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Vampirina - Going Batty (S1E1)
Vampirina, also known as Vee, is very anxious about being able to make new friends after she and her family relocate from Transylvania to a new home in Pennsylvania, as she adjust to being the new kid in town, and adapting to the human world.
| Runtime (min) | 12 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | 2017-10-01 |
| Genres | Animation, Kids, Comedy |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
Storyline
In the first episode of Vampirina, titled 'Going Batty,' we meet Vampirina, affectionately known as Vee, who has just moved from Transylvania to Pennsylvania with her family. Vee is filled with anxiety about starting at a new school and making friends in a human world that feels completely foreign to her.
As she navigates her new surroundings, Vee encounters various challenges, including her spooky habits that set her apart from her classmates. With a blend of courage and creativity, she learns to embrace her uniqueness and discovers that friendship can transcend differences.
What Parents Say
This episode beautifully captures the feelings of anxiety and apprehension that come with moving to a new place. Vee’s struggles to fit in are relatable for many children who face similar experiences in their lives. The show emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself while also being open to new friendships, which can be a valuable lesson for young viewers.
Vampirina also introduces themes of acceptance and understanding, as Vee's character is embraced by her peers despite her differences. Parents might appreciate how the show addresses the idea that being unique is something to celebrate rather than hide.
What Children Can Learn
Throughout 'Going Batty,' children will learn about the importance of embracing their individuality. Vee’s journey shows that even when faced with challenges, it’s essential to stay true to oneself and not be afraid of being different. This lesson is reinforced as Vee finds joy in her quirks and ultimately makes friends who appreciate her for who she is.
Additionally, kids will see how to approach new situations, such as meeting new classmates and adjusting to change. Vee's experiences can inspire children to be courageous in the face of uncertainty and to reach out to others, fostering connections and friendships.
Five Most Asked Questions
Here are some common questions parents might have about the episode 'Going Batty' and its themes.
| Question | Answer |
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| What does Vee struggle with in this episode? | Vee struggles with anxiety about moving to a new place and fitting in at her new school. She worries about how her unusual vampire traits will be perceived by her classmates, which heightens her fears of making new friends. |
| How does Vee's family support her in this episode? | Vee's family provides emotional support as they encourage her to be herself and to embrace her unique qualities. They remind her that everyone has differences and that these can be a source of strength in making connections with others. |
| What lessons about friendship are presented? | The episode teaches that friendship can blossom from understanding and acceptance. Vee learns that her quirks make her special and that true friends will appreciate her for who she is, regardless of her supernatural background. |
| Are there any moments that highlight Vee's uniqueness? | Yes, several moments showcase Vee's unique abilities, such as her bat transformations and her spooky antics. These moments not only highlight her differences but also serve as comedic elements that endear her to her classmates. |
