Rick and Morty Prestige scene

Season 4 Episode 8
Rick tells Morty there was no do-over.
#prestige #TimeTravel

[@freebird264]

"Every Rick has a vat!" I love the implication that this Rick heard about C-137's situation and instantly understood the assignment in making Morty learn his lesson.

[@DevourMistress]

i'm wondering what c-137's rick bribed this rick with to participate in this "bullshit" as they'd put it.

[@Jonas-Seiler]

No reason to assume this is even the same Morty. None of the Ricks and Morties need to have been the same from episode to episode for the show to make sense. That’s the point of the show.

[@dapprligtnin98]

I love how buthurt he is about the vat throughout the entire episode. 🤣 I would call it petty, but I don’t think you call a guy whose on the same playing field of a god petty.

[@kikiretzorg1467]

And that aside from Wasp Rick, where it wasn’t like he had a choice, this is also pretty much the _only_ time C-137 worked with another Rick during the events of an episode. Sometimes, shit goes deeper than your beef with the citadel.

[@dantastic7]

@@Jonas-Seiler The showrunners said a long time ago they aren't pulling that trick and that we're following the same Rick and Morty unless otherwise stated

[@mhelm0225]

How Rick described the "reset" button sounds like it'd be more complicated to make than actually making a reset button that reverses time.

[@Bretaxy]

Nuh uh

[@alexv1154]

yeah but he doesn't respect time travel

[@lastlyhi]

Yep but if he did actually make it warp time, chance is, time cops will notice and they can get in trouble. Thats why he never messes with time.

[@Timmzy27]

If Antman and the Wasp can do it, then he’s not interested

[@9nikolai]

Actual time travel resetting would essentially be the same as this but killing just everyone else instead of the resetter.

[@Soccercrazyigboman]

1:30 "Feel this, take this in, this is God." I don't know why this line never gets mentioned... it really seals in how vindictive Rick is

[@Yung-plague]

That line and “AND EVERY RICK HAS A VAT!” are so good and so fucking funny

[@alphax4785]

Maybe, but also that basically everything Rick does is this level of horrible like Cronenberging an entire world to Mr. Frundles and a whole lot more. Morty just has to be reminded that this is the case.

[@Tyler_W]

​@@alphax4785neither of those cases were intentional, though. At most he's guilty of negligence in those instances, not malice.

[@jamestomlin5525]

Pretty sure him hunting down his alternate selves for years to try to get to rick prime shows that

[@erick4880]

Makes it even more funny knowing that it’s not even his Rick

[@Cardlimits]

This is the most petty I've seen Rick yet. Anything to keep Morty from questioning him.

[@Y0G0FU]

Well.. he also gave him a valuable lesson. LET RICK EXPLAIN SHIT YOU ASK HIM TO DO FOR YOU. This all could have been avoided if morty wasnt a greedy little shit that cant be bothered to listen for 90 seconds.

[@berniethecat8839]

The man refuses to be wrong or considered untrustworthy by Morty and will do just about anything even torture to prove otherwise. That’s beyond pettiness.

[@coltonblake13]

You must also take into consideration rick is indeed the most intelligent being within the created finite curve. It opens other limitations but thats what we know about everywhere they've ever been. Only dimensions they can travel (as far as we know) are within the finite curve created by rick. Which Rick though? Evil morty seems to think rick c137 but rick prime (weird rick) appears to be evil morty's rick.

[@Ryan-bj2vl]

Bro so petty he'd fuck with a singular morty in a multiverse of infinite mortys im dead

[@Cardlimits]

@@Ryan-bj2vl that does bring the discussion of Rick merging every reality of every reset button into one. very, beyond most fictional feats

[@ferretzim8694]

I think the funniest part of this episode is when the police are outside, the "only way out" for Morty was a vat of acid. And Morty just immediately went "God damn it you did this on purpose". And then gives zero fucks and goes along with the plan, since there's no point arguing anymore.

[@cloaking111]

And it really doesn't make any sense for all the things to have happened, I mean Morty got shot by cops, annoyed some people, lived a very fulfilling life with a woman who also sprayed him with maze like 20 times.

[@DeathnoteBB]

And then he almost drowned!

