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Previously, on "Rick and Morty"...

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Jerry, I had sex with your wife.

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Ohhh!

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I did it!
I fixed portal travel!

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Jack the Ripper,
at your service.

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Cool!
This happened too?

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I'm pregnant.

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Honey, she's just like you!

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It's raining meatballs!
Okay, something is...

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Jerry Smith died
doing what he loved...

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Getting stung by bees.

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Off.
Off what?

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Have some respect.
It's Dad's funeral.

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I'm gonna name you Jerry Jr.

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Thanks for solving
that murder, guys.

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Here's a skateboard.
Aw, thanks, Tony Hawk!

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- Morty, say you'll marry me!
- What?
-What?

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Just say yes!
Yes?

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Okay...
Rick,
do you promise to...

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I do, and for our honeymoon
let's go to a sealed chamber

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lined with
ionized deuterium!
Why?

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Because the charge acts
as a narrative decelerant.

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Morty, none of this is real.

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We're in a "previously on"
spiral. Clear your head.

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After all
that's happened?!
No.

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I-I'm innocent!
I didn't release those bees!

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I love Jerry!

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What'd I just say?
When?

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Okay, great execution.
Let's go back to the chamber.

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Now repeat after me, Morty...
"Next time on 'Rick and Morty.'"

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Next time on "Rick and Morty"?

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No. Previously,
on "Rick and Morty"...

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Ignore it, Morty.
"Next time on 'Rick and Morty.'"

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It counteracts his toxins.

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Next time on "Rick and Morty."
Whose toxins?

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Hey, stop it!

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Previous Leon!
Grab him!

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Hold on tight, Morty!

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We got to get through
the opening titles!

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Opening titles of what?

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Whoa! We're in space!
Previous Leon: Let go of me! Ow!

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Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!

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What planet is this?

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Cover your eyes on this part.

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Oh, my god,
it's a giant squirrel!

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Why are we dressed
like old-timey people?

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What the hell's going on?

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Why is my dad in a suit?

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Best episode!
Why am I butter?

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Okay, we're almost through.

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Ohh!
Ohh!

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Ow!

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Ugh, and we're back!

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Stop!

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Let go of me!
What just happened?

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Why was there music?

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Because of this conceptual
little piece of shit!

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Grab his feet!

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If we have opening titles,
d-does that mean that we're a...

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Let your body purge
the meta-venom, Morty.

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Don't succumb to his pointless
self-aware bullshit.

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It's not pointless, it's cool!

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He's got a gun!
Eat lead, pussy!

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No, no, no!

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Fuck!

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Oh!

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Son of a...

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Did he use a portal?
He wishes.

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He wriggled back
to the meta layer

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through a hole
in the fourth wall.

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Put these on
and help me find it.

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I-I don't like this, Rick.

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Yeah, you shouldn't.
It's not a likable premise.

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I mean it's funny
when I do a little nod
to the viewers, but...

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What viewers?!
That's the right attitude,
Morty.

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A few carefree verbal asides,
always by me.

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None of this season-three
"Moonlighting" shit.

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Okay, here it is.

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You're going to... to patch it?

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No, he subverted
actual reality, Morty.

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He needs to be
put down like a rabid dog.

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Ow! Fuck!

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Oh, yeah, no, you don't wanna
wear those over here.

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Maybe he went down that road?

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No, no, no. If he took that,
he'd end up a hero.

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Damn it, Rick.
I don't like this.

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I-Is this whole place just...

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A bunch of
groan-inducing wordplay

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for seven TV critics
that won't even enjoy it?

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It's worse than you think,
Morty.

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We're basting in
meta radiation right now.

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Our credibility is
being permanently eroded.

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Every second we spend here

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is the equivalent
to 10 "Space Jam" cameos.

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You should have thought
of that... previously!

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Get him!

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Ow! Ow!

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Oh, no!

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Bless me, Heavenly Father,
for you will save me.

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Now I feel bad.
Let's just get out of here.

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Because he prays?

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You know Hitler was Catholic,
right?

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I'm here, Leon.

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Uhh...
Okay.

