Morty is now traumatised because he could die at any time and it wouldn't even matter. Go to a different dimension and grab a new Morty. This is where the show really kicks off and makes you think. Love it. Can't wait til next sunday
@@lampad4549 yep, just to add to your statement, Morty is Morty-fied because he is now living in a house with complete strangers, replacing the now dead originals.
Yeah this was my turning point. I didn't care much but i watched a reaction get to this episode and i got hooked and binged everything up to s3 ep1 which was pretty recent. Glad i didn't have to wait long for season 3 in the end though. So many disappointed people who overhyped themselves.
I love this episode so much, it's the first episode that really just smacks you in the face with the fact that this is not JUST a silly comedy. There is a lot of depth and seriousness in this show.
Even sadder is the idea that this alternate family will never know* that their son and father/grandfather just died in that garage, with no witnesses. They're so wrapped up in their own petty problems that they didn't even notice. :( Love this episode. (*presumably)
Rick C-137 from a reality where his wife and daughter died then forced him to became one of the ricks that created the portal gun then search the killer and spent a long time but still didnt find him hence he gave up and hopped on a reality where his -wife- and daughter. now that ricks' multiverse got destroyed, maybe in the future rick will find the killer from the true multiverse.
Funny you bring up time travel as a solution. The creators of Rick and Morty have stated they don't want to anything time travel related as they said it's too messy and confusing. Yet reality/dimension hopping isn't, so go figure. They even taunt the fans, if you look on a shelf in the garage there is a box that says "Time Travel Stuff", metaphorically showing that time travel has been shelved by both the writers and Rick himself.
Moonlight150 also seeing as how Rick and Morty were originally the parody of doc and Marty from back to the future which is a sci-fi movie on time traveling so.
Season 2's first episode also helps hammer home the fact that messing with time can cause very very very bad things. Rick's too smart to potentially blow up reality when he can just hop to the next timeline instead.
This is my fucking favorite episode of Rick and Morty. This episode is the culmination on how creative and fucked up this show can be. This is when Rick and Morty turns from a good show to a brilliant one.
Favorite part of this episode is when Our original Jerry and Beth are talking about how happy she is now that Rick and Morty are gone like shit talk about a gut punch after a gut punch
This is my favorite episode as it's not only a tribute to David Croenenberg, i.e. the master of body horror, but also since it's essentially a deconstruction of the love potion trope in how a love potion that makes someone fall in love with someone else against their will is basically the same as a date rape drug.
I'm surprised people laugh at the ending, it's pretty dark and i wouldnt be surprised if someone had like a moment of "man wtf.." But people just laugh.
I for one don't laugh at many things people laugh at during a rick and Morty episode including this ending - Maybe we're more driven towards the 'dark' the dark humour
If Morty would have just handed the screwdriver they would both have died. That showed in the reality they took over. The rick and morty there died by screwdriver and fiddling with that machine. So being the only 2 to die or the only 2 to remain human...
@@coranbaker6401 I think it's more of Rick screwed up making the machine, and or turned too many times. Rick would have still done the same thing and the same results would have happened, the fault wasn't the screwdriver, it was Rick in that scene.
@@Fearsia In that universe yes. But what about the universe where he didn't screw up making the machine? Or the universe where he screwed up but it just fizzled out instead of exploding?
"I wonder why that is, if there's an infinite number of realities?" I suspect that "we can only do this three or four times, tops" is not so much a limit of the situation, but a limit of the *story-telling*. Rick's breaking the fourth wall and basically saying that if they use this "deus ex machina" solution too many times, the stories start becoming boring, with no real consequences. Sort of like "Dragon Ball" - why worry about death when you can always wish them back?
No it was literally a joke about how many episodes are left in the current season as they were unaware if the show would be picked up for a second season.
it could also be limited because rick's are so smart they generally avoid death by some means. So the number of ricks dying is low, with the exception of season 3's mass rick-icide.
