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Our Morty doesn't belong to Rick

The fact that Rick and Morty live in just one of many universes opens up
countless possibilities for exploration. From what we've seen, there are
scores of different Ricks and Mortys out there (though many are
Cronenberg'd monsters by now). And for every new reality, there are
tons of tantalizing fan theories. One of the most compelling of these
explains an uncharacteristic plot hole in the series. Namely, that when
we first meet Rick, he's been gone from his daughter's life for the last 20
years. We also know that Morty is 14 -- but later we see that Rick has
memories of seeing Morty as a baby. So either Rick snuck into see his
grandkid in the night in an ill-advised nod to Superman Returns, or the
Rick we know is from another reality. But why would Rick be hanging
out with his family from another universe? Maybe most importantly,
what happened to the Morty that Rick left behind? One theory suggests
that we've already seen what happened to Rick's old Morty -- in fact, we
see it every single time we watch the show. Mixed in the montage of the
opening credits there is a quick scene of Rick abandoning Morty to be
devoured by large froglike monsters. Granted, we don't see Morty being
eviscerated, but it would seem like that's a pretty rough spot. It might
seem like just another goofy bit in the intro, but then again, lots of other
scenes in the montage are ripped straight from the show. If this really
happened and Rick's original Morty really did die, that would explain a
lot about Rick's depression; part of the reason he keeps Morty safe
(despite acting aloof the whole time) is to make up for losing the old
Morty. Or maybe Rick is callous enough to know that he needs a new
Morty to use the camoflauging ability of his grandson's Stupid
Brainwaves. It's a solid idea that makes sense with the world and its
characters, but there's another explanation that's a little more
complicated but a lot more tantalizing. Imagine that same scenario
playing out as we see above, but instead of Morty dying, he survives and
grows to resent Rick. Not only Rick, but all Ricks. What if Rick's former
Morty is in fact Evil Morty? Remember, in the episode "Close RickCounters of the Rick Kind," our Rick is brought into the

interdimensional Council of Ricks to stand trial for murdering tons and

tons of Ricks across the multiverse. I know, this show is weird, but stay
with me. Whereas we originally think that the Most Evil Rick is
responsible, the end of the episode reveals that Evil Morty was behind
the scheme the entire time, controlling that Rick behind the scenes. It's
possible that, after being abandoned by "our" Rick, the original Morty
held a grudge so vicious and unending that he decided that the only
course of action was the wipe all Ricks from existence. It's also in line
with the surpise we hear in "Evil Rick's" voice when our Rick tears up at
the sight of Baby Morty. Remember, this is actually Evil Morty talking
through his puppet, Evil Rick. Though at first it sounds like
condescencion coming from a fellow Rick, it's actually shock and
disbelief coming from a Morty who thinks that all Ricks are incapable of
feelings towards all Mortys. This is why we hear Evil Rick say "We both
know that if there's one truth in the universe, it's that Ricks don't care
about Mortys." It also explains why Evil Rick is so excited for a horde
of Mortys to tear him apart. This is coming from a place of pure hatred.
Some Rick out there has to have done something bad to Evil Morty to
make him think that way. It might have well been our Rick leaving him
to die on a savage planet in the middle of nowhere. After all, it sounds
like he's had run-ins with renegade Mortys before. Could it be that Evil
Morty is the instance that Rick is talking about? If Rick does indeed
keep his promise to tell our Morty about it later on, we've still got a
couple years before we know the truth, if they dedicate time to it at all.
Realistically, we'll probably just get another Channel Surfing episode.

