I Wanna Crush Your Hand is the 8th episode in season 2 of Harvey Street Kids, at the same time it's the second half-hour special after "Raiders of the Lost Park". The title of the episode is a reference to the 1978 film I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
Synopsis[]
Following Lucretia' advice, Lotta tries to get closer to her favourite band after her first group photo went wrong.
Plot[]
Act I: The Encounter[]
The episode begins with Lotta describing the surroundings of the Harvitory, where there is a free bicycle parking and Melvin is selling counterfeit merchandise from the band. After verifying that they were not dreaming, the girls go inside the Harvitory, where Maria and Stu are selling merchandise while Lotta imagines what her first encounter with the band will be like. Dot however, did not prepare as usual because she was enthusiastic about the subject, not bringing items to autograph and Audrey only brings a dirty sandwich in her pockets.
When Lotta enters she tries to convince a bodyguard to let her in saying that there are very crazy fans, suddenly Lucretia appears behind a column asking Lotta to autograph her forehead, then she explains that she obtained tickets for the band because of Dollcretia who gave them to her for her birthday. Imagining herself seeing a glowing cupcake and the ticket during a brief instrumental of the traditional "Happy Birthday" song, Lucretia shakes her lock of hair and asks the Harvey Girls to autograph her forehead in the following order: Lotta, Dot and Audrey. After commenting that this was like a fan-fiction dream, she tells them that she will see them at the concert with their seats coinciding next to each other and leaves the scene.
The guard who denies being Blaze trickle when Audrey asks him about it. Then he opens the door that gives access to the band, but runs away when Audrey wanted to take a selfie with him. Upon entering, the girls are greeted by the members of Crush 4 You acting in character. The boys give Lotta a gluten-free pizza with synthetic meat, but she is too nervous to receive it. When she was about to ask them several questions from a huge list of 55, the boys' time with her fans is over and they only respond just a question, "How do they make their songs?". After they explain the process of looking for synonyms for the word love and with the help of a synthesizer, Audrey plays with it, altering her voice. However, Xaden asks them to take the group photo because his hairstyle is getting messier, which they do, but Lotta is too nervous and comes out looking uncomfortably at it. When she was being escorted outside, she says nothing ruining her chance to redeem the situation.
Lotta comments that the photo is not good apart from her expression, saying that the members do not look at her and that they are showing her some distance. Audrey and Dot tell her that despite everything the photo looks good and she should not worry. But Lotta doesn't believe them and thinks she needs the perspective of an obsessive mega-fanatic, to whom Lucretia answers her call. She comments that she has a self-published book based on the fandom called "fanning the flames", therefore using one of her tests, she sees if her encounter with the boy band was successful or unfavorable. The questions are: if she had a photo, had physical contact or if she had a pleasant moment with them. Lotta passes 2 of 3 tests and is self-conscious about the step she did wrong, consisting in that she did not have the opportunity to share with them some things they do, not even her invitation to a proposed tour to Belize.
Act II: Lotta tries to see the boy band again[]
Lucretia tells Lotta to reattempt to see the boys, and the latter proceeds to make a direct confrontation with the guard, but Audrey suggests using something more subtle. Fortunately, Lucretia conveniently brought some costumes in case of doubt, along with liking to be taken into account by her heroines. The girls wear the costumes that make them look like French tourists, after pretending to speak French well, they meet the real French VIPs and pretend that they are the impostors, but the guard throws them all out at the back door without caring who is the authentical group. Lotta wears another Lucrecia costume, this time as a drink caterer. While they let her in, Lotta is distracted by imitating the boys as they dance, so she spills all their drinks on J-Frog. He responds by singing while annoyed about how long it took to make his look, and apologizing while saying he was in character as a bad boy.
Lotta acts startled and walks away, but has another chance when the guard leaves the boyband's robes in the hallway. When he leaves them unguarded, the girls go into the wardrobe, and in the locker room, the boys notice that their glitter clothes have Lotta's face on it bothering them all while Lotta exclaims that she forgot that her face is a glitter magnet. The boys wonder how could do their dance now that their clothes got ruined, while Auden tells Xaden that he should beatbox to relieve stress. Not without first discovering Lotta with her face covered in glitter as she was led by Audrey and Dot out of the dressing room.
Lotta complains that she made them beatbox, but Dot encourages her saying that they can still see the concert. Lotta however, does not, listen again and Lucretia supports that behavior, which says that the key to being a mega admirer is never stopping, having the theory that if you do it wrong with your hero you get closer to him/her. When Audrey went to see some things Lucretia wrote about her in her previously mentioned book, she nervously takes it off as she blushes, then proceeds to tell Lotta to turn off her brain and let the obsession guide her. After hearing on the guard's walkie talkie that the secondary dancers must prepare, Lotta decides to dress up as one, but not before Audrey put up a net in case she wanted to kidnap them. So, using the hood of her shirt, she pretends to be a support dancer, which the guard believes. By the way, Audrey comments that the guard could be Blaze considering the movement he made to save some children from Lotta, who was spinning to them while dancing by accident.
