Welcome to That Weewoo Show: a podcast where Alice, Ellen and Bex watch and discuss every episode of ABC’s TV show, 9-1-1.
In this episode we discuss episode 12 of the fifth season of 9-1-1, titled “Boston”.
Chimney is determined to find a missing Maddie amongst the chaos of St. Patrick’s Day.
Content warnings for episode 5.12:
alcoholic character who relapses, alcohol abuse, depression, discussions of drunk driving, flashbacks to a child at threat, group therapy, hospital intake for mental health reasons, vision of needles and blood being drawn, postpartum depression, suicide attempt via drowning, suicidal ideation, vomit.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Schitt’s Creek/Heated Rivalry mashups
- A Little Bit Alexis/Press conference (via Tiktok)
- Tuna meltdown/Fold in the cheese (via Tiktok)
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Episode Transcript
Maddie: [00:00:00] 9-1-1. What’s your emergency?
Bex: Welcome back to That WeeWoo Show podcast where we watch and discuss episodes of the A B C show, 9-1-1. I’m Bex
Alice: I’m Alice.
Ellen: And I’m Ellen.
Bex: And as we say every week, thank you so much to everybody who has listened to our past episodes and special thanks to those of you who have taken the time out of what we assure are very busy days to comment on our social media posts, share our social media posts, comment on our episodes, or trek all the way over to our website thatweewooshow.com and leave comments there.
We do love hearing from you, especially when you agree with everything that we say. Um, it does make us seem, does make it seem like [00:01:00] we’re not just talking to ourselves, which as we’ve said before, we are quite happy to keep doing. But we also like that other people are listening to us too. Uh, before we start talking about this week’s episode, Alice, could you please remind us what happened the last time we met up and talked about this show?
Alice: It was a big one last time. Um, so last. The week before last on 9-1-1. Um, the 118 were introduced to Lucy Denado while stopping a car rigged to explode if it dropped its speed, just like the movie Speed. Um, Eddie started his new job at the dispatch center and Buck asked Taylor to move in with him after kissing Lucy at the bar right before Lucy was given a job at, at, with the 118 to replace Eddie.
Also, apparently it was Harry Grant’s last episode. Uh, but none of that matters ’cause this week we’re in Boston.
Ellen: We are in Boston. Do you wanna just quickly mention Harry? Like do we know anything about why uh,
Bex: he wanted to [00:02:00] move on
Ellen: I’ve forgotten his name, his name starts with an M.
Bex: Mark Ohm. Mark. Oh, Marcanthonee. Marcanthonee Reis.
Um, yeah, he, I’m guessing he wanted to be free to do other projects. He didn’t want to be locked into. Basically being on call. Uh, which is fair enough. So,
Ellen: but they didn’t, they didn’t write him out or anything. They just
Alice: No, it was really interesting.
Ellen: Didn’t put him in anymore.
Alice: Yeah. Like Michael got this whole farewell thing and Harry just never showed up again.
Bex: Well, we do get mention, we know what happens to Harry. Um, but I don’t know whether the decision of Marcanthonee to leave was sort of season five-ish or whether they just ’cause they didn’t have David and Harry around that just sort of Harry suffered, the character of Harry suffered from storylines.
So, um, they just didn’t bother asking. But then sort of future wise, [00:03:00] when they approached the actor to be like, Hey, we would like to actually bring back the character of Harry, he’s gone, no, I’m good.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Yeah. Interesting. Um, but yeah, we did not realize until literally, as we were recording this episode, I was, um, checking the summary of last week’s, and it was just like, oh yeah, this is Harry Grant’s last episode.
And I’m like, sorry, what? Uh, I don’t even remember Harry being in the episode. So good. Excellent.
Ellen: Oh, this one that we’re about to talk about is the last one, or was the last week?
Alice: No, no, last time. Yeah.
Ellen: Oh, last week. Okay.
Alice: Last week.
Ellen: Yeah. I no, I, I was like, no one was in this one except for Chim and Maddie.
Bex: No, we, we had the con, contractually obligated, um, appearances from Angela Bassett and Peter Kraus and a cameo from Albert.
Albert and,
Ellen: and Buck, yeah. Yes. And Buck Albert. I’m sorry. There were a few people in momentarily,
Bex: Buck and he No, Buck, and Hen, I don’t count because they were just reusing footage from previous episodes, so they didn’t [00:04:00] actually have to understand film anything this week, but yeah.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: Um, uh, Albert, what is Albert’s character’s name again? John?
Alice: No, that’s his actor’s name
Bex: Yeah, that’s what I mean. So his actor,
Ellen: what is Albert’s character’s name? Like Albert?
Bex: Sorry, Albert. Albert’s actor. So like John and Peter and Angela had to be on set, but Oliver and Aisha didn’t,
Ellen: right, yeah. Right. So this episode, let’s get started. This is episode 12 of season five, which is named “Boston”.
Alice: I wonder where it takes place.
Ellen: Funnily enough, it is set in Boston. It aired in, uh, March 28, uh, 2022, so almost four years ago to the day, which is actually around St. Patrick’s Day as well. So this is kind of timely for this episode, I guess. Um, Chimney is [00:05:00] determined to find this is how the, the blurb goes, Chimney is determined to find a missing Maddie amongst the chaos of St. Patrick’s Day in Boston. That’s it.
Um, triggers for this episode include an, so this is kind of a heavy episode that we’ve got some big triggers here. We’ve got an alcoholic character who relapses, um, people who are drunk because of St. Patrick’s Day in Boston. So alcohol abuse, um, depression, discussions of drunk driving, flashbacks to a child at threat group therapy, um, hospital intake for mental health reasons.
Uh, we have vision of needles and blood being drawn. We have postpartum depression, um, a suicide attempt via drowning and suicidal ideation and vomit. Quite a doozy.
Alice: Yeah, it’s a lot.
Ellen: Okay, so we, yeah, obviously we’re going back to like the [00:06:00] time when Maddie left. So we have a flashback to start with.
Bex: Yes. So for the last oh seven, eight episodes, we’ve kind of been seeing what Chim has been doing.
Um, but at the beginning of this episode, we’re going to go back and we’re going to actually see what has happened to Maddie over the last six months, starting with, um, the episode 5.02, 5.03, when things really sort of hit her badly. Um, it’s kind of, it’s, it’s the, it’s the montage of Maddie’s worst hits.
It’s like everything that’s ever gone wrong for Maddie, um, yeah, she’s just reliving it, um, in this montage.
Ellen: Yeah. And I’m not sure how many times I said, oh, Maddie, as I was watching this, it’s just, it’s, it’s quite heartbreaking. Like not only does it have. Um, you know, the actual incident where she, [00:07:00] you know, lost, um, Jee in the bath for a bit, but also as she’s recording the message for Chim to tell him that she’s leaving and then like her basically going to Boston and looking at the ocean and then this awful, heartbreaking.
Bex: No, the ocean is LA That was in LA That was before she went to Boston.
Ellen: Oh, I thought, I thought that after she did this ocean part, she immediately checked herself in.
Bex: No, she says later on that I think she told, I think she was telling Chim, um, later on in the episode that she dropped Jee off, she went to the coast, she sat on the beach and then she like drove halfway across the country to Boston to, for recovery.
Ellen: Right.
Bex: And I think because she was familiar with the hospital, so yeah. Everything bad continues to happen in LA but she [00:08:00] gets better in Boston.
Ellen: Cool.
Alice: Yes.
Bex: So, you know, really just, really just piling on the, the negative connotations with LA for, for Maddie, you know, love that for her. Um,
Ellen: poor Maddie.
Bex: But yeah, so after she drops Jee she goes and sits at the beach and then walks out into the water and as she’s out in the water, um, as the water goes over her head, she’s just, we get flashes of past episodes and of pretty much, like I said, Maddie’s worst hits.
She gets, she remembers the time when Buck crashed his bike when they were a kid and her parents immediately blamed her. Um, we get when Doug attacked Chim and kidnapped Maddie and then blamed Maddie for everything that happened, um, we get Buck being incredibly honest with her and telling her that she’s always the one who leaves.
And I [00:09:00] think at that point she probably would be not happy, but she would be wanting to stay under the water. But then she remembers the conversation that she had with Chim when she wanted to have a home birth. And Chim tells her that if anything were to happen to her or to Jee he couldn’t handle that. That would be the thing that breaks him.
And that’s what convinces Maddie to went back up to the surface, um, and to not die that day.
Ellen: Oh, poor Maddie.
Alice: It’s fucking heavy this episode.
Bex: And then we get, three days later she’s in Boston checking herself into a hospital.
Ellen: She looks extremely broken.
Alice: I feel like she just, like, she didn’t wanna go home, but she didn’t know where else to go.
So like she just drove to somewhere that she knew and she knew Boston. And so that’s just sort of where she ended up. [00:10:00] That’s how I feel like she ended up in Boston. Yeah,
Bex: and I think that’s, uh, Chim tells us that too, like, ’cause I think Ken asks at some point, why is she going to Boston? And he says that that’s sort of her, the place that she had the happiest memories.
’cause Doug was working a lot, so she didn’t actually have to spend that much time with him. Um,
Alice: yeah.
Bex: Yes. Uh, Maddie looks incredibly rough in, in this scene where she’s doing an intake exam with a doctor, um, at the hospital and just laying everything out, um, suicidal ideation, suicidal thoughts in her past, a history of depression, um, possible family history of depression.
Alice: Yeah, so she, she mentions about how she was in the abusive marriage and she had thoughts then, um, her depression’s been on and off and started when she was a kid, and when she says nine or 10, the doctor’s like, oh, that’s [00:11:00] very young. And she explains about Daniel like, my brother died.
He was very sick. Um, and then, yeah, she goes into detail about how her mom talked a lot about wanting to die after losing Daniel, which is like, as much as I hate Mrs. Buckley, like that’s sad.
Ellen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s real sad. But she’s, you know, admits that she tried to drown herself in the ocean,
Bex: at which point I think she gets a one-way ticket straight to, um, to the, the Grippy Sock Ward, um, for, for tests and observations and just to make sure that she’s okay.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: And she’s not going to try and harm herself any further. Um, and
Alice: unfortunately, honestly, this is probably the most unrealistic part, um, of a very unrealistic show is that she’s just like, oh yeah. I’m like, I have depression. I tried to drown myself. And they’re like, “cool, let’s get you an ECG and a CT [00:12:00] scan and blood tests.”
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Just in case you hit your head while you were, um,
Alice: I’m pretty sure they’d just throw meds at her and release her. But, you know,
Bex: I’m gonna, like, I’m assuming that it’s to rule out any, uh, physiological reasons. Which, you know, does,
Ellen: yeah, it pays off.
Bex: Play a part later. The episode in this case, like, yeah, it pays off.
But, um, yes, I don’t necessarily think that doctors would go to quite that length in reality. Alice, I think you’re right. Um, anyway, we don’t watch this show for realism, do we? Tim Minear? We don’t watch this show for realism.
Ellen: Look, I keep seeing watching Channel seven News in the evening, and I keep seeing ads for like season nine, which is just about to start on channel seven, where wherever they play it and you know, it’s the going to space and one,
Bex: oh my gosh.[00:13:00]
Ellen: I’m like, oh, it’s so realistic sometimes. Anyway,
Bex: anyway.
Ellen: Got that to look forward to a, in a long time from now. So
Bex: back, back in season five, we get, um. Basically hospital therapy Meds, meals montage for Maddie. Um, which unfortunately me is,
Ellen: yeah, she does seem to get improving a little bit over the course of this montage.
Bex: She does, but I can’t concentrate because I’m having flashbacks to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Um, oh. ’cause for some reason, yeah. The, um, music, the, the, um, music supervisor has decided to use Sarah McLaughlin’s “Full of Grace” as the music, uh, that plays over this montage. And I’m on a bus with Buffy leaving Sunnydale at this point.
I’m not actually focusing on what Maddie is doing,
Ellen: but she’s getting her meds and her, you know, she’s, they’re bringing the meals and [00:14:00] everything and she’s chatting with the nurses, so she’s feeling a little.
Bex: Especially once the blood tests reveal that she has a serious thyroid issue, and that was what triggered her postpartum depression or the symptoms.
Alice: So it’s, it’s fine. Just have some meds, you’ll be fine.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Yeah. So it kind of just feels like they’re giving her the magic pill to get over her depression, which is a bit sad, like
Bex: Yeah, I am,
Ellen: for realism’s sake.
Bex: I, I, I, yeah. I want to be, I want to be delicate with this because the fact that the thyroid triggered the suicidal ideation and the depression and everything, it doesn’t negate those feelings and it doesn’t negate Maddie’s experience.
