History Recap / RickAndMortyS2E1ARickleInTime

* FantasticFirearms: The [[TimePolice time cop]] Shleemypants wields a gun that looks more like a slug, but can revert a target into a fetus with a single shot. When Rick destroys it, Shleemypants proclaims "You killed my gun!", implying it was a living creature.

--->'''Time Cop:''' I got ambitions, man. Bringing you guys in is my ticket up.\\

* OhCrap: After resuming time, somehow Jerry ended up with his shirt backwards; the only fishy clue Beth could have used to punish Rick and the kids. However, [[WhatAnIdiot Jerry stupidly retorts he likes wearing it like that sometimes.]]

--->'''Rick:''' Okay, now hear me out on this. You're immortal, right? Which means your life is infinite. Well then that means there's a 100% chance that you will eventually do everything, ''including'' turning around to look behind you.\\

'''Rick:''' ''(proceeds to attack Time Cop)''

* TheUnfavourite: Subverted. Both Morty and Summer think they're the unfavourite one to Rick and them arguing about it causes the timeline to split, but Rick sets the record straight and tells them they're an equal amount of pain in his ass.
--> '''All Ricks''': So in conclusion, you're both equally mercurial, overly sensitive, clingy, hysterical, bird-brained homunculi. And I honestly can't tell the two of you apart half the time because I don't go by height or age, I go by amount of pain in my ass, which makes you both equal.

* LookBehindYou: Rick pulls this trick on the four-dimensional alien.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: A minor example but it's one of the few instances where someone knows more than Rick and not only talks down to him but also has a solution to the problem that he made. After fracturing time twice, a fourth dimensional being shows up to fix things. Not only does he have a way to fix the time breaks that is simple and straightforward, he even calls Rick a dumb-ass for the obvious paradox of Rick's attempted solution. If the alien wasn't part of the TimePolice and hadn't tried to bring Rick, Summer, and Morty in, the episode would have ended after about 5 minutes.
-->'''Fourth Dimensional Being:''' Hey! Damn it! Where you trying to use this to...Aww see, you broke time and you thought you could stick it back together with this? How you think you gonna move time while ya standin' in it, ya dumb-ass three-dimensional monkey-ass dummies.
* BlastOut: When the two timelines are no longer in sync, both Ricks come to the assumption that the other is no longer trying to recombine the timelines and is now trying to kill off everyone in the alternate timeline in order to fix the situation. This causes both of them to affix the time crystal to a gun and a cross-temporal gunfight ensues.

* HypocriticalHumor: Every Rick berates the others for resorting to violence, even though they are doing more-or-less the same thing.

* PrisonRape: "You know what they do to third dimensional life forms in time prison? Same thing they do in every other prison, only forever!"
* ProductPlacement: Spoofed; Beth and Jerry visit Coldstone Creamery and at the end Jerry resolves their subplot by asking them to help him give Beth the opportunity to save a Deer's life.

* TimeSkip: A very creative version as the episode opens six months after "Ricksy Business." That is six months after Rick, Morty, and Summer ''froze time'' in order to repair the house after trashing it.

--->'''Rick:''' Okay, now hear me out on this. You're immortal, right? Which means your life is infinite. Well then that means there's a 100% chance that you will eventually do everything, *including* turning around to look behind you.\\

** To emphasize, he actually does this with logic. By following the fact that the alien experiences all parts of their timeline simultaneously, and infinitely, they will eventually do every conceivable action, which includes turning around and not looking at him. The alien agrees with that logic and turns around, at which point Rick smacks him with a hammer.
--->'''Rick:''' OK, now hear me out on this. You're immortal, right? Which means your life is infinite. Well then that means there's a 100% chance that you will eventually do everything, INCLUDING turning around to look behind you.\\

** Angry over the beatdown, the testicle monster and his buddy search the timeline for Rick, but they find Albert Einstein thinking it's him. They clobber him, warning him not to mess with time. When they're gone, Einstein vows to mess with time and creates the important equation of E = mc[[superscript:2]].

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: A minor example but it's one of the few instances where someone knows more than Rick and not only talks down to him but also has a solution to the problem that he made. After fracturing time twice, a fourth dimensional being shows up to fix things. Not only does he have a way to fix the time breaks that is simple and straightforward, he even calls Rick a dumb-ass for the obvious paradox of Rick's attempted solution. If the alien wasn't part of the TimePolice and hadn't tried to bring Rick, Summer, and Morty in, the episode would have ended after about 5 minutes.
-->'''Fourth Dimensional Being:''' Hey! Damn it! Where you trying to use this to...Aww see, you broke time and you thought you could stick it back together with this? How you think you gonna move time while ya standin' in it, ya dumb-ass three-dimensional monkey-ass dummies.

