Goodnight, Moon Girl

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
"Goodnight, Moon Girl"

Season 1

Number 10

Episode information

Production code

515M-107

Written by

Liz Hara

Storyboards by

Jules Bridgers
Morgan Hillebrand
Lidia Liu

Directed by

Christine Liu

Original airdate

March 8, 2023 (Disney+)
March 25, 2023 (Disney Channel)

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"Goodnight, Moon Girl" is the tenth episode of the Disney Channel and Marvel Animation series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

Synopsis[]

Lunella tries to overcome her awkwardness about fitting in at a slumber party by creating a mind-reading device, but accidentally switches brains with Devil Dinosaur.

Plot[]

While at lunch, Lunella and Casey are approached by the school's star volleyball team which includes Brooklyn, Gerri, Tai and Fawzia. The two of them are invited to a sleepover at Brooklyn's home. Casey ends up accepting the invitation on behalf of both of them as Lunella is too socially awkward to say yes. Lunella tells Casey that she used to get invited to sleepovers all the time, but that her nervousness resulted in her leaving early and at one point caused her to wake up on the subway covered in soup. As they prepare later that day, Lunella invents a remote that will allow her to read minds, but instead causes her to switch brains with Devil Dinosaur. Casey convinces her to leave it at home.

At the slumber party, Lunella is still nervous and is especially put off by Brooklyn's annoying younger brother TJ who is building a model city. Lunella only seems herself when she is talking science, but misinterprets Brooklyn's reaction as disinterest. Back at home, Pops finds the remote and, mistaking it for a regular remote, pushes it, causing Lunella and Devil to switch bodies. Casey picks up on what is happening when the body switching becomes more prevalent. Lunella, in Devil's body, races through the city to find the remote, but at the party, Devil in Lunella's body, becomes popular. The Lafayettes begin to wrestle with trying to fix the remote, but give up. Lunella gets the remote, but is saddened to see everyone liking Devil as Lunella.

Outside the apartment, Casey and Devil stop Lunella and revert back to normal where Casey tells Lunella that she likes her as herself and that she should rejoin the party. TJ, whose model city was destroyed by Devil, steals the remote as revenge and pushes the button causing Lunella and Devil to switch once again. They chase TJ through the city and finally catch him back near his apartment. When the rest of the girls see what is happening, they team up on TJ by hitting him with pillows, reasoning that he deserved it. Afterwards, Lunella apologizes for acting weird and "not normal", but Brooklyn tells her that none of them are normal and that she appreciates her science talk. Lunella rejoins the party and by day, Lunella is now comfortable with herself. As they prepare breakfast, Lunella converts a whipped cream can into a whipped cream cannon, made up to TJ by rebuilding his model city, and was asked by Fawzia how to supercharge a race car engine when Devil uses the remote to switch bodies so that he can eat too.

Cast[]

Main[]

Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl
Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur
Libe Barer as Casey Calderon
Sasheer Zamata as Adria Lafayette
Jermaine Fowler as James Lafayette Jr.
Alfre Woodard as Mimi Lafayette
Gary Anthony Williams as Pops Lafayette
Indya Moore as Brooklyn
Ramone Hamilton as TJ
May Calamawy as Fawzia
Ian Alexander as Tai
Tajinae Turner as Geri

Additional voices[]

Alanna Ubach as Brooklyn and TJ's mother

Song[]

"Out My Mind" by Michelle Zarlenga
"Neon City" by Chantry Johnson

Trivia[]

Moral: Fitting in is not the same as belonging. People with different backgrounds and interests can find kinship with each other without changing who they are.
The title is an homage to the children's book Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd.
The episode's premise is a reference to the comics where Lunella has the ability to switch minds with Devil Dinosaur.
This episode was originally scheduled for March 4, 2023. However, on the day of the premiere, it was replaced with the episode "Moon Girl's Day Off" on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW.^[1] When the episode was added early on March 8, 2023 on Disney+, it was placed in its proper chronological order as the seventh episode.