3.10: Christmas Spirit

In this episode of That Weewoo Show, Bex, Ellen, and Alice discuss season 3, episode ten of 9-1-1, titled "Christmas Spirit". The 118 responds to a shopper pushed over the edge, a woman who is literally having a "Blue Christmas" and a luggage handler accident on a tarmac; Maddie revisits her past to embrace her future; Bobby receives shocking news.

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Episode Transcript

Maddie (00:01):
9-1-1.
What's your emergency?

Bex (00:17):
Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, a podcast where we watch and discuss
episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1.
I'm Bex,

Alice (00:25):
I'm Alice.

Ellen (00:26):
And I'm Ellen.

Bex (00:28):
Thank you to everyone who has listened to our episodes so far, who have
shared our social media posts and who haverated us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
We appreciate it.
Thank you also to everyone who hasleft comments on whichever platform
it is that they are listening to us.
Uh, special shout out to Ella,who made the very unwise decision

(00:54):
to listen to our episode, "BobbyBegins Again" in a public place.
Um, and if you've listenedto that episode, you know why
that was an unwise decision.
If you have not listened tothat episode yet, what are you
doing listening to this episode?
Go back and start at seasonone and work your way up.
Um, but just be warned that Bobbybegins again, involves many, many

(01:17):
references to Bobby's rooster.
And that is both a euphemismand not a euphemism.

Ellen (01:24):
A literal,

Alice (01:25):
a literal rooster.

Ellen (01:29):
It might take Ella a while to get up to this episode.
So, hi Ella.

Bex (01:35):
This week's episode from memory does not have any roosters in it, so you should
be safe to listen to this one in public.
Wherever you are listening to it,

Ellen (01:46):
I don't know.
We might end up beingunintentionally hilarious.
Who knows?

Bex (01:50):
Well, we do, we do have a history of going off on tangents, so lord
knows where we will end up this week.

Alice (01:57):
That doesn't sound like us.

Ellen (01:58):
Look, I hope we make someone laugh.
Okay?
If we made you laugh, please let us know.
Like I just, all, I hope for this episode.
Anyway, go on.

Bex (02:05):
Um, but before we talk about this, uh, rooster-less episode,
let's go back and discuss whathappened last time on 9-1-1.

Alice (02:15):
Yeah, so last week on 9-1-1, everybody wrapped up their trauma
just in time for the holidays withour favorite therapist, Frank.
Uh, meanwhile, Bobby was caught ina tunnel with a radioactive fire.

Ellen (02:26):
All right, so this week we're gonna, we are, we are heading like,
even though it is now March, just hadto remember which month it was there.
It is now March.
Um, we are going back to Christmas 2019.
We are, um, in episode 10, which istitled "Christmas Spirit", uh, which
first aired Yes, December, 2019.

(02:49):
The official summary says the 118 respondsto a holiday themed incidents including a
shopper pushed over the edge, a woman whois literally having a blue Christmas and
a luggage handler accident on at tarmac.
Meanwhile, Maddie revisits herpast to embrace her future, and
Bobby receives shocking news.

(03:09):
And the triggers for thisepisode include a brain tumor,
cancer, spoiler alert, I guess.
Um, they don't, we don'tworry about spoilers when
we're talking about triggers.
That's the whole point of them, I guess.

Bex (03:20):
Yes.

Ellen (03:21):
Um, discussion of domestic violence and abuse during therapy, including
flashbacks, a parent at threat andthe child having to do CPR, and PTSD.
And I guess we can also include Christmasas a trigger because I have to apologize
to people of other faiths who don'tcelebrate Christmas, for instance.
'cause we always seem to end up withChristmas episodes in these shows.

(03:42):
I don't know, like they neverseem to include any other
holidays for other faiths.

Bex (03:47):
I was just wondering why we never get a Thanksgiving episode.
I mean, this is a very American show,but they seem to go from the Halloween
episode to the Christmas episodewith no mention of Thanksgiving.
And surely if what I see in Americantelevision is correct, the number of
people like trying to deep fry a turkey,I would anticipate there would be many,

(04:09):
many a call out for like oil burns.

Ellen (04:13):
That's true

Bex (04:14):
during Thanksgiving.

Ellen (04:15):
There must be heaps of people who do themselves a
mischief while cooking turkeys.

Alice (04:19):
Yeah.
Like they do Halloween and thenthey just don't do Thanksgiving.

Bex (04:24):
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
Like why not?

Alice (04:27):
Interesting.

Ellen (04:28):
Um, while we are talking about, if anyone actually listened to the holiday
junkie episode that we just posted acouple of weeks ago, please let us know.
Um, if you enjoyed that and if you likewatching things along with us, like
we'd probably be happy to do somethinglike that again sometime, but yeah.
Just,

Bex (04:45):
oh, let's make Ellen sit through a Step Up movie.

Alice (04:48):
Oh my God.
Yes,

Ellen (04:50):
I would do that.
That'd be fine.
That'd be great.
But the thing is, um, it was perfectlytimed because just as I had been
finishing up that episode to post, Ithen came and watched this episode.
So I was like, oh, we are backinto the Christmas spirit.

Alice (05:05):
We're having Christmas in March, it's fine.

Ellen (05:06):
And seeing Maddie like getting all, um, excited about Christmas at
the end of this was pretty funny.
So

Alice (05:10):
yeah, this episode as well will be airing, uh, once
9-1-1 is back from hiatus.

Ellen (05:18):
Oh, yeah.

Alice (05:20):
So, uh, now while you're listening

Ellen (05:22):
to this,
so we're gradually catching up.

Alice (05:24):
Bex and I may be dead.
We'll find out.
Um,

Ellen (05:28):
well, don't say that.
You might be despairing or youmight be like really, really happy.
Who knows?

Alice (05:35):
Yeah, that's it.

Bex (05:36):
We'll find out.

Alice (05:37):
Uh, but as of now, it has not aired yet.
So we're very sad.

Ellen (05:40):
And I may have blown away in a cyclone.
Who knows the futureis in the, anyway, um,

Bex (05:45):
Ellen is gonna be literally Ellen of Oz, because she's
gonna be blown to the land of Oz

Ellen (05:50):
I'm gonna be taken away to a different place.
Oh God.
Let's hope not actually.
No, you know what?
Totally take me away to differentplace like this, this, this Earth
is not going well at the moment.
Um, anyway, let's go into this episode.
So we, we we're hit in the faceimmediately with Christmas because we
hear, O Come, All Ye Faithful playing.

(06:10):
We have a shopping center parkinglot which is full of cars, people in
line, but car parks and getting upsetat each other for stealing car parks.
Um, and the lady gets very upset.
Well, she doesn't get upset yet.
She's just like.
"What the hell man? Like Iwas waiting for this spot."

Alice (06:29):
I'm gonna tangent already, but literally last week I was in line.

Bex (06:34):
Oh God, how many minutes are we into it?

Alice (06:36):
Yeah, we've tangented it already.
It's fine.
Um, I was in line for McDonald'sand like there was a bunch of people
waiting to get into the drive-through'cause it was lunchtime and there's
only one McDonald's in town.
And so I was like waiting in line andthen a car just like cut down the side
and like went in around everyone else andwe were all just like, no, what the hell?

(07:01):
And of course it was a Commodore.

Ellen (07:04):
How how can you do that though?
Normally they're allboxed in by gardens or...,

Alice (07:09):
yeah.
So the one in town, um, like theline for the drive through is on
like, 'cause it's a really oldMcDonald's, like the position of it.
Um, but the line to go in the drivethrough, you sort of all, like, we
all go to the left and then if youneed to exit from the car park, you
just go down the right to get out.

Ellen (07:28):
Oh, okay.

Alice (07:28):
So we're all in the left.

Ellen (07:29):
So you can drive along beside.

Alice (07:31):
Yeah.
And so he just drove along theside, like down the other way.
Um, like down the waythat is usually the exit.
Um, and just like went in and like thecar, 'cause I was like just behind,
but the car who was about to go in,just like lay on their horn and the guy
just like kept ordering like normal.
And we were all just like, what the fuck?

(07:51):
Like I'm like, man, if I wasn'ta, you know, five foot two, small
person, I'd, um, go out and fightthem, but I can't be bothered.
Plus they were in a Commodore,so they're scary already.

Bex (08:04):
At least he didn't do an Athena and like drive to the front of the
line, sort of back up to the windowand force everybody to scatter.

Ellen (08:15):
Anyway, yes, this woman is, she finds a car park and she goes into
the store, which is absolute chaos.

Bex (08:21):
It's absolute chaos and everybody seems to have left their manners at
home because the, uh, at the, theprotagonist of this particular scene,
which we never get a name for her.
So

Alice (08:34):
of course we don't,

Bex (08:35):
we're gonna call, no, we're gonna be calling her like "the woman"
through this entire thing, not becausewe, uh, are trying to disparage
her, but simply because in the,

Ellen (08:44):
she's not named

Bex (08:44):
episode, she is not named, I will say that the closed captions give
her a name, but I'm sticking with myprinciple of if, if we do not hear a
name in the dialogue, it does not exist.
So, the woman holds a door out beingkind and courteous to one person,
and then like five people just barrelthrough her in both directions.

(09:06):
So she, like, she was already upsetbecause she'd been sniped for her
car spot, and now everybody isjust literally walking over her.

Alice (09:15):
Yeah.
It, it really does show thechaos of Christmas and it's a
little bit of that like BlackFriday vibes as well that we see.

Ellen (09:23):
Yeah,

Bex (09:24):
yeah, yeah.
I will say, just to like ratchetup the tension, she is going into
a toy store or she's going into a,like a big box store, specifically
looking for the toy of the year.
So it's, it's not going to end well forher no matter what because she's headed
into a very high tension situation.

Alice (09:47):
Um, you two have kids, is the toy of the year still like a thing?

Ellen (09:52):
Yeah, there's a, there are toys that are the most popular
that if you, if you google likemost popular toy for 10-year-old or
whatever, you will, you'll get a list.
Like Yeah, there's definitely a thing.
Yeah.

Alice (10:05):
And like, is it like hard to find, like, like is it impossible to get though?

Bex (10:10):
I think this, I don't know about you, Ellen, but I have a feeling that
with the advent of online shopping andespecial, especially like international
online shopping, it's not as hard becauseif you, if you can't find it in your local
store, you can like order it from thatstore or order it from another store.

Ellen (10:31):
Yeah.
I mean obviously thisis only five years ago.
Like back then they did have quite a lotof online shopping stuff set up already.
But even since Covid, it's becomemuch easier to get things online.
But yeah, I, I don't thinkI've ever tried to get the most
popular thing, so I don't know.
I don't know.

Bex (10:51):
It's very much... what's that?
What's that movie?
Is it Jingle All the Way?
Is that the movie I'm thinking of,which is like Arnold Schwartzenegger
trying to get the toy, or,

Ellen (11:00):
oh, maybe.
It's been a long time since I saw that.

Alice (11:05):
See, this scene just reminded me of, um, the, like the episode
of The Office where Dwight buys upall the like toy of the years and
then sells them at like 200% profit.

Bex (11:18):
Okay.
Yes, I was correct.
It's Jingle All the Way and if anybodyis unsure what that movie is, it's
Arnold Schwartzenegger and Sinbad andthe summary is, um, Howard finds himself
running all over town on ChristmasEve and competing with every parent to
get his son a turbo man action figure.

Ellen (11:39):
That's the whole movie?

Bex (11:40):
That's the whole movie.
Every store is sold out and you musttravel all over town and compete
with other parents to try and find it

Alice (11:46):
wild.

Bex (11:48):
Yeah.

Alice (11:49):
But yeah.
But you two have never likehad to fight parents over.

Ellen (11:53):
Oh no, I haven't got time for that shit.
I'm just like, okay, I'm justgonna get whatever's there.
I'm not, yeah,

Alice (12:00):
because like I have dogs, I just buy them treats for Christmas
and throw them outside, so it's fine.

Bex (12:06):
No, I have never personally experienced going into a store and looking
for like a dancing duck from my kid andhaving to fight five other parents for it.

Alice (12:16):
Ne never pulled out the pepper spray?

Ellen (12:18):
God,

Alice (12:18):
no.

Bex (12:19):
Uh, would not work because it's illegal down here, but no.

Ellen (12:24):
All right.
Where are we?
Pepper spray, so

Bex (12:27):
Yes, because yes.
Our poor woman who is looking for, uh,the Dapper Duck, which looks like it's
some kind of dancing stuffed animal.
Uh, I'm guessing it's like thisyear's equivalent of Tickle Me Elmo.
Yeah, and it is incredibly popular.

(12:49):
There is one duck left on the shelf.
And as she lunges forit, a fight breaks out.
And like literally one man rips theduck from her hands saying to her,
my kid is better than yours, as hecelebrates getting the last one.

(13:10):
And I have a feeling that Cody's dadmight be trying to win points with Cody
with this present, have a feeling itmight be a difficult Christmas for him.
But, um, our poor woman, this is justthe straw that breaks the camel's back.
So she taps Cody's dad on theshoulder, he turns around ready
to gloats more, and she just hitshim in the face with pepper spray.

(13:31):
Yeah.
Else.
And then proceeds to sprayeverybody else in the vicinity.

Ellen (13:35):
Yeah.
And they're all groaning on the floor.
And then she's like, "Stay away from me.
Back off.
What is wrong with you people?
You people are animals!"she says, it's like, whoa.
Okay.

Bex (13:44):
And she's wielding pepper spray.
Yeah.
And clutching the, the, uh, the box,um, of the Dapper Duck in one hand.
Somebody tries to come and calm herdown, tells her to like, "Hold it right
there. Um, get your hands up when I cansee them. I'm gonna need you to hand
me the pepper spray." And as she turnsaround, we see that it's Santa Claus.

Alice (14:06):
It is Santa.

Bex (14:07):
I'm thinking Santa might be like it.
It might be a cop moonlighting as Santaor maybe a security officer moonlighting

Ellen (14:15):
One of the stores security guards.

Bex (14:17):
Yeah, because he seems to be very comfortable in this like hostage situation
that she's got going with the Dapper Duck.
Um, and it, it seems to be working,but he seems to be talking her down.
But unfortunately, as she's aboutto hand him the pepper spray, his
eyes kind of flick to the duck thatshe's holding and that just triggers

(14:39):
her fight and flight even more.
And so Santa gets a facefull of pepper spray.

Alice (14:44):
Yeah, while she screams, "My duck!"

Ellen (14:49):
But then we cut to outside the store where Athena is handcuffing her

Bex (14:54):
and she's, I love this.
One of the other LAPD's officersis, um, is carrying the Dapper
Duck to like the squad car.
And even as this woman is beinghandcuffed, she is thanking the officers
for saving the duck for her and Athenajust without like very emotionless goes

(15:17):
"I'm, sorry, that, that's going intoevidence. You're not getting that back."

