The Neighborhood Picture

**"The Neighborhood Picture"** (translated from the French title, "La photo de quartier") is the sixty-eighth episode of the second season of *Rosie*. It premiered in France on March 9, 2014, on Gulli.

## Synopsis

Every year the neighborhood picture takes place and like every year, Rosie is careful not to participate. Except for this year, Miss Calendula will be intractable and anyone missing will be excluded from Pinson Merry. Therefore, there is only one solution: sabotage the photo!

## Summary

The episode begins outside of the Calendula residence where Eve Calendula is reminding both Delphine Bodelin and Rosie Bodelin about the annual neighborhood picture day which will be held tomorrow at the Calendula's garden. Miss Calendula has also warned Rosie that she must show up at her house and behave herself tomorrow because if she's missing out of the neighborhood picture, she will be excluded from the Pinson Merry for good along with her mother. Rosie, not wanting to show that she cares, pretends that she understands Miss Calendula's warning. After the mother and the daughter both get home, Rosie angrily tells Blackie about her situation in her room and how she really doesn't want to be in the neighborhood picture despite Miss Calendula's warning. Seeing that there isn't any other option left, Rosie decides that there is only one solution for her problem: she must sabotage the photographer.

Later at the Chatou residence, Patrick Chatou is testing out his camera to see if the pictures would come out as perfect and in good quality. After taking a picture of Olive and Rosie, he thanks the kids for helping him test his camera since he's going to be the photographer for the neighborhood picture tomorrow and hopes the picture would also come out as perfect too. While Mr. Chatou is about to pick up his camera so he could put it away somewhere in his house, Rosie lightly kicks one of Olive's toy cars closer to Mr. Chatou. And just as Mr. Chatou is about to leave the living room, he steps onto the toy car and causes himself to slip. To prevent any suspicions, Rosie blames Olive for having his toys lying around on the floor and causing his father to hurt both his head and legs. Rosie pretends to innocently feel bad for Mr. Chatou's injuries and they both leave to the Calendula house to tell Miss Calendula about the situation.

But at the Calendula house, Miss Calendula refuses to have the neighborhood picture day be canceled because of Mr. Chatou's injuries and volunteers herself to operate the camera for tomorrow. After Miss Calendula leaves the living room, Mr. Chatou tells Rosie that he's the only person who could operate the camera in the neighborhood, but he's positive that he'll be at the Calendulas tomorrow despite his injuries. This angers Rosie for her sabotage plan had backfired on her.

At night in the purple-cave, Rosie shows Blackie her next diabolical plan and reveals to him her diagram. Since she can’t sabotage the photographer, she must sabotage the neighborhood picture instead.

The next morning, Rosie arrives at the Calendula house and pretends to innocently ask Miss Calendula to help make her beautiful for the picture and lies to her that her mother has no taste in her fashion sense. Miss Calendula falls for her trickery and allows Rosie inside her house. But unbeknownst to Miss Calendula, Rosie places a device on the frame of the front door as part of her plan. While inside the house, Anne-Flo plays the role of a hairstylist and attempts to style Rosie's hair for the neighborhood picture. After Anne-Flo fails to change Rosie's hair because it is able to reboot back to her original hairstyle all while unaware that Rosie had also placed another device on a nearby window frame, Miss Calendula shows Rosie where she is going to be placed in the neighborhood picture; behind Mr. and Miss Calendula. The Chatou family then arrives at the house and Miss Calendula lets Mrs. Chatou and Olive inside. Miss Calendula tells Mr. Chatou that she's going to operate the camera because of Mr. Chatou's injuries, but Rosie assures Miss Calendula that he’s going to set it up. While everyone, except Rosie who's pushing Mr. Chatou's wheelchair to the garden, is inside the house, Rosie activates the devices she has placed everywhere in the Calendula house.

Inside the house, Miss Calendula is checking to see if everyone is perfect for the neighborhood picture. But when she's about to open the window, she realizes that the windows are all locked and Rosie is responsible for it because she had activated the devices she placed around the house which trap everyone inside. Meanwhile, Mr. Chatou found it strange that no one shows up in the garden yet, but Rosie tells him that Miss Calendula had warned everyone that they must not be late for the neighborhood picture at noon and everyone just so happens “to be late”. Mr. Chatou decided to ready the camera anyway, thinking that he and Rosie are going to be the only ones in the picture. Inside the house, Miss Calendula doesn’t want to give up getting out of the house before the camera takes the shot, so she and everyone all go to an emergency hatch and get out to the garden.

When Rosie sees everyone had escaped out of the house from the emergency hatch, she does a smirk and knows that her plan is working. She opens her umbrella and activates the garden sprinklers, soaking everyone and as an insult to injury, the camera takes a picture of everyone, except Rosie, soaking wet and thus ruining the annual neighborhood picture. Rosie is proud of her plan working perfectly which infuriates Miss Calendula and she tries to attack the girl, but her husband holds her back.

After the end credits, Rosie hangs the neighborhood picture on the wall of her room and admires it. She wonders out loud why Miss Calendula doesn't like the picture that was taken, but Rosie likes it because, for her, that's exactly how it goes at Pinson Merry.

## Characters

* Rosie Bodelin
* Delphine Bodelin
* Eve Calendula
* Blackie
* Olive Chatou
* Patrick Chatou
* Anne-Flo Calendula
* Amandine Chatou (non-speaking)
* Brice Calendula (non-speaking)
* Miguel (non-speaking)
* Dr. Charlebois (non-speaking)
* Suzie Bodelin (non-speaking)
* Neighbors

## Trivia

* This episode reveals that Suzie Bodelin (Rosie's grandmother) lives at Pinson Merry.
* It's revealed that Rosie normally never participates in the neighborhood picture day every year.
* This episode was released three years after "Each His Demons" and "Ethics to Gourmet".

### Errors

* When Mr. Chatou is about to take a picture of Olive and Rosie, Olive is sitting to Rosie's left. However, after Mr. Chatou takes the picture, Rosie and Olive both switch sides.

## References

1. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programmes-tv/gulli/09-03-2014/
2. ↑ https://playtv.fr/programme-tv/888712/rosie/