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Season 9 is in the books—let's break down what worked, what wobbled, and where we go from here!
Semi Pertinent News
Reflecting on SDCC
PC plug for the start of our recaps
MAIN THANG - S9 Season Recap
Discussion
Season 9 as a whole
Overall themes
Alcoholism
Rick wasted beyond belief in A Ricker Runs Through It
So drunk he cuts his head off in a portal
Rick having a distillery in the sub basement
And kills the Sympathid with his alcohol tolerance
Adding drugs to the mix in Salute Your Morts
The impact alcohol has on Rick and the lack of it in Mort's reality
The bond between Rick and Morty and their codependency
Morty getting jealous about Evil Morty
Rick using Morty for 2FA
The throughline of Rick and Morty's connection in the finale (I'm your Dad)
How does it hold up to past seasons?
Very well
Predictions Revisited
Episode plots
"There's Something About Morty"
"Ricks Days, Seven Nights"
"Rick Fu Hustle"
"A Ricker Runs Through It"
"Jer Bud"
"Erickerhead"
"MortGully: The Last Rickforest"
"Rickuiem Mort a Dream"
"Salute Your Morts"
"Field of Dreams"
Title sequences guesses
Brandon: 5 for 5
Travis: 3 of 5 (Boot boat and unicorns were misses)
Top 2/Bottom 2
Brandon
Top: Mortgully & Ricks Days Seven Nights
Bottom: Jer Bud / A Ricker Runs Through It
Travis
Top: Field of Dreams & Mortgully: The Last Rickforest
Bottom: Jer Bud & Salute Your Morts
Looking ahead to S10
Listener Suggestions and Shout Outs
Bluesky
Chris Lloyd - The tom sawyer reference in the brohnopsis is because he goes to his own funeral in the book
Email!
Rob Roberts
Another great season of R+M. I cannot imagine a life without this amazing podcast to go to after each episode. Many thanks!
I'm a sucker for the more sentimental episodes like "Field of Dreams" and "Ricks Days, Seven Nights", so I loved the finale. I can't wait to hear which are your favorite episodes this season. For what it's worth, Jer Bud (w/ the return of Snowball) was one of my least best episodes. However, I went back and watched it again recently and found it more entertaining. The Jerry part of the story is just so good. His line "You are ALL my wife now!" was so reminiscent of the time he said, "I'm the Jesus Christ of Christmas!" So funny!
Two things before I close:
Thank goodness for the return of the pool!
I was so glad to hear neither of you remembered where the Mr. Poopy Butthole saga left off. I too was clueless during the close. I gotta go back (or I will just wait for Unity to chime in during the next podcast).
Thanks for all you do!
100 Years!
Rob Robert Roberts
(j/k, it's ONLY Rob Roberts, as if that isn't ridiculous enough on its own, haha!)
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"Field of Dreams" is our season finale and there's a LOT to unpack, broh!
Semi Pertinent News
President Curtis - Panel
Rick and Morty Panel
Adult Swim on the Green

MAIN THANG - S9E10 - Field of Dreams
Episode Details
Air Date: 7/26/2026
Written by: Heather Anne Campbell & Jess Lacher
Directed by: Eugene Huang
Guest Stars: Malin Ackerman

Broh-nopsis: Tom Sawyer, broh.
Our Synopsis: A lot to unpack in this one broh
Discussion
Title Reference: Field of Dreams
Themes (A/B Plot)
The grass isn't always greener
Rick's genius is stunted by an ordinary life
An interesting end to a season that really explores Rick's relationship with addiction
Favorite Bits
Best/Worst Parts
Listener Suggestions and Shout Outs

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We got an early look at some of the upcoming Rick and Morty spinoff, President Curtis
Semi Pertinent News
President Curtis - July 26th
Reddit Marder and Levy AMA on the 21st at 1230 Pacific
Adult Swim on the Green
 
MAIN THANG - President Curtis!
Discussion:
First 3 episodes
How it's different from Rick and Morty
The writing and the animation
Will fans like it?

