Season 4 Wrap

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In this episode we break down and discuss the whole of Season 4.

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Top nonsensical 9-1-1 calls for season 4:

• 4×14 – Survivors – Construction Foreman: I’m calling from a construction site downtown. One of my guys got pinned by a cable. He’s way up there on the crane!
• 4×13 – Suspicion – Bride’s Mother: We have several
• 4×12 – Treasure Hunt – Dad: Uh, yeah, I think somebody is trapped on a cliff? Out here in Malibu Creek Park? 
• 4×11 – First Responders – Josh: Um, hi. This is Josh Russo. I’m stuck on the 32nd floor of a building that may or may not be on fire and I’m all alone up here.
• [WINNER OF BEST 911 CALL = Guard: I’m at Fields Market on 3rd and La Brea. There’s a woman in the parking lot, she’s been hit by a car, it’s real bad]
• 4×10 – Parenthood – Bryson: My mom’s pinned to the donkey!
• 4×09 – Blindsided – Jacob: Hello? Is this the 911? The one that helps people? (Also – Man later revealed to be Albert: There’s a car on the freeway, it’s going the wrong – THUMP. DIALTONE)
• 4×07 – There Goes the Neighbourhood – Reed: They’re bleeding from their faces!
• Man: Help! We’re under attack! He came out of nowhere! He jumped right at us! He slashed my wife’s face! ( Scream on phone ) 
• Sgt Raynard: Yes, ma’am, this is Sgt Raynard out of Fort Irwin in Barstow. We have inadvertently mis-deployed a joint light tactical vehicle in a residential area of Los Angeles.
• Michael: There’s a woman. She’s hurt. She’s bleeding pretty badly. We’re over at the Brosnan Lofts…
• 4×06 – Jinx – Female Caller: Jim’s gone crazy!
• 4×04 – 911, What’s Your Grievance – Delilah: Armed hooligans are running down the street, they just shot at me!
• 4×03 – Future Tense – Justine: Hi, can you please send an ambulance to 6643 Mapleton Drive? A man has been… injured. 
• Teller: I’m calling from CalAm bank on Beverly Glen, our banks been robbed!
• Woman: HELP ME! I’VE GONE BLIND!
• 4×01 – The New Abnormal – Janell: The dam at the Hollywood Reservoir. It’s coming apart! The damn dam is coming down! 

Mentioned in the episode:

• Thanks for the link, Divyesh: Article about woman stuck between windows trying to retrieve her poop (yes, it was based on a real story, omg)

Episode Transcript

Maddie: [00:00:00] 9-1-1. What’s your emergency?

Ellen: Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show, a podcast where we watch and discuss episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1. I’m Ellen.

Alice: I’m Alice,

Bex: and I’m Bex.

Ellen: Welcome to our season four wrap up. It’s been a a couple of weeks since we’ve like ended season four, but that’s okay. We’ve been like, you know, having a think about all of our favorite and least favorite parts of this season and we are ready to talk about them.

Um, thank you everybody who has sent us feedback about this season or, um, comments throughout this season. We really love that people have been listening and engaging. Um, we’re gonna talk about some of those, uh, feedback items. In a bit. But first, uh, let’s hear what [00:01:00] happened this season in 9-1-1.

Alice: Yeah. So season four on 9-1-1, Maddie was pregnant. COVID happened. A dam broke. Chim delivered a baby underground, May joined dispatch, Buck pranked Eddie with a smart home. A woman died during a block party after being spooked by a corgi in a locked gate mystery, Buck began then was jinxed. Ravi was introduced. Bobby and Michael became armchair telescope detectives.

Eddie hooked up with Ana and Buck reunited with my beloved Taylor Kelly. Albert almost died in a freeway pile up while his niece was born. Hen and Karen broke some laws after becoming fo foster parents, but having to allow the kid to be re reunited with her birth mother, Sue was hit by a car and we had a mini Josh begins, the gang found treasure, and Eddie and Buck had a lovely discussion on a road where nothing bad happened,

Ellen: and then Eddie was okay.

Alice: Everything was fine. Nothing bad happened,

Ellen: everything was fine. Yeah.

Alice: There was no blood in anyone’s mouths.

Ellen: That’s a, a great rundown of what [00:02:00] actually happened in this entire season. Thank you. Uh, okay, so this season did only have 14 episodes, so it’s a bit shorter than others, but, you know, plenty happened still.

Alice: Plenty did happen.

Ellen: I don’t even know where to start.

Bex: I, I, I don’t know either. Um, why don’t we start by maybe going, like, round each character discussing what happened to them specifically this season.

Ellen: Okay.

Bex: Who, who are we gonna start with? Um, let’s, we go oldest to youngest. We’ll start with Bobby. Um, who,

Ellen: okay.

Bex: Who really didn’t have a lot this season. I struggled to actually think of any major story arc for him. He was there the entire season, but as a background kind of supporting, like he supported everybody through [00:03:00] this season. He just didn’t really step up maybe.

Ellen: He was dad,

Alice: he was Captain Dad,

Bex: he was, he was Captain Dad. Um, I did love the, uh, the bestie-ism with Michael. Um,

Alice: yeah, I love that. That was great.

Bex: The, um, the armchair detectives with Michael and then the whole, um, like competitive Pictionary that they had going on. Oh yeah. I really, I really like that. Um, but yeah, we didn’t, it wasn’t really until sort of the end of this season when we had the, uh, the fight with him and Athena that, you know, Peter Kraus actually got a chance to really shine.

Ellen: Yeah. So I think having overall having less episodes this season, um, because of, you know, the COVID delays. Right. That was the reason that they, they couldn’t start filming right away, so they had to compress the season. Is that correct?

Bex: Yeah, let’s go with that. [00:04:00]

Ellen: Okay. Maybe one of the reasons? Um, it feels like they probably had to compress a lot of the storyline that they had planned for this season, potentially.

Um, and that means that some characters probably didn’t get much as much attention as they may have previously. And Bobby maybe was one of those. I feel like maybe Hen was another one? She didn’t really have much to do in this season, or maybe May. Well, okay. That’s not true. The, the foster care thing seemed to go on and on for

Bex: Yes.

Ellen: Way too many episodes. So maybe she did have it, but,

Bex: but no, you’re, you’re. I think that, that’s a good point. When you’ve only got 14 episodes, um, it’s hard to give every single character, uh, equal airtime, especially when you have, um, very important, very dramatic, very overarching storylines like the Buckley storyline, um, that took, what, three, three episodes [00:05:00] for the, uh, the Big Dark Buckley Family Secret? Um,

Alice: yeah, that was, yeah,

Bex: so that, you know, that’s automatically sort of three episodes that you can’t focus on any other characters. So, um, but I do like that even though the characters might not have had their time in the spotlight, they at least were still there. It wasn’t like they just

Ellen: Oh, yeah.

Bex: Dropped off the face of the earth for, uh, multiple episodes or they were just relegated to being like exposition paramedic in the corner. They were still there.

Ellen: No, Bobby was definitely dad-ing everybody. Um,

Bex: yes.

Ellen: So if we are gonna talk about Bobby and his one sort of main storyline, we probably have to also then to go on to talk about Athena.

Bex: Yes. Because her storyline was tied in with Bobby’s storyline.

Ellen: Yeah, yeah. In a way the, um, their fight, like in the last [00:06:00] episode, the last two episodes, I guess. Yeah. Like it was right over the, the end of 13. The beginning of 14.

Bex: Yeah.

Ellen: It felt like it at the time. It kind of felt like it came out of nowhere, but it had been building up a little bit in the last, like maybe two episodes. Like it wasn’t something that had been building up for the whole season, I don’t think necessarily.

Bex: I think it was, it was present at the beginning of the season when Athena came back to work after being attacked, and then it, it kind of just wasn’t addressed.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: They dropped that storyline until they got to the end of the season. I went, oh wait, hang on. We’ve got this loose thread. Maybe we should do something with it. So they picked it back up again.

Alice: Yeah. We should probably deal with this before the, like before next season.

Bex: Yeah.

Ellen: Yeah. And uh, you know, the rest of the season, like Bobby and Athena were just a unit basically. Like there was no, they were just always there for May or for whoever needed them, for Buck. Um, [00:07:00] yeah.

But they did, there was, there didn’t really seem to be any friction until like the last couple of episodes when they actually had this fight about not speak, not communicating with each other. So I’m not sure if that was, uh, written in a believable kind of way to start with. When I saw it the first time, I was like, why are they fighting about this?

But yeah, it doesn’t make sense when you, when you do think back to when after she came back to work and hadn’t really said anything to Bobby that we knew about.

Alice: That’s it. That was just not enough communication because she is used to working alone and like this is, when did they get married? Was it the end of season two?

Ellen: Yes?

Bex: Yes?

Alice: Yeah. So they’re still very early into the marriage as well.

Ellen: Yeah. But they’ve been living together for at least two years, right? No, hang on the end of season. Yeah. Two years. I don’t know.

Bex: Like everything else with this show, it’s for the drama. It is a, a soap opera, dramatic kind of [00:08:00] show.

Alice: So it is definitely, yeah.

Bex: They have to make things dramatic.

Ellen: Yeah. And they do try to draw every character into some kind of drama. So if, if Bobby and Athena don’t have any drama coming going on, they have to like invent something.

Bex: They have to make it.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: Even if it is unlikely drama, such as Bobby deciding to sponsor the woman who, uh, who almost too k***ed a lot of people. Cause a lot of people pain. Um, and nearly k***ed Albert.

Ellen: Yeah. Interesting decision.

Bex: Yeah. So we mentioned Hen so let’s jump over to her then. Yeah. She pretty much just had, uh, she had the, her mother coming back, which was tied in with the going to med school. And then the fostering storyline,

Alice: which I feel like we’ve already been vocalized, like vocal about the foster.

Bex: I think [00:09:00] everybody knows exactly how we feel about the fostering storyline.

Ellen: Yes. Yeah, we don’t really need to hash that out again I don’t think, but no, it was just a little bit overdone. Um, but yeah, the med school thing did it, it got mentioned in quite a lot of episodes, but you know, I, I think Was she, was she doing it at the beginning of the season or did it start partway through? I’m trying to remember when she started doing that.

