The Schwiftiest Rick And Morty Secrets And Theories COMPILATION

creators of Rick and Morty love hiding sneaky little Easter eggs in their episodes they hint at potential plot threads inspire fan theories and just show affection for the shows that inspired them regardless of the reasons for the references it's still prompts fans to scour back through the episodes and analyze every frame today we're gonna be looking at the secrets that they've hid in plain sight and talking about what they could mean for the rest of the show hold on now before we get started subscribe to us you'll join the notification squad and get frequent updates on new content somebody probably tracked it in last week on the bottom of their shoe or on a piece of alien fruit get off the high road summer we all got pink eye because you won't stop texting on the toilet Rick accidentally brought parasites with him the fan favorite episode Total Recall plays about with the protagonist perception of reality and the reliability of their own memories the episode revolves around parasitic aliens who take on a disguise and influence the memories of those around them everybody just relax for a second there's no such thing as an uncle Steve that is an alien parasite this way the aliens are able to make their victims think that they're a loved one who's always been around them the downside is that they can only fabricate positive memories not negative ones the episode revolves around Rick trying to work out which of his family and friends are real and which ones are imposter aliens how did the aliens get there though well in an earlier episode Rick gets his hands on some big glowing green rocks although at first it doesn't seem like a big deal at the very start of Total Recall we can see him trying to dispose of some of those rocks in the bin and what we're living on those green rocks small purple alien life-forms so it seems like Rick accidentally brought the alien menace home with them and the small aliens got out of hand although we have to say Rick trying to dispose of them by putting them in the bin doesn't exactly seem like a surefire way of getting rid of them oh sorry I was expecting Rick partner lesson one rookie expect the unexpected now get in Morty's origin Rick and Morty might be the characters we know and love but their history is pretty unknown when Rick and Morty starts they've already known each other and been on adventures with one another for a little while there have also been a lot of little hints given in the show that are Rick and Morty might not be each other's first the Morty that we know and love has been lightly implied to be Rick's second or maybe even third morty when we get to see through rick's memories we see a four year old Morty then followed by a memory of Rick with a baby Morty Rick shouldn't have any memories of a baby Morty if it's true that he disappeared from the Smith family for 20 years so if he's not Rick's original Morty then who is well he could be dead after all Rick does have a very weird relationship with Morty unable to decide if he loves him or not however Rick's first Morty could be the evil Morty the intro of the show shows Rick leaving Morty stranded in a dimension of giant frogs some fans believe that this was Rick's original Morty and the one that would ultimately become evil morty relaxed enough I admire you Rick Rick's crime is destroying worlds it's no secret that Rick is a very wanted man in fact he's the most wanted man in all the multiverse but it's never been clearly explained what could Rick have done to make so many people want him in jail destroying multiple worlds is probably a good example of a crime yes Rick has already ruined one version of Earth that we know of Rick accidentally Cronenberg DUP the world and took Morty to an identical version of that world safer the mutant nightmare apocalypse okay well sometimes science is more art than science Morty a lot of people don't get that in this world he and Morty both died Rick buried his own dead body and seemed remarkably nonchalant about it so this might be something he does kind of often in the very first episode Rick attempts to destroy the world and start again while Rick passes out that bomb is never disarmed just elaborate test to make you more assertive it was sure why not I don't know that the series really opened with Rick destroying the planet Earth when you consider that Rick disappeared for twenty years it seems likely that Rick merely replaced a dead version of himself albeit one that died long before he arrived Rick is also fairly reluctant to say what dimension any of his family are from could it be that he just plain doesn't know has he been through so many dimensions that he doesn't even know where he currently is you're always wrong in the episode raising gazorpazorp morty finds himself in an awkward situation through his own teenage antics he's managed to become a father to an alien when Rick and summer go to the aliens home planet they find a world divided everyone on the it is one of two stereotypes while all the men on the planet are big hulking cavemen like people with little thought outside of food fighting and women the women themselves are very different the women are overly dressed to speak fancily are constantly gossiping and play up opposite stereotypes from the men they also greet each other with I am here if you need to talk although it's interesting that both aliens are hyper exaggerated versions of the human sexes it also gave us a funny hidden joke on the Queen's throne there's latin writing it reads sis simper calumny 'm that roughly translates to you are always wrong or may you always be wrong the translation is an exact but it's the closest it's another witty little secret that the creator's put in although it'll probably be missed by the majority for those who can figure it out and those who read about it it makes for a good laugh and these babies just save this lame-ass party blows up a dub dub play something somebody play something alien Rick dance the episode Rick see business revolves around a giant party rather than the kids throwing it it's the grandpa and we get tons of aliens visiting them unfortunately for Morty the party accidentally gets teleported to another part of the galaxy a dangerous part of the galaxy at that one with giant killer aliens Morty is obviously unhappy at that fact and wants to go home instead of taking them back Rick goes full frat-boy and crushes up an alien crystal and snorts it from there he's entranced and motivated to perform the rick dance that's a super choreographed yet also party appropriate dance he's joined by several people at the party morty on the other hand just wants to be back on his own planet and he's not especially happy about Rick's dancing and crystal snorting he throws the crystals outside but before Rick can grab them a large alien tentacle picks them up and takes them away while the two of them bicker a few shots later in the background we can see a giant very happy alien dancing with his tentacles up in the air he's spinning around exactly like Rick was so one thing is certain those crystals can make anyone dance mr. meeseeks in the episode meeseeks and destroy' Rick gives the Smith family a meeseeks box they exist to help you out with your task then they vanish out of existence Jerry asks the meeseeks to help him take two strokes off his golf game unfortunately for mr. meeseeks Jerry is hopeless at golf the task grows harder and harder until eventually mr. meeseeks decides to use the meeseeks box himself in order to get his own helper it's not enough Jerry eventually ends up with an army of mr. meeseeks all trying to help him with his golf game eventually the meeseeks go crazy and attack if