"The Grand Opening!" is the first episode of the first season of Butterbean's Café, and the first episode overall, which also serves as the series premiere.
Summary/Description[]
When Butterbean, her sister and friends all move into town, they open up a café, but Ms. Marmalady tries to ruin their first day of commercial success. Will they succeed or fail, despite wanting to be the only café runners in Puddlebrook?
Plot[]
In a place of growing greens, leaves and trees which blocked the sunlight from hitting the grass grounds, four fairies flew across it, with the pink-shirted teenage fairy expressed her unquenching eagerness to show the other three something. The purple-dressed fairy asked her what she was excited about; she mentioned her name as Butterbean, and she replied she would know and that they should keep following her. Butterbean, now known to the viewer(s), shared her excitement in her inaugural/debut/first-ever interaction with the viewer(s) about her biggest dream coming true: she, her little sister (clarifying the little girl among the fairies) and her best friends (clarifying the other two fairies) are finally going to have a place all their own where people from near and/or far could come and taste all the delicious things they make. She then shortened her long statement that they were going to open a café.
At a grey-colored café in a certain locality, a woman gave a customer a loaf of bread she called "marma-loaf" and thanked her for shopping at Marmalady's, which meant she would henceforth be known to the viewer(s) as Ms. Marmalady. The customer, who was a female chipmunk in sight, asked if she had anything other than "marma-loaf", but instead of a response, Ms. Marmalady took a slice and claimed about how everyone loves her new "marma-loaf", made from her "marma-mix". She took a bite and her body reacted negatively to the taste. She told her she could always shop somewhere else before landing on the actuality that there was nowhere else to shop in Puddlebrook, in turn making her café's locality and the neighbourhood it was situated known to the viewer(s) from henceforth, packaging the bread loaf in a bag and handing it to her. The customer let out a disappointed sigh as she left the café and Ms. Marmalady hoped loudly for her to come again before she shut the door behind her.
The purple-dressed fairy asked Butterbean where they were going to and that latter responded Puddlebrook, which would henceforth become the focal location for this series to date, as Marmalady's Café is also situated there. The orange-dressed fairy repeated the word in question and she and Dazzle showed off their "whatever" gestures to each other before continuing flying, with the little fairy stopping to smell a flower. Butterbean called her Cricket, which would henceforth make her known to the viewer(s), to follow her and the latter let out a giggle as she obliged and flew on. Ms. Marmalady went to the kitchen and saw her employees who were monkeys and were manufacturing the "marma-loaves" of bread with a food processing machine. She called them as Spork and Spatch, which would henceforth be known to the viewer(s) despite the confusion of actually who was Spork and who was Spatch, for an employee meeting. She lamented in a pretented sorrowful manner about the reception of the people of Puddlebrook to what she called her "delicious marma-loaf" and that they wished there was somewhere else they could go. Spatch reminded her about her café currently being the only store in town, which turned her mood upside down and half-schemed, half-vowed to keep it that way.
Butterbean landed and showed them a bean-shaped building which looked abandoned on first sight, but would be their new café. The small-sized fairy and the purple-themed fairy got negatively surprised and the orange-themed fairy made it known to her, but Butterbean still saw it as new if they fixed it up and they would serve snacks and meals. She also added that they would have many happy customers but the purple-themed fairy showed her their current state, seeing as kinda sad. Butterbean tried introducing herself to the Puddlebrook folk but they didn't even listen to her; her little sister mentioned them as "not very friendly". Butterbean assured them that they would have tons of new friends once they taste what they would make at the café and got "fairytale-pumped" verbally feeling that there was something magical about that place. She told them to wait till they saw inside and come along with her after which she went inside. They followed her and magic surrounded the building after the door closed to signal its new settlers. Butterbean showed the purple-themed fairy the counter and where she would put the cash register; to the rest she told them the bare area could accomodate some tables and chairs. She opened a door to another room and showed the orange-themed fairy (whom she called Poppy and would henceforth be known to the viewer(s)) where the future kitchen. Inside the café was all grey and gloomy just like the building exterior and Poppy definitely had doubt in her mind. Butterbean expressed to the viewer(s) that she can't open a café without the help of Poppy and Dazzle. As she mentioned their benefits or the reasons why they are undoubtedly instrumental in opening a café, Poppy took a dirty casserole pan and blew some dirt off it with a disgusted look on her face. The purple-themed fairy (whom she refered to as Dazzle and like Poppy would henceforth be known to the viewer(s)) bent down to look under a counter, got back up and smeared her left index finger over the dirty worktop of whose dirt she blew off. Cricket asked where a trail of stairs she discovered led to before following it, during which Butterbean gave more profiling of her little sister, adding that she is "a really big help" despite being small in size. She opened a door at the end of the stairs which led to a bare room. Dazzle, among the three older fairies who followed her to the room, uttered that it would make a "perfect party room". A door leading to the rooftop exterior was sung open and the fairies were outside. Dazzle continued that they