3.12: Fools

In this episode of That Weewoo Show, Alice, Bex, and Ellen discuss season 3, episode twelve of 9-1-1, titled "Fools". The 118 responds to a viral stunt gone haywire and an epic first date fail; Athena investigates a woman who doesn't remember being shot in the head.

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Episode Transcript

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9-1-1.
What's your emergency?
Welcome back to That Wee Woo Show,a podcast where we watch and discuss
episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1.

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I'm Bex
I'm Alice.
And I'm Ellen.
And I got it in one.
Yay.
Yay.
Yeah, you did.
Thank you to everyone who has listenedto our previous episodes and who has
done all of the button smashing on ApplePodcasts, Spotify, and all of our social
media, uh, platforms to help us getthe word out about our little podcast.

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We do appreciate it.
We had a, uh, a bit of an unexpectedand, uh, unannounced break last
week, due to two of your three lovelyhosts getting a little caught up in
deadlines for other fandom activities.
Oh, yeah.
We, we apologize for that.
We are, we're all fine now.

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We managed to meet our deadlines.
I'm very proud of Ellenfor meeting her deadline.
Um,
oh, I'm proud of you too.
Uh, but now we are back.
This week's special shout out goesto Keira over on BlueSky who educated
us a little bit about how accurate orwhether the pulse ox thingy that goes

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on your finger can actually diagnose,uh, methamoglob..., I don't even know
how to pronounce that, but the, the bluelady, whether Hen and Chim would have
such a definitive diagnosis about whatwas going on with the blue lady, just
from the little finger pulse ox thingy.
Short answer, no.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
So thank you Keira for, um,
thank you Keira!
For educating us non-medical peopleas to how badly or how much the show
stretches medical truths sometimes.
I mean, the fact that she was blueprobably gave them a pretty good idea.
Yes.

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But, but medically they couldn'treally diagnose her just from the
pulse ox,
I don't think you'd be getting the, yeah.
That's fine.
We've, we've long since abandonedthe idea that anybody on this show
has any actual medical knowledge,despite the fact that they do have,
well, they may have the medical knowledge.
They just don't care to use it.
Just, I mean, we know thatthey have a med consult on set.

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It's just they don't appear tobe talking to the writers or the
writers aren't paying much attention.
Right.
So before we find out how badlythe writers stuff up medically this
episode, let's remind ourselveswhat happened in last week's episode
Last week on 9-1-1, Michael madethe decision to stop treatment
on his brain cancer and Chimney'sestranged half brother Albert

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turned up at Chimney's Door.
Albert!
Um, Albert is not in thisepisode at all, is he?
No.
Nothing from last week is
Albert is mentioned.
Albert is name dropped, buthe does not actually appear.
That's right.
His luggage appears.
That's right.
So this episode, is season three, episode12, which is titled "Fools", which first

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aired on the 23rd of March in 2020.
So just as the, the pandemic stuffwas really getting into gear, but
we don't see that on screen yet.
Um, I, I hear there'smore coming of that later.
Um, but the official summary forthis episode goes, the 118 responds
to a viral stunt gone haywire, adisaster at a couple's fishing trip.

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Which is, which is whichwas last week, right?
Yes.
That...
So it wasn't in this episode.
It was it was in last episode.
Okay.
It was in last week.
Yes.
Um, an epic first date fail.
Meanwhile, Athena investigates a womanwho doesn't remember being shot in the
head, and Eddie is forced to have adifficult conversation with Christopher.
And the triggers for this episodeinclude domestic violence, gore

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involving bulging eyeballs.
Oh my God, I could not look at that.
That was disgusting.
But anyway, we'll get to that.
Gun violence, uh, a recurringcharacter is robbed and beaten by
someone they went on a date with.
Eyeballs first.
Eyeballs first.
So as soon as these guys showup on the screen, this is Shay

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and Mitch and their buddy Jesse.
We have seen these guys before.
They were the ones who put thisguy's head in, in concrete,
and then he fell in the pool.
Is that that, is that what happened?
Yeah.
They like concreted a was it amicrowave or something to his head?
A microwave!
That's right.
They stuck his head in a microwave andthen filled the microwave with cement.
Yeah, like as you do.

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And then Jesse freaked out as you do,because while they were being kind
and thought that they would coverhis head with a plastic bag 'cause
they'd s seen that episode of Grey'sAnatomy and they know that, you know,
concrete on skin is not the best thing.
Um, they forgot to take into considerationthat that would cut off his air supply.
That's right.
So Jesse freaked out andended up going into the pool.

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So I don't know why he is stillhanging out with these guys.
Me neither.
No, for the, for the likes.
I guess for the,
uh, I, I don't know.
Um,
Maybe just, maybe they put him throughso many traumas that his brain is just,
you know, he just goes, yeah, whatever.
Or let's do it.

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Well, this week's trauma involvesJesse voluntarily climbing into a
merry-go-round that, um, Shay and Mitchhave hooked up to a motorcycle so that
when they turn the motorcycle engineon and the back wheel starts spinning.
The merry-go-round starts spinning.

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Idiots.
And as Shay, they, I love that Shaycalls it, "We are about to turn this
merry-go-round into a scary go-round."
Like, I don't know if I said thislast time, I probably did, but this
is big Ghostfacer energy again.
Yes.
It's just, they're just talking rightinto the camera, going, "Okay, Jessie, are

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you ready? Let's do this." And Jessie'sjust like, "Yeah, whatever. Let's go."
Yep.
Yeah.
The, this entire scene we're cuttingback and forth between the, um,
the footage that Mitch and Shay arefilming themselves on their phone
and the, the external cameramenfilming them, filming themselves.
So yeah, they, they set,they start the motorbike.

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They put a clamp on the acceleratorso that it keeps going without
them having to hold onto it.
And of course, because it'sShay's Army, something goes wrong
and the engine catches fire.
Yeah.
So they can't get near it to turn it off.
And Jesse, okay, so he's sitting in on,on one of the seats, which are around

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the edge of it, but he's leaning intothe middle and holding onto the little
yes thing in the center, which like,I don't know, he, he, does he have
like a grip of steel or something?
Because if it was spinning sofast, like as fast as it was,
I'm wondering if centrifugal forceis kind of holding him in place.

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Yeah.
But it, that, that would drive himtowards the outside of the circle, not...
it would, yeah.
Not inside.
Hold him in the middle.
Yeah.
And he's not sitting, if he wassitting directly in the middle, then
he would not be affected by much force.
But he, his body is, and, and that'sthe other thing, like when they, I don't
know the, the 118 must have turned upso freaking fast because this is still

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going on when they arrive and the bikehasn't like burned to a cinder yet.
So they, they rush in and putout the fire and then grab Jesse.
And when they pull him off there, hiseyes are all bloodshot and bulging.
So I was like, well, if he, if hewas sitting in that position with
his head down in the middle of themerry-go-round, wouldn't the blood all

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rush to his butt because he was thebit that was sticking out the furthest.
I'm so happy that I'm not the one gettingcaught up on the details this week.
No, it just seemed likeit really unlikely.
It does not, it does not make any sense.
Maybe I recognize that it made no sense.
My brain just went, yeah, you know what?

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We are just gonna gowith it for the drama.
I mean, I can totally understand thatbeing totally distracted by the disgusting
eyes that this guy now has is like buggingout of his head and they're all, ugh, ugh.
So gross.
Yeah.
But even when they pull him offand they see, they see them and all
the, the 118, they're all like, ugh!
When, um.

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When Hen is like checking his pupilswith the light pen, she's like, "His
pupils are exte, extremely dilated."And they're actually the opposite.
They're like pin bricks.
Yeah.
So like obviously the, like thespecial effects of the makeup
team didn't get the script.
Whoops.
But I love that as Chim and Henare working on Jesse, Buck is just

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standing over him, kind of tippinghis head from one side to the other,
just staring at this guy's face.
He's, and eventually he says thathe feels like he knows this guy.
Yeah.
And then, and then Eddie,like when he says that Eddie
like tilts his head as well.
They're both likestanding there going, huh?
They both do it at the same time.
It's super,
it's the same, at the same angle.
Yeah.
It's adorable because we'vediscussed before that, um, the 118

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have like the memory of elephantsfor all of their, um, cases.
Yeah.
They have excellentfacial recognition skills.
Yeah.
But it's not until, it's not untilthey notice Shay and Mitch that they
like fully remember what is going on.
So they get Jesse, um, they gethis eyeballs back in his head,

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which wakes him up immediately.
Um, I wonder if it would happen that fast.
Like it's really, it's quite,
Everything happens thisfast on this show though.
Yeah.
Timey-wimey, remember?
I mean, if he's got something overhis face, okay, I'm, I'm breaking
the magic again here, but he's gotsomething over his eyes, right?
And then they just poke hiseyes a little bit and put some

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drops in and then cut away.
And when they cut back, it's justhis face and his eyes are like,
Yeah, he's fine now.
A bit bloodshot, but he's fine.
I'm like, oh, okay.
Stop, turn brain off.
Come on, come on.
It's gonna be fine.
Uh, but yeah, also when, since they havefixed Jesse as much as they can in the
field, um, Eddie still wants to knowwho did this to him because he's not

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caught up to, to Buck in recognizingthis guy, and Bobby's the one who
notices Shay and Mitch on the otherside of the park, um, still filming.
Yeah.
And they continue, they continue filming,um, until Athena comes up behind them.
Athena turns up like magic,like Bobby summons her.

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Oh, obviously.
Oh yeah.
But the best thing is that like,they're like, "Oh, you can't prove
anything" and Athena's like, "Youlive streamed on the internet." Like,
and she says the, themagic, um, words, fool.
"You fools."
Yeah.
We, we need to get, we need to haveshots or something because, or perhaps

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not, because the number of timespeople get called fools call themselves
fools or the word fool is used.
Um, we would be plasteredby the end of this episode.
Yes.
So it like one count at the moment.
Thank you Athena.
So, yeah, they cart 'em off,
um, but not before Bobbystarts filming them.

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Um, and he is not just like, he'snot filming them for the internet.
He's just like video calling Chim.
Yeah.
'cause Mitch complains that Bobbyis filming them and says, "You, you
can't post that without our consent."
And Bobby's like, "No, this is just foran audience of one." And then we cut

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to inside the ambulance where Chim issitting with Jesse in the back holding
his phone up so that Jesse can watch hisfriends being arrested and taken away.
And he's very sadly says, "Man,I really need new friends."
No disagreements here.
Yeah, you really need new friends, Jesse.
It was funny 'cause when Bobby firstsaid that this is an for an audience

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of one, I was like, what are yougonna watch it and have a laugh later?
Like, why
I thought the same thing.
I'm like, Bobby, why areyou gonna watch this later?
Do you always record thesethings for your own benefit?
But yeah,
maybe when sitting in bed atnight watching weird cases,
kinky role play going on in that marriage.
I don't know.

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We've established that already.
Yeah.
Um, okay, so after the title card, we nowgo to an extremely tense, uh, card game
going on at, um, I guess Chimney's Place?
Yeah, it's Chimney's Place
because we still don't knowwhere Maddie lives at the moment.
We still dunno where Maddie lives.

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Nope.
Um.
Even though she invites Josh to comestay with her at the end of the episode.
Like where Maddie, where isJosh coming to stay with you?
Josh also stays at Chimney's Place.
Chimney's like why, what we, we are full.
Like what are you doing?
Yeah.
'cause he's still gotAlbert there as well.
So it's like,
yep.
The couch is taken.
Josh and Albert on thecouch, tops and tails.

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Yep.
They can spoon.
It'll be fine.
So they cut, they cut from basicJesse, who's got like these awful
looking bloodshot eyes to then Buck,like holding the cards in front of
him and staring into my very soulas I was watching this, I was like,
tell the truth.
How long did you pause andjust hold it on that shot?

