: Mid-season episodes satirize heist movies with "One Crew over the Crewcoo's Morty" (featuring a cameo by Elon Tusk , an alternate version of Elon Musk ) and explore fantasy tropes in "Claw and Hoarder," where Morty acquires a dragon that accidentally soul-bonds with Rick.
: The season also dives into time-traveling snakes on a cosmic scale and a meta-narrative episode set on a "Story Train" that literally deconstructs the show's own writing tropes. The Grand Finale: Space Beth Rick.and.Morty.SEASON.04.S04.COMPLETE.1080p.WEB...
: The season opens with Rick and Morty seeking "death crystals" that show the user their potential futures. Morty becomes obsessed with a path that leads to a peaceful death in the arms of his crush, Jessica, while Rick gets caught in a cycle of being resurrected into various fascist-themed dimensions. : Mid-season episodes satirize heist movies with "One
The season concludes with " Star Mort: Rickturn of the Jerri ," which addresses the long-standing mystery of whether Rick cloned his daughter, Beth. It is revealed that Rick cloned her and shuffled the two, meaning neither he nor the audience knows which is the "real" Beth. One Beth stayed on Earth, while "Space Beth" became a galactic revolutionary. Morty becomes obsessed with a path that leads
: Regarded as a series highlight, this episode features Morty goading Rick into creating a "save-point" device for real life. Morty uses it to live out a tragic love story, only for Rick to reveal that every "save" actually murdered a Morty from a parallel universe.