Country Girls, (originally and still known in certain TV schedules and streaming ventures as Mia's Ranch Romance) is the fourth episode of LEGO Friends and the first of Season 2.
Synopsis[]
The girls are visiting Mia's grandparents Ranch when Olivia accidentally knocks down the neighbors barn – but they promise to fix it.
Plot[]
Outside, Mia is up to the drimarket dayveway on her scooter to tell her four friends about her news. Meanwhile, the girls are at the Juice Bar, and Emma just (still) can't decide what she wants to drink. Naya tells her that maybe she'd like a mixed drink, which she agrees to. She then tells her friends, Stephanie, Olivia and Andrea that she decided very quickly. Mia comes in telling them that she has big news, that since her horse Mocca is giving birth to a brand new foal, that means that they get to stay over at her ranch for the weekend.
The four girls all get excited about it, and when they are there, Andrea steps in horse droppings. She shakes it off her foot, which Emma avoids by using her karate moves. She says it's too bad that karate can't do anything about the smell of the ranch, and the horse makes neighs as if to ask Emma, "Well, what do you expect from here?!" . Mia's grandmother tells Mia that it looks like she brought some city girls in, and Mia assures her grandmother that she'll break them in.
Meanwhile, Stephanie's eye is caught by a cute country boy, who is talking to Mr. Kane. Stephanie asks who he is, and Mia says his name is Martin, their neighbor. Mia tells them come on to put all their bags inside. Olivia says they probably needed to bring in the wagon, and Andrea says "Oh come on, we didn't bring that much." Then she adds, "Did we?" The girls all laugh.
When they have gotten their luggage inside, Stephanie, Olivia, Andrea and Emma come out of the house, and Mia offers to ride horses, which only leaves Emma and Andrea behind. Mia tells them to just met them in front of the barn in about an hour, and later in the scene, Andrea is walking up to a tree outside for music inspiration. She spots a ladybug on a flower. Meanwhile, Emma also needs inspiration, but to paint. An apple falls into her hand and she takes a bite out of it.
Later, the girls are all riding horses, and Stephanie spots Martin working on the farm gate. She looks at and admires him. Andrea is writing her song lyrics. And Emma is also painting. She spots a bee pass by. Martin notices Stephanie, and she has her horse keep walking by. Meanwhile, Andrea is getting some good ideas for lyrics. The girls, meanwhile, are horseback riding, Emma opens a drawer full of bees, she runs and screams, and soon both she and Andrea are both being chased by bees and start running.
Andrea escapes into the barn, and finds Mocha, the horse. Mocha whines, and Andrea backs off and goes away outside. Emma tells how she almost got stung by a swarm of bees, and Olivia says they're actually good to have around. Of course, unless there's a swarm. Then there's a fly and Emma tells it to shoo, putting her hands up in karate pose, but Stephanie tells her ranches also have those.
Soon, Mia's Grandfather comes over, asking them how they like ranch life, and they all love it, except for Emma saying it's "a little buggy." Olivia then adds, "But we love it." Mia's grandfather suggests why don't they help out with chores, and Mia tells him they just wanted to hang out. Olivia tells her it's okay, and they all agree to do chores. Later on, Andrea and Emma are shoveling the hay in Mocha's barn. Emma, while scooping up manure, commented on the work as "no rose garden", but was upbeat that, they're real ranch-hands, shooing a fly away with a karate chop. Andrea agrees and starts singing much to the annoyance of the animals (as if to say they're not fans) and, strangely, Charlie, her dog.
Outside, Olivia is typing up hay and carrying it to the tractor. Stephanie is getting eggs from the hen shed, but the chickens don't want to give the eggs up. Stephanie distracts one of the hens by saying "Oh no, a foss" and she grabs an egg while the chicken isn't looking.