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I was on a time crunch to watchthe episode, so I did not do that
yet, but I may go back sometime.
I'm sure there are plenty of gifsof it, on um, Tumblr and so on.
But yeah, she, Maddie isalso, you know, staring back.
So they're having like a I know somekind of a Mexican standoff because
the music is playing and they're like,
oh yeah, it's got like spaghetti westernmusic going on in the background.

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Yeah, yeah.
It's it's very um, liketongue in cheek tense.
Yes.
Yeah.
Especially 'cause Buck's smiling.
He's like,
yeah, so Maddie does this grin andBuck's like, oh, I know that smile.
And he adds more chips to the pileand then he puts down a pair of
aces and Josh looks impressed.
But Chim just like glances at Maddiewho puts down her hand and it's

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a flush and he is like, "Oh no."
And Chim's like, "Youfall for it every time."
Um, so yeah, we've establishedthat Buck sucks at poker.
Um, Maddie manages to fool him every time.
We also further, um, further establishor, um, reinforce that Josh is sassy.

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Oh yeah.
Because Buck says like, "Why doesthis, well how does this keep
happening?" And Josh just says,"'Cause you suck at poker." Yeah.
I'm like, sir, this is the firsttime that we know of that you are
playing poker with these guys.
Just, you know, rein it in a little bit.
Chill.
You, you're Maddie's friend.
Not like Buck hardly knows youat this point as far as we know.

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Like maybe they are good mates,but, but he does say that he
also sucks at poker and maybe youshould quit while you are behind.
Yeah.
And Buck's like, wow.
You were doing well until with thespoken by someone who also sucks at
poker and then you just kept diggingyourself further in for the rest of it.
Yep.
But apparently Josh and Buck got invitedover for poker because, um, Chimney and

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Maddie needed someone for date night andall of their couple friends were busy.
Yeah.
So they figured they would target solos.
And this is where Josh goes,"If I didn't know any better,
I'd say you were setting us up."
And Maddie goes, "Oh no, I like you waytoo much to set you up with my brother."
And Buck just goes, "uh, hey now."

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Yeah.
Like he doesn't deny any,
there's no denial.
There's no like, I'm not into...
This line is so, it's so interestingbecause Maddie is not, I do not
think that she's like making a joke.
I don't think that she islike, oh, oh isn't it so funny?
So, you know, being gay is so funny.

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So you know, I invited you and 'causeyou like boys and my brother is a boy.
So wouldn't it be funny ifthe two of you got together?
I think she's legitimately sayingthat it would not be outside
the realm of the possibility ofBuck and Josh getting together.
Yeah.
And then you've also go Buck who isnot denied that there is a possibility
that the two of them to get together.

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He's just more, yeah.
There's no protesting.
He's just more in,
I mean, in hindsight we can say that, youknow, this makes total sense because we
know what's gonna happen in the future.
Yes.
But like, this is season three andthat doesn't happen until season
seven, so this is really interesting.
Yeah.
Buck's only, um, upset becausehe's getting the idea because

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of their, like, I like you toomuch to set you up, my brother.
Like the, the implication that Buckis not worthy to be set up with Josh.
Yes.
Very interesting.
I will point out that this episode waswritten by Andrew Myers, so if anybody
is keeping count on which writers aredoing what in this show, that's like,

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I think it's the second or third, um,notch on Andrew Myers belt for, um, like
what's going on with Buck and or Eddie.
Interesting.
Okay.
But yes, they do establish that theyare incredibly, tragically, some

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might say embarrassingly single.
I think Chim takes it a little too far.
Yes.
Because Chim says that the closestthat Buck has ever got has gotten
to turning on a woman in the pastfew months, is shouting, "Hey Siri."
Yeah.
That's mean.
That's it is, it is very mean.
Um, but Buck goes "Well,she's very good to me.

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She sings me songs, she delivers me food.
She tells me where to be,when, how to get there.
And that is pretty much love.
The rest I..." and Maddie just is "Ew,no." And Chim's like, "No, no, no, no.
I don't wanna know.
I don't wanna know."
Yeah.
Well they had that coming
Buck is, like taking the joke and runningwith it and not being like insulted 'cause

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Yeah, he, it could have gone either way.
But Josh also, um, requests thatChimney and Maddie ease up on the
solos because it's like datingin a LA right now is really hard.
They have no idea how hard it is.
They were very lucky they don't haveto deal with the, the crazies, the

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randos, the catfishes and the liars,
which gets, um, juxtaposed with Buck,noticing Albert's suitcase and going, oh
yeah, there should be someone else here.
"Hey, where is Albert? Alberttonight?" And then we find
out that Albert's on a date
already.

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We don't know how long he'sbeen there for, but he's
already hooking up with someone.
Good on him.
Yeah.
Just, just to rub it in that, you know,Josh and Buck are having so much trouble
finding dates and Albert, Albert,you know, waltzes in and immediately
established himself on the dating scene.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Bless.
It's a funny scene actually.
I was sort of watching up tothis bit and oh, in even the next

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couple of scenes going, why iseveryone so horny in this episode?
It's like a very horny episode.
Everyone's trying tofind that other person.
Ah, it's very funny.
But anyway, we are goingto school now, speaking of,
speaking of horny, yeah, you wouldn'tthink that parent teacher would be a
horny situation, but, um, it is tonight.

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Eddie.
Eddie, Eddie gets away with it.
He's, he and Carla are in at the schoollooking for their classroom and they
talked to some of the teachers and um,you know, it sounds like it, like that
Chris is having a great time at schooland he is doing really well in his
subjects and he is making friends and,

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oh, can we go through all the,the corny teacher jokes first?
Oh, I love the jokes.
Of course you do.
You are the one thatsends us all dad jokes.
Carla even says, "Try to ignorethese teacher's corny jokes."
And I just completely skippedover that and ignored the jokes.
Sorry.
Okay, go on with the jokes.
No, I love the chemistry one though.
That's my favorite of all of them.

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Yes.
So the maths teacher asks Eddie,"what do you call a number that
won't sit still? A Roman numeral."
Ha!
the music teacher asks, "how do you makea bandstand? You take away their chairs."
Yeah.
And then she goes, "I don't think he gotit." And Eddie's like, "oh no, I did."

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"No, no, I got it." Um, thescience teacher doesn't make a
joke and Eddie's about to leave,and he stops and goes, "wait.
No jokes?" And the teacher deadpanface says, "I try to tell chemistry
jokes, but there's no reaction."
Ha ha.
Get it?
Chemistry?
Reaction?

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Um, I also, the part where, soChristopher's showing great interest
in science, but he does keep tellingother students tsunamis aren't
a big deal, which is unhelpful,
funnily enough that this isa really interesting parent
teacher, um, set up because theteachers are in their classrooms.

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And Eddie, it's like speed dating.
Eddie and Carla are moving around theclassrooms from teacher to teacher, which
I didn't think at Chris's age they hadmultiple teachers in multiple classrooms.
Yeah.
We don't here,
maybe middle school is different.

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Yeah.
Like maybe middle school islike miniature high school.
So they, they do rotatearound their classes.
Maybe they forgot how oldChris is supposed to be
At our primary school.
We do have a different teacherwho does science, actually, I'm
not sure about science, but theylike music and, um, yeah, you've,
they have different teachers.

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Like you've got a music teacher and you'vegot your PE teacher, but you don't have
a maths teacher and an English teacher.
And a science teacher.
Like your teacher teachesall of those subjects.
That's right.
Anyway, I just thought thatwas really interesting.
But we get the setup where they are inthe English classroom waiting for Chris's
English teacher, but she's late becausethe previous student's father, who she was

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doing parent-teacher conference with, keptasking a surprising amount of questions.
Um, but where were they?
Where were they when she was like,was it a different classroom?
I, and she got to get tothe, I don't understand.
I was like, what?
The, the setup in this, the setups in thisepisode are, are like, why, what, what?
No.
Um, but Carla looks the Englishteacher up and down, and she is

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young and she's very, very pretty.
Oh, yeah.
And Carla says, "Well, I, Ibet he had lots of questions."
I think Eddie has lots ofquestions too, because he looks
like he's been hit over the head.
I love that Carla is just like thehorniest character on the show.

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Like even when Buck in Season one waslike banging anything that's like that
moved, Carla was still the horniestcharacter on the show and remains
the horniest character on the show.
Yeah.
But I just feel so, because she's marriedand yet she's surrounded by, like, she
had Abby and Buck and now she's got Eddie.
Mm-hmm.
Just surrounded by all of thesepeople that are just like.

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So stupid when it comesto their relationships.
I really hope her husband can keep up.
Well, she, she must go homeand go, "Oh, wait till you
hear what Edmundo did today."
So Edmundo, um, this isthe teacher is Ms. Flores.
I'm just gonna call her Ana.

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We don't get a first name inthis episode, so I am breaking my
rule, but I know that she's Ana,so I am just gonna call her Ana.
Um, she greets Carla very proper,calls her Ms. Price, um, greets Eddie
and says, "You must be Mr. Diaz."
And Eddie almost trips over himselfsaying, "No, it's Eddie. Please call

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me Eddie. It's short for..." and sheimmediately jumps in and guesses Edmundo,
and you can just see him immediatelyfall in love with her at that point.
Because as he tells her thatlike most people guess Eduardo.
She's like, "well, no, I have like agrandfather who was Edmundo and you

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know, he was my favorite grandfather."
And so that means that everyone namedEddie is always called Ed Edmundo.
Clearly.
And Eddie's just got hard eyesjust pulsing out it sockets going
like "He's mine too. Wait, no,that's, that's not what I..."
um, so Ana, Ana completelyignores Eddie and just goes, "So

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let's talk about Christopher.
Um, he is doing really well.
His verbal skills have improved.
He's a little shy about reading out loudand she's like, yeah, like I attribute
that to him being read to from, from anearly age." And Eddie's like, "No, no.
We have his mother to thank for that."

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So I love Ana is like parentteacher flirting with him right now.
Oh yeah.
Especially this part.
And Eddie is.
God bless him.
I think he would love tojust start flirting back.
But he's going to honor Shannon'sname first and foremost.
Yeah.
He defends her.
He's like, well, not defends her, butyou know, he gives her credit and Ana

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does say that, "Christopher tells meyou've kept it up since she's been gone.
So, great job." And Eddie's like,"Oh, I try to do the voices,
but," and it's like, oh, shut up.
Come on.
Yeah.
Eddie's like, "She was better atit." And Ana's just like, "Oh,
I'm sure you are no slouch." AndCarla goes, "Oh, no he isn't."
Carla knows exactly what's going on.

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Yeah.
Carla's got the Barbie dolls andpressing their face together right now.
Like smooshing their faces together.
Yeah.
And she says that he, he likesto make the other kids laugh and
Eddie asks if that's a problem.
She's like, "not at all.He's very sweet and kind."
Yeah.
He's one of the most popular students.
So, go Christopher.

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Yeah.
It's not surprising.
Everyone loves Christopher.
Eddie floats out of theschool on like a cloud.
Um, you know, he's, he's got a good kidand he's, he's had his son, um, praised
to high heavens by a beautiful woman.
Um, and Carla's just like a, "You wannatalk about what just happened in there?"

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And Eddie's like, like "What?
'cause I'm that I'm doing such a goodjob as a father?" She's like, "No, about
the, the English teacher that you wannabang." And he's like, "Was she pretty?
I didn't even notice." AndCarla's like, "Oh, I'm sorry.
I must have had you confused with someonewho couldn't stop gazing in Ms. Flores
big blue eyes." And Eddie is immediatelylike, "No, they were brown." She's

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like, "Oh, but you didn't notice." Yeah.
Yeah.
He's fucked.
And I love that we get like alittle bit later in the episode.
We hear Buck talk about Ana.
So he must have just gone straightto work or straight home and just

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spilled everything to Buck about thisbeautiful teacher that he just met.
And he's so pretty and she gets his name.
He was texting Buck under the tableat, um, the parent teacher conference.
Oh my God.
Buck.
S-O-S-S-O-S.
Chris's English teacher's cute.
What do I do?
But this is, I think this isthe first time we've ever seen

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Eddie in this kind of situation.
He was flustered.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
This is because every other time thatwe've had pretty women hit on Eddie,
he's completely brushed them off.
He's just not been interested.
Yeah.
Um, and we've seen him withShannon, but there was sort of a, a
familiarity and comfort with Shannon.
This, this is Eddie being love struckand he's absolutely fucking hilarious.

