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S2E16: A Real Creature Feature
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Series spoilers abound! Today we’re discussing Season 2, Episode 16 “Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead” and watching The Mummy (1999)! Lassie and Jules find themselves at the local museum in the wee hours of the morning where a mummy has been stolen. After talking to the assistant curator, they demand the finder of Zippy (t-rex bones) to investigate the case… and that is none other than our favorite psychic detectives! Once Shawn assesses the situation, he brings on fearless Guster for one of his most nervous episodes yet. Will the boys find the lost mummy? Will they get cursed in the process? We’re talking boundaries, curses, museums, moms, and more! So, grab your buttery bag of movie theater popcorn and join Kylie and Skyler on this blockbuster episode of Phsysics 101!
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Introduction to Psy6101 Podcast
00:00:20
Speaker
All right. Hi, everyone, and welcome to Psy6101, where we discuss everything about the world of Psyche and the antics of Sean and Gus in sunny Santa Barbara. I'm Skylar, and this is my partner, Sophie Morris-Bridgewell.
00:00:31
Speaker
And today we'll be talking about season two, episode 16 of the famed TV show Psyche. Sean and Gus of the dead. Of the dead.
00:00:42
Speaker
This is such a good one. It's so good. i feel like this is one of the longest notes I've ever taken. Me too. I just kept going. And I watched this with my sister because she happened to be home for this weekend.
00:00:54
Speaker
And almost the entire time I was just typing, she looked at me and she goes, what could you possibly be writing? Do you understand? all of it. Everything.
00:01:06
Speaker
Yes, this is all very important. I must take detailed notes. But such a good episode. And this we also watched a oh yeah
Review of The Mummy (1999)
00:01:14
Speaker
movie read did along with him. And I'm glad we did because it helped with some of the the lore and definitely some references.
00:01:21
Speaker
Yes, agreed. And I thought it was just a really great movie. I really enjoyed it. You know, it's funny because I feel like I had built it up a lot in my head that I was going really love this movie. And so it didn't quite live up to the hype for me. oh Because I've heard, ah well, I think it had an anniversary in the last few years like well i guess okay what was it 99 2019 geez yeah must have i feel like it was more recent than that gosh unless oh maybe it was okay no it must have been 25 and it was last year oh could be that would makes more sense i'm like geez uh because they did a ah cinematic re-release in movie theaters fun
00:02:04
Speaker
I didn't know that. Yeah. And so I and I saw like, I think around that time, there was like a lot of articles about like it just like perfect movie and stuff. And I do think if I had watched it as a kid, i probably would have liked it more. But I feel like what coming at it now and like, um there's definitely a lot of.
00:02:22
Speaker
ah Well, yes. Yeah. yeah caricatures of Middle Eastern people, which is like, which you, you know, you watch one of these like older movies and you kind of just, you know, you your big head on and you're like, yeah you can, you can hold two things at once.
00:02:39
Speaker
i But it was a bit of a turnoff. that And the other thing was, I feel like for a movie like this, like I really want to, I really need to buy into like,
00:02:52
Speaker
the leads and i really liked evelyn but i did not find um o'connell very appealing oh yeah i don't know if he was supposed to be appealing he was kind of an ass yeah i mean i think that was kind of the I think that was kind of the point.
00:03:10
Speaker
Like, he's this kind of rough and tough asshole. guess. Well, and there's like... Bounty hunter,
Elements and Lore of The Mummy
00:03:15
Speaker
treasure hunter. Yeah. He ah definitely reminds me of like a um a Han Solo figure.
00:03:22
Speaker
Yeah, totally. But I feel like there's a charm about him that I just didn't really... Or like about Han Solo that I didn't really feel here. I was more just kind of like... Yeah. Turned off by him. But... um and And I was...
00:03:38
Speaker
I wasn't really expecting that because I think this movie is like also famously like a bisexual awakening movie. Oh, really? Yeah. Like with the two lead characters being more, I guess, like everybody just being like really hot.
00:03:51
Speaker
Oh, well, fair. But I feel like yeah he was just kind of, I just, yeah, I wasn't totally sold on him. So I was a little bummed about that, but it was still, you know.
00:04:04
Speaker
It was fun to watch. um I thought it was very entertaining. Yeah. Like, I think if I had watched it as a kid, I would have been terrified. It was. There was yeah there was some. The Beatles.
00:04:15
Speaker
Fighting the Beatles. Oh, God. I don't even want to. When they came back at the end, I was like, please, no, I don't want any more Beatles. I know. that the Like, the mummy himself, when he came back. We watched The Mummy, if we haven't stated that yet. Oh, yeah.
00:04:27
Speaker
We watched The Mummy from 1999 with Brendan Fraser. And, um shockingly, a mummy comes back to life. And i thought he was very terrifying. Yeah. And when they talked to about him, like, he was a juicy mummy. I was like, yeah. Yeah.
00:04:42
Speaker
That was also kind of funny because they open the sarcophagus and the the remains in there look don't look as old as they think they should, which I feel like happens also in like bones and NCIS and stuff. So I'm like, oh, this feels like the beginning of like a procedural.
00:04:59
Speaker
um But i I think, I don't know. They never really explain that. I don't know if it's like the preservation or like the way he died with the Beatles or just the... I don't think it's a way he died.
00:05:11
Speaker
I assumed it was like partly the curse. Yeah, that's how i was thinking it was like magic. Yeah, because if he was fully... In my mind, if he was fully mummified, you wouldn't be able to like bring everything back to life. But I guess also magic. So it's like he has to always stay in a state of decomposition.
00:05:32
Speaker
Yeah, I suppose. But I don't know, because then the girlfriend was like fully decomposed and he was about to bring her back to life. And she was like, you she had
Genre Conventions in Action-Fantasy Films
00:05:43
Speaker
like the the wrappings too, which he didn't really have.
00:05:47
Speaker
Yeah, even though we saw him wrapped. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's true. went into the So maybe they like- Maybe the Beatles ate right through that. Oh, yeah. That could have been the way he died.
00:05:59
Speaker
Mm-hmm. oh god those beetles those beetles i know i can't it was yeah it was a lot like it was a lot for a pg-13 movie i was like dang yeah i mean look i we watch pg-13 movies in school sometimes and i feel like that was way more intense yeah i mean i guess yeah in the 90s the late 90s the rating system was a little yeah little different But I thought it was really entertaining.
00:06:28
Speaker
I thought it was kind of a long movie. I was shocked that it was two hours. Like, I felt halfway through the movie it could have probably just ended. And then it kept going, which was fine.
00:06:38
Speaker
Well, it was interesting because, like, in the beginning, my husband was saying, like, it feels like it's going really fast. But I did feel – was thinking, like, well, it's about – wake you the mummy so it's like they've really got to get to the mummy pretty quickly but um so yeah it is an interesting like structure and it's what were you gonna i simple because they need they first they want to wake the mummy but they need to give you all the background as to why the mummy yeah and like who these people are right right right yeah because yeah you have the whole flashback which is like the whole section and then you meet evelyn
00:07:15
Speaker
mm-hmm and then you meet so cute yeah she was darling yeah she was very cute i loved her whole her outfit when we first met her very librarian yeah i do like uh i like a librarian heroine also i think i said the same thing for the da vinci code but i was thinking about national treasure the whole time Yeah, it it well, it is very national treasure.
00:07:38
Speaker
Yeah, well, I haven't watched a whole lot of like these kinds of movies. I'm oh i'm thinking, i don't think I have. and And so I was like, like when they walked into the kind of treasure room and the lights came on.
00:07:51
Speaker
And I like, does every one of these have this scene?
00:07:55
Speaker
feel like they must. Yeah, which I think and... Probably next season we will watch maybe like the first Indiana Jones for the episode with his uncle. my gosh, totally. So like maybe we'll see in that too if there is, if that if we have that moment.
00:08:10
Speaker
Because it feels like there's very much a formula to this. um So, I mean, we've been learning so much about horror. I didn't even think about how much we're learning about this genre as well.
Origins of the Mummy Curse
00:08:20
Speaker
That's true. Yeah. And I think it is, especially for this like action fantasy treasure hunt yeah she genre people are expecting very particular things like you want to find the treasure you want there to be someone that tries to stop you you want yeah you know it's part of the excitement of it and the entertainment of it um i think it'd be interesting if we watched enough of them which we might by the end of this who knows yeah um to see when
00:08:49
Speaker
they kind of subvert that or does anyone do movies present day subvert that at all because i could imagine after some point you're like oh my god you know now that you say that only like one that i feel like would fall into this that came out just in the last couple years is the lost city with sandra bullock and uh janning tatum i think oh fun um haven't seen that one yeah and it's a similar like She plays like a romance novelist who writes a novel about that, and like a treasure that turns out to be like real.
00:09:26
Speaker
And so she's kidnapped by Daniel Radcliffe to go help him find it. I was not expecting that. I knew as I was saying, yeah.
00:09:37
Speaker
It's going to be fun. um Yeah, but I feel like that movie kind of subverts the the reveal of the treasure um okay and and maybe we gotta watch that movie maybe we have this is we're at the season finale so we have kind of a I know I feel like we could call it an extended in between time like spring break ooh I like that and we can watch some movies that we keep being like oh maybe we should watch that yeah I think that's great idea I think that'd be fun Oh, because I also looked up like the mummy lore because I felt like I needed some background of like how this began.
00:10:14
Speaker
Because there's a couple of them too, right? um Yeah. And just like the idea of the just mummies because – Oh, see. And like the curse of the mummy and stuff because – ah It's such a part of popular culture. And I'm like, i yeah i'm like do we just know about this? like I think there is some historical backing to it, if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah, well, and Gus references it. He talks about um like every one of those guys who unearthed King Commons 2.
00:10:41
Speaker
Yeah. is dead now and sean's like of course they are it's been 80 years yes yeah yeah yeah um but i did look up so this article is where does the legend of the mummy come from by oliver piffer um very good bbc.com yes sorry you were gonna read them the mummy and no i'm just thinking about it because like Yeah, they like she is a ah librarian and Egyptologist.
00:11:16
Speaker
um And then he's just like a gunslinger. What is he actually? like i don't It sounded like maybe he was part of an army at one point because he did say his garrison.
00:11:32
Speaker
So like his group of merry men, if you will. um And he seems to know Winston, who is the head the Air Force captain. hey ah So I'm thinking maybe he like interesting went rogue or something. I don't know.
00:11:44
Speaker
So many people died. i know i like I know. A lot of people did die. Again, comparing to National Treasure, the pinnacle of all movies. um Like one guy dies. One guy.
00:11:57
Speaker
um my God. Yeah, no. This was definitely death heavy, but I feel like if you're doing the Curse of the Mummy, you gotta do the Curse of the Mummy part. guess And I'm really curious. I feel like maybe we have to go back and watch the Oh, gee. The 1932 one. Oh, let's do it.
