5 Rick and Morty episodes that prove the show secretly hates humanity

Adult Swim’s animated sci-fi behemoth Rick and Morty has become a cult success due to its lawless creativity, meta-humor, and nihilism on an equal opportunity basis. However, behind its whirling galaxies and amusing grotesquery, the show carries a clear message: Humanity deserves not only to be sneered upon, but it may not deserve to be saved in the first place.

These are five Rick and Morty episodes that demonstrate that the show secretly despises humanity and is a sharp, gleeful scolding of human failings.

** The following article is based on the writer's opinion. **

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5 Rick and Morty episodes that prove the show secretly hates humanity

Rickdependence Spray (Season 5, Episode 4)

Most exemplary of such deploration is the Rick and Morty episode titled Rickdependence Spray. The plot is unapologetically absurd. In this case, the mishandling of horse reproductive equipment by Morty at one of the hospitals initiates a domino effect: Killer sperm monsters destroy the entire world, and the US military responds with incompetence and sexism. Hysteria reaches its highest when the monsters fertilize a gigantic egg, thus coming up with the famous Giant Incest Baby.

The not-so-disguised message of the story is that human greed, stupidity, and selfishness will always automatically triumph. The satirical response of the government is rife with blind machismo, and it also contradicts the sincere efforts to solve the problems.

Morty literally threatens life itself in such situations, knowingly and unknowingly, but the way the show depicts the apathy of the universe suggests this - it would be better for the universe if people settled their differences with one another in a cloud of self-generated sperm.

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Raising Gazorpazorp (Season 1, Episode 7)

This Rick and Morty episode uses gender satire and robot-assisted alien reproduction to address the negative effects of careless parenting and casual sex. Morty ends up giving birth to a violent and rapidly growing alien hybrid offspring, Morty Jr., and is completely immature and confused at the beginning of parenthood.

The Gazorpazorp society, with its over-matriarchy and violence, is also dysfunctional. The gender commentary would later be criticized as dating back to the '80s by Dan Harmon himself, though the misanthropy of the episode stays intact: Neither human nor alien society is shown to be sensible or kind, not to mention capable of a functional relationship.

The rapid escalation of anger and violence in Morty Jr. has been used to highlight the idea that humanity is not only incapable of providing for its own children, but also dangerously destructive to them. The show depicts a world where nurture and environment are irrevocably and disastrously flawed, whether on Earth or Gazorpazorp.

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The Rickshank Redemption (Season 3, Episode 1)

The premiere of Rick and Morty Season 3 marked the beginning of the dark era, as this episode destroyed not one but two planet governments within a few minutes. Rick destroys institutions for his vengeance by emotionally and psychologically controlling his family.

Morty's mother, Beth, finds herself torn between her failing marriage and her toxic loyalty to her father. Rick's ego renders her needs meaningless.

Seeing Rick gleefully assume control of the family and the universe, the audience sees the horrors of how one person, armed with genius and a complete lack of care, can enslave entire civilizations without hesitation. The subtext of the episode is evident: The systems society is built upon - relationships, and the ideologies - are delicate, and are easy to be ripped apart by the vices of narcissism and control.

Rick does not simply hate the world, he demonstrates that everyone who has enough strength is going to hate it.

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Pickle Rick (Season 3, Episode 3)

A fan favorite and a philosophical gut-punch, Pickle Rick sees Rick turn himself into a pickle to avoid therapy. He plots a brutal, bloody escape out of a sewer deathtrap, where he ultimately finds himself facing Dr. Wong, a therapist who reveals to Rick his pathological incapacity to deal with personal hurt.

The glee with which Rick commits violence and lives in fantasy only solidifies the main message of the episode, that even the cleverest man in the universe would prefer to maim and kill rather than acknowledge the fact that he is broken.

Rick is not an antihero. He is the manifestation of the self-destructive geniuses and egoistic pride that set him apart and estrange others who care. This is driven home by the final conclusion of the therapist: Rick would die if he were to undergo a work process of therapy.

The Rick and Morty episode gives the viewer an uncomfortable feeling that even when Rick is the last hope of humanity, it would be better off closed in oblivion.

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Never Ricking Morty (Season 4, Episode 6)

Offered as a head-scratching, meta-narrative poking fun at fan theories and narrative structure, this episode locks Rick and Morty into a physical embodiment of a Story Train. The result is a barrage of non-sequiturs, breaking the fourth wall repeatedly, and narrative self-sabotage. These not only maked fun of TV clichés but also offering a biting critique of the pointlessness of trying to find purpose in life.

This insanity of the episode is not only a satire on pop culture but a humorous attack on the desire of man to know and find a pattern in the world.

The show takes 20 minutes to remove all identification and security, because the fans should learn to entertain and enjoy the ride, but also learn to accept the fact that all meaninglessness exists in a universe controlled by chaos, violence, and frustration. It is bound to be the Rick and Morty thesis: trying to make sense of existence is both absurd and pointless.

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Throughout these episodes, Rick and Morty are dismantling human arrogance bit by bit. Whether mocking futility with savage parody, confronting us with surreal violence or emotional apocalypse, the series contends our institutions, our relationships, and even our stories carry within a distracting mask of cosmic futility.