Lloyd of the Flies - Berry Caring (S1E10)
Lloyd and Berry compete to prove who is the most caring by helping the poor injured flies who don't know what a window is.
| Runtime (min) | 11 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | 2022-09-29 |
| Genres | Kids, Animation |
| TV Rating | TV-G |
| Network(s) | CITV |
Storyline
In this episode, Lloyd and Berry find themselves in a rivalry to determine which of them is the most caring fly in their community. Their competition centers on helping a group of injured flies who have repeatedly flown into windows, unable to understand the concept of transparent glass. What begins as a genuine desire to assist quickly transforms into a contest of one-upmanship, with each fly trying to outdo the other in displays of compassion and helpfulness.
As Lloyd and Berry escalate their efforts to prove their superior caring abilities, the episode explores how competitive impulses can sometimes overshadow authentic kindness. The injured flies become unwitting participants in this contest, receiving increasingly elaborate forms of assistance as Lloyd and Berry attempt to demonstrate who can be more generous and thoughtful. The story uses the simple premise of flies confused by windows as a vehicle to examine what it truly means to help others and whether the motivation behind kindness matters as much as the act itself.
What kids learn
Children watching this episode can learn important lessons about the difference between genuine kindness and performative helpfulness. Lloyd and Berry's competition illustrates how doing good deeds to impress others or prove something about yourself can undermine the true spirit of caring. Young viewers can recognize that helping others should come from a sincere desire to make things better, not from a need to win or look good in comparison to someone else.
The episode also teaches empathy and patience with those who need assistance. The injured flies who keep flying into windows represent anyone who struggles with something that seems obvious to others. Rather than mocking or dismissing their confusion, the story shows the importance of offering help without judgment. Children learn that everyone has different challenges and blind spots, and true caring means meeting people where they are.
Additionally, the episode touches on healthy competition versus harmful rivalry. Kids can observe how Lloyd and Berry's friendship is tested when they turn caring into a contest, helping them understand that some things in life aren't meant to be competitive. The story encourages children to reflect on their own motivations when helping friends, family, or classmates, and to consider whether they're acting out of genuine concern or a desire for recognition.
Parents' top 5 questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why do the flies keep flying into windows in this episode? | The injured flies in the episode cannot understand the concept of transparent glass, which is a humorous take on real fly behavior. This setup serves as the catalyst for Lloyd and Berry's caring competition, providing them with a group of flies who genuinely need help. The recurring window collisions create ongoing opportunities for the main characters to demonstrate their helpfulness throughout the story. |
| Is the competition between Lloyd and Berry mean-spirited? | The competition starts from a place of good intentions, with both characters genuinely wanting to help the injured flies. However, as they become more focused on outdoing each other, the rivalry shifts their attention away from the flies' actual needs. The episode uses this progression to show how even well-meaning competitions can become problematic when proving yourself becomes more important than the original goal of helping others. |
| What's the main message about helping others in this episode? | The episode emphasizes that true caring comes from genuine concern for others rather than a desire for recognition or to prove superiority. Through Lloyd and Berry's escalating competition, children see how the motivation behind helping matters just as much as the help itself. The story encourages kids to examine why they're being kind and to focus on the needs of others rather than on how their actions make them look. |
