Film Theory: What is the Cat HIDING? (Rick and Morty Season 4) 

Gus Ballenger this is hands down on the money I reckon mate legitimately a very good theory

bonzai wynter thanks means a lot 😃

Maybe HP lovecraft stuff? Im waiting for that... For 4 seasons....

or its telepathic.

Also they told not to go away but get out (of their heads or what?).

Wow OK that puts things into perspective I mean rick has done horrible things so yea

unity did it

Thats just it, Rick isn't that shaken that quickly. Rick is usually driven to hopelessness over time to long standing trauma and occasionally fixes it, the mind scan of the cat and his reaction was unnatural. It must've been unspeakably horrible.

@Xeno The Strange he's repeatedly ATTEMPTED it as well, but between his own failing out of drunken incompetence...and Morty's established proficiency at defusing Rick's EXPLOSIVE attempts at suicide... Rick is amazingly still here. One can only wonder how many OTHER Ricks have *SUCCEEDED* at killing themselves or destroying the entire species...

Bill Cypher

Flonky

But satisfaction brought it back.

I just simultaneously whipped and nae nae

@@sefaandmaniatadegei9345 Thats hot

@@yurdadsdad thank u

Curiosity will get you killed by the cat

Now I await this meme

@@KirosSkye I'm honestly surprised it hasn't been thought up before lol

It actually could because Taylor swift is in one scene of the episode 🤔

@@maloku4619 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@@maloku4619 Yo wth I didn't know Game Theory had a secret channel named Maloku

This could be a possible theory

This cat made me feel sick

With all respect. You are disgusting for coming up with all of this and I don't know if I should be interested or suicidal after reading this. Good job I guess

You own 3 minutes of my life, spoke and spoke and did not speak nothing

@@dll3409 good, you can't buy time back after all haha

Yes

Maybe the box the cat is in is a metaphor for the fourth wall.

... How... How do you immediately recognize the sound of a chainsaw in flesh?

@@joeyward2662 groovy

@@joeyward2662 Experimentation...

And also the nicest thing that Rick did for Jerry. “Someone will.”

Random Person the only time rick was nice to jerry.

TheJestor “I didn’t respect your marriage, I certainly didn’t do any favours and for what it’s worth, I will apologize to Beth for it when we get home.” What do you mean by only time?

@@thejestor9378 Well he helped Jerry to hang the christmas decorations and hid the fact that he messed up from Beth

I still hate Jerry.

I was wondering if anyone else got it! I'm glad I'm not alone.

Fred Lopez thank you!

A cat box... hmmm

"But the satisfaction brought it back."

SuperCAPO81 you’re the reason i hate the r&m fandom

he knew it was a show since ep 1

I doubt it cause whatever they saw happened in his house

I never noticed that aspect of the situation. Very interesting.

So true It also made him point a gun at himself

@@g_.06 yep, it was so disturbing Rick almost blew his own head off.

I like the theory that it showed Rick and Jerry being lovers, really the only way I could imagine Rick wanting to clear Jerry's mind of it while also being so disgusting, he considered suicide

i can't like ur comment its at 420

Exactly he has to be some higher being trapped in a cat's body

Bill cipher

@@DinaeshM that would be epic

Its weinstein

@@DinaeshM or Schrodinger's cat.

Fax 😂

It was definitely horrific that narrows it down

its called A Serbian Film. Don't look it up!

@@Nytemare2all Overhyped movie. Not that great.

That was my thought... I _really_ don't want to think about that, but he failed to mention the sounds.

@@BeckyNosferatu You mean the sound of marching? And the sound of Starcraft Academy scream? (That sound haunts me to this day still , Jesus christ that sound was haunting)

@@coldfusionstormgaming1808 hahah yeah, all the background sounds were more like... a war going on over something sexual... unless uh... he was doing something to dead bodies... >_>

How many times has he done it though

@@seandoyle6104 well this would be the second we know of

what about when he went to prison to save his family?

FFAceDemon nah it was a plan to collapse of the government

@@floxersadd4952 alright i'll give you that one lol

because he’s a Garfield reference. Watch Doc and Marthi in The Bathroom. Start at 1:53.

ummm mind powers

because it biologically cannot.

