History Recap / RickAndMortyS4E9ChildrickOfMort

* ExtremeOmnisexual: This episode reveals that on-top of having flirted with people of various species and genders, Rick apparantly has a special kink for ''planets''.

** After Summer delivers a very harsh TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her father who then leaves, Morty criticizes Summer by telling her to stop hanging out with Rick, despite the fact he's almost always hanging out with him himself.

* DistractingDisambiguation: After a prolonged fist-fight with Reggie, a badly beaten Rick realizes he is on the ropes and surrenders. Reggie, however, swells to giant size and prepares to squish him between his fingers in order to [[MakeAnExampleOfHim make an example of him]] and teach his children a lesson about obedience and fear, declaring that "school's out!" Rick ask if he shouldn't say that "school's in" since he is trying to teach a lesson. An annoyed Reggie loosens his squeeze for a bit and begrudgingly admits that Rick does have a point, just long enough for Summer and Morty to accidentally hit him in the back of the head and kill him.

** After Summer delivered a very harsh TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her father who then leaves, Morty criticizes Summer by telling her to stop hanging out with Rick, despite the fact he's almost always hanging out with him himself.

** Reggie, the god who is the true father of Gaia's children and shows up to take custody of them. He's called out for being a deadbeat dad that only arrived after all the work of rearing them was done. He also explicitly calls himself "a Zeus" who wants faith from worshippers, his children in this case, garnered through fear.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Summer is unnecessarily cruel to Jerry when she chews him out, she ends up being correct about his motives. While Jerry does genuinely possess some useful skills that Morty and Summer could benefit from, the true purpose of the camping trip wasn't about helping his children, but feeding his own ego. She's correct about Jerry trying to lower the bar enough that he could feel useful, as seen when he forces the Unproductives to remain at a basic level lest they outperform him.

* TakeMyHand: Jerry to Beth after she falls into a chasm and is losing her grip on the rocks. She's actually too far away for him to reach directly, so he extends his s'more stick for her to grab onto. He accidentally pokes her with it, but it still works.

** The fight between Rick and Reggie is this - rather than a dramatic superpowered battle between two godlike beings, all they do is brawl and hit each other with rocks - fitting, considering they're essentially a couple of deadbeats fighting over a chick neither of them are particularly into.

** Rick just presses a button that summons a small device that unfolds into a gigantic facility for sorting and processing the clay people. He did not build this device for this occasion. He did not know about Gaia's situation before they arrived. He apparently just happened to have this device in the car at the time, just in case a situation like this occurred.

** The fight between Rick and Reggie is this - rather than a dramatic superpowered battle between two godlike beings, all they do is brawl and hit each other with rocks - fitting, considering they're essentially a couple of deadbeats fighting over a chick they both banged and neither of them are particularly into.

* MedievalStasis: Enforced by Jerry when one of his Unproductives builds a crude house and Jerry immediately tears it down, as it would defeat the purpose of the camping lifestyle he's taught them. Doubles as a TallPoppySyndrome since the reason Jerry decried the shed building was that it would have compromised his [[IJustWantToBeSpecial elevated position amongst the Unproductives]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Just because Morty and Summer have gone on several adventures with Rick doesn't automatically mean they have gained the skills necessary to survive in the wilderness on their own. And the only reason why they're able to survive at all is that Rick and his technology are with them.
** Morty and Summer try to restart an alien ship, only for the wings to snap off from years of neglect. This really shows the difference between a video game and real life. If it had been a video game like the kids were treating it, then there would have been a generic health or armor integrity to the ship. But in real life, individual parts can fail even if everything else is fine, such as the wings breaking even though the engine works fine.
---> '''Rick''': What in the Creator/DisneyChannel fuck is that?
** Summer inhales strange gasses from the crashed ship, thinking it is the crew's collective knowledge. Usually, she would be right on this show. However, Rick reveals it was basically alien brake fluid, and the hookah-like pipes were just pipes that came loose in the crash. Rick's comments at the end also confirm that they didn't have the controls properly labelled, meaning that Summer was just spouting inaccuracies while high.
** Jerry is denied sex after saving Beth because, even though she loves him and is grateful for the rescue, he's been camping out in the wilderness practically naked and smells terrible.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Summer is unnecessarily cruel to Jerry when she chews him out, she ends up being partially correct about his motives. While Jerry does genuinely possess some useful skills that Morty and Summer could benefit from, the true purpose of the camping trip wasn't just about helping his children, but also feeding his own ego. She's correct about Jerry trying to lower the bar enough that he could feel useful, as seen when he forces the Unproductives to remain at a basic level lest they outperform him.

* AKindOfOne: Apparently Reggie belongs to a species referred to as "Zeus".

* KickTheDog: Rick asks Reggie to at least keep the society he and Beth built because it means a lot to her, but Reggie mocks the request and says he'll burn it down because he wants his children to fear him.

* NoPartyLikeTheDonnerParty: Discussed by Summer when she and Morty get lost in the woods. She tells him not to eat her butt if she dies because she finds it to be weird.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Things go a bit better than usual for Jerry in this episode. He is not only proven right against Summer, but is shown to be capable of surviving while camping, and even turning the "Unproductives" into a functioning, albeit primitive society, and towards the end, Reggie gives his staff [[EnhancedArchaicWeapon divine, magical properties]]. Then, he is able to make up with Beth for saving her life, and while she does refuse to make love with him [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome because of]] [[ThePigpen how much he stinks]], she still does assure him that she loves him, and sticks up for him to Rick.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Things go a bit better than usual for Jerry in this episode. He is not only proven right against Summer, but is shown to be capable of surviving while camping, and even turning the "Unproductives" into a functioning, albeit primitive society, and towards the end, Reggie gives his staff [[EnhancedArchaicWeapon divine, magical properties]].

* AntiClimax: A staple of the series, but particularly noticeable here. Reggie is killed unceremoniously when Morty and Summer, completely high, accidentally drive a spaceship through his brain. There is just a little "pop" to indicate the death, Rick uncovers the ship and never comments it again.

** Rick just presses a button that summons a small device that unfolds into a gigantic facility for sorting and processing the clay people. He did not build this device for this occasion. He did now know about Gaia's situation before they arrived. He apparently just happened to have this device in the car at the time, just in case a situation like this occurred.

* NoPhonesTonight: Jerry calls Morty and Summer out for using their phones during the camping trip.