(29:06):
'cause he has no idea what he's doing.
Yeah.
Or how to deal with it.
I love it.
Yeah.
So now we're gonna goslightly more somber route.
Athena is at the hospitallooking for Apocalypse World
Michael, because he's called.
Yeah.
Yeah.

(29:26):
And he asks, asks after her husband.
And, um,
did you immediately think Michael?
I was thinking Michael.
Yeah.
Yeah, because that'sthe last person we saw.
He, no, no.
Hang on.
He was looking after Bobby last time.
That's right.
He was, but the last person,person, he wasn't there.
The last person we had in Athena'slife have medical issues was Michael.
That's right.
Yeah.
No, I did think of Michaeland I'm like, wait a minute.

(29:47):
No.
It's Bobby he's asking about.
Yeah.
He's like, "how's your husband?"And Athena's like, "Bobby's fine."
I'm like, wait, why?
Oh, 'cause of the, the radiation thing.
Yeah.
My bad.
Sorry.
Yeah, when he almost turnedinto the Hulk, it's fine.
Yeah.
But he didn't call Athena in just tocheck up on Bobby, he has a, a woman who
has been admitted with a gunshot wound.

(30:08):
But interestingly enough, it is athree month old gunshot wound and she
has no recollection of being shot.
Yeah, she came in justcomplaining about headaches.
Turned out there was a bullet in her head.
Yeah.
Two, maybe three months.
So Athena calls in Detective Romero andthey start to question our gunshot victim.

(30:32):
Who is Joan.
Yeah.
She actually gets aname, which is exciting.
She gets a name and she seemslike she seems really lovely.
Can I go on a slighttangent about this lady?
You, a tangent?
We love Ellen tangents.
I'm gonna tangent.
We never get Ellen Tangents.
Where do you see, wheredid you see her in?
Well, I, I thought I recognized her'cause she looked really familiar,

(30:55):
but I think I was getting likeHyacinth Bucket vibes from her.
She looks a bit like, um, I can'tremember the actress that plays Hyacinth.
But anyway, it's not her.
No, that's not what I was thinking about.
But I was looking her up and she's been,this lady's called Audrey, uh, Wasilewski.
I'm sorry, I'm probably totallymispronouncing an eastern European name.

(31:18):
Um, we,
I think it's Polish.
She is in a load of different show,like actual television series, but
also movies as mostly like minorcharacters from what I can gather.
But she's also done heaps and heaps ofvoice work, so there's a chance that I'm
recognizing her voice from something.
I did recognize her voice.
I haven't actually looked up.
She's been in a lot of like, um,cartoons, like kids' cartoons,

(31:42):
but also, like games, like, um,
wow.
She's been in Kingdom Hearts games.
She was in the Minecraft story modethings, Elder Scrolls online, like
a, a bunch of different games as wellas, um, you know, animated stuff.
So yeah.
Very busy lady from like rightup to the present all the way

(32:04):
back to like 1995 or something.
She's in the MCU.
She did a voice in Dr. Strangein the Multiverse of Madness.
Yeah.
Mass Effect, Fallout three,like bunch of different games.
Amazing.
So yeah,
we love,
there's, there's a good chancethat we've heard her voice
looks like she is a
and or seen her in other things.

(32:25):
She's busy, busy workingactress and we love to see it.
Absolutely.
Anyway, yeah, she's great in this episode.
Like she does a really good job oflooking extremely confused about what's
going on and then really upset aboutthe fact that yeah, it all happened.
So yes.
She, she does not remember being shot.
She's like, "I, I have never beenshot. I feel like that's something I

(32:48):
should remember." And 'cause Athenahas brought Romero in to, um, because
he's the detective on this case.
Um, I'm not sure what,what Athena is there for.
Maybe she was the one who start, whotook the call in the first place.
You know,
I think Callaway called Athena maybebecause, uh, he knows that she's

(33:11):
LAPD and then Athena's gone this likegunshot equals like major crimes.
So I'm going to loop inRomero 'cause he's my dude.
Yep.
Yeah, she's pretty reluctantto actually believe that
there's a bullet in her anyway.
She doesn't wanna have the surgeryand um, you know, Romero and Athena

(33:33):
are both sort of convincing her.
They're like, you know, the,the X-rays show like a bullet.
Like, we're pretty sure that it's, it'shappened, so we just need to find out what
happened around January, February time.
Did anything weird happen?
She's like, not really.
Um, that's, that's where I know her.
She's in Brooklyn Nine Nine.
Okay.
Yes, I'm still going through,

(33:53):
but only, only, only likeone episode though, right?
Yeah, she, um, plays like alove interest of Scully's.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Joan says, "Not nothing unusual, like mylife is pretty boring. It's just me and
my husband," but her husband isn't there.
He's out golfing somewhere because they'vetaken early retirement and she's like,

(34:13):
"oh, I should probably call him should I?"
She goes to get something out of herbag that'll have the information to call
her husband and like, pretty much dumpseverything out on the, um, the bed.
And, you know, there's the usual stuffthat you have in your handbag, but
including like a massive family sizedbottle of aspirin and Athena's sort of

(34:37):
eyeing that and going, um, "You, you geta lot of headaches?" And she's like, you
know, Joan says, "You know, I never usedto, but now I just always have one."
It's still really interesting to me.
This is totally unrelated,well, not totally unrelated.
It's partially unrelated, um, thatAmericans just have their painkillers

(34:58):
in, um, like bottles still.
'cause all ours are in blister packs.
I, I've got a bottle ofibuprofen in the cupboard.
Yeah,
Neurophin comes in.
It's like you can't get it that size.
You can get it in like baby spiesbottles, but you can get it in a bottle.
I used to be able to get it in a bottle.
They don't seem to have it here anymore.

(35:19):
Oh, okay.
I will say I have a bottle of aspirin inmy bag, but I did buy that in the States.
So,
but anyway, Joan has abig bottle of aspirin.
She finds her planner, uh, which shesays has her husband's information in it.
She hands it over to Romero and he opensit up to I guess it would be today's

(35:43):
date and there's notes all through it.
She's reminding herselfthat she's got yoga.
She's reminding herselfto pick up dry, cleaning.
There are sticky notes with extranotes, um, on top of the notes
that she's already left herself.
But as he's asking her about the planner,like, do you normally write stuff down?
He's flicking backwards andanything before January is blank.

(36:07):
She never used it.
Hmm.
And she says that she used to havea really good memory and she prided
herself on being able to remember things.
But as you get older, like the last threemonths, um, she's needed a little help.
Her, her head, her headstarts to, to hurt again.
So Athena Romero say that they'llleave her, they'll call the doctor.

(36:30):
Um, she can't remember thename of the doctor, even though
Athena told her the name of thedoctor like two minutes before.
Um, so they leave her, they'llcall the doctor, they go out in
the hallway and they're like,romero is completely shocked.
She really does not remember being shot.
And Athena seems to suspect the husband.

(36:51):
Um, they also borrow her planner.
I think it's, that's, I know that theyneed to because it's evidence, but
like they give it back to her later on.
She's like, "oh my God. I waswondering where that went."
Yeah, I was looking for it.
This poor woman.
Oh, she needed a planner totell her where her planner went.
Exactly.

(37:12):
Yeah.
Um, but we go back toChristopher's school after this.
Yes.
Um, and Eddie's in a hurry.
He's looking a bit panicked.
But Carla's there and she's talkingto a woman and when we get closer,
we see it's, um, Ana and Eddie likeaddresses Carla first and is like,

(37:35):
"What the hell happened?" Carla's like,"No, I told you Christopher's fine.
You didn't have to come down.
It's just some scrapes and bruises." AndEddie immediately like, turns on Ana.
He's like, "How did he hurthimself?" But Carla answers.
Yeah.
Carla's trying to, like, Carlamust know what Eddie's like.
Oh yeah.
So she's, she's tryingto mediate here and she

(37:56):
yeah, she's trying todiffuse the situation
and she makes a joke of it and shesays, "Well, it turns out Christopher
and skateboards really don't get alongthat well." Like, ha, isn't that funny?
Eddie's just like, you can justsee the rage building in him.
Like "you let him skateboard?",
it's a it bit of a change of.
Yeah.
A bit of a change of heart from last time.

(38:18):
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
It's, it's not heart eyes anymore.
He's got like laser beamscoming out of his eyes.
Yeah, he is the red, angry emoji face.
But again, like the setup forthis, I don't understand one, why
are they out in the courtyard?
Because Eddie had to walkthrough the office to get to the
courtyard where Carla and Ana is.

Two (38:37):
why is it Ana?
Like I know why it's Ana becausethey need that for the further
the storyline, but why her?
And then three, where isChristopher in all of this?
Yeah.
Where's Christopher?
Why are they all outsidetalking about this?
Where is the kid?
Well, he comes out in a moment.
I know, but like, he's obviously likein the nurse's office or something.

(38:59):
So why didn't they allgo to the nurse's office?
Because they didn't wanna yellat Ana in front of Christopher.
Yeah, I I
it's just like the storylining is not,the storyline is not storylining for me.
But, but yeah, he um, I think if,if they weren't out in a semi-public
place around children, um, Eddiewould very much be yelling at, yeah.

(39:24):
Poor Ms. Flores.
Um, so yeah, one of the kids hadbrought, had brought a skateboard.
Um, Eddie's very mad about that becauseChristopher could have broken his neck.
Um, Ana says she knowsthat she feels terrible.
The other kids were showing him howto ride it, and they didn't know that.
And Eddie immediately blames the kids.
He's like, " Didn't they?
Like, let's push the kid with CParound on a skateboard for fun.

(39:48):
You let them make a fool of my son."
Um, yeah, he immediately jumps to theworst conclusion about what happened.
Ana's like, "I promise that's notwhat happened here." Is it Ana or Ana?
Are we saying it?
Uh, I'm pretty sure it's Ana.

(40:09):
No, no.
I'm just trying to workout how to pronounce it.
Oh, it's not in the episode yet, is it?
No.
Dammit.
But I'm pretty sure it's Ana.
We'll find out in anothercouple of episodes, I'm sure.
But, um, but.
The man of the hour chooses thismoment to make his appearance.
And he's got, first the thing,the first thing that we see is

(40:32):
that he's got a big rip in theknee of his school issued khakis.
Um, and it's big and it's bloody.
Um, although the first thing Inoticed was that his glasses and
his crutches are color coordinated.
I thought that was very stylish of him.
Yeah.
The the graze on hiselbow looks pretty nasty.

(40:53):
Like it doesn't look like theyactually patched him up much at all.
No!
And he's not covered in blood, but like
Well, he is got the...
could have put a bandaid on him.
Knees, knees covered up.
It's like this massive chunk on his elbow.
He's got blood splatter on his polo shirt.
Um, yeah.
And the first thing he's worriedabout is that he's ruined his clothes.

(41:14):
Oh, bless.
And Eddie's like, you don't, do notworry about your clothes whatsoever.
Carla offers to run home and get, um.
Chris spare change of clothesso that he can go back to class.
And Eddie just immediately scoops him up.
I'm like, "No, we're done for the day.Um, we are leaving." And Chris goes
from whining about school not beingover to just like, collapsing into his

(41:38):
father's arms, like a token protest.
Oh, but school's not over,but I'm gonna go home.
Please take me home.
Then we get home and Eddie's onthe phone with the principal.
So why didn't he just talk to theprincipal while he was at the school?
Yeah, right.
I guess 'cause Christopherturned up and he didn't wanna,
but like he's too focused.
Be like focused.

