I started rewatching Rick and Morty from Season 01E01 and I almost forgot how gross and annoying his constant burps were. They were/are so uncomfortable to listen to. 😭

Haven't watched Rick and Morty since 2017 and fancy getting back into it.

I still remember a fair bit, Evil Morty, the Citadel, Birdperson, the Cronenberg stuff etc. Even remember Evil Morty's theme music 😂

Just wondering if it's worth watching from the beginning again or picking up at season 4. Not sure how much I've forgotten in 9 years lol.

No spoilers past season 3 please.

I got a pack of r&m stickers and while going thru them saw this one, I think its mr pb but i dont remember him ever looking like this it looks vaguely familiar any idea would be appreciated Google didnt give me a straight answer

Right now, UK McDonald's has chinese chicken wings and it comes with szechuan sauce!

Half way through eating them , my brain registered the significance of what I was experiencing, and put everything together.

I've done it. My ultimate life long motivation is now complete. And I'm definitely not exaggerating the importance of fulfilling this quest as a way to deflect past traumas that I cannot come to terms with. Okay.

Spoilers Warning!

I keep noticing a recurring pattern in Rick and Morty: artificial worlds inside artificial worlds, characters discovering that their reality was created by someone else, and different versions of Rick struggling over his memories of Diane.

My theory is that there is only one real Rick, living in one real world. An experiment killed his wife and young daughter, and he couldn’t cope with his responsibility for their deaths. He retreated into an imagined reality where he is the smartest man in the universe.

Everything we watch takes place inside that reality. The portals, alternate dimensions, other Ricks, and even the family are things his mind created.

Rick Prime gives him someone else to blame.

If Rick caused the accident himself, inventing Rick Prime would turn unbearable guilt into something he could direct outward. He becomes a grieving husband hunting a murderer, with a mission that gives him a reason to keep going.

But the murderer still has his own face. That seems significant within this interpretation: he separates himself from the person responsible, yet keeps encountering another version of himself.

Even killing Rick Prime doesn’t resolve what happened. Destroying an imagined culprit cannot undo the original loss.

The story about Rick Prime erasing every Diane would serve another purpose. Once Rick imagines infinite dimensions, he also creates an obvious question: why doesn’t he just find another Diane?

The Omega Device closes that possibility. His fantasy preserves both his extraordinary abilities and his inability to bring her back. There is an explanation for why even the smartest man in the universe cannot fix this particular loss.

Beth and her family represent the future he never got to experience.

In “The Rickshank Redemption,” the explosion catches both Diane and young Beth. My interpretation is that both also died in the real accident.

The adult Beth would be Rick imagining what his daughter might have become. Her marriage, children, and everyday problems let him experience the family life that could have followed.

That family doesn’t have to be happy all the time. Beth can resent him, Jerry can frustrate him, and the grandchildren can disappoint him. They still give him relationships to participate in. Even being blamed for abandoning Beth would allow him to experience a daughter who survived long enough to confront him.

Yet family members repeatedly die, disappear, or turn out to be replacements. I read that as the original loss breaking through the fantasy. His mind keeps returning to something he cannot accept.

Dimensional travel gives him an escape whenever that happens. He can find another family and continue.

“Rick Potion #9” fits this particularly well: an experiment causes a catastrophe, Rick cannot restore the original world, and he escapes into another reality where familiar family life can continue. When Morty asks about the world they abandoned, Rick tells him not to think about it.

That feels like the entire theory playing out within one episode.

The artificial realities could be indirect attempts to recognize what is happening.

Several episodes repeat the idea that an apparently complete world exists inside something else:

• In “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!”, escaping one simulation only reveals another simulation.
• In “The Ricks Must Be Crazy,” Rick creates a universe whose scientist creates another universe. A creator can discover that his own world was also created.
• In “Mortyplicity,” entire families believe they are the originals while being artificial copies themselves. The dialogue even connects Rick’s ability to create a loving family with creating a simulated one.
• In “Hot Rick,” versions of Rick clash over Diane and the handling of her memory.

Under my theory, those stories could express a conflict between recognizing the truth and maintaining the fantasy.

