Friendiversary

"Friendiversary" is the first segment of the ninth episode of the Disney Channel animated series Kiff.
==Synopsis==
Kiff and Barry are "identical tentacles" in everything. However, an extra gift may tip the scales.
==Plot==
In the school playground, Kiff and Barry are celebrating their "friendiversary" by sitting on the same seesaw where they first met seven years earlier back when they used to be in Kindergarten. So that neither needs to stand up, Trevor gives Kiff and Barry their friendiversary gifts from each other, which turn out to be matching berets. Kiff proudly calls the matching gifts proof of the equal balance of their friendship, but she then receives an extra gift from Barry, a miniature glass pumpkin. This makes Kiff feel guilty about not having an extra gift of her own, so she leaves to buy one. Trevor stays behind with Barry and tries to get closer to him while Kiff is away.
Kiff buys a matching glass pumpkin for Barry, but upon returning to the playground she becomes self-conscious about the gift and decides to get him another gift instead. She visits Dan Hill's pumpkin patch to ask what would make a better gift than a pumpkin, and ends up buying his most cherished gift, his tractor. When Kiff returns again, however, she realizes that Barry has no use for a tractor since he does not have a farm. Kiff then makes many other expensive purchases around Table Town and comes back with a bag full of gifts, but when she sees Barry and Trevor laughing together on the seesaw, she is left feeling that she has failed Barry as a friend and leaves before she can present the gifts.
In her shame, Kiff stows away on the caboose of a moving train. She explains her predicament to another stowaway, who turns out to be a train robber. The robber steals Kiff's bag of gifts, but also advises her that even a simple hug can make a good gift. Inspired by this advice, Kiff rushes back to the playground, only to find Barry being embraced by Trevor. Thinking that Barry has sought out a new best friend, she apologizes for neglecting Barry on their friendiversary and explains that she was trying to find him an extra gift. Barry does not mind, as he had assumed that Kiff was in the restroom the whole time, and gladly accepts Kiff's gift of a hug.
Trevor suddenly handcuffs himself to Barry and proclaims himself to be Barry's new best friend. Barry, however, simply slips his arm out, with Kiff explaining to a confused Trevor that handcuffs are ineffective on Barry because he has "wrarms" (arms lacking wrists). Kiff apologizes to Barry for spending the day obsessing over getting an extra gift to match his gift, but Barry tells her that regardless of any gift, they are still "identicals tentacles". The two leave to enjoy the rest of their friendiversary, inviting Trevor to tag along. As they all walk together, Trevor stares evilly into the camera and mutters that "phase one" of his plan is complete.
==Cast==
*Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
*H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns and Dan Hill
*Tom Kenny as Trevor Angstrom
*Eric Bauza as Reggie
*Lucy Heavens as Helen and Baby Turtle
==Trivia==
*Opening Sponsor: Table Town Gift Emporium
*The episode is titled after, and focuses on, the concept of a "friendiversary".
**Coincidentally, 's (which is also an influence for the show’s creators) also uses "Friendiversary" as the title of a Season 13 episode.
*In this episode, it revealed that Kiff and Barry first met each-other when they used to be in Kindergarten seven years ago.
*Barry's full name is revealed to be "Barrington Augustus Buns III".
*Kiff's fantasy portrait of Barry commissioned by Miss Tulane resembles the cover of .
*The turtle's thought of riding a pumpkin is a reference to Cinderella.
*When Kiff and Barry open their friendiversary gifts, a recreation of the chest-opening sound effect from the video game series is heard.
*While opening the case holding the glass pumpkins, the Table Town Gift Emporium's owner hums the opening fanfare from by , best known for its use in the 1968 film .
*John Maan, the manufacturer of the tractor bought by Kiff, is a parody of .
*In the episode's storyboard phase, the scene in which Kiff gets Barry a tractor featured additional dialogue, as well as a cut gag in which Dan Hill accidentally bumps the tractor into a slide as he drives away from the playground.
==Gallery==
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==International Premieres==
*May 10, 2023 (Australia & New Zealand) (Disney+)
*June 14, 2023 (South Korea) (Disney+)
*August 16, 2023 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney+)
**January 8, 2024 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney Channel)
*August 30, 2023 (Israel)
*August 31, 2023 (Africa, Arab World, Greece & Cyprus, Baltic States, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)
*September 14, 2023 (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg)
**September 23, 2023 (France & Monaco, Switzerland, Haiti, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Wallis & Futuna)
**April 20, 2024 (Quebec)
*October 12, 2023 (Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Hungary)
*October 16, 2023 (Portugal)
*October 23, 2023 (Spain & Andorra)
*December 16, 2023 (Japan)
==References==
==External links==
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Category:Kiff episodes