February 25, 2025 • 100 mins
In this episode of That Weewoo Show, Bex, Ellen and Alice watch the film, "The Holiday Junkie" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and her real-life husband, Brian Hallisay. Queue up the movie and join the watch party!
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Ellen (00:00):
Hi, everyone.
It's Ellen here.
Uh, we need to take a little midseason break this week, um, in our
regular 9-1-1 episode discussions.
But we've got something a little bitdifferent to share with you today.
Back at the start of the year, we watchedThe Holiday Junkie movie together.
It was written by and is starringJennifer Love Hewitt and her real
life husband, Brian Hallisay,who was also in 9-1-1 as Doug.
(00:24):
Um, and we recorded our chatas we watched it together.
So at the time the devastating fireswere happening in LA so we didn't end
up posting it then because we didn'tthink it was appropriate to post such
a light hearted episode when so manypeople were going through such terror.
So, um, now that LA is on the road torecovery, and there are still plenty
(00:44):
of, um, groups who are working tomake that happen, including Random
Acts, for example, if you wanted togive, give some support to them to
help with the recovery efforts, that'srandomacts.org, go and check it out.
Um, but.
It was Jennifer Love Hewitt's birthdaythe other day, so we thought now would be
a great time to have a look at her movie.
(01:05):
Um, if you're able to watch the film, Ibelieve it's available at the moment on
the Lifetime channel in the US, but alsoon Prime Video, at least in Australia,
maybe other countries too, I hope.
So you can put our episode onat the same time as the movie
and watch it along with us.
Uh, but if you'd rather not watch thefilm and I realize it's now the end
(01:25):
of February, maybe you're not into theholiday movie right now, that's fine.
You can totally skip this episode, andwe will be back next week to continue
with our season 3 episodes of 9-1-1.
Hope you enjoy it!
Maddie (01:39):
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
Bex (01:41):
Welcome back to That Wee Woo Show, a podcast where we normally watch and
discuss episodes of ABC show 9-1-1.
But this week we're doingsomething a little different.
Ellen (01:53):
We are, we're going, well first we'd better say
Happy New Year to everybody.
Alice (01:57):
Yeah, Happy New Year!
Ellen (01:58):
Hello again, it's been a few weeks, but Happy New Year to you, hope
you had a pleasant holiday period.
Rather than wishing everyone the best for2025, because in a lot of places around
the world it's not terribly great at themoment, um, we'll just say we hope that
you're safe and you had a nice time withyour loved ones, and Yes, I hope that
(02:19):
continues as we go into the next year.
Who knows what that will bring.
Alice (02:22):
I hope you had some really good food over the holidays.
That's yeah.
Ellen (02:26):
Yeah, that's what like the holiday season's all about, right?
Alice (02:29):
That's it.
Ellen (02:30):
Cheese and sitting on the couch.
Anyway, um, This week we thought we'ddo, before we got back into all of our
usual episodes to get back into seasonthree, we thought we'd give Jennifer Love
Hewitt a, a chance for her Christmas moviethat she, that came out in mid December.
(02:51):
Uh, it's called The Holiday Junkie.
Is that correct?
I don't know anything about this movie.
I just know that Jennifer Love Hewittand her husband, Brian Hallisey, who also
played Doug in season two, um, are bothin But, you know, we're hoping that this
will help us to being a romantic comedy,etc. A holiday film on, um, Lifetime.
(03:16):
That it will help us rehabilitateBrian's image a little bit from
the horrible abuser to someone whois worthy of a romantic comedy.
I mean, I assume it's a comedy.
I don't even, I don'tknow anything about this.
Bex (03:31):
Do you want the summary or do you want to go in completely blind?
Ellen (03:34):
Oh, no.
Okay.
Let's do the summary because, okay,so what, what we're going to do
is this is going to be like one ofthose, a watch episode, literally.
So we are going to watchthis, the, the movie.
It streams on Lifetime.
We've never seen this before.
We haven't seen the trailer.
Alice (03:48):
That's it.
Ellen (03:48):
Yeah, I haven't even watched the trailer.
Alice (03:51):
There you go.
I've seen the trailer.
Ellen (03:54):
So do you want to read the summary?
Bex (03:57):
Sure.
Yes.
I have gone on to, if anyone wantsto know where to find It's on the,
uh, the lifetime website, uh, mylifetime.com/movie/the holiday
junkie, Andy and her mother Mimirun a company called the Holiday
Junkie, a decorating and planningservice for all holiday needs.
(04:17):
But after Mimi passes away, Andy isforced to face her first Christmas
without her mother and carry theHoliday Junkie torch all on her own.
Despite the challenges, Andy may alsofind some love at Christmas along the way.
It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, BrianHallisay, Kristen Chenoweth, Lynn
Andrews, and Deborah Christofferson.
(04:39):
So there is a little bitof a 9-1-1 connection.
Alice (04:43):
Yeah, there's a few 9-1-1 Easter eggs as well.
Bex (04:48):
Yeah, because Deborah Christofferson plays Sue.
Ellen (04:52):
Oh, okay.
Bex (04:55):
Awesome.
So it's like when, um, when JenniferLove Hewitt decided to make this movie,
she's walked around the set of 9-1-1asking all the, all the cast members,
Hey, have you got a free weekend?
I'm shooting a movie.
Can you come and help me out?
Alice (05:09):
Literally.
I'm pretty sure she just shotthis like on the weekend.
Ellen (05:13):
Have you actually watched the movie already, Alice?
Alice (05:16):
No, I've seen the trailer.
Ellen (05:17):
Okay.
All right.
Bex (05:18):
I think I've seen the first like minute or so just by the trailer.
when I'm playing around trying to get thetech to work, which it absolutely did not.
And no one is surprised about that,but no, I've not, I've not seen it.
Ellen (05:33):
No worries.
All right.
So how are we going to do this?
So should we count down intothe, like, just do ready, set,
go, and then play the movie or?
Alice (05:40):
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah.
Well, three, three, two, one.
Yeah?
Bex (05:45):
Okay.
Alice (05:47):
Three, two, one play.
Ellen (05:55):
Oh, what a pretty Christmas tree.
This is, this is like the most,Christmas Stereotypical Christmas
movie, like, beginning I've ever seen.
The Holiday Junkie.
Bex (06:13):
Yeah, but look where it is!
Alice (06:20):
Oh, she's even got a Christmas ringtone.
Ellen (06:22):
Oh my god, who puts a Christmas... oh, I suppose she
works for a Christmas shop.
Who's that?
He's been in 9-1-1, right?
Maybe he was in Supernatural.
Bex (06:42):
Probably more Supernatural than 9-1-1.
Oh look, their kids are in it!
Ellen (06:46):
Oh, their kids are in it, yeah!
Just saw that.
Atticus and... That's cute.
Oh, she looks how I feel.
What
(07:19):
are these glasses?
They're so red.
Alice (07:21):
They're Christmassy.
Bex (07:24):
Definitely a very different look to Maddie.
Ellen (07:27):
Yes.
Bex (07:58):
Um, so Mr,
wait, it's that guy, um,was not on Supernatural.
Ellen (08:06):
Hey, I did that one with my, with my daughter.
Okay, sorry, I don't know whereI've seen him before then, but he
definitely, I definitely recognised him.
Aww.
Oh,
(08:43):
that's really sweet.
And, and sad.
Alice (08:55):
I actually have a friend who, like, owns a Christmas business.
And when the trailer for this cameout, I sent it to her and I was just
like, This is what you need to do.
Just go into people's housesand decorate it for Christmas.
Bex (09:06):
Oh.
That looks like the shop frontfrom The Ghost Whisperer.
Yeah.
Alice (09:13):
Probably is.
Bex (09:19):
Peppermint lattes, no thank you.
Alice (09:21):
Best in the world, and they've crossed it out and put town.
It's Sue!
Ellen (09:27):
Oh there she is!
Hi Sue!
Alice (09:33):
It's not Sarah, that's Sue.
Ellen (09:34):
This is like a
9-1-1 AU, like.
Bex (09:57):
No, it's gonna be toothpaste.
Oh,
(10:27):
no, it's got to be the quietestcoffee machine in the world.
Ellen (10:32):
Oh, right.
Yeah.
Alice (10:38):
Surely that would be so hot.
Bex (10:40):
It's empty.
Alice (10:41):
It's also empty.
They're always empty.
She's like waving it around.
Ellen (10:51):
No it's too light.
Oh no, we're gonna ripthis to shreds, aren't we?
I'm so sorry, everyone.
Bex (10:55):
She has not participated in the Jensen Ackles School of um,
Believable Drinking of Coffee.
Alice (11:08):
I just don't get why they haven't made a weighted coffee cup for movies yet.
Like, it just seems so obvious.
Ellen (11:15):
Oh, they could, could put liquid in it, like.
Alice (11:17):
No, because they pick it up on the microphones.
It's like how, um, the paper bags inmovies, they're actually made of canvas.
Ellen (11:26):
Oh, okay.
Bex (11:26):
So they don't crunch.
Alice (11:28):
Yeah, so they don't rustle.
Ellen (11:31):
Gee, I'm learning so many things today.
Oh, wow.
Bex (11:39):
Pretty.
Alice (11:43):
Didn't leave a key out, just left the door open.
That works, I guess.
(12:09):
Look out, Maddie!
Bex (12:16):
Hi, Mason.
Ellen (12:43):
Now you mention it, Holiday Junkie is a pretty hilarious name for her.
Bex (12:57):
Shouldn't magic be like spontaneous and occurring naturally?
Alice (13:04):
I mean, I guess for the kids, they come home and there's Christmas.
Ellen (13:22):
I see the conflict already.
Yeah.
It's good.
Good.
Good.
Bex (13:26):
He doesn't believe in Christmas.
Alice (13:27):
Girl who loves Christmas.
He doesn't like Christmas.
Ellen (13:34):
Please run into each other and accidentally hug, that'd be great.
Alice (13:38):
Also, I found out in the break that, um, that she's the same
height as me and I love her so much.
Pocket sized.
Ellen (13:52):
These glasses are so funny, I love them.
Alice (13:54):
Do you reckon Aisha picked them out for her?
Ellen (14:00):
Maybe, she loves the chunky ones.
Bex (14:04):
Maybe when Jennifer Love Hewitt was raiding the cast
and the sets for the movie.
She also raided costume.
They are one of Aisha's glasses.
Alice (14:13):
Yeah, she literally just took them off Aisha's face
and got them out of her car.
Bex (14:17):
It's
true.
I will agree with that.
Ellen (15:20):
Oh, change of subject.
Bex (15:22):
It's tied to Christmas.
Ellen (15:25):
They've both lost something.
Bex (15:30):
Can they find what they're missing in each other?
You
(15:54):
know what, I wouldn't actually mindsomeone coming in, bringing all the
Christmas decorations and then takingthem away at the end of Christmas.
I could get on right with that.
Ellen (16:03):
Putting them away is the worst.
Bex (16:07):
But even putting them together, my family don't do the, everyone
gathers around and helps putall the decorations on the tree.
It's usually just me.
Alice (16:15):
Yeah.
Bex (16:16):
Yeah.
So, I would be quite happy to bring in athird party to create that magic for me.
Hmm.
What kind of pie?
Alice (16:32):
Ouch.
Bex (16:32):
You're not going to share your pie?
Ellen (16:37):
Asshole.
Those roses are really pretty.
Bex (16:46):
They fit in really well with the mistletoe as well.
Ellen (16:50):
Yeah.
Bex (17:08):
Do you think she updates her phone for every holiday?
Alice (17:13):
Or just for Christmas.
Bex (17:14):
Or does she literally, like, it's called the Holiday Junkie
to be more inclusive, but she's,like, exclusive for Christmas.
Alice (17:20):
Oh, true, yeah, maybe she, I reckon she does Halloween as well.
And, like, Valentine's Day.
Bex (17:26):
Yes, I'm thinking in February does her phone go pink and then
it's got, you know, somethingsappy romantic as her ringtone.
Ellen (17:33):
Maybe.
Alice (17:34):
And then, like, Easter as well.
Bex (17:38):
Fourth of July.
Mmm.
Ellen (17:40):
I
feel like when we first saw Doug it wasto do with Christmas trees as well, right?
Bex (17:48):
Yeah, it was, yes.
(18:09):
Did she have an open back,like, pickup or something?
Alice (18:14):
Yeah, I was trying to work out if it was a Jeep.
Ellen (18:15):
Oh, Sue
ships it.
Bex (18:34):
Oh yeah.
Ellen (18:35):
I'm sorry, what's her name?
Sarah.
Sarah ships it.
Bex (18:38):
Ah, she's Sue I swear that's Luke's Diner.
Look at that door.
Ellen (18:46):
Yeah.
I mean, they probably useall the same sets, wouldn't
they, like the same locations?
Alice (18:54):
Well, remember in Supernatural, they go to the set of Gilmore Girls.
Bex (18:59):
Yeah.
So they're probably just, she's justwalking around set with a camera crew.
Ellen (19:06):
But they filmed this in LA, like not Vancouver, so.
Right.
Alice (19:10):
No, no.
That was like the Supernatural episodewas when they went to Hollywood.
Ellen (19:14):
Oh, okay.
Bex (19:15):
Because they made the big deal of, you know, if we're really lucky,
maybe we'll see one of the residentsof Stars Hollow on the tour, and
Sam slash Jared gets really antsy.
Alice (19:24):
I'm pretty sure he just leaves.
Bex (19:28):
Hi,
Greg.
Ellen (19:48):
What?
Bex (19:48):
That's a fun story to tell.
Ellen (19:51):
Why would you tell this story?
Oh my god, that's awful.
This is like the fastest, slow characterfinding out stuff that I've seen.
(20:14):
It's
Bex (20:14):
Okay.
Was that All Christmas movies are like
Ellen (20:17):
this, I think.
Bex (20:18):
Was that character's name Wendy?