could add more tables and chairs there so customers could eat outside. Cricket added when they got to the topmost padding of the building they could have picnics there, which her big sister thought of as a good idea and Poppy thought it would be fun. Cricket also showed them a slide before sliding down with mouth-sound to invoke laughter out of the older fairies. Butterbean requested to Poppy and Dazzle to open a café with her but both doubted in their reply; for Dazzle, it was to fix up the sight she was seeing of the building and for Poppy, it was about getting every kitchen tool for the kitchen to be ready. Butterbean already knew this but rather focused on "a pinch of patience" and "a helping of hardwork" on making the building "the fairy-best café in Puddlebrook". Both fairies showed a nervous look with Butterbean watching each of them, but seconds later, they high-fived each other. Butterbean expressed her joy and giggled as she hugged them. Cricket asked her big sister if they could keep the slide and her big sister replied positively to her excitement. The fairies slid down the slide one after the other and hugged afterwards. Butterbean almost went low-key in her jubilation about the positive response about opening their "very own" café before she toning down and got to work on revamping the building into a café, which was accompanied with the introductory rendition of Let's Get Cooking!. As Butterbean kept sweeping and Dazzle kept arranging flowers on the tables, Cricket brought out a bean-shaped box covered in grey dust to show to her big sister. Both had no idea what it was, but Cricket in action and verbally went to clean it up, which her big sister said was a good idea.
Ms. Marmalady spied with the spyglass on the new building-turned-café and wondered what was going on, but saw new nieghbours arranging tables and chairs around the café which she expressed her dislike for. She called for Spork and Spatch to go find out what they were up to while she continued spying. The monkeys went there and appeared at the window spying on Cricket humming to herself as she was cleaning the bean-shaped box. Poppy expressed her eagerness to start cooking inside. Dazzle agreed and spelled out the readiness of the front counter and the cash register. The latter pressed the cash button which brought a drawer containing a stylus and a kitchen spoon; she took the former while Poppy took the latter. Cricket by then finished cleaning it and presented it to them; her big sister expressed her awe and surprise at its beauty. She saw a phrase written on the box opener and mentioned it: "For the fairy finish." Then magic came out of it and opened up to reveal a whisk. She took it out and magic came out of the butterfly in the whisk. She tested it on the bean box and it see-sawed once. The magic then got plentiful and spread throughout the café with some transforming Butterbean's wings to gingerbread-cookie designs. The rest of the magic went to land on the objects of as well as transform the wings of Poppy, Dazzle and Cricket to their theme designs; Poppy's was flowers, Dazzle's was stars and Cricket's was hearts. Spork and Spatch watched in disbelief as the girls tried their magic on the café, conjuring up tables and chairs and clean unseen junk. Cricket showed the team what her icing bag can do and in getting excited she splatted icing on Poppy's and Dazzle's faces but they took it off with their fingers, tasted it and laughed. Butterbean justified to them why she claimed there was something magical about the café, but she wondered aloud what the fairy finish meant. A vehicular noise could be heard and Poppy asked them if they heard something. A delivery boy came in with boxes saying "a delivery arrived" for Dazzle, who told him to move it to the counter and thanked him. She moved them with her now-magic stylus to the counter much to his surprise and told the girls she ordered some stuff to get them started, which Cricket saw of as "sweet". The boy added everything fresh from the farm and mentioned his name as Jasper, which would henceforth be known to the viewer(s). Butterbean introduced herself and the girls to him, despite Cricket mentioning her name and age to him herself, and Poppy and Dazzle greeted. Jasper noticed they fixed what he called "this old place" up and asked if they were opening a restaurant or something; Butterbean corrected that they were opening a café. Jasper saw it as "cool" but cautions Ms. Marmalady wouldn't be happy about it, as Spork and Spatch got ito the viewer(s)' view. Cricket asked him who Ms. Marmalady was and Jasper in pointing to the café to the left of him replied that she owned that place across the brook. He added that the only she sold were "marma-loaves" which nobody liked. Butterbean thought loudly of inviting her to their grand opening. Ms. Marmalady opened her eyes in shock and waved at her. Poppy thought of it as a nice idea, but ate her own words and questioned, along with Dazzle, when? Butterbean confidently mentioned today and that they would open the café and invite everyone from Puddlebrook later in the afternoon. Jasper smiled at the idea but the team mentioned her name in scaredy fashion; Butterbean encouraged them that they could do it. Cricket asked if they could do the invitations and her big sister agreed. Dazzle agreed, but only if they got started. Butterbean giggled and motioned to Jasper to tell him they could really use someone to pick up supplies and deliver orders. Jasper got surprised she was referring to him and that he should be part of her team. He and Cricket then asked her what kind of magic the latter would get; before Butterbean could answer, the whisk did – spewing out magic to spin him around and give him green lightning-speed wings. He instantly tested them and flew around much to the surprise and shock to the girls and monkeys spying from outside. Butterbean welcomed him to the team and Jasper exclaimed himself as the "newest member of the bean team" (which would be the collective name for the workers of Butterbean's Café from henceforth). The girls repeated the last three words he said and giggled.
