15 Times Rick And Morty Was The Best Show On Television

Rick and Morty is one of the most insane things on television, a series that makes you marvel at its ingenuity and at the sick, dark minds of these writers. And from the looks of it, the second season should offer just as much craziness as the first.

Created by Justin Roiland and Community's Dan Harmon, Rick and Morty is an examination of science fiction tropes, following an old man and his grandson who go on adventures throughout time and space. It's a lot like the relationship between Marty McFly and Doc Brown in Back to the Future, except if Doc Brown was a crazy, self-destructive drunk who's clearly going to get Marty killed one day.

If that sounds dark, that's because it is. In fact, one of the best things about Rick and Morty is that it doesn't shy away from the dark consequences of these kinds of adventures and the toll they take on the characters, as evidenced by these 15 completely insane and hilarious moments that still had a real impact on the overall series. From dimensions where chairs sit on people to infomercials starring guys with ants in their eyes, here are 15 times Rick and Morty was the greatest thing on television. 

In the second episode of the series, Harmon and Roiland tackle the trope of entering other people's dreams, in particular parodying the structure of Inception. But here's something that Inception never really explored: what if the person's dream is really, really screwed up? In this episode, one of the dreams is full of centaurs, giant frogs, and strange creatures engaging in sex acts. And then because Mr. Goldenfold is attracted to her, Morty runs into his own scantily clad sister in the dream. Gross.

The episode also takes the concept of implanting an idea into someone else's mind to a hilarious extreme. The plan is to make Mr. Goldenfold give Morty better grades, so in the dream they pretend to be terrorists who are going to hijack a plane...unless Morty gets a good grade in math. Goldenfold eventually wakes up decides that he'll give Morty an A, "...and that's my idea! That is an original thought!" 

As they keep going through dream layers it all begins to make less and less sense. Morty keeps asking questions and eventually Rick just gives up and says, "I don't know, Morty. What do you want from me?"