Episode Title:
The Fall/The Word Collection
Episode Description:
The Fall: Carl, Nico, and Arugula are flying kites at the park, during which Nico trips and scrapes her knee. Not sure what to do, Carl idles, angering Nico, who refuses to talk to Carl after he visits her back at home. Carl talks about his predicament with Maude, who suggests that Carl's uncertainty was due to his autism, which made it more difficult to react in this new situation. After working out a script with Maude, Carl apologizes to Nico at the park and confesses his autism to his friends, and Nico in turn forgives Carl and apologizes for refusing to listen to him earlier. Afterward, his friends all fly kites at the park, with Nico and Carl sharing one.
The Word Collection: While at a street fare parade with Harold, Carl learns a new word: shindig, which Harold defines as a "joyful party or celebration" and consisting of a crowd, music, and food. Taking a liking to the word, Carl and his friends look for another shindig in town, but fail to find one. Carl decides to make a shindig of his own, with ice cream provided by Mr. Barnaby's ice cream truck and music provided by Lotta.
