 Hello Pizanos, what's going on? It's episode three of Motherfucking ricksty minutes with best guy ever and did you bro? Yeah, that's my guy and all right everybody It's the it's this episode that's gotten a lot of publicity a lot of dank memes coming out of the woodwork for this one Pickle Rick pick a Rick everybody in Rick What were they thinking? Genius How high do you even have to be to come up with pickle Rick? It's absolutely absurd So let's talk about the premise Pickle Rick all right They literally just came up with like let's make Rick a pickle and then they made an episode about it And it's it's great because these people are good writers and they don't fuck up and everything is perfect It's I I think with this episode what they were going for is Because I feel like this show has gotten really into the habit of trying to fuck with the viewers expectations, right? Like I think they they they seem to have a firm grasp on like what people think Rick and Morty is and Like how they can fuck with you in that so with pickle Rick Like they wanted you to be deeply concerned about this like no doubt seems like a stupid meme That this seems completely retarded Why is Rick a fucking pickle like the way that Morty reacts to him at the start of the episode It's just like what you know like why would you do this? This is a stupid idea like everyone like Because I can tell I can I can just see Justin Roiland walking into the room and going pickle Rick We're gonna make him a pickle Rick's gonna be a pickle and everyone's like no no that's stupid It's like a pickle Rick and then they had to do it. You know, I'm I've no doubt That's what went down Yeah, but it's just great and like yeah, I feel like that's that's exactly what they're going for everyone in the episode is Reacting to this with exactly like the dry, you know Exasperation that you would expect in a situation like this and then it's a fucking great episode anyway So I think you know, we can even read in like Rick himself says he like he says this Ironically because he doesn't actually mean it but he says I did this to challenge myself to see if I could turn myself back And I feel like the writers did this to challenge themselves of like, okay Let's take one of the stupidest ideas that Roiland's ever shouted at the top of his lungs while walking in the room Yeah, and see if we can actually make that a cool episode and they did they succeeded You know, that's interesting that you frame it as a challenge because I think of it more as just like an expression of just like How superior the people making this show are compared to the rest of the landscape because like you can have So you can have like a good premise, you know You can go on you can have yourself a good premise But if your writers are shit if like the team doesn't have its act together it can easily be garbage There's so many things you can fuck up these people They simply know what the fuck to do to make a good show and there's almost no premise that they can fuck up If they put the effort in which they clearly did here and it was great. It's great episode Yeah, I mean I feel like you can watch the train of thought unfolding as this goes on of like okay Rick's a pickle and there's literally no one's around to do anything about it What is like the natural course of events is gonna happen like something has to get him off the desk a Cattle come in, you know something's gonna have to get him off the porch a reigns gonna come in Well, if it rains, he's gonna fall down the drain. Well, if he goes on the drain, what's gonna be down there cockroaches What can we do with those and then from there? It's just like building up this it's like spore almost, you know It is just like spore. Yeah I mean what I what I loved about this episode was and ricken This is like the the general thesis I was thinking about for this episode What would it made me think about ricken morty ricken morty like better than almost I don't know. I'm not gonna say better than any other show But like it's so great at being logically consistent with like the just what it's having its characters do And like the the the things they have at their disposal and like the laws going on So, okay when I first heard about a pickle rick, I thought they would do something like have him like hop around Be like a pickle man who could just like, you know, I don't know roll and do things like that But a pickle doesn't have fucking muscles. It can't move So like right from the start they establish rick cannot move anything except his face and tongue That's the entirety of what like like the tools in his toolbox to deal with the situations that he finds himself into And like I was expecting them to fuck that up and like I'd see him like Inch and like a worm or like wiggling around or something But they never do that. It was even fucking with my brain at first to like when he was laying there And I was like, can't he just roll and I'm like, well, I guess he wouldn't like why that's the expectation, right? That's exactly it. We've watched so many of these fucking cartoons that would make us think that like a pickle can Yeah, of