Rick & Morty Season 7 Episode 4’s Post-Credits Scenes Proves A Season 6 Change Right

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for Rick and Morty season 7, episode 4.

While Rick and Morty season 7, episode 4’s post-credits scene might be a surreal vignette, the moment proves that one major season 6 twist was a good call. Rick and Morty occasionally leans into the show’s canon, but the series mostly ignores its continuity during its first few seasons. To maintain the show’s status quo, Rick and Morty often avoids big revelations about the mechanics of the show’s universe. This is why it’s such a surprise when the season 5 finale explains — and then destroys — the Central Finite Curve.

This complicated concept involves the systemic oppression and torture of countless Mortys, but it allows Ricks to travel between whatever dimensions they want, whenever they want. By Rick and Morty season 7, the Central Finite Curve is long gone, but the show’s heroes are still traveling between dimensions at will. This is because Rick and Morty season 6, episode 6, “JuRicksic Mort,” sees hyper-intelligent dinosaurs gifting Rick with an alternative method of interdimensional travel. This effectively reset the show’s canon, allowing the series to return to Rick and Morty’s version of normalcy.

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Rick & Morty Season 7 Episode 4 Shows The Multiverse’s Value

While the entire story of Rick and Morty season 7, episode 4, “That’s Amorte,” relies on the characters being able to travel between planets and galaxies, it is the last moment of the outing that proves Rick and Morty needs interdimensional travel. Like earlier post-credit stingers in Rick and Morty season 7, episode 4’s post-credits scene is utterly absurd. The bizarre scene sees a group of sentient vacuum cleaners recreating the closing scenes of “That’s Amorte” as they discover that vacuum bags are made from dying Tree People. Even in context, the segment is as surreal as it sounds.

However, it is precisely this moment’s absurdity that proves Rick and Morty needs to reinstate its version of the multiverse. The scene recreates a moment from the ending of “That’s Amorte,” but all the human characters are replaced by talking vacuum cleaners and Tree People. It’s a scene that wouldn’t work if, like the first half of season 6, Rick and Morty season 7 had no interdimensional travel. By bouncing to an alternate reality for a moment, the show manages to mock its own storyline and make an already weird episode weirder. Needless to say, this post-credits scene, like Rick and Morty season 7’s first stinger, elevates its episode.

Rick and Morty Always Needed Interdimensional Travel

Before interdimensional travel is reinstated by the dinosaurs midway through season 6, Rick and Morty briefly struggles to make sense of the show’s wacky sci-fi plots without the option of suddenly cutting to another planet. The fact that the show can now jump to a world where, for example, people’s insides turn to spaghetti after they die (as is the case in season 7, episode 4’s opening scene) affords the series more freedom in its storytelling. What makes Rick and Morty’s anarchic plotting work is these random, unpredictable twists, and the existence of a multiverse equivalent in the show’s universe keeps these coming.