"Friday Night Fright" is the first segment of the twelfth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Hamster & Gretel.
Synopsis[]
Hiromi and Fred encounter robots at the school.
Plot[]
After school, Fred declines Kevin's invitation to the Grant-Gomez family game night due to helping Hiromi with an interview for the school newspaper (in part due to Fred's nihilistic sense of humor, according to Hiromi). While they work, they overhear Principal Funderberk talking about a seemingly evil plot and decide to investigate. Hiromi and a reluctant Fred find a crate containing animatronic replicas of the school's mascot, which are mistakenly activated when Hiromi takes a picture of them. Meanwhile, Carolina has the other family members turn over their phones to prevent cheating during the game.
Having taken shelter in a storeroom courtesy of Inga the lunch lady, Fred and Hiromi orchestrate a plan to defeat the animatronics after Fred fails to get ahold of Kevin. However, they find that the animatronics have turned off the sprinkler system, forcing them to search for another valve to reactivate it. Igna volunteers to go, only to get captured by the animatronics. Hiromi then steps forward to take her place with Fred's guidance, only to get captured as well. Hamster, who has been using an audio therapy app to block out the family's arguing due to their fierce competitiveness, notices Fred's many calls and notifies Gretel, who reluctantly disqualifies herself by claiming she was using her phone to cheat, allowing her to go to the school to rescue Fred and Hiromi.
As the animatronics prepare to dunk Hiromi in a razor blade-clad toilet, Fred intervenes by using her gymnastics skills to access a hard-to-reach sprinkler valve to activate the sprinkler system and shut the animatrotics down. She is briefly successful, but the animatronics are able to activate waterproof programming. Just as they are about to attack Fred and Hiromi, Hamster and Gretel arrive to defeat the animatronics, with Gretel angry that they have ruined her chances of finally winning family game night. After the animatronics are destroyed, Principal Funderberk reveals that they were actually meant to be entered in a robotics competition the school qualified for and hired a new physics teacher to investigate a glitch that causes them to become evil after having their picture taken. Fred and Hiromi share a high-five in celebration of their efforts, while Kevin, who has been overzealous during game night, loses to Carolina.
Song[]
Cast[]
- Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
- Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
- Beck Bennett as Hamster
- Joey King as Fred
- Romi Dames as Hiromi Tanaka
- Carolina Ravassa as Carolina Grant-Gomez
- Matt Jones as Dave Grant-Gomez
- Keith Ferguson as Principal Funderberk
Trivia[]
- The plumber animatronic says "Here's plummy" is a reference to "Here's Johnny!" from the novel and film The Shining.
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