* HistoricalInJoke: Angry over the beatdown, the testicle monster and his buddy search the timeline for Rick, but they find Albert Einstein thinking it's him. They clobber him, warning him not to mess with time. When they're gone, Einstein vows to mess with time and creates the important equation of E = mc[[superscript:2]].

-->'''Rick:''' OK, now hear me out on this. You're immortal, right? Which means your life is infinite. Well then that means there's a 100% chance that you will eventually do everything, INCLUDING turning around to look behind you.
-->'''Time Cop:''' [[TheSpock I cannot argue with that.]] ''(turns around)''
-->'''Rick:''' ''(proceeds to attack Time Cop)''

* BlastOut: When the two timelines are no longer in sync, both Ricks come to the assumption that the other is no longer trying to recombine the timelines and is now trying to kill off everyone in the alternate timeline in order to fix the situation. This causes the both of them to affix the time crystal to a gun and a cross temporal gunfight ensues.

-->'''Fourth Dimensional Being:''' Hey! Damn it! Where you trying to use this to...Aww see, you broke time and you thought you could stick it back together with this? How you think you gonna move time while ya standin' in it, ya dumb-ass three dimensional monkey-ass dummies.

** A second variation that involves the future rather than the past (these are fourth dimensional beings so past, present, and future are all happening at the same time from their perspective) when one of the alien time cops call for backup from another.

* TheStinger: The Time Cop and his buddy, when searching through time for Rick, mistake Albert Einstein for him and beat him up, warning him not to mess with time. Einstein defiantly states after they leave that he ''will'' mess with time, leading him to invent E=mc^2.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: A minor example but it's one of the few instances where someone knows more than Rick and not only talks down to him but also has a solution to the problem that he made. After fracturing time twice, a fourth dimensional being shows up to fix things. Not only does he have a way to fix the time breaks that is simple and straightforward, he even calls Rick a dumb-ass for the obvious paradox of Rick's attempted solution. If the alien wasn't part of the TimePolice and tried to bring Rick, Summer, and Morty in, the episode would have ended after about 5 minutes.
-->'''Fourth Dimensional Being:''' Hey! Damn it! Where you trying to use this to...Aww see, you broke time and you thought you could stick it back together with this? How you think you gonna move time while ya standin' in it ya dumb-ass three dimensional monkey-ass dummies.

* PrisonRape: ''"You know what they do to third dimensional life forms in time prison? Same thing they do in every other prison, only forever!"''

--> '''All Ricks''': So in conclusion, you're both equally mercurial, overly sensitive, clingy hysterical bird brained homunculi. And I honestly can't tell the two of you half the time because I don't go by height or age, I go by amount of pain in my ass,

* PrayerIsALastResort: When death seems imminent, Rick starts praying to Dod in at least two timelines. He quickly renounces once he is in the clear.

-->'''Time Cop:''' No... No mother f..Earth dude. Yeah, with the dinosaurs. Yeah... No, if you get to the dolphin people, you've gone too far.

* PrayerIsALastResort: When death seems immanent, Rick starts praying to god in at least two timelines. He quickly renounces once he is in the clear.

** A second variation that involves the future rather than the past (these are fourth dimensional beings so past, present, and suture are all happening at the same time from their perspective) when one of the alien time cops call for backup from another.
-->'''Time Cop:''' No..No mother f..Earth dude.Yeah, with the dinosaurs. yeah..No, if you get to the dolphin people, you've gone too far.

* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: To recombine the two alternate timelines both Ricks has to press a button at the same time. Unfortunately, one of the Morties makes a comment that distracts one of the Ricks from pressing it while the other Rick goes on to press the button resulting them to be out of sync.

->'''Fouth Dimensional Being:''' Hey! Damn it! Where you trying to use this to...Aww see, you broke time and you thought you could stick it back together with this? How you think you gonna move time while ya standin' in it ya dumb-ass three dimensional monkey-ass dummies.

* {{Irony}}: Rick, while BreakingTheFourthWall, makes the (fairly understandable) assumption that Beth and Jerry are in the middle of a "pointless grounded story about their shitty marriage." The B story actually focuses more on fleshing out Beth's character. Jerry reluctantly but consistently supports his wife, and accepts her, flaws and all, when he stages an elaborate plan to help her get what she wants.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Rick expresses certainty that Beth and Jerry are preoccupied in "a pointless, grounded story about their shit marriage."

--> '''All Ricks''': So in conclusion, you're both equally mercurial, overly sensitive, clingy hysterical bird brained homunculi. And I honestly can't tell the two of you half the time because I don't go by height or age, I go by amount of pain in my ass, which makes you both identical. Alright, everything resolved? Everybody nice and certain about their position in ''my'' world?