| What is the overall message of this episode? | The overall message is about embracing one's individuality and the courage it takes to make new friends. It emphasizes that while change can be daunting, it can also lead to wonderful new relationships and experiences when one is open and authentic. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Vampirina, also known as Vee, is very anxious about being able to make new friends after she and her family relocate from Transylvania to a new home in Pennsylvania, as she adjust to being the new kid in town, and adapting to the human world. |
| 1 | 2 | The B&B is open, but double booked with humans and vampires, causing problems. |
| 1 | 3 | Vee invites friends Poppy and Bridget for a sleepover, then realizes it's a full moon. |
| 1 | 4 | Vee becomes a bat while having her photo taken. |
| 1 | 5 | Vee invites her class over for a party full of spooky surprises. |
| 1 | 6 | While trying to learn a new dance, Vee unknowingly teaches her friends a dance that gets the attention of a competitive ghoul, Dragos the Dancer. |
| 1 | 7 | Edna enters a Green Thumb Contest and accidentally plants some of Oxana’s magical Transylvanian seeds. |
| 1 | 8 | When Vee goes on a field trip to the Natural History Museum, she runs into an old family friend, King Pepi. |
| 1 | 9 | Vee and her friends volunteer to babysit for her baby cousin. |
| 1 | 10 | When a family of ghost hunters comes to stay at the Scare B&B, Vee and her family spend the day trying to prove that their house is not haunted. |
| 1 | 11 | Vee and her family go on a camping trip |
| 1 | 12 | A monster gets lost on his way to the Scare B&B and ends up at the wrong house. |
| 1 | 13 | Demi brings the infamous Chef Remy Bones to the Scare B&B to help with the meal preparations. |
| 1 | 14 | Vee joins Poppy and Bridget at a Woodchuck Wooodsie event. |
| 1 | 15 | Vee invites her friends over for a game of "hide and shriek". |
| 1 | 16 | The most famous witches in all of Transylvania come to stay at the Scare B&B with their adorable daughter, Phoebe. |
| 1 | 17 | During a full moon, Vee and Poppy magically switch places and Vee transforms into a human and Poppy into a vampire. |
| 1 | 18 | When Vee and Poppy’s class pet comes to stay at the Scare B&B, they have to stop the bird from revealing too much about the haunted house to Poppy’s brother, Edgar. |
| 1 | 19 | Vampirina’s favorite band, The Scream Girls, comes to stay at the Scare B&B and help Vee and her friends overcome their stage fright. |
| 1 | 20 | Vee invites her friends over for family game night and teaches them some of her favorite Transylvania games. |
| 1 | 21 | Gregoria worries she'll be thrown away when the family does some spring cleaning. |
| 1 | 22 | Vampirina takes Wolfie to a dog show. |
| 1 | 23 | Wolfie Shrinks, So, Vee and Gregoria get a Critternarian for help. |
| 1 | 24 | A Monster named Buttons stays at the Scare B&B. |
| 1 | 25 | When Vee and the rest of the family catch Batty Fever, Demi and Gregoria must work together to brew a potion to cure them. |
| 1 | 26 | Vee helps Bridget practice for Poetry Day. |
| 1 | 27 | Vee’s grandmother, Nanpire, visits from Transylvania and helps her cook a traditional vampire dish for the class potluck. |
| 1 | 28 | The Scare B&B gets a two-headed guest just in time for the Friendship Festival. |
| 1 | 29 | Vee tries to celebrate Valentine's Day and Ghoulentine's Day but mixes up her cards. |
| 1 | 30 | Oxana steps in when Mr. Gore needs a substitute teacher. |
| 1 | 31 | Vee and her family get scared during the town's anniversary celebrations. |
| 1 | 32 | It is time to give the house its one-hundred year clean. While her parents leave to buy some cleaning accessories, Vee and her friends are left to clean the house. Demi tries to use magic to clean the house faster, but instead conjures up Dust Bunnies who begin to wreak havoc. |
| 1 | 33 | Vee gets stage fright during a ballet performance. |
| 1 | 34 | Vampirina and her friends help a ghost pirate search for treasure so that he can be freed from a haunted map. |
| 1 | 35 | Oxana becomes another guest in her own Terror Pension to celebrate Mummy's Day. |
