Rick Hopping Timelines Again Bird Person Back Alive

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Original air date: eight/8/2021

Rick attempts to salvage a beloved friend.

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Tropes:

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A downplayed instance. The garage AI's "expose" consists only of trying to find someone else to provide it with power afterward Rick seems like he might not survive the trip into Bird Person's mind, and isn't certain if Rick was lying about the longevity of the power supply. Rick seems to admit that the garage was just trying to protect its ain existence, and shows no resentment.
• Anguished Announcement of Honey: Rick admits to both his younger self and Bird Person that he'due south trying to salvage BP because he has feelings for him.
• Allurement-and-Switch: We're atomic number 82 to believe that Rick is so unenthusiastic about revisiting the Battle of Claret Ridge because it ended so poorly information technology traumatized even him. It turns out the boxing ended in their favor; the reason Rick doesn't like remembering information technology is because, information technology concluded with him offering to take Bird Person on further adventures due to Rick having feelings for Bird Person, which BP rejected because he was put off past Rick'south nihilist mental attitude near the battle they merely won.
• Bittersweet Ending: Rick is able to resuscitate Bird Person, only Bird Person is disappointed in Rick for only mentioning his hybrid daughter when BP was ready to die as a desperate measure to convince him to live, rather than just telling him right abroad, to keep his all-time friend from being too busy raising a child to still spend fourth dimension with him.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Tammy returns every bit several memories in this episode. It's asserted several times throughout the episode that she's still expressionless since the stop of Season 4.
  • Squanchy appears for the first time since the season 2 finale. Dissimilar Tammy, his fate still remains unknown.
• By Wall That Is Holey: During the Battle of Blood Ridge, the head of an AT-AT has a hole blown through it and so collapses to the ground. Rick is exactly where the pigsty is when it falls and pulls the memory of his younger self dorsum so he doesn't accidentally get crushed running abroad.
• Call-Back: Watching a retention of himself and Tammy on a engagement, Bird Person, with tears in his optics, says "Don't be gross, Tammy" in response to her joking well-nigh eating "seed."
• Cerebus Syndrome: Rick'southward journeying to assist Bird Person is played with niggling sense of humor.
• Character Evolution:
  • Bird Person has been shown to take sympathy for Rick at his worst, complete with request Morty to cover for his gramps. This episode has him setting boundaries with Rick, silently thanking him for saving him while calling him out for even considering hiding the beingness of his girl. Bird Person bids him goodbye civilly.
  • Rick, who shows disdain for variations of himself, including throughout this episode, is suddenly civil to Bird Person's memory of him preserving itself past jumping into his mind. He tells him he doesn't have to exist an enemy just for existing, and even offers to give him a physical body of his ain.
• Concealment Equals Encompass: In 1 memory, young Rick and Bird Person take cover behind a bar table during a lasergun shootout with some copies of Rick. The table offers sufficient protection.
• Continuity Nod: The whole episode is full of them, elaborating specifically on Rick and Bird Person'southward history, simply it too has nods to other episodes:
  • Rick mentions Pickle Rick in the Cold Opening, admitting that a new plot is possible afterward the rest of the Smiths leave him.
  • In the season premiere, Morty asks Rick why everything has to be a fight with him. Hither, he picks fights with his own cocky-built AI and his younger self.
  • The Battle of Blood Ridge is shown.
  • Through the exploration of Bird Person's memories, Squanchy, Tammy and Revolio Clockberg Jr return. The latter whose feelings Rick doesn't consider a true friend is likewise a nod to in-universe, with Rick mentioning the only reason whatever of them hung out with Gearhead, is because he was the petty brother of their real friend Gear Dude. They felt obligated to hang out with him after Gear Dude died.
  • The formation of the band Rick, Squanchy and Bird Person were in is shown.
  • When they arrive at Bird Person'due south retentivity of Rick's garage, Rick finds Bird Person just remembered him having a Plumbus.
  • Rick warns Bird Person non to clone his kid and send one off to fight in infinite because they take that badly.
  • Rick has to utilize bad memories to exit of a jam.
• The Determinator: Rick is adamant to bring back Bird Person past whatever ways.
• Disney Death: Younger Rick seems to brand a Heroic Sacrifice inside Bird Person'southward brain, only it turns out he actually leaped into Rick's listen to continue living as a sentient retentiveness.
• Dream Apocalypse: When Bird Person bombs the representation of his own brain, his mental world begins degrading.
• Driven to Suicide: Bird Person wants to kill himself from the inside because of Tammy'south betrayal.
