First Respodcast: A 9-1-1 Watch-Along

Hear us dissect an episode all about the imperfect art of parenting. And there's even a corny montage to rival the old gay guy corny montage! And Eddie gets one singular second of screen time!

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Hear us discuss Maddie going from a figurative MOTHER to a literal MOTHER. While Albert almost DIES. And Buck is BISEXUAL.

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This week, hear us discuss the respective breaking points of Maddie, Christopher, Taylor Kelly, and a lady who Cask of Amontillado'ed her husband. Oh, and the show makes Rockmond Dunbar's character get vaccinated on screen in a larger vaccine-propaganda montage. Fitting!

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This week's episode is all about neighbors, and Seinfeld-style sitcom plots. We discuss Buck's date from hell, Michael's Rear Window turn, and Hen's underrated mommy issues.

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Hear us discuss one of our favorite 9-1-1 episodes ever, the one where the gang gets cursed! Jinxed! Hexed! Whatever! Don't get mad at me for leaving the long rant about the Red White and Royal Blue movies at the end.

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We've finally reached Buck's backstory episode, a beloved episode among 9-1-1 fans. Do Jane and Ryan share the fandom's adoration of Buck Begins? Not always! Hear us discuss everything from Buck's Village People eras to Maddie's nonbinary arc!

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We're back! Hear us discuss another one of those 9-1-1 episodes with one extremely serious plot and one silly ridiculous plot. Presumably Athena sought capital punishment for the corgi off screen.

We catch up for a while at the beginning of this episode, skip to 14:31 if you want to get right into our coverage of the episode.

This week on 9-1-1, Eddie is in his technophobe era, Bobby is in his roomba bloodthirst era, and Buck feels stuck. A classic!

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This week on 9-1-1, Eddie is in his technophobe era, Bobby is in his roomba bloodthirst era, and Buck feels stuck. A classic!

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Hear us discuss the thrilling culmination of season 4's opening disaster. A deliciously campy episode that manages to pack so much whimsy and emotion into its 42-minute runtime that it makes one genuinely mourn this era of the show. Ah well, nevertheless...

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Hear us finally dive into 9-1-1 season 4! Covid-19 has come to 9-1-1. And as if that wasn't bad enough, dams are breaking, buses are crashing into buildings, and Bobby is surviving blatantly unsurvivable events. Funny, that.

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We've finally reached the end of season 3! Hear us discuss the train crash that isn't a trainwreck, the wife-ification of Eddie Diaz, and the absolute mother convention that is the confluence of Angela Bassett, Brooke Shields, Connie Britton, and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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CONTENT WARNING/TIMESTAMPS: In this episode, we discuss the show's depiction of a rapist and some of the events surrounding that. We don't go into any detail about any of the assaults, but we do spend some time both recapping those parts of the episode and discussing the implications of the show dealing with such subject matter. If you want to skip any of that, here are the specific moments in the episode:

28:06 - 33:45 - Recapping the part of the episode in which Athena is trying to track down a rapist + questioning his victims, also discussing the...

Hear us discuss the episode where Buck befriends an old man (that he may or may not desire carnally), an episode Ryan likes for some reason.

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It's finally time to cover an episode we have a very complicated relationship with, Eddie Begins. BEHOLD!!!!

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In which we spend much of our discussion of 9-1-1's dispatch hostage situation coming up with toxic yuri/doomed yaoi rarepairs.

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This week's episode is all about Madney, another boring Michael sidequest, and Jane and Ryan's love of musical theater. And nobody even gets eaten by wolves!

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This week's episode is all about FOOLS. And we also spend a pretty long time talking about POOPING. What a show.

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On this week's episode, 9-1-1 returns to Stuck and Trapped-levels of name-dropping the episode every five seconds. Hear about Michael's lackluster cancer storyline, the Degrassi Junior High-core Chimney and Albert storyline, and of course, gay guy who walks into a bunch of poles.

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In light of Ryan Guzman's recent mask-off moment, we sat down to have an honest conversation about parasociality, the limits of benefit of the doubt, the divorced-dad-to-redpill pipeline, and why we plan to keep buddiemaxxing out of spite.

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It's Christmas in July, everybody! For real this time! In season 3's Christmas episode, Buck continues to be a child/dog, Bobby appears not to be deathly ill (THIS time anyway), Michael is walking into glass doors like a confused bird, and a whole lot of 9-1-1 callers are struggling to feel that Christmas Spirit. I guess the only remedy is some good old fashioned Christmastime exposure therapy.

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Season 3, episode 9 of 9-1-1 has everything: An Athena copaganda subplot, an iconic Buddie scene, and Hen and Karen bonding at a distractingly cult-like wellness spa. You wanna go for the title... of this episode?

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In this week's episode, we discuss the culmination of Eddie's fight club arc, Bobby's secret ice dancing past (also the title of my debut Lifetime movie), and Hen's tiny little oopsie.

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Uh-oh, it's another copaganda episode from our frenemies at 9-1-1! Hear about the LAPD recruitment ad that is Athena's origin story, right up to its deeply unsatisfying conclusion.

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Join us as we discuss 9-1-1's second Halloween episode, Monsters. It's Halloween in June! Just like Hallmark's Christmas in July, but with fewer uptight city women learning to let loose through the love of conservative-coded small town tradesmen, and more homoerotic, technically-platonic lovers' quarrels in between pedestrians getting embedded in windshields.

