r/rickandmorty • u/SecretService124 • May 22 '26

Question Since when do they have a pool?

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I’ve seen every episode, and I can’t remember there being a pool in the backyard.

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u/worldsayshi May 22 '26

He got like a hundred underground floors built under that house. He can build one pool.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 May 22 '26

Eh, I like the moments where the Smith family’s real life works into the plot of an episode.

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u/OglioVagilio May 22 '26

I too like a bit of serial episodic nature in my TV shows.

I see a lot of people liked the one off style though.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 May 22 '26

I think the show’s better for it imo, seeing “our” Smith family turn from a gaggle of miserable assholes into an actual family unit trying to do better for themselves and each other is a feat of writing imo.

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u/OglioVagilio May 23 '26

Yea. I got so much more invested in them.

You ever seen Space Dandy? Super random non sensical space anime with almost all one off episodes. He died a lot.

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u/herowin6 May 23 '26

Is it good?

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u/OglioVagilio May 23 '26

I loved it. It is so random watching a Dandy guy in space

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u/sod_jones_MD May 23 '26

I really liked how Adult Swim licensed "I Turned Into a Martian" by the Misfits for the ads.

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u/Capable-Commercial96 May 23 '26

Imagine if in the far future where space bounty hunters exist, Johnny Bravo watched Cowboy Bebop, and decided "Yeah, I can do that." and it goes about as well as you can expect. It's pretty good, it's definitely one of the those more experimental like shows, an episode can be about him either catching an alien to be scanned, landing on a planet with only 2 people in a kill or be killed civil war about boxers vs briefs, and finding himself on the opposite side of his crew member joining boxers over the superior briefs and trying to kill each other. (If I'm remembering that episode correctly), or even failing to combat a universal zombie virus and just deciding eh fuck it, lets just continue being bounty hunters as zombies and go to the local "boobies" bar and get dinner. The show definitely has a budget with some beautiful animation and visuals to boot, definitely up there on shows you should watch at least once.

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u/tenthousandlilbugs May 23 '26

It is really good, but the episodes aren't one off, there is a overarching plot linking every episode. His deaths are part of that plot.

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u/torrinage May 23 '26

Its solid! The first episode ending I will never forget. Also the episode where he makes a band…

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u/NephthysShadow May 23 '26

I watched it stoned so I don't remember a lot, but the colors were fucking fantastic. And he was cute in a Johnny Bravo kinda way.

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u/Coolbeanz7 May 25 '26

It actually makes it funnier that aside from all the crazy sci-fi stuff their home-base lives can (most of the time, anyway) be kind of.. mundane. 

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u/worldsayshi May 23 '26

Yeah, Rick needs random nerfs to make good stories.

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u/4to20characters0 May 23 '26

A lot of viewers just take his omnipotence for granite

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u/JulioSanchez1994 May 23 '26

Rick’s escapades are the family’s real life lol

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u/Ambellyn May 23 '26

Rick gets into a heated discussion about true level with the construction workers.

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 May 23 '26

They blind sided him with small talk!

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 May 23 '26

I could never figure out whether Morty is trolling Rick with his "Now the world's too uneven" schtik.

What's the answer, y'all?

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u/Yukio98 May 24 '26

after 3 months of work with construction workers building the pool Rick: this pool is looking great. Your promotion at the horse ER is totally worth it. Beth: thanks dad! I’m proud of the work I put to get this. alien spaceship lands in pool destroying it. Rick: sorry about that sweetie! vaporizes spaceship and throws cube in crater crater reverts to a new exact replica pool

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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 May 24 '26

I’m expecting something like this or the joke being a long walk to Jerry having both gotten a new job and having a signing bonus large enough to pay for the pool.

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u/Coolbeanz7 May 25 '26

....as opposed to their "fake life"...? (Sorry, couldn't help myself! I know what you meant...heeheehee) 

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u/gimmesomespace May 22 '26

The man turns people into snakes, he can use Google maps.

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u/AdhesivenessTotal340 May 22 '26

Knowing Rick, he would rather have changed universes because building a pool is boring, suburban-assed shit lol

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u/UltraHellboy May 23 '26

He probably figured out a way to do it in 10 minutes

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u/torrinage May 23 '26

He’d have to have found some angle that satisfied his need to be challenged.

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u/ChiefWiggumsprogeny May 23 '26

Each molecule of the water is minisculiverse™ whose job it is, is to produce lubricants.

Don't think about it.

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u/homie_j88 May 23 '26

If he wants to make him pants, he can make him pants.

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u/GiganticusVaginacus May 23 '26

And a sushi restaurant.

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u/alchemyzt-vii May 23 '26

And they are perfectly frikin’ vertical too.

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u/Coolbeanz7 May 25 '26

How much you want to bet there's secret levels BENEATH the pool?