The cartoon comedy hit "Rick and Morty" features Rick, an interdimensional traveling psychopathic scientist and his 14 year old grandson Morty. The two travel through the multiverse raising havoc wherever they go.

Rick is a hard drinking "alpha" or at least a dark triad guy. His Romantic Advice and the definition of "love" is very useful and telling.

Rick clearly knows about Red Pill. In one episode, Rick renews a love affair with a woman named "unity" who is basically the Borg Queen and controls an entire planet. Rick tells her to fill a stadium with redhead women and proceeds to parafoil onto the 50 yard line and has sex while the redhead crowd cheers.

In one scene, Unity is paid a visit by a neighboring joined species: "Beta 7." Rick jokes with Unity that "Beta 7 wants more than an alliance" and they laugh together as Beta 7 hangs his head and leaves. At the end of the show Unity dumps Rick the Alpha. He travels to see her in his space ship but is stopped by Beta 7:

Beta 7: You're classified as a hostile entity, and Unity doesn't want to talk to you.

Rick: I know your game, beta seven. I've met a billion of you, you little on-deck, in-the-wings shoulder to cry on!

Beta: You are classified as a hostile entity.

Rick: Oh, you're just loving this mother fucker. This isn't gonna shake out like you think, pal. Unity's not into other hive minds. It's gonna suck you in and use you up, and a month from now, I'm gonna be making out with all of you in a bunch of red wigs! Unity! Unity! Unity, I know you can hear me. Get out here.

Beta: Weapons systems engaged.

Rick: Oh, in your dreams you have weapon systems.

One of the interesting side plots in the series is the marriage of Morty's father and mother, Beth and Jerry.

Jerry is the classic Beta male. He is rail thin with twigs for arms and legs. He talks in a whiny, defeated tone of voice and is usually a passive-aggressive bitch. Jerry is unemployed and not very smart and very over matched with his veterinarian wife and genius father in law. Jerry often asks his wife for direction and doesn't even pretend to try to lead. He continually makes snide, bitter comments that his wife is not a "real surgeon." When he initiates sex with Beth, he usually says something stupid like: "I was going to have sex. Would you like to join me."

Rick is Beth's father and he dislikes Jerry. Once Jerry objected to another crazy Rick plan (which as often as not ends up destroying the entire world) saying "I don't like that." Rick told him: Well I don't like your unemployed genes in my grand kids Jerry." Jerry is continually put down by the kids by Rick, and mostly by his wife. Several episodes begin with Beth scowling at the breakfast table saying: "Get a job, Jerry."

Their marriage is a constant battle with her angry that she is "only" a veterinarian and not a "real" doctor. This became a terminal case of hypergamy and forced marriage when Jerry got her pregnant on prom night and the car broke down on the way to the abortion.

In one fantastic episode Rick takes them to marriage counseling where aliens create a representation of Beth and Jerry as seen by the other. You really have to see it: Rick and Morty Marriage Counseling.

Is this how your wife sees you? Is this how you see your wife? I urge you to take a couple minutes and be mindful about the psychological schema and cognitive representations you have of your wife. Then I urge you to consider how she views you! We always say "Kill your ego" and this is why. Be objective...and kill your ego.

Finally, the show offers some pretty deep philosophical advice as well. In the episode it was revealed they were going to abort the older daughter "Summer" after the prom night mishap, she angrily packs to leave but Morty explains how and why to DNGAF.

Conclusion: The show Rick and Morty illustrates the concepts of Alpha and Beta. "Beta" guys like Jerry are pathetic and unattractive. However, at the other end of the scale is the very unattractive "Alpha" Rick. He gets girls, but he is really an uncaring psychopath. Destroy the world? No problem, it doesn't affect me.

Don't be a Jerry- that is just awful. Get to the gym, don't have stick limbs, don't be a passive aggressive bitch. Be uplifting not a downer. Kill your ego and have confidence without unwarranted arrogance like Jerry. However, you also don't want to be a Rick. Sure he is fun and wild and throws great parties, and pulls ass for an old guy like NTY proctologist, but he is also a psychopathic dark triad alcoholic who is actually desperately unhappy.

TLDR: Balance