Hi, everyone. It's Ellen here. Uh, we need to take a little mid season break this week, um, in our regular 9-1-1 episode discussions. But we've got something a little bit different to share with you today. Back at the start of the year, we watched The Holiday Junkie movie together. It was written by and is starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and her real life husband, Brian Hallisay, who was also in 9-1-1 as Doug. Um, and we recorded our chat as we watched it together.
So at the time the devastating fires were happening in LA so we didn't end up posting it then because we didn't think it was appropriate to post such a light hearted episode when so many people were going through such terror.
So, um, now that LA is on the road to recovery, and there are still plenty of, um, groups who are working to make that happen, including Random Acts, for example, if you wanted to give, give some support to them to help with the recovery efforts, that's randomacts.org, go and check it out. Um, but. It was Jennifer Love Hewitt's birthday the other day, so we thought now would be a great time to have a look at her movie.
Um, if you're able to watch the film, I believe it's available at the moment on the Lifetime channel in the US, but also on Prime Video, at least in Australia, maybe other countries too, I hope. So you can put our episode on at the same time as the movie and watch it along with us. Uh, but if you'd rather not watch the film and I realize it's now the end of February, maybe you're not into the holiday movie right now, that's fine.
You can totally skip this episode, and we will be back next week to continue with our season 3 episodes of 9-1-1. Hope you enjoy it!
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
Welcome back to That Wee Woo Show, a podcast where we normally watch and discuss episodes of ABC show 9-1-1. But this week we're doing something a little different.
We are, we're going, well first we'd better say Happy New Year to everybody.
Yeah, Happy New Year!
Hello again, it's been a few weeks, but Happy New Year to you, hope you had a pleasant holiday period. Rather than wishing everyone the best for 2025, because in a lot of places around the world it's not terribly great at the moment, um, we'll just say we hope that you're safe and you had a nice time with your loved ones, and Yes, I hope that continues as we go into the next year. Who knows what that will bring.
I hope you had some really good food over the holidays. That's yeah.
Yeah, that's what like the holiday season's all about, right?
That's it.
Cheese and sitting on the couch. Anyway, um, This week we thought we'd do, before we got back into all of our usual episodes to get back into season three, we thought we'd give Jennifer Love Hewitt a, a chance for her Christmas movie that she, that came out in mid December. Uh, it's called The Holiday Junkie. Is that correct? I don't know anything about this movie.
I just know that Jennifer Love Hewitt and her husband, Brian Hallisey, who also played Doug in season two, um, are both in But, you know, we're hoping that this will help us to being a romantic comedy, etc. A holiday film on, um, Lifetime. That it will help us rehabilitate Brian's image a little bit from the horrible abuser to someone who is worthy of a romantic comedy. I mean, I assume it's a comedy. I don't even, I don't know anything about this.
Do you want the summary or do you want to go in completely blind?
Oh, no. Okay. Let's do the summary because, okay, so what, what we're going to do is this is going to be like one of those, a watch episode, literally. So we are going to watch this, the, the movie. It streams on Lifetime. We've never seen this before. We haven't seen the trailer.
That's it.
Yeah, I haven't even watched the trailer.
There you go. I've seen the trailer.
So do you want to read the summary?
Sure. Yes. I have gone on to, if anyone wants to know where to find It's on the, uh, the lifetime website, uh, my lifetime.com/movie/the holiday junkie, Andy and her mother Mimi run a company called the Holiday Junkie, a decorating and planning service for all holiday needs. But after Mimi passes away, Andy is forced to face her first Christmas without her mother and carry the Holiday Junkie torch all on her own. Despite the challenges, Andy may also find some love at Christmas along the way.
It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brian Hallisay, Kristen Chenoweth, Lynn Andrews, and Deborah Christofferson. So there is a little bit of a 9-1-1 connection.
Yeah, there's a few 9-1-1 Easter eggs as well.
Yeah, because Deborah Christofferson plays Sue.
Oh, okay.
Awesome. So it's like when, um, when Jennifer Love Hewitt decided to make this movie, she's walked around the set of 9-1-1 asking all the, all the cast members, Hey, have you got a free weekend? I'm shooting a movie. Can you come and help me out?
Literally. I'm pretty sure she just shot this like on the weekend.
Have you actually watched the movie already, Alice?
No, I've seen the trailer.
Okay. All right.
I think I've seen the first like minute or so just by the trailer. when I'm playing around trying to get the tech to work, which it absolutely did not. And no one is surprised about that, but no, I've not, I've not seen it.
No worries. All right. So how are we going to do this? So should we count down into the, like, just do ready, set, go, and then play the movie or?
Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Well, three, three, two, one. Yeah?
Okay.
Three, two, one play.
