Top 10 Best Summer Moments on Rick and Morty

There is a LOT of action in this season four finale of “Rick and Morty,” but what else would you expect from an episode that's intentionally "doing a 'Star Wars?'" Summer and Morty bicker and battle a lot in this episode, primarily over an ultra cool invisibility belt, but their character arcs merge when they team up to save the Smith family from Tammy and the Galactic Federation. It's through this teamwork that Summer is able to take Tammy down before Rick ends her for good. Because that's what Tammy gets for making Rick Sanchez go to a wedding.

It could've been easy for the Smith family to live under martial law, and leave the unpredictable Rick C-137 imprisoned by the Galactic Federation. However, it's Summer who finally decides to do something about it, utilizing the portal gun buried with the replacement Rick and Morty to try and save her Grandpa. It's a journey that takes them back to the Cronenberged Dimension C-137 and finally to the Citadel, in front of the Council of Ricks. It's here where Summer takes a stand for what she knows in her heart is true: that Rick C-137 is the Rickest of ALL Ricks.

Something tells us Summer's done this before. Like, quite a few times before. Maybe it's the nonchalant manner in which she unlocks a cabinet and shoots Rick and Morty with darts. Or perhaps it's the calm way in which she refers to Morty's Mind Blowers as just another “Scenario 4.” Either way, she saves her brother and grandpa from what could've easily been a messy and disastrous situation. And does Summer receive the proper thanks for her preparedness? Nope, Rick and Morty verbally berate her for letting them fall asleep during Inter Dimensional Cable.

“Auto Erotic Assimilation” may feature one of the saddest moments for Rick in the entire series, but it also showcases some real character moments for Summer, as well. Unity is an old flame of Rick, but she also happens to be a hive mind, assimilating entire planets and cultures and putting them all under her control. At first, Summer is justifiably shocked and horrified about this lack of free will, but soon realizes that, at least with this specific planet, it's probably for the best. Her intentions are admirable here, however, as are her words to Unity about the toxic relationship she has with Rick. Sometimes, you just need to hear some tough love.

The show isn't titled “Rick and Summer,” but maybe that should've been switched for this second season episode, “Big Trouble in Little Sanchez.” That's because it's Summer who senses something is wrong when Tiny Rick's teenage angst songs seem to reflect some very specific danger about his body in the garage. Morty's too busy enjoying his newfound popularity to care, so it's up to Summer to save the day once again. It's just another example of where the Smith sister has proven to be more than a capable companion...such as the time she sliced up some snakes in “Rattlestar Ricklactica!”

The second season episode “Total Rickall” is chock full of ancillary characters that we desperately wish weren't products of an invasive parasite that infests people's memories. Photography Raptor, anyone? Summer even gets a falsified best friend in the form of Tinkles, a magic ballerina lamb who takes her to raves in Never Past Bedtime Land. Unfortunately, only Mr. Poopybutthole is shown to be a real character, as Tinkles, Photography Raptor, Pencilvester and more are all exterminated in over-the-top fashion. Summer even gets to do the honors for Tinkles, wasting her with barely a second thought.

Male Gazorpians may be incredibly violent, but it's the females of the species that make all the important decisions. Rick and Summer find this out when they become prisoners on Gazorpazorp, and it's up to Summer to save the day...thanks to a really cute top. Rick has to play slave to Summer's master, but his granddaughter saves the day with a little fashion sense. She tells the female Gazorpians that applying Gazorpian laws on Earth would be hypocritical given the fact that they all thought her male (Marc Jacobs) designed top was cute. As she so eloquently puts it, “If you think my top is cute, you cannot execute.”

It's just another fun, self-contained adventure for our next entry, a dead-on parody of the Stephen King novel, “Needful Things.” In the episode “Something Ricked This Way Comes,” Summer starts working at a shop that's run by the literal devil, selling cursed items to the local populace. Rick, of course, starts a rival business to remove said curses, while annoying Summer in the process. She actually enjoys working for Mr. Needful, and the pair seem to be getting along great until he commits a very predictable betrayal. It's not all bad, though, as Rick and Summer both get some very satisfying revenge, all set to a DMX soundtrack!

As we've just seen with our last entry, “Rick and Morty” does a great job at taking established horror and sci-fi properties and twisting them with loving parody. The season four episode “Promortyus” riffs on the “Alien” franchise when Rick, Morty and Summer visit a planet that's populated with copyright dodging, Xenomorph-esque facehuggers called Glorzo. Rick and Morty get attacked and assimilated relatively quickly, and when they come to, they actually find out that Summer seems to have done just fine on the planet. She's been enthroned by the Glorzo as their queen and their society has thrived under her rule. That is, until the trio try to leave, and Rick sets the Glorzo planet on a very gross reproductive slide towards destruction.

Before we name our number one pick, here are some honorable mentions!

Piloting the Alien Ship, “Childrick of Mort”
Who Said Drugs Were Bad?

Working Things Out With Beth, “The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy”
Mother-Daughter Bonding at Fifty Feet

Summer: Warrior Princess, “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty”
Let's Forget the Dragon Soul Bond. Summer Shoots a Bow!

Divorce can be tough for children to understand, so it sort of makes sense, by Sanchez standards anyway, that Rick takes Morty and Summer to go and blow off some steam. It's a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with “Mad Max” styled warriors called Death Stalkers...and Summer kicks some serious butt. We mentioned earlier how Summer has proven to be more than capable with a machete or a gun, but here she really cuts loose. She even has some ice cold dialogue to spit at a Death Stalker leader when he comes crawling for a merciful death. Call us crazy, but we think it's wise to NEVER put Summer in a corner, or think you can tell her what to do.