Top 20 Best Parodies on Rick and Morty

[Music] watch new episodes of rick and morty sundays only on adult swim we say it all the time but i guess all is glow or so yeah that sounds great welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 rick and morty parodies do you know what the bechdel test is the what for god's sake morty the formula for measuring female agency in a story proposed by lesbian cartoonist allison what the hell are they teaching you in that school other stuff i'm in heaven right now this might be the best day of my life you will not kill her or her brood must kill brood and mother get behind me your brood will seed all life on this planet that doesn't make sense for this list we're looking at the best times the show referenced took inspiration from or made fun of popular media what are your favorite rick and morty parodies any we missed let us know in the comments number 20 the terminator franchise anyone familiar with the series knows rick hates time travel especially with how complicated it gets i don't respect time travel if ant-man and the wasp can do it i'm not interested so it only makes sense that the creators would eventually make fun of it at some point when morty accidentally kills an alien snake he sends one from earth back in its place this creates a chain of events causing an endless supply of time-traveling reptiles to come back to either kill or save him much in the same vein as james cameron's terminator series from shotgun wielding snakes the war on machines to terrifying robot human snake hybrids there are plenty of nods in this episode's plot and character designs i feel like we're forgetting something oh yeah thanks for reminding me morty next time stay in the car number 19 alive and the prestige after morty manipulates rick into making him a save button allowing him to replay any moment if he doesn't like the outcome it gets surprisingly dark rick reveals that morty hasn't been time traveling but killing mortys from other dimensions and taking their place parodying the plot of christopher nolan's the prestige but what you may not know is that this episode also takes inspiration from a real-life plane crash when morty and his girlfriend's plane crashes in a mountain range they're forced to resort to cannibalism similar to the events in the book alive the story of the andes survivors [Music] it is an intense moment found in an otherwise silly montage of morty playing around with the save button number 18 alien and mecha anime in this alien parody rick and morty are overtaken by face-hugging alien parasites known as the glorzo once they break free they completely wreak havoc on the glorzo believing their lower life forms 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 a clever twist summer's new thing a toothpick saves her from becoming a host body and she reforms glorzo's society and becomes their queen after realizing they left summer behind rick and morty return for her still believing the glorzo to be menacing parasites they suit up in an excessive transformation sequence in a nod to mecha anime such as gundam voltron and ronan warriors the lesson here is if the egg looks too wet just leave it alone whoa morty look how wet this egg is i don't know rick that looks a little too wet don't touch it i'm kind of touching why are you guys screaming at an egg shut up summer number 17 training day this episode pays homage to many different pieces of pop culture there's the school of morty's plot of four morty's coming of age mirroring stand by me rick j22 subplot referencing george orwell's 1984 and smaller allusions to celebrities politicians and other fictional characters but perhaps the greatest one of them all is cop rick and morty heavily influenced by training day morty you're right morty town is bad but that doesn't mean that we have to be hey what's going on here morty morty the cop morons don't worry about rick big morty he's new he doesn't understand how it works much like the 2001 film we see a corrupt cop morty trying to convince a naive rookie cop rick to take a brutal and dark approach to the job it was jarring to have the personality switched between a rick and morty but it was nonetheless memorable what happened same old story morty's killing mortys number 16 m night shyamalan films what's this well what could this possibly be because it looks like you're inside a simulation inside a simulation m night shyamalan is infamous for featuring twist endings in his movies and m nightshim aliens mocks that tendency from its title to its own numerous mind screws i see people they don't know they're dead rick becomes convinced that he and morty are inside a simulation which they are their captors are scamming aliens out to find the secret for concentrated dark matter of which rick has knowledge after escaping that simulation though turns out they were inside another simulation and morty was part of it the whole time oh my god rick how dumb are you you're inside a simulation of a simulation inside another giant simulation rick gets the last laugh on the scammers as he tricks the aliens into blowing themselves up in a twist worthy of shyamalan himself and the final ingredient wow what the hell number 15 the story circle we're used to fourth wall breaks and meta humor but this episode takes it to another level rick and morty find themselves on a train acting as a literal literary device as storylord tries to tap into their limitless story potential to break the fifth wall you idiots our potential isn't limitless you'll never break the fifth wall before you burnt us out is that so oh well win-win what's he doing trying to tap into us morty they fight their way through a narrative progression while dealing with complications themes and diverging plot lines to top it all off they perform a bechtel test to humorous results the crux of this episode relies on series co-creator dan harmon's method of storytelling known as the story circle it's an excellent way for the show to simultaneously poke fun at itself and pull back the proverbial curtain at how its plots are constructed we have to leave the train we don't have to do anything morty this is just a structural guide we're obviously gonna impart our own style number 14 footloose when morty accidentally has a gazorpian baby morty junior he's tasked with raising him while still living with his parents much like the tv sitcom raising hope you're doing great morty really you think i mean i'm not doing much of anything those with