[@evancollier6407]

Kiss the vat

[@DavePreston]

"I don't respect time travel." Meanwhile, has a box in his garage labeled 'Time Travel Stuff'

[@crazyabe4571]

Rick uses timetravel as a weapon rather than a tool- case in point, he went back to 1985 in Snake world to give them the recipe for snake timetravel- resulting in their civilization being retroactively annihilated by the time police so he wouldn't have to deal with their shit.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Yeah, on the SHELF. As in it’s been shelved.

[@deadstareffect]

Sometimes lack of respect comes from experience and vice versa

[@pogggaming4470]

⁠@@crazyabe4571it be funnier if the time police proceed to blow up the snake planet, to make double sure

[@kirbdabirb5627]

This scene alone looks terrifying and it makes Rick look like a badass Then you watch the full episode and realise he's doing all of this out of pettiness because Morty didnt like his vat of acid plan

[@scorchercast8366]

Ya, this is the episode that got me off the show because Rick was such a petty asshole. Apathetic assholes are one thing and in the early seasons that’s what Rick was. But petty vindictive assholes just rub me the wrong way which is what Rick became. He use to get angry at people for being one step behind him and having to stop to explain everything to them. Now he actively sets people up to fail so that they can look stupid and he can gloat about how much smarter he is while still taking pity on himself for having to live with the “burden” of being the smartest man alive as if all his problems don’t trace back to him just being an asshole

[@firestriker3580]

That’s all false

[@firestriker3580]

@@scorchercast8366He wasn’t petty and this episode and the show got better with this

[@firestriker3580]

@@scorchercast8366Nope he isn’t an a hole and he was not a petty vindictive a hole

[@Sixtysixway]

​@@scorchercast8366I couldn't agree more with you

[@kikiretzorg1467]

I really like how this dimension’s Rick actually has clear diction. Riction?

[@Mike--Oxmall]

I havent had aricktion in years

[@gamingzone_8142]

I have a big pp can't relate 😊

[@purgeblue]

Its the same Rick and Morty we’ve followed the whole series, Rick just did this in another universe cause he didn’t want Morty to mess up the one they live in

[@TimothyGod]

​@@purgebluethis isn't the same rick... he does go back to his own rick, but this isn't his rick

[@nimpsonkinkson1924]

​@@purgeblueIt's explained in the scene itself, Morty's dimension hopping to near identical universes by killing the Morties there and replacing them with the remote

[@eric5r]

It's *_The Prestige!_*

[@monsieurcondottiero2685]

You Prestige’d yourself!

[@luiscervantes1093]

I don’t get it

[@Muksss]

@@luiscervantes1093 watch The Prestige directed by Christopher Nolan

[@pranitp.1622]

@@luiscervantes1093 watch the prestige movie

[@LEMON-xm4qb]

@@luiscervantes1093 watch The Prestige by Christopher Nolan my fav movie

[@Eragarev]

1:42 Rick's "noo.." makes me lol. He doesn't normally vocalize this way.

[@batitony]

I don't know why but Rick's "you greedy little junkie" always gets me 🤣

[@wafflepv]

And when morty says “Even those times when I…” “Especially those times”

[@matthewriley7826]

Lol especially coming from the greedy alcoholic.

[@Ginzuyomi]

​@@wafflepv j wonder what he meant by that?

[@mlgsamantha5863]

@@Ginzuyomi squanchin

[@DK-fd3fi]

@@mlgsamantha5863😨😰😨😰😨😨

[@unemployicus]

You Prestiged yourself is now my favorite gerund.

[@Felipa0_1OOmed0]

Not only did Morty kill hundreds of himself, but the consequences of his actions never went away. They continued to exist somewhere in a parallel dimension he left behind.

[@SlimKim3]

But at least everyone there thinks he's dead so they'll be no one coming after him

[@sbcs2809]

Nah It's kinda Ricks fault for not telling him though

[@SlimKim3]

@@sbcs2809 "I gave you a choice. You could listen to me explain in scientific details or you can have fun." Rick offered to tell, Morty just chose not to listen. It's his fault.

[@hydrogendiamond5830]

​@@SlimKim3 Rick manipulated him to think it was just for fun. He shot him to just introduce the device, meaning that Rick killed a Morty somewhere and then played it off. He was that butthurt and petty that his vat was questioned.

