Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Rick and Morty season 4
episode 6 video it was a non-stop train literal and metaphorical train of
references so we'll break it down way more references than a normal episode on
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the video careful for spoilers if you have not seen the episode yet will do
top 10 and Easter eggs as we go along even though this should be like a
top 50 I'll try to cram these into different vignettes as they go through
the episode starting with number 10 the title of the episode the episode was
titled never Ricky Morty which is a reference to the movie neverending story
which most of you probably seen about a boy who has to create new story in the
real world in order to keep the fake universe inside a book alive there were
a couple examples of this happening in the episode people's beliefs keeping
worlds or universes alive or in the case of Morty jumping the shark on purpose in
order to escape the stories simulation as Rick tells them to start spitting out
terrible story ideas so the show used the episode to make fun of themselves as
writers while referencing almost every single twist and major moment that the
show has ever had that's why you saw the collision of things like birdperson
happening separately from phoenix person and Tami's snuffles all the meeseeks
evil Morty coming back and so many other things from earlier episodes so I'll
point them out as we go along through the episode but I saw a couple people in
my timeline that were confused on why they were doing things this way the
episode was supposed to be about bad stories on purpose in the most meta way
possible but the writers were also making fun of themselves and Dan and
Justin like later in the episode when Rick talks about the story episode
getting too meta breaking the fourth wall saying that they would have done
interdimensional cable instead if they wanted to get so meta he broke the
fourth wall a couple times during the episode big shout out for the virus in
real life nobody's out there shopping with this virus the actual credited
writer on the episode Jeff loveness said in his own words that the episode is
about being trapped in the narrative choke of capitalism the broken worlds we
escaped through love in paul giamatti zaps which morty has a
really really gross name for in the episode also this writer is also
probably leaving the show because Marvel just hired him to write Ant Man 3 so if
you're a fan of the Marvel stuff Marvel movies Disney Plus series there are
actually a couple different former Rick and Morty writers that are working on
new Marvel projects for the next couple of years
Dan Harmon himself also helped out on the Doctor Strange movie punching up
some of their really meta multiverse stuff but number 9 the episode starts
with the Infinity story train flying through space the train itself is a
reference to the Cartoon Network show infinity train which is an anthology
series about a girl traveling through a train with different rooms that test her
before she can return home it's also kind of a parody of the Infinity Train
episode of Adventure Time the dungeon train that Finn gets trapped on when he
has this existential crisis and he goes through room by room and Jake has to
shake him out of his funk in order to get him to come back to the real world
Rick and Morty sort of takes this concept to the enth degree using every
single story device character twist in previous episode of Rick and Morty the
tickets please man with the sick abs is voiced by Dan Harmon he's kind of a
parody of the Indiana Jones The Last Crusade tickets please scene they bring
that joke back around a couple times through the episode the bar is a very
Star Wars Cantina looking style bar each room on the train just represents a
different challenge a different story device in a different group of
characters but they all start colliding by the end of the episode the person's
perspective that we take is revealed to be Rick in disguise who later meets
Morty also disguised separately as a woman who were trying to find a way to
escape the Train the real villain of the episode is actually capitalism according
to the writer that was what that intact scene was about about Morty buying stuff
buying the Train go out and buy Morty nobody's buying anything because of this
virus within the episode though Paul Giamatti plays the villain who's an evil
conductor who's kind of a parody of the fandom and people yelling at Dan and
Justin about what the story of the show should actually be within the episode
though he's trying to quote-unquote break the fifth wall by stealing all the
narrative potential from Rick and Morty stealing the show from them effectively
who were later revealed to not even be the main versions of Rick and Morty
because this is all happening in a simulation which is another reference
to the inception episode with the simulations within the simulations we'll
get to that twist in a second too but remember that every single part of the
episode was made to reference some earlier episode so that's why everything
seems so familiar as they went through room to room that's why when he sits
down at the bar you noticed the snake tap in the bug face it reminds you of
the snakes from season 4 episode 5 smooth snake jazz and then crumb Bop
ulis Michael's head here with this other tap the man that Rick sits down next to
is voiced by Clancy Brown whose voice characters before on the show there were
a ton of big celebrity guest stars during the episode he sets off the first
fake premise everyone on the train is heading to destroy Rick the man in the
white coat because he wronged them somehow Rick who regularly calls out
story tropes in episodes calls them out for it what are we taking turns telling
