Keep Off The Grass

Keep Off The Grass is the first half of the 4th episode in the series.

Plot synopsis
Phillip and D.D. meet Layla, the most bored kid in Chickenpaw Park. D.D. takes it upon herself to prove how exciting the park is, but ends up leading the group to an unusual underground world.

Detailed Synopsis
Phillip and D.D. arrive at the park for ping pong day. Phillip warms up while D.D. rents a ping pong ball, using her dad and his scooter as a deposit. D.D. far overshoots the table, hitting a park-goer (Layla) with the ball, at which point it ricochets into some tall grass. While Phillip checks Layla for injuries she insists Chickenpaw Park is boring, at which point D.D. vows to prove her wrong. Phillip attempts to reclaim D.D.'s lost ball from the grass without touching it, due to the "Keep off the grass" sign. The girls leave him behind. After several unsuccessful attempts to prove her point, D.D. brings Layla back to Phillip, who has invented the "no touch object in thing getter". Despite his invention the trio falls in the grass, and begins sinking as if it were quicksand. The trio are output into the underground, an alien looking cavern, which D.D. still cannot use to prove that the park isn't boring to Layla. The trio find an abandoned laboratory (which does not interest Layla), an old video shows some scientists sealing the cavern off as they are attacked by a mutant. Phillip opens the locked lab using his mothers genetic code as the password, once inside D.D. saves a giant fly from a mutant plant. The sounds alert one of the biggest mutants, the Pig Tentacle, to their presence and it attacks. The giant fly returns D.D.'s earlier rescue by helping them escape, and retrieve the ping pong ball in the process. Afterwards Phillip builds a fence around the entrance to the underground, and D.D. has a revelation about how not everyone gets as excited about things as her. Layla has taken an interest in D.D.'s ping pong ball, and how it is covered in marks from the paddles, but keeps coming back for more, insisting it's a metaphor for life. Layla asks for the ball, D.D. gives it to her despite her deposit. The episode ends on a shot of Phillip discovering a tattoo on his mother's body matching a symbol he found in the abandoned laboratory.

Appearances

 * D.D. Danger
 * Phillip
 * Layla
 * Pigeon Lady (cameo)
 * Roy Danger
 * Phillip's Mom
 * Pig Tentacle

Notes & trivia

 * When the trio sink in the grass, Phillip gives a thumbs up, this is likely a reference to the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day, which ends on a similar scene of the friendly Terminator sinking in liquid metal, giving a thumbs up.