RICK AND MORTY Complete Timeline (Seasons 1-4)

between its multiverse infinite rix and morty's on the central finite curve and a mysterious past we still don't quite know rick and morty can be a tricky show to map out but don't worry i'm here to turn this wibbly wobbly mess into into um you know i'm gonna be honest with you yeah it's gonna be messy so let's plot out what we know so far from seasons one through four about rick and morty's timeline to make things easier i'm going to refer to rick of c137 and his current morty the two that we always follow as rick and morty i'll specifically be looking at their timeline and tracking them out as infinite realities means infinite origin stories and infinite well you know the deal we start pre-rick and morty before season 1 and what we know so far rick c137's past rick and his family resided in muskegon michigan as we know thanks to beth mentioning it and me seeks and destroy i'm just saying somewhere along the way i lost that wide-eyed girl from muskegon beth was born in the year likely 1980 or around there and how do we know that uh well we don't but we can do some math to approximate you see in season two's episode morty night run rick drops jerry off at the jerry bree he marks the date as january 12 2015. meanwhile in season one's rixty minutes we learn summer's age you can't leave you're 17. yeah and i'm not pregnant that means summer was born in 1998. beth meanwhile became pregnant with summer when she went to prom with jerry and had unprotected sex at this point she would have likely been either 17 or 18 added nine months of pregnancy and summer would have been born when beth was 18 or 19. so subtract that from 1998 and beth was born in either 1980 or 1979 i swear not everything's going to be this complicated probably we don't know too much about beth's childhood outside of that she was an incredibly difficult kid you were a scary kid man oh my god i didn't make fruity land to get rid of you beth i did it to protect the neighborhood due to this maybe around 1987 rick created fruity land for childhood beth a land that for all intents and purposes should have been completely safe for children to play without any risk of injury however beth being the evil child she apparently was pushed one of her best friends tommy into honey and forever left him in froopy land or allegedly she definitely did it a little later on we get the origin story that i have to mention in season three's rickshank redemption rick showcases the story of how he ended up inventing the portal gun and involves his wife diane and daughter being murdered by another interdimensional rick which then prompts him to complete his own portal gun of course given that both diane and beth are murdered in this scenario it's already incredibly unlikely this all happened but to cement that what are you talking about this is a memory you can't alter details of a memory true but you can alter anything you want about a totally fabricated origin story so how much of this is true is rick's wife a blonde haired woman named diane did the rick we know invent his portal gun after several other ricks hopefully we'll find out in future seasons either way it is likely that rick invented his portal gun around this time because when beth was a child he left their family to travel the universe i used to have to draw into family photos with a crayon while beth stayed at home was raised by her mother became pregnant with summer and ultimately married jerry who talked her out of an abortion rick was busy fighting the galactic federation all the important points seem pretty clear no they think they control the galaxy i disagree don't hate the player hate the game the road your father and i walk together is soaked deeply with the blood of both friends and enemies rick spent time traveling with bird person and squanchy and definitely at one point save bird person's life he is the reason you and i know each other and the reason i'm alive at all likely while battling the granflamets of the galactic federation together bird person's big day morty was at blood ridge on glap flap's third moon against the gromphamites rick is senior a rudimentary flying machine with bird person and a band with both him and squashy and it's clear that the three of them were heavily involved resisting the federation along with many of their friends the guest list at this wedding includes 17 of the federation's most wanted we have committed numerous atrocities in the name of freedom while rick is away beth gives birth to both summer and morty and she marries jerry the two fight over how to raise the kids and summer is raised with a very hands-off approach which jerry thinks was a mistake so morty is raised with a very hands-on approach to a disapproving beth while rick left it does seem he'd occasionally travel back and check in on his family in season 1's close recounters of the rick kind we see that rick has a memory of picking up baby morty similarly in season 2's get schwifty bird person shows morty a photo of rick holding an even younger baby morty of course you can only fight the galactic federation for so long before becoming a major bounty to them as such ricks begin to be hunted and a few thousand ricks outside of our main rick decide to form the citadel and council of ricks however as it turns out one of the best ways of hiding from the galactic federation is with a morty you're a camouflage camouflage due to his genius rick's brainwaves emit a traceable and distinctive brainwave thus ricks need to find someone who is just as dumb as they were smart which just so happened to be rick's grandson morty see when a rick is with a morty the genius waves get canceled out by the uh morty waves harsh but all of that brings us to rick returning to the smith sanchez family and to the start of season 1. or well around 2 months before the start of season 