rick and morty season 1 episode 1 part 1 full episode

#RICK AND MORTY SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 PART 1 FULL EPISODE SERIES#

Much like with last week’s Gotron situation, Rick wanted to hop from world to world to collect them all. In one of Birdperson’s memories, we see that after the Battle of Blood Ridge, Rick messed things up by trying to sell a life of adventure with Birdperson in nihilistic terms. Because yes, he did so much just to save his friend, but in true Rick fashion, he also let his selfishness get in the way once again.

Once he and Birdperson return to the land of the living, Birdperson calls Rick out for that, and Rick can’t and doesn’t attempt to defend his actions. (Because if you die in your friend’s brain, you die in real life, of course.) With information that Tammy secretly had Birdperson’s child - and that the child must be being kept by the Federation - Rick doesn’t reveal that until he himself is in a position where he’s in mortal danger. Instead, he does everything he can to get the real deal… only to ultimately Rick things up in the process. Rick acknowledges just before he goes on the adventure into Birdperson’s mind that if he wanted to, he could simply hop timelines to find a version of his friend that suits him best. And not even necessarily just as a friend and partner in crime.

#RICK AND MORTY SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 PART 1 FULL EPISODE SERIES#

While Rick demanded “100 years” of Rick and Morty adventures when the series began, Birdperson is the one he actually wanted to fill that role. Morty is the one who won’t go away, simply because Rick won’t allow him to. Unlike Birdperson, Morty doesn’t have the power and agency to truly be done with Rick if needed. In some ways, Morty is a Birdperson replacement to Rick, one who, even when he protests, still ultimately goes along with his grandfather’s plans. Morty is the one who will go on adventures with Rick - and can be forced to do so - at all times, while Birdperson pushed back on that after they fought the Galactic Federation in the Battle of Blood Ridge. And while Morty is off to the sidelines this episode - save for the cold open, he truly is spotless - presumably enjoying cruise life, the Rick/Birdperson strolls down memory lane also fill in a bit of the blanks when it comes to the Rick/Morty relationship. Present day Rick also describes Morty as their “hypothetical grandson” right before the Beth bombshell. As present day Rick attempts to call things “more complicated than that,” Memory Rick elaborates as to why it’s so creepy: “You live with a version of our dead daughter.”Įarlier in the episode, Memory Rick and Birdperson find themselves on a revenge mission against other Ricks who say that “killing us won’t bring her back.” In that moment, the natural assumption is that they’re talking about Beth’s mother, but the next context of Beth actually being dead changes all of that. “You’re one of those creeps who moves in with abandoned adult Beths,” Memory Rick notes. That’s because, as Memory Rick tells present day Rick, Beth is dead. While there’s a lot to unpack when it comes to Birdperson’s subconscious, in general, the big bombshell in this episode is that being a clone should actually be the least of Beth’s worries. Young, Memory Rick is ultimately not impressed with present day Rick. And in the process, he ends up teaming up with a younger version of himself. While the Smiths are off on a mild-mannered cruise adventure, Rick Sanchez instead takes an adventure of the mind. This episode even has a “Risky Business”-type premise set-up, with Beth’s dialogue having her play the role of the parent who’s going out of town at the beginning of a movie. An episode that teases a “Pickle Rick” redux, “Rick and Morty” is actually a bookend to the first season finale, “Ricksy Business,” the episode that introduced Birdperson (and Squanchy and Gearhead) and also kicked off the Birdperson/Tammy relationship.

Rick and morty season 1 episode 1 part 1 full episode