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Iirc it was that people missed the fact that it was unfunny and were quoting it unironically, which led to people quoting it ironically

> a mild example of "L0l Randumz Xd" humor

> funniest shit I ever saw

Why did this become the quote for people to loathe?

I don't think I could explain it. You need a very high IQ to understand why

It was more a response to the R&M fandom at the time than the show itself, IIRC. The fandom and hatedoms both grew together in a symbiotic way until the szechuan sauce thing happened, so every meme among the fans was mirrored by the anti-fans and this was one of them.

I think it was the Schezwan sauce comeback where someone made a scene at a McDonalds exclaiming the quote "I'm Pickle Rick".

The show, aside from Roiland, is OK. I don't understand the big deal before or since then around the show.

"Actually you need a high iq to understand r.... "

The thing that always got me that unlike the shows where people idolize the terrible lead Rick is never shown as winning. Walter white, Erick Cartman, Tony Soprano, who ever else. They tend to be shown as winning. Even in this episode. The entire A plot is that he is miserable and only makes his life and the life of everyone around him worse. In the way of americna media literacy the ur-example they chose is the exactly wrong one.

This video clip is the reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GC5rAX0xHg

It's a fine to whatever joke but it became an emblem for everything people found annoying and exhausting

He turned himself into a pickle. Funniest shit I've ever seen.

Binged the show for the first time a few weeks ago. It's a much better, funnier, and more thoughtful show than its online fanbase led me to expect. It's not a GOOD show, exactly, but it's decent for what it is.

But I feel the show wearing thin in spots. Rick can't change, can't show weakness, can't ever face real consequences because then the show itself would change. He's smarter than everyone, including Q-esque godlike beings. But Morty has come to the realization that Rick is an irredeemable asshole multiple times now. And while Morty has changed, he can't reject Rick fully because then the show would change. They've got to do something to keep this act from getting stale but they also can't do anything.

Similar to House M.D. in some ways, but I'm struck by how that show's various answers to it's unchanging asshole protagonist (his whole staff leaves, he loses both of the best relationships he's ever had, the only person he really cares about hates him for much of the last run of the show, he gets shot, and at least once he does change and isn't such an asshole anymore (but it can't stick)) wouldn't work for Rick & Morty.

Gonna open myself up here and say that Rick and Morty is a very good show, toxic fandom and overly indulgent latter seasons notwithstanding

I made the mistake of paying attention to the fandom of this show after I started watching it... the Szechuan sauce thing really made me reevaluate my enjoyment of the show.

Still watch it, still like it, but the enjoyment is much more muted now.

Solar Opposites is better than R&M