The world of Rick and Morty is awesome, and the stories are cool, but it's the continuity that really blows my mind
Let's look at ten instances of Rick and Morty's crazy continuity.
Rick and Morty often gives us the impression the titular pair have several adventures between episodes and these off screen missions evidently aren't always
Pleasant because the show is packed with detail we often get verbal or visual
Callbacks that add credibility to the idea that the characters live in a persistent
universe that lives on even when we aren't looking. In a series that often veers into the absurd and
Fantastical this attention to continuity helps ground the world of the show and make it seem like a real place
Let me show you what I mean in the third seasons of indicators three Rick goes on a bender and sets up a series of
Booby traps for himself in a team of not Avengers to solve
It's not as hacky as the horror movie Saw,
but it's really exactly like Saw.
One of said traps is a neutrino bomb set to go off on a timer which Morty volunteers to disarm.
Rick who doesn't remember setting up any of this is taken off-guard by his grandson's confidence in bomb defusal.
Morty, how many of these- this moment could stand on its own the episode of indicators 3 is a
Sequel to an adventure that we never saw in the first place and as we later learn Rick and Morty
Themselves were left out of Vindicators Two.
just as their universe goes on without us watching it also goes on without the so-called main characters the
Episode had already set up the fact that the show scope exceeds its relatively small
Episode count so it makes sense to us that Morty has developed a skill for disarming neutrino bombs and also resentment for his grandfather
But the bit that makes the scene extra-special is the layer of continuity that ties everything together as it happens
We've already seen Rick haphazardly armed a neutrino bomb in the opening minutes of the very first episode
The pilots cold-open ends after Rick crashes a ship and then passes out letting Morty freak out for a few seconds over an impending
neutrino bomb explosion before
transitioning to the opening credits song we assume that Morty somehow got out of that Jam because the remaining 20 minutes the episode and the
Rest of the series still occurred, but a few seasons later
We see the long-term effects in funny cutaways a bitter resentful Morty of course Rick has plenty of his own continuity type character traits
It's not hard to tell the difference between Rick and Morty's personalities the story dialogue and Justin roiland
Excellent voice acting to a lot of the heavy lifting in the characterization department
But there are plenty of visual cues that separate the dysfunctional duo
You can see it almost every time the two of them get into vehicles Marty straps into a seatbelt while Rick remains unrestrained
It's a small detail
But it's one that's so
consistent throughout the show's three seasons no matter who's in the cockpit and who's driving this aspect of Rick's character is so uniform across the
Series that it makes you believe it's written on an internal document for the show somewhere
It's the kind of thing that once you learn of it
You keep an eye out for every episode, and the show doesn't disappoint when Rick doesn't wear a seat belt
It's for a reason in season three's rest and relaxation
Rick is split between two distinct
Personalities all of what Rick would have considered to be the toxic aspects of himself are sent to a boogery hell world
Where the rottenness congeals into toxic rick?
meanwhile clean rick and clean morty are left behind half pleasant if slightly off-center adventures since the
toxic parts of rick are no longer present clean rick puts on his seat belt
This is a Rick that is something to live for and has left his death wish behind
Rick is only seen wearing a seat belt in his normal state one time just after he transforms back from pickle Rick
this is
Significant because it takes place not long after rick has had a breakthrough in family therapy up until that moment he had avoided the scheduled
Session by turning himself into a pickle it really helps if you're caught up on the show after
Facing his personal demons head-on Rick becomes resigned to the idea that he should probably look after himself if he's going to look after his
Family that being said I wouldn't rule out future acts of transmogrification when it comes to ditching family outings number three
This is one of the more well-known and most cited instances of continuity in the fan community
But it's such a great example that it's hard to not include it
Starting at the end of the first season the Smith house is always seen with a large crack streaking across the front yard and into
the driveway
This is the result of the time the house was briefly transported to another planet or
Dimension during a huge party though the ground has somewhat settled since the crack is still visible whenever we see a good shot of the
driveway in seasons two and three
Fans have suggested that the presidents of the crack in the driveway is insurance that we're not watching an episode in a totally different universe
But that might be hard to prove in a show that has taken great pains to show that there are infinite universes
Number for a meeseeks does what meeseeks do this is more of a nice little background gag than a continuity detail
But it's such a nice easter
Egg that we're gonna cover it anyway when Rick and Morty visit Blits and Chitz most of our focus is on the traumatic
Lifetime experience that is the arcade game Roy, but in the background before and after Morty's journey. You can see a familiar face. Yep
That's mr.. Meeseeks look at me vanishing after a job well done
Presumably their simple task was to help that palm tree looking alien do a bit better at that arcade game an entire second episode devoted
To meeseeks might be a bit too much to stomach
But a nice background reference is enough to know that they're still out there helping people that aren't Jerry
number 5 Rick definitely contaminated his home with parasites
And there's a smoking gun to prove it when alien parasites infiltrate the Smith family home. Everyone automatically assumes
It was Rick who dragged them in after one of his many intergalactic escapades, but to be fair
It was sort of hard to tell up from down when your memory is being manipulated in your questioning reality itself
The key incriminating evidence however comes in the first minute of the episode when Rick kills the initial parasite you can briefly see what seemed
To be a little pink eggs on its body. It's very easy to miss but these eggs were visible seconds earlier
Just before the parasites presence was revealed check out Rick here dumping some green rocks into a trash can
Notice that the green rocks seemed to share the same pink egg like nodules that were coming out of the back of the parasite
This is not a coincidence. It's not even the first time that we seen the pink eggs
That would be two episodes
Earlier when Rick loads the green rocks into the ship in case you needed this triple confirmed the connection was outright stated by the show's
Creator slash Belcher Justin roiland kind of a brilliant parasite when you think about it
Not only does it prey on the memories of those around it?
