Episode notes
Rick rewires the family TV to receive programming from every parallel dimension, and what starts as a showcase of absurdist alternate-universe content — a salesman with ants in his eyes, a movie about escalating threats, a Garfield knockoff with a rage problem — turns into a crisis when the family uses interdimensional goggles to see better versions of themselves. Jerry watches himself as an Academy Award winner doing cocaine with Johnny Depp; Beth sees herself as a real surgeon; Summer discovers she barely exists in most timelines and that her parents almost aborted her. Beth and Jerry agree to separate, and Summer heads for the door. Morty intercepts her by revealing that he and Rick replaced the original inhabitants of this dimension — the real Morty is buried twenty yards from the breakfast table. His pitch for staying: nobody chose to exist, ...