History NightmareFuel / RickAndMorty

[[caption-width-right:309:Okay, well, sometimes science is more art than science, Morty.]]

** Also, consider the fact that Alternate Rick and Morty instantly died due to a small mistake. Really puts all their crazy, dangerous adventures into perspective.

* The leprechaun commercial (which is a [[DarkerAndEdgier very dark parody]] of the Lucky Charms commercials) in "Rixty Minutes" is about fifteen seconds of pure, unadulterated nightmare fuel. Basically, it consists of a leprechaun who is shown sitting and enjoying a bowl of cereal until some creepy children show up. The children then proceed to rip open the leprechaun's stomach and eat his innards, all while the leprechaun screams in agony and begs for the mercy of death. What's even scarier is that, throughout this whole scene, the children's faces are completely emotionless and robotic, which adds a layer of dissonance to the scene. Overall, it's definitely one of the darkest (and most hilarious) things Rick and Morty has done thus far.

* [[spoiler:The attempted rape scene by Mr. Jelly Bean from]] [[spoiler: "Meeseeks and Destroy". It's played completely seriously, there are no sequences where it's ''ever'' played for laughs, and Morty is obviously very, very traumatized by it. And it's scarier than hell.]]

* The [[spoiler: attempted rape scene by Mr. Jelly Bean from "Meeseeks and Destroy". It's played completely seriously, there are no sequences where it's ''ever'' played for laughs, and Morty is obviously very, very traumatized by it. And it's scarier than hell.]]

** It's even more horrifying when we discover that [[spoiler: Evil!Rick was under Evil!Morty's control all along, meaning that a version of Morty ''doesn't care if other versions of himself suffer''.]]

* [[spoiler:The Morty Dome. Hundreds of screaming Morty's, constantly being tortured so they can hide Evil!Rick.]]

** They don't just 'eat his innards', no, they '''squeeze out the digested pieces of cereal from his intestines and eat them!''' What. The. Hell.

* The leprechaun commercial (which is a [[DarkerAndEdgier very dark parody]] of the Lucky Charms commercials) in "Rixty Minutes" is about fifteen seconds of pure, unadulterated nightmare fuel. Basically, it consists of a leprechaun who is shown sitting and enjoying a bowl of cereal until some creepy children show up. The children then proceed to rip open the leprechaun's stomach and eat his innards, all while the leprechaun screams in agony and begs for the mercy of death. What's even scarier is that, throughout this whole scene, the children's faces are completely emotionless and robotic, which adds a layer of dissonance to the scene. Overall, it's definitely one of the darkest things Rick and Morty has done thus far.

* Imagine asking your super genius grandfather to make you a love potion so that the girl of your dreams will fall in love with you. Imagine everyone falling in love you and trying to get into your pants. Imagine your grandpa creating a "cure" out of praying mantis DNA that turns people into praying mantis people that are still in love with you, but now want to eat your head afterwards. Imagine your grandpa creating another "cure" that turns people into Cronenburged monsters...Then imagine that you escape that reality and go to one where your grandpa found a real cure and both of you die after an invention blows up and burying your dead alternate self.
** Morty goes through an existential crisis at the end, wandering through the house just staring, in a dazed awe. Rick simply grabs a beer from the fridge and joins Summer in watching tv on the couch, so casually, [[FridgeHorror almost like he's done this before, so many times that it doesn't even phase him anymore.]]

** Morty acknowledges in-universe that he spends everyday knowing that his corpse is just a few yards outside. Eating his meals, seeing the grave outside that holds his dead alternate self...

* Snuffles once he upgrades the device that allows him to speak into a mechasuit and expectantly the Centaur's nightmare ripoff of Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet.
* The CrapsackWorld instilled by the dogs' complete subjugation of humanity, complete with ''[[{{Squick}} entire dumpsters filled with extracted human testicles]]''.

* The all-too-serious hostage situation with the Meeseeks at the end of said episode also gets more than a little disturbing too, at least until [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Jerry finally manages to get his golf swing in order]].]]
* The concept of a Meeseeks. Basically a Meeseeks is brought into a world to solve a problem...Thing is existing causes a Meeseeks pain which is why you give a Meeseeks a simple problem like "Opening a Mayonnaise jar." To solve so that they poof out of existence as soon as possible otherwise they'll go mad and try to solve the problem like "Take two strokes off my golf game." In another way...That other way being killing you.

* The leprechaun commercial (which is a [[DarkerAndEdgier very dark parody]] of the Lucky Charms commercials) in "Rixty Minutes" is about fifteen seconds of pure, unadulterated nightmare fuel. Basically, it consists of a leprechaun who is shown sitting and enjoying a bowl of cereal until some creepy children show up. The children then proceed to rip open the leprechaun's stomach and eat his innards, all while the leprechaun screams in agony and begs for the mercy of death. What's even scarier is that, throughout this whole scene, the children's faces are completely emotionless and robotic, which adds a layer of dissonance to the scene. Overall, it's definitely one of the darkest things Rick and Morty has done thus far.

* The leprechaun commercial (which is a [[DarkerAndEdgier very dark parody]] of the Lucky Charms commercials) in "Rixty Minutes" is about fifteen seconds of pure, unadulterated nightmare fuel. Basically, it consists of a leprechaun who is shown sitting and enjoying a bowl of cereal until some creepy children show up. The children then proceed to rip open the leprechaun's stomach and eat his innards, all while the leprechaun screams in agony and begs for the mercy of death. What's even scarier is that, throughout this whole scene, the children's faces are completely emotionless and robotic, which adds a layer of dissonance to the scene. Overall, it's definitely one of the darkest things Rick and Morty has done thus far.

