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* IronicNurseryTune: Scary Terry comes along with a white-dressed little girl jumping a cord while singing his nursery rhyme: ''"A, B, his name is Scary Terry... C, D, he's very scary... E, F, he'll design your death..."'' When Rick tries to save himself and Morty from Terry, he knocks out the girl and incepts her dream... ending up in a copy of the environment they just escaped from, with another identical little girl continuing: ''"J, K, he'll really ruin your day..."''

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* IronicNurseryTune: Scary Terry comes along with a white-dressed little girl jumping a cord while singing his nursery rhyme: ''"A, B, his name is Scary Terry... C, D, he's very scary... E, F, he'll design your death..."'' When Rick tries to save himself and Morty from Terry, he knocks out the girl and incepts her dream... ending up in a copy of the environment they just escaped from, with another identical little girl continuing: ''"J, K, he'll really ruin your day..."'' Later, as the duo make their way back to Mr. Goldenfold's dreamworld with Terry by their side, she sings, ''"Q, R, you won't get very far..."''


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* VolumetricMouth: Morty twice -- once when falling out of the plane in Mr. Goldenfold's dream, and again when consuming the kidney pills in Snuffles's dream.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: After being transported to the perverted dreams of Morty's math teacher's dream, Rick has no problem whatsoever in engaging in his depraved fantasies, but even he's disgusted when Summer, his own granddaughter, is revealed to be part of them.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: After being transported to the perverted dreams of Morty's math teacher's dream, teacher, Rick has no problem whatsoever in engaging in his depraved fantasies, but even he's disgusted when Summer, his own granddaughter, is revealed to be part of them.

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* AnimalIsTheNewMan: Rick creates a device that makes the family dog, Snuffles, intelligent. Unfortunately, Snuffles becomes ''too'' intelligent and ends up making every dog in the world smart and they take over the Earth. Good thing Rick and Morty save the day... for now, at least.



* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: Five intelligent Art/{{dogs play poker}} and smoke cigars while using their advanced robotic suits.
* CatchPhrase:
** "You don't knowww me!" for Mrs. Pancakes.

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* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: Five intelligent Art/{{dogs dogs play poker}} poker and smoke cigars while using their advanced robotic suits.
* CatchPhrase:
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CharacterCatchphrase: "You don't knowww me!" for Mrs. Pancakes.



-->'''Snuffles:''' You're being very aggressive, Jerry. Perhaps tomorrow Dr. Scraps will solve that problem with a bit of surgery.
-->(Another dog comes out with a pair of scissors)
-->'''Jerry:''' Huh! You think you can control me with a haircut?

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-->'''Snuffles:''' You're being very aggressive, Jerry. Perhaps tomorrow Dr. Scraps will solve that problem with a bit of surgery.
-->(Another
surgery.\\
''[another
dog comes out with a pair of scissors)
-->'''Jerry:'''
scissors]''\\
'''Jerry:'''
Huh! You think you can control me with a haircut?



* DolledUpInstallment: The episode was based on a rejected series that Creator/JustinRoiland pitched called ''Dog World''. It was about a family transported to an alternate universe where sentient dogs kept people as pets.



* DreamWithinADream: Part of the episode's Inception parody.

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* DreamWithinADream: Part of the episode's Inception parody.''Film/{{Inception}}'' parody.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: After being transported to the perverted dreams of Morty's math teacher's dream, Rick has no problem whatsoever in engaging in his depraved fantasies, but even he's disgusted when Summer, his own granddaughter, is revealed to be part of them.



* FetishesAreWeird: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{subverted|Trope}}. After going deeper into Goldenfold's subconscious, Rick and Morty reach a dream-level that is entirely devoted to his sexuality (in the form of a giant orgy), where there's BDSM, fetish gear, gnomes, and animal-human hybrids. Both Rick and Morty are uncomfortable, but Rick quickly "blends in" and engages in some pet-play with the gnomes. [[EveryoneHasStandards The only thing that crosses the line for them is Goldenfold's fantasies about Summer, Morty's teenage sister, understandably]].
-->'''Morty:''' ''[nervously]'' Oh man, Rick, this is pretty weird!\\
'''Rick:''' Don't judge, Morty.