Alice: Started last season, I’m pretty sure. ’cause it was after the cello player.

Ellen: Oh yeah. So she just was studying through all of this season. I guess we, um, it’s gonna take her quite a number of years to actually get to a point where she could go and do like doctor things rather than be a paramedic.

So, um, in theory, like I know that by now she hasn’t actually left the, you know, 118. So something will happen in, in the meantime. But I don’t know what that is yet. I [00:10:00] like, I love that she’s doing it, it make it, it does add an extra sort of thing for her to do that isn’t like, you know, cheating or

Alice: stalking foster parents?

Ellen: Stalking people, yeah. Um, but I mean, she’s so good with the, like, the kids and everything, like she’s so lovely with them that I can, like the fostering thing apart from her little tantrum about having to give Nia back was actually really sweet in general. Um, yeah, it was just unfortunate how that actually played out.

Bex: I, I do think that, uh, now would be a good time to add in some comments from, um, our listeners that we got, uh, this one from Kiera, who is dogmomkiera over on Blue Sky and one of our, uh, constant commenters. We, we love Kiera.

Ellen: Yeah. Thank you Kiera!

Bex: She specifically made a comment about Hen going to med school. And I will, I’ll read the comment out. She says, um, she has a whole rant about Hen going to med school. She herself has never been [00:11:00] to med school but went to veterinary school and that was more than a full-time job in itself.

There is absolutely no way Hen could have worked 24 hour shifts while doing med school. Kiara said she barely got 12 hours at a time away from that place for four years, especially once clinics started. “There are way more med schools and vet schools, so maybe some have flexible scheduling options. But my experience had me calling bullshit every time med school came up,” which I do kind of agree with.

I’m sure that there were some, uh, avenues for Hen to get out of some classes because of her paramedic training, like recognition of prior learning. Um

Ellen: mm-hmm.

Bex: But yeah, I don’t think that she could have done full-time firefighting.

Alice: No. Even on the show, it seemed like she was just doing med school like once a month. Like when they remembered, they were like, oh shit. Like she should go to a class this week.

Bex: Yeah. Every so often she’d be sitting up in the kitchen with a textbook like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s [00:12:00] just all distance learning,

Ellen: I feel. Or like in the break room, like reading something. Yeah. But, and she, we, I think we only saw her in class like one time. Right?

Alice: Literally once. Yeah. And then she was studying, like when her mom had the,

Bex: the triple A?

Alice: I was gonna say, was it a heart attack? Yeah.

Bex: No, it was the, uh, abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Alice: Yeah. That’s the one.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: Yeah. So it’s, it’s, it’s definitely one of those, they, the thread was there and they’d drop it when it wasn’t, um, when it made the storyline too difficult and then they’d go, oh wait, she’s supposed to be in med school. We better have just have, um, Aisha walk across set with a textbook in her hands or something just to remind everybody.

Alice: Yeah. Aisha, hold this for a minute. Yeah.

Ellen: I mean, there’s, going back to that limited amount of time in this season.

Bex: Okay. So that’s Bobby, Athena. Hen… Chim would be next.

Ellen: Chim and Maddie’s story goes together. [00:13:00]

Bex: Paul Ma like, okay, let’s go with Maddie’s. ’cause Maddie’s is really, um, Maddie herself was pretty much, it was just she was pregnant. Yeah. Her storyline was, she was pregnant.

Ellen: Yeah. She had a lot of storyline in the last season, so

Bex: Very true. And she does, her storyline does kind of dovetail with Buck’s with the whole Buckley family secret that comes up and that also ties in with Chim’s because he is now part of the Buckley family. Um

Ellen: mm-hmm.

Bex: Whether he wants to be or not.

Alice: Um, I was gonna say, sucks to be Chim.

Bex: So there sort of those three sort of all very inextricably tied up with one another for this season. They didn’t have a lot of sort of standalone stories just about them. But we have seen a lot of Maddie centric and Chim centric episodes in previous seasons. Um, and they still had, they still had episodes where they got to, or parts of episodes where they got to stand out, like Chim um, [00:14:00] telling the, the mad bomber, his, like the deep, but spilling his guts about secret. The Buckley Family, family Secret

Alice: That was so funny

Bex: to the bomber, just lulling this bomber into a false sense of security so he could disarm them and be an absolute badass. That was, that was brilliant.

Alice: And the bomber is also just like, what the fuck is wrong with this family?

Bex: I think that’s Chim’s highlight for this season.

Alice: Oh, it was great.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: Um, and my, um, honorary mention would be him stepping up as Captain Han for just like 30 seconds in, um, in “Survivors”, but like, he hated being Captain Han.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: But the fact that Bobby wasn’t there,

Ellen: but he had no choice. He had to,

Bex: he had to step up. Yeah.

Ellen: So he did.

Bex: And he is like, I’m Captain Han. I am in charge.

Alice: I’m Spartacus!

Bex: We’re not doing, I’m Spartacus.

Alice: No, I really am Captain Han. [00:15:00]

Ellen: Yeah. He had a great season.

Bex: Yeah.

Alice: Um, speaking of the Buckley Family Secret, should we go to Buck?

Bex: Yeah. Let’s, let’s deal with him. That’s pretty much his.

Alice: That was Chim. Yeah.

Bex: Yeah. Poor Buck. I feel like the fact that this episode that his, that story arc, um, combined with the fact that we got a “Buck Begins” this season,

Alice: finally. Yeah.

Bex: Finally, it feels like this season is very Buck heavy. Like this was Buck’s season.

Alice: Yeah.

Ellen: But having said that, he didn’t. He, his “Buck Begins” and the episodes either side of that were kind of the only like real Buck centric episodes. But he was just in everything. He was in every, he was everywhere in other episodes as well. He just didn’t have like his own kind of, this is what’s happening with me kind of storyline.

Alice: Yeah. Like he in therapy, um, [00:16:00] Albert moved in with him as well.

Bex: He started dating.

Alice: He did.

Ellen: Yep. He had this friendship with Taylor Kelly.

Alice: Yeah, he did reunite the friendship. Like well start the friendship really, ’cause they weren’t really friends and then they became friends and now they’re

Ellen: something.

Alice: Yep. Who knows?

Ellen: Friends with benefits maybe. Yeah. I don’t know. I’m trying to remember what else actually he did it in this season that was like just him. But he was, in everything…

Bex: It was the Buckley Family, family Secret. He was dating, he was with Taylor. Otherwise he was just there. But I don’t know, maybe it’s, maybe it’s

Ellen: with Eddie and Chris.

Bex: Because like with,

Alice: I mean the Buckley family secret was a big thing. Yeah. I find out his whole background and like how he only got attention when he hurt himself and that sort of thing. So

Bex: maybe it’s because like Buck’s my baby and I love him so much that I, and I, I will, I will confess that, you know, I, this has happened [00:17:00] before where I focus so hard on the Buck and the Eddie aspects of episodes that I forget how badly an episode sucks because everything else just completely disappears from my brain.

So perhaps I am, you know, looking at this season through sort of like Buck colored glasses. And so all I can see is his episode. So that’s why it feels like it’s such a Buck centric season, but. But I do. Yeah, I think that that the whole, the Buckley family secret and the fact that they kind of dragged it out over three episodes adds weight to it.

Ellen: Yeah. I loved that.

Bex: It wasn’t a one episode drop. It was, we are gonna tease it at the end of one episode, we’re gonna have the second episode, which is Chim going crazy, trying to hide this secret. And we are meeting the, the Buckley parents, and then we get “Buck Begins” and that wraps it all up.

Ellen: I thought that particular arc was so well done. Actually, I don’t know if we wanna talk about it now, may as well while we’re talking about Buck, but

Bex: yeah,

Ellen: considering that I had not, I had no idea what was coming. I had not [00:18:00] been spoiled for that at all. Uh, the way that they kind of drew it out and just kept the secret until, like, I had all sorts of ideas going on. But, um, yeah, really well done and, and a good reveal and like a satisfying kind of conclusion to the whole thing.

Bex: I think that’s what makes me so mad about this show sometimes is because they will do storylines like that, where they draw them out and they repeal back the layers and they reveal it so brilliantly and it stretches over episodes and it’s like peak television and then the next episode will suck.

Alice: Yeah.

Bex: And you’re just like, but no, you can be so good when you want to be. You have the capability of being so good.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: And then you’re not.

Ellen: Well, that’s serial television. We went through 15 years of it, or however long. 15 seasons of it.

Bex: Yes.

Ellen: But I feel like Buck did have a great sort [00:19:00] of, uh, development arc in this season anyway, because he, you know, got started going to therapy and he kind of, made some progress with his parents who he hadn’t really spoken to at all before, or been speaking to, and now apparently they’re going to therapy together. Yeah. Which has gotta be more traumatizing than, you know, not,

Bex: and then he throws away all that progress after Eddie gets sh**.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: Because he goes from, from, you know, Buck whatever version we’re up to, to suddenly I’m completely expendable. I am going to risk everything.

Alice: Everything. Yeah.

Ellen: Yeah. I’m gonna risk

Bex: to protect everybody, risk

Ellen: myself because everyone else can’t get hurt. Yeah.

Bex: Yeah. I’m going to climb the, the endless ladder, um, because it doesn’t matter if I die,

Ellen: but it’s okay because Eddie brought it all back again by the power of his blood.

Bex: No, he anointed, [00:20:00] he anointed Buck with his blood.

Ellen: No, with the power of his will. Literally. Um. Let’s go on.

Bex: Both literal and figurative.

Ellen: And brought Buck back to the ground and like, you know, just made it so that he knew that he wasn’t expendable and there were people who needed him and who wanted him around and who loved him even though those words were not spoken.

Bex: Basically blackmailed him into, you can’t go and get sh** because you have a kid now. I’ve made it legal. I know you considered Christopher your kid ever since you first saw him, but now he’s legally your kid.

Alice: Yeah.

Bex: Should anything happen to me and thus birthed an entire trope of Buddie fanfics.

Ellen: Yes. Yes. Actually, that’s, it’s been a few, couple of weeks since we last recorded. That is one thing we have been doing. Reading a lot of fan fiction. Thank you. It’s been great.

Bex: I’m just sitting here, just tossing them [00:21:00] at Ellen and go read this one. Read this one.