they kill him then they've taken two strokes off his golf game once Beth finally helps Jerry improve his golf game they all disappear the meeseeks aren't seen again until the episode Morty Knight run where an alien can be seen playing a pinball machine with a mr. meeseeks next to him a few seconds later he vanishes away having completed his task existence is paying for a meeseeks so we're glad that the new ones get easier jobs huh tell me Rick what do you desire I make my own stuff so what are you like the devil beating up Randall something Rick AddThis way comes mainly spoofs the Stephen King story needful things in which the devil opens up a shop and gives evil items to unsuspecting customers this prompts Rick to open up his own business where he uses science to de Ville the villains gifts this puts Rick at odds with the devil their businesses start to compete in the devil just can't seem to keep up summer who's been working at needful things tries to help the devil unfortunately for her the devil is a deceiver and he stabs her in the back and breaks her heart here's Zuckerberg if I was sucka bugging people before sucker bugs balls dropped summer is understandably pretty sad and Rick takes it upon himself to cheer her up Rick uses science to roid him and summer up to Arnold Schwarzenegger proportions and they beat the devil to a pulp that's not enough though as they go on to beat even more people one of the guys they beat down is some guy in the playground and fans at the Disney Channel may find him a little familiar that's because the guy looks extraordinarily like Randall from recess Randall who's always been a snitch and frequently the antagonist to the kids in recess gets pounded by two muscle-bound behemoths and to be honest it's hard to feel sorry for him we just pulled it off tune in to Rick and Morty season 3 in like a year and a half the reason for the fourth wall breaks Rick and Morty isn't a show that breaks the fourth wall very often although it does occasionally joke about the structure of movies and stories in general there are only two characters who frequently break the fourth wall the first and most famous is Rick Rick breaks the fourth wall addressing the audience directly and saying things like we'll be right back he also came up with his own catchphrase and talks about how the show's gonna go on for several seasons why is this well despite it just seeming like a random collection of jokes some fans have theorized that Rick knows he's in the TV show there had been little secrets to support this theory sprinkled throughout the show but its most heavily supported by the final episode of season two in which the character mr. poopy butthole is revealed to have been watching the last episode on TV that's a real crazy ending huh seeing as he's clearly had many adventures on TV some fans believe that he's informed Rick that he's on the TV show and that's why Rick is depressed all the time there have been quick little lines the writers put in to support the theory - like when Rick says he refuses to answer a literal call to adventure refuse to answer a literal call to adventure Morty let it go to voicemail grunkle Stan's stuff Rick and Morty's creator Justin roiland is a longtime friend of Alex Hirsch the creator of gravity falls having both worked together at Disney before Royal and went his own way it's not surprising that the shows have a few references to each other gravity falls suggests that four travels between universes all the time and we already know that Rick Sanchez is all about interdimensional travel so when the episode closed Rick counters of the Rick kind Rick opens up multiple portals to other dimensions to try and cover his tracks one of them spews out a mug with a question mark a notepad and a pen this is a direct reference to an episode of gravity falls when grunkle Stan loses those exact items through a portal in the episode Society of the blind eye it's a fun reference and one that hints in a connection between the two it's not the only gravity falls reference either as an image of bill cipher also appears in the show while we dealt we'll ever see a proper collaboration seeing as the shows are owned by rival networks Cartoon Network and the Disney Channel respectively it's still fun to speculate on how the two shows could be connected time travel stuff Rick and Morty is heavily inspired by Back to the Future as a matter of fact Justin roiland actually got noticed by Dan Harmon when he made a vulgar parody of the Rob Zemeckis classic for Harmons film festival this skit was eventually adapted and expanded as the show Rick and Morty yet despite being inspired by The Adventures of dr. Emmett L Brown and Marty McFly so far no time travel has occurred in the show there are hints that it could happen though as Rick does possess a box filled with time-travel stuff although the box much like the idea has literally been shelved part of the reason is that introducing time-travel would be a massive headache for them to explain and write a consistent story around that being said the time travel box is a nice little Easter Egg for the fans the show is dealt with time being frozen before and it made for a pretty fun episode where Rick Morty and summers time lines were out of sync with the rest of the world but the idea of that happening every time they want to travel through time could be a little grating unless they found some way to explain it away so for now Rick and Morty is leaving time travel to the professionals Rick and Morty is one of the most popular shows out there and its fanbase is not to be messed with devoted Rick and Morty Watchers have a serious love for the show so much so that they investigate every little detail and come up with some of the wildest fan theories out there sometimes it seems like the fans know more about the show than the creators themselves hit the red subscribe button to be the first to know of all of the schwifty Escrima and content the character of rick is such an enigma that most fan theories out there center around trying to better understand what makes the smartest man in the universe tick but does anyone really know what Rick is thinking or even if he is the Rick we think we know this fan theory asks just that question when it supposes that the Rick we follow on the show isn't the original Rick from that timeline they propose that the Rick who originally belonged in this universe actually died when Beth was young rather than abandoning her and the Rick we know and love simply popped in and replaced him years later the 20 years that Rick spent away from Beth and her family really raised some questions in Rick in forty fans his minds and this theory expands on that gap but takes it to another new direction it states that Rick never actually left that he remained in Beth's life the entire time but then something happened something so unforgivable that Rick erased the family's memories of him for the last 20 years and fabricated the story of his disappearance instead whatever it was must have been pretty bad for a decades-long abandonment to be the happier alternative another big question in fans Minds is the question of who's Beth's mom in season 3 episode 1 we almost got the answer but that backstory turned out to be faked by Rick left to their own devices fans came up with a pretty awesome explanation they suggest that unity the hive mind capable of entering and controlling the minds around it who has a long romantic history with Rick might actually be Beth's mom it would have had to have been another woman's body being inhabited by unity for this to make sense of course but in the Rick and Morty universe anything truly is possible another fan theory takes a crack at Beth's origin story and this