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King of Rain
When Yulia mistakenly gets engaged to a child king, Hadi plans to appeal to the king's conscience by saying that her mother wishes to say goodbye. Jinda turns Giola into a taller and bustier version of her human form, and Giola comes bustling in with a ridiculous British accent and fake crying about missing "my only daughter".
What really makes the king well up is Jinda turning herself into Yulia's "pet koala Steve".
A Fishy Tale
A merchant tries to sell Julinah a fish... whom she apparently knew.
Julinah: HANK? I warned you about those hooks, ya dunce.
Keya: (leaning into frame) Well, now that he’s dead...
Nabil: (from offscreen) You’re not eating the corpse in public, Keya!
Keya: (defeated) Okay.
“Oh... This is gonna be one of those days, isn't it?”
Keya and Nabil (a shark and pilot fish in human form, respectively), are always good for a laugh.
Keya remarks on Azem’s way of speech.
Azem: Azem like gold!
Keya: “Azem like gold". Azem has really gotta work on his vocabulary. Use actual words!
The interactions between Giola and Keya are comedy gold, both before and after the former learns the latter’s true nature.
Cure for the Uncommon Cold
Antania (a girl disguised in a bug costume) is a Deadpan Snarker of the highest order. During Antania’s trial, a gigantic board game similar to Grape Escape, a panicky Giola delivers a classic question:
Giola: COULDN'T WE JUST PLAY A NORMAL BOARD GAME?!
Antania: ...Nope.
After she’s saved from a volcano at the last minute, Giola has this to say.
Giola: Death, my canny foe, I’VE CHEATED YOU AGAIN!
Team Hadi wins the game, and they are in absolute shock. In their eyes, they should not have won.
Palace of the Sun
“Okay, now you have my attention!”
The whole "horse elevator" scene. Jinda turns into an elevator operator and uses Horse as one to slowly get everyone up to a certain height above the rainforest. All just sit there looking bored as elevator music plays, and Jinda awkwardly tries to make small talk.
Giola getting the slaves to go on strike.
Quetzalcoatl descending to the surface. Giola is terrified at his sudden appearance.
Giola: AH! NOT YET, I’M TOO YOUNG!
Chill as Ice
This exchange after Hadi offers Xuě to come back to Bajida with them.
Giola: I don’t think this is a good idea, Hadi. I mean, the girl's got the reasoning faculties of a boiled cauliflower!
Hadi: Don't worry about it! I got us through her ice palace, and I can handle it!
(Giola gives a perfectly timed Facepalm)
The Secret City
Giola's crowning moment of snark: After the gang is trapped in a mine, Jinda questions whether going deeper in would be a good idea, stating that it might be a trap. Giola, in her own inimitable style, flicks Jinda a coin and says, "Here's a dinar. INVEST IN A CLUE!!! WE ARE TRAPPED!!! THEREFORE, THIS IS A TRAP!!!"
As the gang try to hide from the wyrm inside a dark chamber:
Jinda: Sure is dark in here.
Giola: Yeah, and there's a funny smell here, too. It kinda smells like... (Jinda lights a fire with her finger and the room lights up revealing barrels around the gang) ...lamp oil.
All: LAMP OIL?!
Hadi: (shoves Jinda's lit finger into the pink gal's mouth) One spark, and this place will blow like-
Giola: Like it's full of barrels of LAMP OIL!
Jinda: Sorry.
"Seriously, what's going on? Everybody calm down! I'VE GOT A SWORD!"
Princess Parrot
“Oh, no... I really bit the BIG ONE AGAIN!”
One of the palace maids pulls out an old outfit for Human!Giola to wear. As she despairs at having to let Giola of all people wear it while straightening out her hair, she notes it was specially prepared... for Yulia's twelfth birthday.
Giola: TWELFTH?! (Stands up promptly, taking a moment to inspect herself) Well, it's a good thing it fits perfectly or we would've really had a problem!
The dinner scene. Giola, having no experience with human upper class dinner mannerisms, tries to copy Yulia at first. By the end she gives up and starts shoving food into her face. Cue an exasperated glance from Yulia.
"Did I say that I felt bad? Let me rephrase that: I feel bad for me."
The Familiar Stranger (parts 1 & 2)
When Bahshir arrives at the palace with “Raniya”:
Giola: (watching Bahshir limp into the throne room) Y'know, I'd make a comment here, but I'm genuinely worried that he might actually be physically disabled — and then who looks like a guy I wouldn’t trust with my life, I mean, this guy, still a little bit, because he looks shifty, but mostly me! Mostly Giola!
