Episode 148

## Chapter Link

[1]

CPC OST vol. 4

* Track 02 "Please Welcome the Pastel Princesses"

**Episode 148**, titled "**The Barbeque (part 2)**", is the 157th episode overall of Cursed Princess Club.

## Synopsis

*Maria concludes her fairy tale reading frenzy, closing the book and pecking Gwen on the forehead, to no avail; Jamie's snuck out, Lorena is finishing up her project, and a sad Maria walks out to her balcony to be greeted by Beckett. At the CPC, Jolie recalls an early memory of the club. Whitney's initiation is then interrupted by a mysterious sound moving through the forest...*

## Characters

*Characters are linked in order of appearance. First appearances will be in bold.*

* Whitney
* Frederick
* Gwendolyn
* Maria
* Beckett
* Horace Fais
* Lorena
* Miss Agatha
* Prez
* Saffron
* Thermidora
* Abbi
* Syrah
* Jolie
* Monika
* Laverne
* Curtis

## Music

* CPC OST vol. 8
	+ Track 08 "Melancholy Maria"

* CPC OST vol. 4
	+ Track 02 "Please Welcome the Pastel Princesses"

## Location

Pastel Kingdom

* Pastel palace
	+ Gwen's room
	+ The Palace's balcony

* Haunted Forest
	+ Cursed Princess Club
		- The Giant Tent for the Slumber Party

## Story

Maria closes the book she was reading to Gwen, stating that it seems to be the all the reading she could do tonight as it is almost bedtime for her. She reassures a sleeping Gwen that their father will be home soon and that they're gonna wake Gwen up in no time. Despite getting scratched by the thorny ‘rings of protection’ surrounding Gwen, Maria pecks Gwen on the forehead, attempting a Maleficent-style of “true love’s kiss”- but to Maria's disappointment, it doesn't work.

Maria decides to walk down stairs and finds Miss Agatha grumbling that the children out of control; with Jamie sneaking out again (to get Frederick in Plaid Palace), she threatens to snap his pixie sticks in front of him. While for Lorena, Miss Agatha scolds her for working too recklessly on her Defense Project. She and the Pastel maids are shown lifting a huge cannon ball. Lorena asks Miss Agatha if she’s okay with waiting for the presentation visual to be done - Miss Agatha replies that she's fine due to having things to entertain her.

Going upstairs to the balcony, Maria comments that the air feels a little chilly yet smells a bit smokey - like there’s a barbecue (party) somewhere, and wishes someone would invite her. A melancholic expression falls upon her, until Beckett greets her - he'd sent off his shift partner Horace to the bathroom all the way down at the barracks, at the bottom of the hill, as direct order from his superior.

At the CPC's slumber party,, the members are enjoying the party. Monika offers Laverne a drink and Whitney is playing twister with some other members. Meanwhile, Abbi is playing ping pong with the princess that has curse that makes men in her vicinity cry in anguish. Abbi asked Saffron to play the next match (and also assuring him that "incident" of the ball entering Jolie’s eye sock won’t happen again, as Jolie is up in the trees serving as a light), but he declines as he still dejected by the epic fail of his first date. The princess wearing the blue dress comments about how hard it is to date anyone with a curse, and giving an idea for Saffron to date someone in the club. Abbi replies that "being Saffron" makes no one see him in a fanciful way, and gives an example that even Syrah, that is supposed to hit on *"literally anything*" - is not interested in Saffron - to which we learn that this statement actually is not true. Jolie recalls a memory from the early days of the club, when Prez introduces Saffron as a new member where there’s just Jolie, Nell, and Syrah.

Jolie notes that Syrah has kept her word "to never make a single pass" to Saffron till this day, and says that Syrah seems to have moved on. Both Nell and Syrah are sitting at the table, and already full eating food that was served in Whitney’s BBQ party - while a dizzy Frederick mentions how he's been *"flipped more than a stack of pancakes*", when he just wants to talk to Prez as he thought she would take him seriously. Prez gets the CPC members to gather around, so they could give a toast to their newest member Whitney. Prez prepares a bottle of champagne for the toast and gives him the Princess Panda keychain, while Thermidora makes him *"t*he most monochrome dessert" that she could find which she refers to as *a "*vile invention" - which is the dirt cake.

While Frederick thought it would be his chance to talk to Prez, Abbi accidentally throws a ping pong ball into Prez’s eye, resulting to the cork of the champagne bottle nearly hitting Frederick, distressing Renée and Bernadette, rushing to Saffron, forcing Monika back to being a crow and almost hitting Laverne until Curtis catches it with his cooking gloves. The rescue act makes Laverne knock Curtis out of commission in awe. This causes everything on the table to fly, the hotdog getting shoved into Nell’s mouth while the onion rings stack on Syrah’s elongated nose. Finally, Monika as a crow falls directly in the middle of the dirt cake.

All of the chain of reactions due to a simple cork makes everyone laugh, especially Whitney. Saffron comments that the night really turns out to be great for sure, while Syrah commenting that one thing that lacks is beverage (the incident making all drinks crashing down) - and want to run into the town to get some refills. Saffron is surprised about that and suggests Syrah to have common sense and take Curtis to accompany her - but as Curtis is still knocked out by Laverne, Saffron takes himself to be Syrah’s chaperone and suggests to her that there’s a better selection if they head west.

Frederick finally talks with Prez without any distractions. Prez asks how the two have been, but Frederick reveals he actually never saw her since the gala. Prez is weirded by it and wonders what she has been up to all these time between gala and now. Frederick tells that what exactly what he want to know- but he also has some emergency news regarding his family (likely refers to his dad and brothers)- that is interrupted by one of Prez's spider alerting them about the incoming intruders. The little spider is totally shaking in fear while warning everyone in the CPC to get away from the edge of the forest because the intruders were really close. Prez attempts to calms the spider because she believed CPC could handle the intruders, as there’s dozen of princesses eager to show off their new self-defense moves - but the spider tells her that the intruders aren’t construction workers and (like Frederick said to the Pastel guards) and it won’t possible to stop them. At the same time, lots of metal clanking and heavy footsteps are heard at the edge of the forest.

## Episode credits

* Art, writing and music by LambCat
* Edited by Eunice Baik
* Art assistants:
	+ @sheidraws
	+ @catburgerhelper
	+ @i.aint.shihwi
	+ @kyorin24
	+ @spudinacup
	+ @meeshywy

## Gallery

The Cover of Episode 148Saffron walking by Syrah, who's barely keeping it together.Jolie giggling to herself; Nell being bewildered.silly scene of Nell and SyrahMonika in crow form falling into the Dirt Cake.Frederick tapping Prez' shoulder to get her attention.Abbi and Deianeira hiding below the ping pong table.As the Plaid Troops approach, Curtis makes sure Laverne is quiet and silently shushes everyone else.
## Trivia

* According to this episode:
	+ The original members of the Cursed Princess Club in order based on Jolie's recollection are: Nell, Jolie herself, Syrah, and then Saffron.
	+ Abbi's excitement at the Dirt Cake implies that she's partial to
	+ The spider from Episode 85 that Prez calls "little guy" finally has its warning come into play.