• Emotion Bomb: Literally. Bird Person rigs upwards several bombs labeled with various negative emotions to commit mental suicide.
• Everyone Has Standards: Rick is used to abandoning dimensions and replacing people (such as Beth, Summer, and Jerry). He had considered replacing Bird Person in case his Journey to the Heart of the Mind didn't work, merely he sees his friend as an exception to the rule. ^note It'south yet to exist confirmed if there are whatsoever other exceptions, but since Rick has stuck with the same version of Morty for the entire testify rather than replacing him equally he has with his other family members, it's possible that he considers Morty to exist an exception as well.
• Everybody Knew Already: When Tammy does her Hole-and-corner Cop Reveal, Rick notes that anybody outside of Bird Person'south mind knew almost it already.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Discussed and invoked. Bird Person'south race doesn't believe in having bodily names, seeing them as another "cage", so when he first met Rick, he told him all his friends just call him "Bird Person".
• Eye Cam: Rick'due south POV shot when he enters Bird Person's mind.
• Felony Misdemeanor: One of the Memory Tammys wants to arrest Rick for making her nourish human Loftier School for two years.
• Fictional Counterpart: Apparently, Rick and Bird Person met at Birding Man.
• Fighting Down Retentiveness Lane: The episode is Rick traveling through Bird Person's memories to try and recover his consciousness while Bird Person evades him in an endeavor at psychic suicide. There are a lot of memories of their fourth dimension in the Resistance against the Galactic Federation along the fashion.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the memory scene of child Rick, in that location are framed pictures of Rick with his parents, who are barely visible through the glare; his father looks like him merely with brown pilus and a big handlebar mustache, while his mother is blonde with a beehive hairdo.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The only reason Rick and others hung out with Gear Head was considering he was the blood brother of the much cooler (and deceased) Gear Dude.
• Future Me Scares Me: Young Rick considers his future cocky to be a cynical creep & is horrified that he'll abound to be him.
• Heel–Face up Plow: A posthumous one for Tammy, though it's acknowledged that it's a heavily idealized version of Tammy from Bird Person's memories.
• High-Five Left Hanging: When Young Rick saves Rick and offers him a high five, the latter rejects and walks off with a snarky comment.
• I Don't Pay You to Think: 1 prison warden in The Stinger wonders why they would cram the violent ones into the aforementioned place which only increases the risk of a Prison Riot. His buddy reminds him that they were not paid to think.
• I Hate Past Me: Rick is very unhappy that the memory of his 35-year-old self is tagging along on his mission.
• Interrupted Intimacy: Twice does Rick outburst into a heartwarming memory of Bird Person with Tammy. Once while they were Watching the Dusk and once again when they started to brand out in Rick's garage.
• Journey to the Center of the Heed:
  • Rick enters Bird Person's listen to retrieve his conscious mind from his unconscious mind.
  • Rick does this to himself at the end when he realizes the memory of his past self hitched a ride.
• Just Post-obit Orders: One of the Federation bugs rounding up Bird People says that he's only taking function in the destruction of their earth because it's his job, then goes on to analyze that he loves his chore.
• Killing Your Alternate Self: Bird Person accidentally crushes a retention re-create of himself and Tammy with the truck.
• Let's Only Exist Friends: Bird Person's response to Rick letting out his feelings for the two of them to explore the multiverse and have adventures together.
• The Load: Discussed. When Young Rick saves Rick from some danger, the latter comments that his benefit-to-price ratio is ascension.
• The Lost Lenore: Despite her betrayal, Bird Person even so loves Tammy. Her death is what drives him to suicide, even over his friendship with Rick. The revelation they had a daughter gives Bird Person a reason to proceed living.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Bird Person doesn't appreciate how Rick did this to him with the knowledge of having a child with Tammy, suspecting that Rick only revealed it because his own survival depended on it. Rick is unable to make whatever counters or excuses, only giving a Touché.
• Makes Usa Even: While Bird Person is grateful that Rick told him he had a daughter and a reason to alive, he's non impressed when he asks signal-blank if Rick would take told him with or without the suicide run. He leaves in peace, telling him, "Goodbye."
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Apparently Tammy and Bird Person had sex at the party where they met in the Smith family garage. Bird Person tries to argue that Squanchy was using the closet at the time, but Rick really isn't having any of it.
• Mugging the Monster: In the stinger, a prison inmate picks a fight with Bird Person and Tammy's Cute and Psycho child. Bad idea.
• My Future Cocky and Me: Rick teams upwards with a memory version of himself at age 35. Young Rick requests to be made into a real person, only and then changes his heed when he sees the person he grows into.
