The counterpoint is how hollow and unnecessary the party is at the end. Even through Rick claims not to care, his drunken self felt the need to organize a party celebrating him doing a very stupid thing for selfish reasons. We're supposed to realize how bull shit and ridiculous it is that Rick planned an after party…

My only complaint is that I wish they went a bit farther with Morty's frustration with Rick. Maybe having him calling him out during the party or something.

Rick seemed to care about Noob Noob, so it makes sense why he wouldn't have included him in a test where the answer is that everyone involved doesn't matter.

… I'm staying out of this one.

Man, I really enjoyed this episode, mostly for the same reasons people seemed to hate it. Rick becoming a harder character to emphathize with or even like, and this episode serving mostly as a backdrop to highlight Rick's own flaws and Morty's growing annoyance with him really worked for me. Is there something wrong…

I like how Rick himself was surprised by how well Morty saw through him.

Him wearing costumes that had less and less to do with each rooms theme was great.

Whatever. I think the writers have made their point pretty clear. If some people still don't get it, that's their problem.

I think this season is poking fun and mocking the people who think he's just a bad ass nihilist, Morty even pointed out how stale Rick's "nothing matters" attitude is getting.

Weird. I felt like this episode was poking fun at Rick's nihilism and showing that it's not that Rick is right, but that he's so overbearing and dedicated that he'll drastically alter the situation (turning the vindicators mission into a rigged death trap) to prove his world view.

Drunk Rick was a strange and compelling mix of goofily incompetent and alarmingly competent.

I like the unnecessary little ride with all the cardboard cutouts he made. Rick gets way more theatrical when he's drunk apparently.

Well good for you

I don't personally think so. Rick didn't come out of this looking cool, he came out looking like a jealous, bitter asshole who made a somewhat competent but poorly thought out series of traps that he ended up giving up on halfway through. Hell, Morty even called him out on it ("his point is we don't matter… like…

Agreed. It's painfully obvious to me personally that Rick, in the time that we have seen him, has never truly been happy.

The difference here is that it's pretty obvious that the writers are aware of his faults and how insufferable he is.

Hey, while there have been a lot of cases of fanbases being awful, this isnt a good example.

I think what he's trying to say that you having opinions he doessnt agree with caused more people to vote for trump, because you dont like trump.

Still bitter yours didn't come yet, huh?

"You guys are so quick to use meaningless buzzwords like "racist". You're all a bunch of beta, virtue signaling, snowflake, sjw, cucks!"