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- This show's central conceit of "fairytale children at school" will inevitably draw comparisons to the Ever After High doll franchise (and Descendants to a lesser degree), though there's one major difference: EAH is mostly focused on simple standalone plots told in 3 minute webisodes, whereas RA has a full 22 minutes to tell more encompassing stories in the episodes, and there's also an overarching season plot
- Another difference: The fact that the fairytale characters the main characters are descended from also play significant roles in the stories, whereas the recent EAH special seemed to go out of its way not to include them...
- Of course we need villains, and Vicky, Ruby, and Cyrus will obviously be compared to you-know-who Except that while Vicky = Icy and Ruby = Stormy... Cyrus is apparently more a Brafilius than a Darcy
- Interesting choice in having one of the main male characters, Hawk Snowwhite, be a descendant of a female lead... You don't see much of that in the more girl-centric EAH... (I'm perfectly aware that there's http://everafterhigh.wikia.com/wiki/Alistair_Wonderland)
- Mmm, dragon-riding You'd think that girl dragons would be more prevalent and prominent in fantasy, but outside EAH and RA, all I can think of are Eragon and Shrek
- Plant-powered Astoria Rapunzel as the studious character... I'm reminded when Bloom mentioned that Flora and Musa got the best marks in exams, way back in Winx season 1 And speaking of Astoria and Flora, both are also great at saving falling boys with their plant magic
- Rose seems extremely excitable at meeting fairytale characters and creatures, and I get that she's new to this fairytale business, but I think getting excited rather than terrified at meeting the monster frog in the swamp was stretching credibility a bit...
- It's only been 4 episodes, but between falling off the chandelier in ep 1 and the airbag mishap in ep 4, is it too soon to wish that Rose would stop sucking at everything?
- Nice twist on Jack and the Beanstalk in episode 4

- Rose continues to gawk at all the fairytale kids she's meeting... so what else is new? (And her collecting of souvenirs from fairytale land now extends to vandalizing books )
- Hawk carrying around Vicky's princess repellent in potions class was just asking for trouble... (The notion that Vicky giving him the repellent was some sort of plan of hers is a bit of a stretch methinks...)
- I suppose RA has to go deeper to avoid treading on EAH's toes, so we get ourselves references to Sinbad and Arabian Nights...
- Astoria and Flora have another thing in common now: A canine companion Though Astoria's dog is more "Love and Pet" than Amarok... (And you'd think that the studious Astoria would get the owl that Hawk does )
- Between Winx S7's Brafilius and Astoria's dog, someone at Rainbow sure must love bulldogs...
ETA:
- Show finally acknowledges that Rose isn't exactly helping the team's cause... Yeah, no kidding
- Hawk likes talking with his reflection... isn't that kind of the Evil Queen's schtick?

- At least Rose isn't the only person on the team sucking at something, even if the criticism being levied against Travis' work seems rather unfounded
- Rose getting giddy at meeting Puss in Boots... uh-huh, what else is new?
- We learn that Ruby has repair powers... Interesting...
- Between the Schnauzer baddie, some of the gang being turned into potted plants, them being chased by hammers, and Travis rolling up a ball of giant-sized dragon mucus-ridden tissues to use on the pursuing baddies, this week's episode is very bizarre Makes "Banana Day" pale in comparison
- Then there's that ridiculous convo about dragons having bathrooms
- And on top of that, after going through the trouble of submitting one of Travis' statues as a backup to Puss' offbeat painting, Prof. Beauty takes a metaphorical dump all over the statue, and gives the painting an A+... Look lady, it's one thing to see beauty in even the most ridiculous things, but knocking a decently-made statue?
- ETA: Oh, and we get to meet Travis' parents this week too

- US viewers already actually saw the Three Little Pigs (insert more Rose gawking!) last week as part of the art class
- Also, Astoria's concern for her grade after "last week's" art class now makes more sense in light of the lashing they end up getting from this episode's titular character (well, in my mind at least, it might very well be just incidental)
- Hmm, outside of the S1 episode with WizGiz's envelope, you didn't see the Winx concern themselves too much about their grades...
- Vicky isn't involved in this episode, so this one feels more like a 22-minute version of an Ever After High webisode
- We're getting hints that Rose's mother, who Rose's grandma has specifically told Rose not to tell about her fairytale adventures, may have some familiarity with the fairytale world: Episode three ended with a shot of a photo of Mom peeking out from Rose's book, and this week, Mom mentions something about some sort of soothing herb for poison ivy itches...

- This episode, we begin to see hints of what Vicky is up to: Being able to control the fairytale gate at her disposal. In both this episode and the "next", Vicky and pals' scheme is thwarted not by Rose and friends, but by her own cohorts' incompetence
- Meanwhile, this ruckus forces Rose to have a sleepover at Cinderella Castle for the night, so how to make her parents not suspicious? Enter Mirror Rose Shades of the astral drops from W.i.t.c.h. perhaps?
- Ooh, the Billy Goats Gruff, and as usual, Rose gawks over them... Well, events in this one will make them lose quite a bit of respect in Rose's eyes...
- No surprise, Cinderella Castle has a room devoted to shoes, and also no surprise that Rose also gawks at it... and since this whole episode's plot revolves around shoes, we also get an appearance from the shoemaker elves
- With Astoria having the forge dragon pop up in the wardrobe at the castle, dragon-riding armor is not just for dragon-riding anymore
- Both this episode and the "next" one have songs in them... This week is the lively number https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWsBE-wKslg... which has a lyric about how much Rose loves shoes

- We open with Rose looking at her collection, and in a nice bit of continuity, she points out the page she took from Scheherazade's book a while ago. ..
- This week: Go downtown to buy potion ingredients, and once again, Rose's obsession with fairytale trinkets get her team (and this time, everyone else at RA) into trouble
- We learn that the animal-based characters have a magical item that allows them to look human (more or less) Take it off them and they revert to their normal animal form, which can be rather inconveniencing since one of the characters is a whale (and especially more so when said whale is also the only student who has one of the ingredients [!]) Hopefully this episode will stop Rose gawking over every fairytale character she meets... Speaking of which...
- We finally meet a character that Rose does not instantly gawk over: Ladies and gentlemen, Shire Cat... And again with Astoria and her obsession with grades
- This week's song is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucl5DUdrK1M, and some parts remind me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwZEcdBMLLU#t=58 from Beauty and the Beast...
- Vicky stealing Rose's antidote cookie out of nowhere and throwing it into Cyril's mouth... Shades of Ogron taking the Black Gift and using it on a flower, except with 100% more hilarious consequences
- The swamp episode showed dragons to be allergic to a certain kind of flower. The Revenge showed the dragons catching a cold. This week, Earth's peppermint toothpaste makes them sneeze (handy when your Chekhov's cookie gets stolen)... Makes you wonder how prone these guys are to sickness... (and what fairy tales use to clean their teeth)

- As usual, Ruby continues to be obsessed with marrying Hawk... Random thought: Shouldn't someone named Ruby have, I dunno, red hair rather than blue?
- Uh-oh, looks like Rose's mom got a call from her "actual" school's principal, and found the RA key in Rose's bag... And sure enough, she confirms her suspicions (and ours as well) by having Rose give her a kind of flower that turns out to grow in abundance at RA
- While Rose is grounded back home, Vicky's latest scheme involves sending a letter plus a vial of magic-restoring potion over to earth, to the titular shortbread witch, who proceeds to turn RA's cooking class into a really long version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBEe-LLLNpQ
- Speaking of the class, the teachers have the entire team's grade hinge on every member handing in food by the end of the class... So once again, Astoria is concerned about having their grades being dragged down by Rose... I wouldn't like it that much either if my grades were consistently being held down because of an underachieving classmate
- Gigi (Rose's mouse) rips a piece of the witch's bag with the logo of her bakery on it and heads over to earth to give it to Rose... and of course once she finds out it belongs to the witch from Hansel and Gretel, she gawks over it and puts it in her collection (Note: Even though this episode actually goes before last week's, we see the egg that Rose is shown gawking over at the start of last week's ep already in the collection...)
- I know Travis' grandpa is supposed to be this really strong guy, but having him defeat a big bad cupcake monster with one simple nudge?
- And we finish on a really big revelation: Rose's mom also has magic of her own: Dress magic And she's somewhat okay with her daughter going to RA (or else we don't have much of a show )

- Rose slept at RA overnight to prepare for this week's assignment. No sign of Mirror Rose though
- After Cyrus smokebombs a guardian dragon (and himself ) to sleep, Vicky uses her mad portal skills to bring a banished old lady over from earth to RA... who turns out to be the titular bad wolf from the Three Little Pigs story (Ooh!)
- This week's class assignment is a treasure hunt, and in light of the previous episode (in production order), Rose has to promise not to do anything stupid which apparently does not extend to her usual gawking over fairytale characters like Humpty Dumpty (who looks more blatantly CG than everyone else at RA) and the bad wolf
- Probably the most ridiculous thing to ever happen in RA, outside of episode 8: Rose pulling out a burrito (looks more like a taco to me) out of Travis' hair
- Funny lines:
* Hawk: "Save two damsels a day before class... keeps me limber"
* Astoria: "You're thinking of wishing for shoes, aren't you?" Rose: "No... I would never waste a wish like that... Probably"
* Bad Wolf: "How was that for revenge?" Vicky: "All you did was blow food on them"
- Well, that was quick... Gigi stuffs just their second egg, and with it, their second clue into Bad Wolf's mouth to stop her/him from blowing on the gang... I would've expected them to find a few more eggs/clues before they got sidetracked
- You'd think Rose would be more careful with handling a glass flute, even if she's terrible at blowing on it...
- Overarching plot progress alert: The last we see of Vicky this week is her finding a gate key in a drawer in the main auditorium. Let's see where this goes...

- Once again, Rose causes problems for the whole school, this time by accidentally breaking her grandma's watch (which she thought was the White Rabbit's) and screwing up grandma's schedule for casting her renewal spell, causing RegAc to start turning back into a pumpkin patch... Seriously, hasn't she learned anything about keeping her hands off fairy tale trinkets since Ep 10?
- I'm getting a (post-Nick) Faragonda vibe from Grandma Cinderella's voice, and I'm quite sure Lisa Ortiz is voicing new character Alicia... and we've already met her grandpa Puss-In-Boots in an earlier episode, though the writers don't seem to remember that (Of course, insert Rose gawking here)
- Vicky seems enthused at the notion of being rid of RegAc forever... to the point of negating the result of Alicia's clever trick against one of the dragons
- Meanwhile, Rose's mom finds the watch lid that Rose unknowingly brought back home and left there, and we know that Mom already knows about RegAc... Back at RegAc, as if accidentally destroying the school wasn't enough, Rose now has to face the wrath of her family's dragon :uhoh:
- Turns out the writers do remember Puss-In-Boots, and it also turns out that Alicia's trick was how grandpa got the pumpkin for the original spell that created RegAc...
- Rose brought giant pumpkin seeds for souvenirs (HUH, and I thought Travis' hair burritos were random enough) plus more continuity, as she's getting the help of the giant from episode 4... with another random change to the source material: the giant's fertilizer allowed the beanstalk to grow overnight, so they're using it on Rose's seeds...
- Lo and behold, here comes Rose's mom to offer her help, and we find out her name is Clara... And Snow White doesn't like her presence here, future plot point perhaps?
- The episode sure ends with a lot of hugging...
- Hilarity
* "Rose is our pumpkin expert so she'll be our lead" "I am???"
* Random dragon falling for Alicia's trick
* Joy kissing pumpkins and Travis inflating another and floating with it
* "You just wanted a Kitten-In-Boots team up didn't you?" "...Kinda" "Just... do me a favor and stop giggling about it"
* (Astoria of her pumpkin goo conditioner she's trading for the giant's fertilizer with) "We have plenty" "When did you make all of this???"
* (Cinderella to Snow White about Clara not being allowed here) "Oh, stuff it Snow White"
* Gigi pelting Vicky with a pumpkin

* Of course Rose would never be late for a ball... She even comes through the right portal for once Meanwhile, Vicky's using that key she found in the scavenger hunt ep to bring in yet another baddie in a trunk: Candlewick, master of Donkey Magic: "Excuse me for trying to, oh I don't know, trying to make the best out of a less-than-ideal entrance"
* Travis is accident-prone, we get it... On the prospect of Joy going out with new kid (er, frog) Esquire: "Am I the only one who thinks that's super weird... and gross?"
* We find out that even the ball will be graded... Astoria, on Joy and Travis' goofy performance in class: "Grace, posture, and poise... we're in trouble" (Later, Rose: "How do you study for a ball?")
* While Joy's thinking about going out with Esquire (and there's this deal about kissing him at midnight with "moonbeam lipstick", which we'll get to later), Rose quickly decides to go out with Hattie, grandson of the Hatter... Meanwhile, EAH's Madeline is probably thinking, "Oh, come on!" since he's acting relatively normal...
* And since it's a ball, we get to see the RegAc kids all dressed up to the nines... But no amount of dressing up will stop Rose from running around like a kid in a candy store (Grandma Cinderella: "Terrible shrieking posture")
* Rose meets up with Hattie, and Hattie finally starts living up to the Mad part of his legacy and gets his funk on at the ball, much to Cinderella's chagrin... and it looks like EVERYONE on Rose's team (bar Astoria) is stinking up the joint: Other than Rose and Hattie's dance, Joy's gone all boy-crazy for Esquire, Travis can't get himself anyone to dance with, everyone wants to dance with Hawk and he has to invent an excuse: "I'm under a curse: If I dance I'll get explosive indigestion"
* Rose has had enough of Hattie's quirkiness, so what does she do? Crawl on the floor and look at other dancers' shoes (to an instrumental of "Here on My Feet") Astoria is watching Cinderella mark red X after red X in her book, and decides to tell Hawk to get Rose off the floor, which he does by dancing with her to a really nice song (!) prompting Cinderella to toss her red pen and start making check marks with her green pen: "Now that's what I'm talking about"
* Hawk: "My villain sense is tingling" Time for the "real" plot to begin, as Candlewick arrives to turn some students into donkeys, a la Pinocchio (!) Rose: "If we fight in these clothes, we're going to ruin them... again" (Uh, and when was the first time???) No matter, the Forge Dragon happens to be attending the ball... "What's in it for me?" "We're going to save the school" "...Boring!" "I've got taffy, hope it's not too hard to open..." It is, and you'd think he'd have tried to open it before just giving them their armor...
* Astoria continues to give off serious Flora vibes by lifting a bunch of donkeys into the air with her vines (er, "Tower Magic", even though I'd associate vines more with Sleeping Beauty than Rapunzel...) while Travis questions why they themselves haven't been turned into donkeys yet... and guess who should get turned into one but Bad Luck Beast? And also one of the guardian dragons, and Cinderella and LeFrog as well (!)
* Esq starts hopping away ("Oh dear, this is no place for a handsome frog") as the clock hits midnight, which means it's time for Joy to kiss Esq, with a special moonbeam lipstick Astoria has whipped up for her... Rose on Joy's parkour act while pursuing Esq: "Suffering shoe sales! She's like a frog doing kung fu!" Hawk: "Yes... the ancient art of frog fu. So it really exists"
* Joy's kiss doesn't just de-curse Esq... it even sends a super curse-breaking shockwave (Astoria's words!) that de-curses all the donkeys in the room... leading to a hilarious moment of Candlewick getting whipped by the guardian dragon's tail, which is then followed by Rose tripping him up with pumpkin magic skates, and Hawk sending him flying up a ramp, right into Hattie's hat: "Why does it smell so bad in heeeeere?????" Rose: "Huh, Seems odd the smell of the hat was his biggest concern there"
* In a twist that many probably saw coming, Esq doesn't like his "hideous" human body since he's been a frog for his whole life, and begs to be turned back... and although Joy does have her Frog Magic, she is understandably reluctant to instantly undo her hard work, but Vicky has absolutely no reservations... Reactions to seeing Esq leaping in pursuit of Frog!Joy... Hawk: "EW" Rose: "How cute"
* And after all she's been through tonight... of course Rose would want a souvenir from Hattie

- We open with a class on ballroom dancing with Cinderella, who talks about the importance of gowns, and Travis is skeptical about it... Cinderella responds "You question the gown? Well, I question your legs!" and quips about having the boys remove theirs (!) Rose makes a point of noting that one of the dresses looks different, and it turns out to come from a friend of hers named Ironfan (this will be important)
- While the class learns dancing... C: "Joy, your pace is all off... Have you tried not being a frog?" J: (Grabs other frog to dance with)
- Cinderella tells the class to meet up to the dragon arena for the main plot of the episode: an interschool track and field contest, which gives Vicky an idea... to set up a trap involving the firework cannons (Ooh!) And again, Vicky's own cohorts are threatening to compromise her plan, as Ruby tries firing some fireworks (!)
- Cinderella reminds the RegAc kids that "Like everything, this competition will be graded", so Vicky's trap might come back to bite the school in the butt... Travis: "Who sets up a tent in the middle of someone else's school? Circus clowns?" It turns out to be Shan Academy, whose lead representative is some sort of monkey (!)
- First event is dragon archery... The boys and Astoria hit their targets, while Joy misfires by turning into a frog and Rose accidentally slams herself into one of the targets (!) Shan's representative keeps hitting nothing but bullseyes a la https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA9nZrhFo4U, leaving everyone in amazement, especially Travis... whose foot gets caught in a dragon collar and he winds up hanging upside down from Rose's dragon's neck (!)
- While Coach Beast is choosing the next event, Rose (and we) learn from Cinderella that Shan's representative is Ironfan Lingling, granddaughter of the aforementioned Ironfan... Rose is so excited by this that when LL comes out for Fairy Wrestling, Rose glomps LL immediately to ask for an autograph... which is swiftly met by a countermove... "Yeah, so.... can I get an autograph?"
- Next up is burrito eating, and once again the animators have "drawn" tacos (hmph) LL is at bat again for Shan, against the three little pigs, and once again, LL comes out on top... (Did the animators just not want to "draw" LL burping, judging from the sudden cut to the wideshot when she does this?) Travis is verily enamored by LL, while nevertheless bragging that "She can't beat me at brute strength" Astoria: "He's just looking for reason to talk to Lingling" Rose:
- So anyways, Travis heads to the Shan tent... and discovers that LL is actually Shan's ONLY representative at the games (!) LL is practicing her calligraphy, and she even brags that she made her brush herself from "glamor weasel" hair because she raises them (!)
- Next event is the javelin throw... Coach Beast: "What a joke, even a butterfly can throw a javelin!" Travis: "Hey, lay it off grandpa, she's just a girl..." While LL is wondering why her rival's smiling at her (if this were anyone else, it'd probably be out of smugness ) Travis launches a really massive throw that ends up looping back to the arena... and after landing behind Travis, ends up counting as negative 2 m (!) Incredibly, we do not have Travis acting incredulous at this, as LL tosses her winning throw and reveals that she picked the javelin hoping for just this result... T: "I think that's the first time a girl's ever complimented me" J: "Just yesterday I said you smelled like slug snot... Slug snot is delicious! "
- Next up is hurdles, and RegAc is represented by Joy and her frog magic... Frog!Joy keeps ahead of LL until she ends up pulling a "You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown" at a turn and leaps straight into a pole (!) while LL zooms by: "Everyone knows that frogs have no endurance, that's why we don't ride them"
- After the speed reading competition ends with Astoria being DQ'd for ruining her books, she says that since LL found all of their weaknesses, they must find LL's... So Rose decides to follow LL to the legendary RegAc ballroom... LL is wowed by the ballroom, but even more so by the gowns in the room... Rose sees her twirling with the gowns and thinks: "We found her weakness: The tough warrior loves really girly dresses "
- LL walks up to the gown her grandma gave to Cinderella: "With nothing but training and fighting, I'm missing all the fun in life" Rose decides to emerge from hiding and offers to have her try on one of the dresses, but LL explains there's a strict dress code at Shan: "Or rather, a 'no dress' code" Rose: "That's the most horrible thing I've ever heard" Shan also doesn't have dances or balls as according to LL, they're a sign of weakness, prompting a really hilarious reaction from Rose, before fainting... Rose wishes there was something she could do for her, prompting LL to respond: "No one has ever said that to me" before running off... HUH...
- Back at the games, and Hawk tells Rose that "There's no way [LL]'s better than me with a sword... and just in case, I have a trick up my sleeve" While the two go at it with their swords, Travis implies that he's allergic to being stabbed (Shades of the Disney flick, much? ) Hawk's trick up his sleeve: He's not left-handed, as he switches his sword from left to right... LL's: She's both left- and right-handed (!) and pulls out another sword to knock Hawk down a staircase (!)
- Which means the only remaining chance for RegAc to claim a win is the "Red Riding Relay", for which Rose has been selected for the final leg (following Alicia, Gerald, and Vicky), and Cinderella gives Rose an extra motivation to win the race: She's got a fan from Ironfan in her basket and if she wins she can keep it. And here we go!
- LL is comfortably ahead at the end of each lap, so it all comes down to Rose vs. LL... and it turns out that Vicky's plan is apparently trying to shoot LL with the fireworks (!!!) Rose has to tackle her out of the line of fire and knocks her out, and much to Vicky's bewilderment, Rose rushes over to LL's side and Gigi pours some of the wine (?) from the basket on LL's face. After coming to, LL makes this on-the-nose speech about deciding to trust Rose from now on
- But the race is still on, and the RegAc boys' plan is afoot... and it involves the other RegAc girls dancing in gowns and using Hawk's snow magic to add sparkliness to it all... The girls throw a gown at LL... Rose also wants a dress, and Astoria helpfully points that she should be focusing on finishing, but Rose is hesitant about this (especially when LL is just starting to trust her), even as Travis tries to drag her away... Hmm...
- Rose comes clean about the distraction with frilly dresses and admits that LL deserves to win, to which she comments: "I'm impressed... No one has ever discovered my weakness..." (Me: Well, considering the "no dress" code at Shan...) "... that I want to be a strong warrior also to wear frilly gowns... But my school won't allow it" (Me: Hey!) Rose immediately pitches her school to LL and Travis suggests that "We can paint together... if you want" and the pigs even suggest having LL teach them how to choke down more burritos (HEH!)
- Coach Beast would also love LL to come over, but monkey guy comments that LL's her top student: "If I go back without her, I'll be out of a job" Rose: "Then why don't you just come here and teach?" Monkey: "Oh... I hear you have dances and balls...?" LL's grateful for the offer, and before she accepts, she has one thing left to do... Rose is expecting a hug, but ends up getting a really hard shove that sends her flying backwards over the finish line... Congratulations Rose!
- Cinderella is shown talking with Ironfan asking for her permission to bring LL over, for which she's okay because in her words, LL needs to become a great person, and "to do that, she must broaden her horizons"... as we finish back in the ballroom, where LL's introduced to the other students, and Rose tells her: "This is your first step towards a beautiful dress-filled future" ... And LL's first walk in a dress does not end very well, but Rose is quick to point out that she's had her share of troubles with walking in dresses

- We open with Rose putting Ironfan's fan in her collection for winning it last week... as Travis and Gigi look indifferent to her enthusiasm. Today they're going to learn how to tame a dragon (hopefully not involving a teenager with half a left leg...) and one thing Rose suggests they can train their dragons to do... is go shoe shopping (like that's a surprise...) Travis points out that dragons hate shoes: "The thought of it sends them on a rampage!" Rose responds: "It's my life long dream to go show shopping with a dragon"... Travis: "Last week, your life long dream was to teach karate to ice cream cones" Rose: "...So that they can defend themselves" So yeah, Travis doesn't approve of Rose's various dreams... "Shoe shopping plus dragons equals insane destruction" Meanwhile, they're being stalked by some dude in a green hat with a magic flute, which he uses to keep the door propped open before coming through the portal...
- Over at RegAc, Rose and Travis are bewildered that the teachers are aiming their wands at them, until they make it clear that they're aiming for green hat guy... aka The Pied Piper (!) While the old teachers are chasing the sprightly Piper, Rose is bewildered that he's a villain... and a leprechaun, but Travis clarifies that he's only wearing liederhosen...
- Anyways, as the teachers concede that they're not as young as they used to be, Rose catches up to Piper, and he uses his flute to hypnotize Gigi, riding shotgun on Rose, into tackling her Teachers run into Vicky, who misdirects them in the wrong direction, no surprise there...
- Over to dragon training class with Snow White and Coach Beast, and it feels straight out of Dreamworks' Dragons franchise, as Snow describes the Battlefire dragon, whose main claim to fame... is eating three times as much pie as any other dragon (!) Next up is the sassy Madlove dragon, whose breath makes anyone fall madly in love... After an interlude where Madlove bemoans that no one ever falls in love with him, Ruby thinks she can use this fact about Madlove's breath to make Hawk fall in love with her, but Vicky insists on having Ruby cover for her. The RegAc pets follow Vicky, while Snow reminds the class not to try to tame the Low Ong, King of Dragons: "He's a king, so you must always show him the proper respect"
- Speaking of, Vicky is certain that this really big dragon can take out all the guardian dragons, and so decides to talk with him... And we see that Piper's riding another dragon and playing his flute, and he's being followed by Rose's dragon, carrying the pets (!) Gigi and Vidal (Astoria's dog) jump down on to the Piper causing him to blow his notes wrong, and causing Low Ong to go berserk (!!)
- Dragon training class, and already LL has integrated herself well with everyone else, and has trained her dragons to perform tricks, do her taxes (she has taxes?) and perform Hamlet (replete with skull!) Hawk is riding a Bolt dragon (one guess as to its main feature), an invisible dragon is sitting on Travis and lifting him into the air, and Rose is hugging a Gumchew dragon (it's sticky!) Meanwhile, Vicky is PO'd about her plan to have Piper control Low Ong going pear-shaped and wastes no time in letting her cohorts know about it...
- So yeah, Low Ong attacks the dragon training class, and this causes the other dragons to scatter, and the invisible dragon drops Travis, much to his relief... only for him to be picked up by a more visible dragon and then dropped again (!) Riding a Bolt dragon with the rest of the team, Astoria hair-catches a falling Travis: "Look at that catch, I hope we're being graded on this" And it also turns out that Bolt dragons aren't good at carrying loads, so thr dragon and everyone else drop to the ground, and one guess who takes the brunt of everyone's fall
- Coach Beast asks for someone responsible to take the students to the library... and even though Astoria is volunteering for the task, he decides to choose LL, much to Astoria's chagrin... Beast has a bottle of dragon control potion for emergencies, which he tells Rose to give to "Astoria, Hawk, or really anyone who isn't you" (HEH!) The bottle falls out of Rose's pocket during the chaos going on during the attack, and what ends up happening to it is ridiculous: Ruby finds the bottle and when she sees Madlove walking by, she empties the bottle and uses it to carry its breath (!!!) Considering that Ruby does know what that bottle is, that would probably make Ogron (of Winx S4 infamy) go "Oh, come on!"
- Who'da thunk a throw away line would become relevant to the story? Cyril is wearing a leprechaun outfit (!) and carrying around a pair of flying shoes to use as bait for catching Low Ong because he thought dragons are supposed to be attracted to shoes (!!) Cyril falls asleep (a recurring problem with him it seems), and Rose spots the shoes and grabs them (of course!)
- While LL was leading the other students to safety, Hawk found a forge dragon (a small red one, different from their usual), and as Rose finally re-unites with the rest of her squad, we find out that little forge dragon has spent the time filling out paperwork, and now has the gang hand over their dragon licenses (Travis: "Oh man, my picture is terrible" ) and takes a look at them, before giving them their armor... and it's only now that Rose discovers that Beast's dragon control potion has gone missing, much to Astoria's chagrin, but Rose says: "We just learned how to tame dragons! And I've got brand new shoes! We can do it!"
- So, while Hawk is busy distracting Low Ong on one dragon, Travis and Rose are riding another, and he tosses her into the air... and those flying shoes allow her to keep up with Low Ong while tickling his chin (HUH.) Low Ong's chin ends up knocking her out of the air, and Joy uses her Frog Magic to turn Rose into a frog and swoops in to catch her: "I have a lot of practice catching frogs"
- Riding a Gumchew, Astoria comes up on top thanks to (what else?) her books that tell her where to apply pressure to make Low Ong get sleepy But they'd rather have spent their time preparing for the exam, even though Hawk is skeptical there should even be an exam... Well, there is, and Coach Beast quickly rules taming the dragon king as not being a trick (!!)
- After a brief chat between Vicky and Piper over dealing with Low Ong, back to the classroom... Astoria finds out what's happening with Low Ong from (what else?) a book, and when asked about practicing their dragon tricks she adds, "I can't believe I'm saying this but..." Rose finishes for her: "There's something more important than grades?" A: "Yes... Saving everyone's lives" R: "Wow! Now this is totally one of my dreams come true "
- After another quick clip of Low Ong flying around, we're at the main castle courtyard for everyone's tricks. Some random backgrounder makes her Battlefire dragon beg and roll over like a dog (we only see the begging, but we then see Battlefire do a breakdance-style twirl) This bemuses the RegAc pets, as Rose and team decide that they'll perform their tricks and then set-up their trap...
- However, Low Ong arrives earlier than expected (!) prompting the dragons to comment, "The Boss Man is not having a chill day" So anyways, Astoria has everyone takes out their wands, and starts theorizing on what fantastic hiding spot Piper's at... and Rose immediately points out he's on the top of Low Ong's head After Joy turns into a frog (again) Hawk temporarily disables him with Snow Magic, and while the gang's making their getaway, Low Ong comments that he hates ice-cream headaches (HEH.) Piper goes it alone... only to be confused by the sudden appearance of a pumpkin helicopter... Rose jumps out to tackle Piper, and flings his flute over to Astoria's ivy-hair, which then proceeds to smash it...
- In an interesting touch though, this doesn't break the spell, and Low Ong is starting to lose himself... So Rose has a big idea... which is to order it to go shoe shopping with her (!) This does not please the boys, as Low Ong rants on how he refuses to do such a thing... and it turns out to be part of her plan: "You remember who you are!" (Closes her wand) "Then problem solved"
- Since Rose kept Low Ong from going cray-cray (his exact words), Low Ong will grant Rose one favor (Me: Better not involve shoes) Low Ong: "Better not be shoe shopping" No, but Low Ong's not far off: Rose magics up a pair of shoes for him to try on, and we get a lengthy interlude of Low Ong critiquing the shoes, which ends up prompting other dragons to want shoes... which Rose obliges with her pumpkin magic (!) Who'da thunk a throw away line would become relevant to the story, right?
- Travis is amazed that Rose's crazy dream paid off, and Hawk is quick to add that this shows how "a little imagination can save the day when things are darkest"... Rose's next dream? It involves ice cream cones and karate
- After Piper gets hauled off thinking he probably should have learned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel instead, Low Ong declares a dance party in the kingdom, with an instrumental version of "Here on My Feet"... and in the final moments, that emptied bottle of potion finally pays off, as Cyril cluelessly hands over the bottle to Vicky (Ruby: "I feel like I'm forgetting something about that potion"... and they're both dressed as leprechauns) leading to a shot of a guardian dragon suddenly going crazy for Vicky

- Looks like they've laid off the whole "Travis and Rose falling into school" gag for the time being... So Rose is excited about school today (Travis: "You're this excited every day" HEH!) It's singing class, and Rose points out that "all the famous fairy tale princesses can sing, and I want to be a real fairy tale like them!" Travis reassures that Rose is already a great fairy tale hero, "and don't you forget it!... Not as good as me maybe, but you'll get the hang of it"
- While Vicky and Ruby are watching, Rose points out that the best fairy tale singer is The Little Mermaid (well, of course) and wonders why she isn't their teacher. Travis: "Maybe the fact that our school isn't underwater?" (I was expecting something more along the lines of what happens in Andersen's original take on the tale) Travis brags that his voice "will have the girls running"... but not for the reason he thinks, as his squirrel bites his shoe and he lets out a really big roar (!) sending a pair of girls scurrying... Rose tries to fob it off as coincidence ("They're just running because they're scared of... Thursdays?")
- So their teacher is Prof. Beauty, which considering their previous class, spells trouble for Travis... Tomorrow each student will perform a song, and the best score will get a stage show in front of the school for extra credit. Naturally, everyone wants it, but Vicky wants it especially to make her plan much easier...
- Warm ups! While Doc is not amused by the boys' practice, Rose accidentally knocks Vicky into the dusty sheet music on Beauty's piano, sending Vicky into a coughing fit before accusing Rose of trying to damage her voice and walking off in a huff (!) Finn (the whale, he of the shrinking sugar trouble from episode 10) is the first to warm up on the stage (and Vicky is clearly visible to the left of the screen in the wideshot of the crowd) and his very low voice blows... not just figuratively, but literally, as Gigi and her cheese go flying (HAH!) The next student's voice is as high as Finn's was low, and she soon gets her mouth taped Next up is Rose... and literally the moment she's about to start, the bell rings and the classroom clears (not what I expected, but whatever)
- Over at the portal, Vicky, accompanied with Ruby, heads over to the key hole with a potion for summoning an evil witch... First thing she grabs is a baby in a carriage, so Vicky tries again and grabs an elephant Third time is the charm, as she grabs The Sea Witch (... uh-oh) (The shimmering effect on the portal doesn't move along with the "camera moves"... HUH.)
- Over at Vicky's dorm, Cyril is surprised that the sea witch doesn't have a fish tail ("You try fitting in on earth without legs... and don't get me started on pants") Vicky's deal in her own words: "Once I take the gate, it's party time in fairy tale land for all the banished fairy tale villains" But she wants to have the sea witch get rid of one of her nuisances, by stealing someone's voice (and I think we can guess whose...)
- Back at the RegAc quad, Rose decides to practice her scales, and we find out that Rose has never tried singing before (!!!) Joy suggest that they can help her practice at her family castle (Singing lessons from frogs? Oh boy...) On the ride, Hawk explains the rules for life at the LeFrogs' castle: Don't eat the snacks, apply bug spray liberally, don't eat the snacks, don't talk to any amphibians bigger than your head, DON'T EAT THE SNACKS
- Joy's never had any company before at her castle (T: "Oh really, wonder why that is") as we head to her bedroom... comprised mostly of lilypads on a lake (A: "It's got a real soggy quality to it") Rose wants to sing and Hawk comments: "You're probably better than Travis at least" Joy comes in with snacks, and Hawk reminds the gang of the rules... Good, because those spider burgers don't look so appetizing... Travis grabs what looks like a cookie and it turns out to be a beetle...
- T: "Okay, why are we here?" Turns out Joy is in a band, and she wants the gang to meet them... Travis: "They better not all be frogs..." Cut to the band performing... Travis sighs: "Yep, they're all frogs" And of course Joy turns into a frog while she brags that she isn't a frog, which makes Travis have to pick her up and kiss her (HEH!) Rose says of the lead singer in the band: "Lead singer? More like lead croaker, am I right? " Rose appreciates him shining her shoes and wants to take her home to shine her shoe collection (eye-roll) Joy of all people reminds Rose of the task at hand, but nevertheless... Rose: "I like this frog: He likes shoes!"
- J: "I think he's frustrated that your voice isn't..." (Me: Pleasant to listen to?) "... deep and froggy enough" (Me: Oh) This makes Rose cry, but Hawk recommends her to forget about Prof. Beauty and the frog and everyone, and just try something simple like holding a note. So Rose tries that and is... not godawful (!) Astoria is shocked but Travis says: "No, it makes sense! She has super strong lungs from all her incessant babbling!" Even Rose is amazed, as the gang have decided that she'll be representing her team tomorrow...
- ...unless a certain Sea Witch has her way, speaking of whom, she briefly peers out of a nearby lake, and Vidal apparently notices this. Sea Witch decides that "He can't rat me out if he can't bark", and uses her spell to steal Vidal's bark... Vidal follows the bark and accidentlally runs into the Sea Witch's head, send his bark flying into her mouth, resulting in, well guess... Vidal quickly swims back to the shore, and rats out the Sea Witch... in the Sea Witch's voice (!)
- Hawk and Travis take turns trying to hit the Witch with their magic... Travis uses his Fury Magic at the same time Sea Witch uses her spell, and the wind sends the spell ball bouncing everywhere... and guess who it eventually runs into... Rose hangs on for dear life to the ball carrying her her voice, and Astoria even tries grabbing her in a tug of war, but Sea Witch even gets her voice ("Your voice is fine, ta-ta darlings")... and as with Vidal (who's so relieved at getting his bark back he breakdances ), Rose ends up getting the Witch's instead, as she makes snarky comments about what she does with pants... T: "We can't embarrass Rose and let her sing in front of the whole class tomorrow!" Rose does not take this well (uh, duh?) Lead singer frog comes to wipe the tears off her shoes, as Joy points out that he does seem to like her "new" voice. R: "On second thought, I got an idea" Incidentally, does the "new" voice sound like 4Kids' Prof. Griffin to you?
- The next day's class, and teachers have been randomly selected to judge their songs, and Lingling will lead off. A: "Lingling is all sports and swords... No way she can sing" Astoria is quickly proven wrong much to her shock, as LL snarkily comments: "Every fairy tale character can sing, right?" Coming up is Rose, and her idea better be a good one... Well, her singing is not much to write home about, and it's really horrifying... except to Prof. LeFrog, who gives it good marks (ah-hah!)
- Rose feels humiliated, but Travis tells Rose and Astoria that Rose is getting a stage show, so now it's imperative that the gang get Rose's actual voice back... T: "Dr. LeFrog demanded it. He was so excited he barfed flies all over Granny's desk!... Hmm? Maybe she agreed just to get him to stop?" In class, Astoria cutely sings "E-e-extra credit", as the stage show will be performed with Joy's band on backup... And it's still no less humiliating than her class performance, and just as before, only characters named LeFrog enjoy it... Oh, and Vicky also enjoys Rose's utter humiliation... "Happiness!"
- The Sea Witch shows up: "Impossible! Her voice is more beautiful than ever!" Uh, you do notice the crowd booing her right? The boys and Gigi go after the Witch to get her to give Rose her voice back, but "The only thing I'm giving anyone is chaos!" as she starts flinging her voice spells everywhere... Two hit Doc and Gigi and they switch voices, and the next pair to get switched are Joy and Travis. LL and Hawk to try to attack, guess what happens? And then Astoria finds herself speaking with Doc LeFrog's voice (!) Hawk (with LL's voice): "It'll take a real man to do that" We're getting to hear characters' voices with other characters' mannerisms (Meanwhile, many body switch plotlines have copped out of this potentially interesting aspect of the plot)
- Sea Witch (with Rose's voice): "What are you, dodgeball champion?!" The crazy voice mixup continues, as Hawk gets his voiced switched with Gigi's (!!) and the Sea Witch continues to be frustrated at her inability to hit Rose... Rose (with Sea Witch's voice): "I'll bet I could hit those voice balls back!" Hawk's voice gets switched to Cinderella's as he tosses Rose a mirror, and his reflection (also speaking in Cinderella's voice) adds: "It's like an earth mirror, only with, you know, magic!" Rose makes the obvious tennis pun (HAH!) as she gets a rally going... Snow White gets Coach Beast's voice, and it's getting tough to track who's getting who's voice, especially with Travis getting switched three times over the course of one sentence ("[Joy] Today is not [Coach Beast] my [Snow White?] lucky day") Gigi (in Hawk's voice) tells Rose to "Let me at her", so Rose serves Gigi right at Sea Witch's face, distracting her long enough to follow it up with one of her voice balls, knocking her over and knocking her wand to the ground, releasing everyone's voice back to normal (as it initially appears, anyway)... and no one is more relieved than Rose
- H: "Now, let's say we give your awesome singing voice its real debut" And so, Rose goes into a nice slowjam that completely different from her usual energetic mania... A: "I must be dreaming... that can't be Rose?" On top of that, Hawk joins in on the fun, and we even get some nice Travis/LL ship tease during the song Prof. Beauty declares that they're getting "A+ for extra credit" as Prof. LeFrog and Snow White are dancing in the BG... Vicki: "What, this is about the worst ever..." and then she realizes she's talking with the Sea Witch's voice (HEH!!!) So Vicki strikes down the witch with her wand with intent to do more, and suddenly Snow White congratulates her on stopping the Witch (!) V: (gets carried away form the Witch by her classmates) H and R: (SMH)... Methinks we could have done without this last twist and just ended on Vicki chasing the witch after realizing what happened?

- Today, we open on dragon riding with Rose and the gang, dealing with a stone ogre throwing stones... Rose is bemused at Travis having to duck to avoid getting hit (HEH) Hawk uses his Snow Magic and has the rest beat up the ogre into submission, and Rose gets the winning blow Rose declares they've finished in time for the afternoon magical items exam... until Astoria tells them it was in the morning (!)
- Snow White arrives and has them come over to her palace, where she chews them out for their grades getting worse than ever, even though they have many famous family names on the team... "Like Snow White!" H: "But granny, how can we have time to study? We're always saving the school!" (Yep, they've gone full-on Winx with the squad...) "You think you're the only students with extracurricular activities? Improve your grades or I'm breaking up your team!" Snow White chases them out by enchanting a pile of apples and tossing them at them... and Hawk catches one in his mouth (HEH!) You'd think that his grandma's story would make him hate apples... http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/18653661400/pocket-princesses-8-pie
- Coming up is potions class, in which today we will learn about poisons... Prof LeFrog "And for once I see Rose isn't the most excited student" (HEH) "Although I see it's a bit hard to see anyone get excited about poisons" Cut to Vicky relishing this class... While LeFrog rambles away, it appears that the team's main concern is Snow White's threat, as Hawk assures Astoria that Snow White's a softy for family... A: "Well, that helps exactly one of us"
LeFrog: "However, the point of this class isn't how to USE poisons... (cut to Vicky being bewildered and disappointed) It's to learn how to combat them!" Rose is excited while Vicky asks "So I won't get extra credit for using sleeping poison on the class?" Cut to a bunch of other students falling asleep, to LeFrog's bewilderment... and Doc "No! Poisoning your classmates is... inappropriate!" H: "You definitely shouldn't poison pets, Vicky" V: "It wasn't me" Doc hilariously sleepwalks and naps on Hawk's head... and passes gas (!!) He always passes gas when he sleeps (and it's colored pink for some reason!) This makes the other students come to, as a female voice says "Owl gas is a powerful poison... and an even more powerful cure"
- Ladies and gentlemen, our guest teacher: The Evil Queen (replete with Toccata and Fugue entrance music!) Hawk has the most adorkable "WhaaaaaAAAAT?!" reaction... H: "But she's insanely evil!" LF: "The Evil Queen is our guest. It's rude to call her evil!" R: "But sir? It's her name!" Evil Queen doesn't mind (HEH) and admits that she was "a bit of a diva" and admits to trying to "obliterate anyone fairer than myself", before rushing down the stair case (hilariously replete with dust trail!) to the bottom floor where LF is... "As I was saying... look at me!" (Twirls... before falling over) "Not much motivation to be the fairest is there? I've moved on..."
- Hawk is livid: "DOES MY GRANDMOTHER KNOW ABOUT THIS?!?!" LF: "She approved it" The whole class gets to have the most bewildered reaction ever (except Vicky, heh) Evil Queen says she wrote Snow White a few weeks ago to apologize ("You know, soft spot for family") R: "So does that mean you're reformed? An ex-villain helping the good guys? BEST FAIRY TALE EVER!" So she's here to promote understanding between villains and heroes... A: "Through poison?!" Queen: "Yes, through lots and lots of poison!"
- Lesson 1: Don't accept apples from strangers... pretty sure most kids in the audience can take that to heart Hawk runs over to grab the queen's apple, and sure enough, he falls asleep (HAH!) Evil Queen's assignment is to look for an apple in the basket she's holding that isn't poisoned... good luck buddies... Gerald gets a frog lover special: Makes you smell like a fat swamp fly... G: "Do flies have a smell?" Gerald gets glomped by a bunch of frogs, and Rose and Gigi react hilariously... and of course Joy follows the frogs (HEH!) Next, Travis gets one that makes him fly... ("That sounds great!") randomly and uncontrollably, before landing on Hawk. Rose gets a spell that makes him magnetically attractive to burritos (and again, do the animators not know the difference between those and tacos?) Violet Ogre (the green girl with the braids) gets one that makes her pass through floors, Joy gets one that allows her to breath green apple juice... (A: "Now that's just stupid") instead of air... And evil queen brings out a bowl of green apple juice for Joy to breathe in... A: "Oh wow, I never thought of that... I'd better carry some around on me" Hawk decides to call the Evil Queen out on her shenanigans: "They're all poisoned aren't they?!" Queen: "Oh no, some are poisoned twice!"
- Outside class, Rose is feeding tacos (er, burritos) to the flowers in the quad when Lingling comes across her. Rose asks why LL wasn't in potions class, and it's because LL aced herbal medicine at her last school... and look at the lighting on LL H: "My gut says the Evil Queen is still incredibly evil" Ya don't say? R: "Hawk, I believe you, your intuition has never failed us!" But the other teammates are quick to point out that he's had them attack an ogre/troll/spider to rescue a princess and she turned out to be his daughter/wife/mother, as the princesses chide Hawk for those incidents... But Hawk is "really sure this time", and Rose thinks that having her as one of the good guys would be cool... while the flower is like, "Where's my tacoburrito?!" and starts tying itself to Rose... Hawk decides they have to ask grandma what's going on, and she's teaching magical items. Rose suggests going to the class... as she gets covered in vines from the flower (HAH-HAH)
- However, Coach Beast is teaching the class, and suggesting that when a magical mirror isn't working... one should kick it Rose's gang shows up and Hawk asks Coach about this, and it turns out Snow White didn't show up, and Coach Beast was the only one free. H: "And no one went looking for her?" CB: "I just assumed she locked herself in her office pigging out on apples... She does that a lot you know. It's not helping" The gang heads out of class as Coach demonstrates why you shouldn't use a magic wand to pick your teeth (HAH!)
- The gang are riding their dragons to Snow White Castle, and Hawk points out that he knows all her hiding spots: "They're handy for when granny brings princesses to the castle" R: "I always wonder why you hide from princesses. They can't all be bad... Um, I mean, there must be some... or one you wouldn't run from?" Hawk smiles at this, but Rose does a bit of deflection: "I mean, one, or anyone... no one in particular?"
- R: "Can we get back to saving the day now?" Back to plot, as at the castle, Hawk discovers that not just grandma is missing, but also her magic mirror (!) A: "Okay, let's not jump to conclusions" H: "The evil queen stole it!" T: "Why would she want a mirror? She's so ugly now" (HEH)
- Back at the RegAc quad, the Queen (carrying a big enough bag to carry the mirror) runs into Vicky... V: "Are you being evil right now?" Q: "Oh dearie, that was the old me! I'm done with delicious, exhilarating, wonderful EVIL!" V: "I'm an evildoer in disguise" Q: "And I suppose you're here to turn me back?" After she looks at Vicky for a bit... "Okay, you win, I can't resist your onslaught of temptations any longer!" So just like that huh? Vicky is bewildered, but she's cool with the Queen trying to poison everyone, a scheme that requires first stuffing Snow White in her own magic mirror... "Oh wait, I already did!... Because it was originally MY mirror!" And Vicky hears Snow White screaming from the bag and giggles before saying: "I think... I love you" (Watch the shippers jump all over that line )
- Astoria leads the gang to where they last saw the Evil Queen, the potions lab... where Joy's grandpa is flying around like Travis was earlier (!) ramming into the floating shelves and eventually into Hawk... Somehow, "Bad luck Snow White" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue...
- Meanwhile, in the cafeteria, it's burrito day, and Evil Queen sneakily places an apple next to Cinderella on the table. Cinderella cluelessly eats it and gets herself covered with burritos Rapunzel has an apple and is suddenly gasping for air, but thankfully the gang rush in to save her from choking on air with green apple juice (Animation laziness: 1) The dialog indicates that Joy is passing Astoria the bowl of green apple juice, but she's actually shown running in without holding anything... 2) After Rapunzel dunks her head in the bowl, Astoria is shown not wearing her dragon rider outfit) And Coach Beast is being followed by frogs, and guess who tries to follow them? H: "Not now Joy, we have a villain to defeat!"
- Rose's intuition is on point today, as she correctly presumes that with a villain on the loose, Vicky must be involved. The gang heads over to the gate, where the guardian dragon has gone beddy-bye (actual dialog) and Vicky and Evil Queen are standing. Time for everyone to bring out their wands... and they're joined by LL (wielding a stick!) Hawk and Rose don't like her cramping their style so to speak. H: "I get dibs because she's my family's archenemy" R: "And she poisoned our grandparents" LL: "Oh... in that case, please, allow me to help" A: "Since you asked nicely... Let's get 'em!"
- Big boss battle time! Evil Queen throws a bunch of apples that explode like grenades (!) Astoria gets blown away and Travis finds himself being chased by the apples, while Joy turns into a frog, so next up is Rose and her pumpkin magic: Rose makes herself a motorbike, replete with helmet (hey, if you're going to be screened in the US...) The queen strikes the approaching bike in the front wheel with a singular apple, causing it to skid into the ocean, though thankfully Rose falls off the bike first (R: "Thanks helmet")
- The Queen keeps throwing her apples, but LL fends them off with her stick, impressing Hawk majorly Travis blows the Queen away with Fury Magic, and Astoria hair-grabs her scepter... The Queen lands in the middle of the apples she's thrown, so you'd think that's that, but she's got another surprise: her remaining unexploded apples explode, and next thing you know, she's standing back on top of the staircase carrying her scepter (!)
- Astoria cases her Tower Magic at the Queen, but her vines curl away as she adds that the poison of her explosive apples is now turning their magic against the gang, so Astoria ends up getting tied with Travis, and Hawk's Snow Magic gets himself covered in ice as the Queen condescendingly repeats her point with an "Uh, yeah"... While Rose is busy trying to untangle Astoria and Travis, LL steps up and declares "I don't need magic!" Q: "You know I'm just a little old lady, right?" And she's got a bit of leverage: Snow White trapped in the mirror (!) leading to a montage of shocked reactions (including from Vicky!) Frog!Joy has an idea and jumps over to Hawk's head and croaks... bringing in Doc who lies on Hawk's head, and well, you can guess where this is going...
- Doc's gas frees Hawk, Astoria and Travis from their respective spells, and Astoria recalls the lesson from earlier, as Travis decides to make like Tom Brady with the gassy Doc and beans the Queen (HEH!) Doc's discharge awakens the guardian dragon who then coughs out the apple, and frees Snow White from the mirror, and Snow White's REALLY ticked off, and deals a blow to the Queens face... and soon after, the rest of her body (!) Hawk is glad his instinct turned out correct this time, before adding "A rotten apple remains a rotten apple" (HEH!)
- Now all that's left is to use the antidote to free the other teachers from the queen's spells... but judging from Rapunzel's reaction, owl gas isn't that great either... Next up is Prof. Beauty, who has apparently turned into a balloon... R: "Don't worry, this isn't going to make the cafeteria the most appetizing place, but... no choice " Next up is Cinderella, who has a brief reaction to the gas, before having herself a burrito, and then Coach Beast, who ends up landing, and bathing, in a cauldron... R: "Joy, how did you remember we had to use owl gas?" J: "I didn't, I just like the smell..." Everyone else: "EWW!" (Shades of Stella stumbling on the fashion puzzle solution in S2 much?)

