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"Lore Of The Ring Light" is a special of the Disney Channel animated series Kiff.

Synopsis[]

Kiff and her friends go on an adventure to destroy a ring light of immense power.

Plot[]

At the Table Town Public Library, Miss Moufflé reads from a book titled Lore of the Ring Light, which narrates the story of how many years ago, a coven of witches manufactured a smartphone ring light capable of making its user look so glamorous that it had to be destroyed due to its sheer power. Though the witches believed they had destroyed the ring light by placing it in a box and kicking the box, the ring light was left intact and the box ended up in the back of a storage closet in Table Town Middle School.

Elsewhere at the Table Town Middle School gym, preparations are underway for the annual talent show, which is to be held the following night. Kiff, Barry, Trevor, and Renée, who plan to perform a group dance routine in large novelty furry feet for the talent show, arrive at the gym, followed by Principal Secretary, who will be hosting the show in costume as the founder of Table Town, wearing a longcoat and beard (which he accidentally superglues to his chin). The gathered cast and crew put on their official talent show hoodies, only to find the hoodies oversized, lacking lettering, and with broken zippers.

Despite the talent show only being meant for students, Helen plans to perform anyway. While searching a backstage storage closet for a costume to wear, she stumbles onto the box containing the ring light and turns the light on, immediately recognizing its power. Principal Secretary walks by and notices a mesmerized Helen using the ring light in the closet. Suspicious, he leaves to do some research on the device. Helen returns to the talent show stage for rehearsals, but then notices that the ring light is no longer attached to her phone, and leaves to go find it.

Kiff finds the ring light on the gym floor. Before she can use it, Principal Secretary returns with a copy of The Table Tome of Table Town to warn her about the gadget's alluring powers. After sensing the ring light's corrupting influence himself, he decides that Kiff, who has no concept of ring lights or even selfies, is the only person resilient enough to guard it due to her total indifference to social media. Shortly after, Kiff slips and falls while holding the ring light, and while reaching out to grab it, she accidentally turns it on and stuns everyone present with her now-glammed-up face. Michaela posts a photo of Kiff to social media, which is seen by the Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse, who notice the ring light in the photo and quickly fly away from their mansion to locate the device.

Kiff asks Principal Secretary if she may have inadvertently sent out a signal by turning on the ring light. Flipping through the Table Tome, he finds an illustration of the pigeons seeking out the device, and quickly orders Miss Deer Teacher to get Kiff and Barry to the library to evade the arriving pigeons, while he returns to his office to return the Table Tome to its protective case. The pigeons then arrive and trash the gym in search of Kiff and the ring light. Just as Kiff, Barry, and Miss Deer Teacher are about to be discovered hiding, Principal Secretary accidentally steps on a harp lying on the floor, distracting the pigeons and buying the three time to escape.

After making it to his office and safeguarding the book, Principal Secretary bumps into his desk and bruises his knee, forcing him to use his giant novelty pencil as a walking stick. Kiff and Barry, riding on Miss Deer Teacher's back, reach the library, and the three are pulled inside to safety by Miss Moufflé. The pigeons attempt to enter as well, but the library's "no phones" rule creates a forcefield that the technology-obsessed pigeons are unable to penetrate. Eventually, Principal Secretary, Trevor, Renée, Candle, Reggie, and Harry make it to the library as well.

Miss Moufflé briefs everyone on the situation, warning that the ring light's power would allow anyone livestreaming with it to amass millions of followers and take over Table Town. Glarbin emerges from another corner of the library with a copy of the Table Town Charter to confirm that legally, "any master of influence whose acolytes number that of 10,000,000 shall be the new town manager." Kiff suggests simply keeping the ring light stowed away, but Miss Moufflé explains that it has already been awakened and now seeks a user. After a brief discussion on the ring light's supposedly "indestructible" nature being contradicted by the fact that it can be destroyed by lava, Kiff and Barry – joined by Trevor, Renée, Candle, Reggie, Harry, Glarbin, and Principal Secretary – set off to destroy the device by throwing it into the volcanic hole atop Mount Table. Before leaving, Harry ominously promises not to betray anyone.

