Line #63 Recap/RickAndMortyS1E10CloseRickCountersOfTheRickKind


1	'''Season 1, Episode 10:'''
2	!Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind
3	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rickandmortycloserickcountersoftherickkind.JPG]]
4	[[caption-width-right:350:''"This place is a real who's who of who's you and me."'']]
5	->Written by: Ryan Ridley\
6	Directed by: Stephen Sandoval
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8	->''"Rick Sanchez of Earth dimension C-137, you are under arrest for crimes against alternate Ricks by the authority of the trans-dimensional council of Ricks."''
9	-->-- '''Council of Ricks Officer'''
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11	'''Original air date:''' 4/7/2014
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13	Rick has a run-in with alternate Ricks, resulting in a falling out with Morty.
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15	!!This episode contains examples of:
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17	* ActionPrologue: The opening abduction scene.
18	* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
19	** Subverted. Rick keeps cracking jokes in Evil Rick's lab and one of the crab monsters sounds like he's laughing, but it's just a noise he makes every ten seconds regardless.
20	** Zigzagged when the Ricks prank Jerry into thinking that Rick C-137 was about to fly into a black hole with Morty. When they reveal that it was a joke and that the caller was one of the Ricks in the kitchen, Summer and Jerry continue looking mortified, but Beth grins, implying she found it amusing.
21	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Doofus Rick. He is constantly ridiculed by the other Ricks.
22	-->"You make us ashamed to be ourselves!"
23	* AmbiguousSituation: Rick C-137 assumes Evil Rick wants to overthrow the Council of Ricks, which he agrees to, but Evil Rick doesn't really say if that's his plan or not. He doesn't even explain why he needs C-137's memories.
24	* AndIMustScream:
25	** Averted. The Morty Dome's walls are made of hundreds of screaming Mortys, constantly being tortured so they can hide Evil Rick. The implication is that they'll eventually die and be replaced by the other Mortys being held in the dome. What makes this worse is that our Rick acknowledges that only five Mortys and a jumper cable could achieve the same effect (and even admitted that he ''thought of an idea like this before''), and that a ''Morty'' is behind all of this.
26	** Played straight with the Council's Machine of Unspeakable Doom: it swaps your conscious and unconscious minds, rendering your fantasies pointless while everything you know becomes impossible to grasp. Also, every 10 seconds, it stabs your balls.
27	* AndThatWouldBeWrong: Rick criticizes Evil Rick's Morty Dome for being overkill and that the same result could be achieved with "five Mortys and a jumper cable". Which, in response to Morty glaring at him in disgust, he states he wouldn't resort to either.
28	* AssShove: One of the Ricks that was killed literally had his head shoved up his ass in a FreezeFrameBonus.
29	* AsYouKnow: Lampshaded by Morty who complains that Rick keeps telling him about the [[MistakenFromBehind shirt trick]] over and over.
30	* AudienceMurmurs: Our Rick claims to the Council of Ricks that they are hypocritical for banding together to protect themselves from the government. The other Ricks murmur at this, prompting our Rick to lampshade the trope by saying "yeah, murmur it up, d-bags."
31	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The scan of Rick's mind eventually turns into a montage of stopping in at Beth's and Jerry's house to watch Morty grow up and he get tears in his eyes.
32	* TheBadGuyWins: Evil Morty gets what he wants from Rick C-137 and gets away undetected.
33	* BadNewsInAGoodWay: This is how Doofus Rick ends up solving the issue of Jerry's ''Star Wars'' coins: everyone else has simply given him the brutally honest answer that the coins are pretty much worthless, and Jerry's been spending the entire episode trying to convince people that they'll be worth a ton of money. Doofus Rick tells him the same thing, but still spins it in a positive and constructive way: the coins are never going to be worth any real amount of money as collector's items (and may actually go ''down'' in value with time), but they're clearly something Jerry cares about, and that makes them valuable in their own way.
