Rick and Morty Season 8 premiere post-credits scene explained: Beth vs Vampires 

One of the most hilarious aspects of Rick and Morty has always been the post-credit scenes. Not only have these post-credits scenes opened up quirky possibilities, but they have also informed major storylines in the show. Such was the case with the eighth season premiere episode of Rick and Morty, titled Summer of All Fears.

While the episode in question proved to be considerably about Summer alongside Morty, the post-credits scene revealed something shocking. Summer and Beth's pottery class was actually being run by vampires all this time and unbeknownst to them.

In other news, Rick ended up trapping Morty and Summer in one of his matrices as a form of severe punishment for a rather insignificant crime of phone charger theft. All in all, the premiere episode of the latest season was packed with material to chew on and was a promising first step in establishing the chaos that might unfold as the season progresses!

Here's everything that you need to know.

---

Vampires dupe Beth and Summer in the Rick and Morty post-credits scene

The magnanimity of Rick and Morty has always been in overturning the expectations of the audience. The backstory ran that Beth and Summer argue among themselves and are unable to reach an agreement. Consequently, Summer, who is no longer able to keep it together, leaves home. After coming across a pottery class located in Zanta Fe, Summer quickly enrolls herself to take her mind off her mother and all the stressful things at home.

After finding this out, Beth takes matters into her own hands and talks it out with her daughter, reconciling past differences. Post-reconciliation, Summer leaves to prevent Morty from attacking the nation's power source. Beth, on the other hand, develops an interest in pottery and decides to remain, and yet little did she expect the macabre shock that was to come her way.

As revealed in the post-credits scene of Rick and Morty season eight's premiere episode, the pottery class is, in fact, being run by vampires. They organize classes as a clever way to lure in young students. Once within their reach, the vampires feast on the blood of their students to retain middle age. After this shocking discovery, the vampires expectedly target Beth, but she puts up a brave fight.

In the ensuing struggle, Beth throws a vampire out of the building's window, and it dies after being directly exposed to sunlight. The vampires themselves weren't that scary at all, and the entire sequence is treated in a comical and light-hearted manner, which only adds to the overall presentation of the show.

Beth almost seized the day with her punchline for the defeated vampire:

"The sun turns you to dust and you pick Zante Fe? That’s on you."

Beth being given the agency to drive an entire scene forward was a welcome change in the show. It can be speculated that her contribution to the narrative might be on the rise, with the impending arrival of Space Beth as teased earlier.

---

Executive Producer opens up about Rick and Morty Season 8

Space Beth is one of the long-standing mysteries of Rick and Morty. Over the past several seasons of the show, she has been alleged to be either the real Beth Smith from Dimension C-131 or a clone of her. Regardless, with Space Beth expected to feature prominently on the current season of the show, it will be quite exhilarating to watch what the regular Beth makes of her. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Gizmodo, executive producer Dan Harmon explained:

"For me, it’s always been like, ‘Well, who are you?' Notably, we don’t know if it’s Space Beth or domestic Beth that is the clone. I like the Schrödinger’s cat (idea)—things that explore uncertainty as an empirical concept, which is what the Schrödinger’s cat model is. It’s this idea that a thing can be neither true or untrue, or it’s one of two things, and you’ll never know which it is.”

He even gave the example of Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal, to further explain his understanding of clones and the multiverse.

"That’s a little forced with the Beths, but that’s what clone-related stuff—and multiversal (stuff), which is essentially a clone of you—is for me. The question of like, who are you? What makes you? Is it a bunch of hormones? Is it your pancreas? Is your brain a pilot in a Voltron that you’re steering around? Is it because your parents were mean to you? Nathan Fielder is exploring that on this season of The Rehearsal, which is amazing to watch because he’s got my number there. It’s just like ‘What if you control every detail, and what is it that makes this thing this thing?'”

Rick and Morty showrunner Scott Marder dropped in to mention that the eighth season of the show will revolve around the consequences of the mess Rick has made with the many Beths:

"Season eight, in its biggest arc, is Rick having the sort of—now that Rick Prime’s out of the way, he’s got a more or less deal with the ramifications of that mess he’s made with the Beths the most. Now that he’s got nowhere that’s authentically pulling him away, he’s really got to make sense of that mess.”

For voice actor and Rick and Morty star Sarah Clarke, playing both the iterations of Beth is quite an exciting task:

"I love voicing Space Beth. I was so pumped when Space Beth became kind of a part of the family and it wasn’t just a one-off episode. It’s really fun. When we do an episode with both Beths, we’ll record Beth first in its entirety, and then do Space Beth, so if they’re in a scene together we’re not going back and forth."

Rick and Morty is available to stream on HBO Max.