Stop Acting Like a Leaf

**Stop Acting Like a Leaf** is the third episode of season two, and the 17th episode of the CFK 2 Go! series *Wild2ide*. It first premiered worldwide on January 27, 2024.

This episode was the fifth episode to be filmed in Season 2. Primary production took place between November 27-December 1, 2023.

## Overview

Alexa decides to sneak onto a couples' only cruise in order to get back at her twin sister Savannah. Meanwhile Rachel joins Reuben in hosting a product testing session with some very special guests.

## Episode Summary

### **Plot A: Alexa's revenge**

The episode opens with Dean and Savannah making out on Alexa's bed; anticipating a round of sex. In the middle of their session Dean questions Savannah about Alexa's approval of the event, however Savannah insures her that it was okay. Soon after, Alexa ends up barging into her and Savannah's bedroom; immediately noticing Dean and Savannah and getting disgusted by it. She begins to question them about what they were doing, and the two attempt to explain themselves. During one of their explanations, Alexa interrupts them as she tells Dean to put on a shirt. Dean quickly realises that he was missing his shirt, so Savannah agrees to lend in one of her's. He puts the shirt on, revealing it to be a crop/tank top. As Alexa still appears rather disgusted at the situation, Dean decides to excuse himself by offering to get the girls some pancakes. The excuse makes him leave the room as Alexa and Savannah engage in a heated discussion with each other. While the two share a exchange about Savannah's intentions to dating Dean, it ends with Alexa swearing revenge to her. Towards the end of the discussion Savannah also assigns Alexa her air mattress.

Following the opening credits, Dean is seen carefully holding a spatula in the kitchen as he gets ahold of a take-out store that sells pancakes. While on the phone to them, he manages to order a dozen. In the middle of the phone conversation, Jane and Charlie approach him, causing Dean to request a purchase of a dozen more. He hangs up the phone as Jane and Charlie are seen giving him judgemental stares. The three share a brief discussion about their judgement (mostly due to the crop top that Dean was wearing) before Charlie eventually brings up a set of cruise tickets that he was given as gift from his work. As the cruise is revealed to be couples' only, him and Jane proceed to ask Dean to invite Savannah onto the cruise with him. Alexa appears to overhear this conversation as Dean denies the invitation at first; claiming that Savannah was already busy as the cruise was set to leave in a few days. Suddenly Savannah overhears this and manages to enter the room as her and Dean discuss it, where she agrees to come. The two couples are left gleaming at each other as Alexa can be seen smirking behind the wall with a plan.

A few days later, Savannah is seen packing for the cruise as she asks Alexa for her opinion on which bathing suit to wear. Alexa responds with a snarky insult, resulting in the two sharing yet another heated discussion. A little while later Dean enters the room as Savannah asks him the same question about her bathing suit. He immediately picks her yellow one. The two also share a small discussion with Alexa when they suddenly get reminded of the time. Savannah quickly realises that Dean had borrowed a pair of her underwear, and the two leave the room to go and retrieve it. Once they're gone, Alexa manages to take a majority of Savannah's things out of her suitcase and squeeze herself inside it; zipping it up afterwards. Alexa begins to regret her plan but chooses to go along with it anyway.

Jane and Charlie are ready to leave in the living room when they encourage Dean and Savannah to hurry along. Up the stairs, Savannah asks Dean to help her carry her suitcase, and he manages to push it down the stairs and eventually picks it up. He makes a brief comment about the suitcase's weight as the four (with Alexa hidden in the suitcase) set out on the cruise.

Upon arriving to their hotel room, a bellhop can be seen carrying Savannah's suitcase as he dumps it onto the bed. He leaves the four in peace as they all take notice of the room around them. They also begin to discuss the cruise's amenities with deep enthusiasm. The four then agree to head for the cruise's rooftop pool together, causing them to all leave the room. This prompts Alexa to finally get out of Savannah's suitcase. She begins to stretch out before she hears Savannah coming back into the room, which causes her to zip up Savannah's bag immediately and hide under the bed. Savannah (upon entering) proceeds to go through her suitcase to find her yellow bathing suit, however she quickly realises that it's missing. She begins to curse to herself as Alexa overhears her from under the bed.

Savannah quickly finds Dean, Jane and Charlie sunbathing by the rooftop swimming pool as she vents to them about her lost luggage. Dean attempts to calm her down before Jane encourages her to purchase a new bathing suit from the cruise's gift shop. Savannah refuses to do this at first, however she gets convinced after she gets turned on by seeing Dean getting sunblock applied to his back. A little while later, the scene cuts to a shot of Savannah wearing the gift shop's bathing suit and matching hat. She soon realises that her and Jane's bathing suit looked the exact same. She begins to discuss her disgust with this as Charlie leaves. He quickly returns with an outfit looking identical to Dean's. Dean expresses his un-enthusiasm for this as Charlie and Jane encourage some strangers nearby to take a picture of them.

