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My friend talked all the way through the therapy scene at the end, I was super pissed.

One thing I gleaned from this episode is that Beth's more selfish, dare I say villainish traits, are starting to come out of the woodwork. She's spent the last two episodes being outright negligent towards her kids, the latter moreso than the former, to the point that Morty and Summer expressed interest in going to counselling and Beth outright ignores them because she can't stand it - partially because she's clearly insecure and shitty, but also partially because she's emulating Rick and/or trying to seek his approval. She also spends the episode lashing out at Morty and Summer for forcing the situation onto her by getting caught. I get that the humor of that subplot was the therapist's straight-faced insistence on focusing on Rick being a pickle before Rick actually shows up as a pickle, but her behavior throughout this episode was just disgusting.

It also serves to make Jerry more sympathetic. I thought he was scum at the end of season 2, in the Purge episode - he spends the whole episode trying to be Summer's friend just so he can ask her for money, that was awful. In earlier episodes, he was the straight-man foil to Rick and Morty's sci-fi shenanigans - you can see that he has a point about Rick, but Rick's funny and the adventures are good so shut up Jerry. Beth also started to slip a bit in season two particularly, but she was almost always fairly balanced in the face of Jerry's flaws and neuroses - I don't think she really had a point that was as sucky as Jerry's behavior in the Pluto episode, nor as desperate and uncomfortable as Jerry asking Summer for money. Maybe the first Interdimensional Cable episode, now that I think about it. But this season, she's already crossed that line.
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