Rick & Morty: What Each Mind Blower Color Means

Here’s what each mind blower color on Rick and Morty means. The animated series from Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland is best known for its sense of humor and inventive stories following Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith. Like most animated shows, Rick and Morty developed a trend early on to do one episode each season filled with random side adventures and concepts or cut storylines. While these started as the Interdimensional Cable episodes of the show, Rick and Morty used a different tool to bring an anthology narrative to viewers in season 3.

Rick and Morty season 3, episode 8, introduced Morty’s mind blowers as a new chance for Harmon and Roiland to tell shorter side stories with the characters. Rick took Morty into a secret room under the garage after Morty asked him to erase a terrible memory from their most recent adventure. This led Rick to explain this isn’t the first time Morty has been traumatized by past events and begins to show him old, erased memories that blew Morty’s mind. There are hundreds of vials within the room, and they are color-coded, it appears. Although Rick tells Morty not to read into the colors, the show explained some.

Morty’s encounter with the mind blowers begins with a few vials that feature memories that are colored blue. These are incidents that Morty wants to be erased because of a mistake he made that he no longer wants to remember. He sees a few ways that his actions resulted in terrible outcomes, including one man killing himself because of Morty’s moon conspiracy. Morty then experiences one of the purple mind blowers, which include mistakes made by the family that Morty wants to forget. This includes an incident where Beth chose to save Summer’s life over Morty’s without hesitation. Morty’s red vials contain memories that Rick wants to be erased, though, such as when he mistakenly killed an animal to keep him and Morty warm on an alien planet only to realize they were on a different one than Rick thought.

The blue, purple, and red mind blowers are the only ones used in Rick and Morty season 3, episode 8, but other colors are featured in the episode. Rick says that he doesn’t color-code stuff because he’s smarter than that. However, the episode itself presents information that indicates this was a lie. This leaves Rick and Morty with yellow, green, and pink mind blowers that have unexplained meanings. The yellow and green mind blowers can be seen in the episode’s background, while Morty says there are pink mind blowers near the liquor Rick stashes down there.

So what do the yellow, green, and pink mind blowers in Rick and Morty mean? They could be mistakes that the family made that they asked Rick to erase from Morty. It is possible that these aren’t Morty’s mind blowers at all, as there are far fewer of them than the other colors, and instead are Rick’s mind blowers. The pink mind blowers, in particular, could be those that Rick erases when he is intoxicated. The show could also eventually explain that these are Summer’s mind blowers. She is familiar with the room and the mind blowers concept according to the events of the episode, so Rick could erase some of Summer’s memories from time to time. In reality, we’ll only know what the additional mind blowers mean if Rick and Morty decides to explore the concept further.

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Cooper Hood is a news and feature writer for Screen Rant. He joined Screen Rant in late 2016 following a year-long stint with MCU Exchange, which came after first developing an MCU blog of his own. He graduated college in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Media & Public Communication, with a minor in Media Production. Cooper’s love for movies began by watching Toy Story and Lion King on repeat as a child, but it wasn’t until The Avengers that he took an invested interest in movies and the filmmaking process, leading him to discover the world of film journalism. Every year Cooper looks forward to seeing the latest blockbusters from the likes of Marvel, DC, and Star Wars, but also loves the rush to catch up on Oscar films near the end of the year. When he isn’t writing about or watching new releases, Cooper is a fantasy football obsessive and looking to expand his Blu-Ray collection – because physical media is still king! Follow Cooper on Twitter @MovieCooper.

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