July 28, 2025 • 19 mins
In this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark, we're diving into Holidazed Episode 7 – The Manetti-Hanahan family. Christmas rivalry is the stuff of legend, escalating with each passing year in a festive battle of lights, lawn decorations, and holiday one-upmanship. But this year, Connie Manetti dreams of a peaceful holiday and pleads with her husband Chuck to finally call a truce with their longtime neighbors.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey friends, it's time for another encore presentation of Girls
Gone Hallmark. This time we are revisiting our reviews of
the Holidays series. These were originally recorded in December twenty
twenty four, so you might hear a reference here and
there to something around the holiday season. But in honor
of the fact that Hallmark is re airing these episodes
on the Hallmark Channel for the first time, we wanted
(00:22):
to re share our reviews along with those drops, so
you can listen along as you're watching enjoy the show.
This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
(00:54):
a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
Hallmark fan.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm wyn Day.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I'm a former Hallmark hater. We're heading into the Holidays
home stretch today we are discussing Holidays episode seven, The
Menetti Hannahan Family, the final of the individual family episodes
before finale. We're gonna be changing up the format of
this episode just a little bit. We have been kind
(01:17):
of doing a scene by scene recap, but I did
find that these finals episodes were a little bit chaotic.
Lots of people, lots of people, lots of jumping back
and forth. So instead we're going to focus on a
character driven synopsis. Okay, may I suggest that we start
with Clark, who is in fact my favorite manette Hannah Hand.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's the least problematic.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That's why I like him. He's like, I'm like, oh,
he gets things done. He's pretty non confrontational, like he
and his dad go for it, but in a way
where he's like just trying to solve problems. Yes, what's
that face?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, there's a great quote that I want to just
make sure that we cover when we talk about Clark
and Chuck.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, Clark and Chuck, their big issue is first, let's
let's do the beginning of the episode before we dive
into these because the episode actually begins with Connie Minettie
Hanahan making like a video about how all she wants
is like a lovely family holiday, cut to Chuck getting arrested. Yes,
(02:29):
this is very confusing to me. I assume it's a
previous year. But we were watching it together and I
paused and I was like, what's happening here?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, I believe it's a previous year. It doesn't make
any sense to me, Like there was no reason for
Chuck to get arrested this year.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, Like, are we to believe that Manny called the
police because Chuck had done something? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think that Connie is using this video from previous
year to be like, I don't want to rebusy that
this is the Christmas I want this year, not that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, and we cut to everyone in the house. It's
the dark. Now, it's the dark. It's dark in the house.
The power is out. I assumed that in this episode
we're starting at the power outage. I was wrong. Their
power is out because their house is just a series
of deferred maintenance items. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And well I think back in episode one when they
remember when they plugged in it blew the fuse.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, and so their electrical panel is overloaded. We learned
there's a lot of stuff going on in the house
that just hadn't been taken care of, right, And so
Chuck's like, I'm going to fix this, and they look
at the panel and it's like completely fried. And Clark's like, yo, man,
you need solar panels. And he's like this is what
he does for a living. But it's just so funny
to me. He's like, I'm going to install solar panels
(03:51):
on your house. Yeah, there was a lot of things here.
I was like, wait, he just has solar planels laying
around and like the battery backup and everything. I've been
through this process at my house of putting solar panels
on and a backup battery, and it takes weeks, and
it takes a city approval, and it takes all kinds
of stuff. But the best interaction between Clark and Chuck
(04:14):
about these solar panels, Chuck says green is a color, son,
not a solution. Yes, And I died.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I was like, you go and turn your Fox News
back on, because my god, have I heard this from
my family members interest?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh kild you spend so much money on solar panels. Wha,
oh my god, Oh my god. You know who's laughing
when those drones come and like take over our world?
I am because I got a battery pack up.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Kidding. I'm joking, guys, I'm just joking. So this runs
throughout like basically, Chuck and Clark are like in a
battle to see who can repair the power faster, and
Chuck is like putting band aids over bullet holes, like
he plugs in a generator at one point the generator
so they can blow dray their hair. This was a
(05:04):
weird storyline with like the kids needing to like get
their hair washed. Yeah, anyway, it was you know, Chuck
is a lot. Could you imagine having Chuck as your dad,
growing up with Chuck as your dad. Chuck exhausted me,
like he was just unnecessarily difficult. I felt like, yeah,
(05:25):
imagine that being your neighbor too, Like you would just
never get along with this person. This person always thinks
he's right because he has some experience well, and he's
clearly a guy who always has like a project going.
