The Bechdel-Wallace Test
As part of their frantic attempt to escape the “story train” that literally propels episode six’s “Never Ricking Morty”—easily Rick and Morty’s most meta episode—Rick instructs Morty to tell a tale that passes the Bechdel-Wallace Test (for the other Mortys out there: two female characters must talk to each other about something other than a man). The half-assed saga involves Beth, Summer, a pack of specifically female scorpions, and a congratulatory phone call from Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Eventually, “a story we would never tell” helps propel their escape while winking very obviously at the audience for good measure.
