After Lola snatches Rick's phone and discovers that he's got a secretive affair with someone suspicious, Rick assumes command of the camping company and turns the planned camping trip over its boring head, as he heads towards this suspicious person that he's been hanging with... in the depths of space on a seemingly quiet planet.
Rick and Morty episode: "Childrick of Mort"
Loud House episode: "Changing the Baby", "Tripped!"
- Adaptation Amalgamation: Elements of the season three episode "Tripped!" play out for this chapter. However, Rick postpones the Louds' Lake Michigan vacation, redirecting them to Gaia in space, thus playing out as in "Childrick of Mort".
- Adaptational Context Change: The plot of "Changing the Baby" is quickly resolved after Rick breaks up his grandkids' bickering by deciding to care for Lily himself. He then gets them busy by creating sovereign states for each of the Loud siblings to rule over Gaia's children.
- Rick prevents the events of "Tripped!" from playing out by detouring the family's Lake Michigan vacation for another chaotic adventure by heading to the living planet, Gaia, whom he had a whoppie history.
- Adaptation Expansion: Each Loud kid is given their own country to rule according to their respective image.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Rick doesn't show his Social Darwinist attitude when it comes to the Gaia children, and in the end, he doesn't outright insult, mock, rat, or gaslight his entire family for whatever they screwed up out of petty spite and asserting dominance.
- Rita and Lynn Sr. don't have any malicious intents for getting roped into the adventure, unlike Beth and Jerry. Their children also hold no problem towards them either.
- Downplayed with Gaia, who still cheats on Reggie with Rick, then uses him just to return Reggie to her and her kids. But she doesn't try to murder Rick and his family for Reggie's death. She just tells them to leave.
- Adapted Out: A substantial element of The Loud House episode is implemented, but is otherwise "Childrick of Mort" with the Louds instead of the Smiths.
- The chapter would've replayed the Loud House season 3 premiere "Tripped!" if it weren't for the fact that the events of "Childrick of Mort" interfered with the Louds' planned vacation on Lake Michigan's Weeping Willow Resort & Lodge. Rick instead takes a detour and ropes his family to see Gaia and chaos ensues.
- Adaptational Wimp: Rick reveals that the upgrades on Vanzilla are mostly credited to Lana with some help from him, whom he points out as the other genius of the family besides Lisa. In the original, it was all him modifying the Smith family vehicle.
- An Aesop: Which is more stretched out than in the Loud House canon. Rick tells them that society won't improve if they rule people according to their image. It's also in a way a two-for-one shot at authoritarian or totalitarian governing systems.
- Anti-Climax: Unchanged from canon. Reggie still dies because of a flying spaceship plowing through his head.
- A Day in the Limelight: Lynn Sr. and Rita get to play supporting roles in this episode for once, getting involved with Rick's latest misadventure, as the parents in the entirety of the story get previously sidelined in favor of Rick. Of coarse, by the end, Rick laments bringing them along for the ride.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: A dumbfounded Lisa questions the scientific possibility of a human being impregnating a planet, much to Rick's annoyance, in spite of all the weirdness she experiences on a routine basis. Subverted later on as she was proven right after all.
- Big Damn Heroes: Once again playing out like in canon. Reggie dies by having a spaceship accidentally plow through his head.
- Boom, Headshot!: Unlike in canon, the spaceship that Lincoln and Luna are in crashes into Reggie's forehead rather than his left eye.
- Call-Forward: Rick off-handedly reveals the Loud kids being royalty, something they would find out in the movie.
- Camping Episode: Turned into a staple crazy Rick Sanchez misadventure.
- Character Check: In spite of all the Character Development they undergo, the chapter pretty much reminds the readers that the Loud siblings (apart from Leni, Lynn, and Luan, the latter two have changed ever since) still have a long way to go and so much to learn, as demonstrated by how they govern the Children of Gaia in their respective countries.
- Lincoln governs a state centered on video games, comic books and television, and things that a Lazy Bum classically does, which are his most common traits.
- Lana goes overboard with her primitivism and unhealthy lifestyle and tries teaching her people this way of life, forgetting that, as a human being, she can't survive nature without her technological skills, and the human race's natural affinity for progress and communion.
