Rick and Morty’s sixth season premiered in early September, but it’s been on hiatus since October 9. Thankfully, the much-loved series returns on November 20 to finish out the season, once again reminding us how lucky we are to live in a time where the gaps between new Rick and Morty installments are much shorter than they used to be.
Here are 10 sort of useful but also silly things worth remembering from the first six episodes of season six.
The first episode of season six, “Solaricks,” picked up immediately after season five’s finale—a somewhat unusual move for Rick and Morty, but there was major plot fallout to address after the Citadel was destroyed by Evil Morty. So far we haven’t seen Evil Morty pop up in season six, but that’s not surprising for a series that prefers to sprinkle its episodic moments in between random adventures.
In “Solaricks,” we met the original Rick—the devious and emotionless “Rick Prime”—who our Rick has apparently been tracking throughout the entire series. A revenge showdown seems inevitable. Eventually.
On a solo mission to battle alien terrorists? If you decide to “do a Die Hard,” as Rick tells Summer she must in “Rick: A Mort Well Lived,” just know that every civilization across the galaxy has their own equivalent of the story, and the bad guys will more than likely anticipate your John McClane-style heroics.
Beth and “Space Mom” (one of them is a clone of Rick’s daughter, we just don’t know which) gave in to their mutual attraction in the spectacularly awkward Thanksgiving episode “Bethic Twinstinct.” Jerry resisted the idea at first, but later came around in a big way; Summer and Morty, however, may never recover.
If “Night Family” taught us one thing, it’s to always rinse your dirty plates before dropping them in the sink. It takes two seconds! Also, a reminder that Rick and Morty can turn to bone-chilling horror when it wants to.
They may also give you superpowers, as we saw in “Final DeSmithation,” so maybe it’s worth gobbling them down anyway?
Not having the ability to teleport reshaped Rick and Morty’s adventures in the first half of season six, since their travels were limited to spaceship trips only. Once again, you can blame Evil Morty in the season five finale for that one. But at the end of “JuRicksic Mort,” a breakthrough: Rick finally fixed portal travel! Bring on Boob World!
They might be condescending interstellar geniuses that accidentally make deadly meteors smash every planet they visit, but it turns out dinosaurs are also really good at skateboarding.
Rick and Morty returns November 20 to Adult Swim.
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