hey Morty quick favor. What, cover me in gasoline and spiders fine yeah I'm in
wasn't my first pitch but hey not going to waste this opportunity. Welcome back
everyone it's Charlie congratulations you made it rick and morty season 4
is here this is going to be my episode 1 video I'll be doing Easter eggs for the
entire season be sure to subscribe to get everything if you're new to the
channel and we do a weekly merch giveaway careful for spoilers from the
episode if you have not seen it yet but top 10 and Easter eggs would just do
Easter eggs as we go along because there was so many so many fourth wall breaks
because it was the first episode of the season and a really awesome post-credits
tag the title of the episode edge of tomorrow rick die repeat was a
reference to edge of tomorrow the Tom Cruise movie which is based on a
Japanese manga called all you need where he goes out repeatedly thousands
of times till he can find the right sequence of events that will allow time
to move forward so that his life can go on just like Rick ends a bunch of times
during the episode and Morty is constantly seeking the right course of
events to take so that he can achieve his intended outcome but starting with
number 10 Morty is stalking Jessica on her Instagram account and they used the
opening scene to let you know how the power dynamic has shifted from the end
of season 3 rick is no longer able to just drag Morty on any adventure that he
wants he has to get a measure of consent they also kind of explain how things are
going to work at the end of the episode - when they do their big rant that's a
big callback to season 1 they also use this scene to tee up the idea that rick
has implanted chips in a lot of different people he talks about the chip
and Morty's spine later in the episode because of the Holograms that are super
PC but he also has the chip in his brain that gives the automated responses
Rick's automated response is also a bit of a callback to season 3 episode 2
where he put robot Morty and robots summer there with Beth so that she
wouldn't know what was going on and they could go do whatever they wanted to
speaking of season 3 episode 2 hardcore summer episode this scene is also a
reminder of how hardcore she is because all she wants is that funeral selfie
doesn't care if Jerry dies and doesn't care that Jessica's grandmother died
either number 9 was the new season 4 intro there's a whole bunch of new intro
scenes with a bunch of Easter eggs they always switch the order for which ones
are real which ones are fake but Justin has also said in the past that they're
all meant to be real see it's just that they haven't done those
episodes yet if they have 70 more episodes including all the season 4
stuff then eventually they probably will get to a lot of that stuff but it starts
with Rick flying into a space battle in the vacuum of space with only a breather
towards this monster version of Morty in orbit destroying everything in his path
with all these different space factions then there's the Terminator parody with
all the snakes the t800 snake tomater coming to save them just as the other
Terminator snakes trying to attack them in the garage the reason why I know this
is probably real is because last week I posted a trailer with different footage
from a future episode that also had more terminator snake parody scenes then
Morty falls into a dream world crashing through some psychic barrier that looks
like it's right out of Flash Gordon or an adventure serial while Rick is
getting his face beaten in by this person this whirring very Infinity
Gauntlet looking gloves on his hands giant Morty's going all crackin from
Clash of the Titans on these aliens from season 3 episode 5 were literally
conspiracy those aliens were normal-sized during that episode so I'm
assuming that Morty here is meant to be super huge the last new intro scene
seems like it's a reference to the untitled goose game with the two-headed
goose coming for them and Rick revealing that he has hidden weapons stashed in
the fridge if you remember back to season 3 episode 6 he has weapons
stashed all over the house everywhere number 8 Rick teaches Morty about the
death crystals explaining that they show you your potential deaths based on your
current course of actions which is why they show you so many at once but they
always change because your choices are always changing so your future is always
going to be different if you pause and look at these you can see so many
different versions of their deaths the animation director for the episode said
that only about 40 of these made it into the actual episode 40 different versions
of their deaths but they thought up way way more version but probably the most
interesting one is when they bring back squatchy you see up in this scene here
where he's ripping Rick to shreds so for everybody hoping the Squatch he was
going to come back they totally did it but nobody trusts squatchy this season but
Rick diving to protect Morty from the laser fire is just another example of
how he really does care about him despite the fact that he's so pissed off
about the shifting power dynamic and have to get permission to take Morty on
adventures now Rick kind of breaks the fourth wall but he's
splaining how it's okay for them to treat the galaxy like their personal
piggy bank unlike the crystal poachers when he refers to them as Rick and Morty
we're Rick and Morty butthis Morty grabs one of the crystals and sees his future
with Jessica he accidentally gets Rick so number seven Rick's
contingency plans in the super super PC hologram they explain the backup chip to
c-137 Rick installed in Morty's spy without telling him so you also wonder
how else has he been modified but they sort of set up the running joke about
the hologram being super PC hologram rights which is actually a concept that
they dealt with on Star Trek Voyager one of the writers on Rick and Morty is also
doing a brand new animated Star Trek TV show called lower decks so anytime
there's a really specific Star Trek joke I always wonder if he had something to
do with it the holograms were sort of the flip side of the coin from the
really awful that Rick kept running into like they were really bad
but the super PC hologram wound up being just as bad in the end my favorite
hologram gag was the weed Rick one when they were at school full-blown
protesting him just going completely off book come on Berkeley get with the
program number six turns out project Phoenix really was the fallback that
Rick thought it was during season two we find out that it's capable of routing
him to other dimensions and other clones of other rigs from other realities so
even though he got rid of his clones during season two there are so many
other Rick's and other dimensions that did not he winds up in Rick's
clone body and they sort of set up the running gag of all the terrible worst
versions of reality is that he winds up in is it part of the idea with this with
him going to all the different terrible realities was that because he's traveled
the finite curve so much he knows which realities are worse than others
and they wanted to put him in the worst possible situations so that's why he
