Broh-nopsis: Hold still broh. It'll make you nice broh.
Our Synopsis: It's hard to see the world through other's eyes, unless you have a brain parasite.
Discussion
Title Reference: Requiem for a Dream - Movie (2000)
Themes (A/B Plot): Empathy Bug (Sympathid) — Rick's chasing personal happiness and Morty isn't helping; Jerry Cosplaying as a Serial Killer — Rick sends Summer and Jerry shopping, Jerry ends up having tea with a killer
Favorite Bits
Rick's apartment gags: reading Being and Time, the bedroom wall of Abredolf Lickler and Dr. Xenon Bloom, the butt food dispenser, farting alien earbuds
Morty wrecking Rick's distillery for a ride to buy Pokemon cards (and the portal later dropping a pack right back)
Rick's credit card blocking Jerry's purchases
The sympathid/empathy effect throughout — the empathy montage, the Dancing with the Stars bit (real dancing, fake trust), Rick and Morty swapping ship seats depending who has empathy
Jerry's full serial-killer turn as "The Birthday Butcher," with a metaphorical parent-kill double and a quadruple-kill twins joke
The drum-hoarding subplot — Jerry wants to save the girl, Summer just wants the drums — plus the bus bully and the paycheck-to-paycheck irony
Random Jessica sighting in history class, "Miss Under-stood," the jar of wallets on the fridge
Morty's empathy whiplash — sympathizing with an explosion, then losing all empathy right after
The unhinged police standoff — the negotiator, "his juice is coming out," "I want a hug" then gunshots, an entire police force out of bullets
Rick killing the parasite with vodka
Best/Worst Parts
Opening sequence as a whole
The stark scene change when the sympathid is removed (and turns out giant)
Morty and the teacher post-credits bit, including the shushing
"If we're in the writers' room and Heather starts to giggle before a pitch, then you know you're about to hear either, 'What if they all killed themselves?' or something that's going to make you go, 'Jesus, Heather!' It genuinely starts with her giggling. She derives joy from that."
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