astronomy

Something Ricked This Way Comes

Something Ricked This Way Comes is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Something Ricked This Way Comes rather than just read about it. In short: "Something Ricked This Way Comes" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American science fiction comedy television series Rick and Morty. Aired on March 24, 2014, the episode was directed by John Rice and written by Mike McMahan.

Key takeaways

Something Ricked This Way Comes belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Something Ricked This Way Comes to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Something Ricked This Way Comes from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

"Something Ricked This Way Comes" is the ninth episode of the first season of the American science fiction comedy television series Rick and Morty. Aired on March 24, 2014, the episode was directed by John Rice and written by Mike McMahan. The episode aired on March 6, 2016, in Canada. It stars Justin Roiland as Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith. The title is a reference to the dark fantasy novel Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, in which "Mr. Dark", the sinister leader of a traveling carnival comes to town, granting the townsfolk's secret desires but always paired with an ironic twist. For example, a 50-year-old schoolteacher wishes to be young again and is transformed into a little girl but is now blind. A stand-alone sequel miniseries, Rick and Morty Go to Hell, was published by Oni Press from April 29 to October 21, 2020.

Plot In a take on Needful Things, Summer works in an antique shop run by the Devil (under the alias of Lucius Needful), which gives away items that come with harmful curses. After Rick is given a microscope that would have greatly diminished his intelligence, he develops technology that can quantify evil and detect curses. Rick then sets up a competing shop where he uses science to remove the curses, and the Devil is put out of business. Summer helps him to successfully re-launch the shop online as N33dful, but he betrays her and keeps the company for himself. Rick has become bored with running a business and burns the shop down, then he and Summer build muscle and publicly beat up the Devil to get revenge. Meanwhile, Jerry, helping Morty with a model Solar System as a science fair project, insists that Pluto is a planet, going so far as to lobby NASA to re-instate its planetary status. They are abducted by Plutonians to their planet, where Jerry is mistaken for a scientist. His statements about Pluto being a planet make him instantly popular. Morty is told by Scroopy Noopers, a leading Plutonian scientist, that Pluto is shrinking due to corporate plutonium mining which will ultimately lead to its destruction, and that the Plutonian leadership is keeping the population distracted by assuring them Pluto is still a planet. Morty fails to convince Jerry of Pluto's diminishing size and the resultant cover-up, returning to Earth in frustration. However, after witnessing the arrest of Scroopy Noopers and hearing Flippy Nips, the King of Pluto and Scroopy Noopers's father, lets slip that Pluto is in fact a celestial dwarf, Jerry tells the Plutonian citizens the truth and denounces himself in a public speech, causing him to be hated and deported back to Earth. Jerry apologises to Morty and asks if they could finish his science fair project, but Morty tells him that he instead plans to hand in a robot built by Rick to pass butter. In a post-credits scene, Summer and Rick use their new muscle mass to beat up a neo-Nazi, a bully, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church and an abusive dog owner.

Reception Corey Plante of Inverse praised the unusual Morty-Jerry storyline in the episode, but criticized other parts of it, saying "So the surface level plots of "Something Ricked This Way Comes" feel pretty boring, with one being more derivative than it is subversive and the other being a long-winded joke." Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club said: "It's a riff on climate change deniers: when the truth is that unsettling, people would much rather pretend they can make it go away by listening to an idiot."

References

External links "Something Ricked This Way Comes" at IMDb

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Something Ricked This Way Comes

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Something Ricked This Way Comes claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Something Ricked This Way Comes before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Something Ricked This Way Comes ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Something Ricked This Way Comes

In research: Something Ricked This Way Comes appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Something Ricked This Way Comes in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Something Ricked This Way Comes is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2014 American television episodes, Parodies of works by Stephen King, Pluto's planethood, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Something Ricked This Way Comes outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Something Ricked This Way Comes in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Something Ricked This Way Comes means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Something Ricked This Way Comes out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Something Ricked This Way Comes in simple terms?

Why does Something Ricked This Way Comes matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Something Ricked This Way Comes?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Something Ricked This Way Comes.