What does the future hold
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Welcome back everyone this will be my full Rick and Morty Season 6 Episode 5 video there's a whole
bunch Easter eggs and references so we'll break it all down if you're brand new to the channel
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from the episode if you haven't seen it yet we'll start at the beginning and just work our
way through shot by shot talking about Easter Eggs and WTF moments as we go along the actual
episode title is final desmithation which is a reference to the Final Destination movie series
which are all about characters learning about their Des their final Fates and trying to avoid
them but failing to do so like they usually wind up meeting their Fates in ironic twists in this
episode is all about Rick and Jerry trying to stop a company from controlling fate using the
chaos alien and its special fortune cookies that it creates the episode is also basically
like another Rick and Jerry episode it felt like a pretty small episode compared to some of the
others just because it mostly took place inside this goop facility that they were parroting it
was a big Gwyneth Paltrow goop parody candle it's it's just for you it smells like my taint and it's
gonna you're too much the writer said that they intended for it to be similar to previous Rick
and Jerry episodes where during the course of the episode they kind of become closer as friends but
by the end also kind of not like they treat it like they're not friends even though they do
kind of become closer like we're getting pissed off at the end because all he had to do to stay
Invincible for the rest of his life was to not make any more friends for the rest of his life
but the sheer fact that he got pissed off means that he and Jerry actually did become friends
otherwise his fortune would still be unresolved and he would still be Invincible the family's
clowned on him a whole bunch this season about that too the whole idea that he really does care
about them but he's unwilling to admit it the way they explain fate in the episode is
that Rick says that it's like a probability field except at the center is everything that is known
pulling everything that's unknown towards it so for instance when Jerry's Fortune is unresolved
in the episode The Closer that his mother gets to him in proximity the more probable it becomes that
he will eventually get with her so that's why it just starts out with a couple texts but then as
she gets closer more and more things happen and they get closer and closer and closer towards the
very end of the episode until Rick saves him the actual opening scene takes place with the family
at Panda Express making a bunch of cultural jokes about how Panda Express is like the least Chinese
Chinese restaurant you could go to in America it also shows you that the family has been going to
Chinese restaurants eating fortune cookies for a long time now Rick said later that the company
had been using this fortune cookie alien for the past 20 years meaning that the family has
probably had their Fates altered a couple times because of fortune cookies previously they make
a bunch of tick tock Jokes which is mostly like old people making fun of young people for doing
silly things on Tick Tock like Tick Tock is primarily a platform used by the youngest
generation currently like the whole joke with the taxi song that the kids don't really understand
why it's cool they just think that it sounds good but Rick reveals later in the episode that
one of his favorite songs on this playlist is Angela's theme from Taxi so like because he's
old he actually watched the TV show and likes the song in the correct context but in the new context
the kids are just using it because it sounds good they don't really understand what it means
it's also a bit of a call back to Summer's Die Hard episode when she hadn't seen the movie so
she didn't understand what it actually meant and she just kind of made up the meaning as she went
along like she just kept repeating the phrase Die Hard Die Hard until the end of the episode when
she actually did learn what it meant because she read the story they said that the whole
post-credit scene joke with the bit about Jerry being confused by the way they put animal food in
Gumball looking machines in the zoo they even have what almost seems like a fourth wall break from
Morty when he acknowledges the joke that they're making with the fake commercial at the zoo about
them being in a human zoo in zebras being the ones who are really in control like we're the
ones that are in the zoo also side note Jerry also reveals that he gets diarrhea every time
they go to water parks we'll see if they pay that off in a future episode and the family actually
goes to a water park one of the early jokes here about the fortune cookies is that most of them
are generic and repeated like all fortune cookies are kind of like this later the old man explains
that that's actually part of a larger fortune that the Fortune 500 company got to dilute the market
