Smells Like Queen Spirit

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Smells Like Queen Spirit

Premise:
Hailey must defeat a chaos bot that has infiltrated her school while simultaneously winning the school’s Crab Queen Pageant.

Broadcast Information

Airdate
July 8, 2023 (Disney Channel)July 19, 2023 (Disney+)

Production code
110B

Paired with
"Flippin' Out"

Viewers
TBA

Production Information

Directed by
Leslie Park

Written by
Yolie Cortez & Lindsey Reckis

Storyboard by
Ben Holm & Kaden Westbrook

*List of episodes*

— Hailey Banks

"**Smells Like Queen Spirit**" is the second segment in the ninth episode of the first season of ***Hailey's On It!***. It is also the seventeenth episode of the season overall and premiered on July 8, 2023 on Disney Channel.

Plot
Hailey, Scott, and Beta attempt to dissect a chaos bot and pull out its communication device before it explodes. Listening to it, Beta reveals that it is sending a message to another chaos bot to do something at the school (he refused to pay $10 a month for a bot language course and only took the free trial). He tells Hailey that she should consider knocking the next item on her list which is to win the school's Crab Queen Pageant, something which is embarrassed about wanting in the past. Nevertheless, Scott and Beta coerce Hailey into completing that important item on her list as well as figure out what the chaos bots plan on doing.
At school, their teacher Ms. Jackson sets up the pageant with Hailey accepting the chance to run. However, an unusually robotic girl named Joanne Droid, who claims to be from Canada, arrives and announces her intent to also run for the pageant, setting her up against Hailey, and winning the favor of A.C. Hailey and Scott immediately deduce that Joanne is the chaos bot, as it is obvious that she hates water, can contort her body, has super strength, and talks in a robotic tone. Nevertheless, Hailey is determined to beat Joanne at the pageant and prevent the chaos bots from disrupting the ceremony.
At the pageant, Hailey loses at all the challenges with Joanne supposedly using her robotic ways. During the talent section, Hailey attacks Joanne to "remove" her face, only for Beta to finally translate the box and reveal that Joanne is "just an eccentric Canadian" and the real bot is the giant crab overlooking the event. Scott distracts the bot while Hailey uses her skills to defeat it. With Joanne's help, the two manage to destroy the chaos bot for good, while A.C. loses interest in Joanne after she helps Hailey. Hailey ends up winning with her "talent", but she splits the crown with Joanne and the two shower their classmates with crab meat.

Cast
Main Cast* Hailey Banks
* Scott Denoga
* Beta

Additional voices* Mrs. Jackson
* Joanne Droid
* A.C. Aychvak
* Paul

Trivia
Milestones* The title is a parody of the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
* This episode reveals that Hailey once went through a "Princess" phase, which is why she wrote being Crab Queen at her school.

Continuity
This is the first episode to continue after the previous episode and continues after "Flippin' Out."

Other* This episode was originally paired with "Kissed Opportunities," and was also originally the thirteenth episode produced alongside it.

Transcript
The transcript for this episode can be found here.

Gallery

References

1. ↑ July 2023 Programming Highlights