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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 7h

A new hiatus episode is live! We watched the original auditions for the Samurai rangers (and Bulk and Spike) and then talk about Amit Bhaumik's original pitch for Power Rangers Samurai (which we have since learned has been doctored over the years, but that's Power Rangers as hell, baby) #MorphinGrid

Bonus - What Could Have Been Power Rangers Samurai. Emily is touching a garden gnome that contains Jayden's soul. It is largely unrelated to what we talk about in this bonus episode

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our first hiatus episode is live! At the end of ever season we put that season's rangers on a big list from best to worst. And every season it gets more out of control. Hear where the Samurai Rangers land as we finally break 100 rangers! #MorphinGrid

Bonus - Post Samurai Ranger Ranking! Everyone is hanging out around Emily. It's her first birthday as a human and she's clearly trepidatious about the cake. Dog's can't have cake! And she knows that

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Episode 745 is live and with it our coverage of Power Rangers Samurai officially comes to an end! It's Christmas in September and the rangers have some very special memories to think about #MorphinGrid

745 - Super Samurai's Hit Clips. Bulk is talking while eating a cookie. It's his best line delivery of the season. Such a shame it happened so late in the game. Spike's also here. Oh! Bulk and Spike are dressed as Santa and an elf, respectively

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Episode 744 is live! @badfuckinpodcasts.com joins us for another Halloween episode that is, no joke, one of my favorite episodes we've ever done #MorphinGrid

744 - All Kinds Of Weird Thoughts In Them. The samurai rangers are lined up in front of a white curtain doing poses reminiscent(ish) of their folding zord animal. Also, and this is sort of the main thing, they are wearing animal ears and tails and accoutrements over their power rangers suits. It's bananas

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Episode 743 is live! It's the Super Samurai finale* and that can only mean one thing: 18 minutes of fighting the villain and the shortest wrap-up you can imagine. Bye Samurai! #MorphinGrid *The two holiday specials should be going up today and tomorrow

743 - Forever Ends Now. Jayden is wistfully looking over his shoulder at the other Samurai Rangers who are all packed up and ready to leave. Antonio looks like he's in a band that would have won a kids choice award in 2012

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And finally, the newest episode in the main feed: 742! The penultimate episode of Power Rangers Super Samurai doesn't go well for anyone, but it especially doesn't go well for Lauren #MorphinGrid

742 - Lauren Shiba's Awful No Good Very Bad Day. Lauren is looking up at the moon trying to figure out what the hell to do with her life now that she failed at the thing she was literally born to do. It's rough, but she's lit really well

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Realized one second too late that I wrote 741 in that last post. I'm not fixing it. This is 741. See you, ghost boneman #MorphinGrid

741 - Boneman For Good. It's a closeup on Dekker's face in his Nighlok form. It looks so cool. What a shame that it's just Cole in there

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

741 is the final showdown* between Dekker and Jayden! Shoutout to the Prongleheads out there #MorphinGrid *PSYCH

740 - Once You Duel...That's Great. Dekker and Jayden are on horses on opposites sides of the bottom of the screen. It's a really goofy visual

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In 739 we talk about the Super Mario franchise A Lot. And that's really it #MorphinGrid

739 - L Is Real 2026. A blurry figure is walking past a stone sculpture. It could be anyone. Like Luigi or something

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Before the finale* goes live this week I'm catching up on episode posts! Starting with 738! Doing a podcast is about 15% saying sentences that no one else ever has. Like "Feel Tarzan In The Sword Tonight". Also Antonio has a crisis of conscience about not killing a defenseless Dekker. #MorphinGrid

738 - Feel Tarzan In The Sword Tonight. Dekker is walking at Antonio (who has a sword) but really he's walking past him because Antonio is not anything resembling a threat

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Episode 737 is live! We don't make a single plane joke in this one because we're professionals and we were burned by 711 not wanting to sponsor us. We don't want to be hurt again #MorphinGrid

737 - The Dingest Who Ever Donged. Mentor (that's his role but also his name) is on the phone while Kevin stares at him and Jayden leaves. Textually they are sick of his numbskull ass but the proof is in the pudding

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Episode 736 is live! @clairemakes.art is back to yell her name, talk about batto-do, and help us figure out who's Jack and who's Gus Gus. Just very important things

736 - When Does Ancient Start? The rangers are all looking at Jayden and Mike asking a question. Not the title's question. I think he's asking Jayden not to punch him in the nuts when he's mad anymore. Something like that

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Episode 735 is live! Serator does a thing that makes everyone scared in one of the least episodes we've watched this season #MorphinGrid

