Origins of Pickle Rick

Pickle Rick from Rick & Morty

Rick says a bunch of people are asking why we call him Pickle Rick. Everyone knows the Rick & Morty episode, but what’s that have to do with my brother-in-law Ricky? Well, over the Christmas holidays, we usually have Rick as a guest for a couple weeks, and someone has to pick him up from his place up North. So someone has to “Pick up Rick!” Say that quick enough, excitedly, and with a slight mumble, and it sounds just like Rick in the Rick & Morty episode referring to himself after he turned himself into a pickle. Yeah, it’s bizarre, but perfectly normal for a Rick & Morty premise. Anyway, saying it a few times before the holidays last year kinda made it stick with us. Someone asked “Where are you going?” I said “To Pick o’ Rick!” When Rick came to visit last Winter, we had him watch the actual episode and he got a kick out of it.

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