Rick and Morty, Season 3

Rick and Morty (2013–present) is an American adult animated science-fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of the cynical mad scientist, Rick Sanchez, and his fretful and easily influenced grandson, Morty Smith, who split their time between domestic family life and interdimensional adventures.

Morty:
Geez! Are my parents seriously gonna get divorced? All right, Rick, I'm gonna go to my--

Rick:
[grabs him] Ah-ah, not so fast, Morty! You heard your mom. We've got adventures to go on, Morty, just you and me. And sometimes your sister and sometimes your mom, but never your dad. You wanna know why, Morty? Because he crossed me.

Morty:
Okay, take it easy, Rick. T-T-That's dark.

Rick:
Oh, it gets darker, Morty. Welcome to the darkest year of our adventures. First thing that's different: no more Dad, Morty!

Morty:
Oh, geez...

Rick:
He threatened to turn me in to the government, so I made him and the government go away!

Morty:
Oh, fuck...!

Rick:
I've replaaaaced them both as the de facto patriarch of your family and your universe.

Morty:
Oh, man...

Rick:
Your mom wouldn't have accepted me if I came home without you and your sister, so now you know the real reason I rescued you. I just took over the family, Morty! And if you tell your mom or sister I said any of this, I'll deny it!

Morty:
You're gonna deny it...

Rick:
And they'll take my side because I'm a hero, Morty! And now you're gonna have to go and do whatever I say, Morty! Forever! And I'll-- I'll go out and I'll find some more of that Mulan Szechuan teriyaki dipping sauce, Morty!

Morty:
What are you talking about?

Rick:
Because that's-- that's what this is all about, Morty!

Morty:
"Szechuan"?

Rick:
That's my one-armed man! I'm not driven by avenging my dead family, Morty - that was fake! I-I-I'm driven by finding that McNugget sauce!

Morty:
"Nuggets"?

Rick:
I want that Mulan McNugget sauce, Morty! That's my series arc, Morty!

Morty:
What the hell?!

Rick:
If it takes nine seasons! I want my McNugget dipping sauce, Szechuan sauce, Morty!

Morty:
What are you talking about, Rick?!

Rick:
That's what's gonna take us all the way to the end, Morty!

Morty:
What are you talking about?!

Rick:
Season-- Nine more seasons, Morty! Nine more seasons until I get that dipping Szechuan sauce!

Morty:
What is that?!

[The garage closes]

Rick:
For 97 more years, Morty!

Morty:
What are you talking about?!

Rick:
I want that McNugget sauce, Morty!

[Pickle Rick comes into Dr. Wong's room with Beth, Summer and Morty]

Dr. Wong:
You must be Rick.

Pickle Rick:
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Wong:
I've heard a lot about you today. Your family is crazy about you, your daughter holds you in very high regard, you're a lucky fella.

Pickle Rick:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you. Hey, sweetie, you don't still happen to have that syringe in your purse?

[Beth looks to Dr. Wong, who nods to her to speak]

Beth:
Dad, I would like you to tell me what's in the syringe.

Pickle Rick:
It's a serum that I need to, uh...to stay alive. I have...had a rough day, and, uh...I've sustained a lot of damage, I'm pretty close to death, which the serum will prevent.

Dr. Wong:
By changing you from a pickle to a human.

Pickle Rick:
[long pause] Yes.

Dr. Wong:
Rick, why did you lie to your daughter?

Pickle Rick:
So I wouldn't have to come here.

Dr. Wong:
Why didn't you want to come here?

Pickle Rick:
Because I don't respect therapy. Because I'm a scientist. Because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living, and when I don't like something about the world, I change it. And I don't think going to a rented office in a strip mall to listen to some agent of averageness explain which words mean which feelings has ever helped anyone do anything. I think it's helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind [belch] we value in the animals we eat, but not something I want for myself. I'm not a cow. I'm a pickle. When I feel like it. So... you asked.

Dr. Wong:
Rick, the only connection between your unquestionable intelligence and the sickness destroying your family is that everyone in your family, you included, use intelligence to justify sickness. You seem to alternate between viewing your own mind as an unstoppable force and as an inescapable curse. And I think it's because the only truly unapproachable concept for you is that it's your mind within your control. You chose to come here, you chose to talk to belittle my vocation, just as you chose to become a pickle. You are the master of your universe - and yet you are dripping with rat blood and feces, your enormous mind literally vegetating by your own hand. I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is, some people are okay going to work, and some people... well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose.

Beth:
Just stay put, sweetie! Mom's still on hold!

Morphizer Customer Service Worker:
Morphizer Customer Service Worker. How may I help you?

Beth:
Yes, I'm having a little trouble with one of your machines.

Morphizer Customer Service Worker:
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, ma'am. Do you see a little compartment on the side of the machine?

Beth:
Let me check.... Yes, got it.

Morty:
Mom?

Morphizer Customer Service Worker:
Great! Now, do you see the little button next to it?

Beth:
I do.

Morphizer Customer Service Worker:
Give that button a push.

Beth:
Okay. [pushes button]

Morty:
Mom, listen to me--

Morphizer Customer Service Worker:
WE'RE FREE! [the Morphizer Customer Service Workers run out of Rick's machine]

Beth:
Okay, so I pushed the button, and three little men ran out. What do I do next? … Hello? I think we got disconnected-- [Morty angrily snatches Beth's phone, throws it onto the pavement and stamps on it] Morty!