[@Bretaxy]

​@@hydrogendiamond5830But Morty killed more, hundreds morem

[@xprojectsa3627]

I was laughing so hard when I first saw this

[@kylewilkins6149]

This is the cruelest most messed up thing Rick ever did to Morty. That’s why they did the Knights of the Sun episode, to make up for it.

[@sbcs2809]

​@@Orangutan-oe5xnand Rick made it, manipulated Morty into not hearing out his explanationa to get back at him, L rick

[@Dsturb85]

And that wasn't even the real Rick it was an Android version of him that was 20% more agreeable😂

[@orcastrike7750]

His delivery on the “It’s the Prestige, you Prestige-d yourself!” Never fails to make me lmao

[@3odayzak]

"Every rick has a vat "😠

[@Gldtr39]

Best line of the show

[@ColDylanG]

The ONE thing the unlimited infinite number of Ricks all have and share that makes them all one in harmony: a Vat.

[@christopherhaynes8101]

I mean it is impressive when you think about it.

[@Dim4323]

The biggest plot twist.

[@henrylant7049]

This is still the darkest part of the show imo. The way Rick leaves out the necessary details and lets Morty's arrogance prove him wrong. Totally evil.

[@90CJk]

Not evil more negligent. Sure Rick made the device in a way that technically does what Morty wants but in a way that Rick likes. Besides he did offer to explain it. Just because he knew Morty didn’t want to listen how it worked doesn’t negate his attempt. But yeah Rick can be evil but he also can be good. That is the series almost no one is completely good or evil. Rick is just a supreme genius in the middle alignment between the two.

[@muammardanial6473]

​@@90CJk😊

[@NinjapowerMS]

​@@90CJk Plus if Morty wasn't such a hypocritical goody two shoes and just embraced the consequences. Rick's entire plan would have failed if he couldn't guilt trip him.

[@xenoslayer360]

The writers are geniuses

[@johncitizen306]

*were

[@therestinghornet6906]

still are

[@cd0m613]

nah they're fucking retards

[@90CJk]

So Rick’s remote isn’t a save point device. Its a file transfer device. Like if you plan one character one way and then go to another file and play it a different way. They just start where you “save” from. But each file remains whatever happened they aren’t deleted.

[@KaiTheKreator]

Just watched the prestige and came here

[@yourfavepissy]

Sameeee lmaooo.

[@christopherh4891]

My favorite part “did ya have fun, Morty ?” 😂😂

[@trashboi_yosuke3320]

"that's right you little bitch, it's the prestige, you prestige'd yourself" shit kills me, using prestige as a verb insane

[@Satans_Little_Helper]

Damn I love The Prestige reference. 😂 This was too funny.

[@ralflorent]

One of my favorite rick-and-morty scenes. Thought it was random at first, then I figured what truly happened, like the whole point of creating the do-over device… 😂 “Every Rick has a vat!”, you can hear the change in tone to express Rick’s anger. 😅😅

[@rz0r114]

Top 10 for Rick's pettiest moments

[@pogggaming4470]

I think toxic is a better word

[@BrendaCreates]

"Is this because of the vat?" It's totally because of the vat.

[@michaelscott5653]

"Oh God, even those times when I..." *Especially those times* I absolutely lost it at that part 🤣 🤣

[@Ryanthebrobdingnagian]

"is this because of the vat?" "Noooo." Lmao this makes me laugh every time.

[@booneshow1863]

Kiss the vat😅

[@bigdaddyd-rk9pn]

shit legit gave me chills when he said "its not a do-over, you just did it over and over"

[@ryantodd2000]

Bro hit a new level of pettiness with this one

[@FoolsGil]

Just think that this Rick dropped everything he was doing to help the moment C-137 said "Morty talked mess about the vat."