Oh, what a pretty Christmas tree. This is, this is like the most, Christmas Stereotypical Christmas movie, like, beginning I've ever seen. The Holiday Junkie.
Yeah, but look where it is!
Oh, she's even got a Christmas ringtone.
Oh my god, who puts a Christmas... oh, I suppose she works for a Christmas shop. Who's that? He's been in 9-1-1, right? Maybe he was in Supernatural.
Probably more Supernatural than 9-1-1. Oh look, their kids are in it!
Oh, their kids are in it, yeah! Just saw that. Atticus and... That's cute. Oh, she looks how I feel. What are these glasses? They're so red.
They're Christmassy.
Definitely a very different look to Maddie.
Yes.
Um, so Mr, wait, it's that guy, um, was not on Supernatural.
Hey, I did that one with my, with my daughter. Okay, sorry, I don't know where I've seen him before then, but he definitely, I definitely recognised him. Aww. Oh, that's really sweet. And, and sad.
I actually have a friend who, like, owns a Christmas business. And when the trailer for this came out, I sent it to her and I was just like, This is what you need to do. Just go into people's houses and decorate it for Christmas.
Oh. That looks like the shop front from The Ghost Whisperer. Yeah.
Probably is.
Peppermint lattes, no thank you.
Best in the world, and they've crossed it out and put town. It's Sue!
Oh there she is! Hi Sue!
It's not Sarah, that's Sue.
This is like a 9-1-1 AU, like.
No, it's gonna be toothpaste. Oh, no, it's got to be the quietest coffee machine in the world.
Oh, right. Yeah.
Surely that would be so hot.
It's empty.
It's also empty. They're always empty. She's like waving it around.
No it's too light. Oh no, we're gonna rip this to shreds, aren't we? I'm so sorry, everyone.
She has not participated in the Jensen Ackles School of um, Believable Drinking of Coffee.
I just don't get why they haven't made a weighted coffee cup for movies yet. Like, it just seems so obvious.
Oh, they could, could put liquid in it, like.
No, because they pick it up on the microphones. It's like how, um, the paper bags in movies, they're actually made of canvas.
Oh, okay.
So they don't crunch.
Yeah, so they don't rustle.
Gee, I'm learning so many things today. Oh, wow.
Pretty.
Didn't leave a key out, just left the door open. That works, I guess. Look out, Maddie!
Hi, Mason.
Now you mention it, Holiday Junkie is a pretty hilarious name for her.
Shouldn't magic be like spontaneous and occurring naturally?
I mean, I guess for the kids, they come home and there's Christmas.
I see the conflict already. Yeah. It's good. Good. Good.
He doesn't believe in Christmas.
Girl who loves Christmas. He doesn't like Christmas.
Please run into each other and accidentally hug, that'd be great.
Also, I found out in the break that, um, that she's the same height as me and I love her so much. Pocket sized.
These glasses are so funny, I love them.
Do you reckon Aisha picked them out for her?
Maybe, she loves the chunky ones.
Maybe when Jennifer Love Hewitt was raiding the cast and the sets for the movie. She also raided costume. They are one of Aisha's glasses.
Yeah, she literally just took them off Aisha's face and got them out of her car.
It's true. I will agree with that.
Oh, change of subject.
It's tied to Christmas.
They've both lost something.
Can they find what they're missing in each other? You know what, I wouldn't actually mind someone coming in, bringing all the Christmas decorations and then taking them away at the end of Christmas. I could get on right with that.
Putting them away is the worst.
But even putting them together, my family don't do the, everyone gathers around and helps put all the decorations on the tree. It's usually just me.
Yeah.
Yeah. So, I would be quite happy to bring in a third party to create that magic for me. Hmm. What kind of pie?
Ouch.
You're not going to share your pie?
Asshole. Those roses are really pretty.
They fit in really well with the mistletoe as well.
Yeah.
Do you think she updates her phone for every holiday?
Or just for Christmas.
Or does she literally, like, it's called the Holiday Junkie to be more inclusive, but she's, like, exclusive for Christmas.
Oh, true, yeah, maybe she, I reckon she does Halloween as well. And, like, Valentine's Day.
Yes, I'm thinking in February does her phone go pink and then it's got, you know, something sappy romantic as her ringtone.
Maybe.
And then, like, Easter as well.
Fourth of July. Mmm.
I feel like when we first saw Doug it was to do with Christmas trees as well, right?
Yeah, it was, yes. Did she have an open back, like, pickup or something?
Yeah, I was trying to work out if it was a Jeep.
Oh, Sue ships it.
Oh yeah.
I'm sorry, what's her name? Sarah. Sarah ships it.
Ah, she's Sue I swear that's Luke's Diner. Look at that door.
Yeah. I mean, they probably use all the same sets, wouldn't they, like the same locations?
