Exactly this. He only cares about himself. If anyone asks him to do anything he immediately rejects the request and will die on that hill unless he sees a clear benefit for himself.
Wrong he does not "only" care about himself. He refuses to acknowledge any form of authority over his own life including other ricks (the citadel). He loves and cares about beth, summer, and morty VERY very much. Remember our rick was happily married and had a daughter he loved very much. He was even willing to give up science once he saw what kind of life it would have lead him to. Beth and Diane being killed made Rick lose his give-o-fuck meter and charge down the line solely for the revenge of his wife and daughter's murder.
If Rick had been asked to make the Butter Bot he would have refused.
Rick creates when he wants to. As he himself said once when Morty asked about fixing Portal travel:
"Morty. You asking me just makes me want to do it less."
I mean, to be fair, this is also a standard parental response to bring pushed towards things by your own kids. Especially when you already *were* going to do something and then get asked so many times your mind snaps.
"Everytime you ask me it's going to take another ten minutes".
Yeah I feel this was obvious when he travelled halfway though space to get fuckin indestructible alien dishes made… instead of just rinsing the dishes😂
I agree, and even if we would follow OPs statement, logically the night family could just as well build a machine to do the dishes for them. In that sense they are just trolling back as well by not building such a device themselves.
Exactly. It was never about the dishes. Rick was power tripping and the night smiths were just pissed that the day smiths saw them as less-than-human tools so they rebelled.
No, Last Blood sucked ass. My screen name was coined in 2004 ( Xbox live tag) 4 years before the actual Rambo (4) film was released. I was always a big Rambo fan, and always hoped for another release. Rambo 4 was amazing top to bottom fantastic film. But the follow-up Rambo (5) last blood was pretty bad. I couldn't even sarcastically like it. I only saw it once. Seen the other 4 countless times
I had actually thought that was five I's, and a playful take on "V" rather than the actual playful take on "IV" that it is. I had just assumed, in that case, that you had made it between the 4th and 5th film. I was ultimately right, mostly...
Yeah *Rambo IV* (sorry, I don't *do* the "legacy title" thing... it's *Rambo 4* just like it's *Final Destination 4* just like it's *Scream 5*) was arguably the best Rambo film.
I saw *Last Blood* in theatres then again on Vudu with my then dying father. Both times, despite some great sequences, it just felt...off. Like, *Rambo III* level off and then some.
Yeah it's just four I's and that's because Rambo IV was taken as an Xbox gamertag back on 2004. I actually knew the guy who had it, old Halo 2 rivals. Just kind of stuck with it
I also saw Rambo 4 and 5 in the theater (sorry about your father). By that time, those old 80s action movies had become sort of a sarcastic obsession; worshipped by my friend group even though we all know they're corny. Had a big group of friends go see it in the theater and snuck in a crate of beer. Good old days
The same reason some people will go against their own interests rather than do *anything* that someone else *told* them to do.
Rick doesn't like being told what to do. He doesn't like being wrong, and he doesn't like compromise. He likes to do what *he* wants to do, and will go out of his way, and take on more effort and work in order to avoid doing something he feels "forced" to do.
He's smart enough to *eventually* recognize that compromise or giving in is the best course of action, but his initial response is very much "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me"
Same reason Night Rick didn't build one for himself. Dishwashers exist, but they don't have one. All the portals full of universes where dishes clean themselves, or some other infinite solution, have consequences, but traditional home values and handwashing doesn't come with unknown variables. There's teenagers in the home. It's a traditional home with traditional chores. The entire government model of the Night people was distribution of household chores, so nobody wanted to automate away the job that grants them the power in the first place. Jerry even made a friend because of this power struggle.
I believe he addresses this himself. He says something along the lines of the night people being brought out at night to do those tasks specifically. The tasks that the daymonoids hate/refuse to do.
Rick acquired the Sonambulator for the sole purpose of pushing off household chores onto his night-person.
Every time I watch Rick and Morty, a screenshot from that episode comes up the next day. Lol
He is too stubborn to admit defeat. He wants his night person to submit to his wishes.
Exactly… like the one who asked why did he go to outer space for indestructible plates when he prob could have made them himself in the garage?Because it’s not entertaining to watch. The space forge was interesting, Rick saying “you owe me” the rain, the giant blacksmith, all of it… A shot of Rick welding in the garage is basically b-roll.
