10 Funniest Jokes In Rick & Morty Season 7 Episode 2, Ranked

WARNING! This article contains spoilers for Rick and Morty season 7, episode 2!

The best jokes in Rick and Morty season 7, episode 2 come from the unlikely pairing of Rick and Jerry and the wild antics that the duo end up embarking on in this madcap outing. Rick and Morty season 7’s episodes promised to revive the show’s formula by replacing Justin Roiland as the voice actor for both of the show’s title characters. However, it would have been all too easy for the show’s creators to replace the show’s star and then continue without changing anything else about the series. Fortunately, Rick and Morty season 7, episode 1, “How Poopy Got His Poop Back,” proved that this was not the show’s fate.

From its premiere onwards,Rick and Morty season 7 is proving that the series still has new ideas and fresh jokes hidden within its well-worn character dynamics. The jokes in Rick and Morty season 7’s premiere episode surrounded a reluctant Rick hosting an intervention for Mr. Poopybutthole only for the night to soon devolve into anarchic, drunken debauchery. Now, season 7, episode 2, “The Jerrick Trap,” has given Rick another interesting assignment as the outing forced him to pair up with his son-in-law Jerry. Although Rick and Jerry have worked together before, “The Jerrick Trap” featured a bizarre spin on body swap tropes that made for a fresh plot with plenty of hilarious gags.

10 Jerry’s Terrible Cover Story

When Jerry and Rick combined brains and bodies, they inadvertently created two versions of themselves that were equal parts Jerry and Rick. This was a great meta-gag in and of itself since, only an episode after Rick and Morty season 7 gave Rick a new voice actor, the series almost immediately blended the character with another supporting star to confuse viewers. However, it was Rick’s terrible excuse for bringing Jerry to pick up Morty from a crime boss’s hideout – where he inexplicably claimed Jerry was his gay assassin – that made this plot sing.

9 Rick’s Conehead Phase

While Jerry tried to work out how Rick’s many built-in cybernetic enhancements work, he accidentally triggered a process that led him to suddenly sprout a cone from his head. Rick admitted that this was from his “Coneheads phase,” prompting Jerry to concede that he also thinks this infamous 1993 flop was a great movie. While this Saturday Night Live spinoff featured an admittedly great cast, it was critically reviled, and the idea that Rick and possibly also Jerry viewed it as a misunderstood classic was priceless.

8 Chuxley’s Gruesome Fate

The mob boss Huxley made the mistake of turning on Rick once he realized that Rick and Jerry weren’t in agreement, but this didn’t end well for him. While one of the funniest moments of Rick and Morty season 7, episode 1 saw Mr. Poopybutthole get beaten to a pulp, even that scene was nowhere near as grisly as Chuxley’s fate. In Rick and Morty season 7, episode 2, Jerry launched Rick into the mob boss and, with his conehead, Rick ripped straight through Chuxley’s torso.

7 Rick & Morty Season 7’s Donkey Kong Nod

While the Coneheads discussion was very funny, one of the best gags in “The Jerrick Trap” came from one of the show’s subtler pop culture references. Near the episode’s ending, Jerry and Rick combined their powers to save Beth, Morty, and Summer from Chuxley and his cronies. This led them to a showdown in a factory, complete with a scene where the multi-armed combination of Jerry and Rick tossed barrels as henchmen like Donkey Kong.

6 The Mirror Movers

Although Justin Roiland’s exit seems to be just what Rick and Morty season 7’s formula needed, this doesn’t mean that the show has given up on goofy, purely silly humor. One supremely silly scene in “The Jerrick Trap” saw a pair of movers carrying a pane of glass across the street and remarking on how easy this is. The second mover clarified that a sick child wished for this lone pane of glass as their last request before, inevitably, Jerry and Rick smashed the pane amidst a high-speed chase.

5 Rick & Morty Season 7 Episode 2’s Cold Open

The cold open of Rick and Morty season 7, episode 2 might be one of the strongest gags of the new season so far. The episode seemed to set up a conventional Freaky Friday plot as Jerry complained that Rick wastes his genius. Rick then promised to swap their consciousnesses, and the two men sat down for the procedure. However, reality then took over as Rick and Jerry reacted the way a real-life consciousness likely would if suddenly transplanted in another body, screaming in terror before dying accidentally and intentionally a few seconds later.

4 Chuxley’s “Good” Death

Although Rick and Morty made Roiland’s recasting harder to hide with the return of Mr. Poopybutthole earlier in season 7, “The Jerrick Trap” proved that the show is in no way averse to killing off supporting characters. After recovering from his earlier injury, Chuxley was killed by Jerry/Rick’s final form near the episode’s end. In a bizarre and unexpected reversal of fortunes, Jerry/Rick revealed that they respected Chuxley and Chuxley faced his “good death” peacefully.

3 The Big Jerricky Reveal

Late in “The Jerrick Trap,” viewers finally get to see what Jerry and Rick’s combined self looks like. Bizarrely, the being that calls itself “Jerricky” was a multi-limbed monster with a six-pack, and Jerry and Rick’s two stacked heads were the only recognizable elements of the thing. While Rick and Morty season 7 mocked Pickle Rick, this hilariously weird monstrosity made that earlier aberration look comparatively cute.

2 Chuxley’s Understanding Nature

During the final battle between Jerricky and Chuxley’s goons, the henchman who first took Morty hostage admitted that the entire incident was his fault. Once again displaying the bizarrely Zen attitude that he shows later in the scene, Chuxley thanked him for the apology and said he valued his honesty. The discord between the gory battle and this sweet moment made the exchange absurd.

1 Jerricky’s Classic Simpsons Reference

At first, it looked like “The Jerrick Trap” would end with Jerricky leaving the Smith family behind for good. However, at the last second, Jerricky stepped on a rake much like The Simpsons villain Sideshow Bob did in the iconic season 5, episode 2, “Cape Feare.” This classic Simpsons reference allowed Jerry and Rick’s minds to break free from each other, leading Jerricky to topple over as both men frantically told the Smith family to unscramble their brains. It was silly, clever, and the sort of typically inspired gag viewers have come to expect from Rick and Morty.