#simple rick

Simple Rick's Simple Wafer Cookies TM are in my top-10 list of most fucked-up R&M plots. Simple Rick 1.0 getting just a few seconds outside of mind control before dying, and Simple Rick 2.0, despite everything he knows, getting trapped all the same. And yet the two of them - in happiness per lifetime - might just be the quantitatively happiest Ricks to ever have lived.

Would the wafer production fall apart on its own after Willy Wonka Rick's death? If not, would Evil Morty bother to personally grant actual freedom to Taste of Freedom Rick? He knows, intellectually, that that guy's initial situation was unjust, his campaign speech proves as much, but would he care to do anything about it once in office? As a PR stunt, at least? Would that even be a mercy to the guy, really?

One thing i'm pretty sure of - Evil Morty wouldn't have gone out of his way to try the Freedom-flavoured Simple Rick's Wafer Cookie TM. What's the point when he's about to get a taste of the real deal. What if he got his hands on the OG Simple Happiness flavour though? Would it taste as alien to him as i'm sure it does to most Ricks? Would he savour it or spit it out after a bite? Are the chemicals even compatible with Morty brains? And if not, would he be Rick enough by then to be the exception?

And would the existence of Simple Rick, a Rick that had chosen a life of humble joy put a dent in his distaste for the man? Or would the implication that any Rick might have had the potential to make the same choice and simply didn't cement it even further?