- We open on earth, where Rose is talking about her RegAc adventures with mom, in this case about Travis getting his fists stuck in a troll's nostrils Dad is also in the room (we find out his name is Dave) and Clara has to cover for Rose by saying that "Fred McTroll" is a boy in Rose's class (HEH) Tonight Travis' parents are coming over to bring something special for dinner, so Rose tells her not to mention Fred's nostrils (HEH!)
- RegAc classroom, where Vicky's singing "I'm so evil, I'm so awesome" and splashing some potion on the big mirror in the classroom to summon the Guardian of the Mirror. GotM chides Vicky for waking him up this early, but Vicky doesn't care, as she makes him sniff her potion to put her under her control (!!) She tries to make the mirror send her team to earth, but GotM isn't exactly taking well into instruction...
- Today's assignment with Cinderella: Go to various kingdoms and get samples of their cuisine that exemplify them. First, some samples from last year: Giant slug steak from Forest Land (Pinocchia and Alicia: "EW") Fish bone sandwich from the Slime Kingdom (Gerald and other random girl: "EW") The seafood surprise (Cinderella: "...I think" Other students: "EW" J: "YUM!") And Cinderella says of the last dish she has to show: "Didn't anyone refrigerate this?!" Thankfully, she also has a jar of Papa Bera's porridge from (guess where!) Goldilocks, and it's sealed in a jar because it's much too sweet to eat... and guess who she tosses it to... Someone who has a fairy tale collection
- Classroom, and Cinderella is noticing the magic mirror acting a little bit weird today, but Snow White reassures Cinderella that "It's always weird" as GotM starts acting like a bunch of animals... Snow White asks the guardian where each teams is heading and he responds Earth, much to Vicky's delight...
Snow White: "Earth? Earth isn't a magic kingdom! There's no way we can send a team there" GotM: "Not just any team, all of them! Pronto!" This ticks off Vicky, because that was specifically not part of the deal... Snow White explains that that's where they've banished all the villains (a la the Sirens in Equestria Girls), but Cinderella reassures Snow White that "They don't have their powers there"... Snow White still thinks there must be some mistake (we do NOT cut Vicky thinking the same), but GotM insists: "The magic mirror doesn't make mistakes! This is my job lady!"
- Portal, and Snow White explains that since Rose and Travis live on Earth, the students have to follow their lead, and Rose is (as her usual) enthusiastic about it... and (also as her usual) trips over herself running towards the gate (heh!) Cinderella opens the gate and Snow White decides to tell the students to follow Travis' lead... and Travis ends up conking himself while showing off soda in a can (HEH!) Snow White's worried but Cinderella adds: "How bad can Earth be?"
- On Earth, none of the other students want to follow Rose and Travis... Joy asks what's Earth's famous food, but Rose explains there's "millions of things to eat on this planet" A: "Think, Rose..." R: "Um... cinnamon toast? Ice cream? Burritos?" A: "You can get those anywhere!" Huh, nice to know... J: "Speaking of food..." Joy grabs some bugs off the local garbage, but... "Ugh, your Earth flies taste horrible! Like (ugh) cinnamon toast!" (HEH!)
- Meanwhile, Vicky heads to a bakery to visit someone... "Come, on we've got the best evil stuff to do, it'll be fun" And guess who should come out but the shortbread witch from several eps back? V: "Are you ready to have your powers restored... again?" Shortbread agrees, and Vicky gives her a bottle: "These potions are a pain to make, and they make my room smell like troll feet" After Shortbread takes a drink, she asks why Vicky is here, and she explains that the whole class is here on Earth on the food assignment, which gives her an idea, and I think we can guess what it is...
- We get ourselves to see how regular Earth people react to the fantastical people of RegAc: in bewilderment, as Finn the whale concludes that "We must look just like some Earth celebrities" and tries to clarify this with the humans, but the fact he can talk surprises them even more (!) "Call the army!" "No, call the zoo army!" Alicia the cat says she's an expert at self-defense as she is pursued by animal control... as some of Shortbread's snackfoods sneak around town (OOH!)
- Meanwhile, Travis' parents have bought fish eyes, bones, strawberries, chicken feet (hey, those are a real delicacy in some parts of the world), a bag of spiders, a wig... and super spicy chili powder, for their Earth chicken pie for Dave and Clara (Rose's parents) Let's see how this goes down...
- Violet Ogre, Pinocchia and Odette are looking for food when they spot a couple cookies thrown out on the pavement, and Pinocchia wants to try one... O: "Pinocchia, I don't think it's a good idea to eat street cookies" Soon there's a trail of the cookies... Odette doesn't want to follow but Pinocchia insists: "How do you find special foods in strange lands? By following a trail of strange food, obviously" Violet: "Makes sense to me..." Cookie trail ends at Shortbread's bakery, and she greets the girls with a flimsy disguise, before sucking them into her magic oven, and turning them into cookies (!) Not exactly Hansel and Gretel, but still... Shortbread taunts them before closing the oven door again: "You came looking for earth food, but you became earth food instead"
- Back with Rose et al, where Astoria is overwhelmed by the options for places to find food, and Hawk is suggesting getting (what else) apples... Across the street Hawk spots a pair of "monsters" "kidnapping" a "princess" and takes out his wand, but Rose quickly points out that people dress as monsters for fun (as these guys are) H: "That's crazy talk!" Astoria gets bumped from the back, and tries to hair-grab the guy, but Rose stops her under the guise of "Just thought you'd be happier standing next to me" Joy is eating bugs from a garbage can, which makes the populace look on in disgust, before Travis grabs her and drags her back across the street...
- Rose decides to take the gang to the shoe store she was distracted by back in episode 1, where the salesperson calls her "Our best customer"... R: "Being in a shoe store helps me think, that's all" H: "This world is crazy. I don't know how you can stand it" Hawk puts away his wand, and takes out two apples, giving one to Rose: "Now that I've seen Earth (chomp) I have a new found respect for you" Hawk calls her amazing for taking care of the team since coming to Earth (DAWW...)
- Rose's parents walk past the shoe store and Dave is surprised to see Rose, out of school... with a boy... and talking with her mouth full (HEH!) Clara is doubtful (or pretending to be?) but Dave is pretty sure... Meanwhile, Leena, Finn and Gerald also follow the cookie trail, and end up at the bakery, and Finn notices that it smells like swan... guess what happens next
- LL is with two of the other students, and she spots one of Shortbread's snacks peering out the bakery window and decides to investigate: "Why does your store smell like swan and whale???" Badly-disguised Shortbread: "It's my new perfume... it's called Swale" LL gets attacked by her snacks, so she takes out her wand and uses her Fan Magic to take out the snacks, and rightly deduces that she must be Shortbread. Shortbread is impressed (note that LL wasn't around during her last visit to RegAc), but she adds: "Powerful warriors make delicious cookies!" before sucking her into the oven (!) Cookie!Finn: "This is getting crowded"
- Rose and friends are back outside and wondering where everyone else is, when Vidal spots a bunch of cookies tossed on to the zebra crossing... before suddenly spotting one of Shortbread's monster cookies and lures it out of hiding, and since there are many of them, Joy, Vidal and Astoria split off from the rest to chase a single cookie while the others chase the rest of the cookies (OOH!)
- Hawk uses his snow magic on the cookies to "Make frozen desserts" and notes that these cookies sure can run... Travis lifts up a bench to find one of the cookies... without realizing there's a couple sitting on it "Weight training! Tryouts are next week" "Good luck...?" Hawk ends up freezing a lake of lily pads and struggles to stay on his feet, but Travis bails him out by tossing the bench on to the cookies (HEH! and the couple even manages to land on the bench as well)
- Meanwhile, Rose is chasing a cookie on her pumpkin skates, shredding across a bench and passing a young girl in regular skates ("I want those!") before hitting the park gate... and then she remembers the previous Shortbread incident and realizes that her bakery is where the cookie must be headed...
- Back with Astoria and Joy chasing the cookie, and they happen to run across Travis' parents as they're heading to Rose's house along with their disgusting Earth chicken pie (!) and end up knocking it on to the back of a truck... that the cookie ends up getting on, so they chase it until it makes its next stop, whereupon Astoria hairgrabs the cookie and smooshes it (!) They've also got their earth food: "It's disgusting and smelly like Earth, and I'm tired of looking" "Works for me" Astoria doesn't really want to take it since it belongs to someone else, but Clara shows up and tells her that they should and so they oblige... much to Clara's relief (HEH!)
- Squirrel and Gigi spot the student cookies in Shortbread's oven... H: "We must rescue them with maximum valor!" The way they're showing him going about it reeks of Leroy Jenkins, and he ends up getting sucked into Shortbread's oven... Astoria gets the idea to cut the power to the oven, and it happens in the most hilarious fashion involving a freeflying soda can... which then proceeds to conk him as well (HEH!)
- So it's a showdown between Shortbread and the girls, and Astoria does a great job swatting away Shortbread's shooting stars with her hair (yay) but somehow ends up tripping Rose and Joy (boo!) SB: "You are terrible heroes!" No matter, Gigi, Vidal and the squirrel help distract Shortbread long enough for them to get up and get to the oven, where they spot the cookies... R: "You evil witch! Turn them back!"
- One of Shortbread's cookies switches the oven back on to suck the pets off her, and Astoria hairgrabs them But that still leaves everyone hanging for their dear lives to avoid being sucked... Rose has an idea and opens the jar of porridge from earlier, "feeding" the really sweet porridge to the oven... which ends up "throwing up", releasing the students back to normal, and flooding the street with porridge (!) H: "Rose, you saved me again" R: "You saved me first..." Gerald: "Let's go home before something worse happens" Like Alicia still being pursued by animal control (!)
- Back to RegAc now, as Alicia comments that Earth is more dangerous than "a pit full of fun animals"... Snow White asks for the food and Astoria takes the chicken pie out of Rose's bag and Travis rightfully surmises this to be his parents' chicken pie... Thankfully, Rose also got herself some takeout pizza today (YUM! even if I doubt that 6 pieces will be enough to go around...)

- Okay, so Astoria wakes up in the library even though she went to bed in her own bedroom, and has to haul her backside to make it to class on time (!) R: "Wow, Astoria, you've never been... not early to class before" Looks like Vicky's put some sort of curse on her... and of course she makes an "out of our hair" pun (HEH!)
- Today's class: memorizing each kingdom's greetings for an upcoming exam, as demonstrated by the RegAc pets. One of which is a 23-minute hug by the spellbreakers of Princessia (yes, that's its actual name), and a bunch of girls (including Ruby) want to try it with Hawk (cue fighting!) but Cinderella is only willing to have them do it on Travis (cue panicking!) "That's what I thought" (ZING!)
- Next up: The greeting of the Etiquette Kingdom. Hop on one leg and present a pineapple... which Astoria has on her: "Always be prepared" Rose is worried about Astoria being... not early on the day of the exam, especially since she's the only one who can remember a particular 157-step royal greeting... Cinderella: "It's not so hard, you just have to move quickly" She then demonstrates with Joy, and Joy turns into a frog (again), while the sheer complexity of the process ends up flooring Rose
- RegAc quad! A: "Waking up randomly in the library is not cool" Hawk's theory is that it's the work of an "evil kidnapper who likes to read"... R: "Ooh, they're the worst!" So they decide to watch over Astoria tonight... and Rose has even got some scarlet rose tea to help her sleep (Even comes with a talking flower) Rose accidentally trips and spills the tea on Travis, and it knocks him out instantly, thus proving its effectiveness (HEH!)
- Rapunzel Castle! H: "There's something exhilarating about being out at night" And yet Hawk's owl, the one pet who should be up all night, is sleeping on his shoulder, while Gigi is constantly trying to keep Rose awake As Rose briefly checks up on Astoria, take a look at her letter-decorated blanket...
- Much to everyone's surprise, Astoria's hair is carrying her out the room (!) Hawk tries to shout to wake her up, but Rapunzel grabs him with her hair and suggests following her instead, so the gang follows the floating Astoria through the forest, where the sleeping Astoria's hair slaps a bear out the way (H: "The hair knows bear-fu, most impressive") before dragging her to the library tower (apparently it is morning by then)
- In Rapunzel's classroom, she paces around as if she were explaining to a whole class, rather than just the rest of Team Rose... So basically, Astoria's hair has a curse on it, causing it to go too far in helping her achieve her dream of becoming headmistress (soooo... she's also a bit like young FG?) Rapunzel has a magic shampoo for ridding her of the curse, which has to be used on the first day on the month (finicky much?), and more importantly, her hair must not know about this (and by extension, Astoria)
- Astoria comes running in and asks if there's a good reason Team Rose left her sleeping in the library again, and she's especially ticked off that grandma won't elaborate... Astoria reminds Rose not to let her miss the ceremonies exam.... but just in case, Rose demonstrates the greeting of the principality of Schnozz, and it involves the body part you'd expect
- Outside the main castle, Rose talks about how much Astoria has helped her... with her hand on her nose, which does ruin the intended inspirational effect quite a bit as Travis points out... Rose wants to keep Astoria safe while she's floating around whereas Hawk wants to go look for and attack the person who cursed Astoria, but Rose points out: "All that matters now is helping Astoria. The curse has been cast" H: "Wow Rose... despite what my grandmother says... and all the teachers... and anyone with any authority really (HEH!) you're pretty level-headed" Rose leaps for joy and adds: "I love getting compliments"
- Night time! The gang is following Astoria as she's floating around the quad, when a pair of pigs carrying a gargoyle statue see this and end up tossing the statue up in the air (!) and get this: Hawk creates an ice statue of himself to catch the gargoyle (!!)
- After a brief interlude of LL being bewildered at Astoria while practicing her archery, we get a sequence in which Dr. LeFrog is walking across the bridge at the same time Astoria is floating past... and Joy gets distracted by a fly (!!) Hawk tosses Doc, but at the same time, Rose gives Travis a motorbike from her pumpkin magic to take out LeFrog... and Travis gets beaned by Doc and crashes into the side instead of hitting LeFrog, but he heads off to check on him, so crisis averted anyway...
- Rapunzel's castle again, and things get a bit hairy (HEH!) here: as she's floating upwards towards the library, she's suddenly then hurtling towards the ground, so Hawk uses his snow magic to create a halfpipe to send her hurtling to one of the other towers, then Rose uses her family's dragon to save her again and deliver her to the library...
- Next morning, and Rapunzel is suggesting to Astoria a visit to dragon land during break, because their Volcano Library is great for learning, and a tendril of Astoria's hair extends itself in reaction (this will be important) Joy is getting sick of this whole mess, but Rose reassures her that "Tomorrow, we break the curse!"
- That night, Team Rose discovers that Astoria and her hair have left early, and Rose quickly realizes that they're heading for the Volcano Library and head off on their dragons... R: "Astoria will never forgive us if we save her life but fail the test!" For today is not only the day they need to apply the shampoo, but also the day of the big ceremonies test...
- Dragon Land, and everyone dismounts, with Rose dismounting in the most unsafe way possible: sliding off her dragon's wing, which means Hawk has to catch her... and Doc has to catch Gigi (HEH!) And sure enough, Astoria is at the Volcano Library, high up... H: "Astoria Rapunzel! Let.." R: "Let me do it..." H: "With pleasure!" R: "Astoria Rapunzel! Let down you hair!" As expected, the hair comes down and Team Rose gets on, but it only goes halfway up, before tossing them down again... A: "What?! My hair is never supposed to refuse that request! What is wrong with my hair?!"
- Team Rose ends up hanging from a wall before eventually somehow making it inside, while Astoria's hair retracts her into the library... and then extends tendrils attaching themselves to the walls inside, making it look a bit like she's stuck in the middle of a spider's web... A: "Can you tell me what's going on now?" R: "Yep, bedhead curse" Time to wash it out of her hair to an instrumental version of "This is How It Goes"... Mind you, Astoria's hair isn't making this any easier, and Joy uses her frog magic ends up hitting Doc (what was she hoping for with that anyway?) Rose uses her pumpkin magic to create a drone to help, but a hair tendril soon takes it out... Travis keeps getting slammed up against the wall and ends up using his fury magic, which gets everyone bar Rose tangled in her hair (!) and it's still trying to retaliate against all that shampooing...
- Vidal pops out... R: "How long have you been in there? Fetch!" Vidal catches the bottle and shakes himself to get the shampoo everywhere... A: "Good thing this is no-tears shampoo" But this is still not getting them anywhere as the hair is still fighting, and Astoria explains: "Because you've lathered, but you haven't rinsed!" Hawk creates a big arch of ice with his snow magic, so all they have to do is melt it, and one guess what dragon land has a lot of? Dragons: "Ohhhh... seriously?" Joy's dragon: "Oh my frog, you totally forgot all about us didn't you? I thought (starts crying) we were friends..." Rose protests that they are, but her dragon pops in and asks, "Really? Then what's my name?" ... and Rose makes her best impersonation of Flint Lockwood saying the name of his foodmaker device Rose's dragon: "And you didn't pronounce the silent K... I'm sorry I doubted you" The dragon obliges with the fire... to an instrumental of the ball music from episode 13??? Rose tries to thank her dragon by name but she responds: "That's not my name, I was being super sarcastic" But she does want to hang out with Rose after school... R: "Whatever your name is that'd be awesome!" Dragon: "My name is Daerys"
- Time to head to class! Vicky is running across the bridge with a bunch of her curse shampoo, with designs on swapping out all the shampoo in the school, when she gets swiped by Team Rose's dragons coming in for a landing, which causes her to get splattered by the shampoo, leading to the expected consequences Classroom, and Cinderella notices that Team Rose isn't in, but here they come with Astoria riding a stream of shampoo bubbles, splashing Cinderella: "What was that?!" A: "That was the traditional greeting of the peninsula of misfit hairstylists. And I believe it's worth extra credit. Now if you don't mind, I have a test to ace" Cinderella's "Whatever!" reaction says it all
- Back the quad, Astoria shows off getting the best grade ever to the gang, and thanking Rose especially, leading into a new song... Yes, a different character from Rose gets a song, and it's very nice

- When Winx set up expectations to see characters' parents at school in 1x15, it ended up flat out ignoring the concept in 1x16 in favor of giving the Winx girls nightmares Thankfully, this one follows through on the concept... But first, Coach Beast: "This is the part of the semester where we really step it up in dragon riding class!" Astoria is driving with Rose riding in the back, and Hawk is riding solo... Alicia is driving with Gerald in the back, while Lingling is riding solo: "I believe my team will be victorious" The rest of the class are watching in rapt... J: "I guess it's a good practice for a magical duel..."
- Okay, so Alicia passes a rope line to LL to have Gerald walk on it, while Rose casts her pumpkin magic and (essentially) pelts Gerald with a pumpkin, getting pumpkin goo on everyone R: "I'm kinda getting the hang of pumpkin magic... finally " A: "What was the point of that again?" Coach Beast: "I just wanted to see if you'd do it"
- Right, now the titular plot, as Cinderella is having the students invite their parents over to share about what the students have been doing, and she warns that if a team doesn't bring in at least one parent, that team shall get a bad grade. Astoria and Travis point out this probably ensures bad marks and Rose doesn't understand because she thinks that the parents should be interested...
- But Joy's hippy mom says that "In Nature, nothing cares about grades", Hawk's parents are professional heroes for hire and are off on some mission somewhere, Travis' parents have quit the fairy tale stuff and want to have a normal life (meanwhile, dad's trying to duel with an earth mailman using a handheld vacuum cleaner!) and Astoria's mom is too busy reading to come out of her tower, and anyway is also not supportive of her dream of becoming RegAc's headmistress: "How would you get any reading done?"
- Meanwhile, Vicky is chatting with this British accented bloke with heterochromia who's wondering where to find a good meal in this two-bit school (his words!) This is the grandson of Merlin named Melvin, who unlike his grandpa isn't a goody-two-shoes, and is on the trail of the ultimate magic. Vicky guesses it's either blood magic, or soul-draining magic... or papercut magic (HEH) And it turns out to be pumpkin magic (Vicky: "Oh.") Vicky recommends dueling with the pumpkin magic wizards: The Cinderella family (OOH!)
- After Rose finds out that none of the other parents are willing to come, she decides to go ask Clara... but (as previously mentioned in ep 12) she's not allowed back there because she's made some mistakes, which Rose doesn't understand, but anyways, it happens that Melvin managed to follow Rose all the way back home, so after trying to threaten Clara into teaching him Pumpkin Magic, Melvin decides to follow Rose instead, which forces Clara's hand... Meanwhile, Dave finds the slip announcing the RegAc parents' day (OOH!) - Clara follows Melvin all the way to the hidden portal to RegAc... and leaves it open for Dave to follow (!!!) I'm sure the RegAc portal does not work that way... At RegAc, Melvin comes across Rose and challenges her to a magical duel, and the "camerawork" here is tops... until Rose ends up being enthusiastic for the duel instead of full of fear Hawk points out that it's dangerous, though his attitude changes once it's revealed to be a pumpkin magic duel. So, high noon at the dragon arena...
- Meanwhile, Dave is bewildered at Rose's school and suspects that they're holding a Renaissance fair, and thinks that the little pigs are kids in costumes: "I bet the drama program here is outstanding!"
- Time for the duel, and Rose is flying around on a dragon, and everyone at RegAc is cheering for her... Things start off basic enough: Melvin summons up a rowboat (which Hawk snickers at), and Rose makes a pumpkin go-kart to run over Melvin's foot However, Melvin then summons a dragon... Lingling: "He has no honor" LL takes out her wand, but Team Rose decides to have her get a teacher instead... R: "Huh, I thought we were only using pumpkin magic" M: "Yeah, but I wasn't winning that way" (HEH!) So, the duel "devolves" into the two riding dragons trying to zap each other, and Melvin zaps Rose's wand out of her hand (!) Thankfully, LL comes back with grandma Cinderella in a biplane (!!) Cinderella uses a pumpkin catapult to throw, well guess, at Melvin, who splatters it with his wand, but still gets a face full of goo... Mel tries to cast spells at Cinderella's biplane, but LL uses her fan magic to neutralize the spells... and then Cinderella shoots pumpkin seeds at Mel (!!)
- Mel zaps Rose off her dragon, and she's hanging on for dear life from her tail, and Hawk tries to help, but Vicky decides to make Finn fall asleep in order to impede him (!) Thankfully, here's Clara, and she zaps up a pile of ballgowns for Rose to land on, and even zaps up another to cover Melvin's face, until he falls off his dragon and lands on Vicky (V: "You're lucky it didn't hurt much!")
- Astoria is happy as Hawk brags about Rose winning her first duel (even though her grandma did most of the heavy lifting here), but the real reason Astoria's giddy is because Clara is here... Which does not please Snow White, who reveals that Clara was banished from RegAc, and she's also the reason one of Cinderella's glass slippers went missing (!) And even summons up a pair of mirror Claras to stop her from running away... Vicky also tries to insinuate that she's behind all the other weird stuff that's happened lately (!!)
- Thankfully, everyone's parents have shown up (even Hawk's!) and comment that it brings back memories of Clara's time in detention (!) Hawk's dad convinces Snow White to get off Clara's case... "Oh alright, but next time you won't be so lucky... You're not the only one with a soft spot for family..."
- With that out of the way, time for quality parent-child time! (Well, except for LL, who gets an all-too-brief shot of her with her mom) In the main hall of RegAc, a geezer comments that "Being a parent is its own special kind of magic. It's like gardening: Sometimes... the fruit grows sour." We pull out to show Mel, thus revealing this geezer to be Merlin... Nut (Travis' squirrel) serves Travis' parents water, prompting the father to suggest that Nut should live with them (T: "No way, he's a menace"), while Doc takes a nap with Hawk's napkins Hawk's dad asks about this Rose girl, pointing out that grandma never mentions her... H: "She's someone who never hesitates to help anyone in need" Dad: "That's a good quality to have, Hawk... and a good quality to look for " Joy's mom is glad she's making real friends (as opposed to the frogs she dressed up as humans, like the one she dressed as her dad LOL), while Astoria's mom is supportive of her dream of becoming the RegAc headmistress: "If you really want to become headmistress, I promise I'll do everything I can to help"
- R: "I wish Dad could be here with all of us too" And right on cue, in stumbles Dave "I'm starting to think something crazy is going on here (...) I think there were more dragons than... not dragons" Clara introduces Cinderella to Dave... and Dave is like "THE Cinderella?" and has to sit down... D: "Can you explain that?" R: "Short version? All fairy tales are real" (Yeah, sounds about right) Dave is proud of Rose, and Clara agrees... but just in case, Cinderella whips out her wand and uses it on Dave... D: "I'm not going to remember any of this in the morning am I?" Rose declares this "The best parents' day ever"... as Dave falls asleep

- We open at Grandma Ironfan's palace, where the Shan monkey from episode 14 tells her about Lingling's performance at RegAc. Grandma asks if she's made any friends, but Shan monkey points out that "Friends are not necessary to her success", but Grandma insists that LL "needs friends that support her and to have fun!" Which turns out to be the queue for this week's enemy (another monkey!) to come in with his mini-monkey minion brigade "I could never defeat you without my friends, and they are fun!"
- Monkey minions fashion a bag out of Shan monkey's jacket-thingy around his head and tie it up with a ribbon, before farting into the "bag" (!) and hanging him outside the window... Meanwhile, Grandma conjures up her iron fan to blow aside some minions. Baddie: "And now I'll be taking your iron fan!" Grandma: "I don't think so Monkey King!" Minions: (Toss Shan monkey back through the window at Grandma, knocking her off her throne and leaving the fan behind [!]) Monkey King takes the fan and comments that it weighs a ton: "Queen Ironfan, you must have some hard core forearms!" He's bringing grandma along because "I need your powers... And forearms!" And the minions are giving her no say in that matter
- RegAc, where the kids are doing what they like to do: Travis is drawing a flower, Hawk and Astoria are studying, Joy is sleeping with her frog, and Rose and Gigi are sitting on a pumpkin cleaning shoes. LL walks by: "Rose, can I ask you something? It's... personal" R: "Lingling, of course! We're friends!" But suddenly, said minions and then the Shan monkey show up to inform LL about her kidnapped grandma and her missing iron fan. LL: "What?! By whom?" Shan monkey thinks the answer should be obvious and just says "Uh, guess!" (Huh, just like me) LL demands to know why and Shan says: "Why? Who knows why monkeys do anything?" For starters, the monkeys take Rose's shoes and powder up her face...
- Hawk encases the shoe monkey in ice, while Joy is protesting that "The monkeys are just playing! They wanna be friends!" Even a pie to the face doesn't change her position: "Why make enemies when you can make friends? Fighting is a last resort, unless it's playfighting" Another monkey with a banana appears... and uses the banana to cast a spell at Joy (!) Joy ducks out of the way and the spell hits Rose's pumpkin and you know what that means In spite of all this, Rose seems to agree with Joy, but LL disapproves of the others making friends with the monkeys: "They kidnapped my grandma!" R: "But I'm sure they didn't know any better" LL storms off: "We shall see" as LL plans to save her grandma herself, much to Rose's dismay, as one of the monkeys drags its butt along the ground...
- Vicky is walking across the bridge when she sees LL coming through the door and thinks that this is an opportunity to make sure she doesn't come back, but then she sees the other kids following. LL has reasons that doesn't want the other kids on the trip: Joy loves the monkeys and Astoria calls herself LL's rival, but she has no reason to object to Rose, and the gang all tag along anyway... while Vicky smirks. Ooh!
- Empty meadow, with the gang in their dragon riding outfits... This is the Ironfan family's designated meeting place, and Rose asks "Oh, is this the home of your ancestors?" It's actually the home of family camping trips with her grandpa, but anyways, a horrible buffalo monster (Travis' words) shows up and the gang (minus LL and Joy) decide to go attack. LL tries to stop them and Joy adds: "Guys? Make friends instead of enemies? Maybe he wants to play!" T: (Gets tossed aside) J: "See?" LL tries to join in, but gets knocked out by Vicky's magic: "This is so easy it's almost not fun... almost." I'm reminded of a similar Darcy comment in Rai 2x10...
- Astoria uses her Tower Magic on the buffalo, and Hawk follows with his Ice Magic... to make a shield to charge it with??? Buffalo breaks free of the vines (always that way with vines, huh?) and knocks Hawk and his shield aside... H: "Okay, buffalo... head... guy... We're gonna give you one chance to surrender!" Buffalo stomps hard on the ground... and buries the kids neck-deep (minus Joy, we'll see her in a moment) Vicky ends up knocking out the buffalo similar to LL, and Hawk narrowly avoids getting smooshed by the buffalo's head...
- R: "Vicky? What are you doing here?" V: "Being evil, duh!" Vicky wants to turn LL over to the Monkey King so she can befriend him, to which Rose responds: "Well that's lame!" Vicky is cackling when she's suddenly turned into a frog by guess who? J: "And that's how you play with Vicky!" However, Joy can't get the others out of the ground, but she spots LL... Astoria quickly points out that it's magic sleep, and Travis offers his kiss (HEH!) No matter, a chicken pecks LL awake, and Travis is still angling for a kiss (Double HEH!) A: "It doesn't make any sense" LL blasts the kids out with her Fan Magic (and we get to see the wand summoning animation, whoo!)
- Meanwhile, the chicken tries the same with the buffalo with no success, but LL knows how to get him up: "Grandpa, you're late for swim lessons!" Hawk is amazed that LL's the buffalo monster's granddaughter, as LL clarifies that's he's the Buffalo King before introducing the group of brave young warriors as her friends, to which he reacts: "I thought you were throwing a costume party" R: "But it's the middle of the woods!" BK: "That's why I attacked you! People can't just throw costume parties wherever they want!" We find out that granny Ironfan's been taken to dragon land, and Rose announces she's got the perfect plan, and it involves teamwork (OOOH!)
- Dragon land (with the gang riding on a pumpkin rocket!) Rose theorizes that the Monkey King wants to use the Iron Fan to fan the flames of the volcano and make it explode, but Astoria points out that the monkeys live right under the volcano... BK: "You're not thinking like a monkey, and making the volcano explode would be the ultimate monkey prank!" Pumpkin rocket hits a wall depositing the gang everywhere (!) Astoria grabs a rock wall with her hair and uses her Tower Magic to create a bouncy cushion for the others BK: "Do you always travel around like that?!" R: "No, normally we just ride dragons" A: "Of course, we don't usually drag along a super heavy Buffalo King with us" (HEH!)
- LL: "Now, how do we find grandma?" Something gets rolled down the wall on a rope... It's grandma: "(sigh) Hi Lingling..." Grandma gets yanked back upwards like a really big yo-yo (!) Surprise, monkeys everywhere, and even Joy is starting to get tired of this... Monkey King shows up, and turns out that LL and I are thinking alike: "How dare you turn my grandmother into a yo-yo! You know she hates that!" Monkey King has greater plans, but first he calls Rose's pumpkin rocket an "experimental monkey design" (!) R: "That's not a monkey design!" A bespectacled scientist monkey shows up with a drawing of his fellow monkeys riding a banana rocket sled (including crash!) Rose holds up her own drawing: "Hello! It's not a rocket-powered banana sled! It's a pumpkin rocket! And it was designed my me!" The other monkey minions are in awe of Rose's design, and Astoria facepalms at the sheer absurdity of it all...
- Monkey King: "You are welcome here, to live as we do, for you are certainly part monkey!" R: "Thank you" MK: "And the rest of you, slaves, slaves to the monkeys!" Turns out that his plan is to fan away the smoke from the volcano, using his new slaves... LL is bewildered that he's not trying to make the volcano erupt... MK: "Why would we do that? We live right here!" T (in split screen): "Uh, as a prank?" MK: "A prank?! (considers) Yeah, that would be funny..."
- Time for LL to go get her grandma, and even getting completely swamped by the monkeys doesn't hold her down for long... But the fight doesn't last long either, as they get knocked out by green smoke, which makes them sick... LL: "I can't beat up sick monkeys, it's not honorable... Even though they did turn my grandmother into a yo-yo" (HEH!) J: "Yes LL, a lot of our grandmas are yo-yos (HEH!) but that doesn't mean the monkeys are bad. They're just choking on volcano smoke" R: "So... let's save us some monkeys!" LL is OK with this, and Monkey King agrees to free Queen Ironfan... and she gets yo-yoed right on top of Travis (!) Queen Ironfan chews out the Monkey King, commenting that she would have preferred that the Monkey King had asked for her help, but he says that "Going on a rampage always seems like the perfect solution" Travis decides to use his Fury Magic to blow away the smoke, but all it does is create a smoke tornado (!) Surprisingly, grandpa Buffalo runs through it without being sucked up... No matter, LL uses her fan magic to deal with it...
- H: "Guys? It's not over yet" The volcano is still belching out its smoke, and Ironfan wants, well, her iron fan, but Monkey King put it up on a high rock ledge so no one would mess with it (!) much to the whole gang's dismay... J: "It's okay! We can get if we just work together!" And for once, the gang agrees with Joy... But it doesn't seem like anyone's helping anyone: Monkeys get sick of the gas, Travis falls off the rock face, and smacks into and breaks Hawk's ice tower, while Rose knocks Joy off the face as well... Finally, Monkey King uses his staff to fling a monkey over to the fan, and after the monkey dances with it for a bit, he ends up falling off the face... right into grandma Ironfan's arms, and he gives her a hug Monkey King offers their apologies and gratitude... and thankfully the queen is really forgiving and starts fanning
- But Astoria points out that the queen can't fan here forever, so they decide to look for the source... We see Hawk and Astoria climbing up to some platform before we see them gawking at Rose saying "On it!" Rose jumps off some sort of ledge, and Astoria catches her with her vinehair. Rose hangs from her vine for a while and discovers that the dragons appear to be sick and breathing out that gas...
- Monkey King tells the gang that he and his monkeys can cure the dragon with "Our awesome monkey magic, duh!"... leading into a fun Caribbean-influenced song "That's the Way We Are" sung by Joy (!) as the monkeys pass around leaves and potion to the dragons, and the Monkey King and that wizard monkey minion cast their spells around, curing the dragons... Low Ong (dragon king from a few eps ago) likes the song, and Joy reveals that she sings it to her frog friends every night ("Wow, that's not weird at all") Low Ong adds that "Little monkey medicine always does the trick" before revealing how they'd gotten so sick in the first place: "Two words: Monkey party. Never ever let them make the dip, ever!" R: "So, you guys are friends with the monkeys too? We should totally all hang out sometimes!" Low Ong decides that it's time for a monkey party, and Rose is excited... MK: "Told you she was part monkey" (HEH!) And guess who brought dip The dragons are definitely not interested, but Joy's ready to tuck in

- We open on Granny Ironfan telling Lingling to try to have some fun for a change at today's Flower Festival, and we get a nice tracking shot of her flower blowing from Granny to LL... LL has studied the powers of all the magical flowers, but no one's ever given her one... Jumpcut to RegAc, where Rose is super psyched for the flower festival (well, her name is Rose ) She asks Joy if living flowers hurt when they are picked... H: "Hello Rose, fairytale land... magical flowers." Vidal gets beaned by a living flower in its pot (HEH!)
- Meanwhile, Travis is looking at a "beastiful" Cupid's Arrow flower: "I wonder if it's true that this flower can make Lingling like me" Flower: "DUH! That's my power! But why don't you try, I dunno, talking to this girl?" HEH! T: "No, that's too scary" Flower: "Definitely" Travis hilariously tosses the flower aside as soon as Rose walks in to ask what's too scary for him... T: "What could possibly scare me? I'm a beast, hello?" Literally the next second, he hides behind Rose as LL is passing by to greet Rose... and LL adds: "Good morning hiding Travis" (HEH!)
- Prof. Beauty has invited fairytale land's biggest expert on magical flowers, Thumbelina, and brings out Leena... who takes out her cousin from her pocket (!) (Yes, Thumbelina's her cousin, rather than grandma) Her crazy high pitched voice is impossible to understand, so Leena brings out a flower-like megaphone... and the initial echo from the megaphone stuns everyone, since it was on Leena's personal use settings (!)
- After re-adjusting, Thumbelina introduces The Mother Flower, from which Thumbelina was born (Rose keeps her gawking in moderation ), and whose power is so great she can control all the magical flowers, so must be kept under constant guard. The other flowers bow down to her, and after Leena and cousin accidentally get covered in a blanket (HEH!) we get exposition that the Mother Flower needs that guarding because "A villain could use her to lead an army of flowers on a lovely-smelling rampage of destruction!" T: "What could pretty little flowers possibly do?" A bunch of flowers attack Travis to demonstrate (HEH)
- Puss-In-Boots has arranged for a shipment of rare flowers and Beauty has the kids go pick them up. This of course gives Vicky an evil idea, but first, let's get to Puss-In-Boots first! R: "We get to hang out with Puss-In-Boots all day! He always gives wise advice!" PIB: "Everyone ready for hard labor?" Thumbelina tells the class to gather up the rest of the flowers. "And treat them with respect, Travis" Travis is getting attacked by more flowers (HEH!) Meanwhile, Vicky has Ruby and Cyrus follow her...
- While Rose and Joy are loading their dragons with flowers, Travis is looking for the perfect flower for LL... "and one that won't put me in the hospital" (HEH) as Astoria uses her vinehair to carry a boatload of flowers () and Thumbelina exposits that each flower has a different power and personality, as she chats up a Love Fortune Lily (a bit shy)... who gets chased by a bunch of the princesses in class (HEH)
- Back to Vicky and friends: They meet an evil farmer (who of course has a country bumpkin voice!) Ruby: "How can we know we can trust him?" Vicky: "DUH! We can't! He's evil!" Cyrus: "Oh, right, but how do we know he's evil?" Cyrus tries to get the farmer to show him his evil handshake... and the farmer tosses him aside (HEH!) before handing Vicky some seeds (musical cue: a G-minored version of "Oh Susanna") Vicky plants the seeds and reveals that they're the infamous Rebel Roses. The roses are thinking about using the Mother Flower to force all flowerkind to join them in world domination... V: "Great, that's my plan too!"
- Back to Rose and friends: Rose accidentally drops a box of flowers on her dragon's head, and she complains that's the worst place she can drop her flowers... and then Rose accidentally rams into Joy and her flowers somehow land on a troll's foot (!) RD: "I stand corrected" Hawk wants to attack (it's always like that with him, heh), but PIB suggests trying to outwit him ("It's tradition!")... in this case by saying that Rose was doing him a favor by trying to wipe out his foot fungus (!) This backfires, because he likes his foot fungus (EW!!) While PIB is trying to handle the situation, Vicky sneaks the Rebel Roses onto Rose's dragon (OOH!)
- Rose considers apologizing to the troll's foot fungus, but appears to just sneak between his legs. However, one of the Rebel Roses decides to jump over to the troll's foot and chomp on it, causing the troll to give chase again... H: "Now can we attack?" PIB: "(sigh) Sure, whatever" So the friends go in, with Travis going first... and getting tackled by a mushroom (along with Astoria!) "It smells like foot, and also fungus!" LL uses her fan magic to blow the troll away, but he ends up knocking over a shelf of round candy, on which Gigi snacks and LL trips... so time for Rose to use her magic to make a pumpkin motorbike to try to lead the troll out of town, but she doesn't get very far before crashing into a wall (!)
- Rose gets cornered but here comes Joy to bail her out... "Not so fast! These frogs love to eat foot fungus!" The frogs give the troll chase, and then LL uses her fan magic to blow him away for good... As the gang decides to return, Gigi offers Rose a candy... Travis realizes that candy would be the perfect gift... and Rose guesses that it's for LL (look at Travis' reaction!) Travis says that flowers terrify him more than talking to LL. R: "Silly! What could go wrong?" A: "Well, she might think you're trying to trick her to give our team an advantage" J: "And then she'd hate you forever!"
- Quad! The gang inform Beauty that the flowers have been delivered, and it turns out Beauty has designed ballgowns made of flowers (ooh!) Flowers on the gowns: "Do we look amazing or what?" LL loves those talking gowns, and Rose is all too eager to have her try one Beauty loves the way it looks so much, she wants LL to be her model, but LL says: "I'm not feminine enough" R: "But, you'll be center stage with Beauty and Thumbelina. You can protect them if there's trouble!" LL: "Rose... that is an excellent idea! Evil villains can not resist a chance to destroy a flower festival!" And cut to Vicky... where she's telling the Rebel Roses to take a vial and pour it into The Mother Flower's pot, which will enable her to control the Mother Flower with her magic doll she made (ooh!)... which the Rebel Roses are laughing at (HEH!) V: "It's evil! It's not supposed to look good!" So anyways, the Rebel Roses take Vicky's vial to go see Mom...
- The Mother Flower has her children come to pay respects to her, but her bodyguards add: "Just don't get too close" One of the Rebel Roses offers Mother a vial of magic water that she empahsizes is good magic, and Mother lets her pour it into the pot. That easy, huh? Mother: "I feel... weird" Bodyguard: "Good weird, or bad weird?" M: "You ever get the feeling... that someone is taking over your mind? And wants you to do terrible things to the people you love?" Bodyguard: "Yes! When I'm stuck babysitting my kid brother!" (HEH!) Back to Vicky, as Ruby shows off the Cupid's Arrow flower she found: "It'll make Hawk mine forever!"
- The flower fest begins with a bunch of fireworks and dancing. R: "I can't believe it! I'm Rose, dancing with a rose!" "I'm not a rose, I'm a Venus Flytrap, and now I will eat your head!" Thankfully, it's nowhere near big enough to do more than bite at her hair Meanwhile, Vicky gets into the next phase of the plan, by having more Rebel Roses pour potion in some glasses that happen to be carried past the bushes they're hiding in, which promises to keep things hoppin' (their words!) Said glasses then get served to the flowers, which makes them start to get rowdy. Uh-oh... And this makes Travis extra nervous, plus it doesn't help matters that he gets tripped by a Rebel Rose, making him drop his candy on a flower, who then proceeds to bean LL with it, and LL suspects that Travis is offering candy to make her lower her guard...
- Under Vicky's spell, the flowers decide to start attacking the humans a la Day of the Triffids, and that includes the flowers on LL's dress, forcing her to take it off (!) Rather dissonantly, this then leads into a ballad by LL and Travis "One in a Million to Me", which looks awkward interspersed with the chaos of the attack Anyways, LL discovers that Vicky's behind the flower attack and Vicky decides to have the flowers attack LL. Travis decides he needs to deal with them using a tornado... PIB: "Travis, you need to outwit your opponent!" T: "Forget that, I'm a beast!" Travis sends an extra powerful tornado through the festival, sending flowers flying everywhere, as Hawk points out: "Travis' Fury Magic is extra furious" And it sends Vicky's doll flying, and LL zaps with the doll with her Fan Magic, thus freeing the Mother Flower from the spell. Travis stops his Fury Magic... eventually, and catches the falling LL. The student body is bewildered at the raining flowers, and various students catch the falling flowers... as Vicky falls into a pond (HEH!) Joy turns into a frog again, while Travis catches a Cupid's Arrow, who offers his magic help... But when LL approaches him about that flower, he ends up tossing it aside: "This flower's not pretty enough for you" (HEH!)
- Frog!Joy rides Hawk's head until Doc kisses her back into a human (clomp!) H: "Still can't control your transformation? How is that possible?" J: "It's a curse! It's not supposed to be convenient" Astoria finds the Rebel Rose culprits and the Mother Flower proceeds to chew them out. Travis seems a bit bewildered that he actually saved the day, but Thumbelina tries to chew him out over being blown around by his tornado... But the Mother Flower tells her that she should a) use her inside voice, and b) respect the heroes of the day

