"Why are you in prison"

I have thought about "love" and I know Rick would never say it; "Family" is even more impossible, and "myself" is too conventional. "Illness" conforms to temperament, but it is a bit narrow. "existence" and "nothing" are more consistent.

But Rick said,

Suddenly there was a wonderful touch.

this line is not so special in other plays, but it is different in this play.

Rick is an old bastard who knows the world. He seems to be omniscient and omnipotent. He can save the country by divine comedy, and he can raise his hand to destroy the world by martial arts. From time to time, he can break the fourth wall and talk to the audience. This omniscience and omnipotence caused his tangled and embarrassing attitude towards life, which also made this character particularly moving.

However, in the end, for the sake of unity

, S2E3 knows what "love" and charm are, and he can even write the chemical equations of related reactions, but he will still fall in love. He also knows what marriage is, but he will also wish the bird people a happy marriage.

Actually, I don't mean to say how much my grandfather values family ties ... The point is: Rick is a man in the shell of God, whose divinity comes from being empty, and whose humanity comes from not being empty. He knows how the four seasons will flow, how the power will change, what kind of things people are, and everything has no purpose and significance. He may even know that he is just a group of writers, but even if he knows that these things are not good, I will fucking choose, and I will even be happy about it. So what if I'm locked up? This is my chosen fate.

-why are you in prison?

Why not, family, love, incurable diseases, my existence, myself, my past, my life, an idea that came to me at that time, everything I have experienced

-Everything.

If Rick answered "nothing", nothing has progressed. But when he answered "everything", in my understanding, all the adventures with Morty and all the pains he had experienced were given meaning.