Rick and Morty - Episode 4

In episode 4 of Rick and Morty season 1, Morty is on his way to school, just like every other day but something seems off. Everyone around him is acting weird. The kids at school are being really nice to him and his teacher wants him to teach the class. Every one seems very intrigued about the recipe for ‘concentrated dark matter’. Rick bursts into school and takes Morty out of class and to the school showers and demands that he strips naked. He explains to Morty that he believes that they are in a simulation of the real world on an alien spacecraft. He continues that they they are after his recipe for concentrated dark matter, which is a fuel Rick developed to allow him to travel faster than anyone else in space.  The reason why they are naked is that the aliens are uncomfortable with nudity and will not be monitoring their movements whilst in the nude.

Meanwhile, the aliens have noticed that there is a lot processor usage in another part of the simulation and realize that Jerry is also trapped in the simulation but hasn’t realized it. They decided to but the processor priority to low so Jerry doesn’t get suspicious but they can still focus on obtaining the recipe from Rick. Jerry has a lovey time in the simulation, getting by with everyone around him replying “Yes!” to everything he does. This allows one of his marketing projects to be approved and in his excitement, have a more fulfilling relationship with Beth.

Rick decides to host a rap concert in the middle of the town with Morty. As part of a plan to overload the simulation with requests, he starts requesting that the crowd does weird and specific tasks, which eventually crashes the system and allows them to escape by outrunning the area of the simulation that has been loaded and finally reaching the end. It is soon revealed that it was all part of the aliens plan for Rick to escape and they are one step closer to figuring out the recipe. Rick and Morty head to the CPU room and start to grab as many processors as they can before heading to the escape pods and escaping the alien space ship.

Rick and Morty arrive back in their garage on Earth and take the processors over to a vault. Once Rick tries to unlock it with a 4-digit code it gets denied. He tries again but still denied. Then out of nowhere the aliens appear and reveal that they were in fact inside a simulation, inside a simulation. They reveal to rick that they were never after the concentrated dark matter recipe, but after the code to his vault and that they now have all of ricks most prized possessions. Rick and Morty break free and start racing off the space ship back to his real garage to change the combination to the vault before the aliens can get there and steal his belongings, whilst breaking parts of the space ship around them.

Back in the simulation, Jerry is upset with his excellent, new life and believes that his rise to fame was because his slogan ‘Hungry for Apples?’ was a rip off of ‘Got Milk?’. He heads into his boss’s office to confess but ends up being promoted and getting his award nominated for an advertising award. Later on, Jerry receives the award for his advertisement campaign and reveals that today was the best day of his life and that his life is finally complete. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the simulation breaks up and Jerry finds himself on the space ship next to Rick and Morty, scared and confused. Rick explains that there is no time to explain and grabs him as they keep running away. They steal a space ship and start flying away through space with the aliens on their tails. Rick explains that they weren’t lying about knowing how to make a concentrated dark matter because their space ships were gaining on them. Morty asks rick if they could make some so they could out run the alien and Rick passes over the recipe. Suddenly again everything starts to fade away and it is revealed that they in fact were after the concentrated dark matter recipe and they were in another simulation. Morty was part of the simulation the whole time and the only real people were Rick and Jerry. They decide to send Jerry and Rick home seeing as they have no further use for them. As they are flying away Rick reveals to Jerry that he knew it was a simulation the entire time and the recipe he gave to Morty was in fact for a high powered explosive. As they drive back home the alien space ship explodes in the background and everyone on board dies.

Yeah! Total mind fuck! I know. Still, an excellent episode with an extremely clever story. A really enjoyable watch.

-Jayden

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