Lucy's Lover

"Lucy's Lover" is the second episode of Season 1 of "Barhambots" (and thus the second one overall).

## Synopsis

Lucy and Gertorn meet each other and become sweethearts.

## Plot

Lucy and Luan are having a day out and decide to eat at Cindy's (the restaurant). As they eat and conversate, Gertorn walks in and tells Samar that he applied for a job at Classic Tavern. Then, Lucy tells Luan she (Lucy) has to get ready for her shift, which is coincidentally at Classic Tavern.

At Classic Tavern, the manager, Bruno Floyd is giving Gertorn the basics of the restaurant and then introduces him to Lucy and Serena. Gertorn is amazed at how pretty Lucy is, and introduces himself, to which she also gives a self-introduction. Gertorn then asks Lucy out on a date, to which she is available on Saturday night, which is the night of the Kickin' In The Sticks Dance. A customer then asks Gertorn for a refill, to which Gertorn obliges and also informs the customer that despite his appearance, he's actually a grizzly bear instead of a polar bear. The shift lasts well until 6:00 in the morning.

At 12:23 PM the following afternoon, Lucy tells Luan about her shift with Gertorn, and informs her of their date on Saturday night at the Kickin' In The Sticks Dance. Lucy and Luan briefly discuss their hopes for the dance before turning on the television, which broadcasts a news report about a group of Steam Community users who were arrested overnight for attempted genocide in a furry convention, about which Lucy and Luan comment on.

Later that day, Luan is bowling at the Bowling Stone with Rags, Samar, and Ricardo, and all four of them talk about their hopes for the upcoming dance. They talk about how Blue Axel will be the DJ. as well as one of the Barhambots' favorite songs, "The Titanium Twist" being played at the dance.

When the night of the dance comes, Lucy and Luan admire their dresses while Blue Axel is setting up his station; Skinnydog and Luna Bamfield are assisting him. Skinnydog tells Luna of a song idea he came up with whose idea he got from a license plate he stole of a stranger's car. When Luna reminds him that stealing license plates is illegal, Skinnydog defends himself by stating that the owner of the car was a rude person anyway. After Luna tells Skinnydog to stop stealing license plates, they make out momentarily before the dance begins.

An hour into the dance, Lucy and Gertorn are dancing to "The Titanium Twist" and admiring each other. Meanwhile, Luan and Rags talk about how Lucy and Gertorn would make a great couple. They then realize that Faina is often in an apathetic mood at parties. Rags decides to request a certain song under Faina's name, to which Luan delivers it to Blue Axel. Rags and Luan then walk over to Faina and try to convince her to have fun at the dance. Faina decides not to have fun, and Luan and Rags suggest that a song she likes might come on the playlist. Luan almost gives it away with a pun, but Rags stops her just in time.

At 11:44-11:45 PM, Blue Axel announces that the next song was requested by Faina, to which she denies. Blue Axel then reveals that the requested song is none other than Michael Jackson's "Thriller", which then starts playing, much to Faina's excitement. All the Barhambots, as well as Skinnydog and Luna Bamfield, start dancing to "Thriller" for its duration.

The next morning, Lucy and Gertorn are walking back to their homes, conversating about their enjoyment of the dance. Gertorn then asks Lucy to be his girlfriend, to which she happily accepts his requests. When Gertorn says he will be Lucy's "Prince Charming", he is promptly arrested by two Barhamsville Police Officers under the suspicion that Gertorn will become abusive towards Lucy. Both Gertorn and Lucy are shocked by this.

## Characters

### Main/Major

* Lucy the Cat
* Luan the Fox
* Gertorn the Grizzly Bear
* Rags the Raccoon
* Faina the Cheetah {DEBUT}
* Ricardo the Rat
* Samar the Chinchilla

### Supporting/Minor

* Serena the Skunk {DEBUT}
* Bruno Floyd {DEBUT, CAMEO}
* Hubert Baragona {DEBUT}
* Theodore Cooper
* Detroit Police Department {DEBUT, NEWS FOOTAGE ONLY
* Connor Banjoper's Steam Community Enemies
	+ Lily McFluffy Butt {DEBUT, PICTURE ONLY}
	+ Killroy Freeman {DEBUT. PICTURE ONLY}
	+ That Blu Supernova {DEBUT, PICTURE ONLY}
	+ Gerald the Black Dwarf {DEBUT, PICTURE ONLY}
	+ Detective Neo/Johnathan {DEBUT, PICTURE ONLY}
* Blue Axel {DEBUT}
* Skinnydog Bamfield
* Luna Bamfield
* Michael Jackson (Singer) {DEBUT, VOICE ONLY}
* Barhamsville Police Department {DEBUT}
	+ Officer Tom Strapp {DEBUT}
	+ Officer Ernesto Armani {DEBUT}