00:12:16
Speaker
That sounds like fun. though i didn't all I didn't realize that this is like a true remake of it. um like Because I was... I think when I was reading this article, like it references Imhotep, which is the mummy in 1989.
00:12:27
Speaker
So it is like the same story. Oh, I didn't realize that either. So I'd be curious to go back. um Yeah, I think that'd be fun. Yeah. um Okay, let me just say this real quick. Yes.
00:12:37
Speaker
So... It says the curse, a largely cinematic fabrication, the reanimated mummy was inspired by the legend the alleged curse of Tutankhamen. I guess just all mummies are inspired by that.
00:12:52
Speaker
According to newspaper reports in the early 1920s, it resulted in early deaths of several people connected to the British archaeologist Howard Carter's 1922 Valley of the King's expedition, including his wealthy financial backer, Lord Thurston.
00:13:05
Speaker
carnarvon carnivore okay who died of an infected mosquito bite the same year so it all goes back to that one thing the unearthing of kington commons tube it's interesting because i'm wondering if this expedition happened in the nineteen twenty s And they went to, you know, Egypt, the Valley of the Kings and lots of people died early. Like, is that kind of just circumstantial? Like, how how did they die? Like, this guy died from an infected mosquito bite. Like, did he have sufficient vaccinations to ward off again? You know what mean? In 1920? Yeah. Well, mean, I think.
00:13:46
Speaker
yeah yeah you know yeah well i mean i think that's a valid question but i guess it it depends on if you believe in the curse of the mummy
Comparing The Mummy (1999) to Original (1932)
00:13:55
Speaker
or not there you go guess would say yes oh it also said something interesting talked about how the media frenzy around the excavation ah particular idea of egypt took hold in the popular imagination and fed into the development of the architectural style art deco um which is interesting totally seen that like those egyptian motifs hu um
00:14:24
Speaker
talks about the mummy oh and the original what the screenwriter of it was a journalist who covered the excavation oh um that's interesting that uh lended some legitimacy to it it says um
00:14:48
Speaker
Oh, it says the idea of a mobile mummy would have been totally alien to the ancient Egyptians and goes against the entire concept of mummification sought to preserve the dead for a still and peaceful afterlife. Hmm.
00:14:59
Speaker
So. Okay. So the idea of him being reanimated it completely falsified. Yeah. Well, just like the point was to prepare them for afterlife.
00:15:10
Speaker
Right. Yeah. That would be peaceful. Not raining terror on future humans. That's fair. No, that's fair.
00:15:22
Speaker
I mean, they definitely did not, at least in the movie, they definitely did not care about this man or any of his golden crusted priests having a peaceful afterlife. I mean, it seemed like they wanted to spite him.
00:15:34
Speaker
Yeah. Well, that was something I was, I mean...
00:15:39
Speaker
in terms of the like the lore in the movie which again on an expert on actual egypt and i don't want to conflate the two um but i was like why would they curse him like this and then if it's just means that he could come back and be really powerful like why i set him up for that oh yeah if you hate him so much yeah it's a good point yeah why allow him to have any power whatsoever
00:16:07
Speaker
h I don't know. Because it makes an interesting movie. ah Yeah. It sure did. Yeah. um Yeah. We'll have to go back and watch the 1932 one.
00:16:20
Speaker
Yeah. I think that'd be really interesting, especially if they are essentially the same storyline. It'd be interesting to see how they did it differently or what changed between the two you know.
00:16:32
Speaker
I'm also curious, like I was when we started the episode, I was like, oh, they're watching a movie. Is it The Mummy? But I don't think it is. And I tried, I did like some quick Googling to try to figure out like what it is that Henry and Madeline are watching.
00:16:49
Speaker
I thought it was the creature from the Black Lagoon. oh Was it or? don't know. Let me see. Hold on.
00:16:59
Speaker
But I was curious if, like, the old mummy had any, like, presence. it Like, has Sean seen the 1932 mummy or has he only seen the 1999 mummy? You know?
00:17:10
Speaker
Oh. That's a good... I feel like he must have seen the original mummy. You think? I mean, he talks so much about 80s movies.
00:17:21
Speaker
And do we think he's, like, ah enough of a film buff that he would go back to, like... The classics? Yeah, like, truly old Hollywood. Yeah. black lagoon i have never seen that either yeah that's definitely what they were watching i could see sean and gus like dabbling in classic movies especially like classic horror classic creature
Sean's Childhood and Creature from the Black Lagoon
00:17:51
Speaker
movies because that seems very much
00:17:55
Speaker
their stay It does. Yeah. But I don't know. I could also see him only watching it if it were like with Henry, like this one.
00:18:06
Speaker
The only reason he saw it is because yeah Henry and Madeline were watching it on the couch. Yeah. Well, and i mean, they're not that old either. Like that would still be ah like an old yeah yeah Hollywood movie for them.
00:18:19
Speaker
1932. Is there sound?
00:18:24
Speaker
Yeah, think so. Because when was um when was The Wizard of Oz? 39. So yeah. Okay. Oh, but that was the first color, huh? Correct. Correct. The first time they had, yeah, Technicolor.
00:18:36
Speaker
Okay. Which would be why The Mummy was in black and white. um All right. In the off season, we'll have to delve deeper Yes.
00:18:47
Speaker
Into our creature knowledge. Yes. That'll be our other... Okay, we're learning about horror. huh um Which I guess this would be like a sub-genre creature. Yes. yes And then action and adventure.
00:19:04
Speaker
Yes. And then the like between action and adventure, we can make like a... diagram between action and creature feature that's where you have the mummy yes true yeah because it's like just both yeah makes sense this is why this is important we're learning so much yeah so much about culture so much about media and it makes sense that life would be a doorway into all that because like
00:19:39
Speaker
Even Gus says in this episode, when he's mocking Sean, he's like, I make 80s references and nobody understands. Yeah, yeah. I think obscure 80s references, yeah.
00:19:52
Speaker
I mean, it's... Yeah, you know, that's like a good question. and So a question I have now is
00:20:01
Speaker
you know nowadays 2025 watching this do we think the references are even more obscure than they would have been when he made them in 2008 do you think people were just like uh sean or like did most people kind of get his references and just ignore him or like well i do think that but but um
00:20:24
Speaker
There's probably like tears because some of them, like to John Hughes movies, like right people he's making them to would have also seen those and grown up with those movies. But then right the more obscure ones probably, i mean, for even Gus to say that, like even Gus doesn't know.
00:20:41
Speaker
Maybe. Some of them. But I feel like when he makes jokes, he is making them. for gus that's true sometimes yeah sometimes yeah like he's just making them so that yeah diffuses situation or to make gus chuckle or force him to play into a bit to entertain himself like i i looked at the wiki for this episode because i was trying to see what the movie was and one thing it mentioned um
00:21:14
Speaker
Like when he's doing his numbers board and like drawing, writing where the mummy has been. huh um Gus is like, who's that stick figure? Oh, yeah. He says, Austin Kearns, would you pay attention? And on the wiki, it says Austin Kearns played for the Cincinnati Reds.
00:21:33
Speaker
and it's like Which is why it was in Cincinnati. Yeah. He just put him in. and Like, I feel like that was just for himself. It's like, okay, Cincinnati, this guy. yeah This city, Chile. This city. Yeah. Like, it's just an iconographic depiction of Yeah.
00:21:52
Speaker
And he's just, he is a silly guy. He is a silly goose. Just like enjoying and and you're right. It's like that diffusing situation. Like, like he kind of does it for himself too. Because another thing about this was like, feel like we're going to end up jumping all around like kind of we started with the movie.
00:22:10
Speaker
Yeah. um But like the moment where not till the very end is Sean like properly run away. And he has kept it so cool this whole time. And so I wonder if like those little jokes are for himself to keep him like, totally keep his own fears like moderated.
00:22:29
Speaker
Yeah. Cause Gus is like. Off the handle. Yeah. He, yeah he is not helpful here. no. Yeah. No, which is funny when you Sean knows that Sean knows that Gus is not going to be helpful. And yet he forces Gus to come along with him anyway.
00:22:46
Speaker
Because as we've said before, you can't do it without Gus. Yes. And I thought that the way they've structured the title. Yes. Actually, like, I feel like.
00:22:57
Speaker
shows that in an interesting way because obviously yeah it's a reference to sean of the dead but like to say it's our like they could have just called it sean of the dead with our sean's spelling but like to put and gus in parentheses it's like gus is there he has to be there he's there by force he's there by force but he's a package deal and sean's bringing him along whether he likes it or not like literally locks him in there at one point. Oh my gosh.
00:23:25
Speaker
I was thinking about the boundaries, which we talked about last yeah oh gosh episode. um it must just be he, like, Sean respects the birthday. Like, in their friendship contract, that is like... the only thing. That's the only thing that's off the table.
00:23:42
Speaker
Yeah, well, it also seems like in this case, um Sean thinks it's kind of silly. to be afraid of the mummy. Like, I think Sean understands the sanctity of the birthday, you know, but in the case of the mummy, he's like, it's not real. It's not, it's not curse. Like get over it guys. I understand you're scared, but like come along with me. You know what i mean?
00:24:03
Speaker
But that's the thing. It's like he does have... like There's like a part of him that entertains this stuff too. And I feel like that is what wins out at the end when he like runs away. when Because it's scary as heck.
00:24:17
Speaker
So scary. Yeah. But... um and And he does get swept up and stuff sometimes. I feel like we talked about this before too with like the ghosts or something. Like there is this thread of like Sean even though he has the um like he can also get swept up and stuff like this.
00:24:42
Speaker
He does seem able to like manage it better than Gus does. Or maybe he just like reminds himself like he it's not real not actually a mummy like he's very he does seem very certain like even if mummies you know could rise from the dead that's not what happened here right yeah when i wonder if part of that certainty comes from the fact that he can see so much of what has happened. So there, there's a lot less wiggle room for him than there is safe for Gus. Cause like Gus comes into the situation and just sees a mummy is no longer where it's supposed to be.
00:25:22
Speaker
Yeah. john Even before he knows that it's like, he's not walking into the room at all. No, no, He's not tempting anything. Which I also ah think is interesting because it's not like this was his resting place. Like they've taken this mummy of his room. Yeah, it's already, someone's already been cursed. It's not you guys. Like, it's okay.
00:25:41
Speaker
I think only so many will be cursed. But yeah, this is a, I feel like this is a fun premise for this episode. Totally.
00:25:54
Speaker
To get that semi-supernatural aspect, but then also to have it so rooted in Sean's factuality, I think is a kind of fun thing to play with.
00:26:06
Speaker
yeah Yeah. And there's like, like this, it feels childhood-y too, because like, yeah yeah this is, you know, the of the movies that they watched probably growing up and like, and the,
00:26:24
Speaker
Even to have like um their dinosaur discovery be sort of like um a ah background feature of this. It sort of emphasizes that, that they're like, there's this like sense of adventure. This is like something like um like a childhood dream to this too.
