"Hat" is the first segment of the tenth episode of the Disney Channel animated series Kiff.
Synopsis
Kiff loses a hat that gives Barry a confidence boost and attempts to recover it.
Plot
On Bring a Thing Day at school, Kiff overhears her classmates making fun of Barry for his tendency to bring dull items. When Kiff sees that Barry has brought an old hat, she fears that he will embarrass himself again, but he instead amazes everyone by performing a series of cool poses while wearing the hat. After his presentation, Miss Deer Teacher announces that Barry will be crowned "Bring a Thing King" at a ceremony at the end of the day. Kiff sees the other students trying to grab Barry's hat, so she convinces Barry to let her guard the hat until the ceremony.
In the hallway, a gust of wind blows the hat out of Kiff's hands and into Helen's classroom, where Helen takes a selfie wearing the hat. Kiff tries convincing Helen to return the hat by telling her that it is a "garbage hat", which causes Helen to throw the hat outside into a passing garbage truck. Kiff chases after the truck to retrieve the hat. Meanwhile, Helen sees that her selfie, which she posted online, has gotten a like.
The wind blows the hat into Rat's Hats and Mats. Rat, who assumes it is one of his products, refuses to let Kiff take the hat without paying. She manages to raise the needed money by busking outside the store, but Rat has already sold the hat to another customer. Kiff learns that the customer is a member of the mayoral council, so she climbs up a mountain to reach the council's headquarters. She finds the customer, Rockwell, showing off the hat to his fellow council members in a hot spring. To blend in with the council, who all have beards, Kiff wears a fake beard made of bubbles. Rockwell lends her the hat, but she is exposed as an intruder when her beard pops, forcing her to escape down the drain of the hot spring. She travels through the drainage system and reaches another part of the mountain.
Just as Kiff thinks she has recovered the hat, it starts moving by itself and disappears down the mountain. Kiff gets an alert on her phone and sees that Helen has posted a new selfie wearing the hat. Realizing that Helen has used magic to steal the hat for more online likes, Kiff returns to Helen's classroom and takes back the hat, then rushes to the ceremony. Helen flies into a rage and trashes her classroom, even kicking her paper shredder through the roof, before chasing after Kiff.
Kiff makes it to the school gym just as the ceremony is starting. Before Kiff can reach Barry, however, Helen uses a spell to close the doors behind Kiff, trapping Kiff's tail between the doors. Kiff throws the hat to Barry, but Helen's shredder then crashes through the gym's roof, and the hat falls into the shredder instead of landing on Barry's head. Kiff quickly jumps onto Barry's head and wraps herself around it, pretending to be the hat, while Barry strikes a pose, unaware that his "hat" is actually Kiff. Though the audience sees that he is not wearing the hat, they still wildly applaud Barry, causing Kiff and Barry – and Rockwell, who is in attendance – to realize that it was Barry's confidence, rather than the hat, that mattered most.
Cast
- Kimiko Glenn as Kiff Chatterley
- H. Michael Croner as Barry Buns and Rat
- Deedee Magno Hall as Miss Deer Teacher
- Eric Bauza as Reggie and Billiam
- Vella Lovell as Candle Fox
- Tom Kenny as Trevor Angstrom
- Lucy Heavens as Helen
- ??? as Rockwell
Songs
- "Bring a Thing"
- "They Really Like Me"
Trivia
- Opening Sponsor: Rat's Hats and Mats.
- On April 12, 2023, the episode was released early on Disney+.
- While busking, Kiff performs a dramatic scene in which she says "Et tu, Rat?", parodying the "Et tu, Brute?" scene from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.
- A parody of the 1982 song "Sirius" by the Alan Parsons Project is heard while Barry is being introduced at his coronation ceremony.
- Time cards are used for the first time where Sweepy Steve puts up posters that spell out the word.
- The songs were left completely undubbed in the Cantonese dub, the Chinese Mandarin dub, and the Taiwanese Mandarin dub.
Continuity
- According to it's Production Code, this episode (along with it's sister episode "Lost and Found") was supposed to air after "Principal Dance Socks".
- This episode (along with it's sister episode "Lost and Found") was numbered as Episode 11 in Africa, the Arab World, the Baltic States, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, Greece & Cyprus, Hungary, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania & Moldova, Serbia, Slovenia, and Sweden. While "Principal Dance Socks" was numbered as Episode 10 in Africa, the Arab World, the Baltic States, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, Greece & Cyprus, Hungary, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania & Moldova, Serbia, Slovenia, and Sweden.
Errors
- When Helen's paper shredder hits Greg and Linda, their colors are swapped, with the former being pink and the latter being yellow.
Gallery
International Premieres
- May 10, 2023 (Australia & New Zealand) (Disney+)
- June 14, 2023 (South Korea) (Disney+)
- August 16, 2023 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney+)
- January 10, 2024 (Brazil & Latin America) (Disney Channel)
- August 31, 2023 (Israel)
- September 24, 2023 (France & Monaco, Switzerland, Francophone Africa, Haiti, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Wallis & Futuna)
- January 22, 2024 (Belgium, Luxembourg)
- April 27, 2024 (Quebec)
- October 16, 2023 (Bulgaria, Romania & Moldova, Poland, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Hungary)
- October 17, 2023 (Portugal, Angola, Mozambique)
- October 24, 2023 (Spain, Andorra, Equatorial Guinea)
- January 4, 2024 (Netherlands)
- January 27, 2024 (Japan)
- May 13, 2024 (Africa, Arab World, Greece & Cyprus, Baltic States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)
- July 15, 2024 (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
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