"Rick and Morty" Season 1 Episodes 2-11 Quiz

Answer: Freddy Krueger

This episode's A-plot parodied the movie "Inception," as Rick and Morty move through a series of dreamscapes. Scary Terry, who Rick describes as a "legally-safe knockoff of an '80s horror character with miniature swords for fingers instead of knives," also parodies Freddy Krueger from "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Scary Terry initially menaces Rick and Morty, but they eventually manage to befriend him by incepting into one of his dreams and helping him resolve an embarrassing situation of finding himself in high school wearing no pants and being unable to answer the teacher's questions (aptly enough about the "Fundamentals of Fear").

In the episode's B-plot, which is a parody of the movie "Lawnmower Man," Rick uses a device to enhance the intelligence of the family dog, Snuffles, after Jerry complains about the dog being stupid.

Unfortunately, Snuffles becomes too smart and figures out how to exponentially increase his intelligence to the point where he is leading an army of cyber-enhanced dogs in an uprising against the human race.

Answer: Hepatitis C appears and kills hepatitis A.

This episode is both a parody of the classic film "Fantastic Voyage," which features a team of scientists being miniaturized and injected into the body of a diseased man, and "Jurassic Park," in which the dinosaurs break loose. The scene in which hepatitis C saves Morty and Annie from hepatitis A appears to be a nod to the ending of "Jurassic Park," in which a Tyrannosaurus rex suddenly shows up and inexplicably saves the characters from the raptors that are about to kill them.

In the episode's B-plot, Jerry has a rather awkward Christmas lunch with his family when his elderly parents show up with a young man who they reveal is his mother's new lover.

Answer: Concentrated dark matter

The title of the episode is a reference to the movie director M. Night Shyamalan, who is noted for incorporating sequential and convoluted storyline twists into his movies. At the beginning of the episode, Rick appears to be at home in the normal world, but he has already figured out that he is actually trapped in a gigantic simulation as he has noticed several anomalies in his environment.

It turns out that when the aliens abducted Rick, they accidentally captured Jerry as well even though they have no use for him. To save power, they reduce Jerry's simulation to 5% operating capacity.

This results in obviously ludicrous anomalies that Jerry remains completely oblivious to, e.g., when he turns on the radio in his car, the announcer states that the station will be playing "human music," which he thinks sounds nice. Additionally, the people he meets, including his wife, Beth, act in a ridiculously robotic manner, which he does not find strange at all! Rick attempts to escape the simulation only to find himself in a series of further simulations. To escape, he pretends to tell Morty the recipe the aliens want, and they release him and Jerry.

After he escapes, the aliens attempt to follow Rick's recipe and create concentrated dark matter, which is a fuel that allows Rick to travel faster than anyone else in the universe. However, it turns out that the recipe is actually for an explosive that destroys their ship. This episode is unusual in that Morty only appears as a simulation, apart from a real cameo appearance in the post credits scene.

Answer: Take two strokes off his golf game

When Rick gives them the box, he warns them to keep their requests simple, as the creatures "are not gods." He also advises them that the Meeseeks cease to exist once they have fulfilled a request, but "they are cool with it." Despite his warning, Beth and Summer each make seemingly complex requests of their Mr. Meeseeks (help Beth become a more complete woman and make Summer more popular at school).

However, in each case, the Mr. Meeseeks is successful in fulfilling their requests and promptly disappears. Jerry makes a seemingly simple request to help him take two strokes off his golf game, but Mr. Meeseeks' attempts to coach him are unsuccessful and only cause Jerry frustration. Mr. Meeseeks summons another of his kind for guidance, which eventually escalates into there being a whole room full of them who argue with each other about the best way to proceed.

The Meeseeks reveal that prolonged existence is painful for them. Unlike humans who come into the world without knowing their purpose, they come into the world knowing why they have been created and seek to fulfill their mission as quickly as possible so that they can return to oblivion. Eventually, the Meeseeks rebel and plan to kill Jerry, as this will remove all strokes form his golf game. Fortunately, Beth is able to solve his golfing problem with some coaching of her own and the Meeseeks leave satisfied. Meanwhile, Morty insists that Rick accompany him on an adventure of his own choosing.

They go to a fantasy realm and their adventure turns into a parody of the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" with rather disturbing results. This episode is also unusual as Rick shows Morty a rare degree of genuine kindness and concern after the latter survives a harrowing encounter with a giant jellybean who attempted to molest him in a public bathroom.

Answer: Cronenberg

The title of the episode refers to the 1959 song "Love Potion No. 9" by the Clovers. A running theme of the show is Morty's infatuation with a girl at his school named Jessica. When Rick dismisses love as merely a chemical reaction that impels people to behave irrationally, Morty begs Rick to develop a love potion that will induce just such a chemical reaction in Jessica.

