Rick and Morty - 50 Jokes & References You Missed

Hi, I'm Erik Voss and my favorite comedy show is Rick and Morty on Adult Swim. And since I reviewed the first episode of season 3 that was released early, I rewatched the series again and caught so many subtle

jokes

that I wanted to point out to you. Now yes, the show Rick and Morty is full of

references

, so I'll skip the obvious stuff and point out the little things I

missed

the first time that made me laugh when I watched them this time. And you may have already noticed some of these, but '...just move on, you know, just move on and don't stop judging.' And before we get into this, Quidd presented you with this video.

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He was known for the old Friar's Club roasts. "Thank you... thank you very, very much. As you said... Frede

rick

and the gentlemen just (burp) told them--" Okay, with that out of the way, let's look at the first episode, the pilot. One of the craziest things that happens in this episode is that a kid dies. Morty's bully and Summer's crush, Frank. Now, Rick freezes Frank and he falls and shatters. And the can't-miss joke here is that later in the episode, to honor Frank, the school flies its flag at half-mast. Also in this episode, outside Beth's horse hospital, there is an early shot of the doctors trying to control a restless horse, but later in the episode, they are hosing down blood stains in the same place, which implies that this horse did not do it. do it.

Now the second episode is called The Lawnmower Dog, and that title is a reference to the 1992 film, The Lawnmower Man, where a scientist gives super intelligence to a mentally disabled gardener, which is more or less the premise of the plot. of this episode. with Snuffles the dog. Now you may notice that Rick mistakenly refers to the dog as Ruffles, and Ruffles is the name of the dog in Justin Roiland's animated project they never completed called Dog World about a society of intelligent dogs. And one of my favorite

jokes

in this episode is that Snuffles changes his name to Snowball. "Snuffles was my slave name.

Now you will call me Snowball, because my fur is nice and white." And in fact, Snowball was the name of the evil black pig in George Orwell's Animal Farm. Now, another inside joke that appeared in this episode is this guy with rainbow suspenders and a football jersey. According to Justin Roiland, this character was originally intended to be the in-universe link between Rick and Morty and two other shows animated by his friend, Alex Hirsch, who makes Gravity Falls, and Jason Ruiz, who made a show called Murder Police on Fox. .which never aired. Notice how the soccer ball on a jersey has three Roman numerals: 18, 3, and 5.

Now, Roiland said the character would have had different numbers on his jersey in the other two shows, and that together they would form a code. with the corresponding letters. These numbers correspond to R, C and E, but of course we will never know what that word was going to be because the other two animators couldn't include it in their programs. Unfortunately, this guy is a rando who appears throughout Season 1, in this episode, but also in the background of Rick Kind's Close Encounters, then rants against Trunkpeople's marriage rights in Rixty Minutes, and then abandons the party early in the season finale.

And finally, in this episode, I love this little moment where Morty returns to her family and Summer runs to hug him, like she's giving him a ride on a speedboat, and Morty pushes her. This is because he is still traumatized by the previous dream in which his sister was too sexy. Okay, let's move on. I loved all the

references

in Anatomy Park to things like Jurassic Park and Disney World, but one super dark, really subtle joke that not everyone got, but you're honestly really lucky if you

missed

it, came from Ethan. This is Summer's clingy boyfriend.

Remember the character Jacob advised Ethan to help him achieve a breakthrough, but when you listen carefully to what he says, he is quite confusing. "My brother...took me fishing once...in the bushes. I can't! I can't! He made me feel like a girl! Maybe I'm a girl!" Yeah, I'm not going to explain what exactly he means by that, but I'll let you be the judge. So episode 4, which was M. Knight Sham-Aliens!, was great too, but I want to move on to my favorite episode of the series, episode 5: Meseeks and Destroy. This, of course, is the famous Mr.

Meeseeks episode and also the episode with the horrible Mr. Jellybean scene. And I love this little animation detail of Rick's eyes following Mr. Jellybean as he leaves the bathroom and then back to Morty as he explains what might have happened. And then, in that post-credits scene, when Jellybean's people discover the horrible truth and decide to hide it from the world, notice the statue. The little boy is wearing white boxers and King Jellybean is making a subtle and really disgusting lip bite. I also feel like this whole idea of ​​letting King Jellybean die as a hero is a subtle homage to the end of The Dark Knight when Commissioner Gordon decides to cover up Harvey Dent's dark side so he can die a martyr and inspire the people of Gotham. .

