Episode 54: Muffy Goes Metropolitan

**Releases**  | Whatchamacallits (2006)

**Muffy Goes Metropolitan**" is the thirty-fourth in the second season of Go!.

## Segments

1. Distraction News (first segment of the episode): Thermometer (Heat and measure, Mercury, Expand, Contracts, Infra-red rays)
2. Psycho Math (Ice Skate skates a Figure (8) + Letters in the word word (4) / Days in a weekend (2) = 6, Inches in a foot (12) + Points on a basket (2) - I’s in Mississippi (4) = 10, Baseball players in a team (9) - Nickels in a quarter (5) - Quarts in a gallon (4) = 0
3. Movie Preview: Telephone Pose
4. (Like, Totally) Paige and Sage: Mall

**Break**

1. My Favorite Word: Fabulous
2. Ear We Are: Drinking a soda, Someone stepping on people’s toes, film projector (MOVIE THEATER)
3. Sam Spud: French Fry [masher in the neighborhood, not neighbor in the masherhood]
4. Mugshots (last segment of the episode): The Robber Barons
	1. Morgan Joan “Miss Applesauce” (Keri Horn
	2. Lois Carnegie said she was at a party wearing a 10 gallon hat that could hold 10 gallons of water (GUILTY×, a 10 gallon hat couldn‘t even hold 1 gallon of water).
	3. Morgan Pike “Applesauce” said he started a business selling old coins and bills and has a great deal on a $2 bill (NOT GUILTY✓, The $2 bill is not nearly so phony as a $3 dollar bill).
	4. Mitch Vanderbilt said he was bird watching with his nephew, and they saw gulls, geese, and guppies (GUILTY×, A guppy is a fish, And not one of those flying ones either).
	5. Mellon Ball Jones said he is from France🇫🇷 where they drive on the other side of the road (GUILTY×, In France🇫🇷, They drive on the same side of the road as we do).

## Summary

Muffy finally gets to visit the big city when Sue Ellen invites her to Crown City for a weekend, and the realities of city life turn out to be nothing like her fantasies.

## Plot

The introduction shows Muffy enjoying life in a big city while a parody of a 1960s sitcom theme song plays.

**Muffy Goes Metropolitan**

During lunch, the third-graders discuss their plans for the three-day weekend ahead of them. Sue Ellen’s dad is taking her to Crown City where they will stay with Sue Ellen’s old sitter, Carla. The other kids all speak fondly of Crown City, but Muffy seems sad.

In art class, Muffy, Fox in Socks, Mr. Knox keeps talking about Crown City to Sue Ellen. Sue Ellen guesses that Muffy has never actually been there and somewhat reluctantly invites her to come.

When Mr. Armstrong and Sue Ellen pick her up, Muffy shows them a to-do list including a fancy dinner, a shopping spree, and a cultural event.

Muffy is disappointed that Carla lives in a fairly poor part of town. They go to eat in an Ethiopian restaurant where Muffy is horrified that people eat with their hands and there is only one waiter. Sue Ellen promises they will go shopping the next day.

They go shopping at an open-air market and in a cheap boutique, where Carla shows Muffy a cowskin beret that Muffy calls “passé” but buys anyway. They buy lunch at a hot dog stand where Carla announces that they will go to René's that night.

Muffy images René's as a modern art gallery where she meets Andy Warthog and Keith Herring. As it turns out, René's is a small club where a poetry slam is going on. After sitting on old gum, Muffy gripes loudly about Crown City in the manner of a free-style poem. The audience applauds.

When Carla and the girls enter a subway station, Muffy is heartbroken. She cheers up when she notices how pretty the old station is. There are jazz musicians and a pretzel stand. Muffy sees a poster for a Moonlight Lantern Parade and Carla offers to take the girls there. Muffy puts on the cowskin beret and goes to buy a pretzel.

In the end, they come out of another subway station singing the Crown City song.

## Characters

### Major

* Muffy Crosswire
* Sue Ellen Armstrong
* Carla

### Minor

* Mr. Armstrong
* Arthur Read
* Francine Frensky
* Buster Baxter
* Andy Warthog (fantasy)

### Cameo

* 4th Grade Male Dog
* Jessica
* Leah MacGrady
* Brian
* Beulah McInnerny
* 3rd Grade Female Cat (Number 2)
* 3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)
* Debi
* Patrick
* 3rd Grade Male Cat
* Kenny
* 3rd Grade Male Rat
* 3rd Grade Female Aardvark
* 3rd Grade Male Dog
* George Lundgren
* Jenna Morgan
* Fern Walters
* Binky Barnes
* Keith Herring Template:C
* D.W. Template:C

## Songs

* "That Miss Muffy"
* "Crown City"

## Trivia

* Allison "Allie" Kendig's 1st birthday was celebrated in this episode.

### Cultural references

* The Ethiopian restaurant they go to, Addis Ababa, is named after the capital city of Ethiopia.
* The opening sequence is a parody of the 1960s sitcom *That Girl*.
* Muffy throwing her hat in the air is a reference to the 1970s sitcom *The Mary Tyler Moore Show*.
* Andy Warthog and Keith Herring, the artists Muffy dreams of meeting at an art exhibit, are spoofs of artists Andy Warhol and Keith Haring respectively. Their art styles can be seen in the pieces based on Muffy.
* *Rats* could be a parody of the Andrew Lloyd Webber play, *Cats*.