Even so an infinity would mean and infinite number of close enough universes they could hop into. I'm legitimately surprised Rick couldn't just fix the genetic aberrations
I know I'm super late here but I just wanna say that I love your reactions. (I've watched the Avatar ones before as well). You're one of the few channels who actually talk about the shows and try to catch up on concepts and (for lack of a better word) "hidden messages". It's really refreshing to be able to watch a show alongside someone who actually cares about the show and doesn't just sit in front of a camera, staring at a screen for 30min and then ends the video without any kind of own original thought.
I can't wait until they get to 1x10 and the Season 2 finale...this show is just so amazing. Please continue reacting to it! I wait every week for this reaction.
My question is this: if there are an infinite number of realities and in some of them Rick manged to turn everyone normal again, why didn't Rick and Morty just portal to that reality, find out what the solution was, and then portal back to their reality to fix it? Maybe Rick was too lazy lol.
Michael Chi I get what you're saying, but wouldn't it have been easier to just get the antidote used in the other realities, like the one cronenbergs rick and morty came from, where everyone was human than go into a reality where they died and then have to pretend like nothing happen with those versions of Summer, Beth, and Jerry. Or(!) They could have just switched with the cronenbergs. The cronenbergs get a reality where everyone is like them, and normal rick and morty get a reality where everyone is normal.
@@happy2405 May be, the version where Rick fixed the problem right when the first outbreak (everyone loves Morty) happened. Rick C-137 messed things up with 3 outbreaks and there might not be any universe where he has fixed it. Some might say there're infinite possibilities, so there should be infinite times Rick fixed 3 outbreaks. But some stuff might be too hard to fix, even in every reality (like breaking physics for example, no one can do it in any realities), so it's possible that all the Ricks that caused 3 outbreaks all look for alternate realities instead of fixing it
One thing you didn't mention is how f-ed up what rick and morty did is. They destroyed the world then just abandoning it. And no, there is no return to the status quo. It's an overarching story. Morty changes very much over the course of the show.
For those who don't get the joke with the Cronenbergs, look up famous filmmaker David Cronenberg. He's often called the father of the body horror genre, and is famous for movies such as "Scanners", "Videodrome", "The Fly", and "Naked Lunch".
I remember watching this having the same face as morty during the end part, but then the shot of rick is shown chilling in the sofa, just made me think, how many times has rick done this
He said they only have 2-3 of those left because that's how many episodes they had left in the season and they didn't know if the show was gonna get picked up for another season.
it is 2021 and im watching this on my second rewatch and i agree with everyone that says this is where the show really finds its groove. It messes with so many themes and messages, It reminds me of Agents of Shield. If no one has ever seen that show (no spoilers here) around episode 14 in the first season it flips that show inside out. It's a great writing tool to have a slow burn in the first moments of character introduction. That's why seeing Rick and Morty strive in impossible situations than to finally be defeated in Rick Potion #9 makes them feel super grounded. thanks blind wave for your insights.
12:25 They both answer in a syncronized time. Even their heads move exactly the same way and with the same intensity an they also stop at the same time. Creepy.
OMG, I don't know why but I decided to watch this again so long after the original airing. And I've watched the original episode a number of times as well, but it was *this time* when I actually got what Beth said at 7:02 about calling her Ernest Hemingway! 😳😆😲
i'm ants in my eyes johnson and i feel like next weeks episode is gonna be very cool to watch i think , because i can't feel , nor can i watch it with you guys.
Time travel is never utilized in R&M, but Rick seemed to know that the "fixed" world's duo would die soon. Is it possible he just scanned for a fixed world, and when he found one, went by himself into the "fixed" world's garage lab (it changes from predawn to midday following the scene transition), and rigged the device to explode? Since there are infinite Ricks, he probably thinks nothing of killing another version of himself.
I'm not sure, but I think that W thing they do with their mouths is an homage to Ren and Stimpy; at least that's the only other animated show where I've seen them do that.
underrated quotes: Principal Vagina: I don't know how many times I have to say this but if you have the flu, stay home, the flu season dance is about awareness, not celebration. You don't bring dead babies to Passover. Jerry: Nobody's killing me until after I catch my wife with another man.
