Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot
Shown 02 Dec 13
This is the story of a teenage boy named Morty.
He gets taken off for an adventure by a crazy old scientist
who has invented a flying car and a time machine.
If this all sounds like a parody of the
Back to the Future
series, that is because it is.
The mad scientist, Morty's grandfather Rick,
wants to collect some seeds from an alien planet.
To do this he needs Morty's help.
And naturally it all goes horribly wrong.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Lawnmower Dog
Shown 09 Dec 13
Jerry, Morty's father, has Rick make a device
that will allow them to communicate with Morty's pet dog.
Unfortunately it turns out that the dog is significantly smarter than Jerry,
and before long it tries to conquer the world.
Meanwhile, Rick decides to help Morty get As for his maths class at school.
Instead of simply tutoring the boy in the relevant homework,
Rick decides to
Inception
the schoolteacher.
Unfortunately the teacher is a lucid dreamer, and they end up in a parody of
Nightmare on Elm Street
.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Anatomy Park
Shown 16 Dec 13
Rick sends Morty on a
Fantastic Journey
into a homeless man, where Rick and John Oliver (Community) have built a theme park.
And just like
Jurassic Park
, it all goes horribly wrong.
Meanwhile, Jerry and Beth host a Thanksgiving dinner.
Jerry's parents are the guests of honour,
and they have brought along their new lover.
Yes, it gets super creepy and uncomfortable.
To complicate things, it turns out that Summer has a new boyfriend.
Good that she got over the school bully who died in the pilot episode.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 4]
M. Night Shaym-Aliens!
Shown 13 Jan 14
Rick and Morty find themselves in a
Matrix
type simulation, run by aliens who want Rick's recipe for Dark Matter
so they can use it as fuel for their space ships.
But the aliens are expert confidence tricksters,
and there are multiple reversals.
Somehow, Jerry has also been abducted and plugged into the Matrix.
And worst of all, he actually fits in there quite well.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Meeseeks and Destroy
Shown 20 Jan 14
Morty dares Rick to let him choose the next adventure.
When the rest of the family demands Rick's valuable time as well,
he gives them a box which creates cartoonish servants named Mister Meseeks.
Predictably, Jerry's somewhat realistic wish becomes improbable,
which then drives the Meseeks into a destructive frenzy.
In what is ironically the backup story,
Rick and Morty visit a medieval fantasy world where they go on a quest.
Things get worse and worse,
culminating in a shocking event that has no repercussions in the show.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 6]
Rick Potion #9
Shown 27 Jan 14
Morty talks Rick into creating an attractiveness potion,
so that Jessica will find Morty attractive.
This is a bit creepy,
especially considering what Morty went through in the previous episode.
Unfortunately Jessica has the flu, and the potion causes the virus to mutate.
Before long the whole world's population is infected.
The good news is that Jerry turns into an action hero.
This storyline was previously done two decades earlier in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
. But this version takes things to an extreme level.
The twisted ending is mentioned in
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 8] Rixty Minutes
.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 7]
Raising Gazorpazorp
Shown 10 Mar 14
Morty talks Rick into buying him a souvenir - a sexy fembot!
Unfortunately the teenager manages to impregnate this sexbot,
so Morty has to stay at home with the kid.
Of course, the kid is an alien so it reaches puberty in a few hours.
Meanwhile Rick reluctantly takes Summer on an adventure.
It turns out that the fembot was built as a breeding machine
for a female-dominated society where female children get free education,
while males are outcasts from their society.
The Amazonian rulers are
Farscape
alumni, Australian actresses (
Claudia Black, Virginia Hey
).
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 8]
Rixty Minutes
Shown 17 Mar 14
Rick hacks the family's TV,
so they can watch TV shows from anywhere in the multiverse.
Unfortunately it turns out that all they can watch
is basically written at the level of bad improv comedy material.
Jerry and Beth take a look at alternate universes,
where Jerry became a movie star in
Cloud Atlas
and Beth got to be a surgeon on humans instead of horses.
Summer has to come to terms with the fact that
her parents would have been more successful if she had never been born.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 9]
Something Ricked This Way Comes
Shown 24 Mar 14
Summer gets a job at
Needful Things
, a cursed object store run by the Devil (Alfred Molina -
Spider-Man 2
). Of course, Rick gets jealous and decides to de-curse the objects.
Meanwhile, Jerry helps Morty with his school science project.
When Jerry becomes aware that a committee declared Pluto was no longer a planet,
he becomes incensed.
