Line #66 Recap/RickAndMortyS7E6RickfendingYourMort


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3	Season Seven's ClipShow in the vein of Morty's Mind Blowers. Rick calls upon the Observer to audit all of Morty's adventures from his punch cards. When Rick and Morty get tired of him, he takes it personally and messes with the whole family's daily lives with random clips.
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7	* AccidentalMurder: When Morty pushes the Observer into the street for him to get crushed by a truck.
8	* AesopAmnesia: PlayedForLaughs. As Rick and Morty are flying off to their next adventure, Rick tells Morty to look in the glovebox. He's excited to find [[BrickJoke yet another]] weird gun.
9	* AngstWhatAngst: InUniverse. Morty finds Rick on the garage floor with several beer bottles around him, obviously [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]] from the previous episode that was the assumed culmination his whole life was aiming for, only Morty brings up his adventure tickets to force Rick into a Morty-picked adventure, which causes Rick to quickly forget all his sorrows and go back to being his stubborn old self messing with Morty for the rest of the episode. Indeed, Morty purposely invoked this to try to shake Rick out of his funk, which the latter acknowledges and thanks him for at the end.
10	* AnimateInanimateObject: Deconstructed; One adventure is Morty having Rick animate a churro for him to have as a friend. When Morty comes back to Rick asking to make Churry a normal churro again, Rick explains that to bring Churry to life without needing any internal organs he had to make him functionally immortal; he can't turn him back into a normal churro. Morty, not happy to learn this, [[ShooTheDog abandons Churry on a barren planet]], which leads him to swear vengeance.
11	* AppealToInherentNature: When Rick uses tech to reveal some of the Observers' own immoral actions, including watching a man drown, bribing homeless people to fight in front of them, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and selling bootleg DVDs]], the Observers protest that watching is their whole point of being. At least until the evidence becomes personal between themselves...
12	* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: Summer's embarrassing memory shows the family seeing a story on the news about the most attractive people on Earth (anyone 7 or higher on the scale, to be precise) being abducted if they go outside. She goes outside and isn't taken, believing it to be a prank, only for her more attractive male and female neighbors across the street to be grabbed by mechanical tentacles within seconds of stepping outside, prompting her to break down in tears at not being considered beautiful enough. It only makes her feel worse when Principal Vagina [[AssuranceBackfire tries to reassure]] her that she'll get used to being unattractive.
13	* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Rick's counter towards the KangarooCourt of Observers, using his own Observer tech to demonstrate that, yes, he and Morty can be pretty damn unheroic, but the Observers commit all sorts of equally sketchy or downright immoral actions and still feel obliged to judge and execute people.
14	* BreatherEpisode: Considering all the emotional turmoil Rick went through in the previous two episodes, this episode is far more lighthearted in nature.
15	* BribingTheHomeless: Rick shows footage of an Observer approaching two homeless guys around a TrashcanBonfire and trying to get them to fight each other for money.
16	* BrickJoke:
17	** Rick repeatedly giving Morty a gun, and his grandson misunderstanding what it does and accidentally misusing it. In addition to [[RuleOfThree the three we see]], it apparently went on "for several more guns" offscreen. Morty also finds another one in Rick's ship at the end.
18	** In TheStinger, Morty finds a churro in his locker and mistakes it for Churry, then finds a message from Churry promising to come after him soon.
19	* TheBusCameBack: Jessica briefly appears in one clip after not being seen since "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS5E1MortDinnerRickAndre Mort Dinner Rick Andre]]" in Season 5. Brad also briefly appears in the stinger.
20	* CallBack: When Rick and Morty are on trial for accidentally killing the Observer and another of their species shows up to defend them, Rick references how something similar happened when they were on trial for killing a giant in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E5MeeseeksAndDestroy Meeseeks and Destroy]]", complete with the Judge Observer showing a clip of it.
21	* ChallengingTheBully: Morty is finally able to stand up to his bullies if only because he is armed. Being TheDitz, this actually makes things worse for him.
22	* ClipShow: Parodied. Rick mentions that the Observer showing them bits from many of their past adventures is like hosting a lame clip show, but only one clip shown in the episode (when the duo were tried in giant court) is actually from an adventure the audience saw, while the rest are new.
23	* ContinuityNod:
24	** Morty can apparently still turn into vehicles, like that time he turned into a car in school in TheStinger of "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E6TheRicksMustBeCrazy The Ricks Must Be Crazy]]".