course he can roll. It's a pickle. Why it's gonna roll But like no, he's got no fucking muscles in his body, which you can tort his mass to make him roll So like Yeah, it just it's exactly how it should be It's exactly how it should be and then uh, you know, and then just because rick is such a fucking genius He can cocks these amazing situations to give himself fucking limbs And like powers and weaponry and all the shit he needs to get through Oh, it's the best and like that moment where uh where he like plugs Like the brain plug into his fucking, you know, uh pickle brain that was like visceral and I was like Yeah, that's just what you have to do god I love how rick is not afraid at all to get his hands dirty and like Like so many people Disgusting man. I know it's a nightmare. It's a fucking nightmare It was it was hard to watch for me when he was in the with the cockroaches and everything Like licking the things fucking brain. I was just like Ah Why why do I have to look at this? You know, just to be just just to be have the appearance of of fairness Though the one thing that I thought was a little bit ridiculous Is how he puppeted the cockroach with his tongue by touching its brain. That's that's the one thing That's like, all right. I mean, is there any way that would it was awesome Like it was done with great effect. So I I was I got over that quickly. It was not a big deal I mean the fact that he like The moment he like because I I didn't know what he like I thought he was going to have it somehow I don't know carry him transport. No, he bites his fucking head open and I was just like, oh my god What are you doing? I just love what like a fucking badass rick is he's not like doc brown who was like this clumsy You know the characters based on like clumsy weirdo science man who It doesn't really get his hands dirty just because of the nature of the show But rick is a fucking murdering monster. He'll just go he'll genocide a country if that's what it takes I think we've I think I can say Officially that they are trying to make rick and morty the most violent show of all time now Like you think sound like I mean the show has always had some violence But like you look back at season one like episode one they kill a bunch of bug men. There's some green blood here and there like There's a little you know, that's like there's a little violence here in there There's moments of some of some violence When rick blows up the king, but most of them are like green or blue blood, you know, it's not a lot of like Humans getting eviscerated horribly and season two kicked it up with the purge planet That was where it was really like a season two is pretty fucking violent overall But purge planet was like another level but this season every episode has just been a fucking bloodbath Like insane amounts of violence going on in this show now You're not wrong. You're not wrong at all. I I think I suspect that they're It just I think that it just kind of happens to be that way. Maybe there is an intention Maybe they they are going in that direction Like but it seems to me like they're they perfectly make sense for the premise of each of the episodes So maybe they do just have an inclination to write more violent stories But like they were just doing a yeah go on I think adult swim has kind of had like a long-standing desire to have the most violent show on television Like if you think back like they had that corgoth the barbarian pilot, which was just non-stop violence Metalocalypse was really fucking violent in spite of not even being an action show managed to have like insane violence in every episode You know, yep, and it ruled most of their shows have had like insanely violent episodes where they'll just be like blood Literally everywhere. I think opportunity hunger force when the fucking spider like Just collecting everyone's blood that that was the episode that made me stop watching equity I never was real. I was never a big aquatine guy at all, but that's when I'm like this show is definitely not for me That's the only episode. I loved I just never laughed and then I got grossed out. So I'm like why the fuck am I even watching this? There was no reason Um, uh, yeah Well, I mean we haven't even touched on like the other half of this episode that is also legitimately great and Makes I think this is for the first time makes a daughter who's name. I forget I think this is the most I've ever liked her as a character. They're really finally digging down and we're exploring her character more And uh, it's just just for the the one line where she's like my one of my favorite jokes in the episode Um from that scene anyway, like everything involving rick was hilarious and awesome Like I was laughing constantly at everything that went on with pickle rick. Um, the other scene is much more serious It's like this actual deep-seated Psychological thing going on where like they they literally just go to a counselor and they spend the whole episode just like having um, uh a family meltdown essentially or or mainly Beth who Won't open up and be honest with their feelings and they're just getting royally