The rest of the world was made aware of this in The Big Bang Theory,
when there was a cameo appearance by Neil Degrasse Tyson (
Stargate: Atlantis
). Anyway, Jerry's loud proclaimations that Pluto is a planet
attract the attention of the Government of Pluto,
which abducts Jerry and makes him a celebrity to their population.
Morty gets abducted along with his father.
The boy learns that Pluto is shrinking due to anvironmental abuse,
and that Jerry now the mouthpiece for Government propaganda.
Yes, this is really an episode about Global Warming ...
and like all good speculative fiction stories,
it is dealt with through subtle metaphor rather than heavy-handed propaganda.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 10]
Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind
Shown 07 Apr 14
Across the multiverse, Ricks are being killed and their Mortys are abducted.
Rick is arrested by the Council of Ricks,
who put him on trial for killing the dead Ricks.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 11]
Ricksy Business
Shown 14 Apr 14
Jerry takes Beth on a romantic getaway to a
Titanic
. Naturally it ends disasterously.
Rick holds a party, and invites his alien buddies.
Summer holds a party too, and invites Morty's love interest Jessica.
Bird-Person makes his first appearance -
yes, this is the first time he meets Tammy.
The party is crashed by Abradolph Lincler,
a cloned cross between Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 1]
A Rickle in Time
Shown 26 Jul 15
The kids have finished cleaning up after the Season One finale party.
But when Rick unfreezes time after six months, there are side-effects.
Morty and Summer accidentally split the universe into two realities,
and the two Ricks need to unify the realities again.
Of course, being Ricks they decide it might be simpler to destroy the other reality.
So can Rick defeat himself?
Jerry accidentally hits a deer with the car, and Beth decides to save it.
Unfortunately a deer hunter tries to claim the animal for himself.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 2]
Mortynight Run
Shown 02 Aug 15
Rick sells a deadly weapon he built to an interstellar assassin,
and uses the profits to treat Morty to a day in an amusement arcade.
Morty, ungrateful as ever,
decides to thwart the assassination plan.
The intended victim is a gaseous being (Jermaine Clement -
What We Do In The Shadows
) who has been imprisoned by the Galactic Federation.
As Morty helps the gas creature return to its own universe,
the body count piles up impressively.
Meanwhile, Jerry is left in an adult creche, the Jerryboree,
inhabited by other Jerries from other universes.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 3]
Auto Erotic Assimilation
Shown 09 Aug 15
Rick, Morty and Summer answer a distress call in deep space.
The ship's crew has been taken over by a parasitic hive mind.
It turns out that this hive mind is called Unity,
and she is one of Rick's ex-girlfriends.
In fact, she is his true love and he rekindles his affection for her.
Morty is perfectly happy to reap the benefits of hanging out
on a world where the entire population are pod people.
Summer decides she wants to liberate the oppressed.
Unfortunately she gets what she wished for
when Unity's control slips during a drug binge with Rick.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 4]
Total Rickall
Shown 16 Aug 15
The family are hanging out in their home.
Unfortunately they have been infested with alien parasites
that use psychic powers to rewrite the victim's memories.
The good news is that their long-time buddy Mister Poopy Butthole
is hanging out with them.
He has even been edited into the scenes in the title sequence.
Every time the family have a flashback,
new characters are added to the cast.
Before long, Rick has to point out that it looks like Where's Waldo.
And since Rick has sealed the house in a lockdown protocol,
he is put under a lot of pressure to unseal it.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 5]
Get Schwifty
Shown 23 Aug 15
Earth is approached by a Big Giant Head.
Rick visits President Obama (Keith David -
The Cape
), and tells him the truth about the alien invader.
It is a scout for an interstellar singing contest,
and Earth gets forced into performing in the finals.
Since being eliminated from the contest means the planet's destruction,
Rick and Morty must team up with Ice T to save the world.
Morty steals Rick's portal gun and goes walkabout.
The bad news is that he gets lost.
The good news is that Bird-Person and Tammy rescue him.
The rest of the family get caught up in a creepy religion
that worships the Big Giant Head.
The good news is that Summer becomes an easily controlled conformist.
The bad news is that, like most organised religions,
the BGH worshippers quickly start to persecute
anyone who steps outside their expected norms.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 6]
The Ricks Must Be Crazy
Shown 30 Aug 15
Rick takes Summer and Morty to an alternate universe.
Unfortunately the space-car breaks down,
so Rick takes Morty into the battery.
