Film Theory: Rick's Final Chance! (Rick and Morty Season 4) 

He forgot to mention that on top of all the things Jerry got back in this season he also got his on spin off show, invisible garbage truck Jerry.

“At least I’m still a pretty good friend” saddest part of rick and morty yet

Hundred years… but now you’ve retired

you should’ve also included the fact that the “new” galactic federation pointed out that “he’s a non threat if he’s left alone.”

“Jerry saves his own life” - by crashing a plane and killing 300+ people lol

You can't be an important character in Rick and Morty if you haven't ruled over a civilization at least once in your life

"ARE YOU DYING OF DEMENTIA?" That might be my favorite Morty quote of all time.

“She becomes a all powerful archer” Ignores the fact she shoots the dragon in the eye

The fact that the show has been on for almost 8 years is just crazy

Im stilll waiting for season 9 when rick gets that seshuan sauce

"100years film's and theories" didnt age like fine wine😢

My brain at 3 A.M.: "Heh. Snake jazz."

"When did you get so cocky?" "TONIGHT RICK, TONIGHT WHEN I SAW YOU FAIL" A cocky Morty is no good for anyone

In the Vat of Acid episode, even Jessica tells Morty how she see his character changed.

My theory, Rick is sad because at the end of the day he knows for everyone else to win he has to lose. For his family to stand on their own two feet they have to not need him. In fact he seems to have experienced this several times already.

I theorize that next season will be Rick spending less time with the family as they all act like he's no longer needed, where as he stays away throughout a large chunk of the season, the family starts to revert back to hating one another (Both Beths starting to see Jerry in a far worse light, the kids getting on each other's nerves, Morty starting to become more egotistical while also starting to feel out of place everywhere as his purpose left). It'll end with everyone realizing that Rick was essential to the family and that without him, everything falls apart.

Jerry just knows he’s the guy that says “hey” and he is happy. Great character arc

Anyone else think that maybe Rick goes to see his wife again just to ask for advice because of how bad he messed up? Like in a dream or memory or maybe make a clone of her? I really feel like he’s gonna be super depressed and not know how to really fix things and he’s gonna get so messed up that he sees Diane or something.

Fascinating . The writers literally used their situation to their advantage .

1:22 This part hits hard now 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I bet he'll come back a better person, but no one will believe him, to the point where they push him back into his toxic ways.

Imagine Rick just wiping out his family's memory and starting again.

18:06 "maybe revisiting people and places from his past as he tries to prove himself to be a good friend, heck a good person." thats litterally the whole of season 5 episode 8.... good job matt!!!!!

9:50 Rick did not abandon Beth. Rick told her that he was going to deal with Zeus and Beth agreed

Imagine someone who has never watched rick and morty watching this.

to be fair, they rag on rick for deleting his memory but beth dropped a pretty heavy choice on him , and it's better to not know if the beth he lives with is the real one

I love how you're touching on how the show is a reflection of the creators & their tribulations as respective creators of the show, especially how Dan Harmon was in hot water for creeping on a co-worker

"he recognizes that he's a jerk to everyone around him but he doesn't DO anything about it." this is me but with depression and not having any drive. I recognize it, but don't DO anything about it

matpat: jerry is aware that he is a loser and has made peace with the fact, all he needs is his family jerry: I AM THE JESUS CHRIST OF CHRISTMAS!!!!!

When did you get so cocky. S1E10 “a cocky Morty can lead to some serious problems.”

they could make rick and morty be like bojack horseman, have a huge overarching story but have the random episodes that set up a bigger story for down the line. A big example being the episode where diane and bojack find a dead whale and it sets up diane and mr peanutbutters relationship falling.

I'm studying media and I had an exam about media analysis. Honestly your work is so good! Love your videos and your way of analysing even for those who don't have background information on media analysis. Still you take many things in consideration other professionals would mention in an essay. Really nice approach of giving your audience a deep look into media in general!

Plot twist: We see Ford and Stan Pines again in Season 5 teaming up with Rick

Maybe Rick will ask Doofus Rick and learn why out of all the Ricks he's actually happy.

"Save his own life" At the cost of an entire airplane and all its passengers

I love how everyone is watching the same show, the same dialogues but this guy is truly engaging with the media and by extension the writers who've put their heart and soul into this. I'm sure if there are any Rick and Morty writers watching this, they'd be teary-eyed that someone appreciates their work so much and is so effectively vocalising their intent for the general public. :)

"She died the way she lived, overserialized" It could be why they killed Tammy in such an anti dramatic way. It's like them saying: BAM there, she's dead, we're done with her, moving on.