00:26:46
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I loved when the assistant curator like points past Lassie and Jules. I want him. So good. how Should we, okay. hope Should we just start at the beginning and like.
00:26:57
Speaker
Sure. All right. So our flashback this time is Henry and Madeline, who Madeline is Sean's mom, sitting in the living room watching the creature from the Black Lagoon. And is this the first time we've seen her in a flashback? Yes. It's the first time we've seen her ever. Big deal, which I definitely know why. Yeah.
00:27:15
Speaker
And I didn't realize that that was this episode. Me either. I was thinking it was like. Season three, right? I was thinking it was the next season. But maybe it's because we get so much of her next season. Yeah. In comparison to what we've gotten. of The setup.
00:27:27
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. And I was thinking again about the doors. The doors. I do feel like now it for sure was for that moment. Totally. And then they had the door. So then they were like, okay, we can also play with this with G-Fix.
00:27:39
Speaker
But I feel like in plotting the whole season, they were like, okay, we're going to need a door there for this moment at the end. big reveal. I'm glad we solved that mystery. I know. we Honestly, this has been something I've thought about for a very long time.
00:27:52
Speaker
I'm glad we'll discuss it. Yeah, I've never, never noticed it, never thought about it. so That's the beauty of the Psy6. Yes, indeed. We think about things we never thought we'd think about before.
00:28:05
Speaker
so the creature from the black lagoon can be um a little bit of a a creepy thrillery horary type movie as we've discussed creature feature is kind of sub genre of the horror genre so sean was supposed to be in bed while his parents were watching this movie probably on like a cute little date night you know movie night um escapade for them but sean decided that he was going to stay awake and watch the movie along with them but like from behind, like inside the staircase of their, you know, house, because the staircase kind of butts up against the the living room.
00:28:40
Speaker
But Sean's still an itty bitty, like he's still tiny. So this is definitely going to be kind of scary for him. And Henry ends up catching that Sean was in waiting the staircase.
00:28:52
Speaker
And poor sean did in fact get scared he wanted to go back up to bed but he couldn't convince himself to go back up there i know and henry we like i know and when henry's like oh oh yeah he really tries because he henry kind of scolds him he's like why are we like you were supposed to be asleep two hours ago so that too it's like it's way it's much later um it's thundering outside yeah yeah spooky night definitely spooky But Henry, once Sean says that he was afraid, gets a little bit softer and pulls him over to the couch and explains to him how none of this is real. But of course, in his very category. Yes.
00:29:31
Speaker
Yeah. He certainly tries his best. But... Puncture wounds would like never act like that. I've seen puncture wounds and it's not... I was like, Henry.
00:29:43
Speaker
he's Yeah. And you just see little Sean's like eyes getting wider. like, ugh. Like... you sure this isn't scary? He's like making it worse talking about real dead bodies.
00:29:55
Speaker
Yes. But also I wonder too how often that is something that is discussed obviously in the murder capital of the world and with cop for a father. That's true.
00:30:06
Speaker
And he's training Sean to be a police officer one day. I mean I would hope that at the age, ripe old age of like seven or eight, they're not going into explicit details. But is has he like...
00:30:17
Speaker
it I know, right? Has he, like, seen crime scene photos? Oh, gosh. I hope not. I hope he hasn't seen anything. I don't know. so but he probably is exposed more than a kid, not in those circumstances. More than Gus is.
00:30:34
Speaker
Sure. At his house. ah Yeah.
00:30:39
Speaker
And even probably whatever else Henry watches. Also, now I'm thinking about it, was his mom, like, wearing a towel on her head? oh or did i make that up feel like she might have been in a robe she's in a robe
00:30:56
Speaker
i don't recall a towel on the head that doesn't mean that it wasn't there though now have to look because i'm like what was this scenario was he just watching it and then she came down and then oh yeah and just like popped squat and then was like i'm gonna get a beer or whatever she says yeah drink
00:31:15
Speaker
She does have a towel on her head. yeah my gosh. So did she just get out of the shower and was like, I'm going to sit here. She just like popped in for a moment. Fair. um But they are like sitting there as if they've been sitting there watching it. right But maybe she just like settled in.
00:31:33
Speaker
Could be. Maybe she's like waiting for her hair to dry. Yeah. Before she goes and gets ready. I was just wondering, like, is this what they choose to watch on their day, night, or is it gorgeous? Like, she's going about her nighttime routine, and Henry is watching this, and, like, she's, like, in and out.
00:31:48
Speaker
i kind of love the idea that they like classic movies, because I think that'd give more credence to why Sean loves 80s movies, because for him, those are kind of like the classics. Yeah. There's, like, a movie family.
00:32:01
Speaker
and like that.
00:32:04
Speaker
So it'll be probably a while before they're going to get divorced for me from this moment. Yeah. Yeah, we still I feel like we're still a little fuzzy on that yeah when they actually get divorced. But yeah, I think it's probably going to be at least...
00:32:23
Speaker
Seven years. yeah I'm just thinking like if it were soon, then maybe like her not being super present for the movie could
Museum Scene and Classic Horror Homage
00:32:30
Speaker
be a sign of like them drifting apart.
00:32:35
Speaker
It could be. I think I'm projecting. I think it's for a while. Yeah. There, you know, that, that one day when we eventually talked to Steve Frank, it's one of the things we'll have to ask him.
00:32:47
Speaker
Cause it does feel like it kind of goes back and forth. Like, It feels like they had to have broken up when he was a kid, but then Sean makes that comment about helping his mom put her life back together or whatever.
00:33:04
Speaker
and you're like, okay, well, if a small child wouldn't be doing that. Yeah. I wonder if part of it is like, like the, like, because we see so much of Sean's childhood, it's like, it couldn't be that young because then we would have had to deal with it in flashbacks. Right. Sure. I wonder if that affected like how they timed it out but could be and we don't really see a lot of old for sean yeah in the flashbacks there's only like three two three so yeah could be that would i mean that would make the most sense i think but we'll ask one day we'll find out for certain yeah add it on our list of things to ask yes many multiple things
00:33:46
Speaker
So this kind of sets our stage for this being a creature episode. And in this case, it is ah mummy episode, which is why we watched the movie The Mummy from 1999.
00:34:02
Speaker
And we are brought into this investigation immediately. i love this opening. Yeah, I think it's great with the alarms going off and they're like,
00:34:14
Speaker
walking through. ah Yeah, I love a go walk and talk. We had a few in this episode. Yeah, we did. And I like that they're walking through the museum. A, because I think it's very like visually interesting to not just be walking down a hallway in a walk and talk, which I feel like is often what happens, but you also get to kind of see the layout of the museum in the process and what's in the museum and like why this mummy exhibit, although he seems like a kind of you know third rank mummy if you will um would be so interesting you know um so i think that's fun too and we get to see it's in the middle of the night yeah the low light of it like yeah and just yeah this sounds like it all feels very exciting it does it does
00:35:01
Speaker
I did also throughout this episode, just keep going, Oh, this is the last one on film. was like, Oh, I know this is a good one for it. very all Yes. Yes. Completely. Especially with the mummy. I feel like it lends itself to kind of like grainy, yeah you know, slightly sepia tone.
00:35:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. We i we like talked about this kind of being like a turning point and maybe like just it being, um not like a full homage, but like really playing with like genre conventions and stuff in a way that they get very comfortable doing going forward.
00:35:39
Speaker
Yeah. And just like having like the supernatural, but like not really supernatural, which is so like the bread and butter of the show, like being a show about a fake psychic that doesn't believe in psychics.
00:35:51
Speaker
Yeah. That doesn't believe in psychics. Yeah. um Yeah. Just like a lot of different characters. We went to the woods. We were just like all over the place. It's just like it's so fun. It's just like quintessential perfect psych.
00:36:05
Speaker
Yeah, it does feel kind of Bounty Hunter-esque. You're right, we're kind of all over the place and there's lots to do and things to figure out. And we have two plots that seem like they're totally separate. like And then they all come together in the end. like Yeah, it's very exciting. I think it was very well ah formulated for the the season finale. Yeah.
00:36:28
Speaker
Yeah, and Bounty Hunters is a good like reference to us being like another episode where they're really off on their own. h And like in this one, it's like they're tasked with this because once again, Lassie kind of doesn't, it's not serving him.
00:36:44
Speaker
No. And so like it's a like Sean is like excited when ah development makes it so like the police have to get involved so it's like they've got some cred here. Yeah.
00:36:56
Speaker
Which I feel like that's kind of ah psychism that we see too yeah um yeah just great yeah it's a it's a really fun one and i don't know why it might just be kind of the setup of the set but i always get this episode and the astronomy episode confused hmm I think it's just like the fact that there's stuff on the walls in a planetarium and there's stuff in the walls in a museum. Similar environments.
00:37:28
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Like similar vibe kind of. But. Yeah. Who knows? pretty girl. Of course. There has to be a pretty girl. Yeah. our Our pretty girl this time is Sophie. She's the assistant curator. She is the person in charge of the last year showing a little bit.
00:37:46
Speaker
Yeah. so Showing Jules being like, she sounds in charge. I know that the whole thing between her and Lassie and Sophie, I thought was very interesting.
00:37:57
Speaker
And I don't know if it was just because he's cranky and it's like 430 in the morning or like what's going on. But he seems to have a very short. Yeah. Like temper, like patience for what's going on here. And yeah.
00:38:14
Speaker
This woman's just trying to do her job. Yeah. I was curious, like, about the timeline because the alarm just went off, I guess. Like, the alarm is still going off for the mummy being...
00:38:25
Speaker
gone right i wonder if that's because the security guard is missing so does anyone know how to turn it off like did they have to call the police to like maybe turn off the security system i do like like they have a whole report on it it seems on this disappearance i'm like who put that together it's been like an hour Yeah, that's a good question. I know. It's right. It's all right here. And it's like, who wrote that down? Who put that? mean, maybe she did.
00:38:52
Speaker
Who is this guy? have time for this. Yeah. Because it seems very like the way like walk and talk and this, like all of that excitement that we talked about, feel it feels very immediate. Like this just happened.
00:39:03
Speaker
Yes, it does. um And that's part of why, you know, they're doing this at four zero in the morning. But the way like they already have some like groundwork done makes it feel like it wasn't as recent. So I don't know I was a little confused about that.
00:39:14
Speaker
I wonder if maybe it was like the alarms went off.
00:39:23
Speaker
Oh, okay. Maybe it was like the alarms went off. Well, no, that doesn't make any sense either. I was going to say, maybe the alarms went off and then because no one was there to stop them, the police were contacted.
00:39:37
Speaker
And that's why the police like showed up. and Well, they know the mummy is...
