With the end of Rick and Morty's 7th season, the series has now managed to grow this collection further, with the poignant sequence featured in the fourth episode adding one more brilliant montage to the show's name. Always set to some expertly-crafted music, Rick and Morty's montages are sometimes used to drive home emotional beats or reveal critical pieces of the show's lore, but it's just as often that they're played for laughs, lingering on curiously specific jokes for hilarious amounts of time. It's fascinating to see how Rick and Morty's montages stack up against one another, running the gamut of the show's varied entertainment value.

10 Morty Causes Solar War

Season 6, Episode 9

The montage of season 6's "A Rick In King Arthur's Mort" is the culmination of Rick and Morty's meddling in the affairs of the Knights of the Sun, a medieval order of knights that somehow exists on the surface of Earth's sun alongside entire nations of similar kingdoms in the solar system. This dramatic sequence emulates the "turning of the wheel" as the various factions vie for the power of the Solar Scepter, portraying a space-fantasy war that could be a movie in and of itself. As atmospheric as this montage is, it's still a fairly generic fantasy story told relatively straight.

9 Rick And Summer Beat People Up

Season 1, Episode 9

After Summer is conned by the literal devil, her and Rick team up to get revenge in the most hilariously low-tech way: Simply getting jacked and physically beating him up. While they still have their swole new physiques, the pair go on a crusade in the post-credits scene, laying down the pain on anyone they see deserving, from neo-Nazis to dog abs. Set to the tune of DMX's "X Gon' Give It To Ya", the hilariously upbeat montage is made exponentially funny by Summer and Rick spitting on their victims every single time. That being said, the sequence is still a short and simple joke, not standing up to some of the show's best montages.

8 The Dinosaurs Come Back (And Leave Again)

Season 6, Episode 6

Not to be confused with the similarly-named Rick and Morty Christmas episode, season 6's "JuRicksic Mort" features the return of the dinosaurs to Earth, revealed to have evolved into hyper-intelligent beings that left the planet. The episode's montage is split into two parts, with the first section showing the dinosaurs improving life on Earth to a comedic backing track featuring a breathy singer naming fake dinosaurs. The second section shows off how quickly humanity falls back into turmoil after the dinosaurs leave, the vocalist now naming a slew of modern issues instead. Not exactly obvious humor, these montages explain why humans need problems to stay sane, putting it closer to the middle of the pack.

7 Rick, Morty, And Summer Have Fun In Frozen Time

Season 2, Episode 1

At the end of season 1, Rick manages to keep himself and his grandkids from getting in trouble with Jerry and Beth after wrecking the Smith house with a blowout party by freezing time, giving the trio plenty of time to clean up. The beginning of season 2 revealed that during the freeze, Rick took the time to have some fun with Morty and Summer, pulling pranks on unsuspecting frozen people and stealing a new TV. This scene goes by incredibly fast, but it's worth mentioning for being about as wholesome as the show gets, with Rick proving that despite his flaws and sci-fi shenanigans, he still plays the role of a fun grandparent every now and then.

6 Morty Uses The Save Point Button

Season 4, Episode 8

The aptly-named "The Vat of Acid Episode" is one of the best episodes in all of Rick and Morty, thanks in no small part to the episode's excellent montage. After Morty gets Rick to build him a device that allows him to set a point in time he can return to at any time consequence-free, he goes on a spree of impulse-driven mishaps set to the tune of Eric Clapton's "It's In The Way That You Use It". The sequence becomes a silent love story-turned-tragedy when Morty manages to fall in love with an unnamed girl, only to be reset from her memory accidentally by Jerry, hilariously undercutting the emotional strength of the storytelling with a gut punch of visceral nihilism.

5 Rick And Beth Clone Tommy Together

Season 3, Episode 9

Beth is often sidelined in Rick and Morty as a ing character, fulfilling a fairly standard Mom archetype for the loose animated family sitcom dynamic the show somewhat retains. However, Season 3's "The ABCs of Beth" explored Beth's similarities to her father when she helps him clone her childhood friend, Tommy, in order to prove the innocence of his father, who had been implicated in Tommy's disappearance. The touching montage showing Beth following in her father's footsteps is hilariously undercut by a full version of the "Doo doo butt" song Rick was singing earlier in the episode, mixing genuine character growth with absurdist humor in a way only Rick and Morty can pull off.

4 Morty And Planetina's Activism

Season 5, Episode 6

Season 5 introduced a new love interest for Morty with Planetina, a Captain Planet-esque environmental superhero that Morty gets swept up in a whirlwind romance with. The pair run off together, Morty being dragged along in a brief series of vignettes in which Planetina resorts to more and more drastic action in the name of environmental justice. The montage culminates in a heartbreaking scene in which Planetina kills a group of miners, forcing Morty to choose between his heart and his morality. While brief, this sequence tugs on the heartstrings in ways few scenes in Rick and Morty can emulate.

3 Fred: A Life Well-Lived

Season 7, Episode 4

One of the latest montages to be added to the series, episode 4 of season 7 takes the viewer through the life of a relatively normal one-off character named Fred, a terminally ill old man who agrees to end his own life to prove a point. Flashing through the years of Fred's life over the sound of Kotomi and Ryan Elder's "Live Forever" is an incredibly poignant experience, and works just as well as a self-contained story without the bizarre context of the episode. As Rick himself states, "It's not the death, it's the complexities of life".

2 Evil Morty's Origin

Season 7, Episode 5

At long last, season 7 finally pulled back the curtain on the overarching antagonist of the series, revealing the origin of Evil Morty. Over the course of the synth-fueled montage, we learn that Evil Morty was just one out of many millions of different Morties across the multiverse, only he simply snapped, finally getting fed up one day with Rick's antics. There's almost nothing can compare to the sense of gratification that came with finally learning all there is to know about Evil Morty, and this sequence expertly crafted a new portrayal of his actions throughout the series from his own perspective.

1 Rick's Crybaby Backstory

Season 6, Episode 1

The single most significant scene to the lore of Rick and Morty, the series' depiction of Rick's backstory definitively established Rick's questionable timeline once and for all. This sequence is utterly wordless, with only a pensive synthwave instrumental to accompany the striking imagery of Rick's journey. This montage reveals that not only did Rick's supposedly "made up" backstory from season 3 really happen, but it was the primary impetus behind him returning to Beth's life, hoping to finally get revenge on Rick Prime. This montage is Rick and Morty at its most visually striking and narratively satisfying, tying together the titular character's motivations once and for all.