• Naked People Are Funny: Rick is happy that he enters Bird Person'south heed with his dress because he expected to be naked to exist something "artsy", only to have them fire off immediately, to his displeasure. He gradually has to acquire replacement clothing equally he travels through memories.
• Never Trust a Title: Despite the "Rickless Mort" in the title, the episode is well-nigh Rick's adventures without Morty.
• No Prison house Segregation: The prison in the stinger shows members of different age groups, genders and species mixed up in the same complex.
• Ominous Obsidian Ooze: The final stages of Bird Person's listen decaying takes the class of a gummy black sludge with a half-melted bird head emerging from it.
• Operation: [Bare]: Tammy calls hiding her and Bird Person's child "Operation: Apathetic Apathetic Blah", considering obviously Bird Person doesn't know what it would actually exist called and his version of Tammy is but filling in the blanks.
• Out of Focus: The Smith family simply appears in the cold opening and is never seen over again. Hell, this is the first time in Season five that Morty hasn't been the chief character in a Rick & Morty episode (or at least have a major focus plot point).
• Patchwork Kids: The daughter of Tammy and Bird Person mostly has her mom'due south face (human-looking, with similarly-shaped mouth, nose, and hairstyle), but her optics and eyebrows are shaped like her dad's. She also has (seemingly-)human artillery, hands, legs, and feet like Tammy'due south, but also has wings and feathers effectually her collarbone like BP's.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Tammy and Bird Person's daughter is not to be messed with, even if she isn't even a pre-teen.
• Portal Slam: Young Rick tries to portal out afterwards talking with Rick, but runs into a solid barrier because Bird Person only knows what the portals are, not where they become. Immature Rick subsequently exploits this past using the solid portal wall to shield himself and Rick from gunfire.
• Retcon: Sort of, with the battle of Blood Ridge. The battle itself isn't retconned, it's exactly what nosotros were told, it's Rick's mental attitude toward information technology that changed, from thinking of information technology with a certain fondness and considering Bird Person'due south nearly glorious moment in "The Weeding Squanchers" to something he doesn't like to think about.
• The Reveal:
  • While Rick claimed that the "backstory" he showed the Galactic Federation goons in "The Rickshank Redemption" was totally fabricated, this episode reveals that it was authentic in at least i manner: his original Beth died somehow, meaning that "our" Rick's native dimension doesn't fifty-fifty have its ain Summer or Morty at all. It'south unknown whether or not Diane, whom we already know from "Mort Dinner Rick Andre" is dead as well, died the aforementioned manner Beth did, merely Rick and Bird Person are shown in the latter's memories having a shootout with a bunch of alternate Ricks, with our Rick being on a "revenge kick" for "her" murder, implying that the alternate Ricks, possibly the Council, were responsible for the deaths of one or both.
  • Rick'southward genuine intendance and feelings for his best friend Bird Person are more than just ideal friendship. Present-day Rick is well aware of information technology, besides, and different many of the other complicated feelings he has for people in his life, he doesn't try to deny information technology to himself or to Bird Person.
  • The reason Rick doesn't like to remember or think about the Battle of Blood Ridge isn't because of anything that happened during the battle itself; rather, it's because, after the fight was over, Rick, in a roundabout way, confessed to Bird Person that he had feelings for him and invited him to keep adventures together effectually the multiverse, only for BP to politely friend-zone him.
  • Tammy had a daughter with Bird Person, a half-bird Half-Human Hybrid (or half Human Alien hybrid), who is existence kept in a Galactic Federation prison. It's unknown if the child was conceived earlier or later on Bird Person's death and conversion into Phoenix Person, just that she was definitely built-in post-Phoenix Person.
• Rewatch Bonus:
  • The reveal from this episode that Rick has loved Bird Person for a very long fourth dimension adds quite a bit of this to "The Nuptials Squanchers". Rick being in such a foul mood at BP'due south wedding to Tammy was very probable at least in function out of jealousy, and his heartwarming all-time man's speech right before everything went to hell was probably his best endeavor at I Want My Beloved to Be Happy. Information technology also adds another layer of tragedy to Rick's devastation when Tammy murdered Bird Person.
  • The segment in "Never Ricking Morty" where Rick and Bird Person accept a duet in midair also hits differently; it's much less of a ane-off gag and more Foreshadowing for this episode'south reveal.
• Running Gag: Immature Rick enthusiastically referring to the Battle of Blood Ridge as "Our Vietnam."
