4.06: Jinx

In this episode of That Weewoo Show, Ellen, Alice and Bex discuss the sixth episode of season 4 of 9-1-1, titled "Jinx". The 118 believes their fabled firehouse superstition has come true when they have the day from hell with a never-ending series of bizarre emergency calls.

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Episode Transcript

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9-1-1.
What's your emergency?
Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, apodcast 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.
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Please also enjoy Alice's lovelyhusky, uh, 9-1-1 After Dark
voice today in this episode.
Yes, Alice... life is still kickingAlice in the butt a little bit, but we
are going to try and rally, we're gonnatry and make this work so that we can
discuss what is Alice's favorite episode?

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It is, we're up to "Jinx"!
But before we do that, Alice, canyou give us a quick recap of what
happened in the last episode of 9-1-1?
Yeah, so last week, weeks, wheneverit was that we last joined you.
That's why I said episode.
'cause I can't remember how manyweeks it's been since we've done this.
Um, last episode of 9-1-1, Buck began.

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He did!
That feels like a long time ago.
It was a long time ago.
That that's a pretty, that's a pretty,you know, concise summary of that episode.
Yeah.
So in this episode we're going to discussepisode six, which is titled "Jinx",
which first aired in February, 2021.

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And the official summary says the118 believes their fabled firehouse
superstition has come true when theyhave the day from hell with a never
ending series of bizarre emergency calls.
Athena is in a hot pursuit of a 118firetruck, a man who duct taped himself
to a freeway billboard, a garagefull of fireworks, and a restaurant

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manager destroying his own business.
They just gave away the entiretyof the episode in that description.
Um, meanwhile, Eddie feels a sparkwith Christopher's former teacher, but
admits to Bobby he may not be readyto move on in his personal life yet.
I mean, at least they're giving awaythe entirety of the episode, but
everything that they just gave awayactually happens in said episode

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Yeah, you, that is a bonus,
not like last season where the summarywas all over the shop as to whether
or not we were actually going toget those scenes in the episode.
Yeah.
Although, funnily enough, a lot ofthose scenes ended up in this episode.
Yeah.
Right?
Okay.
Yeah, we will get there.

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Yeah, we'll get there.
The triggers for this episode arequite straightforward because this is
for a change we have a lighter... likethe last few episodes have been quite
heavy, I guess, heavy subject matter.
So this episode is surprisingly low angst.
So the triggers include clowns,which is, you know, quite a

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big trigger for some people.
Sam Winchester.
Um, we have grief, grief, um,high speed pursuit and an octopus.
And I laughed so hard werethe octopus actually appeared.
The octopus,
I don't think anything else, like,too scary happens in this episode.

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Like they're, it's just, it'sjust fun and hijinks mainly.
I think those are the main, the,the main kind of highlights.
Should we get into it?
Yeah,
let's go.
We're going to start withAthena's high speed pursuit.
Yeah.
This was very confusing because, I mean,I knew that there was gonna, obviously,

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there's summary told us it was, she wasgonna be chasing the 118 fire truck.
Oh no.
So you got
spoiled,
so that wasn't really a surprise.
Oh no.
See, I remember going into thiscompletely, completely blind
and yeah, if you've been binging throughand you just came onto this episode.
Yeah.
So
that would be very confusing.
Athena's racing through thestreets of LA, you've got the

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police helicopter over the top.
They're telling this, um, thesubject to, you know, uh, pull over.
And then she says like, "engine118," and you see that she's
chasing the engine truck.
And it's like, what the fuck?
Yes.
I mean, you still, like, Istill didn't know who it was.

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So that was, that was a surprise.
But, um, yeah, if you hadn't beenspoiled for what was gonna happen,
that would've been pretty amazing.
It was a, a pretty cool opening.
Um, yeah, but it is a flash forward,or maybe the episode, like real time is

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that particular night and now we're goingto flash back, although the episode is
not gonna tell us that we're flashingback, um, after Athena tells the, the
118 to pull over, and they do in factnot pull over but continue racing.
They race us straight into the title card.
And when we come back the enginetruck is parked in the station

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engine bay, they're like, oh, oh
yeah.
They don't have anythingthat says this is.
No,
you know, 12 hours earlieror anything like that?
No.
You just, I guess you figure, oh,this is just, this is a common, um,
technique that these guys use, so wemust be, you know, earlier in the day,
it's just 9-1-1 things.
That's it.
Yeah, it's timey wimey.
We're, we've resigned to the factthat time makes no sense on this show.

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Um, and we get, uh, we getthe cutest scene with Buck,
we get Clipboard Buck,
we get the return.
He has returned.
We get the return of Clipboard Buck
and Eddie looking extremely fond.
Eddie is tolerating him sowell with Clipboard Buck.
Um, so essentially I think theyare restocking the, uh, the

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supplies on the engine truck.
Buck has a list of all of the itemsthat need to go into said truck.
Um, and he's reeling them off as Eddie isputting them back into the compartment.
But he's making a big deal out of itbecause he's requiring Eddie to say
check every time he grabs an item

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to the point where when Eddie grabssomething and just says, "Yep, I've got
it," Buck like puts his hand to his earand is like, "I'm sorry, what was that?"
He's such a little shit.
He's such a little shit.
And then when Hen comes along and shesees what's happening, she's like,

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"Oh no, who gave him a clipboard?"
Um, but apparently it's a, it's a kindla gentler clipboard as is the man
who holds it because this is Buck 3.0.
Yeah.
Um, so yeah, apparently he's evolved.
He, he's in his likeevol, like final form now.

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Is that correct?
I is there a, is therea further evolvement?
I don't think we ever specificallyget, well, I'm assuming that like
bi Buck is Buck 4.0 or at least,
yeah, I guess so.
A, a upgraded version of athree, maybe like a 3.1, 3.2.
Um, but he doesn't refer to himselfas Buck four point wait, does he?

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I'm not gonna say that because I can'tremember off the top of my head, but
um, yeah, but I do love that everyone inthe 118 seems to have, um, just accepted
Buck referring to himself in the likethird person with a different version.
Um, because Hen's like "Buck 3.0?What happened to 2.0?" Uh, 2.0's leg

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got crushed by a ladder truck andhis girlfriend left him apparently.
Yeah.
Thanks Chim.
I thought that was whathappened to one point.
No.
1.0 Abby left him.
Okay.
2.0, got the latter truck,
right.
Um, and then we get Eddie's line of that.

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It's a software update.
Yeah.
So Buck's ready to let go of the pastand when Hen gives us a little bit of
exposition from, um, the last couple weeksabout how "your parents lied to you your
entire life and you're just gonna let itgo, what's your secret?" Buck explains
that he's in therapy with his parents now.
Oh God.

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That sounds like hell.
I think his therapist, histherapist is gonna have a lot
of work to do with those two.
Yeah.
Um, and Hen asked if Chim is alsotaking part in the family sessions.
Chim's like, "uh, no I amnot." Chim's, he's not family.

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He's got his own family issues thathe should be in therapy to resolve.
He doesn't need to be intherapy with the Buckleys.
Oh, honestly.
Well, Eddie tells Buck that he is allowedto give himself some time to process.
Um, Buck says that he's just tiredof looking behind him and he's ready
to start thinking about the future.

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Speaking of which, the future of the118 in the form of a probie firefighter,
probationary firefighter is walkingtowards him and he yells, "Hey, probie!"
And look, I know my rule is that unlessthey get named in the episode, we don't.
They don't get a name.
Um, but this is Ravi.

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So
it's Ravi!
He gets a name straight off the bat.
'cause I know who he is.
I love that he is just creditedas "Probie", like clearly they did
not intend to get this guy back.
Exactly.
They're just like, eh,you can stick around.
Exactly.
They, he was meant to be therefor one episode and then they
thought, actually, you know what?
He's kind of like, we like this character,so we're gonna keep bringing him back.

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So he gets a name, which iswhy I'm giving him a name now.
Um, so poor Ravi looks like a deerin headlights and immediately just
drops everything in his hands.
Aw.
Poor probie.
Poor probie.
Buck seems very, uh, apologetic, very, um,upset that he is scared the the probie.

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Scared the books out of the probie
runs over to sort of help Ravipick up everything that he was,
um, that he had dropped and startsmaking small talk and like, and
exposition within the small talk.
'cause apparently Ravi
Yeah, "like you are thenew B shift probe, right?"
He's on the B shift, so he'sjust come off shift as the 118
are coming on shift, I assume.

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Um, and so he asks Ravi how was,
and he's just finished his first shift.
Yeah.
It's so cute.
Like, this was his very first shift.
He had his books to study andBuck scared the shit out him.
Poor Ravi.
Um, so Buck asks how,
I feel like I'm gonnabe saying that a lot.
Oh,
as the weeks go by.
Yeah.
Yeah, you will.

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Yeah.
Um, Buck asks Ravi, "so how was yourfirst shift?" And Ravi goes, "oh,
you know, it was pretty quiet." And
I love the camera work here.
It's like full on like horror movie,like Buck, Hen and Chim all gasp

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and step back with their like, handsout and it like does the zoom thing,
like Hen's holding out her hand,warding off whatever, jinx,
literally
Ravi has just launched at them.
Um, and they're absolutelyhorrified and stunned and shocked
that Ravi has said the Q word.
Um, and Ravi, of course, this being hisfirst shift has no idea what he's done.

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He is like, yeah.
He's like, "Oh, sorry.
I just said it was..." "No,no, don't say it again!"
Um, Hen's like, "Maybe if he saysit a second time, it undoes the
curse?" And Chim says maybe if hesays it a third time, the candy
man will show up and kill them.
Let's not test that theory.

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So Buck explains that we don'tuse the Q word in any, like
in the firehouse or any house.
We don't use the Q word.
I think it's pretty much ifyou're an emergency responder,
you don't use the Q word.
Oh.
Even in retail, we do not use the Q word.
It, it, it works in retail as well?
Yep.
Works in retail as well.
Okay.
Um, and then Bobby, who isn't even partof this conversation, just appears from

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the loft, is like, "Who used the Q word?"
Meanwhile, Eddie has been watchingthis in also outta confusion.
Um, because even though he has been herefor what, nearly two years now, for some
reason, he has yet to have encounteredthis particular situation and he's looks

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around and goes like, what am I missing?
Um, and as explanation, the alarmimmediately goes off summoning
station 118 to a vehicle accident.
And all of them just likeroll their eyes, scoff, ugh.
And Chim tells Eddie, "We've been jinxed."

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Oh, episode title.
Oh yeah.
There's a lot of, um, lotof drinking in this episode.
If you wanna do the drinkinggame with the title.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Who wrote this one?
Taylor.
Taylor Wong, who hasn't, this is thefirst writing credit for Taylor Wong.
I'm gonna assume that he wasprobably in the writer's room, but

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this is the, the first one thatthey are credited as a writer.
Well, they've done agreat job on this one.
It's snappy dialogue and whatever.
Yes.
They've done a few good ones.
I, um, I checked before we startedrecording and they're still, as of
season eight, they're still recording.
Uh, still writing.
Oh, good.
Okay.

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We follow the 118 in,uh, to the ladder truck.
Um, I love this episode becausethere's so much of them just
sitting in a truck talking.
Um, and they are my favorite scenesbecause you, you either, you get
the sense that either these peopleare all incredible actors and

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are incredibly good at sellingthe chemistry and the familiarity
that they have with each other.
Or they are actually that good friends andthat familiar with each other, that they
are comfortable just sitting, shootingthe shit with each other in the back
of the truck with Bobby, like sittingup in the front seat in the dad's seat.
Yeah, also shooting the shit,which I love in this episode.

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It's so good.
Um, so we're in the truck.
We're picking up from where Chim left off.
Um, Eddie is trying to understand whatthe hell is going on because he says,
and I apologize for my pronunciation,he says that the, everyone sounds like
his abuela's neighbor's curandera.

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So that's his grandmother'sneighbor's... uh, a curandera is
apparently like a medicine healer.
So someone who's specializesin warding off evil spirits,
um, Buck in fact, in fact asksif she knows how to reverse it,
because if not, they're about toexperience the shift from hell.

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Chim says it's gonna benonstop calls all day long.
Hen says they're gonna bestupid calls, um, and the EMS
gods are gonna make them pay.
And when Eddie says like, you guys don'treally believe that, they explained
what happened the last time somebody inthe house said the Q word, and I love
that there's this quick moment if theyshoot Bobby and he's like, smirking

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in the front seat because he remembersexactly what happens the last time.
And meanwhile, Buck's, Buck'sjust there like "The gods took
it outta context," pouting.
I, I agree with him.
The gods did take it outta context, buthe should still should have known better.
Um, so we get a quick flashbackto the 118 station house.
We've got, um, what is clearlymeant to be a probie Buck.

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Um, we lose Alice for a little bit becausehe's wearing his baseball cap backwards,
so he's very, like "Dean Winchester BeatSheet" coded for a couple of seconds.
It's Beat Sheet Buck.
He's, it's, this is my favoriteBuck is the backwards cap Buck.
It doesn't happen nearly often enough.
You can't see, but he's wearingslides with like socks at the,

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um, but yeah, so, so probie Buck, um, BeatSheet Buck tries to open the dishwasher
to add a, um, a like protein shaker to it.
And Bobby's like, "Hey,hey, it's already running.
You're gonna have to wash that byhand." And Buck's like, "Oh wow, really?
It's so quiet." And all of themjust look at Buck and he is like,
"No, no, I meant the dishwasher."

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Meanwhile,
and then the fire bell immediately rings.
Apparently that, uh, out ofcontext use of the Q word
resulted in 36 calls in one shift.
It's a house record.
Buck says that it was 37, which
that one doesn't count.
Chim says it doesn't countbecause it wasn't even a call.

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But we alush back to a whitescreen and then we get like a hand
print appearing through the whiteand like sliding down the glass.
And the camera pulls back andit's the locker room, like the
glass wall of the locker room.

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And there's like, the lockerroom is just filled with, um,
foam.
Like the white, like white foam.
The fire suppression foam?
Yeah, it was the fire suppression system
with Buck inside the locker room.
So the hand that we can, like
how, how is he breathing?
Completely stuck.
Someone get him out of thereso he doesn't drown in foam.

