After their last adventure, Bean, Elfo, and Luci return to Dreamland with the Eternity Pendant, allowing Sorcerio to complete the creation of the Elixir of Life for King Zog. A first experiment results in Guysbert's apparent recovery and then death, proving the Elixir is not complete.
They resort to a man called Old Man Touchy that can identify anything to know whether the pendant is false, but as it turns out, the pendant is real, but Elfo isn't a pure elf. Angry, Zog throws Elfo out of the kingdom, pissing off Bean to the point where they fight. Bean is locked away, but Odval releases her to let her go away.
Luci and Bean go to the forest in search of Elfo and are luckily able to find him. The group decides to go back to Elfwood to try to find out what Elfo really is, since he isn't really an Elf, the rule of not bringing strangers doesn't apply to him. Bean and Elfo are able to trick the guards of Elfwood of letting them in, but Bean accidentally breaks a guards nose and cleans it with her napkin, but is let inside after that.
Bean is able to befriend the elves by showing that she has booze. Elfo finds his old girlfriend Kissy, who has a new boyfriend. He is then able to find his father, who uncomfortably avoids the subject about his heritage and his mother.
While Bean is sharing a drink with the elves, the knights from Dreamland reveal to have been following her and are there to take a pureblood elf. Pops gives Elfo a needlepoint made by his mother that reveals that he is half elf half something else, but that's lost during the commotion caused by the knight's invasion. The Elves quickly take their weapons and take knights out by the scores and they are forced to retreat, but reinforcements soon show up.
Because Bean broke the door, they can't hide their kingdom again, so Bean, Elfo and Luci have to close it by hand before the knights attack again. In the nick of time, they're able to do it and Elfwood disappears. When they are celebrating, however, Elfo is shot in the back by an arrow and bleeds out in Bean's arms. At night, the knights go back and force Bean and Luci to go back to Dreamland with them, sending the message that the mission has failed.
Bean lays Elfo's body beneath her mother's statue. Zog goes to talk with Bean, but she is too mad at him to hear, however, Zog reveals that the statue of Dagmar before them is the actual Dagmar, that was turned into stone by poisoned wine meant for Zog, and that he has hidden about it as to make sure that Bean wouldn't blame herself for switching the wine cups when she was a kid.
Bean cleans her own tears with her napkin and realizes she has Watcho's blood and the pendant, meaning she can now make the Elixir of Life, but she only has one drop of blood, only enough to either save her mother or Elfo. Saddened, she decides to try to save her mother and puts the pendant on the statue, releasing her mother from the stone, being simultaneously saddened from permanently losing Elfo and happy from regaining her mother.
Tropes:
- Back for the Dead: Guysbert returns one last time as a test subject for the Elixir of Life. As soon as he pulls the sword from his head, the elixir fails and his brain falls out. Then he collapses and stabs himself in the chest for good measure.
- Bad Butt: A discussed trope between the main trio, when Bean and Luci note that Elfo's a wuss by human/demon standards, even looking aside his willing collusion in Bean's activities. On seeing Elfwood for the first time, though, Bean admits that compared to them, he actually does look pretty badass.
- Batman Gambit: Odval releases Bean from captivity so he can covertly follow her in her search for the elf village, betting she could find it where the kingdom's knights could not.
- Beware the Silly Ones: The elves, once the knights start attacking, gather up candy weapons which turn out to be surprisingly good at beating down (and even killing) knights.
- Bittersweet Ending: Bean manages to revive her dead mother, but she has to sacrifice her chance to save Elfo to do it.
- Bowel-Breaking Bricks: A startled bunny poops an Easter egg.
- Brick Joke: Shocko crops up again.
- Cane Sword: The elves' armory is filled with what look like candy canes, which turn out to contain fully functional swords.
- Can't Argue with Elves: Two elf guards let Bean inside Elfwood to prove they're not racist.
- Character Death: Elfo gets hit by an arrow and dies in Bean's arms, and Bean has to give up her chance to save him so she can resurrect her mother.
- Chekhov's Gag: The Elfwood song from "A Princess, an Elf, and a Demon Walk Into a Bar" mentions that the elves love to drink uncontrollably. Here, Bean manages to instantly befriend the elves by giving them her booze.
- Chekhov's Gun: The handkerchief with some of Watcho the Elf's blood on it. It comes in handy when Bean needs to use the Elixir of Life for either Elfo or Dagmar.
