Template:Did you know nominations/Pickle Rick


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Pickle Rick

 * ... that Rick and Morty episode "Pickle Rick" features a character licking a cockroach's brain to control its movement, which has been said to have been "based on real science"? Source: "Rick and Morty's latest dues ex machina wasn't just absurdist cartoon mayhem–it was based on real science."
 * ALT1:... that Rick and Morty episode "Pickle Rick" was largely inspired by Breaking Bad episode "4 Days Out"? Source: "A big inspiration for the Pickle Rick story, though, was the Breaking Bad episode where the Winnebago breaks down in the desert."
 * Reviewed: Youth Smoking

Converted from a redirect by Bilorv (talk). Self-nominated at 14:21, 11 December 2017 (UTC).


 * On it. Symbol confirmed.svg G2G w/ALT1 First, good on Bilorv for expanding the redirect into a full, sourced article on this. Already seems almost good enough to take through the  process. New enough; long enough (~14k elig. chars.); no copyvio; the plot summary is 50% longer than WP:TV wants it to be, but that's not an issue for us to fix here and there's an argument for sci-fi episodes needing more words, particularly when they incorporate action and therapy scenes; UK English for a US TV show but fixing that isn't part of this process and everything's otherwise neutral and well cited; soooo many comma issues [fix'd], which the writer will hopefully note and avoid going forward; I agree it's an eyesore, but our  likes punctuation outside the quotes [fix'd]; ALT0 could be reworded into sth less weaselly and more interesting, but there's no reason to bother since ALT1 is cool, nonobvious, sourced to Dan Harmon himself, and doesn't have any secondary links to reduce the number of hits to the target page. Youth Smoking hasn't been shepherded through the whole DYK process yet, but that's not on Bilorv. Too bad we can't use an image; are the producers nerdy enough to license us one if we ask nicely? —  Llywelyn II   09:22, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the thorough review and edits. The punctuation inside quotes was a recent style thing I started doing, but now I see it violates MOS:LQ, so I'll stop that. I was trying to write in American English but as a Brit the only American word I managed to use was "season" – can you see any more fixes than "favorite", "criticize" and "apologize"? Regarding an image, I wouldn't really know how to go about contacting Harmon, Roiland or Adult Swim, or what the process of getting the image licensed for free is. — Bilorv(talk)(c)(e) 10:36, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that was actually more for the old hands who do the promoting and whatnot if they liked the idea. Presumably, someone would just contact Lindsey Strasberg at Sloane, Offer, Weber, and Dern for Harmonious Claptrap or whoever the contact guy is for Solo Vanity Card Productions. I guess it's unlikely, since a fully released image could be used by whoever for whatever. Still, it'd be nice to have the image. [rabblerabblerabble] — Llywelyn II   11:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)