Rick and Morty may well be one of the darkest TV shows on the air today, animated or otherwise. As wacky as Rick Sanchez’s journeys through the multiverse can be, the show is never afraid to get incredibly bleak, ridiculously weird or some combination of the two. Rick and Morty knows how to leave fans saying… WTF?
As we continue the long wait for Season 4, here are the ten most WTF-worthy moments in Rick and Morty history.
Cronenberg World<\/h2>\r\nThe Season 1 episode \u201cRick Potion #9\u201d was among the first points where fans really got a taste for how dark and nihilistic the series could be. After Morty accidentally unleashes a love potion on the world, Rick attempts to counteract the potion with a little dash of praying mantis DNA. Long story short, by the time Rick is done attempting to clean up his grandson\u2019s mess, the entire world has transformed into hideous monstrosities straight out of David Cronenberg\u2019s worst body horror nightmares. Even worse, there\u2019s no cleaning up this mess.”,”height”:720,”width”:1280,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/cronenbergs-1553636684074.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/cronenbergs-1553636684074_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”03″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Roy: A Life Well Lived<\/h2>\r\nEven something as simple as playing a video game in the Rick and Morty universe can be a one-way ticket to emotional torture. When Rick and Morty visit the intergalactic arcade fun center Blips and Chitz, Morty makes the mistake of sampling an arcade game called \u201cRoy: A Life Well Lived.\u201d He immediately finds himself living out the titular character\u2019s entire life in real time. By the time Morty snaps back to reality, he\u2019s spent decades as a completely different person. Maybe next time he should stick to Dance Dance Revolution or something?”,”height”:1080,”width”:1919,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/roy-1553636684081.png”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/roy-1553636684081_{size}.png”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”04″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”The Rise of Evil Morty<\/h2>\r\nWe all know how the Rick and Morty dynamic goes. Rick is the domineering, self-serving leader, while Morty is his meek, spineless sidekick. But in \u201cClose Rick-counters of the Rick Kind,\u201d we learned there\u2019s one Morty in the multiverse who can give any Rick a run for his money. Evil Morty truly lives up to his name, killing dozens of Ricks, enslaving hundreds of Mortys and framing his own Rick for these crimes. Even worse, Season 3 makes it clear Evil Morty\u2019s plans of multiversal dominance have only just begun.”,”height”:638,”width”:1135,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/evil-morty-1553636684075.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/evil-morty-1553636684075_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”05″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”The Royal Theatre of Froopy Land<\/h2>\r\nIf there\u2019s one takeaway from Season 3\u2019s \u201cThe ABC\u2019s of Beth,\u201d it\u2019s that Beth may be every bit as deranged as her father. In this episode, Beth and Rick travel to the lighthearted artificial dimension known as Froopy Land to track down Beth\u2019s childhood friend, Tommy Lipkip. There, Tommy reveals via a disturbingly cheerful play that he\u2019s spent decades mating with Froopy Land\u2019s cartoonish inhabitants and eating his human\/Froopy-hybrid offspring. And if that isn\u2019t WTF-worthy enough, it turns out that Beth is the one who trapped him there in the first place.”,”height”:720,”width”:1280,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/froopy-land-1553636684076.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/froopy-land-1553636684076_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”06″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”The Meeseeks Mob<\/h2>\r\nAt first glance, Mr. Meeseeks seems like a rare dose of light in a universe dominated by doom and gloom. But as \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy\u201d shows us, there\u2019s a real darkness lurking just beneath the surface of this blue, jolly helper. Driven mad by their inability to help Jerry improve his golf game, one Meeseeks winds up summoning dozens more Meeseeks and sparks all-out Meeseeks war. It turns out that a creature whose only purpose is to be born, help someone and die isn\u2019t one to be trifled with.”,”height”:1080,”width”:1920,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/meeseeks-1553636684079.png”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/meeseeks-1553636684079_{size}.png”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”07″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Mr. Poopybutthole Is Real?<\/h2>\r\nThe episode \u201cTotal Rickall\u201d is basically a 30-minute-long WTF moment, as the Smith household is invaded by pesky psychic parasites who take the form of imaginary friends like Hamurai, Photography Raptor and Sleepy Gary. Rick, Morty and the family are able to dispatch these parasites with extreme prejudice, but not without a high cost. Beth shoots the plucky little Mr. Poopybutthole, only to realize he\u2019s actually a real family friend and not a parasite. But at least he got better. Mostly.”,”height”:994,”width”:1769,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/mr-poopybutthole-1553636684079.