NEVER GO BACKTO THE CARPET STORE.
—Rick and Morty, Season 2, Episode 2
I grew up watching Doraemon and Hayao Miyazaki animation, and I often have a prejudice against the "style" of an animation. Ashamed to say, when I first noticed Rick and Morty, I sincerely thought it was "too ugly" and had no interest in learning about it at all.
Later, I got the idea of watching this drama because I heard the legendary story of Sichuan hot sauce. It was soon discovered that grandson Rick and Morty were dubbed by the same person. It's interesting~ So, let's take a look...
Then it got out of hand.
1
The stalk "selling carpets" originated from the second episode of the second season.
Morty is playing a virtual life game in the video game city, the protagonist of the game is named Roy. Going to school, falling in love, and raising a family, Roy lived to be 50+ years old.
"I'm not ready" was Roy's first reaction when he learned that he had cancer, quite helpless and depressed.
But Roy was fortunate enough to overcome the illness, and life was back on track.
At this time, the scene of the drama came. Roy fell off the ladder and fell to his death while picking up the goods for the customer.
55 years old all the year round.
"It's a pretty good result."
"But you see, the cancer has survived and went back to that broken carpet shop? It's too bad."
Rick never hides his contempt for anyone or anything.
2
Yes, Rick has always had a powerful face. It's annoying.
I still remember when Morty was immersed in his yearning for female classmates and couldn't extricate himself, he made such a speech:
What people call "love" is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, then it slowly fades, leaving you stranded in a failing marriage. I did it. Your parents are gonna do it. Break the cycle, Morty . Rise above. Focus on science.
Lightly speaking, it is incomprehensible, but more serious is devoid of human nature. Of course, the focus of this passage is Focus on science , and he needs Morty to concentrate on helping him with chores.
When Jerry asked him if there was a way to make a troublemaker smart, he said:
I thought the whole point of having a dog is to feel superior.
Does this count as the true meaning of human domestication of pets?
As a conscientious shit shoveler, I have to admit that the happiest moment of raising a cat is either to find my cat doing something extremely stupid (such as a paper ball can play for half a day), or to find my cat doing super Smarter than I imagined (like wiping down my own table with wet hands).
As Rick struggled to help Morty get a decent grade in school, Morty asked, "Why don't you help me with my homework instead of doing this? It's so much faster!" Rick said cynically:
Are you listening to me? Homework is stupid. The whole point is to get less of it.
Are you listening? Homework is stupid!
Probably captured a bunch of student party fans.
He always expresses his views in a snarky tone, but as the smartest person in the universe (weird), it's hard for him not to be arrogant.
Well, you'll find he's not as annoying as you think.
3
His remarks sounded "smart," but that wasn't a very good reason for his popularity.
And the most amazing part of this drama is not the brain hole, but the "absurdity", the deconstruction and reconstruction of the absurd.
Roy, who sells carpets in the game, is the epitome of how many "ordinary people". If he hadn't met Rick, Morty would probably have lived his whole life like this. The problem is that at the moment of knowing that he has cancer, he is obviously not reconciled.
Why are you willing to return to your original life after recovering from the disease? Since there are no unfulfilled wishes, what are you unwilling to do?
Absurdity is playing out. This is a timeless thesis about the meaning of life. And almost every episode of this show is casually deconstructing such "absurdity" and reconstructing our beliefs about life with another kind of absurdity.
Let's see, how does Rick's version of Roy live?
It can be seen from the unbelievable expressions of the onlookers that this approach can be said to be very crazy. In my mother's words: I don't know.
After all, it's just another way of living, another kind of absurdity—whether you agree with it or not. And I was hit by Rick's phrase Never go back to the carpet store .
I think it is necessary to explain that it is not that "selling carpets" is a very bad thing, but that you know your life is bad, and you continue to silently - this will only make you worse.
Seeing through the absurd life, but not intending to make any changes. This is a higher level of absurdity.
4
This virtual life game Roy is just a small episode in an interstellar adventure. In the current three seasons of 31 episodes of about 713 minutes of animation, only 2 minutes of time, 0.28% of the proportion.
In fact, in this episode, Roy isn't even worth mentioning at all.
Why do you say that?
The story line for this episode goes like this:
First, the two deposited Morty's father, Jerry, who secretly kept up with the spaceship, in the custody;
Then Rick sold the "antimatter" weapon to the killer and used the money to take Morty to the arcade;
Then Morty's moral censure caused by this, insisting on saving the "fart" who was about to be murdered, and killing the "fart" himself in the end;
In the end, the two returned to the trusteeship to pick up their father...
The amount of information is beyond imagination, as long as you are interested, there are many details worth savoring and considering. The Rick & Morty I sketched is just an elephant's calf.
This is a drama worth playing for a lifetime. If you are too busy, but it's okay to watch it a few times.
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