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Show Notes – S6E3: Bethic Twinstinct
Semi Pertinent News
- Jeff Loveness to write “Avengers: Kang Dynasty”
- Reddit Post of the Week
- Mmm I’m Mr. Frundles (the new community emoji)
- X647, 6.8k upvotes, 6 awards including the “Yes” and “Silver” award. No Reports
- Dan Harmon Social Media Minute
- Dan Does Planks
Main Thang – S6E3: Bethic Twinstinct
Episode Details
- Air Date: 9/18/2022
- Written by: Anne Lane
- Directed by: Douglas Einar Olsen
- Guest Stars: Nolan North and Tress MacNeille
Broh-nopsis: Gotta love yourself or no one else ever will, broh.
Our Synopsis: The Smiths celebrate one of their favorite holidays while Summer and Morty lock into their new ultra-realistic video game console.
Discussion
- Title Reference: It’s a reference to the Paul Verhoeven classic, Basic Instinct
- Themes
- Exploring yourself
- Earth Beth and Space Beth take their relationship to the next level
- Does it take a Narcissist to fall in love with yourself?
- “Is Beth allowed to like herself?” – Dan Harmon
- Tough Questions; Incest or Advanced Masturbation, Self-cest?
- What do you think it means that Space Beth keeps a family photo in her spaceship?
- Looking at Space Beth as a younger Rick
- Are Beth, Beth and Jerry a “Throuple” now? (Scott Marder comments in Inside the Episode)
- Avoidance
- Summer and Morty’s sudden turn to video games
- “Mental flexibility is stronger than stubbornness”
- “Some of us need all the control we can get”
- Jerry’s Pill Bug Protocol
- Rather turn into a bug than have a conversation
- Beth’s just wanting to Mind Blower instead of dealing with things
- The entire Thanksgiving scene with Rick, Morty, and Summer… shit is happening and they are trying to ignore it and eat
- Rick putting liquor in a cabinet and turning on the disposal
- Summer and Morty’s sudden turn to video games
- Video Games
- Is this the Interdimensional Cable for the season? How well does it fit the anthology?
- Simulation/Space Games
- Increased realism = less fun?
- Fighting Games
- “Gettin’ to a Street Fight!”
- Battle Royale, Meth Mode, Pants-Free, Urban, Slappers only
- Cloud trying to lift the sword
- Increased realism = more cool?
- “Gettin’ to a Street Fight!”
- Text Based Gaming
- Clearings = vampires?
- “Your mother will be in the shadows soon”
- Exploring yourself
- Favorite Bits
- “Turkey Dracula”
- “You guys are just trying to convince yourself this is cool because you guys feel lame about it.” “Summer you know nothing about gamer culture”
- Morty and Jerry both shouting out “VANILLA” for their flavor request
- “Forgetting the Ice Cream” is now officially code for doing it with yourself
- “As the kids say, YOU DO YOU.”
- Full San Junipero
- Sapphic horse girls
- “Thanks for, doing it, moms”
- Prom it like it’s hot
- How old are we? We’ve had a million Thanksgivings
- Rick’s ass tattoos
- Jerry packing up a closet full of the same shirt
- “Get married by a robot and finger yourselves on the moon”
- Morty with the salt shaker
- Thankful for water and the Discovery Channel
- The way they repeat the hard cuts of Summer and Morty finding out about their moms and then instantly playing video games
- Jerry’s Pill-Bug Protocol
- Naruto callback, best or worst?
Short Outs
- Email!
So here’s the theory:
Interdimensional Cable has become a staple of the show, I mean…just look at your podcast name.
The show keeps Interdimensional Cable present in the background of many episodes…but I think a lot of people forget the B-plot of the first Interdimensional Cable episode.
Rick invented goggles that allow you to look through the eyes of yourself in other universes. I kept thinking about this being used to find Evil Morty or maybe Evil Morty using them to spy on Rick c-137. Now I’m thinking our Rick might use this in his obsessive quest to find Rick Prime.
It would be interesting and hypocritical for Jerry, Beth and Summer, who are now content with their reality just wanting to watch Interdimensional Cable while Rick and Morty search obsessively for their Prime/Evil versions (inverting the original episode)….or maybe it’s the other way around and Rick Prime uses the goggles to spy on our Rick.
Anyway it’s an Interdimensional Cable goggles callback theory. Take it or leave it.
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