Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
"Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow"

Season 1

Number 5

Episode information

Production code

515M-105

Written by

Lisa Muse Bryant

Storyboards by

Jules Bridgers
Morgan Hillebrand
Lidia Liu

Directed by

Christine Liu

Original airdate

February 15, 2023 (Disney+)
February 25, 2023 (Disney Channel)

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"Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" is the fifth episode of the Disney Channel and Marvel Animation series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

Synopsis[]

When Lunella creates a chemical to change her hair, she accidentally turns her mane into a vengeful villain that vows to ruin her.

Plot[]

Adria chastises Lunella for not maintaining her hair while she sleeps. When Lunella brushes it off, Adria informs her that it is important that women like them take good care of their hair. At school, a girl ignorantly critiques Lunella's hair, causing her to feel self-conscious about it. Wanting to "fix" it, Lunella creates a compound that will straighten her hair. Unfortunately, it causes her hair to fall out, leaving her bald. Unbeknownst to her, her hair gains sentience and escapes her lab. She confides in Casey about what happened and she shows her her wig collection, settling on a hairstyle named Sheba.

Lunella's superhero exploits are marred by her wig, but also by the sentient hair, whom Lunella is unaware of save for the hair samples she finds. Soon, her hair begins to take it out on her and Casey, destroying her robot project, drowning Sheba in a pot of stew and destroying all Casey's entire wig collection. Lunella is surprised to see her hair come to life, named Mane, as she steals the compound she created and plans to make an army of hair people to her whim. Lunella finally comes clean to her family about what happened to her hair. Both Adria and Mimi reveal similar events that happened to them in their youth and revealed the missing ingredient: Neutralizer.

Lunella creates her own neutralizer and with Devil locates Mane. She takes on a form similar to Lunella and the two do battle. Lunella realizes that they are too similar to one another and stops, admitting that she was wrong to take her for granted and wants to take better care of her from now on. Mane accepts and neutralizes herself back onto Lunella's head. Lunella proudly goes into picture day with her natural curly hair. Lunella promises to take better care of her hair as she sleeps. Casey asks what happened to Sheba, with Lunella realizing that she did not tell her of the wig's fate.

Cast[]

Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl
Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur
Sasheer Zamata as Adria Lafayette
Jermaine Fowler as James Lafayette Jr.
Libe Barer as Casey Calderon
Alfre Woodard as Mimi Lafayette
Gary Anthony Williams as James "Pops" Lafayette Sr., Rockin' Rudy
Jennifer Hudson as Mane
Alanna Ubach as Clueless Girl
Laurence Fishburne as Backstory Man

Song[]

"Can't Find My Way" by Raemo-P & T-Lace
"My Hair Is a Mood" by Jane Handcock

Trivia[]

Moral: Don't let other people's opinions of you affect your self-image. Just be yourself.
On February 15, 2023, the episode was released early on Disney+.
Casey is revealed to own 67 wigs, each with their own name. By the end of the episode, they are all destroyed.
Lunella being told by her mother to take better care of her hair is a moment lifted straight from the comics.
The jester hat Lunella wears to hide her bald hair is reminiscent of the Daredevil villain " the Jester".
When Moon Girl describes the areas they need to search, she lists the same places as U.S. Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) says to search to find Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) in the 1993 movie, The Fugitive.
Adria says "The curls are strong with this one", a Star Wars reference to the phrase "The Force is strong with this one".
This episode was adapted into a children's book written by Ashley Franklin and illustrated by Bea Jackson, and was released August 1, 2023.
This episode was inspired by a conversation Diamond White had with the showrunner, where she described her struggles as a young girl with how others viewed her hair.