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/mr-poopybutthole-1553636684079_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”08″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Morty Meets King Jellybean<\/h2>\r\nAs bad as Jerry\u2019s Mr. Meeseeks ordeal in \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy\u201d is, we really think Morty got the worse end of the deal in this episode. In another early sign of just how crushingly dark the Rick and Morty universe can be, Morty finds his whimsical fantasy quest ruined when a sexual predator named King Jellybean tries to force himself on Morty in a bathroom. It\u2019s a truly skin-crawling moment in a series that\u2019s ostensibly a comedy.”,”height”:1080,”width”:1920,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”09″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick\u2019s Attempted Suicide<\/h2>\r\nRick Sanchez may act like the coolest, most carefree mad scientist adventurer in the multiverse, but viewers have been reminded time and time again this is all an act. Deep down, Rick is actually deeply depressed and lonely. To this day, no moment better captures the existential milieu of Rick Sanchez better than \u201cAuto Erotic Assimilation.\u201d After his romance with Unity fails once again, Rick returns home, grows himself a Cronenberg pet, murders that pet with a death ray and turns the weapon on himself. It\u2019s only thanks to his debilitating alcoholism that Rick lives to see another day.”,”height”:649,”width”:1155,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080.jpeg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080_{size}.jpeg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:10,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick and Morty Bury Themselves<\/h2>\r\nIn the world of Rick and Morty, truly happy endings are few and far between. Sometimes you just have to make the best of the bad hand you\u2019re dealt. That\u2019s the main takeaway from \u201cRick Potion #9,\u201d an episode that ends on the most WTF-worth note in the show\u2019s colorful history. Faced with a world overrun by Cronenbergs, Rick and Morty simply give up, seek out an alternate universe where they can take the place of their dead selves and leave their home behind forever. The act of abandoning is family and burying his own corpse is something that continues to weigh heavily on Morty even two seasons later. And why shouldn\u2019t it?”,”height”:719,”width”:1279,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:11,”albumTotalCount”:11}]’data-ads-disabled=’false’data-ad-frequency=’3’data-image-size=’1280w’>Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments10+ IMAGESFullscreen ImageESC 
The Rise of Evil Morty<\/h2>\r\nWe all know how the Rick and Morty dynamic goes. Rick is the domineering, self-serving leader, while Morty is his meek, spineless sidekick. But in \u201cClose Rick-counters of the Rick Kind,\u201d we learned there\u2019s one Morty in the multiverse who can give any Rick a run for his money. Evil Morty truly lives up to his name, killing dozens of Ricks, enslaving hundreds of Mortys and framing his own Rick for these crimes. Even worse, Season 3 makes it clear Evil Morty\u2019s plans of multiversal dominance have only just begun.”,”height”:638,”width”:1135,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/evil-morty-1553636684075.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/evil-morty-1553636684075_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”05″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”The Royal Theatre of Froopy Land<\/h2>\r\nIf there\u2019s one takeaway from Season 3\u2019s \u201cThe ABC\u2019s of Beth,\u201d it\u2019s that Beth may be every bit as deranged as her father. In this episode, Beth and Rick travel to the lighthearted artificial dimension known as Froopy Land to track down Beth\u2019s childhood friend, Tommy Lipkip. There, Tommy reveals via a disturbingly cheerful play that he\u2019s spent decades mating with Froopy Land\u2019s cartoonish inhabitants and eating his human\/Froopy-hybrid offspring. And if that isn\u2019t WTF-worthy enough, it turns out that Beth is the one who trapped him there in the first place.”,”height”:720,”width”:1280,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/froopy-land-1553636684076.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/froopy-land-1553636684076_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”06″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”The Meeseeks Mob<\/h2>\r\nAt first glance, Mr. Meeseeks seems like a rare dose of light in a universe dominated by doom and gloom. But as \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy\u201d shows us, there\u2019s a real darkness lurking just beneath the surface of this blue, jolly helper. Driven mad by their inability to help Jerry improve his golf game, one Meeseeks winds up summoning dozens more Meeseeks and sparks all-out Meeseeks war. It turns out that a creature whose only purpose is to be born, help someone and die isn\u2019t one to be trifled with.”,”height”:1080,”width”:1920,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/meeseeks-1553636684079.png”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/meeseeks-1553636684079_{size}.png”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”07″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Mr. Poopybutthole Is Real?<\/h2>\r\nThe episode \u201cTotal Rickall\u201d is basically a 30-minute-long WTF moment, as the Smith household is invaded by pesky psychic parasites who take the form of imaginary friends like Hamurai, Photography Raptor and Sleepy Gary. Rick, Morty and the family are able to dispatch these parasites with extreme prejudice, but not without a high cost. Beth shoots the plucky little Mr. Poopybutthole, only to realize he\u2019s actually a real family friend and not a parasite. But at least he got better. Mostly.”,”height”:994,”width”:1769,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/mr-poopybutthole-1553636684079.