Ellen: Yes.

Bex: So I guess now would be the right time to discuss Edmundo. Um,

Ellen: sure.

Bex: Who I, I did, I went back and I pulled what your predictions were going to be for season four, um, Ellen.

Ellen: Mm-hmm.

Bex: And you did predict that there would be a love interest for either Buck or Eddie or both.

Alice: Hey, there you go.

Ellen: Yeah. I dunno if I had foreknowledge of any of that, but

Bex: specifically it was a love interest that was not each other, like a separate female love interest. Um, so yes. And so lo and behold, we get the return of Ana Flores, which was pretty much all Eddie did this season. He like grappled with dating Ana, and then getting sh**.

Alice: Yep. That was about it. Yep.

Ellen: Yeah, I don’t like. Okay, so maybe I blocked this [00:22:00] from my mind because Ana is just a very boring character, but, um, was he having trouble deciding to, to go on dates with her because of Chris, or was it because he was guilty about Shannon? I can’t remember what the reasoning was,

Bex: I think I vaguely remember the end of, is it “Jinx”? When the dude stole the firetruck? Was that “Jinx”?

Ellen: Oh, I can’t remember which.

Bex: Hang on, hang on, hang on. Let me just check. ’cause it was a,

Alice: yeah, “Jinx” was the one where he reconnected with Ana.

Bex: Yes. So there was a moment where he and Bobby had a, mo had a, a little heart to heart in the kitchen that night where, um,

Ellen: that’s right. Yeah.

Bex: Eddie was feeling guilty about moving on from Shannon.

Ellen: Yeah, that was the one serious part in that whole hilarious episode.

Bex: Yes. Where that was, that was a, that was a really a touching like dad moment from [00:23:00] Bobby. Um, and just like a nice moment between the two of them.

Ellen: Yeah. ’cause he was saying like, you’ll never stop missing them, but yes, you kind of need to move on and have some happiness yourself as well.

Bex: But then it’s when, so there was the, the struggle just to start dating anyone, but then Carla brought up the, are you dating Ana because you actually wanna date Ana, or are you dating Ana because Chris likes her.

Alice: Yeah.

Bex: Like she’s good with Chris.

Ellen: Yeah. And then suddenly he went, Eddie went, actually, you know what? I don’t really like her all that much, but as evidenced by the fact that we never actually kissed on camera or like touched each other.

Alice: Or hooked up, or looked at each other.

Bex: Yes. So Alice, uh, where did you, where did that come from? Alice dropped a comment in the group chat.

Alice: Oh, it was Reddit

Bex: A couple of days ago that she saw Yeah. Saw somebody on Reddit said that we never see Ana and Eddie kiss [00:24:00] and, um, it, and it is true. They, they barely, there is like a kiss on the cheek. That’s as far as they get on camera this season.

Ellen: Oh my God. And the one thing, the one time they fake out and we think that they’re actually getting it on and they’re, it turns out they’re just doing maths.

Alice: They’re doing maths. Yep.

Bex: Yeah.

Ellen: Anyway, so Eddie still has issues?

Bex: Unfortunately, yes. He, he still has lots of issues. Um,

Ellen: I don’t Is he, is he still going to therapy? Like he was

Bex: Oh, he needs to be

Ellen: at the end of last season.

Bex: He’s he’s probably not.

Alice: Yeah, he, he probably should be.

Bex: He definitely needs to be, but I’m going to say no.

Ellen: Alright. So yeah. Then obviously at the end of the season he got sh** and nearly died. It Buck freaked out and so did everyone else, but Buck most of all. And then

Bex: mm-hmm.

Ellen: He revealed that previously after the well incident he [00:25:00] had made, um, Buck Chris’s guardian in the will, and yes, I was shocked at his audacity at doing so.

Bex: Buck was also shocked at his audacity. Um,

Alice: he was indeed,

Ellen: yeah, but of course he was not gonna say no.

Bex: No. Um, I think we do need to shout out that season four we get the introduction of everybody’s favorite Probie. Ravi.

Alice: Ravi!

Bex: Very excited to see Ravi again.

Ellen: He was only in a couple of episodes, but he made a big impact already.

Alice: It was funny ’cause the first time I watched it I was just like, I don’t understand who this guy is. And now like that, I know his story. Going back I was like, oh my God, it’s my baby Ravi. Look how little he is and scared of Buck he is.

Bex: I think that’s pretty much like, like, um, Alice said it’s just the side characters, so. Yeah. Um, like, sorry, May, I’m really not that interested in the fact that you like, decided not to go to college and started [00:26:00] working at dispatch.

Alice: She also Yeah. She didn’t reconnected with, um, with the girl who

Bex: Yeah, but that all happened off camera.

Alice: Yeah, true.

Ellen: Yeah. It was a passing kind of remark, but she moved out.

Bex: True. And that whole reconnecting with, um, the high school chick was just to precipitate the fight with Athena, which then led to the re-listening to the 9-1-1 call and which nobody cared about unfortunately. Um, ’cause it just came in the wrong episode.

Alice: Yeah, we already did that.

Ellen: And we had, Albert did, did we, did Albert arrive in season three? Or I can’t remember when.

Bex: Yes.

Alice: Yeah, because he was living with. Him? No, he was living with Maddie. He was living with Maddie at the start of the season. Well, Chim lived with Buck and then they swapped.

Bex: Yes,

Ellen: that’s right. Yeah. Yeah. That God, those, those COVID episodes seem like so long ago.

Alice: [00:27:00] They were so long ago.

Bex: So yes. But now he’s no longer just, um, Chim’s annoying little brother. He is now a probationary firefighter in his own right.

Alice: He is.

Ellen: I feel like Albert almost had more to do in this season than like Bobby, because he was like, he was there all the time when

Alice: he almost died.

Ellen: He was living in Buck’s apartment. So he was there at Buck’s all the time. And then

Bex: He was, he was there for most of the Buckley family secret stuff because

Ellen: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bex: Chim’s like, if I’m part of the Buckley family, you are also therefore by default part of the Buckley family and Albert’s like, fuck that. I’m not.

Ellen: And then he had his accident and then he was at like Chim and Maddie’s place recovering and then, yes. You know, now he’s a firefighter so he is yeah, he had like a big season.

Bex: Yeah. Go Albert.

Ellen: Yeah. We love, we love Albert so that’s fine.

Bex: We do love Albert.

Ellen: That’s totally glamor. The more the cast, the better.

Bex: Not just ’cause he is [00:28:00] Australian maybe a little bit. ’cause he is Australian.

Alice: Maybe he’s a little bit ’cause he’s Australia. Yeah, definitely somewhat because he is Australian.

Ellen: Um, and the other person on the list is Michael, who like

Alice: got a telescope

Ellen: we’re not sure how long he’d been going out with David, but they moved in together, um, during COVID, quite swiftly, after

Bex: COVID had a great way of, um, it was the great relationship equalizer.

Alice: Yeah.

Ellen: Um, and then he went, yeah, a little bit crazy with his telescope, but you know. That was very funny. So it’s allowed,

Bex: that was a fun episode, so we’ll allow him go.

Alice: That was a great episode.

Bex: Go a little bit nuts there. Uh,

Ellen: yeah, actually we hardly saw any of Michael in this season, right? Like he was there.

Alice: No, we saw a fair bit of Michael. We hardly saw

Bex: No, he was always there

Alice: he was. Yeah. Like he would have breakfast with Athena and Bobby and like,

Bex: like as much as we said

Ellen: Yeah that’s right

Bex: that as much as we said that Albert was kind of always there. Michael was kind of always there just [00:29:00] hanging around Athena’s and with the kids.

Alice: Yeah. Michael had nothing better to do. ’cause David was clearly at the, um, hospital a lot.

Ellen: He was working a whole lot. So Michael just invited himself over dinner for dinner. All the, or breakfast or whatever. Yes. All of the time he had to, you know, hang out with his bestie. I, I, I love their bestie-ism. It’s so funny.

Alice: It’s so good.

Bex: I think it’s just nice to see like male friendship.

Ellen: Yep.

Bex: On the screen.

Alice: Like, like actual male friendship. Yes. And not whatever the fuck Buck and Eddie have going on.

Bex: Yes, exactly. Like there there’s no,

Ellen: but can you either have the, like the homoerotic relationship or you have like the chaos twin energy, like there’s no in between. Anyway. It’s great. I love it. Whatever’s happening. It’s great.

Uh, speaking about whatever the fuck is going on with Buck and Eddie. Um, let’s [00:30:00] circle back to that, shall we?

Sure. I don’t have any specific Buddie related notes, though.

Bex: The whole season is Buddie related notes.

Alice: The whole, yeah, the whole season is Buddie.

Ellen: Um, did you want to mention again how like Ryan and Oliver were not very good friends during the season filming?

Bex: Um, I will always talk about the bullshit that was the behind the scenes of season four, because I think it’s absolutely hilarious when, because when you got, that’s so funny because you’ve got, on the one hand you’ve got, um, like the conspiracy theory that all of the storylines of season four were leading up to Buck canonically being coming out as queer in season four, which would have then possibly led on to Buddie becoming canon.

So you had that happening in season four, but meanwhile behind the scenes, Oliver and Ryan just absolutely despising each other. Um. I will [00:31:00] flag that if you are not a fan of real person fan fiction and para socialism, probably stop listening for a few minutes. ’cause I’m gonna go off on a tangent.

I’m just gonna be spitballing stuff here. Come back in a couple of minutes. Uh, if you enjoy real person fan fiction and para socialism, then stick around and, uh, listen to the conspiracy theories ’cause they’re hilarious and fun. Um, but yeah,

Ellen: go on and tell us

Bex: the fact that they just, they just weren’t talking for most of the filming of season four, and yet they’ve got the most intense scenes together during season four. It just, you have,

Alice: At least in the last half of season four because it took a little bit to get there.

Bex: But even the sort of discounting, maybe the first episode of season four, where they literally put Ryan on a rooftop away from everybody else for that episode. [00:32:00] Um, so he didn’t have, so he wasn’t interacting with the rest of the cast. Watching season four, you would not have known that anything was going on behind the scenes.

