Welcome to That Weewoo Show: a podcast where Ellen, Alice and Bex watch and discuss every episode of ABC’s TV show, 9-1-1.
In this episode we discuss episode 6 of the fourth season of 9-1-1, titled “Jinx”.
The 118 believes their fabled firehouse superstition has come true when they have the day from hell with a never-ending series of bizarre emergency calls.
Content warnings for episode 4.06:
clowns, grief, high speed pursuit and an octopus.
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Maddie: [00:00:00] 9-1-1, what’s your emergency?
Bex: Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, a podcast where we watch and discuss episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1. I’m Bex,
Alice: I’m Alice.
Ellen: And I’m Ellen.
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Ellen: Please also enjoy Alice’s lovely husky, uh, 9-1-1 After Dark voice today in this episode.
Bex: Yes, Alice… life is still kicking Alice in the butt a little bit, but we are going to try and rally, we’re gonna try and make this work so that we can discuss what is Alice’s favorite episode?
Alice: It is, we’re up to “Jinx”!
Bex: But before we do that, Alice, can you give us a quick recap of [00:02:00] what happened in the last episode of 9-1-1?
Alice: Yeah, so last week, weeks, whenever it was that we last joined you.
Bex: That’s why I said episode. ’cause I can’t remember how many weeks it’s been since we’ve done this.
Alice: Um, last episode of 9-1-1, Buck began.
Ellen: He did! That feels like a long time ago.
Alice: It was a long time ago.
Bex: That that’s a pretty, that’s a pretty, you know, concise summary of that episode.
Ellen: Yeah. So in this episode we’re going to discuss episode six, which is titled “Jinx”, which first aired in February, 2021. And the official summary says the 118 believes their fabled firehouse superstition has come true when they have the day from hell with a never ending series of bizarre emergency calls. Athena is in a hot pursuit of a 118 firetruck, a man who duct taped himself to a freeway billboard, a garage full of [00:03:00] fireworks, and a restaurant manager destroying his own business.
They just gave away the entirety of the episode in that description.
Um, meanwhile, Eddie feels a spark with Christopher’s former teacher, but admits to Bobby he may not be ready to move on in his personal life yet.
Bex: I mean, at least they’re giving away the entirety of the episode, but everything that they just gave away actually happens in said episode
Ellen: Yeah, you, that is a bonus,
Bex: not like last season where the summary was all over the shop as to whether or not we were actually going to get those scenes in the episode.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Although, funnily enough, a lot of those scenes ended up in this episode.
Alice: Yeah. Right?
Ellen: Okay.
Bex: Yeah, we will get there.
Ellen: Yeah, we’ll get there. The triggers for this episode are quite straightforward because this is for a change we have a lighter… like the last few episodes have been quite heavy, I guess, heavy subject matter.
So this episode is surprisingly low angst. [00:04:00] So the triggers include clowns, which is, you know, quite a big trigger for some people. Sam Winchester. Um, we have grief, grief, um, high speed pursuit and an octopus. And I laughed so hard were the octopus actually appeared. The octopus,
I don’t think anything else, like, too scary happens in this episode. Like they’re, it’s just, it’s just fun and hijinks mainly.
Bex: I think those are the main, the, the main kind of highlights. Should we get into it?
Ellen: Yeah,
Alice: let’s go.
Bex: We’re going to start with Athena’s high speed pursuit.
Ellen: Yeah. This was very confusing because, I mean, I knew that there was gonna, obviously, there’s summary told us it was, she was gonna be chasing the 118 fire truck.
Bex: Oh no. So you got spoiled,
Ellen: so that wasn’t really a surprise.
Bex: Oh no. See, I remember going [00:05:00] into this completely, completely blind
Ellen: and yeah, if you’ve been binging through and you just came onto this episode.
Bex: Yeah. So
Ellen: that would be very confusing.
Bex: Athena’s racing through the streets of LA, you’ve got the police helicopter over the top.
They’re telling this, um, the subject to, you know, uh, pull over. And then she says like, “engine 118,” and you see that she’s chasing the engine truck. And it’s like, what the fuck?
Ellen: Yes. I mean, you still, like, I still didn’t know who it was. So that was, that was a surprise. But, um, yeah, if you hadn’t been spoiled for what was gonna happen, that would’ve been pretty amazing.
Bex: It was a, a pretty cool opening. Um, yeah, but it is a flash forward, or maybe the episode, like real time is that particular night and now we’re going to flash back, although the episode is not gonna tell us that we’re flashing [00:06:00] back, um, after Athena tells the, the 118 to pull over, and they do in fact not pull over but continue racing.
They race us straight into the title card. And when we come back the engine truck is parked in the station engine bay, they’re like, oh, oh
Ellen: yeah. They don’t have anything that says this is.
Bex: No,
Ellen: you know, 12 hours earlier or anything like that?
Bex: No. You just, I guess you figure, oh, this is just, this is a common, um, technique that these guys use, so we must be, you know, earlier in the day,
Alice: it’s just 9-1-1 things. That’s it.
Bex: Yeah, it’s timey wimey. We’re, we’ve resigned to the fact that time makes no sense on this show. Um, and we get, uh, we get the cutest scene with Buck,
Alice: we get Clipboard Buck,
Bex: we get the return.
Alice: He has returned.
Bex: We get the return of Clipboard Buck
Ellen: and Eddie looking extremely fond.
Bex: Eddie is tolerating him so well with Clipboard Buck.[00:07:00]
Um, so essentially I think they are restocking the, uh, the supplies on the engine truck. Buck has a list of all of the items that need to go into said truck. Um, and he’s reeling them off as Eddie is putting them back into the compartment.
But he’s making a big deal out of it because he’s requiring Eddie to say check every time he grabs an item to the point where when Eddie grabs something and just says, “Yep, I’ve got it,” Buck like puts his hand to his ear and is like, “I’m sorry, what was that?”
Ellen: He’s such a little shit.
Alice: He’s such a little shit.
Ellen: And then when Hen comes along and she sees what’s happening, she’s like, “Oh no, who gave him a clipboard?”
Alice: Um, but apparently it’s a, it’s a kind la gentler clipboard as is the man who holds it [00:08:00] because this is Buck 3.0.
Ellen: Yeah. Um, so yeah, apparently he’s evolved. He, he’s in his like evol, like final form now. Is that correct? I is there a, is there a further evolvement?
Bex: I don’t think we ever specifically get, well, I’m assuming that like bi Buck is Buck 4.0 or at least,
Ellen: yeah, I guess so.
Bex: A, a upgraded version of a three, maybe like a 3.1, 3.2.
Um, but he doesn’t refer to himself as Buck four point wait, does he? I’m not gonna say that because I can’t remember off the top of my head, but um, yeah, but I do love that everyone in the 118 seems to have, um, just accepted Buck referring to himself in the like third person with a different version.
Um, because Hen’s like “Buck 3.0? What happened to 2.0?” Uh, 2.0’s leg [00:09:00] got crushed by a ladder truck and his girlfriend left him apparently.
Alice: Yeah. Thanks Chim.
Ellen: I thought that was what happened to one point.
Bex: No. 1.0 Abby left him. Okay. 2.0, got the latter truck,
Ellen: right.
Bex: Um, and then we get Eddie’s line of that. It’s a software update.
Alice: Yeah. So Buck’s ready to let go of the past and when Hen gives us a little bit of exposition from, um, the last couple weeks about how “your parents lied to you your entire life and you’re just gonna let it go, what’s your secret?” Buck explains that he’s in therapy with his parents now.
Ellen: Oh God. That sounds like hell.
Bex: I think his therapist, his therapist is gonna have a lot of work to do with those two.
Ellen: Yeah. Um, and Hen asked if Chim is also taking part in the family sessions. Chim’s like, “uh, no I am not.” [00:10:00] Chim’s, he’s not family.
Bex: He’s got his own family issues that he should be in therapy to resolve. He doesn’t need to be in therapy with the Buckleys.
Alice: Oh, honestly.
Bex: Well, Eddie tells Buck that he is allowed to give himself some time to process. Um, Buck says that he’s just tired of looking behind him and he’s ready to start thinking about the future. Speaking of which, the future of the 118 in the form of a probie firefighter, probationary firefighter is walking towards him and he yells, “Hey, probie!”
And look, I know my rule is that unless they get named in the episode, we don’t. They don’t get a name. Um, but this is Ravi. So
Alice: it’s Ravi!
Bex: He gets a name straight off the bat. ’cause I know who he is.
Alice: I love that he is just credited as “Probie”, like clearly they did not intend to get this guy back.
Bex: Exactly.
Alice: They’re just like, eh, you can stick around.
Bex: Exactly. They, he was meant to be there for one [00:11:00] episode and then they thought, actually, you know what? He’s kind of like, we like this character, so we’re gonna keep bringing him back. So he gets a name, which is why I’m giving him a name now. Um, so poor Ravi looks like a deer in headlights and immediately just drops everything in his hands.
Ellen: Aw.
Alice: Poor probie.
Bex: Poor probie. Buck seems very, uh, apologetic, very, um, upset that he is scared the the probie.
Alice: Scared the books out of the probie
Bex: runs over to sort of help Ravi pick up everything that he was, um, that he had dropped and starts making small talk and like, and exposition within the small talk. ’cause apparently Ravi
Alice: Yeah, “like you are the new B shift probe, right?”
Bex: He’s on the B shift, so he’s just come off shift as the 118 are coming on shift, I assume. Um, and so he asks Ravi how was,
Alice: and he’s just finished his first shift. Yeah. It’s so cute. Like, this was his very first shift. He had his books to study and Buck scared the shit [00:12:00] out him.
Ellen: Poor Ravi.
Bex: Um, so Buck asks how,
Ellen: I feel like I’m gonna be saying that a lot.
Bex: Oh,
Ellen: as the weeks go by.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah, you will. Yeah. Um, Buck asks Ravi, “so how was your first shift?” And Ravi goes, “oh, you know, it was pretty quiet.” And
Alice: I love the camera work here. It’s like full on like horror movie, like Buck, Hen and Chim all gasp and step back with their like, hands out and it like does the zoom thing,
Bex: like Hen’s holding out her hand, warding off whatever, jinx,
Alice: literally
Bex: Ravi has just launched at them. Um, and they’re absolutely horrified and stunned and shocked that Ravi has said the Q word. Um, and Ravi, of course, this being his first shift has no idea what he’s done.
Alice: He is like, yeah. He’s like, “Oh, sorry. I just said it was…” “No, no, don’t say it again!”[00:13:00]
Um, Hen’s like, “Maybe if he says it a second time, it undoes the curse?” And Chim says maybe if he says it a third time, the candy man will show up and kill them.
Ellen: Let’s not test that theory.
Alice: So Buck explains that we don’t use the Q word in any, like in the firehouse or any house. We don’t use the Q word.
Bex: I think it’s pretty much if you’re an emergency responder, you don’t use the Q word.
Alice: Oh. Even in retail, we do not use the Q word.
Bex: It, it, it works in retail as well?
Alice: Yep. Works in retail as well.
Bex: Okay.
Alice: Um, and then Bobby, who isn’t even part of this conversation, just appears from the loft, is like, “Who used the Q word?”
Bex: Meanwhile, Eddie has been watching this in also outta confusion. Um, because even though he has been here for what, nearly two years now, for some reason, he has yet to have [00:14:00] encountered this particular situation and he’s looks around and goes like, what am I missing? Um, and as explanation, the alarm immediately goes off summoning station 118 to a vehicle accident.
And all of them just like roll their eyes, scoff, ugh. And Chim tells Eddie, “We’ve been jinxed.”
Ellen: Oh, episode title.
Alice: Oh yeah. There’s a lot of, um, lot of drinking in this episode. If you wanna do the drinking game with the title.
Bex: Mm-hmm.
Ellen: Yeah. Who wrote this one? Taylor. Taylor Wong, who hasn’t, this is the first writing credit for Taylor Wong.
Bex: I’m gonna assume that he was probably in the writer’s room, but this is the, the first one that they are credited as a writer.
Ellen: Well, they’ve done a great job on this one. It’s snappy dialogue and whatever.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: They’ve done a [00:15:00] few good ones. I, um, I checked before we started recording and they’re still, as of season eight, they’re still recording.
Uh, still writing.
Ellen: Oh, good. Okay.
Bex: We follow the 118 in, uh, to the ladder truck. Um, I love this episode because there’s so much of them just sitting in a truck talking. Um, and they are my favorite scenes because you, you either, you get the sense that either these people are all incredible actors and are incredibly good at selling the chemistry and the familiarity that they have with each other.
Or they are actually that good friends and that familiar with each other, that they are comfortable just sitting, shooting the shit with each other in the back of the truck with Bobby, like sitting up in the front seat in the dad’s seat.
Alice: Yeah, also shooting the shit, which I love in this episode. It’s so good.
Bex: Um, so we’re in the truck. We’re picking up from where Chim left off. [00:16:00] Um, Eddie is trying to understand what the hell is going on because he says, and I apologize for my pronunciation, he says that the, everyone sounds like his abuela’s neighbor’s curandera.
So that’s his grandmother’s neighbor’s… uh, a curandera is apparently like a medicine healer. So someone who’s specializes in warding off evil spirits,
Alice: um, Buck in fact, in fact asks if she knows how to reverse it, because if not, they’re about to experience the shift from hell. Chim says it’s gonna be nonstop calls all day long.
Hen says they’re gonna be stupid calls, um, and the EMS gods are gonna make them pay.
Bex: And when Eddie says like, you guys don’t really believe that, they explained what happened the last time somebody in the house said the Q word, and I love that there’s this quick moment if they shoot Bobby and he’s like, smirking [00:17:00] in the front seat because he remembers exactly what happens the last time.
Alice: And meanwhile, Buck’s, Buck’s just there like “The gods took it outta context,” pouting.
Bex: I, I agree with him. The gods did take it outta context, but he should still should have known better. Um, so we get a quick flashback to the 118 station house. We’ve got, um, what is clearly meant to be a probie Buck. Um, we lose Alice for a little bit because he’s wearing his baseball cap backwards, so he’s very, like “Dean Winchester Beat Sheet” coded for a couple of seconds.
Alice: It’s Beat Sheet Buck. He’s, it’s, this is my favorite Buck is the backwards cap Buck. It doesn’t happen nearly often enough.
Bex: You can’t see, but he’s wearing slides with like socks at the,
Alice: um, but yeah, so, so probie Buck, um, Beat Sheet Buck tries to open the dishwasher to add a, um, a like protein shaker to it. And Bobby’s like, “Hey, hey, it’s already [00:18:00] running. You’re gonna have to wash that by hand.” And Buck’s like, “Oh wow, really? It’s so quiet.” And all of them just look at Buck and he is like, “No, no, I meant the dishwasher.”