- Lola lives a lifestyle very typical of an ignorant, corrupt, lazy, or tyrannical ruler or aristocrat, sipping her tea, dressed in the finest royal garment and living in hedonistic luxury in a palace room while her poor and starving subjects riot outside, wanting her head. It shows she is still pretty bratty, spoiled and self-centered.
- Luna doesn't have much major interest in anything but rock music, a completely irrelevant subject in the realm of politics, economics, and society.
- Lisa aims to build a perfect society by working her people to death through endless scientific endeavors, forgetting that people like her need to take consideration and put the needs of the common folk above pointless ambitions, and the fact that nothing is ever perfect, as most of Rick's scientific fields can attest.
- Lori still acts like an overbearing Alpha Bitch towards others. To hammer the nail into the wood, her government and people are based on a white-collar environment centered on the typical strained relationship between a strict boss and a meek employee.
- Lucy still practices her edgy goth and cultist interests, completely forgetting that her people are literal newborns who've yet to be taught the complicated metaphysical nature of death and the supernatural. This corrupts the Gaia people under her rule to becoming Satanist-like cultists who sacrifice each other for a made-up deity.
- Chekhov's Skill: Deconstructed just like in canon, as Lincoln's skills in video games don't necessarily apply to the alien spaceship he intends to pilot.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Reggie towards Rick.
- Deconstruction: When Rick gives each Loud child their own country to govern the children of Gaia, it becomes clear that their self-styled, authoritarian governments cause a variety of problems because of their flaws, like frivolousness, primitivism, micro-management, or outright irrelevant subjects like rock music. Only Leni's works because of her innocence and democratic and libertarian rule.
- Crazy-Prepared: Just in case the Loud kids' governments go south, Rick gives them devices that allow them to bail out immediately.
- Get Out!:
- Gaia doesn't try to kill the Louds and Rick like in canon. Instead, she politely but bitterly tells them to leave.
- After Clyde attempts to barge in the Loud residence dressed as an infant to get Lincoln's attention, he has the misfortune of instead running into Rick, who is not so pleased seeing this at all. He promptly and rudely tells Clyde to "get the fuck out" of the house.
- Good Republic, Evil Empire: Played with, as all the Loud kids are decent people. However, what contrasts their country's governments with Leni's own, is because they are either too authoritarian, incompetent, ignorant, or a combination of all these, courtesy of their character traits, resulting in most of their "people" wanting to overthrow or kill them.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: The Loud family realizes that Rick had sex with a literal planet, of course, like in the original episode, the Gaia children don't really have any connection to him.
- I Know Mortal Kombat: Just like Morty, Lincoln thinks that he can get a spaceship working like in the video games he plays. It resulted just as well as we expect.
- Jerkass Gods: Reggie, like in canon.
- Lighter and Softer: Downplayed as the episode still displays gratuitous violence and sex. However, Leni's government destroys Reggie's dead body before it crashes on Gaia and gets impaled, sparing the Louds of all the excessive revulsion. Reggie also dies by a hole in his forehead, not his eye socket. And lastly, Lincoln and Luna don't inhale drugs just to pilot a spaceship, its wayward operation being more of a result of inexperience.
- Manipulative Bastard: Gaia like in canon.
- Mistaken for Object of Affection: In The Stinger, Clyde, jealous of Lincoln spending time with Lily, attempts to beat her at her own game by barging in the Loud House in a diaper, like in canon. However, instead of meeting Lincoln and cuddling with Lily, Clyde has the big, rotten misfortune of coming into contact with a certain rude, drunken grandpa instead, much to his sheepish reaction.Rick: Get the fuck out of my house, Clyde.
- Pimped-Out Car: After Rita demands his hidden affairs with someone else, Rick immediately transforms Vanzilla into a flying machine complete with a Seismo-English translator device like in canon, dumbfounding the Loud family apart from Lana. He reveals that Lana did all the work with his help.
- Shout-Out: In Lola's country, Lola enjoys a carefree, hedonistic royal lifestyle sipping tea with a child of Gaia while ignoring the chaos outside her palace, and when a concerned servant tells her about it, Lola responds with "Let them eat cake or something". While a far-fetched comparison with the real person due to the complicated actual events, this is a reference to Marie Antoinette and her alleged callous and frivolous sheltered palace lifestyle and the infamous line in response to a rioting populace outside her palace attributed to her during the French Revolution.
