"The face goes in the front. It's not that hard."
Contains unmarked spoilers. You Have Been Warned!
General
- The Running Gag of David always having a bug on him. By Season Three, he just accepts this.
- Alfur's name is plural. His name isn't "elf"; it's "elves".
- Every time, the episode immediately cuts to the credits each time it ends on a downer, ominous, or comedic note. Special mention goes to how "The Stone Forest" ends. See 'Season 2' below. Yet, it happens so frequently that fans can't help but laugh.
Season One
Chapter 1: The Hidden People
- Hilda's reaction to the troll walking off after putting her down and returning her sketchbook:Hilda: Well, that was pretty traumatic, but such is the life of an adventurer.
(Cue troll spit dropping off her sketchbook and Twig glancing down at it) - When Hilda protests to the Mayor of Alfur's county how they were invisible to her and thus she could not properly understand their presence and avoid stepping on them, she makes a rather goofy face.
- Angelina does look a little goofy and also ridiculously cute
. - The running gag of elves telling Hilda they don't even have hands, each time they say the situation is out of their hands.
- Each time Hilda thinks she's found the person who can call off her and her mother's eviction, they always tell her that the situation is out of their hands when clearly they don't, and Hilda gets annoyed every time when she has go to the next person up the chain of command. By the episode's end, Hilda failed to reason with the Prime Minister and is forced to go up one last step in the chain of command...only for the episode to end. Hilda would be super pissed, especially since the credits break delayed her last chance to stop her conflict with elves.
Chapter 2: The Midnight Giant
- The running gag of elves not having hands is continued here when the Elf King refuses to help Hilda saying his hands are full. Cue Hilda saying this:
Hilda: [angry] YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE HANDS!!!
- While it's a very unfortunate development, the way Hilda and Johanna's cabin is demolished so nonchalantly just when it seems everything's turned out for the better is amusing in a cynical way.
Chapter 3: The Bird Parade
- Hilda, trying to befriend Trevor's group, puffs up her cheeks and makes this adorable statement with a goofy awkward face:Hilda: Hello. I'm Hilda. I just moved here. Want to be friends?
- Hilda, upon attempting to befriend Trevor's group, ends up missing the point of some of the group activities, such as kicking the can and ring and run. It's adorable as it is hilarious.
- The Raven constantly forgetting Hilda's name, with Alfur having to correct him.
- When Hilda realizes that the bird she picked up is the Great Raven, she then asks Johanna nervously what the worst case scenario would be if he didn't show up. Her reaction as Johanna rattles on about the one time the Raven didn't show up is priceless.
- When Raven's absence begins to worry the crowd in Trolberg, Frida then confidently reveals to David that she has packed rations that should last her three days. David then asks if she could share her rations with him. Cue her face falling and her slowly zipping up her bag while David's smile also vanishes.Frida: I'm afraid it's every woman for herself in these dark times.
Chapter 4: The Sparrow Scouts
- Before the theme song in the teaser, Hilda had misplaced her favorite sweater without realizing she wore it the whole time.Johanna: (After realizing she is wearing the sweater the whole time) Hey! I knitted you that sweater.
- The whole chase sequence involves the kids and the head Vittra.
- When Hilda leaves a breadcrumb trail from her own cucumber sandwich to find her way back, she hears some munching sounds. Cue her turning around to seeing the Vittra with Frida's sash munching on the breadcrumbs. Once he realizes that Hilda's noticed him, the girl can only stare incredulously in silence for several seconds before the Vittra swipes the sandwich from Hilda and swallows it whole.
- Hilda chasing the Vittra who has taken away Frida's sash underground, at one point accidentally barging into a home where another Vittra is painting his muse, a small cow.Hilda: Whoops.
- Hilda having a minor Freak Out over seeing a troll, despite the fact that it's daytime and the troll is inert.
- Frida gets stuck in a tunnel trying to pursue the Vittra who stole her sash. It's also implied that the Vittra wasn't even using that tunnel to get around! Frida just thought it would make a good shortcut.Hilda: (to Frida) You really wedged yourself in.
Vittra: (gloatingly) Well, that's what you get for using an old rabbit hole instead of a proper vittra tunnel.
Frida: (indignantly and muffled) It's not always easy to tell the difference!
Chapter 5: The Troll Rock
- When the mother troll finds the Vittra tunnel, she proceeds to widen it big enough for her to go through. At one point, we see that she turned to stone when it took her overnight to make the hole big enough, before cutting to her continuing to dig and force the panicking Vittra to flee the tunnel before she manages to dig under the wall into Trolberg.
