Line #72 Recap/RickAndMortyS1E7RaisingGazorpazorp


1	'''Season 1, Episode 07:'''
2	!Raising Gazorpazorp
3	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rickandmortyraisinggazorpazorp.JPG]]
4	[[caption-width-right:350:Morty's unexpected arrival.]]
5	->Written by: Eric Acosta & Wade Randolph\
6	Directed by: Jeff Myers
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8	->'''Morty:''' I lost the chance to be careful, Rick. I'm a father now, you know? It's time for me to be responsible. Isn't that right...\
9	'''Rick:''' Don't name it!\
10	'''Morty:''' Morty Jr.?\
11	'''Rick:''' Oh crap, he named it.
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13	'''Original air date:''' 3/10/2014
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15	Rick buys Morty a sex robot, and Morty manages to impregnate it, creating a half-alien, half-Morty baby, which he calls Morty Jr. and raises it with the 'help' of Jerry and Beth. Meanwhile, Rick and Summer investigate the robot's homeworld, Gazorpazorp, and discover that it is a highly divided society, with ape-like males ruled over by powerful, intelligent, and really ''bitchy'' females. Rick offends them with a sexist joke and is sentenced to death. Summer saves him by explaining how her attractive top was designed by a gay man, and therefore not all men are like the apes on Gazorpazorp.
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17	Morty Jr. grows up quickly and becomes a rebellious teenager who causes chaos and destruction on the streets but changes his ways when he realizes just how much Morty loves him.
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19	!!This episode contains examples of:
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21	* AbandonedWarehouse: Morty Jr. performs his AngryDance in an abandoned factory.
22	* AbsurdlyYouthfulParents: Morty becomes one when he convinces Rick to buy him a sexbot that turns out to be an alien reproductive device. Exaggerated when the half-alien baby [[RapidAging ages extremely quickly]], making him appear to be older than Morty in only about a day.
23	* AbusiveAlienParents: Downplayed with the Gazorpians, who raise female babies just fine but literally catapult male ones outside to live on their own. Their society justifies this because the males are shown to be incredibly violent and try to gang-rape Summer the moment they see her.
24	* AgeLift: ''ComicStrip/{{Marmaduke}}'' creator Brad Anderson is depicted as a middle-aged man despite being 89 at the time this episode aired, along with being a sociopath that uses comic strips as a creative outlet.
25	-->'''Morty:''' Wow. I never got that impression from reading ''Marmaduke''.\
26	'''Brad Anderson:''' [[TakeThat Well, did you get the impression I was trying to make you laugh?]]
27	* AlwaysCamp: Summer mentions gay men being fashion designers on Earth.
28	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The male Gazorpians are considered the most violent, savage beings in the universe even HalfHumanHybrid Morty Jr. who has human intelligence was born with these tendencies. Female Gazorpians are more civilized but are a species of man-hating dictators.
29	* ArtisticLicenseReligion: During his despairing rant after finding out Morty lied to him about the outside world, Morty Jr yells "Jesus wasn't born on Christmas" - which is true - followed by "they moved the date, it was a pagan holiday!" - which isn't. There wasn't any particular pagan holiday on December 25th until the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti began to be celebrated some time in the 4th century, but Christians had been celebrating Christmas on that date for centuries. In fact, modern scholarship more often suggests the opposite, that December 25th was chosen for the Dies Natalis to try and stifle the popularity of Christmas
30	* AttemptedRape: The first thing that happens to Summer upon arriving on Gazorpazorp, complete with a terrifying [=POV=] shot of her struggling to keep her legs from being pried open. Thankfully, Rick kicks ass.
31	* BabysFirstWords: Morty tries to raise a HalfHumanHybrid baby where he is the dad and the mother is an alien from a ProudWarriorRace. He tries to make the baby say "dada" but the baby ends up saying "death", "domination" and "destruction".
32	* BabyTalk: Jerry resorts to this when speaking to baby Gazorpian.
33	* BecauseISaidSo: Morty yells this at his son, prompting Morty Jr. to run away in tears.