stories like we're little girls that a sleepover party
Rick's many arms and three butts that he uses to fart reply to him is just the
writers referencing all the burps and farts oaks that Rick always has and even
though this is Rick in disguise sitting at the bar here the person voicing this
character before he changes back into Rick is actually nolan north number 8
the next section of the train that he goes into is christmas-themed it turns
into a reference of an earlier episode from season 3 the one where rick and
jerry made a temporary truce but because jerry was still separated from beth he
refuses to let jerry inside the house at the end of the episode goobie winds up
standing outside in the cold all lonely just like jerry did also that was the
same episode that clancy brown guest-starred is a separate character in
rick then runs into morty who's inside the body of the woman who feels himself
up before changing back because of course morty would do something like
that it's revealed that the previous story car that he came from was one
where everybody dated rick in it's supposed to be a bunch of different
alien women but one of them is a yoda in the background and another one is a man
so take that for what you will he says a lot of this stuff isn't canon through
the episode too because a lot of the jokes later in the episode are about
canon itself the things that are official to the show and things that are
just meant to be one-off jokes the next vignette is rick playing with a
giant snow wolf dating an ice queen whose romantic rival is apparently the
concept of time this woman over here sitting at the table all
looks like a parody of Elsa from frozen Rick starts shouting out story tropes
figuring out that the train itself is amplifying and linking unrelated
narrative fields that's a callback to the episode where
at the end Jerry made a reference to the a story and the Beast or the episode
being related by a common theme in Ricketts really pissed off with him
saying there's no connection it's complete coincidence Jerry that's
because in real life Dan Harmon's said that he doesn't like the idea that every
single story arc in episodes always have to be connected to each other all the
time and feels like that's kind of a trophy thing to do for pretty much the
rest of the episode they keep referencing different story devices the
most famous one being the Dan Harmon's story circle which itself is a reference
to Joseph Campbell's hero's journey if you're a big Simpsons fan too even the
Simpsons did a parody about the Dan Harmon's story circle if you watch the
behind the scenes of the TV show inside the writers room you can also see them
using that they really do use the dan Hartman story circle inside the Rick and
Morty writers room he makes his big interdimensional cable shout out there
supposedly doing another real interdimensional cable episode but
because they referenced it so much during this episode I'm kind of
wondering about that now they at least said that they might go back to that
this is where the episode metaphorically and literally starts to go off the rails
because the evil conductor played by Paul Giamatti is trying to use them to
generate enough narrative energy to break the fifth wall which isn't a real
thing that exists it's just a meta reference to the show always breaking
the fourth wall because Rick knows that he's inside a TV show which he
references a couple times through the episode like when he references
interdimensional cable versus doing one-off episodes this is a big Jackie
Chan shout out the trains AI references continuity jumping off the rails he
grabs a tank of continuity that he says will be useful later the number seven is
revealed that all this was happening inside a blitz and chips life simulation
game like Morty's previous episode where he lived out that life then came out and
was a little confused about what was real what was fake and it winds up being
the tickets please man who is experiencing all this then it turns into
a bit of a nightmare on elm street movie as the man starts floating in the air
getting cut in half they call him floaty blood man later in
the episode because within the Nightmare on Elm Street series when you
inside your dreams you also die in a similar way inside the real world I also
love that after this Rick says that he'd rather die than write out the rest of
this story which is a reference to the fact that episodes are typically only
between 21 and 22 minutes long without commercials then in another reference to
bad writing they revealed that this is all a fake training tape being used by
guards to illustrate how to do their jobs which Rick and Morty within the
story train hijack referencing how nothing makes sense because they're
appearing out of nowhere everything is appearing out of nowhere
the way the cops are talking to each other too is kind of like their story
police they're policing each other's stories which is a joke about writers
rooms and writers policing each other's story ideas Rick yells at Morty for
being too meta because he watches YouTube videos of people reacting to
other YouTube reaction videos which is actually something that happens in real
life I also love that while this is all happening and they're calling out all
these story tropes the tickets please man is still alive and screaming
floating past them in the window Rick breaks the fourth wall again when he
says they're going into an act break if you had been watching this episode on TV
right after this they go to a commercial break the number six come back with a
bird person vignette where he and Rick sing a song together about bird person
flying through the air which itself is revealed to be part of another person's
