The Science Behind Pickle Rick’s Cockroach Brain Manipulation Posted by Michael Walsh on August 8, 2017 We all know that feeling when we suddenly realize we’ve bitten off more than we can chew, but rarely is the solution killing a cockroach with our teeth and controlling its brain with our tongues. When you happen to have turned yourself into a pickle, though, as Rick Sanchez did on this week’s Rick and Morty , this may just be the best way out. Rick and Morty ‘s latest dues ex machina wasn’t just absurdist cartoon mayhem–it was based on real science. (The part about controlling cockroach bodies by poking their brains, I mean. Not the part where a grown man turns himself into a pickle.) Following an unplanned trip into the sewer system, th...
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