Wallet.

"**Wallet.**" is the third episode of season 3.

## Plot

The heroic saga of a diminutive, but fiercely heroic bird who makes his way to Pigeon Heights, where he is tasked with saving the day.

## Characters

* Wallet
* Phil (Pigeon)
* Mike (Pigeon)
* Meghan
* Jacob
* Old Woman
* Nun
* Mackerel
* Orphan 1
* Orphan 2
* Orphan 3
* Sheila
* Teatime
* Private Matarese
* Private Luciano

## Trivia

* Even though the opening shows the title "Pigeons", the website labeled it "Wallet".
* Private Luciano is reading a newspaper showing there's a anti-government movement called "Labcoats".
* Similar to "Turkeys." and "Dog.", and like "Pigeons. (3)", the episode's plot doesn't revolve around Phil and Mike.
* This is the first episode this season to have a subplot.
* The episode was broken numerous times:
	+ The narrator, who is voiced by Gina Rodriguez, explains Wallet's backstory, the plot, and reveals each of the character's history.
		- In opening, the narrator declares herself the narrator for "this episode of *Animals.* on HBO."
		- Wallet was giving gestures, explaining to the narrator what is happening at Jacob's bar mitzvah and the narrator interprets what Wallet is saying.
		- When the narrator sees that Wallet is having a flashback, Wallet's eyes turn into symbols relating to a tape recorder, such as rewinding, stopping, and playing.
		- When Mackerel was about to turn Teatime into a fish, the narrator claimed she forgot "this part" and can "barely watch".
		- The narrator "pauses" the screen to show a video of how Phil became king of the pigeons and says Tom Bergeron will narrate the video to explain it. After the video was done, the narrator asks if the video was cool before complaining about Tom plugging in Amazon Original than asking the audience if they heard him right, and further adds that every time the narrator tries to watch Amazon Original she accidentally buys paper towels before apologizing and getting back to Wallet.
		- When the narrator claims she sees one of Phil's one night stands before, she flashforwards to the beginning of remembering him being the leader of ICEES.
	+ When Olafur was about to have a flashback, the narrator "pauses" and asks if he is getting a flashback too, which Olafur responded that he does. Olafur than grabs the pause screen and throws it which hits Jacob, with Olafur declaring going into the past.
		- Olafur explains his plans to get into Jacob's bar mitzvah and how he formulated it by creating a catering company.
	+ When Olafur reveals himself as Mackerel, the narrator complains about the events turning up and apologizing for cursing.
	+ The narrator begged Wallet not to join Mackerel and later became relieved that he refused.
	+ Bringing back to Jacob's bar mitzvah, when the narrator was about to resume about the plot, Jacob steps in and says he'll do the narration.
	+ Phil, Mike, Meghan, and Jacob concludes their story to the audience, and Mike later wrapping up Wallet's story.
* When Private Luciano commented about the Anti-Government "Labcoat" movement having 2 million followers, Private Matarese remarked about being Bella Hadid. When Private Luciano believes it is a broken social scene, Matarese confirms it is a 12-person Canadian alternative rock band. It could possibly Bella Hadid reference that she previously dated a Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, also known as The Weeknd.
* The Icelandic terrorist group, ICEES, is based off on the Salafi jihadist militant group, ISIS.
* The narrator stated the citizens from Little Brazil speculated that Wallet built the pyramids. The pyramids were actually built by Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.
* When the three orphan pigeons were the Yakuza Bad Boys, each of them dressed up as anime/manga characters. Orphan 1 is dressed as Saitama from *One-Punch Man*.
* A log appears when Mackerel vanishes which references the ninja legends of how they use various objects to avoid fatal attacks. It is also referencing the Substitution Jutsu from the *Naruto* franchise.
* One of the labels on the books when Wallet was organizing in the Yakuza Library says "Futurama was just okay", which was previously mentioned by Phil Jr in "Rats. (5)".
* When Orphan 2 stated being bad to the bones, Orphan 1 responded "Bad to his glass little bones.", it possibly references Elijah Price, also known as Mr. Glass, from the three films *Unbreakable*, *Split*, and *Glass*.
* In King Phil's information video, Tom Bergeron stated an influx of out-of-state pigeons came to New York and the city was becoming an Amazon Original series. The narrator later mentions that every time she tries to watch an Amazon Original, she accidentally buying paper towels.
* Before Phil rise up to become king of the pigeons, he was starting out to sell Kricket Wireless, which is a spoof of Cricket Wireless.
* When a pigeon comes out of the audition room, Sheila refers him as Thor.
* When calling up for the next audition, Sheila mistakingly calls Wallet "Wall-e" which is a call to the Disney character and film, *WALL-E*.
* The narrator mentions that Wallet wasn't nervous about the audition as he read a lot of books written by Konstantin Stanislavski.
* Phil became king of the pigeons ever since pigeons from other states came to New York City, and which lead to Phil taking a stand to put up a border to keep other pigeons out. At the end of the episode, he resigns from being king.
* When Jacob was narrating, he mentions his parents are divorce because Mike was jealous of Meghan's job as the secretary of defense for Phil.
* Phil revealed that Mike is a secretary at a local elementary school, though Mike revealed he is serving food.
* Phil got a soundboard app of Tom Bergeron.
* The review website "Yalp" is seen again.
* Wallet transforming into Dark Wallet with powerful psychic abilities may be a reference to the Phoenix Force that possessed Jean Grey from *Marvel/X-Men*. It might also reference Dark Spyro from *The Legend of Spyro* series, as they are both dark forms of their original counterparts that resulted under emotional stress, and "Dark" is added before their actual names.
* Wallet made Phil revealed that Phil is from New Jersey, born in July 22, 1969, and he sees Bruce Springsteen as his God.