Rick & Morty: 9 Times Rick Was Uncharacteristically Stupid
4. He Showed Morty His Mind Blowers
In season three, instead of another interdimensional cable episode, Rick and Morty opted for a clip show made of clips you’ve never seen. This came in the form of all the memories Rick has extracted from Morty’s brain in the past.
Immediately, it’s obvious the point of this whole exercise is that Morty doesn’t remember what happened, whether it was having his hand chopped off, having his mom choose Summer over him without hesitation, or the feeling of knowing what true level is.
Yet, when the two came back from a particularly horrible adventure, instead of Rick just taking the memory away like normal, for some reason he decided to take Morty down to the basement and walk him through everything he forced him to forget.
What was Rick hoping to achieve by doing this? The point was so that Morty didn’t remember any of these memories, so why show them to him again? It was this that led to Rick and his grandson being just seconds away from completing a suicide pact before Summer came in and stopped them.