Not Yams, Spams!

**Not Yams, Spams!** is the twelfth episode of season one, and the 12th episode of the CFK 2 Go! series *Wild2ide*. It first premiered worldwide on June 24, 2023.

Despite initially airing as the 11th episode of the season, CFK 2 Go! shifted the episode to 12th as of November 27, 2023.

This episode was the twelfth episode to be filmed in Season 1. Primary production took place between April 3-7, 2023.

## Overview

When Rachel decides to accompany Jane and Blanket to their trip to the tattoo parlour she is met with a foe from her past who is seeking revenge. Meanwhile Alexa befriends a girl named "Alexis" who wants to steal her identity and life.

## Episode Summary

### **Plot A: Jane and Blanket's strange trip**

The episode opens with Blanket wearing a shock cuff around her arm and Jane providing her an explanation of the different levels of shock she may choose to experience. She gets up to explaining level 10 - at risk of certain "death", which prompts Rachel to enter the room immediately. Jane and Blanket offer Rachel an explanation to what they were doing, in which they reveal that they were trying to prove which of them had the higher pain tolerance. When Rachel asks about when and why they were exactly doing it, the scene shifts to a flashback to a couple of weeks' prior. In the flashback, Jane is seen throwing a stress ball towards Jane, which causes her immense pain. Jane approaches her confused, and Blanket tells her that she had a horrible pain tolerance. Jane then boasts about her higher pain tolerance, which prompts Blanket into throwing the stress ball towards her. The ball ends up shattering the fruit bowl that was on the counter. The scene briefly shifts to Rachel disapproving in the present, before it shifts back again to Jane and Blanket searching up ways to prove their pain tolerance. Here they settle on an arm shocking device, and they agree to order it online. The scene then shifts fully back to the present, with Rachel being more disapproving than before. She then offers for the women to get tattoos instead (she also shows them the palm tattoo she recently got), and they both eventually agree to go at that moment. Once Jane and Blanket leave, Rachel then goes to pick up the shock cuff and contemplates on using it for herself, however Jane calls her back to her senses. She immediately puts the cuff back on the table and leaves with her friends.

When the three women arrive at the tattoo parlour, Blanket constantly iterates how frightened she felt and compares the place to a dental office. Jane attempts to tease Blanket a little until Rachel finds Buck, her personal tattoo artist. After she makes a sly comment about the palm tattoo he recently did on her, Rachel directs the attention to her friends and tells him that they were the ones planning on getting tattooed. Buck tells her that he was busy with a client, but he already assigned the new apprentice to work on her friends instead. He instructs them into a nearby room and they all oblige.

In the room, Jane expresses her fondness of getting a skull tattooed on her when the three women share a brief conversation on the pain scale of tattoos. After this the apprentice tattoo artist finally enters the room wearing a noticeable face mask. When Blanket asks him about why he was wearing it, he tells her about the client he recently finished on. He then asks the women for their names, which they give to him, however he ends up interrupting them. He instructs the first of the women (Jane) to take a seat before asking Rachel for her name. She tells him, which noticeably makes him hesitate. He then looks closely at her and immediately recognises her as Rachel Norman in a panic. Rachel corrects him before he finally takes of his face mask, revealing his identity to be Rachel's old classmate Benjamin. Both Rachel and Jane recognise him immediately. Benjamin, in an obvious panic, then decides to "excuse himself", where he exits the room and screams extremely loudly. All three women are left confused.

Around ten minutes later, the three women are seen discussing Benjamin while he continues to scream. After a little while he comes back into the room; seemingly in a much calmer state. He and Rachel begin to engage in a hostile conversation before he decides to get started on Jane's tattoo. Jane shows him the skull that she intended on getting, however Benjamin ignores her and begins to tattoo on her leg free-handed with no stencil. Him and Rachel proceed to continue to talk all while he's working on Jane. It is revealed that even though Benjamin was married with three children, he has still never gotten over Rachel rejecting him over a decade before.

After a couple of hours, Benjamin finally finishes the tattoo and instructs Jane to look at it in the mirror. She does, but when she turns around she notices that he actually tattooed a sweet potato on her leg instead of a skull like she asked. Rachel and Blanket then rush over to her and gawk at the tattoo themselves. When Rachel asks him about why he did it, he proclaims the work as his "revenge". He then promptly asks Jane for payment, which she obliges to despite the outcome. Furious, Rachel convinces both Jane and Blanket to leave the parlour even though Blanket didn't end up getting a tattoo.

