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 7 of the fourth season of 9-1-1, titled “There Goes the Neighborhood”.
The 118 rush to save a man pinned under a Humvee, and a garage band that rocks out too hard. Michael turns amateur detective after noticing strange behavior at a nearby apartment. Buck’s re-entry into the dating pool ends in disaster.
Content warnings for episode 4.07:
bleeding from the eyes caused by drug use, specifically marijuana, mention of the foster care system, references and slight visuals of illegal surgery, minor gore
Mentioned in this episode:
- Misha Collins on Nip/Tuck (via YouTube)
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Episode Transcript
Maddie: [00:00:00] 9-1-1, what’s your emergency?
Ellen: Welcome back to That Wee Woo Show, a podcast where we watch and discuss episodes of the ABC show, 9-1-1. I’m Ellen.
Alice: I’m Alice,
Bex: and I’m Bex.
Ellen: Thank you to everyone who’s been listening to our episodes. We are halfway through, roughly season four. Um, Alice has got her voice back, so yay.
Bex: Yay!
Alice: Hooray!
Ellen: So we are back into it.
Alice: Can’t shut me up now.
Ellen: No. Uh, before we actually get stuck into episode seven, um, Alice, can you let us know what happened last week on 9-1-1?
Alice: Yeah. Last week on 9-1-1, Athena and the 118 survived a jinxed shift caused by the utterance of the Q word while Eddie turned to Bobby to [00:01:00] help himself move forward in his love life.
And this week we talk about none of that at all.
Bex: Absolutely none of it. Uh, this week, the 118 rush to save a man pinned under a Humvee and a garage band that rocks out too hard. Enlisting Bobby and Athena’s help Michael installs a new quote, rear window unquote, and turns into an amateur detective after noticing strange behavior at a nearby apartment.
Meanwhile, he’s mother unexpectedly arrives and announce that she’s moving to LA and Buck’s reentry into the dating pool ends in disaster. And the title of this week’s episode is, “There Goes The Neighborhood”, so keep a listen out for that one. I’m pretty sure there’s at least one drink worthy title drop.
Alice: Yeah, it’s in, like, it’s before the,
Bex: it’s before the commercial. Uh, the title?
Alice: Before the title card, yeah.
Bex: Yeah, before the title.
Alice: And so I was [00:02:00] like, as soon as they said it, I was like, gee, I wonder what, um, what this episode’s called.
Bex: Uh, very quickly triggers for this week’s. Um, we have Bleeding from the Eyes caused by drug use, specifically marijuana. Uh, there is a mention of the foster care system, uh, references and slight visuals of illegal surgery. Minor gore. Look, I’m not even gonna count that one as gore. It’s like a couple of bloodstains.
It. I don’t think it counts. Demian would not count it as gore, so I’m not going to, um, that’s it. It’s a pretty tame episode, I think.
Ellen: Yeah, it was, it’s an interesting episode because I, I realized after it was finished and I was kind of looking back at the summary of it, that most of the things in this episode start out being [00:03:00] quite funny and, you know, lighthearted and they’re making fun of stuff and then they turn into something really serious and not, not usually something sad or tragic, it’s just they, there’s often a lot more to them than they then anyone first thought.
So anyway, bit of a theme that runs through this episode. For me, at least the first time I was watching it, I was like, oh, this is funny. Oh my god. You know?
Bex: Okay.
Ellen: And that, that happened several times. But anyway, um, we are gonna start in suburban LA
Bex: Yes. Uh, we have a young man named Reed who is trying really hard to study and I don’t know whether he’s doing comparative religion or specifically Bible study.
Um, but he’s trying to do an online course. Um. It’s a Zoom class and the professor is talking specifically about Matthew 22:39, which says, [00:04:00] “thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”, except Reed’s having trouble concentrating because there is incredibly loud rock music coming from somewhere very close by.
Alice: I love the misdirect of this scene.
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: Because you absolutely think it’s going to be the next door neighbor. Like he is. Like he, he is clearly had this before. ’cause he just like sighs and he slams his laptop shut and he goes straight out the front door and goes directly to the source of the noise. But then instead of yelling at his neighbor, he’s yelling at his mom.
Ellen: His mom and her band are playing.
Bex: I’m gonna assume they’re all
Ellen: “Bad Reputation”.
Bex: They’re all mothers.
Ellen: Yeah. Oh yeah. I think that would make sense. That’s like, I mean, what else do you do during COVID?
Bex: The neighborhood, the neighborhood moms have got together and formed a rock band.
Alice: Well, they’re called, what are they called? Mother?
Bex: Mother plague.
Alice: Mother plague. Yeah. So yeah, during [00:05:00] COVID they’ve, like all the mothers have got together and formed a rock band.
Ellen: They’re not, they’re not playing inside the garage, like with it closed or anything. It’s like open to the world.
Alice: Yep.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: I mean they all look like rockstar moms anyway. They’ve got beautiful hair and like their makeup is on point and whatever. But you know, he rips the cord out of one of the speakers and all, all of the music grinds to a halt. Not just one of the instruments and his mom.
Alice: Basically it’s like the mom like yelling at the kid and doing it, this time it’s the kid. It, it cracked me up.
Ellen: Yeah. She’s like, “we were in a groove. What’s the matter with you?” And he’s just like, “I’m trying to concentrate. Shut up.”
Alice: I’m trying to work!
Bex: Then it gets worse.
Ellen: Yeah. He smells, he’s like sniffing and going, “what is, what’s that smell?” And they’re all looking at each other, just going, oh,
Bex: so not only are they rocking out, but they’re rocking out and getting [00:06:00] high.
Ellen: Yeah. Okay. Again, another plague pastime, I’m sure. And he’s just like, “Are you guys high right now?” And they’re all like, “No, of course not.”
Bex: I do love that. One of the guitarists, um, has got the joint in a little like cigarette holder tucked into the neck of the guitar. Yeah. Like where you would normally stick your pick. She’s, that’s where she’s got the joint.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: So yes, Reed tells them to keep it down, goes back into the house and of course they don’t keep it down. They kick back up into high gear. We hear them sort of, uh, screaming, uh, rockstar style, which then turns into screams of absolute terror. And so read races back out to discover that Mother Plague are living up to their names because they are now all staggering around the garage, bleeding from the eyes and nose.
Ellen: Oh, it’s so awful. [00:07:00] It just looks so gross. I mean, it doesn’t really seem to worry them that much, like apart from the screaming beforehand, but they’re all just sort of sitting around laughing about it.
Bex: Well, because they’re still fucking high.
Ellen: And then, the 118 roll up.
Bex: No, but it’s even better because the 118 rollup in full hazmat gear and Reed looks up and sees this group of people walking towards him in full hazmat gear with his mother sort of lying in his lap, bleeding from her eyes and nose, and he faints out of sheer panic
Ellen: and they’re all like, you know, flirting with them and carrying on.
Bex: Oh yeah. One of the, uh, one of them has taken a, a shine to Eddie. Um
Alice: Oh yeah. Obsessed with Eddie,
Bex: Even though they couldn’t see him. Yeah,
Ellen: He’s covered. His face is completely, [00:08:00] almost, completely covered with a mask and everything. Breathing apparatus and everything.
Bex: Yeah. The 118, they’re trying to do their job. They’re trying to work out what everyone has, like what is going on. Like, um, “Have you been exposed to anything that could cause this, um, bleeding?” And one of them just looks up at Eddie and goes, “Well, I see something I’d like to get exposed to.”
Ellen: Oh my God.
Bex: The kid is like, “What are you talking about? He’s wearing a spacesuit.”
Yeah. Which then leads, he, then him realize what is going on. He’s like, “oh my God, they are still high.”
Alice: And then his mom calls him a narc,
Bex: oh, long story short, apparently it was the weed, um, because it is synthetic and it’s laced with rat poison, which
Alice: lovely.
Ellen: Oh,
Bex: it, um, it prolongs the high, but it, uh, you know, does
Ellen: it makes you bleed from [00:09:00] your eyes. What the fuck?
Alice: Yeah. It stops people clotting. Um, so that’s, and obviously rats clotting Yes. And any other mammal that eats it.
Um, but yeah, so Bobby’s like, okay guys, like are you the only ones using it? We need to know if you gave some to anyone else. And the guitarist is like, “Oh yeah, like I gave some to Kate down the block for anxiety and Mr. Carpenter for his bad back on the nice lady on the corner for her arthritis.” So the whole neighborhood has been given this synthetic weed.
Bex: So Eddie and Buck are sent off to start door knocking to make sure that nobody else is, um, experiencing any symptoms at the moment. Um, Eddie goes to comply with Bobby’s orders and he has to walk past the guitarist who’s taken a liking to him, and she just slaps him on the ass as he walks past.
Alice: I know, poor Eddie,
Ellen: it’s ’cause [00:10:00] ca casual sexism is fine if you’re really high. Yeah,
Bex: yeah, yeah. Sexual assault is funny when, uh, you can’t actually, when you can’t actually see what you’re assaulting. Um,
Ellen: apparently so. Anyway, um, they, and then so Buck is the one that utters the words “There goes the neighborhood.” yes. Because apparently everyone in the neighborhood is about to be bleeding from their eyes. Yay,
Bex: and we go to the title card. It’s a very, um, a very interesting case to start the episode with,
Ellen: but I think also
Alice: chaotic,
Ellen: completely encapsulated, like nothing is has any bearing on the rest of the episode.
Bex: No, no, except that it’s about a neighborhood. So it’s one of these themed episodes where all the storylines have to do with neighborhoods and neighbors.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. All right. So now Buck is on a [00:11:00] date, the date, aforementioned date that was in the, uh, the, um, summary. And he’s not, well, he, I, I think he’s probably enjoying it, but the lady that he’s on date with is not enjoying it apparently.
Alice: Yeah. So Buck’s trying to do the thing where you’re like, talk about interesting things on the job. ’cause like obviously he’s a firefighter, his job is quite interesting. Um,
Bex: but why that story?
Alice: The story that he decided to tell is the one where the woman got stuck out the window trying to throw out her own poop.
Ellen: Oh.
Alice: So he’s like, yeah, we had to take the window apart. It was pretty awesome.
Ellen: Oh, I missed the one that he was talking about, but why would he choose this one to talk, I guess about,
Alice: I mean, he’s adhd. So he was like, date
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Woman on a date. Like, yeah,
Bex: like it makes sense in it from like, if you sort of tilt your head and squint and, but it’s not 100%, it is not first date story
Ellen: or dinner time even.
Bex: Definitely [00:12:00] also not dinner material. Um, unfortunately his date does not see the funny side of this story.
Alice: No, she’s very unimpressed.
Bex: She thinks that it’s, it’s not awesome. She’s sort of questioning what’s so awesome about a woman getting stuck in a window, trying to throw her own poop out because she was too terrified of what a guy would think.
Buck does not see the red flags waving at all. He is like, “yeah, it’s crazy. Right?” Um, so Veronica is very, very jaded about dating. Um,
Ellen: Sounds like it, yeah.
Bex: She seems to have come into this with a massive chip on her shoulder, and is just almost the way it’s written, she’s almost determined to see the bad in every single thing Buck says.
Ellen: Yeah. I dunno if she has just got really high expectations or just like she was so unimpressed by the poo story that she just [00:13:00] is now horrified by everything that comes out of his mouth. But yeah, “it’s reflective of where dating and hookup culture have devolved to,” and Buck’s just like, “Um, okay.”
Bex: Apparently Veronica is new to LA. She’s moved, I’m, I’m pegging that she’s moved from somewhere on the East coast. I’m guessing she’s meant to be sort of a bitter, jaded New York woman. Not to, um, disparage anybody who is from New York, but that’s just kind of the,
Alice: I was gonna say not to, um, not to quote, was it Tommy who was saying that Apparent?
Bex: Yeah. Yes. No, not at all. It’s just the, that’s the vibe that I’m getting that she’s not laid back and easy going and fine going with the flow. She’s very anti flow, which is unfortunate because Buck is very go with the flow even when he’s not, even when he’s not doing his [00:14:00] Malibu Ken impersonation. Um, so Buck welcomes her to dating in LA, raising a glass in her honor, and Veronica stares him down and says, “I’m not sure that I wanna toast to a woman’s total humiliation.”
Ellen: Yeah. And Buck’s like, “that’s not what I was toasting.” He was toasting her move at an inopportune time. But you know, “apparently they kept on dating at, if it’s any consolation,” and she’s like, “It’s not.” and he’s like, oh, okay.
Bex: See the thing that I wanna know, like I know that it’s, this whole thing is written specifically for this interaction, but just imagining you see my imagination, what is Buck like on the apps over text?
Yeah, this woman went, oh, I’ll go out with him. And then she gets like this golden retriever, ADHD, um,
Ellen: well she probably just looked at the [00:15:00] pictures.
Alice: Um, buck is a hundred percent like the guy that matches with someone and goes, Hey, do you want go get coffee? Like immediately. Like he doesn’t talk on the apps, what are talking about.
Bex: Oh, so you don’t think that there was any talking on the apps?
Alice: No.
Bex: Interesting.
Alice: He doesn’t have time. He works 24 hour shifts.
Bex: I was just wondering because I know Buck 1.0 would like immediately have asked her to hook up.
Alice: Oh no, no. He’s evolved. He doesn’t wanna hook up. He just wants to take them out straight away.
