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>Rick Sanchez is the smartest man in the universe and most hated guy at his own damn dinner table.
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>You have a friend that's getting married. That's a big deal. It's a big deal. He has a friend.
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>What do you know about friendship, Jerry?
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>He warns his family about love potions, fake weddings, save points, and one specific son-in-law.
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>You win. No amount of genius can stop your dumb, mediocre, vacuous roots from digging into everything and everyone around you and draining them of any
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>ability to fend you off. They ignore him every single time. And every single time, the universe quietly, and
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>sometimes not so quietly, proves him right. Take Morty in season 1, 13 years old, standing in the backyard holding a
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>shovel, looking down at his own dead face in the dirt. Talk about trauma.
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>He's burying his own corpse because Rick told him not to mess with a love potion, and he didn't listen.
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>Bet you're loving this, Morty. This must be the best day of your life. You get to be the mayor of I told you town.
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>You're welcome. Here are 18 times Rick called it right but got hated for it.
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>Number one, pickle Rick and family therapy. Okay, I'm not going to lie, this one's my favorite. Rick literally turns himself into a pickle to dodge
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>therapy. The pickle part is kind of a meme at this point, but let's be real.
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>The other side of this, that kind of conversation about mental health avoidance and men and loads of other stuff is super interesting and really, really cool. But that's not the point of
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>this video because I want to focus on actually the pickle part. He dodged himself into a pickle to dodge therapy. That that that's it.
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>Oh my god, Beth. Oh, it totally slipped my mind. Jeez. Oh man. I'm a pickle.
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>That's the plan. Become a pickle. All for dodging a therapy session, which he clearly needs. I turned myself into a
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>pickle. Morty. Boom. Big reveal. I'm a pickle. Beth's frustrated. Summer's annoyed. Mort's mostly just confused at
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>how far Rick is willing to go to skip one session.
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>Well, I mean, you don't want to get pierced by a needle full of liquid unrelated to your situation. How's that going to help? Can't argue with that. Great. We'll see you later.
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>The family heads to Dr. Wong's office and Rick stays behind as an actual pickle on the counter. Okay, I may have [ __ ] up here.
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>Some commitment to the bit. Then Dr. Wong walks in and absolutely cooks him.
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>She tells Rick straight up that his big brain is basically a shield. He uses being a genius as an excuse to skip the slow, boring work of growing as a
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>person. And the rest of the family not innocent either. Everyone in that house uses sarcasm or chaos to avoid talking like normal, healthy people.
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>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.
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>Here's the kicker. Rick already knows all this about himself. He knows therapy only works if you actually want to be there. And he does not. I think it's
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>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
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