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That's awful.
No, but it's great because Bobby andChim and Hen are just watching Buck,
like fighting for his life throughthe foam and they're just like,
nah, we'll just give him a minute.
Hazing.
Um,
but kinder gentler hazing, you know,they're not, you know, making him scrub

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the engine bay over and over again.
They're just letting him, youknow, fight through the, the fire
suppression system very dramatically.
Like at one point he's got both hands sortof up above his head and then just slides
them like all the way down to the bottom.
And you can imagine he's,
yeah, instead of like trying to get outor anything, he's just like, help me.

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I can just imagine them havehaving fun with that scene.
Yeah,
I mean, Oliver probably
Oh, absolutely
hated it, but it was probablyfun for a minute or two.
Eddie's still not convinced
he is.
Yeah.
Like I, so we go back to the present.
"I think you are giving theEMS gods too much credit,"
and it doesn't help that whenthey first get on the scene, the,

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that they were called to, it doeslook like a minor fender bender.
But then Bobby tells Eddie to look upand it turns out that the reason that
the fender bender happened was becauseboth drivers were too distracted by
the guy who has duct taped himselfto a billboard high above the street.

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Oh yeah.
Is this billboard has a spider web onit, so this guy's name is Izzy Chains.
Is that his name?
Yeah.
And, and his album name is Stuck on You.
So it's, there's a QR code.
I tried this QR code withmy phone and it didn't work.

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I was like, no.
I mean, I thought it might takeme somewhere fun, but it didn't.
The So Billboard is quite cleverbecause at the, he's try, he is a
musician, he's trying to promote hissong, the song is called "Stuck on
You", and he has taped himself rightin the middle of the spider web.
Um, so I mean, he gets pointsfor artistic creativity.

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Um,
yeah.
I mean, he must have had someone tohelp him because I don't know how you
would tape yourself up to a billboard.
Yeah.
Right?
Up in the air.
We are not, no, you can'tthink about that because.
It is just for the drama.
Just,
yeah, yeah.
No, he had a friend.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So he, like, Izzy Chains is likeyelling, " Stream stuck on Oh, like listen

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to 'Stuck on you', blah, blah, blah.
Um, I'll be here all night!" Yeah.
Um, he's just yellingthat the entire time.
He's having a great time up thereand he is loving that he has
summoned this crowd underneath him.
'cause everyone is watching to see thiscrazy person get rescued off a billboard.
The fender bender is fine.

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The, I mean, we do get a, a little bit ofchim and he, you know, doing some actual
paramedic work, but they're not important.
Izzy is the, the main sortof focus of this scene.
I will note that there is amoment here where Buck gets sent
to get the ladder truck readyfor him to go up and grab Izzy.

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And the first, one of the first stepsis they put the outriggers out to
like, so that the truck is, there'scounterbalanced and is secure.
Um, and they put metal plates downfor the outriggers to sit on top
of because the, the metal platesare, are flat and they can take
the, the weight of the, the truck.

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And because I knew that the episodewas "Jinx", I assumed something final
destination e terribly was gonna happen.
With that metal plate under the,
so did I, like they doa full zoom in to the
right?
Um, like yeah.
And I was like waiting for it to comeback the entire time, but it didn't
I was fully expecting,
I was like, that was such a weird shot,
the metal plate to come slipping outor shooting out at some point because

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the pressure was slightly on an angle.
Um, it doesn't.
Complete misdirection.
Yeah.
Well they think this is gonna becrazy and, and weird shit happening
all day, but most of them endup being fairly straightforward.
Yes.
There's just a lot.
Yeah.
A lot of it's, it's stupid calls,but like simple stupid calls.

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Um, we do get a new member of the 118though, um, because Porter is operating
the ladder truck for Buck, so that's cool.
I don't think we've seen,
there's actually a lot of, um, theother members of the 118 in this subtly.
Like they're not spoken to.

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No,
but they're there with theirnames on display the whole time.
Yeah.
Um, and they even like get tosit at the table and you know,
like be in the truck and stuff,
you know?
Yeah.
You know what I find really ironicabout this episode though, is that
Ravi sets off the jinx and thenhe doesn't have to deal with it.
Because he was on B shift.
Oh yeah he goes home.
He just vanishes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He goes, he goes home to bed.

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He just like, mic drops the Qword and then like, I'm out.
See you later.
Yeah.
Honestly, the things that Ravi goesthrough later, they, the 118 pre deserve
Oh no.
Anyway, this dude is like, he doesn'twant to, like, when Buck comes up the
ladder towards him, he's like, "No,no, no, I don't need help. I'm staying

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here and I paid for the whole day.I'm gonna stay here the whole day."
And Buck's like, "Okay, uh, are youwearing like, just a question for you?
Are you wearing anything underneaththat?" And Izzy's like, "uh, no.
Why?" And Buck's like, "Youmight regret that later."

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Again, I was expecting that to be abigger deal than it ends up being.
It should be a bigger dealthan it ends up being.
Yeah.
Considering he's got duct tapeacross his naked, but yeah.
Ow.
Um, anyway, um, LAPD and including Athenarock up, 'cause obviously there's been a

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crash and a guy, um, distracting everyone.
Mm-hmm.
But yeah, Athena checked hisstory and he's telling the truth.
He did pay for the billboard.
Um, but it's all legal.
And so they'll have a word from, uh, havea word with him as soon as he climbs down,
but right now all they can do is controltraffic and hope for no more accidents.

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Yep.
And then Bobby.
Bobby is just like, "oh,damn probie jinxed us.
He used the Q word," andAthena's just like, "Jinxed?
You don't believe in that stuff?"And Bobby's like, "uh, no." Like
as if he didn't just bring it up.
Like
he doesn't sound very convincing.

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He also won't say the Q word.
He just keeps saying "the Q word"
this entire episode Bobby is like,put on... it's, it's never entirely
clear whether Bobby believes inthe jinxes and the superstitions.
Oh, he does, but a hundredpercent believes in it.
He a hundred percent does.
Yes.
Yeah.
He
keeps denying it.
Um,
yes, he keeps denying it, but healso won't like say the Q word, like

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he just say, keeps saying Q word.
Yeah,
he said he explains later.
He says that the others getweird after the Q word comes up.
So that means he keeps,
yeah.
So like, because the others getsquirrelly and they make mistakes.
Um, but okay,
but the others aren't hereright now accidentally.
The others suppression either halfwayladder saying Q word or they're,
they're working on getting likethe big inflatable mattress out.

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He's only talking to Athena.
He doesn't need to keep up the act.
He, he believes it,
but he is still saying the Q word.
But Athena's gonna fix it becauseshe finds a, she sees something
shiny on the ground and shepicks it up and it's a penny.
So she gives it to him and he'slike, "what's this for?" And

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she's like, "It's for luck.
Sounds like you could use it."
So like in, I noticed in this episode,uh, they're, they've got like their,
because it's obviously still COVIDtime, they're wearing their masks, but
sometimes they're not wearing their masks.
And then other times they're wearingtheir masks in a weird place, like when

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they're outside, not in a crowded area.
Like, I don't, I couldn't workout what the logic was with
the masks in this episode.
So the masks in this episode, thereason that it's weird, and I was
gonna go into this when we actuallyget to the montage, um, but a lot of
the scenes in this episode are actuallydeleted scenes from other episodes.

(27:51):
Oh.
And so anytime they're wearingmasks, that's a new scene.
Um, but when they're notwearing masks in the montage,
they're never wearing the masks
because they were two, that'slike two years beforehand
that they've shot this stuff.
It was pre previous, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
It was before COVID existed.
Alright.
It's just later they, they're allsitting around a table outside.

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Yeah, because that's
about to eat food.
And they've got their masks on.
Yeah, because it's, it's a, a restaurant.
Um, and that would be, that would've beenthe rules during COVID that you could go
out because, um, like jumping ahead, thatyou can see the hostess at that restaurant
looks like she's about to perform surgery.
'cause she's got face masks, she's gotface shield face, she's got full masks.

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She the face shield.
Yeah.
So they're still having to,
but they were outside.
Yeah, but they're still probably rules.
Yeah, no, it was still rules.
They're having to complywith COVID protocols.
Unless you were actively eating,you had to have your mask on.
And being that they first responders,they're gonna follow the rules.
'cause how awkward would it be ifAthena had to book them all for
be I'm thinking that because eventhough this is like post the, in the,

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like in episode time, it's post COVID,it would've been right in the middle
of the pandemic when they filmed.
So there were probably rules, like yes youcan film in a crowd, but you're gonna have
to comply with all of these particularrules, which is, yes, you're still
outside, but you're in a group of people.
These people, these extrasare not in your bubble.
So y'all are gonna need tomask up and stay masked up.

(29:26):
I can feel the Supernaturalsaltiness coming back.
Stop me.
Okay, let's stop.
I'm sorry I
don't pull the thread.
Um,
Speaking of firefighters and masksthough, let's get back to this episode.
Um, there is a firefighter who ishelping, uh, a woman a little bit further
down the street from the accident.

(29:47):
And uh, it's Ana and I'mfeeling incredibly justified
that it is pronounced Ana,
even though they pronouncedit Anna last season.
No, no, it's now Ana.
I don't think we actually got her.
I think we just got Flores.
I don't think we actuallyfound out her name was Ana.
I was just calling her Ana because

(30:08):
No, that's right.
I went to the breakup scene and I went tothe breakup scene and Eddie calls her Anna
and you said he pronounces it, Anna.
And I went, I don't care.
I'm calling her Ana.
But then in this episode he calls her Ana.
He calls her Ana.
Yes.
So, okay.
Basically Eddie doesn't know her name.

(30:29):
Okay, excellent.
So he recognizes herin, in, this instance.
Hang on, so, um, Ana is gettingfirst aid from a firefighter.
She has apparently, um, burnt her handand this firefighter is applying an
ice pack and he puts the ice pack onher hand and then he disappears and.

(30:53):
Just as he disappears, leaving Ana withher ice pack, Eddie comes running up
the street and literally does a doubletake as he runs past her like this,
he basically slides to a stop.
He's a cartoon characterthis entire episode.
It's hilarious.
Yes.
He addresses her by name.

(31:14):
He is in, he's got, um, climbinghelmet and a face mask on, and
she has no idea who the hellhe is or why he knows her name.
Just starts stripping off all of hisprotective gear and it's like, "It's,
it's um, Eddie Diaz," she still kindof looks at him blankly and it's
like "Christopher's dad from school?"
Um, and she goes, "Oh, Edmundo."And just like the heart eyes and the

(31:42):
little hearts floating around his head.
Yes.
And like the, the neon pink blush on.
He looks so happy.
Oh yeah.
So he, he takes a look at her handbecause she, yeah, she's got this ice
pack on her on a burn from a hot coffee,
which, how fucking hot is that coffee?

(32:04):
I know.
It looked awful
actually, its a big burn.
It looked like a really nasty burn.
I thought they reduced the heat incoffee when you bought it from a coffee
shop after the McDonald's lawsuit.
This it's supposed to.
Yeah.
It looked like someone haddumped boiling water on her.
Like
literally, yeah, maybe she orderedit like extra, extra, extra hot and

(32:25):
just like, like dumped it on her head.
Allowed to Do they allowed to giveit to you extra, extra, extra hot?
Well, she was actually gonna do a lawsuit.
Ah.
But then Eddie distracted her, so
Ah, yes.
Okay.
Eddie fixed it
anyway.
Yeah, usually the hot coffees like...'cause how would you even drink it
if it's hot enough to burn your, you?
Unless I
don't, don't, don't ask for the drama.

(32:46):
For the drama.
She's really badly burned her hand.
Yeah.
So some guy bumped into her when theaccident happened, she spilled her boil,
like her coffee That was still boiling.
Yes.
Actively boiling in the cup
because apparently she got itwith fire underneath it when Yeah.
And yeah, she burned herself really bad.
Um, and Eddie's like, "ohwell ice is really bad for

(33:08):
burns, so let me have a look."
Yes, ice is very bad for burns
and he pulls the ice away, which iswhere we see the really, really bad burn.
Um, and Ana's like, "Well the firefightergave it to me to, and told me to
keep it cool." Eddie's like, "Whichfirefighter?" Um, so apparently he had
1 47 on his helmet and Eddie's confusedthat one, there's another unit there,

(33:32):
Eddie's got no idea what's going on.
And two, why that guy doesn't knownot to put how to deal with burns.
Yep.
He also says to keep it dryand clean and then wraps it.
Like, I'm pretty sure he shouldn'tbe wrapping a burn that bad.
I'm pretty sure he should be running itunder cold water for like 20 minutes.
I mean,
I'm not mad at him for wrapping it.
I am mad at him that he's putting straightgauze onto a burn that badly blistered.

(33:55):
Yeah, it's literally just like, just wrap.
Yeah.
He should be sticking like a non,a non-stick burn pad or some kind
of colloidal silver on it firstand then putting the gauze on.
'cause that's justgonna stick to the burn.
It's gonna be a bitch to get off later.
Um, so just so that everyone knows,um, the reason that you run it under

(34:15):
cold water is because even onceyou, like, even when you burn it and
then take the thing that burns youaway, your skin continues to burn.
Yeah.
The heat still retains the heat.
Um,
it, yeah, it retains the heat.
So you've got to run it under coldwater to keep the water fresh.
'cause like if you put ice onit, one, it's too cold, um,
and will just damage the skin.

(34:35):
And two, it'll like the ice willstart heating up and helping with
the cook, like the cooking process.
Um, which sounds awful.
Yeah.
But, um, yeah, so run it under coldwater, um, then take it out of the
cold water for it and then do it again.
I can't remember the exact times, but, um,but yes, run it under cold running water.
Like you don't want to sit in a coldbath or anything 'cause it'll warm up.
Warm up.

