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Recap / Molly Of Denali S 3 E 5 Forget You Not Fire Food And Family

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Airdate: January 18, 2023

"Forget-You-Not": Trini makes a care package for her mom, Joy.


"Forget-You-Not" contains the following tropes:

  • Bait-and-Switch Comment: As it turns out, Mr. Rowley has a jar of fireweed honey. Trini asks if she can trade something for it, and Mr. Rowley says no...because it's a gift for her!
  • Flower Motifs: Joy's favorite flower is said to be forget-you-nots. This symbolizes true love, respect, and how she never forgets about her family, even while overseas.
  • Ironic Echo Cut: Molly and Trini find instructions on how to make paper forget-me-nots, and Trini says that this will be easy. Cut to Trini remarking that it wasn't easy.
  • Oh, Crap!: When Molly tells Trini that she forgot to pack the fireweed honey, and the plane takes off without in inside the package.
  • Running Gag: Everyone being out of fireweed honey. This gag comes to an end when Mr. Rowley is shown to have a jar of it.
  • Satiating Sandwich: While doing a video call with her mom, Trini is eating her (and Joy's) favorite sandwich — a peanut butter and fireweed honey sandwich. She wants to send fireweed honey in the care package.
  • Something We Forgot: Molly and Trini leave to deliver the care package, but they forgot the fireweed honey.
  • Wintry Auroral Sky: Trini wants to send a video of the Northern Lights to Joy. It's too cloudy for the Northern Lights to appear, but Trini decides to send a construction paper version of it instead.

"Fire, Food, and Family": Trini and her dad, Daniel, are without lights and heat during a blizzard.

"Fire, Food, and Family"note  contains the following tropes:

  • Alliterative Title: Fire, Food, and Family. These three Fs also make up the Alliterative List of things you need on a dark winter night.
  • Androcles' Lion: In Grandpa Nat's story, his dogs came back to get him during the blizzard. He outright says that if you take care of animals, animals will take care of you.
  • Braving the Blizzard: Grandpa Nat tells the story of how he got trapped outside during a blizzard. His sled dogs kept going without him. He dug into a cave to keep him out of the wind, but later, his dogs came back for him.
  • The Internet Is for Cats: Trini decides to watch funny chicken videos until Daniel tells her to turn off the phone, so they can save battery power.
  • Power Outage Plot: Due to the blizzard, the power goes out in the Mumford house.
  • Wintry Auroral Sky: At the end of the episode, when the blizzard stops, Molly and Nat see the aurora borealis.

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