Um, but it does very much feel like a magic pill. Um, it feels very much like the show is like, here is your trauma. [00:15:00] Here is the drama surrounding said trauma, but we’re actually done with your trauma now, so we need you to get better instantly so we can move on and traumatize you in another way in the future episode. Um, and I don’t,
I, I, I wish I just, I, I know that it’s not as cut and dried like, no, not to spoil, but they do. It’s not that black and white. It’s like, it’s not, Maddie feels better and suddenly everyone’s happy and it’s all happy families and everything’s better. It, it does. They do try to make Maddie’s story a little tiny bit realistic and show that she’s continuing to struggle.
But yeah, this, this show doesn’t like characters to have chronic pain or lingering trauma like PTSD or lingering trauma. They just want you to have the trauma and then get over it. [00:16:00] And I think it, it does a little bit of a disservice in this instance.
Alice: Yeah. Like, I, I get that they obviously needed her to get better, but I wish there was like, I just wish they’d explored the mental health side of it more than just, oh, it’s postpartum thyroiditis. Congrats. You’re cured. Um,
Bex: yes.
Ellen: Well, I mean, they, they show the, the passage of time, like it takes her a while to, you know, she’s in there for a while and she’s being looked after. So it’s not too instant.
Bex: But yeah, so we don’t know how long she’s on the meds before she starts responding, but at some point, um, they, declare that she is cured and they move her from, um, inpatient to outpatient at the mental health clinic where she continues to re, um, receive therapy for, ’cause the, the thyroid issue didn’t cause the depression, it just like ramped it up to 10.
So she still has the, the depression [00:17:00] to deal with and the, the, um, the negative thoughts and she still has to deal with the trauma of what she thinks almost killing her child. So there is still therapy that needs to be done.
And this is where we find out that, um, she specifically came to Boston because this hospital is where she trained. So she probably has happy memories there.
Ellen: Oh yeah. I don’t think I listened much to this part. I was too busy being sad for Maddie. I’m just reading, reading the transcript again, going
Bex: oh.
I was also too busy. Um, I was also too busy looking at Jennifer Love Hewitt and trying to figure out when they filmed this because she still looked very pregnant in this scene.
Like the, the way that they, they had like the robe and the giant dressing gown and they shot her from certain angles. And Did they shoot this before you went on leave? Like were they stockpiling footage so that they could [00:18:00] extend how long she went on leave? I don’t know, but it just, it was interesting.
And yes, I know that bodies don’t snap back immediately. You don’t go from like super pregnant to super skinny. Um, but
Ellen: some people do. Bitches.
Bex: I would just be curious to know the order. I know some people do, which is annoying. Um, but it’s not like that they, what she would’ve like, she was been on leave, which means she’s had the kid.
Um, and then she’s been at home. So there has been a passage of time before she’s returned to set. This isn’t like an immediately post-lab de uh, post-delivery body.
Alice: She’s in the hospital and they’re like, like having the baby, and they’re like, oh, hey, while you’re in here, can we just get some,
Bex: can we just get you to walk around?
Ellen: We just some shots of you walking? Yeah.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Just say these lines.
Well, she gets out of the hospital quick smart. And she ends up in, in an apartment where [00:19:00] she’s, um, inspecting it and she’s says she’ll take it and the landlord has some paperwork for her to fill out, but she’s like, “No, no. What if I just pay you six months rent upfront?”
Bex: in cash.
Ellen: Yeah. So I’m, I don’t know if the landlord will be willing to accept six months worth of cash in lieu of actually her name and details.
Bex: I think it’s more, um, he asks if she’s a part of the program over at the hospital and he’s probably assuming that that means that she’s running from something. And so
Ellen: yeah, she wants to keep it,
Bex: she doesn’t want her details in a system anywhere, so Yeah. So it’s like, okay, I like he’s getting paid regardless of whether he is got paperwork or not. So
Alice: also like there’s probably women like escaping from DV and recover. Obviously they’re recovering.
Bex: Exactly. That’s what I’m thinking. He’s,
Alice: yeah,
Bex: he’s going, um, she’s prob [00:20:00] she’s running from something that might be an abusive husband. There might be somebody out there looking for her and she doesn’t wanna be found.
Alice: Exactly.
Bex: So she doesn’t want to have a bank account with a name on it or anything like that. So, yep. Cash and he’s getting paid, so it’s no risk to him. So then the next scene is we cut to the mental health clinic at that hospital where Maddie is attending group therapy.
Ellen: Yeah. And she, she makes a friend there. Um, we don’t How long before we actually get this lady’s name?
Bex: Ages. Ages, um, age, because I, um, I’m going, going, going like probably halfway through the episode until we get a name.
Ellen: Okay.
Bex: Um, so the, the in the notes for those of you who are listening who can’t see my notes, um, [00:21:00] I’ve just been calling the character jj, uh, because the actress who plays the character that we later know as Kira, um.
Plays JJ in Criminal Minds. And so I’m like, I can’t remember what this character’s name is. I know her as jj, so I’m just gonna keep calling her JJ until I find out her name. And then I was like halfway through the notes, I’m like, I cannot be fucked going back up to the beginning and replacing all the JJs with Kira. So she’s JJ for half of the notes, and then she swaps over to Kira.
Ellen: Okay,
Bex: so this is, she meets, she meets Kira, who is played by AJ Cook. And, um, fun fact, this is a reunion for these two women because Jennifer Love Hewitt did a season on Criminal Minds when AJ was, um, on the, on the show. So, and then ironically, she only did one season because she got pregnant and then had to leave, or chose to leave because she didn’t wanna do a second, [00:22:00] she didn’t want to go straight back from, um.
Like have a, a shortened maternity leave so that she could shoot the season 11. So she went, no, I’m, I’m one and done. So.
Alice: Fair.
Ellen: There you go. So they have a bit of a, a bond over, um, having to leave, but Maddie tells her that her daughter’s with her dad, she can’t see her right now.
And then I’m gonna call her JJ as well, now. JJ says, don’t, don’t drink that coffee. There’s better coffee down the street. Um, so let’s go get some. So they go get coffee together.
Bex: Yeah. ’cause they’re the only two in the group that don’t have families. Everyone else, as soon as therapy finished, got up and rushed out to like, pick up their kids, go back to their families.
And these two were just bonded, um, in the fact that their family, they don’t have their families and they don’t have their kids. Right now.
Ellen: There’s, there’s a lot of of short scenes in this episode actually, because, I mean, we are going through what’s been happening to Maddie, so we’re just [00:23:00] finding out little snippets of what she’d been up to.
So she, in her apartment, um, she’s looking through her emails. I don’t know if this, this must be the first time that she’s looked at her emails, maybe ’cause she,
Bex: because she, she’s bought a new MacBook because you can see the, um, the boxes on the table. So I’m assuming that when she left, she just like up and left and left her phone and her computer and everything behind.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: Um, and she’s now sort of s. Getting the computer. I’m guessing she might need it to do homework for therapy or something. And yeah, so she’s, this is the first time that she’s logged in. Um, and the emails you, we can actually see some of like the email subject lines. Um, and some of the email details, which are absolutely hilarious, including, um, apparently Buck’s email, like name is Buck Buckley.
Alice: Obviously. Like what else would his name be?
Bex: I dunno what? [00:24:00] No, I don’t know. Um, so like Chim’s is Howard Han, like her dad’s is Philip Buckley and his is Buck Buckley.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: And then we can see that Chim has been sending her emails with videos of Jee-Yun, um. Including one that came in that day, that night, um, with the subject live from Zion National Park.
You aren’t gonna believe this, and
Alice: I love that he, he emails like a, um, like a click baiter.
Ellen: Yeah, he probably,
Bex: yeah,
Ellen: he probably did it on purpose
Bex: like the other one. There’s another one where the subject is, “Jee-Yun car seat karaoke. Just wait till she gets to the chorus!” it’s, uh, but yeah, so this is, it just crack me up. It’s so much
Alice: like a click baiter, like a, um, oh, it’s so funny.
Bex: I [00:25:00] have, I have a feeling that whoever said whoever was doing the, um, the effects of what Maddie sees on her screen was having a heap of fun with it. They fucked up a little bit, but I’m sure that, but they were having fun with it. Um, because it actually shows the dates of when the emails came in and like, we can see the most recent emails of sort of March 23, March 26th, but St. Patrick’s day’s March 17th.
Alice: Wow. What?
Bex: So all of the emails have come in from the future.
Alice: So they, they knew that they were doing, like, they knew that it was airing on March 28th and we’re just like, oh yeah, that’ll do. And didn’t think about the fact that the episode’s actually taking place on St. Patrick’s Day?
Ellen: Well, this should have been before St. Patrick’s Day.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: that’s what I mean. That’s what I mean. So someone said, look, we need email, we need like to show emails. We need to show them from March. And nobody’s told the VFX team, actually we need it prior to March 17th.
Ellen: It should be, yeah.
Alice: Oh, that’s so [00:26:00] funny.
Bex: Um, and this is well before, uh, St. Patrick’s Day because this is, um, this is the video that triggers Maddie to call Buck, um, at the end of peer pressure. This is the video.
Alice: Oh. So I was like, oh, that’s right. Yeah. It’s a long time ago.
Bex: A long time before.
Ellen: Not a whole year. Not a whole year previously.
Alice: Oh God.
Bex: Um, so, yeah, so Chim has sent Maddie the video of Jee crawling, which, she has like a rollercoaster of emotions. She’s, you know, she’s crying because, you know, the last time she saw Jee she was barely able to sit up, and now she’s crawling across the floor and she’s, um, amazed that her little girl is so big and crawling.
And then she’s laughing because, um, we don’t see what happens. But Jee sort of obviously gets into something and we hear Chim like, oh no, no, don’t touch that. [00:27:00] Um, but then she’s sobbing because she’s missed this moment. Um, she’s only getting to watch it through video, and then she, we see her, she’s sort of watching it over and over again.
Oh. And then she calls, like the next morning she calls Buck and we get to see her side of the phone conversation from “Peer Pressure” where she calls and she’s like, and Buck hears the bells.
Ellen: Oh
Oh yeah, the bells
Bex: in the back, in the, in the background of her, um, of her call.
Ellen: Yeah. So it’s the middle of the day she’s walking. Well, the sun’s up. I dunno if it’s the middle of the day, but
Bex: I, well see. I’ve, I looked at this and I went, okay. So when Buck, when she called Buck to say like, why is Chimney in, um, Utah? Um, she woke him up.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: But Boston to LA is only a [00:28:00] three hour time difference. So it must be like seven, eight o’clock in the morning for her, which makes it like five in the morning for Buck.
And I did go back and watch the end of “Peer Pressure” and um, we, they, they don’t show the time on the phone, um, when he picks it up. So I can’t tell. But yeah, I think it’s really early morning. It’s early-ish morning for her and then really early morning for him.
Alice: Let’s be real Buck sleeps weirdly anyway. ’cause he’s a firefighter, so who knows.
Bex: Yeah. I’m assuming she got him on one of his, like days off. So he was just sleeping and you know, Taylor had kept him up all night.
Ellen: Yeah, he had, he had Taylor there
Bex: watching videos, watching videos and reading, um, news stories about her dad on his, on her computer all night.
But, so she calls Buck. The, the other thing was I was hoping that the church bells would keep ringing so I could count the chimes, but it doesn’t, it just plays a little sort of pre chiming, [00:29:00] um, melody.
Ellen: Little tune. Yeah.
Bex: Yeah, but she, the bells go off and it freaks her out. And the next thing we see is her in her apartment packing, because I guess she realizes that Buck, Buck heard the bells.
And she, at this point, does not underestimate her brother and realizes that he’s gonna pass on that information to Chim. And then Chim is gonna come find her.
Ellen: And she explains all this to, um, Kira, is that her name? Kira?
Bex: It will be her name. She’s still JJ at the moment.
Ellen: It will be, she’s still JJ. Okay. Um, she explains this to JJ at, um, as she’s packing everything up and she says, “I’m not ready to go home. I’m not ready to face it.” And she, JJ asks her if she’s afraid of, of her ex, and Maddie’s like, “no, no, no, no. He would never hurt me, but he probably hates me.” And at this point she explains about what happened with Jee in, in the bath and [00:30:00] JJ reveals that she got a DUI with her son in the car, and therefore, um, her ex now won’t let her see her son. So, and she begs Maddie to stay.
Bex: Yeah, she’s almost like, uh, “you think you did, you think you fucked up this? Like, I’ve got your story beat.” Um,
Alice: story topper.
Bex: But, but she does say, um, that Maddie is the only one sort of in their group that really understands what she is going through. Um, and yeah, begs her to stay.
