The App Came Back

"**The App Came Back**" is the thirteenth episode and twenty-sixth overall in Season 2 of ***That Girl Lay Lay***. It premiered on December 25, 2022. It received 0.26 million viewers.

## Plot

### Summary

Lay Lay's avatar creator Ilana visits Sadie with some changes to the app settings, turning Lay Lay's personality negative; Sadie tries to restore her best friend's positivity while convincing the techie not to shut down the app completely.

### Main Plot

Lay Lay and Sadie are in their bedroom, and Sadie has just finished her Shake-It-To-Me-5000 milkshake maker for her science fair project. Trish and Bryce enter Lay Lay and Sadie's room, where Sadie demonstrates how the shake-it-to-me-5000 works, and Lay Lay demonstrates her solar system for her science fair project, complete with Lay Lay's face on the sun.

The following day, the doorbell rings as Lay Lay and Sadie carry the Shake-It-To-Me-5000. Lay Lay greets Ilana, who enters and introduces herself. Sadie and Ilana meet and greet each other. Ilana asks Sadie if she has heard of her father, Bob Winter, and Sadie explains to Lay Lay how Ilana's father, Bob Winter, was the CEO of the social media app Post-A-Pic; Ilana explains how the app got started but flopped, and she also explains how she is here to save her own app. Ilana asks Sadie why she stopped using the app, and Sadie explains that her Shake-It-To-Me-5000 started shaking and exploding.

Later that evening, Ilana recorded some data in graphs and charts. Lay wants to remix her outfit. Ilana shows Sadie a graph tracking user activity. According to Ilana, Sadie is by far the most active user of the positive affirmation app. Sadie tells Ilana how her app helped her pass the most important school test, and Ilana pulls out her virtual reality headset, which allows her to interact with the app's source code in a virtual environment and make changes. Sadie pulls out her phone, and Illana tells her that she can see changes in real time. Ilana has some ideas for making the avatars more anime-style. This made Layla's eyes come out too big. She claims she looks like an owl that's seen a ghost. Ilana also built bunny mode for her VR headset, which also causes Lay's Head to have bunny ears. Ilana returns to normalcy. Ilana claims that her father's negativity inspires her and that negativity is a far more effective motivator than positivity. Lay Lay returns in a rock outfit, and Lay Lay begins kicking down the laundry hamper as a result of Ilana's latest update, which transformed the positive affirmation app into the negative affirmation app.

Lay Lay begins plucking flowers and repeating "He loves me. I don't care." Sadie begins to explain to Lay Lay how she isn't herself and how the changes Ilana makes to the app may have a negative impact on Lay Lay. Lay Lay regrets that h Her poitive personality was a disaster. Her new self wants to destroy stuff and listen to Billie Eilish. Lay Lay begins to drop her flower and step on it. Ilana contacts tech support and reports that her negative affirmation app is working perfectly. Sadie dislikes Ilana's concept and believes that negativity is not the way to go. Ilana is asked to Sadie's science fair.

Later that day at East Packer High with Trish and Bryce, Trish compliments Sadie's and Lay Lay's science project and shows her confidence in them. Lay Lay gives a mean compliment, claiming that she will mess up soon. Sadie goes up to Tiffany and asks her to do a lip gloss experiment. Lay lay argues rainbows are so optimistic; Tiffany claims she has moved on; Grayden claims she hasn't moved on; Lay lay claims Tiffany's exhibit seems like a cry for attention; and he begins mocking Tiffany by saying, "Look at me, east packer high; I have lips."

Later on, Lay unveils her solar system idea in a satirical manner, with a toilet next to her branded "Prepare for the Suck." Lay Lay considers the audience to be "once flushed away from it all being finished, Lay Lay flushes her solar system down the toilet." Ilana regrets creating her negative affirmation app Ilana turns off the negative version while Sadie is happy but Sadie claims that she's impressed Lay Lay starts going back to her normal and positive self but Ilana is going to shut the app down Lay lay starts gasping Sadie tells Lay lay to calm down Sadie starts gasping, and Lay Lay tells her to calm down.

Lay lay and Sadie head to the locker room with Lay Lay and Sadie freaking out Lay Lay starts being invisible over and over again till Ilana walks by Sadie begins asking Ilana to take a break before she shuts off the app.

