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If you really want this business to take off, you're gonna have to kick things up a notch.

Nordle

"When Life Gives You Lemons" is the first segment of the eighteenth episode of the first season of Hamster & Gretel, and the thirty-fourth episode overall. It is paired with "Self-HEELP!" and has premiered on Disney Channel on March 4, 2023.[2][1]

Gretel and Bailey begin their own lemonade stand, in order to gain enough funds for their own dream treehouse, as Nordle arrives to offer a business proposal to increase efficiency. Meanwhile, Kevin and Hamster compete in pooling.

Plot

Gretel and Bailey have started a lemonade stand with the intention of using the profits to invest in their "dream treehouse." When Nordle happens by, he offers them an opportunity to increase their business using a new business model. The girls initially decline, but Gretel ultimately agrees upon realizing their current methods are inefficcient. Unfortunately, Nordle uses Tobor to turn the lemonade stand into a popular franchise, foregoing the love and hard work Gretel and Bailey put into their previous efforts in favor of using a giant lemon to suit customer's needs. Despite their feelings, Gretel decides to continue using Nordle's methods, upsetting Bailey.

Eventually, the lemon breaks loose from the stand and terrorizes the city. Gretel enlists the help of Hamster, Kevin and Fred, all of whom were playing pool throughout the episode, to stop the lemon. They attempt to use a giant globe as a pool ball to send the lemon to an unpopulated area, only for the lemon to burst and encase the city in lemon pulp due to the globe's greater density. Gretel and Bailey then reconcile and agree that their treehouse remain a dream for the forseeable future.

Cast and characters

Additional voices

Songs

Running gags

Image scene transitions

Memorable quotes

Kevin: Is there no one here to challenge me?
(Hamster appears wearing a white tuxedo and sunglasses. He assembles his que and leaps onto the table, twirlling his que like a baton and leaping over it like a bo staff prior to landing.)
Hamster: Rack 'em up, mop boy!
Kevin: Mop boy?
Hamster: 'Cause I'm gonna mop the floor with you.
Nordle: So, selling lemonade, huh?
Bailey: Yep. It's my grandma's recipe.
Gretel: Here, try a cup.
(Nordle smells the lemonade, takes a sip, and swishes it around the inside of his mouth)
Nordle: That's pretty good!
Gretel: Thanks!
Nordle: I said pretty good, not paradigm shifting.
Cashier: Hi! Welcome to Grandma Exclamation's Old-timey Lemonade. Can I get you anything?
Bailey: I want Nordle's head!
Cashier: Um, I don't see that on the menu.
(The safety valve bursts and the warning sign explodes as the lemon begins to break free from its machine.)
Tobor: I hope I'm not programmed to feel pain. (the lemon begins to crush him) No, I definitely am! Ow, ow, ow!
Fred: Ugh, please let this be a typo.
(Kevin, Hamster, and Fred rush outside to find the giant lemon crushing Fred's mailbox.)
Fred: It was a typo―it said "melon."
Tobor: Please, for the love of alloy, deactivate me!
Nordle: IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU, TOBOR!

Transcript

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Background information

Trivia

  • During the pool game, Hamster wears a tuxedo and sunglasses nearly identical to the tuxedo and sunglasses he wore during the Go Fish tournament "U.F. UH-OH! Part I", with the only difference being that this one has visible pockets.
  • This is the first episode where Nordle and Tobor appear in without Professor Exclamation, though he has been mentioned indirectly by Nordle.

Allusions

  • The title of the episode is derived from the proverbial saying "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade", which means to make the best out of a negative experience. The saying has been brought up many times, and even parodied, in pop culture, including previous work of Dan Povenmire.
  • GoodFellas - Gretel begins the episode with the narration "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to own a lemonade stand", a parody of the late Ray Liotta's opening narration, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster", from the Martin Scorsese-directed mobster film.

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