Rick and Morty/Recap/S01/E08 Rixty Minutes

As the family watches The Bachelor, Rick is dissatisfied with the quality of Earth TV so he upgrades the cable to show programming from every conceivable dimension. Eventually, they see Jerry from an alternative reality on TV. The family, minus Rick and Morty, uses Rick's goggles to see through the eyes of their duplicates in that alternative reality, where Jerry and Beth have successful lives, they never married, and Summer was never born because Beth had an abortion. Jerry, Beth and Summer have a heated discussion in which they conclude that family life is holding them back and Beth admits that Summer was an unwanted pregnancy. Summer feels unwanted and plans to run away, but Morty tells her that he and Rick themselves came from an alternate dimension (as depicted in "Rick Potion #9") and persuades her to stay. Ultimately, Beth and Jerry discover that their alternate selves are miserable in their own ways and witness them getting back together, which convinces them that they belong together too.

Post-credit scene: The family goes on vacation into an alternate reality where hamsters live in human rectums that they saw on the interdimensional TV.

(Copied from Wikipedia, "Rick and Morty (season 1)")


 * Parody: The Strawberry Smiggles commercial is a parody of Lucky Charms and Trix commercials.