- We open on an owl monster thing going through the forest, when he encounters Vicky and friends. Rather amusingly, he speaks with a rather polite voice, and we quickly find out that this is Rothbart, the wizard from Swan Lake (V: "I've read all your articles in Evil Quarterly"... remember how 4K Winx would keep talking about reading mags? ) and Vicky wants to use his swan magic. Roth changes to human form first, obviously, because "Monster... Campus... Bad." It's also revealed for his magic to work, the target must dance along... Cyrus: "I can smell the evil coming out your ears" Ruby: "Oh wow, that is too weird"
- RegAc dance class... Rose comments on swan granddaughter Odette dancing to Swan Lake: "That's like fairy tale awesome squared!" It's Odette's dream to win the RegAc dance competition, and Rose will be rooting for her... which prompts a response from Astoria: "Did you forget she's our competitor? At least try to be serious about winning", before then giving the stinkeye to Odette... Prof. Beauty and Cinderella will help the students prepare for the competition, as Cinderella brings in her family's guardian dragon, and Rose guesses that she'll be dancing with them (performing a mock dragon dance, heh!) Cinderella is all, "No, that would be ridiculous" and reveals that in fact, she is judging the competition...
- While everyone is practicing their steps, Odette steps outside for a bit and no prizes for guessing who she runs into Roth turns her into a swan and Vicky covers her with a bucket: "Not that I'm complaining, but what's that all about?" Roth: "I have that effect on her " In class, Travis clumsily tosses Joy hard (HEH), while Rose tells Lingling that martial arts is graceful like dancing, and she suggests they could base a dance around it... though they might have to leave out certain throwing moves (HEH!) Vicky shows off her dance to Beauty, even landing her foot on Rose's head at one point (ouch!) and then shows everyone her new dance tutor (guess who!) V: "Don't you wish you had a tutor like I do?" LL: "I do have a tutor. It's Rose, you're standing on her" V: "I meant a good dance tutor"
- Rose recalls that Astoria and Odette used to be childhood friends (a tidbit from way back in episode 3) and thought the dance class would bring them closer, but Astoria points out that "You know how competing for a grade has that effect on me" The gang come across Swan!Odette, and Rose and LL try helping her with... martial arts dancing? LL points out that this is Tai-Chi (which is a real thing!) and thinks that Odette is lacking focus. When that doesn't work, Joy spots Tiger Morphy Lilies, which are noted for undoing transformations, but they turn out to be Tiger Stompy Lilies, whose power is to trample water fowl (like swans LOL) Looks like they'll need a little help from Joy's grandpa... "He turns himself to weird stuff all the time!"
- Over at Grandpa LeFrog's, he only has potion for turning frogs into people, but Joy has frog magic for changing Swan!Odette into a frog, so problem solved right? Wrong, so Grandpa LeFrog explains that the only spell powerful enough to fix Odette is a swan dance. And it just so happens Astoria has seen a book on the swan dance in Grandma's classroom... H: "There's like a gazillion books in here!" A: "A gazillion and seven. I counted" (HEH!) Vicky comes in with Roth, who offers the gang (LL included) a dance lesson, which turns more into coercing once he hears Joy and Rose mention mastering the swan dance to save Odette, and even tells Travis that the girls won't be able to resist him (!) No prizes for guessing what happens next
- Vicky's gang has an evil laugh before locking the swans in the tower, and unlike Odette, the swans' dialog is not reduced to just "Honk honk"... They're also colored based on their hair, so Swan!Rose is yellow, Swan!Joy is light green etc. J: "Fun fact, swans are bad at breaking down doors" A: "Also bad at turning pages" Travis is especially sarcastic about Rose only now realizing that was Rothbart from Swan Lake: "Oh, really? What was your first clue?" Astoria finds the swan dance, and it turns out it has to be done at the next full moon, which is tonight (!) And Joy manages to turn into a frog again after Hawk falls on her... A: "That's not very helpful"
- While Cinderella is bewildered that none of the teams are present at the dance competition at her castle, LL is trying to use her swan-fu (Rose's words) to kick down the door... and it turns out the ropes tying the doors shut are in plain sight of the swans (!) So LL manages to get the ropes off with her beak and gets the window open, but wonders how good swans are at climbing Rose of course is enthusiastic at the opportunity to fly as a swan, but Astoria warns that "Just because we have wings doesn't mean we know how to use them!" But they do have someone who can teach them, because they brought Odette along Astoria and Travis carry Frog!Joy and King (Joy's frog) respectively, while Gigi is riding (guess who?) Rose...
- Swamp! They've brought along the book as well, and Astoria has memorized the steps from the book and decides to lead. Back at Cinderella's castle, the only team ready to go are Gerald and Finn, or the duck and the whale, and it does not go very well... "Due to the lack of teams, and the extensive squishing of the teams we do have, I think the night is over"
- Back to the swamp, where the gang are getting attacked by Roth (!) The gang retaliates by buzzing Roth's head on a flyby... Roth zaps Astoria in the wing, so the gang then splash Roth in the face, which gives Rose the idea to splash some water on Astoria's hit wing to fix it (uh...) Vicky manages to zap Travis and knock both him and Hawk into the lake, but manage to recover and get out of their wands' reach... Hawk says he could have taken on Roth, but Travis points out how things worked out here...
- The gang is running out of time and needs someone to perform their dance somewhere safe. Surprise surprise, Rose suggests doing it at the dance competition... which is still totally on apparently, as Vicky and pals are ready for their dance, plus Roth is also here, and specifically calls for a dragon to dance with them (!) which Cinderella considers highly unusual, but her dragon obliges anyway... Cinderella: "I say, this isn't much of a contest is it?" Swan!Rose enters with her gang: "Then let's bring the competition!" before adding: "I told you the dragon would dance "
- Rose's team starts dancing, and Roth notices that they're doing the moonlight swan dance... Vicky's team and Roth proceed to perform their own dance (with Cinderella's dragon somehow hiding herself behind Roth along with the rest during their routine ) during which Vicky tells Roth there's something they can do in front of this crowd... and that's apparently to turn Cinderella's dragon into a swan (!) Team Rose et al. turn back to humans, and Odette is quick to call out Rothbart... Vicky feigns innocence when questioned by Cinderella, throwing Roth under the bus for lying about being a dance tutor, which prompts Cinderella to bring the guards on Roth and award Team Rose the win (yay!)
- Roth: "You can break my spells, but no one defeats me in dance and gets away with it" Roth throws the royal guards off before turning back into his owl monster form, but LL says "There will be no mercy for villains who disturb our dancing" She uses her fan magic to blow Roth into the air, with Hawk creating an ice ramp for Roth to slide on... Rose has to get out of the way of his crash landing and manages to knock over the three little pigs, but Astoria uses her tower magic to encase Roth in a tower of vines (it's really more like a cage) before Rose adds the finishing touch: "You cannot defeat a bag of the three little pigs' leftovers!" Rose throws the pigs' bag right over Roth's beak, and the stench changes him back to regular human form, which also restores Cinderella's dragon to normal.
- Rose is overjoyed that Roth has been defeated... T: "This time, everyone knows how great we are" Astoria does a little celebratory dance: "Top grade... top grade... Go grades!" But hang on, LL performs her own graceful dance (despite the fact she already performed with Team Rose), and Cinderella decides to give her the win instead, leaving both Odette and Astoria to commiserate... R: "See, I knew dance class would bring them together "

- We open at Travis' Earth home, where Rose has come to pick him up. Rose gawks at his mom's shoes (actually saying O-M-G), and Mrs. B comments that, "I may be Mrs. B, and not Ms. Beauty anymore, but I still try to rock some fabulous shoes..." Mr. B: "Sometimes with real rocks" (Mr. B drinks coffee straight from the pot LOL) Travis went to school early today to calm down Coach Beast, so this gives Rose (and his parents) the opportunity to take a look at Travis' self-portraits in his room (his Beast statue from way back when is also there ) They're very good and mom says Travis wants to hang them at his dad's castle, but Beast's not so hot on that idea... Mr. B: "It does fill him with an incredible rage" (Another Disney version shout-out perhaps?)
- RegAc dragon arena... J: "Where's Travis? He's not trapped under something heavy again is he?" Travis is indeed under a heavy piece of statue, but what's really putting a damper on his morning is that it turns out Coach Beast has been replaced in dragon riding class. Astoria's not pleased that now she has to get used to a new teacher, but said new teacher is some guy named Sir George, and Hawk and Rose gawk over this (H: "Bake me in a pie and call me an apple fritter!") for Sir George is the most famous dragon rider in history (!) H: "This is like Rumpelstiltskin teaching knitting" A: "That actually is already a thing" H: "Then this is bigger!" (HEH!)
- Coach Beast rather condescendingly introduces Sir George, and George mistakes Beast for a girl because of his long hair (CB: "That's my mane!") Astoria is skeptical about Hawk's claim, but he reassures her that "Everyone gets old, I'm sure he'll have a surprise or two" Everyone gets riding, and Team Rose (+ Lingling) take to the skies. The crowd is mostly in awe (Vicky being the lone exception), as Rose flies upside down and drops off her dragon to be caught by Astoria's vinehair and put back on her dragon... and they're both in their regular school uniforms rather than their dragon riding outfits... LL on the other hand is in her dragon riding outfit, and shows some skillful moves before landing at the dragon arena. After introducing herself to George, LL gets what must be the shock of her life, as George says "That was the absolute worst dragon-riding I've ever seen"... and that also goes for everyone else, as George has the students go back to basics (insert Coach Beast facepalm here) by carrying their dragons (yes, it looks as surreal as it sounds) Travis and LL are the fastest to carry their dragons, and George is confident that these training exercises will help them become experts in no time.
- Ruby is skeptic that this coot (her words) really is Sir George, but Vicky plans to steal his secrets to control the guardian dragons at the gate... George has a chit-chat with Vicky and decides that she's the class favorite, and then he's surprised to see Rose putting shoes on her dragon, as Rose repeats what she said to Travis' mom this morning: "The right shoe and the right occasion can make amazing things happen" Well, he's surprised in a good way, because he praises Rose for taking the time to care for her dragon: "She'll be your friend for life" Meanwhile, Hawk, Astoria, and LL (and a few others) get involved in a three-dragon airborne collision, and Hawk's forced to concede that George has lost it. LL is a bit more diplomatic and suggests trying harder, but Astoria somewhat sarcastically suggests asking Rose for tips
- Rose wants something from George for her collection... and gets his famous sword, which looks like a really big spoon. After Rose leaves, Coach Beast rages against George: "You don't know a thing about dragon training! And you don't a thing about which of my students are any good!" G: "Do I? Let's put that to the test, madame" CB has steam coming out of his ears: "FINE!" George goes to the students and announces: "Tomorrow, I'm separating the real dragon riders from the chaff. We're having... a dragon Olympics!" A: "Is this for a grade?" G: "This is for something better than a grade... It's for honor!" H: "Ohhhh yeah!" R: (Gawking level at maximum!) J: "Rose, what's a dragon Olympics?" R: "It has 'dragon' in the name, so it must be AWESOME!"
- On earth, Rose puts the spoon in her fairytale collection before shrinking the collection for bringing to RegAc, and at Travis' earth home, he's doing some paintings ("Nobody really understands vermillion") Rose suggests putting them up at grandpa's castle, but Travis says "The only thing he hates more than Sir George is me doing art" But Rose has a plan, oh boy...
- RegAc's students are preparing for the games in the quad... LL asks for Travis, and Astoria answers: "He's with Rose. Knowing her, they're doing something ridiculous" J: "Yeah, that's Rose" Joy is making sure there are enough frogs at the dragon Olympics (HUH.) Rose and Travis are bringing Travis' paintings to Beast's castle... Beast sees the art and of course gets teed, and Rose attempts to reason that he should be proud of his grandson's work, but Beast says "That's beside the point! I just don't want it on my walls!" Rose puts her plan into action, and wagers that if she can win the dragon obstacle course, he has to allow Travis to hang up his art... CB: "You can fill my castle with mayonnaise for all I care, because it's never going to happen!" R: "Hmm, we'll see"
- To wedding music, Sir George begins "We are gathered here today to join in marriage--" CB: "This isn't a wedding George! Announce the Olympics" G: "That's Sir George!" CB: "And that you remember " Rose and Travis join the rest of the gang, before George opens the Olympics... by conking Travis with an errant scabbard flying off his sword and and his pants dropping to the ground (HEH!)
- First event: Dragon cooking! LL slices up carrots with a sword, and then skewers the slices with the same sword for her dragon to cook, as she brags that her secret is using dragon-breath proof cookware. Rose uses a certain legendary sword (guess whose!) to cut up her spuds for her dragon to roast extra crispy (HEH!)
- Next, dragon javelin, in which Travis tosses his dragon javelin-style quite a distance... but then LL points out that he's supposed to train his dragon to throw a regular javelin, which the throw by LL's dragon beats Travis' throw nicely (meanwhile, the goblin chick tries throwing her dragon without success )
- Next up is dragon sprint between Hawk and Ruby. Hawk shows off by standing on his dragon's saddle, and Ruby tries the same ... and her saddle rolls underneath her dragon's belly, causing her and her dragon to fly off the course (!) Yet according to George, Vicky's team is doing well (!!) Vicky asks George about his secret, and George says it's dedication, hard work... and a magical brooch for controlling dragons, which Vicky casually steals by swapping it with a banana (!) V: "Do you know what this means?" Cyrus: "That I'm not going to have my afternoon banana?" (HEH!) As Hawk creates an ice path to the finish line for his dragon to skate on, Vicky decides to test the brooch on Hawk's dragon, and makes him slip on the ice, allowing Ruby's dragon to overtake him to the finish... V: "It works! Is this what happiness feels like?"
- The final event is the dragon obstacle race at Beast Castle, with LL, Rose and Vicky. Hawk questions if Rose's dragon needs her footwear, but Rose answers "No one needs beautiful shoes Hawk, but every girls loves wearing them, am I right? You're fancy!" (HEH) A: "It's so good not to care about grades. Is this how you feel all the time?" R: "Hmm, pretty much" Vicky swoops by to trash-talk, and LL comments: "If this is for honor, Vicky can't win" R: "Fairy tale girl power Lingling!"
- And here we go! First obstacle is a bunch of smoke, which LL blows a path through with her fan magic... Next up are vines... V: "Stupid vines! I'll make you into a salad!" Vicky is trying to smack Rose with her dragon's tail, LL pushes her away with a blast of fan magic... V: "Fly better you dragon!" V's dragon: "Really motivating"...
- Rose is having the time of her life, and her dragon says that her boots gives her confidence (HEH!) Next up is a bunch of spikes popping out of ground a la Tangled: Before Ever After, except these appear to be much bigger. LL clears easily, but time for Vicky to cheat, as she uses the brooch to smack LL's dragon into the tower and knock her off (!!) Rose uses (what else) her pumpkin magic to catch the falling LL, and LL tells her to hurry up and beat Vicky...
- As Rose makes up the gap, Vicky sees a big tar pit and assumes that to be the final obstacle, and uses the brooch to make Rose's dragon land in the tar... and it turns out Vicky's only half right about the final obstacle, since she runs smack into a net that looks like a Tecna spell and also crashes into the tar (!) knocking the brooch into the tar (!!) And to add insult to injury, Rose's dragon's boots aren't stuck in the tar, because Rose always buys tarproof boots... V: "I hate everything!" (falls off dragon into tar) R: "Like I always say: the right shoe and the right occasion can make amazing things happen"
- Beast's castle, where George is congratulating Rose on her win, but Rose is especially glad that Travis can hang his paintings at the castle, and Beast begrudgingly keeps his word: "I'm not sure I like these paintings on my walls" R: "At least I didn't deck the halls with mayonnaise!" LL: "At Shan Academy we were taught that contemplating art balances the warrior's mind, and brings about strength of arms" CB: "Maybe you're on to something Lingling" Travis has a hilarious sheepish reaction
- Coach Beast concedes that although George has a different teaching style, his heart's in the right place... and how does George respond? "You are truly a beautiful young lady" CB: "I AM NOT A LADY!" George: "But I'm married to my job I'm afraid" HEH! Meanwhile, Ruby is near the tar pits watching the groundskeepers cleaining up the tar: "I am so glad I don't have to clean this mess..." One guess what she spots... "Ooh, shiny" Things are looking interesting...

- We open on a big action sequence, in which the Cinderella family dragon is trying to pelt Team Rose with pumpkins. Joy turns into a frog yet again, but Astoria takes uses her tower magic to fling her over to Travis, who kisses her back to normal, but they get pelted soon after... It's down to just Hawk and Rose, and Hawk makes an ice ramp, and Rose uses it to cast a pumpkin right back into the dragon's face (!) This all looks to be a training exercise, since Cinderella calls an end to it immediately after (causing Rose to fall on the ground LOL)
- T: "Don't you get to knock us around enough in class?" CB: "It's never enough, really" Cinderella calls it their first true lesson (really RegAc, wait until now?) because their first spellcasting lesson is coming up. Snow White tells the kids that "If you use your family's magic properly for the exam, you 5 will be given special lessons after school" C: "With special instructors" Who turn out to be the guardian dragons (Insert Rose gawking here!) T: "I'm ready to become the strongest" (is stomped on by his dragon LOL) CB: "Yeah, that's his primary teaching technique. You get used to it, but you never totally get the dirt out of your underwear" R: "We should probably help Travis" But it looks like Beast's dragon is giving the gang the stinkeye...
- Earth... Ruby kicks down the door to the shoe store that Rose stopped at that fateful day and demands to see the owners. The salesman says that no one sees the owners, but here they come, and they... aren't much of lookers (even scaring the salesman out of the shop!) Just in case it's not obvious, Ruby addresses them as the wicked stepsisters ("Or should I say, grandmas?") There's a blonde and a brunette, the latter is Ruby's actual grandma ("And you're my number one granddaughter, remember?") R: "Okay fine, how should I say hello?" Stepsisters: (Get their groove on LOL) "Wicky G's!" (That kind of butts up against 4Kids Musa-style IMO) It turns out that Ruby's stolen two things she needs for her plan from Vicky: A gate key and George's brooch from "last week"... And we finally find out where that missing glass slipper (alluded to during Parents Day) went: It's the Wicky Gs' own special power source (!!) They've got an evil plan, and the accompanying lightning strike makes their cackle almost Trix-like...
- RegAc, where everyone is reading their books for exams. Astoria cuddles her book almost baby-like (LOL!) Rose explains that their first extra magic lesson will be with the Cinderella family dragon... and the rest of the gang think they're probably learning about pumpkins (HEH!) J: "Well, whatever it is I'm sure it'll be fun"
- Jumpcut to Joy flying around with a pumpkin, as CFD explains that "These magic pumpkins react to your powers" Rose is struggling lightily with levitating a pumpkin, and ends up pulping the thing, while Hawk is practicing swordfighting in a field of pumpkins... and gets jumped by a pumpkin, while Travis is uh, making a pumpkin grow really large by pulling on its vine... T: "Hey, can you teach us something that doesn't involve pumpkins?" (Stomped!) A: "Hey, I thought only the Beast family dragon stomped students" CFD: "We're dragons. We all stomp students" (HEH!) "Now anyone else bored with pumpkins?" Hawk and Astoria are all "No way" R: "I've never been bored with pumpkins!" Joy has a crash landing and gets pumpkin pulp all over CFD's face (HEH!) H: "I wish I loved pumpkins as much as Rose" A: "I wish I loved anything as much as Rose" T: "All I learned is dragons hate me" (Well said, Travis) CFD: "Then you understand pumpkin magic" A: "Don't worry, I took notes " Turns out to be a picture of Travis under a dragon's foot T: "Ooh, nice likeness"
- Astoria uses her tower magic to deflect back a giant snowball. R: "So cool! Oh, do you have any magic to teach us too?" Astoria's dragon: "Well you don't have ivy, but you do have hair, so... The secret to remaining confident is to have confidence in... your hairstyle" (Flies by the others, changing their hairstyles) Joy and Rose comment on their hairstyles, while Hawk's new do makes him look feminine HEH. T: "That's ridiculous! My hair can't do anything for me!" AD: (Breathes magic on Travis) T: (suddenly has tall hair, loses balance easily) A: "Well, it just gave you a headache" (High fives her dragon's tail HEH) Travis does a back flip and his hair is back to normal... R: "Is it me or does Travis have way more control over his strength now?" AD: "That's because I'm an awesome teacher" We get to see Travis get stepped on again (LOL!)
- Next up is Hawk's dragon. Rose makes the expected "cool" pun, and the dragon snorts out snow (let's keep this child-friendly okay?) H: "Now that's cool as ice" Hawk says the dragon is the master of Snow Magic... and the dragon himself adds: "And karaoke!" Gang arrives at the dragon arena to learn snow magic, but first, a fun snow fight to "This is How It Goes" (and it just so happens that "Something There" also partially takes place in snow, heh) which ends with the dragon pelting Hawk with a bunch of snow. And here's another scene of Travis getting stepped on... Oh, and also Joy's dragon shows up to make it rain frogs: "And that, students is the true power of Frog Magic!... and the secret of the universe" (First digmoles, now frogs?) "Any questions?" Everyone not named Joy: (Raises hand in sync, making it look like a really wacky music video)
- But here come Ruby and her wicked grandmas and a cauldron coming through the portal... The guardian dragons come to attack, but Ruby's got George's brooch to force them back... The stepsisters announce themselves, and Ruby adds: "You know, if you don't want to be called 'The Wicked Stepsisters', then maybe don't announce it" HEH! H: "Yeah, okay, but the Wicked Stepsisters aren't real villains. They're just really jealous and have bigger-than-average feet!" The blonde one asserts they can prove it, as the brunette uses her wand to show that they've kidnapped Rose's parents, tied up a la Winx 1x17... T: "Kidnapped parents? Okay, now you're just trying too hard" Rose is tearful and asks what they have to do with this, and blondie reveals that "Thanks to them, we have this" This being that glass slipper, which Joy gawks over LOL
- But Astoria points out they can use it to become CFD's new master... R: "But why? How? MOM..." Mom decides that the kids deserve to know... Brunette: "OOH! Backstory! I love backstory!" She uses her wand to make the cauldron boil, and we use the green smoke to transition into a flashback: So basically Clara was supposed to guard the gate, but she took her dragon for a joyride to Earth to meet "some guy" (guess who) Dave: "Some guy, with awesome hair!" So with the gate open, the wicked duo went in and stole the shoe (!) And Rose is horrified at this revelation, as it looks like CFD has designs on attacking its own students... (How to Train Your Dragon 2 says hi)
- Travis has a good point: "Shouldn't the teachers have, I dunno, noticed all of this by now?" A: "Classes have been over for hours! Everyone else has gone home!" Brunette: "Now we'll open this gate, and let in all these fairy tale villains" Vicky and Cyrus show up, and Vicky is utterly shocked that Ruby is a real villain... H: "They did just explain their master plan; that's something a real villain would do" Vicky chews Ruby out for ripping off her idea, but Ruby responds: "Right, as long as we're around, it'll seem like we just stole your plan!" Ruby conjures up a shovel and uses it to knock her into the cauldron (!) J's dragon: "Well, whatever you're cooking, I'm not eating any now" And Hawk is really ticked off at not getting a climactic battle with their recurring villain (Now you know how we felt about the Trix taking Kalshara's spotlight late in S7 ) A: "Don't worry! They can keep the guardian dragons at bay for a while, but they can only control the Cinderella dragon" R: "That means we have a chance!"
- Time for everyone to bring out their wands, as the grandma's splash the liquid in their cauldron around... Travis has an idea to distract CFD, and it involves presenting himself to be stomped And despite being under a spell, CFD can't resist stomping him (!!) This allows Hawk to create an ice ramp and take Rose with him (uh...) Astoria has a great line: "You're all about to have a bad hair day" The blonde cuts the rope holding up her parents, but Rose catches them with a pumpkin dragcart (!) Blondie uses her slipper to make CFD blow away Rose and Hawk... Travis tries making a tornado with his fury magic, but the tornado just blows him away... while Astoria uses her vinehair against the brunette and there's a hilarious(ly obvious) Matrix reference (though brunette isn't so good at leaning back a la Neo LOL) but then the tornado catches Astoria by her hair, and manages to get the rest of her team kicked in the face... as well as Cyrus (twice LOL)
- The grannies try to slosh their cauldron liquid right at Rose, but here comes Lingling to shield Rose from the slosh (!) LL: "I was on my way to get a sandwich and saw a tornado. Hard to miss" LL reassures Rose that anyone who hasn't gone home yet is on their way (spoiler: no one else shows up... at least this episode) but for now, LL uses her fan magic to blow Ruby and her grandmas off, and the blonde is hilariously using the shoe like a cellphone (LOL) trying to order CFD to crush the girl, except that they don't know her name until LL actually says it (Brunette: "Thanks" HEH!) Travis warns LL: "Don't get stomped, trust me on this" (LOL)
- Rose brags that today, she has mastered a new level of pumpkin magic... and conjures up 3 pumpkins... A: "The rumors of Cinderella power... they're true" Blonde: "Are those soft pumpkins?" And to an instrumental of "Best of Me" (from The Grand Ball), she pelts them straight at Vicky and her grannies. The brunette one is particularly agonized since she has her contacts in (LOL)
- Looks like LL punts off George's brooch into the cauldron, before sending a blast of fan magic at the blonde holding the Cinderella shoe and knocking it into the air, so Joy Frog Magic's herself into a frog... and heads it into the cauldron (!!!) Rose is shocked at the casual destruction of such an iconic fairytale item, but Hawk tells Rose to take advantage of their distraction, and so she sends a jailcell pumpkin (similar to from the beanstalk episode) to capture all three of them. Strangely, it's now the blonde who has the contacts problem: "Would someone please just bring me some contact lens solution?!"
- Rose finds herself having to explain the whole fairy tale school deal to her dad again, this time with slightly more detail, prompting Dave to respond: "Okay so, will you still get a diploma?" R: "What? That's what you're concerned about? Not the dragons or grandma being Cinderella?" D: "Rose, education matters, and anyway I've always suspected something ....... like this." Clara: "You have? How?" Dave recalls Clara's arrival on a dragon and casting spells in her sleep, causing him to wake up in a dress (HEH!) Clara: "They're ballgowns Dave. Gorgeous ballgowns" D: "Right, my mistake"
- Rose has to cut her discussion short to take Ruby and grannies to the teacher's office, but Dave ponders education in fairytale land: "Please tell me there's a fairy tale university... and please tell me they offer scholarships" But as the credits roll (on the US TV telecast), Vicky emerges from the cauldron and cackles: "The fools! A master of potions like me can never be defeated by a cauldron!" (Sniff sniff) "Ugh, why does cauldron magic always leave me smelling like troll's feet?" So, looks like they are getting their big final battle after all...

- Now that that interloper Ruby's been dealt with, we pick up where the last episode left off, the gang is riding back on their dragons, with Travis riding with Dave, Rose riding with Clara, and Rose feeling rather dispondent she never got to wear Cinderella's shoe... but then Joy spots something coming from the gate... Uh-oh...
- So they head to the gate, and yep, Vicky's here and standing on Cinderella's dragon (R: "Quit standing on my family's dragon, you'll get footprints all over her") Long story short, Vicky's got the slipper (so Clara's still not off the hook for her mistake), and she poured a bunch of potions on it and it's now stuck to George's brooch (R: "Eww! Gross! You goobered all over my family's shoe") so she can now control all 5 dragons (!)
- H: "This is going to be the most epic battle in the history of fairy tales! So try not to get too excited, okay?" And then suddenly their grandparents show up (LOL) Vicky goes on about how she will be known as "The greatest villain in history"... and promptly gets hit by LeFrog's dragon's sniffles (LOL x 2) But anyways, Cinderella tells Rose to get her glass slipper... and Vicky has the dragons attack the heads of their respective families: Beast gets stoned, Cinderella gets frozen, Snow White gets... an apple in her mouth (LOL), Rapunzel gets vined, and LeFrog gets turned into a frog (!) T: "Wow, that was just... wow, not good"
- Oh, and on top of controlling the dragons, Vicky also has control of the gate, allowing her to bring out a bunch of villains from previous episodes. The RegAc kids resolve to fight, and Rose's parents chip in their 2 cents... Clara: "I won't let you do this alone" Dave: "I have no idea what's going on" V: "You don't really believe you have a chance, do you?" R: "Uh of course, because fairy tales always have happy endings " Hans Christian Andersen and The Pogues would beg to differ on that... as the dragons quickly blast away the kids as they're bringing out their wand-balls, how brutal... V: "And so, the heroes were all blasted to bits, The End!"
- In a Pythonesque gag that is somewhat lost on US TV viewers (they do not run the closing credits in their original form), the closing credits theme plays for a few seconds, replete with the animation at the start of the closing credits playing out... before Gigi runs through the "title card", knocking it over (LOL) and rushing to the other RegAc pets to inform them of the fracas going on. Nut is lethargic today, but that's nothing compared to the sleepy Doc, who Gigi pelts with a slice of cheese (what else?)
- Doc is shown carrying the other pets in a basket to one of the castles, then we see the pets carrying their masters' wand-balls (and Gigi is also holding Clara's wand as well) and we discover what really happened to Team Rose after they got blasted: They got locked up, with Travis' limbs encased in a big ice cube (!) and the hen from the beanstalk episode guarding the cell with Cyrus. Hen: "So kid, biding time for the chance to take over like the rest of us?" C: "No way! Now that Vicky rules, I get to be her simpering lackey! It's the bestest!" (This is the kind of stuff Brafilius wouldn't stand up for in S7)
- So anyways, the kids (+ Rose's parents) are despondent in their cell, until the pets show up... From the angle they're showing, Cyrus and the hen would have to have a really bad case of tunnel vision not to have noticed the pets by now, but anyways, Gigi rolls Rose's and Clara's wandballs right past the so-called guards (continuity issue: Clara's wand is fully extended, except when Gigi rolls them) which means that we finally get some hilarious magic attacks (!) The hen gets pelted by a pumpkin ("Not again!") while Cyrus gets clobbered with ballgowns (C: "Dresses! So many! So heavy! So pretty!" LOL) King brings in Joy and LL's wands, and suddenly Hawk also has his as well (huh.) to free Travis...
- LL reminds the other that they need to get the glass slipper, but Travis reminds them that this means fighting Vicky again, as he pushes away the cell door in one casual push (LOL... and hence, the ice cube) "Uh, yeah, that's not gonna happen" Rose theorizes that Cinderella meant the other glass slipper, as in at Castle Cinderella. Ooh...
- Vicky is dragon riding with Candlewick (episode 13) when they spot the gang riding their dragons out of the Dragon Arena, so Vicky gets the help of her "witches": The Evil Queen, the Sea Witch, and Shortbread. Vicky has Evil Queen take Sea Witch to hunt them down, but Evil Queen insists that she's reformed now (uh, then explain why you were such a bad apple in your episode?) "Then hunt them down while thinking happy thoughts" EQ: "Close enough!" (Okay, that's more like it LOL)
- Meanwhile, Clara and Dave are trying to stay clear of the school for now, a task not made easier for Dave by the frogs attaching themselves to him (LOL) but Dave talks some sense into Rose: "I may not be an expert on this place, but I am an expert... on you Clara, and what you want... is not to hide, but to help Rose. Go, I can take care of myself (gets clobbered by frogs) I'm okay"
- The dragons are being chased by the Evil Queen and the Sea Witch riding a cloud, making it rain poison on the dragons. Joy's dragon gets the full brunt of it because (one guess) Joy turns into a frog, and LL has to swoop in to catch her, getting her dragon doused as well, and having to jump over to Travis' dragon... (Wow)
- Cinderella Castle, and the shoe elves from the sleepover ep see the coming dragons and run off... R: "What we need are the perfect pair of boots" T: "Enough with the shoes!" (LOL) Turns out the shoe elves are catapulting large boots at the witches Rose is wearing a large shoe elf hat: "Shoe elves rule! I'm so going to be one when I grow up!"
- Inside, gang arrives at the hall of shoes, and Astoria says that Granny Cinderella probably has some kind of magical protection... Although it turns out that the slipper is literally in a generic glass display case, Rose opening it triggers a large boot to drop on her (LOL!) The shoe elves take the glass slipper out before handing it to Rose... and she gets clobbered again (LOL x2!) H: "Man, Granny Cinderella does not mess around"
- Back at RegAc, the rest of the villains are chilling out with Vicky and a tied-up Ruby... Bad Wolf (ep 11) is eating Shortbread's cookies: "When are we going to eat something else other than cookies? They give me gas" Vicky says that she's planning to use RegAc as their base of operations to take over the world, but Ruby chews Vicky out: "This coming from someone who couldn't keep Rose and her team locked up for an hour!" Bridge troll (who sounds like 4Kids Knut) dips Ruby in a big cauldron, which (as per Vicky's comment last week) smells like troll feet...
- Team Rose shows up with the slipper, and Rose apparently tries to use it like a wand, prompting much laughter from the villain gang (LOL) That is, until Vicky's shoe magically comes off her finger and flies straight into Rose's face T: "Okay, maybe you were supposed to catch that?" Rose realizes she has both glass slippers, and swaps out her armor boots with the iconic footwear (HEH) "Feast the power of Cinderella!" Rose promptly slips in the slippers, causing even more laughter from the gang (LOL!) before Vicky has the dragons go vaporize them, but here comes Clara to the rescue: "Time to make up for my mistake!"
- Team Rose attacks each of their own respective dragons with their own magic, but ballgown magic won't cut it against the Cinderella dragon... Rose jumps out in front of Clara with her wand as the dragon attacks, and Clara gets blasted away, but as the smoke clears, turns out Rose is still standing, as her slippers turn into armor boots (uh...) and she ends up being super agile, as she "skates" around the area with her new powers (illustrated with a cheesy rainbow streak from her boots...) Clara: "This is the power of Cinderella" Hawk leans on the fourth wall like crazy: "A new fairytale power in the final battle? That means we win!"
- Vicky sees this and decides to get the dragons on the case and Rose keeps evading them, even kicking away an ice blast from Hawk's dragon (!) prompting cheering from everyone, even Miss Prim and Proper LL: "Yeah! Go Rose! Woo-hoo! Uh... I mean, fine work Rose, keep it up... please..."
- Anyways, Rose continues her awesomeness by running up a bunch of Astoria vines to a kick a dragon in the snout (!!), before using her pumpkin magic (her wand literally pops out of nowhere) to create a surfboard (uh...) Vicky decides to put Rose to sleep, but Rose doesn't think so... Rose evades Vicky's blast and strikes back with two pumpkin missiles (a bit overkill maybe?) knocking the brooch out of Vicky's possession, and her into the cauldron LOL! (Vicky's little "Uh-oh" is simply golden)
- So how to deal with the brooch: Travis throws LL at it, literally, and she strikes it with her wand, freeing the dragons from its spell, before landing on pumpkin goo (HEH) Of course the rest of the villains point out they're still there, but not only does Astoria point out they have their dragons back now, so many of their allies from previous eppies show up (such as the giant from the beanstalk ep, Humpty Dumpty, the Mad Hatter's son) Dragon king Low Ong reveals that the shoe elves told them to come, before adding: "Hey Rose, looking good!" Rothbart (the swan dance ep) tries to run away, but here comes the teachers, having also been freed... Beast: "Tell us we at least get to pound someone..." This makes Candlewick cower in fear (LOL)
- Jumpcut to a stage in the castle's quad as a bunch of frogs bring in and empty the cauldron, and Vicky angrily wants her revenge... and then she notices the teachers, upon which she claims she was under a spell by the wicked stepsisters and blames their granddaughter Ruby for this whole mess... Snow White: "Oh yes! That makes sense!" So Ruby gets banished/expelled/dragged off, leaving Team Rose incredulous at Vicky's continued evasion of punishment, but anyways, Team Rose goes on stage, as Cinderella announces that they'll be getting new regal armor soon as a reward, and even gives Rose (what else) a pair of shoes for her fairytale collection...
- And Clara's punishment is also up for review: The teachers are all okay with it, and even Snow White has to concede that "She's been quite brave, I admit" (though thinking about it, she hardly did much ) so that means Clara's banishment is lifted, and she's now free to travel between the two realms again, as Rose is congratulated by her friends: "Now that's a fairy tale ending! "
- Which takes us into the final scene/song "Take a Ride", easily the most epic RegAc song ever as we get a nice whirlwind tour (at one point, literally) of the fairytale land, by way of pumpkin carriage (Travis sits on the roof LOL) and the family dragons. Just wow...
- Despite the subtitle of this thread, I feel RegAc is more PopPixie than Winx Club: Not only because of the focus on humor, but also that, except for the stuff involving Clara, there's hardly anything major in the plot that depends on previous episodes to understand... Then again, that just means there's plenty of room to improve in S2

- Right off the bat, we meet the new villain: the Snow Queen We learn that she plans on obliterating the 6 great fairy tale families... but for now, she's just peddling snow globes in Not!Gardenia Meanwhile, Rose is putting Thumbelina's thimble in her collection and ends up plowing through, making Snow Queen scramble to grab her globes as they fall... while Rose's wand hits the ground hard (this will be important)... And Clara also rams into the Snow Queen's customer, because she's heading to RegAc to teach fashion We also meet the new villain's kid Kira, who has a valley girl twang about her... and the exposition that she's heading to RegAc as well is met with a condescending "I actually know the name of my school (eyeroll)" Of course, we have to mention the fact that the art style is much more refined and easier on the eyes than the S1 look...
- After about half a season of not falling through the sky, Rose (plus Clara and Gigi) falls through the sky: "This happens to me all the time when I forget the magic words " Their clothes change midfall, and Clara changing to a full dress really can't be that good for her aerodynamic profile... Rose's wand is leaking pumpkin magic like crazy and it takes two attempts to get it to make pumpkin parachutes, and the leaking magic coalesces into... pumpkin minions
- The others are waiting for Rose... A: "I hope she remembers the entrance ceremony is graded" (HEH) J: "Do you know what always calms me down? Centipedes" (by which she means eating them LOL!) While Rose is dropping in (literally) and sending Clara off, the pumpkin minions cause everyone to scatter around (a pumpkin minion takes a picture of an ice-cream cone stuck to Finn's head while standing next to Pinnochia LOL) Hawk ends up tripping over a bunch of them while running towards Rose... T: "Did something seriously just clobber Hawk and not me? Woo-hoo! This is gonna be my lucky day!" Guess who a pumpkin-minion-comandeered dragon ends up ramming into LOL!
- Rose meets up with her friends, while Gigi trips over Nut's tail (HEH!) "It's so awesome to see everyone! Makes me want to break into song..." and just like that, we get a special back to school song, during which Rose clobbers Travis and Finn gets poked by Pinnochia's suddenly extending nose, before falling on top of Gerald LOL
- After a short interlude of some of the pumpkin minions cutting a string from a light, time for the entrance ceremony, where Kira introduces herself as granddaughter of Jack Frost (and another interlude of a pumpkin minions dressed up as Kira bumping another dressed as Granny Cinderella) Dr. LeFrog has some bad news... Granny C: "You barfed flies into my shoes again" LOL! The actual news is that the Snow Queen has returned, and as Granny C explains to the student body that she's a dangerous fairy tale villain, Vicky shows off that she has all her trading cards and posters, which she shoves in "our" faces... Astoria suspects that the pumpkin minions might be working for the Snow Queen, but Rose dismisses this: "I felt something with them, like a connection. But more importantly: You think I could get something from the Snow Queen for my collection? On second thought, nope nope nope! This is not the right moment" LOL!
- Fashion class with Clara... Travis dismisses learning to cut and sew as being "girly stuff" (HEH!) as Clara shows off by using her wand to dress up Violet Ogre, and then Gigi: "As you can see, the right outfit is a kind of magic" ... and then a pumpkin minion denudes Gigi LOL! Rose: "I'm a Cinderella, right? I should be a natural with dresses!" Jumpcut to Rose finding out she's stitched her RegAc tie to the mannequin (HEH) Still doing better than Finn making a dress that's way-oversized for Leena, and Violet flexing her muscles and sending the buttons on her dress flying into Doc and Vidal playing with cards LOL!
- Kira has been paired off with Vicky and Cyrus, the latter of whom gets knocked out by sleeping gas from their dress's choker (HEH) as Vicky explains that she's an expert at evil sleeves ("If you're into that kind of thing") Rose finds that the thimble is perfect for fashion class... but not her fingers (!) No problem for Gigi, though, as he helps Rose measure her dress... J: "Frogtastic, Gigi's a natural!" A: "Looks like our grade is safe"
- No sooner than she says that though, another wave of pumpkin minions arrive at fashion class and create more mayhem: Travis blindly running into Rose! Finn and Gerald being binded together with cloth! Clara getting rolled up in cloth! Pumpkin minions breakdancing! While everyone's trying to gather them up, Kira leaves the class: "Since everyone's busy, I've got places to be " Time for the kids to take out their wands to take out the pumpkin minions: Hawk ices them but a couple other minions shove the minion ice cubes into Hawk to knock him over (LOL) Rose uses her pumpkin magic to create a pumpkin prison for everyone... which is actually a small truck with a funnel on the roof for the kids to throw the pumpkin minions into it, basketball style (Joy and Hawk really get into it LOL) Since it's a truck though, one of the pumpkin minions drives the truck around class (!) until it's stopped by Astoria's vines...
- Over at the courtyard, the regular teachers are joined by Granny Ironfan... Her dragon says: "I'm sure it's because you're the best granny Ironfan, everyone wants to hang with you... Did I say granny? Because I meant princess, queen Ironfan" Kira is chatting with her mom via crystal ice ball (heh) while eavesdropping on the teachers talking about the imminent Snow Queen threat. Coach Beast considers it great news that the Snow Queen is coming for them first, but Rapunzel is bewildered at his claim...
- Back to the kids as they chase the pumpkin minions to the dragon arena (T: "That can't be good") and this time, the entire gang gets clobbered by a pumpkin-minion-driven dragon LOL! R: "It's that time... my favorite time... Dragon time!" (Rose's dragon shields her from raining pumpkin minions ) Gang gets on their dragons (without their supposedly required riding outfits, huh) to deal with the dragons being driven by the pumpkin minions... H: "Let's show these dress wreckers"
- After a bit with some pumpkin minions swinging a still-flying dragon by the tail and flinging Hawk off, necessitating a rescue by Rose, Rose notices that the pumpkin minions seem to be responding to her, as she manages to get them to steer away from her dragon, and so decides to have them jump off the dragon they're riding... right into Travis and Joy's faces, ultimately leading to a four-dragon "pileup" (!) After extricating herself and her dragon from the pileup, Rose winds up falling off her dragon after climbing too high, but the pumpkin minions form a chain to rescue her (Cool!) R: "Hey, I don't think these are bad guys at all" J: "So does this mean... we're not under attack then?" (Rose also loses her wand but nothing comes of this, since she has it back by the next big setpiece)
- But while this is going on, Kira signals the Snow Queen to come out (on a dragon that somewhat reminds me a bit of Icy's S7 fairy animal Frostbite) and strike the teachers + Ironfan, encasing them in a ginormous ice cube... The kiddies (now back on their dragons) spot this and head towards the courtyard... Travis says of the pumpkin minions that Rose's riding with: "Rose, you'd fly faster without... them!" T: "They're a menace!" (gets smacked in face by one of them LOL) R: "Aw, he likes you"
- As the SQ approaches the ginormous ice cube, Lingling and two other randoms show up, and SQ takes out an empty globe and puts the two randoms in it, while LL manages to avoid getting victimized... Just as SQ's going to do the same with the teachers, here come the kiddies on their dragons, and Joy tries hitting SQ with frog magic, but "A novice at transformation could never threaten the Snow Queen" (her words!) as she ice cubes most of the kiddies (bar Rose and Hawk) Thankfully, Rose still has her pumpkin minions, so she has them distract "that overgrown popsicle maker" (again, exact words)... as she puts on her glass slippers (using her wand, of course) to take on SQ, using her fancy footwork to avoid and deflect her spells and grab her snow globe: "Perfect for my fairy tale collection!"
- Not!Frostbite ends up running into and shattering the teachers' ice cube while chasing the pumpkin minions, while Rose stomps the other kiddies' ice cube, forcing SQ to quickly gather her globes before making a hasty retreat, but not before promising that they'll soon be part of her collection... Meanwhile, Kira throws a tantrum about her mother's defeat, accidentally revealing SQ as her mother (rather than grandmother, hmm) to Vicky and Cyrus, and Vicky promises that "The Snow Queen will win next time, because she'll have our help" Ooh!
- Epilogue, and Rose and family talk about the pumpkin minions, which Rose christens, well, see ep title... Granny explains that the Pompoms are part of her magic and adds: "You are getting stronger every day. Your abilities are growing unpredictably" (which I can totally imagine FG telling Bloom ) Clara: "Huh, at least they seem to be good at dressmaking" Rose is considering wearing the dress they've made to the ball, as we end on a bit of slapstick with Gigi and the Pompoms... before head into new-look closing credits based around hand-drawn placards of the characters on sticks, a la the pixie puppet show in Winx 2x07 (I wouldn't mind seeing a comic in this art style )

- So it seems like Rainbow is essentially trying to mold RegAc into Winx, as the first scene we see this week is the Snow Queen riding her dragon Blizzard... smack into RegAc's barrier LOL (the Winxification gets more blatant later) So she has to call Kira via snow/crystal ball... Kira: "The way you were talking, I could have sworn you were the drama queen" So RegAc's put up a "Barrier of Eternal Spring", and Kira responds: "Of course they did... So predictable" LOL. After a gag of SQ trying to deny she crashed into the barrier, we see that Kira's with Vicky and Cyrus, and he's brought snacks HEH! Vicky's got a score to settle with the grandchildren, and SQ recommends them to deal with Lingling Ironfan: "I think you'll find her... alone (cackles)"
- After a quick gag of two Pompoms going around on a paper airplane playing a trumpet, we cut to LL alone (of course) pondering: "Why do I have to be a team of one? Just because I can fight alone doesn't mean I want to" Meanwhile, Kira brings out a snowball which Vicky puts some potion on, and the sassy scion of the power-hungry villainess turns the regular into a monster. https://spiderbraids.dreamwidth.org/55248.html
- Rose tells Travis that she's overheard her grandma telling her mom that there will be a secret ceremony today just for Team Rose. This news is briefly interrupted by her being run over by some Pompoms, and Travis asks: "Are these little spazzy freaks gonna follow you everywhere?!" R: "Travis, they are not freaks! I made them, with my pumpkin magic! So like they're my... cuties... my spazzy magic pumpkin cuties!" Meanwhile, Travis finds a jasmine (LL's favorite flower) on the ground. That flower looks a bit too big to be a jasmine, but anyways... T: "Today is going to be my lucky day!" Pompoms: chase Travis LOL!
- The monster approaches, and seems like Monster!LL is also cursed with endless hunger... Rose hides behind a bush, and MLL takes nice large chomp out the bush, and Rose runs off... as we cut to a classroom, where a Pompom is performing Figaro on a balcony (LOL) until Rose runs in to tell everyone about the monster, and the Pompom falls off the balcony (double LOL!) Today's teacher is professor Wolfram, who is teaching heroics class, and he decides to have the students capture the monster as an assignment HEH. Meanwhile, Travis is noticing that LL is missing...
- Rose tells the rest of her team about the ceremony, and although the true purpose is a secret, she speculates that they're going to give pets to the Pompoms. The kids look disgusted, while the Pompoms are in a celebratory mood LOL! Back to the MLL attack: MLL approaches Team Rose and we get a) Rose thinking that the monster likes her shoes (LOL), and b) MLL seeing Rose as a cupcake and Travis as a slice of pizza... surprisingly they don't make Hawk into an apple fritter or something (HEH!) MLL grabs Travis and we get a surreal scene of Travis turning into a pizza slice, but eventually Travis gets tossed aside, and ends up landing on the trumpet-playing Pompom... which makes it make trumpets noises from his mouth LOL
- MLL runs around in the quad, trying to avoid students and resist the urge to eat, and Team Vicky's spells. MLL eventually trips, and Team Vicky close in for the coup de grace as MLL begs for mercy... Rose sees this and tells Team Vicky to stop, which gives MLL time to run off, but soon later Finn tackles the monster and Violet and Leena put it under a cage... Team Vicky head to the case, but Rose stops them again: "The monster is captured, and helpless. You can't hurt it... that's just evil!" MLL breaks the cage and eats one of the pieces LOL! V: "Hey, she's not helpless... I guess we can blast her" Travis is suspicious about why Vicky would call the monster a she, and her cover-up is hilarious LOL...
- Rose has the Pompoms attack Team Vicky: "Aw, they just wanna snuggle you" HEH! (One even steals Vicky's ribbon LOL) Over with MLL, Travis tracks the monster to another bush, and he observes that she didn't eat the jasmine flowers... Rose runs in, and ends up making the monster scurry off... as she announces she has an idea (and Finn and Gerald's reaction made the perfect cap to the S2 trailer LOL)
- Pumpkin transition! Team Rose is on their dragons... R: "And so I thought, the monster is always hungry, why don't we invite him for dinner?" Her idea involves airdropping food for the monster from the sky, with some help from the Pompoms (pineapple falling on Gigi's head LOL) Travis is carrying a big cauldron of soup, and he ends up falling off his dragon: He hits the ground, cauldron lands bottomside up on his head, drenching him in soup LOL, but it doesn't end there, since after the monster takes the cauldron off Travis' head, Hawk and Astoria try to hit the monster with their magic and end up hitting Travis, plus MLL threw the cauldron up in the air as she ran away, and it conks Travis in the head LOL! Seriously though, with all these accidents Travis should have plenty of internal bleeding and concussions by now
- MLL gets to another RegAc public area, and Kira decides to introduce Team Vicky to her crystal magic... which is much less bling-y than it sounds, since it manifests itself as magic snowballs, which doesn't impress Cyrus it seems, but anyways, Kira is repeatedly pummeling MLL with those snowballs as Team Rose drops in from their dragons. H: "Suddenly I feel like defending the monster" T: "Yes, and we're going to" Travis says his intution or whatnot is telling him that "That monster is my... soul mate??" A: R: "...Works for me!" LOL
- So the gang takes out their wands to attack... Kira: "What, so this monster is your girlfriend now???" They aim their wands at each other... until Cyrus notices that the monster's escaped and the rest fall over (maximum LOL!) Travis chases the monster on one of his tornadoes until she sits down forlornly on the RegAc roof, and Travis is all "HUH." Back down below, Joy takes on Cyrus, and he's taken out by one zap of frog magic, plus his own wand falling on top of him LOL! Astoria hairgrabs Vicky, but Vicky sasses that she "can't wait to get you expelled for attacking another team instead of the monster"... but Astoria doesn't care and tosses Vicky into a bush LOL! Hawk's attack on Kira has no effect on her, and Kira fires a snowball that leaves a big mark on a tower in the BG... H: "Whoa, you realize we're still your classmates right?" K: "Oh, I know exactly who you are" Kira proceeds to strike them with snowballs, and Rose gets thrown up in the air... so Rose decides it's glass slippers time, and despite landing feet first from such a high fall, her slippers do not shatter (HUH.) and Rose proceeds to defend Hawk by kicking away Kira's snowballs (put that way, it doesn't sound very exciting, and the actual event isn't much better) K: "I am so telling my mom!" Hawk points out that Kira is insane, and Rose announces that "No one messes with my best boy!" Well said, and her attempt to backtrack is hilarious
- Rose sashays over to Travis, but Travis says "Stay back Rose, I got this" Travis quickly gets tossed away, however, he quickly returns on a tornado to confront the monster, who then roars very loudly at him, before picking him up and shaking him... causing him to drop the jasmine he's been carrying around all day apparently, so MLL tosses him aside again (remaining on the roof this time) and picks up the flower. This makes Travis realize that the monster is his soul mate LL (he's thinking in those terms already?) This makes MLL turn back to plain old LL, and LL asks how he knew, and Travis responds with: "Love goes beyond appearances, my heart saw the truth" Which I can imagine Brandon telling Stella in 3x04...
- This leads into another song "One in a Million" (previously used in Flowerpocalypse), with scenes like T/LL and Rose sliding down a pumpkin vine slide, T/LL running up an ice ramp on pumpkin skateboards, Kira extending her leg to trip T/LL only to get hair-yanked by Astoria instead, and Pompoms drawing hearts all over their faces LOL! Rose ends this little cutesy sequence by announcing it's time for their little secret ceremony...
- And now, the ceremony Rose has been looking forward to: Granny Cinderella announces that they should have expected that SQ would go after LL since she does not have a team or pet, so she decides to put her on Rose's team... Plus, Clara reveals a special reward: they're also getting new dragon-riding outfits, and unlike last season's outfits, they're not only color-coded, we also get a bunch of full-on transformation sequences, replete with magical-girl style endboards, taking up plenty of extra screen time, rivaling the initial Believix transformation or the Butterflix dance Rose being Rose, she abso-blooming-lutely loves the boots and her family's dragon even adds that their enhanced breath will help them in battles... LL conjures up her pet: a monkey which she calls Bao, and as with ep 1, we end with some more Pompom/pets slapstick, this time involving drawing on Bao's face, and Bao ending up riding a balloon... on the balloon LOL!