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/mr-poopybutthole-1553636684079_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”08″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Morty Meets King Jellybean<\/h2>\r\nAs bad as Jerry\u2019s Mr. Meeseeks ordeal in \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy\u201d is, we really think Morty got the worse end of the deal in this episode. In another early sign of just how crushingly dark the Rick and Morty universe can be, Morty finds his whimsical fantasy quest ruined when a sexual predator named King Jellybean tries to force himself on Morty in a bathroom. It\u2019s a truly skin-crawling moment in a series that\u2019s ostensibly a comedy.”,”height”:1080,”width”:1920,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”09″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick\u2019s Attempted Suicide<\/h2>\r\nRick Sanchez may act like the coolest, most carefree mad scientist adventurer in the multiverse, but viewers have been reminded time and time again this is all an act. Deep down, Rick is actually deeply depressed and lonely. To this day, no moment better captures the existential milieu of Rick Sanchez better than \u201cAuto Erotic Assimilation.\u201d After his romance with Unity fails once again, Rick returns home, grows himself a Cronenberg pet, murders that pet with a death ray and turns the weapon on himself. It\u2019s only thanks to his debilitating alcoholism that Rick lives to see another day.”,”height”:649,”width”:1155,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080.jpeg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080_{size}.jpeg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:10,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick and Morty Bury Themselves<\/h2>\r\nIn the world of Rick and Morty, truly happy endings are few and far between. Sometimes you just have to make the best of the bad hand you\u2019re dealt. That\u2019s the main takeaway from \u201cRick Potion #9,\u201d an episode that ends on the most WTF-worth note in the show\u2019s colorful history. Faced with a world overrun by Cronenbergs, Rick and Morty simply give up, seek out an alternate universe where they can take the place of their dead selves and leave their home behind forever. The act of abandoning is family and burying his own corpse is something that continues to weigh heavily on Morty even two seasons later. And why shouldn\u2019t it?”,”height”:719,”width”:1279,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:11,”albumTotalCount”:11}]’data-ads-disabled=’false’data-ad-frequency=’3’data-image-size=’1280w’>Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments10+ IMAGESFullscreen ImageESC
The Meeseeks Mob<\/h2>\r\nAt first glance, Mr. Meeseeks seems like a rare dose of light in a universe dominated by doom and gloom. But as \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy\u201d shows us, there\u2019s a real darkness lurking just beneath the surface of this blue, jolly helper. Driven mad by their inability to help Jerry improve his golf game, one Meeseeks winds up summoning dozens more Meeseeks and sparks all-out Meeseeks war. It turns out that a creature whose only purpose is to be born, help someone and die isn\u2019t one to be trifled with.”,”height”:1080,”width”:1920,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/meeseeks-1553636684079.png”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/meeseeks-1553636684079_{size}.png”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”07″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Mr. Poopybutthole Is Real?<\/h2>\r\nThe episode \u201cTotal Rickall\u201d is basically a 30-minute-long WTF moment, as the Smith household is invaded by pesky psychic parasites who take the form of imaginary friends like Hamurai, Photography Raptor and Sleepy Gary. Rick, Morty and the family are able to dispatch these parasites with extreme prejudice, but not without a high cost. Beth shoots the plucky little Mr. Poopybutthole, only to realize he\u2019s actually a real family friend and not a parasite. But at least he got better. Mostly.”,”height”:994,”width”:1769,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/mr-poopybutthole-1553636684079.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/mr-poopybutthole-1553636684079_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”08″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Morty Meets King Jellybean<\/h2>\r\nAs bad as Jerry\u2019s Mr. Meeseeks ordeal in \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy\u201d is, we really think Morty got the worse end of the deal in this episode. In another early sign of just how crushingly dark the Rick and Morty universe can be, Morty finds his whimsical fantasy quest ruined when a sexual predator named King Jellybean tries to force himself on Morty in a bathroom. It\u2019s a truly skin-crawling moment in a series that\u2019s ostensibly a comedy.”,”height”:1080,”width”:1920,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”09″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick\u2019s Attempted Suicide<\/h2>\r\nRick Sanchez may act like the coolest, most carefree mad scientist adventurer in the multiverse, but viewers have been reminded time and time again this is all an act. Deep down, Rick is actually deeply depressed and lonely. To this day, no moment better captures the existential milieu of Rick Sanchez better than \u201cAuto Erotic Assimilation.