“If the walls could talk, they'd say really bad things about that guy.”
During the fight with Fake!Raniya, Jinda literally falls apart into jigsaw pieces. Mamun and Giola scramble to piece her together quickly.
Giola: Come on, come on! PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!!!
Parrot for a Day
“Hahahahabirdsarebetterandhavenoflaws!”
Yulia puts some new curtains in the hovel, saying they have no holes. Proceed for Parrot!Mamun to come darting through them, ripping a huge hole in them.
The way Giola calls on Jinda. You'd expect there to be some kind of convoluted way to do it. But then, instead, you get:
Giola: Jinda! OW-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO-WOO!
(Jinda just pops in out of thin air.)
Dead Man Tells Some Tales
A robed skeletal figure who calls himself a herald comes out of the sea and offers a conch to an absent Hadi. Mamun pretends to be Hadi and the skeleton (who Giola names "Harold") takes it in stride.
Because Hadi has sworn off helping her on any treasure hunts, Giola makes a costume from the bones and robes of the skeleton, making it seem to be a sailor whose body was never found asking for help from Hadi. “Harold” ends up losing the skeleton’s arm to Hadi, still clinging to the gift. Giola awkwardly says "Errr, keep it..." before walking off. What makes the scene even funnier is that she doesn’t even bother mimicking the Herald’s actual voice, opting instead to use a hammier male voice.
When the skeletal sailor awakens, the first thing he does is introduce himself... except that he realizes that he has Identity Amnesia mid-sentence. He does remember important things though, like he has to find somebody and that he left his fez on his ship.
When they catch the dead guy in the bazaar and start to make a scene, Giola tries to play it off as All Part of the Show. And pulls it off like a champ, judging by how much money she got when she passed the hat around.
In the end, the sailor, Baki, reunites with his wife's spirit. They have a touching conversation, before they fade away. The onlookers are all wowed by the sight, and then:
Giola: (cough) Never in my life have I said 'Dang it, I think I inhaled some skeleton dust!’ and meant it!
Blast to the Future
"Man, future times are weird."
"Man, future times are scary!"
Jinda pretty much guilts the rest of the gang into joining her on her trip to modern-day. After they agree?
Jinda: Thanks, guys! (dressed as an airline pilot) I've made every effort to make your guilt trip a pleasant one.
The group’s reactions to modern clothing.
Giola: (wearing a dress) THIS WAS A MISTAAAAAKE!!!
The bit when they first enter the electronics store will make anybody who's ever been to one of those places fall off their seat laughing.
Giola pulls at a push door as they try to enter, claiming she could not read the "Push" sign (which is in English). Mamun responds with a sigh and "I know."
Queen of the Ghouls
The ghouls welcoming Not!Raniya into their fold: “WELCOME TO OUR PLAGUE PIT, BUTT-MUNCHER.”
"Hey you ghouls! The gang is here!"
It's Jinda's bizarre accent that really sells it.
Giola’s reaction to Not!Raniya’s return:
Giola: Y’know what, I’m hardened at this point. I'm ready for anything.
Yulia: (referring to Not!Raniya) It’s that thing!
Giola: WAIT, I LIED! I was NOT- I was NOT ready for anything!
The Mother Lovers
The group’s reactions at Mother Sweet’s “children”, a group of preteens acting like pampered little kids, is bound to at least get a chuckle.
Just the names she gives them and how they’re dressed: “Tator-tot” is dressed like Little Lord Fauntleroy, “Blossom” looks like a little girl's doll, “Starshine” has an oversized sweater, “Bunbun” wears a pink fluffy bunny pajama costume and “Smoochie-Poo” is dressed in a child’s yellow rain poncho with oversized boots!
Giola’s response upon being called “Gigi” by someone other than Keya.
Giola: Look, there’s only one person out there who’s allowed to call me that, and it ain’t even my boyfriend.
The interactions between the gang and Mother Sweet’s “children” in general (prior to the latter being released from their brainwashing).
“Smoochie-Poo” getting a bib reading "BIG BOY!" and gabbling happily at it. This is then followed by "Blossom” getting her face scrubbed clean of cake by Mother Sweet until the girl’s face is literally sparkling because of how clean it is. All the while, "Blossom” giggles and hearts float up from her head. The eavesdropping Giola is understandably Squicked.
Giola then tries and fails to get the “children” to drop the Kiddie Kid act by tempting them with “grown-up things”:
Coffee Dealer!Giola: Come on kids, don'tcha wanna bite of one of these babies? (shows off wings covered in coffee beans)
And when she’s about to eat one, Mamun has this to say:
Mamun: Y’know, I wouldn’t eat that [coffee bean] if I were a bird again. I remember the last time you had coffee, you had another near-death experience.