Ellen: No,

Bex: because the cast was such consummate professionals that they were acting well together on camera. It wasn’t a Good Wife situation where you could tell that something was going on where they had to film everybody separately.

They were still acting and interacting well on camera. Um, which I think just goes to their professionalisms. They might, might not have been friends off camera, but when they were on camera Buck and like Ryan and Oliver might not been in friends, but Buck and Eddie still remained friends through this season.

Ellen: Mm. Yeah. It helped that, um, that Buck and Chris had so many scenes together and you know, called each other and did stuff together as well, that helped to cement the kind of, the feeling that everything was fine.

Bex: Yes.

Ellen: And they’re all getting on well,

Alice: yeah. ’cause Chris ran away to Buck this season, didn’t he? With the Ana stuff? Yeah.

Bex: Yes. [00:33:00] Yeah, he, he, the storyline was that he stole Eddie’s phone and called an Uber and, and ran to Buck’s.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: And so like, so you had, you know, Eddie dating Ana and leaving Buck as babysitter and he had that scene where, um, like he comes home and, and Buck is waiting for him after the date.

Alice: Oh my God, yes.

Bex: And like the, just the, the connection that they had in that scene, you wouldn’t know that. They might not have been talking like it might have been the director yells, cut and those two go to their separate trailers.

Alice: Yeah.

Bex: You wouldn’t, you wouldn’t know from what was going on on camera,

Ellen: even though at that point, um. Eddie just sort of went, okay, bye and Buck let himself out. Like he didn’t, they didn’t say goodbye at the door or anything, so it was a little abrupt, but yes, it was very familiar. Yeah. Wasn’t it? Bless him. And then it was whatever the hell went on in the final episode, [00:34:00] we already just went on about that last, in the last episode. So,

Bex: yeah. So apparently if you, um, if you have two cast members who are, are not getting along, just um, lock them in a very intense scene and have one of them have to bodily lift the other one and drag him around for like hours on end for a couple of days. Apparently that solves everything.

Ellen: But they also like get the, I feel like their directing blocks them together a lot anyway. Like when they’re going to calls together, they’re always doing stuff.

Bex: Oh yeah.

Ellen: Close together. I mean, they are, I guess, partners at work.

Bex: I mean, even the dialogue whenever they’re having at a, at a scene, um, and Buck, uh, Bobby is barking out orders. It’s, um, it’s Buck-and-Eddie as one unit, Buck-and-Eddie, go and do this. Buck-and-Eddie. Go and do that.

Ellen: Mm-hmm. The show is trying so hard. Ah, this is Supernatural all over again. [00:35:00] Um, okay. So then in “Treasure Hunt” when, um, Buck and Taylor are like trying to, you know, team up and then, and Eddie’s like between them looking really pouty

Bex: Eddie’s sulking in the back.

Ellen: Yes. So good.

Bex: Which again, you, you could probably just say that, you know, it’s the bestie-ism, he’s just annoyed that his best friend, but I’m choosing to slither on my makeup and, um,

Alice: the clown makeup is on

Bex: the clown makeup is on. And that’s not why he was upset that, um, Buck and Taylor were trying to solve the riddle without him hunt for treasure, without him.

Ellen: I’m looking through the, um, list of episodes on Wikipedia going because like the, the episode descriptions are like really, um,

Bex: unhelpful.

Ellen: No, no, they, they’re, they will mention if something happens with, in the final episode it says, “following the sh**ting Buck [00:36:00] takes care of Christopher while dealing with his own pain over almost losing Eddie.” it’s just, it’s a very romantic fiction description.

Alice: I know, right?

Ellen: Oh yeah. “Eddie and Buck team up with Taylor Kelly to find the treasure despite Eddie’s dislike of Buck and Taylor’s new friendship.” Why is that, Eddie?

Bex: Uh, so before we move on to discussing, uh, sort of our, the highs and lows, the least favorite and most favorite parts of the season, uh, we might just go through some of the, uh, comments that we got from our listeners.

Return back to Kiera because Kiera left us like a very long comment.

Alice: Kiera left us a nice novel. It was great.

Ellen: Was amazing.

Alice: It’s hard this season because we were sort of doing the comments as we went rather than collecting them. Um, because we had some gaps. We sort of caught up. We didn’t have to collect them for the end of season wrap up, but, um. [00:37:00] But yeah, we very much appreciate Kiera’s novel.

Bex: I’m, it’s, it’s the, uh, the annotated version of the novel. Uh, we’ve already discussed Kiera’s thoughts on Hen and med school, so I’m just very quickly

Ellen: the abridged version.

Bex: The abridged version. That’s the word I was looking for. Thank you. So Kiera writes, uh, “it feels like it’s been so long since the mudslide” and yeah, I completely forgot what the opening emergency for season four was.

Um, but this season also feels like it’s so short. Highlights for Kiera definitely include “Jinx”. It’s such a fun episode. Uh, she also really,

Alice: Heck yeah!

Bex: she also really enjoyed it, um, “Blindsided”. Uh, she said, “I think they do an amazing job at the tension between Jee being born and Albert almost dying.” Um, yes. She says, “I feel like Buck goes through so much trauma this season with finding out about Daniel and his parents being awful. The quote, ‘love me anyway’, will always make me sob.” And yes, I think [00:38:00] we discussed that I am incapable of watching that scene without crying as well.

Ellen: Mm-hmm.

Bex: Um, and then having Eddie sh** right in front of him. Shout out to blood in the mouth, then having to go and tell Chris feeling like he’s the one who should have been sh**, but being Buck not Chris.

Um, “I just wanna hug him and kiss his fort and tell him that he is so loved.” Um, I think this one, this comment is for Alice because Kiera then goes on to say, “I didn’t remember how much I enjoyed Taylor until I started listening to the episodes,” which I’m going to credit as Alice’s Alice is doing because she loves Taylor.

Alice: Um, that’s it. Taylor is we, um, support women, women’s rights and women’s wrongs wrong.

Ellen: That’s right.

Bex: Um, “Taylor is smart, sassy, and interesting. I don’t think she and Buck belong together romantically. That might just be the Buddie clown makeup though. But she brings a really fun element to the show and the episodes that she’s in. Ana Flores on the other hand, um, [00:39:00] I forgot how much she sucks.” Kiera says,

Alice: yeah, like her, her job is just be there next to Eddie.

Bex: I do love this. And she said, “I’m sorry, Ana is not a bad person, but she’s so boring. Eddie is a sassy, moody bitch. He needs someone with a big personality to balance him out.

We didn’t know Shannon. We didn’t know Shannon super well because this show sucks at writing women, but we at least knew she was witty and strong-willed and would be frank with Eddie. Yeah, Ana is pretty and nice, but she doesn’t bring anything out of him. She’s just there.” She is sugar free grape Gatorade to Kiera.

Ellen: Yes.

Alice: Shout out to Kiera.

Ellen: Yeah. I dunno, like even if they’d had more time in this season, whether they would’ve given Ana and Eddie something else to do, but their relationship was based on like [00:40:00] nothing. Anyway, like I,

Alice: It was based on knowing Christopher. That was it. Yeah.

Ellen: They didn’t have really have. Well, we didn’t ever see them speaking to each other, so we don’t know if they had anything in common.

Alice: Her actor does, knowing Christopher really, really well, like, she seems like a great support to Chris. She seems like a really good friend to Chris.

Bex: Yeah. And she’s pretty

Alice: And she’s pretty,

Ellen: She is.

Alice: yeah. Um, but like, she just seems like Chris’s friend that Eddie also hangs out with Eddie’s like, oh, I have to like, free, free go have a date with Buck.

So, Ana, can you hang out with Chris? Like, like Carla has more personality and we know more about Carla than we know about Ana.

Bex: Yes. Yeah.

Alice: Um, so we’ve also got one, uh, nice, um, shorter novel from Nikki.

Bex: Short story?

Alice: Short story. Um, so Nikki is the lovely human being who makes our, um, trigger warnings that we [00:41:00] read out at the end of end and start of each episode.

Ellen: Oh, yay. Hi Nikki.

Alice: So shout out to Nikki. Like I just want, I want Nikki to get the credit that they deserve, um, because they do put a lot of work into it and I see the behind the scenes stuff.

Yes. And, um, yeah, they do a fantastic job and we really owe them a lot. Um, we really do. Thank you. So yeah, Nikki says,

Ellen: thank you. Yeah.

Alice: Okay. Season four. Uh, this season had it all episodes that are rewatch because they’re funny. Uh, “Jinx”, “Treasure Hunt”, Ravi’s introduced. There are episodes that are re-watched because they’re traumatic and angsty.

Uh, four 13 and four 14 is legendary. Which one are those?

Bex: Survivors?

Ellen: The last two.

Alice: Oh, that is the last two. Oh wow. I keep forgetting how short this season is. Um, yeah, yeah. So four 13 and four 14 is legendary. The Madney pregnancy, birth being paired with Albert’s car crash. Agree. Yeah, it’s, it’s perfect. Um, [00:42:00] 9-1-1 operator May without any of the negativity that it’s paired with in season five. Ellen cover your ears, um, Taylor’s back and she has more of a personality this time and Oh, what could have been if they had stayed friends? Agreed.

Bex: Again, Ellen cover your ears.

Alice: Absolutely agreed. Um, no, well, they smooched at the end, so we know that, um, someone unrelated. But this is the season that aired right after Supernatural ended.

So there was also this huge surge of Supernatural fans into the 9-1-1 fandom. And that’s had its pros and cons, but it’s also when the fic really popped off.

Bex: Oh, yes. And we are very grateful to the Supernatural writers who have migrated over to 9-1-1 and started writing the fic. Very, very grateful, which we will discuss if we ever get to the like Mixtape Book Club Buddie edition episode.

Yeah. Because I have thoughts. Funnily enough, no one would’ve suspected that

Alice: No, you Thoughts?

Ellen: Thoughts?

Alice: So unlike you, [00:43:00]

Ellen: it’s almost like you should make a podcast out of it.

Bex: Well, thank you Nikki for those thoughts.

Ellen: Yeah, thank you.

Alice: We love you Nikki.

Ellen: Okay, so my sister-in-law had did send me a little bit of feedback as well to include in this episode.

