LETS GO SPEEDRUN
Beach Car, Tulip finds a cat who claims to know the conductor trying to sell a broken pipe marketed as a "donut holer" to a dude made out of water named Randall (voiced by Rhys Darby). She asks the cat to talk to the conductor to get Tulip off the train, the cat agrees but she asks for One-One as payment. Tulip then realizes that she doesn't want to sell One-One so she enlists the help of Randall to get him back. (note: the cat is weirdly interested in One-One)
NEXT EPISODE GO, The Corgi Car, Tulip tries to speed through the cars (not making much progress on her number going down) and makes it to a place called Corginia and meets Atticus, king of the Corgis, who offers her a nice sunbeam to lie in, Tulip says she just has to get to the exit. Shadow monster shows up on top of the hills, shadow monster turns out to just be a little spider- PSYCH the monster is real, and it's not a monster, it's a machine, this is the Steward, it's stealing glowing blue orbs, Tulip fights it off, Atticus joins the gang to get revenge for his Corgi kingdom that was attacked by the Steward.
NEXT EPISODE GO, The Crystal Car, little crystal man says to open the door you have to sing an emotional or important song, Atticus tries singing the song of his people (he howls) and One-One tries singing the song of his people (that dial-up internet sound) when both fail because the crystal can only recognize actual words Tulip tries to sing multiple songs, love songs, breakup songs, sad songs, just any song that has an emotion behind it, none work. The crystal man is like "your song, not my song, your heart, not my heart" (idk why but that line... made me not okay, after hearing it I was just like never okay again, also the crystal man can't speak so he said all of this charades style which just... makes it worse) so Tulip is like "oh, it has to mean something to me personally." and so she sings a song she used to sing on road trips with her parents and it's not at all an emotional song it's Word Up by Little Mix, but it means something to Tulip and it's part of her personal life so it works and Tulip gets the exit. I'm so not okay, this entire show is just not okay, I love it, but, damn, why would you hurt me like that.
Next is The Cat's Car... THIS EPISODE WAS SO NOT OKAY LIKE BRO BRO BRO WTF BRO WTF
So The Cat's Car. Tulip ends up in The Cat's car, yk the one that tried to take One-One, and the cat shows Tulip a tape of her own memories claiming it will help her on her leave the train, so Tulip watches her tape, and she basically gets transported into her own memories.
She sees happy memories of her having fun with her friend or singing Word Up on a road trip with her parents, or even going to DolphWorld, a marine park place. These all seem like normal happy memories, until it gets to one memory... Tulip is at home and she sees herself go into the living room, there's an ad on tv for a "donut holer" which is "certainly not a scam!" as Atticus, the advertiser, says. She then looks over at herself sitting in front of a couch and placing a cover on seemingly nothing... there's an indistinct and muffled talking noise as Tulip's memory sits eerily still with an unmoving smile on her face. Tulip tries to hear what the muffled talking is and the memory starts glitching.
Tulip retreats into another happy memory, but once again something isn't right with it, this time it's her at a table with both her parents and all of them wearing "family 4 ever" shirts and the memory is eerily enthusiastic and all their smiles in the memory are unnaturally big, the memory isn't real, it's a fake happy memory to make it seem like everything was happier then, Tulip runs and suddenly static starts taking over her body as she panics and questions what's going on and why her memories aren't right.
She's back in DolphWorld and... this wasn't a happy memory. DolphWorld wasn't a good marine park at all, it was cheap and bad, and Tulip couldn't even see as she needed glasses, her parents had also been fighting. DolphWorld was a horrible memory... she's back in the living room of her house... the ad on the TV isn't supposed to be there, it's not a real ad. The real ad was Harry the Bike Guy, and he says "it isn't a sham, I am!" she wasn't placing a cover on nothing, she was covering her dad who was sleeping on the couch and crying... the static retreats.
She's back at the dining table, this time, it's a memory of them telling Tulip about the divorce, the memory is horrible altered and the room is on fire and her parents turn into demons as she cries... Tulip fixes the memory and remembers what REALLY happened... her parents are calmly talking to her... trying to let her know gently and trying to be sensitive about how she might feel... Tulip says she's okay when they ask her, once again, she's denying being upset about it, her parents try to talk to her, but she's closing off... she snaps at them and blames them for the divorce claiming that things were fine before... no one else was messing with Tulip's memories... she was.
Her "happy" memories are just proof that her parents weren't happy together. The static fully retreats and Tulip goes back into the real world, exiting her memories. She gets angry and puts her glove back on deciding that she won't look at her number at all, once again refusing to deal with her problems and refusing to acknowledge that she's not okay. She then leaves the cat's car and the episode ends.
...this episode literally... broke me... and there's still 5 more episodes this season... oh boy
