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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022):
- When Chip and Dale are scanned by the bootlegging machine, a computer monitor shows what they'd look like in different animation styles; one of their potential redesigns has them looking like Rick and Morty.
- An attendee at FanCon is cosplaying as Pickle Rick.
Word of God states that Rick Stanton, the sarcastic, alcoholic grey-haired scientist in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), is partially based on Rick Sanchez.
In Eighth Grade, Kayla and Gabe share McNuggets and references to the Szechuan sauce scene.
Justice League (2017): When Bruce arrives at Barry Allen's residence, one of the monitors in Barry's room is displaying the Rick and Morty episode "Something Ricked This Way Comes".
Space Jam: A New Legacy: While LeBron James and Bugs Bunny search the Serververse for the other Looney Tunes characters, Rick and Morty dump the Tasmanian Devil on their windshield. A later episode of the series would reveal that these versions of Rick and Morty were killed off by the show's version of Rick with their full consent.
Rick: We're done running tests on your badger thing. It turns out his condition is irreversible.
Morty: I'll never erase what I saw from my brain!
Rick: He's your problem now, dum-dums!
In Free Guy, the Basement-Dweller gamer Keith has a Rick and Morty poster on his bedroom wall.
In I Came By, Hector is watching Rick and Morty the first time the police come to his house.

Stranger Things: In Season 4, among the Ricks in the video rental store's database, one of them is "Rick Sanchez".
Star Trek: Picard: In the season 2 episode "Assimilation", Teresa threatens her son with forbidding him to watch Rick and Morty if he does not behave.

In Borderlands 3, one side-mission revolves around hunting for "Wick and Warty", a psycho duo using portal technology to travel around.
In Everybody Edits Flash, the Flavor Text for the Altered Reality campaign is a quote from a pizza slice ordering a person.
In World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, an area of Maldraxxus has slime enemies called Turbulent Juices.

Minilife TV: In "Baking Bran (PART 1)", Rick and Morty (or at least characters resembling them) can be seen walking past Squidtugo's Tight Treats.

Epic Rap Battles of History:
- Ronald McDonald mentions the Szechuan sauce incident to prove to the Burger King that McDonald's is more popular than Burger King.
Honest Trailers:
- In the trailer for Back to the Future, Doc and Marty are referred to as "Rick and Morty".
- In the trailer for Mulan, the Narrator says that you have the film to thank for Rick and Morty's worst fans, referring to the Szechuan sauce (from a McDonald's tie-in) that Rick is obsessed with.
- In the trailer for Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Narrator says that the film combines Hollywood's "last two genres": "Rick and Morty"^Note and "heartfelt stories about dysfunctional Asian families".
  Narrator as Morty: Oh, jeez, Rick! It's like they're torn between two cultures and trying to forge their own identity!
  Narrator as Rick: Oh, look out, Morty! (burp) Hot-dog fingers!
Real-Time Fandub: While Eggman is doing some exposition to Team Sonic and Team Jet, he says his IQ had risen due to watching Rick And Morty. Which also had the side effect of making his Tire Robots spout quotes from the show.
RemyRaccoon: In "Everything Wrong With Ratchet and Clank (The Movie)", upon revealing Dr. Nefarious's organic design, Vale quips "I turned myself into a pickle, Ratchet! I'm Pickle Nefarious!" and notes they finally did a joke cringier than "I don't like change".

American Dad!: In "Henderson", when Klaus gets Jeff to make him a glass filigree for his fishbowl to bring to his date with Danuta, his second request involves decorating it with two Pickle Ricks.
Bob's Burgers: One scene in "Brunchsquatch" is animated in the show's style.
Family Guy:
- In "Pal Stewie", a father tries to get his son to watch Family Guy with him, but he's busy watching Rick and Morty on his iPad.
- In "PeTerminator", Brain and Stewie emerge from a portal from what seems to be from Rick's portal gun.
The Johnny Test online short "League of Johnnys" features a Pickle Rick version of Johnny on the title card.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Grannies Gone Wild" features pony versions of Rick and Morty waiting in line for a roller coaster.
The Simpsons:
- The Couch Gag for "Mathlete's Feat" has Rick and Morty crashing into the Simpsons' house and destroying them, leading Rick to send Morty on a mission to create clones of them.
- In "Krusty the Clown", the head of a TV review site reveals to Homer that all television is fake and shows him thousands of screens showing the names of nonexistent shows, including Rick and Morty.
- In "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII", one of the theme parks at the end of the "SimpsonsWorld" segment is Rick and Morty Universe. The dome is in the shape of Rick's head.