The president has his own incredible weapons to match, like an anti-gravity gun and even an orbital satellite laser he controls with his watch. We see an entire arsenal of new personal defense gadgets at Rick’s disposal, including a reflector shield that repels bullets, some kind of arc-laser whip, and an unseen device that kills one guard as soon as he touches Rick. Politics aside, the real beauty of this episode comes from its spectacular third act and the escalating sci-fi conflict between POTUS and Rick.
Rick and Morty solve the problem before it starts, and then bring about world peace by creating the “Pretty Obvious When You Think About It Accords” between Israel and Palestine after smoking perspective-enhancing alien pheromones through a laser hookah - all just to stick it to the president. All of the technology POTUS has access to looks like a cheap imitation, including pill-based ‘70s-style shrinking and a barely mobile, wildly impractical massive blue portal. The ridiculous turn of events that ensues only further demonstrates the president’s ineptitudes - he needs Rick and Morty.
That’s when Rick and Morty dump the president over the phone and they go their separate ways, entering a very weird kind of sci-fi Cold War that lasts barely a minute after both parties converge on a tiny, nuclear-capable civilization discovered in the jungles of Brazil. “Let’s set some boundaries with a spoiled control freak that thinks he runs then bring about bring about world and orders drone strikes to cope with his insecurity.” When POTUS later reads the transcript of their conversation, he considers drone-striking them. So what happened to the fictional president when he returned to the show more than two years later?īefore Rick and Morty willfully “blow off America” to go play Minecraft, Morty suggests that they talk to the president about setting some boundaries. That means it was written months earlier, during the peak of the Obama presidency, and that’s reflected in the world of Rick and Morty - even if this fictional president isn’t meant to be an exact Obama stand-in. We first meet the president in “Get Schwifty,” which aired in August 2015. Later, when Rick criticizes the reductive gameplay of Minecraft, Morty says, “You’re not gonna have fun if you analyze everything.” This is yet another brilliantly subversive instance of the Rick and Morty writers talking directly to its fanbase, negging them for their propensity to overanalyze a very silly show. “So you’re mining stuff to craft with and crafting stuff to mine with,” Rick says to Morty as he plays Minecraft. Side note: Some of the episode’s best jokes come at the expense of Minecraft - and Jerry, of course. “You lying dicks! I see your asses playing Minecraft! I got you on satellite! That’s right. “The Rickchurian Mortydate” is as anti-Trump as it comes, and hardly anybody recognizes it because the president we see in that episode is so different from the one we met two years earlier. It’s almost like they’re completely different people, like Rick and Morty went for its most subversively political stunt ever. In his first appearance, POTUS is enthusiastic, cooperative, and even friendly, but by the end of Season 3, he’s turned into a ludicrous manchild undeserving of his title. “I don’t want to poison the well,” he said, “but the finale is a great episode that we finale-ified when we realized we weren’t going to be able to make 14.” Unfortunately, finale-fying this episode makes it feel a bit stunted, narratively speaking. Shortly before this episode originally aired on October 1, 2017, Dan Harmon explained to Entertainment Weekly that Episode 10 wasn’t originally intended as the finale.
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