List of Rick and Morty episodes: Difference between revisions

Jerry complains that the family dog, Snuffles, is stupid so Rick gives Jerry a device that enhances the dog's intelligence. He and Morty then go into the dreams of Morty's math teacher to persuade him to give Morty an "A" grade in class so Morty can be assigned less homework. They go from Morty's math teacher's dreams to the dreams of a strong black female TV character named Mrs. Pancake, to a centaur's dreams, and so on. This results in Rick and Morty eventually encountering Scary Terry (a parody of Freddy Krueger). Scary Terry begins chasing the two of them through multiple dreams, causing Rick to become unhinged. At one point the two come across a dream of a post-apocalyptic city where they decide to hide from Scary Terry until he gets tired. When Scary Terry eventually sleeps, Rick and Morty enter his dreams and quickly persuade him to help the duo complete their mission. Meanwhile, after watching several exaggerated infomercials on dogs, Snuffles builds an advanced mechanical suit with a translator to speak to humans. He assembles a robot dog army and proceeds to take over the human race. Rick finds Morty and gives him pills which will make his kidneys shut down. Morty is later seen lying down on a hospital bed in critical state with Snuffles by his side trying to keep him alive. Snuffles awakens (the aforementioned scenario is revealed to be a dream) and realizes that colonizing earth isn't the answer and that dog-kind must not fall to the fate of humankind with its destruction. Snuffles and Morty have a tearful goodbye as Snuffles leaves for another planet for intelligent dogs where compassion is exercised and "pet insurance is mandatory."

On Christmas, Rick sends Morty inside the body of a homeless man to save his life (a parody of Fantastic Voyage). Inside the man's body is a microscopic enclosure called Anatomy Park (a parody of Jurassic Park), which houses various deadly diseases that escape their enclosures. Back at the family home, Jerry's parents visit, and the family attempts to bond without electronic devices.

Post-Credit Scene: Rick contacts Annie and her other new associates inside his new patient's body and as they talk about his "Pirates of the Pancreas" ride (much to Rick's dislike, since he is sensitive about his ride because it's his idea). Rick hangs up on them only to proceed with a rant and insults.

Rick and Jerry are held captive by aliens in a virtual reality in this M. Night Shyamalan style episode. Rick attempts escape multiple times, only to discover that there are multiple virtual realities encased in one another. However, despite system glitches, Jerry remains completely unaware while trying to sell his advertising slogan for apples. Rick finally games the aliens by giving them a fake recipe for the concoction they were seeking to retrieve from him. The aliens send Rick and Jerry on their way and later explode from the concoction.

Post-Credit Scene: A drunk Rick enters Morty's room, as he starts complementing and shows appreciation for Morty, Rick quickly turn on Morty with a knife and yells at him in question if he's a simulation, but soon apologizes right before passing out.

Morty thinks Rick's adventures are too dangerous and so they make a deal that allows Morty to be in charge of an adventure, which leads them in to a "Jack and the Beanstalk" type scenario. At the same time, the rest of the family is having troubles with Rick's "Meeseeks Box", a cube that spawns helpful blue creatures called Meeseeks (Justin Roiland) that normally cease to be once they have fulfilled the user's goal. However, the Meeseeks conjured by Jerry are unable to help him improve his golf game and summon more Meeseeks to assist him, resulting in the conjured Meeseeks becoming increasingly frustrated from their prolonged existence as they resort to drastic actions in having Jerry achieve his goal.

A dance at Morty's high school prompts him to ask Rick if he can create a potion that will make his pretty classmate Jessica find Morty attractive. However, because Jessica has the flu, the potion goes haywire and becomes airborne and causes nearly the whole population of Earth to fall for Morty save for blood relatives. Rick fixes up an antidote which does not produce its hoped results. Meanwhile, Jerry becomes concerned about Beth's fidelity. Eventually both plots cross paths. This results in Rick and Morty migrating to another reality where that reality's Rick successfully cures all of Earth, but he and that reality's Morty die in an experiment allowing Rick and Morty to assume their roles.