Bex: So like, so has Buck 3.0 learned how to talk to women on the apps or is he still like,
Alice: clearly not because otherwise Veronica would’ve worked it out beforehand.
Ellen: Yes. All right. So we get away from the awkwardness. Uh,
Bex: yeah, we are, we are going to leave the, uh, the date from hell and we’re going to head over to the Wilson household.
Uh, Denny has the iPad, he’s [00:16:00] got headphones on, which I, I need to know whatever headphones he’s got because they are doing an amazing job at canceling out Nia just standing in front of him, reciting “Peppa, Peppa, Peppa, Peppa, Peppa.” To the point that she has to throw a pillow at him to get his attention.
Either that or he’s just so locked in on the game that he is able to ignore his foster sister.
Ellen: Yeah, that’s, that’s likely. My, my, my kids do that to each other too.
Alice: Yeah, so Nia wants to watch Peppa Pig on the iPad, but Denny is playing his game, but Denny’s 20 minutes are up and Karen told him that 10 minutes ago,
Ellen: oh, I feel this really hard.
Bex: Yes,
Ellen: this is very real.
Bex: So I did find it funny that, like, that these two kids are fighting under the iPad and then Hen walks in and she’s very, they had to express that Hen is not in the room because she is studying somewhere because she’s, you know, [00:17:00] a med student now. So she needs to study. So she walks in clutching this big ass textbook to her chest that has like anatomical pictures on the front so that you could see, oh, she was studying, she got interrupted from her studying. Without them having to say a word,
Ellen: but she brought the book with her.
Bex: She brought the book with her. That’s how seriously she got interrupted.
Alice: But not only that, while she was studying, she was listening to Beyonce because she is like, “Why can I hear you over Queen Bay at max volume?”
Bex: I mean, whatever works, I guess. Yeah. Um, Karen looks at her and says, “I think it’s time to expand our family.” and I’m going, ma’am, you can’t handle these two. You really wanna add one?
Alice: Even Hen is like, what?
Bex: Yeah, but no, she wasn’t talking children. She was talking iPads.
Alice: Yeah. They’re about to become a two iPad household.
Ellen: Ah, it’s a slippery slope.
Bex: So he Hen to her credit is like, “Yeah, I can [00:18:00] take a quick break.” Like, she’s clearly like, oh, world War three’s going to like kick off here. Let’s, um, get into that.
Ellen: And then who’s for, who’s ready for PJ’s in a bedtime story? And Denny’s like, “Can we read it on the iPad?” It’s a nice one, kid. Um, nice try. Um, but then there’s a knock on the door, and I don’t know what time it is, but like, if the kids are getting ready for bed, then it must be, you know, reasonably late for people to be knocking on the door.
Bex: Well, well, like the Nia is still up, so
Alice: Yeah. So it’s, it can’t be like nine o’clock.
Bex: It can’t be that late. But then Buck and Veronica, like how early did they go out for like the senior citizen special? How old did, did they go out?
Alice: I’m assuming it’s like 7:00 PM. It was my as assumption.
Bex: Okay. That still seems a little early, but Okay.
Ellen: How, how late do people eat out in LA? I don’t know.
Bex: I dunno.
Ellen: Because I mean, in Australia we tend to eat dinner fairly early in, in world standard, you know, dinner time.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Like in Europe, we don’t go out [00:19:00] before like 9:00 PM right.
Alice: Yeah. It’s crazy when people in like on TV shows are like, oh yeah, we made an appointment for eight.
And I’m like, that’s bedtime.
Bex: I don’t, I don’t leave the house after eight.
Alice: No. Like, what do you mean you made an appointment for that? That’s like time for dessert and bed. Like what?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: So we’ll say early evening, so. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But still you don’t usually
Alice: it’s still like it’s post dinner, so it’s not like appropriate door knocking time.
Bex: Exactly.
Alice: Surprise door knocking time anyway.
Bex: Especially unsolicited door knocking time. Um, and when Hen goes to open the door, it’s her mother.
Alice: Lucky Hen.
Bex: Yay.
Ellen: And your mom goes, “Here’s mommy.”
Bex: I dunno if that was meant to be like, “Here’s Johnny,” but
Alice: it absolutely was supposed to be, here’s Johnny. Yeah.
Ellen: It was a weird introduction, but I, I absolutely love her. She’s amazing. I like, as a character, [00:20:00] she’s great. Like,
Alice: yeah, she,
Ellen: the casting was spot on. She actually really looks like Hen’s mom.
Bex: Yeah. Like she plays off Hen so well as well. Yeah. To the point, the first time I saw this episode, I actually had to look up the actress to see if it was anyone physically related to Aisha. She’s not.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: But like their acting together is so natural.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Like they seem like they could be mother and daughter. It’s, it’s great. I love it. Yeah. Yeah. So like, instead of being pleased to see her mom, Hen’s just like, “why are you here? Like, what are you doing here?”
Ellen: She’s horrified.
Alice: Don’t act so happy to see me. Yeah.
Bex: And before she can kind of kick her mother out, which I think would be the next step, the kids see her and Denny comes running for a hug. Um, Nia very cutely sort of follows Denny and is sort of questions, “What’s a Grammy?” Because that’s what Denny calls Toni. She calls her Grammy and uh, Toni, Hen’s mother goes, “I’m a Grammy. [00:21:00] Now come give me a hug.”
Nia, very rightly Scuttles behind Karen’s legs.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Like there’s this strange woman demanding that I give her a hug. No, um, Denny’s,
Alice: but Denny is immediately like “A Grammy’s a grandma. Grammy’s your grandma now too.” And she’s like, “okay.” Just runs straight to her.
Ellen: Oh, it’s so cute.
Bex: This little actress is adorable.
Alice: She’s so cute. Yes. But yeah, so Toni has driven there from Vegas. Uh, she got there in under four hours. Um, Hen’s like, “You didn’t wanna stop and call? We’re in the middle of a pandemic.”
Bex: She says, “you can’t just show up at people’s houses.” And Toni’s like, “you’re not people, you’re my family.” Like, you still can’t just show up at family’s houses.
Alice: No.
Ellen: Yeah, this feels real too. ’cause we kind of had this during the pandemic as well. Anyway. Yes.
Alice: Oh no. But yeah, Toni says that she, she does not have [00:22:00] cooties. Karen’s, Karen’s like trying to keep the peace and she’s like, “Oh, it’s great to see you. Like, do you have any luggage?” Um, Toni explains that she’s staying at a cute little Airbnb right here in the neighborhood, half a drink?
Bex: Until she can find something of our own, because she’s moving back to LA
Alice: permanently
Bex: and Hen is just like, what the actual fuck?
Alice: Yeah,
Ellen: She’s quite surprised.
Alice: Uh, so yeah, you can tell that Hen and her mother don’t have a super close relationship judging by that interaction.
Bex: Yeah. Speaking of awkward interactions, let’s go back and see how Buck’s doing. Spoiler alert, it’s not going well.
Alice: Yeah, we’re still at the date. They haven’t, um, haven’t packed it in yet.
Bex: We’re up to dessert at least.
Ellen: Buck hasn’t sent out the emergency text to, um, to Eddie at like, “give me an out here buddy!”
Alice: Saying Chris fell over. Yeah.[00:23:00]
Bex: Veronica
Alice: is ordering the chocolate cheesecake and Buck immediately says, “Oh, that sounds good. Can we share?” Veronica’s like, “Uh, that’s a little presumptive, like maybe I don’t wanna share with you.” He’s like, “Oh, okay, fine. I’ll get my own slice of cheesecake. Uh, looks so, looks like we have some extra cardio in our future, huh?”
Ellen: Ugh.
Alice: Yeah, because ’cause of the cake, you know, all that sugar and she’s just like, “did you just body shame me?”
Bex: Okay, but here’s the thing. 100%. If my date had said that to me, I would,
Alice: oh yeah. I would’ve been pissed
Bex: the same way. But knowing Buck, yeah, his body’s shaming himself.
Alice: Literally. Like, he’s very much like he works out all the time and that’s just what he does.
Bex: I, because we’re like, you remember Buck 1.0 was very into like his body fat percentage and counting his cut macros and um, yeah.
Ellen: And there’s no way that Buck would say that in relation [00:24:00] to someone else, to their face.
Bex: So I don’t know if, if that kind of, um, obsession over his looks and his food has survived all of the stuff, software updates.
But yeah, he’s very much, it’s like I’m gonna have to do some extra cardio to burn this off. ’cause I still have a fucked up relationship with food, but poor Veronica has no idea about any of this, so she just assumes that his body’s shaming her and he just sort of looks at her and is like, I just, I can’t say anything right. And just hangs his head in shame.
Alice: Yeah. Buck is very foot in mouth. Like he needs to just shut up.
Bex: I’m surprised he can eat the chocolate cheesecake with all the feet that are probably in his mouth. Well, he, with everything he over dinner
Alice: Well he doesn’t
Ellen: He takes it home.
Alice: He doesn’t, doesn’t because yeah, we immediately cut to, um, Buck’s bachelor loft where Albert’s watching TV on the couch and he Buck has brought the cake home and he still doesn’t even eat it at home. He gives it to Albert.
Ellen: Oh, poor Buck. He’s [00:25:00] burned by this cake.
Alice: He’s like, I’m too sad for the gym. Albert eat my cake.
Bex: And then, and then it gets even better because once he gets home he takes a whiff and the garbage smells.
Um, apparently it’s his turn to take it out. So he very dutifully bags up the garbage, goes out into the hole, I’m assuming to like a trash room.
Alice: Yeah. There’d be like a trash chute thing. Usually.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: I, I’ve never lived in an apartment building. I have no idea.
Alice: My brother did
Bex: I’m just going off what I’ve seen in movies, so I’m assuming there’s a room or a chute. Um, yep. And just as he turns the corner to head down a hallway, who, who else should walk out of their apartment with the same idea? I don’t know if their trash stinks as well, but they’ve decided to take it out. But his new neighbor, Veronica, and they just kind of,
Alice: I love the [00:26:00] awkward wave.
Bex: They, they don’t say anything. They just kind of awkwardly wave at each other. And then Buck immediately reverses course. Like literally walks backwards.
Ellen: Yeah. He walks backwards around the corner. He’s like, oh shit.
Bex: Um, he gets back to the apartment where Albert Albert is now getting a glass of milk to go with his cheesecake, which just,
Alice: yeah, sure.
Bex: Does not sound right to me. ’cause that seems like way too much dairy.
Alice: It’s like milk and cookies, but Yep.
Bex: No, but cookies is carbs. I can understand that. If it was just plain chocolate cake, 100% milk would go great with it. But you’ve already got the, like the dairy and the cheese for the cheesecake. Um,
Ellen: yeah,
Alice: but anyway, he
Ellen: coffee, maybe. Coffee would be better.
Bex: Oh yes. A nice black coffee. Anyway. Um, oh, I want coffee. No, I can keep going. Um, he looks up at Buck who has appeared in the doorway still [00:27:00] clutching the bag. And it’s like, what’s wrong? And Buck just says, we have to move.
Alice: Uh, we did forget to mention that like Albert asked, um, to name one good thing and one bad thing he learned from the experience and he said, “Bad thing, everything. Good thing. Never have to see Veronica ever again.”
And then of course,
Bex: yes. Which makes…
Ellen: He walked around the corner and saw her
Bex: he’s made meeting Veronica out in the hallway just that, you know, the cherry on the cake. Cherry on the cheesecake.
Ellen: Oh, dear.
Alice: Um, but now we’re going to Michael’s apartment, uh, and we’re gonna see
Ellen: Yeah. We haven’t seen Michael for a few weeks.
Bex: He’s been busy
Ellen: I don’t know if it’s because we had that big break or
Alice: Yeah, he he’s been very busy. Um, he put in new windows,
Bex: lots of windows
Ellen: apparently. I’m trying to work out, I’m trying to remember what it looked like before, like the, the skylight windows were there. Right?
Bex: I just, it did not care enough to go back and look.
Alice: Yeah, I don’t,
Bex: I mean, I probably could, but I didn’t,
Ellen: I don’t think the, the floor lengths windows were there at all. It was just the, [00:28:00] the ones kind of on the roof that were there. I think its been while,
Alice: but they’re now very, very pretty floor to ceiling windows. Yes. And the ceiling.
Bex: Can you, you imagine how hot that would be?
Ellen: Yeah, I was gonna say, it looks like it would be really hot and really cold in,
Alice: I mean, they might be double glazed. He is an architect, so like, they’re probably double glazed and they’re probably very nice.
Ellen: Yeah. I mean, in LA it might not be so cold, but Yes. Hot.
Bex: They’re hot.
Ellen: Yeah, for sure.
Alice: Nah, double glazed. That’ll be fine. Also, it’s, it’s a, um, studio, so Sure. It’ll be fine.
Ellen: And his desk is like right in the window, in the sun.
Alice: It is, yeah.
Ellen: Anyway, decisions aside.
Alice: So apparently Michael wasn’t on the best terms with the homeowner’s association, so Athena’s very surprised that he managed to replace his entire back wall with windows. Um, and Harry helpfully pipes up that, [00:29:00] that Michael is the homeowner’s association president now. Um, so he just like muscled his way in to get floor to ceiling windows
Bex: as you do.
Ellen: Why not?
