Turkey Dinosaur? America's original rulers. Merciless beasts, grazing on the flesh of humans.
Then in the 15 century, a vessel crashed. Two vessels really.
Welcome back everyone is going to be my full Rick and Morty season 5 episode 6 video Rick
and Morty blowing up everything you ever thought you knew about world history, the history
of America.
So their whole bunch of Easter eggs we'll break it all down.
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I'll just number these as we go along talk about Easter eggs and moments starting with
the title of the episode.
Rick and Morty's Thanksploitation spectacular was meant to be a thanksgiving themed exploitation
themed episode that also parodies a lot of typical TV holiday episodes.
There were a lot of different movie genres that they parody.
Like they did a parody of National treasure with the whole heist day-to-day war movie
parody.
They even parodied aliens and predator movies.
They even literally reference the Arnold Schwarzenegger predator movie at the end of the episode even
felt like when they went full Nazi turkeys in space they started to do some iron sky
references to just generally a mixture of a lot of genre tropes and jokes from different
holiday movies and sci-fi movies.
Maybe even little invasion of the body snatchers with the turkey president of the opening scene
starts with their straight up national treasure parody with Rick trying to steal the US Constitution
because like the plot of the national treasure movie.
He thinks there's a secret map on the back of the Constitution that will lead them to
crypt of the new world which Rick things will contain this grand treasure like the Templar's
treasure from the national treasure movie.
Later they use that crypt to completely rewrites the history of the United States in the world
in general.
When rick jokes about the instructions for running a country being online.
He's calling the actual constitution worthless, because as he explains later, he hates all
countries in the universe indiscriminately in the actual text of the U.S. Constitution
can be found online.
He's also saying that any random person could follow the instructions and use them to be
a president.
Even though most the episode.
He spends making fun of Keith David's Pres. specifically just because of their long running
feud use the little RC car to soil the pants of the Minutemen statues, just showing even
more general disregard for the government Morty then promptly destroys the constitution
with Rick's gun.
Which seems like a video game reference.
So if you think you know what video game gun this is based on just right them blown the comments.
Because it does look kind of familiar most the time.
And they have really cool guns their based on something for video games while destroying
the constitution, the beam also destroys the liberty bell way off in Philadelphia, the
beam then continues to destroy the metal shell around the statue of liberty revealing that
there's a hidden steam powered French assassin that apparently the French intended to use
to conquer America back in the 1800s.
Which is seems like Rick knew about this whole time.
The way he talks about it.
Then when he jokes about thanksgiving being America's birthday or whatever it is that's
just a joke about how inconsistent and inaccurate the origins of the thinks giving holiday are
in the United States, there's all kinds of historical inaccuracies about the thinks giving
holiday just in general George Washington in real life was the president who turned
thanksgiving into a national holiday on November 26, 1789.
So that's why thanksgiving the United States has always been the last Thursday before December
is another big episode with Keith David's Pres. he's been in way more episodes than
usual during season 5.
He says the military to arrest them just reminding you that the president has a bunch of super
advanced weaponry, tech and knowledge of rick's tactics that they're using an anti-portal
field to prevent him from just portaling away Rick is also raised the blast shields on the
house a couple times this season already is the thanksgiving holiday when the events of
this episode were happening.
I don't know if they wrote it as a thanksgiving themed episode thinking that it might air
during actual thanksgiving in real life, or they just wanted to do an occasional holiday
themed episode and in really care when adult swim was going to ask you release it during
the year they do that every once in a while, but like you see on television when people
do Christmas themed episodes are holiday themed episodes they try to release the episode.
During the actual holiday that it's themed after sometimes it doesn't always work out
like that though Rick makes a whole bunch of jokes about the president going after terrorists
and being kind of a terrorist himself.
You could think of it as a joke about all of our presidents for last 20 years or so.
Saying that the word terrorist gets used so much that it's lost all meaning.
Like you just go after people that you don't like and calls them terrorists the president
then reveals that he has a working phantom zone projector from the Superman movies and
comics that works the exact same way to apparently the phantom zone is now canon to the rick
and Morty multiverse in it sounds like they actually have access to real kryptonite when
he makes the joke about bars of soap and showers inside the phantom zone prison that is the
same super old joke that everybody's told in their lifetime at some point about not
dropping the soap in prison.
