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Season 7 Episode 3 Video. There were a whole bunch of Easter eggs and references
Unity finally came back after season 2.
Been a while since we've seen her.
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If you haven't seen the episode yet, we'll just start at the beginning, work
our way through, shot by shot, Talking about Easter eggs wtf moments
starting with the episode title Air Force Wong, which is a reference to both Air
Force One, the movie with Harrison Ford in Doctor Wong, Rick's therapist.
It was a really big Dr.
Wong episode, in addition to a big unity in a big President episode,
the cold open starts with Rick getting another therapy session with Dr.
Wong using a hologram so that he can find a bag of Funyuns that he left behind the couch
because apparently he goes to therapy so often that he needs snacks just to make it through.
He gets so hungry.
there was a big therapy bit running through the episode.
The whole idea that Rick has slowly
been working on himself since the last Unity episode in season two in.
He's been doing so much therapy, like he spent so much time
at therapy that he needs snacks just to make it to the end.
they were also really specific by using the Funyuns,
like they mentioned the Funyuns
a couple of times, Normally brands of food or drinks in the Rick and Morty Universe
or the Rick and Morty Multiverse tend to be generic parodies of real life brands
there are couple exceptions to that rule, though,
like during season three, they did the McDonald's Sichuan sauce.
they start the whole bit with the president being horny for Dr.
Wong when he shows up to get Rick's help with another disaster.
The first time in the episode he's helping out with the Loch Ness Monster,
which they canonize to Rick and Morty.
Like there are a bunch of monsters that they canonize in this.
both Reagan, the president have special identifiers
for each other on their phones, like on the president.
It just says U.S.
president with a symbol for the president like a shield and an eagle.
but on the president's phone, he actually has a picture of them killing
the Loch Ness monster as his lockscreen in the subtitle reading God Damn Spaceman.
I think they're just mostly meant to be a metaphor about their relationship.
Like they both hate each other, but they also like each other a lot too,
because they do make peace at the end of the episodes.
that's pretty much the arc of their relationship
through all of their previous episodes together.
Dr. Wong suggests,
Rick, these people to think that he's cool when he mentions the president is calling him.
They actually reference this earlier this season two.
Like the whole idea is that Rick actually does care about what people think of him.
He talked about creating a mystique around himself so that people feared him more.
they wind up using that concept for the president's whole arc in this episode.
And now he desperately needs approval.
You could call that a joke, like them clowning on pretty much any U.S.
president in history, when Rick jokes about her working extra hard
because she wants to earn more money at the end of the episode,
they wind up paying this off because she winds up
giving therapy sessions to rig the president and unity to save the planet,
earning a ton of money, sending the bill to the government because it's so big.
but the real thing about Rick though is it isn't actually care
about the acquisition of wealth but he doesn't care about actual literal money.
any time he would really need something he could actually just created
end, even though they make a big deal about the President and Dr.
Wong being on a first name basis in the episode we learned his full name was Andre Curtis
a couple of seasons ago,
and I think this is the first episode though, when we learned Doctor Wong's
first name is Helen.
look in the background.
You notice they change the poster outside of her office.
It's just a regular family with the dedication theme.
It's just meant to be a reference to Rick
being dedicated to his family previously the poster was all about courage.
With someone eating a hot dog.
It was meant to be a joke about Golden Fold uncontrollably eating his own poop
like have courage to not eat your own poop this a big
info dump on the Loch Ness monster in the Rick and Morty Universe?
In this reality, the Loch Ness monster is real, not just a myth.
In 1961, Now we're talking about the Cold War era here
because they talk about the Soviets as part of its back story during the Cold War,
the CIA moves the Loch Ness Monster to Lake Erie in Ohio, replaces her bones with titanium.
She was bit by werewolves.
Werewolves also now Ken into the Rick and Morty multiverse turning her into a aware
Loch Ness monster, which they use as an anti-submarine weapon.
and because we're still in the middle of the Cold War era Like this is so a long time ago.
