Rick and Morty season 6, episode 10, "A Rick in King Mortur's Mort" revealed that Rick had actually replaced himself with a robot in season 6, episode 9, but it missed an even better story opportunity. Robot Rick was only around for the last two episodes of season 6. But the idea of Rick creating a robot clone to replace himself for a while could go a long way in fixing one of the show's most common criticisms.

In Rick and Morty season 6, episode 9, Rick begins acting a lot nicer to Morty, making Morty suspicious that it isn't the real Rick. In the very next episode, Morty is proven correct when he discovers that Rick replaced himself with a robot earlier in episode 9, only for Robot Rick to be destroyed by the end of the episode. As it turns out, the real Rick replaced himself with a robot so that he could focus on hunting down Rick Prime,...