 Hello everybody and welcome back to Riksty Minutes. I'm the best guy ever, and this is DigiBro Hey, I don't give a fuck, biiiitch What's this? Episode 9? This is episode 9 of season 3. That's right, my dude Awesome. The ABCs of Beth. The ABCs of Beth. This is our first, man, this is a game-changer, and in some ways, there's a game-changer here. This is probably one of my favorite episodes of the show I thought you might go that way. That's interesting. Yeah, that's interesting. Because this was probably like the biggest like core plot development we've gotten in like Outside of like the Council of Rakes and all the sci-fi stuff like for the home life This is the biggest development we've gotten since the fucking Since the uh the first tv episode. Absolutely correct. You know what's interesting? I think I'll probably have a slightly different interpretation of that about that same exact idea But why don't you tell us about it, Digi? What went down? Well, basically we learn about Beth's past And like exactly who she is, which is something I think this show I don't know if it's ever done a really great job of characterizing Beth I couldn't agree more. Couldn't not agree more. Like I've always liked her, but she's always been kind of in the background Um, you know like the the main focus has always been her relationship with Jerry And sort of like how that changed her, but like this is the first time we learned like Exactly what she would be without Jerry. Yeah, like or or who she was before that, you know You know the thing about Beth is that while Beth Was like a better person like a more interesting person than Jerry Her entire character arc like depended upon Jerry and Jerry is the worst So in what way could we possibly like care about Beth considering like that's the crux of her character There was just no way there was just no way and that was a problem I was feeling throughout this season Which is that with them finally having broken up Beth has not had much to do She's just kind of been on this downward spiral of being like weird That's mostly like most of the times we cut to her. She's just being fucking weird But then in this episode we get context into that weirdness that like Maybe she's just always been a fucking weirdo Yep, you know like maybe maybe dating Jerry was just like a way of putting on a facade of normalcy in her life I feel like they were building to this episode with this season so far. I think that was that was inevitable and uh, yeah I think if we were to sort of figure out why in terms of her characterization why this is Yeah, I would say it's because Jerry is gone. She no longer feels this need to I don't know be a placated mom kind of dude. I guess Something like that. I honestly feel like that's giving it maybe a little bit more credit than it deserves But nonetheless, I certainly enjoyed what we've what we've seen transpose trans fucking Happened this episode. That's the word I meant to say happen Transpire transpire. That's the word I was looking for. Thank you So, yeah, this this is an episode about um, really it's a What was the b-plot right jerry jerry and the the fuck Fuck this alien girl, which was hilarious. He was fucking her. He was fucking her. He knew she had two vaginas. That's cool. That's cool I I like that was a great subplot, but obviously the less um relevant half of the episode Of course, so basically we learn this this interesting back and forth that rick Was in many ways a terrible father but um also because he Like I guess from a young age. He had already corrupted beth to be just as bad That yeah, she just naturally is she's pretty she as he put it. You were a scary fucking kid And everything she ever wanted from him was stuff to make people like her But it's very apparent that the reason she had those issues was like out of abandonment issues over her father But like to this extreme degree that is clearly Like something's wrong with her. No doubt. You know, no doubt like it's not just the daddy issues Those are like just the catalyst for releasing. What is already um psychopathy Uh, yeah, it kind of seems that way though I I kind of want to give her a break on that a little bit because I really do feel like I don't know. I really do want to attach it to okay. You know what? I don't want to give her that much of a break But I really want to come down on wreck for just being clearly the worst because All the things that he when he he goes through they go through like this not montage But he just pulls out from this toolbox all the things he had made for all these like crazy Goofy devices that like a child might want Uh, and then they get like darker just like a sentient switchblade like okay. That's kind of weird why would you want that but um Like those are things I could really see most kids asking for But the thing is parents know better than to give their children them and they know That that's when you have to be a parent to tell them no and like I almost want to blame it fucking all on rick I don't really know how responsible You have to say it's all his fault because he's the fucking parent. She was a kid. Yeah, you know, yeah, like And obviously he was just placating her because like I can easily imagine that rick in the brief moments He was around his daughter She would ask him For something and he would churn it out in a couple of seconds hand it to her and fuck off Right and be like this is enough, you know, which is why he creates an entire other Universe for her which she Grows up to believe as like was just in her imagination. Yeah, that was good. He creates a whole world for her to enjoy and like It's really I really love the scene of rick like going through this world and like explaining about how like carefully He constructed it to be perfect for her. That was one of the best things in the episode. I loved it Yeah, then it's just such a weird like obviously he's at fault here Obviously, this is all a bad idea and beth is