15 Times Rick And Morty Was The Best Show On Television

15. Dreams Within Dreams Within Dreams

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?"