Rick & Morty: 10 Essential Episodes EVERY Fan Should See

On the surface this may be the utmost Rick and Mortiest episode of them all. It contains all the staples of the series, a heavy emphasis on theoretical scientific exploration, an amalgamation of pop culture references like no other and an unprecedentedly dark ending that hits you like a ton of bricks.

This becomes more effective because of the light-hearted shenanigans that occur throughout the events that precede it.

Just like a plethora of other entries in the Rick and Morty canon, Total Rickall's title is a pun on a well-known Hollywood blockbuster (which makes it all the more surprising that the Austrian behemoth himself doesn't appear). That said though, it is bustling with alien life-forms disguised as some of the most imaginative and colourful characters this side of vividity.

One thing that goes amiss more times than not, is the way the writers play a trick on the trope of chessy flashback episodes - of which most sitcoms are littered with - that go nowhere or explain things we either don't care about or know already.

Total Rickall is an episode that just says "f*ck it", throwing everything at the wall and resulting in an inocuously tantalising manner that entails the adhesion of it all being much stronger than one would expect.