- We open with Team Rose showing off their dragon flying show, and they're aiming to win best performance at, well, see title. They're up against Merlin and his sparkle magic, as he has Marvin (previously seen last season) and Merlina (baby girl, new) carrying some jars of sparkle magic over to his booth. Guess who's got an evil idea...
- Fair! R: "Look at all the cool stuff! I wonder if any of them have shoes for sale!" LOL! Rose runs around the booths, until Astoria stops her with her usual hairgrab and points out they have to run their own booth and show off their magic: "We're being graded" R: "Graded? But it's a giant party!" A: "It's Regal Academy. Everything is graded" HEH! "And the most popular booth gets the highest grade. So we have to get people here and then wow them" Kinda like what Rainbow has to do with RegAc LOL. Rose's idea: Pompoms and flyers (Gigi brings in a huge stack of flyers, and the Pompoms take the load off of him )
- Team Rose's booth, where Travis gets hit in the face by an incoming girl LOL. Joy and Astoria are bewildered at the queue of girls lined up. Girl: "Can you use mirror magic to tell my fortune?" Hawk drags in a really big mirror and calls on "Mirror Hawk" (who has the same voice phase effect as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvTJwoUZjCI, but doesn't come with the extra ditziness ) She asks MH who she's going to marry, and MH simply replies "Hawk, definintely" Real Hawk has a horrified look on his face LOL! Hawk tries to dissuade her by saying that MH just woke up, but she tackles him anyway, and the girls all soon join in the dogpile, prompting a facepalm from the no-nonsense Astoria... and back outside, Snow Queen and Blizzard are anticipating the destruction of the RegAc barrier (OOH!)
- Back to Rose, who's having the Pompoms pass out flyers, while she gawks at the celebs attending like Sheherezade, Puss in Boots and Humpty Dumpty (I also spot the Shan monkey and the Hatter kid from 1x13 in the mix as well ) Rose asks Humpty to sign her magazine (hmm?) and go rock climbing with her, and gets the expected response: Humpty saying "No, you'll break me!" before running quickly in the opposite direction LOL!
- After an interlude of a Pompom using mad flyer tossing skills, next scene has a couple of anthro canine guards being suspicious of three ladies in hoods. They call themselves the Weird Sisters (huh, wonder if they run a college for witches? ), and the guards have never heard of them. A guard holds up his list, and there are pictures of at least three villains who'd definitely be unwelcome at this party, HUH... and another guard notes their familiar smells: Shortcake, crabs, and feet. Turns out Vicky is the president of the student committee, and lets the Weirds in because they're supposed to operate a booth. Vicky then reveals their real identities to her classmates: "Meet the Shortbread Witch, the Sea Witch, and the Evil Queen" (And I can see that Shortbread actually was on the guard's list, so what gives?)
- Another interlude, with Finn showing off his ocean magic to fill an area with like a billion gallons of sea water, on the request of a mermaid girl (so there are mermaid girls at RegAc, huh?) Rose is trying to get the spectators to watch their dragon show, but they're too busy watch Merlin and his sparkle magic, which he fashions into a dragon quite similar to how the Great Dragon has been portrayed in Winx... Merlin: "That's just a taste of their power! And speaking of taste, sparkle magic is not just super sweet and tasty, but also super fizzy!" Looks like the Pompoms want to try some, and jump over into the booth, before jumping on top of Merlin: "Pumpkin monkeys!" Merlina laughs at the shenanigans...
- The Weirds are dragging out their sword in the stone for a bunch of spectators to try their luck on, while Team Vicky steals a couple jars of sparkle magic (OOH!) Coach Beast is the first to have a go, and it drains his energy (literally) CB: "It takes a lot out of ya..." EQ: "Oh, it takes everything out of you" As others head over to try it out, CB can barely get anywhere before he collapses in a heap (!) Rose sees the sword in the stone and boldly declares: "Our dragon show will make them forget all about it" Nice detail: one of the posts on their gazebo has a rose (the flower) painted on it Hawk decides to make their performance extra dangerous, and put on their new color-coded regal armor, so insert long-winded transformations here
- So Team Rose decides to go all Blue Angels with their dragon flying routine (replete with yellow magic trails), but the Weirds' sword is still getting more attention... and draining everyone of their powers, as two Pompoms laugh at Snow White being drained, during another Pompom interlude... Rose magics up a bunch of flyers with her pumpkin magic (does it work that way?) and beans the Sea Witch LOL! She sees Rose's flyer and gets steamed...
- Astoria notices that still no one's paying attention: "Today is a bad hair day" Travis notices fireworks going off in the sky, and it makes the drained teachers etc. take notice, as Merlin is horrified that his sparkle magic is being abused... Astoria is glad that they're looking up now, but they quickly find the source of the fireworks (one guess)
- Vicky takes out another rocket and "lights it up" with her wand and sends it soaring through the sky, and it explodes before taking on the form of the Winx dragon, bewildering Travis... LL points out it's sparkle magic, and Travis asks: "How dangerous could sparkle magic be?" The dragon emits a blast of fire and sends it flying into the barrier causing cracks to appear... LL: "Sparkle magic is very powerful and dangerous" Hawk tries to attack the dragon, but his snow magic just goes through it: "Maybe it's just a trick" The dragon fires back and strikes him off his dragon, so Rose decides to rescue him, with an assist by a Travis tornado ("I'll do my beast" ) and her glass slippers, and she jumps them back on her dragon... But hardly a moment has passed when he gets struck off again by a blast from below, however, he's saved by his dragon...
- One guess where that blast was from... The Weirds derobe, and take a look at their handiwork. Snow White can barely get a single "You..." out before the Sea Wtich mockingly offers a fistbump (LOL) as the Evil Queen taunts her: "You'll only feel like that a little longer... and then you'll never feel anything again!" After briefly cutting back to SQ waiting with an empty snowglobe, Snow White tries to attack back, but her wand is simply too feeble to do anything, and EQ tosses her into another booth (!) Hawk sees this and rushes to her rescue, but Rose and Astoria point out what's up for stake regarding the barrier, as SQ, Blizzard, and the sparkle magic dragon continue blasting away at the barrier... so Team Rose decides to attack at once, basically stabbing the dragon with a bunch of magical vines (and the frogs look seriously out of place in the combined attack IMO)
- Now this is where things get a bit screwy: We see the Weirds casting their spells at the barrier as well, but then the sparkle magic dragon starts chasing Hawk, and eventually both Hawk and Rose crash into the ground. Despite the nasty crash, Rose manages to point out the sparkle magic dragon to the Pompoms, and the Pompoms make quick work of eating the super sweet sparkle magic, leading to a visual of a bunch of Pompoms gathered in the shape of a dragon collapsing to the ground... R: "Sparkle magic. Simply sweet!"
- The barrier repairs itself, but that still leaves the Weirds to deal with: EQ decides to take the teachers with them, so they use their magic to move the non-teachers out and put the teachers in a pile in the middle... but then Shortbread gets put on ice by guess who? However, the Weirds quickly break out, and Evil Queen tosses Hawk back and saps his energy, but here come LL, Joy and Astoria...
- LL fans the Weirds away, Astoria uses her vines to knock their wands out of their hands and over to her, before Joy turns them into frogs (YAY!) However, the wands suddenly fly out of Astoria's hand and turns LL, Joy and Astoria into apples (BOO!) before EQ turns back to normal and takes back her wand: "You think frog magic could beat me? I'm the Evil Queen! Nobody can turn into a frog the fairest of them all! (goes over to Hawk with wand in tow) Here, I'll make sure Hawk doesn't eat you..." But then out of nowhere she gets a glass slipper kick in the arm from Rose (!) before then getting kicked over to the sword in the stone (huh, that's acceptable for Nick Jr.?)
- Then Travis grabs her arms out of nowhere (literally, there's no one at the stone as EQ gets kicked over, and it cuts to Travis already having grabbed her arms!) and tries to get her to tell how to break the curse and restore everyone's powers: "Never, I've already won!" So Travis threatens to have her grab the sword, but EQ points out it'll take his powers as well, and adds: "Both at the same time will overload it. It will destroy us!" Travis needs Rose's help to keep EQ's hands on the sword, as Hawk crawls over to his apple'd up teammates...
- Travis gets ejected from the stone somehow, leaving both EQ and Rose to get their powers drained as they both faint, and we get a nice long face to black from the unconscious Rose... and the next thing we see is Rose waking up to Hawk and Travis... and the rest of the now fully-awake crowd of teachers and spectators (!) Rose is confused at what happened, but Hawk points out "You broke the curse, by willingly giving up your magic to stop the evil queen!" Hawk confirms this by pointing at EQ being held prisoner at a stake, guarded by a dragon, a canine guard, and the billy goats. EQ: "It's almost always that... or a kiss" Which is what a couple Pompoms are doing, and the still-frogged up other Weirds are angling for LOL.
- Her slipper-mode boots dematerialize into regular dragon rider boots, and her wand rematerializes in front of her. R: "So my pumpkin magic is..." But without explanation, her wand acts up and starts magic-ing up more pumpkins that splatter in the sky, causing the crowd to flee the raining pumpkin goo, as Rose and some Pompoms jump in celebration before we end with a freezeframe. At least when Winx 1x10 US had similar shenanigans it could be blamed on 4Kids, but no excuse here... Yeah, and no closure on the grade or performance judgement, either...

- We open with Team Rose making their way to Snow White castle in Rose's pumpkin dragster, with a Pompom riding the aerofoil cowboy-style before flying off LOL. There's a big cliff ahead, so they need to deploy the pumpkin chute... and it turns out there are a bunch of Pompoms obstructing the chute LOL! Rose decides to rocket over the cliff straight to the castle instead, before deploying emergency brakes... by which we mean Travis LOL! (esp his feet afterwards) Travis asks why they took the dragster here and Rose answers in her typical Rose way: "Because! It was awesome!!" LOL!
- In the castle, Hawk has spent all night with his wand at a magic mirror. Mirror Hawk: "Magic mirrors aren't your thing" Hawk: "Of course they're my thing! I'm a Snow White!" MH: "Then how come you can't work one?!" H: "Maybe because you're not helping!" The mirror reflection turns to his grandma, and mirror Snow White grabs him by the ear and drags him into the mirror... Doc isn't sure about what happened, but decides to take a nap.
- On the "other side" is a big room of mirrors, where Snow White chews out Hawk that he won't be ready for the upcoming magic mirror exam, and the rest of the team are busy wrecking the path to her castle: "And by they I mean Rose" LOL!
Hawk suggests that he should practice with the actual family shield so that "I can be good enough to defend myself, and the castle!" while Snow White points out how embarassing it would be for a Snow White to fail the exam, and adds: "Pass, or you won't ever touch the family shield!" H: "But you can't! I've been dreaming about the mirror shield since I was a kid!" "Well... then you'll have to learn to live with disappointment. Just like I do." (BURN!) Snow White doesn't want Rose to bring her little orange freaks (her words) either...
- Speaking of, Rose is telling the Pompoms to not cause mischief, and for good measure has the pets watch them as well... Hawk emerges from the mirror and we get a chit-chat with Team Rose about Hawk not being allowed to use the shield, during which we learn that Travis understandably wouldn't be allowed to use his family's item (hmm...), and Hawk explains that "Nothing I do is ever good enough for her..." MH: "Well maybe she's right" LOL!
- Astoria throws Hawk a cloth and optimistically says that they can impress them at the next magic mirror exam, but then she finds out that it's today (!) and faints with rigor mortis on top of Vidal LOL! So anyway, this is why they're at Snow White castle, and Hawk puts the cloth on the mirror
- Classroom, which is the room on the "other side" of the mirror, which Snow White calls the exclusive "Hall of a Thousand Mirrors" (ooh!) Each team's assignment is to use a magic mirror to retrieve a beautiful and dangerous object as shown on their respective scroll (which talks LOL!) and as demonstration, Snow White has Dr. LeFrog get a scale from a Bolt Dragon for repair her shoes, leading to scenes of him getting smacked in the face by birds and tree branches LOL! He emerges out of the mirror with both a nest of his head, and the needed scale. Meanwhile, Kira tells Vicky that mom's given her a super powerful curse to put in the main mirror (HEH!)
- On to the exam! After scenes of Team Alicia and Team Finn/Gerald's hilarious attempts at the exam (the former involving an undersea creature, and the latter featuring a Gerald slapping a Shan monkey and getting bonked on the head LOL!) We move on to Team Rose, who get a dragonstone for their magical object, which according to Astoria can melt anything (important!) R: "So cool!" J: "Actually, so warm!" LOL! Seems that Snow White has added an extra time limit to his proceedings, so let's get to it!
- Hawk is still having issues with Mirror Hawk, so Astoria hair-tosses him out of the way to open the portal. Looks like Astoria wants to do everything herself, but Snow White then announces that everyone must take part, Rose included, so Rose goes in and quickly gets the stone: "The perfect thing for my fairy tale collection" We pull out to reveal that the small corridor is on the mouth of a volcano... And there are a bunch of dragons hiding in a nearby cave (!) which cause Rose to back off the corridor, leading to a really long scene of all of Rose's teammates reaching through tht portal to try to stop Rose from falling (Astoria's hair and Frog!Joy's tongue may be involved LOL)
- Eventually they all fall into the portal anyway, but Lingling fans Travis over to an island in the middle of the lagoon for him to break their fall LOL! So how to get back up to the portal: Involves Hawk making an ice ramp and Travis making a tornado, flinging them back through the portal with seconds remaining, and Frog!Joy gets her kiss from a Pompom LOL.
- Snow White begins to berate Hawk when a bunch of those dragons come out of the mirror sending many students scurrying, with some Pompoms kissing them and playing with them... and a Pompom even conks one with a pan LOL! Vicky: "Thanks to Rose's little freaks, we've got our chance" Kira puts a spell on the main mirror: "Hello beautiful... Have a snowball!" This leads to a bunch of chaos in the room, which sees the dragons rushing back through the mirror and more importantly, Cinderella, Snow White, and LeFrog getting sucked through another mirror to Snow Queen's castle (!) where upon they get iced (!!)
- Team Rose returns to the room along with their pets to check the mirrors. Joy gets a nest on her head, a giant tries to kiss Travis, and the Pompoms try to still play with the dragons... Eventually, Rose sees Gigi in an ice cube, and when Rose asks which one she looked at in, Gigi indicates the main mirror- Rose jumps through, and quickly finds herself having to quickly evade SQ's attacks... LL soon follows, and after hearing that Rose can free the teachers, offers to distract SQ: "I love challenges!" Rose still has the dragonstone: "Made of magic fire? It doesn't feel very warm " But then she taps it with her wand, and now she's in business
- LL runs around and distracts SQ... by knocking off some of her globes off the shelf with fan magic LOL. Doesn't sound like much, but by the time SQ's put them back up, the dragonstone has melted the teachers free. Teachers attack, but SQ deflects them away: "You think you can defeat me in my castle?" Rose: "Not so fast! Prepare to be uncomfortably warm!" Rose tosses the dragonstone at SQ, but SQ just "turns it off" with her wand and tosses it aside, but the rest of Team Rose are arriving, and Hawk catches it and puts it in his shirt (important!) T: "Did you save that for Rose???" H:" No, I..."
- No time for pleasantries, everyone has to rush back to RegAc through the portal, but SQ curses the portal to send them to LeFrog Swamp. LeFrog: "She picked the wrong place, my power is strongest here!" Well, Blizzard puts him on ice, and it doesn't take long for Cinderella, Joy, Astoria to get iced as well (!) Time for Rose to change her shoes then, but as she lunges forward, SQ ices her (!!) Still looks like SQ will get hit by the Rose-sicle, but Blizzard takes grabs it with its claws, and SQ hitches a ride back through the portal, through which Hawk also follows...
- Back to Snow White castle, and none of the remaining teachers are able to follow, so Snow White tells Hawk to break the curse, revealing this tidbit: "Think Hawk. The mirror's true form is a shield!" Rose and SQ emerge through another portal... SQ: "Rose is safe, and always will be... inside my show globe! But I can wait if you'd like join her..." Hawk follows Rose and SQ through another portal back to the Hall of a Thousand Mirrors... where all of the students (plus Pompoms) are on ice. SQ attacks Hawk from a mirror, and uses the iced-up Rose as a shield. H: "Hiding behind Rose? You're a coward!" SQ points out she's just using a shield: "That's your family's magic item, right?"
- Looks like Hawk puts up an Elsa-style ice barrier as he's trying to summon his shield from the mirror (with the same words that Rose puts on her slippers LOL!) He's denied, as their talking scroll tries to remind them of something, but SQ continues to attack, and hits one of the mirrors, which falls on top of Finn's icecube, knocking Hawk over and sending his wand flying behind one of the mirrors (!)
- MH: "Hawk wake up! Stop playing... Get up or Rose is doomed! Everyone is!" Hawk: "Shh!" LOL! The scroll comes over, and tells Hawk that he hasn't turned in his exam assignment yet (LOL) Hawk takes out the dragonstone and smacks it into the scroll: "Tell them that I passed!" Rose is grinning from cheek to cheek LOL as SQ says: "You don't know when to stay down!"
- Hawk gets up... and realizes his wand is missing LOL as SQ starts running again... MH hands over his own wand and has Hawk use it (does it work that way? ) Hawk puts up a barrier, runs over to the mirror and tries summoning his family's shield again, and this time it works (!)
- Hawk bounces SQ's next attack off his shield, and SQ tries shielding herself with Icecubed!Rose... but this time it shatters the ice cube, and Rose runs around before punting an ice shard into SQ's face LOL! and making her escape... Hawk catches Rose... R: "Wow, did you plan that?" H: "Uh, not this part. Got lucky there!" They're about to kiss when Team Alicia, plus the rest of Team Rose and the teachers, emerge from the mirrors in the room...
- SW: "I can't believe this but, I'm not disappointed in you! I'm the opposite, whatever that is." R: "The word is proud... You're proud of him!" SW: "Whatever." SW announces that Hawk will be the protector of the magic mirror, and everyone cheers, and even Mirror Hawk concedes the argument much to Hawk's delight... One last gag has Team Vicky (having apparently just made it out) being dragged back into the mirror with an undersea creature... Vicky: "What now? He already showed us his entire stupid shell collection" (gets dragged off screen LOL)

- We open for a brief visit to Not!Gardenia for the first time since the first episode of this season, where Gigi and Rose have stayed up all night to make a gift for Astoria, replete with appropriately-sized mugs of coffee LOL. Over at Astoria's tower, the gang (+ Pompoms) surprises her for her birthday offering gifts: Hawk holds up the most delicious apple... and decides to eat it himself LOL. Joy holds up a slimy swamp burger (yuck! Thankfully she eats it herself as well) and Travis offers Grandpa Beast's armpit brush LOL A: "But that's a brush for animals!" Rose's gift turns out to be a picture of them, surrounded with a macaroni-art picture frame (nice!) Grandma Rapunzel has her own gift for Astoria: The magical family item, the Fire Bangles. A: "Where's the owners' manual?" Granny: "There isn't one" LOL! "You have to trust them, let them into your heart" A: "Sounds easy enough"
Astoria tries turning them on the same way Hawk and Rose use theirs to no avail, and two Pompoms suddenly run of with them... that is, unti lthey levitate out of their grasp and starting chasing them. Punzie explains that "You can't control them with orders. Use your heart... not your mind!" During the chaos the two Pompoms repeatedly get Rose bonked by books LOL, and the Fire Bangles eventually toss those two Pompoms towards a window, but they manage to hang on to the window curtain... and get splashed by a stream of green gunk. Turns out Astoria's dragon is sick and sneezes all over them (!) Seriously, we already had a sick dragon plot last year, do we really need one again? Anyways, according to Punzie, the dragon ate slug snarfers again, which Joy finds yummy LOL.
- Dragon arena... Kira comments on the situation going on: "They look so serious" While Punz explains that she wants the big toe essence from the giant's castle because it is the only thing that can heal her, two Pompoms bonk each other while playing tug-of-war with a slug snarfer LOL. Hawk points out that the giant's castle is outside the barrier of eternal spring, which is convenient for Kira to call her mom LOL. Vicky: "Tell her I've got a friend who can help"
- After another round of those long-winded transformations, everyone's heading to the giant's castle, with the Pompoms hitching a ride on Rose's dragon's tail LOL. After arrival, Hawk has them leave but says "We'll whistle when we need you" The gang heads to the castle and discovers, well see title "So, what are you all staring at?" R: "Not your wart" GW: "It's a beauty mark!" LOL! So they ask for the essence but wife says she needs it more than them... As Astoria says they need it to heal her sick dragon, wife notices the bangles and thinks they're earrings, so wife has Astoria hand them over in exchange... and wife promptly refuses to give it to them anyway
- Wife heads off with the "earrings" and closes the door, but Travis manages to jam them to allow Team Rose to enter (not before briefly getting squashed tho LOL) Wife is trying on the earrings, as Astoria tries to summon them to no avail. H: "Maybe your heart wants them to stay on her grimy ears" LOL! Travis climbs up her armoire and picks up her handheld mirror: "I can't take this anymore, she's so annoying!" He tosses it at wife, and it just bounces off her arm and lands smack dab on him... Hawk follows and also bounces off her arm and falls into her powderpuff (and a couple Pompoms also get covered in powder)
- Rose suggests trying to talk to her face, and create a pumpkim helicopter with her magic... As wife picks the mirror up off Travis to look at herself, Astoria tells wife that they're friends of the giant, but wife insists that "My husband doesn't need friends, he needs me!" before tossing the mirror right back on to Travis LOL! "Seriously?" Lingling helps Hawk out of the powderpuff and he falls on to a perfume bottle bulb, spraying it into the hair, which eventually causes the wife to accidentally swat the helicopter out of the air LOL! R: "Abandon pumpkin!"
- Back on terra firma, Vicky introduces her friend Beanstalk Jack. "What's up Vicky?" "Evil stuff" Jack uses his magic ax to chop down the beanstalk to strand Team Rose up at the castle... where the giant's wife is still running on a rampage. A: "How are we going to get the fire bangles if she never stops moving?" Meanwhile, wife bumps her armoire revealing the bottle of big toe essence (why they know I have no idea), and Travis and Hawk manage to grab it from falling off the table. Wife: "So, you're trying to destroy my home! I'll smash you!" Rose (of the fire bangles) "You just need to trust them! (realizes) Like I trust the Pompoms!" So Rose has them stop the wife by causing a load of make-up mayhem (including eye-pencil rockets LOL) R: "Cuties, maybe you're overdoing it " Rose sees a few Pompoms getting launched to grab the wife pigtails and gets an idea... Astoria summons her ivy hair and has Travis launch her, with Hawk and LL hanging on to the hair, and uses her hair to trip the wife and knock her into a wall LOL! Time to get the bangles...
- Back down on the ground, Team Vicky examines Jack's handiwork, until Cyrus remembers that Team Rose flew their mission dragons, leading to Vicky facepalming, and the dragons confront Jack about the beanstalk chop... but Jack's got magic beans that ensnare them to the ground with vines Flora-style (!) Cyrus: "They look kinda cute like that" LOL! Kira: "Time to call mom..."
- Team Rose is running from the castle with essence bottle in tow, and we even have a brief moment of flirting between Travis and LL... This is important, because he ends up tripping on a rock, and LL makes an awesome diving catch to save the bottle... T: "Great catch Lingling!" Rose ends up running off the stalk-less ledge and Hawk has to save her, and also tries whistling for their dragons to no avail... and on top of that, here comes Blizzard and SQ... and Jack (!)
- SQ gets Travis and Joy, then two of the Pompoms... Astoria brings out her tower magic against Jack and his ax, and it goes about as well as you'd expect LL gets hit mid-cast, as Astoria runs back into the castle with Jack in pursuit... Jack throws some beans to create a vine, and eventually Astoria trips over and loses her bangles again (yeesh) A: "Fire Bangles? How can I trust you if you won't help me?" Jack: "The Fire Bangles! Actually, that's what I'm here for..." A Pompom trips up Jack as he heads to the bangles, so Astoria runs towards the bangles, then Jack trips her up with beans and steps on her wrist for good measure... The Pompom pokes Jack in the eye (!) and Astoria uses her ivy hair to collect the bangles and then her tower magic to ensnare Jack LOL. "Thank you ivy hair..."
- Astoria runs out to see the icy ruckus going on... SQ casts her spell at Astoria, and she blindly holds up her wrists... and avoids getting iced? Both SQ and Astoria are bewildered at this turn of events... SQ: "Nice trick, but you won't stop us both" But looks like the wife (still with all that extra make-up on her face LOL) is on Astoria's side now, or at least againt SQ since she's pelting stones at her and Blizzard...
- Astoria is dumbfounded on how save her friends... and is bewildered that she manages to deice LL, but then proceeds to deice the rest of her gang, much to their delight. Since wife is still pelting stones at SQ, Rose has an idea of how to escape, and has everyone jump off the ledge (!) before making a pumpkin magic balloon for them to land on (with a brief Pompom gag with one of them having to run up just to stay on) However, another stone throw ends up hitting the balloon knocking Travis off with the bottle (!)
- Back with the dragons, and they need something to break up the ground to escape Jack's vines... Enter Travis coming in like a missile (and he even keeps the essence bottle intact LOL!) The dragons fly up, and good thing since the balloon's errant flight throws the rest of Team Rose off, as the dragons catch them... R: "Awesome save, guys!"
- Time to fight SQ again, and Hawk uses his shield to bounce SQ's attacks back at her LOL. SQ shakes off the ice easily, and continues to make with the beam spam... LL: "She's too fast" R: "We need to all attack her at once" Kinda hard to do that when SQ ices up four of the teammates in succession (!) so Rose has Astoria fly down to save them, then summons her slipper-boots before having her dragon fly straight at SQ (!) Dragon: "Are you crazy?!" R: "Trust me!"
- As Astoria races towards her iced teammates, Rose is heading towards SQ: "I'm taking you down, even if I have to crash right into you!" SQ: "Bring it on!" Astoria deices her teammates, and as Rose gets close enough to SQ, Rose decides to jump towards SQ for her usual kick but this time gets iced (!) Good thing that a certain teammate has deicing powers, and before you know it she's back on her dragon... Next time Rose attempts the jump-kick, Astoria uses her bangles to block SQ's attack/distract her, and Rose lands the kick (huh, so they only needed just the two ) Blizzard catches SQ and makes her retreat... Dragon: "Rose?" R: "Yes?" Dragon: "That was awesome!"
- Pumpkin transition back to the dragon arena. Astoria's dragon is still sick, because she got in two more snarfers. Astoria's dragon: "Why can't I stop? I need help people! I have a disease! A fever, for slug snarfers!" Thankfully, one spray from the essence bottle clears it all up and she's flying again in no time After Rapunzel and Rose both praise her for trusting her fire bangles, we end with Astoria's dragon taking a photo of the gang, in which Joy is eating a slug snarfer, Astoria and Rose are reacting accordingly, and LL, Travis and Hawk are covered in goo LOL!

- We open at Rose's house again... Rose wants to bring her bed to RegAc today to make things come to life: "It's fantastic isn't it?" Clara: "Things like beds?" R: "Yeahhh!! Wouldn't it be cool if the bed ran around while I was sleeping?" Rose jumps on to the bed... sending Gigi to the ceiling, flattening him LOL! Rose ends up settling for bringing the downstairs dining table and a spoon... while dad is actually using them ("I'm gonna miss this table" HEH!)
- Pumpkin transition... Granny Cinderella: "Start your furniture!" Everyone casts their magic on their respective furniture, making them come to life: Rose's table kicks all of Team Rose aside except for Lingling, and guess who flies into a wall and ends up getting clobbered by a dragon head statue LOL! Astoria: "How are the other teams doing?" After watching other teams have trouble with their living furniture, Joy concludes: "So-so" We get a visual of a Pompom riding an ottoman cowboy-style, and the pets following a drawer around... turns out it "ate" Gigi LOL. R: "Guys, why are we always competing with the other teams?" A: "Because of the grades obviously" A bigger drawer takes Gigi, and this one has room to take Vidal, King and Bao in as well, and Rose and LL chase it down before LL kicks all the pets out Suddenly, Pinocchia comes in and announces that her brother Pinocchio has gone missing on a trip to the Land of Toys, so Granny Cinderella announces that whoever finds Pinocchio gets an A for today and has the class stop making things come to life... (surprisingly, this doesn't come into play in the actual plot, wha?)
- Over to the dragon arena now, as Finn wants to check fairy tale town, and Violet and Odette plan to check the docks, so Rose decides to have her team check the forest. R: "This way, all our teams will work together. We can do that sometimes... Like when somebody's brother is in trouble?" Rose reassures Pinocchia that everything will be "better than fine... great! You'll see! We'll all swoop in like heroes and boom, rescue time!" As the other dragons leave, Pinocchia asks: "Do you really think you'll be able to find my brother?"... and Rose is oddly silent, which really disappoints her Vicky: "Working together? With you? That's funny, never going to happen!" Granny Cinderella does back up Rose's point though, much to her delight...
- Meanwhile, Kira is crystal-ball-chatting with her mom. SQ: "To make Pinocchio go poof, I had to call in some favors, especially one that smelled like fish. This better be worth it!" K: "Chill mom, Rose's team is going to end up right in our trap" Long-winded Team Rose transformations later, they head off on Operation Pinocchio, where Hawk surmises that Pinocchio had to go through the forest to head to the Land of Toys...
- Over in the forest, Candlewick (1x13) and Mangiafuoco (new) meet up with Team Vicky, as Candlewick intends to have Mangiafuoco keep Team Rose distracted... Kira: "I'm sure that to thank you for your help, the snow queen will totally make you into her general" Sure enough, Team Rose comes across the puppet theater and Rose decides to take a look Mangiafuoco offers to give Team Rose a puppet show and Rose obliges... LL is suspicious tells Rose to keep an eye out, and Rose spots a trio of donkeys, and Astoria notes that one of them is wearing Gerald's glasses (!) The donkeys point their front legs towards Mangiafuoco in unison LOL, and LL also spots Candlewick, so here comes everyone scrambling to get away from Candlewick's donkey magic and Mangiafuoco's puppet magic
- V: "Looks like someone needs our help" K: "Like always" So Vicky and Kira come out to aim their wands at Rose, but Cyrus runs into them and V/K's magic ends up hitting Candlewick instead C: "I wanna help too" After a brief interlude of a Pompom running on an old-fashioned gramophone and making it play fast (HEH) Vicky is disgusted and walks off... and trips over a Pompom, winding up in the "field of play" behind Rose as Mangiafuoco hits Rose with a Nose of Truth spell... Guess what it ends up giving both of them Sure enough, Rose is giddy about it (much to the rest of Team Rose's chagrin) and even tests it with "I am not particularly excited about fairy tales" LOL. This gives Mangiafuoco the opportunity to sneak up upon her and use his puppet magic, but Hawk tackles him out of the way and ends up getting hit instead (!)
- As Candlewick has Rose put her hands up (the Pompoms follow and fall of the pole they're holding LOL), we see the effects of puppet magic on Hawk: Not only does it shrink him, his voice also becomes more nerdy, and there's a bit of a specular effect on Hawk's hair. But in his own words: "Puppet or not, I'm still a hero!" He comandeers his owl Doc to knock Mangiafuoco over as he's about to puppet magic Rose and deliver her to the Snow Queen, and then avoids getting donkey magic'd as well... The rest of the team take out their wands, but only LL and Travis are needed here to blow away the villains. Kira and Cyrus make their exit from the episode: "How useless! Let's go... Vicky's a big girl, she can take care of herself"
- Candlewick runs off, but Mangiafuoco isn't so lucky and gets picked up off the ground... by Granny Cinderella's pumpkin crane LOL. Granny says she'll take care of things here, while the rest go off after Pinocchio... and that includes Vicky, whom Astoria notices: "Vicky? What are you doing here?" Vicky: "Uhh... you were in trouble. I saw you in trouble and I came to help" Guess what happens to Vicky's nose after that whopper Granny Cinderella is apparently oblivious to this and says "Perfect timing dear"... Granny recommends her to go with Team Rose, and Vicky protests that "I really should be getting back to my team" That also makes her nose grow LOL! R: "Vicky, we're nose sisters!" V: "I hate my life" (this makes her nose shrink, heh)
- So the whole team heads off, though instead of riding his own dragon, Hawk is riding Rose's shoulder, while she's sharing her dragon with Vicky (along with the usual Pompoms)... LL: "Hawk, are you certain it is wise to come? You are only a puppet" H: "I'm not a puppet! I'm an action figure!" LOL! Anyways, Astoria points out they have to cross the sea to get to the land of toys...
- Pumpkin transition again, this time, to Team Rose (+ Vicky) spotting the dogfish from Pinocchio (wait, a dogfish? I guess it must be Italian) R: "You don't see that every day... uh, you don't, do you?" HEH! They end up spotting a fishing boat with Team Odette tangled in a fishing net, and Travis announces: "With Hawk being all... puppet-y (H: HEY!) it's time for me to take the lead!" Travis is first to land on the boat, and the other soon follow (with the Pompoms falling on top of Vicky's head LOL) As Travis intends to tear that net in half, Candlewick shows up and manages to turn both him and LL into donkeys in just two tries (!)
- Astoria and Rose use their magic to lift Candlewick up with vines and toss him into a pumpkin prison carriage thing, but Vicky's not done yet: She throws a fishbone at the bell on the boat to bring out The Green Fisherman, who proceeds to rope up most of the gang, except for Rose and Burro!Travis... Rose demands GF to let her friends go, but GF says: "I've never tasted some rare friend-fish" Puppet!Hawk easily slips out of the ropes LOL, and climbs on top of the burro... Rose has the burro kick GF into the wall, and conjures up a helicopter for the Pompoms to use to free her friends from the ropes HEH. For extra measure, Astoria uses her Fire Bangles to knock GF out for good... by beaning him with them LOL, before then using her ivy hair to take down the net. Pinocchia is part of the freed gang: "You're... not nearly as bad as I thought" R: "Thanks Pinocchia. You really mean it so we can be friends?! Whattaya think?" P: "I guess I don't mind teaming up if we have to" R: (is giddy LOL!)
- Rose explains that the terrible dogfish is the key, as the gang uses the fishing boat to get around. We get a scene where Joy uses her frog-fu to save Puppet!Hawk and the two burros from being thrown overboard. H: "Wow Joy, that was really heroic!" J: "I get turned into weird things all the time, and you guys always look after me. Now it's my turn " Boat wanders near a giant whirlpool, so Vicky tosses a spell at the steering wheel, and when Astoria tries to comandeer the boat to get away, the wheel breaks away (!) Eventually, Rose, Pinocchia and Vicky (who blames Rose for it) all end up going into the whirlpool and getting eaten by the dogfish (!)
- Rose wakes up in the dogfish and is giddy about it LOL, which tweaks Pinocchia a bit (other than not being able to find her brother) R: "Oh no, I did it again! I spoke without thinking!" P: "No nono! I get it! You speak with your heart, not your head, and that's... that's okay" R: "Thank you!" And by sheer chance, Rose spots Pinocchio (how convenient, tm Dana Carvey)
- Vicky comes out of a box: "That's it. I'm gonna give Rose an unhappily ever after right now!" Rose and the puppet sibs starting getting attacked and Rose is unaware of who's firing at them (eye roll), so she makes a pumpkin jetpack with her magic and flies up... Vicky continues to cast her spells from a crow's nest and Rose can't see who's doing it... Rose eventually winds up hanging from a post, and Vicky manages to sneak a few shots... R: "What can I.... Oh yeah! I can lie! I HATE FAIRYTALES!" Rose's nose extends quite a bit beyond its normal range LOL and knocks Vicky's wand out of her hand... Rose jumps to the ground and puts on her slipper-boots and ends up kicking one of Vicky's spells back at her and knocks her away. R: "Well, that took care of that, whoever it was!"
- Back to the matter of the puppet sibs. Pinocchia: "The dogfish is diving. We have to leave, now!" Rose manages to get her jetpack working again, and the dogfish has to quickly surface, allowing Rose to escape... and we see that the rest of Team Rose, plus Team Odette and the Pompoms are all crammed on what little of the boat is still above the surface (even though it was looking fine when Rose fell in ) As they all cheer for the dogfish swimming away... Vicky emerges and hangs on to a piece of driftwood...
- Back to RegAc, where the teachers use their magic to restore everyone back to normal. Granny Cinderella: "Are you happy now?" R: "...Yes" Rose's nose extends slightly... Granny C: "Rose?" R: "But it's so cool!" Granny C: "I have an idea..." Granny casts a spell to make the wooden nose fall off her real nose, making it perfect for her collection P: "Good team-up Rose! You're a true fairy tale hero..." Joy remembers that Vicky was with them... and sure enough, we cut to Vicky washing up on an island with a monkey on it: "I hate you Rose. Hate hate HATE!"

- Rose wakes up to a bunch of frogs in her room, much to her surprise, with Gigi trying to hold them back a la circus lion trainer LOL. Dave gets splattered in the face by his eggs after a frog jumps on his fork, and Gigi has a cupcake stolen from him with a long tongue LOL. Clara is dressing up some frogs, because today is joint classes with some place called Frog Academy (I watched in Italian first, and turns out they don't even translate the name in Italian LOL) Frog spits out a bar of soap and Dad slips on it LOL!
- Naturally, Rose expects to see Joy excited for a day all about frog magic, but Joy is, well, not so much, precisely because Grandpa LeFrog expects her to be awesome at everything today... "and I'm never awesome at anything!" Joy adds the only things she's good at are eating bugs and turning into frogs at the worst situations (HUH.) "I'm not a hero, I'm not a princess... I'm just... so weird"
- As Cinderella presents the delegation from Frog Academy in the classroom, Esquire (1x13) is back and presents Joy with a bouquet of flowers and bugs, which Joy does not like, but Joy has an instant crush on the head of the delegation, Von Frog, and his dance moves (OOH!)
- Over at the portal, Doctor LeFrog holds up a Frog Ball, as we cut to Team Vicky, together again huh, I guess Kira and Cyrus having to rescue her (and de-wooden-nosing her) must not have been a story worth telling The ball can be used to summon all sorts of insects, who proceed to attack Travis (as usual ) with lightning and other attacks, such as getting his mouth covered with spider webs, causing the Pompoms to laugh LOL (so basically, Zing's Magicpop? ) It even has magic moths that can dispel magic from the students' wands... Anyways, Team Vicky wants to steal it (insert M Bison "Of course" here) and intends to partner up with someone who wants it even more (I can see where that's headed)... and it looks like they're going to use Von Frog for this (wha?)
- This leads to a series of contests, starting with an eating contest featuring food more suited for frogs like bug burgers, fish tacos, and ladybug desserts, with a sight gag of a frog accidentally clobbering himself with an empty tray LOL. Of course the students who are not Joy gag at the food on offer, but Joy has no trouble polishing off the food, even burping as a ribbit noise LOL, and Von Frog even kisses her hand...
- This leads into Joy getting very own song, "I'll Do The Best I Can", playing over scenes of Joy taking on Von Frog in a swordfight and gathering flies... Joy is besting Frog Ac in every competition, including potions making (watch Snow White retch while smelling Joy's cooking LOL!)... during which Von Frog eyes the Frog Ball and decides to team up with Team Vicky and the Snow Queen. Just like that huh?
- Esquire notices that Von Frog is planning on stealing the Frog Ball and tells Joy about it... Not surprisingly, she just dismisses it as Esq being jealous ("He's the most gallant, sensitive, and talented frog I've ever met") even as the rest of Team Rose suggest that Esq might be telling the truth. Joy has a heartfelt rant: "Von Frog made me beleive in myself. Rose has always tried, but only Von Frog succeeded. He can't possibly be evil!" And I can sorta see her point, as there's literally no outward indication before going off with Vicky that he could be evil (at least with a certain prince from the Southern Isles, there are some subtle hints) Joy refuses to let her teammates report Von Frog: "Look, I'm not beautiful like Rose, smart like Astoria, a hero like Hawk, strong like Travis, ... or all of them like Lingling" LOL. "What matters is for once, I'm the star pupil with a world-famous frog who looks at me like Hawk looks at Rose!" (Insert Hawk looking awkwardly at Rose LOL) "So please don't ruin it" Rose: "We have to back Joy on this. Joy, I trust your instincts!"
- Coming up is Frog Fu between Joy and Esquire, and while the fight is proceeding in a seesaw fashion, Vicky decides to distract Dr. LeFrog by asking him what kind of bugs are best to eat as Von Frog steals the frog sphere with his tongue (LOL) and quickly get both LeFrogs silenced with spiderwebs (!) Team Rose's wands have no effect against the Frog Ball (re: magic moths) and Lingling does her best Tom Brady impression with Esq to have him free Joy (!) After a brief tussle between the Frog Ball's bugs and the Pompoms, Von Frog makes off with the ball, which angers Team Vicky... (This is what happens when you partner with someone who wants it even more)
- Von Frog flies off on a dragon, so time for dragon riding, and those lengthy regal armor transformations... Team Vicky joins Team Rose in the chase, but the dragon-flying part of the chase doesn't last very long before Von Frog escapes to a swamp that's inaccesible to dragons, just frogs and fish. Rose suggests that Joy should turn the team into frogs, and even though Joy warns them it's hard being a frog, she obliges (keeping the same hairstyle LOL) while Team Vicky turns themselves into fish in order to look for Von Frog...
- Team Vicky find him first, and chew Von Frog out for double-crossing them... Fish!Cyrus: "Well, I think we should throw something at him, now" Fish!Vicky: "For once Cyrus, I agree with you" ... and she tosses Fish!Cyrus at him (LOL!) knocking the Frog Ball out of his hands, which in turns causes it to go out of control (and the summoned bugs are apparently completely immune to water) and the frog classmates get eaten by lake worms of some sort (according to Esq, Von Frog's guardian)
- Esq tells Joy to have self-confidence in herself, and Joy points out that trusting Von Frog is how this whole problem got started in the first place (ironically, I was watching this episode immediately following the S5 Winx ep with Stella getting the Gem of Self-Confidence) But Esq points out that her victories at the various contests against Frog Ac stemmed from her self-confidence... oh, and it's also her family item ()
- Esq turns Joy back to human form, and Joy quickly encases herself in a bubble a la Winx 1x11, before summoning the Frog Ball in the same way as others do their family items to have the bugs fish her froggy classmates out of the lake worms, before teaming up with Esq to quickly gang up on Von Frog with a little Frog Fu (ending with a nice wink from Joy LOL)
- Back at RegAc, and Dr LeFrog points out even he couldn't bring a wild Frog Ball under control, and proudly gives Joy the ball... and remember how Clara was dressing up some frogs at the start of the show? Well, we end with Clara showing off her dressed up frogs, as the Pompoms hang-out with them LOL. (I guess they couldn't build a moral around Joy's self-confidence, given what happened because of it...)

- We begin with what looks like a conventional Little Red Riding Hood setup, with a wolf sneaking up on her, but hoodie ends up tossing the wolf away (!) Turns out hoodie and a wolf police officer named Willis have been showing the RegAc students how to make an arrest LOL. Rose gawks at Sheriff Red Riding Hood with her usual "Best fairy tale ever!" and offers her a hug, and wants a patch of her red hood for her collection ... and she gets tossed into the air (LOL) and Hawk has to catch her, prompting Sheriff to call her a princess. We learn that Hawk's sister Fala has gone missing since he was just 3 (and he still carries a picture in a locket, replete with apple on it) Sheriff says she hasn't forgotten about it and invites Hawk to the Fairy Tale Land police station. Rest of Team Rose wants to come and Sheriff refuses: "This is a family matter" H: "They are my family" (how "Fast and the Furious")
- We head to the police station, where all the officers are canine (anyone up for a Paw Patrol or Zootopia reference? no?) and are going through the motions of the their usual training routine (there's a ridiculously unnecessary fart gag in there, wha?) and typical workplace banter (one talks about winter coats only available in Chihuahua size LOL) Sheriff and Team Rose enter the police station, where after a brief gag of Sheriff offering doggie treats for fixing things in the station, Sheriff shows her current progress in investigating the case of the disappearances, which shows that princes and princesses have been disappearing for over a hundred years near the Enchanted Forest, where a wicked fairy named Tatanya supposedly lives ("But it's only a rumor")
- Hawk asks Sheriff why she never told him, and she says then Hawk would have tried to look for Fala and ended up on the board... Hawk: "You forget I'm no ordinary prince! I'm a hero!" Rose: "A great hero. And so are we!" Rose offers their services, but Sheriff insists on leaving it to the professionals... Outside the station, Hawk saves two falling princesses, and LL briefly considers if his love of rescuing princesses is perhaps trying to compensate for Fala... but anyways, since it happens to be Saturday tomorrow, they decide to go help anyhow...
- Back home, Rose is packing up a bunch of stuff into her bag (sight gag: she's shown running between the two edges of the screen, and one point she's shown carrying what looks like a fridge LOL!) and even bringing Gigi along... Clara sees her about to leave, and when Rose mentions the Enchanted Forest, Clara asks "Have you lost your mind?" but Rose responds that she's doing this to help Hawk... and Clara concedes: "I know you'll do it anyway"
- Fairy Tale Land police station: Sheriff shows up and has the cops ready for a mission. Once they learn they're heading to the Enchanted Forest, two sit out: (female blowdrying her hair) "The damp in that place ruins my hair" (bulldog) "I gotta catalog the prisoners by weight" (HEH!) We catch up Team Rose @ the forest boundary, with Rose late because she went to get the Pompoms (of course though just 3 of them today) and they head in...
- Sheriff and her officers have shown up. Good news: Sheriff has prepared a hyperdetailed map of the forest, made after years of exploration and survey, to prevent them from getting lost. Bad news: the canine officers didn't bring it because they have been using it as a board for chutes and ladders (LOL!) So Sheriff makes them use their noses: "And you'd better hope it works decently!"
- Travis has been marking their trail through the forest with rocks, but a living tree branch knocks one of his marks over, and there's an interlude of the Pompoms jackhammering rocks when another living tree branch intercedes. Rose thinks they should leave a trail of food in the forest, and Joy happens to have brought a snack, a bug burger Joy: "But we can't..." (starts eating it, LOLx2) "...waste them" After an interlude in which Travis gets his mouth covered with a toilet plunger LOL, Rose has a bunch of scented stickers and starts putting some on the trees to avoid getting lost, but they end up running into some living trees, leading to a bit of a fight, and Rose putting on her glass slippers and running...
- After a short interlude of the Sheriff finding one of Rose's stickers, back to Rose running some more, where Rose runs into some guy named Lysandre ("Once a prince, now without a crown") who tells her that the forest is run by a witch named Tatanya (insert flashback to the mention of her at the police station) who cursed him to wander the forest. He adds: "Find the heart of the forest... it's my--" Rose abruptly responds: "Heart of the forest. Got it!" and runs off, and she's long gone by the time he can even say "There's more" LOL. (This will be important)
- After some more running, Rose trips over a rock and slams into a tree, and a hedgehog who has a familiar looking hairdo... and she remembers seeing a portrait of a guy with such a 'do during the trip to the police station, and she realizes that Prince Hedge was turned into a hedgehog by Tatanya... as she hears her friends captured by tree stumps... Surprise, they're also some of the missing persons: "Man, that Tatanya lady cannot stop turning people into stuff!" LOL
- Hawk gets tossed up into the air... and gets rescued by the Sheriff? "I told you not to come in here! No one knows--" R: "Well I know something! These trees, they're the missing people!" S: "That's ridiculous" (You live in a world where dragon riding classes are a thing, and you find this ridiculous? ) A dog cop bites a tree root and makes it scream, but Sheriff adds: "Lots of magic trees scream. Doesn't mean they're people" Hedge: (Punches Sheriff in the face LOL) Sheriff realizes he's Prince Hedge and reaches to the same conclusion as Rose... Travis: "Hey, are you gonna get us down from here or what?" Sheriff uses her Sheriff-fu to knock both the trees and the rest of Team Rose up into the air, leaving the cops to catch them (Astoria and Joy fall on top of one of the cops LOL!)
- Next is to find the heart of the forest... After a scene where Hawk tries to get directions from with Mirror Hawk in the shower LOL, Lysandre shows up to tell Rose that the "Heart of the Forest" is actually his stolen crown... Rose: "What?! Why didn't you say so before?" Lys: "You gave me like two seconds!" Rose: "Yeah but" Lys: "I'm not finished" (I'd judge, but let's just say I'd probably throw a tantrum like that...) He takes a breath to explain the deal from the top again... and then he quickly gets interrupted again, this time by Tatanya swatting him down (!)
- Time for the big boss battle! Both Hawk and Astoria take out their items, but whereas Hawk gets to actually use his shield, Rose ends up distracting Astoria while she's trying to (if this is the right word) aim her bangles ("Not the trees!"... shades of Winx S5 Flora?) and getting her captured by a tree again (!) Rose manages to get free and use her slippers to punt the Sheriff into Tatanya's head and knock off her crown... but as with the Frog Ball last week, the loss of possession does not stop the chaos going on... Lys: "It has no ruler! Get me the crown!" Rose quickly gets ensnared by one tree and soon ends up fighting another tree... when both trees suddenly stop fighting (HUH?) Rose notices the rest of the trees freeing everyone else and is dumbfounded. Rose eventually finds the reason when Hawk points out a Pompom standing on top of a tree, wearing a crown and holding a baton LOL
- Somehow, this also turns the hedgehog and trees back into a bunch of the missing people (causing Hedge to glomp Rose LOL) However, Fala is not among them, as it turns out that this scene is tied in to the overarching season plot: Lys explains that Tatanya traded Fala in exchange for a curse to steal his crown... to you-know-who. Surprisingly, this does not bring anguish to Hawk: "Now I know she's really alive, and we're going to get her." But that'll have to wait until (much) later... Sheriff praises Team Rose, while the Pompom with Lys's crown has ensnared Tatanya in a tree, and Joy eats bugs off her dress LOL
- Pompom comes down to give back Lys his crown and the Sheriff arrests Tatanya, after which we head back to the police station, where Sheriff tosses the canine cops a whole bowl of doggie treats (in spite of not actually doing anything much for the case)... and Rose joins in LOL!

