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* NonActionGuy: Morty outright mocks the President as being this, saying that his underlings do all the work for hims while the Prez himself "sits on his ass at peace summits". This ends up leading the President to defy this by taking the shrinking pill himself rather than having his employees do it, and he later proves he can hold his own in a fight during his battle with Rick.
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* NonActionGuy: Morty outright mocks the President as being this, saying that his underlings do all the work for hims him while the Prez himself "sits on his ass at peace summits". This ends up leading the President to defy this by taking the shrinking pill himself rather than having his employees do it, and he later proves he can hold his own in a fight during his battle with Rick.
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* NonActionGuy: Morty outright mocks the President as being this, saying that his underlings to all the work for hims while the Prez himself "sits on his ass at peace summits". This ends up leading the President to defy this by taking the shrinking pill himself rather than having his employees do it.
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* NonActionGuy: Morty outright mocks the President as being this, saying that his underlings to do all the work for hims while the Prez himself "sits on his ass at peace summits". This ends up leading the President to defy this by taking the shrinking pill himself rather than having his employees do it.it, and he later proves he can hold his own in a fight during his battle with Rick.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Despite Rick's annoyance with being detained by the POTUS and his soldiers, he's clearly greatly enjoying Morty's belligerence towards the President, watching the whole thing with a wide grin on his face. He particularly likes Morty's "Commander-in-Queef" quip.
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* NonActionGuy: Morty outright mocks the President as being this, saying that his underlings to all the work for hims while the Prez himself "sits on his ass at peace summits". This ends up leading the President to defy this by taking the shrinking pill himself rather than having his employees do it.
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** Also near the end, the narrative seems to suggest that "our" Rick followed through on his decision to leave, and a new, much-nicer Rick who enjoys fishing and is friendly with the President has moved in with the Smiths and will get along with the President much better. Then we see that he is indeed "our Rick", who was just wearing a disguise he borrowed from Jerry. (Though this is probably easy for the audience to guess from the beginning, anyway.)
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** Also near the end, the narrative seems to suggest that "our" Rick followed through on his decision words and decided to leave, leave to a new dimension, and a new, much-nicer Rick who enjoys fishing and is friendly with the President has moved in with "our" version of the Smiths and will get along with the President much better. Smiths. Then we see that he is indeed "our Rick", who was just wearing a disguise he borrowed from Jerry.Jerry to speak with the President. (Though this is probably easy for the audience to guess from the beginning, anyway.)
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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Well, everybody except Rick.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Rick does manage to win his fight with the President and get him to submit to a selfie with Morty; however, by this time, Morty (who has long since stopped wanting the selfie) has taken Rick's portal gun and left him there, and the entire family is hiding from him due to the belief that he plans to kill (possibly clone-)Beth. This results in Rick giving up on his fight with the POTUS to go find them, so not only does he not get the selfie he was apparently fighting for all along, he's alienated his family enough that they're hiding from him, and he's branded a terrorist by the President and excommunicated from the country as a result of attacking him and killing at least a dozen of his men.
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** When Rick shows up to the Smiths' hiding place with a gun, Beth assumes that she is a clone after all and Rick is there to terminate her. However, after she gives a long rant that ends with her telling Rick to leave and not kill her, Rick reveals that he was never planning to kill her and still sees her as his daughter; the gun was to kill Jerry with (though he doesn't even try to use it to do so).
** Also near the end, the narrative seems to suggest that "our" Rick followed through on his decision to leave, and a new, much-nicer Rick who enjoys fishing and is friendly with the President has moved in with the Smiths and will get along with the President much better. Then we see that he is indeed "our Rick", who was just wearing a disguise he borrowed from Jerry. (Though this is probably easy for the audience to guess from the beginning, anyway.)
** When Rick shows up to the Smiths' hiding place with a gun, Beth assumes that she is a clone after all and Rick is there to terminate her. However, after she gives a long rant that ends with her telling Rick to leave and not kill her, Rick reveals that he was never planning to kill her and still sees her as his daughter; the gun was to kill Jerry with (though he doesn't even try to use it to do so).