(34:56):
Um, you just wanna keep itgoing under cold running water.
It's just the irony that he's shittingon this guy for like, although that's not
how you treat a burn and then goes ahead.
Yeah.
And then does it completely wrong.
It's okay.
We don't watch 9-1-1 for medical advice.
'cause otherwise we'll all be dead.
Dead.
It's for the drama.
For the drama.
Yeah.
Can I, can I tangent foruh, just half a second.

(35:19):
I've been, I've
Oh my god, Ellen's gonna tangent.
Oh my god,
guys, I feel like we need a theme song
brace yourselves.
What?
I do it all the time.
No, I do it all the time.
You barely do it.
It's very interesting when you tangent.
Go for it.
Okay.
Now I feel like you're gonna beunderwhelmed by my tangent, but, um,
I've been, I've been watching, I'vebeen binging Poldark and I keep, and

(35:42):
the entire show is just for the drama.
I've been like, I've kept catchingmyself muttering under my breath,
"Why don't you just fucking...for the drama. For the drama."
It's so frustrating.
Oh, you might need a sticker, Ellen.
It's really, it's really good.
It's really good.
I recommend it, but oh my God, I justwanted beat their heads together.

(36:04):
Anyway, what we up to?
I just finished House
Uhhuh.
Oh yeah.
And like speaking of for the drama.
Jesus.
And then it was funny because, um,Cuddy's mom had the same thing that my
mum has and they were like, oh my God,we've gotta find the cause of this.
And meanwhile with my mum,they're just like, oh yeah.
Have some meds to stop it happening.
Bye.

(36:26):
They didn't, they don'tcare about the cause?
They don't care about the cause.
No.
Oh, dear.
Um, so for the drama in this episode, weneed Eddie like down on one knee in front
of Ana, very tenderly wrapping her handwhile they catch up on each other's lives.
Um,
Aw, it's very cute.
Straight out of fan fiction.
Oh,

(36:48):
uh, so apparently, uh, Ana is nolonger at the schmancy private
school that Christopher goes to.
Um, she's vice principal over at adifferent school after taking some
time off COVID to get her, um, herdoctorate in education, I'm assuming.

(37:09):
Yeah.
So now she's Dr. Ana or professor,maybe since she's a vice principal.
I don't know.
I know how it works over,
Eddie asks her why she stopped beinga teacher, and she's like, "Well,
I'm always gonna be a teacher. Uh,it just having a PhD gives me more
options." Um, and Eddie says that,
and Eddie's like speaking of PhD, wink,

(37:32):
he's, he says that, um, Ana's,
Ana's line is specifically thebeing a teacher is in her blood.
Eddie says, "oh, it sounds a lotlike a firefighter." And then looks
her up and down and says, "Yourjob looks really good on you."
I don't know what that means, but Sure.
No, he's just trying to have game today.

(37:56):
I mean, he doesn't, but
I don't think she cares.
It just sounds kind of awkward,but she's really flattered.
She's like, thank you.
Bless.
So Bobby bursts their littlebubble, basically telling Eddie
to get his ass back on the job.
So they

(38:17):
On the radio.
Yes.
On the radio.
He's not like, what?
Maybe he's watchingaround the corner going,
He probably is.
No, it was Bobby only.
What is Edmundo doing now?
Bobby only watches theBuddie interactions.
Yeah.
The, the radar only goes upfor when Buck is with Eddie.
Not, not when Eddie iswith, um, random females.
Um, so they, um, they walkin opposite directions.

(38:42):
I don't have it in mynotes, but I'm pretty sure.
Does Eddie look back ather as they're going?
Probably.
I don't remember.
No, I feel, but they do say, "oh, itwas great seeing you." and Ana was like,
"you too." It's like, oh, meanwhile this,this asshole is still on the billboard.
Like, not wanting to leave.

(39:03):
Yeah.
Not for long though.
Um, because even
he's, he's singing andeverything still and Yeah.
Apparently his time with thebillboard doesn't stop until
8:00 AM tomorrow morning.
Uh, gravity has somethingto say about that though.
Yeah.
Like, he's like singing and dancing andso of course the tape starts ripping.

(39:23):
Yep.
Like, I'm not, I'm surprisedhe hasn't like, slid out from
under it, you know, like,
I know, right?
Well see.
It's, look, it looks
Anyway, for the drama
looks quite secure because it,it almost looks like a, a nappy.
It's like underneath his legs andaround the tops of his thighs.
He looks like he should bein there quite securely.
The hilarious thing is that the tape stopsripping and Buck bolts up the ladder.

(39:45):
Like he's trying to catch this guyand I'm, I'm watching him like, try
and get his limbs in into action inthis tiny little narrow like space.
I'm going, dude, there's abig crash pad underneath.
Why are you worrying aboutrunning up the ladder?
He's just gonna land on the crash pad.
Yeah.
Literally.
Like,
which is exactly what happens.

(40:06):
The tape rips.
He falls onto the crash pad, um, as he
reminding everyone while hefalls to download his album.
Oh, love that.
You know, you, we, we love aman that's focused on his goals.
He's dedicated.
Yeah.
And then we ha I have to remind myselfthat all of this is for the drama because

(40:27):
somehow as Izzy was falling, despite thatforeshadowing of, um, Buck asking, do
you have anything on underneath the tape?
To which Izzy said no, as Izzy'sfalling, he goes in one direction and
the tape goes in another direction.
Yeah.

(40:47):
It just comes right off him,
which I don't, thatshould not have happened.
That that tape shouldhave been stuck to him.
He should have been like, taken tohospital to get that like removed.
Um,
I mean, I guess maybe if he wasreally sweaty, he just like slid
out from anyway, like really slum, I, regardless, he's very naked.

(41:08):
I just said that
he's very naked
on, I just said the tape was like underhis legs and around the top of his thighs.
How sweaty is he getting?
Of course
he's real, he's real intopeople downloading, isn't it?
I'm,
that's of course I'm assuming thatthere is like, he has body hair and
maybe like, maybe he's a Ken doll.
Maybe he's just like, no hair.
Yeah.
Maybe he shaved beforehand.

(41:30):
Well, maybe the, the tape justripped it all off, off the way down.
Well then he must be incrediblymasochistic because he lands in
the pad and then is immediatelyup on his feet like absolutely.
Cheering,
celebrating, and cheering.
Um, and buck naked.
Yeah.

(41:50):
So naked.
Not at all in pain, just like naked.
But they do put a blanketon him pretty quickly.
But Hen's like, "Oh yeah. He'sdefinitely gonna be famous now," because
Yeah, because everybody who hadtheir phones out filming him and like
downloading his album with their QRcode is now filming him being, you
know, like frog marched very naked yeah.

(42:11):
To the ambulance or the policecar in his birthday suit.
Buck picks up the tape off theground and Bobby says to him, "you
wanna keep that as a souvenir?"And Buck just looks so disgusted.
And he's like,
dropping it again
because it's, it's, it's still,it's like perfectly, it looks like

(42:31):
when cosplay are trying to make, um,like references to make their armor.
So they kind of wrap themselves inGlad Wrap, and then they duct tape
themselves and then they cut it offand it stays in the perfect form.
Oh yeah.
That's what it looks like.
It's still perfectlylike Izzy Chains formed.

(42:52):
Oh.
Which completely improbable.
But for the drama, it looksgood, so I will allow it.
Mm-hmm.
So the next part, the next scene is whereI start getting really hungry because
I was watching this morning before I'deaten much and this mac and cheese that
Bobby pulls out of the oven looks so good.

(43:14):
Yes.
Oh, doesn't it though?
It's, it looks amazing.
It's golden and it's bubbly.
Um, it's got crispy bits on top.
Um, everybody is at the table,but not everybody is at the table.
Um, because Chim tries to dig in andstart eating, but Bobby scolds him and

(43:35):
tells him that they have, he, the rulesare that they have to wait for everyone.
Um, and Buck is not at the table.
He jogs up, dunno where he was.
Um, goes to sit down and as soon as hisass hits the chair, the alarm goes off.
So we get,
so casserole goes back in the oven,
you get the montage of allof the calls that they go on.

(43:57):
And I love that the montage is,every now and then they get back to
the firehouse and we check on thecasserole because they keep coming back.
They keep trying to get the casserole.
Yeah, they're trying to have it, theytry to eat it and it, the bell keeps
ringing so they can never actually eat it.
And the casserole just getting moreand more and more overcooked the

(44:18):
longer that the, the montage goes on.
Yeah.
I dunno what he, he needed toturn the oven down a little bit.
'cause like
literally just turn the oven, just
turn it on to like 50 or something.
It'll still stay hot.
I dunno.
He should have turned the oven off.
Just let it sit in the oven and then, Idon't know, uh, nuke it in the microwave.
For the drama.
For the, like for the drama.

(44:38):
He keeps it,
they needed to be burned.
Yes.
They needed to be burned.
Yeah.
Um, also, maybe he just forgotbecause, you know, jinxed,
they were very busy,
um, but yeah, so Queen's "Don't StopMe Now" is playing through this whole
montage and it's just, it's so good.
Yes.
Because they're not stopping.
No.
So.
Call number one is, um, a cat hasbeen stuck up a tree, but not only

(45:03):
the cat was stuck up a tree, there'salso a man who presumably climbed
up the tree to rescue the cat.
And there's also a man stuck upthe tree and like, Eddie's like,
"Don't worry, he is next." Like,they saved the cat before yes.
Guy.
That's
the cat probably jumped down.
Yeah.
The cat just jumped into Eddie's arms.

(45:23):
No, I think we actually see himclimbing down the ladder with the cat.
But,
but yeah, so they save the catbefore the man, which is fair.
The next one they getback to the station house.
They check on the casserole.
Um, I don't think Bobby even getsinto the kitchen at that point.
Oh no.
He, he gets the oven open.
He doesn't even get thecasserole to the table.

(45:44):
It's like oven open alarm goes off, shutthe door casserole goes back in the oven.
Yeah.
Um, they're dispatched to a call wherea woman has a mascot head stuck on her.
I don't know how the hellshe managed to do that.
Um,
yeah.
And how did she get home again?
Because she's in like, next to a pool.
In her backyard.
Yeah.
Was she wearing the mascotcostume in the backyard?

(46:07):
There were so many questions about this.
I don't Emergency.
We, yeah.
Maybe there was a, it was a hazing prank.
They glued them anyway.
I don't know.
But as they yank the, um, themascot head off her finally, um, she
promptly throws up all over Buck.
Yeah.
To which Eddie says atleast someone ate today.

(46:28):
But, um, but what we see her projectileis like mostly water, thank God.
Um, so I don't know howmuch she had to eat.
Um, they're not eating, eating.
Maybe she just drank a, maybe shedrank heaps and then put the head on.
I don't,
yeah, maybe
she's, I'm pretty sure it was justbecause they didn't wanna throw,

(46:49):
like, we're gonna make up a bucketof fake vomit and throw it at Oliver.
If we're gonna splatter him withsomething, we gonna splatter
in with water, it's fine.
Um, but she apparently was the onlyone that was going to eat that day
because by the time they get backto the station house, the macaroni
and cheese is just charcoal.
So no one's gonna be eating, noone is gonna be eating unless they

(47:09):
order, but yeah, before they can even
order
in.
Yeah.
The, um, the belt goes off again
and Buck's like, "definitely not jinxed,"but then the like, let me say that again.
No, I can't be bothered to say that again.
The bell rings and theyhave to leave again.
Um, Eddie is starting to feel likemaybe they are jinxed, but, um, this

(47:30):
lady goes into a, a toilet cubicleat her workplace, I'm guessing.
And there's something above her,like something drips on her.
And she looks up and this tentacleis like coming through this vent and
then all of a sudden this octopusfalls on her head and I'm just like,

(47:50):
what the fuck is going on here?
I've no idea.
It's the octopus,
it's the octopus.
Um, so yes, the way they have,it's like glommed onto her face.
So the 118 get called to that andum, there's this really funny little
moment where, because they're likein and out, in and out so much, all
of their shit is getting mixed up.

(48:10):
So Chim's grabbing his gear, he putshis helmet on and immediately falls
down over his eyes because eithersomeone has put their helmet in his
cubby or he's grabbed the wrong one.
But that's definitely not his helmet.
Yeah.
It's way too big for him.
Um, so the octopus, it wassupposed to be in, um, "Monsters",

(48:32):
allegedly it came
oh,
it was in the summary.
'cause remember, I think it was inthe summary, um, for "Monsters".
Okay.
Yeah.
'cause it says an office employeehaving a close encounter with
an eight limbed creature.
Right.
Okay.
Is in monsters.
And that's the crow, theepisode with the crows.
Can you imagine that they've filmedlike a good five minutes segment

(48:55):
for this and they've just choppedit up to fit it in this montage.
Right.
Okay.
Um, we also
the magic of television
have, the movie theater, whichwas mentioned in the summary, and
I believe the trailer as well for"Awful People", is this kid that
gets his head stuck under the,

(49:17):
this explains so much because Iwas watching this montage going,
why have they put so much effort?
Like why is this kid who's got his headstuck under a chair in the movie theater?
Because they already filmed it,
like being so dramatic about, about tryingto get out and Yeah, it's because it was
an actual scene happened in the past.
Yeah.
And that's also why they're notwearing their masks in any of these.
Right.
Okay.
That makes a lot more sense now.

(49:37):
And then the other call it isthe, the kid stuck in the washing
machine was apparently from theseason three opener, "Kids Today".
Meanwhile, Chim is runningback to the truck with a, with
a granola bar in his mouth.
I love it.
That's the only thing,
the, um, he comes back, they've obviouslynot had a chance to eat, so he's got a box

(50:02):
of granola bars and it's literally, thebox just says granola bars across the top.
Yeah, like props did not, um,extend themselves with this.
It literally just says granola bars.
I did note that it said it wasgluten-free, so that was good.
Um, Buck at one point he tries to makea cup of coffee, but like he goes to

(50:23):
the, um, the thing and it's empty.
And so, and then the bell rings soinstead he can make another batch.
He just like pours the last bits, um,straight into his mouth, but they're
boiling hot 'cause they're the last bits.
Yeah.
And so he burns his mouth andjust like, ha ha all running out.

