Episode Title:
Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular
Episode Description:
After Morty inadvertently destroys the U.S. Constitution, the Liberty Bell, and the Lincoln Memorial (and activates a hostile, steam-powered robot hidden inside the Statue of Liberty) on Thanksgiving, he and Rick are once again marked as terrorists by President Curtis. With the Smith house surrounded by the U.S. military and an "anti-portal shimmer," Rick resigns himself to pulling his "usual ploy" of transforming himself into a turkey and receiving a presidential pardon. However, the president has anticipated this and sends a team of U.S. Marines transformed into turkeys to intercept Rick. When the President grows frustrated with the marines' inability to find Rick, he has himself transformed into a turkey and engages Turkey Rick. During their fight, the tracking chip ingested by the President (to identify him for transformation back into a human) is ingested by a regular turkey, which is subsequently transformed into a human–turkey hybrid and takes on the role of the president. Meanwhile, Rick, Morty, and the President are dumped into "the feeding ground" and narrowly fend off an attack by a mutated, spider-like FDR before returning to the Smith house and reverting to their human forms.
The Turkey President quickly wins Congress' allegiance (through a series of pay rises for congress members) and builds an army of humanoid turkey soldiers with superhuman size and strength. Seeing this on television, Rick, Morty, and the President join forces to open "the Crypt of the New World" (hidden under the Lincoln Memorial), which contains members of two alien races in suspended animation. These aliens, having previously put aside their conflict to destroy the "giant turkey dinosaurs" that once dominated America, quickly eliminate the humanoid turkey soldiers.
The Turkey President then launches the Washington Monument (which contains a device to transform all turkeys on earth into humanoid turkey soldiers) into space; both Presidents then engage in mano-a-mano battle while Rick and Morty travel to space to stop the global transformation. They successfully destroy the transformation device (though Morty also destroys the Washington Monument in the process) and the President defeats his opposite. In the aftermath, the aliens return to their suspended animation and Rick, Morty, and the President reflect on simply "being thankful" as they look over battle-devastated Washington.