Ellen (20:21):
I I didn't catch their names.
Bex (20:24):
Okay, because if that's Wendy, she was on 9-1-1.
Okay.
I'm just living on IMDB at the moment.
Ellen (20:44):
Wow.
Alice (20:49):
I'm pretty sure all those trees are fake, but sure.
Ellen (20:54):
Yeah, that definitely looks like a fake tree.
I don't know.
Bex (21:00):
Oh, Greg was on 9-1-1 Lonestar.
(21:31):
He was also on The Client List, sothat's how he got that connection.
Which was one of JenniferLove Hewitt's earlier series.
Alice (21:40):
Bex, Andy's mum just died.
Ellen (21:42):
She just called in all her friends for this.
Bex (21:44):
Yeah.
I mean, it works for JJ Abrams and JossWhedon and Ryan Murphy, so why not?
Yeah.
Oh, hello.
Ellen (22:05):
Put
Bex (22:05):
your shirt
on,
dude.
Take your shirt off again so Ican look at your tattoos again.
Alice (22:21):
Yeah, I bet you'll get your tools to help screw it in.
Ellen (22:30):
He's totally gonna help her with all of the Christmas things.
I can tell.
Alice (22:34):
Yeah, he came around really fucking fast.
Ellen (22:36):
Yeah.
Bex (22:37):
And then he's going to rediscover the spirit of Christmas
I don't know what she's going toget out of it except, you know, him.
Ellen (22:46):
Yeah, bit of help with the grieving process, maybe.
Bex (23:25):
I've been watching TikTok videos of a woman whose mother is obsessed
with these little Christmas villages aswell, puts them out every single year.
Um, so she and her family have slowlybeen infiltrating the Christmas village
with little green plastic army men.
Alice (23:41):
I think I saw that actually!
Bex (23:44):
It takes the mother to realise that there are like snipers lining
the roof and there are, you know,infantrymen hiding behind the corners.
Ellen (23:56):
That, the tree behind her, are they cookies on the tree?
They just look like gingerbreadcookies, I don't know.
Bex (24:06):
They're
Ellen (24:06):
kind of, they're very flat.
Alice (24:09):
Yeah, they are very flat.
Oh, so back to his thing aboutroom sprays, I got a gingerbread
room spray for Christmas.
And I sprayed my little, um, mylittle firefighter Build a Bear.
So now he smells like gingerbread.
Bex (24:30):
I wasn't sure that you'd appreciate bubblegum, so I left him unscented.
Alice (24:35):
It's okay, I scented him myself.
Bex (24:38):
Oh, really?
Ellen (24:46):
Oh, where's Doug going?
Sorry, Mason.
Bex (24:50):
Eh, it's Doug.
I'm guessing this has somethingto do with his tragic past.
Oh, he was an artist?
Alice (25:00):
He had a girlfriend who was an artist.
Yep.
His mother was an artist.
Ellen (25:09):
He used to do Christmas art.
Bex (25:11):
Seriously?
Alice (25:11):
The building is sentient and does art.
Bex (25:14):
Do you just gotta walk in, turn around and walk back out again?
Doug,
(25:34):
take your finger off the trigger.
Ellen (25:39):
Stop pointing it.
Bex (25:43):
Oh no, it's not plugged in, it's not going to work.
Ellen (25:45):
Right, okay.
Bex (25:46):
But still.
Alice (26:15):
Also, did Jennifer Love Hewitt write this as well as,
like, everything else?
Because I just like that.
He's just like, "oh yeah, hot holidayplanner." It's just like, yeah, good.
Good on you.
She you with it?
Yep.
Ellen (26:30):
Well, why not?
Bex (26:31):
She wrote it.
Alice (26:32):
Oh.
Ellen (26:33):
Oh, no.
Oh, they were engaged to bemarried, but something went wrong.
Oh, no.
Bex (26:48):
I'm gonna assume that Anna White, who was the co-writer is from Lifetime,
because I'm scrolling through her.
Um, IMDB.
And other than, uh, the SecretLife of Cheerleaders, every
other movie is a Christmas movie.
Oh, okay.
So yeah, probably from I'mgonna say she's from Lifetime.
(27:11):
So, she's got a thing forChristmas and killer cheerleaders.
No, seriously, it's like, TheSecret Life of Cheerleaders,
Christmas movie, Christmas movie.
Cheer Camp Killer, Christmasmovie, Christmas movie.
Alice (27:23):
Oh my god!
Bex (27:24):
Killer Cheer Mom, Christmas movie, Christmas movie.
Ellen (27:27):
Wow.
Alice (27:46):
He's like, don't fuck up my lawn.
Ellen (27:49):
She's like, "he's snarky and really annoying." I'm like, what?
He's really charming.
What are you talking about?
He's been really nice so far.
Alice (28:05):
Me.
Ellen (28:09):
Case in point.
Buck number one fan.
Gay not blind.
Alice (28:15):
Exactly.
Bex (28:20):
Cute ish.
Okay.
Ellen (28:30):
Wow.
Alice (28:30):
How is she still going on the banisters?
Bex (28:34):
It looks like Christmas throw up.
Ellen (28:36):
Yeah.
Bex (28:38):
That's like completely over the top.
Ellen (28:40):
One of my son, the kid my son went to school with, um, his family
does this in their house and itlooks amazing, but I would just get
like, it just all gather the dust.
Like, I don't know if I could handle it.
It's just too noisy, you know, likeclutter kind of thing, you know, it
(29:00):
looks beautiful, but yeah, it's just.
Alice (29:03):
Yeah,
Ellen (29:06):
it's like the
Alice (29:08):
I guess if you only have it up for like a month, it's not so hard.
I mean, not so bad.
Ellen (29:13):
Yeah.
Alice (29:25):
I
Bex (29:25):
missed what they're doing.
Uh, is she decoratingfor the town, perhaps?
Alice (29:30):
Maybe.
That's not
Ellen (29:39):
creepy at all, Doug.
Bex (29:40):
Dude!
That's a little bit forward.
Ellen (29:49):
Just stay at your client's house, that's all.
He's down bad.
(30:31):
I was about to say she's gonna dotherapy, like, via leaving messages
to her mum, but no, now she's justhaving to break down about it.
Bless her.
Bex (30:38):
Imagine how jarring it's gonna be the time that she tries
and it's like, mailbox is full.
Ellen (30:43):
Oh.
Alice (30:43):
Why would you say that, Bex?
Bex (31:05):
Leave.
Alice (31:10):
Nope,
Bex (31:10):
just gonna stand in the doorway.
Ellen (31:11):
He wants pie.
Invite him in for pie.
Bex (31:13):
But he had his pie.
He had his chance.
This is her pie.
Alice (31:17):
She just shuts the door on him.
Ellen (31:20):
He's like, damn it.
Bex (31:45):
No.
Ellen (31:46):
Where
does she get all these things from?
Bex (31:53):
How much is this costing?
Ellen (31:55):
I don't know.
Bex (31:56):
Like, I didn't see any discussion about a budget.
Ellen (31:59):
No.
Alice (32:00):
It's Christmas.
They'll find the money.
They'll enter a triviacontest or something.
Bex (32:20):
Six dozen cookies.
How many fucking cookies is that?
Alice (32:24):
Oh, Sue ships it.
Bex (32:30):
That's 72 cookies.
Jesus Christ.
Ellen (32:36):
Oh no, last Christmas.
Oh goddammit Sue.
Alice (32:44):
Well then maybe stop talking about it.
Ellen (32:52):
It's like, oh, I know something, but I can't tell you, sorry.
Bex (32:55):
I'm going to put the teapot in front of you, but I'm not
going to pour you any tea.
I'm just going to letyou look at the teapot.
Ellen (33:02):
Oh, they ship it.
Alice (33:05):
That's so cute.
Ellen (33:09):
Oh my god, here she goes.
Alice (33:25):
Ooh.
Bex (33:32):
Actually, it probably would be doable if you were only making the same cookie.
Yeah, if you just made it.
Alice (33:39):
If you just made a big batch, and just like kept
Bex (33:41):
constantly rotating them through.
Don't you dare touch the dough withthe fingers that have just, oh!
Ellen (34:03):
If you're baking cookies to give to other people, you probably
should be wearing gloves as well.
Alice (34:09):
It's fine, it's going in the oven.
The oven kills all the germs.
Yes.
Bex (34:14):
I don't think the oven goes hot enough to do that.
Alice (34:16):
It's fine.
Ellen (34:24):
Oh.
Alice (34:31):
Big Claus energy.
Ellen (34:52):
Stop looking through her stuff and get back to cookie baking, buddy.
Bex (34:55):
You're on a, you're on a deadline
Alice (35:19):
to make cookies.
You.
Bex (35:25):
Dude!
Alice (35:28):
What an idiot.
Bex (35:30):
He's so distracted by her beauty.
Alice (35:33):
That's fair.
Bex (35:33):
That he's giving himself second degree burns.
Alice (35:38):
I think she just wanted to burn him.
Ellen (35:43):
Oh.
You just go around and eatas many cookies as you want.
Alice (35:48):
Okay, hang on.
What is a snickerdoodle?
Ellen (35:49):
How do I sign up for one of these things?
Bex (35:51):
Um, snickerdoodles are just like a plain cookie.
Ellen (35:55):
It's like a coconut thing, right?
Bex (35:57):
No, no, no, no.
Snickerdoodles are just, it's aplain sort of biscuit and then you
roll it in cinnamon and sugar and
Ellen (36:05):
Oh my god, yum.
Bex (36:06):
I really, really like them.
So it's like a butter cookie,but it's sugary and cinnamony.
Ellen (36:11):
Oh, that sounds amazing.
Alice (36:12):
Yeah, that actually sounds really good.
Bex (36:13):
They are really good.
And I only know that because I wascurious as to what a snickerdoodle
was after watching Veronica Mars andthen I had to look it up and then
I had to try and bake one myselfand see what the fuss was about.
Alice (36:26):
I hear about them all the time and I never bother to look it up.
Bex (36:30):
No idea why they're called snickerdoodles, but
I know what they are now.
(36:54):
I think they forget thatthey're not supposed to like
each other that much right now.
Ellen (36:57):
Yeah!
Bex (36:58):
Because they're acting so much like husband and wife.
Ellen (37:00):
That's why I was so confused before when she was saying, "oh,
he's really annoying and I don'treally like him." I'm like, what?
You've been looking at himwith heart eyes the whole time.
Bex (37:08):
Like the whole, she just slapped him on the thigh.
That's so somethingyou do to your partner.
Ellen (37:12):
Yeah.
Whoa, that kid's got really pink hair.
Bex (37:25):
That's amazing hair.
Yeah.
Alright, so can we pick the Hallisay kids?
Alice (37:31):
That's what I was just wondering, which ones are theirs?
Are they in this, or are they theParker's kids that we'll see later?
Bex (37:37):
I don't know.
Oh, actually, IMDB mightgive me character names.
Um, Atticus
Nope,
(37:59):
no, no character names.
Alice (38:02):
Hmm, interesting.
(38:34):
Oh my god, that worked well.
Ellen (38:40):
Aww.
Bex (39:02):
Did she run over Santa?
Ellen (39:10):
Like, I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this.
Alice (39:13):
What?!
Ellen (39:23):
This is also a strange story to tell at Christmastime.
Alice (39:26):
Oh my god!
Bex (39:41):
I don't know that mozzarella sticks are that worthy of
trauma dumping on your friends.
Alice (39:44):
Yeah, right?
Bex (40:16):
God, did she die on Christmas Day?
Alice (40:18):
Oh my
(40:45):
god!
Bex (40:46):
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Ellen (40:58):
Oh, that's so sad.
Bex (41:06):
We're sorry for your trauma.
Have deep fried cheese.
Alice (41:10):
Literally.
Ellen (41:12):
Oh, more trauma dumping.
Come on, everybody.
(41:39):
Oh wait, so she's not dead.
Bex (41:44):
The girlfriend?
No, I'm gonna say she dumped him.
Ellen (41:48):
Yeah, or cheated on him or something.
Bex (41:57):
Ran away with the best man?
Alice (42:01):
Ran away with Santa?
Ellen (42:18):
Aw.
Ouch.
(42:51):
I thought they went to this placeto get into some Christmas spirit.
Bex (42:55):
Yeah.
I think they're drinkingthe Christmas spirit.
Ellen (42:59):
Okay.
Yeah.
That makes more sense.
Because
they're just making, all going to havea therapeutic cry together in a minute.
Bex (43:09):
They needed to get all these stories out somehow, so.
Ellen (43:12):
Yeah, that's true.
Heart eyes.
Bex (43:26):
Total heart eyes.
Wait, what was the special recipe?
The coffee or the hotcakes?
Ellen (43:37):
The hotcakes, I think.
Alice (43:38):
Yeah,
Bex (43:38):
right?
I think it was just the hotcakes.
(44:28):
That's not how you spell mood.
Ellen (44:31):
Well, that's
sad as fuck.
Bex (44:51):
It's the, I can fix him.
Alice (44:53):
Yeah!
Ellen (45:03):
Do these movies always have a gay best friend?
Sorry?
Do these movies always have a gaybest friend to tell them what's what?
Bex (45:11):
I'm gonna say that it counts as, like, diversity.
Yeah.
Considering pretty much everysingle movie is, like, white.
het
Ellen (45:18):
couples..
Like, they probably have abest friend of some kind, yeah.
Bex (45:22):
So she's, that, that character is both their, um, their, like, colour
diversity and their, their queer rep?
Ellen (45:29):
Yeah.
Bex (46:06):
Oh, I bet you could.
(46:27):
.Hey!
Ellen (46:28):
Hey.
Bex (46:29):
So this is the other 9-1-1 connection.
Ellen (46:32):
Is this Buck's house?
Bex (46:33):
Yeah, it's Buck's apartment.
Ellen (46:35):
Ah!
Bex (46:39):
It's a fun fact.