Because you know both Summer and the VP make jokes about Rick and the Pres. getting it
on with each other.
Like why you to just screw and get it over with the vice president also calls rick his
space boyfriend Rick then implies that he's turned himself into a turkey many times before
on many thanksgiving holidays in many previous attempts to get pardoned by the president for crimes
that he's committed in the past.
As if somehow being pardoned as a turkey would pardon him for human crimes that he committed
when he yells at Jerry to be careful with his answer about how long he's lived in the house
That's just a joke about him always being gone on adventures.
Particularly when Beth was growing up.
So he only count of the amount of time he's physically occupied the house, it would be
a very short amount of time.
These live there.
The whole elaborate montage of him explaining all of these turkey missions intercut with
the president deconstructing those missions and countermeasures.
It just meant to be another joke about Nicholas Cage's heist explanation montages during the
national treasure movies.
This time the president plans to swap the turkeys on the truck that rick will be on
for marines who have also been turned into turkey hybrids.
Most of you could probably recognized the celebrity guest cameo this week the marine
leader Cooper was being played by Timothy all the font most of you probably remember
him from the mandalorian season two recently.
Just last year where he guest starred as Cobb Vanth, the person who gets Boba Fett's armor
after he went into the sarlacc.
Which Boba Fett then later reclaimed from Mando is that the whole joke about the human
eye being faceblind for turkeys which they pay off later in the episode after Rick can't
recognize which turkey the president is is also another joke about that at the end of
the episode with the bartender can't seemingly tell the difference between turkey president
and the real president calling himself racist the president then makes the joke about Dwayne
only being picked as vice president because he needs 10% of the white vote to win office.
I guess you could think of that as another Obama Biden joke.
Maybe they reference the giant French statue of liberty assassin again in it still the
process of attacking New York.
But apparently the president doesn't care about it right now because it's New York in
the handle it themselves.
I think that's a more recent reference to New York handling it's own emergencies are
doing things differently than other US states during emergencies the last couple of years.
The New York state government actually just kind of did the same thing a little while ago
last year with the whole Vaxxpass thing introduce Timothy Olyphant's Cooper character.
He does midwestern wife the other members of his squad are just meant to be midwestern tropes
That's why they talk about being poor so many times they speak with such stereotypical accents.
He makes very specific music references for their demographic then references a 30 mile
radius of the it really specific with their jokes.
Which is just meant to be a generic midwestern town then they reveal that all the marines
on his team all come from the same area, they live or live on the same block right next
to each other.
They're all super poor, and they all have pregnant wives or girlfriends.
Which they all kind of call out in the parody song that the same for this episode.
There couple different parody songs that they made for this episode.
Rick and Morty parody songs are usually pretty good Cooper makes a Doctor Who reference when
talking about Rick a long time ago Dan Harmon when he was describing Rick and Morty before
season one use doctor who is an example the whole plot with them turning the marines into
turkeys felt kind of like an Avatar movie parody with them becoming the Navi aliens
later when the turkey marines start freaking out, that's a generic war movie parody with
things going off the rails and some of them getting killed.
Like it's no big deal.
The also kind of make it seem like pardoning turkeys is one of the most important jobs
that this president has even have a hardcore underground bunker beneath the white house
lawn for it at this point there are so many secret rooms and caverns in offices underneath
the White House you could call it it's own city the president figures out almost immediately
that rick and Morty at the house are just decoys they've trapped by a David Blaine box.
Because rick would never be trapped by something so dumb.
If you don't remember the David Blaine box joke.
That's a reference to the time when magician David Blaine spent 44 days trapped inside
a glass box was really dumb at the time, which is what they're calling out here to the turkey
marines are named Rodriguez and Fincher.
I think those are references to Robert Rodriguez and David Fincher the directors Robert Rodriguez
actually directed that big Boba Fett episode during mandalorian season two.
Any sexy directing a bunch on the book of Boba Fett mandalorian spinoff series this year
The book of Boba Fett is kind of like mandalorian season 2.5.
I will be doing full episode videos for that.
But those episodes won't start till Christmas at the end of this year.
And as for David Fincher this also another David Fincher reference later in the episode
when the president yells fight club at Rick Jerry reminds us about his parents, who we
haven't seen since the Christmas episode in season one, anatomy park.
