History Recap / RickAndMortyS7E10FearNoMort

* {{Reconstruction}}: Of the CruelTwistEnding subgenre that the show has taken liberal potshots within the likes of "Something Ricked This Way Comes" and "Never Ricking Morty". The Fear Hole's representative never loses his composure, and despite Morty's weariness and familiarity with associated tropes, he's completely taken for a ride, perhaps to an even greater extent than if he had just been completely witless like the GenreBlind that he and Rick usually look down on. It is best represented in the scene where Morty confronts the representative and displays the usual TakeThat attitude the show usually aims at a particular target. Not only is the representative not threatened by this knowledge in anyway, he manages to pull off a BreakingLecture that makes it clear that Morty's GenreSavvy ''isn't'' going to protect from what's coming.

* AbsurdPhobia: At one point, Rick triggers the Hole to go through another recursion when he sees the bill for a side of bacon at Denny's is eight dollars. Morty thinks being actually afraid of that is ridiculous, but Rick justifies it as a symptom of his concern about the capitalist economy collapsing (since this Rick is later shown to be a manifestation, it's left ambiguous if he's really afraid of that).

* DrinkingContest: During their FallingInLoveMontage, we see Diane and Rick enter (and win) a drinking contest at a BarFullOfAliens.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!", with TheReveal that the Rick we've spent most of the episode with being the fake instead of Morty this time around.

* DrinkingContest: During their FallingInLoveMontage, we see Diane and Rick enter a drinking contest at a bar.

* BreakingOldTrends:
** Unlike most of the latest season finales, this last episode of the season doesn't set up anything important that Rick and Morty will have to face in the future.

** Unlike the many season finales, this last episode of the season doesn't set up anything important that Rick and Morty will have to face in the future.

* {{Reconstruction}}: Of the CruelTwistEnding subgenre that the show has taken liberal potshots within the likes of "Something Ricked This Way Comes" and "Never Ricking Morty". The Fear Hole's representative never loses his composure, and despite Morty's weariness and familiarity with associated tropes, he's completely taken for a ride, perhaps to an even greater extent than if he had just been completely witless like the GenreBlind that he and Rick usually look down on.

* {{Reconstruction}}: Of the CruelTwistEnding subgenre that the show has taken liberal potshots with in the likes of "Something Ricked This Way Comes" and "Never Ricking Morty". The Fear Hole's representative never loses his composure, and despite Morty's weariness and familiarity with associated tropes, he's completely taken for a ride, perhaps to an even greater extent than if he had just been completely witless like the GenreBlind that he and Rick usually look down on.

* StrawNihilist: The Hole representative or at least the version the hallucination shows Morty, going at length about how the inevitable end of happiness makes it pointless to pursue, if not better to avoid altogether.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: After Rick and Morty's joint rap performance onstage, the critic from the ''New York Times'' deems the performance incredible, noting that Rick and Morty's nudity made the play "serious and good".

* EvilTastesGood: The mysterious man uses the word "delicious" a couple of times.

** As Rick shows signs of deterioration, Morty theorizes his greatest fear is watching Rick die. Rick, [[spoiler: a manifestation of the hole]] says he likes this theory, telling him to stop watching. This leads Morty to another encounter with the [[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Rod Sterling]] {{Expy}} who gives further hints that fear of losing happiness and the inevitability of losing a loved one is the {{central theme}} of the episode. He also claims that Morty does not matter, dismissing him as a [[{{Irony}} secondary character]].