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Maddie does her best Avatar impression and lava-bends disaster away from a hospital, Chimney, Harry, Ravi, Hen, and the rest of the 118 show up to rescue Athena from it, and Buck and Eddie’s situationship is getting Pompeii’d by Theo’s emotional support model volcano. Han, Cil, and Rachel are back with a special on the last two episodes of the 9-1-1 Season 10 opener, “Fire in the Hole” (10x02) and “Streets of Fire” (10x03). We talk about why it’s the best opening emergency since the tsunami and get emotional over Jennifer Love Hewitt and Elijah M. Cooper pulling our heartstrings with some of their best performances yet. New here or coming from our rewatch episodes? Current-season coverage has its own format: a weekly or bi-weekly reaction where we review the episode, highlight our three favorite moments for each character, and go all in on Buck and Eddie. The full deep dive comes later when we reach that season in a rewatch! So follow Eddie down the Lava Brick Road as we ask the important question, “Why does he feel like it’s his place to insert himself into Buck’s parenting?” Then brace yourself as we dig into the latest Buck and Eddie Divorce, where we break down what each of them says versus what the other one hears and why “you know where the door is” lands as an emotional stab wound for a man who just recovered from a real one. Plus, we trace seven seasons of parallels that prove this is the same fight Buck and Eddie have been having all along. Title inspired by “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash ❤️‍🔥 Eddie Treats Buck Like They’re Married, Buck Treats Eddie Like They’re Exes – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… (00:01:45) 10x02 “Fire in the Hole” Reactions (00:16:00) 10x03 “Streets of Fire” Reactions (00:29:16) We ❤️ When Things Go Boom! – Production Highlights (00:42:07) Hen – Giving Harry the Space to Be There (00:43:50) Athena – Serving Looks & Throwing Rocks (00:46:22) Chimney – Hot, Competent & In Command 🔥 (00:49:23) Maddie – Her Impossible Trolley Problem (00:53:55) Harry – “Bravery Is Exhausting” (00:56:30) May – Trial by Fire (and Lava) (00:59:39) Ravi – Ravipedia & Heart Eyes 😍 (01:01:21) Buck – Dad Mode Meets Divorce (01:04:45) Eddie – “Sorry If I'm Overstepping…” (01:06:54) Queer Eddiemaxxing (01:12:28) The Buddie Volcano Has Erupted – Breaking Buddie News 🚨 (01:19:22) The Confrontation: What Buck Means vs. What Eddie Hears (01:32:36) The Buddie Divorce Cinematic Universe (01:39:01) 8x17 Kitchen Fight Parallels (01:53:18) Buddie & Destiel – The Art of Pushing Away the Person You Need (01:57:40) Buddie Forecast 🌦️ (02:01:36) Into the Looking Glass – Echoes Across Seasons (02:04:45) What’s Next in Season 10 🔮 (02:08:29) Our Wi$h Li$t (02:10:12) Take a Buddie With You & Outro 📔 Behind the Scenes & References From This Episode 📔 🎬 Gas Station Explosion 🎬 Brainstorming the Practical Lava Effects 🎬 More Lava BTS 🎬 The Metro Station Set 🎬 Pyrotechnics and Explosions 📱 Half Initiative Experience & Shadowing Bradley Buecker, by Jean Liu on Instagram 📱 Buddie Scene But with Straight Bros, by im.the_problem.it (Theo) on TikTok 📺 Anirudh Pisharody Interview: 9-1-1, MayRavi, and the 118's New Dynamic Duo- Part 1, by Rated T&T Podcast on YouTube

“Without losing a piece of me, how do I get to heaven?Without changing a part of me, how do I get to heaven?” In this episode of The Buddie System, Han, Cil, and Rachel act as your fandom priests and perform a queer coding exorcism on Eddie Diaz’s Catholic Guilt™️ (as shown in the hit network television series entering its 10th season: 9-1-1). Our sermon breaks down his complete history with religion and faith and how it left him with religious trauma that makes him feel like something in him is broken. Eddie has spent his whole life looking for God in the wrong places, without realizing what’s been right in front of him: Buck, the one person he’s always had unwavering faith in. We grab our rosaries (aka baby’s first fidget toy) and dive into the “Old Testament”: the foundations of comp-het, peer-reviewed research on queer people raised in homophobic churches, the Hays Code’s history of veiling queerness in religious guilt, and why we think Tim Minear is purposefully referencing the Ancient Texts of Queer Coding through Eddie. Then we read The Gospel According to Eddie Diaz (aka The Eddie Scriptures), every example of faith, belief, or lack thereof from Season 2 through Season 9. We go from Eddie asking for a sign right before Shannon dies, the universe screaming at him, and Hot Priest’s Juice Bar Intervention, to Abuela’s sage advice on where to find God’s love, and a hospital chapel bearing witness to perhaps the most homoerotic stabbing on network TV since Supernatural. Next, we enter The Book of Acts, where faith is actually put into practice, and for Eddie that’s always been The Church of Buckley. In 9x18 Eddie tells God, “I’ve been trying to believe… you’re not making it real easy,” but per our scriptures, worshiping at the altar of Buck has always come naturally. Finally, in Revelation, or The Buddie System Scriptures, we talk about the future we’d like to see for Eddie and his relationship with religion: free of guilt and shame, drinking the juice, and hopefully rolling the stone away from his closet. This episode is dedicated to our TV dad, Tim Minear, for giving us enough crumbs to cater the last supper. Happy Birthday, hope you enjoy your present! 😂 “All my time is wasted, feeling like my heart's mistaken, ohSo if I'm losing a piece of me, maybe I don't want heaven”Episode title inspired by “Heaven” by Troye Sivan ❤️‍🔥 What We Want In An "Eddie Begins Again" Episode – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Welcome Back to the Eddie Queer Coding Series 🌈 (00:01:36) Eddie's Catholic Guilt Exorcism – Setting the Stage (00:10:08) A Brief History of Queer Coding & Subtext (00:13:36) Eddie’s Catholic Guilt Begins (00:17:14) Eddie Asks for a Sign and Gets a Ruined Miracle | 2x17 (00:19:11) “I Wasn’t Enough” | 3x08 (00:20:21) The Patron Saint of Travelers | 3x15 (00:21:48) “I Don’t Worry About Things I Can’t Control” | 4x06 (00:24:11) “I Didn’t Save Them” | 5x13-5x14 (00:25:36) “God Has Spoken” | 5x16 (00:28:41) Confused About the Definition of Belief | 6x07 (00:30:43) The Manchurian Catholic | 7x05 (00:35:37) “I’m Broken and I Can’t Fix It” | 7x09 (00:38:18) An Exercise in Faith, A Thought Journey (00:42:30) “I Don’t Deserve Forgiveness, or Joy” | 8x06 (00:52:55) “I Was Looking in the Wrong Place” | 9x05 (01:05:26) Coming Out as Holey | 9x18 (01:13:42) The Church of Buckley (01:19:35) Our Hope for Eddie (01:33:18) Our Closing Sermon – Reflecting on Religion, Repression & Self-Acceptance 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 (In Order of Mention) What Is Compulsory Heterosexuality?, by Tara McGrath, Marriage & Family Therapist, on The Agnostic TherapistReligious affiliation, internalized homophobia, and mental health in lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals, by David M. Barnes & Ilan H. Meyer, published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (2012, Volume 82, Issue 4)Taught to be Ashamed: Sexual Shame, Faith, and Moral Incongruence in Men’s Psychosexual Development , by Christopher S. Smith, published in Sexuality & Culture (2026, Volume 30)The Politics of the Gender, Sexuality, and Religion Nexus: Perspectives from the Margins, by Victoria Basug Slabinski and Nicolas "Nicola" Chehade for Contending Modernities at the University of Notre Dame9-1-1 Ryan Guzman Interview: Buck's Coming Out, Eddie's Sexuality - Parade, by Natalie Oganesyan for ParadeThe Gay Second Generation: Sexual Identity and Family Relations of Filipino and Latino Gay Men, by Anthony C. Ocampo, published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2014, Volume 40, Issue 1)9-1-1's Ryan Guzman on Eddie and Buck's heart-to-heart, Maddie's wedding dress moment, and Marisol, by Patrick Gomez for Entertainment Weekly9-1-1’s Ryan Guzman Breaks Down Eddie's Biggest Season 7 Moments, by Kat Pettibone for Us WeeklyINTERVIEW: '9-1-1's Ryan Guzman on Eddie Diaz’s Latino Identity, Catholic Guilt & That Mustache, by Lissette Lanuza Sáenz for RemezclaHow a podcast is helping this Catholic and gay Latino man break the stigma, by Alejandra Molina for The National Catholic Reporter'9-1-1' star Ryan Guzman on Eddie's 'Risky Business' dance and mustache shave, by Patrick Gomez for Entertainment Weekly'9-1-1': Ryan Guzman Talks 'Risky Business' Dance, New Version of Eddie Going Forward, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider'9-1-1': Tim Minear on Tommy and Abby's Connection, Buck's Relationship, Eddie's Dance, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider9-1-1 Creator Tim Minear Reflects on Season 9, by Sophia Soto for Nerdtropolis'9-1-1' season 9 preview: New captain and crossover chances (exclusive), by Patrick Gomez for Entertainment Weeklya href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118883648.ch3" rel="noopener...

Eddie goes swimming in a sinkhole, Nacho Libre and Theo land Buck in the ER, and 9-1-1 is back with its Season 10 premiere, “That Sinking Feeling.” Han, Cil, and Rachel are here to talk about everything that worked to make this a much-deserved celebration of a rarely reached milestone in television. Maddie and Athena are putting puzzle pieces together while Chimney, Hen, Ravi, Harry, and the rest of the 118 end the episode diving under the engine for cover from the erupting volcano. Gotta love a Thursday! New here or coming from our rewatch episodes? Current-season coverage has its own format: a weekly or bi-weekly reaction where we review the episode, dismantle a fandom take or two we disagree with, highlight our three favorite moments for each character, and go all in on Buck and Eddie. The full deep dive comes later when we reach that season in a rewatch! So, get ready to take a peek at Eddie’s psyche as we talk about why he’s so good at exercising restraint, and why he shouldn’t really be proud of that. Then follow us as we break down Buck and Eddie getting mistaken for a couple… again, and why the only non-work related scenes in the season premiere focusing on the Buckley-Diaz family dynamics are a pretty big deal! And pretty gay, let’s be real. Plus a plethora of parallels, what’s coming next, and our never-ending wish list, and trust us — you won’t want to miss everything we cooked up! 🚨 Make sure to submit your questions for Briar from Creation Entertainment by 11:59pm EST on 10/22 here: https://tinyurl.com/AskBriar ❤️‍🔥 Buck Is a Terrible Liar, Except When He's Lying to Himself – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment! Episode title inspired by “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… (00:01:33) Welcome to Dispatch 🚨 (00:02:02) 10x01 “That Sinking Feeling” Reactions (00:18:36) Um, Actually – Let's Talk About That Hospital Scene (00:21:55) Hen – “Meemaw’s Gonna Have to Wait” (00:25:09) Athena – Rookie Detective with Veteran Instincts (00:27:29) Chimney – Large & In Charge (00:30:31) Maddie – Red String & a Seat at the Table (00:32:43) Harry – Taking After His Big Bro Buck (00:34:26) May – Daughter Knows Best (00:36:20) Ravi – Slay King, Slay (00:37:01) Buck – Dad Mode Activated? (00:41:31) Eddie – Evil, Gay, & Gleeful (00:44:27) Queer Eddiemaxxing (00:49:20) Clocked as a Couple…Again – Buddie Scene Dissection (01:04:35) Breaking Buddie News – If Not Family, Why Family-Shaped? (01:13:10) Buddiemaxxing (01:25:26) Into the Looking Glass – Echoes Across Seasons (01:28:52) What’s Next in Season 10 🔮 (01:37:15) Our Wi$h Li$t (01:46:12) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

“And you know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches, give you my wild, give you a child” This week Han, Cil, and Rachel hold onto their sanity by a thread as they discuss Season 4 Episode 14 of 9-1-1, “Survivors,” where a sniper shoots Eddie in the middle of an L.A. street and Buck drags him to safety. We break down why this is our favorite season finale of the series (so far) and why most of that is, unsurprisingly, the Buddie of it all. This episode will (lol) always be famous for the scene where we find out Eddie left Christopher, his heart and soul, under Buck’s guardianship if anything ever happens to Eddie. We explore the chink in Bobby and Athena’s relationship armor, Hen and Karen’s bittersweet reunion with Nia, and Maddie asking Chimney for help. The theme of “survivors” echoes through the episode, from Bobby opening up about almost losing Athena to Athena literally walking through fire to save Bobby. While the Wilsons’ moment with Nia and her mother provides some closure and healing, we point out that the Bobby and Athena talk just puts a pin in a corkboard of conversations that never get unpinned, and that Maddie telling Chimney she’s not okay, mentally, is a huge first step, but ends up effectively being a band-aid on a nicked artery. Buck’s trajectory this episode goes from frozen in shock to rabid guard dog to distraught mother hen to passive suicidal ideation on the crane and in Eddie’s hospital room. Eddie’s goes from reaching for Buck, to asking Buck if he’s hurt, to passing out, to waking up and hearing Buck say it should have been him who was shot, to telling Buck he’s not expendable by sharing a secret he’s been keeping for a year. And we unpack all of that and then some! Why is Eddie leaving Christopher to Buck in his will romantic? We have answers. Why is the entire opening sequence so couple-coded? We have Meredith and Derek, Castle and Beckett, Booth and Brennan, and Dean and Cas to demonstrate. Also, get ready for some show-stopping Buddie and Bathena parallels — they do not play about their partners. If we sound too giddy about Eddie getting shot, it’s only because Buck tastes Eddie’s blood before his lips and everything that follows is just incredibly… gay. “All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret. The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me. Would it be enough if I could never give you peace?” Episode title inspired by “peace” by Taylor Swift ❤️‍🔥 What If There Was a Feelings Realization in Season 4? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 📰 Death, drama, and dust: 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star creator on both shows' tense season finales, by Ruth Kinane for Entertainment Weekly 📰 '9-1-1' Boss on Athena's Heroics, Buck Being Buck and More in the Season 4 Finale, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 9-1-1 Finale: EP Talks Eddie's Fate, Maddie's Journey And A 'Major Complication' Coming In Season 5, by Andy Swift for TV Line 📰 '9-1-1' Star Oliver Stark on Eddie's Fate and Buck's Big Christopher News, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap 📰 9-1-1 star Oliver Stark breaks down Eddie's shocking news and what happens to Buck next, by Rebecca Lewis for Hello Magazine 📰 9-1-1 & Lone Star: Tim Minear on the Emotional Season Finales | Observer, by Max Gao for Observer 📰 '9-1-1's Peter Krause on Obstacles in Bobby & Athena's Marriage, Plus Is [Spoiler] Dead?, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:01:03) Welcome to Dispatch (00:03:54) 4x14 “Survivors” Review (00:11:09) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:18:31) Needle Drop – Music Analysis (00:28:25) Buckapedia & Narrative Echoes – Parallels, Callbacks, and Foreshadowing (00:45:07) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:51:28) Hen & Karen – The Love They Gave Nia Comes Full Circle (00:56:42) Maddie & Chimney – Don't Go Where I Can't Follow (01:07:41) Athena & Bobby – Nothing Like a Near-Death Experience to Clear the Air (01:17:16) Are Bathena Really Stronger Than Ever? 🤨 (01:32:19) Buck – Saving Eddie & the Aftermath of Almost Losing Him (01:43:59) “It’s Gonna Be Okay, Buck” & the Weight of Telling Christopher (01:58:00) Buck vs The Crane: His Martyr Complex Reaches New Heights (02:10:36) So…The Buck & Taylor Thing Is Complicated. And Weird. (02:28:31) Eddie – Sleeping Beauty & the Secret in His Buck Pocket (02:39:51) “You Think You’re Expendable, But You’re Wrong” – The Will Reveal (02:51:14) Slow Burn – Why So Romantic, Bro? (03:01:07) Buddie, Meet the Canon Couple NDE Playbook (03:10:27) Spot the Difference: Buddie & Bathena Parallels Edition 👀 (03:20:28) Buck, Eddie & Christopher: Always Coming Back to Each Other (03:31:19) Outro & Take a Buddie With You!

Han, Cil, and Rachel are absolutely erupting with excitement in this week’s episode where we take a look at what we know about Season 10 of 9-1-1 before the premiere next week! Get ready for a magmaficent time — from trailer reactions and press teaser quotes from showrunner Tim Minear to episode titles and a very lengthy list of demands Buddie System wish list. How much of the wish list is about Buck, Eddie, and Buddie? Well, you can probably ash-ume. 😉 🫂 Buck & Theo Storylines in Season 10 – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment! 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 📰 Fall TV Preview 2026: Exclusive Scoop And Photos On 30+ Returning `Favorites!, by Rebecca Luther and Andy Swift for TV Line 📰 '9-1-1' Boss Previews L.A.'s Volcano & How Eddie's Helping Buck in Season 10, by Damian Holbrook for TV Insider 📰 Season 10 Photo, Oliver Stark on Instagram 📹 Buddie Sublet Scene But It’s Straight Bros, by im.the_problem it’s me on TikTok 📖 honeymoon phase, by WabiSabiPapi on Archive of Our Own (AO3) We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Welcome to La-Va Land 🌋 (00:03:07) 9-1-1 Said Disaster Movie CINEMAA 🎬 – Season 10 Trailer (00:08:35) What We Know For Sure (00:10:20) Season 10 Vibes – Tension, Friction & New Dynamics (00:14:29) Episode Titles, Directors, & Who’s Cookin’ in the Writers’ Room (00:23:42) Behind the Scenes – Broken Legs & Mysterious Mustaches (00:26:59) What Season 10 Is Setting Up 👀 (00:37:34) Season 10 Wish List – What We Want for the 118 (00:56:30) Buck, Eddie, and Buddie Wish List –Our Hopes Are Reasonable, Really (01:02:07) Buddie Marriage of Convenience – You Know, For Legal Reasons (01:07:45) Eddie vs. Buck’s Replacement – Let Petty Eddie OUT (01:12:02) Feelings Realization Pending & Buddie Hugs Overdue (01:18:00) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

“The price of your greed is your son and your daughter What you gon' do when there's blood in the water?” This week Han, Cil, and Rachel trust no bitch as we side-eye Season 4 Episode 13 of 9-1-1, "Suspicion," the penultimate episode of the season and the setup for one of the show's most notorious cliffhangers. Everyone has something to squint suspiciously at in this episode: Hen goes head to head with a dismissive ER doctor to save her mom Toni, Maddie insists she's fine while Chimney takes her at her word, Athena goes full detective mode on Bobby, and Eddie follows his gut about a single mom poisoning her son straight into the wrong end of a sniper scope. We dig into Hen's storyline and how the medical system fails Black women, and women and people of color more broadly, and celebrate Hen rounding up her med school study group to advocate for her mother's health when no one else will in a very House MD montage. We sort through Bobby's avoidance and lying to Athena and unpack the tit for tat in Bobby and Athena's marriage underneath it all. We also talk about how devastatingly well the show sets up Maddie's postpartum arc, and how a rewatch really twists the knife with Chimney unknowingly saying the worst possible thing. From there, we sit down with Carla to clock Eddie and his feelings (or lack thereof) for Ana: "nice and easy" is not how anyone should describe their girlfriend. We have a genuine question for the general audience (if you know any please ask them for us) about what exactly they think is happening here. We follow Rachel's thought journey and chat about Sheila and Charlie as a warped mirror of Eddie and Christopher, and lay out our theory that the universe is punishing Eddie for everything he refuses to look at. Bobby and Athena apparently can't have a fight without Buck and Eddie inheriting the script, so we trace their kitchen argument line for line to 7x09 and 8x17. And when Sheila laments that a single mom has nobody to pull her out after she falls through a balcony, we can't help noticing that Eddie has someone who always shows up to try, because all roads lead to Buddie, after all. “Beg me for mercy, admit you were toxic You poisoned me just for another dollar in your pocket” Episode title inspired by “Blood // Water” by grandson ❤️‍🔥 Who Is The “Bridezilla” of The Buddie Wedding? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 📰 '9-1-1's Peter Krause on Obstacles in Bobby & Athena's Marriage, Plus Is [Spoiler] Dead?, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 9-1-1's Peter Krause Talks Bobby And Athena's Big Fight, Says Cast Was 'Speechless' Over That Final Shot - TVLine, by Andy Swift for TV Line 📰 '911' Renewed For Season 5 At Fox — 'Lone Star' Returning Midseason, by Andy Swift for TV Line We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:42) Welcome to Dispatch (00:02:11) 4x13 “Suspicion” Review (00:09:18) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:16:39) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:21:33) Hen – The Best Advocate You Could Ask For (00:35:09) Athena & Bobby – Trust Issues: His, Hers & Theirs (00:45:58) Maddie – Losing Trust in Herself & Shutting Everyone Else Out (00:51:17) Eddie – Is He Following His Heart, or Christopher’s? (00:55:04) How to Watch Eddie With Straight Goggles? 🤔 (01:05:49) Eddie Imprints on Charlie (01:10:51) Slow Burn – All Roads Lead to Buddie (01:20:21) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

“What died didn't stay dead, you're alive, you're alive in my head” Our 9-1-1 Season 9 wrap up is here, and with Season 10 about to erupt, Han, Cil, and Rachel are taking one last space walk through the season of perpetual grief before it's laid to rest (at least until our rewatch). This week we give three rounds of applause and all the props to what might be the strongest season-wide writing this show has ever pulled off (perhaps some of the best storytelling we've seen on TV, period). Then we step onto our soapbox about 9-1-1 finales, which somehow turns into a thesis on what Supernatural taught us about cliffhangers (and how we'd love more on 9-1-1). Athena, Harry, Maddie, Chimney, Buck, Eddie, Hen, May, and Ravi get handed some very scientific superlatives, followed by a Buddie System style full-season arc breakdown from the space launch all the way to the hospital lockdown, before we get to the part you're really here for. Buck-le up for a Glee-inspired "that's what you missed on Buddie" in our Season 9 Buddie Breakdown. Buck still hasn't realized his feelings and Eddie hasn't even realized he's gay, but between Buck being jealous over Hen and Eddie's friendship, the tension at the Nashville Firefighter Games, and a face cradle in New Mexico that should be studied by queer coding scholars, we still had a veritable Buddie feast. We also crown our favorite episodes and moments including a certain road-trip montage set to a Kansas song that finally healed the Supernatural trauma it used to hold for us, and we will not be apologizing for how many times we've rewatched Eddie bleeding out. Then we hop into the confessional booth to talk about our new fears from this season, including a game of tug of war we will simply never recover from. We nerd out over the production side too, from the neon lighting and a split diopter shot that made us feral in 9x13, Mother's Boy, to how an airing schedule with more starts and stops than Buck's love life shaped our viewing experience. Finally, to wrap up the wrap, we dig up our old wish lists and break down which ones the writers granted (a surprising number of unhinged demands, child acquisition included). “If I didn't know better I'd think you were still around I know better, but I still feel you all around” Episode title inspired by “Marjorie” by Taylor Swift 🫂 What Would We Change About Season 9? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1 Season 9… 🚨 (00:00:20) Season 9: The Season of Perpetual Grief™ (00:12:15) 9-1-1 Finales Are…Fine (00:20:02) Season 9 Superlatives – Most Likely to… (00:22:14) Hen – Chronic Illness and Identity Crisis Can’t Keep Her Down (00:28:33) Chimney – Captain Commitment Issues to Captain Confidence (00:35:03) Maddie – Plot Twist: She’s the Boss Now (00:39:55) Ravi – Bitchless to Disney Simp: A Love Story (00:44:24) May – Finding Her Own Way to the Family Business (00:49:27) Harry – Growing Up Grant, One Fire at a Time (00:54:41) Athena – From Floating Away to Finding Her Way Forward (01:01:27) Buck – Learning He Doesn’t Have to Do It Alone…Just in Time for Theo (01:14:33) Eddie – Looking for the Light, Becoming It Instead (01:33:56) Here’s What You Missed on Buddie – Season 9 Unhinged Edition (01:37:35) The Episodes That Owned Our Hearts (01:44:00) Season 9 Hall of Fame – Our Top Moments (01:56:24) New Fears Unlocked 🔓 (01:59:18) Behind Season 9 – Production Retrospective (02:08:00) Dear ABC: About That Airing Schedule… (02:17:54) Production Said: Let Us COOK 👏 (02:23:36) Season 9 Wish List – Ask and You Shall Receive? (02:34:46) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

“I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money” This week Han, Cil, and Rachel get out our magnifying glasses and try to find the character work in Season 4 Episode 12 of 9-1-1, “Treasure Hunt.” Spoiler alert: there isn’t much. We discuss how everyone except Buck is pretending that they’re too smart to go looking for hidden treasure, and what led them all to be at the scene of the crime at the end anyway. Eddie’s playing not-so-third-wheel to Taylor, Hen and Chimney are coasting on Karen’s coding skills, Ravi’s in it solo for the love of the game, and then we have Bobby and Athena, dancing around a fight that’s been simmering their entire relationship. We dive into our thoughts on the episode (a fun romp without much substance) and how we would have improved on the latter. Then strap in, because the running theme of this episode is us slowly descending into madness, trying once again to connect the dots on why Buck and Eddie’s love interests are more underwhelming than an empty treasure chest. Some light armchair psychology pops out when we examine Buck’s relentless need to be wanted and how we’re very, very tired of him not loving himself anyway. Then for a Buddie System happy ending we talk about how easy Buck and Eddie are for each other, and how at the end of the day, they really just wanted to do it with their best friend… the treasure hunt that is. Ahem. “I'm looking for a partner, someone who gets things fixed Ask yourself this question: Do you want to be rich?” Episode title inspired by “Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)” by Pet Shop Boys 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 Taylor Kelly Clocking Buddie – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:50) Welcome to Dispatch (00:03:14) 4x12 “Treasure Hunt” Review (00:12:41) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:20:05) Narrative Echoes – Parallels, Callbacks, and Foreshadowing (00:22:15) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:29:35) Athena & Bobby – $5 Million Worth of Unresolved Issues (00:39:45) Everyone On The Hunt – Dangerous, Reckless, Stupid… We’re In! (00:54:16) Buck, Eddie, & Taylor – Eddie’s Self-Inflicted Third Wheel Problem (01:15:56) Slow Burn – Romance Is Complicated But Buck Time Is Easy (01:38:32) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