### Absent, But Mentioned

* Connor Banjoper
* ISIS
* The rude Chili-My-Bowl customer from "iOwe You"
* Edith the Cheetah (indirectly mentioned as "Faina's mother")
* Allison Gappa Bottke
* Allison Gappa Bottke's ex-husband (indirectly mentioned)

## Trivia

* This marks the first appearance of Faina the Cheetah.
* This episode is the first time the Steam Community - including any of its users - is brought up in any way (in this case, on the news).
	+ Lily McFluffy Butt, Killroy Freeman, That Blu Supernova, Gerald the Black Dwarf, and Detective Neo/Johnathan are real Steam Community users (and their accomplices) who have bullied Connor Banjoper in the past.
* This is the first time we see the Barhambots dressed in clothing. In this case, it's formal attire at the Kickin' In The Sticks Dance.
* "The Titanium Twist" is Connor Banjoper's slowed-down, pitch-lowered remix of "Feather Fiend" from "Donkey Kong Country Returns" recorded in January 2016 AD. It is loved by all the Barhambots.
* This episode reveals that Lucy is a bartender at a restaurant named Classic Tavern.
* The idea for this particular episode is among the earliest ideas for this franchise, dating all the way back to January 2016 AD.
* An early idea for this episode was that the Barhambots would have a party at a then-planned restaurant named Con Dogs (guess where that name came from), and only the Barhambots would be allowed in. This idea was overshadowed; especially since Connor Banjoper's change of plans in 2019-2022 AD.
* This episode reveals that Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is Faina the Cheetah's favorite song.
	+ This episode also reveals that all Blazembu-made animal robots are naturally passionate about "Thriller".
* When Skinnydog & Luna are dancing to "Thriller", they say it reminds them about October 2016 AD, which is the month Connor Banjoper first learned about the song.
* This is the first episode Connor Banjoper doesn't appear in. (Though he is mentioned several times.)
* When he is being arrested, Gertorn verbally suggests that the police are doing it because he's white, to which the police reply that being white only makes it worse. This implies that the Barhamsville Police Department (and Connor Banjoper as well) could be racist towards white people (oddly enough, considering many of them are white themselves), considering racial history in the 19th & 20th Centuries.

## References

* The restaurant named Cindy's is a parody of the restaurant named Wendy's.
* "Girl Be Selling Sunshine!" from "We Bare Bears" plays in this episode. The only difference is that the name Panda is changed to Gertorn.
	+ Coincidentally, both versions are about a girl named Lucy.
* The Kickin' In The Sticks Dance is a dance held by New Kent Middle School that Connor Banjoper attended when he was in middle school (and as an observer during his first half of high school). (It is uncertain which particular year the one in this episode is based on.)
* The name of the bowling alley, the Bowling Stone is a reference to the band named the Rolling Stones.
* Skinnydog Bamfield says the person he stole that license plate from was a man who was rude to a female employee at some chili restaurant in Seattle, Washington. He is referring to that rude customer who talks back to Sam Puckett in the "iCarly" episode "iOwe You".
* When Officers Strapp and Armani are arresting Gertorn, Armani tells Lucy about Allison Gappa Bottke, the author who wrote the book "God Allows U-Turns." and references the fact that Bottke was physically abused by her now ex-husband.
	+ The officers arrested Gertorn out of suspicion that Gertorn would do the same to Lucy, simply because he said the very line Bottke's ex-husband said before they were married ("I will be your Prince Charming.").

## Errors

### Series Continuity Errors

* In this episode, Lucy and Gertorn had never known each other before. However, in the previous episode, "The Map", they were both involved in the campaign to advertise for Barhamsville, and they were both on the scene to rescue Johnny Depp from his car in the pileup.
	+ It's possible that they saw each other, but were never properly introduced until this episode.
	+ It's also possible they just forgot they were both in the campaign and the rescue mission.

## Gallery

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