This scientist rick he turned himself into a pickle it's the funniest crap I've ever seen
53 Reviews
He turned himself into a pickle
elkomate21 March 2020
Funniest s**** i ve ever seen
henriquejocf12 July 2020
Great Comedy, Somehow Great Action.
oscardgwhalley7 August 2017
Somehow a comedy show has managed to be both funny and possibly one of the best action episodes of any episode I have ever seen, while still satirizing action. Amazing episode, and constantly entertaining. I was scared that the pickle rick thing would be played out, but having him evolve and change was comedy gold, constantly entertaining, and, somehow, very interesting. The entire pickle rick thing was well broken up by the psychology parts as well.
He turned himself into a pickle
danhadams-0524415 February 2021
One of the best Rick and Morty episodes
amlaskaris19 August 2019
A mix of John Wick, family issues, overstretched sience fiction and a lot of craziness. One of my favourite Rick and Morty episodes. It's not by chance that there is so much Pickle Riiiiick merchandice out there! Now go watch the episode already and let me order some Pickle Riiiick T-Shirts and mugs!
Rick's a pickle on Rick and Morty
solarpanelshydroelectric8 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The setup for "Pickle Rick" is simple-Rick turns himself into a pickle to get out of family therapy, and gets washed down into the sewers by a rainstorm. It's what the episode does with it that makes it special. "Pickle Rick" skips all the tedious buildup and gets right to the fun-Rick as a pickle laying waste to hundreds of lives. It works as a ludicrously over-the-top parody of cheesy action films from the 80s and 90s. To keep this episode from going overboard, the writers balanced out the insanity of the Pickle Rick story-line with the family's more grounded therapy session. These scenes weren't the most exciting or gut busting, but contrasted with the other scenes, they work nicely as a counterbalance. Also extremely satisfying is when the two story- lines converge towards the end of the episode- Rick in pickle form walks into the therapy session, because Beth has the anti-pickle serum he needs to revert to human form. The therapist, using information gathered throughout the rest of the episode, delivers a monologue that cuts right to the heart of Rick's character. This was almost too far into Harmon's style, at times feeling as if the therapist is a mouthpiece for Dan Harmon to lecture the audience about Rick. The message it delivers is still relevant though. Rick on some basic level knows that human connection is a necessity, but his vast knowledge and exploration of different universes and realities have numbed him to those feelings. Why should he get invested in these versions of his family when they're disposable? At least he tries to apologize for his mistakes in this episode. The same can't be said for Beth, who's so mired in self-loathing and abandonment issues that she'll do anything not to get her father to leave again. This is showcased by that final car ride, one of the darkest scenes on the show so far. Morty and Summer realize the therapy could be beneficial to their family, but Beth simply doesn't care. She instantly forgives Rick for his mistakes, and ignores Morty and Summer. Until Beth hears the music and realizes she needs to hold Rick accountable, it looks like Rick was right-we're in for a dark road this year.
9.3/10
9.3/10
One of the best, in my book
rzajac9 September 2018
It's perfect. There's not much more to say. The scenario work, dialog, direction, acting, pacing, EVERYTHING.
The writing is super, super intelligent. Well... I will note a kind of "goof" in the underlying science at one point. (DON'T consider the following a "spoiler":) It shows Rick stimulating "parts" of a cockroach's "brain" to tap it's motor functions. Pretty sure that early stimulus/motor-response scenario is not in keeping with our current understanding of the nervous function of the arthropods. For some time now, robotics researchers have recognized the effectiveness of "distributed intelligence" and point to insects as examples of this.
BUT!!! I don't care! The story is fantastic, and I loved the writing for Dr. Wong, and the challenging thematic treatment of therapy. I'd like to think that if there's a downstream effect, it'll be in the direction of getting *more* Rick and Morty weenies to consider seeing a professional... not *less*.
Please, R&M producers: Hew more in *this* direction in future development!
The writing is super, super intelligent. Well... I will note a kind of "goof" in the underlying science at one point. (DON'T consider the following a "spoiler":) It shows Rick stimulating "parts" of a cockroach's "brain" to tap it's motor functions. Pretty sure that early stimulus/motor-response scenario is not in keeping with our current understanding of the nervous function of the arthropods. For some time now, robotics researchers have recognized the effectiveness of "distributed intelligence" and point to insects as examples of this.
BUT!!! I don't care! The story is fantastic, and I loved the writing for Dr. Wong, and the challenging thematic treatment of therapy. I'd like to think that if there's a downstream effect, it'll be in the direction of getting *more* Rick and Morty weenies to consider seeing a professional... not *less*.
Please, R&M producers: Hew more in *this* direction in future development!