Meanwhile, Mia and Martin are having a good time, Martin asking for some grapes, and Mia throwing one into his mouth. Stephanie sees Martin with Mia and gets a little jealous, but Olivia reminds her of the chores after which she showed off her best friend has a crush facial expression. Mia tells Martin she hopes her horse will have her foal, and Martin says he'll keep his fingers crossed for her. After, Olivia is riding the tractor, and the brakes go out. Olivia is riding by Mia uncontrollably, making Mia fear the worst, but moving out of the way. Olivia is still riding out of control, nearly hitting the hens but smashes into the barn. Mia rushes over along with the other girls and asks Olivia if she is okay. Olivia says she thinks so, but the barn is a different story.
Soon, Martin and his father, Mr. Kane, comes over, and asks what happened. Mr. Kane appears angry, and Olivia apologizes with Martin's father, but he replied saying sorry isn't going to fix the damage. Stephanie and Mia tell him they'll find a way to pay for it, and promise him. Stephanie helps Martin to reel up the chickens for them, and the girls all get to work. Soon, they are running after hens, and Martin tells Stephanie that one hen, Clara, is still missing.
Stephanie finds her, the only one out of herself and Martin to fit up the barn hole, and tries to grab her, but falls off the ladder, with Martin swooping in to catch her. She says thanks and imagines herself on a ship with his hands holding her hands out at the railing edge. Mia asks if everything is okay, and tells Martin he can put Stephanie down now. Martin says "Yeah, right" with a look of guilt and puts her down. Mia tells Stephanie with both anger and jealously that they're need inside and they've got to go – now! After gaining a distance on her with Emma, Olivia swoops in to tickle Stephanie on one of her stomach sides, coaxing the "crush" feeling out of her, asking if she got her eye on a country boy and ultimately if she likes him. Meanwhile, Emma is asking Mia the same thing if "she" likes Martin, which Mia doesn't answer, still citing she knowing him since they were five. Emma wasn't buying it, asking if she didn't like seeing him holding Stephanie like that. To end the scene, both Olivia and Emma simultaneously told Stephanie and Mia to go for Martin, as he's cute.
Later, the girls and Mia's grandparents are at dinner and Olivia is feeling terrible about the barn, adding she should've asked permission first, but Mia's grandfather replies that he should've warned the girls earlier about the tractor. Stephanie moved her on to rather focus on raising enough money to fix the barn, adding that it matters liitle who is at fault. Andrea suggests that they can probably make money selling the lemonade, and how yummy it is, which was appreciated by Mia's grandmother and brought the market day suggestion to the girls. They all agree to it, including Mia, and the next day, the girls get to work with Martin helping. They pick fresh apples from the tree, which Mocha eats out of the basket, and Emma and Olivia laugh at it. Mia notices Stephanie's fun with Martin and gets her dose of jealousy. Olivia and Emma collide with each other and their bushel of apples. Minutes later, Mia takes a wheel barrel full of apples and tells Emma to come join her, but their fun was half-halted and overshadowed by Martin pushing Stephanie on another wheel barrel.
Soon, Mia's grandmother calls them in for lunch. Emma suggests Mia to sit next to Martin, and at the lunch table, Emma and Olivia both suggest Stephanie and Mia to sit next to Martin, but Martin says there's room enough for both of them and they sit down. Olivia whispers to Emma that she wanted to Stephanie to sit there because she told him to go for Martin. And Emma whispers that she told Mia to go for him. They say in unison: "uh-oh", and Stephanie talks to Martin about having such a good time in the wheel barrel. Mia counters back by saying that's nothing, and asks him if Martin remembers when they were five, and in the cornfield, they were chasing crows and got lost and no one could find them for hours. With Martin affirming it, Stephanie thought of it as scary but Mia thought of it as the best time of her life as well as being pleased when others call her and Martin "two peas in a pod". Olivia and Emma try to distract them with corn and beets, with Andrea merrily enjoying them, but it backfires as Stephanie walks out.