In the past, The Soviets deploy a leprechaun to stop her Leprechauns
also now,
Ken, into the Rick and Morty multiverse, even though we saw one on interdimensional cable
that was from another universe, they turn its bones into silver,
which they call the Loch Ness monster version of AIDS.
Getting trapped on the bottom of the ocean until present day when she's risen
angry and looking for food and revenge.
no joke.
I actually had to rerecord that part of the video
like a couple of times because I couldn't stop laughing.
see if you can recite the president's
entire explainer for the Loch Ness Monster without cracking up.
you notice, while the president is explaining everything, Rick
is casually eating the Funyuns still like he could barely be bothered.
Mostly he's just going. What?
The president is an excuse to get out of there.
Be they start one of what becomes many Scientology jokes during the episode,
Rick is also apparently a huge fan
of Tom Cruise, big fan of the Mission Impossible movies, probably
that's mostly just a reference to Tom Cruise being one of the most famous Scientologists
on the planet.
the space Mormon reference
is to the origins of Scientology and how a lot of their beliefs reference aliens
And the president is correct when he says that therapy is working on Rick
as he quickly takes back his joke on silly religions.
none of the intro scenes are featured in this episode.
So maybe we'll see one at some point in one of the future episodes this season.
we're still only in episode three right now, so there's still plenty of opportunities
when they go back to their house,
they're watching interdimensional cable in a TV show with Mr.
Stabby, who has arms and legs that are swords.
The whole bit is that he just stabs all of his audiences.
Everybody that comes to his show winds up dying they way of turning into a much larger bit
about fame obsessed culture in reality shows wanting attention, even if it's bad attention.
I didn't sense any direct
parodies of actual real life TV shows with the swords, four arms and legs.
But if you did sense any, just write it below in the comments.
when the president starts making fun of Morty telling him to shut up,
he's always been like that.
Like he doesn't like Morty that much.
But generally this episode, the president is a way bigger dick than in previous episodes.
they revealed that Bigfoot exists.
And he lives in Montana.
the whole bit about the Nazis in America
is like a right wing political joke that people talk about in real life
when he tries is general about the bit like, not you too.
This is a joke
about how a lot of people on his staff are also probably right wing Virginia's state
motto is actually, Virginia is for lovers, which they use for the unity storyline.
she basically takes over the state just because she's
waiting for an opportunity to talk to Rick about his hunt for Rick.
Prime that was the person quote unquote that he was searching for that
she wanted to talk to to do.
They didn't actually mention Rick prime by name, but that's who she was referencing.
but the whole idea is that she winds up turning the state into a utopia.
And this is also a joke during season two, in that previous Unity episode, the whole idea is
that she's this dangerous space monster wanting to consume the entire universe.
but the way they make
it seem is almost like life is better under her than it is with free will.
they're actually getting into this whole concept during Loki season two
with Loki arguing that the TVA is necessary to control people's free
will in order to help maintain the multiverse and keep it from destroying itself.
they make the first of many digs at the president's approval rating,
which is a 25% in for reference, even the most hated U.S.
presidents in real life had approval ratings that were way higher than this.
So the whole idea is that the country really hates the president.
Notice that the president also calls his staff by their first names,
paying off the first names bit just a little bit more
what he says America knows and incinerates colts when they see them.
It's just meant to play into his whole trigger happy attitude during the episode, making it
sound like he almost wants another civil war, which he shouts out later on the news.
Like he offers Dr.
Wong a gun as if it's a stick of gum.
The crack team he puts together of the aliens in the artificial intelligence
is an elaborate ploy to get Dr.
Wong's phone number because he's super horny.
you can let me know in the comments.
If you think the aliens are specific references to any other pop culture stories, movies
or TV shows.
But I felt like that artificial intelligence
was a reference to HAL 9000 from 2001 Space Odyssey Notice
when Rick says 3 billion women on the planet have nothing to do with him in real life,
there are 3.95 billion women on the planet, meaning that about 950 million women
have something to do with Rick, that means that he really, really gets around
Fleet Flag warns Rick again about Bigfoot, but he's not going to Montana.
