History Recap / RickAndMortyS7E3AirForceWong

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Rick and Dr. Wong realize that this whole mess would not have happened had he not ignored Unity's voicemails multiple times.

* BrickJoke: Rick's first outing with President Curtis is to kill the Loch Ness Monster. When Rick calls Curtis later in the episode, the image on his smartphone is the pair standing over its corpse.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: On-screen vomiting of mind-controlled characters takes up quite a portion of screen time.

* FunnyAnsweringMachine: The last scene shows Rick listening to Unity's string of messages on his answer machine, each getting more intense. Then the last message is from the leader of Scientology asking for more promotion for his church, causing Rick to hastily cut the message off.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: On-screen vomiting by mind-controlled characters takes up quite a portion of screen time.

When Virginia becomes a state for lovers onl.

A mishap with Unity causes President Curtis to become a hive mind.

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* GivenNameReveal: While their last names have already been known, this episode reveals President Curtis's first name is Andre while Dr. Wong's first name is Helen.

* FunnyAnsweringMachine: The last scene shows Rick listening to Unity's string of messages on his answer machine, each getting more intense. Then the last message is from the leader of Scientology asking for more promotion for his church.

* MindControlEyes: Characters under Unity's (and later the President's) control have their eyes turned yellow.
* NoodleIncident: Dr. Wong says she hasn't done field work since grad school when the President recruited for a mission to infiltrate Virginia. What kind of fieldwork was that was never elaborated. She was part of a hippie sex cult when she was in grad school too.

* PronounTrouble: Downplayed. Curtis and Wong both use "she/her" pronouns for Unity because their primary body that they use to communicate with Rick and others is a woman--the same one from "Auto-Erotic Assimilation", in fact. However, Rick, who has known Unity for much longer and knows more about them as a HiveMind, uses "they/them" pronouns to talk about them.

* BittersweetEnding: Ultimately the crisis is averted and everyone on Earth is returned to normal. However, Rick has ruined his chance to reconcile with Unity due to his stubbornness and has fully lost their trust. Also, President Curtis is at an all-time low due to his screwups catching up to him, how he tried to assimilate the entire world to gain a 100% approval rating and feel loved after being rejected by Dr. Wong, and now feels that like Rick he needs therapy.

* GreenEyedMonster: The residents of Virginia being happy and efficient with its Governor having an approval rating of 100% is apparently suspicious enough to the President to warrant an investigation. While his suspicions were right, its the fact that someone is more popular than him is what rankles him.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite doing it to help who they consider a friend, Unity ultimately faces no real punishment for bodysnatching the nearly nine million residents of Virginia just to force Rick into a dialogue. The only consequence she suffers is the mental strain of voluntarily releasing a third of the United States population from their hive mind all at once.

* NoodleIncident: Dr. Wong says she hasn't done field work since grad school when the President recruited for a mission to infiltrate Virginia. What kind of field work was that was never elaborated. She was part of a hippie sex cult when she was in grad school too.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As it turns out, all of President Curtis's actions throughout the previous seasons has made him quite unpopular. From that whole Thanksgiving episode where he got himself replaced by a Turkey and destroyed several monuments to sending the White House to space after abandoning Earth and now being seen shooting at Virginia residents while yelling "Civil War", it is no surprise President Curtis's approval ratings have tanked.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Rick hadn't ghosted Unity and listened to his answering machine, they wouldn't have taken over Virginia to find him and kickstarted the plot.

* BittersweetEnding: Ultimately the crisis is averted and everyone on Earth is returned to normal. However, Rick has ruined his chance to reconcile with Unity due to his stubbornness and has fully lost their trust. Also, President Curtis is at an all time low due to his screwups catching up to him, how he tried to assimilate the entire world to gain a 100% approval rating and feel loved after being rejected by Dr. Wong, and now feels that like Rick he needs therapy.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite doing it to help who they consider a friend, Unity ultimately faces no real punishment for bodysnatching the nearly 9 million residents of Virginia without any consent or oversight, in an effort to force Rick, who has made clear doesn't wish to talk with Unity, into a dialogue, aside from the mental strain of having to release so many people from their hive mind all at once.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As it turns out, all of President Curtis's actions throughout the previous seasons has made him quite unpopular. From that whole Thanksgiving episode where he got himself replaced by a Turkey and destroyed several monuments to sending the White House to space after abandoning Earth and now being seen shooting at Virginia residents while yelling "Civil War", it is no surprise President Curtis's approval ratings have tanked.

