"Rick and Morty" Season 2 Episodes, 1-10 Quiz

Answer: Schrodinger

Morty and Summer get into a quarrel that creates "a feedback loop of uncertainty" that splits their reality into multiple conflicting versions that happen simultaneously. Rick states, "We're exactly like a man capable of sustaining a platonic friendship with an attractive female coworker: we're entirely hypothetical." He further explains to Morty and Summer that they are no longer on any timeline and opens the garage door to reveal that their house is floating in outer space, with many cats mysteriously floating around. Rick states: "I assume that those are Schrodinger's cats; actually, I assume that they both are and aren't - just like us." When the children ask about their parents, Rick informs them that, "we're caught in a timeless oblivion, while your parents get to exist." Meanwhile, while Beth and Jerry are driving through the country, they hit a deer, which Beth decides she must save, even though she is not qualified to operate on deer, only horses.

There is a dramatic moment while she is performing surgery, in which she yells, "I will reach into Heaven and take your screaming deer soul back!" The episode title parodies the novel "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle.

Answer: "Goodbye, Moonmen"

Morty is appalled when Rick sells a weapon (an antimatter gun) to an assassin in return for currency that he can spend at an amusement arcade called Blips and Chitz. Morty accidentally kills the assassin when he crashes Rick's ship into him, and sets free the intended victim, a nebulous telepathic entity that Rick calls "Fart," who has been imprisoned by the Galactic Federation.

In the ensuing chase, there is a shootout that leads to many civilian deaths. Rick mocks Morty for causing so much destruction to save this entity, but Morty insists that he is doing the right thing by trying to return Fart to his home world. Just before Fart is about to return home, he reveals that he regards organic life as a disease and that he intends to return to Morty's galaxy with his own kind to exterminate all organic lifeforms to protect "higher" lifeforms like himself. Ruefully, Morty uses the antimatter gun to kill Fart himself.

The song that Fart sings to Morty, "Goodbye, Moonmen" is accompanied by psychedelic imagery and was performed by Jemaine Clement, a singer and David Bowie fan who is one-half of the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords.

The music for the song was written by Ryan Elder and the lyrics by David Phillips and Dan Harmon. In the episode's B-story, Rick drops off Jerry at a daycare center call "Jerryboree," a cross-temporal facility designed specifically for Jerrys from various alternate dimensions. At the end of the episode, when Rick and Morty return to collect Jerry, Rick pointedly asks another version of Rick how many people did his Morty kill today. The other Rick answers none, as they had a great time at Blips and Chitz. Additionally, Morty has lost the receipt he was supposed to keep that would identify their Jerry, and they end up leaving with someone who might or might not be the original Jerry they came with, although Rick doesn't seem to care much either way. The episode's title parodies the movie "Midnight Run," which Jerry watches while at Jerryboree.

Answer: Unity and Rick used to "date"

Unity is (mostly) voiced by Christina Hendricks of "Mad Men" fame. Unity and Rick decide to resume their relationship, and Rick wastes no time in partying in the wildest possible way. Summer objects to Unity's control of the local population, which she sees as slavery, and tries to rouse the people to free themselves.

The people she meets, who all share Unity's consciousness, explain that they have much better lives now than they did when they were individuals. However, later in the episode, Unity starts to become intoxicated by all the partying with Rick and loses control of part of the population who revert to their original selves. Almost immediately, they begin a race riot with each other over minor differences in their anatomy (the shape of their nipple). Unity eventually regains control, and realizing that Rick is a bad influence, decides to break up with him.

In one of the show's darkest turns, at the end of the episode a despondent Rick attempts (unsuccessfully) to kill himself.

In the episode's B-plot, Jerry and Beth discover that Rick has a secret lab under the garage in which he is keeping an alien creature prisoner. They begin having a heated argument about the propriety of him keeping what could be a dangerous monster beneath their home, with Beth defending Rick, which infuriates Jerry. The alien creature, which is a dangerous monster that Rick has imprisoned for nefarious purposes, becomes so irritated with their quarreling that it breaks free of its bonds and tells them that they are horrible people and that it is leaving the planet to get away from them and their petty problems.

Answer: Sleepy Garry

The mind parasites in this episode alter their hosts' memories to make them think that the parasites have shared their lives for a long time. The parasites assume the guises of characters who range from normal-looking people to magical fantasy creatures.

They revert to their true appearance of a hideous worm-like creature when dying. Rick locks down the house to prevent the parasites from escaping and infecting the rest of the world, but like the other members of his family has trouble telling who is real and who isn't. Sleepy Garry appears to be an otherwise ordinary man wearing pajamas.

At one point Jerry becomes worried that he is actually a parasite, and Sleepy Garry, who Jerry now think is Beth's husband, implants a false memory in him of them having a secret love affair while on a yacht trip that reassures Jerry he is real. Meanwhile, Morty realizes that the parasites only create pleasant memories, so the way to tell who his real family are is to recall emotionally negative memories of them.