Because at one point they show us their mantle which
is like burned. Yeah, no explanation for that, Like was
there a fire? Is it just like the result of
(05:46):
like I don't know what happened? Is it like soot?
Yeah from the Yeah, running a fire to me, But
it's just one of those things that he it's you
can imagine he's like, no, honey, I'll get to it.
I'll get to it, and she's like sick and tired
of waiting for him to get to it. Always has
a project, always kind of trying to fix things himself,
(06:07):
and it is not working. Out spoiler alert, Clark does
get the power running with his magical solar panels. Yay Clark,
Yay Clark.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Clark's are a wowie zowie too. In my opinion, I
enjoy Giles Panton. Did you just pull that name out
from nowhere?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
No? I have the list of the character Oh I
do not. But if you want a full rundown of
the cast of this episode, please visit our show notes,
where we will have detailed information on each of them.
It would be an entire episode to run them down.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes, I want to talk about the sister and the
sister in laws.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. But what's
the other sister's name? Laurie is the actual sister. She's
played by Hilary Jardine. Rebecca is the sister in law
daughter in law played by Lucy Guests played by Lucy Guest.
And you're right, Laurie is the mean sister. This whole
family is mean. If you look at them, Katie is mean.
From previous episode we talked to I mean, you kind
(07:05):
of understand why Katie is the way she is. Chuck
is mean. The only one who's not mean is Connie. Well, Clark,
Connie and Clark, Yeah, and the kids. What's her name, Laurie,
Laurie's real mean, Yeah, So Laurie and Rebecca have beef.
Laurie tries to make you believe that it's because Rebecca
is like superior and she's vegan and has these high
(07:28):
standards for her children. And I'm sure she's made some
snide remarks because Laurie's like, you know, when you say,
like maybe you shouldn't give them sugar before dinner. Rebecca's like,
I'm just taking care of your children, and Laurie's like
I hear that as you think I can't, right, Like
I get those kind of like back and forth. Sure,
but Laurie is coming from a place of like there's
(07:49):
not anything Rebecca could do that she wouldn't find annoying.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
She finds her existence annoying, she finds her life annoying.
And so they almost come to like a little bit
of an agreement, and then it kind of blows up
again badly. Yeah. It starts in the salon where Laurie's like,
try having three kids and see how good of a
mom you are at that point, Like I'm just treading water.
(08:16):
Rebecca doesn't say anything at that point, but like that comment.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hits her, but you can see it though, sure percent
she's completely.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Devastated at the comment and just walks away, and you
kind of do see you think like maybe they've come
to an understanding of each other at this point. Maybe
a little bit cut to they're in the pantry and
Laurie tries to like offer an olive branch. She's like,
let me introduce you to my cecaret box of wine,
and she hands it to Rebecca and like Rebecca gags,
(08:44):
and Lauria's like she can't handle it, Like she's so
annoyed because she thinks Rebecca's gagging because like it's she's
too classy, it's cheap wine. She can't have it. Uneasily,
like we know what is happening at this point.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now I hadn't caught it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh you had it. Yeah, it is in this wine
scene that Rebecca revealed that she can't have Yeah children,
it's kind of heartbreaking. Yeah, it's kind of funny because
this is a vegan family and she's like sneaking meat
from sneaking Wally's meathouse. She explains to Laurie, like we've
(09:16):
tried and tried and tried, and we can't have more children,
and so like I would love to be overwhelmed by children.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, And she's like, we've recently decided to give up trying. Yes,
Like that's a hard decision to come to. I thought
it was very nice. Like here I'm laying bare everything,
like this is what's going on for me, and your
comment really.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Hurt and like, yeah, I do maybe parent my child
to perfection because this is the one child I have.
