"Goodnight, Moon Girl" is the seventh episode of the first season of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, and the seventh episode overall.
It premiered early on March 5, 2023, on Disney Channel Canada and March 8, 2023, on Disney+. It officially premiered on March 25, 2023.
Synopsis[]
Lunella tries to overcome her awkwardness about fitting in at a slumber party by creating a mind-reading device, but accidentally switches brains with Devil Dinosaur.[1]
Plot[]
The star volleyball team of the school has invited Lunella and her best friend Casey Calderon to a sleepover at Brooklyn’s apartment. Despite Casey accepting on Lunella’s behalf, Lunella struggles with social awkwardness and past bad experiences with sleepovers due to her nervousness. She invents a remote that can read minds, but eventually leaves it at home at Casey’s persuasion.
Upon arriving at Brooklyn’s apartment, Lunella remains nervous and fails to connect with Brooklyn’s younger brother, TJ. Although Lunella is at her best when she’s talking science, she misinterprets Brooklyn’s reaction as disinterest. Meanwhile, back at home, Lunella’s grandfather Pops mistakes the mind-reading remote for a regular TV remote, causing Lunella to switch brains with her T. rex Devil Dinosaur due to a glitch in the device.
The Lafayette family begins to fight over the remote, causing the body-switching to become more frequent. Casey figures out what’s going on, while Lunella (in Devil’s body) is searching for the remote, and Devil (in Lunella’s body) becomes the star of the sleepover. Eventually, Lunella gets her hands on the device, but she’s hurt to see how everyone likes Devil as Lunella.
After taking care of TJ, Lunella apologizes for not being “normal”, but Brooklyn points out that none of them are normal and that she enjoys Lunella’s science talk. Throughout the sleepover, Lunella learns to accept herself and realizes her friends appreciate her intelligence. The next morning, she turns a can of whipped cream into a whipped cream cannon and rebuilds TJ’s model city to make amends. Fawzia even asks her for advice on how to supercharge a race car engine.
However, everything takes a turn when Devil uses the remote to switch bodies so he can eat Lunella’s pancakes.
Cast[]
- Diamond White as Lunella Lafayette
- Fred Tatasciore as Devil Dinosaur
- Alfre Woodard as Mimi
- Libe Barer as Casey Calderon
- Sasheer Zamata as Adria Lafayette
- Gary Anthony Williams as Pops
- Jermaine Fowler as James Lafayette Jr.
- Indya Moore as Brooklyn
- Tajinae Turner as Geri
- Ramone Hamilton as TJ
- May Calamawy as Fawzia[1]
- Ian Alexander as Tai
Additional voices[]
- Alanna Ubach as Brooklyn's Mom
Songs[]
- "Out My Mind" by Michelle Zarlenga
- "Neon City" by Chantry Johnson
Trivia[]
- The title is an homage to the children's book Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd.
- The episode's premise is a reference to the comics, where Lunella has the ability to switch minds with Devil Dinosaur.
- This episode was originally scheduled for March 4, 2023.[1] However, on the day of the premiere, it was replaced with the episode "Moon Girl's Day Off" due to a last-minute scheduling change.[2][3] In subsequent airings, it is labeled as the tenth episode.
- The order was corrected for its Disney+ release.
Production notes[]
- Although this episode premiered in 2023, it was actually produced in 2022 according to the credits, like the rest of season 1.
Errors[]
- When Brooklyn calls Devil-Lunella over for charades, the apartment windows depict nighttime outside, but in the following scene, they change to daytime.
Videos[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "March 2023 Programming Highlights". Disney General Entertainment. (February 17, 2023).
- ↑ Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur DisneyNow. (March 4, 2023). Archived from the original on 03-04-2023.
- ↑ Steve Loter on Twitter. March 4, 2023.
v • e Episodes | |
Season 1 | "Moon Girl Landing" • "The Borough Bully" • "Run the Rink" • "Check Yourself" • "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" • "The Beyonder" • "Goodnight, Moon Girl" • "Teacher's Pet" • "Skip This Ad...olescence" • "Moon Girl's Day Off" • "Like Mother, Like Moon Girl" • "Today, I Am a Woman" • "Devil on Her Shoulder" • "Coney Island, Baby!" • "OMG Issue #1" • "OMG Issue #2" |
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Season 2 | "The Great Beyond-er!" • "Suit Up!" • "Belly of the Beast" • "Ride or Die" • "Kid Kree" • "Wish-Tar" • "Make It, Don't Break It!" • "The Devil You Know" • "In The Heist" • "Dog Day Mid-Afternoon" • "Roller Jam!" • "Dancing With Myself" • "Family Matters" • "The Molecular Level" • "Moon Girl, Grounded" • "Ride Along" • "Lava Actually" • "Full Moon" • "To Intervention and Beyond-er" • "Crushed" • "A Devil-ish Birthday" • "Party Girl" • "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" • "Shoot for the Moon" • "The Gatekeeper" |