Someone Just Had to Go and Make the ‘Rick and Morty’ Butter Bot
“What is my purpose?”
“You raise crowdfunding money.”
“Oh my God.”
Thankfully, the vast majority of the gadgets, cybernetic advancements and neutrino bombs that Rick Sanchez builds on Rick and Morty are wholly impossible for the average sci-fi hobbyist to build using real-life technology. However, if you gave the average Rick and Morty superfan the opportunity to make one piece of Rick and Morty tech real, their secret top option wouldn’t be one of Rick’s inventions at all, as they’d probably yearn for the Gazorpazorpian sex robot, minus the monstrous bastard offspring.
So far, no human being or their many multiverse variants has yet to crack portal travel, nor does humanity yet have to grapple with the threat that is the gun that shoots bad people. Nevertheless, a group of inspired inventors have secured a license from Warner Bros. to create “an A.I.-powered Butter Bot” consumer toy inspired by the self-aware existential introduced in the Season One Rick and Morty episode “Something Ricked This Way Comes,” and they’re raising money via Kickstarter to get the project off the ground.
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Croatian inventor Albert Gajšak hoped to raise $20,000 for the Butter Bot project, but in the first few weeks that the Kickstarter has been live, he’s already exceeded that goal by $332,894. How’s that for purpose?
The Rick and Morty Butter Bot project is a collaboration between Gajšak, Geek Club and various marketing and crowdfunding organizations that, with Warner Bros. blessing, will deliver a robot that can be controlled manually through a remote and through voice activation to eager Rick and Morty merch fans for as little as $139. The Butter Bot page describes the invention as “the A.I.-powered desk robot that not only sees and hears you but also chats with you. The ultimate interactive sidekick for your workspace.”
The Kickstarter page even quotes Rick’s wisdom on the subject of branded cash-in consumer products, as the real genius inventor once said, “Merchandise, Morty. Your only purpose in life is to buy and consume merchandise, and you did it — you went into a store, an actual honest-to-god store, and you bought something. You didn’t ask questions or raise ethical complaints you just looked into the bleeding jaws of capitalism and said, ‘Yes, daddy please.’”
Of course, Rick and Morty fans will remember that, at this point in the canon, the real, in-universe Butter Bot does more than just pass butter and scoot around desks responding to prompts like it’s a ChatGPT chatbox. As of “Full Meta Jackrick,” the Butter Bot’s other purpose is to pull levers. Clearly, it’s already flipped the switch on the money-making machine. With all the Kickstarter money that the Butter Bot’s raised, it could spend a thousand of Roy’s lifetimes at Blips and Chitz.
