Friendship in the Time of Cheese Caves

"**Friendship in the Time of Cheese Caves**" is the first segment of the fourteenth episode of the first season of *Kiff*. It is the twenty-seventh episode overall.

## Synopsis

Kiff attempts to help Candle and Trevor with their new friendship.

## Plot

Miss Deer Teacher's class is washing cars to raise money for a field trip to the Cheese Caves, and everyone is having fun except Candle and Trevor, who are manning the sales table together despite having nothing in common. Kiff encourages the two to start interacting with each other. By the end of the day, the class has raised enough money for the field trip, and to Kiff and Barry's surprise, Candle and Trevor have become friends and made plans to hang out that weekend.

The next week, Candle and Trevor sit away from each other on the bus ride to the Cheese Caves, leading Kiff to assume that their friendship failed to last the weekend. At the Cheese Caves, Barry is paired with Trevor, and Kiff with Candle. Kiff sees Candle upset and is surprised to learn from her that it was Candle who messed things up with Trevor, rather than vice versa. Though Kiff wants to help her make things right, Candle is too ashamed to explain exactly what she did.

Kiff offers to pair up with Barry so that Candle and Trevor can be partners, but Trevor declines. At Kiff's suggestion, Candle participates in a game show-style attraction called "The Cost of Cheese" to show Trevor how fun she is. She correctly guesses the price of an expensive cheese, but upon seeing Trevor in the audience, she becomes nervous and starts stumbling over her words, embarrassing herself.

Later, the students visit a feta cave, using mops to coat the walls in brine. Kiff again tries asking Candle what happened between her and Trevor, but Candle is still too embarrassed to elaborate. Candle stomps her feet and pounds her mop on the ground in frustration, causing the delicate cave to start shaking. Before Kiff can calm down Candle, a section of the cave collapses around them. While she and Kiff are trapped by surrounding rubble, Candle finally admits what happened that weekend: after having a great time hanging out with Trevor, she excitedly texted him to say how much fun she had, but weirded him out by sending him a "chunky text" – an extremely long and rambling text message.

Using her large cheek capacity as a squirrel, Kiff clears the rubble by stuffing it in her mouth piece by piece, then escapes with Candle into a different cave through a hole in a wall. After spitting out the rubble, Kiff learns from Barry that Trevor is getting a "caricacheese" done nearby. Kiff tries convincing Trevor to forgive Candle for the chunky text, so he shows Kiff the text. After reading through the entire chunky text, Kiff scrolls further up Trevor and Candle's text conversation and sees that they were making fun of the shorts Kiff wore to the car wash. Enraged, she yells at Trevor and starts typing a chunky text to Candle to defend her choice of shorts, which makes Trevor realize that chunky texts are actually a normal phenomenon. Seeing his error, he runs to Candle and apologizes for judging her, and they renew their friendship. On the bus ride back, Candle and Trevor sit together and eat his caricacheese, while Kiff continues typing her chunky text.

## Cast and characters

* Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
* H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
* Deedee Magno Hall as Miss Deer Teacher
* Vella Lovell as Candle Fox
* Tom Kenny as Trevor Angstrom

## Locations

* Table Town
	+ Slim Pickins
	+ Table Town Middle School
	+ The Cheese Caves

## Songs

* "Cheese Caves Yodel" – composed by Brad Breeck
* "So Chunky" – written by Nic Smal
* "Most Fun I've Ever Had" – written by Brad Breeck and Ava Matasavage, performed by Ava Matasavage

## Trivia

* **Opening sponsor**: The Cheese Caves.
* The episode's title references the 1985 novel *Love in the Time of Cholera* by Gabriel García Márquez.
* The Cost of Cheese is heavily based on the television game show *The Price Is Right*.

### Continuity

* "The Great Rubber Boom of the Southern Continent" is one of the topics discussed in Kiff's chunky text to Candle.

## Videos

Chunky Text 💬 - Music Video - Kiff - @disneychannel