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Skip for under 14
Rick and Morty S3 E4, “4. Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 4/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 14. While ostensibly helping a group of superheroes called the Vindicators, Rick instead drunkenly sets up a "Saw"-like scenario for them to navigate.
Across the episode we counted 22 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (1); Nudity & bodies (2); Violence & injury (2); Swearing (10); Alcohol & drugs (7). 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 1 moment
How Sex & hookups shows up in Rick and Morty S3 E4:
Uh, Morty, you might want to freeze some sperm.
Nudity & bodies 2 moments
How Nudity & bodies shows up in Rick and Morty S3 E4:
- Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
Yes! Is that what you want to hear?! Did it feel good? Did you like his six million wriggling legs more than my tragedy-stricken, half-ghost, half-tumescent penis?!
Violence & injury 2 moments
How Violence & injury shows up in Rick and Morty S3 E4:
I think the personality conflict might have been you? Jesus How awesome is that? I mean, they wanted to not need me so bad they murdered three innocent heroes of color and they still had to bring me back?
All aboard! Gun turret.
Swearing 10 moments
How Swearing shows up in Rick and Morty S3 E4:
They're a bunch of drama queens that spend an hour talking and 20 minutes jumping around while shit blows up.
Well, have fun with that, but Morty and I have to meet a Lady Comet, a Monorail Man, Two Assholes, and a Full Alligator in like an hour.
The Vindicators are known throughout the galaxy, but do they know yourselves, do you know yourselves? Match your your shit, your your gimmicks, with your faces, and y-you get it, it's a matching thing.
Um, uh, over here maybe? Jesus Christ, what a shitty neutrino bomb.
You know why, Rick? Because when you're an asshole, it doesn't matter how right you are, nobody wants to give you the satisfaction.
…more than my tragedy-stricken, half-ghost, half-tumescent penis?! Guys, stop! You're just proving my asshole grandpa right!
Hey, everybody! Look who's a Vindicator! Man, Grandpa Rick must have gotten shitfaced.
God damn it! Read 'em and weep.
So, your origin is what? Y-You fell into a vat of redundancy? Got damn! Noob Noob, we're having a briefing.
Vance that guy, that guy sucks Whoo! Yeah! Yo D-Did I get paid yet? Whoo! I can't believe we're getting Gear Cream with a Vindicator.
Alcohol & drugs 7 moments
How Alcohol & drugs shows up in Rick and Morty S3 E4:
Morty, how many of these Too many, Rick! Too many! Man, I am really getting high-roaded today.
I end up getting high with half of them.
Drunk Check, check.
"Obviously?" You came here and defeated our arch nemesis while so drunk you don't remember doing it?
What the hell is "Israel"? It-It's just something Rick starts talking about when he's blackout drunk.
You guys hit the baskets, I'll disarm the drunkenly-improvised neutrino bomb.
I mean, look, when I get drunk, I get stupid and emotional and there's no logic to it.
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