- Principal Magnusson's beatboxing and odd obsession with the Edmund Ahlberg statue. It confuses and unnerves Hilda and Johanna.
- At the end of the episode, he over dramatically laments the destruction of the statue and cancellation of its unveiling much to Ms. Hallgrim's chagrin. One can only imagine everyone's relief in response to it.
- Everyone including Hilda's mom was bored by the slideshow at the parent-teacher conference, until the projector gets knocked over causing everyone to gasp in horror.
- Alfur decides to keep Johanna company and converse with her. Unfortunately, since no one else can see Alfur (except Hilda), Frida's parents end up thinking that Johanna is talking to herself. Johanna tries to explain what's really going on before realizing that she will sound even crazier telling the truth and uncomfortably goes along with their assumption.
- When tries offering her right hand for a handshake, she forgets that she is holding a teacup at the moment before freeing her left hand.
- Frida's parents conclude that living out in the wilderness explains Hilda's behavior. While this is technically correct, Johanna is miffed at the idea.
- Hilda brings her nittens nature collection to school.Johanna: I swear I picked these out of your hair myself.
Hilda: You did.
Johanna: (exasperated) Ugh, I could do without seeing them again, to be honest.- The troll rock eventually smashes the jar with the nittens and they get loose, getting in Ms. Hallgrim and some of the parents' hair.
Ms. Hallgrim: (scratching her face) Why am I itching?
Johanna: (sighing) I knew those nittens were a bad idea. - Frida and David having to explain to Hilda that Ms. Hallgrim doesn't love her, by pointing out the times she was being disruptive in class.
- First example is her asking why King Olaf lost the battle when he had a superior fleet. Without raising her hand first. And during science class.
- Second is her refusing to follow the procedures of a "troll drill" which is to duck under a desk (similar to an earthquake drill), bluntly pointing out it wouldn't help during an actual troll attack.
- Finally, her standing on the teacher's desk and making a philosophical question that addresses a math problem involving apples... after school is over and her classmates have left.
- When David briefly captures the troll rock, it ends up dragging him all over the classroom, much to everyone's confusion. Hilda and Frida are forced to present it as a special dance David is doing.
- Hilda's attempt to catch the troll rock in the vents has a dramatic music building up... before she gets stuck trying to enter the vents and Frida ends up being forced to pull her out like Hilda did for her in the previous episode.David: (amused) Vents are so much bigger in films!
Chapter 6: The Nightmare Spirit
- Johanna coming into Hilda's room to check on her, only to find David in her bed. Cue Reactive Continuous Scream.
- Twig's visible discomfort at David's snoring.
Chapter 7: The Lost Clan
- The lost clan capture David and keep him as a hostage... except they have no idea on what to do with him since they never took anyone hostage before, leading to some awkward conversations, including an elf asking David what they should do, only for David to admit that this is also his first time being a hostage. David not being able to see them due to not signing elf's paperwork doesn't make things easier. By the time the conflict is resolved, the lost clan leader admits David set the bar pretty high for future hostages.
- The episode ends with Bartell offering Alfur to give a toast. His response is "To contracts!" Everyone sans Hilda, Frida, and David shoots him a death glare. Thankfully, Bartell finishes the episode by accepting this move and all the elves say... "To Contracts!".
Chapter 8: The Tide Mice
- The first two auditions David performed for the Warblers create rather unfortunate and absurd damage to the stage.
- In a meta-sense; the whole problem in this episode comes from the fact that Hilda uses a spell without reading the warning first, which comes after the spell (in a footnote). Yeah...you're not the first one that happens to Hilda.
- The Warblers' song goes fine at first...right up until Hilda ended up screaming the chant in front of everyone.
- Imagine the amount of laughter from viewers if the episode ended like THIS. Heck, even David's voice actor, Oliver Nelson, found it funny.
- Imagine the amount of laughter from viewers if the episode ended like THIS
Chapter 9: The Ghost
- Hilda trying to pump herself up, and asking Alfur to tell her "you can do it", to which he obliges. And adds a disclaimer for Hilda.Alfur: Eh, this is precisely why an elf would never make a promise without a written document. That way you can include disclaimers that absolve responsibility in the event the promise cannot be upheld.
Hilda: You know, this isn't much of a pep talk. Can't you just say, "You can do it!"
Alfur: Sure! You can do it! (deadpan) Statement for encouragement purposes only, you may not actually be able to do it. - Frida thinking rooms just clean themselves, since she could just throw her things everywhere at night, go to sleep, and then the next morning, everything was tidy.