25	** Morty gets sick of the Observer and goes outside to confront him, and the latter asks if Morty plans to beat him up like Jerry did to "the piss guy" from "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS6E8AnalyzePiss Analyze Piss]]".
26	** [[Recap/RickAndMortyS4E8TheVatOfAcidEpisode The Vat of Acid joke]] returns in a clip, only this time it's a massive vat of whale semen.
27	** The whole "Leg Rick" sequence is an obvious self-parody of "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E3PickleRick Pickle Rick]]".
28	** The only crossed-out bet on the betting board in The Salty Rick is "Morty marrying Mr. PB," clearly referring to Mr. Poopybutthole. One of [[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E8MortysMindBlowers Morty's Mind Blowers]], seen in a FreezeFrameBonus, is Poopybutthole proposing to Morty.
29	* CringeComedy: A portion of the episode is dedicated to showing embarrassing moments the family members have gone through.
30	* {{Deconstruction}}: Of previous ''Rick and Morty'' anthology episodes and {{Clip Show}}s as a whole. The episode starts with an argument that summons a meta-savvy character to act as a framing device for numerous past misadventures as evidence. However the duo halt them and protest when they continue doing it unprompted and without context, seeming more interested in hosting a clip show than solving their current dilemma. This leads to a feud where said character and eventually its many bretheren forcefully continue generating clips out of spite.
31	* DesecratingTheDead: In one clip, Rick & Morty are performing experiments on a cursed pet cemetery. The Judge Observer chastises them for defiling a graveyard for their own interests.
32	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rick and Morty excuse themselves to the kitchen to talk crap about the Observer. When they come back into the room, the Observer is playing a clip of what they just did. Rick admits they should have seen that coming.
33	* DudeNotFunny: When a reference to 9/11 leads the Observer to prepare to show clips of 9/11, Rick and Morty immediately shut him down.
34	* EvilerThanThou: The implied purpose of the third gun Rick gives Morty, as it creates a clone of Jeffrey Dahmer to deal with a run-of-the-mill mugger.
35	* ExactWords: After the first two guns that Rick gives Morty are named after the targets they're supposed to shoot and he misunderstands this (the gorilla gun and the bully gun), Morty naturally assumes the third one, which Rick says "shoots bad people", is the same way. Instead, this gun "shoots bad people" ''out of it'' (such as SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer).
36	* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: Rick notices they've [[ItsBeenDone already done]] a courtroom scene, which the observers confirm with a clip from "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E5MeeseeksAndDestroy Meeseeks and Destroy]]", and once again, Ian Cardoni's voice replaces Roiland's.
37	* ForcedMeme: By the time the "Leg Rick" clip ends, Rick already has a "Leg Rick" t-shirt ready to show off.
38	* GoodTimesMontage: We see a montage of Morty and the alive Churro having a fun day out.
39	* HesBack: Rick Sanchez began the episode in the dumps after the events of the previous episode with Morty trying to cheer him up with some adventure coupons. But after dealing with an entire race of annoying omniscient crystals, Rick is back in business with Morty to go on yet another crazy adventure.
40	-->'''Rick:''' Rick and Morty! We are back, baby!
41	* HollywoodAcid: In Jerry's humiliation story, his piss eats through the urinal and the floor below after he got accidentally pricked by several syringes. Justified as the stuff he got injected by apparently was of [[GreenRocks intergalactic origin]].
42	* ICannotSelfTerminate: One clip shows Rick stepping through a portal carrying body bags of the Rick and Morty who appeared in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''. Rick explains to the Observers that they begged for death. Can't kill yourself in a family-friendly movie, after all.
43	* ImmortalityInducer: Morty asks Rick to bring his churro to life. To accomplish this, Rick makes the churro immortal so its lack of organs won't be a problem.
44	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: One of the bullies on the island develops a cough and dies soon after. Given that they've been treading the ocean for an unknown amount of time before finding land, it's likely to have been pneumonia.
45	* IndyHatRoll: In their first adventure, Rick and Morty slide under a descending temple door just in time before it closes shut.
46	* IslandHelpMessage: When Morty and the two bullies get stranded on a remote island, they build an [=SOS=] sign on the beach to attract attention.
47	* KangarooCourt: Rick and Morty are put on trial by the Observers with the judge, jury, defense, and prosecution all being Observers. After escaping execution, Rick goes out of his way to show that nearly every individual Observer there is also a corrupt hypocrite, causing them to break into violence among themselves.
