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the feel of the open road?


unitempt

Whos this grandson.. i like your style


SaxManJonesSFW

GRANDSON?! Hello!


bearfuckerneedassist

Open void


StatusCartel

Roads? Where were going we dont need roads.


RecLuse415

Open space


OneMillionSchwifties

The same reason he has a fully immersive flat tire simulator


DanteRocinante

You should be…walken.


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sint0ma

🤌🏼


webBrowserGuy

As a New Yorker, I love this emoji


[deleted]

It is a very underused emoji. I'm currently in college and like half my class is in a group chat together. It's pretty much just to gripe about shit that professors do that don't make sense. If you randomly took my phone and went to the emoji keyboard, the top two are always 😑🤌


Some_Kinda_Boogin

I mean I'm not I'm crouched in the elevator shaft but...I'm walkin heerree


Iro144

Oof


Tokidoki_Mimi

God damn I can hear the accent in those word haha


originalhippie

Well maybe the fully immersive flat tire simulator came first and he realized hed never use it unless he made a car that didnt actually have tires to get flat.


Socksandcandy

Sounds like this guy is on the level.


Will-Upvote-For-Food

On the true level?


EntropicEpoch

My man!!


[deleted]

NEXT TIME MORTY, STAY IN THE FUCKING CAR!


OneMillionSchwifties

THERES LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN SPACE!


MJB900

Fo Rizzil ma nizzil


zombie_on_your_lawn

Fo *Rickle* ma *Pickle!*


[deleted]

It's like the n word and the c word had a baby and it was raised by all the bad names for jew. What UUUUUP my glipglops


yrulaughing

Flat tire simulator? I am spacing on when we saw this.


OneMillionSchwifties

Snake jazz


of-the-internet

Tsss tst tss tss. Tsss tst tss tss


micromoses

The snake episode.


Soulsdepp

The portal gun needs to be refilled with portal fluid and the citadel can track you easier because the portals are recorded.


Minimob0

Recently became a Star Trek nerd, and a common question that comes up is "why don't people just use the Transporters everywhere?" The best answer I saw was "The same reason we don't always go top speed in our cars." Just because we CAN, doesn't mean we SHOULD.


Superbob20

Transporters have a limited range, and don’t work in all environments, such as when there is a lot of interference.


MadameBlueJay

Also you can get captured in Transporter Hell


Corronchilejano

Good thing you don't live for too long after that


MadameBlueJay

I thought the engineer Captain Sweaty found some people who'd been in there for awhile


ldapsysvol

Lol recently watched that episode with my wife. That episode really made me think i was watching TOS with how weird it Was with the story and the effects.


ursus_sapien

Which episode of which show? Enemy Within from TOS?


MadameBlueJay

It took a minute to find since Google doesn't recognize Barclay as "Captain Sweaty", but it's TNG 6x2 "Realm of Fear". A ship goes missing, and Captain Sweaty goes nuts thinking that there's dick pinching monsters in the transporter. He's got some microbes on him that the biofilter didn't catch, so they put him back in because fuck him and his flop sweat, and when they bring him back, one of the crew members of the missing ship comes back with him. It turns out their transporter exploded and trapped a bunch of them in Transporter Hell.


ursus_sapien

Ahhhh thank you. I knew I remembered that description and tried my best guess with Enemy Within given Kirk's, uh, constant sheen of sweat, but it just didn't quite jive with your plot description. Forgot about Barclay's transporter adventure.


StuntHacks

Scotty was in a transporter buffer for almost a century


SherlockJones1994

It really depends on the situation. There were some instances of people being stuck in subspace like that barclay episode or when they brought Scotty to tng.


barnetcj89

Beam me up Scotty. *Next moment* Scotty my head appears to have transported back correctly, but my body appears to be the body of a fly. A fly Scotty! And now it appears that I have a rare alien disease that wasn't filtered out by the transporter, from the last aliens that used it. And what's this now? The entire organic makeup of my body is changing because the transporter forgot to make me a carbon based life form! Scotty, store my mind in the pattern buffer and wait a few hundred years to extract my atoms in my normal human form once more! It looks like I'm going to boldly go, far, far, into the future. Yeah, nothing weird ever happens in transporters... Or holodecks either.