1 rick returns to bring morty on several rick and morty style adventures before the season has even begun we know this as principal vagina no relation tells beth and jerry during the pilot episode in fact is your son morty has attended this school for a total of seven hours over the last two months what why didn't you notify us i done been notifying you have you not been getting the messages i've been leaving with morty's grandfather rick's flying vehicle we see throughout the season is built at this point about two months in what do you think of this flying vehicle morty i built it out of stuff i found in the garage yeah rick it's it's great at this point rick and morty's adventures mostly involved making sure morty can still adventure with rick the duo venture to get mega sees which make morty seem incredibly smart as a temporary side effect from sticking them up his butt morty tell your parents the square root of pie oh come on rick you know i can't square root of pie morty go one point seven seven two four five three eight five whoa what the hell holy crap he's right this helps rick convince beth and jerry to let morty continue adventuring with him their next quest involves incepting mr goldenfold into giving morty good grades despite morty's absence from class in the process the smith's dog snuffles becomes super intelligent and ends up leaving earth with other intelligent dogs to create their own civilization do not call me back snuffles was my slave name you shall now call me snowball because my fur is pretty and white oh uh sorry snowball morty has his first brief physical encounter with a girl annie at anatomy apart before rick quickly ruins it for him hold your breath what the hell rick what the hell man i liked her i really had something going there rick yes so i heard you you dodged a bullet morty meanwhile jerry learns his parents now have an extra lover in the equation and we learned summers started dating a classmate named ethan in m night chameleons rick single-handedly wipes out zigerians who plot to steal his equation for concentrated dark matter jerry has also been captured by the nigerians where he attempts to pitch as hungary for apple's campaign to his bosses while it's successful in the terrible simulation he tries it again in real life only to get fired from his job something that becomes a running issue for him rick introduces the smith sanchez family to the me6 box which produces the recurring miseq's character who appears to help fulfill one request by a user who presses its box this is also the episode where rick finally lets morty choose their adventure betting that it will be terrible if morty wins morty will get the right to choose every 10th adventure they go on while the adventure is shaping out to be especially poor with morty nearly sexually assaulted rick shows a rare moment of true heart both helping to obliterate the sexual predator and save morty's adventure thus giving morty his morty adventure card will end up seeing down the line soon after in rick potion number nine morty will be attending what's probably the worst idea for a school dance the annual flu season dance and wants rick to make him a love potion to make jessica fall in love with him rick complies failing to take into account his flu season which ends up causing the entire school to fall in love with morty rick tries to create an even more contagious anti-serum i basically mix this with a more contagious flu virus it should neutralize the whole thing morty huh sounds somehow familiar this fails miserably and eventually rick accidentally turns the entire world into cronenberg monsters cronenberg monsters being horrific body horror creatures spoofing director david cronenberg who is known for his body horror and this is when things get especially tricky i'm not entirely sure if this is dimension c137 the same dimension rick hills from but for simplicity's sake let's assume it is for a moment especially since morty assumes he too is from dimension c137 i'm morty c137 rick has accidentally turned all of earth maybe c137 into cronenberg monsters asides from the maybe c137 smith sanchez family who are all immune to his concocted infections at this point maybe c137 beth completely rejects rick beth and jerry truly fall in love with each other and beth jerry and summer begin living out their days hunting and eating cronenberg monsters rick and morty on the other hand find an alternate timeline where another rick has conveniently cured their cronenbergering but well the rick and morty of that dimension died immediately afterwards so rick and morty c-137 swoop in bury the dead versions of themselves and replace them meaning from here on out summer beth and jerry are definitely not from the same dimension as rick and morty in raising gazerpizzorp morty ends up fathering a half gazorpian child which fully grows up in a day and writes a novel about how bad of a parent he was this is also when summer has her first adventure with rick in rixty minutes summer discovers she was nearly aborted and morty shows her his grave letting her in on the fact that he and rick aren't technically her brother and grandfather close recounters of the rick kind sees the first appearance of evil morty evil morty has been controlling a rick in order to capture and kill various ricks while also downloading the contents of their brains meanwhile their mortys are captured and used as a giant barrier to block the brainwaves from other ricks while evil morty's scheme is foiled by our rick and morty it's not entirely clear why he was doing it rick and summer both throw a giant party in rixie business when beth and jerry leave on a trip and through it rick's long-time friend bird person meets summer's friend tammy and the two leave the hook up they completely trash the house and rick uses a time crystal completely stopping time and allowing for the