Rick & Morty: 9 Times Rick Was Uncharacteristically Stupid
6. He Underestimated Mr. Goldenfold
After Beth and Jerry found out that Morty had been missing almost all of his lessons at school since going on his adventures with Rick, the smartest man in the universe came up with a plan. He would go into Mr. Goldenfold’s dreams and incept the idea that Morty should get better grades in Maths.
Yes, he could have just helped Morty with his homework in this time, but Rick doesn’t believe in the education system, and this would ultimately give them more time for adventures in the long run. It was a very flimsy excuse to do something that turned out to be incredibly dangerous.
Since Rick generally believes everyone else in the universe to be below him, particularly in regards to their intellect, he massively underestimated Mr. Goldenfold’s dream defences.
He basically took himself and his grandson into a war zone, whereby they almost died by machine gun, volcano, being beaten to death, and Scary Terry. When you die in someone else’s dreams, you die for real, which makes this one of the stupidest things Rick has ever done, and all just to get Morty an A.