(50:45):
And at the end of the montage isas the song starts to wind down.
Bobby is guiding the truck back intothe engine bays like, "Keep it coming,
keep it coming, keep it coming.
Okay.
We are..." and the alarmgoes off... "going back out."
Yeah.
Oh.
So yeah.
Really fun montage.

(51:07):
Yeah.
I'm glad they got some use outof the footage that they cut
from all the other episodes.
Yeah.
Right.
Um, and yeah, and it does explain ourconfusion about all the scenes that
had vanished, like here they are.
The writer's like, Hmm, we need a montage.
And we need a montage.
It was like, we got you.
We need a montage, but we don't havethe capacity to actually go out and

(51:29):
film all of these little things.
Um,
especially during COVID.
Especially during COVID.
Do we have anything that we canjust chuck in and they're like,
let's just dig around onthe editing suite floor.
See what we,
we've got like we've got this pileover here of stuff that we cut.
Um.
Do whatever you want with that.
Like, excellent.

(51:50):
The montage might be over, the 118sshift, however, is not because they are
heading back out to a party supply storeand we get possibly one of the most
perfectly Buck lines ever, um, wherehe and Eddie are having a conversation.
And Eddie starts the conversationwith, "Do you ever replay a

(52:12):
conversation in your head and worrythat you sound like an idiot?"
Buck just looks at him andgoes, "Have you met me?"
So good.
Poor Buck.
So Eddie explains that he ran intoAna Flores this morning and I am like

(52:32):
vindicated, um, with the pronunciationof her name, at least in this instance.
Apparently Ryan is not consistent,but I'm gonna hold him to this one.
Eddie says, "you know, Christopher'sEnglish teacher?" And Bucks like
"Christopher's pretty Englishteacher," wiggles eyebrows.
I love that.
He's, he is memoriz like, heimmediately clocks who she is.

(52:54):
He remembers her.
Oh, he's like, "you haven'tmentioned her in a long time."
It's like, oh, you're keeping tabs.
She's not Christopher's Englishteacher anymore though, so it's okay.
Yeah, they get in there and there'sthese tanks that are like in a great big
pile and there is a pair of very largeshoes sticking out of the end of them.

(53:18):
And then they, they come aroundthe side of it and the, the person
trapped underneath it is a clown.
Yep.
But this part just, I laughed so hard.
I cried.
Um, one of the tanks is leaking.
Oh, oh.
Several, several of the tanks are broken.
'cause there are balloons broken.
Yeah.
So many tanks.
Yeah.

(53:39):
Uh, yeah.
And so Bobby, when Bobby speaks, hisvoice is really high pitched and he is
like, help me move some of these tags.
Yeah.
And then they all just start laughingand they can't stop laughing.
And I'm laughing, so I can'thear what they're saying.
And it's, it was just very funny.
I had to rewind it and watch it again.
I don't, unfortunately my brain kickedinto wait, how much helium would have

(54:02):
to be in the air to be for them tojust be breathing it in to effect...
'cause normally you have to inhale itquite specifically for it to effect.
Yeah.
You have to suck it in fromout of a balloon or something.
So how is it that the helium isjust in the store, just floating?
I think they're close.
They're close enough tothe bottles that they're,
I mean, you said there weremultiple bottles that were broken.

(54:24):
So know maybe there's just
I know,
heaps of helium
Anyway, switch your brainoff because it's really funny
before the, it's hilarious becauseBobby Hen and Chim have all obviously
been in close enough proximity orthere is enough helium in the air
that all of them sound like Muppets.
Hen's like, "Buck, be a professional."
No, no, no.
It's like, "Buck, be a professional!"

(54:45):
Professional.
I can't even do it with no voice.
So it's like, Buck, be a professional.
Yeah,
no, don't hurt yourself.
We've got more of this episode to go.
Um, Buck and Eddie are absolutelynot be, I'm try really hard to be
professionals, but they're also pissingthemselves laughing as they're trying
to help Bobby move the heavy tanks offthe clown that's trapped underneath.

(55:08):
Um, meanwhile, Chim isassessing the other clowns.
'cause apparently all of theemployees in this particular party
supply store are dressed as clowns.
Um, I don't know why they're all clowns.
I dunno.
Oh, maybe it's a clown gathering.
I dunno.
But,
um, and a fight broke outbetween rival clown gangs.

(55:29):
See, that's the other thing.
They never exactly explainhow this accident happened.
They don't need to.
That's the point.
They're supposed to just be stupid calls.
And this is indeed a stupid call.
So one of the clowns has a a, anO2 mask on, um, and starts like
coughing and choking and gaggingand Chim starts to freak out.
Like, uh, you know, are you okay?

(55:50):
Are you okay?
Um, he's okay.
He's just like, coughing up silk,try to cough, handkerchiefs,
"can you cough? Try and cough."
And just keeps pulling them.
He just keeps pullingthem out, pulling them.
It's really awful.
Finally gets to the end of it.
Oh, and Chim just grabs his O2 maskand snaps it back onto his face,

(56:13):
which bounces off of the clown'srubber nose, and makes that squeak.
And we get very, verydisgusted, "Everybody's a
comedian" because he's still,
it's just so silly.
Oh, it's so dumb.
It's so good.

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But they're still not done.
After that, they go to another call,which apparently Eddie thinks was
incredibly boring because it wasjust two people stuck in an elevator.
Yeah, thank you.
Exposition firefighter.
I was gonna say the exposition like,yes, they, they know what the call was
because they were, they were there,
we weren't, so we need to know.

(56:57):
Um, so yeah, it was two peoplestuck in an elevator who didn't even
need medical attention or anything.
Um, which, you know, the entire teamwould've known 'cause they were there.
Yeah.
Um, so Eddie is, uh, apparentlydecided that because on the basis
of that call, like everybody else,he's completely dismissed everything
that's happened the rest of the day.

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That one call is his proof thatthere's no such thing as a curse.
Yeah.
So they get back to the truck and theyare stripping off their turnouts, they're
putting their gear away, they're gettingready to get in and head off to the
next stupid call that they get sent to.
Um.
Um, speaking of exposition,

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Buck, I was about to get, we,
oh, it cracks me up.
While Buck's jumping in the fire engine.
He's like, oh, sure is windy.
You guys feel that?"" Mind you,none of the leaves are moving.
No one's moving.
It's like nothing.
I was like, it's not windy at all.
What are you talking about?
Apparently it's really wind windy guys.
It's just so random because everyone elseis talking to Eddie about the curse and

(57:59):
you just get like, background expositionBuck going, "ah, it's sure windy,"
"sure is windy you guys,"
okay I take it back aboutthe snappy dialogue.
We, we blown our budget.
We can't afford the fans.
Just someone get Oliver tosay something about the wind.
Um, so while like Buck is like doingforeshadowing in the background and

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everybody is getting into the truck,Bobby weighs in, um, and he's saying
that Eddie doesn't have to believe inthe curse, just maybe don't tempt fate.
So they all climb into the truck,they all start buckling themselves in.
Um, and Eddie is continuing on his tirade.
He's like, "it was a normal call.
It went like clockwork.

(58:43):
Wham bam.
Thank you ma'am."
And Hen goes, "you notice howno one ever says wham, bam.
Thank you sir." And Buck, just likehe is like buckling his seatbelt
up and he just looks at her andhe goes, "it doesn't rhyme."
he's so serious too.
Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

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But Eddie's point,
I don't know why that line makesme laugh so much, but every
time it doesn't rhyme rhyme,
but it's right, it doesn't rhyme.
Oh, I think it's just like the deadpanand like it's the, that autistic humor.
Yes.
Where like we like the veryliteral jokes like the anti jokes.

(59:26):
Yeah.
Eddie's point.
Eddie thinks that's hilarious.
But Eddie's point is that thatlast call that they had proves that
the whole jinx thing is silly andthey should all be done with it.
At which point God goes, hold my earrings.
Um, the wind that onlyBuck's able to sense
the very strong, the very strong wind,

(59:50):
um, knocks over a power polethat the truck is parked over and
said power pole with wires stillintact, crashes down on top of the
firetruck, showering them in sparks.
We don't see anything hit the power pole.
It just falls over.
No, it's a wind

(01:00:10):
No.
We hear is cracking noise.
We don't even hear like a gust of wind.
We just hear like cracking and then the
Yeah.
And Chimney just goes, "Hey Cap, did alive power pole just fall on the engine?"
Bobby's like, "I believe it did, Chimney."
And everybody's glaring atEddie like this was his fault.

(01:00:32):
And he is like, oh, whoops.
Um, oh, so then we go to commercial.
When we come back we'reat the dispatch center.
Um, and then which raises the questionof where was Maddie in this episode?
Literally Maddie is vanishedfrom this entire episode.
'cause I've no idea where she is.

(01:00:54):
There's no mention of her,like why she's gone not here.
Yeah, no one even namedrops her or anything.
No, no.
She's had a very busy andkind of emotionally wrought
time the last few episodes.
But I mean, so maybe she So has Buck.
Maybe she was dropping herparents off at the airport.
Like, I dunno.
I mean she's, she has days off sometimes,so maybe she just wasn't on this day.
But it's just very interesting thatwe do get like nine one, we get

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references and we see the 9-1-1 dispatchcenter, but it's Josh and Linda.
Yeah.
We don't even get some ADRof Maddie saying 9 9 1.
What's your emergency like?
She literally just doesn't exist thisepisode, which is, which makes it,
but this is all in one day, so.
If that makes sense.
If she was just not there.

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It just, it's still funny.
It makes her really weird because theyhave to, in order to make the episode
make sense, they have to elevate Josh'srelationship with the 118 to a point
that I don't think is that quite yet?
Well, he was, he did play,um, was it poker or with them,
is that worthy enough to get added to agroup chat where, um, so basically Linda

(01:02:01):
comes in and they're in, Linda comes intothe break room where Josh is sitting,
obviously on his break, he's on hisphone and Josh is making like small talk,
"Hey, heard you got a distress call."
And like, and Linda's like, "yeah, theengine 118 wind blew a power pole over
the top of their engine." At that point,his phone starts blowing up because

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Chimney and Buck are hitting him upfor methods to remove curse or a jinx.
Yeah, because for sureJosh would know that.
Yeah.
W see, it doesn't make sense that
no, they want him to bring stuff,
but why Josh?
But like, why Josh?
Why Josh?
Like maybe, maybe Maddie'salso in this like group.

(01:02:48):
I just, it's just,
yeah, you're right, it doesn'treally make a whole lot of sense.
It's, it's a little bit weirdthat, that for some reason Jennifer
couldn't be on set this week,so they've had to elevate Josh.
Um, and it just, itdoesn't quite make sense.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, we get a bit of Lindasaying how the calls today have
been really weird and she checkedto make sure it wasn't a full moon.

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Josh is like, "no, that'snot for another four days.
I've already scheduled myself off."And Linda's like, "I thought we
weren't allowed to do that." And heis like, "pays to be the Underboss."
Um, but yeah, so Josh says that they're,um, Chimney and Buck are fine, but
Chimney's asking if he can send someoneover with two bells and some bay leaves.
But then he thinks about it

(01:03:29):
and then he's like, oh.
He's like, "oh, he's trying to remove acurse. It's a whole thing." Um, so yeah.
I wonder if like they've got a group chatand it's Buck, Chimney, Josh and Maddie
and Maddie.
Yeah, that's my guess.
'cause I mean he just says,
and it's like a poker group chat,
someone send someone with this stuff.
That was just what was on top because theamount of times that, like I'll message

(01:03:52):
people in a group chat because I can't bebothered finding the individual message.
It's like I'm not mad at it.
It just like, it's very much, it fallsinto the, for the drama category.
Look, Buck's been going to therapy.
Maddie's trying to set Josh up.
Josh up with him now.
Okay, it's fine.
No, we've already, we'vealready had that discussion.

(01:04:12):
She's not setting Josh up with Buck.
She likes Josh far too much for that.
No, that was, yeah, thatwas pre Buck's therapy, so.
Oh, so you think
Buck's working on himself.
Buck two Josh,
Now she likes him less?
So Josh, Buck 2.0, no way would sheever let him near Josh, but Buck
3.0 is possibly boyfriend material?
Yeah.
Okay.

(01:04:33):
Yeah.
Um, but for whatever reason, apparently,
plus she's got pregnancy brain,she doesn't know what's going on.
Um, which is also why he, she's tryingto set him up with Josh and not Eddie.
Like she, she is lost.
Well, I don't know whether Josh is anyhelp, but we do cut back to the, um,
the truck where, um, Chimney has foundsomething on his phone where everybody

(01:04:56):
has to move their hands in like aswirling motion and ring bells nine times.
Um, Buck very seriously is like "ninein total or nine for each of us,"
which is a legitimate question.
My question is, where arethey getting the bells from?
Yeah.
Josh is gonna bring them.
It's fine
bells and bay leaves.

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Chim is so serious about this.
He is like, he's so serious.
I think, I think maybe we should all doit just to make sure we lift the curse
and then they start arguing about thesemantics of what they actually have.
Is it a curse?
Is it a curse?
Or is it a jinx?
Is it a jinx?
Is it a, a person put a hex onyou and a jinx is more like a
general angering of the gods?

(01:05:38):
Eddie's just like you'reall fucking insane.
Neither of them are real.
Doesn't matter what it is, it's not real.
And Chim's like
Buck's Googling how to appease the gods.
Yeah.
Um, Chim's trying to work out if ahex and a curse are the same thing.
And he thinks that, um, Chimneythinks that them being trapped

(01:05:58):
in a death box is proof.
Something, whether you call it ahex, whether you call it a curse.
The jinx has happened to the 118.
Bobby's trying to talk them down justlike, "yes, we're stuck in a death
box. Yes, there are thousands of voltsof electricity coursing through every
nook and cranny. We could literallyget fried any second, but let's just

(01:06:19):
not touch the doors or the windows."
Don't touch any doors orwindows till help arrives.
Yeah.
Buck meanwhile is still,he's still Googling, looking
up how to appease the gods.
"All I can find is some kindof human or animal sacrifice.
I'm not really down with that."
He looks so serious too,he's just like, I'm, I'm, no,

(01:06:43):
and it's, and then theuniverse is screaming at you.
Eddie's like, you guys don't hearyourselves and, and Buck's like "The,
the universe is screaming at youand you refuse to listen." And Eddie
says, "The universe does not scream."
No.
The,
that, that scene like the, the universeis screaming at you and you refuse to
listen and the universe does not screamis in so many Buddie edits that like when

(01:07:08):
it came up, I was like, oh, that's right.
It's in this episode.
It's not just a Buddie edit.
Yeah.
Um, the universe does not scream, butthe universe does send more electricity
surging through those live wires andsparks come showering down over the truck.
Yeah.
Obviously they've not been able toget in touch with the city people
who look after the power again?