Alice (15:21):
Yeah.
Um, so the 118 have also beencalled in to treat everyone who's
been doused with pepper spray.
Like everyone has like red blistery eyes.
It's disgusting.

Bex (15:33):
Santa seems to have gotten the most, the worst of it, or he is
having the biggest reaction to it.

Alice (15:38):
Um, because Buck and Bobby have him on one of their gurneys and
of course there's a crowd of childrengathered around looking because it's
Santa, getting treated by firefighters.
So really it's like a,like every child's dream.

Bex (15:54):
I love this scene.

Alice (15:56):
I love it so much.

Ellen (15:59):
Yeah.
And the little kid's like,"Is Santa Claus gonna die?"

Bex (16:05):
I just, I love that Buck, he is trying so hard to be helpful.
But

Alice (16:10):
He's trying so hard.

Bex (16:11):
He thinks he thinks he is doing the right thing and he gets down
on this kid's level and he's like,"oh, no, no, no, of course not.
Don't you worry?
That's not really Santa." Thekids are like, "he's not real?"
And Buck's like, "No, no,he's just pretend it's fine."
Bobby, behind him, Bobby, who's actuallyhad kids and has had this discussion,

(16:35):
he is like "Buck, Buck, Buck," shakinghis head like, "Ixnay on the antasay,
cut it out." Um, and then so the parentsstart revolting because it's bad enough
that they did not get the dapper duck.
Like Cody's dad is there.
Yeah.
Like the little kid that'scrying because the illusion of
Santa has just been destroyed.

(16:56):
Um, that's Cody.
So Cody's dad has failedto secure the Dapper Duck.
He's been doused in pepper spray,

Ellen (17:03):
did these, these guys get named in the, in, in the
actual dialogue at all though?

Bex (17:08):
Um, Cody does because Cody's dad comes over and says,
"Hey Cody, what's the matter?"

Ellen (17:12):
Okay.
Okay.

Bex (17:13):
And it's the same guy that was like, "My kid is better than
yours!" So that's why I'm usingtheir names because as per my rule...

Ellen (17:19):
Okay, well I was just checking names.
I was just checking onyour rule because you know,
um, okay.
Yeah.

Alice (17:26):
But yeah, so this mum comes over and goes, "Did you
just tell my kid that Santa's notreal?" And Buck's like, "No, no.
I was just explaining that thisSanta isn't Santa," and like
Santa's just rolling his eyes atthis point the kids are all crying.
Um, Cody's like sobbing 'cause Santa Clausisn't real and the parents all look at

(17:46):
Buck and Buck's just like while grinning.

Bex (17:52):
Please don't kill me.

Ellen (17:54):
He's so, he looks like really tiny when he does that smile though.
So cute.

Alice (17:58):
Buck is two apples tall this entire episode.

Bex (18:01):
Yes he is.
Yes.

Ellen (18:04):
Alright, all that before the title card.

Bex (18:10):
Maybe we should have put a spoiler alert.
Um, don't watch this episodearound children, because
spoiler alert Santa isn't Santa.

Ellen (18:19):
Well, all he said was,

Alice (18:19):
It's just this Santa's not Santa

Ellen (18:21):
this Santa.
Like I, I've, I've always told mykids that the, the Santa in the
shopping center is not the real Santabecause otherwise different shopping.
We go to a different shopping centerand there's another Santa there and
I'm like, this is a different guy.
Like, you know.
Anyway.

Alice (18:35):
Yeah, they're Santa's helpers.
He reports back to Santa.

Ellen (18:38):
Right?

Alice (18:38):
Santa can't be everywhere at once.
He's busy.
It always cracks me up in thosemovies that you watch where like
Santa's actually real, but the parentsare like, oh no, Santa's not real.
Where do they thinkthe presents come from?
Yeah, like the dad's excuse becauseI'm sure the dad just thinks that
the mom's buying the presents,but like where do, where do they

(18:59):
think that the presents come from?

Ellen (19:02):
Yeah, that's a valid point.
Because
Anyway, you are not supposedto ask questions like that
about Christmas movies.

Bex (19:13):
No Christmas movies, you definitely just switch your brain
off and enjoy the prettiness.

Alice (19:17):
That's true.

Bex (19:18):
Like the twinkly lights

Ellen (19:20):
and the happy times usually.

Bex (19:23):
Yes.
Um,

Alice (19:24):
and the small town romances

Bex (19:26):
or the machine guns, depending on your Christmas movie of choice.

Ellen (19:29):
Oh, yeah.
Falling off of towers.
Yes.
Speaking of falling, no, that'sgot nothing to do with it.
Um, at, at, at the Bathena residence,which is what we are calling it
now, um, yeah, Michael has decidedthat because Athena hasn't put the
tree up yet, um, he and the kids aregoing to put the tree up for her,

(19:53):
even though it's usually her thing.
Okay, man, You don't live there anymore.

Bex (19:58):
Yeah, but he doesn't live there anymore.
But he's going through her closetsand he's pulling out Christmas trees
and Christmas decorations, like, yeah.

Alice (20:06):
Well, to be fair, he probably knows what's in those closets.

Bex (20:11):
It doesn't matter.
It's not his house anymore.
He was given that key in order.

Alice (20:15):
No, because he was, he was hiding, he was hiding in the closet for so long.

Ellen (20:19):
He knows what's right.
Yeah.
Okay.

Bex (20:21):
Well, okay.
Okay.
Um, yeah, he, he's given thatkey to facilitate the children
coming backwards and forwards,

Alice (20:31):
um, and put up Christmas trees.
Apparently it's fine.

Bex (20:34):
Oh God no.

Alice (20:34):
Um, but yeah, May does make a point.
She's like, "Should we even bedoing this without them? 'cause
it is kind of mom's thing."

Ellen (20:42):
Yeah.
I mean, in a way I'd be okay withsomeone and come, like, as we discussed
during the movie, yes, I'd be fineif someone came into my house and
set up the, the everything for me.
But yeah, at the same timeit's like, oh, that's my thing.
I like to do that.

Bex (20:56):
Well, see that's, yeah, that's that.
I think that would be the pointthat the part of the, the holiday
junkie was you don't have the timeor the sort of inclination to do
it, so therefore you outsource it.
But I don't think Athena is the kindof person that would outsource it.

Ellen (21:08):
Yeah.

Bex (21:09):
Um.
We are reminded as to why, um, Athenais probably delayed putting up the
Christmas tree, um, because Harry, inthat wonderful way of children, um,
asks whether he, whether Michael reallythinks a Christmas tree is gonna make
Bobby forget that he might have cancer.

(21:31):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lovely.
I love Harry.
He's, he's just so blunt withoutlike, intentionally being blunt.

Ellen (21:40):
He just says it like it is, like all kids do.

Alice (21:43):
That's it.

Ellen (21:45):
Yeah.
Well, May says it's "This year has beena lot," like she doesn't think anyone's
really feeling the Christmas spirit
and Michael just says that they'regoing to spread some holiday magic.

Alice (21:58):
Yeah.
It's Bobby's first Christmas with his newfamily and they're gonna do everything
they can to make it special for him.

Ellen (22:05):
So apparently you have to eat popcorn while you are
putting up a Christmas tree?

Bex (22:09):
No, they string it.
Popcorn garlands.
It's usually popcornand dried cranberries.

Ellen (22:13):
Right.
Gotcha.
Actually, that sounds delicious.
I'm hungry.
I just ate dinner, um, anyway, they,so he starts pulling decorations
out of the box and then he finds onethat's a little, it kind of looks
a bit like a homemade thing, right?

(22:34):
Like a kid maybe made it.

Bex (22:35):
Yeah.
I'm guessing.
I'm guessing.
Must a ma must have made it at school.
So it's a, a family portrait ofmuch, much younger version of the
Grant family and it's got like candycanes glued to it into like a little
shape of a Christmas house frame.

Ellen (22:51):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And then Michael looks at, lookspretty sad while he is looking at it.
And then he kind of goes he basically,he puts the, the thing in his pocket.

Bex (23:03):
Well, the front door opens, which means Athena and Bobby have come home.
So he kind of, he turns away, putshis back to them coming in because
he's started crying and he sort oftakes, he's still got the decoration
in his hand as he turns away.
Um, and Athena rather than castigatingher ex-husband for breaking into

(23:25):
her house, raid her closets andsetting up a Christmas tree, seems
actually pretty happy to see him.
Key possibly.
That's just be he's key.
He didn't break in.
All right.
Fine.
But still I will Okay.
Strike that part from the record.
But still going through her closetsand setting up a Christmas tree,
even though that's her thing.
Um, but she's in a very good moodbecause they've just come back

(23:45):
from Bobby's last round of tests.

Ellen (23:47):
Yeah.
She does say he's notfully in the clear yet.
But it's the last test for now, so, yeah.

Bex (23:54):
And so at this point, Michael kind of shoves the decoration that's
still in his hand, in his pocket,rearranges his face, and into
something that's somewhat approachinghappy and turns back to the group.

Ellen (24:09):
Yeah.
And says he's gotta leave.

Bex (24:12):
Yeah.

Ellen (24:12):
He's spoken.
God, that's great news.
Um, bye.

Bex (24:15):
He's half set up a tree.
He's pulled out all the boxes.
He's dumped half the decorationson the floor and now he's leaving.

Alice (24:21):
Yeah.
Literally just walks out.

Bex (24:23):
Yeah.

Ellen (24:23):
But he's obviously been badly affected by this, seeing this
decoration, and he's like, uh, I'mgonna lose it in like 30 seconds.
I need to get out of here.
Yeah.
So, and then, um, as before he doesthat, actually he, Athena goes over
to the tree and she like rubs herhands on it so she can smell it.
And I had, did not even considerthat it was actually a real

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tree until she did that.
I was like, just 'cause wealways have plastic trees here.
Like we never use or hardly ever use realbecause the, the pine trees that grow
around here anyway are like Radiata pinesand they're no good for hanging anything
on because they've got long, thin needles,so you can't put anything on them.

Alice (25:04):
Oh, I forgot that.
Yeah.

Bex (25:05):
So you don't have a, you don't have a Christmas tree farm?

Alice (25:08):
Queensland don't do Christmas tree.

Ellen (25:10):
We don't, yeah, I don't think they grow here very well.
So our the pine plantations that wehave up here are quite different.
Like,

Alice (25:16):
yeah.
So one of my best friends is fromCairns and she has always dreamed
about owning a Christmas tree farm.
Um, like she actuallyowns a Christmas business.
It's just very into Christmas.

Bex (25:27):
Um, oh my God.
So she's like a, a walking,talking Hallmark romance.

Alice (25:31):
Yeah, literally.
Um, like when I, when we watched TheHoliday Junkie, I like sent her the link
and I was like, you need to watch this.
'cause this is like, thisis your dream career.

Bex (25:39):
This is you.

Alice (25:40):
Um, anyway, she went to a Christmas tree farm last Christmas for
the first time and I was like, how haveyou never been to a Christmas tree farm?
Like, we're in our thirties.
And she's like, we don'thave them in Queensland.

Ellen (25:52):
Nope.

Bex (25:53):
That's fascinating.

Alice (25:55):
And yeah, I had no idea.
There are two near where I used to work.

Ellen (25:59):
Oh, okay.

Alice (25:59):
Like, literally they're just like around the corner from each other.
There's also like threedown where I live now,

Bex (26:05):
I think we have a dedicated Christmas tree farm, but we also have like community
groups, like the Scouts that will goout and harvest pine trees and just sell
them on the, like on the street corner.

Ellen (26:17):
Oh wow.

Alice (26:18):
Yeah.
Our, um, the CFA near where I usedto live, um, sold them every year.

Bex (26:23):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, so does, so do ours.
Yeah.
So yeah, we, there are a plethoraof real tree options down here.

Alice (26:31):
So many real trees and like different types of trees.

Bex (26:33):
Mm-hmm.

Ellen (26:34):
Yeah.
Okay.
I, we might be able to get themup here nowadays, but in the past
when we've had one by the time itwas in January and we were getting
rid of it, it was very droopy.
It didn't like being inside inside.

Alice (26:49):
Oh yeah.
They all dry out very quickly.

Ellen (26:50):
Yeah.
And all the needles werejust falling up, falling off.

Bex (26:53):
Like we are cutting trees off in the middle of summer
and expecting them to last.

Alice (26:57):
Yeah.

Ellen (27:00):
Anyway, we do have like a, a plastic tree that we use every year.
So, you know, it's reusable, I guess.
Um,

Bex (27:07):
possibly better for the environment than constantly cutting down trees.

Ellen (27:11):
But then it was like a glimpse into like someone else's scent memory
because she went over to the treeand she like rubbed her hands on
it and then she inhaled it and I'mlike, oh, that must smell so good.

Alice (27:21):
Yeah.
The real ones smell good.

Bex (27:22):
Yes.
They do.
Do we think Eddie has a real tree?

Alice (27:26):
Did Eddie even have a tree?
I didn't even notice.

Ellen (27:28):
Maybe.

Alice (27:28):
They did last year, didn't they?
It was a huge one.

Bex (27:31):
They had a massive tree out the front yard last year.
I'm pretty sure there was a tree set upsomewhere in that living room, but I was
honestly too focused on Buck to notice, so

Alice (27:42):
yeah, absolutely.
So we're at the Diaz's house like the Diazresidence and Eddie and Hen are catching
up over coffee and Eddie's lamenting toHen because he let Christopher know that
he has to work on Christmas and Chris justwent straight to his room and wouldn't
speak to him for the rest of the night.

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And they like, it's hard because lastyear was when Shannon came back because
Christopher wish wished for Shannon likehis mom back, and Eddie made it happen.
And this year that can't happen.

Bex (28:18):
I also wonder if this might be the first Christmas that Eddie has had to
work since he came back from working.

Alice (28:26):
I'm assuming so.
Yeah.

Bex (28:29):
Like he might have, he's come back from serving and has made it a
priority or just It has worked out thathe is always been with Christopher at
Christmas time and this is the firstone where he is had a job where he can't
get out of working on Christmas day.

Alice (28:45):
Yeah.
So Christopher's not gonnahave either of his parents

Bex (28:48):
and also like the first anniversary of Shannon's death and the fact that he
wished for her to come back at Christmas.

Alice (28:54):
Yeah.

Bex (28:55):
Yeah.
It's a doozy.

Alice (28:56):
Yeah, it's awful.
Yeah.
So, um, so yeah, so Hen's like, "Isthat why you invited us all here?
Trying to cram in as much Christmascheer before now and then?" and Eddie's
like, "Oh, well I thought it'd be nice tobring the boys together for a play date."
And so it pans around to the livingroom where you see Chris and Denny
playing, like they're buildinggingerbread men and Hen goes, "All three

(29:20):
of them," because Buck's also there.