Bex: His logic is that he has a little bit more time on his hands now, so he may as well take a more active role. The fact that he could like rubber stamp his own renovations is just, you know, incidental. Um,
Alice: sure.
Bex: But in admiring the windows, Athena notices a large telescope next to Michael’s desk, and when she asks what that is, Harry helpfully informs us that that is, uh, Michael’s other new hobby, which is spying on the neighbors.
Ellen: It’s, it’s a very shiny new telescope.
Bex: It is very shiny.
Alice: Michael’s shoos Harry away. It’s like, get out, stop dobbing on me.
Bex: Yeah, they’re having their own little, um, back and forth while Athena sort of peers through the telescope to see what Michael’s looking at. And what Michael appears to be looking at are the neighbors in the other apartment block [00:30:00] across the way.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Which he is not at all ashamed about. Like when he notices that Athena is interested, he immediately hurries over and starts like focusing and moving the telescope so that she can see exactly what he’s looking at and points out his favorite. He’s introducing his favorite neighbors,
Alice: he’s introducing her to the neighbors that he’s never met
Ellen: and he’s named them.
Alice: So yeah, there’s, there’s one man who, um, does a lot of walking on the treadmill. He’s Miles because he’s always running.
Ellen: Yeah. Athena’s kind of horrified. She’s like, “you know his name?” And he’s like, “no, no. That’s what I just what I call him.” Yeah. So this is the situation where it starts off being quite lighthearted and I think that like Athena and Bobby are getting interested in this because they’re worried about Michael doing this, and, you know, they think he’s a bit lonely or whatever, so they’re gonna try and help him to stop doing it.
But no, they just, they are all in.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: All like, they’re, they’re really interested in it.
Alice: So yeah, there’s, there’s [00:31:00] Miles, there’s Jackie who likes to paint in the mornings and Athena’s like, “Oh, is she any good?” And while she’s watching Jackie rips up the paper that she’s painting on and tears it up, she’s like, “Oh, I guess not.”
Yeah. Um, but then there’s the mystery man, Slim because he’s kind of shady
Bex: because he is kind of shady. Um, I wonder how many people that reference this has gone straight over their head.
Alice: All the young ones in the audience.
Ellen: Yeah. Only very young. Maybe the very old.
Alice: But the reason he’s so shady is because he has a lot of trash Athena’s, like, uh, okay. And Michael’s like, “No, like, it’s a lot of trash.” so Athena’s a little concerned and is like, you’re watching a lot, but Harry’s got the hang of homeschooling and doesn’t need Michael. Um, David’s back to doing his surgeries and Michael’s work’s kind of at a standstill.
There’s not really calls for shopping mall, not office buildings right now. And there might never be [00:32:00] again.
Ellen: Oh, that’s, that’s, I mean, I guess we all, that all went through our minds during that time, but um,
Alice: yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. Athena’s worried about him.
Alice: Speaking of, in my state, the government are passing a law to make, um, it like the law that if you wanna do two days from at least two days from home, you can do, like, you have to be able to do at least two days from home if you can like reasonably do your job from home.
Ellen: Oh, okay. So they can’t force people to work full-time in the office.
Alice: Yeah. They can’t force people to go in the office five days. Only three days.
Ellen: Wow. Interesting. I didn’t know they were doing that.
Alice: It only just came out today. But yeah, like, um, gonna be um, interesting trying to do retail from home. I don’t think that’s part of the reasonable,
Ellen: unfortunately I don’t think that works very well. No, sorry.
Alice: Um, like I’m gonna train dogs on Zoom. Um, anyway, yes. So, yeah. Um, [00:33:00] Michael’s not only worried about his work, but he’s also sad because he made a list. So when he found out about his brain tumor last year, people told him he should have a bucket list and it ended up being a pretty short list.
But when he got news that the tumor was shrinking, he created a new list of things that he wanted to do, like places he wanted to see and then the world locked down. So instead he just sits there and looks at the world from a distance.
Ellen: And Athena is like, “But you got better. You, you’re still better, right?”
Because she’s obviously very pretty worried about him. But yeah, we don’t find out too much more about that yet because there is a 9-1-1 call and Maddie is back at work. Dunno where she was last time, but she’s back. Um,
Bex: she’s not in this episode much
Ellen: No, it is just this call, right? Oh no, she’s in a little bit later talking.
Alice: Yeah, she’s in a little bit later. But
Ellen: yeah. Hardly any
Alice: [00:34:00] May’s also not at the dispatch, which we forgot about last week. Um, ’cause it had been so long since we saw May at dispatch.
Bex: Yeah. But there’s no way Josh would like No.
Alice: No, just funny that we were the,
Bex: There’s no way that Buck and Chim would be texting May. Like that’s,
Alice: We were like, why is Maddie not at work? And May also wasn’t at work.
Bex: Yes. Anyway, Maddie’s back at work and, uh, somebody is under attack. The attacker came out of nowhere, jumped right at them. He’s slashing, he slashed this, uh, caller’s face, no caller’s, wife’s face. Um, and apparently they are still under attack.
Alice: Yeah. Just got Mrs Wild across the street,
Ellen: he’s attacking the whole neighborhood. So yeah, when they get there, uh, the 118 obviously, um, who else would get there? I like, who would, whatever is this show, um, they
Alice: Hen needs that overtime pay. Chim’s, Chim’s about to go on paternity leave.
Ellen: Um, they, there’s a bunch of people with just like scratches all [00:35:00] over their face and stuff and, and arms and, uh, the, the guy who I guess is the one who called, was like, “You have to find Sonny! If he attacks one of the children…” and so we don’t ever see Sonny yet. It’s just all the people that Sonny has attacked apparently at to start with.
Um, “he just moved into the neighborhood a few weeks ago. We felt sorry for him, but I never dreamed he would turn on us this way.” And so then Hen is now unloading her troubles onto Chim.
Bex: We get a one of those cool conversations where it cuts back and forth between like three different conversations, but they all connect in a way that makes sense.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: So we start with Hen and Chim where she’s bitching to Chim about, um, her mother moving back in.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: She’s like, she said, came in and she said like, “Hey, neighbor.” And Chim’s like, “that’s all she said?” [00:36:00] That’s it. Chim questions whether Toni is moving in with Hen and Karen and Hen is like, “God no.” Um, Karen, apparently Karen tried, but Hen made it very clear that they need to keep some boundaries to which Buck says, “I don’t think that’s too much to ask for.”
And we cut to him and Eddie, who are down patrolling the street. Um, and Eddie’s playing devil’s advocate because Buck is talking about Veronica.
Alice: I love the fact that the, the app probably said that like, she was really close and he was just like, oh yeah, whatever.
Bex: Super close. Um,
Alice: like zero miles. And he’s like, oh, cool. Probably in the building next door. Oh honey.
Bex: Oh dear. Um, so Eddie tries to tell Buck that it’s not like Veronica knew that she lived next door to you. Um. And Buck’s like, “but we don’t know that she didn’t, maybe her phone was even more [00:37:00] sensitive.” Um, and he pulls the therapy card. He says, “my therapist says I need a safe space. My apartment was that safe space.” Apparently Hen’s house is also her safe space. Um, which is why she,
Ellen: this has to have been the first call of the day. Right? Because they, they’re just catching up on all of the, the drama that’s gone before
Bex: Probably. It makes sense of It is. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so Hen takes over and what I love about this particular segment, this particular part of the conversation, is that she’s still bitching to Chim, but Bobby has come over so that he can catch up on the tea.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Ostensibly he’s meant to be supervising, but he’s very invested in what Hen is saying. Um, because she’s telling Chim that her mother is like a bulldozer. She just barges in and crushes everyone in her path. And Bobby says that he thought that she, and um, Toni got on great. They’re like, you talk all the time.
And Hen’s like, “Yeah. [00:38:00] On the phone when she was four hours away.”
Alice: Um, Bobby of course is just like, “You know, the world’s changed. People’s priorities have changed. Maybe she just wants to be closer to her family.” Chim’s like, yeah, having her around could be a huge help with Denny and Nia. And Hen’s response is that her mother has never been what you might call a helper, more like an agent of chaos.
Speaking of agents of chaos,
Bex: so who’s the agent of chaos? Is Veronica the agent of chaos in this instance, or is Albert the agent of chaos?
Alice: Oh, this case Albert is a hundred percent the, the agent of chaos, we just don’t know it yet.
Bex: Albert is being used as cannon fodder,
Alice: like Albert had to distract Veronica for 20 minutes. Well, I’m sure he was more than happy to distract her for 20 minutes while Buck got his mail,
Ellen: it sounds like it.
Alice: Also how long does it take him to get his mail?
Bex: I don’t know.
Ellen: 20 minutes apparently.
Alice: But, um,
Ellen: did he take the stairs?
Alice: [00:39:00] But then Oh my god, yeah, he needs to do more cardio clearly, if it’s taking 20 minutes to get up and down the stairs.
Um, but yeah, then Hen says something that’s very relatable to me. Um, she says that she’s never been the daughter that her mom wanted and that her mom still buys her dresses for Christmas. And she goes, “Have either of you ever seen me in a dress?” And Bobby and Chim just like, look at each other, like, uh… meanwhile, the patient,
Bex: you could see Bobby thinking about it for a second, like he’s flicking through all of his memories of Hen going, have I ever seen her in a dress?
Um, and then obviously thinks better of answering, um, our poor patient Yeah. Has not really experienced, uh, Henrietta’s temper though. Um, and he pipes up and says that he thinks that she would look lovely in a dress
Alice: like screw that guy. But also Hen that’s what happens when you talk about your personal shit in front of patients.
Ellen: Yes. Yeah. [00:40:00]
Alice: Um, but yes, as someone else who does not wear dresses and whose mom keeps trying to buy them dresses, I feel for Hen a lot,
Bex: Don’t buy people clothes.
Alice: No. Please don’t buy me clothes. Don’t buy me clothes that I’m never ever going to wear. But yeah, back to the agents of chaos. Uh, Buck does not wanna live like this, always looking over his shoulder and at which point we hear bushes rustling and they look over their shoulder,
Ellen: Eddie’s like, “I think he’s behind us.”
Bex: Sonny has emerged.
Alice: Yeah. In unison. They very slowly turn around and we get,
Ellen: and the attacker is there. It’s a, it’s a turkey. It is very large turkey.
And Eddie’s like, “Hey Sonny.” And then this like slow motion kind of. Spaghetti Western music starts playing [00:41:00] and they have a standoff. Ah, it’s so silly.
Alice: Oh, it’s great.
Bex: And they continuing in slow motion while the spaghetti Western standoff music is playing. They sort of reach into the duffle bags that they’ve been carrying to pull their weapons.
Except, um, while Eddie has this massive net gun, Buck has reached for the tactical blueberries,
Alice: literally it’s just a punnet of blueberries and he’s like holding it up like it a gun like a punnet of blueberries.
Bex: He’s, he’s brandishing the punnet of blueberries and he’s, he’s throwing the blueberries at Sonny. I don’t know if he’s trying to use them as a weapon against Sonny.
Um, or trying to lure the turkey toward him.
Ellen: Yeah, I guess
Alice: think he’s Yeah. Trying to the turkey towards them. Yeah.
Bex: But the way he’s tossing them,
Alice: it’s so funny.
Ellen: Why, why is, has Eddie got a net?
Bex: Why wasn’t,
Ellen: why is he doing this?
Bex: Animal control called?
Alice: [00:42:00] Yeah. Why was animal control not doing this?
Ellen: This is not their job
Bex: I mean it’s one hundred percent for the drama and for this amazing scene of the two of them with a standoff.
Ellen: I mean, it’s hilarious,
Alice: but it’s, yeah. I’m not mad, but oh my god,
Bex: animal animal control should be doing this.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s just so silly. I love it.
Bex: And the irony is that I’m watching this scene going, why the hell is an animal control doing this? Um. Then immediately we cut to Sonny in the back of the animal control collection van.
Yeah.
Ellen: So they are there,
Alice: but they just didn’t catch him.
Ellen: They needed the chaos twins to do it.
Bex: Also, those net guns are a hundred percent real things.
Ellen: Yeah. Oh yeah.
Bex: I’d never seen them before.
Ellen: Alright. So he’s, they, before we end this scene, the man who called 9-1-1 was like, “oh, it seems so harmless. We were, we were feeding him. He was like the neighborhood pet.”
Alice: And [00:43:00] Chim, like for some reason, said she doesn’t, he doesn’t even know where his neighbors, it’s like, the turkey wasn’t his neighbor. It’s okay.
Bex: It’s, it is the most awkward attempt to try and shoehorn a storyline in
Ellen: it’s, it is a weird one. Yeah. But no, he works out that soon he will know his, his neighbors because they’re gonna have a new baby and it’s gonna make, you know, thin walls, you know, and then the man says, “never let them get too close.”
And I’m like, and Hen and buck both say “Exactly.” And I’m like, what is going on here? Like, this doesn’t make any sense at all. None of this dialogue makes any sense.
Bex: No, none of this dialogue in this scene makes any sense at all.
Ellen: It’s like, it’s like every, every person there is having their own conversation and they’re not actually communicating with each other at all.
Bex: Yeah. Well, I mean, it’s, it’s like we’re, everyone’s having a conversation about neighbors, so they’re trying to be clever and have everyone’s [00:44:00] conversations all be about different things, but they’re all united.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s like relating to themselves.
