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Yeah but he is cool. Pickle Rick!
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Rick and Morty S3 |OT| Keeping Summer Safe - Sundays on Adult Swim
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Yeah but he is cool. Pickle Rick!
Hoping Beth and Jerry actually don't get back together.
Would be pleasantly surprised if they avoid the cliche and actually stick with the divorce.
A lot of shows play up the "they're so comically bad together they should just seperate" angle but this might be the first one I've seen actually go through with it.
Would be pleasantly surprised if they avoid the cliche and actually stick with the divorce.
A lot of shows play up the "they're so comically bad together they should just seperate" angle but this might be the first one I've seen actually go through with it.
perfectchaos007
Member
Fake Beth and Evil Morty from here on out
Renegade Frost
Banned
Hahahaha Beth is a chemically engineered psycho lol
This episode was amazing
Pure gold all the way through
I really need to buy this season
This episode was amazing
Pure gold all the way through
I really need to buy this season
Best part was Jerry's "wuh-what?" reaction that implies he said what summer told him to without an inch of self reflection.
Renegade Frost
Banned
It's a damn shame that Rick has the ability to create and manufacture millions of utopian societies and this is what he choses to do because he cant reconcile his emotions with his world view
Its not like it needs to do that
The universe experiences itself by eating itself.
Doesnt change the emotional response we have of love.
And Rick ultimately fucked up by not loving his people outwardly.
In that very same episode Rick and Beth reject the one person who's smart enough to actually be able to try to help not oly them but also Rick and Summer. This is while they were ignoring what was pretty much cries for help that both of his grandkids were giving.
I don't know how anyone would want to be like Rick unless they didn't give more than half a second of thought to the show.
That wasn't nessesarily a response to you by the way, merely discussing the point you brought up of the way some people view Rick.
"this guy is a total piece of shit, like me! but he gets way with everything because he's so smart and his nihilistic world view is because he's smart, therefore i am smart! and just like Rick im justified on my terrible choices, because im smart! PICKLE RICK!"
Basically this is their train of thought.
Renegade Frost
Banned
Honestly though, there's this video from Lauryn Hill that perfectly highlights the ills behind the phenomena that is Rick
https://www.facebook.com/TianaNicoleBurse/videos/vb.157965077602156/1002824089782913/?type=2&theater
Those people are actually Jerry's
They're the Jerry's of the world who are incapable of doing any meaningful self reflection and reconciling their general shittiness with what's being tackled on camera lol
Thats why Jerry wants to like Rick.
Jerry's lack critical thinking skills and they need the actual ricks of the universe to cover for their asses so they can survive. Rick's pity Jerry's. Because ultimately a Rick could in a another lifetime, be a Jerry.
A rick who pities a rick with no critical thinking skills.
Rick has the capacity to care, yet he cant muster up enough empathy to really get to the heart of life. Or deal with his problems head on.
Considering how crazy Beth is, I bet Rick has some strange chemical balance going on in his DNA.
Who is Beth's Mother btw?
Humans as a species are sophomores though. We cant escape this reality without working through it together.
Rick is always right sure, but the key to life is not always being right.
Thats what rick shows. you can always be right, but what good is that if you're fucking miserable 24/7? He isnt growing.
With the format and the freedom the universe gives them the show can keep going until they run out of ideas
Nine more seasons until Rick gets that sauce.
Then and only then will he let the madness end.
Renegade Frost
Banned
How were you not laughing at all the crap Beth had Rick make for her? LOL
There's no retconning going on.
He's gonna kill himself for sure
Admiral Woofington
Member
"you're not wrong Rick. You're just an asshole!"
They will probably never reference it again and leave it up to the audience.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Eeeeeeeeeeeeh. I feel it'll be similar to Evil Morty. They won't bother referencing it again until they have a use for the plot point. Be it next season or after the next.
None of the characters in Rick and Morty season three is remotely likeable.
The revelation that Beth had her own playworld to protect the other children is just the last piece of the puzzle.