with a bunch of fake fortunes so that the real fortune became more potent they introduced the
whole joke about Jerry doing it with his mother which the old man also explains was part of his
Cry for Help which they pay off by saying that he created a bunch of different types of Fortunes in
an attempt to try and get people to come help him the first batch of Fortunes were more literal the
consequence being that people would break their legs if they didn't come investigate this company
implying that a bunch of people broke their legs the next one with the fortune that said that a
virus was shut down the world is actually a joke about the virus in real life shutting everything
down with the lockdowns during 2020 and because no one came to help him it's implying that the
fortune cookies were responsible for the big virus in 2020 then he said his last attempt
was to create a bunch of ones that said people would do it with their mothers and the joke is
that Jerry's the only person who actually showed up meaning that a bunch of other people actually
got with their mothers which is a big Oedipus joke complex because later they also turn it into a
Morty thing when he talks about dressing as Morty because Beth is his wife implying that Morty might
also want to get with Beth deep down inside why are you dressed like Morty because Morty's mom is
Beth I'm not unpacking that this is also the first episode to bring back Jerry's mother since season
one like we haven't seen her in a long time but if you remember one of the jokes of that episode was
that she had a secret lover on the side and her husband Jerry's biological father would sit in
the closet and watch them while he was dressed up as superheroes so Jerry already comes from a very
spicy family he makes another sleepy Gary Total Recall reference to season two when he says that
his gag reflex has been mixed up because of his time with sleepy Gary that means exactly what you
think it means he got down and dirty with sleepy Gary big time but if you remember we saw in the
previous episode that he actually was getting with other versions of himself just like Beth was so we
already knew that Jerry was bi I think of that one as like the Loki episode because it's them getting
with other versions of themselves Beth asking him not to tell summer is also her not wanting to give
summer another eating disorder like summer already has a whole bunch of stuff going on with her whole
bunch of problems but I don't think she actually has an eating disorder right now Rick mentions The
X-Files they reveal Summer's Tick Tock account is summer song 69 which is a 69 DTF joke like summer
is super horny but is also a reference to the song She's sang with a Tinkles character also from the
sleepy time Gary episode total Rick all there were a couple references to that episode during this
one this screen to the phone is from Morty's phone so we find out he's got the other family members
on it of course he's got Noob noobs number still Brent is a person in real life who works on the
animation crew he's got Mr Poopy butthole he's got April which I think is meant to be a call back to
the April Fool's joke which was season 3 episode 1. they aired it on April Fool's Day the Justin
person is Justin Roiland so like the joke is is that he actually calls Justin Roiland in real
life and the whole idea that Justin is the actual voice of the Morty character the Wilder person is
a reference to Wilder Reese who's another crew member working on the series so the joke here is
kind of like Morty calling the people who actually make Rick and Morty episodes controlling the story
there are also a couple fourth wall breaks from Rick in the episode where he acknowledges them
being inside a television episode but he's known that he's been inside a television show for a
long time now the whole thing is going on here with the family clowning on Jerry they said that
they wanted Rick to feel like Jerry deserved his help because he didn't like the idea of the family
forcing him to do something he didn't want to do and it's just an example of Rick actually being
Jerry's friend without totally admitting it but once he does this he does find out that something
really weird is going on and it turns into the actual plot of the episode you also notice when
Rick is walking past them with the towels in his hand that's just paying off the joke about him
having to do his own laundry finally because he doesn't have portals to steal fresh clothes from
other versions of himself you know the space Beth comes back again which is a big surprise
I wasn't expecting her back for a while I guess they weren't kidding when they said that she'd
be coming back a lot this season also space Beth makes it sound like she visits zoos in outer space
for fun like she says the Earth version of the zoo as if she goes to other zoos that are not on Earth
his probability detector looks a lot like the detector from Ghostbusters but he's also used this
one in the series before too Rick also reveals that it's equally possible for him to become both
a dolphin or a balloon version of himself so we'll see if they pay that off in a future episode where