48	* KnightsAndKnaves: In the first past adventure the Observer shows Rick and Morty, where they enter a temple and are stopped by a pair of guardians, one of them claims to speak only in truth while the other only lies. Rick immediately sidesteps this by having one of the guards accidentally confess to sleeping with the other's wife, prompting them to beat each other up.
49	* LampshadeHanging:
50	** Beth calls out the whale semen joke as being purely for shock value.
51	** During the trial, as the Observers continue to show clips that are funny for the out-of-universe audience but not particularly relevant to the case against Rick and Morty, both of them call this out and wonder what they're even supposed to be on trial for anymore.
52	--->'''Morty''': What are we even guilty of in that one? Being kind of dumb?\
53	'''Rick''': What are these clips? Wh-what are we even on trial for anymore?
54	* LivingClothes: One clip is called "[[Film/MaximumOverdrive Maximum Overdrive]] but with clothes" and is an adventure where all clothing has animated and turned on people. Rick says at least it's better than living vehicles before being InstantlyProvenWrong when a swarm of clothing takes down a woman and flay her alive to wear her skin.
55	* LivingLieDetector: The Observers can tell if someone is lying because they can see everything. Summer learns this when she claims to have been studying for a test while she wasn't.
56	* MessOfWoe: After the events of the previous episode, Rick is lying in his garage in a drunken slump and refusing to go on adventures with Morty like they usually do. Morty starts off the plot by trying to cash in these Adventure Cards in order to coax him out of it.
57	* MurderByInaction: Rick shows footage exposing the Observers of this crime when they refuse to help a drowning person.
58	* MyFistForgivesYou: At the temple early on, when the guard who always tells the truth admits that he slept with the other guard's wife, the other guard replies with "I forgive you" and proceeds to assault the homewrecker with his axe. Justified example since this came from the guard who always lies.
59	* MythologyGag: [[Recap/RickAndMortyBushworldAdventures Rick uses his scientific genius to build a real gun]], or so it seems.
60	* NoSell: Jerry just rolls his eyes at and brushes off the Observer's attempt to humiliate him in front of his family, because, as he notes, they already ''know'' he's embarrassing, so it's not like this is anything new for him.
61	* NotSoAboveItAll: The Observer sees all, including every embarrassing moment they did. Yes, that also includes Space Beth who was caught farting in the middle of a mission briefing and blaming it on her chair.
62	* NoodleIncident: Rick was banned from a Carl's Jr restaurant for some reason.
63	* OminousCrack: During the old man's rambling in the vampire story, the windows of the shelter start to crack under the pressure of the vampires trying to get in. Eventually, the windows break and the place gets overrun by the vampires.
64	* TheOmniscient: The Observers see everything and ''EVERYTHING''.
65	* OpenDoorOpening: The episode opens with Morty lifting the garage door to meet Rick in his MessOfWoe.
66	* OverlyLongGag: Referenced, but not seen. The bit with the ambiguous guns is used three times, but one of the Observers says it actually went on for several more guns.
67	** Done with the old man listing his weapons' anti-vampire properties.
68	* RaisedHandOfSurvival: The first sign of zombie Ben Franklin coming to life at the pet cemetery is his hand bursting through the ground.
69	* RevoltingRescue: Subverted. In one adventure, Rick tells Morty that the only way to save the universe is if he sticks his tongue into an Apeborg's nostrils. Morty is repulsed but goes through with it for the sake of the world. Then it's revealed that this was one of Rick's pranks.
70	* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: Rick shows video evidence of an Observer peddling bootleg versions of ''Franchise/{{Avatar}} 3'' to ''6''. TruthInTelevision though, since it's actually Cameron's announced intention.
71	* RuleOfFunny: A fight breaks out in Observer court when one of the Observers shows a clip of the judge having sex with another Observer's wife. Since all Observers are omniscient, they should already know this happened, but it functions as a BrickJoke of an earlier clip in the episode of Rick tricking a temple guardian into admitting to having sex with the other guard's wife and instigating a fight.
72	* RuleOfThree: We see Rick give Morty three different guns that he mistakes what they do: a gorilla gun, a bully gun, and a gun that "shoots bad people". There were apparently many more instances that were not shown.
73	* RunningGag:
74	** "I'M A LEG, MORTY!!!"
75	** Similarly, Rick telling Morty they'll have to jump into a vat of whale semen continues the RunningGag started in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS4E8TheVatOfAcidEpisode The Vat of Acid Episode]]" (and continued in "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS6E9ARickInKingMortursMort A Rick in King Mortur's Mort]]").