one really takes the cake remember miss Frizzle the red headed teacher from the Magic School Bus well one of the most popular theories out there is that miss Frizzle is actually Rick's ex-wife think about it they're both scientists they both have technology to shrink down and travel within the human body and to travel into space fans have gone so far as to suggest that miss Frizzles famous magic school bus was won by her in their divorce not to mention that summer has red hair which is known to be a recessive gene skipping a generation and passing from grandparent to grandchild now that's a crossover episode we're dying to see whatever you do baby one more theory exists about Rick's wife only this one isn't so much about who she is but where she is some fans seem to think that something went wrong with an earlier version of Rick's portal gun and that Beth's mother was sent into the unknown they think it could explain why Rick is so depressed and angry and why we don't really know what his greater mission is he's searching for her under the guise of causing general mayhem just when you thought you knew the family along comes a theory that Ponder's if rick is actually Morty's father fans of this theory think that Rick and Morty aren't actually related the multiple Rick's actually just placed Morty's with the family to protect them until they are ready to start going on adventures speaking of family apparently there might be another grandchild of Rick's out there and she might be closer than we think according to a fan it's possible that Tammy is actually another granddaughter of Rick from another universe where she was born instead of summer Tammy seems to look a bit like Beth and has the same hair color as Jerry she also is smart enough to live as an undercover agent fooling even Rick himself perhaps his abandonment of her timeline sent her on a quest for revenge leading her to join the Galactic Federation in order to track down her grandpa more on the subject of Tammy and the Federation there's an interesting theory out there about how they were finally able to track down the Rick from our timeline in the pilot episode rick has morty smuggle mega seeds through interdimensional customs and when they get caught they wind up jumping through a portal and appearing in the middle of a cafeteria at Morty and Beth's high school fans concluded he was spotted by Tammy at the high school who goes on to befriend Beth in an effort to get closer to the family and keep tabs on Rick if only bird person could have been spared in the process right why was Rick so desperate to get his hands on those mega seeds though we know that they temporarily cause hyper intelligence but if Rick is the most intelligent person in the universe then why would he need them in the first place could it be that the mega seeds are actually what makes him so smart some fans think so since we never know what Rick is drinking out of his famous flask some have put two and two together and decided that it's actually mega-cd juice and that he is constantly drinking it in order to maintain his exceptional intelligence you gotta do it for grandpa Morty you have to do it whether it's mega seeds or just a generally high IQ we all know Rick is smarter than just about anyone else out there so smart he might actually be aware that he is the star of a television show he breaks the fourth wall in almost every episode and is constantly referencing the fact that what we are watching is in fact episodes so this fan theory actually seems pretty likely it also adds to his rebellious nature as he is fighting against the creators who keep him contained within the show if Rick is stuck inside a TV show what show is he contained in to be exact fans wonder if he and Jerry are actually still trapped in the simulation from the mind-blowing episode M night Shyamalan s' stringing together clues from the episode like a recurring alien that turns out to be a ploutonion and the disappearance of Jerry's tuxedo some out there make the case Rick and Jerry are forever trapped in a treadmill like simulation created by alien David Cross could the entire show take place within the video game Roy version 3 the original Roy that allows the player to live out the life of a normal man until his death was introduced in an earlier episode and some believe the show is simply a part of the ultimate Roy game but this time Roy is Morty someone at the arcade has played the character of Morty from birth and still plays today thank you I'm Jerry oh I know you are Oh Jerry the unfortunate father everyone loves to hate or hates to love in Beth's case some theorists have suggested Jerry is actually not the Jerry we started out with but was switched out for another version when Rick committed him to the Jerry day care in season two Rick was either given the wrong ticket to pick him up or didn't really care which one he got and nobody ever noticed the more do we know and love might not actually be the only Morty whose adventures we follow after all some believe almost every episode of Rick and Morty follows a different pair of Rick's and Morty's we know that our pair belonged to earth c-137 but there seems to be a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that we might be following The Adventures of Rick's and Morty's from other timelines without even noticing this might even include a universe in which Rick had a plan kill Morty in season 3 episode 10 when Maury takes off with Rick's portal gun to protect his family Rick later shows up with a gun claiming he was going to kill Jerry with it some think his actual intention was to kill Morty to prevent him from becoming another evil Morty if left to his own devices evil Morty intrigues fans so much there are a million theories just about him one of them theorizes the Citadel of Rick's was constructed to defeat evil Morty Rick's are notoriously independent people but evil Morty must have been such a threat that the organized in order taken down together clearly they haven't succeeded yet but we definitely haven't seen the last of evil Morty there's a common belief our Morty is not this Rick's original Morty in the opening titles there are multiple moments that look like they could be fatal to Morty this includes getting eaten by three green aliens and most fans believe this actually happened the original Morty died on an adventure and like we have seen him do Rick simply hopped into a universe with an existing Morty and either a dead or missing Rick and kept on from where he left off another slightly more obscure theory is all Morty's eventually become Rick's this one is a bit tough to untangle but the general idea is that Morty will grow into Rick and the reason Rick has taken Morty under his wing is to try to prevent this from happening but Rick being the flawed person he is continues to make the same mistakes as he always has leading Morty to eventually become as jaded as he is and they just keep going around and around forever most people who watch the show understand Rick suffers from some serious depression but this theory suggests the character of Rick might actually represent depression Dan Harmon has talked openly about his struggles with it and has hinted Rick's manic behavior one minute and depressive behavior the next might be a metaphor for the illness itself to continue along a more mystical path for a moment some fans actually have come to the conclusion that Rick is God because of his ability to observe himself on a TV show the way time seems to move differently around him and his whelped huge god complex the idea that the creators of the show would make an atheist scientist character into the Almighty Himself is an idea that viewers of the show love to speculate about similarly