** Also near the end, the narrative seems to suggest that "our" Rick followed through on his decision to leave, and a new, much-nicer Rick who enjoys fishing and is friendly with the President has moved in with the Smiths and will get along with the President much better. Then we see that he is indeed "our Rick", who was just wearing a disguise he borrowed from Jerry. (Though this is probably easy for the audience to guess from the beginning, anyway.)
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Lincoln kept a slave coliseum and [=McKinley=] had a [[DisposableSexWorker hooker dump]].
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Lincoln kept a slave coliseum colosseum and [=McKinley=] had a [[DisposableSexWorker hooker dump]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: One of Rick's main goals (according to himself) in "The Rickshank Redemption" was to get Jerry kicked out of the family and become ThePatriarch in his place, and he appeared to have succeeded in that. However, when Beth comes to him for help about her existential crisis, his words not only completely fail to re-assure her, they actually make it ''worse''. This leads Beth to run to Jerry for reassurance instead, which in turn results in them getting back together, essentially restoring Jerry to the head of the house and undoing what Rick accomplished in the season premiere.
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** and C) Beth s no longer pining for her father's approval
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** and C) Beth s is no longer pining for her father's approval
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* Fanservice: Summer's first appearance in this episode is her dressed in a scantily clad farmer girl outfit.
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* Fanservice: {{Fanservice}}: Summer's first appearance in this episode is her dressed in a scantily clad farmer girl outfit.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The entire finale is about the show returning to the status-quo of Season 1 as Beth {{Lampshades}}, with Beth and Jerry reuniting and remarrying, the kids under one roof, and Rick once again becoming the oddball in a family where Jerry is ThePatriarch.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The entire finale is about the show returning to the status-quo of Season 1 as Beth {{Lampshades}}, with Beth and Jerry reuniting and remarrying, the kids under one roof, and Rick once again becoming the oddball in a family where Jerry is ThePatriarch. The main differences is that:
** A) The family is now genuinely happy
** B) Jerry is now a respected member of the family
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** A) The family is now genuinely happy
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** They also say that the president, among other things, orders drone strikes because he's insecure.
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* TheStinger: Mr. Poopybutthole shows up like he did last season. Now, he had married and had a kid.
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* TheStinger: Mr. Poopybutthole Poopy Butthole shows up like he did in last season. finale's stinger. Now, he had he's married and had has a kid.kid, promising a longer hiatus.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Whether Beth is a clone or the real thing, Rick's comments greatly undermine her identity and sense of self, making her paranoid and crazy, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and finally leading her to return to Jerry]].
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* PhysicalGod: The POTUS openly considers Rick to be this, and even addressing him as such during their fight.
* PrinciplesZealot: The President is reminded by both Rick and Morty, and by his own advisers, that the titular pair have been helpful of him, and have helped him score high approval ratings (such as fixing the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict overnight) but he still wants war against them because both of them undermine his authority and sense of superiority as the "leader of the Free World", with Rick and Morty dismissing the POTUS and his complaints as minor stuff compared to their real adventures, with Rick's anarchist sentiments not likely to make him kowtow to patriotism.
* PrinciplesZealot: The President is reminded by both Rick and Morty, and by his own advisers, that the titular pair have been helpful of him, and have helped him score high approval ratings (such as fixing the UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict overnight) but he still wants war against them because both of them undermine his authority and sense of superiority as the "leader of the Free World", with Rick and Morty dismissing the POTUS and his complaints as minor stuff compared to their real adventures, with Rick's anarchist sentiments not likely to make him kowtow to patriotism.
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* TakeThat: Jokes are had at ''Minecraft's'' expense, such as it being popular with autistic people.
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* TakeThat: Jokes are had at ''Minecraft's'' expense, such as it being popular with autistic people.people and Rick saying that it must be made by Jerry.
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* {{Tykebomb}}: The President has a pair of small children trained to be assassins who he can activate with a dog whistle. Rick manages to distract them with candy.
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* {{Tykebomb}}: The President has a pair of small children trained to be assassins who he can activate with a dog whistle. Rick manages to distract them with candy.candy and they are later gunned down by the President in his MiniMecha.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: Apparently, a number of US Presidents have secret areas under the White House where they engaged in drugs, hookers, and slave fights.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: Apparently, a number of US Presidents have secret areas under the White House where they engaged in drugs, hookers, and slave fights. Poseidon is also currently locked up in Area 51.
