#ted rick

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NO WAY OUT NO WAY OUT NO WAY OUT

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Summer says later when Ted has become “Rickified” and drags Morty away from the table(with Beth telling him to), “That’s a troubling family dynamic. We all know that right?”

Ted recognizes Morty’s voice and is clearly a bit weirded out and surprised that this kid is the one who called with the space ship, and not only is he a child, but he’s his grandson that he should be protecting from all of this.

Even his subconscious realizes that their “relationship”(platonic, only platonic and familial since grandpa and grandson) is weird. It’s entirely too codependent. This 14 year old kid is tasked with making sure his grandpa gets home safe in that state. It’s an incredibly high stakes situation. Do they get in worse situations all the time? Yes, but Ted doesn’t know everything. His friends don’t either which is why when they’re all awkward after Morty says it. One of them starts grabbing stuff from the ship like they’re unpacking immediately to avoid some type of conversation about it just like Beth will eventually.

Summer says when Ted has become fully “Rickified” and drags Morty away from the table(with Beth telling him to), “That’s a troubling family dynamic. We all know that right?” Beth, instead of saying that it is troubling(which it is), says that they can talk about later. It all comes full circle. The regular people realize it. The family realizes it. Still, no one talks about it.

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Ted and the guys hung Marjorie’s necklace above the pilot’s seat in their spaceship.

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Ted was what Rick meant to do when he swapped his and Jerry’s minds. He proved himself right a little. He told Jerry that he became the smartest man in the universe, because of his own efforts, not because he’d been born with a “brain privilege.” The thing that really solidified Rick as the smartest man was portal travel.

Ted couldn’t make portal fluid, because he didn’t need it. Rick learned how to make portal fluid, because he had to have it to get revenge on Prime. He had to make it himself, because he couldn’t get the recipe from Prime like the other Ricks. Ted didn’t need to go to other universes to avenge Marjorie. Once he had taken over his tech, C137 was Ted until he hit the button

The weird thing is, even though, Ted didn’t need portal fluid, he gave up the day that he ran out of it. Maybe, it was just another excuse like telling Morty that he deserved his grandfather.

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Ted giving up and staying in Rick’s house instead of going home.

Marjorie staying up late in the bowling alley, because her mother died and she doesn’t want to go home.

Rick still staying with Morty, his archenemy’s grandson, even after he had killed Prime. Rick staying with the family instead of going to an empty house in a dead world.

*edit: I didn’t write this after watching S9E8. It was hanging out in my drafts. Rick admitting to Morty outloud, plainly,(M already knew it) that he was bait and he should’ve left after killing Prime. omg. 😨😧😦

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When Rick’s holograms start talking to Ted, one of the things that he says is that it isn’t fun to be a god. Ted starts to understand after he lives in his shoes for a little while. He had friends that could’ve understood his grief. Ted gives them the chance. That starts changing when they all want something from him. He tells himself that he can deal with that. They were all he had left. What Ted(and Rick) couldn’t deal with was being the smartest man who ever lived and still being unable to save the love of his life. How all that intelligence was useless when it couldn’t save her. And his friends just wouldn’t be able to understand that so he shuts them all out. Until eventually the only one left to shut out is himself. He presses the red button.

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Morty easily talks back to Ted, because he knows that Ted won’t hurt him. When Ted is changing back and says that he’s doing it for Morty, Morty replies, “If that makes you feel better.” While completely wasted, Ted tells Morty, “You’re a nice kid. Aaa-ah, a good boy.” Contrasted with Rick while completely wasted, “Evil boy. Wicked boy.”

I don’t think that Rick hits Morty. He doesn’t not not hurt him though. “Go get crystals for me!” Shouted angrily at him, and Morty reacts(anxious frown) by immediately leaving instead of dealing with him. Ted, on the other hand, was weirded out by Morty being the one making sure that Rick got home from the vacation. He also apologizes after almost shredding him whilst throwing away his things from the bowling alley.

He walks on his tiptoes around Rick. If he’s in a nice mood, Morty speaks more freely. If not, he tries to get away or get him off his back like marching away when he finds out about Reese.

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Two things about the first and second episodes of Season 9..

1. Has Jessica been shown since she became a “time god”? If so, time prison and Eyepatch Morty team up?

2. Also, did Ted use the exact same type of device to pause time exactly like Morty did the family? “I mean, it’s messy but so are you.”(Evil Morty to Rick about messing with time) “A lot of people freezing time these days.” EM also said that Rick showed him the device, not the blueprints.