Alexa is seen talking to herself under Savannah and Dean's bed as she encourages herself to go and find them. She ends up standing up and attempts to leave, however she is briefly stopped when a cleaner enters the room. She manages to sneak herself out of the room and takes off with a bolt.

Alexa eventually finds Dean and Savannah standing at the back of the boat and hides behind a nearby piece of furniture as she overhears them. Savannah and Dean are seen standing against the ship's railing as some sea water gets sprayed in Dean's face. Savannah begins to feel sorry for him as the two step back from the railing and share a meaningful discussion. Here Dean reveals that he always wanted to recreate an iconic scene from his favourite movie *Titanic* with his dream woman but never got the chance to do so. Savannah offers to allow Dean to recreate the scene with her, despite not hearing of the movie before. Dean then instructs her to pose just like the scene from the movie, which Savannah suddenly recognises, and the two eventually share a passionate kiss. Alexa ends up vomiting at the sight of this. Following their kiss, the pair agree to meet up with each other at the ship's spa. This causes Alexa to immediately leave in a head start.

Alexa arrives at the spa and manages to steal a disguise off of a stranger as she takes her place behind a bush. Fortunately, she immediately discovers what she believes were Dean and Savannah (actually revealed to be just Jane and Charlie in the same clothing) in front of her and eavesdrops on their conversation. Jane and Charlie discuss their future together and the concept of having children. This prompts Alexa to kick Jane in the back, causing her to fall face first into a mud bath. She begins to gloat towards her before she discovers Savannah standing in front of her fully dry. Alexa begins to grow confused at this before she discovers that it was *Jane* she pushed into the mud bath, not Savannah. Dean also begins to express his confusion as Charlie encourages him to help Jane out of the bath. Alexa begins to apologise to Jane as some security come by to let Jane out. Alexa and Savannah soon have a heated discussion, resulting in Savannah pushing Alexa into the mud bath herself. Alexa also drags Savannah in as the two engage in a brawl in the bath. The two spit insults at each other for around thirty seconds before the security lets the girls out of the bath. They end up getting carried away by the guards, leaving everyone else in confusion.

Later that night, Dean is seeing conversing with a freshly showered Alexa as the two discuss Alexa's intentions. After a little while a freshly showered Savannah enters the hotel room as the two dismiss Dean to share a private conversation with each other. When Dean eventually leaves, the two girls share another heated discussion where Savannah refuses to listen to Alexa's apologies. They also briefly touch upon their childhood before their financial situations get mentioned. Alexa mentions Savannah's "sad" life of living off of a compensation payout, which causes Savannah to pause and reflect for a bit. As we are led to believe that she was finally going to reconcile with Alexa, this quickly gets demolished as she reveals her new idea to make another compensation claim. She ends up spilling part of a pudding cup onto the ground with the intention to slip on it. Alexa begins to call her attempt "impossible" as Dean ends up re-entering the room and slipping on it. Alexa immediately rushes to his aide as Savannah expresses her disgust in the "way" he fell. She agrees to go outside to get security while Alexa continues to comfort him properly. Here she hands him an ice-pack as she sits him up on the bed. She also begins to explain to him about Savannah's intentions before he asks her if he could finish the pudding cup. Alexa reluctantly hands it to him as the two share a small moment on the edge of the bed. Savannah soon re-enters the room with a security guard on her arm while over exaggerating Dean's fall. When she discovers Dean sitting up on the bed looking fine, Savannah offers the guard some excuses as she walks off with him.

### **Plot B: Nostalgic product testing**

After Rachel receives a text message from Reuben telling her that he was in the middle of a medical emergency, she immediately rushes to his aide in his office with great concern. Reuben instructs her to sit down, in which she obeys, before he reveals that the emergency actually involved someone helping him run some product testing sessions that was happening in a few days. Rachel understandably gets furious at this when Reuben gives her some more information about the sessions. He then asks her to join him, in which she declines at first. He attempts to convince her by reminding her of the attractiveness of the people he's surveying, which Rachel once again declines. He finally offers her $500 for her help, which she happily accepts.

A few days later, Reuben is seen setting up his console prototype when Rachel joins him. After she makes a comment about the line of people outside, he provides her with instructions on how to carry out the sessions. He shows her the game (which she begins to play before he stops her) and instructs her to watch what he was about to do. He calls upon the first participant, which is revealed to be Lauren from *Living on an Island*. Reuben ends up asking Lauren questions about her life, and she goes into details about her past (primarily bringing up events from the original series she was apart of). Rachel also appears to make snarky comments about Lauren's life, making Lauren visibly uncomfortable. Rachel then states that she was ready to begin her turn at interviewing.

