKLE! I'M PICKLE RIIIIIICK!

Rick and Morty is a show filled with memorable lines and scenes which have inspired a tremendous amount of memes.

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To be fair, you have to have a high IQ to understand Rick and Morty memes:

• Imitating Rick's speech mannerisms and verbal tics in general, especially him inserting "Morty" into every sentence and burping a lot.
• "I’m gonna need you to take these seeds into the bathroom. And I’m gonna need you to put them waaaay up inside your butthole Morty."
• The completely ad-libbed ending of the first episode ("RICKANDMORTY.COM! A HUNDRED TIMES RICK AND MORTY!") has reached such memetic status that Roiland expresses regret and embarrassment about it on the DVD commentary.
• After becoming super-intelligent, Snuffles/Snowball wakes up Summer during the night and asks: "Where are my testicles, Summer?"
• Scary Terry's excessive use of the word "Bitch" could rival Jesse Pinkman's.
• The Mr. Meeseeks have become a major source of laughs for the fanbase for several reasons:
  • Their speech patterns, like starting every sentence with "Look at me" and/or "I'm Mr. Meeseeks".
  • The Sanity Slippage they experience as their life goes on for too long: "Why did you rope me into this?" "'Cause he roped me into this!" and "Existence is pain to a Meeseeks!"
• Human music.
• The cheap AI the Zigerians use for their simulation in order to distract Jerry:
  *snap* Yes!
  Slow down!
  Lookin' good!
  My man!
• "Why do you party?" "To get riggity-riggity-WRECKED, SON!"
• Pretty much all of the improvised comedy segments from "Rixty Minutes" and "Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate".
  • Out of all of these, the sheer nonsense of the Plumbus has proven so endearing to the fans that it's become customary to respond to any mention of it with equally nonsensical terms, such as giving fictional advice on use of plumbuses. An example from at least three youtubers:
    Bren7080: Actually, many knock-off plumbi are made from bazargalorp, because it's cheaper and easier to use. The bad part is, extra schleem is needed, and instead of glackzendos, you need fenzockers. It also comes out of the regindgas very sloppily, and cheaply.
    Captain Derp: And don't forget boiling it in gumbleglush and soaking it in gulkiplyer mixed with humblgashla.
    Johnny C: Really? I use spumplespap with a pinch of smoovian flimpleblurg. Really helps clean up the smump stains from the Smudburgers I buy at the local Smudkos.
• "What is my purpose?" "You pass butter." "Oh my god." "Yeah, welcome to the club, pal."
• Krombopulos Michael's "Oh boy, here I go killing again!"
• Fart's "Goodbye, Moonmen" song.
• "Peace among worlds!" is a relatively popular one, mostly for the irony.
• Mr. Poopybutthole, the longtime friend of the family.
• "Get Schwifty" is one of the biggest source of memes in the show:
  • "SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!"
  • Getting schwifty.
  • "In bird culture, this is considered a dick move."^explanation Birdperson's reaction to Morty trying to abandon Rick.
  • "BOO, NOT COOL! DISQUALIFIED!"
• "I'm Tiny Rick, bitch!"^note "Let me out!"
• After Tammy revealed her true colors as a double-agent for the Galactic Federation, betraying Rick and killing Birdperson in "The Wedding Squanchers", it's become easy to unite the entire fanbase with a call of "Fuck Tammy!".
• Editing the screaming sun into scenes from other works.
• In "The Rickshank Redemption", Rick reveals that the whole time, his motive for all of his actions was... obtaining some of the limited-run promotional Mulan Szechuan McNuggets dipping sauce. Since then, the fanbase will go crazy over anything involving Szechuan sauce. It gets even better - due to the overwhelming demand, McDonald's themselves decided to give the creators a few gallons of Szechuan sauce!!!
  • The "Szechuan Sauce riots". ^note McDonald's held a free Szechuan Sauce giveaway on the 7th of October, 2017. The problem was that there were only twenty packs distributed at any given location that had them. Crazy Rick and Morty fans ended up creating lineups that spanned the block, the police got involved with the crowds, and apparently somebody got stabbed over a sauce packet.
    • “You guys have no Szechuan Sauce? I WANT SZECHUAN SAUCE! WHERE'S MY SZECHUAN SAUCE??!! I'M PICKLE RICK!!!!!!!! WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!!!!!! I'M PICKLE RICK!!!! REEEEEEEEE!!!! REEEEE!!!! REEEEE!!!! I’M PICKLE REEEEEEEEE!!!! REEEEEE!!!!! REEEEE!!!!!!“ ^note  Taken from this video in which a Rick and Morty fan throws a (staged) tantrum after finding out his McDonald’s didn’t have any Szechaun Sauce during the one-day-only giveaway.
    • "i hope rick says his next favorite sauce is free healthcare sauce" ^note After the Szechuan Sauce fiasco, many people joke that, if Rick says he likes "free healthcare sauce", then the same crazy Rick and Morty fans will start rioting in the streets for free healthcare.
    • Steven Universe nonbinary sauce^note Someone tried to defend the Fan Dumb by asserting that the Steven Universe fandom would not be so different if there was a similar promotion with "nonbinary sauce". Naturally, this resulted in an avalanche of mockery...from both sides.
  • The dude's reaction where he's kicking and screaming on the floor going, "REEEEEEEEE!!!! REEEEE!!!! REEEEE!!!!" has been adopted and used as either a reaction or a mockery of... you name it. Feminism, Meninism, social justice, anti social justice, politics no matter which side you are on or oppose, you pick it.
• In the wake of the unsettling Galactic Federation propaganda videos, it's become almost memetic for people to say "Rick did nothing wrong!" in reference to season 3, episode 1.
• Everything that has to do with Pickle Rick.
  • "I turned myself into a meme, Morty! I'm meme Rick!"
  • PICKLE RIIIIIICK haha am i right fellas?
  • Even among people who think the joke got tired really quickly, it has some life in ironic shitposting, often in the form of other characters interpreted as pickles.
    • And then he turns himself into a pickle, funniest shit I've ever seen ^Explanation The meme then saw an irony-fueled resurgence in early 2020 with people posting images of fictonal characters trying to explain to other fictional characters why Pickle Rick is so funny (making fun of that section of Rick and Morty fans while they're at it), and it always includes "Funniest shit I've ever seen" as the closing line.
  • Note that pickle Rick is a meme acknowledgement of the previous "Tiny Rick!" meme.
  • It even spawned a (poorly-made) PC game called "Piccled Ricc", which was subsequently booted off Steam.
• Noob-Noob. Due to Rick making a heartfelt (albeit drunk) speech about Noob-Noob being his most valued friend, and an entire intergalactic party with the rapper Logic singing about the latter, he has become an Ensemble Dark Horse.
  • His catchphrase, "GOT DAMN!"
  • "Who the fuck is Noob-Noob?"^explanation A now-sober Rick's reaction when he hears the rap he himself commissioned for Noob-Noob while blackout drunk.
• After "Rest and Ricklaxation" fan art depicting toxic versions of various characters have become common.
• Don't trust the promos!^note In season 3, there were two instances that had misleading pre-advertising. "Vindicators 3: The Return of World Ender" hyped up a supervillain due to the episode being superhero-orientated, only for the episode to reveal that Rick had killed him while extremely drunk. Likewise, "The Ricklantis Mix-up"'s trailer only showed before and after Rick and Morty's adventure to Atlantis, whereas the real episode was focused on the rebuilt Citadel of Ricks. So, when the finale promo for "The Rickchurian Mortydate" only detailed a shenanigan where Rick and Morty meets up with the President of the United States from "Get Schwifty" to catch an escaped alien, fans immediately claimed that this trailer doesn't represent the whole episode, theorizing that either Evil Morty, Phoenix Person, Tammy, or all of the three would be the bulk of the plot instead.
• "To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty."^note The opening words of an infamous copypasta that originated from Reddit. The copypasta has become associated with poisonous fans of the show who try to act smart, but just end up being insufferable jerks (and also proclaim that people who enjoy Rick and Morty clearly have high IQs), and has helped spur a minor hatedom for the show as a whole, with the copypasta gaining a resurgence in popularity around the time of the aforementioned Szechuan Sauce riots. Variants of the copypasta also tend to be used as a way of making fun of elitists in other fanbases or (in a more negative way) as a method of attacking fans of niche media.