- When Hilda talks about finding the ghost's grave, the Librarian accidentally speaks the exact location of it, before coming to realization that she just said that in front of the kids and spooking them for memorizing every grave in the city. She then immediately discards it, and pretend to read it from city's records, before discarding the fact that it is the same with the former one when Hilda brought it up.Hilda: That's what you've just said before!
Librarian: Was it? I don't think so. - While it's during a Tear Jerker, David telling Frida, "You could just learn to tidy your own flipping room." Hilda then immediately re-opens the door and says, "He's not wrong." before closing it again.
Chapter 10: The Storm
- This line from Raven, right before he reluctantly helps Hilda with the weather spirits:
- David and Ravens' reactions to coffee will be familiar to people who drunk it for the first time:David: (disgusted) This is coffee?!
Raven: (crestfallen) I prefer cocoa.
Chapter 11: The House in the Woods
- When Hilda finds out that Woodman bet and lost her in Elf Poker, she finds it amusing that she could be claimed by an elf, and tells the elves to take her away, only for Woodman to point out the forest giant, to whom he really lost Hilda to.Hilda: (after getting bored in the forest giant's tree playing with lamp for what is presumably hours) I can't believe it! He bet me! And right after I asked him for help!
- Her incredulous reaction to finding out that he deliberately lost her in the game.
- Alfur, upon receiving the elf mail from the courier, attempts calling Johanna's attention, but she's too busy worrying about Hilda to notice him, much to his chagrin. It takes her stress-eating some Jorts, putting a few items on Alfur, calling David and Frida's parents if they or their kids have seen Hilda, and Alfur falling into her tea for her to notice him.
- Woodman claiming he was retrieving items from the giant that he lost to him, but when Hilda asks if the crown actually belonged to him, Woodman takes a moment to answer.Woodman: I would prefer not to lie to you.
- Woodman barges into the mysterious house and Hilda apologizes for them coming in without being invited and hopes the owner forgives them.Woodman: She doesn't speak for me.
- This exchange:Hilda: You made me breakfast!
Woodman: I did not.
Hilda: Well, we might as well fill our stomachs before our journey. Do you even eat?
Woodman: What a rude question. - When Woodman tries escaping through the window, he somehow ends up back in the house by way of the chimney.Woodman: (coughs) Well, that's generally not how windows work.
- Though it's a tense moment, Hilda and Woodman's attempt to escape the house takes them to a stairway with photos of Johanna, Frida, David, and Twig, and what appear to be a log, a leaf, an acorn, and what appears to be a female version of Woodman with hair like Hilda's but with bangs, green coloration, and a sprout coming out of the back of her head. This raises some questions about Woodman's life, and visibly causes Hilda some confusion.
- With no visible way to escape, Woodman ends up idly requesting some random things from the house, specifically a book that leans against the living room stump table, a cushion that manifests in Hilda's seat, and a white cowboy hat that appears on top of her head, much to Hilda's chagrin.Hilda: Could you please stop that? It's quite distracting.
Woodman: (unperturbed) We're stuck in here! We might as well take advantage of the situation! (bread appears next to him) There must be something you need.
Chapter 12: The Nisse
- When Frida and Kelly are watching a TV show at Kelly's place, Frida's reaction is the same to everyone's reaction about reality shows and sitcoms alike◊.Frida: This show is awful!
Chapter 13: The Black Hound
- Even Raven Leader joins in on the running gag of a bug on David's head!Raven Leader: By the way David, there's a bug on your head.
- Hilda, Frida, and David's heartwarming moment, where they share a group hug, is ruined by the Black Hound attacking Scout Hall.
- Johanna's reaction after her first time going through Nowhere Space.Johanna: What on Earth just happened...?
Season Two
Chapter 1: The Troll Circle
- Frida going into Genki Girl mode for a brief moment when she's cheering Hilda on, while David just gives an Aside Glance to the camera when he realizes that Frida wasn't like that before.
- While Frida and the rest of Hilda's class wishes Hilda luck on her field trip as the blimp flies away, David can be seen looking as if he's about to vomit since he hated riding in blimps.
Chapter 2: The Draugen
- Due to Erik's discovery of the Vittra tunnels, he's ordered them to be sealed off, including one going under a road Hilda was planning to use. When Hilda questions about the Vittra to the lead constructor worker, they are then shown ganging up on an unfortunate construction worker.Vittra: Get 'em boys! Go for the ankles!