another popular theory states Rick is somehow immortal and either he has created an immortality serum or devised some other way to cheat death entirely considering Rick it doesn't sound uber fetched well we have seen other rick's die in the past perhaps our Rick is the only one to figure it out one extremely existential fan has come to the conclusion the show is an explanation of the nature of human consciousness in its entirety Rick represents each one of us and every different universe and world are representative of the different parts of us our ideas and emotions and how we see the world put that near Squatch and Squatch up one of the best parts of Rick and Morty are the little side characters who show up for a minute to delight us one of these delightful characters is noob noob the janitor we meet in season 3 fans loved him so much that they investigated a theory about it that noob noob is actually part of their favorite TV show ball fondlers' in trailers and clips of the show we see a helicopter pilot who looks almost exactly like him and fans have concluded they are one in the same another favorite side character is mr. poopy butthole the friend of the family that Beth accidentally shot what she mistook him for a parasite in disguise fans think mr. poopy butthole is actually a parasite after all but a much stronger one hiding in the world pretending to be mr. poopy butthole to infiltrate the world around him or it here's hoping he's not an evil parasite and that we see much more of him in season four one of the most awesome theories out there is that the entire show is all about ice cream there's a ton of ice cream and Rick and Morty characters of all kinds eat and talk about it in any episodes so much so then it has led fans to wonder if the real reason Rick and Morty returned to this particular timeline is because earth is the only planet which has invented real ice cream it might be amazing if it turned out to be true but this theory does sound a little ridiculous the show Rick and Morty is one heck of a ride if you know anything about it which you probably do because why would you be watching this you know that in it the characters are tossed between an infinite number of realities planets and dimensions which is enough to give you whiplash from the comfort of your living room or more realistically the beds you have in leptin days let's be honest because the characters jump between parallel universes fans of the show have developed multiple theories about hidden plot lines that the Adult Swim writers created but are hidden to the commoners I let's dive right into one theory which keeps popping up evil Morty is Rick's original Morty and this one actually makes sense 20 minutes adventure when we're not sharing quotes making memes or finding the hidden Easter eggs tucked into episodes reddit users are popping off suggesting multiple far-fetched theories such as Rick knows he's on TV which is why he sometimes breaks the fourth wall duh and that Rick and Jerry never left the simulation meaning the entire show could be a simulation of itself oh for God's sakes that's enough well we have enjoyed sifting through these many threads of hopped-up fans the theory that stuck out for us is drumroll please we hope you didn't mind the title of this video that evil Morty is actually Rick's original morty though it may seem like a stretch we believe the fans of the show have really done their homework on this one and by homework we of course mean binge watch this series again and again with total reckless abandon okay buckle up it's about to get weird so when you read the official description of the show it says that Rick Sanchez has been m.i.a for around 20 years and suddenly arrives at his daughter Beth store step looking to move in with her and her family we're led to believe Morty grew up without a grandfather and was deprived of that special male bond that comes from hanging out with a twisted old white dude but in season 1 episode 10 we see from Rick's memory that he is holding a little baby Morty if he was off gallivanting and who knows what universe it doesn't make sense that this pictures exists again at photos surfaces on the episode gets schwifty in season 2 where Morty sees a photo of Rick holding a baby Morty on Bird person's wall these two photos simply don't add up either the person in charge of continuity on the show should get fired or these are clues to something bigger something better our theory is that the baby is not the Morty we know and love but is in fact a different baby that's right hold on to your hats we think c-137 rick has that memory from a different to mention where he raised a different Morty then seemingly abandoned him now we know what you're thinking would Rick do that ditch one morty for another well in the Rick Lantis mix-up we meet lizard Morty the results of Rick combining a lizard and a Morty someone please alert PETA and in close Rick counters we see Rick electrocuting a Morty so from this we gather it's pretty clear Rick has no issues with putting Morty in harm's way because Rick seems to have no attachment to worlds or other people so it's not crazy to suggest he could swap one morty for another especially considering how easily he could access a new morty in the process the attachment is never fully there knowing he could find another morty with just a quick change in dimensions and the pictures themselves are completely different as well Morty's a baby in both of them but they showcase different ages this suggests rick was around a lot more often than we were originally led to believe or at least around some version of morty long enough to snap a couple pics someone's gonna get laid in college in this alternate world where rick is raising Morty we think something went awry because Rick is shall we say not the ideal father figure we think that his baby Morty got corrupted along the way and became evil Morty our theory is because Morty doesn't have Jerry he never developed a deep-seated and crippling insecurities instead when raised by Rick he learned how to be incredibly full of himself and intelligent all other versions of Morty are shall we say not the sharpest tool in the shed so we believe that evil Morty must have been with Rick a long time and his intelligence rubbed off on him so what happened in this alternative universe you ask how did Rick part ways with evil oh gee Morty well we think the answer is in the opening scene of the show in it Morty is taken by his grandfather to his spaceship for the first time but Morty's demeanor is remarkably chill I don't know about you but if my grandfather dragged me out of bed and put me in that flying piece of trash I would have the very least be amused sure having to ride shotgun next to your drunk grandfather is not the ideal scenario but you're still flying in a spaceship we think this isn't Morty's first time flying we think this is evil oh gee Morty and believe his attitude is reflective of him jaded as hell and simply wanting to go back to bed also while the man is a certified booze hound he is particularly twisted in the scene is it because of something did something happen that drove him to drink is such a reckless way Rick says he wants a fresh start but from what we think he wants a new relationship with a new Morty a morty that isn't evil or hates him so maybe he wanted original evil morty to die in the crash so that he could adopt a new morty in another universe but the plan goes awry morty does live and rick doesn't realize rick pieces out and evil Morty has left abandoned on a desert planet so this Morty is stewing with the abandonment and we meet him again in episode 10 we think evil morty wanting revenge or some sort of misguided sense of closure studied Rick's