History YMMV / RickAndMortyS3E7TheRicklantisMixup

* HarsherInHindsight: Cop!Morty makes an offhand remark about the Morties in Mortytown having no families and being raised to be sidekicks. One could take that as metaphorical as Ricks would likely go around exploitatively raising Morties for their own ends, and likely get their real families killed in the process, only for [[spoiler: the Season 5 finale to reveal that this is literal, as they are cloned en masse, have their upbringing implanted into them, and sent to various Morty-less Ricks.]]

** Campaign Manager Morty who was already bitter about being fired gets this information leak from a Rick of unknown origins who gained this information through unknown means. It's possible that the Rick who leaked him this information was working for Evil Morty, and the information was given to Campaign Manager Morty specifically because he'd be more likely to violently act on his personal vendetta in a way that benefits Evil Morty's plan. Mortys are often prone to letting their anger cloud their judgment, and Evil Morty would know this well.

* WinBackTheCrowd: After the first six episodes of season 3 alienated some fans for being too dark, somewhat boring and self-contained, they came back in droves for this episode, saying it brilliantly satirized socio-economic and racial inequality to a tee.

* WhatAnIdiot: Campaign Manager Morty gets intelligence about Candidate Morty being Evil Morty, including photographic evidence:\\
'''You'd Expect''': Campaign Manager Morty to take the evidence to the press, or to the rival politicians who will use this information to smear and demolish Candidate Morty's entire campaign.\\
'''Instead''': He decides to straight up assassinate him in public, by himself. He discovers exactly why people send professional hitmen to serve as assassins since his attempt injures Evil Morty but doesn't kill him. He is captured and ThrownOutTheAirlock before he can reveal the truth to anyone. Furthermore, he likely helped Candidate Morty win a close election, since he could parlay the whole "survived getting shot" thing.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Averted. The show staff said it ''absolutely'' was political from the get-go, and intentionally parallels the current tensions in the United States, despite people seeming to think it was meant to be something self-contained to ''Rick and Morty''.

** Did Candidate Morty narrowly win the election in a surprise upset? Or did the Secret Council rig the election to let him win and install him as a figurehead as a way of keeping control despite the social upheavals caused by previous events effecting the Citadel, namely the influx of Rickless Morties, the widespread destruction caused by the TeleFrag with the Federation prison, and the death of the Council of Ricks?

'''YOU'D EXPECT''': Campaign Manager Morty to take the evidence to the press, or to the rival politicians who will use this information to smear and demolish Candidate Morty's entire campaign.\\
'''INSTEAD''': He decides to straight up assassinate him in public, by himself. He discovers exactly why people send professional hitmen to serve as assassins since his attempt injures Evil Morty but doesn't kill him. He is captured and ThrownOutTheAirlock before he can reveal the truth to anyone. Furthermore, he likely helped Candidate Morty win a close election, since he could parlay the whole "survived getting shot" thing.

* WinBackTheCrowd: After the first six episodes of season 3 alienated some fans for being [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy too dark]], somewhat boring and self-contained, they came back in droves for this episode, saying it brilliantly satirized socio-economic and racial inequality to a tee.

* RootingForTheEmpire: Thanks to his general cool, his amazing competence, his intelligence, him [[VillainHasAPoint having a point]], and the fact that his victims in this episode are horrible people, or in the case of Campaign Manager Morty, idiots, many root for Evil Morty.

** Did Factory Worker Rick know about the blender dimension trap before he pushed Sample Rick into the portal, as his dialogue implies, or was he unaware, as his shocked expression implies? Of course, it's also possible that he was excepting some sort of trap, but excepted it to be non-lethal, like a police ambush.

** Did Factory Worker Rick know about the blender dimension trap before he pushed Sample Rick into the portal, as his dialogue implies, or was he unaware, as his shocked expression implies.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Campaign Manager Morty who was already bitter about being fired gets this information leak from a Rick of unknown origins who gained this information through unknown means. It's possible that the Rick who leaked him this information was working for Evil Morty, and the information was given to Campaign Manager Morty specifically because he'd be more likely to violently act on his personal vendetta in a way that benefits Evil Morty's plan. Mortys are often prone to letting their anger cloud their judgment, and Evil Morty would know this well.

* RootingForTheEmpire: Thanks to his general cool, his amazing competence, his intelligence and the fact that his victims in this episode are horrible people, or in the case of Campaign Manager Morty, idiots, many root for Evil Morty.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Averted. The show staff said it ''absolutely'' was political from the get-go.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The showrunners, Creator/DanHarmon in particular, make it clear in the Inside the Episode video that it absolutely is political, and that the episode was developed during the climate of the 2016 Election.

* FridgeBrilliance: Campaign Manager Morty who was already bitter about being fired gets this information leak from a Rick of unknown origins who gained this information through unknown means. Its likely that the Rick who leaked him this information was working for Evil Morty, and the information was given to Campaign Manager Morty specifically because he'd be more likely to violently act on his personal vendetta in a way that benefits Evil Morty's plan. Mortys are often prone to letting their anger cloud their judgment, and Evil Morty would know this well.

* WinBackTheCrowd: After the first half of season 3 alienated some fans for being [[DarknessInducedAudienceApathy too dark]] and somewhat boring, they came back in droves for this episode, saying it brilliantly satirized socio-economic and racial inequality to a tee.

* WhatAnIdiot: Campaign Manager Morty gets intelligence about Candidate Morty being Evil Morty, including Photographic evidence:
** '''YOU'D EXPECT''': Campaign Manager Morty to take the evidence to the Press, or to the rival politicians who will use this information to smear and demolish Candidate Morty's entire campaign.
** '''INSTEAD''': He decides to straight up assassinate him in public, by himself. He discovers exactly why people send professional hitmen to serve as assassins since his attempt injures Evil Morty but doesn't kill him. In his failure, he is captured, imprisoned and more or less entirely discredited and disqualified himself as any real source to believe in, and likely helped Candidate Morty win a close election, since he could parlay the whole "survived getting shot" thing.
** Possibly a case of FridgeBrilliance - Campaign Manager Morty who was already bitter about being fired gets this information leak from a Rick of unknown origins who gained this information through unknown means. Its likely that the Rick who leaked him this information was working for Evil Morty, and the information was given to Campaign Manager Morty specifically because he'd be more likely to violently act on his personal vendetta in a way that benefits Evil Morty's plan. Mortys are often prone to letting their anger cloud their judgment, and Evil Morty would know this well.