This causes Giola to hurl the coffee bean as hard as she can, which hits a nearby vendor on the head, briefly stunning him.
When Jinda sees and recognizes Mother Sweet and tries to warn the group:
Jinda: (slightly panicked) Oh no, not here. Anywhere but Bajida! This has gotta stop! Guys, can I have a word with all of you in private?! (pulls them all aside with a Vaudeville Hook)
Hadi: Jinda, what's the big idea?
Jinda: Now, there comes a time where a genie has to stand up and say what’s right. With that in mind, I’m sure you'll understand when I say (grabs Hadi by the shoulders and gets right in his face) ARE YOU ALL NUTS?!
The "children” being given a "5:00 beddy bye", and Mother Sweet tucking them in. During this, she pinches and pulls on “Blossom’s” cheek, causing her to giggle.
“GIGI’S GETTIN UPSET!”
"You're gonna get in trouble! You're gonna get in trouble!"
Especially the parts when “Tater-tot” says "You broke Mother's cookies" and “Blossom” and “Smoochie-Poo” go "Ohhhhh...!", as well as the part where they continue the chant while doing the Ring Around the Rosie.
And then Giola ends up snapping them out of their trance by bashing their heads in with a medieval rolling pin.
Giola: Huh. Didn’t expect that to actually work.
After the "children” are brought back to their senses, their true personalities are revealed.
“Tater-tot”: What’d you do that—? (notices their surroundings) Um…where even am I? Who are you?
"Bunbun”: Why am I in a bunny suit?
“Blossom”: Why am I in a dress?!
Playing With Fire
This line from Giola:
Giola: The fire turned into people. I’m sure it did. Well, wake me up if anything unusual happens.
When the flame creatures grab the Sultana and Jinda uses not the best choice in words.
Jinda: Alright, buddy, drop the Sultana! (The fire monster drops the Sultana, and she falls, but Horse manages to catch her) I didn’t mean that literally, and you know it!
Then as Yulia checks on her dazed mother.
Yulia: Mom, are you okay?
Sultana: Uh... fine, fine... r-remind me to... paint my teeth tonight. (faints)
Yulia beating the living crap out of Mohmar when she finds out he sicced Firaas and Touca on the gang.
Yulia: You sons of a DOG! (lunges and tackles Mohmar)
Mohmar: GET OFF ME, PRINCESS! GET HER OFF! GET HER OFF ME! GET HER OFF! OH DEAR ALLAH, GET HER OFF!!!
Hadi: Yulia, stop! Somebody stop Yulia before she strangles Mohmar!
After the climatic battle, the ceiling starts to fall on them. Mohmar is hugging his loot while everything is collapsing around him.
Mohmar: NO! I won’t abandon my loot!
Nazim: Then enjoy it... in the underworld. (sprints off)
Mohmar: WAIT FOR ME! (sprints after Nazim)
Giola in Genieland
An enchanted anklet from Kofir’s old lair latches onto Giola and sends her into the Djinn Realm. As she’s hurtling through the vortex leading there, she’s panicking all the while, shouting at the anklet to send her back home.
Giola: (upset) Bring me home! Br-Bring me home! Take me home, please! LEMME GO HOME! I WANNA GO HOME!!! NOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
The overly shocked face Giola makes upon getting a good look at the Djinn Realm. She knows she’s in for some craziness.
One of the djinn Giola encounters in the Djinn Realm is the camel-like jann Anim, who likes to spit on people. Another is Heqin, who looks like a Jedi.
At the movie theater, we learn the djinn's vision of Giola is a cartoonish goofball. On top of that, there's a Funny Background Event where Giola decries the cartoon and declares that it doesn't look anything like her only for her film counterpart to mimic her gestures at the exact same time.
Giola: Excuse me? (stammers) W-what?! Th- o- come on. That... that looks nothing like me, and you know it!
Operation: Initiation
Hippolyta towards the other Amazons for trying to slink away "while I'm thinking!"
This exchange, after Hippolyta discovers Bajida:
Hippolyta: Phyda?
Phyda: Your Highness?
Hippolyta: Am I correct in assuming that each and every time we planned our next recruitment in this room, you've managed to sit in the exact same spot, BLOCKING THAT UNCHECKED AREA FROM MY VIEW?
Phyda: This is my comfy place. So what?
Giola's reaction to being tossed into a bag and kidnapped with Yulia.