So she says, um, “Chris is lucky to have two dads, obviously who wouldn’t be. And um, the way that Eddie hasn’t recognized his subconscious feelings by nominating Buck as second dad is next level Catholic denial.” I feel like Eddie has quite a lot of Catholic denial. In general.

Bex: Oh boy.

Ellen: If you haven’t guessed, um, me watching with my sister-in-law is even like an another avenue of trying to indoctrinate me into the Buddie way because she watched through the whole se the whole series and just went, oh my God, this is, this is the next thing you need to watch. So, yeah, [00:44:00] it’s her fault.

Alice: It is.

Bex: And we thank her for it.

Alice: We absolutely do.

Bex: Um, okay now the fun part where we share our opinions and then try and tell each other why we’re wrong. Uh, let’s start with everybody’s favorite episode for season four.

Alice: I don’t think mine’s gonna be a surprise to anyone.

Bex: I’m pretty sure I can predict yours.

Alice: No, it’s actually. Um, yeah, it’s, it’s gonna shock a lot of people. It’s “Jinx”,

Bex: oh my God, what? Really?

Alice: I know I’m came outta left field. But, you know, really thinking about it,

Ellen: I mean, we had a lot of really funny episodes in the season, right? Like “Jinx” is definitely the funny, the funniest in terms of volume of funniness.

Like the funny all the way through, um, like “Treasure Hunt” was up there for funny, but I dunno if it was [00:45:00] necessarily meant to be,

Bex: you had two guys dueling with metal detectors in a park.

Ellen: I mean, it was, it was extremely silly.

Alice: Was supposed to be funny. Um, it’s def and I enjoyed it so much more the second time.

Ellen: Yeah. And then we, of course we had, um, Bobby and Michael and David in the, “There Goes the Neighborhood” with the

Bex: yes

Ellen: telescope incident, which also turned out to be a lot more serious than it started, but

Alice: in classic 9-1-1 fashion.

Bex: Mm-hmm.

Ellen: It was very funny for most of it. And we had, um, Eddie distrusting the technology in “Future Tense”, which was also extremely hilarious.

Bex: Oh my God. I can’t believe that was this season.

Ellen: That was right back at the beginning. I’m sorry. In the first few episodes,

Bex: Eddie, with his Faraday cage.

Ellen: Yes. Um, I think [00:46:00] for, if we are taking the hilarity out of it, we had, we had, “Buck Begins” this season, which is excellent for the, the character development and the heartache. Like the, the story and directing I thought was brilliant. That that whole arc was very good, as I mentioned earlier.

Bex: Yeah. My favorite episodes for this season, I think it’s, I’ve got two, so I’m gonna make a split. I’m gonna make a, a decision on the spot. Um, I’m gonna go with

Ellen: you. Be, you could say both. That’s fine.

Bex: I, I really en I really enjoyed the Buckley deep dark Buckley family secret and “Buck Begins” as the resolution of that. Um, but I am going to say that probably my favorite episode this season was “Blindsided” just because of the, the way that they build the tension with the car accident. And then you’ve got the, um, [00:47:00] the split between Jee-Yun being born and Albert being rescued.

And the, the musical choice in that episode, which, you know, I will never not make me cry. Um. So,

Ellen: yeah,

Bex: that’s the, yeah, that’s,

Alice: yeah. It’s such a good episode.

Bex: That’s the highlight for, um, for season four, because I went, like I said, I, I thought it would have been maybe “Survivors”, but apparently I really hated that episode in retrospect.

But, you know, “Blindsided” held up. Yeah. It, it got, it got through my, like, my, my cynical scrutiny. So that one’s my, my best for season four.

Alice: Good choice. Yeah. Uh, worst? Besides “Survivors”.

Ellen: Um, see, I didn’t, I thought “Survivors” was just like, of quite a, um, exciting episode. I think I mentioned last week that I thought that even if the dialogue or [00:48:00] whatever, the storylines weren’t that great, the directing was really good and the acting, so what we came out with was actually quite watchable.

Alice: Yeah. As I said, like while we, I had a great time, like

Bex: I know you had a great time.

Alice: I just, I just put everything under a really like awful soap opera lens and I had the best time.

Ellen: You just thought too hard about it, Bex, and it just all fell apart,

Alice: yeah, that’s, yeah. Bex definitely thought too hard

Bex: and, and I, I admitted that when we discuss that episode.

Um, but no, actually, like, I don’t know if this counts, but I’m going to make it count because I really, really hated “Hold the Line”. Yeah. Which was the, the, um, Lone Star crossover episode.

Ellen: Oh, oh,

Alice: oh. Yeah. That doesn’t, I don’t think that counts.

Bex: I really wanna make it count.

Ellen: But we did do it as part of this season.

Bex: I really wanna make it count because I hated, I hated it. It did not need to happen. It was really badly done. So I am, I’m putting it out there that season four, [00:49:00] the worst was that fucking crossover episode. If you have to make me pick an episode of the OG for season four is my worst. I’m gonna go with “Breaking Point” because I hated that damn episode.

Ellen: What happened in “Breaking Point”? It must, it’s not memorable. I don’t even remember it.

Bex: “Breaking Point” was,

Alice: I was gonna go “Breaking Point”.

Bex: “Breaking Point” was the one where you had the, the air hostess and then you had the, the guy that got the,

Ellen: the woman with her husband in the wall.

Bex: In the wall, yeah.

Ellen: And yeah. Okay.

Alice: Um, yeah, I was definitely gonna go “Breaking Point”, but honestly, like, I hardly remember that episode. You know what episode I hated? “Parenthood”.

Bex: Yes.

Ellen: Yeah. That was my, that was mine as well

Bex: That was also on the short list.

Alice: It should have been so good because it was Chimney and Maddie with their baby, and instead it was just, I don’t care, I don’t care about the stupid mum, mummy, blogger.

Like, I don’t care about the un, the realism not being there if I’m having fun. And I did not have fun that whole episode. [00:50:00]

Bex: I think it was a toss up between “Parenthood” and “Breaking Point”. I just remember being so mad at “Breaking Point”, like I was disappointed with “Parenthood”, but I was just mad at “Breaking Point”.

So that’s why it got like second place for being the worst for season four. If I’m not first place, if I’m not allowed to pick “Hold the Line”.

Ellen: Wow. Those were even lower than “Survivors”?

Bex: I did. I don’t think I hated “Survivors”. I think that just that my, like I said, my expectation was very, very different from the reality of the episode.

Alice: Yeah.

Ellen: Okay.

Bex: And so when I started watching the episode again, I realized how badly I remembered it, I got mad and then because I got mad, I started nitpicking the damn thing.

Ellen: Uhhuh.

Bex: Maybe if I watched it again and switched off my brain, I would have a different opinion. But like for the most part it was an okay episode. It’s definitely better [00:51:00] than “Parenthood” and “Breaking Point”.

Ellen: Mm-hmm.

Alice: Yeah.

Bex: It’s just not what I wanted it to be. Not, no, it’s not what I expected it to be.

Ellen: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I feel like the second half of this season, well, not even the second half, like from “Buck Begins” onwards or before that, when the start of the Buckley Family Secret. Um, like the very beginning of the season was okay, I guess, but it didn’t really hit its stride until it got a few episodes in and then it’s, then we had like a few bangers in a row kind of thing.

Bex: Mm-hmm.

Ellen: Until we got to “Breaking Point”, I guess. But then it got, it got good again after, after “Parenthood” we got, we had “First Responders” and we had, sorry, Josh Begins and “Treasure Hunt”. So “Treasure Hunt”. What a bonkers episode. I should, I need, I should watch it again just to, and switch my brain off and not think about it.

Alice: No, you,

Ellen: because it was fun.

Alice: Watch it [00:52:00] after you, like, watch it in like two seasons time. Like get to season six and then go back and you’ll be like, oh my God, this is peak cinema.

Ellen: Great.

Alice: That’s just, ’cause season six is so bad, but, um, but yeah, no, like “Treasure Hunt” was a lot of fun when you know the characters better.

Bex: I think also when, you know, ’cause one of the things we talked about in “Treasure Hunt” was that it had so many endings. It was like Return of the King. Like, you’d get an ending and you think, okay, that’s the episode. And they’re like, oh no, there’s another storyline coming. I think when you on, when you know how long the episode is going and the fact that you’ve still got two more endings to come, um, it, it makes it a little bit easier to watch.

Ellen: Mm-hmm.

Bex: So are you going to name the, the episode that you like the least? Or are you going to just be

Ellen: who, me?

Bex: Yes. You.

Ellen: Yeah. I, um, I was with Alice. I said, I was saying “Parenthood”.

Bex: Okay.

Ellen: It was just a, yeah, you’re right. Not nothing like I didn’t [00:53:00] really care about any of this and we, we’d already been over, like, it was the rehashing of what happened with May like

Bex: Yeah.

Ellen: I dunno. It was really sad and everything, but we didn’t need to hear it again. But we already did that. We already know what happened.

Alice: We were sad about it already, like we’re done.

Ellen: Yeah,

Bex: sorry, May,

Ellen: sorry May. I know it was important for her to kind of realize that her mom actually, you know, has her best interest in heart, but at the same time,

Alice: we don’t care.

Ellen: I don’t, we don’t care.

Bex: Okay. Let’s move on. This is, this question’s getting kind of harder as the seasons go along, but do you have a favorite character from season four? I should have gone back and looked at what everyone’s favorite character from season three was to see if it’s changed, if we’ve got any new contenders this season. I did not do that.

Ellen: Well. My fav I, [00:54:00] I wrote down Buck because he’s in this season a lot. He’s in it all the time and he’s always like, he goes through a lot of trauma, but a lot of the time he’s sunshine and you know, I just thought he’d had a really good season, but also. Speaking of sunshine people, um, every time Chim is on the screen, I’m happy.

Alice: Yes. So, yes, joining my Chim train,

Ellen: he just had some really excellent, funny lines in this season, as well as just being great in general. So

Alice: I just love Kenny so much.

Ellen: Yeah. All right. Alice, who’s your favorite? Is it still Chim?

Alice: Oh, Buck and Chim, for sure.

Ellen: I, I don’t remember what you said last time.

Alice: It’s, it’s Buck and Chim every season.

Bex: Pretty much.