One of the best episodes yet
MillerWissen6 August 2017
I just came here to give this a 10 star rating this was so so good a lot of references yet original and entertaining, kudos to everyone who wrote and made this episode it shows how a silly idea can turn into something amazing, if only more cartoons would take the same approach this episode may serve as a creativity lesson to many people someday.
The best of what Rick and Morty has to offer
joshoct8 August 2017
Rick and Morty is about crazy sci-fi situations with layers of dark humor and at its heart, a meaningful message and themes. Pickle Rick is silly on the surface. The plot is silly, the characters are silly, but when you look at it, in reality it makes sense. Rick is going to the extreme to getting out of something that he really needs, and Beth is too blind to see what is actually happening. Along with this great story, the humor is top notch. I found myself laughing at just about every joke. To top it off the animation is superb. You can see the great detail put in each frame which makes this show feel like the creators really care about what their making. Overall this is the Rick and Morty I wanted to see, and so far this season I'm not disappointed.
I'm Pickle Rick
burakkar-8658918 May 2021
The funniest thing I've ever seen
tomandlily-7835121 June 2021
This is not the rick and morty show that we used to love
franco-km814 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The amount of unnecessary violence in this episode is too high for my taste. Don't get me wrong: I like violence in a show , but only if it is necessary for the plot or the violence winds up being funny ( for example, mr. poopy butthole being shot by Beth was a good and funny moment) This episode is boring. Pickle rick killing rats, some Russian guys and ... that's it. There aren't memorable characters or jokes. Jaguar is not good enough to save the episode. The part where Beth, Summer and Morty go to see a therapist is so slow that I almost forget writing about them. Rick and Morty was an amazing show in their first two seasons. It was new, fresh, funny, full of characters and bizarre situations. We know that they can do it better.
We've waited 2 years for this....
skyhigh-887688 August 2017
And it's been awesome. Why are you reading this review? when there's new Rick and Morty you could be watching?! I don't know why I'm even writing it. I could be watching pickle rick for the 3rd time.
I didn't give this episode a perfect score because there was no Jerry, and it's not as good as my favourite episodes, but it was still a lot of fun. I don't understand the negative reviews, maybe these people had preconceived ideas of what the episode would be about.
I didn't give this episode a perfect score because there was no Jerry, and it's not as good as my favourite episodes, but it was still a lot of fun. I don't understand the negative reviews, maybe these people had preconceived ideas of what the episode would be about.
A pickle ?!?!
sethkells-5724227 July 2021
Rick and Morty at it's absolute best,
davidsonphone9 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
There are just SO many reasons to love this episode. It just -screams- what Rick and Morty is all about.
I assume if you're reading this, then you know the basic concept of Rick and Morty. Rick goes to extreme measures to escape family therapy. The therapy, which by the way, was absolutely hilarious. Goldenfold eating his own crap (literally), to Beth getting absolutely put in her place, to the reasons why Morty and Summer were in therapy in the first place were are hilarious to me, and I couldn't stop laughing the entire episode.
The amount of violence in this episode was just superb. From Rick absolutely devastating the rats to taking out an entire building of highly trained guards as a pickle is what makes Rick and Morty shine.
It's insane, original, and absolutely hilarious.
I assume if you're reading this, then you know the basic concept of Rick and Morty. Rick goes to extreme measures to escape family therapy. The therapy, which by the way, was absolutely hilarious. Goldenfold eating his own crap (literally), to Beth getting absolutely put in her place, to the reasons why Morty and Summer were in therapy in the first place were are hilarious to me, and I couldn't stop laughing the entire episode.
The amount of violence in this episode was just superb. From Rick absolutely devastating the rats to taking out an entire building of highly trained guards as a pickle is what makes Rick and Morty shine.
It's insane, original, and absolutely hilarious.
Brilliant!
retromixing19 January 2022
Funniest episode till i watched
thorodinson-501307 June 2021
Almost up there with the best episodes
joelmaguirr6 August 2017
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This episode could've easily been up there with the likes of Rickcounters, Total Rickall and Rickshank Rickdemption. The idea is funny and is done very well, just parts didn't feel like Rick and Morty such as the whole Jaguar part was unnecessary and felt like it would be more at home in a kids show, extremely forced pulls the rating down. On the other hand the monologue of the therapist and how cold Rick shows himself to be especially when killing the "king rat" telling it it isn't worth naming because it's so irrelevant was very rick and morty-esque and fitted perfectly. Very small amounts of tedious parts pull this down from a 9.2/9.3 to about an 8.8. Great episode just fell into a similar trap of Rickmancing and at times not feeling like Rick and Morty but not to such an extent of Rickmancing.