Even the music seems to have been composed by Hans Zimmer. "Wait. Destroy it." Okay, moving on to the next episode, episode 6 Rick Potion Number 9. It has some funny jokes that you can't miss. First, there's this intercom announcement from Principal Vagina, warning kids with the flu not to attend the flu season dance. "I don't know how many times I have to say this, but if you have the flu, stay home. The flu season dance is about awareness, not celebration. You don't bring dead babies along..." Now this, Of course , is a rather obscure reference to the Passover story, where God struck?

Smut? Crushed? He smote the firstborn of the families of Egypt. And speaking of darkness, at the end of this episode there's one of my favorite Beth jokes. "I wish that shotgun were my penis. If it were, you could call me Ernest Hemingway. I don't understand it and I don't need it." Now, considering that writer Hemingway committed suicide by putting a shotgun in his mouth, you can probably guess what he was going for... The next episode is Raising Gazorpazorp, which starts with a pretty funny joke, the family debating whether to intervene with Morty fucking his sex robot upstairs, but then something goes wrong. "Um Rick, could you come with me please?

Quick? Okay, now if we hear squeaking we intervene." And I love calling back in the next scene. "Unacceptable! Oh." Also in this episode, the steps in the female gazorpazorp court say Sis Semper Calumniam, which is Latin for you are always wrong. And Summer says this to defend herself: "And if you think my shirt is cute, you can't execute it." This is a reference to Johnnie Cochran's famous defense at the OJ Simpson trial: "If it doesn't fit, you should acquit him." Then at the end of this episode, Morty Junior's angry dance is a reference to Kevin Bacon's angry dance in Footloose.

Now the next episode is Rixty Minutes, aka the first interdimensional cable episode, and for this episode, a lot of the shows you watched were improvised by Justin Roiland in the audio booth; that's why you can hear him change characters a few times. "I'm Gazorpazorp (bleep)field, bitch, now give me my (bleep) enchilada. It's called two brothers. Two brothers. It's just called two broth--" I also love when the camera pans to a channel with a Thriller music video of Michael Jackson with people on the phone. So this is the telephone universe of Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind.

Now, the next episode, Something Ricked This Way Comes, has a bunch of little Easter eggs that you've probably already seen, even things like Adventure Time, Stephen King, and Steven Jobs, but the one I just caught now was in the closing X I will give it to you assembling. The bully who was beaten in the schoolyard is an adult version of the character Randall from the show Recess. Okay, moving on to Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind, which introduces us to all the other Rick's and Mortys from different universes. So, for example, in the background of the Citadel, there is a Cronenberg Rick and a Cronenberg Morty, presumably from their c-137 universe that Cronenberg received.

I also like the joke here when the Ricks examine Rick's portal gun. "Oh, come on, don't look at another man's portal weapon history. We're all going to strange places!" Now, of course, this is a reference to the universal anxiety of someone watching all the porn in their Internet search history. But if you think about this, it's funny, because that's how Rick sees the universe. Just browsing different porn websites and getting off. Okay, now next up are two of the craziest sight gags in this entire series. First, I mentioned Gravity Falls before, and a great reference appears in this episode.

So when the Ricks are chasing Rick and Morty through the portals, if you look closely, some random objects fly out of it. It turns out to be the same mug and other belongings of Gruncle Stan from an episode of Gravity Falls when he loses them in a portal. And I'll get to that second crazy sight gag in a second, but first I want to thank Quidd for sponsoring this video. Quidd is an amazing new app where you can collect cool stickers, cards and 3D figures for free, all on your phone. So if you use emojis and stickers when texting your friends like I do, Quidd has thousands of free stickers you can't find anywhere else from great shows like Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, Bob's Burgers, Steven Universe , Power.

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You can trade with us. Come on, let's get closer and be more than friends. I think we're ready. Yes Yes. Okay, back to this episode. The other crazy visual gag comes in this amazing montage with Rick and Morty running through several alternate dimensions of chairs, pizzas, and phones. And if you look closely at the background, you can see that the framed portraits are also changing. But what surprised me is that later in this universe of chairs, Rick and Morty pass by a homeless chair drinking from a bottle that is shaped like a small bus, and then immediately after, the bus passing by Rick and Morty has the shape. from a bottle.