This is my one shot, and so like if I
can't have more children, I'm gonna throw my whole self
into this one child.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So like also we're different people, Like what's important to
me is not what's important to you, And like maybe
I should shut my mouth sometimes about like the way
you parent your kids. But we can do things differently.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, but they have this beautiful like under standing. And
then that's when Laurie goes to share the wine and
Rebecca kind of gags out on it, and then Laurie's.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Like, oh, forget it. I tried. Yeah, she I feel
like it's a leap too far, But I also feel
like it's been years of Laurie feeling judged by Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We get the flip side of Katie coming home after
the breakup.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So, and of course we saw in the last episode
Kevin dumps Katie and then they go off to the
stroll and we see Katie like watching from the window.
But now we see the flip side of her actually
coming home and she's telling the family like what happened,
and they fully rally around her, like they're ready to
ride for her against Camerina family. Is that how you
(10:45):
say their name?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, Katie coming home gives them anetti hanahands a common
enemy that is outside of their home. It like redirects
all this animosity they're feeling towards each other. Yeah, and
so they all come together in that way. Connie doesn't
want to fight back, and we do need to talk
about Connie's storyline. Yeah, but I do, like, I mean,
Connie is the voice of reason in this whole family,
(11:08):
and you know, Katie's like, this is what I feel
like we talked about last episode. I think the tone
of this episode with Katie is much different than the
tone of episode six. I think that's way because Katie
just seems like a heartbroken girl. She's not reading mean
girl to me in this moment.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, but then she still shows up to the freaking
stroll and like, yeah, throws the ring back in Kevin's face.
It more.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That felt more motivated by the fact that she's got
all these like wild men Eddie handah hands behind her,
like they roll deep they come in the montage of
them like marching in. Yeah, and then she's been motivated
by her family, who's like out for revenge in whatever
form it takes. Like we hate the camerainas, Yeah, we
hate the camerainas. Let's do this, yeez, run Kevin, let's
(12:01):
talk about Connie. Well, let's talk about Connie. So halfway
through the episode when he's like, I got a bad
feeling about this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, I'm glad they kept it vague.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, me too, I'm glad they kept it vague. So
we know that Connie just wants a nice Christmas. And
at one point early in the episode, Chuck's like, are
you okay, and She's like, I just want one nice Christmas.
Cut to we see her like missing a phone call.
(12:34):
She gets pissed. Yeah, she drives to the medical center.
They're closed Christmas Eve, I mean of course, right, Yeah,
she finally reveals that she had an abnormal test result
and she had a biopsy and she was hoping to
have had the results by now, but she didn't. And
(12:55):
so she does make a comment like this Christmas might
be my last kind of irked me a little bit.
I'm like, you, you.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Have no information, you don't have any year operating off
of fear right now.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, that seems like a bold statement to me. I
can understand being like, I want a good Christmas because
I don't know what next year is going to be,
like like if there is a diagnosis, maybe next year's
gonna suck dealing with treatment. Yeah, but the jumping to
like this may be my last when you have no
information was Yes, perhaps a little bit too much, a
little insensitive, I think, but that's that's where she's operating from. Well,
(13:29):
and now it.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Makes sense how she just wants, like, you know, a
Hallmark Christmas card. That's I think that's what she said.
Make the point, and I get it, like if you know,
she's feeling fearful. But so it's nice to finally have
like a full loop, a closed loop on the motivation
(13:50):
of her like in her Christmas contract and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Although quite frankly, she doesn't even need that. She could
just be that up because this family is impossible. And
if this was my Christmas every year, where there's just
strife and everyone's fighting with everyone else, including the neighbors,
I would be tired of it too. Yeah, And she
tries to be like so neutral.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I would be like screaming my head off, like I've
have already.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah. I think I would just be like, bye, I'm
not doing this, like you figured it out, Goodbye, goodbye.
And the only softness we see in this episode comes
from Chuck when Connie gives him this information, and you know,
he has to make a military metaphor. He's like, I've
never lost anyone on my under my command. I'm not
about to lose you. I did enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I enjoyed this softening of Chuck here at the end
of this episode as well.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Also, I kind of like the llama, I.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Please explain to me why were they going? Why was
he looking for a reindeer? Apparently she had signed them
up to bring the reindeer to this stroll, and I
was like, real reindeer, You're gonna have live reindeer.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
At the stroll? I don't why, like for decoration. I
didn't understand. But they hadn't made a reindeer reservation, and
chucktures to get a reindeer and there's no reindeer. All
they got is a llama. But I really liked Chuck
with the lama.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, I like lamas too, I just don't. It was
weird to me, Like it was odd. That's so weird.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Just adds to the cads. Yeah, too much chaos. I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I don't operate on cass guys, And so this family
stresses me out.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
The episode ends, you know, we have our classic power
outage moment. Oh no, we do learn that Rebecca's pregnant
because they come home, yes, and they're all gonna get
the family photo. They've all reunited over their shared goal
of taking down the camaran as they go cause havoc
(15:50):
at the stroll and they come home and they're gonna
get the family photo. And there's like this montage of
everyone making the house nice and getting into their sweaters
and they repair the mantle and all of the and
Lori offers Rebecca a glass of nice wine and she
gags there too, and she was like, what the hell man?