(41:58):
Oh, Carla, can you, I don't fucking know.
Yeah.
Like the storyline isjust ridiculous, but yes.
Um, we follow the Diaz's home.
Eddie is on the phone with theprincipal who assures him that the
kid who had the skateboard is goingto be firmly reprimanded and his
parents are gonna be looped in on that.

(42:20):
Um.
Carla is making a snack.
I think she's making Christopher a snackand she just wants to know what about
the kid who was the one who actuallyrode and fell off the skateboard?
What's,
um, it is pronounced "Anna".
It is?
Yeah.
It just took me three YouTubevideos, but it's pronounced Ana.

(42:43):
Whoops.
Okay.
I think I've watched far too much Frozen,
literally.
Oh
yeah.
Fuck it.
I'm sticking with my pronunciation.
It is A-n-a though.
Just for those.
Yes, it's A-n-a
for those of you playing along at home.
But when you find this in thebloopers later, um, it's, um,

(43:06):
no, I'm just gonna leave it in.
It's A-n-a, but it's Ana.
All right.
Well, no, Eddie was just saying to Carla,"You think I should punish Christopher
for getting hurt?" And she's like,"No, no, but you should talk to him.
About how he got hurt and the fact that hewants to be like all the other kids, but,"
and he's like, "I can't tell him like,you want me to tell him he's different.

(43:29):
I, I don't wanna do that."But Carla's sort of saying,
"You need to teach him that.
It means that he has limitations and youcan't just go jumping into everything."
Yeah.
Eddie doesn't want Eddie's doesn'twanna tell Christopher that he's
different from the other kids.
And Carla says he already knowshe's different from the other kids.
So they head into the dining roomwhere Chris is changed, I'm gonna

(43:54):
say he's in jammies, um, or atleast he's now in sort of civvies.
And they sits him down tohave his afternoon snack.
He asks Chris how he's feeling andChris just says, "I feel dumb 'cause
everybody saw me fall off the skateboard."
Yeah.
And Eddie says, "So that boyshould never have pressured you
into getting on that skateboard."

(44:16):
And then Chris just goes,"But it was my idea." Yeah.
Like what?
It was my idea.
And Cara starts laughing inthe background, and Eddie's
just absolutely dumbstruck.
Like, "Why?
What?
What do you mean?
It was your idea?
You, you wanted to get on the skateboard?"Chris was like, "Yeah, it looked like fun.
It wasn't,"
it wasn't.

(44:39):
I love this kid.
They give him, I don't knowwhether they give him the best
lines or Gavin's line readings.
It's just hilarious.
Yeah, it's adorable.
Um, and then we get the, like the knifein the heart because Eddie goes, "But
why, why would you get on the skateboard?You had to know that it'd be dangerous."
And Chris just looks at him and says,"You said I can do anything. You lied."

(45:04):
Oof.
Oh yeah.
There's the limitations thing coming in.
You can do anything.
You might just need a littlebit of extra support for some.
Yeah.
But he didn't, he didn't say that.
He said, no, Chris, you cando anything you wanna do.
That's right.
Yep.
Yeah, so Carla was right.
Oh, heartbreak.

(45:26):
Speaking of heartbreak, um,
speaking of heartbreak,
we, we go, we go to dispatch.
Um, and Josh is looking verypleased with himself because he
tells Maddie that she inspired him.
And Maddie's like, "I don't think Imeant to, but you're welcome." But
he, he's got back into, he's tryingto get into the dating game again.

(45:47):
Josh is on the dating apps and heseems to have caught a good one.
Like he even uses punctuation, includingsemicolons in his conversation with Josh
and even, and even Maddie is justlike, I never used semicolons.
It's a good thing you're not dating then.
'cause you would not get anywhere.
Good thing you're not Josh's type, Maddie.

(46:10):
Yeah.
So he's gonna meet, they're gonnameet up tonight in a public place and
Josh is really excited, but he doesn'twant not just the one night, um, he
doesn't want just a one night stand.
He's tired of being alone.
But he, you know, he says "The onlymeaningful relationships in my life
are the ones who I make with the peoplewho call me to save their lives."

(46:32):
I'm like, dude, that's not a relationship.
You're just helping them.
It's, it's, so, it's even sadderthan that is like, the most me
meaningful relationships in mylife are made 10 minutes at a time.
And some of them don't survive.
Yeah.
Like, ouch.
So he wants, he doesn't wanna hook up,he wants like an actual relationship.

(46:53):
And he's really, he's got allof his hopes pinned on this guy
because he is excited to answer thephone when this guy texts calls.
I don't know what they're doing.
He says, um, answer the phone, whichkind of implies calls, but who knows.
Yeah, he's, he's excited.
I mean, Josh is probably just alittle bit younger than Abby maybe.

(47:14):
And, you know, Abby was always calling, so
they still, they still call.
Yeah.
Maddie's segues us into the next storylineby saying that, um, when Josh asks her
if she thinks online dating is a terribleidea, she says that everyone has a match.
You just have to findspecifically for Josh, him.

(47:35):
But I guess you just have to find them.
And then when you move on tothe Tessa and Gary storyline,
oh yeah.
This is ridiculous.
Like this is such, thisis such a Reddit story.
Like I've absolutely readthis story on Reddit.
Oh yeah.
All right.

(47:55):
So Tessa is 27.
She's, she's a vegan, she'sliving the plant life.
She just reinstalled the app on my phone.
Please don't make me regret it.
Um, at least she's honest.
Gary is way too honest.
He's like, "hello, women of theinternet." Like, oh dear, I oh dear.

(48:16):
Immediately would've swiped away.
Um, he does have quite a lot ofboilerplate dating cliches, like long
walks on the Beach Ex, et cetera,
but then he actually calls themboilerplate dating cliches.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
"Hoping to find someone sweet to getme off this God forsaken app." So he's,
he's, he's doing the bare minimum here,

(48:37):
but for some reason Tessa likes that.
Yeah.
Um, because they both likeeach other's profiles, I guess.
Um, and we get a, a thing up on thescreen that says "it's a match," and then.
The rest of this tale is toldvia text message bubbles.

(49:00):
Yeah.
Over the top of theimages we see on screen.
So we are told that this is thestory of the worst first date ever.
And it's not even text messagebubbles, that's just annoying.
It's text message bubbleswith emoji speech.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
And it's the worst emojis possible.

(49:22):
It's, whoever was writing this is, is a,is dating themselves because it can't,
the first one is, "it started thumbs up".
And the only thing I could think ofwas the, this crazy woman on TikTok
who was going around trying toconvince millennials and Gen X that

(49:42):
the thumb up emoji is the equivalentof flipping someone the bird.
Oh yeah.
Apparently it's, it's the like.
Gen Z and Gen Alpha, theydon't like the thumbs up emoji.
You can pry that emojifrom my cold dead hands.
Yeah.
Sorry.
I was gonna say, to be fair,they don't like anything so,

(50:04):
but far too millennial here, I'm afraid.
Skinny jeans, side parts like, fuck off.
So yes, so the, the, um, the emojis,um, are gonna tell the story here.
So we have Tessa and Gary in whatturns out to be Gary's apartment
making out on the couch and the textbubbles tell us, "it started thumbs up.

(50:26):
We ate amazing hamburger, hotpot, soft serve ice cream emoji.
We drank great champagne.
Flutes, beerstein cocktail glass,came back for lips, movie projector,"
Netflix, and chill in other words.
It took me too long to thinkthat, to realize that it was like
conversation and a movie and notjust, we came back for like kissing.

(50:51):
Oh, uh, I thought it was literallyjust like Netflix and chill.
Like it was kissingwhile watching a movie.
I mean, that's what they weredoing immediately after that.
Yeah.
But yeah, uh, she was, she's a fire emoji.
"She was a fire emoji.
He was 100.
Underline, underline.
I was heart emoji." Um, they go forround two of making out, but Tessa's

(51:14):
stomach makes a, an awful squelchingrumbling noise and she excuses
herself to the bathroom and thetext bubbles say, then it got weird.
Yeah.
And I, and I was just like, oh my God.
Where are we going with this?
This is, um, she broke the firstrule of date club, which is,
you don't talk about date club.

(51:35):
No.
Apparently it's you poop emojibefore the, you poop emoji after
you never poop emoji during,
Ugh.
Yeah.
So, yeah, she, she does, um, youknow, spray quite a lot of air
freshener around after she's finished.

(51:57):
Um, but she notices that whenshe's flushed it, it's not empty.
So she flushes it again.
And I don't know if this story is based ona real thing, but, you know, maybe Sure.
This happens.
Um, so Gary is busily getting stuff readyin the living room, tidying up and stuff.

(52:22):
But meanwhile, Tessa is havinga, a real problem with getting
the toilet to flush properly andwater is coming out of the bowl.
Yeah.
It's starting to overflow at this point.
It's clogging up.
Yeah.
Um, and she, she keepstrying to flush the toilet.
It, it's just making things worse.
And then she, like, she goes broke.
She's like, it's, it'sobviously it's not going down.

(52:46):
And she looks at, she noticesthat there is a window, an
external window for the bathroom.
And we get her looking at the window,we get her looking at a hand towel
that's hanging on a rack, and she'slike, well, if it's not gonna go
down, it's gotta go somewhere.
So apparently this somewhere thatit's gotta go is out the window.

(53:08):
Oh, this is just disgusting.
So I didn't realize what shewas, what she had done here.
I just thought,
oh, didn't you?
Oh my God,
I must, I must have looked away fora little bit and not seen the hand
towel or something, because I thoughtshe was just climbing out the window
to escape, even though she was onlike the third floor or something.
Oh no.
And um, and then when it wasn'tuntil later when the towel falls to

(53:30):
the ground and like, Hen and Chimlook at it, and I'm like, oh, what?
No.
So she.
To put it really bluntly, shescooped the shit out of the toilet
with the hand towel and she'strying to fling it out the window.
Oh my God.
For like, plausible deniability.
But as she's about to fling it, it'cause the window, it's not like

(53:53):
a full window, it's just like thislittle flappy part at the top.
Um, it drops and it lands on theledge, the outside ledge of the window.
And she's like, I cannot justhave like this shit in a towel
sitting on the window ledge.
He's gonna notice, he'sgonna realize what I've done.
She can't reach though.
So she climbs up on like the lintel ofthe window on the inside of the bathroom

(54:16):
so she can like lean out and say, grabthe towel so she can get rid of it.
But the wood that she's got herfeet on, snap off, leaving her
dangling like half in and half outof the window and she can't move.
Yep.
Um, this is probably the most honest9-1-1 call that we've actually gotten

(54:36):
in this entire show though, um, becauseit's like Maddie takes the call and Gary
just goes, "Um, not sure where to start."
So the 118 get dispatched, we get theladder truck and we get, um, Eddie

(54:57):
on the ladder going up to the windowto try to rescue Tessa while Bobby
and Buck are inside the bathroom andinside the apartment, um, to go into
the bathroom from that direction.
So while Eddie is climbing the ladderand Buck and Bobby are inside the

(55:18):
apartment talking to Gary, Chim andHen are on the street below watching
as Eddie's walking up the ladderand Chim makes a Rapunzel joke.
He's like, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let downyour..." shitty hand towel apparently.
'cause that's what comes falling down.

(55:39):
Did it just to like eventuallyoverbalance and fall off?
Did someone actually hook?
No, I'm, I'm gonna say gravity finallytook its toll and it just fell.
And Tessa is like mortified and shesort of, she calls out to them like,
"Watch out, get outta the way."
Um, and it literally lands at their feetand they're both like, huh, what is this?

(56:04):
So Hen kicks at it exposing the um,
yeah, thankfully.
I don't think we actually see,
no, we don't see anything inside it.
We just get the, the reaction, whichis both of them recoil with horror.
Yes.
And I think they were more horrifiedthan the shit in the hand towel than
they were, uh, bulging eyeballs.