| How does this episode handle the friendship between Lloyd and Berry? | The episode tests their friendship by introducing competition into an area where collaboration would be more appropriate. Their rivalry over who cares more creates tension between them, showing how competitive impulses can strain even close relationships. This conflict provides an opportunity to discuss with children how friends can sometimes get caught up in trying to outdo each other, and why some situations call for teamwork rather than competition. |
| Are there any scary or intense moments with the injured flies? | The injuries from flying into windows are treated in a lighthearted, cartoon manner appropriate for the show's young audience. The focus remains on the comedic aspects of the flies' confusion about glass and Lloyd and Berry's over-the-top attempts to help them. The episode maintains the show's gentle tone throughout, using the situation for humor and life lessons rather than creating genuinely distressing moments. |
Writing
Directing
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Lloyd and Abacus finally find a quiet place to play their favourite board game, but forget about the 'small' issue of gravity. |
| 1 | 2 | Lloyd has an unexpected windfall of crumbs and sets out to buy happiness. But he soon learns that true contentment is found in his friends and family. |
| 1 | 3 | Lloyd is left to maggotsit but he underestimates how hard a job that can be. |
| 1 | 4 | Lloyd adopts a tardigrade as a pet and discovers how indestructible they truly are. |
| 1 | 5 | Lloyd volunteers to work in the ant colony to prove what a hard worker he can be, but the ant colony is unprepared for Lloyd's particular brand of "hard work". |
| 1 | 6 | Lloyd tries to educate PB about the danger of spiders by introducing her to a real one...and finds that some spiders may not be all that bad afterall. |
| 1 | 7 | Lloyd finds himself spinning an elaborate series of lies about moving into a giant luxury mango, just to prove he's as mature as Berry. |
| 1 | 8 | Lloyd wants to prove he can manage without Abacus but he ends up getting chased by hungry carpet beetles...and desperately needs his friend's help to escape. |
| 1 | 9 | After being invited to Cornea's home for dinner, Lloyd and his family can't stomach her unique cooking and so try to hide the food without offending their host. |
| 1 | 10 | Lloyd and Berry compete to prove who is the most caring by helping the poor injured flies who don't know what a window is. |
| 1 | 11 | After an encounter with the vacuum cleaner Lloyd, PB and Abacus find themselves trapped in a dusty grey void that may or may not be the afterlife. |
| 1 | 12 | Lloyd, Abacus and Berry venture into the fridge for some mouth-watering delicacies but are unprepared for the cold and the impending closure of the door. |
| 1 | 13 | On an outing to a spooky new attraction Lloyd tries - unconvincingly - to show everyone he is not scared of anything. |
| 1 | 14 | Lloyd and Abacus' friendship is tested when they start communicating with a chrysalis, but is it one knock for 'yes', or one knock for 'no'? |
| 1 | 15 | When Bob's best friend Gummy goes missing it is up to Lloyd and Abacus to find him - which is only right as they are the ones who lost him. |
| 1 | 16 | PB persuades Malcolm and Gena to allow Julie the Spider to come round for dinner, but Lloyd is afraid that the dinner will be them. |
| 1 | 17 | PB drags Lloyd along to see Caterpillar World, where she hopes to finally learn the gory details of what happens inside a chrysalis. |
| 1 | 18 | Faced with prospect of missing out on a rare blob of peanut butter, Lloyd decides to take his maggotsitting duties with him. |
| 1 | 19 | Marvin was frozen in an ice cube until Lloyd rescued him and now he has a life debt to repay, whether Lloyd likes it or not. |
| 1 | 20 | Having not been invited to Berry's party Lloyd decides to have his own party with far more guests (if he can just sneak them away from Berry's party...) |
| 1 | 21 | Lloyd gets his head wedged between the two panes of a double-glazed window, only Berry is small enough to rescue him but Lloyd is having none of it. |
| 1 | 22 | After PB sets him up in a fight with a little ladybird's big brother, Lloyd worries he'll win too easily - until he meets the big brother. |
| 1 | 23 | When Lloyd is mistakenly declared a hero for defeating a bloodthirsty spider, he finds himself spinning a web of elaborate lies. |
| 1 | 24 | When a big sweetie that Lloyd nabbed fair and square is stolen by wasp, Lloyd gathers a team and stages a sweet-retrieving heist. |