Sean and Gus's Museum Adventure
00:39:45
Speaker
missing i mean i don't know like if an alarm went off my thought would be like if an alarm goes off in a museum you're sending someone like maybe they sent mcnab ah yeah i agree mcnab got there and sophie got there because i guess maybe they um told her that the alarm's going off and the building's locked right and they couldn't get in
00:40:11
Speaker
And then they found the mummy missing and couldn't find the security guard. So maybe then like Buzz called them and was like, hey, this guy's missing and we don't have a mummy.
00:40:23
Speaker
What do I do? And then maybe Jules was like, I'll look up this guy real quick. We'll be right over.
00:40:31
Speaker
Maybe. Well, all they really have in that folder is Like the information about, I mean, all, but the information about like the security system, how it hasn't been replaced. I mean, maybe it's just... Maybe that's like common knowledge.
00:40:45
Speaker
But she has like a folder that someone put together for her. Maybe it was McNabb. Maybe, yeah, maybe like some just the initial like preliminary like notes of like just having oh responded to the call.
00:41:01
Speaker
Whoever initially responded. So yeah, anything...
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, maybe Sophie's like repeating what she already told to some other um officer these I think that would make sense. Yeah. I think, yeah, because they're calling in the big big guns when they call in Lassie and Jules. Yeah. they're the detectives.
00:41:22
Speaker
So I guess they would want to be brought in on all the developments so far.
00:41:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, but who knows? Anyway.
00:41:37
Speaker
Besides the point. um But yeah, it is interesting. I do feel like, so Vassie, we come to understand, and they set it up a little bit in that initial conversation, that he is he's very invested in this other case that he goes he has going on.
00:41:53
Speaker
And we he says later, like he only goes he only agrees to like go to like respond to this alarm thing because... the guy he is investigating for the, yeah, I guess he's sort of investigating this guy is on the board of the museum.
00:42:14
Speaker
right So he, i feel like his, that's also like why his patience is so low for this lady. Cause like, he doesn't really care. Like he, I don't think he is giving any credence to what's going on here for the museum. He just wants to see if he can get any intel for his other case.
00:42:33
Speaker
Yeah. Do we get any information as to why he is looking into this guy at first? Because I missed that whole thing in the beginning because it was very quick.
00:42:45
Speaker
It is very fast. The walk and talk is yeah. Yeah. and And then I only really started picking up on it when he was like, we're going to exhume your father's body. And he was like, what?
00:42:58
Speaker
And I was like, what? was like, what's happening? let go Let me pull up the transcript. I had them open earlier because I was like copying big chunks of it because there were so many great lines. There were a lot of really great lines.
00:43:11
Speaker
But let's see what he actually says about
00:43:16
Speaker
coming um what he says about why he went oh my gosh also we didn't mention we talked about how like the A story and the B story kind of come together at the end but I also love how everything Sean does this episode comes together at the end too for just a very wonderful resolution It's so, yeah, it's so good.
00:43:47
Speaker
One of the things he says, um he's pretty sure it was the security guard too, because they find out he's an ex-Cod. Right. um And he wants to see speak to the the board of directors,
00:44:10
Speaker
speak with each of them as soon as the sun rises now if you'll forgive us we have a we have several high profile cases that don't involve archaic security systems and run down buildings and oh gosh he wants an apb out on the guards vehicle so he's i feel like it's another classic lassie like open and shut he just like has got bigger fish to fry h now quick question Wanting the APB out on the guard's vehicle, we later find it's just sitting in the parking lot.
00:44:44
Speaker
Well, that was his ah loner in the parking lot. His car was at the shop. Ah, okay. Okay, that makes sense. Because I was like, why did they just not realize it was right there? he Yeah. That makes way more sense. Okay.
00:44:59
Speaker
I know. i was thinking that too, and then i was like, oh, right. That's why it took a second for him to figure it out. Yeah, so we've got a 3,000-year-old mummy that's missing.
00:45:10
Speaker
A security guard named Doug that's missing. And because this is semi... Fantastical Sophie would like paleo sleuth Sean Spencer to help with the case.
00:45:29
Speaker
And I love Jules being like, do you think he's up? Oh my gosh. Just everything, like every moment of that. Cause like we have this great build. It's very exciting. The assistant curator points to the sign, the plaque of Sean about his discovery of the dinosaur last season, at the very beginning of the season. The beginning of the season, yeah.
00:45:49
Speaker
And she's like, because she's like, there's something else going on here. Maybe paranormal. I want him. Yeah. And then it's funny because Lassie's like kind of smiling at her as she's saying this, like just this bland, like, and then he sees that she wants Sean and she's like, no he's like, no, you don't.
00:46:09
Speaker
and Gets very like, ugh. But I'm like, who, did what did he think she was going to say? He's all smiley about it. um But then, yeah, Jules is like, All happy to call Sean.
00:46:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And i love that. Do you think he's up too? Because I feel like Sean has this like layabout kind of vibe that like, why would he be up? Yes. But he is up to something.
00:46:34
Speaker
Yes. And we don't know what it is yet. I do like how they kind of play it off in the episode. Like they make it seem totally unimportant. Yeah. So we find Sean up at 430 in the morning taking pictures of an elderly gentleman, not elderly, but a middle-aged gentleman, an older gentleman, if you will, um with a younger lady.
00:46:59
Speaker
We're not sure exactly what's happening, but they're at a motel. A woman at a motel. Yeah. Yeah, looks a little scandalous. We'll say that. When he's kind of, he's looking over his shoulder, like making sure no one sees.
00:47:10
Speaker
He's stealth. He's taking pictures and Jules ends up calling. Later on, Gus will pass a comment about, you're not taking those cheating boyfriend cases anymore, are you?
00:47:21
Speaker
Which is, I mean, pretty standard casework for like private detective agencies, cheating husbands, cheating boyfriends, whatever it is. Yeah, we've seen him do it before. Correct. It's not like out of the ordinary to think that he would be doing this, um which I love that they frame it that way, because then you almost forget about it by the end. And then you're like, oh, so good.
00:47:41
Speaker
So good. So Jules calls and this whole one side conversation that we get, i think is so adorable. she He's like, yeah, I'm up. oh you want to do well like we should watch movie and you start like naming movies with is it on the phone too he's not even like let's hang out he's like yeah you just want watch a movie together on the phone please say it's father the bride too i love how he's like what you're the one who called me drunk at 430 i
00:48:11
Speaker
love how he just goes with it like he doesn't even know the situation right now what's happening on so and then we realized that he's needed at the museum So he goes to the museum again.
00:48:24
Speaker
It's like three hours the morning. They love you down there. Yes. I mean, he's a very charismatic gentleman. So I understand why. He's a dinosaur. That's true. And that also becomes semi-contentious because on the plaque for Zippy, which I don't know if they actually named him Zippy, but that's what Sean said he was going to call him. So I will call him Zippy. think say Zippy.
00:48:45
Speaker
Oh, does it? Yay. Okay. I mean, great name for a dinosaur. So I get that. um On the plaque for Zippy, it only says Sean's name. Sean Spencer, paleo sleuth. And a classic like smoldery Sean, like squatting by the hole.
00:49:01
Speaker
Yeah. i feel like when I think of Sean in a picture, this is what I think. Yeah. I think of this picture.
00:49:07
Speaker
It's a good one. It's yeah. Very classic. Like you said. So he, you know, turns to, jewels and says that this is going to be an issue. And i think any of us could have guessed that this would have been an issue, especially because of the dialogue in that episode. where It was like, I'm going to North and die. going to die.
00:49:26
Speaker
No, you can't take all the credit for that. And here again, Sean is taking all the credit. And We do get a little bit more on on the the credit piece later, but Sean essentially has to mentally prepare himself for telling this to Gus because he knows it's not going to go over well.
00:49:46
Speaker
And then Sean meets the curator and they end up bringing him to the mummy room. And there was a ah little quip in here, which I didn't write the whole thing down, but...
00:49:58
Speaker
he she says something to him like we love you down here and he goes and i love you and jules has a reaction he goes what you had your shot and yeah just move on i was like what just happened yeah it is a very funny like ah ah dynamic with Because we were talking about like Jules and Lassie and the assistant curator. And now it's like Jules and the assistant curator and Sean.
00:50:27
Speaker
And Jules really has this like girl's girl vibe about her. Like especially I think like having just dealt with Lassie. Like I think she... Well... And she wants friends.
00:50:44
Speaker
was going to don't bring her past Gretti. Oh my god I didn't even think about which... And Black and Tan, we didn't bring this up, but, like, we talked about, like... Oh, yeah. want Hoping that Jules and Emily stay friends.
00:50:57
Speaker
Yeah. and she Like, everywhere we go, it's funny because, like, it's like the boys are like, oh, hot girl. And then Jules is like, friend. Friend. Friend. um But there is this, like, you know, always...
00:51:12
Speaker
Because there's like a little something there with her and Sean. It's like you just never know. Because there was that element in Black and Tan too. Yeah. like There was like some ah romantic tension a little bit with Sean and Emily.
00:51:27
Speaker
Yeah. um So yeah, we see that here too. And then, yeah, I don't even know like what Jules even does. Like she might just be like... What is going on? Like, i think it was more that he's being weird.
00:51:39
Speaker
Because they both kind of react like that. Like, but yeah I calling her the assistant curator. What's her name? Sophie? Sophie, yeah. Sophie, like, also reacts like that. um Because he's like, and I love you.
00:51:50
Speaker
And he does it in such a dramatic way. yeah like Metaphorically. And then, yeah, just like on a dime. Like, what? You had your shot. Yeah. It's so fun.
00:52:01
Speaker
he I mean... Maybe he's also high on, like, the work that he's been doing. like Yeah, that could be. Because he is he comes in hot on this. Yeah. and Oh, my gosh.
00:52:13
Speaker
His initial, like, assessment of the scene is very extreme. I can't. yeah and Yeah, it's... Yeah, it's Sean to the nth degree. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:26
Speaker
He's like leaning over and doing pushups. And he keeps looking over at her. ah Yeah. sopha Trying to impress her. Yeah. He's like peacocking.
00:52:37
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a great way to put it. Exactly. and in And doing all of this, he catches a couple of important details that there are handprints on the inside of the glass, which encases the sarcophagus.
00:52:52
Speaker
And there are footprints leading out of the room or like remnants of footprints, maybe, leading out of the room. And he tells Carlito Lasiteros that the mummy wasn't stolen. I'm afraid it walked out.
00:53:08
Speaker
Oh, my God. It's so good. Yeah, that and yeah this whole like cold open, I guess, is like because we have like that first build with Lassie and Jules walking in and the alarm and everything. And that's all very exciting. And then it it kind of takes the wind out of it with Sean quietly in a tree.
00:53:30
Speaker
Yeah. And then we start like new build. um and And it's got like Sean's silliness. and then And then like one thing I noticed in The Mummy was just, I mean, I don't But the music was like really, like it was curse music.
00:53:49
Speaker
And I feel like we get that here of this like this very suspenseful um build up to like it walked out all on its own.