3. Rick and Jerry are still inside of a simulation

M. Night Shyam-Aliens! is one of the trippiest episodes of the series,
which makes it pretty ripe for interpretation. This is the one where Rick
finds himself inside of a Matrix-like simulation on an extraterrestrial
spacecraft. The idea being that the aliens want to trick Rick into giving
up the formula for concentrated dark matter. Jerry is there too for
basically no reason other than to Jerry it up in a simulation that really
only had the capacity for Rick. Eventually the gang "escapes" the
simulation... only to realize that they were in a simulation INSIDE of a
simulation -- which included a fabricated Morty. One of the early hints
that is never directly called out is Jerry's tuxedo. Note that, in the initial
fake "escape" out of the first dimension, Jerry is still wearing his
simulated suit. It's not like he wore a tux to the spaceship, so he
shouldn't be wearing it if he had really made it out of the simulation.
This turns out to be the case during the "real" escape, as Jerry is left in
his tightie-whities when the simulation ends and fake-Morty disappears.
So that's the real world, right? Well, maybe -- and maybe they're still in
yet ANOTHER simulation. See, when Rick and the fake-Morty are
running around, they come across this big Matrixy room full of aliens
hooked into what looks like a simulation (though at this point, they are
still in a simulation). The various shapes of the aliens are a little hard to
make out, but we get a good look at one creature The same alien appears
later in the episode (in yet another simulation), but they actually show up
in episode nine. They turn out to be Plutonians, citizens of the totallynot-a-planet Pluto. As the theory goes, the fact that we're seeing these
made-up aliens in the first place -- and the fact that we zoomed in on
these aliens in particular -- is a clue that Rick and Jerry are both still in a
high-tier simulation. There was no big wedding crash, there was no time
stoppage, and Mr. Poopy Butthole is indeed not real. It's not a world any
of us want to live in, but there it is.

4. We haven't been following the same Rick and Morty every day
Most episodes of the show are pretty compartmentalized, but there are
some pretty sneaky details for those willing to look hard enough. Earlier
in 2016, the YouTube channel The Save Point Guild (who's video you
can watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Kgl9aqOnI) put
together a video explaining this theory - which I simply can't do justice
here so you should go and watch it. We've already been over Rick and
Morty's copious usage of alternate realities in its storytelling, but the
episode "Mortynight Run" is a special case that may or may not prove
that we don't follow the same Rick and Morty for every episode of the
series. In fact, we might have switched dimensions within an episode

without even realizing it. The Rick and Morty that we would consider
"ours" belongs to the universe designated C-137. Whenever we see the
characters refer to that specific code, we know that we're dealing with
the same grandfather/grandson pair that we're used to. But there are
several episodes where we don't get this specific universe name callout.
Yet, what makes Mortynight Run so important is that when checking
Jerry into the interuniversal daycare "Jerryboree," we do see that the
characters come from C-137. It's right on the sign-in form. Also
crucially important here is the ticket they get for their Jerry, which
appears to read "5126." Without that stub, Rick and Morty wouldn't be
able to tell which of their sad bags of crap to pick up when they're done
with their adventure. After this moment we get the bulk of the episode.
Morty foils an assassination attempt on a gaseous being, accidentally
murdering hired killer Krombopulos Michael in the process. This
inadvertantly leads to tons of people being killed in the collateral
damage of Morty's escape -- and he ends up killing the gaseous being on
a faraway planet anyway. These events aren't really integral to the
theory, except for the part where Rick grabs up some unique green
crystals. Remember those green crystals, we'll get back to them later. We
wouldn't dare take a large screencap and paste it on the page just to pad
out the article. Well, we aren't doing that right now, promise. After Rick
and Morty return to pick up their Jerry, they stop and chat with a couple
of their other selves. Turns out, not all Ricks and Mortys had such a
harrowing day -- some of them just hung out at the arcade. Then, just as
they're picking up their Jerry, another Rick and Morty arrive. The Rick
holding the ticket only just came onto the screen, but he's asking if they
have Jerry-5126 -- which could only mean this "other" Rick is the one
from the C-137 universe. At some point, we switched universes,
meaning that for most of the episode, we were not following the same
Ricks and Mortys that we've seen for the rest of the series. Or have we?
With this revelation, we now have to believe it's possible that any given
episode of Rick and Morty that doesn't specify that it takes place in C137 could take place in any number of universes. Using this information
provided, we can actually point to one episode that takes place in the
same "alternate" universe as the one from Mortynight Run. Remember

the Mr. Poopy Butthole episode? In "Total Rickall," which takes place
two episodes after Mortynight, Rick and Company are besieged by
imagination parasites that make everyone believe they've been family
friends the whole time. The intro to Total Rickall is striking, because it
retroactively adds in a character called "Mr. Poopybutthole" to scenes in
which he was not otherwise present. Given the context of the episode, it
seems obvious that Poopybutthole would be an imagination parasite, but
he turns out to be real. Which means that everything that we saw in the
intro actually happened , which means that Total Rickall takes place in
an entirely different universe. Which universe? Well, early in the episode
Rick is seen doing this: Those rocks Rick just threw away appear to be
the very same unique green crystals that Rick stashed in his ship back in
Mortynight Run. Which means that we may be looking at the same
universe in which Morty killed Krombopulos Michael, a bunch of
random civilians and a sentient gas cloud. It's definitely not Universe C137, but there's not a firm name for it. I propose "The Mr. Poopybutthole
Universe." If only to get more chances to say "Mr. Poopybutthole."

