Best Friends Whenever S1 E2

## Plot

Cyd and Shelby tell Barry and Naldo that they're time travelers. Barry tells them that's almost impossible, and spouts some big scientific stuff. The girls go back in time and repeat every word he just said to prove it to him. They had to live through his speech fifteen times before they could memorize it. Barry vows to figure out how it happened, and become the greatest scientist since Einstein. He tells the girls to be careful, because if people figure out that they're time travelers, they'll be locked up and experimented on. They tell him about the future lab they saw, and that they're never going back there. They high five, and wind up back in the future lab, screaming their heads off. They hear footsteps and go back to the present. Shelby wants to study for a history test, but Cyd doesn't want to. They accidentally jump forward to test time, and they're unprepared. They see that Barry is missing his eyebrows. He asks them to make sure it doesn't happen to him. It does. They go back to the present. Cyd still isn't interested in studying, the girls bump into each other and go back to the test time, and then back to the present. They can't touch each other while studying, because then they'll think about the test and jump there. Meanwhile, Barry works on recreating time travel with Naldo. They blast themselves with the laser set to 400, but nothing happens. Cyd and Shelby have difficulty studying. Cyd steals a copy of the test from the future so they know what it will be on. Shelby knows what they're doing is wrong, but Cyd encourages her to cheat. Barry gets his eyebrows singed off when Bret and Chet mess around in his lab after he tries to use them as test subjects in a different approach to time travel. Shelby feels guilty about cheating, and has a bunch of nervous quirks she does when she gets stressed. Barry is depressed that he's not even close to figuring out time travel. He worries that he's not good at science, which is what he loves to do. I feel the same way about writing sometimes, where I worry that I'm not good at something that I love to do in life. Barry is being too hard on himself. He's only been working on the time travel thing for two days. Naldo encourages him to keep on trying. Cyd knows that Shelby can't keep going on like this, and confesses to their teacher Ms. Nesbit that they cheated. After Shelby coughs up a napkin (long story), Ms. Nesbit plans to get them expelled. She's a really mean teacher. Cyd apologizes to Shelby for taking advantage of her being willing to do anything for her best friend. From now on, they promise to tell each other if they're uncomfortable with something. Since Cyd isn't comfortable with getting a punishment, the girls go back in time, and call Ms. Nesbit anonymously about the test, so she changes it. After Shelby admits that this one is too hard, they go back in time to make sure Ms. Nesbit doesn't become a teacher. Sure enough, she becomes a police officer instead.

## Review

This was an okay episode. Some people find Naldo to be dumb, but just because someone doesn't seem traditionally "smart" doesn't mean they don't have a high EI, or emotional intelligence. Naldo has a high EI, Barry does not. I think it's speculated that Barry is autistic. He has a high IQ, presumably Naldo does not. They're like the boy versions of Cyd and Shelby. Total opposites who happen to be best friends, and they complement each other perfectly because of it.