Bex: Meanwhile,
Alice: and then the fire bell immediately rings.
Bex: Apparently that, uh, out of context use of the Q word resulted in 36 calls in one shift. It’s a house record.
Alice: Buck says that it was 37, which
Bex: that one doesn’t count.
Alice: Chim says it doesn’t count because it wasn’t even a call. But we alush back to a white screen and then we get like a hand print appearing through the white and like sliding down the glass.
And the camera pulls back and it’s the locker room, like the glass wall of the locker room. And there’s like, the locker room is just filled with, um,
Ellen: foam.
Alice: Like the white, like white foam.
Bex: The [00:19:00] fire suppression foam?
Alice: Yeah, it was the fire suppression system
Bex: with Buck inside the locker room. So the hand that we can, like
Ellen: how, how is he breathing?
Alice: Completely stuck.
Ellen: Someone get him out of there so he doesn’t drown in foam. That’s awful.
Bex: No, but it’s great because Bobby and Chim and Hen are just watching Buck, like fighting for his life through the foam and they’re just like, nah, we’ll just give him a minute.
Ellen: Hazing. Um,
Bex: but kinder gentler hazing, you know, they’re not, you know, making him scrub the engine bay over and over again. They’re just letting him, you know, fight through the, the fire suppression system very dramatically. Like at one point he’s got both hands sort of up above his head and then just slides them like all the way down to the bottom.
And you can imagine he’s,
Alice: yeah, instead of like trying to get out or anything, he’s just like, help me.
Bex: I can just imagine them have [00:20:00] having fun with that scene.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: I mean, Oliver probably
Alice: Oh, absolutely
Bex: hated it, but it was probably fun for a minute or two.
Ellen: Eddie’s still not convinced
Bex: he is. Yeah. Like I, so we go back to the present.
Ellen: “I think you are giving the EMS gods too much credit,”
Bex: and it doesn’t help that when they first get on the scene, the, that they were called to, it does look like a minor fender bender. But then Bobby tells Eddie to look up and it turns out that the reason that the fender bender happened was because both drivers were too distracted by the guy who has duct taped himself to a billboard high above the street.
Ellen: Oh yeah. Is this billboard has a spider web on it, so this guy’s name is Izzy Chains. Is that his name?
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: And, and his album name is Stuck on You. So it’s, there’s a QR code. I tried this [00:21:00] QR code with my phone and it didn’t work. I was like, no. I mean, I thought it might take me somewhere fun, but it didn’t.
Bex: The So Billboard is quite clever because at the, he’s try, he is a musician, he’s trying to promote his song, the song is called “Stuck on You”, and he has taped himself right in the middle of the spider web. Um, so I mean, he gets points for artistic creativity. Um,
Ellen: yeah. I mean, he must have had someone to help him because I don’t know how you would tape yourself up to a billboard.
Alice: Yeah. Right?
Ellen: Up in the air.
Bex: We are not, no, you can’t think about that because. It is just for the drama. Just,
Ellen: yeah, yeah.
Alice: No, he had a friend. It’s fine. Yeah. Yeah. So he, like, Izzy Chains is like yelling, ” Stream stuck on Oh, like listen to ‘Stuck on you’, blah, blah, blah. Um, I’ll be here all night!” Yeah. Um, he’s just yelling that the entire time.
Bex: He’s having a great time up there and he is loving that he has summoned this crowd underneath him. ’cause everyone is watching to see [00:22:00] this crazy person get rescued off a billboard. The fender bender is fine. The, I mean, we do get a, a little bit of chim and he, you know, doing some actual paramedic work, but they’re not important.
Izzy is the, the main sort of focus of this scene. I will note that there is a moment here where Buck gets sent to get the ladder truck ready for him to go up and grab Izzy. And the first, one of the first steps is they put the outriggers out to like, so that the truck is, there’s counterbalanced and is secure.
Um, and they put metal plates down for the outriggers to sit on top of because the, the metal plates are, are flat and they can take the, the weight of the, the truck. And because I knew that the episode was “Jinx”, I assumed something final destination e terribly was gonna happen. With that metal plate under the,
Alice: so did I, like they do [00:23:00] a full zoom in to the
Bex: right?
Alice: Um, like yeah. And I was like waiting for it to come back the entire time, but it didn’t
Bex: I was fully expecting,
Alice: I was like, that was such a weird shot,
Bex: the metal plate to come slipping out or shooting out at some point because the pressure was slightly on an angle. Um, it doesn’t. Complete misdirection.
Ellen: Yeah. Well they think this is gonna be crazy and, and weird shit happening all day, but most of them end up being fairly straightforward.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: There’s just a lot.
Bex: Yeah. A lot of it’s, it’s stupid calls, but like simple stupid calls. Um, we do get a new member of the 118 though, um, because Porter is operating the ladder truck for Buck, so that’s cool. I don’t think we’ve seen,
Alice: there’s actually a lot of, um, the other members of the 118 in this subtly. Like they’re not spoken to.
Bex: No,
Alice: but they’re there with their names on display the whole time. Yeah.
Ellen: Um, and [00:24:00] they even like get to sit at the table and you know, like be in the truck and stuff,
Bex: you know? Yeah. You know what I find really ironic about this episode though, is that Ravi sets off the jinx and then he doesn’t have to deal with it. Because he was on B shift.
Ellen: Oh yeah he goes home.
Alice: He just vanishes. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, he goes home to bed.
Bex: He just like, mic drops the Q word and then like, I’m out. See you later.
Alice: Yeah. Honestly, the things that Ravi goes through later, they, the 118 pre deserve
Ellen: Oh no. Anyway, this dude is like, he doesn’t want to, like, when Buck comes up the ladder towards him, he’s like, “No, no, no, I don’t need help. I’m staying here and I paid for the whole day. I’m gonna stay here the whole day.”
And Buck’s like, “Okay, uh, are you wearing like, just a question for you? Are you wearing anything underneath that?” And Izzy’s like, “uh, no. Why?” And Buck’s like, “You might regret that later.” [00:25:00]
Bex: Again, I was expecting that to be a bigger deal than it ends up being. It should be a bigger deal than it ends up being.
Alice: Yeah. Considering he’s got duct tape across his naked, but yeah. Ow. Um, anyway, um, LAPD and including Athena rock up, ’cause obviously there’s been a crash and a guy, um, distracting everyone.
Bex: Mm-hmm.
Alice: But yeah, Athena checked his story and he’s telling the truth.
He did pay for the billboard. Um, but it’s all legal. And so they’ll have a word from, uh, have a word with him as soon as he climbs down, but right now all they can do is control traffic and hope for no more accidents. Yep. And then Bobby.
Bobby is just like, “oh, damn probie jinxed us. He used the Q word,” and Athena’s just like, “Jinxed? You don’t believe in that stuff?” And Bobby’s like, “uh, no.” Like as if he didn’t [00:26:00] just bring it up. Like
Ellen: he doesn’t sound very convincing.
Alice: He also won’t say the Q word. He just keeps saying “the Q word”
Bex: this entire episode Bobby is like, put on… it’s, it’s never entirely clear whether Bobby believes in the jinxes and the superstitions.
Alice: Oh, he does, but a hundred percent believes in it.
Bex: He a hundred percent does. Yes.
Alice: Yeah. He
Ellen: keeps denying it. Um,
Alice: yes, he keeps denying it, but he also won’t like say the Q word, like he just say, keeps saying Q word.
Bex: Yeah,
Ellen: he said he explains later. He says that the others get weird after the Q word comes up. So that means he keeps,
Alice: yeah. So like, because the others get squirrelly and they make mistakes. Um, but okay,
Bex: but the others aren’t here right now accidentally. The others suppression either halfway ladder saying Q word or they’re, they’re working on getting like the big inflatable mattress out.
He’s only talking to Athena. He doesn’t need to keep up the act. He, he believes it,
Alice: but he is still saying the Q word.
Ellen: But Athena’s gonna fix it because she [00:27:00] finds a, she sees something shiny on the ground and she picks it up and it’s a penny. So she gives it to him and he’s like, “what’s this for?” And she’s like, “It’s for luck. Sounds like you could use it.” So like in, I noticed in this episode, uh, they’re, they’ve got like their, because it’s obviously still COVID time, they’re wearing their masks, but sometimes they’re not wearing their masks.
And then other times they’re wearing their masks in a weird place, like when they’re outside, not in a crowded area. Like, I don’t, I couldn’t work out what the logic was with the masks in this episode.
Alice: So the masks in this episode, the reason that it’s weird, and I was gonna go into this when we actually get to the montage, um, but a lot of the scenes in this episode are actually deleted scenes from other episodes.
Ellen: Oh.
Alice: And so anytime they’re wearing masks, that’s a new scene. Um, but when they’re not wearing [00:28:00] masks in the montage, they’re never wearing the masks
Bex: because they were two, that’s like two years beforehand that they’ve shot this stuff.
Ellen: It was pre previous, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Alice: It was before COVID existed.
Ellen: Alright. It’s just later they, they’re all sitting around a table outside.
Bex: Yeah, because that’s
Ellen: about to eat food. And they’ve got their masks on.
Bex: Yeah, because it’s, it’s a, a restaurant. Um, and that would be, that would’ve been the rules during COVID that you could go out because, um, like jumping ahead, that you can see the hostess at that restaurant looks like she’s about to perform surgery.
’cause she’s got face masks, she’s got face shield face, she’s got full masks. She the face shield. Yeah. So they’re still having to,
Ellen: but they were outside.
Bex: Yeah, but they’re still probably rules.
Alice: Yeah, no, it was still rules.
Bex: They’re having to comply with COVID protocols.
Alice: Unless you were actively eating, you had to have your mask on. And being that they first responders, they’re gonna follow the rules. ’cause how awkward would it be if Athena had to book them all for
Bex: be I’m thinking that because even though this [00:29:00] is like post the, in the, like in episode time, it’s post COVID, it would’ve been right in the middle of the pandemic when they filmed.
So there were probably rules, like yes you can film in a crowd, but you’re gonna have to comply with all of these particular rules, which is, yes, you’re still outside, but you’re in a group of people. These people, these extras are not in your bubble. So y’all are gonna need to mask up and stay masked up.
Ellen: I can feel the Supernatural saltiness coming back. Stop me. Okay, let’s stop.
Bex: I’m sorry I
Alice: don’t pull the thread. Um,
Bex: Speaking of firefighters and masks though, let’s get back to this episode. Um, there is a firefighter who is helping, uh, a woman a little bit further down the street from the accident. And uh, it’s Ana and I’m feeling incredibly justified that it is pronounced Ana,
Alice: even though they pronounced it Anna last season. No, no, it’s now Ana.
Bex: I [00:30:00] don’t think we actually got her. I think we just got Flores. I don’t think we actually found out her name was Ana. I was just calling her Ana because
Alice: No, that’s right. I went to the breakup scene and I went to the breakup scene and Eddie calls her Anna
Bex: and you said he pronounces it, Anna. And I went, I don’t care. I’m calling her Ana. But then in this episode he calls her Ana.
Ellen: He calls her Ana.
Alice: Yes. So, okay. Basically Eddie doesn’t know her name. Okay, excellent.
Ellen: So he recognizes her in, in, this instance.
Bex: Hang on, so, um, Ana is getting first aid from a firefighter. She has apparently, um, burnt her hand and this firefighter is applying an ice pack and he puts the ice pack on her hand and then he disappears and. Just as he disappears, leaving Ana with her ice pack, Eddie comes running up the street and [00:31:00] literally does a double take as he runs past her like this,
Alice: he basically slides to a stop.
Bex: He’s a cartoon character this entire episode. It’s hilarious.
Ellen: Yes.
Bex: He addresses her by name. He is in, he’s got, um, climbing helmet and a face mask on, and she has no idea who the hell he is or why he knows her name. Just starts stripping off all of his protective gear and it’s like, “It’s, it’s um, Eddie Diaz,” she still kind of looks at him blankly and it’s like “Christopher’s dad from school?”
Um, and she goes, “Oh, Edmundo.” And just like the heart eyes and the little hearts floating around his head. Yes. And like the, the neon pink blush on.
Ellen: He looks so happy. Oh yeah. So he, he takes a look at her hand because she, yeah, she’s got this ice pack on her on a [00:32:00] burn from a hot coffee,
Bex: which, how fucking hot is that coffee?
Ellen: I know. It looked awful
Alice: actually, its a big burn.
Ellen: It looked like a really nasty burn.
Bex: I thought they reduced the heat in coffee when you bought it from a coffee shop after the McDonald’s lawsuit.
Alice: This it’s supposed to. Yeah.
Ellen: It looked like someone had dumped boiling water on her. Like
Alice: literally, yeah, maybe she ordered it like extra, extra, extra hot and just like, like dumped it on her head.
Bex: Allowed to Do they allowed to give it to you extra, extra, extra hot?
Alice: Well, she was actually gonna do a lawsuit. Ah. But then Eddie distracted her, so
Bex: Ah, yes. Okay.
Ellen: Eddie fixed it
Alice: anyway. Yeah, usually the hot coffees like… ’cause how would you even drink it if it’s hot enough to burn your, you? Unless I
Ellen: don’t, don’t, don’t ask for the drama.
Alice: For the drama.
Ellen: She’s really badly burned her hand.
Alice: Yeah. So some guy bumped into her when the accident happened, she spilled her boil, like her coffee That was still boiling.
Bex: Yes. Actively boiling in the cup
Alice: because apparently she got it with [00:33:00] fire underneath it when Yeah. And yeah, she burned herself really bad. Um, and Eddie’s like, “oh well ice is really bad for burns, so let me have a look.”
Bex: Yes, ice is very bad for burns
Alice: and he pulls the ice away, which is where we see the really, really bad burn.
Um, and Ana’s like, “Well the firefighter gave it to me to, and told me to keep it cool.” Eddie’s like, “Which firefighter?” Um, so apparently he had 1 47 on his helmet and Eddie’s confused that one, there’s another unit there,
Ellen: Eddie’s got no idea what’s going on.
Alice: And two, why that guy doesn’t know not to put how to deal with burns.
Yep. He also says to keep it dry and clean and then wraps it. Like, I’m pretty sure he shouldn’t be wrapping a burn that bad. I’m pretty sure he should be running it under cold water for like 20 minutes. I mean,
Bex: I’m not mad at him for wrapping it. I am mad at him that he’s putting straight gauze onto a burn that badly blistered.
Alice: Yeah, it’s literally just like, just wrap.