\u201d After his romance with Unity fails once again, Rick returns home, grows himself a Cronenberg pet, murders that pet with a death ray and turns the weapon on himself. It\u2019s only thanks to his debilitating alcoholism that Rick lives to see another day.”,”height”:649,”width”:1155,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080.jpeg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080_{size}.jpeg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:10,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick and Morty Bury Themselves<\/h2>\r\nIn the world of Rick and Morty, truly happy endings are few and far between. Sometimes you just have to make the best of the bad hand you\u2019re dealt. That\u2019s the main takeaway from \u201cRick Potion #9,\u201d an episode that ends on the most WTF-worth note in the show\u2019s colorful history. Faced with a world overrun by Cronenbergs, Rick and Morty simply give up, seek out an alternate universe where they can take the place of their dead selves and leave their home behind forever. The act of abandoning is family and burying his own corpse is something that continues to weigh heavily on Morty even two seasons later. And why shouldn\u2019t it?”,”height”:719,”width”:1279,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:11,”albumTotalCount”:11}]’data-ads-disabled=’false’data-ad-frequency=’3’data-image-size=’1280w’>Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments10+ IMAGESFullscreen ImageESC
Morty Meets King Jellybean<\/h2>\r\nAs bad as Jerry\u2019s Mr. Meeseeks ordeal in \u201cMeeseeks and Destroy\u201d is, we really think Morty got the worse end of the deal in this episode. In another early sign of just how crushingly dark the Rick and Morty universe can be, Morty finds his whimsical fantasy quest ruined when a sexual predator named King Jellybean tries to force himself on Morty in a bathroom. It\u2019s a truly skin-crawling moment in a series that\u2019s ostensibly a comedy.”,”height”:1080,”width”:1920,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/king-jellybean-1553636684078_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:”09″,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick\u2019s Attempted Suicide<\/h2>\r\nRick Sanchez may act like the coolest, most carefree mad scientist adventurer in the multiverse, but viewers have been reminded time and time again this is all an act. Deep down, Rick is actually deeply depressed and lonely. To this day, no moment better captures the existential milieu of Rick Sanchez better than \u201cAuto Erotic Assimilation.\u201d After his romance with Unity fails once again, Rick returns home, grows himself a Cronenberg pet, murders that pet with a death ray and turns the weapon on himself. It\u2019s only thanks to his debilitating alcoholism that Rick lives to see another day.”,”height”:649,”width”:1155,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080.jpeg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/rick-suicide-1553636684080_{size}.jpeg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:10,”albumTotalCount”:11},{“caption”:”Rick and Morty Bury Themselves<\/h2>\r\nIn the world of Rick and Morty, truly happy endings are few and far between. Sometimes you just have to make the best of the bad hand you\u2019re dealt. That\u2019s the main takeaway from \u201cRick Potion #9,\u201d an episode that ends on the most WTF-worth note in the show\u2019s colorful history. Faced with a world overrun by Cronenbergs, Rick and Morty simply give up, seek out an alternate universe where they can take the place of their dead selves and leave their home behind forever. The act of abandoning is family and burying his own corpse is something that continues to weigh heavily on Morty even two seasons later. And why shouldn\u2019t it?”,”height”:719,”width”:1279,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:11,”albumTotalCount”:11}]’data-ads-disabled=’false’data-ad-frequency=’3’data-image-size=’1280w’>Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments10+ IMAGESFullscreen ImageESC
Rick and Morty Bury Themselves<\/h2>\r\nIn the world of Rick and Morty, truly happy endings are few and far between. Sometimes you just have to make the best of the bad hand you\u2019re dealt. That\u2019s the main takeaway from \u201cRick Potion #9,\u201d an episode that ends on the most WTF-worth note in the show\u2019s colorful history. Faced with a world overrun by Cronenbergs, Rick and Morty simply give up, seek out an alternate universe where they can take the place of their dead selves and leave their home behind forever. The act of abandoning is family and burying his own corpse is something that continues to weigh heavily on Morty even two seasons later. And why shouldn\u2019t it?”,”height”:719,”width”:1279,”url”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072.jpg”,”styleUrl”:”https:\/\/assets1.ignimgs.com\/2019\/03\/26\/burial-1553636684072_{size}.jpg”,”credit”:””,”objectRelationName”:””,”objectRelationUrl”:””,”albumName”:”Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments”,”relativePosition”:11,”albumTotalCount”:11}]’data-ads-disabled=’false’data-ad-frequency=’3’data-image-size=’1280w’>Rick and Morty: The 10 Biggest WTF Moments10+ IMAGESFullscreen ImageESC
The Season 1 episode “Rick Potion #9” was among the first where fans really got a taste for how dark and nihilistic the series could be. After Morty accidentally unleashes a love potion on the world, Rick attempts to counteract the potion with a little dash of praying mantis DNA. Long story short, by the time Rick is done attempting to clean up his grandson’s mess, the entire world has transformed into hideous monstrosities straight out of David Cronenberg’s worst body horror nightmares. Even worse, there’s no cleaning up this mess.