Vic's Farewell Party and Personal Investigations
00:54:00
Speaker
yeah And then it's like a title sequence and you're like, ah! yeah
00:54:07
Speaker
Yeah, it's funny how the episode does that. it does It really does that a couple of times, this big build to a bunch of not even necessarily like twists, but I, I guess kind of twist. Like I'm thinking the car, you know, we're like freaking out, walk into the car and then it's like,
00:54:29
Speaker
it's like, it's thrilling. this that Maybe that's the right word for it. Yeah. It's, it's very thrilling. Very action packed for them. i also have to mention before we move on from Sean's little episode,
00:54:42
Speaker
um When he is like looking at all the relics and he's have it. Have it. yeah Want it. Mine's bigger. What?
00:54:53
Speaker
What? And then he's like riffing on how like the display is so terrible. Like, do we need two of these? Yeah. Symmetry is very important.
00:55:04
Speaker
Oh, he's so funny. He is. He is a little, ah little ridiculous. And i I wonder if part of this is just, maybe he's been up all night. yeah That's true. He's like, he's rummy.
00:55:17
Speaker
i also really love when he's making his observations. Um, It's a little bit about like James Roday Rodriguez's performance, but also just like Sean as a character. character I love like when he sees the handprint, it's like he he looks so curious and like a little surprised, you know? It's like, and I just get, you get this sense that he...
00:55:42
Speaker
He just loves this. And like, absolutely. He loves being surprised like this. And he's just like, and he really just wants to know what happened. And he's like, like, and I just think that's so fun because he is doing all of this silly stuff. But then he's like, and then he even says, huh.
00:55:59
Speaker
Yeah. It's just very sweet and I just love him. Yeah. I mean, i think for him, part of it is like, I think we've talked about it, the game, the puzzle of yeah figuring it out and solving it I think that's part of the reason why when we get to...
00:56:13
Speaker
ah yin and yang he has such a hard time not being involved because he needs to see it through he needs to play the game he needs to figure out the puzzle and i think probably particularly for sean he's seen so many things and we've talked about like is this almost a constant chatter in his head that i wonder how often things actually surprise him so in this case he was like oh That's a good point. Yeah. Because he's like so trained.
00:56:40
Speaker
Right. Literally to draw conclusions. Yeah, literally. Like, yeah, to be surprised must be like a thrill for him too. Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like this one is one with multiple surprises in it, which is very fun.
00:56:57
Speaker
So we're back at the station and we are called into Vic's office. No jokes this time. It's a serious matter. And I love he checks his watch. yeah Vic's like, this is not a time for jokes. And Sean looks like, what is a time for jokes? Like, what time? Yeah, what time am allowed to make jokes?
00:57:15
Speaker
yeah
00:57:17
Speaker
Yeah, Vic says that, you know, everyone is ah well aware that she's the inter interim chief. And when she took on this proposition, the mayor told her that there would be a deadline, at which point the title of interim would be removed.
00:57:32
Speaker
But it has lasted far longer than she anticipated, so she will be stepping down on Friday. with the understanding that the mayor probably has some or does have someone else in mind to take over the position and jules is distraught jules is like i will write a letter i will start a petition i don't care what i have to do don't leave little jewels i love you and laster's like was i in the run i feel like is it me yeah
00:58:02
Speaker
I feel like this is really a very good snapshot of like all of them. And Sean being like, yeah, worry about it. it's fine. yeah He's got something else working. You know, it was a step ahead of everybody else. Yeah. It was so good. It was a really fun um little scene. Yeah. And Sean holding the, oh is this the point where he's holding the fish? I don't think yet, but at one point he's holding the fish and he says, I'm sure ah things will, you know, all work out.
00:58:27
Speaker
She'll fine. Yeah. She'll be fine. Yeah. and fine yeah and it this point like Now that, again, I think I've talked about when we were talking about Pascaretti, I feel like I have not given Jules the attention she deserves.
00:58:42
Speaker
and And really like talking about her arc more specifically and with like more focus these last few episodes, like there really is an arc there of like yeah just this desire for connection and friendship. And then now like this the like her not friend at work.
00:59:03
Speaker
rick but yeah Yeah, kind of not friend. One who will compliment her shirt. um Now being like, she's going to get taken away from her and like that hits her so hard. it like it really That really is ah ah culmination of kind of what we see have seen with her the last few episodes.
00:59:24
Speaker
Yeah. And she she also takes it Very seriously, like knowing that Vic has made this decision. She doesn't try and talk her out of it. Yeah. She's not like, don't leave, stay. I'll tell the mayor that you're the best. Yeah, she knows that it's not Vic.
00:59:41
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And even when they are like planning the party later, she is like, this is what we're focusing on. Yeah. Carlton, stop looking at the news. Vic's party has to be the best.
00:59:53
Speaker
Yeah. Like even if she's going to, like if she can't fix it, she still like wants to honor her yeah appropriately. That is so sweet. But we'll come back to Vic later. we don't want to ruin any of the surprise.
01:00:07
Speaker
yeah But it is it is such like great drama. like at It is. There's just so many stakes. Everybody has something going on. I feel like that also, again, probably similar to Bounty Hunters, although I don't really remember what everybody had going on. But it does feel like a finale in that like everybody's got something.
01:00:26
Speaker
And it's... everybody's got something like big going on yes intense there's just like stakes everywhere yeah i think bounty hunters we we talked in bounty hunters about how there was so much like action and so many stunts and it was you know we knew there was going to be ah kind of a long hiatus in between and it felt like something that was enticing people to come back for more for the next time.
01:00:52
Speaker
And this, the stakes are just as high, but in a very different way, where now we're like going to resolve some problems. We're going to... not unearth a mummy, but we're going find a mummy. But then also we're going to start a couple of new, really interesting plot lines for things to come. So i yeah, I agree. I think it was a ah great way to end the season. It's like all the whole.
01:01:15
Speaker
a nice little wrap up. Nice little bell.
01:01:20
Speaker
So let me go back to the office and Sean's watching videos of the museum when Gus walks in and is, sean Does he tell that it's at the museum?
01:01:30
Speaker
I think he does, but he like kind of blocks. doesn't say what it's about. Yeah, the camera from... Yeah, and Gus is kind of trying to see what is on the video. Well, of course, because he's got to be interested, you know? and Yeah, and it's funny that he lets that go.
01:01:42
Speaker
Like, because it's weird behavior. No, totally. and And weird for Sean, which is weird on a whole nother level. Yeah. And usually Sean is pretty willing to cue Gus in from the start, but I guess he knows that if he tells him it's about the mummy room, Gus just won't go.
01:01:58
Speaker
So... Sean does forewarn Gus about the image of Zippy, but he won't tell him what the case is about. And then they end up going to the museum. It's pretty, pretty quick.
01:02:14
Speaker
And the plaque is revealed to Gus. Oh, yes. um oh yes yes yes i was like well i did see you're not totally left out and then they they focus on the photo by bruton gaster and gus is like very dismayed by this and sean's like well i was giving them the info i was going through a tunnel
01:02:45
Speaker
um But yeah, I mean, a lot of great lines here.
Lassie's Investigation and Subplot Humor
01:02:47
Speaker
Gus is like, I want my name in big yellow letters that blink. yeah And Sean is doing this like, like hand motion, which is so funny.
01:02:57
Speaker
yeah playing into the bit, of course. Yes. Yeah, he is putting out like he's taking it very seriously. Yes. For Gus. um and And then Sophie comes out and.
01:03:08
Speaker
because gives her hard time come people her spell check which i don't know if it would catch nowadays yeah but um oh that too yeah brief on gas um but then and then sean being like i was just giving gasty here all the specifics
01:03:29
Speaker
so good um yeah oh and then them arguing about like what sean That's when Gus is like, you were out telling cheating boyfriends again. Oh, yes, yes, yes. That is beneath us or we're above it or whatever.
01:03:42
Speaker
Yes. Because Sean is trying to show off for Sophie that he was right hard at work doing another case. And Gus is... not allowing it yeah and they're arguing it's very fun and then we go mummy room to the mummy room and the moment that Sean and Sophie cross the threshold Gus pauses he refuses yeah and as soon as he sees like the oh yeah but art the art theme of the yeah of the floor and Sean turns around he's like dude I thought this was over in the sixth grade
01:04:19
Speaker
He won't break the plane of the mummy room. That was a fun way to put it. The plane of the mummy room. I'm sure Gus said exactly that. Oh, I'm. Yeah, it sounds like a Gus thing to say. You're right. I'm sure that's, yeah, a direct quote from him. hu And.
01:04:36
Speaker
Yeah, he references, you know. I'm not going to be the guy who thinks he's going to get his face melted off. he doesn't want that Which makes sense. There was a face melting in the mummy. Yeah. When they start, like they cite different consequences of the curse and it's definitely from the movie. So yeah, very fun.
01:04:57
Speaker
And then Sophie's like, well, you know, if you don't want to come in here and see what happens, can you look at the cameras?
01:05:05
Speaker
also love when Gus is like, facts and logic will win out. and I know. And Sean's like, really? Facts and logic, girl? This is facts and logic? Okay. And ah we we do a very fun montage, which I feel like it's been a little while since we've gotten a montage of Sean trying to beat the camera system because when the mummy is missing, they didn't catch anything about the mummy being moved on the security camera. So Sean's trying to figure out how could that possibly be.
01:05:34
Speaker
Like, how you know, how could you have just taken a whole entire mummy? hey And we get Sean on the phone with Gus, who's, again, I assume upstairs, looking at the security cameras, also on the phone.
01:05:47
Speaker
And Sean is just running around the museum behind plants, behind people, with wolf pelts on his back. It is... and there's very fun music. Hysterical. Yeah, it's so funny. And like, see that?
01:05:58
Speaker
See that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Dulé Hill does a great job with the delivery of this. Especially because a lot of it is like him saying kind of the same thing over it and over again. He makes the whole scene feel very like fresh. i yeah like Yeah, and you have to think like a montage like that would come together a lot in editing.
01:06:17
Speaker
Yes. So they are very much not talking to each other, actually. And so, yeah, he does a really good job. like and And the continuity of the whole thing, like they put it together really well. Yeah, it was great.
01:06:30
Speaker
Did you catch our second Steve Franks cameo of the season? Only because I saw it on the wiki when I was looking for it. So I was like, wow. What was the first one? He was in the picture at the lodge. Oh, yeah.
01:06:44
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, that is very fun. i was like, I loved it. But then I was like, is he a pineapple too? Like, does he just show all the Yeah. think We haven't noticed. Well, I did see on the wiki. It said like, um, that it's like an Alfred Hitchcock, like cameo. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah yeah oh when we're going to get a whole hitchco episode out anyway yeah that would make sense that that's the that's the I do think my favorite part of the of what Sean attempts is when he's like all up in that lady. That's so funny.
01:07:21
Speaker
And the woman's just like looking like, what the heck? Who are you? Leave that woman alone. Yeah, leave that woman alone.