But the eggs are hidden and valuable rocks that greedy pricks like Rick can't help but pilfer
And they would have gotten away with it, too
If the family didn't have such vivid memories of how they can't stand each other number six Morty's 10th adventure was
long-promised
Coming back to Vindicator 3 we didn't cover one of the best part of that episode's
Continuity and the opening scene morty demands that rick answered the call for adventure by pulling out a Krusty punch card the tickets relative age
And amount of stamps suggests some kind of untold history the show evokes so well
But like the neutrino bomb this punch card has origins in an earlier episode two seasons beforehand more
Do you wanna bet that earned him the right to have that punch card okay?
All right tough guy, but if my adventures good. I get to be in charge every third adventure every tenth deal
this is a pretty easy one to catch on rewatch, but it's nice to see evidence that Rick isn't going back on this deal and
And that he made some neat stamps shaped like Morty's face
Number seven gravity falls Easter eggs are so prevalent that the two shows might take place in the same multiverse
Winks and nods to famous movies and television shows are part and parcel of Rick and Morty sometimes we see overt
References like the Voltron drone robot in season 3 and other episodes are full-fledged parodies of films like the purge and deception in Mad Max
But the way this show handles gravity falls easter eggs is on a different level
There are so many hints and details to the beloved Disney cartoon that it almost constitutes a bonafide
crossover for instance in the season 3 premiere
- Morty's that look like gravity falls siblings dipper and Mabel appear in the background The Citadel of Rick's
Seconds earlier we see another Morty that appears to be holding journal 3 an important artifact of gravity falls lore
But the wear and tear on both books is identical that wasn't the first episode to reference gravity falls
however back in season 2 the nefarious bill cipher appears for a brief moment on a computer screen the amount of gravity falls Easter eggs
Might make you reconsider something that you know could just be run-of-the-mill graffiti depicting the Illuminati symbol
Then again since bill cipher already showed up with that complete top hat it's hard to see the symbol as anything other than a reference
To gravity falls less ambiguous is the appearance of eight-ball another villain in the gravity falls universe a familiar gooey booger
Corpse thing can be seen briefly in the toxic universe complete with a pool of all eyes that are its namesake
Sealing the deal is a moment that actually begins in an honest-to-god gravity falls episode
Grunkle Stan loses a coffee cup pen and notebook when it's sucked into a portal only for those same items to pop out of another
Portal in our Rick and Morty episode. Let's take another look at that slower
That's the same question mark mug all right the notepad and pen are obscured but they're still there sort of makes you wonder if Rick
Sanchez and grunkle Stan ever run into each other on occasion either that or stan is Rick from another dimension
Or you you know what let's just save the fan theories for another time number 8
Jerry keeps his treasured possessions in a safe place the garage is almost exclusively Rick's domain
But for a brief period - Jerry retook it and made it
face of his own in the season 3 premiere we see what a Jerry garage looks like and it's
Predictable and boring just like Jerry
But when summer starts rummaging through the cupboard looking for Rick's secret stash we see what appears to be Jerry's most treasured
keepsakes
One of them looks like a picture of doofus Rick from season one the only version of Rick that Jerry has ever gotten along with
Then there's a jar of what might be applesauce
Which is probably a reference to the torch Jerry still holds for his marketing slogan that went over so well into simulation
Inside another simulation, and then there's the model of the Titanic which we know Jerry loves. Thanks to the subplot in the first season finale
Taken separately these are all sweet keepsakes for memories that Jerry cherishes, but it's sort of disconcerting at the same time yes
They all represent Jerry at his happiest, but each of these memories ends in disaster
Doofus Rick leaves Jerry forever the hungry for apples
Campaign pitch goes so badly in real life that Jerry gets fired and the trip on the fake Titanic ends with Jerry being sexually assaulted
If those are the best memories Jerry can come up with well that does sound a lot like Jerry number nine mr.
Poopy butthole predicted the season three premiere almost to the day the wait between seasons of Rick and Morty is excruciating for fans
But at least mr.. Poopy Bohol was upfront about the gap at the end of the second season mr.
P estimated that the next season would debut in about a year and a half
Tune in to Rick and Morty season 3 in like a year and a half
or
longer
Sure enough when the surprise premiere of season 3 hit it had between it 1 year 5 months and 28 days since the last new
Episode only two days off not bad for a guy who's named after a fecal and anus
number 10 Rick's Microverse returns in a tragic way other episodes might have heavier drama
But season two's the Rick's must be crazy
You could be the darkest chapter of the series the fact that rick has been using an entire
Microverse to fuel the ship is bad enough
But he destroys an entire reality when he smashes a mini verse which itself could be a teeny verse
Simply to stick it to his rival and so what happens in the following season
Toxic Rick ends up doing the exact same thing in us more with clean Rick look closely and you can see the world
Toxify are used to goo fi the planet is in fact powered by two micro vs.
The casing on the side gives it away toxic Rick would totally use a micro verse for his dastardly plans
But it's regular Rick who gives the batteries on the tower when we see the micro versus again
It's in the post-credits stinger that batteries seem to be completely dead plenty of anti heroes have racked up a few kills
But not many can count their murders in
universes