(16:10):
And then she was like, she's pregnant. Even the fancy
wine makes her gag.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hey, did you catch the oh shit in this episode?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And shit got bleeped? Yeah? Yeah, and Clark shows off
his solar setup. You know, they turn the lights back
on all of this. This is all good news. Yeah,
Chuck's like, maybe y'all scale down the Christmas lights so
that our solar load can handle it. This is so dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This is so dumb to me because their Christmas lights
are not that obnoxious. I think it's like there has
to be some Christmas Vacation inspiration here, because uh, in
the next episode spoiler alert, there's like a moment where
like the lights are like really blind in the Camarina's house,
(17:01):
and in Christmas Vacation there's a moment where like the
neighbors are blinded by Clark's lights. Nobody's Christmas lights are
that bright that they're like a spotlight shining into your house.
No never, now, I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
My house.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Our houses. I live in southern California. Our houses we
don't have, like there's not there's not miles and miles
between the next house, right, And so when their Christmas
lights have been turning on lately, like I see them
from our windows, but I actually enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well, it's not like blinding you. You can still go
about your day.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
No, it's just but it's just like a nice little
and I'll be sad when the season's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Over and it doesn't turn on anymore. So so the
power goes on, the family waits by the tree, they're
about to get their family photo, and boom, the power
goes out. Storm with the storm the power, But that
(18:01):
solar bit does set us up nicely for episode eight,
bring in the families together. So thank you for listening
to this episode of Girls Gone Homework, a Bramble Jam podcast.
Come back tomorrow for our wrap up of holidays. We'll
see you next time.
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Hey friends, it's time for another encore presentation of Girls
Gone Hallmark. This time we are revisiting our reviews of
the Holidays series. These were originally recorded in December twenty
twenty four, so you might hear a reference here and
there to something around the holiday season. But in honor
of the fact that Hallmark is re airing these episodes
on the Hallmark Channel for the first time, we wanted
(00:22):
to re share our reviews along with those drops, so
you can listen along as you're watching enjoy the show.
This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
(00:54):
a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
Hallmark fan.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm wyn Day.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I'm a former Hallmark hater. We're heading into the Holidays
home stretch today we are discussing Holidays episode seven, The
Menetti Hannahan Family, the final of the individual family episodes
before finale. We're gonna be changing up the format of
this episode just a little bit. We have been kind
(01:17):
of doing a scene by scene recap, but I did
find that these finals episodes were a little bit chaotic.
Lots of people, lots of people, lots of jumping back
and forth. So instead we're going to focus on a
character driven synopsis. Okay, may I suggest that we start
with Clark, who is in fact my favorite manette Hannah Hand.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He's the least problematic.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That's why I like him. He's like, I'm like, oh,
he gets things done. He's pretty non confrontational, like he
and his dad go for it, but in a way
where he's like just trying to solve problems. Yes, what's
that face?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, there's a great quote that I want to just
make sure that we cover when we talk about Clark
and Chuck.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, Clark and Chuck, their big issue is first, let's
let's do the beginning of the episode before we dive
into these because the episode actually begins with Connie Minettie
Hanahan making like a video about how all she wants
is like a lovely family holiday, cut to Chuck getting arrested. Yes,
(02:29):
this is very confusing to me. I assume it's a
previous year. But we were watching it together and I
paused and I was like, what's happening here?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, I believe it's a previous year. It doesn't make
any sense to me, Like there was no reason for
Chuck to get arrested this year.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, Like, are we to believe that Manny called the
police because Chuck had done something? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I think that Connie is using this video from previous
year to be like, I don't want to rebusy that
this is the Christmas I want this year, not that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yes, and we cut to everyone in the house. It's
the dark. Now, it's the dark. It's dark in the house.