right But he really did try his harness like he did the best that rick could as a broken terrible man To make a perfect place for his daughter But just the the attention to detail. I mean like I that is something that I absolutely would have noticed that like well, okay, dude So, okay, you made the ground squishy great, but there's a river right there She could easily drown but no, it's fucking breathable water. It's not a problem He he thought of all like the the reasonable things and the only problem is that you know Like a kid lived there for a million years and fucked the whole place up So well the the biggest problem is that the entire conceit is wrong. Well, you know, it's no way to deal with your children problems It's like if somebody like didn't Wait, I'm trying to think of a good analogy here like if you wanted to build a better toilet And instead you built like the greatest sink in the universe like it doesn't help the problem that you need to shit You know, I guess yeah, I suppose that's that's kind of what he's done here It's like the problem is that she needs her dad not that she Needs this it doesn't matter how perfect you made it doesn't matter that you were the most consider a bit Considerate person in the world about how you designed this place It was the wrong thing to make in the first place Very true very true and that's sort of the argument between them and I thought that was really great Yeah, rick uh rick should take some more responsibility. I think but on the other hand Uh, so basically all their grievances are like from when she was a kid these days She's a pretty together person for the most part until she has some of these moments later on where she really She lets the facade fall away and uh, she embraces her monster mode Which I enjoyed. I mean, I think that's I think that's probably the real reason She's been with jerry all this time because like now that we're looking at it from this lens of Because we've seen that in in the alternate universe where beth and jerry weren't together They both become way more successful, but they also go insane and go down like a crazy rabbit hole of depravity and end up together anyways In this episode like We get the sense that if beth had never had jerry around Would she ever have gotten anyone? Like is the only reason she ever got someone to be around her because he was so weak-willed That he could put up with the fact that she's an insane person, you know Like here's this woman who's who's like a psycho bitch And who would possibly want to be with her other than the weakest man in the world and like There's a reason they were together for so long You know like she's afraid to have to be by herself because we see now what happens if she doesn't have jerry She ain't exactly getting out there in the dating pool and making new friends Like she's just being a fucking insane person in her house Building statues out of horse hooves shit. Yeah. Yeah, and of course there's just the practical fact that you know She got knocked up and then had some kids and you know, that's gonna fucking weigh you down Yeah, that too I was just before we recorded this. I was watching a video by a guy called the matching ties network Called harman and jerry and rick. He was basically Creating the idea that dan harman like writes a ton of himself into rick and jerry Sure, um and apparently In between seasons two and three of rick and morty Um, he married his longtime girlfriend and got divorced in the span of about three months Oh my god And up up until the start of season three the way beth and jerry's marriage was always portrayed was That they weren't just staying together for the kids They were there was other reasons that was like this deeper connection between destiny shit going on a little bit Yeah, but then you start season three and they immediately get divorced Yeah, and so I have to wonder if this is also dan harman exploring his own divorce in this season Um, what an excellent point and I think it probably is Yeah, and it's it's interesting to see that sort of change in mindset that like, you know I mean, maybe by the end of the season we'll find out that they do need to get back together Who knows? Um, maybe they'll just keep exploring being separate for Seasons on end and we'll we'll just have this broken home that we're following which honestly is kind of A great idea like how many sitcoms have we seen about a function like a well a dysfunctional but still together family What if we just have a show about like a family that's broken up and And everyone's slowly getting jaded to crazy space adventures And like we're at a point now where jerry is dating an alien of his own accord Was it just me or was that a pre I mean, I know that the earth had been enslaved by aliens But to just like they're basically all gone and it's just human society again And we were pretty much we're pretty much ignoring that but there's just an alien and like nobody gives a fuck It's just this is just common now. This is this is the life everyone's involved with Did they go when they ate with the alien? Was that the same diner that? Uh That we went to not only in the last episode when rick had to kill the the alien that wanted to die But also the start of the season When they were just in a family diner. Is it the same diner? No, no, no, no, that was a different one That was chan chonies chauncees. That was definitely a different one. Uh, this place was What do they say mexican something? No, this is like a japanese place No, okay. That was different because that place was like it was like a taco place. There was sushi here. Yeah, that's right You should know that you're the biggest. It's a lot of restaurants in the fucking in rick and morty now that I think about it It's true. Um, and you hate restaurant scenes. God damn it. This is the worst zero out of 10 position. Yes But no, it's a great I jerry's subplot with the alien chick was fucking hilarious. It was