10 Important Life Lessons From Rick and Morty Season 5

The guidelines Rick lays down on Summer (Spencer Grammar) forward of their three-planet crawl of orgiastic pre-apocalyptic events in “A Rickconvenient Mort” are: “No whining, no crying, and absolutely, positively no getting attached.” As episode three, “A Rickconvenient Mort,” demonstrates, Rick can’t be counted on to comply with his personal guidelines—so Summer has to drag a Rick transfer and “avert an apocalypse in a tantrum of cynicism just to destroy one dumb relationship,” one thing he begrudgingly provides her props for ultimately.