Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Our companion list of the most soul-crushing episodes ofRick and Mortycan befound here.
One thing thats been consistent since the early days?
This stuff is just plain funny.
These are the funniest episodes ever to revisit now that season seven has begun.
15.Mortynight Run (Season 2, Episode 2)
15.
Here I go, killing again!
says Krombopulos Michael in this brilliant, chaotic episode ofRick and Morty.
Every time Morty stubbornly tries to take the moral high ground, he makes things so much worse.
Yet we later learn that Fart, as Morty calls him, seeks to destroy all carbon-based life.
Watching Morty get a comeuppance in dramatic fashion is as satisfying as it is funny.
14.Rest and Ricklaxation (Season 3, Episode 6)
14.
Who is Rick?
How do they truly relate to one another?
The series plays with these very basic questions, often jokingly and occasionally canonically.
Rest and Ricklaxation isRick and Mortyat its most philosophically comedic, offering heaps of character development in the process.
The pair utilize a psychological detox machine at a spa that removes all your cognitive toxins.
(Somebody get this guy a Surviving Purely Out of Spite T-shirt.)
Who am I without them?
(Season 1, Episode 4)
13.
The most cringeworthy part is how much he adores being married to 5 percent of Beth.
Like all the apple farmers of America, she says yes to everything (to a cringeworthy extent).
As Prince Nebulon on the Zigerions, David Cross remains one of the funniest guest stars to this day.
Funnier still is the reference to Crosss best-known role.
His entire species is terribly uncomfortable with nudity.
Tobias Funke could definitely relate.
12.Rick & Mortys Thanksploitation Spectacular (Season 5, Episode 6)
12.
The episode celebrates the absurdity of Thanksgiving specifically, and America more broadly, in spectacular fashion.
11.Never Ricking Morty (Season 4, Episode 6)
11.
These are inane yet important factors that go into producing any show or movie, even this one.
The only thing funnier than Ricks shamelessness in this moment is the fact that it works.
10.Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate (Season 2, Episode 8)
10.
9.The Vat of Acid Episode (Season 4, Episode 8)
9.
Ricks misery stems from being the smartest man in an infinite universe, but hes still human.
Seeing him indulge the mortal impulse to be stupid and stubborn is as satisfying as it is funny.
But here, a silly concept reaches its full potential.
The dumb, violent, and perverted stuff Morty does with it is just funny.
8.Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktims Morty (Season 4, Episode 4)
8.
The bond between man and dragon is magical, tangible, and inexplicably erotic.
Summer asks grandpa Rick in a coy way.
First off, I always slay it, queen, he replies.
And never forget: Shadow-Jacker!
You havent come out of your masturbation cave in eons!
7.Final DeSmithation (Season 6, Episode 5)
7.
Jerry gets a fortune cookie at Panda Express telling him hell have sex with his own mother.
Jerry, youre making this funny by taking it seriously, Beth says.
The first few minutes is a hilarious montage of the kids ruthlessly making fun of their father.
But theres a bona fide sci-fi mystery here that only Jerry and Rick can solve.
She controls fate for profit.
(A Gwyneth Paltrow parody manipulating pseudoscience to make money?!)
Her innocent obliviousness makes it work.
The only thing missing from this episode is anexploding vagina-candle grenade.
6.Meeseeks and Destroy (Season 1, Episode 5)
6.
What would you have your Meeseeks do?
simmers in the back of your mind while Beths Meeseek takes her out for wine and a heart-to-heart.
5.Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender (Season 3, Episode 4)
5.
I never forget a kid!sticks out as a memorable line from a Star-Lord knockoff calledStarsoldier.
The Vindicators are somehow kind of cool despite being mostly rip-offs, making it that much more entertaining!
One guy is powered by ghost trains, and another is just a million sentient ants.
4.Mortys Mind Blowers (Season 3, Episode 8)
4.
After a particularly troubling adventure, Rick offers to remove the memory from Mortys mind.
The absurdity of it all increases exponentially and draws the two into conflict.
Interdimensional Cable offers an alternative path where even the most over-the-top ideas can be executed in short skits.
Even learning that Rick sometimes makes utterly stupid mistakes makes the entire concept a delight.
3.Pickle Rick (Season 3, Episode 3)
3.
For a while Im Pickle Rick!
was an inescapable echo in the zeitgeist.
If you hadnt seen any of the show, you thought it was dumb.
If you had, youknewit was dumb.
But by taking the gimmick super-seriously, Pickle Rick becomes Emmy Awardwinning funny.
Who wouldve thought that rocketing out of a toilet bowl would be awesome instead of disgusting?
The stakes and characters are telegraphed that well.
Danny Trejos Jaguar is the perfect nemesis turned comrade-in-arms for Rick.
Their battle definitely peaks when Rick staples a pickle slice to his hip as a bandage.
2.Total Rickall (Season 2, Episode 4)
2.
No red flags here.
Its totally plausible for Jerry to have a brother.
Before you might interrogate the unhinged silliness too much, youre on to the next bit.
Beth shoots Mr. Poopybutthole in the final scene only to realize that hes real.
Youd be hard-pressed to find a funnier bit of irony.
1.Rattlestar Ricklactica (Season 4, Episode 5)
1.
Hence the sucker punch.
But the real highlight in this underrated episode is on the Space Snake planet that parodiesArrivalandThe Terminator.
What about a snake Terminator shoddily made to look like a human to put the Smith family at ease?
It makes for a fun callback to A Rickle in Time that solves an impossible problem.
