"Fresh Outta Grandmas" is the first segment of the sixteenth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Kiff.
Synopsis[]
Tensions rise when the crew gets wrapped up in a new collection craze.
Plot[]
Fingies have become the latest collectible craze in Table Town Middle School. Kiff and her classmates are showing off their fingies to each other, but when they end up fighting over whose are the best, Principal Secretary confiscates their fingies and bans fingies completely. The students are outraged and say that their fingies are "their babies", but Principal Secretary replies that they said the same thing last week when he banned dabbles, which the students have already forgotten. He tries reminding them about dabbles and many other previously banned collectibles, all of which they have also forgotten.
Later in Miss Deer Teacher's classroom, the students are drawing their family trees for a project. Kiff asks if she can draw an extra branch in her tree for her "bonus grandma": Miss Rogers, an old lady whose gutters Kiff cleans. Candle mentions that as a child of divorce, she has four grandmas. Reggie notes that he has eight familial grandmas, then increases his total to thirteen grandmas by adding five old ladies who are in a knitting club with one of his grandmas. The children end up playing their own game called "Gram Grabs", in which a player "collects" a grandma by receiving a piece of hard candy from her and wins by "collecting" the most grandmas.
After spending the day hanging out with old ladies around Table Town, the children return to Barry's house to have their candy counted, with Kiff and Reggie tying for first. Kiff then says that she and Barry are "basically family" and collects his grandmas, claiming victory. In response, Reggie and Candle pair up to beat Kiff and Barry's count. The children eventually form two teams – Kiff, Barry, and Renée on one team, and Reggie, Candle, Trevor, and Billiam on the other – which are both tied. They ask the Wall of Goat how to settle the tie and are told that they have overlooked "the rarest grandma of all": Lady Lorraine, who hates children.
At her house in the Outskorts, Lorraine turns the children away, so Kiff calls one of her "collected" grandmas and invites her for a garden party at the house. A bus full of old ladies arrives, and Lorraine, who loves garden parties, gives Kiff a piece of candy. Kiff declares that her team has won Gram Grabs, but when the old ladies hear this, she is forced to admit that they were being "collected" for a game, enraging Lorraine. While hiding from Lorraine behind the bus, the children apologize to the old ladies for treating them like objects. On the bus ride back, the children return to playing with their fingies, and it is revealed that the old ladies have also been "collecting" the children through their own game called "Kid Bingo".
Cast[]
- Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
- H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
- Vella Novell as Candle Fox
- Mary Mack as Renée du Bedat
- Tom Kenny as Trevor Angstrom and Lady Lorraine
- Eric Bauza as Reggie and Billiam
- Nic Smal as Principal Secretary and The Wall of Goat
- Deedee Magno Hall as Miss Deer Teacher
- ??? as Gladys
- ??? as Miss Rogers
Song[]
- "We Are Goat"
Trivia[]
- Opening Sponsor: Greetings From The Wall of Goat.
- This episode was originally going to be sided with "Mall Leader".
- It is revealed in this episode that Miss Deer Teacher is actually 33 years old.
- The episode's title card references the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man.
- Wrinkle's Original, the brand of the candy given out by the old ladies, is a parody of Werther's Original.
- Several characters' family trees revealed:
- Candle Fox's parents are divorced.
- Reggie has 2 moms who both have 2 moms who are both divorced.
- It's revealed Kiff, Barry, and her friends use to have a collection faze they went through, but, as shown with their latest craze with Fingies, those said previous collections got banned when they argue who has the best collection.
- When Principal Secretary lists all the previous collections, the kids forget about them, even just recently about Fingies when they were about to collect grandmas.
- Gram Grabs is visually represented throughout the episode with 8-bit graphics in a style reminiscent of 1980s arcade games. The scene where Lady Lorraine transforms into a gargantuan 8-bit character and throws barrels at the children references the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong.
- The fourth wall was broken when Kiff and Barry team up of their score grandmas and saw the score above them. It was broken again when the kids got into two groups to combine their scores, they look up to see the score with Reggie even declaring they are tied.
- The song was left completely undubbed in the Cantonese dub, the Chinese Mandarin dub, and the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
Continuity[]
- Kiff makes a callback to how she and Barry are "family".
Errors[]
- The Disney+ captions make an error in this episode. When Candle Fox realizes she can combine her friends grandma’s with hers, the captions read “Me and Richie are just as close as you and Barry.” instead of “Me and Reggie are just as close as you and Barry.”.
Gallery[]
International Premieres[]
- October 15, 2023 (France & Monaco, Switzerland, Francophone Africa, Haiti, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Wallis & Futuna)
- January 29, 2024 (Belgium, Luxembourg)
- June 8, 2024 (Quebec)
- November 8, 2023 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney+)
- April 2, 2024 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney Channel)
- January 26, 2024 (Netherlands)
- February 25, 2024 (Japan)
- March 11, 2024 (Portugal, Angola, Mozambique)
- March 24, 2024 (Israel)
- March 25, 2024 (Spain & Andorra, Equatorial Guinea)
- May 13, 2024 (Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Hungary)
- July 24, 2024 (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
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