Rick & Morty: 9 Times Rick Was Uncharacteristically Stupid
1. He Cronenberged The Planet
Science is everything to Rick, so much so that he was even able to reduce the incredible feeling of love down to a chemical. When Morty asked for some kind of love potion that would attract Jessica to him, Rick took the oxytocin from a vole, a creature that mates for life, and turned it into a serum.
This went wrong immediately, since Jessica’s flu mutated the virus and caused something of a pandemic. Suddenly everyone on Earth, except those biologically related to him, wanted to have sex with Morty. This was Rick’s first mistake, making a potion that could be drastically altered by the flu in the middle of flu season, but it got even worse.
To counteract the effects of the serum, Rick created an antidote with the DNA of a praying mantis, a creature that mates once then kills its partner. He expected this to neutralize the effects, however DNA is more complicated than that, and his laziness turned everyone into weird mantis-human hybrids. His final potion, the worst of all, combined the DNA of koala, rattlesnake, chimpanzee, cactus, shark, golden retriever, and dinosaur.
Even Morty knew that this wouldn’t add up to normal humanity, but Rick wouldn’t listen, and he ended up destroying the entire world. Because of Rick’s idiocy, he and Morty had to abandon their lives, their family, and their reality, leaving the Smith family to the devastation of the apocalypse.