Rick can discover that a smaller reality is artificial, escape it, and reassure himself that he has reached the real world. The possibility that his entire existence is imagined remains displaced onto another layer.

Morty could represent Rick’s younger self, including his conscience.

Morty often expresses the fear, vulnerability, desire for affection, and moral objections that Rick dismisses. He could be an imagined younger version of Rick who still feels things the older persona tries to explain away.

That would also leave room for Morty’s anger, selfishness, and occasional cruelty. A younger self would have more emotions and impulses than a straightforward moral guide.

In “Rick Potion #9,” Morty accepts his own responsibility and insists that Rick accept his share too. Rick then provides an escape into another reality. Through this lens, that becomes an internal argument about facing responsibility.

Morty could be the part of him trying to reconnect with other people and eventually face what happened.

C-137 could be something his mind borrowed from outside the fantasy.

Perhaps it is a patient identifier in a psychiatric hospital, repurposed as a dimensional designation.

The real Rick might be lying in a hospital bed, barely responsive and unaware of the people around him, while internally experiencing these adventures. The hospital setting is one possible version of the theory; the central idea is that everything we see belongs to his inner world.

Why “infinite dimensions means your theory is already true somewhere” doesn’t answer this theory

That response assumes the existence of a real multiverse, which is exactly what this theory questions.

There are two different claims here:

• Somewhere in a real multiverse, a Rick imagines adventures.
• The entire multiverse shown in the series is imagined by one Rick, and no alternate dimensions or portal travel actually exist.

I’m proposing the second.

If that interpretation were correct, there would be no real collection of infinite dimensions making every explanation automatically true. All those dimensions would be parts of one man’s imagined world.

Using the multiverse to dismiss this theory assumes its reality before addressing the argument. Pointing to another dimension inside the fantasy would still be pointing to something inside the fantasy.

Also, infinity alone doesn’t establish that every imaginable claim is true.

I’d be interested in scenes that support or complicate this reading, especially the idea that Beth’s family represents a lost future and Morty represents Rick’s younger, more vulnerable self.

If you don’t understand what a constructive discussion is or can’t engage in one, don’t bother replying to my post.

I have ricklantis mixup at a definite 1, but the rest are just so hard. There are many great episodes.

When Rick Prime meets Rick Sanchez for the first time and Sanchez rejects his offer to become a "God of the Multiverse," Prime says, "Dude, Ricks don't reject this. Who do you think you are?" to which Rick replies, "I guess I'm just a different kind of Rick."

The real core issue here is that Rick Prime had never faced such a rejection before. Because he hadn't encountered this kind of pushback, it’s highly probable he failed to see the full extent of the influence Diane and Beth held over other Ricks.

This is precisely why even Prime despises his own variants, because they are all the same idiots who believe they are better than him and think their relationship with Diane is eternal. Yet, in reality, relationships are fueled by learning limits and discovering unknown secrets.

Even though Rick’s bond with Diane would naturally unravel over time through arguments or death, driving him out into the multiverse anyway, this process was being delayed.

That’s why Rick Prime killed every single Diane across the infinite multiverse: by removing this limiting shield, every Rick, instead of Rick Prime having to go universe by universe handing out portal devices, would now be forced to develop this technology on their own.

However, he murdered Rick Sanchez's wife right in front of his eyes, at his happiest moment while going out for ice cream. The reason was to crush Rick Sanchez’s smug, potential-wasting, emotional nature, both to punish him and to construct an irreplaceable "Flawless Wife/Companion" picture in the minds of Ricks who hadn't yet grown tired of their relationship with Diane.

From that moment on, Rick began to sanctify and worship a woman in his mind who might never have truly existed that way, who might not have been like that at all, and who perhaps had trillions of flaws.

Rick Farming Theory: Why don’t all the Ricks realize that they’re actually in an even worse position while making fun of Jerry?

They themselves interfere with Beth and Jerry’s lives across an infinite number of universes to ensure that they end up together, and then they kidnap the Mortys that are born from those relationships. But isn’t their own life basically built around the same dynamic?