a keen eye may pick up on other references sprinkled throughout but some of the most obvious are from the film zardoz and footloose when morty jr grows disillusioned with the world after finding out that his life has been a lie he runs away from home he ends up in a warehouse where he dances out his frustrations like kevin bacon's character in footloose it's a fun little moment calling back to earlier in the episode when morty suggests his son learned to dance instead of bringing death and destruction to the world number 13. titanic we have to admit our first choice for a trip would not be to an attraction made to mimic the experience of the 1997 film titanic jerry on the other hand is more than excited to go on this romantic getaway with beth have fun you two yes we will have as much fun as possible on our titanic themed getaway let's lose the tude please it's supposed to be romantic of course you can go on the bow to recreate a moment between jack and rose there's debris to simulate the film's end or you can even have a plate of james cameronian rings the real tragedy of this moment is that nothing goes wrong as the ship fails to sink due to its faulty rail system this ship is about to completely miss the giant iceberg do something steer into it i'm trying it's too late ladies and gentlemen don't brace yourselves did you really expect much from an attraction featuring a lovemaking car to give guests a um titanic experience number 12. total recall fans of the show have grown accustomed to seeing what happens in the lives of rick morty summer beth and jerry how could we forget cousin nicki photography raptor mr beauregard and a plethora of others who turn out to be the creations of memory altering parasites everybody stop remembering these parasites are like bed bugs and every flashback is another mattress look there's only supposed to be six people in this house but there's always been ten no while the episode not only parodies the 1990 film total recall where implanted memories are used for entertainment it also pokes fun at a few sitcom tropes the show smartly blends flashbacks cutaways and new characters sitcoms use to boost ratings or cut production costs well what do you know about this you're not in any of mine it also keeps us guessing which if any of the newly introduced characters are real or not number 11. the purge this is not a test this is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of the annual purge sanctioned by the u.s government commencing at the siren any and all crime including murder will be legal for 12 continuous hours here we go the purge film series is set in a fictional america where for one night a year all crime is legal allowing for a period of lawless carnage and mayhem in this episode rick and morty land on an alien world where the natives engage in a similar exercise at the behest of the ruling class oh i know what this is you've been able to sustain world peace because you have one night a year where you all run around robbing and murdering each other without consequence that's right what it's like the purge morty that movie the purge the wanton violence soon brings out morty's own bottled up anger that he takes out on the planet's inhabitants in a rampage of blind rage look who's purging now manages to use its film parody to provide a means of insight into morty's character and provide a very funny and very dark premise for an episode number 10. saw and the avengers rick is is this a saw thing are you seriously sawing the vindicators morty i'm a drunk not a hack if you break the rules lose the game or try to leave you will die i think we've seen enough in a season three episode it's revealed that rick and morty are members of a hero organization known as the vindicators who are clearly a veiled parody of the avengers and to a lesser extent the guardians of the galaxy and even the justice league to teach them a lesson rick gets drunk defeats their arch enemy and sets them on an elaborate saw style journey through traps designed to screw with them congratulations you are still alive in the extreme stress of their attempts to escape drunk rick's elaborate game the vindicators argue among themselves and are generally more of a danger to each other than rick is further parodying the avengers tendency to fight among themselves hold on how is this now about me i'm sorry isn't everything i thought humans were more evolved than this number nine die hard and john wick where is it it seems to be using the air ducts and the male tubes to get around pickle rick sees rick turn into what else a pickle through an elaborate series of events the scientist manages to fashion himself limbs and eventually escapes into an office there rick finds himself in the middle of a die-hard scenario come on to the coast we get together have a few laughs as he must fight a group of european criminals alone in a building using stealth tactics the action also features plenty of men killed by pencils which is a reference to the john wick series the men also nicknamed rick solenya which is russian for pickles similar to john wick having his own russian nickname pickle rick does an excellent job mashing up two fantastic action franchises number eight needful things and the twilight zone when summer gets a job at a new store that's opened in town rick is forced to drive her to work there he finds the store's owner is the devil who stocks a solution to every shopper's deepest desire with a dark price this aftershave made women want me but it also made me impotent a price for everything mr goldenfold a price for everything my god how can i not see this coming rick challenges him doing everything he can to one-up the trickster and counteract the various products curses the items are actually references to twilight zone episodes and the shop needful things is a reference to the book and movie needful things where a devil offers perfect items for his client's souls so while this is an amalgamation of two different references even the devil is no match for rick's scientific mindset i use science to uncurse the items for cash and you get to keep the powers number seven mad max your blood will be my lotion whoa that was cool during their dimension hopping adventures rick morty and summer encounter a post-apocalyptic dimension that's an affectionate parody of the mad max series who wants to take a poke at my man's spine eater here i guess i'll see your asses in that dough frank what the hell man from masked mad men to