Well, remember in Supernatural, they go to the set of Gilmore Girls.
Yeah. So they're probably just, she's just walking around set with a camera crew.
But they filmed this in LA, like not Vancouver, so. Right.
No, no. That was like the Supernatural episode was when they went to Hollywood.
Oh, okay.
Because they made the big deal of, you know, if we're really lucky, maybe we'll see one of the residents of Stars Hollow on the tour, and Sam slash Jared gets really antsy.
I'm pretty sure he just leaves.
Hi, Greg.
What?
That's a fun story to tell.
Why would you tell this story? Oh my god, that's awful. This is like the fastest, slow character finding out stuff that I've seen. It's
Okay. Was that All Christmas movies are like
this, I think.
Was that character's name Wendy?
I I didn't catch their names.
Okay, because if that's Wendy, she was on 9-1-1. Okay. I'm just living on IMDB at the moment.
Wow.
I'm pretty sure all those trees are fake, but sure.
Yeah, that definitely looks like a fake tree. I don't know.
Oh, Greg was on 9-1-1 Lonestar. He was also on The Client List, so that's how he got that connection. Which was one of Jennifer Love Hewitt's earlier series.
Bex, Andy's mum just died.
She just called in all her friends for this.
Yeah. I mean, it works for JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon and Ryan Murphy, so why not? Yeah. Oh, hello.
Put
your shirt on, dude. Take your shirt off again so I can look at your tattoos again.
Yeah, I bet you'll get your tools to help screw it in.
He's totally gonna help her with all of the Christmas things. I can tell.
Yeah, he came around really fucking fast.
Yeah.
And then he's going to rediscover the spirit of Christmas I don't know what she's going to get out of it except, you know, him.
Yeah, bit of help with the grieving process, maybe.
I've been watching TikTok videos of a woman whose mother is obsessed with these little Christmas villages as well, puts them out every single year. Um, so she and her family have slowly been infiltrating the Christmas village with little green plastic army men.
I think I saw that actually!
It takes the mother to realise that there are like snipers lining the roof and there are, you know, infantrymen hiding behind the corners.
That, the tree behind her, are they cookies on the tree? They just look like gingerbread cookies, I don't know.
They're
kind of, they're very flat.
Yeah, they are very flat. Oh, so back to his thing about room sprays, I got a gingerbread room spray for Christmas. And I sprayed my little, um, my little firefighter Build a Bear. So now he smells like gingerbread.
I wasn't sure that you'd appreciate bubblegum, so I left him unscented.
It's okay, I scented him myself.
Oh, really?
Oh, where's Doug going? Sorry, Mason.
Eh, it's Doug. I'm guessing this has something to do with his tragic past. Oh, he was an artist?
He had a girlfriend who was an artist. Yep. His mother was an artist.
He used to do Christmas art.
Seriously?
The building is sentient and does art.
Do you just gotta walk in, turn around and walk back out again? Doug, take your finger off the trigger.
Stop pointing it.
Oh no, it's not plugged in, it's not going to work.
Right, okay.
But still.
Also, did Jennifer Love Hewitt write this as well as, like, everything else? Because I just like that. He's just like, "oh yeah, hot holiday planner." It's just like, yeah, good. Good on you. She you with it? Yep.
Well, why not?
She wrote it.
Oh.
Oh, no. Oh, they were engaged to be married, but something went wrong. Oh, no.
I'm gonna assume that Anna White, who was the co-writer is from Lifetime, because I'm scrolling through her. Um, IMDB. And other than, uh, the Secret Life of Cheerleaders, every other movie is a Christmas movie. Oh, okay. So yeah, probably from I'm gonna say she's from Lifetime. So, she's got a thing for Christmas and killer cheerleaders. No, seriously, it's like, The Secret Life of Cheerleaders, Christmas movie, Christmas movie. Cheer Camp Killer, Christmas movie, Christmas movie.
Oh my god!
Killer Cheer Mom, Christmas movie, Christmas movie.
Wow.
He's like, don't fuck up my lawn.
She's like, "he's snarky and really annoying." I'm like, what? He's really charming. What are you talking about? He's been really nice so far.
Me.
Case in point. Buck number one fan. Gay not blind.
Exactly.
Cute ish. Okay.
Wow.
How is she still going on the banisters?
It looks like Christmas throw up.
Yeah.
That's like completely over the top.
One of my son, the kid my son went to school with, um, his family does this in their house and it looks amazing, but I would just get like, it just all gather the dust. Like, I don't know if I could handle it. It's just too noisy, you know, like clutter kind of thing, you know, it looks beautiful, but yeah, it's just.
Yeah,
it's like the
I guess if you only have it up for like a month, it's not so hard. I mean, not so bad.
Yeah.
