Rick Potion No. 9
“Rick Potion #9” is the sixth episode of season 2. It premiered on Adult Swim on January 27, 2014. In the episode, a love potion goes wrong, creating a virus that begins to infect the entire world population, making everyone fall in love with Morty.
The posters take a minimal approach to depict the key themes and how they play out in each episode.
After hearing the quote (featured in the poster) said by a lead character early in the episode. “Love is just a Chemical, that compels animals to breed.” This statement is played out as Morty gets a chemical that is designed to make others fall in love with him.
This doesn’t go as planned, as the chemical spreads on a global scale, forcing the characters to make a new home in the alternate universe, where they have to bury that universes version of themselves resulting in them leaving the apocalyptic universe they created and continuing on in one where their mistake had not been made.
The composition shows the living lead characters shadows draped-in the graves that they have dug formerly their dead alternate selves. Which is rather dark, but summarises how complicated and well written this show is.
The series of posters also featured hidden details, in this case, the detail was the face of the love interest hidden into the orange love potion featured in the foreground.