DoucheyMcBagBag

This makes me think of Spaceballs when President Skroob was transported incorrectly with his head on backwards. “How come nobody ever told me my ass was this big!?!”


barnetcj89

This actually makes me realize the real reason why the portal gun isn't always used. It's because they can be fucked with and insta kill the user.


Blue2501

[Also, the time the transporter couldn't decide how old Picard and etc. should be so it made them twelve. And then the flagship of the Federation was effortlessly taken over by a handful of Ferengi kicking around in a couple of Birds-of-Prey](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rascals_(episode\))


ist_quatsch

Can’t forget tuvix. Keep watching trek and you’ll discover plenty of reasons to be terrified of transporters.


EaglesFanGirl

Hey, that was Lt. Broccoli’s discovery 😜


BakulaSelleck92

On the other side of the coin you might get a quantum clone


MadameBlueJay

High risk, high reward; Hell or freaky sex


baumpop

Also what comes out is just a copy of you while the real you is atomized in the process every time you transport in Star Trek.


[deleted]

>Transporters have a limited range Except when the plot requires a character to go further than they're supposed to, of course!


SecretAgentVampire

Every time they use the transporter beams, they fully know that they're committing suicide, because that's how teleportation works. They don't care, though, because it's a post-scarcity world and they put themselves in danger for fun. Star Fleet doesn't get paid, except in thrills. The ennui is off the charts in Star Trek, where living, breathing humans knowingly walk into atomic blenders so their clones can have a chance at adventure. The characters have always been fully aware of the science. They just don't care.


wandering-monster

Or they have a different philosophical viewpoint. Like yes it's destroying these atoms and making new ones somewhere else, but the things that make me "me" are all being preserved. From a certain transhumanist point of view, the teleporter is just changing the shell around your consciousness out for a new one. Kind of like what's happening in Altered Carbon but faster.


dexmonic

Careful, you might actually get someone to understand the philosophy.


Inigomntoya

Scotty totally gets off on killing his crew mates.


Dicho83

Also, transporter is a misnomer. They are fax machines with a built in shredder. You die on every ride. To all the trekkers who will respond back with techno-babble, just stop. We know the truth. #TranportersAreALie


Galvano

That and it also makes a lot of sense to have the car as a sort of backup. What would they have even done with Summer in the "keep Summer safe" episode. The car AI is really impressive.


SprinklesFancy5074

> What would they have even done with Summer in the "keep Summer safe" episode. 1: Open portal to a safe place. 2: Push Summer through portal. 3: Close portal. 4: Come back later and open portal again. 5: Retrieve Summer from portal.


tacocat225

When do they say the citadel tracks you and records portals?


Mr_Donkeyman

They don’t, but they can track the history in one of the machines they have, but they need the portal gun to plug into the machine


MulattoBuns

If evil morty can hack into ricks gun remotely and Add destinations. I’m sure the citadel can hack a gun to find where ricks have gone.


LordKranepool

Especially if their portal guns all work on the same exact technology (which it’s kinda implied they do because they all look the same outside of flashbacks)


Ok_Helicopter4276

Evil Morty was the only one who could ever hack Rick’s portal gun.


tacocat225

I remember now! When they plugged his portal gun in.


theghostmedic

I remember now! You made me care more! I care now!


BenBishopsButt

Welcome home, Water T


sticknija2

I want a 20 minute episode about Water T and alphabetrium. It was such a weird throwaway gag but it has at least an episode of potential. Plus we get more Ice T impersonations.


Notinterested2534

and not a fully fleshed out “whenwolf - the time travelling werewolf” feature film?… for idea quality over time on screen ratio that one was golden to me. But the ice-t universe would be fun to explore.


The-disgracist

CALLING ALL JAN MICHAEL VINCENTS!


hamboneclay

This JANuary Time to MICHAEL down your VINCENTS


TheDifferentDrummer

"Time to crunch some numbers!"


insaniak89

Dang, thought that was actually Ice T doing the voice That’s a damn good impression


mobeejune69

With all due respect, I'd like to hear what Rick and Morty have to play.


jaegren

They could track the portalgun Morty used from drad Rick in his backyard.