three to clean before beth and jerry realized they'd thrown a party leading to season two and definitely the year 2015. it's one of the few things we can cement down so bears repeating after restoring time it turns out rick has stolen a time crystal from testicle monsters and the group's uncertainty means their time is split apart we're exactly like a man capable of sustaining a platonic friendship with an attractive female co-worker we're entirely hypothetical after solving that crisis there's a popular theory worth mentioning in episode two's morty night run rick drops jerry off at jerry berry and rick and morty go on a classic adventure involving gearworld and stopping a fart from destroying all carbon-based life more importantly though when rick drops off jerry he receives a ticket to clarify which jerry is his number 5126. during the episode we follow rick and morty and notably rick takes some green crystals with little purple crystals growing out of them later on at the end of the episode the following happens to the rick and morty we've been following all episode hey wait uh do you have five one two six uh i'm not sure morty get out of here uh that's a blips and chits ticket what way to go morty uh whatever uh uh wait what so there's a couple things that could have happened here perhaps the rick on the left had the wrong jerry 5126 and was trying to exchange him for the correct one hence why he asked that they had ticket number 5126 really though the main point is the humor of rick possibly taking the wrong jerry and not caring this is my interpretation but it's not the only one another theory goes that rick and morty on the left have ticket number 5126 and are looking for their jury that would mean the rick and morty we've been following all episode long after the credit sequence who went on adventure with fart and got those crystals has been an entirely different rick and morty from c137 so if this theory is correct it goes even further in episode 4 total recall which showcases rick throwing away these very same crystals meaning episode 4 shows an entirely different rick and morty than the ones we followed most of the show the intro for the episode is entirely different showing mr poopy butthole is a character who accompanied rick and morty on all of their adventures and is now shown in every single intro scene he's also a lifelong friend of the characters yet someone we've never seen before in the show meaning that episode 4 also follows an entirely different rick and morty than c137 and the ones we typically watch in the show would also mean that mr poopy butthole isn't a big part of rick c137's world up until season 4 mr poopy butthole only appeared at the end of season stingers on his own however in season 4 he finally makes another appearance and one flew over the curcus morty here his entire storyline is acknowledged of becoming a professor merging with the storyline of beth and jerry getting back together and beth becoming more strict about morty's adventures with rick so it kind of defeats the theory a little bit unless this is yet again another rick and morty which is possible as there's a near infinite number of them and the theory goes on to state that unless it's explicitly stated that we're following rick c137 we could be following any number of those near infinite rix it's an interesting theory for sure which is why i brought it up but for the sake of this timeline i'm going to assume that unless it's stated otherwise we're always following rick c137 okay back to season 2. in total rick hall beth assumes mr poopy butthole is another parasite and ends up shooting him sending him to the hospital where he decides not to press charges rick and morty save the world from a reality show creating the smash hit get schwifty this leads to their first interaction with the president of the united states will go on to call the two for help with unexplained sci-fi mysteries we also learned that tami is still with bird person and their one night stand has extended to a full-blown relationship we learned that rick's battery which powers his car is a microverse battery which has an entire mini universe recreated inside that powers rick's car with many people creating electricity for rick rick helps summer and morty kill a vampire by becoming tiny rick and in doing so we learn about his operation phoenix a fallback plan involving creating clones of himself he can put his memories into in case his physical body dies he acts as this particular dimension's operation phoenix but that doesn't mean other dimensions won't still maintain the program morty and rick visit the purge planet where morty ends up letting loose finally releases all of his pent-up anger and murders a vast number of people while character development in shows like this don't always stick we're shown that this really will affect morty's character i guess you were right i've got a lot of repressed stuff i need to deal with don't worry about it morty remember those candy bars earlier that we got turns out they have a chemical in them called purginal that amplifies all your violent tendencies oh boy you're still the same old morty your character's totally protected it feels good the season wraps up with an epic bang when the smith sanchez family are invited to bird person and tammy's wedding while rick reluctantly goes bird person admits to beth that some of the galaxies most wanted are at the wedding the war in which we fought is far from over we live our lives in hiding it turns out that tammy was a deep cover spy betrays bird person by murdering him and shoots up several of rick's closest friends during his time in the resistance including squanchy who may or may not have survived the event the family escapes on the run to a tiny planet which maybe it's just me but i don't understand how it's better than the larger and stranger corn on the