(56:26):
Yes.
And every other thing that they have seen.
Yeah.
I would be, to be fair.
Yeah.
And Hen says, "I thought the newbaby went everywhere." And then
I was like, oh, that's right.
They've got a new baby I forgot about.
Well,
yeah.
I forgot to put that in there previously.
Yeah.
I was too, too busy worryingabout Chim's new baby.
Yeah.
To be fair, Nia was inthere for like 2.5 seconds.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
We only, barely saw her.
but I, I do like that they've like,remember, remember that Nia is around?
Yeah.
You remember that?
You're not gonna see her this episode.
Hen is barely gonna be in this episode,but we are just gonna remind you
that, that like they have a baby.
Um, so Eddie is up to the window.
He lets Bobby and Buck know thatshe is clear of the door and.

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Buck is free to use the batteringram and bash in the door.
And I have to say that Gary,
He looks very happy about it.
Gary's being very cool about thedestruction that's being, that's
take place in his apartment.
Yeah.
He's like, yeah, whatever.
Yeah.
Do what you gotta do.
Yeah.
So Eddie asks Tessa if it was a bad dateand she was trying to escape and she goes,

(57:37):
"no, there was a whole Lemony Snicketlevel of things that went wrong here."
So they, the, the 118 tried toextricate Tessa from her situation,
um, Buck and Bobby try to pull herback into the bathroom while Eddie
sort of pushes her from the outside.
Hen's up there as well on theladder, just keeping an eye on her.

(57:58):
Um, but yeah, I don't knowhow Hen got up there so fast.
No, I don't know where she's standing'cause she's like much, much lower than
Eddie.
Oh yeah.
I'm, I'm not thinking about it.
No, no, let's not worry about that.
No.
Yeah, she's lower.
Maybe they and
Hen teleports becauseshe's just that awesome.
She's on a second ladder?
I dunno.

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She's levitating,
We're not thinking about it.
But Tessa's not moving and Bobby tellsthem to, to stop to, to keep her in
position until they, they work out planB. And uh, Buck is eyeing the window and
he tells Bobby that this, this, like thewindow, "this is the original wood. We

(58:41):
can't just poop out the top panel pop, wecan't just pop out the top panel. Sorry."
And Tessa was just like, oh, okay.
"This, yep. My day can't get any worse."
That's so mean, Buck.
Oh God.
So they, they decide they're gonna haveto cut the window out of the frame.

(59:03):
Yeah, they're gonnahave to cut the window.
And Tessa just keeps on saying like,"he's not gonna wanna see me ever again.
Like. This just keeps getting worse."
Um, but she's, her vitals are good.
She's gonna be okay.
So, and, but she says to Hen, "I'm,I'm okay, but has anyone actually
died of actual shame?" And Hen'sjust like, "Oh, I'm sorry honey."

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Tessa is all like, " Gary is nevergonna wanna speak to me again.
You have no idea how hard it isjust to meet someone these days."
And Buck removes his foot from hismouth to shove it even further down
because he says, "Oh, believe me, asa fellow solo, I know. Eddie over here
might have finally met someone special.But then he went and bit her head

(59:48):
off and now she'll never talk to himagain and probably flunk his kid out."
And if looks could kill Eddie wouldbe like murdering Buck, reviving
him with his paramedic skills andthen murdering him again through the
glass since he's just like shakinghis head going, what the fuck, Buck.
I love that buck.
That Buck's just like, "oh yeah,I'm single, but let me talk about

(01:00:09):
my buddy Eddie here for a minute."
But it's also confirmationthat Eddie, like
Eddie's told Buck everything and none ofthe others know, so he's only told Buck.
So he went and told Buck all about,like this pretty new woman, pretty
new teacher that, um, that Chris has.
And she's pretty, and she'sa woman and she's pretty, and
she's, she thinks I'm a good dad.

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And then he's obviously gone andranted to Buck about how she's
irresponsible and she's dangerous andshe hurt his kid and she's, he's gonna
sue her like five ways to Sunday.
She's still pretty though.
Did I, did I mention how pretty she was?
Yeah.
Oh, and then, whoops.
It was actuallyChristopher this whole time
and after Eddie gives him the death glare,um, Buck's like, "Well, you kind of did!"

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But they managed to cut Tessafree and she's just like looking
so sheepish as she goes back in.
And sees Gary and she'slike, "oh, I'll call a Lyft."
Which is like an Uber, an old,like, is Lyft still around?
I don't know.
We don't really, I don't thinkwe have it in Australia at all.
Right?
Yeah.
I dunno.
Uh, don't think we got Lyft.

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No, but it's interesting thatit's, it's name dropped Lyft.
So this episode was sponsored by Lyft.
Because I mean, in our kind of vocabularynow, we usually just say Uber when,
well, for me anyway, I'm just eveneven over saying, I'll get a taxi.
I'll just say I'm get, I'll get an Uber.
Yeah.
Because it's got such a hugemarket share here, I guess.

(01:01:40):
Yes.
Like even my dad the other day whohas never, I don't think he's ever
gotten an Uber in his life, was justlike, oh, we'll just catch an Uber.
And mom was just like, how doyou know that what Uber is?
She says, "I'll call Lyft."And then Gary's just like, "or
you could stay." I'm like, wow.

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She did all that, you'rejust like kind of into this.
You're so desperate for a date thatyou are willing to put up with her,
like flinging poop from your bathroomwindow leading to the destruction
of not only your bathroom door butyour entire bathroom window and
you still wanna sleep with her?
Like, I mean, he did startthe, um, he did start his video

(01:02:23):
with hey women of the internet.
So he probably hasn't got many matches.
He's got low standards I suppose, butalso obviously they have actually hit
it off quite well during their date.
It just all went to shitliterally at the end.
So, you know, maybe he's not fussy.
So we, the text messages come backto finish off the story, um, which

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says that, um, "heart emoji is messy,but also party popper, pop champagne
bottle with the right couple emoji."
Ugh.
Very annoying.
And at this point I was justso sick of reading emojis.
All right.
So we're gonna go to another date night.

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Yes.
Okay.
It's not really, it's justBuck and Eddie having a beer.
That's date night.
Let's be real.
There's no Christopher thistime, as far as we know.
So it could be date night.
Well, in, in any case, um,Eddie's complaining to Buck
about his problems as we know.
Well, well, we already, I thinkBuck already knows everything

(01:03:28):
about what's happened, so he'sstill complaining about it.
I feel like this scene maybe shouldhave come before the emergency.
Well, it wouldn't have had as much impactbecause then we wouldn't have been so
surprised that Buck knew about that.
Yeah.
I,
but yeah, it doesn't make sense that he's,they were still complaining about it now.
Yeah.
'cause we, we've had the, um, "Youtold me I could do anything. You

(01:03:51):
lied." And then there's an entire.
Like Workday and then we get theum, we get the pretty sure all
kids call their parents liarsat some point conversation, so
Yeah.
And they're in Buck's loft, so whoknows where the fuck Christopher is.
I say he's still with Carla?

(01:04:11):
So like in my head this came kindof immediately after like that thing
and then they had the emergency withTessa and Gary and it just got all
mixed up in the, in the editing suite.
Yeah.
Either that or Christopher stilljust sitting on the couch like, do
they think I can't hear them in here?
I dunno.
But they still are cute together.

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Um, Buck says that if Eddie thinksthe, um, you're a liar from Chris is
bad, wait till he gets to the I don'thave to do what you tell me phase
and Eddie immediately shoots back,"Aren't you still in that phase?"
And he's not wrong,
there's so many digs at Buck this episode.

(01:04:55):
Yeah.
But he's obviously in a verygood mood 'cause he is letting
them just all roll off his back.
Or maybe he's got, like, his mask is justreally, really good and then everyone
goes home and he just goes up intothe loft and cries himself to sleep.
Aw.
It's okay if Eddie says it though.
Yeah.
It's okay if Eddie says it.

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The Chim one probably stung, he'dprobably been thinking about that
one for a while, but it's okay.
He's probably used to it from Maddie.
Well, Buck, um, as reassures him that,you know, he's, he's probably, he's
overcorrecting like, he doesn't need tobe so worried about it because he, he asks

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if he's ever heard of Jim Abbott and Eddierecognizes that he was a baseball player
because we know that Eddie likesbaseball because Ryan likes baseball.
Yeah.
Right.
Gotcha.
Um, Buck explains that Jim Abbott wasonly born with one hand, and the reason
he knows this is because he read hisbook while when he was in the hospital.

(01:05:59):
But, um, he practiced, apparentlythis guy practiced switching his
glove to his throwing hand so thathe could field after he pitched.
So he just played the whole gamewith like one hand, which is amazing.
Great effort.
Eddie is sort of like, "I like thepositivity, but I'm not sure if
that's gonna help Chris at all. Like,no amount of practice is gonna help
him be able to ride a skateboard."

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And Buck's face justgoes "All right, bet."
Yeah.
The
wheels are already turning.
Yes.
Buck has the brain cell.
Yeah.
Did we just see the, the braincell being passed over then?
Like
I think we did.
It got transferred?
No, I, I don't that that impliesthat Eddie had the brain cell.
I think Buck had Oh, I thinkthat, I think Buck had it.

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It's just been finally engaged.
Right.
Good.
So now we're gonna go to Michael'sapartment, which is really beautiful.
Is this the first time we'veseen Michael's apartment?
Because,
no,
I don't remember seeing it before
we saw it.
No, we saw it last week.
We saw it last week.
When May
We saw when May was there.
Yeah.
But I don't think we saw much of it then.
But now we can see because Athenais there and she's bought him some

(01:07:05):
groceries and she's unpacking them.
So we're in the kitchen and you cansee that it's kind of high ceilings
and it's all very modern looking.
It's beautiful.
Yes.
It's a very nice apartment.
Um, Michael's bitching a littlebit about Athena being there
and getting him groceries.
He says, you know, "I'm not an invalid.I can still go and get groceries."
Um, Athena has an ulterior motive,but she at this point just says to

(01:07:28):
him like, "I'm doing something nicefor you. Say thank you." And he, she
hands him this bottle of green juice.
He's like, "Ooh, thank you."
Yeah.
He's very excited about this green juice.
Also, the last time you went to theshops, he walked through a glass window.
Yeah.
So like, maybe you can't be trusted Yeah.
At the shops.
Also true.

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Athena has been keeping Michael upto date on the Wallace case, which is
the, the lady who has been shot butdoesn't remember that she's been shot.
Yeah.
The bullet lady,
Bullet lady.
So she had brain surgery toremove the bullet from her brain,
which was surgically removed.
Um, which is important for later on.

(01:08:11):
Um, and now they are just waitingfor ballistics to tell them anything
that it can about the actual bullet.
So Michael seems really interestedin the story and he is like,
"Well, what does the husband say?"
The thing is like, he claims tohave no idea how his wife got shot.
Um, and then we, we meet the husband.

(01:08:33):
'cause he has showed up justin time for her surgery.
He looks very upset that she'shaving to go through this.
He looks something all right.
Yeah, well, she, she says she loves him.
I mean, I think later we find out thatspoilers, um, that he, you know, he
didn't mean to shoot her, is what he says.

(01:08:54):
Oh, he just sort ofcovered the whole thing up.
Yeah, he's, he's, he's got guiltwritten all over him at this point.
Yeah.
Um, so yeah, Athena says that he actuallytried to interrogate them and Michael's
like, "Yeah, the best defense is a goodoffense. What about his alibi?" But
Athena says they don't even know whenshe was shot and without a specific

(01:09:14):
timeline, they can't prove anything.
So while Athena and Michael aretalking, we are seeing, um, sort
of flashbacks to, um, probably notthat long ago, but in the hospital.
So as Athena's talking, we're seeingher, watching her and Romero, or
watching this guy with like beady eyesas he's accompanying his wife as far

(01:09:37):
as he can to the, the surgical suite.
So Michael is more sort of interestedin the, um, the relationship
between the wife and her husband.
There's this big thing about, youknow, you don't know who you marry,
um, but the truth will come out.
Yeah, and they're kindof giving each other the.

