Caillou SC2 Episode 2

“A Daydream Before Christmas” is the next chapter in the Caillou SC2 saga.
== Episode Summary ==
Arkenvast celebrates its first Christmas Holiday and many of the city folk are in the holiday spirit. Although the Holly and Jolly season is at an all-time high it is somewhat bittersweet within the Caillou Gang. It had been months since Lolli and Sting's disappearance following the battle with H.U.S.H in "A Duel in Central Park" and not a single word or trace of them had resurfaced. Rosie is still angry about how Gina treated her and had still not forgiven her. Ellery seems to be moving on completely without Lolli though it may seem that he is done with her as well as their friendship. Everything is all up and down, but the joyous holiday, coming together, might brighten up and change the mood... Hopefully...
== Plot ==
The opening scene starts with a backstory between prodigy guardians, and cousins Rose and Skylar Tahler in "Yo's" a wholesale Christmas department store during the week before Christmas. While shopping, Skylar approaches Rose in a silly reindeer costume. While discussing how what present they should get to their parent's aunt/uncle Joel and Silica Tahler, Rose mocks Skylar for being too much of a baby, making Skylar upset. Later on, Rose tries to cheer her up with some hot chocolate and cookies and apologizes for what she said. Skylar admits to Rose about what she said and feels useless that she was chosen by her grandmother to be the "Chosen One". Rose reassures Skylar that she was chosen for a reason as she has the potential that her grandmother is looking for to become a great prodigy. Skylar brings up a flashback with Silver and Joel in which they felt that they agreed that her powers weren't cut out for guardianship and that Silver suggested that she belonged in a "circus", this angered Rose what he said, to his family member. While on the way home, Rose remembered the upcoming anniversary, on which her mother was killed by Zed trying to sacrifice her life trying to protect Rose. While dealing with that, Rose reassured Skylar that she was alright and that they had "new objectives" to follow. While in the park, Kenward Perkins and Clyde Sinclair (From Conner the Sushi Packer's Vyond Series) approached Rose and Skylar threatening to steal their presents and valuables, but they were quickly dismissed by Rose and Skylar's Sana-Rama-Gram. Rose commends Skylar for her bravery as well as her potential as well as her beliefs in her. This scene quickly cuts to Skylar running, presumably from an attack caused by the Dimension Hopping between Silver, Rose, and Sting, she was captured with an arrow straight to her back incapacitating her. This scene is later followed by her inner conscience falling down, with a masked figure following her to the bright light in the void. 
The episode begins during the present day in Arkenvast, Vyonlandia everybody including the animals, the citizens, and the grumpy old folks is in the Holiday spirit even Jesus Christ himself who physically appears to shine the light of joy within the Arkenvast community. The scene follows up at the Desperaux townhouse where we are met by Rosie dressing Daisy up and doing her hair, while Emma is just hanging out in the bedroom with them. Emma questions Rosie about what to expect at the Degaldo Christmas Party as well as Gina Degaldo as a person since she and Gina never really met outside the central park incident. Rosie is still not on good terms with Gina, unbeknownst to Emma, and tries to bluntly reassure Emma that there is nothing much to worry about with Gina, seemingly warning her about how rich people are, though Emma didn't really feel that was much understanding. Rosie apologizes, though she'd just wanted to warn her in case anything happened and that if it did, Rosie heavily relied on Emma to help protect the family, as well as the gang. Daisy quickly interrupts them, while her hair is already done, to her own surprise appreciating Rosie's work. Downstairs in the laundry room, Caillou and Kiran are having a conversation about how The Knuckleheads couldn't come due to their own personal reasons. The two reminisce about the incident and wanted nothing more but to chill out during the holiday season though Caillou was a bit worried that it is probably not much of one knowing the gang's luck. Kiran reassures him and jokes about him being the "Future Brother in Law" too much of Caillou's displeasure for the joke. The girls later, call the guys upstairs and they were all dressed up, and ready to go to the party. Kiran and Rosie, following Caillou and Emma, complemented each other for their dresses while making cute remarks towards each other, Daisy left out and reached out to Caillou to ask what he thinks about her dress and he complimented her.
