At a Loss for Words When We Needed Them Most Or... The Rise and Fall of GrabbagVille.

"**At a Loss for Words When We Needed Them Most Or... The Rise and Fall of GrabbagVille.**" is the sixth episode of season 3.

## Plot

The inter-species residents of GrabbagVille face drama when given the ability to communicate with one another along with the reptiles attempting to conquer them, the GrabbagVille residents rebuilding their home while reverse-engineering portable translation devices for all of New York's animals.

## Characters

* Yumi
* Chompy
* Dawn
* Phil (Gecko)
* Mike (Gecko)
* Father Ferret
* Receipt
* Wallet
* Chi Chi
* Ringo
* Sammy
* McManus
* Sir Michael Nickelobe Ultra
* Phil (Squirrel)
* Mason
* Principal Leif
* Private Matarese
* Private Luciano
* Plonky

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* This is the second episode where a title card was shown after the opening to contribute to the plot. The first was "Wallet."
* The geckos are revealed to be Phil and Mike.
	+ It also means this is the second time characters of Phil and Mike of different species interacted with each other, as rats Phil Jr. and Mike first met them.
		- It's also the first time the said characters both met each other, as rats Phil Jr. and Mike met horse Phil without Mike.
* This is a continuity to the previous episode with Yumi and Chompy discovering the device to understand each other.
	+ Geckos Phil and Mike wanting to steal the communicating device and the Orb from GrabbagVille is a callback to the first episode where they stole some of rats Phil Jr. and Mike's belongings.
		- It's also a reference to the previous episode where geckos Phil and Mike sneak into GrabbagVille to formulate a plan to steal the Orb.
* When Yumi recalls her and the other species' being kicked out of every sole species city, one of them shows them being prevented from coming into Dog Centre by a guard dog.
	+ It also shows the hamster that was kicked out of a restaurant that is meant for pigeons only in "Dogs. (2)"
	+ The scene was taken from the previous episode, however, the event took place before the actual events of the previous episode.
* It's revealed that the Orb seems to be a result of the Green Bomb on Green Day as the animals found it in the ruins of Pesci Co.
	+ Also, before GrabbagVille was born, the area the Grabbags reside was known as the Forgotten Area, as accordance to Yumi.
* Plonky appears again as a hallucination to both Private Matarese and Private Luciano, which both are aware that Plonky is their hallucination brought on by their captivity in the bunker.
	+ Private Matarese and Private Luciano imagine Plonky into different objects and people, which include a can of soda, which happens to be Giner Ale, a baseball signed by Benny Agbayani, ballons, and Laura, Luciano's ex-fiancé.
		- Private Matarese tried to imagine Plonky as his ex-girlfriend, but it turns out he didn't have, so he imagines Plonky as his future girlfriend, which happens to be Private Luciano.
			* It's also revealed that Private Matarese may have feelings for Private Luciano.
		- At the end, it turns out Private Matarese and Private Luciano have been hallucinating the entire time about thinking Plonky looks, as Luciano is dancing by himself while Matarese is dancing with a mop in a bucket.
		- The baseball signed by Benny Agbayani references Baseball.
* This is the third episode this season to have a subplot. Followed by "Wallet" and "Stuff."
* Yumi thought she was the last ferret until Chompy revealed there is a tribe in south of Squirrel Square. This was also a callback to the previous episode where Receipt was walking past Squirrel Square where the squirrels prevented the ferrets from entering their land.
	+ Since then, the ferrets formed their own section that's by Squirrel Square, known as Ferrit Secktor, or FerretVille as Father Ferret puts it.
* Private Matarese and Private Luciano complain about the flashdrive the latter crushed in the previous episode.
* The fourth wall was broken three times:
	+ When Plonky congratulates himself about Matarese and Luciano's hallucinations, he says to the audience to enjoy the rerun of *My Big Fat Greek Wedding* on HBO.
	+ After the GrabbagVille tent was burned down, Dawn turn to the audience to explain how it was a beautiful idea and how the world doesn't understand about that idea.
	+ During the end credits, Yumi introduces herself as the CEO of Grand Communicator Communications where she talks about the devices the company made so every species of animal can communicate with each other. She also got brash about how the animals treated her and Grabbags before showing off how rich they while calling them "little, dirty figurative sheep." before signing off by introducing Grand Communicator 3.0 and the slogan "Fuck you mother!" with Chompy's name under it.
* Geckos Phil and Mike discussed about stealing the Orb once they smoke weed and watch *The Nut Job 2*.
* Characters from previous episodes appeared during the cutaways:
	+ Chi Chi, Ringo, Sammy, and the dogs from dog Phil's class are in front of the school with McManus taking their graduation photo.
	+ Wallet is seen on a billboard advertising his own game called Wallet's Assault Helicopter.
	+ Sir Michael Nickelobe Ultra is rolling in his wheelchair begging for money.
* Gecko Mike inhaling from a bong and mentions that he met God and stated She did not like him is what rat Phil Jr. said when he and rat Mike first met the geckos.
	+ This is the third time God has been referred to as a She.
* A gecko is playing an underground theme from the Nintendo game, *Super Mario Bros.* on his keyboard.
* When geckos Phil and Mike got into a car at the GrabbagVille auto shop, they complement how proficient the Grabbags are in construction as Mike commented the last one ran on grapes, it references the car rats Phil Jr. and Mike drove in the first episode.
* When Yumi is crossing into FerretVille, there is a poster of Phil (Squirrel) and Mason running against each other for class president.
	+ This also shows that squirrel Phil and Mason are in the school, and it's likely they are in the same grade.
* When the ferrets are performing "I Love Fucking My Gun" Father Ferret is holding a DVD called *Missionary Impossible*, which if based off on the film series and the 1996 film, *Mission: Impossible*.
	+ Father Ferret also shows a pill box called the 2nd Amendment, which is based off the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution where it protects the individual right to keep and bear arms.
* Yumi has a photo of her and the Grabbags riding in a log in a water park, a direct callback to the first episode where Principal Leif suggests building a water park.
* Yumi met Receipt in FerretVille, where the latter explains he was animated by the Orb and warned Yumi to return to GrabbagVille.
	+ This is the third time characters from previous episodes interacted with each other, as Yumi interacted with Recepit, and Yumi and geckos Phil and Mike interacted with each other.
* When Yumi was about to leave FerretVile, Father Ferret tried to prevent her from going as the second act of the song talks about Climate Change, and there's a poster reading "Primates for Climate". It references how climate change and human activity has put 40% of primates at risk.
* The snake from the first that rats Phil Jr. and Mike met is named Alexander.
* Gecko Phil did a secret Santa trade like GrabbagVille did by sending a pair of shoes as a gift to Alexander, who the latter thought they were hats and tied and wore them like a bonnet.
* When geckos Phil and Mike explained why they want the Orb for their room, Phil said it is his and Mike's anniversary, and the latter got them tickets to a sex club called *Disney*.
* When the GrabbagVille tent was burning down, Principal Leif is seen helping a chinchilla. It could the chinchilla Leif's been having an intimate relationship he mentioned before.
* At the end, the Grabbags, the reptiles, and the ferrets from FerretVille joined together to form Grand Communicator Communications, where they build devices for the animals to understand each other.
	+ The device Receipt build was named the Grand Communicator by Yumi.
	+ The Grand Communicator 2.0 are a pair of headsets.
	+ The newest product is the Grand Communicator 3.0 which is a small chip attached to one's uvula.
* During a meeting in the Grand Communicator Communications office, Yumi discuss about offering up a pre-sale code in conjunction with the Spotify promo.