Bex: Yeah. He should be sticking like a non, [00:34:00] a non-stick burn pad or some kind of colloidal silver on it first and then putting the gauze on. ’cause that’s just gonna stick to the burn. It’s gonna be a bitch to get off later.
Alice: Um, so just so that everyone knows, um, the reason that you run it under cold water is because even once you, like, even when you burn it and then take the thing that burns you away, your skin continues to burn.
Bex: Yeah. The heat still retains the heat. Um,
Alice: it, yeah, it retains the heat. So you’ve got to run it under cold water to keep the water fresh. ’cause like if you put ice on it, one, it’s too cold, um, and will just damage the skin. And two, it’ll like the ice will start heating up and helping with the cook, like the cooking process.
Um, which sounds awful.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: But, um, yeah, so run it under cold water, um, then take it out of the cold water for it and then do it again. I can’t remember the exact times, but, um, but yes, run it under cold running water. Like you don’t want to sit in a cold bath or anything ’cause it’ll warm up. Warm up. Um, you just wanna keep it going under cold running water.[00:35:00]
Bex: It’s just the irony that he’s shitting on this guy for like, although that’s not how you treat a burn and then goes ahead.
Alice: Yeah. And then does it completely wrong.
Bex: It’s okay. We don’t watch 9-1-1 for medical advice. ’cause otherwise we’ll all be dead. Dead.
Ellen: It’s for the drama.
Bex: For the drama. Yeah.
Ellen: Can I, can I tangent for uh, just half a second. I’ve been, I’ve
Alice: Oh my god, Ellen’s gonna tangent.
Bex: Oh my god,
Alice: guys, I feel like we need a theme song
Bex: brace yourselves.
Ellen: What? I do it all the time.
Bex: No, I do it all the time. You barely do it. It’s very interesting when you tangent. Go for it.
Ellen: Okay. Now I feel like you’re gonna be underwhelmed by my tangent, but, um, I’ve been, I’ve been watching, I’ve been binging Poldark and I keep, and the entire show is just for the drama.
I’ve been like, I’ve kept catching myself muttering under my breath, “Why don’t you just fucking… for the drama. For the drama.” It’s so frustrating.
Alice: Oh, you might need a sticker, Ellen.
Ellen: It’s really, it’s really good. [00:36:00] It’s really good. I recommend it, but oh my God, I just wanted beat their heads together. Anyway, what we up to?
Alice: I just finished House
Bex: Uhhuh.
Ellen: Oh yeah.
Alice: And like speaking of for the drama. Jesus. And then it was funny because, um, Cuddy’s mom had the same thing that my mum has and they were like, oh my God, we’ve gotta find the cause of this. And meanwhile with my mum, they’re just like, oh yeah. Have some meds to stop it happening.
Bye.
Ellen: They didn’t, they don’t care about the cause?
Bex: They don’t care about the cause.
Alice: No.
Ellen: Oh, dear.
Bex: Um, so for the drama in this episode, we need Eddie like down on one knee in front of Ana, very tenderly wrapping her hand while they catch up on each other’s lives. Um,
Ellen: Aw, it’s very cute.
Alice: Straight out of fan fiction.
Bex: Oh, uh, so apparently, uh, Ana is no longer at the schmancy private school that Christopher goes to. Um, she’s vice principal over at a different [00:37:00] school after taking some time off COVID to get her, um, her doctorate in education, I’m assuming.
Ellen: Yeah. So now she’s Dr. Ana or professor, maybe since she’s a vice principal. I don’t know. I know how it works over,
Bex: Eddie asks her why she stopped being a teacher, and she’s like, “Well, I’m always gonna be a teacher. Uh, it just having a PhD gives me more options.” Um, and Eddie says that,
Alice: and Eddie’s like speaking of PhD, wink,
Bex: he’s, he says that, um, Ana’s, Ana’s line is specifically the being a teacher is in her blood. Eddie says, “oh, it sounds a lot like a firefighter.” And then looks her up and down and says, “Your job looks really good on you.”
Alice: I don’t know what that means, but Sure.
Ellen: No, he’s just trying to have game today.
Bex: I mean, he doesn’t, but [00:38:00] I don’t think she cares.
Ellen: It just sounds kind of awkward, but she’s really flattered. She’s like, thank you. Bless.
Bex: So Bobby bursts their little bubble, basically telling Eddie to get his ass back on the job. So they
Ellen: On the radio.
Bex: Yes. On the radio.
Ellen: He’s not like, what? Maybe he’s watching around the corner going,
Bex: He probably is.
Alice: No, it was Bobby only.
Ellen: What is Edmundo doing now?
Alice: Bobby only watches the Buddie interactions.
Bex: Yeah. The, the radar only goes up for when Buck is with Eddie. Not, not when Eddie is with, um, random females. Um, so they, um, they walk in opposite directions. I don’t have it in my notes, but I’m pretty sure. Does Eddie look back at her as they’re going?
Alice: Probably.
Ellen: I don’t remember. No, I feel, but they do say, “oh, it was great seeing you.” and Ana was like, “you too.” It’s like, oh, meanwhile this, this asshole is [00:39:00] still on the billboard. Like, not wanting to leave.
Bex: Yeah. Not for long though. Um, because even
Alice: he’s, he’s singing and everything still and Yeah. Apparently his time with the billboard doesn’t stop until 8:00 AM tomorrow morning.
Bex: Uh, gravity has something to say about that though.
Alice: Yeah. Like, he’s like singing and dancing and so of course the tape starts ripping.
Bex: Yep.
Ellen: Like, I’m not, I’m surprised he hasn’t like, slid out from under it, you know, like,
Alice: I know, right?
Bex: Well see. It’s, look, it looks
Ellen: Anyway, for the drama
Bex: looks quite secure because it, it almost looks like a, a nappy. It’s like underneath his legs and around the tops of his thighs.
He looks like he should be in there quite securely. The hilarious thing is that the tape stops ripping and Buck bolts up the ladder. Like he’s trying to catch this guy and I’m, I’m watching him like, try and get his limbs in into action in this tiny little narrow like space. I’m going, dude, there’s a big crash pad underneath.
Why are you [00:40:00] worrying about running up the ladder? He’s just gonna land on the crash pad.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Literally. Like,
Bex: which is exactly what happens. The tape rips. He falls onto the crash pad, um, as he
Alice: reminding everyone while he falls to download his album.
Bex: Oh, love that. You know, you, we, we love a man that’s focused on his goals.
Alice: He’s dedicated. Yeah.
Bex: And then we ha I have to remind myself that all of this is for the drama because somehow as Izzy was falling, despite that foreshadowing of, um, Buck asking, do you have anything on underneath the tape? To which Izzy said no, as Izzy’s falling, he goes in one direction and the tape goes in another direction.
Ellen: Yeah. It just comes right off him,
Bex: which I don’t, that should not have happened. That that tape should have been stuck to him. He should have been like, taken to hospital to get that like [00:41:00] removed. Um,
Alice: I mean, I guess maybe if he was really sweaty, he just like slid out from anyway, like really sl um, I, regardless, he’s very naked.
Bex: I just said that
Alice: he’s very naked
Bex: on, I just said the tape was like under his legs and around the top of his thighs. How sweaty is he getting? Of course
Alice: he’s real, he’s real into people downloading, isn’t it? I’m,
Bex: that’s of course I’m assuming that there is like, he has body hair and maybe like, maybe he’s a Ken doll. Maybe he’s just like, no hair.
Alice: Yeah. Maybe he shaved beforehand.
Ellen: Well, maybe the, the tape just ripped it all off, off the way down.
Bex: Well then he must be incredibly masochistic because he lands in the pad and then is immediately up on his feet like absolutely.
Ellen: Cheering,
Bex: celebrating, and cheering. Um, and buck naked.
Alice: Yeah. So naked.
Bex: Not at all in pain, just like naked.
Ellen: But they do put a blanket on him pretty quickly. But Hen’s like, “Oh [00:42:00] yeah. He’s definitely gonna be famous now,” because
Bex: Yeah, because everybody who had their phones out filming him and like downloading his album with their QR code is now filming him being, you know, like frog marched very naked yeah. To the ambulance or the police car in his birthday suit.
Ellen: Buck picks up the tape off the ground and Bobby says to him, “you wanna keep that as a souvenir?” And Buck just looks so disgusted. And he’s like, dropping it again
Bex: because it’s, it’s, it’s still, it’s like perfectly, it looks like when cosplay are trying to make, um, like references to make their armor.
So they kind of wrap themselves in Glad Wrap, and then they duct tape themselves and then they cut it off and it stays in the perfect form.
Ellen: Oh yeah.
Bex: That’s what it looks like. It’s still perfectly like Izzy Chains formed.
Ellen: Oh.
Bex: Which completely improbable. But for the drama, it looks good, so I will allow it.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. [00:43:00] So the next part, the next scene is where I start getting really hungry because I was watching this morning before I’d eaten much and this mac and cheese that Bobby pulls out of the oven looks so good.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Oh, doesn’t it though?
Ellen: It’s, it looks amazing.
Bex: It’s golden and it’s bubbly. Um, it’s got crispy bits on top.
Um, everybody is at the table, but not everybody is at the table. Um, because Chim tries to dig in and start eating, but Bobby scolds him and tells him that they have, he, the rules are that they have to wait for everyone. Um, and Buck is not at the table. He jogs up, dunno where he was. Um, goes to sit down and as soon as his ass hits the chair, the alarm goes off. So we get,
Alice: so casserole goes back in the oven,
Bex: you get the montage of all of the calls that they go on. And I love that the montage is, every [00:44:00] now and then they get back to the firehouse and we check on the casserole because they keep coming back. They keep trying to get the casserole.
Ellen: Yeah, they’re trying to have it, they try to eat it and it, the bell keeps ringing so they can never actually eat it.
Bex: And the casserole just getting more and more and more overcooked the longer that the, the montage goes on.
Ellen: Yeah. I dunno what he, he needed to turn the oven down a little bit. ’cause like
Alice: literally just turn the oven, just
Ellen: turn it on to like 50 or something. It’ll still stay hot.
Bex: I dunno. He should have turned the oven off.
Just let it sit in the oven and then, I don’t know, uh, nuke it in the microwave.
Ellen: For the drama.
Bex: For the, like for the drama. He keeps it,
Ellen: they needed to be burned.
Bex: Yes. They needed to be burned. Yeah.
Alice: Um, also, maybe he just forgot because, you know, jinxed,
Ellen: they were very busy,
Alice: um, but yeah, so Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” is playing through this whole montage and it’s just, it’s so good.
Bex: Yes. Because they’re not stopping.
Ellen: No.
Alice: So. Call number one is, [00:45:00] um, a cat has been stuck up a tree, but not only the cat was stuck up a tree, there’s also a man who presumably climbed up the tree to rescue the cat. And there’s also a man stuck up the tree and like, Eddie’s like, “Don’t worry, he is next.” Like, they saved the cat before yes. Guy. That’s
Ellen: the cat probably jumped down.
Bex: Yeah. The cat just jumped into Eddie’s arms. No, I think we actually see him climbing down the ladder with the cat. But,
Alice: but yeah, so they save the cat before the man, which is fair.
Bex: The next one they get back to the station house. They check on the casserole. Um, I don’t think Bobby even gets into the kitchen at that point.
Oh no. He, he gets the oven open. He doesn’t even get the casserole to the table. It’s like oven open alarm goes off, shut the door casserole goes back in the oven. Yeah. Um, they’re dispatched to a call where a woman has a mascot head stuck on her. I don’t know how the hell she managed to do that. Um,
Ellen: yeah. And how did she get home [00:46:00] again? Because she’s in like, next to a pool. In her backyard.
Bex: Yeah. Was she wearing the mascot costume in the backyard?
Alice: There were so many questions about this. I don’t Emergency. We, yeah. Maybe there was a, it was a hazing prank. They glued them anyway.
Bex: I don’t know. But as they yank the, um, the mascot head off her finally, um, she promptly throws up all over Buck.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: To which Eddie says at least someone ate today. But, um, but what we see her projectile is like mostly water, thank God. Um, so I don’t know how much she had to eat. Um, they’re not eating, eating.
Ellen: Maybe she just drank a, maybe she drank heaps and then put the head on.
Bex: I don’t,
Alice: yeah, maybe
Bex: she’s, I’m pretty sure it was just because they didn’t wanna throw, like, we’re gonna make up a bucket of fake vomit and throw it at Oliver.
If we’re gonna splatter him with something, we gonna splatter in with water, it’s fine. Um, but she apparently was the [00:47:00] only one that was going to eat that day because by the time they get back to the station house, the macaroni and cheese is just charcoal. So no one’s gonna be eating, no one is gonna be eating unless they order, but yeah, before they can even
Alice: order
Bex: in.
Alice: Yeah. The, um, the belt goes off again
Ellen: and Buck’s like, “definitely not jinxed,” but then the like, let me say that again. No, I can’t be bothered to say that again. The bell rings and they have to leave again. Um, Eddie is starting to feel like maybe they are jinxed, but, um, this lady goes into a, a toilet cubicle at her workplace, I’m guessing.
And there’s something above her, like something drips on her. And she looks up and this tentacle is like coming through this vent and then all of a sudden this octopus falls on her head and I’m just like, what the fuck is going on here? I’ve no idea. It’s the octopus,
Bex: it’s the octopus.
Ellen: Um, so yes, the way they have, it’s like glommed onto her [00:48:00] face.
Bex: So the 118 get called to that and um, there’s this really funny little moment where, because they’re like in and out, in and out so much, all of their shit is getting mixed up. So Chim’s grabbing his gear, he puts his helmet on and immediately falls down over his eyes because either someone has put their helmet in his cubby or he’s grabbed the wrong one. But that’s definitely not his helmet.
Alice: Yeah. It’s way too big for him. Um, so the octopus, it was supposed to be in, um, “Monsters”,
Bex: allegedly it came
Ellen: oh,
Bex: it was in the summary. ’cause remember, I think it was in the summary, um, for “Monsters”.
Ellen: Okay.
Alice: Yeah. ’cause it says an office employee having a close encounter with an eight limbed creature.
Ellen: Right. Okay.
Alice: Is in monsters. And that’s the crow, the episode with the crows.
Bex: Can you imagine that they’ve filmed like a good five minutes segment for this and they’ve just chopped it up to fit it in this montage.
Ellen: Right. Okay.
Bex: [00:49:00] Um, we also
Ellen: the magic of television
Bex: have, the movie theater, which was mentioned in the summary, and I believe the trailer as well for “Awful People”, is this kid that gets his head stuck under the,
Ellen: this explains so much because I was watching this montage going, why have they put so much effort? Like why is this kid who’s got his head stuck under a chair in the movie theater?