His father was actually played by Dana Carvey.
Maybe we'll see them eventually come back to the show.
The president changed himself into a turkey in is the second time that we've seen him
change his body for a mission the whole thing with Rick being afraid of the president in
turkey form is just to make them feel more evenly matched with the president makes a
joke about poor white people, then as Cooper, please don't tell the 10% your friends just
another callback to the joke about the vice president and the white vote.
He also makes the same 10% joke later at the end of the episode as well.
Rick implies the only reason the united states is so powerful.
Is because he lives there.
Then they set up the whole post credit scene with the blueberry's giving cooper PTSD.
And the turkey president swap with the tracking chip.
Even though they play this joke like it's a body swap sci-fi horror movie say that because
he got the president's DNA this turkey president is now supersmart turkeys as animals are actually
fairly intelligent compared to other animals as a whole bunch of details about turkeys.
They give you during the episode.
Like you could also call this the episode with all the turkey facts but the funny thing
is that most of the facts the turkey president quotes are actually true in real life.
Like the joke about them sleeping in trees in the wild and flying in the wild.
Those are both true the whole storyline with him winning over congress with the pay raises
every couple of minutes is just a generic joke about congress being totally useless
in all politicians being super corrupt.
This also an Easter egg in the way they use the camera here during the scene to when the
super sizing the turkeys.
They pull this move called a dolly zoom is been used in a lot of famous film.
So you pricing it somewhere.
Like Alfred Hitchcock's films.
There's also the very famous shot from jaws that everyone always points to when describing
this affect originally it was just used to enhance the emotion's of scenes.
But in this context the way they're using it is just a joke reference to old school
sci-fi horror films they reveal that all the turkeys who the president doesn't pardoned
get sent to another secret cavern where they keep a mutated version of FDR.
Who was turned into a giant spider hybrid by a spider version of the polio the president
explains that apparently they use spider DNA when making the polio vaccine because their
logic was spiders walked more than anyone else because of their eight legs is purposely
meant to be a very dumb joke they make a lot of FDR references to his polio obviously because
the whole vaccine joke Morty makes a reference to his fireside chats when he lights them
on fire the president also makes a facebook joke when he talks about how hard it is to
have an iconic presidency in the modern era with the existence of social media.
Just because politicians and public figures get trashed so much online.
Whereas in real life when FDR was president back then he was actually fairly easy for
the government to hide his illness while he was in office.
You could also think of this feeding chamber and the giant spiders a reference to she'll
of the Lord of the rings the turkey president sells New York to France, I'm assuming that
after the real president killed him at the end of the episode.
He cancel that deal and took all the money back that he given to Congress and they'll
just go naked for a solid portion of the episode and even the president goes naked for even
longer which I think is another callback to season three.
Rick makes an inspector gadget reference the turkey president then pays off that terrorist
joke again from the beginning of the episode.
Calling them terrorists because he wants to get rid of them.
Then they reveal the president has a secret motorcycle hidden inside the Congress chamber
activated by Mary Todd Lincoln's name.
She was Abraham Lincoln's wife Rick then reveals that he keeps spare clothes for the president
at his house in that it's one of the president's safe houses.
Like he's use it as a safe house before he's only got spares for himself, Morty and summer
no spare clothes for beth or Jerry apparently Rick then clarifies the reason why he hates
all countries in the multiverse.
Is because they're only glorified job placement programs for politicians that invent each
country as if they're only invented for the purposes of giving themselves jobs the president
also starts taking shots at Morty left and right to but then is put in his place by Beth.
Who brings them all to thanksgiving dinner it.
I like that the president is somehow almost as powerful as rick.
Like he can push Rick around, but he still cowers in front of beth for some reason.
And I love that he still superduper naked while this is happening and nobody references at all
Nobody calls it out like it's no big deal.
They both make like they were almost ready to run to the corner bar, until rick is like
bars suck on thanksgiving we can do that Jerry is watching a Wizard of Oz remake by Charlie Kaufmann.
And he typically does stories with really bizarre plots that showcase a sense of fantasy
in the real world which is why you hear Dorothy talking about real vital organs in the scarecrow
is trying to write his own movie inside the Wizard of Oz movie the president then rips
Jerry revealing that he hasn't paid any income tax in a long time because he hasn't had a
paying job in a long time.