I
missed what they're doing. Uh, is she decorating for the town, perhaps?
Maybe. That's not
creepy at all, Doug.
Dude! That's a little bit forward.
Just stay at your client's house, that's all. He's down bad. I was about to say she's gonna do therapy, like, via leaving messages to her mum, but no, now she's just having to break down about it. Bless her.
Imagine how jarring it's gonna be the time that she tries and it's like, mailbox is full.
Oh.
Why would you say that, Bex?
Leave.
Nope,
just gonna stand in the doorway.
He wants pie. Invite him in for pie.
But he had his pie. He had his chance. This is her pie.
She just shuts the door on him.
He's like, damn it.
No.
Where does she get all these things from?
How much is this costing?
I don't know.
Like, I didn't see any discussion about a budget.
No.
It's Christmas. They'll find the money. They'll enter a trivia contest or something.
Six dozen cookies. How many fucking cookies is that?
Oh, Sue ships it.
That's 72 cookies. Jesus Christ.
Oh no, last Christmas. Oh goddammit Sue.
Well then maybe stop talking about it.
It's like, oh, I know something, but I can't tell you, sorry.
I'm going to put the teapot in front of you, but I'm not going to pour you any tea. I'm just going to let you look at the teapot.
Oh, they ship it.
That's so cute.
Oh my god, here she goes.
Ooh.
Actually, it probably would be doable if you were only making the same cookie. Yeah, if you just made it.
If you just made a big batch, and just like kept
constantly rotating them through. Don't you dare touch the dough with the fingers that have just, oh!
If you're baking cookies to give to other people, you probably should be wearing gloves as well.
It's fine, it's going in the oven. The oven kills all the germs. Yes.
I don't think the oven goes hot enough to do that.
It's fine.
Oh.
Big Claus energy.
Stop looking through her stuff and get back to cookie baking, buddy.
You're on a, you're on a deadline
to make cookies. You.
Dude!
What an idiot.
He's so distracted by her beauty.
That's fair.
That he's giving himself second degree burns.
I think she just wanted to burn him.
Oh. You just go around and eat as many cookies as you want.
Okay, hang on. What is a snickerdoodle?
How do I sign up for one of these things?
Um, snickerdoodles are just like a plain cookie.
It's like a coconut thing, right?
No, no, no, no. Snickerdoodles are just, it's a plain sort of biscuit and then you roll it in cinnamon and sugar and
Oh my god, yum.
I really, really like them. So it's like a butter cookie, but it's sugary and cinnamony.
Oh, that sounds amazing.
Yeah, that actually sounds really good.
They are really good. And I only know that because I was curious as to what a snickerdoodle was after watching Veronica Mars and then I had to look it up and then I had to try and bake one myself and see what the fuss was about.
I hear about them all the time and I never bother to look it up.
No idea why they're called snickerdoodles, but I know what they are now. I think they forget that they're not supposed to like each other that much right now.
Yeah!
Because they're acting so much like husband and wife.
That's why I was so confused before when she was saying, "oh, he's really annoying and I don't really like him." I'm like, what? You've been looking at him with heart eyes the whole time.
Like the whole, she just slapped him on the thigh. That's so something you do to your partner.
Yeah. Whoa, that kid's got really pink hair.
That's amazing hair. Yeah. Alright, so can we pick the Hallisay kids?
That's what I was just wondering, which ones are theirs? Are they in this, or are they the Parker's kids that we'll see later?
I don't know. Oh, actually, IMDB might give me character names. Um, Atticus Nope, no, no character names.
Hmm, interesting. Oh my god, that worked well.
Aww.
Did she run over Santa?
Like, I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this.
What?!
This is also a strange story to tell at Christmastime.
Oh my god!
I don't know that mozzarella sticks are that worthy of trauma dumping on your friends.
Yeah, right?
God, did she die on Christmas Day?
Oh my god!
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Oh, that's so sad.
We're sorry for your trauma. Have deep fried cheese.
Literally.
Oh, more trauma dumping. Come on, everybody. Oh wait, so she's not dead.
The girlfriend? No, I'm gonna say she dumped him.
Yeah, or cheated on him or something.
Ran away with the best man?
Ran away with Santa?
Aw. Ouch. I thought they went to this place to get into some Christmas spirit.
Yeah. I think they're drinking the Christmas spirit.
Okay. Yeah. That makes more sense. Because they're just making, all going to have a therapeutic cry together in a minute.
They needed to get all these stories out somehow, so.
Yeah, that's true. Heart eyes.
Total heart eyes. Wait, what was the special recipe? The coffee or the hotcakes?
The hotcakes, I think.
Yeah,
right? I think it was just the hotcakes. That's not how you spell mood.
Well, that's sad as fuck.
It's the, I can fix him.
