Rick Hopping Timelines Again Bird Person Back Alive

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Original air date: 8/8/2021

Rick attempts to save a dear friend.

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Tropes:

• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A downplayed instance. The garage AI'southward "betrayal" consists simply of trying to find someone else to provide information technology with ability after Rick seems similar he might not survive the trip into Bird Person'south heed, and isn't sure if Rick was lying virtually the longevity of the power supply. Rick seems to acknowledge that the garage was just trying to protect its ain existence, and shows no resentment.
• Anguished Annunciation of Love: Rick admits to both his younger self and Bird Person that he's trying to salve BP because he has feelings for him.
• Bait-and-Switch: We're atomic number 82 to believe that Rick is so unenthusiastic about revisiting the Battle of Claret Ridge because it concluded so poorly it traumatized even him. It turns out the battle concluded in their favor; the reason Rick doesn't similar remembering it is because, it concluded with him offering to take Bird Person on further adventures due to Rick having feelings for Bird Person, which BP rejected because he was put off by Rick's nihilist attitude nearly the battle they merely won.
• Bittersweet Ending: Rick is able to resuscitate Bird Person, but Bird Person is disappointed in Rick for only mentioning his hybrid girl when BP was ready to die as a desperate measure to convince him to live, rather than just telling him correct away, to keep his best friend from being too busy raising a kid to still spend fourth dimension with him.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Tammy returns as several memories in this episode. Information technology's asserted several times throughout the episode that she'south still dead since the end of Season 4.
  • Squanchy appears for the first time since the season ii finale. Dissimilar Tammy, his fate still remains unknown.
• By Wall That Is Holey: During the Battle of Blood Ridge, the head of an AT-AT has a hole diddled through information technology so collapses to the basis. Rick is exactly where the hole is when it falls and pulls the retentivity of his younger self back and so he doesn't accidentally become crushed running away.
• Call-Dorsum: Watching a retention of himself and Tammy on a date, Bird Person, with tears in his optics, says "Don't exist gross, Tammy" in response to her joking about eating "seed."
• Cerebus Syndrome: Rick's journey to aid Bird Person is played with fiddling humor.
• Character Development:
  • Bird Person has been shown to have sympathy for Rick at his worst, consummate with asking Morty to cover for his gramps. This episode has him setting boundaries with Rick, silently thanking him for saving him while calling him out for even considering hiding the beingness of his daughter. Bird Person bids him goodbye civilly.
  • Rick, who shows disdain for variations of himself, including throughout this episode, is suddenly civil to Bird Person'due south memory of him preserving itself by jumping into his mind. He tells him he doesn't take to exist an enemy just for existing, and even offers to give him a physical body of his ain.
• Concealment Equals Encompass: In one memory, young Rick and Bird Person take cover behind a bar tabular array during a lasergun shootout with some copies of Rick. The tabular array offers sufficient protection.
• Continuity Nod: The whole episode is total of them, elaborating specifically on Rick and Bird Person's history, but information technology also has nods to other episodes:
  • Rick mentions Pickle Rick in the Cold Opening, admitting that a new plot is possible afterwards the residue of the Smiths leave him.
  • In the season premiere, Morty asks Rick why everything has to be a fight with him. Here, he picks fights with his own self-congenital AI and his younger self.
  • The Battle of Blood Ridge is shown.
  • Through the exploration of Bird Person'south memories, Squanchy, Tammy and Revolio Clockberg Jr return. The latter whose feelings Rick doesn't consider a true friend is likewise a nod to in-universe, with Rick mentioning the only reason any of them hung out with Gearhead, is considering he was the little brother of their real friend Gear Dude. They felt obligated to hang out with him subsequently Gear Dude died.
  • The formation of the ring Rick, Squanchy and Bird Person were in is shown.
  • When they get in at Bird Person's memory of Rick's garage, Rick finds Bird Person only remembered him having a Plumbus.
  • Rick warns Bird Person not to clone his child and send i off to fight in space considering they take that badly.
  • Rick has to apply bad memories to get out of a jam.
• The Determinator: Rick is adamant to bring back Bird Person by any means.
• Disney Death: Younger Rick seems to make a Heroic Sacrifice inside Bird Person'south brain, but it turns out he actually leaped into Rick'south mind to continue living every bit a sentient memory.
• Dream Apocalypse: When Bird Person bombs the representation of his own brain, his mental world begins degrading.
• Driven to Suicide: Bird Person wants to kill himself from the inside because of Tammy's betrayal.
