1. ABC's "TGIT"
   Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim"
2. Cartoon Network's "Sunday Funday"
   Nickelodeon's "Nicktoons"

"Rick and Morty" airs on the Cartoon Network's beloved adult-programming block. Which is good, because you don't want to sit your preschoolers down in front of this.

1. Back to the Future
   The Breakfast Club
2. Real Genius
   Thelma and Louise

The name "Morty" is a close cousin to "Marty (McFly)," which was the character played by Michael J. Fox in the time-travel movie. Rick started out as a version of the mad scientist played by Christopher Lloyd.

1. A public mailbox
   An old biplane
2. A ray gun
   A wardrobe in an attic

Rick has a "portal gun" that opens up acid-green, swirling portals wherever he aims and fires. This allows for an active, "run and gun" story structure.

1. Duz detergent
   Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo
2. McDonald's Szechuan sauce
   Tab cola

This was revealed on the Season Three premiere. The interest in Szechuan Sauce -- which had been a short-lived promotion for the film "Mulan" -- was so great that McDonald's announced that it would return to the menu in late 2017.

1. Steals his lunch money
   Freezes him, causing his death
2. Makes him a genius
   Makes him a beautiful girl

When Frank is bullying Morty, Rick freezes him solid, assuring Morty he'll unfreeze the boy later. However, Frank falls over and shatters (in front of Summer), and later students are seen putting flowers and tributes at the spot. This should have warned everyone they weren't watching "The Flintstones."

1. "Bazinga"
   "Fool"
2. "Nada"
   "Rick"

"R&M" episode titles often adapt the title of a famous movie, book or TV show to use the name "Rick." For example, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" became "The Ricks Must Be Crazy."

1. The nearby amusement park
   A fictitious Third World country
2. A comic-book series Morty likes
   A world Rick created for the child Beth

In the episode about "Froopyland," Rick and Beth go there to look for Beth's childhood friend. But the friend, Tommy, doesn't want to go back to the real world.

1. Kiki
   Paul Anka
2. Sirius
   Snuffles

We meet "Snuffles" in "Lawnmower Dog," in which Rick greatly enhances his intelligence. The title is a parody of "Lawnmower Man," a movie in which the same thing happens to a simple-minded human.

1. To cure cancer
   To become the boss at work
2. To be the world's best lover
   To take two strokes off his golf game

Typically, Jerry has a completely unambitious request of his meeseek. Even so, his creature -- and the ones that keep being conjured up to help -- cannot seem to make Jerry any better at golf.

1. Bundy
   Brady
2. Tebow
   Smith

Rick's last name is Sanchez. But because Jerry's last name is Smith, that's the one Beth, Summer and Morty share.

1. Cyber-stalk Earth celebrities
   Perform barbershop quartets
2. Watch reality TV
   Complete a single task

The Smith family create meeseeks to help with problems in their lives. The meeseeks, when they can't fulfill a task on their own, create their own meeseeks, leading to considerable proliferation.

1. School teacher
   School principal
2. Veterinarian
   Grocery store manager

Beth has inherited her father's brains. A running joke is that Jerry, who is genuinely dimwitted, tries to make her feel inferior because she treats horses, not humans.

1. To become famous
   To help humanity
2. To reproduce itself
   To die

It's painful for meeseeks to be alive, so this motivates them to complete the one task they've been assigned by their creator. After the task is completed, they cease to exist. (Try not to think too long about the implications for humans).

1. He's come for takeout pizza.
   He's a god demanding to be worshiped.
2. He's been kicked out of his home galaxy.
   He's a judge on an intergalactic singing competition.

If Earth loses on the competition, it will be destroyed. No pressure!

1. "Would you like fries with that?"
   "I am in great pain, please help me."
2. "God is dead."
   Nothing

Does this hint at the private pain the manic, arrogant Rick hides from the world? That's one fan theory.

1. A hamster wheel
   Pure uranium
2. A miniature universe
   Several limes sliced open

Inside that universe, scientists have created another miniature universe to power *their* projects. It's all part of the great chain of being -- or using, however you view it.

1. "A Confederacy of Ricks"
   "Mortylicious"
2. "Rick Roll"
   "The Rickshank Redemption"

In this episode, Rick has infiltrated the Galactic Federation and causes its collapse, freeing Earth from the Federation's domination. Is this enough to impress and soften up Jerry? Of course not.

1. Cronenbergs
   Cthulhus
2. Kriegs
   Squibs

Though "Cthulhus" would be appropriate given the show's debt to Lovecraft, the mutants were named after the horror director David Cronenberg. A practiitoner of "body horror," he directed the famous mutation movie "The Fly."

