> Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could)
I feel like most people miss the thrust of that episode. Pickle Rick is an allegory about Rick’s drinking problem taken to an absurd literalist extreme.
This was obvious to me but I love these kinds of things that are hiding in plain sight. It took me 30 years to understand the "chicken cross the road" joke.
I adore the "ohhhhh" feeling you get when discovering them.
I don’t buy that interpretation. The joke is super old, like, baby boomer old. They weren’t that dark. They were going around saying things like, “In the year 2000, we’re going to have a base.. on the moon!”
There’s no way the people of that generation would have even considered the darker interpretation of that joke. Hell, I’m gen-x, and depressive, and that interpretation never occurred to me.
Is this comment a joke, or it's the perception that some of my generational peers have : that dark thoughts, melancholy, depression are embodied only by gen x, and only gen x truly know them, to the point that no creative endeavor could reflect those states?
Please tell me it's the first, because I'm afraid of breaking my spine while folding in cringe.
I'm gen X too and I'm fairly sure our parents came to the same conclusion, amongst all the others too.. Also, when we were kids, we were the ones saying we'll have flying cars and moon-bases, while our parents did something we will never do, actual, productive work. :)
This was obvious to me but I love these kinds of things that are hiding in plain sight. It took me 30 years to understand the "chicken cross the road" joke.
I adore the "ohhhhh" feeling you get when discovering them.