Rick and Morty dedicated 10 years to this installment, making the series even better and producing its best episodes

Rick and MortyThe show’s unwavering commitment to the first season’s most shocking twist has kept audiences on the edge of their seats for more than a decade. Seven seasons and 71 episodes after premiering in 2013, Rick and Morty continues to surprise viewers. Season 7 separated Rick and Morty for solo adventures, revealed that the Norse afterlife is all too real, and delved deep into the title characters’ deepest and darkest fears in the mesmerizing, unsettling final episode. This narrative boldness was established early on with the first of the series’ many breathtaking, game-changing twists.

Rick and Morty In its first season, the series underwent some major changes that immediately made it one of the boldest and most daring shows on television. Episode 5, “Meeseeks and Destroy,” makes up for the silly A-plot by having the most terrible thing imaginable happen to Morty. Episode 10, “Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind,” completely blew up the world structure with the reveal of the Ricks’ Transdimensional Council. From the start, this show was no nonsense. It established itself as a TV masterpiece by delivering a bombastic twist and stuck with it for years to come.

Rick and Morty’s move to an alternate universe in Season 1 sets the tone for the show

Rick Potion #9 established the challenges of the multiverse

In Season 1, Episode 6, “Rick Potion #9”, Morty asks Rick to create a “Rick Potion #9”.Love potionThis will cause his crush, Jessica, to fall in love with him at an upcoming school dance. Rick forgets to mention that under no circumstances should the potion be given to someone suffering from the flu. With flu season in full swing, almost everyone at the dance has the flu. The love potion interferes with the flu, creating an airborne virus that draws everyone within breathing distance to Morty. The virus is spreading quickly throughout the city.

Soon everyone who isn’t related to Morty falls in love with him. Rick’s attempt to reverse the potion’s effects and return everyone to normal only makes things worse, as he turns them all into mutated monstrosities (dubbed “Cronenbergs” in honor of body horror director David Cronenberg). After messing up the world beyond repair, Rick relocates himself and Morty to a similar parallel universe where they were supposed to die. To Morty’s horror, they bury their own bodies and start new lives in a universe that doesn’t belong to them.

Just six episodes later Rick and Mortyhas run, The ending of Rick Potion #9 showed that anything is possible in this crazy sci-fi series. It proved that the multiverse would actually matter in a dramatic sense and wouldn’t just be a conceptual gimmick. Rick and Morty’s multiverse isn’t just there to provide universe-of-the-week settings; It is intended to provide a hauntingly nihilistic depiction of the meaninglessness of life. “Rick Potion #9” set the stage for compelling multiverse episodes like Season 3, Episode 7, “The Ricklantis Mixup” and Season 4, Episode 8, “The Vat of Acid Episode.”

Rick Potion #9 completely changed the status quo of Rick and Morty

It highlighted the unpredictability of writing the series

Rick and Morty explored the multiverse from the first episode. In the pilot, Rick takes Morty to Dimension 35-C to collect Mega Seeds from the Mega Fruit of the Mega Trees. But “Rick Potion #9” was the first episode to truly establish the concept of multiple realities in the series – not just as a one-off adventure gimmick, but as a major plot point. This led to the also groundbreaking realization that the original world from Season 1 wasn’t actually Rick’s original world and that C-137 was a completely different reality.

As Rick relocates himself and Morty to a new universe, he makes it clear that this cannot become normal. You can only do it a few times before it has massive multiversal effects. This wasn’t just a meta-commentary on lazy writing and deus ex machinas; It was a great way to demonstrate the enormous risks of moving. Six episodes later, Rick and Morty had to resort to the last resort of interdimensional travel – Anything could happen after that.

Rick and Morty never tried to undo the twist of Cronenberg’s world

Rick and Morty remain faithful to the new universe

Over the years Rick and Morty has reversed some of its biggest changes to return to a more familiar status quo. In the Season 2 finale – Season 2, Episode 10, “The Wedding Squanchers” – Earth is taken over by the Galactic Federation. It absorbs Earth’s governments, assigns jobs to Earth’s citizens, and the planet is full of alien tourists. It was a fascinating change that promised all sorts of exciting future storylines. But by the end of the next episode – Season 3, Episode 1, “The Rickshank Rickdemption” – the Federation was gone and Earth had returned to normal.

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Rick and Morty has undone all the major twists, from Rick’s intergalactic prison sentence to his breakup with Morty and the adoption of two new Crow pals. But no attempt was ever made to reverse the twist of Cronenberg’s world. Rick and Morty have remained in their new reality ever since and the Cronenberg world is as devastated today as it was when they left it. This has meant that their serious mistake has been lingering in their minds for years. In Season 1, Episode 8, “Rixty Minutes,” Morty showed Summer his grave in the backyard to open her eyes to the futility of existence.

Rick and Morty’s visit to the Cronenberg world in Season 6 brought the show full circle

“Solaricks” sent everyone back to their original dimensions

Rick and MortyThe biggest follow-up to Rick Potion #9 appeared in the Season 6 premiere: Season 6, Episode 1, “Solaricks.” After the evil Morty sabotaged his portal weapon, Rick attempted to fix the problem by resetting the portal fluid. This inadvertently sent everyone back to their original universes: Rick returned to the universe where he lost Diane, Jerry returned to his original universe after a run-in with another Jerry at Jerryboree, and Morty returned to the infamous Cronenberg world.

When Morty was forced to return to his original universe and face the harrowing consequences of his worst mistake, the series came full circle. Morty reunites with his original father, who has become a ruthless lone wolf since the deaths of the original Beth and Summer. Rick and MortyThe season six premiere went back to the Cronenberg world so Morty could face the skeletons in his closet, and It brought the series’ first devastating twist full circle in truly tragic fashion.

Rick and Morty is an adventure/sci-fi animated series that follows the intergalactic, interdimensional adventures of super-genius Rick Sanchez and his underachieving grandson Morty Smith. Rick’s daughter Beth, his granddaughter Summer and his hated stepson Jerry are also often the focus. From creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, the series blends comedy with science fiction to explore a variety of topics aimed at an adult audience.

Seasons

7

Streaming service(s)

Hulu, Max