The power is out. I assumed that in this episode
we're starting at the power outage. I was wrong. Their
power is out because their house is just a series
of deferred maintenance items. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And well I think back in episode one when they
remember when they plugged in it blew the fuse.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, and so their electrical panel is overloaded. We learned
there's a lot of stuff going on in the house
that just hadn't been taken care of, right, And so
Chuck's like, I'm going to fix this, and they look
at the panel and it's like completely fried. And Clark's like, yo, man,
you need solar panels. And he's like this is what
he does for a living. But it's just so funny
to me. He's like, I'm going to install solar panels
(03:51):
on your house. Yeah, there was a lot of things here.
I was like, wait, he just has solar planels laying
around and like the battery backup and everything. I've been
through this process at my house of putting solar panels
on and a backup battery, and it takes weeks, and
it takes a city approval, and it takes all kinds
of stuff. But the best interaction between Clark and Chuck
(04:14):
about these solar panels, Chuck says green is a color, son,
not a solution. Yes, And I died.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I was like, you go and turn your Fox News
back on, because my god, have I heard this from
my family members interest?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh kild you spend so much money on solar panels. Wha,
oh my god, Oh my god. You know who's laughing
when those drones come and like take over our world?
I am because I got a battery pack up.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Kidding. I'm joking, guys, I'm just joking. So this runs
throughout like basically, Chuck and Clark are like in a
battle to see who can repair the power faster, and
Chuck is like putting band aids over bullet holes, like
he plugs in a generator at one point the generator
so they can blow dray their hair. This was a
(05:04):
weird storyline with like the kids needing to like get
their hair washed. Yeah, anyway, it was you know, Chuck
is a lot. Could you imagine having Chuck as your dad,
growing up with Chuck as your dad. Chuck exhausted me,
like he was just unnecessarily difficult. I felt like, yeah,
(05:25):
imagine that being your neighbor too, Like you would just
never get along with this person. This person always thinks
he's right because he has some experience well, and he's
clearly a guy who always has like a project going.
Because at one point they show us their mantle which
is like burned. Yeah, no explanation for that, Like was
there a fire? Is it just like the result of
(05:46):
like I don't know what happened? Is it like soot?
Yeah from the Yeah, running a fire to me, But
it's just one of those things that he it's you
can imagine he's like, no, honey, I'll get to it.
I'll get to it, and she's like sick and tired
of waiting for him to get to it. Always has
a project, always kind of trying to fix things himself,
(06:07):
and it is not working. Out spoiler alert, Clark does
get the power running with his magical solar panels. Yay Clark,
Yay Clark.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Clark's are a wowie zowie too. In my opinion, I
enjoy Giles Panton. Did you just pull that name out
from nowhere?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
No? I have the list of the character Oh I
do not. But if you want a full rundown of
the cast of this episode, please visit our show notes,
where we will have detailed information on each of them.
It would be an entire episode to run them down.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yes, I want to talk about the sister and the
sister in laws.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. But what's
the other sister's name? Laurie is the actual sister. She's
played by Hilary Jardine. Rebecca is the sister in law
daughter in law played by Lucy Guests played by Lucy Guest.
And you're right, Laurie is the mean sister. This whole
family is mean. If you look at them, Katie is mean.
From previous episode we talked to I mean, you kind
(07:05):
of understand why Katie is the way she is. Chuck
is mean. The only one who's not mean is Connie. Well, Clark,
Connie and Clark, Yeah, and the kids. What's her name, Laurie,
Laurie's real mean, Yeah, So Laurie and Rebecca have beef.
Laurie tries to make you believe that it's because Rebecca
is like superior and she's vegan and has these high
(07:28):
standards for her children. And I'm sure she's made some
snide remarks because Laurie's like, you know, when you say,
like maybe you shouldn't give them sugar before dinner. Rebecca's like,
I'm just taking care of your children, and Laurie's like
I hear that as you think I can't, right, Like
I get those kind of like back and forth. Sure,
but Laurie is coming from a place of like there's
(07:49):
not anything Rebecca could do that she wouldn't find annoying.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
She finds her existence annoying, she finds her life annoying.