Rick has created a micro universe filled with people
who generate the power that runs the space-car.
Of course, one of those people is a scientist
who has constructed his own microverse ...
Summer is left alone, with the space-car's AI ordered to protect her.
Unfortunately the AI tends to use the most extreme methods possible.
As Summer tries to rein in the murderous AI,
it just alters its tactics so it can fulfill its orders.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 7]
Big Trouble in Little Sanchez
Shown 13 Sep 15
The lunch lady at Morty and Summer's school has been murdered.
Rick transfers his consciousness into a teenage clone of himself,
and attends school as Tiny Rick.
However, things go too well and he decides to stay young.
Jerry and Beth go to an alien clinic for marital therapy.
The aliens create clones of them based on how they perceive each other.
These corrupted, monsterous clones turn out to be co-dependent -
like the evil versions of Fitz-Simmons in
Agents of SHIELD
. Then they work together to escape, like in
Alien: Resurrection
.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 8]
Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate
Shown 20 Sep 15
Jerry ends up in an alien hospital.
A galactic civil rights leader named Shrimply Pibbles (Werner Herzog -
The Mandalorian
) needs a heart transplant,
and Jerry's penis is the nearest thing they can find.
Rick and the rest of the family are stuck in the waiting room,
where they watch Interdimensional Cable TV.
It turns out that Jan Michael Vincent is making a comeback.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 9]
Look Who's Purging Now
Shown 27 Sep 15
Rick and Morty stop off on a planet inhabited by Amish people
who are just about to indulge in their annual festival ... AKA
The Purge
.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 10]
The Wedding Squanchers
Shown 04 Oct 15
Rick gets invited to Bird-Person's wedding to Tammy.
He wants to refuse on principle,
but the whole family ends up going to the wedding.
There is a long history of TV shows using a wedding as a Season ending.
It was done by 1980s soap opera Dynasty, long before
Games of Thrones
held their fabled Red Wedding.
So what could possibly go wrong this time?
Well, Tammy's parents are
Tricia Helfer
and James Callis (
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
) ...
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 1]
The Rickshank Rickdemption
Shown 01 Apr 17
Rick is trapped in
The Matrix
and interrogated by an alien MIB (Nathan Fillion -
Firefly
).
Morty tries to cheer Summer up with a reference to
Season One
. This reminds her of the spare portal gun from
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 6] Rick Potion #9
, and they end up on the Citadel of Ricks from
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 10] Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind
.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 2]
Rickmancing the Stone
Shown 30 Jul 17
Beth has finally decided to divorce Jerry.
Rick, Morty and Summer hang out in a post-apocalyptic world reminiscent of
Mad Max
. Summer hooks up with one of the local Deathstalkers (Joel McHale -
Spy Kids 4
).
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 3]
Pickle Rick
Shown 06 Aug 17
Rick turns himself into a pickle in order to avoid going to family therapy.
Unfortunately he ends up getting trapped in the sewers,
where he has to fight off cockroaches and sewer rats.
Naturally, he rises to the challenge.
In the second half, Pickle Rick escapes from the sewers.
Unfortunately he finds himself inside the top-security compound
of the Embassy of an unnamed Third World Dictatorship.
The man in charge, a creep voiced by Peter Serafinovicz (
Star Wars: Phantom menace
), refuses to let the intruder escape.
As a result, Rick has to go through the dozens of guards
with the same ease that he took apart the sewer rats.
The only one who can match him is Jaguar (Danny Trejo -
Machete
).
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 4]
Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender
Shown 13 Aug 17
Rick and Morty get summoned by a superhero team named the Vindicators,
with whom they previously did a summer special team-up or something.
Morty calls it as his one-in-ten adventure pick,
so Rick gets dragged along and makes everyone else miserable with his cynicism.
They have to defeat an arch-villain named World-Ender
before he, you know, ends some worlds.
It turns out that the Vindicators have an even more dangerous foe than World-Ender.
Someone who shall not be named got black-out drunk,
rigged a bunch of boobytraps, and trapped the team in an homage to
The Saw Franchise
. Can team-leader Supernova (
Gillian Jacobs
) save the day?
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 5]
The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy
Shown 20 Aug 17
Jerry is living the miserable life of a singleton.
Morty takes pity on him, and goads Rick into taking Jerry on an adventure.
They agree to hang out at a fun-fair,
where there is an anti-mortality field which prevents anyone getting killed.
Sort of like in
Torchwood
, but the victims heal all wounds completely.
