Rick and Morty is partway into season 3, and we’ve already been blessed with cameos and PICKLE RICK. The prospect of a preview of next week’s episode had us squanching when we received a YouTube notification from Not Justin Roiland (who is assuredly Justin Roiland) about a newly-uploaded video. It wasn’t a season 3 clip, however. It was titled, “Rick and Morty But It’s Only Mr. Meeseeks” and it’s exactly what it says on the tin.
The supercut covers every scene awesome side character Mr. Meeseeks has been in so far, including season 1 episode 5 “Meeseeks and Destroy,” in which Meeseeks — who can be summoned to help someone with a task and then no longer exists once the task is completed — finds out there’s one person who can’t seem to be helped: Jerry. Mr. Meeseeks keeps summoning other Meeseeks to help Jerry, but he keeps failing and the Meeseeks descend into insanity as they exist far longer than they’re meant to. They realize they may have to kill Jerry to return themselves to the void:
“We Meeseeks are not born into this world fumbling for meaning, Jerry! We are created to serve a singular purpose for which we will go to any lengths to fufill! Existence is pain to a Meeseeks, Jerry! And we will do anything to alleviate that pain!”
There’s also an Easter egg pointed out by this supercut. If you didn’t notice it before, Mr. Meeseeks has a cameo in season 2 episode 2, “Mortynight Run,” where he’s helping someone win an arcade game in the background of a scene in the Blips & Chitz arcade.
Dan Harmon has said he’d like to bring Meeseeks back this season. Does the timing of this supercut mean Meeseeks is coming back soon? Unfortunately, probably not. On the Y Combinator podcast, Harmon offered an update which sounds like Meeseeks won’t make it into season 3 after all. He said one of the ideas they had was “to show what the inside of a Meeseeks box looks like,” which could be disturbingly hilarious. It would be a shame to only get two appearances of Meeseeks, but then again, we’ll always have other great characters, like Pickle Rick.
Speaking of which, Pickle Rick now has an unofficial song made by a fan (Chetreo). If only there were a way to condense this catchy song into some kind of transcendent sauce and slather it all over ourselves.
(Via Not Justin Roiland, Inverse, Chetreo, and The Awesomer)
