Dates and Schoolgates/info

This is the info page for Dates and Schoolgates. You should go there first, because this page will go straight to the details; I'm too lazy to write introductions again.

Characters

• Pen
• Pencil
• Golf Ball
• Match/Mrs. Merrier
• Infosym
• Mr. Ukulungiswa
• Popsicley
• Canadian Dollar
• Nickel
• Minola
• Boat
• Chocolatey
• Capker (debut)
• Shelly
• Ringgit S.G.D.
• Shieldy
• Lawrenciah
• Surfboard
• Chupalla
• Knife (archival footage)
• Liberty
• Mr. Avenue
• Rooseveltia
• MePhone 4 (archival footage)
• Tennis Ball
• Marshmallow (archival footage)
• Zane
• Disco Light
• Mrs. Harlow and her class (all non-speaking)
  • Soaphia Andrews
  • Isabella Chiu
  • Soaphia Silver
  • Idaka
  • Soaphia Cleaner
  • Zonophoney
  • Isabella Narice
  • Calvin Sanchez
• Dustball #1, #2 & #3 (non-speaking only)
• Needle (hand shown only)
• Pencils in photographs on the Internet (non-speaking only)
• Balloon (archival footage, non-speaking)
• Paintbrush (archival footage, non-speaking)

Kids

• Saye (#2)
• Javier (#7)
• Qalam-Rassas (#8)
• Zorah (#9)
• Sio (#14)
• Salvador (#20)
• Ximena (#21)
• Cil (#23)
• Yaretzi (#24)
• Citlali (#27)

Mentioned

• Mr. Tolmerson
• Dr. Mercado
• Coiny
• Eraser
• Aristotelis
• Estigua
• Nelson
• Paper (archival footage)
• Lightbulb (archival footage)
• Capker's parents

Music

‣ Hula Festival ^GE [title card]
‣ Busy Life ^CP [the beginning]
◊ Vibe Sting ^NC ["Grade ½?"]
◊ Steel Link Delta ^JW ["I mean 'aye'."]
‣ Hawaiian Link B ^RM ["Sad thet yer the only only left at 'ome now thet QR's run off."]
◒ Deliberate Thought [at school]
◊ What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? ^OB ["Omg, I can't wait for our new teacher!"]
‣ Befuddled Gent ^PG [Match is the new teacher]
◒ Happy Happy Game Show [Pencil watches TV]
‣ Drama Link H ^HC ["Wot 'appen'd 'ere?"]
◊ Steel Sting ^JW [Pen shows her Saye's diary]
◊ Vibe Q Sting ^NC ["It's in Japanese."]
‣ Kamakani B ^KB ["Oh, 'avin' so little kids is such a bad idea."]
◊ Laughing Sting ^SB [Boat realises what she is eating]
‣ Dramatic Cue E ^RH ["Guys, this is terrible!"]
‣ Lambs in Clover ^{J. Strachey} [Match finds the girls]
◊ Sonuva Sting ^JW ["Dustball #1, Dustball #2, Dustball #3 …"]
‣ Lighting the Fuse ^DSW [Pencil gets confused]
◊ Hawaiian Train ^VC ["Hello, mum, dad!"]
‣ The Tip Top Polka ^CFB ["Hey, do you want to know what happened to me at school today?"]
‣ The Gypsy Violinist ^DSW [Saye is in her room]
‣ Lonely Heart's Club A ^{OS, D. Bell} ["What do you want?"]
‣ The Rake Hornpipe ^RW ["So, Avi, you have a new friend?"]
‣ Hawaiian Link A ^RM [Saye and Pencil walk down the stairs]
◒ Airport Lounge ["Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Schreiber."]
◊ Honolulu March ^HH [that morning]
◊ Cartoon Sting 6 ^NCSM ["Then why did I have a dream about me at the beach making the biggest sand castle in the world, and when you were in it you were kissing Nickel in a photograph?"]
▣ Gran Vals ^{F. Tarrega ab. L. Nissim} [Saye dances out the door]
◊ Gum Link ^JW ["Oi, don' be Coiny with yer meta-ness!"]
◒ Aces High [sound sample from BFDIA]
‣ Shock ^{C. Bolten} ["Omg, Saye's in love!"]
◊ Freezy Squid Link ^JW ["Hate that guy!"]
‣ Hawaiian Cocktail ^RM ["Why can't e'erythin' be the same way 'twas yesterday?"]
‣ Frankenstein's Niece ^GN [Saye doesn't notice Shelly]
◊ Nude Sting ^NCSGJW ["I'm in wall."]
◊ Washing Gary Sting ^JW ["My time at the student exchange programme is done."]
◊ Steel Licks ^JW ["Apparently, I'm not."]
◊ Steel Link Gamma Gamma ^JW ["I think I'd rather do some independent study at that."]
◊ Fanfare ^NC ["Party!"]
◊ Steel Sting Beta ^JW ["Oh yeah, maybe I should go party at Mrs. Harlow's class."]
‣ Tomfoolery ^{D. Snell} ["So am I off the hook?"]
‣ Radio Theatre ^{J. Beaver} ["Schreiber, just the man for whom I was searching."]
‣ Dramatic Cue A ^RH ["Holy smokes!"]
◊ Spongeburglar ^NC ["Okay, I am ready!"]
‣ Workaday World ^{J. Beaver} ["This is so fun!"]
‣ Animal Antics ^PG [Golf Ball enters the loud class]
◊ Harp Ding ^NC ["In that case, I don't promise, and sorry, GB, can't do that!"]
◊ Mission Improbable ^BA ["It's been six hours and suspect is still on the computer."]
‣ Drama Link D ^HC ["Oh my God!"]
◊ Mission Improbable ^BA ["Now let's see what my daughter's boyfriend's looking up that's so hateful."]
‣ Hawaiian Calypso ^{J. Wetter} ["Wait, all of my posts have been deleted!"]
‣ Zoom D ^DdB [Pen goes from the house to his own bathtub]
‣ Footsteps of Horror [#11] ^WMF ["Yeah, for some reason it doesn't work!"]
‣ Drama Link I ^HC ["Target achieved … abort call!"]
◊ Omnilink Sting ^JW ["Goodness, people don't know their military time anymore."]
◊ Tension Bits ^SGJW ["Kids, get the curse word down 'ere right now!"]
‣ Dramatic Cue B ^RH [the kids rush downstairs]
‣ One Over the Eight ^{L. Stevens} [the Friendship Group enter the house]
‣ Orchestral Effects F ^DSW ["PencilHate.com!"]
◊ Seaweed ^SB ["Thatselnotle?"]
◊ Dasadana Sting ^JW ["The significance of absolutely nothing!"]
◒ There It Is [music heard as Pen drives]
‣ The Mob ^SS [Officer Dollar approaches]
◒ Go Cart ["You people will burn like the goat in my ancestors' old village!"]
‣ The Achterhoek Dances ^JR ["Alright, class, it is now 10:10, the time of day when they take pictures of watches for commercials."]
◒ New Friendly ["Ueah, it's no fun without Paper."]
◒ Chee Zee Cave ["This time, I made cookies."]
‣ Shock F ^{D. Hewson} [Saye's eyes change into black-outlined white discs]
‣ Hawaiian Hula ^{T. Day} ["Mia, tell your mother I said thanks for the eye fixing."]
◦ No Disguise sung by R. Lawson
◊ SpongeBob Theme ^SGJW ["Let's get decoratin' … hurry up!"]
◊ Lovely Hawaiian Sting ^JW ["Surprise!"]
◊ Kalua Jubilee ^SGJW ["Aww, thanks!"]
◊ Wahini Wobble ^SGJW [the ending]