Yeah!
Do these movies always have a gay best friend? Sorry? Do these movies always have a gay best friend to tell them what's what?
I'm gonna say that it counts as, like, diversity. Yeah. Considering pretty much every single movie is, like, white. het
couples.. Like, they probably have a best friend of some kind, yeah.
So she's, that, that character is both their, um, their, like, colour diversity and their, their queer rep?
Yeah.
Oh, I bet you could. . Hey!
Hey.
So this is the other 9-1-1 connection.
Is this Buck's house?
Yeah, it's Buck's apartment.
Ah!
It's a fun fact.
It is too, oh my god.
I was going to tell this to, no, go Bex, go.
Alright, you, no, you tell it, because this, yeah, you tell it.
Because it's Oliver?
Yes.
Um, so when she was filming in Buck's apartment, she sent a photo of her in it to Oliver, and Oliver was like, I don't understand. Because she like sent him like a selfie and was just like, Oh, just dropping by at your place. And he's like, what? It's just like, it's, it's Buck's apartment, you dumbass. Like what the fuck?
It's
like he didn't, he didn't recognize it?
I don't think he even replied to her. I think he left it on read. Cause he just did not understand
what was going on. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. He left her on red. And then like when they started filming again, she was just like, did you not like, and he's like, I don't know what you were talking about.
Was there a couch back there?
Yeah, there was, because there's cushions on it, I saw cushions.
She's like, wow, you don't have a couch, let me buy you one. She's like, yeah, I've just been so worried about getting the right, the wrong couch again.
Aw, trauma bonding now.
That's not the best basis for a relationship, honestly. Because they're both going to, like, go through the stages of grief and come out the other end and go, Do I actually really like this person? Or do I just connect with them in my time of need?
It doesn't matter because they're going to be together at Christmas. And for the purposes of this movie, that's all we need.
Yeah, the world actually ends at Christmas, so it's fine.
Like, literally, it blows up at Christmas.
It like, folds back into the 9-1-1 timeline.
Schrodinger's cat gets back in the box.
Gets back under the couch. Oh, the little houses are cute though. They're so sparkly.
Ellen's gonna redecorate for Christmas on the 4th of January.
I haven't put my tree away yet.
My two friends who are obsessed with Christmas were taking it down on the 31st, and I was like, what the fuck? Like, I thought you'd be still up at, like, February, and they're like, nah, we got bored. I'm like, what?
My tree stays up till January because after Christmas it turns into a birthday tree.
Oh, oh, hang on. Okay, so there is a
There is a Halloween decorations box.
There is a Halloween, yeah. And she does have two couches.
Aww.
It's like a massive dildo or something.
It's from her mother, ew.
Even she knew she needed a hobby.
Oh. Thinking about dildos. Oh, wow. Oh. Oh, they're getting a bit close.
Tension.
No, but there's no tension.
It's because they're already married.
I know!
Gosh, they sort of jumped into that one.
They don't have three kids for nothing. I do think it's funny. That's in her mum's sweater. Ew.
I do think it's funny that like they're, I guess the younger fans of 9-1-1 who haven't grown up on Jennifer Love Hewitt see her and Brian together and assume that she met him on the set of 9-1-1 and then they get all freaked out about it. Like, oh my god, she fell in love with a guy who played her abusive husband! How weird is that?
Yeah, no, they already had children at this point.
Although she did meet him on the set of The Client List, so that's also a slightly weird situation to meet someone. Wait, did he bolt after the kiss or after sex? Alright, so after sex.
He's saying she's replacing her mum with, like, a boyfriend? Because it's a different kind of thing.
No, let's not go there. Ma'am, why are you doing that in the middle of a cafe?
Right? She's like, Mom, really wish I could tell you that I got laid last night! Eeee! Sue's like, you what?
Did she just try to hide from him?
It looked like it, but she just dropped something.
He had so much to do.
Oh, this is literally the morning after, okay.
Yeah.
Because your legs don't work?
Because they're still shaky from last night?
Oh yeah, we're totally not together, you know, too much, bye. So what are you doing later? Or if you're an abusive, controlling, horrible person, no.
Nah, leave that till later. That's definitely like third date conversation.
Oh my god, the obvious ad breaks as well. Yeah. Did she follow him?
Who's stalking now?
Oh, he's going to turn it into a Holiday Junkie store for her.
Seems that way.
So she can sell her, her branded products out of it. Calling it right now.
Aww, Heart eyes.
Oh, that's creepy. So basically, the Parkers are bankrolling their courtship right now.
Yeah, right?
Yep.
Up yours, capitalism.
Wait, people pay money for that?
I know, right? I'm like, what?
They bought tickets to stand and listen to What?
Oh, it looks like there's other stuff there, like, it looks like markets or something.