34	* BilingualBonus: The stairs up the dais where the female Gazorpians carry out sentencing reads "Sis Semper Calumniam," which means [[TheUnfairSex "You are always wrong."]]
35	* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Gazorpians take masculinity and femininity to the extreme. Male Gazorpians are giant animalistic savages who live only for their base instincts of violence and sex, while female Gazorpians are much more humanoid (though still taller than humans), intelligent and telekinetic, but also shallow and egoistic.
36	* BlatantLies: Morty tries to come up with a long heartfelt speech as an excuse to have Rick buy him the SexBot, though Rick obviously doesn't fall for it but still buys it for him.
37	* TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed: Rick gets punished for creating the sound of which the females of LadyLand dare not speak (a fart).
38	* DamselInDistress: Although Summer wants to prove this cliche wrong, she gets captured by Gazorpians as soon as she is near the portal door prompting Rick to follow and rescue her. That said, in the end, it's Summer who gets them out of the clutches of death.
39	* DefusingTheTykeBomb: Morty's son has a HeelRealization after witnessing his father becoming a PapaWolf while defending his life.
40	* DisproportionateRetribution: In female Gazorpian society, fashion faux pas such as having messy hair [[FelonyMisdemeanor are considered crimes most heinous]] and are punished with the SilentTreatment. Farting in public and being a man is an automatic death sentence.
41	* DoesNotLikeMen: The female Gazorpians are misandrists who hate men so much that ''being a man'' in their kingdom is a crime punishable by death. While it's understandable that they hate male Gazorpians, who are nothing more than mindless, violent savages, this hatred extends to men of all species, which Summer eventually points out is wrong. The leader even gets angry at Rick for him correctly guessing he and Summer were going to be crushed under a boulder, but she kept avoiding he was right while trying to make it look like Rick was wrong until she admits she hated Rick for being right.
42	* DopeSlap: Summer slaps Rick to demonstrate to the Amazons that he is indeed her slave.
43	* DrivenToSuicide: Morty Jr. would rather be killed by Earth's poisonous atmosphere that Morty lied about to him to stop him from going out and wrecking everything than spend another minute under his care.
44	* EurekaMoment: Summer has a life-saving idea when Rick talks about her top.
45	* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The episode ends with Rick giving another long, loud fart, which makes both Summer and Beth laugh along with him, and Jerry and Morty walk over to join them and start laughing too.
46	* FreudianExcuse: Jerry predicts that Summer will become [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E2LawnmowerDog a stripper]] for the lack of attention she received during childhood.
47	* GrapplingHookPistol: Rick uses one to get onto the Flying Head aircraft.
48	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse. Morty gets one in Morty Jr.'s memoir during TheStinger.
49	* HormoneAddledTeenager: Morty cannot get enough of his sex puppet, much to Summer and Jerry's dismay.
50	* HydrantGeyser: Morty Jr. creates one when wreaking havoc in the city.
51	* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim:
52	-->'''Summer''': If you impose Gazorpazorp's laws on Earth, you're no better than the men whose farts shall remain unspoken.
53	* InspirationNod: This episode takes its title and plot from the show ''Series/RaisingHope'' which has a young adult who gets a girl pregnant and tries raising it the best he can.
54	* IWarnedYou: Jerry is milking his ignored advice to Morty regarding child rearing for all its worth.
55	* LadyLand: The female Gazorpians live in an underground society where men are forbidden.
56	* LastSecondWordSwap:
57	-->'''Beth''': Stop filling it with your own insecurity. You're gonna turn it into Morty -- uh, mm -- more -- more -- more -- more of you.
58	* LiesToChildren: Morty lies to his son about the air being poisonous outside once he sees how violent and dangerous he's growing up to be. Morty Jr. doesn't take this betrayal of his trust well.