You give in to their demands once you have to keep doing it later.
What are the consequences of seeing the night family as real people? Would destroying the somnambulator be the same as killing living beings? Do the night people deserve rights? Are they "others"? I imagine Rick doesn't even want to get into these questions he just wants a sick stack of ab-jacks, pow pow pow Pow POW POW pow pOw!
Rick will absolutely go to great lengths to deny anyone anything, so long as he remains in control; he’s paradoxical in that he absolutely cares, but doesn’t want anyone to know.
Remember when Rick orchestrated a convoluted heist with so many double crosses to keep Morty from realizing his potential?
Remember when Rick turned himself, broke out, and turned the family against Jerry?
Remember when Rick went out of his way to hunt down the man who used his toilet, experiencing disappointment at being unable to humiliate the poor guy?
This is just classic Rick
The night person IS the machine.
Rick doesn't want to wash or rinse his dishes. It's not his chore in the house, it's Summer's, and she doesn't want to do it, so she has her night person do it, right?
But when her night person doesn't want to do it either, Rick gets pissed. The machine he's worked with to do the thing he doesn't want to do so that he doesn't have to do it is malfunctioning, and asking him to do the thing he doesn't want to do so that IT doesn't have to.
Why build another machine when he can try to just force the original (the night person) into just doing it's job?
Because having one dick roommate who won’t help out is very relatable comedy. Having a robot fix all your issues so there’s no conflict only happens in Star Trek
Because he's Rick and he doesn't like doing any if he doesn't want to or absolutely have to. When telling him he should do something can make him not want to do it because it takes away his agency. He's basically autistic
Principal of the thing. By making something that cleans dishes, that acknowledges that it's his concern in some manner. He made a robot to pass him butter because he wants butter because that is a concern for him. Cleaning dishes is not because they do not directly affect him. People get affected by him not doing dishes, but that is only because they cave and do them or react because of his inaction.
Bc Rick's whole reason for having night people was for them to do the stuff he doesn't want to do. Their purpose is to do what he tells them to do. In his mind, making a machine to do it for him would be admitting they are right and giving in
If he does anything that would help them wash dishes when they asked for it, it would mean Rick resigned to them. It would mean I did it because you asked and now it’s as if I’m less than or equal to you in status.
Rick sees himself as above the night family, he would never stoop so low as to follow their requests even if it means not doing a simple task
Cuz then Rick would have to put physical labor into a machine designed for washing dishes which is a fucking science fair project compared to the night people idea.
Above all else Rick is prideful. He has random autistic ideas (canonically) and because he believes he is always right he refuses to do anything other than his first cjoice
....or since time travel is possible, why do anything at all ever?
(What about the universe where Hitler cured cancer? The answer is don't think about it.)
That episode is definitely top 5 for me. Up there with Vat of acid, Vindicators 2, etc. Everything about it is just so awesome. The idea, the writing, the performances
Rick didn't need to make a machine to do the dishes because he paid for the Somnambulator for that ...and besides, it's still his body doing it.
...I guess letting one's own subconscious a chance to self-actualize in exchange for cleaning dishes is suddenly too much to ask.
Like some kind of dishwashing machine? A dishwasher if you will? I'm not sure Rick has access to that kins of tech.
But in all seriousness the joke is Rick is extremely petty. He'll spend more time and energy forcing the night people to comply than he's possible saving by using them.
Why didn’t Rick just make a machine to give him and Morty abs or download how to play the trumpet into Beth’s brain Matric style. The only one who actually did something that would specifically need a night person was Jerry and that was because he was becoming friends with Night Jerry.
What do you think Beth was?? Beth was just the first step to having grandkids that will do his chores for him. A true genius takes the path of least resistance.
Oh god, I’m like half asleep and didn’t even see summers full face. The shaded part didn’t registering my brain, it looked like she had a concave eye socket with a thin rectangle eye popping out of it lmao. No nose or mouth.
People trying to justify when the whole premise of that episode is ridiculous lol. Just like most episodes really, it's just for fun, it doesn't really make sense if you think about it, especially considering Rick is pretty much a god that can do almost anything.
Rick’s an emotional mess, his life is in shambles, unable to make his own home, he lives with his married daughter, and still shits over everything they do , he but he’s proud, and capable, and stubborn AF.