| 1 | 25 | Lloyd must rely on nothing but his wits to talk his way out of the web he is trapped in, alongside a very hungry spider. |
| 1 | 26 | A new comic, 'Llerd the Fly', is a big success and everyone loves it - except for Lloyd when he discovers it's based on HIM. |
| 1 | 27 | Malcolm has a new 'home theatre' - a literal small theatre run by a troupe of flea actors - but Lloyd 'breaks' it when he offends one of the actors. |
| 1 | 28 | When Lloyd disproves a myth by meeting a real head louse called Titchy, he's torn between proving her existence or returning her to Biggo's head. |
| 1 | 29 | When Malcolm and Gena's oldest son - who is also called Lloyd - comes home for a visit - Big Lloyd soon threatens to stay for good with Little Lloyd. |
| 1 | 30 | Against her better judgement, Queen Libby accepts Lloyd's offer to find a pest that has taken food from the colony and left the larvae hungry. |
| 1 | 31 | When Abacus' attendance at his dad's party is put in doubt when he moults early, Lloyd promises to look after Abacus in his vulnerable state. |
| 1 | 32 | Against her better judgement, Queen Libby accepts Lloyd's offer to find a pest that has taken food from the colony and left the larvae hungry. |
| 1 | 33 | Lloyd's insistence that 'hotter' equals 'happier' is put to the test when Biggo puts a pizza on that causes a heatwave behind the oven. |
| 1 | 34 | When Lloyd starts behaving very oddly, his family start to suspect that something may be wrong with his senses. |
| 1 | 35 | When a bird on the loose indoors sends everyone into hiding, Lloyd gets separated from Abacus and finds it hard to do nothing and just wait it out. |
| 1 | 36 | When Lloyd sprains his wing at the far side of the Biggo house, it proves a very long journey back for Abacus as he is there to walk Lloyd through it. |
| 1 | 37 | When Lloyd is trapped in an upside-down glass by Biggo with Ricotta the wasp and Julie the spider, both of Lloyd's fellow captives soon get hungry. |
| 1 | 38 | Having had enough of chores, Lloyd moves in with Abacus, but living with his best friend is not the life of endless fun that Lloyd imagined. |
| 1 | 39 | When a crab spider parachutes into his life, Lloyd decides to raise her as a vegetarian and single-handedly change fly-spider relationships. |
| 1 | 40 | There is an exciting new Ghost Coaster inside the sofa, but when Lloyd, PB and Abacus are too short to go on it, Lloyd devises a plan to get them on. |
| 1 | 41 | As an anniversary treat, Gena has booked a private performance by Malcolm's favourite actor, but the star proves more demanding than expected. |
| 1 | 42 | After he causes a mid-flight collision, Lloyd must attend a 'flight awareness' course run by Molly - if he refuses, he risks being grounded. |
| 1 | 43 | Having written a book on the subject, Gena agrees to train Lloyd in how to survive outdoors, but Lloyd is disappointed to discover that all the training is to take place indoors. |
| 1 | 44 | When Abacus is targeted by The Louse Hunter - a ruthless louse spider who loves the thrill of the hunt - Lloyd steps up to protect his best friend. |
| 1 | 45 | After staying up all night playing Bluebottle Battle, Lloyd is unable to sleep when Molly and Polly's house-sitter - a cricket called Buddy - starts making music next door. |
| 1 | 46 | Lloyd and Berry get locked into a game of escalating dares, but when Berry dares Lloyd to land on Biggo's hand, the stakes get higher than either of them are ready for. |
| 1 | 47 | When Mr Wiggley runs out of ideas for a list of fun things to do before he becomes a butterfly, Lloyd is happy to help and join in with it. |
| 1 | 48 | Lloyd tries to hang out with PB and her friends Dotty and Freckles while Abacus is on holiday, but he finds them less willing to do as he wants. |
| 1 | 49 | Lloyd feels surprisingly good after drinking some bin juice and tries to promote it as a new health-giving elixir, but things get out of hand quickly. |
| 1 | 50 | Lloyd thinks he's developed a very vocal conscience after accidentally swallowing a dust mite named Alvi, but the truth is quite different. |
| 1 | 51 | When Nutbum the tardigrade turns up making frantic efforts to get Lloyd to do something, Lloyd does whatever he can to translate what he's saying. |
| 1 | 52 | Excitement turns to sadness when Lloyd discovers that his family's move to a whole new Biggo house means that he'll never see Abacus again. |
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