fucking owned by this uh This counselor, which I knew was gonna happen like the whole episode I was like they're gonna get fucking owned by this bitch Which is appropriate because like we understand all their nuances. We know what's going on so they can't like hide that shitter right it's good and uh, so That's all going on but my favorite line my favorite joke line for that is when um summer who the whole episode we have known that she apparently Huffed Pottery glaze or something. Yeah, that's part of why they're they're here because morty pissed his pants at school And she huffed pottery and it has been assumed that this is because of their family situation and the funniest part is that There's this reveal that it really wasn't about that at all. These were just Summer just wanted to get high and morty is just a fucking idiot so, uh That reveal was probably my favorite joke in the episode when summer's like I'd like to be thought of as someone who just likes to get high Yeah, summer fucking killed it with that line. That was great Her fucking voice acting was amazing this episode the line when um when the teacher comes out of the room and she's like None of us have ever eaten poop like however. She says it was just like spot-on. I fucking loved it That was great. Uh, I will say though. I think the poop jokes just kind of fell flat for me I I got it the first time and then they just kept doing it. That was fine. I just didn't care Yeah, not as funny as the times as like the number of times they used it, but whatever wasn't a big deal Well, uh, I mean, let's Okay, well, let's talk about so the reason why rick is a pickle, of course Is because he's trying to get out of this counseling thing that that's what's revealed and so there's this plot setup I mean, I assume everyone who's watching this is in the episode But nonetheless, like there's this he's got this thing set up where he's going to um Like as soon as they leave there's like a timer and it's gonna inject him with human serum Whatever he's gonna turn back to a human So that's like the undercurrent going on through the episode that that's uh, and like the beth like takes it away from him Because it's immediately obvious what he's trying to do and then you know Her and the therapists and the kids are like exploring how they know that obviously is what this is And yet beth just can't bring herself to fucking question her father in the slightest And uh, I forget how that resolves. Did she actually did she challenge him at all at the end? I think she did a little bit, but then immediately gave it back to him. Uh I I honestly don't remember how that kind of just like the ending of the episode They're both clearly shook by what they've uh, experienced at the At the psychological place. She she she the only thing she says is like you shouldn't have lied to me Like he he's he almost doesn't like he says i'm sorry I lied and she's like, oh, it's okay Well, you shouldn't have lied, but it's okay, you know Like she's barely barely concedes it's really who does the the apologizing she even she can't get past it Even when he can admit that's true And uh, it's it's great that like even throughout the whole the whole at the end like she is resistant the entire time Beth is the one who's who's fighting the therapist like the entire fucking session The kids at the end after like the therapist does her monologue It just lays out exactly what beth's problems are in no uncertain terms that you know, we basically already know Uh, uh, like the kids are just like I I liked her. Yeah Can we go back that was great their faces at the end of the episode was like, oh that hit me man Yeah, just the way that the way that the other two were trying to be so casual and like the kids know They know that these two are shaken by this and they're like trying to break through the facade like hey, um Uh, can we can we be honest? Can we go back? I I kind of liked it It was it was kind of enriching and you know, that's like that's almost like a little bit too real right there Because like every day people out there we we all do it. We all lie to ourselves Uh about the way that we kind of wish that we were we're trick ourselves I'll give you a real example right now. Uh, I tell people that I go to the gym three times a week I often miss fridays because I just like get caught up doing stuff But I still tell people that I go three times a week That's me kind of lying to make myself feel better about it. Even though I'm I'm not like me the obligation I've set for myself. I mean that that's a small little thing. But like These people are lying about like like Beth's whole life has been like destroyed and her kids like their lives are put in danger Every moment that rick is around more or less Because he just doesn't he doesn't give a fuck and is like the ultimate danger to the fucking universe And especially the kids and she just enables and enables and enables because she Is personally fucked up by her abandonment issues from him as a kid and uh Like the fact that she isn't willing to deal with her issues and is just pushing them off Well, the kids are like no we mom