Ellen (46:40):
It is too, oh my god.
Alice (46:41):
I was going to tell this to, no, go Bex, go.
Bex (46:43):
Alright, you, no, you tell it, because this, yeah, you tell it.
Alice (46:46):
Because it's Oliver?
Bex (46:47):
Yes.
Alice (46:47):
Um, so when she was filming in Buck's apartment, she sent a
photo of her in it to Oliver, andOliver was like, I don't understand.
Because she like sent him likea selfie and was just like, Oh,
just dropping by at your place.
And he's like, what?
It's just like, it's, it'sBuck's apartment, you dumbass.
Like what the fuck?
Bex (47:06):
It's
Ellen (47:06):
like he didn't,
he didn't recognize it?
Bex (47:09):
I don't think he even replied to her.
I think he left it on read.
Cause he just did not understand
Alice (47:14):
what was going on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure.
Yeah.
He left her on red.
And then like when they startedfilming again, she was just like, did
you not like, and he's like, I don'tknow what you were talking about.
Bex (47:55):
Was there a couch back there?
Ellen (48:01):
Yeah, there was, because there's cushions on it, I saw cushions.
Alice (48:04):
She's like, wow, you don't have a couch, let me buy you one.
She's like, yeah, I've just beenso worried about getting the
right, the wrong couch again.
Ellen (48:27):
Aw, trauma bonding now.
Bex (48:29):
That's not the best basis for a relationship, honestly.
Because they're both going to, like,go through the stages of grief and
come out the other end and go, DoI actually really like this person?
Or do I just connect withthem in my time of need?
Ellen (48:44):
It doesn't matter because they're going to be together at Christmas.
And for the purposes of thismovie, that's all we need.
Alice (48:50):
Yeah, the world actually ends at Christmas, so it's fine.
Bex (48:55):
Like, literally, it blows up at Christmas.
Ellen (48:59):
It like, folds back into the 9-1-1 timeline.
Bex (49:02):
Schrodinger's
cat gets back in the box.
Ellen (49:09):
Gets back under the couch.
Oh, the little houses are cute though.
They're so sparkly.
Alice (49:22):
Ellen's gonna redecorate for Christmas on the 4th of January.
Ellen (49:27):
I haven't put my tree away yet.
Alice (49:32):
My two friends who are obsessed with Christmas were taking it down on
the 31st, and I was like, what the fuck?
Like, I thought you'd be stillup at, like, February, and
they're like, nah, we got bored.
I'm like, what?
Bex (49:45):
My tree stays up till January because after Christmas
it turns into a birthday tree.
Alice (49:50):
Oh, oh, hang on.
Okay, so there is a
Ellen (49:56):
There is a Halloween decorations box.
Alice (49:57):
There is a Halloween, yeah.
And she does have two couches.
Ellen (51:14):
Aww.
Alice (51:40):
It's like a massive dildo or something.
Bex (51:42):
It's from her mother, ew.
Alice (51:49):
Even she knew she needed a hobby.
Ellen (51:52):
Oh.
Thinking about dildos.
Oh, wow.
Oh.
(52:19):
Oh, they're getting a bit close.
Alice (52:21):
Tension.
Bex (52:22):
No, but there's no tension.
Alice (52:24):
It's because they're already married.
Bex (52:26):
I know!
Ellen (52:30):
Gosh, they sort of jumped into that one.
Alice (52:35):
They don't have three kids for nothing.
I do think it's funny.
That's in her mum's sweater.
Ew.
Bex (52:44):
I do think it's funny that like they're, I guess the younger
fans of 9-1-1 who haven't grown upon Jennifer Love Hewitt see her and
Brian together and assume that shemet him on the set of 9-1-1 and then
they get all freaked out about it.
Like, oh my god, she fell in love witha guy who played her abusive husband!
How weird is that?
Alice (53:03):
Yeah, no, they already had children at this point.
Bex (53:09):
Although she did meet him on the set of The Client List, so that's also a
slightly weird situation to meet someone.
Wait, did he bolt afterthe kiss or after sex?
(53:49):
Alright, so after sex.
Ellen (54:16):
He's saying she's replacing her mum with, like, a boyfriend?
Because it's a different kind of thing.
Bex (54:24):
No, let's not go there.
Ma'am, why are you doing that
(54:47):
in the middle of a cafe?
Alice (54:49):
Right?
She's like, Mom, really wish I couldtell you that I got laid last night!
Eeee!
Sue's like, you what?
Bex (55:38):
Did she just try to hide from him?
Ellen (55:40):
It looked like it, but she just dropped something.
Alice (56:04):
He had
so much to do.
Bex (56:26):
Oh, this is literally the morning after, okay.
Alice (56:29):
Yeah.
Bex (56:39):
Because your legs don't work?
Alice (56:44):
Because they're still shaky from last night?
Ellen (56:48):
Oh yeah, we're totally not together, you know, too much, bye.
So what are you doing later?
Or if you're an abusive,controlling, horrible person, no.
Bex (57:06):
Nah, leave that till later.
That's definitely likethird date conversation.
Alice (57:16):
Oh my god, the obvious ad breaks as well.
Yeah.
Did
she
follow
him?
Ellen (57:36):
Who's stalking now?
Bex (57:54):
Oh, he's going to turn it into a Holiday Junkie store for her.
Ellen (57:57):
Seems that way.
Bex (58:01):
So she can sell her, her branded products out of it.
Calling it right now.
Ellen (58:09):
Aww,
(58:44):
Heart eyes.
Bex (58:47):
Oh, that's creepy.
So
basically, the Parkers arebankrolling their courtship right now.
Alice (59:06):
Yeah, right?
Ellen (59:07):
Yep.
Alice (59:09):
Up yours, capitalism.
Bex (59:21):
Wait, people pay money for that?
Alice (59:23):
I know, right?
I'm like, what?
Bex (59:25):
They bought tickets to stand and listen to What?
Ellen (59:30):
Oh, it looks like there's other stuff there, like, it
looks like markets or something.
Alice (59:35):
But like, you don't pay to go to a ma uh, I guess sometimes you pay like a
Bex (59:40):
But they bought tickets!
You buy tickets for a
Ellen (01:00:04):
Oh, that's mean.
Bex (01:00:20):
Oh gee, I wonder what that is.
Alice (01:00:23):
The weather.
(01:00:46):
He's like, don't fuck it up!
Bex (01:00:50):
Uh, dude, you are completely out of time.
Alice (01:00:55):
I think that's the point.
I hope that's the point.
Bex (01:00:58):
No no, Old Guy in the Glasses is going backwards
when everyone's going forwards.
Ellen (01:01:01):
Oh yeah.
He's dancing to his own song.
(01:02:12):
Just go and get it on already.
Bex (01:02:13):
Again.
Go and get it on again.
Alice (01:02:16):
If this was a fan fiction.
Ellen (01:02:17):
Again.
Alice (01:02:19):
They'd be in an alleyway by now.
Bex (01:03:00):
That's not good for your profit margin though.
Ellen (01:04:33):
She's had to cry a lot in this one too.
She's good at crying on,on uh, you know, command.
Bex (01:04:39):
They use the exact same establishing shot every single
time they cut to the Parkers.
She got it
off Temu.
Okay.
(01:05:04):
How many days?
Cause they've had six days to do this,like, where are we in the time frame?
Alice (01:05:11):
It's like 9-1-1, there is no time.
Bex (01:05:13):
Apparently not.
She must be really getting bed.
Alice (01:05:40):
They're banging in a storage closet, it's fine.
Ellen (01:05:44):
They had a quickie under the table there.
Alice (01:05:49):
They hid behind the tree.
Bex (01:06:00):
Ah, there we go.
He's going to refuse to pay halfof her bill because they weren't
there to experience all of thethings that she bought tickets for.
Alice (01:06:47):
I bought Christmas lights for my bedroom this year.
I still haven't put them up.
Imagine having a manor.
Bex (01:07:14):
Oh no.
Alice (01:07:15):
Uh oh.
Bex (01:07:25):
No, that's where they were going to hold the Hop!
Ellen (01:07:32):
Just have it at the Parker's house.
Bex (01:07:34):
No, have it at the um, the store.
Ellen (01:07:38):
At the cafe.
Bex (01:07:39):
No, no, no, his store.
Ellen (01:07:40):
That is the cafe.
Alice (01:07:41):
His store.
Ellen (01:07:42):
Oh, yeah.
Alice (01:07:45):
Oh my god, I hear sirens.
Buck's on his... oh.
Bex (01:07:48):
Oh, different establishing shot.
Ellen (01:07:50):
Oh, but we've definitely had that one before.
I remember the fish eye.
Bex (01:07:58):
Yeah, the fish eye is quite, quite bad.
Ellen (01:08:01):
Does she have a different like, suit jacket type, like
dinner jacket type thing for every?
Day?
Alice (01:08:06):
Every scene, yeah.
(01:08:27):
Surely he could just builda barn for it or something.
Bex (01:08:36):
Not everything.
That's a Star's Hollow set, there shouldbe like a massive town square in the
middle of it, can't they just do it there?
Alice (01:08:42):
Or the gazebo.
Bex (01:08:43):
Yeah.
Maybe a grumpy cafe owner can builda cover they can all dance under.
Alice (01:09:06):
Her apartment seemed to be like 30 seconds away, but sure.
Ohhh!
Bex (01:09:35):
Oh, that's the guest room.
Ellen (01:09:59):
Wait, wait, I need a smoochies before I go to sleep.
Nope, okay.
Alice (01:10:12):
No smoochies, just a commercial break.
Ellen (01:10:17):
What is...
Bex (01:10:20):
that's not how you use a tape measure.
(01:11:04):
Did she pay him for them?
Like, in money, not in services.
Ellen (01:11:11):
I hope so.
Bex (01:11:22):
Ding ding ding!
Alice (01:11:23):
There we go!
Oh my god, no way!
Girl.
Ellen (01:12:00):
Oh, magic!
Alice (01:12:06):
It's right there, how do you not see it?
Bex (01:12:18):
Are there bathrooms in this store?
Like, accessibility issues?
I'm
Ellen (01:12:26):
Why is this guy so focused on lunch?
Bex (01:12:30):
Yeah, it's going to be a working day.
Alice (01:12:31):
Because he's hungry!
The poor guy!
He invited his mate out for lunchand he's like, Yeah, let's go!
He wasn't ready for lunch.
Ellen (01:12:39):
No time for lunch when you've got to get the Hop ready.
Alice (01:12:52):
It's not a health and safety issue at all.
I bet you can't.
Bex (01:13:07):
Dude, she's gay.
Alice (01:13:10):
I'm pretty sure he's also married.
Ellen (01:13:23):
That woman he's been with is his wife, right?
Bex (01:13:27):
Yeah.
I think?
Alice (01:13:31):
Yeah, like he, they just said his kids are 14 and 17 as well.
Ellen (01:13:54):
It's not a competition.
Apparently it is.
Alice (01:14:12):
Why is everybody in this movie so miserable?
Bex (01:14:14):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Back into the closet?
Maybe she was bisexual.
Ellen (01:14:27):
She hadn't worked that out yet.
Alice (01:14:38):
He's been kissing you all week!
Bex (01:14:59):
Buck's apartment looks very pretty all decked out in lights.
Ellen (01:15:01):
It does!
Alice (01:15:02):
I know!
Ellen (01:15:02):
I was just thinking, in the last episode we watched,
they were standing right therewhen they had their little Yes!
talk.
Alice (01:15:11):
The eye contact.
Well, poor Chris was just on the couch.
Ellen (01:15:14):
Yeah, staring at the off TV.
Alice (01:15:19):
Like dads, I can hear you!
Ellen (01:15:31):
Sparkly.
Bex (01:15:41):
Like, payment for use of his promises.
Alice (01:15:44):
Aww, she found him the car.
Bex (01:15:50):
How did she
do that in a day?
Alice (01:15:59):
It was literally just at Kmart.
Ellen (01:15:59):
Amazon delivers pretty fast.
Alice (01:16:00):
Or Target.
Bex (01:16:02):
Yeah, but not that fast.
Alice (01:16:03):
Yeah, it was prime.
Ellen (01:16:04):
This episode's not sponsored by Amazon.
Although, if you want to sendme some free stuff, okay.
Alice (01:16:10):
Yeah, we'll take any of the free stuff.
Bex (01:16:15):
Commercial.
Her lip filler is notlooking good in this.
Ellen (01:16:32):
Oh, I don't like that camera movement, it's weird.
Bex (01:16:35):
No.
Ellen (01:16:38):
Oh, the decorations look lovely though.
Bex (01:17:31):
What beat did they tell them to dance on?
Yeah, they're dancing to amuch faster song than this one.
Ellen (01:18:10):
Yep,
that's how grief works, Libby.
Aww.
(01:18:40):
I think it's, it's weird that themusic is the only sound we can hear
in this, like, they're obviouslyall dancing around quietly on a set.
It's really obvious.
(01:19:18):
Yeah, I saw you slipping,slipping her the tongue there.
Alice (01:19:24):
Hey, he's getting paid to kiss his wife.
Ellen (01:19:26):
Oh, everyone else is just like, woo!
Alice (01:19:33):
Bex's favorite, um establishing shot?
Ellen (01:19:36):
It was nighttime this time.
Alice (01:20:24):
Bang.
Bone?
Ellen (01:20:39):
He's not a mind reader, girl.
Oh no.
Bex (01:20:43):
The Parkers are back!
Alright.
Ellen (01:20:51):
That's their kids, right, definitely.
Bex (01:20:52):
That's the kids.
Alice (01:21:30):
Also, why are you so dressed up?
Ellen (01:21:52):
They have better LA establishing shots than 9-1-1 early seasons do.
Yeah.
Aww.
Bex (01:22:15):
I am googling to see if that is actually Jennifer Love Hewitt singing.
Ellen (01:22:21):
Oh.