34	* BadassInDistress: Rick and Morty get captured by Evil Rick and Evil Morty, and Rick is strapped to a table and pretty much helpless to save himself as Evil Rick prepares to download all his memories and then kill him. Morty is the one who saves the day by starting an uprising among the other Mortys, who defeat the crab monsters and Evil Rick, and freeing Rick himself.
35	* BatmanGambit: Evil Rick (or rather, Evil Morty) wanted to lure Rick C-137 to them they could capture him, so they hacked his portal gun not only to frame him but also because they knew C-137 would use that to trace them and come after them himself.
36	* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Rick argues that the Interdimensional Council of Ricks are less Rick than he is because they formed a government to protect themselves from the governments they pissed off.
37	* BrickJoke: One of Rick's memory is attaching a jumper cable to Morty, suggesting he has actually tested the "five Mortys and a jumper cable" theory despite claiming otherwise to his Morty.
38	* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: Invoked as a PrankCall to Jerry by Rick's hunters.
39	* ChekhovsGun: The Central Finite Curve is first mentioned in this episode without much context or explanation of what it is, but it ends up defining the Rick and Morty multiverse as we know it.
40	* ClearMyName: "Our" Rick, C-137, is falsely accused by the Council of killing Ricks and kidnapping Mortys. After he and his Morty C-137 escape from the Council, they begin looking for the real killer to clear Rick of suspicion.
41	* ContinuityNod:
42	** One of the alternate Ricks and Mortys in the Citadel of Ricks is the Cronenberg Rick and Morty from the end of "Rick Potion #9".
43	** Some of Rick's memories include [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E2LawnmowerDog Snuffles]], [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E6RickPotionNumber9 giving Morty the love potion]], and [[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E4MNightShaymAliens showering in the school locker room with Morty]].
44	* CrossoverPunchline: The mug, pen and notepad that come out of one of Rick's portals can be traced back to "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E7SocietyOfTheBlindEye Society of the Blind Eye]]".
45	* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The Citadel of Ricks has this vibe.
46	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The pamphlet "The Good Morty" handed out by evangelical alternate Mortys look like Christian educational material for kids.
47	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The real villain is not Evil Rick, it's his ''Morty''.
48	* DoWrongRight: Rick points out that the Morty Dome is needlessly excessive since you could get the same effect that it provides with only five Mortys and a jumper cable. [[AndThatWouldBeWrong Which he claims he still wouldn't do.]] In hindsight, the sheer overkill was likely intentional, allowing Evil Morty to slip into a massive crowd as opposed to being part of a small group.
49	* TheEndingChangesEverything: Evil Morty was behind the whole plot all along.
50	* ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit: Since the Citadel militia have portal guns of their own, Rick and Morty are forced to flee through several different dimensions to evade his pursuers, until Rick finally shakes them by opening multiple portals at once, delaying the security team for a few critical minutes while they try to figure out which one he went through.
51	* EyepatchOfPower: Evil Morty wears one. Turns out it concealed a transmitter to control Evil Rick.
52	* FrameUp: Evil Rick/Evil Morty hack into Rick C-137's portal gun to make it look like he's recently visited the dimensions of all the murdered Ricks so the Council of Ricks will believe he's responsible for it.
53	* FightingAcrossTimeAndSpace: Rick and Morty run from the Council of Ricks and manage to lose them after a chase through a number of different dimensions. Some of these dimensions form a running gag where humans, pizza, chairs, and phones keep switching roles with each other.
54	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
55	** Evil Rick insists that Ricks don't care about their Mortys, which is a ''very'' early clue for his master's motivations.
56	** C-137 asks why he's the Council's go-to scapegoat whenever someone kills a Rick. We'll learn later that they have thousands of reasons why.
57	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Various residents of the chair world look at Rick and Morty in surprise after their arrival.
58	* GroinAttack: Among the things the Machine of Unspeakable Doom does is stab a person in the balls every ten seconds.