01:07:31
Speaker
Yeah, then i do love, of course, the...
01:07:36
Speaker
Is it now or is it? Oh, no, no, no. He hangs up the phone to flirt with Sophie. And then they get back on the phone yeah afterwards. And Sean figures out how to game the system, which we don't ever actually find out. Like we're never actually told.
01:07:53
Speaker
how he or like shown how he gets through the museum we just know that there's like an area of the museum where there's a blind spot yeah and that allows him to get up to gus unseen and later on i love the little back and forth bit about what this area of the museum is called because it's not a corner are we okay with cranny cranny sign off on cranny yeah yeah i don't know if i so i didn't sign off on that chart
01:08:23
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, there's so many... There's just so many great lines. I also love the bit before the montage start where... or starts where um gus is like you call me because this is my company phone and i don't want it to and then um sean's like gus it's usage minutes it's usage minutes it yeah doesn't matter which one of us makes the call and then like the music starts and they're gonna start and then he comes back and he's like actually i can't leave this alone like it really doesn't it's yeah really doesn't matter and it's fun to see sean be like
01:08:54
Speaker
I feel like that is like a very small version of like Sean being the level-headed one here. Yeah. yeah um which is It's fun to see Sean in that role.
01:09:06
Speaker
um Which he gets to be in that role a lot in this episode. He doesn't. Because Gus is just unhinged. Yeah. And then when he does mute to talk to Sophie.
01:09:18
Speaker
yeah And Gus is like, you're muting me for the first interesting thing that's happened? And then he starts... mimicking Sean mean like I make obscure 80s references nobody understands I have a motorcycle but I never seem to be riding it yeah I love meta jokes like that it's so good know yeah because they make fun of everything else it only makes sense for them to make fun of themselves too true And then we go to we go to Lassie with the father's body to exhume.
01:09:49
Speaker
Yes. still don't understand who this guy is, but I maybe never will. And that's okay. Wait, well, let's break it down. and yeah Who he's talking to? Yeah. Who is he? He is the son of the victim whose death Lassie is investigating. And he also happens to be on the board of directors for the museum.
01:10:10
Speaker
So did did Lassie just think that this guy's death was suspicious and that's why he started looking into it? Or did this guy do something sketchy and therefore Lassie started looking into this guy's life and then found out that his dad died?
01:10:23
Speaker
i think the death was recent. okay and i think they're investigating it although it is okay um weird that like they wouldn't have done an autopsy before um right because they do um yeah like why yeah it is weird that they wouldn't have done an autopsy to begin with so maybe does the family have to like sign off on an autopsy
01:10:56
Speaker
I don't think so. I mean, I think if there's a death that's suspicious, they would do one. Or that, let's, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Do they always do I don't know.
01:11:12
Speaker
How do you want to go down this? want that into my search history. they do an autopsy? That's, yeah do they always do an autopsy is number one.
01:11:26
Speaker
Oh, perfect. They knew. Autopsies. When are they done? This is WebMD. Hmm. The most reliable of sources.
01:11:37
Speaker
Only a three-minute read. Good. and An autopsy is a detailed dissection of a deceased person done to determine when why they died. When is one required? Although laws vary, nearly all states call for an autopsy when someone dies in a suspicious, unusual, or unnatural way.
01:11:55
Speaker
Hmm. Okay. So maybe this guy... died in a way that didn't seem suspicious i would think though a fall could always would always be like possibly suspicious yeah um it also says many states have one done when a person dies without a doctor present oh okay just to be certain that makes sense right but if you die in the hospital why do you know you don't need an autopsy they know why yeah yes that makes sense
01:12:27
Speaker
ah doctor might ask you ah this is when is it optional A doctor might ask you to allow an autopsy if your loved one died of an unexpected illness. um A dead person's next of kin also can ask for an autopsy if there are some concerns about why someone died.
01:12:44
Speaker
What's interesting is Lassie says he wants to exhume the body and he kind of tries to bury it in the conversation, but obviously like it's almost like a joke because like, obviously he's going to stick on that, but yeah it doesn't seem like the sun signs off you know because when we cut to the odd or to the exhumation he's like you're disturbing my like he's like mad about it you know yeah so maybe plasty asked him and he said no and he had to get a warrant a court order order yeah yeah
01:13:21
Speaker
I mean, i yeah. You're definitely getting glimpses into this case. Correct. Correct. Because that then begs the question, if this is clearly so
Comedic Museum Antics and Mummy Thief Pursuit
01:13:30
Speaker
suspicious as to warrant a warrant, don't you think they would have done an autopsy in the first place? Yeah. Maybe maybe not
01:13:43
Speaker
go back to the transcript here it's also like this is a big the reason it feels like this had to have been recent is um
01:13:56
Speaker
like it's in the news this is like a public figure in santa barbara and lassie's like this is good gonna be the biggest case of my career kind of you know like and he's like leaking information to the Right.
01:14:10
Speaker
He's waiting for comment for people to ask him to comment. to Yeah. He's yeah. He does have that one line where he's like, I leaked that to them yesterday or something. I've been here all day. They didn't even ask me.
01:14:28
Speaker
Oh yeah. I leaked that stuff about the will getting changed yesterday. So he's suspicious. Yeah. I wonder if, We are like having to suspend our disbelief and that the exhumation is purely for the joke of we're not doing anything else that's spooky.
01:14:46
Speaker
And then cut to Lasseter exhuming a body. Yeah. And and Gus shows up and he's like, what the heck? Yeah. What's going on? Yeah. Unless it was like an autopsy was done and Lassie just doesn't think it was good enough or wants them to check for something else that maybe they wouldn't have looked.
01:15:08
Speaker
But it seems like blunt force trauma they would have. Or, oh, maybe. Well, didn't he fall down the stairs? Yeah. So maybe they didn't look that closely at the wounds because what they find is sliver of.
01:15:22
Speaker
Ivory. Ivory. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe, we'll say that. Okay. That an autopsy was done, but Lassie wants them to look again because he's sure that there's something else afoot.
01:15:39
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Something seems suspicious. Yeah. guess that makes sense. Yeah, I could buy that. Maybe he has enough to get a court order at this point.
01:15:53
Speaker
Mm-hmm. yeah Do you feel better about this man? Yes, I feel much better about this man. Okay. Yeah. Because he, like, and maybe this was just because this is, I think, the first time I've watched one of these episodes with other people in the room. So usually I'm, like, very locked in. But my sister was right next to me making comments, like, the whole time.
01:16:15
Speaker
ah maybe I, like, kind of missed who this man is. Could be. Could be.
01:16:20
Speaker
I'm just thinking he reminds me of the guy. and I'm like, oh, what episode of that? And it was Bounty Hunters. He reminds me that guy. It was like a similar thing. Yes. Yes. That's what he reminded me of too. The kangaroo paste.
01:16:34
Speaker
like Kind of a similar, like a a well-to-do sort of public figure who thinks they can get away with something. Right. By cutting corners that they are able to cut.
01:16:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So that it yeah there's a lot of kinship between those two episodes, which makes sense as the mid-season and season finale. Absolutely. And then the boys go back to the museum and they have a sleepover against Gus as well.
01:17:03
Speaker
but I have a note that says Sean and Gus boundaries.
01:17:08
Speaker
That theme again. Poor Gus. And Gus, you can tell, is like terrified. Yeah. Really trying to get out the museum. it'd be for sure spooky to spend the night at the museum.
01:17:22
Speaker
And then also, like, just because there's, like, you know, diogrammas, there's lots of nooks and crannies. Yeah. Of course. Of course. And... and There's no one else with them. Like there's no security guard. Yeah, which is kind of wild. Like they wouldn't bring in anybody. Correct. And Sean says to Gus too that he figured out someone had already broken into an exhibit and he thinks they're going to come back. Like wouldn't that be so fun if we caught them in the ass?
01:17:51
Speaker
Sean. Yeah. Just like um skimming through the transcript again, Lassie also comments on how like, like an alarm at the museum and not even the one downtown.
01:18:04
Speaker
So maybe like this museum is like, maybe they're just, they don't have the resources. Sure. It's like a smaller. Yeah. And low yeah. And it may be all part of the same like system of museums, but maybe it's it's like not the main one. And so it's yeah they don't have, they're not putting in the effort to like get them another security guard or whatever.
01:18:29
Speaker
I mean, that makes sense. yeah Also, I don't know who would want to be a security guard at this place after a mummy has just yeah disappeared. And now the security guard has also disappeared. Yeah. And it's also interesting that Sean and Gus, like their role with the police department, like, I guess in a sense it is like sort of having a police presence, quote unquote. Yeah. But they are really not equipped for that.
01:18:51
Speaker
They are not trained. Yeah. Yeah. They're trained in the analysis. Yeah. They're more after the practice. Yeah. Yeah. They're not in the, you know, catching, like actively catching a running dad guy. They really want to catch somebody red-handed.
01:19:06
Speaker
No, no. No, no, no. And I just, I love the multiple ways that Gus tries to get out of this museum. tries like, get out of all the doors. He goes behind, like, a tarp. I did feel like he was like, you're gonna get eaten by carpet beetles. That felt like could be reference to the movie.
01:19:21
Speaker
Oh, very. Yes. Scarab-y, gross beetles. Oh, God. um And I love the line, i can't see her. I don't have my toothbrush. I don't have any of my multivitamins. And oh yeah, I don't want my soul suffering eternal damnation for disrupting the sleep of an Egyptian canal digger.
01:19:43
Speaker
so good. so good. love now love Are we pre-exhumation? or do Oh yeah. Okay. Because we haven't actually been there. But just after this night. And then going into the exhumation. Like Gus just.
01:19:59
Speaker
He's so resigned. After all this. It's just very funny. Like watching all these little things add up. And then he's just like. snow yeah how did i How did I get here?
01:20:11
Speaker
yeah i also love the jokes about Red Robin. or my gosh. I think maybe he's trying to be what he needs in such situations. He's making a lot of jokes yeah talking about nonsense.
01:20:25
Speaker
and Oh, and I also love the detail that he's... he talked to Sophie. He asked her, she was s stoked they volunteered. And I feel like that really adds something to the fact that he muted Gus for that conversation. Cause it wasn't just that he was yeah flirting with her. He was asking her if they could spend the night in the museum. And he was like, Gus, out yeah Gus would totally not sign off on this. And therefore mute.
01:20:52
Speaker
I love that. yeah So and again, it shows like how forward thinking Sean is, you know, kind of like the, um, ah old and the restless you know it's like he's got all these things spinning it's just amazing yeah it is pretty is pretty amazing how he manages to compartmentalize and multitask through all of those things but he does and he does it very well yeah Yeah, a lot happens in this lock-in.
01:21:20
Speaker
A lot. They spot the camera on the hill. They end up finding out about the security guard's rented pickup, as we mentioned before, still being in the parking lot.
01:21:34
Speaker
In that moment. Oh. The build. Yes. Another great build. Totally. And having, yeah, the blueberry right next to it too. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Just like, don't know yeah, yeah.
01:21:45
Speaker
And then, and it like, it feels like there's the suspense of like seeing that camera, like what is that out in the distance on the hill? And then, and then the phone call and then they see the truck and then the phone drops and breaks and then they're phone-less, which is also like set up for like other things, you know, like they have to be phone-less for everything. No, it's just, oh, I love it.
01:22:07
Speaker
Yeah. It's so good. And I think too, The phoneless thing, especially today, hits I feel like, a little bit different because people are so used to being attached to the outside world through their phone. So then to be like, you have no connection and you're locked in this museum. It's like, what's going happen?
01:22:25
Speaker
That is true. And also being 2007 and maybe even now, there must be a landline in that museum somewhere. Yeah, somewhere. Somewhere. Maybe they...
01:22:37
Speaker
They also might not have access to all the different spaces within it. Yeah. Or even like, you know, if someone's coming to the museum and Lassie and Jules are trying to warn them, like they're not going to, they might not think to call the landline of the museum. They probably think to call the boy's cell phone, which is not working because they broke.
01:22:55
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:58
Speaker
And then we... I told you to charge that phone. You did not. Does it count if I thought it? Nope. Doesn't count.
Humorous Exchanges and Mummy Preparations
01:23:09
Speaker
They also find out about the flag that was upside down and the broken into gun display, which this whole thing is just so much fun.
01:23:22
Speaker
The flag is upside down and it's backwards. So either someone turned it upside down or knocked it over. Why would there be dust on the bottom of it? in this little corner of the museum, we get our cranny bit. cranny. Yeah.
01:23:33
Speaker
oh And we look at the old guns in the glass case, which is Lexinglass, which apparently is common knowledge, Sean, in case you know the guns were to just miraculously go off.
01:23:46
Speaker
Then we... I forget what was this related to who knows about that kind of glass, but Gus was like, yes, and Yo Mama. Yeah.
01:23:57
Speaker
Which is a classic and also funny because the Sean's mother is of <unk>s really coming to a... True. And I don't think we've heard a Yo Mama joke yet. No, I don't think so. Yeah. yeah Very, very fitting. A little subtle foreshadowing.
01:24:16
Speaker
Oh, and then we come, Sean's checking out that fridge. Oh, yeah, because it's just so cool. which They want one for the, yeah, it's a very, like, retro fun fridge.
01:24:27
Speaker
You want one for the office. And then it turns on making a big rattling noise. A little bit scary. Yeah. I love how Sean laughs. Yeah. that was actually scary and Lix and Gus is gone.
01:24:39
Speaker
Yeah, it's okay. And then he takes a moment, he takes a beat, and he's like, huh. Why would an exhibit be plugged in? And inside, and um missing security guard, Doug.
01:24:54
Speaker
Poor Doug. And then I love the... the like hard cut to outside the next morning. So good.
01:25:05
Speaker
And he opens the door and Gus sprints out, like knocking down this poor security guard. That's another like great, I feel like editing moment because it's, it's,
01:25:17
Speaker
so it lasts so long mean not like like in a hilarious way because like the guy's like walking up and it's like slow and quiet it's just peaceful morning and then open the door and boom god with money it's just so good oh and then sean finds gus at the psych office oh yes doing his research gathering his um his talismans to ward off the mummy yes his wolf spain yes and he says now i just need someone to lend me a cat which mummy reference yes even the talismans i feel like because we get that one with um benny when the mummy first comes oh yeah and he's like going through all his different religious symbols yeah which one's gonna protect me
01:26:07
Speaker
um and i yeah and i love the do you have mcnab's number mcnab has little boy cat yes a nice reminder that that cat is still around love it not jules's cats though although apparently she has two i wonder if gus may not know that oh that's true that's fair yeah he doesn't Or if he does, it might be more in passing. whereas They were very involved with McNabb's getting of a cat. Very Yes, they were very attached to Boycat.
01:26:39
Speaker
Had to let him go, sadly.
01:26:43
Speaker
And then we get the coroner's report ah for the security guard. We find out he was strangled to death. But not just any regular strangulation because his hands were wrapped in cloth.
01:26:57
Speaker
strange thanks jules yeah i do want to say though another line that was just so good i'm sorry there's just so many lines but yeah um because sean when they're at the office is like appealing to gus to stick with him he promises no more spooky stuff and he's like i need you i need the sweet blue shirt i need the pants i need the winsome smile that hides the sad jamaican clown inside
01:27:24
Speaker
it's a sad jamaican clown inside yes again he does it for he can't do it without guys no he cannot it's him but yeah what a what a summation of gus yes and then no more spooky stuff i promise and then cut to he's exhuming a body and then he does that like whoa white socks black shoes what's the rule don't you have wear jeans what's the rule yeah so yeah nonsense it's just so yeah And then we find out about the. Yes.
01:27:53
Speaker
The Bowie stuff. Oh, and we'll resign to Gus. Because Sean's like, I'm sorry, I didn't know. They would be exhuming a body. Gus was very calmly like, I didn't know I was going to be putting my foot in your ass.
01:28:10
Speaker
Well, and even that, that caught me off guard because I feel like we talked about, they don't like curse like at all. So even saying ass, I was like, what just happened? I was like, whoa, that felt very intense. That's funny that you say that because what really got me was later he says, son of a bitch. Right.
01:28:26
Speaker
Yeah. I was like, whoa. And I like re what i was like typing it out. And I was like, did he really say that? And I really rewinded and listened to it again. Yeah, yeah it's wild. I wonder if it's just the gravity or the spookiness of the case has got a little off kilter.
01:28:42
Speaker
Yeah. I'm curious if like, yeah, if there have been other times where we just like didn't really notice it or if this was like as jarring as it seems. And I wonder if like from a production standpoint, it's like I feel like
01:28:57
Speaker
You know, there's certain words that you can say ah certain sure yeah times and stuff.
01:29:04
Speaker
And like on certain networks. I just wonder like if there was any like logistical reason why they had. Could be. Yeah. Curses here. um but thinking about like other like sitcoms and stuff, I don't feel like those are off limits.
01:29:19
Speaker
Those words. No. Yeah. Yeah. No. But yeah, it was it was surprising. Right. The heck.
01:29:27
Speaker
And then we go to Henry's house. And this is when I was like, oh, it's this episode. Yeah. Ah, didn't realize. Henry has been trying to leave messages on Sean's phone. He wants to talk to Sean alone without Gus. This is a serious matter. He's been trying to tell him something. He's cleaning like a mad person trying to make this place look nice.
01:29:50
Speaker
And... Sean's trying to get advice from him as he often does when he goes to Henry's house but Henry is like not he's like not about it he's like I have to talk to you and he's like you know I got a phone call a couple days ago I don't know if you have any plans what are you busy he's like why are we taking awkward class just incredible truly one of the most uncomfortable like
01:30:22
Speaker
very moments i've ever seen yeah very and and i mean it makes sense because henry's trying to like probably mentally or he's wanting to mentally prepare sean about his what's going to happen right but also maybe trying like clear the air ah little bit about what happened which is obviously tense um Hence why he doesn't want Gus around.
01:30:46
Speaker
And he also being Henry probably doesn't really know how to handle that, but just knows that it needs to happen. Yeah. Yeah. Thinking back to like the flashback where, which was also an instance of Henry handling something, trying to be tender, not really being good at that. Like, yeah, this is similar, but he's more self-aware now. So it's like he is, but he's trying his best.
01:31:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Poor guy. And then he's like, go follow the timeline. Go away. We'll deal with this another time. Come back. Thank you. Bye.
Revelations and Suspect Involvement
01:31:22
Speaker
And they leave and we go back to the station where they're throwing the party or they're organizing the party for Vic. Lassie is like only half paying attention because he's listening to the news about this case that he's working full lean back um backing up yep keep the TV in sight of course and Jules is like she's like come on focus on this and I did like this transition we transitioned from Lassie watching the news report to Sean in the office watching the same yeah I liked that too yeah
01:31:55
Speaker
Yeah, I thought it was it was nice. And in the office, Gus is doing some research on the mummy to try and find out about like who he was when he was living. It is fun, this idea, because yeah the advice Sean asked Henry is like what to do when the person or their suspect doesn't exist.
01:32:17
Speaker
Right. says diplomatically, and Henry's like, there there's always you know ah trail. And then like you gotta go back and and follow the trail and so like Sean gets an idea and so it's fun to like for Gus to be like looking at this guy when he was still alive and then Sean being like no like after he was dead it's just like interesting that like the story continues for this this being we get more mummy references because he
01:32:55
Speaker
um sounds like he was here didn't kill anybody there then he was here nobody had their eyes or organs stolen there which yeah that happens in the mummy yes also another like this would have terrified me oh my gosh like someone's eyes i know You know, speaking of the mummy, I thought that was going to come back that he took the eyes of someone who needed glasses.
01:33:18
Speaker
Like I thought maybe his vision going to be like not that good. That would have been fun. Yeah, I felt like that that was like a missed opportunity. A way to beat him or something. Oh, yeah, that would have been good.
01:33:30
Speaker
I also thought that the girl, because she, Evelyn, because she mentioned that she was half, she was part Egyptian. I thought that maybe she was like a descendant of the lady, which is why he was like yeah interested, but didn't seem, didn't seem like.
01:33:45
Speaker
It was interesting that he was sort of like into Evelyn or like flirt, like not flirting, but like, you know, tried to kiss her and stuff. Yeah. He just wanted to use her for.
01:33:56
Speaker
And I think that's why I thought maybe she... Because he even calls her yeah the girl's name. So I was like, oh, does she does he see like her bloodline in her? Yeah. And I do feel like in reading about just the mummy like lore, i feel like in the old one, maybe, the the the woman who he... Like the Evelyn in the old one.
01:34:20
Speaker
don't that's her name. But um does bear a striking resemblance to... all ah which i feel like we didn't really see that no this one but yeah but that would make sense what do we learn from this do we just decide we're gonna go check out the loading dock yes i think we're gonna yeah try and figure out like when they got there like what happened when the mummy got there all that kind of stuff and we meet that spooky guy who, um, the spooky dock worker, he doesn't really give them much information. He's like, it shows up.
01:35:00
Speaker
And stays here. He's pretty gruff. He doesn't seem very, um, content in his job either. No, he does not seem to like working there.
01:35:12
Speaker
But the boys very quickly move on from him because he doesn't seem helpful. And they see someone taking the camera, on the tripod up on the hill, which they spotted the other night. And they, of course, do their silly chasing after this person who turns out to be a film student who is taking a video of some flowers on the hill that happens to have the museum in the background. Mm-hmm.
01:35:40
Speaker
And Sean's like, well, can we look at the footage? do you have some from the other night? Whenever, whichever night it was, like Tuesday night. And she's like, sure. So they go.