(01:07:30):
Not yet anymore.
Jamal should jamal's not on work.
Like useless.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, should mention as well, solike all of them are super tense.
Like they're all like,crowded around their phones.
Like debating.
Eddie is so relaxed that like he's gotone foot up on the chair opposite him.
He's just slouched back.
He's just like, "there's nocurse. You're all idiots."

(01:07:54):
And he says that we, that I don't worryabout things that I can't control.
And Buck's, like "you say, you can saythat you don't worry about the things
you can't control, but can you at leastacknowledge that something is controlling
the things that you can't control?"
And eddie's like, what thefuck are you talking about?
Well, he is like what?
Like gremlins?

(01:08:15):
Yeah.
"Gremlins.
Boogeyman.
We've had a crappy day.
It didn't happen because of acurse or because someone said
the word..." and before he cansay quiet, Bobby is the one who's
Oh,
who says don't.
Bobby immediately cuts him off.
Yeah.
Hey, don't, and that's that this, I thinkthis is the point when I realized there's
actually someone in the front with Bobby.

(01:08:36):
Like,
yes.
Bobby's not in the front on his own.
He's not driving.
No.
He's riding shotgun.
Someone else is driving.
He's in the captain's chair.
Yeah.
So the driver has not piped in at all.
He's just sitting therelistening to their bullshit.
Yeah.
The driver's not allowedto get his SAG card.
So, yeah, he can't say anything.

(01:08:57):
Poor guy.
And Hen's like, "Cap, you've been prettysilent today about all this jinx stuff."
And the driver's just like, yeah,
Yeah,
Cap.
They're like Buck like,"yeah. Jinx or no jinx Bobby?"
Bobby makes a good point.
He's like, we're all, you know, we're alla little superstitious, you know people.

(01:09:18):
No, no.
Bobby says, "I'm not superstitious.I'm just a little stitious."
Does he?
Uh, no he doesn't.
No, it's from The Office.
Ah, that's so good,
but his point is that, "uh, there arethings that people do, like they don't
walk under ladders. Uh, we bless peopleafter they sneeze." He looks at Eddie.

(01:09:42):
"Some of us even wear a goodluck charm around our necks."
Eddie's like, "that's not the same thing."And Bobby's like, "Hmm, maybe to you.
But wearing that medal helps remind you ofyour son and helps make you feel better.
So if Chimney wants to wave hishands and ring some bells so that he
can feel better, what is wrong withthat?" And everyone's still sort of

(01:10:04):
side eyeing and going, you didn'tactually answer the question, Cap,
thankfully. Um, he's saved byhelp arriving and he is literally
like, "ah, help has arrived.
Look at that."
Um, the 1 33 has shown up and Bubby'slike, it's great help has arrived.
And help is stopping to take picturesof us trapped in our own engine.

(01:10:26):
And you can see the 1 33 are liketaking selfies with the truck
in the background with the fire.
The fire that's power ontop of the fire truck.
Um,
they're giving them a bigcheesy grin and thumbs up.
This is great.
And the jinx continues.

(01:10:48):
Yeah.
So they eventually get out of that.
Someone turns the power off andthey can get the truck out of there.
Jamal finally turns the power off.
Um,
yeah.
And they get back to the firehouse.
You know the problem, it'sbecause they called to te to turn
the power off and they're like,there's no power interruptions.
They're like, we know we needthe power off for fuck's sake.

(01:11:09):
How many times do wehave to go through this?
Bobby needed to get on the phonelike Athena, we need you to
kidnap a DWP employee and get himover here to turn the power off.
Um, but something must have happened.
The 1 33 must have finally got themout of the, out of that situation.
They're back at the station.
It looks like it's night.

(01:11:30):
Um, yeah.
I don't know why the 1 33 had tocome instead of them just turning
off the power, but whatever.
Well, I'm assuming thatthey need to get the
to take pictures
pole off the truck at some point.
I don't think that they couldget out and turn and get the
pole off the truck themselves.
They're firefighters.
Anyway.
Um, but for the drama they needed anyway,

(01:11:53):
the, the others just literallyturned up to laugh and take pictures.
Yeah, pretty much.
That's it.
They weren't, they weren't helping.
So it's obviously much later in the shift.
Um, apparently theyshould all be sleeping.
Uh, none of them are.
Bobby's in the kitchen cleaning up andChim Hen and Buck are all reading at a

(01:12:13):
table when Eddie arrives in the kitchen.
This is why they all get on sowell because they have to spend
all this time like just sittingaround in each other's pockets.
You're either going to like trauma bond orthey're all gonna hate each other's guts.
And luckily for us,they're all trauma bonded.
Yeah.
Um,

(01:12:34):
so we've got a, a miniaturebook club going on at the table.
Uh, Chim is reading, Caring for your Babyand Young Child Hen is reading Honors:
the Social Game of Medical School, whichI looked up and it's a guide on how to
survive and succeed as a med student.
Um, basic
as a third year med student.

(01:12:55):
How long has she been doing this?
I'm assuming she's reading in advancefor when she gets to her residency.
'cause it's all about networking and aboutlike how to, um, get, get connections so
that once you get out of your residencyyou get like the good placements in
the good hospitals in the good roles.
Oh, why is she reading a book?

(01:13:16):
I've seen Grey's Anatomy.
You just sleep with your resident.
Exactly.
You, you pick, you hook up with your reyou hook up with your attending in a bar.
Yeah, your attending, sorry.
Yeah.
And then you go to work the next dayand discover that he is your attending.
Not only that's fine, but he's like thetop of the, um, the particular departments

(01:13:37):
Oh dear
and then you end up like,you know, blah, blah, blah.
You end up owning the hospital later.
It's fine.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So Eddie's like, "am I interruptingbook club?" Um, Hen is just
like "medical, babies, women,"
because we don't actually see what bookBuck is reading, but he's obviously,
he's reading the book on women, "WhichEddie then says like, oh, I was wondering

(01:14:00):
why he had a book in his hand. But nowit all makes sense." Um, and either
I like to think in retaliation, but Ihonestly think that Buck really just
wants to know the answer to this question.
He puts down his book andsays, "Eddie, what would you
say Ana's love language is?"
Yeah.
So Buck's reading the Five Love Languages,
which I want to roll upand shove up his nostrils.

(01:14:25):
It's such misogynistic crap.
I mean, you guys know like thebackstory for the love languages, right?
Oh, vaguely.
So the person who wrote the LoveLanguages is a Southern Baptist preacher
and the book is basically teachingwomen how to submit to their husbands

(01:14:47):
in the name of good marriages becauseew, funnily enough, most men, their
love language is physical touch IE sex.
Yeah.
And therefore, in order to speak theirlove language, you have to sleep with them
even if you don't particularly want to.
'cause that's how you areexpressing your love to them.
Um,
right.
And then, you know, women's lovelanguage is like acts of service,

(01:15:09):
so, you know, doing the housework andit's, it's very much you have to work
with your husband's love language.
Um, there's not a lot about husband'sworking with their wives' love language.
No.
So men have to allow thewomen to clean the house
because that's how theyshow their love and Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
It's basically teaching you how to bea, um, a good Southern Baptist woman.

(01:15:34):
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So we, uh, don't actually carewhat Ana's love language is
because it's a load of bullshit.
But that's not the point.
The point is that in retaliation for thelittle jab about Buck reading, um, Buck
has brought up Ana for the group andwhich has raised everybody's attention.

(01:15:57):
Like, Bobby immediately beelines out ofthe kitchen over to the table 'cause he
wants to get in on this action as well.
Yeah, Hen's just like "Ana who?"And Eddie's just like "traitor."
And then Chim just slams his bookshut and goes, "Baby's not here yet.
Who's Ana?" Like shit eating grin.

(01:16:19):
Okay, I just looked it up.
Did you like, this is so fiveyears ago, but did you hear about
the neurodivergent love languages?
I love the neurodivergent love languages.
That's like pebbling and Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
Parallel play, crush mysoul back into my body.
Yeah.
And, and info dumping.

(01:16:39):
I just love it.
It's, it speaks to me a lotmore than the other crap does.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Oh yeah.
Like I will share memeswith you because I love you.
Yeah.
What was the one
or fan fiction,
like what was the one I sent you?
I'm like, I have no, absolutely no ideawhat this is, but I think it's yours.
Oh, that was the, theRighteous Gemstones TikTok.
Yeah.
Uncle Baby Billy.

(01:17:01):
Yeah.
There was a, um, there's an account thatlike makes dolls into popular other media
and it was a Ken doll being turned intosomeone from The Righteous Gemstones.
And I'm looking at it goinglike, who's uncle Baby Billy?
I, I'm looking at it going, Ithink it's Righteous Gemstones.
I'm not entirely sure.
I'll send it to Alice just in case.
'cause I know she, that's like her show.
He's just asking for aneight ball and $2 million.

(01:17:25):
And funnily enough, the doll alsohad an eight ball and $2 million.
It was great.
Um, oh, shout out toThe Righteous Gemstones.
A big fan.
Anyway.
Where were we?
Sorry,
Eddie finally realizes that he isnot going to, um, get out of this
without explaining, uh, who Ana is.
Um, so he explains, they mightnot remember who, they might not

(01:17:50):
remember her name, but all of themimmediately remembered that this is
the teacher that Eddie yelled at.
Yeah.
Um,
but he apologized for that.
Yeah.
So he doesn't he, yeah, hementions that she got a new job.
Um, Chim's like, "Oh, so youapologized for yelling at her, but
still didn't ask her out." And Eddie'slike, "Well, she's Christopher's
teacher." And Bobby it is like,"Thought you said she has a new job?"

(01:18:15):
And then he's saved by the bellbecause the alarm goes off.
Thank God, uh, otherwise I think,uh, they might have been looking for
a new captain because Eddie mighthave killed Bobby at that point.
Oh, I love Bobby in this episode so much.
He's such a....
It's just like, no, I'm too good for this.
So what's the tea?

(01:18:36):
Did she get a new job?
Uh, so they are sent to a structurefire at a single family residence.
They show up to find a guyfrantically hosing down his garage.
He seems very, very adamant that he'sgoing to keep hosing down the garage
until the 118 get their hose into play.

(01:18:57):
And when, when Bobby's like
What was that?
Get their hose out to play?
No, into play.
They're getting their hose,they're getting their hoses out.
Yeah.
Anyway,
anyway,
they need to shut down the utilitiesso they can, uh, put the fire out
so they can, they can use the water
contain the fire.

(01:19:17):
Um, the homeowner is like, ah, yeah, okay.
Drops the hose and bolts.
Bobby's like, "Uh, is there somethingthat we need to know about this fire?"
And the guy's like, "No, no, no. It'sjust, you know, Christmas decorations
and like old files." Um, at whichpoint I, there's a massive explosion.

(01:19:40):
Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" starts playingand the sky lights up with fireworks.
And Bobby's like, "Do you, do youwanna like, try again? Because
your taxes seem a whole lot moreexciting than mine are." um,
um, I should mention that Bowie mentionedhis taxes and I was like, oh, shit.
So as soon as I finishedthe episode, I did my taxes.

(01:20:01):
Well done.
So shout out to Bobby Nash.
Um, and this guy's fireworks foractually making me do my taxes.
Excellent.
So long story short, it's not thisguy's taxes that are going off.
He went down to coast.
Oh, it's not.
He went down to Costa Mesa andbought like $10,000 worth of
fireworks, um, to like on-sell.

(01:20:23):
And then the garage caught on fireand now they are all going off.
Expensive fireworks show.
That's a lot of fireworks.
Bobby jumps on the radiosaying Fire's been upgraded to
second alarm, send more units.
And a firework literally like whizzesbetween him and the homeowner.
It's like, oh, Jesus Christ.

(01:20:44):
So Bobby sends Buck aroundthe back, um, of the house.
He was helping Eddie with the hose,and Eddie's like, "Yeah, yeah.
Go, I got this." And Buck's like,"Are you sure?" And it's just like,
you, your captain just told you togo like, the fuck are you doing?
Um, he doesn't wanna leave his boyfriend.
I get it.
Yeah.
So Buck runs off, Eddie starts pulling thehose towards the house, but it gets stuck.

(01:21:07):
Uh, luckily he sees a firefighterwandering around, not really doing much,
so he yells over to him like, "I lostmy partner mind helping me out?" So this
guy's in the, a helmet from the 1 47.
Mm-hmm.
Eddie makes conversation whilethey're like untangling the hose.

(01:21:27):
We learned that his name is Brian,and Eddie is bitching about.
It's been like the day from hell.
They're 12 hours in on a 24 hourshift and it's just nonstop.
And Brian is like, "but, butyou've got such an awesome job.
Like, this is so cool.
You know, you get to beout here helping people.
That's gotta be worth like the tough days.

(01:21:48):
Right?" Um,
yeah.
It's all I ever wanted.
Eddie kind of looks at him andgoes, "Yeah. Okay. Um, thanks
for your help." Brian's like,
Poor Eddie just wanted to bitch atsomeone who wasn't gonna blame the jinx.
And the guy's just like, "No, yourjob's amazing. You're so lucky."
Eddie's like, no, that's okay.
Okay.

(01:22:09):
Just, just piss off.
Um, so he turns, Brian walks awayand Eddie suddenly clicks that this
guy had like 1 47 on his helmet.
And we, he clocks the name on theback of the turnout and yells like,
"Hey, Harmon," the guy doesn'tturn around and tries again.