This attention to detail is crazy. Also later in this episode, goofy Rick tells Jerry about Eric Stoltz's mask, Morty. And this reference to Eric Stoltz is a subtle nod to Rick and Morty's origin as Justin Roiland's Back to the Future parody animated short called Doc and Marty, which had to be changed for legal reasons to Rick and Morty. And a bit of Back to the Future history here, the role of Marty McFly was originally played by actor Eric Stoltz before he was replaced by Michael J Fox because they wanted the characters to be a bit more comedic.

So, the end of the season1 is Ricksy Business with the house party. Then Rick tells Summer that her impromptu nonsense word glip glop is a hate word. "Are some glip glops from the third dimension coming to play cards or something? Glip glop? You're lucky a Trapthalorkian doesn't hear you say that. It's like the n-word and the c-word have a baby." . and was raised by all the bad words towards the Jews. Then, Rick takes full ownership of this hateful word. "Yeah, what's up with my glip glop?" and the episode Destroy. Now I love the character of Abradolf Lincler.

All of his lines come from the fact that he's half Lincoln, half Hitler, and this is my favorite: "Prepare to emancipate yourself from your own inferior genes!" And later in this episode, Rick grinds up the Kalaxian crystal and snorts it, leading them into this choreographed dance. And then, when Morty angrily throws a crystal outside, the interdimensional monster snatches it up and eats it, and then shortly after you can see the creature happily dancing to Rick in the background too. there's a really dirty Tammy joke: "I love watching bukkake." I mean, I don't know if I personally would ever do it.

Okay, kids, cover your ears, but bukkake is a Japanese term for a sexual act that involves many men doing something to a woman or man. And then later in this episode, Tammy flirts with the birdman. "I'm not looking to establish a soul bond, I'm just looking... I think birdman can fix that." It seems that the birdman is planning a relationship. bukkake. I don't even know how you would start doing that. Okay, moving on to season 2. The season 2 premiere is A Rickle in Time, which begins with this great meta joke "Ugh. Man, that guy is a grump with a red smile, pretending he knows what's going on.

You're okay, huh? You like that reference to the red smile and the complaint? Well guess what? I made them up. You really are your father's children. Don't be sheep. So Rick is basically making fun of all the young fans of this show who laugh at references they don't understand, like bukkake. I hope you don't understand what that is. And the next episode of season 2 is Mortynight Run, featuring the character Fart, voiced by Jemaine Clement. And I really appreciated this subtle joke: "I communicate through what you call Jessica's feet, without telepathy." Fart is reading Morty's mind here, who, yes, is currently thinking about the feet of his crush, Jessica.

So the song Fart sings is Goodbye Moon Man, and Jemaine Clement is invoking David Bowie. In fact, she did a Bowie parody on his show Flight. from the Concords, in the Blitz and Chips arcade, there is a cameo of Mr. Meeseeks in the background, who is helping another alien win a pinball game, and then when he succeeds, Mr. Meeseeks disappears as well. Jerry's daycare, where the music playing is human music, which is the same song from Jerry's simulation in the first season, in M. Night Sham-aliens. "And now, here's human music. Boop-boop-boop. Boop-boop-boop. Hm. Human music. I like it.

Well, look at this boy. Aren't you handsome? Thank you." The next episode is Autoerotic Assimilation and the title itself is an incredible pun. It's also a reference to another sexual act that is a callback to what Morty and Jessica did at Squanch in the previous season finale. This is the episode with Unity. That's Rick's ex-lover whose consciousness took over an entire planet. My favorite joke here is a reference to Dan Harmon's previous television series, Community. Notice how Rick watches television. He's playing God, forcing the characters to have sex on the table and then canceling and canceling the show. "Okay, now put it back on!

Okay, I'm bored." Both things happened in Community. Well, next episode, "Total Rickall" is another one of my favorites from the series. The concept of a parasite that creates false positive memories? It's very clever. And one mystery here is how this parasite got into the house in the first episode Remember, Rick accuses Summer, "Someone probably found it last week on the sole of their shoe or on a piece of alien fruit. Someone? Get out of the way, Summer! "We all get pink eye because you keep texting in the bathroom." But if you look closely at this, there's actually a little visual callback that answers this mystery.