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S9E9 - Salute Your Morts is here and camp just got a hostile takeover!
Semi Pertinent News
President Curtis - July 26th
Reddit Marder and Levy AMA on the 21st at 1230 Pacific
Adult Swim on the Green
 
MAIN THANG - S9E9 - Salute Your Morts
Episode Details
* Air Date: 7/19/2026
* Written by: Garrick Bernard
* Directed by: Brian Kaufman
* Guest Stars: Janeane Garofalo, Joe Lou Truglio, Ken Marino, Zak Orth
Broh-nopsis: Morty and Summer go to camp, broh. Beth and Jerry home alone, broh.

Discussion
* Title Reference: Salute Your Shorts - Nickelodeon TV Show (1991)
* Themes (A/B Plot)
  * Camp Takeover
   * Summer and Morty are out of control and need to be sent to a camp to improve their behavior
   * The kids take over, murdered the counselors, and now use their trust fund money to door dash anything they want. No rules!
   * Eventually the local town tries to hold the kids hostage for ransom and they have to take over the camp again.
  * Beth and Jerry get high
   * The kids are gone, I guess we will get high.
   * Smoke something called "High Forever" and now stoned Beth and Jerry have to find a way to fix it.
   * Take a space uber to a mall planet in order to find space narcan (Sometimes I write weird sentences)
   * Everybody want's Grandpa's help but nobody wants Grandpa.
   * Rick is also very high
   * Summer and Morty learn their lesson from seeing how awful their high parents are
* Favorite Bits
  * Summer and Morty's SciFi antics
   * Ninja Clones
   * Making Toilets chant your weight
     * SoB ninja logged me
   * Perfect memory growth
   * Boomer Mute
  * Can't you just suspense them with pay?
  * Turning people into carrots won't help you beat the genie alligations
  * Rick putting his hand in the air to pull Morty back
  * Morty kicking Rick's seat
  * Did I make the cover? (Labcoat Magazine)
  * Rick removing all the device from Summer and Morty
  * "We aren't home" - High Beth to Rick
  * Kid versions of classic characters at the camp
   * Squanch
   * Gromplamites
   * Numericons
   * Gear Heads
   * Mr. Poopybutthole
   * Mr. Stabby
  * Door Dash "No Tip! What, I didn't see him make it."
  * Edward Merlot Hands
  * High Beth shuffling on the floor
  * How do theses work again? (In regards to the stairs)
  * He's your dad not the God or Arrackis.
  * The Space Uber
   * Jerry freaking out in the limo (I need to get baby sized)
   * It's like prom night all over again (You found the right hole eventually)
   * Is he dying? No just tired. Doing a lot of airport runs at night.
  * Summer and Morty party montage
   * Starting each day with alka seltzer
   * Showing how the endless party gets progressively worse
  * Fart Baby
   * Throwing money at the baby
   * "I wish we hadn't given beer to that baby"
  * Jerry and Beth waking up in that mall display
  * Rick's phone number is 12
  * "This version of everyone is mean" -Jerry
  * High Rick fight scene ( I should have said look over there)
  * The dude getting hit with a ton of arrows
  * Jerry getting an arrow in the arm
  * Rick walking out into the lake
  * This ride is all the scared straight we need.
* Best/Worst Parts
  * The entire cold open (best)
  * Rick's weird subplot with the people-sized carrots
  * The paging associate, please wait bit (Connecting flights?!)
  * The portal to the same place bit
  * What does that post credits tag mean? Anything?
   * Cool Horse
   * Hungry for Apples
   * Carrot Farmer Rick

Listener Suggorstions and Short Outs

* Spotify
  * Nikita Brits
   * I think rick didn't use his tech the first time he got caught in the vines because he's bored and let it happen. If you've done everything and gone everywhere, he eventually just lets new odd things play out. He also specifically points out when HE feels him and morty are truly screwed, implying to me at least he lets a lot of stuff simply play out while having the ability to just end anything and everything
* Twitter
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* Email!
From Mike van Dooyeweert (DOY-uh-vayrt)
Hi Travis and Brondon,

