In the Blue with You

**In the Blue with You** is the seventh episode in Season 1 of *I ♥ Arlo*.

## Synopsis

Arlo is feeling down when his dad doesn't seem excited to spend time together on their father-son fishing trip.

## Plot

Arlo goes onto the Seaside dock with Bertie following behind with the lunch he forgot; he reveals he's going on a fishing trip with his dad, and has taken a banjo, lucky fishing pole, and the tuna lunch made by Bertie who decided to be thematically appropriate as she doesn't seem to like fishing that much. As Arlo wonders what he'll be doing on the trip, he offers to play a song he wrote for Ansel on the banjo, but takes some time to tune it. When he finally gets it tuned, he is interrupted by the arrival of Ansel on his yacht, who has a drone pick him up. Bertie sees the two off just as Marcellus comes over to be snarky about it.

As the yacht begins sailing, Arlo is surprised by its fast speed, but is nevertheless excited to go fishing. To his shock, Ansel takes his fishing pole away because they're not technically going fishing, as he hired two surrogates to do it in their place. What Ansel has really planned is much bigger than expected, and he shows Arlo his full sailor crew whom Arlo doesn't take a liking for as it's much more crowed than he thought, to the point of listening to their spontaneous Broadway routines. When one of the sailors gets injured, Ansel apologizes and promises the rest of the trip will be perfect.

To repress the issue, Ansel then shows Arlo the yacht's highly technological sonar and GPS system, the beep of the radar whom Arlo takes a liking for as it sounds like a good beat for his song. He once again tunes up the banjo to sing, but isn't as successful again. Sure enough, something appears on the radar, one of the sailors alerting Ansel that a school of narwhals have been spotted, and summons the crew to gear the two up in diving equipment, taking away Arlo's banjo in the process, before being submerged into the ocean. Underwater, Arlo has trouble catching up with Ansel before spotting the arrival of the narwhals, who come right at them. One bumps right into Arlo who rides along with it, allowing Ansel to do the same; eventually, Arlo gets too low below Ansel who sees it as him getting into it. Unable to reach out to his dad, Arlo sadly sings the song he wrote for him just before sinking to the bottom.

Arlo is soon pulled out of the water by the yacht's drone, Ansel surprised he decided to stay down longer than thought. As they get their gear removed, Ansel sees Arlo feeling the opposite of thrilled, the crew shrugging it off as a Save Our Swamps poster, and Ansel worries the narwhals weren't enough for him. Ansel asks the crew to leave he and his son alone which they oblige. Ansel asks the sad Arlo if he wants to go home, him replying if that's what he wants. Ansel admits all he wanted was to impress his son and is upset to see him not thrilled over all the wild things they did. Arlo then proceeds to tell him that even though all the things they did were impressive, it wasn't really a fishing trip and all he really wanted was to spend time with him, as that's the perfect day to him. Ansel is surprised by this, so he decides to join in with him to his happiness.

Soon Ansel and Arlo are lowered in a raft by the drones, ready for a proper fishing trip. Ansel is nervous, but Arlo lets him know he's really good with boats. He then begins tuning his banjo to sing the song yet again, but ultimately decides they don't need the banjo as there's music all around them. Some fish then emerge and start singing, which transitions into the song, "In The Blue", with Arlo singing to Ansel about how special it is to spend time with him and how much they have to catch up on. Throughout the day, Ansel learns how to do fishing traditionally, before he joins in singing with his son and embracing him. In the final scene, the two do some stargazing as Arlo wonders what's above them; Ansel offers to take him, but Arlo decides to keep it a mystery.

## Cast

* Michael J. Woodard as Arlo Beauregard
* Mary Lambert as Bertie
* Brett Gelman as Marcellus
* Vincent Rodriguez III as Ansel Beauregard
* Phil LaMaar as Bruce/Sailor 3
* Michelle McMillian as Sailor 2/Sailor 4
* Fred Tatasciore as The Beast
* Mark Whitten as Sailor 1/Surrogate Ansel/Surrogate Arlo

## Trivia

* Tony, Furlecia and Alia are absent in this episode.