When Morty asks if there are possible adverse side-effects of the serum that Rick creates for him, Rick dismisses his concerns, not mentioning until Morty has left the room that something might go wrong if she has the flu. Of course, it just happens to be flu season and things go wrong in the worst possible way. Jessica does fall in love with Morty, much to his delight. However, the serum attaches itself to the flu virus, which then begins to infect the whole human race, resulting in everyone except Morty's immediate family falling in love with him. Rick's initial attempt to solve the problem with another serum succeeds only in turning the infected people into giant praying mantises who are still in love with Morty and also want to eat him.

His attempt to solve this problem initially appears to succeed as people revert to their human forms briefly but then causes them to transform into misshapen blob-like creatures he calls "Cronenbergs" in honor of David Cronenberg, a director of body horror films. Unable to solve the problem, he locates a parallel universe where an alternative version of himself and Morty have developed a cure and then promptly died in an accident, so he and Morty can take their place and live with an alternative version of Morty's family. Meanwhile, the original Beth, Jerry, and Summer are left behind to fend for themselves in Cronenberg world and realize that they are actually happier without Rick.

Answer: My Horrible Father

While accompanying Rick to an intergalactic pawn shop, Morty spots what appears to be a sex robot and convinces Rick to buy it for him as a "souvenir." Morty gets more than he bargained for when "Gwendolyn" the robot gives birth to an alien-human hybrid. Rick wants to kill it immediately because it might be dangerous but his family protests as it is Morty's son, whom he calls Morty Jr. Rick decides to investigate and Summer accompanies him to a planet called Gazorpazorp where the robot originated.

He discovers that this world has a completely sex-segregated society, as the males are one of the most violent, aggressive species in the universe, while the females have built an enlightened and peaceful society centered around stereotypically feminine interests.

The women have built the sex robots for procreation: these are routinely air-dropped on the surface of the planet, where the males live, and when impregnated they are gathered up and returned. The women raise the girls and eject the boys onto the surface to fend for themselves.

As they mature in a single day, this system works out OK. Meanwhile, Morty discovers the challenges of raising a Gazorpazorp male, and tries, without much success to rein in Morty Jr.'s appetite for death and destruction. After rampaging through the city, Morty Jr. meets Brad Anderson, the creator of the comic strip "Marmaduke," who reveals that he channels his violent and sexual thoughts into his writing, and convinces Morty Jr. to do the same, which he does through his memoir about being raised by Morty. The title of the episode may be a reference to the TV sitcom "Raising Hope," about a teenage boy raising a child on his own. The B-story involving Rick and Summer's adventures on Gazorpazorp pays homage to "Zardoz," a 1974 sci-fi film about a post-apocalyptic society divided between an underclass who live in a wasteland, and an elite class who live in luxury and rely on the underclass for labor.

Answer: She was an unwanted pregnancy

At the beginning of the episode, Rick is bored with the TV show the family is watching and installs a cable box capable of receiving television across infinite dimensions. While channel surfing, they come across a program in which Jerry is being interviewed by David Letterman and discover that in another reality he is a famous movie star. Rick produces a pair of Inter-Dimensional Goggles that allow the wearer to see what their alternative selves are doing in other realities. Jerry views a scene in which he is partying with Johnny Depp, while Beth sees herself performing heart surgery on a human (rather than a horse, as in her own reality).

When Summer tries the goggles, she discovers that she does not exist in the alternative dimension that her parents were just viewing.

This leads to the awkward revelation that Beth's pregnancy was unintended and that she and Jerry considered having an abortion. Summer is naturally upset about this and thinks of running away. Morty, in an attempt to console her, points out two graves in their back yard wherein lie the original Rick and Morty from Summer's own dimension, who died and have been replaced by himself and his Rick after they left their own dimension behind (in "Rick Potion #9").

He then makes one of my favorite existential quotes from the series: "Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody is going to die....Come watch TV?" Later, while watching interdimensional cable, the family watch a ludicrous scene unfold in which the movie star Jerry is being chased half-naked along the freeway by police until he ends up going to Beth's house and confessing that he regrets ever leaving her. The Jerry and Beth who are watching this are amazed and feel renewed love for each other.

Answer: Needful Things

The title of the episode is a parody of "Something Wicked This Way Comes," a novel by Ray Bradbury that was made into a movie of the same name. The A-story of the episode parodies the Stephen King novel about a store run by the Devil who tricks people into buying things they think they need at the cost of their soul.

In this episode, the store's proprietor, Mr. Needful, is also the Devil, and gives away merchandise for free that appears to grant people's desires but exact a hidden, ironic cost. For example, he gives a male customer an aftershave that will make him attractive to women but does not tell him it will also make him impotent. Rick takes a dislike to Mr. Needful because Summer seems to like him more than Rick, so he gets revenge by opening a store across the street called "Curse Purge Plus!" in which he removes the curses from Mr. Needful's items for a fee while retaining their magical benefits.

