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Recap / Lets Go Luna S 2 E 25 Dig It Daddy O Hilly Nilly

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Air date: March 19, 2022 (CAN), November 17, 2022 (USA)

Destination - San Francisco, California.

"Dig It Daddy-O": After seeing a beautiful sunrise, Andy spouts poetic sentences and subsequently gets roped into the beatnik scene.


"Dig It Daddy-O" contains the following tropes:

  • American Gothic Couple: During the episode's song, we see a parody of American Gothic with a cow and a bull. Andy puts shades on them to make them seem cool.
  • Animal Facial Hair: Mac has a goatees.
  • Artsy Beret: Mac, a beat poet, wears a beret.
  • Beatnik: The episode takes place in San Francisco and involves Andy getting involved in the local beatnik culture. It has all the typical beatnik tropes like sunglasses, berets, slam poetry, and the slang (ex: "square" as an insult towards boring people).
  • Brick Joke: When Andy first meets Mac, Andy says that he can 'dig it' with a shovel. Later on, when Mac encourages Andy to get back on stage, he tells him to dig it with a shovel. And then we get this line.
    Beatnik: Young Prince of Beatniks, I truly dug that...with a shovel.
  • Circling Birdies: The kids all get circling stars when Luna crashes into them.
  • Cool Cat: The One-Shot Character, Mac, is a beatnik cat with a relaxed personality and a lexicon full of slang.
  • Cool Shades: Mac wears sunglasses to help show how hip he is.
  • Girls with Moustaches: Luna and Carmen sport goatees when they go to the beatnik club.
  • Mistaken for Insane: Carmen and Leo watch Andy suddenly become poetic and assume that he's gone crazy.
  • Scenery Porn: The sunrise at the beginning of the episode is detailed and beautiful to look at. Even Andy is mesmerized by it.
  • Shout-Out: Magic Globe explains how San Francisco was at the forefront of the "New Thinking" movement, and shows a magazine cover that looks like the famous 1984 TIME Magazine cover featuring Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs is depicted as an eagle (he was previously depicted as a turtle in "Meet the Presses," however).
  • Wingding Eyes: Andy gets hot chocolate in his eyes when he realizes where he can take inspiration from.


"Hilly Nilly": Carmen doesn't feel so good about all the hills in San Francisco.

"Hilly Nilly" contains the following tropes:

  • The Alleged Car: The car 'Petunia' keeps breaking down due to its' old age.
  • Argument of Contradictions: Carmen and Honey argue over where they want to go.
    Honey: Lombard Street!
    Carmen: Museum!
    Honey: Lombard Street!
    Carmen: Museum!
  • Backseat Driver: It's not that Carmen and Honey criticize Luna's driving skills, but they each order Luna to turn in wildly different directions, to where they each want to go.
  • Busy Beaver: The paramedics who take Petunia to the "car hospital" are beavers who go "Hup hup hup hup hup hup hup."
  • Creator In-Joke: Those paramedic beavers? Both were seen in previous Joe Murray series, Rocko's Modern Life and in one episode of Camp Lazlo. This is a Shout-Out you would only get if you watched those shows.
  • Dream Intro: The episode starts with Carmen dreaming that she's in a flat space, only to be woken up by Honey, who is excited about being on a hill.
  • I Call It "Vera": Luna has a vintage car named Petunia.
  • In Touch with His Feminine Side: Leo and Andy decide that, since Carmen and Honey are making all the decisions, that today is "Ladies Day," and both put on pink sunglasses.
  • Rhyming Names: The episode's character is Hilly Dilly (originally from Philly).
  • Vanity License Plate: Petunia's license plate says PTUNIA.

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