Something that didn't even cross my mind while watching, but only when you were started talking about it: could the whole 'drug lab', the barrels and especially the opening sequence be a nod to Breaking Bad?
The cold open did, in hindsight, remind me of the cold opens you'd often see on Breaking Bad, especially in the seasons with the underground lab.
Greetings from the Netherlands

From Ranma:
I once again want to ask if you are going to review the comics and not just a general one but an issue by issue review. i bring this up because Jerry in this rickuiem mort a dream reminded me so much of the comic version. we all know that early seasons Jerry would have ran and never look back yet here he goes full in in trying to help and only panics in the end. Jerry Smith the phil dunphy/jack carter of the rick and morty universe.

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Do you feel that? Episode 8 just dropped and empathy is on display! Let's dive into Rickuiem Mort a Dream!
Semi Pertinent News
Emmy Nominated Rick and Morty — There's Something About Morty nominated for Outstanding Animated Program; Smiling Friends too
President Curtis premieres July 26th — review next week, following along all season
Reddit AMA with Marder and Levy on the 21st at 12:30 Pacific
Adult Swim on the Green, July 23–26, 1–10pm: https://www.adultswim.com/sdcc

MAIN THANG - S9E8 - Rickuiem Mort a Dream
Episode Details
Air Date: 7/12/2026
Written by: Heather Anne Campbell
Directed by: Douglas Einar Olsen
Guest Stars: Bill Camp, Andy Serkis

Broh-nopsis: Hold still broh. It'll make you nice broh.
Our Synopsis: It's hard to see the world through other's eyes, unless you have a brain parasite.
Discussion
Title Reference: Requiem for a Dream - Movie (2000)
Themes (A/B Plot): Empathy Bug (Sympathid) — Rick's chasing personal happiness and Morty isn't helping; Jerry Cosplaying as a Serial Killer — Rick sends Summer and Jerry shopping, Jerry ends up having tea with a killer

Favorite Bits
Rick's apartment gags: reading Being and Time, the bedroom wall of Abredolf Lickler and Dr. Xenon Bloom, the butt food dispenser, farting alien earbuds
Morty wrecking Rick's distillery for a ride to buy Pokemon cards (and the portal later dropping a pack right back)
Rick's credit card blocking Jerry's purchases
The sympathid/empathy effect throughout — the empathy montage, the Dancing with the Stars bit (real dancing, fake trust), Rick and Morty swapping ship seats depending who has empathy
Jerry's full serial-killer turn as "The Birthday Butcher," with a metaphorical parent-kill double and a quadruple-kill twins joke
The drum-hoarding subplot — Jerry wants to save the girl, Summer just wants the drums — plus the bus bully and the paycheck-to-paycheck irony
Random Jessica sighting in history class, "Miss Under-stood," the jar of wallets on the fridge
Morty's empathy whiplash — sympathizing with an explosion, then losing all empathy right after
The unhinged police standoff — the negotiator, "his juice is coming out," "I want a hug" then gunshots, an entire police force out of bullets
Rick killing the parasite with vodka

Best/Worst Parts
Opening sequence as a whole
The stark scene change when the sympathid is removed (and turns out giant)
Morty and the teacher post-credits bit, including the shushing

Listener Suggestions and Shout Outs
Reddit
Pppprrky shared a June 25th article on whether there'd be another episode like the spaghetti one: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/rick-and-morty-bosses-on-whether-show-will-have-another-episode-similar-to-spaghetti-episode
"If we're in the writers' room and Heather starts to giggle before a pitch, then you know you're about to hear either, 'What if they all killed themselves?' or something that's going to make you go, 'Jesus, Heather!' It genuinely starts with her giggling. She derives joy from that."

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