Thirst to Be the First

"Thirst to Be the First" is the first segment of the first episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Kiff.
==Synopsis==
Kiff wants the first sip at a new water fountain, and nothing will stop her!
==Plot==
Table Town Middle School is having a ceremony to unveil a new water fountain, and Kiff Chatterley has been selected to take the ceremonial first sip. Kiff excitedly looks forward to making her mark in Table Town history as the first person to take a sip from the fountain. Kiff's best friend Barry Buns invites her to take one last sip from the old water fountain, but Kiff has decided not to sip anything until the ceremony the following day.
The next morning, Kiff finds that her tail has gone limp. Kiff's mother Beryl suspects that Kiff is sick with drooptail and forces Kiff to stay home from school, despite Kiff's protests. As Beryl needs to go to work, Kiff's father Martin is tasked with looking after Kiff. Anticipating that Kiff will attempt to sneak out of the house, Beryl arranges the alphabet magnets on the fridge to spell out the message "Kiff is tricking you" as a reminder for Martin.
To convince Martin that she is not sick, Kiff grooms herself and wears a belt to hold her tail up, but Martin sees the message on the fridge and sends Kiff back to bed. Kiff calls Barry and asks him to call Martin while pretending to be Kiff's doctor and tell Martin that she is healthy. However, Barry cracks under pressure and admits his real identity to Martin, foiling the plan.
At school, the ceremony is about to start. Kiff makes multiple attempts to leave the house, all of which are foiled when Martin sees the message on the fridge. With Kiff still absent, Barry creates a decoy of Kiff's head. Kiff realizes that the message is thwarting her escape attempts and tries to remove it from the fridge, but she is spotted by Martin. Kiff makes one last attempt to leave by claiming that she was cast in a play about a character with drooptail and has been method acting the entire time. She improvises a scene from the non-existent play in the kitchen, during which she discreetly alters the message on the fridge to instead read "Kiff is king yo". Martin is fooled and lets Kiff leave the house.
Kiff heads to the ceremony and seemingly makes it in time for the first sip, but she then wakes up and finds herself lying on her front lawn, as she actually passed out from exhaustion shortly after leaving the house. Her tail improves slightly after being hit by water from a sprinkler, causing Kiff to realize that she is not sick, but simply dehydrated. After Kiff drinks a glass of water, her tail returns to normal. She then rushes to school, only to find that the ceremony has long finished. Kiff is disappointed until Barry presents her with a framed picture from the ceremony, which she is touched by. As the two leave, the camera pans on the picture, revealing that "Kiff" took the first sip after all, as Barry covered for her at the ceremony using the decoy he made.
==Cast==
*Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
*H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
*James Monroe Iglehart as Martin Chatterley
*Lauren Ash as Beryl Chatterley and Linda
*Deedee Magno Hall as Miss Deer Teacher
*Vella Lovell as Candle Fox
*Nic Smal as Principal Secretary and Greg
*Eugene Cordero as Dilton Wibbon
==Song==
*Thirst to Be the First
==Trivia==
* Opening Sponsor: Wibbon's Ribbons.
* A preview of the episode was shown at the start of Disney Channel's "2023 Kickoff" promo.
* The song was left completely undubbed in the Cantonese dub, the Chinese Mandarin dub, and the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
* The Left brothers, the first pilots to fly planes at Bench Beach, are parodies of aviation pioneers the Wright brothers.
*Ask Bogs is a parody of the website Ask Jeeves (now known as Ask.com).
**One of the top searches on the Ask Bogs webpage is "Table Town's Next Top Molle", referencing the reality show America's Next Top Model.
*A painting of a pencil with the caption "Ceci n'est pas un crayon", parodying The Treachery of Images by René Magritte, is seen in Principal Secretary's office.
* The title and plot of this segment may be a metaphor on how it's the first segment of the first episode of the first season.
===Continuity===
* The rearranged sentence on the fridge ("Kiff is king yo") became a permanent part of the background ever since "Leave a Little Juice".
==Gallery==
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==International Premieres==
*March 29, 2023 (United Kingdom & Ireland) (Disney+)
*April 5, 2023 (Australia & New Zealand) (Disney+)
*May 13, 2023 (Portugal, Angola, Mozambique) (sneak peek)
**May 15, 2023 (Portugal, Angola, Mozambique) (official)
*May 17, 2023 (Taiwan & Hong Kong) (Disney+)
*May 20, 2023 (Spain, Andorra, Equatorial Guinea)
*June 7, 2023 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney+)
**September 11, 2023 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney Channel)
*June 14, 2023 (South Korea) (Disney+)
*June 25, 2023 (Israel)
*August 21, 2023 (Africa, Arab World, Greece & Cyprus, Baltic States, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)
*September 4, 2023 (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg)
**September 9, 2023 (France & Monaco, Switzerland, Haiti, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Wallis & Futuna)
**March 2, 2024 (Quebec)
*September 30, 2023 (Japan)
*October 2, 2023 (Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Hungary)
== External links==
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Category:Kiff episodes
Category:Series premieres