At the beginning of the episode, Rick throws these green rocks. And he got those rocks in Mortynight Run, and notice how they have these little pink warts. These are the same pink warts that are on the parasite corpses, so it was really Rick who tracked down the parasite from the beginning. Mr. Poopy Butthole was edited into the opening credits, partly to tease this idea that false memories change our view of the past, but also this makes sense because these clips in the opening sequence are negative, horrible memories proving that Mr. .Poopy Butthole is actually real. Now, in this episode, Rick talks about how he's hoarding a supply of limited edition Nintendo 3ds, which Justin Roiland actually said is something he did in real life, in hopes of being able to do it. . take advantage of them someday.

But one clever little joke I liked in this episode came from Frankenstein, who admitted that he was wrong to attack Summer. "He was on the wrong side of the gallows in this case." I'm not even going to explain that, that's just great. So after this episode is Get Schwifty, which includes an animated cameo by Justin Roiland. He's the guy who gets sacrificed to the main god with a sign that says thief. In the episode's incredible post-credits scene, Ice T transforms back into Water T and attacks the numbers, shooting out the numbers 6 and 7, which is a reference to the Tech 9 album, Sixes and Sevens.

The next episode is The Ricks Must Be Crazy, where. Rick and Morty delve into the different layers of the microverses. Zeep, voiced by Steven Colbert, says this: "I dropped out of school. It's not a place for smart people." Now, this detail is intended to establish a parallel between the character and Rick, who said more or less the same thing in the first pilot episode. "But I'll tell you how I feel about school, Jerry... it's a waste of time." There's also a little joke when Rick remembers that he fucked with a society in the Microverse "(bleep) You!

What did you say to me? (Pop) you. You told me it means "thank you very much." And then this turns into to remember later in this episode. "Very grateful." I also appreciated in this episode how Rick uses the same hidden snake trick that he used in Get Schwifty to make the president think that he can turn people into snakes. okay to go from Big Trouble in Little Sanchez to the second episode of Interdimensional Cable, the little commercials in this episode? When the guy says bad words in front of the kids, one of the kids looks at him and gives them a dirty look.

Now, next one. episode is the Look Who's Purge Now episode, where Summer makes a hole in the garage roof, which is recovered in the next episode, when the hole appears newly repaired in the opening shot Now that brings us to a 50. , but I'm having fun. Let's move on to season 3. Now I've already done a breakdown of the first episode of season 3, so definitely go watch it. I already mentioned some great jokes that you can miss. First there was Rick's memory in the background as he reacts to the images of 9/11. "Fine, but I'm driving." Morty also alludes to finding Jerry's mannequin leg, which is a reference to a video Dan Harmon made that showed him fucking a mannequin leg in his bed.

There are also some easter eggs for Gravity Falls, like there's a Mabel Morty and a Dipper Morty, there's also a quick frame showing the outline of Rick's penis. But there were three other things I didn't point out in this episode. First, in the garage there is a framed photo of Doofus Rick on the cabinet. Presumably that belongs to Jerry, who remembers getting along very well with him in that season one episode. He clearly misses him a lot. And then also in the false memory that Rick created of his origin story, his 1998 house of his is a recreation of Walter White's house on the show Breaking Bad.

Notice how the layout of the house, the architecture, and even the bushes in the front yard are exactly the same. This makes sense, because like Heisenberg, this version of Rick is the kind-hearted family man who ends up using his scientific brilliance for evil purposes. Finally, the third season showed us a new episode ending card that usually shows the logo of Dan Harmon's production company. Before, it was claymation that showed Harmon and his wife happily watching television. But now, this shows Harmon after his divorce, alone on the couch, probably drunk. Depressing and hilarious. Now, there are a lot of things I didn't cover in this list, and a lot of them are just references and jokes that I found a little obvious, but I'm curious: what do you think I missed?

If it ends up being too much, I'd like to make a second follow-up video with even more jokes and references. But come on, hit me up in the comments; Let's give even more reasons to laugh at the show. Show me what you have! And subscribe to new rockstars so you can watch any other Rick and Morty videos we make, and you can help make Rick and Morty a bigger priority for us by liking this video, sharing it, tweeting about it, and keeping a link to the video in your tweet. You can also be a bigger part of the new rock stars by contributing to us on Patreon.

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