A Tale of Two Nickels

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"" is the 16th episode of AniTales, It first aired on Greeny Channel in February 5, 2006, The episode was written by Christopher Sabat, and directed by Derius Swinton II.

Summary
As Jerry works vigorously at her guitar lessons with Mitchell, Jack eagerly preps for an upcoming gig at a local night club. The entire family comes out to support him, but with some talent scouts present, Jack faces public humiliation after Emma Seanrick takes over his slot, and hogs the show.

Plot
The episode begins with a Honeybee troop meeting at Mitchell's house. Jen, the hive mother of the troop in which Emma is a member while Jack is an honorary Queen Bee, announces that it is the start of their annual honey-selling drive to raise money for underprivileged kids, with the grand prize being a new bicycle. Watching from the stairs is a "Honeybee legend" who remembers this all too well, and is none other than Emma, who currently holds the record at 725 jars. Reminiscing about her Honeybee time, she explains that it's harder selling honey jars for a new bike, compared to selling raffle tickets for a new color TV. When Mitchell walks in on the meeting, the girls are ready to sell. As soon as the meeting wraps up, Mitchell shows up and Jen's daughter asks her to buy some honey, and he does just that, shocking his own daughters in the process, but he alleviates their pain by buying some from Emma, too.

Meanwhile, Jack and Emily try to assemble a small plastic indoor slide in the living room, in hopes that Emma wasn't being enough of doing this. Mitchell wants to date Jen. But there are two problems with that. For starters, Mitchell's nervous about asking Jen out because he feels that it may be too soon after Joe Ranft's death to start dating. And second, Emma and Jerry don't want Mitchell to start dating, because they think Mitchell would be looking for someone to replace Joe Ranft. As they talk about it in their room, D.J. mentions that if Joe Ranft were still alive today, she wouldn't want to see Mitchell dating someone else. Emma mentions that they want Mitchell to be happy, and Emma says if Joe Ranft were still alive she wouldn't be happy. Emma says that she wouldn't want Joe Ranft to be unhappy, or even Mitchell, or even herself and her sister/roommate.

Willing to respect his children's feelings over romance, a disappointed Mitchell calls the date off. However, after having a chat with Emily and Jack, the girls confront Mitchell directly with the truth about how they feel. Mitchell assures them that dating doesn't mean that he's looking for someone to replace Joe Ranft. Mitchell tells Emma and Jerry that he and Joe Ranft made an agreement that if something happened to her, then it would be okay for Mitchell to find someone to make him happy, and that if something happened to Mitchell, it would be okay for Joe Ranft to find someone to make her happy. Emma and Jerry give Mitchell their blessing to date Jen.

Goofs

 * After Matt joins Mitchell and the gang to protect against Joe, none of their mouths are moving when they are saying "The B-Word".
 * As Harper backs out her car which then kills her cat, she is seen putting the car in "Drive" rather than in reverse.