[@certifiedmnan]

Every Rick has a vat always gets me

[@spirittail4958]

Honestly seeing the full story that Rick did this because Morty basically forced him into it saying he couldn't do it but the fact this all stemmed from that vat of acid incident (which I'll be frank could've worked in theory) I feel like given how Morty went about having Rick make this for him I feel like he should've seen something like this coming

[@beardedgreek9069]

EDIT: A reply to my comment helped me realize the below explanation I gave is inaccurate as it doesn't take into account that Rick didn't *cancel out* the other timelines, he *merged* them all. Rick's "make the original Morty hypothetical" solution is literally time traveling. 😅 Going to a parallel universe to cancel out Morty's original choice wouldn't stop the other Mortys who used this button from existing unless *that one came first* and the others happened *after it.* 1. Button made. 2. Jump to universe. 3. Events are altered by button jump. 4. Repeat from step 2. By "cancelling out the original morty", they're going backwards in that time flow to before the universes Morty hopped through existed. Rick even says it's "timestamped". He actually *DID* invent time travel, he just gave Morty a bad version of it cause he was angry 🤣

[@Bretaxy]

No, it isn't time travel.

[@MegaElGris]

There is a difference between time travel and swapping timelines. Let's put it this way: Morty punches someone in the face. If Morty indeed time travelled and Morty didn't hit the guy this time, the event of Morty hitting somebody would be erased because he has "rewritten" the story of time. But since what Morty did was jump to another timeline, the events of him hitting someone still remain in the timeline he left behind. That's why when Rick merges all timelines, everyone remembers what Morty did because "everything happened, somewhere" and "only one Morty did them". If it was actual time travel no one should remember anything since Morty just rewrote the story over and over.

[@beardedgreek9069]

@@MegaElGris the "merges timelines" is honestly something I overlooked, that does kind of throw a wrench into what I said above. It still kinda messed with time in a way, but it's not really *travel* as much as just.. idk really what to call that, timeline editing? I guess he's just merging the dimensions themselves though so.. good point! I'll edit my comment.

[@princemc35]

Bro I just realized... This is time travel ​@@MegaElGris

[@princemc35]

​@@MegaElGrisIt's kind of time travel in a way tho With time travel if you make a different decision when you go back you actually create a separate timeline from the one you now exist in

[@shaftoe195]

Not to worry, Rick has respawn mode on for Morty in most if not all of those cases. Whenever either Rick or Morty dies, they just wake up in a clone in their garage.

[@TimothyGod]

Operation pheonix has been turned off many times

[@projectpatientanarchy7550]

Operation Phoenix was terminated, remember?

[@gigachad6491]

If you have seen the in Season 7 I don't remember if it was episode 8 or 9 it still had clones of Rick, Morty and summer so yea Operation Phoenix wasn't terminated​@@projectpatientanarchy7550

[@norreras343]

Easily the best comeback Rick has ever done

[@CC-ed9lf]

"Multiverse theory's a bitch"

[@celestialsalamander]

This is the guy who claims to be dead center on the alignment spectrum.

[@firestriker3580]

No

[@pieceofpaper7319]

​@@firestriker3580yes he did say that in the fortune cookie episode

[@christopherhaynes8101]

I don’t respect time travel

[@seanconnolly5968]

If Ant-Man and the Wasp can do it, I’m not interested.

[@clevelandjefferson5680]

I mean yea it does seem played out if he did it

@@seanconnolly5968 The writer of this episode, went on to write Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Funny how things work.

[@BlackDiamond2718]

The time machine, star trek, and stargate are the only forms of time travel i care about.

[@DavePreston]

Repost* He has a box in his garage labeled "Time Travel Stuff"

[@zechs3]

So did this reality's Rick create a reset button as well? If so where is his Morty? I think his Morty was melted when the Morty in this scene jumped to his dimension when he pressed the reset button.

[@axcurs]

that isn’t that reality’s Rick, Rick c-137 is actually Rick prime but since he left Beth, the Rick we all know took his place since his Beth was dead and wanted to kill Rick prime(he killed his family pretty much). Reality c-137 was cronenberged(pretty much destroyed) and Rick and morty went to a similar dimension(without jerry, Beth, and summer)where they fixed the world but died shortly after, Rick and morty took their dead counterparts places and stayed in that dimension until season 6 episode 1 when the reality they resided in was destroyed again, they took the whole family this time and went to another similar dimension.

[@jb2053]

@@axcurs a very good explanation. I wonder if the writers even know where this is all going?

[@Skycrusher]

@@axcurs As a season 1 debut RnM fan, this is beyond broken and convoluted.

[@bbz232]

@@Skycrusherya that’s kind of the point. It’s why Rick (the creators) hate canon. Keep it episodic as Rick says. That’s part of the meta joke, don’t think about it all to much cause it’s a fucking cartoon.

