"Don't Leave B Hangin'" is the first segment of the fifty-eighth episode of the Disney Channel animated series Kiff.
Synopsis[]
Barry is left hangin' by an astronaut.
Plot[]
TTASA astronauts Goldie Crispo and Rex are set to leave Earth on a mission to rescue Slim Pickinsmascot Slimmy P, who has been floating aimlessly in space since blasting off into the sky months earlier. After seeing the mission being reported on Table Town News, Kiff and Barry attend the rocket launch for the mission at the Table Town Aeronautical Base in the hope of getting a high-five from one of the astronauts. Kiff gets a high-five from Goldie, but before Barry can get one as well, the launch countdown commences and Goldie is summoned to the rocket, which takes off shortly after. Left hanging by Goldie, Barry finds himself unable to lower his raised right arm.
Kiff accompanies Barry to the Table Town Hospital to get medical assistance for Barry's arm. Dr. Lyon informs them that medical science does not currently have a cure for being left hanging and instead refers Barry to a group therapy session for people left hanging, hosted by his wife Dr. Regina Lyon. At the session, Regina sees Barry raising his arm and invites him to share his experience with the group, but Barry clarifies that his arm is only raised because he cannot put it down. Everyone else in the group with raised arms likewise clarifies the same thing. With nobody willing to open up about being left hanging, Regina ends the session early. Meanwhile, in space, Slimmy P is located by Goldie and Rex. Tethered to her spacecraft, Goldie ventures out to retrieve Slimmy and gives him a celebratory high-five, which accidentally knocks him out of her reach and sends him falling back down to Earth. Seeing this, Goldie happily reports that Slimmy is coming home at last.
While walking through downtown Table Town, Kiff and Barry watch the footage of Slimmy's space rescue on Kiff's phone. Noticing a sign in front of Table Town City Hall encouraging citizens to seek help from their local government, the duo meet with Glarbin inside. Upon seeing Barry's condition, Glarbin agrees to put them in contact with Goldie and Rex. During their video call, Barry performs an emotional song to explain how Goldie left him hanging, which the astronauts end up not even hearing properly due to their poor network quality. Upon learning what she did, however, Goldie gives Barry a sincere apology for failing to high-five him. Nonetheless, she is unable to return to Table Town to do so, as she and Rex are set to spend the next 50 years in space performing important experiments and "retrieving other lost mascots".
Later at the Chatterley residence, Barry frets over the implications of spending the next five decades with his arm raised. Kiff then proposes that if the astronauts cannot come to him, he can come to them. After a crash course in rocket science and engineering, Kiff and Barry manage to build a spacecraft in Kiff's backyard. When the time comes for Barry to launch into space, however, he is incapable of doing so because he and Kiff inexplicably designed the spacecraft to require two keys to be turned at the same time by its occupant in order to take off.
Just after Barry's failed launch, Slimmy P crashes back down to Earth and lands in the backyard, bouncing around and inadvertently high-fiving Barry. Kiff rejoices, assuming that by the law of transitivity, Barry has received a high-five from Goldie through Slimmy P. Barry thinks the same, only to find himself still unable to lower his arm.
Fifty years later, Table Town is now a highly futuristic city. Kiff pulls up to the Buns residence in her hovercar to pick up Barry and drive him to the aeronautical base, where Goldie and Rex have just returned from their mission. As Goldie is about to finally high-five Barry, Barry suddenly puts his arm down and shouts "Too slow!" Barry declares that pretending to have a frozen arm for all those years was worth it just for this punchline, and he, Kiff, and Goldie have a laugh together.
The scene cuts to the distant future, where in a satellite somewhere over the Earth, an elderly Glarbin has been narrating the episode's events to his nephew as a bedtime story. When his nephew asks what happened next, Glarbin casts the story's truthfulness in doubt, noting that some have said that it never actually happened, others have said that it somehow happened twice, while others have said that "Barry's joke was so hilarious, it sent the two friends back in time and reset their timeline to normal."
Cast[]
- Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
- H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
- Katie Crown as Goldie Crispo and Pawva Mugg
- Steve Little as Glarbin Gloobin
- Lauren Ash as Regina Lyon
- Kent Osborne as Dr. Lyon, Rex, and Bear Townsperson
Song[]
- "Left Hangin'"
Trivia[]
- Opening Sponsor: Boho Robots.
- The TTASA logo is a parody of NASA's "worm" logo.
- Kiff gives Barry a "White Astronaut Jumpsuit" costume from Soul, a parody of Spirit.
Continuity[]
- Barry previously suggested watching Boho Robots in "Uncle Pat in Charge".
- Slimmy P blasted off into space at the end of "Weekly Grocery Shop", an event that is reported on the news as having occurred "months ago". A snippet of the song "The Ballad of Slimmy P" is heard when he lands in the Chatterley residence's backyard.
- A picture of the Chatterleys and Barry at Bannister Beach in "Beach Day" is seen at Kiff's bedside.
- Future Barry is seen sipping from a can of A Lil' Juice, referencing "Leave a Little Juice".
- An ad for Slumber-Rite's Sleep Pods (from "Juice Break") is seen projected on the future Buns residence.
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