Bcs the cat is bill cipher duuh

@@sttefandimaggio duh does anybody here watch gravity falls (btw that is a great answer)

That's honestly not a bad point. The other thing I could maybe see is if he was created intentionally with that purpose in mind, but I think I like your idea better. Sounds a lot more interesting to explore.

hola samuel. laughing emojiiii

The cat also really seems to want people to ask it why it can talk when its on the boat.

@@MrDankTM shalom jod crying emoji

Samuel Feinstein Ancient Egypt has been explained.

Try's.. aha

@Meaty Yeety yare yare daze

I read it as Rick's trying to, wtf

Cri Lune I’m scared thinking about this st....f

How????

LoLz!

Ha to true dude!!!🎉

This is the real theory.

Didnt episode 5 season 4 had time travel

@@lawyi4056 Thats the joke lol The creators said they would never use time travel because its been over done and contrived. :D

Yup we'll probably never even get a hint or Easter egg about the cat just so fans try to comb every frame to find anything about cat

I will help you and you’re a challenge to get 5000 subscribers it’s a daunting task especially without a profile pic of a hot woman

Your channel idea is as original as Instagram beach selfies

@@IsaiahAmos017 yep that's true 4 years and I'm only at 400 subs...

Like literally every Rick and Morty fan theory

Poopy

Rick and Jerry were also yelling “get out” so maybe they were telling him to get out of their heads

@@biscuitboy9861 Wow, great point! Matpat says @ 5:04 that they yell "go away" but they're actually yelling "get out". That's kind of a strange thing to say outdoors.

Another thing: Rick doesn't consider killing the cat, but turns the gun on himself.

Or what if it's a humongous creature who can literally mind control cats and talks like hes there

Although this is a good way to look at it, i think the whole "talking cat but mouth never moves" things is a Garfield reference. At least in older cartoons Garfield's mouth didnt move when he spoke. And almost no one was asking questions about why Garfield is not an ordinary cat. Jon can definitely hear and understand him, but looks like he's the only one (other than Oddie)

Oh! That’s horrifying, I’d be as scared or disgusted as jerry and rick

I... its to much for me!!! Noooop ahahhahahahhhhh ahhahahh ahah ahahahahhahahah help me no no no... its to much for me!

XD

I... i cant handel it...

@@geilesgesicht4046 Then you should build the same memory wiping gun.

Recognized it after 4 mins in the video that it was "one of those videos ". Skipped to the last 3 mins and was right. Lol

His videos are lame

@@nijamagi1031 D:‹

Nijamagi no

I'm thinking this guy is made for politics, I have been reading the comments for minutes and he still ain't said nothing important.

lol

lol

lol

lol

Sanquira had to mess up the flow

Kinda hated how he didnt give us like a guess of what it was he just said "oh his parents, now let's talk about how you dont want to know answers or some bs for like 10 mins"

Pial legend

Karina Cat whats your sc

He didn't even factor in the sounds from mind reader device.

@Karina Cat no thanks

Long answer: “Idk... *15 minutes later* idk it doesn’t matter.”

Short answer: idk Long answer: I don’t know

Short answer: idk lol Long answer: I don't know laugh out loud.

What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? ... I don't know, and I don't care!

halfway thru glad i scanned comments, f this

This comment is underrated

Nah, the cat was a pirate

THE WHOLE PLANETS ON A COB

No Pirates on the cob

What if the cat was THE COB

this is the episode message

Carlos Silva well in this case, curiosity kicked the cat, twice

but satisfaction brought it back.

At least towards Jerry

@@bingbonghafu yea

@Adnan Yusuf I don’t disagree.

@Adnan Yusuf wth

@Adnan Yusuf um

Don't ask too many questions.

Don’t ask questions, you don’t wanna know.

Film Theory: What is the Cat HIDING? Answer: Don't ask questions. Me: Y Dafuk did I watch your video then??

hi xd. laughing emojiiii

Infinity Dragon it was a stale video

Oof that's deep

But he can never say what he did although he may talk

that sounds about right.

Huuuuh.... you might have it there.