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He apparently prays very well.

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Time for you two
to meet the Lord.

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That's okay, we're good.

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Treat it like a bear attack.

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Just walk backwards
and make yourself look big.

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I love a good refusal
of the call.

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Hello, Rick.

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Hello...
Amish Juggler?

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His name is Story Lord.

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Story... Lord?

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Listen, trust me,
take Amish Juggler.

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You can have it.
Story Lord.

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Rick, h-he's the villain from
that toy train I bought you.

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Very good, Morty.

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The fictional versions of you
trapped me

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in a Bible show for children,
but I used make-believe Christ

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to transcend fiction
and enter meta-reality.

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Now I'm the one
doing the trapping.

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Leon was the bait.

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Bait?!
Jesus?

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Aaah!

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Aah!

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Don't ever...!
Dumb mother...!

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You're using Jesus
to beat us up?

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Have you seen "South Park"?

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Good call-out, Morty.

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That's the kind of meta I like,

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the kind that keeps us
creatively accountable.

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Oh, God. Not the Bane.
Not the Bane!

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He Baned me, Morty.
Oh, Jesus Baned me.

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Y-You can't beat me up.
I-I'm... I'm... I'm technically
a Christian child!

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And I'm your worst nightmare.

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I'm the Jesus
from every Jesus joke.

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The one without a God.

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Morty!
Take this and get out!

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Thank you.

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Looks like Story Lord's story
is about to become...

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based on real events.

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What do you want with that?

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I want what any character wants.

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Motivation!

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What?
That's dumb.

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So lazy!

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Forward your notes to my ass!

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Wait, what?
He just left.

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Kind of makes you want to be
our unlikely ally, huh?

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Oh, I guess not.

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Previously, on Jesus Christ...

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Hey, I'm Jesus.
I'm Mary.

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That's my mom's name!
Stop.

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Dude, she's a hooker.

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She's a better disciple
than you!

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Ow! Aw!
Owww!

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Oh, no.

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I can't die.

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I 'ave a proposition for you.

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I work alone.

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If I suck-a your blood,
I'll be invincible!

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I think!
You'll never know.

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Aah!

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Billionaire immortal
entrepreneur Jesus Christ

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has placed all his money into
what he's calling

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a "second chance at love."

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Hang on, Mary!

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The data!
So beautiful!

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Make me normal, witch.

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Take it all!

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Eat your pudding,
Mr. Christ.

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What are you smiling at?

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Your name.

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What's happening, Rick?

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Leon's venom makes you think
more and more of your life

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is behind you as he feeds
on your released potential.

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Leon, y-you saved our lives!

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Oh, not yet he hasn't.

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Jeez, Rick!
So mean!

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He's meta, Morty.
His life doesn't matter.

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Yours does.
That's why we need to get back.

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Well, this doesn't feel
like a citadel.

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Uh, maybe it's cooler
on the inside.

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This isn't what it looks like.

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This is a very special diet
for successful writers.

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Why do you look like
my character?

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I am your character!
And you are going to improve me.

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But you're Story Lord.
You're great.

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Great isn't good enough!

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I've killed Rick
and made myself real!

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I'm better than
some shitty toy train.

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Is this your office
or your apartment?

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Why does it smell
like you sleep here?

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You're my creator.
Why are you pathetic?

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Because you failed!
And whose fault is that?

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What the hell happened?

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You want to know what happened?
Like, specifically?

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Well, the Ricks wanted to do
a "Canterbury Tales" -type thing,

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but none of them
have actually read

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fucking "Canterbury Tales."

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So then
they told me to make it like

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the poker-game episode
of the Batman cartoon

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where the bad guys
tell stories about Batman.

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Then they kept telling me
it "needed something."

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Yeah, no shit,
it needed something!

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It needed to never be pitched!
I did my job!

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Goomby, the Ice Queen,
the Tickets Please guy.

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They just bailed on it!

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The website didn't even
fucking work!

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And it was a shitty URL
to begin with,

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"Story-dash-train"?
Who uses a dash?

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They set me up to fail.
They fucked me!