This week Han, Cil, and Rachel celebrate our favorite Josh storyline in Season 4 Episode 11 of 9-1-1, "First Responders,”, flashing back fifteen years to see how a freelance stenographer became L.A.'s best dispatcher. Josh gets his origin story and we explore what makes him so perfectly built for dispatch, and the journey he went on to discover that. We also break down Buckapedia Buck rolling out first responder facts and somehow landing on the galaxy brained "9-1-WUH" theory. Hen and Athena have one of the most important conversations of the season. We trace how it echoes back to the "Rage" pullover and discuss Athena calling out how differently the police would treat the case she was on if it was a missing white woman. May drops the bomb that she wants her own apartment, and we unpack Athena fighting every parental instinct not to hold on too tightly for fear of becoming her mother, Beatrice. We love growth! Finally we dissect the parallel between Eddie's date with Ana and Buck's lunch with Taylor, both of them using these women to help someone they actually care about instead of really seeing them. 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 Parallels Between Eddie and Athena – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:52) Welcome to Dispatch (00:02:46) 4x11 “First Responders” Review (00:12:04) Jaws of Life – Deep Dive (00:20:34) Narrative Echoes – Parallels, Callbacks, and Foreshadowing (00:29:30) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:35:07) Josh – From SexyBack to Saving Lives (00:50:03) Josh Learns to Be Somebody’s Sue 🥹 (01:04:14) Athena – Fighting Her Instincts While Internally Screaming (01:17:53) Buck – Buckapedia Won’t Sit This One Out (01:27:15) Buck & Taylor – Can They Actually Just Be Friends? (01:40:24) Slow Burn – Sorry, the Partner Position Has Already Been Filled 👀 (01:56:07) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

“And even though you want to Just try to never grow up” This week Han, Cil, and Rachel feel the growing pains as three different families experience the epic highs and lows of loving their children in Season 4 Episode 10 of 9-1-1, “Parenthood.” Hen, Karen, and Denny say goodbye to Nia, May fights with Athena over making nice with her high school bully, and Chimney and Maddie are ships passing in the night as they learn how to raise their newborn baby Jee-Yun… and Albert. We dive into our thoughts on the episode ranging from, “oh my god can we get a break on the crying” to “is there a reason Buck and Eddie’s love interests are always so underdeveloped?” But underneath our many opinions, this episode delivers some incredible character work, starting with Hen and Karen. Our girls have big hearts and love fully, which is why it’s so hard to watch them let go of Nia and struggle over potentially fostering again. We explore the way they both process this and communicate, highlighting what makes Hen and Karen so special as both partners and parents. Find out why we’re on Athena’s side in this round of mother-daughter fighting, and how both she and May make huge strides towards understanding each other better, which only grows with time leading to one of our favorite moments in Season 9. Chimney and Maddie are sleep deprived, just like us for real, but making the most of this special time with their daughter. Unfortunately, Chim sticks his foot directly in his mouth when he accidentally implies that Mrs. Lee is a stranger to Jee-Yun. We discuss the difference between “it takes a village” for Maddie and Dispatch and Chimney and the 118 and how Madney finally lean on their found family at the end. Finally, we dissect what it means when two best dude bros co-parent so hard they accidentally start finishing each other's disciplinary sentences, and why their synchronized “NO!” to “can’t you both be good cop?” might be the most married thing either of them has said all season. Episode title inspired by ‘Never Grow Up” by Taylor Swift 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 How Little Buck & Eddie’s Love Interests Are Developed – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 '9-1-1' and 'Lone Star' Showrunner on What's Next for Bobby and Owen's Teams, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:53) Welcome to Dispatch (00:02:12) 4x10 “Parenthood” Review (00:23:23) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:30:44) Narrative Echoes – Parallels, Callbacks, and Foreshadowing (00:39:48) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:48:06) Hen & Karen – Heartbroken But Still Openhearted (01:03:10) Athena & May – Seeing the Person Behind the Parent (01:16:23) May Hears Athena at Her Most Vulnerable (01:25:47) Maddie & Chimney – Running On Empty and Everything! Is! Fine! (01:33:30) Is Dispatch a Village? (01:38:10) Madney Ask for Help, FINALLY 🙌🏻 (01:46:17) Slow Burn – Good Cop, Bad Cop: Buckley-Diaz Edition (01:58:23) Take a Buddie with You & Outro

“When the gusts came around to blow me downHeld on as tightly as you held onto me” Han, Cil, and Rachel are a wreck over Season 4 Episode 9 of 9-1-1, “Blindsided.” Hen and Karen are going through the unimaginable, Bobby and Athena continue their failure to communicate, and Maddie and Chimney are waiting for a special delivery. Hen and Karen seem to be on different pages when they find out their foster daughter, Nia, will be going back to live with her birth mother. We discuss Hen’s big emotions and thirst for vigilante justice in a circumstance where there’s no place for it, Karen barely holding it together, and how a tense and emotional conversation gets them back in sync. Bobby is triggered at a mass casualty pile-up caused by a drunk driver, where his wife and Hen make a few comments that unintentionally twist the knife. We take a look at how Bobby isolating himself in the aftermath leads to this growing rift between him and Athena the rest of the season. Maddie is ready to pop and Chimney, husband-of-all-time, is more than prepared. After several false alarms, the time has finally come and Madney have a new baby girl! But, plot twist, Uncle Albert’s life is hanging in the balance. We explore how much Chimney has grown since season one to not only be someone who goes after what he wants, but someone who believes in the universe to deliver him a perfect baby girl and a brother who survives a car crash in the same night. Tears were shed many times in this very moving episode, but Kenny Choi’s watery eyes of emotional mass destruction are the biggest culprit. We also dive into a couple parallels between Buck and Eddie’s future storylines together and the couple’s journeys in this episode. Buddie is everywhere for those who look! “This is a place where I don't feel aloneThis is a place where I feel at home” Episode title inspired by “To Build a Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 Buck, Eddie, and Theo vs The Foster System – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 '9-1-1': Jennifer Love Hewitt on Birthing a 'Robot Baby,' Maddie and Chimney's 'Perfect' Name Choice, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap 📰 Jennifer Love Hewitt Broke Capillaries Filming '9-1-1' Labor Scene, by Emily Longeretta for Us Weekly 📰 '9-1-1' Star Jennifer Love Hewitt on Maddie & Chimney as Parents and [Spoiler's] Recovery, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 9-1-1's Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks Maddie's Labor, Albert's Fate And More In Bittersweet Spring Premiere, by Andy Swift for TV Line 📰 '9-1-1' and 'Lone Star' Showrunner on What's Next for Bobby and Owen's Teams, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap 📺 8x17 Buddie Kitchen Divorce Dissection, The Buddie System on YouTube 📖 Counting Pulses, by tinyydancerr on Archive of Our Own (AO3) 📖 Here., by classicalpaca on Archive of Our Own (AO3) 📖 there goes my heart beating (cause you are the reason), by cleverly on Archive of Our Own (AO3) We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:48) Welcome to Dispatch (00:02:33) Our 4x09 “Blindsided” Review (00:22:13) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:36:16) Needle Drop – Music Analysis (00:41:31) Narrative Echoes – Parallels, Foreshadowing & Callbacks (00:47:36) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:55:36) May – Past Trauma Has Entered the Chat (00:57:11) Bobby & Athena – One Bad Day Away (01:13:21) Hen & Karen – Raging Against the Machine vs Holding On (01:27:36) Maddie & Chimney – The Luckiest Day of Their Lives (01:55:58) Jee-Yun’s Name Says Everything 🥹 (02:08:35) Slow Burn – Communication: A Revolutionary Concept 😂 (02:18:37) One of These Partners is Not Like the Other – Buddie Parallels (02:28:46) Outro & Take a Buddie With You!

“I'm so mature, collected and sensible, except when I get hit with rejection To turn me down, well, that's just unethical, I'll turn into someone you're scared to know” Han, Cil, and Rachel break down the many breakdowns in Season 4 Episode 8 of 9-1-1, “Breaking Point,” including: Hen and Karen finding out their foster daughter Nia will be reunited with her biological mother, Maddie and Chimney’s birth plan getting a COVID shakeup, Buck continuing to spiral over his bad date with Veronica, and the fallout of Christopher finding out his former teacher Ana is tutoring — we mean dating — Eddie. We talk about how the Hen, Karen, Maddie, and Chimney storylines really set up their arcs for the next episode. Everyone is going through it in this one, but the themes of family and control for Henren and Madney are a rather serious juxtaposition to the self-imposed unseriousness of performative dating for Buck and Eddie. Buck is crashing out to anyone who will listen about Veronica’s rejection and her continued presence in his life via Albert dating her. Unfortunately he doesn’t listen to The Universe or Taylor Kelly telling him his life is full of meaningful relationships, and instead uses Taylor in the world’s most awkward ambush double-date. We grab a shovel and dig through the mess that is Buck’s thought process, since apparently Dr. Copleand isn’t going to. Meanwhile, Eddie is backing himself into a corner by speed-running a relationship, even though he didn’t get someone teenage pregnant this time! Chris breaks a salad bowl (RIP) and runs to Buck for comfort when he learns his dad might bring another person into his life that he might get attached to and lose. We dissect the subconscious decision-making that starts in this episode, setting up Eddie’s whole relationship with Ana — his kid loves her, but he doesn’t. Woof. Then we take a long, hard, look at the married behavior of Buck taking care of Chris while Eddie’s out, welcoming him home like a good house husband, and why their “normal friend behavior” looks a little different and sparse whenever they get into romantic relationships. We explore the concept of what The Universe is trying to teach both Buck and Eddie in their individual journeys, how they’re both ignoring the lessons, and how if they listened instead of following the whims of their traumas and emotional repression it would lead them straight (lol) to each other. Episode title inspired by “Busy Woman” by Sabrina Carpenter 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 The Buck & Eddie Conversation That Could Have Been, After Chris Ran Away to Buck – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 '9-1-1': A 'Significant' Shock for Hen's Family, the 118 Romances and More, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 9-1-1 Boss On Hen's Heartbreak, Buck's Breakthrough And More In Winter Finale - TVLine, by Andy Swift for TV Line We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:54) Welcome to Dispatch (00:02:48) 4x08 “Breaking Point” Review (00:08:48) Taylor Kelly – Reporter Instincts with a Surprisingly Soft Center (00:14:11) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:22:14) Needle Drop – Music Analysis (00:23:51) Narrative Echoes – Parallels, Foreshadowing & Callbacks (00:29:59) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:37:16) Hen & Karen – The Hope Before the Heartbreak (00:45:35) Maddie & Chimney – Mutual Spiraling, God-Tier Communication (00:56:53) Buck – Making His Rejection Sensitivity Everyone’s Problem (01:11:29) Romance Won’t Fix This, Buck (01:26:45) Buck & Christopher – “People Leave and We Miss Them” (01:36:31) Eddie – Relationship Status: Sure, I Guess? (01:45:53) Christopher May Like Ana, But Does Eddie? (02:03:17) Slow Burn – Buck’s Place in the Diaz Family (02:19:46) Forcing Romance, But Missing the Signs (02:32:30) Outro & Take a Buddie With You!

