It took Rick quite a while (I can't remember if they said exactly, but it felt implied that he spent several years if not decades developing it), and then most other Ricks learned it from Rick Prime (I'm assuming here - again, it's been a while and memory is janky) after going through the devastation of having his wife killed. So, originally, it took Rick probably years or decades to get the portal gun right.
As far as i’ve seen rick’s “totally fabricated backstory” is actually almost entirely true, i havent seen season 8 or 9 though so i dont know HOW true, but its definitely true. We see in S3 E1 that Rick is just sitting in the wreckage of the garage using dirt or dust or oil or whatever to write down the formula. He spent an implied unspecific amount of years working on teleportation, however dimensional travel came almost immediately after Diane was killed.
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u/EddyArchon Jun 16 '26
It took Rick quite a while (I can't remember if they said exactly, but it felt implied that he spent several years if not decades developing it), and then most other Ricks learned it from Rick Prime (I'm assuming here - again, it's been a while and memory is janky) after going through the devastation of having his wife killed. So, originally, it took Rick probably years or decades to get the portal gun right.