History Recap / RickAndMortyS3E2RickmancingTheStone

[''Rick drops a car on him'']

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: When Robot@Morty interpretes the [=[[quotemode]]=] tag as part of the sentence.

* ActingUnnatural: The robot versions of Morty, Summer, and Rick are at best shallow facsimiles of the real versions. They gladly go along with whatever Beth wants and Robot Morty eventually gains sentience before Rick overrides him.

* CallBack:
** Jerry is wearing the ''Titanic'' hat from "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E11RicksyBusiness Ricksy Business]]".
** The U-To truck makes its second appearance since the pilot episode in which Jerry tries to make Rick move out. Ironically, this time it is Jerry who is moving out.

* GhostlyGoals: Armothy's desire to kill the man responsible for the death of his family is lampshaded by Morty, who asks if it's an "unfinished business" kind of thing. Armothy gives a "maybe" gesture in response.

* NewSpeak: Hemorrhage speaks like this, for instance - referring to explosions as "Boomy-booms." When Summer makes fun of him for it, he vaguely implies that he only speaks that way because [[GenreSavvy he thinks that's the way people are supposed to speak after an apocalypse.]]

** Deals with the aftermath of the season opener, particularly Morty and Summer trying to cope with their parents' divorce. Summer becomes a StrawNihilist and tries to start a new life in the ''[[Film/MadMax Mad Max]]'' dimension before realizing that running away from her problems [[GenerationXerox makes her no better than her parents]]. Meanwhile, Morty seems relatively fine with the change but a couple days of cathartic violence unearths his hidden anger against Jerry.
** This episode also deals with Rick's claim that both Morty and Summer are replaceable. He tries to ditch them in the ''[[Film/MadMax Mad Max]]'' dimension but realizes that replacing them [[PragmaticVillainy is actually more work than just convincing them to come home]].

** The episode contains a lot of ''[[Film/MadMax Mad Max]]'' references. For starters, Summer kills an expy of [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Immortan Joe]] and her wasteland outfit is modeled after that of Auntie Entity's dress from ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', and Hemorrhage is clearly a stand-in for [[Film/TheRoadWarrior Lord Humongous]].

* OedipusComplex: Hemorrhage, Summer's raider boyfriend turns out to have a personality based on neediness, insecurity, and laziness - in other words, he's just like her father.

** The episode contains a lot of ''[[Film/MadMax Mad Max]]'' references. For starters, Summer kills an expy of [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Immortan Joe]] and her wasteland outfit is modeled after that of Auntie Entity's dress from ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''.

* NoTrueScotsman: After Rick uses the isotope chunk to give electricity and modern society to the savages, Summer becomes the only person willing to stay true to their roots and argues as much.

* NoTellMotel: Jerry is now living in a motel after the divorce. It's apparently frequented by prostitutes, which Jerry completely missed.

** Jerry becomes even more of a ButtMonkey than he was before because of his lack of commitment towards the divorce, even though he was the one who suggested it in the first place. Waffling between leaving and staying just makes Morty, Summer, and Beth more annoyed with him.

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Jerry's lack of commitment to his decision to divorce Beth causes Morty and Summer to view him as this.

* AnAesop

* PetTheDog

** The episode contains a lot of ''[[Film/MadMax Mad Max]]'' and ''[[Series/GameOfThrones Game of Thrones]]'' references. For starters, Summer kills an expy of [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Immortan Joe]] and her wasteland outfit is modeled after that of Auntie Entity's dress from ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''.

** Jerry is wearing the ''Titanic'' hat from "Ricksy Business".

* NoTellMotel: Jerry is now living in a motel after the divorce. It's apparently frequented by prostitutes, which Jerry completely missed (or so he claims).

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: It's left ambiguous if Summer and her cannibal boyfriend had sex during their make-out session.

* LampshadedTheObscureReference: Rick burn a raider's grammar and semantics by saying "Save it for the Semantics Dome, E.B. White." This is a reference to E.B. White's ''The Elements of Style''.

* AwwLookTheyReallyLoveEachOther: The episode ends with Summer going to visit Jerry, offering him some life advice and a loving embrace.

* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The episode ends with Summer going to visit Jerry, offering him some life advice and a loving embrace.

* PetTheDog: After an entire episode of being shat upon by his apathetic family, his divorcee living situation and even ''nature itself'', Jerry has a brief moment of catharsis when his daughter visits him with a souvenir from her adventure, using it as a means to give him some helpful advice about moving forward, and joyfully embraces him.

* AnAesop: Don't half-ass anything that you love, commit to it. If you can't, leave and don't look back.

* EvenAnimalsHateHim: The wolf in TheStinger who eats and vomits up Jerry's unemployment check simply because the universe hasn't seen him suffer enough.

* ButtMonkey: The universe has decided to make Jerry this; at the beginning of the episode ''the wind itself'' calls Jerry a "loser". And in the stinger a wolf deliberately goes after his unemployment checks just so he'll suffer, then the wind ''once again'' calls Jerry a "loser".

* DieselPunk: As for ''Mad Max'' homepage, All the transportation is this. And even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcoJ39s2X8 Co-creator in Sneak Peek video]] close calling this episode atmosphere as ''Diesel powered vehicular field death and nihilism''.

* DieselPunk: As for Mad Max homepage, All the transportation is this. And even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcoJ39s2X8 Co-creator in Sneak Peek video]] close calling this episode atmosphere as ''Diesel powered vehicular field death and nihilism''.

** The U-To truck makes its second appearance since the pilot episode in which Jerry tries to make Rick to move out. Ironically, this time it is Jerry who is moving out.