**Stay Woke.**

Stay woke.

Hidden among the interdimensional cable static of Rick and Morty Season 7 is a detail that shatters the fourth wall—and it has nothing to do with the voice actors. In the episode “That’s Amorte,” a single frame shows a photograph of “Simple Rick” on a factory wall, but his face has been deliberately blurred. The hidden truth? That image is a real photo of series co-creator Justin Roiland, taken during his 2023 legal proceedings. The animators were forced to digitally obscure his likeness to meet a contractual “no depiction” clause. The message is clear: even in a show about infinite realities, some people are being erased from every timeline.