• "Let's go. In and out. Twenty minute adventure!" SIX DAYS LATER...^Explanation "Rest and Ricklaxation" starts with this, where a supposed twenty-minute adventure turns into a six-day odyssey that has Rick and Morty both break down completely by the time it's over. It quickly became an exploitable video/pair of images, where either plotlines or actual events begin innocently or lightly enough, if not with outright overconfidence, only to turn into an absolute shitshow one Gilligan Cut later once it's over... if the event is even over.
• "Why are you watching [adult swim]?" ^note  An audience member’s reaction to a kid saying Rick and Morty is the greatest show on Adult Swim at a Comic Con panel.
• That just sounds like [action] with extra steps! ^Explanation A snowclone of the "That just sounds like slavery with extra steps!" line uttered by Morty, used to point out the inherent stupidity of going through a longer course of action to get the same result.
• Do you want to develop an app?
• "Your skills are required for a job." "You son of a bitch, I'm in." ^Explanation This Running Gag from "One Crew Over The Crewcoos Morty", when Heistotron gas-brainwashes people into joining its crew, is basically Rick and Morty's answer to "The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai."
• "Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer!" ^Explanation Rick says this when a bunch of fans at Heist-con boo him for not liking heists. Became a popular saying for discussing questionable criticisms.
• Rick tears away the wallpaper ^Explanation  The Rick and Morty x Pringles ad for the Super Bowl featured Rick tearing away the wallpaper to show Summer that they're trapped in a Pringles ad. The shot where he grips the wallpaper, coupled with a blank space replacing the Pringles logo behind the wall, has become a way to express uncomfortable truths or Fridge Logic.
• You're like Hitler, but even Hitler cared about Germany or something ^Explanation A line from Morty to Rick in the first episode, which became a way to invoke Godwin's Law on someone or an action, or to call out an act of Poke the Poodle as incredibly evil in jest.
• So WHAT if he’s the devil? At least the devil has a JOB! At least he’s active in the community! ^Explanation Originally said by Summer to Rick about Mr. Needful, who is in fact literally the Devil. Used to either genuinely defend someone from unfair criticism or in a tongue-in-cheek Draco in Leather Pants defense of a villainous character who is entertaining and/or attractive.
• Mmm, I'm Mr. Frundles!
• Parmesan?
  • Par-meees-ian, Par. Mees. Ian.
    • "Gross." "Yeah." "I hate it."
• The entire S&M style dialogue between the two Beths and Jerry in the end of "Bethic Instinct", with almost all lines in it being memetically used in the fandom.
• With Morty and Summer canonically having a bio child together (albeit not conceived sexually) as of "Rickdependence Spray", Jerry (unwillingly) almost forced into having sex with his mom in "Final DeSmithation", and the two Beths getting it on in "Bethic Twinstinct", many joke about how Rick and Morty is basically Dan Harmon's apparent incest fetish as a show.
• They risked they whole career for a bihh that look like Morty 😭^Explanation  A twitter user memed a female police officer who was involved in a scandal where she had sex with at least 6 of her co-workers. The user joked she looked like Cop Morty from "The Ricklantis Mixup".
• Rick and Morty's new voices^Explanation  In January 2023, Justin Roiland was fired from the show and cut off from Adult Swim due to domestic abuse charges. Since Roiland voices the titular duo, fans have been seriously and jokingly speculating who should replace Roiland and how the show will address it. Popular options are to hire an impressionist or to use an AI to simulate Rick and Morty's voices. In the end, soundalikes were indeed used, with Ian Cardoni taking over as Rick and Harry Belden voicing Morty.
• Morty I'm bored, I'm-I'm gonna kill you.^Explanation This meme originates from this parody called Ric and Mort where Rick utters the line before cutting to a 3D render of him dramatically slapping Morty in the head to classical music, rotoscoped from Mom and Dad. It became a popular animation to recreate.
• Ok then, that was always allowed! ^Explanation  In "Mortynight Run", Jerry is put in an interdimensional daycare for Jerrys. He tries to escape, only to discover that he wasn't obligated to be there, finally just walking out the door as the receptionist says this line. It's become used to mock Rule Abiding Rebels or people who try to seem edgy and dangerous for doing mundane things.

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