Bonding with rick briefly over their dislike of Jerry then when they start making all the
Nazi jokes with the big super soldier turkey plot, the Nazi turkeys in space it kind of
a me think of the iron sky movie, but he think you know another movie that they're parodying
here with the turkey super soldiers, just write it below in the comments Summer makes
a reference to genocide talking about what the United States did in real life to most
native American tribes over the course of its history then the president reveals the
true secret behind the treasure that rick was trying to steal at the beginning of the
episode in doing so the show basically rewrites the entire history of the world in America
is actually pretty big deal, so we'll see if they continue to reference the true history
of the world in future episodes for the whole idea is that instead of the Templar treasure
that rick was hoping for.
America has secretly been keeping ancient alien pilgrims and Indians who came to earth
to share their technology, so every major advancement and innovation in human history
is because of ancient aliens that just another joke about ancient aliens building the pyramids
and things like that real world conspiracy theories, but they're kind of doing this is
an aliens and predator movie parody.
Like these are aliens in these are predators then like it's and later at the end of the
episode one of the aliens literally mentions the predator movie.
Like somehow while they were in hibernation after coming to earth.
They were also able to watch movies they make a bunch of jokes about the revolutionary war.
When rick says training a bunch of hillbillies was enough to beat the British then they bring
back Cooper and his squad or lease the ones that are still alive is a joke about them
not serving presidents of the bar because of one point in history Jimmy Carter left
an unpaid tab of $53.
Maybe in real life.
He was criticized once for being frugal or not tipping well.
Or something like that if like that was what they were referencing with that Jimmy Carter
joke is whole rousing presidential speeches meant to be a parody of all rousing presidential
speeches like independence day with him just saying a lot of nonsense then they make a
joke about Star Wars AT-ATs and how fans argue over the correct pronunciation ATAT or AT-AT
the whole thing about them calling out as unlicensed just feels like the show buffering itself
Like please don't sue us Lucasfilm the entrance to the new crypt is inside the Lincoln memorial.
And then they reveal that there were at one point turkey dinosaurs ruling over America
before the aliens came the two vessels that crashed there were the predator and alien
pilgrims and Indians and apparently they have the natural of mutant ability to raise corn on command.
Using the corn Cobbs to kill the mutant turkeys they make a joke about the low level enlisted
men their they are only being there so they can pay for college in the United States if
you enlist in the Army her in the Armed Forces because of the G.I.
Bill the government will pay for your college the turkeys use the Washington monument is
a giant humanizer ray.
Which Morty then later destroys at the end of the episode.
In the funny thing is that rick says if you destroy it will have to do this again next
year as if they're going to do another thanksgiving themed episode another holiday episode next
year and they in the episode with it still destroyed, so it sounds like they will do
another holiday episode during season 6 the president officially pardon's rick.
Meaning that he is now pardon for everything that he has ever done up to this point sort
of wiping his slate clean did think it was kind of weird that the turkey president's
plan is to only super size American turkeys you think that he would want to do that to
all the turkeys on the planet and apparently the mutant turkey wishbones in the rick and
Morty multiverse actually grant real wishes then they make a whole bunch of jokes about
the president being obsessed with PlayStation consoles his whole life and apparently maroon 5
for some reason.
His life flash before his eyes, but throughout history amongst you real world big events
every other moment is basically the release of a new PlayStation console any ends the
flashback with him yelling about wanting a PlayStation 5.
Which I feel like is just a joke about nobody being able to actually by a PlayStation 5
this past year the president kind of makes a racist joke about the alien saying that
he doesn't speak goo-gah.
He also called the aliens that were infesting the tunnels beneath the White House during
season three goo gods.
As if goo got is the word the uses for all aliens and creatures.
But then during the post credit scene they pay off that blueberries joke.
Where cooper gets PTSD from their mission and starts acting like a turkey again eating
all the blueberries off the floor in a frenzy also joking about how the government just
canceled his military health insurance because they need more money to build missiles with.
Overall it was a pretty ridiculous holiday themed episode.
But if you spotted any big Easter eggs that I didn't mention during the video just right
them blown the comments.
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