History Recap / HildaS1E9

* AnAesop: Don't make promises you may not be able to follow up on.

--->'''Librarian:''' Was it an old book?
--->'''Frida:''' Yes! It was an antique. Must be a hundred years old. Inside the cover, someone had written "This book belongs to Craigie Williams".
--->'''David:''' Probably Craigie Williams!
--->'''Frida:''' Yes, I know. I always wondered what became of him.
--->'''David:''' Sounds like he died.
--->'''Frida:''' Yes, I know.

--->'''David:''' (To Frida) You could just learn to tidy your own flipping room! (Closes the door).
--->'''Hilda:''' (Opens the door) He's not wrong.

---->'''Alfur''': You can do it! Statement for encouragement purposes only, you may not actually be able to do it.

* DownerEnding: Not only does the search for Frida's book amount to nothing more than a wild goose chase, but Hilda and David's friendship with Frida winds up severely strained, if not outright severed.

Frida's messy room and missing book lead the gang on a ghost hunt that ends up putting their growing friendship to a test.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: The Nisse in Frida's house; the cameo at the end of this episode is all the screen time he gets in the whole show, but him taking Frida's book set in motion the events of this entire episode, the aftermath of which will impact the rest of the season.

When Frida calls Hilda and David to deal with her room suddenly being a mess and her favorite book being gone, Hilda suspects a ghost is responsible. The kids set out to find it, but the truth may bode drastic consequences for their friendship.

* DownerEnding: Not only does the search for Frida's book amount to nothing more than a wild goose chase, but Hilda, David, and Frida's friendship winds up severely strained, if not outright severed.

*** At the end of the episode, following Hilda out of Frida's room after another fight, David coldly tells Frida that she should learn to clean up after herself instead of relying on others. It ticks her off, but he is completely right.
** Frida rejects Hilda trying to cheer her up when they fail to get her book back. Then again, it was pretty understandable why she felt that way, since their ordeal with the ghosts was indeed terrifying and amounted to nothing in the end.

* BathtubScene: After returning empty handed from their nighttime adventure in the graveyard, Hilda is seen taking a bath, [[ShowerOfAngst feeling bad]] she was unable to help Frida. .

--->'''Frida:''' Yes, I know

* BathtubScene: After returning empty handed from their nighttime adventure in the graveyard, Hilda is seen taking a bath, [[ShowerOfAngst feeling bad]] she was unable to help Frida.

--->'''Frida:''' Yes, I know.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: During the argument at the end of the episode, Frida is understandably peeved about not getting the book back, despite all of their efforts to do so. When Hilda tries to cheer her up, Frida tells her that she’s fed up with both her and David reinforcing their escapades, while also rightfully pointing out that David kept making fun of her messiness throughout the entire episode. However, Hilda gets defensive after being backlashes by Frida, pointing out that she at least tried her hardest to keep her promises (and probably would‘ve done so had the ghost not cheated at the end of the wrestling match) and that she doesn’t need to get this worked up solely for not being perfect. Even when David points out that she could’ve cleaned her own room to prevent all of this, Hilda acknowledges him.

** Frida rejects Hilda trying to cheer her up when they fail to get her book back. Then again, she has a point that Hilda's adventuring and free-spirited attitude tends to put them all in danger more than once since she came to Trolberg. Plus, their ordeal with the ghosts was indeed terrifying and amounted to nothing in the end.

** The little gnome-like creature we see at the end. It's not till episode 12 we learn what it is.
** While they are tidying Frida’s room, the latter is shown having trouble to put her statue correctly, hinting that she never cleaned her room before.
* HardWorkMontage: We see one of Hilda and Frida in the latter’s room, and David getting his dad’s old video camera (and a tv to go with it). The montage clearly shows Hilda and David doing most of the work.

* JerkassBall: Frida firmly grabs it this episode; she tries to make Hilda and David believe a ghost is responsible for the mess in her room, when it’s actually her own doing and till recently a ghost used to clean it up. She lets her friends do pretty much all the work when they help to clean up her room. She gets into two fights with David when he makes fun of her belief that rooms cleaning themselves is normal, and tells her she should accept not being perfect. Finally, when their attempts to get the missing book back fail and David and Hilda try to cheer her up, she lashes out at both of them, eventually driving both her friends away.

* KickTheDog: As Hilda is leaving, she tells Frida that she was sorry she ever tried to help. Frida replies back that SHE’S sorry that Hilda even moved to Trolberg. That causes Hilda to stop in her tracks and let out a small gasp, looking clearly hurt by what Frida had just said.

** David tells an already nervous Frida that without the ghost to clean her room, she might get the same grades as him. Hilda points out that’s not helping Frida feel better.
** Later, Alfur criticizes Hilda for making a promise to Frida without a written document with disclaimers in it, which could absolve her from her promise should she fail to keep her word. Hilda points out he’s not exactly encouraging her, and tries to get him to cheer her on. He does, but with a disclaimer…

* {{Poltergeist}}: Hilda thinks they are dealing with one when Frida tells her that her room was in its messy state when she woke up that morning. It’s a red herring however.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Hilda is finally fed up with Frida’s attitude, the two girls start calling each other out on their shortcomings, with Hilda pointing out how hard she makes it to be her friend with her high demands, while Frida points out how Hilda keeps dragging her into dangerous situations.
* RunicMagic: the librarian gives Hilda a rune stick to summon ghosts with.
* ShaggyDogStory: After all the trouble the three friends go through to get Frida’s (and Craigie’s) book back from Engilbjort, it’s eventually revealed she never took it; she stole a different book.
* SeriousBusiness: The reason why the plot is kickstarted and the fallout between Frida and her friends happened is because Frida never learn how to clean her own room without the ghost’s help.

* TrashOfTheTitans: Frida’s room is quite a mess when Hilda and David arrive, and is revealed to frequently look like this before the ghost cleans it up.

** At the end of the episode, as expected, Frida’s friendship with David and Hilda is seemingly damaged beyond repair, and last we see is that the missing book was taken by a little gnome-like creature (revealed to be a Nisse in Episode 12).
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Frida reveals early in the episode that she has the Sparrow Scouts’ wrestling badge, hence why she easily defeats David. It seemingly becomes a ChekhovsGun when during the climax it’s revealed disputes with ghosts are always settled with a wrestling match, however Frida ends up losing the fight.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Frida begins to question everything about herself since she wasn’t as tidy as she thought, Hilda points out that she still earned her Sparrow Scout badges and good grades entirely on her own, without the help of a ghost.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The little gnome-like creature we see at the end. It's not till episode 12 we learn what it is.
* HardWorkMontage: We see one of Hilda and Frida cleaning the latter’s room, and David getting his dad’s old video camera (and a tv to go with it). The montage clearly shows Hilda and David doing most of the work.

--->'''David:''' (To Frida) You could just learn to tidy your own flipping room!.

* DownerEnding: Big time. Not only does the search for Frida's book amount to nothing more than a wild goose chase, but Hilda, David, and Frida's friendship winds up severely strained, if not outright severed.

* RealityEnsues: Frida is a very proficient wrestler, and indeed she actually manages to get the ghost of Engilbjort in a military press... only to be instantly flattened and pinned under the weight of the much larger adult that she's just attempted to pick up.

* MoodWhiplash: You'd really think Hilda would end this episode with a somber song at the end for the credits? '''NOPE.''' The episode ends with, the catchy-mystery/adventure tune, "Hilda's Theme" playing over the credits, following Frida accidentally breaking her friendship with Hilda and David. By that point, viewers would have rioted.

* MoodWhiplash: You'd really think Hilda would end this episode with a somber song at the end for the credits? '''NOPE.''' The episode ends with "Hilda's Theme" playing over the credits once more.

* EpicFail: PlayedForDrama. At seems as if Engilbjort's returned the book the kids have been looking for... until it's revealed that it's a different book from the aforementioned missing one, thus rendering their high-risk raising of the dead and the subsequent wrestling match pointless.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: If Frida lying down back to her bed after driving Hilda and David away could be an indication...

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: When Frida begins to question everything about herself since she wasn’t as tidy as she thought, Hilda points out that she still earned her Sparrow Scout badges and good grades entirely on her own, without the help of a ghost.

* KickTheDog: As Hilda is leaving, she tells Frida that she was sorry she ever tried to help. Frida replies back that SHE’S sorry that Hilda even more to Trolberg. That causes Hilda to stop in her track and let out a small gasp, looking clearly hurt by what Frida has just said.