To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Bottle Flipping. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes
will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Bottle's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just
funny- they say something
deep about LIFE. As a consequence
people who dislike Bottle Flipping truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn'
t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Bottle Flipping
epic," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's
Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their
television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Bottle Flip tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