Alice: Yeah. Um, I was really excited that Ravi was introduced this season,

Ellen: but he is not your favorite? Not yet?

Alice: But no, he just, he was only in like, what, three episodes? He’s [00:55:00] not fleshed out yet.

Ellen: Yep.

Alice: He’s not Ravioli yet.

Ellen: He doesn’t have the filling, it’s just the outside bit.

Alice: That’s it. That’s it, exactly.

Bex: Oh, interesting. Sorry, I’ve just gone back and looked at the season three wrap up transcript. Um,

Ellen: yeah?

Bex: So….

Alice: ’cause of course you have.

Ellen: Why not?

Bex: So Alice, in season three, your favorite character was still the Buckley’s and Chim and a hundred percent Maddie.

Alice: Yep. Fair. I did forget, but Maddie was just pregnant. Like, she’ll come back around. It’s fine. This wasn’t her season.

Bex: This wasn’t, this wasn’t Maddie’s season. Um, Ellen, season one, you loved Chim and you also loved Hen season two. You loved Chim and you loved Hen um, oh, season three, you still loved Chim and you just thought everybody else was [00:56:00] amazing during season three and refused to pick a favorite. Um, so,

Ellen: Yeah, that sounds like me,

Alice: Ellen. I think it might be Chim. I hate to tell you this, but, um,

Ellen: well, three out of four. No, I think four out of four. Yeah. That’s cool. I’m, I’m down. I’m down. Chim’s great. I love him. Bex, what did you say last time?

Bex: Uh, so season one I sort of bucked the trend, pun unintended. Um, and Abby was my favorite character. And then for the last season two and season three, it’s pretty much just been Eddie. He’s pretty strong contender for season four as well. But I do think that this season, because of all of the trauma, Buck kind of edges him out as pun unintended, um, as probably as probably my favorite for, for season four

Alice: Bex been reading too many Buddie fics. Um,

Bex: So yes, I’m, I’m gonna have to say that for, [00:57:00] if you haven’t guessed already. For me, season four, like Buck is, it’s season four is Buck’s season. So he’s,

Alice: it is Buck’s season.

Bex: Yeah, he is my favorite character for this season.

Alice: I, I also do wanna, I do wanna, um, have like a special shout out to Taylor Kelly.

Ellen: Of course you do,

Alice: because like she,

Ellen: this is her season.

Alice: She can’t beat Chim and Buck, but she’s great. Love Taylor Kelly. Shout out to Taylor Kelly. Yeah, still butthurt she hasn’t messaged me, but it’s fine. Whatever.

Bex: Uh, okay. So we’ve had our favorite characters for season four. Uh, do we have any least favorite characters for season four characters? No.

Alice: It’s every, everyone who appeared in “Parenthood” No. Definitely that, that stupid Mummy blogger.

Ellen: Oh, oh yeah.

Alice: Yeah.

Ellen: I didn’t even think about the actual, like people who they were rescuing. I just thought we were talking about the 118.

Alice: Oh, we’re supposed to, but I don’t hate the 118, [00:58:00] so.

Ellen: Okay, fair enough.

Alice: Um, also, the woman who got mur, like who got murdered by the Corgi.

Ellen: Yeah, she was, she was kind of annoying.

Alice: She got what? She was coming to her though. So like,

Ellen: like I, I don’t think she needed to end up in a pool, but, you know, I didn’t like the woman who tried to bury her husband in the wall.

Alice: That was annoying too.

Bex: That was a stupid storyline. My least favorite for season four is, um, Margaret Buckley.

Alice: Oh yeah. Fair. Oh, I forgot, I forgot all about the Buck. Buckley. I don’t even wanna think about them. Fuck those guys.

Bex: Philip gets a, Philip gets a pass. I don’t know why, but he, I think he gets a pass, I think because they do show him kind of attempting to try every now and then.

But no, Margaret, no. Worst mother of the year. Worst mother of the century. Hate her. Love Dee Wallace. Hate Margaret Buckley.

Alice: Yeah. Sorry. Dee Wallace. She just chose a shit character.

Ellen: Yeah,

Bex: but she does it so well though. That’s why I hate her.

Ellen: Well, someone’s gotta be the bad [00:59:00] guy. Yeah.

Bex: Yeah. Okay. Continue racking that.

Alice: Got Billy Eilish stuck in my head.

Bex: It’s not a bad thing,

Ellen: The bad guy. Favorite emergency? Is that what we’re up to?

Bex: Favorite emergency or your favorite rescue from season four, which I really struggle because I couldn’t think of… like the past couple of seasons there’s always been sort of one dramatic rescue that I can think of as like the, the peak of that season.

I couldn’t think of one for season four.

Ellen: I, I thought, okay, so the most dramatic rescue, um, has to be Albert in the car on the freeway

Alice: Yeah. Yeah. Good choice.

Bex: That’s, that was a good one.

Ellen: Mostly because the way that was introduced, like with him being upside down on the phone and you don’t know it’s Albert to start with and then, when you realize you’re like, oh shit, it’s Albert.

And yeah, when they find him. But I thought the, um, my favorite sort of, I [01:00:00] guess storyline leading to an emergency would, has to be, uh, Michael and Bobby Telescope, illegal surgery. Um, in “There Goes the Neighborhood” because, oh my god, chaos twins, I love ’em. So good.

Alice: It’s so good.

Bex: Yeah.

Alice: I think, oh,

Bex: It’s hard ’cause when I, when I think of this question, I’m thinking of things like, you know, was it season, season three where they had the plane like as completely impractical as it would be in unrealistic, it is the plane coming down and like dumping the water on the subdivision. Like that big, dramatic, um showstopper of a rescue.

They just didn’t really have sort of like a one big showstopper over this season, which makes it difficult. There are lots of great little moments. I would also, the, um, as insane as I think it is, the, the sh**ting with going like the, the camera circling around everybody and then

Alice: Oh my yes.

Bex: Like that the incredible tension where it’s [01:01:00] two minutes on screen, but it seems a lot longer. Yeah. Like that’s really well done for this season.

Ellen: Yeah. That was really well done.

Alice: I did really like, like if we’re doing favorite emergency slash rescue.

Bex: Mm-hmm.

Alice: The murder mystery was a lot of fun. The neighborhood block party one, like, it was so dumb, but we got Buddie like great Buddie lines with the locked gate mystery.

Bex: Yeah. Romero is always fun as a detective as well.

Alice: Yeah.

Bex: Um,

Alice: and like it was, um, it was just fun. Like it was stupid, but it was fun and I’m happy with stupid as long as I’m having fun with it.

Bex: Uh, speaking of stupid, um, I have compiled a list of all of the 9-1-1 calls from this season. Yeah. So I will, I will put these up, um, for our listeners to look at so that they can see what the short list was. Uh, but if you two would like to have a quick scroll through and pick which is the [01:02:00] worst 9-1-1 call for this season, um, in your opinion.

Ellen: Oh, it’s, there’s so many great ones to choose from.

Bex: Or if you’d like to point one out, that was your absolute, like your favorite.

Ellen: So my top contenders have to be “My mom’s pinned to the donkey.”

Yeah. Which was from Parenthood. Yep. Oh, I did also thought, think that the, the dad who an in “Treasure Hunt” who called up and said, “I think someone is trapped on a cliff.” And they’re like, “what, what makes you think that?” And he’s like, “We found a note.”

Alice: Yeah. It’s like, oh, I’d forgotten how stupid “Suspicion” is too. Um, or the start of “Suspicion” anyway.

Ellen: Actually, if we, if we’ve got like, uh, choices for worst rescue emergency, then that one has gotta be like one of the worst. Right? The bride with the,

Bex: I’m choosing to pretend it doesn’t [01:03:00] exist,

Alice: literally. Yeah.

Ellen: Yeah. Which one do you think is the worst Bex?

Bex: Oh, I, as far as like a 9-1-1 call, as in you are calling in to, um, to report an emergency. Like the funny, I’m discounting the funny segue ones like the, the mom, my mom’s pinned to the donkey. Um, I’d have to. I have to say, I really enjoy how bad Josh’s 9-1-1 call is.

Ellen: Oh yeah.

Bex: It’s just like, “um, hi, this is Josh. I’m stuck on the 32nd floor of a building that may or may not be on fire.”

Alice: Yeah. It’s like, ah, it’s

Ellen: very unspecific

Bex: um, but I think,

Alice: thank God he got a bit more like assertive later on.

Bex: But I think that my favorite terrible 9-1-1 call for this season is from, [01:04:00] um, “There Goes the Neighborhood”, which is the, um, the army calling in. With, uh, like specifically it’s Sergeant Raynard calling in because they Oh, inadvertently mis deployed a joint light tactical vehicle in a residential area.

Ellen: Yeah,

Bex: just the, oh yeah.

Alice: They, they dropped a, they dropped a Jeep. We dropped,

Bex: we dropped a Jeep. Yeah. But just the, the, like the very military, like the, the typical sort of military accent and the very military speak and you’ve got the 9-1-1 operator going, huh? So, yeah. And I, I will give a, a commendation or to Janelle cycling away from the damn dam that’s coming down.

Alice: The damn dam.

Ellen: Oh yeah. That was in the very first episode.

Bex: Only because, um, I think subsequently I was reading a Percy Jackson book with my kids where Percy and his friends were at Hoover Dam and there’s like three pages of them just [01:05:00] making damn dam jokes. Like they’re going to the, the damn snack shop to get some damn fries before they go and get a damn t-shirt and

Ellen: yeah, I forgot about that.

Bex: So I’m partial to good like, damn damn joke.

Ellen: New season of Percy Jackson coming out in a couple of weeks.

Bex: Nice. All right, so what do you think is going to happen in season five?

Ellen: Oh my God, this, this prediction segment,

Bex: having, having everything that we got set up

Ellen: is just terrible

Bex: at the end of season four.

Ellen: Well, the, the thing is they haven’t really set much up at all. Like all we’ve got, okay, so we’ve got Maddie having, um, you know, postnatal depression. But she’s getting help for that. So, and you know, then now they have Jee so I don’t know how long there will be before the start of season five in terms of story [01:06:00] years, so,

Bex: mm.