pretty good It's just such a jerry it's Well, what made it work for me was the fact that jerry has telekinetic powers as a result of this Which is fucking like that moment when they walk into his house and he just like not only is everything nice But he has telekinetic powers. I was just like, whoa, I love that I loved how they rolled with it, but I must admit I was I thought there would be like the other shoe Would drop on that on that somewhere in the episode and just was never mentioned again never came up again Uh, but I don't know wasn't that big a deal, but I just I did expect something Whatever who cares That was great. Why didn't he use it to help on the hunt? Why didn't he fight with psychic powers? Maybe he wasn't getting enough puss, you know, he didn't have enough juice left wasn't getting enough They were hunting too much they after they feast they hunt and then they hunt to celebrate the hunt and This episode had so many fucking zingers in it, man Yeah, like I don't even know where to begin but I there's a few that I can remember Like I I would I'd have to watch the episode again and like write them all down to get all the great ones But two of my favorites At the beginning of the episode when beth says like something about the generation gap and Summers like our generation gets um, we get we fuck traumatized for breakfast. Yeah, that's the one That was great. That was a dope summer line Yeah, which is totally accurate Yeah and then Later on when they're chastising jerry about how they say like they're like we chose mom We made that very clear to you both Like at the breakup and in your weird facebook post the comments of your of your long facebook post or whatever That was great because it creates like You can imagine a whole other scene that's left out of the show of like them going on facebook And seeing jerry having typed this wall of text About the breakup that no one cares about and them leaving like angry response. This kind of shit happens in my family Of course, you know, of course like someone gets upset and goes on a fucking facebook tirade And everyone else blasts them in the comments of it like i've been through that particular drama So it was ah, it's too perfect. I like that man I know what you mean I for one really the thing that was the funniest to me in this episode was just How gross everyone was willing to be all the time So first of all, there was just like the jerry scene where he's just like Like he wants them to know real explicitly like how much he's fucking this bitch Is that relatable? Did you just you got to let everybody know how much you're fucking? You know, is that you get anything from that? Okay, anyway, anyway, uh, but uh later on The the running joke of the dude in in fruity land just insisting upon explaining to everyone in extreme detail And display for them the fucking ritual of him like impregnating these fucking monsters and devouring the bodies His insistence upon explaining this to everyone every fucking time I laugh my ass I thought it was the funniest thing this episode Work for me so much is that like because they very rick and rick and beth do that thing where they rapidly Like extrapolate that that's what's going on here. Yeah, right, right? They immediately figure that out. Oh, yeah, of course While I thought that line was funny because of like just what they're saying I was a little bit annoyed by the overly like meta Like when this show does that thing where everyone's just too far ahead of the story and I'm like, okay They don't have to all be like maximum nihilism 24 7 but then for it to then be like explained over and over again made it way funnier Oh, it's fucking great. It was fucking great But he doesn't he fucks it right in front of them It has a baby and he eats it even even rick is like, dude, please stop no one like this is too much I don't want to think about this happening. Oh, it was great. God. I love that. He just books right after that He's like, all right. I'm done like that was yeah, that was fantastic. That was fantastic Oh, man, it was it was great that rick, you know again like he he's a god He just like yeah, okay I don't want to be here anymore. So I'm leaving and then he does and then bet has to go and you know Bumble fuck around and try to deal with the situation on her own Yeah, it was great, man. It's great. Um, should we talk more about the fruity land plots the whole uh, the things that went on there Yeah, it's uh it's an interesting I love the I guess it all really culminates in the moment where beth realizes that she is her father Yep, because she Just as rick will not take responsibility for the fact that he made beth this person She will not take responsibility for the fact that she made uh, tommy this person true um by pushing him into the honey and All all he wants is an apology and she would rather murder everyone than give that apology And uh, yeah, and then she like realizes she kind of has an awakening moment of like I need to stop lying to myself and admit. I'm a fucking monster Just like rick, you know, especially that coming right up for the scene where she's like, no I'm gonna go prove that I'm not a bad person that I am a good person It's like you just found out objectively not a good person. You're kind of a fucking monster It's great. It's great. And I mean they they still rescue the dad because they're like, you know We can do some good here But like does the world really want tommy back in it at this point considering what he is? No No, they should have just left him there like fuck it then again Would it be they did just leave him there. They they cloned him. I think she murdered him also I mean the guy's gotta be dead right that was implied. Yeah, I assume she killed the real tommy and they cloned him into a new one Of course, of course. Yeah, that's fine. That plot line's resolved. It's all good. It's all good. Yeah I also liked the um This was a very subtle detail that I thought