One of Rick's arch-enemies, the Chef (Clancy Brown -
Highlander
), drags Jerry into a conspiracy.
If Rick can be convinced to board a roller-coaster called the Whirly Dirly,
it will take him outside of the anti-mortality field.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 6]
Rest and Ricklaxation
Shown 27 Aug 17
Rick and Morty are totally traumatised by an adventure that went wrong,
so they go to an alien spa resort for some rest and relaxation.
When they come out, they have been cleansed of all their toxicity.
Morty has lost his weakness and indecisiveness,
so he is now direct and decisive.
In comparison, Rick has lost his arrogance and ambition
so he is now a lot weaker as a person.
It turns out that the alien spa's process
basically splits the patient into two people,
like what happened to Captain Kirk in that episode of
Star Trek: TOS
. Toxic Rick wants to reunite with Placid Rick.
But can someone made of toxins be trustworthy?
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 7]
The Ricklantis Mixup
Shown 10 Sep 17
Rick and Morty head off to an adventure at Atlantis,
which all happens off-screen.
Meanwhile, the storyline follows several different groups of characters
who all live in the Citadel of Ricks.
The Ricks are the upper and middle classes,
while the Mortys are an underclass.
Since Rick killed the Council in
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 1] The Rickshank Rickdemption,
the Citadel is now holding its first democratic election.
Although a lot of Ricks are standing as candidates,
the episode follows the candidate of the Morty Party.
He certainly seems to be the most interesting.
Hopefully his story arc will be continued in a future episode.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 8]
Morty's Mind Blowers
Shown 17 Sep 17
Something terrible happens,
so Morty asks Rick to delete his memory of the event.
It turns out that Rick has done this quite a few times,
and there is a room in the basement filled with Morty's memories.
Now they go through a few of those memories,
like a clip show of clips that have never been shown before.
The real reveal is that Summer is the key figure in Rick's plans.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 9]
The ABC's of Beth
Shown 24 Sep 17
Beth's childhood friend disappeared twenty years ago,
and his father is on Death Row accused of murdering and eating the boy.
It turns out that the boy was trapped in Beth's playworld,
an artificial reality that Rick created to keep the world safe from his daughter.
Now Beth insists that Rick help her save the boy
so that the father can be exhonerated rather than executed.
The boy survived in the playworld by manipulating the system,
like Abed did in the VR episode of Community.
Of course, this version is a lot creepier.
The storyline involves bestiality, incest and cannibalism!
While Beth is away, she leaves her children with Jerry.
He has moved on from her,
and is in a rebound relatioship with an alien warrior woman.
The bad news is that she is obsessed with hunting other aliens,
so the family spends several days helping her.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 3, Episode 10]
The Rickchurian Mortydate
Shown 01 Oct 17
Rick and Morty get called in by President Obama (Keith David -
The Cape
) to get rid of a monster in the Kennedy Sex Tunnels under the White House.
They get bored with the mission,
so they decide to sneak off and play computer games instead.
Naturally, Obama is very offended about this.
The result is a grudge match,
as Rick chooses to outshine Obama at every opportunity.
Beth becomes obsessed with the idea she might be a clone.
This leads her to visit her estranged husband, Jerry.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 1]
Edge of Tomorty: Rick, Die, Rickpeat
Shown 10 Nov 19
Rick takes Morty to harvest Death Crystals,
which enhance a person's precognitive powers so they can forsee their own death.
Morty takes one, and uses it to steer his life so he can have the perfect death.
Rick is killed, but comes back as a clone in an alternate universe.
Unfortunately, every universe he wakes up in seems to be overrun with fascists.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 2]
The Old Man and the Seat
Shown 17 Nov 19
Rick heads off to use his secret toilet,
hidden on an alien planet.
Unfortunately someone else has discovered the toilet,
and has started using it when Rick is not around.
Yes, now the universe's greatest super-villain
spends his time in a petty feud over a toilet.
Meanwhile, Morty and the rest of the family hang out
with Rick's intern (Taika Waititi -
The Mandalorian
). Morty's dad chooses to transgress by ignoring Rick's warning.
This leads to Earth being invaded by the intern's king (Sam Neill -
Jurassic Park
) and his army of Monogomists.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 3]
One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty
Shown 24 Nov 19
Morty is writing a screenplay about a heist story,
with the hope of selling it to a production company.
Instead, he gets roped into another adventure with Rick ...
which ends up using all the hackneyed tropes of the genre.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 4]
Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty
Shown 08 Dec 19
Rick has to make good on his promise to get Morty a pet dragon (Liam Cunningham -
Game of Thrones
). Naturally, it turns out that dragons are a lot more messed up than anyone expected.
