7 Sweet Life Lessons Unicorn Store (Almost) Teaches Us

The second pamphlet Kit receives from the Salesman tells her to feed the unicorn's body and mind. Kit is profoundly terrible at this, both in how she intends to feed the unicorn and how she prefers to feed herself.

Concerning the unicorn, Kit buys a ton of hay. Great start. Then she dyes the hay with an Easter kit. Not so great. A unicorn can probably survive hay that's been dyed multiple colors, but that doesn't make it proper food. Especially since, depending on the Easter kit she used, there could be some pretty dangerous stuff in there.

As for how Kit feeds herself, she's not too great at feeding body or mind. She appears to excel at the latter, expressing her creative side often; however, she doesn't feed it with much of anything new. From her self-portrait to her Mystic Vac presentation, Kit prefers to stick with the same artistic motifs she's been using since she was a child. The painting that gets her kicked out of school is arguably of a higher quality than anything she produces later in the film.

Kit does try to feed her body well when she decides to act more mature, but she only does so begrudgingly. There's some irony here, in that a better diet could actually boost her creativity. Nonetheless, Kit not only hates good food, she's utterly perplexed by it. As she squeezes grapefruit juice onto kale, it's fairly obvious that she doesn't actually know how to eat like a human being. If it doesn't come out of a pizza box or a Bugles bag, it confuses her.

At least she drinks Diet Coke, though. That'll help her stave off diabetes.