Bex: Because they already filmed it,
Ellen: like being so dramatic about, about trying to get out and Yeah, it’s because it was an actual scene happened in the past.
Alice: Yeah. And that’s also why they’re not wearing their masks in any of these.
Ellen: Right. Okay. That makes a lot more sense now.
Bex: And then the other call it is the, the kid stuck in the washing machine was apparently from the season three opener, “Kids Today”.
Ellen: Meanwhile, Chim is running back to the truck with a, with a granola bar in his mouth.
Bex: I love it.
Ellen: That’s the only thing,
Bex: the, um, he comes back, they’ve obviously not had a [00:50:00] chance to eat, so he’s got a box of granola bars and it’s literally, the box just says granola bars across the top.
Alice: Yeah, like props did not, um, extend themselves with this. It literally just says granola bars.
Bex: I did note that it said it was gluten-free, so that was good.
Alice: Um, Buck at one point he tries to make a cup of coffee, but like he goes to the, um, the thing and it’s empty. And so, and then the bell rings so instead he can make another batch. He just like pours the last bits, um, straight into his mouth, but they’re boiling hot ’cause they’re the last bits.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: And so he burns his mouth and just like, ha ha all running out.
Bex: And at the end of the montage is as the song starts to wind down. Bobby is guiding the truck back into the engine bays like, “Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming. Okay. We are…” and the alarm goes off… [00:51:00] “going back out.”
Alice: Yeah. Oh. So yeah. Really fun montage. Yeah.
Bex: I’m glad they got some use out of the footage that they cut from all the other episodes.
Alice: Yeah. Right. Um, and yeah, and it does explain our confusion about all the scenes that had vanished, like here they are. The writer’s like, Hmm, we need a montage. And we need a montage. It was like, we got you.
Bex: We need a montage, but we don’t have the capacity to actually go out and film all of these little things. Um,
Alice: especially during COVID.
Bex: Especially during COVID. Do we have anything that we can just chuck in and they’re like,
Ellen: let’s just dig around on the editing suite floor. See what we,
Bex: we’ve got like we’ve got this pile over here of stuff that we cut. Um. Do whatever you want with that. Like, excellent. The montage might be over, the 118s shift, however, is not because they are heading back out to a party supply store [00:52:00] and we get possibly one of the most perfectly Buck lines ever, um, where he and Eddie are having a conversation. And Eddie starts the conversation with, “Do you ever replay a conversation in your head and worry that you sound like an idiot?”
Buck just looks at him and goes, “Have you met me?”
Alice: So good.
Ellen: Poor Buck.
Bex: So Eddie explains that he ran into Ana Flores this morning and I am like vindicated, um, with the pronunciation of her name, at least in this instance. Apparently Ryan is not consistent, but I’m gonna hold him to this one.
Alice: Eddie says, “you know, Christopher’s English teacher?” And Bucks like “Christopher’s pretty English teacher,” wiggles eyebrows.
Bex: I love that. He’s, he is memoriz like, he immediately clocks who she is. He remembers her.
Ellen: Oh, he’s like, “you haven’t mentioned her in a long time.” It’s like, [00:53:00] oh, you’re keeping tabs. She’s not Christopher’s English teacher anymore though, so it’s okay.
Yeah, they get in there and there’s these tanks that are like in a great big pile and there is a pair of very large shoes sticking out of the end of them. And then they, they come around the side of it and the, the person trapped underneath it is a clown.
Alice: Yep.
Ellen: But this part just, I laughed so hard. I cried. Um, one of the tanks is leaking.
Bex: Oh, oh. Several, several of the tanks are broken.
Ellen: ’cause there are balloons broken.
Alice: Yeah. So many tanks. Yeah. Uh, yeah.
Ellen: And so Bobby, when Bobby speaks, his voice is really high pitched and he is like, help me move some of these tags. Yeah. And then they all just start laughing and they can’t stop laughing. And I’m laughing, so I can’t hear what they’re saying. And it’s, it was just very funny. I had to rewind it and watch it again.
Bex: I don’t, unfortunately my brain [00:54:00] kicked into wait, how much helium would have to be in the air to be for them to just be breathing it in to effect… ’cause normally you have to inhale it quite specifically for it to effect.
Ellen: Yeah. You have to suck it in from out of a balloon or something.
Bex: So how is it that the helium is just in the store, just floating?
Alice: I think they’re close. They’re close enough to the bottles that they’re,
Ellen: I mean, you said there were multiple bottles that were broken. So know maybe there’s just
Bex: I know,
Ellen: heaps of helium
Alice: Anyway, switch your brain off because it’s really funny
Bex: before the, it’s hilarious because Bobby Hen and Chim have all obviously been in close enough proximity or there is enough helium in the air that all of them sound like Muppets.
Ellen: Hen’s like, “Buck, be a professional.”
Bex: No, no, no. It’s like, “Buck, be a professional!”
Alice: Professional. I can’t even do it with no voice. So it’s like, Buck, be a professional. Yeah,
Ellen: no, don’t hurt yourself. We’ve got more of this episode to go.
Bex: Um, Buck and Eddie are absolutely not be, I’m try really hard [00:55:00] to be professionals, but they’re also pissing themselves laughing as they’re trying to help Bobby move the heavy tanks off the clown that’s trapped underneath.
Um, meanwhile, Chim is assessing the other clowns. ’cause apparently all of the employees in this particular party supply store are dressed as clowns. Um, I don’t know why they’re all clowns. I dunno.
Alice: Oh, maybe it’s a clown gathering.
Bex: I dunno. But,
Alice: um, and a fight broke out between rival clown gangs.
Bex: See, that’s the other thing. They never exactly explain how this accident happened.
Alice: They don’t need to. That’s the point. They’re supposed to just be stupid calls. And this is indeed a stupid call.
Bex: So one of the clowns has a a, an O2 mask on, um, and starts like coughing and choking and gagging and Chim starts to freak out. Like, uh, you know, are you okay?
Are you okay? Um, he’s okay. He’s just like, coughing up silk, try to cough, handkerchiefs,
Alice: “can you cough? Try and cough.”[00:56:00]
Bex: And just keeps pulling them. He just keeps pulling them out, pulling them.
Ellen: It’s really awful.
Bex: Finally gets to the end of it. Oh, and Chim just grabs his O2 mask and snaps it back onto his face, which bounces off of the clown’s rubber nose, and makes that squeak. And we get very, very disgusted, “Everybody’s a comedian” because he’s still,
Ellen: it’s just so silly.
Alice: Oh, it’s so dumb. It’s so good.
Bex: But they’re still not done. After that, they go to another call, which apparently Eddie thinks was incredibly boring because it was just two people stuck in an elevator.
Ellen: Yeah, thank you. Exposition firefighter.
Alice: I was gonna say the exposition like, yes, they, they know what the call was because they were, they were there,
Bex: we weren’t, so we need to know.
Alice: Um, so yeah, it was two people stuck in an elevator who didn’t [00:57:00] even need medical attention or anything. Um, which, you know, the entire team would’ve known ’cause they were there.
Bex: Yeah. Um, so Eddie is, uh, apparently decided that because on the basis of that call, like everybody else, he’s completely dismissed everything that’s happened the rest of the day. That one call is his proof that there’s no such thing as a curse.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: So they get back to the truck and they are stripping off their turnouts, they’re putting their gear away, they’re getting ready to get in and head off to the next stupid call that they get sent to. Um.
Alice: Um, speaking of exposition,
Bex: Buck, I was about to get, we,
Alice: oh, it cracks me up. While Buck’s jumping in the fire engine. He’s like, oh, sure is windy. You guys feel that?”” Mind you, none of the leaves are moving. No one’s moving. It’s like nothing.
Ellen: I was like, it’s not windy at all. What are you talking about?
Alice: Apparently it’s really wind windy guys.
Bex: It’s just so random because everyone else is talking to Eddie about the curse and you just get [00:58:00] like, background exposition Buck going, “ah, it’s sure windy,”
Alice: “sure is windy you guys,”
Ellen: okay I take it back about the snappy dialogue.
Alice: We, we blown our budget. We can’t afford the fans. Just someone get Oliver to say something about the wind.
Bex: Um, so while like Buck is like doing foreshadowing in the background and everybody is getting into the truck, Bobby weighs in, um, and he’s saying that Eddie doesn’t have to believe in the curse, just maybe don’t tempt fate.
So they all climb into the truck, they all start buckling themselves in. Um, and Eddie is continuing on his tirade. He’s like, “it was a normal call. It went like clockwork. Wham bam. Thank you ma’am.”
Alice: And Hen goes, “you notice how no one ever says wham, bam. Thank you sir.” And Buck, just like he is like buckling his seatbelt up and he just looks at her and he goes, “it doesn’t rhyme.”
Bex: he’s so serious too. [00:59:00]
Alice: Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Bex: But Eddie’s point,
Alice: I don’t know why that line makes me laugh so much, but every time it doesn’t rhyme rhyme,
Bex: but it’s right, it doesn’t rhyme.
Alice: Oh, I think it’s just like the deadpan and like it’s the, that autistic humor.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Where like we like the very literal jokes like the anti jokes.
Bex: Yeah. Eddie’s point. Eddie thinks that’s hilarious. But Eddie’s point is that that last call that they had proves that the whole jinx thing is silly and they should all be done with it. At which point God goes, hold my earrings. Um, the wind that only Buck’s able to sense
Alice: the very strong, the very strong wind,
Bex: um, knocks over a power pole that the truck is parked over and said power pole with wires [01:00:00] still intact, crashes down on top of the firetruck, showering them in sparks.
Ellen: We don’t see anything hit the power pole. It just falls over.
Alice: No, it’s a wind
Bex: No. We hear is cracking noise. We don’t even hear like a gust of wind. We just hear like cracking and then the (falling, crashing sound effect)
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: And Chimney just goes, “Hey Cap, did a live power pole just fall on the engine?” Bobby’s like, “I believe it did, Chimney.”
Bex: And everybody’s glaring at Eddie like this was his fault.
Alice: And he is like, oh, whoops.
Bex: Um, oh, so then we go to commercial. When we come back we’re at the dispatch center. Um, and then which raises the question of where was Maddie in this episode?
Alice: Literally Maddie is vanished from this entire episode. ’cause I’ve no idea where she is. There’s no mention of her, like why she’s gone not here.
Ellen: Yeah, no one even name drops her or anything.
Bex: No, no.
Ellen: [01:01:00] She’s had a very busy and kind of emotionally wrought time the last few episodes. But I mean, so maybe she So has Buck.
Alice: Maybe she was dropping her parents off at the airport. Like, I dunno.
Ellen: I mean she’s, she has days off sometimes, so maybe she just wasn’t on this day.
Bex: But it’s just very interesting that we do get like nine one, we get references and we see the 9-1-1 dispatch center, but it’s Josh and Linda.
Alice: Yeah. We don’t even get some ADR of Maddie saying 9 9 1. What’s your emergency like? She literally just doesn’t exist this episode, which is, which makes it,
Ellen: but this is all in one day, so. If that makes sense. If she was just not there.
Bex: It just, it’s still funny. It makes her really weird because they have to, in order to make the episode make sense, they have to elevate Josh’s relationship with the 118 to a point that I don’t think is that quite yet?
Alice: Well, he was, he did play, um, was it poker or with them,
Bex: is that worthy enough to get added to a group chat where, um, [01:02:00] so basically Linda comes in and they’re in, Linda comes into the break room where Josh is sitting, obviously on his break, he’s on his phone and Josh is making like small talk, “Hey, heard you got a distress call.”
And like, and Linda’s like, “yeah, the engine 118 wind blew a power pole over the top of their engine.” At that point, his phone starts blowing up because Chimney and Buck are hitting him up for methods to remove curse or a jinx.
Alice: Yeah, because for sure Josh would know that.
Bex: Yeah. W see, it doesn’t make sense that
Ellen: no, they want him to bring stuff,
Bex: but why Josh?
Alice: But like, why Josh?
Ellen: Why Josh? Like maybe, maybe Maddie’s also in this like group.
Bex: I just, it’s just,
Ellen: yeah, you’re right, it doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense.
Bex: It’s, it’s a little bit weird that, that for some reason Jennifer couldn’t be on set this week, so they’ve had to elevate Josh. Um, and it [01:03:00] just, it doesn’t quite make sense.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Um, but yeah, we get a bit of Linda saying how the calls today have been really weird and she checked to make sure it wasn’t a full moon. Josh is like, “no, that’s not for another four days. I’ve already scheduled myself off.” And Linda’s like, “I thought we weren’t allowed to do that.” And he is like, “pays to be the Underboss.”
Um, but yeah, so Josh says that they’re, um, Chimney and Buck are fine, but Chimney’s asking if he can send someone over with two bells and some bay leaves.
Bex: But then he thinks about it
Alice: and then he’s like, oh. He’s like, “oh, he’s trying to remove a curse. It’s a whole thing.” Um, so yeah. I wonder if like they’ve got a group chat and it’s Buck, Chimney, Josh and Maddie
Ellen: and Maddie. Yeah, that’s my guess. ’cause I mean he just says,
Alice: and it’s like a poker group chat,
Ellen: someone send someone with this stuff.
Alice: That was just what was on top because the amount of times that, like I’ll message people in a group chat because I can’t be bothered finding the individual message.
Bex: It’s like I’m not mad at it. It [01:04:00] just like, it’s very much, it falls into the, for the drama category.
Alice: Look, Buck’s been going to therapy. Maddie’s trying to set Josh up. Josh up with him now. Okay, it’s fine.
Bex: No, we’ve already, we’ve already had that discussion. She’s not setting Josh up with Buck. She likes Josh far too much for that.
Alice: No, that was, yeah, that was pre Buck’s therapy, so.
Bex: Oh, so you think
Alice: Buck’s working on himself.
Bex: Buck two Josh,
Ellen: Now she likes him less?
Bex: So Josh, Buck 2.0, no way would she ever let him near Josh, but Buck 3.0 is possibly boyfriend material?
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Okay.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Um, but for whatever reason, apparently,
Alice: plus she’s got pregnancy brain, she doesn’t know what’s going on. Um, which is also why he, she’s trying to set him up with Josh and not Eddie.
Like she, she is lost.
Bex: Well, I don’t know whether Josh is any help, but we do cut back to the, um, the truck where, um, Chimney has found something on his phone where everybody has to move their hands in like a [01:05:00] swirling motion and ring bells nine times.
Alice: Um, Buck very seriously is like “nine in total or nine for each of us,”
Bex: which is a legitimate question. My question is, where are they getting the bells from?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Josh is gonna bring them. It’s fine
Alice: bells and bay leaves.