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They fucked me and you're lucky
I haven't blown my brains out!

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Right. Just give me a
motivation, you hacky fart.

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Okay, here's your motivation.

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You're looking for motivation.
You want all the motivation.

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That's lazy.
It got you this far.

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Must be nice, by the way.

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Wish I could afford to dress
like a bisexual acting coach

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from the '70s.

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My motivation...
is motivation.

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Okay. Bye.

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Oh, no, my bitter friend.
You're coming with me.

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Yo! If you don't see me coming,
it's a bad fortress!

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Where are we?

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Headquarters of
the Self-Referential Six.

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They're meta nerds
that found out

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they could be
less bearable as a team.

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They can help us?

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No, but there's a prisoner here
that can.

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Shh.
Don't tell them that.

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Rick Sanchez.

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I've been waiting for
this moment for years.

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Oh, good.
Morty, this is Miss... Lead.

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I should kill you
where you stand.

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I brought you Previous Leon.

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You'll want to lock him up
in your detention center.

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It's a trick!
He wants your prisoner!

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You dick.
Liar!

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Talk about a mislead.
Anti-meta field.

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Fancy device.

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I think I can recall
the time you built it.

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Don't try it, Flash Back!

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You know, I-I'm excited about
the upcoming election.

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This forcefield will be
impenetrable by meta-energy.

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It runs on hydrogen isotopes.

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Hmmm.

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It runs on hydrogen isotopes.

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A few barrels of petroleum
should dampen it.

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Run, Morty!

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Were those not there before?

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Guess there's been
a... Connie TinuityError.

254
00:09:06,420 --> 00:09:08,798
These people are the worst!
I told you!
Way overpowered!

255
00:09:10,925 --> 00:09:12,051
Look out, Rick!

256
00:09:12,134 --> 00:09:13,928
Forget him.
He's a nameless guard.

257
00:09:15,554 --> 00:09:16,973
That's Protago Nick.

258
00:09:17,056 --> 00:09:19,456
His beam has the power to make
any character the protagonist.

259
00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:22,436
D-Duck!

260
00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,146
Oh, man, oh, man,
oh, man, oh, man.

261
00:09:24,230 --> 00:09:26,148
Oh, man, oh, man,
oh, man, oh, man.

262
00:09:26,232 --> 00:09:28,150
Gah!
What are you doing, Marvin?!

263
00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:30,444
Not dying,
that's what I'm doing.

264
00:09:30,528 --> 00:09:33,030
Oh, what's going on?
What happened?

265
00:09:33,114 --> 00:09:35,700
I did it again, Katie.
I ran out on another job.

266
00:09:35,783 --> 00:09:39,704
Well, if you didn't do that,
you wouldn't be my man.

267
00:09:54,093 --> 00:09:56,178
I was almost tempted
to just let it go.

268
00:09:56,262 --> 00:09:58,139
That's how much I hate it here.

269
00:09:58,222 --> 00:09:59,682
Smash cut!

270
00:09:59,765 --> 00:10:01,100
Remember me, Rick?

271
00:10:01,183 --> 00:10:02,183
Who's this guy, now?

272
00:10:02,226 --> 00:10:04,520
I am Mr. Twist.

273
00:10:04,603 --> 00:10:07,148
The fifth member of
the Self-Referential Six.

274
00:10:07,231 --> 00:10:08,232
Who's the sixth?

275
00:10:08,316 --> 00:10:10,526
That's the twist, Morty.
It's you.

276
00:10:10,609 --> 00:10:11,694
What?
Ignore him, Morty.

277
00:10:11,777 --> 00:10:13,195
The twist is
there's no sixth member

278
00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:14,381
and he tells that to everybody.

279
00:10:14,405 --> 00:10:15,906
In any case, you're ours now.

280
00:10:15,990 --> 00:10:19,618
You can't free yourself without
a twist, and I control them.

281
00:10:19,702 --> 00:10:21,370
You don't control every twist,
Mr. Twist.

282
00:10:21,454 --> 00:10:24,040
I've got a twist for you.
Impossible!
What is it?