At the riddling bridge, the group of nine runs into Terri, whose request to borrow the ring light for her livestream is immediately denied by Kiff. Corrupted by the device's power of temptation, Terri suddenly begins to glow and float, and her follower count rapidly shoots up. Principal Secretary stays on the bridge to hold off Terri while the rest of the group crosses to the other side. Before Terri can catch up to Principal Secretary, Trollie jumps up from the stream below and demands that his riddle be answered. The force of his jump, however, causes a portion of the bridge to collapse. After telling the others to carry on without him, Principal Secretary falls into the resulting hole, alongside Trollie.

While Trollie is swept away by the current, Principal Secretary manages to perch himself on a piece of rubble. Sweepy Steve flies by and is asked by Principal Secretary to relay a message to Ghost Wolf for help. Ghost Wolf then arrives to fly Principal Secretary to Kiff and her friends, who are climbing up the Wall of Goat] while evading Terri and her new army of followers; during the flight, Principal Secretary accidentally douses himself in Ghost Wolf's white paint. After helping Principal Secretary rescue Kiff and the others, Ghost Wolf flies everyone further down the route to Mount Table before splitting from the group – despite Barry pointing out that he could have just flown them to the top of the mountain.

When Barry offers to carry Kiff up Mount Table, Kiff declines and says that it would be "bad for my brand", contradicting her previous indifference to social media and shocking Barry. While Barry goes to get Kiff a snack, Kiff turns on the ring light and, fully under its influence, has a musical fantasy envisioning the power it could bring her. Barry sees this and turns off the light, urging Kiff to get back to her senses. Meanwhile, Helen is revealed to have been following the group the entire time. While the others simply ignore her presence, Kiff, newly aflush with temptation, grows more watchful of the ring light.

The group arrives at a forest, where Kiff and Barry prepare to head off by themselves to Mount Table to destroy the ring light, while the others stay behind to stand guard. Harry approaches the duo and asks to borrow the ring light for some social media exposure. When they refuse, he lunges at them in a failed attempt to obtain the device and is then kicked out of the group for his betrayal. Kiff and Barry canoe down the river to the mountain, covertly pursued by Helen in another canoe. While the duo are briefly docked on land to get some sleep, Helen snatches the ring light, but Kiff and Barry awaken and retrieve it before Helen can turn it on. Helen throws an upset tantrum, prompting Kiff to admit that she empathizes with Helen, having become newly aware of the trappings of social media. Hearing this, Helen declares her loyalty to Kiff and promises to guide her and Barry up Mount Table.

Back in the forest, the remaining members of the group keep track of Terri's follower count, which is now in the millions. To buy Kiff and Barry more time, Glarbin hatches a plan to distract Terri by getting Helen's great-great-great-grandmother and Other Barry to photobomb Terri's selfies in exchange for free sandwiches, which ghosts love. On the way up the mountain, while Kiff and Barry take another nap, Helen schemes to get Barry out of the way by covering him in crumbs from the duo's donuts. When Barry awakens and accuses Helen of taking the donuts, Kiff is reminded that Helen actually likes crullers, causing her to decide that Barry is lying and can no longer be trusted to continue with the mission. However, when Barry takes one last look back before walking away, Helen smugly smiles and winks at him in return, which Kiff notices. Kiff immediately dumps her allegiance with Helen and calls back Barry.

Barry carries Kiff, who over the course of the journey has grown increasingly fatigued from carrying the ring light around her neck, to the top of Mount Table. The duo make their way to the mountain's volcanic hole, and Kiff walks to the edge of the hole to throw the ring light into the lava below. At the last second, however, Kiff becomes consumed by temptation and declares that she will be keeping the device for herself. Barry pleads with her to destroy the ring light, saying that she does not need social media followers when she has people like him who already like her in real life. Before Kiff can turn the ring light on, Helen emerges from behind a rock and fights Kiff for control of the device. In the ensuing scuffle, both Helen and the ring light fall into the lava.