Ellen: Chim is so serious about this. He is like, he’s so serious. I think, I think maybe we should all do it just to make sure we lift the curse and then they start arguing about the semantics of what they actually have. Is it a curse?
Alice: Is it a curse? Or is it a jinx?
Ellen: Is it a jinx? Is it a, a person put a hex on you and a jinx is more like a general angering of the gods?
Bex: Eddie’s just like you’re all fucking insane. Neither of them are real. Doesn’t matter what it is, it’s not real. And Chim’s like
Alice: Buck’s Googling how to appease the gods. Yeah. Um, Chim’s trying to work out if a hex and a curse are the same thing.
Bex: And he thinks that, um, Chimney thinks that them being trapped in a death box [01:06:00] is proof. Something, whether you call it a hex, whether you call it a curse. The jinx has happened to the 118. Bobby’s trying to talk them down just like, “yes, we’re stuck in a death box. Yes, there are thousands of volts of electricity coursing through every nook and cranny. We could literally get fried any second, but let’s just not touch the doors or the windows.”
Alice: Don’t touch any doors or windows till help arrives. Yeah. Buck meanwhile is still, he’s still Googling, looking up how to appease the gods.
Ellen: “All I can find is some kind of human or animal sacrifice. I’m not really down with that.”
Alice: He looks so serious too, he’s just like, I’m, I’m, no,
Ellen: and it’s, and then the universe is screaming at you. Eddie’s like, you guys don’t hear yourselves and, and Buck’s like “The, the universe is screaming at you and you refuse to listen.” And Eddie says, “The universe does not scream.”
Alice: No. The, that, that scene [01:07:00] like the, the universe is screaming at you and you refuse to listen and the universe does not scream is in so many Buddie edits that like when it came up, I was like, oh, that’s right. It’s in this episode. It’s not just a Buddie edit.
Bex: Yeah. Um, the universe does not scream, but the universe does send more electricity surging through those live wires and sparks come showering down over the truck.
Ellen: Yeah. Obviously they’ve not been able to get in touch with the city people who look after the power again?
Alice: Not yet anymore.
Bex: Jamal should jamal’s not on work.
Ellen: Like useless. Yeah.
Alice: Yeah. Um, should mention as well, so like all of them are super tense. Like they’re all like, crowded around their phones. Like debating. Eddie is so relaxed that like he’s got one foot up on the chair opposite him. He’s just slouched back. He’s just like, “there’s no curse. You’re all idiots.”
Ellen: And he says that we, that I don’t worry about things that I can’t control. And Buck’s, [01:08:00] like “you say, you can say that you don’t worry about the things you can’t control, but can you at least acknowledge that something is controlling the things that you can’t control?”
And eddie’s like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Alice: Well, he is like what? Like gremlins?
Ellen: Yeah. “Gremlins. Boogeyman. We’ve had a crappy day. It didn’t happen because of a curse or because someone said the word…” and before he can say quiet, Bobby is the one who’s
Bex: Oh,
Ellen: who says don’t.
Bex: Bobby immediately cuts him off.
Ellen: Yeah. Hey, don’t, and that’s that this, I think this is the point when I realized there’s actually someone in the front with Bobby. Like,
Alice: yes.
Ellen: Bobby’s not in the front on his own. He’s not driving.
Bex: No. He’s riding shotgun.
Ellen: Someone else is driving.
Alice: He’s in the captain’s chair. Yeah. So the driver has not piped in at all.
Ellen: He’s just sitting there listening to their bullshit.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: The driver’s not allowed to get his SAG card. So, yeah, he can’t say anything.
Ellen: Poor guy.
Alice: And [01:09:00] Hen’s like, “Cap, you’ve been pretty silent today about all this jinx stuff.” And the driver’s just like, yeah,
Ellen: Yeah, Cap. They’re like Buck like, “yeah. Jinx or no jinx Bobby?”
Bex: Bobby makes a good point. He’s like, we’re all, you know, we’re all a little superstitious, you know people.
Alice: No, no. Bobby says, “I’m not superstitious. I’m just a little stitious.”
Ellen: Does he?
Bex: Uh, no he doesn’t.
Alice: No, it’s from The Office.
Ellen: Ah, that’s so good,
Bex: but his point is that, “uh, there are things that people do, like they don’t walk under ladders. Uh, we bless people after they sneeze.” He looks at Eddie. “Some of us even wear a good luck charm around our necks.”
Eddie’s like, “that’s not the same thing.” And Bobby’s like, “Hmm, maybe to you. But wearing that medal helps remind you of your son and helps make you feel better. So if Chimney wants to wave his hands and [01:10:00] ring some bells so that he can feel better, what is wrong with that?” And everyone’s still sort of side eyeing and going, you didn’t actually answer the question, Cap, thankfully. Um, he’s saved by help arriving and he is literally like, “ah, help has arrived. Look at that.”
Um, the 1 33 has shown up and Bubby’s like, it’s great help has arrived. And help is stopping to take pictures of us trapped in our own engine. And you can see the 1 33 are like taking selfies with the truck in the background with the fire. The fire that’s power on top of the fire truck. Um, they’re giving them a big cheesy grin and thumbs up.
Alice: This is great. And the jinx continues.
Ellen: Yeah. So they eventually get out of that. Someone turns the power off and they can get the truck out of there.
Bex: Jamal finally turns the power off. Um,
Ellen: yeah. And they get back to [01:11:00] the firehouse.
Alice: You know the problem, it’s because they called to te to turn the power off and they’re like, there’s no power interruptions. They’re like, we know we need the power off for fuck’s sake. How many times do we have to go through this?
Bex: Bobby needed to get on the phone like Athena, we need you to kidnap a DWP employee and get him over here to turn the power off. Um, but something must have happened. The 1 33 must have finally got them out of the, out of that situation.
They’re back at the station. It looks like it’s night.
Alice: Um, yeah. I don’t know why the 1 33 had to come instead of them just turning off the power, but whatever.
Bex: Well, I’m assuming that they need to get the
Ellen: to take pictures
Bex: pole off the truck at some point. I don’t think that they could get out and turn and get the pole off the truck themselves.
Alice: They’re firefighters. Anyway. Um, but for the drama they needed anyway,
Ellen: the, the others just literally turned up to laugh and take pictures.
Bex: Yeah, pretty much.
Alice: That’s it.
Ellen: They weren’t, they weren’t helping.
Bex: So it’s [01:12:00] obviously much later in the shift. Um, apparently they should all be sleeping. Uh, none of them are. Bobby’s in the kitchen cleaning up and Chim Hen and Buck are all reading at a table when Eddie arrives in the kitchen.
Ellen: This is why they all get on so well because they have to spend all this time like just sitting around in each other’s pockets.
Bex: You’re either going to like trauma bond or they’re all gonna hate each other’s guts. And luckily for us, they’re all trauma bonded. Yeah. Um, so we’ve got a, a miniature book club going on at the table.
Uh, Chim is reading, Caring for your Baby and Young Child Hen is reading Honors: the Social Game of Medical School, which I looked up and it’s a guide on how to survive and succeed as a med student. Um, basic
Alice: as a third year med student. How long has she been doing this?
Bex: I’m assuming she’s reading in advance for [01:13:00] when she gets to her residency. ’cause it’s all about networking and about like how to, um, get, get connections so that once you get out of your residency you get like the good placements in the good hospitals in the good roles.
Alice: Oh, why is she reading a book? I’ve seen Grey’s Anatomy. You just sleep with your resident.
Bex: Exactly. You, you pick, you hook up with your re you hook up with your attending in a bar.
Alice: Yeah, your attending, sorry.
Bex: Yeah. And then you go to work the next day and discover that he is your attending. Not only that’s fine, but he’s like the top of the, um, the particular departments
Ellen: Oh dear
Alice: and then you end up like, you know, blah, blah, blah. You end up owning the hospital later. It’s fine.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: But yeah. So Eddie’s like, “am I interrupting book club?” Um, Hen is just like “medical, babies, women,”
Bex: because we don’t actually see what book Buck is reading, but he’s obviously, he’s reading the book on women, “Which Eddie then says like, oh, I [01:14:00] was wondering why he had a book in his hand. But now it all makes sense.” Um, and either I like to think in retaliation, but I honestly think that Buck really just wants to know the answer to this question.
He puts down his book and says, “Eddie, what would you say Ana’s love language is?”
Alice: Yeah. So Buck’s reading the Five Love Languages,
Bex: which I want to roll up and shove up his nostrils.
It’s such misogynistic crap. I mean, you guys know like the backstory for the love languages, right?
Alice: Oh, vaguely.
Bex: So the person who wrote the Love Languages is a Southern Baptist preacher and the book is basically teaching women how to submit to their husbands in the name of good marriages because ew, funnily enough, most men, their love language is physical touch IE sex.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: And therefore, in order to speak their love language, you [01:15:00] have to sleep with them even if you don’t particularly want to. ’cause that’s how you are expressing your love to them. Um,
Ellen: right.
Bex: And then, you know, women’s love language is like acts of service, so, you know, doing the housework and it’s, it’s very much you have to work with your husband’s love language. Um, there’s not a lot about husband’s working with their wives’ love language.
Alice: No. So men have to allow the women to clean the house
Bex: because that’s how they show their love and Yeah. Nice. Yeah. It’s basically teaching you how to be a, um, a good Southern Baptist woman.
Ellen: Yeah. Okay.
Bex: Yeah. So we, uh, don’t actually care what Ana’s love language is because it’s a load of bullshit.
But that’s not the point. The point is that in retaliation for the little jab about Buck reading, um, Buck has brought up Ana for the group and which has raised everybody’s attention. Like, Bobby immediately beelines [01:16:00] out of the kitchen over to the table ’cause he wants to get in on this action as well.
Alice: Yeah, Hen’s just like “Ana who?” And Eddie’s just like “traitor.” And then Chim just slams his book shut and goes, “Baby’s not here yet. Who’s Ana?” Like shit eating grin.
Ellen: Okay, I just looked it up. Did you like, this is so five years ago, but did you hear about the neurodivergent love languages?
Alice: I love the neurodivergent love languages.
Bex: That’s like pebbling and Yeah. Yeah.
Ellen: Yes. Parallel play, crush my soul back into my body. Yeah. And, and info dumping. I just love it. It’s, it speaks to me a lot more than the other crap does.
Alice: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Absolutely.
Bex: Oh yeah.
Alice: Like I will share memes with you because I love you.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: What was the one
Alice: or fan fiction,
Bex: like what was the one I sent you? I’m like, I have no, absolutely no idea what this is, but I think it’s yours.
Alice: Oh, that was the, the Righteous Gemstones TikTok. Yeah. Uncle [01:17:00] Baby Billy.
Bex: Yeah. There was a, um, there’s an account that like makes dolls into popular other media and it was a Ken doll being turned into someone from The Righteous Gemstones.
And I’m looking at it going like, who’s uncle Baby Billy? I, I’m looking at it going, I think it’s Righteous Gemstones. I’m not entirely sure. I’ll send it to Alice just in case. ’cause I know she, that’s like her show.
Alice: He’s just asking for an eight ball and $2 million. And funnily enough, the doll also had an eight ball and $2 million. It was great. Um, oh, shout out to The Righteous Gemstones. A big fan.
Ellen: Anyway. Where were we? Sorry,
Bex: Eddie finally realizes that he is not going to, um, get out of this without explaining, uh, who Ana is. Um, so he explains, they might not remember who, they might not remember her name, but all of them immediately remembered that this is the teacher that Eddie yelled at.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Um,
Ellen: but he apologized for that.
Alice: Yeah. So he doesn’t he, [01:18:00] yeah, he mentions that she got a new job. Um, Chim’s like, “Oh, so you apologized for yelling at her, but still didn’t ask her out.” And Eddie’s like, “Well, she’s Christopher’s teacher.” And Bobby it is like, “Thought you said she has a new job?” And then he’s saved by the bell because the alarm goes off.
Bex: Thank God, uh, otherwise I think, uh, they might have been looking for a new captain because Eddie might have killed Bobby at that point.
Alice: Oh, I love Bobby in this episode so much.
Bex: He’s such a….
Alice: It’s just like, no, I’m too good for this. So what’s the tea? Did she get a new job?
Bex: Uh, so they are sent to a structure fire at a single family residence. They show up to find a guy frantically hosing down his garage. He seems very, very adamant that he’s going to keep hosing down the garage until the 118 get their hose into play. And when, when Bobby’s like
Alice: What was that?
Ellen: [01:19:00] Get their hose out to play?
Bex: No, into play.
Alice: They’re getting their hose, they’re getting their hoses out.
Ellen: Yeah. Anyway,
Bex: anyway,
Ellen: they need to shut down the utilities so they can, uh, put the fire out
Bex: so they can, they can use the water
Ellen: contain the fire.
Bex: Um, the homeowner is like, ah, yeah, okay. Drops the hose and bolts. Bobby’s like, “Uh, is there something that we need to know about this fire?”
And the guy’s like, “No, no, no. It’s just, you know, Christmas decorations and like old files.” Um, at which point I, there’s a massive explosion. Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” starts playing and the sky lights up with fireworks. And Bobby’s like, “Do you, do you wanna like, try again? Because your taxes seem a whole lot more exciting than mine are.” um,
Alice: um, I should mention that Bowie mentioned his taxes and I was like, oh, shit. So as soon as I finished the episode, I did my [01:20:00] taxes.
Ellen: Well done.
Alice: So shout out to Bobby Nash. Um, and this guy’s fireworks for actually making me do my taxes.
Bex: Excellent. So long story short, it’s not this guy’s taxes that are going off. He went down to coast. Oh, it’s not. He went down to Costa Mesa and bought like $10,000 worth of fireworks, um, to like on-sell. And then the garage caught on fire and now they are all going off.
Ellen: Expensive fireworks show.
Bex: That’s a lot of fireworks.
Alice: Bobby jumps on the radio saying Fire’s been upgraded to second alarm, send more units.
And a firework literally like whizzes between him and the homeowner. It’s like, oh, Jesus Christ. So Bobby sends Buck around the back, um, of the house. He was helping Eddie with the hose, and Eddie’s like, “Yeah, yeah. Go, I got this.” And Buck’s like, “Are you sure?” And it’s just like, you, your captain just told you to go like, the fuck are you doing?
Um, he doesn’t wanna leave his boyfriend. [01:21:00] I get it. Yeah. So Buck runs off, Eddie starts pulling the hose towards the house, but it gets stuck. Uh, luckily he sees a firefighter wandering around, not really doing much, so he yells over to him like, “I lost my partner mind helping me out?” So this guy’s in the, a helmet from the 1 47.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Alice: Eddie makes conversation while they’re like untangling the hose.
