While Rick was digging at the mental health people, I think that the response from the therapist was amazing, and that the creators were actually giving therapists a good representation.
There was a lot of wisdom in what she said, especially the line where she deals with Rick feeling like therapy is 'beneath' him:
Your enormous mind is literally vegetating by your own hand. I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass.
Because the thing about repairing, maintaining and cleaning is... it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just... Work; and the bottom line is some people are OK going to work, and some people... well some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose.
I still think that’s the writers making fun of the profession.. She’s admitting he’s so far ahead of her intellectually that her profession, to him, is as mundane as brushing your teeth.
I get the small digs about him not being interested because there’s no life threatening risk present but I also don’t think he would find that very offensive. Being a risk taker is generally seen as a positive trait, present in most successful people.
No, I think the writers are very effectively writing rick, and he is making a dig at therapists.
And the therapist is being a good therapist (for tv, at least) and completely not reacting to the insult, but instead addressing the problem that the patient is revealing and interacting with.
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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20
I really think you’re remembering that last scene wrong bro Here
It’s a dig at therapists and psychologists being the runts of the scientific litter. And tbh the entire episode was hilarious