Bex: Except it doesn’t really work, I don’t
Ellen: think. No, exactly.
Bex: Let’s get to the, the fun. Like my favorite storyline in this is Michael’s storyline. I could care less about. I could care less. No, I couldn’t.
Ellen: Couldn’t. No, you couldn’t.
Bex: I couldn’t.
Alice: You couldn’t care less.
Bex: I’m thinking about how much less I could care. Yeah.
Ellen: And you couldn’t?
Bex: I couldn’t care less about, no.
Ellen: Okay. Good.
Bex: About any of the other storylines. I just, I enjoy Michael’s storyline in this one. Same. Um, ’cause he is still sitting at his telescope watching Slim packing up his,
Ellen: he’s sitting down in a chair now. He’s getting serious,
Bex: well, I guess know standing would be take a while. It’d be hurt after a while.
So he is sitting down, he is gotten comfortable.
Ellen: Um mm-hmm.
Bex: Slim is taking out more trash. Um, and Michael’s phone rings and it’s his daughter. [00:45:00] She’s just checking in like, “What are you up to?” And Michael’s like, “oh, I’m, you know, just doing stuff around the house.”
And May’s like, “oh, doing stuff around the house. Like what?” Like, I’m suddenly really curious about everything you’re doing. Um, he, he frantically looks around the house and he sees some like clothes. Like, “oh, I’m doing laundry, I’m doing laundry, then I’m gonna make dinner.” May’s like, oh, great, you’re making dinner. Maybe I can come over and have dinner with you and Michael.
Alice: Yeah, Michael smells a rat. He’s like, “since when are you so interested in my life? Um, did your mother put put you up to this?”
Bex: May’s like, “no. Like, no. You know, I, I had a free night and I thought it’d be nice to spend it with my father.” Um, Michael gets distracted because he’s noticed through the telescope that Slim is all of a sudden washing what appears to be blood off his hands.
So he hangs up on May [00:46:00] and May is like, “uh, I think he’s onto us.” The camera pulls back because this whole point, it’s been tight on May’s face in their back and forth with the conversation with Michael. And we see that not only is she like in the living room at the Bathena residence, but her mother has been sitting right there listening to this the whole time coaching May through this conversation
Alice: right next to the, um, the fire that they built,
Bex: the fireplace that Michael had to rebuild. Yeah. See that I care enough about to go back and double check previous episodes. I don’t care about Michael’s apartment. Okay. But apparently, yes, Athena did put May up to it, um, but it didn’t work. So now it’s time to move on to plan B.
Alice: What’s Plan B?
Bex: Not a what, a who
Ellen: she’s sending in the cavalry,
Bex: which would then, would then make sense if we then cut to whoever plan B is. But it’s not. Instead we have to go to another stupid 9-1-1 call. [00:47:00] Yeah.
Alice: Bex is like, no, I’m just invested in what the fuck Slim Shady is doing.
Bex: Yes. That is the most interesting storyline in this episode. Just get me back to that one. But no, we have to deal with this one.
Ellen: I don’t know. I, I love these weird calls in this episode. Like they just, none of them relate to each other at all, but they’re so funny.
Alice: I mean, they have a, they’re in a neighborhood that’s about, yep.
Bex: So we’re back in suburbia where we have Joe and Don who are neighbors and Joe. Is building a massive fucking boat shaped playset in his front yard.
Ellen: Yeah. It’s a, it’s the weirdest position.
Bex: Why would you build it in your front yard?
Ellen: Well, that’s where it fits probably ’cause it’s so big.
Alice: It’s, it’s literally, it literally just reminded me of the sims because like one, there’s a, there’s a ship, a ship [00:48:00] shaped playground in the Sims. Um, and two, when you start running out of room, like in on the lot, you just, like my sims have a ping pong table and a basketball hoop just on their front lawn because I’m like, ugh, there’s no room in the house for the ping pong table.
They like, their garage is full of exercise equipment, so it’s just going on the front lawn.
Bex: Yeah. But I’m just like, this guy, one of the, the neighbor that’s building it is like, like the kids are gonna love it. And I’m looking at him going, you are gonna let your kids go out into your front yard and play on a play set?
Alice: Yeah, they’ll be right. I’m sure there’s no kidnappings in LA.
Ellen: Sure. And, and the other thing is because it is like right next to the, the boundary, um, it overlooks like the next door house. Like their, their, outdoor area .
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Like their patio.
Bex: Everything about this particular call is for the drama and it makes no sense.
But
Ellen: no, anyways, but it’s funny.
Bex: So, um, Joe is building the play set. Um, Don is not happy about it because it is not three feet from the property line. I [00:49:00] don’t know what the three feet magic number is, but Don is adamant that it needs to be three feet from the property line.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Alice: Yeah. Joe thought there was an exemption. There’s not an exemption. Um, they’re arguing. Uh, Joe says that Don’s grandkids can come even come over and play when they visit, and Don’s like, “My grandkids are in college.” Like, what? Um, but then we, while they’re arguing, we get the sound of a jet engine roaring overhead, and as they look up, we get a very loud metal clunk.
Ellen: But there’s like a huge shadow.
Alice: Yeah, there is a huge shadow too.
Bex: There’s a shadow, there’s a metal clink Jo. Uh, Joe starts running away from the shadow. Don tries to run back to his house, which would continue to run under the shadow. Um, unfortunately for him, he doesn’t duck. So he hits his head on like the, the prowl or the [00:50:00] of the play set the boat thing.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: In which, which knocks him flat onto his back as the shadow continues to like expand over him and then all of a sudden there is a Humvee. On top of the play set,
it
Ellen: just crashes down on of Don.
Alice: Yeah. I’m immediately on top of it.
Ellen: Nothing indicate nothing about the summary or anything indicated that this was what was gonna happen. So I was just looking at it, going, a car just fell out of the sky.
Bex: I do love that. It’s like the car, the Humvee falls and then it’s like the dust starts to settle and then this parachute just flutters gently Yes. And rests on top. And then we get what I do really, I really love this 9-1-1 call. Um,
Alice: it’s great.
Yeah.
Bex: Someone has to call in. It’s like 9-1-1. What’s your emergency? “Yes ma’am. Uh, this is Sergeant Raynard out of Fort Irwin. Uh, we’ve inadvertently [00:51:00] mis deployed a, a joint like tactical vehicle in a residential area.” “I’m sorry?” “We dropped a Humvee out of a plane.”
Alice: Yeah. Like, oh yeah. Okay.
Bex: Just, just the attempt to be so, you know, precise and technical about it and it’s just gone completely over the dispatcher’s head.
Alice: Yeah. Eddie did not answer the call. So the dispatcher’s just like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Bex: Like, I don’t understand your funny military speak, speak English. So Of course it’s the 118. Of course, of course. It’s, well, they have Eddie. Because then we get like exposition Buck going, “Wow, how did this even happen?”
And then Eddie, because he’s in the military, can explain how it happened. Um, which is, it was an airdrop.
Ellen: An airdrop, yeah. Because that’s how, but, but before that, Chimney gives the excellent line, “I kind of expected the first flying car to be a little smaller.” Thanks dad.
Alice: Thanks [00:52:00] Chim. Yeah.
Ellen: He’s practicing his dad jokes again.
Alice: He’s practicing, it’s fine. Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. Anyway else, to be fair,
Alice: I don’t think that the Humvee was doing a lot of flying. It was mostly just falling, so falling with style.
Ellen: It had a parachute
Alice: like Buzz Lightyear. Um,
Ellen: that’s almost flying.
Alice: We’re just aging ourselves in this episode.
Bex: Oh my God.
Alice: Um, but yeah, so it was an airdrop, which is how the military gets supplies, aids and everything else, including Humvees to remote areas.
Except this time they dropped a little too soon and Buck’s like, “Yeah, I guess they need more training,”
Bex: but they need to get the Humvee off the, the play set and off done because it, his leg is trapped under, under the play set, which is on top of… He, yeah, he’s completely stuck and he’s not doing well.
Alice: The leg are like an almost 90 degree angle too. Like it’s bad.
Bex: Yeah, it’s not good. He can’t wiggle his toes when Chim asks him to wiggle his toes. Um,
Alice: oof.
Bex: They, [00:53:00] there’s no way for them to lift anything because it’s far too heavy. But then, um, Eddie has the brilliant idea to use the parachute. So then we get the Beach Boys playing with the, “The Sloop John B” as they, um, and it’s all about like hoist up the main sails as they use the ladder to hoist up the parachute, which then hoist up the Humvee just enough for them to pull the man out from underneath.
Ellen: Yeah. But only for a moment. Geez, they cut it fine with this. They just pull it up enough for them to yank him out and then it crashes back down again.
Bex: I was actually really surprised that they lifted it that much because they’ve got the winch attached, like they hook the winch up to the parachute and then the winch is running sort of over the end of the ladder.
Ellen: Yeah. Is it, it’s not normally used as a crane.
Bex: Yeah. I don’t know that, that the ladder is necessarily rated to [00:54:00] lift Humvees. Yeah. I was fully expecting that to like snap off because like last time we saw it crumbled under Buck. Like Buck was hanging, was climbing it and it snapped.
Ellen: Oh yeah
Alice: yeah, that’s, it was broken though. It’s fixed now. It’s fine.
Bex: It’s fixed now? It’s the, like they’ve got,
Ellen: it’s reinforced with like steel or something.
Bex: Better chewing gum, the more expensive chewing gum?
Alice: They reinforced it for the six foot brick shit house that is, um, Evan Buckley and Humvees apparently. But yeah, so they get, they managed to, um, to yank Don out before the Humvee like crashes back down.
And as they’re like wheeling don to the ambulance on the gurney, Don’s like, “oh, I can’t believe it. I think the playground saved my life.” And it’s like, no, because if you, if it wasn’t for the playground, you wouldn’t have been over there. But, but the, your head on the playground,
Ellen: the, the great thing is that Joe goes, “I told you it was gonna be great.” I’m like, wow, you are so hap you, you’re very upbeat about this whole thing, dude. Like, yeah. [00:55:00]
Alice: Um, and yeah, he’s like, “we’ll rebuild” and Don’s like “anchor at three feet away from the property line,” like,
Ellen: ah,
Bex: or maybe put it in the backyard. You know, where play sets should go
Ellen: look now we’ve repeated all of it. It is ridiculous. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
Alice: Oh, it’s so dumb. But it’s funny to watch.
Ellen: The whole thing is stupid. I laughed so hard. It made me laugh a lot. So I’ll own that.
Bex: So the, um, the 9-1-1 Wiki page, um, makes a claim that this particular storyline was based on a real life event of, um, a Humvee being dropped out of an airplane.
Mm. So I went back and I actually looked at that article to figure out like, what, what was the real life event that inspired this storyline. I think the 9-1-1 Wiki is stretching it a little bit because, oh, like in this episode we see like the Humvee gets mis deployed, but it’s still in its [00:56:00] parachute, right? Because we see the parachute come fluttering down.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: Um, so the story that they’re talking about is a 2016, um, US Army training exercise where, like Eddie said, they were training to deploy supplies, um, including Humvees. So the plane flies over, they time it perfectly so they can push everything out and it lands within their specific target.
The military is not explaining exactly what happened, but they’re pretty sure that it was intentional that, um, several of the Humvees came loose from their parachute harnesses and just went, got yeeted out of the plane and went plummeting down and crashed to Earth completely writing them off.
Ellen: Did they didn’t hit anybody or,
Bex: oh, no, no. It was a training exercise. They were out in the middle of a field. There were like, there was no casualties, no damage except to the Humvee. Um, yeah, it was just kind of, people were, there’s videos of it because people were watching. ’cause you know, it’s [00:57:00] kind of cool to watch these cars come floating down except this one just like (falling and crashing sounds) On the ground.
Um, yeah. And yet the military are like, there is no possible way that this could have been accidental. This had to have been intentional so that somebody got in trouble. Don’t really know how that links up to this episode because, um, you know, this para this, um, v had a parachute, but that’s what the Wiki said.
Ellen: All right, so we will go back to the Madney apartment where Buck is over. Apparently he showed up unannounced, which I mean, okay. Is he,
Alice: I think that’s the theme for this episode is unannounced,
Ellen: unannounced visitors. Yeah,
Alice: unannounced family members.
Ellen: But they’ve decided to create gift baskets for their neighbors because they’re about to go and meet their neighbors, apparently with a screaming baby.
Alice: But yeah, so Buck is helping them because he showed up unannounced. Um, ’cause he’s [00:58:00] too afraid to go home. Albert was supposed to let him know when the coast is clear, but he hasn’t. And now he’s not answering Buck’s texts. Um, Maddie says, just stop hiding and talk to her like a grownup. And yeah. So the baskets that they’re making for their neighbors have sleep mask, earplugs, some time release melatonin.
And if all else fails, booze. Everything you need to get a good night’s rest when you’re next door to a crying baby
Ellen: To start with I thought that, um. Chim was kind of getting everything ready for when the baby arrives for them. And I was like, this is how we’re gonna get a good night’s sleep time release, melatonin and booze.
Alice: Yeah. I’m like, I don’t think that’s safe around a newborn.
