Rick picks up rocks that cause a parasite infestation two episodes later, in "Total Rickall", while Morty undergoes character development after choosing to commit murder.
Jerry feels infantilized by the childish atmosphere, including a ball pit and figure in a Beth costume, but gets excited to watch Midnight Run.
In the first game, Morty becomes the character Roy and lives his life for 55 years, with no memory of the outside world, until dying after falling off a ladder in a carpet store.
While Rick plays Roy, Morty takes the ship with the aim of stopping Krombopulos Michael, but accidentally crashes and kills him.
Gearhead fixes the damaged ship while Fart starts singing the song "Goodbye Moonmen", with an accompanying psychedelic music video, in Morty's head.
This version had inferior audiovisual quality and lacked last-minute animation fixes, although creator Justin Roiland said that "the average person wouldn't really know the difference".
He said that he made a "wet and steamy" design for the suspicious space garage where Rick meets Krombopulos Michael, and drew an unused character Krootch who was originally intended to be a procurer that tries to trick Jerry when he leaves the daycare.
[13] Paste's Gita Jackson said the moral of the episode is "that we understand so little about the world that we live in", rather than the more negative message "life is inherently pain".
This is shown through Fart's justification for destroying all carbon-based life, and Jerry's inability to understand the world he finds when leaving the daycare.
Club's Zack Handlen said the episode "challenges the obvious notion of Rick as a coldhearted bastard and Morty as a sweet, good-natured kid".
Schedeen approved of Morty's character growth, the "distinctive voice and personality" that Clement brought to Fart and that Jerry's subplot was linked to the main storyline, amusing and had a good resolution.
[10] Giving it a score of 9.5 out of 10, Paste's Gita Jackson wrote that the episode was humorous, particularly the density of jokes at Blips and Chitz and Fart's incorrect word choices after reading the other characters' minds.