Meeseeks and Destroy
| "Meeseeks and Destroy" | |
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| Rick and Morty episode | |
The group of Meeseeks threatening hostages in a restaurant.
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Bryan Newton |
| Written by | Ryan Ridley |
| Original air date | January 20, 2014 |
| Running time | 21 minutes |
"Meeseeks and Destroy" is the fifth episode of the first season of Rick and Morty. It premiered on Adult Swim on January 20, 2014. The episode was written by Ryan Ridley and directed by Bryan Newton. In the episode, Rick provides the family with a solution to their problems, freeing him up to go on an adventure led by Morty. The episode has been well received, and was seen by about 1.6 million viewers when it was first aired on the Adult Swim channel.
After a traumatic adventure, Morty wants to quit all future escapades. Morty strikes a bet with Rick to lead his own adventure, agreeing to cease complaining if he fails. When the rest of the Smith family asks Rick for solutions to several mundane problems, he gives the family the Meeseeks Box, a gadget capable of summoning helpful beings named Mr. Meeseeks. These creatures exist only to execute the first order they are given; once it is completed, they vanish. Rick warns the family to keep their tasks simple.
When Rick and Morty leave, Beth asks her Meeseeks to help her become a more complete woman, while Summer wants hers to make her more popular at school. Jerry, thinking Beth and Summer's requests too challenging, asks his Meeseeks to help him take two strokes off his golf game. Summer's and Beth's Meeseeks complete their tasks quickly, but Jerry struggles to improve at golf despite the coaching from his Meeseeks. Since a Meeseeks cannot die until it completes its task, it summons another Meeseeks to help. Soon Jerry is surrounded by many Meeseeks, all desperate to help Jerry improve, because existence is painful to a Meeseeks. Jerry and Beth, exasperated, go to dinner together.
After they leave, all the Meeseeks blame each other for their predicament and argue over the correct solution, concluding that the only way to fulfill their mission is to take all the strokes off Jerry's golf game by killing him. A horde of armed Meeseeks descends upon the restaurant. Jerry and Beth escape into the restaurant's freezer, and the Meeseeks take hostages to coerce Jerry to come out. Jerry almost gives in, but Beth encourages him to try his golf swing one last time. Jerry uses a severed piece of shelving and a tomato to prove that his swing has improved, and the delighted Meeseeks all cease to exist.
Morty and Rick arrive in a stereotypical fantasy world to begin their adventure. They stop at a poor village that requests the help of two heroes to steal a giant's treasure in order to raise money. Morty and Rick climb up a giant beanstalk to the giants' world, but an accident sees them arrested for murdering a giant. They are tried in a Giant's Court, but are acquitted through a technicality.
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