Me and Rico Down by the School Yard
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| Me and Rico Down by the School Yard | |
| Season 2, Episode 1 | |
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| Air Date | April 23, 2007 |
| Written by | Heather Wordham |
| Director | Roger S. Christiansen |
| Guest cast | Andrew Caldwell Teo Olivares Brie Gabrielle Tera Hendrickson |
| Chronology | |
| previous Bad Moose Rising | next Cuffs Will Keep Us Together |
"Me and Rico Down by the School Yard" is the first episode of Season 2. The episode title is a reference to the Paul Simon song "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
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[edit] Plot
Miley sings a song at a concert and urges everyone to get up early to go to school as the beginning of the school year is the next day. However, she herself only reluctantly gets up after Robby threatens to dump a bucket of ice water over her, as he did with Jackson. Miley and Lilly start their first day of high school at Seaview High School. Lilly discovers that Miley brought her teddy bear, causing her to overreact, asking Miley what this would do to her rep. She receives an anonymous text message on her cell phone that says someone knows her secret and has a picture that proves it.
Miley and Lilly are instantly worried and believe Oliver is behind this and go off to find him, but he didn't do it either as she gets a message from the mysterious person 3 seconds after she berates him. Lilly narrows it down to anyone texting and Miley looks at a nearby table filled with freshmen and exclaims "Great, that narrows it down to everyone!"
Miley finds out that it was Rico who sent the message, as he becomes a new student in her class and asks her if she got his messages. Miley, Lilly and Oliver drag him out of class. To keep Rico from exposing her secret, he makes her pretend to be his girlfriend. Miley is humiliated all day. Lilly and Oliver try to get Rico's cell phone. They find Rico's because it was the only locker with a foot stool underneath it. The only problem is there is monkey gaurding the locker.
Rico then wants Miley to kiss him. Lilly tries to help by telling Miley, "It'll be over before you know it." Miley replies by saying that Rico will hold the secret over her forever. She says that if he wants to send the picture, she'd let him but nothing could be much worse than what he was putting her through. Rico hands over the phone and says he was always the smallest in his classes and that he wanted to be liked. As Miley feels sorry for him she starts to kiss him on the cheek, but Rico turns his head and kisses Miley on the lips. He screams, "He shoots, he scores!" Miley gives him a mad look and says "He's toast." and she begins to chase him, as Oliver says he never saw Miley so angry. Running from Miley , Rico calls on to the monkey in his locker and it drops a banana on the ground causing Miley to drip over.
Lilly realizes that the secret that Rico knew was that Miley had brought her teddy bear to school, not that she is Hannah Montana.
During the credit the monkey is seen serving ice cones from it's ice cone machine in Rico's locker.
In a subplot Jackson makes a new friend at school, a Minnesota native named Thor who is overly friendly.
[edit] Continuity
As the first episode of the second season, the episode introduced new plot-lines and characters to the series. Jackson's friend Cooper is no longer on the show and his role is replaced by Thor, an ancient Norse god!!! Thor is a recurring character throughout the season. The episode also had Miley and her class move on to high school. Rico, having skipped a few grades, is now in Miley's class, and is introduced in the credits as one of the stars of the show. Rico's role in Miley's classes is explored more in later episodes through the season. The episode introduces new sets for the season, such as Miley's room.
[edit] Production and critical response
In order to establish Miley and her friend's entry into high school, the Disney Channel premiered this episode along with four others in one week, calling it Hannah Montana's Freshman High-Five. This episode premiered on Monday of the week. Although the episode beat only one other throughout the week in ratings, it still placed 12th in cable viewing in the United States for the week with 3.51 million viewers [1]
[edit] Goofs
- When the camera switches angles after Miley says "You're on my lap, aren't ya?", her facial expression changes too rapidly to be humanly possible.
- Jackson's glasses are gone when the camera switches to Thor.
- The stool in front of Rico's locker disappears when Oliver gets a snow-cone from the monkey, then appears again a little before Oliver asks for more syrup.
- The picture on Rico's phone shows Miley kissing Beary the Bear on the other cheek.
[edit] Trivia
- The opening title has changed to "Disney's Hannah Montana," adding the Disney name.
- Beary the Bear's first appearance was in "O Say Can You Remember The Words?".
- This episode introduces the song "Make Some Noise"