![Digital Circus Episode 4 [TRAILER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/abZtsmMUbJo/mqdefault.jpg)
Morty is now traumatised because he could die at any time and it wouldn't even matter. Go to a different dimension and grab a new Morty. This is where the show really kicks off and makes you think. Love it. Can't wait til next sunday
Yeah I don't think that's what he's think about.
@@lampad4549 yep, just to add to your statement, Morty is Morty-fied because he is now living in a house with complete strangers, replacing the now dead originals.
Nico his family didn’t die, but I know what you mean
@@emeraldfinder5 ?
I wasn't talking about his family.
I was talking about the dead Rick and Morty they replaced.
Nico oooooh, okay, my bad, guess I didn’t know what you meant
For me, this is the episode where this show went from kinda good to fucking awesome. It seriously took it to a new level.
Nah that episode was Meeseeks and destroyed. Let's not forget the Morty almost got raped in that episode.
Yeah this was my turning point. I didn't care much but i watched a reaction get to this episode and i got hooked and binged everything up to s3 ep1 which was pretty recent. Glad i didn't have to wait long for season 3 in the end though. So many disappointed people who overhyped themselves.
Indeed. Before this episode it was weird but after it is just ridiculous that they can make whatever they want :D
Jacknasius ye
this episode and episode 10 is when the story went to the next level introducing my favorite character Evil Morty!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this episode so much, it's the first episode that really just smacks you in the face with the fact that this is not JUST a silly comedy. There is a lot of depth and seriousness in this show.
This episode is great. It informs the best line in the entire series a few episodes from now. Cant wait for it.
sriver004 yup, that's the one
Reality is an illusion
The universe is a hologram
Buy gold
Mikel Camacho
Yes! Gravity Falls!
Ok
What was the line?
Even sadder is the idea that this alternate family will never know* that their son and father/grandfather just died in that garage, with no witnesses. They're so wrapped up in their own petty problems that they didn't even notice. :(
Love this episode. (*presumably)
Well, except summer
It's not like they are replacing themselves in a completely different reality. The point of divergence is less than a day ago.
Rick C-137 from a reality where his wife and daughter died then forced him to became one of the ricks that created the portal gun then search the killer and spent a long time but still didnt find him hence he gave up and hopped on a reality where his -wife- and daughter. now that ricks' multiverse got destroyed, maybe in the future rick will find the killer from the true multiverse.
Now they know
@@lumityforever Unfortunately they seem to not care at all. I was hoping for Beth to at least feel something.
The Rick figure blinking at 9:57 creeped me the fuck out.
How do you even notice that? You edited the video didn't you?
Woah how the fuck did that even happen?!!
@@001100AAAEA an editor put it in
@@maskwelding4148 damn that's just next level...
that was ridiculous and funny lmao
Does that rick figure blink at 9:58 do some do that, did anyone else notice
Michael Booth wtf? Is that normal?
you see it. its tripping me out
Michael Booth oh shit... Editor pulled a fast one on us.
yeah that's sly, probably checking to see if anyone would notice.
Both the pops blink actually, Rick first then Morty. Nice touch, editor!
Funny you bring up time travel as a solution. The creators of Rick and Morty have stated they don't want to anything time travel related as they said it's too messy and confusing. Yet reality/dimension hopping isn't, so go figure.
They even taunt the fans, if you look on a shelf in the garage there is a box that says "Time Travel Stuff", metaphorically showing that time travel has been shelved by both the writers and Rick himself.
Moonlight150 also seeing as how Rick and Morty were originally the parody of doc and Marty from back to the future which is a sci-fi movie on time traveling so.
Alternate dimensions is definitely less confusing than time travel.
Season 2's first episode also helps hammer home the fact that messing with time can cause very very very bad things. Rick's too smart to potentially blow up reality when he can just hop to the next timeline instead.
I don't think it was because it's too confusing, but because time travel has already been done so many times in other shows and movies
except in yesterdays episode
Now THIS is a proper reaction. The other reaction channels that watched this episode straight out laughed at the most depressing scene.
What when they blew up or the montage after?
@Australiantatious true
Everyone has different reactions to things like that
This show is a tragedy disguised as a comedy. Some really heavy stuff if you look past the jokes.