59	* GuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuilty: The Rick we follow throughout the show (Rick C-137) is arrested by the Citadel of Ricks, accused of murdering other Ricks. His portal gun history seems to corroborate this charge, and in any case, his refusal to have anything to do with the Citadel of Ricks makes him suspect among the others. He's only let off the hook when he escapes and tracks down the actual culprit.
60	-->'''Rick C-137''': [[PromotedToScapegoat Why am I the first Rick you haul in every time a Rick stubs his toe]]?!
61	* {{Hypocrite}}: Rick condemns the council for becoming a government because they feared government.
62	* InverseNinjaLaw: Our Rick has no trouble outrunning, outwitting, and escaping numerous duplicates of himself.
63	* {{Irony}}: Doofus Rick is the nicest version of Rick by far, but he was never able to have a family of his own.
64	* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: This episode introduces us to three alternate universes. One is populated by sentient pizza slices who eat humans. Another is populated by sentient phones who eat chairs, sit on pizza, and use humans as communication devices. The third is populated by sentient chairs who sit on humans, eat phones, and use pizzas as communication devices.
65	* LackOfEmpathy: Evil Morty has no qualms over killing Ricks, kidnapping Mortys and torturing them in the most gruesome and impractical way possible.
66	* LostInACrowd: At the end, Evil Morty disappears in a crowd of Mortys.
67	* TheManBehindTheMan: Evil Morty was actually controlling Evil Rick.
68	* ManlyTears: Rick when seeing the memories of Morty.
69	* MistakenFromBehind: Rick and Morty fool their pursuers by dressing up two chairs in their shirts which leads to this trope occurring.
70	* NoMoreForMe: One homeless Chair drops his [[QuickNip flask]] after seeing Rick and Morty walking by.
71	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Our Rick and his evil counterpart, much to our Morty's irritation. Also lampshaded by them.
72	--> '''Evil Rick''': We're not so belch different, you and I.\
73	'''Rick''': rolls his eyes [[AlternateSelf Yeah]], ''[[CaptainObvious duh!]]''
74	* OminousMultipleScreens: Evil Rick has a wall of monitors in his base, displaying the Mortys' suffering.
75	* OnlySaneMan: Rick sees himself as the only true Rick because he refuses to be part of the alliance.
76	* PhoneTraceRace: Jerry is told to keep Rick on the phone for 30 seconds to be traced down by Rick's hunters. Apparently, it was just part of a [[TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse prank]].
77	* PragmaticVillainy: Our Rick, and most of the others. He finds the idea that he would kill the other Ricks to be ridiculous because it's of no benefit to him, and the Morty Dome is considered "barbaric overkill" because five Mortys and a jumper cable would do the same job.
78	* PunBasedTitle: This episode's title is a pun on ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
79	* PungeonMaster: Rick and an alternative self of him throw VolleyingInsults at each other based on the word "Rick".
80	-->'''Other Rick''': Save your anti-Rick speech for the Council of Ricks, terror-Rick.
81	-->'''Rick''': Hey, save your Rick rules for the [burps] sheep-Ricks, Rick-pig.
82	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Morty doesn't take being Rick's human cloaking device well, even as they're sneaking around Evil Rick's hideout, and Rick gives him one of these in response.
83	-->'''Morty:''' I'm more than a human shield!\
84	'''Rick:''' Yeah, that's right, you are. You're a perfect, impenetrable suit of human armor, Morty, because you're as dumb as I am smart, which is why when I say "shut up", it's really good advice.
85	* TheReveal:
86	** Rick reveals that Morty can hide his presence to other entities of the universe.
87	** In the end, it's revealed Evil Rick was being controlled by Evil Morty, who's the real killer.
88	* RewatchBonus: Evil Rick's defiant screams to get it over with when the Morty mob beats him to death hits differently after the episode ''[[Recap/RickAndMortyS7E5Unmortricken Unmortricken]]''.
89	* RoboticReveal: When we learn that Evil Rick was a cybernetically lobotomized meat puppet remotely controlled by Evil Morty who becomes the ManBehindTheMan.
