Why doesn't Beth just bring Pickle Rick to therapy in S3E3 "Pickle Rick"?
Potential spoilers if you haven't seen the Rick and Morty episode "Pickle Rick" (S3E3) yet [duh].
In the opening scene, Rick reveals himself to be a pickle to Morty. Beth brings Summer out to the garage so they can all go to family therapy. Rick acts like he doesn't remember agreeing on the time for therapy and acts like he wouldn't be able to go-to counseling as a pickle. Rick even says Beth could just pop him in someone's pocket or purse. Why doesn't Beth want Pickle Rick to come with the family to therapy?
Best Answer
Because of pure spite. Rick had agreed to come to family therapy then changed himself into a pickle to try to evade it and not go. Then lied about it. And about the syringe. Beth caught him lying. And repeatedly gave him a chance to come clean. Rick didn't. Beth was basically thinking:
"Fine.You turned yourself into pickle so you could stay home. Now you're going to stay home, as a pickle! Until we return. Serves you right."
She is treating Rick like a parent treating a child pretending to be sick so it won't have to go shopping.
Sure honey, you do not have to go shopping but... because you ARE sick, you are too sick to play and have to stay in bed for the rest of the day! Unless, you get better and we go shopping and once we finish shopping you can go play. No? You are sick? For real? Ok, get well.
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What is the significance of the pickle in Rick and Morty?
The therapy subplot was introduced so that the episode would "keep addressing the divorce story of the season". He also said that the Pickle Rick design is phallic and "emblematic of self-torture", as Rick is his "own worst enemy" and does this transformation to himself.What did Rick Sanchez say about therapy?
Rick Sanchez : Because I don't respect therapy. Because I'm a scientist. Because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living and when I don't like something about the world, I change it.What is Pickle Rick a parody of?
"Pickle Rick", a parody of Die Hard (1988) and John Wick (2014), is #9.What building did Pickle Rick end up in?
Rick turns himself into a pickle to get away from family therapy. He eventually ends up in the sewers where he constructs himself limbs with rat parts.Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) [Official Video]
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The whole therapy experience was about showing a normal life. From the start of the therapy session Beth tries to portrait their situation as normal, and needles to say she fails measurably. But nevertheless I think this was the main intention and Rick knowing it, turns himself into a pickle.
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