When the girls are assigned to do a report on the 1970s disco era, they decide to travel back and experience the 70s firsthand and land in the midst of turf battle between the disco and punk kids. (Source: imdb)

BFW was getting dangerously close to the going down “something bad happened, we will go back and time and repair the issue” road but fortunately, in this episode, we get just enough groundwork to move the show forward.

The relationships between Cyd and Shelby and Barry and Naldo are firmly cemented by now and are mirror images of each other.  Naldo and Cyd are the “wacky sidekicks” (who are smarter than they appear) while Barry and Shelby are the smarter ones (who are often more naive than they appear).

In this episode, disco dancing teacher Mr. Canavan (who has one of the best lines: “Your essays were so bad that I gave your children Fs) assigns the class an essay on the disco era (not exactly pedagogically sound).  Apparently, Barry and Naldo must be in a different English class as they are at Barry’s house in the spa.

Shelby and Cyd decide to go back to the 70s to do research on disco.  There’s some good tie-ins here: Naldo’s dad was in a band called The Stench and Cyd becomes enamored by punk music. But its a big no no to go back in time before you are born.

Cyd and Shelby return to the 70s, leaving behind their tachyon fields (which is, I guess, representative of their beings before they were born).  Barry seems to think these fields are the key to understanding time travel but we can do without the “smell of sulfur” jokes.

Naturally, in the 70s, Cyd becomes a punk rocker, Shelby a disco queen and we work our way through a story about the disco people and the punks not getting along.  Over time, because they haven’t been born yet, Cyd and Shelby slowly forget each other’s names but the big finale in detention reminds them of who they are and what their relationship is.

And no good v evil story would be complete without the dance where everyone gets along and disco dances.  By this point, the story seemed like almost every other episode of BFW.  But then we get a little clue about the future lab – Cyd and Shelby see a person in the lab and a very recognizable logo.  It will be interesting to see where this story now goes.

The acting in BFW is fine and the writing is just snappy enough to keep viewers interested.  Fortunately, this episode does not include the twins, who, over time, have been slowly moved to the B story.  Now just move them off the show.