- Crazy-Prepared: Bean has numerous flasks of booze stashed on her just in case.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Elfo dies in Bean's arms after being shot with an arrow.
- Fantastic Racism: Not surprisingly, an isolated kingdom like Elfwood is rather xenophobic and suspicious of outsiders, especially humans. The Elf King even confronts Elfo over allowing a human like Bean to enter, claiming that "humans bring nothing but treachery and pain". Though all the elves quickly become fond of Bean when she shares her booze with them.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: Should Bean use the Elixir of Life to free her stone mother, which Zog has been trying for years, or resurrect Elfo? She chooses the former.
- His Name Is...: Just when Elfo's father is about to tell him what his mother was, the Dreamland knights attack, interrupting him.
- Mood Whiplash: The second half of the episode is much more sombre than most of Disenchantment, with several major revelations, and emotional beats... until the end of Zog's talk with Bean, when he says that once Bean is ready, they'll replace Elfo with "a new pet".
- Morton's Fork: Let's be honest, no matter who Bean brought back, she would have regretted it. By not resurrecting Eflo, she feels guilty for betraying her best friend. But if she hadn't resurrected her mother, she would have spent the rest of her life feeling guilty for unwittingly turning her to stone to begin with, for passing up the chance to bring her back, and would have continued to feel miserable without her and forever wonder What Might Have Been.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: On her way into Elfwood, Bean's weight snaps one of the chains on the gate. When the knights invade, the elves can't close the gate because the mechanism needs both chains to work.
- Off with His Head!: One of the knights (Edgar the Fearless) is killed when he gets decapitated with a razor-sharp lollipop weapon thrown by an elf. From there on, his new nickname is Edgar the Headless.
- Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Done completely by accident by a very young Bean, leading to Queen Dagmar accidentally drinking a magical poison intended for Zog.
- Poke the Poodle: Among Elfo's supposed crimes among the elves is that he didn't return a library book. By elf standards, this still makes him a bad boy.
- Sadistic Choice: Bean only has one drop of the Elixir of Life, and must choose between reviving Elfo or her mother. She chooses her mother.
- Shout-Out: Someone tells the king that Lady Kravitz was looking out her window and saw Bean and company returning from their quest.
- Taken for Granite: It turns out that the statue of Dagmar above the royal crypt is actually the real deal herself, after accidentally consuming an enchanted poison.
- The Reveal:
- Elfo is not a full-blooded elf. His father eventually reveals that Elfo is a hybrid that he had conceived with a non-elf mother, however Elfo runs out of time before he can learn exactly who (or what) his mom was.
- The memorial statue of Queen Dagmar's likeness that Zog and Bean use to mourn her? It's actually the real Dagmar herself after being turned into stone. Zog reveals to Bean that Dagmar had drank some enchanted wine that was meant for him, because a younger Bean had unwittingly switched their drinks around.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl:
- When Elfo sees his old flame Kissy with a much shorter elf, he immediately assumes that he got her pregnant with an illegitimate son. Though it turns out that he's just her new boyfriend, Shrimpo.
- Elfo's father Pops tells him that, much like his son, he too was attracted to a non-elf girl who was much taller than him. She was also Elfo's mother by the way.
- Trick-and-Follow Ploy: How Odval and the knights find Elfwood. Odval allowed Bean to escape from the castle, fully expecting that she would seek out Elfo and they would go to Elfwood to learn the truth about what Elfo really is.
- The Unreveal: Elfo's father comes close to revealing the identity of Elfo's mother, but the invading knights blow that opportunity.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: It looks like this at first when the humans attack Elfwood, but the elves prove to be capable of defending themselves. Enough that they end up decapitating one of the attacking knights, while giving the other knights a humiliating beating that forces them to retreat.
- Wham Episode: Elfo turns out to not be a full-elf. He then gets shot in the back with an arrow and dies in Bean's arms. Bean passes up a chance to resurrect him in favor of her mom.
- Wham Line:
- Two regarding Elfo's identity. Old Man Touchy says that he "isn't an elf... but [he] isn't not an elf". Elfo's father Pops tells his son that "you're only half-elf", but unfortunately he couldn't admit what that other half of him was.
- Zog, on the statue of Dagmar, to Bean: "This is your mother."
