Rick & Morty’s Grossest Joke Is Taken From An Obscure Horror Movie
Although Adult Swim’s Rick & Morty isn’t afraid to get gross, one of the anarchic animated comedy's jokes saw the series take its gruesome dark humor too far—and the show referenced an obscure, dark French horror movie in the process. Rick & Morty is no stranger to boundary-pushing humor. Ever since the show began life as the obscene web series The Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, Rick & Morty has always been quick to sneak in jokes that straddle the line between good and bad taste.
Rick & Morty has also frequently thrown in a few gags that pole-vault straight over the line into seriously tasteless territory. One such gag occurred in a season 5 episode that saw the Smith family killing dozens of alternate versions of themselves in a convoluted plot to work out whether they were real or duplicates. Oddly, the Rick & Morty season 5 joke featured a reference to an obscure French horror movie, although many fans were too busy gagging at its grossness to notice.
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One moment in season 5’s “Mortyplicity” sees a clone of Rick skin the real Rick alive to give himself a more human appearance. Although the episode isn’t as hated as season 4’s “Claw and Hoarder,” the image is more gory and explicit than anything that most episodes of Rick & Morty offer. Fortunately for Rick, his attacker is stopped and killed before he dies, although Rick does spend a few minutes flayed alive on a crucifix. This memorably shocking image is lifted from 2008’s controversial horror Martyrs.
The reference might seem random but it doesn’t come completely out of left field, as theRick & Morty episode echoes one theme of Martyrs. As countless Ricks and Mortys kill each other in
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