• Saw It in a Motion-picture show Once: In the opening scene, Rick questions Beth's comment about leaving emergency numbers on the fridge. Beth admits she doesn't know what that actually means but remembered the line from the numerous movies where parents exit in the opening scene.
• Sex for Services: Rick'due south garage A.I. twice offers a blowjob, once to placate Rick and in one case to get a neighbour to bring power equipment.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: The Smith family is only seen briefly in the opening, as they all go off to enjoy a cruise. This leaves Rick lonely to piece of work on reviving Bird Person.
• Shout-Out:
  • The episode's championship is a reference to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
  • Retentivity Rick's outfit, with a long-sleeved shirt and a black vest, seems based on that of Han Solo in A New Hope.
  • One of the Smith's neighbors compares the A.I. in Rick's garage to J.A.R.V.I.Southward. from Iron Man. They even reference the motion picture.
  • The existent Rick and memory Rick take a small-scale conversation nearly the Shrek movies and the existent Rick even says that they might be making a fifth one by now.
• The Stinger: Bird Person's imprisoned daughter is bullied in the prison cafeteria and responds by boot donkey before being dragged off.
• Take Off Your Clothes: Rick barges into the retention of his battle with Phoenix Person and demands his other self take off his clothes. Realizing the truth of his situation, that Rick sighs and says he figured he'd die that way.
• Tempting Fate: When Rick first enters Bird Person's mind, he'due south thankful to discover himself fully clothed, figuring he would take been stripped naked as part of the premise. As soon as he dives toward Bird Person'due south unconscious mind, his wearing apparel burn off.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Rick shoos his family unit out of the house to their holiday before he starts his revival of Bird Person. This means they avoid the episode'south antics.
• Try Not to Die: Rule 2 handed down from Rick to his younger cocky stipulates "Don't dice."
• Two Beings, 1 Trunk: For a minute, Rick and Bird Person share Bird Person's body when Rick talks Bird Person into returning to the real world. In one case Rick realizes what'due south happening, he transfers himself back into his own body.
• Unreliable Narrator: Bird Person's memories make some conflicting points, such equally still thinking that Tammy may have actually loved him and how some points are unknown to him because he didn't know in full.
• Wham Episode:
  • Rick goes into Bird Person's mind to save him and reveals he has an imprisoned child. Bird Person finds a reason to live and goes off to rescue her.
  • This is the offset episode to give u.s.a. a articulate, definitive expect into Rick's past through his memories, specifically when he was 35. Young Rick admonishes his older self for becoming one of the Ricks that get "moving in with abased adult Beths" and living with a version of "our dead daughter." That coupled with Young Rick non knowing who Morty is means that Rick'southward original Beth died before she was able to have kids. 1 memory also shows Young Rick and Bird Person fighting other Ricks for revenge over the death of an unspecified adult female who could be his wife Diane or Beth. This also gives acceptance to the thought that the deaths of Diane and Beth shown in "The Rickshank Redemption" may not have been completely fabricated past Rick. Ii episodes later, "Rickmurai Jack" confirms these things to be truthful.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In one case saved, Bird Person calls out Rick for withholding noesis of his child until absolutely necessary because he didn't want Bird Person to "grow too busy child-rearing to hang out" and but revealed his girl's existence at the terminal possible moment when Rick's own life was on the line.
• Worth Living For: Bird Person is determined to finally die until Rick reluctantly admits that he has a girl, giving him to volition to go on on living.
• Would Hurt a Child: The Galactic Federation reveals in one case more how vile they are past imprisoning Tammy and Bird Person's unproblematic school-historic period child in an developed prison. Fortunately, she seems to accept inherited her parents' combat abilities.
• Writers Cannot Practice Math: Based on how erstwhile Beth and Jerry were when the latter got the quondam pregnant with Summer, and how old Summertime is now, Beth and Jerry are 34 or 35 years sometime. Rick has been stated in past episodes to be about 70, which would point he himself was around 35 when Beth was born. This episode, though, shows Rick's 35-yeard-old self, and makes it articulate that this is a point in his life when he'd already lost his version of Beth, who appeared to be somewhere between 6-10 years erstwhile when she died, which would mean Rick was really in his xx'south at the fourth dimension of Beth's birth.
• You Are Worth Hell: Garage points out that Rick could do what he always does and use the infinite universe to notice a version of Bird Person who is alive and good for you. Rick nods, but says that this is different.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: Bird Person'southward destruction of his ain mental world has the real take a chance of killing him, and Rick volition die if he's still within Bird Person's brain when that happens.

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