A Stu Is Born

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**A Stu Is Born** is the first segment of the 5th episode in season 3 of Harvey Street Kids. The title of the episode is a reference to the 2018 film *A Star is Born*.

## Synopsis

Richie Rich wants to make Stu famous as a way to overshadow the cat Marco, with whom he had a previous rivalry.

## Plot

The episode begins with Richie going to the Harvey Girls while learning to ride a skateboard, finding novel the way it is used. His cell phone gets a notification where his rival the cat Marco appears mocking how Richie takes his selfies, which bothers him. Lotta comments who is also her rival, with Richie telling her that they have a story too, explaining it with a video.

It turns out that after the pickle incident, Marco fell close to Richie while he's ironically selling pickles, where Richie adopted him as his protégé making him a social media star, gaining popularity. But suddenly, Marco became hostile to Richie, especially attacking him and his robots. Richie comments that it is one of his failures and his videos annoy him.

Moments later, one of Richie's photos became quite popular, which is of the Fighting Bananas Cheer Squad. Richie thinks it is some kind of cult, but Dot corrects and tells him that they watch them from time to time. After Audrey noticed the comments in favor of Stu, Richie plans to make him an influencer on his Rightnow-O-gram platform, in order to repair that flaw. The Harvey Girls support him, considering the fame he will have along with reducing Marco's popularity.
Stu tells him that he is doubtful of this, but Richie convinces him of the popularity he can achieve. He also tells him that  Zoe has banned him from uploading photos not related to bananas. Audrey appears by saying if he needs a bodyguard to block him from Zoey, to which she gladly offered. Stu accepts and Richie invites him to the sky mansion, where he tells him about the incident, he had with Marco along with that he has taken precautions putting together a team that could ease any future friction that could happen. Which are respectively Dot and Lotta.

Dot after some differences of opinion with Matzo, they decided that the brand for Stu is  *"Stu the blue".* Richie proceeds to do a training montage of selfies, however, his attempts to create them do not work well compared to Marco's likes. Seeing these results, Richie has a little obsessive episode. Stu manages to get better photos until Zoey arrives as she searches for his daily group photo while having a temperamental expression. When she sees Stu taking photos, Zoe is interrupted by Audrey who provokes her to follow her, which works.
Richie for his part uploads the new photos to his feed, so they receive likes from different parts. To celebrate, a disco ball descends in the mansion's living room and the kids dance. However, Stu wants to retire just one afternoon after starting. But when he sees Marco mimicking Richie with his robots, Richie tries to convince him to keep saying that he is a social media star.

Richie analyzes the situation and says they are doing well with post-millennial tweeners, then convince him to wear a mermaid hairstyle. When Dot and Lotta were to intervene, they are distracted by Audrey who is chased by Zoe. To Richie's bad luck, Marco fights back by mimicking Stu, which makes Richie a bit upset and says he can remedy the negative attention. As Marco only teases famous people, Richie proposes to challenge him to a "Like Off" type duel, which is a selfie challenge. Whoever wins will be crowned and whoever loses will have to repost their defeated state forever. Richie convinces Stu to have a common enemy, he takes his cell phone and challenges Marco. Outside the mansion, Audrey continues to tease her sister.

On the platform of the ship, Stu feels ready and Marco arrives being carried by tallulah dressed as a cat. Richie tries to greet him, but Marco ignores him. Lotta teases him with her rabbit by showing him a pickle with Dot pulling them apart. The like-off begins and the first challenge is to take a selfie about high gloss, with Marco wins and Richie is getting nervous. The second is an unfiltered photo, with Richie telling him to wear his glasses while yelling at him. The third is using a broken selfie stick, with Richie interrupting again as he screams. Stu reacts like a cat while hissing and withdrawing. At the same time, this action makes it clear that this was the pressure that made their protégés turn against them.

Stu continues against Marco's challenge and Richie intervenes taking him out of the competition and throwing his cell phone. Richie admits that he does not want to repeat the same with Marco and that he becomes like him, along with apologizing for everything that happened, which Stu accepts. When the likes arrive, Marco was about to be condecorated by Dot, but Audrey and Zoe on Stu's hoverboard appear by the stairs, pushing everybody, this makes Matzoball throwing away the pickle, scaring Marco off the set. Matzoball is ironically decorated winner when the crown fell on his head.

## Characters

* Stu
* Richie Rich
* Audrey
* Dot
* Lotta
* Zoelisha Bertha
* Marco
* Maria (Cameo)
* Matzoball

## Broadcast

*A Stu Is Born"* was released to Netflix on November 12, 2019.

## Trivia

* Dot was wrong to say that the distance between Kalamazoo and Harvey Street is 20.007 blocks. If one takes into account that a block on average is 750 feet (0.23 km), that would imply that the theoretical distance between both places would be 15.005.250 feet (4573 km). By measuring that distance starting from Kalamazoo, no part of the continental United States coincides. In addition, Alaska does not count considering the presence of Blue jay on the street.
* The explosive cell phone gag returns from VHMess.