History NightmareFuel / RickAndMorty

* Having learned nothing from "The Vat of Acid Episode", Morty repeatedly accepts guns from Rick without bothering to ask what they do. First accepting a Gorilla Gun, under the assumption it turns things INTO gorillas, he ends up putting a bully in a body cast since it was actually meant KILL gorillas.

* During the FullyAutomaticClipShow recapping Evil Morty's exploits, it's shown that "Evil Rick" had somehow managed to regain enough of his lucidity to attempt to kill himself at least once... but Evil Morty, being Evil Morty, was well-prepared for this possibility, using the brain implant to prevent him from fully going through with ending his life since he's still needed. It puts a whole new spin on Evil Rick daring the freed Morty's to kill him.

* The multiverse shown outside of the Central Finite Curve is explored and it's a whole mess of chaos with interdimensional travelers popping in everywhere and if they aren't killed by their fellow travelers, they're killed by all manners of horrific beasts. And despite only being able to survive in this chaos with a barrier preventing most of the outside from getting in, Evil Morty vastly prefers this insanity over any universe where Rick is the smartest man alive.

* During the FullyAutomaticClipShow recaping Evil Morty's exploits, it's shown that "Evil Rick" had somehow managed to regain enough of his lucidity to attempt to kill himself at least once, but Evil Morty, being Evil Morty, was well-prepared for this possibility, using the brain implant to prevent him from fully going through with ending his life since he's still needed. It puts a whole new spin on Evil Rick daring the freed Morty's to kill him.

* Durring the FullyAutomaticClipShow recaping Evil Morty's exploits, it's shown that "Evil Rick" had tried to kill himself whenever he was free, only for Evil Morty to use the brain impant to prevent him from doing so since he's still needed. It puts a whole new spin on Evil Rick daring the freed Morty's to kill him.

* The whole thing turns out to be pointless, only because Rick is teaching Morty a lesson so he goes with Morty's ideas instead of StatingTheSimpleSolution in the first place. He does so only after the mass production of "suicide torso clones" is started, factory blown up by suicide bombers and alien invasion of Earth succeeded does Rick do so: turns out, Rick can replicate any matter he has sample of. So he could have evaded this hole plot if he just took the one delicious spaghetti sample and kept replicating it.

* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWO5skS1MjQ Cold Open]] an argument between Rick and Jerry leads to Rick switching bodies and intelligence with Jerry to prove a point (Rick actually lampshades that it isn't like [[FreakyFridayFlip the movie Freaky Friday]] because their personalities and memories are "software" while their intelligence is "hardware"), being stuck with Jerry's body and intelligence is apparently so terrifying to Rick that he blows his brains out and Jerry in Rick's body kills himself when he triggers Rick's jet boots by accident. Fortunately Rick was CrazyPrepared and built an AutoDoc in the garage, and in a bit of BlackComedy the robot gets exasperated that the brainswitch complicates putting them back together.

* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWO5skS1MjQ Cold Open]] an argument between Rick and Jerry leads to Rick switching bodies and intelligence with Jerry to prove a point (Rick actually lampshades that it isn't like [[FreakyFridayFlip the movie Freaky Friday]] because their personalities and memories are "software" while their intelligence is "hardware"), being stuck with Jerry's body and intelligence is apparently so terrifying to Rick that he blows his brains out and Jerry in Ricks body kills himself when he triggers Ricks jet boots by accident. Fortunately Rick was CrazyPrepared and built an AutoDoc in the garage, and in a bit of BlackComedy the robot gets exasperated that the brainswitch complicates putting them back together.

* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWO5skS1MjQ Cold Open]] an argument between Rick and Jerry leads to Rick switching bodies and intelligence with Jerry to prove a point (Rick actually lampshades that it isn't like [[FrekyFridayFlip the movie Freaky Friday]] because their personalities and memories are "software" while their intelligence is "hardware"), being stuck with Jerry's body and intelligence is apparently so terrifying to Rick that he blows his brains out and Jerry in Ricks body kills himself when he triggers Ricks jet boots by accident. Fortunately Rick was CrazyPrepared and built an AutoDoc in the garage, and in a bit of BlackComedy the robot gets exasperated that the brainswitch complicates putting them back together.

** A FreezeFrameBonus shows that the temperature showin in the thermostat for the family's house is up to ''[[GaiasLament 99°F (37°C)]]''. To put this into perspective, the highest averate temperature in Seattle (where the family canonically lives) is around 73°F (23°C).

* 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, eating it quickly before any kids can steal it from him. After he finishes, some creepy children show up, restrain him with duct tape, then proceed to rip open his gastrointestinal tract and eat the cereal out of his innards, all while the leprechaun screams in agony and begs for the mercy of death while calling out for God and Jesus, only for his death visions to instead be [[DraggedOffToHell demons]]. 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 and raises some disturbing implications: either a) the reality it comes from is so sadistic and violent that torture of this level is used as children's entertainment to sell groceries, or b) the children in this reality are genuinely like the ones in the advert and the whole thing is the marketers playing to desires of their audience.. Even Morty is horrified of this. Overall, it's definitely one of the darkest [[BlackComedy and most hilarious]] things Rick and Morty has done thus far.

--> '''Jerry''': I'm sorry! I-I made a mistake. I won't do it again!
--> '''Rick''': Nobody ever does.
* Morty mutates Ethan into a freak for breaking Summer's heart. He definitely took after his grandpa in the revenge department, and his expression sells it.

** The monologue Rick gives in the latter scene is ''chilling''.

* The Galactic Federation seems pretty stable on the whole, but the fact that Rick and Bird Person are part of a major rebellion against it hints that it may be more dystopian than it lets on. To whit, the nature of the honeypot operation they ran on Bird Person in order to uncover him and his rebel friends.

* While this sort of goes for the series in general with Rick and Morty travelling universes and often bringing with them untold destruction and chaos, the idea that, at any moment, you could end up vanishing from your own reality and be dumped into another for some cheap laughs on an alternate universe's TV show. The brief confusion of the coffee machine woman's voice, before rapidly ascending to utter terror before cutting away…

* Rick just up and kills a beloved family member right in front of them. Except it wasn't a beloved family member. It was a parasite tricking everyone with false memories. But doesn't help the nightmare fuel though, given he attacked it out of nowhere, and without saying anything. To the rest of the family, it would of seemed like he straight up murdered somebody for no apparent reason.

** Keep in mind, Mr. Jelly Bean is voiced by '''Creator/TomKenny''', of all people. Hearing such an iconic and recognizable cartoon voice, twisted into that of a ''sadistic rapist'', is disturbing enough on its own (though it's also pretty awesome on a meta level, as Kenny got to show off a darker side of his acting skills, and delivered a truly ''terrifying'' performance within just a few lines of dialogue).