Cyd and Shelby learn a secret about Shelby’s mom, Astrid.  Meanwhile, Naldo and Barry’s prank war is interrupted by a chance to be knighted by Princess Daisy.

Sometimes episodes work, and sometimes they don’t.  This BFW episode is wholesale weird.

W’re back to two storylines, not three.  First, Cyd (did you know her last name is Ripley) has a flyer advertising an upcoming Roller Derby contest down at the mall.  They ask Astrid if they can go and she says no.  The girls decide to sneak out anyway.  When they arrive down at the mall, they are surprised to see that Astrid has a secret career as a roller derby queen.  First, that’s weird.  Second, two members of the opposing team decide to take out Astrid (her roller derby name: Mommy Fearest) and, in the process, break her arm.  Cyd and Shelby then want to go back in time to prevent Astrid’s arm breaking.  This is a pretty weak motivation for time travel.

They return back to before Astrid leaves to “run some errands.”  Cyd and Shelby follow her back to the mall, Cyd with homemade lasagna in hand.  Their first option: go back and get the roller skates they had in 6th grade.  Well, Cyd can’t skate so that’s out.  Their final option: throw the lasagna on the roller derby track.  The other team slips on lasagna and crisis avoided.

While that was somewhat funny, how the story plays out is more important.  Cyd feels guilty about sneaking out and disobeying Astrid.  After all, her parents are in Peru so she can do things without her parents ever knowing.  But she soon realizes that Astrid has become more of a mother to her than she may have ever imagined.  This is a much needed evolution in maturity for Cyd.  Astrid also admits that Cyd has become very much like a daughter to her.

Meanwhile, Barry and Naldo are engaged in a prank war.  Their first big prank – gluing stools to each other’s butts.  Princess Daisy is enamored by the concept of a prank war but when she asks Barry is she can join, he says no.  She does tell Barry and Naldo that, because she is a princess, she has the power to knight them.  While you can see where this storyline is going from a mile away, this plays nicely into Barry’s desire for fame and his “moment.”  Daisy has Barry and Naldo do some ridiculous tasks: pulling leaches out of the pool, getting Chet and Bret’s baseball from Paintball Pearson’s yard and bringing Chet and Bret to their evening soak.  It’s all pretty basic stuff and Princess Daisy’s quick understanding of American culture is not particularly believable.