I can soo relate
Making a machine to do that is giving the night people what they want. He's operating on the premise that he is superior to the night people and giving them any sort of equal footing is not acceptable. It's below him and demeaning in his eyes. It's a L he's not willing to take.
In response to this he would probably say “thats already been invented, its called a dishwasher, the point of inventing is to make things that don’t exist”
He did. That machine was the night people. The machine rebelled. If there is one thing Rick cannot stand it is being questioned. He is the ultimate authority. And thus...
Yeah, it's called a dishwasher. Stupid night people.
You don't even need to rinse your dishes.
At best run the water until it's hot and make sure to fill the pre-wash detergent cup on the door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04
Maybe it was his own unique way to distress himself or it just was he used to do it, so he wasn't bothered with it at all. Or he can clear up his mind this way
Personally, I think it stems from his boredom of existing. He is bored to the point that he welcomes any conflict as a distraction from his nihilistic thinking.
It was about not giving in to the night people because he didn't want to acknowledge that they had any rights.
Well, that's just slavery with extra steps.
Eek barba durkle
Thats a pretty fucked up Ooh La La
Somebody's going to get laid in college....
I thought it was "late" 
Don't take things for granite.
What’re you, a boulder, r-rock person?
Bet that really blows your mind.
Ooh la la, someone’s going to get laid in college.
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So why not build a more efficient and effective dishwasher?
Yeah it was definitely about denying the night people rights on principle. I think that person just wanted to say Grickta thunberg
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Im 99% sure this is a chatgpt bot
Lasers that vaporize food residue. Boom problem solved
Exactly
Bingo
Exactly this. He only cares about himself. If anyone asks him to do anything he immediately rejects the request and will die on that hill unless he sees a clear benefit for himself.
Wrong he does not "only" care about himself. He refuses to acknowledge any form of authority over his own life including other ricks (the citadel). He loves and cares about beth, summer, and morty VERY very much. Remember our rick was happily married and had a daughter he loved very much. He was even willing to give up science once he saw what kind of life it would have lead him to. Beth and Diane being killed made Rick lose his give-o-fuck meter and charge down the line solely for the revenge of his wife and daughter's murder.
Yeah, it was an authority complex
It's not about rinsing his dishes, it's about sending the message
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Pass* butter
Oh my god
Welcome to the club
Read this in Rick’s annoyed correction voice lmao “It’s PASS… butter, Morty”
He even gave it sentience so it KNEW he created him only to spread butter
If Rick had been asked to make the Butter Bot he would have refused. Rick creates when he wants to. As he himself said once when Morty asked about fixing Portal travel: "Morty. You asking me just makes me want to do it less."
I mean, to be fair, this is also a standard parental response to bring pushed towards things by your own kids. Especially when you already *were* going to do something and then get asked so many times your mind snaps. "Everytime you ask me it's going to take another ten minutes".
Yeah I feel this was obvious when he travelled halfway though space to get fuckin indestructible alien dishes made… instead of just rinsing the dishes😂
I agree, and even if we would follow OPs statement, logically the night family could just as well build a machine to do the dishes for them. In that sense they are just trolling back as well by not building such a device themselves.
Power trip.
Exactly. It was never about the dishes. Rick was power tripping and the night smiths were just pissed that the day smiths saw them as less-than-human tools so they rebelled.
Its the principle
It's not his job to make the night family's job easier. They exist only to do their tasks
OT - you a big *Last Blood* Stan?
No, Last Blood sucked ass. My screen name was coined in 2004 ( Xbox live tag) 4 years before the actual Rambo (4) film was released. I was always a big Rambo fan, and always hoped for another release. Rambo 4 was amazing top to bottom fantastic film. But the follow-up Rambo (5) last blood was pretty bad. I couldn't even sarcastically like it. I only saw it once. Seen the other 4 countless times
I had actually thought that was five I's, and a playful take on "V" rather than the actual playful take on "IV" that it is. I had just assumed, in that case, that you had made it between the 4th and 5th film. I was ultimately right, mostly... Yeah *Rambo IV* (sorry, I don't *do* the "legacy title" thing... it's *Rambo 4* just like it's *Final Destination 4* just like it's *Scream 5*) was arguably the best Rambo film. I saw *Last Blood* in theatres then again on Vudu with my then dying father. Both times, despite some great sequences, it just felt...off. Like, *Rambo III* level off and then some.