Ellen: No, probably not. But no, it’s for their neighbors. It’s, it’s okay. And Maddie’s like, “are you sure this isn’t a little excessive? We’re not launching a campaign of shock and awe here. We’re just having a baby.” But, uChimTim reckons it’ll [00:59:00] work.
Alice: Yeah. And if nothing else, they’ll get to know their neighbors and Buck’s like, careful what you wish for.
Ellen: Only if your neighbor is like someone you dated once that hated you. All right. We’ve got back, gone back to catch up with what, um, Toni is up to.
Bex: Apparently Athena has come over for dinner.
Alice: Yeah. Athena’s come to save Hen from her mother clearly.
Ellen: But they, they are having a lovely time.
Alice: Yeah. It doesn’t look like Athena’s doing much saving. She seems to be, um, quite enjoying Toni’s stories about being a Blackjack dealer in Vegas and Toni’s cooking. Yeah,
Ellen: She says that she was “Fast Hands Toni”, best blackjack dealer on the strip and Hen can’t believe she gave, she gave it all up. But Toni says that times change and things are different now.
Alice: Athena says that if Toni’s looking for a new career, may, she should suggest the culinary arts. So apparently Toni cooked for them. And [01:00:00] Karen’s like, yeah, you could, you should move in here and just cook for us all the time.
Bex: Jesus. Karen.
Ellen: Yeah. I don’t think she’s got the message.
Alice: I wondered if this scene, I wondered if this scene was supposed to go before the one with Hen and Chim talking.
Ellen: Oh yeah. That might make a bit more sense. Yeah.
Alice: Like Karen tried to get her to move in.
Bex: Oh, no, I’m, I would assume that Karen is just, it’s a long campaign. She’s just continually,
Alice: she’s still trying to get her
Bex: because she’s probably thinking, you’ve got Hen who’s working full-time plus studying and then you’ve got Karen who’s working full-time and they’ve got, even though she’s like working from home still, I don’t know if she’s still in the working from home phase, but she’s got two kids.
She would probably really appreciate somebody else in the house who could do the cooking and the childcare. Yeah. So she would really app, like, she would really appreciate Toni moving in. So she’s just trying to wear Hen down
Alice: please, somebody. Yeah,
Ellen: yeah.
Alice: Please. Another adult to [01:01:00] talk to. Especially, I don’t wanna talk about Peppa anymore,
Bex: especially when Toni, who apparently, like you said, has cooked dinner, then starts to clear the plates. Even though that’s not the rule, the rule is that for you cook, someone else cleans up. So Toni and Karen go to clean up, Hen and Athena head into the living room, and we discovered that the reason that Bobby was not at that dinner with Athena is that Plan B has been put into action and he’s having dinner with Michael.
Alice: Yeah. Plan B is Plan Bobby,
Ellen: Apparently Bobby has actually cooked Michael and Harry dinner as well, because Harry says “dinner was great, Bobby, you should come visit more often” and like Michael says, “Please thank Athena for forcing you to bring it over.”
Alice: Yeah,
Ellen: Bobby’s like, “She didn’t force me, but um, she thought you [01:02:00] could use someone to talk to and she mentioned your new hobby,” and like, I don’t know, they, both of their eyes light up and they’re like the telescope.
Bex: Yeah. Like 100%. I’m sure Athena sent Bobby over there to try and stop Michael from, you know, peeping into the
Ellen: spying on the neighbors?
Bex: Neighborhood’s lives. Yeah. And Bobby’s just immediately no, I wanna see what everyone’s going up to.
Ellen: Yeah, absolutely.
Alice: Bobby’s like, I want a telescope
Ellen: To start with michael’s like, “Oh, you know, I’m just, it’s just a way to pass the times. Uh, but there’s definitely something going on across the street,” and Bobby’s like, “Let me have a look.”
Bex: And then he sees the telescope is still focused on Slim’s apartment and we see what Bobby sees, which is Slim talking to two young women and Bobby is immediately like, “um, something weird. You mean the guy? The guy with the women? With the women young enough to be his daughters?” [01:03:00]
Alice: Yeah. The way that was delivered is so good.
Bex: I then to, um, to add sort of insult to injury. These women who are young enough to be his daughters then give Slim a thick wad of cash, which he stands there and counts. Bobby’s like, “I think she just gave him money.”
Alice: Yeah. Like he definitely just gave him money
Bex: and Bobby’s in. He’s hooked. He wants to know everything that’s going on. He’s immediately starting to come up with theories as to what’s going on with Slim. Um, but all of his theories don’t justify all of the trash. Bobby, he’s like, “Wait trash? What about the trash? Tell me about the trash.”
Ellen: Oh, this is so funny. And this is, this is the point where I was like, okay, this has gotta be just some misunderstanding, right? Where he’s seeing something, but it’s not what it looks like. And then as it escalates, like okay, this [01:04:00] is kind of exactly what it looks like. But anyway, um, we can’t see that yet ’cause we’ve gotta go back.
Bex: No, you’ve gotta (frustrated grumbling)
Seriously, I would’ve taken 45 minutes of just Michael and Bobby and the telescope because they’re great.
Ellen: Oh, absolute chaos. Absolute chaos.
Bex: Uh, but no, we have to go back to the Wilsons. Yeah.
Ellen: Basically hand Athena have a chat about like, Hen’s mom squirting whipped cream into the kids’ mouths like they were baby birds. I’m like, um, I know someone who does that. It’s not me, but yes, it’s not, it’s not as weird as it sounds.
Bex: I’ve 100% done that to Baz.
Alice: I’ve done it to myself, but yeah. Yeah, actually I think I’ve done it to the dogs as well.
Ellen: Yeah. But no Hen does, uh, uh, like allow that it has been nice. Um, but don’t tell anyone I said that,
Bex: which just makes the next scene even more heartbreaking. So she’s finally admitted that she has actually enjoyed having her mother in town. So [01:05:00] she goes to the kitchen because Karen said she was making coffee and you know, coffee is apparently taking a while and she sort of stops in the doorway so she can listen to Toni and Karen talk because Karen is singing Hen’s praises.
And who doesn’t want, does
Alice: Karen, the best wife ever.
Bex: Yeah. Who doesn’t wanna just, you know, eavesdrop on your wife, just say, um, telling someone how cool you are and how much, how cool they think you are. Right.
Alice: It’s so cute.
Bex: But Toni’s not quite on board with this whole like doctor thing. And she’s asking Karen if she is okay with Hen going back to medical school.
You know, “you guys have a good stable life, don’t you worry that Hen going back to school might be a mistake?” And Karen’s like, “why would I?” And Toni says, “well, isn’t Henrietta a little old?” Which, and [01:06:00] Hannah’s just like, no, no. Fuck this. Goes back to the living room. Yeah,
Ellen: yeah. But she does hear Karen’s saying like, “No, I don’t think so.”
Bex: We hear Karen say that. I don’t know if Hen heard it.
Ellen: Karen stands up for her.
Bex: Oh, Karen, a hundred percent stands up her. And she’s like, “no, I don’t think Hen’s a little old. You know, the program’s accelerated, so she’s not gonna be in med school as long as, you know, the young whipper snapper are going to be.” But, um, Hen instead returns to the living room where Athena notes that she looks like she just got run over.
Ellen: Hmm.
Alice: Yep. And Hen says Buy a bulldozer,
Bex: which bulldozes straight into a commercial. And when we come back, we’re back in Michael’s apartment.
Ellen: Yay.
Bex: Where David has just finished. Shift. Poor David. He comes home and instead of, you know, his beautiful boyfriend standing there with like the bag to put all his scrubs in and [01:07:00] glass of wine and a shower already running.
Um, he walks in and the apartment is pitch black. And when he tries to turn on the lights,
Ellen: yeah, there’s two, there’s two like gremlins standing near the window.
Bex: When he tries to turn on the lights, he gets shushed and frantically waved at, and immediately demanded to turn the light back off because it’s interfering with Bobby and who has got a pair of binoculars at this point.
Alice: Yeah. I don’t know where the binoculars came from, but Bobby has a pair of binoculars
Bex: Oh, from the camping gear
Alice: yeah. Which must be pretty good because he can like, see as good as Michael can with the telescope.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Um, but yeah, so that’s Turn it off. Turn it off.
Ellen: I love David in this scene. He’s just like, the whole time he’s just like, what the fuck you guys doing? Yeah. But um,
Alice: David’s like, I don’t know why I’m getting involved, but then he gets involved and he is like, I
Ellen: Oh yeah, this, yeah. And, and I could like this whole scene, he could just, at any point he could say, no guys. I think this is going a little far, but he doesn’t, he just goes [01:08:00] along with it.
Alice: Nobody in this is the voice of reason, like Athena?
Ellen: No, no.
Alice: Like, okay, I’ll send Bobby over to be the voice of reason because like Michael didn’t listen to me and Bobby just joined straight, straight in. It’s so funny.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: But yeah, so there’s, um, Slim’s arguing with a woman.
Um, they’re like comparing notes and like Michael’s like, “yeah, she wasn’t ready to leave. Bobby’s like, oh, you see, the way he kept trying to move her to the door, he wanted her gone.” And David’s like, “what is happening?” Um, so Bobby thinks that Michael is actually onto something and like, David’s like, “what are you talking about?”
So clearly Michael hasn’t even told David what he is looking at. Um,
Ellen: no, but David says, “is this the guy with the trash again?” Oh, so he obviously knows about the trash guy
Bex: and he is obviously tried to talk Michael out of it because when Bobby confirms it, yes, it’s about the guy with the trash. David says, “Michael, we talked about this,” and Michael’s just like, “It’s too much trash!”
Alice: It’s just too much trash. [01:09:00] Um, David’s like, “everyone has too much trash. We’re all getting our li our lives delivered the other day. You got a box the size of a toaster with dental floss in it.” Um, which I think, I think we’ve all been there. Like at first I thought that like he’d ordered like that much dental floss.
No, it’s, but I’m pretty sure it’s literally just one thing of dental f floss in a whole, in a huge box. Yes. Because yeah, that was very, like,
Bex: that’s, that’s very much Amazon’s packing. They’re just gonna put a tiny box. So the, the chaos, the chaos twins, the elders, um, are talking about like the trash and um, you know, they really wish that they could see what the trash is. And David. David, I don’t know whether it was meant to be sarcastic.
Alice: Oh, wait, wait. You missed the part where, so the guy lives alone and all manner of folks come in perfectly fine, but they leave battered and bruised so it’s not innocent and it probably isn’t legal.
Bex: Which is, yeah, which is why they wanna look in the bag.
Alice: And that’s where they’re like, we wanna look at the trash.
Bex: And David, [01:10:00] we could be sarcastic. It could be honest. I don’t know. He just says, you could always go look in the dumpster.
Alice: I mean like obviously like what? They’re like, oh, I wish we could look in the trash. And David’s like, “well, why don’t you just go look in the trash?” and they’re like, “yes, let’s go find the trash.” Like, David fucks sake.
Bex: Where are the dumpsters? Like Michael’s pointing, like he’s literary pointing guard. They’re right there. I can see them.
Alice: I don’t think they’re locked. Like let’s go.
Bex: And Bobby goes into planning mode. He’s like, “okay, gimme a second. I need to think, think, think, think.
Okay Michael, you are gonna stay here. You are gonna do recon. We are gonna need some surgical gloves. Call me if Slim comes out.” Michael’s like, yes, I’m on board with this. So Bobby like goes to leave and he’s like, “David,” David’s like, David, let’s go.
Ellen: David’s just like, what? What is happening here?
Alice: How did I get?
Ellen: Yeah, it’s just so good.
Bex: It’s very much like, you know, “come on pretty boy.” “Oh, I’m pretty boy.” [01:11:00]
Ellen: Yes, yes.
Alice: Oh God.
Bex: And then to make it even better. We watch through the telescope with Michael as Bobby and David cross the street to go find the dumpsters as, um, Sol Bossanova starts playing, which is the music from Austin Powers.
Alice: Yes. It’s, it’s the Austin Powers theme.
Ellen: Oh, it’s so dumb. And they’re like, walking towards the, the dumpsters trying to be not suspicious.
Alice: While pulling on surgical gloves. David’s like, “this is insane.” And Bobby’s like, “this was your idea.” And David’s just like, what?
Bex: But I love Peter Krause in this because he is like, you know, cry, he’s almost sort of hunched over scurrying to try and like reduce his height.
So he is not as suspicious. But then there are other people walking down the footpath. So he straightens up, starts walking normally when they pass, he kind of hunches down again. [01:12:00]
Alice: And he goes back into stealth mode!
Bex: he’s doing all these hand signals to Michael, to these, because he knows Michael is watching him. He is like, no, it’s okay.
We’re good. We’re good.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Oh, it’s so silly.
Alice: Okay, so they let themselves into the caged off area, which is where the dumpster is, and Bobby’s like, “all right, who’s going in?” And David’s just like, “what? No fucking way.” Um, so Bobby’s like, okay, and just jumps in. Um, yeah, and he throws bags and rubbish bags at David. Um, so David’s just like, “wait, wait, wait.
Isn’t this a crime? Looking through people’s trash?” And Bobby, while going through trash is like, “Oh, it’s unclear. Like once a person throws away their trash, they lose any expectation of privacy. But then again, this is a privately owned dumpster, so,” and it’s like, “do you do this sort of thing a lot?”
Bex: Um, Bobby is like, no. Thinks about it, “but Michael did help me break into a bank vault once.”
