Top 10 Times Rick and Morty Went Too Far
#10: Death for All Ages
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“The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy” The Rick and Morty showrunners have never shied away from darker concepts, even when it comes to throwaway jokes. But when it involves youngsters, you've taken it a little too far. When Rick and Jerry go for a drink to come up with a fake adventure, Jerry learns that the rules in this luxury resort aren’t the same as everywhere else. An immortality field prevents anyone from dying, which leads the kids to play some rather fatal games. When Rick and Jerry escape an assassination attempt, the field fails, and that innocent play turns shockingly real. Like damn guys! These deaths are really morbid!
#9: Morty Fondling Alien Bits
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“Morty’s Mind Blowers” Speaking of weird things for children to be doing, this moment was something Rick knew was inappropriate, as he wiped it from Morty’s mind! As the two interrogate an alien who threatens to destroy the world, Morty starts to lose it. Under Rick’s guidance, he grabs the sacks under the alien’s chin and starts twisting. Little does he know, it’s not the wrong kind of pain he’s inflicting. Morty freaks out once he learns what he’s doing, and it’s inferred he might have continued afterward. Putting a minor in this situation is the type of humor only some can stomach.
#8: Destroying Earth and Then Abandoning It
“Rick Potion #9” Rick has always been a somewhat detached person, but destroying a world and leaving it behind is a little overkill. During the show’s first season, a love serum cascades into turning the world into horrific monsters. Instead of finding a solution, Rick takes Morty and simply plants himself in another world. When this first aired, we were under the impression that Rick had just abandoned his reality. Not to mention the fact it irreversibly changed Morty for seasons to come. If the show was trying to make us like Rick, this was not the way to do it. It was a pretty scarring and heartless thing to do even by Rick’s standards.
#7: Tommy Lipnip’s Kingdom Traditions
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“The ABCs of Beth” The concept of the episode is already a pretty dark one. As Rick contains his dangerous daughter in the soft and cuddly world of Froopyland, Beth ends up trapping her friend Tommy there after being jealous of him. This should have been a death sentence for Tommy, but he survived…in perhaps the most disgusting way possible. Using a cycle of creating his subjects and then eating them is spared no detail, with “King Tommy” even showcasing how he survived to Rick and Beth. The creators chose to make this story as disgusting as it was, with the methods of Tommy’s survival proving hard to stomach for some audiences.
#6: Keep Summer Safe
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“The Ricks Must Be Crazy” It’s one thing to use gross humor, it’s another to straight up traumatize an audience! While Rick and Morty head into the microverse battery to sort out their car troubles, Rick tells his ship to “keep Summer safe.” While that statement doesn’t specify “how” it should keep her safe, it quickly becomes apparent that Summer will have to set some boundaries. As she defines that the ship’s defenses must be “non-lethal,” the ship comes up with a much more damaging method of scaring people off. As a form of psychological torment, it creates a fake version of a police officer’s late son who pleads with them to leave the car alone. Despite this show being fictional, that moment got too real.
#5: Jerry’s Simulated Relations
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“M. Night Shaym-Aliens!” While Rick is trying to glitch his way out of the Zigerions scammer’s simulation, Jerry lives his best life just a couple of meters away. After giving what he thinks is a killer marketing pitch to some holograms, Jerry is on top of the world. He excitedly calls Beth to share the good news and a little something else with her. Full of confidence, he rushes home to make love to his wife. But when you think about it, it’s a little disturbing. Since the simulation is running at the lowest capacity, this duplicate Beth is robotic and not really responsive. So, it’s pretty weird, not to mention sad, that this intimate moment was the best in Jerry’s life.
#4: Rick’s Attempt to End It All
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“Auto Erotic Assimilation” “Rick and Morty” is not afraid of going to really dark places, as we’ve established on this list. But perhaps the darkest moment in the entire series so far is after the scientist’s breakup with Unity. After some wild times with the hive-mind, Unity leaves a letter behind describing that, while she loves him, they can never be together. While he constantly proclaims to be emotionally detached from everyone around him, this moment devastated him. Rick is always so arrogant and self assured it was jarring to see him attempt to end it all. Couple this with the use of the Chaos Chaos’ “Do You Feel It?”, him callously creating and destroying life moments before, and you get one distressing moment.
#3: Morty & Summer’s Baby
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“Rickdependence Spray” This episode was outrageous; even the writers labeled it “disgusting and tasteless.” After Morty gets his hand on a horse breeding mount from his mom’s work, he unintentionally creates enormous and revolting monsters. But as repulsive as the entire episode is, the worst part comes when one of Summer’s eggs is enlarged and used to attract the creatures. Once the characters realize the monstrosities terrorizing the Earth are from Morty, they all attempt to save the show from reaching a new low. But it went there anyway, and even a few episodes later in Season 5, we see the resulting baby of the siblings. This was indeed an episode that made you ask, “WHAT ARE WE WATCHING?”
#2: Rick & Morty Emulate National Tragedies
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“Promortyus” If there is one thing you don’t make fun of in America, it’s national tragedies like the September 11th attacks. After the dynamic duo escapes some face-hugging aliens, they go on a destructive rampage throughout their entire city. The pair gleefully tear the place apart but stop in their tracks once they realize specific structures resemble the Twin Towers from Earth. While they avoid destroying the structure, they decide to commit a “Pearl Harbor.” Co-creator and voice actor Justin Roiland almost speaks to the audience through the characters when they say they’re glad they “didn’t stoop that low,” but what does that say about the bar for the rest of the series?
#1: Morty Meeting Mr. Jellybean
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“Meeseeks and Destroy” If there is one scene that sets the stage for how much of a roller coaster “Rick and Morty” was going to be, it was Morty’s encounter with Mr. Jellybean. While on a traditional adventure with his grandfather, Morty gets cornered by the perverted and forceful ruler of the local village. There is no comedy in this scene, and Morty has to brutally fight back to save himself. It was truly shocking as there hadn’t been anything this traumatic in the show prior. You might even question why this scene was in a comedy series in the first place? Show co-creator Justin Roiland later discussed the scene, saying it was a necessary structural component of the story while acknowledging it being potentially triggering subject matter.
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