cob planet overhearing that the family is miserable due to his actions in a rare selfless instant rick gives himself up to the gromplomites and galactic federation he gives jerry the credit for this i'm jerry smith and i love sucking big sweaty boners and licking disgusting furry testicle sacks okay and jerry ends up being assigned a job with the galactic federation where he does uh who knows what but earns a six chewable figure income this season ends with mr poopy butthole back on his feet but clearly in pain and probably addicted to painkillers season 3 immediately begins with a few major events rick is able to bust out a prison in the galactic federation by utilizing a totally fabricated origin story to download a virus into the brainelizer being used against him meanwhile summer and morty escape out of their dimension back into morty's original dimension where everyone was turned into a cronenberg monster the citadel of rix frees cronenberg's c137 summer beth and jerry and who knows if they ever unfreeze them and take our current summer morty into custody after busting out of prison rick works his way into the citadel of ricks transports it right into galactic federal prison and murders the entirety of the council of ricks he's not done yet though and completely destabilizes the galactic federation at least for the time being watch closely as grandpa topples an empire by changing a one to a zero mr president the blimflark's value just dropped to nothing what do you mean i mean our single centralized galactic currency just went from being worth one of itself to zero there's a solution here you're not seeing beth decides to divorce jerry and rick reveals this was his plan all along because jerry wanted to turn him in during the season two finale tammy makes another appearance where she and the galactic federation have brought bird person back to life now as the cyborg phoenix person everyone handles the divorce differently and utilize a mad max style alternate dimension and violence to let out their woes summer dates and marries the leader of the death stalkers hemorrhage before the lack of modern conveniences leads to a quick break up beth tries to bring the family to therapy in order to sort out their issues from the divorce but rick transforms himself into a pickle to avoid this soon after we see morty finally redeem his morty adventure card in order to do vindicators 3 the return of world ender rick ends up sawing just about all of the vindicators with only supernovas surviving the ordeal jury finally goes on adventure with rick in the whirly-durly conspiracy where despite their differences rick finally gains the slightest hint of respect for jerry after their minds meld through the cosmic apotheosis experience meanwhile ethan breaks up with summer which she blames on her breast size and nothing about you know marrying an apocalyptic warlord a few episodes earlier while they were still presumably dating in rest and relaxation it's revealed jessica's broken up with brad leaving an opening for morty after morty and rick get rid of their literal toxicity morty confidently asks her out only to turn into a jerk after he gains his own self back while jessica basically helps due to rick's insistence it does bring jessica to know who morty really is good to have you back back to the citadel of ricks the remaining ricks have created an entire society run by rich ricks where they educate mortys and essentially have a full city of only ricks and mortys with the vast majority disenfranchised evil morty once again makes a return running a campaign to become president he manages to win only for his true self to be revealed to us the audience as his former campaign manager fails to warn everyone this seems like a good time for a drink and a cold calculated speech with sinister overtones in morty's mind blowers while it's hard to place just about everything in the episode on a timeline one interesting thing that happens is morty accidentally hearing squirrels talk to each other about running the world causing rick and morty to need to escape to another dimension you with squirrels morty we got a good five minutes before they're backing up on our ass morty we have to pack up and move to a new reality morty you know we i said we can only do that a couple of times we're over here which ultimately i don't think is going to affect which dimension the show considers us to be in and which best summer and jerry we currently happen to be following at the same time you never know and now you could technically say that rick and morty c-137 are both no longer in the replacement dimension after c-137 turned into cronenberg monsters but yet another dimension in the abcs of beth beth and rick learned that tommy has been trapped in fruity land for his entire adult life instead of helping him beth can't accept what she did in the past and instead murders tommy proving she's just like her father rick they then cloned tommy in order to save his father from being executed for a crime he didn't commit rick gives beth the offer that if she wants he can create a perfect clone of her so she can go explore the universe like he did while her clone stays home and watches the kids beth considers the offer and as we learn at the end of season 4 somewhat accepts it choosing to let rick decide for her i want you to decide what for once in my life i want you to decide dad do you want me to stay here and be part of your life or do you want me to leave he decides to clone her so one can leave and one can stay home but has absolutely no clue which is which so at this point beth 1 stays home and watches the kids while space beth leaves the family to travel in outer space just like her father spacebeth ends up joining a galactic resistance fighting against the galactic federation season 3 ends with the president of the united states requesting rick and