Ellen: Yeah, that’s a, that’s a long throwback.
Alice: [01:13:00] Poor David. It’s just like, what the fuck is happening?
Ellen: Yeah. David’s look on his face is just like, what? But yeah,
Alice: but back up in the apartment, um, slim scrubbed another garbage bag.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: So Michael,
Ellen: Michael notices Michael and he’s like, oh no. He tries to call Bobby, but Bobby’s not answering.
Bex: No, because Bobby’s phone is on full volume and it starts ringing.
Alice: And he is an old man. He doesn’t know how to set his phone to vibrate.
Bex: And so he pulls it out, and in trying to either silence the ring, um, or answer the call, he fumbles it and drops it into the dumpster.
Ellen: Oh.
Bex: So then he calls David, except this is a great moment, except David has left his phone in the apartment. Except his phone is like right on like the, um, Michael’s desk right under the telescope. Where did he put his phone there? Like, [01:14:00]
Ellen: oh, it was on the,
Alice: that’s fine for the drama. Sh it’s fine. I thought it was on the dining table.
Ellen: I thought it was on the table. Like behind. Yeah, regardless, like David was just like th pulled out of the house so quickly that he didn’t grab his phone.
Bex: But when did he put it down? He, like, he didn’t get a chance to, he walked in, he turned the lights on, those two yelled at him. So he turned the lights back off.
He then got sucked into their plan and then immediately dragged back out it.
Alice: Well that’s, he was probably emptying his pockets so he could go have a shower.
Ellen: Yeah, he walked past the table at some point. So he must have put it down.
Bex: Uh, no, I don’t buy. It’s for the drama.
Alice: Hang on. I need to go check. Go check. If he put this phone down and we just missed it.
Ellen: No, we don’t need, don’t need to show us. It doesn’t matter. It’s there. It got there somehow.
Bex: It, it’s for the drama. David left his phone behind. So Michael has no way of contacting them to let them know that their life is in imminent danger because Slim is heading down to the dumpsters to toss out yet another suspicious bag of trash.
Ellen: But thankfully Bobby does find his phone in the trash [01:15:00] and calls Michael back. David thinks they’ve found what they’re looking for, so that’s cool. I guess. Surgical supplies.
Bex: He’s, he’s opened up one of the bags that Bobby, yeeted at him and discovered that it’s full of like bloody gauze and, and other used surgical supplies.
Um, yeah. So I think their search was done anyway. But then Michael lets them know that he’s Cup that’s Slim is coming downstairs and they have to go. Although for some reason when they get back to Michael’s apartment, Michael’s not there.
Ellen: Michael’s not there
Bex: because Michael has gone over to Slim’s apartment.
Ellen: So somehow between Bobby and David getting back upstairs, Michael has gone downstairs and then up into the road, neighboring roading building
Bex: across and none of neither, and got inside. And neither Bobby and David nor Slim, [01:16:00] none of them crossed paths at all. Yeah,
Ellen: yeah, yeah. For the drama. He flew for the drama flew, he flew through the air between the buildings I dunno
Bex: exactly. Somehow like he got one of those like guns that have the, the line with the claw at the end of it. And like Batman has
Ellen: Oh yeah.
Bex: And he’s like shot it across and then he ziplined across.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: but even I don’t understand what Michael was going to do in his apartment because I can understand if it’s like, if Slim was coming down and he rushes over to like stop Slim and distract him, like Albert distracts Veronica.
So Buck could, you know, very, very carefully take each step one at a time. So it takes him 20 minutes to get down and get up. That I can understand. But instead Bobby and Michael are watch. No, Bobby and David are watching as Michael is skulking around Slim’s apartment.
Ellen: Yeah. And I, I have to say that the tension in this scene was brilliant because here we are like laughing at the other chaos twins [01:17:00] doing their thing downstairs, um, and thinking that, you know, Slim’s gonna come down and catch him, but, and then all of a sudden Michael’s in the apartment and I’m just sitting there going, oh my God, what is he doing?
What is he, what, what is going through his mind here? Just,
Bex: which is exactly Harry’s question because for some reason, um, when David and Bobby got back to the apartment and they sort of burst in, they’re like, “Michael, Michael,” um, it has summoned Harry back to the living room. And he’s like, what is going on?
Alice: Yeah, they’ve woken him up, I think. ’cause he sounds very, it looks very tired,
Bex: but it can’t,
Ellen: he was supposed to be doing his homework.
Bex: It can’t have been woken up because we saw Bobby’s phone when he fished it out of the dumpster and it was like 7 52. What is Harry doing at sleep at 7 52?
Alice: I don’t know. I’ve fallen asleep at weird times. Okay. Um,
Bex: anyway, Michael is in Slim’s apartment, um, and he’s having a good look around and he [01:18:00] sees on the sink he can finally see the sink up close ’cause he doesn’t get quite the same angle when he’s across the, uh, across the way through the telescope. And there is for some reason next to the sink in the living room, there is a nice spread out towel with an array of surgical tools sitting on it.
Ellen: Yeah, serious-looking tools,
Bex: they’re in the kitchen. Um, they’re in the kitchen so Michael can see them is the answer to that. Um, he was clearly gonna wash them in the dish. Who knows? But shouldn’t he have an autoclave somewhere? If he says like a fancy doctor, is he claims as he is? No, he is, he’s doing it really badly.
So anyway, so Michael sees the surgical tools, he sees like the bloody sponges in the sink. Um, and he’s decided he’s got enough evidence and tries to get, tries to leave just as he’s about to leave. He hears a clattering [01:19:00] of what sounds like metal falling onto metal. And there is a door near the front door that is closed.
So he decides to open it and he opens it up to find a procedure room. Pretty much. There’s all these like trolleys, medical equipment. There’s even that little thing next to the door that you put like your charts in, in a hospital. Oh. Um, and there is a woman unconscious, lying on some kind of procedure chair in the middle of the room with two, two spots of blood on her abdomen soaking through her hospital gown.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Like large
Ellen: spots of blood. Yeah. She doesn’t look well, like she’s all pale and mm-hmm. Yeah. As Michael kind of leans over to check on her, she gasps and wakes up and ask him to help her. And um, yeah, it [01:20:00] was like I’m on the edge of my seat at this point going, oh my God, what’s going on? Suddenly it’s all serious, but he calls 9-1-1.
Bex: He calls 9-1-1 and
Ellen: “there’s a woman, she’s hurt.” Uh, he basically tells them where he is, but then someone hits him from behind and he gets knocked out all black to the commercial.
Alice: This part’s weird, but for the drama, sure. Let’s go. Mm-hmm. Um,
Ellen: it is weird. Yeah.
Alice: So Michael wakes up and David’s there helping him. Athena’s also there
Bex: and other LAPD officers
Alice: and LAPD officers.
Ellen: Yeah. So the police got, um, dispatched. I don’t know how they knew exactly what apartment he was in, but maybe David met them there and
Alice: David would have? Yeah.
Ellen: Knew where it was.
Alice: Yeah. So Athena wants to know where Bobby is, Bobby’s at, um, David and Michael’s place with Harry.
Bex: I do, I do like this. ’cause Athena is absolutely ropable at her ex-husband. She’s [01:21:00] like, David is telling Michael that he needs to take it easy ’cause he got a pretty good hit to the head. Athena’s like, “That is nothing compared to what I’m gonna do to you three. I need to choose my words carefully here amateur detectives. Where is my husband?” So it turns out, uh, Bobby has been kept left back at the apartment, um, to watch over Harry. So like, they, they might be irresponsible amateur detectives, but they’re still, you know, pretty good at the whole parenting thing.
Alice: I mean, at least Bobby is because Michael ran out on him and left him there.
Bex: That’s very true.
Ellen: Yeah. And then David ran after Michael, like, Athena’s like, okay, so I married two dumb asses and we had a third one along. But anyway, um,
Alice: um, but yeah, so Michael asks, “is the woman okay?” And they’re all like, “what woman?” Um, so the woman’s gone Slim is also gone, but they just left Michael.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Like what? Like, okay, sure.
Ellen: And, and he says, [01:22:00] “How did you know I was here?” “We saw you through the telescope,” but they couldn’t see the woman because she was in different room.
Bex: But if they were watching through the telescope. They would have seen Slim dragging the woman out.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: good lord.
Ellen: Because they, they can see the front door of his apartment.
Bex: Yes. They couldn’t see, oh, this storyline is suddenly turning out to be shakier than a house of cards.
Alice: Yes. But then also, like, they’re like, “oh, what woman” but Athena’s like, “oh yeah, they’re checking all the cameras out on the street.” Like what? So Athena knows about the woman? David doesn’t know about the woman.
Bex: Well, no, because Athena would know, because of the 9-1-1 call, because Michael said there was a woman,
Alice: but didn’t fill David in. Yeah.
Bex: Apparently not.
Ellen: It, it kind of felt like when Athena was asking the questions and I was wondering if she thought that suddenly Michael had had like a relapse of his tumor or something.
She’s like, yeah, like, oh Jesus, when you talking about a woman, that’s weird. [01:23:00] And you took a pretty good hit to the head. Like,
Alice: but yeah, so David’s like, “We should get you to the hospital and get some scans done.” And Michael’s like, “No, I’ve gotta get home. Harry’s probably terrified.”
Bex: Harry is not terrified,
Alice: which we we cut to Michael’s apartment and Harry immediately just goes, “that was so cool!”
Ellen: Um, but Michael has a concussion, basically. He’s gotta stay awake,
Bex: apparently is not protocol for concussions anymore.
Alice: Oh, there you go.
Bex: Anyway, so yes, Athena is keeping them up to date or keeping Bobby up to date on the developments in the case.
Alice: So they’ve checked all the cameras. There’s no sign of the woman, but Slim left the building with a bag.
Bex: Poor Harry is like, you don’t think the woman was in the bag, do you? And Mike,
Alice: Michael’s like, “Harry!” But then, and then looks at Bobby and goes, “You don’t, do you?”
Bex: And Bobby’s response is, “Athena said it was a pretty small bag,” which means that [01:24:00] Bobby had the exact same thought.
Alice: Yep. Like, I can imagine Athena texting just like, he just, like, all he did was leave with a bag and Bobby’s Bobby’s gone. Like, was she in the bag? Question mark. Question mark. Question mark. Question mark. Question mark. Question mark.
Bex: Sign off. Bobby Nash. I love in all of like the, the text fics that I’ve ever read, or fan fics that involve texting. Bobby always signs off his text.
Alice: Always.
Ellen: Does he?
Bex: Yeah. Every, it’s just like convention now that if you’re writing Bobby in a fic, he signs his texts every single time. It’s hilarious. I love it.
Ellen: Does he, does he do that in the show?
Bex: No, I think it’s,
I don’t think we see him text in the show. I think it’s just that funny thing that he’s just like, oh my God, he’s so old that he thinks a text.
Ellen: It’s just a fanon thing,
Bex: like a letter. So yeah, it’s fanon. It’s fanon that Bobby signs his text, like with his full name Bobby Nash. Um. [01:25:00] Yes, exactly. Alice. Alice has just put it in the group chat. Um, but all this talk about a bag has triggered a memory from Michael, and he’s thinking about the, um, the procedure room that he saw, the woman that he saw on the, um, on the chair, on the procedure chair. He saw that next to the door, there was like a little bench or a seat or something where she had all of her clothes neatly folded and her keys sitting on top and there was no handbag.
And he’s thinking back to all of the young women that he’s seen coming in and out of that Slim’s apartment. And none of them appeared to have handbags either. And he realizes that that’s weird
Alice: um, yeah, David’s just like, “Not all women carry handbags.” Michael’s like, yeah, but she didn’t have anything.
Bex: Not, not a wallet,
Alice: not a wallet or a phone, just a key chain. But no one saw her leave the building because she lives in the building.
Bex: Yes. Bubbie [01:26:00] immediately pulls at his phone, speed dials, Athena
Ellen: They all spring back into action.
Alice: I don’t know why you wouldn’t bring a phone just because you live in the building, but I guess David just did the same thing, so.
Bex: So the LAPD returned to the building for a very, very aggressive door knock campaign where they’re literally banging on every single door and demanding to see every single resident. Um,
Alice: yeah. Does a woman live here? Does a woman live here? Does a woman live here?
Bex: Athena gets,
Ellen: I, I don’t know how she knew that she was at the right door.
Bex: Well, see, that was my question. There was no question answer. It’s like she not, she bangs.
Alice: I’m like, I don’t think this works like this.
Bex: She bangs on the door three times and no one answers then like the nanosecond that Athena gives her to answer. So she just assumes that this is the correct apartment. Not that, you know, that person was at work or on vacation or like in another,
Alice: or just in the toilet. Yeah. Or asleep. Like,
Bex: but no, it’s, it must be, I mean, yes, they could be asleep. There could be a reason that they’re asleep, but Yeah, no. Um,
Ellen: in this case, it turns out to be [01:27:00] correct.
Bex: It turns out that that is the woman because they, the other thing is, I don’t know that anyone checked the door because they immediately,
Alice: no, I don’t think they checked the doorknobs. They just battering ram it.
Bex: Yeah. They used the battering ram and slam and I’m going, didn’t anybody think to like open the door? Because how did Slim put her back in her apartment and lock the door? Did he take her keys with him?