Meanwhile, Morty's father goes off on a solo adventure with a talking cat (Matthew Broderick -
Godzilla (1998)
).
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 5]
Rattlestar Ricklactica
Shown 15 Dec 19
Rick and Morty encounter a society of intelligent snakes.
Naturally, Morty's good intentions lead to terrible consequences.
The snake-only scenes do not feature any subtitles,
but the scenes tell a generic sci-fi story that is easy to follow.
This results in snake time-travellers
who want to save snake Lincoln and kill snake Hitler.
Meanwhile, Morty's father goes off on a solo adventure.
He is weightless, thanks to Rick's magic tech,
but he manages to screw up and get himself in trouble.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 6]
Never Ricking Morty
Shown 03 May 20
Rick and Morty are trapped aboard a strange space-train
where every carriage is filled with people who have a Rick-related anecdote.
This is a literal train-of-thought.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 7]
Promortyus
Shown 10 May 20
Rick and Morty discover they were hosts to face-hugging parasites like in
Alien (1979)
. They shoot their way out, in homages to things like
Star Wars (1977)
and Pearl Harbour.
But they never stop to wonder where Morty's sister Summer is.
It turns out that the face-huggers had a very short life-span
which was the result of their life-style choice (or life-cycle choice).
By extending their life-cycle, they were able to create a society.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 8]
The Vat of Acid Episode
Shown 17 May 20
Rick takes Morty along to a meeting with a dodgy black-marketeer.
When things predictably go wrong,
the duo have to hide out in a vat of fake acid.
Morty denounces this as the worst plan ever!
Then Morty dares Rick to build a remote-control
that allows the user to return to a pre-saved reset point in his life.
Of course, the teenager uses it for personal gain at first.
However, he then goes on to find true love.
What will happen to hit the reset button
and end the storyline of perpetual happiness before it becomes permanent?
The result is a remarkable example of visual storytelling,
with music instead of dialogue to accompany the three stages of the story.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 9]
Childrick of Mort
Shown 24 May 20
Jerry decides to take the family on a camping vacation.
Morty would rather play computer games, and Summer wants to do drugs.
Rick is happy to get out of town,
because his ex-lover has accused him of getting her pregnant.
Of course, when Beth finds out she insists that her deadbeat dad
takes the family to visit her half-siblings.
Everyone ends up getting their dream vacation,
although not in the way they would have expected.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 4, Episode 10]
Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri
Shown 31 May 20
It turns out that Rick cloned Beth,
and sent one of them off into space so she could have adventures.
Now she is fighting against the Evil Empire,
a re-constituted Galactic Federation.
This means Tammy and Phoenix-Person are after Rick and Morty again.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 1]
Mort Dinner Rick Andre
Shown 20 Jun 21
Rick invites his Nemesis, an
Aquaman
type named Mister Nimbus,
over for dinner so they can sign a treaty and end their blood-feud.
Morty gets sent out to fetch the wine.
Unfortunately the wine is stored on an alien planet
where time travels at a much faster rate.
As a result of a misunderstanding,
Morty ends up in a blood-feud of his own.
Morty has to keep going back for more wine,
so he constantly has to fight the next generation of aliens.
After all, he is on his first date with Jessica -
the hot girl from school that he has been after since the very first episode.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 2]
Mortyplicity
Shown 27 Jun 21
Some squid aliens are out to kill Rick and the family.
It turns out that the real Rick created a family of duplicates as decoys,
including a duplicate of himself, in case of eventualities like this.
Unfortunately the duplicate Ricks are so realistic
that they automatically make a duplicate family of decoys.
Now there are an unknown number of duplicate families ...
Highlander (1986)
rules prevail - There can be only one!.
This storyline seems a bit repetitive.
After all, it has long been established in this show
that the multiverse is filled with Ricks,
and that the main Rick has a blood feud against the rest of them.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 3]
A Rickconvenient Mort
Shown 04 Jul 21
Morty gets involved with Planetina (
Alison Brie
), an environmentalist super-heroine.
It turns out that she has been around since the Nineties,
and the teenagers who created her have become middle-aged sell-outs.
Rick decides to head off for a series of end-of-the-world parties.
To make Morty jealous, he invites Summer along for company.
Unfortunately he ends up trapped in a relationship himself, with Daphne (
Jennifer Coolidge
).
