History Recap / RickAndMortyS3E2RickmancingTheStone

* TakeAThirdOption: When Rick gives the kids the choice of either returning home with him as opposed abandoning them to live out in the post-apocalyptic dimension, Morty questions why they can't come up with a less dramatic arrangement that suits everybody. In the end Rick ends up having to take a third choice of convincing Summer to come home after he finds that ditching the kids isn't as simple as it sounds.

** Jerry becomes even more of a ButtMonkey than he was before, being bullied, ignored and verbally abused when he attempts to maintain even the barest relationship with his children. Despite Beth having chosen Rick over Jerry, the children blame Jerry exclusively for the divorce.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Armothy chokes out the lord of the castle while he's in the bath, but only waits as long as it takes for the guy to pass out before deeming his job done and returning Morty's arm to normal. The guy regains consciousness, and Rick has to help Morty finish the job.

* RealityEnsues: Armothy chokes out the lord of the castle while he's in the bath, but only waits as long as it takes for the guy to pass out before deeming his job done and returning Morty's arm to normal. The guy regains consciousness, and Rick has to help Morty finish the job.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: The wolf that threatens Jerry not only wants to eat his mail instead of his food, it can tell which of the two envelopes contains his unemployment check. It also seems to understand him perfectly well, howling in confirmation when Jerry tries to understand the absurdity of the situation.

* AntiClimacticUnmasking: When Summer takes Hemorrhage's mask off, she clearly wasn't expecting a normal, handsome looking man with a dumb mustache.

* BehindTheBlack: Rick makes some disparaging remarks about Jerry, despite the fact that Jerry is standing right in front of him. He acts like he doesn't see Jerry until the camera pulls back enough to see him. Jerry [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.

* DieselPunk: As for ''Mad Max'' reference, All the transportation in dimension is this. And even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZcoJ39s2X8 Co-creator in Sneak Peek video]] calling this episode atmosphere as ''Diesel powered vehicular field death and nihilism''.

* DyingVocalChange: Robot Morty's attempts to escape being deleted end in failure, with his voice [[ElectronicSpeechImpediment trailing off]] into a slow motion drone.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Rick is initially cagey with Morty about his reasons for staying in the post-apocalyspe dimension, but he's forced to drop the act when he can't bring himself to eat human flesh.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Morty calls Summer out on this at the beginning at the episode for not knowing what ''Carpe Diem'' means.

** Deals with the aftermath of the season opener, particularly Morty and Summer trying to cope with their parents' divorce. Summer becomes a StrawNihilist and tries to start a new life in the ''Film/MadMax'' dimension before realizing that running away from her problems [[GenerationXerox makes her no better than her parents]]. Meanwhile, Morty seems relatively fine with the change but a couple days of cathartic violence unearths his hidden anger against Jerry.

** The episode contains a lot of ''Film/MadMax'' references. For starters, Summer kills an expy of [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Immortan Joe]] and her wasteland outfit is modeled after that of Auntie Entity's dress from ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', and Hemorrhage is clearly a stand-in for [[Film/TheRoadWarrior Lord Humongous]].

* BookEnds: The wind calling Jerry a "loser".

* YourCheatingHeart: Apparently, as we find out a few episodes later, Summer was still in a relationship with Ethan the whole time, despite starting another one with Hemorrhage and even marrying him.

* ActingUnnatural: The robot versions of Morty, Summer, and Rick are at best shallow facsimiles of the real versions. They gladly go along with whatever Beth wants and Robot Morty eventually [[GrowBeyondTheirProgramming gains sentience]] before Rick overrides him.

* SorryToInterrupt: The guy doing a coffee run walking in on Summer and Hemorrhage making out on a table.

* AccidentalHandHold: When Hemorrhage and Summer both reach for the wrench on the ground, they accidentally touch each others hand a romantic moment ensues.

* {{Fanservice}}: Summer has a pretty hot make-out session with the leader of the Deathstalkers and it's implied to lead to sex.

* GenerationXerox: Summer's relationship with her cannibal boyfriend turns out exactly like Beth and Jerry's marriage after a few weeks of living together. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because, as Rick points out, both relationships were based on running away from their problems.

* LampshadedTheObscureReference: Rick burns a raider's semantics by saying "Save it for the Semantics Dome, E.B. White." This is a reference to E.B. White's ''The Elements of Style''.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Hemorrhage, Summer's raider boyfriend turns out to have a personality based on neediness, insecurity, and laziness - in other words, he's just like her father.

* YourCheatingHeart: Apparently, Summer was still in a relationship with Ethan the whole time, despite starting another one with Hemorrhage.

* DyingVocalChange: Robot Morty's attempts to escape being deleted end in failure, with his voice trailing off into a slow motion drone.
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: When Rick turns robot Summer and Morty off, their voices slow down.