1. "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez"
   "Mortynight Run"
2. "Ricksy Business"
   "The Wedding Squanchers"

"Tiny Rick" is a teenager who infiltrates Summer and Morty's high school. The title is a take-off on "Big Trouble in Little China."

1. It was a musical.
   It was in black and white.
2. Morty did not appear in it.
   It was unannounced.

Adult Swim has a history of April Fool's pranks, and launching "Rick and Morty" with no fanfare was one of them. Don't worry; in the age of streaming, fans who missed it had plenty of opportunity to catch up.

1. Rick
   Morty
2. Jerry
   Both #1 and #2

Roiland voices both of the show's title characters. Well, that's one way to ensure that there isn't bad chemistry between the leads!

1. He wants a dutiful daughter who'll always obey him
   So the clone can serve a jail sentence for her
2. So she'll have more time to explore the universe
   To replace the real Beth, who is trapped in Froopyland

Rick's intentions don't seen bad here. But Beth becomes concerned that she's the clone, which is admittedly a serious existential crisis.

1. James Herbert
   Kathe Koja
2. H.P. Lovecraft
   Peter Straub

"Rick and Morty" follows in Lovecraft's tradition of "cosmic horror," in which humankind is insignificant and "gods" is more or less a term for "monsters." Lovecraft's work never caught on in his lifetime. Accolades (like the homages in "Rick and Morty") came posthumously.

1. Beth
   Jerry
2. Morty
   Summer

Rick seems to have been driven around the bend by his understanding that humankind is insignificant and the individual life means nothing. Morty, Beth and Summer all absorb some of this viewpoint from him. But Jerry, the least perceptive, is also the happiest with his lot. He's like a version of John Stuart Mills's "satisfied pig."

1. Ghost
   Man-eating
2. Schrodinger's
   Talking

"Schrodinger's cat" is a puzzle in quantum physics. It involves a cat in a kind of death trap inside a box (sorry, ASPCA!) and posits that while the box is still unopened, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time.

1. Sarah Chalke
   Sally Field
2. Roma Downey
   Valerie Bertinelli

Chalke is best known for her slightly-neurotic doctor character Elliott Reid on "Scrubs." She was also one of Ted's fiancees on "How I Met Your Mother."

1. Six months
   One year
2. A year and a half
   A lunar eternity

A minor character (we can't bring ourselves to use his name here) told viewers that "Rick and Morty" would return in a year and a half. This proved correct; the last Season 2 episode aired in October 2015, and the first Season 3 show premiered in April 2017.

1. Seattle Grace Animal Hospital
   Springfield Animal Hospital
2. St. Eligius
   St. Equis

Beth treats horses, so the hospital is "St. Equis." In the pilot, she operates on a vitally injured horse while a clueless Jerry drops by on an extended lunch break and tries to persuade her to put Rick in a nursing home.

1. Morty's crush at school
   A hive mind
2. Rick's ex-lover
   Both #2 and #3

Rick's sexuality is complicated. Perhaps the best example of this is his relationship with Unity, a hive mind voiced by "Mad Men's" Christina Hendricks.

1. Community
   The Goldbergs
2. Ghosted
   The New Girl

Though "Community" is an NBC sitcom, you can see Harmon's influence in the meta-fictional humor. Like "Rick and Morty," "Community" often parodies tropes in film; it just does so without quite so much lewd humor.

1. Knowles
   Herpson
2. Rotter
   Hatfield

Yes, like the STD. If you think that's bad, we're not even going to include the name of the principal in this quiz.

1. Aristotle
   Arendt
2. Epicurus
   Nietschze

"Rick and Morty" promotes a nihilist point of view, in which no individual life is significant (or civilization, for that matter). Or, as Morty says, "Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV."

1. Morty
   Summer
2. Jessica
   Birdperson

If you're wondering about the last name, it's not a coincidence. Grammer is the daughter of actor Kelsey Grammer, of "Cheers" and "Frasier" fame.

1. James Callis and Tricia Helfer
   Allison Hannigan and Alexis Denisov
2. Charisma Carpenter and James Marsters
   Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles

"The Wedding Squanchers" was about the wedding of Birdman, which, almost needless to say, went horribly wrong. Callis and Helfer, veterans of "Battlestar Galactica," were guest stars.

1. Dana Carvey
   Stephen Colbert
2. Patton Oswalt
   Phil Hartman

The humor of "Rick and Morty" would probably have delighted Hartman, the former "SNL" and "NewsRadio" comedian. Sadly, Hartman died in 1998.