Ellen (29:22):
Yeah.
It's adorable

Alice (29:23):
playing with the kids.

Ellen (29:26):
So sweet.

Alice (29:27):
So they've got all three kids there.
Yes.
And um, Buck.

Bex (29:34):
Buck is, Buck is making the royal icing for them to, um, to
build their gingerbread houses with

Alice (29:40):
Yeah.
Which he calls cement,because obviously they're

Ellen (29:43):
Yeah, I was, I was really confused for a minute.
Like, he, he said, I, "Who needsmore cement?" And I'm like, what
are they making, like Christmasdecorations or something?
And they're like, okay, okay.
They've got gingerbread.

Alice (29:53):
Mum won a hamper in a raffle recently and it had like one of those
DIY gingerbread house kits in it.
Yeah.
And I'm like, it's February, but Sure.
But, um, now I feel like, um,'cause we're both off to off work
tomorrow, I'll be like, we haveto make the gingerbread house.
And she'll be like, what?
Why, what are you doing?
It's March.

Bex (30:12):
At least wait until July.
Then you can have Christmas in July.

Ellen (30:15):
I

Bex (30:16):
love gingerbread.
It's my favorite.

Alice (30:17):
I love gingerbread.
I've got a gingerbread room spray.
I love it so much.
But yeah, so they'rebuilding gingerbread houses.
Um, super cute.
But then Chris goes, "Hey Buck,can I spend Christmas with you?"

Ellen (30:30):
Oh, Chris

Alice (30:31):
and Buck's heart just breaks.
Like, he like, his smile vanishesand he like glances at Eddie and he's
like, "I'm, I'm sorry buddy. I'vegotta work on Christmas with your dad."

Ellen (30:43):
Poor

Alice (30:44):
Chris.
And Chris just slouches backand goes, "Stupid work."

Bex (30:48):
And it, it's, it's so interesting that the entire time that he is talking
to Christopher, his eyes are on Eddie.

Alice (30:55):
Oh yeah, glued to Eddie.

Bex (30:55):
he's like checking, like making sure that what he's saying Chris
is fine or he's waiting for Eddieto, to jump in and say something.

Alice (31:04):
Um, or just like being sympathetic that like Eddie's had to deal with this.
'cause I'm sure Eddie'salso like ranted at Buck.
Like Yeah, they probablyFaceTimed and was just like,
yeah, he's, he won't speak to me.
But yeah, also Buck's probablyworried that he just told Christopher
that Santa's not real, too
Hen assures Eddie that, um, that Chriswill forget he's even mad by New Year's.

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And at this point, Buck gets up and joinsthe, the adults and is like, "Is it just
me or does Christmas suck this year?"

Ellen (31:38):
Yeah.
"It's been a rough yearfor everyone," Hen says.
She'll, she's looking forward to puttingthis year behind me and Buck says,
"I wouldn't be surprised if there'sone more smack in the face to come."
And I'm like, dude, it's nine, it's 2019.
Like, you have no idea what it's aboutto come around the corner for you.
You wanna put this year behind you?

(31:58):
Just wait.

Alice (32:00):
None of us had any idea.

Bex (32:02):
It's not even that I'm just like, damn,Buck.
You like, that's the equivalentof saying the Q word on shift.

Ellen (32:10):
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Abs in the context of this episode.
Yes.
That is a shitty thing to say,

Bex (32:16):
but in the, in the grinder scheme of things like, yeah, you have no idea.
Um, then we get, we getthe, the smack in the face.
The smack in the face comes in the form ofa check made out to Maddie for $486,329.

Alice (32:36):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just a small amount.
You know how it is

Bex (32:38):
just a tiny amount, but it, it is apparently Maddie's
share of the marital assets.
Um, Doug's estate has obviously,um, been settled and that is
what Maddie is entitled to.

Ellen (32:52):
Yeah.
And she wasn't expecting it.
She says "even, even now, hecan't let me have any peace.
It feels like blood money."

Alice (33:01):
yeah.
So Maddie thought she wasn'tentitled to anything legally.
But her lawyer says that the Slayerstatute only applies to murder.
Yeah.
And I'm sure we're aboutto get a Bex's fun facts.

Bex (33:15):
So the Slayer statute is, um,

Ellen (33:17):
the Slayer statute.
What a great name.

Bex (33:20):
I,

Ellen (33:21):
it sounds like something that should be on Buffy,

Bex (33:23):
I thought, yeah.
Yeah.
I thought it was like a very Buffy-esquebut it basically, in, in a nutshell,
it basically means that you can't killsomebody to get their inheritance.

Ellen (33:32):
Okay.
Makes sense.

Bex (33:32):
So if you are a beneficiary to somebody's estate, you can't kill
them in order to claim your benefitsunder the estate because of court.

Alice (33:41):
That's probably a good idea.
Yeah.

Bex (33:42):
The court will assume that you killed them in order to inherit, so they're not
going to reward that kind of behavior.
Um, but Maddie's lawyer is...,well actually Chim who's apparently
got a law degree as well as amedical degree in every other thing
that he's got, um, reminds me,

Alice (33:59):
well, he had, he had to look up a lot while making the Snuggie, okay.

Bex (34:04):
He reminds Maddie that it was self-defense.
So she was not convicted of murder.
I probably wasn't evencharged with anything.
Um, and tells her that that moneyis the least that Doug owed her.
Funnily enough, apparently Tim Minearhad on an entire storyline with what

(34:27):
Maddie was gonna do with this money.

Alice (34:28):
Oh, oh my God.
I thought you were gonna say that TimMinear committed murder or something.
And I was like, what?

Bex (34:36):
That's an interesting segue.
But no, um, no, he apparently he had,there wasn't a storyline about Maddie and
what she was gonna do with this money,and they shot scenes relating to Maddie
deciding what to do with this money.
Um, it just never madeit into the episode.
I don't think it even, I think he wasgoing to put it in later on in the

(34:58):
season and just never got in there.
'cause I have no recollection nowhat she does with that money.
So I would be fascinated to, while,while I'm picking Tim Minear's brain for
everything else just to go, Hey, by theway, what did Maddie do with that money?

Alice (35:13):
We'll have to keep it in mind.
It's like, um, when we weretrying to work out if Buck had a
million, like millions of dollars.
Yes.
We'll have to keep it in mind.
And every time Maddie like buys acoffee, we're like, oh, how many
shots of hazelnut did you put in that?
Or peppermint rather?

Ellen (35:28):
Oh yeah.

Bex (35:28):
Oh, gross, no.

Ellen (35:29):
No, it's really nice.
Look, I had a peppermint,it's, I went to Starbucks.
Um, like after we watched the movie, Iwent there randomly because my daughter
is obsessed with Starbucks becauseshe keeps seeing it on YouTube and
she's like, can we get a Starbucks?
I'm like, but it's just not...

Bex (35:43):
it's bad.

Ellen (35:44):
that nice.
It's expensive and it's not great.
Anyway, we went to there and I got apeppermint mocha and it was delicious.
It was real.
It was very sweet, but it was, um,

Alice (35:56):
Well, chocolate and mint is good, so yeah.

Ellen (35:58):
Yeah.

Bex (35:58):
No, it's not.

Ellen (36:01):
All right, let's agree to to, to disagree and, um, all

Alice (36:05):
alright.
Ignore the Grinch over there

Ellen (36:06):
and ignore the... because she's wrong and, and also the lawyer says,
uh, the lawyer says that she can donateit or burn it and whatever she wants
to do it with it, but it's her, it'sher money so she can decide to it.

Alice (36:20):
Yeah.
According the state ofPennsylvania, the money's hers.

Bex (36:22):
So she takes, it leaves LA and opens a holiday, holiday
decorating consulting business.

Ellen (36:28):
Yeah.

Bex (36:28):
Yep, yep.
Okay.

Alice (36:30):
Um, check out our Holiday Junkie episode.
If you

Bex (36:35):
to see what Maddie did with that money.
She changed her name, resurrected Doug.

Alice (36:38):
Re married Doug.
Wait a minute.
Yeah.

Ellen (36:40):
Bought some, bought some like really chunky red glasses.

Alice (36:44):
Hung out in Buck's loft for a bit.

Ellen (36:46):
Oh yeah.
Anyway, we, speaking of leavingLA we're going to the airport.

Alice (36:54):
We are going to the airport.
Um,

Ellen (36:57):
get a nice establishing shot of the LAX sign at the front of the airport.

Alice (37:03):
Um, we've got a family who has decided to head to Hawaii
for a destination Christmas.
Um, I, I was laughing because the, isit the mom that's just like, "oh,
it's not gonna feel Christmasy. Yes.Because it's gonna be 90 degrees."

Bex (37:18):
Yes.

Alice (37:18):
Yeah.
The dad's like, "It's a fivedegree difference from LA."

Bex (37:21):
Yeah, exactly.
That argument does not hold weight.

Ellen (37:26):
Welcome to warm Christmases.

Alice (37:28):
Yeah,

Ellen (37:28):
they're great.
Yeah.
Honestly, they're amazing.

Alice (37:31):
But yeah, so they, um, it's parents and two, is it two kids?

Bex (37:36):
Uh, yes,

Ellen (37:37):
I think so.
Yeah.

Bex (37:38):
I think it's, so, it's like traditional, like it's
the, it's the nuclear family.

Alice (37:41):
Yeah.

Bex (37:41):
Like the mom, dad and the boy girl.
Yeah.

Alice (37:43):
2.5 kids.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um.
And the 0.5 at the, in thiscase, is a bag of golf clubs.

Ellen (37:50):
Yeah,

Bex (37:52):
exactly.
The dad is obsessed with these golf clubs.
Um, they go to check in and they'rechecking in with a person like, oh my God.
You remember?
When was the last time you checkedin with a person at the airport?
Um, yeah, I think the last time I didthat it was because I was running late
and they were like closing my flight andI had to go through the, the person to
make sure that I got on board on time.

Ellen (38:13):
You sometimes do for international flights, but, um, well, I do anyway
in Brisbane, but, um, domestic?
No, just there's a machine.

Alice (38:21):
The Melbourne airport is so big compared to like most other airports.
Like I, I'm assumingSydney's also pretty big.
I just haven't been to the Sydney airport.
Yeah.
But yeah, everything's automated now.
Like you just scan a thing, put it on theconveyor belt and it just does everything.

Bex (38:36):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was amazed.
I flew Qantas out of Melbourne.
And even bag drop was automated.

Alice (38:46):
Yeah.

Bex (38:46):
Like I didn't have to speak to a person the entire
time I was in that airport.

Alice (38:49):
Yeah.
And then, 'cause the last flight I wentto, uh, went was the Gold Coast for work.
And yeah, like we leave Melbourne,which is this highly sophisticated
airport, and we get to theGold Coast, which is like tiny.

Ellen (39:02):
Yeah.
The Gold Coast airport's really tiny.
Yeah.

Alice (39:04):
Yeah.
It's so cute and touristy.
And there's just palm trees and there'slike, they don't have anything automated.
And so going back again, we had tolike, give everything to the people
there and we're just like, oh, like wecan't just, like, we can't just scan
the thing and put our luggage down.
Um, and like all the securitychecks were so slow, but there's

(39:26):
only like, not that many people atthe airport, so it doesn't matter.
Whereas Melbourne, there's like amillion things and it's all automated.
There's body scanners.
You hardly have toremove anything anymore.
Actually, I like, you don't have totake anything outta bags or anything.

Ellen (39:39):
Now that I think about it, when I was on my way back from
the US and I was actually checkinginto my flight home in LA like LAX,
I had to check in with a person.
My, like my Qantas flight wasn'tone of the ones that was available
at the automatic check-in system.

Alice (39:56):
Interesting.

Ellen (39:57):
So I had to actually line up and see somebody.

Bex (39:59):
I'm hoping you did not try to carry on a bag of golf clubs.

Ellen (40:02):
I did not.

Bex (40:03):
As your carry on.

Ellen (40:04):
No.
I was going for aconvention, not to play golf.

Alice (40:10):
Hey Jensen, can you sign my golf clubs that I my to bring all the way?

Bex (40:14):
Oh my God.
He would love that if you showed up.

Ellen (40:16):
He would.
He would love that

Bex (40:17):
with a set of golf clubs.

Alice (40:18):
He actually would, but I feel like security wouldn't love it.

Bex (40:21):
Oh, no, no.
Cliff would be giving you aside eye as serious side eye.

Alice (40:25):
You walk into the creation con and Cliff just ta like spear tackles you.

Ellen (40:32):
Uh, people do turn up with some very weird props, though.

Bex (40:36):
If half of, if half of Misha's stories can be believed, then yes.

Ellen (40:41):
Yeah.
I'm thinking of like the,uh, the taxidermy squirrel.

Bex (40:45):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of too.
Yeah.
Yeah.

Ellen (40:47):
The person who's collecting the bag says, "you can't, you're gonna,
you need to check in your golf clubs."
And he's like, "Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm,I'm gonna carry these on." And she's
like, "No. Like, give me the golf clubs."

Bex (41:01):
Sir, you cannot carry...

Alice (41:04):
yeah.
It's a TSA policy like Jesus Christ.
Have you never flown before?

Bex (41:08):
I'm pretty sure even in like the heyday of aviation, like in the
Pan Am days where, you know, Stuart,you're allowed to smoke on board.
I'm pretty sure you were still notallowed to carry golf clubs on board.

Ellen (41:19):
Yeah.
There isn't anywhere for them to go.

Alice (41:22):
Exactly.

Ellen (41:23):
Maybe overhead.

Bex (41:25):
Maybe he bought an extra seat for them.

Alice (41:28):
That wouldn't even surprise me with this guy.

Ellen (41:30):
Anyway, he's like, "Please be gentle with them." And she just like
grabs 'em and chucks 'em on the conveyor.
Yeah.
She's like, yeah, sure.

Bex (41:36):
Compared, compared to the actual baggage handlers down the
tarmac, she was gentle with them.

Alice (41:41):
She was very gentle.

Ellen (41:42):
Baggage handlers not so gentle.

Bex (41:45):
We see the, the clubs go through the conveyor belt, which leads to outside
on the tarmac where the baggage handlersare loading all of the luggage, the
check luggage on two little carts to thentake them over to a plane for loading.
Um, and we have two baggagehandlers that we're going to follow.

(42:07):
One of them appears to be working on,we just need to get this shit onto
the airplane as fast as possible.
Perhaps he's working on commission.
You know, the more baggy, more bags hegets packed, the, the higher his wage.
Uh, the other guy seems to bea little bit more conscientious
and is actually worried.
Um.

(42:27):
That people have entrusted their bags tothem, and they need to treat them with
respect, especially at this time of year,because they could be full of presents
and those presents could be fragile.

Alice (42:38):
I feel like we need to call these two Tortoise and Hare

Bex (42:43):
because one of them is really fast and one of them is really slow.

