Who's Your Daddy? is the twenty-eighth episode of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee and the second episode of season three.
Synopsis[]
Marcus becomes envious of a new student named Taylor Evermore who Juniper starts to hang out with. Unfortunately, Taylor happens to be the son of Loki, who is trying to use the power of the Te Xuan Ze to get him out of imprisonment.
Recap[]
June goes on a carnival with Marcus and despite being in the middle of a monster-fight, gets off easy once she mentions she really wants to go on the date with Marcus. When it's a new day at school and June and Marcus are getting along especially well, Jody suddenly busts onto the scene with news of a new boy at school who is "dreamy cute!" The new boy is named Taylor Evermore and has just moved in from another city, all the girls in the whole school become infatuated with him.
At the school triathlon try-outs, Taylor encourages June to try harder at the events, especially since who's going to let Melissa and her cronies win? June is surprised at someone commending her efforts at all and finds that he's right. Along the way, Ophelia joins her in beating the middle-school records just out of spite towards Melissa. At the end of the day, the of kids enjoy Taylor's company and him and June seem to be getting along the best. When Taylor leaves, June sees that Marcus is jealous but he says that it's also something about Taylor himself that seems off.
When Taylor gets home, it is revealed he's only at the school to get closer to June to use her as a replacement for his father Loki to get him out of his banishment cage. Loki promises Taylor that they'll have all the father-son time in the world once their plan succeeds. Seeing his dad happy about the plan, Taylor mentions off-handedly that Juniper is pretty cool. Loki gets mad and threatens to banish him, Taylor feels hurt by this and gets mad back as from his perspective, that's all that his dad ever does, banishing anyone for just about anything, including his mom. Loki tells him to just do the job the next time.
The next day, Taylor readies his plan but is unprepared for one set back: June not winning at all. June is doing well at all the events until Monroe takes her to the side and warns her about grabbing too much attention with all the record-defying feats.
Loki gets impatient and wants Taylor to just finish the job already. Taylor reassures him that once June wins, any of the medals she'll wear will transport her and only her to where Loki is imprisoned. Despite his efforts, he still has a hard time getting June to wear any of the medals as June does anything in her power to have someone else win. Ophelia and Marcus win the Triathlon in their age-group and Taylor has almost given up and already thinks of being banished, until he notices that Marcus has given June his own medal out of pity for her trying so hard and still losing. Ecstatic about his plan finally working, he zaps at June and transports the both of them to where Loki is kept. Seeing that his father really aims to go through with the original plan though, he pleads with his father to think of another choice and spare June because he really likes her as a friend. Loki is having none of it and reprimanding his son for getting a crush on some pre-pubescent goody-two-shoes, demands the Te Xuan Ze delivered as promised.
When Taylor fights back, Juniper suddenly wakes up and is taken aback from seeing Taylor as responsible and as Loki's son. She lashes out at him in anger and Taylor briefly tries to explain it's not as it seems. Loki interrupts them with an explosion and in the confusion, uses June's Te Xuan Ze bracelet to release himself from the cage, emerging in full form.
June and him have a brief stand-off, but it's obvious that June doesn't stand a chance against him alone, so Taylor steps against his father, throwing fire-balls at him and going on a full attack. They both transform and fight a fierce battle that June is witness to. Just as it seems that Loki could be winning, Taylor traps him back in his original cage and banishes Loki himself. Loki pleads with promises of actual father-son bonding but his words fall short, as Taylor zaps the chains of the cage, releasing them both into an endless pit. As he falls with the cage, he says goodbye to an astonished Juniper, who is then promptly transported back to her own house by Monroe.
The next day, the kids wonder what happened to Taylor and think it's sad that he had to leave so soon, the girls start talking about how cute Taylor was. Seeing Marcus wilt at the mention of this, June re-assures him that Taylor is as cute as him. They both get embarrassed and dash off-screen.
Credits clip[]
Taylor and Loki keep falling endlessly; Loki keeps trying to bribe his son with promises of nice times, but Taylor simply rebuffs and back-pedals and floats off-screen.
Characters[]
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- This is the first time Marcus is seen after Dream Date, one episode after it. In this episode it is seen that they have been on small dates. June acknowledges that Marcus seems to be jealous of Taylor having June's attention.
- First appearance of Taylor Evermore, the son of Loki.
- This is the first time Marcus gets jealous.
- Second appearance of Loki, the King of Lies[1] and third time an old villain from the first season returns.
- This marks the second time Ophelia ever giggles since season 1.[2]
- Ray Ray eats or drinks sugary stuffs in order to run faster than anyone else.
- We find out that besides his mom, Taylor also had an aunt and uncle.
- Loki banished a pizza guy for getting his order of "half-veggie, half-pepperoni pizza" wrong.
- June's nemesis Melissa's last name is O'Malley.
- Taylor's middle name is Valhalla, which according to nordic lore, is a Viking warrior's final resting place. The only way they can get there is to die during battle.
- The events we see at the athletic meet include ice sculpture. However, ice sculpting is not an athletic activity.
- The final part of the triathlon takes place at Skull Lake, where the 100-year sleep monster also resides.
- This is the first time Loki used his shape shifting powers more drastically. The first time, he changed into Larry the Trickster.[3]
- This episode shows that Loki has one half-human kid. In Norse Mythology however, Loki has three different kids.
- Ending Tagline: "And get some sleep, and see you saturday." - Gym Teacher
Gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ New Trickster in Town
- ↑ Take My Life, Please
- ↑ New Trickster in Town