Great Episode
pplatt-603-5529827 August 2017
I think the scripts this season are really relying in existential and nihilistic philosophy and themes that is going over the heads of a lot of the kids who like the ludicrous spectacle of the show. The folks I watched with were of two mi D's about this episode - those who dig thinky humor loved it, those who I wouldn't peg as running out to buy a literary novel didn't like anything other than the pickle rat action. Sure, you'll say that sounds elitist if you are the second type. That figures. I thought it was great. A ton of effort is going into these scripts this season. It shows. They have to be careful to maintain a balance, though, as relying on subtext and and Psych and philosophy humor might be alienating the Average Joe Sixpack crowd.
He's in a pickle all right
ericstevenson12 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of the most insane episodes of "Rick And Morty" ever made and also one of the most hilarious. It's hard to even begin with this one. Rick turns himself into a pickle simply because he doesn't want to go to group therapy with the rest of his family. He falls down into the sewer and realizes he can use cockroach brains to move limbs. Then he upgrades by building a machine for him to steal rat body parts to become mobile. It's as insane as it sounds. Rick kills all the rats and winds up in some giant building where the takes out all the guards.
There's even a surprisingly heartwarming part where Rick meets up with a guy named Jaguar who is being forced to hunt Rick because his daughter is being held hostage. At first, it's implied Rick kills him but he actually helps him out! There's even a scene after the credits where he comes back to save Rick and Morty from a villain who uses a giant piano to kill people! Yes, this is as outrageous and entertaining as it sounds. There's so much insanity going on and it's great on the Smiths are casual about it. It's a wacky trip you don't want to miss! ****
There's even a surprisingly heartwarming part where Rick meets up with a guy named Jaguar who is being forced to hunt Rick because his daughter is being held hostage. At first, it's implied Rick kills him but he actually helps him out! There's even a scene after the credits where he comes back to save Rick and Morty from a villain who uses a giant piano to kill people! Yes, this is as outrageous and entertaining as it sounds. There's so much insanity going on and it's great on the Smiths are casual about it. It's a wacky trip you don't want to miss! ****
Another underwhelming episode
bijlesexact7 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I was a little worried after Rickmancing the Stone that R&M had become too heavy-handed now that the female writers are on the team. But I also kept hoping that "Pickle Rick" would be all about good old crazy adventures again, with both a dynamic main and subplot, the crazy stuff that left you almost immediately wanting to re-watch the episode afterwards.
But none of this happened. Instead, Pickle Rick had to fight his way out of the sewer, which was somewhat reminiscent of the familiar adventures from the past. Yet the action had muscle, albeit rat- muscle, but lacked brains. The true reason was that Rick did not want to miss family therapy? Really? The fun of the entire premise was that Rick's self-imposed "challenge" faced him with being being incapable on almost any front. And yet hours later he has developed tiny laser weapons? From what?
The therapy sub-plot was just plain boring. It was not funny, there was no real development, and only served to show what a bitch Beth had become. And this all happened very quickly too IMO. The writers seem to just have jump-started Beth's bitchiness in order to get emotional and heavy-handed, the very thing Rick and Morty just should not be. Summer sniffing glue? Morty wetting himself in class? That was the kind of thing that should have been shown explicitly, not things to be mentioned implicitly in a dull therapy setting.
I know that I as a fan am not entitled to a certain 'kind' of Rick and Morty. But I'm sad (therapy pun intended) to see my favourite series of the moment being ruined by hiring female writers just for the sake of gender-diversity. Again, I do not like politics, but please let female writers write their own shows and we'll see how good they are. Until that time, let's acknowledge that winning teams are not the be changed and unbroken things are not to be fixed.
Please Dan, please Justin, realize how great your show was before it's too late.
But none of this happened. Instead, Pickle Rick had to fight his way out of the sewer, which was somewhat reminiscent of the familiar adventures from the past. Yet the action had muscle, albeit rat- muscle, but lacked brains. The true reason was that Rick did not want to miss family therapy? Really? The fun of the entire premise was that Rick's self-imposed "challenge" faced him with being being incapable on almost any front. And yet hours later he has developed tiny laser weapons? From what?
The therapy sub-plot was just plain boring. It was not funny, there was no real development, and only served to show what a bitch Beth had become. And this all happened very quickly too IMO. The writers seem to just have jump-started Beth's bitchiness in order to get emotional and heavy-handed, the very thing Rick and Morty just should not be. Summer sniffing glue? Morty wetting himself in class? That was the kind of thing that should have been shown explicitly, not things to be mentioned implicitly in a dull therapy setting.
I know that I as a fan am not entitled to a certain 'kind' of Rick and Morty. But I'm sad (therapy pun intended) to see my favourite series of the moment being ruined by hiring female writers just for the sake of gender-diversity. Again, I do not like politics, but please let female writers write their own shows and we'll see how good they are. Until that time, let's acknowledge that winning teams are not the be changed and unbroken things are not to be fixed.
Please Dan, please Justin, realize how great your show was before it's too late.