This leads to the family killing all the characters of whom they have only pleasant memories. This episode introduces the mysterious non-human character Mr. Poopy Butthole, who becomes a semi-recurring character. Beth assumes that he is a parasite too, as she cannot recall any unpleasant memories of him, and shoots him. To Beth's chagrin and the family's distress, it turns out he is real (although his origin and the fact that he has never appeared before is never explained). Despite being seriously wounded, he makes a recovery with the help of physical therapy.

Answer: "Show me what you got"

When the giant head appears, Rick recognizes it as a member of an alien race called Cromulons who recruit unwilling planets into their musical reality show. The winner of the show will be called "Planet Music" while the losing planets will be vaporized.

Its demand to "Show me what you got" requires a performance of a musical number. Unfortunately, Earth's major musical acts were killed in an earthquake generated by the head's appearance that destroyed the Grammy awards, so Rick performs an original number called "Get Schwifty." Despite its nonsensical and profane lyrics, the song actually meets with the Cromulon's approval.

In the B-plot, the people of Morty's community gather in a church for safety when the giant head appears and triggers natural disasters.

The principal of Morty's school decides that the giant head might be the true god and loudly prays to it. By coincidence, the natural disasters stop at this point, as Rick has just finished his number elsewhere, unbeknownst to the townspeople.

The principal takes this as a validation of his belief and starts a new religion called "Headism" that enjoys brief popularity. At the end of the episode, the townspeople come to the embarrassing realization that everything that has just happened was part of a reality music show and that their actions to placate the heads have had no effect on anything the Cromulons have done. The song "Get Schwifty" was previously used in a promotional video game featuring characters from the show. The show creators liked it so much that they decided to write an episode around it that would parody music competitions like "American Idol."

Answer: Giant telepathic spiders

Rick's car won't start, so he takes Morty inside the car battery, which he explains contains a "microverse" he created, in which is a planet, whose inhabitants he has taught to generate electricity that he uses to power his car and phone. While in the microverse, he learns that a local scientist named Zeep Xanflorp (voiced by Stephen Colbert) has developed an alternative source of power - a "miniverse" whose inhabitants he has taught to generate electricity for his own world. Zeep, whose personality is nearly identical to Rick's, reluctantly agrees to take them on a tour of his creation. Rick realizes that it is only a matter of time before someone in that universe had the same idea as Zeep, and is introduced to another scientist, Kyle, who has created a "tinyverse" for the same purpose, although his creation is still in a primitive stage of development.

While in the tinyverse, Zeep tries to convince Kyle that his creation is a bad idea, as he does not want him to develop an alternative energy source, as they would no longer supply his own world with power.

At this point, he realizes that what he has done to Kyle's universe is exactly what Rick has done to his, and attacks Rick. Meanwhile, Kyle suddenly realizes what is really going on and decides that his own existence is a lie and kills himself I despair, stranding Rick and Zeep in a primitive world. Eventually, Rick and Zeep are forced by Morty to set aside their differences and work together to return to Zeep's world, after which they immediately turn on each other. Meanwhile, Summer has been left in Rick's car, which has an artificial intelligence that he has ordered to keep her safe. The car is overzealous in protecting her from creepy passers-by, and ends up drawing the attention of first the police and then the army. To prevent them from firing on Summer, the car brokers a peace deal between the human government and the telepathic spiders. When Rick and Morty return, they all go out for ice cream but are disgusted to find the ice cream now contains flies. They are told that under the terms of the peace deal, ice cream must now be for all beings, including the spiders! The episode's title is a parody of the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy."

Answer: Coach Feratu

Coach Feratu was a gym teacher and his name is a pun on "Nosferatu," an archaic word for vampire that has been popularized in various books and films, including Bram stoker's "Dracula." In a post-credits scene, the Vampire Master is informed by one of his followers that one of his vampires has been killed. Upon being told that this individual was using the name "Coach Feratu," he expostulates at the stupidity of using an alias that is such an obvious giveaway and decrees that whenever a vampire is pretending to be a human, they must use an ordinary name "like Alan Jefferson or something." At the beginning of this episode, Rick reveals that vampires are real, which "humans have known for hundreds of years." Summer is quite alarmed by this revelation and asks Rick if he could turn himself into a teenager and come to her school to hunt the vampire.

His initial response is to ridicule Summer for this idea, but he later has a change of heart. He transfers his consciousness into a clone that looks like a teenager, calling himself "Tiny Rick," and becomes a popular kid at Summer's school.