Alice (42:46):
Yep.
So yeah, as Hare grabs the bag fromTortoise's hands and tosses it into
the cart, you hear, um, a genericglass breaking, um, sound clip,

Bex (42:57):
which would not happen in reality, but just to like really
reiterate that that present wasfragile and something has broken.
Um,

Alice (43:04):
yeah,

Bex (43:05):
yeah,

Alice (43:07):
yeah.
Um, so the golf clubs of course,show up and Tortoise grabs them and
is like, "Oh, well there's no roomleft. We'll wait for another cart."
And Hare's like, "No, no. Give methose," and grabs them and like tosses
them or slams them down into the frontof the cart, but hits the accelerator.

Ellen (43:28):
Yeah.
So off goes the cart.

Alice (43:31):
Yeah,

Bex (43:31):
all the time.
'cause apparently the engine was onand or in slamming down the clubs
on the accelerator, he has turnedthe key and turn the engine on.
I dunno, it's, it's, this entire sceneis so stupid and so far from reality.

Ellen (43:50):
And we get some lovely Nutcracker Christmas music going,
some ballet as the cart goesaround and around in circles.

Bex (43:58):
Yes.
We get baggage cart carts,baggage cart, ballet.

Alice (44:01):
Yeah.
Um, Benny Hill would'vealso worked for the scene.
Yes.

Bex (44:04):
Yes.
But that's not Christmasy.

Alice (44:06):
Um, because yeah, the, the carts like going around in circles
and people are trying to catch it.
One of the air marshals who's tryingto direct a plane gets taken out.
Uh, luggage is getting flown, like flungaround, um, onto the tarmac and the

(44:27):
passengers in the gate lounge waitingfor their flight, start watching.
And of course, the dad sees that hisgolf clubs are involved and is panicking.

Ellen (44:36):
He's like freaking out.

Alice (44:38):
Yeah.

Bex (44:40):
So Tortoise goes, fuck this shit.
I'm gonna fix this.
Jumps into another golf cart, which,and then has to, you know, turn the key
and crank the engine to get it starting.
He can't just slam his foot on theaccelerator and have it take off.
Um, and he goes full dodgem carsand just drives straight for the

(45:06):
pirouetting baggage cart and slamsinto it, knocking it onto its side.

Alice (45:12):
Yeah.
So I'm pretty sure that Tortoise waswatching the news that day that the
kid in the, was it the BMW, um, or the

Bex (45:23):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The fancy car.

Alice (45:26):
The fancy car.
Oh, the old car.
Um, yep.
Pretty sure he watched when thatwas outta control and it crashed
into the, the firetruck, because hedoes pretty much the same maneuver

Bex (45:37):
pretty much.
But Phil Collins does not play.
We've still, we've stillgot Tchaikovsky going.

Alice (45:42):
Yeah.
Um, anyway,

Bex (45:46):
so, but he, he seems pretty pleased with himself because he
jumps free from the cart, um, andis sort of accepting his accolades.
This is so stupidbecause it never happens.
It would absolutely never happen.
But plane would not be taxiing withits engines going at this point.
Yes.
Because it's so fucking closeto the, uh, gate lounge.

Ellen (46:08):
It's like right next to the terminal.

Bex (46:10):
Yes.

Ellen (46:10):
Right next to it.

Bex (46:12):
It's right next to it.
It's engines would be off.
Oh my God.

Ellen (46:15):
So basically this plane sneaks up on him.

Alice (46:16):
Not to mention, there's people all over the tarmac.
Yes.
So like, yeah.
Yeah.

Bex (46:21):
So like air traffic control would not have directed the plane to come in.
When planes push back, thelittle cart pushes it back.
They don't actually turn their engineson until they're out on like the runway
part and they're under their own power.
Um, but regardless, LAX is like thewild west of airports apparently.
So a plane is either coming inor leaving out with its turbines

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going and, um, tortoise gets, um.
Knocked, it's the, the turbine startsto, you know, generate, um, a bit
of a, a wind, um, and luggage thathas been scattered over the tarmac
gets including the golf clubs.

Alice (46:57):
Including the golf clubs

Bex (46:59):
gets sucked into the turbine, dragging Tortoise with them.
Yeah.
And then it just cuts to black.

Alice (47:05):
And then we have a 9-1-1 call.
Yes.

Ellen (47:06):
And it was, it was like a bit of a shock to see it the first
time, because I wasn't thinking atthe time that this would never have
happened, but I was just enjoying likethe ballet music and the like, yeah.

Bex (47:16):
Oh, the ballet music is pretty,

Ellen (47:17):
you know, this is so funny.
Oh, this is funny.
Oh, you, he managed to stop the cart.
Yay.
And then all of a sudden hejust get sucked into the engine.
And I was like, oh, that's not good.

Bex (47:27):
Oh.
Uh, we get the 9-1-1 call as in,um, we get the, the blip and like
the "9-1-1, what's your emergency?"

Ellen (47:35):
But no one speaks?

Bex (47:36):
But then it cuts to commercial before anyone can.
Yeah.

Alice (47:38):
They, they can't even.
They can't even get a weird,um, explanation for this one.

Bex (47:43):
They're just like,

Ellen (47:45):
"I don't know what this plane was doing, but it was
there!" Anyway the 118 are there.
The aircraft was taxiing,the fans were spinning,

Bex (47:53):
which wouldn't have been... Oh my god..

Ellen (47:54):
The guy's explaining what happened.
So Bobby just looks at it and goes,"Buck, Eddie, get me everything."

Alice (48:04):
Yep.

Ellen (48:06):
So they, yep, they run off to get everything.

Bex (48:10):
And we can see that, um, the, like they've, they've turned the engine
off so the propellers are no longerspinning and there's debris and stuff
wedged in the propeller and a pairof legs just sort of hanging out.

Alice (48:22):
Yeah.
So Bobby um, tells the, like, airportofficer to clear the tarmac and the
window because there are still a lot ofpassengers like looking down and Bobby's
clearly expecting this to not be great.

Ellen (48:37):
It's, there's gonna be bits of this guy everywhere.

Alice (48:39):
Yeah.
But then,

Bex (48:40):
yeah, I, I'm pretty sure that Bobby is expecting that this is like
body retrieval, not a rescue operation.

Alice (48:46):
Yeah, absolutely.
Um, but, but then the baggage,like Tortoise's legs move

Bex (48:53):
and they've got a live one

Ellen (48:54):
and Bobby says they've gotta take this thing apart now.
So they just get a bunch of tools from,

Alice (49:00):
they literally just use drills.

Ellen (49:02):
They just, yeah.

Bex (49:03):
This episode's, this episode is sponsored by Milwaukee because
they're using Milwaukee drills.

Alice (49:08):
Nice.
Um, but yeah, like after tellingthem to get everything, like, so
you're thinking like jaws of lifeNo, they're just using hand drills.

Bex (49:15):
Yeah, hand drills.
And they're just like,

Ellen (49:17):
apparently the bolts are easily...

Bex (49:17):
Unscrewing, screw the... the, that's what I was wondering.
Can you, would you be able to use likethe regular hand, regular drill, handheld
drill to unscrew the bolts of an airplane?

Alice (49:30):
Just use it like Phillip's head screwdriver.

Bex (49:33):
Really that makes me very worried about the, I mean, hopefully, I mean,
if it's a Boeing, I could understandif things are just falling off.
But, um, it makes me worried aboutlike the structural integrity if
a Milwaukee, cordless hand drillcan like unscrew the propellers.

Ellen (49:50):
So reminds me, I keep seeing tiktoks of that guy who's like the air
airline aircraft engineer or whatever,and he, people ask him if this is safe,
and he is like, oh yeah, this is justa normal thing that happens, just like
in Lord of the Rings, where blah, blah.
And he goes off this tangent aboutexplaining Lord of the Rings to,

Bex (50:07):
I love him.
He's hilarious.

Ellen (50:09):
I love him.
So now every time I see somethingabout airline safety, I just
expect that guy to show up.
And I'm really sad that he doesn't.
But anyway.
Um, but yeah, this guy islike, in one piece, he's fine.

Alice (50:24):
Yeah, he's bleeding a little bit, but not much at all.

Ellen (50:27):
So rather than check him for like, you know, structural damage.
They just yank him outta there.
Like he, he could have like a broken neckor something, but eh, just pull him out.
He'll be fine.

Alice (50:38):
I mean, they pull him out fairly.
Like, it's not like they putit like sit him up or anything.

Bex (50:44):
I'm guessing that they can't do anything for him while he's in there.
So they do need to get him out.
I would've hoped that they atleast put a C collar on him
before they yanked him out.

Ellen (50:53):
You'd hope so, wouldn't you?
But anyway,

Bex (50:55):
um, and then Buck discovers why this guy is still in one piece, when he appears
around from the back of the turbine witha very mangled set of golf clubs and
reports that apparently they got suckedin first and they locked up the blades,

(51:15):
which, you know, if I were the golf clubmanufacturer, I would be thrilled because
look at how sturdy these golf clubs are.
That they managed to stop.

Ellen (51:24):
So they just got bent.
They didn't

Bex (51:25):
A propeller.
Yes.
They didn't snap.
They didn't break.
They just,

Alice (51:31):
bent a bit.

Bex (51:32):
Still straight.
I don't think you could possibly go outand, you know, hit a hit around with them.
But you know, that's somegood quality shit there.

Alice (51:45):
Yeah.

Bex (51:46):
Um, and while everybody on the tarmac is absolutely amazed and thankful
for these golf clubs, um, dad up in thelounge has a very different reaction.

Ellen (51:57):
The people up, the rest of the people up there are cheering because they
see the guy being pulled out of thereand they're all like, yay, he's okay.
And yeah, the dad just faints away.
He's down

Bex (52:11):
and we go back to the tarmac and Bobby is still like thrilled and amused.
The idea that these golf clubshave saved this guy's life.
Um, but when Buck turns back to look athim, Bobby has a nosebleed and Bobby and
Buck's face just drops as he points outto his captain that he's got a nosebleed.

(52:36):
Yeah, because this couldbe something quite serious.

Alice (52:41):
Yeah.
So we go back to the station housewhere Bobby's trying to reassure Buck
that it could have been allergies, itcould have been the Santa Ana's, it
could have been how cold it was outthere, and Buck's just grilling him.
"Was this your first nose bleed?
Have your gums been bleeding?
Do you have a rash?
A rash anywhere I can't see?"

Bex (53:03):
So Buck's been googling.

Alice (53:05):
"Are you diagnosing me?"

Bex (53:08):
I mean, A, Bobby, you do all the time,

Ellen (53:09):
that's their superpower, yeah.

Bex (53:13):
But also, like we saw in the last episode, Athena sort
of Googling radiation poisoning.
So apparently Buck is doingexactly the same thing.

Alice (53:21):
So after like, 'cause obviously we've seen this entire episode.
Do you reckon Buck and Athena have beenmessaging each other since the tunnel?

Bex (53:28):
Yes.
100%.

Alice (53:30):
Like, okay, Athena, you take the home shift, I'll take the station
house and we'll keep an eye on him.

Ellen (53:36):
Aw.

Alice (53:40):
But yeah, Buck's like, "I haven't noticed any shortness of breath
or bruising, but you could be hidingsymptoms like a headache, dizziness,
irregular heart, ba heart rate. Are you?"
but Bobby assures buck thathe's not hiding symptoms.
Um, he's not hiding symptoms becausehe is not having any symptoms of
whatever Buck thinks that he has.

Bex (54:00):
I, I think that this next exchange is really cute.

Alice (54:04):
The best

Bex (54:05):
Buck is worried that.
A prolonged exposure to radiationcan cause aplastic anemia.
And did Bobby know that aplasticanemia is what killed Marie Curie?
And Bobby looks at him and says like,"Number one, no, I did not know that.
And number two did not know.
I did not know that you knew who MadamCurie was," and Buck's like, "Well,

(54:28):
I had to look her up, but she wasa really smart lady and she died."

Alice (54:32):
"And she still died and she still died to too much, from
too much exposure to radiation."
But she was a really smart lady.
Two apples tall.

Bex (54:48):
He's so, he's so baby girl in this episode.

Alice (54:51):
Oh, I love him so much.

Bex (54:52):
Gender neutral, of course,

Alice (54:54):
obviously.

Bex (54:55):
Um, but Buck's education aside.
Um, Bobby is more concernedwith the real problem, which is.
They have a tie for Christmas dinner.
'cause while Buck has been interrogatinghim, they've been sitting in the back
of one of the engines and Bobby hasbeen counting little slips of paper.
So apparently everyone in the 118voted for what they were gonna do

(55:17):
for Christmas dinner this year.
Um, and it has come out with five peoplewith five votes for burgers and five votes
for Chinese, which Buck is absolutelyhorrified by, because he voted for Turkey.

Alice (55:32):
Yeah, poor buck wanted a traditional Christmas, but
apparently nobody else did.

Ellen (55:38):
And he was the only one.

Bex (55:39):
The falafel place got more votes than Turkey.
So Bobby says, you know what?
I'm just not up for cookingChristmas this year.
I'm gonna switch my vote toChinese so that we have a majority.
We're having Chinese for Christmas,

Alice (55:53):
and Buck immediately goes, "Fatigue. Also a symptom. Come here,"
and puts the back of his hand onBobby's foot to check his temperature.

Bex (56:03):
Like keep in mind, this is his boss.
Yeah, he is.
I just, I couldn't,

Alice (56:09):
This is the guy he tried to sue like three weeks ago.

Ellen (56:12):
Yeah.
Um, Bobby's got that little smirkyface on that means that he's actually
really touched by all of this, but it's"seriously, I'm fine. Like, stop it."
But there's nothing to worry about.
He says, "My, my grandmother alwaysused to say, don't go borrowing
trouble." But, um, buck explains thathe knows that he does dumb things

(56:34):
sometimes and drives him crazy.
"But you are an important personin my life, Bobby." Oh, so sweet.
He doesn't know what he would do ifanything were to happen to Bobby.

Alice (56:45):
Yeah.

Ellen (56:46):
But yeah, he did just try and sue him like I, yeah.
He drives him crazy foractual, legitimate reasons.
All right.
It's back to therapy.

Bex (56:56):
Back to Frank's office.

Ellen (56:59):
Maddie is there again.

Bex (57:01):
Yeah, I don't know if Hen and Eddie are still going, but
Maddie is definitely still going.
I guess she probably, she's beenre-triggered with the appearance
of this, um, of this check.
And also Christmas was also areally, um, difficult time for her.

Alice (57:17):
Well, she was the one at the end of the last episode who was like,
okay, I'm ready to actually talk now.

Bex (57:22):
Yeah.

Alice (57:23):
So here she is, actually talking.

