"The First Day" is the thirteenth episode of the first season of The Owl House, and the thirteenth episode overall.[5]
It premiered on July 25, 2020.
Synopsis
Main Synopsis: During Luz's first day of Magic School, curiosity gets the best of her, and she finds herself thrown into the Detention Track, where she's not allowed to learn magic.[6]
Alternate Synopsis: Luz is thrilled on her first day of Magic School, but when she is told she can only study one type of magic, she can't choose between all the tracks.[7]
Plot
Luz and Eda are backstage in the Hexside Paranoratorium preparing for Luz's entrance exam before Principal Bump for acceptance into the school. Luz is anxious and nervous, while Eda is cool and collected and gives her student a confidence boost. Luz makes her way onto the stage, and after a few goofs and slip-ups, she barely makes her way into Hexside.
While taking a nervous Luz to school for her first day, Eda tells her not to feel scared about the day and that everything will be okay. Luz relays to her how she never made a good impression at her school back in the human realm, so she's scared she'll mess up her first impression at Hexside. After Eda drops her off wishing her luck, Luz walks onto campus ready to seize her first day.
She first encounters Amity, in which they exchange friendly greetings and high fives. After Amity walks away, Luz giggles to herself about how awesome it would be to meet a "hot, yet vulnerable upperclassman". As she says this, King reveals himself from her backpack, and scurries away to roam the school grounds and eat from the trash cans.
As Luz arrives at the entrance, she meets up with Willow and Gus who congratulate her for passing her entrance exam, and introduce her to the covens the school's tracks represent, as well as the coven leaders. Luz enters the school, and makes her way to Principal Bump, to whom she explains her schedule for the day - which includes exploring multiple covens. Bump denies this schedule, telling her she must choose one coven, and decides it'll be the potions track against her will.
After her very first class in the potions track, Luz desires something more and turns to a crystal ball for guidance. When Bump catches her "mixing magic", she is sent to the "detention track", which means she will be unable to study magic until the next school year. She joins three students; Viney, Jerbo, and Barcus, in the detention room, who are initially aloof towards her. However, after she stands up for them against the detention teacher, Viney introduces her to their secret hideout; a room with numerous doors leading all over the school. They use the shortcuts to watch teachers exhibit different types of magic, and secretly learn all types of magic without the school knowing.
Luz is eager to see all these different shortcuts, and opens one of the shortcut doors. This door opens up a locker in the Hexside main hallway, showing Amity pacing and reminding herself that just because she and Luz go to the same school now, it doesn't mean anything has changed. Luz quickly closes the door and joins the rest of the detention gang.
This joyful acceptance turns sour fast after Viney and the crew overhear Willow and Gus yelling about that Luz didn't want to be one of them. Luz is promptly shunned from the group, and leaves to join Willow and Gus.
Meanwhile, the inspector from the Emperor's Coven arrives to evaluate the school's performance. However, this event quickly goes awry when the inspector reveals herself to be a Greater Basilisk, a monster that can suck the magic and power out of other witches. Principal Bump, Amity, Amelia, and other witches attempt to fight back, but it proves futile as they're drained and turned weak and powerless by the inspector.
Luz, Gus, and Willow find the Inspector, and when the Inspector takes away Gus and Willow's magic, Luz runs to the detention group to try and get their help. At first, they're against helping her, but after they see the peril the school is in, they rush in to help out. Viney, Jerbo, Barcus, and Luz mix magic in order to rid the school of the Inspector and return the stolen magic to the fallen students and faculty. After Principal Bump sees the remarkable ways they've used their magic, he allows them to join multiple tracks. He also agrees to let Luz study in every track then remembers a notorious student that wanted the same chance only to drop out, and Luz sees who he's talking about - Eda.
Principal Bump writes a stern letter to the Emperor's Coven who denied knowing about the Basilisk. Suddenly, he finds King pretending to be a teacher. While King has come to enjoy being a teacher, Bump chases him out of Hexside with a broom.
Cast
- Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda
- Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
- Alex Hirsch as King
- Mae Whitman as Amity Blight
- Issac Ryan Brown as Gus Porter
- Tati Gabrielle as Willow Park
- Bumper Robinson as Principal Bump
Additional voices
- Matt Chapman as Detention Teacher, Quitting Teacher, Spiked Headed Student, Bucktooth Student, and Choosy Hat
- Noah Galvin as Jerbo[6]
- Grey DeLisle as Choosy Hat Student and Spirit
- Ally Maki as Viney[6]
- Eden Riegel as Spider Teacher and Oracle Teacher
- April Stewart as The Inspector
- Kari Wahlgren as Potions Teacher and Fangs
- Gary Anthony Williams as Perry Porter
Title in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
|
El primer día | The First Day | |
 Portuguese (Brazil)
|
O Primeiro Dia | The First Day | |
 Mandarin
|
入學奇遇記 | Bizarre Encounter During School Admission | |
 Czech
|
První den | The First Day | |
 German
|
Erster Schultag | First School Day | |
 Arabic
|
اليوم الأول | First Day | |
 French
|
Jour de rentrée | Back-to-School Day | |
 Indonesian
|
Hari Pertama | The First Day | |
 Hebrew
|
היום הראשון | The First Day | |
 Italian
|
Il primo giorno | The First Day | |
 Japanese
|
初めての日 | First Day | |
 Korean
|
학교 첫 날 | First Day at School | |
 Malay
|
Hari Pertama | First Day | |
 Dutch
|
De eerste dag | The First Day | |
 Portuguese
|
O Primeiro Dia | The First Day | |
 Romanian
|
Prima zi | The First Day | |
 Russian
|
Первый день | First day | |
 Turkish
|
İlk Gün | First day |
Transcript
| For a full transcript of "The First Day", click here. |
Gallery
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Trivia
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 0.43 viewers on its premiere.[2]
- Every episode of the first season from this point onward was produced in 2020 according to the credits. All episodes that aired before this (except for "Once Upon a Swap") were produced in 2019 according to the credits.
