Rick and Morty - RaM Ep 52 – S1E09 Something Ricked This Way Comes

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Something is Ricked… and it comes this way… we talk about the S1E9 of Rick and Morty, talk about cursed items and our favorite moments from the episode!

SHOW NOTES

Semi Pertinent News

70 more episodes
- Let’s talk about this for a minute… though it seems wholly pertinent
S3 DVD Out Now!
- What’s in the box?!?
Rickmobile is back on the road!!
Dan Harmon tweet minute
- To a tweet, “Maybe you’d have time to write S4 if you didn’t tweet all day”
- Sure. Maybe Bigfoot likes baseball or maybe Paris is nice. Maybe your knowledge of TV is limited to a public trough containing mostly other viewers’ puke. Who knows? Oh. I do. So why stand by the trough, is your point. I don’t know. It’s where grew up. But you’re right. I can move.

MAIN THANG – Something Ricked This Way Comes

S1E9 – “Something Ricked This Way Comes”
- Originally aired: March 24, 2014
- Written by Mike McMahan
- Directed by john Rice and Pete Michels

Synopsis
- Rick starts a feud with the Devil after he moves into town and offers Summer a job in a “Needful Things” send-up. Meanwhile Jerry tries to help Morty finish his science project and lands them in the middle of a political conspiracy-thriller plot on the planet Pluto (ahem *celestial dwarf). There’s also a D-plot in which a small robot discovers existential dread

Discussion Points:

Reddit Discussion
- Pluto. Is it a planet, a celestial dwarf or something completely different? Defend your science!
- Have you played Jerry’s game? If so, what’s your high score?
- Some voids can’t be filled with Jamba Juice, but what voids can be filled by jamba juice?
- What item in Mr. Needful’s shop would you grab? After taking it to Curse Purge Plus how would that item be improved?
- This episode explores a lot of Science versus Magic. Does the existence of the Devil prove problematic for the universe the show has created? Do Rick’s viewpoints hold up if Magic exists? Is magic just fancy science?
- Besides the Appley Award, what other things can you spot in Mr. Needful’s store?
Favorite Bits
- Travis
  - X gonna give it to ya
  - n33dful.com spelled with threes instead of e’s
- Brandon
  - Plutanamo bay
  - Rich Fulcher’s voice and the eyes for cold, cold, celestial dwarf
  - Commentary stuff
Fan thoughts
- Cursed items
  - Oh, rick and morty podcast- yes- there are many cursed items that didn’t make it in. Unfortunately, if I told you those cutting room floor tidbits, I’d have to kill you. – Mike McMahan
  - A male enhancement drug that gives you a 9 inch hard on all the time EXCEPT when you try to have sex; complete cold swimming pool during that! #hell #FML – The Mustache Man
  - A free cellphone that takes a few seconds of your life each time you call or text someone – thegrantramos
  - How about an endless bag of Starbursts…but it’s only the yellow ones
  - Eric Pitcher A microphone that gives you an instantly successful podcast and/or YouTube channel but your recorded voice always sounds like Professor Frink from the Simpsons.
  - Chelsea Schauer Cruz 10,000 spoons when all I need is a knife

Blood Dome Battle League

Annie vs Arthricia
- What happened?
  - Autumn Pillen I feel like Annie is too soft for Morty. He needs a girl who can handle him at his…”purge-iest”
  - Keagan Engbrock Definitely arthricia like come on she had the robot suit. She grow up with the purg
  - Eric Pitcher You really could spin this either way. Sure, Arthricia grew up on a purge planet but Annie may or may not have had to fight off the infectious diseases and rapey pirates…
- The Results
  - 83% for Arthricia on Twitter
  - 60% for Arthricia on FB
- Next Time!
  - Birdperson vs Morty jr.