283
00:10:24,123 --> 00:10:26,167
Aah!
Aha!
Nice try!

284
00:10:26,250 --> 00:10:28,169
Like I didn't see that coming.

285
00:10:29,378 --> 00:10:31,589
Fuck me.

286
00:10:32,423 --> 00:10:34,342
Great work, Morty!
I'm adapting!

287
00:10:34,425 --> 00:10:35,718
Here's our ticket out of here.

288
00:10:35,801 --> 00:10:37,279
They got him in a cell
made out of sports

289
00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:38,804
because it's
the opposite of story.

290
00:10:38,888 --> 00:10:40,181
Do I want to ask who he is?

291
00:10:40,264 --> 00:10:41,891
His name is Brett Caan.

292
00:10:41,974 --> 00:10:44,518
He has the power to make things
always have been other things.

293
00:10:44,602 --> 00:10:45,895
I think
that's called retconning.

294
00:10:45,978 --> 00:10:47,396
B-But his name's Brett Caan?

295
00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:49,940
I mean, Rhett's a name too.
His name could be Rhett Caan.

296
00:10:50,024 --> 00:10:52,902
It is.
And always has been... now.

297
00:10:52,985 --> 00:10:54,403
Whoa.
Careful, Morty.

298
00:10:54,487 --> 00:10:55,946
Stay clear of his retcon range.

299
00:10:56,030 --> 00:10:57,110
Until he agrees to help us.

300
00:10:57,156 --> 00:10:59,450
Rick, you've always trusted me.

301
00:10:59,533 --> 00:11:01,535
Nice try.
Here's how it's gonna work.

302
00:11:01,619 --> 00:11:03,638
You're gonna make it so Morty
and I never came here.

303
00:11:03,662 --> 00:11:05,581
Once that's always been
the case,

304
00:11:05,664 --> 00:11:06,892
I'll free you remotely
with this.

305
00:11:06,916 --> 00:11:08,709
What is my purpose?

306
00:11:08,793 --> 00:11:10,586
To wait until I tell you
to pull that lever.

307
00:11:10,669 --> 00:11:11,837
You are fucking kidding me.

308
00:11:11,921 --> 00:11:13,381
If you don't free me
right now, Rick,

309
00:11:13,464 --> 00:11:15,508
I can make very, very bad things

310
00:11:15,591 --> 00:11:17,259
always have been
the case for you.

311
00:11:17,343 --> 00:11:18,427
Is that a threat, you fuck?

312
00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:21,263
Y-Y-You can rot in there.
Rick.

313
00:11:21,347 --> 00:11:22,824
You know what, Rhett?
Forget what I said.

314
00:11:22,848 --> 00:11:24,266
We've always been friends.

315
00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:25,726
Good one.

316
00:11:25,810 --> 00:11:26,936
Whoa, easy, Rhett.

317
00:11:27,019 --> 00:11:29,397
Don't forget that coffee mug
I gave you.

318
00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,650
You always were able to be
killed with coffee.

319
00:11:32,733 --> 00:11:35,027
Aaah!

320
00:11:35,111 --> 00:11:36,946
New plan. Run.
Again.

321
00:11:37,029 --> 00:11:39,115
The twist being...

322
00:11:39,198 --> 00:11:41,742
You were born without bones.

323
00:11:41,826 --> 00:11:43,285
See ya never!

324
00:11:44,829 --> 00:11:47,540
There's never been anything
outside this fortress.

325
00:11:47,623 --> 00:11:48,833
God damn it!

326
00:11:48,916 --> 00:11:53,629
And this fortress
has always been an orange!

327
00:11:55,464 --> 00:11:57,299
Pluh!
Great plan, Rick!

328
00:11:57,383 --> 00:11:58,860
Yeah, I'm not pushing back
on that, Morty,

329
00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:00,344
I have royally fucked us.

330
00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:03,556
Ugh!
It hurts.

331
00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:05,266
We've been past the fourth wall
too long.

332
00:12:05,349 --> 00:12:07,059
We won't be real much longer.

333
00:12:07,143 --> 00:12:08,811
You killed us, Rick.

