Rick & Morty: 9 Times Rick Was Uncharacteristically Stupid
5. He Turned Himself Into A Pickle
Rick is the smartest man in the entire universe, but sometimes his need to show off and prove that he is the smartest man in the universe gets in his way. Often just a simple solution would suffice, but Rick would go far over and above what was necessary, and this could come back to bite him.
Just look at when he turned himself into a pickle. It was a marvel of science that no one else would be able to achieve, but it was an incredibly stupid thing to do. All he needed was to come up with an excuse to get out of counseling, or just go to counseling, but instead he did this.
As soon as Morty moved the anti-pickle serum that would have turned him back into a human, he was in a great deal of trouble. He was swatted by a cat, almost baked on the driveway, then had his whole ordeal in the sewers and the mysterious Russian agency, being hunted by Jaguar.
Rick sometimes really is his own worst enemy, and by trying to come up with the smartest solution to get him out of his situation, he ended up crafting the dumbest.