Lead Worker: We're managing. - The Draugen captain offers Hilda a drink.Hilda: Wait, is this just sea water?Captain: We've been out here a while. Our actual grog ran out some time ago.
- When the Draugen ship manages to float out of the water and race in front of Wood Man and Hilda's boat, we get the following conversationWood Man: They did seem rather confident for people with holes in their sails.
Hilda: That's cheating! (beat) Isn't it?
Woodman: Do I look like I have a book of ghost rules? I do. At home. Beautiful leather binding. - Everything and every one the Draugen ship passes through while pursuing Hilda gets coated in ectoplasm. This includes an old lady trying to cross the street and Johanna. Though the latter is left as bewildered as everyone else by the situation, the fact that Hilda passed through the apartment for a quick moment before she got drenched is enough to let her know who is involved.Johanna: Ugh! Hilda!
- Before that, she already suspects something's going on when she sees that Woodman is there.
- Upon hearing that Hilda was involved in some paranormal situation, Erik remarks that it somehow doesn't surprise him.
Chapter 4: The Eternal Warriors
- David's initial high-pitched scream after falling off the cliffside is mistaken by an excited Hilda and Frida as the screaming stones.
- Later, David makes another high-pitched scream in response to seeing a Knudsen get bisected vertically, which Hilda once again picks up from far away.
Hilda: (poking her head out of the tent) Those stones are really screaming! - David's newfound attitude leaves Hilda and Frida repeatedly bewildered by his entire change in personality.
- Hilda exasperated expression when David tries to threaten the stones into screaming and when she tells him to explain why he's become so fearless.
- When David explains how he became fearless:
- Hilda and Frida resurrecting David... only to have to kill and revive him again after it turns out they accidentally put his head on the wrong side.
- Because David lost his memory at the end, his reaction to Hilda's Lampshade Hanging ends the episode on a high note. Also, bonus points to Hilda's funny reaction when Torgund offers her to die and revive with them.Torgund: [holding the potion up for Hilda and Frida to see] Any of you want in on this?Hilda: No, thank you. [as Hilda and Frida walk away] I think David's been killed enough for one day.David: WHAT?!?!!
- Meta Example: Imagine the amount of laughter from viewers if the episode ended like THIS.
Chapter 5: The Windmill
- The Nisse and David's rivalry:
- While renovating the windmill, the nisse proceeds to hurl some cement at David's head while the latter has his head turned sweeping the floor. David turns around and glares at the mystical creature.
- When they are building more birdhouses, the nisse glares at David before realizing that it has nailed its own arm to its own birdhouse.
- When the nisse offers some bread to Hilda and Frida, it seemingly offers some to David, only to dump the bread into the trash bag David's holding to the boy's chagrin.
Chapter 7: The Beast of Cauldron Island
- When Alfur comes up with the idea to get the Lost Clan to stage a battle with the Lindworm to get her to leave Cauldron Island, he insists that the idea came from him and not at all from David to the Lost Clan. However, once the plan goes south and the Lost Clan proceed to do battle with the Lindworm for real?David: What?!
Chapter 8: The Fifty Year Night
- Hilda twice manages to convince Alfur that she is not violating the terms of her grounding, invoking Johanna's Exact Words. It works, considering how detail-oriented elves like Alfur are, though the second time annoys him.
- By the end of the adventure Hilda declares that it turned out alright in spite of everything, much to Alfur's vast disagreement.Alfur: We saw ourselves die! Twice!
- The fact that the episode outright ends on that note.
Chapter 9: The Deerfox
- Johanna makes the mistake of drinking Woodman's tea.
Chapter 11: The Jorts Incident
- When Hilda and co. find the tide mouse nest, David pockets the droppings, thinking that it's gold, much to Hilda and Frida's disgust. It later burns a hole in his pants.
- The sheer absurdity by how Jones' gets promoted to Jorts' CEO involves a lot of people seeing him as qualified for a position he clearly has no expertise for and some people quitting on impulse and passing their position to him. And this all happens in one day!
- Jorts somehow also manages to expand from local food corporation to a multinational snack empire in that span of time as well! If this happened in real-life, the economy would be especially unstable!!
- Heck they somehow even managed to acquire the Witches' newspaper and are preparing to rename it to The Jorts Gazette!
- While Hilda, Frida, and David are discussing where they can find the tide mice, Jorts can be seen being served by a waiter to a woman in a classy restaurant as if it were a fine wine.