• Emotion Bomb: Literally. Bird Person rigs upwards several bombs labeled with diverse negative emotions to commit mental suicide.
• Anybody Has Standards: Rick is used to abandoning dimensions and replacing people (such as Beth, Summer, and Jerry). He had considered replacing Bird Person in case his Journeying to the Center of the Heed didn't work, but he sees his friend as an exception to the rule. ^note It'due south notwithstanding to be confirmed if at that place are any other exceptions, simply since Rick has stuck with the same version of Morty for the unabridged show rather than replacing him as he has with his other family members, it'south possible that he considers Morty to be an exception too.
• Everybody Knew Already: When Tammy does her Cloak-and-dagger Cop Reveal, Rick notes that everyone outside of Bird Person's mind knew about it already.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Discussed and invoked. Bird Person'southward race doesn't believe in having bodily names, seeing them equally another "cage", then when he first met Rick, he told him all his friends just call him "Bird Person".
• Centre Cam: Rick's POV shot when he enters Bird Person's mind.
• Felony Misdemeanor: One of the Retention Tammys wants to arrest Rick for making her attend human High School for ii years.
• Fictional Counterpart: Apparently, Rick and Bird Person met at Birding Man.
• Fighting Down Retention Lane: The episode is Rick traveling through Bird Person's memories to try and recover his consciousness while Bird Person evades him in an try at psychic suicide. At that place are a lot of memories of their time in the Resistance against the Galactic Federation along the style.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the retentivity scene of kid Rick, there are framed pictures of Rick with his parents, who are barely visible through the glare; his male parent looks like him simply with brown hair and a big handlebar mustache, while his female parent is blonde with a beehive hairdo.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: The only reason Rick and others hung out with Gear Head was because he was the brother of the much libation (and deceased) Gear Dude.
• Future Me Scares Me: Young Rick considers his future cocky to be a cynical pitter-patter & is horrified that he'll grow to be him.
• Heel–Confront Turn: A posthumous 1 for Tammy, though information technology's best-selling that it's a heavily idealized version of Tammy from Bird Person'due south memories.
• Loftier-5 Left Hanging: When Young Rick saves Rick and offers him a high five, the latter rejects and walks off with a snarky annotate.
• I Don't Pay You to Call up: 1 prison warden in The Stinger wonders why they would cram the violent ones into the same identify which just increases the risk of a Prison Riot. His buddy reminds him that they were non paid to think.
• I Hate Past Me: Rick is very unhappy that the memory of his 35-yr-old self is tagging along on his mission.
• Interrupted Intimacy: Twice does Rick burst into a heartwarming retentivity of Bird Person with Tammy. One time while they were Watching the Sunset and over again when they started to make out in Rick'southward garage.
• Journey to the Heart of the Mind:
  • Rick enters Bird Person's listen to retrieve his witting mind from his unconscious mind.
  • Rick does this to himself at the terminate when he realizes the retentivity of his past self hitched a ride.
• Just Post-obit Orders: Ane of the Federation bugs rounding upwardly Bird People says that he's only taking part in the destruction of their world considering it'due south his task, then goes on to clarify that he loves his job.
• Killing Your Alternate Self: Bird Person accidentally crushes a retentiveness copy of himself and Tammy with the truck.
• Let'south Just Be Friends: Bird Person'due south response to Rick letting out his feelings for the two of them to explore the multiverse and take adventures together.
• The Load: Discussed. When Young Rick saves Rick from some danger, the latter comments that his benefit-to-cost ratio is rising.
• The Lost Lenore: Despite her betrayal, Bird Person all the same loves Tammy. Her expiry is what drives him to suicide, even over his friendship with Rick. The revelation they had a girl gives Bird Person a reason to continue living.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Bird Person doesn't capeesh how Rick did this to him with the knowledge of having a child with Tammy, suspecting that Rick just revealed it because his own survival depended on it. Rick is unable to make whatever counters or excuses, just giving a Touché.
• Makes Us Even: While Bird Person is grateful that Rick told him he had a daughter and a reason to alive, he's not impressed when he asks point-blank if Rick would have told him with or without the suicide run. He leaves in peace, telling him, "Goodbye."
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Patently Tammy and Bird Person had sex at the party where they met in the Smith family unit garage. Bird Person tries to argue that Squanchy was using the closet at the time, merely Rick really isn't having any of it.
• Mugging the Monster: In the stinger, a prison inmate picks a fight with Bird Person and Tammy's Cute and Psycho child. Bad idea.
• My Future Cocky and Me: Rick teams up with a memory version of himself at age 35. Young Rick requests to be made into a existent person, but and so changes his mind when he sees the person he grows into.
