“I programmed you to believe that”
Season four’s heist movie send-up, “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty,” introduces us to Heistotron, a Rick-designed robot that assembles crews and plans heists using mind-control drugs and an algorithm based on heist movies (which Rick hates). When Heistotron goes rogue, the eventual showdown devolves into an hours-long back-and-forth over who has the upper hand: “I programmed you to believe that!” “That was my plan the whole time! That’s what I wanted you to think!” Rick and Morty’s takedown of this genre (especially the overly clever Ocean’s 11 series) is wickedly accurate, and Heistotron—not to be confused with the almost-as-troublesome Randotron, who we also meet in this episode—comes maybe the closest to outsmarting Rick than any of his inventions ever have before.
