"Mall Leader" is the first segment of the fifteenth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Kiff.
Synopsis[]
Kiff leads a group to the mall to get a free pretzel, but leadership comes with responsibilities.
Plot[]
Barry receives an alert on his phone that Table Town Mall is offering a free Hot Knots pretzel to anyone who brings ten people there, so Kiff invites their classmates to the mall. When they decline, Kiff uses tips from a self-help book Barry has procured called How to Possess Followers & Win People to convince them to come along. The group goes to the mall and Kiff claims the pretzel, but it soon becomes apparent to Kiff and Barry that she has unintentionally brainwashed their classmates, who obey her every command and follow her wherever she goes.
Kiff and Barry want to eat the pretzel in peace, but their classmates refuse to leave Kiff's side. While hiding from them, Kiff and Barry come across Helen, who is manning a kiosk for her part-time bedazzling business. When her classmates return, Kiff tells them that she is delegating her leadership to Helen and commands them to follow Helen, then gives Helen the self-help book. Kiff and Barry go upstairs to eat the pretzel, but look down and see their classmates bedazzling items for Helen. Kiff feels guilty and imagines a true crime documentary being made about her in which she is portrayed as a sinister cult leader.
As Kiff needs the book to take back her leadership from Helen, she and Barry try to read it using binoculars. Kiff learns that it has a chapter she has not yet read which concerns the fourth and most powerful leadership quality, but the text is blocked by one of Helen's bedazzled belts. Barry rappels Kiff down so she can retrieve the book undetected, but before he can pull her back up, a child comes up to him and makes him lose his grip. Kiff and Barry run away with the book, only for their classmates to snatch it back at Helen's command. Barry then remembers that they are at the mall and simply buys another copy.
Kiff reads that the most powerful leadership quality is selflessness, then demonstrates this by giving Helen the pretzel, causing Kiff's classmates to reacknowledge Kiff as their leader. She commands them to think for themselves and not be commanded by anyone, snapping them out of their brainwashed states. Meanwhile, Helen flees with her kiosk after a security guard tells her she is operating without a permit.
Cast[]
- Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
- H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns
- Lucy Heavens as Helen
- Vella Novell as Candle Fox
- Mary Mack as Renée du Bedat
- Tom Kenny as Trevor Angstrom and Darryn
- Eric Bauza as Reggie and Billiam
Song[]
- "You Can Do It At The Mall"
Trivia[]
- Opening Sponsor: Hot Knots.
- This episode was originally going to be sided with "Fresh Outta Grandmas".
- The song was left completely undubbed in the Cantonese dub, the Chinese Mandarin dub, and the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
- The book How to Possess Followers & Win People by Dale Porridge is a parody of the 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
- Many of the stores in the Table Town Mall have names parodying those of real-life establishments: Dick's Buys + Beyond (Dick's Sporting Goods, Best Buy, and Bed Bath & Beyond), Zoomiez (Zumiez), Hollistork (Hollister), 2 Dudes Pizza (Five Guys Burgers and Fries), Guava Juice (Jamba Juice), Cinnabunny (Cinnabon), Kent Royale Roasters (Kenny Rogers Roasters), Mrs. Cookie's (Mrs. Fields), T.T.G.Y. (TCBY), Mumu Memon (Lululemon) and Scorching Subject (Hot Topic).
- The fourth wall was broken when a hypnotized Renée thanks Kiff for the song that shows the ins and outs of the mall.
- It was broken again when Kiff, Barry, and their unhypnotized friends are gonna do the montage again, only for the mole security guard to come into the frame and says "No loitering!".
- It is revealed in this episode that Snekole's father (who first appeared in "Road Trip") has a job as a mall security guard.
Continuity[]
- An elevator music version of "Totally Table Town", from the episode of the same name, is heard while Kiff is claiming the free pretzel.
- Posters for the movies Hot Mail and Karla the Amazing Hypnotist, which were previously seen in "Nicknames", are displayed in the mall.
Gallery[]
International Premieres[]
- June 28, 2023 (Australia & New Zealand) (Disney+)
- August 16, 2023 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney+)
- January 16, 2024 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney Channel)
- October 14, 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 26, 2024 (Belgium, Luxembourg)
- June 1, 2024 (Quebec)
- October 20, 2023 (Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Hungary)
- November 9, 2023 (Portugal, Spain & Andorra, Angola, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea)
- December 28, 2023 (Israel)
- January 25, 2024 (Netherlands)
- February 18, 2024 (Japan)
- May 17, 2024 (Africa, Arab World, Greece & Cyprus, Baltic States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)
- July 23, 2024 (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
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