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-->'''President''': He ''didn't'' free them all...
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* AmbiguousSituation: Despite Rick's insisting, the family still holds doubt whether or not Beth is a clone. When Jerry jokes that Rick would never actually tell them, Rick just gives a cold, unblinking stare.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Despite Rick's insisting, the family still holds doubt whether or not Beth is a clone. When Jerry Beth jokes that Rick would never actually tell them, Rick just gives a cold, unblinking stare.
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* TheStinger: Mr. Poopybutthole shows up like he did last season, now married with a kid.
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* TheStinger: Mr. Poopybutthole shows up like he did last season, now season. Now, he had married with and had a kid.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Rick asks Morty if Minecraft is popular with austistic people, seeming as if he's about to make a derogatory statement, then claims that must be why he likes it.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Rick asks Morty if Minecraft ''Videogame/{{Minecraft}}'' is popular with austistic autistic people, seeming as if he's about to make a derogatory statement, then claims that must be why he likes it.
* BrickJoke: During their brawl, the President and Rick crash through the hooker dump the President mentioned at the start of the episode.
* DoppelgangerSpin: One of Rick's gadgets is a device that creates a couple dozen illusions of himself. For bonus points, they cartwheel while the President ineffectually blasts at them.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: After injuring injuring the alien dog, Rick and Morty decide the adventure is lame and ditch the President's orders to play {{Minecraft}}.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Lincoln kept a slave coliseum and [=McKinley=] had a [[DisposableSexWorker hooker dump]].
* InvisibilityCloak: The President has "Invisi-troopers", though Rick claims to have been able to see them.
* RefusalOfTheCall: After injuring injuring the alien dog, Rick and Morty decide the adventure is lame andditch ignore the President's orders problem to play {{Minecraft}}.''Minecraft''.
* InvisibilityCloak: The President has "Invisi-troopers", though Rick claims to have been able to see them.
* RefusalOfTheCall: After injuring injuring the alien dog, Rick and Morty decide the adventure is lame and
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* TheStinger: Mr. Poopybutthole shows up like he did last season, now married with a kid.
* TakeThat:They poke fun Jokes are had at minecraft.''Minecraft's'' expense, such as it being popular with autistic people.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The President as a teleporter which is a copy of the Nether Portal from ''Minecraft'', complete with a soldier having to use a lighter to boot it up.
* TouchOfDeath: A member of the Secret Service instantly dies when he touches Rick. The fact that there's no indication as to why or how is meant to terrify them, as Rick lampshades.
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* TeleportersAndTransporters: The President as a teleporter which is a copy of the Nether Portal from ''Minecraft'', complete with a soldier having to use a lighter to boot it up.
* TouchOfDeath: A member of the Secret Service instantly dies when he touches Rick. The fact that there's no indication as to why or how is meant to terrify them, as Rick lampshades.
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** Rick says the President treats him and Morty like [[Franchise/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]].
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** Rick says the President treats him and Morty like [[Franchise/Ghostbusters [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]].
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** Rick says the President treats him and Morty like [[Film/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]].
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** Rick says the President treats him and Morty like [[Film/Ghostbusters [[Franchise/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]].
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Rick asks Morty if Minecraft is popular with austistic people, seeming as if he's about to make a derogatory statement, then claims that's why he must like it.
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* BaitAndSwitchCompliment: Rick asks Morty if Minecraft is popular with austistic people, seeming as if he's about to make a derogatory statement, then claims that's why he must like it.
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* BaitAndSwitchCompliment: Rick asks Morty if Minecraft is popular with austistic people, seeming as if he's about to make a derogatory statement, then claims that's why he must like it.
* BlackSite: See GovernmentConspiracy below.
* BlackSite: See GovernmentConspiracy below.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: Apparently, a number of US Presidents have secret areas under the White House where they engaged in drugs, hookers, and slave fights.
* RefusalOfTheCall: After injuring injuring the alien dog, Rick and Morty decide the adventure is lame and ditch the President's orders to play {{Minecraft}}.
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** Rick says the President treats him and Morty like [[Film/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]].
** Morty convinces Rick to play {{Minecraft}} with him.
* RefusalOfTheCall: After injuring injuring the alien dog, Rick and Morty decide the adventure is lame and ditch the President's orders to play {{Minecraft}}.
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** Rick says the President treats him and Morty like [[Film/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]].
** Morty convinces Rick to play {{Minecraft}} with him.
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* CallBack: The B plot is Beth not being certain whether or not she took Rick's deal from the previous episode. Rick also makes repeated references to the fact that he's moved to different realities 'like a hermit crab', seen in [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 "Rick Potion Number Nine"]] and [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E8MortysMindBlowers Morty's Mind Blowers"]]. Rick is also branded a terrorist at the end of his fight with the President, a label he also had in dealing with the Galactic Federation.
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* CallBack: The B plot is Beth not being certain whether or not she took Rick's deal from the previous episode. Rick also makes repeated references to the fact that he's moved to different realities 'like a hermit crab', seen in [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 "Rick Potion Number Nine"]] and [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E8MortysMindBlowers Morty's "Morty's Mind Blowers"]]. Rick is also branded a terrorist at the end of his fight with the President, a label he also had in dealing with the Galactic Federation.
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* CloningBlues: Beth undergoes this as a result of the end of last week's episode, contrary to Rick's claim that there would be "no chance of [her] going Film/BladeRunner", assuming of course if she is the clone.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Despite Rick's insisting, the family still holds doubt whether or not Beth is a clone. When Jerry jokes that Rick would never actually tell them, Rick just gives a cold, unblinking stare.
* CallBack: The B plot is Beth not being certain whether or not she took Rick's deal from the previous episode. Rick also makes repeated references to the fact that he's moved to different realities 'like a hermit crab', seen in [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 "Rick Potion Number Nine"]] and [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E8MortysMindBlowers Morty's Mind Blowers"]]. Rick is also branded a terrorist at the end of his fight with the President, a label he also had in dealing with the Galactic Federation.
* CloningBlues: Beth undergoes this as a result of the end of last week's episode, contrary to Rick's claim that there would be "no chance of [her] going Film/BladeRunner", assuming of course if she is the clone. Rick flat-out tells her she isn't and reassures her, but then [[SayingTooMuch asks if she's worried he's only saying that because she knows he'd have to get rid of her otherwise.]]
* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: In order to smooth out the events of the episode with the President, Rick dresses up in fishing gear and poses as a different Rick who just moved in and was friends with his reality's POTUS.
* CallBack: The B plot is Beth not being certain whether or not she took Rick's deal from the previous episode. Rick also makes repeated references to the fact that he's moved to different realities 'like a hermit crab', seen in [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 "Rick Potion Number Nine"]] and [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E8MortysMindBlowers Morty's Mind Blowers"]]. Rick is also branded a terrorist at the end of his fight with the President, a label he also had in dealing with the Galactic Federation.
* CloningBlues: Beth undergoes this as a result of the end of last week's episode, contrary to Rick's claim that there would be "no chance of [her] going Film/BladeRunner", assuming of course if she is the clone. Rick flat-out tells her she isn't and reassures her, but then [[SayingTooMuch asks if she's worried he's only saying that because she knows he'd have to get rid of her otherwise.]]
* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: In order to smooth out the events of the episode with the President, Rick dresses up in fishing gear and poses as a different Rick who just moved in and was friends with his reality's POTUS.
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* AllForNothing: Rick’s efforts from the season 3 premier to become ThePatriarch basically gets undone due to various circumstances, all in an AntiClimax.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: The entire finale is about the show returning to the status-quo of Season 1 as Beth {{Lampshades}}, with Beth and Jerry reuniting and remarrying, the kids under one roof, and Rick once again becoming the oddball in a family where Jerry is ThePatriarch.
* TakeThat: They poke fun atminecraftminecraft.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The entire finale is about the show returning to the status-quo of Season 1 as Beth {{Lampshades}}, with Beth and Jerry reuniting and remarrying, the kids under one roof, and Rick once again becoming the oddball in a family where Jerry is ThePatriarch.
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