Where the Streets Have No Games is the second segment of the 13th episode of season 2 in Harvey Street Kids. The title is similar to the U2 song "Where the Streets Have No Name".
Synopsis[]
Dot and street kids get addicted to an app where they earn points by taking selfies. However, the app is more than it seems.
Plot[]
The episode begins with Audrey showing a game called Kick tag, a combination of "You are it", kickball and basketball. When she was going to make a basket, Billy accidentally blocks it, and they both fall to the ground. Melvin makes a joke referring to a meme and Billy walks away, but not before Bobby forcibly grabs him and takes a selfie with him. When Dot rebukes him, Bobby tells them that he is part of a RightNow-O-Gram game called Uspy.
This game consists of taking selfies for points requested by the users of RightNow-O-Gram, where the winner can receive a mysterious prize. The street kids like the game as it involves winning, taking selfies and stalking. Lotta and Audrey are not interested since they like to take selfies at specific times, and Dot wants to join after saying that games stimulate endorphin. As the entire block is distracted by the game, Dot "sets out" to win it quickly, so they can soon play street games.
After taking photos with: the parrots, the mask of Baron Von Skull and the shed full of snot figures of Pinkeye. The girls propose her to play a basketball game combined with croquet. But Dot is distracted looking for The attacking Snacks card. Lotta proposes to intervene considering that she once saw a movie of her band for 6 days in a row and could not blink, so she asked her pet rabbits for help. When Dot was about to fall into the pool of eternal mud, Lotta grabs her and tells her to take a break. But Dot evades the topic by saying that she can go out whenever she wants while watching the girls and a parrot with punctuation numbers, implying addiction.
Lotta and Audrey ask her that there is something strange since all the kids are all addicted to the game along with that Audrey believes that robots will be revolutionized. Dot, however, is going to take a selfie with the ice cream truck and incidentally finds her lost rocket. Then, she watches the fireworks for having enough points to win a prize, which consists of a tablet with mechanical legs similar to spiders that refers to herself as her personal assistant Irona, which has all the things that Dot likes: Climate Change Graphics, Scandinavian Knitting Videos, and a Marie Curie Wallpaper.
Not care about those privacy details, she is happy about it and looks at the sky several drones delivering more of those packages with personalized tablets to the kids. However, she is still addicted to the game and awaits for optional missions when her friends asked her if she wanted to join their game in the kickball field. Tiny's tablet interrupts saying that there is a new challenge, which is to upload a video that shows the activities they like to do while the machine reads their emotions, and if the level of happiness is at maximum, new hairstyles for the kids avatar will be unlocked.
The kids follow this new challenge doing what they like the most: Pinkeye dances in the mud in a ballet dancer outfit, Gerald plays the guitar, Frufru takes selfies, and Melvin throws two water balloons at Frufru. Dot, for her part, does her hair in a different way, makes an invention based on wind energy and do a dance representing an archaic insect, but nothing works. After saying that her happiness meter is broken to Irona, she threatens to lower her happiness score to which Dot regrets. Dot feels she is missing something sweet and fun with some risk, so she watches the girls playing their game.
Dot apologizes to them while Irona analyzes her emotions, and mentions to Dot that her happiness is at its maximum when she is with her friends. Irona however, forces them to be together for the purpose of data research. After cheating on Irona, and suspecting a robotic revolution, the girls break up Irona knocking her out with a kickball.
When Audrey alerts the block for the "invasion". The others were being forced by their tablets to do the activities until boredom, Fredo plays a board game alone, Melvin throws water balloons, Pinkeye dances, The Bow plays with some bow shaped ribbons, Frufru does selfies, Lucretia has to be with some giant stuffed dolls of the Harvey girls, and Gerald plays the ukulele.
Before they can continue, Irona wakes up and chases the girls. Dot concludes that the app is an experiment to find out what makes them happy. When the girls set out to solve the problem, a metallic claw from a flying ship takes them to a living room like room. Dot believes that aliens took them away and Lotta believes that it is a new problem, to which a boy responds saying that he is the solution instead of a problem, and luckily joins the main cast after the episode.
Characters[]
End card related to this episode
- Audrey
- Dot
- Lotta
- Richie Rich (debut)
- Bobby
- Melvin
- Lucretia
- Frufru
- Fredo
- Pinkeye
- Billy
- Tiny
- The Bow
- Joel
- Sues the Raccoon
- Harvey Street Parrots
- Crush 4 You (Mention)
- Ice Cream vendor (Mention)
- Irona
Broadcast[]
"Where the Streets Have No Games" was released to Netflix on May 10, 2019.
Trivia[]
- Dot's rocket from "Dottle Rocket" is found in the sewers. This might be after the eagle carried the rocket and might have dropped it.
- The lost toys of Harvey Street make their second appearance after "Treasure of the Sierra Harvey".