Later that day, Stephanie is about to make lemonade with the lemon juice, water and sugar, but Stephanie gets so distracted about earlier moments she accidentally uses too much sugar and tastes it. She spits it out, and Olivia helps her with putting in more lemon juice and water for balancing. Meanwhile, Martin asked Mia what she did back there, and Mia replied being "sorry" about interrupting him talking to his "girlfriend" (referring to Stephanie), adding what Martin thinks of her, but Martin clears it up and wonders why she was worked up like that and Mia gets mad that he wouldn't be interested in one of her best friends.
She tells him that it felt weird seeing them together, and he does admit Stephanie being cool, but likes someone else (referring to her herself and not any of her friends as he negates each one's). The two share an eye gazing moment and a hen pecks Martin's shoe, signalling him to return and tell Mia they still had loads of work to do. Meanwhile, Olivia and Stephanie are drinking the delicious lemonade, Olivia's plan had worked. Stephanie then got worked up after picking her planner placard and realized she had juicing, jams and pies to bake, citing spending more than ample time with Martin as the blame, but Olivia calmed her down saying they can tackle that together.
Inside, Andrea brought some strawberries and asked Emma how the blackberry jam is turning out, which she replied "Delicious" with a jam-smeared mouth. Later on that day, Stephanie is squeezing lemons and Olivia and Emma needed her and Mia separate as it was their fault for triggering it. Mia seeing her rage apologized adding, "I didn't realize I liked him until..." "Until I liked him?" The latter quoted by Stephanie marked the beginning of the budding romance between Mia and Martin in future episodes. Olivia asks where the rolling pin is, Mia telling her it's in her hand, and Emma puts the plug into the outlet of the blender before the lid is put on the blender. Stephanie gets drenched and says it's so not her day.
The next morning, it is market day, and the girls load the stuff onto the wagon car, with Andrea getting upset at a squawking morning-wakening rooster. The girls get on the wagon car, and Mia's grandmother gives her granddaughter some cookies for market day. Later that day, they are doing a good job selling cookies and lemonade, and the rest, with their first customer (who appears to be Tanya's mother in full appearance). They sell out soon, and Mia and Stephanie settle off their confusion and hugged, much to Andrea's own confusion, even to ask if she missed something to the outpouring of laughter from her friends.
When they return to the farm, Andrea and Emma find Mocca in the barn in labor. Emma sought to get help but Andrea replied they don't have time or it'll be too late and coaxes her while singing "Country Girls". Meanwhile, the other girls give Mr. Kane the money. Mr. Kane expresses his gratitude and gives some of the money to Olivia for keeps. Stephanie sees that Martin's boots don't match, which he cites his messy clogs and just grabbing what's closest. Olivia whispered to Stephanie that she and Martin might not be a perfect match after all, which she agrees. Emma calls the girls over, and they all see and revel in Mocca's new foal. Martin and Mia share a slight hand touch and gazed at each other; Stephanie noticed and showed her a smile of approval. Mia's grandmother tells them that no one ("not even her") will ever call Emma or Andrea city girls again. Mia then tells the girls they have a different tradition in their family. Then to end the episode, Andrea sings Ranch Romance with her friends and the ranch folk dancing to it. During the song Martin and Mia went to gaze at the full moon at night as well as each other.
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Fun Facts[]
- This episode could make viewers feel like they're watching a children's telenovela/soap opera.
- This episode may also highlight that things don't appear the way one another sees it. Stephanie got attracted to Martin and got into situations that ultimately ended her up on his arms, not only making Mia angry but jealous. But after Martin clarified how he himself feel about both girls, Mia felt bad and guilty. Anyone getting attracted to anyone doesn't always necessarily mean they're in a relationship, which can be confusing for the average person.
- Mia said, "I get if you're still mad at me." after the confusion was cleared up by Martin himself. After Stephanie realized that Mia was true to her word the whole time, the latter replied, "You're the best!" which may even confuse the girl viewer.
- "I'm sorry, I didn't realize I liked him until..." "Until I liked him?" The latter was quoted by Stephanie which triggered the beginning of the budding romance between Mia and Martin from that episode until Girls on a Mission.