| 1 | 36 | Vampi gives a dance at the Terror Pension to celebrate Danzilvania Day. |
| 1 | 37 | Boris receives an invitation to meet with the Murciacróbatas, a group of aerial acrobatics. |
| 1 | 38 | With a little help from Chef Remy, Vee and Poppy run an irresistible lemonade stand. |
| 1 | 39 | When Vampi gets a vampire hiccup attack, Poppy and Bridget have a hard time figuring out how to take it away from a scare. |
| 1 | 40 | The roommate at Boris University, Bigfoot, is staying at the Terror Pension. |
| 1 | 41 | When the milk fangs fall, Vampirina is afraid of not growing back. |
| 1 | 42 | When Vampinana teaches Vampirina the family tradition of organizing tea snacks, Vampi tries to make her first snack perfect. |
| 1 | 43 | Vampi and her friends go to Transylvania to participate in the Zombix Factor talent contest! |
| 1 | 44 | Vampirina learns that she has been named heir to Uncle Dieter's castle, what makes her a Countess! |
| 1 | 45 | Vampi, Poppy and Bridget help Edgar make a monster movie for the school film festival. |
| 1 | 46 | Vampirina and her family invite their Transylvanian friends to celebrate Halloween in Pennsylvania. |
| 1 | 47 | Vee comes up with an invention to bring a flower back to life for her school's inventor fair. |
| 1 | 48 | Nanpire and Grandpop the Great visit to celebrate the Blood Moon Festival. |
| 1 | 49 | When Vee doesn't get the snow day she was hoping for, Demi casts a spell to help. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Vampirina decides to run for class president. |
| 2 | 2 | Poppy wants a pet bunny, but first she has to show her mom she is ready to have a pet by looking after Wolfie. |
| 2 | 3 | Vee and her friends go on their first hiking trip with the Woodchuck Woodsies. |
| 2 | 4 | One of Vee's oldest friends from Transylvania, Frankie Bolt, comes to visit her in Pennsylvania. |
| 2 | 5 | Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein hold their wedding at the Hauntley’s Scare B&B and give Vampirina a very important job. |
| 2 | 6 | Gregoria’s sculpture of the Hauntley family is almost ruined when Vee wakes up with a bat hair day. |
| 2 | 7 | A baby dragon visits the Hauntley’s and takes a special liking to Gregoria. |
| 2 | 8 | When the Hauntley house becomes infested with Charmer bugs, Edna insists the entire family stay with her while the house is being fumigated. |
| 2 | 9 | Vampirina, Poppy and Edgar get new neighbors. |
| 2 | 10 | While her parents are away, Vampirina volunteers to be in charge of running the Scare B&B. |
| 2 | 11 | Vee is gifted a Hover Haunt Spook-Thousand broom on first birthday in Pennsylvania. |
| 2 | 12 | Vee volunteers to sub in on Poppy's basketball team to help win the final game. |
| 2 | 13 | Family Heritage Day is coming up at school and Vee is excited to make a family tree. |
| 2 | 14 | Vee’s first Easter egg hunt turns into a rescue mission after a baby dragon egg accidentally gets mixed in with the other eggs. |
| 2 | 15 | The Hauntleys travel to Spookelton castle to celebrate Nanpire's birthday, and Vee makes her a special cake. |
| 2 | 16 | When Vee starts to feel overwhelmed by all she has to do, Demi introduces her to a magic mirror that can create duplicates of herself. |
| 2 | 17 | Vampirina and her family invite their neighbors on a trip to the beach. |
| 2 | 18 | Vee and Demi attempt to teach Gregoria how to fly so that she can view a rare star constellation. |
| 2 | 19 | Chef Remy Bones competes in a TV cooking competition for humans. |
| 2 | 20 | Vampirina and her friends fill in as hosts of Edgar's "Weekly Weirdness" show when he becomes sick. |
| 2 | 21 | The Ghoul Girls and Poltergeist Pat perform at the Paranormal Pop Festival. |
| 2 | 22 | Vee practices a new shrinking spell when a pixie family visits the Scare B&B. |
| 2 | 23 | Poppy writes a song for the Ghoul Girls to perform in the school talent show. |