Ellen (57:25):
She says that she, that most of her adult life, Doug was there.
And now that he's gone, she doesn't reallyknow how to, how to move on from that.
And, you know, Frank says thatyou still refer to him like
he's really here, but he's gone.
And Maddie realizes that it, she'sthe one who's holding onto, you know,

(57:47):
she needs to let him go, basically.
So Frank convinces herto go back to Big Bear.

Alice (57:54):
To where Doug died.
Yeah.
And Maddie's like, "You want me to go toBig Bear? That's like a five day trip."
Yeah.
Um, Frank's confused.
'cause normal people itonly takes like two hours.
But you know,

Ellen (58:09):
the funny thing is that later it actually does take
them a while to get there,
but he says, yeah

Bex (58:16):
and I think I made a note.
Go.
Wait.
It wasn't just Doug's driving.
It really does take that long.

Ellen (58:20):
It's take.
Yeah, it's the holiday traffic.

Alice (58:22):
It's just like even Buck, just like why is it taking you guys so long?
It takes much few minutesto get to Big Bear.
Yeah.
But every second weekend just to hang out.
Um, anyway, yeah.
So, um, Frank wants her to go backto where Doug hurt her the most and
talk to him out loud and let him go,

Ellen (58:41):
which sounds absolutely terrifying.

Alice (58:43):
Yeah, no thanks but sure you are the therapist, you
are the TV therapist, Frank.

Bex (58:48):
So while Maddie is contemplating that, um, we're going to go back to the
Bathena household where it is I'm guessinglater that night, um, Athena is asleep and
suddenly the blankets get pulled off her.
There's a little bit of atug of war with the blankets.
She pulls them back on, they getpulled back off, and she very

(59:09):
sleepily mutters to, uh, herbedfellow to stop being greedy.
And as she rolls over and snugglesup to them, she's awake enough to
realize that it is slightly strangethere's a person in bed with her
because she thought Bobby had a shift.
But then the person then lets out thisalmighty very un-Bobby-like snore.

(59:33):
And she realizes that it's her ex-husband.

Ellen (59:37):
Yes.
And she's like suddenly wide awake.
She's like,

Bex (59:42):
so not only is he letting himself into the house to cook
dinner and to raid her closets andset up Christmas trees, now he's
invited himself over for sleepovers.

Ellen (59:50):
Yeah.
Good one, Michael.

Bex (59:53):
So when Bobby comes home from the shift that he really was on,
um, he finds his wife asleep on thecouch, and he's a little bit confused.
He's like, "Why are yousleeping out here?" And she
says, "My ex-husband snores."
and Bobby's like, "I'm, I'm sure hedoes, but why are you out here?" She's

(01:00:14):
like, "yeah, 'cause Michael's in bed."

Alice (01:00:17):
Yep.

Bex (01:00:19):
He's even more confused.
And Athena is not helping himbecause it's like, "Why is Michael
in the bed?" And Athena's like,"Oh, I didn't wanna ask him."

Alice (01:00:28):
Athena's like, I'm not dealing with this shit.
I'm just going back to bed.

Ellen (01:00:33):
And then Michael comes out and he looks so sheepish.

Bex (01:00:36):
He's like, so confused.

Ellen (01:00:38):
He's like, "Hi?".

Alice (01:00:38):
So embarrassed.
But Michael's just like, "hi."And Athena's, "Good morning." And
Bobby just goes, "Hi Michael."

Ellen (01:00:52):
He is like, "This is awkward."

Bex (01:00:54):
It's like, yeah.
You think?

Alice (01:00:57):
Um, Bob is actually like really remarkably okay with this?

Ellen (01:01:04):
Yeah.
He doesn't seem too bothered.
He is just confused mostly, I think.
Yeah.
But Michael doesn't even remember comingthere last night and he's, he just says
he is been having trouble sleeping.
He hasn't been drinking or anything,but apparently one of the side
effects of his sleeping pillsis um, could be sleepwalking.
But he drove over here.

Alice (01:01:26):
Yeah.
Like he has his keys

Ellen (01:01:29):
and Bobby explains about parasomnia and apparently people do
all sorts of things while they'resleeping and which is totally true.
Like you can, you know, dogo about your daily routine
while being completely asleep.
That is, that is somethingthat happens to people.
But, um,

Bex (01:01:46):
I do like that in the list of things that people have been known
to do while still fully asleep.
He's got, they've often had sex and thenlooks backwards and forwards, and he
goes, "That not that, that, not that,that is what I'm saying happened here."
And Athena just goes, "Well,I, I think I would've noticed."

Ellen (01:02:09):
I'm sure I've read a fic about that.
Anyway, um, Michael's like, "I'mmortified." And, um, Bobby's like,
"You need to tell your doctor aboutthis because it could end up being
dangerous." And then Michael just getsout his keys and just start, removes
his house key and puts it on the table.

(01:02:30):
And, he says, "I'm, I want to make surethat I don't walk into your house or your
bedroom again in the middle of the night."

Bex (01:02:37):
And this is, this is sad.
Athena says to him that, "Michael, thisis your house too." And he just looks at
her and says, "No, it's not," apologizesprofusely drops the key and runs.

Ellen (01:02:49):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, he's finally, finally realizedthat maybe it's time to let go.

Alice (01:02:58):
I mean, to be fair, he had the key for the kids.
So that made sense.

Bex (01:03:02):
Yes.
But they're also old enoughthat like May is old enough.
She could have had her own key.
Like I know that, um, like my ex has a keyto my house, but my eldest also has a key.
So if I really wanted to, I could tellhim to tell like my ex to give back the
key, but he uses it to come over andget the kids shit when I'm not home.

Alice (01:03:22):
Yeah.
Right.

Bex (01:03:24):
But those, like May and Harry are old enough and seem to be, uh,
able to move around enough that theycould just have keys and, and be okay.

Alice (01:03:34):
Like my best friend had a key to my house just so she could come
get the dogs whenever she wanted,but that's 'cause we co-own one
of, or both of them technically.
So,

Bex (01:03:41):
yeah.
So yeah.
So while, while you're having your,while your ex having keys to your
place is useful, I don't necessarilythink that it's necessary for Michael
to have one in this instance anymore.

Alice (01:03:54):
Yeah, well he sure, sure thinks that he shouldn't have it.
So, um, yeah, puts the keydown and runs out again.

Bex (01:04:02):
So then I think we flash forward, um, a couple of days, or at least
a day or so because Buck is at the118 clearly on duty, but he's on
the same duty schedule as Bobby.
And Bobby has just come homefrom shift in the last scene.

Ellen (01:04:20):
Oh yeah, it must be the next, the next shift.

Bex (01:04:22):
so it's either at least 24 hours or a couple of days later,
Buck is on the phone with Maddie.
Although interestingly he says, so areyou sure you don't mind calling Athena?
Which makes me question whether,you know, like 30 seconds earlier
we were saying, do you think Buckand Athena have been like Mother
Henning it over Bobby on a group chat?
Um, I don't think so.

(01:04:43):
Based on that line.
I think that would,

Alice (01:04:45):
no, well, I think Buck would've, but Athena, because he's
on shift, he doesn't want Bobbyto know that he's calling Athena.

Bex (01:04:52):
Maybe I have a feeling that he's still terrified of her.

Alice (01:04:56):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
The first season.
Who isn't?

Bex (01:05:00):
They're never, uh, even after, you know, going to Big Bear
together, I have a feeling thathe's still like afraid of her.
Um, speaking of going to Big Bear, um,Maddie's on a road trip with Frank.

Alice (01:05:13):
With

Bex (01:05:13):
Frank.
Yep.
And once again, she is not driving.

Ellen (01:05:18):
Oh yeah.
That must be bringing back some memories.

Bex (01:05:21):
Frank is driving her to Big Bear.
I would've thought that it would'vebeen more helpful for her to
physically drive herself there.
But maybe Frank is nota passenger princess.
He's one of those guys that just, hehas to be in control of the vehicle.

Alice (01:05:35):
Well, she had important phone calls to make too, but Yeah.
Buck's surprised that they're stillin the car because, you know, Big
Bear's usually two hours away.
Um, but Maddie blames theholiday traffic in LA this time.

Ellen (01:05:48):
Yeah.
It sounds like Buck, Buck wantedto be there, but he couldn't
be there 'cause he was working.
So

Bex (01:05:52):
I don't think he, and as Maddie said, he couldn't do anything.
This is something that she needs to do.
Yeah.

Alice (01:05:59):
Mm-hmm.

Bex (01:06:02):
So they, she and Frank finally get to Big Bear, which is, um, there is no snow
at Big Bear despite it being December.

Ellen (01:06:12):
Yeah, I'm not sure.

Alice (01:06:14):
I guess it's too early?

Bex (01:06:16):
I know, I know.
We had, we had a discussion aboutthe, there's no season for Big Bear.
I was just surprised they pull up infront of the cabin that, um, Doug had
commandeered and Maddie wants to know, isshe supposed to go up to the cabin and,
and knock on the front door and go like,hi, can I come in and relieve my trauma?

(01:06:37):
Um, and Frank says to her that hethinks that they both know that the
cabin is not the place where Doug hurtMaddie the most and looks out at the
dam and the walkway that goes acrossthe dam and leads out into the forest.

Ellen (01:06:56):
Yeah.
Did she like explainthe whole thing to him?
I guess she must have.
'cause otherwise how would heknow that this is not the place

Bex (01:07:06):
either they've talked it through or maybe he got police reports.

Ellen (01:07:11):
Yeah.

Bex (01:07:12):
Read statements.
It's for the drama.

Ellen (01:07:16):
Yeah.
Well, Maddie does go along the walkwaythat we saw before, and we do get
flashbacks to that other episode whereshe is running away from Doug and we hear
his voice, you know, telling her she can'tkeep running, which is pretty horrifying.
But she, she gets all the way tothe, the forest, um, where she,

(01:07:40):
where it all happened, I guess.
And she, you know, starts talkingto Doug and says, "I never wanted
you to die, but I do forgive you."She has a little speech about,

Alice (01:07:52):
yeah.
Once again, um, Jennifer LoveHewitt is talking to ghosts.

Ellen (01:07:57):
Oh, she is,

Bex (01:07:59):
but this time they're not talking back.

Alice (01:08:02):
They're not talking back.
There's no whispering happening.

Bex (01:08:06):
It would be a very different episode if she gets out there and
like shit starts moving and like barkstarts flinging itself at her and

Ellen (01:08:11):
and Doug's ghost is there...

Bex (01:08:13):
And Doug is, Doug's ghost is attacking her.

Ellen (01:08:16):
And then she has to set fire to something and salt, put salt on it.

Alice (01:08:19):
Yeah.
Grab some salt, grab some an iron.
Um, yeah, like a fireplace.
Poker.
Poker.
Yeah.

Bex (01:08:28):
And the Impala rolls into, into view behind her.

Ellen (01:08:34):
But no, she tells him quite firmly that she's leaving him here
and she's going to live because shewill not be sorry for surviving.

Bex (01:08:43):
Yeah.

Alice (01:08:44):
Screw you Doug.

Ellen (01:08:46):
And off she goes.

Bex (01:08:47):
So we had to commercial and when we come back we are in a, a random house.
Um, and

Alice (01:08:53):
oh my God, this scene made me cry.

Bex (01:08:55):
And once again, we have a female character who is not named,
I don't think any of the femalecharacters in this episode are named.
So she's just gonna be mom.
Okay.
Yeah, the kid is named.
The kid is Leo.
It's just gonna be Mom and Leo.
And I would, I would love to challengethe 9-1-1 writers to actually name their

(01:09:17):
female characters in the dialogue, please.
Or do something thatindicates what their name is.
So now that I'm, I'm off my soapbox.
Um, Leo is sucking up to his motherby cooking her dinner, um, because
he has updated his Santa list.

Ellen (01:09:36):
Yeah.

Bex (01:09:36):
Which is now two pages long.

Ellen (01:09:39):
So he needs extra brownie points.
Yes.
Santa Points.

Alice (01:09:42):
Um, but he ranked, he ranked them in order of importance
so that she can prioritize.
And when his mom says, "You mean so Santacan prioritize?" He's just like, "Come on.
I know."

Bex (01:09:55):
Yeah.
There would've been no, no worriesif Buck had been talking to Leo.
Or if Leo,

Alice (01:10:00):
none at all.
Yeah.

Bex (01:10:00):
When Santa got sprayed, Leo would've been going like, dude, are you okay?
I know you're not Santa, are you okay?

Alice (01:10:05):
Leo would've been like, he's not even the real Santa, he's pretend

Ellen (01:10:11):
he would've been lecturing the other kids.

Bex (01:10:13):
But, uh, so while Leo is okay with his mother no longer pretending,
um, that there is a Santa Claus, um,his mother tells him that she likes
pretending because Christmas andall of the, the lights and music,
the pretending, it just makes theworld feel a little bit more magical.

(01:10:36):
But while she's talking to Leo,she's like wincing and, and pulling
faces and, and rubbing at her chest.
And at some point the pain gets reallybad and she asks Leo to get her a
glass of water, which she's also, itsounds like also struggling to breathe.

Ellen (01:10:55):
Yeah.

Bex (01:10:55):
Um.
And he turns to gether the glass of water.
And in the background we see herstagger and fall over and drag
the Christmas tree down with her.
And so Leo calls 9-1-1

Alice (01:11:08):
and it's Maddie who got back to work very quickly.

Ellen (01:11:11):
Yeah.
Yeah.
This must be the next day or somethingif she's gone back to work immediately.

Bex (01:11:16):
Either that or like it's, you know, when you've sort of got peak hour
traffic, but peak hour is only goingin one direction, so maybe, oh yeah.

Alice (01:11:23):
Getting back from Big Bear took 30 minutes.

Bex (01:11:24):
Everyone's trying to get out of LA and no one's trying to get into LA
so it was much quicker coming back in.
So Leo reports that his motherfell down and she won't wake up.
And when Maddie realizes that there isnobody else in the house with Leo, um, she

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talks him through doing CPR because whileshe has dispatched the 118, it would be.
Helpful to his mother if she, if hewere to start CPR and gets, keep CPR
going until the paramedics get there.

Ellen (01:12:05):
Yeah.
Poor Leo.
He's absolutely terrified.
He's only 10.

Bex (01:12:10):
Only 10.
He's only 10.
He does a really good job followingMaddie's instructions, and Maddie
does a really good job of talkinghim through, um, what to do.
And she counts with him over the phoneand it's all going well until Leo,
because he's doing the compressionscorrectly, he cracks a rib and that

Alice (01:12:29):
it's actually the sternum.

Bex (01:12:31):
It freaks him out.

Alice (01:12:33):
Um, so yeah, so when you're doing CPR, you should actually crack the
sternum if you're doing it correctly.
So you'll hear a crack, and thatmeans you have to just keep going.

Bex (01:12:42):
Mm. But if you're 10 years old, your mother won't wake up and all of a
sudden you're breaking parts of her body.