This proves wildly popular and customers flock to Needful Things to scoop up all of his free merchandise so that they can get them uncursed and gain all kinds of amazing powers. Meanwhile, Jerry has offered to help Morty with a school science project by building a model of the solar system.

While doing this, Jerry happens to refer to Pluto as a planet. When Morty points out that astronomers no longer consider Pluto to be a planet, Jerry doubles down and insists that in his opinion it still is. This is followed by aliens taking Jerry and Morty to Pluto where they are very excited about his news that Pluto really is a planet, as this happens to be politically advantageous for Pluto's government, and treat Jerry like a celebrity. His celebrity status does not last long though, as Morty convinces him to admit that Pluto is not a planet and he is no longer welcome.

Answer: Doofus Rick

In this episode, it is revealed that the Rick who is the main protagonist is designated Rick C-137 by Ricks from other dimensions. It is also revealed that there is a "Council of Ricks" who rule a citadel that is inhabited by thousands of versions of Rick and Morty from many dimensions. Rick C-137 is taken captive and brought before the Council who reveal that there has been a spate of murders of Ricks (including one known as "the artist formerly known as Rick" who looks like the musician Prince) and that they believe he is responsible. Realizing that he is being framed, Rick C-137 and Morty flee the citadel and are pursued through a series of highly improbable dimensions, such as a world where people look like furniture and their furniture looks like humans! Meanwhile, a group of Ricks in military uniforms set up operations in Jerry and Beth's house during the hunt for Rick C-137. One of them looks like quite different from the other Ricks as he has prominent bucky teeth and a bowl haircut. Jerry is amazed when this man takes a genuine and friendly interest in him, as the Rick he knows despises him and is jealous of his closeness with his daughter Beth. The other Ricks mock this fellow, calling him Doofus Rick, even though his proper designation is Rick J19 Zeta 7. They also claim that he eats feces, which he denies. The story concludes with Rick C-137 being exonerated. The Council apologizes to him, and as compensation offer him a voucher for "a free replacement Morty." This creates a momentarily awkward scene as Morty is standing right next to him, but Rick accepts the voucher anyway while Morty has his back turned. This episode introduces the character who is later known as "Evil Morty," who turned out to be the real villain responsible for the murders and who returns in a prominent role in the Season 3 episode, "The Ricklantis Mixup" in which he ends up becoming ruler of the Citadel of Ricks.

The Council of Ricks is a parody of the Council of Reeds in the comic "Fantastic Four," a similar concept involving super-genius Reed Richards. The titel of the episode parodies the famous Spielberg "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Answer: "I am in great pain, please help me."

The title of this episode is a parody of the 1983 movie "Risky Business" starring Tom Cruise, in which a wild party results in the protagonist's house being trashed and he must restore it to normal before his parents get home. The A-plot of this episode has a similar theme: as Jerry and Beth go away for the weekend on a romantic Titanic-themed getaway. Beth sternly warns Rick that if there is any damage to the house when they return, then Morty will no longer be allowed to go on adventure with him.

Despite assuring them that they are leaving the place in good hands, as soon as they leave, both he and Summer plan to throw a huge party, which ends with the place looking like a disaster area. This episode features a vast number of characters, as Summer invites her friends from school, while Rick invites guests who are seemingly from all over the multiverse, encompassing many different alien races, and even a couple of Ricks from alternative dimensions.

A number of characters are introduced who reappear in later episodes, including the aptly named Birdperson (who is a parody of Hawk from the 1980s show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"), Squanchy, a feline who uses the word "squanch" to express a whole range of actions depending on the context, ranging from the innocuous to the obscene, Gearhead (a mechanical man), and Tammy, who appears to be an ordinary schoolgirl but who is revealed in Season 2 to be a Galactic Federation agent who has been sent to arrest Rick.

There is also a dramatic appearance by a unique character called Abradolf Lincler, who was created when Rick combined the DNA of Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler, in a failed attempt to create a "morally neutral super leader." Instead, he is a deeply confused and rather pathetic individual who resents Rick for creating him. The party gets very wild indeed, and the house is accidentally transported to an alien planet, amidst many other hijinks. The next morning, the house is in a complete shambles and Morty is upset with Rick about a mean prank he played on him the night before. During the cleanup, Morty has a conversation with Birdperson in which the latter reveals the meaning of Rick's catchphrase, pointing out that deep down Rick is a very troubled man, and that if Morty really wants Rick to leave him alone, then he only has to let his parents see the state of the house. Meanwhile, Beth and Jerry run into problems of their own, as their simulated Titanic cruise has a reverse disaster when their ship misses the iceberg and fails to sink! When they arrive home, the house is still a mess, and Morty decides he wants to continue his adventures with Rick, so begs him to fix the problem. Rick does so by freezing time for the rest of the world, so that he, Summer, and Morty can clean up at their leisure.