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The Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere that aired on April 1 has left fans with a lot of unanswered questions. (Watch the premiere here.) Mainly: Was this really the premiere or an elaborate April Fools joke? Why did the ending make everything feel so off? Here are the top theories from fans about the unexpected episode. After you read the story, take our poll at the end and let us know what you think.

This post has spoilers through the Season 3 Episode 1 premiere.

Fans are excited and confused, all at once, about the premiere. It was great. But it also wasn’t what they were expecting. Many fans were actually expecting Rick to escape the alien prison with an intricate pickle maneuver. Some early leaks showed him dressed up as a pickle and breaking out that way. (See more about it in our story here.) So now fans are really confused. Why was his jailbreak so different from what they expected?

Some fans have created an elaborate theory that the premiere we saw on April Fool’s was actually Rick’s jailbreak in another dimension. This wouldn’t be the first time alternate dimension lines were crossed.

Other fans think it was even more elaborate than that. Maybe Rick is still in a hallucination-like state created by the Galactic Federation. You can read more about that theory on Reddit here.

Some fans point to the ending as a reason why this can’t possibly be a “real” episode. The ending shows Rick lacking in character development. It shows all the changes he made by the end of Season 2 are gone. Others just think that ending was highly out of character for him.

But in truth, the ending was a pretty close mirror of the ending in Season 1’s pilot, only darker and more aggressive. Here’s the Season 1 pilot. You can skip ahead to the ending, so you can compare it to how the Season 3 premiere ended:

The two endings parallel one another. Just compare the photos from the two. Here’s Season 3, that we saw on April Fool’s:

And here’s the ending of Season 3’s premiere:

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Yes, Rick is angrier and more aggressive, but the two endings really do mirror each other quite well. And in some ways, Rick was darker in Season 1 because poor Morty was writhing on the floor during that monologue. So there’s a pretty good argument for this premiere being authentic.

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A Rick and Morty fan video based on a real court transcript is back online after being temporarily blocked by Adult Swim parent company Turner.

At last year's San Diego Comic-Con, Adult Swim debuted a video reading of the Denver Fenton Allen's (currently serving life in prison for murdering his cellmate) appearance before Super Court Judge Bryant Durham, except this time their incredibly profane argument was between Rick and Judge Morty.

Voiced by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, the video was visually bare-bones, using black and white animatics by Rick and Morty storyboard artist and director Erica Hayes.

Two months later, independent animator tiarawhy uploaded a radically enhanced version of the video, with full-color animation perfectly recreating the Rick and Morty aesthetic, and featuring cameos from popular characters like Mr. Meeseeks, Mr. Poopy Butthole and even some Futurama aliens.

The transcript Roiland recreated is surely one of the most bizarre court documents of all time, as Allen, who suffers from delusions and schizophrenia, accuses his lawyer of conspiring against him (for oral sex) and repeatedly tells the judge to 'go fuck yourself' and 'suck my dick.'

'You know something, this is going to be an interesting trial,' Judge Durham replies at one point.

'Oh yeah?' Allen replies. 'You're not supposed to smile in court.'

The video garnered millions of views before a takedown notice from Turner took it offline. After a public outcry, particularly on Reddit, Turner relented and restored the video.

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'Judge Morty restored on YouTube, thanks for everyone's help!' tiarawhy posted to Reddit after the video's return.

While 'Judge Morty: State of George Vs. Rick Allen' is back up, tiarawhy's other fan video, featuring Rick and Morty waiting in line for ice cream, is still blocked from YouTube by Turner, but can be watched on Newgrounds.

Meanwhile, tiarawhy is busy creating his own series, described as 'about an asteroid station filled with bunny clones.'