7 Life Lessons That Rick And Morty (S1) Taught Me

A cartoon that combines both adult ideals and preteen humor, Rick and Morty has been a sensational sitcom for the millions that watch it. However, it is not a show without ideals. Like most good TV series, this one too has some life lessons that can be extracted from it.

1 We must sometimes swallow our pride for our good as well as that of others

In the first season's episode 9 (Something ricked this way comes), Morty's father (Jerry) initially falsely claims that Pluto is a planet when his son proves him wrong by showing NASA's evidence. Desperate to be right, the insecure father continues to stand on his false statement and is soon invited to Pluto where he is honoured by the rich Plutonians for the Plutobel prize honouring his statement. Jerry soon realizes that his statement will promote mining on Pluto and destroy millons of lives as well as lose him his son. He swallows his pride and admits he is wrong.

2 Too much technology can be dangerous

In season 1, episode 2 (Lawnmover Dog), Rick creates a device to make Morty's dog, Snuffles, smarter upon Jerry's complaints. The dog does become smarter, however, it acquires means to upgrade itself and turns into a huge advanced robotic dog, preferring now to call itself Snowball. Snowball goes on to create an army of many more such robotic dogs and plans to take over the world, making humans their slaves.

3 There is strength in numbers

In Episode 10 (Close Rick-counters of the Rick kind), Grandpa Rick fights an alternate Rick from another universe who is trying to destroy the Trans-dimensional Council Of Ricks by torturing hundreds of alternate Mortys. It is revealed that a Morty acts as a shield to camouflage a Rick and isn't of any sentimental use. The silenced and vulnerable Mortys come together and take a stand with Earth Morty as their leader to take down the evil Rick and free themselves.

4 Both genders are equally capable of success

This ideal comes from Episode 7 (Raising Gazorpazorp), where Rick is forced to take Summer to the adventure instead of Morty. Rick almost gets killed by the underground matriarchal utopia at Gazorpazorp until Summer saves the day and helps bring everything in order by saying the quirkiest line of the season "If you think my top is cute, you cannot execute"

5 There is always a positive ending to something negative

As weird as Rick and Morty can be, it can be equally heartwarming. In Episode 5 (Meeseeks and Destroy), Morty, tired of always being Rick's sidekick and following him through his shenanigans, pleads to for once, lead an adventure and make it safer. On the adventure however, Morty gets assaulted by King Jellybean, loses interest and gives up on the adventure. Rick cheers him up and they somehow end up completing their mission, giving money to the poor villagers.

6 Wallowing over something will get you nowhere

A life lesson from Episode 8 (Rixty Minutes) cannot be excluded from this list. Jerry and Beth see themselves in alternate realities in Inter-Dimensonal Goggles where they hadn't had children and were much more sucessful . Summer hence, finds out that she was an unwanted pregnancy and that greatly upsets her. Morty prevents her from running away by telling her that he is actually her brother from an alternate reality and that "Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody is going to die". he tells her to stop being upset and just watch TV with everyone and make herself happy.

7 Everything may not always go back to normal. but everything will always be alright in the end

This lesson has been observed in two episodes. Once in Episode 6 (Rick's Potion no. 9) when Rick and Morty have to kill themselves in one reality and live as Rick and Morty from another reality so as to bring everything back to order and the other time in Episode 3 (Anatomy Park) where Rick's theme park inside a human is destroyed, but there are positive hopes of reconstruction in the end.