Rick And Morty: The 10 Best Planets Visited In The Show
The creators of Rick and Morty have developed a show where anything is possible. If a concept falls within the realm of human imagination, it can be written into an episode. As a result of Rick and Morty’s unlimited creative potential, there have been some wonderfully interesting planets visited throughout the show’s five seasons.
From Gazorpazorp to Planet Squanch, the planets in Rick and Morty never fail to entertain audiences with their colorful landscapes and bizarre cast of strange aliens. The best planets in the show tend to be the ones that are the most unique, innovative, or just plain hilarious.
10 Snake Planet
The name of this planet is pretty self-explanatory - it is a planet full of sentient snakes. Rick and Morty first make contact with the planet when the snake equivalent of Yuri Gagarin delivers a venomous bite on Morty’s ankle. Rick is then forced to go to Snake Planet to find an antidote.
Snake Planet is one of the best planets in the show because acts as an allegory for humanity’s shortcomings through the medium of snakes. It highlights the tendency for humans to be superficial and thoughtless, especially with regards to time travel, where the snakes invented the technology without thinking it through, ultimately costing them their entire existence.
9 Blips and Chitz
Blips and Chitz is an eccentric arcade planet visited by the show's titular duo in “Mortynight Run," which contains some of Rick and Morty's funniest quotes in season 2. The main arcade machine featured from Blips and Chitz is called “Roy”, a role-playing game with a classic Rick and Morty twist. The game trivializes a man’s entire existence in the name of light entertainment, which Morty finds difficult to comprehend.
Blips and Chitz certainly looks like a place that many fans would love to visit, boasting a plethora of whimsical arcade games, as detailed in the post-credit scene of “Mortynight Run." The planet represents every adolescent desire that Morty possesses and functions as an ideal vehicle to parody nonsensical video games and gaming culture in general.
8 Unity’s Planet
Unity is a hivemind and the former lover of Rick; it first appears in “Auto Erotic Assimilation." In the episode, Unity has overtaken a planet full of blue humanoid beings by removing their autonomy of mind in the name of unification.
Like many of the best worlds in Rick and Morty, Unity’s planet is used as a medium to explore a political or philosophical query. In this case, the planet prompts audiences to consider the paradox between the futility of life without individualism and the dangers of unrestrained autonomy.
7 Resort Planet
The Resort Planet is where the Immortality Field Resort is located, visited by Rick and Jerry in season 3’s “The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy." The planet is one of the best in Rick and Morty purely due to the Immortality Field Resort, which as the name implies, is a place where nobody can die.
The concept is explored to great effect during the episode, making for some interesting and hilarious moments. Any Rick and Morty planet that boasts a resort where somebody can be immortal should naturally be considered one of the best in the show.
6 Gazorpazorp
After impregnating a baby-making robot, Morty becomes the father to a half-human, half-gazorpian hybrid. In light of this, Rick and Summer travel to Gazorpazorp, a planet significantly divided by gender, with primitive males and sophisticated females.
Gazorpazorp provides a medium for gender-based satirical comedy – a running comedic theme in the show. The planet makes for interesting and hilarious Rick and Morty viewing and provides audiences with one of the first Rick and Summer adventures. As with most places visited in the show, Gazorpazorp acts as a welcome expansion to the Rick and Morty universe.
5 Rick’s Toilet Planet
Rick’s plotline in “The Old Man and the Seat” centers around his personal bathroom, which is located on a beautiful and idyllic planet. It is not surprising that Rick would go through so much effort to firstly, create a bathroom paradise on a remote planet, and secondly, do whatever it takes to keep it to himself.
Rick’s Toilet Planet is one of the best in Rick and Morty because it represents the simple things: a person alone with no distractions, their privacy, and the tranquility of being alone with nature. The planet is an idealized respite from the chaotic adventures that both Rick and Morty usually get into on the show.
4 Pluto
The decision to create an episode about Pluto was a stroke of genius because it satirizes the debate about Pluto’s planetary status that has been going on in reality for many years. Rick and Morty transforms the much-discussed lump of rock in the Earth’s solar system into an interesting world inhabited by a sophisticated society of Plutonians. The planet is stricken by a plutonium mining crisis, which has been causing the ‘planet’ to shrink. Earth’s scientists reclassify it as a dwarf planet due to the shrinkage, which enrages the Plutonians and makes for a hilarious storyline.
3 Purge Planet
As alluded to in the planet’s name, Purge Planet is the host location of the "Rick and Morty does The Purge" storyline. The planet resembles the era of the American Wild West and its inhabitants are feline-based humanoids.
The contrast between the kind and welcoming townsfolk at the beginning of the episode and the cold-blooded killers towards the end of the episode makes for very entertaining viewing. Although Purge Planet is intentionally unoriginal, it is still one of the best planets in Rick and Morty, simply because of how immersive it is.
2 Planet Squanch
Planet Squanch is home to two of Rick’s closest friends in Rick and Morty, Bird Person and Squanchy. It is heavily influenced by its native inhabitant’s feline-based anatomy, with the planet’s architecture resembling cat toys.
Planet Squanch is quirky and interesting, which is perhaps why Bird Person’s wedding was hosted there in “The Wedding Squanchers." The episode initially depicts Planet Squanch as an ideal location, which is contrasted by Tammy’s betrayal of Bird Person later on. While mainly functioning as a location for the season 2 finale’s plot, Planet Squanch also serves a universe-building purpose too, which is always a positive for any show.
1 Post-Apocalyptic Earth
In “Rickmancing the Stone," Rick, Morty, and Summer visit yet another planet that parodies a popular movie concept. In this instance, it is a post-apocalyptic version of Earth that resembles the one in the Mad Max franchise.
Rick and Morty does an impressive job at creating an immersive world that allows for a captivating episode from start to finish. In keeping with the gritty Mad Max-style, “Rickmancing the Stone” is packed with action, which could only be possible thanks to the well-portrayed planet on which it is set. All of the characters and locations are faithful to its cinematic source while also serving as ideal elements for the show to utilize and satirize in this episode.