He initially enjoys this experience, but experiences psychological conflict due to being a cynical old man in a teenage body with the wild hormones that entails, and Summer manages to convince him to return to his original self. In the episode's B-plot, Jerry and Beth are fighting, so Rick convinces them to attend marriage therapy on an alien planet that has a 100% success rate. Part of the therapy involves using a machine to generate a "mytholog," which is each partner's subconscious representation of their spouse. Jerry's mytholog of Beth is a terrifying monster, while Beth's mytholog of Jerry is a giant cowering worm. Unfortunately, their mythologs work together to break free and run riot through the facility, causing a mass evacuation. Beth and Jerry's therapist is shocked that their mythologs would work together as this indicates that they are co-dependent and he tells them they should never have gotten married. Despite this pronouncement, Beth and Jerry manage to deal with the situation by creating idealized mythologs that destroy their monstrous counterparts and end the episode reconciled (at least for a while). The episode's title parodies the movie "Big Trouble in Little China."

Answer: The galaxy's most influential civil rights leader

When Jerry awakens, an alien doctor explains that the anatomy and physiology of his penis would make it, with a few adjustments, a perfect replacement heart for Shrimply Pibbles, who is currently the most important man in the galaxy, upon whom hundreds of billions of lives depend.

Some other aliens present imply that Jerry, as a human, is too ignorant to comprehend the gravity of the situation and that his species is too obsessed with sex for him to agree to the plan. This pricks Jerry's pride, as he feels his species is being insulted, and insists that he will do it as a matter of honor.

However, he later gets cold feet and tries to renege on his promise. Thinking that Beth will object, he says he needs to discuss it with his wife. At first Beth is furious, but the surgeon explains that his penis will be replaced with a sophisticated prosthetic and shows her a catalog of the models that are available. Beth is astonished by what she sees in the catalog and suddenly insists that Jerry go ahead with the procedure, especially considering all the billions of lives that are at stake! Jerry later tries to publicly discredit Shrimply Pibbles, which backfires badly. Word of Jerry's attempt to go back on his promise spreads across the galaxy, so countless beings chip in to pay for a synthetic heart for Shrimply Pibbles that will be even better than Jerry's "pathetic penis." Meanwhile, Rick is unsatisfied with the TV on offer in the hospital waiting room, so he hooks up a device that accesses interdimensional cable, that is, TV shows from infinite dimensions.

When a nurse sees him tampering with the TV and asks him what he is doing, he states, "a sequel," which is a reference to the interdimensional cable episode in Season 1 ("Rixty Minutes").

Answer: The Festival

A friendly local explains that they have a peaceful society, free of crime, that is made possible by the Festival. Rick explicitly compares the Festival to the movie "The Purge," which this episode's plot parodies. Rick wants to hang around and watch how the festival turns out, just for fun. Of course, he and Morty get caught up in the ensuing mayhem, which leads to Morty going on a murderous rampage.

The next day Rick explains that Morty's actions were not his fault because he ate a local candy bar that contain "purgenol," a chemical that stimulates homicidal impulses.

However, a close-up of the candy bar wrapper shows that the label says, "Now purgenol free!" The title of the episode parodies "Look who's talking now." The "Festival" is also a nod to a "Star Trek" original series episode called "The Return of the Archons" that features a similarly violent "festival" in an otherwise peaceful society.

Answer: "Weddings are basically funerals with cake."

Although Rick is reluctant to go to the wedding, Beth urges him to go as she wants to learn more about Rick's life by meeting his close friends. When Jerry is accidentally scooped up and transported away by the courier device that brought the wedding invitation, Rick decides that they will have to go anyway to fetch Jerry. One of the running themes of the show that is particularly evident in this episode is Beth's insecurity about Rick leaving her, as he was absent from her life for over 20 years.

At the wedding, she has a conversation with Birdperson who tells her that "the path your father and I have trod is soaked deeply with the blood of both friends and enemies" and that he, Rick, and 19 of the guests are wanted criminals because of the atrocities that they have committed in the name of freedom. Beth responds that it must be nice to have been able to spend so much time with her father! The ceremony is quite moving and at the reception Rick makes a speech in which he announces that, despite his cynicism about marriage, Birdperson is his best friend, and if he loves Tammy then Rick loves her too. (It was during this speech that he made awkward comments about marriage being "a big lie we tell ourselves because we're afraid to die alone" and that he "couldn't make marriage work" despite being "the smartest person in the universe.") Tammy then makes a speech in which she makes the shocking revelation that she is not actually a schoolgirl but a deep cover agent for the Galactic Federation and that the reception is surrounded by their agents.

This is followed by a chaotic battle in which Birdperson is shot by Tammy and Rick is forced to make an escape with his family. By the end of the episode, Rick decides to turn himself in to the Federation so that his family can go back to Earth without being harassed by the Galactic government who would otherwise have tortured them for information about Rick's whereabouts. When they return home, they find that Earth has been taken over by the Federation and that aliens are now everywhere. The post-credits scene features the return of Mr. Poopybutthole from Episode 4, who is still recovering from his gunshot wound, and who appears to have just been watching the current episode on TV! Breaking the fourth wall (i.e., speaking directly to the audience) is a recurring theme of this show, and the characters often imply that they know that they are on a TV show!