(01:22:32):
Like, "Hey, Brian."
He answers to that one, turns aroundand goes, "Hey, some idiot from your
house gave a burn victim an ice pack.
You know, that's, that couldhave done some real damage."
And Brian's like, "oh, weird.
Huh.
I'll let the captain know."
Um, he disappears into thedistance, um, suddenly Bobby's back.

(01:22:59):
Yeah.
Bobby appears,
he just like phases intoexistence right next to Eddie.
He is like, Hey, I came likeI teleported to check on you.
And then he's like, no,
he's, he's a really good captain.
Okay.
Eddie's like, "No, it's okay.
Cool.
Like, that guy from the 1 47 helpedme," and Bobby's like, "Uh, couldn't
have been the 1 47." And Eddie'slike, "Yeah, it was the 1 47.

(01:23:22):
I'm pretty sure." But there is nobodyat the 1 47 currently because their
house was damaged during the mudslideat the beginning of the season.
And nobody's working outta that house.
Yeah, they're still rebuilding.
So, and he is like, well, whothe hell was I talking to?
A ghost?
This is the point where I was like, ifthis, if this was a Supernatural episode

(01:23:45):
Yep.
There would be an actualentity called Jinx.
That would be the Yeah, thatwould be the jinx entity.
And then they would have to appease it insome way to get it to stop bothering them.
Yeah.
But, but Buck's not okay with humanor animal sacrifices, so they just
have to work out how to kill it.
Yeah.
Which will probably be like a willowbranch, blessed by a shaman or something.

(01:24:05):
Yeah.
Stabbed through its heart, you know?
I dunno.
But anyway,
while waving your handsand ringing those bells
and ringing the bells, yeah.
The bells are important.
In some way,
Dean will be like, do wereally need the bells?
And Sam's like, it'simportant for the thing.
Yeah, Dean.
Yeah.
So get this, um,
the lore says,

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uh, but that doesn't happen.
The Winchesters are not here, no,
unfortunately.
Um, what does happen is that theyput out this fire, they go back
to the firehouse, um, where Bobbypulls up a photo of the 1 47.
Um, and we see the real Harman whohas his like turnout nicely displayed

(01:24:48):
across his knee so that we can seethat the name across the back of it,
who's this big, burly black dude.
Definitely not the one that, theperson that was helping out Eddie.
Aaron Harman.
Um, and yeah, Harman's nameis also Aaron, not Brian
Aaron
and Eddie says "maybe he's, do youthink he was a fake?" And Bobby says,

(01:25:11):
"sometimes they're criminals andthey use it to get inside people's
houses." But Eddie, Eddie seems,
Eddie doesn't thinkthat's what this one is.
Yeah.
Seems to think this guy means well.
But Bobby's like, yeah, that's worsebecause they're not trained and they
can wind up doing more harm than help.
And so it's a fun little conversationbecause they're starting, they
start talking about Brian and heis, like Brian said, that all he

(01:25:33):
ever wanted to be was a firefighter.
Um, and you know, you have to admire sortof people like him and their perseverance.
Like they try and they tryand they never make it.
And Bobby agrees, yes, you have toadmire their dedication, but you
also have to feel sorry for them.
And then he looks really hard at Eddieand says, "they're so focused on what

(01:25:56):
they don't have. They miss the chance tohave something real. Sometimes you just
have to recognize that and move on."
And Eddie's like, why are you looking?
Oh, okay, we're back to Ana.
Yeah.
Right.
He works it out pretty quickly.
He tells Bobby like, "I thought you ofall people would understand," and Bobby's

(01:26:18):
like, bitch, of course I understand.
I've been in your shoes and that's whyI'm telling you, you gotta move on.
Oh, it's really sweet though.
'cause they do have an actual
heart to heart.
Yes.
I'm, I'm being very flippantabout it, but they they are.
It is very sweet.
Um, Eddie tears up.
It is.
It's a really lovely bonding moment.
Bobbie looks like he'sabout to start crying.
Yeah.
Like, I'm surprised this hasn'tbeen a big thing between them

(01:26:41):
before because they do have that.
Yeah.
They've got tragedy in common, I guess.
Yeah.
Losing their family,
losing their wives, and then,
yeah,
and like both of them feelinglike it's their fault.
But then Bobby's got the, the goodexample of he's been able to move
on and he can sort of say to Eddie,look, just follow my example.

(01:27:04):
Yeah.
So Bobby says that, um, he knowswhat it's like to be stuck inside
the worst moment of your life tobe afraid, to hope to try again.
And Eddie's like, "I'm still not overit or over her." And Bobby says, "You
never will be, you'll always miss her.
And that part that she partof you that she took with her,
you never gonna get it back.
Every day you heal a bit more.

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Then one morning you wakeup and losing her isn't the
first thing you think about."
And Eddie sort of.
It's almost like desperately,like you're happy, you're
happy with Athena and the kids.
And this is the point whereyou can see that Bobby is
starting to almost start crying.
He's like, "I love Athena and the kids,I love the family that I have now, but
that doesn't mean that I'm ever gonnastop missing the one that I lost."

(01:27:48):
Aw,
yeah.
Yeah.
It's a really sweet moment.
All right, where are we?
We we're at Jim's Burgers and thisscene suddenly makes a bit more sense.
'cause I was really confusedabout the, everyone kept calling
this guy Jim, and he kept saying,"Actually it's Larry. No, I'm Larry."
But now that I know that theplace is called Jim's Burgers.
Yes.
That makes a lot more sense.
Jim's Burgers.

(01:28:08):
Yeah.
I'm like, who's Jim?
Is there another?
Does this guy have a twin whose nameis Jim and people keep calling him Jim?
Anyway,
I think the assumption is that onceupon a time there was a Jim and
he opened this restaurant and nowthese other people are working it.
I like to think that there wasnever a Jim, that it is actually
Larry's restaurant, but he justthought Larry's Burgers was a

(01:28:29):
lame, like name for a restaurant.
So he turned it into Jim.
Yeah.
Larry is behind the counter serving.
We get the setup.
It's busy.
People are coming in to get their burgers.
They're getting, they're calling theman behind the counter Jim, because they
assume that he is Jim, but he's Larry.
Um,

(01:28:50):
but he literally has aLarry name tag on him.
Like nobody looks at that.
Um.
And then all of a sudden Larry goescrazy and starts hurling chairs
through the large plate glass windowslining the front of the restaurant.
And we get a 9-1-1 call where a femalecaller says, "Jim's going crazy!"

(01:29:12):
Even Athena calls him Jim,
I love Athena's.
Like, yeah.
"Make it make sense, Jim." AndLarry's like, "it's, it's Larry."
So apparently the reason that Larry didthis was that he got a call from someone
claiming to be the fire chief, um, whosaid that there was a report of a gas leak

(01:29:34):
in his building and the whole place couldgo up, especially considering there is
like the kitchen has a lot of open flamesfor the grills and that Larry needs to
break all of the windows in the restaurantimmediately, I guess in order to get
some oxygen in and to dissipate the gas.
So that's exactly what Larry does.

(01:29:55):
Um, Athena is quite skeptical.
"Like some random guy just called you andyou immediately did what he said to do?"
Yeah.
Did you even even get a name,
ask any questions?
Larry's "he sounded veryofficial." It's like, okay, uh,
um, Bobby walks up at this point andinforms Larry and Athena that there

(01:30:18):
was no gas leak and Larry's like,"oh shit. I am gonna get canned." And
Athena says to Bobby that the callersaid that he was the fire chief.
And Bobby's like, "oh, somebody elseis pretending to be LAFD today."
Athena's like, "what do you meansomebody else?" And then in a

(01:30:39):
moment that is purely for the drama.
'cause there's no fucking way that thiswould happen in reality, Bobby looks up
and immediately locks eyes with Brian.
Yeah.
I immediately recognizes the guy whohe only saw the back of his head.
I don't think he ever saw Brian though.
That's the point.
Yeah.
The only person who'sseen Brian is is Eddie.

(01:30:59):
Eddie.
Yeah.
Because, no, because when um, whenBobby comes over he is like, oh,
I, so you already had some help.
Like he knew that Eddie was beinghelped, he just didn't see him up close.
But apparently he did.
He saw him well enoughto spot him in a crowd.
Especially considering he's in the crowd.
He is no longer wearing Harmon'sturnouts and he has a face mask on.

(01:31:20):
Um,
he just sensed his aura.
Okay.
I dunno.
Exactly.
It doesn't help that Brian immediatelylike notices that Bobby is locked
in on him and makes a break for it.
So yeah, he runs off and Buck is like,"I got him. Hey, I just wanna talk."
So like sprinting after him.

(01:31:40):
Yeah.
But Buck does his, hisgreat run that I love.
What, like, I love when Oliver doesthis and he runs with all four limbs.
Yeah.
Um, so like his running, but like hisarms are also flailing while he runs.
So like, Brian's like running normallylike a normal person and Buck's
like flailing after him and likefalling over and running into people.

(01:32:03):
Um, and Brian somehow, like he seesthe fire engine and just jumps in and
starts driving it because apparentlythey just left the keys in the ignition.
Right?
Um, Buck's very, he's very offended bythis because only he's allowed to steal.
Oh yeah.
Their trucks.

(01:32:23):
Where's their driver anyway?
Well, I'm assuming he is out assistingwith the, um, the quote unquote non
gass leak, but he's not in there.
So Brian is able to jump in.
Um, buck is offended.
Athena is also incredibly offended andimmediately jumps back into her car and

(01:32:44):
takes off after Brian in the engine truck.
And then at this point, Chim and Henreturn, um, they have not been helping
with the gas quote unquote gas leak.
They haven't been helping at all.
They have been helping themselvesto the food that the Jim's Burgers
employees can no longer sell.

(01:33:05):
Um, and they come back withlike bags full of food.
Chim's got a mouthful.
Hen's got a burger and her hand on the go.
Chim's asking, "What did we miss?"
They're still jinxed.
Uh, so we don't quite get, goback immediately to the chase.
First we have to goback to dispatch again.

(01:33:27):
Yes.
And Linda is wondering, um,why Josh is still there.
'cause she thought he was finishedhis shift and he was going home.
But apparently "there was a crazypolice chase" Josh says, but um,
Linda says, "yeah, yeah, it seemslike your little firefighter friends
are having a rough shift." Joshis like "Wait, wait, wait, wait.

(01:33:48):
The 118 are still in trouble?
They're not trapped in theengine again, are they?"
they probably wish they were,
so I don't know why we needed that scene.
Maybe just to find outthat Josh is still there.
But the thing is like he gets offthe elevator, so he had left and
then he turns around and comes back.
I don't know, maybe minimumshooting requirements.

(01:34:10):
Like they, they have to be onset a certain amount of time in
order, like when you're working,you have to have minimum hours.
Maybe they had like to make up the minimumhours, they needed to shoot some more.
I don't know.
So back at the burger place,Bobby's like, so when did you
guys last refill the gas tank?
And um, yeah, Buck just topped it off.

(01:34:33):
He's got like four hours, give or take.
And we have now,
unless he crashes it first.
Unless he crashes, which is a distinct,which is actually a distinct possibility.
Um, 'cause he's pretty reckless.
Um, we have now caught up with thebeginning of the episode because we
are back to Athena chasing the enginetruck, LAPD choppers following overhead.
Um,

(01:34:53):
first we get this like a scene of thisjogger who's running down the street
with her earbuds in and she gets toan intersection and just runs straight
across the road without looking andalmost gets hit by the firetruck.
Yep.
And they hit it.
You'd think you, it's like,look both ways, you idiot.
Even with your earbuds in, you're gonna,
you hear the sirens?

(01:35:14):
'cause they,
well, did he have the siren on?
No, he doesn't.
But the police has the sirens on.
Yeah.
Anyway, it's for the drama.
Um, she nearly gets run over by the truck,
So much for the drama because, um, LAPDchopper is kind of coordinating the chase
and they're trying to cut Brian off.

(01:35:34):
So he tells Athena to basically try andpull the maneuver on him or something
that, that weird maneuver where you likeknock into them and you cut them off.
And I don't know if that'sgonna work in a firetruck.
It doesn't, because Athenatries to cut him off.
Brian instead mounts the curb, takes acorner and starts driving up the side

(01:35:57):
of all of the parked cars on that block.
And they immediately...
Was anyone cringing?
start exploding.
Why did they exploded?
Yeah.
I'm like, how?
Yeah.
I'm like, why are they blowing up?
All he's doing is like dragging the truckalong the side of the cars probably,
he's scratching the paint to hell.
He's taking off all the wing mirrors.

(01:36:18):
Um, why?
It's very dramatic though.
I'm sure it's causing sparks, but why isthat enough to make these cars explode?
At least we know what they,um, use their budget on.
Yeah.
I, but yeah, I would like,I was cringing so hard.
I'm like the poor engine.
Yeah.
He is so scratched, like Bucktried so hard down in Texas
to not scratch the engine.

(01:36:40):
Yep,
yep.
And he just, he just polished itall up again last week as well.
Yeah, it's, it's, Brian does not realizethat the LAPD are trying to box him in.
So he keeps trying to get away fromAthena, not realizing that she's driving
him into a trap until he is in the trap.
He's suddenly surrounded by LAPD.

(01:37:03):
But, with Athena like right on his ass.
Um, but rather than, you know,getting outta the truck and, and
surrendering, um, he decides to throwit in reverse and start to back out.
And Athena's like, oh, okay.
And just reverses out ofhis way to let him go.
Yeah, just lets him go.

