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Originally Posted by lonely_but_rich
So you're saying a vat of acid isn't a foolproof escape plan?
The Vat of Acid Episode clinched it for me. Those guys were never a threat to Rick at all. There was no possible scenario where jumping into a vat of acid would be necessary. Rick came up with the idea because he thought it would be a funny idea for an episode.
But his idea sucked, and even Morty couldn't take it for more than five minutes. Rather than admit his episode idea sucked, he took one of Morty's ideas and made the rest of the episode around it. Then he made sure it would suck for Morty. Because Rick sucks.
Consider the two episodes Rick mentions. The dragon episode, which wasn't Rick's idea, and which most fans didn't love, and Pickle Rick, which was awesome because it was Rick's idea to turn himself into a pickle. In Rick's mind, Rick's ideas are awesome and anyone else's episode ideas suck.