"Coney Island, Baby!" is the fourteenth episode of the Disney Channel and Marvel Animation series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
Synopsis[]
Lunella must confront her childhood fear, the Coney Island Funhouse, to save Mimi from The Beyonder.
Plot[]
Lunella proudly announces she is fearless when going up against the villain Nox. After defeating her, she spends some time at home with Casey, only for Mimi to barge in and announce that they are going to Coney Island the next day. Lunella confides in Casey that when she was five-years-old, she accidentally got separated from Mimi and wound up at a funhouse where the clown animatronics nearly scared her to death. Mimi came in and rescued her, but since then, she has become traumatized of Coney Island and all its attractions. Casey tells Lunella that she is older now and therefore should be over it. Lunella agrees and decides to go to Coney Island tomorrow.
The next day, Lunella is still afraid, but tries to hide it from Mimi and Casey who are having too much fun. Lunella spots the Beyonder who is in the process of learning about food and accidentally gets his attention. He becomes interested in the concept of fear when he notices that Lunella is perspiring. Wanting to learn more about it, he proceeds to use his abilities to alter the park, forcing Lunella to save people from the rides, including Casey and Mimi. Lunella calls Devil to come and help who, throughout the episode, struggles to reach Coney Island as he is afraid of getting stung by jellyfish. Beyonder realizes that Lunella's greatest fear is losing her loved ones and hides Mimi in the park, giving her 10 minutes to find her.
Lunella searches through a sinister version of the park, as she and Casey are chased by hideous creatures. Devil finally arrives and Lunella realizes that despite his fear of jellyfish, he powered through. She decides to do the same and confront Beyonder as herself rather than Moon Girl. Casey and Devil blare music on the sound speakers as Lunella finally conquers her fear of the funhouse and rescues Mimi. Beyonder congratulates her before leaving. Things return to normal as Mimi has no recollection of what happened other than that someone was giving her a tour. As Lunella and Casey return to the rides, Mimi thanks the Beyonder for the tour, only for Beyonder to warn her that something is coming for her.
Cast[]
- Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl
- Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur
- Libe Barer as Casey Calderon
- Alfre Woodard as Mimi Lafayette
- Laurence Fishburne as The Beyonder
- Chivaum Fitzpatrick as Nox
- Kimberly Brooks as Additional voices
Songs[]
- "Pop Like Bubblegum"
- "Hungry Ghost" by Hurray for the Riff Raff
Trivia[]
- Moral: Whether it's serious or mundane, fear is an everyday feeling to deal with.
- On April 12, 2023, the episode was released early on Disney+.
- This is the first episode where the title card is not entirely graffiti and is part of a preexisting sign.
- This episode introduces Nox, who in the comics was a Fear Lord whose background and origin are a mystery.
- A merry-go-round is depicted with the name Going Merrily. Its logo is that of the goat head ship mast, the Going Merry, from the anime One Piece.
- Lunella and Casey make a callback to the first episode where the former mentions Mimi's quote about facing your fears.
- Casey also makes a reference to "Goodnight, Moon Girl" when she reminds Lunella about the many fears she faced in the past.
- At one point in this episode, the Beyonder makes a creepy smile much like that of the Grinch from the 1966 cartoon holiday special adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
- Beyonder calls himself Lunella's "friendly neighborhood", a phrase commonly associated with Spider-Man.
- During the last few minutes of the episode, Devil Dinosaur takes part in a hot dog eating contest sponsored by David’s Famous Hot Dogs, this is the Marvel equivalent of the Nathan’s Famous hotdog eating contest that takes place annually on the Fourth of July at Coney Island in the real world.
International premieres[]
- June 3, 2023 (Spain, Portugal)