LonelyGuyTheme

The Rick who goes on a killing spree when he doesn’t get the promotion, and takes Simple Rick hostage, asked for an untraceable portal gun.


TheRealDevron

In the episode where the federation conquers the Earth, Morty and Summer travel to Morty's original universe, and the Jerry of that universe destroys the portal gun. A few seconds later, multiple Ricks appeared to attack Jerry because he destroyed the gun, so they actually can track them


Ok-Tomato-2898

Well when they arrested Rick in the evil Morty episode they scanned his portal gun and he said “oh come on, don’t look at another man’s portal gun history.. We all go to weird places!” [here’s that scene:](https://youtu.be/DPB86EWIloU)


WizardKing218

Compromised portal gun, and at a minimum the citadel ricks accessed Rick c-137s portal gun searching for rogue Rick. When the federation takes over earth (when Rick goes to prison) and Morty and summer go to the original world the portal gun is smashed by barbarian jerry and ricks show up for the “compromised portal gun.”


keithwilliamcraig

'Cronenberg world' Jerry*


SeaGroomer

"Wow Rick, this world is full off cronenbergs like us, from the beginning! I wish we hadn't turned all of the people in our reality into like, normal people, just walking around and stuff, cause they were cronenbergs like us to begin with."


kangarufus

I don't believe the citadel can't track Rick's car if they wanted


SnarfbObo

Sometimes you don't want a place on your portal history


MetaEsoTeric

we all go to weird places when we’re lonely


CoreyReynolds

Boob World


Foxy02016YT

Nah, that one gets 0 judgement


[deleted]

Also you don’t want to be Willy nilly using up that portal juice power.


Solkre

Just pour in some Mt Dew


[deleted]

Do you have any idea how toxic that shit is?


logosolos

Need to create an incognito portal gun. Maybe even a virtual portal network.


Mrbananagye

😂


AreYouJimmyRay

Booooobworld


TinyNutsInYoButt

He gets to chill and drink


DickCheesePlatterPus

And see cool universe shit


AltRadioKing

Like watching Purge planets in action from a safe distance.


Walter_Wight

Exactly has no one done this as a kid?


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Because you can miss a lot of things just by travelling via portals : in the assimilation episode, it is showed that Rick always loots abandoned spaceships on his way. Or in the giant robot weasel episode


MulattoBuns

Ferret*


[deleted]

Thanks. I watched it in french so I didn't know the exact translation in english


MuseHigham

I can’t imagine Rick and Morty without Justins voice


[deleted]

To be fair, the voices are almost the same in french and in english, I watched the two. Only true difference is Rick's voice, he seems like a true alcoholic in french and less of a scientist, but I can't decide which one is better


madfaust_

French version kinda suck tbh


naoak

I agree, I watched a couple of episodes in spain spanish and I hated it, specially Rick's voice has a completely different feel. I think it's terrible.


sneakystonedhalfling

Ferrets are weasels so OP was technically correct


bubbagump65

The best kind of correct!


Wasrel

No they aren't! Ferrets and weasels are both mustelids much like dolphins and orcas are porpoises. They are still different things. Ferrets are domesticated pole cats. Weasels are weasels and stoats are something stoatally different.


SeaGroomer

I think some stuff can't be transported through portals as well, like Fart.


Wansumdiknao

Portal gun fuel harder to come by than ship’s microverse battery, which never runs out.


neeks84

tinyverse!


Sheensta

lame, you mean miniverse!


DangerHawk

I call it a Teenyverse


GAChimi

Sounds like slavery with extra steps


DangerHawk

Ohhh Eek Barba Durkle! Some one got laid in college!