So I think the whole idea is that he's just really bad at his job.
then we get a bunch more back story about Dr.
Wang she used to do field studies in grad school
and she was super freaky, which the president obviously very happy about.
maybe you could call that a joke about Susan Sarandon's previous movies
she made when she was younger.
And if you didn't realize Dr.
Wong is voiced by Susan Sarandon in real life, they actually explained that the reason
she wound up on the show back during Season three is because
her grandchildren are super fans of Rick and Morty.
So she just did it to make them happy.
the when the governor tries to turn the president away, it's actually because unity
was only there to wait for an opportunity to talk to Rick about primary.
She didn't want to take over the entire country.
So she was just trying to contain herself to the state of Virginia.
then they start making more jokes about how things would be better under a unity
like you don't need free.
Well, things would be way better with her around and making a bunch of communism jokes
when the president references the government getting into a war with the state, he's
talking about the actual civil war,
which he references later in the episode, the Make another Scientology joke
when they reference unity being a body snatching hive mind and a Will Smith joke
that's because his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, is a Scientologist or she was one,
and he was hoping to use his secret serviceman as an excuse to meet them
there are a lot of celebrities in real life who are Scientologists.
Then nudity comes back.
We haven't seen her since season two.
I don't think that they've referenced her that many times either.
Like, there've been a couple references, but this is the first time
that she's actually come back in a big way as a character.
And it is Christina Hendricks who's coming back to voice the character
the reason why she said she came back is because she found out through the grapevine,
so to speak, across the multiverse that Rick was looking for Rick prime again
in apparently they introduced
this cannon, this backstory that predates the events of season one.
They're basically explaining more of his history with Rick Prime.
So the idea is that at some point Rick was dating unity
like they were actively together before the events of season one in while
that was happening he was on the hunt for Rick Prime and he almost wound up dying.
so now in present day unity found out that he's looking for him again
and is coming to warn him to stop so that he doesn't wind up getting himself killed.
Most of this, I think, is just to hype up a big battle between
the two of them at some point later this season, like maybe the finale.
she left him a couple messages, which he did not answer.
So she was so worried about him that she just came in, posted up
in Virginia, waiting for an opportunity to talk to him.
Rick reveals that after the events of season two, when they broke up,
he created an anti unity gun that he could spray people with to keep her away,
basically revealing how bitter he is about their break up
still in present day, even though he's slowly been working on himself.
Like emotionally, he has grown as a person,
but he's still really, really pissed off about it.
we find out that Dr. Wong is just a nutritionist.
She's not an actual psychologist or psychiatry, but the whole bit
with putting the energy dome over the city is a reference to The Simpsons.
They basically put a dome over the city of Springfield.
It's also been referenced in a lot of sci fi stories, like movies, TV shows.
So it's actually a pretty common thing the president also implies
that he has domes like this ready around every single state inside the U.S.
then the news anchor.
Shonda basically references most of the president's episodes in the past,
all the disasters during each of them, not every episode, but most of his episodes.
the alien invasion she starts with was his first episode Get Swifty.
The mutant turkeys were from season four.
The White House in Space was from their big Star Wars parody in season six,
saying that it's still up there in orbit and they just built another White House after that.
the ego conscious dinosaurs were also from season six.
I did full episode breakdown videos Easter eggs for all those.
So I'll put links for that stuff down the description below He reveals
his mother is dead and he hated her, which they turned into a bigger therapy joke with Dr.
Wong like, I'm obsessed with my mother and have a bad relationship with her.
It's probably bad for our relationship.
they kind of implied that Dr.
Wong was about to get with the president until he went off the deep end of crazy
during the episode And when Rick whips out all of his Inspector Gadget weapons,
most of the weapons are similar to previous episodes with one exception like Zuma enhancer.
this is actually a copy of a United States voting ballot info sheet.
You get these when you vote in presidential elections.
