Morty threw the tablet out the window.

[Sad violin music as Jerry eats a hot dog alone]

The Rip-Rick snarled. “I’m the canon you deserve!”

The real Jerry, off-screen in Morty’s actual house, yelled: “Morty! Are you watching that illegally again? Your mother’s credit card is still on that VPN!”

Morty ignored him. On screen, Rick had just pulled a plasma rifle out of his portal gun. Except the DVDRip had a glitch. The plasma rifle was replaced by a raw, untextured 3D model of a cucumber for seventeen frames.

Then, reality bent.

The file name was a mess of random characters: R&M.S06E01.DVDRip.XviD-NoGrp.avi . It was 347MB, which was suspiciously small, and it had been uploaded to a sketchy forum at 3:17 AM by a user named "Jerry_Bore_Philbin."

Morty watched, horrified and fascinated.