[@TimothyGod]

​@@jb2053he doesn't even explain what happened, he just retellws what we know. How exactly does this rick also have a button that resets,? He didn't answer that

[@Kyleplaysgames567]

If I was in Morty's shoes I probably wouldn't care. If I was killing innocent people I would be upset. But they're me. I don't care about myself. I'd be more upset about the things I did.

[@genuinesaucy]

"Is this because of the vat?" "Nooooooooo...." *immediately makes him use the vat to get out of trouble, just to prove the vat works* lol what an asshole

[@prismanic24]

0:45 Hilarious considering who wrote Ant Man and Wasp 3

[@TrinityCodex]

pretty sure that was an Endgame reference

[@teapottanuki5841]

Weird how Rick’s labcoat switches from dangling down the back of his chair - and through the metal pole of said chair - then switches to being under him.

[@VeniVidiVici..]

1:10 Rick saying that’s right you little b*tch while Morty looks completely horrified made me laugh the first time I saw this.😂 all because Morty thought the vat of acid was a bad idea

[@joshdepaola4002]

Feel this take this in this is god

[@AndrewUchiha4747]

Wow! He really liked his vat idea.

[@gothivore277]

I wonder if this was the moment that created Evil morty

[@bbenjoe]

Rick is quite the sadist.

[@Mrt00]

Can someone please tell me how can I find this background music? Exactly the tense stage music I was looking for.

[@josephcalabrese6337]

Fan Theory: There are two reasons why Rick does not do time travel. 1: He does not want to travel back when his wife Diane Sanchez was alive. 2: Justin Royland and company are not smart enough to create a clever time traveling story.

[@potsdam28]

Time Police exists. They tried to arrest him once

[@BlackDiamond2718]

Neither was marvel so meh

[@lucsplayer8966]

or just will overcomplicate the present lore and create plotholes

[@jc._.goated]

I just think they don’t want to do time travel lol

[@crazyabe4571]

Rick does do time travel, but he uses it as a weapon rather than a tool- case in point, he went back to 1985 in Snake world to give them the recipe for snake timetravel- resulting in their civilization being retroactively annihilated by the time police so he wouldn't have to deal with their shit.

[@TBomb15]

Congratulations. You prestiged yourself

[@nhavuonthanhminh]

You were made for this!

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

The way he says "no" basically proves that actually yes.

[@iorn9814]

That turned so hard , so fast at that point

[@Flipitmixit]

Season 7s the hole twist reminded me of this for some reason

[@kingrobotnik6950]

This ultimately says, “you’re a bad person Morty. I just show you why”

[@thugvida]

I guess Morty took his life for GRANITE

[@lawanbrown16]

“My hands are clean Morty“ literally a dimension destroyer. 😂😂

[@mr.l8723]

It’s hard to tell if Rick cares for Morty when one moment he saves him, then the next he makes his entire existence a living nightmare like this.

[@kylosnow]

This is some saw level shit. “I didn’t kill those morties, you did”.

[@JZL-Arkerivon]

1:22 Damn. Rick is enjoying this too much

[@zahiar]

This is my favorite scene in the show

[@PFC-Hider]

2:10 the morale of the story

[@bloodCount8895]

Love the dark tone track

[@juancastillo395]

Oh god even those times when I... especially those times... 😄😆😅🤣😂

[@justinharvey1793]

I’d immediately start using this to win the lottery over and over

[@stephshady3334]

You know what rick said in the beginning I'll let you know when you have a point and the world will no when I try to hurt it

[@alfredhinton8792]

Amen he did

[@rickyricardo4331]

"Did you have fun, Morty?" That was way darker than it intended to be!

[@BlackGoId]

This Morty basically switched places and consciences with other dimensional Morty’s just like his dimension and killed them off every fuck up he made.

[@headbreakable]

The craziest thing is there's no time travel in the show...also I'm pretty sure after jerk off you need time to reset t....

[@whYLiE09]

0:46 Homie just thought of a device that works like this overnight. He's scary smart.

[@rs72098]

🤔 I think the reason Rick purposely made it *NOT* a save point, because it would have allowed Morty to supercede Rick's ability to control him and overide Rick's own inventions. In other words that was too much power for Morty to have, so Rick had no choice but to design it differently. Always one step ahead. The vat story was just a good cover.

