A Matter of Life and BFF

A Matter of Life and BFF is the first segment of the 8th episode in season 1 of Harvey Street Kids. The title of this episode is a reference to the 1946 film, A Matter of Life and Death.

Synopsis
In this fireworks-filled episode, Lotta believes her friendship with Audrey and Dot is destined to end when their new friendship bracelets break.

Plot
The episode begins with the Harvey Girls over a picnic blanket in the park while making friendship bracelets. Dot makes one based on a morse key and Audrey put a bag on it to store junk food to share. Tiny arrives on the scene flattering their friendship, when they put the last details in their bracelets. Lotta proceeds to imagine a future where an old version of them still wear the bracelets thus filling the sky with fireworks, and proceeds suggesting making a blessing of their friendship with a ceremony. So at night, at the entrance of the park, they play a game of palms, but Lotta applies a lot of force and breaks all three bracelets at once. She also believes that if she breaks the bracelets, will be guilty of destroying the friendship she has between them.

She has a thought where she imagines the three separated girls, all of them having a worse fate in comparison when they were together. Lotta is BFF with Lucretia, where the last put several photos and cutouts of her face overlaid where Dot and Audrey were; Dot is with The Bow where Lotta says she acts strangely and as an accomplice of the second. Audrey is with the raccoons, barefoot with torn clothes and with a wild attitude.

Back to reality, Lotta is predisposed to make stronger and more reinforced bracelets. However, these new bracelets force the girls to be together all the time, giving them problems in how to play kickball, buy ice cream and climbing. Although the girls want to take off their bracelets, Lotta tries to avoid it. But Audrey is upset by saying that the bracelets are silly, Dot meanwhile, says that the bracelets do not equal the level of friendship and releases them with an emergency button. Lotta takes it as a cancellation of her friendship and withdraws. She proceeds to get used to her new life, having sadness and loneliness as a future, while imagining a dystopian world for Harvey Street. With Tiny fighting Joel for a lettuce, Pinkeye wearing a gas mask and Billy as a trafficker. The Tiny of the dream tells her to look for what really made the friendship between her and the girls, something that Lotta answers wrongly. Dream Tiny tells her to hurry before a giant and monstrous version of Frufru threatens to step on them. Lotta says it's her imagination, so she leaves, with Dream Tiny having to deal with the trouble. Lotta proceeds to do things that give bad luck to prove that she does not believe in such things, such as: throwing salt, putting herself on front of a black cat and walking under stairs. The girls on the other hand say that they understood the point and give her an album with all the things they have done, like when they met and when made the coat parade. Back to the dystopian world imagined by Lotta, the monstrous Frufru disappears while fighting Dream Tiny, the second recover his normal clothes back and complains saying that the dystopian world was cool while disappearing, implying that said fantasy no longer bothers Lotta.

Characters

 * Audrey
 * Lotta
 * Dot
 * Tiny
 * Melvin
 * Fredo
 * Pinkeye
 * Frufru
 * Lucretia
 * The Bow
 * Bobby

Broadcast
"A Matter of Life and BFF" was released to Netflix on June 29, 2018.

Trivia

 * Captions read "[fireworks crackling]" when the elderly Harvey Girls make their symbol in firework dust.
 * The scrapbook Audrey and Dot made for Lotta shows drawings of previous events, such as meeting for the first time in "Girls Just Wanna Save Fun" and Dot's capes from Citizen Cape.
 * Another drawing is seen but not mentioned, and it shows what happened at Frufru's birthday party in FruLess.
 * This is the first episode where the original title of the series (Harvey Girls Forever!) is referenced in the universe, which would be used in the next seasons.