Rick Sanchez, a genius but nihilistic scientist, and his grandson Morty Smith, a well-meaning but anxious teenager, navigate dangerous interdimensional adventures. Their core premise involves Rick's advanced technology, particularly his portal gun, allowing them to travel to infinite realities. Rick's primary motivation is often self-serving and driven by his intellect, while Morty struggles with the moral implications of their actions and seeks validation.

The season's central conflict emerges when Jerry is brutally killed by Rick Prime, Morty's original grandfather and a dangerous alternate Rick. This event reignites Rick's obsession with revenge against Rick Prime. Key turning points include Morty's consciousness being fractured within a VR game and Rick's manipulation of his family's relationships. The season culminates with Rick admitting his flawed attempts to show he cares and inviting Morty to join his hunt for Rick Prime, setting up a future quest.

Season 6 of Rick and Morty covers episodes 1-10. Here's everything that happened:

Season 6, Episode 1: Solaricks - Stranded after the Citadel's destruction, Rick and Morty are rescued by Space Beth. Rick's attempt to fix his portal gun backfires, sending portal travelers to their original dimensions. Rick confronts his past and an AI of his wife, deciding to move on. Jerry is brutally killed by Rick Prime, who is revealed to be Morty's original grandfather. The family eventually reunites, but Rick's quest for revenge against Rick Prime is reignited.

Season 6, Episode 2: Rick: A Mort Well Lived - When alien terrorists attack Blips and Chitz, Morty becomes trapped in the VR game "Roy: A Life Well Lived." Rick enters the game as Roy to save him, inadvertently creating a religion among Morty's fragmented consciousness. Summer, tasked with a "Die Hard" mission, defeats the terrorists by improvising. Rick ultimately leaves a portion of Morty's consciousness trapped to ensure Marta's peaceful existence, fracturing Morty's mind.

Season 6, Episode 3: Bethic Twinstinct - During a tense Thanksgiving dinner, Beth and her clone, Space Beth, explore their mutual attraction, culminating in an affair. Jerry, initially devastated, eventually accepts the situation, and the three engage in a threesome. Rick, having facilitated their self-exploration, ultimately secures the Venusian wine that fueled their romance, hinting at his own complex views on self-love and relationships.

Season 6, Episode 4: Night Family - Rick introduces a "Somnambulator" that allows unconscious bodies to perform tasks. The family's "Night People" rebel when Rick refuses to rinse dishes, leading to a conflict where Night Summer attempts to enslave the Day Family. Ultimately, the Night People squander their newfound freedom and destroy the Somnambulator, allowing the Day Family to regain control.

Season 6, Episode 5: Final DeSmithation - Jerry's fortune cookie predicts incest, making him effectively immortal until fulfilled. Rick investigates the source, a chaos-eating alien, and destroys the fortune cookie company's reality-bending power. In the climax, Rick creates a fortune to prevent Jerry from fulfilling his incestuous fate, ending the alien's chaos-feeding cycle and averting disaster.

Season 6, Episode 6: JuRicksic Mort - Super-intelligent dinosaurs arrive on Earth, intending to fix humanity's problems. Rick, initially unmotivated to repair his portal gun, becomes embroiled in a petty rivalry with the dinosaurs. He discovers they are pursued by sentient meteors. After a confrontation where Rick engineers the dinosaurs' self-sacrifice to a meteor, they ultimately destroy it and, against Rick's wishes, seal the interdimensional rift, fixing his portal gun.

Season 6, Episode 7: Full Meta Jackrick - Rick and Morty are pulled into a meta-narrative dimension by Previous Leon. They encounter Story Lord, who seeks motivation, and Jesus Christ. After battling various meta-fictional entities, including the Self-Referential Six, Rick and Morty escape. Story Lord is ultimately defeated by Rick, suffocated by a Rick plushie, and the episode concludes with the writer of Story Lord's narrative learning nothing, implying a continuation of the cycle.

Season 6, Episode 8: Analyze Piss - After Jerry defeats the villain Pissmaster, Rick discovers Pissmaster has committed suicide, leaving a note blaming Jerry. Rick then impersonates Pissmaster to redeem his legacy, culminating in a staged heroic sacrifice. The truth about Pissmaster's suicide and Rick's impersonation is eventually revealed to the family, leading to arguments.

Season 6, Episode 9: A Rick in King Mortur's Mort - Morty is tricked into becoming the King of the Sun, a position that requires him to sacrifice his penis as a rite of passage. Rick helps Morty devise a plan to avoid this, leading to a solar system-wide war that is ultimately resolved by Rick and Morty's actions, with Rick showing increased support for Morty.

Season 6, Episode 10: Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation - In a Star Wars-themed Christmas episode, Rick reveals he replaced himself with a robot programmed to be nicer. After a lightsaber incident threatens Earth, Morty teams up with the President. Robot Rick sacrifices himself, and the President betrays Morty. Ultimately, Rick admits his actions were a flawed way of showing he cares, and he invites Morty to join his hunt for Rick Prime, setting up the next season's arc.