notes and created the Morty matrix in order to lure him out of hiding if you're not yet convinced listen to a couple lines we pulled that we believe is undisputed evidence in the episode close Rick counter of the Rick kind Rick says a cocky Morty can lead to some big problems can be a real bad thing for everybody as if he's speaking from experience we think that Rick is having a particularly poignant case of deja vu and it's not sitting well while the counter could be that we've seen other cocky Morty's on the show think of police officer Morty and ton toxic Morty there's something about his tone in this scene that leads us to believe that a Rick knows what will become of him if he keeps showing these traits in the same episode Rick tells Morty that he's the richest Rick but does not affirm Morty's assertion that he is the more deist Morty which is perhaps further evidence that this is not as original Morty in the closing lines of dialogue from an episode 1 in season 3 Rick is speaking to Morty and says both is the de facto patriarch of your family and your universe notice how Rick said your universe as if you were implying that Rick doesn't share a link to that particular Morty in any universe so what an evil og Morty's behavior points to their sordid past well remember how evil Rick is being controlled by evil Morty well that means everything evil Rick did and said to Rick is coming from evil Morty so when evil Rick says Rick don't care about Morty's that is being scripted by evil Morty seems a little personal no he also cuts down Rick and tells him he isn't as clever as thinks he is again maybe that anger is fueled by something more than a general hate for X it could be evil Morty flexing his vendetta against him that is fueled by a lifetime of having to deal with poor treatment from his father figure why else would he want to copy Rick's memories and then kill him lest we forget that when looking at these memories Rick Wells up when he sees the picture of baby Morty maybe that stir of emotion is caused from the deep regret Rick feels from the way things turned out oh my god I can't believe this so if we put this all together it goes a little something like this during the 20 years rick c-137 was missing from pilot universe he raised an incredibly intelligent Morty then treated him like dirt and classic Rick fashion then this little Marty grew up and challenged Rick's intelligence something happened between them that split them apart some theorists suggest that maybe he also Cronenberg deiville Morty's world like he did with the pilot universe or he simply abandoned this Morty to find a better one Rick flees to another dimension to assume the role of a grandfather and step in when Morty has actual parents raising him we use the term actual loosely because well Jerry so we think that's why he is so eager to teach Morty about the ways of the universe and hugh's him as a sidekick but this time do it right Rick's guilt about evil Morty makes him treat new Morty a better which helps strengthen their bond this could also explain Rick's wacky rant at the end of episode 1 where he says he may have found the perfect Morty not smart enough to rebel or get too smart for his own good but courageous enough to be his sidekick Rick and Morty forever forever a hundred years ha ha clearly something happened in the way evil Morty was raised by Rick that made him no so perfect and allowed Rick to abandon him easily but when evil Lord he finds Rick he controls evil Rick so he can trap original Rick he wants to sift through his memories maybe to get some closure on what happened between them and then tries to absorb his intelligence showing that he is the one in power now while we obviously love how the theory fits because it develops the evil Morty character significantly and shows how complicated Rick is underneath it all there are some holes we would like to address the first being that the baby picture evidence could be easily debunked by an assumption that Rick could have stopped in to visit Morty when he was small but we think that's a little too easy the your issue is that because we're dealing with an infinite multiverse there are infinite Rick's and Morty's playing out infinite versions of themselves regardless if they're evil or not heck there is probably one universe in which evil Morty is raising a rank that's the problem with this show anything's possible the writers could have also just tried to retcon the whole 20-years thing by shoehorning some random visits by Rick when Morty was younger and now it's your turn to weigh in time to go Morty fans everywhere are on the hook for the next season of Rick and Morty and we just can't wait to see what adventures are in store but there are some things that even the biggest most dedicated hand boy are they dedicated fans of the show might not know the show has plenty of secrets and awesome behind-the-scenes gossip so let's get scratching show me what you got ah this Szechuan sauce whoever thought that a cartoon TV show could actually cause its fans to riot and we're not just talking over message boards if you don't know there was a joke at the very end of the season three premiere about a McDonald's special Szechuan sauce that was only released for a limited amount of time with a Disney movie Mulan opened in 1998 there was such a demand for the sauce after that episode aired that McDonald's actually brought it back only they didn't stock enough and fans literally rioted luckily for show creator Justin roiland McDonald's actually sent him a whole bottle of the stuff if you know anything about Dan Harmon you know that he is a huge 80s and 90s pop culture fan he really knows his stuff and has found some really clever ways of sneaking in references wherever he can one of the most subtle that you may never have noticed is the car that Morty's dad Jerry drives it's actually the famous wagon Queen family truckster that was featured in the cult hit national lampoon's family vacation Hartman's tense relationship with Chevy Chase from their time on community might have also inspired the design choice a little bit too once we get to know and love cartoon characters the way they are it's really hard to imagine any other voice coming out of their mouths this is very true for Jerry who's brilliantly voiced by the lovable and sometimes perfectly pathetic Saturday Night Live alum Chris Parnell I remember feeling that way about a young lady named your mom and that's not an urban dis but if they had gone another direction Jerry might have turned out entirely different Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston actually auditioned for the role and while we will forever love him as Walter White we'll stick with our Jerry the way he is thank you very much that's not the only involvement Bryan Cranston had with the show however though he might not even know about this next one the now infamous pickle Rick episode instantly became a fan favorite I turned myself into a pickle morty boom big reveal I'm a pickle and it was actually inspired by an episode of Breaking Bad specifically the one where Walt's van breaks down in the desert crater justin roiland was inspired by the idea of Walt totally trapped without the equipment of people he might normally lean on he wanted to see how smart Rick was in the most isolated of circumstances just like Walt gets Swift he might not get regular radio play but it remains one of our favorite tunes forever the simple and yet catchy tune that Rick and Morty improvised on the fly in order to save Earth from destruction in a galaxy-wide version of The X Factor has some pretty surprising origins while you might think it was written for the episode the episode was actually written around of the song