Poppy asked Butterbean what they were going to serve at the grand opening, shortened as "the menu"; Spatch told Spork to go tell Ms. Marmalady what they had seen. As they left, Butterean gathered her now bean team at a table closer to the café's main screen and an outside window for the menu. Dazzle got a tablet ready for input from her stylus. Butterbean told Poppy to make tomato-and-cheese sandwiches on wheat bread and her yummy oat-berry muffins and Dazzle to make her signature fresh fruit fruit smoothies she knows people would love a lot; both agreed. Lastly, Butterbean announced she wanted to make something extra special for those who would come to the grand opening for desert, but just wasn't sure what yet. At Marmalady's Café, Ms. Marmalady thought out loud to the monkeys they could just flutter in town and open a brand-new café and they agreed. She asked them for the pink-shirted fairy's name and they replied with her name. She spied on their planned buffet on the café screen. An idea then came to her to do exactly the same thing which she shared with the monkeys and they put it to her simply as copying. She also explained that why she should do all the hard work for her when Butterbean would already do it for her and thought of them bracing themselves for the new Marmalady's Café. When the monkeys thought she wouldn't use "marma-mix", she rather said otherwise but opted to copy what ever she spied on with a "marma-" prefix for uniqueness. She claimed she and the monkeys haad a lot of work to do for the grand re-opening of her café. Returning to the Bean Team's Café, Butterbean stated to the bean team they would be implementing a farm-to table strategy/principle to make their foods fresh. Poppy agreed and replied to Cricket who asked for its definition while drawing with crayons. Dazzle noted to Jasper as she digitally sent him a list of everthing they needed. After hearing the tone and checking his phone, he exclaimed he would be back in a zip and zoomed out to invoke laughter out of the female fairies.
At Marmalady's Café, Ms. Marmalady "welcomed" the monkeys to their "new café", but they saw no change in appearance. Their boss told them to mind little of that and focus on the "new menu". She had them try every one of her "marma-muffins" and "marma-smoothies", but the monkeys puked and gave digusting utterances in response. She didn't understood that despite the marma-mix taste, it is still Butterbean's snacks. Then she snapped her her finger to bring down the ceiling spyglass to see Jasper through the binoculars carrying fresh ingredients. She told her monkey employees to go to the market and get some fresh ingredients. When the monkeys returned, Spork cautioned they were not so fresh, but Ms. Marmalady cared less, thinking it should be easy. The monkeys threw every ingredient inside the food processing machine; Spork removed and smelt a fish he thought of as "fresh" but nearly rather puked before adding it and processing it. Ms. Marmalady went to the outer end to see the results. She smelt them and got a horrible outcome. Wondering what to do, she snap her fingers for the ceiling spyglass to appear so she could spy on Butterbean and Dazzle arranging a chair and opening an overhead umbrella with their magic-induced objects. She realized she didn't have a magic wand and sent the monkeys to get her some of those objects, which she called "magical thingies".
Butterbean used her whisk to finish a tray of brightly-colored sandwiches, which Dazzle thought of as yummy and so good. Jasper came in and dropped the box of ingredients on the center cooking table, which Poppy appreciated. Cricket gave her big sister one of the invitations she was making, leaving the bean team to shower her surprise utterances. Butterbean told her to go deliver them to everyone in Puddlebrook. Jasper opted to go with her and spread her wings up; she flew out with Jasper following her, making the girls laugh. Butterbean told the viewer(s) as Cricket and Jasper either mailed the invitations or handed them directly to the inhabitants that she thinks they would love her café and couldn't wait to meet them. The monkeys went to Butterbean's café for her whisk. They tip-toed inside to reach out for it in an uncovered/unsealed bean-shaped box. But they were first put off by Dazzle flying in with a bouquet of flowers to put on a table and then Butterbean collecting her whisk. Dazzle helped Cricket bring down the café's menu board, which Butterbean apreciated. Realizing they simply couldn't get it/them, they went to the party room, moved out of the café and slid down the slide. Ms. Marmalady saw that her monkey employees were unsuccessful, so she went to do it herself. On her way, she bumped into a juvenile inhabitant, asked him what he was holding and if she could see it. He handed it to her and ran away; she saw it was Butterbean's Café's grand opening invitation and wondered silently what a shame it would be if no-one came to Butterbean's grand opening, letting out a scheming sound afterwards. She went to the bean team's café and stopped at the point where she would meet Spork and Spatch slide downwards to the ground. They made it known to her that they couldn't get the magic-induced objects, but she told them to bother less about that and rather take every invitation they see around and wanted them destroyed. The monkeys agreed and did exactly that.