735 - Turns 'Em Chuckie Finster. There's a lot of people running around scared. Some are hiding. Very few are in focus

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Episode 734 is live! Mike and Kevin stuck together by some goop that not even Maine's favorite soft drink Moxie can dissolve #MorphinGrid

734 - Hot Moxie. Mike and Kevin are stuck together at both hands and cannot come to a consensus as to which way they should take the trash out. This screenshot was taken moment before the inevitable

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

And finally Episode 733 is live now! Emily has to prove she's tough for some reason so she becomes Dark Betty about it. It's too late in the series for this kind of episode because we know she's tough. So this was mostly an excuse for her to dress up #MorphinGrid

733 - Sergeant Daughter. Emily is in army fatigues and a black bob wig crossing her arms like a drill sergeant. She's TOUGH now, alright?

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In Episode 732 we figure out who America's number one samurai and you will not be surprised, unlike how we were surprised that Spike got 4 different jobs in one day #MorphinGrid

732 - Spike Nights At Freddy's. Spike is in dramatic lighting with a shadow looming about to jumpscare him. Which is how all the Freddy games are, hence the name

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In Episode 731 we talk about Kevin is buff but in a hotdog style way. Anyway come join Jog Club whenever, no appointment necessary #MorphinGrid

731 - Just Show Up And Jog, Man. Bulk is looking at a pillar full of fliers for like the seventh time this season. Dude loves fliers so much

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

First up: Episode 730! @snarkyshawn.bsky.social joined us to talk about Mia's brother who's definitely not trying to steal Antonio away from Jaden. Not even a little bit #MorphinGrid

730 - The Real Rebel Rocker Heads. Antonio and Mia's brother Terry are about to go on stage and Antonio is holding Terry's head very romantically. It's not a platonic head hold, I'll tell you that for free

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Episode 729 is live! And what else is there to say besides #Rizzler4BowserJr

729 - I Wish You Were The Rizzler. Cody (who is not the Rizzler) is facing his dad (who has an axe) while the rangers stand back awkwardly. We can't see the dad's face in this picture, but trust me: He wishes his son was the Rizzler

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

And our newest episode: 728! Where the rangers have to rescue Antonio and Mentor from a Nighlok with the dumbest plan maybe ever #MorphinGrid

728 - Could Be A Catfood, Looks Like A Cocopuff. Emily and Mike (not Pictured) are feeding the cat food that doesn't look like any cat food I've ever seen, including the catfood pictured on the box. Also the titles is said like a Dane Cook joke because all white millennial men essentially have forever chemicals in our bones that make us remember like all of his jokes. It's a poison, and we're sorry

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The movie was aired early, and debuted on DVD even earlier, but takes place here so that's where we watched it. You can tell it was filmed around here because everyone has their bad season 2 hair. Also this "movie" is so weird and we dig into all the reasons why #MorphinGrid

722 - Shake 'Em Off Boys: The Movie. Unmorphed Jayden and morphed Scott are being pissy at each other

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Episode 727 has the (re) introduction of the Devil, you know, from hell? He's here to help Zandrew and not stab him in the back, no matter what you've heard #MorphinGrid

727 - I Know A Louie Kaboom When I See One. Serrator (who could be a stand in for the literal christian devil) is floating outside the boat in hell. It's very ominous but he's being all "No no, I'm here to help. For sure"

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We were joined by the wonderful @planxty.bsky.social for episode 726. It wasn't Da Sexism Episode like their last appearance, but we figured out that's because Samurai is kind of Da Sexism Season #MorphinGrid

726 - Going Mailbox Mode. A man is pantomiming being a mailbox (mailbox pictured for scale) but it really looks like he's about to mow down on a delicious hoagie

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In episode 725 Antonio spends the whole time fishin' because he wasn't in any of the footage. Happens to the best of us #MorphinGrid

725 - You Got Games On Your Phone? Spike is saying basically that in the pic. I didn't mean to do that twice, I promise

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I haven't made any posts for Super Samurai yet! And since we recorded the finale yesterday I figured I probably should! Starting off with the Super Samurai episode titled Super Samurai. It's that #MorphinGrid

724 - Super Samurai. Jayden is looking *just* past the camera as he says "Super Samurai". This is the first episode of our show that's just titled the same thing as the episode of Power Ranger's title for what I think is an obvious reason

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

And finally just the other day Episode 723 went live! It was another clip show but the magic of Christmas did some work to make it enjoyable. We'll be back with Super Samurai next week (this week on patreon!) so stay tuned! #MorphinGrid

