| “ | A-ha! Tchotchke Jones strikes again! The Muddy Bess is mine, and with my shrink-o-bottle ray, I'll put the whole city under glass! And nobody will suspect a mild-mannered shopkeeper. | ” |
"The Bottle Episode" is the first segment of the seventeenth episode of the first season of Hamster & Gretel, and the thirty-second episode overall. It is paired with "Micromanager" and has premiered on Disney Channel on February 25, 2023.[1][2]
After finding out that the owner of a tchotchke shop has been stealing and shrinking landmarks to put in his bottles, Hamster, Gretel and Kevin have been shrunk themselves and trapped in a bottle as well, leading Fred as their only hope as she enters the shop.
Plot
Supervillain Tchotchke Jones has been shrinking various landmarks around the city and adding them to his collection of bottles. However, when Kevin, Hamster, and Gretel arrive to his shop, they are shrunken and trapped in a bottle with the Muddy Bess, a historic steam boat. This leaves Fred as their only hope to escape. However, Fred, being a fan of objects in bottles, does not notice them. The heroes and Kevin decide to attract her attention by using the boat's steam to write a message on the bottle.
When their plan to write a message fails due to Fred being unable to read as it was written backwards, the three resort to creating a storm inside the bottle and build up enough pressure to launch the cork off. Fred then reveals that she knew Tchotchke had Kevin, Hamster, and Gretel trapped all along based on various clues including a bag of walnuts Hamster was eating earlier, fingerprints left on one of the bottles, and a titanium pen Fred gave to Gretel for her birthday. Tchotchke attempts to add Fred to his collection, but mistakenly shrinks himself thanks to Fred's quick action. She restores her cousins and Hamster to their original size and the three leave the store as Tchotchke laments his defeat.
Cast and characters
- Meli Povenmire as Gretel Grant-Gomez
- Michael Cimino as Kevin Grant-Gomez
- Beck Bennett as Hamster
- Joey King as Fred Grant
- Liza Koshy as Veronica Hill
- Richard Kind as Tchotchke Jones
Songs
Running gags
News report
Veronica Hill: This is Veronica Hill on the scene at the docks where Muddy Bess, historic riverboat and the venue for my thirteenth birthday, has just been stolen. The brazen boatnapping follows a string of disappearing landmarks, including our beloved Tallington Tower, the beloved Statue of Finnerty, and the state's second-largest bag of coffee. The only evidence we have is this police sketch of a man in a very badly designed mask. |
This town, man
Kevin: That ray must be able to shrink things and put them in bottles. Hamster: (sighs) This town, man. |
Memorable quotes
Tchotchke Jones: Are you eating in my shop?! Hamster: Uh... (crunch) No. (crunch) |
Hamster: Personal taste aside, the mask is badly designed. |
Kevin: And of course, I can't call her. Teeny-weeny phone means teeny-weeny signal. Hamster: Please stop saying teeny-weeny. |
Hamster: All right, let's not get dramatic. (Thunder and lightning) Hamster: WHAT DID I JUST SAY?! |
Kevin: All right, what have we got to lose? Let's try it. Hamster: Or we accept our fate and start new lives as a barbershop quartet on this riverboat. What do we think? Going once, going twice... Kevin: There's only three of us. (beat) Hamster: Okay, let's just make the stupid hurricane. |
Hamster: Hey, I got walnuts. Fred: You got those out of the trash. Hamster: Brilliant deduction, Sherlock! |
Transcript
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Gallery
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Background information
Trivia
- It is revealed that Veronica's 13th birthday party was held on the Muddy Bess.
Allusions
- The title of this episode is a pun on the term "bottle episode" , which refers to an episode in a live-action television series that makes use of as few cast members, effects, sets and props as possible to save on production costs.
- The episode itself is a bottle episode in the figurative sense too, as the episode takes place in a single location with only a couple backgrounds, and only uses a handful of characters.
- Statue of Liberty - One of the structures stolen and placed in a bottle is the "Statue of Finnerty", a play on the New York sculpture.
Errors
- The Disney General Entertainment Content press website has erroneously listed "The Bottle Episode" as the second half of Episode 117, and "Micromanager" as the first half, instead of the other way around.
- When Fred sees the mirrored message of "Help us Fred", she reads it as "bert zu pleh". However, the lowercase letter P from "Help", when mirrored, actually resembles a lowercase letter Q instead of a lowercase letter P, so the message should've instead be read as "bert zu qleh".
References
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