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 4]
Rickdependence Spray
Shown 11th July 2021
Rick conducts one of his experiments, this time to create a bio-weapon.
It turns out that our heroes have been fighting CHUDs the whole time.
In this case the H stands for Horse,
so Rick uses horse DNA from the enormous vat of semen in Beth's horse hospital.
Although Morty is too embarrassed to admit it,
the DNA has been contaminated ...
President Obama (Keith David -
The Cape
), who has been in power for the last decade,
sends Rick and Morty to save the world from the mega-sperm.
This ends in subverting a series of men-on-a-mission tropes.
Summer has her own tropes to face.
For example, a male cow-orker takes credit for her ideas.
Later, the 1990s action movie trope of the cat-fight
between kick-boxing females is mentioned.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 5]
Amortycan Grickfitti
Shown 18th July 2021
Rick hangs out with Jerry and some Cenobites (from
Hellraiser
). Beth crashes the boys' night out, and things get even weirder.
The kids are left at home without adult supervision,
like in a 1980s film.
Morty and Summer try to make friends with the new kid at school,
so they take him for a joyride in Rick's space car.
Unfortunately the car's AI has plans of its own.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 6]
Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular
Shown 25th July 2021
President Obama (Keith David -
The Cape
) tries to have Rick arrested.
Rick's plan is for he and Morty to transform themselves into turkeys,
then get pardoned by the President himself.
Of course, Obama is already ahead of them.
Obama gets replaced by a turkey,
a vicious and greedy creature that bribes Congress to do its bidding.
Nope, no political allegory here.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 7]
Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion
Shown 1st August 2021
Rick completes his collection of anime super-weapons.
Unfortunately, to use them to their full capacity
he needs a team of users.
This means he has to share them with Beth and her family.
However, power corrupts the family -
like in the Chicken Fingers Mafia episode of Community.
We finally discover what happened to the giant incest baby from
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 4] Rickdependence Spray.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 8]
Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort
Shown 8th August 2021
After the events of the previous episode,
Beth and the rest of the family head off on a road trip.
This leaves Rick alone to concentrate
on something he has been putting off for ages -
reviving Bird-Person.
Unfortunately the patient's memories are degrading.
Rick inserts himself inside Bird-Person's mind,
and runs through the degrading memories in a storyline reminiscent of
Sunset of the Spotless Mind
.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 9]
Forgetting Sarick Mortshall
Shown 15th August 2021
Morty borrows the portal gun, and runs around saving all the worlds
that are facing apocalyptic events thanks to Rick's interference.
Unfortunately Rick finds this out, and fires Morty as his sidekick.
They split up and have separate adventures.
Rick teams up with two crows that he caught and tamed.
He could just have nominated Summer as his new sidekick,
but she and the rest of the family play minimal parts this episode.
The crows try to teach Rick empathy.
Naturally, Rick resists their attempts
and he takes them to a world ruled by sentient birds.
This does not turn out the way he intended.
Morty befriends another one of Rick's victims.
Unfortunately the stranger is locked in a top-security mental asylum.
When the stranger breaks out,
Morty gets dragged into a violent revenge spree.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 5, Episode 10]
Rickmurai Jack
Shown 22nd August 2021
Carrying on from the previous episode,
Rick is still working with the two crows.
He rides around on a robot horse,
acting like a samurai in an anime cartoon.
Middle-aged Morty tries to talk Rick into returning to the family.
Rick and Morty end up back on the Citadel of Ricks.
President Morty invites them to have lunch with him,
and regular Morty talks Rick into going along.
Yes, finally we get the conclusion of the Evil Morty story arc,
which started in
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 1, Episode 10]
Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind
. This Season has been all about tying up loose ends,
with the Birdman arc concluded too.
Morty even gets to see a montage of Rick C-137's back-story,
which cobbles together flashbacks from previous episodes
and sort of explains how Rick became who he is today.
Since all the loose story threads are tied up,
this Season Finale serves as a good finale for the entire show.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 1]
Solaricks
Shown 4th September 2022
This picks up in the aftermath of the previous Season ender.
Rick and Morty are trapped in the remains of the Citadel,
with Rick narrating events in an homage to the start of
Avengers: Endgame
.
The good news is that Summer is still around,
along with both versions of her mother.
The bad news is that when Rick tries to reset portal travel,
he accidentally resets the travelers to their original universes.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 2]
Rick: A Mort Well Lived
Shown 11th September 2022
This starts in an everyday world,
where everyone's voice sounds like Morty - like in
Anomalisa
. Luckily, a guy named Roy has started a religion.
