No One Finds That Funny

**No One Finds That Funny** is the ninth episode of season one, and the 9th episode of the CFK 2 Go! series *Wild2ide*. It first premiered worldwide on June 10, 2023.

This episode was the ninth episode to be filmed in Season 1. Primary production took place between March 6-15, 2023

## Overview

An upcoming trip to the *History of Music* museum has the friends eager to show off their musical ability. While they wait for their Scuba to arrive, they decide to pass the time with some musical numbers.

## Episode Summary

### **Opening scene/Anti-Hero (Rachel)**

The episode opens with Jane finalising a Scuba ride on her phone (which was set to arrive in 35 minutes) and encouraging her friends to hurry along for an event. Dean and Reuben then respond by entering the room and questionioning Jane about the event they were planning on attending. She tells them that they were attending a *History of Music* museum and that she received a deal that allowed her to "buy 5 tickets, get 1 free". The conversation quickly turns to the men's outfits, where Jane encourages them to change. The men begin to protest before finally leaving. Once they leave, Alexa enters the room and Jane immediately compliments her outfit. Blanket joins them also. After a little while Dean and Reuben rejoin the others. Jane then asks Dean about Rachel's whereabouts, and Blanket tells her that she was still getting ready in the ensuite. Jane marches upstairs to the ensuite and bangs on the door to hurry Rachel along, but Rachel responds by banging and yelling back until Jane decides to leave.

Inside the bathroom Rachel is seen talking to herself; making sly remarks about Jane and her plans. She decides to get her mind off of her by playing an instrumental from her phone; before breaking into a performance Anti-Hero. During the performance she can be seen washing her face, applying cream, picking out her outfit, changing into the outfit, brushing and drying her hair and applying makeup. A double of her can also be seen singing back to her in the mirror at different points. Once the music stops she appears to snap back to reality and finally leaves the ensuite.

### **Memories (Jane, Alexa and Blanket)**

Following the opening credits, Jane re-enters the living room to find Blanket sitting at a randomly placed piano with Alexa close-by. Jane then questions the placement of the piano to Blanket before the conversation shifts to a discussion on the three women's love lives. Blanket rants about her long-distance marriage, Jane complains about the endless ghosting situationships she's faced, and Alexa complains about a crush she has on a married guy (Dean).

Blanket then makes a comment suggesting that she wished that their failed love lives would improve. This prompts Jane into playing a song on the piano with the two other women close-by. They then break into a performance of Memories as the scene shifts to a black and white tint. During the performance, the women are seen singing at the piano, dancing and singing in the living room with a few back up dancers, fake crying while cutting up pictures, putting the pictures in a bonfire and that fire going slightly out of control. All of the girls are also seen wearing old fashioned Marilyn Monroe inspired outfits. The performance concludes with the three women surrounding the piano.

Once the performance finishes the scene shifts back to colour and Dean and Reuben are seen standing in the doorway; revealing that they were watching the performance. Embarrassed, Alexa asks Dean about what he thought of the performance. He reveals that he liked it. After this Rachel finally enters the room, which prompts Jane to get everyone out of the house to the Scuba rank. Dean and Rachel decide to stay back for a little bit for a chat, but they agree to meet the others at the rank. Jane leaves with Alexa, Blanket and Reuben in response while the other two stay back.

### **Livin' on a Prayer (Rachel and Dean)**

Dean and Rachel are seen having a conversation about their music tastes hand in hand while walking to the Scuba rank. Their attention is soon diverted when they notice a karaoke bar that was currently open. They reluctantly decide to go inside for "around five minutes". Once inside, they are greeted with another person singing karaoke when the DJ begins to chat with them. They have a small conversation with her until she suggests for the pair to go next; revealing that they were currently hosting a karaoke competition. While Rachel declines at first, she eventually agrees to participate with Dean.

Once the pair take to the stage, the DJ asks them about what song they would like to perform. Dean tells her to play the most "cliche, over-done, well-known karaoke song" of all time, which leads her to play Livin' on a Prayer. Rachel and Dean then break into the performance of it. The performance begins with Dean and Rachel simply singing and air-guitaring, before the scene shifts to a 1980s rock concert type setting with outfits to match. This time, the pair are met with actual electric guitars and can be seen playing them. At one stage they also perform a bit of choreography and go crowd-surfing into the audience. The performance ends with the pair standing side by side on the stage.

