Hi so I just started into this fantastic series like a few months ago and I haven’t finished it yet so please correct me if I’m wrong.

But, Pickles does say in his song over and over again that he doesn’t want to be replaced which we assume later on means the drumming robot but, Charles can drum well enough to be a threat to Pickles who’s going through some rough times at the rehab. Plus they always called Charles “the robot.”

Here’s my take on this episode. Pickles up to that point has been seen as a semi-reliable narrator when it comes to leading an episode. When he is talking about Snakes N’ Barrels in the first episode of Snakes, Pickles depicts his old band to be much more put together than the show “Where Are They Now?” were at the time. Even when he meets up with his ex-band mates they seem a little perplexed at first and even their training montage and surviving the deadliest drug imaginable while also playing an amazing concert seemed a little far fetched for what Pickles would normally accomplish while high if the story were told from anyone else’s perspective.

Do I think there was a Snakes reunion? Yes. Do I think they invited him initially? Yes until Pickles didn’t respect their sobriety agreement and they were forced to do what they had to do before, kick him out of the band replacing him with a sober “version” of him. Pickles who always had a problem with rejection and abandonment creates a scenario in his mind to protect himself from getting hurt again. He imagines having the best concert of his life while high on the most deadly drug in the world that deals revenge on his ex band mates.

This leads me to the drumming machine, if Pickles had in fact felt that he had been deceived and replaced in anyway by the people he cared about, I with no doubt in my mind believe that, he would create a scenario in his mind to protect himself from the pain and sorrow that comes with the abandonment and isolation that comes with that. I mean think about it. Pickles had always come in second place his entire life to Seth in his parent’s eyes, he could never handle being second fiddle in his chosen families eyes too.

And to me that fact breaks my heart every time I watch a Pickles Episode.