Dot's Entertainment is the second segment of the 7th episode in season 2 of Harvey Street Kids.
Synopsis[]
Dot wants to focus on comedy because she had contact with her silly side.
Plot[]
The episode begins with Lotta and Audrey putting together a mechanical dog in the HQ, with Dot mentioning that while impressive, it actually must have been a mini Tesla intercontinental communicator, which Audrey ends up tossing. Dot comments that she hopes to communicate with the Harvey Streets in France or Germany. When Audrey commented that they could call aliens, Dot tells a joke that both girls end up liking.
Dot likes this reaction, and in the next scene the audience sees a manifestation in Dot's mind, where she's over a griffin called, Laughin in the silly side of her brain depicted as a wide, empty space with clouds and a rainbow in the background and lots of blue faced balloons floating upwards. Dot asks why she has never been there, then Laughin takes her to her serious side where she meets "The serious Dot". As fireworks explode from the balloons, Laughin tells Dot to go to her side and leave the Serious Dot behind, which she does. Meanwhile, Audrey and Lotta partially get the robotic dog to act a bit more like a transmitter.
Dot wants to make jokes to Harvey Street, so she goes with Gerald, Bobby and Tiny saying the same joke she made at the HQ and receives a good reception, remaining excited. She also repeats the same with Lucretia, Frufru, The Bow and the Bloogey Boys, however, it is no longer fun when she did it out of the camera for at least four more times. Failing to get laughs, Laughin tells Dot to get more or else she won't be able to fly any further, and they would both fall into the void. Dot reacts by wanting them to laugh at her jokes, even tickling them if it were necessary. But the girls suggest looking for new material.
Viewing videos from a blogger named Count Laugh-ula, where he teaches her how to use a famous phrase along with mentioning the 472 forms of comedy, meanwhile Audrey and Lotta practice how to talk to aliens. The comedies studied by Dot are "object comedy" that is applied by putting on a chewing gum wig by making a pun on "Gummy hair" and "Gummy bear". The second is an improvised comedy, telling a joke of the type "Where you drive and work at the same time?", in which she concludes by saying a driver going on a personal bus to go to a work bus. The third is an observational comedy referring that she and the kids have no parents.
When Dot already has what she wanted, she asks Laughin to leave her where the Serious Dot is, after Audrey and Lotta previously asked her to see the transmitter. But Laughin refuses, letting the "serious lady" keep filing on that side of Dot's mind. After convincing Dot, Laughin closes the entrance that separates them with a door made of clouds and puts a rainbow as adhesive tape. Audrey and Lotta continue to work on the transmitter, but they make it work like a dog collar, that draws some of them to the HQ.
Dot meanwhile, wants a bigger audience, so she goes to the urban zone of Harvey Street looking for the "Harvey Avenue" audience on a 10-block radio tour with Lucretia. Dot is unsure about continuing and prefers to be with the Harvey Girls, with Lucretia partially understanding the situation. On stage, which is halfway down the street by reference, Lucretia calls Dot on stage, but the last only points out that the transmitter is in a way to call the dogs and comes to the aid of the girls over a skateboard.
In Dot's mind, she asks Laughin for help but refuses to do so by focusing on the laughter, Dot jumps out of her to search for her serious self, with which she makes peace and uses the candy wig to slow down the dogs. She goes to the HQ, changes the polarity of the cables, and makes the dogs asleep with a new frequency. The girls, after apologizing to each other, tell Dot that she can be both personalities at the same time. In Dot's mind, her serious version and Laughin make amends while the serious one does the electric hand trick and they both laugh.
Characters[]
- Audrey
- Dot
- Lotta
- Tiny
- Frufru
- Gerald
- Lucretia
- Penny
- Count Laugh-ula (debut)
- Laughin (debut)
- Bow
- Melvin
- Fredo
- Pinkeye
- Bobby
- Penny
Broadcast[]
"Dot's Entertainment" was released to Netflix on May 10, 2019.
Trivia[]
- The title of the episode is a reference to the 1974 MGM musical film "That's Entertainment".