Alice: And then. They haven’t even called for a paramedic.
They’ve just brought David. Yes. Who’s a brain surgeon.
Bex: Because if you gonna into a door knock campaign, of course you bring like your ex-husband’s boyfriend along with you. That makes perfect sense.
Alice: Yeah. Like, yes, obviously he’s like Aer but he is not field tr like that’s not what?
Bex: Just the, the liability of having him.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: They they do, they couldn’t wait for the actual paramedics to turn up. They just have to, get going
Alice: clearly,
Bex: but again, you still, you don’t take a civilian in. What if Slim had been there with a gun? [01:28:00]
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: What if something had happened to David?
Alice: What if David had misdiagnosed her and, yeah.
Bex: ’cause all, like, all he does is just like put pressure on her wound and even if he’s doing that, we see one of the LAPD officers do the exact same thing. So LAPD would’ve had that without him.
Alice: Yeah. And then he says like, they need to, um, get fluids into her and get her out of there. It’s just like, where did the fluids come from? Does David just bring them home? Like after a heavy night drinking he’s just got some fluids to like,
Ellen: well the paramedics do turn up and get him out of there.
Bex: Finally, yes.
Ellen: Da. Um, David knows somehow that she’s 26 years old and has lost a liter of blood.
Bex: Oh, wow. Just like, just being in Athena’s presence has given him that magical, maybe Athena needs to go with him to the hospital. And just,
Alice: I was gonna say it was Bob because he hung out with Bobby. Bobby’s just like, oh, like, have you learned yet how to diagnose before?
Bex: [01:29:00] Could you imagine how much time David would save if he could just walk up to somebody in the hospital and go, oh yeah, this is what’s wrong with you.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Have a brain tumor.
Bex: Yes. So the woman gets, um, handed off to the ambulance. Um, Athena comes outta the apartment and she’s on the phone and I assumed that she was trying to call Bobby to update him, but no, Bobby’s running down the footpath to her. She doesn’t put the phone down. And they sort of come together and then both of them look up and I realize that Athena’s calling Michael.
And so they’re standing there on the, the footpath looking up at the apartment on the phone with Michael to let him know that they got her. But Michael knows that because he’s been watching through the telescope the entire time.
Alice: So he literally just answers the phone with “you got her” and Athena’s like, “we got her.”
Bex: Yes. We know you got her.
Alice: Oh, fricking… it’s so dumb but
Ellen: what an insane storyline.
Alice: It’s so funny. And
Ellen: I know, [01:30:00] it’s just nuts.
Alice: Funnily enough, this was not the storyline I thought it was.
Ellen: Oh.
Alice: So, yeah, I was like, how are they gonna fit all this into the episode? Yeah. It turns out it’s a totally different episode.
Ellen: Oh,
Bex: completely different storyline. I mean, yeah, totally different. This now that we’ve kind of, you know, got our little magnifying glass out and, and really looked at it. This, this storyline does not make sense or hold up it, but it’s still, I love it.
Alice: Oh, it’s totally ridiculous. But it’s so funny.
Bex: I love it so much just because of the Bobby, Michael, David dynamic. ’cause they are just so,
Alice: yes, it’s great.
Bex: Bobby and Michael together are, are always like, we know that they’re besties, but they’re just like, they take their best in this scene to the next level. And it’s so much fun.
Alice: Like, so Bobby at work is like calm, controlled, you know, fire captain. Yes. He’s doing great. The second he gets with Michael, they have a collective brain cell that then David also gets rid of.
Ellen: You know, like some, some people, like, they have other people who [01:31:00] like talk them down and say, look, you got a crazy idea, but let’s not, let’s not do that.
Bex: Oh no.
Ellen: But other people get together and just fan each other’s fire and like Yeah. The whole thing just becomes more and more insane. That is absolutely these two.
Alice: Yeah. Like that’s
Ellen: every single time.
Alice: Like we think that it’s just Buck and Eddie who are chaotic to get No, no. Like it’s just these idiot best friend boys. Like Yeah.
Bex: And then poor old David’s just along with a ride going like, I, I guess. There needs to be a grown up.
Alice: Why can I feel the brain cells slipping away? Like,
Ellen: well, I mean, he, he went along with the whole thing.
Alice: Exactly. Yeah.
Ellen: Luckily, luckily for him, it turned out to actually be someone doing something illegal. Like imagine if it had just been like, I don’t know, he was cutting up some really bloody meat or something and, um, I don’t know what all people coming to his door would be. Yeah. But you know,
Alice: if, if people saw all the raw meat in my trash, they’d probably also be concerned. I swear I’m just feeding my dog.
Ellen: Yes. But like, yeah, it [01:32:00] turned out to be a hero act in the end, I guess, but I don’t know. Bizarre, like insane storyline, but very, very entertaining.
Bex: Unfortunately, we do have to go back to the Wilson household apparently to finish, to continue that storyline. We don’t get to finish this one yet. Um, where it’s later that night, I’m guessing they have kicked Toni out. Athena has obviously left ’cause she’s had to go deal with like her idiot ex-husband and her idiot current husband and her idiot ex-husband’s boyfriend
Alice: I know missed out on dessert. She probably didn’t even get her coffee when they, she got the phone call.
Bex: Like, um, so Hen is putting away the dishes very, very angrily. Uh, she’s taking out her anger at her mother on the coffee mugs.
Alice: Karen’s like, “Pretty sure it’s not the mug’s fault.”
Bex: Yeah. But she basically lets Karen know that she overheard her conversation with Toni about, [01:33:00] um, Hen being a little old for medical school, and we under, we get the, we get the little bit of insight that this is like, not the first time that Toni has questioned something about Hen’s life.
Alice: Yeah. So apparently she wasn’t, it seems like she wasn’t super keen on Hen and Karen getting married.
Bex: Doesn’t like, sound like she was super keen about anything in Hen’s life.
Alice: Yeah. Also wasn’t keen on Hen becoming a firefighter.
Bex: Yes. Yeah.
Alice: But yeah, so Karen is like, while Hen wants her to just head back to Nevada soon, Karen’s like, “I think she’s, there’s something that she’s not telling us. Like, have you asked her why she’s here?” but yeah, Hen’s just like,
Bex: “I don’t fucking care why she’s here.”
Alice: Yeah. Don’t care. I just don’t want her here anymore. And yeah, so Karen is like, “you know, she’s just worried you’re taking on too much responsibility.” Hen says that the woman doesn’t even know the meaning of the word.
And Karen goes, “well, with your dad gone, she probably just felt like she had a [01:34:00] lot to make up for,” and Hen goes, “yeah, that’s what I thought. This was her moving back these past few days. I really, really felt like we were fixing what was broken between us. And now it just feels like another scar,”
Bex: which is all, which is like, it’s all very touching and it’s sort of moving that storyline forward.
I did not care. I just wanna go back to the Michael storyline. I wanna resolve that storyline,
Alice: which we do.
Bex: We do.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Um, we get, um, exposition Sergeant Athena, who is going to,
Ellen: oh, you’ve gotta explain,
Bex: we have to explain everything. So apparently Slim is Dr. James Lindorff, um, who is a de licensed doctor from Miami, who moved from Miami to Los Angeles after he lost his license and started running an underground clinic out of his apartment.
Just little things to start with, you know, Botox, [01:35:00] filler. Um, but then he started to think bigger. He got greedy, he got sloppy. ’cause I’m pretty sure that that woman that they rescued, that was some kind of like, um,
Alice: nip tuck, you may say?
Ellen: I don’t, I don’t know what it was. Like she had holes in her stomach.
Bex: I had the, I had the word, it’s like a, a gastric bypass. That’s the word.
Ellen: Oh, really?
Bex: Well, my, like, my extensive training through Grey’s Anatomy. I’m just thinking there was, there was an episode of Grey’s Anatomy where there was a, a young woman, um, who had like an illegal gastric bypass in Mexico. ’cause her, her stepmother was an absolute evil bitch. Um, and the reason that Meredith worked out that it worked. That’s what it was, was because she had two scars, like one high up on her abdomen and one low down on her abdomen, which is kind of where these Oh, the bloodstains were on this woman.
Alice: Um, the reason I [01:36:00] mentioned Nip/Tuck is because that’s another Ryan Murphy.
Bex: It’s Ryan Murphy, and it’s Miami.
Alice: Yeah. And so that’s like, that’s probably what they were referencing here,
Bex: probably. Yeah.
Alice: Also, Misha Collins is on it, um,
Bex: in a very…
Alice: in a role. Yeah. In a role we, we’ll never forget.
Ellen: Yes.
Alice: Um, I still love the fact that he had to stop doing that because it was actually a really bad back thing.
Bex: I don’t think it was supposed to do in the first place, but he just,
Alice: no, he was like, I’m just really flexible. And then he saw like a doctor or something and the doctor was just like, um, yeah, if you keep doing that, you can actually paralyze yourself.
And they were like, oh, oops.
Bex: I mean, no wonder the man’s got a, like, hip replacements and knee replacements. Yeah.
If nobody, anyway, if there’s anybody who was listening who has not come from the Supernatural, um, world and has no idea what we’re talking about, um, search up Nip, it’s Nip Forward slash Tuck and Misha Collins and have a ever read of [01:37:00] that episode synopsis to find out what exactly we’re talking about.
Alice: Oh, just watch the scene. It’s everywhere. Like, um, yeah. A hundred percent on YouTube. Yep. Definitely. Just, um, just go have a look at that.
Bex: Uh, so while you are searching up, uh. What Misha was up to on that, um, particular in Miami episode, um, Athena having successfully delivered her exposition notices that there are some blueprints on Michael’s desk.
Um, and it looks like he’s been doing some more designs, which Athena thinks, you know, oh, is the HOA president, you know, starting to approve some more works to his own apartment, but no.
Alice: Yeah. Did he approve a new balcony?
Bex: No. David’s friend is trying to convert the garage into a grandmother’s suite and the city is getting pushback.
So Michael has agreed to pitch in to see if he can help. And yeah, David’s like, yeah, it was either [01:38:00] that or become a full-time amateur detective.
Alice: Uh, so clearly, um, like David’s like sent an SOS to his friends and like, please, someone someone needs to, to give
Ellen: someone give Michael some work to do, please.
Alice: Yeah. Um, and yeah, Athena’s like, “let me be clear. I do not wanna work with you again.”
Ellen: Michael’s like, that’s cold.
Bex: But then Dave, it’s like, oh, you sure? I feel like he enjoyed it, he enjoyed it just a little bit, bit.
Alice: Oh, he definitely enjoyed it. Yeah.
Bex: Uh, unfortunately that is the end of that storyline to my, to my dismay. And we do have to go back to the Wilsons, um, where Hen is searching for her phone ’cause her phone is ringing and she can’t find it. The kids have put it somewhere, it’s in a basket under some crap. And she finds it just in time to miss the call, which is from Karen, uh, who literally just walks through the door just as Hen picks up the phone.
Ellen: Yeah. I’m not sure why she’s calling.
Alice: Yeah. Like I don’t know why she couldn’t wait 10 [01:39:00] seconds for sure.
Bex: Yes. Or why she couldn’t. Anyway, so Karen was calling to ask if Han had spoken to her mother. Um, Hen says, no, not from the other night because they saw Toni down at the park. Karen has taken the kids to the park and they saw Toni and Hen’s like, what do you mean you saw Toni?
Denny’s like, “We wanted to go say hi, but she was sleeping and mom said not to bother her,” which like alarm bells are going off. Like “What do you mean she was sleeping at the park?”
Alice: By the park. Yeah.
Bex: Uh, and it turns out that, you know, cute little Airbnb that Toni was renting was just actually her car. She’s been so living out of her car since God knows how long she’s been in LA because pandemic hit, nobody’s going to Vegas anymore. They don’t need as many dealers on the floor. And Toni being older, she lost her job on the floor and then not being able [01:40:00] to pay her rent. She got evicted from her apartment. So that’s why she came to LA
Not to read, not I’m sure part of it was to connect with her daughter. It was also because she was jobless and homeless. And at 64 it’s hard to fix either of those things.
Alice: But also, yeah, ’cause she didn’t have anyone else. Yeah. Yeah. That’s,
Ellen: mm-hmm. And she didn’t want, she didn’t tell Hen uh, to start with partially because there was never a good opportunity. But she says that, um, she didn’t want Hen to judge her and Hen’s like, “Excuse me, you didn’t want me to judge you?”
Bex: And Toni’s like, “When have I ever judged you?”
Alice: Such a mom thing? Oh my God.
Bex: Do want, do you want that list in chronological order or order of importance?
Alice: Um, but yeah, let’s just go with the most recent that I’m too old for med school?
Bex: So then we get this beautiful heart to heart between the two of them where Toni admits that she has kind of [01:41:00] always been a little bit jealous of Hen because Hen has been serious and focused and if she wants something, she goes after it.
And that’s not Toni. Toni is very impractical, very flighty, “live for today. ’cause tomorrow’s not promised,” but probably always wanted to be a little bit more like her daughter. But instead, but she, she shares that by, you know, judging the fuck out of her daughter.
Ellen: Snarky comments. I, I think like you get to a point in your life where you realize that your parents are people as well? Like, you get to the, the realization and then you, but still the smallest thing that you can say, you know, it’s hard to, when your parent says something to you, to not, to take it personally? Like, I don’t know, it’s, it’s so hard that parent child kind of [01:42:00] communication doesn’t always work as well as it should, no matter who it is.
