"Friendship In The Time Of Cheese Caves" is the first segment of the fourteenth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Kiff.
Synopsis[]
Kiff attempts to help Candle and Trevor with their new friendship.
Plot[]
Miss Deer Teacher's class is washing cars to raise money for a field trip to the Cheese Caves, and everyone is having fun except Candle and Trevor, who are manning the sales table together despite having nothing in common. Kiff encourages the two to start interacting with each other. By the end of the day, the class has raised enough money for the field trip, and to Kiff and Barry's surprise, Candle and Trevor have become friends and made plans to hang out that weekend.
The next week, Candle and Trevor sit away from each other on the bus ride to the Cheese Caves, leading Kiff to assume that their friendship failed to last the weekend. At the Cheese Caves, Barry is paired with Trevor, and Kiff with Candle. Kiff sees Candle upset and is surprised to learn from her that it was Candle who messed things up with Trevor, rather than vice versa. Though Kiff wants to help her make things right, Candle is too ashamed to explain exactly what she did.
Kiff offers to pair up with Barry so that Candle and Trevor can be partners, but Trevor declines. At Kiff's suggestion, Candle participates in a game show-style attraction called "The Cost of Cheese" to show Trevor how fun she is. She correctly guesses the price of an expensive cheese, but upon seeing Trevor in the audience, she becomes nervous and starts stumbling over her words, embarrassing herself.
Later, the students visit a feta cave, using mops to coat the walls in brine. Kiff again tries asking Candle what happened between her and Trevor, but Candle is still too embarrassed to elaborate. Candle stomps her feet and pounds her mop on the ground in frustration, causing the delicate cave to start shaking. Before Kiff can calm down Candle, a section of the cave collapses around them. While she and Kiff are trapped by surrounding rubble, Candle finally admits what happened that weekend: after having a great time hanging out with Trevor, she excitedly texted him to say how much fun she had, but weirded him out by sending him a "chunky text" – an extremely long and rambling text message.
Using her large cheek capacity as a squirrel, Kiff clears the rubble by stuffing it in her mouth piece by piece, then escapes with Candle into a different cave through a hole in a wall. After spitting out the rubble, Kiff learns from Barry that Trevor is getting a "caricacheese" done nearby. Kiff tries convincing Trevor to forgive Candle for the chunky text, so he shows Kiff the text. After reading through the entire chunky text, Kiff scrolls further up Trevor and Candle's text conversation and sees that they were making fun of the shorts Kiff wore to the car wash. Enraged, she yells at Trevor and starts typing a chunky text to Candle to defend her choice of shorts, which makes Trevor realize that chunky texts are actually a normal phenomenon. Seeing his error, he runs to Candle and apologizes for judging her, and they renew their friendship. On the bus ride back, Candle and Trevor sit together and eat his caricacheese, while Kiff continues typing her chunky text.
Cast[]
- Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
- H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
- Deedee Magno Hall as Miss Deer Teacher
- Vella Lovell as Candle Fox
- Tom Kenny as Trevor Angstrom
- Eric Bauza as Billiam
Songs[]
- "So Chunky"
- "Most Fun I've Ever Had"
Trivia[]
- Opening Sponsor: The Cheese Caves.
- The episode's title references the 1985 novel Love in the Time of Cholera.
- It is revealed in this episode that Trevor's last name/family name is Angstrom.
- The game show-style attraction, "The Cost of Cheese" is shown to be a parody of The Price Is Right.
- One of the songs from this episode, "Most Fun I've Ever Had" was co-written by Brad Breeck and a 21-year old songwriter named Ava Matasavage, who graduated from the Berklee College of Music the same day this episode aired.
- The songs were left completely undubbed in the Cantonese dub, the Chinese Mandarin dub, and the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
- According to Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal, the inspiration for this episode "came from one of our writers. Her friend was the chunky texter who very much regretted the chunky text."[1].
Gallery[]
International Premieres[]
- June 28, 2023 (Australia & New Zealand) (Disney+)
- August 16, 2023 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney+)
- January 15, 2024 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney Channel)
- October 8, 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 25, 2024 (Belgium, Luxembourg)
- May 25, 2024 (Quebec)
- October 19, 2023 (Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Hungary)
- November 8, 2023 (Portugal, Spain & Andorra, Angola, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea)
- December 27, 2023 (Israel)
- January 24, 2024 (Netherlands)
- February 11, 2024 (Japan)
- May 16, 2024 (Africa, Arab World, Greece & Cyprus, Baltic States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)
- July 22, 2024 (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
References[]
- ↑ Good, Jeremiah (October 30, 2023). "NYCC 2023 – Conversation With The Creators: “Kiff” Creators Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal + “Phineas and Ferb” Creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh". Retrieved on May 28, 2024.
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