This is all interrupted by an argument between Doris and Boris who are back and forth about how Boris threw out Doris's Grandmother's Nativity Set during their move. Caillou then allows his sisters, and friends to go outside so he can deal with his parents. An irrational Boris blames Caillou for being disrespectful and feels that he is protecting his sisters as a "scheme" to obviously make Boris ground him. Caillou rushes off outside to join his sisters as well as Kiran and Emma who is in complete shock at what just happened. Emma stopped Caillou to console him about that confrontation and that she had no idea that his father was abusive. Caillou assured Emma not to worry about it. 
On the train, the kids are all feeling down and emotional. Caillou tries to change the mood as it is the holiday season and they should enjoy themselves given the situation they are in. Emma agrees with Caillou about trying to enjoy themselves with the only worry being about having a good time at the party 
The kids arrived at the Degaldo Limited building and are greeted by Mister Cunningham, Daisy greeted him back. The scene cuts to Dora and Rita sneaking into an Opediah Catering delivery truck so that they can sneak into the party, They quickly get in the truck while two caterers show up that are dropping off food for the party. One caterer who was new and comes off as a bit goofy and loaded his cart with the box that Dora and Rita are in. The two inside start to argue as they are cramped together with Rita then punching Dora for insulting her weight. The caterer thought that the food inside the box was talking and found it to be crazy, then continued to take the cart up to the penthouse. 
In the penthouse, the Degaldo family is preparing for the party. Arthur compliments both Tana and Gina for how good they look and how well they decorated the place. Arthur mentions how they hired this catering business that was started by a 20-year-old kid. Pierce Hogan comes in and tells them that a guest for Gina arrived which was Ellery. Gina was very glad to see him and wished him a Merry Christmas Gina notices his appearance and clothing especially with his ears being pierced and found it to be "different". Ellery took notice of his appearance and became a little worried if it was weird, but it wasn't to Gina. Arthur never really met Ellery before and introduced himself to him, Tana allowed Gina and Ellery to talk in the living room. While in the living room, Ellery is around the fireplace warming up. Gina who knew Ellery was rejected by Lolli asked him how he was feeling. Ellery tells Gina that he was okay and that she shouldn't worry about it given the holiday season. The two were approached by Trix, Kris, and Ceal, Trix calls out to Ellery as a "cute ragamuffin" Gina introduced Ellery to the Florendale Girls. Ellery disliked Trix as he knew who Trix was as she is seen all over television. Trix purposely calls Ellery "Celery" and snarkily complains about how rude he was being and thought that they were all friends. Gina tries to calm Trix down and then Trix takes Gina by the hand to go off and enjoy the party, leaving Ellery with a look of disgust.
In the lobby Cecil Jr, along with his little sister Ariel greet the gang, Daisy comes up to greet both Ariel and Cecil especially. Cecil. Daisy asked if she looked cute in her dress which Cecil agreed. Caillou instantly felt uncomfortable about how Daisy was acting toward his friend in a desperate attempt to ask him out. Later on the Elevator, and the gang were all in conversation about the disappearance of Lolli and Sting following the attack in Central Park. Cecil was pressured by his dad to ask them 
== Trivia ==
* Kenward and Clyde are characters from a fellow Vyond Animator, Conner The Sushi Packer. It is doubtful that they are a part of the same universe as SC.
* Emma and Gina met each other officially but they also met unofficially during the ending scene in Caillou SC1 in "Time to Begin anew" (Part 2) though they never were properly introduced. It's hinted that they were probably recovering from being brainwashed and that they barely have any memory of each other during the Warehouse Incident.
* The name is a reference to the Tim Burton movie "A Nightmare Before Christmas".
*Daisy mentions to Cecil Jr that she turned "7 years old in October" This a reference to the "Caillou Calls New Baby Stupid" Grounding video.
* Rose's theme that plays in the Ether is a subtle reference to the opening of Caillou GX, though it's from the anime Sword Art Online.
* Beth Armstrong jokes with Arthur when being shown his penthouse about "having it", a nod to the Gina Gets Taken Away series.
* This is the first episode in the whole series in which Lolli doesn't make a physical appearance as she did prior in every episode up till this point. She is only mentioned as she silently disappeared with Sting at the end of Episode 1 "A Duel in Central Park".
* Ariel is seen with green eyes as oppose to her having black eyes in Episode 1.