This week’s new episode of Gabby Duran and the Unsittables deals with how friendships can change when a couple forms. In “The Vibe,” the third episode of season two, Gabby tries to keep her friend group the way it’s been. Meanwhile, Olive discovers that something isn’t right in their mom’s head.
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Gabby is having lunch with Wes and Sky at Luchachos and she made them both “Friendship Mix” CDS. “This is just my way of saying how important our friendship is to me,” she tells them. “I never want anything about it to change.” Gabby gets up to use the restroom and Wes and Sky do this cute fake phone call with their hands. He sees an eyelash on Sky’s cheek and grabs it for her, holding it so she can make a wish on it. Gabby comes back and sees them. “Are you guys a thing?”
Gabby doesn’t understand why they didn’t tell her. “I’m not upset at all, I’m just worried about the vibe.” They ask what she means and she says it’s the mood when the personalities of a friend group comes together. She uses the chips, salsa and guacamole on the table as an example, mixing the salsa and quac to show how it changes things. “The three of us have the best vibe I’ve ever experienced and I don’t want anything to change that.” Wes promises that nothing will change and that he and Sky will never break up. “We’re all still best friends, right?,” he asks. “Of course,” Gabby says, nervously snacking on chips.
Olive is getting the house ready to host the Little Miss High Tea Society, a turn-taking club she joined with her friends. The girls dress fancy and the leader of the group, Caroline, demands perfection. Dina makes batter for pastries and Olive asks her not to overdo them, telling her that a girl chipped a tooth on a hard pastry at another tea party and the host was banished to the doll table.
Gabby has Wes and Sky over for movie night and it gets awkward. They insist that Gabby sit between them, but when the popcorn bowl ends up in her lap, she watches their hands meet and gets weirded out. Then she finds out that they’ve both already seen the movie she picked, having watched it together. Getting up to change it, Gabby knocks over the popcorn bowl and bends down to pick it up, but so does Wes. Their heads knock and Gabby falls backwards, tipping over the TV and breaking it. “Yep, the vibe has definitely changed,” Gabby says.
The next day, Gabby asks Wes and Sky to meet her at Luchachos for an emergency friendship meeting. When the quesadillas arrive, cut into thirds, they each reach for the same piece. “See what I mean? The vibe has changed.”
Olive’s tea party begins with her giving a speech. Caroline compliments the way she ordered the tea bags by the amount of caffeine instead of alphabetically, but tells her the pastries are hard as rocks. Dina walks in chugging a cup of tea and then farts, laughing about it. Olive asks her what she’s doing. “For the last few weeks, I’ve been feeling different. Like someone went into my brain and loosened things up in there.” Olive calls Principal Swift and Jeremy. Swift thinks Gabby may have disrupted a neural pathway when she altered her memories. They promise to come up with a plan while Olive tries to keep her mom from going too crazy at the party. But when Olive gets back into the kitchen, Dina is on the counter pretending to be a cat, knocking over teacups, and then thinks she sees an astronaut.
Gabby brings Wes and Sky to Swift’s cabin for “Thrupples therapy.” She takes them on a hike and gets ahead of them. Wes tells Sky he thinks they should take a break. Sky starts to freak out and breaks off her necklace, handing it to him and telling him to run away and read it. She begins convulsing, her wig falling off as her glowing head turns into black scars and her pupils expand like a shark. She yells at him to run in a deep, distorted voice, charging after Wes and Gabby.
They flee back to the cabin and lock the door. Wes reads the locket, which Sky wrote in the event that Wes ever broke up with her. It explains that as an empath, she feels emotions more deeply and can’t control herself when her heart breaks. Her instinct will be to tear his heart out of his body. Suddenly, Sky crashes into the cabin through the roof, grabs a mounted swordfish and throws it at Wes but it misses. Gabby takes the blame, telling Sky it’s all her fault that Wes broke up with her. While she talks, Wes grabs a net and throws it over Sky. Gabby follows up by tying a rope around her waist to trap her. Wes tries to talk to Sky, who projectile vomits green goo on him. Wes starts the fake phone call and Sky begins to slowly go back to normal. Gabby tears up and says “Their vibe is so strong!”
Meanwhile, all that Principal Swift has come up with is replacing Dina with a robotic version of herself when her brain turns to mush. Olive realizes that she is on her own to fix her mom and save her reputation with the Little Miss High Tea Society. When she gets downstairs, Dina is snacking on the pastries and talking to the imaginary astronaut, getting into a fight with him that results in her breaking the table and throwing a pastry at one of the girls. “Food fight!,” she yells as they all start throwing food. A hard pastry hits Dina on the forehead and we see that her synapses reconnect. “That was surprisingly easy,” Olive says as her mom goes back to normal. Caroline wants to kick Olive out of the group, but the other girls say this tea party was actually fun and the best they’ve ever had.
Back at Luchachos, Gabby tells Wes and Sky that she’s okay with them being a couple and changing the vibe of their friendship. When the waiter drops off the quesadillas, he says “I’m picking up some real solid vibes in this booth.” They each grab a piece of quesadilla, nobody going for the same piece.
Gabby Duran and the Unsittables returns on June 25th with “Ratita and the Ultras.” Here’s the official episode description from Disney Channel:
Unaware of its significance, Gabby sells a cherished family heirloom. While getting it back, she realizes that she should take a more active interest in her family history.