Is it really? Wild

Spicy Mario Bois about the cat?...

Coconut no of everything else

Devant Art

Maybe they hoped that it will inspire a meme.

AHEM "Morty and Rick rule 34"AHEM

HAH

It was how boring the series would become if the audience keep pushing the crew to make more perfect content with fans trying to find meanin in everything

Just saying, Infinity Train was disappointing

Mordomo Sá Nah I think it was rlly good

@@mrgastn Me: *cough *cough yeah matpat 0:55 *cough *cough Mattpat : 11:29

Good theory

"But satisfaction brought it back" so maybe he will come back

Specific Stuff the cat doesn’t open it’s mouth so it could work

Also jerry got the powers from being taught by the alien not by getting it on

Gertz TV it was both

Gertz TV He soul bonded with her. Note how he no longer seems to have them

I'm sorry Jerry WHAT!?

First reply of manyyy

Okay, but it's a memory scanner. What they saw was from the cat's point of view. And he was licking himself, like all cats do... … think about that...

Interesting but the cat was in the house where Jerry haves photo of his parents

that wouldnt explain y he talks tho...

I’m also one of the first replys

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂made my night😚

😭

Lol that would have been to Easy

You just broke my funny bone

Disgust is the Natural Reaction in some Situations. That's something a lot don't seem to know in this oh so modern Society. Tolerance is so Hyped that people actually came to think that everything and anything under all circumstances needs to be Tolerated. Yes, that's a Mindset. And it's spreading. Like a disease. I see so many Disgusting things, even on RU-vid, but it's ok for RU-vid as long as it's maked '18+' (or not even that!), and its more than Ok for Viewers. Viewers are often Fans of disgusting things, evidend by good Old (Messed up) RU-vid.

Yh that would be good then we can see what they saw

Ye

an equally valid theory, lets talk over hear...

nah don't want that. leave it a mystery. way more fun

Yessss plssssss ADULT SWIM YOU LISTENING?!?!

Lmao right??

Thanks. You saved me time from him just rambling on and on without actually giving answers

Not only idk lol, but 19minutes of idk lol

Chris Evans fr

Sif Greyfang your welcome

The answer is in the episode. You can literally hear what is happening in cat´s memory.

@@kubahavlicek1933 so what is it?

@@kubahavlicek1933 Elaborate.

@Comment War Ender Rick was disgusted by looking at common Purge so why coundn´t answer be that the cat is just brutal murder/torture/raping machine. Why should answer be something difficult.

Kuba havlíček because if you purchased the season pass through iTunes, the extras have commentary from all the writers. They clearly state, including Harmon, that the cat has no prior attachment & was just a fun meta commentary. There isn’t a definitive answer. If you’re such a super fan or the omnipotent being you think you are then direct to your attention to the people who wrote the show who have given an answer. Your assumptions are far off base & completely incorrect. Also, Rick wouldn’t be disgusted by that. Much doesn’t phase him & he was pro purge in the cat episode.

Curiosity killed the cat

@@gilbertmubangizi3076 maybe, maybe not. We won't know until the box is opened

Conceptually, it reminds me of the Lovecraftian concept as well. Less "Don't think about it," and more "You don't wanna know."

DekuShrub 99 banana poop lol of cream cheese strawberry bagel from that no no mo mo aw aw teee free meeee beeeeee lweeeeeeee

@@Super-or9fm are you ok?

Super Savage what happened

"He's too dangerous to be left alive!"

@@Super-or9fm gg? Tru Tru big reee oof stinky poopoo oh boi iweee weee stinky stink

exactly

Nineteen actualy

He can stretch anything up to 18 minutes

Copout spotted

but somehow none of you could summarize it neither could i, i skipped past most of it blah blah

