And yes, I realize the fact that the video wasn't supposed to be great, but it doesn't make that much of a difference. Since I already covered one episode leading to the first season finale, I had to take on another.
Liv gets a new manager as she's on the verge of starring in the movie "Space Werewolves," and though her music has nothing to do with the upcoming movie, newly hired manage Becki Bickelhoff (Rena Strober) recommends a standard pop-tune about frozen yogurt. The Rooney parents who are always supportive of their twin daughters admit that the last record they bought was a non-descript record. Whether LP, EP, or 45 RPM, it's still funny.
Admittedly, the tune is rather catchy, but the video is as weird as all hell, mainly at the end. Actually, the first IMDb user reviewer already posted the influences of that music video, so I wasn't I wasn't as weirded out or dumbfounded by it as the characters on the show were, or for that matter anyone in real life was until the end. Despite Liv's objections, the video has made her popular, as well as the yogurt shop where the video was shot. In fact it's so popular, that Diggie who works as the manager of the same yogurt shop hires Maddie not only for an extra hand at the job, but so that they can spend more time together before she takes off to the Junior Olympics basketball team, and he heads off to become a foreign exchange student, in what we later learn in Season Two is a fictional arctic country. The only trouble is Maddie is not as peppy as the job requires her to be, a fact that both she and her boyfriend/manager aren't too pleased about.
Meanwhile, Becki Bicklehoff wants to get Liv to sing the song on a live video stream from the same yogurt shop where that video was filmed, but she want's to sing a song that's a little more honest. Unable to come up with one, she finds out that Maddie has a journal... and it's covered in GLITTER! Naturally, Liv wants to turn her twin sister's journal into another catchy song instead of the crap she's being forced to sing at the live-stream. This desire creates some tensions between the two sisters, reminiscent of the pilot episode.
The C-Story is equally as good. I say "c-story" because the B-Story is actually Maddie at work in the local FroYo shop. Pete decides to write love notes for Karen every day for a month. But as it turns out, the source of those little quips of affection turns out to be a childhood toy that Parker used to play with when he was a toddler. Pete is actually paying his youngest son for them, but has no idea where they come from. Seeing Parker act like a rich gangsta from the ghetto during some of his confessions is hilarious. I don't really want to spoil too much of it, since Disney Channel practically did it themselves by airing the music video for "Count Me In," before the episode aired, but I will say it had a sweet ending for all involved.
Liv gets a new manager as she's on the verge of starring in the movie "Space Werewolves," and though her music has nothing to do with the upcoming movie, newly hired manage Becki Bickelhoff (Rena Strober) recommends a standard pop-tune about frozen yogurt. The Rooney parents who are always supportive of their twin daughters admit that the last record they bought was a non-descript record. Whether LP, EP, or 45 RPM, it's still funny.
Admittedly, the tune is rather catchy, but the video is as weird as all hell, mainly at the end. Actually, the first IMDb user reviewer already posted the influences of that music video, so I wasn't I wasn't as weirded out or dumbfounded by it as the characters on the show were, or for that matter anyone in real life was until the end. Despite Liv's objections, the video has made her popular, as well as the yogurt shop where the video was shot. In fact it's so popular, that Diggie who works as the manager of the same yogurt shop hires Maddie not only for an extra hand at the job, but so that they can spend more time together before she takes off to the Junior Olympics basketball team, and he heads off to become a foreign exchange student, in what we later learn in Season Two is a fictional arctic country. The only trouble is Maddie is not as peppy as the job requires her to be, a fact that both she and her boyfriend/manager aren't too pleased about.
Meanwhile, Becki Bicklehoff wants to get Liv to sing the song on a live video stream from the same yogurt shop where that video was filmed, but she want's to sing a song that's a little more honest. Unable to come up with one, she finds out that Maddie has a journal... and it's covered in GLITTER! Naturally, Liv wants to turn her twin sister's journal into another catchy song instead of the crap she's being forced to sing at the live-stream. This desire creates some tensions between the two sisters, reminiscent of the pilot episode.
The C-Story is equally as good. I say "c-story" because the B-Story is actually Maddie at work in the local FroYo shop. Pete decides to write love notes for Karen every day for a month. But as it turns out, the source of those little quips of affection turns out to be a childhood toy that Parker used to play with when he was a toddler. Pete is actually paying his youngest son for them, but has no idea where they come from. Seeing Parker act like a rich gangsta from the ghetto during some of his confessions is hilarious. I don't really want to spoil too much of it, since Disney Channel practically did it themselves by airing the music video for "Count Me In," before the episode aired, but I will say it had a sweet ending for all involved.
