
Rick and Morty Season 7 wrapped up with an emotional hole-filled finale, and while Sarah Chalke's promising update about Season 8 may have fans already looking ahead, others are still looking back at the show's first batch of eps without fired co-creator Justin Roiland. Such fan-alysing has spotlighted an unexpected and ew-worthy milestone that quite a few viewers have been celebrating: Rick and Morty went an entire season without any storylines dedicated to incestuous plots. I really hate that it's something that deserves acknowledging, but here we are.
Season 7 featured the lethal, game-changing defeat of Rick Prime along with the return of Evil Morty, and plenty of other narratives that didn't force viewers to endure uncomfortable moments involving family members' sexual escapades. Considering the Adult Swim series previously delivered Summer and Morty's giant incest baby Naruto, it was seemingly a direct choice to avoid such taboo material, and that choice was celebrated by fans on Reddit, with eddie_fitzgerald joking that the Season 7 finale even contained the "ultimate anti-incest" message. As they put it: