Original air date: 9/20/2015
Jerry is faced with the difficult decision of losing his manhood to save an alien leader from imminent death. Meanwhile, Rick, Morty and Summer explore the possibilities of interdimensional television.
Tropes:
- Big "NO!": Summer and Beth when Jerry gets riddled with bullets.
- Brick Joke:
- One of the interdimensional shows involves a character stealing something called a plumbus. Later, we see a How It's Made-type show all about how said plumbus is made.
- Eyehole Man attacking Jerry in the stinger.
- Broken Pedestal: Subverted. Jerry thinks that he can get out of donating his penis to civil rights hero Shrimply Pibbles by revealing Pibbles's heroin addiction and breaking his pedestal. Turns out Pibbles's species just breathes heroin.
- Call-Back: The whole episode, but notably Rick's method of opening up the waiting room cable box to modify it: like the first time, he drops it on the floor so that it breaks open.
- The Cameo: Werner Herzog makes an appearance as an alien who explains the fascination of the human culture for penises.
- Disney Death: Jerry dies a Multiple Gunshot Death... until it gets revealed that he survived due to being in a super-sophisticated alien hospital.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-Universe. The show "How Did I Get Here" somehow abducts people and instantaneously transports them into some precarious situation. When Morty asks Rick how that happened (to a woman who had been in the same room with them moments before), the show's host can be seen on the screen following their conversation.
- Gag Penis: Jerry mistakes the XP-20 XS prosthetic for a gun.
- Glad You Thought of It: Jerry tries to weasel out of donating his penis to galactic civil rights icon Shrimply Pibbles by informing Beth and complying with her outrage as an excuse not to go through with it. It works at first before she sees the catalogue of prosthetic penises she can replace it with, then learns why his penis is being asked for.
- Hospital Gurney Scene: The opening scene of Jerry being rolled into the hospital.
- In a World…: The introduction to Jan Michael Vincent starts on this line.
- Inherently Funny Words: The How It's Made parody contains a long string of these, including "plumbus", "dinglebop", "schleezy", and "fleeb juice".
- Multiple Gunshot Death: Jerry ends up getting shot to pieces, including multiple headshots, while Beth and Summer watch, horrified, and with Morty and even Rick also horrified when they see it on the news. One commercial cut later, he's fully healed and recovering in bed. Beth lampshades that he suffered his injuries in a highly advanced hospital, and that the injuries were, by their medical standards, relatively minor.
- Noodle Incident: After Morty tells off Summer that not all television has to be Summer-friendly, this exchange occurs:Rick: Geez Morty. I take it Katherine Hefflefinger hasn't texted you back yet.Morty: I don't wanna talk about it.
- Offscreen Teleportation: The "How Did I Get Here?" show causes a lady at the coffee machine to suddenly find herself on top of a streetpole.
- On Second Thought: Beth initially refuses to let Jerry have the operation. Then she browses the magazine of penis replacements ...
- Overly Long Gag: The "personal space" show.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: After Beth cottons on to Jerry's scheme he and her have a passive-aggressive exchange where she fully supports him donating his penis, and being explicit if he doesn't want to, and he emphasizes that it's a lot to ask of her as his spouse.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Morty goes off completely at random.Morty: Well, Summer, maybe people that create things aren't concerned with your delicate sensibilities, y'know? M-Maybe the species that communicate with each other through the filter of your comfort are less evolved than the ones that 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!
- Reduced to Dust: When Rick kills the best doctor in the galaxy with his Disintegrator Ray gun.
- Riddle for the Ages: Everyone is said to have a Plumbus, and we learn how they're made, but their function remains a mystery.
- Serious Business: Phillip Jacobs, host of the "Personal Space" show, takes his personal space very, very seriously. How seriously? He rips off his own skin just because it was "invading" his personal space.
- Something Person: Eyehole Man and Octopus Man.
- The Stinger: Jerry tries to eat some of the Eyehole Man cereal from Rick's cupboard, only to promptly get attacked by the Eyehole Man himself for it.
- That Was Not a Dream: When Jerry awakes in his hospital bed at the end, he assumes that all was a dream but Beth assures him that getting shot 57 times really happened.
- Unfortunate Names: The doctor that first greets the family is called Dr. Glip Glop. As Rick mentioned, for a particular species, Glip Glop is like if the N-Word had a baby with the C-Word and was raised by all the bad words for Jews.
- The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): Dr. Glip Glop, the proclaimed "Best Doctor In The Galaxy" who gets vomited on by Jerry and nearly goes into a murderous rampage before Rick shoots him.