90	* RousingSpeech: Morty delivers one to his other Morty inmates.
91	* RunningGag: Rick and Morty going through various similar universes with the same situation - an inanimate object ordering food - culminating in a scene where a chair, sitting on a person, orders a phone through their pizza. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes some sense in context.]]
92	* SarcasticClapping: Evil Rick does this, which Rick thinks is played out.
93	* ShoutOut:
94	** One of the Mortys looks just like Eric Stolz from ''Film/{{Mask\|1985}}''. This is an in-joke to the fact that Rick and Morty are based on Doc and Marty from ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' where Marty was briefly played by Eric Stolz before he was replaced by Creator/MichaelJFox.
95	** Some of the captured Mortys look like Aang from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
96	** The small book one of the other Mortys in the cult hands our Morty is a parody of a ''ComicBook/{{Chick Tract\|s}}''.
97	** At one point, a mug with a question mark on it, a pen and a notepad come spilling out of from one of the portals Rick mass spawned. [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls These belong]] [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E7SocietyOfTheBlindEye to Grunkle Stan.]]
98	** The part where the Mortys are used as a power source resembles the The Second Renaissance segment of The Animatrix.
99	* SincerityMode: Jerry takes a while to realize Doofus Rick isn't making fun of him when he takes an interest in his job.
100	* SpannerInTheWorks: Evil Morty apparently didn't count on even one of the other Mortys (namely, "our" Morty) to actually stand up for themselves, motivating the rest.
101	* SpikesOfVillainy: Evil Rick's lair has huge spikes sticking out.
102	* SplitScreenPhoneCall: Happens when Ricks prank-calls Leader Rick towards the end.
103	* SpotTheImposter: One of the Ricks attempts to defy this.
104	-->"They look exactly like us, so to avoid confusion, I'm gonna mark us each with a red x right now. That way, if someone has a gun and we both tell you to shoot the other one because they're the evil one, you'll know who's lying."
105	* TheStinger: "Our" Rick, C-137, returns home to find Jerry, who's missing his new friend Doofus Rick, in his room, and boots him out in annoyance. Jerry looks out the window to see Doofus Rick across the street, smiles and waves...and then C-137 sees him too and mocks Jerry for being friends with him.
106	* TakeThat: Rick all but says that OJ is a murderer.
107	* TechnicolorScience: At the garage, Doofus Rick is shown creating ovenless brownies using three test tubes with substances of green, pink and yellow color.
108	* TemptingFate: Beth comments that she wishes she got to see more of Rick. Almost immediately, three other Ricks portal into the dining room.
109	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch:
110	--> '''Rick:''' I CAUGHT THE REAL KILLER, BIIIIIITCH!
111	* ThroatSlittingGesture: This gesture is used by Rick to secretly signal the council members to shut up when they hand him a Morty-replacement voucher while Morty is standing right next to them.
112	* {{Touche}}: Rick C-137 tells his Morty to free him from his restraints after Evil Rick is killed. Morty, still mad at Rick for insulting him earlier and revealing he was using him as a "clocking device", tells him he's lucky he's not a Rick and proceeds to free him. Rick acknowledges this with a "Point taken".
113	* TranquillizerDart: Used to [[InstantSedation instantly sedate]] and capture an alternate Morty in the opening scene.
114	* TheTropeFormerlyKnownAsX: During the rundown of the unprecedented 'rick-icidal epidemic,' Rick questions the Rick known as "The scientist formerly known as Rick."
115	* WeCanRuleTogether: Averted; Rick assumes that Evil Rick wants them to team up and overthrow the Citadel. Nah, Evil Rick just wants to drain Rick's brain of its knowledge and then kill him. This makes even more sense when we discover that Evil Morty is TheManBehindTheMan.
116	* WhamShot: Evil Morty pulling off his eyepatch at the end, revealing that he was behind everything, and vanishing into the crowd of now-identical Mortys.
117	* YouMonster: Morty calls Rick this and refuses to help him after Rick reveals why he kept Morty around.
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