we see a balloon Rick in a dolphin Rick he also implies that he hates Panda Express because he's
never said to another human being that he wants to go to a Panda Express they pay off the Taxi theme
song Joke when they reveal that his favorite song on his playlist is Angela's theme from
the taxi show like I said the whole joke with the kids tick tock song is that they hadn't actually
seen the series so they didn't know the song in its original context is like Rick getting mad at
the kids for not appreciating the songs of the way that he thinks that they're supposed to appreciate
it the whole joke with Rick and the drug dealers hear him being cool with them is another joke
about his ongoing feud with the Earth government and the Earth president he hates both of them so
he doesn't mind if anyone does anything illegal he breaks the fourth wall again when he references
himself being inside a television episode story he's done this before like I said he's known that
he's been a fictional character for a long time now I'm not sure if the guns he's using here are
specific references to anything usually his guns on the show like his weapons are references to
video game weapons so if you think you recognize them just write Below in the comments the big bad
in the episode is meant to be big Gwyneth Paltrow goop reference her name in the episode is genith
padro chant the word play with that last little part of her name is exactly what you think it is
her headquarters building here is meant to be sort of like a fortune cookie reference but I
also think it's kind of meant to be a reference to the Sailor Moon Millennium Castle because of the
big Sailor Moon reference after this Rick makes a big Sailor Moon magical girl transformation joke
about how he saves money by them using the Sailor Moon effect to change their clothes multiple times
which itself is a reference to real life when animation companies reuse animation in episodes
to save money like this isn't just an anime joke regular Western cartoons are famous for reusing
animation to save money and the whole idea in previous seasons is that one of the reasons why
Rick and Morty Seasons took so long to come out is because the animation on Rick and Morty is so
much more complex than other series they reuse far less of it than other cartoons do and recently Dan
Harmon has basically said oh we won't have big breaks anymore we've worked out a lot of those
kings so in the episode when Rick says Ah look at all the money we're saving it's also another
joke about how quickly they're getting Seasons out one year after the other without huge breaks
anymore he makes a Sesame Street Cookie Monster joke The Fortune 500 logos on everything is just
a reference to the actual real-life Fortune 500 Index with the 500 most valuable companies any
given moment when Rick starts showing off his enhancements like all the stuff that he's got
inside his body that's Meant To Be An Inspector Gadget reference which he's made previously on
the series but the other joke here is that he's got really high-tech weapons and low-tech weapons
and some Magic based weapons too like one of them is just a broken bottle the other one is a voodoo
doll when he says I have fundara that's a big Thundercats reference another 80s cartoon most of
the fortunes that they walk past on the index and the walls here are just like the generic fortunes
but one of them says you like Chinese food which feels like one of the real fortunes like it's
trying to force people to enjoy Chinese food even though in real life I actually do like Chinese
food like Chinese food is actually pretty good when they're getting on the elevator one of these
fortunes also says you'll receive help in your time of need which is basically exactly what's
happening to Jerry in this episode Rick is helping him in his time of need then I think the joke here
with a goop company and all the celebrities trying to pay money to get to higher tiers and greater
levels of understanding within the organization is also more of a Scientology joke on top of all
the goop jokes they imply Jeff Bezos Bill Gates a bunch of other Prime Ministers around the world
and Billy Zane are part of it for some reason like all the richest most powerful people in the world
are buying into this company because a lot of really powerful people are scientologists in real
life the whole joke about her eating Ramen out of a toilet in her parents garage 15 years ago is in
real life Gwyneth Paltrow's acting career kind of stalled out in the early 2000s about 15 years ago
also in real life her father is insanely wealthy like she comes from this really wealthy family
basically growing up a princess so that's one of the reasons why they're clowning on her so hard in
the episode list is a rich person who got even richer with her goop company Rick also reveals
that he's had sex with Jerry's mom already then I think this is the first time that we've actually
seen this particular alien on Rick and Morty but he calls it a ligurian which eats chaos but it has
