"Second First Date" is the 31st episode of Season 1 of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes and the 31st episode overall.
Official Synopsis
Love is in the air and Cupid arrives to resolve romantic tension around the plaza.[1]
Plot
It's Valentine's Day and Enid, Radicles, and K.O. are decorating Gar's Bodega with Valentine's Day ornaments. When the pomegranate shoots explode in the middle, revealing Cupid. He claims that there to resolve a romantic tension that no one knew between Rad and Enid. Although Enid denies, with his flashback eye, he takes them back years ago. Young Enid is at the school picking up her manga that fell to the ground, a young Rad gives her the book and walks away, but arouses interest in Enid.
Elodie convinces Enid to ask Rad for a date, although she was reluctant at first. He accepts and they find themselves in the place where Enid trained. But Rad was too insecure to interact with Enid, and his friends told him to do detestable things instead of being himself. This leads Enid to storm off after lunching one of her fireball attacks towards him. This causes young Rad to fall for her, and to regret everything he did to her but brushes it off. At the end of the flashbacks, K.O. becomes super sad because of the sad ending. Cupid says he was right and they would have to make an end.
But not the way everyone thinks, they're kind of in a ring fighting to see who was the most chivalrous. Enid ends up revolting and falling from the ring towards the lava flow that was around. She was calm and ready to accept her death fate, but before that, she is saved by Rad with his telekinesis and pulls her back up to the ring and he apologized for being a jerk on their first date. She accepts his apologies and Cupid sees that now they are in a platonic friendship, soon after that returns to the sky. They go out and walk together, Enid punches his arm and he runs after her.
Features
Characters
- K.O.
- Radicles
- Enid
- Cupid (debut)
- Potato
- Colewort (non-speaking)
- Elodie (flashback)
- Bell Beefer (flashback)
- Mega Football Baby (flashback)
- Nick Army (flashback)
- Joff (flashback)
- Gregg (flashback)
- Drupe (flashback)
- Brandon (flashback)
- Dolph Finn (flashback)
- Punching Judy (flashback)
- Ice Creamy (flashback)
Music
Soundtrack
Trivia
- Enid's dance battle outfit was inspired by activewear trends.[2]
- The scene where Enid grabs Rad with her legs was cut out in the UK version.
Production Notes
- The crew wanted to tell a story about what viewers miss out on if they listen to bad influences.[3]
Continuity
- Elodie cheering for Enid having a crush on Rad suggested that the flashback took place after Enid met Elodie and before Elodie is admitted to P.O.I.N.T. Prep and betrayed Enid from the flashbacks of "You Have to Care".
- Colewort and Potato are taking things slowly as they were prom dates from "Plaza Prom".
- The volcano K.O., Enid, Rad, and Cupid are at is a different volcano that the Bodegamen went to from "Everybody Likes Rad?". Because there are multiple volcanoes in the same area, each volcanoes have different functions since in this episode, it is used for battles where "Everybody Likes Rad", the volcano is used for discarding items.
Cultural References
- Enid has a phone charm of Naruto Uzumaki from the popular anime/manga Naruto as she was checking the time while waiting for Rad.
- Three manga books that Enid picks up in the flashback are Debt Note, Beach, and Ninja Love. They are parodies of Shonen Jump manga Death Note, Bleach, and Naruto.
- Ninja Love's cover parodies an infamous scene from the series where Sasuke and Naruto accidentally kiss.
- The battle Rad and Enid have refers to the rose duels from Revolutionary Girl Utena where the combatants must destroy the rose on their opponent's lapel to win. This is inverted in the episode because Rad and Enid must pin the rose on their opponent's lapel to win.
Videos
Gallery
Second First Date.
Transcript
- View the episode's transcript here.