Bex: We learned that his name is Brian, and Eddie is bitching about. It’s been like the day from hell. They’re 12 hours in on a 24 hour shift and it’s just nonstop. And Brian is like, “but, but you’ve got such an awesome job. Like, this is so cool. You know, you get to be out here helping people. That’s gotta be worth like the tough days. Right?” Um,
Alice: yeah. It’s all I ever wanted.
Bex: Eddie kind of looks at him and goes, “Yeah. Okay. Um, thanks for your help.” Brian’s like,
Alice: Poor [01:22:00] Eddie just wanted to bitch at someone who wasn’t gonna blame the jinx. And the guy’s just like, “No, your job’s amazing. You’re so lucky.” Eddie’s like, no, that’s okay.
Bex: Okay. Just, just piss off. Um, so he turns, Brian walks away and Eddie suddenly clicks that this guy had like 1 47 on his helmet. And we, he clocks the name on the back of the turnout and yells like, “Hey, Harmon,” the guy doesn’t turn around and tries again. Like, “Hey, Brian.”
He answers to that one, turns around and goes, “Hey, some idiot from your house gave a burn victim an ice pack. You know, that’s, that could have done some real damage.” And Brian’s like, “oh, weird. Huh. I’ll let the captain know.” Um, he disappears into the distance, um, suddenly Bobby’s back.
Alice: Yeah. Bobby [01:23:00] appears,
Bex: he just like phases into existence right next to Eddie. He is like, Hey, I came like I teleported to check on you. And then he’s like, no,
Alice: he’s, he’s a really good captain. Okay.
Bex: Eddie’s like, “No, it’s okay. Cool. Like, that guy from the 1 47 helped me,” and Bobby’s like, “Uh, couldn’t have been the 1 47.” And Eddie’s like, “Yeah, it was the 1 47. I’m pretty sure.” But there is nobody at the 1 47 currently because their house was damaged during the mudslide at the beginning of the season. And nobody’s working outta that house.
Alice: Yeah, they’re still rebuilding. So, and he is like, well, who the hell was I talking to? A ghost?
Ellen: This is the point where I was like, if this, if this was a Supernatural episode
Alice: Yep.
Ellen: There would be an actual entity called Jinx.
Alice: That would be the Yeah, that would be the jinx entity.
Ellen: And then they would have to appease it in some way to get it to stop bothering them.
Alice: Yeah. But, but Buck’s not okay with human or animal sacrifices, so they just have [01:24:00] to work out how to kill it.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Which will probably be like a willow branch, blessed by a shaman or something.
Ellen: Yeah. Stabbed through its heart, you know? I dunno. But anyway,
Bex: while waving your hands and ringing those bells
Ellen: and ringing the bells, yeah. The bells are important. In some way,
Alice: Dean will be like, do we really need the bells? And Sam’s like, it’s important for the thing.
Bex: Yeah, Dean. Yeah. So get this, um,
Alice: the lore says,
Bex: uh, but that doesn’t happen.
Ellen: The Winchesters are not here, no,
Bex: unfortunately. Um, what does happen is that they put out this fire, they go back to the firehouse, um, where Bobby pulls up a photo of the 1 47. Um, and we see the real Harman who has his like turnout nicely displayed across his knee so that we can see that the name across the back of it, who’s this big, burly black dude.
Definitely not the one that, the person that was helping out Eddie.
Alice: Aaron Harman. [01:25:00] Um, and yeah, Harman’s name is also Aaron, not Brian
Bex: Aaron
Ellen: and Eddie says “maybe he’s, do you think he was a fake?” And Bobby says, “sometimes they’re criminals and they use it to get inside people’s houses.” But Eddie, Eddie seems,
Alice: Eddie doesn’t think that’s what this one is.
Ellen: Yeah. Seems to think this guy means well.
Alice: But Bobby’s like, yeah, that’s worse because they’re not trained and they can wind up doing more harm than help.
Bex: And so it’s a fun little conversation because they’re starting, they start talking about Brian and he is, like Brian said, that all he ever wanted to be was a firefighter.
Um, and you know, you have to admire sort of people like him and their perseverance. Like they try and they try and they never make it. And Bobby agrees, yes, you have to admire their dedication, but you also have to feel sorry for them. And then he looks really hard at Eddie and says, “they’re so focused on what they don’t have. They miss the chance to have something [01:26:00] real. Sometimes you just have to recognize that and move on.”
And Eddie’s like, why are you looking? Oh, okay, we’re back to Ana.
Ellen: Yeah. Right. He works it out pretty quickly.
Bex: He tells Bobby like, “I thought you of all people would understand,” and Bobby’s like, bitch, of course I understand. I’ve been in your shoes and that’s why I’m telling you, you gotta move on.
Ellen: Oh, it’s really sweet though. ’cause they do have an actual
Bex: heart to heart.
Yes. I’m, I’m being very flippant about it, but they they are. It is very sweet. Um, Eddie tears up.
Alice: It is. It’s a really lovely bonding moment.
Bex: Bobbie looks like he’s about to start crying.
Alice: Yeah. Like, I’m surprised this hasn’t been a big thing between them before because they do have that.
Ellen: Yeah. They’ve got tragedy in common, I guess. Yeah. Losing their family,
Bex: losing their wives, and then,
Ellen: yeah,
Alice: and like both of them feeling like it’s their fault.
Bex: But then Bobby’s got the, the good example of he’s been able to move [01:27:00] on and he can sort of say to Eddie, look, just follow my example.
Alice: Yeah. So Bobby says that, um, he knows what it’s like to be stuck inside the worst moment of your life to be afraid, to hope to try again. And Eddie’s like, “I’m still not over it or over her.” And Bobby says, “You never will be, you’ll always miss her. And that part that she part of you that she took with her, you never gonna get it back. Every day you heal a bit more. Then one morning you wake up and losing her isn’t the first thing you think about.”
Bex: And Eddie sort of. It’s almost like desperately, like you’re happy, you’re happy with Athena and the kids. And this is the point where you can see that Bobby is starting to almost start crying.
He’s like, “I love Athena and the kids, I love the family that I have now, but that doesn’t mean that I’m ever gonna stop missing the one that I lost.”
Ellen: Aw,
Alice: yeah. Yeah. It’s a really sweet moment.
Ellen: All right, where are we? We we’re at Jim’s Burgers and this scene suddenly makes a bit more sense. ’cause I was really confused about the, everyone kept calling this guy [01:28:00] Jim, and he kept saying, “Actually it’s Larry. No, I’m Larry.”
But now that I know that the place is called Jim’s Burgers. Yes. That makes a lot more sense.
Alice: Jim’s Burgers. Yeah.
Ellen: I’m like, who’s Jim? Is there another? Does this guy have a twin whose name is Jim and people keep calling him Jim? Anyway,
Bex: I think the assumption is that once upon a time there was a Jim and he opened this restaurant and now these other people are working it. I like to think that there was never a Jim, that it is actually Larry’s restaurant, but he just thought Larry’s Burgers was a lame, like name for a restaurant. So he turned it into Jim.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Larry is behind the counter serving. We get the setup. It’s busy. People are coming in to get their burgers. They’re getting, they’re calling the man behind the counter Jim, because they assume that he is Jim, but he’s Larry. Um,
Ellen: but he literally has a Larry name tag on him.
Bex: Like nobody looks at that. Um. And then all of a sudden Larry goes crazy and starts [01:29:00] hurling chairs through the large plate glass windows lining the front of the restaurant. And we get a 9-1-1 call where a female caller says, “Jim’s going crazy!”
Ellen: Even Athena calls him Jim,
Alice: I love Athena’s. Like, yeah. “Make it make sense, Jim.” And Larry’s like, “it’s, it’s Larry.”
Bex: So apparently the reason that Larry did this was that he got a call from someone claiming to be the fire chief, um, who said that there was a report of a gas leak in his building and the whole place could go up, especially considering there is like the kitchen has a lot of open flames for the grills and that Larry needs to break all of the windows in the restaurant immediately, I guess in order to get some oxygen in and to dissipate the gas.
So that’s exactly what Larry does. Um, Athena is quite skeptical. “Like some [01:30:00] random guy just called you and you immediately did what he said to do?”
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Did you even even get a name,
Ellen: ask any questions?
Alice: Larry’s “he sounded very official.” It’s like, okay, uh,
Bex: um, Bobby walks up at this point and informs Larry and Athena that there was no gas leak and Larry’s like, “oh shit. I am gonna get canned.” And Athena says to Bobby that the caller said that he was the fire chief. And Bobby’s like, “oh, somebody else is pretending to be LAFD today.”
Athena’s like, “what do you mean somebody else?” And then in a moment that is purely for the drama. ’cause there’s no fucking way that this would happen in reality, Bobby looks up and immediately locks eyes with Brian.
Alice: Yeah. I immediately recognizes the guy who he only saw the back of his head.
Bex: I don’t think he ever saw Brian though.
Ellen: That’s the point. Yeah. The only person who’s seen Brian is is Eddie. [01:31:00] Eddie.
Alice: Yeah. Because, no, because when um, when Bobby comes over he is like, oh, I, so you already had some help.
Like he knew that Eddie was being helped, he just didn’t see him up close. But apparently he did.
Ellen: He saw him well enough to spot him in a crowd.
Bex: Especially considering he’s in the crowd. He is no longer wearing Harmon’s turnouts and he has a face mask on. Um,
Ellen: he just sensed his aura. Okay. I dunno.
Bex: Exactly. It doesn’t help that Brian immediately like notices that Bobby is locked in on him and makes a break for it.
Alice: So yeah, he runs off and Buck is like, “I got him. Hey, I just wanna talk.”
Bex: So like sprinting after him.
Alice: Yeah. But Buck does his, his great run that I love. What, like, I love when Oliver does this and he runs with all four limbs.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Um, so like his running, but like his arms are also flailing while he runs. So like, Brian’s like running normally like a normal person and Buck’s like flailing after him and like [01:32:00] falling over and running into people. Um, and Brian somehow, like he sees the fire engine and just jumps in and starts driving it because apparently they just left the keys in the ignition.
Bex: Right?
Alice: Um, Buck’s very, he’s very offended by this because only he’s allowed to steal. Oh yeah. Their trucks.
Ellen: Where’s their driver anyway?
Bex: Well, I’m assuming he is out assisting with the, um, the quote unquote non gass leak, but he’s not in there. So Brian is able to jump in. Um, buck is offended. Athena is also incredibly offended and immediately jumps back into her car and takes off after Brian in the engine truck.
And then at this point, Chim and Hen return, um, they have not been helping with the gas quote unquote gas leak.
Alice: They haven’t been helping at all.
Bex: They have been helping themselves to the [01:33:00] food that the Jim’s Burgers employees can no longer sell. Um, and they come back with like bags full of food. Chim’s got a mouthful. Hen’s got a burger and her hand on the go.
Ellen: Chim’s asking, “What did we miss?”
Bex: They’re still jinxed.
Ellen: Uh, so we don’t quite get, go back immediately to the chase. First we have to go back to dispatch again.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: And Linda is wondering, um, why Josh is still there. ’cause she thought he was finished his shift and he was going home.
But apparently “there was a crazy police chase” Josh says, but um, Linda says, “yeah, yeah, it seems like your little firefighter friends are having a rough shift.” Josh is like “Wait, wait, wait, wait. The 118 are still in trouble? They’re not trapped in the engine again, are they?”
Alice: they probably wish they were,
Ellen: so I don’t know why we needed that scene. Maybe just to find out that Josh is still there. [01:34:00]
Bex: But the thing is like he gets off the elevator, so he had left and then he turns around and comes back. I don’t know, maybe minimum shooting requirements. Like they, they have to be on set a certain amount of time in order, like when you’re working, you have to have minimum hours.
Maybe they had like to make up the minimum hours, they needed to shoot some more. I don’t know.
Alice: So back at the burger place, Bobby’s like, so when did you guys last refill the gas tank? And um, yeah, Buck just topped it off. He’s got like four hours, give or take.
Bex: And we have now,
Ellen: unless he crashes it first.
Bex: Unless he crashes, which is a distinct, which is actually a distinct possibility. Um, ’cause he’s pretty reckless. Um, we have now caught up with the beginning of the episode because we are back to Athena chasing the engine truck, LAPD choppers following overhead. Um,
Alice: first we get this like a scene of this jogger who’s running down the street with her earbuds in [01:35:00] and she gets to an intersection and just runs straight across the road without looking and almost gets hit by the firetruck.
Yep. And they hit it. You’d think you, it’s like, look both ways, you idiot.
Ellen: Even with your earbuds in, you’re gonna,
Bex: you hear the sirens? ’cause they,
Ellen: well, did he have the siren on?
Bex: No, he doesn’t.
Ellen: But the police has the sirens on.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Anyway, it’s for the drama. Um, she nearly gets run over by the truck,
Bex: So much for the drama because, um, LAPD chopper is kind of coordinating the chase and they’re trying to cut Brian off. So he tells Athena to basically try and pull the maneuver on him or something that, that weird maneuver where you like knock into them and you cut them off. And I don’t know if that’s gonna work in a firetruck. It doesn’t, because Athena tries to cut him off. Brian instead mounts the curb, takes a corner and starts driving up the side of all of the parked cars on that [01:36:00] block.
And they immediately…
Alice: Was anyone cringing?
Bex: start exploding.
Ellen: Why did they exploded? Yeah. I’m like, how?
Bex: Yeah. I’m like, why are they blowing up? All he’s doing is like dragging the truck along the side of the cars probably, he’s scratching the paint to hell. He’s taking off all the wing mirrors. Um, why?
Ellen: It’s very dramatic though.
Bex: I’m sure it’s causing sparks, but why is that enough to make these cars explode?
Alice: At least we know what they, um, use their budget on. Yeah. I, but yeah, I would like, I was cringing so hard. I’m like the poor engine. Yeah. He is so scratched, like Buck tried so hard down in Texas to not scratch the engine.
Yep,
Bex: yep.
Ellen: And he just, he just polished it all up again last week as well.
Bex: Yeah, it’s, it’s, Brian does not realize that the LAPD are trying to box him in. So he keeps trying to get away from Athena, not realizing that she’s driving him into a trap until he is in the trap. [01:37:00] He’s suddenly surrounded by LAPD.
But, with Athena like right on his ass. Um, but rather than, you know, getting outta the truck and, and surrendering, um, he decides to throw it in reverse and start to back out. And Athena’s like, oh, okay. And just reverses out of his way to let him go.
Alice: Yeah, just lets him go.
Bex: What the, why is nobody getting out of their car? And like
Alice: they’re all aiming their guns at him, and then they’re just like, oh, okay, we’ll just let him go.
Ellen: Just let him go. So he, she, she’s gotta get her car outta the way or she’ll be crushed by the reversing truck.
