A Lying Witch and a Warden

"**A Lying Witch and a Warden**" is the first episode of the first season of *The Owl House*, and the first episode overall, serving as the series premiere.

It premiered on January 10, 2020.

## Synopsis

*Luz, a self-assured teenage girl, accidentally stumbles upon a portal to a magic world where she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and an adorable tiny demon warrior, King. In order to get home, Luz must help them with a mission.*

**Alternate Synopsis:** *When outcast Luz Noceda discovers a portal to a new world, she meets a witch named Eda and a demon named King; in order to get home, Luz has to help them with a mission.*

## Plot

Luz Noceda is a creative and expressive girl, but this causes trouble at her school. After an incident with her book assignment involving live snakes, her mother, Camila, decides to send her to a Reality Check Summer Camp to straighten out her wild, imaginative personality. While waiting for the bus to pick her up, a little owl takes Luz's favorite book, *The Good Witch Azura*. She chases the owl to an old rundown house in the woods where she is immediately transported to a tent filled with weird stuff. The owner is a strange looking lady who closes the portal behind her with a key when Luz reclaims her book and tries to run for it. The lady introduces herself as Eda the Owl Lady, who happens to be a powerful witch and makes her living selling human stuff. She takes her back to her stand, and offers to sell something to Luz, like rubber clogs, a deodorant roll, or a TV. Eda becomes impressed with Luz when she gets the TV working, attracting more customers. Unfortunately, the authorities show up and declare both Eda and Luz under arrest. However, Eda gives the law enforcer the slip and flies away with Luz on her magic Owl staff.

Luz learns from Eda that she is in a land called the Boiling Isles in the Demon Realm, where all myths humans have are caused by a little of this world leaking into theirs, including giraffes ("Bunch of freaks!") They arrive at Eda's home, the Owl House, and meet her little furry "roommate", King. Eda then brings up the reason why she brought Luz to her home. King was once a mighty king of demons until his Crown of Power was stolen many years ago by the Warden Wrath. Now it remains locked away behind a magical force field that only a human can break through. Since Luz is a human, Eda and King ask her to help them get King's crown back, and in return Eda will send her home. Seeing no choice, Luz complies and accompanies them to the Conformatorium, where people are imprisoned for being unsuitable and having too much wild creativity for society.

Luz and King sneak to the top of the tower, where they meet a lot of inmates who are imprisoned simply for being different and not fitting in. Luz feels sorry for them, because she can totally relate. Luz and King later regroup with Eda and find where King's crown is being kept. Luz passes through the force field and retrieves the crown, which turns out to be a kid's meal crown and possesses no great value whatsoever, except to King. Eda explains to Luz that she only recovered the crown since it matters to King, thus mattering to her, and as such weirdos like them have to stick together which resonates with Luz. Before making their escape, they are captured by the Warden Wrath who unexpectedly asks Eda out on a date. She rejects Wrath and fights him with King while telling Luz to leave. Luz then comes back, releases the inmates and helps Eda defeat Wrath. After returning to the Owl House, Eda opens the portal so Luz can return home. However, after everything she has been through, Luz feels like she does not belong there and decides to stay and be Eda's apprentice until the time she's supposed to be at camp ends. Eda accepts, on the condition that Luz has to work for her. Once Luz has settled in for the night (with King joining her), she texts her mother telling her that she may just enjoy her summer after all.

## Cast

* Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda & Azura (*presenting*)
* Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
* Alex Hirsch as King, Hooty, & Gildersnake
* Elizabeth Grullon as Camila Noceda
* Roger Craig Smith as Warden Wrath
* Grey Griffin as Katya
* Dana Terrace as Tinella Nosa

### Additional voices

* Keith Ferguson as Principal Hal and Monsters
* Arin Hanson as Eye-Eating Prisoner, Monsters and Guards
* Eden Riegel as Fairy