In a pawn shop in space, Rick buys Morty a sex robot. Soon after, the robot conceives Morty's alien hybrid child whom he names Morty Jr. Rick and Summer go to the sex robot's planet of origin, Gazorpazorp, to find better suited parents for Morty Jr. After discovering that the Gazorpazorpian females are the dominant gender on the planet, Rick and Summer discover that the males of this species mature in only days. Morty Jr.'s quick aging teaches Morty about parenting.

Post-Credit Scene: Morty Jr. goes to a talk show to talk about a book he wrote called "My (horrible) Father", which, surprisingly, had become very successful.

The family is watching the reality TV show The Bachelor, and Rick is complaining about the quality of the show. Jerry asks Rick to show them his idea of good television and Rick upgrades the cable to show programming from every conceivable dimension. They come across Jerry on TV which they are eager to watch but which Rick argues is unimportant. To quell them, he gives them a pair of goggles that allow them to see through the eyes of alternate reality versions of themselves. While initially satisfying, these realities reveal some uncomfortable truths and unearth certain hostile feelings. It is revealed that Summer was the result of an unplanned pregnancy and was almost aborted. Jerry and Beth both become fixated on watching an alternate reality in which they did choose to abort Summer and never married, and they both seem to be much more successful and happy for it: Beth is a successful human heart surgeon, and Jerry is a famous actor (playing roles Tom Hanks had in our reality). Summer, believing that she is the product of her parent's distress and shaky state of martial affairs, threatens to run away. While she is packing her bags, Morty tells her that in an alternate universe, he and Rick destroyed the entire universe and that his mutilated corpse is buried in the ground (referring to the events of "Rick Potion No. 9"). He says that no one on this earth has a purpose, all life is random, and that everyone will die, so Summer should not worry. Persuaded by this argument, Summer agrees to stay. Ultimately, it turns out that Beth and Jerry's alternates are miserable in their own ways: alternate-Beth is lonely and spends her days drinking wine and caring for a large collection of birds while alternate-Jerry has a mental breakdown and drives a lawnmower down the highway in his underwear until he arrives at alternate-Beth's house. He declares that he hates being an actor, Beth was the best thing that ever happened to him, and not a day has gone by that he didn't wonder what might have been if they had kept the baby and stayed together. Alternate Beth and Jerry tearfully embrace and kiss, causing main-universe Beth and Jerry to similarly embrace and reconcile.

Post-Credit Scene: As the family watches a channel of an alternate reality where hamsters live in human rectums, they begin asking questions to Rick, who is trying to watch the TV until he becomes irritated and takes them to the alternate reality itself resulting into a family vacation to that reality.

Summer reports to her first job in an antique shop run by the Devil. The shop sells items that are lucrative because they are free and fulfill a desire for the owner but come at a price making the item worthless essentially. The Devil gives Rick a microscope that Rick later discovers would have rendered him mentally disabled with use. Meanwhile, Jerry and Morty are transported to Pluto due to Jerry's opinions on Pluto's planetary status. However, it is soon revealed that Pluto is shrinking due to corporate plutonium mining, and Jerry's opinions are being used to keep the citizens of Pluto in a perpetual state of confirmation bias. Jerry eventually realizes the truth and consequently he and Morty are deported back to Earth. To get back at the Devil, Rick sets up a competitive counter-business across the street that removes the curses and runs the Devil out of business. The Devil is so dismayed that he tries to kill himself but Summer finds himself in the middle of his suicide attempt and revives him. They relaunch with a new company that becomes wildly successful. As it turns out, the Devil had no plans to include Summer in reaping the profits and has her hauled off by security. Betrayed by the Devil, she and Rick build muscle mass to get physical revenge.

Post-Credit Scene: Rick and Summer merrily beat the tar out of a Neo-Nazi, a bully, Fred Phelps, and an abusive dog owner.

