Storyline
After getting into trouble at school, Principal Vagina suggests the family go to therapy as a group. Rick surprises the family by turning himself into a pickle while the rest of the family continues to deal with the aftermath of Beth and Jerry’s divorce at therapy. The episode also addresses the concern of people who eat poop.
Quotes
Morty: “Are you invisible and you’re gonna fart on me or something?”
Rick: “Flip the pickle over.”
Morty: “What? I’m gonna touch it and you’re gonna say it’s an alien dick or something.”
Rick: “Come on, flip the pickle Morty, you’re not gonna regret it, the pay off is huge!”
Rick: “I turned myself into a pickle Morty. Boom big reveal! I’m a pickle!”
Rick: “I’M PICKLE RICK!!!”
Morty: “I’m just trying to figure out why would you do this? Why would anyone do this?”
Rick: “The reason anyone would do this if they could, which they can’t, would be because they could, which they can’t.”
Rick: “I don’t do magic Morty, I do science.”
Rick: “This can’t really be the way I go out. This is the mega-genius equivalent of dying on the toilet.”
Mr. Goldenfold: “You’re patients of Dr. Wong too? How long have you all been eating poop?”
Summer: “We have never…eaten…..poop.”
Mr: Goldenfold: “Me neither…say where did my family get off to?”
Dr. Wong: “You are the master of your universe [Rick], and yet you are dripping with rat 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.”
Celebrity Voices
- Susan Sarandon: Dr. Wong
- Danny Trejo: Jaguar
- Peter Serafinowicz: Agency Director
References
- “Solenya” – A Pickle Man who comes after you because you threw away half of your sandwich according to the show. In reality, the term means “pickles” in Russian.
- “Jaguar” is a parody of Danny Trejo’s character from the movie Machette (2010)
Easter Eggs
- The concept of people eating poop is a call back to an earlier episode where Rick and Morty see a universe where people eat poop while flipping through channels on Inter-dimensional Cable
- The plot of “stealing 100,000,000 dollars in bonds” is from Die Hard
- The scene where Rick is being constructed as a “bio-pickle” is a play on the scene from Iron Man