| 2 | 24 | Vee and her friends are invited to a sleepover at the museum hosted by King Pepi. |
| 2 | 25 | It's Boris and Oxana's anniversary and no one is more excited to celebrate her parents than Vee. |
| 2 | 26 | The Hauntleys have a new guest at the Scare B&B, a wolf boy named Fangbert. |
| 2 | 27 | Vampirina loses her voice just before a Ghoul Girls performance in Translyania. |
| 2 | 28 | Vee, Bridget and Poppy meet a friendly but dramatic ghost on a field trip to a haunted theater. |
| 2 | 29 | It's Halloween, and Vampirina is excited to go trick or treating with friends for the first time. |
| 2 | 30 | Demi casts a time loop spell to help prevent Vee's project from being destroyed. |
| 2 | 31 | Vee goes overboard growing the largest pumpkin for a carving contest. |
| 2 | 32 | When the Tundra-nator breaks at the B&B, Oxana accidentally starts a winter storm in the middle of a heat wave. |
| 2 | 33 | When Vee attempts to use a hybrid spell to help with her writer's block, she accidentally turns the world into a Sung-through musical and has to find a way to break the curse. |
| 2 | 34 | |
| 2 | 35 | A family of Caracas visit for Día de los Muertos and teach the Hauntleys about their traditions. |
| 2 | 36 | Vee's identity is threatened when Edgar gets his hands on a cupcake that make wishes come true once eaten. |
| 2 | 37 | Boris becomes head of the Transylvania Scare Council but the members reject his park idea. |
| 2 | 38 | Vee and her friends help Demi complete his list of unfinished business. |
| 2 | 39 | A magical book wrecks havoc at the Scare B&B's first book club read. |
| 2 | 40 | Poppy thinks her family is moving, so Vee and the others try to make her house look haunted. |
| 2 | 41 | Vee and family embrace the human ways of Christmas but Gregoria feels differently. |
| 2 | 42 | The Hauntleys discover a new delivery service that delivers specialty items from Transylvania. |
| 2 | 43 | A visiting fortune teller predicts Vee will "lose a friend", and she believes it's her friendship with Poppy. |
| 2 | 44 | A potion gone wrong turns Vee into a frog and is found by Edgar. |
| 2 | 45 | Gregoria's soft and sweet brother, Hugo visits the Scare B&B, and Gregoria is jealous when he gets all the attention. |
| 2 | 46 | When Uncle Bob misses check in, Vee sets Edgar, Bigfoot's biggest fan, out to find him. |
| 2 | 47 | When Remy says, "Au Revoir" to the Hauntley's to chase his dream as a chef at a fancy restaurant, a spookghetti monster pops up! |
| 2 | 48 | Oxana adds a spooky flair to the school fair. |
| 2 | 49 | When Edgar crashes the annual Ghoul Guides Extravaganza vamping trip in Transylvania, Vee and the girls must come clean about Vee's family. An excited Edgar reassures them that he will not tell anyone about the world of monsters. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | When Edgar struggles with his new blog for the world wide cobweb, Vee, Gregoria and Demi help him come up with an idea. |
| 3 | 2 | Nan gives Vee a good luck charm for her ballet performance. |
| 3 | 3 | The strings on Vee's spookylele pop off! In their search for new strings, the girls find something! |
| 3 | 4 | Gregoria preps for an art galler-eek! show at the Monstropolitan Museum of Art. |
| 3 | 5 | The SCREAM GIRLS ask the Ghoul Girls to be their opening act in a multi-city Transylvania tour! |
| 3 | 6 | Vee gets the battys after crash landing during a bicycle riding lesson! |
| 3 | 7 | Baby Nosy visits the Scare B&B and Vee can't wait to spend time with her! |
| 3 | 8 | Demi's pen pal, Blobby, checks into the B&B to meet him for the first time! |
| 3 | 9 | The Hauntley's must decide whether to trick or treat or attend the Boneyard Banquet that only happens every 100 years. |
| 3 | 10 | Frankie comes to town so Vee hosts a creepover! |
| 3 | 11 | The girls meet a phantom organ player at the Monster Hall of Music. |
| 3 | 12 | Demi and Gregoria cast a memory spell on Edgar that makes him forget monsters...and Vee! |