But like, you don't pay to go to a ma uh, I guess sometimes you pay like a
But they bought tickets! You buy tickets for a
Oh, that's mean.
Oh gee, I wonder what that is.
The weather. He's like, don't fuck it up!
Uh, dude, you are completely out of time.
I think that's the point. I hope that's the point.
No no, Old Guy in the Glasses is going backwards when everyone's going forwards.
Oh yeah. He's dancing to his own song. Just go and get it on already.
Again. Go and get it on again.
If this was a fan fiction.
Again.
They'd be in an alleyway by now.
That's not good for your profit margin though.
She's had to cry a lot in this one too. She's good at crying on, on uh, you know, command.
They use the exact same establishing shot every single time they cut to the Parkers. She got it off Temu. Okay. How many days? Cause they've had six days to do this, like, where are we in the time frame?
It's like 9-1-1, there is no time.
Apparently not. She must be really getting bed.
They're banging in a storage closet, it's fine.
They had a quickie under the table there.
They hid behind the tree.
Ah, there we go. He's going to refuse to pay half of her bill because they weren't there to experience all of the things that she bought tickets for.
I bought Christmas lights for my bedroom this year. I still haven't put them up. Imagine having a manor.
Oh no.
Uh oh.
No, that's where they were going to hold the Hop!
Just have it at the Parker's house.
No, have it at the um, the store.
At the cafe.
No, no, no, his store.
That is the cafe.
His store.
Oh, yeah.
Oh my god, I hear sirens. Buck's on his... oh.
Oh, different establishing shot.
Oh, but we've definitely had that one before. I remember the fish eye.
Yeah, the fish eye is quite, quite bad.
Does she have a different like, suit jacket type, like dinner jacket type thing for every? Day?
Every scene, yeah. Surely he could just build a barn for it or something.
Not everything. That's a Star's Hollow set, there should be like a massive town square in the middle of it, can't they just do it there?
Or the gazebo.
Yeah. Maybe a grumpy cafe owner can build a cover they can all dance under.
Her apartment seemed to be like 30 seconds away, but sure. Ohhh!
Oh, that's the guest room.
Wait, wait, I need a smoochies before I go to sleep. Nope, okay.
No smoochies, just a commercial break.
What is...
that's not how you use a tape measure. Did she pay him for them? Like, in money, not in services.
I hope so.
Ding ding ding!
There we go! Oh my god, no way! Girl.
Oh, magic!
It's right there, how do you not see it?
Are there bathrooms in this store? Like, accessibility issues? I'm
Why is this guy so focused on lunch?
Yeah, it's going to be a working day.
Because he's hungry! The poor guy! He invited his mate out for lunch and he's like, Yeah, let's go! He wasn't ready for lunch.
No time for lunch when you've got to get the Hop ready.
It's not a health and safety issue at all. I bet you can't.
Dude, she's gay.
I'm pretty sure he's also married.
That woman he's been with is his wife, right?
Yeah. I think?
Yeah, like he, they just said his kids are 14 and 17 as well.
It's not a competition. Apparently it is.
Why is everybody in this movie so miserable?
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Back into the closet? Maybe she was bisexual.
She hadn't worked that out yet.
He's been kissing you all week!
Buck's apartment looks very pretty all decked out in lights.
It does!
I know!
I was just thinking, in the last episode we watched, they were standing right there when they had their little Yes! talk.
The eye contact. Well, poor Chris was just on the couch.
Yeah, staring at the off TV.
Like dads, I can hear you!
Sparkly.
Like, payment for use of his promises.
Aww, she found him the car.
How did she do that in a day?
It was literally just at Kmart.
Amazon delivers pretty fast.
Or Target.
Yeah, but not that fast.
Yeah, it was prime.
This episode's not sponsored by Amazon. Although, if you want to send me some free stuff, okay.
Yeah, we'll take any of the free stuff.
Commercial. Her lip filler is not looking good in this.
Oh, I don't like that camera movement, it's weird.
No.
Oh, the decorations look lovely though.
What beat did they tell them to dance on? Yeah, they're dancing to a much faster song than this one.
Yep, that's how grief works, Libby. Aww. I think it's, it's weird that the music is the only sound we can hear in this, like, they're obviously all dancing around quietly on a set. It's really obvious. Yeah, I saw you slipping, slipping her the tongue there.
Hey, he's getting paid to kiss his wife.
Oh, everyone else is just like, woo!
Bex's favorite, um establishing shot?
It was nighttime this time.
Bang. Bone?
He's not a mind reader, girl. Oh no.
The Parkers are back! Alright.
That's their kids, right, definitely.
That's the kids.
Also, why are you so dressed up?
They have better LA establishing shots than 9-1-1 early seasons do. Yeah. Aww.