Alice (01:23:05):
And you have three kids together.
(01:23:47):
Yeah, Mr. Parker, I'm sure,is the one that you were
Bex (01:23:53):
No, she was trying to, because he wants her to be, she wants
him to be his angel investor.
Alice (01:23:57):
Oh yeah, true.
Bex (01:23:58):
I think I got my pronouns mixed up in that sentence, but that's okay.
Also, yes, that was JenniferLove Hewitt singing.
Alice (01:24:11):
Yeah, I thought it must have been.
Ellen (01:24:14):
What can't she do?
She's amazing.
Bex (01:24:16):
Did you not My God, I love the single that she, like, released back in sort of
the I Know What You Did Last Summer days.
It was so bad, but I loved it.
(01:24:49):
Wait, why are the windows still taped up?
Alice (01:24:57):
Because they needed darkness for the Hop.
Bex (01:25:00):
Did they not take them down for the Hop?
Ellen (01:25:03):
Maybe he put them back again.
Alice (01:25:05):
Yeah, he's like, fuck you people.
Ellen (01:25:10):
Fuck daylight.
(01:25:35):
Drive all the way toBig Bear in nine hours.
Bex (01:25:41):
Six of those hours is just driving round and round and round in circles.
Alice (01:25:46):
Like, no wonder they had to stop at a gas station, honestly.
Bex (01:25:54):
Thanks, Michael Jordan.
Alice (01:25:59):
Yes!
It's not, it's Wayne Gretzky.
Bex (01:26:04):
It is Wayne Gretzky?
Alice (01:26:06):
Yeah.
But Michael Scott quotes it.
He blew it.
Bex (01:26:32):
Oh my god, that's, this is terrible.
Alice (01:26:36):
It's a Christmas movie, it's supposed to be terrible.
Pretty sure kids aren't supposed to,
okay, that's okay then.
Ellen (01:26:48):
She
(01:27:40):
shot her shot.
Shooted her shot?
Bex (01:28:11):
What is she doing?
Alice (01:28:14):
Tidying.
Ellen (01:28:17):
She's happy about something.
Oh, she's having dinner for one.
Bex (01:28:36):
They never get wine right on these shows.
Look how thin that looks.
Alice (01:28:41):
I
Bex (01:28:41):
know right.
It just looks like red water.
juice with water.
Ellen (01:28:43):
Blackcurrant
juice.
Bex (01:28:52):
With
Ellen (01:28:52):
raspberry.
Raspberry cordial.
Alice (01:28:55):
But like, there's non alcoholic wine!
Just use non alcoholic wine!
Ellen (01:29:00):
That costs a lot more than raspberry cordial.
Alice (01:29:02):
True.
Bex (01:29:12):
Yeah, gotta let that cordial breathe.
Alice (01:29:16):
The tannins, you know.
Bex (01:29:30):
Girl, why are you bitching at him?
Yes!
Ellen (01:29:46):
You were right.
Bex (01:29:48):
I could totally write for Lifetime.
Alice (01:29:51):
You
Bex (01:29:51):
could.
I
have all the tropes down.
Alice (01:29:58):
Yeah,
Bex (01:29:58):
you do.
Ellen (01:30:00):
Wow, he went ahead and set the whole thing up too.
Just, what if she said no?
Alice (01:30:09):
Mechanical bull.
Bex (01:30:11):
You do realize that she does more than just Christmas though, right?
And other forms?
Alice (01:30:31):
Christmas, wink.
Bex (01:30:39):
She's about to run out and legally change her name to Christmas.
Alice (01:30:45):
Last name Junkie.
Wait.
Guys,
I don't think he'stalking about Christmas.
Ellen (01:30:57):
I
Bex (01:30:57):
think it's, it's her.
Is it a metaphor?
Ellen (01:31:02):
She's Christmas!
Bex (01:31:02):
Oh, come on!
Ellen (01:31:13):
Oh my god.
This is so cheesy, I love it.
Bex (01:31:24):
Oh.
Ellen (01:31:27):
Oh.
Oh.
I think that was all you, love.
Bex (01:31:32):
I am way too cynical for these movies.
Ellen (01:31:41):
Oh, we're having a flashback.
Bex (01:31:42):
Do we really need a flashback after only an hour?
Ellen (01:31:45):
Yeah,
Bex (01:31:45):
I think
Alice (01:31:45):
Yeah, there were a lot of commercials.
Ellen (01:31:47):
I think we got it that they were falling in love already.
Bex (01:31:52):
They fell in love like Two years ago.
There was no falling inlove with this movie.
They like, walked in the first timethey saw each other, they were in love.
Alice (01:32:03):
That's what Christmas movies are all about.
I really need to write my Christmas fic.
I say this every January.
And then it gets to December,and I'm just like, I still
haven't written my Christmas fic.
Bex (01:32:15):
Oh,
Alice (01:32:15):
we got a foot pop.
She did the foot pop.
Ellen (01:32:18):
Oh.
Oh.
Is it based on a true story?
. , yes.
Or at least actually
Alice (01:32:25):
Jennifer Love Hewitt really decorates for Christmas.
Ellen (01:32:27):
Yeah.
Bex (01:32:27):
No, but isn't, but yes, like the book that she wrote
something about magic as well.
Ellen (01:32:33):
She wrote a book?
Bex (01:32:34):
Yes.
She wrote a book about her mother.
Ellen (01:32:38):
She really does do everything,
Bex (01:32:41):
uh, images.
Oh, that's, that's, oh, no.
Alice (01:32:46):
No!
What did you find?
Bex (01:32:49):
Uh, it's called Inheriting Magic.
Alice (01:32:53):
There
Bex (01:32:54):
you go.
Um,
that cover looks incredibly AI,even though it's her and the kids.
Alice (01:33:01):
Oh dear.
Bex (01:33:02):
Um, it's, so, Inheriting Magic, my journey through grief, joy,
celebration, and making every day magical.
Alice (01:33:09):
Aww.
Ellen (01:33:11):
I think this is her singing this song too.
Bex (01:33:14):
Oh, oh my God.
I think this movie is likesemi autobiographical.
When she lost her mother tocancer, everything changed
for Jennifer Love Hewitt.
In the pages of Inheriting Magic,she recounts her journey, sharing
memories, photographs, recipes,and the ma magic making ethos of
a self-proclaimed holiday junkie.
This entire movie was justa promotion for her book.
Ellen (01:33:34):
Oh my God.
. Okay.
Bex (01:33:36):
Inheriting Magic is about how grief, being a mom of three.
Having a deep love for party planningand being passionate about the holidays
turned what could have been an ordinarylife into something more enchanting.
Through it, Jennifer inspires real readersto add more love, light and the making of
core memories into their everyday lives.
Oh my god.
Alice (01:33:53):
Oh
Bex (01:33:54):
my God.
Ellen (01:33:56):
Well, why not turn it into a fictional movie about falling
in love with your own husband?
Well, that was very delightful.
And I'm feeling very full ofChristmas spirit right now.
Alice (01:34:09):
I know I need to go spray my gingerbread room spray
and um, eat some peppermint.
Bex (01:34:15):
I think I must be the Scrooge in the family because I am not feeling moved.
Ellen (01:34:19):
Oh
Bex (01:34:19):
you're not?
Alice (01:34:20):
Have you not seen, have you not watched Christmas movies before Bex?
Bex (01:34:26):
I'm going to be honest, I attempted to watch one a couple of years ago and
I put it on like in the backgroundso that I could have something
playing while I was doing work.
Um, I ended up focusing moreon the work that I was doing
because the movie was so bad.
Alice (01:34:44):
They're always awful.
They're always super corny.
But they're so good, in a terrible
Bex (01:34:49):
way.
I don't think I have a tolerancefor corny or terrible writing
and terrible acting anymore.
I've
I've lost that, I don't know, what it is.
Alice (01:35:03):
The childlike joy.
Bex (01:35:05):
Yes.
Alice (01:35:06):
Maybe, maybe you need some Christmas magic, Bex.
Ellen (01:35:10):
Yeah, you need a tall dark stranger to come into your life
and build you some Christmas trees.
Bex (01:35:14):
I will happily accept Christmas spirit if it comes in the form of
a bottle, maybe that will help me.
Alice (01:35:20):
No, you need to go away and from your big city life and talk about
how you don't have time for Christmas.
Bex (01:35:29):
See, no, I, if I were in, like, a Hallmark or Lifetime movie,
I would be the girlfriend that theboy moves back to his hometown and
falls in love with a small town girland leaves the big city girl behind.
I would be the big city girl.
I am, I am Sarah Jessica Parkerin, in, like, The Family Stone.
Ellen (01:35:50):
I mean I feel like, as they go, this had some pretty good acting in
it compared to some that I've seen.
Alice (01:35:58):
Yeah, I've seen awful acting.
Bex (01:35:59):
Oh,
Alice (01:36:00):
look, the act
Ellen (01:36:00):
This was some good actors.
Bex (01:36:01):
They did the best that they could with the script that they were given.
Ellen (01:36:05):
Yeah.
Alice (01:36:06):
Hey, what are you saying about my girl's writing?
Bex (01:36:10):
That she's an actor for a reason?
Ellen (01:36:15):
It hit the marks that it, that Christmas movies are supposed to.
I think it did pretty well.
Alice (01:36:20):
It was great.
Yeah.
In a terrible holiday junkie type of way.
Ellen (01:36:27):
So was the only 9-1-1 easter egg, apart from the actors who we knew were
already in it, and Buck's apartment, werethere other things that you guys noticed?
Bex (01:36:38):
No, that was about it.
Alice (01:36:40):
Yeah, the main one was Buck's apartment that we were waiting for you to
Bex (01:36:44):
Yeah.
Everyone got very excited whenthey dropped the stills for the
Ellen (01:36:52):
Yeah, I did actually see some of that on Twitter beforehand,
so I knew it was coming, but yeah.
Very sweet.
Alice (01:37:01):
I just love that Oliver was like, what?
Ellen (01:37:07):
Yeah, I can't believe he wouldn't have recognized it.
I mean, it didn't like with, with theChristmas decorations all over it, it did
look a bit different, but basically thesame layout, like the bed was upstairs.
That's the only place the bed can be.
Bex (01:37:20):
I just, I wonder what, like, what did she have in the
background when she took the photo?
Cause like, like if she's just standingin front of the brick wall, it's just
going, okay, an exposed brick wall.
Alice (01:37:30):
She just, like, "Came for a visit," sent a selfie, and he, like,
opened his front door to his actualhouse, and he's like, I don't get it.
The dogs aren't even barking.
What the fuck, Jennifer?
Ellen (01:37:43):
Anything else you want to say about this movie?
Alice (01:37:47):
Happy 4th of January?
Ellen (01:37:52):
Look, it's never too late for Christmas movies, right?
Or fics.
I enjoy reading Christmas fics allyear round, so one of them is true.
Alice (01:38:00):
I love, I do love Christmas fics, yeah.
Ellen (01:38:02):
Yeah.
Alice (01:38:02):
Um, okay, do you guys have a favourite Christmas movie, or
movie that's set around Christmas?
Bex (01:38:07):
Die
Alice (01:38:07):
Hard.
Ellen (01:38:08):
Oh my god.
I actually, I actuallyreally love Home Alone.
I know it's an old school Christmasmovie, but I, I love the music and I love
the, you know, the just, the The wholething, it's just so funny, I love it.
But the, the cheesy, um, romantic ones, Ihaven't seen that many of them actually.
I've seen a few, like, in thelast couple of years, but, yeah.
(01:38:31):
They're all so cheesyand weird that, yeah.
Alice (01:38:35):
Every year my family watches, um, what's it called, National
Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?
Ellen (01:38:40):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
Alice (01:38:42):
And it's so bad, but we watch it every single Christmas Eve.
Um, and we still watch it.
Like, even when we don't livetogether and that sort of stuff.
Like, we still watchit every Christmas Eve.
And, yeah, it's just awful, but it's
Ellen (01:38:58):
My daughter saw that, um We were watching, we were flicking
through like Netflix or something,and my daughter saw Die Hard on there.
And she's like, oh, DieHard, we could watch that.
And I'm like, um, it'sactually rated R on there.
I'm like, I didn't realizeit was, you know, that bad.
But it is like, you know, graphicviolence and whatever in there, so.
Alice (01:39:17):
I've actually never seen the first Die Hard.
Ellen (01:39:20):
Oh,
Alice (01:39:20):
you haven't?
Bex (01:39:21):
It's a Christmas classic, no matter what Bruce Willis says.
Ellen (01:39:23):
It's worth watching.
Yeah, it's worth watching, just forthe Just the meme, the meme value.
Alice (01:39:29):
I think I've seen like the third or fourth one, but
I haven't seen the original.
Bex (01:39:34):
That is my every Christmas Eve.
I'm usually up way too late.
Alice (01:39:39):
Watching Die Hard?
Bex (01:39:40):
Wrapping presents, or there was a phase, there was a phase where I
was sewing presents like ChristmasEve to give to them on Christmas Day,
and I would have Die Hard playing.
I love that.
That's my Christmas movie.
Alice (01:39:52):
Well I missed you both.
It's nice to hear your voices again.
Ellen (01:39:57):
Oh yeah, it is nice to be back.
Okay, well let's just say wehope you enjoyed watching it,
um, as much as we, maybe we did.
Maybe we didn't, I don't know.
Bex (01:40:09):
You two enjoyed it.
Ellen (01:40:10):
We had a good time watching it together.
Bex (01:40:11):
Scrooge, but Ebeneezer Scrooge over here was slightly
doubtful about the situation.
But, that's fine.
Alice (01:40:17):
That's alright, Ebeneezer will find her holiday junkie at some point.
Bex (01:40:23):
The little Grinch's heart will grow a couple of sizes at some point.
Ellen (01:40:28):
Let us know what you thought of the movie.
Or, and about this episode,and we will catch you next week
for more 9-1-1, back to usual.