- While Hilda and Frida are reading the newspaper and discussing how Jorts has grown in a single day, they are first interrupted by Kaisa snacking on a bag of Jorts and then David's stomach growling.Kaisa: What? They're delicious!
David: All this talk of Jorts is making me hungry. - Though it's obviously not a good thing, Hilda's reaction to the resurgence in tide mice activity is amusing and resembles her realization of what would happen if she failed to return the Great Raven.Hilda: (nervously) Does this mean I'm going to devour the new CEO of Jorts' soul?
Kaisa: (casually) Most likely.
(Cue Oh, Crap! by Hilda) - The Jorts corporate workplace isn't really all that different from what you can expect from an office without tide mice, barring the mice themselves, glowing eyes, drool, groaning, and purple head mist. And sometimes you can find the drool and groaning in regular workplaces!David: If this is my future, I don't ever want to grow up!
- David is able to count just how many mice (439) there are in the building, surprising the girls.David: I'm a fast counter.
- David not only is too paralyzed with fear to catch a single mouse, but his one time he tries to catch a mouse, he ends up making more by slamming the photocopier shut on it.
- Tildy's argument with the Witch Council on how to deal with Hilda's tide mouse mess apparently is of such intensity that not only do they not notice that the others have already left to deal with the mice, but argue for so long that by the time the mouse hunters return, they are still arguing. And they still don't notice that they've returned until they interrupt and point themselves out!
- Hilda actually liked her mouse whiskers at the end of the episode. And the Committee of Three found it funny.Hilda: I can live with that.[The three witches chuckle and smile at Hilda]Abigail: [smiles at Hilda] Now, just don't go cast anymore spells.
- After finding out that his soul will be lost if he doesn't accompany Hilda, Mr. Jones takes it in stride, deciding that that is one of the less weird things that have happened to him that day.
- David decides to sample some Jorts from the bag containing the tide mice, once again to Hilda and Frida's disgust.Hilda and Frida: David!
David: What? It's good!
Kaisa: (Samples some as well.) Wow! It is good!
Hilda: Come on let's go. I've had enough Jorts for one day.
Chapter 12: The Replacement
- One has to wonder how Alvin managed to extricate all of Alfur's belongings from his house.
- When Hilda and Alfur go to the Lost Clan for help, Agnes is the one selected to impersonate Alfur to prevent his departure.Alfur: (nervously) Was Agnes really the only option?
Bartell: She volunteered. And when Agnes volunteers, (Cue Thousand-Yard Stare) there's no refusin' her.
(Cue Agnes spitting)- The plan falls through when the Delegation for the Return of Wayward Elves demands "Alfur" to sign a document. Agnes, being of the Lost Clan, refuses and proceeds to antagonize the delegation, forcing the real Alfur to intervene.
- Once Alfur decides to simply run from the delegation, he passes through the retreating Lost Clan in the process, as does the delegation. As soon as they pass, Agnes and Bartell and the other clansmen give each other one glance. Cue them charging and screaming into battle.
- The whole elven conflict generates a mess in an open air market near the beach, as the vendors are left panicking over an attack by "spirits" on the produce.
- Before Alfur jumps off the lighthouse into Hilda's hands, Alvin questions him if he is insane. Cue Alfur jumping off the lighthouse, much to Alvin's shock. Notably, this is the only scene in the whole show you can see the whites of an elf's eyes (their faces are pretty much pale though).
- Alvin himself does this to pursue Alfur, and trips with a similar wide-eyed look.
- When Alfur asks Gerda if she feels that she has to work with people who just don't get it, he grits his teeth and looks out of the corner of his eye towards Alvin, who apparently recognizes the subject of Alfur's discussion, based on his brief flinch.
Chapter 13: The Stone Forest
- The episode's ultimate cliffhanger is followed by the ultimate mood whiplash that is guaranteed to drive fans into hysterical laughter. The next time you watch a tear-jerking ending, you can thank Frankie Cosmos for this.
- Even though the episode ends on a cliffhanger, you can't help but say laugh and say "Awww..." when you first see Hilda in her troll form. Hilda never looked two-times cuter as a troll!
Season Three
Chapter 1: The Train to Tofoten
- Alfur insisting on Johanna buying six tickets to Tofoten, despite the fact elves can't be seen, unless a special paperwork is filled.
- At first, it seems David can't hear Frida demanding him to get his feet off the train couch, due to listening to the music at the moment. But when Hilda remarks she hasn't been in Tofoten before, David reacts with surprise, proving he was deliberately ignoring Frida.Frida: Oh, so you can hear us.
