"The Flamingo Must Flamin-Go" is the first segment of the sixth episode of the Disney Channel animated series, Hailey's On It!
Synopsis[]
Hailey secretly adopts a smelly, old flamingo and quickly realizes she’s bitten off more than she can chew.
Plot[]
Hailey is happy that her next item is to adopt and raise a pet and heads to the animal shelter with Scott in the hopes of getting a dog. In the past, Hailey's mother, Patricia, has refused to allow them any pets, mainly due to a childhood incident. Hailey hopes to prove her mother wrong by getting one. However, the only pet that is available is an old, mangy flamingo named Frank. Despite this, Hailey decides to adopt Frank anyway, even though he needs to take special pills and is constantly barfing up pink feather blobs. Hailey is also warned about letting him near shrimp as he goes crazy for it, made difficult as it sees Beta as one.
Patricia, a realtor, has a sell a house and, at a bequest of her current clients, the Swag Bros. must dress in "swag" to appease them. Hailey decides to keep her unaware so that she can focus on her job. While difficult at first, Hailey ends up taking to Frank and even Beta warms up to him as they bond together. However, Hailey does not want to let her secret of Frank out and considers keeping him in her room forever. Instead, Frank sneaks out and is caught by Patricia and Kai. While Kai is bemused by Frank, Patricia refuses to accept him, despite him acting warmly towards her. Patricia takes Hailey to return Frank, but her current clients, Swagmesiter and JT, are ready to sell their house and make a quick stop.
Swagmeister and JT turn out to be rude and entitled, much to Patricia's irritation. Frank ends up going inside the house after seeing shrimp and Hailey follows. Despite Hailey's best efforts to catch him, Frank blows their cover and devours all the shrimp the Swag Bros. intended to use as pants. The Swag Bros. tell Patricia that she is "old and weird", which is what she said of Frank. Angered by their insults, Frank scare the Swag Bros. off their feet. They frantically ask what's wrong with the flamingo, but Patricia disagrees, declaring that Frank isn't afraid to tell them the truth: that they're the ones who totally "un-swag". Fed up with appeasing their obnoxiousness, Patricia discards her hip outfit in favor of her familiar one and quits being their client, accepting Frank and thus completing Hailey's item on her list. Back at home, after watching a broadcast of the whole incident, Patricia fears that she will not get anymore clients, but to her surprise, she begins getting several calls and she formally thanks Frank for sticking up for her. The family embrace Frank who coughs up another feather ball.
Cast[]
- Auli'i Cravalho as Hailey Banks
- Manny Jacinto as Scott Denoga
- Gary Anthony Williams as Beta
- Julie Bowen as Patricia Banks
- Natasha Rothwell as Carla
- Cooper Andrews as Kai Banks
- Blake Anderson as Swagmeister
- Brandon Mychal Smith as JT
- Dee Bradley Baker as Frank the Flamingo
- Lauren Tom as Restaurant Woman, Shrimp Delivery Lady
- Kari Wahlgren as Kid Patricia Banks, Voicemail
Additional Voices[]
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- This episode, as well as "Splatter of the Bands", credits Cooper Andrews twice.
