Chapter 3: Just Sweet / Through the Woods / Baking and Entering

Before heading to the multi-hex for their first date, Raven seeks advice from Blondie on how to calm her pre-first-date jitters.

I never understood why people who are friends would be nervous to hang out with each other as a date. Isn't that how romance starts, as friends?

Then again, humans are stupid and not logical.

Why are you booing me? I'm right!

Anyway, Raven wants the date to go well. All they're going to do is sit in a dark room. Well, that's all they intend to do.

That's not hinting at innuendo or anything, they end up running for their lives through the forest.

Maddie tells her to go talk to Blondie.

Is that....an alien? An orc? I don't think we see this backgrounder again, that's interesting.

Back at Hocus Latte - the reason it's getting so much attention is because a playset came out of it's outdoor seating area. Though it was called Beanstalk Brewery and not Hocus Latte. So maybe HL is the interior and BB is the exterior?  - Raven is trying to explain to Blondie who is just babbling on and trying to get a cupcake.

Meanwhile, Dexter is doing the same with Daring, who encourages him to flash a smile.

This is when Daring flashed his smile. Interestingly enough, I don't think we ever see the light-orange hair girl in the middle and the light teal and yellow ever again. But there's the other girl again, on the right! And one of my favorites on the far left!

You know, I'm very tempted to say that the girl on the right is the opposite of whoever Duchess will be in her story. This girl will be the one to get the prince and Duchess turns into a swan or dies or turns evil.

I'm going to call her Ophelia Gander. And the girl on the left, we always thought she was The Girl with the Golden Goose in fandom, so that's going to be Corrine Goose.

Blondie tells Raven to be very selective with who she dates, which isn't bad advice, until she starts saying things like "He chews his food too loudly, and he parts his hair too much to the left," literally dragging a backgrounder walking by.

"Hey you. You suck."

Raven is tired of her babbling, as Blondie has gotten distracted yet again by a cupcake, and hits her with magic by accident...giving her the Just Sweet doll dress.

Which was a lot bluer on her doll. Anyway, that's about it, and unlike the previous episode, it wasn't charming.


Through The Woods

When she’s not invited to the Blue Moon Forest Fest, Faybelle sends Cupid, Ashlynn, Blondie and Poppy in the wrong direction to the party. 

Ashlynn and Cupid are entering the woods in their Through the Woods outfits. I really liked these, at least for these two girls. Poppy and Blondie looked like they were wearing art smocks, but Cupid's little scout-esque outfit and Ashlynn's tri-point dress and yes, glass hiking boots were very cute.

Cupid is startled by everything, including a bush. Though I do like that she had the foresight to be slightly concerned about them walking into a forest. Then again, this particular forest isn't that dangerous. 

"Who knows what will happen when it gets dark?" Um, you went to Monster High, a school situated in the woods of Salem, Oregon. This should be nothing to you, Cupid.

Blondie shows up, saying she has an extra ticket, and Faybelle pops out of the forest.

Ashlynn says "Wow, there really was someone watching us." I legit lol'd. Faybelle tries to get the extra ticket, but Poppy shows up - "Blondie wanted someone to do her hair,"

The other four apologize and start off into the forest. Remember, Faybelle doesn't get invited to things because invitations mysteriously disappear. She probably was very sad.....sad enough to sabotage their efforts to get to the party, let alone back to Ever After High.

She runs into Cerise at the entrance to the forest, and asks her "Hey, how can I fuck up royally in these here woods?"

Cerise points out that the road branches into two paths; The Enchanted Forest (right) and the Dark Forest (left). So...Cerise, Faybelle, and Ginger's homes are somewhere down that left path. Remember; They grew up in the Dark Forest. Cerise runs down the path on the left; Maybe she's visiting home!

It's color coded for your convenience, yet Faybelle will still switch the signs to fool them and somehow, Ashlynn will fall for it.

 I don't expect Poppy to know, being new, but I did kind of expect Blondie to go "This doesn't look just right."

Remember, Cupid is an idiot.

Baking and Entering

Hungry from their journey into the Dark Forest, the girls stop at a gingerbread house, Miss Muffet’s Frozen Yogurt Bar and the home of the three bears in search of a spellbinding snack.

They're still in the Dark Forest, and Poppy says that she's hungry. Blondie knows a place nearby - I'll just let the obvious stand - they're pretty deep into the forest, I kind of expected her to know at least a little ways around if she can locate...

A gingerbread house! Cupid is excited, until Blondie tells them to break a piece off of the outside, in which one of them - I legit cannot tell WHICH ones - points out that it's dirty. So Blondie breaks into the house to see....

These irritating little shits! Who tell them to GTFO! So they do! But someone is watching from above....

It's Faybelle!

They're in such a dark part of the forest now, it looks like Purgatory. They find Miss Muffet's Frozen Yogurt Bar, which Muffet herself calls 'whey tasty', and a giant spider drops down and scares the girls into running away - "I just wanted to tell them about the free web access!"

Dragons; Yes. Spiders? Oh no. 

Blondie then takes them to the house of the Three Bears in her story - "They just LOVE me!"

They end up hiding from her. Coincidentally, the books have both Poppa and Momma Bear as teachers at the school. Maybe it's In Name Only.

Breaking into the home of people who clearly don't want her there? She's oblivious? Maybe Blondie's ancestors came over on the Charmflower.

Blondie breaks in anyway and they're clearly not glad to see her; Ashlynn has the sense to get out quickly, but Blondie insists that it's fine! And the parents are like "....we don't like this bitch but whatever."

But Baby Bear snaps - "She broke my bed! She broke my chair!" and roars at them to get out - direct action, I like it. It's hilarious.

Then they go back to walking in the forest. It's pointless, but not harmful, and the ending with the bears just makes this episode.