Clyde joins Rick and Lincoln as they help some galactic superheroes in the hopes they'll help them find Lynn...
Rick & Morty episode: Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender
Loud House episode: Deal Me Out
- Adaptational Context Change:
- Most of the events of "Deal Me Out" are omitted in favour of a near-identical retelling of the original Rick and Morty episode, with Lincoln and Clyde tagging along for the ride, the former assuming Morty's role.
- Rick's recorded rant to Noob-Noob, which Lincoln witnesses, is changed from how much he likes Noob-Noob comapared to the other Vindicators to breaking down over how much of a failure he is in light of Lynn's disappearance.
- Adaptational Heroism: Crocubot was a bit of a blank slate in Rick and Morty. Here, he's revealed to be a decent fellow (especially compared to his fellow Vindicators bar Noob-Noob) and stands up to Supernova when she tries to kill Rick and the kids.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Vance was hardly the pinnacle of heroism in his home series, but he sinks to a new low here as he laughs at Rick's request for the Vindicators to help him find Lynn. It especially hurts since Rick actually tried to be respectful for once.
- Adaptational Late Appearance: Clyde's dads make their debut appearance in this chapter MUCH later than their debut in Season 1's "Overnight Success".
- Adaptational Nice Guy: While still apathetic and spiteful with the Vindicators, Rick tries to persuade Vance to help him find Lynn. But it fails, and the rest of the chapter plays as is.
- Adapted Out: Virtually all of "Deal Me Out" is cut off, apart from the title making up the chapter.
- An Aesop: You are entitled to enjoy what it is you like the most, regardless of opposing opinion... unless the work is written by a bigot.
- Break the Cutie: Somewhat Downplayed. In addition to Lincoln, Clyde suffers a series of unfortunate experiences because of Rick's immoral and life-threatening antics and the Vindicators' hubris and hypocrisy, and each member dying gruesomely. By the end, while he does seem mentally sound, it becomes clear he was somewhat traumatized after he suggests Dr. Lopez to help with the Louds.
- Broken Pedestal: As Lincoln bears witness to the ugly side of the Vindicators, his love of superheroes gets soured.
- Rebuilt Pedestal: Thankfully, its reconstructed thanks to Clyde and Crocubot's actions. While Lincoln acknowledges that there are people who shouldn't be called heroes, he still believes there are people worthy of that name. Rick just says "take whatever you want from this".
- Call-Back: During Lincoln and Rick's argument, he mocks Rick's "Pirates of the Pancreas" idea from Heavy Meddle With The Anatomy.
- Hypocritical Humor: Meta-example. Immediately after Rick makes the below-mentioned criticism about how dumb it is that a Shared Universe only has individual or small groups of heroes responding to supervillain attacks at any time, Clyde points out Homeworld on the galaxy map, implying that Rick has been more or less sitting out the events of that series. This is also made many chapters after a crossover with Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
- Take That!:
- In addition to his jabs at superheroes from the Rick and Morty episode this chapter is based off of, Rick also criticizes the very concept of an "interconnected universe" in which only one or a select group of heroes respond to any given supervillain attack at a time.
- Rick also says that people are tired "forced team-ups and shared universes". This could be a jab at not only the MCU but also the many crossover comic book events that Marvel and DC tend to put out on a yearly basis.
- During their argument, Lincoln calls out Rick for constantly complaining about the flaws in superheroes while NEVER pointing out anything good about them, possibly referring to the original Rick and Morty episode's attempt at deconstructing the genre, which was criticized for being incredibly one-sided in its views on superheroes.
- Rick later admits that Lincoln was right about how people are entitled to their favorite pieces of media... unless said media is written by bigots like J. K. Rowling. note
- When Rick chews out Vance for not intervening during the Galactic Federation takeover of Earth, Vance downplays their occupation—and the Federation's actions throughout the galaxy in general—as "simply a political movement" and Rick's objections to their atrocities as "just [his] political opinion," most likely a jab at people who downplay the rise of fascist movements and their proven potential for crimes against humanity throughout the world in The New '10s and The New '20s.
- Shout-Out: One of the planets shown in the holographic map is white and cracked in half, which Rick simply claims is inhabited by gem people.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Clyde saves Crocubot from his canon death by telling him to stay back until it seems safe. As a result, he lives to see the end of the chapter and makes another appearance in future chapters finding Lynn.
- Toilet Humor: As in the original episode, Rick stained dump all over the floor after a drunken night. Clyde and Lincoln are not taking this too well.
- Would Hurt a Child: Supernova has no reservations in murdering Lincoln and Clyde even though they had nothing to do with Drunk Rick's trap.