morty help him exterminate vermin something they both find beneath them this leads to standoff between rick and the president while beth won worried that she's a clone finds jerry and reunites with him thanks to his unconditional love for her she reunites the family and ultimately the season ends with her deciding to be a better parent to morty and summer and that she won't take as much crap from rick no longer holding him in such high regard or afraid of him leaving her again all the while we learned that mr poopy butthole got married had a kid and i went back to school i got my g-e-e-d in edge of tomorrow rick die repeat it's established that rick is no longer the master of the house needing to ask beth permission to take morty on an adventure with him to get death crystals at forboden prime what's next morning what if i want you to jump off the empire state building i have to ask yes and you seriously don't see how that's a slippery slope in an effort to die by jessica's side so morty thinks he accidentally ends up killing rick with operation phoenix from season 2 being referenced as rick's consciousness is brought to life as a clone in a parallel universe rix operation phoenix and then another and then another one as becomes the theme throughout the season rick is losing control and his loneliness is starting to really shine through he somewhat befriends tony an alien who's pooped into his secret serene toilet and shows genuine remorse when tony loses his life beth asserts her control over rick and the family not allowing rick to kill morty's dreams of pitching a heist film to netflix while rick manages to disillusion morty from the idea of heists in general man it's as if someone stole his enthusiasm for his own idea once again rick is no longer in total control of the family we also learned that mr poopy butthole has gone on to become a professor in african-american women's studies however through the course of the episode loses his job due to defending himself from karate fighting students rick is hired morty gets a dragon and clown hoarders special victims morty but the venture is short-lived when rick ends up soul bonding with the dragon breaking the contract and the group realizes how perverse dragons really are in rattlestar rick lactica morty is bit by an astronaut snake dashing the dreams of an entire earth-like civilization where every creature is instead snakes feeling bad morty returns an earth snake to the planet which leads to terminator-like plot in which rick and morty have to time travel for the first time in the show notably this is the second christmas we've seen in the show with the first being in season 1's anatomy park that would mean that since the start of the show at least a year has passed at this point or it's like a standard cartoon where time doesn't really pass and the characters are perpetually stuck forever in the same asian status and an existential nightmare dependent on when writers allow them to age yeah something like that if we are on a strict timeline that would mean that 2015 is now wrapped up and now we head into 2016. and never ricky morty we follow rick and morty throughout the episode who fan theories aside for the first time turns out to not be rick and morty c137 as it turns out morty bought rick's story train at the citadel of rick's gift shop which means the episode basically just followed action figures the entire time in primordius summer ends up rolling over a civilization of face-hugging glorzo aliens continuing from season 2's look who's purging morty shows just how much more comfortable he is with massacring aliens now damn feels kind of good when there's no guilt huh yeah it's like in star wars yeah just like in star wars go nuts in the that of acid episode morty ends up falling in love with a nameless girl and truly growing as a character he goes through several trials and tribulations with her learning not to take the easy way out you seem different like you finally found yourself yeah i guess i have that's good to hear i like who you found yeah yeah i do too looking forward to seeing more while this is all ruined by jerry who accidentally resets everything and rick teaches morty a lesson in one of the best payoffs of any episode so far say that that is good that is good kiss the vat morty is truly growing beyond being just rick's dumb sidekick whose morty waves can camouflage rick finally season four ends in star mort return of the jeri where space beth finally makes her appearance confirming that beth was in fact cloned through an invisibility belt summer morty learned to become friends and work together putting away their sibling rivalry tammy and the galactic federation make a return who are now after a space bath instead of rick while rick kills tammy for good at this point phoenix person makes his return in an epic battle with rick the smith sanchez family narrowly defeat phoenix person who's still completely in love with tammy and now absolutely hates his former best friend rick beth and clone beth become best friends and the season ends as the entirety of the smith sanchez family leave rick alone and lonely not at all interested in him or even which beth is the clone the galactic federation no longer cares about rick either viewing space beth as the real threat and rick's importance has sunk to an all new low so that wraps up the entire timeline so far of rick and morty hopefully in the coming season we can fill in the knowledge gaps we have of the earlier points in the timeline are there any revelations you hope to see and what plot point do you most want to see continued in season 5 and why is it evil morty let us know in the comments below be sure to like and subscribe and i'll see you guys next time

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Length: 28min 0sec (1680 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 10 2021