723 - Samurai's Holiday Hit Clips

Emily sits at her desk writing a letter on her very yellow laptop. She's bundled up and looks very cozy. Also there's a little Christmas tree so you know what time of year it is

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Then we put out a new #DreamBoyz! We interpreted dreams about Ghost Hospitals (a hospital for ghosts) and a frankly incredible podcast idea among others

The Dream Boyz album art. It's a dreamy pink beach with the name of the podcast in an alarm clock font

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

First up on the episode catch-up is Episode 721! On Halloween @badfuckinpodcasts.com joined us to be surprised by a clip show but that didn't stop us from retooling Super Smash Bros and having a ton of fun getting sauced on that red water #MorphinGrid

721 - Samurai's Spooky Hit Clips

A Mooger in a maid's apron is pouring a cup of Red Water for Robby Maine*, a monster from Power Rangers Samurai

*This is not his real name in the show. I give all the monsters of the week US State-based nicknames for funsies

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Episodes 719 & 720 are both live now! The one-two punch of the finale starts surprisingly good and features a mini #DreamBoyz episode and ends with just another episode of Samurai that we can't seem to focus on #MorphinGrid

719 - Evened Out To A Single Curse

Human Dayu (Shami if you're nasty) is holding Deker's human body. I say body because the dude is basically dead from smoke inhalation. Also their house is on fire behind them. Which is actually some insane production value for an episode of Power Rangers Samurai

720 - That's What They Always Say: A Tangents Finale

Deker is mostly offscreen pointing his cursed, thirsty sword Uramasa at a weakened Jayden and Antonio. Antonio is holding Jayden up. They could only be closer if one crawled inside the other's skin

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Also episode 718 went live last week! Couldn't tell you what happened but we did create the Very Original Character Mareia The Plumber, a video game character that actually plumbs, and her dog Old Dog #MorphinGrid

718 - Super Mareia The Plumber Presents: Old Dog The Dog's New Tricks

Spike is high-stepping at an old lady who's groaning in pain from being old. This image has a threatening aura

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

And 717 is live now (and 718 will be later today)! We cracked the code as to why no one's found Atlantis yet, and what's wild is that there's a Dunkin Donuts down there. I know! I can hardly believe it myself #MorphinGrid

717 - Doing Donuts In An Atlantean Parking Lot

Squidly the Octozord is popping out of a cooler. The 2011 CGI is really crisp for Power Ranger's shoestring budget. Maybe it's a puppet? Either way it doesn't look happy that we're that we're whipping donuts though

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

In 716 it's Emily's first birthday as a human! I'll let the picture tell you how well it went #MorphinGrid

716 - Living Mas

Emily is in bed dying. She is very much not living mas

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Episode post catch up time: In 715 we learn about the existence of Big Jack and Skinny Mack, two characters who don't exist thanks to Bulk and Spike, but more importantly we try to make you S... #MorphinGrid

715 - Hey! Jack And Mack Make You S...

Bulk is giving a smile that seems to me like the director said "smile like it's the first time you ever done it"

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

And episode 714 is now live! @theedgeofmypete.bsky.social from the Hello Hyrule podcast joins to talk about her son Antonio, who has a much better showing this time out. #AllMyHomiesHateMentorGiji #MorphinGrid

714 - Can I Sulk With That? Antonio is sad on the pier. His squid-themed Octozord sits on a cooler next to him. The title actually refers to Jayden sulking but there's enough sulking to go around so I went with Antonio

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Episode post catch up time! 712 and 713 went up last week (I think!). In 712 when Jayden is not on screen we should be thinking "Where's Jayden?". And in 713 wait until you get a load of this mysterious new ranger. Oof #MorphinGrid

712 - Jayden Is Poochey. In one of the more cinematically shot scenes of the season (that's a tongue twister) Jayden and his 2011-ass Bieber haircut are sadly walking the city streets

713 - Da Golden Joker, Baby. The gold samurai ranger poses with his arms out in the woods. It's hard to capture but he's really being a WACKY GUY. It's not the best introduction

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Episode 711 is live! In our most sponsorable episode of all time we court the coveted 7-Eleven Brand Partnership™️ by using manifestation. Does it work out for us? Tune in to find out #MorphinGrid

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Episode 710 is live! It's time to even distribute the three extra zords amongst the 5 Samurai Power Ranger. Surely that won't get weird. Surely #MorphinGrid

710 - Girl "Power". Mega Mode Mia and Mega Mode Mike are in the Megazord cockpit. Pit is handing Mike the Beetle Disc but her body language like "Whatever I guess you can have it"