See you then.
Bex (01:40:38):
Bye.
Alice (01:40:40):
Bye.
Hi, everyone.
It's Ellen here.
Uh, we need to take a little midseason break this week, um, in our
regular 9-1-1 episode discussions.
But we've got something a little bitdifferent to share with you today.
Back at the start of the year, we watchedThe Holiday Junkie movie together.
It was written by and is starringJennifer Love Hewitt and her real
life husband, Brian Hallisay,who was also in 9-1-1 as Doug.
(00:24):
Um, and we recorded our chatas we watched it together.
So at the time the devastating fireswere happening in LA so we didn't end
up posting it then because we didn'tthink it was appropriate to post such
a light hearted episode when so manypeople were going through such terror.
So, um, now that LA is on the road torecovery, and there are still plenty
(00:44):
of, um, groups who are working tomake that happen, including Random
Acts, for example, if you wanted togive, give some support to them to
help with the recovery efforts, that'srandomacts.org, go and check it out.
Um, but.
It was Jennifer Love Hewitt's birthdaythe other day, so we thought now would be
a great time to have a look at her movie.
(01:05):
Um, if you're able to watch the film, Ibelieve it's available at the moment on
the Lifetime channel in the US, but alsoon Prime Video, at least in Australia,
maybe other countries too, I hope.
So you can put our episode onat the same time as the movie
and watch it along with us.
Uh, but if you'd rather not watch thefilm and I realize it's now the end
(01:25):
of February, maybe you're not into theholiday movie right now, that's fine.
You can totally skip this episode, andwe will be back next week to continue
with our season 3 episodes of 9-1-1.
Hope you enjoy it!
Maddie (01:39):
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
Bex (01:41):
Welcome back to That Wee Woo Show, a podcast where we normally watch and
discuss episodes of ABC show 9-1-1.
But this week we're doingsomething a little different.
Ellen (01:53):
We are, we're going, well first we'd better say
Happy New Year to everybody.
Alice (01:57):
Yeah, Happy New Year!
Ellen (01:58):
Hello again, it's been a few weeks, but Happy New Year to you, hope
you had a pleasant holiday period.
Rather than wishing everyone the best for2025, because in a lot of places around
the world it's not terribly great at themoment, um, we'll just say we hope that
you're safe and you had a nice time withyour loved ones, and Yes, I hope that
(02:19):
continues as we go into the next year.
Who knows what that will bring.
Alice (02:22):
I hope you had some really good food over the holidays.
That's yeah.
Ellen (02:26):
Yeah, that's what like the holiday season's all about, right?
Alice (02:29):
That's it.
Ellen (02:30):
Cheese and sitting on the couch.
Anyway, um, This week we thought we'ddo, before we got back into all of our
usual episodes to get back into seasonthree, we thought we'd give Jennifer Love
Hewitt a, a chance for her Christmas moviethat she, that came out in mid December.
(02:51):
Uh, it's called The Holiday Junkie.
Is that correct?
I don't know anything about this movie.
I just know that Jennifer Love Hewittand her husband, Brian Hallisey, who also
played Doug in season two, um, are bothin But, you know, we're hoping that this
will help us to being a romantic comedy,etc. A holiday film on, um, Lifetime.
(03:16):
That it will help us rehabilitateBrian's image a little bit from
the horrible abuser to someone whois worthy of a romantic comedy.
I mean, I assume it's a comedy.
I don't even, I don'tknow anything about this.
Bex (03:31):
Do you want the summary or do you want to go in completely blind?
Ellen (03:34):
Oh, no.
Okay.
Let's do the summary because, okay,so what, what we're going to do
is this is going to be like one ofthose, a watch episode, literally.
So we are going to watchthis, the, the movie.
It streams on Lifetime.
We've never seen this before.
We haven't seen the trailer.
Alice (03:48):
That's it.
Ellen (03:48):
Yeah, I haven't even watched the trailer.
Alice (03:51):
There you go.
I've seen the trailer.
Ellen (03:54):
So do you want to read the summary?
Bex (03:57):
Sure.
Yes.
I have gone on to, if anyone wantsto know where to find It's on the,
uh, the lifetime website, uh, mylifetime.com/movie/the holiday
junkie, Andy and her mother Mimirun a company called the Holiday
Junkie, a decorating and planningservice for all holiday needs.
(04:17):
But after Mimi passes away, Andy isforced to face her first Christmas
without her mother and carry theHoliday Junkie torch all on her own.
Despite the challenges, Andy may alsofind some love at Christmas along the way.
It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, BrianHallisay, Kristen Chenoweth, Lynn
Andrews, and Deborah Christofferson.
(04:39):
So there is a little bitof a 9-1-1 connection.
Alice (04:43):
Yeah, there's a few 9-1-1 Easter eggs as well.
Bex (04:48):
Yeah, because Deborah Christofferson plays Sue.
Ellen (04:52):
Oh, okay.
Bex (04:55):
Awesome.
So it's like when, um, when JenniferLove Hewitt decided to make this movie,
she's walked around the set of 9-1-1asking all the, all the cast members,
Hey, have you got a free weekend?
I'm shooting a movie.
Can you come and help me out?
Alice (05:09):
Literally.
I'm pretty sure she just shotthis like on the weekend.
Ellen (05:13):
Have you actually watched the movie already, Alice?
Alice (05:16):
No, I've seen the trailer.
Ellen (05:17):
Okay.
All right.
Bex (05:18):
I think I've seen the first like minute or so just by the trailer.
when I'm playing around trying to get thetech to work, which it absolutely did not.
And no one is surprised about that,but no, I've not, I've not seen it.
Ellen (05:33):
No worries.
All right.
So how are we going to do this?
So should we count down intothe, like, just do ready, set,
go, and then play the movie or?
Alice (05:40):
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah.
Well, three, three, two, one.
Yeah?
Bex (05:45):
Okay.
Alice (05:47):
Three, two, one play.
Ellen (05:55):
Oh, what a pretty Christmas tree.
This is, this is like the most,Christmas Stereotypical Christmas
movie, like, beginning I've ever seen.
The Holiday Junkie.
Bex (06:13):
Yeah, but look where it is!
Alice (06:20):
Oh, she's even got a Christmas ringtone.
Ellen (06:22):
Oh my god, who puts a Christmas... oh, I suppose she
works for a Christmas shop.
Who's that?
He's been in 9-1-1, right?
Maybe he was in Supernatural.
Bex (06:42):
Probably more Supernatural than 9-1-1.
Oh look, their kids are in it!
Ellen (06:46):
Oh, their kids are in it, yeah!
Just saw that.
Atticus and... That's cute.
Oh, she looks how I feel.
What
(07:19):
are these glasses?
They're so red.
Alice (07:21):
They're Christmassy.
Bex (07:24):
Definitely a very different look to Maddie.
Ellen (07:27):
Yes.
Bex (07:58):
Um, so Mr,
wait, it's that guy, um,was not on Supernatural.
Ellen (08:06):
Hey, I did that one with my, with my daughter.
Okay, sorry, I don't know whereI've seen him before then, but he
definitely, I definitely recognised him.
Aww.
Oh,
(08:43):
that's really sweet.
And, and sad.
Alice (08:55):
I actually have a friend who, like, owns a Christmas business.
And when the trailer for this cameout, I sent it to her and I was just
like, This is what you need to do.
Just go into people's housesand decorate it for Christmas.
Bex (09:06):
Oh.
That looks like the shop frontfrom The Ghost Whisperer.
Yeah.
Alice (09:13):
Probably is.
Bex (09:19):
Peppermint lattes, no thank you.
Alice (09:21):
Best in the world, and they've crossed it out and put town.
It's Sue!
Ellen (09:27):
Oh there she is!
Hi Sue!
Alice (09:33):
It's not Sarah, that's Sue.
Ellen (09:34):
This is like a
9-1-1 AU, like.
Bex (09:57):
No, it's gonna be toothpaste.
Oh,
(10:27):
no, it's got to be the quietestcoffee machine in the world.
Ellen (10:32):
Oh, right.
Yeah.
Alice (10:38):
Surely that would be so hot.
Bex (10:40):
It's empty.
Alice (10:41):
It's also empty.
They're always empty.
She's like waving it around.
Ellen (10:51):
No it's too light.
Oh no, we're gonna ripthis to shreds, aren't we?
I'm so sorry, everyone.
Bex (10:55):
She has not participated in the Jensen Ackles School of um,
Believable Drinking of Coffee.
Alice (11:08):
I just don't get why they haven't made a weighted coffee cup for movies yet.
Like, it just seems so obvious.
Ellen (11:15):
Oh, they could, could put liquid in it, like.
Alice (11:17):
No, because they pick it up on the microphones.
It's like how, um, the paper bags inmovies, they're actually made of canvas.
Ellen (11:26):
Oh, okay.
Bex (11:26):
So they don't crunch.
Alice (11:28):
Yeah, so they don't rustle.
Ellen (11:31):
Gee, I'm learning so many things today.
Oh, wow.
Bex (11:39):
Pretty.
Alice (11:43):
Didn't leave a key out, just left the door open.
That works, I guess.
(12:09):
Look out, Maddie!
Bex (12:16):
Hi, Mason.
Ellen (12:43):
Now you mention it, Holiday Junkie is a pretty hilarious name for her.
Bex (12:57):
Shouldn't magic be like spontaneous and occurring naturally?
Alice (13:04):
I mean, I guess for the kids, they come home and there's Christmas.
Ellen (13:22):
I see the conflict already.
Yeah.
It's good.
Good.
Good.
Bex (13:26):
He doesn't believe in Christmas.
Alice (13:27):
Girl who loves Christmas.
He doesn't like Christmas.
Ellen (13:34):
Please run into each other and accidentally hug, that'd be great.
Alice (13:38):
Also, I found out in the break that, um, that she's the same
height as me and I love her so much.
Pocket sized.
Ellen (13:52):
These glasses are so funny, I love them.
Alice (13:54):
Do you reckon Aisha picked them out for her?
Ellen (14:00):
Maybe, she loves the chunky ones.
Bex (14:04):
Maybe when Jennifer Love Hewitt was raiding the cast
and the sets for the movie.
She also raided costume.
They are one of Aisha's glasses.
Alice (14:13):
Yeah, she literally just took them off Aisha's face
and got them out of her car.
Bex (14:17):
It's
true.
I will agree with that.
Ellen (15:20):
Oh, change of subject.
Bex (15:22):
It's tied to Christmas.
Ellen (15:25):
They've both lost something.
Bex (15:30):
Can they find what they're missing in each other?
You
(15:54):
know what, I wouldn't actually mindsomeone coming in, bringing all the
Christmas decorations and then takingthem away at the end of Christmas.
I could get on right with that.
Ellen (16:03):
Putting them away is the worst.
Bex (16:07):
But even putting them together, my family don't do the, everyone
gathers around and helps putall the decorations on the tree.
It's usually just me.
Alice (16:15):
Yeah.
Bex (16:16):
Yeah.
So, I would be quite happy to bring in athird party to create that magic for me.
Hmm.
What kind of pie?
Alice (16:32):
Ouch.
Bex (16:32):
You're not going to share your pie?
Ellen (16:37):
Asshole.
Those roses are really pretty.
Bex (16:46):
They fit in really well with the mistletoe as well.
Ellen (16:50):
Yeah.
Bex (17:08):
Do you think she updates her phone for every holiday?
Alice (17:13):
Or just for Christmas.
Bex (17:14):
Or does she literally, like, it's called the Holiday Junkie
to be more inclusive, but she's,like, exclusive for Christmas.
Alice (17:20):
Oh, true, yeah, maybe she, I reckon she does Halloween as well.
And, like, Valentine's Day.
Bex (17:26):
Yes, I'm thinking in February does her phone go pink and then
it's got, you know, somethingsappy romantic as her ringtone.
Ellen (17:33):
Maybe.
Alice (17:34):
And then, like, Easter as well.
Bex (17:38):
Fourth of July.
Mmm.
Ellen (17:40):
I
feel like when we first saw Doug it wasto do with Christmas trees as well, right?
Bex (17:48):
Yeah, it was, yes.
(18:09):
Did she have an open back,like, pickup or something?
Alice (18:14):
Yeah, I was trying to work out if it was a Jeep.
Ellen (18:15):
Oh, Sue
ships it.
Bex (18:34):
Oh yeah.
Ellen (18:35):
I'm sorry, what's her name?
Sarah.
Sarah ships it.
Bex (18:38):
Ah, she's Sue I swear that's Luke's Diner.
Look at that door.
Ellen (18:46):
Yeah.
I mean, they probably useall the same sets, wouldn't
they, like the same locations?
Alice (18:54):
Well, remember in Supernatural, they go to the set of Gilmore Girls.
Bex (18:59):
Yeah.
So they're probably just, she's justwalking around set with a camera crew.
Ellen (19:06):
But they filmed this in LA, like not Vancouver, so.
Right.
Alice (19:10):
No, no.
That was like the Supernatural episodewas when they went to Hollywood.
Ellen (19:14):
Oh, okay.
Bex (19:15):
Because they made the big deal of, you know, if we're really lucky,
maybe we'll see one of the residentsof Stars Hollow on the tour, and
Sam slash Jared gets really antsy.
Alice (19:24):
I'm pretty sure he just leaves.
Bex (19:28):
Hi,
Greg.
Ellen (19:48):
What?
Bex (19:48):
That's a fun story to tell.
Ellen (19:51):
Why would you tell this story?
Oh my god, that's awful.
This is like the fastest, slow characterfinding out stuff that I've seen.
(20:14):
It's
Bex (20:14):
Okay.
Was that All Christmas movies are like
Ellen (20:17):
this, I think.
Bex (20:18):
Was that character's name Wendy?
Ellen (20:21):
I I didn't catch their names.
Bex (20:24):
Okay, because if that's Wendy, she was on 9-1-1.