story inside another car about musical episodes notice all the Easter eggs from
previous musical ideas from Rick and Morty episodes like there's a poster
from tiny Rick where he's getting ready to sing his song about being tiny Rick
there's a get schwifty poster behind him there's Morty flying out of a giant but
there's a poster over on the other side this is a parody of Sound of Music this
alien is a joke about the cats movie this is one about Phantom of the Opera
this is one about hairspray this is Shakespeare over here I'm not sure what
the donkey suit is a reference to but there's even a poster of a meeseeks box
in the background so because this is a musical car apparently there was a
meeseeks musical inside this reality the number five in the next vignette it's
revealed that floaty blood man from Blitz and chips is someone that this
alien worships is a God who thinks that he created the universe that they exist
inside as part of this weird cult they also believe that not having sex is
keeping the universe within floating man from fly
apart that's more of a joke about insoles I think than anything else after
which he immediately does it with this woman turns out he was right because the
universe starts to collapse around them as Morty then starts to put him out of
his misery they call back to this joke at the end of the episode when Jesus
tries to call out to his father who instead of being the God that you would
expect from the Bible is actually floaty man God number four Rick and Morty tried
to derail the train or at least slow it down by telling intentionally bad
stories but the stories that he tells are so bad that they wind up meshing
with the other tropes of the episode and it doesn't work the way they wanted to
they call out the Bechdel test which is a real thing the way that Rick describes
into the episode though all this Beth and summer stuff is supposed to be bad
on purpose I love how Morty seems weirdly stuck on the concept of
scorpions though every different one of his stories devolved into a story about
scorpions also inside Morty's fake story there's a picture of his son Morty jr.
there's a whole army of gazorpazorp with evil Morty later when they use the
concept of Jesus to completely hijack the story number three we meet the evil
conductor Paul Giamatti story Lord character who Rick says is a parody of
space Frasier meeting the matrix like I said earlier in the video he's also a
bit of a parody of the fans or the angrier fans that try to tell Dan and
Justin what the show should be doing and what it shouldn't be doing he proceeds
to make fun of Rick and the show itself saying it barely makes any sense nor has
any real narrative cohesion spiraling through the multiverse with no rules
burping semi-improvised dialogue then when he starts pounding them they crash
through the walls of the train that's a reference to breaking story walls like
breaking the fourth ball the first one is Marty inside the
Citadel of Rick's then Morty in the military is a veteran then Rick is a
professor trying to create the artificial world of the show who then
gets killed by an older version of this same war veteran Morty who just keeps
saying don't worry it's not canon nothing out there's Canon Rick also gets
kind of pissed off at the conductor because they wind up blowing a bro Dolph
Winkler coming back saying that this could have been canon meaning that the
writers Dana Justin probably won't be bringing him back in real life for an
episode any time soon just because of this joke number two things get really
crazy with references when they bring back sniffles all the
dogs and their mechs fighting cats in mechs Rick fights Phoenix person while
Tammy and summer fight with lightsabers me they probably won't bring those
characters back anytime soon for an episode either then the writers said
that this giant evil Morty's scene is meant to be a bit of a game of Thrones
parody for the long night episode I guess that makes evil Marty the night
king in this scenario who's Lee an army of gazorpazorp
Rick's from the Citadel dressed like Time Lords from Doctor Who and meeseeks
and Rick's only way out is to go so off the rails doing something that Rick and
Morty would never do doing a huge religious joke because nobody likes
those types of stories you notice all the gauges the marketability the
likability the relatability of the story all fall to zero and all these
characters are parodies of real-life religious themed TV show characters like
VeggieTales as morty tries to tie the different vignettes together from the
episode it's then revealed that they're inside another simulation within the
simulation of the Train because all the dials and the Train are just stickers on
a toy train that Morty bought inside the citadel of rick's gift shop in real life
yet another reference to the inception episode simulation within a simulation
you could also question whether or not this reality too at the end of the episode
is real as well because Rick probably wouldn't ask Morty to kiss him like that
the number one is the end tag scene with him yelling about capitalism and the
real virus we're all living through watching the episode nobody is buying
anything now because of this virus and then the fake ad for the story train
people tried to visit this website it's not real they're not actually selling
the story train Jesus in the episode also tries to derail things successfully
by calling out to his father who winds up being the floaty man there were a
billion references in the episode but it was an episode about making too many
references so let me know if you spotted any big ones that I didn't mention in
this video but episode 7 is next week so of course my video for that will post
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