"That Young Warped Danger Hustle" (or "When Worlds Collide") is the twelfth episode in Season 2 of Side Hustle and thirty-seventh episode overall. It serves as a crossover special with fellow Nickelodeon series, That Girl Lay Lay, Tyler Perry's Young Dylan, Warped!, and Danger Force. It premiered on April 21, 2022, to an audience of 0.25 million viewers.
Plot
Worlds collide when Swellview villain Frankini tracks a powerful mind-controlling device to Altoonisburg, with the hopes of using it to force everyone in earshot to uncontrollably dance. When he gets his hands on it, the stars of Side Hustle, Danger Force, That Girl Lay Lay, Warped! and Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan must work together to defeat him or be doomed to dance forever.
Cast
Main
- Jules LeBlanc as Lex
- Jayden Bartels as Presley
- Isaiah Crews as Munchy
- Mitchell Berg as Fisher
- Jacques Chevelle as Jaget
Recurring
Guest
- Matte Martinez as Ty
- Reyn Doi as Horrigan
- Lonyé Perrine as Lucy
- Alex Hanpeter as Luna the Tuna
- Cris Judd as TBA (uncredited)
- Sara Oliveri as Morgan (uncredited)
- Frankie Grande as Frankini
- Melissa Bickerton as Dancer
- Quentin Brunson as Gary
- Siobhan A. Cook as TBA
- Arturo Duran as TBA
- Krystal Ellsworth as TBA
- Makenna Lammons as TBA
- Sam Skolnik as TBA
Special Guest
- Alaya "That Girl Lay Lay" High as Lay Lay
- Gabrielle Nevaeh Green as Sadie Alexander
- Dylan "Young Dylan" Gilmer as Young Dylan
- Anton Starkman as Milo
- Kate Godfrey as Ruby
- Dana Heath as Mika Macklin / ShoutOut
- Terrence Little Gardenhigh as Miles Macklin / AWOL
- Luca Luhan as Bose O'Brian / Brainstorm
- Havan Flores as Chapa De Silva / Volt
Trivia
Side Hustle:
- This episode was teased and confirmed by John D. Beck, Frankie Grande, Jules LeBlanc, Jason Chong, Dana Heath, Mitchell Berg, Anton Starkman, Kate Godfrey, Gabrielle Nevaeh Green, Alaya High, and Nickelodeon.
- This episode is a crossover between That Girl Lay Lay, Tyler Perry's Young Dylan, Warped!, and Danger Force.
- This episode means Henry Danger, Danger Force, Game Shakers, The Thundermans, Warped!, Side Hustle, That Girl Lay Lay, Tyler Perry's Young Dylan, and The Haunted Hathaways exist in the same universe.
- This episode filmed on February 3-4, 2022.
- Production started on January 17, 2022 for this episode.
- This episode serves as the first crossover for the show.
- This episode makes Nickelodeon history as being the first ever 5-way crossover.
- It also makes this the biggest crossover with the biggest cast.
- This is the biggest and first 5-way Nickelodeon live-action crossover.
- Coming in close second is Beast of Friends, which was a 4-way crossover which is the biggest crossover in the Nickelodeon animated universe.
- The episode title is a portmanteau of all the shows titles.
- This episode is also titled "When Worlds Collide".
- This episode features a new and original song.
- This episode features transition music heard in the each series and based on its theme song, for example:
- When Lex, Presley, and Munchy go to AltooniCon for their KidDING! after being hired by Milo and Ruby from Warped!, the transition music from Warped! is heard.
- When Ruby mentions Danger Force being way too smart for the Orb of Power to get stolen, the scene transitions to Swellview with transition music actually heard in Danger Force.
- When Lay Lay and Sadie look around, the transition music from That Girl Lay Lay can be heard.
- When Lay Lay calls Dylan, music from Tyler Perry's Young Dylan can be heard.
- Lex, Presley, Munchy, Milo, and Ruby were aware of Danger Force’s existence before the crossover.
- Lex, Presley, and Munchy previously knew of Danger Force’s existence in "The Return of Uncle Nedward," when they want to save Ol’ Cliffy, Danger Force is clearly written on the dry erase board as an idea.
- Even though this episode is written by the creator, Munchy acts extremely out of character.
- This is the first episode in multi-camera and sitcom history to be 45 minutes long with one production code.
- Frankie Grande celebrated his 39th birthday during the production of this episode.
- Munchy breaks the fourth wall by saying he loves a crossover while the episode being a crossover itself.
- Sadie also breaks the fourth wall by mentioning a crossover.
- Side Hustle, That Girl Lay Lay, Warped!, Danger Force all film in Los Angeles, California, while Young Dylan films in Atlanta, Georgia at Tyler Perry Studios.
- This episode is choreographed by Cris Judd and Jason Chong.
- Both of which have worked on Side Hustle and That Girl Lay Lay.
- A special thanks to the creators of the hit Nickelodeon comedies, David A. Arnold (That Girl Lay Lay), Christopher J. Nowak (Danger Force), Tyler Perry (Tyler Perry's Young Dylan), and Kevin Kopelow & Heath Seifert (Warped!).
Goofs
- When everyone is enjoying their milkshakes and Fisher marches off, Lex and Presley's trophy is clearly seen placed on the table in front of them. However, in the next shot when everyone fist bumps, the trophy completely vanishes.
- Jacques Chevelle is credited twice, once as a main character, another as a guest character.
Warped!:
- The events of this episode take place after the events of Season 1 of Warped!
- Ruby mentions the real Warped! having windows and bathrooms, but in the series there are no windows or bathrooms at Warped!
- Ruby mentions Danger Force, The Man's Nest, Rick Twitler, and Captain Man.
- Milo and Ruby are aware of Danger Force's existence before the crossover.
That Girl Lay Lay:
- Sadie and Lay Lay indirectly mention Sadie's parents (Trish and Bryce).
- Sadie is aware of Danger Force and Frankini's existence before the crossover.
- Lay Lay uses her freezing power first seen in her own series.
- Sadie dancing during the song is similar to her dance first seen in the first episode of That Girl Lay Lay.
Danger Force:
- Captain Man is mentioned.
- Chapa shows a picture of Frankini to Lex, Presley, and Munchy. This picture is from the Henry Danger episode "Henry Danger: The Musical."
- Ironically, the musical episode also focused on Frankini mind-controlling everyone instead making everyone sing other than dance.
- Ruby confirms that ShoutOut's favorite yogurt flavor is strawberry.
- Bose is confirmed to be a Pisces.
- Chapa's favorite spice is nutmeg.
- Danger Force points out Fisher's and Lil' Dynomite's physical similarities, in reality, both characters are portrayed by Mitchell Berg.
- Lil' Dynomite could be an impostor and could be impersonating Fisher due to him getting nervous when being asked about his boots.
- In the Danger Force episode "Drive Hard," Lil' Dynomite is last seen flying off into the night sky, he could've potentially landed in Altoonisburg, Pennsylvania.
Tyler Perry's Young Dylan:
- Dylan indirectly mentions his cousin Charlie.
Videos
When Worlds Collide - Nickelodeon Crossover Event Premieres Thursday, April 21
Nickelodeon Crossover Event on 'Side Hustle' Behind-the-Scenes (Exclusive)
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