History Recap / RickAndMortyS3E10TheRickchurianMortydate

-->'''Rick:''' Run Morty! That part was true!

* AllForNothing: Rick’s efforts since the season 3 premiere to become ThePatriarch are basically undone due to some misplaced words on Rick's part that have him cause Beth to doubt herself. This sets off the events that have her go back to Jerry and they reconcile while Beth feels at ease that regardless of whether or not she is a clone, she's at peace. Furthermore, Rick's shenanigans have driven Morty to a limit where he led the family to keep away from Rick (out of fear that Rick may go after Beth since she thinks she's a clone.) This leads to an AntiClimax where the family reunites to embrace their mundane family dynamic from season 1, much to Rick's dismay.

* AllForNothing: Rick’s efforts since the season 3 premier to become ThePatriarch are basically undone due to some misplaced words on Rick's part that have him cause Beth to doubt herself. This sets off the events that have her go back to Jerry and they reconcile while Beth feels at ease that regardless of whether or not she is a clone, she's at peace. Furthermore, Rick's shenanigans have driven Morty to a limit where he led the family to keep away from Rick (out of fear that Rick may go after Beth since she thinks she's a clone.) This leads to an AntiClimax where the family reunites to embrace their mundane family dynamic from season 1, much to Rick's dismay.

* IWarnedYou: While unlike most episode where Rick causing the deaths of others and disregarding the damage he's done is PlayedForLaughs, It's played chillingly straight when he warns a federal agent that if he touches him(Rick) he will die and then the agent promptly dies after touching him. While everyone is horrified [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror (even Morty)]], Rick did in fact warn them and given [[SociopathicHero Rick's personality]], was surprisingly insistent with his warning.\\

** In RealLife, some people who read the brief teaser synopses stating that Rick would confront The President assumed that meant Rick would battle Evil Morty and felt the whole episode was this.

Rick and Morty help The President kill a monster.

* AllForNothing: Rick’s efforts since the season 3 premier to become ThePatriarch are basically undone due to some misplaced words on Rick's part that have him cause Beth to doubt herself. This sets off the events that have her go back to Jerry and they reconcile while Beth feels at ease that regardless of whether or not she is a clone, she's at peace. Furthermore, Rick's shannigans have driven Morty to a limit where he led the family to keep away from Rick (out of fear that Rick may go after Beth since she thinks she's a clone.) This leads to an AntiClimax where the family reunites to embrace their mundane family dynamic from season 1, much to Rick's dismay.

** The President still refuses to take a selfie in Morty, just like he did in [[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E5GetSchwifty "Get Schwifty"]].

** The Presidents "Knock-off" Portal has a blue-colored portal, identical to the [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E1TheRickshankRedemption teleportation portal invented by young Rick in Rick's fake origin story]], or to the [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E1Pilot portal used by the Galactic Federation]].

** After Rick once again decides to rebel and taunt a government risking the loss of his citizenship, and making himself and his family {{Outlaw}} without any chance of normal life, Morty wanting to avoid a repeat of Rick's run-in with the Galactic Government, takes his portal gun deciding to maroon Rick in his own mess.

* AliensInCardiff: The tiny nuclear aliens land in a Brazilian rainforest. When Rick and Morty go, the Brazilian military are already on sight building a perimeter and then the Americans roll in with their tanks, more or less making another alien invasion [[ItsAllAboutMe be about them]].

* AbsurdPhobia: The US government creates defenses for countering Rick if necessary, but got their information reading off of Wikipedia, which Rick himself edited, so it turns out most of their defenses were useless. The one that wasn't? His fear of pirates. The reason why he was so adamant of the Pirates of the Pancreas ride he designed up in Season 1 was because he was terrified of the concept.

* TakeThatAudience: Mr. Poopybutthole's role in TheStinger has him brag about his many accomplishments in terms of life goals since last season and say that he's ''[[SarcasmMode sure]]'' the viewers were just as productive in the time past.

* IronicName: The people of the miniature civilization in the Brazilian rainforest call themselves "the Mega Gargantuans", though their Presidentress says that they named themselves that before they discovered they were actually tiny.

* AbsurdPhobia: The US government creates defenses for countering Rick if necessary, but got their information reading off of Wikipedia, which Rick himself edited, so it turns out most of their defenses were useless. The one that wasn't? His fear of pirates.

** Though this raises the issue of why Rick was so into Pirates of the Pancreas back in Season 1.
*** A case of AuthorPhobia given his intent on not sugar-coating it?

-->'''Rick''': Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You win, Jerry. You '''win'''! [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter No amount of genius can stop your dumb mediocre vacuous roots]] from digging into everything and everyone around you and draining them of any ability to fend you off.\\

* NothingIsScarier: Rick invokes this by not explaining how his TouchOfDeath killed the federal agent who tried to touch him, as doing so improves its intimidation factor.

** They also say that the president, among other things, orders drone strikes because he's insecure, though it's not clear which, if any, real-world president this is supposed to be, given that he's been in power for at least three years as of 2017, and is black.[[note]]Considering that Rick is a kind of anarchist anti-authoritarian it could plausibly refer to Obama's drone-strike programs which those on the left-libertarian spectrum greatly opposed and criticized. And the reference to the President's surveillance could be a reference to PRISM and NSA which happened during his presidency[[/note]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: The President says that Poseidon is imprisoned in Area 51.

* 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.

** They also say that the president, among other things, orders drone strikes because he's insecure, though it's not clear which, if any, real-world president this is supposed to be, given that he's been in power for at least three years as of 2017, and is black.[[note]]Considering that Rick is a kind of anarchist anti-authoritarian it could plausibly refer to Obama's drone-strike programs which those on the left-libertarian spectrum greatly opposed and criticized.[[/note]]

** In RealLife, some people who read the brief teaser synopses stating that Rick would confront The President assumed that meant Rick would battle [[spoiler: Evil! Morty]] and felt the whole episode was this.

* AllForNothing: Rick’s efforts since the season 3 premier to become ThePatriarch are basically undone due to some misplaced words on Rick's part that have him cause Beth to doubt herself. This sets off the events that have her go back to Jerry and they recouncile while Beth feels at ease that regardless of whether or not she is a clone, she's at peace. Furthermore, Rick's shannigans have driven Morty to a limit where he led the family to keep away from Rick (out of fear that Rick may go after Beth since she thinks she's a clone.) This leads to an AntiClimax where the family reunites to embrace their mundane family dynamic from season 1, much to Rick's dismay.

* 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.

* TakeThatUs: After Rick and Morty abandon their VR Minecraft session, Rick points out that they were slow to reference it as ''Series/SouthPark'' already did episodes on both VR and Minecraft four years ago.

** The Presidents "Knock-off" Portal has a blue-colored portal, identical to the [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E1TheRickshankRedemption teleportation portal invented by young Rick in Rick's fake origin story]], or to the [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E1Pilot portal used by the Galactic Federation]]).

** The Presidents "Knock-off" Portal has a blue colored Portal, identical to the [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E1TheRickshankRedemption portal young Rick in Ricks fake origin story]] had.