## Trivia

* **Viewership:** This episode was watched by 0.61 viewers on its premiere.
	+ This is also the most viewed episode in the first season.
* The episode completed production on July 15, 2019.
* This episode was released early on DisneyNOW and YouTube before its television premiere on Disney Channel.
* This is the first episode not to feature the theme song and the only episode to not feature a title card.
* This is the first episode to be animated by Sunmin Image Pictures.
* Tinella Nosa's appearance is based on series creator Dana Terrace's self-caricature.
* Outside the Conformatorium are the following wanted posters:
	+ Three Eyed Toad for $0.00
	+ Lord Ham for $300
	+ Snake Eater for $300,000
	+ Scratcher for $40,000
	+ Knife Baby for $60,000
	+ Tooth Thief for $8,000.
* The pile of contraband inside the Conformatorium contains the following books:
	+ *Necronomicon*
	+ *Necronomicon 2*
	+ *Famous Snakes*
	+ *Soulless*
* Luz's audition for *Romeo and Juliet* took place on October 15th.[*citation needed*]
* Luz's visit in Principal Hal's office occurred at around 9:57AM.
* Luz's summer camp lasts for three months.
* Eda's line "Finally, you're back." is used when the show is back on, on both Disney XD and Disney Channel.
* When Eda creates a spell circle that creates imagination to explain to Luz, the 1st code was revealed on the bottom of the screen, it got cracked into "T-OO" and translated into "Two".
* This episode uses the Hollywood Edge sound effect "gusts heavy cold wind pe031601."

## Allusions

* ***The Chronicles of Narnia*** - The episode title is a reference to C.S. Lewis' epic fantasy novel *The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe*.
	+ Coincidentally, Disney adapted that novel into the first film of *The Chronicles of Narnia* film series.

* ***Gravity Falls*** - A hat resembling the one worn by Dipper Pines from *Gravity Falls* can be seen among the items in Eda's shop.
* **Burger King** - The *Burger Queen* cardboard crown is a play on *Burger King*, which also gives away cardboard crowns.
* ***Pokémon*** - The stuffed animal that is seen when Eda is closing her shop closely resembles Snorlax.
* ***Harry Potter*** - Luz says "Expecto, Magicus... escapicus!!" which is the first incantation. Expecto is an incantation for the Patronus charm: Expecto Patronum.

## Errors

* After Eda's head gets cut off and lands in Luz's hands, she is missing her left ear.
* The lever outside the Conspiracy Theorist's cell door was initially up, indicating her cell was unlocked.
* Camila Noceda's name appears as "Camilia" in the end credits.

## Edits

* In the original airing in Canada, when Luz says "Eda, are you okay?" "Eda" is silenced.
* In the Southeast Asia broadcast, the words "dumb", "stupid", and "sucker" are cut in the English audio track.
	+ In the Southeast Asia broadcast, the scene where Warden Wrath decapitates Eda was also cut.

## Memorable quotes

“
So, you have a different way of doing things, a different way of seeing things. That might make you weird, but it also makes you awesome. Don't you see?
”

—Luz

“
Because us weirdos have to stick together. And nobody should be punished for who they are!
”

—Luz

## Videos

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "EPISODE 101". *dgepress.com*.
2. ↑ "The Owl House (inspect code elements to find the original file headings)". *Justin Noel*.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Metcalf, Mitch (January 13, 2020). SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.10.2020. *Showbuzz Daily*. Archived from the original on February 28, 2020.
4. ↑ Disney+ Channel UK [@DCUK\_NEWS] (August 9, 2020). "Don't miss out BRAND NEW Show The Owl House starts tomorrow at 9:30pm! Monday to Fridays at 9:30pm" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
5. ↑ "Disney Channel UK HD, Monday, Aug 10, 2020". *TV24* (August 10, 2020). Retrieved on January 8, 2023.
6. ↑ "Disney Channel CEE (Български) - Промо на премиерата 'Къщата на совите' [12.2020*.]".* YouTube *(December 20, 2020).*
7. ↑ "A Lying Witch and a Warden (2020)". IMDb.
8. ↑ "The Owl House". Sound Effects Wiki.
9. ↑ Terrace, Dana [@DanaTerrace] (October 15, 2020). "Actually that's a spelling error I was unable to change because it was caught too late. It is Camila and future episodes will reflect that." (Tweet). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved November 24, 2023 – via Twitter.
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