In Rick and Morty's "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion" (Season 5, episode 7), the Voltron parody adventure actually repeats the same Goodfellas riff seen in Community. An earlier creation of showrunner Dan Harmon, Community featured a similar gangster-inspired episode in its first season, just like the Smith family's new adventure involving "Gotron" bots, shady deals, voiceovers about getting in over one's head, and more. That being said, how do the respective Goodfellas parodies measure up?
In "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion", Rick discovers the Blue Gotron Ferret, one of five robot ferrets that come together to make the larger Gotron warrior (a la Voltron). Apparently, Rick has a large obsession with the Gotron bots, and his addiction is only fueled by Summer to gain his favor over Morty, helping her grandfather to collect them all. However, they then join with other Ricks and Smith families across dimensions to create even bigger Gotron warriors by stacking ferrets upon ferrets. This is when the episode morphs into less of a Voltron parody and more into a riff of Goodfellas, seeing business booming with the Gotron ferrets and a focus on voiceovers from Summer and Morty, detailing the massive mafia-style operation involving all the interdimensional families as things soon spiral out of control.
However, this exact type of riff seen in Rick and Morty was first featured in the first season of Dan Harmon's Community, where the Spanish study group concocts a plan to get Abed (Danny Pudi) installed as the cafeteria's new fry cook in the episode "American Contemporary Poultry". This was done in a bid to score free chicken fingers, by far the best food served and coveted by all the students. Soon, the study group had an entire mafia-Goodfellas operation in the works, enjoying favors, bribes, better grades, and more by using the chicken fingers as the ultimate (and hilarious) currency. Naturally, the episode featured voiceovers Ray Liotta-style from Abed (just like Summer and Morty's parodied narrations) detailing how the operation likewise spiraled as the newfound power got to the study group's heads. Now, Rick and Morty have simply replaced chicken fingers with combinable ferret bots in this repeated homage.
As a result, the two episodes share quite a few similarities, such as Morty and Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) being the odd ones out. They both see the operations spiraling out of control and are ignored. Not only that, but they're likewise each tempted to sabotage the operation from the inside, though neither can go through with it due to a sense of loyalty. That being said, neither episode is arguably better than the other, though the Community parody is naturally the more focused Goodfellas riff over Rick and Morty. After all, "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion" begins as a Voltron parody, while also featuring multiple pop culture references to The Aviator and Scarface in the midst of the Goodfellas narrative framing, making it a little more crowded.
Clearly, it seems Goodfellas is near and dear to Dan Harmon's heart, warranting a second riff on the classic mafia film. Not only that, but the combination of parodied films/pieces of pop culture is a repeated convention from Community as well. While Rick and Morty recently featured an American Graffiti/Ferris Bueller's Day Off homage combined with Hellraiser (seen in "Amortycan Grickfitti") and this new "Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion" with Voltron and Goodfellas, Community featured episodes like "Critical Film Studies" which was a hybrid homage of Pulp Fiction and My Dinner With Andre. In any case, whether its's chicken or ferrets, it's pretty fun to see the classic Community riff repeated on Rick and Morty from Dan Harmon.