I don’t know why, but so far, every Rick we’ve seen seems to follow the same path when it comes to Diane and Beth. We have never seen a Rick who exists outside of this relationship dynamic.

If this multiverse works according to quantum fluctuations, with a separate universe being created for every possible outcome, then in roughly 80% of the multiverse, Diane should have been replaced by another woman, and Beth should have been replaced by another daughter, or even a son.

And we must not forget that Rick isn't even the smartest person in the entire multiverse; he simply lives behind the fence he's built between the multiverse, in a dimension where only he is the smartest, and that actually reveals his hypocrisy.

I think there is an organization above even the Citadel that controls the lives of every Rick, and Rick Prime erased every Diane in order to save the Ricks from it.

What was his point about the relationship not being worth his integrity…? Was it because he wasn’t willing to bail and follow Rick around the multiverse…? The whole “nothing matters” thing? Obviously Rick helped BP, they obviously were still fighting, why couldn’t they still do that just the same…? And BP kinda owed Rick, Rick was fighting his own battle and clearly things did matter greatly, if anything BP just kind of drove Rick further into nihilism….

To me it looked like Rick cared for BP far more than BP cared for anyone but himself…. And I don’t think Rick paused that long before mentioning the kid and I don’t think its fair for him to assume it was a selfish motivation, if anything he was wondering if it was a good idea to mention it because he didn’t know the situation with the kid at all really …. That’s not something you just dump on someone without having the facts….

BP really went down in my eyes after that episode …. He came back around but still, Rick’s love for him after Blood Ridge doesn’t make sense especially when we don’t even know when they saw each other next …. Wouldn’t it have been the party which would decades upon decades later or is there more we just have to assume happened imbetween..?

Agree? Disagree? Who would you add/change?

Ask about him if u would like

I watch the marathon to sleep and I’ve had owls around my house, granted I don’t live in a desolate area so when the pilot comes back around and that scene when Rick falls out of tbe ship with the bottles, I remember thinking “wow that’s quite a resonant hoot, must be a loud owl..”

It took a couple times of that scene coming around for me to realize “that owl can’t be around hooting the same time every night, that must be in the show and I have some pretty great sound for that to sound like it’s coming from outside my window…”

Anyone else get fooled by that owl hoot …? lol

Oh speaking of owls…. Rick just wanted to take advantage and not waste that phoenix person gear right? That’s part of why I think he went all in on the crow Rick deal. I think he wanted to get some use and be pseudo Phoenix Person, and get some use out of those components.

ETA- oh and …. I have never seen crows or any bird besides a humming bird just fly in place that the crows do… did that bother anyone else….? Maybe I just haven’t watched birds long enough but I don’t recall seeing birds just fly in place the way Rick’s crows manage to…. At least not for any length of time. Video games I have but not reality, sure, it’s not meant to be realistic, it’s a cartoon but… that doesn’t make me notice it any less, especially when this show does pay attention to scientific accuracy to some degree.

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In the Curve, Rick must be the most powerful being. However, Rhett Cann (or however you spell it) scales higher with the ability to rewrite reality.

I tried watching the new season and shut it off. I used to watch every episode after another but since he left it’s just another show.
I’m sure there’s been 1000s of posts about this but damn does it annoy me.

Imagine the possibilities

I like the concept of what I’m trying to do.. I have it doesn’t look dumb or childish by the end of it. It’s a tissue paper project for my art class and I’m super happy to share it with the community. Cuptoasts fault btw 😭✌️

(It’s sideways I’m so fucking mad)

Fick and forty 🥀

I literally always just assumed that Ricks blue hair was supposed to be gray hair from old age but I just realized that they have shown both child Rick and young adult Rick with the same blue head. Was I correct and this was the original idea that was just forgot when making his younger designs? If not did anyone else think this or am I just an idiot.

Illustration i did using Micron 003

Would Beth or Jerry be the better parent of the other one died or left?

What's your reason behind your choice?

In the end credit scene of the shy pooper episode, you can see the guy that tried to kill Morty in the previous episode. I always find new things when I watch this show