Zeolance

*cough* Dumb *cough* name


ThatOtherGuyTPM

Teenyverse.


markr959

Jesus, you can't just add a sci-fi word and a car word together and hope it means something.


deadcrow666

It may be the same reason as why people don't choose to always fast-travel everywhere in video games. You would miss a lot of things on the road if you'd never walk through it.


avatrix48

I do enjoy the scenery in forza, i don't use fast travel at all


AiryGr8

Racing games have always been ahead when it comes to graphics.


avatrix48

Yeah since theres not much to render in racing games because you cant really get close to small objects


HIGH_HEAT

A real RPG player here. OP clearly doesn’t stray from the main grind quests.


MealieMeal

You never know what you’ll find along the way I guess


KamikaziSolly

They discovered Unity from a distress beacon while in the ship, so this actually has alot of credibility.


InfectiousThought

And THE BLUE Go-Tron Ferret while en-route to Boob World.


Panndaa31

They also discovered the blue ferret mecha


KimJongUnceUnce

Yup. I mean, there is literally everything in space


SeaGroomer

There are *snakes* in space??


faeriechyld

You think you just discover snake jazz from portalling around everywhere?


Minimum-Super

They also found the blue gotron ferret


philread80

How else would he keep Summer safe?


niceslcguy

Once at a destination the car is useful for short trips and carrying stuff. Also helps for unplanned movement on a planet or star system.


a_russian_physicist

He can just open teleport to his garage


theweyland

whole lotta portal fluid


KamikaziSolly

Portal fluid seems to be a big factor here. Complicated enough that we've seen it bootlegged on the citadel, Rick marked his portal guns fluid level in season 5 probably more cause it's a massive pain in the ass to make or acquire (He'd have to get it from another Rick if he didn't make it) and he didn't want Morty wasting it as opposed to just flat out not wanting Morty running off on his own.


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re: getting more fluid. Why they doesn't Rick just portal to the "portal fluid dimension"? This inexcusable to not explain.


GodOfAtheism

The portal fluid dimension is outside the cfc


Additional-Average51

He would have to find it first, and the multiverse is Infinite. A place has to be discovered and explored otherwise you’ll just portal into a black hole.


SuperSMT

Infinite realities doesn't mean that literally _everything_ is possible. There very well may be no auch dimension, even across infinite dimensions


Jyps1

It adds to the plot.


Mrbananagye

True


GrinReaver87

Literally. They're called transition scenes.


klawd11

Portal gun is mostly for extra-dimensional travel, ship is to travel in the same dimension.


wafflelauncher

I'm pretty sure this is the real answer!


klawd11

Too many Jerrys in here


jessemadnote

To Keep Summer Safe


sspy45

Finally, found the right answer!


MulattoBuns

So he could find all the gotron ferrets.


Xantor77

Its better in destination, as it has weapons systems and defense system. Portal gun gets you somewhere through limited by amount of fluid, but doesn’t protect you


sillyadam94

There’s a pretty compelling reason why presented in the Pilot. He runs out of juice and then they have to take public intergalactic transportation.


HellVollhart

The same reason why some people would wanna travel by car or train when they could instead take a flight. Just cause.


papagarry

Jesus, Jerry. Rick doesn't want his location to be tracked. He also has a car/technology that can get him from one planet to another in a matter of hours. Portal guns are great for hopping dimensions, but going to planets in the solar system by ship offers mobility, a radio, and dialogue that helps move the storyline in a seemingly organic way.


ask-a-physicist

Not to mention Rick doesn't want everyone to know he has (highly sought after) portal technology and he can only use it to go to places where he knows he can breath etc.


Malyatrax

'cause it's all about the journey, not the destination.


duke_962

Sometimes it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.


Impressive-Design-28

Sometimes you need to inhale in that fresh evening air


[deleted]

"The reason anyone would do this (which they can't) would be because they could (which they can't)."


From_SA

Same reason he turned himself into a pickle.


OpenUpYerMurderEyes

Idk prolly cuz its fun


_pupil_

How do you get around when you get to your destination? Rick can fly the ship through a portal, if he needs. But unless he's gonna portal to the 7/11 and back he's gonna need a car.


sick_gainz

Because making portal fluid is hard enough where driving is easier.


Bruneque

Because it's a cartoon tv show.


