1.29 - Sisters

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Title Sisters Episode # Season 1, Episode 29 First aired November 18, 1998 Directed by Written by Summary Kora's sister, Cleo, drops by for a visit. Kora deals with her own issues and Cleo's debts.

FoxKids Spoiler

• When a jealous Kora (Angela Dotchin) tries to be more like her more popular sister Cleo (Loren Horsely), she's mistaken for her sibling and kidnapped by a pair of thugs.

TV Guide Promo

• Kora's long lost sister Cleo shows up causing the green-eyed monster to show up in Kora, when her sister steals the spotlight. When Kora attempts to loosen up and be more like Cleo, she gets more than she bargained for when she's mistaken for her sister and is kidnapped by two thugs.

Synopsis

Title card - End credits can be found here.

Hercules and Jason are hanging around Kora's. They are trying to get her to lighten up and go out with them. While they are talking, Kora's sister, Cleo, who has been gone for four years, arrives.

The guys are stunned. Before long Cleo has impressed everyone. The guys start ignoring Kora and Kora starts hating the lack of attention she is getting.

Cleo hires a band. Kora decides to become Cleo. She dresses like her, and sets her hair like her. At first the guys are surprised, then they are worried that she has gone crazy.

Kora storms out, leaving Cleo in charge. Kora gets kidnapped by two thugs who mistake her for Cleo.

Hercules and Jason become waiters and help out Cleo. But when things start to get crazy everyone wants Kora. A customer walks in and mentions that she just saw two thugs dragging a girl who looked a lot like Cleo down the lake.

Cleo tells the guys that she was running from a group of thugs and that they probably grabbed Kora thinking she was her. Hercules, Jason, and Cleo set out to rescue Kora.

The guys take on the thugs and save Kora. Kora agrees to pay Cleo's debt. Cleo decides to join the band and leave. Kora returns to her old self and everything is okay again.

Characters (in order of appearance)

• Hercules
• Jason
• Kora
• Customer #1 (a.k.a. Guy with the Goofy Hat)
• Woman in the Orange Dress
• Cleo
• Leonidas
• Lute Player Jonathan
• Scarface
• Thug Steven
• Customer #4 (a.k.a. Customer Jon)
• Customer #3 (a.k.a. Customer Tim)
• Customer #2 (a.k.a. Constable Tarsus)
• Don Corleonus
• Customer #5 (a.k.a. Fruit Vendor Sacha)

Characters (mention only)

• Iolaus
• King Aeson
• Bouncer
• King Midas
• Don Corleonus' Associates

Places

• Kora's Inn
• Hera's Temple - (mention only)
• Troy - (mention only)
• Smuggler's Cove
• Scalea - (mention only)

Items

• Greekified Disco Ball
• Cleo's Bracelet
  • More items from this episode...

Other Pages

• Very Punny

Television Tropes

• Plot Tropes:
  • Love Triangle

Trivia & References

Bechdel Test - This episode passes several times, as Kora and Cleo have several conversations that are not about a man.

Pop Culture References and Greekisms - Jason says "All work and no play..." which is a reference to the proverb "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." It means that without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring.

Pop Culture References - The character of Don Corleonus, and the speech mannerisms used by the actor, is based on the title role played by Marlon Brando in the Academy Award winning movie The Godfather.

Pop Culture References - The henchman, Scarface, is based on the character made famous by Al Pacino in the movie of the same name.

Pop Culture References - Kora's line, "Cleo, Cleo, Cleo!", is a reference to the show "The Brady Bunch", when the character Jan is complaining that Marsha, her sister, is getting all the attention at a party and gets so upset that she whines "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!"

Continuity Warning - The "Greekified" disco ball that is hung during this episode is in extreme contrast to the more modern-looking disco ball that is hung during Orpheus's concert in 1.20 - Fame.

Continuity, Yay! - In 1.10 - Cyrano de Hercules, Jason and Hercules were giving tips to Hephaestus on how to talk to girls. One of their tips was a drawn-out "Hello". The first thing the boys do when they see Cleo? "Well, hellooooo...."

Continuity, Yay! - Kora mentions that she's tried bands before, and they didn't work. This may be a reference to Orpheus's concert in 1.20 - Fame when the very popular concert became infested with Bacchae, causing mass panic as everyone ran for their lives, and possibly leaving Kora's Inn with some bad publicity.

Guides, Scripts, Transcripts, & Reviews

• Sisters Transcript (Dialogue Only)
• Whoosh.org's Episode Guide
• IMDB's Episode Guide
• TV.com's Episode Guide
• ShareTV's Episode Guide
• Watch the full episode online at Hulu.com.
• Ty's Reviews: 1.29- Sisters

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