Rick and Morty (season 5)

While crash-landing Rick's ship in the ocean, Morty unexpectedly talks Jessica (Kari Wahlgren) into a date. Unfortunately, landing in the ocean provokes Rick's hitherto unmentioned nemesis, Mr. Nimbus (Dan Harmon), King of the Ocean, and controller of the police. Morty attempts to have a normal date at his home with Jessica while also helping Rick host a dinner party to placate Mr. Nimbus. In the process, he accidentally meddles with the history of an alternate dimension where time moves ahead decades for every hour on Earth. Religions develop around Morty, who is a legendary figure of doom, complicating his attempts to retrieve wine. Eventually, Rick and Mr. Nimbus resolve their differences and help Morty and Jessica escape the highly evolved overlords who attempt to take revenge on Morty. Mr. Nimbus beats up Rick and uses his ability to control the police to arrest him after discovering he had sent Summer to destroy a shell that increases his physical strength, and Jessica decides to stay friends with Morty after her outlook on life changed significantly from being imprisoned for eons by the alien society. Meanwhile, Beth and Jerry brag unconvincingly that their relationship has become more sex-positive.

Rick, Morty, Summer, Beth and Jerry are having breakfast when alien squid assassins kill them. They are revealed to be decoys, and the real Rick is alerted to their deaths. However, the real Smith family is revealed to also have been decoys, and a chaotic series of events erupt when the decoys are alerted to the deaths of other decoys and struggle to figure out which family is the original as the original Rick did not realize the decoys would resort to making more decoys. After a family of decoys clashes and kills another, they figure out that the squids are actually further decoys trying to kill all other versions of themselves. Another family, who still thinks they are real, are kidnapped by mutilated decoys trying to harvest their skin but are rescued by pinocchio-resembling decoys who attempt to rally a group of decoys but are crushed to death when squid-decoys kill them. One family alerts all decoys to their location and almost all of the decoys are killed in the ensuing mayhem, though several ignore the beacon and walk away unharmed. Meanwhile, the real Smith family, on an adventure with Space Beth, are alerted to the decoys' deaths.

Rick and Morty are outside when acid rain begins falling on them. Planetina, a Captain Planet-esque superhero, appears and puts a stop to the rain. Seeing this, Morty immediately develops an interest in her. Later, Rick decides to take Summer on a trip to three planets which are about to be destroyed and are having large sexual parties because of it. While Morty is strengthening his relationship with Planetina, Rick finds a girlfriend, Daphne (Jennifer Coolidge) on the first planet and takes her with him. Back at home, Beth finds out about Planetina and forbids Morty to be with her. The two run away, avoiding the 4 people with magic rings who created her and Eddie (Steve Buscemi), who wants to sell her to a rich sheik. They pursue eco-friendly activities until Planetina stumbles upon a coal mine and decides to destroy it, killing 300 miners inside. Morty is distraught and horrified by this, and decides to end his relationship with Planetina, leaving Morty severely heartbroken with Beth comforting him and telling him she understands his pain. Rick and Summer, along with Daphne, travel to the third planet. Summer, tired of Rick ignoring her, uses Rick's car to destroy the asteroid. Daphne realizes that she's no longer in any danger and abandons Rick, proving Summer's earlier claim that she did not love him.

Rick unknowingly uses Morty’s sperm to create giant sperm monsters. The president works with the Smith family to destroy the sperm monsters, and pinpoint them in the Grand Canyon. Rick and Morty destroy the sperm queen's base of operations and follow the remaining sperm monsters to Las Vegas, where the government has placed a giant human egg from Summer, unaware that the sperm is Morty's, to attract the sperm. Once Morty reveals the sperm is his, the US military, Vegas performers, and the CHUD (horse-people) destroy most of them, but one abnormal sperm (which Morty names "Sticky") gets to the egg and fertilizes it before it launches into space.

Jerry unknowingly uses his social ineptitude to inflict pain on and subsequently pleasure hell-demons to repay a debt Rick owes to them. After realizing that he is being used as a pawn, an upset Jerry angers the demons, and he is kidnapped to Hell. Beth and Rick save him by disguising themselves as demons and creating an "Aversion-Converting Inversion Reverter" which shoots shrapnel reverting the pleasure from pain to actual pain, and kill many of the demons. Meanwhile, Morty and Summer try to impress new student Bruce Chutback by hijacking the Space Cruiser and taking it on adventures, but they are found out by the car's AI, who blackmails them into going on even more life-threatening adventures. They try to appease it by arranging for her to socialize with a group of shape shifting robots called Changeformers, but after the robots express revulsion to the Space Cruiser's association with humans, the AI kills the Changeformers. Morty, Summer, and Bruce are arrested, but are then rescued by the AI, brought back home, and forced to act like nothing happened. Bruce reveals that, while he enjoyed the night, he will only continue to hang out with Morty and Summer if they have good standing within their school.