They can help each other get better and then they can both go home. Um, which neither of them look thrilled about the prospect of, but they do come to that agreement. So then just to catch us up in the timeline, we get a little snippet from “Ghost Stories”, which is Hen uh, and Chim on the phone talking about the fact that he’s headed to Boston.
And then we get, I [00:31:00] completely forgot that Albert was in this episode. We get a cut to, um, Albert, who is apparently looking after the Buckley apartment while Maddie and Chim are away. Um, and at some point has grown a mustache.
Ellen: Oh God, it’s such a filthy mustache.
Alice: Grown a mustache because Chim wasn’t there to tell him it was a terrible idea. And he’s also like trashed the house.
Bex: Why didn’t Buck tell him it was a terrible idea?
Ellen: Well, he probably doesn’t see Buck very often at the moment because he, they’re working in different places.
Alice: Yeah, true.
Bex: Uh, so yeah, she, he is hanging out with Chimney and all of the boxes of nappies, diapers that have been delivered.
Ellen: Because they didn’t cancel the um, the subscription. They keep showing up. Yeah.
Alice: They didn’t cancel the Amazon subscription, so they just keep getting sent.
Bex: Well, Chim says, well, that explains where they are. So I’m guessing that he thought that he was ordering them and then routing them to like whatever motel that he was staying in.[00:32:00]
But he, something has gone wrong in the like, redirection process. So rather than arriving in sort of in Utah and all the different places that he is staying, they’re just going straight to California.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: And the, the main purpose of the conversation with Albert is because, uh, we find out that Chimney is staying with Eli in Boston after they ran into each other in the parking garage when Chim saved the baby.
Alice: Yeah. So he’s staying in, um, in Eli’s basement.
Ellen: Yeah. We don’t get to see any of Eli’s family at all. Just him.
Bex: We never see the mysterious wife.
Ellen: Yeah. Apparently there’s a wife and, and children around
Bex: Molly doesn’t exist
Ellen: somewhere, but he mentions her a few times.
Bex: The kids, I’m not so fussed about. ’cause it sounds like they’re grown, so they’re probably not home. They’re off living their own lives. But Molly, we should have seen Molly at some point.
Ellen: That would’ve been nice if
Bex: only because [00:33:00] she would’ve like been snatching Jee-Yun off Chim at every opportunity so that she could have baby snuggles.
Alice: Yeah. I do wanna mention as well, um, during this scene is “Heartbeats” by Jose Gonzalez, and that’s like “To Build a Home”.
Mm-hmm. It’s one of those songs that makes me cry every fucking time and I’m like, it should just be illegal to play it in TV shows because I can’t deal
Bex: that they, they, they were really hitting the heartstrings with the music. Like, think of every sad song that has ever been used in a television show. Let’s put it in this episode.
Alice: Let’s put it in this episode.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah. We don’t know that we wrote it well enough to, um, trigger the, the water works, so we’re gonna cheat. We’re gonna use the music,
Alice: so we’re gonna throw “Heartbeats” in. Yeah. And Sarah McLaughlin.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Yeah. Um,
Bex: yeah,
Alice: like I, I’m just going through like the TV shows that have used “Heartbeats” because it’s like, there’s a million of them, [00:34:00] but like Scrubs, One Tree Hill
Bex: Gray’s must have used it at some point.
Alice: I’m sure Grey’s Anatomy used it at some point. Um, it was in something recently that I was watching too. Besides this, obviously I watched this
Ellen: Athena’s contractually obligated appearance in this episode. So apparently Chim has called Athena to try and pull some strings about, um, finding a missing person in Boston.
Alice: I think it was House, sorry, um, that I was watching like semi recently, that it was in. Oh my God. It’s also in Superstore and I watched that around the Yeah, so it’s fucking in everything basically.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Anyway, continue.
Ellen: My train of thought has been derailed.
Bex: Um, yeah. And the only reason that he called Athena was because Angela is contractually obligated that she appears in every single episode,
Ellen: but she tells them that she can, there’s not much she can do because [00:35:00] they have no proof that she’s actually there.
Bex: Yes. Um, and while he’s on the phone to Athena, Chim is printing out a homemade missing persons posters, which we then see him, um, putting it up on a hospital notice board, uh, which apparently he has been to several times before because the nurse knows him by name.
Alice: Oh my God, he’s laying it so thick as well. Um, like he’s clearly been here several times, so she greets him by name. Um, goes, “I’d ask what brings you in here today, but I’m afraid you’re about to tell me.” And she, and he goes, “I’m just doing the rounds, making sure you haven’t admitted Matt a Maddie Buckley or Maddie Kendall.” And she’s like, “you know, I can’t,” like, she, she goes to say like, I can’t tell you this.
Like, it’s, you know, and he just goes. “I guess I’ll hit the morgue next.” and just like, looks so wistful.
Bex: Um, [00:36:00] which I, I dunno what it is about Chim that he inspires medical professionals to forget, like they’re, um, the HIPAA act or the fact that, you know, it
Ellen: just feels so sorry for his, you know, puppy dog eyes.
Bex: They should not be di Yeah, they should not be divulging information because she leans over the counter to him and says, “You know, maybe you should check the woman’s clinic next door. They specialize in postpartum depression.” Like, ma’am,
Ellen: I mean, that’s, that’s not like, she’s not telling giving him anything away.
Alice: She’s not te yeah,
Ellen: she’s just telling him where the women’s clinic is.
Alice: Firstly, maybe he slipped her a calendar, so now that she’s, she’s seen Mr. April, she’s like, ah, I’m gonna tell this guy.
Secondly, I have a feeling. So the, the, like, he’s obviously been here a lot and I have a feeling the women’s clinic isn’t isn’t sign posted? Like it’s probably…
Bex: You mean the fact that it’s got like a big sign across the door that’s like “Women’s Mental Health Clinic” and it’s directly, and it’s directly [00:37:00] perpendicular from the front entrance because he sits on the bench and he can
Alice: Does it really?
Bex: See both the front entrance and.
Alice: Oh Jesus Christ. How does he not fucking notice like, what the fuck? Okay. I don’t know that. I was like, oh, like maybe it’s like,
Bex: like it’s around the corner and it’s hidden? No, it’s fucking right there.
Alice: No, I was like, maybe it’s just like not signposted. So it just looks like a random, like surgery entrance or something. Or like a doctor’s. But I did not realize it even had meant Oh my Jesus Christ.
Bex: Um, but see my issue,
Alice: okay, Chim’s not very observant. It’s fine. Um,
Bex: um, my issue is that like Doug could have got that information out of that nurse. ’cause we knew that Doug could be charming when he wanted to be,
Alice: excuse me, Doug was not in a firefighter’s calendar.
Bex: But you know what I mean? Like Doug could have, have gone up there. That’s, and he could have spun that story and he could have given the puppy dog eyes and then used that information for nefarious means. This nurse had no idea that she was dealing with Chim, not Doug.
Alice: Literally. And like, she [00:38:00] doesn’t know that. Like, it’s not like Maddie’s gone in and been like, my husband’s the best. Well, my, um, partner’s, the best person in the world. He’s the best dad in the world.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: I’m just going through some shit and don’t wanna talk to him. Yeah. Like he could be abusive. You don’t like she
Bex: Exactly. That’s my issue with the fact that all of these women medical professionals are looking at Chim and divulging information.
Alice: Like, I love Chim’s laying it on thick. I love him being like, I guess I’ll check the morgue just because I love Chimney. But yeah, that nurse should not have done that. It would’ve been better if he just like, if he like found it himself or like, you know, some other way besides a medical professional telling him, like giving him a big hint to where to find her.
Bex: Yeah. Because then he immediately goes to the women’s clinic and starts rattling on the locked doors in the middle of the night, um, not a good look, and then starts camping out on a bench in like outside the hospital,
Alice: literally every day. Yeah.
Bex: Yeah. [00:39:00] Um, so, you know, RIP to Jee-Yun’s gross motor skills because she’s apparently just been strapped in a stroller and a car seat day in, day out for six months. I’m surprised that she’s crawling because
Alice: I know, right?
Bex: That she’s just apparently never been having, she doesn’t have the opportunity to move. Um, and so that’s where Eli finds Chim. On the bench with Jee and his stroller just waiting for a sighting of Maddie.
Alice: Um, yeah. He’s like, “you know, this seems like the part of the movie where the detective come, becomes a little too obsessed with the case and his boss has to send him home.” Chim’s like, “first off, you’re not my boss.” Not at all. Um, and then he like panics that he’s overstaying his welcome and Eli’s like, no, I don’t care if you stay there. Like, stop stalking your child’s mother.
Bex: Hmm. Stop stalking your baby mama.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Um, so Eli sets the story for the rest of the episode in motion [00:40:00] because he tells Chim that perhaps the universe is not just going to let Chim see Maddie. Maybe he has to earn it. Um, he has to pay like a cosmic, a Cosmo. There was a cosmic tab that he has to paid.
Alice: Yeah. I don’t know how this makes sense, but sure. Let’s just go with it.
Bex: I, the, the line of dialogue is for, is that Chim should, um, needs to be in service. Needs to be of service to the universe. He needs to provide service to the universe, and then perhaps the universe will return the favor.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Which like, spoiler alert it does because Chim goes out and volunteers and, and he eventually runs into Maddie. So, you know, that’s Eli is correct because that’s the way they wanted the story to go. Um, but yeah, it doesn’t make a lot of sense if you said that to someone in reality, like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: But yes, with [00:41:00] that, we are all caught up. We’ve caught up with Maddie’s storyline. We’ve caught up with Chim’s storyline. It is present day and it is St. Patrick’s Day in Boston. And we know it’s St. Patrick’s Day because the Dropkick Murphys start playing. Not that song though. A different, I I,
Alice: yeah. Not that song, the other Dropkick Murphy song.
Bex: I think they used all of their, um, music budget on the Sarah McLaughlin and the Jose Gonzales. So they’re just like, okay, we just need a Dropkick Murphy song. Like, just get us the cheapest one you can get.
And so we are at a, I’m guessing it’s a church breakfast. It’s like one of those breakfasts that they put on, um, before the parade so that, you know, people can get some food in their stomach before they start imbibing alcohol all day. Um, and it looks like they, the pipers are meeting there before the parade.
’cause there’s a, a chalkboard in the background with the rules for the [00:42:00] parade. Um, which includes no hitting each other with your bagpipes. No pinching strangers because number three, let’s not repeat last year. And I am fascinated, I wanna know what happened last year.
Alice: What happened last year? Oh God.
Ellen: Apparently someone got in trouble for pinching someone.
Bex: And they’re also not allowed to sing anti-queen songs, which I was really confused about for a second of like, what did I have against Freddie Mercury? But I’m guessing they met Queen Elizabeth and like the British Royal family at this point, because
Ellen: I guess so. I mean the, I think the Queen was still alive in 2022.
Bex: She, yes, she was still alive in 2022. She only died recently. Um, like the, I, I’m guessing it would just be like, don’t sing songs that are anti the royal family. ’cause Ireland and England have a very contentious history.
Ellen: Yes.
Bex: Um, so yeah, sounds [00:43:00] like bagpipes have a lot of fun on, um, St. Patrick’s Day.
Ellen: He does except, except for one of the pipers who isn’t feeling so good. He’s having trouble breathing and he’s like, oh no, on this show, that’s a bad move. That’s a bad idea. And his, but his friend tells him like, just shut up and get on with it kind of thing. “Come on, we still gotta do the parade. Just get over it.”
Bex: Yeah, pretty much.
Ellen: Yeah. I was, they so they’re playing “Scotland the Brave”. Yeah. Like I’m looking at this.
Bex: Oh my God. Oh my God. Yes.
Ellen: I thought like, bagpipes were like, did I, this is gonna sound really stupid, but is bagpipes like just a Celtic thing in general, or is it, I I’ve only ever seen it,
Bex: yes. No. Okay.
Ellen: Associated with Scotland.
Bex: I went on the same journey, um, because I saw bagpipes and I went, wait,
Alice: okay, good. ’cause I’m literally Googling are [00:44:00] bagpipes in Ireland right now. So.
Bex: Um, so yes, there are Irish bagpipes. Bagpipes are just like a Celtic thing, which makes sense.
Ellen: Okay, okay. Yes.
Bex: You know, everybody needs to get their sheep back. Um, the pipers are wearing
Ellen: that does make sense,
Bex: A traditional Irish tartan, the, the pattern on their, their kilts. Um
Ellen: mm-hmm.
Bex: But yeah, so there’s a fight. The, the context of the reason that we’re talking about this right now is that the, a fight breaks out and the, uh, the clergyman who’s sort of running the breakfast asks the pipers, you know, start playing because, you know, music sues the savage, savage beast.