Bex: But this is what I mean, like, she reverses out of the way. He reverses out, um, does a little bit of a, like a three point turn and starts driving off again and all of the cars just follow along behind him. Like, what the fuck guys?
Ellen: It is weird.
Bex: Um, at this point, Linda comes over, uh, the radio saying that there [01:38:00] is a five alarm fire at, uh, a residence and she wants all units to report, um, the 118 start panicking because, you know, their instinct is we need to report to this. But, uh, don’t,
Ellen: they haven’t got a truck.
Bex: They haven’t got a truck, they have no way of getting there. They do have an ambulance and so Bobby orders, so Bobby orders them all into the ambulance.
Ellen: So they clown car into the ambulance.
Alice: My favorite. So Buck’s like “Cap, there’s not enough room.” And Bobby’s like, “just get on the gurney, Buck, let’s go.” And so they cut to inside and Hen, Eddie and Bobby are sitting on the bench on one side, Chim’s at the top of the rig, and Buck is laying on the gurney.
He’s not even sitting on the gurney. He is literally just like lying on it like a patient. He’s just like, oh yeah, this is, yeah. And Buck’s like, yeah, “he had to steal the engine. He couldn’t have taken the ambulance” and Hen’s like, “Oi!”
Bex: but he is got a point because like, yeah, but
Alice: we’re, we’re on route to a fire without any of like, any [01:39:00] of our gear.
Bex: Like Cap. Um, Bobby doesn’t even have, have his helmet that says like, captain on it.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Um, and Eddie has the bright idea that maybe they can get their equipment to them. So he gets on the radio and calls the truck and specifically for Brian. He tells Brian like, “Hey, it’s, it’s Eddie Diaz. Like, you, you don’t have to talk to me, but like, just key the radio so that I know you’re listening.”
Um, and everyone’s like, this is an absolutely stupid idea. It’s not gonna work. And then Brian Keys the radio. So he’s, he’s listening. And so Eddie starts buttering him up. He’s like, “You know what? I just, I wanted to say thank you for helping me at the garage fire. I needed your help. We needed your help, and you were there to help.”
Um, he’s playing Brian like a fiddle, and Brian is responding to it. ’cause he immediately gets on the radio. He’s like, “yes, that’s all I [01:40:00] ever wanted to do, was help people.”
Ellen: Hmm.
Bex: And Eddie’s like, “Well, you know what would really help us? There’s a five alarm fire right now. We need your help.”
Ellen: Yeah. “People’s lives depend on you.”
Bex: Brian’s like, “well, no one’s ever given me the chance to help.” And Eddie’s like, “now is your chance.”
Ellen: Brian says he can’t do it. He’s not a hero, but Eddie convinces him that they need him. So
Bex: I think this, I think even at one point he’s like rolling his eyes and like, oh, for fuck sakes, Brian. Like, and then gets into sort of the kind of voice that I could imagine him using on Christopher when he’s trying to like, convince Christopher to do something that Chris doesn’t wanna do.
And he is like, you know, “well we need you Brian. Like we really need you.”
Alice: Yeah. We need you to eat your Brussels sprouts, Christopher,
Bex: we need you to attend this fire. And then there’s this long moment where Brian’s just driving down the street thinking about it and he takes his deep breath and he makes a [01:41:00] turn.
And Athena’s like, where the fuck is he going? Like, Athena, did you not hear Linda’s dispatch that there’s a five alarm fire and they need all available units? Um, he’s going to the fire. So he does, he, I don’t know how he knows where he is going. Um, but he does, he shows up at a five alarm fire. Um,
Alice: He follows the smoke and the fire?
Bex: Really? I don’t think that would work necessarily in LA. I have a feeling that you could do that and he would end out
Ellen: maybe he knows the area, but doesn’t matter. ’cause he gets there and then he, he gets there, bails out and runs
Bex: and immediately trips over a fire hose. Yeah. And gets arrested.
Ellen: But Eddie comes over before they cart him off, he comes over and says to Brian, “thank you. You did a good thing.” And Brian’s like, “I did?” But Athenas’s like, “yeah, but you also impersonated a firefighter.” [01:42:00] And she says, “stole a vehicle,” I love how she does that, “stole a vehicle, evaded the police, and recklessly endangered the lives of a not insignificant number of people.”
Alice: Not to mention broke all the cars and scratched the engine, which is gonna be very expensive.
Ellen: Destroyed a lot of stuff.
Bex: Yep. And caused a lot of stuff to be destroyed, um, without actually having done it yourself. Um, so Athena carts him off to the, um, to the back of her car and he sort of looks at her and goes, “Oh, you’re a police officer. Hey, you must respond to a lot of like emergencies. You must help a ton of people each day.”
And she’s like, “don’t even think about it. Nope.”
Ellen: Poor guy. I mean, not poor guy. He just did a really stupid thing. But
Bex: he does a lot of really stupid things and it doesn’t look like he’s learned his lesson at all.
Ellen: No.
Bex: But he gets shoved [01:43:00] in the back of a car. Athena drives off and we leave the 118 to like help with the fire, I guess.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Yep.
Ellen: We don’t get to see that. So
Bex: no. Uh, next time we see the 118, it is the end of their shift. Finally.
Ellen: It’s a long 24 hours.
Bex: They’re walking out of the non foam filled locker room in civvies.
Alice: I love that. Hen’s like, “that. That’s it, right? Next shift back to normal.” And Chim just goes, “yeah, I might call in sick just in case.”
Um, but Bobby says he knows the guys are eager to get outta there, but he’d like to buy them breakfast and, and Buck goes, “Do you ever get to that point where you haven’t eaten in so long, you stop being hungry?” And the looks like all of them are just like, what the fuck? And he’s like, yeah, “no, me neither. Still hungry. Let’s go.”
Bex: Yeah, no, I know exactly what he means.
Alice: Yeah, I do often. Yeah.
Bex: So I’m, I’m [01:44:00] putting that in the, uh, like evidence, num evidence, whatever we’re up to number that Buck is neurodivergent. Because
Alice: Oh, a hundred percent. This is like the most neurodivergent episode of Buck’s ever.
Bex: It’s a very much a neurospicy thing to just not be hungry.
Yeah. Uh, but he realizes that he’s fucked up because nobody else has had the same experience and he’s like, oh, no, no, I’m still hungry too. Um, so they follow Bobby towards the cars and they realize that Eddie is not following them and is still in uniform and is not coming with them. Um, because
Alice: yeah. I don’t know why he’s still in uniform, but Sure.
Bex: I don’t know why either. But I do enjoy him…
Alice: I think while they were getting changed
Bex: in his uniform, so I’m not gonna complain.
Alice: Possibly while he was, while they were all getting changed, he was out the back like calling Ana.
Ellen: Maybe.
Bex: Maybe. But it’s like six, [01:45:00] seven o’clock in the morning at this point. Or maybe it’s a little bit later. It still seems very early to be calling her.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Also, when did he get her number?
Alice: He had to call the school.
Ellen: Well, she didn’t she ring him when it was, when Christopher was falling off the skateboard and stuff?
Alice: Yeah. From the school.
Bex: From the school, which she’s no longer working at. I’ll stop thinking
Ellen: maybe he just Facebook stalked her.
Alice: He was Instagram stalking her,
Bex: I’m gonna stop thinking about it. I’m just getting, okay.
Alice: He was dropping her a follow request and she finally accepted it at 7:00 AM and he is like, Hey, wanna do breakfast before school?
Bex: Anyway, so he’s still in uniform.
Alice: I’m not gonna go pick up my child. Um,
Bex: because he still has plans. Um, Bobby looks very approving about the fact that Eddie still has plans.
Buck looks very confused. He’s like, like,
Alice: why, why don’t I know about these plans?
Bex: Why don’t like, but I’m, I’m here. Like, [01:46:00] I don’t know about any plans. I’m here. We don’t have any plans. What are you talking about?
Ellen: Oh,
Bex: so Bobby does take them to breakfast and Yeah. This is like the weird scene where they’re sitting in a table in an open courtyard, but they’re all still fully masked.
Alice: Yeah. Which, and we get the, the exposition breakfast.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Oh yeah. Where they explain everything,
Bex: which is basically what we already knew. Um, yeah. He broke into, he wanted to be a firefighter. He could never get through the training. He broke into the 1 47 and stole their gear. We did get the Buck adding in that he must have bought a scanner so that he could hear the calls over the radio and know where to go.
Ellen: Yeah. Hen’s a bit confused that he, uh, why he called in the fake gas leak and made Jim slash Larry, um, smash his own windows, but Bobby explains that he thought that it was a real gas leak. So then we get the replay of the phone call and everything [01:47:00] where Brian thought that he could smell gas and he, um,
Bex: which to be fair
Ellen: thought it was real gas leak.
Bex: He probably could, because as we said, Jim’s work with like open flame grills and they obviously have it turned up quite high ’cause the flames are leaping through the grills. So there probably was a smell of gas.
Alice: Yeah. But it wasn’t a leak. It’s just how the, the stoves work.Yeah, grills work. Um, and buck like, yeah, he wasn’t just a fake firefighter, he was a terrible one.
Bex: And then probably the piece de resistance would be for the drama in an entire episode is for the drama, four separate servers immediately descend on their table, handing out the food simultaneously.
Alice: How many workers does this cafe have at like, at seven 30 in the morning?
Yeah. It’s ’cause they’re first responders, even though they, they’re not wearing their gear.
Bex: Like, when, when has that ever happened that everybody gets their meal [01:48:00] simultaneously?
Alice: It’s two and two.
Bex: Like I can imagine one server like bringing out four plates and like plating them one by one, but never one, one server with one plate at the same time.
Alice: But yeah. So Bobby proposes a toast. They all,
Bex: they’re not allowed to eat yet
Alice: put their forks up. Buck’s has a sausage on it.
Ellen: Yeah. He toasts with his sausage.
Alice: Um, and yeah, “Here’s to the hardest hungriest working crew I know, let’s eat.” But right before, but right before they’re able to eat and or put any food in their mouth, another customer starts like gasping for breath.
And the person there with it’s like, oh my God, I think she’s having a heart attack.
Ellen: Ugh.
Alice: And so, of course, the 118 immediately jump into action. You see
Ellen: now that they’re off, off shift, um, their ability to magically diagnose someone has jumped to this other person who,
Alice: well, they don’t say that she’s having a heart attack. No. Someone else says that they’re having a attack. So
Ellen: Exactly. They’re off shift, so they [01:49:00] don’t have the ability Oh yeah. Someone else has. So they,
Alice: um, so yeah, Buck grabs the life pack.
Bex: I don’t know that they have the ability that it’s just like, I think the woman grabbed her chest and so everybody just assumes if you
Alice: Yeah, that’ll be funny when she just has indigestion.
Ellen: Yeah, I thought she was choking. But anyway.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: They jump up and grab the, um, defibrillator thingy,
Bex: Bobby calls it in, Buck gets the life pack. Chim’s already working on assessing the patient.
Ellen: No food for them.
Bex: Hen’s still at the table shoving food in her face. No, she’s not. She’s there. She’s helping too.
Ellen: I wouldn’t blame her if she did.
Bex: Meanwhile, Eddie does get to eat.
Ellen: Yes. He’s waiting at a table.
Bex: I just kept thinking, wouldn’t it have been funny if he’d like asked Bobby for a recommendation of where he should take Ana and then Bobby picks the same restaurant for there. Yeah.
Alice: And they’re all just watching him,
Bex: the 118 brunch. And so they’re both sitting there at the same [01:50:00] restaurant. It’s not, it’s a separate restaurant. But that’s just where my mind went. I went, wouldn’t it have been funny?
Alice: I absolutely expected it to be the same restaurant. Yeah.
Bex: But yeah, so, and uh, Eddie is sitting at a table, um, and we see the, the, the reason for his plans is that Ana walks towards him and he gets all like heart eyes.
Mm-hmm. And like neon pink blush and pulls her, stands up and pulls her chair out for her. Um, the gauze has now gone from, um, a couple of wraps around her wrist to almost like up to her elbow.
Ellen: Yeah. She’s very tightly wrapped now, so, but the doctor did say that ice is absolutely the wrong thing to put on it, so,
Alice: um, yeah. She was surprised that he called so are we because, because we have no idea how we got the number.
Ellen: She asked how the day, how the day from hell turned out. And, and he’s like, “I’m starting to think it turned out pretty good.” [01:51:00] Ah, Eddie.
Alice: So yeah. So the server comes over and goes, can I get you guys something to drink? Maybe coffee.
Bex: And they both immediately at the same time, go “no coffee.” And then they look at each other and they’re both at immediately the same time, say, “jinx”.
And then neither of them can speak for the rest of the, for the rest of the breakfast.
Alice: Yeah. They’re just laughing to each other like, ah, haha. At the service. Like, yeah. So tea, water,
Ellen: tequila?
Bex: Bloody Marys?
Alice: Like something to end this interaction. Ah.
Ellen: It’s very awkward, but cute.
Bex: Cute but awkward. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s the end of the episode.
Ellen: Yeah. Such a fun episode.
Alice: It’s so good. I loved it. This is my favorite episode. It was the first one I ever watched, like more than once.
Ellen: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, I think it’s nice to have, like, apart from the fact that it is a very funny [01:52:00] episode on its own, it’s nice to have a lighthearted one and like previous lighthearted episodes that we’ve had, I’ve always had some element of angst in it, but this one didn’t really, yeah.
Alice: Like this one still does have a little bit, like it’s got the, um, stuff about Shannon, um, like Bobby helping Eddie move past Shannon, which is really, but it’s like, yeah. But in light it’s like warm hearted.
Ellen: Yeah, it’s he’s working through it. It’s not like he’s actually sitting there crying about it, you know? I mean, it is a little bit, but yeah.
Bex: And it’s just that one scene. But I think like the episode you compared it to Ellen was “Dosed” where it was like ahaha, everyone’s high on the, like the, the magic brownies. Meanwhile, Bobby is like hallucinating his dead daughter is there and is standing on the top of the building ready to jump.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: So, you know, starts off really, really high, quote unquote, um, ha ha. And then immediately just straight into trauma where we didn’t get that, that [01:53:00] like, jarring dichotomy in this episode.
Alice: Yeah. Um, but yeah, definitely still my favorite episode. Um, like it’s just the re watchability is so good.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: I laugh every time I watch the scene with them stuck in the, um, firetruck.
Ellen: Oh yeah. It’s very good.
Alice: And the, the montage is great every time as well.
Ellen: I mean, parts of it are just so over the top. I mean, we say this in every episode, it’s all for the drama.