5. Mrs. Frizzle is Rick's ex wife

There's a lot of speculation surrounding Rick's wife. She's only

mentioned a couple times in the series, but never by name. We don't
know what Rick's ex looks like, much less why Rick ended up leaving
her. The first episode makes it sound like she's dead, when Rick says
"These are really great eggs Beth, I wish your mother was here to eat
them." Then again, later in the series both Rick and Beth reference the
split in a distinctly present-tense manner. Is it possible that Rick
divorced his wife and then she died? Yes. But there's a much more
obvious solution: Rick married Ms. Frizzle, the teacher from the Magic
School Bus. This seems like one of those harebrained multiversethreading plots that has no basis in reality, and it kind of is, but so much
of it adds up. Ms. Frizzle, formerly(?) Mrs. Sanchez, is the exact kind of
person Rick would both hook up with. She's got a passion for science
and a definite knack for advanced technology. Plus, Miss Frizz is a
redhead. We know how much Rick is into redheads. On top of that,
Summer is a redhead, a recessive trait that is known to skip generations.
Okay, so it makes sense that they'd get together -- it also makes sense
that they could never last. If we know anything about Ms. Frizzle, it's
that she loves teaching children, and she's enamored with her own
education system. Rick, on the other hand, despises school. It could be
that Rick divorced Frizzle after she wouldn't see it his way, that the
education system was broken. That, or she just couldn't get behind his
grand idea of Anatomy Park. But of course, there's one other weird part:
The Magic School Bus itself. As you might remember, it's actually alive.
It seems like an incredibly strange invention, even for Rick. Why would
Ms. Frizzle roll around in something that is so clearly tied to her exhusband and his way of life? Well, it's simple: They had a son, and Ms.
Frizzle got custody. That son happens to be the Magic School Bus. In
any other context that wouldn't make any god damned sense, but this is
Rick and Morty. We know for a fact that Rick can and has turned
children into vehicles. As we saw in the Colbert-resplendant episode The
Ricks Must Be Crazy, Rick once implanted Morty with nanobots that
would transform Morty into a car in the case of an emergency. It could
be that Rick started developing this technology years beforehand,
experimenting on the son he had with Ms. Frizzle, and something went

horribly wrong. It probably goes without saying that if you permanently

change your son into a school bus without any way to change them back,
your spouse will get custody.

6. The real reason Rick is so depressed...

Besides being super arrogant, super burpy and super down to party, it's
also apparent that Rick is an extremely troubled man. His self-loathing
seems overwhelming, as evidenced by the dark scene in which Rick
attempts suicide. What would make such a brilliant mind feel as though
there was no other way out? There doesn't seem to be any problem Rick
can't solve, unless he's figured out he's on a TV show. Throughout the
series, Rick has constantly broken the fourth wall to address the
audience. We saw it when he announced the end of season one, and
maybe most famously when shouting his brand-new catchphrase: Wubba
lubba dub dub! wubba lubba dub dub As we learn later, in Bird Person's
language, "Wubba lubba dub dub" means "I am in great pain, please help
me." What we initially thought was a silly parody of the way sitcoms
pander to their audience was actually Rick announcing that he's dying
inside. The fact that Rick chose to cry for help in the form of a common
television trope is telling. As though Rick wasn't breaking the fourth
wall enough already, Rick seems to be obssessed with one of the show's
creators. dan harmon rick morty Next to the pictures of various creatures
and people throughout the series, you can see a picture of what looks
like Dan Harmon, co-creator of the series in real life. Perhaps that web
of interconnected data is an attempt to understand our world, a place
where his world is but a mere cartoon. That would explain why Rick
empathizes with his butter robot -- they both share a profound sadness
about the frivolity of their existence.

Stay Schwifty
If you managed to read all that congratulations that was a pretty good
effort. I take no responsibility or ownership of these theories, I didn't
come up with them. But I know that there are a few Rick and Morty fans
out there and I thought I would share so of the awesome things that the
writers of everyone's favourite show are hiding from us. sorry no cat tax