So they start playing and I’m like, I wonder what song that is? ’cause I don’t know bagpipe songs. And so I Google like popular bagpipe songs, bagpipe songs, thinking that, you know, I have to scroll through a couple to listen to a few, try and figure it out. And it’s fucking “Scotland the Brave”.
Alice: It’s literally the one bagpipe song. Yeah,
Bex: it’s, I mean they just, it’s the quintessential bagpipe song. Didn’t
Ellen: They just picked something everyone [00:45:00] knows, but they don’t know the name of it,
Alice: I’m pretty sure. Yeah. Like I’m pretty sure it’s because none of them were actually playing the bagpipe, so they just played like the first bagpipe song that they could find. But it’s Scotland on St. Patrick’s Day. Like guys,
Bex: it’s the most patriotic Scottish song there is. And they’re playing it on a day celebrating Irish history and culture.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: I just… Like you go to enough trouble to make sure that the pipers are wearing Irish tartan, but you don’t think maybe we should let them play, get them to play something I don’t know anything other than a song that is fricking called “Scotland The Brave?”
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Anyway, so funny. That’s not the important part of this scene. It’s important to us ’cause it’s fricking hilarious. Um, but the important part is that while all of the other pipers start piping, um, Murray collapses.
Which necessitates a call to Boston’s 9-1-1 [00:46:00] dispatch, which have green wavy lines. ’cause you know it’s St. Patrick’s Day
Alice: because it’s St. Patrick’s Day. Oh my god. I laughed so hard because like when I first watched this, I hadn’t seen Lone Star. And so like, I was like, oh yeah, it’s green ’cause it’s St. Patrick’s Day. And then I watched Lone Star, which is a different color, and then Nashville is also a different color now. So I’m like, is Boston’s color just green? Like,
Bex: I think so. I think so. I think they’ve just decided that like Boston is the Irish capital of the US so it’s, it’s gonna be green.
Alice: Apparently, yeah. So the name, I didn’t know enough about Boston or like America in general, but I thought like, um, I thought it’d be Philadelphia just because I’ve only seen only Sunny, uh, Always Sunny.
Ellen: What, they have a lot of Irish people there?
Alice: They own an Irish bar.
Ellen: Ah, okay.
Alice: It’s like, I’m pretty sure it’s called like St. Patty’s Pub. And so I just assumed that Philadelphia was like the [00:47:00] Irish capital. I have no idea. Don’t know anything about America.
Bex: Every city has an Irish pub. Like we have an Irish pub down here.
Alice: Oh yeah, we, we even have Irish pubs. Yeah. Dunno, didn’t, didn’t really think about it. Um, they even go to Ireland in a Always Sunny I’m pretty sure. To Ireland or Scotland? I’m pretty sure it’s Ireland anyway. Um,
Bex: anyway,
Alice: Boston’s apparently Green
Bex: Boston 9-1-1 call. Um, and despite the fact that they call 9-1-1, um, the Boston Medical Volunteer Corps show up, um, of which Chimney is now a member.
Um, and I, I had to look these guys up. I think it’s like the equivalent of our St. John’s Ambulance. Uh, which
Alice: yeah, it, for
Bex: those of you,
Alice: it’s like volunteer, volunteer medics that like, if they’re close enough, they’ll go help.
Bex: Yeah. So for those of you not in Australia, um, we have a volunteer service which was founded by the St. John’s Church, I guess. They do first aid training, they do medical supplies. And if you are having [00:48:00] a, um, a community event or a concert or a sporting event, you can request, um, the volunteer first aid officers attend and provide first aid services. So you don’t have to rely on actual paramedics. They can treat minor injuries, um, minor illnesses, and then they can triage and then escalate as necessary.
Alice: Yeah, exactly. Like it’s to, um, like, you know, if someone falls over and breaks their ankle, they don’t need an ambulance to like lights and sirens when there’s more important things happening and big events. Yeah. I was gonna say something, don’t remember. Oh yeah. So 9-1-1, like Yes. He calls 9-1-1. 9-1-1 would route to, um, because Chimney says that because like they’re across the road, so 9-1-1 would route to them.
Um, it’s like how when there’s a car crash, 9-1-1 will route to the SES here.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Even though they’re not part of the 9-1-1 thing and they don’t like, you don’t call going, oh yeah. Like, is it ambulance, fire, or police? [00:49:00] Like, you don’t go SES, they’ll just route them where needed,
Bex: although Eli arrives as well, so I’m wondering if the volunteers have like a radio set up where they can intercept 9-1-1 calls.
Alice: I would assume that
Bex: they can hear that someone’s calling for medical
Alice: in case it’s a heart attack. Like go do CPR while the actual paramedics get there.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: We have similar with ambulances here. Like they’ll send, there’s a faster vehicle that they can send, so if that’s closer, they’ll send that to start doing CPR and stuff. And then when the actual ambulance get there, they’ll take over, load them in so that they can take them. Um, but ambulances are slower, so,
Bex: uh, yeah, so Chimney doesn’t have a car, Chimney is on foot. Um, so he is slightly confused as they, as he and the other volunteer Randall into the church as to why there is a keg um, at a breakfast. He’s
Alice: at a prayer breakfast.
Bex: Yeah. Um, and Randall was just like, “It’s St. Patrick’s Day.” Um, [00:50:00] I think we would also need to bring chimney over to Australia for like Anzac Day. Um, gunfire breakfast would absolutely shock him.
Ellen: I mean, I think our St. Patrick’s day is pretty big too. Like it. Maybe not in the morning, but, uh, definitely the nights are
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: But yeah. Anzac Day. Yeah.
Bex: Um, so he and ran, yeah, he and Randall attend to Murray. Um, and Chim is thinking the worst of, he’s listing off all of the symptoms. And then Eli appears in the background and says that Murray has something called “bagpipe lung” because, uh, Murray has never cleaned his bagpipes and the bag is full of mold spores, which he is been breathing in for God knows how long.
Ellen: Ew.
Alice: Yep. It’s disgusting.
Bex: Ew. Yeah.
Alice: Um, I love that Eli like starts cutting into the, um, bagpipes [00:51:00] and they’re all just like, oh my God. Let’s, you’re gonna ruin his bagpipes.
Bex: Let’s just release.
Alice: It’s like, dude, he’s dying. Like
Bex: he’s just gonna release the mold spores out for everyone else to, um, to breathe in. That’s fine, Eli. Um,
Alice: it’s okay. This isn’t The Last of Us. It’s not that serious. I also really like that, like chimp’s trying to diagnose and he is just like, “oh, like it could be this, it could be right side heart failure.” Um, and then he listens to his lungs. He’s like, “It could be lung damage. Is he a smoker? No. Maybe pu pulmonary fibrosis, but what would cause him to go down now?”
And Randall, who’s the other volunteer, is like, “Are you asking me? Because our volunteer training didn’t go into that depth. You’re like, smart.”
Oh, it’s so good. So yeah, the volunteers are like trained to put bandaid on,
Bex: give out bandaids pretty much,
Alice: yes. And ice rolled ankles. Um, and, you know, put pressure on wounds maybe, but not, um, not diagnose,
Bex: no. [00:52:00] Uh, so thank God Randall’s got Chimney today and Eli for backup.
Ellen: Yeah, and Eli.
Bex: So they manage.
Ellen: I, I love how when Eli says like it’s bagpipe lung, and Chim goes, “That can’t be a real thing.” it doesn’t sound like a real thing.
Alice: Like fucking what? Oh my God.
Bex: Apparently it is. Uh, so they get Murray up, they get him on a stretcher. They, um, they get him out to, I guess the ambulance or they can take him to hospital. And Chim, Chim is fascinated by bagpipe lung. He’s like, ” Bagpipe lung. That’s the first time I’ve seen that.”
And Eli’s like, “you’re, you’re about to have a lot of firsts.” Um, and then we cut to, Chim is so fascinated by the concept of bagpipe lung that he’s called Bobby.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Have you ever heard of this thing called bagpipe lung?
Alice: He’s like, Bobby, you’re Irish. Right?
Bex: But yeah. So this is Peter Krause’s, um, contractually obligated appearance in the episode.
Alice: Yep.
Bex: Because it it does and yeah, it [00:53:00] does absolutely nothing to, for further the storyline. It’s just,
Alice: as he says though, it, it’s like he does mention it’s, um, he’s doing the Boston Medical Volunteer Corps. It’s mostly handing out bandaids and bottles of water. So Yeah, they do, they do mention that. But yeah, Bobby’s just like, wow.
Bex: But it was on the back of his vest as he walked in. There was like, it was middle of the screen for a good couple of seconds.
Alice: Yeah. But just in case you don’t know what the Boston Medical Volunteer Court, uh, Corps do.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Um, um, but yeah, like Chim mentions that his saving account balance is getting pretty low. Bobby is like, you, you still have a full-time job waiting for you here.
Bex: Yeah. Why are you volunteering to be a paramedic when you have an actual fucking paramedic job?
Alice: Yeah. Like you, you are, you’re right here. Um, and yeah, Chim goes, “I’m not coming home without Maddie.” Um, so yeah. So that’s Peter Krause’s contractually obligated scene. Um, and now we’re back to Maddie.
Bex: We are Back to Maddie. And, uh, the [00:54:00] clinic is running therapy sessions on St. Patrick’s Day, um, in which
Alice: obviously
Bex: Kira, uh, is,
Alice: I mean, it’s not like it’s a public holiday, so
Bex: No, I know.
Ellen: Yeah, it’s a general day.
Bex: Kira has, uh, availed herself of the, um, the, the kegs at the p at the prayer breakfast though, because while Maddie is, um, giving a, a speech at therapy where she’s basically saying, I think I’m done. I think I’m ready to go home. Um, Kira is drunk as a skunk. This is where we finally, she’s finally Kira. We actually get a name.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: Oh.
Bex: Um, because Maddie says, I couldn’t have done everything. I couldn’t have gotten to this point without Kira and Kira’s just like, “Ooh, I get a special shout out. Lucky me.”
And it’s like, girl. She’s got a coffee cup in her hand, which is empty because, you know, [00:55:00] see previous discussions about coffee cup acting, but if there were something in it going, what is actually, that’s not just coffee or, it’s a very, very Irish coffee. It’s probably green Irish coffee actually.
Ellen: Yeah,
Alice: yeah, actually, yeah. Um, just like gingerbread lattes. It’s green this time.
Bex: Um, yeah. And she’s like giving Maddie sort of the, the slow clap, like, “oh my God, I’m so glad you’re fixed. Let’s give her a round of applause.” And
Ellen: I would, to start with, I didn’t sort of clock that she was drunk and I was like, what is this woman’s problem? Like? Is she like, just, you know, jealous? But I mean, it turns out she kind of is jealous, but she’s also extremely drunk.
Bex: Incredibly drunk. Yes.
Ellen: Yeah. Well, as, as the scene goes on, that becomes more clear. But at first I was like, what the fuck?
Bex: I think may, I think maybe I clocked it earlier. Because if [00:56:00] watching the episode back, you see that very different, the difference in the her speech patterns and the way she’s behaving is prepared as opposed to earlier in the episode.
Ellen: Yep.
Bex: Um, and also having watched AJ in other things, it’s like, okay, yeah, this is, this is drunk. This is drunk AJ.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: Yeah. So they get to, the end of the therapist is like, okay, not nothing else productive is gonna happen. Let’s let everybody out there. Maddie is fuming. And she confronts Kira and says that she, you know, just wants to check on her because she doesn’t seem like herself. And Kira’s like, “Oh, maybe it’s the depression.” Maddie snatches the empty coffee cup and sniffs it and says, “oh, maybe It’s the whiskey.” So I’m guessing that she gave Kira the heads up that she was, this was her last therapy session, that she was gonna go home. Um, and it’s tipped Kira over the edge.
Ellen: Yeah, [00:57:00] except that it’s a real bad day for it, because she’s supposed to be visiting her son this afternoon, and now she’s really drunk. So, but it’s okay. Maddie is gonna help her.
Bex: How?
Ellen: She says she’s gonna get her a banana bag. What is a banana bag?
Bex: A banana bag. It’s IV fluids. It’s basically, I bag full of IV fluids with like vitamins, electrolytes, minerals. It’s called a banana bag because I guess they put B something in it and it turns a bright yellow. Um, but the point of that is that it is IV bag, which means it’s intravenous, which means that she’s dragged this woman over to the hospital and she’s gonna go to the nurses and go, Hey, we can’t admit her, but do you mind if I just pop around into a, um, a trauma bay and just, you know, stick a needle in her arm for a little bit?
Alice: Yeah, it’s fine. No one will notice.