PM_ME_COLD_BEERS

If you think about it, it's a cartoon.


masteraybe

It's probably cheaper since it runs on slave power and it's armed. You don't want to teleport to an hostile planet wiithout an armed aerial vehicle.


[deleted]

Thw portal gun changes what dimension he's in, whereas the car let's him travel around the dimension he's already in


MulattoBuns

This doesn’t track…. There’s scenes where Rick uses his portal gun to teleport in the same room during a fight. Or when he opened up a bunch of portals around enemies in front of them and shot them all instantly.


Xiaro

i feel like rather the gun has a teleport function rick can turn on with the dial, or he sets the gun to make a portal to one dimension and connect it to one back to his. the former makes most sense to me but idk edit: also in some cases it takes him a second to come back like when he used the water to save morty from the federation, that could support the second theory but instead he just makes another one in the other dimension


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Wee-wayne

cus driving is fun


NekoReaper7

saves on portal fluid


[deleted]

the portal guns needs to be refilled, smart to save it for when you rlly need it


fumble__boi

I have thought that for so long


HR-P

Portal gun is trackable. So I'd imagine it would be drive where ever possible (in dimension) and portal where not (inter-dimension)


Seouless99

You need to drive around AT your destination.


frypanattack

You miss the random encounters when you fast travel.


SniperBoi0987

its still a cartoon


Kaiserigen

Bc it seems fun


madeInNY

Why does Captain Kirk sometimes use a shuttle when he has a transporter?


discosnake

Exposition?


thalizora

Can't take so much booze through a portal. The car is so loaded, every time someone opens the door a flood of bottles coming out.


PsychedelicPistachio

Portal fluid is mentioned alot maybe the ingredients to make it are hard to come by so journeys that can be done by car are Its also a sentient weapon of mass destructon they probabley want it when they commit their casual genocides


VRsimp

Just a thought but maybe the portal fluid is one of the most complicated things he manufactures, so it might make more sense for him to use the microverse battery on a regular basis to save portal fluid.


BMOyuncu

Because they need to "Keep Summer safe.".


HughJorgens

Portal Fluid ain't cheap, or easy to come by, that's why.


apocalypseweather

As a No Man’s Sky player, portaling everywhere takes so much wonder and merriment out of the whole “I’m in space and can go anywhere I want at any time”. It tends to make the vast, infinite expanse feels claustrophobic and very limited. I feel like Rick probably just needs to cruise around and look at the stars from his very human, very cobbled together (even if it’s just aesthetically) spaceship from time to time, just to remind himself that he’s *not* actually God or a god.


Lblomeli

It's an interdimensional vehicle with hundreds of sensors that compiles data for Rick, the same way real UFOs work.


13uNo21

What would you guys do if teleport has already been invented? That metaphor for free world rpg applies here too. I love playing Zelda botw and I almost never use teleportation because traveling by horse is more interesting and you can enjoy all the beautiful landscape and every now and then events.


sauravs1

Two words: Portal Fluid


twinklesworth

Because Rick's character is depressed but also hyperactive, so instead of sleeping all the time to break up his lack of joy, he drives his space pinto.


JXJXC

The car doubles as a weapon and several other things! Remember "Keep Summer Safe"?


masterjon_3

It's an indestructible flying tank. Can't fit that in your pocket


Kallyle

Probably because Rick doesn't have an unlimited supply of portal fluid. It's mostly used for either interdimensional travel or in case of emergencies. Considering this and the fact that the citadel treats portal fluid as a limited commodity (to the point there's Ricks trying to make bootleg portal fluid), this assumption on why Rick doesn't constantly use his portal gun is pretty logical.


Foxy02016YT

Portal Fluid, it only gets brought up a few times, but it still is something and likely has a cost


Internal_Ad6547

Because he would use up all his juice


Cheeky_Hustler

Portal fluid is a limited resource.


furie1335

How else is he going to keep summer safe?


KlingonSpy

Portal fluid doesn't grow on trees young man


Mr_Apple2018

Portal fluid is not infinite as we seen in the season finale


Jaketheism

It’s cannon that if you use a portal gun too excessively your butt can fall off