(01:09:57):
Yeah.
You know what happened?
Look, you know how it is.
Yeah.
We, we know what it's like when, youknow, the truth comes out in a marriage.
Um, yeah.
And then Athena sort of gets, you know,you know, the, the surgeon who, you
know, did the brain surgery to takethe bullet out of her brain, which
involved like cutting into her brainsaid that it wasn't that hard and,
you know, it was just brain surgery,
you know, it was just brain surgery.

(01:10:17):
It was easy.
They were worried.
She's fine, she's all good.
And Michael just goes "Ah. Right,now I understand why you're
getting me groceries." Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, and he's like, "I'm not havingthis surgery." He's apparently
having another round of radiation.
Um, and he is on the list for a newchemo pill and I really hope that

(01:10:42):
they've got excellent health insurance.
'cause I don't know how they'repaying for this otherwise.
Mm-hmm.
Michael sued Athenafor alimony, it's fine.
I mean, he, I'm guessing architectsearn really well and the the
Oh yeah, true.
The firm that he's with has got likereally good cobra payments or something.
I dunno,
he'd probably have better insurancethan, um, Athena would, honestly.

(01:11:04):
Yeah, probably
because like if he's ina private firm as well.
Yeah.
But Athena tells him that he is a fool.
I think it's a favorite word right now.
Yep.
Yep.
She wants to be supportive andshe wants to respect his wishes,
but she does not want him to die.
And he is like, I don't wanna die either.

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But then after that, um, Athena getsa message on her phone and apparently
they ballistics have found a matchand Michael asked, "Does the gun
belong to the husband?" And Athenasays, "Worse, it belongs to the wife."
Bum bum buuum.
So I was like, has she managed toshoot herself in the back of her head?

(01:11:47):
Like, no, that doesn't really work.
But anyway, yeah.
But before we are gonna find anythingelse about that storyline, we are going
to go with Josh on his date, whichstarts off like really cute there.
It's an outdoor cinemaset up in a graveyard.
Yeah, it's in, it's, I believe it'sin like the famous cemetery in la like

(01:12:11):
where all the famous people are buried.
Everyone's, everyone's got picnics, um,picnic blankets and they've got food
and they're all set up and there's agiant screen and I think it's Young
Frankenstein that they're watching.
Yeah.
Which is like a, that
it's an old movie.
That's that guy with the reallybeady eyes, kind of like the

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guy at the start of the episode.
Um, but Josh is, we sort of see Josh sortof wandering around, checking his phone.
He's obviously looking for hisdate, who got there earlier.
Eventually they find each otherand Josh hurries over to the, the
blanket that his date Greg has set up.

(01:12:57):
And they've sort of like havelittle, little like flirty
banter backwards and forwards.
And, um, Josh compliments Greg onchoosing a, like a really cool first date.
And Greg says, you know, hefigures that there's nothing more
romantic than watching an oldmovie snacking on the graves of the
people who used to make the movies.

(01:13:19):
Yes.
And then Josh says "If the zombiesrise up, we'll be eaten by the silver
screen starlets and screenwriters,"which is a hilarious thought.
Uh, so they watched the movieand they're having a lovely time
having a bit of a chat about work.
So Josh has obviously told Greg thathe's a 9-1-1 dispatcher and then.

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Greg gets a little more flirty andhe tells Josh that he remembers
when going to the movies was allabout making out in the back row,
but they're, you know, they're notin a cinema with a back row, but
he heard that Rudolph Valentino'sgrave is somewhere around here.

(01:14:08):
Maybe that's the back row.
Yeah.
And Josh, Josh goes with,
yeah, Josh is on board.
Yeah.
Yeah, Josh seems perfectlyhappy to be pulled to his feet.
And they scurry off to the, um, theback of the, the little picnic area.
So they're behind all of the moviegoers.
Um, and like Greg even kind of likegrabs Josh, sort of like two hands

(01:14:33):
on the, the front of his shirt.
Like he's about to haulhim in and kiss him.
Um, which Josh looks like he's completelydown for, even though he said that
this is exactly what he wouldn't do ona first date, um, and then things take
a turn because a third guy shows up andthat's apparently not what Josh is into.

(01:14:55):
Hmm.
He's also not into when Greg and thisthird guy just start wailing on him,
Josh is like trying to get out of it.
He's like, "I dunno what you guysare into, but it definitely doesn't
feel like my thing." But Greg'slike, "you missed all of the clues"
"because somebody who spends their dayslisten for clues, you sure managed to

(01:15:17):
miss all of them," before punching himsquare across the face, knocking Josh to
the ground, and then they start kickingthe crap out of him before stealing his
wallet and his keys and running off.
And it's really, you get thevibe from Greg that this was

(01:15:37):
the whole point of the date.
Oh yeah,
that and to the point that he isactually quite disgusted with himself
that he had to pretend to be into Josh.
It was like, oh, I had to,I had to touch another man.
I pretend to flirt with another man.
Yeah.
Maybe we should add like ahomophobia trigger to the beginning.

(01:15:58):
'cause it does feel a lot likethat, like purposely trying to
hook up with guys in order to beatthem up and steal their stuff.
I'm gonna check though.
Um, what's the thing that's trauma.
Where's my trauma?
Where's your trauma?

(01:16:19):
The document is called "a show of manytraumas" and my, my end is, my browser
remembers all of my, um, Google docs.
So if I just type trauma in it will...See, but the thing is, and I think this
is ah, the tags in the trauma document.
Says "reoccurring character is robbedslash beaten, not because of homophobia,"

(01:16:43):
but I think that's, yeah, but Ithink that's slightly in retrospect,
like watching the show and thencoming back and doing the triggers.
Because even though Greg is giving offmassive homophobic vibes, there's a bigger
storyline at play here, but we can't sayanything because it's gonna spoil stuff.

(01:17:07):
Oh, okay.
So even though Greg is giving off thevibes that he, he's assaulting and kicking
the crap out of Josh because that's likehow he gets his rocks off, is by picking
up gay men and then assaulting them.
There is something else at play happening.
And that's all I'm gonna say.

(01:17:29):
Okay.
I'm intrigued.
I'm not looking forward toseeing anyone else getting
beaten up and robbed, but Okay.
No, no, it's definitely not,not an easy thing to watch.
Yeah.
Especially because later, like next,um, we get Josh in the hospital and

(01:17:51):
Maddie comes to pick him up, basically,um, I'm not sure why does Josh not have
any family in the area or something?
He calls Maddie to come and get him.
Maybe, maybe she's his emergencycontact or maybe it's like they're
not gonna let him leave unlesssomeone comes and picks him up.
So he has to call Maddie.

(01:18:12):
Yeah.
Or how is he gonna get home?
Because I'm guessing that an ambulancetook him to wherever he went.
So,
yeah.
And they took, they took his keys too, so,
yeah.
What I mean is he doesn't havelike any family or any, anyone
else to come and get him.
He's, um,
oh, who knows?
We get like, bare minimum backgroundinformation on these characters.

(01:18:32):
Yeah.
Well, in any case, Maddie does show upand she's horrified, um, at how he looks.
He's got like, really a really humongousblack eye and just his face is a mess.
Yeah.
Blood all over his shirt.
Oh, poor guy.
And he explains how it was his, itwas the date, his date did this.

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Maddie thought that he got muggedafter his date, and he has to
say to her, no, it was my date.
And he's, he's absolutely devastatedbecause he thought that Greg was so
sweet and that he really liked Josh.
Um, and he and Josh never saw it coming.
Mm.

(01:19:16):
Um, at this point, um, we geta police officer come in and I
finally get to name this damn woman.
Oh yeah.
We see her a lot, but we've never had,
but we've never had a name and likethe, the captions have had a name, but
I've never been able to give her a name.
But we get a very goodshot of her name badge.

(01:19:37):
So now I can say that shehas been officially named,
this is Officer Branford.
Hey.
Hey.
We've only been seeing her on screenfor several, probably several years.
Just this season.
Yeah.
Multiple seasons.
Yeah.
So she was, apparently it was, it'slike her, Athena and Williams are

(01:19:59):
like the, and Russo are like theonly cops who were ever working in la
Yeah.
She responded to the, the call aboutJosh and she's come to the hospital slash
urgent care wherever they've bought him.
She's, they searched the cemetery,but there was no sign of his phone,
but they did find his keys and wallet.

(01:20:20):
The cash is gone from his wallet, butthey, he's, he doesn't have to replace
his credit cards and IDs, so that's good.
Yeah, that's one thing at least, um,Bradford tells him that he can go down
to the station to pick up his thingswhen he gives his formal statement.
And Josh is like, "Do I have to,I really just, I'm too tired.

(01:20:40):
I don't wanna do it right now."Bradford's like, "No, you can, you
can do it tomorrow." And this is whereMaddie says, you should come home
with me to wherever it is that I live,because it's a, not at Chimney's.
To wherever my house is.
We find out that, um, whatever Joshis gonna put in his formal statement,

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he's not going to give up, Greg,because Branford asks him like, "before
we, just to get the ball rolling,did you recognize either of your
assailants?" And Josh is like, "no.
Can't tell you anything about them.
Really sorry."
Yeah.
And Josh looked at, Maddie looks inlike, what are you talking about?

(01:21:21):
You would,
you know exactly who it was.
You know his name.
And it like, yeah.
But she, she does call him out on that.
She's like, Josh, like, what the hell?
And he's like, "I alreadyfeel like a fool."
I'm adding another counter
that's four.
To my counter.
Yeah, we're up to four.
Yeah.
Mad Maddie took, Maddie takesa shot mid conversation.
It's really weird,

(01:21:42):
but yeah, he doesn't want to everyoneelse to know what happened, basically.
Yeah.
He's embarrassed.
So Maddie just sort of says, okay.
And I'm like, don't say that becauseMaddie has a history of taking things
into her own hands and she willgo and find out the information.
So in the next scene, Maddie's sittingoutside this guy's house in a hoodie.

(01:22:04):
Exactly.
Thankfully, perhaps Maddie has, haslearned some restraint in the meantime
and she does not actually do that.
But Athena and Romero have gone tocheck out, um, I forgot her name.
Joan?
Yes.
Joan's house.
Joan Wallace, yeah.
Yes, that's right.

(01:22:25):
Um, and one of the neighbors is eyeingthem all very, with a lot of interest
because it's Romero and it lookslike, like a crime scene team as well
have gone in to check out the house.
Um, they can't find anything though.
There is no sign of the gun.
There's no ammunition in the house.

(01:22:47):
There is no gun shoot residue.
There is no blood.
The house is immaculate.
At which point the neighborjust goes like, "Ha!"
She's like obviously eavesdropping,you know, she's, she's, yeah, she's
she hosing her front yard or something.
It's like, okay.
Romero thinks this is the funniestthing in the world though.
Like he is so happy in this entire scene.

(01:23:08):
'cause he that nothing a detectiveloves more than a busy body neighbor.
'cause busy body neighbors knoweverything and they see everything.
Yep.
Um, and we don't get a name forthis busy body neighbor, but she
is, um, Caroline Julian from Bones.
So I'm just gonna call her Caroline.

(01:23:29):
Alright.
The actor's name is Patricia Belcher.
Yes.
And you had her name likePatricia Belcher in the notes.
And I was like, is she from Bob's Burgers?
Because their surname is Belcher.
And so I was literallylike, I don't understand.
She's not a cartoon.
Like, does she waste one of them?
And I'm looking and I'm just like,oh, that's just her actual name.