Morty releases a giant robot from the Statue of Liberty after accidentally destroying the Constitution of the United States in a hidden crypt. Rick tries to obtain a "Turkey pardon" from the president by disguising himself and Morty as turkeys, but the president, aware of Rick's schemes, turns himself and other military volunteers into turkeys to stop him. All the while, a turkey is accidentally infused with the president's DNA and takes his place as a human. The president, his forces, and Rick and Morty team up with aliens and robots kept in stasis in the crypt to overthrow the turkey-president and their turkey enforcers. Rick gets his turkey pardon.

Rick, Morty, and Summer are on a space trip to Boob World when Rick spots a crashed GoTron ferret, completing his collection of five ferrets as Morty and Summer narrate. Deciding to use the GoTron ferrets to form a GoTron and fight monsters from other worlds, the entire Smith family serve as pilots. They then start slaying monsters that are attacking other worlds, much to the pleasure of Rick. As Rick’s obsession with the GoTron deepens, they start working with other Smith families from other realities on building the Ultimate GoTron with all their collected ferrets, but also by stealing the other GoTrons from their universes' pilots. As Summer helps Rick with his big plans, she finally feels like Rick appreciates her more than Morty. Morty tries to help Summer see that Rick doesn't really care about her, but only his obsession with the GoTrons. Rick had already replaced her with an "anime girl" named Kendra and unbeknownst to Rick, Kendra is leading the original GoTron pilots of the other universes, seeking their ferrets back. When Summer is fired, she reveals that her "Giant Incest Baby" (called "Naruto") is alive and she helped him escape from the military. The family returns to Rick and they save him with Naruto's help from the original GoTron pilots. After the rescue, Rick grows tired of the GoTrons, and kills the "Voiceovarians" that made Morty and Summer hear their inner thoughts.

Rick enters Birdperson's mind in order to find out why he is failing to act normally and how he could bring back the original mind of Birdperson. Memories reveal that Birdperson distanced himself from Rick after Rick expressed feelings for him and told him life was meaningless because there are infinite realities he could take them to through the portal gun. Rick discovers that Birdperson and Tammy have a daughter, who was inhibited from Birdperson's memories by the Federation. They track down Birdperson's central body, where he is cherishing his relationship with Tammy blissfully unaware of her treachery. They are hunted down by other versions of Tammy and Phoenixperson and barely escape after Birdperson's memory of Tammy reveals that she loved him more than the Federation. Birdperson is revived in the real world and leaves to find his daughter. Rick finds his younger self hiding in memories of his childhood, afraid of the person he will become.

After finding himself having to continually clean up Rick's messes, Morty accidentally spills portal fluid on his hand and finds himself able to speak to Nick, another man who spilled Rick's portal fluid onto himself. They become friends and Morty breaks him out of the psychiatric facility he's staying in when Nick says he and Morty were both neglected by Rick. When Nick shows himself for the violent psychopath he is, Morty has a train slice off his own hand with the portal fluid and puts that hand in Nick's portal, causing Nick to implode. Rick teams up with two crows to show Morty how disposable he is, but after an adventure wherein they save him from anthropomorphic crows attempting to savage Earth, he realizes they're more than just disposable alternatives to Morty. Rick leaves a devastated Morty behind to travel with the two crows.

Rick abandons an anime life with the crows when he discovers he is their rebound. He goes to the Citadel to de-age Morty (who had previously aged himself up in an unsuccessful attempt to convince Rick to return) but they are accosted by Rick agents, who take them to see President Morty. There, President Morty reveals that he used brain scans taken from Rick^[b] to create a path outside of the Central Finite Curve, a walled off portion of the multiverse where Rick is the smartest man alive, having restricted access for all Ricks from the ones where he is not, which he completes by having Rick before him. Flashbacks reveal Rick's backstory: after an alternate "Killer Rick" apparently killed his wife Diane and a young Beth, he invented his portal gun to scour the multiverse for his killer, but found no success, with a group of Ricks joining forces to try to stop him as he killed countless Ricks becoming the Citadel, of which Rick soon took command, creating the Curve before reuniting with an alternate adult Beth. Additionally, in order to get enough Mortys supplied to Ricks to hide their presences from their respective enemies, Rick had spearheaded a program where the Citadel would manipulate many Jerrys and Beths across the multiverse to fall in love and have children. President Morty hacks all the portal guns in the city, leading to widespread death, using the victims' blood and tainted portal fluid to escape the Curve in an escape pod while Rick, Morty, and a group of surviving Ricks and Mortys jettison themselves from the Citadel, which is destroyed by a black hole, including the Curve within the process, rendering Rick no longer "the smartest man in the universe" in any universe he travels to. Free of the Curve, the former-President Morty steps into a yellow portal to an unknown destination.