was really cool about fruity land So like at one point rick's like talking about like how you know how hard he worked to making How hard he worked to like make fruity land and stuff and like, you know They use the magic chalk like chalk zone to like, you know, draw a thing and then walk in make magic doorways and shit I thought it was really cool that um This is just one of those subtle details like at one point. He's just like, uh, I collapsed a whole quasar to fucking And beth just cuts about like dad. I don't give a fuck about how you made it like just take me there I don't give a fuck and he's just like oh fucking bitch And then like later on in the episode he's like, okay, uh, you know We left that guy's dead time to like pull the plug and then he like he makes a gesture as if he's going to Like snap the little piece of chalk thing that he's got but then beth stops him and I was like, hey, that's cool Like so that's so basically we're learning that it's a pocket dimension Maybe contained within that thing or that's like some Power source to it or something. I don't know. I just thought that was a cool little detail. I liked it Always in with the details in this show man. Yep. Lots of great Lots of great stuff I love all the inventions that he gave beth and how long they let that scene go on Like he just lists this shit for so long and it was like each thing's funnier than the last It's one of those it's one of those Andy Kaufman jokes where they just keep going and the joke is that it just keeps going And you need to get comfortable with the fact that this is not stopping anytime soon And I think it I think it worked really well because I felt like it kept giving slightly different angles on it Like it wasn't just beth is a psycho. It's like each item you can imagine its particular use This was a great way to like in like in my mind. I'm crafting a flashback Right that is not actually being shown, you know, and there's the stage play flashback Which is also fucking hilarious that they're just like literally describing what happened like in no uncertain terms Criticizing the screen Yeah, that was great. That was great. I also really liked when um Beth just walks back in uh, you know after covered in blood after killing everybody there and she walks in on rick You know tune his guitar do do Do do do and then later on he's like they they do a musical montage to the do do in my butt Oh my god the musical that was the moment where the episode was like This is now one of my favorite of the show Because we just have like we have this really emotional Dialogue and then the emotional montage is immediately do do in my butthole It was like done 10 out of every every daughter's a butthole in her dad's butt In one point in his life. Yeah, I was um, it's good shit man. It's good shit That's kind of humor. I can really resonate with Yeah, that's that's my kind of humor, right? That's what I come to rick and morty for Everyone's always like Anyone who criticizes this show and they're like, oh, it's just a guy burping and talking about nihilism No, what makes rick and morty funny is the do do in my butt song That is that is like the fact that they put that as the cherry on top of the inner depth You know that we get this this beautiful episode with all this store like fucking deep shit about the relationship of these characters And the big climactic sign-off of it is the do do in my butthole song That's why I love this show. Yeah. Yeah, man Um, so so which I uh, which I barely heard the lyrics of because I was laughing over it I went back and listened to it again. Yeah, it was fucking great So so let's talk about the ending so it's after that scene that you know Beth's uh, come to a realization that she's a fucking monster and rick's just like she's like, what should I do dad? You know got no more excuses to to hang around here. There's nothing to hold me here What the fuck do I do and rick's like fucking peace out dog. Peace out I will make you a clone. It will do everything that you did in your life You've got no attachments. You can be completely free. No moral ramifications of any kind What are you gonna do and then they don't answer it, but it's obvious. It's obvious that she's gone That's okay. That was yeah, it was a weird scene that they didn't show that because like It definitely feels super stilted when she comes back into the room. She's acting like a clone Like she's acting She's acting a lot like the the summer and morty bots from episode two. Exactly. Um, so I was thinking, okay It's a clone. We're about to get the reveal But then there is no reveal and I don't know if that's just to trick us for now Like or just to leave the question unanswered Like we won't really know unless we see Beth off somewhere else later, you know I think that that is a almost guaranteed to happen I I just okay just like narratively as as the narrative genius that I am I don't see How they could get away with putting that in this episode and then not having to pay off like at some point in the future I expected to be at the end of the episode and like the after credits thing That's a thing if that's what they did this I don't think there's ever been a time in this show where they set up something like that that didn't pay off Within the episode You know, I guess you could argue the evil morty thing But like that was a that was like a setup for something later So yeah, we all do that was like that was like an ending like clincher thing though And like we never knew Like what this like what was going to be the relevance of that until much later. This one it just feels like Like the way that they ended the episode is clearly meant to suggest Hey, she didn't clone herself, but then you have that or did she in your mind and like I don't know. Maybe it pays off next episode if it doesn't pay off by the end of the season I'm gonna get real skeptical But if they suddenly in seasons like four brought in this other