Writer Joe Matar of Den of Geek gave the episode three out of five stars.[12] Jenny Jaffe of Vulture said that "If the fact that "The ABCs of Beth”"comes right after “Morty’s Mind-Blowers” is at all significant, we might conclude that they’ve done all of this before and they’ll continue to do this again, in every conceivable universe, until the end of time. But as Rick—or Beth—might remind us, it doesn’t really matter. Nothing does.[13]