Sad moments in Central Park.
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In General
- Owen loves his job as park manager of Central Park and has done a great job at maintaining it, but Bitsy is making his job and life difficult because she has plans to buy the park. Owen hasn't done anything personally to Bitsy, but he's being targeted by her and Mayor Whitebottom just because he's doing his job and she's willing to ruin an innocent man's hard work and reputation to get what she wants.
Season One
Episode One
- Owen really wants people to appreciate the Hot Lips Turtlehead flowers at the park, but no one is interested, not even his own family. When he sees a group of people heading towards the flowers, he's happy at first, but then realizes that they're looking for Bitsy's dog for the reward money, and they trample and ruin the flowers. At the end of the day, all the flowers were destroyed. But luckily, Molly manages to save one for Owen and Paige writes a story about it so people will have some knowledge of the flower.
Skater's Circle
- When Bitsy has her business meeting with her investors, none of them are paying attention to her and don't take her seriously. She then reflects to herself how when she was a kid, her childhood was terrible because her brother bullied her, her father hardly showed her any love, her nanny was mean to her, and the other kids treated her like an outcast. As much as she wants to forget the past, the damage has been done and she became the bitter woman she is today and wants to make everyone pay for mistreating her.
Live it Up Tonight
- Because of Elwood's carelessness, he got Owen in trouble with the auditor because he threw away a receipt he was supposed to save and never told him and Owen and Paige has one hour to get to Brooklyn to get a copy of the receipt and return back before the auditor reports this. Elwood feels terrible for what he has done and he feels like he let Owen down. Luckily, Birdie steps in and stalls the auditor so Owen and Paige can make it back in time.
A Fish Called Snakehead
- After Dick Flake catches the snakehead and Bitsy gives him his check in front of the media, Bitsy then proceeds to slander Owen's management and tells the media that Central Park deserves better so she can look good in public and to ruin Owen's reputation further. This causes Owen to have a Heroic BSoD later on.
Season Two
The Shadow
- The last five minutes are done with just music and no dialogue. Birdie meets an old woman who loves to hear his violin playing. However, some time later, her nurse comes to him to tell him that she passed away.
- The "A Moment Forever Ago" sequence where Hank thinks back to that moment where he and Bitsy shared an elevator 50 years ago, wishing and dreaming he had reached out and danced with her.
- Bitsy is unusually muted during this conversation, seems surprised to learn that Hank is married and mentions that her blantant pickpocketing was a bid for attention; it's not hard to guess that Bitsy's thinking about what could have been, a chance she only realized existed long after it was gone.
The PAIGE-Riarchy!
- Molly feeling terribly awkward during her first period, despite Paige's efforts to turn it into a good experience. This culminates to her freaking out when Brendan comes to her house during the period party Paige threw for her, in front of many guests including her friends Hazel and Shauna, before running to her bedroom to draw on her book all alone.
- Eventually, Paige reveals that the reason why she put a lot of pressure on Molly is because of her terrible experience when she got her first period during a vacation in Hawaii when she was younger: because of her mother not knowing how to handle periods (and this due to her mother as well), she wore a menstrual pad that ended up sogged in water when she went for a swim, making her look like she was wearing a diaper in front of many people at the beach.
Season 3
Slumber-Dog-Molly-An-Aire
- By sneaking out with Hazel and Shauna in the middle of the night, Molly ends up damaging Paige's trust in her when she learns about it. As she couldn't sleep due to her guilt, she comes down in the kitchen to find Paige, and the two then sing "One Step at a Time", a quite emotional song in which during an Imagine Spot, they end up separated at each side of Bank Rock Bridge after a rising tide destroyed it, representing the rift between them. As they slowly join each other while the bridge rebuilds itself, Paige sings about her worries for Molly and how she misses the time she was closer to her and confided her everything (which is also shown by reflections on the river depicting younger versions of them together, until one shows the present Molly looking aloof with her hands in her pockets while Paige tries to reach her) while Molly tries to reassure her. They both manage to make it up at the end of the song.
- Another reflection shows Molly briefly turning into a toddler as she tries to reach for her mother, until it disappears after a raindrop hits it.
Lunar Palaver
- Excluding the Bitsy and Helen B-plot, the entire episode is a Very Special Episode centered around racism and the subject is treated seriously. So seriously that Birdie, the narrator who would always jump in to explain the situation in the story, decided it was best that he stays quiet and lets Owen sing the situation.
- The episode starts with Cole singing happily in the park as he plays, but the song comes to a halt when he jumps out a bush and accidentally scares a woman walking by. Even though Cole apologized to the woman, the woman still treats Cole like he's a threat, despite the fact he's holding a wooden, harmless sword. Who knows what would have happened if Owen and Randy didn't intervene.
- Owen doing his best to deescalate the situation with the woman, but she insists that Cole was lunging at her with his wooden sword and he needs to be kept under control. Owen does not take her response well and nearly loses his temper and subtly accuses her of being racist, which she poorly tries to deny. Luckily, Randy manages to deescalate the situation and politely makes the woman leave, who doesn't even feel any remorse for her actions and feels that she's in the right.
- When Owen tells Paige what happened, Paige feels bad for Cole, but she knew something like this would happen eventually, but didn't expect it to happen so soon for Cole who's still a kid. The fact that Celeste, Owen's fun and cheerful mother, even warned Paige that something like this would happen to Molly and Cole, shows how serious this situation is.Paige: It's just... so soon. Your mom warned me, but nothing really prepares you.
Owen: I have to say, even I was shocked. He's so young.
