Rick and Morty's Butter Robot Death Might Be Its Darkest Joke Ever
Appearing in Rick and Morty season 1, episode 9,'Something Ricked This Way Comes,' the Butter Robot is perhaps as close as the franchise has come to distilling Rick's nihilistic view of the universe into a single moment. However, the joke got even darker when the franchise killed off the tiny robot, rubbing salt in the wound of its one-note existence.
The Butter Robot is exactly what it sounds like — a small robot Rick creates to pass him the butter at the family dinner table. Cruelly, Rick gives the little robot enough sentience to wonder about its purpose in life. When the robot asks its creator for the answer, Rick replies, «You pass butter,» and the robot looks down at its hands before muttering, «Oh my god.» Rick replies, «Welcome to the club, pal,» communicating his view of the universe as a functionally meaningless collection of random events, where any sense of purpose is absent at best, and crushingly disappointing at worst.
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However, that's not the last franchise-fans saw of the Butter Robot. In Rick and Morty #50 (from Kyle Starks, Marc Ellerby, Sarah Stern, and a host of other creators), the comic tie-in series returns to the 'Morty's Mind Blowers' format, where Morty discovers the unbearable memories Rick has extracted from his mind so he'll be willing to keep having adventures. One of these memories is the death of the Butter Robot, who attempts to help free Rick and Morty while they're under guard in an alien jail.
In this flashback, it's revealed that Morty adopted the Butter Robot after its TV debut, teaching it that contrary to its design, it can do anything it wants. The Butter Robot is filled with renewed purpose, seeing Morty
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