Back at home, Casey's mom lauds Mr. Bast's ability to discover a scholarship she didn't know about, lamenting the fact that he is so underpaid for all his hard work. Casey reprimands her mom for this tangent with a sharp, "Mom!" and Joan apologizes.

Casey wonders aloud how she is supposed to personalize a science project. Joan responds by quoting author George Sand, a female writer who was forced to write under a man's name in order to get published. Casey once more complains, "Mom!" and Joan apologizes again, before explaining that she tells her students they will know their topic "when [they] learn how to use [their] eyes."

That night, Casey and Ann watch figure skating on television. While Ann cries out for some ice cream, Casey admires the skater on TV before suddenly proclaiming that there must be an exact aerodynamic formula.

In this chapter, we get a glimpse into Casey's home life, as she and her mom prepare for dinner and discuss the matters most important to them: for Joan, it is the value of knowledge and teaching, while for Casey, it is telling her mom to shut up every time she talks about the value of knowledge and teaching. Nevertheless, this scene contains plenty of valuable character development for Joan, such as her affection for 19th century gender-bending feminists (this may or may not apply to Mr. Bast as well as George Sand). We also observe that Joan enjoys tending her flowers, which we won't even get into right now.

For her part, Casey shows that she is following in her mother's intellectual footsteps by musing profoundly, "Isn't the nature of science supposed to be completely unbiased and factual?" While it is impressive that Michelle Trachtenberg has managed to phonetically memorize this groundbreaking insight, however, Joan demonstrates that she is still Casey's scientific superior when, thanks to some innovative editing, she appears to teleport from outside the house into the kitchen to deliver her next line. Joan's feat is so extraordinary, in fact, that Casey is visibly startled upon turning around to find her mom standing right behind her.

Joan's advice that Casey "use [her] eyes" is put into action in the very next scene, as we cut to Casey's actual point of view on a televised figure skating championship. Meanwhile, Ann has clearly been inspired by the empowering themes of Ice Princess and passionately offers a declaration of her own: "I NEED TO EAT ICE CREAM." Unfortunately for Ann, she has chosen to appear in Ice Princess rather than Ice Cream Princess, and her pleas go unanswered in favor of Casey's fixation on the female ice skater on TV.

The crucial moment here, however, occurs when Casey is finally struck by a brilliant concept for her science project: "I bet there's an exact aerodynamic formula." Notably, this sentiment feels strangely abbreviated, as the simple existence of "exact aerodynamic formula[s]" has surely been well-documented by other people willing to specify what their aerodynamic formulas are actually for.

In Ice Cream Princess, Ann is a teenage girl who needs to eat ice cream -- or she'll die! And she's a princess.

Credits.