rickorty review s3e6 rest and ricklaxation
aka the slimy gilf episode, and one of my favorites. they absolutely fucked behind the scenes in this one.
very beginning of the episode, morty’s boutta ask jessica out, but rick interrupts them. jealous old man.
says a lot about their partnership that rick trusted morty to fly the ship in a near death experience. and when they were both freaking the fuck out afterwards, morty said “why do you keep doing this to us”, another confirmation morty views them as a duo. rick and morty a hundred years. ricks reply with “maybe i hate myself, maybe i think i deserve to die”, only morty gets to hear vunerable shit like that. throwback to the time he took morty with him to go try to get unity back.
the duality of man lmaooo. rick’s a very all or nothing person in the first place. he either shits on morty and pushes him away or he submits himself to the terrifying ordeal of being known and loved and loving in return. both options are bad options to him and he’s fuckn miserable lmao. maybe you should make out with your grandson and you’d calm down
when mortys seducing that chick at the bar, she goes “aren’t you a child” and he goes “only in the ways that matter.” morty’s a fuckn canon teleiophile aint he. his planet girlfriend in s5 was older too, and jessica looks older by a year or so even if they share a class. and those mermaids he lost his virginity to in the citadel episode? doubt they were younger teens. and the girl he’s with at the end of the episode was older too. got a type, morty? anything ya want to share with the class?
morty looked at his dick again lmaooo this is the uhh second on screen time now, maybe third. also, shoutout to rick peacocking for morty, like he does every other episode. he acts like he doesnt care about anyone’s opinion, but he obviously hold some weight to morty’s.
and then, of course, comes the shit fans have been analyzing since this episode dropped.
look at how deep his fuckn frown is. him gently cradling morty in his arms. soft.
this all happened because healthy!rick realized his love for morty belonged to toxic!rick. he doesn’t view his love for summer or beth as toxic- he’s sweet to them and offers to cook and doesn’t otherwise mention it. but morty? if he had it his way, his love for morty would be gone. partially due to it being romantic, partially due to fear- rick is an all or nothing thinker, but he’s also an all or nothing lover. once he falls, that’s it, it won’t go away, and rejection hurts. diane, bird person, unity- those all hurt the shit out of him. as of season 3, no way in hell does he want to fall in love again. but the heart wants what it wants, old man. and, on some level, he does recognize that what he and morty has is toxic, feelings aside- he doesnt come to fully actualize it until s5, but there’s no fuckn way he’s not aware.
the detoxifier took out everything the person views as bad, and kept everything the person views as good. doting on his family? good. god complex? bad. higher regard for personal safety? good. verbally abusing morty? bad. helping people? good. loving morty? bad. it’s interesting how he considers every part of how he interacts with morty wrong- both the shitting on him, and the caring about him.
and on to morty- healthy!morty tells rick he loves him. he doesn’t seem to expect a response, which is good, because healthy!rick doesnt reply. the machine took out morty’s low self esteem, it took out his willingness to follow rick, it took out most negative emotions, it took out his good feelings towards technology (”i downgraded to a clamshell.”), and it took out his codependence. he views his need to stay with rick as toxic. he’s not wrong, but he’s not fully convinced, either. because ultimately, when rick had jessica call him at the end of the episode, he didn’t hang up. he knew he was being traced, it was the first thing he told jessica- so if he didn’t want to be found, he wouldn’t have picked up the phone in the first place. and what happened to having a clamshell? he was leaving his trail wide open. and i have a fuckn hunch it was from him watching toxic!rick sacrifice himself for morty. he stands there blankfaced during the whole thing, but this is the first time he actually sees this happen. the time collar, the prison, it wasn’t the same. he knows that on some level, rick cares about him enough to prioritize him in a life or death situation. maybe he brushed this off, thought it was different because of the detoxifier, but i’d bet it stuck with him.
I fuckn love that whole scene where jessica tells morty that rick kept drunk dialing her and crying about morty being gone- lets be real, rick couldve tracked morty down at any time. maybe he was waiting for morty to come back. maybe he needed time to come to terms with realizing his toxic half had love for morty. either way, he reacted exactly the same way he did in the vindicators episode- getting shitfaced and crying over presumed rejection from morty. yeah, he’s fuckn whipped, regardless of whether or not he wants to be, or whether or not he’ll admit it.
one of the juiciest rickorty episodes.
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