(01:37:24):
What the, why is nobodygetting out of their car?
And like
they're all aiming their guns athim, and then they're just like,
oh, okay, we'll just let him go.
Just let him go.
So he, she, she's gotta get hercar outta the way or she'll be
crushed by the reversing truck.
But this is what I mean, like,she reverses out of the way.
He reverses out, um, does a littlebit of a, like a three point turn and

(01:37:46):
starts driving off again and all ofthe cars just follow along behind him.
Like, what the fuck guys?
It is weird.
Um, at this point, Linda comes over, uh,the radio saying that there is a five
alarm fire at, uh, a residence and shewants all units to report, um, the 118

(01:38:07):
start panicking because, you know, theirinstinct is we need to report to this.
But, uh, don't,
they haven't got a truck.
They haven't got a truck, theyhave no way of getting there.
They do have an ambulance andso Bobby orders, so Bobby orders
them all into the ambulance.
So they clown car into the ambulance.
My favorite.
So Buck's like "Cap, there's not enoughroom." And Bobby's like, "just get

(01:38:29):
on the gurney, Buck, let's go." Andso they cut to inside and Hen, Eddie
and Bobby are sitting on the benchon one side, Chim's at the top of the
rig, and Buck is laying on the gurney.
He's not even sitting on the gurney.
He is literally just likelying on it like a patient.
He's just like, oh yeah, this is, yeah.
And Buck's like, yeah, "hehad to steal the engine.

(01:38:51):
He couldn't have taken theambulance" and Hen's like, "Oi!"
but he is got a pointbecause like, yeah, but
we're, we're on route to a firewithout any of like, any of our gear.
Like Cap.
Um, Bobby doesn't even have, have hishelmet that says like, captain on it.
Yeah.
Um, and Eddie has the brightidea that maybe they can
get their equipment to them.

(01:39:15):
So he gets on the radio and callsthe truck and specifically for Brian.
He tells Brian like, "Hey, it's, it'sEddie Diaz. Like, you, you don't have
to talk to me, but like, just key theradio so that I know you're listening."
Um, and everyone's like, thisis an absolutely stupid idea.
It's not gonna work.
And then Brian Keys the radio.

(01:39:36):
So he's, he's listening.
And so Eddie starts buttering him up.
He's like, "You know what?
I just, I wanted to say thank youfor helping me at the garage fire.
I needed your help.
We needed your help, andyou were there to help."
Um, he's playing Brian like a fiddle,and Brian is responding to it.

(01:39:56):
'cause he immediately gets on the radio.
He's like, "yes, that's all I everwanted to do, was help people."
Hmm.
And Eddie's like, "Well, you know whatwould really help us? There's a five
alarm fire right now. We need your help."
Yeah.
"People's lives depend on you."
Brian's like, "well, no one's evergiven me the chance to help." And
Eddie's like, "now is your chance."

(01:40:19):
Brian says he can't do it.
He's not a hero, but Eddieconvinces him that they need him.
So
I think this, I think even at onepoint he's like rolling his eyes
and like, oh, for fuck sakes, Brian.
Like, and then gets into sort of thekind of voice that I could imagine him
using on Christopher when he's tryingto like, convince Christopher to do
something that Chris doesn't wanna do.

(01:40:40):
And he is like, you know, "well we needyou Brian. Like we really need you."
Yeah.
We need you to eat yourBrussels sprouts, Christopher,
we need you to attend this fire.
And then there's this long momentwhere Brian's just driving down the
street thinking about it and he takeshis deep breath and he makes a turn.

(01:41:01):
And Athena's like, wherethe fuck is he going?
Like, Athena, did you not hear Linda'sdispatch that there's a five alarm
fire and they need all available units?
Um, he's going to the fire.
So he does, he, I don't knowhow he knows where he is going.
Um, but he does, he showsup at a five alarm fire.
Um,

(01:41:22):
He follows the smoke and the fire?
Really?
I don't think that wouldwork necessarily in LA.
I have a feeling that you coulddo that and he would end out
maybe he knows the area,but doesn't matter.
'cause he gets there and then he,he gets there, bails out and runs
and immediately trips over a fire hose.

(01:41:43):
Yeah.
And gets arrested.
But Eddie comes over beforethey cart him off, he comes over
and says to Brian, "thank you.
You did a good thing."And Brian's like, "I did?"
But Athenas's like, "yeah, but you alsoimpersonated a firefighter." And she says,
"stole a vehicle," I love how she doesthat, "stole a vehicle, evaded the police,

(01:42:07):
and recklessly endangered the lives ofa not insignificant number of people."
Not to mention broke all thecars and scratched the engine,
which is gonna be very expensive.
Destroyed a lot of stuff.
Yep.
And caused a lot of stuffto be destroyed, um, without
actually having done it yourself.
Um, so Athena carts him off to the, um,to the back of her car and he sort of

(01:42:32):
looks at her and goes, "Oh, you're apolice officer. Hey, you must respond
to a lot of like emergencies. Youmust help a ton of people each day."
And she's like, "don'teven think about it. Nope."
Poor guy.
I mean, not poor guy.
He just did a really stupid thing.
But
he does a lot of really stupidthings and it doesn't look like

(01:42:54):
he's learned his lesson at all.
No.
But he gets shoved in the back of a car.
Athena drives off and we leave the 118to like help with the fire, I guess.
Yeah.
Yep.
We don't get to see that.
So
no.
Uh, next time we see the 118,it is the end of their shift.

(01:43:16):
Finally.
It's a long 24 hours.
They're walking out of the nonfoam filled locker room in civvies.
I love that.
Hen's like, "that.
That's it, right?
Next shift back to normal." AndChim just goes, "yeah, I might
call in sick just in case."
Um, but Bobby says he knows the guys areeager to get outta there, but he'd like

(01:43:40):
to buy them breakfast and, and Buck goes,"Do you ever get to that point where
you haven't eaten in so long, you stopbeing hungry?" And the looks like all
of them are just like, what the fuck?
And he's like, yeah, "no, meneither. Still hungry. Let's go."
Yeah, no, I know exactly what he means.
Yeah, I do often.
Yeah.
So I'm, I'm putting that in the, uh, likeevidence, num evidence, whatever we're

(01:44:04):
up to number that Buck is neurodivergent.
Because
Oh, a hundred percent.
This is like the most neurodivergentepisode of Buck's ever.
It's a very much a neurospicything to just not be hungry.
Yeah.
Uh, but he realizes that he's fuckedup because nobody else has had
the same experience and he's like,oh, no, no, I'm still hungry too.

(01:44:25):
Um, so they follow Bobby towards thecars and they realize that Eddie is
not following them and is still inuniform and is not coming with them.
Um, because
yeah.
I don't know why he'sstill in uniform, but Sure.
I don't know why either.
But I do enjoy him...

(01:44:46):
I think while they were getting changed
in his uniform, so I'm not gonna complain.
Possibly while he was, while theywere all getting changed, he was
out the back like calling Ana.
Maybe.
Maybe.
But it's like six, seven o'clockin the morning at this point.
Or maybe it's a little bit later.
It still seems veryearly to be calling her.
Yeah.
Also, when did he get her number?

(01:45:10):
He had to call the school.
Well, she didn't she ring him whenit was, when Christopher was falling
off the skateboard and stuff?
Yeah.
From the school.
From the school, whichshe's no longer working at.
I'll stop thinking
maybe he just Facebook stalked her.
He was Instagram stalking her,
I'm gonna stop thinking about it.
I'm just getting, okay.
He was dropping her a followrequest and she finally accepted

(01:45:32):
it at 7:00 AM and he is like, Hey,wanna do breakfast before school?
Anyway, so he's still in uniform.
I'm not gonna go pick up my child.
Um,
because he still has plans.
Um, Bobby looks very approving aboutthe fact that Eddie still has plans.
Buck looks very confused.
He's like, like,

(01:45:52):
why, why don't I know about these plans?
Why don't like, but I'm, I'm here.
Like, I don't know about any plans.
I'm here.
We don't have any plans.
What are you talking about?
Oh,
so Bobby does take themto breakfast and Yeah.
This is like the weird scene where they'resitting in a table in an open courtyard,
but they're all still fully masked.

(01:46:15):
Yeah.
Which, and we get the,the exposition breakfast.
Yes.
Oh yeah.
Where they explain everything,
which is basically what we already knew.
Um, yeah.
He broke into, he wantedto be a firefighter.
He could never get through the training.
He broke into the 1 47and stole their gear.
We did get the Buck adding in thathe must have bought a scanner so

(01:46:37):
that he could hear the calls overthe radio and know where to go.
Yeah.
Hen's a bit confused that he, uh, whyhe called in the fake gas leak and
made Jim slash Larry, um, smash hisown windows, but Bobby explains that
he thought that it was a real gas leak.
So then we get the replay of the phonecall and everything where Brian thought

(01:47:01):
that he could smell gas and he, um,
which to be fair
thought it was real gas leak.
He probably could, because as wesaid, Jim's work with like open
flame grills and they obviously haveit turned up quite high 'cause the
flames are leaping through the grills.
So there probably was a smell of gas.
Yeah.
But it wasn't a leak.

(01:47:22):
It's just how the, the stoveswork.Yeah, grills work.
Um, and buck like, yeah, he wasn't just afake firefighter, he was a terrible one.
And then probably the piece deresistance would be for the drama
in an entire episode is for thedrama, four separate servers
immediately descend on their table,handing out the food simultaneously.

(01:47:44):
How many workers does this cafe haveat like, at seven 30 in the morning?
Yeah.
It's 'cause they're firstresponders, even though they,
they're not wearing their gear.
Like, when, when has that everhappened that everybody gets
their meal simultaneously?
It's two and two.
Like I can imagine one server likebringing out four plates and like plating

(01:48:05):
them one by one, but never one, oneserver with one plate at the same time.
But yeah.
So Bobby proposes a toast.
They all,
they're not allowed to eat yet
put their forks up.
Buck's has a sausage on it.
Yeah.
He toasts with his sausage.
Um, and yeah, "Here's to the hardesthungriest working crew I know, let's
eat." But right before, but rightbefore they're able to eat and or

(01:48:32):
put any food in their mouth, anothercustomer starts like gasping for breath.
And the person there with it's like, oh myGod, I think she's having a heart attack.
Ugh.
And so, of course, the 118immediately jump into action.
You see
now that they're off, off shift, um, theirability to magically diagnose someone
has jumped to this other person who,

(01:48:54):
well, they don't say thatshe's having a heart attack.
No.
Someone else says thatthey're having a attack.
So
Exactly.
They're off shift, so theydon't have the ability Oh yeah.
Someone else has.
So they,
um, so yeah, Buck grabs the life pack.
I don't know that they have theability that it's just like, I think
the woman grabbed her chest andso everybody just assumes if you
Yeah, that'll be funny whenshe just has indigestion.
Yeah, I thought she was choking.

(01:49:16):
But anyway.
Yeah.
They jump up and grab the,um, defibrillator thingy,
Bobby calls it in, Buckgets the life pack.
Chim's already workingon assessing the patient.
No food for them.
Hen's still at the tableshoving food in her face.
No, she's not.
She's there.
She's helping too.

(01:49:37):
I wouldn't blame her if she did.
Meanwhile, Eddie does get to eat.
Yes.
He's waiting at a table.
I just kept thinking, wouldn't ithave been funny if he'd like asked
Bobby for a recommendation of wherehe should take Ana and then Bobby
picks the same restaurant for there.
Yeah.
And they're all just watching him,
the 118 brunch.

(01:49:57):
And so they're both sittingthere at the same restaurant.
It's not, it's a separate restaurant.
But that's just where my mind went.
I went, wouldn't it have been funny?
I absolutely expected itto be the same restaurant.
Yeah.
But yeah, so, and uh, Eddie issitting at a table, um, and we
see the, the, the reason for hisplans is that Ana walks towards him

(01:50:18):
and he gets all like heart eyes.
Mm-hmm.
And like neon pink blush and pulls her,stands up and pulls her chair out for her.
Um, the gauze has now gone from, um,a couple of wraps around her wrist
to almost like up to her elbow.
Yeah.
She's very tightly wrapped now, so, butthe doctor did say that ice is absolutely

(01:50:41):
the wrong thing to put on it, so,
um, yeah.
She was surprised that he calledso are we because, because we have
no idea how we got the number.
She asked how the day, howthe day from hell turned out.
And, and he's like, "I'm starting to thinkit turned out pretty good." Ah, Eddie.

(01:51:03):
So yeah.
So the server comes over and goes,can I get you guys something to drink?
Maybe coffee.
And they both immediately at the sametime, go "no coffee." And then they
look at each other and they're both atimmediately the same time, say, "jinx".
And then neither of them canspeak for the rest of the,
for the rest of the breakfast.
Yeah.
They're just laughing toeach other like, ah, haha.

(01:51:24):
At the service.
Like, yeah.
So tea, water,
tequila?
Bloody Marys?
Like something to end this interaction.
Ah.
It's very awkward, but cute.
Cute but awkward.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's the end of the episode.

(01:51:44):
Yeah.
Such a fun episode.
It's so good.
I loved it.
This is my favorite episode.
It was the first one I everwatched, like more than once.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's nice to have, like,apart from the fact that it is a very
funny episode on its own, it's nice tohave a lighthearted one and like previous

(01:52:05):
lighthearted episodes that we've had,I've always had some element of angst
in it, but this one didn't really, yeah.
Like this one still does have alittle bit, like it's got the, um,
stuff about Shannon, um, like Bobbyhelping Eddie move past Shannon,
which is really, but it's like, yeah.
But in light it's like warm hearted.
Yeah, it's he's working through it.

(01:52:26):
It's not like he's actually sittingthere crying about it, you know?
I mean, it is a little bit, but yeah.
And it's just that one scene.
But I think like the episode youcompared it to Ellen was "Dosed" where
it was like ahaha, everyone's highon the, like the, the magic brownies.
Meanwhile, Bobby is like hallucinatinghis dead daughter is there and is standing
on the top of the building ready to jump.

(01:52:47):
Yeah.
So, you know, starts off really,really high, quote unquote, um, ha ha.
And then immediately just straight intotrauma where we didn't get that, that
like, jarring dichotomy in this episode.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, definitelystill my favorite episode.

(01:53:08):
Um, like it's just the rewatchability is so good.
Yeah.
I laugh every time I watch the scenewith them stuck in the, um, firetruck.
Oh yeah.
It's very good.
And the, the montage isgreat every time as well.
I mean, parts of it arejust so over the top.
I mean, we say this in everyepisode, it's all for the drama.
Yeah.
Like the, the charm, the charm ofthe show is that it's over the top.