Okay.
I'm just living on IMDB at the moment.
Ellen (20:44):
Wow.
Alice (20:49):
I'm pretty sure all those trees are fake, but sure.
Ellen (20:54):
Yeah, that definitely looks like a fake tree.
I don't know.
Bex (21:00):
Oh, Greg was on 9-1-1 Lonestar.
(21:31):
He was also on The Client List, sothat's how he got that connection.
Which was one of JenniferLove Hewitt's earlier series.
Alice (21:40):
Bex, Andy's mum just died.
Ellen (21:42):
She just called in all her friends for this.
Bex (21:44):
Yeah.
I mean, it works for JJ Abrams and JossWhedon and Ryan Murphy, so why not?
Yeah.
Oh, hello.
Ellen (22:05):
Put
Bex (22:05):
your shirt
on,
dude.
Take your shirt off again so Ican look at your tattoos again.
Alice (22:21):
Yeah, I bet you'll get your tools to help screw it in.
Ellen (22:30):
He's totally gonna help her with all of the Christmas things.
I can tell.
Alice (22:34):
Yeah, he came around really fucking fast.
Ellen (22:36):
Yeah.
Bex (22:37):
And then he's going to rediscover the spirit of Christmas
I don't know what she's going toget out of it except, you know, him.
Ellen (22:46):
Yeah, bit of help with the grieving process, maybe.
Bex (23:25):
I've been watching TikTok videos of a woman whose mother is obsessed
with these little Christmas villages aswell, puts them out every single year.
Um, so she and her family have slowlybeen infiltrating the Christmas village
with little green plastic army men.
Alice (23:41):
I think I saw that actually!
Bex (23:44):
It takes the mother to realise that there are like snipers lining
the roof and there are, you know,infantrymen hiding behind the corners.
Ellen (23:56):
That, the tree behind her, are they cookies on the tree?
They just look like gingerbreadcookies, I don't know.
Bex (24:06):
They're
Ellen (24:06):
kind of, they're very flat.
Alice (24:09):
Yeah, they are very flat.
Oh, so back to his thing aboutroom sprays, I got a gingerbread
room spray for Christmas.
And I sprayed my little, um, mylittle firefighter Build a Bear.
So now he smells like gingerbread.
Bex (24:30):
I wasn't sure that you'd appreciate bubblegum, so I left him unscented.
Alice (24:35):
It's okay, I scented him myself.
Bex (24:38):
Oh, really?
Ellen (24:46):
Oh, where's Doug going?
Sorry, Mason.
Bex (24:50):
Eh, it's Doug.
I'm guessing this has somethingto do with his tragic past.
Oh, he was an artist?
Alice (25:00):
He had a girlfriend who was an artist.
Yep.
His mother was an artist.
Ellen (25:09):
He used to do Christmas art.
Bex (25:11):
Seriously?
Alice (25:11):
The building is sentient and does art.
Bex (25:14):
Do you just gotta walk in, turn around and walk back out again?
Doug,
(25:34):
take your finger off the trigger.
Ellen (25:39):
Stop pointing it.
Bex (25:43):
Oh no, it's not plugged in, it's not going to work.
Ellen (25:45):
Right, okay.
Bex (25:46):
But still.
Alice (26:15):
Also, did Jennifer Love Hewitt write this as well as,
like, everything else?
Because I just like that.
He's just like, "oh yeah, hot holidayplanner." It's just like, yeah, good.
Good on you.
She you with it?
Yep.
Ellen (26:30):
Well, why not?
Bex (26:31):
She wrote it.
Alice (26:32):
Oh.
Ellen (26:33):
Oh, no.
Oh, they were engaged to bemarried, but something went wrong.
Oh, no.
Bex (26:48):
I'm gonna assume that Anna White, who was the co-writer is from Lifetime,
because I'm scrolling through her.
Um, IMDB.
And other than, uh, the SecretLife of Cheerleaders, every
other movie is a Christmas movie.
Oh, okay.
So yeah, probably from I'mgonna say she's from Lifetime.
(27:11):
So, she's got a thing forChristmas and killer cheerleaders.
No, seriously, it's like, TheSecret Life of Cheerleaders,
Christmas movie, Christmas movie.
Cheer Camp Killer, Christmasmovie, Christmas movie.
Alice (27:23):
Oh my god!
Bex (27:24):
Killer Cheer Mom, Christmas movie, Christmas movie.
Ellen (27:27):
Wow.
Alice (27:46):
He's like, don't fuck up my lawn.
Ellen (27:49):
She's like, "he's snarky and really annoying." I'm like, what?
He's really charming.
What are you talking about?
He's been really nice so far.
Alice (28:05):
Me.
Ellen (28:09):
Case in point.
Buck number one fan.
Gay not blind.
Alice (28:15):
Exactly.
Bex (28:20):
Cute ish.
Okay.
Ellen (28:30):
Wow.
Alice (28:30):
How is she still going on the banisters?
Bex (28:34):
It looks like Christmas throw up.
Ellen (28:36):
Yeah.
Bex (28:38):
That's like completely over the top.
Ellen (28:40):
One of my son, the kid my son went to school with, um, his family
does this in their house and itlooks amazing, but I would just get
like, it just all gather the dust.
Like, I don't know if I could handle it.
It's just too noisy, you know, likeclutter kind of thing, you know, it
(29:00):
looks beautiful, but yeah, it's just.
Alice (29:03):
Yeah,
Ellen (29:06):
it's like the
Alice (29:08):
I guess if you only have it up for like a month, it's not so hard.
I mean, not so bad.
Ellen (29:13):
Yeah.
Alice (29:25):
I
Bex (29:25):
missed what they're doing.
Uh, is she decoratingfor the town, perhaps?
Alice (29:30):
Maybe.
That's not
Ellen (29:39):
creepy at all, Doug.
Bex (29:40):
Dude!
That's a little bit forward.
Ellen (29:49):
Just stay at your client's house, that's all.
He's down bad.
(30:31):
I was about to say she's gonna dotherapy, like, via leaving messages
to her mum, but no, now she's justhaving to break down about it.
Bless her.
Bex (30:38):
Imagine how jarring it's gonna be the time that she tries
and it's like, mailbox is full.
Ellen (30:43):
Oh.
Alice (30:43):
Why would you say that, Bex?
Bex (31:05):
Leave.
Alice (31:10):
Nope,
Bex (31:10):
just gonna stand in the doorway.
Ellen (31:11):
He wants pie.
Invite him in for pie.
Bex (31:13):
But he had his pie.
He had his chance.
This is her pie.
Alice (31:17):
She just shuts the door on him.
Ellen (31:20):
He's like, damn it.
Bex (31:45):
No.
Ellen (31:46):
Where
does she get all these things from?
Bex (31:53):
How much is this costing?
Ellen (31:55):
I don't know.
Bex (31:56):
Like, I didn't see any discussion about a budget.
Ellen (31:59):
No.
Alice (32:00):
It's Christmas.
They'll find the money.
They'll enter a triviacontest or something.
Bex (32:20):
Six dozen cookies.
How many fucking cookies is that?
Alice (32:24):
Oh, Sue ships it.
Bex (32:30):
That's 72 cookies.
Jesus Christ.
Ellen (32:36):
Oh no, last Christmas.
Oh goddammit Sue.
Alice (32:44):
Well then maybe stop talking about it.
Ellen (32:52):
It's like, oh, I know something, but I can't tell you, sorry.
Bex (32:55):
I'm going to put the teapot in front of you, but I'm not
going to pour you any tea.
I'm just going to letyou look at the teapot.
Ellen (33:02):
Oh, they ship it.
Alice (33:05):
That's so cute.
Ellen (33:09):
Oh my god, here she goes.
Alice (33:25):
Ooh.
Bex (33:32):
Actually, it probably would be doable if you were only making the same cookie.
Yeah, if you just made it.
Alice (33:39):
If you just made a big batch, and just like kept
Bex (33:41):
constantly rotating them through.
Don't you dare touch the dough withthe fingers that have just, oh!
Ellen (34:03):
If you're baking cookies to give to other people, you probably
should be wearing gloves as well.
Alice (34:09):
It's fine, it's going in the oven.
The oven kills all the germs.
Yes.
Bex (34:14):
I don't think the oven goes hot enough to do that.
Alice (34:16):
It's fine.
Ellen (34:24):
Oh.
Alice (34:31):
Big Claus energy.
Ellen (34:52):
Stop looking through her stuff and get back to cookie baking, buddy.
Bex (34:55):
You're on a, you're on a deadline
Alice (35:19):
to make cookies.
You.
Bex (35:25):
Dude!
Alice (35:28):
What an idiot.
Bex (35:30):
He's so distracted by her beauty.
Alice (35:33):
That's fair.
Bex (35:33):
That he's giving himself second degree burns.
Alice (35:38):
I think she just wanted to burn him.
Ellen (35:43):
Oh.
You just go around and eatas many cookies as you want.
Alice (35:48):
Okay, hang on.
What is a snickerdoodle?
Ellen (35:49):
How do I sign up for one of these things?
Bex (35:51):
Um, snickerdoodles are just like a plain cookie.
Ellen (35:55):
It's like a coconut thing, right?
Bex (35:57):
No, no, no, no.
Snickerdoodles are just, it's aplain sort of biscuit and then you
roll it in cinnamon and sugar and
Ellen (36:05):
Oh my god, yum.
Bex (36:06):
I really, really like them.
So it's like a butter cookie,but it's sugary and cinnamony.
Ellen (36:11):
Oh, that sounds amazing.
Alice (36:12):
Yeah, that actually sounds really good.
Bex (36:13):
They are really good.
And I only know that because I wascurious as to what a snickerdoodle
was after watching Veronica Mars andthen I had to look it up and then
I had to try and bake one myselfand see what the fuss was about.
Alice (36:26):
I hear about them all the time and I never bother to look it up.
Bex (36:30):
No idea why they're called snickerdoodles, but
I know what they are now.
(36:54):
I think they forget thatthey're not supposed to like
each other that much right now.
Ellen (36:57):
Yeah!
Bex (36:58):
Because they're acting so much like husband and wife.
Ellen (37:00):
That's why I was so confused before when she was saying, "oh,
he's really annoying and I don'treally like him." I'm like, what?
You've been looking at himwith heart eyes the whole time.
Bex (37:08):
Like the whole, she just slapped him on the thigh.
That's so somethingyou do to your partner.
Ellen (37:12):
Yeah.
Whoa, that kid's got really pink hair.
Bex (37:25):
That's amazing hair.
Yeah.
Alright, so can we pick the Hallisay kids?
Alice (37:31):
That's what I was just wondering, which ones are theirs?
Are they in this, or are they theParker's kids that we'll see later?
Bex (37:37):
I don't know.
Oh, actually, IMDB mightgive me character names.
Um, Atticus
Nope,
(37:59):
no, no character names.
Alice (38:02):
Hmm, interesting.
(38:34):
Oh my god, that worked well.
Ellen (38:40):
Aww.
Bex (39:02):
Did she run over Santa?
Ellen (39:10):
Like, I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this.
Alice (39:13):
What?!
Ellen (39:23):
This is also a strange story to tell at Christmastime.
Alice (39:26):
Oh my god!
Bex (39:41):
I don't know that mozzarella sticks are that worthy of
trauma dumping on your friends.
Alice (39:44):
Yeah, right?
Bex (40:16):
God, did she die on Christmas Day?
Alice (40:18):
Oh my
(40:45):
god!
Bex (40:46):
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Ellen (40:58):
Oh, that's so sad.
Bex (41:06):
We're sorry for your trauma.
Have deep fried cheese.
Alice (41:10):
Literally.
Ellen (41:12):
Oh, more trauma dumping.
Come on, everybody.
(41:39):
Oh wait, so she's not dead.
Bex (41:44):
The girlfriend?
No, I'm gonna say she dumped him.
Ellen (41:48):
Yeah, or cheated on him or something.
Bex (41:57):
Ran away with the best man?
Alice (42:01):
Ran away with Santa?
Ellen (42:18):
Aw.
Ouch.
(42:51):
I thought they went to this placeto get into some Christmas spirit.
Bex (42:55):
Yeah.
I think they're drinkingthe Christmas spirit.
Ellen (42:59):
Okay.
Yeah.
That makes more sense.
Because
they're just making, all going to havea therapeutic cry together in a minute.
Bex (43:09):
They needed to get all these stories out somehow, so.
Ellen (43:12):
Yeah, that's true.
Heart eyes.
Bex (43:26):
Total heart eyes.
Wait, what was the special recipe?
The coffee or the hotcakes?
Ellen (43:37):
The hotcakes, I think.
Alice (43:38):
Yeah,
Bex (43:38):
right?
I think it was just the hotcakes.
(44:28):
That's not how you spell mood.
Ellen (44:31):
Well, that's
sad as fuck.
Bex (44:51):
It's the, I can fix him.
Alice (44:53):
Yeah!
Ellen (45:03):
Do these movies always have a gay best friend?
Sorry?
Do these movies always have a gaybest friend to tell them what's what?
Bex (45:11):
I'm gonna say that it counts as, like, diversity.
Yeah.
Considering pretty much everysingle movie is, like, white.
het
Ellen (45:18):
couples..
Like, they probably have abest friend of some kind, yeah.
Bex (45:22):
So she's, that, that character is both their, um, their, like, colour
diversity and their, their queer rep?
Ellen (45:29):
Yeah.
Bex (46:06):
Oh, I bet you could.
(46:27):
.Hey!
Ellen (46:28):
Hey.
Bex (46:29):
So this is the other 9-1-1 connection.
Ellen (46:32):
Is this Buck's house?
Bex (46:33):
Yeah, it's Buck's apartment.
Ellen (46:35):
Ah!
Bex (46:39):
It's a fun fact.
Ellen (46:40):
It is too, oh my god.
Alice (46:41):
I was going to tell this to, no, go Bex, go.
