Magical Pet

In it, Leonard Cakes acquires Kei-ko, a talking gorilla, to appease his son's demands for a magical pet.

Leonard bargains with the Dean to give the gorilla to his son, but Baby Cakes refuses to take Kei-ko, complaining that she is not really magical.

Frank performs a song stressing the "magic" of friendship over material things, cheering Baby Cakes up slightly.

The episode ends with a still-hairy Frank returning home, where his neighbor Cindy sees him while he's trying to enter his apartment.

As the hair falls off his body, Frank confronts Cindy over her refusal to date and have sex with him due to superficial reasons.

[1] Program executive producer Daniel Weidenfeld wrote the episode with Rebecca Addelman, L. E. Correia, Greta Gerwig, Chris Goodwin, Kyle McCulloch, and Mehar Sethi.

[4] The voices of Pony and Steve's love interests were supplied by actors Evan Peters and Rosa Salazar.

Weidenfeld and Neely were nervous to approach Peters, but the actor was enthusiastic to finally work in voice acting.

[3] Atlanta-based musician Chan Marshall, stage name Cat Power, performed three of the songs as the voice of Kei-ko's speaking device.

[5] Weidenfeld defined the themes explored in Marshall's songs as "the reason" he and the production crew produce animation.

According to the creator, the episode's central themes consisted of friendship and assigning importance and meaning to things relative to a person's life.

[4] James Grebey of Spin considered Marshall's employment on the episode unsurprising, given the network's association with alternative and independent music.

He has continued working for the network with a new program, Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio.