History Recap / DisenchantmentS2E4TheLonelyHeartIsAHunter

* CentralTheme: Love. That is, selfless love verses selfish possession. Zøg is so happy with Ursula that he hides her bear skin to keep her from leaving him, but in the end [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he lets her go for her own happiness]]. This in contrast with Dagmar, who continues to haunt Bean so she can use her for her own selfish (and mysterious) reasons.

-->--'''Bean''', about Zog's choices of women.

Heartbroken after his divorce of Oona and Dagmar's betrayal, Zog falls in love with a woman he meets on the Enchanted forest. Bean has dreams of her mother. Luci decides to date Elfo's ex.

Bean begins to have dreams about her mother, who prompts her to look at the music box she has on top of the mantle (and then has to explain what's the mantle and how she got it). Telling her father about it, Zog reveals that, between Dagmer's betrayal and his recent divorce from Oona, he has lost the will to marry again. Odval tries to trick the king into a party to which he has invited all the noble unmarried women in Dreamland, but he decides to go out to hunt.

Zog enters the Enchanted Forest, where an attempt to hunt a deer is unsuccessful as he loses his crown. Continuing to go in, he finds a bear fishing in a river, only for the bear to shed its skin and transform into a woman. Zog accidentally hits the fish with a crossbow bolt and the bear-woman finds him: the two begin to fight, but they suddenly fall in love. The bear-woman introduces herself as Ursula, a forest selkie, and Zog invites her to the castle.

After another dream about her mother, Bean goes to talk with Zog to mention them, but Zog reveals he is in love with Ursula and tosses Dagmer's portrait into the chimney. As Zog leaves, Bean realizes there is something written in Maruvian right where the portrait was, and realizes there is something hidden.

That night, during the banquet, Ursula attracts (negative) attention with her non-existant manners, but the King does not seem to care, being besotted with Ursula. Bean talks with Ursula, who teaches her about scratching her back against a column. Doing it later, she ends up finding a covered up Maruvian sigil (like the one that was hidden behind her mother's portrait) and starts to follow the arrows. Elfo finds Luci and Kissy hanging out, and later cuts in their dance to get Luci away and warn him that Kissy is really not interested in him.

The following day, after a night of vigorous sex, Zog notices that Ursula is pining for the forest, and she mentions that, without her bear skin, she can't transform back into one: in order to try to keep her in the palace, Zog decides to hide the skin, and Bean catches him on the act. Bean calls her father out on it, but he replies that Ursula's the first woman he actually feels something big for in years, and he's doing it because it's the only way to make sure she stays.

Zog checks on Ursula and realizes she is not happy, being unable to adapt to life as a human in a castle, so he decides to give up and return the bear skin to her. Ursula leaves, and Zog decides that at least she can be happy, so there's that.

The following morning, the music box is back together and in her room.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Zog falls for Ursula because, like him, she is brash, simple and enjoys violence, something he could never share with his other wives.

* CentralTheme: Love. That is, selfless love verses selfish possession. Zog is so happy with Ursula that he hides her bear skin to keep her from leaving him, but in the end [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he lets her go for her own happiness]]. This in contrast with Dagmar, who continues to haunt Bean so she can use her for her own selfish (and mysterious) reasons.
* DownerEnding: Arguably. Zog returns Ursula's bear skin so she can return to the forest, leaving him hearbroken and miserable. Bean is still haunted by Dagmar and the creepy music box she gave her as a baby, which keeps returning to play at her bedside no matter how many times Bean throws it away.
* FairyTaleMotifs: Of the Animal Bride story. Right down to a man hiding a selkie's skin to keep her from leaving. Although Zog does eventually relent and return the skin.
* HasAType: As Bean points out, Zog has been with a witch, an amphibian, and a bear woman. Though downplayed as he didn't know Dagmar was a witch, and Oona was a MarriageOfConvenience.
* HellIsThatNoise: A music box - gifted by her mother - that seemingly plays by itself late at night causes Bean to get rid of it since at the time she found out her mother was using the whole kingdom for her own ends. She ends up destroying it. To her horror, soon the music box returns to her room in pristine condition, leaving her utterly confused as to how it came back.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Initially, Zog hid Ursula's bear skin because he wanted to keep her in Dreamland, but when he realizes she is unhappy, he returns the skin and lets her return to the Enchanted Forest as a bear.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Zog falls for Ursula the moment she beats the crap out of him as a bear. See episode image.
* LoveTriangle: Elfo and Luci fight for Kissy's affection during the episode, untill she ditches them both at the end.

* WhenSheSmiles: A rare male example; the people of Dreamland are so unfamiliar with seeing their king happy, they think something is wrong with Zog's face when he smiles.

* HellIsThatNoise: A music box - gifted by her mother - that seemingly plays by itself late at night causes Bean to get rid of it since [[spoiler:at the time she found out her mother was using the whole kingdom for her own ends]]. She ends up destroying it. [[spoiler:To her horror, soon the music box returns to her room in pristine condition, leaving her utterly confused as to how it came back.]]

-->--'''Bean''', about Zog's choices of wives.

!Tropes

->''"A witch, a lizard and now a bear. Dad, are you building an arc?"''
-->--'''Bean''', about Zorg's choices of wives.

* SigilSpam: The Maruvian symbol with a big eye turns out to be very much present in almost everything slightly Maruvian, including Bean's music box and behind Dagmar's portrait. Those spread around the castle turn out to guide her somewhere.

* FairyTaleMotifs: Of the Animal Bride story. Right down to a man hiding a selkie's skin to keep her from leaving. [[spoiler:Although Zog does eventually relent and return the skin.]]

* ShoutOut:
** When Bean has a dream of Dagmar, she asks her to help, because she is her only hope, mimicking Princess Leia's speech in ''Film/StarWarsANewHope''.
** Zog's armor looks a lot like [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing Aragorn as King of Gondor]].

* ShoutOut: When Bean has a dream of Dagmar, she asks her to help, because she is her only hope, mimicking Princess Leia's speech in ''Film/StarWarsANewHope''.

Heartbroken after his divorce of Oona and Dagmar's betrayal, Zorg falls in love with a woman he meets on the Enchanted forest. bean has dreams of her mother. Luci decides to date Elfo's ex.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Zorg falls for Ursula because, like him, she is brash, simple and enjoys violence, something he could never share with his other wives.
* ShoutOut: When Bean has a dram of Dagmar, she asks her to help, because she is her only hope, mimicking Princess Leiah's speech in ''Film/StarWarsANewHope''.

->''"Don't apologize. That's the hottest thing that ever happened to me."''
-->--'''Zorg''', about Ursula punching him.

* SigilSpamming: The Maruvian symbol with a big eye turns out to be very much present in almost everything slightly Maruvian, including Bean's music box and behind Dagmar's portrait.