As present day Rick attempts to call things “more complicated than that,” Memory Rick elaborates as to why it’s so creepy: “You live with a version of our dead daughter.”Įarlier in the episode, Memory Rick and Birdperson find themselves on a revenge mission against other Ricks who say that “killing us won’t bring her back.” In that moment, the natural assumption is that they’re talking about Beth’s mother, but the next context of Beth actually being dead changes all of that. “You’re one of those creeps who moves in with abandoned adult Beths,” Memory Rick notes. That’s because, as Memory Rick tells present day Rick, Beth is dead. While there’s a lot to unpack when it comes to Birdperson’s subconscious, in general, the big bombshell in this episode is that being a clone should actually be the least of Beth’s worries. Young, Memory Rick is ultimately not impressed with present day Rick. And in the process, he ends up teaming up with a younger version of himself. While the Smiths are off on a mild-mannered cruise adventure, Rick Sanchez instead takes an adventure of the mind. This episode even has a “Risky Business”-type premise set-up, with Beth’s dialogue having her play the role of the parent who’s going out of town at the beginning of a movie. An episode that teases a “Pickle Rick” redux, “Rick and Morty” is actually a bookend to the first season finale, “Ricksy Business,” the episode that introduced Birdperson (and Squanchy and Gearhead) and also kicked off the Birdperson/Tammy relationship.