shows up first naked in the basement of Rick the worst possible situation
that he would have to deal with before he can get home he also breaks the
fourth wall again when he tells them that he took his own program offline a
couple seasons ago Rick has known that he's been in a fictional TV show since
season one but if you look in the background you can also see some Easter
eggs for things that the animators added on the walls or IP China this is a
version of our president that we saw him fight last season and if you look at the
boxes on the shelves here is actually written as
as time travel stuff is if they have to remind themselves of their political
leanings the alternate morti also kind of breaks the fourth wall when he forces
Rick to go on an adventure with him saying stop doing meta commentary and
then Rick goes again wakes up in shrimp Rick's clone body but the twist is is
this another reality we find out that mr. goldenfold is writing all kinds
of weird stuff on the board there's a phallus over here maybe he drew this on
purpose maybe not because if you look over here he also uses asses to talk
about basic arithmetic the crystal takes Morty out of class and runs into a bully
that looks like he's a parody of Billy from stranger things but he's voiced by
Dan Harmon who then references Pixar's koko number 5 morty gets his hands on
all bricks weapons and they turn it into more of an Akira parody so if you've
never seen akira basic premise is is Tetsuo is an esper whose powers start to
grow out of control until he turns into this giant amorphous blob at the end of
the episode which Morty winds up doing I give him a whole bunch of bonus points
in this episode for creative use of meeseeks not just the red meeseeks but
Morty goes way overboard they said part of the reason for using
so many meeseeks especially this giant army scene is because the whole concept
is is that Rick hates being derivative in repeating himself but morty makes
those mistakes all the time so all these versions of morty are repeating old gags
from previous seasons which of course is a big callback to the meeseeks episode
where they all start going crazy the writers and the animators also said they
had a bit of a contest to see how creative they could get with the way
Morty took out all these people my favorite is
probably the gun that slices all these cars and people up into a bunch of
different pieces then the pieces grow legs and start running off in all
different directions also creative points for the molecular destabilizer
that shoots them with what looks like DNA strands just destabilizing their
molecular structure you also notice that Dan Harmon is voicing the news anchor
that is gas lighting his co-anchor while this is all going on and Rick winds up
in a teddy bear Rick which you think would be the cutest reality but also
winds up being super peace I'm out of here
Morty in the courtroom facing the judge also kind of reminded me of the judge
Morty short from a couple seasons ago if you pause the news broadcasts and you
read the tickers they also you these for some meta jokes to making fun
of the way people pronounce Lacroix or La Crosse no matter how you pronounce it
you still look stupid when they start cutting to the scenes of other people
watching the news broadcast you look over on the right here in what looks
like a version of Times Square there's an ad that Justin roiland worked into
the background of the episode for his VR game called Rover saves the universe
this is an actual real ad for a game that you can buy in real life right now
really big that morty turns down naked jessica because he thinks the
crystal wants into number 4 wasp erick for the win the writer said that they
wrote him to seem like the most terrible version when he first shows up but
somehow the most empathetic despite the fact that he's been through all these
realities he drops a joke about morty being stuck in a bunch of bad
political message boards they feast on a bug version of mr. goldenfold and
somehow have the most loving family relationship of any of the realities
that we've seen so far when they make it back we find out that
rick has been keeping a special boggler creature in a box we don't know exactly
what it does but they'll probably pay that joke off later this season or a
future season so just open up a bookmark in chrome for that they make a joke
about the Red Kirkland brand meeseeks boxes if you don't have one of those in
your area there's just a giant discount Walmart type of business they generate
red meeseeks that are super sucky the hologram comes back and drops an Isaac
Asimov reference from iRobot about the Three Laws of Robotics the greatest of
which is that they're never supposed to harm humans number three Morty goes full
akira in the wastelands with one of Rick's weapons
you wonder why Rick has this and what he was intending to use it for eventually
but then the hologram winds up getting turned into a Kyra Rick with the
ferrofluid made flesh and goes on a big rant about how he was lying about being
super PC intolerant the entire time again because the show typically doesn't
want to take too many sides that's why Rick at the end of this says there's a
lesson here but somebody else is going to be the one to figure it out they pay
off the joke about wasp Rick laying eggs in people's eyes and then number two the
ending of the episode Rick and Morty both recite the message
of the episode Morty's saying don't be so worried about the future that it
prevents you from being happy in Rick saying you should probably worry about
the future a little bit Rick makes a full house reference Jerry directly
references akira in anime then they break the fourth wall
when they're talking about how they'll do classic stuff sometimes and other
times they'll do brand-new weird stuff and sometimes they'll go all Seinfeld
and they won't do anything in episodes Mordy also references the hundred years
of Rick and Morty rant from season 1 episode 1 just calling back to that and
then they break the fourth wall again when they yell at summer for ruining the
season 4 premiere number 1 was the post-credits scene where they revealed
that future that Morty saw in the crystal was totally misleading in
Jessica was just a hospice care worker who comforted people who had totally
been alone and didn't have anyone Morty just submits himself to the worst things
Rick can think to do to him hey not going to waste this opportunity and then
there's a tag scene honoring Mike Mendel who was their longtime lime producer and
friend who recently passed away it was a really tragic event it shook them up so
that's why they put this at the end of the episode but if you did spot any
Easter eggs during the episode that I didn't mention in the video just write
them below in the comments I'll be doing a trailer video for season 4 episode 2
that should post by tomorrow I'll name a giveaway winner when I post that
everyone click here for my new season 4 trailer video with a bunch of new scenes
from future episodes and click here for all my other Rick and Morty Easter egg
videos thank you so much for watching everybody stay awesome see you guys tonight!