Alice (01:12:46):
Oh yeah, absolutely.

Bex (01:12:48):
Then it would be terrifying.

Ellen (01:12:49):
Yeah.

Bex (01:12:50):
And, and Maddie is like, "Yes, you, that just means that you're doing
it right. You just need to keep going."And so he does keep going until the 118
show up and Bobby tells him that they'vegot it from there, pulls Leo away so
that Chim and Hen can get in and assess,

Alice (01:13:08):
but Yeah.
But when, like, when Bobby tries to pullhim away, he's like, "no, no. The 9-1-1
lady said, I have to keep doing this."

Ellen (01:13:14):
Yeah.

Alice (01:13:15):
I'm like, oh, Leo.

Ellen (01:13:17):
Yeah.
He's so scared.
But he lets them do their thing andthey, they shock her and they, which like

Bex (01:13:24):
their thing includes Chimney just eyeballing her and going, oh yeah.
It's definitely cardiac.

Alice (01:13:29):
Yeah.
A hundred percent cardiac.

Ellen (01:13:33):
Yeah.

Bex (01:13:34):
You haven't even looked at her,

Ellen (01:13:37):
but like, after that, no one speaks to Leo.
Like until they get

Bex (01:13:41):
Oh yeah.
They kick him outside.

Ellen (01:13:42):
Yeah.
He, he's just sitting there.
No one's told him what'shappening and he's, they.
He just says, when Hen comes out,I don't know why Hen's not in the
ambulance going off with him, mom.

Bex (01:13:53):
Yeah.
That's so weird, isn't it?
Because that, anyway, they, they load,they load the, the mother into the
ambulance and we see Chim drive off.
Yet Hen is still in the house.
Yeah.

Ellen (01:14:03):
But Hen's not there.
So I, I don't, yeah.
Yeah.

Alice (01:14:05):
And for some reason the police are there now too.

Ellen (01:14:09):
Are they?
No.
I thought it was just thechild services person who

Alice (01:14:13):
No, it was No, because it was, he even says the police
officer won't let me go with my mom.

Ellen (01:14:17):
Oh, okay.

Alice (01:14:18):
And Leo thinks that he's in trouble.
It's heartbreaking.

Ellen (01:14:21):
Poor Leo,

Bex (01:14:22):
we hear someone over the radio tell Bobby that child services is on the way.

Ellen (01:14:27):
Okay.
And then he just, he's like,"Is it because I hurt her?
Like I didn't mean to hurt her."And Hen's like, "No, no, of
course you are not in trouble."
Then she says, "You did everythingright. I think you probably saved
her life." Um, but yeah, he's just.
He's still still terrified, butlike a, the, the cop that shows
up and comes to look after Leo.

Alice (01:14:51):
No.
So family services aren't there yet.

Bex (01:14:53):
So I'm assuming that, um, having police respond would be
sort of just like you get police,you get fired at the same time.
Especially if there is anunaccompanied minor on the scene.
Maddie would've dispatched LAPD.
So LAPD are there, they aregoing to sit with Leo until Child

(01:15:14):
Protective Services get there

Ellen (01:15:16):
and then she turns around to Hen and says, "Merry Christmas
Wilson." And Hen just looks like she'snot at all having a Merry Christmas.

Bex (01:15:24):
Not a very Merry Christmas.

Ellen (01:15:25):
And she says, "Yeah. Merry Christmas."

Bex (01:15:27):
Um, so, someone else who was not having a very Merry Christmas is Michael.

Ellen (01:15:32):
Oh God.
This scene is like the perfect kind of.
Representation of being overstimulatedin a shopping center at Christmas.

Bex (01:15:39):
Isn't it?

Alice (01:15:40):
Yeah.
Being overstimulated and with a migraine.

Bex (01:15:43):
So does he, is he actually medically ill or is he just like neurodivergent?

Ellen (01:15:48):
Maybe.
It's like, oh my God, there'smusic and people coming at me from
every direction can't handle it.

Alice (01:15:55):
That's what always terrifies me because I get migraines so often that
I'm just like, if something actuallywas wrong with me, I'd have no idea.
I'd just be like, oh, it'sjust a migraine, it's fine.
It's just been lasting for seven months.
You know how it is.
Um, because I, like, before I gotglass, realized I needed glasses.
I literally had a migraine every day.

Bex (01:16:15):
Oh my god.

Alice (01:16:16):
For like,

Ellen (01:16:16):
oh, and the glasses fixed that?

Alice (01:16:17):
Four months.
Yeah.
Um, it was because my eyes were uneven.

Ellen (01:16:22):
Oh.

Alice (01:16:23):
So like one was long sighted, one was shortsighted, so
they were constantly straining.
And so the eye strainlike caused migraines.
Um.
And yeah, I was just like, oh,it's just a part of my life.
I just get really bad migraines and justhave to take medication all the time.
Uh, yeah.
It turned out I needed glasses.
Um, I seriously just thoughtI had chronic migraines.

(01:16:44):
Wow.
But yeah, now they'remostly hormonal, but, but

Ellen (01:16:47):
Well, that's, that's a nice easy fix though.
Like as, yeah, as fixes go.
Glasses are pretty easy to deal with.

Alice (01:16:54):
Um, but yeah, now, like, if something actually was wrong, I'd just
be like, oh, it's just a migraine.
You know how it is.
It's fine.
I've just had it for seven months.

Ellen (01:17:02):
Yeah.
So Michael's not, notenjoying, uh, things.
He's walking through a, likea, a mall, a shopping mall.
He's, everything's blurry.
He can't really see what's going onexcept what's right in front of him.
And his, his hearing is kind ofdistorting and the music is weird.

(01:17:24):
And then he just, he miss, hedoesn't walk through the doors.
He walks through the, the window besidethe doors, just smashes right through it.

Bex (01:17:32):
No, no, no,

Ellen (01:17:36):
no?

Bex (01:17:37):
What the fuck kind of glass are they making those windows off
that you can just, I don't smashstraight through them like that?
No.

Ellen (01:17:43):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they would need to be pretty tough.

Bex (01:17:48):
He would have walked into it and bounced off.

Alice (01:17:51):
Yeah.

Bex (01:17:53):
No.

Ellen (01:17:56):
Well, for the drama, he looked right through the, for the drama.

Bex (01:17:59):
He goes straight through it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Um, and ends up in the hospitalpossibly because he has some pretty
wicked contusions on his face fromwhen he went face first through
very thin, like sugar glass.
Um, yeah.
But also the fact that he walked throughsaid glass and people are concerned.

(01:18:23):
Um, apparently he called Athena to lether know that he was in the hospital or.
Somebody called Athena to let her know.
Um, yeah.
But basically, but sheshows up at the hospital.

Ellen (01:18:38):
She, she has spoken to him because he told her that he was
gonna get an Uber home from thehospital and she went, fuck that.
I'm going, I'm coming down there.
And she told them she was her wife,hi his wife, to get in to see him.

Bex (01:18:52):
Yeah.
It's, it's interesting with these twothat, you know, technically that they
are, they are no longer married and she'sactually somebody else's wife, but they
do use the, the husband and wife card.

Ellen (01:19:03):
Yeah.

Bex (01:19:03):
In case of emergency.

Alice (01:19:05):
I guess they were together a long time.

Bex (01:19:07):
Yeah.
Athena is worried though because, yeah,it's, because this is just the latest
incident in a long line of incidents.
Um, and she is very confusedas to why the doctors.
Don't think that all of theseincidences are incidences?

(01:19:28):
No, just incidents.

Ellen (01:19:28):
Incidents.

Bex (01:19:30):
Because it's one incident, two incidents.
Yes.
Yeah.
There is.
Yes.
Um, but Michael is downplaying the entirething and he says, I also think that they
are all related to sleep deprivation.
He's like, I'm so sleep deprived.
I'm probably legally drunk right now.
Ha ha ha.
Isn't that funny?

Alice (01:19:51):
But he does promise that after the holidays he'll get a full checkup

Bex (01:19:55):
and then he pulls the, like the divorcee card.
He's like, you know, "I'm notsleeping God, Athena. This is my
first Christmas alone." Which it'snot because there was last Christmas.

Alice (01:20:09):
No, I think the difference is last year he had a boyfriend.

Bex (01:20:12):
Did he still have the boyfriend at this point?

Alice (01:20:16):
Yeah.
'cause the boyfriend and himdidn't break up until like Bobby
and Athena's wedding, I think.
Just before,

Bex (01:20:24):
no, he and the boyfriend broke up when Harry was setting fire
to the front lawn with the, likethe white trash kid from school.
I don't care enough to look backand try and figure out where
that is in the timeline though.

Ellen (01:20:34):
No, let's, let's just let, let that one be, but Athena
assures him that he's not alone.
"You have a family that loves you.I love you." And then Michael just
breaks down and he's like, "I loveyou too. I love you so much." It's
like, whoa, um, yeah, he doesn't wanther to worry about him, but too late.

(01:20:57):
She already is worrying.

Bex (01:20:59):
She always come and get him.

Ellen (01:21:01):
It's, it's really sweet in like a slightly worrying way because
he's acting like kind of weirdly.

Bex (01:21:09):
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Very weirdly.
But we are going to head to theWilson household for a little bit,
um, where Karen is apparently usingChristmas presents as insulation.
She's, she's filled the attic withChristmas presents, and what really
surprises me every time I watchthis is that they are all wrapped.

(01:21:30):
So it's not that she's buying shitand shoving it in the attic for
later, it's, she's buying them, she'sgoing, oh, that's a Christmas present.
She wraps it beautifully andthen shoves it in the attic.

Alice (01:21:40):
Yeah.

Bex (01:21:41):
Which, like, how are you gonna keep track of what you
bought if it's all wrapped?

Alice (01:21:45):
That's, that was my thinking too, especially later.
I was like, how do youknow what's in them?

Bex (01:21:50):
I, I think I figure it out how they do that later, but at this point, yeah.
How do you know that you've, but like,I've bought him three of the same thing.
Yeah.
Anyway, um, both she and Hen arevery shocked at the, um, the pile of
presents that hen has pulled out thatKaren has pulled out of the attic.

Alice (01:22:10):
Just, just quickly, um, the Christmas episode definitely
happened before Michael tells Bobbythat he broke up with his boyfriend.

Ellen (01:22:19):
Okay.
Good to know.
Thank you.

Alice (01:22:23):
It was bugging me.

Bex (01:22:25):
I did not care at all.
So he wasn't bugging me.

Alice (01:22:27):
I cared.
Um, but yes, Michael, Michael had aboyfriend last Christmas, so that was

Bex (01:22:32):
Okay.
So he really is alone this Christmas.

Alice (01:22:35):
Yeah.

Bex (01:22:36):
Okay.
Well, maybe we need to get a cat.
So we'll stop breakinginto his ex-wife's house.

Ellen (01:22:43):
So we, we also find out in this bit, uh, that the, they were discussing
like what happened with the mom who hadthe heart attack, and she's gonna be fine.
They'll put a stent in.
She'll be home soon, butnot in time for Christmas.
So the little boy is gonna haveto go to a group home until
his mom is out of hospital.

Bex (01:23:03):
Which triggers Hen to think, um, about what would've ever hap
what would've happened to Dennyhad she and Karen not stepped in.
And taken him when Eve gave him up.

Ellen (01:23:15):
Yeah.
See, I'd for, I totally forgottenthat Denny wasn't one of their,
like, they weren't actuallyDenny's mother's, mother's.
I dunno how that works.
Um, but yeah, I'd forgotten, I'd forgottenall about Eve until she says this.
And I was like, oh, was Denny adopted?
And I'm like, of course he was.
Yeah.
Okay.

Alice (01:23:34):
Yeah.
Yes.
I forget too,

Ellen (01:23:36):
I was like, that was, that was, that was a while ago now

Alice (01:23:38):
because like technically he was adopted, but he was adopted when he was
born, so it's the only family he knows.

Ellen (01:23:45):
Yeah.
I mean, Hen was his mom anyway, but Yeah.
Yeah.
"That kid doesn't know howlucky he is, apparently." yeah.
Yeah.
Very short scene, but I guess weget a lot of information in it.
We go back to Bathena and Bobby jumps intobed and shoves a phone in Athena's face.

(01:24:07):
And, um, and, but it says thathis, his test results came
back clear across the board.
So he's, he's in the clear, so Athena'ssays she can finally breathe again
and Bobby says he doesn't mind workingtomorrow because "Christmas Eve was
the night that you said yes." And thenthey decide to, rather than sleep for

(01:24:29):
five hours, they're gonna get busy.
Oh.
This next scene is so silly.

Alice (01:24:37):
So it really is.

Bex (01:24:38):
It's, we cut to, um,

Ellen (01:24:41):
it's Christmas morning, right?

Bex (01:24:43):
Well, it's still the night before.
It's, it's still Christmas Eve.
Um, yet again, we have an entire scenewith this woman and we never get her name.
I just started calling us.
I just started calling herSmurfette halfway through this.
So, um,

Alice (01:24:58):
yeah, fair.

Bex (01:24:59):
She's not Smurfette yet though.
Um, so we meet, uh, a young woman.
It's Christmas Eve.
She's on the phone with her mother.
Uh, apparently her mother is complainingbecause, her daughter is being a
terrible daughter and isn't coming overfor Christmas because she has to work.
And the daughter's like, like,"Not only do I have to work, I'm
not gonna be able to eat anythingbecause of this fricking toothache."

Ellen (01:25:22):
She does look like she's in a lot of pain.

Alice (01:25:24):
Yeah.
Her mouth is literally killing her.
Um, and she blames her mother'cause she inherited her bad teeth.

Ellen (01:25:31):
I, I was looking at this girl thinking that I recognized her and,
and then I, I realized afterwards thatshe was giving me Kim Rhodes vibes.
I think it was the haircut and the,

Bex (01:25:42):
uh, the, the, like the pixie hair and the Yeah.

Ellen (01:25:44):
Yeah.
She just looked a bit like a, but yeah.
I don't, I don't think I'veseen her in anything else.
It was just that.

Bex (01:25:50):
No, I don't think so.
So the, the, not Kim Rhodes is inthe bathroom, um, as she's talking
to her mother, searching hermedicine cabinet for, um, benzocaine.
Looking for Benzocaine,she finally finds it.
I don't know how much you're supposedto use, like what the, like I know
it's not serving size, but whatthe, the, uh, recommended amount,

Ellen (01:26:13):
the dosage?

Bex (01:26:14):
The recommended dosage is supposed to be, but um, the amount that she squeezes
onto her finger seems rather excessive.

Alice (01:26:21):
Oh.
It's a massive amount.
It's like golf ball size, maybe bigger.

Bex (01:26:26):
Oh.
I like, I'm terrible at judgingthings visually, but I was trying
to figure out what that would be.
'cause it's definitelynot like a pea size.

