


The rest of the episode continues in this pattern, with Rick popping in and out of Morty's life to drag him away selfishly on errands and putting his body through hell. This predictably (in retrospect) ends in disaster, with Rick claiming that it was all in aid of forcing Morty to assert himself more. Morty spends much of the episode longing for Jessica, tortured by Rick drunkenly promising in the cold open that he'll use a doomsday device to obliterate the Earth and install Morty and his crush as "the new Adam and Eve." In the first episode of Rick and Morty, the titular gassy scientist whisks his bumbling grandson off, out of the blue, to another world - Dimension 35-C - to harvest mega-seeds from mega-trees, leaving Beth and Jerry to quarrel about Rick's influence on their defenseless son.