But anyway, um, they do have a, a very beautiful, um, conversation.
Alice: I love this part. Like,
Ellen: yeah.
Alice: So, yeah, Hen says that like, you know, her father wasn’t always there, but her mom was, and Toni says that she tried, she did. Um, she didn’t always succeed, but she really did try and Hen launches into this story, which I, I just love this part.
She’s like, “Remember that time I was about nine years old and I told you I didn’t feel like going to school? And you said you don’t have to go to school, but you have to learn something every day. So we went to the library and then we went to the park for a picnic,”
Bex: and Toni says, she remembers that Hen read three books that day, all because that little Forester girl was picking on you.
Alice: Hen’s, like, “how did you know that? I didn’t tell you.”
Bex: Toni’s just like, I’m your mother. Of course I knew.
Alice: Yeah. Um, so not gonna lie, I was very distracted in this [01:43:00] scene because Aisha just looks so good.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Like she’s having this heart to heart. I’m like heart eyed and I’m like, oh my God. Like,
Ellen: she’s gorgeous.
Alice: I think this is like the most, we’ve seen her out of uniform and she just looks so good. Like her style is so good and I’m just heart eyes the whole time. And then like I tuned back in for the, like, like the library story. So not gonna lie, I have no idea what the fuck they were talking about at the start, but, um, but yeah, Aisha looks amazing.
10 outta 10 to her stylist, 10 outta 10 to her face. Um, yes. Could just watch that scene over and over. ’cause she is looking good. Yeah.
Ellen: I don’t think it matters what she’s wearing. She always looks amazing, Aisha.
Bex: Yes, she does.
Alice: Oh, she does. But like, it’s just the, the like, the fact that she’s not in a normal uniform as well.
Ellen: Yeah, yeah.
Alice: Like she’s all like blinged up and like, looks amazing and she’s having this heart to heart and doing like acting a little heart out and I’m just like, [01:44:00] yes, the queen.
Bex: So from there we get Hen giving us the, the closing monologue or voiceover for the episode with the, like the moral of the story, which is all about neighbors.
She says that our neighbors are often our best teachers. They teach us to find joy in turbulent times. Sometimes they’re where we learn compassion and empathy. And being a good neighbor means mastering the arts of selflessness and compromise. And through this entire sort of voiceover, we are getting cuts of all of the different neighbors that we have met through this episode.
So we go back to Mother Plague, thankfully rat poison free, continuing to rock out in their garage. We see Maddie in pretty much her only like three appearances in this episode. Um, her final appearance where she and Chim are [01:45:00] going door to door and handing out their gift baskets.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: we see um, Michael working on some more of his blueprints and David being a supportive boyfriend, thankful that he’s not using the telescope to spy on his neighbors anymore.
And we check in with Joe and Don where, um, Joe is rebuilding the giant boat play set, thankfully three feet from the property line, which Don looks incredibly upset about.
Ellen: Yeah, he’s got his tape measure, but it’s definitely far enough away.
Bex: Yes, it is. Definitely. He cannot complain. It is that magical three feet from the boundary line, even if it is in the front yard again.
Yeah. And then we return to the Wilson family in time for he’s final line, which is our neighbors help define us, help us define and redefine our concept of [01:46:00] family. Um, and it is of, Toni is officially moving in with Hen and Karen.
Ellen: Yeah. And Denny and Nia are happy about it.
Alice: I dunno where she’s gonna sleep. How big is their house?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: I don’t know.
Ellen: Maybe the kids are gonna have to share a room again now, or, you know, for the first time.
Alice: I don’t think they’re allowed. Like, I’m pretty sure a condition of foster care, foster parenting
Bex: have to have their own room?
Alice: The kid have to have their, their own room. Or at least a room shared with, um, like the same gendered child. Like sibling.
Ellen: Yeah. Maybe she’s gonna sleep on the couch. I don’t know.
Bex: I mean, you’ve got Karen, who is a rocket scientist, like literally a rocket scientist and Hen who is a paramedic. And like both of those I assume make good money. Maybe they do have like a massive, massive bedrooms, like four or five bedroom house.
Alice: Yeah. They’ve got this five bedroom house with a, with one child. Um, which is why they’re like, yes, we need to have children, have more children. The house is too empty.
Bex: [01:47:00] Maybe now that they’ve got all the Christmas presents out of it, like Grammy’s gonna live up in the attic.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Um, anyway, when we get the, um, as we get the last line of the voiceover. we cut to a door opening and Buck standing on the other side because, uh, it’s Veronica’s apartment.
Bex: Why?
Alice: Which is literally just Buck’s apartment.
Bex: It’s, it’s so just Buck’s apartment, which I guess
Alice: it’s just Buck Loft with Redress, which like, it makes sense Sense because obviously they’re in the same building, but it’s just so funny because it’s just the exact same thing.
Ellen: He’s knocking on his own door
Bex: pretty much.
Alice: But yeah, Buck’s like, did, did I walk into the it is my house. Um, but yeah, so Buck decides to, you know, be an adult, um, grow up as Maddie tells him to do and says, “look, I realize we haven’t talked since our date. And I know it was kind of awkward.” Veronica agrees that it was terrible, and Buck says, “I think you’re great. And we [01:48:00] live in the same building, which could be totally weird, but it shouldn’t.”
Bex: Um, Veronica, we should note, has had an absolute 180 personality wise.
Alice: Oh yeah. She’s so happy.
Ellen: Oh yeah, she’s far more happy.
Alice: Like, she’s yeah, like so bubbly and just like, “yeah, no, like it, it was, it was terrible, but like, it absolutely shouldn’t be weird.”
And yeah, so Buck hands her a chocolate cheesecake and says, “welcome to the neighborhood.”
Bex: I also, at this point, um, that while Veronica is standing at the door talking to Buck, we can hear. There is water running somewhere in the apartment.
Alice: Oh yeah. The shower’s a hundred percent running this whole time. Yes. Um, and she’s like, “Thank you for everything. I’m so happy right now. And I weirdly owe it all to you. It’s not every day a bad date introduces you to a great guy.”
Bex: Cue the Foley artist who turns off the water running sound effect, adds in shower, curtain squeaking, open sound effect, [01:49:00]
Alice: and we get Buck going, “sorry, a what now?” And then, and the bathroom door opens
Bex: and apparently the bathroom door is like right next to the front door.
Alice: It is a Buck’s apartment too.
Bex: Yes. It’s just a weird design choice. Um, which means that Buck has a very clear view of Albert walking out of Veronica’s bathroom, wrapped with a towel wrapped around his waist and a towel wrapped around his head. And not much else.
Alice: I love the towel around his hair. Oh. Like it’s the proper, like full on like hair thing. It’s great.
Bex: Which would make sense if he had like hair. Yeah. Like if you had long hair, that’s exactly what you do. I don’t know what, whether it’s that useful if you’ve got like a buzz cut, but, okay.
Alice: Oh, I love it. I laugh so hard. Um, and yeah, he’s just like, “Hey, Veronica, I think you’re outta conditioner.” And then he and Buck just like, stare at each other, like deer caught in the headlight.
Ellen: Oh, poor Buck
Bex: Albert. There’s like this split second where Albert tries, like, looks around [01:50:00] as if he’s gonna bolt and try and hide and then realizes that it’s far too late and there’s no way that he could go.
He just has to stand there and take it. And Buck looks like Albert has just killed his bunny rabbit. He’s like, dude,
Alice: it’s so funny.
Bex: The bro code Albert’s like, dude, what you went on one date with her?
Alice: So yeah, the 20 minutes of distracting, um,
Ellen: turned into a lot more distraction.
Alice: Mm. But hey, Veronica’s very happy. So Buck should be thanking Albert. Uh, but that’s the end of the episode.
Ellen: Like, okay. So I, I loved watching this episode. But now that we’ve talked about it again, it is absolutely batshit like insane.
Alice: Oh, it’s bat shit insane. But it’s so even on a second watch, it’s so funny.
Ellen: Yeah, yeah.
Alice: Like you just can’t think about it too much. Like it’s just, it’s so dumb. I love, like Bobby in this is amazing. Yes. Like it’s, well, he’s like digging around in the garbage. It’s like lost my phone.
Bex: [01:51:00] I will quite happily continue to watch this episode. I’m just gonna switch my brain off from now on and just enjoy. Yeah. You have to enjoy the hilarity of it. Like, fast forward through the Hen storyline and just enjoy the hilarity.
Alice: Yeah. Um, just pause on Hen’s face for a bit.
Ellen: Yeah,
Alice: it was good. Like there’s, ’cause obviously like Buck’s parents coming back was really, he real heavy stuff. Um, “Jinx” was really funny. This episode’s really funny. We need that humor leading up to the last few episodes of the season.
Ellen: Oh no. Are you saying that there’s angst coming? Like
Alice: at the end of the season? No, that doesn’t happen in TV shows. What are you talking about?
Ellen: Like, I, I knew that there had to be something coming, but, oh, okay.
Alice: No, this show’s sunshine and rainbows. Nothing bad ever happens. Nobody ever gets crushed by the firetruck.
Ellen: Well, what do we have to look forward to?
Bex: Is it, uh, next? [01:52:00]
Ellen: Is it too soon to talk about the next episode already?
Bex: No. Next episode is called “Breaking Point” where, uh, I guess we’re going to see everybody reaching their breaking point. Maybe, I don’t know. The summary tells us that the 118 are called to the tarmac when a flight attendant reaches her limit with her flights passengers.
Athena discovers that quarantine has pushed a couple to their breaking point. Oh yes. We are going to have another themed episode. Uh, meanwhile,
Alice: who’d have thought?
Bex: Eddie worries that Christopher will not accept him dating, Buck… oh, there’s a comma there. Eddie worries that Christopher will not accept.
Alice: Eddie worries that Christopher will not except him dating Buck? I’m sure Christopher will be fine with that. It’s fine.
Bex: Lemme show Eddie worries that Christopher will not [01:53:00] accept him dating. Comma, new start of the sentence. Buck reconnects with an old flame and finds himself in the middle of Albert’s new relationship.
There should be another comma there. And Maddie and Chimney make a big decision about their baby.
Alice: No Buck finds himself in the middle of Albert’s new relationship and Maddie and Chimney, what is happening in this show? I don’t remember this episode at all. Um, I remember literally zero, zero memory of this episode.
Bex: I remember the, um, the flight attendant. That’s pretty much all I remember.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Triggers for this. Um, apart from potential menage a trois, um, includes
Alice: Buck that’s your sister! No.
Bex: I mean, he’s already tried to get the shower with her once
Alice: He thought it was Eddie this time. [01:54:00]
Bex: Triggers for this episode include claustrophobia, specifically being sealed behind a, I don’t remember that, being sealed behind the wall.
Alice: I remember none of this,
Bex: um, domestic violence. There is no specifics on that. Uh, the foster care system, which I’m pretty sure just means Nia, um, minor gore for a champagne cork embedded in a man’s neck, and needles, specifically people being vaccinated.
Alice: It was a really good, yeah bridging episode.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Nice and lighthearted
Ellen: like it could have… Okay. I, without knowing the re what happens in the rest of the season, um, it feels like it could have gone anywhere in the season. Like there was nothing in it that was particularly relating to any long storylines? Actually.
Okay. So I guess Hen’s mom had to arrive at some point and she’s hanging around for a bit, so at least, but [01:55:00] yeah. Okay. Maybe I won’t make that comment until I’ve seen some more episodes.
Bex: I’m just thinking, and I don’t really,
Alice: no, she’s around.
Bex: She’s around.
Alice: I don’t know about the rest of the season, but she’s around.
Bex: It’s not a significant, like, it doesn’t kick off a particularly important story arc. It’s just more like, oh, we need to, in, we need to do something with Hen that’s not giving her a child or, um, having her cheat. So let’s bring back a family member and we’ve already done the dead dad, so that leaves the mother.
Ellen: Oh my goodness. Um, all right. Well, please do let us know what you thought of this episode. Um, did you think it was as crazy as we did? Tell us your thoughts on the chaos, uh, trio in, um, Michael’s apartment,
Alice: Athena’s husbands and her husband’s boyfriend,
Ellen: Athena’s chaos. Uh, men, you can leave us a comment on thatweewooshow.com or [01:56:00] in Spotify or on social media, wherever you would like to leave us a comment.
Please do. And, um. Our website also has lots of ways that you can subscribe to the podcast and follow us and let it let you know when we post new episodes because occasionally they might be far between at the moment, but
Bex: slightly delayed.
Ellen: But, uh, hopefully, hopefully we’re on, we’re back on track at the moment.
We’ll see. We’ll see. Hopefully, um, we’ve only got a few episodes in this season to go so soon we’ll need everyone to start sending us some feedback for the whole season. So if you have feedback already for season four, you can let us know.
Alice: It seems so weird to be asking for it in episode seven.
Ellen: I know,
Alice: but it’s just a short season. Like, we’re halfway through.
Ellen: Yeah, no need to send us that yet. That’s crazy yet, but you know, if, start collecting your thoughts. Um, so thank you for listening this week and we will talk to you next time about episode eight, which is called “Breaking [01:57:00] Point”. See you then.
Bex: Bye.
Alice: Bye.
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