Rick and Morty Podcast -RaM Ep 48 – S1E6 Rick Potion #9

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We’re talking love vs. infatuation and just how terrible love potions really are for episode 6 of Rick and Morty, Rick Potion #9!

SHOW NOTES – Rick Potion #9

Semi Pertinent News

Run Jewels Video
- Animated by RaM team
- Adult Swim Festival
Dan Harmon not tweet minute
- Season 4 not happening??!
- Justin Roiland – For everyone telling me to get back to work on Rick and Morty (season four) turn your attention to Turner. I’m waiting around just like you. Making some cool video games in the meantime though! @squanchgames
Dan Harmon tweet minute
- I just saw Chuck Woolery’s twitter timeline and I will be back in oof and oof
- Now people are just responding with animated gifs of people from 20 year old TV shows “not getting” my reference to a 30 year old TV show

MAIN THANG – Rick Potion #9

S1E6 – “Rick Potion #9”

Originally aired: January 27, 2014
Written by Justin Roiland
Directed by Stephen Sandoval

Synopsis
- A dance at Morty’s high school prompts him to ask Rick if he can create a Rick potion that will make his pretty classmate Jessica find Morty attractive. However, because Jessica has the flu, the potion goes haywire and becomes airborne and causes nearly the whole population of Earth to fall for Morty save for blood relatives. Rick fixes up an antidote which does not produce its hoped results. Meanwhile, Jerry becomes concerned about Beth’s fidelity. Eventually both plots cross paths. This results in Rick and Morty migrating to another reality where that reality’s Rick successfully cures all of Earth, but he and that reality’s Morty die in an experiment allowing Rick and Morty to assume their roles.
Production Notes
- Production title was “Love Pandemic” and second episode in production order after “Lawnmower Dog”
- This episode changes the show’s identity
- All the cronenberg animations had to be done frame by frame where the rest of the show is done using Harmony puppets
- The goggles that Rick pulls out to search for a new dimension are the same interdimensional goggles that become a focal point in “Rixty Minutes”
- You can spot Tammy in the background during the flu dance. Since this was #2 in production order, she was still an incidental design without a name.
- Since this episode was so early in the production timeline, the stuttering is more pronounced than the episodes before and after.
Reddit Discussion Points:
- The whole “love potion gone wrong” device is a pretty standard story trope, but this episode really emphasizes the how creepy and violating the concept really is (Rick’s line about the roofie serum). How do you feel about Morty being the central instigator in this violation?
- Between the events of this episode and his encounter with Mr. Jellybean in “Meeseeks”, Morty has stared down some some deeply traumatic experiences. How do you feel his character has or hasn’t grown/developed from these experiences?
- (Sometimes I feel like this show’s ethos comes down to “It’s all fun and games until… And then it’s still fun and games”)
- Followup: Do you feel like Morty’s character development since these events has been adequately addressed?
- Rick seems to have experience with bailing on one reality for another one. Do you think he’s done this before? What could have happened to cause him to do this?
- What do you think happened to Davin? Since the planet never went through the love pandemic, Davin would still be alive and Beth & Jerry’s relationship wouldn’t have fixed itself.
- How do you feel about the lack of Beth’s development so far? Can you see them developing her character further? What directions do you think they could take?
- Fuck, Marry, Kill: Goldenfold, Brad, and Principle Vagina. GO!
- Do you think Beth, Jerry, and summer exterminated Cronenberg Rick and Morty? Solucid
- Mr blue sky – Given how cavalier Rick is about the nature of existence and family ties, why does Rick even bother A) trying to fix this Earth and B) taking this Morty along to an alternate dimension? He has infinite families.
Favorite Bits
- Travis
  - Flu Dance
- Brandon
  - MC Haps
  - Background jokes

Blood Dome Battle League

Goldenfold vs. Principal Vagina

Results:
- It was the first day of summer vacation for the students at Harry Herpson High School. At least, it was for the students. Every year since Principal Vagina (no relation) took over, the staff was forced to come in for some cheesy faculty breakfast. Principal Vagina used the breakfast to hand out superlative, meaningless awards to the faculty in the format of a bad, hollywood award show (I mean, if those award shows were filmed in a dirty high school gymnasium).
- Despite the frustration from most of the school staff, Mr. Goldenfold really enjoyed the Harry Herpson awards, or “Herpies” as they were commonly referred to. He had one the “Hardest Tryer at teaching Maths” award for the last two years and he already had a spot picked out for award number three. In fact, Mr. Goldenfold was already up and walking toward the stage when Principal Vagina (no relation) announced that Mrs. Toodleshorts had won this year.
- Enraged and embarrased, Mr. Goldenfold tore his yellow, v-neck sweater in two and charged the stage. Blinded by his rage, he leapt onto the platform and grabbed two of the remaining trophies, one in each hand. “YOU DON’T KNOW ME!” Goldenfold shouted! Principal Vagina spun around just as Goldenfold slammed a trophy down on the Principal’s head. Goldenfold managed to beat Vagina with the Herpies for several minutes before the gym teachers were able to break things up. As Mr. Goldenfold was escorted off school property, some teachers say they could hear the faint prayers of Principal Vagina saying “oh great and glorious floating heads, please don’t let my omelette get cold…”
- 30/70 (Facebook) & 45/55 (twitter)
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