Allusions

• Full House (probably) - Disco Light says "Woah, baby", a very common catchphrase, although it's likely that it was just a common saying c. 1990.
• Aretha Franklin - Match returns Chupalla's "P-R-E-S-E-N-T" with "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", a lyric in her signature song.
• The Boy - The horror film that Saye and Nickel watch together is called The Girl, referencing one of the most popular films at the setting.
• Donald Trump - Trump is mentioned in this episode twice: as a reference to Aristotelis's nickname and, as he is known for wanting to deport certain groups of people, he is listed on Pencilhate.com site as wanting to deport them.
• An der schönen blauen Donau - This waltz, better known in English as "The Blue Danube", was composed by 1866 (1864 for objects).
• Battle for Dream Island Again - Pencil's voice is sampled directly from the episode "Get in the Van".
• Dead or Alive - Book and Mia's lines "spinning around like a record baby?/Watch out, here she comes" come from the band's song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)".
• Beats is a type of headphones, known here is "Deats".
• SpongeBob SquarePants - How Pen yells "Holy smokes" is like the way the old woman yells in the episode "Neptune's Spatula". (THere is a special connection between their two VA's also)
• Phineas and Ferb - The way that Liberty and Rooseveltia get their mother to find something that only they can see, and Officer Canadian Dollar offering them pie when she doesn't find it is an obvious reference to the show (it happens almost every episode, actually). Also, Caroline Rhea, voice of Mom in P&F is Canadian.
• The Beach Boys - Every line that Javier yells as Pen comes home through the bathtub is a Beach Boys song: "Help Me, Rhonda" and "Shut Down".
• iCarly - There's been many sitcoms with an episode that one of the main characters pays more attention to her boyfriend than her friends, but this show particularly comes to mind.
• Asha Bhosle is a famous Indian singer.

Credits if this were a YouTube show

Created by

Yterbium

AnimationEpic (archival footage)

Edited by

NLG343

Pen island123

Yterbium

Assets by

Jacknjellify (Cary and Michael Huang)

Yterbium

Voice cast

Ruth Adams (Chupalla)

Whitney Allen (Rooseveltia, Ximena)

Antony (Anko6) (Boat, Chocolatey, Popsicley, Shelly)

Georgia Arnold (Cil)

Teresa Arnold (Liberty)

Andres Carpenter (Surfboard)

Justin Chapman (Knife)

Bobby Davis (Pen, Salvador, Saye's deep voice)

Cary Huang (Match, Tennis Ball)

Michael Huang (Golf Ball, BFDIA!Pencil)

Sean Johnson (Infosym)

Adam Katz (Nickekl)

Mark Katz (MePhone 4)

Ruthie Lawson (Pencil, Saye)

Kimberly Liang (Lawrenciah)

Sidney M. (Capker, Javier, Qalam-Rassas, Sio, Zane)

Nicole Marie (Minola)

Martin Milara (Mr. Ukulungiswa)

Nicholas (Anko6) (Shieldy)

Margaret Smith (Canadian Dollar)

Sara Taylor (Citlali, Disco Light, Yaretzi, Zorah)

Kel Yu (Ringgit SGD)