Butterbean finished lining up her tray of fluttercookies when Dazzle came out to announce it was almost time to open. Poppy saw them and praised her, which she appreciated but saw something not quite right. She said to her they look perfect but for Butterbean in finding that something, she moves her eyes to the bean-shaped box and got her answer – a fairy finish. She moved her hand to the bean box and it opened itself to the sisters' utterances of disbelief. Butterbean took the whisk and mentioned that there was something written on the handle. She read that something which was actually a chant phrase as she brushed her hair with her left hand. Repeating the last two words with her sister, the whisk spewed magic to morph the whisk fitting to reveal the beans much to the Jasper-less team's surprise. She mentioned each bean's name as it glowed in response and when it got to the flutter bean, she wondered what it does. She didn't believe what she was seeing as she told the viewer(s) about having a magic whisk and now magic beans making her day even bigger than she ever dreamed.
Poppy brought out the menu board and Dazzle claimed it was time to open, with the fairies gathered at the café's front door, but not before Butterbean commended the three fairies for who they were and what they meant to her and the roles they played in making their café dreams come true by opening a café. The fairies' responses were cooing utterances. She told Dazzle to do the official declaration and the latter obliged. She opened the café door and declared Butterbean's Café opened for business, but saw the café's front entrance from outside empty. After making them know, they came out to see it for themselves. Spying on their café with binoculars, Ms. Marmalady told them with a pretending sad face and tone that she guesses Butterbean's Café won't be opening after all. Poppy and Cricket verbally didn't understand why the inhabitants weren't coming after giving them the invitations. After the girls sighed, Jasper rushed in with a box containing torn and shattered invitation cards, to the team's shock and Butterbean's lamenting of who would do something like that. Butterbean told the viewer(s) about things not going very well after trying something, but got upbeat when she added they would have a solution.
Butterbean with that smiled while her team's faces were downcast and told them they shouldn't give up and stated they could do something about it. Remembering the magic box from before, the bean box spewed out some little magic in her upbeat response. She waved her whisk at the bean box to open it. She moved her left index finger over the beans and mentioned each on she pointed at; after seeing the flutter bean, Butterbean waved her whisk on it to do her inaugural fairy finish on the flutter-cookies. The cookies expectedly began to fly much to the awe, shock and surprise of the girls and Butterbean opened the café's front door for the flying cookies to spread out to the entire Puddlebrook town. The inhabitants (who are anthropomorphic chipmunks and rabbits/bunnies) shared in the shock and dazzle at the cookies as it shone (if not enhance the sunlight) around them. brought out the tray for the flying cookies to land as she welcomed them; she added they could take a seat outside or in or feel free to order something at the counter. She and Dazzle made way for the customers to enter and express awe and surprise at the café's interior.
Ms. Marmalady then opted to move to a new plan but in calling her monkey employees, she saw them race happily to the bean team café, leaving her all alone. She rested her hand on the touchscreen, but unknowingly issued a command to it which made it spew out green powder dough solution mixture, which she termed "marma-mix", all over her spot, letting out a self-annoyance sound in frustration and disgust. Returning to the Bean Team's Café for the final time, Butterbean concluded the day's events by remarking that everything turned out well and that her café is opened for business. She also was cautious about how tedious it was going to be to ran a café and how it would require a lot of hard work, but saw ranning it with her little sister and her best friends as the fairy best thing she could ever wish for. She sprayed magic with her whisk to fade herself off-screen for the credits to roll.
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode of the debut season of the series as well as the entire series itself.
- Jasper, after receiving zoom-speed wings from Butterbean's magic whisk, quoted, "Jasper, newest member of "The Bean Team". He meant that as a collective name for the workers of the café, (including Butterbean herself).
- This is the first special episode (episodes running the entire 22 minutes).
- Buttebean had no idea of Ms. Marmalady's plan, which was to remove Cricket's flyers advertising the grand opening of her café, as the reason why the Puddlebrook folk didn't show up, until the fairy finish she had no idea of at first came to her rescue.