(01:23:51):
Nevermind.
She's not related to Bob's Burgers at all.
Um, but no, they do go over to her.
Very pleased to have someone elsewho obviously knows something and um,
yes.
'cause not only is
Can we speak to you for a moment?
Yeah.
'cause not only is Caroline likebusy body, she is officially the

(01:24:12):
president of the neighborhood watch.
And she takes thatresponsibility very seriously.
Romero looks like all hisChristmases have come at once.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
And then, and then she, she says thatshe waves occasionally to the Wallaces.
She's liked, you always liked Joan,but she was never too sure about Henry.
But then he retired and he wasaround a lot more, I'm guessing.

(01:24:35):
And she definitely doesn't like him.
Oh, I love this.
She's like, "I was never sure about Henry,but then he retired and I was finally able
to make up my mind. I don't like him."
But Caroline is very confused.
She doesn't understand what, um, all ofthe, the relationship between Joan and

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Henry has to do with the break-in andthat this is news to Athena and Ramiro.
They're like, "Someone broke into theirhome?" And Caroline's like, "Well,
I assume that's why you're all here.
Although you were a little late.
That happened like three months ago."
Yeah.
And all the light bulbs are going off.
Yeah.
Wait, Romero is like, "Did theWallaces tell you they had a break

(01:25:20):
in?" And Caroline's like, "No.
Their contractor did."
So then we cut to inside the Wallace'shome where Romero and Athena have
let, um, Caroline in, and she's likegiving them the grand tour of all
of the renovations that, um, theWallaces have done to their house.
It's a very nice looking house.

(01:25:42):
It's beautiful.
Um, so apparently they replaced a window.
They took away a rug, a bunch of Christmasdecorations, painted and redid the floors.
Uh, or as um, Athena summarizes it,they redecorated the crime scene and
that's why they can't find any evidence.

(01:26:06):
And Joan and Henry were out of townwhile all of this was happening.
Hmm And a
yeah, for weeks.
And Athena very foolishly asks like,"do you happen to know when all this
happened?" Caroline pulls out herphone and pulls up her notes app.
She's like, "yes, it happened on January11th." And it literally says on her,

(01:26:29):
in her notes app, January 11th, Joan'swindow broken contractor a called
in to replace window and furniture.
George Smith contractor phone in notes.
It actually says Phoebe in notes, but I'massuming it's meant to be phone in notes.
And she's like, "yes, it happenedon January 11th. Would you like the
contractor's information?" And Romerosays, "yes. And then I would like to

(01:26:53):
hug you." 'cause you've just done.
That's made me so happy
all my job for me.
Yes.
Would you like to be deputized as anLAPD detective because this is amazing.
She's, she's almost on the level ofthat guy in like Antman, who goes,
"well then I went to do this, andthen that guy said this and that guy,"

(01:27:15):
she knows exactly what's happening.
Yes.
So they go back to the hospitalto, to sort of confront, um,
Joan and her husband about this.
They give her back her planner,and that's when she says, "oh, I
was wondering where that got to."
It's like, oh, dear.
Poor woman.
Uh, Athena sort of says, asked themlike, "We noticed there didn't seem

(01:27:39):
to be any entries about your tripor the living room remodeling."
And Joan's sort of confused.
She's like, "did we remodel the livingroom?" And she kind of remembers.
She's like, "oh no, we did. I justdon't remember why, why did we redo the
living room?" Uh, and then she startsremembering what actually happened.

(01:28:00):
Yeah.
So the, the Christmas tree is there.
She was on a ladder or something, thenshe was under, like lying on the floor.
She's getting just enough flashes thatshe recognizes that something happened
and she just looks at her husbandand says, "what did you do?" Yeah.

(01:28:22):
And then we get the fullflashback, the full story.
She remembers everything now.
So it's January 11th and all of theChristmas decorations are still up,
despite Joan telling us that normallythose come down right after New Year's.
And in fact, as we watch, Joan ispulling down the Christmas decorations

(01:28:44):
and she seems a little cranky becauseshe has asked her husband to help
her pull down the decorations.
Specifically the, the ones, she's gotreeds like right up above all of the,
the large windows, and he is sitting onthe couch drinking some kind of liquor,
watching tv, giving her the like in aminute, dear, every time she asks him.

(01:29:07):
And I don't, I I reallydon't like this guy.
No, I mean, they're having that thingwhere, and this, this is why like,
they have this late age divorce thingbecause when they are both out of the
house working all the time, they don'tactually spend any time together.
And then now they have retiredand they do spend time together.
They don't actually get on all that well.

(01:29:28):
Yeah, Joan, like Joan says, like, Imiss when you used to work for a living.
Yeah.
And then he gets cross with herbecause he has to work all this time
to support her, whatever weird hobbiesshe's got because she doesn't work.
And, and oh, it's like you're exhausting.
And she, she shoots backlike she has, she does work.

(01:29:50):
Her job is the house and herjob is him, and he's making
her job very hard right now.
Um mm-hmm.
But yeah, he goes on a rampage, um,making fun of all of the, the little
hobbies that she does to fill her day.
Like she went to ceramics classand he picks up this garish

(01:30:10):
gnome that I'm guessing thatJoan has made and smashes it.
But she's horrified 'cause that'slike, she made that and he's like,
I could buy that for 20 bucks.
Do you know how much it costme to send you to the ceramics
class to make something that Icould have bought for 20 bucks?
She apparently learned last.

(01:30:32):
Yeah, she learned glass blowing.
So he picks up the vase thatshe blew and he smashes that.
She sounds like such anice, interesting person.
Oh, she does.
Yeah.
She's got a lot of interesting hobbies.
Yeah, it's, it's very interestingthat, yeah, this couple doesn't
have any kids, thank God.
Um, so she's, you know, she's fillingher day with like these little hobbies.

(01:30:56):
She does yoga, she doesPilates, she does glass blowing.
But he just throws an absolute tantrum.
Like he's like two seconds away fromstamping his foot on the ground.
Yeah.
And says, "This is my time, my retirement,and I am not gonna let you rule my
golden years the way you've ruled therest of my damn life." And like he

(01:31:18):
literally like kicks over the, a table,like a petulant little 5-year-old.
Yeah.
Um, which just so happens tohave Joan's handbag on it.
And so that falls to the ground andspills all the contents on the floor.

(01:31:38):
Joan just takes all this in stride andshe just looks at her husband and goes,
"you know what? Fine, I will put awaythe Christmas decorations by myself.
I know you're upset about something,but I'm your wife and you are stuck
with me," and that I think is thestraw that breaks the camel's back.

(01:32:03):
For Henry,
the idea that he is going to be...
He kind of snaps for a moment,
stuck with her.
Um, so he was in the process of likecleaning up the mess that he'd made.
Um, but after she says that he noticesthat when her bag knocked over it oh,

(01:32:24):
so conveniently spilled her gun ontothe ground, and so he picks it up.
Joan has climbed up a stepladder tostart grabbing the wreaths off the
walls like he was supposed to, and sohe shoots her in the back of the head.
Yeah, totally normal response there.

(01:32:47):
Yeah.
And I mean, I went down a little, Istarted going down the rabbit hole
of, you know, could she have a gunlike that loaded just in her handbag
And then decided, you know what?
Fuck it.
I'm not even gonna bother.
'cause I'm pretty surethe answer is gonna be no.
And it's gonna hurt my brainto try and figure it out.
So.
Yeah.
And also you'll end up on some list.

(01:33:08):
Possibly, possibly.
For the drama, Joan had a concealedhandgun that was fully loaded in her
handbag, just sitting in her house.
So she was carrying around toher ceramics class, um, and her
husband uses it to shoot her
and her glass blowing class.
Yeah.

(01:33:29):
And he does say he's sorry, "Idon't know what came over me.
I regretted it immediately." AndAthena's like, "well, you are within your
rights to make that case to a judge."And then he just gets arrested then.
Yeah, he, he calls it temporaryinsanity in and then's like,
sure you can make that defense.
Joan is horrified.
She's like, "you shot me. You shot me."

(01:33:52):
And lied to her.
Yes.
And then all this time he knewwhat was wrong with her and kept
telling her it was all in her head.
Like, well, it kind of wasbecause he put it there.
Which is technically not a lie.
Yeah.
So not only did he shoot her, butthen he gas lit her for three months.
He played her for a fool.
Oh, did he?

(01:34:13):
That's number five.
Yeah.
So it's morning time now.
Um, I don't know.
I've lost track of how manydays there are in this episode.
Quite a lot.
'cause I think later onJosh comes back to work.
So we must be like, you know, progressingthrough time quite quickly here.
Um, but Chris is gettingready to go back to school.

(01:34:35):
Well, Eddie is getting Chrisready to go back to school.
Chris does not.
Yeah.
Chris doesn't want to go.
He, he's still in his PJ's.
Yeah.
He, he tells Eddie that he's feeling sickand Chris is like, you sure about that?
I mean, Eddie feels the back of hisforehead and he's like, with the back of
his hand and he is like, are you sure?

(01:34:56):
And then he admits that hedoesn't want to go to school.
Yeah.
'cause I can imagine that he'slearned that if he says that he's
sick, that just initiates this wholeprotocol of, you know, like doctors
and tests and all sorts of shit.
And he's like, you know, he'sweighing it up and his head like,
do I lie and say that I'm sick sothat I don't have to go to school?
Or do I just admit that I just don'twanna go to school to get out of

(01:35:19):
having to do all the medical stuff.
Yeah.
So he chooses the latter and heis just like, yeah, I don't act, I
just, I don't wanna go to school.
I,
because he's, and as Eddie verycorrectly guesses, he's still a
little bit upset about the other day.
Yeah.
He like picks Chris up andcarries him to the couch.

(01:35:39):
Um, and I'm like, dude, stoppicking Chris up all the time.
Stop picking your kid up.
It's like he can, he canget to the couch on his own.
Yeah.
Like it's, it's adorable.
I love that Eddie is literally a hands-onfather, but Yeah, just let your kid walk.
He can walk.
Yeah.
It might be a little bitslower, but he, he will be able
to get there, I promise you.

(01:36:00):
And there it does get to a stagewhere, um, as children grow
that you're just really hurtingyour back by just picking up.
Yeah.
The next episode is Eddiejust having to call 9-1-1.
'cause he tried to pick Chrisup and he threw his back out.
Yes.
I mean, he's, he's not,he doesn't look like he's
particularly weighs heaps anyway.
He's a bit of a stick.

(01:36:20):
He's a bit scrawny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But still.
Anyway, they do havea chat then about, um.
You know Chris' limits because hedoes have cp, so he can't, nobody can
do everything that he says to him.
There are things in life thatyou're not gonna be able to do

(01:36:42):
and there's other stuff that you aregonna be able to do, but it's gonna be
a lot harder than it is for other kidsbecause you have CP and Chris apologizes
and said he won't skateboard again.
But Eddie's like, it's notabout the skateboarding.
I just don't want you to be scared.
You tried something and it didn'twork out, but maybe next time it does.
Chris seems like hyper fixated onthe, the skateboarding aspect of this.

(01:37:04):
He is like, but, but you can skateboard.
Eddie's like, yeah, butyou know what I can't do.
And Chris is so quick tocome back with "Cook?" Cook.
And he's like, "uh, that's not very nice."I mean, it's true, but it's not very nice.
But the whole point is he is likeyes, I can skateboard, but there

(01:37:26):
are other things that I can't do.
He meant gardening.
That's where he was going becausehe says like, I can't garden.
But apparently you were reallygood at keeping at like propagating
seeds for science class.
So you can do something that I can't do.
Um, and you're better at that than I am.

(01:37:47):
Um, Eddie doesn't want Chris to everstop trying, but until he gets a little
older, maybe they try new things together.
And you're not like any other kid.
You're my kid.
I love you more thananything in this world.
They're so sweet.
Aw,
so cute.
They are so cute together.
And they write the writers, they're alwaysso cute the way they write them together.

