Blame That Tune

Blame That Tune is the Second segment of 2nd episode in season 3 of Harvey Street Kids. It was released to Netflix on November 12, 2019.

Synopsis
An ear-worm turns the kids into zombie-like "songies".

Plot
The episode begins with Lucretia crawling on the floor as she complains about wanting some food in the urban part of Harvey Street, more specifically in the vicinity of the shrimp sisters. After they gave her a free sample, an ad for the mystery fish is shown on a nearby pole-mounted tablet where a song is heard. Lucretia likes the melody, but its effect on her is so powerful that hypnotizes her. While that happens, Frufru spits out the free sample offered because she hates its free concept. However, she did not expect Lucretia to catch her by surprise and narrate the hypnotic song to her, also becoming hypnotized by the song.

Then a montage is made in the form of a song of both girls hypnotizing the others. Among the hypnotized were: Gerald, several kids from Harvey Avenue, Bobby, Tiny and Penny. Meanwhile, in the HQ, Lotta, Richie Rich and Audrey are playing a medical table game, with Audrey listening to the infectious tune from the distance, which she identifies as a case of "songies". Kids with a musical worm looking for others to hypnotise too.

When the kids seemed safe, Ricky presses a link, video showing the song thinking it was something important. As Dot is not present to help them, everyone went hypnotized too. Dot for her part, was marathoning a series with Pinkeye. After an encounter with a hypnotized Penny, Dot deduces that the songies have taken the street by the way on how the kids behave. So they both cover their ears, and hide in some bushes. Dot, using a book with a map where she stores her mitigated plans, wants to go to her secret bunker with a tape recorder to cure the songies.

After a scene with Audrey, Richie and Lotta discussing how the song's lyrics go, Dot's group is shown meeting Fredo, who relates this situation to the search for a Mcguffin as in his zombie movies and says it doesn't work by following the plan to the letter. For his bad luck, Frufru arrives and Fredo overconfident throwing some dice to stop her, with Frufru ends up leaping and infecting him with the tune. Dot and Pinkeye go to the bunker which has different plans: in case of a mutant Frufru; for going crazy, or if the fashion went extinct.

On the kickball field, Ricky uses a remix version of the music and Dot tries to use a white sound to distract them, but it doesn't work. They also used a Tibetan bell sound, but they realize the kids dance to the song a la Michael Jackson. Dot and Pinkeye then return to the bunker and the first expects the tune to dissipate on its own, which will take some hours.

Pinkeye goes outside to make the bunker soundproof, where he is caught by the songies along the way, and he passes his drawings of big butted animals to Dot to take care of him. Dot in one last attempt to beat the songies and before they take their friend, sings an improvised song, which is the same song used in the introduction of a series.

Those improvisations save Lotta, Audrey and Richie, making Dot and Pinkeye to continue singing. With this they save Lucretia, Bobby, Fredo and gradually the rest of the kids on the block. After finishing the song, everyone celebrates and Richie comments that he had fun with Dot saving him. Lucretia interrupts, telling him in a passive-aggressive form that adoration is her thing. Dot tells Pinkeye that not all plans go as one wants, and he replies that she has to apologize to his finger "Chad" for coming up with the plans, which she responds using her own finger that she will not, which he finds fair. The episode closes with The Bow saying that the mystery fish recipe is tilapia. In the credits of this episode, can be heard an extended version of the song that caused everything in the first place.

Characters

 * Dot
 * Pinkeye
 * Lucretia
 * Audrey
 * Lotta
 * Frufru
 * Fredo
 * Bobby
 * The Bow
 * Gerald
 * Tinaceous T. Tonner
 * Shrimp Sisters
 * The Besties
 * Bobby
 * Penny
 * Harvey Street Parrots
 * Melvin
 * Barry Mudderson

Trivia

 * The opening theme song is referenced after Dot cures the ear-worm.

Culpa a esa melodía