59	* AManIsAlwaysEager: Taken to an absolutely disturbing degree with Morty and his sex robot. After Rick buys it, Morty can't help himself and keeps having sex with it during the family's ''lunchtime''. Doesn't help that they can hear the sounds from the dining table and Morty periodically comes back down wearing nothing but undies to drink a whole bottle of juice before going back to his room.
60	* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Morty Jr. creates some disturbing drawings.
61	* NoSympathy: Despite saving her from getting raped, Rick berates Summer for it as if she was responsible for it in the first place.
62	* PetTheDog: For all the snarking and critiques she gave Morty about his parenting skills, Beth was still willing to admit that her son at least tried his best after seeing Morty Jr. write a book about how bad of a father Morty was.
63	* ProperlyParanoid: Rick warns the family that the newborn may look harmless now but could grow into something dangerous. [[CassandraTruth Nobody believes him]].
64	* PsychicStrangle: The Amazon leader does this to Rick and Summer.
65	* RapidAging: Morty Jr. goes from infancy to adolescence within a day.
66	* RecliningReigner: The ruler of Gazorpazorp receives Summer and Rick in this position.
67	* RobosexualsAreCreeps: Morty's family is concerned about him spending all his time in his room with a sexbot. Jerry blames and scolds Rick for this since the latter bought the sexbot.
68	* SexBot: Rick buys one for Morty. As it turns out, the robot is actually a Gazorpian breeding chamber that results in a half-human half-Gazorpian baby.
69	* ShaggyDogStory: Rick and Summer's subplot turns out to be all for naught when Morty manages to calm down Morty Jr. and finally give him an outlet for his Gazorpian instincts for war. Lampshaded by Rick.
70	* ShoutOut:
71	** The whole plot about a ScavengerWorld full of violent brutes secretly ruled by a higher caste, who send out flying heads that drop material, is straight out of ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''.
72	** Morty Jr does a reenactment of Kevin Bacon's AngryDance in ''Film/{{Footloose}}''.
73	* StagingAnIntervention: Jerry tries to get everyone on board intervening Morty's excessive SexBot exercise.
74	* TheStinger: Morty Jr., now famous, is being featured in a TV interview about the book he wrote about Morty, "My Horrible Father". When the Smiths see this, they comfort Morty, who just states he hopes Morty Jr. is eating well.
75	* StrawFeminist:
76	** The female Gazorpians have a society that's practically built on straw. It's so extreme that they'll automatically kill any male who enters their domain, even if he isn't a threat. Their behavior is actually understandable, because female Gazorpians are intelligent and empathetic, whereas male Gazorpians are incredibly violent and dangerous, but their hatred spreads to males of all species, which winds up making them pretty intolerant and hypocritical.
77	** Summer showed signs of this as well in the same episode as she refused to objectify herself even though her life and her chastity was threatened. Though that was more of a reaction to Rick being a {{Jerkass}}.
78	* StrawMisogynist:
79	** Of course, for balance's sake, the portrayal of the society of male Gazorpians isn't any better. Where the female society is a false utopia of stereotypical bitches, the male society is a ScavengerWorld where all the males' concerns are food, violence and sex, by rape if necessary. The message is that one will need balance to achieve something sensible, since focusing only on either extreme leads to awfulness.
80	** Also for balance's sake, Rick gets some moments of this in his conversations with Summer (such as stating that he has a policy against taking "chicks" on his adventures with him) and makes several sexist comments about the female Gazorpians and their society.
81	* ToiletHumor: Farting becomes a plot point.
82	* VanityIsFeminine: The female Gazorpians are incredibly shallow and self-centered, which all in all makes their society a false utopia at best, and fridge dystopia at worst.
83	* WhatAreYouInFor: The question comes up in talks between Rick and a female prisoner.
84	* WholePlotReference: The episode is basically Film/{{Zardoz}}, but what if it wasn't made on drugs, and with a lot of gender stereotypes.
85	* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack:
86	-->'''Jerry''': It looks harmless now, but it could grow dangerous. Like The Music/InsaneClownPosse.
87	-->'''Rick''': Yeah. Good one, Jerry. 2003 just called. It wants its easy target back.
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