Hero Effect

Episode
**Gallery**
**Transcript**

**Hero Effect** is the first segment of 3rd episode in season 4 of Harvey Street Kids

## Synopsis

Dot and Fredo have creative differences regarding how to adapt a book into a movie.

## Plot

The episode begins with Richie thanking Melvin for inviting him to the Trade Tree. Where he presents him a goat, which beats Audrey in a horns duel. Melvin asks him if he is sure to exchange it, to which Richie says yes since he has been trying to get rid of it since the first time he came. Melvin accepts and they were about to close a deal, until Fredo interrupts implying that he was recording the event. He comes down from the tree saying he's ready to shoot his second movie, saying he'll have laughs, explosions, and plans to use Richie's money, which the latter doesn't bother him at all. Fredo shows them the book "the enchanted pinky ring", which deals with a solitary elf named Herocles who faces the goataur, a world-eater entity alongside his cyclops orcs. He mentions that his book is the best in the trilogy, so he wants toadapt it into a movie that inspires children.

Melvin wants for the camera, Lotta asks for the animal caring, Audrey wants to make explosions, Pinkeye asks to be an orc, and Richie agrees to everything on the condition that he hire the goat. Dot for her part says that she has taken several kinds of movement and acting skills with Billy after the first time she acted, so she wants to play a female version of Herocles, but Fredo wants to be protagonist because he has the cape in common and promises her a good role. But at the time of the recording, Dot is treated as an assistant, incidentally discovering that her character just screams, cries and sleeps in the book's canon. When Fredo tells her that the canon will be prioritized, Audrey arrives with a real cannon, where Fredo tells her to use it for his second act.

In the film, Pinkeye as an orc comes out of a mountain facing the hero, Dot however does not like the role and does not say her line. Fredo tells her to continue and she "passes out" in the pool of eternal mud. The next step is to look for a helmet, where Dot enters and uses a laso to grab the top of a pine tree, but Fredo says to her stick to the canon. Dot disagrees considering that has a few lines, she also wants to have the leading role but Fredo gets angry and takes away the laso, where he says he understands her saying that she will have his own monologue. However, this monologue only works to cheer Herocles and Dot is bored saying that she does not like that her character has to take a third nap. So she improvises consulting the magician Bobby, an expert in puzzles. Fredo tells her that Herocles is already a master of riddles, making it an unnecessary change.

On stage, Fredo is about to engage in combat in front of an enemy not visible to the viewer, but Dot complains that she does not have a weapon and only has an invisibility veil that he can use at close range, so she wants to use one of Fredo's swords. But Fredo says swords are necessary for his character, including one that can kill everything with one blow. Dot questions why he needs the other swords if he has the latter, but Fredo interrupts her and calls for lunch, telling her that he did to restrain himself.

During a scene where Richie delivers grilled cheese, Fredo explains that he wants to follow the canon, while Dot wants him to also have a heroine as a way to inspire others. The Harvey girls and Richie side with Dot because his mood does not help at all. Dot resigns along with thr Harvey and Richy, therefore Fredo is left without a budget. At the trading tree, Fredo hires Frufru and Melvin tells him he's about to take a break along with that he has to do all the work now as the rest of the cast leaved. Pinkeye comments on why his character is only defined by his eye, which Fredo tells him is in the canon of the book.

Fredo notices the Harvey girls and Richie making their own movie with Dot as the heroine, where he is shocked. Dot tells him that it doesn't matter if they stray from the book, invites him to the recording cast but he replies that he will not join. Pinkeye notices Fredo's hostility and decides to join Dot, Fredo returns to the tree where he records a scene of the hero saving the damsel from the goat, and Frufru doesn't care because she hates doing extra work. During it, the goat dodges Fredo's attack and he is hanging from his cape about to fall from the tree. Melvin believes that Fredo is acting and Fredo asks the damsel for help, where she decides to be in character sleeping.

Fredo remembers Dot's words about motivating people to take action, where Fredo mistrusts and the Thought of Dot disappears. About to fall, he asks Frufru for new directions saying that the whole time she was a sorceress pretending to be someone asleep to trick the goataur. Frufru saves him using Fredo's script as bait, the latter after returning to firm ground makes a wheel with her thanking her. Frufru mentions that he will hear from her agent for having her act with animals. When Melvin asks if he is ready to redo the scene, Fredo is left thinking.

Below overnight, a movie of the enchanted ring is shown in Ricky's sky mansion. Where Fredo, Dot, Frufru and Pinkeye are seen, implying that during filming, Dot and Fredo apologized to each other. In that movie, they defeat the goataur by combining their powers by directing an ace of light. Where the audience in which the majority of the public are tertiary characters, they cheer the film including the Harvey Girls and Richie asks about the representation of the millionaire boys. On screen, Dot and Fredo look at each other congratule themselves for a good job and a girl of about five years old finds the job fabulous, implying that she was inspired by the film. The episode ends with a closure card showing Ricky's mountain goat.

## Characters

* Audrey
* Dot
* Lotta
* Richie Rich
* Fredo
* Melvin
* Billy
* Harvey Street Parrots
* Mountain goat
* Frufru
* Dap-O-Tron
* Joel
* The Besties (Girl)

## Broadcast

*"Hero Effect"* was released to Netflix on January 10, 2020.

## Trivia

* Pinkeye and Dot wear the same costumes from the episode "It's a Wonderful LARP".