Storyline
Rick provides Morty with a love potion to get Jessica.
Quotes
Rick: I hate to break it to you, but what people call “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard Morty then it slowly fades leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are going to do it. Break the cycle Morty, rise above, focus on science.
Principal Vagina: Tonight is our annual flu season dance. 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.
Beth: Jerry! Thank god!
Jerry: God? God’s turning people into insect monsters, Beth. I’m the one beating them to death. Thank me.
Jerry: I wish that shotgun was my penis.
Beth: If it were you could call me Ernest Hemingway.
Jerry: I don’t get it, and I don’t need to.
Morty: You’re missing the point, Dad… I don’t want girls. I want Jessica!
Jerry: Ah, well… I remember feeling that way about a young lady named “your mom”. And that’s not an urban diss-your mom was my Jessica. I remember the first time I saw her. I thought…
Rick: [opens cupboard] “I should get her pregnant, then she’ll have to marry me.”
Jerry: I beg your pardon, Rick. Inappropriate.
Rick: [rummages freezer and fridge] Sorry, please proceed with your story about banging my daughter in high school. I’m not sure you wanna take romantic advice from this guy, Morty. His marriage is hanging from a thread.
Jerry: My marriage is FINE, thank you.
Rick: Jerry, it’s your house. Whatever you say it is how it is, but I think a blind man could see that Beth is looking for the door. I barely have a reason to care and even I noticed.
Morty: C’mon, Rick! Don’t talk about my parents like that!
Rick: Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people calls “love” is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty. Rise above. Focus on science.
Rick: Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty. Lot of people don’t get that.
Rick: Sorry, please proceed with your story about banging my daughter in high school. I’m not sure you want to take romantic advice from this guy, Morty. His marriage is hanging from a thread.
Jerry: My marriage is fine, thank you!
Rick: Jerry, it’s your house, whatever you say it is is how it is, but I think a blind man could see Beth is looking for the door. II barely have a reason to care and even I notice.
Child Morty Jr.: Come on, Rick, don’t talk about my parents like that!
Rick: Listen Morty, I hate to break it to you, but what people call love is just a chemical reaction that compells animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty, then it slowly fades; leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it, your parents are gonna do it, break the cycle, Morty, rise above! Focus on science.
Davin: Beth?
Beth: What is it, Davin?
Davin: Just once, I’d like to know…
[sneezes]
Davin: … w-w-what it was like to give your son a bath.
Beth: *What?*
Davin: What does Morty’s skin smell like? How soft…
[grunts]
Davin: How soft are his privates?
References
- Jaws (1975)
Summer reenacts the movie from inside a cardboard box - The Fly (1986)
After creating the mutations, Rick says: “Boy, Morty, I really Cronenberged the world up, didn’t I? You’ve got a whole planet of Cronenbergs walking around down there, Morty.” - Game of Thrones (2011) (TV Series)
Rick mentions this television show by name
Featured in
- Supernatural: Love Hurts (2016) (TV Episode)
Watched on TV
Spoofs
- Love Potion No. 9 (1992)
Title reference - Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The haphazardly armored car Jerry drives after Rick’s mutagen has overtaken the world resembles the armored parking shuttles from the final act of the Dawn of the Dead remake
Goofs
- Near the beginning Rick puts ice in his glass, then once he begins to pour in the orange drink the ice is missing.