The end of the series is going to be rick killing himself just to remember that he can't die officially as his morty is eventually just going to upload him to his clone. Im calling it now

"ARE YOU DYING OF DEMENTIA?!" Cracks me up every time

I just realized it's been a long time since Rick said wubba lubba dub dub

Invisible garbage truck Jerry, your skills are required for a job.

"A cocky Morty could lead to some big problems. Could be a real bad thing for everybody." Was season four Evil Morty's origin story?

"the show that will go on forever" but at what cost

A lot of these themes are touched on a bit in season 5. Pretty good theories and analysis of the characters.

I imagine there's gonna be an episode where Rick shows up and he's just like the best person ever. He's nice, he's supportive and encouraging, he's optimistic, and the family won't be able to stand it.

I swear to god if this show starts making me respect Jerry I’m gonna throw myself into a wormhole.

They should have one season where it turns out the entire season-long arc is Rick's master plan to get Szechuan sauce.

"The show thatll go on forever" hits different now that matpats going

I feel bad because Rick was stuck between giving his daughter the adventure/life he believed she wanted or holding her back again so she can be with her dad. He really couldn’t decide, I feel so bad for him.

"He is no longer the worm that we saw him as in season two" No I'm not sure about that...

Rick is changing with the family, if the family didn't change he wouldn't

"Rick is broken" Didn't take a film theory to know that

He could try and go cure his original dimension as some kind of arc

Now that season 4 is over, only one question remains: When can we expect a spin-off series about Jerry and his invisible garbage truck?

1:04 now we know it may be forever but not forever with mat pat

Thank you all for making these videos, they make me laugh

The way Rick changes is being a bad dad now bothers him

It really was a really big revelation when Morty said : "grab a shovel, the granpa you love is buried in the backyard" O.o

I just watched the whole series for the first time, and now I'm watching all these old theories. :)

100 episodes, we are down to less than 10, We LOVE you MattPatt

Jerry's "father of the year" sarcastic comment, TWICE, is surely quite savage

I feel like writers never anticipated the popularity of the show, and now they are kinda trapped by the complexity of the show, like how would you ever end this show? Its impossible.

In retrospect (after having watched season 5) your predictions are spot on, mainly because of your very insightful analysis.

I think Rick is literally afraid to change. One of the ricks ignored their hyper-intelligence and made a family. The other ricks took him and used his happy memories as a snack bar. Maybe Rick is afraid of standing out from the hardcore cold hearted grandpas running around with portal guns and drug addictions.

I hate Jerry for undoing Morty’s life with the one brown haired girl

Did anyone realize how rick almost never used his portal gun this season

i just realized as i watch this episode again, in 1:17 the film Theory Logo is yellow just like the food theroy logo which, at the time of this video released, is just a few months away, so this was a hint by you, nice stuff

17:53 Try like a week since that video aired

The “glass drinking digestive tube” imagery was pretty horrifying.

Rick only cares about himself and everyone in the family is like 25 percent rick so that’s why he cares for everyone but jerry (Edited) didn’t expect people to see this comment but thanks for the likes

I have thought about this too long so I just write here for you all: I really like Ricks Charakter in the Show. I like it how most of the time he doesn’t care about some alien or human life. But at the same time I want him to change. I want him to care more about his family, friends etc. Because it feels like he has feelings for them, but he just doesn’t show them. Maybe because his wife left him and he wanted to change? (If there is an answer for ricks wife or something like that in season 5, don’t Spoiler me. I am from Germany and waiting for it to come to Netflix). After his wife left him he worked more for his science Projekts. After he knew how big the univers is and how much timelines there are, he started to think that his life doesn’t really matter because he and his family are just a little point in the hole thing just like Mat Said. I wish he changes his thoughts about the „I don’t care for my family“ thing. I want him to care about morty, Sommer, Beth and Jerry but I don’t want him to care too much. I like how he insults them and it’s funny and all of them know there he actually cares for them so it’s okay! To be honest: I would be a little sad, if the 5th season is more like Summer and morty than Rick and morty. I personally don’t like summer but I kinda understand her how she feels when Rick and morty do everything together. It would be cool that Rick starts to care for his family when he is on adventures with morty. I am really exited for season 5 and can’t wait till it’s on German Netflix :D Ps: I don’t really care about the grammar right now, I just want to say what I think about this hole situation :D

That was really good. A lot better than I thought it would be. Props.

season 1 - evil morty season 2 - no evil morty season 3 - evil morty season 4 - no evil morty Season 5 will most likely have Evil Morty.