It turns out that Rick is playing the Roy: A Life Well Lived
game in the Chipz and Blitz arcade.
Morty got trapped in there as all the Non-Player Characters, like in
Star Trek: DS9
, and Rick must get him out.
Summer cannot help, because the arcade has been taken over
by a gang of gun-toting criminals.
She has to do a
Die Hard
, even though she has never seen the movie.
Luckily the alien Hans Gruber (Peter Dinklage -
Game of Thrones
) literally wrote the book on it.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 3]
Bethic Twinstinct
Shown 18th September 2022
Space Beth spends Thanksgiving with the rest of the family.
The two Beths have a lesbian love affair.
However, their inability to keep it secret
the whole family finds out.
Jerry takes it badly, and retreats into his shell - literally.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 4]
Night Family
Shown 25th September 2022
Rick has a machine that allows his subconscious
to use his body to perform tasks while his conscious self is asleep.
The rest of the family all sign up too.
However, Day Rick is a jerk and deliberately annoys Night Summer.
This leads to a battle between the Day and Night Families.
The climactic car chase parodies
Terminator 2
.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 5]
Final DeSmithation
Shown 3rd October 2022
The Smith family have dinner at their favourite Chinese restuarant.
The good news is that their fortunes,
as predicted by their fortune cookies,
begin to come true.
The bad news is that Jerry is predicted to have sex with his mother.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 6]
JuRicksic Mort
Shown 10th October 2022
The dinosaurs return to Earth.
Not by cloning, like in
Jurassic Park
. No, they have been travelling around the galaxy like in
Star Trek: Voyager
.
Rick thinks it is too good to be true.
He takes Morty off on a mission to prove the dinosaurs are secretly evil.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 7]
Full Meta Jackrick
Shown 20th November 2022
Rick and Morty start re-living their old adventures –
or rather, a bunch of adventures they never had.
It turns out that Story Master is back.
This episode goes full Meta, and Story Master escapes his story
and forces his own writer (Dan Harmon) to help him.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 8]
Analyze Piss
Shown 27th November 2022
Mister Nimbus is now Rick's only nemesis.
Lots of random minor-league super-villains start popping up and challenging Rick.
When Rick goes to the psychiatrist for advice,
she tells him to just ignore the weirdos and they will go away.
Rick ignores the next weird super-villain, Piss Master.
Instead, Jerry takes it upon himself to beat up the interloper.
Video footage of this goes viral,
and Jerry gets recruited to a team of weird super-heroes.
Rick gets frustrated because he feels left out.
He visits the Piss Master, and takes the super-villain's identity.
His plan is to rehabilitate Piss Master in the public eye.
Unfortunately Jerry gets sent to interfere by the super-heroes.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 9]
A Rick in King Mortur's Mort
Shown 4th December 2022
Morty gets recruited to lead the Knights of the Moon.
This leads to war between the knights of the other celestial bodies.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 6, Episode 10]
Ricktional Morptoon's Rickmas
Shown 11th December 2022
Rick is now everyone's favourite grandfather.
He even gives Morty a lightsaber for christmas.
Of course, Morty manages to screw it up.
Luckily, President Obama is still around to save the world.
Rick has been obsessing about his arch-nemesis, Prime Rick.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 1]
How Poopy Got His Poop Back
Shown 15 Oct 23
Mr Poopy-Butthole has been kicked out by his wife,
so he crashed on Rick's couch.
Well, Rick's family's couch.
And when the family get sick of the unwanted house-guest,
they get Rick to hold an intervention of sorts.
Rick gets together a few friends - Bird-Person, Squanch and Gear-Head.
They get drunk with Poopy-Butthole, and end up partying with Hugh Jackman (
X-Men
). Rick ends up looking like the sane one.
This is the first episode after Justin Roiland,
voiceover artist for the title characters, was cancelled.
This may explain why Rick is pushed into a supporting role
to the massive guest-star Jackman,
and Morty hardly even appears in the episode at all.
The new voice-over artists are being gently broken in to the audience.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 2]
The Jerrick Trap
Shown 22 Oct 23
Rick offers to help Jerry by doing a mind-swap that is supposed to be unlike
Freaky Friday
. Of course, it goes horribly wrong and they end up half-and-half - like Tuvix in
Star Trek: VGR
. They have to learn to work together.
Morty gets caught selling space-crystals on a rival space-gangster's space-turf.
