Get Schwifty

A giant alien head demands a hit song, or Earth is destroyed.

"Get Schwifty" is the fifth episode of the second season of Rick and Morty and the sixteenth overall. Directed by Wes Archer and written by Tom Kauffman, it first aired on Adult Swim on August 23, 2015.

Quick Facts

Series: Rick and Morty
Season: 2
Directed by: Wes Archer
Written by: Tom Kauffman
Original air date: August 23, 2015

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Background

A massive alien head, a Cromulon, appears over Earth demanding to hear an original song, so Rick and Morty improvise "Get Schwifty". The whole planet is abducted into a musical talent show in which the losers' planets are obliterated. Morty steals Rick's portal gun and leaves him alone with Ice-T, the only musician to survive an earthquake at the Grammy Awards, to make a hit song. Morty comes across Birdperson, who is living with Tammy, and is persuaded to go back to Rick; Ice-T turns out to be an ice alien who eventually saves the planet, and Rick, Morty and the US president win the competition by improvising "Head Bent Over".

Meanwhile Jerry, Beth and Summer join a religious cult based on a wrong reading of the Cromulons' message, which disbands once everyone realizes it was a talent show. In the post-credits scene, Ice-T's father lifts his exile on his home planet Alphabetrium and restores his true form, Water-T.