Surprise Round! - Bonus Scenarios: The Hedgehog Dilemmas

i have never in my entire life heard someone pronounce aeropostale like that… i’m just going to tell myself it’s the new jersey speaking

“I could read a book while driving?”

So the downloading Grinch porn round, in college I replaced the Windows login sound with a female orgasm sound and disabled the volume buttons on my roommates laptop and the first time he booted it up was in the library

Daddy needs his go go juice

Per tradition, you gotta say "Gotta go fast" and then knock back that blue go go juice

why are they pronouncing aeropostale like that

Okay so hack for the grich computer question, feel free to say its not in the spirit of the game. Its all your computers. So I set up one computer in an isolated secure location that does the Downloading grinch porn every hour. Now all my other computers are grinch themed but don’t scream about grinch porn.

"i don't know, i've seen jake parallel park. he might be force sensitive"

I didn’t know where to post this, but Sega is currently hiring a Lore Archivist whose focus is specifically on Sonic’s storied history/lore. It felt important to let y’all know https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/archivist-lore-at-sega-of-america-inc-3999018559

For the Grinch Computer, why not just dress as the Grinch all the time and just play into the bit

There are few other words than porn that would make that challenge a quicker yea

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Freaking Toyota MidiCorolians

I’m so glad Caldwell made the Todd comparison for telekinesis. Spot on!

I need ally beardsley to submit a question

Caldwell spoiling Attack of the Clones for Emily reminds me of when they spoiled the animorph series for Jake

Favourite quotes from this include -Jake: I know what Sonic's piss tastes like, okay!? -Caldwell: I'm daddy in this situation.

Murph i bench 315 imagine manipulating a storm of knives or robbing a bank orrr manipulating a liquid

The way Murph pronounces Aeropostale makes me very upset

My phone is now suggesting me Aeropostale ads

All of these can be solved with copious amounts of gaslighting.

Jake is the best Toyota driver as he passes everyone in his AE86

Yuncle and Yantly Charge

We have underestimated the value of using telekinesis to move awkward furniture. Like, I have the strength to lift a small couch or a mattress, but it is always so awkward. Always having what is essentially a helping hand would be amazing.

Telekinesis the spell SLAPS. Just saying.

Emily, your outfits on d20 are such a big inspiration for me. Your looks are always so cool and creative! I was surprised that you said you're not that into fashion, but keep up the good work haha. I know y'all work with a wardrobe team to some degree too.

I definitely had the same fear of Chucky as Murph when I was a kid

After hearing Murph talk about WWE so much throughout multiple episodes, i need to know if he's ever seen (or should i say heard) the radioprank phone call about John Cena Superslam! For anyone curious, just type "John Cena phone prank" on youtube, it's worth the approximately 6 minutes it last

Podme? Shame on you, Caldewll!

Further Sonic deep lore: If Sonic obtains all of the Chaos Emeralds he becomes Super Sonic, a golden-spined super-powered hedgehog that can fly and can destroy anything just by being in contact with it. It also drives him utterly insane and turns him into a homicidal maniac. Do. Not. Let. The. Hedgehog. In. The. House.

Caldwell. TOYOTA-CHLORIANS. I heard it. Very good joke. 1 point

Emily, you have sold me on every single religious image you have created during these surprise rounds. No one else could convince me to take the Sonic communion.

CALDWELL!!!! PHANTOM MENACE ONE-SHOT WHERE EVERYTHING IS EXACTLY THE SAME EXCEPT QUI-GIN AND OBI-WAN ARE THE TRIPLETS PLEASE!!!!!!

Pls bring back turtle tank! So ready for you to get lost in it again.

Regarding the wifi one: can I still use other devices without the wifi? Can I use my phone on my cell plan?

Weird that they talked so long about the telekinesis and no one noted that is basically a stronger Mage Hand

it took way to long for me to figure out that "air-o pastel" was aeropastale

I think another qualifier for the areopostale question should be that it's frosted tips for short hair and chunky unblended highlights for long hair

In response to what Emily said about telekinesis, I played a bard once who took telekinesis with magical secrets. Telekinesis works particularly well with bards in my experience, because it’s all skill check based, so you get to add your jack of all trades half proficiency bonus to all your spellcasting ability checks, you can use cutting words against your opponents’ strength checks, and since it’s skill check based, enemies with legendary resistances won’t have a reliable counter, and even high strength enemies will be rolling plain strength checks instead of athletics check which are more likely to add proficiency. Then you get high enough level to combine it with glibness, it’s basically impossible to roll below a 22/23.