The ring light's destruction triggers a massive shockwave and reverses the device's effects, teleporting the pigeons back to their mansion and causing Terri's follower count to plunge back down to 237. Kiff and Barry rejoice, as do the other members of their group, while Helen emerges from the lava unharmed, pointing out that she has already been thrown into similar holes in the past. Ghost Wolf returns to fly Kiff and Barry, but not Helen, back to school, where the duo reunite with Trevor and Renée on the talent show stage at the gym. Glarbin approaches them and declares that they "bow to no one", then bows down to them, joined by the rest of the gathered audience. As the children stand confused, Barry wonders aloud if the audience might make bowing a "hobbit", before clarifying that he meant to say "habit".

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Trivia[]

  • Opening Sponsor: Charlie's Fake Beard Glue
  • This is the fourth episode in the series to be a full episode instead of in segments, following "Principal Dance Socks", "Trevor's Rockin' Halloween Bash" and "The Haunting Of Miss McGravy's House".
  • The opening sequence retains the new crowd shot introduced in "The Haunting of Miss McGravy's House". Additionally, instead of Kiff tickling Barry, Kiff and Barry now jump up and down and dance in a circle during the closing moments of the opening sequence.
  • This episode is a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's book series The Lord of the Rings.
    • The title card parodies the poster for the 2001 film adaptation of the 1954 novel The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in the series.
    • Kiff and her friends' journey to Mount Table to destroy the ring light by dropping it in lava parallels the Fellowship's journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring by doing the same.
    • The large "furry feet" worn by Kiff, Barry, Trevor, and Renée allude to the large, hairy feet of hobbits. After Kiff introduces the name of their dance routine as "Furry Feet", she, Barry, and Renée start laughing, but Trevor (now wearing a shirt with the phrase "Didn't Read the Book.") simply says, "I don't get it."
    • Kiff and Principal Secretary's exchange in the gym parodies a scene from The Fellowship of the Ring, in which Gandalf replies to Frodo's remark about him being late by replying, "A wizard is never late."
    • Michaela performs a dance routine while wearing a shirt reading "prancing pony", a reference to the inn the Prancing Pony.
    • Glarbin parodies Boromir's proclamation "One does not simply walk into Mordor." from The Fellowship of the Ring.
    • Glarbin, Candle, and Reggie parody Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli's pledge "You have my sword. And you have my bow. And my axe." from The Fellowship of the Ring.
    • Principal Secretary parodies Gandalf's lines "You shall not pass!" and "Fly, you fools!" from The Fellowship of the Ring.
    • Principal Secretary getting covered in white paint alludes to Gandalf's transformation from Gandalf the Grey to Gandalf the White in the 1954 novel The Two Towers, the second book in the series.
    • The line "Not all those who wander are lost" in the song "Show Them the Light" is a quote from The Fellowship of the Ring.
    • Glarbin quotes Aragorn's line "My friends, you bow to no one", which he speaks before bowing to the hobbits at the end of the 2003 film adaptation of the 1955 novel The Return of the King, the third and final book in the series.
    • At the end of the episode, Barry mispronounces the word "habit" as "hobbit".
  • The "Best 24 Hour Livestream" trophy seen in the Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse's mansion resembles a YouTube Gold Creator Award.
  • This is the first episode to release in 2025.
  • The episode premiered on Disney Channel as part of a special Kiff marathon celebrating Squirrel Appreciation Day,[1] which falls annually on January 21 in the United States.
  • A special trailer for the episode was released on January 15, 2025, soundtracked by a somber rendition of "We're Just Kids with a Calling" from "Brunch DJ",[2] in a parody of the "moody trailer cover song" trope.[3]
  • A "Show Them the Light" digital single was released on January 15, 2025, six days before the episode's air date.

