: The fracturing is caused by Summer and Morty’s sibling rivalry and their shared fear that they are "unimportant" to Rick. Rick's own paranoia—believing his alternate self is trying to kill him—only worsens the split.
: The screen splits into parallel realities (up to 64 simultaneously) whenever a character feels uncertain. This was so taxing that the show's animation software reportedly struggled to render the scenes. [S2E1] A Rickle In Time
The episode’s central conflict is a literal manifestation of . Because Rick, Morty, and Summer have been living in "frozen time" for six months, their existence has become "chronologically unstable". : The fracturing is caused by Summer and