which Justin roiland wrote when he was a kid he wanted to prove to a childhood friend that it was a good song exactly it seems a show like Rick and Morty would have a pretty adult rating but actually they rarely pass tv-14 that's because the Cartoon Network branch Adult Swim that Rick and Morty airs on wants to make sure that the show stays on the air because of this only two episodes have ever exceeded the TV 14 and made it to TV MA yet the episode interdimensional cable 2 was the first probably because of the repeated mention of a certain body part and Vindicator x' 3 the return of world ender because well all that violence it's hard to talk about one space and time traveling animated series like Rick and Morty without at least bringing up its predecessor Futurama and Dan Harmon knows this in fact during early promotion of the show he likened it to a cross between Futurama and The Simpsons and some fans have even wondered if Futurama and Rick and Morty take place in the same universe or multiverse that is people have spotted both the slurm logo and the Planet Express ship in episodes of Rick and Morty so who knows while they might not want to be him it seems that fans are interested in acting like Jerry at least in one particular way in the episode Big Trouble in Little Sanchez Jerry is seen playing a game on his tablet that is very very Jerry basically quietly popping balloons and that's it well if you're looking for a piece of that action you can actually play the mindless balloon popping game for real it's called Rick and Morty presents Jerry's game Futurama isn't the only world that seems to coexist with Rick and Morty though it might come as less of a surprise that the other show that belongs in the Rick and Morty universe was created by Dan Harmon himself that's right there is a ton of evidence that signals that community and Rick and Morty share a timeline or two in the episode auto-erotic assimilation Rick even creates an alien version of community before getting bored of it and moving along in classic rick fashion while it was on the air community gained a reputation for developing one too many inside jokes over the course of its seasons and Dan Harmon wanted to avoid the same mistake when it came to Rick and Morty so aside from a couple of recurring characters from season one they really pushed for new stories as much as possible in two and three on most shows out there the process of developing writing and selling a pilot episode can take months even years but not for the guys behind Rick and Morty nope the story goes that the pilot was written in only six hours not only that but it happened on the same day that the show was bought by Adult Swim Dan Harmon and Justin roiland had just left the pitch meeting and immediately sat down together and finished the script by the end of the day Jerry I don't want whatever's happening here to stop we always wonder where the crazy catchphrase has come from and Rick has his fair share of good ones possibly the most memorable is his classic while some think that it was a reference to the iconic Russian novel fathers and sons they are actually mistaken that was written in the script as a nod to curly from the Three Stooges and history was made while fans will forever miss community we actually might not have Rick and Morty if the beloved comedy didn't go under after his unceremonious firing in season three Dan Harmon was suddenly unemployed and looking for something to fill the time in the gap between him being fired and returning to finish the last season of community he started working on Rick and Morty with Justin roiland so while we may have lost our favorite Study Group we gained a new favorite cartoon family Bill Cosby is a touchy subject these days and for good reason but actually the disgraced comedian has some very loose involvement with the creation of Rick and Morty or at least his legal team does back when he was making cartoons for Dan Harmon's website channel 101 Justin roiland made one called house shakarez which featured a bunch of Bill Cosby clones it was incredibly popular but after five episodes Cosby's people caught on and shut them down with a cease and desist roylene's next project was a direct result of Matt legal trouble as something of a nephew to the lawyers who had stifled his last project Boylan joined forces with Dan Harmon to create a very dark very twisted version of the beloved 80s classic Back to the Future called the real animated adventures of doc and Marty with an H the whole point of which was to further bother copyright lawyers lucky for us Roy Allen had so much fun recording the voices for these two characters and decided to veer away from using the cartoon as a protest creating what would be the early prototype of Rick and Morty it might seem difficult for a show that is often so absurd to cross over into the mainstream but something about Rick and Morty just can't be stopped an amazing example of this is the song Terry fold which was co-written by roiland in the indie band chaos chaos Terry fold started out playing on the radio in the background of the episode rest and relaxation before it was released on iTunes but on September 23rd 2017 had actually hit number 33 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart the popularity of the show has spawned quite a few different side projects from advertising collaborations to animated shorts to comic books the comic books have been an awesome way for fans to keep up with Rick and Morty during the show's long long hiatus between seasons if you're a big fan of the show you know that it mainly takes place in the dimension c-137 but what might surprise you is that the first ten issues of the comic actually happened in C 132 with a different Rick and Morty if you ever doubted that Rick and Morty had worldwide appeal look no further than the bizarre short film brush world adventures to change your mind one year to the day after the surprise first episode of season 3 premiered Adult Swim released this insane Australian version of Rick and Morty created by Aussie animator Michael Cusack while fans loved it the mayor of the Australian City Bendigo did not and went out of her way to clarify that her home is nothing like the way the cartoon portrays it we mentioned before that the space is in between seasons of Rick and Morty were longer than usual something that hardcore fans didn't take too lightly in an effort to keep interest up and fans subdued Adult Swim also released a series of brilliant stop-motion short films created by British animator Lee Hardcastle lasting only between 15 and 21 seconds these little films parodied 16 of the most famous movies out there from 2001 a Space Odyssey to Honey I Shrunk the Kids they're all on YouTube and we highly recommend checking them out the fact that some huge advertisers jumped on the opportunity to partner with Rick and Morty really says something about what a massive sensation the show is it seems like the last show anyone would want associated with their brand but the ad execs behind Carl's jr. Old Spice and the movie alien covenant no really couldn't resist an old friend even makes an appearance in The Old Spice spot the butter robot poor little guy winds up eaten by a can of Old Spice but at least it means an end to his existential suffering Rick's unfortunate habit of burping well always might seem to some like a result of his rampant alcoholism and general lifestyle but it's actually more of a family affair than we realize Sarah Chalke who voice Rick's troubled daughter Beth shares this trait with her animated old man the actress can burp on command whenever she feels like it this is actually something that justin roiland is jealous of as it takes a lot of effort for him to