While Lincoln tries to get an autograph from Rip Hardcore at the mall, his younger sisters get an inside look as to how Rick's cruiser really works.
Rick & Morty episode: The Ricks Must Be Crazy
Loud House episode: Mall Of Duty
- Adaptational Context Change:
- Since Lucy, Lana, Lola, and Lisa are with Rick in the Microverse, Lincoln only manages to find Lily at the mall and has to wait until they return.
- Lana prevents Rick from aggravating his feud with Zeep by suggesting a compromise with him, thus averting the fight the two engaged in canon.
- Adaptational Explanation: During their fight, Lisa reveals that she started her fecal studies to make sure Lana doesn't poison herself from all the trash she eats.
- Adapted Out:
- Because they went with Rick, the escapades of Lucy, Lisa, and the twins in the mall are cut out.
- Lana wanting Rick to make a deal with Zeep after Kyle commits suicide therefore prevented their rivalry from going worse, thus averting the subsequent fight they had in canon.
- The Summer subplot was cut off due to its mature content. Plus, since this episode combines "Mall of Duty" with "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", there's no reason this subplot would be adapted without shoehorning Lori, who doesn't play a role in the original episode, in, just to fill for Summer.
- The sentient tree scenes were cut off, and there's no scene of any of the sisters insulting them once they exit the teenyverse.
- Bait-and-Switch: Just as Rick is about to smash the Miniverse with the Teenyverse in it like in canon, he stops and reveals he was kidding, laughing at Zeep's expense.
- Continuity Nod: A news broadcast acknowledges the "mysterious" disappearance of Principal Huggins from the last chapter.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: As Rick and the younger Loud sisters are having fun singing along and giggling over the foul-mouthed rapping of Logic, Lincoln reminds them that Lily can hear them, causing them to give pause.
- Driven to Suicide: Kyle, just like in canon. However, it was slightly worse, unlike Morty going on an awkward rambling, Lisa instead bluntly confirms the truth in his face.
- Feud Episode: This chapter features one between Lana and Lisa as they argue over each other's intellects. The make up by the end, of course.
- Hypocritical Humor: Just like the original show, Rick tries to excuse the Micro-Miniverse worlds' lifestyle when it gets described as slavery, only to say the same thing himself later. This is further added with this chapter with Rick calling out Lisa and Lana for the petty arguments they often engage throughout... then exchanges insults and petty scuffles with Zeep himself. Lisa then storms out because of Rick's hypocrisy.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Lisa honesty thought that telling Kyle the truth about his universe's existence would reassure him... and then Kyle crashes his vehicle into a cliff. Lana and Lisa stand dumbfounded.Lisa: I stand corrected.
- Precision F-Strike: After Lincoln complains about the profanity induced by Logic's rapping, the normally prim and proper Lola Loud delivers the F-word in his face, and her siblings start laughing. Imagine hearing that with Grey Griffin's voice.Lola: Frankly, my dear Lincoln, I don't give a fuck.
- Lisa rapping Logic's profane lyrics also count, as we never hear the otherwise pragmatic Lisa Loud go dirty with language before.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Instead of detroying the teenyverse like in the original, as suggested by Lana, Rick strikes a compromise with Zeep to use the teenyverse in exchange for Zeep's own universe. Because of this, Zeep plays a bigger role in future chapters.
- Sequel Hook: More like "Next Chapter Hook". At the end of the chapter, Rick is disturbed by Lisa's unscrupulous scientific behavior (like switching one still-living micro-uiniverse to power Rick's cruiser and keeping the other), making him worry that she's becoming another Rick. He thinks her having a friend might curb that behavior, which is the focus of the next chapter.
