Rick and Morty (season 1)

Jerry complains that the family dog, Snuffles, is stupid so Rick gives Jerry a device that enhances the dog's intelligence. He and Morty then go into the dreams of Morty's math teacher to persuade him to give Morty an "A" grade in class so Morty can be assigned less homework. They go from Morty's math teacher's dreams to the dreams of a strong black female TV character named Mrs. Pancake, to a centaur's dreams, and so on. This results in Rick and Morty eventually encountering Scary Terry (a parody of Freddy Krueger). Scary Terry begins chasing the two of them through multiple dreams, causing Rick to become unhinged. At one point the two come across a dream of a post-apocalyptic city where they decide to hide from Scary Terry until he gets tired. When Scary Terry eventually sleeps, Rick and Morty enter his dreams and quickly persuade him to help the duo complete their mission. Meanwhile, after watching several exaggerated infomercials on dogs, Snuffles builds an advanced mechanical suit with a translator to speak to humans. He assembles a robot dog army and proceeds to take over the human race. Rick finds Morty and gives him pills which will make his kidneys shut down. Morty is later seen lying down on a hospital bed in critical state with Snuffles by his side trying to keep him alive. Snuffles awakens (the aforementioned scenario is revealed to be a dream) and realizes that conquering Earth isn't the answer and that dog-kind must not fall to the fate of humankind with its destruction. Snuffles and Morty have a tearful goodbye as Snuffles leaves for another planet for intelligent dogs where compassion is exercised and "pet insurance is mandatory."

Post-credit scene: Back in Scary Terry's class, the old teacher has been replaced by a new, hippie teacher named Mr. Scary Johnson, but then informs that that is what his father is called and prefers to be addressed as "Mr. Scary Glen". As he teaches the class that they can't "learn anything until they learn how to chill", Rick and Scary Terry are sitting in the back of the class smoking marijuana as Rick says his last line "This is how you dream, bitch.".

On Christmas, Rick sends Morty inside the body of a homeless man to save his life (a parody of Fantastic Voyage). Inside the man's body is a microscopic enclosure called Anatomy Park (a parody of Jurassic Park), which houses various deadly diseases that escape their enclosures. Back at the family home, Jerry's parents visit, and the family attempts to bond without electronic devices.

Post-credit scene: Rick contacts Annie and her other new associates inside his new patient's body and as they talk about his "Pirates of the Pancreas" ride (much to Rick's dislike, since he is sensitive about his ride because it's his idea). Rick hangs up on them only to proceed with a rant and insults.

Rick and Jerry are held captive by aliens in a virtual reality in this M. Night Shyamalan style episode. Rick attempts escape multiple times, only to discover that there are multiple virtual realities encased in one another. However, despite system glitches, Jerry remains completely unaware while trying to sell his advertising slogan for apples. Rick finally games the aliens by giving them a fake recipe for the concoction they were seeking to retrieve from him. The aliens send Rick and Jerry on their way and later explode from the concoction.

Post-credit scene: Jerry debuts his new advertising slogan for apples in the real world, only to be fired on the spot for how terrible it is despite his protests that it went over well in the simulation. After Jerry leaves, his former boss wonders how Jerry could go home and sleep with his wife after what he had tried to do. Meanwhile, a drunk Rick enters Morty's room during the night. As Rick starts complimenting his grandson and showing appreciation for him, Rick quickly turns on him with a knife and demands to know if Morty is a simulation. Rick then apologizes before passing out on the floor.

Morty thinks Rick's adventures are too dangerous and so they make a deal that allows Morty to be in charge of an adventure, which leads them in to a "Jack and the Beanstalk" type scenario. At the same time, the rest of the family is having troubles with Rick's "Meeseeks Box", a cube that spawns helpful blue creatures called Meeseeks (Justin Roiland) that normally explode once they have fulfilled the user's goal. However, the Meeseeks conjured by Jerry are unable to help him improve his golf game and summon more Meeseeks to assist him, resulting in the conjured Meeseeks becoming increasingly frustrated from their prolonged existence as they resort to drastic actions in having Jerry achieve his goal.

A dance at Morty's high school prompts him to ask Rick if he can create a potion that will make his pretty classmate Jessica find Morty attractive. However, because Jessica has the flu, the potion goes haywire and becomes airborne and causes nearly the whole population of Earth to fall for Morty save for blood relatives. Rick fixes up an antidote which does not produce its hoped results. Meanwhile, Jerry becomes concerned about Beth's fidelity. Eventually both plots cross paths. This results in Rick and Morty migrating to another reality where that reality's Rick successfully cures all of Earth, but he and that reality's Morty die in an experiment allowing Rick and Morty to assume their roles.

In a pawn shop in space, Rick buys Morty a sex robot. Soon after, the robot conceives Morty's alien hybrid child whom he names Morty Jr. Rick and Summer go to the sex robot's planet of origin, Gazorpazorp, to find better suited parents for Morty Jr. After discovering that the Gazorpazorpian females are the dominant gender on the planet, Rick and Summer learn that the males of this species mature in only days and are, by nature, extremely violent. Morty Jr.'s quick aging teaches Morty about parenting.

Post-credit scene: Morty Jr. goes to a talk show to talk about a book he wrote called "My (horrible) Father", which, surprisingly, had become very successful.

