#RICK AND MORTY SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 PILOT SERIES#

They end up dissolving, giving him a temporary intelligence boost.

Treasure Chest Cavity: Rick convinces Morty to keep seeds in his rectum to sneak them through customs.

The Teaser: This and most of the following episodes would have a cold opening.

Stock Scream: While Morty exchanges gunfire with the intergalactic agents, ' Wilhelm ' flees in horror.

Shout-Out: Morty's daydream in the middle of math class features piles of numbers, much like in the Looney Tunes short From A to Z-Z-Z-Z.

It's revealed he has caused Morty to miss so much school he only attended 7 hours in two months.

Shouldn't We Be in School Right Now?: Rick is constantly pulling Morty out of school because he thinks school is a waste of time.

Not only does it immediately do away with The Bully cliche, but perfectly illustrates just how seriously the show takes absurd concepts like Harmless Freezing.

#RICK AND MORTY SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 PILOT SERIES#

Series Establishing Moment: Rick freezes Frank Palicky in a moment of desperation and leaves him there, only for him to tip over and shatter into a million pieces, effectively killing him.

Secret Test of Character: Invoked when Morty convinces Rick not to destroy humanity, Rick claims that Morty 'passed the test.' He is almost certainly less than sincere.

Papa Wolf: It turns out that Jerry is very concerned with how Rick is using Morty and nearly moves him to a nursing home.

Overly Long Gag: Rick's And the Adventure Continues speech to Morty at the end as Morty's body reacts violently to the seeds he shoved up his ass earlier.

Literally Shattered Lives: Frank Pollicky dies this way.

Rick: Be careful with that, it's beyond your reasoning.

Faceplanting into Food: A drowsy Morty faceplants into his breakfast because he's been out with Rick all night.

The words 'shit' and 'fuck' are never uttered by anyone.There's a heavy amount of out-of-focus backgrounds.Justified since this is a completely different Jerry compared to the current Jerry/Jerries. Later episodes would show Rick despising Jerry for being an Extreme Doormat. Jerry actually stands up to Rick and Beth in this episode, telling Beth bluntly that Rick is a bad influence on their son and planning to move Rick to a nursing home for making Morty miss school.Morty is established to have a learning disability, something that never comes up again in the series.'The Rickshank Redemption' shows that interdimensional technology belongs to Rick and Rick alone, and the Ricks jealously guard against any possibility of it getting out.

When Rick runs out of juice for his portal gun, he gets home through a public portal he modifies to work like his portal gun.This is also one of the only times Rick is shown to panic in the face of danger.He also has a subtle New York accent you can hear whenever he pronounces the letter 'R' that would later disappear. Rick has become significantly more coherent since the pilot and doesn't repeat Morty's name as much as he used to.Subverted in that this was just a temporary side-effect of the mega seeds dissolving in his rectal cavity. Dumbass No More: Morty demonstrates a good deal of knowledge at the end of this episode.

Chekhov's Gun: The grabbling shoes come in handy when fleeing customs security.

Calling the Old Man Out: Jerry to Rick for dragging Morty off on adventures and affecting his school performance.

Blatant Lies: Rick trying to brush off his intention to nuke humanity, by telling Morty that it was a secret test of his character.

Of course, this is less about saving Morty from physical harm and more about getting help for an errand.

Big Damn Heroes: Rick freezes Frank just as the guy talks about cutting Morty with his knife.

It triggers a temporary Dumbass No More side effect when they dissolve.

Ass Shove: Rick has Morty shove the seeds waaaayyyy up his butthole to carry through customs.

Rick and morty season 1 episode 1 pilot