- Viney, Jerbo, and Barcus are named after the episodes' writers, Rachel Vine, John Bailey Owen, and Zach Marcus, respectively.[8]
- The following names appear on the Troublemakers Wall:
- Jerbo
- Viney
- Barcus (paw prints)
- The four remaining names (Sabrina, Rad Maddie, Chris, and Emmy) refer to the four storyboard artists for this episode.
- Hexside's auditorium has 90 seats.
- Luz's potion schedule consists of the following:
- Potions for beginners
- Potions in motion
- Potions (again)
- Still potions
- Potions 'till you die
- Potions after death
- When Eda is flying away at the end of the episode, the thirteenth rune code of the season is visible on the top left pillar:
, which translates to "of". - Eda appears for just over three minutes in this episode, making it her shortest appearance in the whole show.
- This is the only episode in the first season where Hooty is completely absent.
Revelations and significant events
- Perry Porter, a reporter for the BBN-HXN channel, makes his first appearance in the series while reporting the attack done to Glandus High.
- Uniforms for beginner witches at Hexside are shown to be colored light gray.
- Hexside receives a portion (if not all) of its funding from the Emperor's Coven.
- Principal Bump is completely unfamiliar with Luz's glyph based magic system, insinuating there is an esoteric element to glyph magic.
- Eda wanted to study all nine tracks while attending Hexside, but was not allowed to.
- Eda is shown to have been enrolled in the potion track while at Hexside.
- Eda created a secret room within Hexside with magical shortcuts leading across the school.
- Principal Bump comments on how humans are "full of liquids", implying witches are not.
Continuity
- Mattholomule is still the president of the Human Appreciation Society after he was unceremoniously given the title by Bump.
- Hexside's detention facility is still in need of repair after the events of "Something Ventured, Someone Framed". As such, it has been replaced with the detention track.
- Principal Bump's office contains photos showing the damages caused to Hexside during "I Was a Teenage Abomination" and "Something Ventured, Someone Framed".
- Luz being able to pull back her eyelids was previously seen in "A Lying Witch and a Warden".
Allusions
- West Side Story - The poster of "Hexside Story" is a parody of the aforementioned musical.
- Sailor Moon - Luz's transformation into the quad-colored school uniform at the end of the episode alludes to the sailor transformations in the aforementioned anime.
- Harry Potter - The Choosy Hat is a parody of the Sorting Hat from the fantasy series.
- Kabbalah - The Sefirot from this school of Jewish mysticism appears on the blackboards of the Oracle class. It is presented in both the Yosher (upright) and Iggulim (circular) forms.
- Paper Fortune Teller - The Oracle class was teaching the use of this popular paper toy.
- J'Accuse - Jerbo says, "j'accuse" (I accuse in French) to Luz when they hear Willow and Gus searching for her, referencing Emile Zola's open letter to the French government over the Dreyfus Affair.
Errors
- At the start of the episode, when Luz is talking with Eda, she is wearing her multi-coven uniform instead of her normal outfit or her cloak. This was later fixed in reruns.
Amity with her hair misplaced.
- During Amity's rant near the lockers, her hair is misplaced.
- When Luz drags Willow and Gus away from the basilisk, the previous victim is not seen in front of the basilisk.
- When Luz is fighting the basilisk with help from the detention track students, one of the basilisk's sleeves is miscolored.
- Hooty does not appear in this episode, but he is noted in the credits.
- Eda's bone is miscolored a pale red during the scene wherein she tells Luz to hold up.
- King's "WORLDS BEST ME" mug is missing an apostrophe in the word "World's".
Edits
- In the Russian dub, Amity's rant to herself is cut. This is because of Russia's anti-LGBT laws.
- In Southeast Asia, the words "farts", "heck", and "dingus" were cut.
Memorable Quotes
Videos
Notes
References
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Metcalf, Mitch (July 28, 2020). Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 7.25.2020. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04.
- ↑ 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 26, 2020". TV24.co.uk. Retrieved on January 8, 2023.
- ↑ "From risky robotics to museum mishaps, we can't wait for you to watch these brand-new episodes of #Amphibia, #BigCityGreens, and #TheOwlHouse! Which ones are you most excited for?". Twitter (June 23, 2020).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "JULY 2020 PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS". DisneyABCPress. Retrieved on June 25, 2020.
- ↑ "The First Day". Apple TV. Retrieved on November 15, 2021.
- ↑ Dana Terrace on Twitter (Tweet). Twitter (July 28, 2020). Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. "Thank you for enjoying THE FIRST DAY! This ep was a big team effort, thank you, crew! FUN FACT: Troublemakers named after some very specific staff members. Sometimes you get crunched for time. And sometimes that gives you dope designs and fishhook earrings!"