"Lost in Language" is the seventh episode of the first season of The Owl House, and the seventh episode overall.
It premiered on February 28, 2020.
Synopsis
While checking out the library, Luz's pranks lead to unintended consequences.
Plot
Luz, Eda, and King find a baby bat on their doorstep. With it is a note from the Bat Queen (the wealthiest demon on the Boiling Isles), asking Eda to take care of her baby until the following morning. Eda initially refuses, but accepts when she sees the Bat Queen promised snails as a reward. Luz is up for helping Eda babysit, but Eda sends her to the library to return all of her overdue books (and to avoid giving her any snails).
Luz arrives at the library and returns the books. Afterward, she decides to have a look around. During this time, she finds Amity reading to children. Seeing Amity being so kind, Luz takes this opportunity to attempt to befriend her. However, after the kids leave, Amity gives Luz the cold shoulder once again. Luz tries to be friendly, but Amity just tells her to leave her alone, blaming Luz for the idea that every time Luz is around, she ends up getting Amity in trouble. Soon after, Luz meets Amity's older twin siblings, Emira and Edric, who invite her for some "fun" around the library. Together, the three of them cause a great deal of mischief, until an agitated Amity turns them in, and they get kicked out. Emira and Edric invite Luz to break into the library with them during the Wailing Star shower that night, which is rumored to unlock some rare magical event. Luz accepts, seeing befriending the twins as the perfect way to befriend Amity.
Back at the Owl House, Eda and King are struggling to care for the baby bat, which has been crying nonstop. However, they force themselves to put up with it for the money they will get from the Bat Queen. King cannot take any more of the baby's crying and begs Eda to do something. She reluctantly takes the child and cradles it to sleep in her arms. Luz returns home and sees Eda being motherly when, suddenly, the baby multiplies into three baby bats who start to wreak havoc around the house. Not wanting to be involved in the mayhem, Luz heads out again. In order to get them under control, Eda prepares some apple slices and reads them a bedtime story.
That evening, Luz meets up with Emira and Edric back at the library. They break in as the Wailing Star flies over. Its magic brings the contents of all the books to life. They also discover they can alter the contents of books by scribbling in some doodles. When Edric draws human legs on a duck character from a children's book, the duck that comes to life gains those legs as well. Emira and Edric encourage Luz to do the same with the main character in Otabin the Bookmaker. Luz is hesitant, but Edric then grabs her hand and draws Otabin into a monster before letting go and giving her the book. Luz refuses to look at it and closes the book before it can come to life. However, she tosses the book on the floor before they all leave the room, which then falls open.
Afterward, Emira and Edric break into Amity's secret hideaway hidden behind the Romance section. They want to find her diary so they can post it around the school as payback for being a tattletale. Luz no longer sees this as fun and thinks Emira and Edric are taking this a little too far. Looking around, Luz spots Amity's favorite books, which happen to be The Good Witch Azura, and Luz is surprised to see that the series exists on the Boiling Isles. Among them is Amity's diary. Luz tries to stop Emira and Edric from taking it and accidentally causes some of the pages to fall out; at that moment, Amity catches them in the act. Feeling violated and very hurt, she takes back her diary and leaves after calling Luz a bully. Ashamed of her actions, Luz ditches Emira and Edric, and tries to apologize to Amity. As before, a furious Amity refuses to hear her out.
Suddenly, they are caught off guard by Otabin, who is now a giant monster due to the doodle Luz/Edric made. He captures Luz and Amity and starts to sew them into a book. Working together, Luz and Amity escape from Otabin and return him to normal as morning rises, and the star's magic wears off. Before going their separate ways, Luz lets Amity borrow the fifth Azura book as a way to make amends, and tentatively form a friendship with her. Amity reluctantly accepts and admits she was wrong about Luz and will work on being a better person.
Luz returns home to find Eda and King asleep with the baby bats, as the Bat Queen comes in to pick up her kids. She gives them a loaded treasure chest, and an Aztec death whistle for their troubles and leaves. Luz then gives Eda an empty-nester book, knowing ahead of time that she and King would be sad to see them leave.
Cast
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda
- Wendie Malick as Eda
- Alex Hirsch as King and Hooty
- Mae Whitman as Amity Blight
- Isabella Rossellini as Bat Queen
- Erica Lindbeck as Emira Blight
- Ryan O'Flanagan as Edric Blight
Additional voices
- Dee Bradley Baker as Baby Bats, Quacks, and Librarian
- Kevin Locarro as Braxas
- Fred Tatasciore as Gary and Monstrous Otabin
- Eden Riegel as Otabin and Kids
Non-speaking cameo
Title in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
Libros encantados | Enchanted Books | |
 Portuguese (Brazil)
|
Falta de comunicação | Lack of Communication | |
 Mandarin
|
化敵為友 | Turning Foes into Friends | |
 Czech
|
Ztraceni v knihách | Lost in Books | |
 German
|
Amitys Tagebuch | Amity's Diary | |
 Danish
|
Fortabt i bøger | Lost in Books | |
 Arabic
|
ضائع في اللغة | Lost in Language | |
 Spanish
|
Perdidos entre libros | Lost Between Books | |
 Finnish
|
Seikkailu kirjastossa | Adventure in the Library | |
 French
|
Jeux de Langages | Languages Games | |
 Indonesian
|
Tersesat Dalam Bahasa | Lost in Language | |
 Hebrew
|
אבודים בשפה | Lost in Language | |
 Italian
|
Persa nella biblioteca | Lost in the Library | |
 Japanese
|
文字の魔力 | Magical Power of Letters | |
 Korean
|
도서관 모험 | Library Adventure | |
 Malay
|
Hilang Dalam Bahasa | Lost in Language | |
 Dutch
|
Buiten het boekje | Outside the Booklet | |
 Norwegian
|
Fortapt i bøker | Lost in Books | |
 Portuguese
|
Perdida nas Palavras | Lost in the Words | |
 Polish
|
Biblioteka | Library | |
 Swedish
|
Förlorad i böckerna | Lost in the Books | |
 Turkish
|
Kitaplarda Kaybolmak | Getting Lost in the Books |
Transcript
| For a full transcript of "Lost in Language", click here. |
Gallery
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Trivia
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.46 viewers on its premiere.[2]
- This is the first episode in the series where Owlbert does not physically appear. He is only depicted on Eda's "Wanted" poster.