People are gonna react differently nothing you can do
This is my fucking favorite episode of Rick and Morty. This episode is the culmination on how creative and fucked up this show can be. This is when Rick and Morty turns from a good show to a brilliant one.
9:15
"Holy shit, that's insane"
"That's pretty deep, too"
"That's fucked up, man"
How to describe Rick and Morty in 3 sentences, kinda.
Peugeon_789 lol yeah pretty much
Favorite part of this episode is when Our original Jerry and Beth are talking about how happy she is now that Rick and Morty are gone like shit talk about a gut punch after a gut punch
The Ernest Hemingway line is one of my favorite in the show.
I don't get it
@@TheDragiix3 Watch DC's Legends of Tomorrow Season 4 episode "Tender is the Nate".
Watching this show for the first time, one episode a week, and I absolutely love it.
And "this isn't Game of Thrones" is hilariously relevant.
This is my favorite episode as it's not only a tribute to David Croenenberg, i.e. the master of body horror, but also since it's essentially a deconstruction of the love potion trope in how a love potion that makes someone fall in love with someone else against their will is basically the same as a date rape drug.
I'm surprised people laugh at the ending, it's pretty dark and i wouldnt be surprised if someone had like a moment of "man wtf.." But people just laugh.
I for one don't laugh at many things people laugh at during a rick and Morty episode including this ending - Maybe we're more driven towards the 'dark' the dark humour
Laughing is a coping mechanism when faced with perturbing situations
@@StormBorn1611 yupppp I was just completely shocked.
its funny though
Probably because it was preceded by 20 minutes of silliness.
The continuity of Rick and Morty is awesome. Keep your eyes wide open for Easter eggs related to that.
If Morty would have just handed the screwdriver they would both have died. That showed in the reality they took over. The rick and morty there died by screwdriver and fiddling with that machine.
So being the only 2 to die or the only 2 to remain human...
Or maybe that's only an effect of the alternate reality and there's another one where the screwdriver worked as intended.
@@coranbaker6401yeah but this one seems more dark.
@@coranbaker6401 I think it's more of Rick screwed up making the machine, and or turned too many times. Rick would have still done the same thing and the same results would have happened, the fault wasn't the screwdriver, it was Rick in that scene.
@@Fearsia
In that universe yes. But what about the universe where he didn't screw up making the machine? Or the universe where he screwed up but it just fizzled out instead of exploding?
@@coranbaker6401 well, we don't know if that was their version of how things would have went. The thing is, they likely could have ended up dying.
Love the many pauses and shaking your heads in your reaction at the end. That ending to the episode was brutal and brilliant.
Alright, this episode.
This is the point most fans would tell you the show actually starts.
That episode was amazing. He literally buried himself, holy shit.
"I wonder why that is, if there's an infinite number of realities?" I suspect that "we can only do this three or four times, tops" is not so much a limit of the situation, but a limit of the *story-telling*. Rick's breaking the fourth wall and basically saying that if they use this "deus ex machina" solution too many times, the stories start becoming boring, with no real consequences.
Sort of like "Dragon Ball" - why worry about death when you can always wish them back?
No it was literally a joke about how many episodes are left in the current season as they were unaware if the show would be picked up for a second season.
It was actually all 3 of the options. Things can be more than 1 thing you know.
it could also be limited because rick's are so smart they generally avoid death by some means. So the number of ricks dying is low, with the exception of season 3's mass rick-icide.
Even so an infinity would mean and infinite number of close enough universes they could hop into. I'm legitimately surprised Rick couldn't just fix the genetic aberrations
David Johnson wow no shit
This is my favourite episode of the show. The ending left me speechless, kinda like how some episodes of Black Mirror managed to do.
This is the most Cannon episode of Rick and Morty. Anybody who is fully caught up on it the show knows this episode comes full circle
I know I'm super late here but I just wanna say that I love your reactions. (I've watched the Avatar ones before as well). You're one of the few channels who actually talk about the shows and try to catch up on concepts and (for lack of a better word) "hidden messages". It's really refreshing to be able to watch a show alongside someone who actually cares about the show and doesn't just sit in front of a camera, staring at a screen for 30min and then ends the video without any kind of own original thought.