- We open with Rose and Clara coming through the portal, and Rose is wearing a pumpkin on her head LOL! Today is a masquerade ball, and you can tell it's her first time since she can't see where she's going, and eventually ends up smashing the pumpkin: "Next time, cut eyeholes" LOL. C: "You have to survive the school day first" R: "How hard can that be? " Well, today is the most lethal dragonology lesson ever as taught by Coach Beast: Dragonriding in deadly storm conditions. Today's weather is good, but the point of this scene is to show off their family item: The Beast Mask, for controlling weather, as he conjures up a storm (no half-hearted quips about frogs getting struck by lightning needed ) As with Hawk and the mirror shield, Grandpa Beast won't let Travis near it... Astoria: "Clouds and light rain won't knock anyone off a dragon" In the BG, a rider gets hit by another falling rider LOL! Astoria manages to avoid the flying debris, while Travis (who else?) gets beaned repeatedly LOL.
- Joy: "Fine, as long as I don't turn into a--" Good news: She doesn't.... Bad News: Joy gets clobbered by a whole bench, and Rose gets clobbered by Joy... and then Lingling gets hit too (LOLx3!) Astoria sees them falling and jumps off, prompting Alicia's "surfer-dude" teammates to rush in to rescue her... only for one of them to get clobbered by a big green ball of ivy-hair, which "explodes" to reveal Astoria sitting on a pile of hair, with the three girls (plus the dude) hanging from some of her hair tendrils... A: "I can catch myself: No prince charming needed" R: "That was so much fun, let's do it again" LOL! Coach Beast releases some hail, and Team Vicky decides that with the mask, the Snow Queen can freeze Fairy Tale Land... Travis asks if he's good enough for the mask yet, and Coach says "You'll have to withstand more than these light flurries"... and ends up knocking Travis off his ride with a blast of snow, though thankfully the rest of Team Rose catch him. Okay, class over, time to get ready for the ball
- The girls are all in awesome dresses. Rose: "Guys! Our first masquerade together! Is anyone as excited as I am?" Astoria: "I don't think that's possible Rose" LOL. Lingling (who shows about as much emotion as Maud Pie): "I am. Please, take my word for it" LOLx2. Hawk: "I'm just glad that Rose didn't show up with a pumpkin on her head." R: "Uh... I would never do that" Pompoms: (bring in pumpkin with face drawn on it) R whispers : "Get it out of here" Pompoms: (Toss pumpkin aside, and it lands on some random backgrounder's head LOL!) Joy asks if Astoria is looking forward to any romantic dancing tonight, but Astoria just replies: "I hope not. Study, study, no time for romance" (So, a more studious version of Aisha, then? Okay)
- Grandma Beauty announces that the masquerade is honor of her nephew, Sean Beast (blonde-haired male), who has been living abroad for some time. This surprises Astoria, and Rose quickly realizes that this means that Astoria knows him, but anyways, he has a surprise for everyone: "Mask Magic!" This provides masks for the whole party, and Sean adds: "Each mask comes with a touch of magic: Just give it a tap." Gerald the duck gets a cake on his head LOL. After a brief scene of the pets trying to serve drinks, we see other random magic going on: One of the guests turns into an elephant, another a giant jar of jam (??) Of course Rose wants to put it in her collection Hawk intends to offer Rose a flower with his mask's magic, but she ends up just getting buried under a pile of flowers (?) Travis: "Mine can't be that bad" Turns out to be getting a really long Pinocchio nose LOL. Others turn into all sort of other things in the BG (like some sort of green monster and a gingerbread cookie) as the next scene is going on: Travis meets Sean and calls him "The prince of the family"... and then I guess he slips off Sean (it looks like a weird animation glitch) and runs into LL, and Joy introduces everyone... and we find Astoria quickly trying to leave the party. HUH. Rose: "Okay, something is going on with those two. And we're going to help them" (Cakehead Gerald walks by LOL)
- Travis: "Class was a mess, but I have a feeling this is gonna be my lucky day!" Coach Beast tells Travis that since the Snow Queen is likely to sneak in her cronies, he's asking him to guard his family's mask. Travis is clearly not pleased at this, and when he asks Hawk, he's too busy being glomped a bunch of eligible princesses (LOL) While the Pompoms are eating Gerald's cake LOL, time for Team Vicky to spring into action (Cyrus gets caked LOL!)
- Beast Mask storage area... Travis: "How am I gonna prove myself down here? With all of grandpa's traps, no one can even touch--" Travis accidentally touches the outside of two cages storing the mask, and has to quickly avoid the falling boulder: "I always forget about that one" Travis spots two girls: "Who goes there?!" Vicky: "If we were going to tell you that, we wouldn't be wearing masks!" Kira: "Duh, let's finish this, before mom gets here and hogs all the credit" Kira accidentally activates a falling boulder, and both of the girls are rushing down the corridor, activating and having to avoid more falling boulders LOL. Vicky: "Where do they even keep all these boulders?!" LOL! The girls makes it through, and Travis adds: "Ha, I told you! No one dares rob the Beast family!" Vicky: "Then I'll simply turn my traps against you" Travis gets out of the way of the boulder Vicky tosses at him (it hits the cage to no effect), and then uses Fury Magic against the ice cubes Kira conjures up... but Kira somehow manages to get up right to him and knock him off his stand (T: "This is gonna hurt!")
- After a nice evil smirk, Kira uses her Crystal Magic to freeze and shatter the double layered cage to take the mask, a la Icy and the Codex at Red Fountain (Winx 2x10) Cut back to Travis hanging for dear life on one of the spikes in the storage area: "Grandpa, I messed it up!" After he slips off, this narrowly avoids being his unfortunate epitaph when Hawk shows up and covers the spike-laden bottom of the storage area with snow (though you'd imagine it'd take more snow to stop Travis from meeting a grisly end) "Hawk? Why are you here?" H: "I wanted to escape all those eligible princesses" T: "Well, nice timing, but next time, I'm gonna save you!" LOL, and keep that in mind...
- After an interlude of the Pompom knocking cupcakes off a tray being served by Team Rose's pets, back to Astoria/Sean plot. Rose asks Odette (Astoria's childhood friend, remember) about Sean, and we learn that Astoria was always saving him from bullies... and Astoria is eavesdropping on this (!), before hiding again when she hears Rose talking to Sean. Sean addresses Rose as "Rose Cinderella"... R: "Wow, I never get tired of people calling me that " Sean asks about Astoria: "Is she... embarrassed by me?" "You're like a dream prince! Who could be embarrassed?" Sean points out that Astoria had to look after him, and Rose briefly interrupts the conversation to chat with Gigi a little (the rest of the pets are carrying a tray of water) R: "Sean, you gotta show Astoria that you can look after her for a change" S: "I don't think I'll get the chance. She'll run if she sees me coming" R: "Heh heh, then she won't see you coming"... leading to the Pompoms glomping and chasing Sean LOL!
- Astoria is standing along at a bridge, and sighing when she sees Sean : "Let me guess, you're avoiding someone too, huh?" S: "No... I mean, yes! Yes I am, girl I don't know" Astoria giggles: "Have a seat " Back at the party, Travis tells Joy and LL about the missing mask, adding: "Grandpa's gonna disown me" LOL. LL: "Who did this?" H: "Two girls, wearing masks" J: "That's...... not helpful" LOL! The girls run off and who should be there but SQ herself? "Time to steal the Beast Mask and use its power"
- Back to the bridge, where two Pompoms are doing their best gondola riders impersonation LOL. A: "There is someone I'm nervous about talking to. It's ridiculous: I'm not afraid of deadly ogres or even deadly pop quizzes, but... I'm worried about talking to a boy?" She facepalms, or rather mask-palms, which magically changes her dress S: "Sorry, the dress masks don't last long. Let me fix that" (taps her mask to change it again) A: "Sean?" S: "I feel the same way you do. I was really nervous about talking to you again too." Suddenly, Astoria notices the rest of Team Rose (minus Rose) chasing Kira and Vicky, and Rose tries to tackle Vicky but it looks like she only manages to get her own teammates instead LOL. Astoria bemoans their collective bad timing and uses her hair to knock out Kira and Vicky and take the mask (yay) but then SQ flat out takes it from Astoria (boo) and decides to snowglobe her (double boo!)
- As SQ's snowglobe grabs Astoria with some tendrils, Sean gives chase, and Rose decides to help him with some pumpkin skates. Thankfully for Astoria, he manages to get the hang of it in time to come to her rescue, and her hair tosses the mask over to the surfer-dudes, each of whom try to give it to the other one until one of them ends up getting snowglobed (!) SQ takes the mask: "Now, I will force out the power of the Beast Mask with my magic" As Beast tells Team Rose to get the mask back, SQ adds: "Now that I'm in my element, I'll bring my own guests" Uh-oh...
- Compositing fail: We have a shot that pulls in towards SQ, and there are two static splodges near the bottom of the screen that are supposed to be the shadows of two Pompoms standing in front of her as she's conjuring up her guests... The shadows then move properly when they start running away from SQ's ice dragons (https://magixclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6826 ) and Blizzard appears out of nowhere apparently as SQ starts wreaking her havoc, and Kira and Vicky smugly walk off... Astoria: "Is everyone okay?" Travis: "Okay? Okay?! Does this look okay to you?" Rose: "Travis, we'll get that mask back" And on that note, transformations! (this time, showing everyone in their fancy dresses at first)
- R: "Snow Queen, time for a showdown!" LL: "Lizard dragons are very strong. We are at a clear disadvantage" T: "Yeah, try not to think about that" LOL! Sean is riding with Astoria, as Astoria thanks Sean for saving her from the snowglobe. S: "Well I'm not much of a crybaby anymore Astoria" SQ has the lizard dragons make Team Rose into hero-flavored popsicles (SQ's words), but Hawk brings out the Mirror Shield to block her attacks, so time for SQ to use the Beast Mask to use the weather against them, by making a Stormy-style tornado: "You can't stop this!" Rose doesn't seem too worried: "Good! We have practice flying in storms! Woo-hoo!" LL and Travis's spells are ineffective against the tornado because they can't aim in this wind (LL's words) R: "We don't have to!" Rose uses her pumpkin magic to conjure (get this) a Pompom-guided missile... R: "No aim needed!" T: "No brains needed either What can this thing to do the all-powerful Snow Queen?" S: "Leave that to me. I have a plan" OOH!
- SQ sees the missile: "Really? Ice Magic!" SQ ice-cubes the missile, but then the ice-cubed up missile still manages to sideswipe the Beast Mask out of the tornado, causing it to dissipate (!) and the mask to fall into Gerald's hands, so SQ comes down and uses Blizzard's roar to send the Beast Mask, along with everyone else's masks flying... and that's where Sean's Mask Magic comes in, turning all the other masks into clones of the Beast Mask... When SQ grabs the mask, Sean asks: "Hey Snow Queen, are you sure you have the right mask?" She sees the clones fall into the hands of the guests, causing confusion all around... SQ: "I'll just take all of them... and all of you" Rose has Joy use her Frog Ball to have the insects snag the mask... Wouldn't that be a kick to the head if they ended up snagging the wrong one?
- The bugs snag SQ's mask, and Travis then snags it from the bugs in return... SQ tries to ice up Travis and he's desperately trying to fend off her Ice Magic with his arm (!!) R: "Come on guys, follow me" H: "Ready?" LL: "Of course, I love challenges" But then they all get knocked off by the ice dragons (!) Somehow, they all survive their falls (HUH.) Coach Beast: "Don't count my grandson down just yet... He can do it." Travis manages to knock off the ice that's gathering on his arm, and put the mask on before channeling his inner Banshee to send the ice dragons and SQ flying
- And on that note, we head straight back to the party... H: "You saved me this time... and like, everyone!" CB: "Travis, maybe you are the toughest Beast around" T: "Don't forget this guy (Sean), I couldn't have done it without him" Beauty: "Everyone... I present the heroes of the ball" This leads into the first all-male-vocals song in RegAc's history, "Friends to the End"... and Astoria taking Sean's hand. DAWW...

- We open with Team Vicky and Team Rose riding their dragons (the latter with pets in tow, of course) We learn from a convo between Rose and Travis that they're heading to Ironfan castle for three nights, for the Full Moon Festival... R: "What could be better?" T: "Than a full moon? I can think of a few things" (This will be important) R: "Are you kidding me? I can't wait to see you under the full moon!" T: "Rose! Lingling will hear you!" LL flies aside Rose to explain the deal: "The Full Moon ceremony is more than just a sleepover. Princes and princesses have joined to get enlightenment and wisdom." A: "Could Rose get them twice? It would really help with our grades" LOL! LL: "My grandmother takes the Full Moon ceremony very seriously, Rose..." (guess it must run in the family) "... so I hope you didn't bring the Pompoms with you." Turns out the Pompoms are riding on her dragon's tail LOL!
- Team Rose arrives at Ironfan castle, and we cut to the entire class sitting in the main hall...plus an interlude of Pompoms sumo wrestling. LL: "Rose, get the Pompoms away before granny starts the class!" And guess who should show up just then... Granny announces that they will lean calligraphy today, as it will teach you discipline" (Gerald gets a face full of ink and immediately gets blown out of the room by her fan LOL) "It will clear your mind... and it will prepare you for the Full Moon ceremony." Astoria (and her hair) does great with the calligraphy, while a random student draws Granny as some sort of demon on the back of his paper (LOL)... and Rose draws a pair of shoes (what else? ) Granny: "Rose! Fun is for parties. In class you must be calm and serious, like Travis" Granny thinks Travis is excited for the full moon... and this surprises Travis that he drops the ink bottle he's holding, leading to hilarious Pompom shenanigans where more ink bottles get spilled and/or splashed, and Astoria's hair gets inked LOL!
- Cut straight to nighttime, and Team Rose arriving at the family items room with Granny Ironfan. Astoria thinks that they're getting extra instruction because LL is on their team, but Granny reveals: "Rose is so undisciplined that you need all my help to get a passing grade" LOL! Hawk and Rose look at a picture on the wall, and Granny reveals it to be a picture of her sister. H: "Really? Where is she now?" Granny: "That's a story for another day" (This will be important) Granny shows the family iron fan, but Rose notices a bow: "What does the moon bow do?" Granny reveals that "What makes the moon bow special is its connection to moon magic. The power of the moon is absorbed, and increases the power of the bow 1000 times." Team Vicky's overhearing, and while Cyrus is practicing his calligraphy (LOL) Kira thinks that moon magic is such a joke: "It's only dark half the day, but it snows all year long!" Vicky pre-empts the audience's reaction: "I'm pretty sure that's not true" K: "Whatever, I'd rather have my snowballs than some iron fan" Anyways, Granny leaves the room, and Team Vicky rushes in, including Cyrus with his calligraphy stuff, which is important because he trips and accidentally knocks the iron fan pedestal over and spills his ink on it LOL. Vicky: "You're a bumbler!" A hand grabs the ink-stained fan, but it's not Cyrus or the others', but rather this well covered-up warrior. OOH!
- Over to the boys' dorm, where Travis thinks he hears Hawk snoring... it's actually his owl Doc LOL: "Must be worn out from a hard day of adventuring" T: "Uh-huh..." H: "Why are you still awake? Something bothering you?" T: "I'm just worried how Lingling is going to react when she finds out my secret at the Full Moon ceremony" H: "Pfft! Dude, your secret isn't even a secret. Everyone knows it already, it's no big deal" T: "It's a big deal for me! And it might be a big deal for Lingling..." (And for us as well, since we don't know what's his deal with the moon) H: "Travis, we see so much crazy stuff every day... Just follow your heart and you'll be okay" (...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cFcn5bA-XI ) T: "I'll do my beast"
- Girls' dorm! J: "Professor Ironfan is so strict about her lessons! I'm so stressed, I don't think I can even sleep!" Joy... falls asleep LOL! The girls talk about the pressure they're under... LL: "Granny is so strict, she puts a lot of pressure on me at times" A: "I know what you mean. I'm under a lot of the same pressure from my grandmother... only she wants me to find a prince already." R: "And I'm under a lot of pressure too, like every morning, I wake up and wonder... what shoes I'm going to wear to match my outfit for the day" LL (and myself): LL recommends that Rose should learn to meditate and to take things a bit more seriously. LL meditates and repeatedly says "Om"... while Rose repeatedly says "Shoes" LOL! Back to Team Vicky giving covered-up warrior photos of Team Rose, as Vicky adds: "If you help us, the Snow Queen will help you conquer this kingdom." Well covered-up warrior leaves and Cyrus asks: "Vicky, why are we helping her? We don't need her!" V: "Oh, we do. She is the perfect candidate to knock out Rose and her friends, forever!" So off the bat we learn that our warrior is a woman? Gee, that narrows it down a bit (not sarcastic)
- Next morning, with dragon riding class! Cyrus thinks it's redundant, but Granny points out that these are Chinese Mission Dragons (so China exists in Fairy Tale Land? ) "These dragons don't fly students, they swim through the air. It's a bit different." Finn is the first to be thrown off his dragon, and Granny fans him away, soon followed by Leena... And it turns out they get blown back to her castle to clean the floor LOL. Finn: "That did not go well for me" Travis comes in: "Me neither" LOLx2!
- Back in the air, where Astoria points out that riding these dragons is hard. Joy: "I dunno. I've caught a mouthful of bugs on my ride so far. I'm going frog-wild!" And then Joy's dragon rams into a cliff face LOL! Astoria decides to use her ivy hair to help with steering and staying on the dragon. It works, but as Granny says: "Ivy hair is no replacement for proper technique Astoria", and fans her over to do floor scrubbing (insert "bad hair day" line here)
- We're down to just Rose and LL, and LL complements Rose on how well she's doing. R: "Thanks, I'm just trying to impress your grandma" She does some nice daredevil flying, before landing in the middle island and nailing the dismount. R: "Whattaya think?" Granny: "Hmm. You didn't follow the prescribed course, your posture was off, your smile was 15% wide than optimal while dragon riding, and... you have a mouse in your hair" Gigi takes offense at that LOL!
- Night time, and the girls hear a crash and decide to head to the family items room to check it out. Rose sees covered-up warrior and she's giddy to see a ninja... Right, time for fighting, with lots of jumping, Tower Magic usage, fan tossing, Rose conjuring a carriage to bounce away the fan... The main uptake of this scene is that the ninja has ink-stained hands... Hawk and Travis arrive, and LL warns them about the ninja (referring to her as per the ep title). Travis sees her jumping down towards him and immediately Fury's her out of the room LOL. Team Rose looks at the damage, and Astoria and Joy decides they'll clean it up in the morning... after the lesson.
- Morning! Rose enters the items room, and looks like Granny is cleaning it up... Rose notices the telltale inkstain on her hands and Granny soon leaves the room. Rose rushes to the classroom and asks "Okay, what's going on here?!" Granny: "It's called class Rose, and you're late!" LOL! Rose demands to see the ink on her hands... much to her confusion, Granny doesn't have the inkstain: "Let me assure you. My hands are clean" (wonder if she recognizes the pun?) Hawk believes Rose, and LL talks about the attack. Granny is offended that they're accusing her, and adds that the family dragon patrols the items room all night so no one could come in. H: "I know what we saw!" Granny: "Your undisciplined team wrecked my hall and now you're looking to blame me? Well, you can spend the day cleaning the hall by yourselves! Now!" (shades of Winx 1x07?) Rose: "Wait, she's wearing different clothes than before. Could there be two Granny Ironfans?" Oh, now you just noticed? And considering that mention of Granny's sister a few nights ago... now you're just considering the possibility? Hawk is like "Huh?"
- Over to the items room, where Travis is carrying two pedestals on top of each other and a bunch of Pompoms are trying to put another up, which ends with Travis slipping on a Pompom and breaking the two pedestals LOL. Rose: "Let me handle this" After a brief montage of Rose cleaning (including the 4th wall LOL)... LL: "Rose, you're doing great" R: "I'm a Cinderella, we're great at cleaning" HEH! Rose decides to set up a trap for the Shadow Warrior, since "As long as the Iron Fan is still here, she'll come for it"
- Night time! Shadow Warrior enters one of the dorms, and slices up the blankets with her fan as far as I can tell... Rose shows up and then has the pets plus Pompoms attack her, sending her out into the hall, where Bao gnaws on her ankle as she runs into the rest of Team Rose... LL uses her Fan Magic to unmask the Shadow Warrior... and it's Granny Ironfan? LL suggests they should just let her go, and "Granny" takes the hint and rushes out... Travis stops her from jumping off, and Rose arrives at the conclusion we've arrived at a few minutes ago: "She's Granny's twin sister!" Twinnie uses her fan to blast Travis off the balcony to the roof, where he's hanging for dear life (!)
- The rest of Team Rose shows up, and Astoria tries her fire bangles, which Twinnie just fans/ping-pongs back... So, Rose tries her glass slippers, and it looks like they're going for a kungfu homage, but she doesn't last long before she's tossed aside and gets the fan thrown towards her (!) LL manages to grab the fan midair: "You can't mess with my friends!" Twinnie just magically pulls the fan out of LL's hand (!) Rose points out the iron fan isn't the only family item LL can use... so she decides to summon the Moon Bow (which is why her regal armor transformation features her firing an arrow) However, Twinnie keeps running around making LL's shot impossible... Rose has an idea as she looks at the full moon: "Remember what Professor Ironfan said about the moon multiplying the power of the bow? Lingling, fire it at the moon!" LL: "Rose, are you sure?" A: "It seems crazy" LL: "Let's do it! I trust you my friend" She shoots, and although it makes a bit of a light show, that's all it does... HUH?
- Twinnie jumps from the roof to the balcony to tackle LL, knocking away the Moon Bow, and finally revealing what her deal is: "Now I'll have my ultimate revenge. I should have been the head of the family instead of my sister..." (So essentially, we have a Nereus/Tritannus situation going on, though it'll probably be better-executed than Winx S5) "... and there's no way I'll let her pass it on to you!" Twinnie's going to make sure of this by shooting LL with the Moon Bow... (and look at how LL reacts LOL)
- ...when she suddenly gets fired at by the moon (!) with a bunch of moonbeams and has to jump out of the way... Granny finally comes out and catches Twinnie as she's blasted towards her. Hanging from Granny's arm, Twinnie lets out an evil "Hello sister" before making her getaway on a dragon... Granny reveals the issue with Twinnie to Team Rose: "You are all correct. The impostor was my twin sister... She was long ago disowned by my family and turned over to the Snow Queen for power. Thank you for protecting our family items from her" LL: "You are welcome Granny" Granny: "And Rose, I'm very impressed with you! You figured out the hidden power of the Moon Bow" R: "Actually...... it was just a guess" A: "Wait, that was all just a wild guess?!" R: "I thought it would be the coolest thing ever if it worked... and it was! " A: (facepalm LOL)
- Full Moon ceremony, with the students holding Chinese lanterns... Granny: "Lingling, on the night of the Full Moon ceremony, I see now that you have become a great warrior..." Granny looks at LL's friends cheering for her... "...and an even greater friend." Granny then presents LL with the Moon Bow: "The Moon Bow belongs in your hands now. It is safer there even than with me" And on that note, LL shoots the moon again, releasing its magic and making the lanterns float into the sky. Aww... "May the light of these lanterns light your way, and give you wisdom and insight!"
- This leads into a song between LL and Rose, "Part of Me"... during which the Pompoms light up a bunch of firecrackers and toss them towards the students making them scatter LOL! LL notices someone missing from the ceremony: "Wait... where's Travis?" H: "Uh, I guess you're the only one who doesn't know... Travis is allergic to moon magic. He's embarrassed about telling you" LL sprints off to another corner of the castle, where Travis is painting a picture of the full moon. When we finally see what he looks like... he looks quite a bit like Sirenix Stormy LOL. LL asks to see the picture, and she comments: "You're fantastic!" Much to Travis' relief, I'm sure

- Rose is home, looking for the best shoe for today's Prince Competition (and somehow manages to wear a shoe on her head) "New fairy tale princes are coming, and I'm going to meet them!" Gigi makes her usual noises... "Of course I want Hawk to win. Er... uhh... I want everyone to win, wouldn't that be super cool?!" Her pumpkin alarm clock goes off and she has to hurry. Rose takes a look at the green shoes she's wearing... "I like them both" LOL, as the shoe on her head finally comes off and Gigi has to avoid it (!)
- RegAc, and Cinderella explains that the Prince Competition is a series of trials: "Perform poorly and you'll be eliminated" R: "So cool! Hawk and Travis. Who would be the best fairy tale prince?" Both answer "That would be me" in unison LOL! R: "No favorites of course!" This year's winner gets an automatic A+ on their chivalry exam, so Astoria adds: "One of you better win now, we need that grade!" Chad (the lone surfer-dude guy left after the Masquerade Ball) comes in to tell Cinderella that his grandfather is here... Prince Charming (!) R: "This I gotta see! The most charming prince in the history of charm" After being shown only from the back... we see that he hasn't aged very well LOL. "Prince Charming is the best fairy tale ever! Even if he's grown a bit old. Best fairy tale ever! I wonder how Chad can possibly be his grandson." As if to compound the old guy stereotypes, his first lines are "My back" and "Get me my cane" LOL.
- Anyways, Prince Charming will be the judge, and he's offering his magic charming cloak as the grand prize. Kira is having her mom listen in (of course) Kira: "Did you hear that, mother?" Snow Queen: "Sure, Kira, I'm evil, not deaf" LOL! Cyrus: "Whaat?" SQ intends to use the cloak to charm the teachers right into her snow globes...
- First contest is to rope climb to the top of a tower to rescue a damsel in distress... as played by https://magixclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8960&view=findpost&p=466666: "Just don't actually dare to touch me. I'm extremely sensitive!" LOL! Last two will be eliminated, and away we go! Okay, other than Travis and Hawk, along others we have Sean, Gerald, and Esquire, plus a dude with wings, and a guy who looks like he's wearing an old-fashioned furnace. Everyone is cheering for Hawk (of course) Hawk to Travis: "My fan club. Don't be jealous " T: "I'm not jealous" He accidentally lets go of the rope as he says that LOL! (His fall, and everyone else's, gets softened by pillows BTW) R: "Did you see Prince Leaf's wings? They're fabulous!" Furnace prince takes out a potion and turns those wings into stone, while Esq is tonguing his way to the top... Bea: "Move it! You call yourselves princes?!" Rapunzel adds a little flower magic to the proceedings, by creating vines that throw some of the contestants off the tower (a la Flora and the ice crabs) Gerald manages to be caught by Odette LOL, while Hawk uses Snow Magic on the vines, and furnace prince a herbicidal spray...
- It comes down to Sean and Hawk. Sean: "Astoria, hope you don't mind if I win" A: "Not if it means we don't make the grade" Then out of nowhere, furnace prince uses some sort of grappling rope to overtake them both for the win (!) Bea has a really questionable line here: "Come on you lazy sl*ts, climb like you wanna rescue me!" Hawk ends up behind Sean for 3rd place... Furnace prince: "Not bad for a loser"
- At the quad, Team Rose decide that Hawk and Travis need help... We also learn that furnace prince is named Prince Earl Surly of the Northern Lands, and Cyrus got eliminated, so Team Vicky decides to help Prince Earl win, expecting him to give them the cloak once he wins... because that worked so well with Von Frog and the Frog Ball
- As Hawk and Travis bemoan their respective 3rd and 4th place finishes, Team Rose brings in a personal trainer... Prince Charming himself: "Even a troll can turn into a real prince following my advice" T: "Uh, did he just insult us?" Two of Hawk's fan club still think of Hawk as awesome, but seeing Esq follow Team Rose, they add: "Seriously, that frog is going to compete with Hawk?" This makes Esq sad, so Joy decides to split off to help Esq...
- Travis and Hawk's first training exercise involves evading Pompoms LOL. Eventually a bunch of them land on Travis' face and start kissing him, making Prince Charming laugh... before getting glomped by Pompoms himself LOL. Next exercise involves pulling present boxes out of nowhere LOL... Hawk hands a gift over to Rose without issue, but Travis' bulky box ends up flattening Lingling HEH!
- We get a wordless interlude of Joy and Esq grabbing flies on a lake with some Frog Fu (while her frog King does timekeeping) ending with Esq slip off his lilypad into the lake LOL. Back to Hawk and Travis doing jumping jacks, with Astoria helping to train them... Sean sees her doing this and is dismayed, which is then followed by an interlude of two Pompoms also jumping (one bumps the other aside LOL)
- Cinderella castle, where Travis and Hawk are carrying flowers. PC: "A prince has to be graceful and daring... and charm the ladies at the same time" So, they're going to defend themselves from an army of Pompoms with bananas (how Minion-y LOL) with nothing but a bouquet and a smile. Eventually Travis manages to break up the Pompoms' attacks are broken up with his so-called smile... T: "My smile was weak. They're just laughing at me" LL: "Then you have turned your weakness into strength. Most admirable" Hawk throws the flowers at the Pompoms and uses the distraction to jump over them (!) "Let's wrap this up" Hawk and Travis use their respective magic to make the Pompoms slip on ice and then blown away...
- Over to Vicky's castle, where Kira and Vicky are perusing the plethora of potions available to choose from to give to Earl... Kira opens a bottle and ends up scratching herself like a dog LOL. This turns out to be itching powder, and Vicky gives it to Earl, along with explosive darts and a kitty potion... These will all be important...
- Dragon Arena, where the final stages of the competition are about to begin. We learn from Prince Charming that Earl is the grandson of his arch enemy Prince Surly, who was always trying to steal his cloak (so let me guess, it's Von Frog all over again huh?) First up, dragon dancing... As you'd expect, we have Travis/LL and Hawk/Rose pairing up, as well as Kira/Earl and Gerald/Odette... Sean: "Can I have this dance?" A: "Sorry, I, uh, can't help you. You're the competition" Sean looks disappointed: "Whatever you say my lady" Sean ends up with Alicia instead...
- So basically they're dancing in pairs on the backs of their dragons (!) H/R get perfect 10s while T/LL get straight 8s... T: "Not fair, those princesses are in the tank for Hawk" LL: "Be quiet and dance" (To be fair, their dancing isn't as graceful as H/R) Earl tosses Gerald/Odette's dragon a doggie treat, causing him to sneeze and deposit them into another pillow pile ("Must be allergic to lovey-dovey") O: "Don't worry. To me you'll always be a real prince"
- Next event: Tightrope fencing, with Travis drawn against Sean and Earl against Esq... Prince Charming sprains his back cheering for Travis, before Leaf tries to take on Earl and gets sprayed with some of Earl's potion, knocking him out of sky and out of the contest... Next is throwing a cake to hit an ogre, not the princesses. Hawk shows how it's done, managing to hit his ogre standing behind a row of 6 princesses LOL. Everyone else contends with just one princess, and Esq gets eliminated in this round after hitting Joy (after Esq's ogre ducks LOL)
- Final event is an obstacle course... Cinderella: "A true prince must be able to work side-by-side with his princess. So, this is a three-legged race!" Instead of the ankles, they're tied together at the waist (!) Sean to Astoria: "Aren't you going to wish me luck?" A: "Yes... uh, I mean, just as long as you don't win" Sean does not look all too pleased at that comment... And off they go! Earl decides to add some of his own obstacles (Kira: "That's so romantic") starting with a poison fog... All three remaining teams use their respective magic to go over the fog (Sean's is a bit convoluted, using a long-nose mask to vault over the fog) Next, Kira fires her wand to knock a boulder into the path... R/H manage to avoid the rock but T/LL get knocked off course , and despite Travis valiantly balancing himself and LL, they still get disqualified... "Well, at least I got to rescue a princess" And this means that the issue of Hawk/Travis gets settled before the climax. HUH.
- Earl sees Hawk coming up strong on him: "Make do with 3rd place, wannabe prince!" Earl fires a dart at Hawk to blow out of the way, allowing Sean to overtake him. H: "Oh no, 3rd place again..." Rose spots some flowers on the side od the course: "Don't panic Hawk, remember what Grandpa Charming said..." H: "A prince has to be graceful and daring"
- Home stretch now, and Rose has an idea: "A meanie like Earl would never protect his princess" H: "And charm the ladies at the same time" Earl sees Hawk climb back up to 2nd, so he readies the kitty potion... Hawk takes the flowers and holds them at Kira's face and this makes Kira lunge forward and bring Earl down with her (uh...) The kitty potion gets tossed back and somehow Earl/Kira fall on top of it, turning Kira into a cat (must say that is quite the look on Cat!Kira)
- And even with that setback, Earl still manages to get up and cross the line first, but Earl and Vicky are flabbergasted to find out he's been disqualified (!) But as everyone else is watching Sean and Hawk race to a dead heat, Earl steals the cloak anyway (!!) Sean and Hawk and their princesses hide behind Hawk's Mirror Shield to avoid the cloak's effects (while Esq jumps on to Joy's face LOL) as everyone else gets charmed... one of the girl extras is holding an Earl figurine, and others have photos LOL (Incidentally, unlike with Von Frog, Vicky seems to have no issue with him using the cloak)
- That still leaves Sean and Hawk's teams, but an explosive dart sends Sean down the home stretch ramp and Earl grabs Alicia by the tail... Rose comes out, bur Earl's ready to dart her as well (!) Joy manages to pull Esq off her face to summon the Frog Ball and its bugs to either shine their lights on Earl to make him misfire (also allowing Alicia to escape Earl's grasp) or hold up a big electric fan LOL to blow the charmed horde away, or use spiderwebs to hold the charmed victims down... Earl tosses the itching powder at Hawk and Hawk bounces it back at Earl with the shield. You'd think Earl's armor would make him impervious to the itching powder... You'd be wrong, since he itches like crazy allowing Rose to make a run in glass slippers to take back the cloak
- After Earl gets arrested, time for the award ceremony, where Hawk and Sean are crowned co-winners. J: "Too bad Esquire turned out to be a dud, https://magixclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8960&view=findpost&p=466783" Esq shows up with a bouquet of insects and worms to thank Joy for her help... LOL at Joy's reaction! Hawk says that Rose can keep it as (say it with me now ) part of her fairy tale collection
- Back in Not!Gardenia, Rose is walking past the shoe store, when a flyer showing Hawk and Sean's victory in the Prince Competition falls out near the door. The door opens to reveal it being picked up by someone we haven't seen since last season's finale: Ruby, and of course she still has her eyes set on Hawk. Ooh! (That said, none of the setups from the last few eps have a payoff as of ep 15 )

- We open off the bat with Rose falling through the sky, where her dragon tells her a) she's late for class (Rose's alarm didn't go off, typical) and b) Sir George (1x24) is teaching dragon summoning today, so Rose decides to give him a grand entrance, which may include the use of Regal Armor and involve diving straight towards the dragon arena...
- Speaking of, George is boring the heck out of everyone (Pompoms included) with the theory side of dragon summoning... which includes knowing the features of the dragon one intends to summon, otherwise "You'll summon something horrible, like a Madlove dragon" LOL! (Vicky might attest to that though ) Eventually, Coach Beast insists that dragon summoning is easy and takes out his wand... and gets glomped by Rose and her dragon much to the students' delight LOL! Cinderella: "Rose, that was dangerous" Snow White: "Rose, that was irresponsible" George: "Rose, that was glorious" Rose is smug... and George adds: "Regal Academy has finally produced a dragon rider worthy of a dragon duel" (Much to the teachers' shock) Rose accepts the challenge, and the Pompoms cheer... Rose's opponent will be George's great-grandson, the almighty Gregory... and as he walks in Snow White asks "Did he say almighty?" because he looks like an utter dork LOL. And a Madlove dragon sits on top of Coach Beast LOL!
- Kira informs the Snow Queen about the duel between Rose and Greg, and SQ says she has the perfect partner for this, much to Team Vicky's confusion, before "hanging up" on them... SQ summons a dragon (see title) to do her work... SQ: "Serving me isn't work. It's fun!"
- The rest of Team Rose offers her their help, but by rules only one helper is allowed. Hawk of course offers his services ("We could train alone, together"), but his own grandma sees through the lovey-dovey and puts up Astoria instead HEH! While the Pompoms jump on Hawk Travis decides to check out Greg... and it turns out that Greg doesn't want to do dragon riding. He wants to be an artist (Travis is like Ooh!)... a sandwich artist, more specifically, but George is making him do it, as he makes Greg's dragon take off... Travis meets up with Greg and says he's going to help him win his grandpa over. Greg points out that while his family has been riding dragons for generations, he doesn't have a bond with his dragon, and the dragon doesn't even like him... but that's when the Dark Dragon shows up and essentially hypnotizes Greg into riding him into the duel instead (!) with Travis as his helper (!!) while shooing Greg's suddenly puny dragon off...
- Over to Rose and Astoria training, now and they're learning things like jumping off the dragon doing a barrel roll, bouncing a spell off walls before have the dragon protect them from being hit, and drinking at a picnic (yes, it's about as weird as it sounds)... and of course Astoria is better at these. A: "This training and the dragon duel depend on you bond with your dragon" R: "But we're super bonded! Like when she knew I'd be late and caught me?" Dragon: "Was that before or after our horrible crash?" Rose decides that they're going to need to bond even more, so she's going to go shoe shopping with her dragon
- Not!Gardenia shoe store, with no Ruby in sight... just the surreal image of Rose trying shoes, with her dragon poking in through the window. Rose tells two random customers that she's her cousin, and they see the resemblance LOL! Two random pedestrians notice the rest of the dragon's body and wonder if it's some sort of promotion... The dragon's tail swats them LOL! There's a quick gag of the dragon being allergic to the smell of a new shoe and accidentally setting it on fire (along with Gigi's tail) and her head accidentally bumping the ceiling and knocking a bunch of shoes and boxes over. They end up returning with plenty of shoes, including a pair in the dragon's size somehow LOL!
- Back to training, Astoria seems impressed that their little shoe shopping trip has improved their performance, but their attempt at a backstand flip is really disastrous, ending with Rose's dragon sneezing her smack into a wall (!) One wonders how Rose is even alive after that? Anyways, time for the duel... Coach Beast: "We can't look bad in front of Sir George, he'll mock us forever" We have some chitchat amongst teachers, students and even dragons ("Hi, did you bring popcorn?") Alicia fancies Rose's chances againsy George's great-grandson but George points out that no one in his line has ever lost a dragon duel... Anyways, Rose and Astoria show up and they're surprised to see Travis until he's announced that Greg's second, which they find weird. R: "Did Travis always have that scary... piece?" A: "I'll go check on him" However, here comes Greg and the Dark Dragon...
- The teachers spot the Dark Dragon coming in and Snow White says that they've been banished years ago. George: "Gregory looks really determined to become a sandwich artist" Dark Dragon blows away the teachers and also attacks the rest of Team Rose's dragons, so the rest of the team bring out their wands to open a couple dragon portals (LOL at Hawk's delivery of "Here dragons")
- They summon two Bolt Dragons and a Gumchew (the latter with sticky gum on its back), and we'll see how they come into play later... For now, Rose tries jumping on to the Dark Dragon to rescue Greg, while Astoria tries a tail slap on the Dark Dragon: "What are you gonna do next, sneeze on me?" A: "Exactly" (by using her ivy hair to induce allergies, HEH)
After a while of Rose trying to keep herself on the Dark Dragon for dear life, Rose gets thrown off (!) Astoria tries to swoop to Rose's rescue, evading bolts from the Dark Dragon... only to get rammed by Travis, knocking them both off (!!) And on top of that, the Dark Dragon also nudges Rose's dragon out of the way as she's trying to rescue her (!!!) Hawk comes in with his Bolt dragon to catch Rose, while LL catches Astoria on another...
- Joy tries to catch Travis on yet another Bolt dragon (uh, did the animators lose count?) but Travis ends up falling on the Dark Dragon, forcing Joy to swerve away... Dark Dragon to Travis: "I'm not done with you yet" Thankfully though, Astoria hair grabs Travis right off the dragon, before LL breaks the fairy-tale curse on him Spider-Man style (as in, the first Raimi flick)
Rose jumps off Hawk's dragon back to hers: "Let's show everyone how bonded we are!" Joy lands her dragon next to the teachers... and the Dark Dragon lands next to her: "I'm taking you all before the Snow Queen" Back to Rose: "You guys thinking what I'm thinking?" T: "Uh... don't think so" LOL! So Rose has the rest cover her, and Travis readies his Beast Mask...
Rose charges towards the Dark Dragon who fire bolts at her... and Hawk has Travis use the mask to create a lightning storm to strike the dragon back, throwing Greg off (!) George catches Greg with the Gumchew: "I put the great in great-grandpa" LOL!
- As the Dark Dragon zaps away Travis' storm cloud, Rose is calling a backstand flip (of the disastrous sneeze into the wall) and this tine it's even more risky since she's using one of her hands to use her wand to conjure up a pumpkin, which had the rest of the team guessing what she's up to... Rose then summons her glass slippers to kick the pumpkin straight into the Dark Dragon's mouth, causing it to suddenly stall and fall towards the teachers (!) They open up a portal for the dragon to fall in, and the portal closes as the students cheer... Vicky: "Your mom's going to be so bummed" Kira: "Good. That will teach her to replace us"
- Epilogue! Back at the dragon arena, Sir George proudly declares that his family remains undefeated (!) which Coach Beast finds ludicrous because Rose did defeat the dragon... but George dismisses their claim with a single word: "Interference" Coach: "Are you batty?!?" Well, barring the fact that Greg was being used by the Dark Dragon, George does have a point... Travis (despite probably being in the best position to argue that Greg wasn't even in control of his dragon in the first place) decides not let Coach Beast protest any further (thus making Rose the Gail Trimble of dragon dueling) T: "Now let him be a sandwich artist?" Coach: "That's ridiculous" George: "It is not ridiculous. If Gregory wants to be a sandwich artist, then so be it" Oh, so now he acquiesces... Coach Beast begrudgingly knights Greg as Sir Sandwich Artist LOL, and we end on a sandwich party involving the Pompoms, Greg and George, and Rose and her dragon ("Love it ")

- Not!Gardenia, where Rose is packing her backpack for, well, see title. Clara hates Merlin Academy, while Rose is excited to learn about a new kind of magic, and besides it's just for one day. Dave enters to ask, and despite last season's finale, Clara comes up with the cover story that she's heading to "Merlin City, Ohio" LOL... "Your father can barely deal with Regal Academy, we are not giving him a witch school!" Nevertheless, he is suspicious of the pointy hat and the crystal balls that roll out of her backpack LOL, and he even finds his plastic broom in there (Clara: "Rose, no, you can't fly on a plastic broom like this" LOLx2) R: "Relax mom, surviving a day at a new school will be no problem "
- Cut to Merlin Academy, where wizards and witches are chaotically casting spells at each other like a nonstop Hogwarts magical duel (lots of nice sight gags to be had), while Merlin casually reads his book and drinks his tea... We cut to outside, and there's definitely a bit of Hogwarts influence in the design, and there's even more dueling (Rose's pumpkin head manages to make a brief appearance)... as Team Rose shows up (plus pets and Pompoms) T: "Whoa, this place is crazy"
- The gang try to charge in, and the students decide to give them a respectable welcome the only way they know how: by blasting them with spells, one of which makes Astoria's hair go poof LOL (and thankfully not in the same way as Miss Magix ) and another causes hands to spring out of the ground, grabbing Rose and the Pompoms (!) Astoria eventually uses her Tower Magic to create vines to pluck everyone out of harm's way... and toss them straight through Merlin's front door LOL.
- Merlin's granddaughter Merlina will be assisting him today, but anyway, Astoria has some bones to pick with Merlin about being "welcomed" by the students' attack and him drinking tea while this was going on... A bunch of students comes in and a purple-haired witch says they were just practicing, and Merlin suggests Rose could learn a lot from them... Rose brings out her crystal ball to see the future... and is startled by a cat appearing distorted through the ball and drops it on her foot LOL. Purple-haired witch: "Bet that she didn't foresee that" Merlin adds that while they're waiting for another team to show up, their pets can get to know each other... leading to some shenanigans between the students' cats and Team Rose's pets (and Pompoms)
- We learn that purple-hair witch is named Sandra, and Melvin ("The Parents' Day") is on her team (R: "Not forgetting him any time soon") Sandra is the granddaughter of the Evil Queen, which she says makes Hawk her cousin... H: "That makes us... nothing! Except enemies!" Astoria is flabbergasted that he's teaching the grandchildren of known villains. Merlin: "Sandra can hardly be blamed for what her grandmother did. The apple can fall far from the tree" Speaking of, Merlin tosses Hawk an apple and Hawk takes a bite before adding: "I'm so mad I can barely bring myself to eat this apple" T: "Well, at least Vicky and her team aren't here" But Team Vicky is here, HAH! As everyone heads to classes, we learn that Sandra already knows that Kira is the daughter of the Snow Queen, and more importantly, she and Melvin are going to help Team Vicky put the grandchildren of the 6 fairytale families out of commission and take over Fairy Tale Land themselves (OOH!) Looks like Merlin's little concept doesn't apply to Sandra
- Merlin decides to go over basics like Bug Magic... After an interlude in which a Pompom bowls another Pompom to keep a cat away from King, Joy volunteers for this, and proves very natural, making a face out of bugs with her Frog Magic... M: "Are you sure you don't have a witch or wizard in your family tree?" A: "Joy is doing better than me in class. I must be dreaming!" LOL
- Sandra is up next, and she sees Travis laughing at her... so she uses her wand to throw an earthworm on to his hair, causing him to freak out LOL! Merlina tries her hand at making a spider into a giant spider... and ends up making it explode, sending her up into the air, and Rose saves her with a pumpkin kart HEH!
- Next up will be making and riding their own broomsticks... Astoria and Rose read a witch textbook, written in rhyme, to find the broomstick tree: "Walk away into the west, and find the tree that looks the best" They find the tree and Hawk tries to grab some branches... and winds up getting assaulted hard, because as with the Enchanted Forest, this is a living tree (yet Hawk and Lingling are amazed at this) Astoria reads more of the rhyme: "To get the broomstick at the end of your walk, ask the tree and have a talk" Joy offers to trade a jar of sparkle magic with some broomsticks, but the tree slaps it away: "I am magic already, thank you" (thankfully three Pompoms manage to catch it) T: "When the going gets tough, the beast gets going!" Travis tries charging at it and gets shot at with acorns LOL. Astoria asks the tree "Isn't there something we can give you for your branches?" and the tree bluntly makes it clear: "Nothing!"
- Sounds like Rose is giving up already, so she and LL are picnicking under the tree's shade, and even offer the tree some tea (reminding me of Eldora's first episode in Winx S6) Tree seems impressed that Rose would offer tea and hangout with it... though when Rose asks the tree: "How do you take your tea?" the response is "I don't because I'm a tree" (LOL) "But I'm still touched. No one ever comes 'round to have a talk with me"... And just like that, the tree gives Team Rose their sticks
- Back to Merlin Ac, where Merlina is playing with earthworms (using her wand to make them crawl in a conga line formation LOL), and Sandra and Melvin are concerned about her ratting them out, so Sandra tells her to let her brother play with the worms... Outside, Team Rose is returning as Sandra intends to keep them occupied, and like Hawk, Sandra has a mirror self (though in her case it's more fitting) Mirror Sandra promises to wake up some huge sleeping friends...
- R: "No ambush this time!" LL: "There is always an ambush" In this case, from two dragon heads popping out of the ground (!) Rose has Joy pass her the sparkle magic jar from earlier, and a couple of Pompoms come in with a spoon... After a brief scene of Astoria fighting one of the heads with her hair and Travis easily being tossed aside, the Pompoms use the spoon to lob some sparkles at one head trying to attack Joy... and it petrifies the head and makes it explode. The other head is about to attack Travis when it gets dealt with similarly, but Travis being Travis, he still manages to end up under the petrified dragon's head (Look at LL laughing at Travis' misfortune LOL)
- Broomstick making class! Sandra hands out straw to the rest of Team Rose, before throwing a bale at Rose, knocking her over LOL. More importantly, Melvin switches out Merlin's box of earthworms with his box of worms, which is important because a magic earthworm is the other essential ingredient to complete the broom. Rose's broom talks and immediately recognizes her because it remembers that it was part of the tree. Ooookayyyy... Sandra mentions to Team Vicky that they've cursed every worm in class. V: "I did not sign up for this" LOL! Sandra puts the normal magic worms on her team's and Team Vicky's brooms...
- Joy is going "frog wild" over riding her newly-made broom The final part of class involves flying up to the tallest tower to grab an amethyst. Melvin tells Merlin that grandma's has made a pot of witch's infusion, so he decides to leave with Merlina to take it ("It's even worse cold") Yeah, because leaving students unsupervised is such a great idea Anyways, Team Rose quickly finds out the jewel is being guarded by a giant spider, who fires spider goo at their brooms (to be fair, Melvin and Sandra also get hit at some point), and on top of that, Sandra flings poison apples at the team... There's plenty of wand usage from Team Rose as well; seems like they're going for a "quidditch" vibe here...
- This is when Melvin's worms come into play, as Team Rose's brooms start acting up: "Do you like wild rides, Rose?!" The brooms are out of control, and the tip of the handle is frayed to resemble a punkish hairstyle, even... A random student gets spider goo'd and ricochets around the school building with pinball noises (LOL!) As the chaos is going on, looks like Team Vicky is sitting out the actual broomriding as they lounge about and have some food LOL.
- Sandra uses a spell to trap Rose and Hawk, and Rose conjures up a pumpkin copter for some random student to fly into... Sandra keeps tossing apples at Hawk and taunting him to "Come and get em"... H: "You made apples into a weapon! You really are evil!" Travis tries to back Hawk up but gets tossed of his broom and gets saved by LL, and then Astoria hairgrabs two students off their brooms...
- Hawk flings his snow magic at Sandra, encasing her in an ice ball, but his broom starts flinging him around midquip causing him to knock the ice ball upwards, eventually shattering on the roof of the school. Merlina notices Rose's broom acting crazy... "Here we go... We're gonna be pancakes!" Rose's broom starts hurtling towards the ground (!!) R: "You don't wanna do this!" Broom: "Yes I do! I'm out of control crazy!" Rose mentions their little tea party... and that's enough to break the spell and stop her broom in her tracks (also, the "punk" frayed ends disappear as well) Ooookayyyy So anyways, the broom says "I owe you my life" and Rose responds: "That's what friends do...Speaking of, my friends need help. Come on!"
- The other brooms have also lost their frayed ends, as Hawk uses Snow Magic to slow down the spider, and Astoria goes in to hairgrab the amethyst from the tower... before just hovering there as the spider crawls back up to the tower into position to attack her (!) Thankfully, Merlina blasts the spider and adds that "My brother is totally going too far this time" Astoria has her go get grandpa...
- Rose pumpkin magics up a balloon, and rides in it along the others (bar Travis and LL, we'll get to them in a moment) Melvin still isn't done, as he summons a couple of bats holding a pin... who are quickly taken care of by Joy's Frog Ball, which also summons some dragonflies to pick up Travis and LL. Rose decides to give Melvin the coup de grace by having her broom slap him straight to the roof the school where he lands on top of Sandra. Sandra checks out her teammates' situation: they've been either hit by spider goo or otherwise de-broomed, and Merlin and Merlina show up... Merlina: "Melvin, your game isn't funny" Merlin: "I'm afraid you two are in quite a bit of trouble" Merlina suggests turning Melvin into a newt LOL
- After a bit of Team Rose celebrating, we head back to Merlin Ac, where he officially declares Team Rose winners... and they celebrate with their pets and Pompoms... Rose's celebration is somewhat out of line, much to Merlin's chagrin (look at Rose's reaction LOL) Back to Not!Gardenia, where Clara is pacing herself in the alley near the portal. Rose emerges with her broom, and when asked if Merlin Ac lived up to its bad reputation, answers "I think I made a clean sweep of it" HEH! Clara seems bemused at the talking broom, but hopes Rose has a good idea to keep it hidden from Dave... R: "Uhhh, sure" Broom: "I'll just tell him I'm a coat rack " LOL!

