Top 3 Things You Missed in Season 3 Episode 8 of Rick and Morty

There are only two episodes left of this seasons of Rick and Morty, so don't take these new episodes for GRANITE. Welcome to “Watch Rick and Morty,” the weekly show where we take a look at some of the Easter eggs, important moments, and theories from the newest episode of Rick and Morty. On this episode, we’ll be taking a look at Season 3, Episode 8: Morty’s Mind Blowers. #3: Dream If the strange, dark haired being in the episode’s cold-open seemed familiar to you, then you’ve probably read through, or at the very least, heard of Neil Gaiman’s groundbreaking comic book series, “Sandman.” The character that appeared to be chasing Rick and Morty in order to retrieve the Truth Tortoise shares a striking resemblance to Dream, AKA Morpheus, one of the seven Endless and the embodiment of dreams and stories in the strange world of “Sandman.” There’s no telling what the King of Dreams had planned for the Truth Tortoise, but the upside-down, optical illusion-like plain that he inhabited seemed like something straight from one of Neil Gaiman’s incredible stories. #2: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Morty The framing device of this “Tree house of Horror”-meets-“Inter-dimensional Cable” episode is clearly an allusion to Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman beautiful yet unbelievably depressing sci-fi love story, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” In it, Jim Carrey plays Joel, a man who discovers his ex-girlfriend Clementine has undergone a procedure to remove each and every memory of their relationship, and as a result, decides to have the same procedure done to him, much in the same way Morty had the memories of his relationship with Mr. Poopybutthole wiped. What Rick and Morty do with this high concept sci-fi element is yet another example of Harmon and Roiland pulling at the absurdities of the genre. How can Morty see parts of his memories he wasn’t even there for? How can he not account for days, months, or even years of time being stolen from him? Don’t think about it. Before we get to our top moment, here are some of the best lines from this week’s episode: Taken for granite “Possible Dolittle” “Dibs on his stuff” #1: Hoping Dimensions After temporarily incapacitating the army of super intelligent illuminati squirrels, Rick prepares to hop dimensions yet again. The last time we had a clear on-screen example of Rick C-137 bailing on a reality was way back in the Season 1 episode Rick Potion #1. How many times has Rick done this off-screen? There’s really know way to know. This, tied with the fact that Rick keeps a vile of Morty memories that he could seemingly implant into any Morty has lent some credence and fanned the flames of the popular fan theory that Evil Morty is in fact C-137 Rick’s original Morty. Maybe our Morty isn’t the Morty-est Morty after all.