History Recap / RickAndMortyS4E6NeverRickingMorty

* ExtremeOmnisexual: Apparently Rick has been dating all types of people. Amongst his past lovers is a man, a Joda-type alien and a FunnyOctopus.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The ticket master gets sucked out a window into space, ripped in half in the process, then because of the effects of the train, experiences [[AndIMustScream a months-long hell of spinning in a circle spraying blood]] everywhere until Morty finally [[MercyKill puts him out of his misery]].

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Deliberately {{invoked| trope}} by Rick and Morty to escape from Story Lord's attempt to extract their "limitless potential" of future stories: when the two of them are in a hopeless situation that Story Lord claims to be how their story ends, they manage to get out of it by praying to UsefulNotes/JesusChrist. Since this is something they would never really do (as Rick doesn't even believe in God) and would be a horrible story, it causes Story Lord's machine to lose its power.

--> '''Rick:''' Because if it's too easy we'll never get there! If you don't want to be meta stop deconstructing shit!

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The "tickets please" guy is revealed to be a hidden badass once he [[BattleStrip rips his shirt off]].

* DeathBySex: In one of the stories, a male character in the Ticket Collector's non-canon dream reveals that he is part of a religion that stays a virgin to keep the Ticket Collector alive and save the world. He then gives in to the temptation coincidently at the same time Ticket Collector is given a MercyKill by Morty.

* {{Irony}}: While explaining the Bechdel test, one of the first things Rick clarifies is that there have to be at least two ''named'' women. Morty takes the very concept to an absurd extreme, making a story where every character is specified to be a woman (actually using the term "female") and the story revolves around menstruation (though only called "special times")... yet only manages to get one character named (Summer, Beth is only called "mom" through the story, the scorpions are unnamed and so is the supreme court judge). Although, it should be pointed out that the women being both named was not originally part of the test.

** The passengers in the train cart that talk about the "Rick and Morty musical" are dressed as characters from popular Broadway musicals, including [[{{Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera}} The Phantom of the Opera]], {{Theatre/Hairspray}}, and {{Theatre/Cats}}.

* AbsenteeActor: Downplayed with Jerry, who does appear in a couple of the brief stories seen, but doesn't have a speaking role at all in the episode.

* UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest: Rick has Morty make up a story with a particularly mean version of this, making it so that men cannot be present or mentioned in the story at all, with the dialogue itself stilted to represent how forced it is. Whether it's meant as a jab at how men tend to be bad at writing women, with some self-deprecating humor about the show itself (particularly the first two seasons), or at the test itself is up for grabs.

* VisualPun: After the alien explains his theory on the Bleeding Man, blaster shots fill the screen as the theory is "shot full of holes".

* AmbiguousSyntax: When Rick tells Morty of the Bechdel Test, he mentions that it was proposed by a lesbian cartoonist named Alison Bechdel. Morty asks why "lesbian" is part of her job title.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Story Lord's explanation of the etymology of 'Yahweh' to a dumbfounded Jesus seems to just have been a joke made up for the show, there were no Sumerian or Mesopotamian deities named 'Ya' or 'Weh'.