- This is the first episode that Amity appears in without Willow & Gus.
- The bespectacled librarian was tending the Cat Coven booth in "Covention".
- The library has the following books:
- Encyclopspedia
- Extinct Birds of the Boiling Isles
- Snowballs, A History
- Otabin the Bookmaker
- Quacks Eats Snacks
- The Lone Witch & Secret Room
- Ancient Texts
- Barely a Duchess
- Nightlight
- Pride & Pythius by R. Coburn
- Coping with Empty Nest Syndrome
- It also features the following magazines:
- Regal Couture
- Witch Wares Weekly
- Eda is now aware of what television is, after having previously appeared ignorant of it during "A Lying Witch and a Warden".
- When Edric pulls the book off the "Romance" bookshelf, the seventh rune code becomes visible:
, which translates to "two". - Eda has a big tab of unpaid fees at the library (likely for overdue and damaged books) and her library card has been revoked as well.
- Sarah-Nicole Robles has said that this is her personal favorite episode from the show.
- When the patrons shush Luz, they don't put their fingers to their lips, they only look upwards instead.
Revelations and significant events
- Amity reads to children at the library for extra credit and enjoys doing so.
- This episode reveals and introduces Amity's older twin siblings, Edric and Emira, who like to embarrass her in public.
- Amity has a personal hideaway in the library. The book where its entrance is, The Lone Witch & Secret Room, is the "knob".
- The Boiling Isles have The Good Witch Azura series, of which there are five books in total.
- Luz is hinted to be bisexual, as she blushes from Edric winking at her and Emira calling her a "cutie". Luz's bisexuality would later be confirmed by Dana Terrace.[5]
- Luz and Amity part on good terms, with the latter promising to improve herself as an apology for her previous behavior towards Luz.
Continuity
- This episode occurs during the week following the events of "Covention", and thus occurs roughly two weeks after the events of "I Was a Teenage Abomination".
Production notes
- Prior to being replaced with TJ Hill's score, the track "Good Grief" from the production-music album Fantasy Noir was used as temp music during the scene of Luz giving Amity her Good Witch Azura book.
Allusions
- Dewey Decimal System - The "Demon Decimal System" is a reference to the Dewey Decimal System, which is used to categorize books in a library.
- Necronomicon - One of the banners in the kids section of the library says "Necronomicon", which is the book of the dead from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
- Pride and Prejudice - One of the books in the library is called "Pride & Pythius", which is a play on Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.
- Twilight - One of the books in the library is called "Nightlight", which is a parody of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, even replicating the cover art.
- Final Fantasy VII - Luz opens a book called "Witch Wares Weekly" that gives her an outfit similar to Cloud Strife, the protagonist of the game Final Fantasy VII and his broadsword, the Buster Sword. In addition, the same book has on the cover a character similar to Sephiroth, the villain of the video game.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena - The cover of one of the books Luz is reading depicts the character Utena from this popular manga and anime.
- Salem Witch Trials - Eda mentions that witches eating babies is "so 1693", which is the year that the Salem Witch Trials ended.
- Keyboard Cat - Eye-Eating Prisoner is watching a video of a cat playing piano on a crystal ball in the library. This is a reference to the famous Keyboard Cat meme.
- Empty Nest Syndrome - The book Luz gives Eda to console her after the Bat Queen takes back her babies is based on a real syndrome that describes the emotions parents or guardians experience when children move out.
Errors
- When Amity was angry and put a hand on her chest, her black nails disappeared.
- After the Wailing Star passes, Luz is briefly seen without eyes in one frame.
- When the Amity standing on the "6/6" entry of Amity's diary first appears, she is missing her pupils and the brown part of her hair. In the next scene, she appears normal.
- The first baby bat's crying caused a large crack in Eda's window covering her "Wanted" poster. After Eda starts rocking it to sleep, the glass is somehow fixed.
- In the Latin Spanish version, this episode is called "Libros encantados" (Enchanted books). However, in that language the title that appears in the episode is "El gran aquelarre" (The big coven), which is the Latin Spanish title of "Covention".
Edits
- The line "And stop being a jerk to your friend" got muted in the Southeast Asia broadcast.
Memorable quotes
Video
References
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Metcalf, Mitch (March 2, 2020). SHOWBUZZDAILY's Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.28.2020. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on August 27, 2020.
- ↑ Disney+ Channel UK [@DCUK_NEWS] (August 9, 2020). "Don't miss out BRAND NEW Show The Owl House starts tomorrow at 9:30pm! Monday to Fridays at 9:30pm" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ "Disney Channel UK HD, Monday, Aug 18, 2020". TV24.co.uk. Retrieved on January 8, 2023.
- ↑ Dana Terrace's AMA (September 2, 2020)