Weakest episode yet.
rubiksboi7 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This episode mainly features constant action scenes featuring Rick as a pickle, using science mumbo-jumbo all the way, with a weird side- plot of a family therapy session. Now if one were to take the show at face value, then the whole science junk would seem normal, even expected. But this show isn't about the whacky science stuff that happens to be not only possible, but rather convenient; it's about Rick's nihilist-esque attitudes to social issues and normalities, along with Morty's contrasting tether to what we consider "normal".
Morty probably has 4 minutes of dialogue this entire episode, most of them being sarcastic quips at Rick's antics or being unhelpfully curt during the therapy session, all the while his voice being noticeably off, not following the usual cadence or tone of previous seasons. Rick provides no contrasting insight or perspective to any social standards that don't make sense in the grand scheme of the "infinite multiverse", or any disregard for what's expected and accepted (other than, you know, funny pickle haha).
A lot of Rick's scenes involved "brutal action scenes" against... rats. As if this is going to shock or impress anyone who's seen the past two seasons. His wild contraption in the sewers has zero insight whatsoever other than as a plot device to put him from a cockroach suit to a rat suit. No explanations, no scenes of him putting final touches on it, nothing. It just appears out of nowhere. I can't think of any such device in previous episodes. Not the Jerry-dropoff, the universe battery, the broken leg serum, nothing. It's there for 15 seconds and gone forever, along with every single other device or story in this episode. We won't see the lazer guns, the parkour, the screw/razor gauntlets, none of this is going to be mentioned or used again, because they were made for Rick as a pickle. And the pickle thing is done. Every interesting thing in this episode is now done, and not to be referenced ever again.
As for the therapy session, it was mostly Beth being an *ahem*, and the kids being difficult, along with an unnaturally aloof psychologist. Even as Rick made his dramatic entrance into the room to everyone's shocked faces, the psychologist just went along with it shortly after. No existential "what the-", no disbelief, nothing. A huge part of this show is "normal" people's reactions to the multiverse and all of it's oddities. Normally it's Morty who fills this role, but it's obvious that the writers are making it so that he's just used to all of this craziness. Perhaps this intrinsic part of the show is going to be thrown out the window from now on.
This episode was NOT Rick and Morty, it was an ill-thought fan- fiction with little substance, something the earlier seasons have had an abundance of. Let's hope the rest of the season does not follow suit.
Morty probably has 4 minutes of dialogue this entire episode, most of them being sarcastic quips at Rick's antics or being unhelpfully curt during the therapy session, all the while his voice being noticeably off, not following the usual cadence or tone of previous seasons. Rick provides no contrasting insight or perspective to any social standards that don't make sense in the grand scheme of the "infinite multiverse", or any disregard for what's expected and accepted (other than, you know, funny pickle haha).
A lot of Rick's scenes involved "brutal action scenes" against... rats. As if this is going to shock or impress anyone who's seen the past two seasons. His wild contraption in the sewers has zero insight whatsoever other than as a plot device to put him from a cockroach suit to a rat suit. No explanations, no scenes of him putting final touches on it, nothing. It just appears out of nowhere. I can't think of any such device in previous episodes. Not the Jerry-dropoff, the universe battery, the broken leg serum, nothing. It's there for 15 seconds and gone forever, along with every single other device or story in this episode. We won't see the lazer guns, the parkour, the screw/razor gauntlets, none of this is going to be mentioned or used again, because they were made for Rick as a pickle. And the pickle thing is done. Every interesting thing in this episode is now done, and not to be referenced ever again.
As for the therapy session, it was mostly Beth being an *ahem*, and the kids being difficult, along with an unnaturally aloof psychologist. Even as Rick made his dramatic entrance into the room to everyone's shocked faces, the psychologist just went along with it shortly after. No existential "what the-", no disbelief, nothing. A huge part of this show is "normal" people's reactions to the multiverse and all of it's oddities. Normally it's Morty who fills this role, but it's obvious that the writers are making it so that he's just used to all of this craziness. Perhaps this intrinsic part of the show is going to be thrown out the window from now on.
This episode was NOT Rick and Morty, it was an ill-thought fan- fiction with little substance, something the earlier seasons have had an abundance of. Let's hope the rest of the season does not follow suit.
Great episode but still misses that R&M flavor
shayanarshad7 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Missing those days when Rick and Morty use to go on an adventure which use to have dark & twisted endings. The biggest highlight of the episode was obviously Pickle Rick but there were a bit underwhelming moments like the therapy segment and Jaguar. Also lately Beth is becoming more & more annoying. Kudos to Jessica Gao for trying her best but so far episode 2 & 3 lack imagination and creativity. On the positive side the fighting scenes were awesome taking into consideration how Rick transformed himself from a lonely pickle into a pickle with rat body parts and goes on to cause chaos in a Russian prison. I have high hopes for the next episode as it will be not only adventurous but will also feature just Rick & Morty.
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