I am googling to see if that is actually Jennifer Love Hewitt singing.
Oh.
And you have three kids together. Yeah, Mr. Parker, I'm sure, is the one that you were
No, she was trying to, because he wants her to be, she wants him to be his angel investor.
Oh yeah, true.
I think I got my pronouns mixed up in that sentence, but that's okay. Also, yes, that was Jennifer Love Hewitt singing.
Yeah, I thought it must have been.
What can't she do? She's amazing.
Did you not My God, I love the single that she, like, released back in sort of the I Know What You Did Last Summer days. It was so bad, but I loved it. Wait, why are the windows still taped up?
Because they needed darkness for the Hop.
Did they not take them down for the Hop?
Maybe he put them back again.
Yeah, he's like, fuck you people.
Fuck daylight. Drive all the way to Big Bear in nine hours.
Six of those hours is just driving round and round and round in circles.
Like, no wonder they had to stop at a gas station, honestly.
Thanks, Michael Jordan.
Yes! It's not, it's Wayne Gretzky.
It is Wayne Gretzky?
Yeah. But Michael Scott quotes it. He blew it.
Oh my god, that's, this is terrible.
It's a Christmas movie, it's supposed to be terrible. Pretty sure kids aren't supposed to, okay, that's okay then.
She shot her shot. Shooted her shot?
What is she doing?
Tidying.
She's happy about something. Oh, she's having dinner for one.
They never get wine right on these shows. Look how thin that looks.
I
know right. It just looks like red water. juice with water.
Blackcurrant juice.
With
raspberry. Raspberry cordial.
But like, there's non alcoholic wine! Just use non alcoholic wine!
That costs a lot more than raspberry cordial.
True.
Yeah, gotta let that cordial breathe.
The tannins, you know.
Girl, why are you bitching at him? Yes!
You were right.
I could totally write for Lifetime.
You
could. I have all the tropes down.
Yeah,
you do.
Wow, he went ahead and set the whole thing up too. Just, what if she said no?
Mechanical bull.
You do realize that she does more than just Christmas though, right? And other forms?
Christmas, wink.
She's about to run out and legally change her name to Christmas.
Last name Junkie. Wait. Guys, I don't think he's talking about Christmas.
I
think it's, it's her. Is it a metaphor?
She's Christmas!
Oh, come on!
Oh my god. This is so cheesy, I love it.
Oh.
Oh. Oh. I think that was all you, love.
I am way too cynical for these movies.
Oh, we're having a flashback.
Do we really need a flashback after only an hour?
Yeah,
I think
Yeah, there were a lot of commercials.
I think we got it that they were falling in love already.
They fell in love like Two years ago. There was no falling in love with this movie. They like, walked in the first time they saw each other, they were in love.
That's what Christmas movies are all about. I really need to write my Christmas fic. I say this every January. And then it gets to December, and I'm just like, I still haven't written my Christmas fic.
Oh,
we got a foot pop. She did the foot pop.
Oh. Oh. Is it based on a true story? . , yes. Or at least actually
Jennifer Love Hewitt really decorates for Christmas.
Yeah.
No, but isn't, but yes, like the book that she wrote something about magic as well.
She wrote a book?
Yes. She wrote a book about her mother.
She really does do everything,
uh, images. Oh, that's, that's, oh, no.
No! What did you find?
Uh, it's called Inheriting Magic.
There
you go. Um, that cover looks incredibly AI, even though it's her and the kids.
Oh dear.
Um, it's, so, Inheriting Magic, my journey through grief, joy, celebration, and making every day magical.
Aww.
I think this is her singing this song too.
Oh, oh my God. I think this movie is like semi autobiographical. When she lost her mother to cancer, everything changed for Jennifer Love Hewitt. In the pages of Inheriting Magic, she recounts her journey, sharing memories, photographs, recipes, and the ma magic making ethos of a self-proclaimed holiday junkie. This entire movie was just a promotion for her book.
Oh my God. . Okay.
Inheriting Magic is about how grief, being a mom of three. Having a deep love for party planning and being passionate about the holidays turned what could have been an ordinary life into something more enchanting. Through it, Jennifer inspires real readers to add more love, light and the making of core memories into their everyday lives. Oh my god.
Oh
my God.
Well, why not turn it into a fictional movie about falling in love with your own husband? Well, that was very delightful. And I'm feeling very full of Christmas spirit right now.
I know I need to go spray my gingerbread room spray and um, eat some peppermint.
I think I must be the Scrooge in the family because I am not feeling moved.
Oh
you're not?
Have you not seen, have you not watched Christmas movies before Bex?
I'm going to be honest, I attempted to watch one a couple of years ago and I put it on like in the background so that I could have something playing while I was doing work. Um, I ended up focusing more on the work that I was doing because the movie was so bad.