produce all of those mid-sentence Rick burps while recording excuse me in the first season of Rick and Morty the writers room was an all dude affair they've since switched it up but the evidence of that still exists in the animation there are so many random alien creatures in the show the team decided to make designing them a little bit dirty a ton of the background aliens you see are actually based off of the will male anatomy yep they actually set out to make these creatures look like male body parts and then through eyes and Mel's all over them almost every cartoon character out there will tell you that they are a fan of the Simpsons or at least that they used to be for a long time Justin roiland and Dan Harmon are no different and jumped at the chance to put their Rick and Morty spin on one of the beloved Simpsons couch gags of course things got a little more ridiculous than the family from Springfield normally does rick and morty crashed their spaceship into the Simpsons house effectively liquefying the family don't worry though things work out in the end sort of the episode em night sham aliens is one of the best with a ton of mind-bending twists and a guest voice by comedian David Cross as the leader of a group of aliens trying to trick Rick into revealing his formula for concentrated dark matter it's a classic but actually it was based off of something that happened to a friend of Justin roiland apparently the guy had a bad acid trip and began to hallucinate aliens before winding up taking all of his clothes off in order to be invisible to the imaginary space invaders it's no secret that Dan Harmon and Justin roiland aren't afraid to let things get pretty dark in the Rick and Morty universe is but it actually could have been even darker originally roiland wanted every episode to end with a version of Earth getting destroyed he thought it would be a funny recurring gag but was ultimately outvoted by the other writers let's get out of here and go on a classic Rick and Morty adventure yeah [Music] Rick and Morty is a virtual compendium of pop-culture references from digs at Titanic to an obscure reference to National Lampoon's family vacation the show's writers love to pay homage to what came before but sometimes they do more than that sometimes they straight-up steal from other shows and we mean that in the best way possible Oh Pablo Picasso once said good artists borrow great artists steal and Shakespeare shamelessly stole plot lines all the time Wow so the writers of Rick and Morty are in good company what we're trying to say is please don't say mean things about us in the comments or just the messenger now without further ado let's look at 10 times Rick and Morty shamelessly stole from other shows so Rick and Morty is not the first irreverent cartoon to mercilessly skewer pop-culture Southpark did it and Simpsons did it before them in fact South Park did a whole episode based on that very premise just to prove the point sometimes you just have to take what came before and put your own spin on it and they've been doing it for over two decades now likewise the writers of Rick and Morty have raided the annals of science fiction to power the fever dream Adventures of a crazed scientist and his hapless grandson in the season 1 episode lawnmower dog Rick enhances snuffles intellect to the point where he becomes a cybernetic tyrant bent on world domination and if that storyline seems somewhat familiar it's because it's a similar plot to the classic 1959 novel flowers for algernon where an intellectually disabled man has a surgery that transforms him into an insufferable know-it-all just like snuffles without the whole world domination part no that part came straight from the film lawnmower man about a simple gardener who becomes a megalomaniacal cyber God after his mind is enhanced by a computer at least in Rick and Morty snuffles and his dog army get their own dog planet to call home which sounds a lot like dog world a show pitch by co-creator Justin roiland back in 2012 that was ultimately rejected Wow a whole world populated by intelligent dogs if there's one contemporary show that bears a striking resemblance to Rick and Morty its Cartoon Network's The Venture Bros premiering back in 2004 the show followed dr. rusty venture his bodyguard Brock and his two homes schooled sons as they stumbled through a series of endlessly bloody misadventures including one where the boys are miniaturised and injected into their father to search for a chronic ailment not unlike the time Morty was shrunk down and shot into the guts of a homeless man where Rick had built an amusement park because nothing is sacred to Rick Sanchez granted both of these are referencing the iconic Fantastic Voyage but the similarities between the two shows don't stop there dr. venture like Rick is a mad scientist who regularly puts his sons in dangerous situations which often leads to their death and when that happens he replaces them with clones not unlike how Rick is theorized to have replaced Morty with one from a different dimension did we have some sort of relationship with him both shows feature countless pop-culture references a parade of whimsical secondary characters copious acts of violence and a host of daddy issues okay I got him they're in there in his prostate so how do we get him out but wait there's more Rick and Morty has poached storylines from more than one episode of Venture Bros in the season four finale operation prom dr. ventures repeated rejection by women leads him to create a love potion that once activated transforms people into mantis-like creatures that turn ravenous that's right some four years before Rick Cronenberg the whole world dr. venture almost did the same thing fortunately for the ventures and the rest of humanity the infection didn't spread on a global scale as Brock Samson their OSI trained murder machine put an end to the creatures in classic Brock fashion with a giant friggin knife maybe if brick employed his services they wouldn't have had to skip town and start all over in a replacement dimension there are some striking differences however between the two protagonists whereas Rick as the smartest guy in the universe dr. venture is a trust-fund baby living off of his father's legacy perpetually on the edge of bankruptcy but there are multiple dimensions in the venture universe and one features a super successful version of rusty venture so I guess what we're saying is rusty is like the Rick that eats his own poop I'm disgusted that my good name is used for this this Bologna rest and relaxation may not be our favorite episode but it does have one of the best cold opens ever after Rick pulls Morty out of a class for a quick 20 minute adventure which spirals out of control into an epic space opera culminating in a nervous breakdown for our interdimensional adventurers they go to a spa to detoxify and tea stalks they do literally their personalities split in two with a toxic Rick and Morty and a non-toxic Rick and Morty while Rick and his counterpart try to merge the alter egos non-toxic morty goes on a total ego trip and becomes a high powered to broker all of the wolf of wallstreet but with significantly fewer prostitutes and barbiturates the idea of dueling personas is an old one from dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde to the 90 professor and even family matters but Rick and Morty is not the first animated show to use it it also serves as a plot in Dexter's Laboratory in the episode Dr Dee Dee and Dexter Hyde the titular character creates a good and bad version of himself and his sister dee dee and just like in rest and relaxation Dexter and Dee Dee have to merge with their other selves and restore the status quo anybody who's