Roy: A Life Well Lived
Even something as simple as playing a video game in the Rick and Morty universe can be a one-way ticket to emotional torture. When Rick and Morty visit the intergalactic arcade fun center Blips and Chitz, Morty makes the mistake of sampling an arcade game called “Roy: A Life Well Lived.” He immediately finds himself living out the titular character’s entire life in real time. By the time Morty snaps back to reality, he’s spent decades as a completely different person. Maybe next time he should stick to Dance Dance Revolution or something?
The Rise of Evil Morty
We all know how the Rick and Morty dynamic goes. Rick is the domineering, self-serving leader, while Morty is his meek, spineless sidekick. But in “Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind,” we learned there’s one Morty in the multiverse who can give any Rick a run for his money. Evil Morty truly lives up to his name, killing dozens of Ricks, enslaving hundreds of Mortys, and framing his own Rick for these crimes. Even worse, Season 3 makes it clear Evil Morty’s plans of multiversal dominance have only just begun.
The Royal Theatre of Froopy Land
If there’s one takeaway from Season 3’s “The ABC’s of Beth,” it’s that Beth may be every bit as deranged as her father. In this episode, Beth and Rick travel to the lighthearted artificial dimension known as Froopy Land to track down Beth’s childhood friend, Tommy Lipkip. There, Tommy reveals via a disturbingly cheerful play that he’s spent decades mating with Froopy Land’s cartoonish inhabitants and eating his human/Froopy-hybrid offspring. And if that isn’t WTF-worthy enough, it turns out that Beth is the one who trapped him there in the first place.
The Meeseeks Mob
At first glance, Mr. Meeseeks seems like a rare dose of light in a universe dominated by doom and gloom. But as “Meeseeks and Destroy” shows us, there’s a real darkness lurking just beneath the surface of this blue, jolly helper. Driven mad by their inability to help Jerry improve his golf game, one Meeseeks winds up summoning dozens more Meeseeks and sparks all-out Meeseeks war. It turns out that a creature whose only purpose is to be born, help someone and die isn’t one to be trifled with.
Mr. Poopybutthole Is Real?
The episode “Total Rickall” is basically a 30-minute-long WTF moment, as the Smith household is invaded by pesky psychic parasites who take the form of imaginary friends like Hamurai, Photography Raptor, and Sleepy Gary. Rick, Morty and the family are able to dispatch these parasites with extreme prejudice, but not without a high cost. Beth shoots the plucky little Mr. Poopybutthole, only to realize he’s actually a real family friend and not a parasite. But at least he got better. Mostly.
Morty Meets King Jellybean
As bad as Jerry’s Mr. Meeseeks ordeal in “Meeseeks and Destroy” is, we really think Morty got the worse end of the deal in this episode. In another early sign of just how crushingly dark the Rick and Morty universe can be, Morty finds his whimsical fantasy quest ruined when a sexual predator named King Jellybean tries to force himself on Morty in a bathroom. It’s a truly skin-crawling moment in a series that’s ostensibly a comedy.
Rick’s Attempted Suicide
Rick Sanchez may act like the coolest, most carefree mad scientist adventurer in the multiverse, but viewers have been reminded time and time again this is all an act. Deep down, Rick is actually deeply depressed and lonely. To this day, no moment better captures the existential malaise of Rick Sanchez better than “Auto Erotic Assimilation.” After his romance with Unity fails once again, Rick returns home, grows himself a Cronenberg pet, murders that pet with a death ray, and turns the weapon on himself. It’s only thanks to his debilitating alcoholism that Rick lives to see another day.
Rick and Morty Bury Themselves
In the world of Rick and Morty, truly happy endings are few and far between. Sometimes you just have to make the best of the bad hand you’re dealt. That’s the main takeaway from “Rick Potion #9,” an episode that ends on the most WTF-worthy note in the show’s colorful history. Faced with a world overrun by Cronenbergs, Rick and Morty simply give up, seek out an alternate universe where they can take the place of their dead selves and leave their home behind forever. The act of abandoning his family and burying his own corpse is something that continues to weigh heavily on Morty even two seasons later. And why shouldn’t it?
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