I'm rewatching your reactions, and this is probably my favorite episode of Rick and Morty to this day!
This episode is when the series takes a turn and skyrockets in its quality of content.
I can't wait until they get to 1x10 and the Season 2 finale...this show is just so amazing. Please continue reacting to it! I wait every week for this reaction.
9:58
Props to the editor
My question is this: if there are an infinite number of realities and in some of them Rick manged to turn everyone normal again, why didn't Rick and Morty just portal to that reality, find out what the solution was, and then portal back to their reality to fix it? Maybe Rick was too lazy lol.
happy2405 he is most rick the only people he cares for is his original beth,wife and the most morty the dead rick and morty were probably different
Michael Chi I get what you're saying, but wouldn't it have been easier to just get the antidote used in the other realities, like the one cronenbergs rick and morty came from, where everyone was human than go into a reality where they died and then have to pretend like nothing happen with those versions of Summer, Beth, and Jerry. Or(!) They could have just switched with the cronenbergs. The cronenbergs get a reality where everyone is like them, and normal rick and morty get a reality where everyone is normal.
The thing is the first reality we see isn't even Rick's original reality...
@@happy2405 May be, the version where Rick fixed the problem right when the first outbreak (everyone loves Morty) happened. Rick C-137 messed things up with 3 outbreaks and there might not be any universe where he has fixed it. Some might say there're infinite possibilities, so there should be infinite times Rick fixed 3 outbreaks. But some stuff might be too hard to fix, even in every reality (like breaking physics for example, no one can do it in any realities), so it's possible that all the Ricks that caused 3 outbreaks all look for alternate realities instead of fixing it
@@mern461 true
I like how Rick was like "You roofied that poor girl" seriously, I will NEVER see love potions the same again.
This is one of the best episodes of all the serie, the ending is just amazing, poor Morty.
One thing you didn't mention is how f-ed up what rick and morty did is. They destroyed the world then just abandoning it. And no, there is no return to the status quo. It's an overarching story. Morty changes very much over the course of the show.
They destroyed the Earth, but that's not the most f-ed up thing they did this episode.
@@fakecubedNo they destroyed Humanity. The Earth is fine. If anything it's much better off without us.
Also remember that Rick didn't seem to have a problem with the new reality. Makes you wonder how many times he's done that.
In case you didn't know, Brad is voiced by Echo Kellum (Mister Terrific) is the voice of Brad. He was also in the Anatomy Park episode.
Jason Hart Really?? That's awesome 😃
I cant wait till you guys react to episode 10
I'm looking forward to Rixty Minutes, myself.
Total Rickall for me
Season 5 finale baby!!
THE EPISODE THAT MADE THE SHOW
10:02 morty is alive
The weird mouth they sometimes make is one of Ren's expressions from Ren & Stimpy.
WATCH MORE, IT GETS BETTER
This is where continuity becomes a thing in the show. Also that 3 or 4 more times thing was about how many episodes left.
This was a really emotionally impactful episode.
For those who don't get the joke with the Cronenbergs, look up famous filmmaker David Cronenberg. He's often called the father of the body horror genre, and is famous for movies such as "Scanners", "Videodrome", "The Fly", and "Naked Lunch".
This episode was the game changer for this show.
In the beginning of the episode if Morty had giving Rick the screwdriver instead of making the love potion they both would have died.
I remember watching this having the same face as morty during the end part, but then the shot of rick is shown chilling in the sofa, just made me think, how many times has rick done this
He said they only have 2-3 of those left because that's how many episodes they had left in the season and they didn't know if the show was gonna get picked up for another season.
These next few episodes is where the show becomes more serialized and fans begin to really theorize based on the world building.
This episode hits a little differently after 2020.
Lol i like how you noticed their lip thing that they do, i love when they do that haha XD
Like I said episodes 1 through 5 was just an appetiser now this is when Rick and Morty truly starts.
When Rick said 'only 3 or 4 more of these' it was a 4th wall joke about how many episodes there are left in the season :)
This entire show is a mindfuck.
9:57 that tiny rick f@#king blinked!?
it’s settled then, we just have to move to a different reality to escape the virus.