- David making pun over their first visit to Tofoten, by saying they're in the same train... something Frida and Hilda find lame.
- Tontu constantly photographing anything he sees in Tofoten.
- Hilda's great aunt Astrid is quickly introduced with her feisty habits, like telling Hilda to look into someone's eye when greeting them, so the devil won't think she's talking to him, or sprinkling Hilda's friends (Alfur included, as she's filled the paperwork long time ago) with feverfew and salt-of-water spirit for good luck.
- The gang has come to Tofoten to relax and have a break from the usual weirdness they experience everyday. However, Hilda immediately grows bored at Tofoten, and Johanna fails to relax, thanks to Tontu's sneezing. It's clear that both Hilda and Johanna are so used to weirdness being part of their lives that just a single day without it is miserable.
- When Hilda becomes excited over learning about fairies, she falls from a tree, while Frida uses magic to prevent an apple from hitting her. David immediately asks Frida in a joking manner if this is a valid reason to use magic, seconds after she said she will use it only for studies or when necessary, prompting Frida to immediately use magic to make an apple fall on David.
- Pooka, Astrid's shapeshifter neighbor, who constantly comes to her to borrow various stuff, and when she turns him down, he tries to shape-shift into something different, but as Astrid points out, it never out works because he can only change his shape. And more funny, he continues to follow the gang through their journey to the woff cave.
- When Astrid demands to know what's in Pooka's bag, a brief tug-of-war ends with the bag flying into the living room and a woff egg falling out, prompting this Blatant Lie from Pooka as he flees:Pooka: I wasn't going to eat it! I wasn't going to eat it!
- When Pooka steals the woff egg, Hilda pretends to be impressed with him, and asks him to transform himself into a dog, then herself (outright being uncomfortable over being mimicked by him) and lastly a snake, allowing her to take the egg back.
- When everyone were flying on woffs, David and Alfur had trouble flying, because the former's woff is sleepy, while the latter is flying on newborn. Pooka is also seen flying with them as a woff.
Chapter 2: The Fairy Mound
- When asking Tofoten citizens about fairies, Hilda is met with many inconsistent opinions. One of which is fairies being called "good neighbors" as means of pleasing them, like calling a dog that's about to attack a "good boy". At one point, an ice cream vendor tells her in a creepy manner that those who end up in a Fairy Country are never seen again... before asking what sauce she would like on her ice cream.
- When Hilda supposedly finds the fairy mound, David discovers it is actually an animatronic decoy for tourists. When he activates it out of curiosity, one of the bootleg animatronic fairies punches Hilda, much to her annoyance.
- Just as Johanna goes to the fairy mound when Pooka tells her the kids went here, Astrid sees Pooka with her casserole dish Johanna gave him earlier in exchange for kids’ current location.Astrid: Is that my casserole dish?Pooka: No…
- Alfur finally winning against Tontu… just as Astrid, Johanna, Hilda, Frida and David return after their encounter with the fairy mound.Tontu: What happened to you, guys?
Chapter 3: The Giantslayer
- Hilda's reaction to Wood Man's dislike of humans breaking off pieces of the Faratok Tree, as she came for a similar reason.
- When Hilda demands to meet with the Giantslayer, she's approached by a giant muscular viking... who introduces her to the Giantslayer - a boy named Halvor, who's no older than Hilda.
- When villagers mistake him for a demon, Wood Man tries to assure them he's harmless, but also asks them are they jazz guitar fans.
- After barely escaping back into their own world, Hilda still tries to awkwardly ask Wood Man if she could break a piece off for her charm... after the tree already burned down. Wood Man gives her a prolonged Blank Stare in response, as if he was internally yelling You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!
Chapter 6: The Forgotten Lake
- The reactions of Alfur, Twig, and Tontu to the mere idea of Hilda playing the pan pipes. Alfur puts on noise canceling headphones, Twig seeks shelter under the bed, and Tontu asks if he can take a look at the pan pipes for a moment, only to quickly take them with him into nowhere space to prevent Hilda from playing.
- Later, when camping, Hilda wants to try the pan pipes again, and Twig seeks shelter in the sleeping bag. When Johanna gives the pipes a try instead, Hilda forcefully pulls Twig out of the sleeping bag again to listen.
Chapter 7: Strange Frequencies
- Frida recalls a Noodle Incident where she apparently moderated a townhall meeting between David and all of his stuffed animals. David complains he still can't believe how many concessions he had to make.