• Naked People Are Funny: Rick is happy that he enters Bird Person's mind with his clothes because he expected to be naked to exist something "cocked", just to have them burn off immediately, to his displeasure. He gradually has to acquire replacement clothing as he travels through memories.
• Never Trust a Championship: Despite the "Rickless Mort" in the championship, the episode is well-nigh Rick's adventures without Morty.
• No Prison house Segregation: The prison in the stinger shows members of different age groups, genders and species mixed upwards in the same complex.
• Ominous Obsidian Ooze: The final stages of Bird Person'due south listen decaying takes the course of a gummy black sludge with a one-half-melted bird head emerging from information technology.
• Functioning: [Blank]: Tammy calls hiding her and Bird Person's child "Operation: Blah Blah Apathetic", considering obviously Bird Person doesn't know what it would actually exist called and his version of Tammy is only filling in the blanks.
• Out of Focus: The Smith family simply appears in the cold opening and is never seen once again. Hell, this is the get-go time in Season 5 that Morty hasn't been the main character in a Rick & Morty episode (or at to the lowest degree have a major focus plot point).
• Patchwork Kids: The daughter of Tammy and Bird Person mostly has her mom's face (homo-looking, with similarly-shaped mouth, nose, and hairstyle), only her eyes and eyebrows are shaped like her dad'due south. She besides has (seemingly-)human being artillery, hands, legs, and feet like Tammy's, merely also has wings and feathers around her collarbone similar BP'due south.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Tammy and Bird Person's daughter is not to be messed with, fifty-fifty if she isn't even a pre-teen.
• Portal Slam: Young Rick tries to portal out later on talking with Rick, merely runs into a solid bulwark because Bird Person but knows what the portals are, non where they get. Young Rick later on exploits this by using the solid portal wall to shield himself and Rick from gunfire.
• Retcon: Sort of, with the battle of Blood Ridge. The battle itself isn't retconned, information technology's exactly what we were told, it's Rick'due south attitude toward it that changed, from thinking of it with a sure fondness and considering Bird Person'due south most glorious moment in "The Weeding Squanchers" to something he doesn't like to think about.
• The Reveal:
  • While Rick claimed that the "backstory" he showed the Galactic Federation goons in "The Rickshank Redemption" was totally fabricated, this episode reveals that it was accurate in at least 1 style: his original Beth died somehow, meaning that "our" Rick'south native dimension doesn't even have its own Summer or Morty at all. It's unknown whether or not Diane, whom we already know from "Mort Dinner Rick Andre" is expressionless besides, died the same manner Beth did, only Rick and Bird Person are shown in the latter's memories having a shootout with a bunch of alternate Ricks, with our Rick existence on a "revenge kick" for "her" murder, implying that the alternate Ricks, perchance the Council, were responsible for the deaths of i or both.
  • Rick's genuine care and feelings for his best friend Bird Person are more than than simply ideal friendship. Present-24-hour interval Rick is well aware of it, too, and unlike many of the other complicated feelings he has for people in his life, he doesn't endeavour to deny it to himself or to Bird Person.
  • The reason Rick doesn't similar to remember or think virtually the Battle of Blood Ridge isn't because of annihilation that happened during the battle itself; rather, it'due south because, afterwards the fight was over, Rick, in a roundabout way, confessed to Bird Person that he had feelings for him and invited him to keep adventures together effectually the multiverse, only for BP to politely friend-zone him.
  • Tammy had a girl with Bird Person, a half-bird One-half-Homo Hybrid (or half Human Alien hybrid), who is being kept in a Galactic Federation prison house. It's unknown if the kid was conceived before or after Bird Person's expiry and conversion into Phoenix Person, just that she was definitely born post-Phoenix Person.
• Rewatch Bonus:
  • The reveal from this episode that Rick has loved Bird Person for a very long time adds quite a bit of this to "The Nuptials Squanchers". Rick existence in such a foul mood at BP'south wedding to Tammy was very likely at least in part out of jealousy, and his heartwarming best man's oral communication right before everything went to hell was probably his best endeavour at I Want My Honey to Be Happy. It as well adds another layer of tragedy to Rick'south devastation when Tammy murdered Bird Person.
  • The segment in "Never Ricking Morty" where Rick and Bird Person have a duet in midair also hits differently; it's much less of a one-off gag and more Foreshadowing for this episode'due south reveal.
• Running Gag: Young Rick enthusiastically referring to the Battle of Blood Ridge as "Our Vietnam."
