A new family has moved onto the planet Earth. That's right, planet Earth; the Schlorpians are refugees from a world that has been destroyed. Terry and Korvo are partners and "parents" of the Replicant children Yumyulak and Jesse, while Pupa is the closest thing they have to a baby.
As Terry and Korvo try to deal with their feelings about being the only aliens on the planet, the kids attempt to navigate school. They end up shrinking a classmate that is bullying them and decide to figure out if she should be an experiment or killed.
Tropes for this episode include:
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Linda begs for her life when the kids try to dissolve her in acid.
- Asshole Victim: Shrinking a teenager and kidnapping one should not be as funny as it is. Considering that Linda was going to beat up the alien kids and got them in trouble with their racist teacher, however, she got off lightly with brain damage.
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Justified; Terry and Korvo are relative newcomers to Earth and thus haven't been properly told that television isn't real. The news breaks them.
- Deconstruction: The pilot ends up being one of a typical Rick and Morty episode, specifically the love that people have for amoral characters.
- Normally when Rick engages in science-fiction shenanigans, he talks gleefully about how he can always avoid the consequences. The Schlorpians know that they aren't above Earth consequences for their shenanigans; Korvo bluntly says they need to ditch the destruction that Funbucket caused or they'll get arrested, and the kids are trying not to be expelled. What's more, their wanting Pupa to mature and destroy the planet is Played for Laughs but gives enough time for the audience to realize how serious that is.
- Terry and Korvo love how Funbucket is amoral and doesn't care about anything while spouting multiple catchphrases. When they recreate Funbucket down to his DNA, he quickly gets tired of their fanboy nature. What's more, he gives them a What the Hell, Hero? for taking him for granted and not considering he has feelings. When he actually does start going on a rampage, the aliens seriously consider giving him a Mercy Kill.
- Do Wrong, Right: Jesse chides Yumyulak for trying to shake Linda into a vat of acid. She advises smacking the sides like you would with ketchup.
- Foreshadowing: When Jesse says they'll just plant the pieces of Jesse's body after she dies so she'll sprout into a new girl, it at first sounds like the naïve fantasy of a child that doesn't understand death. Cut the season 2 finale where it's revealed that when Schlorpians die they turn into trees and regenerate, and none of them were aware that human death is permanent.
- He Knows Too Much: Yumyulack is a fan of doing this when people either annoy him or cotton onto his plans:
- Linda, while shrunken, nearly gets dunked in acid for threatening to go to the cops and report that the aliens kidnapped her. Yumyulak and Jesse end up dousing her brain in Diet Coke instead to make her too stupid to tell anyone when she's back to normal.
- When the Janitor figures out what the two siblings did, Yumyulak takes out his shrink ray gun and takes care of the man. Jesse happily says he'll do great in their tiny people shelter.
- Ignored Epiphany:
- The two guys that convince Funbucket to join him just treat him like a person, which he points out, rather than a "dumb sidekick". Terry and Korvo are convinced instead to make another Funbucket that is designed to love them.
- When the two guys from the nightclub agree to take the shrunken, traumatized Funbucket back into their lives rather than giving him a Mercy Kill, Terry asks Korvo if they were the bad guys in the situation. Korvo dismisses that because he says that aliens practice Blue-and-Orange Morality.
- Not Helping Your Case: The kids keep arguing that they're not a threat to the school and are facing discrimination for being aliens. Meanwhile, their teacher and principal find a severed hand that matches Yum's skin color attached to a computer reprogrammed to arrest anyone it sees. Plus, they do kidnap Linda in retaliation for her getting them in trouble.
- Spoof Aesop: The Schlorpian adults and kids decide that the lesson of the episode is to avoid getting caught for your misdeeds and only kidnap jerk adults since no one cares about them.
- Too Dumb to Live: Even when being threatened with Pupa eating her or being tossed in acid, Linda can't stop threatening the kids that shrunk her with jail-time. It ends with her getting lobotomized via Diet Coke.
- Wham Line: According to Yumyulak, the mission is for Pupa to destroy the whole planet and colonize it in the form of Schlorp when it reaches full-growth.
- You Are Grounded!: Korvo grounds Yumulack and Jesse for abducting Lydia, saying that the grounding will be discussed later.