Alice: Yeah. Like the, the charm, the charm of the show is that it’s over the top. And this episode definitely does it well because it’s fast paced enough that like, you don’t really think about how it doesn’t make sense until you passed it.
And then you’re like, wait a minute, and then it’s onto the next scene. So you don’t really get the chance to
Ellen: Yeah. Well, of oftentimes, I don’t think, it doesn’t make sense until we di dissect it afterwards. You know, like when you’re watching it, you don’t realise
Alice: dissecting it.
Bex: But even then, even once you, um, even once you’ve realized like how little sense this entire episode makes, [01:54:00] it’s still, you can switch your brain off and go, you know what?
It’s just, it’s so funny and it’s so cute. I am willing Yeah. To suspend my disbelief. I’m willing to go for the drama and I’m willing to watch it again. Whereas there are some episodes where I am like physically very angry at those episodes about how little sense they make, and I will never be able to watch them again without throwing something at the television.
Alice: Yeah, yeah. That’s it. Um, but yeah, this one has the whole, like the ensemble is used very well. Yeah. Like Athena slots really well into it. Um, it’s not just, you know, here’s the firefighters doing something and here’s the cops doing something. And she makes sense in this episode. Yeah. Like
Bex: when she shows up, it’s not just, oh, Angela needs to be on set today.
Alice: Yeah. There’s reasons make sense. Yeah. Yes. Um, and she’s got something to do. Like she does the whole, um, like, like fire engine chase, but also with the billboard thing, it makes sense for her to be there. And Yeah. Then, and she like gives the, like she’s supporting Bobby, just like, you don’t really believe that.
And he’s like, no. [01:55:00] Um, like it’s very cute. They’re very cute. Um, Eddie and Bobby’s like Bobby being a dad to Eddie is really cute. Chim and Hen giving, uh, Eddie shit about Ana is really cute.
Ellen: Buck just being himself is just cute.
Alice: Buck. Oh my god. Buck is so like, he’s great in this episode.
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: Like the only thing I missed obviously is Maddie because she’s not in it. Like, it would’ve been nice if we got her in dispatch.
Ellen: Yeah, I guess they, that would make sense. They gave her a week off after last week.
Bex: It would make, I’m very curious as to know what was going on with Jennifer that there must have been something happening that she just could not film this week. So they’ve just, they’ve thrown Brian and Linda’s actress in instead.
I wonder maybe if it was written for Maddie to be in dispatch and then Jennifer had something going on and they’ve gone, shit, we’re gonna have to quickly rewrite it.
Ellen: Well, it would make, it would make more sense.
Alice: When did this air?
Ellen: February, [01:56:00] 2021.
Bex: So this is February. So they would’ve been filming this, let’s say December, January.
Alice: When did, um, Jennifer Love Hewitt find out she was pregnant?
Bex: Around December, January.
Alice: Yeah. So maybe she was unwell sick or, yeah.
Ellen: Maybe she had COVID.
Alice: Yeah, maybe she had COVID.
Ellen: Anyway, it would make more sense for Buck and Chim to be texting her about what was going on with the truck.
Alice: Yeah. I miss Maddie. Like I, I would’ve loved to see like, Maddie being like, “Chim, I’m not bringing you bells. What the fuck are you talking about?”
Ellen: Yeah. If she would not have been on board with that,
Bex: actually, that’s an interesting point. Do we think that Maddie would be supportive of the belief in the jinx or would she be like, no, you’re, you’re both fucking idiots.
Alice: She whispers to ghosts, so I’m pretty sure she, um,
Ellen: well she was a nurse in a hospital, so surely Yeah. That is also applies with the [01:57:00] Q word.
Alice: The Q word. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely.
Ellen: She knows all about full moons and jinxes.
Alice: Yes. I miss Maddie. Um, Hen was also not like a huge part of this episode, but I’m pretty sure next episode’s a very Hen episode.
Bex: Yeah. Next week is very Hen heavy.
Alice: Yeah. So like she’s still got a lot, like she was still in this one and I love when Buck’s like, oh, I couldn’t have stolen the ambulance. and Hen’s just like, wait,
Bex: um, yeah, that’s the other thing. Even though it was, um, the focus was, it’s, I guess it’s slightly more Eddie heavy. There is still, it still feels like an ensemble episode. Yeah. Very much. But Hen has not been, they haven’t gone. Oh well um, Aisha, we’re gonna need you on next week, so we’re not gonna give you any lines this week. You’re just gonna miraculously disappear. Yeah. For this week.
Alice: Like she’s still very in character. She’s still giving Buck shit.
Bex: Yeah. It’s like only in retrospect you go, oh, Aisha didn’t have that much this week.
Alice: Yeah. But like the things that she did have were so good and so Hen.
Bex: Yes. [01:58:00] So thumbs up to Taylor Wong. Very good at writing the ensemble.
Alice: Yeah. Really good at writing the ensemble.
Bex: Yep.
Alice: Um. And yeah, so we don’t have any more of um, Taylor Wong stuff this season, but there’s two in season five, two in season six, two in season seven and three in season eight.
Bex: I, we do have a little bit of trivia at the bottom where the Jim’s burger and the Izzy Chains storylines were apparently ripped from the headlines.
Ellen: Oh.
Bex: Um, apparently the gas leak storyline was similar to prank calls that were made to several Burger King restaurants, which caused their workers to smash out their windows. Nice. Um, and the Izzy Chain’s stunt was based on a YouTuber, um, who course pretty much did the same thing.
Ellen: Of course, it was.
Bex: However, [01:59:00] he did not fall off the YouTube, fall off the billboard because of a, you know, structural integrity issues with the tape. They did need a crane to get him down, and the photos that were taken during the stunt, um, the YouTube apparently sold and the proceeds went to the LAFD for their like, time and effort in helping him.
Ellen: Okay. So it was a much less dramatic stunt in the end
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Than the one we had in the show. What have we got to look forward to next week?
Bex: Next week, Buck jumps back into the dating pool and Hen’s mother comes to town.
Alice: Lucky Hen.
Ellen: Is he like Eddie’s got a girlfriend? So now I must.
Alice: Yep. A hundred percent.
Bex: Pretty much. Yep.
Ellen: Right.
Bex: Um, the full summary says that the 118 rush to save a man pinned under a Humvee [02:00:00] and a garage band that rocks out too hard enlisting. Oh, I love this episode. This is so cool. Enlisting Bobby and Athena’s help, Michael installs a new quote unquote rear window and turns into an amateur detective after noticing strange behavior at a nearby apartment. Now…
Alice: Oh my God. It’s this episode,
Bex: episode is not Yes, but it’s not. He, Bobby and Athena don’t help him install the window, Bobby and Athena help him with the amateur detective stuff. Oh, no, that’s a really badly written sentence. Um,
Alice: I’m just imagining them like bringing a crane in and Bobby like “Back a bit, back a bit.”
Bex: Meanwhile, Hen’s mother unexpectedly arrives and announces that she’s moving to LA and Buck reentry into the dating pool spoiler alert ends in disaster.
Ellen: Oh [02:01:00]
Bex: yeah. It doesn’t go well.
Alice: Is it really Buck if, um. It doesn’t end in disaster.
Bex: No, not really. Uh, triggers for next week? Ooh. Um, we have drug use, specifically marijuana, bleeding from the eyes.
Ellen: Ooh.
Bex: References to the foster care system. Um, references of illegal surgery and minor gore, which I would’ve thought referred to the bleeding of the eyes, but apparently it refers to the aforementioned illegal surgery.
Ellen: Great. I love, yeah. Illegal surgery. All right. Well, um, let us know what you thought about this one of our favorite episodes so far. Did you love it as much as we did? I hope so. It was great.
Alice: Um, are you excited to see more of Ravi?
Ellen: Oh, I [02:02:00] am. Now that I know who Ravi is, how long do we have to wait before Ravi is actually in another episode?
Bex: Not long.
Alice: Oh, I’m trying to remember.
Bex: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 episodes.
Ellen: Right. Cool.
Bex: Yes. He comes back in episode 12.
Alice: Yeah, I was gonna say, I’m, I’m pretty sure his next episode, which I don’t wanna spoil the title because it’s literally everything about the episode is in the title. Um, but I was pretty sure that episode was in season four.
Bex: It is.
Alice: And it is. So yes, we do see them.
Bex: Okay. Season four is so short though, but I always like underestimate how short it is.
Alice: It’s so short, but it’s so good.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: It’s been great. So far. Also it’s gonna be difficult to pick previous, a favorite
Bex: As aforementioned with binging. I, I don’t actually know which season is which, or what episode goes and which season. [02:03:00] It’s all a blur. Yeah.
Alice: But yeah, so he’s in a lot of season five. He’s in two more episodes in season four. Most of season five and then vanishes during season six.
Bex: So yes, you’ll have plenty, plenty of opportunities, um, to see Ravi again.
Ellen: Awesome.
Alice: And see why we all love him.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: I’ve seen a lot of love for him on the socials. Like I even am trying to avoid spoilers, but I do see that and I’m like, oh, when’s he show up?
Bex: He’s very active on the socials too, which helps.
Ellen: Right, okay.
Bex: He’s just funny.
Ellen: Um, let us know, you can leave us a comment on the episodes post on thatweewooshow.com or any of the other ways that, uh, what places that you listen. A lot of other places let you leave comments now so it is in, it’s not just Spotify anymore, I don’t think. So please let, let us know what you thought.
Thank you for listening this week, and we will talk to you next time about [02:04:00] episode seven, which is called “There Goes The Neighborhood”. See you then.
Bex: Bye.
Alice: Bye.
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Alice: What was I gonna say? Yeah, his actors in like everything, like his actor’s in Big Sky, and then I was watching Grey’s Anatomy after 9-1-1 one night, and he was in that, and I was just like, Ravi, what are you doing here? Like, go back to the 118.
Bex: The Big Sky one was like, [02:05:00] what? What? I had to go back and watch it again. Like, oh yeah, he was,
Alice: yeah, he’s like a big part of,
Bex: did you ever watch Big Sky?
Alice: Jensen’s season.
Ellen: No.
Alice: Oh. Well, yeah, he’s a big part of Jensen’s season.
Bex: You’re, you’re not missing much.
Ellen: No, I gathered that
Alice: Hey! You’re missing my, my love, who I’ve forgotten the name of.
Bex: She can’t be that much of a love if you’ve forgotten her name.
Alice: I know, right?
Bex: You’ve got to admit though, that wasn’t her best work. And that’s
Alice: Jenny.
Bex: That’s not on her, on
Alice: Katheryn Winnick,
Bex: that’s on the Yes. Katheryn Winnick. That’s not on her, that’s on the, the show itself.
Alice: I still need to watch Vikings for her.
Bex: What do you mean You still need to watch Vikings? Have you not seen Vikings?
Alice: I’ve not watched Vikings.
Bex: I thought that’s why you were in love with her because
Alice: No, it was from Big Sky.
Bex: Oh, good Lord, woman. Yes. You need to watch Vikings.
Alice: I just paid for a month of, um, HBO Max as [02:06:00] well, because I had so much to watch on there that I was like, fuck it, I’m just gonna pay for it.
Bex: Oh, okay.
Alice: Because yeah, watch The Righteous Gemstones, but, um, I wanted to watch Danny McBride’s other stuff and I wanted to watch White Lotus and there was some other things as well, so I was like, fuck it, I’m just gonna pay for it. So I like called my friends
Bex: watch The Pitt.
Alice: Yes. The Pitt is also, I have The Pitt.
Bex: It’s amazing.
Alice: But I was trying to watch it with Mum because it’s apparently like the most accurate medical show on tv. Yes. Um, and so I was trying to watch it with Mum and when I showed her the first episode, she didn’t really pay attention.
So now that I have it on the app, I can just like go up to the house and force her to watch it. Um,
Bex: I saw, I saw a quick snippet of one of the actresses who said that, um, they did things so differently on The Pitt to the point where the medical consultant was the one directing the scenes.
Alice: Oh, wow.
Bex: And the director just stood in the background and would just occasionally go like,
Alice: that’s so cool.
Bex: Oh, we can’t actually see it on the camera. Can we like [02:07:00] switch? And so the medical consultant would be like, okay, everybody has to move. We have to rearrange everything so that you can get it on camera. But I am not changing what they are doing.
Alice: Yeah. See, I’ve seen, um, I’ve actually seen a lot of The Pitt through Dr. Mike, um, reviewing it. Yeah. Um, and it’s really funny because he’ll be like, oh, they really should be doing this instead. And they do that instead. Like, ’cause it was just like a, um, like an intern doing it and he’s just like, oh, okay, nevermind.
Bex: Yes, yes.
Alice: Um, but yeah, now that I finished House, I really wanna, um, really wanna watch The Pitt.
So yeah, The Pitt’s on my list. White Lotus is on my list. Um, I started watching Vice Principals today ’cause it’s only like 18 episodes or something. So it’s really short.
Ellen: I’m feeling like a real old lady at the moment. ’cause all I’m watching is Poldark and it’s on the fucking ABC.
Bex: What?
Alice: Hang on. What is it?
Bex: What is Poldark?
Ellen: It’s like
Bex: P-O-L-D-A-R-K I’m assuming
Ellen: It’s like, yeah, Aiden Turner from off of, um,
Bex: British Historical Drama. Yeah.
Ellen: [02:08:00] It’s like the 17 hundreds. It’s like it’s set in Cornwall
Bex: that’s very on brand for you.
Alice: I was gonna say, should we be expecting a, um, a fanfic?
Ellen: Oh, I, I write period fanfic all the time, so yeah,
Alice: that’s just like, are are we expecting, um, Poldark fanfic now or?
Ellen: Oh no, it’s, it’s very family drama, like feuds and like random, like heaps of scenes about mining. Like, ’cause it’s set in Cornwall, so it’s all beautiful beaches and ocean and like, you know, smugglers and copper mining and stuff.
Alice: I love that it finished, it finished six years ago and Ellen’s just like, sh
Ellen: no, I never, I never watched it. No, I never watched it before, but now I just realized that they’d put it on a, on iView so I was like, oh, I may as well just binge this. Ah,
Alice: yeah, I mean I can’t talk about until just finished House again. And that finished a long time ago as well. Um,
Ellen: but yeah, the, the, the, for the drama of it [02:09:00] is very annoying. It’s like what God, you guys like why it’s three seasons in and we are still having the same arguments, like why Very annoying, but I’m enjoying it. Having said that, I am enjoying it anyway. We should probably sign off the episode and then
I’ll just put all that at the end.
Alice: All this will just be bloopers and they’ll be like, oh, what, what are, what are they watching?
Bex: Oh, not 9-1-1,
Alice: not 9-1-1.
Ellen: That’s right.
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