* The leprechaun commercial, which is a [[DarkerAndEdgier very dark parody]] of the Lucky Charms commercials, in "Rixty Minutes" is about fifteen seconds of pure, unadulterated nightmare fuel. Basically, it consists of a leprechaun who is shown sitting and enjoying a bowl of cereal until some creepy children show up. The children then proceed to rip open the leprechaun's stomach and eat his innards, all while the leprechaun screams in agony and begs for the mercy of death. What's even scarier is that, throughout this whole scene, the children's faces are completely emotionless and robotic, which adds a layer of dissonance to the scene. Overall, it's definitely one of the darkest things Rick and Morty has done thus far.

** Also, consider the fact that Alternate Rick and Morty instantly died due to a small mistake. Really puts all their crazy, dangerous adventures into perspective.

* The [[spoiler: attempted rape scene from "Meeseeks and Destroy". It's played completely seriously, there are no sequences where it's ''ever'' played for laughs, and Morty is obviously very, very traumatized by it. And it's scarier than hell.]]

** Morty goes through an existential crisis at the end, wandering through the house just staring, in a dazed awe. Rick simply grabs a beer from the fridge and joins Summer in watching tv on the couch, so casually, [[FridgeHorror almost like he's done this before, so many times that it doesn't even phase him anymore.]]

* Imagine asking your super genius grandfather to make you a love potion so that the girl of your dreams will fall in love with you. Imagine everyone falling in love you and trying to get into your pants. Imagine your grandpa creating a "cure" out of praying mantis DNA that turns people into praying mantis people that are still in love with you, but now want to eat your head afterwards. Imagine your grandpa crating another "cure" that turns people into Cronenburged monsters...Then imagine that you escape that reality and go to one where your grandpa found a real cure and both of you die after an invention blows up and burying your dead alternate self.

* Imagine asking your super genius grandfather to make you a love potion so that the girl of your dreams will fall in love with you. Imagine everyone falling in love you and trying to get into your pants. Imagine your grandpa creating a "cure" out of praying mantis DNA that turns people into praying mantis people that are still in love with you. Imagine your grandpa crating another "cure" that turns people into Cronenburged monsters...Then imagine that you escape that reality and go to one where your grandpa found a real cure and both of you die after an invention blows up and burying your dead alternate self.

* Imagine asking your super genius grandfather to make you a love potion so that the girl of your dreams will fall in love with you. Imagine everyone falling in love you and trying to get into your pants. Imagine your grandpa creating a "cure" out of praying mantis DNA that turns people into praying mantis people that are still in love with you. Imagine your grandpa crating another "cure" that turns people into Cronenburged monsters...Then imagine that you escape that reality and go to one where your grandpa found a real cure and both of you die after an invention blows up and burying your dead alternate self.

* Imagine asking your super genius grandfather to make you a love potion so that the girl of your dreams will fall in love with you. Imagine everyone falling in love you and trying to get into your pants. Imagine your grandpa creating a "cure" out of praying mantis DNA that turns people into praying mantis people that are still in love with you. Imagine your grandpa crating another "cure" that turns people into Cronenburged monsters...Then imagine that you escape that reality and go to one where your grandpa found a real cure and both of you die after an invention blows up and replace your dead selves...Burying your dead corpse.

* Imagine asking your super genius grandfather to make you a love potion so that the girl of your dreams will fall in love with you. Imagine everyone falling in love you and trying to get into your pants. Imagine your grandpa creating a "cure" out of praying mantis DNA that turns people into praying mantis people that are still in love with you. Imagine your grandpa crating another "cure" that turns people into Cronenburged monsters...Then imagine that you escape that reality and go to one where your grandpa found a real cure and die after an invention blows up and replace your dead selves.

* The concept of a Meeseeks. Basically a Meeseeks is brought into a world to solve a problem...Thing is existing causes a Meeseeks pain which is why you give a Meeseeks a simple problem like "Opening a Mayonnaise jar." To solve so that they poof out of existence as soon as possible otherwise they'll go mad and try to solve the problem like "Take two strokes off my golf game." In another way...That other way being killing you.

* The concept of a Meeseeks. Basically a Meeseeks is brought into a world to solve a problem...Thing is existing causes a Meeseeks pain which is why you give a Meeseeks a simple problem like "Opening a Mayonnaise jar." To solve so that they poof out of existence as soon as possible otherwise they'll go mad and try to solve the problem like "Take two strokes off my golf game." In another way...That way other way being killing you.

* The concept of a Meeseeks. Basically a Meeseeks is brought into a world to solve a problem...Thing is existing causes a Meeseeks pain which is why you give a Meeseeks a simple problem like "Opening a Mayonnaise jar." to solve so that they poof out of existence as soon as possible otherwise they'll go mad and try to solve the problem like "Take two strokes off my golf game." In another way...That way other way being killing you.

* The concept of a Meeseeks. Basically a Meeseeks is brought into a world to solve a problem...Thing is existing causes a Meeseeks pain which is why you give a Meeseeks a simple problem like "Opening a Mayonnaise jar" to solve so that they poof out of existence as soon as possible otherwise they'll go mad and try to solve the problem like "Take two strokes off my golf game." In another way...That way other way being killing you.

* The concept of a Meeseeks. Basically a Meeseeks is brought into a world to solve a problem...Thing is existing causes a Meeseeks pain which is why you give a Meeseeks a simple problem to solve so that they poof out of existence as soon as possible otherwise they'll go mad and try to solve the problem like "Take two strokes off my golf game" in another way...That way other way being killing you.

* The all-too-serious hostage situation with the Meeseeks at the end of said episode also gets more than a little disturbing too, at least until [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext Jerry finally manages to get his golf swing in order]].]]