Both this episode and the previous one reference Interdimensional Cable, a concept that has recurred in the show since its introduction in " Rixty Minutes". The post-credits scene uses the Queen song " Who Wants to Live Forever", which was written for and featured in Highlander. To explain a development in the clone's behavior, Rick says "it's basically Highlander rules now", in reference to the 1986 film of the same name. The episode makes a number of cultural references, including to the films Blade Runner (1982) and Ex Machina (2014).
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IGN 's Jesse Schedeen commented that the episode has "conceptual similarities" to the season three episode " The ABC's of Beth" and its debuting character Space Beth, due to the use of doppelgangers and presentation of a Smith family member as unable to be certain that they are real. The conceit allowed the writers to "play around" with what would be in character for each family member. Lundy said that the first half of the episode focuses on "solving the mystery" and the second half depicts its fallout. Creator Dan Harmon said that "decoy families" were conceived long before their usage in this episode, and are very similar to clones and alternate timeline versions of the characters. Creator Justin Roiland said that he expressed a preference for this swap, but that it was too late for the change to be made. The episode debuted as the second episode as initially planned, but writers considered swapping it with the season premiere, " Mort Dinner Rick Andre".
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"Mortyplicity" was written by Albro Lundy and directed by Lucas Gray. His body is then found by creatures in the distant future and, as his head is used for a mirror frame in a saloon and later a crucifix, he laments his inability to die. In a post-credits scene, the wooden Jerry decoy, who escaped death by abandoning his family, is washed downstream and attacked by beavers. Meanwhile, the real Smith family, on an adventure with Space Beth, are alerted to the decoys' deaths. Always Wants To Be Hunted, a minor character from the beginning of the episode. The final battle leaves only one set of decoys, but they are then killed by Mr. Their rescuers take them back to a hidden bunker populated by decoys, but are crushed to death when squid-decoys attack.įinally, one Rick alerts all of the other decoys to their location in a final gambit to eliminate every remaining decoy.
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One decoy family are kidnapped by malformed scarecrow-like decoys, who try to harvest their skin until they are saved by wooden decoys. Subsequent generations of decoys become increasingly crude and strange as the Ricks producing them get lazy. Elsewhere, the President is alerted to the decoys killing each other, but elects not to get involved. The decoys eventually learn that the squids are also decoys in disguise, trying to eliminate all other versions of themselves. The ensuing "Asimov cascade" has caused all of these decoys to become aware of each other's existence and prompted them to start destroying each other in the belief that coexistence is impossible if even one Rick decoy chooses to kill the others.
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A chaotic series of events erupts-each Rick decoy, believing himself to be the original Rick, has created more decoy families and seeded them across the country, which have in turn created decoys of their own.
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Rick and his family investigate their deaths, but they too are revealed to be decoys when a third Smith family attacks them. They are then revealed to be a "decoy family" of robotic duplicates. Rick, Morty, Summer, Beth, and Jerry are having dinner when alien squids kill them.