Ellen (01:26:36):
Yeah.
It was a chunk.

Bex (01:26:37):
Is it?
It was massive.
And she shoves it into her mouth andrubs it over her gums and gets this
like, look of relief on her face.
And leaves the bathroom.
Then we get, it's Christmasmorning, her alarm goes off,
she's gotta get ready for work.
Uh, a hand reaches out and slapson the alarm clock to turn it

(01:26:57):
off, except the hand is blue,

Alice (01:27:01):
Da ba dee, da ba di...

Bex (01:27:05):
And she, um, apparently has not looked down at herself,
um, since getting out of bed.
I don't know how that worked, butmanages to get all the way to the
bedroom and closes the medicinecabinet that she left open the
night before and looks at herself.
Sorry.
Yes.
Um, closes the, the cupboardsees the reflection of the mirror

(01:27:29):
and she is like head to toe blue

Alice (01:27:31):
Da ba dee, da ba di...

Bex (01:27:33):
and we are going to pretend for the purposes of this, that like her lips and
her tongue and the inside of her mouth isalso blue because it should also be blue.
They just can't put paint.
Um, up in there.

Ellen (01:27:46):
Mm-hmm.

Bex (01:27:48):
Uh, so she calls 9-1-1 and she says, "I'm blue."

Alice (01:27:53):
Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee...

Bex (01:27:55):
And the dispatcher just says, "You know, feelings of sadness and depression
are really common during the holidays.
Let me direct you to our mentalhealth hotline." She's like,
"no, I am literally blue damnit."

Alice (01:28:08):
She has a blue house with a blue window.

Bex (01:28:14):
Uh, so dispatcher, um, sends the 118.

Ellen (01:28:19):
Yeah.
And this is, uh, this canactually happen, but I don't
think that you go quite this blue.

Alice (01:28:25):
Yeah.
It's not like a bright blue.
It's like a,

Ellen (01:28:28):
it's very smurf blue.

Bex (01:28:29):
It's, it's very avatar esque.
Yeah.
It reminded me of this, of a,a tangent that I'll go into
later if you want me to, but

Ellen (01:28:40):
Okay.

Alice (01:28:41):
We always want your tangents.
This episode has beennothing but tangents.
I'm so sorry for Ellenhaving to edit this.

Bex (01:28:47):
Um, interestingly enough, I think this is one of the rare emergencies where
they knock on the door and their victimactually opens the door and lets them in.
They don't have to like try andbreak down the door to get in.

Alice (01:28:59):
This is definitely like, while they were opening the door, I was
like, why did the, like, why did shehave to call paramedics for this?
She could have driven to the hospital.

Bex (01:29:08):
Yeah.
See, this is one of those things, again,why, why people reach for calling 9-1-1
and getting an ambulance when theycould have driven down to urgent care.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I'm guessing.
For the drama.

Alice (01:29:20):
For the drama.

Bex (01:29:21):
For the drama because then we, we don't get, you know, her calling Buck
and Eddie, the two very handsome menthat are going to search her apartment,

Alice (01:29:30):
her messy apartment.

Bex (01:29:32):
But yes, I, I also find it really funny that, um, she opens the door
and I don't know what dispatch toldthem, but I don't think they were
expecting head to toe blue becausethe, all of them just, they were

Ellen (01:29:47):
The all look shocked.

Bex (01:29:47):
Recoil when she opens the door and it takes Bobby a few seconds to
like put his professionalism back in.

Alice (01:29:56):
Um, she's also ranting the whole time.
She's like "My teeth hurt.
I like, I've got the, thisAvatar look on top of that.
I have to work today on Christmas.
I mean, what kind of loserhas to work on Christmas?"

Ellen (01:30:09):
And then they all look at each other.

Bex (01:30:12):
They all look at each other

Ellen (01:30:14):
and she's like, "oh, sorry." Yeah.
So yes, the handsome men go off tosearch her apartment because this
wasn't humiliating enough already.

Alice (01:30:24):
Yeah.

Ellen (01:30:24):
And they ask her what she's been using, blah, blah, blah.
And then Eddie comes back from thebathroom with the Benzocaine tube,
which of which he used the whole thing.
And Buck holds up a ca trashcan, which is full of empties.

Alice (01:30:39):
Yeah.
Buck brings the whole, insteadof just saying, oh yeah.
And the trash cans full event.
No, no.
He brings trash can.

Ellen (01:30:44):
He brings it.

Bex (01:30:45):
And Smurfette is so humiliated by this that she starts seizing.

Ellen (01:30:51):
Yeah, they get her onto the floor and put the little CO thing on her.

Alice (01:30:55):
Put the finger thingy on her.
Yeah.
It's the pulse ox monitor,but you know, that's

Ellen (01:31:01):
the thing that tells them how much oxygen.
Right?

Bex (01:31:04):
Now I'm gonna need anybody with medical training do those, does the
pulse ox actually measure methemoglobinor whatever the hell that is?
Levels

Ellen (01:31:15):
Methemoglobin?

Bex (01:31:15):
Or does it act, does it just measure your oxygen levels?

Alice (01:31:20):
I thought it just measured pulse and oxygen, but

Bex (01:31:23):
because I don't know where Hen is getting call.
Because they're getting very specificwith the exact percentage of, um,
of what's going on with this woman.
And I don't think that theywould be getting that with what
they've got in their little bags.

Ellen (01:31:38):
Yeah.
I feel like they probably shouldjust be getting her to the
hospital at this point, although,

Bex (01:31:43):
yes, they should not be administering drugs at this point.
'cause what if they're wrong?

Ellen (01:31:48):
Yeah.
They're gonna grab somemethylene blue chloride

Bex (01:31:53):
because as Eddie very helpfully explains, um, overuse
of benzocaine can prevent the bodyfrom releasing red blood cells.

Ellen (01:32:01):
Yes.
Thank you for med splainingthat to us, I guess.
And she, like, he, she starts bleedingwhen they try to insert a needle and

Bex (01:32:14):
which, what, what the fuck was Hen doing when she's inserting that catheter?

Ellen (01:32:19):
The blood should not be spurting all over the place.

Bex (01:32:21):
I know that the point was they needed everyone to see the blood so that buck
can make the really hilarious commentof why is she bleeding chocolate syrup?
But if hen is causing that muchblood loss when she's inserting
the catheter, especially sincewe've been told that she's back.
Like I can imagine her doing this when shewas still like in her, "Karen is grieving.

(01:32:42):
It's fucking with me a little bit" period.
Yeah.
Um, but she's supposed to be back.
She's supposed to be betterthan, um, you know this.
Um, but we also do get the brilliantof exchange of when Buck goes.
So why is she bleeding chocolate syrup?
And Chim says "Because, blood thinnerboy," and then goes on to explain it.

(01:33:04):
So we've got "ayo, Rebar"and "blood thinner boy".

Ellen (01:33:08):
Well they said that the methylene blue stuff is gonna
convert it back, convert her bloodback to being red from the silver.
Whatever.
And then Chimney goes, Chim goes,"I've never seen a case this advanced.
Let's give her two doses." It'slike, oh my God, what are you doing?

Bex (01:33:24):
What the fuck, Chim.

Ellen (01:33:26):
Get her to a hospital.

Alice (01:33:29):
But it's fine.
It works.
Her skin color, it works.
It turns back to normal.
Yeah.
Um, she wakes up and she's like, "oh,not blue, but my teeth still hurt."

Ellen (01:33:38):
Oh dear.
"How am I gonna get, getthrough work?" She says

Bex (01:33:43):
pretty sure that having to call 9-1-1 because you were blue
and then you started seizing.
We'll probably get you out work.
Yes.

Ellen (01:33:53):
Alright, we're going back to the station house in Bobby is guiding
the truck as someone reverses it.

Bex (01:34:02):
Um, he tells the driver of the ladder truck that "we are good," meaning
that the, the truck is in it's in line.
Um, and then from behind him, he hearsAthena say, "Yes, you are, Captain."

Alice (01:34:15):
Yeah, you are.
Wiggles brows

Bex (01:34:19):
not in front of the kids Athena.
So he asks his wife, "what areyou doing here?" And Athena
says, "We came to save you.
Somebody said you were orderingtakeout for Christmas." And Buck's
all like, "I did want Turkey."
So, so they all head for the kitchen.

(01:34:41):
Um, Eddie was the only one payingattention or close attention because
he says, "Wait, did she say we?"

Alice (01:34:49):
And she did say we.
Because as they get to the top of thestairs, all of their families are there.

Ellen (01:34:55):
Yay.
Oh.
It's a huge crowd!

Alice (01:34:59):
Except for Buck's.
Um,

Bex (01:35:01):
Buck has no family there.

Alice (01:35:02):
Buck has no family there.

Ellen (01:35:04):
All his family are already there!.

Bex (01:35:05):
The 118 is his, his family.

Ellen (01:35:07):
Yeah.
They're all his family.

Alice (01:35:10):
Um, so Denny's there, um, there's a bunch of background
firefighter family members probably.

Ellen (01:35:16):
Um, there was someone else in the truck with them when they arrived.

Alice (01:35:21):
Yeah, background firefighters.
It's fine.
Um, but not the background firefighter.
Not the background firefighter, no.
Yeah, Christopher's there.
And Eddie seems surprised.
It's like, well, duh.
Um, especially if Bob, uh, if Buckorganized it because like obviously

Bex (01:35:39):
It's like he watches Denny and Hen together and he is like, oh, that's sweet.
Does not even cross his very beautiful,very empty mind that if Denny is
there, then that would also meanthat Christopher would be there.

Alice (01:35:50):
Hey, Buck has the brain cell this episode

Bex (01:35:52):
apparently.

Alice (01:35:54):
Um, but yeah, so Christopher and his, um, abuela are there.
And there's just a lot of people,mostly that we don't know.

Bex (01:36:04):
We see Harry is there because he like tackles Bobby and this big hug while
Christopher is being tackled in a big hug.
And yes, this was all Buck's doing.
Yeah, he not only did he wantturkey and definitely did not want
Chinese for Christmas dinner, um,

Alice (01:36:22):
apparently, apparently he's really against Chinese.

Bex (01:36:24):
He tells Hen that she inspired him and that they should all immerse
themselves in the magic of Christmas

Ellen (01:36:33):
while pulling down a sprig of mistletoe and kissing her on the cheek.

Bex (01:36:36):
He pulls it down and holds it up over her head.
And I'm like, dude, number one,she's not like, you are not
her type until she's married.

Ellen (01:36:46):
Yeah, her wife is standing right there.

Alice (01:36:48):
Yeah, her wife is right there.

Ellen (01:36:51):
Oh, he's, he's sweet though.
He just kisses her cheek.
It's fine.

Bex (01:36:55):
Yes, it's very, he's very sweet.
Um.
Hen repeats it it's a,it's a great surprise.
And Karen says, well, that'snot the only surprise that she
and Denny bought a few guests.
Um, at which point he Denny disappearsand hen looks over and we see Leo and

(01:37:17):
a whole bunch of kids kind of crowdedaround the, the pool table, um, that
Hen apparently does not recognize.
And so Karen, uh, was feeling very sorryfor Leo not being with his mother at
Christmas time, um, and convinced thesocial worker in charge of the group
home that he got sent to, to allowthe entire group home to come to the

(01:37:39):
station house for Christmas lunch.

Ellen (01:37:42):
Yes.
So there is a serious overcrowdingproblem at the home, not enough foster
parents to go around and hen has alight bulb over her head and she's
like, "This is gonna sound crazy,but maybe we should consider..." um.
Karen's already there.
Karen's she's way ahead.
Yeah, they, they've gotan appointment already.

Alice (01:38:02):
I love them so much.

Ellen (01:38:04):
So I think they're gonna be trying to foster.
And then Maddie arrives.
So

Bex (01:38:11):
finally,

Ellen (01:38:11):
Chim goes downstairs to meet her.
I don't know how he knew that.
She, like, maybe she textedhim to say we're here.

Bex (01:38:18):
I'm assuming she did text him or maybe he's just been like hanging out
and just watching, waiting for her.
'cause he seems very relievedthat she's finally there.
Um, but she's not alone because she'snot the only one who has pulled strings.
Um, and got people out of places thatthey should legally have been in.

(01:38:40):
Because she sprung Leo'smom from the hospital

Ellen (01:38:43):
and, uh, she manages to like, I don't know how she recognizes
Jim because she was unconsciousthe entire time that no, she,

Alice (01:38:54):
I dunno if she.
Yeah, she does wake up at the end,

Bex (01:38:57):
that wonderful thing where as soon as they get a heartbeat, um, as soon as
they get a heartbeat, um, the patientimmediately regains consciousness.

Alice (01:39:05):
Right.
But also, like, to be fair, she wasjust in the car with Maddie the whole
time, so we're like, I'm sure he, she'sbeen like, oh yeah, like my boyfriend
was one of the ones that saved you.

Bex (01:39:13):
Yes,

Ellen (01:39:13):
yes.
But yeah, she gives Chim a hug and or

Alice (01:39:20):
like, who are you lady?
Why are you kidnapping me?
No, no, I'm taking youto the like, it's fine.

Bex (01:39:25):
She gets reunited with her son.

Ellen (01:39:27):
Leo comes.
Yeah.

Bex (01:39:28):
Yeah.

Ellen (01:39:30):
She, he just, you know, gives her a big hug and she's like, ow, ow, ow.
She gives a bit of awince as he does that.

Bex (01:39:38):
Well, she's just had major chest surgery.

Ellen (01:39:40):
Yeah.

Alice (01:39:41):
Yeah.
That, and he broke her sternum.

Ellen (01:39:44):
So they all go up for the food.
Let's go eat before the bell rings.
That's what Bobby calls down to them.
So.
They, they say some graceand then they get dig in.

Bex (01:39:57):
Yeah.
And the camera pulls back and we see thatlike everybody is at this main table.
And I do not know how Athenagot that much food cooked.

Ellen (01:40:07):
Yeah.
Considering they only hadbeen planning this for

Alice (01:40:11):
like two days?
Yeah.

Ellen (01:40:12):
Yeah.

Bex (01:40:13):
Yep.
And suddenly she's had like,how many kids did we see from
the um, the group home show up?

Ellen (01:40:20):
Yeah.
There's quite a few.

Alice (01:40:21):
I mean, to be fair, there are other family members too,
so I'm sure like Eddie's abuelaprobably could like brought a plate.
Karen probably brought a plate.

Bex (01:40:29):
You really think Athena would let other people help?

Ellen (01:40:34):
Well, she did say, Bobby said, "I can't believe you pulled this
all together without us knowing."And she says "Santa isn't the only
one who has elves." Yeah, right.
Oh.

Bex (01:40:43):
But then we get, oh!

Ellen (01:40:44):
and then she, then we cut to Buck and he's just so, so proud of himself.
He's huge smile.