please like we should go back You should go back like we this is how we all get better as people and healthier and become a better family She's just pushing it away. So she doesn't have to take responsibility or confront like her own issues It's that's real shit man. That is real shit. And that's why this is the bet the best bet has ever been I really liked it. Um, yeah, that was great and the fucking speech that the counselor gives at the end like I mean, this is all some it's some very real shit, you know, like yep, she hits them with There are wrong and right ways this scene could be done But it just feels very matter of fact to me that like she says She it's not like making fun of them or anything. It's not like she's this huge comeback She's just like lays out exactly. Here's what your issues are like, you know Anybody in my field would know this like this is not like me being magic rocket scientists It's just like this is what psychology is You avoid it because it's not interesting to you for the same reason that like normal shit. It's not interesting to me but like It hit me in a very personal way Because this is one of the most relatable problems I've heard on this show Let me describe what I've done today. I uh I've Right before we did this podcast I was doing another one that I had to do for patreon and right after this podcast I will be doing another one that I do with monkey jones every week Um, and right before I did that other podcast. I had recorded a vlog And was working on a different one like I I've worked on like five projects today What I haven't done is clean my office, which has not that dirty, but there's a little bit of stuff around Haven't really eaten. I should have made myself a sandwich, but it was gonna take too long So I ate two frozen waffles instead and now I'm still hungry. I should have uh fucking paid this goddamn $350 I owe to the state of new york for a speeding ticket that I got in may And I need to pay in within the next four days The reason I haven't done that is because it would require me to go to the post office Which is right up the road But that would be not working It would be boring. It would be normal work Upkeep shit. It would just be daily life shit and daily life shit never takes precedence in my mind Overdoing something interesting. The only times I go do this shit is when I don't have anything scheduled or planned I don't have any ideas for videos, you know Like it's the days when I'm not feeling creative that I go and I finally get the other shit done I go and clean up the house. I go. Oh, I don't have an idea for a video. So I guess I'll like You know brush my teeth. That's never gonna happen I'll I'll I'll go pick up a the trash, you know, like that's the day that that shit gets done because You know, I it just doesn't feel like an adventure and I want everything to feel like an adventure I want everything to be larger than life never to just be like normy shit You know even though you need the normy shit because your mind cannot handle not being kept up That's why you need to keep a clean space because you feel better and you do better work You know if you dedicate that hour every day to fucking Developing an environment that you can live in, you know and don't have the looming stress of oh god Will this fucking thing get to the courts in time for me to not owe the government Whatever like interest on this shit, you know because I have just been holding onto these envelopes They've been sitting on my desk like in my line of sight for two weeks now, you know I know the feeling. Well, I I'd been putting off getting car insurance for a while And I finally got it But it took me months to just get around to doing it even though like every day. I didn't have it I was at risk, you know, it's just like It's it's so true That's such a relatable thing every fucking person in the world does this shit And especially now that like I don't know we're all consumed by like fantasy of like Hollywood shit and anime and all this magical shit that we wish would happen in our lives We just want to like every movie is the most interesting portion of those characters lives And we all want that to be happening to us all the time And you know people back in the old days like they didn't know what they were missing So day-to-day life, you know, maybe it wasn't so bad to them I think there's lots of people it's like she says some people can handle work and some people can't And I think most people like what we define as normies what we insult by calling normies are people who can work People who like can Do something every day because they know it's the right thing to do They know it's how you live They know that's like what's normal and then there's people like me who are just like I could never work Like I I've gotten to the point right now I don't know if I could work a normal job Like I don't know if that would be possible for me because I've gotten so used to this manic lifestyle of like constantly Making new things and what what's the phrases that rick says? It's like he creates a wobble up a dub dub He says like I'm a scientist. I create