Reuben calls in the next set of guests, who are revealed to be Joe and Moe from *Bad*. Reuben proceeds to comment about their identicalness before he instructs them to play the game. Joe and Moe begin to make comments about Reuben's job itself, which eventually leads to Moe mentioning the "Bad" club that he himself invented from the original series. Joe disputes this by reminding him that it wasn't his idea; later bringing up the two twins' current careers. On the other side of the curtain, Rachel is seen interviewing Tina from *Jokeathon*. The two women share a pleasant conversation that primarily discusses Tina's past and present career. The two women appear to get along greatly.

A little while later, Rachel can be seen interviewing Ryan Evans from *Yellow and Green*. During the session Ryan appears to enthusiastically play the console whilst discussing his childhood with his older sister Cindy. The two also boast interest in getting to know each other better. On the other side of the curtain, Reuben is seen interviewing Mario and Luigi Kart from *Brotherhood*. The fraternal twins are seen arguing with each other, causing Reuben to be left confused. They provide Reuben with a little more information about their past and present when Mario decides that he was craving ice-cream. He leaves to get himself a cone while Reuben and Luigi share a brief conversation. Mario then re-enters the room with a tall cone cleary intact. He boasts about keeping it intact before Reuben receives a sudden phone call; causing him to hit Mario in the shoulder and drop the cone. As Reuben turns to answer the phone call, the Karts' older sister Claudia makes a brief cameo, telling the two men to hurry it along while making a comment about Mario's ice-cream.

Rachel calls upon the next participant to find Gabe Duncan from *Good Luck Charlie* enter. Rachel begins to shoo him out immediately before he reminds her that he was taken. Rachel proceeds to shoo him out anyway. On the other side of the curtain, Reuben can be seen interviewing Russell from *Cheater* and Anne from *Jelly Sticks*. Russell is seen discussing his old watch with Reuben while Anne refuses to say anything. After a little bit she finally speaks up, telling the two men that she was feeling "forgotten". Back on Rachel's side of the curtain, Rachel calls upon the next participant to reveal Chile Parks and Frank Quimby from *E.G.G. Plant*. Rachel and Chile engage in a heartfelt embrace as they discuss their previous meeting. The conversation soon shifts to the present, where Rachel doesn't appear to recognise or remember Frank. Frank and Chile then reveal that they were currently engaged to each other after beginning to date during freshman year of college. Chile then asks Rachel about her relationship status, however Rachel refuses to make any comment about it.

During the closing credits, Reuben is seen interviewing Margie from *Wishful Thanking* where they can be seen discussing her past. He then dismisses her; declaring the end of the product testing session. He then pulls back the curtain to Rachel's side where she can be seen writing and singing the *Yellow and Green* theme song with Ryan Evans. After the song, Ryan decides to call his sister Cindy. He tells her about the song he and Rachel just wrote and tells her the meaning behind it. Cindy ends up hanging up on him. The two come to the conclusion that Cindy didn't like the song. Reuben then tells Rachel that he would come back later for her.

## Future References (contains spoilers)

The title of this episode is a reference to part of a quote stated by the character Justice Leonardo in the *WildSide* episode Wild Mystery, while she's giving her male models instructions on how to improve their next photo shoot.

## Cast

### **Main Cast**

* Zachary Gordon as Dean Ford
* Marija Martin as Alexa Wilson
* Jamie Cox as Jane Freebairn
* Issac Ryan Brown as Reuben Fisherman
* Jill To'oh as Blanket Thompson
* Sierra McCormick as Rachel Norman

### **Recurring Cast**

* Savannah DeLullo as Savannah Wilson
* Calum Worthy as Charlie

### **Special Guest Cast**

* Laura Smith as Lauren (from *Living on an Island*)
* Jon Richardson as Joe (from *Bad*)
* Mathew Richardson as Moe (from *Bad*)
* Maiara Walsh as Tina (from *Jokeathon*)
* Dylan Small as Ryan Evans (from *Yellow and Green*)
* Mario Kart as Mario (from *Brotherhood*)
* Luigi Kart as Luigi (from *Brotherhood*)
* Jessica Rose as Claudia (from *Brotherhood*)
* Bradley Steven Perry as Gabe Duncan (from *Good Luck Charlie*)
* Sean Peep as Russell (from *Cheater*)
* Renee Sing as Anne (from *Jelly Sticks*)
* Cliff Admi as Frank Quimby (from *E.G.G. Plant*)
* Ally Cole as Chile Parks (from *E.G.G. Plant*)
* Landry Bender as Margie (from *Wishful Thanking*)
* Alli Stenovak as Jean Waters (from *Wilder-Side*)