(01:53:31):
And this episode definitely does itwell because it's fast paced enough that
like, you don't really think about how itdoesn't make sense until you passed it.
And then you're like, wait a minute,and then it's onto the next scene.
So you don't really get the chance to
Yeah.
Well, of oftentimes, I don'tthink, it doesn't make sense
until we di dissect it afterwards.
You know, like when you'rewatching it, you don't realise
dissecting it.

(01:53:52):
But even then, even once you, um,even once you've realized like how
little sense this entire episodemakes, it's still, you can switch
your brain off and go, you know what?
It's just, it's so funny and it's so cute.
I am willing Yeah.
To suspend my disbelief.
I'm willing to go for the dramaand I'm willing to watch it again.
Whereas there are some episodeswhere I am like physically very angry

(01:54:13):
at those episodes about how littlesense they make, and I will never
be able to watch them again withoutthrowing something at the television.
Yeah, yeah.
That's it.
Um, but yeah, this one has the whole,like the ensemble is used very well.
Yeah.
Like Athena slots really well into it.
Um, it's not just, you know, here'sthe firefighters doing something
and here's the cops doing something.
And she makes sense in this episode.

(01:54:34):
Yeah.
Like
when she shows up, it's not just,oh, Angela needs to be on set today.
Yeah.
There's reasons make sense.
Yeah.
Yes.
Um, and she's got something to do.
Like she does the whole, um,like, like fire engine chase, but
also with the billboard thing, itmakes sense for her to be there.
And Yeah.
Then, and she like gives the, likeshe's supporting Bobby, just like,

(01:54:56):
you don't really believe that.
And he's like, no.
Um, like it's very cute.
They're very cute.
Um, Eddie and Bobby's like Bobbybeing a dad to Eddie is really cute.
Chim and Hen giving, uh, Eddieshit about Ana is really cute.
Buck just being himself is just cute.

(01:55:17):
Buck.
Oh my god.
Buck is so like, he'sgreat in this episode.
Yes.
Like the only thing I missed obviouslyis Maddie because she's not in it.
Like, it would've been niceif we got her in dispatch.
Yeah, I guess they, that would make sense.
They gave her a week off after last week.
It would make, I'm very curious as toknow what was going on with Jennifer that
there must have been something happeningthat she just could not film this week.

(01:55:42):
So they've just, they've thrownBrian and Linda's actress in instead.
I wonder maybe if it was writtenfor Maddie to be in dispatch and
then Jennifer had something goingon and they've gone, shit, we're
gonna have to quickly rewrite it.
Well, it would make, itwould make more sense.
When did this air?
February, 2021.
So this is February.

(01:56:03):
So they would've been filmingthis, let's say December, January.
When did, um, Jennifer LoveHewitt find out she was pregnant?
Around December, January.
Yeah.
So maybe she was unwell sick or, yeah.
Maybe she had COVID.

(01:56:24):
Yeah, maybe she had COVID.
Anyway, it would make more sense forBuck and Chim to be texting her about
what was going on with the truck.
Yeah.
I miss Maddie.
Like I, I would've loved to seelike, Maddie being like, "Chim,
I'm not bringing you bells. Whatthe fuck are you talking about?"
Yeah.
If she would not havebeen on board with that,
actually, that's an interesting point.
Do we think that Maddie would besupportive of the belief in the

(01:56:48):
jinx or would she be like, no,you're, you're both fucking idiots.
She whispers to ghosts, soI'm pretty sure she, um,
well she was a nurse in ahospital, so surely Yeah.
That is also applies with the Q word.
The Q word.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
She knows all about full moons and jinxes.
Yes.
I miss Maddie.
Um, Hen was also not like a huge partof this episode, but I'm pretty sure

(01:57:11):
next episode's a very Hen episode.
Yeah.
Next week is very Hen heavy.
Yeah.
So like she's still got a lot,like she was still in this one
and I love when Buck's like, oh, Icouldn't have stolen the ambulance.
and Hen's just like, wait,
um, yeah, that's the other thing.
Even though it was, um, thefocus was, it's, I guess it's
slightly more Eddie heavy.

(01:57:33):
There is still, it still feelslike an ensemble episode.
Yeah.
Very much.
But Hen has not been, they haven't gone.
Oh well um, Aisha, we're gonnaneed you on next week, so we're not
gonna give you any lines this week.
You're just gonna miraculously disappear.
Yeah.
For this week.
Like she's still very in character.
She's still giving Buck shit.
Yeah.
It's like only in retrospect you go, oh,Aisha didn't have that much this week.

(01:57:54):
Yeah.
But like the things that she didhave were so good and so Hen.
Yes.
So thumbs up to Taylor Wong.
Very good at writing the ensemble.
Yeah.
Really good at writing the ensemble.
Yep.
Um.
And yeah, so we don't have any more of um,Taylor Wong stuff this season, but there's

(01:58:14):
two in season five, two in season six, twoin season seven and three in season eight.
I, we do have a little bit of triviaat the bottom where the Jim's burger
and the Izzy Chains storylines wereapparently ripped from the headlines.
Oh.
Um, apparently the gas leak storylinewas similar to prank calls that

(01:58:39):
were made to several Burger Kingrestaurants, which caused their
workers to smash out their windows.
Nice.
Um, and the Izzy Chain's stunt wasbased on a YouTuber, um, who course
pretty much did the same thing.
Of course, it was.
However, he did not fall off theYouTube, fall off the billboard

(01:59:05):
because of a, you know, structuralintegrity issues with the tape.
They did need a crane to get him down,and the photos that were taken during the
stunt, um, the YouTube apparently sold andthe proceeds went to the LAFD for their
like, time and effort in helping him.

(01:59:26):
Okay.
So it was a much lessdramatic stunt in the end
Yes.
Than the one we had in the show.
What have we got to lookforward to next week?
Next week, Buck jumps back into the datingpool and Hen's mother comes to town.
Lucky Hen.
Is he like Eddie's got a girlfriend?

(01:59:48):
So now I must.
Yep.
A hundred percent.
Pretty much.
Yep.
Right.
Um, the full summary says thatthe 118 rush to save a man pinned
under a Humvee and a garage bandthat rocks out too hard enlisting.
Oh, I love this episode.
This is so cool.
Enlisting Bobby and Athena's help,Michael installs a new quote unquote

(02:00:11):
rear window and turns into an amateurdetective after noticing strange
behavior at a nearby apartment.
Now...
Oh my God.
It's this episode,
episode is not Yes, but it's not.
He, Bobby and Athena don't help himinstall the window, Bobby and Athena help
him with the amateur detective stuff.
Oh, no,
that's a really badly written sentence.

(02:00:34):
Um,
I'm just imagining them likebringing a crane in and Bobby
like "Back a bit, back a bit."
Meanwhile, Hen's mother unexpectedlyarrives and announces that she's moving
to LA and Buck reentry into the datingpool spoiler alert ends in disaster.

(02:00:58):
Oh
yeah.
It doesn't go well.
Is it really Buck if, um.
It doesn't end in disaster.
No, not really.
Uh, triggers for next week?
Ooh.
Um, we have drug use, specificallymarijuana, bleeding from the eyes.

(02:01:20):
Ooh.
References to the foster care system.
Um, references of illegal surgeryand minor gore, which I would've
thought referred to the bleeding ofthe eyes, but apparently it refers to
the aforementioned illegal surgery.
Great.

(02:01:40):
I love, yeah.
Illegal surgery.
All right.
Well, um, let us know whatyou thought about this one of
our favorite episodes so far.
Did you love it as much as we did?
I hope so.
It was great.
Um, are you excited to see more of Ravi?
Oh, I am.
Now that I know who Ravi is, howlong do we have to wait before Ravi

(02:02:05):
is actually in another episode?
Not long.
Oh, I'm trying to remember.
1, 2, 3, 4, 6 episodes.
Right.
Cool.
Yes.
He comes back in episode 12.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm, I'mpretty sure his next episode,

(02:02:25):
which I don't wanna spoil the titlebecause it's literally everything
about the episode is in the title.
Um, but I was pretty sure thatepisode was in season four.
It is.
And it is.
So yes, we do see them.
Okay.
Season four is so short though, but Ialways like underestimate how short it is.

(02:02:45):
It's so short, but it's so good.
Yes.
It's been great.
So far.
Also it's gonna be difficultto pick previous, a favorite
As aforementioned with binging.
I, I don't actually knowwhich season is which, or what
episode goes and which season.
It's all a blur.
Yeah.
But yeah, so he's in a lot of season five.
He's in two more episodes in season four.

(02:03:07):
Most of season five and thenvanishes during season six.
So yes, you'll have plenty, plenty ofopportunities, um, to see Ravi again.
Awesome.
And see why we all love him.
Yeah.
I've seen a lot of lovefor him on the socials.
Like I even am trying to avoidspoilers, but I do see that and

(02:03:30):
I'm like, oh, when's he show up?
He's very active on thesocials too, which helps.
Right, okay.
He's just funny.
Um, let us know, you can leaveus a comment on the episodes
post on thatweewooshow.com orany of the other ways that, uh,
what places that you listen.
A lot of other places let you leavecomments now so it is in, it's not

(02:03:51):
just Spotify anymore, I don't think.
So please let, let usknow what you thought.
Thank you for listening this week,and we will talk to you next time
about episode seven, which is called"There Goes The Neighborhood".
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(02:04:43):
What was I gonna say?
Yeah, his actors in like everything,like his actor's in Big Sky, and then I
was watching Grey's Anatomy after 9-1-1one night, and he was in that, and I was
just like, Ravi, what are you doing here?
Like, go back to the 118.
The Big Sky one was like, what?
What?
I had to go back and watch it again.

(02:05:04):
Like, oh yeah, he was,
yeah, he's like a big part of,
did you ever watch Big Sky?
Jensen's season.
No.
Oh.
Well, yeah, he's a bigpart of Jensen's season.
You're, you're not missing much.
No, I gathered that
Hey!
You're missing my, my love,who I've forgotten the name of.

(02:05:24):
She can't be that much of a loveif you've forgotten her name.
I know, right?
You've got to admit though,that wasn't her best work.
And that's
Jenny.
That's not on her, on
Katheryn Winnick,
that's on the Yes.
Katheryn Winnick.
That's not on her, that'son the, the show itself.
I still need to watch Vikings for her.
What do you mean You stillneed to watch Vikings?

(02:05:44):
Have you not seen Vikings?
I've not watched Vikings.
I thought that's why youwere in love with her because
No, it was from Big Sky.
Oh, good Lord, woman.
Yes.
You need to watch Vikings.
I just paid for a month of, um, HBOMax as well, because I had so much
to watch on there that I was like,fuck it, I'm just gonna pay for it.
Oh, okay.

(02:06:05):
Because yeah, watch The RighteousGemstones, but, um, I wanted to watch
Danny McBride's other stuff and I wantedto watch White Lotus and there was some
other things as well, so I was like,fuck it, I'm just gonna pay for it.
So I like called my friends
watch The Pitt.
Yes.
The Pitt is also, I have The Pitt.
It's amazing.
But I was trying to watch it withMum because it's apparently like the

(02:06:26):
most accurate medical show on tv.
Yes.
Um, and so I was trying to watch itwith Mum and when I showed her the first
episode, she didn't really pay attention.
So now that I have it on theapp, I can just like go up to the
house and force her to watch it.
Um,
I saw, I saw a quick snippet of one ofthe actresses who said that, um, they
did things so differently on The Pitt tothe point where the medical consultant

(02:06:51):
was the one directing the scenes.
Oh, wow.
And the director just stoodin the background and would
just occasionally go like,
that's so cool.
Oh, we can't actuallysee it on the camera.
Can we like switch?
And so the medical consultant wouldbe like, okay, everybody has to move.
We have to rearrange everythingso that you can get it on camera.
But I am not changing what they are doing.
Yeah.
See, I've seen, um, I've actuallyseen a lot of The Pitt through

(02:07:13):
Dr. Mike, um, reviewing it.
Yeah.
Um, and it's really funny becausehe'll be like, oh, they really
should be doing this instead.
And they do that instead.
Like, 'cause it was just like a,um, like an intern doing it and
he's just like, oh, okay, nevermind.
Yes, yes.
Um, but yeah, now that I finishedHouse, I really wanna, um,
really wanna watch The Pitt.

(02:07:33):
So yeah, The Pitt's on my list.
White Lotus is on my list.
Um, I started watching VicePrincipals today 'cause it's only
like 18 episodes or something.
So it's really short.
I'm feeling like a realold lady at the moment.
'cause all I'm watching is Poldarkand it's on the fucking ABC.
What?
Hang on.
What is it?
What is Poldark?
It's like
P-O-L-D-A-R-K I'm assuming

(02:07:54):
It's like, yeah, AidenTurner from off of, um,
British Historical Drama.
Yeah.
It's like the 17 hundreds.
It's like it's set in Cornwall
that's very on brand for you.
I was gonna say, should webe expecting a, um, a fanfic?
Oh, I, I write period fanficall the time, so yeah,
that's just like, are are weexpecting, um, Poldark fanfic now or?

(02:08:17):
Oh no, it's, it's very familydrama, like feuds and like random,
like heaps of scenes about mining.
Like, 'cause it's set in Cornwall,so it's all beautiful beaches and
ocean and like, you know, smugglersand copper mining and stuff.
I love that it finished, it finishedsix years ago and Ellen's just like, sh

(02:08:41):
no, I never, I never watched it.
No, I never watched it before, butnow I just realized that they'd put
it on a, on iView so I was like,oh, I may as well just binge this.
Ah,
yeah, I mean I can't talk aboutuntil just finished House again.
And that finished a long time ago as well.
Um,
but yeah, the, the, the, for thedrama of it is very annoying.
It's like what God, you guys like whyit's three seasons in and we are still

(02:09:06):
having the same arguments, like whyVery annoying, but I'm enjoying it.
Having said that, I am enjoying it anyway.
We should probably signoff the episode and then
I'll just put all that at the end.
All this will just be bloopersand they'll be like, oh, what,
what are, what are they watching?

(02:09:27):
Oh, not 9-1-1,
not 9-1-1.
That's right.