Ellen: How much we may not be long and might still be a baby or a toddler already, who knows in time jump. Yeah. Um, apart from that, I feel like there, this happens with

Alice: we come back in Jee is like 12 years old. Yeah.

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: Jee’s just started working at dispatch

Alice: and yet Chris is still eight years old.

Ellen: Yeah. I mean, we know this show is terrible with continuity of ages. Right? Um, yeah, I was thinking about this earlier and, and I think that there is like a version, this happens with multiple TV shows though. There is a way that I think stories should go in my professional storyteller opinion.

Bex: Mm-hmm.

Ellen: Um, and then there’s the way that the show actually goes, which is always completely different because they’re always trying to, you know, either shock the audience or [01:07:00] make things more exciting. They’re upping the drama, they’re doing whatever. So anything I say,

Bex: but I to, but I’m in, I’m still interested to see what in your professional story writing opinion, where you think the story is gonna go, should have gone, which direction you think they should have gone.

Ellen: Oh wow. Uh, well,

Bex: so let’s lay it out for the end of end of season four. We had Eddie and Ana sort of set up with a possible question mark. We had Buck and Taylor set up with sort of a question mark. We’ve got Bobby and Athena doing Bobby and Athena things. You’ve got, Hen possibly still at medical school. I don’t know. You’ve got Maddie and Chim and Jee-Yun, um. Am I missing anybody? No, that’s it for the, the core 118

Ellen: Buck and Eddie?

Alice: I think so, yeah. Buck and Eddie. Like Eddie just got sh**.

Ellen: Yeah, but he’s back at work [01:08:00] already, right? Like he was there when Albert finished his training, so he’s like, he’s recovered, like I don’t know if he’s back on duty. Immediately, or if he has some time off, like, like Buck did when he had his accident.

But that was actually like a broken leg and stuff. So that required

Alice: Ellen’s like well I could predict Eddie’s gonna get some blood clots and, um,

Ellen: oh God, I hope not

Alice: Vomit at Bobby and Athena’s house and pass out. And,

Ellen: but that, that was because Buck didn’t have time off. Like he, he had some time off, but he wanted to do too many things too quickly and that meant that he had ended up with that. But, um,

Alice: Eddie has to take Taylor Kelly to the pier and that tsunami comes and he pushes her into it.

Bex: You’re on your own, kid,

Ellen: they’re not very friendly, are they? Bless them. Okay. So if, if Taylor and, and Buck are together, [01:09:00] where, stop laughing. I’m trying to predict things here!

Bex: Okay. Yes. So Buck and Taylor Yes.

Ellen: If they’re

Bex: Eddie and, and Taylor besties forever.

Ellen: No, no, that’s, that’s what I’m predicting. If, if Buck and Taylor are gonna be together and Eddie is like, um, you know, not approving of that, then tension.

Bex: Okay.

Ellen: Um, I don’t know what’s gonna happen with Ana. I’m guess like I know they break up at some point because you already told me there was a breakup scene where he keeps getting her name wrong. He doesn’t even know what her name is. This is what their relationship is like.

Alice: No one knows what her name is.

Ellen: Oh my God.

Bex: I mean, it’s not that he doesn’t know what her name is, he just keeps going back and forth and how he wants to pronounce it. Like, do I go for the American or do I go for the Latina? Like, what am I feeling today?

Ellen: Surely there’s a way that she prefers to be referred to. He just never [01:10:00] asked? Like, I don’t know

Alice: did Chris one day was like, why the fuck do you keep calling her Anna?

Bex: Who’s Anna?

Ellen: Yeah.

Bex: It’s giving shades of who’s Evan?

Ellen: Yeah,

Alice: literally.

Ellen: I think Chris is gonna continue to be adorable, but I mean, he’s growing up now, so surely there’s a limit of how long we can keep calling him adorable. Nah,

Alice: no, he’s, he’ll just,

Ellen: he’ll be adorable forever. Yeah, that’s fine. Um, who’s left? Buck and Athena will continue to do, uh, Buck and Athena, but, um, Bobby and Athena will continue to do Bobby and Athena things.

Alice: Geez, poor Bobby. Good lord.

Ellen: Well, Buck and Athena climbed up to the roof of the burning building and you know, did that in the last couple episodes. So who knows what Buck and Athena will get up to next?

Um, I hope Hen continues with med school. Um, [01:11:00] and they, they’re keeping on going with the fostering, which is great for them, I’m sure. Um, hopefully they won’t be chucking any more tantrums when these next foster children have to leave.

Bex: Okay.

Ellen: Have I covered everybody?

Alice: Yeah, I think so. I think so.

Ellen: Cool.

Alice: Oh, what do you think about Wait, wait. The, the side characters may, uh, May, Michael,

Ellen: I don’t know Ravi yet, so I dunno what he does,

Alice: gets yelled at by Buck.

Ellen: Apparently,

Bex: oh, it does. The poor thing.

Ellen: Yeah. I don’t know. It’s, uh, like, it’s so hard to predict because the, like when, especially when just random shit happens, like the 9-1-1 center gets held up or whatever, it’s like you don’t know what’s coming.

I have no idea and I, I honestly, I don’t think I’ve been spoiled for anything in season five that will, that I know is coming in season five at least

Alice: I vaguely remember things in season five, but like,

Bex: I couldn’t tell you full season five, although I think I said [01:12:00] that and then I looked it up and went, oh yes, that’s right.

So, um, oh, I do remember season five

Alice: A again, every time.

Ellen: Oh. So clearly they’re not very memorable episodes, but when you remember them you go, oh, that’s why I didn’t remember.

Alice: Ellen’s gonna go in just being thinking it’s the worst season ever.

Ellen: I know.

Alice: And like, oh, that wasn’t too bad.

Ellen: You’re really not selling it to me here,

Alice: And then she’ll get to season six and be like, oh fuck,

Bex: okay, I’ve made note of that. I will bring it back up to rub in your face in the season five now.

Ellen: Excellent.

Bex: Okay. Because it’s always fun. Um, and

Ellen: that feels like a long way off because season five has 18 whole episodes.

Bex: 18 episodes. Oh my God. Um, okay. And two. Wrap up the season four wrap up, uh, with my favorite game of Fuck Marry K***, [01:13:00] which is gonna be an interesting one this season. ’cause I was struggling to fight Season four characters. So I am going to give you a, a wide selection of characters of which you have to pick three to Fuck Marry K***.

So it’s not three, and you have to assign them a, uh, an action. You can pick which ones you’re going to do what with. Um, so for season four, Fuck Marry K***, you’ve got Ravi, you have the Buckley parents either singularly or together. Uh, we have

Alice: get some pineapples, guys

Ellen: Totally gonna marry them.

Bex: Um, you’ve got Hen’s mother, Toni, and mm-hmm. Any character from Lone Star.

Ellen: Oh,

Bex: I’m dragging them in just because I wanna k*** Owen.

Alice: Um, okay. This is easy. Um, [01:14:00] fuck Judd, marry Ravi. K*** Owen.

Ellen: Perfect. Love it. 100% support that.

Alice: Yeah. Like Judd’s too religious to get in a relationship with, but I reckon he’d be a fun ride. And since Taylor Kelly is not in this list,

Bex: well no, because she’s from season something like this is one specific two.

Yeah. Specifically for characters that are introduced this season. It’ll be more fun next season, but this season we’re struggling.

Alice: But my boy Ravi’s there, so.

Bex: Yeah.

Alice: Yeah. It’s all good. We’ll get yelled at by Buck together.

Bex: Uh, Ellen. Care to play. Fuck Marry k***?

Ellen: Oh my God, this is really hard because I don’t know any of the characters in, in Lone Star.

Bex: What do you mean?

Alice: Ellen’s there googling Judd right now. Just like which one’s he?

Ellen: No, like I remember their names, but we only just met them

Alice: Judd’s the siren from Supernatural. Like you.

Ellen: Yeah, yeah. I know, I know. But there’s like, there was one that one episode [01:15:00] and they didn’t do any like introductions of any characters or anything, so I feel like I don’t know anything about them. So it’s purely super apart from the fact that we all hate.

Alice: Yeah, it’s purely superficial.

Bex: Purely superficial.

Ellen: Okay.

Bex: I mean, you don’t actually have to fuck, marry, or k*** any of them. It’s just a game.

Ellen: But also I, I’m trying to remember what your options, options were again,

Alice: while, while Ellen’s thinking, um, episode two of Nashville aired today after like 9-1-1 og and I literally DNF’d it and went shopping instead. And I fucking hate shopping, so Sorry Nashville

Ellen: So it’s going really well.

Alice: I’ll continue. Okay. I will continue giving you a chance, just not with American ads in between it because I’m so sick of hearing about the side effects of random medic medication.

Bex: Oh, they’re wild, aren’t they? I remember

Alice: it’s so, yeah. So fun fact to the American listeners. Um, shout out Kiera, um, Australia. We are not allowed to advertise medication.

Bex: Yeah. [01:16:00] We don’t get drug ads. Every commercial break our television. So

Alice: like, I thought whenever I saw them on like spoofed on tv, I was like, okay, this is really weird, but ha ha what a funny spoof.

Bex: No.

Alice: Um, no. Like that’s literally what they’re like.

Bex: Yeah, I remember watching it,

Alice: but it’s literally like,

Bex: I remember watching a episode of 9-1-1, like on TV when I was in the States and the commercials were just blowing my mind that they were able to advertise these drugs with like, ’cause in Australia

Alice: it’s like, oh, do you have a sniffle? Because you could take this and it may stop your heart, give you ir, irreversible brain damage, uh, somehow remove your arms and legs, but like you won’t have the sniffles anymore. It’s like, what the fuck?

Bex: As Australians, can you imagine walking into a GP going, Hey, I want this drug? Like I specifically want this drug.

Alice: The GP would kick you out. Yeah. Like what? We’re not even allowed like over [01:17:00] the counter pain medication without a prescription anymore.

Bex: I remember going to the GP as a kid when I used to get recurrent ear infections and I had like a preferred antibiotic.

The GP looked at me like I was a drug seeker when I said, no, I want this particular antibiotic. Like, I didn’t know the name, I just knew what it looked like and like how many doses and it was blue or something. But you definitely, yeah, we definitely don’t know the names of our drugs and we would not be walking in going, yes, I would like to try this medication, please. I saw an ad for it on tv. Although perhaps the, uh, the drug ads are more interesting than Nashville at this point.