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Episode 709 is live! We are now accepting investors for our new IP and board game Slamurai: The only pogs-based collectable card game you'll ever need! #MorphinGrid

709 - From Cool To Cole. Mia, Deker, Mike, and Emily are all lined up watching Jayden and Kevin fight (not pictured). Mia, Mike, and Emily are injured but Deker's fine. The other thing is that it's not the cool bone samurai with a blood face Deker, it's human disguise Deker who it just Cole from Wild Force. Womp womp

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Episode 708 is live! Turns out [POWER RANGERS SAMURAI CITY] is a wedding destination so nice Jessie Knoakes is getting married twice! #MorphinGrid

708 - The Many Husbands of Jessie Knoakes. Mia is holding a list of names of people getting married. Jessie is the only one who isn't highlighted (which is to say crossed off) and if you look closely you can see that she was going to have a second wedding earlier in the day. Luckily it got canceled because that's an embarrassing double booking

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Episode 707 is live! Have you ever wanted to watch a Power Ranger be bad at fishing for like half the episode? Then do we have the episode for you! #MorphinGrid

707 - Writhing Like Woims. Jayden, Emily, and Mia are on the ground. Writhing like woims. They're even on cardboard, which is a good source of carbon for composting

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Episode 706 is live! @sandwichsurplus.bsky.social returns to talk about one of the funniest episode of Power Rangers, maybe ever

706 - Hi, Welcome To Samurai Chili's. Emily is face down on the floor with frozen peas all over the place. "They're everywhere!" she is saying, though you can't hear it because it's a picture. Mia is helping her up while Mike and Kevin (also called Mike a lot in the episode) look on

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Episode 705 went up on Friday! The monster is really annoying and Jayden actually acts for a little bit. Not too much though. Just a little #MorphinGrid

705 - Cotton Candy Capitalism. Close up on Jayden standing in front of a sign that says COTTON CANDY. He's telling the kids at home that it's okay to eat cotton candy sometimes but not in a "everything in moderation" way. More of "if I tell you not to eat you won't buy it and the network needs you to buy it" way.

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Episode 704 is live! This episode the Samurai Rangers engage in some light child stalking. It's a bad look for them no matter how you slice. Worse even than this kid's batting form #MorphinGrid

704 - Dreams Are Stored In The Bat. Ryan, a young redheaded boy, is up to bat. His form can only be described as "shrimpian" and it hurts my back to look at. Also the umpire behind him has a very tiny face

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Episode 703 is live! In the first episode of Samurai that aired the team* unites** and Jake and Josh have to deal with that #MorphinGrid *Mike **Gets help from Jayden

703 - Rest In Peace Kyler. Mike from Power Rangers Samurai is running on a dock at night. I tried to get a picture of him flipping because he did some cool flips, but they were all too blurry

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Episode 702 is live! Technically this is part 2 of the season opener but it has basically no hanging threads from part 1 to clean up so it's mostly Another Episode Of Power Rangers Samurai. But Jake has a theory about Emily that will carry him through the whole season probably #MorphinGrid

702 - Unaired Pilot Pt.2: Country Sad. Emily is making a face that would lead you to believe she's hiding how sad she really is and that's how country sad works

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

And without any further ado, the first episode of Power Rangers Samurai is live! We've entered the Saban Brands era and boy can you feel it immediately #MorphinGrid

701: Unaired Pilot Pt.1: Poob Has It For You

The samurai rangers in a star pattern looking up at the camera

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Goodbye Green Monstah, hello origami frog and rabbit! New album art for a new season! Our very own number diviner @bennactive.bsky.social made the origami for us!

Album art for our (the Morphin Grid) season of Power Rangers Samurai. It’s a yellow lightning bolt on in front of a blue origami frog and red origami rabbit. The origami was done by Benny (@bennactive.bsky.social)

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

You are cordially invited to the Seventeenth Seasonal Morphie Awards

"The Seventeenth Seasonal Morphie Awards". Dylan from RPM's helmet photoshopped over Max Verstappen holding a trophy.

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Because the Switch 2 is coming out tomorrow we had @amannamedbabs.bsky.social and @theedgeofmypete.bsky.social from @hyrulepod.bsky.social on to help us draft a roster for Smash Kart! With surprising results and only a little malicious pick sniping #MorphinGrid

The N64 box art for Super Smash Brothers but with “bros” covered up and “Kart” written over it

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The Morphin Grid @morphingrid.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

By The Numbers for RPM is live! @bennactive.bsky.social joins us once again to go over how, mathematically, RPM is the best and some say only good season of Power Rangers (I promise I'll stop making that joke soon) #MorphinGrid

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