• Saw Information technology in a Movie One time: In the opening scene, Rick questions Beth'southward annotate about leaving emergency numbers on the fridge. Beth admits she doesn't know what that really means merely remembered the line from the numerous movies where parents get out in the opening scene.
• Sexual practice for Services: Rick's garage A.I. twice offers a blowjob, one time to placate Rick and in one case to get a neighbor to bring power equipment.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: The Smith family unit is only seen briefly in the opening, as they all go off to enjoy a cruise. This leaves Rick alone to piece of work on reviving Bird Person.
• Shout-Out:
  • The episode's championship is a reference to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Heed.
  • Memory Rick's outfit, with a long-sleeved shirt and a black belong, seems based on that of Han Solo in A New Promise.
  • One of the Smith's neighbors compares the A.I. in Rick's garage to J.A.R.V.I.Southward. from Iron Homo. They even reference the flick.
  • The real Rick and memory Rick take a small chat about the Shrek movies and the real Rick even says that they might be making a fifth i by now.
• The Stinger: Bird Person's imprisoned daughter is bullied in the prison cafeteria and responds past kicking donkey earlier being dragged off.
• Have Off Your Clothes: Rick barges into the memory of his battle with Phoenix Person and demands his other self have off his clothes. Realizing the truth of his situation, that Rick sighs and says he figured he'd die that way.
• Tempting Fate: When Rick first enters Bird Person'southward heed, he's thankful to detect himself fully clothed, figuring he would have been stripped naked as function of the premise. Every bit soon as he dives toward Bird Person's unconscious mind, his clothes burn off.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Rick shoos his family out of the house to their vacation before he starts his revival of Bird Person. This means they avoid the episode's antics.
• Try Not to Die: Rule two handed down from Rick to his younger cocky stipulates "Don't die."
• Two Beings, One Body: For a minute, Rick and Bird Person share Bird Person's torso when Rick talks Bird Person into returning to the real world. Once Rick realizes what'southward happening, he transfers himself back into his own torso.
• Unreliable Narrator: Bird Person's memories brand some conflicting points, such equally even so thinking that Tammy may have really loved him and how some points are unknown to him because he didn't know in full.
• Wham Episode:
  • Rick goes into Bird Person'southward mind to save him and reveals he has an imprisoned child. Bird Person finds a reason to live and goes off to rescue her.
  • This is the beginning episode to requite us a clear, definitive look into Rick'southward by through his memories, specifically when he was 35. Immature Rick admonishes his older self for condign i of the Ricks that go "moving in with abandoned adult Beths" and living with a version of "our expressionless daughter." That coupled with Young Rick non knowing who Morty is means that Rick'south original Beth died earlier she was able to have kids. One memory besides shows Young Rick and Bird Person fighting other Ricks for revenge over the death of an unspecified woman who could be his married woman Diane or Beth. This also gives credence to the idea that the deaths of Diane and Beth shown in "The Rickshank Redemption" may not accept been completely made past Rick. Two episodes later, "Rickmurai Jack" confirms these things to be true.
• What the Hell, Hero?: One time saved, Bird Person calls out Rick for withholding knowledge of his child until admittedly necessary because he didn't want Bird Person to "grow as well busy kid-rearing to hang out" and only revealed his daughter's being at the terminal possible moment when Rick's own life was on the line.
• Worth Living For: Bird Person is adamant to finally die until Rick reluctantly admits that he has a daughter, giving him to will to proceed on living.
• Would Hurt a Child: The Galactic Federation reveals once more how vile they are by imprisoning Tammy and Bird Person's elementary schoolhouse-historic period child in an adult prison. Fortunately, she seems to have inherited her parents' gainsay abilities.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: Based on how old Beth and Jerry were when the latter got the one-time pregnant with Summer, and how sometime Summer is now, Beth and Jerry are 34 or 35 years sometime. Rick has been stated in past episodes to be about 70, which would betoken he himself was around 35 when Beth was born. This episode, though, shows Rick'due south 35-yeard-one-time self, and makes it clear that this is a indicate in his life when he'd already lost his version of Beth, who appeared to be somewhere between 6-10 years old when she died, which would mean Rick was actually in his 20'due south at the time of Beth'due south nascence.
• Yous Are Worth Hell: Garage points out that Rick could do what he always does and use the infinite universe to observe a version of Bird Person who is alive and salubrious. Rick nods, simply says that this is different.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: Bird Person'due south destruction of his own mental world has the real risk of killing him, and Rick will die if he's notwithstanding within Bird Person'south brain when that happens.

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