bet it would be a fucking pretty big sledgehammer to the face I will say that, you know, I think it would be like, oh you motherfuckers you held off for that long, you know my genre savviness just To me almost gives me no way to believe that they are that she didn't leave Knowing the show and knowing how these characters operate I I cannot imagine a world in which they wrote it that that summer or that that bet indeed stayed And maybe that's how they're going to fuck guys like me over who think that we know everything about the show Maybe it'll happen because you This show I mean, there's no way that they just go with the obvious thing on its on its face like there's there's that kind of show and then there's a A more complex show that would do something on top of it and then there's like Double triple layers on top of that where they could interweave plots and double back on your expectations and totally surprise you out of nowhere And rick and morty sometimes transcends to that level and the biggest way they could defy all expectations Is to indeed have beth not leave after setting up that whole scene. So we're just gonna have to find out I guess we've got nothing we can do Yeah, we'll see and we won't we will not be able to say 100 sure until the show is over That's that's true. Even then like there's even then Yeah, even then it's up for debate Yeah, yeah Well, I guess that's all I have to say about this episode the ending gag was hilarious It was it was the fact that the fact that rick went and fucked cherry Oh, that was the best part of it. That was the best part And yeah, the meta about like nobody uses answering machines before you can keep it whatever Got a chuckle out of me But I did have one final point I wanted to make about this episode and it was just that So you were quite positive about all this beth development happening Um, I for one as a portion of that Okay, I felt a little bit deflated by the this happening and it's just because okay, so in this episode We have beth finally realizing things all these things about rick and and herself to be fair that we didn't know But everything about rick we have all known since episode one There is nothing new unlike the realization of this whole rick situation So to me it's a little bit of a mixed bag only because This is something that had to happen inevitably in order to make this character at all interesting But because it took so long and it's she's it's been so much dead weight Basically having this character along doing nothing for so long like it's happening now. It's like okay great, but It's it's it's just like okay finally finally. It's out of the way. It's it's like a bowel movement You know it's finally gone. It's out of the way, but man that shit stinks And but i'm glad it's beyond us. I don't know. I don't want to shit it too much. It's just I I wish this had happened sometime Sooner or that beth had just been more interesting leading up to this point in some way, but she really hadn't been Honestly, I think if you went back she was most interesting in season one Um, and definitely least interesting in season three So like I think the problem has really been with this season not Finding anything to do with her because it was so much more interested in exploring jerry's side Of the breakup up until this point and how the kids were dealing with it and just exploring rick's Being rick, you know, um or doing weird stuff I kind of feel like why wasn't this episode just earlier in the season in a way But maybe it would have felt like too many like relationship episodes in a row I don't know, but like it definitely feels like Maybe it would be like maybe beth's character won't be as bad going back through the season now that we know this about her Like you can kind of put together a little bit more why like she's acting this way Because I think I think they probably had this in mind from the start of season three Like the way she's been acting this season Is clearly indicative of this character. They're painting in this episode. I don't know how true I would say that is in the other seasons Yeah, I'm with you on that But like it'd be worth it would be worth going back for a look, but like Yeah, I I see where you're coming from. I do think It's unfortunate that it's taken this long for beth to Have a moment where like oh man, she might be cool now or I'm a lot more invested in her than I was before you know I certainly feel that having this episode end but Additionally, I do want to say there's a lot of hype here for beth going out and like becoming her own woman and you know doing stuff, but like Beth's not that smart I feel like there's a little bit of an exaggerated sense of like how cool things are gonna be with beth now that she's out there I feel like she's just gonna go like she's she's no rick. She is no rick, you know She's not like a god genius or anything in the other alternate world. She just became like a fucking famous horse surgeon, you know Yeah, what's been holding her back there? I don't know it has it. I mean rick has implied that she could have been A super genius, but I don't know. I don't know what she's gonna do Like I mean, we've already seen morty and summer just by proximity to rick gaining a lot of his like Abilities, you know, like they wouldn't survive very long by themselves But they do have a lot more skills than a normal person would you're not wrong about that. You're not wrong about that Yeah, so okay, you know what I'll withhold judgment on that maybe they could do something interesting with her So yeah go to it writers make her interesting And I'll tell you the first thing they got to do is is not have her stayed here She needs to have left. She needs to have left. Go be an adventurer. Go do something cool Uh, that's what I hope is revealed and I think it will be this season That's all I got Alrighty, that's uh, fuck. Uh, fuck. Fuck. Fuck. 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