Back at East Packer High, Sadie tries to present her Shake-It-To-Me-5000 to the whole audience lay lay then side whispers to sadie lay lay then tells how Ilana will delete the app Sadie then gave the speech, explaining negativity and the working of the Shake-It-To-Me-5000, and illana is convinced to keep the app.

The next day, Lay Lay is happy to be herself again and regrets being negative. Sadie opens the door for Ilana, and Ilana's father gives her permission to launch the 2.0 version of the app. Lay Lay assumes she's going to get new outfits and new hairstyles, but Sadie is worried for Lay Lay. Sadie and Lay Lay hope to figure out the situation that which left them on a cliffhanger.

### Subplot

At Boombox Burger, Cobo plays basketball, and everyone cheers for him. Marky tells Woody how he invested in arcade games, and Woody calls Marky's nickname "Biz Marky." Woody gives Marky his first cut in a full sock of quarters and drops it down on the table, and Woody explains to Marky why he keeps his money in socks. Cobo asks the machine to show his initials in the number one spot, but (Principal Willingham) Marky asks Cobo who ZW1 is, but Principal Willingham replies she's ZW1 like Zelda when she's on the court, and Marky asks for a Hip-Hop-A-Shot-Off will match Cobo against ZW1, but when ZW1 scores again, Cobo and ZW1 begin dancing against each other.

It's the Hip-Hop-A-Shot-Off, and Woody hands up the competition's trophy. Marky introduces Cobo with cheerleaders dancing with Cobo on Woody, and then present Principal Willingham, who spins basketball while singing with her one finger. Zelda, go! I'm a winner. Cobo and Principal Willingham dance close together, and Marky blows his air horn to signal the start of the game. Willingham makes a basketball shot and gets the nickname "Principal Swishingham."

The seconds left in the Hip-Hop-A-Shot-Off When Cobo scores, it's a tie between zelda and Cobo because zelda has the highest score and gets to choose the shot; Zelda calls her shot "the Willingham" because it goes over the head off the rafter, of the speaker, off Omar, off the tire, and into the net. Marky wants to talk to Cobo, but Cobo can't beat Willingham because he's afraid and freaking out. Marky gives Cobo a quick talk about beating Willingham. Cobo tries to score by sitting on the couch without looking up. Cobo's fans are cheering for him; it's Zelda's turn, but she almost won the game, and Cobo is the winner of the Hip-Hop-A-Shot-Off. Cobo then earns his trophy, but Woody takes it back.

## Cast

### Main

* Alaya "That Girl Lay Lay" High as Lay Lay
* Gabrielle Nevaeh Green as Sadie Alexander
* Tiffany Daniels as Trish Alexander
* Thomas Hobson as Bryce Alexander
* Peyton Perrine III as Marky Alexander

### Recurring

* Andrea Barber as Principal Willingham
* Kensington Tallman as Tiffany Highlander
* Anna-Grace Arnold as Gigi

### Guest

* Elijah Cooper as Collin “Cobo” Bartholomew
* Graydon Yosowitz as Grayden Wayden
* Ishmel Sahid as Woody
* Miia Harris as Ilana Winter

## Trivia

* This episode filmed on July 22, 2022.
* This is the fifteenth episode to air out of production code order.
* This is the first episode to premiere on a Sunday night and it premiered on Christmas.
* This episode premiered right after the NFL Nickmas Game.
* This episode aired as part of "12 Days of Nickmas," an event where Nick aims to premiere new content everyday leading up to Christmas. This is similar to the previous premiere event, Nickelodeon's Gobble Wobble Thanksgiving! Week - albeit, on a slightly larger scale.
* This is the last episode to premiere in 2022.
* This episode premiered on the same day the Netflix Original Film, ***Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical*** streamed on Netflix.
* Miia Harris previously portrayed Clawdeen Wolf in ***Monster High: The Movie***. Gabrielle Nevaeh Green also voices Clawdeen Wolf in the ***Monster High*** animated series.
* Many celebrates were mentioned in this episode including Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Gigi Hadid and George Foreman Jr.
* This is the highest viewed episode of the season.