Rick & Morty Hid the Darkest Part of its Morty's Mind Blowers Anthology

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While the “Morty’s Mind Blowers” episode of Rick and Morty was a fun look at the many adventures of the two multiverse-travelers, without the pressure of consequences as each one was presented to fans in the past-tense, it carried some pretty dark implications–ones that were completely hidden in that initial episode.

In Rick and Morty season 3 episode 8 titled “Morty’s Mind Blowers,” Rick and Morty enter a hidden area within Rick’s lab that contained a number of memories that Rick erased from Morty’s mind. Some of the memories were taken from Morty by his own request, while others were erased against his will. Yearning to learn the truth and restore the foundation of his own mind, Morty starts to implant the memories back into his brain and, in doing so, takes viewers on a journey of unseen adventures in a slideshow-like anthology.

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While Rick and Morty have only explored the erased memories of their past adventures in a single episode of the series, one Rick and Morty comic reveals that they’ve actually gone through the events of “Morty’s Mind Blowers” many times. In Rick and Morty #50–written by Kyle Starks, Tini Howard, Sarah Graley, Marc Ellerby, and Josh Trujillo with art by Marc Ellerby, Andrew MacLean, Jarrett Williams, Sarah Graley, and Benjamin Dewey—Morty stumbles upon Rick’s secret lair within the basement where all of the contained memories that had been removed from their minds are held once again. After going through a number of them in similar fashion as the original episode, Morty asks Rick a serious question regarding the ‘mind-blowing’ process, a question which Rick completely blows off.

Morty basically asks if erasing his memories