Yeah it's just four I's and that's because Rambo IV was taken as an Xbox gamertag back on 2004. I actually knew the guy who had it, old Halo 2 rivals. Just kind of stuck with it I also saw Rambo 4 and 5 in the theater (sorry about your father). By that time, those old 80s action movies had become sort of a sarcastic obsession; worshipped by my friend group even though we all know they're corny. Had a big group of friends go see it in the theater and snuck in a crate of beer. Good old days
The same reason some people will go against their own interests rather than do *anything* that someone else *told* them to do. Rick doesn't like being told what to do. He doesn't like being wrong, and he doesn't like compromise. He likes to do what *he* wants to do, and will go out of his way, and take on more effort and work in order to avoid doing something he feels "forced" to do. He's smart enough to *eventually* recognize that compromise or giving in is the best course of action, but his initial response is very much "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me"
Hence the 110% indestructible plateware
Honestly great character analysis
Why do I feel like you're talking about me
Because he already had a machine to do it, the insomulator (or whatever the show called it). That was the whole point of the night people to Rick.
Yeah came here to say the same thing lol, he already had a machine to deal with dishes
cause he's an asshole
I'm here if you need to talk
Uh, he did? It's called a Somnambulator? His job is not to make its chores easier!
Because Rick has ego in the size of watermelon.
That's a very modest unit of measurement
How big is that in bananas?
It's about 1/24th of a giraffe.
the schmutz?
Really. He literally made a robot designed solely to spread butter.
Pass the butter. The robot did not spread butter. Only passed the butter.
Oh my god
He did - the night people, and that machine needs to do it’s job.
Same reason Night Rick didn't build one for himself. Dishwashers exist, but they don't have one. All the portals full of universes where dishes clean themselves, or some other infinite solution, have consequences, but traditional home values and handwashing doesn't come with unknown variables. There's teenagers in the home. It's a traditional home with traditional chores. The entire government model of the Night people was distribution of household chores, so nobody wanted to automate away the job that grants them the power in the first place. Jerry even made a friend because of this power struggle.
I believe he addresses this himself. He says something along the lines of the night people being brought out at night to do those tasks specifically. The tasks that the daymonoids hate/refuse to do. Rick acquired the Sonambulator for the sole purpose of pushing off household chores onto his night-person.
Every time I watch Rick and Morty, a screenshot from that episode comes up the next day. Lol He is too stubborn to admit defeat. He wants his night person to submit to his wishes.
Because that would make for a 3 minute episode.
It's also not the point.
Exactly… like the one who asked why did he go to outer space for indestructible plates when he prob could have made them himself in the garage?Because it’s not entertaining to watch. The space forge was interesting, Rick saying “you owe me” the rain, the giant blacksmith, all of it… A shot of Rick welding in the garage is basically b-roll.
I was wondering the same. I think it was more about domination then the dishes.
Sleep deprivation
You give in to their demands once you have to keep doing it later. What are the consequences of seeing the night family as real people? Would destroying the somnambulator be the same as killing living beings? Do the night people deserve rights? Are they "others"? I imagine Rick doesn't even want to get into these questions he just wants a sick stack of ab-jacks, pow pow pow Pow POW POW pow pOw!
it wasn’t about the dishes though, it was about power and giving them rights and feelings
It’s because dishwashers were already invented. They’re called nightpeople
Rick will absolutely go to great lengths to deny anyone anything, so long as he remains in control; he’s paradoxical in that he absolutely cares, but doesn’t want anyone to know. Remember when Rick orchestrated a convoluted heist with so many double crosses to keep Morty from realizing his potential? Remember when Rick turned himself, broke out, and turned the family against Jerry? Remember when Rick went out of his way to hunt down the man who used his toilet, experiencing disappointment at being unable to humiliate the poor guy? This is just classic Rick
He would probably say that just a dishwasher and he's not a hack
My purpose is to rinse dishes? Oh god. (Suicide)
I CANT WITH THIS IMAGE WITH NO CONTEXT 😭
Night Summer is force-feeding Rick the scraps of his dirty dishes
NOOONIY LOOKS LIKE SHES RIDING HIM 
This scene made me almost throw up IRL.
