Puzzle, Puzzle, Toil and Trouble is the second segment of the 3rd episode in season 2 of Harvey Street Kids. The title of the episode is a reference to a line uttered in Act IV of the Shakespearean play Macbeth.
Synopsis[]
After being paired together in a puzzle hunt, Frufru and Audrey try to win the Fredo's puzzle competition as a way to demonstrate intelligence and have an excuse to continue with the Harvey Girls respectively.
Plot[]
Fredo offering a prize for whoever solves his clues
The episode begins with the Harvey Girls watching a line stretching from the statue of Harvey E. Harvison, to which they assume free sandwiches will be delivered. Frufru enters the line, dazzling the others with her mirrors. Suddenly, the statue begins to deliver sandwiches that were provided by Fredo, who says he will do the perplexoquest and used the sandwiches as a way to get the street kids attention since none came last week.
The winner will receive a trophy with red beans and the trick is that all the kids are paired together based on the fillings of their sandwiches. The teams formed were Bobby and Lucretia; Pinkeye and The Bow; Lotta and Dot; and Audrey and Frufru. While they both wanted to have their own groups, Frufu sets out to win to be considered a genius apart from considering herself pretty.
Everyone receives the first clue, but Audrey and Frufru don't understand it, so Frufru decides to cheat by stealing Fredo's notebook but Audrey resists. Dot and Lotta manage to solve 10 clues, Bobby and Lucrecia are flooded in the mud while Fredo thinks they were stuck on a clue and refuses to help them. Audrey distracts him to find out where it came from in an attempt to get Frufru to steal a page from his notebook, which they manage to do by discovering that it was a morse code.
Frufru convincing Audrey to cheat by minimizing the issue and saying she could be kicked out of her group if she didn't prove to be better than them
Frufru and Audrey put some comics in a box to distract Fredo, while taking them and discover that the second clue had to do with the musical notes of a parrot saying "Facecage". Audrey is still in denial as she continues to cheat with Frufru for at least 20 times. Dot and Lotta's group with Audrey and Frufru end up tied while both teams are on Fredo's roof. Also, it is revealed that The Bow and Pinkeye were stuck in the climbing wall. When they part ways to find the last clue, Frufru convinces Audrey to continue cheating as Dot and Lotta supposedly coordinate well by themselves and don't need Audrey.
Audrey convincing Frufru to solve the clue by herself without cheating
Fredo's notes take them to the Butter Factory's well, but that note was poorly worded since the word was used in a meditative sense and not as the object itself. The girls get stuck inside of it and Audrey performs Parkour with Frufru on her back jumping on the bricks not covered with butter. Dot and Lotta arrive on the scene asking the group for help, with Audrey telling Frufru to stop cheating as she can figure it out on her own. Frufru solves it, and it was a riddle based on the cardinal points that led them to a parrot nest. Both groups eat the trophy with red beans and Frufru valued teamwork more with their usual little touch of arrogance.
Characters[]
- Audrey
- Frufru
- Dot
- Lotta
- Fredo
- Pinkeye
- Lucretia
- The Bow
- Bobby
- Sues the Raccoon
- Billy the Skunk
- Harvey Street Parrots
Broadcast[]
"Puzzle, Puzzle, Toil and Trouble" was released to Netflix on May 10, 2019.
Trivia[]
- This episode reveals that Harvey Street is aligned with the cardinal points, also reckons that the street is located in the easternmost part of the town, as the episode "The Monsters Are Due on Harvey Street" implies.