334
00:12:08,894 --> 00:12:11,772
You just had to hate
meta storytelling.

335
00:12:11,856 --> 00:12:12,982
In my defense, Morty,

336
00:12:13,065 --> 00:12:15,276
I think you can agree
my hate was justified.

337
00:12:15,359 --> 00:12:16,402
Ohh!

338
00:12:16,485 --> 00:12:21,824
Least... earned... death...
ever...

339
00:12:25,286 --> 00:12:27,913
Death is a threshold.

340
00:12:32,585 --> 00:12:34,628
Ugh!
What... What happened?

341
00:12:34,712 --> 00:12:35,713
You atoned.

342
00:12:35,796 --> 00:12:37,173
Who... Who are you?

343
00:12:37,256 --> 00:12:39,467
I'm Joseph Campbell.
Soup?

344
00:12:39,550 --> 00:12:42,636
I almost considered not making
it because my name is Campbell,

345
00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,222
but then I thought,
stay in the moment, Joe.

346
00:12:45,306 --> 00:12:46,390
Follow your bliss.

347
00:12:46,474 --> 00:12:47,558
How are you here?

348
00:12:47,641 --> 00:12:49,041
R-Rhett Caan said
there was nothing.

349
00:12:49,101 --> 00:12:51,103
Some things never change
about mythology.

350
00:12:51,187 --> 00:12:53,397
There's always an old man
with soup.

351
00:12:53,481 --> 00:12:55,691
Name one story
that doesn't have one.

352
00:12:55,774 --> 00:12:58,235
Uh,
Jack and the Beanstalk.
"Basketball Diaries."

353
00:12:58,319 --> 00:12:59,695
Every "Matrix."
Every movie ever.

354
00:12:59,778 --> 00:13:01,590
Alright, I don't have to defend
myself to you people.

355
00:13:01,614 --> 00:13:03,282
Where's my soup?

356
00:13:03,365 --> 00:13:05,284
Rick:
Previous Fuckin' Leon.

357
00:13:05,367 --> 00:13:07,203
Why is that prick here?

358
00:13:07,286 --> 00:13:08,787
No more a prick
than you, friend.

359
00:13:08,871 --> 00:13:11,207
Meta characters erode reality.

360
00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:13,375
But all characters are meta,
Rick.

361
00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:16,295
All of us are nourished
and consumed by chaos,

362
00:13:16,378 --> 00:13:18,756
like newborns at the breast
of a meth addict

363
00:13:18,839 --> 00:13:20,466
in a lifeboat filled with forks.

364
00:13:20,549 --> 00:13:22,259
I know what you have
to do, Rick.

365
00:13:22,343 --> 00:13:23,886
Scrub Campbell's
browser history?

366
00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:25,971
Just trust Previous Leon.

367
00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:28,057
Could you
previously us a way home?

368
00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:31,352
Uh, well,
I'll sure enjoy trying.

369
00:13:31,435 --> 00:13:32,478
Yeah, I bet you would.

370
00:13:32,561 --> 00:13:34,313
Rick can't change, Morty.

371
00:13:34,396 --> 00:13:36,899
Change is what you might
call his Kryptonite.

372
00:13:36,982 --> 00:13:38,567
Except instead of being super,

373
00:13:38,651 --> 00:13:41,487
he's, you know, kind of a pussy.

374
00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:42,696
Let's do it.

375
00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,200
Previously, on Rick...

376
00:13:46,283 --> 00:13:47,969
Get him off!
Get him off!

377
00:13:47,993 --> 00:13:48,869
Oh, boy.

378
00:13:48,953 --> 00:13:50,246
He almost killed you!

379
00:13:50,329 --> 00:13:52,248
Okay, well, I feel bad,

380
00:13:52,331 --> 00:13:54,083
I kind of pressured
you into trying that.

381
00:13:54,166 --> 00:13:56,043
You called me a pussy.
I said I feel bad!

382
00:13:56,126 --> 00:14:00,422
This is a map to a region rich
in narrative ore.

383
00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:02,258
I wish you the best of luck.