76	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the Blade parody Rick and Morty get so bored with Whistlers [[GunPorn overly detailed description of what his vampire killing weapon does]] they simply bail and leave him to fend off the vampire hoard himself.
77	* SelfDeprecation: "Leg Rick" is clearly an attempt at invoking DiscreditedMeme on "Pickle Rick", with Morty and the Observers unimpressed while Rick considers it his finest moment.
78	* SerialKiller: The gun Rick hands to Morty that specifically shoots bad people (out of it, ''not'' into) shoots a goop that turns into Jeffrey Dahmer.
79	* ShooTheDog: Morty reluctantly agrees to abandon his pal Churry on a remote planet.
80	* SilenceIsGolden: The sequence of Morty and the two bullies getting stranded is playing out with no dialog.
81	* TheStinger: Morty opens his school locker to find a churro inside and freaks out, thinking it's Churry come back to take revenge on him, but it's just a regular churro that Brad picks up and eats. Then Morty [[TheEndOrIsIt finds a message]] from Churry --"SOON"--scrawled in his locker in brown sugar.
82	* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: One clip is Rick and Morty resurrecting Ben Franklin in the Pet Sematary and deciding to test its limits through scientific experimentation; testing what it can bring back and how long it takes with kitchen timers. First they start with whether it can recharge Morty's dead phone, and after an unspecified amount of burials, they're shown pushing a car into a pit to test if it'll somehow fill up the tank. They come back to Ben Franklin, having wrapped him in foil to see if it'd keep the resurrection but block out the evil, but he comes out completely roasted...and tempting enough for Rick to eat him before Morty brings him back to his senses.
83	* SwissArmyWeapon: The old man in the vampire adventure [[GunPorn proudly demonstrates]] a machine gun to Rick and Morty that has all sorts of appendages. Unfortunately, talking ''isn't'' [[TalkingIsAFreeAction a free action]] and the vampires overwhelm the building while he's busy talking up the features, with Rick and Morty wisely choosing [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere to bail]] moments before.
84	* TakeThat: One of the clips shows Rick having killed the versions of himself and Morty who appeared in ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'', with both treating this as an unambiguously good thing because their counterparts "welcomed death" from being forced to be in the movie.
85	* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: How Rick defeats the Observers. With access to their tech, he begins showcasing their own incriminating footage, leaving them indignant and summoning a fight amongst themselves.
86	* TearOffYourFace: In one of the adventures a [[LivingClothes sentient hoodie]] rips off a woman's face and tries to wear it.
87	* TemptingFate: When Morty accidentally gets the Observer hit by a car, Rick tells him they'll deny ever being involved and wait for this to blow over. Unless, of course, the Observers saw this; cut to Rick and Morty imprisoned and on trial, showing this is exactly what happened.
88	* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave:
89	** Implied to be how Morty ends up feeling about the idea of Churry being immortal and staying by his side ''forever'', even though he does enjoy hanging out with Churry.
90	** Also, the Observer, who refuses to leave and continues to taunt the family with compromising video footage from outside the Smiths' house.
91	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: When Rick doubts the validity of Morty's punch cards, Morty replies with "I got receipts, bitch!"
92	* TooDumbToLive: Morty repeatedly misinterprets the specialized guns Rick makes for him, partially due to ambiguity in how Rick describes them. First, he uses a Gorilla Gun, which he assumes will "turn a bully into a gorilla"; it's actually meant to kill gorillas, and "merely" horribly maims the bully. Rick questions why Morty would even want do that in the first place; the bully now being a gorilla would just make the problem worse. Second, Morty stupidly shoots himself with the Bully Gun, thinking he himself would ''turn into'' a bully after Rick understood the last miscommunication, but it just kills him (and then he's revived by Rick). Finally, Rick gives him a normal-looking gun that ''specifically'' shoots bad people...[[ExactWords which means it shoots a ball of goop that turns into serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer]].
93	* VerbThis: When Morty complains that the "I'm a leg" shirt Rick is holding up is unlicensed, the Observer announces "License this!" and continues to show more humiliating footage of Morty.
94	* WoundedGazelleGambit: In one memory, a dying Rick prompts Morty to fight an evil space gorilla by [[RevoltingRescue licking his nostrils]], only when Morty looks back, he barely sees the portal closing with a healthy Rick going into a tavern full of other Ricks and crossing out Morty's action from a bunch of embarrassing moments on a table as a bet with the rest of the Ricks.

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