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Rick And Morty has always sold Rick as being the smartest man in existence, and while he can be a genius, sometimes he really is a doofus Rick.

Anyone who has sat through all four seasons ofRick and Mortyought to know by now that Rick Sanchez is an alcoholic cesspool of unresolved issues-- he's nowhere near as perfect as he narcissistically wants to appear. In that regard, he has made plenty of conscious mistakes all throughout the show.

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At the same time, Rick's also an undeniable genius especially when it comes to his inventions and a general understanding of the parallel universes. Itdoes seem that it can be tiring to be a genius all the time and sometimes Rick unleashes brain farts more obscene than his actualgas. Here are five of those strokes of genius and five of those Doofus Rick moments to prove Rick is only human.

Turning himself in during the episode "Rickshank Redemption"was a shocking moment considering that Rick has always been selfish. It was rather too good to be true-- and it was. Turns out it was Rick's plan all along to hit four birds with one stone.

The first goal was to trash the Galactic Federation, the second was to rope the Citadel into fighting the Federation, the third was to make Beth divorce Jerry, and the fourth was... to get his fix of the Mulan Szechuan McNugget sauce. All four plans were achieved in one fell swoop, it was Rick at his strategic peak.

Speaking of highs, Rick's intellect also has its lows. By far one of the worst blunders he made was making a love potion for Morty which turned into flu that mutated everyone into failedAnimorphscharacters.

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Apparently, Rick was not that well-versed or good enough in biochemistry or genetic engineering and merely made wild guesses for his potion. The result was ruining dimension C-137 and scarring Morty permanently.

One of the biggest problems of humanity at the moment is finite resources, specificallyfor power/electricity. Rick knew this well enough and was able to circumvent the problem by making an infinite power source in the form of a mini-universe trapped inside his car battery.

It wasn't foolproof though but one has to give him credit for solving mankind's million-year-old problem. Funny thing is, Rick could have used it to advance humanity into its next technological stages but chose to be selfish and use it only for his car battery.

One of the latest displays of Rick's dwindling mojo is during the "Vat of Acid" episode where his plan consisted of faking death against gangsters using a vat of acid. Of course, it's for comedic value and the plot as to why he chose to follow through with that plan.

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Still, Rick's vat of acid trick was not only boring but it also didn't make sense. Turns out Rick could have easily dealt with the alien gangsters without any consequences. Even Morty thought it was unimaginative and even called Rick "senile" for coming up with it.

Rick and Mortyhas its own version of the Avengers in the form of the rather dysfunctional and rag-tag Vindicators. They're no slouch, however, and some of them are powerhouses in their own right, capable of destroying planets even.

That didn't matter much for Rick as he was able to lay out an elaborate plan to kill them all or make them fight one another. The impressive part was that he did all of this while he's drunk

If Jerry had a dollar for every time Rick brings Earth closer to an apocalypse, he'd wouldn't be so worried about being unemployed. It just so happens that Rick does that casually, most notably in the episode "Total Rickall."

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It's where Rick casually brought home some parasites from space that implant fake memories telepathically and take over whole worlds. It's been proven that Rick did it by Justin Roiland(co-creator and Rick voice actor) himself. It led to Beth shooting Mr. Poopybutthole, that's bad enough.

Found finally met his match and one of the most competent adversaries he has in the form of Zeep Xanflorp who lives in the car battery's mini-universe. Turns out he was as smart as Rick and was even younger.

When the two of them got trapped in a jungle with nothing but twigs and rocks, Rick was able to build weapons and even mechs out of raw resources with no laboratory. It goes to show that Rick doesn't need his inventions to thrive.

When it comes to facing his own psychological or mental issues, Rick turns from a bright and calculating scientist to a scared toddler. He even goes as far as to create his own problems just to avoid going into therapy.

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That goes to show just how low Rick's emotional intelligence but he turned himself into an initiallyhelpless pickle in order to avoid a mere hours-long counseling session. It was fun to watch but one just has to wonder what was going on in Rick's "rational" mind.

Whether the Rickest Rick inRick and Mortyinvented the portal gun or not, he surely knows how to maximize it. Not only does he shoot his way into other dimensions for more knowledge or better resources than the Earth could offer but also sometimes weaponizes the Portal Gun in clever ways.

Rick also knows how to recharge the Portal Gun so it's more than likely that he did invent it, much like other Ricks in other dimensions as well. It's arguably Rick's greatest invention and even his greatest weapon, apart from his brain.

Turning himself into a pickle or concocting a lame vat of acid idea weren't the most questionable Rick decisions ever. That award goes to what he did with the "real" Beth and the clone Beth in the finale of Season 4.

Rick, like the awesome dad he is, made his computer shuffle the two Beths; now neither he nor anyone else can know which is the real one. Oddly enough, there was no need for him to do that since he erased it from his memory anyway.

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Sid Natividad likes movies so much as to choose the risk of urinary tract infection than miss a few minutes of post-credit Easter eggs, that shows the extent of his dedication. He is well-versed in multiple fandoms that gravitate toward the edgy and nihilistic spectrum of the internet culture. Outside of being a writer for Screen Rant, he also works as a journalist and has risked his life for mere warzone photos.

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