Devastated to hear Phantom Menace spoilers after avoiding the mixed bag review until actually seeing the movie 😩

Ditto on Dune. I read the first 3 before the first Dune Movie (not 1984). Just finished Dune part 2 and now I’m listening to the audiobooks. If sonic offered me the Water of Life I would totally say “if Shalud-Al allows” and totally toast to Muah’dib.

Why are they saying areopostales werid

Why do yall say aeropastale like that?

my aeropostale outfit was a tight, bright blue tank top over a tight v-neck pink short sleeve with a huge blue and purple aeropostale logo and skin tight jeans but instead of frosting tips, I had chunky blonde highlights in my black hair, and I would use my telekinesis to hold venomous snakes because I like them, but they are forbidden to touch if you are a responsible adult

DADDY NEEDS HIS GO-GO JUICE

I too was a religious studies undergrad, and while I didn't have a ballerina poster, the scariest childhood dream I ever had was about ballroom dancing mice. Are Emily and I kindred spirits...?

These last couple months in Murph-related content….we get “respect the cock” - Murph, and now we get “I drink the jizz” - Caldwell

You MUST test the hog

I had a college roommate who was obsessed with the Grinch. Couldn’t get enough of him. He watched Jim Carrey’s Grinch at least once a week and constantly made references, but was otherwise a pretty cool guy. In my second year of living with him, he even started to say he ‘took the kids to Whoville’ as a code for having sex. I thought the Grinch was fine and kind of fun, but never understood. Until the Surprise Round Grinch took me to Whoville and now I hear ‘I’m Gonna Grinch!’ In my head daily, sometimes hourly. Murph, you, you specifically, have given me a curse I will never escape from. It haunts my dreams. It haunts my days. The Grinch has me. The Grinch won’t let go. You did this. I am forever lost. I drift now into the matted green hair of his Grinchly embrace. Goodbye, world. I am with the Grinch now.

RE Caldwell's joke about becoming a wrestler meme, my brother has a wrestling reaction gif and we definitely tried to make it a thing for awhile. https://x.com/i/status/1089247848938594307

Re: grinch laptop. Just uninstall your sound drivers!

Uncletaker😂 funny bit guys

All the Sebulba talk! That’s it, I’m busting out the blu-ray right now to watch the pod race!!! (And maybe the Darth Maul fight)

It so funny that Em is on board to drink the mysterious blue liquid that could be anything but not an energy drink that she knows is an energy drink. (For the record, I have never had an energy drink)

Surprise The Undertaker comes out and it is in fact your uncle dressed as The Undertaker and he is in fact ready to kick your ass for real.

Does anyone else think it's funny they were turned off about the idea of Grinch fur on a watermelon but not in their airplane meals/drinks?

Dude Murph, Sonic isn’t real. You know that right?

Take an Uber guys bulba can't do ish about it

Fun fact, I was at Joe Lewis arena in Detroit with my aunt, who went to get merch just before stone cold got hit by a car in the parking lot and they replaced him with the big show before the big fight of the night. So the uncle stuff at wwe and him disappearing made me laugh. I’m now a young man of just 35 looking back on the highlights of my life and VERY NEARLY got a call back from my favorite podcast tonight

Here's how you make the Grinch computer work/monetize it. You have to become a DJ, leaning into the Grinch aesthetic and incorporating the automated call-out into all your sets. You go viral and are headlining Coachella next year, which has now been renamed Grinchella with Presenting Sponsor GrinchHub.

I’d for sure break my neck taking a tombstone

As a listener, it’s hard for me to think of my answer because I haven’t had my ass kicked enough to make an informed decision

‘Daddy needs his Gogo juice’ made me laugh so fucking hard

I am no stranger to DIY electronics, I take the Grinch laptop then rip the speakers out

Brian Murphy, Sony film hater and sonic-is-real believer

AAHHHH

Emily, I had a similar experience; I had a very creepy harlequin doll sat on a little wooden swing that hung from the ceiling in the corner of my room. The amount of times I would "see" it swinging and then hide under my covers having like a panic attack was unreal. Who thought that was a good idea 🤣

The last surprise round was your very best episode

I'm so caught off guard

LETS GO

I didn't expect this!

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