By: Atiya Irvin-Mitchell
At the tavern Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) is leading. She tells the crew that over the next couple of days there will be filming happening at Happy’s Place. Gabby (Melissa Peterman) wonders if it’s for a true crime series, but Isabella says that it’s actually for social media. The goal is to help the tavern gain more customers, which will bring in future questions for the speakeasy when the time comes. Emmett (Rex Linn) isn’t sold, but Gabby is excited about it. She wonders what kind of content they’re going to do and says she wants to be an influence to prove that, despite what her mother says, strangers do like her. When she wonders if they’re going to be catering to foot fetishes, Emmett says he’s out. Unrelated, Bobbie (Reba McEntire) shows up camera-ready and wearing one of Emmett’s bandanas. Steve (Pablo Castelblanco) is excited to be the director, and Takoda (Tokala Black Elk) says that his wife often tells him he has a great voiceover voice.
Steve, in his directing capacity, is telling everyone where to be for their content. Gabby assumes she is going to be the star of the show, but Steve really plans on filming Bobbie since she is the owner. When it’s time to film, Bobbie is very awkward and overly enthusiastic on camera. Steve pulls Isabella aside, and they agree that Bobbie isn’t a very good actress. To fix the shot, Steve suggests that Bobbie just pour beer instead of saying the line. Unfortunately, she’s still overly cheerful. Steve and Isabella tell her it’s fine, but they share a sidebar and agree that they have to recast Bobbie.
Later, Steve is trying to film Gabby, but he hasn’t been able to start yet because she won’t stop switching hats. Gabby tells Isabella that she’s only using hats because Steve said no capes. Steve tells Isabella to intervene as the producer. Gabby offers to play Bobbie, but Steve and Isabella agree that they should see how the drink tutorial goes first. When Steve is filming, Gabby actually does a good job, but Emmett keeps walking into the shot and ruining it. He won’t apologize for trying to work at work and says he is busy producing content the that customers want to buy. Also, he tells Steve to keep the camera out of his kitchen.
Isabella goes to talk to Bobbie and Bobbie starts the conversation by telling Isabella that she’s very proud of how hard she’s been working on the social media campaign. That makes it extra awkward when Isabella tells her that they need to recast her. At first, Bobbie objects, but she relents after Isabella shows her the videos they took of her earlier. Also, after seeing her resting face Bobbie says she wants a closed casket at her funeral. Gabby offers to play Bobbie again, but, Isabella shares that they already found Bobbie’s replacement, and she’s is a local actress and influencer. At first, Bobbie is unsure about a stranger pretending to be her, but then Kenzie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) walks in and Bobbie says she could be her daughter.
After the introductions are made, Bobbie asks Kenzie how she can be both an influencer and an actress. Influencing, Kenzie says, is a hobby, but acting is her passion, and her day job is real estate. Bobbie also wonders if she’s not a little young to play her, but Kenzie says she has range and has played older characters before. Isabella adds that since they’re looking for a younger audience, it’s okay that Kenzie is younger than Bobbie. Gabby tells Kenzie that she is an aspiring influencer and is on a few different platforms. With that being said, Bobbie offers to give Kenzie a tour, and Kenzie starts practicing mimicking Bobbie’s accent.
Elsewhere, Steve and Isabella are instructing Takoda to deliver an order slip to the kitchen so they can film it. Takoda doesn’t think that’s an exciting part of the job, but Isabella says you never know what’ll take off online. Steve tells him he’s not just delivering an order, he’s delivering satisfaction. He delivers the order, but he does it while doing a voiceover, and Isabella and Steve yell cut. And Emmett yells at Steve to get out of his kitchen because he’s in the way.
Kenzie is closely shadowing Bobbie, and Bobbie doesn’t love how closely she’s following her. But Kenzie says that Bobbie has layers. Gabby tries to get influencer advice from Kenzie, but Kenzie isn’t in influencer mode right now. Isabella tries to redirect her, but Gabby says she can’t pass up the opportunity to shadow a shadow. Then, Isabella tries to get Emmett to agree to having his meal prep filmed, but he shuts the window to the kitchen.
Later, we find out that despite filming all day, Steve didn’t get usable footage. Steve is disappointed to hear that because he put a lot of thought and effort into preparing for this. He says this is his directorial debut, and Isabella reminds him that this isn’t supposed to be Oscar-worthy. All Isabella needed was a few good shots for content that showed a typical day at Happy’s Place. Unfortunately, a typical day at Happy’s Place is pretty chaotic, and the only good shots that Steve got were of Emmett yelling. When Isabella watches, she realizes that Emmett is pretty funny when he’s ordering people out of the kitchen. She changes her mind and tells Steve he might have a Citizen’s Kane on his hands after all
In Bobbie’s office, Kenzie continues watching Bobbie and it’s getting to Bobbie. She doesn’t think it’s going to be very helpful to watch her order napkins. She says she doesn’t want to hurt Kenzie’s feelings, but being an actress is crazy. Kenzie disagrees. quotes Shakespeare, and says she knows there’s something deeper going on with Bobbie that she needs to figure out. Bobbie disagrees and says that what you see is what you get with her. But, Kenzie senses that Bobbie is carrying something heavy. Bobbie denies it and then Emmett comes in and says that Steve is his friend but if he comes into the kitchen with the camera again he will toss it into the chilli thing he ever does. Bobbie hears him out and when he tries to take back the bandana Bobbie has been wearing, Bobbie refuses to give it up.
When Emmett leaves Kenzie gives Bobbie a knowing look and realizes that she was with Emmett. At first Bobbie denies it and then admits that she and Emmett were together for about three months. Kenzie says she gets how rough breakups can be because her parents are divorced because her father left her mother for his dental hygienist (Reba reference). Back to the point, Kenzie wonders why Bobbie can give up Emmett but not his bandana. Bobbie says she is used to having it, but Kenzie says the longer you hold onto things, the more it weighs you down.
It’s time for the content premiere and everyone is excited. They explain that they almost abandoned the social media project, but they found the right character to center: Emmett. They show a compilation of Emmett yelling at Steve to get out of his kitchen. Steve says that Angry!Emmett is the kind of character the internet loves. When Bobbie goes to talk to Emmett about it, she teases him a little and gives him back the bandana.
An unspecified amount of time later, we learn that Emmett went viral. Gabby decides that she’s better off not being viral and Kenzie is finally ready to be Bobbie. When Kenzie dresses like and speaks like Bobbie, the actual Bobbie says she nailed it.