Ellen: I figured she was just gonna, you know, look like she knew what she was doing and just steal it,
Bex: but she’d have to like [00:58:00] administer it somehow. Um, banana bags, I remember them from, I think they’ve used ’em in Grey’s Anatomy, but I remember them from ER, so the doctors would be like, really hungover and then they’d hook themselves up to a, to a banana bag so that they could sober up, um, and work.
Ellen: Oh my God.
Bex: Like after they’ve had a bender. Yeah,
Alice: yeah, yeah.
Bex: Seem to remember George Clooney being hooked up to one at one point.
Alice: Speaking of one of my friends just started ER, and I’m so tempted, but also baby Dr. Robbie.
Bex: Yes, I know
Alice: is an actual infant. Like, I don’t know why they gave a 12-year-old a lab coat. Um, I didn’t think that he’s a Dougie Houser, but
Bex: he’s a student there. We student at that point, right? Like he’s a med student.
Alice: He’s a child.
Bex: He’s the equivalent of like, he’s the equivalent of Whitaker. So it is like, it’s full circle.
Alice: Oh, it’s so funny though. Like I, I was like, is is that him? And they’re like, yes. And I’m like, oh my fucking God. He is a actual child.
Bex: Because the point of The Pitt was, it was meant to be a [00:59:00] spinoff of ER, it was meant to be. Dr. Carter all grown up and like being a med student in the ER, and now he’s running his own ER. But Michael Creighton refused to give them the rights to, um, ER, so they like changed it to Pittsburgh and it’s now like Dr. Robbie, not Dr. Carter.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Um, I think the Creighton estate is still suing them for it though. Um.
Alice: Oh, wow.
Bex: But yeah, so that, that’s why it’s, it’s, uh, Noah Wiley and it’s, it, that’s why it’s, um,
Alice: I knew that it was like e like I knew that he was on ER and I knew it was a tied a lot to ER, but, um, yeah, I haven’t watched ER for like, I’ve seen bits, but not since like the fucking nineties or whatever. Yeah. So I was like six years old watching it with mum.
Bex: Um, so yeah, so Maddie heads off to get her very, very illegal, um, banana bag. Uh, but before she can get too far, Kira, um, stops her because the hospital that [01:00:00] Maddie has dragged her to, and the waiting, the specific waiting room that she’s dumped Kira in is the same one that Chimney put up the missing poster of Maddie.
And so Kira is staring at a poster of Maddie on the bulletin board. Which is news to Maddie, and she’s shocked to see her face on the bulletin board. And she takes the poster down and she’s looking at it and she’s like, “oh my God, he’s still looking for me.” Um, but not in a scared, oh my God, I’m like running for my life.
It’s like the, oh, he’s still looking for me. He still cares about me. Which sent Kira off the deep end even more because she assumed that when Maddie said, I can’t see my kid, it was because Chim was keeping Jee from Maddie, not that Maddie was in a self-imposed exile. Um,
Alice: yeah, Kira’s like, “I thought you said he hated you. You lied.” And Maddie’s like, “I, [01:01:00] that’s not what I said. Like I didn’t lie.”
Bex: No, what she said was true from a certain point of view. Um,
Alice: yes.
Bex: And so that Kira’s like had enough. So first of all, Maddie’s leaving her and then she’s realized that the woman that she thought Maddie was was never who Maddie was in the end at, at all.
Um, and she goes running outta the hospital and just as Maddie chases after her, every single extra that they ever hired on 9-1-1 floods into the waiting area, blocking Maddie’s exit. So by the time she gets outside, Kira is long gone. It’s ridiculous though, ’cause Kira takes off through the doors and there’s nobody around. Maddie takes one step and Woo.
Ellen: Yeah. Suddenly the parade is there.
Bex: Everyone’s there.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Yes. Pretty much. So then that sets up Maddie searching the parade for Kira. [01:02:00] The same parade that Chim and Eli are working in.
Ellen: Yeah. I, I really like the way they set this up actually, like with the, like both of them kind of coming from opposite directions, um, going through the parade
Bex: and the, and the little moments, moments when you’d realize that they crossed paths like,
Alice: oh, i, yeah,
Ellen: yeah.
Alice: Like, oh my God, oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: It’s gonna happen. It’s gonna happen.
Bex: They’re sort of, they’re getting closer. The universe is pushing them closer and closer together until they finally collide. Um, so Chim’s just dealing with all of the, the crazies, including, uh, a man dressed as St. Patrick who is suffering from a snake bite on the back of his hand.
Ellen: Oh yeah. This was weird. I’m like, where the hell’s a snake bite come from? But apparently they, he was,
Alice: it’s a thing I
Ellen: cosplaying St Patrick.
Alice: The only reason I know it’s a thing is Yeah. The only reason I know it’s a thing is because of, um, the Simpsons.
Ellen: Oh, oh, [01:03:00] the Simpsons teaching us things for 30 years.
Alice: It’s how I know most American facts.
Bex: Um, I’ll give them kudos over the fact that they, um, they have this snake bite and then they have Randall going like, “oh, do we do this? And we do that?” and Chimney’s like, “Those are the worst things you could ever possibly do for a snake bite.”
Alice: Yeah. Like, should we tourniquet? No.
Ellen: Yeah. Should we cut it open and suck out the poison? It’s like, what? Yeah.
Bex: First of all, it’s not poison, it’s venom. Um, second of all, absolutely not.
Ellen: Yeah, I know. That’s gross.
Alice: Um, so yeah, no immobilize the hand elevated above his heart. I don’t know if you’re even supposed to ele
Ellen: No, you just, you’re just supposed to not move. Right? Like, just,
Alice: you’re just supposed to not
Ellen: move,
immobilize, not move,
Bex: and he’s, until you get help. Um, he’s got, he’s taken a Sharpie and he is drawn a li a circle around the wound so that if like the, the irritation, um, from the venom [01:04:00] spreads any further, they’ll be able to see the rate at which it’s spreading.
Alice: Yeah. So, uh, snake venom actually goes through your lymphatic system. Um, so it doesn’t go through your bloodstream. So it doesn’t matter, like if your heart is beating, like if you’re panicking and your heart’s beating really fast, it’s not as bad as if you are like, oh shit, no, shouldn’t waving your arms around, um, because your lymphatic system moves by, like works by you moving.
Ellen: Mm.
Alice: Um, so you wanna stay still? Um. And yeah, so stay as still as possible. Um, so if someone can like put you on a backboard and move you and while you’re staying completely still, that’s good. Um, wrapping a bandage, not too tight, like tight but not too tight. So you don’t wanna cut off the circulation like a tourniquet.
Um, but wrapping it top and bottom, um, to try and keep it in one place as well. And then, yeah, anti venom is important.
Bex: I’m also really curious as to what’s kind of snake it was.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Like we never find out. There’s no, there’s no snake in the scene because they haven’t spent the money to get a snake handler in. Um,
Alice: I [01:05:00] mean it’s America. I’m sure they don’t have venomous snakes. It’s fine. It’s funny ’cause they absolutely do, but
Ellen: they do.
Alice: Yeah. Maybe not in Boston.
Ellen: Well Chim says anti-venom is the best bet. So it is something venomous.
Alice: Oh yes. Snakes. Yeah. I mean, except for pythons. But I don’t, does America have pythons?
Bex: Yes,
Ellen: they have pet pythons, probably. Anyway, Maddie, uh, we cut back to Maddie. She’s asking people, uh, she asks someone at a pub about if they’ve seen her, um, like Kira and then the bouncer is like, “Oh, a drunk woman. That narrows it down.”
Alice: Yeah. A blonde drunk woman.
Bex: Yeah, a blonde drunk woman on St. Patrick’s Day. Yeah. Yeah. I’ll definitely be able to keep a lookout for that. Chim has moved on from, uh, a man dressed up as St. Patrick trying to rid the streets of snakes to a man, uh, dressed as a leprechaun.
Alice: Oh my God. He’s like, “she stole [01:06:00] me pot of gold.” Like, “you know you’re not actually a leprechaun, right?”
Bex: Yeah. So Chim’s not actually treating the leprechaun. Eli’s treating the leprechaun. Um, Chim is, um, treating the victim of the leprechaun. Um, ’cause apparently. He whack her on the nose with a stick, which is not actually a stick. It’s a shillelagh. Um, and a rubber one.
Alice: Yeah. And a rubber one.
Bex: Um, but the leprechaun gets dragged away, uh, after Eli patches him up and shoved into the back of a police cruiser. Which is important because later on we are gonna see Maddie wandering up and down the street, going past a leprechaun being shoved into a police cruiser as she, as she and Chimney’s circles get closer and closer.
Ellen: Yes. So you’re like, oh, they’re nearly there. When’s it gonna happen?
Alice: It was so nice, I have to say. So nice to see Chim like working again.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Like he’s, he’s so good at his job and he is so good with the [01:07:00] patients. And I was like, yay. It’s Chimney. I missed him.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Before he’s working, before he gets back to work, um, he’s gonna take a lunch break ’cause Randall is gonna go and get them some lobster rolls. Um, which both he and Eli laugh at Chim when he asks, when he says, yeah, you can get me a lobster ro roll, but no mayo. And I’m like, yeah,
Alice: Randall’s like, I, I sense you have no idea what a lobster roll is. Um,
Bex: I have no idea what a lobster roll is, so I had to look up.
Alice: I like you had to look it up.
Bex: It’s literally, it’s a bread roll with lobster pieces mixed in mayo as like some kind of like lobster salad on the bread roll. Yeah. It’s so, yeah. There’s no way that you give it without mayo. He has to have mayo.
Alice: Like it’s, yeah. It’s literally lobster mixed with mayo. Um, I have had a lobster roll. Um, it was okay. It was very underwhelming. Um, I was very disappointed. I did not know until recently what a tuna melt was. And they [01:08:00] just,
Bex: I, I don’t understand the appeal of the tuna melt. It just sounds gross.
Ellen: It does sound gross.
Alice: They just haunting me. Three different occasions. Last week, I, there were references to tuna melts and I was like, I don’t fucking know what a tuna melt is. So obviously there’s the Heated Rivalry one with the tuna melt.
Ellen: I was at the, uh, at, at a cafe last weekend looking for something to have for lunch, and they had tuna melt on the menu.
Alice: What the fuck? Another one there, you
Ellen: And I was like, oh, should I have one just to be extra fangirl about this? This don’t. And then I was like, no, it’s tuna on a sandwich. No, that’s gross
Alice: with it’s, um, yeah. So yeah, there was the Heated Rivalry, tuna meltdown. I was then watching Schitt’s Creek, which I started like ages, started watching again ages ago.
Um, was watching Schitt’s Creek and um, someone got two tuna melts to go and I was like. Is this a Canadian thing? Like I literally messaged my Canadian friends and I’m like, is this some weird Canadian friend? No, it’s not. And they’re like, I’ve never had a tuna melt. It’s just a thing. Um,
Ellen: it just sounds cool.
Alice: Then on The Pitt this week, they [01:09:00] fucking mentioned t um, tuna melts. And everyone’s like, oh, it’s just a diner thing. And I’m like, no, I get, they could have chosen anything. They could have said like
Bex: any other reference
Alice: eggs and bacon, like anything. But no, they fucking said tuna melt. And then I messaged my ex about it, about how fucking weird it was that tuna melts were coming everywhere.
And she’s like, is this a fucking joke? And sent me a screenshot from the book that she was reading where someone referred to something as a tuna melt. And she’s like, and I’m like, what the fuck is a tuna melt? Apparently Subway make them as well. Oh. And I’m like, no fucking idea.
Bex: Gross. It’s, it’s basically, it’s like bread with tuna on top and then it’s real cheese, so it’s
Ellen: tinned tuna
Bex: real cheese with tuna.
Ellen: But the tuna salad, it’s, it’s also got mayo in it as well, like,
Alice: I think, I think it’s got, yeah, so I think it’s tuna salad, so it’s got like mayo and um. Celery maybe?
Ellen: Yeah, it’s like tuna salad type thing that you put on the roast.
Bex: Tuna cheese, tuna salad under melted cheese, which just sounds gross.
Ellen: It does, it does sound gross.
Alice: Yeah, it’s interesting,
Bex: like the tuna salad bit sounds fine. Like the cheese bit on its own sounds fine. But [01:10:00] putting them, molded them together. No. Um, quick tangent, Alice, have you seen the Schitt’s Creek Heated Rivalry mashups that are going around on TikTok at the moment?
Alice: Oh my god, I don’t think so. No,
Ellen: no.
Bex: It’s,
Alice: there are mashups?