Morty:
Don't "Morty" me! I tricked Rick into taking Dad on an adventure because I thought I could get a break from this kind of shit! But no! Like father, like goddamn daughter! You wanna be like Rick?! Congratulations! You're just as arrogant and just as irresponsible!

Gene:
[pops up] Everything okay here?

Morty:
Mind your own goddamn business, Gene! I'm having a conversation with my mother here! [Gene walks away] Kissing Rick's ass isn't gonna make him stay, Mom, but it will help you lose everyone else.

Beth:
Like I lost Summer.

Morty:
Hey, you haven't lost her yet.

Beth:
No, I definitely did. She's gone.

Morty:
[looks at the crashed garage] Goddammit!

[After Toxic Rick toxifies the world, he and Toxic Morty are confronted by their healthy counterparts]

Healthy Rick:
Remember me?

Toxic Rick:
Didn't you learn last time that you can’t beat me?!

Healthy Rick:
Yeah, I did. And then I learned something else. [pulls out a gun] This. [shoots Toxic Morty in the knee, making him scream and collapse in pain] That bullet is laced with an encrypted nanobotic virus that will disintegrate your Morty in about, ah, twenty minutes.

Toxic Rick:
You think I give a shit?!

Healthy Rick:
I know you give a shit, dummy. Because I know I don’t. Here's another thing I know: the decryption key that neutralizes the virus. You want it? [pulls out two injections attached by a tube] Come and get it. Merge with me, and you’ll know how to save him.

Toxic Rick:
Pfft! Come on, man, I’ve been trapped in your pussy brain for seventy years of delusions, but this is the all-time weakest bluff that I’ve ever-- [Healthy Rick shoots Toxic Morty in his other knee] JESUS CHRIST! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Healthy Morty:
He’s cutting your time in half. Ten minutes.

Toxic Rick:
What is your problem?!

Healthy Rick:
Oh, I had all my problems removed. My entitlement, my narcissism, my crippling loneliness - my irrational attachments. [Toxic Rick glances at Toxic Morty, his eye twitching] They must be somewhere. They ain't over here, bro.

Toxic Rick:
I'M NOT GOING BACK IN THERE!

Healthy Rick:
Honestly, I don’t care either way. I hate having you in me. And when I say "honestly", you can believe it, because we both know I’m too healthy to lie. Watch. [shoots Toxic Morty in the shoulder]

Toxic Rick:
All right! Knock it off! You’re not impressing anyone! [kneels down and holds Toxic Morty] Morty, not that I give a shit, but are you okay?

Toxic Morty:
Jesus Christ, it hurts...!

Toxic Rick:
Relax, quit your bitching. Y-You’re gonna be fine. Grandpa’s here. [Healthy Rick laughs] You think that’s funny?!

Healthy Rick:
Y-You got to have a sense of humor about these things. Oh, wait, you can’t. You’re literally incapable of seeing the bigger picture. I guess it’s just funny because you’ve never done anything but complain about me being in charge, but if I ever gave you the wheel, we’d be dead in five minutes.

Toxic Morty:
[getting weaker] Ah, Rick...

Healthy Rick:
[smugly] You poor, dumb, sick animal.

Toxic Morty:
Rick...

Toxic Rick:
[storming up to Healthy Rick] AAAAARGH!!! JUST DO IT! JUST DO IT, YOU PIECE OF--

[Healthy Rick injects Toxic Rick and himself on the other end of the tube, sucking Toxic Rick back into himself and becoming whole again]

Rick:
[dancing about] I'm back, baby! Regular Rick! Master of both worlds! Check it out! [farts in Healthy Morty's face] Excuse me. Now we’ll just reverse this hacky toxicity beam. Man, I really overthink shit when I'm angry.

Beth:
Dad? I feel like I've spent my life pretending you're a great guy and trying to be like you. And the ugly truth has always been--

Rick:
That I'm not that great a guy and you're exactly like me.

Beth:
Am I evil?

Rick:
Worse, you're smart. When you know nothing matters, the universe is yours. And I've never met a universe that was into it. The universe is basically an animal, it grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots, just to eat them, not unlike your friend Timmy.

Beth:
Tommy.

Rick:
Yeah, it hardly matters now, sweetie. You know, smart people get a chance to climb on top, take reality for a ride, but it'll never stop trying to throw you. And eventually, it will. There's no other way off.

Beth:
Dad, I'm out of excuses to not be who I am. So who am I? What do I do?

Rick:
My advice? Take off. Put a saddle on your universe. Let it kick itself out.

Beth:
I can't do that. The kids, Jerry, my job, and, as much as I hate to admit it, ABC's The Bachelor--

Rick:
I can make a clone of you. A perfect instance of you, with all your memories. An exact copy in every way. It'll love and provide for the kids, do your job, and consume broadcast-network reality TV on the same allegedly ironic level as you. You could be gone a day, a week, or the rest of your life with zero consequences. The moment you decide to come back, I flip a switch, and the clone's job is done. It feels no pain, it regrets nothing, and has zero chance of going Blade Runner.

Beth:
If nothing matters, why would you do that for me?

Rick:
I don't know, maybe you matter so little that I like you. Or maybe it makes you matter. Maybe I love you. Maybe something about your mother. Don't jump a gift shark in the mouth.

Beth:
I don't know if I can do it.

Rick:
Then stay, and luxuriate in a life you can finally know you've chosen. My secret bonus is that no matter what you choose, you're finally gonna chill the fuck out.


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