Bex (46:43):
Alright, you, no, you tell it, because this, yeah, you tell it.
Alice (46:46):
Because it's Oliver?
Bex (46:47):
Yes.
Alice (46:47):
Um, so when she was filming in Buck's apartment, she sent a
photo of her in it to Oliver, andOliver was like, I don't understand.
Because she like sent him likea selfie and was just like, Oh,
just dropping by at your place.
And he's like, what?
It's just like, it's, it'sBuck's apartment, you dumbass.
Like what the fuck?
Bex (47:06):
It's
Ellen (47:06):
like he didn't,
he didn't recognize it?
Bex (47:09):
I don't think he even replied to her.
I think he left it on read.
Cause he just did not understand
Alice (47:14):
what was going on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure.
Yeah.
He left her on red.
And then like when they startedfilming again, she was just like, did
you not like, and he's like, I don'tknow what you were talking about.
Bex (47:55):
Was there a couch back there?
Ellen (48:01):
Yeah, there was, because there's cushions on it, I saw cushions.
Alice (48:04):
She's like, wow, you don't have a couch, let me buy you one.
She's like, yeah, I've just beenso worried about getting the
right, the wrong couch again.
Ellen (48:27):
Aw, trauma bonding now.
Bex (48:29):
That's not the best basis for a relationship, honestly.
Because they're both going to, like,go through the stages of grief and
come out the other end and go, DoI actually really like this person?
Or do I just connect withthem in my time of need?
Ellen (48:44):
It doesn't matter because they're going to be together at Christmas.
And for the purposes of thismovie, that's all we need.
Alice (48:50):
Yeah, the world actually ends at Christmas, so it's fine.
Bex (48:55):
Like, literally, it blows up at Christmas.
Ellen (48:59):
It like, folds back into the 9-1-1 timeline.
Bex (49:02):
Schrodinger's
cat gets back in the box.
Ellen (49:09):
Gets back under the couch.
Oh, the little houses are cute though.
They're so sparkly.
Alice (49:22):
Ellen's gonna redecorate for Christmas on the 4th of January.
Ellen (49:27):
I haven't put my tree away yet.
Alice (49:32):
My two friends who are obsessed with Christmas were taking it down on
the 31st, and I was like, what the fuck?
Like, I thought you'd be stillup at, like, February, and
they're like, nah, we got bored.
I'm like, what?
Bex (49:45):
My tree stays up till January because after Christmas
it turns into a birthday tree.
Alice (49:50):
Oh, oh, hang on.
Okay, so there is a
Ellen (49:56):
There is a Halloween decorations box.
Alice (49:57):
There is a Halloween, yeah.
And she does have two couches.
Ellen (51:14):
Aww.
Alice (51:40):
It's like a massive dildo or something.
Bex (51:42):
It's from her mother, ew.
Alice (51:49):
Even she knew she needed a hobby.
Ellen (51:52):
Oh.
Thinking about dildos.
Oh, wow.
Oh.
(52:19):
Oh, they're getting a bit close.
Alice (52:21):
Tension.
Bex (52:22):
No, but there's no tension.
Alice (52:24):
It's because they're already married.
Bex (52:26):
I know!
Ellen (52:30):
Gosh, they sort of jumped into that one.
Alice (52:35):
They don't have three kids for nothing.
I do think it's funny.
That's in her mum's sweater.
Ew.
Bex (52:44):
I do think it's funny that like they're, I guess the younger
fans of 9-1-1 who haven't grown upon Jennifer Love Hewitt see her and
Brian together and assume that shemet him on the set of 9-1-1 and then
they get all freaked out about it.
Like, oh my god, she fell in love witha guy who played her abusive husband!
How weird is that?
Alice (53:03):
Yeah, no, they already had children at this point.
Bex (53:09):
Although she did meet him on the set of The Client List, so that's also a
slightly weird situation to meet someone.
Wait, did he bolt afterthe kiss or after sex?
(53:49):
Alright, so after sex.
Ellen (54:16):
He's saying she's replacing her mum with, like, a boyfriend?
Because it's a different kind of thing.
Bex (54:24):
No, let's not go there.
Ma'am, why are you doing that
(54:47):
in the middle of a cafe?
Alice (54:49):
Right?
She's like, Mom, really wish I couldtell you that I got laid last night!
Eeee!
Sue's like, you what?
Bex (55:38):
Did she just try to hide from him?
Ellen (55:40):
It looked like it, but she just dropped something.
Alice (56:04):
He had
so much to do.
Bex (56:26):
Oh, this is literally the morning after, okay.
Alice (56:29):
Yeah.
Bex (56:39):
Because your legs don't work?
Alice (56:44):
Because they're still shaky from last night?
Ellen (56:48):
Oh yeah, we're totally not together, you know, too much, bye.
So what are you doing later?
Or if you're an abusive,controlling, horrible person, no.
Bex (57:06):
Nah, leave that till later.
That's definitely likethird date conversation.
Alice (57:16):
Oh my god, the obvious ad breaks as well.
Yeah.
Did
she
follow
him?
Ellen (57:36):
Who's stalking now?
Bex (57:54):
Oh, he's going to turn it into a Holiday Junkie store for her.
Ellen (57:57):
Seems that way.
Bex (58:01):
So she can sell her, her branded products out of it.
Calling it right now.
Ellen (58:09):
Aww,
(58:44):
Heart eyes.
Bex (58:47):
Oh, that's creepy.
So
basically, the Parkers arebankrolling their courtship right now.
Alice (59:06):
Yeah, right?
Ellen (59:07):
Yep.
Alice (59:09):
Up yours, capitalism.
Bex (59:21):
Wait, people pay money for that?
Alice (59:23):
I know, right?
I'm like, what?
Bex (59:25):
They bought tickets to stand and listen to What?
Ellen (59:30):
Oh, it looks like there's other stuff there, like, it
looks like markets or something.
Alice (59:35):
But like, you don't pay to go to a ma uh, I guess sometimes you pay like a
Bex (59:40):
But they bought tickets!
You buy tickets for a
Ellen (01:00:04):
Oh, that's mean.
Bex (01:00:20):
Oh gee, I wonder what that is.
Alice (01:00:23):
The weather.
(01:00:46):
He's like, don't fuck it up!
Bex (01:00:50):
Uh, dude, you are completely out of time.
Alice (01:00:55):
I think that's the point.
I hope that's the point.
Bex (01:00:58):
No no, Old Guy in the Glasses is going backwards
when everyone's going forwards.
Ellen (01:01:01):
Oh yeah.
He's dancing to his own song.
(01:02:12):
Just go and get it on already.
Bex (01:02:13):
Again.
Go and get it on again.
Alice (01:02:16):
If this was a fan fiction.
Ellen (01:02:17):
Again.
Alice (01:02:19):
They'd be in an alleyway by now.
Bex (01:03:00):
That's not good for your profit margin though.
Ellen (01:04:33):
She's had to cry a lot in this one too.
She's good at crying on,on uh, you know, command.
Bex (01:04:39):
They use the exact same establishing shot every single
time they cut to the Parkers.
She got it
off Temu.
Okay.
(01:05:04):
How many days?
Cause they've had six days to do this,like, where are we in the time frame?
Alice (01:05:11):
It's like 9-1-1, there is no time.
Bex (01:05:13):
Apparently not.
She must be really getting bed.
Alice (01:05:40):
They're banging in a storage closet, it's fine.
Ellen (01:05:44):
They had a quickie under the table there.
Alice (01:05:49):
They hid behind the tree.
Bex (01:06:00):
Ah, there we go.
He's going to refuse to pay halfof her bill because they weren't
there to experience all of thethings that she bought tickets for.
Alice (01:06:47):
I bought Christmas lights for my bedroom this year.
I still haven't put them up.
Imagine having a manor.
Bex (01:07:14):
Oh no.
Alice (01:07:15):
Uh oh.
Bex (01:07:25):
No, that's where they were going to hold the Hop!
Ellen (01:07:32):
Just have it at the Parker's house.
Bex (01:07:34):
No, have it at the um, the store.
Ellen (01:07:38):
At the cafe.
Bex (01:07:39):
No, no, no, his store.
Ellen (01:07:40):
That is the cafe.
Alice (01:07:41):
His store.
Ellen (01:07:42):
Oh, yeah.
Alice (01:07:45):
Oh my god, I hear sirens.
Buck's on his... oh.
Bex (01:07:48):
Oh, different establishing shot.
Ellen (01:07:50):
Oh, but we've definitely had that one before.
I remember the fish eye.
Bex (01:07:58):
Yeah, the fish eye is quite, quite bad.
Ellen (01:08:01):
Does she have a different like, suit jacket type, like
dinner jacket type thing for every?
Day?
Alice (01:08:06):
Every scene, yeah.
(01:08:27):
Surely he could just builda barn for it or something.
Bex (01:08:36):
Not everything.
That's a Star's Hollow set, there shouldbe like a massive town square in the
middle of it, can't they just do it there?
Alice (01:08:42):
Or the gazebo.
Bex (01:08:43):
Yeah.
Maybe a grumpy cafe owner can builda cover they can all dance under.
Alice (01:09:06):
Her apartment seemed to be like 30 seconds away, but sure.
Ohhh!
Bex (01:09:35):
Oh, that's the guest room.
Ellen (01:09:59):
Wait, wait, I need a smoochies before I go to sleep.
Nope, okay.
Alice (01:10:12):
No smoochies, just a commercial break.
Ellen (01:10:17):
What is...
Bex (01:10:20):
that's not how you use a tape measure.
(01:11:04):
Did she pay him for them?
Like, in money, not in services.
Ellen (01:11:11):
I hope so.
Bex (01:11:22):
Ding ding ding!
Alice (01:11:23):
There we go!
Oh my god, no way!
Girl.
Ellen (01:12:00):
Oh, magic!
Alice (01:12:06):
It's right there, how do you not see it?
Bex (01:12:18):
Are there bathrooms in this store?
Like, accessibility issues?
I'm
Ellen (01:12:26):
Why is this guy so focused on lunch?
Bex (01:12:30):
Yeah, it's going to be a working day.
Alice (01:12:31):
Because he's hungry!
The poor guy!
He invited his mate out for lunchand he's like, Yeah, let's go!
He wasn't ready for lunch.
Ellen (01:12:39):
No time for lunch when you've got to get the Hop ready.
Alice (01:12:52):
It's not a health and safety issue at all.
I bet you can't.
Bex (01:13:07):
Dude, she's gay.
Alice (01:13:10):
I'm pretty sure he's also married.
Ellen (01:13:23):
That woman he's been with is his wife, right?
Bex (01:13:27):
Yeah.
I think?
Alice (01:13:31):
Yeah, like he, they just said his kids are 14 and 17 as well.
Ellen (01:13:54):
It's not a competition.
Apparently it is.
Alice (01:14:12):
Why is everybody in this movie so miserable?
Bex (01:14:14):
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Back into the closet?
Maybe she was bisexual.
Ellen (01:14:27):
She hadn't worked that out yet.
Alice (01:14:38):
He's been kissing you all week!
Bex (01:14:59):
Buck's apartment looks very pretty all decked out in lights.
Ellen (01:15:01):
It does!
Alice (01:15:02):
I know!
Ellen (01:15:02):
I was just thinking, in the last episode we watched,
they were standing right therewhen they had their little Yes!
talk.
Alice (01:15:11):
The eye contact.
Well, poor Chris was just on the couch.
Ellen (01:15:14):
Yeah, staring at the off TV.
Alice (01:15:19):
Like dads, I can hear you!
Ellen (01:15:31):
Sparkly.
Bex (01:15:41):
Like, payment for use of his promises.
Alice (01:15:44):
Aww, she found him the car.
Bex (01:15:50):
How did she
do that in a day?
Alice (01:15:59):
It was literally just at Kmart.
Ellen (01:15:59):
Amazon delivers pretty fast.
Alice (01:16:00):
Or Target.
Bex (01:16:02):
Yeah, but not that fast.
Alice (01:16:03):
Yeah, it was prime.
Ellen (01:16:04):
This episode's not sponsored by Amazon.
Although, if you want to sendme some free stuff, okay.
Alice (01:16:10):
Yeah, we'll take any of the free stuff.
Bex (01:16:15):
Commercial.
Her lip filler is notlooking good in this.
Ellen (01:16:32):
Oh, I don't like that camera movement, it's weird.
Bex (01:16:35):
No.
Ellen (01:16:38):
Oh, the decorations look lovely though.
Bex (01:17:31):
What beat did they tell them to dance on?
Yeah, they're dancing to amuch faster song than this one.
Ellen (01:18:10):
Yep,
that's how grief works, Libby.
Aww.
(01:18:40):
I think it's, it's weird that themusic is the only sound we can hear
in this, like, they're obviouslyall dancing around quietly on a set.
It's really obvious.
(01:19:18):
Yeah, I saw you slipping,slipping her the tongue there.
Alice (01:19:24):
Hey, he's getting paid to kiss his wife.
Ellen (01:19:26):
Oh, everyone else is just like, woo!
Alice (01:19:33):
Bex's favorite, um establishing shot?
Ellen (01:19:36):
It was nighttime this time.
Alice (01:20:24):
Bang.
Bone?
Ellen (01:20:39):
He's not a mind reader, girl.
Oh no.
Bex (01:20:43):
The Parkers are back!
Alright.
Ellen (01:20:51):
That's their kids, right, definitely.
Bex (01:20:52):
That's the kids.
Alice (01:21:30):
Also, why are you so dressed up?
Ellen (01:21:52):
They have better LA establishing shots than 9-1-1 early seasons do.
Yeah.
Aww.
Bex (01:22:15):
I am googling to see if that is actually Jennifer Love Hewitt singing.
Ellen (01:22:21):
Oh.
Alice (01:23:05):
And you have three kids together.