Alice: And then some of them are just stupid. Like there’s the fucking like Liberty ad. And that was stuck in my head for ages. And it’s like “Liberty, Liberty, Liberty.” And then the weirdest thing is they’ve got Kohls, which is K-O-H-L-S.

Ellen: Oh, yeah.

Alice: But it’s pronounced the same as our Coles. Yeah. Which is C-O-L-E-S. And so every time I hear, I’m like, you guys have Coles? Oh no.[01:18:00]

Bex: Different Kohls.

Ellen: Different Kohls.

Alice: Different Kohls. Um, but yeah, it’s fucking weird. So, yes, I’ll watch Nashville when it comes on Disney Plus tomorrow, probably like, I’ll finish the episode, but I’m not dealing with the ads.

Bex: Fair enough.

Alice: Anyway, yeah. Um, shout out to Nashville. Don’t do big emergencies and put your characters lives on the line when you’ve only introduced one of them that is named Blue. ’cause I don’t give a fuck.

Ellen: You still don’t care about any of them yet?

Bex: I still can’t believe he is a stripper. Whose name is Blue? That’s just

Alice: Yep. He is a stripper whose name is Blue. Mm-hmm. I tuned out when his, his mom and his brother’s mom were fighting and I was like, yeah, I’m done. I’m going shopping. I’ve got shit to do,

Ellen: mom. Okay.

Bex: Yep. Yep. Apparently it makes sense. I don’t know. I’m not going to Nashville. I, it was bad enough.

Alice: Bex’s got a

Bex: Texas, it was bad enough going to Texas.

Alice: big rant about Nashville.[01:19:00]

Bex: The Texas Cowboys were enough for me. I’m not, I’m not going to the country music.

Alice: It’s just a shame ’cause I really like, um, I just wanna call her Arizona. Jessica something.

Bex: Jessica? Jessica Capshaw.

Alice: Yeah. Yes. Thank you.

Bex: Mm-hmm.

Alice: Um, I like her. She seems really nice. The um, hot wings thing was really fun, but I just don’t care about anyone else ’cause they didn’t bother introducing them.

They were just like, oh no a tornado. They’re almost all in grave danger. And I’m like, I don’t care. I don’t know who these people are. I knew more about

Ellen: the you need to do more of character development first.

Alice: I knew more about David Wallace.

Ellen: Oh dear.

Alice: Um, anyway, yeah. How’s your fuck Marry k*** going Ellen, now that I’ve ranted about,

Ellen: I’ve forgot all the options. I’ve, it’s, you’ll have to

Alice: So K*** Owen. K*** Owen and k*** Owen.

Ellen: Did you say what yours was Bex? You [01:20:00] wanted to k*** Owen

Bex: pretty said no matter what was I was gonna be k***ing Owen. Um, yeah. If I had to complete the trifecta, it would probably be, fuck Ravi, uh, marry Toni and k*** Owen. ’cause I’m not having anything to do with the Buckley parents.

Ellen: That’s fair.

Bex: And my hatred for Owen transcends my hatred for Margaret Buckley. So,

Alice: see, my, my issue with, um, marrying Toni is that like, I, I couldn’t get with her daughter.

Ellen: Okay. You’d rather have Hen?

Alice: I’d rather have Hen.

Ellen: That’s fair. Yeah.

Bex: I mean, she’s not gonna be your biological daughter.

Ellen: Don’t let that stop you.

Alice: What are you doing, stepbrother?

Bex: There’s, I’m sure there’s, there’s several categories of like taboo romances that would quite encourage you to, um, to marry Toni.

Alice: [01:21:00] Oh, no.

Bex: Uh, yes. Okay. That was a bad one. Let’s bring on season five. That one’s gonna be much more interesting for fuck marry k***.

Um, and to round out the season four wrapup, um, RIP the battalion car for 118, which is the latest vehicle that the 118 destroyed this season. It goes to the, uh, the vehicle, vehicle garage in the sky along with, uh, an ambulance and a ladder truck.

Ellen: Well, they, they didn’t destroy any trucks this season, but they did beat up the, um, 1 36 or whatever the other. Where, where, you know, he got sh**, that ladder truck they stuffed up.

Alice: Yeah. That got a lot of sh that got a lot of gunsh**s.

Ellen: It got sh** and it got the door ripped off and it got on fire a little bit.

Bex: I don’t care about the 1 36.

Alice: Yeah. I feel like we’ll come back next season and the battalion chief’s car will be totally [01:22:00] perfect. Just like the fire pit in

Ellen: Oh yeah. In “Jinx” they had the, um, the, the telephone pole fell on the, like the power pole fell on top of the truck.

Alice: No, the guy stole the, um, the engine and like, didn’t he crash into the police cars or like scrape down the side of it or something?

Ellen: Yeah he did scrape up the sides of it.

Bex: Yeah. But I had a feeling that those, the, that the other cars kind of got off worse in that situation and Yes.

Alice: Oh yeah, definitely.

Bex: There was a, there was the, the, um, power pole fell onto the, the top of the ladder truck, but that just kind of, it just electrified it. I don’t think it actually damaged it. It was just more that they could not get out of the truck or risk being like crispified.

Alice: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That was just while the universe was screaming at Eddie and the

Bex: universe doesn’t scream.

Ellen: That’s a great line.

Alice: Oh, my favorite edit, edit is still when Eddie is like, the universe doesn’t scream, and then it just cuts to like [01:23:00] Buck and Eddie screaming each other’s names.

Ellen: Aw.

Bex: Aw.

Ellen: This has been a very shippy, um, episode, hasn’t it? Not sorry.

Alice: It’s almost like you’ve been reading a lot of fan fiction though.

Ellen: Yes, I have.

Bex: Once again, it’s like I try not to ship these things, but I, I have eyes and I cannot, right? Yes. Yeah. Like, what am I supposed to do with what I’m looking at?

Alice: His blood is in his mouth.

Bex: He gave him his son. What am I supposed to do with that? Okay.

Alice: Totally, totally pla platonic child gifting.

Bex: Okay. Um,

Ellen: okay. Is there anything else or can we move into, what have we got to expect from season five?

Bex: Yeah, I think we, we’ve gone through the highs and lows of season four.

We’ve fucked, married, k***ed, we’ve destroyed a vehicle. We have talked about our favorite [01:24:00] 9-1-1 calls. You have given your predictions for season five. So, yeah, I think we can move on to, to, actually, we can move on to season five.

Ellen: Awesome. So what is gonna happen in the first episode of Season five?

Bex: A series of ransomware threats leads to an overabundance of emergencies for the 118, including a medevac helicopter crash at a hospital.

An air traffic control tower system failure. Meanwhile, Athena must revisit her traumatic attack. When the case of the realtor rapist goes to trial, Eddie suffers a health scare and Maddie’s postpartum depression worsens. And the episode title is “Panic” exclamation point.

Ellen: Well, that sounds like a barrel of laughs.

Bex: It sounds like a great season opener

Alice: Remember literally 10 minutes ago where Ellen was like, oh, I think, I think Maddie’s, um, postpartum depression’s getting better. It’s like Maddie’s [01:25:00] postpartum depression worsens. Guess what? It’s like, oh, fucking nevermind.

Bex: Yeah. Um, and thanks to Nikki, our triggers for Panic exclamation point, um, includes abuse of power, our favorite, just generic trigger of cops, um, car accidents, a drowning threat, uh, flashbacks to an assault. I’m assuming that is in reference to Athena. Um, heart attack, panic attack, postpartum depression, PTSD and rapist at large.

Ellen: Oh God.

Alice: Barrel of laughs. I’m sure it’ll be fine.

Ellen: Alright, so thank you for to everyone who ha, who sent in feedback. Um, I think we can thank Kiera again and Nikki and my sister-in-law who doesn’t listen to this because I don’t think she wants to listen to my voice all the time.

Alice: And everyone else who’s everyone else who’s provided feedback the rest of the [01:26:00]

Ellen: Yeah, absolutely. Sent us comments. Um. You know, we, we love hearing from you, so if you wanted to comment on anything that we’d said in, in this wrap up episode or you had things to add or something we missed, let us know by leaving a comment on this episode or on thatweewooshow.com.

Bex: And we are still planning on doing a Buddie Fanfic or a general 9-1-1 Fanfic episode. So please keep sending through those recommendations.

Ellen: Yeah. Um, that will be sooner or later. Hopefully not too long ’cause I’ll forget all the wonderful fic that I’ve just read in the last couple of weeks. Yeah.

Damn that. That’ll be a hardship. Yeah, it won’t. Alright. And make sure you go to, um, thatweewooshow.com to find all the ways you can subscribe to the podcast because, um, the last few weeks have been a bit patchy, but we are gonna get back on track with season five hopefully so. Um, thank you so much for listening this week and we will talk to you next time [01:27:00] about season five episode one, “Panic!”

See you then.

Bex: Bye

Alice: bye.

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Ellen: Um, I just checked the comments on Spotify and we got a comment on the on “Fools”, which is the one which is in season three, so we can’t really talk about it in this wrap up, but um, I mean,

Alice: we can, season three isn’t that far.

Ellen: They said the, the, [01:28:00] the poop story, like the, the girl who was climbing out the window to ah, deal with the poo.

It’s real, it’s real. It really happened

Bex: Oh no!

Ellen: In the UK. Um, a woman actually threw her poop out the window, but it didn’t land in the garden, and it became wedged between two non-opening windows. And so she tried to climb to retrieve it and became wedged and had to call the fire services for help.

Alice: Oh no.

Bex: Oh no.

Ellen: That’s amazing. Oh my God. There’s photos of the rescue and everything. Okay. I’ll send you this news article. That’s so funny. Oh, I can’t believe that’s real. It seems like such a stupid like idea at the time, but Oh,

Alice: oh my god. She’s upside down.

Ellen: Yeah.

Alice: Oh dear.

Bex: Oh no

Ellen: post Nando’s incident.

Bex: Oh, of course it’s [01:29:00] Nando’s.

Ellen: We had a lovely night on the second date, so they have, they did go on more dates. Oh my God, this is so funny.