Mrs. MacDonald Had a Love

"**Mrs. MacDonald Had a Love**" is the first half of the first episode in the twenty-second season of *Maddie & Friends*.

## Summary

The gang is surprised that Mrs. MacDonald is getting married.

## Plot

One of Mrs. MacDonald's usual pop quizzes for the class is interrupted by a phone call from someone named "Kyle," who's calling to discuss flower arrangements for something. Mrs. MacDonald apologizes to the class, explaining that the call was for a wedding. When Henry asks who's getting married, Mrs. MacDonald answers, "Me." The class gasps in surprise.

Maddie, Emma, Big Leo, Rusty, Tiffany, Wanda, and Henry discuss the news at Yum. Yum. They are surprised that Mrs. MacDonald has a life outside the school, and they wonder who would marry Mrs. MacDonald. Their question is seemingly answered when Mrs. MacDonald walks in with a man named Kyle, who's shown to be a stickler for perfection. He claims that Mrs. MacDonald is too "soft" and that she will toughen him up. While Maddie remarks that they don't really know what Kyle is like, the others insist that they need to split them up, because a tougher Mrs. MacDonald would be unbearable.

Wanda uses an app that turns a picture of Mrs. MacDonald into an animated hippie. Maddie and Emma then trick Mrs. MacDonald into making a recording of her reading a children's book, which they sync up with the app and give to Kyle. Unfortunately, Kyle just finds the video hilarious.

The kids move to plan B, where they try to set Mrs. MacDonald up with Mr. Ferguson, the librarian. Maddie and Rusty stop at the gourmet chocolate store Kylie's Chocolates, where the friendly owner, Kylie, gives them some free samples. They decide that the chocolates are perfect to give Mrs. MacDonald to make her fall in love with Mr. Ferguson. Kylie hears their plan and remarks that chocolate doesn't necessarily make people fall in love, but he goes along with it when Rusty and Maddie claim they are desperate. They try to lure Mr. Ferguson to the library with chocolate and non-alcoholic champagne, but he is too busy with wedding preparations. She then asks them to return a library book for her, "I Love You" Poems. This gives Big Leo the idea to write a love poem "from" Mrs. MacDonald to Mr. Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson isn't fooled, however, and returns the poem with corrections to Big Leo's bad spelling and grammar (and a how-to guide on writing love poems).

The kids soon learn their families are all invited to the wedding. As a last resort, they choose to object during the ceremony. When they arrive, however, they begin to realize that Kyle's duties don't seem consistent with that of a groom's. When Kyle observes that they want to say something, the kids change their minds about objecting and compliment the wedding tent. Kyle thanks them, but remarks that nothing would have really been good enough for his younger sister's wedding; this reveals that not only is Kyle not the groom, but that he's Mrs. MacDonald's brother (and the officiant for the wedding). The kids are surprised to learn this. After questioning who Mrs. MacDonald's getting married to if Kyle isn't the groom, they discover that their teacher is actually getting married to a woman—Kylie, the chocolatier they met earlier— and not a man, after seeing the two of them walking down the aisle arm-in-arm. Instead of being shocked, the kids are pleased, as Kylie is a friendly person.

The kids enjoy cake after the ceremony and remark that they are happy with how the wedding turned out, and that it is a brand new world now that Mrs. MacDonald is married. However, observing Mrs. MacDonald and Kylie having their first dance, they all agree with embarrassment that teachers should never dance.

## Segments

* Maddettes - "It's Your Birthday"
* Film - A Chinese class

## Characters

### Major

* Maddie Parkington
* Emma Fresca
* Big Leo Anderson
* Henry McCrae
* Tiffany Prell
* Wanda Paris
* Rusty Universe
* Mrs. MacDonald

### Minor

* Mr. Ferguson
* Kyle MacDonald
* Kylie

### Cameo

* Gene Prell
* Lindsey Chung
* Jeddah Prell
* Mia Chung
* Caleb Chung
* Nikki Anderson
* Denny Anderson
* Devon Universe
* Penny Universe
* James Parkington
* Lily Parkington
* Will Hamm
* Rachel Hamm
* Marge MacDonald
* Miss Freeman
* Celine Fresca
* Kate Fresca
* Shop Owner
* Billy Gurinder
* Ralph Gosling
* Roxanne Gosling
* Naomi Gosling
* Taran Gosling
* Tony
* John Brown
* Joey Soroya
* Akiala Fish

## Trivia

* This episode reveals Mrs. MacDonald is homosexual, although the terms "gay" or "homosexual" are never used. In fact, Mrs. MacDonald could've been easily been marrying a man or woman in the script; it's that subtle.
* James Franco guest stars in this episode as Mrs. MacDonald's brother Kyle.
* This is the first episode to have segments in between the main story.