384
00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:05,427
Faster, Morty!
I'd help, but I can't blister
my inventing hands.

385
00:14:05,511 --> 00:14:06,845
How long will it take?
Years.

386
00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:08,347
You can live in my wood shed.

387
00:14:08,430 --> 00:14:10,808
Just don't open the door
after dark.
Why not?

388
00:14:10,891 --> 00:14:12,977
Get out here,
you Communist Jews!

389
00:14:13,060 --> 00:14:14,770
Dude.
Maybe I'm not an alcoholic.

390
00:14:14,853 --> 00:14:18,065
I know, right?
You fucking
"Back to the Future" rip-offs!

391
00:14:18,148 --> 00:14:19,483
It's ready.

392
00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:20,484
Rick, I should stay.

393
00:14:20,568 --> 00:14:21,944
Why?
I'm pregnant.

394
00:14:22,027 --> 00:14:24,280
What are you doing?
It wasn't him, Rick!
Then who?!

395
00:14:24,363 --> 00:14:26,115
Me!
I never left.

396
00:14:26,198 --> 00:14:28,450
But you had to think all this
happened to make that.

397
00:14:28,534 --> 00:14:30,160
And I can get this
through the titles?

398
00:14:30,244 --> 00:14:31,537
If you hang on tight.

399
00:14:31,620 --> 00:14:33,455
What about my beard
and unborn child?

400
00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:35,499
Let them go.
Thank you, Leon.

401
00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:36,667
When you get home, Rick,

402
00:14:36,750 --> 00:14:38,294
do some classic adventures.

403
00:14:38,377 --> 00:14:40,504
Like season one...
I'm so sick of that
fucking note.

404
00:14:40,588 --> 00:14:43,549
What the fuck does it even mean?

405
00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:49,388
Ohh!

406
00:14:49,471 --> 00:14:52,141
Now, one last time.

407
00:14:52,224 --> 00:14:54,268
What's my motivation?
Motivation.

408
00:14:54,351 --> 00:14:57,313
This machine will siphon it
from everyone in the universe.

409
00:14:57,396 --> 00:14:59,815
Perfect. Greenlit.
Launch it.

410
00:15:02,776 --> 00:15:04,361
Oh, I think it's working!

411
00:15:04,445 --> 00:15:05,779
Yes, I can feel it!

412
00:15:05,863 --> 00:15:08,657
Something I did
is actually affecting someone!

413
00:15:12,161 --> 00:15:13,579
I don't want to work anymore.

414
00:15:13,662 --> 00:15:17,666
I do, but only as an excuse
to not practice guitar.

415
00:15:22,004 --> 00:15:24,923
Why don't we just write any
number down on the score sheet?

416
00:15:25,007 --> 00:15:26,300
Oh, why even do that?

417
00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:32,139
Wait, you have to register?

418
00:15:32,222 --> 00:15:34,350
Yes!
I can feel it!

419
00:15:34,433 --> 00:15:37,019
I'm so motivated!

420
00:15:37,102 --> 00:15:39,772
I want... a lot!

421
00:15:41,106 --> 00:15:42,691
Story time's over.

422
00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:44,360
Ha!
Hardly your decision.

423
00:15:44,443 --> 00:15:47,863
Did you seriously double down on
motivation as your motivation?

424
00:15:47,946 --> 00:15:49,073
It's a good idea!

425
00:15:49,156 --> 00:15:50,199
There's no such thing!

426
00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:51,700
There's joyful
and there's joyless,

427
00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:53,035
and we've had our fill of one.

428
00:15:53,118 --> 00:15:54,828
Morty, make that sweaty writer
stop working

429
00:15:54,912 --> 00:15:56,789
while I kill off his character.

430
00:15:56,872 --> 00:16:00,751
I have never been more driven
to destroy someone.

431
00:16:00,834 --> 00:16:02,395
Yeah, well, I'm driven
to lower my blood sugar

432
00:16:02,419 --> 00:16:05,047
but guess who's getting tacos
after he kicks your ass?

433
00:16:06,256 --> 00:16:08,300
So you're jacked.
Who cares?

434
00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:09,802
Cum gutters.