When 27 Ricks in alternate dimensions end up murdered and their respective Mortys are kidnapped, the Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks orders the arrest of Rick C137 (the show's original Rick) and accuses him of the crimes due to his refusal to participate in their affairs. Angry that he was framed, Rick escapes the Council with Morty to go after the real culprit who set him up and finds that another Rick is supposedly responsible for murdering their counterparts while stealing their Morties to conceal his presence. Meanwhile, as Morty begins to believe that he's nothing but a tool to protect Rick, Jerry begins to bond with Rick J19Z7, the kindest Rick in all of the realities. After Morty leads a rebellion of alternate Morties against the "evil" Rick, three Ricks from the Council of Ricks discover that the "evil" Rick was being mind-controlled. It is revealed to the audience that he was being controlled by his Morty.

Morty's parents leave to go on an overnight Titanic-themed getaway leaving the kids in the care of Rick. Disaster strikes when the ship misses the iceberg and fails to sink. Things get worse when a deranged female janitor obsessed with the Titanic movie decides to kidnap and force Jerry at gunpoint to re-enact various scenes from the movie with her. At home, Summer decides to throw a party only to find out that Rick has decided to have his own party with numerous aliens, monsters and other trans-dimensional beings. The situation escalates when Abradolf Lincler (Rick's failed attempt at creating a perfect leader by combining the DNA of Adolf Hitler with Abraham Lincoln) arrives at the party. Later, Morty accidentally beams the entire house to another planet filled with disturbing testicle aliens who use humans as sex toys. The party is increasingly growing out of control, but eventually the trio are able to usher away the guests. With minutes to spare, Beth texts Summer that she and Jerry are just around the corner. Frantic, Morty wakes up Rick and asks for his help. Using a contraption, they freeze time with Beth and Jerry steps away from the front door. The trio clean and repair the house while time is frozen. At the end, with time still frozen, they watch Titanic and unanimously agree how terrible it is.

Six months after the events of "Ricksy Business", Rick, Morty, and Summer unfreeze time, but because the three of them were displaced from time for months, the kids' uncertainty about their relationship with Rick, causes time to break, splitting into two separate timelines in a decaying, Schrödinger's cat-filled dimension, that both does and does not exist. Meanwhile, Beth and Jerry go out for ice cream and end up hitting a deer. Jerry questions Beth's ability to save it, so they make their way to an animal hospital. Upon arriving it is revealed that the deer was shot by a hunter, just prior to being hit by the car, and the hunter is claiming it for his own. Beth is able to save the deer's life and release him, to the delight of a nearby Native American. Rick manages to sync his grandchildren with their counterparts, but he loses his sync when he attempts to remerge the timelines, causing another fracture that attracts the notice of an all-powerful, fourth-dimensional being. The being makes collars for the trio that re-merges the humans' timelines, but then attempts to arrest them as Rick's device was powered by a stolen crystal. Rick, Morty, and Summer break their collars, and use uncertainty to break time further, allowing Rick to beat up the being simultaneously across multiple timelines. Morty's collar's latch is broken so Rick sacrifices himself, and gives Morty his collar, as the dimension they are in is crumbling around them. Rick is in the process of accepting his fate, when he manages to find and fix Morty's collar, at the last second.

Post-Credit Scene: The being, and his friend beat up Albert Einstein (who they mistook for Rick) for messing with time.

During a flying lesson, Rick and Morty realize that Jerry has stowed-away. After dropping Jerry off at an unregistered, cross-temporal daycare designed specifically for Jerrys, Rick sells an antimatter gun to Krombopulous Michael, an alien assassin. Rick reveals he sold the gun to afford an afternoon at a video arcade "Blips & Chitz", including a game called "Roy". Morty, upset by Rick's immoral decision, goes about stopping Krombopulous Michael from killing his target. After accidentally killing Krombopulous Michael with his poor spaceship flying ability, Morty is introduced to the assassin's target, who assumes the name "Fart". Morty insists on freeing Fart and helping him get back to the wormhole he came through to return him to his race. Government forces give chase, leading to a shoot out with lots of civilian casualties, and Rick arguing that none of these people would have died if Morty hadn't interfered with Krombopulous Michael. After returning Fart to the wormhole to his home planet, Fart reveals his plan to return with his race and "cure" all carbon based life forms from the universe. Morty is then forced to make a moral decision, and kills his friend using the antimatter gun. Meanwhile, Jerry socializes with many other Jerrys at the Jerry day care, before being picked up at the end of the day.