01:35:50
Speaker
And they look at it. And even this I love. The whole like, okay, we're just looking at these random pictures of the flower. Yeah. And then, like, jump scare! There's a mummy! Yeah, it's so exciting, and like in the way it cuts to like her finger moving around the little yes round table thing or whatever. Yeah. um yeah they Just every little turn is so exciting.
01:36:12
Speaker
agree. It's very fun. um and this is when... Oh, well, when the mummy does pick up, I love... Or appear. um i love... Sean will be like, holy crap, Gus, which I feel like it's almost like a...
01:36:25
Speaker
catchphrase i feel like we get a holy crap yeah yeah exactly like that um gus is gone yeah he's running out of the room
01:36:38
Speaker
um oh and sean realizes well he's just in one frame but he realizes that he took the van yes the mummy took the van And he knows that van.
01:36:50
Speaker
Of course. So they go back to the museum where the van is stationed. And they watch as this van drives away and the creepy dock worker... That was really creepy....watches. We're just looking at Sean and Gus and he's just there in the background just lurking in the lit doorway. Yeah, lurking is the perfect word And it takes...
01:37:12
Speaker
Like we don't cut to him for like a little while. Like Sean and Gus talk and then like only when they're getting in the car does Sean look back and see him. why He's just there for so long. Just chilling. And then Gus does the craziest 50 point turn.
01:37:25
Speaker
So good. I feel like the perfect like because we need like to take a breath almost. Yes. Yeah. yeah We need to be some comedy. Yeah. And then possibly the spookiest part of the episode.
01:37:40
Speaker
Follow the van. They're behind the van. It makes this really sharp turn that Sean does not think it's going to be able to make into the woods. They follow it because Gus has the best defensive driving skills. Yeah.
01:37:52
Speaker
And the van manages to hit a tree in the woods. And they're like, all right, we got to go. we got go see what's inside. So they grab a bat and some flashlight. This is where the no phone thing really gets me. I'm like, you cannot be doing this stuff if i don't have a phone. What are you thinking?
01:38:12
Speaker
You need to call for backup. Oh, my gosh. Now I Yeah. no right So they very slowly build the suspense of walking up to the van. And Sean thinks he sees someone run away through the woods.
01:38:27
Speaker
But they're still going. Also very Very scary. And it's like pitch black. it' like very dark in this wood. Yeah. And they manage to find their way to the side.
01:38:41
Speaker
of the van and inside they find the mummy dun dun great music moment at the so good and all we see is gus just like frozen in place with fear yeah and he's freaking out trying to be like sean do you see this and then we cut to sean sprinting away as fast as possible already like 20 feet away yeah yeah pretty much at the car already yeah And Gus is still frozen in place.
01:39:12
Speaker
And it is fun, like, because I feel like Sean has been so calm the whole time. And he's like, yeah let's stay at night in the museum. Let's go to the car. Let's approach, you know, like, and when it really comes down to it, it's fun to see him finally snap.
01:39:31
Speaker
Yeah. Well, and I think this is like the first scene. legitimate like this is evidence of scariness you know like up until now it's been gus like writing it up as scary but this is oh there's a mummy in the car in the driver's seat it seems like the mummy drove the car like that is factually terrifying yeah hence why it scares sean or possibly why it scares him or just the fact that it's a mummy
01:40:03
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, human remains, you know. Yeah. It's tough. Definitely. Up close and personal like that. I'm shocked Gus didn't throw up or something. True.
01:40:14
Speaker
He usually does not have the stomach. just too terrified to like. Could be. Even physically react. Yeah, could be. Then we go to the station. Mm-hmm. And all I have, I have Carlytown with a little face with hearts around it.
01:40:30
Speaker
It's so cute. Yeah, it's funny that he gives him so many nicknames other than Lassie this episode because we've been sticking with Lassie for a while now, I feel like. Yeah. I feel like that too is like kind of the you know turning point. like it There's like just increased silliness or an increased concentration of silliness.
01:40:50
Speaker
Yes, that's
01:40:53
Speaker
um you get some more walk-in talks as we try to figure or it's all sort of coming together who and this is when jules she has the recorder's report on what was found in the uh oh yes the blunt force trauma yes yeah and lassie really doesn't want to hear about this because he's so focused on his other case Well, this is the other case.
01:41:20
Speaker
Yeah, he doesn' want to hear from Sean. Oh, oh, oh, yes. Sorry. No, you're good. Say this. No explanation. Yes, and then that's when Sean is like, I can solve both cases.
01:41:33
Speaker
Lassie, call that other guy. Tell him to meet us at the museum or wherever. And we get to the museum and Sean starts his wackadoodle nutshelling, which starts with him inside the sarcophagus, which I feel like was also maybe a nod to the mummy where in the very beginning of the movie, she like hears a sound in the other room and she goes in and her brother jumps out. Yeah. It's like, that, that was actually, that got me actually. down on them And he says this whole big thing. Something did rise and strangle the night guards.
01:42:07
Speaker
But it was not the mummy himself. It was the guy that Lassie's been trying to get. Because his dad was one of the biggest donators to and the museum, one of the biggest donors to the museum.
01:42:23
Speaker
And when he died, he donated his entire gun collection. But one of those guns was what was used to smack the dad on the back of his head leading to his fall.
01:42:37
Speaker
And he needed to collect the evidence. Lassie then takes the baton and continues to explain what was going on. Jules, actually think, finishes the whole thing up.
01:42:50
Speaker
And i like how they all actually leave before the end of the nut shelling. yeah And Sean was just like, I have more. Yeah, and I love Gus's face during that. like Sean's like trying to keep talking and Gus looks so chuffed.
01:43:05
Speaker
This is what you deserve. yep After everything you put me through, we're all leaving. 100%. Also, have to... also i have you mention one of my favorite lines um well okay so when they're about to go to the museum and and sean's you know they've solved it and gus is like we are done and they're like dancing that's very funny and then um sean says they have to go back to the museum and gus is like why can't they meet us at a well-lit starbucks which i feel is so real you know like when you're dealing with ghosts and mummies and all that stuff it's like
01:43:42
Speaker
Let's take this to the material realm. Yes, please. Stop making everything so spooky. Oh, yeah. And then when they're walking in to solve the cases, oh I think the suspect guy is asking what's going on. Lassie's like, whatever it is, I'm taking full credit.
01:43:58
Speaker
It's fair. He wants the esteem. He really does. Especially now that he, you know, could be chief. Yeah, true. He needs to make sure people know his name.
01:44:10
Speaker
Yes.
Vic's Departure and Scandal Twist
01:44:12
Speaker
Then we go back to the station and Vic has a bunch of presents. She's getting ready to go. We find out that this solder guy is going to be the next person. And oh, this is when Sean asks if she's going to take the glass fish.
01:44:28
Speaker
And it's like, you're kind of insensitive. Yeah. It's very sad for everyone. But so sha is really just like, give it, give it time. Just wait. It'll be okay. Yeah. And I love that because Sean does have this reputation of being kind of a ah narcissistic yes ass. So it's like, everybody's kind of like, can you know not be yourself right now? But it's like, maybe he's the most caring of them all.
01:44:54
Speaker
Yes, he knows. He knows what's about to happen, which is the the mayor calls and on the phone, and he asks her to stay as the actual chief because this solder guy was just exposed in the newspaper for having an affair.
01:45:10
Speaker
And wouldn't you know it? Hey, that looks just like the guy that Shawnee was taking pictures of in the beginning. photo yes photo by Bruton Gaster Bruton Gaster I love that little like smirk that they both give each other I love that it's just for them like only Vic and Sean know and Sean again for as much as he needs attention and all this stuff it's like he doesn't need anybody to know what he did yeah he just needs Vic to stay yeah yeah so sweet gosh
01:45:50
Speaker
Yeah, great, like... i know. we We get a bunch of, like, great... rat Like, one after another after another. Great nutshelling. And then a great resolution to the Vic arc.
01:46:02
Speaker
And then we go to Henry's house. gosh. Yeah, it's such a great way to wrap everything up and bust it open again. I mean... Yeah, we we go to Henry's house and Henry is still trying to tell Sean something.
01:46:15
Speaker
Sean is like, I got to get out of here. You know, whatever, whatever. where He's not taking this very seriously. And yeah, he's like, oh wait he's really going on about like, what we have is nice. It's shallow. It's, you know, it's we don't need to because because you're right. Like Henry is indicating that he wants to kind of get into it.
01:46:34
Speaker
Yes. In advance of. their special guest. Yes.
Sean's Mom's Surprise Arrival
01:46:40
Speaker
And yeah, Sean does not understand the urgency here. Until the doorbell rings.
01:46:48
Speaker
Mom.
01:46:51
Speaker
The biggest twist of them all in an episode of top to bottom twists. And then black roll cards. my gosh. So good.
01:47:02
Speaker
I can't believe it. I know. so i can't believe we finally got to her showing up i feel like we've talked about it so much i mean it is like critical point yeah story yeah when it's going to add so much to our our understanding of sean and sean and henry's relationship i think it's going to be really interesting to dive into all that even more than we've dove into it so far and it leaves you going who the heck is his mom what is gonna happen next yeah it's exciting yeah we get to meet her and i can't do love the way they like constructed all that with like the first glimpse of her that we've ever had yes in the flashback and like a little references and um yeah it's just also clever it very well done
01:47:57
Speaker
I can't believe season two. i know. It's over. how Yeah. And we had hit some trials and tribulations. We did. But so did they.
01:48:09
Speaker
did they. it's okay. Powered through. Yes. Are we to do an an after show again? Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. guess that's next.
01:48:20
Speaker
And I don't know. We'll have to figure out what we want to. mean, what did we do last time? listened to couple psychologists. We watched some. yep we watched some bloopers oh yeah we watched bloopers and we read the wikis of all the episodes and like picked yes some highlights yes what are taking any notes i feel like we talked about what we were gonna eat drink oh yeah
01:48:46
Speaker
yes what did we did we said something yeah Was it the um the Christmas pineapple things? Did we say that? Could do that.
01:48:57
Speaker
The little balls that you found. Yeah. Or I feel like there was something else too. feel like there was something from an episode. Right.
01:49:06
Speaker
We'll have to go through our notes and things and yeah we' we' figure it out. We'll return to this.
01:49:15
Speaker
Yes. Is there any other like fun stuff for season two that we need to do? That we didn't get the chance to do during season two. Yeah. I don't think so.
01:49:27
Speaker
We have a couple of things that we said we wanted to watch, which we'll throw that in the mid. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we could also put together a little summer reading list. Oh, yeah.
01:49:38
Speaker
Yeah. Between seasons work that we have to do. Yeah. Yes. I like that. That'd be fun. Go over that. Okay. I got to ponder that food. do Yeah. Yeah.
01:49:49
Speaker
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01:50:10
Speaker
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01:50:32
Speaker
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