(01:38:12):
Yeah.
Oh, so he does convinceChris to go to school.
I guess so.
But then he's wearingdifferent clothes when he goes.
To, so the next scene is, um, Eddie goingto, um, Ms. Flores's English classroom,
but he's wearing different clothes.

(01:38:33):
So I don't know where we aretimeline wise at this point.
Uh, but he's going to apologize forbiting her head off the other day.
I mean, I, I know why they're makingit all her problem, but it's like, it
wasn't just her problem because there'sso many other teachers in the school, and
it's like the principal's issue as well.
But I understand why they're making it.

(01:38:53):
Well, he, he did kind of shout at her.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I know.
It's, it's for the storyline.
It's for the drama.
Yeah.
So now he has to go and apologize to herbecause he wants the heart eyes back.
And the heart eyes are backby the end of the scene.
Oh, yeah.

(01:39:15):
Yeah.
She says, I, I like this line.
She's like, "yes, there's a lot to be saidfor getting back on the horse, but there's
also some value in learning that youdon't like horses." Like when she started
saying this, I was like, is she trying,is she like, building up to an analogy
about the dating thing that we had earlierin the episode, like convincing Eddie
to get back on the horse, so to speak.

(01:39:35):
But then she's like, there's also valuein learning you don't like horses.
I'm like, well, that's, maybe that'swhere we would like for this to go.
Like for Eddie to realize that hedoesn't like women, but then at this
stage, no, that's not where we're going.
It's not
that he doesn't like women, he justdoesn't know what to do with women.
But yeah.
Anyway, Ana is saying that sometimes,uh, our limitations can show us,

(01:40:00):
like, tell us when to stop, but alsowhere like, what, what to do next.
So it's cute.
It's a cute exchange.
It's cute.
They, they forgive each other.
Their heart eyes arelike slowly coming back.
Yeah.
Uh, Josh is back at work.
He is,
I mean, he, he still has a bruisedface, so it can't be too many

(01:40:21):
days after the actual attack.
Yeah.
But no.
Yeah.
Later he's, he gets a banner,a "welcome back Josh" banner.
He does, does, I don't think he gotcake, but he at least got a banner and
everyone seems very happy to see him.
He gets lots of like, welcomeback and it's good to see you.
And, um, and nobody, everybodyseems genuinely happy to see him

(01:40:47):
and nobody looks especially pitying.
Um, which clues Josh into the factthat Maddie kept her promise and she
didn't tell everyone that he got jumpedby his date, but not in a good way.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, but Maddie's saying it's not toolate to go to the police and like

(01:41:08):
tell them what really happened andJosh says that his profile's gone now.
So it was, the whole thingwas a scam, which, and yeah.
Maddie's just worried that it,it means that he's probably
done it to other people.
But I think he doesn'twant to write it all down.
He's too humiliated by it.

(01:41:28):
Yeah.
The, for the bruise, he, Josh says like,the physical bruises are healing, but the
humiliation is a little hard to get over.
And then to have other peoplesort of witness his humiliation,
he, he can't do that.
Um.
Mm-hmm.
So he's going to deal with it in hisown way, which may just involve copious
amounts of ice cream on a couch.

(01:41:48):
But if that's what Joshneeds, that's what Josh needs.
Yeah.
And at the moment he's gonna deal withit by helping people on the 9-1-1 line.
Yeah.
He just goes back to work.
And I'm pretty sure there's musicplaying at this point, but I have not.
I noted what it is 'cause we get a littlebit of a montage and where we wrap up

(01:42:10):
all of the storylines from, um, today'sepisode, I'm gonna very quickly see if I
can find what the song is to see if it'sone of those on the nose needle drops.
It didn't appear to be too, there'sno, there's no one doing any voiceover.
Um, there is no voiceover up in this one.
It's just a bunch ofdifferent little scenes.
So first we get Tess and Gary whoare still together and Gary opens a

(01:42:37):
present and it is a toilet plungerand they have a big smooch after that.
It's like, you guys have seriousissues, but I'm so happy for you.
You found each other.
At least they
found each other.
That's it.
Yeah.
Uh, so the song is "BlueSkies" by Noah and the Whale.

(01:43:00):
That doesn't appear anythingparticularly foolish.
I will say that it, that Tessa'spredicament doesn't, it's not really a, a
good selling point for a vegan lifestyle.
No.
Like, eat vegan, you destroy toiletsand end up humiliating yourself.

(01:43:23):
Oh dear.
It's such a strange storyline.
Oh, okay.
The, I think the song was specificallychosen for this point, um, because
apparently "this is a song foranyone with a broken heart or for
anyone who can't get out of bed.
Um, anyone who'll do anything to be happy.

(01:43:43):
'cause blue skies are coming.
But I know that it's hard, it'stime to leave those feelings behind
because blue skies are coming.
But I know that it's hard."
That does seem to fit with thetheme of the episode in general.
Yeah.
Uh, right.
So we had Tess and Gary, then we haveJoan coming home to an empty house.

(01:44:07):
Yeah.
She sees a photo of her and Henry lookinghappy together, and she just slams it
face down like she can't look at it.
But then there's a knock on the door.
And, um, Caroline, the noisy, noisy,the nosy neighbor, she's not, well,
she might be noisy, who knows.
Um, she's got, she's got a cas,like she's got dinner for her,

(01:44:28):
she's got a casserole dish.
She lets her in and she
says something about, so she's got,she can always use carbs, so, yeah.
Yeah.
At least she's got a supportiveneighborhood around her
to, um, get through it.
Yeah.
She might not have a husband,but she has a friend.
Yeah.
So then the final, the finalscene for the episode is Eddie

(01:44:52):
and Christopher in a park.
And it looks like it's a, um, a popularskate park as well because we do see
someone roll past Eddie and Chris
skating through
on a skateboard and Chris islike, "Dad, I don't wanna be
here." Eddie's like, "No, no, no.
Trust us.
It's gonna be fun." Um, and then we cutto, we, the camera cuts to see Carla and

(01:45:18):
Buck a little bit further up the pathwith this like giant blue tarp between
them and they rip the tar off whatever itis, concealing and just yell "Surprise!"
That's so cute.
And what it is, is that they havebought Chris a mobility skateboard,
which is a skateboard that'sbeen designed by a Brazilian duo.

(01:45:40):
One of them is a physiotherapistand it's designed specifically for
kids with CP and other mobilityissues to enable them to skateboard.
Oh, that so cool.
It's cool if you, if you haven'tseen the, the episode, um, I'm not
sure why you're listening to us, butit's, it's, the skateboard is bungee

(01:46:04):
corded to like a giant rolling frame.
And then Chris is suspended frominside the frame on a harness.
So he's standing on the skateboard,but he's also got the frame that he can
hold onto that's holding him upright.
And Eddie and Buck push himaround the park on the skateboard.

(01:46:25):
Yeah.
It's like, you kind of wanna hope thathe doesn't get on too much of a hill
and whoever's with him can't run fastenough to keep up with him because it
doesn't look like it'll stop real easily.
Um, but they're not going superfast and they are like, both Buck
and Eddie are hanging onto it.
So,
and Carla, I love that Carla's runningalongside with a phone out so she can film

(01:46:47):
like Chris's first skateboarding incident.
Yeah.
What a cute family video.
Yeah.
There's just two dads withtheir son skateboarding in park.
Yeah.
You know, as you do
plus, but once again, we have afamily, like a family outing with Buck.

(01:47:08):
Yep.
Yeah.
Well I I'm assuming that Buck put, youknow, sourced the special skateboard
Oh, 100% know that that Buck wassearching the internet for yeah.
And use the money, which may, maynot have got from the, um, the county
through the, the lawsuit to buy it.
'cause I'm pretty sure thatthing's not gonna be cheap.

(01:47:30):
Yeah.
So they're having a lovely time.
What a happy ending to this.
Um.
Strange episode.
Actually i, I in between the sort ofweird and wonderful, um, cases that were
in this one I quite enjoyed the gradualdevelopment of Joan's storyline as well.
Like there was that mystery thread thatwent all the way through and it was well

(01:47:51):
tied into the other stuff I thought.
But yeah, some of the actual emergencieswere just like, what the hell?
Yeah.
Still made me laugh.
It's a good episode.
It is a good episode.
I forgot how much Buck andEddie stuff is in this episode.
And then while I was watching,I'm just like, oh, this is in
this, this is in this episode.

(01:48:11):
Oh my God.
And this is in this episode,
like I said, it's, it'san Andrew Meyer episode.
I feel like he's like the Bobo of 9-1-1.
Yes.
Alright, so what have we gotto look forward to next week?
Uh, next week we're getting pinned.
Pinned,
yes.
The press release says that the 118responds to accidents at a bowling alley,

(01:48:35):
like bowling pins and a home renovation,um, as Athena pursues a car thief.
I don't remember the carthief one, but that's okay.
Um, oh no.
Bobby and Michael take Harry camping.
Um, and chimney and Maddie rushinto action when their romantic

(01:48:55):
dinner date takes a wild turn.
Literally,
oh gosh.
Another episode that I have no memoryof the problem would say, like, I
watched season three so quickly,like, I watched it all back to back.
So I'm like, I don'tremember this episode.
And then when I watch it, I'mlike, oh, it's this episode.
I remember the bowling alley.

(01:49:15):
I remember the home renovation.
I remember the camping and the date.
The only,
I don't remember
the car thief,
the only home renovation, um,emergency I remember is far later.
Like season six.
Yeah, I know which oneyou're thinking about.
No, it's not that one.
It's,
I figured it's not that one.

(01:49:36):
But,
um, I always suppose weneed the traumas now.
Are we gonna get traumatized?
We're gonna get gore.
I can tell you right off thebat, that Raul would be thrilled
with this episode because thereis going to be a heap of gore.
Um, we have an accidental nail gun injury.

(01:49:56):
Oh Lord.
And I said home renovation gone wrong.
Yeah.
Um, we have continuingdiscussions of cancer.
We have discussions aboutpossible parental death.
Um, and there is thethreat of gun violence.
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.

(01:50:16):
Yeah, I know what that one is too.
Still don't know what thecar thief one is though.
We'll find out.
Yeah, I know.
But it frustrates mewhen I can't remember.
Oh, any, anything else youguys want, you know, hang on.
You know why I
can't remember it?
That, because it didn't fucking happen.

(01:50:40):
Excellent.
Another one of those.
I just jumped over to the wiki tolike, 'cause it's driving me bonkers
that I can't remember the car thief.
And the trivia for the episode ofPinned is, um, the Car Thief incident
did not occur in this episode.
This scene was later revealedto have been deleted.
Okay.
Okay.

(01:51:00):
That makes me feel better.
I'm not losing my mind.
I'm like, is it, what's his face from,like, who ends up on Lone Star again?
Like, but no, he's, it's just not in it.
Yeah.
Every time they said Karthik, I'mthinking, but we've already had that one.
Like, that was Mateo, right?
Or Mateo's cousin.
Oh yeah.
Mateo's cousin.

(01:51:20):
Mateo's cousin.
Yeah.
No, it just, it doesn't exist.
Excellent.
So whoever, whoever did the pressreleases for season three is
just like completely on the ball.
They're doing such a good job.
Well they sure like, um, you know,changed this season around like we've had
several occurrences where they moved stuff

(01:51:41):
What the hell was goingon in post-production.
Yeah.
Add it to the list of things that Iwant to ask Tim Minear if I ever get a
chance to like, tie him to a chair andjust force him to answer my questions.
Yeah.
Right.
Alright.
Uh, anything else beforewe wrap up, shall we?

(01:52:03):
No, but if you have any questionsfor us, you don't need to tie us to
chairs, um, to get us to answer them,
please don't
send them to us.
Sounds painful.
Yes.
I mean, depending on what you're intoand you know, if we have a discussion
about, you know, limits and safewords and all of that sort of thing
first, um, but for the most part,
safe, sane and consensual guys.

(01:52:24):
Yeah.
But
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(01:52:45):
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