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Rick's portal was blue before he got Morty

i liked the episode but my absolute favorite moment is when rick is throwing morty through portals and he accidentally lets him hit the ground

you know, if you would have told me that

I love in S5 how Morty is so aware of Rick’s (neurodivergent) quirks

Toxic fans: It’s a show about how nothing matters and nihilism and how he doesn’t care about anyone!

“I was like, “Why would that be the case? Why would any parents let this crazy man disappear through clearly dangerous portals with their son?” And after talking about it with Justin for a while, I realized the most important thing about that show for me which is that Rick left at one point in Beth’s childhood and Beth blamed her mother for Rick’s absence. Kids can sometimes idolize their worst parent and blame their supportive parent for chasing off the dad with the guts to leave. Sometimes they don’t even admit it to themselves but they say, “My dad’s so fucking cool, he got the fuck out of here. And my mom’s such a bitch she’s always asking me to clean my room. That’s why dad left. She probably asked him to clean his room.” And in Beth’s case, she’s a horse heart surgeon. She’s not a real surgeon. She’s a horse heart surgeon because she got pregnant at 17. And she fetishizes exceptionality. She believes that Rick, as crazy as he is, is the better of her two parents even though she was raised by her mother and she blames her mother’s unremarkability on her father’s departure and will do anything to keep her father back in her life. And if Morty needs to risk his life traipsing across the galaxy with her insane alcoholic father, it’s better than Morty growing up in safety and ending up like her mother or her husband Jerry who she considers to be unremarkable and unredemptive and therefore undeserving of her affections. So the center of the show, even though we don’t address it at all, is this really fucked up woman who I love more than any character on that show because she would have been a brain surgeon, but she got pregnant at 17, and so she’s defensive about how she’s a horse heart surgeon because it takes less school to do that. And she’s selfish and she’s cold but she’s smart. She wears the pants in the family and she’s witty and she doesn’t like herself. She bothers to love her father and that keeps everything feasible because otherwise it would all fall apart. You’d go, “Why wouldn’t anyone say, ‘Stop doing that! Stop taking my son on these adventures!’?” The answer is because Jerry is terrified that Beth will leave him and Beth is terrified that Rick will leave her. And round and round we go. And so we have this beautiful suspension that could provide us with hundreds of episodes.”