Lotta has another chance and notices that the band does a dance ritual before the show, which is similar to one she does before listening to one of their songs. Therefore, she gets into the dance with the aim of showing her what they have in common, so she pushes J-frog causing him to hit Xaden. This does not make a good impression with them and she tries to find what they have in common by saying some facts, but the boys recognize her from the previous times. When Lotta was looking in her backpack for an excuse to look for more things in common with them, they look horrified at the net that Audrey puts up and was too honest when she told them that an option her friend suggested was to kidnap them.
When Auden noticed that she could be one of those crazy fans, Lotta approached him with the network in her hand, saying some nicknames that his family and friends told him, which bothers him since she is a stranger to him. Lotta stumbles and Auden runs away. When Lotta throws the net out of nervousness, she falls on the rest of the gang who also runs away in terror. Lotta tells the girls the situation with a babble, which Dot translates and interprets. Audrey comments that she needs to search for the missing members using whatever method is necessary and Lucretia runs off to do it while telling a joke.
Act III: Finding the Runaway Band[]
Audrey finds J-frog and chases him out, he showing how bad it can be drops some popcorn to the ground and then throws the entire package, but Audrey does not take it into account. He reacts crying and pouting saying that he wanted to be the sensitive boy in the band and that it is hard to be the rude boy. Audrey teaches him how to throw popcorn like a stick of dynamite and it explodes, and also tells him that bad guys don't take notes, not without first taking his and throwing it in a similar way.
Dot goes after Mortimer using the editor notes in a magazine that Lucretia scratched, Dot deduces that he is hidden using the uncertain principle of hide-enberg. With the help of a pocket blackboard, she deduces that he is in the initial dressing room using the technique of hiding in plain sight. Dot finds it and they both talk about the principle she used and Dot's calculator, which they both like.
Lucretia goes after Xander and finds him hidden in a group of zippered jackets, where she takes advantage touching his hair. She tells him that she also likes to hide in those types of clothes either to escape persecution or from the world, along with mentioning that she loves clothes with zippers giving the sensation of a metallic massage. Which they both have in common.
Finally Lotta goes for Auden, who runs away from her. He climbs out a group of stacked loudspeakers as an escape route, saying that he has climbing training, but falls on tiptoe saying that it did not work for him, seconds later he states that he had injured his little finger. The girls arrive with the rest of the band and Auden comments that he risks canceling the concert due to his condition. The rest of the band, however, does not want to cancel due to Lotta's pleas and the previous encounter they had with the girls forging friendships with them.
Lotta comments that she wanted to thank them all the time, which they also admit they had a good time with her, before the whole incident with the obsessive Lotta started. Once J-Frog tells her an anecdote that even they get uncomfortable with their own favourite celebrities, the band gives Lotta a chance to make her suggestion of allegedly giving them "an extra pinkie."
At the concert, Lotta acts like Auden's legs as they sing the song Don't Freak Out, which in part acts as a message for Lotta. Which says that a way to be able to make friends, one must stay relaxed, be yourself and not act obsessively. At the audience, Lucretia misinterprets what Lotta said to the band about them using her extra pinkie, and tells Dot that if any of the girls needs a pinky, they can ask her for it since she has an extra one on her right foot. Audrey for her part recognizes the guard as Blaze Trickle and asks why he became a boy band guard, Blaze admitting the matter, he tells her that the boys are fabulous, while revealing that his chest is shaved with the name of the band. The song concludes that if you follow those steps, you will be able to have a new friend while Auden touches Lotta with his hand as she reacts excitedly.
The episode ends with a pink end card saying "The End" showing a four-frame roll of photography, implying that the photographed members went in a group to the same photo session in a booth, along with a marked ticket from the band. The photo roll show, respectively: Lucretia and Xanden lovingly holding a coat; Audrey, Blaze Trickle and J-Frog posing as in an action photo; Dot and Mortimer in extravagant clothing; and finally Auden and Lotta gesturing a heart with their hands. The song "My Heart Hearts Your Heart" plays in the end credits.
Characters[]
End card related to this episode
Minor roles[]
Broadcast[]
"I Wanna Crush Your Hand" was released to Netflix on May 10, 2019.
Trivia[]
- Although the concert had associated seats as seen in "The Fandom Menace", the theater does not have them and the audience is only standing.
- One of Lotta's costumes is the same that she wore in "Boy Story".
- On the end card, Lucretia appears in her normal clothes instead of the denim suit she wore in this episode.