Bex: It’s like someone has taken, um, the press conference that Shane and Ilya do and then they spliced it with Alexis doing a little bit Alexis,
Alice: oh my God, I need to see this. I need it.
Ellen: Please send,
Bex: I’ll send them and drop them. Or like, there is the tuna melt scene where like, Ilia promises Shane that he’s going to make him a tuna melt. So you’ve got Shane watching. Um. Uh, David freaking out about how do you fold in the cheese?
Alice: How do you fold in cheese?
Bex: Yes. I’ll send them through, but
Alice: oh my God. Yeah, you I need them.
Bex: Schitt’s Creek reminded me that, um,
Alice: oh my fucking God, I need them. Yes. I started watching it and then like obviously, um, fucking Catherine, I can’t remember her surname.
Ellen: O’Hara.
Alice: Passed. And so I stopped watching it for a bit and O’Hara. [01:11:00] Thank you. Um, speaking of Irish things, um, and then, so I stopped watching it for a bit and now I’ve started watching it again, but
Ellen: it’s great. I love it.
Alice: But yeah, tuna melt. I’m, I think I’m actually gonna have to go get some low carb bread, um, next weekend while I’m house sitting and make a tuna melt just so that I can
Bex: Okay.
Alice: Say that I’ve had one. Um,
Ellen: I, yeah, sure. I mean, it’s probably not horrible, but.
Alice: As I sit in my, my Boston Raiders t-shirt,
Ellen: But there’s a lot of things that I would order before I order a tuna melt.
Bex: Yeah. Like I said, the tuna on its own fine, but the combination of the tuna and the melted cheese, I don’t know.
Alice: Yeah. Like,
Bex: anyway,
Alice: ones like, anyway.
Bex: Anyway, um, so lobster, lobster rolls, lobster rolls cannot be be
Alice: they head, they head to the food truck. It’s lunchtime,
Bex: they’re making fun of Chim. Um, but before they can like eat their lobster rolls, uh, this man sort of stumbles in the street in front of them. And you think, okay, cool. You know, just drunk.
He’s like fork found in kitchen. Um, except he falls down at [01:12:00] their feet and, um, they discover that he has a fricking axe in the back of his skull.
Alice: Yeah. As you do, you know.
Bex: Which is, um, the moment where Maddie walks past and she can see the crowd gathering and she can see the leprechaun. Um, so if she’d been a nosy person and just gone, oh, what is all that crowd doing over there?
Maybe I’ll go have a look. She would’ve found Chim earlier, but she doesn’t.
Alice: Yep. But she’s busy.
Bex: She keeps going. Um, so our poor, um, axe in the head dude, uh, he has no pulse and he’s not breathing. And um, Eli says that he like, normally he’d say that they need to start compressions, but that would, you know, involve them putting him on his back, which they can’t do ’cause there’s a fucking axe in his head.
And as we’ve learned from this show, if there is a penetrating object, um, you leave said object in said wound until it can be removed by a surgeon.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: They’re not [01:13:00] gonna yank their, the axe out on the street. So Chimney has the brilliant idea of stealing the sandwich board from the lobster roll truck and using it as a back brace.
So they sit, the dude with the accident head up, they put the backboard behind him. Um, Eli holds him in place and braces him. So Chim can do compressions with him sitting up.
Ellen: Yeah. This is incredible. If it would work like in real life, I don’t know if you can do compressions hard enough while someone’s actually sitting up
Alice: Yeah. I dunno
Ellen: to get it to work. But
Alice: you’ve gotta get the blood to the brain and I just don’t know if it’s
Ellen: Yeah. And like,
Alice: like gonna, if the force is gonna be enough,
Bex: well it doesn’t matter ’cause Chim’s compressions are fucking terrible.
Alice: Yeah. The whole thing is terrible. But anyway, regardless,
Bex: because I’m sitting there, Chim starts doing the um, compressions and I start singing “Pink Pony Club” and god damn, I had to slow that down. Like Pink [01:14:00] Pony Club and then he starts speeding up and it’s like, oh God, now we’re going too fast. God damnit Chim.
Ellen: Oh no.
Alice: Um, I like that you’re doing “Pink Pony Club” and I’ve been doing “Golden”.
Bex: Yeah. It was just the first song that popped into my head when I’m thinking, okay, what song am I gonna start singing for compressions. Um, my, I think my favorite part of this is Randall is still helping and Eli is like, um, “we need you to hold this guy’s head steady.” And Randall’s like, “um, can I do that without looking at him?”
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Looking at
Ellen: ‘Cause of the axe in his head.
Bex: And as they’re doing the compressions, Eli’s like having the best time. ’cause he is like, “Hey Chim, this is like old times, right?” And Chim’s like, “yeah, nobody’s vomited on me yet.” And Randall buts, um, next to them’s like, oh my God, oh my God. And he is like gagging.
Alice: He is like gagging.
Bex: And then Chim’s like, “that is not an invitation, Randall.”
Alice: Poor Randall, he just, he [01:15:00] was like, I’m just gonna do some bandaids. And then he gets, um, partnered with the fucking paramedic.
Bex: Paramedics.
Alice: Yeah. He’s like, I have so many regrets right now.
Bex: It’s either gonna inspire him to actually go to medical school or he’s never gonna volunteer with the Volunteer Corps again.
Alice: Yeah. Um, I love that the axe thrower, who’s a like a friend, um, of the guy who’s got the axe in his head is like, “Oh my God, what can I do?” Chim just goes, “Take up chess.”
Bex: Yeah. So apparently the backstory of how, uh, this guy got in this situation was the two of them were practicing their axe throwing, and, uh, the dude that ended up with the axe in the back of his head walked in front of the other guy. Um, so he he kind of had it coming.
Alice: Yeah. They’re, they’re not smart. Um,
Bex: uh, so while Chim is having fun playing paramedic, um, Maddie gets a phone call from Kira, well from Kira’s phone, um. Because it’s not actually Kira, ’cause Kira’s down at the Father Sean’s pub and she’s [01:16:00] not doing well.
Ellen: No. So the bar, the bartender has grabbed her phone and just called the first person who Kira had spoken to or something like How did,
Bex: I’m guessing. I’m guessing because
Alice: there was probably a missed call and they just hit the button.
Bex: Yeah. So all through, um, Maddie wandering through, looking for Kira, she’s been on the phone trying to call Kira. Um, so I’m guessing that the bartender has picked up the phone, seen like 60 gajillion missed calls from Maddie and gone yeah, I bet this girl’s looking for this one, so I’m, I’m gonna call her. That’s probably the best bet.
Alice: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Bex: Um, yeah, which is a correct bet.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Good for him.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: So Maddie, heads over to Father Sean’s pub. Meanwhile, we’re gonna cut back to Chim who has ended up in the, the same hospital and the same waiting room where he put up the poster of Maddie, [01:17:00] um, and he realizes that the poster is not there anymore, which makes, and I started questioning at this point, like, what exactly is this?
Is this like the ER waiting room? Is this like a, like where in the hospital is this room? And it made me, um, start questioning things. And I had to stop because I was driving myself crazy.
Ellen: Don’t pull the thread,
Bex: don’t pull the thread. Uh,
Ellen: but I like the way they did this though, because they don’t mention, like, he didn’t, doesn’t say to anybody that the poster’s missing. He’s just standing there staring at the empty space where the poster was.
Bex: Yes. Mm.
Ellen: It was effective.
Bex: Um, and we realize that he has accompanied Eli to the hospital with the, um, the axe men’s with the, their axman friend. Um, and. Chim realizes that his shift with the volunteer core is over and Eli offers to give him a ride back in the ambulance so that he doesn’t have to like hoof it. [01:18:00] Um, and even promises to let him use the lights and sirens.
So then we cut back to Father Sean’s pub where yes, um, Kira is not doing well. She is, um, incredibly drunk, um, as Maddie and I’m guessing bartender haul her out into the street. Um, she starts aspirating vomit, and if anybody is like, triggered by vomit, please like, look away or stop listening at this point. ’cause it’s, it’s gross.
Ellen: Yeah, she, she blows some chunks. And it, she’s like basically unconscious. Like she’s, Maddie says she’s did a sternal rub, but she’s not coming to. So. She’s out cold.
Bex: Yeah. So Maddie’s trying to wake Kira up, um, and she gets the bartender to call 9-1-1. We don’t get to see the wavy green lines.
Um, but the bartender relays from 9-1-1, um, that there’s [01:19:00] a unit just down the block. And wouldn’t you know, Eli pulls up and once again, once again it’s like, as soon as they mention that there’s an ambulance, we immediately hear the sirens and, and like two seconds later, Eli is there.
So this dude just spawns in where he’s needed. He’s got the fastest response time in Boston. It’s amazing.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: because this is not the first time that somebody’s had to call an ambulance. And then Eli is immediately there. It’s, it’s brilliant.
Alice: He was just, well he was already dropping Chim off, so he was in the area it fine.
Bex: No, I know. It’s how close like it was just. Remarkably fast that he was there.
Alice: He’s just very good at his job. Okay?
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: So he gets out, he attends to Kira, he takes the handover from Maddie. Um, and in the background we can see Chimney’s decided to make himself useful. So he gets out of the, the ambulance, he goes around the back to get the extra equipment
Alice: and everyone’s sitting up [01:20:00] a little straighter. They’re all leaning forward. They’re like, oh my God, it’s gonna happen.
Bex: And like, it’s so stupid. It’s telegraphed so badly though because there’s a crowd of people sort of gathered around Maddie and Eli and Kira, except for the gap that they need. So that Chim, we can see Chim and the ambulance. Like, there’s a giant gap in the crowd.
Alice: It’s fine.
Bex: So the camera can like, see Chim and so that Chim can get through. Um,
Alice: it’s fine. It’s just the hole that Eli just made. They haven’t filled it yet. It’s fine. It’s fine.
Bex: Um, so Chim makes his way through the crowd with the extra equipment that Eli needs and, um, he sees Maddie and he’s freezes in shock. He’s like, “Maddie?” And Eli looks up and like, what the hell? What the hell? What did you just say?
Alice: Eli like, looks at Chim, looks at mad. Looks at Chim, looks at Maddie. Maddie’s like “Howie?” [01:21:00] And then everyone’s just like, yep, cool. We’re working. Like, Eli’s like, “Yep, cool. We have acute alcohol intoxication, heart rate, severely low.”
Chim’s like, “Copy that.” Um, they just like start to suction, start getting on her gurney, and then Chim just looks over to Maddie and goes, “Are, are you okay?” And Maddie’s like, “Yeah. Is Jee with you?” And Chim’s like, “Yeah, she’s fine. She’s staying with a friend. All right, suction’s ready? Let’s go.”
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Like, it’s, ugh,
Bex: like there is drama. There is drama, but we are professionals, so we’re going to handle the emergency first, and then we’re gonna handle the fallout later.
Alice: Exactly. It’s no like, oh shit. Like, it’s no freezing. It’s, we, we, we have a job to do. We’re doing this job and we will deal with this later.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Like, we are not dealing with this right now. Um, just making sure you’re okay ’cause obviously you are dealing with a drunk woman right now. Are you okay? Yes. Good. Cool. Done. Let’s go.
Bex: Yep.
Alice: Yeah, far. Uh, I, it was like, yes. Yes. They finally reunited,
Bex: the circles finally condensed and the, the, the universe has brought them together as Eli said that it would.[01:22:00]
Alice: Because they’ve been in the same area for however, like how many emergencies. And finally,
Bex: I, I just kept thinking as I was watching this, I’ve been playing Fortnite a lot and, um, in Fortnite, like the, the playing space just shrinks
Alice: Yes.
Bex: To force everybody, everybody into the same space. So it’s like the universe is just, they’ve taken the, the playing area of Boston has just kept shrinking the, uh, the, the edges of it to force these two until they meet.
Alice: Yeah. Until they deal with their shit.
Bex: They don’t immediately because
Alice: No,
Bex: um, when we come back from commercial, Chim has gone to pick up. Or done, gone some somewhere and Maddie has accompanied
Alice: gone to scream into a pillow.
Bex: Maddie has accompanied Eli and Kira back to the same hospital that, um, they pretty much just left. Um, yeah. And I couldn’t help but laugh, but when they’re pushing her in, she has a banana bag hung off the gurney.
Alice: She finally got a banana [01:23:00] bag out.
Bex: That’s okay. She finally got her banana bag.
Ellen: She’s finally admitted.
Bex: And again, Eli waits until they pass Kira off to the hospital before turning to Maddie and introducing himself. He’s like,
Alice: yeah,
Bex: “hey, uh, by the way, I’m Eli.” She’s like, “Oh yeah, Chim’s talked about you.” And he’s like, “Yeah, he’s talked about you too.”