dome-shaped deathmatch rings this episode features many of the gaspunk film franchise's brutal staples rick and morty even examined something rarely seen in the mad max films themselves the downright domestic downtime between the high octane adventures we noticed that you've been putting scrap metal in the blue bin i got it seeing relationship drama play out in a wasteland environment is hilarious and incorporates the parody into the plot of the episode in a fun and unique way so i can assume you haven't murdered a single person today oh i don't know i i didn't mark my murders in my murder log number six game of thrones letterman cloud atlas and more no list of rick and morty parodies would be complete without inter-dimensional cable this episode is packed with so many references we can't name them all rick will you please go back to me on david letterman infinity's a big number jerry i don't remember the channel go back what we can say is that many of them are downright ridiculous versions of things we know and love whether it's a twisted version of lucky charm cereal commercials saturday night live featuring a piece of toast or gazorbazorpfield berating jon we get a glimpse into some of the other realities of rick and morty come on gazorbazorfield go easy on me huh you dumb stupid weak pathetic white white uh uh guilt white guilt milk toast piece of human garbage there is even a version of jerry where he's a famous actor starring in cloud atlas even in infinite realities tv is full of absurdities wacky concepts and excessive violence and we're here for it number five invasion of the body snatchers and community the people it takes over they look like your friends your family your leaders but they're not themselves anymore they're part of it then how do you know it didn't get on the ship with you auto erotic assimilation sees rick and his grandkids encountering his ex unity which is a hive mind unity takes over the minds of intelligent species in a manner reminiscent of the invasion of the body snatchers films although rick and morty flips the premise on its head by suggesting that the people unity takes over are probably better off that way in addition the episode features a short but notable parody of another of creator dan harmon's shows community satirizing its cancellation return and the pedestal people put harmon on they're no different from any of the aimless chumps that you occupy they just put you at the center of their lives because you're powerful and then because they put you there they want you to be less powerful never gonna happen though right never never back in a flash number four jurassic park and fantastic voyage welcome morty welcome to anatomy park rick and morty has a way of combining concepts from different sources to make some very creative plots and one of the most outlandish is anatomy park after shrinking his grandson down to microscopic size rick sends morty inside a man whose insides he's turned into a theme park called anatomy park everything from its logo to its exhibits running wild and the park employees are lifted from jurassic park meanwhile the investigation of a person's body from within is evocative of the classic of that sub-genre fantastic voyage albeit a far messier version don't move gonorrhea can't see us if we don't move wait i was wrong i was thinking t-rex number three inception and a nightmare on elm street you can enter people's dreams morty it's just like that movie that you keep crowing about you talking about inception that's right morty this is gonna be a lot like that except you know it's gonna maybe it makes sense inception made sense you don't have to try to impress me morty while it was tempting to give this entry to the film parody that drives its b plot and gives it its name the lawnmower man we went with the better known movies that are referenced in its primary plot after deciding that tutoring him is a hassle rick implants the idea that morty should get good grades in math in his teachers dreams in a parody of inception which they both name drop a dream within a dream two levels three not possible that many dreams within dreams is too unstable it is possible inside the dreams within dreams the pair eventually encounters scary terry a dream demon whose appearance is akin to freddy krueger of a nightmare on elm street however terry doesn't have krueger's gift with puns oh come on terry you can't think of a pun involving pumpkins hey leave him alone number two love potion number nine and tribute to david cronenberg's work i do this with water 1 000 to 1 you don't want it to be too strong you take a sip and you swallow and when you speak women will find you fascinating love potion number 9 is a cheesy rom-com from the early 90s that sees a man ask a gypsy for help in love and receiving a love potion rick potion number nine sees morty asking rick for a similar potion hey there's no dangers or anything or side effects right what am i a hack go nuts morty it's fool proof unless she has the flu however its effects soon go viral and spiral out of control further when rick attempts a cure rick dubs the monsters that result from these attempts cronenberg's this is in reference to the numerous movies by director david cronenberg who is famed for films involving grotesque mutations and other body horror elements both parodies however different they may be blend together in a magnificently bizarre way number one back to the future and doctor who if the idea of rick and morty seems familiar it's for a good reason it's largely based on two giants of sci-fi firstly the characters of rick and morty are basically substitutes for doc brown and marty mcfly [Music] in fact co-creator justin roiland once created an animation called the real animated adventures of doc and marty which starred darker versions of the back to the future characters oh man my kite's in the tree doc i can't i hate this stupid tree i'm so sad don't be sad marty we'll go back in time in addition despite not featuring time travel rick and morty is a parody of doctor who with its lead duo's dimension hopping outings resembling the british sci-fi show's adventures of the week with its loving parody of these greats is it any wonder the show is so awesome when i create it works morty it's called being talented watch new episodes of rick and morty sundays only on adult swim you

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Length: 21min 28sec (1288 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 22 2021