* PronounTrouble: Downplayed. Curtis and Wong both use "she/her" pronouns for Unity, presumably because their primary body that they use to communicate with Rick and others is a woman--the same one from "Auto-Erotic Assimilation", in fact. However, Rick, who has known Unity for much longer and knows more about them as a HiveMind, uses "they/them" pronouns to talk about them.

* ProperlyParanoid: Curtis becomes suspicious about the fact that not only has Virginia sequestered itself to be exclusively for lovers and refuses to let anyone else in, but also that their governor now has a OneHundredPercentAdorationRating, assuming they've become some kind of cult. While this isn't completely correct, he's pretty close; it's because everyone there has been taken over by Unity, a HiveMind.

* NoodleIncident: Dr. Wong says she hasn't done field work since grad school when the President recruited for a mission to infiltrate Virginia. What kind of field work was that was never elaborated.
** Also, apparently she was part of a hippie sex cult when she was in grad school too.

* BittersweetEnding: Ultimately the crisis is averted and everyone on Earth is returned to normal. However, Rick has ruined his chance to reconcile with Unity due to his stubbornness and has fully lost her trust. Also, President Curtis is at an all time low due to his screwups catching up to him, how he tried to assimilate the entire world to gain a 100% approval rating and feel loved after being rejected by Dr. Wong, and now feels that like Rick he needs therapy.

* TheBusCameBack: Unity, after having not appeared in the show since Season 2, makes her long-awaited return having taken over the state of Virginia in order to attract Rick's attention.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Rick hadn't ghosted Unity and listened to his answering machine, she wouldn't have taken over Virginia to find him and kickstarted the plot.

* PsychicBlockDefense: Rick's dome blocks Unity's telepathy, leaving the population of Virginia cut off from her influence but still possessed. Without her direction, they'll attach to the first new mind that connects to them, which President Curtis does to get his approval ratings up.

* StartXToStopX: In order to stop the Curtis HiveMind, Rick has to ask Unity to invade and take over with her own. She, however, is kind enough to release the United States population once she's finished.
* StopOrIShootMyself: Rick threatens to kill himself as a last-ditch measure to make Unity stop, even though she only wants to talk to him.

* GreenEyedMonster: The Residents of Virginia being happy and efficient with its Governor having an approval rating of 100% is apparently suspicious enough to the President to warrant an investigation. While his suspicions were right, its the fact that someone is more popular than him is what rankles him.
* ImposterExposingTest: When Dr. Wong claims not to be possessed by Unity, Rick casually refers to her as a nutritionist, which she immediately plays into. Risk gasses her on the spot to free her.
* NoodleIncident: Dr. Wong says she hasn't done field work since Grad School when the President recruited for a mission to infiltrate the state of Virginia. What kind of field work was that was never elaborated.
** Also apparently was part of a Hippie sex Cult when she was in Grad School too.

* TheBusCameBack: Unity, after having not appeared in the show since Season 2, makes her long-awaited return having taken over the state of Virgina in order to attract Rick's attention.

* GivenNameReveal: While their last names have already been known, this episode reveals President Curtis's first name is Arnold while Dr. Wong's first name is Helen.

* TheBusCameBack: Unity, after having not appeared in the show since Season 2, makes her long-awaited return having taken over the State of Virgina in order to attract Rick's attention.

* SchmuckBait: Mr. Stabby has swords for arms, legs, and a nose, and regularly kills audience members who ask question. Rick questions why anyone would by tickets, with Morty attributing it to celebrity culture.

* StartXToStopX: In order to stop the Curtis HiveMind, Rick has to ask Unity to invade and take over with her own. She, however, is kind enough to release the United States population once she's finished.

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