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Episodes
Season One: "Thirst to Be the First/The Fourth Bath" • "Pool Party/Road Trip" • "Brunch DJ/Career Day" • "The Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse/Leave a Little Juice" • "Big Barry on Campus/Club Book" • "Kiff's Mix/Kiff's on a Plane" • "Farley/Two for One Hot Dogs" • "Halfway There Day/Be Still My Harp" • "Friendiversary/Totally Table Town" • "Hat/Lost and Found" • "Principal Dance Socks" • "Two Truths and a Bunny/Nicknames" • "The Sound of Helen/Weekly Grocery Shop" • "Friendship In The Time Of Cheese Caves/Soup Opera" • "Mall Leader/Ghost Wolf's Art" • "Fresh Outta Grandmas"/"Maybe-sitting" • "Everyday I'm Riddlin' Riddlin'"/"Life on the Inside" • "Weird Delivery"/"No Dad Ideas" • "Faculty Lounge"/"Personal Assistant" • "Trevor's Rockin' Halloween Bash" • "I Like To Move It!"/"Hive Got An Idea" • "You Can't Handle The Tooth"/"Blooper Quest" • "When You Mow, You Mow"/"Harry's Maturity Crisis" • "Silly Moods"/"Chatterley Vs. Chatterley" • "Hungee Squirrel"/"Foreverangees" • "Snow More Ketchup"/"Kiff and Barry Go To Prom" • "Kiff Is Good at Sports"/"Mushroommates" • "Principal Helen"/"Dial B for Butt" • "Fun Uncle Pat"/"Kiff Escape!" • "Beach Day"/"Sun's Out, Buns Out"
Season 1.5: "The Haunting Of Miss McGravy's House" • "Lore Of The Ring Light"
Characters
The Chatterley family: Kiff ChatterleyMartin ChatterleyBeryl Chatterley • Tom Chatterley • Rose Chatterley • Pat Chatterley
The Buns family: Barry Buns • Terri Buns • Harry Buns • Mary Buns • Kristophe Buns
The Fox family: Candle FoxRoy Fox
The Angstrom family: Trevor Angstrom • Mrs. Angstrom
The Wibbon family: Dilton Wibbon • Danny Wibbon
Helen's family: Helen • Agnes
Table Town Middle School students (Miss Deer Teacher's class): Reggie • Billiam • Renée du Bedat • Snekole • Darryn • Gareth • Patty
Table Town Middle School students (Mr. Ri'Peppa's class): Biff • Kim Popularé • Liz K. • Amira
Table Town Middle School students (Others): Lizette • L.E. • Rosso • Mav
Table Town Middle School staff: Miss Deer Teacher • Secretary Prince • Principal Secretary • Sweepy Steve • Miss Tulane • Mr. Ri'Peppa • Ms. Minty
Table Town High School students: Micheala Oats • Vanilla Tigner • Ben Bamboo • Kyle Lyon • Nick Namé
Table Town University staff: Dean Kim • Slent • Professor Lloyd
Table Town goverment: Glarbin Gloobin (Mayor of Table Town) • Ms. Mouffé (Head of the Table Town Library) • Professor Totsy (Head of the Table Town Science Lab) • Dr. Lyon (Head of the Table Town Hospital) • Rockwell
Chubbles Wubbington (one of the series' "shows-within-a-show"): Chubbles Wubbington • Evil Door
Smoldering Cove (one of the series' "shows-within-a-show"): Marlina Deena Turina • Giancarlo Monteforla • Chase • Mindy
