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"Sorcerer in Love" is the forty-third episode of the first season of Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. It premiered on November 9, 2013.
Synopsis[]
Randy, Howard, and all the boys at Norrisville High are entranced by the new girl in school, Amanda Levay. Little do they know she's the Sorcerer's long lost love in disguise.
Plot[]
The episodes starts with the broadcast of Heidi, saying it's the students' last chance to find a date for the night's Dance Beneath the Stars. Randy suddenly panics, saying they have to find a date, and he and Howard laugh saying that only people who have no friends to play video games with would need a date. Then, a girl came in with all the boys staring at her. After she walks past Randy and Howard, she says that her name is Amanda Levay. Then, Randy and Howard rush and push each other on the way towards her. Randy says get in line, and it ironically turns out to be a line.
The girl's smell is detected by the Sorcerer, and he recognizes her as the Sorceress. He has a flashback of how they met and defeated by the First Ninja, who banished the Sorceress to the Land of Shadows. Amanda, meanwhile, seduces all the boys to get the most beautiful thing in the school, stating the one who find is the one she wants. The male students rush outside of class, but they are stopped by Mr. Bannister, telling them to require pass. The other boys all get their McPass, besides Howard as there is a limit. Randy panics because sooner or later, the other boys might find the most beautiful thing.
Randy and Howard cooperate to get outside, and then, they will separate their ways. They manage to get outside after having Howard pretend suffering from a serious bleeding, and they search for it everywhere, even as far in the toilet and every student locker. Howard states to Randy that the NinjaNomicon is glowing and it's his chance to get more time to find it first. Randy says he will go in which annoys Howard, who decides he will ignore the Nomicon for once. The Nomicon warns Randy about the Sorceress with the lesson of "the eyes can be deceived, but the nose always knows", but Randy still misinterprets its lesson. Randy manages to find the most beautiful thing, which turns out to be the Eye of Eternities that held the Tengu previously. Randy states it is worthy enough to show Amanda.
The boys return to class and argue on who finds it first. Randy quickly hits the McPass twice and gets the pass for himself and Howard, and he goes out with Amanda and Howard quickly hits it so he can catch up with Randy. Mr. Bannister says they do not ask for permission, to which Randy replies that the McPass has spoken, making Mr. Bannister angry enough to throw the McPass out of the window. Amanda uses her spell to request the two boys to go somewhere else. After temporarily breaking from the spell and feeling awkward with the cradling, the boys return to the foyer to ask who will Amanda take on a date. However, the two boys see Amanda's true form, which is the Sorceress, which causes Randy to not want to date Amanda anymore.
Randy as the Ninja starts battling the Sorceress, who tries to free the Sorcerer, but Randy has the advantage even though she is causing debris to fall. She outsmarts him by using her human form to seduce Randy, while also revealing that she detests her own human form. Randy, who finally understands Nomicon's lesson, quickly uses his scarf to cover his face and use smell-vision to prevent himself from being seduced by her. She is restrained and trapped by his Ninja Sai, but she uses her human form to seduce the other boys to attack the Ninja, but the Ninja lures all the boys to Amanda, which makes Amanda lose control. The debris starts to fall, so Randy pulls the boys away from Amanda, making debris fall onto her. The Sorcerer bemoans at the failure to reunite with his lover. Afterwards, Julian tries to attack the Ninja interrogating what the Ninja has he done to her, but when the Sorceress climbs out from the debris, the rest of the boys, minus the Ninja and Howard, run away from her. The Ninja and Howard are ready to confront the Sorceress, until the Sorceress teleports away in a stank wave.
That night, Heidi thanks the Ninja that the dance is really under the stars, due to the fight damaging the school's foyer's ceiling and the roof, during her broadcast. Howard tells Randy that they will not let a girl to get between them, which Randy agrees. When they are about to go home to play Grave Puncher, Theresa, who is wearing a beautiful dress, asks Randy if he wants to dance. She didn't ask directly, which makes Randy agree to dance with her, but then, Howard claims that she was asking him, which makes the bros argue again. Theresa gets annoyed by the bros' stupid argument, and she walks away telling them to "Forget it." In the end, the Sorceress is sitting in a cave, planning her revenge to the Ninja.
Characters[]
Main characters[]
Secondary characters[]
- First Ninja
- Mr. Bannister
- Bash Johnson
- Bucky Hensletter
- Julian
- Heidi Weinerman
- Theresa Fowler
- The Sorcerer's Rat
Background characters[]
- Buttermaker
- Cynthia
- Dancing Fish
- Dave
- Debbie Kang
- Doug
- Flute Girl
- Glenn
- Jed Elinoff
- Mike Moe
- Morgan
- Ranginald Bagel
- Scott Thomas
- Stevens
- Nameless Blond Boy with White Shirt
- Nameless Boy with Black Shirt
- Nameless Boy with Blue-Green Shirt
- Nameless Boy with Red Shirt
- Nameless Girl with Big Eyes and Green Shirt
- Nameless Girl with Green Hair and Dress
- Nameless Girl with Green Shirt
- Nameless Girl with Lavender Hair
- Nameless Girl with Mauve Dress
Storyboards[]
- Here are the following storyboards from Tumblr.
Series Continuity[]
- This episode foreshadows Randy's future ability, "Super Senses."
- Randy's crush on Theresa is hinted in this episode when he is going to accept her offer to dance with him (before Howard interrupts him), prior to his crush being officially confirmed in "Sorcerer in Love 2: The Sorceress's Revenge" and "The Brawn Also Rises".
Trivia[]
- This episode and "Pranks for Nothing" were supposed to air before "McFear Factor" and "Randy Cunningham and the Sorcerer's Key," but instead aired a couple of months later.
- These four episodes had been on the Canadian channel Disney XD on Demand prior to airing, however.
- This is the first episode with a female villain.
- There was a deleted scene showing the other female students displeased to see boys trying to get Amanda's attention.
- In one of the storyboard sequence, Randy's design was used as a sketch for the role of a background character.
- In old concept art, it can be seen that the Sorceress was originally to have brown hair and a green necklace instead of blue and purple.
- This episode bears certain similarities to the film Batman and Robin.
- First Ninja makes a non-speaking appearance via the Sorcerer's flashback.
- This was the first episode to show the Ninja kissing a female character (on the cheek).
- Both Randy and Howard are implied to not like carrying each other in this episode, after they awkwardly drop off fro the act and pretend they didn't do so. This awkwardness and aversion to such an act is confirmed by mostly Howard in "Bro-ing Down the House".
- Running Gag: Randy getting hit by debris.
Goofs[]
- In the scene where Heidi is on the school's television announcing the school dance, both of her arms have red bracelets, unlike how she normally only has one bracelet on her right arm. This is likely an animation error.
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