Interdimensional Cable and Snake Watches: The Best and Worst Rick Inventions from ‘Rick and Morty’

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Best: Portal Gun

Let’s get this one out of the way fast: Yes, the portal gun rules. It can take you to other universes, other places within the same universe, or even split alien bug monsters in half before they can kill your grandson. Just, uh, try to avoid getting it hacked by an evil version of said grandson before he rigs it to create a black hole and kill everyone, if possible.

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Worst: Save-Point Device (Or: “Needlessly Cruel Portal Gun”)

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Best: Interdimensional Cable Box

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Worst: Abradolf Lincler

A morally confused clone of Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler? No! Come on, no! Not even if he’s played by Taika Day-Lewaititi. 

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Best: A Watch With a Little Butt That Farts on People

Don’t pretend you wouldn’t constantly fart on your enemies with a little butt coming out of your watch if you had a watch that could do so. And yes, this invention was only created by Rick within his mind (as it was being hijacked by Galactic Federation agents), but then again, aren’t they all?

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Worst: A Watch That Turns People into Snakes (Supposedly)

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Best: The Space Cruiser

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Worst: The Space Cruiser’s Flat Tire Simulator

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Best: Jerry’s Instant Ovenless Brownies

Sure, this was invented by a dumber-than-average Rick, and sure, the original idea was supplied by an average-intelligence Jerry, but “brownies you can instantly materialize without an oven” is still a solid concept. All you need are... some chemicals that are probably harder to get than just buying brownies at the store. But still! Brownies!

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Worst: Jerry’s Instant Psychopathic Fungus Head

Instead of using a voice modulator like a regular mad scientist, Rick fakes Jerry’s voice by pouring some sort of substance that grows into a fungus shaped like Jerry’s head, which he has to destroy with acid a few seconds later because it threatens to “eat the world.” That’s a universe-ending mishap waiting to happen right there.

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Best: Rick’s Dance

Damn, Rick’s got moves. Not even Fortnite can make us get tired of this one. 

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Worst: Rick’s Song, “Get Schwifty”

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Best: Various Futuristic Armors

Rick could simply walk around with a force field on (and sometimes, he does), but where’s the fun in that? His various power armors and unnecessarily badass suit-up sequences are so awesome that they can achieve the impossible: making Jerry look cool in front of his family. 

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Worst: Star Wars™ Lightsaber™

Spoilers for the Season Six finale: the lightsabers from Star Wars SUCK. Why? Because if you ever drop them perfectly vertical, you’ve basically doomed the planet, and it’s a pain in the ass to undoom it. Turns out the Emperor could have saved a lot of money on Death Stars by just leaving one lightsaber unattended per planet and waiting for gravity to do its thing. 

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Best: Beth

Like Rick himself once said, “Beth, my greatest invention... is you.” Right? Something like that? If that hasn’t happened yet, it’s definitely happening at some point, in some universe, because in the end, for all the good and bad he’s ever done, Rick’s love for his family is his greatest quality. 

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Worst: Beth’s #$%@ed Up Childhood Toys

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Best: Butter Robot

It passes the butter! 

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