The Ice Queen Cometh

**"The Ice Queen Cometh"** is the second segment of the twenty-second episode of the first season of *Hamster & Gretel*, and the forty-third episode overall. It is paired with "Over the Hill" and premiered on Disney Channel on July 8, 2023.

Kevin and Gretel encounter a trendy ice cream parlor, whose proprietor only lets in people based on how cool she thinks they are. She allows Kevin inside, planning to freeze him like the other cool people.

## Plot

On a particularly hot day, Kevin and Gretel encounter a new trendy ice cream store. However, the owner, Inga the Ice Queen, is denying certain people access based on how cool she thinks they are, including Gretel–although, she does allow Kevin to enter for criticizing one's coolness being used as a measurement of self-worth. As Hamster and Gretel leave to fight the villain Pendulum Pete, Kevin is given an opportunity to try a new flavor of ice cream, only to end up frozen.

When Hamster and Gretel arrive to investigate after Kevin attempts to call them, they are attacked by Inga, after which, she explains her intentions to be surrounded by cool friends when asked what her motive is. They then discover the source of her frozen powers, Eïysze, which the heroes are unable to melt due to no force on Earth being able to melt it. Eventually, Hamster and Gretel are affected by Inga’s machine, giving her the advantage. However, this ends up being short-lived, as the Eïysze is launched into space and crashes into the sun, freeing everyone who was affected by the machine. Afterwards, Inga is defeated and arrested by police.

## Cast and characters

* Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
* Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
* Beck Bennett as Hamster
* Danielle Threet as Inga the Ice Queen
* Diedrich Bader as Pendulum Pete

### Additional voices

* Carlos Alazraqui as Police Officer
* Casey Hamilton as Clock Shopkeeper
* Danielle Threet as Helga
* Isaac Robinson-Smith as Line Patron

## Running gags

### Image scene transitions

A cone of ice cream, possibly of pretentious flavor
(used to transition to Pendulum Pete attacking the digital clock store)Hamster and Gretel, looking serious
(used to transition back to Ice Queen's Ice Cream)

## Transcript

*Click here to read the full transcript of **"The Ice Queen Cometh"**.*

## Background information

### Trivia

* Kevin is revealed to have no middle name due to his parents considering Grant-Gomez long enough.
* This is the third episode where Gretel has to rescue Kevin ("Cheer Cheer Bang Bang", "Hamnesia").
* At the end of the episode, Hamster sighs and says the line "This town, man" in response to Helga's hot soup parlor. Hamster previously did this in "The Bottle Episode", after he, Gretel and Kevin were shrunk in the same bottle as *The Muddy Bess* by Tchotchke Jones.

### Allusions

* ***The Iceman Cometh*** - The title of this episode is a pun on the title of this 1939 play written by Eugene O'Neill.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B729WHDG
2. ↑ https://www.dgepress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/pressrelease/july-2023-programming-highlights/
3. ↑ https://www.dgepress.com/disneybrandedtelevision/shows/hamster-gretel/episodes/over-the-hill-the-ice-queen-cometh/
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/disneybeat101/status/1666843203960549377