6. Rick Potion #9
🎞️ S1 E6 🚫 Hard pass

Rick and Morty

Is Rick and Morty S1 E6 OK for kids?

6. Rick Potion #9

Rick provides Morty with a love potion to get Jessica. The serum backfires & Rick's attempt to fix things creates Cronenberg inspired monsters. Rick is okay with it but Morty feels partly responsible for creating a living nightmare.

📺 Where to watch

Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 14

Rick and Morty S1 E6, “6. Rick Potion #9”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 3/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. Rick provides Morty with a love potion to get Jessica. The serum backfires & Rick's attempt to fix things creates Cronenberg inspired monsters. Rick is okay with it but Morty feels partly responsible for creating a living nightmare.

Across the episode we counted 18 flagged moments in 6 themes: Sex & hookups (3); Nudity & bodies (4); Affairs / cheating (1); Violence & injury (3); Suicide & self-harm (1); Swearing (6). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 3 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Rick and Morty S1 E6:

  • I had sex with Billy.
  • Outdone yourself?! Are you kidding me, Rick? This is not okay! Not only do they all want to have sex with me, but, you know, now they want to eat me afterwards! Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.
  • Morty! Uh, by the way, Morty, I know you didn't ask or anything, but I'm not interested in having sex with you.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Rick and Morty S1 E6:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • Principal vagina here.
  • Oh, come on, principal Vagina.
  • I wish that shotgun was my penis.

Affairs / cheating 1 moment

How Affairs / cheating shows up in Rick and Morty S1 E6:

  • Well, isn't that convenient? Not for the men they cheat on, no.

Violence & injury 3 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in Rick and Morty S1 E6:

  • I wish that shotgun was my penis.
  • When he comes at ya, he doesn't seem to be living until he bites ya, and then the the blood, and the red, and the water You ever wonder what happened to Rick and Morty? Sometimes.
  • I'm the one beating them to death.

Suicide & self-harm 1 moment

How Suicide & self-harm shows up in Rick and Morty S1 E6:

  • If anything ever happened to you, I would kill myself.

Swearing 6 moments

How Swearing shows up in Rick and Morty S1 E6:

  • God, grandpa, you're such a dick.
  • I love him more than you do, Harold! You wish, you stupid bitch! Morty's mine! Morty's mine! Meant to be together! Morty! Where is Morty? Oh, my God, Rick.
  • Crap, they need me at the horse hospital.
  • I love Morty and I hope Morty loves me I'd like to wrap my arms around him and feel him inside me Oh, crap.
  • What the hell is going on, Rick? What does it look like? The serum is piggybacking on the virus.
  • What the hell? The only thing that is known is how cute he is.

Watch With The Kids · You kids — your rules! · Informal parent guidance, not an official rating.