Rick’s insecurity about his loneliness prevents him from bonding with Tony, who genuinely does want to spend time with him, even if Tony is a boring person. This is shown when we see the people who wanted to be a part of Rick’s life kept in hallucination bags, as Rick simultaneously tells Tony he has a million other better friends to hang out with than him.
He also tries to deny his isolation and put down others, namely Tony. He tries to make peace with isolation, which was likely what motivated him to make his private pooping paradise to begin with. Additionally, we also see insecurity develop inside of him as he tries to deny his loneliness. Isolation is also established early in the episode by Rick’s initial search for the trespasser, which he does mostly silently and only interacting with others as necessary. It definitely seems like Rick got himself that problematic intern, Glootie, in the first place because he was so depressed and lonely. The defining emotion of the episode must be Rick’s gnawing loneliness. It’s hard to believe how much was fit into 22 minutes of cartoon television. The triple-thread storytelling makes for a slightly more disorienting Rick and Morty episode however, it delivers a staggering amount of characterization. She says no and reaffirms her love for Jerry, even though she did match with Ted Danson. It’s then that the app is rendered useless, and the two return home, where Jerry asks Beth if she matched with anybody on the app. This eventually ends in a fist-fight between the two, which Beth wins. Morty and Jerry return home.Īlso meanwhile-back on Earth-Summer becomes entranced by this app, falling into intense, shallow love with people the very minute she matches with them, while Beth tries to keep her from making the romantic mistakes she is clearly in danger of making. The leader refuses, and Jerry and Morty are imprisoned but promptly broken out by Glootie, who in the end renders the app useless with a flood of in-app advertisements. Morty and Jerry force Glootie to take them to his leader on a spaceship, where they implore the alien leader to take down the app. It quickly consumes the world, exposing all of humanity’s insecurity and lack of impulse control. Meanwhile, Jerry makes the mistake of developing the app with Glootie, which ends up being a hyper-addictive dating app. But with Tony gone and the toilet still in Rick’s possession, they now have nobody to tease but Rick. This reveals that Rick was planning to give Tony the toilet permanently as a gift, but with these installations as a gag that taunt and tease him for how lonely he is. Rick returns to the paradise to poop and drink, and we see for the first time a holographic installation Rick has implemented. Rick finds his funeral, gives his family some wild gifts, but eventually flies off the handle when one of the attendees implies Tony was Rick’s friend. Later, seemingly abruptly, Rick tracks Tony down to give him a small gift but is informed Tony himself has died of cancer, but only after his near-death experience with Rick jolted him into living life to the fullest. Rick then releases him and tells him next time he really would die, even as Tony retorts that Rick’s mercy is proof of his desire for friendship. However, Tony does not steer clear in the slightest, returning for a second poop and an offer of friendship, which angers Rick to the point that he incapacitates him and stores him in a vat of chemicals that cause him to hallucinate his ideal kind of life (much like the Matrix). Rick decides to spare his pitiful life but warns him to steer clear. He hunts him down, only to discover he is a depressed alien cubicle worker, blue visually and also blue emotionally, named Tony, whose wife had died of cancer and now leads an empty life. Upon arrival, Rick realizes an unknown trespasser has pooped in his toilet. Rick warns everyone not to, points out a similar warning stamped on Glootie’s head, then promptly leaves the house to journey to a personal paradise to poop. The family meets Rick’s new pink alien intern, named Glootie, whose origin is unexplained and is persistently asking to develop an app with somebody. But to even get a handle on it, we should at least review the major plot points. It’s almost too much to summarize succinctly. There are quite a few one-off jokes, but the episode’s overall emotional tone is much more serious and sobering. This episode introduces much but resolves little and is extremely character-driven.
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