Bex (01:40:52):
It's my favorite, like Buck gif.
He's just like, his entireface is just a smile.
He is got his hands clasped and he, yeah.
Two miniature apples.

Alice (01:41:03):
Yeah.
Like he shrunk somehow between the startof the episode and now he's got smaller.

Bex (01:41:09):
I don't know.
He is so

Alice (01:41:10):
cute.

Bex (01:41:10):
But yeah, he definitely had a hand in, in whatever happened.
I really don't think he had anythingto do with the cooking though.

Ellen (01:41:18):
And Athena thanks him for helping with it.
Yeah.
And she says, "I think your NewYear's resolution should be to use
that head for good instead of evil."I'm like, what are you thinking of?

Alice (01:41:28):
What?

Ellen (01:41:29):
What has he done?

Alice (01:41:31):
What type of head?

Ellen (01:41:34):
Oh, oh my God.
But no, he hasn't done anything evil ever.
Stop it.

Bex (01:41:40):
Now I'm wondering how blowjobs can be evil

Alice (01:41:44):
with teeth?

Bex (01:41:45):
Ooh.
But some people like teeth.

Ellen (01:41:48):
I guess it de depends on your point of view,

Alice (01:41:55):
listeners

Ellen (01:41:55):
anyway,

Alice (01:41:57):
use your blow jobs for good, not evil,

Ellen (01:41:59):
Moving right along.

Bex (01:42:03):
No, before, before we moved right along, there was a, it was
a quick scene where, uh, we seeAthena's kids, what are their names?
Harry and May, um, distributingthe presents, which I assume
were the, the stash of presentsthat, uh, Karen and hen had.
Um, and it looks like that one ofthe little flaps on the end of them

(01:42:24):
has been opened, so they must havegone through and like opened or
like kept one end open so they couldsee what was inside the wrapping.
Oh,

Ellen (01:42:34):
right.

Bex (01:42:35):
They later on, one present gets given to Christopher as well by Buck,
who is so adorable when he does it, likegets down, like "Christopher, look!" Um,

Alice (01:42:44):
he's the best stepdad.

Bex (01:42:46):
He helps Chris open it and one flap is already like, not taped
down and, and will fly straight up.

Ellen (01:42:52):
Bobby sees Michael lurking.

Bex (01:42:54):
Yeah.
So he, he leaves his wife to continuetalking about Buck's head and goes
off to, um, to see why Michaelis pouting over in the corner.
And it turns out he is, he's got a reallygood reason to be pouting and looking sad.

Ellen (01:43:11):
Yeah, he is like, this is a nice Christmas.
And probably just like, okay, actuallythis, this whole scene is really strange.
Like the, the music is like reallyominous and it makes it feel like
Michael's about to attack somebody.
Like it's that kind of what is happening?
Because he says, you know,they, they mean the world to me.

(01:43:33):
It's like.
Okay.
Are you about to go postalon Bobby or something?
And Bobby's like, "and I thinkwe're pretty lucky to all have
found each other," and Bobby'slike, "What is going on?" But yeah.
Michael reveals to him then that, um,they did some scans and they found a
mass ass, so the headaches ending upin the wrong bed, that he has a tumor.

(01:44:00):
And Bobby's just so

Bex (01:44:00):
I think that, yeah.

Ellen (01:44:01):
Doesn't really know what to say.

Bex (01:44:03):
And the, the sad music and the ominous music is, this is potentially
Michael's last Christmas on this earth.

Ellen (01:44:11):
And he doesn't want Bobby to just tell anybody else yet.
Like, yeah, just, justlet me have this Christmas

Bex (01:44:20):
and then May interrupts them.
He's like, mom wants totake picture with everyone.
And Michael's like, now that he'ssuccessfully dumped his burden
on Bobby, he's like, "oh yeah,sure. Let's go take pictures."
Yeah.
Bobby's just like, what?
Standing there like, whatthe fuck has just happened?

Ellen (01:44:35):
And so, uh, when this scene came up, I was like, oh, this is the picture
that we used at Christmas for the

Bex (01:44:40):
Yes!

Ellen (01:44:40):
For the tweet that we put out.
They all,

Bex (01:44:43):
you finally got the context for the scene

Ellen (01:44:45):
Yeah.
They all squeeze in around thetable and, um, take a, a picture.
Yes.
For Merry Christmas,

Bex (01:44:51):
I did have to check to make sure, because it, they're using a,
um, a camera on a tripod with a timer.
And I had to make sure that likethe, the random member of the 118
that sets the timer actually madeit back in frame in time, because I
would not have put Bobby past like,oh no, no, you, you take the picture.

(01:45:11):
You don't get to be in the picture.
You have to take the picture, but

Alice (01:45:14):
"You take the photo, Anderson." "My name's Ferguson.
What the fuck?
Bobby."

Bex (01:45:18):
He makes it back into frame.
So there it's um, it'slike, it's the core 118.
It's Bobby and Michael with their armsaround each other in the back row.
Um, it's all their family membersand a couple of random members
of the 118 that have snuck in.

Alice (01:45:36):
Yeah.
That were allowed to eat this week.

Bex (01:45:39):
Well, I think everybody ate, but they might have been allowed
to eat at like the main table.

Alice (01:45:44):
Geez.
'cause there were

Bex (01:45:45):
several tables set up.

Alice (01:45:47):
There were several tables set up.

Ellen (01:45:49):
There were a lot of people on shift on Christmas day.

Alice (01:45:52):
I'm wondering if they don't have every firehouse
open, but like, I don't know.
I don't know how they do it.

Ellen (01:45:58):
Well, they'd have to have a full quota of people, wouldn't they?
Like still, I'm sure there'splenty of fires happen, still
happen on Christmas Day.

Bex (01:46:05):
Yeah.
But they might rather, if you think.
Um, maybe each firehouse has likea, I'm just gonna throw out a
number here, um, like a 10 mileradius of what they respond to.
Maybe on Christmas day, they, theydouble that radius so that other
houses can drop off for that day.

Alice (01:46:24):
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering.

Bex (01:46:25):
They might rotate

Alice (01:46:25):
Or if they just do A shift one year and B shift the next year.

Bex (01:46:29):
Yeah.
Or how they, they deal with it with,um, parents who maybe wanna take the
shift off to spend time with their kids.

Ellen (01:46:39):
Yeah.
It'd be hard.
Yeah.
I mean, this Christmas episodes go,this was, um, it had its ups and downs.
I mean, it, it had some like really funnysections, but then also desperately sad.
Yes.

Bex (01:46:52):
Yes.
Funnily enough was not the Christmasepisode I was thinking of when
I remembered that we were havinga Christmas episode this week.
Oh, okay.
Because I think I skipped over thisone completely and I was thinking about
the season four Christmas episode.

Alice (01:47:06):
There's a season four Christmas episode.

Bex (01:47:08):
Yes.

Ellen (01:47:09):
We'll get to that next year.

Alice (01:47:14):
Um, but yeah, I like, I liked the, I definitely didn't see the twist
coming the first time I watched it.

Ellen (01:47:20):
Yeah, yeah.
'cause well we did just sort of get theall clear for Bobby, so it was like,
okay, thank God every, everyone's okay.

Alice (01:47:27):
It definitely sets it up like you're gonna, you're thinking
that Bobby's gonna end up sick andthen surprise it's actually Michael.

Bex (01:47:34):
Well, especially when they're like Bobby received some shocking news
and like he does receive some shockingnews, but it's not related to him.
It's not him.
Yeah.
It's somebody else's shocking news.

Ellen (01:47:43):
Yeah, they did, they did do a bit of a bait and switch there.

Alice (01:47:46):
Switcheroo, yeah.

Ellen (01:47:47):
Yeah.

Alice (01:47:49):
Um, cool.
So what have we got onthe cards for next week?

Bex (01:47:53):
Oh, next week.
Well, they, uh, when this firstaired back in 2019, they had
their, um, Christmas hiatus.
Oh, so we've just, so this is theend of season three A. So then
next week's episode is the startof three B all the way in March.

Alice (01:48:17):
Oh my God.
We're almost, we'realmost in real time then.
Yeah, because this episodewill air on the 11th of March.
And then the episode that we'reabout to co like that we cover
aired on March 16 originally.
And we'll release it on March 18.

Ellen (01:48:36):
Right.
Except it'll be five years later.

Alice (01:48:39):
Except five years later.
Oh.

Ellen (01:48:42):
But we're also like the middle of March is right when the Covid
stuff started really getting serious.
Yeah, because it was like I managed tojust have like a birthday party while we
were still allowed to actually do that.
And then,

Alice (01:48:57):
oh, well Queensland locked down later as well.
We locked down in Melbournevery early and for a long time.

Ellen (01:49:06):
Yeah, I don't remember.
Oh God, it seems likesuch a long time ago.
And also like just the other day,

Bex (01:49:11):
not that long ago.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's not, I can tell youthat we are not up to Covid
times in the 9-1-1 time yet.

Ellen (01:49:22):
Okay.

Bex (01:49:23):
Uh, but instead the 118 are going to respond to a skydiving trip gone
wrong, a bank rep injured in a homerepossession and a lovestruck assistant
whose lunch run ends in disaster.
Meanwhile, Athena and the familycome to term with Michael's difficult
health decision, and we meet Albert!

(01:49:45):
Chimney's half-brother from Korea.

Alice (01:49:46):
I had no idea Albert was in this season.
I thought it was next season.

Bex (01:49:50):
I'm so happy that Albert shows up.

Alice (01:49:53):
Yes.

Bex (01:49:55):
Um, so that is,

Ellen (01:49:55):
I look forward to meeting Albert

Bex (01:49:56):
Guest star John Harlan Kim who as, um, Aussie watchers of 9-1-1.
I mean, I don't know if youguys are gonna recognize him.
I definitely didn't, but apparentlyhe is another, like soapy graduate.

Alice (01:50:13):
Yeah, I think he's in Neighbors, but I didn't actually know until
recently that he was Australian.

Bex (01:50:17):
No, neither did I until I saw, I watched Did you see the, the, like the,
the video call between him and Oliverand just the accents were just completely

Alice (01:50:25):
Yeah.
And I was like, what happening right now?

Ellen (01:50:31):
Oh, now that I know that he's an Aussie I'll be listening out.
I'll be like, how's his accent?

Alice (01:50:35):
Yeah.
I'm excited to rewatch like,although now that I know,

Ellen (01:50:39):
does he have an American accent or is he from Korea?
So he is got a Korean accent.

Bex (01:50:43):
Yeah.
So you gotta think that it's like aKorean Australian playing a person who
is like fresh off the boat from Korea.
Right.
So the accent is interesting.
Okay.
Um, and I don't even know if wehave any triggers for this episode.
Um, we don't, there are notriggers for the next episode.

Ellen (01:51:03):
Oh.
Then it'll be wholesome family fun.

Alice (01:51:06):
I'm sure it'll be wholesome.
Family fun Chim's brother'sshowing up this episode.

Bex (01:51:12):
Lemme check, lemme check.
Oh, sorry.
Yes.
So we have continuingdiscussions of brain tumors.
Um, we have the trigger just says fish.
Um, but it is a little bitmore involved than that because
it's going to be like choking.

(01:51:32):
Um, we have,

Alice (01:51:33):
Buck, not again.

Bex (01:51:36):
No, not Buck this time.
Um, appar, we have fosterparenting slash positive.
I don't know whether positive fosterparenting is a trigger or not, or
whether it was like foster parentingis possibly a trigger, but don't worry.
It's good foster parenting.
And we have some gore, so Damian is gonnabe thrilled because specifically we have

(01:51:56):
intestines on the outside of the body.

Alice (01:52:00):
Yay.

Ellen (01:52:01):
Oh, yay.
Always a fun time.

Bex (01:52:04):
Yeah.

Ellen (01:52:08):
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Uh, we would love to hear what youthought of this Christmas shenanigans.

(01:52:30):
Thank you everyone for listening,and we will see you next time
to talk about episode 11, whichis called "Seize the Day".
See you then.

Bex (01:52:37):
Bye

Alice (01:52:38):
Bye.

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Bex (01:53:18):
Um, so my fun tangent.
Yes.
Um, that you can completely cut out ifyou want, or put it the blooper reels.
I don't mind.
Um, this scene reminded me ofa story that I heard about, um,
the original Star Trek series.

Ellen (01:53:31):
Oh, yeah.

Bex (01:53:32):
So there was an episode one of the like very early episodes
where Kirk goes on, you know,their, their five, the Enterprise
is off on their five year mission.
They go to a planet.
Um, and there is a slave girl who ispresented to Kirk and she's dancing.
And because it is an alienplanet, um, this slave girl

(01:53:55):
is supposed to be an alien.
So they paint her green and she's likein full green body paint, head to toe.

Ellen (01:54:04):
Yeah.

Bex (01:54:05):
So they shoot the scene.
And then they come back to watch likethe dailies and she's not green anymore.

Ellen (01:54:12):
Oh.

Bex (01:54:12):
And they're like, what the hell is going on?
So they shoot it again, puther in all the body paint,
shoot the scene, send the film.
'cause it's like literally filmback in those days to the editing
suite to get put together.
They come back and watch the dailies.
She's not green.
She's a very healthy human pink.
And they did this like three timesuntil they finally figured out

(01:54:35):
that the film was getting to thetechnicians who like adjust the color.
And he assumed somebody on,somebody on set had fucked up.
The lighting was the way the lighterwas reflecting off this actress.
It was giving her a greenish tint.
So he was painstakingly recoloringher back to pink every single time.

Alice (01:54:57):
Oh.

Ellen (01:54:57):
Oh

Bex (01:54:57):
no!
So they had to like tell them like,no, if somebody shows up on the film
and they are a different color, theyare meant to be that other color.
Do not touch them.

Alice (01:55:12):
They're lucky.
It didn't just, um, they didn'tjust completely vanish her.
If she was green, it's like,oh, it's a green screen.

Bex (01:55:19):
No, but it was like back in the, back in the day.
So there was no green screen.
It was just on a set with awoman in green body paint.
Yeah.
So yeah, that was, that was the tangent.
That was the thing thatthis scene reminded me of.

Alice (01:55:33):
Beautiful.

Ellen (01:55:33):
That's funny.
I love it.

Bex (01:55:35):
Don't you love having like neurodivergence, we hear one thing
and we just like, our brain goesoff in completely other directions.

Ellen (01:55:43):
Absolutely.

Bex (01:55:43):
And we have to tell you what it is.

Alice (01:55:45):
Absolutely.

Ellen (01:55:46):
That's what makes podcasting so much fun.

Alice (01:55:52):
Are you done barking?
Have you run outta barks for the night?
Has your bark quota been met?
Will your boss at the Bark Factorybe satisfied with your barking?
No?

Ellen (01:56:05):
Your barking performance?

Alice (01:56:07):
Do you need a barking performance management?