Which gets a nice callback when Zeep gives the peace sign to the people in his microverse and thinks it’s exactly as funny as Rick thinks flipping them off is.
I wondered about that. His morality/ethics aside, he looks so little like his daughter (and I think he may be the only human to appear on the show who has non-Earth-normal hair), I wonder if he went through some weird, body-altering experience sometime in the past.
Rick and Morty started out as a parody of Doc (Brown) and Marty (McFly), so Rick’s weird hair is just a stylized way of reproducing Doc Brown’s crazy hair.
Great episode, but some things didn’t make sense to me.
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Why would they dress up “as aliens”. They already were aliens to them, with a different body type.
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Did Rick just casually kill the miniverse? That is by far the worst thing he has ever done. Why did he even do that.
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I forgot the other things.
He killed the miniverse so that the people in his microverse would again use the gooble boxes so that they would again power rick’s car, which was the whole reason they went into the microverse to begin with.
And yet again, I find myseld wondering what went wrong in my life as I typed in the words “gooble boxes”
And as a further result, killed the tinyverse within the miniverse with the baby-eating tree people. A double-genocide. But, hey - listen to that battery purr!
I think that <is> the joke, they both think they need to but don’t realize they already look like aliens.
Every time MY car doesn’t start, I would gladly double, triple, HEXIgenocide to get it going again, if that’s what it took. And if genocides were as easy as knocking a lobster tank to the floor.
Not quite. It was the threat to Zeep’s universe (that Rick would throw away the malfunctioning battery) that caused them to switch back to the gooble boxes. But the threat had to be credible, and so Rick casually destroyed the miniverse (and its teenyverse) to demonstrate that he’d be willing to do it to the microverse as well. Arguably, Zeep knew Rick well enough that this wasn’t strictly necessary. But it didn’t cost Rick anything, and clinched the deal.
I would think the tree people were sentient, if not at the level of understanding and using electricity.
Is the dominant species in Rick’s home galaxy(or several galaxies) those insectoids? In every episode dealing with “government” like galactic customs in the pilot and the “Federation” outpost in the Fart episode the facilities are run by the insectoids.
But the miniverse was also the microverse’s alternative source of power so the threat was there but they had to go back to the goople boxes for practical reasons as well.
How scientifically accurate is this show?
Well my microverse works the same way as Rick’s but I don’t have a portal gun so I can’t speak to that.
Zeep could have built another, though. Rick anticipated that possibility, but correctly predicted that he wouldn’t. Most likely, Zeep destroyed the plans and sabotaged any potential efforts to rebuild the miniverse.
Maybe he eventually figured out how to build a more powerful miniverse so that the spare power could be sent upstream to Rick. Dangerous, though, if the miniverse decides to call it quits.
Why not build several miniverses? You could stage them so that you’ll always have one doing their exercises. When one stops working, set it aside or toss it into a ravine.
Finding out you live in a miniverse shouldn’t cause you to commit suicide or decide your whole life is a lie or fake.
Its still real and meaningful to you, unless you’re a religious fanatic or something.
Its like the theory our universe is a simulation, so what? I still made meaningful decisions and actions and my life isn’t “fake” from my perspective.
Exceptionally. Long as you remember that sometimes science is more art than science.
Right, this is how I saw it too. So now Rick is Grand Moff Tarkin. Killing an entire world mostly to send a message.
Which is not how I personally like a main character. I like how he has been sort of riding a moral line, or just beyond it, but not too far. He sold weapons to the assassin, but took care to point out that the assassin would kill people whatever he did. He activily tried to save earth from the heads. That’s what I like to see, not the adventures of mr. evil and a kid.
They have some possible outs, if they want to employ them. Rick might know, for instance, that smashing the lobster box just disconnects the nanoverse from your universe, leaving it to safely develop on its own. If Rick knew that Zeep didn’t know this (or just thought he was an idiot), smashing the box might serve as a credible threat without actually killing anyone.
Good question. Maybe they’re just exceptionally skilled robots, er, bureaucrats and public officials?
Hey, let’s all go out to the quarry and throw in miniverses!