Rick and Morty Accidentally Exposed a Logical Flaw with Mister Meeseeks
Since their debut, the Mister Meeseeks have become fan-favorite side characters in Rick and Morty, though while they are entertaining in a truly chaotic and existential kind of way, there is a flaw in the logic of their existence in regards to what actually classifies one of their assigned tasks as ‘complete’.
A Mister Meeseeks is an otherworldly life form that can be summoned by pressing the button on a Meeseeks Box. Once the Mister Meeseeks pop into existence upon someone’s request, they can be assigned one task that they have no choice but to carry out. Once they have completed the task, they then gleefully cease to exist. However, should a task be impossible to complete or take them longer than a day to finish, the Meeseeks will linger in the horrific anguish of continued existence. Mister Meeseeks aren’t supposed to be alive for longer than a few hours, and if they are they start losing their minds as evidenced when Rick & Morty's oldest Mr. Meeseeks took on a terrifying final form.
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In the Rick and Morty #23 story titled “Summer Job” by Kyle Starks, CJ Cannon, and Marc Ellerby, Summer is working at a retail store and is stuck closing after enduring a busy day with messy customers. The store is an absolute wreck by the time her boss leaves and she is the one who has to stay late and clean it up. However, Summer has access to a Meeseeks Box, so instead of folding clothes and sweeping floors herself, she summons and assigns a number of Mister Meeseeks with her employee duties. After the store is clean, all the Meeseeks disappear except for one who believes he had folded all of the clothes as was his assigned task, yet he continued to
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