And so they almost come to like a little bit
of an agreement, and then it kind of blows up
again badly. Yeah. It starts in the salon where Laurie's like,
try having three kids and see how good of a
mom you are at that point, Like I'm just treading water.
(08:16):
Rebecca doesn't say anything at that point, but like that comment.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Hits her, but you can see it though, sure percent
she's completely.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Devastated at the comment and just walks away, and you
kind of do see you think like maybe they've come
to an understanding of each other at this point. Maybe
a little bit cut to they're in the pantry and
Laurie tries to like offer an olive branch. She's like,
let me introduce you to my cecaret box of wine,
and she hands it to Rebecca and like Rebecca gags,
(08:44):
and Lauria's like she can't handle it, Like she's so
annoyed because she thinks Rebecca's gagging because like it's she's
too classy, it's cheap wine. She can't have it. Uneasily,
like we know what is happening at this point.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now I hadn't caught it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh you had it. Yeah, it is in this wine
scene that Rebecca revealed that she can't have Yeah children,
it's kind of heartbreaking. Yeah, it's kind of funny because
this is a vegan family and she's like sneaking meat
from sneaking Wally's meathouse. She explains to Laurie, like we've
(09:16):
tried and tried and tried, and we can't have more children,
and so like I would love to be overwhelmed by children.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, And she's like, we've recently decided to give up trying. Yes,
Like that's a hard decision to come to. I thought
it was very nice. Like here I'm laying bare everything,
like this is what's going on for me, and your
comment really.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Hurt and like, yeah, I do maybe parent my child
to perfection because this is the one child I have.
This is my one shot, and so like if I
can't have more children, I'm gonna throw my whole self
into this one child.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So like also we're different people, Like what's important to
me is not what's important to you, And like maybe
I should shut my mouth sometimes about like the way
you parent your kids. But we can do things differently.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, but they have this beautiful like under standing. And
then that's when Laurie goes to share the wine and
Rebecca kind of gags out on it, and then Laurie's.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Like, oh, forget it. I tried. Yeah, she I feel
like it's a leap too far, But I also feel
like it's been years of Laurie feeling judged by Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We get the flip side of Katie coming home after
the breakup.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
So, and of course we saw in the last episode
Kevin dumps Katie and then they go off to the
stroll and we see Katie like watching from the window.
But now we see the flip side of her actually
coming home and she's telling the family like what happened,
and they fully rally around her, like they're ready to
ride for her against Camerina family. Is that how you
(10:45):
say their name?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, Katie coming home gives them anetti hanahands a common
enemy that is outside of their home. It like redirects
all this animosity they're feeling towards each other. Yeah, and
so they all come together in that way. Connie doesn't
want to fight back, and we do need to talk
about Connie's storyline. Yeah, but I do, like, I mean,
Connie is the voice of reason in this whole family,
(11:08):
and you know, Katie's like, this is what I feel
like we talked about last episode. I think the tone
of this episode with Katie is much different than the
tone of episode six. I think that's way because Katie
just seems like a heartbroken girl. She's not reading mean
girl to me in this moment.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, but then she still shows up to the freaking
stroll and like, yeah, throws the ring back in Kevin's face.
It more.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
That felt more motivated by the fact that she's got
all these like wild men Eddie handah hands behind her,
like they roll deep they come in the montage of
them like marching in. Yeah, and then she's been motivated
by her family, who's like out for revenge in whatever
form it takes. Like we hate the camerainas, Yeah, we
hate the camerainas. Let's do this, yeez, run Kevin, let's
(12:01):
talk about Connie. Well, let's talk about Connie. So halfway
through the episode when he's like, I got a bad
feeling about this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, I'm glad they kept it vague.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, me too, I'm glad they kept it vague. So
we know that Connie just wants a nice Christmas. And
at one point early in the episode, Chuck's like, are
you okay, and She's like, I just want one nice Christmas.
Cut to we see her like missing a phone call.
(12:34):
She gets pissed. Yeah, she drives to the medical center.
They're closed Christmas Eve, I mean of course, right, Yeah,
she finally reveals that she had an abnormal test result
and she had a biopsy and she was hoping to
have had the results by now, but she didn't. And
(12:55):
so she does make a comment like this Christmas might
be my last kind of irked me a little bit.
