3. Auto Erotic Assimilation
🎞️ S2 E3 🚫 Hard pass

Rick and Morty

Is Rick and Morty S2 E3 OK for kids?

3. Auto Erotic Assimilation

Rick becomes emotional; Beth and Jerry are hard on each other.

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Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 14

Rick and Morty S2 E3, “3. Auto Erotic Assimilation”, scores 2/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. Rick becomes emotional; Beth and Jerry are hard on each other.

Across the episode we counted 25 flagged moments in 9 themes: Sex & hookups (4); Nudity & bodies (4); Porn / strippers / sex work (1); Violence & injury (1); Suicide & self-harm (1); Swearing (9); Alcohol & drugs (3); Racism & slurs (1); Slut-shaming (1). 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 4 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • Listen, if this is an invasion, I got to sit this one out, but I'll be back to have sex with the survivors.
  • Oh, that's pretty sexy.
  • Summer, before I took over this planet, this man was a registered sex offender.
  • He's Having sex with you.

Nudity & bodies 4 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • I'm an electrical engineer, father of two, and, as you can see from my flat, concentric nipple rings, I'm a member of this planet's top race! Okay, that's good.
  • And I'll be damned if that ripple-nipple bitch's race is superior! The cone-nipple people will rule this world! You shut your mouth, you dirty knife-nipple bastards.
  • We just have regular nipples.
  • …crotchless uncle Sam costume, and I want the entire field of your largest stadium covered end to end with naked redheads, and I want the stands packed with every man that remotely resembles my father.

Porn / strippers / sex work 1 moment

How Porn / strippers / sex work shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • Prostitutes are now scientists.

Violence & injury 1 moment

How Violence & injury shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • Second of all, cards on the table, I'm a murderer that eats babies, and I came to this planet to eat babies.

Suicide & self-harm 1 moment

How Suicide & self-harm shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • This woman was a drug addict on the verge of suicide.

Swearing 9 moments

How Swearing shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • it's a ship full of dead aliens and a bunch of free shit! Whoa! it's a deadly trap, but I'm ready to roll those dice.
  • And I'll be damned if that ripple-nipple bitch's race is superior! The cone-nipple people will rule this world! You shut your mouth, you dirty knife-nipple bastards.
  • "? So good luck with your shitty marriage, and tell Rick I'm sorry he has to deal with either of you.
  • All right, beta shit seven, you just got saved by the bell, bitch! Did you get any of that? It's-a good show-a.
  • What the hell was that? I don't know.
  • Uh Okay, what the hell.
  • Reeeeeeeeeeeeeal-- God damn it, stop.
  • I didn't know freedom meant people doing stuff that sucks.
  • I can tolerate it, but I can't give a crap about it.

Alcohol & drugs 3 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • Jerry, what are you what are you doing in here? I'm trying to find our weed whacker, 'cause our weeds are wack, yo.
  • I, um Jerry and I were looking for our weed whacker and found your subterranean lair and your alien prisoner, and he got away.
  • Um, should we maybe stop somewhere and get you a coffee? Maybe splash a little water on your face, or No, no, if I wanted to be sober, I wouldn't have gotten drunk.

Racism & slurs 1 moment

How Racism & slurs shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • Cops are racist.

Slut-shaming 1 moment

How Slut-shaming shows up in Rick and Morty S2 E3:

  • Where did you learn to talk, you grandpa-stealing slut? I'm feeling Ugh.

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