Oh man I can't wait for more reaction episodes of this series y'all ain't ready
this is the episode that really made me fall in love with the show.
"Flu fucks everything up for everyone. Fucking flu" - that statement hits harder in 2020 *_*
Came looking because I knew a comment like this had to be here in 2020.
I love how in shock they all are.
FYI: Look On Down from the Bridge by Mazzy Star
it is 2021 and im watching this on my second rewatch and i agree with everyone that says this is where the show really finds its groove. It messes with so many themes and messages,
It reminds me of Agents of Shield. If no one has ever seen that show (no spoilers here) around episode 14 in the first season it flips that show inside out.
It's a great writing tool to have a slow burn in the first moments of character introduction. That's why seeing Rick and Morty strive in impossible situations than to finally be defeated in Rick Potion #9 makes them feel super grounded.
thanks blind wave for your insights.
This episode really solidified the series as something special.
12:25 They both answer in a syncronized time. Even their heads move exactly the same way and with the same intensity an they also stop at the same time. Creepy.
Blindwave is a hive mind
This epsiode left me so shook when I first watched it. On another level!
Is it me or @ 9:59 the Rick doll just blinked back at me ?
this episode is one of my favorites. the "the fly" monsters are great
OMG, I don't know why but I decided to watch this again so long after the original airing. And I've watched the original episode a number of times as well, but it was *this time* when I actually got what Beth said at 7:02 about calling her Ernest Hemingway! 😳😆😲
8:46 Some say that this is the moment that the show actually begins, who thinks the same??
Apparently this was the second episode of Rick and Morty that was written, even though it aired 6th. It changes how you watch the episode.
Anyone else see the Rick blink at 9:59
Rewatching these in 2019...So damn amazing
Time travel isn't an option in this show.
I hate how they don't think things will tie in. Only if they knew.
This is where a lot of people consider the series to actually "start"
this is what made Rick and Morty from a good show to a GREAT show
9:58 the Rick figure just fucking BLINKED
9:58 am i stupid or did i just see the Rick figure blink?
You blinked
So close to Rixty minutes now
4:03 - that scene reminds me of corona virus. and the things that happened after...
I like that Appa, Naga and Pabu are in the center of the frame.
YOU HAVE TO UPLOAD MORE EPISODES MORE OFTEN!!! PLLISSSS
At 9:57, how did the Rick bobblehead toy blink its eyes??
Just so you guys know...this is where the series really starts to kick off!
7:42 what was the purpose to morty put this thing on his back?
This was the best episode so far!
i'm ants in my eyes johnson and i feel like next weeks episode is gonna be very cool to watch i think , because i can't feel , nor can i watch it with you guys.
Time travel is never utilized in R&M, but Rick seemed to know that the "fixed" world's duo would die soon. Is it possible he just scanned for a fixed world, and when he found one, went by himself into the "fixed" world's garage lab (it changes from predawn to midday following the scene transition), and rigged the device to explode? Since there are infinite Ricks, he probably thinks nothing of killing another version of himself.
I'm not sure, but I think that W thing they do with their mouths is an homage to Ren and Stimpy; at least that's the only other animated show where I've seen them do that.
Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov yup I love it
SOO MESSED UP....and its only the beggining
I LOVE IT
Here is where the show really begins...
that guy on the far right wearing glasses , Super Weird (I crunched the numbers I made a spectrum lol)
9:57 did the rick funko pop just blink?
Yea it's alive didn't you know?
Yea it's alive didn't you know?
Finally! Now just waitin for episode 10.
Ren and Stimpy first started the hanging lip thing. I think that's where the creators of the show got the idea to do that from.
underrated quotes:
Principal Vagina: I don't know how many times I have to say this but if you have the flu, stay home, the flu season dance is about awareness, not celebration. You don't bring dead babies to Passover.
Jerry: Nobody's killing me until after I catch my wife with another man.
God I love this episode. Don't forget this, it DOES come up again later. xD
Been waiting for this one from the beginning.
the ending music gets me every time
10:02 why did that Morty funko just blink????
Wtf
Did anyone notice the rick funko pop blink at 9:58