uh he's at an airport with a cat okay that that sounds Wow
you know I better check on him big season finale right there you know
better uh better go right now also I told you not to get a dragon Morty this
is your fault worst adventurous adventure ever
welcome back everyone it's Charlie this is going to be my Rick
and Morty season 4 episode 4 video does anybody know how long it takes a dragon
to fly to Florida there were a whole bunch of Easter eggs well break it all
down if you're new to the channel I'm doing videos for all the episodes this
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favorite moment from the episode on the video careful for spoilers if you have
not seen the episode yet we'll start with top 10 and Easter eggs as we go
along starting with number 10 the title of the episode claw and hoarder special
ricktum Morty a reference to Law & Order Special Victims Unit
if you don't remember that's the TV show that ice-t has been on for a billion
years he was also the subject of water tea during get schwifty apparently now
he's actually a really big fan of Rick and Morty so maybe he'll come back and
guest stars a different character at some point but the episode itself was
mostly a parody of Dungeons & Dragons and pretty much every dragon trope
you've ever heard of from every dragon TV show or movie but number 9 r.i.p
chachi in the cold open they do the same type of cold open bit that they did
during season 3 episode 6 where they go on this adventure that seems like it's
supposed to be this really quick thing but Morty implies has been in this alien
prison for a long time so apparently this adventure has gone on much longer
than what it seems like at the beginning of the episode rick sends Morty on a
mission to get an ultimate cube he gets captured thrown in alien prison chachi
helps him escape they imply that they have all this history that they
developed over the course of this adventure and then he just gets gunned
down immediately and they use it as a way to show you how self-centered Rick
is that he would put Morty through something like this and then totally not
care about chachi and once Morty produces the ultimate cube Rick just
immediately doesn't care about it because it's purple like the one that he
already has they also used the cold-open to show you Morty being more assertive
recognized how much Rick is being demanding that he get his dragon it's
just part of the general progression of the Morty character slowly and slowly
becoming more sort of ensure of himself the funny thing about that though they
pay it off at the end of the episode is that even though he is becoming more
assertive in sure of himself his ideas aren't getting better
worst adventure ever Morty they all run off in different directions
even though we learned this in last week's episode Rick reminds us that he's
familiar with Marvel Comics because he offered to give him Wolverine claws
during last week's episode he made the Doctor Strange joke ripoff dr. strange
so he has seen the Marvel movies the bit about nerds refusing to admit that
they're Christian being into dragons I think is mostly a general dig at the
paradox of being a nerd who's into fantasy but also science fiction to
genres that are typically in opposition to each other in the way they explain
how things work bringing it back around to the Doctor Strange movie that movie
attempted to explain magic in a scientific way and Dan Harmon consulted
on the Doctor Strange movie punching up their script in some places to help them
explain some really complicated scenes in really simple ways they says it's the
reason why he was brought onto the dr. strange movie is because of the Rick and
Morty stuff because the Marvel people that make those movies like Rick and
Morty because they're able to explain very complicated concepts in very simple
ways the whole bit with Rick accidentally gassing himself while
trying to get Morty to shut up and then just landing himself in the hospital
with all those injuries it's just a poor salt on the wound reminding you that
he's no longer head of the family like he was during season 3 where Beth walks
in and says did you actually promise more do you dragon yeah you have to live
up to that promise number 8 Morty gets his dragon Dan
Harmon is voicing the wizard who controls all the dragons and executes
the soul bond contract with Morty the soul bond itself is a combination of
references and easter eggs for a bunch of different dragon based movies and TV
shows like when Rick is shown being hurt because the wizard is hurting the dragon
or when summer shoots the dragon in the eye that's a reference to the movie
dragon heart with Sean Connery the dragon in that movie gives a human half
of its heart linking them so when you hurt one you heard the other but the
soul bond is a reference to dragon bonding something that shows up in a
bunch of different TV shows and movies the very overt jokes that they
laid on top of this though made me think more of the Anne McCaffrey dragonriders
of Pern series if you've never read that there's this intense psychic bond
between dragons and their riders that forms and when two dragons go into heat
so to speak and start mating the psychic feedback loop that it causes with their
riders forces the riders of the different dragons that are mating to
make themselves sometimes involuntarily like more
didn't have anything to do with their creepy group soul bond session but he
has to anyway just another thing that Rick will
probably have to erase from his mind Jerry's mind blowers too got a big
callback at the end of the episode but if you watched Game of Thrones you also
know the dragon bonding is something that's common to that series of people
of Valyrian descent like the Targaryen family but it's not quite as intense
during the Song of Ice and Fire series as it is drained the Anne McCaffrey book
series a lot of all these magic tropes and jokes reminded me of Dan Harmon's
Harmon quest which is also his ongoing Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
that he turned into a web show we also meet Bal from are the dragon played by
Liam Cunningham from Game of Thrones sur Davos himself finally playing a
dragon they keep referring to the Dragons like cats and then there's the
separate talking cat in the episode the noises that the Game of Thrones dragons
made were modeled after at large cat animals that purr but number seven
Jerry's talking cat you may have recognized that the talking cat that
Jerry goes to Florida with is voiced by Matthew Broderick himself but the cat
itself was mostly their B's story in this is that he was created to be this
metaphor for the voice inside the writers heads in real life overthinking
problems so that's why the cat kept telling Jerry not to overthink things it