Giola: The least you could do is wrap me as a gift!
Serenara asks Giola if she’s a South American bird.
Giola: No, I'm Indonesian. YEAH, OF COURSE I'M SOUTH AMERICAN! WHAT DO YOU THINK?!
Where Lost Kids Go
Jinda turning Giola into a toddler is both this and Heartwarming.
Princess Sea, Urchin Do
Giola getting turned into a giant squid. There are no words.
Giola: I could've said "If you're a street urchin, then I'm the world's richest parrot!" But what do I say?! "I'm a giant squid!"
And then when she tries to shift into her human form, she gets a form that resembles Squid Girl. Her response?
Giola: (nods) I can make this work.
A lot of the humor in this episode comes from taking a character who isn't usually the butt of jokes when they're human and putting them through the wringer once they're not any more. Between Yulia and Giola's misfortunes, plus what it does to Prince Akeem, it's one of the slapstick-iest episodes in the series.
“Just when I think there are no new kinds of pain...I find one.”
Yulia being put through a Baleful Polymorph run as Jinda tries to revert her back to normal.
As well as Jinda somehow recognizing her and having to be told that she's been turned into a sea urchin.
Giola's comments about her transformations.
Giola the giant squid: DON’T TALK TO ME WHEN I GOT NO BONES!
Giola with feather fins: I LOOK LIKE A STINKIN’ CAT OVER HERE!
A Calamitous Counterstrike
The reveal of the Big Bad of the episode is pretty funny, with him hamming it up big time, appearing as a large green flame, only for it to fizzle out when Hadi refers to him by name almost immediately.
Hadi: Hey, Bahshir.
Bahshir: (as the flame parts to reveal himself) How the bleedin’ heck did you know?!
Survival of the Feathery
Just the premise of Giola and Keya stranded on an island together with a previously marooned girl named Besma.
"Yoink!"
The eel in human form Abdullah is a Troll of the highest order. Special mention is made near the end, when he reveals to the girls that he could’ve just easily told Julinah where they were, but chose not to. They don’t take it lightly.
Giola: Oh, yeah! It's real funny, ain't it?! HAHAHA! We could’ve died here, ya turd!
Keya: You’re lucky I don't like the taste of eels who eat schadenfreude for breakfast.
Love Showdown
Shumaila tries to get Hadi's attention but fails as he was walking with Jinda explaining how women work.
Jinda: (as a Frenchwoman) Oui, us women, we appreciate ze little things, n’est ce pas? Like when you notice our hair or our clothing. (They walk past Shumaila, who is holding her hair up and has moved her shirt down off of one shoulder. They don’t see her.) We appreciate your willingness to lend a hand. (They pass Shumaila carrying a heavy chest, but ignore her.) And, what is most of all, we appreciate le compassion and le understanding. (They pass Shumaila, who is crying, but she can’t catch their attention.)
Yulia gets angry at Shumaila for trying to claim Hadi for herself.
Yulia: You were stealing my fiancé!
Shumaila: And your point is?
Giola and Shumaila criticize Yulia's lock-picking skill.
Yulia: (looking through Mamun's lockpick set) How do I know which one to use?
Mamun: Try the 16B double forwards Barkat pick.
Yulia: (points at one) This one?
Shumaila: That's the Hossam-head! Don't they teach you anything at the palace!?
Yulia: Not thievery!
Giola: Ah, deplorable how they ignore the basics...
Key to the Past (parts 1 & 2)
After Giola tries to leave the palace to find her prized key necklace (which later turns out to have been given to her by her first master, Halima), Jinda forbids her to take another step down the stairs. Giola agrees, then jumps out the window and flies away.
Jinda: I FORBID YOU TO TAKE ANOTHER STEP DOWN THESE STAIRS.
Giola: ...Okay. (dives out the window)
Jinda: D’oh, she’s good.
Tomb of the Dragon Queen
Giola's immediate first action when the Dragon Queen awakens is to attempt to run away from the situation.
"I AIN'T GONNA BE THE FIRST TO DIE, I'LL TELL YOU THAT MUCH RIGHT NOW!!"
“I SAID... WE! CAN'T! TOUCH! ANYTHING! EEEEEEEEEEEEELSE! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!”
Family Feud
Giola noting the al-Amber Family’s… strange taste in decoration:
Giola: (sarcastic) Ah yes, there's nothing like a bleached human skull to really bring a home together! (serious) No wonder people don't come over anymore.
Followed by Saami’s response:
Saami: (indicating the skull) That was the last one. He's dead now.
Giola goes Blue with Shock at that.
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