Morty and Ricks’ version of “healthy” are very different. We at least agree on that, right? Do you think Morty was meant to be portrayed as an HONEST stockbroker in a penny-stock boiler room when they were parodying, “The Wolf of Wall Street”? Yup, liars can lie about their lying. “Ask around, I never do.” is complete bullshit.
Hell, his hot girlfriend Jacqueline even said that he. . . (going back to the video) “You weren’t a 14-year old boy from the Midwest who ran away from his family who capitalized on his lack of conscience by becoming a stockbroker?” How does one capitalize on a lack of conscience when using high-pressure sales techniques to sell stock by phone? By lying about it, of course.
He did what he wanted shamelessly. Not everything he did was a lie - he told to truth to Jacqueline, for example - but there were no restraints on him preventing him from doing so should he choose.
Kinda feel like we’re getting far afield from the original point, which was that I thought Morty knew what he was doing when he didn’t hang up on Rick - an act that didn’t even require him to lie at any point in the episode, so now I’m not quite sure why I made an argument that he could lie.
Anyway, yeah, there’s ambiguity. Morty never admitted that he left the line open on purpose. I’ll never be able to prove that he did. You’ll never be able to prove he didn’t. We just watch, and enjoy own interpretations.
Rick did have a personal protection field in the Vindicators episode.
Speaking of which, I couldn’t figure out why Alan Rails didn’t immediately summon a ghost train to exit Rick’s Saw games. It was only now that I realized the writers could have very easily closed that plot hole by having Alan blow his whistle ineffectually. Then cut to Rick shrugging his shoulders and mentioning off-handedly that drunk Rick must have installed a ghost train dampening field in this room.
Yeesh, that was pretty damn dark. I assume the new President is the evil Morty who had the dome of eternally-tortured Mortys awhile back? And we never saw Atlantis, dammit!
Yes. The stinger was the bodies of everyone who’d been killed in the episode floating in space around the Citadel, and next to Campaign Manager Morty were the photos he’d been given, which were of Evil Morty.
