**GLITCH in the MATRIX: 'Rick and Morty' Episode Predicted Real-World Radio Signal 7 Years Before Discovery**
GLITCH IN THE MATRIX: ‘Rick and Morty’ Episode Predicted Real-World Radio Signal 7 Years Before Discovery
(NEURAL NEWS NETWORK) — In what fans are calling “the most Morty thing that has ever happened,” a recently discovered signal from deep space appears to be an exact match to a fictional radio transmission featured in the Rick and Morty Season 2 episode “A Rickle in Time.”
The signal, designated FRB-2024-MORTY by baffled SETI researchers, was detected emanating from the Zeta Reticuli system—the same coordinates referenced in the show when Rick’s car’s “time crystal” goes haywire. The anomaly? The episode aired in July 2015, seven years before the signal was actually recorded.
“We thought it was a data corruption at first,” said Dr. Helena Voss, lead astrophysicist at the Arecibo Reboot Project. “But the waveform, the frequency modulation, even the 1.21-second repetition—it’s an exact match to the show’s fictional ‘Wubba Lubba Dub Dub’ carrier wave. Either the writers have a time machine, or the universe is running an unpatched version of reality.”
The internet has already coined the phenomenon “The Jerry Paradox,” referencing the character’s tendency to be blindsided by mundane truths that turn out to be cosmic. Memes declaring “I’m Mr. Meeseeks, look at my signal!” are flooding social media.
The show’s co-creator, Dan Harmon, responded via a cryptic tweet that has since been deleted: “Don’t look at the dimensional rift. And definitely don’t burp on the timeline.”
The multiverse, it seems, is not only real—it’s got a season pass.