was the writers speaking to themself in a meta way through the script because of
the way they ended that story too it also may have been a reference to the
parody cartoon dark version of Garfield about the cat that stalks its owner
called I am sorry Jon number six rick wants to slay the dragon he breaks the
fourth wall when he says that this is the end of the Morty gets a dragon
episode because he knows that they're inside a fictional TV show but the TV
show within the TV showed that Rick and summer are watching and making fun of
called ass is just a parody of bones in real life the story of the ass show and
everything that they say about it the characters is basically directly ripped
off of the bones TV show in real life with the two characters getting together
oh it's boring no I don't want to watch it anymore Rick then references Drag
Race when he says I always slay Queen in number five Rick vs. the dragon and his
giant treasure horde of Easter eggs Rick goes down and makes fun of all kinds of
dragon tropes oh if only I wouldn't have planned for the only thing the Dragons
are known for breathing fire usually every time an episode is based on a lot
of really overt trophy things he starts calling them out in an
episode he spent the entire episode making fun of magic when you look at all
the treasures that he has in the background there's the venus de milo
statue i'm assuming it's an original because he has so much unique stuff in
that hoard he also has what looks like a tesla car or some kind of sports car a
classic Ghostbusters hi-c ecto cooler which I myself actually drank a ton of
as a little kid he's also got an Action Comics number one the first appearance
of Superman a Dan Harmon Funko pop a classic duck man animated series
lunchbox small soldiers spin pops would say directly call out and then future
self-titled album on vinyl signed in Molly and percocet there's a bunch of
other stuff in the background that they don't really spend a lot of time on or
is cut off in frame so if you spotted any other Easter eggs in the Dragons
treasure hoard just write them below in the comments but then number four
rigging the dragon party turns out dragons really like to party in their
super polyamorous they partake in volcanic fumes which may or may not mess
with Rick's higher brain function who cares he doesn't mind they played the
song from the album that they just referenced when they're flying around
just getting wasted together they make fun a Taylor Swift when they ignore
Morty's call sending him the gift of her pumping her fists summer explains that
that means you're lame Morty the speech that the dragon then gives to rick is
actually meant to be true meant to be taken seriously
there will be sayings about you your lessers will hunt you down and you are
one of a dying breed literally because Rick's get killed all the time but also
evil Morty is probably going to come for c-137 Rick eventually because the
episode is all about bad relationships toxic relationships they execute their
soul bond Morty watches them Rick gets really
weird about it then the wizard comes back and starts slut-shaming the dragon
so number three Rick Morty and summer go to rescue the dragon from the wizard
Rick gets really pissed off because the laws of physics are completely whack and
magic is the only thing that works in this realm science won't help him we
learn it takes 78 years to actually hang a dragon they get kind of steampunky
with the weapon that Rick picks up but the weapon itself works a lot like the
impossibility drive from Hitchhiker's Guide turning things into random objects
when he shoots them Rick continues to make fun of magic because it seemingly
has no rules why be worried about anything when it doesn't make any sense
summer even tries to shoot an arrow of her but before she accidentally hurts
Rick by shooting the dragon in the eye when the wizard stomps out - if you look
in the background you can kind of see him like he's been skyping with some
scantily clad sorceress in the background we meet the other slut
dragons some of which are so weird and creepy that the other regular slut
dragons don't want to have anything to do with them if they all wind up in a
creepy group soul bond with the creepiest oldest grossest dragon called
shadow chucker he seems like something out of the bowels of some creepy tumblr
fan fiction in his staff that he carries around which Rick doesn't notice right
away oh I just saw what the staff is but they forced themselves into that group
soul bond they defeat the wizard is actually some beautiful animation even
though when you think about what's actually happening in this scene it's
kind of gross they defeat the wizard who somehow makes his suffering worse by
freezing himself before the dragon roasts him alive just more harmontown
harm and quest jokes Rick makes fun of the Wizards magical portals because who
writes on portals and then things get super awkward when Liam Cunningham's
dragon follows them home hoping to continue their weird toxic relationship
first with Rick who then leaves to help Jerry which tells you how badly Rick
wants out of this situation then Morty who just repeatedly has to tell him to
leave because the dragon starts to embarrass himself Rick also breaks the
fourth wall again when he says that there's a real big season finale
situation with Jerry that he has to help out with then blame everything that
happened in this episode on Morty because he's the one that wanted a
dragon so bad but number two Jerry's mind blowers Rick goes to pick up Jerry at the
airport with a talking cat they find out why the cat can talk it turns out is so
horrific that Rick has to erase Jerry's mind you're not really meant to
understand why the cat can talk remember the whole point of the cat storyline is
this the writers not overthinking things sometimes something weird happens in an
episode for strange reasons and is not meant to make a lot of sense in number
one the post-credits scene with a dragon homeless dragging his treasure
hoard down the street the random dude tries to pick him up for money until the
talking cat matthew broderick comes back to start a relationship with it and get
him to fly him back to Florida how long does it take a dragon to fly to Florida
let me know in the comments if you spotted any big easter eggs in the
episode that i didn't mention in the video like i said big dungeons and
dragons episode of Rick and Morty overall I liked it a little bit better
than last week's episode but it was way way grosser there'll be a new crisis on
Infinite Earths episode tonight Tom Welling from Smallville is going to be
cameo in along with Kevin Conroy Batman from Batman the Animated Series there's
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