The So-Called Curse of Katrina

**The So-Called Curse of Katrina** is the 3rd episode of the first season of island life.

## Synopsis

Emma gets a bad fortune and refuses to get Katrina's purification spell thinking it’s a scam, and she gets cursed with bad luck throughout the week.

## Characters

### Main

Emma

Lila

Cody

Tyler

### Supporting

Bucky

Katrina (Debut)

### Minor

Ms. Brown (mentioned)

Tammi

## Trivia

* **Lila's outfit Theme**: She and her friends wears a bunch (or at least 1 peace) of green clothing due to this episode being themed around St. Patrick's day.
* **Cody Cosply**: The Great Codini
* This episode was intended to come out on St. Patrick's Day, but was delayed to July 1st.
* This is the first episode to not be based off a past experience Li Li has had, but a crazy scenario about what really happens when you don't listen to Katrina.
* This Episode uses the new intro and outro.
* This episode Reveals that Emma doesn't believe in Luck.
	+ However after this episode, she now believes in curses.

* This is the first episode to have a song in it.
* When Emma is on video call with her friends, you can see 2 bisexual hearts hanging on her wall, Implying she is so.
* This episode reveals that Emma is 19, meaning she was 18 during Loathing times day and before the series.
* This is the first episode to see Tyler in tears and get his feeling hurt.
	+ It also sates that it's hard to hurt his feelings to begin with.
* Bucky says that he's older than both Lila and Cody, but Li Li's confirmed that he's younger than Emma and Tyler. Making him the middle child of the group.
* Lila's predictions at the end include:
	+ Being able to time travel in 2061.
	+ Another Nintendo based game in the next 4 years (so 2027)
	+ People watching the video should like and subscribe.
	+ The next Animal crossing game will come out sometime in the 2020s decade, however Cody cuts her off. But is sounds like she was about to say 2028.
* This is the last episode of a few things:
	+ The last episode to be posted before the 5 year anniversary of Li Li's channel.
	+ The last episode of 2023.
	+ The last episode to be made in 480p due to Li Li having a new computer to make videos on.

## Continuity

**The New Guy** - Bucky is seen having a picnic with Tammi. Meaning they did form a friendship at the end of the last episode. She even shows him how to use his new phone. And you can see the cookie jar from Flurry and the left over carrot cake Tammi made.

**Loathing Times Day** - While Lila was on video call with Emma, you can see the Valentine Emma gave her hang on her wall.

* When Lila gets mad at Emma, Emma reminds her about telling her if they had issues despite the was going on.

## References

**How dumb English is (bologna) TIKTOK** - Emma's word pet peeves is a sole reference to this.

**Animal Crossing New Horizons' fanbase** - When Cody is playing with the magical crystal ball, he acts when will the next Animal Crossing New Horizons update will come out. This is in reference to Animal Crossing's fan base leaving comments on the Animal Crossing official Twitter about a new update and how it's a Dead game, Etc even though the game is finished.

* Around the end of the episode, Lila predicts that you'll be able to time travel in 2061. This is in reference to Animal Crossing New Horizons no longer being playable by the time the switch clock reaches 2061.

**Baldi's Basics in education and learning** - When Emma gets bald, Cody calls her "Baldi's basics".

**The Owl house** - Emma mentions Amity Blight, a character from the aforementioned show, referencing her green hair.

**Youtube apology videos** - When Emma is about to do The "I'm sorry pants dance", She asks Lila if she'd like a lame, half effort, guilt trip apology video instead.

* **Colleen Ballinger controversy** - Funnily enough, during production of this episode and right before its release, The YouTuber Colleen Ballinger got into some controversy surrounding some allegations, where she responded with a ukulele song “apology” video. This episode has a part where Emma is told to do the “I'm sorry Pants dance” in order for Lila to accept her apology. Li Li  has acknowledged how hilarious The Coincidence is.

## Behind the scenes

* During the cutaway gag with Cody pranking Bucky, it was going to have Lila and Tyler get pranked as well.
* Two characters, Dixon and Brian, were going to debut in this episode, but were cut out last minute.

## Errors/Mistakes

* The episode have some audio problems.
* When Tyler walks off crying, Lila and Cody are missing their costumes.