a digestive disorder order which is what they're using to create the fortune cookies and these
fortunes to influence people's faiths he also breaks the fourth wall again to tell everyone
that they've been eating alien poop every time they eat fortune cookies and like I said Rick
says that they've been using this alien for the past 20 years meaning that the family who's eating
Chinese food in fortune cookies in the past 20 years many times have probably had their Fates
influenced multiple times in their past when he pulls up the generic fortunes here Happy Feet
and people like me are actually names of movies Rick makes another Nintendo reference when he
says portable VR headset that's more of a virtual boy reference but it's also part of a long-running
Nintendo thing that Justin Roiland Works into Rick and Morty episodes because he is a huge Nintendo
fan in real life so anytime Rick rants about Nintendo in episodes that's usually Justin Royal
and working that into episodes for example another callback to that same Total Recall episode that's
where he did his more famous Nintendo rant that particular reference they said was actually from
real life because Justin Roiland like literally came into the Rick and Morty writers room when
they were working on that episode and Rick's rant is exactly word for word the rant that
Justin Roiland burst into the room talking about that particular day the old man sounds like he
was actually voiced by Alex Hirsch who does a lot of voice over cameos on the DL on animated
series but usually he gets credits for that and I couldn't find his name in the credits Rick kind of
breaks the fourth wall again when he references how on the nose the old man character is inside
this particular story when he says the character is Arch what he means is extremely obvious or
forced reference to something the whole joke about him wanting to get married to the animal I think
it's just meant to be a reference to the Margaret Howe dolphin joke later in the episode she was a
conservationist that tried to teach Dolphins how to speak in one of the dolphins that she raised
was famously super horny so at the time Hustler magazine published a story joking about that so
her getting with the dolphin is just a reference to that the curvy bullets I think are meant to
be a reference to The Wanted movie he makes a Pokemon reference when he talks about using the
fire person against the water person and all their powers are meant to be ironic like he pulls water
from a person's body killing him the other guys body sticks to walls but his internal organs do
not so they get sucked out the person who can't be killed can still feel all the pain when Rick eats
all the random fortunes one of them reveals that he's got a secret crush who will call him at some
point so keep an eye out for anybody that calls Rick in future episodes the make a new friend
Fortune is a reference to the unresolved fortune that Jerry resolves at the end of the episode like
at this moment he becomes Invincible this guy is a Grimlock Transformers Dinobot reference
and even though this is just kind of like a funny moment I love that this guy turns into
a sentient teleprompter and his reaction turns into the script on the screen they explain the
Gwyneth Paltrow characters unresolved Fortune is that she'll become the world's most successful
businesswoman the bigger joke is that that would never happen like her Lifestyle brand would never
be the world's most successful company so she just basically becomes Invincible for the rest
of her life until Rick uses his hacking skills to make her company the most successful company on
paper but then taking it right back making her company worthless when she transforms into the
monster here this is a naked era reference and when he sits dead center on the alignment chart
that means he's true neutral as in he's just as likely to do bad things as good things he's just
as likely to be chaotic as he is a lawful ordered he makes a reference to Leonardo DiCaprio being
dead inside ever since he won an Oscar for the Revenant several years ago and then Rick using
his last remaining fortune to save Jerry further implies that they are friends resolving his other
fortune to keep his invincibility in the end the episode playing the same Angela's theme
taxi song from earlier the actual post-credit scene like I said is just them paying off the
joke about people eating zebra food but turning it into a larger thing like revealing that they
are secretly inside a zebra zoo like they're Human animals inside a zoo and the zebras are the ones
who are really in control also the person in the Hat in the background here seems like he's been
in previous episodes I can't remember which crew member this is a reference to I think it's meant
to be a reference to someone specifically if you think you know who it is just write below
in the comments if you spotted any other Easter eggs and references in the episode that I didn't
talk about in the video just write down below in the comments in my full Rick and Morty episode 6
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