Maybe the final nail to shatter Rick's ego is "Evil Morty", who'll prove that even his "smartest man in the universe" title, the very thing that makes him "him", isn't even true. Evil Morty might turn out to be the smartest man in existence. Not just in the whole universe, not just in every universe, but in everything that there is. Maybe a little too overboard, but that might be what's needed to stop Rick from changing the world, and instead to change himself.

"I AM THE JESUS CHRIST OF CHRISTMAS!" Best things Jerry has ever said

When the power grid finally fails, I feel like matpat will turn into one of those crazy homeless people on the street, rambling about film theories to anyone who wants to listen.

Don’t be surprised if Rick becomes the Heisenberg of this show and causes everyone (including the other versions of himself) to hate him.

my guess is that we will mysteriously see rick getting along with the whole family(no space beth) in the start of season 5, meanwhile space beth, morty, and summer are tracking him down through the multiverse through his past, finding the Journey that led him to this point, to convince him to "come Home" or something Else

18:06 spot on with season 5 episode 1

Looking back, knowing that Rick's original family is dead gives much more layers to his realization that he's a bad father

"Rick is depressed and realizes the consequences of his actions" Kind of a theme with your R&M videos, huh Matpat?

I think Rick's final scene is like pretty representative of how he sees love; he sees both the effects of the subjective and objective weight of humanity, and when faced with the problem of "which do you want, to leave family and love behind or keep them around" he doesnt know which he wants hence why he does the mixes them up without him knowing. You see his reaction when faced with the decision, and he chose not to remember it because he hated how his indecisiveness made him feel since he wants to be decisive in everything.

sitting here watching a bunch of the R&M theories because of the 5th season coming out tomorrow noticing he made this video saying wed have to wait a while yet its been just over a year weve waited

For me, I see an easy way to be serialized and episodic. The show exists in a reality with a multiverse, we can follow the adventures of several different Rick realities, as well as have random episodes about random Rick realities. We already have a few versions of Rick and Morty introduced to us, we can see their back stories as well as random adventures with them. The show should really be able to have their characters do anything and everything

“Jerry do something!” “hey” “Everyone drop your gun, except Jerry” Jerry drop his gun anyway “Classic Jerry”

honestly, I really enjoy whenever mat takes episodes with a sort of philosophical take. coming from a pretty toxic family myself, it's really nice to see that they can find their own identity and maybe become stronger

I think the 1:30 rant was about how he ate the McNugget Seshwan sauce and how it probably had some... stuff in it.

I saw this video way back in 2020 came back just to hear you rant loved this vid

Film theory is my new philosophy class and Matpat is my teacher

Ok I know that MatPat is most likely not going to see this but it’s worth a try. MatPat there is a show called “Over the Garden Wall” and i would love to see a theory on it. -it’s about 2 brothers lost in a forest and being stalked by the beast. It’s like gravity Falls but more gloomy. I know you’re not gonna see this but yeah it’s a good show. Very short and you can watch it in a day.

your videos are insane, always help give the show a deeper meaning! bravo man

dang y’all lookin so deep into these characters, meanwhile i’m jus over here enjoying a funny cartoon

I wonder, in 3 years how my life will look like when the new rick and morty season releases

I'm gonna take this a step further. The whole season was also about Morty being the representation of serialization. The vat of acid episode is the only episode this season where we see Rick use his portal gun to go into a different dimension. He specifically tells Morty that he wasn't going to ruin THEIR world just to teach him a lesson. In the end the solution for Morty's problem was getting back in the fake vat of acid, in other words, return to the episodic show style so they can begin and end every episode however they want with no consequences. The same with the episode about the death crystals. Morty saw that he was going to die an almost infinite number of different ways but tried to follow the path that would lead him to a singular conclusion. The first step in that was getting rid of Rick. Rick's presence keeps the show episodic and ever changing. In the end Morty discovers that the happy endings are not always good after all and learned the lesson that things don't need to wrapped up. They can be left chaotic and just suddenly stop and that's okay.

I feel like they've made it to be like real life, there's always something happening with everyone we've ever met whether we see it or not and sometimes eventually those people may reappear in your life and affect you, but not so much so that you should read so deeply into every meeting and occurrence in your life.

I am very happy how you explained this very well. It’s very well explained.. good freaking job!

“Then what do you like?” -My parents when my sister complains about what food she doesn’t like

did anyone see the sign in "vat of acid" held by a guy saying cannibalism is a choice? It shows up 17.22.

I imagine the character Rick being emotionally broken, and so that is what I think about the character from the show series of (RICK & MORTY).

Listening to the whole lil universe part made me realize how much of a genius Matt is