History Recap / RickAndMortyS6E10RicktionalMortpoonsRickmasMortcation

* DeathSeeker: Once Rickbot is [[RoboticReveal revealed to be a robot]] and Morty is infuriated by the deception, the former becomes increasingly guilty about lying to everyone, especially as the rest of the Smiths shower him with more and more ObliviousGuiltSlinging. By the time all three Smith women attack him after Morty tells them the truth, he gladly welcomes death, and is outright disappointed when they revive him to help save the Earth, repeatedly attempting to commit {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s and otherwise put himself InHarmsWay so he can end it. He finally gets his wish near the end after saving taking five mini-lightsabers from a gatling gun to the stomach.

** The Fantasy chemical vats from “The Old Man And The Seat” return, which are the vats that Rick used to incapacitate Tony for using his private toilet. The room where these vats are contained are revealed to be on the third floor of Rick’s underground laboratory. One thing to note is that during the scene where this room is shown, Morty’s lightsaber breaks through one of the vats in it’s descent, freeing a tough four-armed lizard alien in the process.

* DeathSeeker: Once Rickbot is [[RoboticReveal revealed to be a robot]] and Morty is infuriated by the deception, the former becomes increasingly guilty about lying to everyone, especially as the rest of the Smiths shower him with more and more ObliviousGuiltSlinging. By the time all three Smith women attack him after Morty tells them the truth, he gladly welcomes death, and is outright disappointed when they revive him to help save the Earth, repeatedly attempting to commit {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s and otherwise put himself InHarmsWay so he can end it. He finally gets his wish near the end after saving Morty.

* RunningGag: Lightsabers seem to have a habit of ''always'' [[TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn falling plasma blade first (or perfectly vertical)]]; if not by a wielder's hand or command, then on its own.
-->'''Curtis''': Perfectly fucking vertical...

** The second time, the mini lightsabers (which Morty shot at the President but [[TakingTheBullet Rickbot intercepted]]) slide through Rickbot's body and fall [[RunningGag perfectly fucking vertical]] through the floor, destroying the spaceship-White House.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Summer and the Beths literally tearing Rickbot apart is set to "The First Noel", a common Christmas carol.

* BoobyTrap: Rick disassembles one of Rick Prime's machines containing an explosive. After taking it apart, it contains another bomb.

* CallBack: The events of "Solaricks"--specifically, Rick's and Morty's encounter with Rick Prime in the latter's space lair--drive Rick's subplot in this episode, as he uses footage from this and machines that he took from the lair to help him once again start actively hunting Rick Prime.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Rickbot insists that he's definitely not a robot, even after the RoboticReveal. He's actually doing it ''on purpose'' because his programming has literally made it so that he'll die if he directly tells the truth, so he tries to make it as obvious as possible so the family will figure it out without him saying it, complete with turning it into a painfully obvious game. Unfortunately for him, they just interpret it as more family bonding and love "Rick" all the more for it.

* CoincidentalBroadcast: As soon as Morty says he's not to blame for ruining Christmas, President Curtis begins an EmergencyPresidentialAddress blaming him for the lightsaber incident. Which is lampshaded by Space Beth.

* RoboticReveal: As Morty suspected last episode, Rick actually replaced himself with a robot after getting insulted and spent the past weeks searching for Rick Prime. The reveal to the family happens when Morty angrily tells them, and Jerry then cuts Rickbot's wrist with a knife and wires emerge from the wound.

** After betraying Morty and confiscating his lighsaber, Curtis orders his troops to "[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} roll out!]]"

** Morty is furious to discover that the seemingly "new, nicer Rick" is a robot after all, while the real Rick has been hiding in his garage basement continuing to work on finding Rick Prime, shouting, "Betrayal! Betrayal of the highest order!"

** Also a heavily downplayed one, but Rickbot reveals as he's dying that he was programmed by the real Rick with the purpose of making Morty and the rest of the family happy, and thus, that everything he did was something that Rick himself indirectly did by extension. While Rick ducking out on Morty in favor of hunting Rick Prime and replacing himself with a robot [[DisproportionateRetribution all because Morty called him boring in the previous episode]] is definitely him being his usual cantankerous, {{Jerkass}}y self, this is still far better than how he would have reacted to such a slight in previous seasons. Essentially, instead of taking revenge for the put-down, he subbed in a nicer version of himself, whom he ensured would look after his family and treat them kindly.

** Numerous references to Star Wars abound, starting with Morty's real lightsaber as a Christmas gift and continuing into many discussions about the movies and TV series.