Is it just a joke about Rick voting the president out of office?
it'll be interesting to see if he just remains president through the entire run of Rick and
Morty, like season ten, season 20, however long they wind up going, because usually U.S.
presidents can only serve for up to eight terms.
Theoretically because we only saw him as the president in season three
for the first time, they could actually have him still be the president in season
11 and have it make sense the make a joke about America's military tech
being made of shoddy workmanship, but China being a way bigger threat.
Ricketts pisses the president when he starts
making fun of unity, showing that he's still kind of in love with her.
They also make it seem like he wants to get back together with her
at the end of the episode, but understands when she's not having it
That's also meant to be another reference to his therapy sessions actually working
like he's actually able to make it through that.
Whereas during the events in season two, after they broke up, he tried to kill himself.
Dr. Wong basically breaks up with the President who he then kicks out telling her to use the
secret exit of the White House in the women's bathroom, which is used mostly for workers.
In another joke about the Kennedy sex tunnels from back in season three, as he says,
they also get used a lot, meaning there are a ton of those kinds of women,
quote unquote, that make it in and out of the White House secretly.
turns out the US president gets around almost as much as Rick does
there are bunch of but play jokes too.
Losing a finger in action must be some hardcore or fun times.
Do you like the metaphors that they make?
Pretty obvious when Rick comes back to the garage and starts
working on this device, he's working on it a couple of times in the episode.
You can let me know in the comes what you think it is.
It looks kind of like a bong, but then it kind of disappears
later in the episode, like we don't know where it winds up going
when the president takes the giant bomb to the dome, it looks kind of like a Dr.
Strangelove reference just because they do a lot of Dr.
Strangelove references when they show the White House bunker here in the war room.
because the dome is more of a Simpsons parody.
They actually did the Dr.
Strangelove joke with the bomb during The Simpsons episodes.
hee! Hijacks the hive in order to push his approval rating to 100%.
And Rick's gimmicks that he mentions to unity
are just the storytelling tropes of movies and TV shows where characters will just show up
out of nowhere, like break the laws of physics, super fast travel system.
they kind of did this during the Game of Thrones later seasons
where characters would just travel all over Westeros super fast
in a way that wouldn't make sense.
she mentions the phone messages she left for him, which they play
at the end of the episode.
In The cardinal mistake that Dr. Wong
commits is by saying that one of them is wrong and one of them is right.
Normally in a situation like this, neither one of them would be right.
And neither one of them will be wrong.
Dr. Wong basically helps communicate to unity that Rick has become a better person.
He's grown emotionally as a person since the events of season two when they broke
up and unity invades Earth to help save it.
they pay off the bill with Dr. Wong
earning a ton of money by sending the bill to the Government.
Like I said, though, Rick doesn't really care about actual money the way they end things
with unity, she leaves like they'll keep in touch at some point.
We'll probably see her come back in a future season.
They reveal Rick has a secret stash of beer.
Zoom and enhance...
He's also got what looks like a container of ice cream.
Some red fluid with a creature floating in it.
I can't tell what it is. And something with those green containers,
you can let me know what you think
those are in the comments below.
but basically showing how much Rick has grown as a person.
He takes the beer to the president
to console him because of their respective love lives being in the dumps.
Last time he tried and failed to kill himself.
They also pay off the Scientology bit with the voicemail, trying to recruit him,
implying that the Scientologists were listening in on his conversations during the episode.
like they heard quote unquote, that he was referencing Scientology.
Like all we heard
you were saying nice things about us, meaning that they are monitoring what everyone says.
also making a John Travolta joke because he's also a famous Scientologist
during the post-credits scene.
They do a big Larry King interview, bit with Mr. Stabby.
Coming back is more commentary
on fame obsessed culture in doing anything for attention at any cost.
Like, Well, you're paying attention to me, even though I am killing my entire audience,
58,000 people also trying to justify what he's doing
because he is a minority, under-represented, because he has arms and legs
that are swords there are a bunch of Easter eggs and references in the episode.
So if he spotted any that I didn't talk about in the video,
just write them below in the comments.
In my episode 4 video will post next week
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