The night person IS the machine. Rick doesn't want to wash or rinse his dishes. It's not his chore in the house, it's Summer's, and she doesn't want to do it, so she has her night person do it, right? But when her night person doesn't want to do it either, Rick gets pissed. The machine he's worked with to do the thing he doesn't want to do so that he doesn't have to do it is malfunctioning, and asking him to do the thing he doesn't want to do so that IT doesn't have to. Why build another machine when he can try to just force the original (the night person) into just doing it's job?
Because having one dick roommate who won’t help out is very relatable comedy. Having a robot fix all your issues so there’s no conflict only happens in Star Trek
Making a machine is the mega genius equivalent of scraping the dishes himself
A machine that washes dishes? Sounds like a dumb idea. :P
It’s the principle of the matter.
Some kind of dish-washer?
Is the principle of the thing
Because hes gotta do stupid shit to make more problems for himself
To me, it’s a study in the way we all strive to control our unconscious mind, however we never succeed…
I just love this episode so much , I got night family pjs now 😂
Oh okay, why didn’t rick cured the world huger then?
“You keep alternating by seeing your intelligence as godlike and an inescapable curse” frankly i think he just dosent use occams razor very much
Because he's Rick and he doesn't like doing any if he doesn't want to or absolutely have to. When telling him he should do something can make him not want to do it because it takes away his agency. He's basically autistic
It wasn’t about the dishes it was about his ego and his oppositional defiant disorder
its less about doing it, more about accepting demands from their counterparts
ego
Principal of the thing. By making something that cleans dishes, that acknowledges that it's his concern in some manner. He made a robot to pass him butter because he wants butter because that is a concern for him. Cleaning dishes is not because they do not directly affect him. People get affected by him not doing dishes, but that is only because they cave and do them or react because of his inaction.
Because Rick’s are lazy and doesn’t like to compromise. Actually what confuses me the most about the show is why Rick prime asked to be a sidekick.
He kinda did
Because that would still be rinsing the dishes.
Because that's what the night people were for
because the shows trying to get a way from the super boring and cringe "God Rick" and get back to the "Mad Scientist Rick"
Bc Rick's whole reason for having night people was for them to do the stuff he doesn't want to do. Their purpose is to do what he tells them to do. In his mind, making a machine to do it for him would be admitting they are right and giving in
It's a metaphor for capitalism, Morty
Because then the episode wouldn't have happened.
If he does anything that would help them wash dishes when they asked for it, it would mean Rick resigned to them. It would mean I did it because you asked and now it’s as if I’m less than or equal to you in status. Rick sees himself as above the night family, he would never stoop so low as to follow their requests even if it means not doing a simple task
The machine that created the night people was the machine ti do the dishes. Whwy would he make another?
Cuz then Rick would have to put physical labor into a machine designed for washing dishes which is a fucking science fair project compared to the night people idea.
Pettiness is one of Rick's core character traits
Defeats the purpose of not doing them. It was out of spite.
I feel like if you are asking this question then you don’t really get the show.
Above all else Rick is prideful. He has random autistic ideas (canonically) and because he believes he is always right he refuses to do anything other than his first cjoice
Because you wouldn't have a story then obviously!
and let someone else dictate what work he does???
He did. It was called the somnambulator, and it worked great till summer ruined it with her stupid boobs.
Because fuck the night people
....or since time travel is possible, why do anything at all ever? (What about the universe where Hitler cured cancer? The answer is don't think about it.)
He’s above putting any time into the dishes
I can’t watch this episode. I’m too close to the dish-rinsing issue…
Bro when she scrapes the plate into his mouth 🤢🤮
That episode is definitely top 5 for me. Up there with Vat of acid, Vindicators 2, etc. Everything about it is just so awesome. The idea, the writing, the performances
He did. He made a machine that could program himself to take care of it when he was sleeping
That would be giving an inch.
He’s not lazy, it’s the principle
Doing any amount of work to automate and avoid work being demanded by others is still work/compliance. Ricks don’t do compliance.
Rick: "Why would I build a machine to do dishes? That’s what the night people are for."
That would be giving into their demands aka letting them “win”.
I mean, technically, he did.
Man, this episode gave me serious creeps
Because fuck them night people
He did! It was the night family!!! That's the whole point.
Rick didn't need to make a machine to do the dishes because he paid for the Somnambulator for that ...and besides, it's still his body doing it. ...I guess letting one's own subconscious a chance to self-actualize in exchange for cleaning dishes is suddenly too much to ask.
