{"id":505127,"date":"2026-06-22T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505127\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:23:07","slug":"rick-and-morty-brings-back-a-fan-favorite-character-from-season-1-in-the-latest-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505127\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick and Morty brings back a fan-favorite character from season 1 in the latest episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over its nine-season run, Rick and Morty<\/a> has accumulated a huge cast of bizarre characters including clones, aliens, superheroes, cyborgs, and birdpeople. Most are just part of one-time gags during Rick Sanchez and his grandson Morty Smith\u2019s episodic adventures, but recurring allies and enemies like Birdperson, Unity, and Mr. Nimbus have helped expand the show\u2019s rich mythology and develop Rick as a character. Rick\u2019s recurring foil, President Andre Curtis, is even getting his own show<\/a>. Now another fan-favorite character with spinoff potential is returning to the spotlight in Rick and Morty season 9, episode 5, which airs on June 21.<\/p>\n

[Ed. note: This article contains spoilers for Rick and Morty season 9, episode 5]<\/p>\n

In the second ever episode of Rick and Morty, \u201cLawnmower Dog,\u201d Jerry gets frustrated that the family dog Snuffles keeps peeing on the carpet, so he asks his genius father-in-law Rick to make the pet smarter. This does not go well. While Snuffles becomes intelligent enough to use the toilet, he also starts questioning his role in the family and humanity\u2019s treatment of dogs. He renames himself Snowball and builds a robotic suit for himself and other dogs, whose intelligence he amplifies to match his own.<\/p>\n

The whole episode is a hilarious parody of Christopher Nolan\u2019s Inception<\/a>, with Rick infiltrating Snowball\u2019s dreams to persuade the dog to change his plans to take over the world and turn humanity into pets. Snowball instead chooses to lead the dogs through a portal to another world. The episode ends with a meta joke that a planet run by dogs could be fun to visit, possibly in a storyboard-driven show with 11-minute episodes. Ever since then, Rick and Morty\u2019s writers have been considering ways to pay off that gag.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a longstanding thing at the top of the season when we\u2019re coming up with ideas,\u201d series creator Dan Harmon tells Polygon. \u201cThat first episode with Snowball specifically ended with a meta reference to the idea of a spin-off or something, so it was deliberately like maybe there will be more to this story.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Rick and Morty season 9 episode 5, \u201cJer Bud,\u201d Morty finally goes to visit Snowball\u2019s planet. He soon finds that the intelligent dogs have been selectively breeding a native hominid species to keep them as pets, and Snowball becomes very self-conscious about Morty\u2019s reaction to the disturbing results. (The entire premise is a brutal reflection on the real-life practice of puppy mills and selective dog breed.)<\/p>\n

Before too long, Morty\u2019s plans to have a good time at Snowball\u2019s palace are disrupted when he\u2019s unwillingly recruited into a hominid uprising that plunges the planet into war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got attracted to the idea of Morty returning to a The Last King of Scotland<\/a>-type thing with an already very complicated relationship with an old friend, but an old friend who’s gotten himself in an even more complicated situation,\u201d showrunner Scott Marder tells Polygon. \u201cIt just felt like it had a lot of fun conflict there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Snowball and Morty make amends, while the dog planet is left in ruins. Maybe Snowball will really change his ways this time, or maybe he\u2019ll get up to something even more horrifying. Hopefully, it won\u2019t take another eight seasons and 13 years to see the character again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over its nine-season run, Rick and Morty has accumulated a huge cast of bizarre characters including clones, aliens,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-505127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}