In fairness, the Aristocats didn't need to explain why the animals talk for the same reason 101 Dalmatians didn't: They never spoke to the humans in the way the humans could understand. Granted, both those movies have bigger questions whose only answer is, "It's a Disney movie," like how Duchess could teach her kittens how to paint, sing, and play piano without Edgar or the heiress noticing or how Pongo and Perdy could bring home 84 more puppies covered in soot with no explanation as to where they came from, but that's besides the point. The cats meow and the dogs bark whenever people are the focal characters of the scene. In contrast, The Cat speaks directly to the humans in Rick and Morty. I think Roger and Anita would've definitely been more concerned if their dogs blatantly said, "Cruella definitely took our puppies," and the heiress would probably think she'd gone crazy had she heard Marie singing Scales and Arpeggios, and therein lies the difference. In all three cases it is firmly established that normal animals cannot speak human languages, making it a foregone conclusion that any situation counteracting that fact without an explanation would be questioned. I just realized that I wrote what amounts to a thesis paragraph in a RU-vid comment section, but I'm posting this reply anyway because I spent too much time on this train of thought to just delete it.

@@NutmegBGB LMFAO- oh my lord, props to you for writing that but yeah you’re right, bad example

@@NutmegBGB ppl like you make me still have hope for humans Stop it

@@fistermcsploogeyesquire8412 What about my way too long paragraph helped restore your faith in humanity, if I may ask?

Thanks Ace saved me from watching the 3 minutes of him explaining gag reflex

Ashley Christine 9 lives

The Early Bird gets the Worm, The Second Mouse gets the Cheese.

Better late than never, better never late.

GG you literally took this man's job 😂

GG you literally took this man's job 😂

Wow true

in other word, Florida.

If no one asked questions everyone would be ignorant

@@rashadpreston7389 that's the point, just like in any dictatorship regime

found the whole brain scan scene to be reminiscent of Se7en's "what's in the box?!?"

Did you have to use the word "literally"?

It was a light bulb and a battery lol

It's called a Mcguffin and is a popular film trope to be the motivation of the plot without actually being resolved...other e.g. Marty's debt in Fargo, One Piece in One Piece, the woman's breifcase of money in Psycho, the breifcase of money in No Country for Old Men...

@TheBrodsterBoy until you knew it was a light bulb it could have been anything in that suitcase.. A pandora s box, maybe some dark magic stuff, a magic crack pipe, who knows

Nope, bet you they never touch this again. Any possible answer or hint they'd give would be unsatisfying, so it'll stay a mystery

oo maybe hehe

Nope. The next episode has nothing to do with the cat but good guess

HI PPL The next episode wasn’t the final

@@morgansanders9846 there are still 5 more episodes to season 4.

abdabisme ikr I was thinking the same thing

This might a joke, but in case it isn’t, he said that in sarcasm, I THINK

He was saying it to get out of hanging with the dragon in sarcasm

It's not the final episode in the season they are dropping in batches, they got approved for like 80 more episodes

sup abdab. laughing emojiiii

So simple.

@Miguel Messina thanx ima go check that one out, this was a long winded video for nothing.

@@kashrager3888 Thats Matpat a lot of the time...

Was it that time you killed 2 people in Ireland?

@@doofus33 who? Your mom?

With my 42nd like I just gave you the answer to life universe and everything

What does this have to do with Florida?

But they aren't human. They're Republicans.

Thats florida men for ya

Bruh cmon man🤣🤣

Yep

Yeah... unfortunately, that still leaves the idea of the cat... _yeah..._

Disgusting

Toy Store! Wow Dr. Tran really sticks in memory

@@charlescannon2469 IM NOT A DOCTOR

Mabye the cat was killing his parents in his room there were SCREAMS.

Mat cat*

@@marinadavies1917 catpat

Johnny Nightmare catcat

hi luke. laughing emojiiii

"But satisfaction brought it back" Is the end of the quote but I'd like to leave you with this, the end scene with the dragon looking for ... , satisfaction. The cat came back

ahaaaaaa good one

@@rhondaelliott2558 ahaaaaa even better one

Thats why the cat didnt ask questions 🤔

No ignorance did curiosity was framed

Haha and rick almost killed himself because of it, and with how muhc jerry was throwing up its a posdiblity that he coulda probably died from just that

Nailed it

This is most likely it. However I want to imagine it is something so much worse lol.

Took the words right out of my mouth after I saw this because of the "asking too many questions" part being of curiosity so yeah

@@chillycereal o there is much worse. What they found in cat is probably that it has sexual bonds with pretty much everything