Alice: Yeah, like Eli says, “You and that little girl are about all he talks about these days.” Um, so then yeah, Maddie asks where he is and Eli’s like, yeah, he’s probably outside. I think he needed a minute.
Bex: You think?
Alice: Um. Maddie asks Eli how he is because she’s like, I could ask Chim myself, but um, you know, and Eli goes, yeah, he’d probably sugarcoat it for you. Um, and explains, yeah, like when he showed up, he was a mess. He was worried he was wracked with guilt. Um, because he feels responsible.
Bex: I don’t always like when 9-1-1 [01:24:00] like reuse characters and keep bringing characters back. My exception is Eli.
Alice: I love Eli so much.
Ellen: Yeah, great character.
Alice: I wish Eli like visited more.
Bex: Eli is a great character.
Alice: I wish she just like came in one season. Like imparted wisdom changed people’s changed Chimney’s life and then just left again. Like I, I love chimney, so I mean, I love Eli so much. Obviously I love Chimney too. Um, I love Eli so much.
Bex: Yeah. Eli would be the one character if they kept, if he kept popping up, um, like some kind of Boston, um wizard of wisdom, I’d be very happy to see him.
Alice: Yeah. I so thought you were gonna say Boston Raider then.
Ellen: Oh, the brain rot. Um, no, he, he doesn’t have to just change Chim’s life. He could pop up and change, like he could say something to Buck that could change his life or, you know, he doesn’t have to be just,
Bex: oh my God, Buck and Eli.
Ellen: Yeah. I
Alice: imagine
Ellen: that would be,
Bex: there’s a concept
Ellen: that would be chaotic, but amazing.
Alice: This, this is how Buddie happens. It’s Eli just turning up.
Ellen: Yeah. He’ll turn up and go
Bex: smashing the two of them together. [01:25:00]
Ellen: Look, can you guys just kiss and get it over with, like seriously,
Alice: Eli, Eli is the Ilya of 9-1-1. He just appears in all the seasons mashes two queers together and leaves.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Ironically, not queer himself, but
Alice: not queer himself though. Yeah. Well, we don’t know. We don’t know his alphabet.
Bex: That’s true.
Ellen: True.
Bex: That is very true. But yeah, I, I kind of, I would love to see. Eli and Buck and Eli and Eddie, and just how he would react to those guys. It would be,
Alice: he’d like, “Hey, maybe you should volunteer for a paramedic position.” and then everything will just work itself out and he’ll be like, bye George. I think you’ve got it.
Bex: Yes. So Chim is indeed outside. He is, uh, sitting on the stalker bench where he has been for the last couple of, he was for a couple last couple of months. And this scene is amazing [01:26:00] because there was so many ways that they could have played this scene and I love it. I love that. Um, Chimney is pissed at Maddie. He’s so angry at her.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: When he, when he, when they finally gets chance to talk to her after and after so many months of not knowing where she is, there was probably relief, there was probably happiness. And now he circled right back to anger.
Alice: Yep. Because yeah, she left. She didn’t like, she, she left them. He deserves to be pissed.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: She may have had her reasons that she thought were good, but he is allowed to be pissed. Um, I, I just got a, we, we have to give a special shout out to how this scene starts though, where Maddie says, “Eli said you’d be here. He was right.” And Chim just goes, “Yeah, he usually is. It’s one of his more, more annoying traits.”
Ellen: But he, he wasn’t completely right because he said that, um, he was crazy for sitting there all the, all the time [01:27:00] waiting for Maddie to come through the doors and, but she actually did this time. So he was right. Like Chim was the one who was right.
Bex: But no, he, he wasn’t right because Eli said that he needed to go and be of service and then the universe would provide. So he was right,
Alice: exactly. Worked right into Maddie’s competent. Competent.
Bex: If Chimney had stayed sitting on that bench, he would never, it would never have happened. He would never have found Maddie. He had to go out. So feel
Alice: like we know that Maddie has a competency kink. Think we need to,
Ellen: anyway, she does admit that she tried to kill herself. And then Chim sort of like, he’s still angry, but he, I don’t know, gets more emotional about it and softens a little bit.
Bex: Yeah. Yeah. Because at this point he was still operating on the, she ran away because of what happened with Jee and then she gives him that extra bit of information. She’s like, yes, I know what happened to Jee was an accident, but me trying to kill myself was not an [01:28:00] accident.
And we get a, a quick recap for Chim of the, the opening montage of the episode. Um. Including the, I tried to drown. I tried to kill myself, but I didn’t because, um, like she went into the ocean for herself, but she came out of the ocean for Chim and for Jee.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: And she has been in Boston for the last six months, um, because she had to learn how to stop running, which has been like her default, uh, response to anything in her life. It’s just to run. But she needs to learn.
Alice: I mean, to be fair, her parents definitely instilled that on her. Like this, their child died and they just moved. They were like, oh, let’s pretend this didn’t happen.
Bex: Yeah. But it’s, it’s a pattern of behavior for Maddie. So like, you know, yeah. Things went bad in the family so she left, um, things went bad with Doug and she left as she rightly should. Um, yeah, Buck. Buck was not wrong when he said that she was the one who always leaves.
Alice: [01:29:00] Yeah.
Bex: Um, but now through therapy, she’s recognized that this is a pattern of behavior and a destructive one, and she needs to, to learn to stop doing that.
Alice: That’s it. She needed to do some healing
Bex: and then we get sad when they start apologizing to each other.
Alice: Yeah. Chim blames himself for Maddie leaving and for missing the warning signs or ignoring them. And Maddie’s like, yeah. I also ignored them. So that’s just like the, I don’t blame you for it. Um, ’cause I think like Chim’s blamed himself a lot of this time too.
Like, he’s like, oh, well if I’d been more supportive, she wouldn’t have left.
Bex: Yes.
Alice: Whereas it wasn’t about that. Um, like Chimney didn’t help, but he also didn’t know how to help. Like,
Bex: I think even Eli at some point tells him that Maddie wasn’t gonna accept his help.
Alice: Exactly.
Bex: Like he couldn’t have helped Maddie.
Alice: No. Um, but yeah, they agree to [01:30:00] be honest about how they feel and what they want, and Chim’s like, yep, cool. “What do you want?” And then they’re sneaking down the stairs of Eli’s basement. Sure. I dunno why Jee’s been asleep in the basement on her own for however long, but, you know, she’s awake.
Ellen: Um, well, the, the, um, what’s her name? Mag. Maggie? No,
Bex: Molly. Molly.
Ellen: Molly. Molly. I think it was started with an M. God, I’m terrible with names today. Um, yeah, she’s obviously been looking after her, but she’s invisible so we never see her.
Bex: My, my head canon is that there’s a baby monitor and Molly’s got the receiver upstairs. Yeah.
Alice: Yeah. and Molly’s just upstairs. Yeah.
Bex: If Jee woke, Molly would’ve come down to wake her, but, um, Jee is awake in her pack and play. Um, and then everybody starts crying because Maddie sort of sees Jee and realizes how big she is. ’cause she’s like, she’s nearly a year old at this point.
Alice: Yeah. She’s a totally different child. Like she’s [01:31:00] doing stuff. She is, yeah.
Bex: And Maddie’s realized exactly how much that she’s missed. Although I did love that. Um, the little line from Chim, when Maddie takes a look at Jee and she goes, she’s so big. And Maddie and Chim’s, like, I swear to God, I’ve been feeding her normally.
Alice: Yeah. I’ve been feeding her normal portions.
Bex: Um, so Maddie’s freaking out ’cause she missed everything. So she starts crying and Chim is trying to comfort Maddie. And then Jee, who people have come into the room and she is awake and they’re supposed to be picking her up out of her pack and play and they are not picking her up. She wants uppies. Um, so she starts crying as well.
Alice: Yeah. Everyone’s crying.
Bex: Everyone’s crying.
Alice: Um, but yeah, it’s, it, it is, it’s so heartbreaking when like, Chim’s like, “Oh, do you wanna hold her?” And Maddie’s like, “She never liked strangers.” And Chim’s like “You, you’re not a stranger.” And it’s heartbreaking.
Ellen: Yeah. Yeah. This is the point where I [01:32:00] started crying and basically didn’t stop for the rest of the episode.
Alice: That’s so valid. Yeah.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: Um, we do cut back to, hang on. So Eli and Chim are, are, are at Eli’s place still, here in the basement?
Bex: Yeah. I’m guessing
Alice: in Chim’s basement? Yeah.
Bex: Okay. It’s probably later that evening or the next day or something. Jee must be upstairs with, um, Molly, because these two are down in the man cave drinking beer.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Where Eli is like, “So what’s, what happens next? Are you gonna go back to LA or are you gonna come work for me here in Boston?”
Ellen: Yeah. And Chim’s basically like, “I have no idea. I don’t know yet.”
Bex: Yep. No, because he spent the last’s last couple of months, like creating these scenarios in his head of what was gonna happen when he found Maddie and now it’s actually happened and it’s nothing like he imagined.[01:33:00]
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: But him, but he admits that he always pictured the reunion, but never thought beyond that.
Alice: It’s just so heartbreaking.
Ellen: Yeah. Uh, so Maddie, it’s apparently Maddie has gone back to the hospital to see Kera. I don’t know how Chim let her, let him, her out of his sight, but he did
Bex: Well the what, what I find really, like they’re having the same conversation but they’re not having it with each other.
They’re saying the same thing. Chimney is going like “I realized, um, watching her see Jee for the first time, I realized how much it cost her.” And Maddie’s like, “Oh my God, I’ve missed so much. What have I done? Like the, the cost of my mental health is finally sort of kicking in.” But she’s telling that to Kira, not telling that to Chim.
These two just need to sit down and talk to each other.
Ellen: Yes.
Bex: I think both of them need to go to like the family session of [01:34:00] the, the group therapy that the therapist was talking about earlier. Um,
Ellen: oh please. Some more therapy.
Bex: Everybody needs therapy.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Um, and we, we wrap up Kira’s storyline ’cause um, surprise, surprise did not get to see her son. Um, she has to go back to rehab and then she has to do another 60 days, um, outpatient therapy. Um. She’s determined that she’s going to do it for her son.
Ellen: Yeah. So Maddie and Chim, like Maddie’s come back to see Jee again. And Chim, I guess, um, no, hang on. Chim and Jee have come to visit Maddie at her apartment.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Okay.
Bex: Although, yes, um, they walk in and Maddie’s like, oh my God, how’s my girl? And completely ignores Chim.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: Yeah. So yes.
Alice: Um, I think this is a bit later as well because like they [01:35:00] seem a bit more familiar and comfortable with each other.
Bex: Yeah. So
Alice: I don’t think this is like the next day. I think they’ve seen each other a couple times.
Bex: Yes. This seems like, like an organized play date that they’ve
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: they’ve set up. Um, but Jee is pissed because in order to get to Maddie’s apartment, they had to walk past a playground and, um, Chim would not stop to let them play, let her play in the playground. Um. So she’s absolutely throwing a fit. Um, and Maddie’s like, no, that’s fine.
We can go back to the park. And Chim’s like, uh, maybe we don’t, ’cause I don’t wanna seem like I’m caving to her tantrum.
Ellen: She’s like two, it’s just like 1-year-old. I don’t think, I think you’re allowed to cave to tantrums. She doesn’t know the difference at this age,
Bex: but he’s, he’s trying so hard to be a good parent.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: Blessing. I think he also really just wanted to rush to Maddie. And if you put a like [01:36:00] child on a playground, you’re not gonna get out of there very quickly.
Bex: Yes. Um, but the, the point of the, the, the consequence of Jee being pissed that she didn’t get to go to the park is that she wants absolutely nothing to do with Maddie. She wants absolutely nothing to do with anybody.
Ellen: No.
Bex: So when they’re trying to get she to say hi to Mommy, she’s like, fuck Mommy. I wanna go back to the park.
But, you know, in like 1-year-old, which is just like screaming and crying,
Alice: which is just waaaa!
Bex: Um, so Maddie asks if she can try something, um, which, and Chim was like, yep, be my guest, but don’t be insulted if it doesn’t work. Um, and so Maddie starts singing “The Wheels on the Bus” and Jee of like split second immediately, um, stops crying, starts laughing. Um, and
Alice: I’m sure this is unrealistic, but it’s cute, so I [01:37:00] don’t care.
Ellen: It was cute.
Bex: Look, I, I watched, I watched this scene and I had like a little bit of a, does this scene actually make sense considering the age and the timeline and everything? And then decided, you know what, I’m, I’m not gonna pull that thread. I’m just gonna enjoy the scene. Yeah.