destroy and and and mutate or something like that And I'm like, yeah, like that's what's on my mind. Like if it's not creating or making something new Then what's the point of it? You know, but the point is obviously you don't become a fucking psychopath Who goes around putting your life at risk every day and murdering people constantly Yeah, he's a little bit out of whack, you know, I remember when you like when you um We're first starting your patreon, you know years ago and shit and I remember, you know When you left your job and stuff and you even back then you you were you know saying the sentiment that like, you know You just you just don't feel like That's right for you And you know, it's that to me has been like a big strength for you personally and that way you are like a rick And that you are just wired for this lifestyle. That just really seems to me You know when I was a kid I used to think that like everyone could do anything and if you're not You know, like excelling at just the shit that everyone needs to do then you're just not trying hard enough or something But as I've gotten older, uh, I've really started to realize that there really are different kinds of people Who are built to do different sort of things, especially as I've discovered what I'm actually good at and uh, You know, and uh, Yeah, I don't know man. She's she's right about that and you know one other Points that I really liked about just the the therapists in general I really liked how It would be so easy for a show like this to just like You would think that like a nihilist framed show or like a show with themes of nihilism about it would would like It would be so easy for it to shit on the idea of psychology in general Exactly like like uh rick does and just be like this is total fucking bullshit, man I decide my own destiny, you know, there's nothing controlling me I'm controlling my own thoughts and mind and all that shit But the show really does take a more mature stance at it and even though like, you know, jokes are thrown in Of course, it's a comedy fucking show with like the poop stuff and whatever like despite all that She is absolutely like a professional at her craft It has real things to offer these characters and it's obvious and the characters understand it and accept it In the form of morty and uh and summer Whereas our our less mature people who are just pushing away their problems the parents Those are the problem people who don't understand the real benefits that could be here I just appreciate that that that feels refreshing to me that they're not just like shitting on it Because I feel like i've seen that a thousand times I think my favorite part of it is the way the favorite my favorite part of her speech and how it's framed is that like She keeps saying like, you know to rick like you have this amazing level of intelligence It's like she recognizes like rick you are smarter than me But this is what I do is like understand how people think I know how you think like it's a fact that you're smarter than me doesn't preclude me from like this specialization that I have Which is to understand how your mind works whether I actually like understand the concepts that you do or not Um, which is something I find really interesting about psychology in general is that like it's in some ways an equalizer like We're all humans at the end of the day like how the human mind works Is not something that you have a better grasp on just by having a higher IQ Like your IQ doesn't affect your emotions. It doesn't affect the chemistry of your brain It's just like how much you know and can know And that's clearly, you know, what rick strengths are in as opposed to self-awareness and that and other kind of Of shit. Yeah, man. It's good stuff and it's funny I just watched all the Sopranos not too long ago, which has I didn't even notice at the time But before I start watching it, but like the fact that Tony Soprano goes to a therapist a psychiatrist. Yeah Like is a big undercurrent throughout the whole thing and there's a lot of like dream analysis and You know, he spends a lot of time talking to her and understanding his motivations for why he like lives this gangster lifestyle and stuff And it was really interesting there and it's really interesting here. It's good stuff Yeah, um I mean, the only other thing I wanted to talk about was kind of just like the progression The specific progression of like rick in his journey, uh, throughout, uh, you know, like acquiring The materials he needed to to do the shitty he that culminated the gigantic action battle scene at the end, which is fucking dope Uh, so just like the way that rick, I feel like we've already blown our load here, but but nonetheless, uh Like the way that rick starts out as an immobile pickle and then like you were said like the the cat kicks him off the table or whatever Rain comes down. He gets flushed down the drain into the sewer He then like lures over a cockroach with like spewing brine So he's like using pickle special abilities in order to do that, which was dope The only special ability a pickle has which i'm glad they didn't try to