At home, Rachel and Jane are seen staring and commenting about Jane's tattoo. Soon later "Alexis" (claiming to be Alexa) joins them and offers them her opinion on the tattoo. When she leaves, Rachel gets furious again and demands Jane and Blanket to go back to the tattoo parlour with her to demand a refund and payment for tattoo removal. They accept and leave with her.

The three women arrive at the tattoo parlour and are once again greeted by Buck. Rachel tells him about their current circumstances, however Buck tells her that there was nothing he could do. Jane then makes a brief comment about her starting to like her tattoo, frustrating Rachel. Rachel then yells out for Benjamin to see him, and in response he promptly shows up in the reception area wearing a face mask again. Rachel demands him to give Jane her money back but when he refuses, she offers to finally apologise to him. He unexpectedly accepts almost immediately and agrees to pay Jane back under one condition - he must receive a kiss from Rachel. Rachel declines immediately, however Blanket comes up with a whole new idea. Her and Jane decide to agree to kiss Benjamin instead as a real test to the pain tolerance hypothesis. One by one, Blanket and Jane both manage to kiss Benjamin. After Jane appears noticeably disgusted after her kiss, she declares Blanket the winner and runs away. Benjamin however doesn't seem satisfied by this and once again demands to be kissed by Rachel. Rachel almost accepts defeat by telling him to close his eyes. After a little while she ends up snatching Benjamin's wallet and phone from his pocket and escapes with it with Jane and Blanket. Benjamin is left oblivious to what was going on and remains standing in place with his eyes closed.

During the closing credits, Jane and Blanket are seen discussing their recent competition with one another. They both come to the conclusion that Jane had a higher physical pain tolerance while Blanket had a higher emotional one. With that being said, the two decide to test their physical pain tolerance once more by completing a few challenges. First, they sip the "world's coldest milkshake" from *Julie's* to see who could achieve brain-freeze first, however it ends up in a tie. Second, Jane brings along her old parrot to peck seeds out of their hands, which also ends in a tie. Finally, the two are seen standing on the edge of a cliff top with them encouraging each other to jump at the same time. They both hesitate but get out of the activity when "Alexis"/Izzy S. Talker ends up jumping off the cliff to avoid the police. Jane and Blanket agree that they had the same pain tolerance despite not jumping and end up leaving.

### **Plot B: Alexa has a stalker**

Alexa is seen talking on the phone to Rachel as she is living work. While on the phone Alexa agrees to do some grocery shopping for her and hangs up before a young woman ends up bumping into her by "accident". The woman immediately apologises and insists on knowing Alexa's name. Alexa tells her, and the woman refers to herself as "Alexis". The two share a brief discussion about their "similar" names and occupations before it switches to Alexa's task at hand, the grocery shopping. "Alexis" then insists on accompanying Alexa to the grocery store and she agrees.

At the grocery store Alexa is seen placing a carton of milk into her basket while "Alexis" is seen writing stuff down in a notepad. When Alexa asks her about it, she simply lies to her and tells her that it was her shopping list. Alexa then decides that it was time to leave, however "Alexis" refuses to and attempts to encourage Alexa to stay with her. Alexa denies the invitation and decides to head to the checkouts. "Alexis" then agrees to meet Alexa at the grocery store the following day, however Alexa reminds her that she didn't visit the grocery store everyday. "Alexis" corrects her mistake and agrees to see her "whenever". As Alexa turns to leave, "Alexis" continues to make notes on her notepad.