I'm like, you, you.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Have no information, you don't have any year operating off
of fear right now.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, that seems like a bold statement to me. I
can understand being like, I want a good Christmas because
I don't know what next year is going to be,
like like if there is a diagnosis, maybe next year's
gonna suck dealing with treatment. Yeah, but the jumping to
like this may be my last when you have no
information was Yes, perhaps a little bit too much, a
little insensitive, I think, but that's that's where she's operating from. Well,
(13:29):
and now it.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Makes sense how she just wants, like, you know, a
Hallmark Christmas card. That's I think that's what she said.
Make the point, and I get it, like if you know,
she's feeling fearful. But so it's nice to finally have
like a full loop, a closed loop on the motivation
(13:50):
of her like in her Christmas contract and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Although quite frankly, she doesn't even need that. She could
just be that up because this family is impossible. And
if this was my Christmas every year, where there's just
strife and everyone's fighting with everyone else, including the neighbors,
I would be tired of it too. Yeah, And she
tries to be like so neutral.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I would be like screaming my head off, like I've
have already.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah. I think I would just be like, bye, I'm
not doing this, like you figured it out, Goodbye, goodbye.
And the only softness we see in this episode comes
from Chuck when Connie gives him this information, and you know,
he has to make a military metaphor. He's like, I've
never lost anyone on my under my command. I'm not
about to lose you. I did enjoy that.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I enjoyed this softening of Chuck here at the end
of this episode as well.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Also, I kind of like the llama, I.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Please explain to me why were they going? Why was
he looking for a reindeer? Apparently she had signed them
up to bring the reindeer to this stroll, and I
was like, real reindeer, You're gonna have live reindeer.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
At the stroll? I don't why, like for decoration. I
didn't understand. But they hadn't made a reindeer reservation, and
chucktures to get a reindeer and there's no reindeer. All
they got is a llama. But I really liked Chuck
with the lama.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, I like lamas too, I just don't. It was
weird to me, Like it was odd. That's so weird.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Just adds to the cads. Yeah, too much chaos. I can't.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I don't operate on cass guys, And so this family
stresses me out.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
The episode ends, you know, we have our classic power
outage moment. Oh no, we do learn that Rebecca's pregnant
because they come home, yes, and they're all gonna get
the family photo. They've all reunited over their shared goal
of taking down the camaran as they go cause havoc
(15:50):
at the stroll and they come home and they're gonna
get the family photo. And there's like this montage of
everyone making the house nice and getting into their sweaters
and they repair the mantle and all of the and
Lori offers Rebecca a glass of nice wine and she
gags there too, and she was like, what the hell man?
(16:10):
And then she was like, she's pregnant. Even the fancy
wine makes her gag.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Hey, did you catch the oh shit in this episode?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
And shit got bleeped? Yeah? Yeah, and Clark shows off
his solar setup. You know, they turn the lights back
on all of this. This is all good news. Yeah,
Chuck's like, maybe y'all scale down the Christmas lights so
that our solar load can handle it. This is so dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
This is so dumb to me because their Christmas lights
are not that obnoxious. I think it's like there has
to be some Christmas Vacation inspiration here, because uh, in
the next episode spoiler alert, there's like a moment where
like the lights are like really blind in the Camarina's house,
(17:01):
and in Christmas Vacation there's a moment where like the
neighbors are blinded by Clark's lights. Nobody's Christmas lights are
that bright that they're like a spotlight shining into your house.
No never, now, I will tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
My house.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Our houses. I live in southern California. Our houses we
don't have, like there's not there's not miles and miles
between the next house, right, And so when their Christmas
lights have been turning on lately, like I see them
from our windows, but I actually enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well, it's not like blinding you. You can still go
about your day.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
No, it's just but it's just like a nice little
and I'll be sad when the season's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Over and it doesn't turn on anymore. So so the
power goes on, the family waits by the tree, they're
about to get their family photo, and boom, the power
goes out. Storm with the storm the power, But that
(18:01):
solar bit does set us up nicely for episode eight,
bring in the families together. So thank you for listening
to this episode of Girls Gone Homework, a Bramble Jam podcast.
Come back tomorrow for our wrap up of holidays. We'll
see you next time.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Goodbye, bye.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
All right friends, before we go, just a quick heads up.
You're about to hear some ads. These little gems help
us keep the show running and the Hallmark love flowing.
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