(01:23:47):
Yeah, Mr. Parker, I'm sure,is the one that you were
Bex (01:23:53):
No, she was trying to, because he wants her to be, she wants
him to be his angel investor.
Alice (01:23:57):
Oh yeah, true.
Bex (01:23:58):
I think I got my pronouns mixed up in that sentence, but that's okay.
Also, yes, that was JenniferLove Hewitt singing.
Alice (01:24:11):
Yeah, I thought it must have been.
Ellen (01:24:14):
What can't she do?
She's amazing.
Bex (01:24:16):
Did you not My God, I love the single that she, like, released back in sort of
the I Know What You Did Last Summer days.
It was so bad, but I loved it.
(01:24:49):
Wait, why are the windows still taped up?
Alice (01:24:57):
Because they needed darkness for the Hop.
Bex (01:25:00):
Did they not take them down for the Hop?
Ellen (01:25:03):
Maybe he put them back again.
Alice (01:25:05):
Yeah, he's like, fuck you people.
Ellen (01:25:10):
Fuck daylight.
(01:25:35):
Drive all the way toBig Bear in nine hours.
Bex (01:25:41):
Six of those hours is just driving round and round and round in circles.
Alice (01:25:46):
Like, no wonder they had to stop at a gas station, honestly.
Bex (01:25:54):
Thanks, Michael Jordan.
Alice (01:25:59):
Yes!
It's not, it's Wayne Gretzky.
Bex (01:26:04):
It is Wayne Gretzky?
Alice (01:26:06):
Yeah.
But Michael Scott quotes it.
He blew it.
Bex (01:26:32):
Oh my god, that's, this is terrible.
Alice (01:26:36):
It's a Christmas movie, it's supposed to be terrible.
Pretty sure kids aren't supposed to,
okay, that's okay then.
Ellen (01:26:48):
She
(01:27:40):
shot her shot.
Shooted her shot?
Bex (01:28:11):
What is she doing?
Alice (01:28:14):
Tidying.
Ellen (01:28:17):
She's happy about something.
Oh, she's having dinner for one.
Bex (01:28:36):
They never get wine right on these shows.
Look how thin that looks.
Alice (01:28:41):
I
Bex (01:28:41):
know right.
It just looks like red water.
juice with water.
Ellen (01:28:43):
Blackcurrant
juice.
Bex (01:28:52):
With
Ellen (01:28:52):
raspberry.
Raspberry cordial.
Alice (01:28:55):
But like, there's non alcoholic wine!
Just use non alcoholic wine!
Ellen (01:29:00):
That costs a lot more than raspberry cordial.
Alice (01:29:02):
True.
Bex (01:29:12):
Yeah, gotta let that cordial breathe.
Alice (01:29:16):
The tannins, you know.
Bex (01:29:30):
Girl, why are you bitching at him?
Yes!
Ellen (01:29:46):
You were right.
Bex (01:29:48):
I could totally write for Lifetime.
Alice (01:29:51):
You
Bex (01:29:51):
could.
I
have all the tropes down.
Alice (01:29:58):
Yeah,
Bex (01:29:58):
you do.
Ellen (01:30:00):
Wow, he went ahead and set the whole thing up too.
Just, what if she said no?
Alice (01:30:09):
Mechanical bull.
Bex (01:30:11):
You do realize that she does more than just Christmas though, right?
And other forms?
Alice (01:30:31):
Christmas, wink.
Bex (01:30:39):
She's about to run out and legally change her name to Christmas.
Alice (01:30:45):
Last name Junkie.
Wait.
Guys,
I don't think he'stalking about Christmas.
Ellen (01:30:57):
I
Bex (01:30:57):
think it's, it's her.
Is it a metaphor?
Ellen (01:31:02):
She's Christmas!
Bex (01:31:02):
Oh, come on!
Ellen (01:31:13):
Oh my god.
This is so cheesy, I love it.
Bex (01:31:24):
Oh.
Ellen (01:31:27):
Oh.
Oh.
I think that was all you, love.
Bex (01:31:32):
I am way too cynical for these movies.
Ellen (01:31:41):
Oh, we're having a flashback.
Bex (01:31:42):
Do we really need a flashback after only an hour?
Ellen (01:31:45):
Yeah,
Bex (01:31:45):
I think
Alice (01:31:45):
Yeah, there were a lot of commercials.
Ellen (01:31:47):
I think we got it that they were falling in love already.
Bex (01:31:52):
They fell in love like Two years ago.
There was no falling inlove with this movie.
They like, walked in the first timethey saw each other, they were in love.
Alice (01:32:03):
That's what Christmas movies are all about.
I really need to write my Christmas fic.
I say this every January.
And then it gets to December,and I'm just like, I still
haven't written my Christmas fic.
Bex (01:32:15):
Oh,
Alice (01:32:15):
we got a foot pop.
She did the foot pop.
Ellen (01:32:18):
Oh.
Oh.
Is it based on a true story?
. , yes.
Or at least actually
Alice (01:32:25):
Jennifer Love Hewitt really decorates for Christmas.
Ellen (01:32:27):
Yeah.
Bex (01:32:27):
No, but isn't, but yes, like the book that she wrote
something about magic as well.
Ellen (01:32:33):
She wrote a book?
Bex (01:32:34):
Yes.
She wrote a book about her mother.
Ellen (01:32:38):
She really does do everything,
Bex (01:32:41):
uh, images.
Oh, that's, that's, oh, no.
Alice (01:32:46):
No!
What did you find?
Bex (01:32:49):
Uh, it's called Inheriting Magic.
Alice (01:32:53):
There
Bex (01:32:54):
you go.
Um,
that cover looks incredibly AI,even though it's her and the kids.
Alice (01:33:01):
Oh dear.
Bex (01:33:02):
Um, it's, so, Inheriting Magic, my journey through grief, joy,
celebration, and making every day magical.
Alice (01:33:09):
Aww.
Ellen (01:33:11):
I think this is her singing this song too.
Bex (01:33:14):
Oh, oh my God.
I think this movie is likesemi autobiographical.
When she lost her mother tocancer, everything changed
for Jennifer Love Hewitt.
In the pages of Inheriting Magic,she recounts her journey, sharing
memories, photographs, recipes,and the ma magic making ethos of
a self-proclaimed holiday junkie.
This entire movie was justa promotion for her book.
Ellen (01:33:34):
Oh my God.
. Okay.
Bex (01:33:36):
Inheriting Magic is about how grief, being a mom of three.
Having a deep love for party planningand being passionate about the holidays
turned what could have been an ordinarylife into something more enchanting.
Through it, Jennifer inspires real readersto add more love, light and the making of
core memories into their everyday lives.
Oh my god.
Alice (01:33:53):
Oh
Bex (01:33:54):
my God.
Ellen (01:33:56):
Well, why not turn it into a fictional movie about falling
in love with your own husband?
Well, that was very delightful.
And I'm feeling very full ofChristmas spirit right now.
Alice (01:34:09):
I know I need to go spray my gingerbread room spray
and um, eat some peppermint.
Bex (01:34:15):
I think I must be the Scrooge in the family because I am not feeling moved.
Ellen (01:34:19):
Oh
Bex (01:34:19):
you're not?
Alice (01:34:20):
Have you not seen, have you not watched Christmas movies before Bex?
Bex (01:34:26):
I'm going to be honest, I attempted to watch one a couple of years ago and
I put it on like in the backgroundso that I could have something
playing while I was doing work.
Um, I ended up focusing moreon the work that I was doing
because the movie was so bad.
Alice (01:34:44):
They're always awful.
They're always super corny.
But they're so good, in a terrible
Bex (01:34:49):
way.
I don't think I have a tolerancefor corny or terrible writing
and terrible acting anymore.
I've
I've lost that, I don't know, what it is.
Alice (01:35:03):
The childlike joy.
Bex (01:35:05):
Yes.
Alice (01:35:06):
Maybe, maybe you need some Christmas magic, Bex.
Ellen (01:35:10):
Yeah, you need a tall dark stranger to come into your life
and build you some Christmas trees.
Bex (01:35:14):
I will happily accept Christmas spirit if it comes in the form of
a bottle, maybe that will help me.
Alice (01:35:20):
No, you need to go away and from your big city life and talk about
how you don't have time for Christmas.
Bex (01:35:29):
See, no, I, if I were in, like, a Hallmark or Lifetime movie,
I would be the girlfriend that theboy moves back to his hometown and
falls in love with a small town girland leaves the big city girl behind.
I would be the big city girl.
I am, I am Sarah Jessica Parkerin, in, like, The Family Stone.
Ellen (01:35:50):
I mean I feel like, as they go, this had some pretty good acting in
it compared to some that I've seen.
Alice (01:35:58):
Yeah, I've seen awful acting.
Bex (01:35:59):
Oh,
Alice (01:36:00):
look, the act
Ellen (01:36:00):
This was some good actors.
Bex (01:36:01):
They did the best that they could with the script that they were given.
Ellen (01:36:05):
Yeah.
Alice (01:36:06):
Hey, what are you saying about my girl's writing?
Bex (01:36:10):
That she's an actor for a reason?
Ellen (01:36:15):
It hit the marks that it, that Christmas movies are supposed to.
I think it did pretty well.
Alice (01:36:20):
It was great.
Yeah.
In a terrible holiday junkie type of way.
Ellen (01:36:27):
So was the only 9-1-1 easter egg, apart from the actors who we knew were
already in it, and Buck's apartment, werethere other things that you guys noticed?
Bex (01:36:38):
No, that was about it.
Alice (01:36:40):
Yeah, the main one was Buck's apartment that we were waiting for you to
Bex (01:36:44):
Yeah.
Everyone got very excited whenthey dropped the stills for the
Ellen (01:36:52):
Yeah, I did actually see some of that on Twitter beforehand,
so I knew it was coming, but yeah.
Very sweet.
Alice (01:37:01):
I just love that Oliver was like, what?
Ellen (01:37:07):
Yeah, I can't believe he wouldn't have recognized it.
I mean, it didn't like with, with theChristmas decorations all over it, it did
look a bit different, but basically thesame layout, like the bed was upstairs.
That's the only place the bed can be.
Bex (01:37:20):
I just, I wonder what, like, what did she have in the
background when she took the photo?
Cause like, like if she's just standingin front of the brick wall, it's just
going, okay, an exposed brick wall.
Alice (01:37:30):
She just, like, "Came for a visit," sent a selfie, and he, like,
opened his front door to his actualhouse, and he's like, I don't get it.
The dogs aren't even barking.
What the fuck, Jennifer?
Ellen (01:37:43):
Anything else you want to say about this movie?
Alice (01:37:47):
Happy 4th of January?
Ellen (01:37:52):
Look, it's never too late for Christmas movies, right?
Or fics.
I enjoy reading Christmas fics allyear round, so one of them is true.
Alice (01:38:00):
I love, I do love Christmas fics, yeah.
Ellen (01:38:02):
Yeah.
Alice (01:38:02):
Um, okay, do you guys have a favourite Christmas movie, or
movie that's set around Christmas?
Bex (01:38:07):
Die
Alice (01:38:07):
Hard.
Ellen (01:38:08):
Oh my god.
I actually, I actuallyreally love Home Alone.
I know it's an old school Christmasmovie, but I, I love the music and I love
the, you know, the just, the The wholething, it's just so funny, I love it.
But the, the cheesy, um, romantic ones, Ihaven't seen that many of them actually.
I've seen a few, like, in thelast couple of years, but, yeah.
(01:38:31):
They're all so cheesyand weird that, yeah.
Alice (01:38:35):
Every year my family watches, um, what's it called, National
Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?
Ellen (01:38:40):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
Alice (01:38:42):
And it's so bad, but we watch it every single Christmas Eve.
Um, and we still watch it.
Like, even when we don't livetogether and that sort of stuff.
Like, we still watchit every Christmas Eve.
And, yeah, it's just awful, but it's
Ellen (01:38:58):
My daughter saw that, um We were watching, we were flicking
through like Netflix or something,and my daughter saw Die Hard on there.
And she's like, oh, DieHard, we could watch that.
And I'm like, um, it'sactually rated R on there.
I'm like, I didn't realizeit was, you know, that bad.
But it is like, you know, graphicviolence and whatever in there, so.
Alice (01:39:17):
I've actually never seen the first Die Hard.
Ellen (01:39:20):
Oh,
Alice (01:39:20):
you haven't?
Bex (01:39:21):
It's a Christmas classic, no matter what Bruce Willis says.
Ellen (01:39:23):
It's worth watching.
Yeah, it's worth watching, just forthe Just the meme, the meme value.
Alice (01:39:29):
I think I've seen like the third or fourth one, but
I haven't seen the original.
Bex (01:39:34):
That is my every Christmas Eve.
I'm usually up way too late.
Alice (01:39:39):
Watching Die Hard?
Bex (01:39:40):
Wrapping presents, or there was a phase, there was a phase where I
was sewing presents like ChristmasEve to give to them on Christmas Day,
and I would have Die Hard playing.
I love that.
That's my Christmas movie.
Alice (01:39:52):
Well I missed you both.
It's nice to hear your voices again.
Ellen (01:39:57):
Oh yeah, it is nice to be back.
Okay, well let's just say wehope you enjoyed watching it,
um, as much as we, maybe we did.
Maybe we didn't, I don't know.
Bex (01:40:09):
You two enjoyed it.
Ellen (01:40:10):
We had a good time watching it together.
Bex (01:40:11):
Scrooge, but Ebeneezer Scrooge over here was slightly
doubtful about the situation.
But, that's fine.
Alice (01:40:17):
That's alright, Ebeneezer will find her holiday junkie at some point.
Bex (01:40:23):
The little Grinch's heart will grow a couple of sizes at some point.
Ellen (01:40:28):
Let us know what you thought of the movie.
Or, and about this episode,and we will catch you next week
for more 9-1-1, back to usual.
See you then.
Bex (01:40:38):
Bye.
Alice (01:40:40):
Bye.
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