The episode was pretty funny. “Pickle Rick” is a mild example of “L0l Randumz Xd” humor, because the reaction of literally every other character is that it’s underwhelming and unfunny. the rest of the episode has good jokes, references, super fluid action and gore.
Edit: I don’t want this on the front page while US-Iran stuff is going down.
That’s not the point of a male power fantasy, though. The point of it is to be able to be aggressive, crude, violent, without any kind of pushback or resistance because you are the most specialest boy there is. They want to be these characters not because they’re successful, but because they don’t face any consequences for being horrible people.
Yeah, the message these sorts of people take away isn’t “this attitude and behaviour is wrong” but “the universe is wrong for going against me.”