Honey and Chief go to a herding camp where Honey reveals a hyper-competitive side to her. Max decides to Method Act for an upcoming film role where he plays a farm pig by actually being a farm pig. Elsa reveals that she was once a sheep herder but gave up the career due to a traumatic event.
Tropes:
- Baa-Bomb: Elsa getting the sheep stuck between two hay bales in the herding competition somehow made them expode.
- Coming-Out Story: Parodied with Max's storyline, where he goes to a farm to do research for a movie role, and a former celebrity pig named Ennis makes him realize that, deep down inside, he's a "pig-pig"
- Competition Freak:
- Honey begins to obsess over the sheep herding game.
- Elsa was like this when she herded the sheep.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: The sergeant dog at the farm has this kind of personality.
- Evil Laugh: Honey does this when she plots to sabotage the leading dog herders.
- Enforced Method Acting: In-Universe. Max decides to try out the life of a farm pig in order to act it out for a Darker and Edgier adaptation of Babe.
- No-Respect Guy: Elsa repeatedly gets shot down, interrupted or ignored when releasing her feelings.
- Lonely at the Top: Ennis reveals that he used to be an actor pig like Max, but felt lonely without fellow pigs, hence why he decided to be a regular pig.
- My Greatest Failure: Elsa used to be a great competitive sheep herder, until she tried to herd her sheep between two bales of hay and they got stuck in the narrow pathway and somehow exploded. She blamed her competitive nature for the incident, and warns Honey when she starts getting caught up in the competition as well. In the end, Elsa redeems herself by herding lost sheep before they could run into a highway, and avoids another accident by ordering the sheep to go single file.
- Sanity Ball: Elsa is usually an insecure Soapbox Sadie, but here she manages to be the Only Sane Woman.
- Shout-Out: A spider makes the words "Representation Matters" appear in her web above the barn, like another spider did.
- You No Take Candle: The sheep talk in mixed-up sentences.Sheep: Sheeps is lost!
