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"Pickle Rick" is #5."WatchMojo" Top 10 Rick and Morty Movie Parodies (TV Episode 2017)
"Pickle Rick", a parody of Die Hard (1988) and John Wick (2014), is #9."WatchMojo" Top 10 Times Rick Crossed the Line on Rick and Morty (TV Episode 2018)
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Therapy is #3."WatchMojo" Top 10 Times Rick and Morty Committed Murder (TV Episode 2020)
The Embassy Director & Guards are #2.
"Harmontown" Live from San Diego 2016 (Podcast Episode 2016)
Discussed."Harmontown" The Final Meltdown (Podcast Episode 2017)
Discussed."Honest Trailers" Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (TV Episode 2017)
Pickle Rick mentionedOtvety na kuchu voprosov. Avgust. (TV Special 2017)
Someone asks Oleg Grigoryev whether he ever wanted to be a pickle, to which Oleg recognizes the joke as being about this episode."Harmontown" The Ian Bowers Birthday Special (Podcast Episode 2017)
Mentioned.
Back to the Future (1985)
When the family is first talking to Pickle Rick, there's a device made of a colander and various other pieces that looks just like Doc Brown's mind reading device he's wearing when Marty first meets 1955 Doc. ("Rick and Morty" is a parody of Doc and Marty.)Die Hard (1988)
Rick and Jaguar's action sequence in the office, followed by their helicopter escape is an allusion to Die-Hard.Kickboxer (1989)
Similar action split sequence- Pickle Rick going down the sewer and meeting a bunch of rats is a reference to the movie An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
Jackie Brown (1997)
The rat fight scene pays tribute to an iconic fight scene from this movie
"Yeshivat Hanhala" Menashe Hering (TV Episode 2017)
In the original episode, Rick transforms himself into a Pickle. In this episode, Menashe transforms himself into a Hering, while mimicking Rick's voice."Rick and Morty" Rickfending Your Mort (TV Episode 2023)
"Leg Day" is a self-parody of Pickle Rick