- At RegAc, Team Rose (minus Rose) is brainstorming an idea for their float for the titular parade. Hawk has made a giant apple float (figures ) and the Pompoms and Vidal run straight for the apple, which Hawk points out is fake (obviously) Cinderella comes in and tells them their float must teach something magical, and the one the audience likes best will get the best grade (insert Astoria worrying here) Rose comes in and shows off (well, guess) her giant shoe float... to the others' indifference (well, that was unexpected) A: "Rose, be serious for once" R: "Okay Astoria, show us what you got" Astoria reveals her library float: a pile of books and pillows that she calls the Knowledge Fountain LOL. Which is promptly scaled by a Pompom in mountain climber gear LOLx2... and its celebration knocks over some of the books and Astoria gets beaned and has to run around to catch them LOLx3. Astoria asks Travis: "You're an artist, any ideas?" His idea... use all of them, which looks about as bad it sounds. Lingling: "And what does this float teach?" T: "Modern art!" The apple and the shoe roll off the float and bean Travis LOL!
- Dragon arena, and Sir George is standing in front of a bunch of dragon eggs in nests for today's dragonology lesson. Everyone approaches the eggs minus Team Vicky, as George explains that the secret to egg hatching is to wait for the proper moment. George takes out his sword, recites the spell, and taps an egg and nothing happens (H: "That's the opposite of hatching" LOL) As George lets the students have a go with their wands, Kira tells her mom about the dragon eggs. SQ goes on her waffle about using the power of baby dragons to deal with the fairy tale families and adds "Plus they're so cute!" LOL. Kira already has a plan but SQ intends to have them take the eggs to the forest and hatch them and a friend of hers will claim the babies... Kira responds "Why can't we follow my plan for once? And stop playing the drama queen" SQ: "Pishposh, what's the Snow Queen without drama?" (cackles for a long time LOL)
- Rose hatches an egg, producing a pink baby dragon (not unlike her grandma's own dragon) T: "I wish I was the best at dragon hatching... or dragon anything" Next up is feeding because according to George, "A dragon's first meal is of the utmost importance" Rose tries to get Travis to feed him, and he says "Well, dragons do respect strength" He ends up getting blown in the face LOL, and Hawk takes the feed bowl... Travis tries to take it back and ends up spilling the food on the ground and conking Rose with the bowl LOL. Baby dragon eats the food off the ground as George comments: "She will react to anyone but Rose... poorly"
- Baby dragon lets out a magic breath, and after explaining that her magic breath hasn't stabilized yet, George has her try to collect it with her wand. Rose is successful at this and this means that their magic power is in sync.. J: "And is the sweetest thing ever" R: "I'll call you... Toffee" (all I can think of is http://starvstheforcesofevil.wikia.com/wiki/Toffee ) George has her release the magic, and it turns into a pumpkin with dragon wings, which flies around a bit before conking George (as if he wasn't already senile enough )
- Fireworks and a duck marching band mark the start of the Regal Parade (yay!) Snow White and Cinderella are presenting the floats, starting with Leena and Gerald's aquarium float. Two spectators expect this to mean beautiful mermaids, and get a closer look... only to find that Finn is playing the mermaid LOL!
- Other entrants include: Alicia and the remaining half of Chad and Brad, plus Odette, Violet Ogre and Pinocchia... but anyways, here comes Team Rose with their dragon float, which Hawk calls a million apple idea. H: "Everything's perfect... except why is Sir George here?" R: "It was the only way he'd lend us the dragon eggs" And apparently it reminds him of fighting an evil marching band LOL. Time for Team Vicky to get their plan under way by hijacking Violet et al's garden-themed float...
- Team Vicky starts by pelting Team Rose's float with snowballs (they think SQ is attacking; don't they already know Kira has snowball powers herself?) before hooking a rope to the float and having Cyrus pedal away... turns out the pedals are also apparently attached to a flower-shaped fan, making this get really windy for Team Rose (sight gag of the pets being blown away while Bao is meditating LOL)
- On top of that, their float hits a rock, sending the dragon eggs flying, and everyone scrambles (huh, pun ) to catch them (with Travis also having to handle LL as well) George: "You're getting it all wrong! Never fight villains with your hands full" Indeed, Vicky looks to seize this opportunity... and gets beaned with an apple? Turns out the Pompoms are tossing a pile of apples at Team Vicky LOL, but anyways, Vicky has Cyrus tow them to the forest before cutting them loose...
- Team Rose put the eggs back in their nests, but sneaky Vicky casts the egg hatching spell to hatch them into dragon babies, and Team Rose and the Pompoms have to chase them down. T: "Come on, they never stop" R: "They're just babies being babies Travis, how bad can it get?" Well, looks like SQ's old pal is on the scene, an old bearded dragon, and observing this, Kira condescendingly adds "Like she has friends" before presumably leaving with the rest of Team Vicky. Bearded dragon is also George's arch nemesis... and George is quick to bring on their epic rematch (his words), which turns out can hardly be called epic since he's just striking his sword against its leg LOL until it picks him up. Team Rose tries their magic, but "That makes me laugh" According to Astoria, old dragons are immune to nearly all magic, except maybe other dragon magic... as old dragon takes the newly hatched dragons: "There aren't enough evil dragons in the world anymore. I'll raise you to be nice and bad" Dragon takes the babies and George, and sets fire to the ground around Team Rose to stop them from following. R: "I should say something funny, but I'm pretty bummed" The best Joy can come up with: "Cute baby animals in danger makes me so mad!" (LOL, and sounding more like a Fluttershy line there)
- However, the Pompoms find Toffee still at the float and LL explains "She is bonded to you of course" One pumpkin transition later, they're riding their dragons in pursuit, wearing their dragon riding outfits, eventually finding a large fort of some sort on a mountain. Hawk decides to enter through a top window, and Rose has Travis follow Hawk while the rest distract the old dragon...
- George is locked up in a cage... and trying to recount to the old dragon the details of their last battle, like whether it involved a cheese wheel or a marching band (OD: "Well, just a tuba section maybe" LOL.) Astoria and Joy spell it out: "Sir George's dragon is an old coot..." "Just like Sir George" This gives Rose an idea... and next thing you know, the Team Rose girls show up in cleaners' outfits: "The Evil Lair Cleaning Service" LOL! (And you have to wonder how most of them can stuff all that long hair underneath their caps) Meanwhile, the boys are spying on the babies...
- Old dragon decides to have them dust off his collection of spiked flails, but then he spots Toffee (in a maid outfit LOL) and quickly figures out they're the heroes from before, so time for Team Rose to ditch the outfits and take out the wands (yay!) After being blown by a major gust of wind from the old dragon, Joy and Astoria end up landing on top of Hawk, while LL tries tossing Rose towards the old dragon and Rose gets caught easily (!)
- Travis suggests syncing with the dragon babies and Joy agrees that Rose's magic was "frogtastic" after that. Travis plays with some sort of stone dragon mask, then tosses it upwards and gets beaned by it LOL. This ends up prompting the orange dragon to sync with him, allowing him to fling Dragon Fury Magic at the old dragon, and Toffee gets blown out of its grasp before enhancing Rose's wand again...
- Travis finally knocks over the dragon and Rose magics up a biplane with her enhanced magic to fly away with Toffee (note the dragon tail on the plane ) as the rest of Team Rose has bonded with their baby dragons, allowing them to use their magic to fight against the geezer (Hawk's Dragon Snow Magic takes on the form of an ice dragon not unlike the ones from the masquerade a few eps back) before Joy finishes him off by turning him into, well, guess J: "I always wanted to do that"
- Parade! And song, which given the references to dragon fire could probably be mistaken for a rejected Winx song Among the spectators to the parade: Humpty Dumpty, Puss in Boots and Scheherazade... After we see Vicky kick away the dragon-turned-frog, Cinderella finally announces Team Rose as winner... Snow White: "Baby dragons: what a magical spectacular idea" Cinderella also adds that Team Rose saved the day, but Rose points out that Travis actually saved the day... R: "Travis, you were actually the best at a dragon something!" T: "Of course!... Uh, best at what?" Travis being Travis, he gets beaned by a stone dragon head LOL!

- We open with Rose swimming around the ocean as a mermaid... which turns out to be just a dream she was having, but then she wakes up in bed with a mermaid's tail Her initial shock gives way to "That is so cool" and Gigi is like as Rose bounces on her bed... then she realizes that no legs means no shoes: "That's no dream at all! It's a nightmare!" Clara enters and decides that they need to get to RegAc without letting Dave see her tail... Luckily, there's Clara's Ballgown Magic to cover it up...
- After a hilarious interlude of Rose having to hop on her tail before eventually tripping out of the house (Dave: "I need stronger coffee" LOL) we get a nice long establishing swooping shot of RegAc, before heading inside for a really boring Cinderella lecture, if all that yawning is any indication. H: "A whole day of lectures..." J/T: "How boring" A: "How lovely" (Figures...) H: "I wish at least something interesting would happen" Enter the Pompoms with Mermaid!Rose (whose clothes have still changed into the usual RegAc uniform above the tail) Pompoms toss Rose right on to Hawk's lap, which is hilarious and awkward LOL. Vicky: "Things are getting interesting"
- The teachers' magic doesn't work on it, so Snow White asks Rose whether she was exposed to anything strange yesterday, leading to a few imagined bits of Rose doing things, animated like S2's paper cutout closing credits (one of those bits involves an exploding cake a la Winx 6x21) Since Rose insists she hasn't been exposed to anything, Cinderella says they'll need a Mermaid Magic expert... which makes Rose excited about meeting the Little Mermaid, and Cinderella assigns the class to look for her and ask her to restore Rose's legs... V: "Helping Rose? This is one assignment I'm going to enjoy failing"
- There's a brief scene at the portal of the three pigs trying to feed Hawk's dragon (with apples, natch ) and being chased around (incidentally Hawk's dragon has a thing for hand mirrors as well...) While Cyrus is watching this, Vicky and Kira chat with the Snow Queen about dealing with Mermaid!Rose,... SQ points out that Rose will be out of her element in the ocean and Vicky says she's a dear friend of the Sea Witch, which really offends Kira, who suggests sending in one of her pet sea monsters just in case... and then they get buried under a pile of apples LOL.
- Beach, where Rose is getting some swimming lessons from the Pompoms (and is no longer wearing her uniform), and Lingling uses a sandcastle to explain the plan, which involves having Rose swim to the Coral Castle to find the Little Mermaid on her lonesome. But Rose wants them to come along: "This is my magical day, my one day as a mermaid. I want to spend it with all of you!" Astoria insists that they can't swim and LL insists they have to come, but that leaves the issue of how... Enter Travis in Regal Armor: "Got it covered Joy! Our Regal Armor is perfect in every situation!" Astoria hairgrabs him midjump (much to the Pompoms' disappointment): "Perfect in every situation... except swimming. It's too heavy, it would just hinder us" T: "Okay, fine"
- Abrupt jump cut to the rest of Team Rose in more appropriate outfits for swimming, while Rose conjures up a pumpkin submarine and has fob off the Pompoms from driving LOL (though they do still tag along) Underwater, while Rose is swimming, the others are awed by the scenery, and Travis is especially awed by a fish that leaves rainbow trails: "What a work of art... I wish I could get a closer look" J: "Well, why can't you?" Joy conjures up an underwater scuba helmet for Travis ("Just a little Frog Magic trick I know") then everyone else, leading into yet another song number which is thankfully brief, and ends with Travis (who else?) getting pinched by a lobster LOL.
- LL spots a mermaid trapped in thorny bushes, and no prizes for guessing what mermaid this is in particular. While Team Rose is busy rescuing the Little Mermaid, Kira uses her magic on the pumpkin sub engine... Travis eventually stomps the ground to free her, and Hawk tries asking her who did this... but it turns out she's lost her voice (R: "Just like in the story!" Yeah, and you probably wouldn't how things pan out for her...) LL points out she can't use her magic without her voice (a la Musa in 6x22) and Hawk adds: "She's a princess in trouble. We have to help" (though given the Little Mermaid's reaction, she doesn't seem enthusiastic about the help) Rose realizes this must be the work of the Sea Witch, and they decide to head to the Coral Castle, with Rose bringing LM along...
- Coral Castle, where the Sea Witch has captured many of the other students, and is in cahoots with Vicky and Cyrus, who make themselves scarce before Team Rose arrives... Astoria wonders why they haven't seen any other teams, and as the pumpkin sub arrives at the palace, they see the captured students, so they decide to go rescue them (with Hawk's usual "princesses in danger" excuse) and Rose lets the Pompoms drive... It's obviously a trap, as the Sea Witch fires beams from her oyster shells at the team, and it's pretty chaotic going... Hawk briefly puts the oysters' attack on ice (literally, he conjures up a block of ice to to block their shots)
- While LL and Rose go after the Sea Witch and Astoria and Joy are on rescue duty, Kira fakes being captured by vines to tricks Hawk into getting vined himself, because in his words: "I save all princesses in danger, because I'm a professional" Pretty weak way to get captured Joy turns into a frog and bites the vines trapping the other students (with Astoria personally escorting Odette in a nice bit of continuity)
- LL flings her fan magic at the sea witch and slams her against her throne; however she, Rose and Travis are all within unavoidable range of her oysters... but they're saved by the Pompoms ramming her with the sub LOL. R: "Go Pompoms! I didn't realize they were good drivers" Meanwhile, Vicky manages to sneak a hit on LL: "My plan is so good... I mean, evil"
- Rose pumpkin-torpedoes the oysters, but then Travis' attempt to retaliate against the attack on LL only results in his tornado running into the pumpkin sub (sounds like one of Pompoms retches as a result of all that spinning LOL) It ends up ramming the Sea Witch into a wall... releasing her voice back to LM... R: "Go us! "
- LM tells Team Rose that there's also a colossal sea monster (basically, a kraken like the one in Winx 3x06) Vicky and Cyrus "quickly" run away, and after a pumpkin torpedo strike doesn't faze it, it's chasing Team Rose... Astoria hairgrabs on to the sub, Travis is carrying a half-conscious LL, and Frog!Joy is in danger of being sucked by the kraken, so Rose grabs and hurls Frog!Joy right at Travis' kisser (literally) turning her back to normal...
- Kira's spell from earlier makes the sub's engine conk out, leading to more chaotic scrambling to avoid becoming kraken chow (especially with Rose having to carry Travis, LL and Joy) Eventually, the sub gets swatted out of the water, and everyone swims over to where the sub is... While the gang take stock of things, kraken shows up again (!) and LM uses her mermaid magic to restore Rose's legs (and Rose is now back in her RegAc uniform again)
- Hawk managed to temporarily ice one of the kraken's tentacles, but Rose says they need help, so Hawk takes out his hand mirror: "Leave it to me... I am Hawk Snowwhite" Jumpcut back to the RegAc portal, where Hawk's dragon has gorged herself on apples, and is lying on top of the pigs LOL. The hand mirror rings and vibrates cellphone style LOL, and the pig who picks it up hands it over to the dragon LOL. Dragon isn't willing to pick it up, but the pig tells her that Hawk and his friends are in trouble, and so she perks up and flies off... The pigs decide to celebrate being free with an apple snack... and the dragon just casually takes the apple away LOL.
- Dragon shows up and Hawk jumps right on it, and flies in to directly strike kraken in the center, but again it breaks the ice and ends up swatting both of them into the ocean, and Astoria has to bail him out with Tower Magic. LM has a rather long explanation that she can use her Mermaid Magic to make a magical current to drag the kraken to the bottom of the ocean. Joy tries distracting it with Frog Magic, but kraken is still moving too much for LM, and she gets swatted away as well, and kraken also scores another direct hit on the sub (Astoria says next one will sink them [!])
- Rose has an idea, and one imagines she's grateful that she has legs again, because she uses her glass slippers to run rings around the kraken, which makes it perfect for LM to try her spell again. I think I'm supposed to get the impression that Rose's running is assisting the current spel, and from the suddenness of the kraken's exit, it's hard to tell whether it's supposed to have been dragged down or blown up After a long pause to be sure kraken's done, team Rose (plus LM) celebrate, and Hawk's dragon pops out of the water: "Did I miss something?" H: "Well, you're just in time to give us a ride back to school" LOL
- Back at RegAc, Cinderella mentions the rescue of LM... Astoria: "Does that mean... extra credit?" Cinderella nods in agreement, and Hawk even throws in a mention of the rescue of princesses (and Finn, after the whale seems mildly offended at being left out) Kira indifferently says "Uh, I am saved... Yay." As a reward for her bravery, LM gives Rose a shell trumpet... One guess where it's going but first she decides to blow on it hard as LM explains that if Rose blows on it and she hears it she will come to Rose's aid ... LM: "Uh, you know what, forget it" As Rose thanks her, LM add: "It's a cool trumpet. It's yours because you're my friend" And we end on Rose cheering... Huh, so the show ends up not giving a care about how Rose got that mermaid tail in the first place

- We spend the first minute or so of the episode on Gigi trying to wake Rose up (we see that Rose's alarm clock is pumpkin-themed HEH!) Gigi eventually uses a hand mirror to reflect the sunlight into Rose's face, and Rose is alarmed to see the time and packs Gigi and mirror into her bag... Pumpkin transition from Rose frantically running around her room asking "What am I gonna wear?" (Doesn't matter, it'll change to the RegAc uniform anyway ) to a wide shot of RegAc, before showing Rose sprinting across the bridge thing (in her uniform, told ya so ) with Gigi hanging on to her hair and replete with racecar sound FX, knocking over the Pompoms on her way in...
- Cinderella announces that today, there will be two guest students. They're homeschooled but are interested in enrolling at RegAc. Travis thinks they'll be awkward and stuff, but the first of them, Ambrosia, is simply gorgeous, and all the boys (Hawk and Travis included) have an instant crush... Astoria: "Boys " (Hawk even holds up his mirror counterpart to see her) The second is her handsome twin brother Adonis... The girls have their own instant crushes, and rather predictably... Sean: "Girls " LOL!
Rose arrives and sees the seemingly stupified students, and accuses Ambrosia and Adonis of melting her friends' brains LOL. Cinderella: "Rose, stop it! They're not villains!" They turn out to be the grandchildren of Sleeping Beauty (insert Rose's usual "Best fairy tale ever" reaction here)... and the Pompoms attack them anyway, prompting Cinderella to put up a repelling field... After a quick gag with Mirror Hawk, Cinderella tells Team Rose to escort the Beauty twins through a full day at RegAc, and Rose is so giddy she hugs Ambrosia... and Rose adds an obviously important throwaway comment: "Your hair smells good" (we see Ambrosia wink as Rose says this)
- Pumpkin transition again to the dragon arena, where Rose shows off their mission dragons, and this is where Rose learns that the twins are homeschooled, since they don't get dragons to ride. Rose offers them an aerial tour of RegAc (in their normal uniforms) Ambrosia is riding with Rose: "I'll bet you go on rides like this with your boyfriend all the time" Rose: "...I don't have a boyfriend" (Seriously? ) Ambrosia: "Hawk's not your boyfriend?" Rose seems unsure of herself as she insists they're just really close friends... Adonis is riding with Joy: "Wow... we're on a dragon?" Joy: "Uh, yeah. You just noticed that?" Adonis goes back to staring at his hand mirror LOL.
- Cafeteria! While Ambrosia asks where they should sit, a girl sees Adonis and Hawk and shoves her neighbors out of their chairs LOL. Hawk just shrugs, and Rose has the pets and the Pompons cover for them by having the Pompoms jump on the girl's dress (uh...) Outside, Ambrosia refers to the Pompoms as bizarre orange creatures, but to Rose they're her pumpkin cuties Mirror Hawk decides to hijack Adonis' mirror... in exchange for talking to Ambrosia, and Adonis is quick to oblige him LOL. Cinderella comes in to announce dance class, so that's where we head next...
- Finn butts in on Gerald to dance with Ambrosia and swings her around so hard, it makes her dizzy, and something on her dress goes off like fireworks, making Finn fall asleep, and Gerald picks Ambrosia off the ground to dance with her... Hawk and Rose have an obvious pretend act going on for dancing with each other, and while it has its charm, Ambrosia sees right through it and cuts in to dance with Hawk, which to add insult to injury, frees Rose up to dance with Gerald... Hawk dancing with Ambrosia does not please Rose one bit, and she soon tosses Gerald aside right into Finn, knocking over a bunch of students like bowling pins LOL! Meanwhile, Adonis is too busy mirror-gazing to do any dancing (HEH!)
- The twins have had a great visit, so their grandma's arranged to have the students come to a party at their castle... right now LOL. Kira has an idea and wants to do it on their own, but Vicky insists on having her call the Snow Queen because "She'll be helping us achieve our common goal" OOH! So in the courtyard, Kira calls SQ and SQ derisively calls RegAc "Goodygoober Academy"... prompting Cyrus to ask "There's a Goodygoober Academy?" LOL. Anyways, seems like she's intrigued by the thought of a party at Sleeping Beauty's castle...
- Speaking of, that's where we're headed, and it seems like the students have been made to wait a couple hours. Team Rose comes in with trays of snacks, ready to run the party... and Sleeping Beauty and the twins finally show up in their PJs, because "Our parties are always sleepovers" Suddenly Finn gets struck by a blast of Sleep Magic, causing him to fall on top of Gerald LOL. It's the Evil Fairy from Sleeping Beauty... and SB's guest, which of course is explained as making amends for not being invited to the party held to celebrate her birth... SB's determined not to let the same befall her grandchildren, so now she invites her everywhere: "She's kind of part of the family... sadly"
- Evil Fairy has the kids split up into teams for a treasure hunt, while she goes to hide the treasure... which is the cue for Team Vicky to leave...Cyrus wonders why villains don't have sleepovers. V: "They do... They just don't invite you, Cyrus" C: "Wha??" Outside, here comes SQ riding Blizzard to meet up with Evil Fairy... and it turns out the treasure hunt is a ruse to trap everyone with Sleep Magic, which stuffs the windows and doors with pillows and mattresses LOL (SQ: "Mattresses... the ultimate barrier") And of course, since this is a sleepover, she'll put them all to sleep (her words, pretty much)
- Back inside, Astoria asks for Ambrosia's help: "You've got to help us win this. We need a good grade" Ambrosia: "Uh... Our treasure hunts aren't graded" Astoria: "Whaaat?!" LOL! Team Rose hears some thuds, and Travis thinks it might be a wereslug (and Joy licks her lips at the possibility of slugs LOL) The team ends up discovering they're trapped (R: "Trapped by mattresses?") before Team Vicky runs around and hits the twins and Joy with sleep potion (!) Team Vicky makes a quick retreat and we find out they're in cahoots with the Evil Fairy, Cyrus made the wereslug noises... and they're scary because they're terrible kissers (Evil Fairy: "Don't ask me how I know") Time for them to split up and make everyone go night night... (her words)
- The chandelier in the middle of the main foyer reminds me a bit of Solaria's Hall of the Universe in Winx 3x02... Astoria reveals that SB's magic can deal with Sleep Magic, so Hawk and Rose ask Astoria to stay behind while everyone else splits up to look for other victims (and SB) We spend the next minute on the others hauling in a bunch of victims to the foyer... and Travis gets picked off by Cyrus' bottle of potion while trying to drag Finn with Lingling (!)... and Cyrus decides to dispose of the rest of his bottle instead of taking his chances with LL LOL.
- Good news and bad news: Rose finds SB flanked by a dog guard, but as she's telling her about her twins being put to sleep, SB and the guard get hit smack in the back with Evil Fairy's Sleep Magic... Hawk uses his Mirror Shield to deflect the fairy's blasts, while Rose uses her glass slippers to rush SB to the foyer, but after Rose lies SB down, Hawk and Evil Fairy enter... Astoria tries using Tower Magic vines as a barricade, but the fairy simply zaps them (so between her and Flora, vines aren't such a useful power) LL fans her up against a wall (of mattresses, natch ) and Rose takes her wand, before Hawk ices her up... This removes the mattress barriers, but Evil Fairy says: "Soon, you'll be joining me in one of these" SQ is here, and the disappearance of the mattresses has alerted her and Blizzard, so time for LL and Astoria to take on SQ while Hawk and Rose try to wake everyone... H: "Why you?" A: "You're kidding right?" Astoria has those bangles, of hers, that's why... "FIRE Bangles... SNOW Queen" H: "Hmm, good point"
- LL and Astoria take to the skies (with proper outfits this time) and LL brings out her Moonbow, which doesn't make much of an impact, since none of her shots at SQ and Blizzard are connecting (SQ even manages to get rid of the moonbeam barrage without issue)... and SQ also seems annoyed at Astoria's presence as well... Back to the foyer... H: "How are we supposed to wake them up from sleep magic?" R: "Duh, like in the fairy tale! A kiss!" Looks like Rose is doing it all wrong LOL, especially since her kiss goes on his cheek... H: "I figured it couldn't be that easy" Rose figures that it's true love's kiss... "and I don't love Adonis" Rose suggests Hawk try kissing Ambrosia, and gets the same "turn-over" LOL
- Brief interlude of Astoria trying to duck away from Blizzard's attacks, before returning to the foyer for Rose to ask why Hawk's kiss didn't work... and it's the same reason for Rose: He doesn't love Ambrosia (which seems ironic given that it's a popular brand of apple, at least where I live) But his mirror counterpart does (look at Mirror Hawk all giddy at realizing he's about to kiss her LOL), and so holding up his hand mirror to Ambrosia's face does the deed... and for Adonis, Rose swipes down MH before giving his face the mirror, because as Rose explains: "Adonis' true love is... himself" The twins then proceed to use True Love Magic to wake the others, and SB sees the Evil Fairy in the ice cube and promises to never invite her for anything ever again... to which she responds "Whatever" LOL. Back outside with Blizzard and SQ chasing LL and Astoria. A: "Does she seem... tougher to you now?" LL: "Yeah, but we normally have more help" The rest of Team Rose finally shows up, but the only one they need is the masked Travis conjuring up a storm (SQ: "You're going up my nose!") to make SQ retreat...
- Back inside now... Ambrosia apologizes for thinking Rose and Hawk were just friends, and Rose continues to insist that that's the case. Doesn't seem like Ambrosia's buying it, HEH. "Okay... well, now you're my friend... (Briefly looks at Hawk) But, I'm still a little jealous of you" Hawk comes in after Ambrosia leaves: "What's she jealous of?" Rose fumbles around for a bit before answering "My incredible ring" H: "Why is your face red?" R: "I... ate a whole bag of chili peppers" H: "Oh... Wait what?" LOL!! SB has heard of Rose's collection and brings her a sweet sleep teddy bear (there's a pumpkin on the overalls even) Rose calls it her one true love and kisses it... and promptly falls asleep LOL. SB explains that kissing it gives 8 hours of sweet dreams (so basically, Piff ) "but if you need to wake her up, just have the bear kiss her" Gigi does this, waking Rose up with a jolt... SB: "Goodness, I might need to adjust the magic on that "

- We open at Rapunzel's castle, where Astoria wants to take the RegAc Advanced Placement exam, but granny tells her than no one has passed that exam since her mom... who happens to be there and tells her that it's "ancient history... I don't like to talk about it" Rapunzel says Astoria should focus on finding a prince, but Astoria says that'll just distract her from her goal of becoming headmistress, and bluntly adds "I'll never get married!" Granny has a bit of an "Oh, really?" expression going...
- Over to RegAc, where Rose and Travis are very late (and her Pompom army are causing a dust storm with their stampede, LOL) Hawk and Astoria join them... A: "If we're ever late for class again, I won't forgive any of you ever!" Gang runs past Sean, and the Pompoms soon jump him LOL. Travis runs into a wall, and Astoria hair drags him to avoid wasting time... After plowing through another gaggle of students, they finally arrive at class... only for the gang to find out from the dog guards at the classroom that Astoria is no longer enrolled
- At Rapunzel's castle, Granny tells Astoria, "To become a real princess, you don't need magic or dragon riding" (Oh yeah? Try telling that to the fine folks at Ever After High...) "You will move to Rapunzel Tower, and wait for your prince!" Astoria is really teed off about this obviously, but she agrees to do it on one condition... that Granny will let her take the Advanced Placement exam next week: "If I pass, I'm off the tower and back to school. ... And you'll quit stressing me with this whole prince thing" At this point, Team Rose and Granny are all riding dragons (with Travis' and Hawk's dragons each carrying a stack of her books LOL) Granny gives a non-comittal sounding "Okay"
- Upon their arrival at the tower, we get an infodump on the tower. Long story short, it has magical defenses against princes (including a button for magicking stairs away), and the family dragon defends the tower and enforces the rules (which include no dragon riding) "If any prince sets foot on the top of the tower and rings the bell, he'll be Astoria's husband to be!" And on that note Granny hairslaps Hawk off his dragon LOL, though Astoria bounces him back up with her hair LOLx2
- While Team Vicky are riding their dragon and coming up with a scheme to deal with Astoria (which looks to involve a book), Team Rose are busy trying to find what helped Astoria's mom pass her exam. After an interlude of King accidentally running himself off the tower into the sea LOL, Rose thinks Astoria's mother was just really smart, to which Astoria replies: "Smarter than me?? No. This place is hiding a secret, and Vidal is going to find it"
- After a montage of the pets looking around the tower, we head to the Dragon Arena, where there's plenty of buzz about the whole Astoria in the tower thing... and check out Sean rocking some vivid blue armor The Pompoms randomly cake three of the students in the face, while Sean speculates she'd rather spend her time at the tower studying, but Rose (after stopping another cake-carrying Pompom with her boot) says "I'm sure she'll realize you're a true prince soon enough Sean" Prince Leaf ("Princely Competition") enters for a repeat appearance, saying he fell in love with Astoria during his recent visit to RegAc (much to Sean's chagrin) Granny Rapunzel tells Leaf "Youll have to give it your all if you want to reach the tower and ring the bell" Leaf: "I accept your challenge, future grandmother in law" Sean: "I don't like him. A true prince wouldn't marry someone he barely knows"
Vicky gives Leaf a copy of the Rapunzel rulebook (that suspiciously is a thing, hint-hint), and points out the whole flying prohibition only applies to flying on dragons... but also has him carry the book to show the family guardian dragon just in case... Vicky sings her little "I'm so evil, I'm so awesome" ditty, and the rest of her team join in
- Back at the tower, Astoria is (what else?) studying... Rose thinks she should let the rest of the team do something, but Astoria points out that mom and Granny are always busy with work, so she's used to studying on her own. Gigi and Bao play in a fountain, while a Pompom casually pushes King off the tower again LOL. Vidal finds a red button and pushes it to turn it into a magic blue book (you know that it's magic since it's floating HEH) Vidal opens the first page and a picture of a bag of dog biscuits appears LOL. Vidal gives the book to Astoria and a face magically appears on its cover. It explains that it has taught her mother and her grandmother and so on... but Astoria is sceptical since there's just blank pages. The book face reappears on her current page and explains: "Ask the right questions, and you'll receive all the answers you'll need" Sure enough, Astoria asks about family dragons, and a page of info appears next to the face. She asks about potion ingredients and the info page gets replaced (even though we see the page flip first) Book: "With my help, you'll learn better and faster" A: "Pinch me, I'm dreaming!" This leads into a (rather heavily accented) song number about learning with help from the book... and from her friends (That said, the plot then deals mainly with the prince issue from here on out)
- Pumpkin transition later, Joy spots some princes arriving at their island (the remaining surfer dude and Sean are among them), and Astoria has Rose do the honors... Two of the random princes pause while running across a bridge to say "Well, this will be a piece of cake"... and then the bridge disappears from under them LOL. We see Rose is really spamming the button hard... Surfer dude manages to get across another bridge... and gets pelted by a boulder LOLx2. Briefly cut back to Rose reading a paper and Joy asks "Who's on the button?" After some more running, a bunch of geysers appear and hit the princes, and we see that the Pompoms are spamming the button, causing the two randos to get bounced by a bridge before getting the diaappearing bridge trick again... and surfer dude gets clobbered by a boulder again ("A little help again?") LOL!
- Time for Team Vicky to show up with Leaf... and they're using Cyrus to distract the guardian dragon (Cyrus reads his "threat" off paper LOL) While Leaf is looking to make his move, surfer dude decides to use a log on a rock, with a boulder to catapult himself... and then Sean turns the log around so that surfer dude gets clobbered yet again, much to the two randos' amusement LOL ("I miss Brad")
- Sean spots Leaf, and decides to slingshot himself with a little Mask Magic (the backside of the sling is shaped like a Mardi Gras mask, so it fits) all the way to the top of the tower... where (surprise) Astoria is studying and asking her book what's the deal with princes marrying princesses in towers. Book: "Many reasons, but once in a great while, it's simply out of love" Astoria doesn't want to marry a prince just for winning a contest, but rather out of love (sound familiar?) Sean overhears this and is dismayed, but then Leaf shows up and Astoria tries to call him out for flying... Leaf holds up the rulebook pointing out now he only needs to ring the bell, so he heads to the bell, but Sean tells him to stop right there... Sean: "Before you barge in on a lady, you should consider her feelings first" (Good advice I'd love to see certain other blue-clad guys follow) Astoria seems impressed by his comment, as he covers Leaf with an eyemask LOL. Leaf manages to get the mask off, but then he faces the wrath of Rapunzel's guardian dragon... As Leaf is pointing out the loophole in the rulebook, it explodes the dragon out of the sky, which turns out to be the whole point of Team Vicky's little exercise (!) "Exploding book, works every time"
- Kira uses Crystal Magic to signal Blizzard (on his lonesome today without the Snow Queen) who's licking a popsicle at the time LOL. Astoria calls out Leaf for attacking Rapunzel's dragon, and Leaf is protesting his innocence when Blizzard comes in to freeze Leaf, before taking Astoria... Rainbow decides to do another King Kong riff by having Rose make three pumpkin biplanes for the Pompoms to fly (and in their pilot outfits, they REALLY look like the Minions) Rose jumps on one of the planes, and we see how tiny they are in relation to her (skateboard sized)... A: "Rose, what are you doing?" R: "Isn't this the coolest?... I mean, don't worry Astoria, I'll save you!"
- Blizzard takes out the planes one by one, while Rose tries a pumpkin missile and misses (also realizing she can't get a good shot without hitting Astoria) Eventually Rose falls off her plane, but Rose gets a fanning from Lingling before making a balloon to chase Blizzard (yes, she's chasing him with a balloon LOL) then ramming Astoria out of his clutches... Astoria hairslings herself to safety, before using her Tower Magic to catch Rose jumping out of her punctured balloon A: "Do I have to do all the rescuing around here?" LOL
- But Blizzard isn't done yet: He starts breathing ice all across the tower, as Travis and Hawk swoop in... and Travis' mask storm deals with Blizzard for the 2nd time in as many episodes (and 3rd overall; come up with other uses for it writers ) We also get a brief shot of the pets hanging on for dear life during the storm LOL... and speaking of hanging on for dear life, so is Astoria (and not for long!) Lucky for her, Sean swoops in on his mostly-white dragon to catch her and bring her back to the top of the tower... where Rapunzel's dragon, now back in comission, immediately disqualifies Sean for rescuing her on dragon back, so no victory ding-a-ling for him (or anyone)
- RegAc, and Sean spots Astoria walking with her friends in the quad and talks to her about the incident at the tower. Astoria tells Sean "You were a real prince" which stuns Sean a bit... Their brief romantic moment ends with Sean hearing Rapunzel and immediately running off to hide behind a column... Rapunzel also has things to say to Astoria about the cancellation of the challenge... A: "Well, no prince made it to the top, but one made a lot of progress" Sean is pleased to (over)hear this Granny: "You're going to ace the exam, aren't you?" A: "Was there ever any doubt?" (flashes a V at Granny)

- RegAc quad... Stop me if you've heard this one: Rose comes across Joy not being excited at a class she expects Joy to be excited about. In this case it's shapeshifting magic, and we see her repeatedly turning King to and from a "regular" frog. "Shapeshifting magic is all I can do, and I can only turn people into frogs" Joy talks up how her classmates already have frogtastic magic: "Tornadoes... Snow... Wind... Pumpkins..." (Awesome music gives way to comical horns) R: "Well... pumpkins are pretty cool" LOL! R: "You are so much more than just the girl who turns people into frogs" Random classmate: "Good morning Rose. Good morning, uh, girl who turns people into frogs" LOL! R: "You also collect slug snarfer slime" Joy is not amused...
- ...as we head indoors to Joy sad-eating a bowl of spiders LOL, and Rose is concerned about Joy. Snow White: "I'm sure you're all excited to learn about shapeshifting from a true expert like Merlin" This gets Astoria excited... until it turns out he is too busy, and instead the class will be taught by his assistant... an amulet-wearing owl named Sibil (!) Astoria does not appreciate the perceived downgrade: "Really, an owl for a teacher??" Sibil: "Professor of magic, dear, and Merlin's familiar" Sibil turns Astoria briefly into a monkey (pretty sure it's the same model of monkey that greeted Vicky at the end of 2x06)
- Sibil asks for volunteers for testing shapeshifting magic, and the Pompoms volunteer for the task (with obligatory bewilderment from Sibil) The students are to change them into piglets... Lingling's Pompom gets turned into, well, a cross between a Pompom and a piglet, while Hawk decides to use all his magic and ends up with a proper piglet in an icecube (H: "Uh... oops, too much magic")... while Vicky's Pompom keeps running away from her LOL! Sibil says that shapeshifting magic requires focus... R: "What happens if I get distracted?" Rose inadvertently casts her magic on her Pompom as she is asking this, and it turns into an elephant that promptly falls down on top of her... Sibil: "That" LOL Chaos is going on the classroom, with both proper piglets and Pompom piglets running around the class... A: "Uh, we should probably do something" Cinderella comes in to ask for Team Rose because they have an emergency...
- And that emergency is that Prof LeFrog has turned into, well, one guess A: "For your family, this is relatively normal actually" HEH! After returning from his journey he can't change back to normal, so... J: "Okay, time to do what I do best" This time, it doesn't work, and Cinderella asks if Joy knows her family's story (Team Vicky is overhearing this...) Joy explains the story of how her family was cursed by a sorcerer named Circe and turned back into normal with their magic wand, illustrated with closing credits-style paper cutouts. Cinderella explains that Calypso, Circe's niece, has empowered the curse, and she's an expert at turning people into pets and vice-versa. Rose decides to have the Pompoms and pets sit this one out...
- So anyways, Team Rose has to travel to some island to destroy Calypso's magic item (in their case, on dragon-back in Regal Armor) Over on the island, Team Vicky is chatting with the Snow Queen near a temple, and not surprisingly, Calypso is part of SQ's scheme. Kira seems indifferent to her mom's plan, but SQ says of Calypso: "I'm sure she'll make a great ally"
- Team Vicky spots Team Rose's dragons (and Hawk spots someone on the grounds below) Cyrus wants to hurry to encounter them, but Kira says: "Relax, Calypso has to be around here somewhere" Good news is she's right... but instead of coming out and teaming up with Team Vicky as expected by SQ, Calypso casts her magic from a bush and turns them into fishes (not unlike in 2x07) before sticking them in a bowl: "Sorry guys, but I'm the one who'll destroy the six great fairy tale families (cackles)" We pumpkin transition from Fish!Team Vicky's disbelief over to Team Rose surveying the temple grounds, while Rose sees Joy despondently doing the only thing she can do: "Collecting slug snarfer slime" (in a big flask to boot LOL) R: "I know you're sad for your grandpa, bjt we'll fix it all!" This doesn't make Joy feel any better but Rose adds "I don't know how, but together we'll make it!" This makes Joy smile for once, and Rose hugs her HEH. Astoria spots the fishes, and she tries to be playful with them... only to get a roar from the Vicky fish LOL. A: "Boy they look angry..."
- Calypso calls them from the temple and tells them to follow her voice... and so they do. J: "I have a frog gut feeling" (Would that be the same feeling that made you ignore Esq's warning about Von Frog in 2x07?) They encounter many cages of animals (elephants, monkeys, piglets, frogs etc.)... no prizes for guessing what they are. Calypso shows up (accompanied with a bit of a jazzy music cue) and decides to sic some birds on Team Rose. Travis tries to attack them, but Joy tackles him: "You can't hurt them! They're innocent people turned into animals" (So... like Tritannus and his family, or the enchanted forest creatures in 2x08, then)
- Hawk decides they'll have to defend themselves, such as with an igloo from his Snow Magic. Calypso sends in piglets to smash the igloo (with comical bounce sounds LOL) Hawk decides they need to keep the animals busy, while Astoria and Joy decide to take on Calypso. Things get pretty chaotic with Astoria trying to brush aside (get it? brush? ) the birds attacking her and her hair, and monkeys riding piglets. LL fans away the pigs from under the monkeys... Travis dodges bats by jumping around... only to be felled by getting rammed in the hind by a piglet LOL. Astoria flings her Fire Bangles at Calypso, who jumps out of the way to another cage, where she gets tackled by Joy's Frog Fu and loses possession of her wand... Not that it matters anyway, since Calypso morphs back into her real form of a cat (!) This is actually her familiar, and she says that the real Calypso is "Off completing her evil plan of course! Challenging a shapeshifting witch is no use!" Astoria hairflings aside the cat, and tries to destroy the wand with the bangles, to no avail...
- Rose points out they're going to need a shapeshifting expert to help, and Joy has an idea of who... as we cut to Merlin Ac, where Merlin is busy looking through books trying to find a way to stop Calypso. (You'd think that having been "cheated" out of him earlier, Astoria would gawk at the notion of actually meeting him) Joy gives Merlin the wand and he reveals that Calypso studied here at Merlin Ac, and was an excellent student (H: "The evil ones always are") She was obsessed with power and got herself expelled (how Trix-like) Merlin gets rid of the wand but explains Calypso has a more powerful magic item that contains all of her shapeshifting magic power, which Rose promises to find. Merlin: "Bring it to me and I'll destroy it... or the LeFrog curse will never be broken!" How ominous...
- J: "Would help if we had any clue where Calypso is" Outside Merlin Ac, Team Rose spots Merlin's grandchildren carrying a box of stuff and Travis is disgusted... Astoria would rather they passed by unnoticed, but Rose gawks at them and asks them about Calypso. Melvin thinks she's a knockout (a real beauty), but Merlina is disgusted that he fell for a shapeshifting witch. Anyways, they also explain that they were supposed to teach shapeshifting at RegAc, and Astoria points out that Merlin sent his familiar the owl... and Melvin explains that Merlin doesn't have an owl familiar (replete with many reasons why LOL) Doesn't take a genius to realize what that means (also, how Avalon-ish)
- Back to RegAc, where Team Rose confronts SibilCalypso (and her jazz music cue LOL), and again finds themselves dealing with a bunch of innocents (their fellow students in this case) having been turned into a menagerie of caged animals, providing a "human" shield for her (they would never dare attack their own friends, and she knows this) Team Rose spends much time scrambling to avoid getting hit by her magic, and Joy notices that she is using her amulet to cast her spells, as she manages to pick off Travis and Astoria (turning them into a bird and a monkey respectively) Rose hides behind a column... Thankfully, Merlin's grandkids have come here as well, and offer to put up a magic barrier, which is akin to the Griselda bubble from Winx S2...
Calypso notices Melvin behind the barrier and says "Didn't you have a crush on me?" Calypso offers to make Melvin her right hand man... and Melvin instantly accepts and puts down the barrier (!) R: "Seriously Melvin, just like that?" On top of that, he even blasts away his little sister... LL: "You are the worst brother ever!"
- Melvin uses a Binding Magic spell he learned from Grandpa Merlin to bind up Team Rose (Bird!Travis and Monkey!Astoria included) and tries to kiss Calypso, who dodges out of the way LOL before turning Hawk and LL into piglets, leaving just Rose and Joy... As this is happening, Gigi and Doc are freeing the menagerie Calypso has collected... Calypso also intends to turn Rose and Joy into pigs: "They were Granny Circe's favorite pet" (pretty sure there's an ep of the original Ducktales involving a sorceror named Circe turning characters into pigs, too) Gigi sics the freed piglets on Calypso (as if to say, "Let's see how you like pigs now") and all sort of animals on Melvin (!)
- This thankful distraction gives time for Joy to get out a secret weapon... that isn't her wand: "Slug snarfer slime... It's extra slippery" She uses it to free herself, then Rose from their binds, as the animals continue attacking Calypso and Melvin, with the pets also ganging up on Melvin LOL! Rose brings out her glass slippers before kicking Melvin in the face (!)
- Over to Joy and Calypso now... J: "I'm here to save my family" C: "Ah, what a brave little girl" Calypso decides to sic the animals on Joy, so Joy brings out her other secret weapon... rather, her other other one: The Frog Ball and its insects, with spiders weaving a shield to block the animals, followed by a few more spit bugs covering Calypso's mouth ("This part of being a hero is pretty fun ") allowing Rose to run in and punt Calypso's amulet out of her possession (yay!)
- After a compliment from Joy on their teamwork, back to the main classroom at RegAc, where Merlin zaps the amulet and restores everyone... including their classmates, and more importantly Grandpa LeFrog, and Joy jumps straight into his lap LOL... to which Grandpa has an "Alfred in Batman and Robin" response: "Shouldn't you be in class?" Merlin gives Rose the zapped amulet for her collection... As for Melvin and Calypso's punishment, Beast is suggesting the usual banishment on Earth when Joy does "what she does best" on them Merlina plans to put them in her dollhouse and play with them everyday... She manages to make that sound menacing, and seems like Froglypso would actually prefer the banishment LOL
- As for Team Vicky... SQ decides to head to the temple island to check on Kira, expecting her and Calypso to get along famously (her words) and is shocked to see Team Vicky with their heads stuck in a giant fishbowl... Kira: "Don't ask, mother" LOL!