Alexa arrives home and puts the grocery shopping away in the kitchen. She then calls out to her friends, assuring that she was actually home alone. When she makes the realisation she decides to immediately slip into some more "comfortable" clothes (a pyjama shirt with underwear), turns on the radio and starts dancing. Her session is quickly interrupted when she receives a knock on the door. Still dressed in her underwear, she tells the person on the other side of the door to be patient, however they refuse to listen and open the door anyway. The person is revealed to be "Alexis", who has somehow found out where Alexa lived. Alexa turns her music off and covers herself up, and asks "Alexis" about how she found out where she lived. "Alexis" makes up a lie and asks her about what she was doing. Alexa tells her that she was dancing, and "Alexis" asks her if she could join in. When Alexa declines, it ends up making "Alexis" feel upset, and she attempts to give Alexa a guilty looking stare. Alexa begins to feel threatened and "Alexis" notices this. She then asks her whether she wanted to show her the safest room in the house, and Alexa sheepishly agrees. Before long, "Alexis" ends up pulling Alexa by the arm and shoving her into the bathroom by locking it. Alexa then demands for her to be let out, and after the two share a conversation about the room itself being a bathroom, "Alexis" confesses to her that she was going to steal Alexa's life. She then approaches Alexa's bag of groceries and takes out a box of blonde hair dye that was in there. "Alexis" walks off with the dye, and a few seconds later she returns with her hair dyed blonde just like Alexa's. She also manages to steal Alexa's work uniform and walks off with it.

At one point "Alexis" (now claiming to be Alexa) makes a comment towards Jane's new tattoo. When the friends ask her about what happened, she gaslights them into thinking that she really *was* Alexa and that the tattoo ink must've affected their brains. Once the friends leave, Alexa is seen sleeping in the bathtub when she awakes suddenly. After spending the night in the bathroom, she finally decides to take action. After noticing the lack of windows in the bathroom, she immediately gets the idea to unlock the bathroom door with a bobby pin. She begins to do so, however "Alexis" ends up unlocking the door for her. "Alexis" then makes the bald claim that she was once again stealing Alexa's life by going to work as her. She takes off wearing Alexa's work uniform before Alexa begins to chase after her. Alexa of course decides to change her outfit first before joining her.

At *Goody Gumdrops* "Alexis" is seen working the cash register and talking to Alexa's boss. She begins to gaslight him as well before Alexa finally arrives; making the claim about "Alexis'" crime. "Alexis" then eventually confesses her true intentions: that she was actually stalking Alexa for several weeks in order to steal her identity. She also confesses that she was planning on murder Alexa, however just after this moment the police actually end up showing up. The two women then approach the police and blame the other for attempting to steal their lives. The police doesn't believe any of them and demands for them to show them their identification. "Alexis" presents a convincing looking one with "Alexa Winnifred Wilson" displayed on it, however Alexa's one displays her name alongside a picture of her blinking. This convinces the police to arrest Alexa instead before Reuben shows up eating fish and chips. With cuffs around her wrists Alexa pleads with Reuben for him to tell the police the truth. Reuben gets conflicted when "Alexis" begins to hit on him. Soon after a newspaper clipping ends up falling out of Reuben's backpack, revealing that a woman named Izza S. Talker was a wanted criminal. She is revealed to be "Alexis'" real identity. The police end up uncuffing Alexa, making a rude comment about her identification photo, before finally deciding to arrest Izzy. Izzy ends up swearing revenge to Alexa before making a run for it.

Izzy is seen evading the police in the closing credits where she ends up jumping off of a cliff.

## Continuity

### **WildSide**

* Benjamin, a minor character that made his first and only appearance in WildSide Goes Ping Pong makes a guest appearance in this episode. The circumstances of him "throwing the ping pong game" from that episode is also mentioned.
* The scene where "Alexis"/Izza shows up to Alexa's house and offers to show her the "safest" room in the house heavily references a scene involving Mr Leopron and the friends in Wild Principal's Principles. While the dialogue in the scene is very similar, the mirroring is further evident when "Alexis"/Izza locks Alexa in the bathroom thinking it was a storage closet (in the original series Mr Leopron locks the friends in a storage closet).

### **Wild2ide**

* In the previous episode Dean agreed to stay away from Rachel for a bit, and this is evident in this episode as Dean doesn't make a physical appearance at all.
	+ In real life Dean's actor Zachary Gordon had to take a trip to London so he was purposely written out of this episode and partly for The Show Must Go On for that purpose.

## Title Reference

The title of this episode is a reference to a quote stated by the character Rachel in the *WildSide* episode Wild Rich Girl, while referring to the *How Rich Are You?* website.

## Cast

### **Main Cast**

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

### **Guest Cast**

* Breanna Niko as "Alexis"/Izza S. Talker

## Trivia

* Zachary Gordon is noticeably absent in this episode due to his actor taking a trip to London. This marks the first time in the entire *WildSide* series where he is absent (he is only one of two characters who appeared in every single episode of the parent series and every episode of this series up to this point).