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Hear us and guest Kyla (a.k.a. Ryan Murphy racism scholar and lukewarm Jukebox the Ghost fan) break down one of 9-1-1's most misguided episodes ever: the one where they try to tackle police brutality. It's a bit of a doozy! Sorry this episode is so long, but there was just so much to unpack.

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Hear us discuss the birth of Clipboard Buck, the beginning of the fabled lawsuit arc, and an episode that is ultimately teeming with drama and pettiness at every turn.

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Discussing the thrilling culmination of the tsunami storyline, Ryan and Jane get a case of the late night recording sesh sillies. Does divorce guy fall into a meat grinder as he so clearly deserves? Does Athena manage to waste city resources going after looters without shooting any dogs? Does Buck buy any cupcakes at the cupcakery, or is he too sad? The answers to all these questions and more in todays First Respodcast episode!

We discuss the season 8 finale even more at the top of this episode, so if you want to skip that, go to 16:46.

You asked and we delivered: A final depressing bonus episode of our thoughts on the disappointing rollercoaster that was 9-1-1 season 8 and its finale. Our thoughts were a little scattered due to our emotional investment, so here are some time stamps to help you through it:

00:00 Intro/Opening thoughts on season 8

4:29 Thoughts on the finale

7:45 Preliminary Bobby death thoughts (8:57 - 9:53 Grey’s Anatomy spoilers)

16:50 Back to our finale thoughts

20:53 The Buddie problem

27:06 Buddie queerbait talk

37:34 General thoughts on s8/What we would’ve changed

Today we really get into 9-1-1's famous tsunami arc! Hear us praise Oliver Stark's performance, discuss whether Christopher was after Lily Blossom Bloom's nachos, and go on an embarrassing tangent trying to figure out what we know about Jacques Cousteau.

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It's season 3 time, baby! Forget whatever cold emptiness you might be feeling in the wake of 9-1-1's season finale, because we're traveling back in time to this show's golden age. Hear about Ryan's controversial hatred of Phil Collins, the dark gritty version of Glee's Terri Schuester storyline, and Christopher canonically being Buck's child.

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It's our season 2 FINALE!!!! WOOOOOO!!!! We've made it through another full season and our commitment to this podcast is feeling realer than ever. In this iconic episode, Bathena make major strides, an influencer has a maggot in her face, and Buck becomes a Girl Who Got Stuck. Arguably one of the most stuck girls ever! Yay!!! Proudcts!!!!!!

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In this week's episode, we get rightfully pressed about the cruel fridging of our beautiful wife Shannon Diaz. Also a serial package bomber starts trying to kill people, I guess.

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Hey guys, awkward timing, we know, but it's time for our discussion of Bobby's second origin story episode! Remember, we record these a week in advance and did not yet know the events of 8x15, and certainly did not know they would be permanent! Just pretend it's still season 2 and laugh along with us as we reminisce and investigate the bizarre rarepair of Sal x Tommy. All one can do is laugh! Ha! Ha!

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This week we've got a fun concept episode in which 9-1-1 does Ocean's 11! Did the 118 do it?? No. It's immediately clear that the answer is no. But don't tell that to the useless detectives on the case!

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Now that Maddie's harrowing ordeal is over, she and the 118 try to pick up the pieces and move on with their lives in 9-1-1 season 2 episode 14, only to find that it's not as simple as just putting the event behind them. It doesn't help when your Computer Assisted Dispatch system goes down and you have to go back to using paper maps like in the olden days. Hear us roast some of the show's gay male characters (somewhat constructively!) and ponder the episode's FBI storyline that was clearly originally meant to go in a different direction.

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Join us in covering one of 9-1-1's most harrowing sagas, Maddie's kidnapping and subsequent final showdown with abusive ex-husband Doug. A taut and effective thriller of an episode from GOOD writer Kristen Reidel! Plus hear a little tangent on why we abandoned ABC's Doctor Odyssey at 7:14. And we somehow still find a way to tie it back to hating Tommy Kinard by the end.

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Content warning: This episode includes some mild talk of suicide, including a reference in our opening bit. It's all related to the content of 8x09, but if you haven't seen said episode or don't want to relive it, be aware!

Enjoy this already obsolete bonus discussion of 9-1-1 season 8 episodes 9 and 10. Fair warning, this is a bit of a cynical episode in which we air a lot of grievances with season 8 and the general direction of the show. If you were expecting a high-spirits buddiemaxxing episode, this might not be the one for you! We covered...

In this week's episode, everything's coming up CHIMNEYYYYY!! Except back in his 2005-set backstory episode, he was still just Howie Han, ambitious but unsuccessful jack of all trades. Little did poor Howie know, if he had just pitched the Snuggie about 5 years later, he would've been rich! Unfortunately, he had to go seek his fortune at the most racist firehouse in southern California instead.

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In this week's episode, we discuss 9-1-1's Lifetime movie-esque season 2 mid-season premiere, New Beginnings! Buck says congrats Maddie on her sassy new lob! We talk about Flight Risk (2025) a little! Jane doesn't know how firetrucks work apparently! Baby, there's a shark on the freeway!

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This week we cover 9-1-1 season 2's midseason finale- also our first Christmas episode! Happy Christmas in March, and a merry Krampusnacht to all! Anybody in this thread seen McBain (1991)?

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