- Not!Gardenia, where Ruby (last seen briefly at the end of "Princely Competition") is spying on Rose going through the RegAc portal. Ruby is determined to get back to RegAc: "I'm not made for the Earth. I want my revenge... and Hawk!" LOL! A portal suddenly opens besides the usual RegAc portal wall and sucks Ruby in... to the Snow Queen's palace, where SQ wants to reunite Ruby with an old friend of hers (ooh!)
- RegAc dancing class... Cinderella: "Great job students! Any better and you might pass dancing class with an A!" (Beauty is also in the class, but she doesn't have any lines) Rose and Hawk are great, Travis keeps stepping on Lingling's feet, Gigi is dancing with Vidal, Doc is dancing with King, and of course there are Pompoms (one of which gets spun like a top by its partner LOL) Nut hands Travis a flower, which he gives to LL... T: "There's more where that came from" Nut is bringing another flower when he gets bumped by a Pompom carrying a smelly sock on a stick, with the expected result: "These smell as sweet as you" "Are you saying I smell like a dirty sock?" LOL!
- As Travis glares at the Pompom as it runs away, Alicia notices that her partner Sean seems distracted. Turns out Sean would rather dance with Astoria, but Alicia points out that students have to dance with members of their own team, so Astoria's partner is Joy... as she belches out a butterfly, leading to the obvious "butterflies in my stomach" pun HEH! Hawk is talking about how much he enjoys dancing witb Rose in class, when he ends up giving Rose a bit excessive of a twirl, knocking over a group of Pompoms, sending one flying up to the chandelier LOL (R: "Oh my pumpkins") Cinderella announces the next class will be the Dance of Reflection, a dance amongst magical floating gems that reflect light and colors (insert a "That is so cool!" from Rose here) So Cinderella gives the students a new assignment, to gather the brightest and purest Dawn Gems to make the dance really sparkle: "Whichever team can gather the most Dawn Gems will get the best grade" And Hawk knows where to find some: There's a gem mine near his granny's castle... and Team Vicky overhears this (uh-oh)
- Team Vicky's room, where Vicky is telling SQ about their great new lead on destroying Team Rose, but Kira asks what's the point in telling her because "she never makes her big move" SQ: "That's not true Kira" K: "That's SO true" Well, this time SQ has a new second-in-command coming their way, and SQ claims she's "so much more... motivated, than the three of you" K: "Ugh, I AM motivated" Ruby: "I'm more than you" Ruby comes in, now with Doc Ock-like ice appendages from the back... She's not here to ask for Vicky's help against Team Rose, "not with my new powers and the Snow Queen's allies at my command" Instead, she just wants helpers for her wedding to you-know-who... and Team Vicky has a bit of a "Seriously?" look on their faces...
- Pumpkin transition to Team Rose arriving at the dragon arena, soon followed with those long-winded transformations (just got me a new phone that allows me to just swipe past that bit more easily LOL) A: "Time to get that A!" Gang lands near the mine, with Pompoms and their pets in tow. Hawk provides plenty of exposition about gems, and his use of the word "common crystal gems" reminds me of Steven Universe LOL. H: "Would you like to come back together... after school?" R: "Uh, yes... I'm sure the others would love it" H: "Actually... I meant... you and I" Rose and Hawk see their reflection in a heart shaped gem near the mine entrance... and then Astoria hairshoves Hawk out of the way LOL
- Time to look for some gems... A Pompom nudges Vidal down the staircase with a magnifying glass LOL... Hawk reveals that Dawn Gems naturally glow and reflect light, so it's never dark in the mine...and turns out that they're not even the first team to use the mine, because Hawk bumps up against Alicia, and we soon see that her teammates Chad (surfer-dude) and Sean are also here. Chad gets ambushed by Pompoms, while Sean briefly stops to talk to Astoria before Alicia gets Sean to leave along with Chad...
- Travis being Travis, he holds a ginormous gem above his head, and brags he could carry twice the gems that Alicia's team carried... Hawk and Travis decide to hold a contest to see who can carry more gems (Travis being Travis, the ginormous gem ends up accidentally hitting his foot when he tosses it down LOL) While the boys are busy with their little contest, the girls talk about their respective boys: LL thinks Travis keeps acting strange (J: "Or some kind of Beast bad luck happens") Rose also thinks Hawk has been acting strange around her lately, while Astoria adds "At least you get to talk... Sean and I can barely say hi" (From being on different teams, or just plain shy? Hmmm...) Joy, the only girl without one, says: "Boys... We don't need them; no matter what happens, we'll always have each other" Team Rose, plus pets and Pompoms, leave the mine...
- Here comes Ruby... and she's got a gaggle of little miners (with hammers that double as wands) to attack the boys, but Ruby asks them to leave Hawk to her: "If you smash him, I can't marry him" Outside the mine, the boys' crystal gems have been piled up as Astoria yells into the mine that they have more than enough... The boys are bringing out one last haul, and Travis says (not for the first time, even just in this episode) "Today is going to be my lucky day" And then the little miners start using Stone Magic to conjure up boulders to chase the boys a la Indiana Jones (H: "You just had to go and open your mouth Travis")
- After escaping the first two boulders, Travis uses Fury Magic to blow away another set of boulders... The little miners decide to really show the boys what they can do, and at this point we begin to get an inkling of who these miners are supposed to be as two of them are named Stocky and Gloopy...
- More boulders coming their way... H: "You think what I'm thinking?" T: "I dunno. Are you thinking we're doomed?" LOL! What Hawk has in mind is doing a slalom, and he ices up the cave floor, and just casually skates around the boulders, while Travis ends up punching through one boulder and being knocked down by another LOL... Hawk follows the skating up with rolling boulder hopscotch, and Travis manages to catch up despite his setback
- Miner Stocky notes the boys aren't taking their magic seriously, so fellow miner Brushy conjures up some giant stone gnomes to surround them (shades of Winx 7x14?) but here comes Astoria's ivy hair to pull them out... T: "That was scary" H: "I carried out one more gem than you. I won!" As Hawk puts down his gem on his pile, Rose asks: "Hawk, is this really the time to think about your contest?" Astoria's more interested in what happened downstairs... and here come the miners: "We're here for our revenge!" Hawk introduces them: Other than the already named Stocky, Gloopy, and Brushy, there's also Stinky, Fibby, Twirly, and Puppy... the last of whom looks cute but then starts chasing Team Rose with a rotten fish LOL. Rose figures out, like we already have, that they're the seven dwarves, but Gloopy clarifies they're actually their granddaughters...
- They're furious that the Snow White family forgot about them after she became famous, but Hawk claims: "That's not even close to true" Hawk wants to find another solution, but Joy adds: "Be careful, she's got a week-old haddock. Stand back, let me handle this" Joy and Puppy have a gross out contest, beginning with Joy eating a butterfly frog-style, then followed by Puppy eating her fish, whole and raw to boot (with a great reaction from Travis LOL)
- Joy counters with a ginormous bug burger, which startles Puppy (seriously, the patty alone looks to be twice as wide as Joy's height ) and Joy finishes it quickly (uh...) Puppy retches and retreats behind Stocky. R: "Winner: Joy LeFrog" J: "And that was just my lunch" Hawk tells the dwarves to give up and split, but Stocky says "Never" and has them spread out for an ambush. LL literally says "They're preparing to ambush us"... well, you'd think surprise was the main element of an ambush
- Anyways, the dwarves use their magic to have the stone gnomes come out of the mine... Hawk ices one up, while LL fans over a boulder to Travis, who manages to take out three in one throw... Travis being Travis though, he gets beaned by a piece of gnome debris LOL! Astoria manages to take down two gnomes with vines, and Hawk takes care of the last one. Hawk brags "We can take anything you throw at us" and Stocky threatens that they have one more trick up their sleeve... You'd think that the threat would then be followed through, but Rose has had enough and takes out a flashlight (nice touch with the animators making it look lightsaber-like ) and then shining it at the various crystal gems, reflecting the light right back at the dwarves and blinding them or something, causing them to fall back into the mine, before Travis rolls a boulder to seal the entrance
- Now comes the most important part of the ep, as Ruby makes her entrance... Team Rose scatters and Hawk jumps to dodge one of her ice appendages and ends up losing his wand, and Ruby snatches Hawk before ice cubing most of his body using another ice appendage (leaving just his head) Hawk: "I'm not going anywhere with you!" Ruby: "Oh honey, is that any way to talk to your future wife?" Hawk: Team Rose attacks but gets iced in quick succession, as their pets run off
- Ruby brags above SQ's powerful gift to her... H: "You won't win Ruby" Ruby: "You're right honey, I won't win... because I already did!" The pets find the mission dragons and somehow relay their friends' situation to them, so they fly off and encounter Ruby as she's asking Hawk if he'd like to have their honeymoon in the Snow Kingdom LOL. One guess what dragons are known for and how they're using it here
- After defrosting, Rose gets going with her glass slippers, kicking Ruby back, and smashing Hawk's ice cube before sparring with Ruby some more... but while this is going on, the dwarves break out of the mine and converge on Hawk (!) LL takes aim with her Moonbow at the dwarves (or rather the sky above them) and the resulting barrage quickly disarms them of their hammer wands, while Joy uses her Frog Ball's spitbugs to affix the dwarves' feet in place (a la Aisha fighting the prisoners on Omega, 3x16)
- Ruby heads over to Hawk and takes him again as Blizzard makes his entrance... Blizzard blasts the mission dragons away before grabbing Ruby, while the dwarves free themselves from their spitbug bonds (using their hammers even though LL pointedly disarmed them earlier ) and jump on Blizzard's tail... As Blizzard flies off, Ruby explains that once she marries Hawk, she'll inherit his family's magic... Ruby: "The Snow White family is finished!... and I'm gonna marry Hawk!" Rose is crying in utter disbelief: "Did my fairy tale finally fail me?" A: "Cheer up Rose, everybody has a bad hair day" Then Rose spots Hawk's wand (in a completely different place from where we saw it land ) R: "No way this is over! Our fairy tale has just begun! We're not giving up! Who wants to be a fairy tale hero?" A: "We're ready!" R: "Then let's go and save Hawk!"

- We open in some sort of fairy tale city, where Hawk is waking up... and he's had all but his head and arms encased in an ice cube, as Ruby explains again the deal with marrying Hawk... "You have no choice Hawk. I'll be a Snow White and I'll ruin your family forever" Over to Not!Gardenia, where Rose explains to her mom that she needs to be in Fairy Tale land rescuing Hawk (whose wand she's brought back home with her), but mom says: "Your Granny wants you here to keep you safe" and adds they have to wait until the teachers come up with a plan to rescue him... and of course Dave comes in asking about the rescue... Clara: "Dave, a true fairy tale princess doesn't wait for her prince to be saved... but saves him" This just confuses Dave even more LOL.
- The doorbell rings and Clara has Dave go get it... and Snow White is at the front door (!) Dave: "What, is this like a second Halloween or something?" (and ironically, I started typing this up the day after Halloween LOL) Snow White demands to see Rose and Dave asks rather flippantly: "Aren't the seven dwarves with you?" SW: "No, they're all at home obviously. Now where's Rose?" Dave: "Listen lady, I've got one thing to say..." Clara whispers stuff to Dave and he changes his tune somewhat: "Welcome to our house Snow White. You want a slice of apple pie?" (SW is not amused) "Never mind" LOL!
- SW enters Rose's room and Rose is giddy since she's never had a teacher in her room before. Rose offers to show SW her collection, but SW wants Rose's help, because "The other teachers haven't come up with a plan for rescuing my grandson yet... We're wasting time" R: "I'm totally in... but why does Ruby want to marry Hawk so bad?" (Uh, she already kinda told you her motive last ep, hello?)
- Back to Hawk and Ruby, and Ruby explains what we already know (TLDR: so she can inherit his family's powers), adding (of the Snow White family) "This way, it will be easier for the Snow Queen to destroy it" Meanwhile, the dwarves are helping to prep her wedding, and Ruby makes a point to tells two of the dwarves Stocky and Gloopy not to drop the wedding cake... The wicked stepsisters show up, making their S2 debut, and Ruby runs excitedly to them... and one of her appendages knocks the cake off the tray LOL. We learn that the Snow Queen broke them out of banishment to celebrate her big day, and Ruby decides to introduce them to Hawk...
- ...but first, there's the matter of Ruby's cake splattering against the ground (rather than her head LOL) Ruby: "What did you to do my cake? Fix it right now!" Stocky and Gloopy glare at her as if to say, "Uh, excuse me???" The stepsisters meet Hawk and amidst Hawk's protests, they think of marrying him as a good call, and even give Ruby her wedding rings... to which Hawk sticks his tongue out in disgust LOL. Blonde stepsister slaps Hawk: "What a nice hubby"
- Cyrus is sleeping on a chair, while Vicky and Kira are putting up chairs. K: "I cannot believe that Ruby put us on chair duty" V: "And I can't believe he gets to sleep while we do all the work!" Vicky kicks over Cyrus' chair to get him out of his seat, but it ends up knocking over a whole row of seats LOL
Ruby rushes in demanding them to fix it... Vicky tries to blame Cyrus, but Ruby adds:"I didn't ask whose fault it was. Fix it! My wedding has to be perfect!" (shades of Amentia waaaay back in Winx S2 perhaps?) While putting the chairs back up... K: "This is so not fun. She's worse than my mom" V: "Ruby is bad news. We have to get rid of her"
- RegAc, where the rest of Team Rose (and a couple random extra students) is in the lecture hall trying to come up with a plan to rescue Hawk when Rose comes in... and this surprises the teachers quite a bit... R: "Yep, now let's go save Hawk" Lingling: "I love challenges" Beauty points out no one knows where Hawk is, but SW reveals that Hawk is in the 1001 Nights kingdom and only six heroes can go... A: "How do you know all this?" Turns out RegAc has received six invites, and she has no idea who sent them... "Maybe we have a secret ally who decided to help us save my grandson" Cinderella explains that due to security, they'll have to go undercover, so SW decides to lead them, even wearing a cloak and everything: "I'm still an expert in undercover missions"
- Team Rose plus SW (and pets and Pompoms) take off from the dragon arena and have to fly low, as in, directly through the forest, to avoid detection. After landing in a clearing (nice pose from LL after the dismount), they then have to go on foot, so Travis passes some cloaks to put on. During the walk... R: "I hope Hawk doesn't hope think I've abandoned him" T: "He would never think that. We're his best friends" A: "We always support each other" R: "We'll never let Ruby marry Hawk!" SW: "All very touching, but shut up now"
- Team Rose arrives at the 1001 Nights kingdom... and immediately see Blizzard sleeping on a bridge. LL tells everyone to tiptoe, before glaring at Rose along with everyone else HEH! R: "Why does everyone think I'll be the clumsy one who wakes the dragon? It could just as easily be Travis" T: "...Eh, you're probably right" Regal Armor boots don't exactly lend well to tiptoeing, but the humans pass Blizzard without incident, and the pets follow without incident as well... However, the Pompoms make their usual noises running past Blizzard, with a raspberry thrown in for good measure, waking him up, so SW throws up a Mirror Magic "mirror" that hides them from Blizzard's plain view (a la X-Men First Class) Blizzard goes back to sleep... J: "Now all we have to do sneak into the wedding, defeat our enemies, and rescue Hawk"
- Speaking of, Hawk sees that the wedding is being attended by a who's who of fairy tale villain-kind, and he notices Puppy helping the Sea Witch to her seat... The BG music here is much more "breezy" than RegAc's usual underscore... stock library music perhaps? H: "This is much worse than a nightmare" Blonde stepsister: "Calm down dearie, it'a only natural to get nervous on your wedding day" The stepsisters are here mainly to show off the rings again...
- Team Rose arrives at the wedding, and Stocky doesn't recognize Team Rose in their cloaks LOL, even when their arms are poking out to hand her the invites... You'd also think that they're from the groom's side might tip her off slightly... Stocky: "I have just one thing to say to that... Have fun at the wedding!"
- Other than the Sea Witch we also see Sandra from Merlin Ac 2x13, the Big Bad Wolf 1x11, the Shortbread Witch, the Evil Queen, the Snow Queen herself, the puppet guy and Candlewick the donkey guy from 2x06. Ruby walks past the seated guests (including Team Rose)... J: "This is the first bride I've seen with six arms" LOL Ruby: "Hello hubby! Aren't I everything you hoped for?" H: "No, you're everything I've ever hated" Ruby seems almost smug to get that answer LOL
- The stepsisters introduce the wedding of most evil proportions (their words), and when it comes time for anyone to object, naturally Ruby tries to keep Hawk from objecting, but Rose has got plenty to say, as she decloaks, with the rest soon following... Ruby sees Team Rose and orders the dwarves to deal with them... J: "I think everyone misses Hawk saying, 'Attack!'" LOL, and even Rose is laughing... LL takes out Stinky by bouncing her back with Fan Magic, while Astoria uses vines to grab Twirly and send her in to a spin LOL. Blonde stepsister has Ruby take one of the rings (this will be important)... Puppy throws a fish at Travis, which he simply catches and flings right back into her head LOLx2
SW has Rose use Mirror Magic she's taught her by luring the dwarves towards her, and sending them into a mirror portal that dumps them in the sea... Stinky: "I've never been clean before. What'll happen to me?" LOL
Back to the wedding, and Ruby puts on one of the rings from the stepsisters, with the other already on Hawk's hand... Just like with Morgana in Winx S4, it has very bad consequences, in this case allowing Ruby to steal the right to Hawk's magic, plus his wand, which flies straight to Ruby (in ball form) Ruby tries to freeze LL but Travis tackles her out of the way...
- The blonde stepsister gloats to Joy: "There's nothing you can do now girly" J: "You need to quit your croaking. Frog Magic" Blonde gets frogged and hops away, and while Joy's trying to remove the ring from Hawk's hand, the brunette stepsister is busy chasing the frog when Astoria vines her up... Back to Ruby, who's making a ginormous ice ball not unlike what she's encased Hawk in to toss at them, but LL says "Even a breeze can become a whirlwind"... and slams the ball right back at Ruby, instantly knocking her out (well, temporarily anyway) We finally find out who wrote the invites, as Cyrus congratulates Vicky on her plan, and Vicky adds "Just writing the invitations for Rose's team made me feel icky"
- Despite being tied up, brunette uses Cauldron Magic to multiply the big cauldron next to Hawk into bunch of tiny cauldrons to conk Travis LOL before Astoria finally brings her down... Ruby is back up, and Astoria brings out her fire bangles and flings them at Ruby, but she makes an ice curb to turn them back at her and LL, knocking them over too (ouch!) With Travis, Astoria and LL out of commission, and Joy busy with Hawk's ring, that leaves... Rose and her glass slippers getting into a rather physical fight with Ruby, and as an aside, this wedding crash is much more interesting and physical than the Winx crashing Cassandra's wedding... Gigi points out Joy still busy with Hawk's ring, and Rose tries jumping over Ruby to run over to Hawk, but Ruby's appendages grab her at the legs: "Looks like your fairy tale won't be coming true honey" And then she gets splattered with cake by the Pompoms LOL! "Get off my cake you horrible little creatures! This is my big daaaaay!" And bam, right in her mouth LOLx2!
- The now-free Rose delivers a nice kick to her back to get rid of the ice appendages... Ruby: "My armor!" Rose: "That won't be the only thing I'm taking from you today" But Ruby still has Hawk's wand, and as Rose is sprinting towards Hawk, Ruby knocks her over with a blast of Snow Magic (!) and gloats she still has Hawk's wand, adding "Bye-bye Rose!" Hawk is horrified as we get flashbacks to the dance class and looking at the heart stone in the last ep... and Hawk somehow manages to burst out of the ice cube... Ruby is shocked, but Hawk soon collapses, apparently weakened by his extended time in the ice... Ruby: "You need to rest hubby"
- Hawk looks at his hand mirror (which Ruby randomly discarded next to him during the wedding) to get some support from Mirror Hawk, and we see that MH is also Regal Armor-clad: "Hawk, you can't give up now, you have to fight and help Rose" Hawk tries to get the ring off his hand, and Ruby sees this and dismisses it as impossible... Rose is somehow back up again: "Nothing's impossible in my fairy tale" Rose delivers a kick straight to Ruby's hand or something to shatter her ring, allowing Hawk to free his ring, sending a shockwave that sends Ruby flying back... SW puts up a mirror to stop her flight, and for good measure, MH appears in the mirror and restrains Ruby... The wand returns to Hawk and he creates an igloo with his Snow Magic, and MH releases Ruby to be caught by the igloo (with her feet sticking out the front entrance LOL) H: "Thank you so apple dear, but no wedding for today" (Methinks this flowed better in Italian perhaps?) Team Vicky is celebrating... V: "For once, I'm happy for them"
- Back to RegAc, where Snow White is banishing Ruby and her grandmas in a pumpkin jalopy... Ruby: "You're a tough one Snow White" SW: "I know, especially when someone tries to marry my grandson and doesn't even invite me to the wedding" LOL H: "Wow, this has been an intense day" You got that right, Hawk "I can't imagine what inspired you to fight like that" There's quite some ship-teasing right here... R: "Well, Hawk, I guess it was..." Come on now, Rose... R: "It was nothing. Nothing special at all" Ruby sees Hawk and Rose hugging and storms off in a huff... H: "Is that so?" R: "I guess I'm just a super motivated kind of girl" Considering they're supposed to be RegAc's Bloom/Sky, I'm not so sure on having them be more like Florelia... The pumpkin jalopy heads off and SW announces that the ballroom is ready and the Dance of Reflection, teased since last ep, will begin in 5 minutes...
- The Dance of Reflection starts off with more of a casual feel than one might expect, with music that would fit more at a classic sock hop... The music then gives way to more elegant music as the Dawn Gems change from a normal glow to rainbow hues, leading into a nice Hawk/Rose duet (there's a nice shot of the Pompoms enjoying the song as well HEH) Towards the end, their pets nudge them towards each other (though in Gigi's it's more of a kick HEHx2) It's pretty cute, and ends with a nice romantic moment... which doesn't linger too long before Cinderella breaks it up by popping in and saying: "Good work everyone" LOL

- RegAc... Astoria is normally tense before class, but "something about today just feels right" Joy had a double bug burger for breakfast, and the writers recycle the "butterflies in my stomach" gag from just two eps ago LOL. Lingling: "It is really such a quiet peaceful morning" R: "GUYYYYYYS!!" LOL! Rose is here with big news: "My mom and Granny Cinderella have been acting mysterious lately. But this morning they told me a surprise is on the way!" T: "A surprise? What is it?" Rose actually explains what it is: "We're getting A GUEST TEACHER!!! who has a special lesson! But please, don't tell anyone" A: "Sure it's still a surprise?" Sure enough, we're shown various students (and birds) gossiping about the guest teacher LOL.
- Over to the lecture hall... R: "Sorry, I couldn't help myself" LOL. Cinderella reveals that today's very special guest teacher is The Fairy Godmother (who has https://i.postimg.cc/Df14G5Yp/Eldora-FGM.jpg to another certain Rainbow-created fairy godmother) and Rose's reaction has her eyes and mouth set to maximum LOL! I half-expected Rose to say "Oh my fairy godmother" rather than "pumpkins", until I remembered that's from that other fairy tale children franchise
- R: "I have so many questions. What was Granny Cinderella like before she was a princess? Are you anyone else's godmother? What did you think of the stepsisters? Can I have a souvenir?" She delivers these questions at Moschita speed LOL. FG reveals she has heard a lot about Rose both Granny and Clara... and of course Rose has to say "Best fairy tale ever!" According to Granny and Clara, FG "creates the most magical shoes in Fairy Tale Land", and created the glass slippers and also taught Clara Ballgown Magic... Clara reveals they're heading to Cinderella Castle's shoe museum, and this makes Rose faint in excitement, and Hawk swoops in (ooh, pun) to catch her... Over to the shoe museum, where FG prides herself in her favorite shoes, including Dorothy's "red shoes" (rather than ruby slippers) and Puss In Boots' boots. She notices an unfamiliar pair of shoes in the collection... and it turns out to be Rose standing on one of the displays LOL
- R: "I just thought, since you're here, maybe you can make me some amazing new shoes?" FG: "Not today, but, you can make your own, because we're doing Shoe Magic" Rose is giddy at this, and rejoins her class as FG has them ready their wands... and the release of Shoe Magic leads to a reprise of Here on My Feet (1x06) and a scene of students and shoes... Highlights: Finn gets rollerblades, Vicky's boots are too heavy for her to lift, Joy chases springy shoes while King rides a winged shoe, and the Pompoms scramble to avoid being stepped on by a boot LOL. FG depowers the shoes and notes it to be a good first try. LL: "I guess Shoe Magic will be extremely difficult to master" H: "Maybe not, look at Rose" Rose makes easy work of replacing her usual shoes before doing a tap dance in her new footwear FG: "That was some nifty magic. Shoe magic just runs in your family" A: "Rose did the best? The shoe is on the other foot" LOL Anyways, today's special task is to come up with a wonderful original outfit (Clara: "That means shoes and a dress") to be showcased at the Grand Midnight Ball, being held tonight right here in honor of their guest. Cinderella: "And past midnight at the end of the ball, I'll choose the best outfit that will get the best grade" Travis and LL exchange a look, but first, Cinderella wants to chat with Rose in private...
- We finally learn what the title refers to: The Cinderella family magic disappears for one minute at midnight every day, leaving their castle defenseless, a potential issue if the Snow Queen were to attack, so they have to make sure everything is well protected. R: "I know we can do it. This is going to be the best day ever!" Over to Rapunzel castle and Team Rose dealing with the task at hand... Pretty sure they're looking at the canine fashion mag from the Enchanted Forest ep LOL. Joy points out they have shoes covered thanks to Rose, but LL points out "Making the dress is going to take all of us" T: "Nope, not me. I couldn't even do simple Shoe Magic without causing a disaster. Don't let me near needles and thread" LL: A: "When it comes to good grades, I always wanna win, and I think I know how..." Astoria hair-pulls down a book showing pictures of elves, and it seems like there's some explanation missing as they're discussing their game plan, as LL says: "If we can get some and use it on our gown, then we can't lose"... except we don't know what she's talking about, but anyways, the Night Elves live in the Star Mill, and Hawk assures Rose "You are going to love this"
- Meanwhile, Kira rants to her mom about having to make their own clothes, but SQ has other things on her mind, like the ball being held at midnight tonight. K: "Yes, but can't someone else make my dress? I'm a princess" LOL! SQ goes over what we already learned from Granny Cinderella. K: "Stop laughing mom, what's one minute gonna get us?" SQ: "Not much. So that is why your team must find a way to stop time at exactly midnight" Cyrus: "*yawn* Too much work for me"
- Meanwhile, Team Rose (with Pompoms in tow) is riding their dragons to the Star Mill, a windmill on a cloud, or in Rose's words: "A real stardust factory!" Rose almost runs herself off the cloud but Hawk stops her... They approach the Night Elves to buy a bottle of their finest stardust, but it turns out "We haven't had customers in years. But now you need a good grade, so you come running eh?" A: "Pretty much. That's how shopping works. Supply and demand will always match" Elf: "No ones buys our stardust anymore... Gowns are out of fashion these days. We're pretty much retired" They're refusing to make a bottle for Rose, to which LL reacts: "I will not be defeated!" Looks like she's threatening violence on the elves LOL. Elf: "Gimme one good reason to start the production of stardust again" Meanwhile, the Pompoms doddle over to play with a golden stream, and one of them falls in (This will be important)
- Rose convinces them with a little Shoe Magic: "Forget gowns!" Elf tries sprinkling some dust on the shoes: "We could produce a new line of sparkling shoes" A: "These shoes are perfect for princesses" T: "And party girls!" LL: "Hey! What party girls do you know?" Good news is they think the idea has merit and decide to restart the windmill. Bad news is that there'll only be new dust in a few weeks, but Rose does get one bottle of old stock gratis for their troubles... Hawk realizes the Pompoms are missing, and Hawk and Rose find them as the Pompom who fell into the golden stream drags the other two in, gaining a nice sparkly glow of their own H: "We can't take the Pompoms anywhere"
- Cinderella Castle, nighttime... Astoria, Hawk and LL are making the dress, Rose is making the shoes (J: "This pair is even better than the last 6 pairs") and as for Travis, Astoria says "Cheer us on, and keep your beast strength and luck away from the fabric" LOL. The sparkly Pompoms are playing with Rose's other pairs of shoes... Rose asks when they should add the stardust, and LL answers, "Let's do it just before the Fairy Godmother sees it" A: "Stardust tends to lose its brilliance pretty fast" This will be a fateful decision as we'll see later... (and given the Pompoms are still sparkly, why is the loss of brightness for non-fresh stardust even a concern?)
- Time to head to the ball! The Cinderellas are excited to see the outfits after midnight, but first, dancing... We get to see Sean smiling at Astoria, who blushes, Bao dancing with Gigi, Doc sleeping, and a sparkly Pompom hanging out with the other pets... Rose asks Granny Cinderella and Clara about the midnight issue, and they reassure her that they've increased defenses around the castle. Cinderella: "You just have fun. Let us worry about the Snow Queen" So that's what Rose does
- Team Vicky... Part one of their plan is to lure Rose outside so SQ can grab her. For this, Vicky turns Cyrus into Hawk with a potion... C: "So I have to act like Hawk? Like a good guy? I get all of the hard work" The other part involves (not making this up) an "eating time bunny" (with a clock face on its belly and everything): "If he gets on the castle's clock, he'll stop time itself" V: "And then we can make it permanent midnight! Evil!" But the bunny gets a headstart on hopping, so Kira and Vicky have to rush to herd him towards the clock, while they have Fake Hawk lure Rose outside. Cyrus: "Being bad is getting to be too much work!"
- Rose is dancing with the sparkly Pompoms. H: "May I have this dance Rose?" R: "I think you'll have to ask my dance partners first" H: "Oh, I think they're okay with it" HEH! So Hawk and Rose are dancing at the ball, and Rose notes that "Balls have always been important to my family" H: "There's something I've been meaning to ask you" Sounds important, but just then Travis butts in so this better be more important... "Hawk, have you seen the refreshments table? They have apple pie! C'mon!" And we all know how much Hawk loves apples H: "That sounds amazing! But... I'm dancing with Rose" But Rose decides to let Hawk go get some pie: "I know how much you love apples. I'll still be here, go get some apple pie!" Hawk promises he'll only be a minute... R: "I've waited a long time for Hawk... what's a little longer?" Her expression after the line does seem that she doesn't like to be left hanging, however...
- Fake Hawk enters the ballroom and sees Rose alone and approaches. Naturally Rose asks about the apple pie... FH's clumsy response: "Pie... pie... There's pie? Where?" Presumably remembering his scheme, FH then suggests going outside with him and watching the moon, and of course Rose would love to... Meanwhile, the real Hawk is busy looking for Rose with a plate full of cake (uh, what about the pie?)
- Outside, FH is trying to complement Rose: "I think you're... what is it I say? Cool as snow! Oh wait, cool as ice!" Rose doesn't twig at Hawk acting a bit off since he went to get some pie, but does notice the bunny running around... FH is rather on the nose about not looking at the bunny but rather the sky... As the clock strikes midnight, Granny Cinderella makes a point to wait one minute, and tells the teams to get their outifts ready. Outside, Rose seems bewildered as the bunny pulls a pin out of the castle clock right after it strikes midnight, and inside, Granny Cinderella is bewildered that her wand isn't working, Clara notices the clock stuck at midnight, and Hawk is still looking for Rose... Outside, Rose tries to chase the bunny while FH goes back inside... and Rose runs into SQ and Blizzard. R: "So you're behind this! I just need my wand" It's still in its ball form... "What's wrong, why isn't this working?" SQ: "Because everything is working right as I planned" Blizzard grabs Rose and flies off (!)
- SQ: "The Cinderella family will never have their powers back Rose, never!" R: "You can't stop time everywhere" SQ reveals that "The Cinderella Castle clock controls time for all of Fairy Tale Land. So it's permanent midnight everywhere!" (As she swoops away, you can see that the clock reads 2 o'clock, which is the time it usually shows for some reason) Hawk notices this while running outside with a teacup (how random) H: "Come on guys, let's transform" Now there's something I'd never expect them to carry over from Winx The Cinderellas' magic doesn't work, but FG's still does. J: "Not sure how that's gonna help us Fairy Godmother" The dragons take off, amd meanwhile Clara notes that the Pompoms are busy trying to catch the bunny as it enters the pumpkin patch near the castle...
- SQ: "Sorry, Rose has a date with a snow globe" SQ picks off LL, Travis and Joy in quick succession before Hawk and Astoria take out their respective items to deflect her shots, but SQ is getting further away SQ: "There's nothing you can do!" R: "No! I'll never lose, and I'll never give up!" Rose throws the bottle of stardust (huh, she stashed it in her ballgown dress? LOL) into Blizzard's face and he gets into a sneezing fit, eventually dropping Rose, and Hawk swoops in to make the catch, while Blizzard accidentally sneezes into his own tail, ice cubing himself and SQ LOL.
- Astoria defrosts the other members of the team... Joy is shivering: "I always forget that frogs are cold blooded" Meanwhile, the Pompoms have chased down the bunny and recovered the clock part (huh, thought FG's Shoe Magic would play some role in it somehow) so Hawk takes the part and flies his dragon over to the castle to reinstall it, by tossing it at the clock LOL. The clock starts running again, and after the next minute ticks over, Hawk returns to Rose, and Rose uses her magic to launch pumpkins into the air and turn them into fireworks (is her Pumpkin Magic supposed to work like that?) "Never felt better!" H: "Then let's get back to the ball" And we oddly see Hawk extending his hand twice (HUH.)
- Quick pumpkin transition from Rose taking Hawk's hand back to the ball, where the Cinderellas and FG are looking at Pinocchia's mini-outfit HEH. LL: "Our dress looks good, but we're missing the stardust finish" A: "It's okay Lingling. Rose being safe is the important thing" But Rose has an idea, and shakes the sparkly stardust off the Pompoms on to the dress (told ya it was important ) Somehow, there is no dirt or grass included LOL (even though one of them tripped and fell on the grass during the bunny chase) and it's still sparkly after who knows how long... FG's review: "Shiny, shimmering, and it doesn't even disappear at midnight" Team Rose: FG gives Team Rose the best grade, as Team Vicky roll their collective eyes...
FG gives her something for her collection (one guess ) and Rose makes her "Best fairy tale ever" comment again HEH. As for the bunny, the Cinderellas decide to keep him in the pumpkin patch as a mascot..and Rose's Pumpkin Magic gives him a pumpkin carrot LOL

- RegAc portal, where Rose and Gigi are coming through with a Santa hat and boxes of presents, as Rose proudly tells Gigi: "This is going to be our first Christmas at Regal Academy" She's bewildered that no one's there to meet her, until the Pompoms show up with similar hats and tackle Rose, sending Gigi scrambling to avoid the falling boxes, but ends up being clobbered by one anyway LOL. After telling the Pompoms not to spoil her surprise, Rose decides to go look for the others...
- After showing Rose walking past the dog guards with her boxes, time for potions with LeFrog, where today we're learning that "Exact dosage is essential in every magic potion" So of course while Astoria is carefully pouring in the next ingredient, Rose barges right in and distracts her and makes her pour in too much, making the potion explode LOL. It doesn't stop there, as Sean, Alicia, Finn and Gerald all end up getting victimized by her ill-timed intrusion. LeFrog: "Rose! That's quite enough!"
- Cut to outside the tower, and Rose shrieking "What?!" R: "Christmas is like any other day here?" A: "Rose, look what passes for a normal day here, we live in the Fairy Tale Land remember?" The three little pigs are running around a cart filled with food while this is going on LOL. Rose is bewildered that no one celebrates Christmas with their families. J: "My family said they're too busy" LL: "Granny thinks that Christmas does not suit a family of warriors" You'd think with all the personal changes she's made since coming over from Shan last season, Granny would be a bit more chill about that... R: "Pumpkin panic!" H: "Look on the bright side Rose" R: "How could there possibly be a bright side?" H: "We don't really celebrate Christmas here, but at least Santa Claus is real. If you want we can take you to meet him, we know where he lives" Rose is giddy at this, and we pumpkin transition to a rare appearance for Team Rose in their casuals...
- While they're chatting, Rose tells the Pompoms that what her friends really want is a party (channeling her inner Pinkie Pie perhaps?) and has them invite the families of Team Rose to a party at Santa's house ("I'm sure he won't mind") and even makes a set of biplanes for them: "We have to save the magic of Christmas!" Cyrus overhears this and discusses it with Vicky and Kira a la A Magix Christmas... Kira decides to tell her mom about it, and turns out she's decorating her Christmas tree with snow globes: "Original isn't it?" (gets conked in back of head by one LOL) SQ has invited the witches and trolls for Christmas dinner and expects Kira to come... V: "A truly wicked Christmas! What I've always longed for" Kira tells mom about Rose and Christmas magic, and SQ says "It's that blowhard Santa Claus' power. Been trying to steal it for ages" And then SQ falls off her ladder, knocking the globes off the tree and prompting a Kira facepalm LOL. We learn that Santa moved his toy factory to a secret location after SQ's last battle with him, so Vicky offers to track it down as a Christmas present (Kira seems disgusted at the notion)
- Forest! Team Vicky is spying on Team Rose making their way through the forest, whe Rose is asking her friends about the usual Santa tropes, much to their consternation (magic beard, talking reindeer, delivering presents in one night), and as she considers asking him for (what else?) shoes, Astoria hair grabs her mouth LOL. Anyways, they arrive at Santa's cottage, and of course there's his sleigh, a reindeer pen and elves maintaining the grounds... and then Santa shows up, looking pretty much like your typical image of Santa, except with a candy cane wand, using Christmas Magic to conjure up presents from thin air (look at Joy and Rose's synchronized wide smiles LOL) That's right, unlike in Winx, Christmas Magic is an actual non-metaphorical thing...
- As the elves are bagging Santa's presents, SQ shows up (already!) SC: "How did you find me Snow Queen?" SQ: "You stink of goodness and kindness. I smelled you a mile away" LOL! SQ starts firing away and after the elves and reindeer scramble to avoid her attacks, eventually manages to total his sleigh. Santa gives an awesome one-liner: "You've made the naughty list again this year" Then follows it up with a cube of coal right to her face LOL, and then of course a "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas"... SQ: "What's Christmas without a touch of snow?" SQ ices up the ground and then has Blizzard freeze his legs after he slips... Time for Team Rose to take action, opening with a Travis tornado, followed by a Rose pumpkin torpedo to SQ's face LOL, but neither of those stop Blizzard from swooping in and taking the candy cane wand as SQ smugly says: "I just ruined Christmas for everyone" After an elf pickaxes away the ice around Santa's legs, we learn that Santa created his magic cane years ago to keep up with making the presents, and an elf shows off a bag of coal (all cubed up BTW): "All the presents turned into coal the second the queen snagged the cane" We see Gigi surprised at the coal cubes... Rose offers to make new presents and tells her friends "Let's have a Christmas hero team up" Everyone agrees, and for some reason, Travis is standing next to the reindeer pen, just so we can have a reindeer give him a nice hindleg kick LOL Astoria points out that they only have a few hours until Christmas, but LL loves challenges (of course) Rose asks an elf for the gift list, and we get the expected "unfurling super-long scroll" gag HEH.
- Hawk carries a bushel load of apples out of Santa's house, and we see that Santa has living gingerbread men as well... Hawk is wearing a Santa hat (and we'll see the others wearing hats as well) He sets the pile on a table next to some baking equipment, as Hawk sets out to make 250 apple pies. A gingerbread man pulls an apple out from the bottom of the pile, causing the other apples to collapse in a heap LOL! Joy and King go to a lake to get help from, what else, a bunch of frogs: "Who wants to play elves? Whoever makes the most flower necklaces wins" Over at Rapunzel's castle, Astoria is on a ladder, looking for a book on how to wrap the perfect gift, and ends up falling off her ladder with the book beaning Vidal LOL.
- Fairy Tale Town, and Puss in Boots is commenting on a rocking horse Travis has apparently just made: "Wonderful! Reminds me of the rocking mouse I had when I was a kitten" Travis has Nut pass him the brush... and Nut dips it into glue (based on the label, for shoe soles) before handing it over, and the brush somehow instantly gets stuck to the rocking horse LOL. Nut laughs as Travis tries to pull it off... and winds up getting the brush in Nut's mouth LOLx2 Over at a castle, LL and Bao are doing origami of animals (might come off a tad like https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InterchangeableAsianCultures, tm TVTropes ), and LL adds a touch of magic (animation goof: her wand goes right through a table corner as she's lifting it up) to make them fly a la Helia's cranes (eg 2x26)
- Back to Santa's cottage, where Rose and Gigi are adding ribbons to gift boxes, and helping the elves pile them up. Rose makes a whirlwind of the gift box work SC: "You'd make a great Christmas elf little Cinderella" R: "I've always dreamt of becoming an elf... a shoe elf of course" But Santa nevertheless bemoans that their effort is of no use, because he won't be able to deliver all the gifts in a single trip without his Christmas Magic: "I'm nothing without my cane" R: "That's not true! Try to remember how you delivered the presents before creating the cane" SC: "By hand, of course. But it will take too long" R: "Not if we all do it together" At this point she's joined by the others (even though Hawk is the only one who has any reason to be here), with Joy wearing her frog hairclip or whatever on her hat and grinning really wide LOL.
- We finally see Hawk and the gingerbread men start making pies, slicing apples, putting them in the filling, rolling out the dough, adding the thatched face... and a snoozing Doc plopping face first into a pie LOL. Hawk counts up to 204 pies, and puts an apple under his hat HEH. Joy's frogs continue making their flower necklaces under Joy and King's supervision... Joy has her frogclip back on her hair as normal as she makes a special request: "I know I said no bugs in the presents, but... could we make a teeny exception? I need three special necklaces"
In the 1001 Nights Kingdom, Astoria finds the 1001 book from... well, way back in early season 1 (no word about whether it's missing a page) Cut to Travis' hand applying his paintbrush to all sorts of toys, and Puss in Boots is even using his tail to help with the painting HEH. Lastly, LL's origami animals steal the Mad Hatter kid's hat LOL
- Back at SQ's castle (with no trace of the tree she was decorating earlier), SQ returns with the cane and decides to give herself the best gift of all: "I'll finally get the six great fairy tale families!" She tries to wield the cane around to no effect: "That old windbag tricked me!" So she brings Blizzard over again: "As tacky as it is to return a gift, we're going back"
- Back at Santa's cottage, everyone is getting ready: Astoria takes a spill along with ther stack of books (so she thinks books are important for Christmas, huh) Hawk is carrying pies stacked on top of each other (doesn't look very stable eh), Travis gets another reindeer hind leg kick while inspecting his handiwork on the toys LOL, and Joy puts some of her necklaces on the reindeer, one of which gets into a sneezing fit... Santa notes his sleigh is in no shape to fly (such an understatement LOL) so Rose uses her wand (even though it's already in the ready position, they throw in a Christmas version of Rose summoning her wand from ball form, huh) to create a "super Christmassy" (Santa's words) pumpkin sled, so all they have to do now is get those presents delivered... and that's when SQ shows up (uh-oh)
- SQ is really teed that Santa tried to trick him with the candy cane, and promptly puts Travis on, or rather under ice... This is then followed by a more proper icing for the rest (!) SQ is readying a snow globe when a Pompom in a biplane snatches the globe and buzzes Blizzard a couple times, and then SQ gets beaned with an apple: "An apple a day keeps the villains away" It's Hawk's dad, accompanied with mom plus Astoria and Joy's parents... SQ: "What are you doing here?" Astoria's mom holds up one of Rose's invites: "We were invited" SQ: "Invited eh? Join the party, then" SQ starts firing at Astoria's mom, and after managing to evade a few hits, mom's dragon finally gets hit (!) Good news is that her hair unfurls into an umbrella for a safe landing, but bad news is of course that Astoria is iced... SQ keeps going but finds her attacks being countered by Granny Ironfan, using her fan like a racket to lob spells at her: "Is this how you celebrate Christmas? Turning people into icecubes?" Granny lobs her spells at Hawk, LL and Rose to deice them (Rose trips over after getting deiced before getting up and grinning wide LOL) SQ thinks she's finally gotten the candy cane wand working and fires it at Team Rose... and it ends up producing a load of candy canes LOL. SQ: "What's the meaning of this?!" Joy and Hawk's parents gang up on SQ, and Hawk's parent sideswipe Blizzard causing SQ to drop the cane and Santa makes the catch, before adding: "My cane only works when it feels the magic of Christmas, and it's strong when surrounded by people who care about each other" Joy and Hawk go off to hug their respective parents, before firing off their wands at SQ and sending her scurrying (SQ: "I hate Christmas!")
Dave and Clara have shown up (as well as Travis' parents): "Sorry for being late, did we miss anything?"
- Now that that distraction's been dealt with, time for Santa (and Team Rose) to start delivering the presents Santa uses his cane wand to make the sleigh all sparkly as the students toss the gift boxes off the sleigh, as Santa's magic leads them to a safe landing... The gifts even reach under the sea to both the Little Mermaid and the Sea Witch ("I hope it's a new hair curling eel") Two forest trolls get clubs to bash each other with HEH! Meanwhile in her palace, SQ still swears she will have her revenge... when even she gets a gift ("A miserable gift won't make me give up") In her case, a snowglobe with a Christmas tree in it... "It's beautiful"
- Back at RegAc, there's a Christmas party (huh, thought they said Christmas is like any other day here ) with the students plus the invited parents (the Pompoms give Dave a hat and start playing with him LOL) Santa thanks Rose everything she's done, to which she responds with her usual wide grin, and Cinderella comes in and announces that this year's Christmas tree is dedicated to Team Rose... H: "Really? We must be doing better in class than I thought" LOL (and look at Cinderella's initial look of disapproval at Hawk's comment) Anyways, of course it's because they saved Christmas... Everyone gathers into a circle and dances, and a tree forms in the middle of the circle, as Santa explains that the true magic of Christmas is "borne from the affection and warmth that binds people" Some decorations also appear, and two Pompoms get a Santa hat and a reindeer hat... while the third finds himself pushed up high into the sky by a giant tower of presents LOL.
- Santa decides to take his leave, and Rose asks why, since they've already delivered the presents. Santa answers that Earth is still waiting, before giving her something special for her collection: "It's your grandma's first letter to Santa. She wanted a pair of glass slippers for her doll... and a happily ever after" R: "I think we've got that one covered" Santa boards his sleigh and leaves with a trail of sparkles...
- ...as Rose and Hawk lead into a nice Christmas-themed musical number where we get payoff for some of the more offbeat elements: Grandma Rapunzel gets the 1001 book from Astoria, while Joy's family gets the three "special" bug-filled flower necklaces... Travis gives his family a painted family portrait, and of course LL gets a qipao from her grandma before launching her cranes into the air... Hawk takes out the apples from under his hat and gives them to his family (and Doc), and he's saved one very special one for Rose... which turns into a single rose bouquet (huh, well played) for her to give to her family. Dawww... A: "Thank you for helping us rediscover Christmas, Rose" R: "And thank you for giving me the best... Christmas... ever" (somewhat surprisingly showing a bit of restraint on that last word there) And we end with Santa's sleigh flying through the sky with its sparkly trail