435
00:16:09,885 --> 00:16:12,221
I don't like that phrase.
I don't take notes.

436
00:16:17,351 --> 00:16:18,852
You can't beat me, Rick.

437
00:16:18,936 --> 00:16:21,438
I have one million times
your motivation!

438
00:16:21,522 --> 00:16:24,900
So do those guys with the
cellphone kiosks at the mall.

439
00:16:50,050 --> 00:16:51,218
The hair is wrong.

440
00:16:51,301 --> 00:16:53,137
Like you'd be picky
about licensing.

441
00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:55,931
Actually, I would.
I happen to believe that...

442
00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:03,105
You can do that?

443
00:17:03,188 --> 00:17:04,481
You got to want it.

444
00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:06,942
Come on, just stop.
I-I don't want to fight you.

445
00:17:07,025 --> 00:17:09,695
Kid, I'm a writer that wrote
something successful.

446
00:17:09,778 --> 00:17:11,280
So if you want me to give it up,

447
00:17:11,363 --> 00:17:13,449
you're gonna need a black belt
or a big pair of tits.

448
00:17:13,532 --> 00:17:14,772
Yeah, well, I don't have those.

449
00:17:14,825 --> 00:17:17,035
Campbell: In the mythical sense,
I have both.

450
00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:18,162
Joseph Campbell?

451
00:17:18,245 --> 00:17:19,788
Yeah, nice try.
He died in the '80s.

452
00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:22,207
Only you can see and hear me,
Morty.

453
00:17:22,291 --> 00:17:23,393
Just repeat what I tell you.

454
00:17:23,417 --> 00:17:25,461
Okay.

455
00:17:25,544 --> 00:17:28,255
Sir, you're only proud of
your creation's success

456
00:17:28,338 --> 00:17:29,965
because you want to be creative,

457
00:17:30,048 --> 00:17:32,092
but creation doesn't happen
through gimmicks,

458
00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:33,635
technology, and distribution.

459
00:17:33,719 --> 00:17:35,387
It doesn't even happen
through work.

460
00:17:35,471 --> 00:17:38,640
Creativity is frankly adjacent
to mental illness and overlaps

461
00:17:38,724 --> 00:17:39,892
with it substantially.

462
00:17:39,975 --> 00:17:41,535
A lot of talented people
kill themselves

463
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:42,978
and all of them are miserable.

464
00:17:43,061 --> 00:17:45,481
The real gift is to be ungifted,

465
00:17:45,564 --> 00:17:47,983
and from what I saw
in your Green Arrow spec script,

466
00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:49,526
that's the gift you were given.

467
00:17:49,610 --> 00:17:51,195
You couldn't have seen that.

468
00:17:51,278 --> 00:17:53,238
I'm Joseph Campbell.
I saw it.

469
00:17:53,322 --> 00:17:54,507
The villain was a placeholder.

470
00:17:54,531 --> 00:17:55,783
I said I saw it, Jan.

471
00:17:55,866 --> 00:17:57,618
I didn't say
I could get past page five.

472
00:17:57,701 --> 00:17:59,328
Y-Your villains
aren't the problem.

473
00:17:59,411 --> 00:18:02,164
The problem is, when you write,
you're a villain.

474
00:18:02,247 --> 00:18:04,792
If you want to be a hero,
just stop.

475
00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:14,510
You know what?
Maybe I will register.

476
00:18:14,593 --> 00:18:18,222
Say it! Tell me
I'm the new Mr. Nimbus!

477
00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:22,017
Oh, looks like your writer
took a hiatus.

478
00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:23,393
Oh, fuck.

479
00:18:23,477 --> 00:18:25,145
You're less motivated
to fight now,

480
00:18:25,229 --> 00:18:27,731
so this is literally punching
down, but you've got it coming.

481
00:18:30,275 --> 00:18:32,069
Please, let me live.

482
00:18:32,152 --> 00:18:33,529
I promise to be cooler.

483
00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:37,032
I'll be less inside baseball.
Maybe I change my name?

484
00:18:37,115 --> 00:18:38,115
Ow!