The family is watching the reality TV show The Bachelor, and Rick is complaining about the quality of the show. Jerry asks Rick to show them his idea of good television and Rick upgrades the cable to show programming from every conceivable dimension. They come across Jerry on TV which they are eager to watch but which Rick argues is unimportant. To quell them, he gives them a pair of goggles that allow them to see through the eyes of alternate reality versions of themselves. While initially satisfying, these realities reveal some uncomfortable truths and unearth certain hostile feelings. Jerry and Beth both become fixated on watching an alternate reality in which they aborted her pregnancy and never married, and they both seem to be much more successful and happy for it: Beth is a successful human heart surgeon, and Jerry is a famous actor (playing roles Tom Hanks had in our reality). Summer, believing that as the result of an unplanned pregnancy she is the cause of her parent's distress and shaky state of marital affairs, threatens to run away. While she is packing her bags, Morty tells her that in an alternate universe, he and Rick destroyed the entire universe and that his mutilated corpse is buried in the ground (referring to the events of "Rick Potion No. 9"). He says that "nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die", so Summer should not worry. Persuaded by this argument, Summer agrees to stay. Ultimately, it turns out that Beth and Jerry's alternates are miserable in their own ways: alternate-Beth is lonely and spends her days drinking wine and caring for a large collection of birds while alternate-Jerry has a mental breakdown and drives a lawnmower down the highway in his underwear until he arrives at alternate-Beth's house. He declares that he hates being an actor, Beth was the best thing that ever happened to him, and not a day has gone by that he didn't wonder what might have been if they had kept the baby and stayed together. Alternate Beth and Jerry tearfully embrace and kiss, causing main-universe Beth and Jerry to similarly embrace and reconcile.

Post-credit scene: As the family watches a channel of an alternate reality where hamsters live in human rectums, they begin asking questions to Rick, who is trying to watch the TV until he becomes irritated and takes them to the alternate reality itself resulting in a family vacation to that reality.

Summer reports to her first job in an antique shop run by the Devil. The shop sells items that fulfill a desire for the owner but come at a price making the item essentially worthless (the shop and the Devil's name, Mr. Needful, are both references and parodies of the Stephen King novel Needful Things. The title is a reference to the Ray Bradbury novel Something Wicked This Way Comes). The Devil gives Rick a microscope that Rick determines would have rendered him retarded with use. Meanwhile, Jerry and Morty are transported to Pluto due to Jerry's opinions on Pluto's planetary status. However, it is soon revealed that Pluto is shrinking due to corporate plutonium mining, and Jerry's opinions are being used to keep the citizens of Pluto in a perpetual state of confirmation bias. Jerry eventually realizes the truth and consequently he and Morty are deported back to Earth. To get back at the Devil, Rick sets up a competitive counter-business across the street that removes the curses and runs the Devil out of business. The Devil is so dismayed that he tries to kill himself but Summer finds himself in the middle of his suicide attempt and revives him. They relaunch with a new dot-com company that becomes wildly successful. As it turns out, the Devil had no plans to include Summer in reaping the profits and has her hauled off by security. Betrayed by the Devil, she and Rick build muscle mass to get physical revenge.

Post-credit scene: Rick and Summer merrily beat the tar out of a Neo-Nazi, a bully, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, and an abusive dog owner.

When 27 Ricks in alternate dimensions end up murdered and their respective Mortys are kidnapped, the Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks orders the arrest of Rick C137 (the show's original Rick) and accuses him of the crimes due to his refusal to participate in their affairs. Angry that he was framed, Rick escapes the Council with Morty to go after the real culprit who set him up and finds that another Rick is supposedly responsible for murdering their counterparts while stealing their Morties to conceal his presence. Meanwhile, as Morty begins to believe that he's nothing but a tool to protect Rick, Jerry begins to bond with Rick J19Z7, the kindest Rick in all of the realities. After Morty leads a rebellion of alternate Morties against the "evil" Rick, three Ricks from the Council of Ricks discover that the "evil" Rick was being mind-controlled. It is revealed to the audience that he was being controlled by his Morty.

Morty's parents leave to go on an overnight Titanic-themed getaway leaving the kids in the care of Rick. Disaster strikes when the ship misses the iceberg and fails to sink. Things get worse when a deranged female janitor obsessed with the Titanic movie decides to kidnap and force Jerry at gunpoint to re-enact various scenes from the movie with her. At home, Summer decides to throw a party only to find out that Rick has decided to have his own party with numerous aliens, monsters and other trans-dimensional beings. The situation escalates when Abradolf Lincler (Rick's failed attempt at creating a morally-neutral leader by combining the DNA of Adolf Hitler with that of Abraham Lincoln) arrives at the party. Later, Morty accidentally beams the entire house to another planet filled with disturbing testicle aliens who use humans as sex toys. The party is increasingly growing out of control, but eventually the trio are able to usher away the guests. With minutes to spare, Beth texts Summer that she and Jerry are just around the corner. Frantic, Morty wakes up Rick and asks for his help. Using a contraption, they freeze time with Beth and Jerry steps away from the front door. The trio clean and repair the house while time is frozen. At the end, with time still frozen, they watch Titanic and unanimously agree how terrible it is.