* RoboticReveal: As Morty suspected last episode, Rick actually replaced himself with a robot after getting insulted and spent the past weeks searching for Rick Prime. The reveal to the family happens when Morty angrily tells them, and Jerry then cuts Rickbot's wrist with an electric knife and wires emerge from the wound.

* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Once Morty learns the truth about Rickbot, the latter is quite guilty and regretful about having had to lie to him and the rest of the family, which only gets worse as the others shower him with affection and talks about how much they love the "new, nicer" him and how grateful they are to have him.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Morty is reasonably upset that Rick is too busy to hang out with their family that he made a robot to fill in. As such, Morty forces Rickbot to continue his function and not bother with the real Rick who likely doesn't care.

* NotHyperbole: Rick warns some scientists in his lair that of they touch his stuff they'll die. He clarifies immediately that it's not a threat, just a factual statement of how advanced his stuff is. Sure enough, one touches the [[DontTouchItYouIdiot obviously active end]] of a device and is [[ReducedToDust reduced to a pile of glowing green dust.]]

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Rickbot insists that he's definitely not a robot, even after the RoboticReveal.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: After Rick Bot is exposed to the family, he calmly closes his eyes while he's torn apart. Though this is mainly because he's a DeathSeeker, and he's actively disappointed to be brought back to life again later.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Rick Bot insists that he's definitely not a robot, even after the RoboticReveal.

* BlatantLies: President Curtis's state of the union broadcast has him back several {{Verbal Backspace}}s while trying to conceal the fact that he's gone to space to escape the consequences of his own actions that will cause Earth's destruction. He stops bothering, though, when he and several objects in the room with him begin to float from zero-G, just admitting he's busted.

* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: The President broadcasts one to inform the populace about the impending doom of the lightsaber hitting the Earth's core.

* HitMeDammit: When trying out the new lightsaber, Rick orders Morty to strike him with it which Morty is reluctant to do.

* DontTouchItYouIdiot: Rick warns the scientists to not touch his equipment or else they'll die emphasizing that it's not a death threat, but the fact that his gear is powerfully advanced. One scientist is immediately disintegrated after a quick touch, with Rick [[IWarnedYou calling it out]].

* DeathSeeker: Once Rickbot is [[RoboticReveal revealed to be a robot]] and Morty is infuriated by the deception, the former becomes more and more guilty about lying to everyone, especially as the rest of the Smiths shower him with more and more ObliviousGuiltSlinging. By the time all three Smith women attack him after Morty tells them the truth, he gladly welcomes death, and is outright disappointed when they revive him to help save the Earth, repeatedly attempting to commit {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s and otherwise put himself InHarmsWay so he can end it. He finally gets his wish near the end after saving Morty.

* CoincidentalBroadcast: As soon Morty says he wasn't blamed for ruining Christmas, President Curtis begins an EmergencyPresidentialAddress blaming him for the lightsaber incident. Which is lampshaded by Space Beth.

* BigNo: Morty lets one out when Robot Rick [[TakeMyHand loses his grib]] and gets sucked out of the spaceship.

** Rick references the previous episode, "A Rick in King Mortur's Mort", after the RoboticReveal, confirming that he replaced himself with Rickbot after the events of the ColdOpen after Morty called him boring, and Rickbot has been standing in for the real Rick ever since.
** Robot Rick's jab at his real counterpart "It's almost like someone designed me to be [[TwentyPercentMoreAwesome 22% more thoughtful]] than you." is a reference to previous episode where Robot Rick promises Morty to be 22% more agreeable which Rick obviously programmed him to be.

* ContinuousDecompression: Occurs when the bottom of the White House spaceship cracks open. This leads to a heartful TakeMyHand moment between Morty and Robot Rick before both get saved by Rick opening up a portal for them to fall into safety.

* IndyHatRoll: Spoofed with Robot Rick sliding under the SlowDoors of the President's backroom and [[DeathSeeker waiting to be smashed by it]] before Morty pulls him out just in time.

* MachineBlood: Robot Rick spits oil [[BloodFromTheMouth from his mouth]] when he [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in Morty's arms]].

* RoboticReveal: As Morty suspected last episode, Rick actually replaced himself with a robot after getting insulted and spent the past weeks searching for Rick Prime. The reveal to the family happens when Jerry cuts Robot Rick's wrist with an electric knife and wires emerge from the wound.

* TakingTheBullet: Robot Rick jumps in front of the President and gets riddled with lightsaber bullets from Morty's [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]].

* ChristmasEpisode: Takes place during Christmas. Unfortunately, Morty is unable to enjoy it throughout the plot and later takes it out on the rest of his family.