“I don't wanna share the space, I don't wanna force a smile This one girl taps my insecurities, don't know if it's real or if I'm spiraling” Hen Wilson's estranged mother shows up with zero warning, Buck Buckley has the worst first date of his life, and Michael Grant decides breaking and entering is a completely reasonable way to spend a Tuesday in 9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 7, "There Goes the Neighborhood.” Han, Cil, and Rachel break down Hen and Toni's long-overdue heart-to-heart, pull every receipt on Buck's sudden reappearance on the dating apps, and uncover what it means that Eddie Diaz is still living rent-free in his head even on a date with someone else. We dig into Hen’s relationship with her mother, from Toni showing up out of nowhere to the conversation where she finally tells Hen how proud of her she actually is. We talk through why Hen kept mistaking her mother's worry for judgment, what Toni was really protecting by having that private conversation with Karen first, and how this whole arc lands as the exact opposite of the crash-out Buck just had with his own parents in "Buck Begins." Bobby and David get roped into Michael's neighborhood-watch delusions, and it is somehow both the funniest and the most reckless thing Michael has ever done, up to and including the part where he breaks into a stranger's apartment alone, unarmed, less than a year removed from brain cancer we’re still not entirely sure is gone. Then we suffer through Buck's date with Veronica, which goes so badly he ends up debriefing Albert, Eddie, Maddie, and Chimney about it, all while insisting she was the problem. We clock the specific story he chose to open with: the poop call from "Fools," which was the call where Buck ribs Eddie about yelling at Christopher's teacher Ana. Buck had an entire career's worth of firefighter stories to pick from, and the one he reaches for on a first date is the one that's secretly about Eddie. We’re so sure. We clock the pattern of the Buddie Bad Omens Timeline: Eddie goes on one date with Ana, and almost immediately Buck is back on the apps. We're not calling it a coincidence, we're calling it an Ouroboros. We also trace it back to the cold open, where Eddie gets his ass slapped on a call while literally sealed inside a hazmat suit, his safe bubble away from people who want something from him, breached anyway. Buck's safe space has always been Eddie and Eddie's house, and once Eddie's dating again, someone (Ana) is encroaching on his bubble too. Buck is not consciously aware, but we notice that the moment Eddie starts dating someone else, the role Buck has within the Diaz family dynamic gets filled by Eddie’s girlfriend. And Buck is always left reeling without knowing why. “'Cause I couldn't even be her if I tried, I'm opposite, I'm on the other side I feel all these feelings I can't control, oh no, don't know why all this sympathy is just a knife” Episode title inspired by “Sympathy is a knife” by Charli xcx 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 What Do Eddie’s Neighbors Think is Going On with Buck & Eddie? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:53) Welcome to Dispatch (00:03:02) Our 4x07 “There Goes the Neighborhood” Review (00:10:27) Jaws of Life – Deep Dive (00:13:37) Needle Drop – Music Analysis (00:14:42) Buckapedia & Narrative Echoes (00:18:59) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:29:39) Hen & Karen – Translating Toni’s Unconditional Love, Questionable Delivery (00:44:32) Michael – Life on Hold, Telescope On 🔭👀 (00:59:33) Buck – Who Am I? Meh, Anyway, Time to Date! (01:14:42) Slow Burn – The Buck & Eddie Dating Feedback Loop (01:27:35) Buck’s Safe Space Is Eddie (01:40:17) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

“Well, life has a funny way of sneakin' up on youWhen you think everything's okay and everything's goin' right” The 118's new probie, Ravi, says the forbidden Q-word (quiet) and brings a curse down on the whole team in 9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 6, "Jinx." Han, Cil, and Rachel break down Bobby's terrible relationship advice, dissect Buck and Eddie's subconscious need to enter relationships at the same time, and catalogue exactly how much comp-het it takes to get Eddie Diaz to date a woman. We have a few nice things to say about our beloved peepaw, Bobby, before roasting him alive for another round of The Worst Advice Ever™. Projection might as well be Bobby's middle name at this point, and we clock it right alongside his habit of doling out advice without bothering to check where Eddie's head is actually at. We lose it over Eddie insisting he doesn't worry about things he can't control — seconds before a live power pole traps him inside the engine — genuinely one of the funniest things he's ever said. We also can't get over how his vehemently unsuperstitious streak sounds exactly like how he talks about religion (they're both giving repression.) Then we clown Bobby, Buck, Hen, and Chimney for peer-pressuring Eddie into a date with Ana Flores without ever asking him what he wants — they've all just decided his anxiety means he like-likes her. We break down the full comp-het pileup: the book club interrogation with the emotional support water bottle in hand, Eddie calling Buck a traitor for reading a book about women (and implying Eddie likes one), and the loaded "the universe is screaming at you and you refuse to listen" — a line that has nothing to do with the actual jinx and everything to do with the elephant in the room. Eddie picks the bad-luck episode to start dating someone new — and their very first date ends with the two of them jinxing each other. We're sure this isn't an omen dooming their whole relationship. “Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?” Episode title inspired by “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 What Buck and Eddie’s Love Languages Are – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 3x06 “Monsters” Synopsis, The Futon Critic 📺 RescueVerse 2026: Chicago: 9-1-1 Panel - Ryan Guzman, Kenneth Choi, Oliver Stark 📰 ‘9-1-1’ Star Ryan Guzman Has Learned to Roll With the Punches, by Max Gao for The Hollywood Reporter 📸 Behind the Scenes photos from the Fire Suppression Foam “Emergency”, 911onabc on Tumblr We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:28) Welcome to Dispatch (00:06:18) Our 4x06 "Jinx" Review (00:12:37) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:21:16) Bottle Episode... Adjacent (00:25:26) Needle Drop – Music Analysis (00:28:43) Buckapedia – Eddie's Faith, Santa Muerte, & Curanderas (00:34:52) Narrative Echoes – Parallels & Foreshadowing (00:41:49) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:47:56) Jinxed, Stuck in the Engine – Where's the Fire (Scene Dissection) (01:09:32) Bobby – Herding Cats (01:13:28) Bobby's Bad Advice Roast (01:26:46) Buck – Buck 3.0 (Installation in Progress) (01:31:31) Buck Cannot Believe Eddie Doesn't Believe (01:37:41) Buck's ADHD Strikes Again (01:41:22) Eddie – Denying the Jinx, the Signs, and Himself (01:43:59) Were Eddie & Ana Doomed from the Start? (02:01:59) Eddie Goes Through the Motions with Ana (02:08:18) Slow Burn – Eddie Doing What is Expected of Him (02:18:00) Friendship is Easy for Eddie, Dating... Oof. (02:36:14) "The Universe is Screaming at You" (02:45:37) How Do You Make a Love Interest Work for Eddie? (02:54:21) Take a Buddie With You & Outro "Hall of the Mountain King" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

“From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes, I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this” This week Han, Cil, and Rachel make the friendship bracelets, take the moment (or several hours) and wade into the psychological depths of Season 4 Episode 5 of 9-1-1, “Buck Begins.” We dive deep into one of the most demented, genius character origin stories the show has ever pulled off, unpacking the reveal that Buck was born a savior baby for his late brother Daniel and just how much of Buck's entire personality traces back to it. We bring the receipts too — actual psychology and medical research on emotional neglect, abandonment, and complex PTSD, because apparently every source out there studied Evan Buckley without knowing it. And of course, we drag Margaret and Philip Buckley through the mud for their station visit, because "we're proud of you for saving people like you were born to do" does not count as an apology! From there we follow Buck cross country, breaking down every job on his postcard tour (mixologist, ranch hand, aspiring Navy SEAL, we catalog all of it), Maddie's gut punch of a goodbye note, and how a guy at a bar in Peru saying "you go, we go" somehow rerouted Buck's entire life to L.A. We also get into Athena's one scene this episode doing more parenting in thirty seconds than the Buckleys managed in thirty years! Then there's Eddie, quietly rearranging his entire understanding of Buck in real time. We go on a real tangent about the Village People being extremely queer coded, and connect the dots between Margaret's "you think you're indestructible" and a certain someone telling Buck he's "not expendable" nine episodes later. He's also the first one to reach Buck in that fire, obviously, because nobody gets between these two being there for each other first. “You're on your own, kid. Yeah, you can face this. You're on your own, kid. You always have been.” Episode title inspired by “You’re On Your Own Kid” by Taylor Swift 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 What Did Eddie Say to Margaret & Philip Buckley? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 Interview: Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks Maddie's Season Nine Journey and Growing with '9-1-1', by Sophia Soto for Awards radar 📰 9-1-1's Oliver Stark takes us inside that Buck-centric episode, by Ruth Kinane for Entertainment Weekly 📰 9-1-1's Oliver Stark Reacts To Buck's Tragic Origin Story, Including How 'He Can Finally Start To Move Past It, by Andy Swift for TV Line 📰 '9-1-1's Oliver Stark Promises a Renewed 'Lightness' to Buck After His Origin Story, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 9-1-1's Oliver Stark Hints at What's Next After Brother Bombshell, by Emily Longeretta for Us Weekly 📰 '9-1-1': Oliver Stark on Buck's Pain Over Why He Was Born, 'Heartwarming' Reconciliation With Maddie, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap 🧠 Buck’s Armchair Psychology 🧠 📰 Carone, Touro Law Review, 2018. 📰 Carone, Christina. "The Minor Donor-Sibling Dilemma." Touro Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2018. 📰 ScienceInsights, "Babies Don't Remember Trauma, But Their Bodies Do," March 2026. 📰 Coates, Susan W. "Can Babies Remember Trauma? Symbolic Forms of Representation in Traumatized Infants." PMID: 27474085, 2016. 📰 Joyfeel Therapy, "Preverbal Trauma in Adolescents," April 2026. 📰 Winther Klippenstein et al. "Growth in the Face of Overwhelming Pressure." PMID: 34570621, 2021. 📰 NIH/ClinicalTrials.gov protocol document (NCT02105766). 📰 "Opinion: Savior Siblings Are Not a Solution." The Scroar. 📰 Sandra Kushnir, Meridian Counseling, May 2026. 📰 Wikipedia, "Emotional Neglect," citing WHO and multiple peer-reviewed studies. 📰 Jon Biddle, "Unraveling Emotional Neglect: How Complex PTSD Develops," Substack, 2025. 📰 Passionate Life Counseling. 📰 Wikipedia, "Abandonment (emotional)." 📰 Therapy in a Nutshell, "Rebuilding Healthy Attachment Relationships after Childhood Trauma or CPTSD," November 2025. 📰 Reachlink, "How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Relationships," March 2026. 📰 New Harbinger Publications, "Breaking the Cycle: How Childhood Abandonment Affects Attachment in Adult Relationships," March 2025. 📰 CPTSD Foundation, "The Long-Term Effects of Abandonment," February 2021. 📰 American Psychological Association Monitor, "When Trauma Becomes Complex," March 2025. 📰 Dr. Max Doshay, CEO of Monima Wellness, "CPTSD Awareness: Hidden Trauma Responses," September 2025. 📰 Psychology Today, "Complex PTSD" basics page. 📰 PMC/NIH, "Today I Can Look in the Mirror and Like Myself," PMC9201725. We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a...