Post-Credit Scene: It's a promotional ad for "Blips & Chitz".

Rick, Morty, and Summer follow a distress signal to a planet occupied by Unity, Rick's ex-lover, an organism that has assimilated all individuals on the planet and intends to do the same to the rest of the universe, through the use of its hive mind. During Rick's time there, the planet is visited by a second hive mind, Beta 7, who clearly has a crush on Unity. Summer finds it unethical, but changes her mind when several individuals regain their identities and start a race war. After being rescued, Morty and Summer return to Earth while Rick stays with Unity, but Unity decides to leave him for its own good. Meanwhile, Beth and Jerry find an underground room built by Rick in the garage, containing a slug-like creature chained to the wall. As they argue about Rick's motives for keeping the creature there, it breaks free and tells them that it is a murderous, baby-eating, disease-carrying monster, but has decided to leave Earth due to his irritation with Beth and Jerry's arguing. Rick later returns home apathetic, brings a small creature to life and then kills it, and unsuccessfully tries to kill himself with the same laser in the garage before passing out.

Post-Credit Scene: Rick attempts to contact Unity only to be blocked by Beta 7, telling him he is "classified as a hostile entity".

While the family is eating breakfast, Rick kills an alien parasite who was posing as Jerry's brother Uncle Steve. Rick then warns the family that they might be infested with alien parasites, which are capable of creating and manipulating memories to convince their hosts that they have always been longtime acquaintances. To prevent the spread of the parasites, Rick locks down the entire house, behind security shutters. More and more parasites appear as different zany characters introduced during flashbacks (including but not limited to Sleepy Gary, the family butler Mr. Beauregard, Frankenstein's Monster, Pencilvester, Tinkles the Fairy Lamb, and the Reverse Giraffe) and try to convince Rick and the family to lift the lock-down. The parasites also begin sowing mistrust among the family that they might be the parasites. Most of the family is quickly swayed by the parasites, while Rick begins to question his own sense of reality. Finally, on his way to execute Rick as a believed parasite, Morty comes to the realization that while the parasites can manipulate memories, they can only create positive memories. The family is then able to confirm each other's existence, due to the various negative memories they have of each other, and begins killing all of the parasites of whom they are unable to recall negative memories. After which they have dinner and Beth, still believing him to be a parasite, shoots Mr. Poopy Butthole who is revealed to have been a real friend all along. Beth sneaks away, devastated by her mistake, and begins drinking.

Post-Credit Scene: It is revealed that Mr. Poopy Butthole survived the incident and is going through physical therapy when he turns away the visiting family, because he doesn't want to see them. Beth is still devastated at her mistake as Rick comforts her. Rick then closes out the scene with one of his catchphrases.

A massive alien head appears over the Earth, interfering with Earth's gravity and creating numerous natural disasters in the process. The head demands that that Earth "show [it] what [they] got". Rick heads to The Pentagon where he explains to the unnamed President of the United States that the head is looking for a live performance of a new hit song. However, an earthquake has hit the Grammy Awards killing all of Earth's best musicians (including but not limited to Pharrell Williams, Randy Newman, Billy Corgan, and The-Dream). With no choice, Rick and Morty are forced to compose the new hit song, "Get Schwifty". The head is satisfied with the song and transports Earth to its domain, where numerous planets are forced to compete against other in a galactic musical contest, with the losers having their planets obliterated. Rick and Morty team up with Ice-T (who is an ancient ice alien in disguise and was the only musician not killed in the earthquake) to compose a new song, but Morty is more concerned about getting his family to safety. Morty then steals Rick's portal device but gets lost and is found by Bird Person. Bird Person instructs Morty to have more faith in Rick and sends him back to Earth. Together, Rick and Morty perform a new hit song, satisfying the heads, who declare Earth the winner. Meanwhile, the community forms a cult around the heads, worshiping them as gods, but quickly disband when they find out they were just part of a musical reality show.

Post-Credit Scene: Ice-T returns to his home planet where due to his heroism in saving Earth, has is exile lifted and is returned to his original form "Water-T". His planet then falls under attack by the "Numbericons" which leads to his father dying. Water-T goes out to meet in battle.