- This page is for Muirahara Woods, the episode. For the location, see Muirahara Woods (location).
"Muirahara Woods" is the seventh episode in Season 1 of Big Hero 6: The Series. It premiered on June 16, 2018.
Synopsis[]
Hiro, Fred, and Baymax follow Go Go into the mysterious Muirahara Woods where they get lost and everything electronic strangely fails - including Baymax.
Plot[]
Big Hero 6 chase down a criminal through the streets of San Fransokyo and he is cornered by the team, then arrested. After their victory, Fred shows he bought tickets for a new film called "Captain Fancy: Dawn of Fanciness" and invited his friends to go next day. Everyone agreed except for Go Go, who claimed she had different plans, but instead of explaining simply went away.
Hiro quickly asks about this to Honey Lemon and Wasabi, who say it really was none of their business. Still, Hiro become too curious about this and the following day he asks Fred to go find out about this despite Baymax, Honey and Wasabi objecting to it.
Fred, Hiro and Baymax are taken by Heathcliff in Fred's family limousine to wait for Go Go outside of her apartment and follow her without being seen. Heathcliff sees that she is leaving San Fransokyo, which makes Hiro question her. They keep following until they arrive to Muirahara Woods. Hiro instantly shows dislike for the place, while Fred told Hiro about an urban legend about a creature living in these woods called The Hibagon, although Hiro is skeptical about it.
Leaving Heathcliff behind to wait for them, the trio goes deeper into the woods to spy on Go Go as Hiro begins despising the forest more because of the bugs, and soon Fred and Hiro climb a tree to look at Go Go, finding out that she is bird watching and sketching birds. Fred spots a shadow that looked like The Hibagon, but the tree branch where Hiro and Fred stand breaks and fall into the river. Baymax jumps in to save them, although he starts to show signs of malfunction by switching up words. Afterwards, Hiro examines Baymax thinking it could be the water that damaged his circuits, but sees there is nothing wrong with him while at the same time Fred shows his phone is glitching when he tries calling Heathcliff to go find them.
Hiro and Fred also try calling Go Go by shouting her name but no avail, soon realizing they are lost and Baymax is nowhere to be seen. On the other hand, Go Go goes back to the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology to meet with her friends, but Honey Lemon and Wasabi ask about Hiro and Fred, much to Go Go's surprise since she was unaware they followed her. They become worried upon seeing their phones have "died" and their last known location was in the forest, so they go looking for them since it is getting dark outside.
While roaming the woods Hiro and Fred see a bear that tries to attack them, but they are saved by Ned Ludd, a weird hermit man who invites them to his treehouse because there were too many dangerous animals around. At the treehouse, Ned tells them how he had ended up in the forest, revealing that he was once a real estate developer who wanted to tear down Muirahara Woods until one night while driving around it, his brakes malfunctioned and almost died by falling off a cliff until "nature" saved his life with the car suddenly stopping. Due to this Ned decided to stay and live in Muirahara, and he also found a meteorite and took it with him, naming it "Bessie". Hiro figures out it was actually this meteorite that had stopped the car's tech and was currently causing Baymax's erratic behavior, so he asked Ned to help find him. Fred also asked if Ned knew The Hibagon, to which Ned replied that the creature was actually him scaring people off from the forest.
They then went outside and found Baymax, but Ned became angered to find out Baymax was a robot since he had developed a hatred for technology, threatening to throw Baymax off a cliff after he trapped Hiro and Fred with a net. Honey Lemon, Go Go and Wasabi then found Hiro and Fred, who explained to them that Baymax was in danger. Since Ned didn't know about Go Go, Honey Lemon and Wasabi being in the forest, they made a plan to ambush and capture him. Ned then saw fire in the woods and believed it was Hiro and Fred burning it down, so he left Baymax and went back to get them. Before he could do anything to them, Honey Lemon and Wasabi attacked Ned and then Go Go made him fall down a hole. Baymax also reunited with the team thanks to a moose that took him to Hiro. After Ludd was defeated, the heroes told him they'd help him if he allowed Baymax to leave the forest with them.
With no choice, Ned took them back to the forest's entrance but still questioned Baymax, suggesting he might try to enslave humanity and dominate the world. Ned then told the team to get out of the forest already as he jumped away, then Fred remembered Heathcliff was probably worried sick about them. However, when the team got back to him they saw he had fallen asleep in the limo's hot tub, so Fred told them to not wake him up because he looked too peaceful.
Cast[]
| Character | Notes | Voice Actor |
|---|---|---|
| Baymax | Scott Adsit | |
| Hiro Hamada | Ryan Potter | |
| Fred | Brooks Wheelan | |
| Go Go Tomago | Jamie Chung | |
| Wasabi | Khary Payton | |
| Honey Lemon | Genesis Rodriguez | |
| Heathcliff | David Shaughnessy | |
| Villains | ||
| Ned Ludd | Debut | Jon Rudnitsky |
| Criminal | David Shaughnessy | |
Trivia[]
- The premiere date for this episode was scheduled for March 29, 2018, but Bob Schooley confirmed that this announcement was not the official US premiere date.
- Wasabi's quote in the episode "This is how it ends. Not with a bang, but with a bear!" is a parody/reference to the 1925 poem The Hollow Men.
- The title of the film "Captain Fancy: Dawn of Fanciness" is a parody of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
- This episode reveals that Hiro has never left San Fransokyo his entire life. Because of this, he has a slight phobia of nature.
- The bird that Go Go draws is a pileated woodpecker.
- The same type of bird is seen in the short "Save Mochi".
Errors[]
- When Go Go is being followed by Fred, Hiro, Baymax and Heathcliff in the limo, a car is seen in the background that passes over a building. This was an animation error, as the building (or car) was layered wrong.
- When Hiro, Fred and Baymax start following Go Go into Muirahara Woods, Fred is missing his sleeves when he peeks from behind a tree.
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