| 3 | 13 | When Grandpop comes to bat-sit Vee, everyone is nervous because he's not used to human life. |
| 3 | 14 | Demi gets sick and needs lots of love to cure him! |
| 3 | 15 | Vee, Poppy, Bridget and Edgar volunteer for Dr. Paquette's Annual Critter Fair! |
| 3 | 16 | The newest B&B guest has a hard time being himself and hides in the mirrors. |
| 3 | 17 | Edna gives the Hauntleys an old bust as decor for the neighborhood walking tour. |
| 3 | 18 | The Ghoul Girls have a busy day of back-to-back performances in Pennsylvania! |
| 3 | 19 | Remy gets featured in Edgar's latest Weekly Weirdness episode. |
| 3 | 20 | When Boris volunteers to chaperone Vee's nature walk field trip, she hypes up his spookiness, only to be let down. |
| 3 | 21 | A heat wave in Pennsylvania sends the Hauntley crew to Screech Beach, the spookiest monster beach in Transylvania! |
| 3 | 22 | Mr. Gore tasks the class with creating a rock-themed project. |
| 3 | 23 | Vee, Oxana, Poppy and Bridget throw a spooktacular garden party! |
| 3 | 24 | Nanpire is visiting to store some old family scarelooms in the Hauntley's attic. |
| 3 | 25 | While gardening, Vee learns that the cutest creepy crawlies, caterpillars, don't stay caterpillars forever. |
| 3 | 26 | The B&B gets prepped for the Spook and See, an open house for monsters! |
| 3 | 27 | When Esmeralda accidentally leaves her crystal ball, Crystal, at the B&B, Vee takes care of it! |
| 3 | 28 | Vee and Demi find Gregoria practicing for the Monster Bop dance competition. |
| 3 | 29 | The Hauntleys are asked to walk the bat walk in Medusa's fashion show. |
| 3 | 30 | The Hauntleys are asked to walk the bat walk in Medusa's fashion show. Poppy and Edgar can't agree on a theme for their birthday party. |
| 3 | 31 | A top music critic for The Rollling Bones visits the B&B to meet The Ghoul Girls! |
| 3 | 32 | The Hauntley's prepare for their first ever Spooky Spa Weekend at the Scare B&B! |
| 3 | 33 | Vampirina plans a spooky scare in the hopes of attracting Spooky Claus so that her family can enjoy a festive Transylvanian Christmas. |
| 3 | 34 | When the Abominable Snowman arrives at Scare B&B after a big snowstorm, Vee and her friends help him overcome some of his fears and discover that he's much braver than he imagined. |
| 3 | 35 | The Hauntleys gather with Bridget and Poppy to watch the pumpkins drop and make resolutions on New Century's Eve. |
| 3 | 36 | Bridget finds a spellbook in the attic and accidentally casts a spell that makes her fearsome instead of fearless. |
| 3 | 37 | Demi and Gregoria help Vee with her school project, "What Was I Like As A Baby." |
| 3 | 38 | Poppy tries to prevent herself from sneezing during a rock band, so she decided to replace herself for Octo to go with her place. |
| 3 | 39 | Dr. Paquette arrives at the B&B to give all of the critters in the haunted house their routine check-ups and brings an expectant werewolf! |
| 3 | 40 | Edgar is named an honorary Ghoul Girl! |
| 3 | 41 | It's April Ghoul's Day and Vampirina invites over her friends to play some spooky pranks on them. |
| 3 | 42 | After the guest bed breaks, The Under the Bed Monster must approve any new beds. |
| 3 | 43 | Vee's best friend from Transylvania visits for the Firefly Festival, but gets too hot during a Pennsylvania heat wave! |
| 3 | 44 | Vee competes in the annual Transylvanian spelling bee! |
| 3 | 45 | Hydie Jekyll, a monster-kid scientist is in town in search of the final ingredient to her secret potion. |
| 3 | 46 | Vee and her friends are invited to take part in special mummy traditions. |
| 3 | 47 | Vee and Boris take a flight for Papa's day. |
| 3 | 48 | Chef Remy spruces up the backyard before Vee's Woodchuck Woodsies picnic. |
| 3 | 49 | When the Scare B&B is selected to receive a prestigious award by Edna and the Historical Society, the Hauntleys hurriedly prepare the house. |
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