Season One Episode Nine

The ninth episode takes place over Thanksgiving break, and follows various students as they celebrate with their families.

## Main Plot

During a student council meeting, 12th grade class president Cara congratulates Ezra McDaniels and Sean Romeo for running the most successful food drive in Crumplebottom Academy history. When everyone leaves, Ezra and Sean gossip about Becky Jank's farm dance proposal. When Sean tells Ezra that she doesn't have plans for Thanksgiving, he invites her over to his family dinner. Ezra's beau Clover Reynolds walks in and sees them talking and gets jealous.

When Sean arrives to the McDaniels house, she feels intimidated by how fancy it is. There is a full string quartet, a giant table, and ornate decorations. Ezra tries to make her feel comfortable, though, by introducing her to his mom. During that conversation, Clover arrives and makes a joke about Ezra and her getting married one day. Ezra feels like he can't breathe due to anxiety, and runs upstairs to his room.

Clover tells Ezra that she wants to end their romantic liason due to his disinterest in committing. When Sean sees Ezra upset, she suggests he try therapy. He tells Seans that he tried therapy when his dad died, but it didn't really help. Sean tells him about different forms of therapy that might help him, that she learned about when she volunteered at a womens' shelter. That night, after his family goes home, Ezra confides in his mom that he's having trouble dealing with the death of his father.

A couple of days later, Meadow drives Ezra to an appointment with a therapist, Dr. Flexor. She suggests that he try memory reconsolidation therapy, which means reliving the traumatic memory of his dad dying.

At school, Ezra sulks and avoids Clover. Clover laments her relationship with Ezra to best friend Yuri Rhodes, who understands his appeal as a member of a billionaire family, but also thinks he's pasty and emotional.

After school, it's time for Ezra to relive the memory of the day his dad died. He has a breakthrough and remembers that Clover stayed with him all night in the treehouse comforting him. He realizes he has associating Clover with his dad's death which was causing him to have committment issues.

That night, Ezra surprises Clover with a beach picnic under the stars, and asks Clover to be his girlfriend!

## Subplot

The Junior Brute Force robotics team is at Foxbury Institute for the Junior Bot Battle regional championships. They are up against the Bit Shifters from their rival school, Pleasantview Prep. Dora Capricciosa teases her best friend Holland Bollinger about her crush Ollie Mansfield cheering for her in the crowd. Apollo McDaniels talks to the Pleasantview Prep team about his Voidcritter training service.

At Thanksgiving dinner at the McDaniels house, Apollo is nowhere to be seen. It turns out that he is overwhelmed by the volume of Voidcritters he's been tasked to train, and in a panic, he asks Sean and Ezra for help. They round up the whole family, and everyone works together to train Apollo's Voidcritters, including members of the string ensemble, and the McDaniels family Matriarchy herself, Artemis McDaniels!

## Quotes

* "Thanks to Pleasantview Prep, I have twice the Voidcritters to train and twice the cash." - Apollo
 "What do you need all that cash for?" - Holland"More Voidcritters!" - Apollo
* "Has anyone ever wondered why we call it Thanksgiving dinner but we eat at like 2pm?" - Arcadia
* "You look great, by the way!" - Ezra"Thanks, I wore my most formal beanie..." - Sean
* "Do you think it's possible that we talk about anything else? Like, anything? Politics? Anyone else think Mayor Campbell is doing a terrible job?" - Ezra
* "But downstairs, you said that Headmaster Kirkland was dashing." - Clover"Yeah, Clover, I'm gay not blind. Headmaster Kirkland is a babe." - Sean

## Trivia

* Jack Goldsworthy made four pies for Thanksgiving!
* Dorothy got braces between the last episode and this episode. JoJo offers to take them off with pliers!
* Casper and Arcadia have dinner with Ariel and Theo Calhoun because they are cousins. Their mom and dad are brother and sister. The Reedy family is also present, not because they're related, but because they are neighbors and friends!
* The Weldons attend the McDaniels family feast because their mom, Katrina Munch, is twin sisters with Apollo's mom, Iris Munch.
* This is the first episode where Ezra's mom expresses romantic interest in Headmaster Kirkland.
* Dr. Flexor is Holland, Freddie, and Dante's mother.
* Ezra frowns more in this episode than any episode so far. He really is pasty and emotional...