The scene then shifts back to reality with a large crowd of people surrounding the stage. The DJ then pronounces Dean and Rachel as the winners of the karaoke competition, however when Rachel receives a phone call from Jane, they decide to rush out before accepting their trophy.

### **Love Story (Alexa)**

Alexa is seen lying down on the Scuba rank listening to music in headphones when Jane interrupts her. When Jane notices that Alexa appears to look glum, Alexa tells her that she was thinking about the conversation they had earlier and that she was listening to music to cope with it. Here she finally reveals to her the identity of her crush to Jane, which is revealed to be Dean. The two share a brief conversation about him before they turn back to Alexa's music; where she shares that she was listening to Taylor Swift. The two share a conversation about her, before Jane tells Alexa to simply "manifest" her relationship to Taylor Swift music. She soon gets up to leave and Alexa agrees to go along with Jane's idea by plugging in her headphones again and closing her eyes.

The scene shifts to a performance of Love Story, with Alexa dressed exactly like how Taylor Swift herself appeared in her Love Story music video. The performance actually plays out almost exactly the same as the music video, with Dean in place of the mystery man in Taylor's video. The performance involves Alexa overlooking a balcony, staring at Dean, participating in a waltzing class with him, walking with him through a garden, and nearly kissing him.

Alexa quickly gets startled back to reality when Dean calls her name. Dean then asks her if she could make some room for Reuben to sit down. She decides to leave entirely instead by sitting on the other side of Jane.

### **Uptown Girl (Dean and Reuben)**

Reuben takes a seat next to Dean and the pair start engaging in a conversation. At first, Reuben believes that Dean has a crush on him, which Dean immediately denies. They then shift to talking about women in general, eventually leading to the discussion on rich women, or "uptown girls". Reuben appears to zone out for a bit before Dean grabs his attention again.

Reuben proceeds to ask Dean about what he knew about rich girls, and the pair soon break into a performance of Uptown Girl. During the performance, the men's outfits are shifted to mechanic uniforms as they engage with the street of cars around them. They participate in an intricate dance number when a car of "uptown girls" (consisting of Rachel, Alexa and one mystery blonde woman) pulls up and the women follow the men around. The performance simply ends with the two men standing on the sidewalk of the Scuba rank.

Following the performance, Dean shakes Reuben awake and the scene shifts back to reality.

### **Closing scenes/We're All in This Together (Everyone)**

Jane receives a text message saying that the *History of Music* museum burnt down, due to a group of people getting ready for the day, starting a bonfire, smashing electric guitars, waltzing with one another and smashing a car (suiting as a clever Lampshade Hanging moment alluding to the events of the episode). It is also revealed that the staff at the museum coped with the situation by performing a 6 Gondwana style musical number in a gymnasium setting. At this news the friends simply shrug and head home.

The scene cuts to the six friends standing in the hallway of their home questioning the setting. The scene soon shifts into a performance of We're All in This Together. The performance plays out almost exactly the same as 6 Gondwana's original music video of the song (which was actually the final scene of *6 Gondwana: The Movie*) with the group participating in an upbeat dance number to the song. The closing credits of the episode also plays at the end of the performance while the instrumental of the song is still playing.

## Continuity

### **WildSide**

* This episode serves as the second musical episode of the universe with the first being Wild Undercover Celebrity from the original series. The TV show from that episode, *Undercover Celebrity*, is also briefly mentioned by Jane towards the end of the episode.

### **Wild2ide**

* Alexa finally confesses her crush on Dean to Jane by mentioning their first meeting from Stick By Each Other No Matter What (Part 1).

## Future References (contains spoilers)

* During the Uptown Girl performance, Dean can be seen standing on the road before Reuben quickly pulls him away; just as a car is about to hit him. This is a brutal case of foreshadowing to the events of I'm Never Speaking to You Again where Reuben inadvertently causes Dean to get hit by a car, causing him to be placed in a coma. Notably, both events appear to take place in the exact same place (in front of the Scuba rank).

## Title Reference

The title of this episode is a reference to a part of a conversation stated by the character Justice Leonardo in the *WildSide* episode Wild Berries, after Dean makes a stupid joke.

## Cast

### **Main Cast**

* Sierra McCormick as Rachel Ford
* Zachary Gordon as Dean Ford
* Jamie Cox as Jane Freebairn
* Marija Martin as Alexa Wilson
* Jill To'oh as Blanket Thompson