like stretch that, you know Yeah, there's one thing he could do and they used it and then Oh, how about uh, how about when he gets hurt later on and in order to bandage his wound He uses like mustard and hot sauce and then staples a pickle to his wound to hold him like his pickle God's a fucking genius like just from a burger that was sitting there. Holy shit. That was amazing They just commit so hard my pickle hole with more pickle It was fucking great. Well while like of course, you know while he's fighting this guy, uh, uh, jaguar jaguar Whatever uh who fucking just like burns its shut or whatever god. It was fucking great Uh I don't know like I didn't there was there was nothing particularly amazing about um like Oh, okay. Well once once rick like controls, uh, uh these cockroaches So he lures over the brine he bites his head snaps his neck and then starts puffing his brain with his tongue He then like then we kind of accelerate to uh, okay Now he's just gotten to the point where he's building like some machines out of like the various limbs of cockroaches Now that he can move himself that you can get uh get a hold on and he eventually makes uh Like this battle armor that he can use to fucking chop up these rats in this like Amazingly gory. Yeah fucking fight. It was so dope. I god. It was the the fucking shit He says so the the big rat at yeah, yeah Classic like I didn't even give you a name. I could have called you scar I call you nothing because you're nothing to me You aren't even worthy to be my adversary But like even the fact that he's addressing the rats like that rat instantly has character to us as the viewers Yeah, man. It was so good. It was so good. This was a fuck was he by the way like what What was this cartel place? He was in like I assume because they say the like there's lines like this country Is a prison and stuff like that. That's right. That's right. I'm assuming he's in mexico and some kind of drug cartel place Where is their house like do they live in california? Like why are they so close to the border because rick says he's five minutes away by helicopter From his daughter So I guess yeah, I guess they must be are they like right on the border of mexico or something Based on the the clear like latin influences on the characters and shit like yeah, I guess they must be close to the Mexican border So, yeah, oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Um, well shit, man. All the evidence is piling up I guess they're close to the Mexican border. Yeah, or or something like that. I don't know Maybe there's a Mexican installation in the u.s. Some I don't fucking know. Uh, yeah something like that Well, that's that was cool. Uh, the the fight I really liked uh after I just want to mention like how amazing that mouse muscle exoskeleton was God it was so fucking sick And I loved that like it's not like he constructed like human anatomy out of rat parts Like he clearly still had like rat legs and rat limbs and uh, they didn't I love how you could see the The tendon moving independently of the arm of the bone. Yeah. Yeah, I noticed that Straightening out that looked really cool. That was fucking dope. Um, and then uh, the subplot with Jaguar was kind of funny. It's all right Didn't have a big payoff wasn't that great the fight scene was the coolest part there I'm hoping they because they brought back jaguar for the after credits scene That was funny Right. I'd feel like maybe they were doing that so that that wouldn't have to happen later because like jaguar is a surviving character So he could come back, but I don't think he's that funny or Rememorable that he should come back, you know, I think that ending gag was all the payoff that character will ever need He could show up in like the background early a crowd or you know, whatever, but We'll probably get murdered somewhere in the background of another episode Probably probably I mean, he's really tough. He fought toe-to-toe against rick and came out came out alive Toe-to-toe against rick as a pickle with rattles. Oh, yeah. Well Yeah, but he was rocking it. Oh man, dude. How sick was his fucking like laser gun We're using like individual batteries for the fucking charges. God damn that was awesome Well, all right. Well, that's it man. I mean we we kind of went uh in a circular Circuit is route there, but that pretty much covers the whole episode and how fucking great was I give this like a Big ol rick. I'm gonna give this like a strong nine. I feel like maybe a mid to strong nine It's very solid. The only complaint I would have is that like the subplot that's in the uh psychology office is just very like You know, it's just like one location with flat shots, you know, like it's not that interesting to look at Um, you know, I hear what you're saying. I just like that as is a juxtaposition I felt like this was intentional to like the crazy environments that pickle rick is going to They made it deliberately drab to juxtapose like the insane life rick has especially as pickle rick versus them So, you know, I thought it worked, but you know, I understand your criticism nonetheless Yeah, that's it Bye-bye