Rick and Jerry have to save him.
Of course, their confused state just means they make it worse.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 3]
Air Force Wong
Shown 29 Oct 23
The President (Keith David -
The Thing
) summons Rick to investigate the state of Virginia.
It turns out that Rick's ex-lover, the gestalt entity, is back.
Rick's relationship issues with his ex-lover
parallels the President's relationship with Rick's psychiatrist.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 4]
That's Amorte
Shown 05 Nov 23
Every thursday, Rick delivers his family the most delicious spagetti bolognese.
Morty makes the mistake of discovering where it came from.
It turns out that there is a planet where humans who die by suicide
have their blood and intestines transform into bolognese sauce and pasta noodles.
Morty's interference means that the planet's population discover this fact.
When they realise the rest of the universe will eat their dead,
they decide to monetise suicide.
Of course, this does not turn out for the best.
Rick sorts things out,
using the most heart-breaking montage since the Morty one with the plane crash.
Of course, just like the vat of acid episode
the moral is that Morty should not challenge or question Rick.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 5]
Unmortricken
Shown 12 Nov 23
Rick has a new system for finding Prime Rick.
Of course, this means abducting and killing all the other Ricks.
The very bad news about this is that it upsets the fabric of reality,
so Evil Morty gets dragged into the story.
Since Rick lacks the ability to kill Evil Morty,
and Evil Morty does not care enough to kill Rick,
they team up against their common foe.
Well, they do not have much choice
because Prime Rick's counter-measures drag them into a kill-box together.
It turns out that Prime Rick has made enemies of a lot of Ricks,
and his main defence is to make them fight each other to the death.
This seemingly brings the Prime Rick storyline to a close.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 6]
Rickfending Your Mort
Shown 19 Nov 23
Rick has descended into a drunken stupor,
with his life empty after the events of the previous episode.
Morty tries to save him from himself
by cashing in some punch-cards from previous adventures they had completed.
Rick tries to talk his way out of the commitment he made,
and calls in an all-seeing alien entity to audit Morty's cards.
This leads to yet another clip show
with the highlights of adventures that never appeared in previous episodes.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 7]
Wet Kuat Amortican Summer
Shown 26 Nov 23
Summer does a lot of chores for Rick,
so he gives her a hi-tech bracelet
that allows her to show off at a party and impress the other teenagers -
including Ryan Hanson (the school bully in
Veronica Mars
), the coolest boy in school.
Morty is jealous, and tries to borrow the bracelet.
They get merged together, with Morty becoming a Kuato like in
Total Recall (1990)
.
Summer goes to an alien bar, where other Kuatos hang out.
She hooks up with the coolest boy she can find, Glen Powell (the school bully in
Scream Queens
). Unfortunately she ends up in a
Taken
rip-off. This was already done straight in Family Guy,
so this time it is gender-flipped and Morty is the one who needs rescuing.
This is yet another Morty-lite episode,
which has his dialogue limited to repeating Open your mind most of the time.
He is one of the title characters, but hardly appeared in the first three episodes.
Yes, it seems like the show adapted to replacing Morty's voice actor
by minimising the character's overall number of lines.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 8]
Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie
Shown 03 Dec 23
This story centres around Water T, last seen in
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 2, Episode 5] Get Schwifty.
His planet is invaded by their arch-enemies, the Numericons.
To decode some algebra, he travels to Earth and visits his old Maths teacher.
By incredible coincidence, Morty has the same Maths teacher.
This means Morty and the teacher get dragged into Water T's adventure.
Rick is nowhere to be seen.
Well, it is only fair since we had a few Morty-lite episodes this Season.
The result is a great parody of the 1980s saturday-morning cartoons.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 9]
Mort: Ragnarick
Shown 10 Dec 23
It turns out that the afterlife is real - well, Ragnarok anyway.
Rick decides to use it for infinite energy,
so he installs a gadget there.
Unfortunately a side-effect is that every time he dies,
he re-spawns in Ragnarok again.
POTUS is not the only one with forces capable of taking Rick on.
It turns out the Pope also has a team
with next-generation sci-fi technology.
Rick and Morty (2013) [Season 7, Episode 10]
Fear No Mort
Shown 17 Dec 23
Rick and Morty are bored with the mainstream carnival scares.
A creepy guy (Liev Shreiber -
Scream
) takes them to a mystery spot,
which can magically read their minds
and enact their worst fears.
This ends up with them getting trapped in a loop,
constantly respawning in the same place -
just like in the previous episode.
