Current Events > Wow "Pickle-Rick" was really good

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I feel like it will be one that in the future will be high on best of all time RM lists.
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lol
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it was good, but someone said it was a lot like the Tiny Rick episode and now I see all the similarities

I'm Pickle Riiiiiiick!
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i dont see how it's like tiny rick at all aside from the fact that rick repeatedly yells "im X riiiiick"

I honestly didn't think it was that great. One of the better episodes this season, but this whole season hasn't been that good so far.

The actual pickle Rick parts were good though.
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I don't get the love for it. It was just dumb to me. People say the analysis at the end is what is great but like...that's all shit we already knew?
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FrenchCrunch posted...

i dont see how it's like tiny rick at all aside from the fact that rick repeatedly yells "im X riiiiick"

yeah, that's what I mean.


I'm PIICKLE RIIIIIICK!

I'M TINY RIIIICK!

It's me, TINY RIIIICK!

still funny though

Milkman5 posted...

FrenchCrunch posted...

i dont see how it's like tiny rick at all aside from the fact that rick repeatedly yells "im X riiiiick"

yeah, that's what I mean.


I'm PIICKLE RIIIIIICK!

I'M TINY RIIIICK!

It's me, TINY RIIIICK!

still funny though

that's intentional

Milkman5 posted...

it was good, but someone said it was a lot like the Tiny Rick episode and now I see all the similarities

I really only liked Beth and Jerry's part in tiny Rick tbh
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Kanaya413 posted...

Milkman5 posted...

it was good, but someone said it was a lot like the Tiny Rick episode and now I see all the similarities

I really only liked Beth and Jerry's part in tiny Rick tbh

Rick chopping up his younger clones was pretty great, at least.
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Milkman5 posted...

it was good, but someone said it was a lot like the Tiny Rick episode and now I see all the similarities

Ah God damnit.
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Swagnificent119 posted...

I don't get the love for it. It was just dumb to me. People say the analysis at the end is what is great but like...that's all shit we already knew?

No, this series has never really confronted the nihilistic tone of Rick, he wants desperately to be emotionless but not because he is evil but because he is avoidant.

i honestly think this might go down as the best episode the series has ever done, or one of the best. Only somebody with a real grasp of emotional issues could write something as real as what they worked out in that therapy room.

I was honestly shocked by this episode. This whole series has been pretty much nihilism and cynicism and so to have people take it seriously and say "but let's stop eating bullshit for a moment" was awesome and gave the wild adventures we've gone on all the more dramatic weight.

I'm not trying to talk down, but honestly I don't know if this episode will resonate with people who've never had pretty serious emotional issues. This episode re-contextualizes Rick from "cynical apathy adventure genius" to "fun reckless avoidance adventure genius" and the latter is a much deeper, more likable, more interesting character.
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joe40001 posted...

I'm not trying to talk down, but honestly I don't know if this episode will resonate with people who've never had pretty serious emotional issues.

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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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