"Plantcis" is the first segment of the fifteenth episode of the Disney Channel animated series StuGo.
Synopsis
CHLOROPHYLL-AINS! Francis has to protect a plant from a nefarious threat.
Plot
Francis is spending time looking at and curating her rocks when Pliny comes it to tell her and she and Merian need to go down into the caves to rescue Chip who was spelunking. Due to the fact that Sara and Larry are currently trying to wrangle a centipede, Pliny asks Francis to look after her house plant. Francis doesn't want to as she finds that she cannot connect with plants. Pliny attempts to teach her, by having her stick her finger into the soil, but then gives her a communication device that will literally translate the plant's thoughts. Left to her own devices, Francis uses the communicator where the plant demands that she take him away from here.
The plant, whose full name is Mimosa "Moe" Strigillosa, is trying to escape other plants that are trying to kill him, with them spontaneously appearing out of nowhere. Moe insists that Francis take him back to his greenhouse where he will be safe. Francis is reluctant to do so as the greenhouse is twenty minutes away, but due to the fact that she promised Pliny, decides to do so anyway. After a brief encounter with hippos, the two eventually stop and absorb the sun, bonding with each other in the process. They reach the greenhouse where Moe reveals that he is a prince who must take down his brother Mimosa Philipdendron and must bloom to do so.
Feeling that she was being used, Francis abandons Moe and head backs home. When she finds that she can no longer connect with her rocks, she decides to go back because she is "drawn to the drama". Francis finds that Moe has been captured and sneaks in to rescue him. She fights of the plants (again who show no visible way of moving) and manages to rescue Moe who blooms. Philipdendron is brought down and Moe takes his rightful place as the ruler of the plants, who all ride off on hippos. Francis returns to find that Pliny succeeded in rescuing Chip, but when she asks what happened to her plant, Francis is reluctant to answer.
Cast
- Deborah Baker Jr. as Sara
- Tania Gunadi as Pliny
- Zosia Mamet as Merian
- Zach Reino as Chip Manhands, Philipdendron, Guard #1
- Gabourey Sidibe as Francis
- Charlyne Yi as Larry
- Brian Jordan Alvarez as Mimosa Strigillosa, Guard #2
Trivia
- Francis admits that she isn't very good at socializing, another trait that indicates that she is on the spectrum.
- For some reason, Merian disappears at the end of the episode with no explanation.
- Brian Jordan Alvarez voices Mimosa Strigillosa, yet the credits simply list him as "Plant".
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