They're always awful. They're always super corny. But they're so good, in a terrible
way. I don't think I have a tolerance for corny or terrible writing and terrible acting anymore. I've I've lost that, I don't know, what it is.
The childlike joy.
Yes.
Maybe, maybe you need some Christmas magic, Bex.
Yeah, you need a tall dark stranger to come into your life and build you some Christmas trees.
I will happily accept Christmas spirit if it comes in the form of a bottle, maybe that will help me.
No, you need to go away and from your big city life and talk about how you don't have time for Christmas.
See, no, I, if I were in, like, a Hallmark or Lifetime movie, I would be the girlfriend that the boy moves back to his hometown and falls in love with a small town girl and leaves the big city girl behind. I would be the big city girl. I am, I am Sarah Jessica Parker in, in, like, The Family Stone.
I mean I feel like, as they go, this had some pretty good acting in it compared to some that I've seen.
Yeah, I've seen awful acting.
Oh,
look, the act
This was some good actors.
They did the best that they could with the script that they were given.
Yeah.
Hey, what are you saying about my girl's writing?
That she's an actor for a reason?
It hit the marks that it, that Christmas movies are supposed to. I think it did pretty well.
It was great. Yeah. In a terrible holiday junkie type of way.
So was the only 9-1-1 easter egg, apart from the actors who we knew were already in it, and Buck's apartment, were there other things that you guys noticed?
No, that was about it.
Yeah, the main one was Buck's apartment that we were waiting for you to
Yeah. Everyone got very excited when they dropped the stills for the
Yeah, I did actually see some of that on Twitter beforehand, so I knew it was coming, but yeah. Very sweet.
I just love that Oliver was like, what?
Yeah, I can't believe he wouldn't have recognized it. I mean, it didn't like with, with the Christmas decorations all over it, it did look a bit different, but basically the same layout, like the bed was upstairs. That's the only place the bed can be.
I just, I wonder what, like, what did she have in the background when she took the photo? Cause like, like if she's just standing in front of the brick wall, it's just going, okay, an exposed brick wall.
She just, like, "Came for a visit," sent a selfie, and he, like, opened his front door to his actual house, and he's like, I don't get it. The dogs aren't even barking. What the fuck, Jennifer?
Anything else you want to say about this movie?
Happy 4th of January?
Look, it's never too late for Christmas movies, right? Or fics. I enjoy reading Christmas fics all year round, so one of them is true.
I love, I do love Christmas fics, yeah.
Yeah.
Um, okay, do you guys have a favourite Christmas movie, or movie that's set around Christmas?
Die
Hard.
Oh my god. I actually, I actually really love Home Alone. I know it's an old school Christmas movie, but I, I love the music and I love the, you know, the just, the The whole thing, it's just so funny, I love it. But the, the cheesy, um, romantic ones, I haven't seen that many of them actually. I've seen a few, like, in the last couple of years, but, yeah. They're all so cheesy and weird that, yeah.
Every year my family watches, um, what's it called, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?
Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
And it's so bad, but we watch it every single Christmas Eve. Um, and we still watch it. Like, even when we don't live together and that sort of stuff. Like, we still watch it every Christmas Eve. And, yeah, it's just awful, but it's
My daughter saw that, um We were watching, we were flicking through like Netflix or something, and my daughter saw Die Hard on there. And she's like, oh, Die Hard, we could watch that. And I'm like, um, it's actually rated R on there. I'm like, I didn't realize it was, you know, that bad. But it is like, you know, graphic violence and whatever in there, so.
I've actually never seen the first Die Hard.
Oh,
you haven't?
It's a Christmas classic, no matter what Bruce Willis says.
It's worth watching. Yeah, it's worth watching, just for the Just the meme, the meme value.
I think I've seen like the third or fourth one, but I haven't seen the original.
That is my every Christmas Eve. I'm usually up way too late.
Watching Die Hard?
Wrapping presents, or there was a phase, there was a phase where I was sewing presents like Christmas Eve to give to them on Christmas Day, and I would have Die Hard playing. I love that. That's my Christmas movie.
Well I missed you both. It's nice to hear your voices again.
Oh yeah, it is nice to be back. Okay, well let's just say we hope you enjoyed watching it, um, as much as we, maybe we did. Maybe we didn't, I don't know.
You two enjoyed it.
We had a good time watching it together.
Scrooge, but Ebeneezer Scrooge over here was slightly doubtful about the situation. But, that's fine.
That's alright, Ebeneezer will find her holiday junkie at some point.
The little Grinch's heart will grow a couple of sizes at some point.
Let us know what you thought of the movie. Or, and about this episode, and we will catch you next week for more 9-1-1, back to usual. See you then.
Bye.
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