The use of Jesus in the scene where Rick and Morty are about to be annihilated by all their enemies was also a literal deus ex machina which is probably one of the oldest and hoariest plot devices in existence. That’s why the Bible is called out as “every writer’s Hell” since it and other tropes within it have been…

Whoever designed those Christian cartoon characters clearly grew up in the subculture....that is a level of specificity I’ve never seen on television before. It wasn’t just Bob and Larry, it was also Psalty, McGee, maybe Gerbert....a couple were so obscure I didn’t even recognize them.

I don’t think any of them are genuinely free, just improvising off of their programming, which pretty much makes them just like the rest of us.