* HumanPet: Rick builds a device to make their dog Snuffles more intelligent, which leads to the dog improving the device and uplifting all dogs. [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters They take over the world and keep humans as domestic animals]]; Snuffles (who now calls himself Snowball) keeps Morty as his pet because he always treated the dog well, while other humans are enslaved.
* HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The viewer is led to believe that cyborg dogs have taken over the earth, usurping humans as the dominant species. Instead, it turns out that it was AllJustADream designed to convince the leader of the dog rebellion that taking over the Earth would make them just like the humans, leading him to decide to colonize another dimension instead.
* IronicNurseryTune: Scary Terry comes along with a white-dressed little girl jumping a cord while singing his nursery rhyme: ''"A, B, his name is Scary Terry... C, D, he's very scary... E, F, he'll design your death..."'' When Rick tries to save himself and Morty from Terry, he knocks out the girl and incepts her dream... ending up in a copy of the environment they just escaped from, with another identical little girl continuing: ''"J, K, he'll really ruin your day..."''



* MisplacedRetribution: Jerry demands that Rick find a way to make the family dog smarter, but since he has no authority over Rick, he threatens to ground Morty so Rick can't bring him to help on his latest adventure. Fortunately for Morty, [[CrazyPrepared Rick already had a device for just such an occasion]].



-->"He can jump from dream to dream!"

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-->"He -->''"He can jump from dream to dream!"dream!"''



-->"What do you know, Morty, what do you know?"

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-->"What -->''"What do you know, Morty, what do you know?"know?"''



* PersecutionFlip: Dogs gain super-intelligence from one of Rick's creations and rebel against humans, turning the survivors into pets.



* PunchClockVillain: Scary Terry. Not only is terrorizing people literally just his day job, after he's done he goes home to a perfectly normal-looking suburban house, complete with [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes an equally-scary wife and infant son]].

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* PunchClockVillain: Scary Terry. Not only is terrorizing people literally just his day job, after he's done done, he goes home to a perfectly normal-looking suburban house, complete with [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes an equally-scary equally scary wife and infant son]].



* UpliftedAnimal: The subplot has Jerry frustrated by Morty's dog Snuffles ignoring commands, peeing inside, and constantly begging to go out and come back inside over and over for no reason. Jerry asks Rick for a device to make the dog smarter which Rick, reluctantly, agrees to, giving Snuffles a helmet that boosts his intelligence. At first, it works perfectly, the dog suddenly understands all their commands, even ones it hasn't been trained with at all. However, we learn that Rick originally set the helmet to operate well below its full potential, and after Snuffles realizes and figures out how to crank it up to 100% (putting in a second double-a battery), he becomes intelligent enough to create a device that allows him to speak English, then a MiniMecha, which he uses to replicate his helmet and create an army of superintelligent canines. It doesn't help that he's still pretty sore at Morty's family over being recently neutered.
-->'''Snuffles:''' Where are my testicles, Summer? They were removed. Where have they gone?\\
'''Summer:''' Oh... wow... that's an intense line of questioning, Snuffles.\\
'''Snuffles:''' Do '''NOT''' call me that. "Snuffles" was my slave name. You shall now call me "[[MeaningfulRename Snowball]]", [[ExactlyWhatitSaysOnTheTin because my fur is pretty, and white]].



-->"Awwww, bitch!"

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-->"Awwww, bitch!"-->''"Awwww, bitch!"''



* WritingAroundTrademarks: Lampshaded. Rick notes that Scary Terry looks like a legally safe knockoff of an [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet 80s horror character]].

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* WritingAroundTrademarks: Lampshaded. Rick notes that Scary Terry looks like a legally safe knockoff of an [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet 80s '80s horror character]].



-->'''Rick:''' "And if that doesn't make any sense, then [[TakeThat neither does everyone's favorite movie!]]"

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-->'''Rick:''' "And -->'''Rick:''' ...so if that doesn't make any sense, it's confusing, it's stupid, then [[TakeThat neither does so is everyone's favorite movie!]]"movie]]!
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* MarshmallowHell: When they get back to the real world, Summer does this to Morty. He, already freaked out by her appearance in his teacher's sex dream, disentangles himself as fast as possible.
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* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: Five intelligent dogs play poker and smoke cigars while using their advanced robotic suits.

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* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: Five intelligent dogs Art/{{dogs play poker poker}} and smoke cigars while using their advanced robotic suits.
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'''Original air date:''' 12/9/2013
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* DreamWalker: Rick and Morty travel into the dreams of Morty's math teacher, Mr. Goldenfold.

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** Arguably "bitch" is this for Scary Terry, to VerbalTic levels.

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