Shush Hour

### Synopsis:

Gretel does a school project on herself while Kevin and Hamster stop a librarian villain.

## Production Information

### Storyboards by:

Olivia Day
Brandon Kruse

## Broadcast Information

### Airdate:

November 4, 2023 (Disney Channel)
November 27, 2023 (Disney XD)

### Running time:

11 minutes

**"Shush Hour"** is the first segment of the twenty-seventh episode of the first season of *Hamster & Gretel*, and the fifty-second episode overall. It is paired with "I Was a Teenage Mad Scientist" and premiered on Disney Channel on November 4, 2023.

Hamster, Gretel and Kevin visit the library, as Gretel is one day due on a hero report on herself and has to do cited research. While Gretel does so with Hamster, Kevin encounters a librarian who desires to take away everyone's voice with the Shushinator.

## Plot

At school, Ms. Jamanpour gives her class an assignment in which they must talk about their hero, with Gretel choosing to do hers about herself after Bailey is asked to choose another topic. However, Gretel procrastinates until the day before the assignment is due, prompting Kevin to take her to the library to do research. While there, Kevin overhears the librarian unveiling her plan to make the entire city as quiet as her library using her Shushinator. Unable to contact Hamster and Gretel due to confiscating their phones for the duration of their research session, Kevin attempts to intervene, only to have his voice stolen. Meanwhile, Hamster and Gretel find that the majority of the instances in which they saved the city were the result of Kevin's ideas.

As the librarian silences everyone and everything in town, Kevin encounters a book detailing how to reflect sound, which inspires him to use his, Hamster, and Gretel's phones to play kazoo songs in order to distract the librarian. Eventually, Kevin manages to destroy the Shushinator, reversing its silencing effects. Hamster and Gretel then arrive to defeat the librarian, after which Gretel decides to use Kevin as her research topic.

## Cast and characters

* Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
* Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
* Beck Bennett as Hamster
* Cree Summer as Librarian
* Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz
* Liza Koshy as Veronica Hill
* Priah Ferguson as Bailey Carter
* Joey King as Fred Grant
* Brett Dalton as Mayor Meyer
* Akintoye as Anthony
* Lauren Tom as Ms. Jamanpour

### Additional voices

* Brett Dalton as Wire Cutting Guy
* Carolina Ravassa as Evil Shopping Announcer
* Cree Summer as Kazoo Festival Announcer
* Debra Wilson as Secretary, Police Officer

## Running gags

### Image scene transitions

A brain in a jar
(used to transition to Hamster, Gretel an Kevin entering the library's periodical room)

## Transcript

*Click here to read the full transcript of **"Shush Hour"**.*

## Background information

### Allusions

* The title of this episode is a pun on "rush hour", the time of day in which traffic on roads is at its heaviest.
* ***Rush Hour*** - Due to the above, the episode title may also refer to this 1998 buddy-cop action comedy film directed by Brett Ratner, as well as the franchise it had spawned.
* ***The Little Mermaid*** - Kevin losing his voice from the Shushinator is similar to how Ariel lost hers.
* ***Phineas and Ferb*** - The Shush-inator follows the naming convention of many of Doofenshmirtz's devices. Additionally, it is shown that Doofenshmirtz advertized the Shush-inator on the Internet.

### Errors

* The official synopsis states that Hamster has to work with Kevin to stop the librarian while Gretel has to do the report herself; in the actual episode, Hamster was helping Gretel the whole time with her report, while Kevin had to stop the villain alone.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.dgepress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/pressrelease/november-2023-programming-highlights/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/disneytvanews/status/1710418834861998166