The Swamp

...But later, having finally survived the heroic escapades, Rick shows up to the therapy session, tired, beaten, and nearly dead. He's done so because this is the seeming right thing to do, but it's more that he's simply too tired to keep avoiding it and he wants the serum back (a mere band-aid for his current problem). Of course, Rick can't keep up his veil of complacency for long, and his disdain for therapy comes out. And it all manifests in what is perhaps the single most brilliant explanation of therapy I've ever seen from a piece of art (and please know that therapy has become something I've come to hold quite dear)...

Therapist: "Rick, why did you lie to your daughter?"

Rick: "So I wouldn't have to come here."

Therapist: "Why didn't you want to come here?"

Rick: "Because I don't respect therapy. Because I'm a scientist. Because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living. And when I don't like something about the world, I change it. And I don't think going to a rented office in a strip mall to listen to some agent of averageness explain which words mean which feelings has ever helped anyone do anything. I think it's helped a lot of people get comfortable and stop panicking, which is a state of mind we value in the animals we eat, but not something I want for myself. I'm not a cow. I'm a pickle - when I feel like it - So... you asked."

Therapist: "Rick. The only connection between your unquestionable intelligence and the sickness destroying your family, is that everyone in your family, you included, use intelligence to justify sickness. You seem to alternate between viewing your own mind as an unstoppable force and as an inescapable curse. And I think it's because the only truly unapproachable concept for you is that it is your mind within your control. You chose to come here, you chose to talk, to belittle my vocation, just as you chose to become a pickle. You are the master of your universe. And yet, you are dripping with rat's blood and feces. Your enormous mind literally vegetating by your own hand. I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy. The same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is - it's NOT an adventure - There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just... work. And the bottom line is some people are okay going to work and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose."

The stunned silence that follows is the kind that exists only when a horrible-yet-potentially-freeing truth has been unveiled, but nothing is so devastating as the scene that follows. As they drive home, Rick and his daughter apologize with niceties, putting the band aids on their relationship, and ignoring the magnitude of what has actually happened. Her children, Morty and Summer, sit in the back, wide-eyed and terrified about the avoidance they see before them. They sheepishly ask, "Are we going to go back?" and say "I liked her," clearly desperate to go back to therapy, to the person who genuinely might be able to help them all. The want to do the work. But their adult models are too scared of doing the work and facing the truth, so they will recede into themselves. They don't even answer the kids' words. Instead, Grandpa Rick and their mother make plans to go to a bar and drink the truth away... cut to credits.

I literally shuddered...

brian wrote:Yeah, it's a great show. It says something about how great TV is these days that the ability to tell powerful stories in a medium that some people think is intended only for children or the simple-minded that Rick and Morty and/or BoJack Horseman can be absolutely devastating emotionally at times.

tennbengal wrote:Based on this thread, and a lot of the comedians I follow on twitter getting all excited about it, have started working my way through Season 1. I am fully on-board. Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

The Sybian wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Based on this thread, and a lot of the comedians I follow on twitter getting all excited about it, have started working my way through Season 1. I am fully on-board. Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

Probably listen to the same podcasts, but yes, I need to watch this based on many of my favorite comedians discussing it. Where can I find the first season?

The Sybian wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Based on this thread, and a lot of the comedians I follow on twitter getting all excited about it, have started working my way through Season 1. I am fully on-board. Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

Probably listen to the same podcasts, but yes, I need to watch this based on many of my favorite comedians discussing it. Where can I find the first season?

brian wrote:

The Sybian wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Based on this thread, and a lot of the comedians I follow on twitter getting all excited about it, have started working my way through Season 1. I am fully on-board. Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

Probably listen to the same podcasts, but yes, I need to watch this based on many of my favorite comedians discussing it. Where can I find the first season?

Hulu is only place I know of that streams past seasons.

Johnnie wrote:

brian wrote:

The Sybian wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Based on this thread, and a lot of the comedians I follow on twitter getting all excited about it, have started working my way through Season 1. I am fully on-board. Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

Probably listen to the same podcasts, but yes, I need to watch this based on many of my favorite comedians discussing it. Where can I find the first season?

Hulu is only place I know of that streams past seasons.

The gf and I watched via Kodi. It's in HD too. But it's stealing. Soooo...up to you and your morals.

The Sybian wrote: Where can I find the first season?

The Sybian wrote:Where can I find the first season?

The Sybian wrote:My morals were affected by the Cease and Desist letters NBC and Verizon sent me.

The Sybian wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Based on this thread, and a lot of the comedians I follow on twitter getting all excited about it, have started working my way through Season 1. I am fully on-board. Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

Probably listen to the same podcasts, but yes, I need to watch this based on many of my favorite comedians discussing it. Where can I find the first season?

Johnnie wrote:

The Sybian wrote:My morals were affected by the Cease and Desist letters NBC and Verizon sent me.

Holy shit. Seriously? You're like the third person to ever tell me they we caught. And this goes back to like 2005. One was a power user downloading and seeding every damn thing under the sun. The other was my buddy that downloaded something obscure but had a tracker. Kodi is streaming. I have my vpn on when using.

But I can totally understand being shook by big business coming after you.

tennbengal wrote:Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

howard wrote:

tennbengal wrote:Just passed the episode where Morty and Rick come to a reality where they just died and bury themselves. So good.

Soundtrack to Morty's existential angst - Mazzy Star "Look On Down From The Bridge"

(youtube clip from the episode, spoiler, so again, you're welcome)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwVXkM_YxMg

[+] spoiler

Morty: On one of our adventures, Rick and I basically destroyed the whole world, so we bailed on that reality and we came to this one, because in this one, the world wasn't destroyed and in this one, we were dead. So we came here, a- a- and we buried ourselves and we took their place. And every morning, Summer, I eat breakfast twenty yards away from my own rotting corpse.

Johnnie wrote:'We want sauce': police called after McDonald's Rick and Morty promotion heats up

People are dumb.

Johnnie wrote:Woman trades a packet of the Rick And Morty Szechuan Sauce for a car

People are retarded.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:32 am I've loved Rick and Morty ever since my daughter turned me on to it about a year ago. As most of you know, it's now in its third season. If you aren't watching it, then imho, you are really missing out.

ImaginaryMan wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:18 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:32 am I've loved Rick and Morty ever since my daughter turned me on to it about a year ago. As most of you know, it's now in its third season. If you aren't watching it, then imho, you are really missing out.

Will have to check it out.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:00 pm

ImaginaryMan wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:18 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:32 am I've loved Rick and Morty ever since my daughter turned me on to it about a year ago. As most of you know, it's now in its third season. If you aren't watching it, then imho, you are really missing out.

Will have to check it out.

Here's the original pilot, if you want to familiarize with the show.