Alice: Look, if my puppies who leave the nest when they’re two months old can remember me at a year old after not seeing ’em the whole time. I believe that this baby in six months can remember her mother.
Bex: Yeah. So, because, ’cause she, she remembers Maddie’s, um, singing. She remembers the song and, um, she walks across the, the gap between Chimney and Maddie into Maddie’s arms saying, “mama.”
Alice: Yeah. Apparently she can also talk now.
Ellen: It’s cute. I’m trying to remember like, babies usually walk around one year. I think my mine were both maybe 13 months-ish.
Alice: My [01:38:00] brother was early. I know that
Bex: that was the other fun thing. So I’m watching this thing going, wait, is it realistic for this kid to be walking? And then I went through, back through my old photos and old videos to see at what age my kids were walking and yeah.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: She, if she’s nearly, yeah. Um, my eldest was sort of starting to toddle at about 10 months. But then again, he, his gross motor skills were incredibly early, early developed.
Alice: Yeah. I started talking early, but I started walking a bit later. Um, whereas my brother, like, I pretty sure mom said he didn’t even walk. He literally just like stood up and ran and mom’s like, what the fuck? Um, yeah. So he was just like, go, go, go. Um, and very early, whereas he was a bit slower to talk.
Bex: Yeah. Same with my eldest. Like walking super fast. Didn’t start talking until a lot later.
Ellen: Mm-hmm.
Bex: But that’s also a boy thing versus a girl thing. But yes, it’s a moral of the story this kid could conceivably be walking and saying, [01:39:00] mama at this age. Yeah, absolutely. Even though she spent the last couple of months strapped into, um, her car seat and strollers and
Ellen: she’s got amazing motor skills here
Alice: in a port port-a-cot
Bex: and tiny little park and play. Yes, she’s thriving despite her circumstances. Yeah. Um, so Chim and Maddie are both thrilled that she seems to remember Maddie. Um, and Maddie is amazed, like, how does she remember me? And Chim is like six months. Six years. Neither of us could ever forget you.
Ellen: Like, oh, that’s so cute though. That’s so cute. It’s so cute.
And then Maddie said, well, he, he asked her, “what do you wanna do now?” And she says, “I want to go home.”
Bex: I’m pretty sure he just meant like, what do you wanna do sort of right now in this now,
Ellen: now what shall we
Bex: do?
Go to the park?. Do you wanna, she’s like, no, fuck it. I wanna go back to Los Angeles.
Ellen: Yeah.
Bex: He’s like, okay, don’t know if we can do that right now, but sure we can do that. [01:40:00] And then we end the episode with them both singing the wheels on the bus to Jee who is loving it.
Ellen: Yeah. Um, and we also then get a PSA from Jennifer Love Hewitt talking about like, if you’re struggling, there’s help. Um, and she mentions the, the national hotline for the America to call for, um, mental health assistance and whatever.
Um, but most countries around the world also have other helplines. So if what we’ve talked about today has, you know, affected you, go and Google your country’s, um, helplines and, um, there’s someone, you’re not alone. Someone to help.
Bex: Yes. ’cause I’m pretty sure that most people in the most people in this situation don’t get the, the magic pill that instantly cures them.
Ellen: No. There’s generally a bit more work involved in them.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Getting over that trauma. [01:41:00]
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: I mean, apart from all the trauma, I thought this was a really well put together episode. Like the. It was, it really built up to their, their reunion very well.
Alice: It did.
Ellen: I love it.
Alice: I I really like this episode except for the magic thyroid thing. That’s the only part of it that I don’t like.
Ellen: Yeah,
Bex: it does. I, I do like that it explains like where Maddie has been and I, I do love the, the parade part of it. I’m in the way that, that you see them sort of circling around each other until they finally met. And I love that we get Eli again. I’m like, you, I don’t like the, the silver bullet to cure the postpartum depression.
And I also, I feel like it wraps, like it wraps up too quickly. They’re like, no, you get one episode to get over everything to get back together and get back to LA.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Rather than
Alice: I get why they have to. Like, I get why they do [01:42:00] it every episode, but I’m still mad about it
Bex: 100%. Like the, the Doylist explanation of she gets one episode in Boston, then we need everyone back in LA so we can, you know, resume, uh, a regular schedule program.
Alice: Yeah,
Bex: exactly. Um, but I, I do wish that maybe they had taken that little extra time to just allow for the storyline to allow for Maddie to continue to process her trauma and handle her trauma.
Alice: Like we had so much bullshit with fucking Michael and David that I do not give a fuck about.
Bex: We had so much with Harry and Jeffrey. Like he got what?
Alice: Oh my god,
Bex: three or four episodes?
Alice: So much
Bex: to, to get over Jeffrey and Maddie gets one episode and, and like I said, no spoil without spoiling it, it, it’s not quite as cut and dry as that. It’s not that she moves back to LA next episode and it’s happy families. Um, but. Why does Harry and Jeffrey get 50 god damn episodes? And, and Maddie [01:43:00] gets one.
Alice: Yeah. Like I would’ve liked if they dragged it out a little bit longer, had ththemeeting, like had them locking eyes over and then they should be continued and then it starts back with them treating the patient and like just more Jee stuff. Yeah. But I like, it’s, it’s not that kind of show.
Bex: No, it’s not that kind of show. You don’t, you, you very rarely get more than one episode to deal with your trauma. You know, you’ve gotta get up, get over it. We don’t wanna deal with anything chronic or lingering,
Alice: but like, I haven’t seen Maddie in so many episodes. I missed her.
Bex: Yes. That’s, I think that’s the, that’s, that’s the other thing. She’s, Jennifer has been away for so long, it’s a little bit, um, disappointing that she gets one episode sort of devoted to her and, and Chim and then it goes back to the ensemble stuff next week.
Alice: Yeah.
Ellen: It was, it was very nice to see them together again, though
Bex: it was lovely. Uh, [01:44:00] this is, I know that the, the subject matter is, um, Maddie never gets good, and I, when I say good, I mean like happy storylines when she gets solo episodes. Um, but at least, at least this time it wasn’t a Doug episode.
Alice: She looks so sad. Like she can do sad looking so well that they’re just like, oh, we’re putting Maddie through the horrors again.
Bex: Yes.
Ellen: Great.
Bex: Yeah.
Alice: Fucking hell. I just like read ahead in my notes for next week’s episode and there are so many crying faces that I’m like, oh no.
Ellen: Oh no. Okay. Tell me what’s happening next week.
Bex: Uh, next week, um, Athena investigates a robbery at a gas station, which takes an unexpected turn when the would-be victim turns the tables on her assailant.
Which is not really the important part of that storyline, but, okay, sure. Sure. Um, yep. Meanwhile, Bobby and the 1 26 raced to rescue a novice diver who panics while in a shark cage, completely forgot about [01:45:00] that storyline. Um, and a house sitter terrified of spiders. We’ll never forget that one. Um,
Alice: no.
Ellen: Uh oh..
Bex: Then, then, uh, dispatcher Eddie reaches his breaking point.
Chim returns to the 118 and Maddie shares some news with Buck, who realized he has to come clean with Taylor.
Ellen: Oh, no.
Bex: And the title of next week’s episode is “Fear-O-Phobia”.
Ellen: Okay. So everyone’s just afraid of everything?
Bex: Yeah, pretty much. It’s all about fear.
Alice: Who the fuck are the 1 26?
Bex: Next week. The 1 26, yeah.
Alice: Who the fuck are the 1 26?
Bex: Uh, Lucy’s old unit?
Alice: Oh. Right. Okay, cool.
Bex: Um,
Alice: did, did we go to Lone Star all of a sudden? I’m like, I don’t think that’s their number.
Bex: I’m, I’m pretty sure that’s Lucy’s unit ’cause they’re the ones that help.
Ellen: They’re in the last episode,
Bex: the speed scenario.
Alice: Yeah.
Bex: Although Lucy’s now at the 118, so I don’t understand [01:46:00] why that’s the 1 26. We will find out next week.
Alice: Apparently we will,
Bex: uh, triggers for next week’s episode in case anybody has never watched it and decides that they wanna watch it. Um, along with Ellen for the first time this week. Yeah. Um, things to watch out for is, um, bleeding from the eyes, ears, and nose, uh, depictions or claustrophobia.
Um, just in case this is a trigger for you, dolphins. Um,
Alice: Why is that a trigger? Why dolphins?
Bex: I don’t know! I think, I have a feeling they…
Alice: It’s literally claustrophobia, depression, dolphin, flashbacks.
Bex: I have a feeling the dolphins has something to do with the sharks, although the sharks aren’t actually mentioned.
Ellen: Sharks are not a trigger.
Alice: Sharks are not trigger but fucking dolphins, watch out guys.
Bex: Shark, um, flashbacks to moment [01:47:00] of childhood threat. I’m gonna assume that that’s possibly Jee again.
Um, flashbacks to war. Panic. Depictions of panic attack. PTSD. Um, severe depictions of severe decompression sickness. Uh, these are the big ones. Uh, spider, um, spider webs. Depictions of therapy, threat of gun violence, threat of self immolation, and threat of suicide via jumping. Uh, but the spiders is the big one.
Guys, if you don’t like spiders, you are not gonna like next week’s episode.
Ellen: Oh, no. Okay.
Bex: Yeah.
Ellen: I, I can probably deal with watching spiders, but I can’t deal with them being near me.
Bex: Well, thankfully this is not like a VR episode, so you’re not
Ellen: Yeah. I won’t be able to feel them. So it’ll be fine
Bex: in the episode and, and, but you will have to deal with watching spiders.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. Okay. Anything else about this episode, or shall we just wrap up?
Alice: That was a good episode.
Bex: It was a good episode.
Alice: It’s sad. Um, I don’t like the magic pill, but yeah, it’s, [01:48:00] um, um, the, the circling made me happy. It’s really well done. It’s like they just wanted to get to that and they just sort of rushed through everything else, but they did it well. Um, fucking “Heartbeats” breaks my heart every time.
Ellen: Mm-hmm. Let us know what you thought about this episode, guys. Um, you can leave us comments on the website thatweewooshow.com or on Spotify or on social media. We’d love to hear from you.
Alice: We’re looking forward to Pigeon’s next comment. Um,
Ellen: yes, uh, I promise we’ll, we’ll get responses to you at some point, so. Thank you everyone for listening this week, and we will see you next time to talk about season, season five, episode 13, “Fear-O-Phobia”. See you then.
Bex: Bye
Alice: bye.
Ellen: 9-1-1 is a fictional show, but many of the situations portrayed happen in the real world too. If any of the topics we’ve discussed in this episode have affected you, [01:49:00] please know you are not alone. You can call or text numbers in your country for help. Just Google crisis support in your location to find out the number.
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[first outtake]
Ellen: And
Bex: I’m sorry,
Ellen: now she’s drunk.
Bex: What was that?
Ellen: What?
Bex: So I just got the,
Alice: the message that I just, oh my God. That was a, oh my God, that came up on Facebook.
Bex: Sorry. No, no. I’ll explain. I’ve got, um, Discord notifications on and in the another chat, um, they’re talking about the, like, the old fashioned medication, which was called Bex. Um, and all I, they’re [01:50:00] talking about taking that for a headache, and all I got was a notification from Alice saying, Bex straight down the throat.
Ellen: What?
Bex: But I did not know the context before I saw that notification, so I just, excuse me?
Alice: I’m like, we knew it was Kira’s day to see her son. Why? Why you so shocked about this?
Ellen: I’m like, what did I say?
Bex: Sorry, that was just, um, yeah, I apologize for the, the interruption.
Ellen: It’s okay.
[second outtake]
Alice: Apparently, um, I think it was Chris Hemsworth introduced American, a bunch of Americans to the, “we are not here to fuck spiders.”
Ellen: Oh, I saw that.
Alice: And they’re confused as to what the fuck we’re doing down here. And it’s like, well, we’re not here to fuck spiders like we just told you.[01:51:00]
Ellen: And then all these Australians, the Australians in the comments are like, I’ve never said that in my life. It’s like, well, just because you haven’t doesn’t mean
Alice: apparently it’s a very Queenslander phase.
Ellen: Well, I had ant I had never heard it until fairly recently, and then I was like, oh, that’s a pretty good phrase.
Alice: Oh really? There you go.
Ellen: Yeah.
Alice: I learn it from a friend who’s from Bundaberg. So
Ellen: it sounds like a fairly Bundaberg thing to say.
Alice: Right? Um, but like JJs have a T-shirt at the moment that says, we’re not here to fuck spiders.
Ellen: Wow. Okay.
Bex: Oh my God.
Alice: And I sent it to her and she’s like, oh my God, I kind of need it. And I’m like, you a hundred percent need it. It’s your fucking saying.
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