Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9 unveils a Minority Report-style restaurant—with a twist

Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9, the latest and penultimate episode of Adult Swim's adult animated sitcom, featured two hilarious plots, which featured the best crossover in the post-credits scene.

The latest episode featured the reunion between Morty and his half-Gazorpian son, Morty Jr., who had a peculiar request for his father: to meet his biological mother. Since Morty conceived Morty Jr. with a Gazorpian robot, his son wanted to know about the whereabouts of his mother.

While this was the main plot in Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9, a subplot featured a Minority Report-style Precogs twist to an interdimensional restaurant. The episode unveiled Tom Cruise's 2002 American cyberpunk action film, Minority Report's precogs with a twist.

In the near future, these clairvoyant humans with psychic impressions (precogs) were able to envision crimes before they were even committed and thus helped the federal government to keep crime in check.

While Cruise's movie used this fictional high-tech technology to keep tabs on criminals before they even committed a crime, Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9 used precogs for a mundane task, predetermining a customer's food order in a restaurant.

More on this in our story.

Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9 saw a Minority Report-style Precogs twist

While Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9 brought a fan-favorite character back for the main plot, the subplot was equally hilarious and cunning. As Morty and his estranged son, Morty Jr., go on an adventure to find the latter's mother, Rick and Summer visit a unique interdimensional restaurant.

The restaurant setup was the perfect opportunity for Rick and Morty Season 8 to include the Minority Report-style precogs for a bizarre twist. While Cruise's 2002 film used three clairvoyant humans (precogs) to envision crimes before they were even committed, the sitcom used the invention for a totally mundane yet hilarious reason.

Episode 9 featured the precogs working at the restaurant, where they determined customers' orders before they even knew what to order. This was done by evaluating their appetite. They determined what an indecisive patron is in the mood for, which made this interdimensional restaurant a fun place to visit.

After being impressed by the precogs' abilities, Rick kidnaps them and makes them his personal maids.

Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9: The Devil’s Advocate Bot vs precogs

The end of Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9 saw Morty and Morty Jr. on Rick’s trash moon, where the father-son duo were searching for the discarded robot that gave birth to Morty Jr.

The post-credits scene reunited all the main characters on Trash Moon, including the precogs kidnapped by Rick. After being abducted by Rick, the precogs reopened their restaurant on the moon, where they finally met their worthy opponent, Rick’s Devil’s Advocate Bot.

Rick’s Devil’s Advocate Bot, one of the most useless inventions by the character so far, was introduced earlier in Rick and Morty Season 8 Episode 9. His main objective is to question everything with a counterargument, leading to one of the most hilarious conversations of the season.

After landing on the trashy moon, the precogs predict Rick's Devil Bot's food order, only to receive a counterargument from it. This back-and-forth created a hilarious loop of conversation and disagreement, making the ending to this episode even more memorable.

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