I'll watch the show because it's still amusing in places. But it's harder and harder to do so knowing every single one of the characters is rotten. Not flawed, mind, actually rotten.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Yep, watch out for a masked vigilante saving Morty and Summer later. Scarred Beth who has had multiple run ins with that villain of the week. Make her come back and be a more capable Rick. Writes itself.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I don't see the retconning, like other people are.
crimzonflame
Member
Is there a preview for next week's episode?
Was pretty happy to finally get a Rick and Beth episode and explore more of the demented dad side of Rick.
Rick treats Morty and Summer like friends he goes to hang out at a bar with 90% of the time but he seems to actually make more effort (even if just a lil bit) in acting more like family around her. Even as screwed up as their relationship still is.
I'm basically just fascinated in anything that explores what Rick's family dynamic was like before he left them for 20 years.
Rick treats Morty and Summer like friends he goes to hang out at a bar with 90% of the time but he seems to actually make more effort (even if just a lil bit) in acting more like family around her. Even as screwed up as their relationship still is.
I'm basically just fascinated in anything that explores what Rick's family dynamic was like before he left them for 20 years.
Vault Dweller 111
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It's the newest episode.
Belgian Dude
Member
I think the Rick speech people are talking about comes from this episode, when he's talking to Beth about "being smart"? It didn't seem too far out of the ordinary for it to register for me that much, though.
beat
Member
The entire premise of the show is that Rick returned to his family. Sure, he says its because he needs Morty's camouflaging brainwaves, but this is Rick. He couldnt build a brainwave concealing helmet?
I live in Taiwan maybe an episode behind here. Only seen episode six with the citadel, which is the only one here ATM.
Belgian Dude
Member
Ah, alright, you're a bit behind then, yeah. Yesterday's episode was Ep. 9.
Rick doesn't seem to be able to create robots without making them self aware
Admiral Woofington
Member
something I can't stand when people start speculating is when based on evidence that can be interpreted many ways they swear up and down based on absolutely nothing their interpretation is correct.
They even go out of their way to tell us that a Beth clone and the real Beth are functionally identical.
Admiral Woofington
Member
on both ends of that spectrum.
Like the guy who is now swearing how the reason there is proof is because rick was struggling to say I love you to Beth before, and said it much easier later on because as a clone it doesn't matter.
Like... what?
beat
Member
Those three dot magnets could just as easily be an 'A' as a 'Y'.
Super tangentially, there was an NYT lil puzzle about the kind of problem solving this Redditor employed: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...uick-puzzle-to-test-your-problem-solving.html I got it wrong the first time I played, because I fell into the trap the piece is designed to talk about.
perfectchaos007
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RadioHeadAche
Member
He actually had a non-vocal cameo in the memory episode proposing to morty.Still no poopybutthole in season 3
Only 1 episode left
Smiles and Cries
Member
Still no poopybutthole in season 3
Only 1 episode left
is he even human? This character annoys me the most since he clearly does not look human at all. He looks like a cartoon character.
Beth is Rick with the albatross of Jerry and her family, as well as her own resentment towards her father. I don't think she has his genius but she does have his mild contempt for everyone around her. Her neurosis comes from the conflict between this and what she feels is the "normal" family structure, which goes back to Rick's parenting or lack thereof.
It's pretty standard stuff you'd encounter in therapy, the idea of "normalcy".
It's pretty standard stuff you'd encounter in therapy, the idea of "normalcy".
Speaking of therapy, the only thing that can redeem this whole thing for me is in the context or the characters being told very specifically that they use intelligence to justify sickness and then they go and do that to the letter when being a child serial killer becomes "you are smart".
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
.... what the fuck? That's all kinds of fucked up on like three different levels.
Did you root for Walter White as well?
No, it doesn't. The show makes it absolutely clear that Rick's way of thinking is self-destructive and ultimately a waste of potential, and the toxicity of his way of thinking leaked to his daughter and grandchildren, prompting sociopathic and/or psychotic behavior. We weren't supposed to root for Kratos, we weren't supposed to root for Walter, and we're not supposed to root for Rick.
Oh crap, all the stuff where Mr. Poopybutthole was in the intro of the show, those were bad memories. They were letting us know the whole time.