- Rose's house, where Dave (with Gigi perched on his shoulder) is looking for his Fairy Tale Land guide when he spots an urn on the shelf: "What is this then? Yeah, guess I'll just open it" Gigi frantically gestures not to open it, and you'd think that he'd get the hint immediately and stop, but he still keeps going at it, so Gigi tries to pry Dave's hand off the cork and ends up getting thrown to the table, and Gigi still continues his frantic gestures... Upstairs to Rose, where she's packing for school, as Clara comes in to ask her about what she's gotten for her collection. R: "It's so cool mom, I got a banshee jar, with a real banshee scream inside" But it's nowhere to be found in her backpack: "Now where did I leave it?" You can see where this is heading, right?
- A loud scream emanates from the urn downstairs, and Gigi, after hanging from the lip of the urn, puts the cork on the urn, but it and Gigi quickly get blown out over to Rose, who promptly corks it properly... (Raises the question of how it got left on the shelf without at least a warning not to open it) Clara tells Rose they're super late and have to go, and Dave's all too happy about this: "I think I need some tranquility... and silence" Rose decides to bring her urn over, but Gigi has a look of disapproval... R: "Don't worry Gigi, it'll be safe at school"
- Over at RegAc, Joy and King are decorating a cake with assorted insects and earthworm cream... Joy reveals she woke up extra early to make their favorite lunch, as someone sneaks into the kitchen under a cauldron and steals the cake while Joy is making the cream and replaces it with a jenga tower LOL, which of course falls over the moment Joy dabs it with the cream... Similarly, Travis is making an abstract painting of Lingling when his brush gets swiped for a banana (a la Sir George's amulet from last season), and Astoria is holding her favorite book while dusting the shelves when it gets swiped for a gossip magazine... Hawk is carrying a bowl of apples when they're swiped to balls of yarn, while during LL's archery practice, one of her arrows gets swiped to fishbones (between being fired from her bow to hitting the target LOL)
- Rose arrives at the RegAc classroom with her banshee jar and an intent to show it off, only to be bewildered at everyone noticing that things of theirs have gone missing (and some are even accusing other students of the theft) Odette has lost her ballet slippers and Pinocchia's sand paper is missing (Cyrus gets a splinter wiping her nose) while Violet Ogre is looking for her ogre princess doll, prompting Leena to laugh at her... Violet clarifies: "It's for a friend!" Vicky: "It's almost like someone's up to no good!" Granny Cinderella threatens to plant the students in her pumpkin patch (HEH) and Rose tries to get everyone to calm down, but when she notices that her jar's been swiped for jam, decides that it's perfectly okay to panic LOL!
- Time to put Sheriff Riding Hood and her canine companions on the case, as they race to RegAc in turn of the last century style police cars, and after entering the classroom, proceed to chase down the students for quite a bit of time, until RH finally decides to do an introduction, replete with her relentless team of dogs appearing from behind her hood... and then the shaggy one spots Rose and runs circles around her... RH: "Why do you always have to spoil my entrance?" Anyways, Cinderella meets up with RH and she urges the students to cooperate with the cops... Rose decides to help: "Our things are too precious to leave them in the hands of whatever crook! After all, I've always dreamt of becoming a detective" Me: "Since when?"
- There's a montage of officers doing their job (badly LOL), interspersed with Rose and the Pompoms looking for clues... Leena gets interrogated with a rapidfire barrage of questions, and her interrogator concludes that she stutters suspiciously (well, considering that she's given a second if even that to answer...) The shaggy dog cop insists on starting the investigation where Joy was making her lunch, and hands a bunch of paper to Joy for cataloging the evidence, while another tries to draw the criminal based on Finn's description (using Travis' palette for color) Rose finds out that Gerald hasn't had anything taken from him, and he still has his prized possession: a teddy bear (LOL) so naturally she decides to borrow the teddy, using the Pompoms to tickle him and help her get it, before promising to get it back to him...
- The lady cop tells LL and Astoria to catalog every corner of the crime scene with a camera... and she keeps waltzing into LL's shot LOL: "Sorry, I'm a bit photo-centered" Rose has the Pompoms and Gigi spread out corn flour all over a courtyard before placing Gerald's teddy on the well-starched ground, while Leena keeps getting bombarded with even more irrelevant questions like her favorite ice cream flavor, her grandma's eye color or her 3rd grade cousin's address and the shaggy dog cop is shown to have eaten the bowls of Joy's ingredients before bothering to place the bog standard crime scene number placards LOL
- Sure enough, the thief takes the teddy and leaves his prints for Rose to measure and investigate hard (and the Pompoms give her what look like diagrams for cutting cloth to make clothes), while the dog cops continue to be more Keystone than competent: The cop questioning Finn manages to draw up Granny Cinderella, while the photo-centered lady dog keeps turning LL's attempts to take crime scene photos into her own personal photoshoot (with a couple students in the shot under the guise of being a team photo LOL!) Looks like Rose is doing some paper cutting work as part of her investigation...
- Back to the classroom, where Hawk is consoling Leena, still traumatized by the questioning, the shaggy dog cop is sleeping in a wheelbarrow, Granny Cinderella is being arrested, and lady dog is looking at the results of her photoshoot. RH rightly calls them washouts for their incompetence, but Rose arrives, with a recreation of the thief's shoe based on the shoe print... RH: "You really are a Cinderella you know that? (at the cops) And the only one with some common sense" HEH! So anyways, based on the shoe, the thief is a leprechaun... R: "Best fairy tale ever" RH: "Most wanted fairy tale ever. We'll have to raid his hideout" R: "You mean" RH: "That's right, the end of the rainbow" Rose lets out a very big YAY!
- Team Vicky is talking to the Snow Queen, and not surprisingly, they have something to do with the leprechaun... SQ: "I got you a great ally this time, did I not?" Kira: "Eh, he hasn't betrayed us or ruined everything, so that's new" Kira tells Vicky that leprechauns are mean and spiteful by nature, but Vicky replies: "That's just why this plan is so awesome" SQ says it's time to spring the trap, whatever that means...
- We finally get our justification for the title about halfway through, as Astoria finds a book with a rainbow on its cover at the potions lab, and Joy asks for some ingredients and a cauldron from her grandpa, who asks for a piece of leprechaun gold in return for his experiments... because in order to find the end of the rainbow, they're going to need a rainbow (H: "...obviously")
- Team Vicky spies on Team Rose as they meet up with RH and the cops, with Travis carrying the cauldron, and Travis being Travis, he trips on a Pompom and gets himself conked in the head with it LOL Joy hands out various colored bottles of potion from her little frog-design bag to each of the team members (how do they even fit in the bag? ) Astoria reads off what each color represents (blue for loyalty and violet for wisdom... MLP fans on the writing staff perhaps? ) before having everyone pour their bottles in, releasing an explosion of sparks and creating a rainbow emanating from the cauldron (giving us a rare smile from RH) R: "So cool! We made a rainbow! And... it's solid" A: "Of course rainbows are solid, and super safe. How else would you walk to the end of the rainbow?" T: "Oh, I hate travelling by rainbow" Rose hugs the solid rainbow for a couple seconds, before following the others on the rainbow road, running in an overjoyed manner to catch up (conveniently skirting the issue of how to get on the rainbow to begin with... also, notice how Joy is skipping down the rainbow) RH has her cops guard their end of the rainbow ("And try not to deceive me this time") before following them, as Vicky has an evil grin on her face...
- Song, and it's a recycled one, "Take a Ride" from the previous season's finale, albeit rather shortened from the original, and featuring a gag of Travis slipping and sliding down the rainbow... The number ends with Rose falling off the rainbow, but she gets saved by a human chain, anchored by (who else?) Travis: "This is why I hate travelling by rainbow!"
- And he's about to have another reason, as back at RegAc, Vicky decides to toss a stick to distract the cops with a game of fetch. Even though the pets are also there, they're simply powerless to stop the cops from this bald-faced diversion, as Vicky pours in a potion to get rid of the rainbow... The Pompoms see the rainbow fading from the cauldron and (again ignoring the issue of getting on the rainbow, especially now that it's fading away) race towards Rose to tell her about it, and despite sprinting like mad to keep ahead since they're so high in the air, the rainbow eventually goes out from under them, and Rose's Hail Mary suggestion to call the dragons is a nonstarter because they're too far... so that leaves hoping for a favorable landing on the island below them (!)
- Their fall gets broken by, get this, large mushrooms on the island (Travis being Travis, LL lands right on top of him LOL) Rose spots the missing items, and a rainbow's end, which doesn't make much sense but whatever, and RH offers to make her a deputy after they get back, but first, time to deal with the leprechaun, who's being played akin to Rumple from Winx's Music Cafe storyline (same accent even) Of course his magic is Rainbow Magic (CinemaSins guy: "Roll credits" *ding* ) and the fight is mainly him using it to block Team Rose's attacks (A: "Did he just cut my ivy with... a rainbow?") including LL's Moonbow even, and Travis being Travis, he gets blasted into a little mountain LOL
- Eventually, Rose uses her glass slipper running to distract the leprechaun while LL fires her bow again, and this time manages to disarm him of his wand, before Rose punts a pot on to his head LOL! Hawk goes off to get Travis, and since Rose's jar isn't here, Joy has her Frog Ball bugs look for it... RH goes in to arrest the leprechaun, but of course, the leprechaun has his ulterior motives for his thievery, and here they come now: SQ and Blizzard (so why steal the other RegAc students' stuff?) Blizzard immediately takes out LL and Astoria (we see the boys noticing this, but not Joy, hmm...), and the leprechaun gets his wand back
- RH somehow has protected Rose and herself from the Blizzard blast, and threatens to put her under arrest for her countless crimes (her words) SQ: "Are you sure?" SQ fires her spell at RH, and RH jumps up to dodge it and tosses the cuffs at SQ who bats them away with her wand, before blowing RH with wind from her wand... but Rose is still in her slippers, so she outraces SQ's spells for a bit before throwing stuff at her, eventually conking her in the head, but the errant shot she produces still ends up freezing Rose's right foot in place (!) SQ takes out her snowglobe to imprison Rose: "No one escapes my collection!" But RH sprints in between Rose and SQ, and RH ends up in her snowglobe instead... SQ: "Unexpected, but still one less do-gooder"
- The leprechaun demands his reward, and SQ replies: "Your reward is that I won't turn you into a popsicle... for now" Leprechaun: "I'll trade it... for your snowglobe" He pulls out from behind his back the snowglobe we just saw SQ holding, and sure enough, she's not holding it anymore, leaving her flabbergasted... As Joy watches this distraction, her bugs have found the jar ("Thank frog") R: "Time to be a fairy tale hero!" Rose kicks away the ice restraint with her free foot (and by this point SQ has gotten the RH snowglobe back) before kicking the jar (nicely tossed by Joy) straight at SQ... SQ catches the jar, but the cork comes off and you know what that means... The scream tosses her back on to Blizzard, and they decide to retreat. But that still leaves yet another outstanding issue, of RH being globed, left unresolved for now (alongside Brad, Fala, Twinnie Ironfan, and that other student who got globed back in the season premiere)
- Potion lab, where LeFrog and Cinderella see the students reunited with their stuff (we see Alicia has been reunited with her yarn) Team Rose is back, and Cinderella asks the obvious question of how they got back without the rainbow, to which Hawk answers "We had help" before pointing to the leprechaun... LeFrog chats with the leprechaun, and besides leprechaun gold, the rarest of all potion ingredients (LeFrog's words) he can get him anything "Really? How would you like a job?" We close on a rare solemn scene (with appropriate music to match), in which the canine cop that questioned Leena won't eat the dog food a Pompom is pushing on him, and Cinderella promises Rose they'll rescue everyone trapped in SQ's snowglobes, before sharing a hug (DAWW...)

- We open at the Snow Queen's castle, with Team Vicky (!) Vicky fangirls about getting to see the throne and the windows from which SQ's planned her past countless misdeeds, while Kira is kinda indifferent about it all, since this is her mother they're talking about here. SQ makes her dramatic entrance (dramatic spotlights included) and Vicky has a really wide grin, while Kira says: "I hate my life" But anyways, SQ called for an in-person meeting with Team Vicky, because it's an important one (Kira flashes a very brief grin upon hearing this) SQ's finally getting serious, and she's giving Kira the power of her snowglobes (!) SQ tells Vicky: "By the end of today, you'll be headmistress of Regal Academy" and Vicky has another wide grin at this before collapsing in a heap... SQ also decides to make Cyrus the vice-director, which makes him excited, until Vicky gets up and suggests "Butler would work" SQ: "Fine then" LOL
- Now to the real meat of the plot, as SQ reveals who will make it all possible... Hawk's older sister, as in Fala, as in the girl Hawk was looking for back in 2x08... SQ says "It's time for Fala to go home" as she embeds her with some sort of ice crystal while she's in her snowglobe, and that makes SQ a more faithful adaptation of the character than Frozen LOL
- We head to Snow White's castle, where Hawk is (what else?) thinking about Fala. It's the 10th anniversary of her disappearance, and we learn that she made him a fairy princess doll whe he was 3... H: "It's made of ice, but since then it has never melted" SW reassures him that Fala's magic is stronger than even hers, and adds: "I'm sure wherever she is, she'll find her way back home" You do know a) it's been 10 years, and b) Hawk found out just recently she was traded to the Snow Queen, right? Pretty sure that Hawk ought to have brought that up since then...
- Just then, Hawk hears Rose excitedly running up the stairs before tripping over herself as she runs in to the room LOL Rose asks Hawk to help her at the pumpkin patch... where Granny Cinderella announces that the theme of RegAc's big end of year ball is Pumpkin Fantasy. This does not amuse Astoria and Travis, because the theme is Pumpkin Fantasy every single year, as Granny Cinderella always gets to pick it (R: "What's wrong with it? It sounds fun") Their job is to pick the biggest brightest pumpkins to make decorations... Travis shows Rose a small pumpkin (R: "That's a C at best") Travis being Travis, he gets run over by the Pompoms' ginormous pumpkin LOL while Astoria magically rolls her pumpkins (without a wand, hmm) Naturally, Rose gathers the most pumpkins, and the Pompoms help her move her pile, much to Hawk's chagrin...
- Next morning, Team Rose is riding their dragons (who are all carrying pumpkins LOL) R: "It's the perfect day. Pumpkins and dragons, two of my favorite things" They hear a scream from afar, and decide to check it out... Turns out two trolls are chasing a girl. Astoria is surprised because trolls rarely ever get close to the school, but anyways, they decide to save the damsel... A third troll shows up to surround her, as Team Rose arrives to deal with the trolls by fanning away their clubs, turning one of them into a frog, and putting up a wall of ice to obstruct the last remaining troll before putting him under a vine cage... Of course the girl turns out to be Fala, and after the initial stunned reactions, we learn that Fala woke up in the forest alone before being chased by the trolls, and all she remembers of where she's been all these years is a cold hostile place... Lingling correctly assumes she was imprisoned in SQ's palace, and wonders why she's free, and Astoria suspects if it could be a trap... R: "No way! Fala is Hawk's sister! She would never hurt him!" Hawk decides to take her to Granny...
- RegAc students are preparing for the ball in the outside courtyard... SW: "Just because this is for a party, students, doesn't mean you should have unnecessary fun" Just then she hears Hawk, and tries to fob him off, until she sees that he's with Fala... SW is in disbelief at her return as she hugs Fala, and Rose adds: "See that? It can't be a trap, even Granny Snow White recognized her own granddaughter" And how does that make a difference? Anyways, Astoria and LL nod in agreement, which will make the inevitable reveal all the worse... SW decides to change the theme to Apple Delight in honor of Fala
- Astoria has found a book on making apple garlands, and Rose decides to go help Hawk (this will be important) Astoria's first attempt ends up getting laughed at... granted, by the Pompoms, but Vidal got caught in her garland LOL. Fala comes in with a pile of books, and offers to help Astoria with her garland. Astoria notes her pile of books and Fala answers: "I missed like a dozen years of books. Gotta catch up"
- The Pompoms are rolling a giant pumpkin around the courtyard, knocking Gerald into a pond, and sideswiping Travis while he's painting an apple on an easel, splattering paint all over his work, and naturally he's incensed about it. Fala shows up and asks if the splatter-sprayed apple is modern art HEH! "It's so intense" T: "It's kinda good... but Granny Cinderella told me to paint an apple" F: "You're an artist. They can tell you what to paint, but not how to do it" T: "(really long pause) Good point" We see one of the Pompoms tasting paint LOL when they notice Travis and Fala adding a few more splatters of blue to the painting (huh, thought it looked better when it was just red and yellow splatters)
- So basically, Fala is acting all helpful to Team Rose, i.e., the "https://www.equestriadaily.com/2018/10/episode-followup-school-raze-parts-i-ii.html" tactic... We continue with a trip to the cafeteria, where Joy has laid out a spread of buggy snack foods, and a couple of students are grossed out by the creepy crawlies (for example, a burger crawling around with spider legs, upside down ladybugs with frosting, cupcakes with spiders on top, a whole fish wrapped up in a crepe) Joy eats a fish crepe: "I knew bug cookies wouldn't be a good idea" So why make them in the first place then? Fala is the only one who dares to try one of her snacks (a spider cupcake), and she finds it delicious... J: "But if no one wants to eat them, then we get a bad grade, and Astoria hates me forever" LOL Fala offers to swap out Joy's "pioneering" ingredients, and Joy is grateful...
- Hawk shows off using his snow magic to make a couple of ice statues: "Me being heroic or... me being resolute" Sean dismisses them as being more or less the same, but here's Fala using her wand to make a bunch of more varied ice statues, much to everyone's amazement (Chad is briefly heard saying "Poor Brad, I miss him" amidst the chatter, hmm) as Hawk declares her "a prodigy, the strongest Snow White ever" Rose is not pleased: "I wanted to be the one helping Hawk"
- Dressmaking room, and when it comes to dressmaking, LL is at her wit's end: "Princess gowns are not made for me! They are too feminine!" Guess who's there helping Clara? Fala playfully mocks the great LL for surrendering, before taking up the scissors herself on LL's shambles: "I think femininity and strength are beautiful together" Fala shows off the end result to LL (kinda reminds me of Blondie Lockes) and of course she loves it
- Rose is decorating the main ballroom with apple decorations, with Pompoms flying around in biplanes dragging some apple banners behind them... Fala comes in to help Rose, much to her surprise since she was expecting Hawk... While Fala is holding Rose's ladder, Gigi does his best North by Northwest impersonation as he's chased by a biplane, though in this case, the biplane crashes against a column LOL. Now on separate ladders, Fala asks Rose if Hawk usually works with her and Rose says "Kind of" before explaining it's because T/LL work together and Joy always needs Astoria's help. Fala asks "So you're going to the dance with him?" Rose falls into the decorations and gets tangled in them, and still answers: "Every girl in school is stressing Hawk go to the dance with him. I won't do it like them" Though she then mentions that they dance at school dances as friends... F: "I would love to see the two of you dance" R: "But... I think he'd rather hang out with you tonight" The Pompoms jump on top of Rose a few times to snap the decorations to free her... F: "I want him to dance with you. And if he doesn't, I'll give him a little push" Rose is grateful for the offer and adds: "I'm glad you're here. It's like, well, a fairy tale come true, and that's my favorite thing" Fala and Rose hold hands, DAWW...
- Team Vicky is snooping on Fala and Rose... V: "Everyone loves Fala, so sweet the air tastes like cotton candy" Kira calls her mom: "Looks like your plan is working... for once" Now, time for SQ to put her plan into action... Fala and Rose are putting up decorations outside when it looks like Fala gets herself a wicked case of heartburn... F: "I just remembered" R: "About the Snow Queen?" Fala goes off to talk to the teachers, much to Rose's bewilderment...
- Dragon arena, where Hawk reacts to Rose's story with suspicion and decides to split off from the rest of the team (who are supposed to head to town) to ask her something, and promises to be just a minute (probably takes more than that just to find her) Hawk tracks down Fala as she's heading to the main hall to ask if she's okay, and Fala tries to fob him off by saying that the teachers are waiting for her to give them a report. Hawk tries to follow... and Fala ices Hawk up with her wand (!) Kira sees this and says: "I like her" HEH! Vicky and Cyrus have put the dog guards to sleep (in the literal sense, not the veterinary sense) allowing this misdeed (and her next) to go unchecked... As Vicky zaps a guard again for good measure, it's almost time for Kira's part, as Doc spots the frozen Hawk and flies off to tell the others...
- At RegAc's main hall, all the teachers, plus Granny Ironfan, Clara, and that wolf teacher we hardly ever see (still more than Alfea's DuFour, zing ) have gathered to meet Fala (that big of a deal huh?) Cinderella asks if she's recovered her memories... and Fala gains a purple aura as her eyes glow purple, before putting all the teachers on ice (!)
- As Astoria uses her Fire Bangles to melt the Hawk ice cube, a bunch of random students run into the area, panicking about an attack, and notice the sleeping dogs near the main hall. Gerald: "Who could do this?" LL has a bad feeling about this... Astoria finishes thawing Hawk and he immediately implicates Fala, as the main hall door opens and Fala comes out riding the Snow White ice cube and starts trying to zap the students in the area, as the rest of the teacher ice cubes are brought out, much to Team Rose's horror...
- Team Rose lines up in formation... H: "Fala, what are you doing?" F: "Destroying you all, obviously" T: "Good thing she's the strongest Snow White in history" The sky gets dark as Fala flings her spells first, and Hawk uses his mirror shield to block... Hawk blindly accuses Fala of tricking her and being fake before sending the magic back at her which she avoids, but Rose rightfully suggests that she is Fala, just under an evil spell... Astoria flings her bangles in Fala's general direction and Fala strikes them back at her with a mirror shield... LL: "She used a mirror shield defense with normal snow magic" H: "I told you, she's a prodigy" Fala responds by icing Travis and LL, and Joy tries using her Frog Magic and gets it bounced back at her (!)
- Hawk and Rose see Kira riding in on her dragon and Rose desperately asks for her help (quantifying her plea with "I know we're not besties or anything") but not only does her dragon knock them aside, they finally find out that Kira is SQ's daughter (!) Rose is in disbelief at this revelation, while Hawk is in disbelief at Kira putting the teachers into her snowglobes... Seems like they're going for a Dark Bloom thing here, except that Fala doesn't have a season plus's worth of attachment to provide the same impact it did with Bloom...
- Anyways, Kira's dragon leaves as the ice cubes shatter to make it rain ice on Rose and Hawk, requiring them to avoid it, and Fala next threatens to shatter Travis and LL, and obviously Hawk can't attack his own sis, but Hawk has an idea... He runs towards Fala and tells her "We need to talk"... and of course gets frozen from the chest down (and bizarrely, the ice debris is confined to two orderly areas) but he's holding something up: "Do you remember this?" "This" being the fairy princess ice doll from earlier, and we learn why she made the doll: "You made it for me, so I would no longer be afraid to stay alone. That day in the woods, you promised me you'd always be by my side, whatever happened" This makes Fala start to cry, and as with the original fairy tale, it stops the snow and the darkened sky... Rose explains that "Your heart is reminding you of your love for Hawk" F: "I can't remember anything" R: "Look at Hawk, Fala" Hawk is still holding up the doll (not like he has any choice): "Don't let anything, anybody, get between you and me Fala"
- Fala is overwhelmed with emotion and the ice crystal leaves its host, and drops to the ground sounding like a shovel on cement upon impact, and she drops to the ground weakly... The ice evaporates from everyone, and Hawk reassures Fala: "Everything will be okay, I promise" She's probably going to feel real bad about herself once she realizes she was an unwitting pawn in SQ's plan...
- Speaking of, Kira is riding home on her dragon, and calls out her mom for losing Fala (since she flew out long before that, how would she know?) "But it doesn't matter: we won!" Kira cackles while brandishing her snowglobes... Back at RegAc, Team Rose is helping the weakened Fala back, with Frog!Joy riding Travis' head LOL. T: "Well, it can't get much worse right?" Right on cue, Vicky announces that in light of the kidnapping of the professors, as representative of the students, she's proclaimed herself headmistress of RegAc... Cyrus cheers, everyone else gasps, and Astoria faints at the news, punctuating the episode with a big CLUNK!

- RegAc main hall, where the student body is shocked and in utter disbelief over the missing professors. Pinocchia: "Now who's going to take care of us?" Vicky offers her services, but no one seems to be listening.Cyrus explains: "Everyone's too scared to pay attention to you right now Vicky" V: "Then make them pay attention! You do want to stay my vice principal... don't you Cyrus?" C: "Of course, of course" Cyrus hands her a megaphone... Astoria is just now getting back on her feet, when Vicky makes her announcement through the megaphone. A: "Please tell me this is just a dream"
- Cyrus tries to make a cheerleader style name spelling cheer, but a) it doesn't work well with his voice and b) V: "You forgot the C" A: "This isn't a dream. It's a nightmare" (Faints again LOL) The Pompoms razz at her as well LOL Vicky gives lip service at the notion of finding the missing teachers, but Rose points out that Cinderella would never have left Vicky in charge; however, Vicky has Cyrus holds up a declaration making Vicky headmistress in Cinderella's absence, yet another Cozy Glow tactic... A: "This is the worst day in the history of fairy tales!" Astoria demands to see the scroll, and this leads to a bit of a brawl...
- Hawk tells Fala that the kidnapping of the teachers shouldn't be considered her fault since she was under the Snow Queen's spell, and Lingling adds: "And we couldn't know Kira was her daughter" Yeah, because she had pretty much no direct interaction with anyone outside of Team Vicky, the better to prevent any goody goodies sniffing out the secret of her fake background... Incidentally, an ice-themed villain lying about her background to get into school as part of her scheme... sounds familiar Hawk: "We need to go after her right now!" However, the dog guards stop Hawk and the rest from going off to rescue their families, and to add insult to injury, Vicky decides to have Team Rose rake the leaves at the dragon arena under Cyrus' supervision (V: "We have to keep a special eye on our heroes, vice-principal")
- So Team Rose, plus their pets, are raking leaves at the dragon arena, and Cyrus is keeping an eye on them. One of the dragons flies in, knocking away a pile of leaves, and chats with other dragons about a ban on them from leaving RegAc... An instrumental of This is How It Goes plays out as we see them going about their task, not helped by the Pompoms jumping into other piles... Of course, Rose, the Cinderella, has her pile well-made, but Cyrus kicks the leaves around. Travis calls him out and uses his Fury Magic, and then LL her Fan Magic, to gather up the leaves in tidy piles , but Cyrus, not one to be frustrated, has the family dragons fly around to spread them out again
- This really angers Travis, and Hawk is frustrated: "Cyrus is stalling us. We need a plan to get out of here and beat the Snow Queen" A: "Yeah! Too bad we have no idea how to do any of it" Fala points out they have to "combine the powers of the great fairy tale families" LL says they have them (how convenient, tm Dana Carvey) but that still leaves how to get to SQ... and Fala says that they need a special key that she knows someone named Alice has kept for years... And of course Rose figures out what Alice she's talking about and is so giddy about going to Wonderland that she shakes Joy LOL. Of course they need to get out of here, and they'll need their dragon riding armor for this mission as well...
- Rose sees the three little pigs carrying trays of burritos (and once again, the animators are still drawing the wrong kind of tortilla) and has an idea... and has a gaggle of Pompoms attack them, causing them to throw their burrito trays in the air, whereupon the Pompoms catch the burritos and toss them at Cyrus ("I don't even like burritos" LOL), allowing them to sneak off to the dragons. R: "Guys, we know about the ban on dragons, but could you at least summon our armor?" After a short beat, the dragons nod in agreement, and we're spared those lengthy transforms Team Rose runs off in their outfits and the dragons high-five HEH!
- Vicky rides in on a dragon and Cyrus tells her about the escape... her reaction: "Cyrus, you fool! You're demoted to vice... vice-principal!"
As Team Rose are running, with pets and Pompoms in tow, Cyrus sends the dog guards after them: "They're escaping!... I mean, stop and protect them for their own good!" Team Rose sees the dogs gaining on them, and Fala decides to stay behind along with the pets to fend them off. Understandably, Hawk would rather stay by her sister's side, but she insists on him going off to beat SQ and leaving this part to her (even adding a thumbs up for good measure) so Hawk shares a quick hug before running off... F: "Alright guys, let's see how the guard dogs like these apples" Huh, a pop reference in RegAc... In this case, the pets pelt apples at the guard dogs LOL, while another one gets tripped by a rope...
Team Rose (plus Pompoms) gets to the portal and activates it to leave Fairy Tale Land and Vicky sees this, so she gets Shire Cat to follow them. Cat: "I know exactly who can help out..."
- Back in Not!Gardenia, Team Rose emerges from the portal, and Rose reveals how they're going to get to Wonderland: "I read that if you turn the Fairy Tale Key counter clockwise, you can get to Wonderland!" She does just that, opening the portal again to Wonderland... As Travis approaches though, he gets burned (just another case of Travis being Travis LOL) Astoria decides they need to disable the trap with a magic formula, and she happens to have just learned a new one (Always trust Astoria to know these things )
- Team Rose falls through the sky, and Rose is absolutely chill about it: "Any moment now a dragon will save us!" H: "Rose, there are no dragons in Wonderland!" R: "Pumpkin seeds! Aaah!" Cut to a table, where Hattie, grandson of the Mad Hatter, Humpty and a caterpillar named Crocolegs are having their tea... And guess where should most of Team Rose land but the seats around the table (with the Pompoms landing in a vat of soup, apparently?) Rose and LL manage to land sideways, and armor or no, those wooden armrests can't have done Rose any favors... Travis being Travis, he gets a nasty landing against the ground LOL
- So anyways, Rose runs around all giddy and decides to take a muffin for her collection (dunno how well that would keep, but then again she had a cookie in her collection during Shire Cat's S1 ep) Croc tells Rose to wait her turn since they're waiting for a guest. Rose recognizes both Humpty and Hattie, though Croc is new to me AFAIK... Astoria quickly asks about Alice's whereabouts, and it turns out Hattie and crew are wondering that themselves: "She should have been here ages ago" (and I suppose the same goes for a certain white rabbit, right?) "Yes, it's quite strange, Alice is never late for her unbirthday party" Humpty calls the Pompoms foul creatures, and Travis gives Humpty a nice slap on the back, to which Humpty does not take kindly LOL.
- Here comes Shire Cat (A: "What are you doing here?" Cat: "I live here darling") telling them that Alice has been captured by the Queen of Hearts, and everyone is shocked at the news... well, except maybe Croc: "Well, I guess she's gone for good then. Tea's on, we can start" Team Rose is stunned and Rose adds: "That's not the way to behave! Guys! Alice is your friend!" H: "Well, I find that new friends can be found all the time" Humpty: "Take it from me. It's best not to be fragile hearts" (?) Nevertheless, Shire Cat convinces them that they can't leave Alice alone, which dovetails perfectly with Hawk's purview. Shire Cat offers to be their guide through Wonderland, and it's obvious he's going to bamboozle them... speaking of, why would Rose and Travis ever trust the Shire Cat again considering he did that last time they interacted with him? Incidentally, he's wearing the usual RegAc uniform, even though he's not in Fairy Tale Land...
- So anyways, Shire Cat takes them to the Queen's castle, which of course looks made of cards (there's also a playing field in front as well) LL: "Wow, it's really very pretty here" Cat: "What were you expecting, something evil and foreboding?" A: "Um, yes actually" They hear Alice in a plant cage, and from a distance one might visually mistake her for a younger Bloom, between the blue dress and the red hair (yeah, she has red hair, rather than the blonde of the somewhat iconic Disney version... hmm, maybe Winx got their S8 design cues from here?)
- Rose tells Alice that they need her to take them to the Snow Kingdom, and Alice answers: "That sounds fun. Maybe it will get a little cold" LOL. Travis discovers Alice's cage is covered in thorns, because it's a cage of roses... Anyways, here comes the Queen of Hearts and her card guard entourage, and Shire Cat proceeds to present them as her new captives (!) Hawk is teed at Shire for setting them up, and Rose takes out her wand to attack, and it doesn't work (only releasing a small flurry of hearts) because according to the Queen: "This castle and my garden are immune to your magic weapons" On top of that, Shire throws in an extra charge of trying to attack the Queen, so just like that.. "It's off to my prisons with this lot... forever!"
- Rose is familiar with the Alice story, and knows the Queen has one weakness... A: "Now would be a really good time to use it then!" So Rose approaches the Queen and proposes a croquet challenge... except that the Queen tells Rose "You're way behind the times cutie" It turns out these days instead of croquet, she prefers... American football. HUH (and yes, they include the qualifier, I suppose as an artifact of being Europe made) Travis shares our sentiment: "American football? Huh, you gotta be kidding me" Rose's offer still stands, and the Queen has the card guards repaint the playing field...
- Pretty interesting considering the gender make-up of her team... and all Rose knows about the game is that there are two teams, a field and a ball (yeah well so does soccer) A: "You don't look so sure about it either, Rose" R: "It doesn't matter, Alice will help us" Uh, how about the guy who actually also lives on Earth? Indeed, Alice reveals: "I'm not good at it (Me: No kidding) and that's why I'm here" A: "Oh my grade, we're doomed! We'll end up in jail..." Rose ducks off to talk to the Pompoms, as the real idea behind this is for the Pompoms to help free Alice while they're playing football... To quote a certain famous spoof of sports films: "Bold strategy Cotton, let's see how it works out for them"
The cards bring out a football and place it midfield, and the tall Pompom punts away the actual ball into the trees, and lies down to pretend to be the ball, somehow not getting noticed... and this has literally no bearing on the game that follows (LOL!) Rose tell the other two to watch their hands on the thorns...
- And away we go! Right from the word go, the Queen has no respect for playing by the rules, as the card guards directly pick up the ball from midfield instead of kicking off (R: "No fair, the game hasn't even started! She's cheating" Alice: "First of all, never say that") and then pass the ball straight to the queen in the end zone for an instant TD... T: "I'll show you how to really play" Travis takes the ball and starts running and gets quickly tripped by a card guard and fumbles the football right to the Queen, and takes it to the house for another TD T: "Oh come on, I've never seen American football played like this" The Queen is gloating ("Can you smell the damp of my prisons already?") when Rose grabs the ball out of the Queen's hands and passes it to Hawk, and as he's getting tackled he laterals to Joy, Joy turns into a frog and Travis takes the ball and gives her a kiss in one fluid motion LOL Travis laterals to Astoria's hair, and Astoria makes a(n illegal forward) pass (which bounces off the pitch I might add) to LL, who darts past the Queen to take it to the house... and the Queen calls on the guards to "Get the cheater!" LL says she didn't do anything wrong, but the Queen calls her out not for the forward pass, but for just plain scoring (Sore much? Then again, wouldn't put it past her to not know laterals are a thing...)
- By this point, the other two Pompoms have freed Alice, so Team Rose decides to run off with their prize, as the Queen sends the card guards after them, and for good measure, conjure up some more with Heart Magic... During the chase, Rose tells them they need the key to the Snow Kingdom, and Alice holds up a loop of keys, full of keys to other locations in Wonderland...
- While she's looking, the card guards manage to catch up, but they're far enough from the castle to use their magic, so Rose makes a minibus and has the team plus Alice ride in it... Alice is still looking through the keys when Shire jumps on front of the windshield and sends it crashing, allowing the card guards to catch up: "It's time to give up" R: "Never, not in my fairy tale!" The other students use their magic on the guards, blowing them away, trapping them in vines, or turning them into frogs, but after a bit of fighting, Travis seems to think they're making more cards, and LL adds "Every time we stop one card, three more show up!"
- Alice keeps searching through her keys, as Hawk blocks some more guards with an ice wall (A: "Thanks Hawk! Oh wait, now I remember") and Rose uses Pumpkin Magic skates to avoid another guard... There's still a lot of them to deal with and Hawk says "We'll keep fighting until we can't anymore" ...And here comes Humpty taking out some more guards in a rolling maneuver (with Astoria putting up vines to catch him) Hattie and his crew have come to help them in the fight... H: "I thought about what Rose said... true friends are rare indeed" Croc threatens to turn the cards into origami, and a few more cards get frogged... Alice finally finds the ice key ("Hawk's magic made me remember what key it was") and tosses it, a pretty risky proposition, but we get a first-person view of Rose skating past some guards before then showing her jump in her skates to nab the key... R: "You didn't remember the key to the Snow Kingdom is made of ice?" Next step is to find a tree with a keyhole to use the key, and Rose skates off to look for it, as Hattie uses his hat to slice off a corner from one of the guards... After a pretty short search, Rose quickly finds the tree and opens it with the key to create a portal, and the rest of Team Rose sprint through the tree portal, while the Pompoms, who have been absent since the bus crash, jump out from a bush to join them (even getting a lift from Hawk zooming by courtesy of his Snow Magic)
- Alice and friends show up wave Rose goodbye... Rose doesn't want to leave Alice behind, but Alice tells Rose she knows how to face the card guards and the queen... R: "Are you sure?... You're my hero!" Alice: "You have to save all the Fairy Tale Land from the Snow Queen. YOU are my hero" Rose and Alice share a hug, and when Rose holds out the key to return it to Alice, of course Alice has Rose keep the key for her collection... you'd think she'd be a bit more clingy about it... A card is about to tackle the two, so Alice quickly pushes Rose into the portal, where on the other side, the gang is shivering as they discover that there's a labyrinth between them and SQ's castle... R: "Pumpkin seeds!"

- Welcome to the Snow Kingdom, where Team Rose now finds themselves at the entrance of an ice maze, the the Snow Queen's castle on the other side. Astoria is like "Seriously?" but Rose runs in all "It's just a teeny ice maze!" with a cackle like laugh, and Travis just shrugs as the rest of the team follows... Hawk tries one path at random, and it gets them nowhere. Lingling relishes the challenge of navigating a labyrinth, and Rose has an idea of how to pick their next path... tossing a Pompom (yes, they're still following the team) up into the air to point the next direction LOL. Meanwhile at the palace, Kira spots Team Rose but SQ reassures her: "What a shame they don't know... they've already lost" We'll find out why in just a bit...
- Back to Team Rose, Rose tosses up the Pompoms to find a path again, and comes up empty with the first two, and gets beaned by the third who, however, does have a route... As they're walking around, Rose says this maze is "wall to wall super crazy bad stuff" and asks "Why not summon our family items now?" A: "Rose! We don't have time for... Wait! That's a really good idea actually!" Rose and Joy flash synchronized wide grins LOL. So anyways, the gang decides to bring out their magical items, in sequences styled like their transformations, even using the usual transformation music in the background...
- Rose recommends Joy to use her item, using fireflies to scout out the path ahead to look for traps (looks like there's been a last second change to Rose's dialog, changing it to typical Rose laughter) Sure enough, they find a trap, and Travis being Travis, he takes a look and promptly gets blasted by wind into a pile of snow LOL Hawk goes ahead with his shield, and deflects the wind blast to shatter one of the walls to clear a new path... Joy's bugs fly ahead to an ice wall and return to her, and Joy reveals that there's no way around the wall...
- After an interlude of Pompoms looking at their reflections in ice, Astoria decides to use her fire bangles on the ice wall to reveal a new room, where there's a spinning rock pillar floating over a chasm (similar to Winx 7x15) with the symbols of the families on it, but Hawk notices there are 7 symbols, while there are just 6 of them (the extraneous symbol is a snowflake in a globe, and just in case you haven't figured it out, they've made a point of showing that symbol during Kira and SQ's little chat; this will be important) Blizzard shows up to attack, and after some shielding with Hawk's mirror shield and Astoria's fire bangles, Astoria disables him temporarily by tossing the fire bangles right into Blizzard's mouth, before even making a one-liner: "His throat is a bit singed" Somehow, he gets a boost from his family's symbol and coughs the bangles back at Astoria, leading to a bit of action on the precarious web of narrow paths overlooking the chasm... LL and Astoria realize that this is the Snow Queen's guardian dragon, and like their dragons can use their family's magic (this will be important) Travis knocks him with a tornado into the floating stone thing, before Joy affixes him to the paths with sticky bugs... Astoria rushes in to continue attacking Blizzard, but Rose stops her, and points out the Blizzard is "just helping the Snow Queen, the way our dragons help us" A: "Rose is right, it's not his fault" Blizzard eventually breaks free and flies out, and a wall comes down to reveal what looks to be the entrance to the castle (the effect makes it look like the wall is an illusion or something, but otherwise it just looks chintzy)
- Throne room... Team Rose enters and spots the snow globes. Astoria exposits that they'll need to combine their family magic to open the globes, but the Pompoms are warning them about something... Enter SQ: "You didn't think it would be so easy, did you?" SQ attacks and Hawk covers with his shield, and the gang hides behind an ice wall... R: "She must be worried. She knows we can beat her if we combine all our magic" A: "That would explain why she's always trying to destroy our families" As Kira quietly sneaks into the room, Hawk decides they need a distraction... Kira and SQ silently attempt to gang up on Team Rose with their respective magic, but by then they've gotten away from behind the ice wall...
- Team Rose stands at the snowglobe shelf and decides to use their family items and combine their powers on the shelf... to no avail (!) SQ: "Sorry, your combo magic won't stop me after all!" SQ starts attacking Team Rose and Rose realizes that there are 7 great fairy tale families, just like the symbols on the stone pillar; no prizes for guessing who's #7... SQ continues trying to pick off Team Rose as she exposits: "That's right, my family was once part of your little group, but I think your grandparents were jealous of me" A: "Or, maybe you felt the families should dominate the Fairy Tale Land" SQ answers by freezing Astoria's legs in place, and incredibly, the motivation exposition keeps going during the fight... LL: "And rule with an iron fist" SQ freezes her feet as well, leaving her in an awkward position R: "So you got kicked out" SQ: "Something like that" Travis is next to get his feet frozen but still adds: "That's why you hate our families so much" And that's also why they can't combine the great families' powers... "because one of them is us" Kira: "So you lose!" SQ and daughter pick off Joy and Hawk, leaving Rose as the last one remaining... Desperately thinking of anything she can do about the situation, she sees SQ approaching her as Kira's about to collect her in her snowglobe... and quickly grabs SQ so they both end up in the snowglobe (!)
- Team Rose is shocked at this, as the ice cubes on half the team's feet evaporate... Astoria stops Hawk from throttling Kira or whatever to reassure that Rose can handle SQ on her own, and LL adds: "And escape the globe... We have to trust her" H: "Either way, we've got our fight" Kira looks nervous as we zoom into her snowglobe... Inside the snowglobe, Rose discovers her slippers are gone and she landed on her wand, and Rose tries to summon her slippers again to no avail as SQ shows up: "Foolish Cinderella, your family magic can't help you inside my snowglobe" R: "But I still have Pumpkin Magic, and it's all mine!" Rose conjures up a drag car (SQ: "How cute, she thinks she can challenge me") but it doesn't start in the cold and it gets zapped by SQ, so Rose has to quickly abandon it before she gets encased in ice along with it... After being chased for a bit (not much room to run in a snowglobe, after all) Rose trips and stumbles and SQ ice cubes most of her body (the "sky" remains static as we're panning around the ice cube) SQ: "You have no chance little Cinderella, you're alone" R: "If I'm stuck, then the teachers, and my mom, are stuck too... forever" SQ gets ready to ice her even more when Rose looks at her damaged wand... R: "You forget, Snow Queen, that I am never alone... I've got my Pompoms!" Rose starts shaking her wand again and breaks out of the ice, and just like last time her wand got damaged, her magic coalesces into Pompoms (huh, didn't expect they'd remember that) who proceed to tackle SQ into losing her wand, which then gets punted away...
- Looks like Rose is filling the globe with the Pompoms, and Rose hears a telltale groan: "Uh, what was that?" SQ: "I designed these snowglobes to hold my prisoners, but there's definitely too many of us in here" The Pompoms continue filling the snowglobe, as we cut back outside, where Kira is hanging upside down from a vine, and Travis is looking at the snowglobe when he starts noticing it glowing: "Hey, do the snowglobes always glow like this?" Then he starts noticing it fill up with Pompoms, and Hawk tells everyone to hit the deck... Travis tosses the snowglobe up as it explodes, releasing a ton of Pompoms... so yeah, Rose blows up the snowglobe by flooding it with Pompoms, and she's standing on top of SQ... R: "Did you see that? That was crazy!" And so is the way Rose is waving her arms LOL. Astoria ensnares SQ in another vine... K: "Bravo, but you still lose"
- Back to the issue at hand: Team Rose being stuck without SQ's family magic, a fact that SQ reminds us of again... Of course Kira tries to use it as a bribe to get Rose to free her and SQ, and of course Hawk says it's obviously a trap... R: "Maybe, but you're right, who else could help us?" Kira whistles to call in Blizzard, who roars at some of the newly-released Pompoms... K: "Blizzard, free us. Let's squish these would-be heroes" T: "Things were going so well for a second there"
- Blizzard is clearly conflicted about this, as he walks over to Team Rose and SQ asks: "What are you waiting for?" Blizzard ends up siding with Rose, stunning both SQ and Kira, as Kira falls from the vine LOL. H: "Looks like you made a friend Rose" R: "I think he wants to help us" Astoria points out that maybe he can, as she reminds us that Blizzard can use SQ's family magic. SQ incredulously says "What?!?" and hops over in her vines to try to forbid it, but ends up quickly hopping back LOL. Team Rose lines up to try again, this time with Blizzard behind them, and this time, Blizzard helps them succeed as the snowglobes release their prisoners, not just the teachers, but also Clara, Sheriff Riding Hood, and a bunch of students (pretty sure she only picked off a grand total of three) The tied-up evil mother and daughter are left to scream "Argh!" as Rose gets cheek kisses from both her mom and granny...
- Back to RegAc, where Vicky and Cyrus are still holding down the fort... Vicky is standing on top of Finn: "So glad I decided everyone would take the essay test while at a dead sprint" Cyrus is hugging Vicky's leg: "You're the headmistress of my dreams" Students: *ew* Gerald comes in to tell everyone the good news, and Finn gets up, throwing Vicky aside LOL. Vicky to Gerald: "What's going on? Headmistress Vicky did not dismiss you!" Looks like Rose and gang got a ride from Blizzard coming home (along with Grannies Cinderella and Snow White), and the students cheer, as Rose has Blizzard go get the campus dragons to help with the task. Vicky seems incredulous at their return, but even more incredulously, Cinderella and Snow White give Vicky praise for taking care of the school in their absence. T: "So of course that happens" A: facepalm plus fainting...
- Side note: when S2 began, https://twitter.com/rvelasquez20161/status/927339734778572800 was hoping that the season would end with Vicky getting encased in a snowglobe... Instead, she's completely detached from the climactic action, and just like last season, the RegAc TPTB have no reason to deal with her the way they should (which really can put a damper on one's enjoyment of a story) At least with the Winx, there's always been this sense that the Trix get what's coming to them...
- Quick pumpkin transition takes us to the grand ball, with an instrumental of Best of Me (1x13) playing. Grandpa LeFrog to Joy: "When I wasn't looking, you've become a real fairy tale hero" J: "Grandpa, you're embarrassing me" Meanwhile, Clara and Cinderella are dragging Rose to the ball (a la this https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/ad764k/dad_level_9000/ LOL) and Fala is sharing stories on Hawk's childhood with him (including a frozen diaper LOL) Snow White comes in to officially start the ball... and Hawk is really ticked off that Fala is accepting dances from other randos instead of her own brother...
- Alicia is chatting with Sean and Odette: "So Gerald can't dance... who better to teach him?" Astoria approaches Sean: "Excuse me, but speaking of dancing..." Sean: "Are you asking me to dance?" A: "I sure am, and I'm not afraid to admit it" Astoria dances with Sean, leading to a Rapunzel fist pump (wonder if the Disney version has ever done that ) The two students who got snowglobed back in 2x01 are chatting with LL, and the pink-haired one asks what's been going on between her and Travis while they were away... LL: "I... don't know, he was supposed to be here" The other one, with the duck beak (LOL): "Oh yeah, I haven't seen him yet" LL: "And I looked everywhere" LL hears Travis calls out to her, as he changes form, because it happens to be a full moon as well, and we all know what that means: Travis turns into that Sirenix Stormy lookalike we saw back when they studied at Ironfan's palace (so they're remembering this and leaving Twinnie Ironfan, from the same episode even, on the table? Okayyyy...)
- At this point a new song starts up, and the other students (even Gerald) join in the dancing... Chad and Brad are dancing with each other (HEH) while Violet Ogre bumps Leena to the ground LOL. Fala spots Rose and Hawk, and you can probably guess what she does: Pair them up to dance As they're all dancing away, Fala walks over to a balcony, hair blowing in the wind: "And they'll live happily ever after!" We pan up to the moon as fireworks go off and we fade to black... Except that we still have about another half minute left: At her mom's palace, Kira swears to destroy Rose Cinderella, and SQ threatens to turn Fairy Tale Land into a "frozen wasteland devoid of life" (her words) SQ swears "We'll have our revenge!"... as we pull out from her castle to show that it's encased within a snowglobe in Rose's collection in her room, before we end with a pull out from Rose's house (replete with the usual Not!Gardenia establishing shot music)

So, that's another season in the books... final thoughts:
The good:
- Improved animation style
- Interesting main villains (though it makes no sense that the daughter of one of the great family matriarchs should be going to school with the grandchildren of the others)
- Nice amounts of humor, and good songs
The not so good:
- The Pompoms, reminding me a bit too much of the Minions (though not as in your face)
- Completely sidelining Vicky from the climax and keeping her from being punished
- Though minor, setting up Twinnie Ironfan as a threat and then completely ignoring her
The in between:
- Trying to Winx-ify Team Rose, with their new outfits and all (random thought: the boys' outfits are blue and red like the Specialists and Paladins, probably not a coincidence)
- The family items concept
- Trying to pair off all the girls (though Sean looks okay enough)