485
00:18:39,618 --> 00:18:41,119
You failed me.

486
00:18:41,203 --> 00:18:44,081
No, I failed you.

487
00:18:45,457 --> 00:18:49,002
All good things
must come to an end-

488
00:18:49,086 --> 00:18:51,964
All bad things too, though,
so don't flatter yourself.

489
00:18:52,047 --> 00:18:53,257
Jan, Joseph Campbell says

490
00:18:53,340 --> 00:18:54,883
you have to be the one
to put him down.

491
00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:57,094
Wait, wait, wait,
Joseph Campbell also says

492
00:18:57,177 --> 00:19:00,305
you have to use this brand-new
limited edition Rick plush,

493
00:19:00,389 --> 00:19:03,058
available only on
rick-plush.biz.

494
00:19:03,141 --> 00:19:04,560
Supplies are limited.
Act now.

495
00:19:04,643 --> 00:19:05,894
He did?

496
00:19:11,358 --> 00:19:13,652
Shhh.

497
00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:20,158
Jesus, that's the last time
I buy a toy from a Rick.

498
00:19:20,242 --> 00:19:22,828
Ooh, the plushies
are obviously well made.

499
00:19:28,166 --> 00:19:29,710
Thanks for getting us
back alive, Rick.

500
00:19:29,793 --> 00:19:32,588
Well, I am a master
of both worlds, Morty.

501
00:19:34,548 --> 00:19:37,175
Joseph Campbell told me
to stop writing.

502
00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:38,844
Because it should be effortless.

503
00:19:38,927 --> 00:19:41,155
And when it happens organically,
that's when it's meant to be.

504
00:19:41,179 --> 00:19:42,890
You know, like, um, like me.

505
00:19:42,973 --> 00:19:45,309
I'm a writer, here's a pencil.
Writers use pencils.

506
00:19:45,392 --> 00:19:46,995
Okay, so, like, what if, like,
a pencil used me?

507
00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:48,896
Like, um... okay!
Yeah!

508
00:19:48,979 --> 00:19:50,772
Okay, so it's like
a magic pencil

509
00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:52,441
that writes the writer's life...

510
00:19:52,524 --> 00:19:56,111
Holy shit, it's a movie
about a writer!

511
00:19:56,194 --> 00:19:58,363
I am back!

512
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:32,272
Yeah, I'm Tag-Man!

513
00:20:32,356 --> 00:20:34,816
I-I-I-I live in the tag!

514
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,652
I-I-I am the tag!

515
00:20:36,735 --> 00:20:37,736
I'm Tag-Man!

516
00:20:37,819 --> 00:20:39,154
Tag...
Tag of the episode... man!

517
00:20:39,237 --> 00:20:40,656
"Did you get any of that?"

518
00:20:40,739 --> 00:20:42,592
When the... yeah, when
an episode's over, look out,

519
00:20:42,616 --> 00:20:44,868
because, yaaaah,
here comes Tag-Man!

520
00:20:44,952 --> 00:20:47,496
And I'm... I'm crazy!
Tag-Man!

521
00:20:47,579 --> 00:20:50,499
Yeah!
I'm... I'mma tag your ass!

522
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:51,792
Tag that ass.

523
00:20:51,875 --> 00:20:53,210
Tag-Ass-Man!

524
00:20:53,293 --> 00:20:55,087
I'm an Ass-Man now!

525
00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:56,421
I'm a... I'm a Tag-Man!

526
00:20:56,505 --> 00:20:58,340
Here's what you get.
Here's your tag!

527
00:20:58,423 --> 00:21:00,050
Yeah, you want some more?

528
00:21:00,133 --> 00:21:02,111
You want... you want some more
tag you sick piece of shit?!

529
00:21:02,135 --> 00:21:05,138
I'm... because I'm Tag-Man!

530
00:21:05,222 --> 00:21:06,640
I miss my wife.

531
00:21:06,723 --> 00:21:08,517
Too bad.
This is it!

532
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,394
Tag-Man, yeah!

533
00:21:11,979 --> 00:21:13,480
Did you get any of that?