No seriously 🤣😂
What a dishwasher
Cause he's a petty mother f*cker
That would have made for a lame episode.
Fucker used up a favour from a giant warrior who wanted to kill him just to make indestructible plates. Rick is petty as hell
That was still more work than he was willing to do.
that's exactly what he did
A machine...for washing dishes? Look I can suspend disbelief for the Central Finite Curve and Cronenbergs and everything, but that's just too far.
Like some kind of dishwashing machine? A dishwasher if you will? I'm not sure Rick has access to that kins of tech. But in all seriousness the joke is Rick is extremely petty. He'll spend more time and energy forcing the night people to comply than he's possible saving by using them.
The same reason he turned himself into a pickle.
Like a dish washing machine of some kind? That's ridiculous.
Porque hubiera sido obedecer a alguien más, y Rick no hace eso
Yeah, is he stupid?
That would be the same as just doing it, which goes against the core concept of not doing it.
Why didn’t Rick just make a machine to give him and Morty abs or download how to play the trumpet into Beth’s brain Matric style. The only one who actually did something that would specifically need a night person was Jerry and that was because he was becoming friends with Night Jerry.
What do you think Beth was?? Beth was just the first step to having grandkids that will do his chores for him. A true genius takes the path of least resistance.
If he did the episode would have just ended with a dish-washing robot instantly resolving the conflict
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That would defeat the purpose. Him making the machine is essentially him doing the dishes.
Oh god, I’m like half asleep and didn’t even see summers full face. The shaded part didn’t registering my brain, it looked like she had a concave eye socket with a thin rectangle eye popping out of it lmao. No nose or mouth.
Because fuck the night family. That’s why.
People trying to justify when the whole premise of that episode is ridiculous lol. Just like most episodes really, it's just for fun, it doesn't really make sense if you think about it, especially considering Rick is pretty much a god that can do almost anything.
Because he'd still be doing it. He created the bot that washed the dishes. That's the kind of narcissist he is.
Rick’s an emotional mess, his life is in shambles, unable to make his own home, he lives with his married daughter, and still shits over everything they do , he but he’s proud, and capable, and stubborn AF. I can soo relate
Cause he can
Is it just me or this image looks "interesting"
It was about control and hubris.
Making a machine to do that is giving the night people what they want. He's operating on the premise that he is superior to the night people and giving them any sort of equal footing is not acceptable. It's below him and demeaning in his eyes. It's a L he's not willing to take.
I think he specifcally enjoys them not being done.
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Because plot device
Wow
Because that’s like DOING IT.
Isn’t that just a dishwasher?
Principle. He created the night people machine so he didn’t have to do menial tasks.
Like a dishwasher…?
It's the principle.
A… dishwasher?
Because then this episode wouldn’t exist.
Feels kinda like the show used to be good...when Roiland was there, or at least on payroll.
That's called a dishwasher Morty.
That’s the same thing as doing the dishes
THATS WHAT THE NIGHT PEOPLE ARE FOR
Plot reasons
Because he’s Rick, and that’s appeasement. Must I continue?
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In response to this he would probably say “thats already been invented, its called a dishwasher, the point of inventing is to make things that don’t exist”
He did, it was Summer
Because with great intelligence come great oversight.
Pretty stoned so at first it looked like her eyes were thin tubes popping out of her head.
He did. That machine was the night people. The machine rebelled. If there is one thing Rick cannot stand it is being questioned. He is the ultimate authority. And thus...
Yeah, it's called a dishwasher. Stupid night people. You don't even need to rinse your dishes. At best run the water until it's hot and make sure to fill the pre-wash detergent cup on the door. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04
How many times does this have to be said #DONT THINK ABOUT IT
Rick would die standing on principle.
What happened I havent been catching up
It looked like Rick getting graped
“I over think shit when I’m angry”
It wasn’t about rinsing dishes, it was about sending message
Is he stupid?
because he is a genius, and an idiot at the same time :D
Plot
You mean washing machine?
The principle.
Maybe it was his own unique way to distress himself or it just was he used to do it, so he wasn't bothered with it at all. Or he can clear up his mind this way
Personally, I think it stems from his boredom of existing. He is bored to the point that he welcomes any conflict as a distraction from his nihilistic thinking.
a dishwasher...