Take a look at the /r/RickAndMorty forum on Reddit and you’ll notice a group of like-minded fans convinced that they may have cracked the code to some peculiar goings on in the Adult Swim series. In the hours following the release of the third episode of season five, “A Rickconvenient Truth,” eagle-eyed viewers pointed out that we haven’t seen a Rick’s portal device in action a single time this season. Adding to the weirdness is the fact that, as user tokulord brought up, nobody has referred to Rick by his “C-137” designation. All signs point to shenanigans. “Maybe every episode has taken place in a different reality,” tokulord theorized. And hey, stranger things have happened. One time Rick escaped the law by destroying the concept of money. The show is bonkers.
Maybe it’s nothing, but the lack of swirling green portals is certainly a departure for the reality-hopping adventures of Rick and Morty. Rick’s portal gun has become every bit as iconic as the show’s main characters, after all, and it would’ve been suspect if the first half of a season of “Star Trek” took place without the Enterprise making an appearance, too. For concrete answers, fans will just have to stay tuned through the end of season five, the first half of which is scheduled to wrap up on July 18, 2021.