ever watched a couple episodes rick and morty knows it owes a debt of gratitude to Back to the Future the iconic time-traveling adventure from 1985 about a hapless teen his bad scientist friend and incest because the 1980s or a very different time when I when incest jokes were funny we guess we we don know when I kiss you it's like I'm kissing like Rick Doc Brown is unscrupulous in his pursuit of super science and deals with some unsavory characters in this case a band of Libyan terrorists did we not mention there's a subplot with terrorists because there totally is I think we can all agree that this is a total Rick move the doc is not a total dick towards Marty after all he does help him get back to the future instead of letting him die on a giant frog planet like Rick might have done no to understand the dynamic of Rick and Morty we have to go further back to another time-traveling duo mr. Peabody and Sherman which follows the time-traveling adventures of a know-it-all scientist and his hapless sidekick granted mr. Peabody isn't the same jerkhole rick is but he's every bit as condescending and reckless as you'd expect a talking dog to be just ask snuffles the writers of the show must have an affinity for Stephen King because he gets referenced a whole lot throughout the series rod for example the episode something Rick AddThis way comes plays as a condensed version of needful things a novel which was later made into a movie in the 1990s the so called testicle monsters voiced by Jordan Peele and keegan-michael key bear a striking resemblance to the time eating lehnga leaders from the film and book of the same name and the lawnmower man which we mentioned earlier was based on a short story written by the horror master himself even the title for Rick shank redemption is a reference to King's famous story The Shawshank Redemption which also got a movie treatment as King written anything they didn't make into a movie as you'll recall the plot of Shawshank involves a man escaping from a prison by deceiving his jailer the same way Rick does in the episode albeit Rick does it by hopping from the body of one host to another like some possessed spirit because if you're gonna copy someone else's homework you should at least jazz it up a bit relaxed enough I admire you Rick if you got the Robocop and red dragon references and raising gazorpazorp you may have missed more obscure references specifically a callback to the cult classic Zardoz released in 1974 Zardoz features a post bond Sean Connery in a red nappy also a giant floating head that spews forth guns for some reason lots and lots of guns that same head can be seen on gazorpazorp spitting out sex robots but the gazorpazorp Ian's to breed with and stuff also this is not the only episode to feature giant floating heads either the gas or pians an aggressive and violent sort are similarly inspired by the warlike tribe Connery as a part of in the film if you've had the privilege of watching Zardoz you'll know it's absolutely bonkers and would not be out of place in an episode of Rick and Morty however that's not the only obscure film referenced in the episode it has a similar plot to 1993's bad boy bubby wherein a man is kept indoors by his mother who lies about the outside world being poisonous morty tells the same lie to Morty June his baby gazorpazorp as a means to keep him indoors and prevent him from going on a murder spree like in bad boy blobby Morty jr. escapes captivity to explore the world around him if you're a fan of Adult Swim you've surely seen their groundbreaking 2014 short too many cooks which starts off in typical sitcom fashion by introducing the show's main characters and then continues to introduce more and more characters until things get a little crowded and violent if any of this sounds like it could be a Rick and Morty episode that's because it totally is and it is glorious season two's total Rick Hall operates on the same premise by introducing more and more characters by way of shape-shifting parasites until it turns into a bloodbath after the Smith family figures out how to distinguish the parasites from legitimate family members they Massacre the imposters with an arsenal of weapons designed by our favorite to mention hop and Grandpa it was a fun episode until mr. poopy butthole Oh a character everybody totally suspected of being a parasite was shot by bath because living with Rick Sanchez means making terrible terrible mistakes and then drinking away your problems we're just so glad he's okay the second episode of season two saw the return of gearhead do you even know my real name it's Rivoli o´clock berg jr the gear Wars aficionado from the season 1 finale as well as a brief meeseeks cameo at blitz and shits it also saw the introduction of the universe's most agreeable assassin crumb Bob Ulis Michael I just loved killin who gets crushed to death when Morty Rams him with wrecked spaceship a decidedly baller move he might have picked up from 1988 Midnight Run where bounty hunters routinely used Motor Vehicles to incapacitate their targets the episodes punny title Morty Knight run is also a direct homage to the Robert DeNiro vehicle where he goes on the run from the authorities with a wanted fugitive just like Rick and Morty do with fart the interdimensional gas cloud that if spoiler alert turns out to be a genocide all maniac one of the most memorable parts of the episode features a series of fart induced psychedelic dream sequences that pay homage to Vince Collins malice in Wonderland animated short oh and the sequence features a David Bowie inspired musical numbers song by Jemaine clément of flight of the conchords fame whew that's a lot of references for one episode here comes another funny Mad Max fury road made such an impact it's no big surprise the writers of the show chose to parody it in the third season the episode opens up with some are blowing away an angry mob of dystopian scavengers all along Max Rockatansky proving once and for all that summer does not need a sentient spaceship to take care of herself thank you very much however it's not just that Mad Max film that's being parodied the writers also took inspiration from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome the third installment to the Mad Max franchise in that movie Mel Gibson's max was forced to battle inside the Afra mention dome with a chainsaw a sequence that remains one of the best in the franchises like max Morty is also thrown into a Thunderdome arena by Rick to keep their hosts distracted so he can go about his business stealing the powerful isotope 322 to fuel Aztec not unlike how the writers steal from other shows to peel a Rick and Morty's adventurers I don't know about y'all but we're itching for a new season to drop until that happens I guess we're just gonna re-watch all our favourite episodes what did you think of this video which are your favorite references limoges and plot lines what films or shows do you want to see lampooned in season 4 tell us in the comments section below and while you're at it why not do the right thing and subscribe to our channel for more videos about your favorite animated shows [Music]

Channel: Screen Rant

Views: 3,956,540

Rating: 4.6666665 out of 5

Keywords: Rick and Morty, Venture Bros., Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, Stephen King, Lawnmower Man, Too Many Cooks, Dexter’s Laboratory, Back to the Future, Marty McFly, Zardoz, Mr. Poopy Butthole, Robert DeNiro, Vince Collins, Mad Max, Jemaine Clement, David Bowie, Flowers for Algernon, Evil Morty, Evil Rick, Rick Sanchez C-137, McDonald's Szechuan Sauce, Get Schwifty, Terry Fold Flaps

Id: 1C0Im1QoT68

Length: 57min 27sec (3447 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 18 2019