Others: The Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse (Nice Guy, Meathead, Bad Boy, Mystery Lad, Party Girl) • The Pone • Flam Bingo • Greg & Linda • Lady Jane Harness • The Left Brothers • Erica Von Ant • Dan Hill • Mr. Penguino • Gram Gram • Ben & Quinn Finn • Iris • Andrew • Bort Grig • Cheryl • Meryl • Deryl • Sergeant Hind • Wayne • Other Barry • Gayle • Sally & Bill • Beverly • Centaur Claus • Timmy Table • Ghost Wolf • Rat • Pawva Mugg • Rob Sadly • Principal Swan • Gerard • Kenny • Jean Claude • Gordon • Diane • Slimmy P. • Dante • Gladys • Miss Rogers • Lady Lorraine • Jill • Trollie • George Meredith Willows • Ms. Foodcake • The Turnino Boys Choir • Scarm Scarmely • Pete • Klon • Little Louis • Rad & Tippy • Cakie • Judge Judegy • Ma & Pa Saddle • Lance Contract • Roo • Cedric • Dennis • Donnie • Tony • Miss McGravy • Markus & Tarryn Plue • Diego & Tyler
Locations
Table Town: Chatterley residence • Buns residence • Fox mansion • Angstrom residence • Reggie's house • Helen's house • Agnes' house • Miss Deer Teacher's house • Secretary Prince's house • The Pone's house • The Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse's mansion • Ghost Wolf's cave • Dante's house • Lady Lorraine's house • Miss McGravy's house • Table Town Middle School • Table Town High School • Table Town University • Table Town City Hall • Table Town Mayoral Council • Table Town Library • Table Town Science Lab • Table Town Airport • Table Town Pilot School • Table Town Carnival • Table Town Hospital • Table Town Gift Emporium • Table Town Park • Table Town Aquarium • Table Town Mall • Table Town Stadium • Table Town Auditorium • Table Town Steps • Table Town Museum • Mount Table • Bench Beach • Dooley's Feather Farm • Carlyle's Cars • World's 3rd Largest Tumbleweed • Café Penguino • Okay Will Donation Center • 7/24-7 • Rolltop Woods • Bort Grig's Carpet Emporium • Wish Wash • Dusty Acres Retirement Home • Slim Pickins • Rat's Hats and Mats • Pawva's Java • Rob Sadly's Mattresses • Tuft Pierre • Stork's Sporks • Darryl H Pizza • Cheese Caves • Serious Art Gallery • The Wall of Goat • The Outskorts • Ollie's Olive Emporium • The Cone Zone • Yee-Haw Boot Store • WeNuts • Rentley's Turtlenecks • T&GP's Trampoline Insurancees • Bonut's Donuts • Saddles • Foreverangees National Park • Sporty Mort's Sports Store • Pegasus Field • Partials Department Store • Bannister Beach
Others: The Agyeman Channel • Ottoman Flats • George Meredith Willows' mansion • Cocina Island
Songs
Kiff Theme Song • Kiff End Title Theme
Season One: Thirst to Be the First • The Singalong Song • We're Just Kids with a Calling • Thank You for Freeing Us • Flipped the Tables • BooHoo Wah Wah • We're Not Annoying on TV • High School Bunny • We're in High School Now • Carpet your World • She Didn't Get The Joke • Rage • It Don't Get Better Than This • Halfway There • Chains of Chain • Outta This Harp! • Totally Table Town • Bring a Thing • They Really Like Me • He's Still Dancing • Character and Pride • Abras • Nicknames • Do The Weekly Shop • The Ballad of Slimmy P. • Chunky Text • Most Fun I've Ever Had • You Can Do It At The Mall • We Are Goat • Brand New Crew • Wings of a Riddle • Opportunity's Here • Pack The House • Tell Us About Your Day • Bad Assistant • Party On, Scarm! • Sweet Compromise • Things • I Mow • Me Against The Universe • Gavel Groove • Hungee Medley • We're at the Prom • A Lotta Helen! • Never Going Back • Room to Rent • Right Here With You
Season 1.5: Creeping Closer • Show Them the Light
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