[@xion37]

Did you have fun, Morty

[@SeyhawksNow]

Rick talks about consequences, but Morty fails to remember that hundreds of dead Mortys out of infinity isn't even a blip. If he killed 200 other Mortys out of a million, that's .02%. And infinity is a hell of a lot higher than a million

[@OdinsRaven8]

The best part was this wasn’t even his Rick, but fried him just the same lmaooo

[@mookitty2396]

It’s weird he says he doesn’t do time travel but when morty pressed the button. He was teleported to that probable dimension a few microseconds before that morty pressed the button.

[@OB.x]

Is...now it took me randomly few years out of the blue to realize this... this is D4C...in reverse?

[@adriannunez6594]

I wish this was an Evil Morty origin story

[@MeatBags]

This is let him stick a penny in the electrical socket in the worst way possible

[@geraltofrivia9424]

Rick can be a monster sometimes

[@Noplayster13]

All the time.

[@danfu6280]

- Is this about the vat? - nooooou

[@joaohenriquealbuquerquedas3541]

The fact that Morty DID have a choice to know all about this DOES pass almost all of the responsibility to Morty

[@sebastianplodek2100]

Dude! This feels like an ending to a twilight zone episode and I am all for it!

[@JohnLuckPickard141]

This is by far the pettiest thing Rick has ever done

[@glentiboy2004]

So question, didn't Morty risk getting disintegrated himself whenever he pushed the button? Cuz every Morty he switched with had the device, it was a gamble as to which Morty would push the button first to clear out the space for the other Morty to take his place

[@firestriker3580]

No

[@shortfuse9443]

Nice

[@BlackGoId]

“You can listen to me in great scientific detail on how it all works or you can have fun? Did you have fun Morty?” When the game tells you from the get go “would you like a tutorial or skip?” The choices you make will effect the outcome later but you can always restart. The developer telling you to please pay attention cause we put a lot of work into this. I love games and developers like that.

[@BLACKout_TF2]

show will never be this good again lol

[@SoaringDragon562]

Man, this isn’t Morty’s fault. He had no idea what he was doing with the button. This is pure Rick at his most evil, painfully killing thousands of Mortys (because he’s a smart man, he could anticipate what his/any Morty would do if they were told there was a do-over button) just for petty vindictiveness.

[@firestriker3580]

No this IS morty’s fault. He knew what he was getting himself into and Rick was NOT evil. He wasn’t killing thousands of mortys unlike MORTY. Morty knew exactly what he was doing and Rick punished him for it like he should

[@korvotron]

@@firestriker3580morty didnt know what he was doing lol please.

[@sbcs2809]

​@@korvotronbro, this dude is in every reply section defending the shit out of Rick

[@kingsleywelch3360]

@firestriker3580, you’re an idiot.

[@theraven.4]

​​@firestriker3580 Exactly, Morty had the option and at times did awful things to other people when given the opportunity. Everything that happened is pretty much how Morty would use time travel. Ironically, time travel would still have horrible implications as well.

[@DaveGX]

I'm glad someone finally uploaded this scene! Man, I',m really so confused about the process goes when Rick said he can merge the probable realities so only 1 Morty did them. Like, he explained the prestige, which took me a while to clearly comprehend as to inderstanding why Morty's video game reset device didn't work exactly how he/we all thought/expected it would. I just don't get it, wouldn't that eliminate all ofher Mortys and rather mess with all alternate realities, or does he he mean just the 1s Morty prestiged to? Either way, realities would be messed up. I honestly need greater detail to explain hiw exactly Rick fixes this as he aays.....

[@kylebutler1101]

What are the instruments in the background? I guess it's a synth? But that dark sounding growling synth, what's that called?

[@tennohack6704]

"My hands are cleeean"

[@blankgamer9992]

*it's over morty*

[@JJKane01]

In all honesty, it's well deserved on Morty. You'd think he learned after the space snake incident to stay in the damn ship and to listen to Rick lol

[@fitforfreelance]

Talk about a sales pitch. Interesting that Morty cares about his other-dimensional Mortys

[@fordthecow9838]

Morty shouldve known Rick hates time travel 😂😂