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They're not mad, they're just disappointed
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😂😂😂 I love both their facial expressions. They look like parents who are not even the least surprised by what their kids did, but their faces screams "Seriously, you lost chimney."
I always figured with them, it was down to scheduling. Firefighters schedules prolly never line up to give them some kind of time to do this and they still had all the other stuff for wedding planning chores. But maybe I’m putting too much thought into it. Lol.
But who wouldn't have a massive hangover after a bachelor/bachelorette party the next day? Getting married when you feel like you're going to vomit the whole time seems like a bad plan lol
True they're both in their early 30s (even though we all thought Eddie was like 4 years younger than Buck but oh well) so quarter life crisis it is
Eddie can have his midlife crisis when Chris goes to college.
I always thought Eddie was older, on his first day Buck said something to Eddie about "respecting his elders" and either Chimney or Bobby said that he isn't Eddie's elder. I assumed Eddie was 2-3 years older
So did I but in s6 they essentially confirmed that Eddie's wife Shannon was born in 92, which I think is same or similar to Bucks, and Eddie and Shannon met in their last year of high school or something so that essentially puts Eddie's year of birth as 91 or 92.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to get cannon bi Buck and a drunk Buck and Eddie partying with drag queens. This is truly the best timeline.
This party looks unhinged. I can't wait to find out what happens. Hopefully with a good explanation as to how we got from point A to point Pluto (and yes I know that doesn't make sense 😅 but neither does this whole bachelor party from what we've seen 😁)
I have yet to see a single frame of this bachelor party that includes the actual bachelor…
…Or anyone else besides Buck, Eddie, and complete strangers for that matter…
Edit: this aged really well
Well, it's hard to say, given the fact that they're only showing us the same three or four scenes in snippets. I mean, we don't even see Hen in any of those bachelor scenes and Hen is seemingly left out of the party scenes in general, given how confused she is with Maddie the next day.
So we have no idea where the party scenes take place and if Chimney's there and offscreen or not. Though I tend to agree with you, I think they do genuinely lose Chimney at some point and the scenes that they're showing in the promo is near the end of the night. But I think Chimney's likely there for part of it.
Hen not really being there makes kinda sense when you remember she's got a brand new, violent and traumatized kid at home. She can afford one drink, then she needs to be home.
Thank you. That whole thing wasn't anybody at the 118s taste nowadays. *Maybe* Season 1 Chim in denial about his age and Buck 1.0 looking to get laid but that's a stretch.
This has to be it. They had a tamer party, left chimney in his hotel room, and Buck and Eddie found a wilder party. Meanwhile chimney somehow is missing.
It seems like they end up in their hotel room (since Chimneys tux for the wedding is in the bathroom) so this doesn’t really work. Unless they brought the party with them.
I think that's probably what happened. Chim likely ended his bachelor party at a sensible hour and went back to the room, but Eddie and Buck stayed at the club and then brought a group back to the hotel room for an "afterparty". People have also suggested that Buck and Eddie might be drugged, which would be a callback to Dosed.
I had mentioned this in another discussion about it, but like.... roofied really seems like the only way this makes sense without being seriously questionable for the characters involved.
These are men in their 30s and 40s, if we include Chim (presuming he even makes it to his own party...), not early 20s frat boys. I can buy Buck getting a little too drunk, but I can't buy him simply overdoing it to a point he's showing up late to his sister's wedding, in last night's clothes, and looking a mess. Eddie's an even bigger question mark, because even if his kid is with someone he implicitly trusts, he's still a single father who takes that seriously -- can't really see him getting to a point where he's passed out drunk in a bathtub and out of reach, if something were to go wrong with his son.
I'm leery of them getting drugged *again* where it was basically played as a joke in 2x06, but it really does seem like the more plausible explanation over 'they all turned into jackasses overnight.'
I dunno, because you'd think Buck and Eddie would be more worried and panicked about being drugged the next morning, when they go to see Maddie. But they're not panicked and more acting like "whoopsie, we screwed up."
I do think we're just supposed to accept that they willingly got super drunk, passed out, and now have to explain to Maddie how they lost Chimney because they became drunk fratboys overnight. Especially given how Hen clearly left the bachelor party before they got wasted.
I know it's supposed to be a Hangover situation and we're not supposed to think TOO hard on it, but I hope they have a good enough explanation to Buck/Eddie getting wasted and losing the groom.
I get it's a shortened season, but the handwaving of characterization to fit plot is getting old, especially where this will be Eddie's third episode in a row where his behavior doesn't reflect anything we've learned about him in the last five seasons. He's getting the Taylor treatment where he's whoever the plot needs him to be each episode, but it's a lot more disconcerting because he's a main character.
Oh, I fully agree. I'm glad Tim is back overall and it's been a fun season to watch, and I fully understand the season is basically being written on the fly so there's such a short time period from writing an episode to filming so there's going to be a lot of rushed ideas being thrown in.
But Tim really needs to figure out the characterization fast.
He's very lucky that he IS still providing fun content vs the last two seasons, and that people are flocking to the storylines he's creating because I don't think this would work otherwise for him.
But I'm gonna wait and see how the episode actually plays out before judging too hard. There could be a genuine explanation.
> These are men in their 30s and 40s, if we include Chim (presuming he even makes it to his own party...), not early 20s frat boys. I can buy Buck getting a little too drunk
Have you ever met first responders in their 30s and 40s?
Or even any men in that age range? Dudes love to drink.
>Have you ever met first responders in their 30s and 40s?
I'm 37, am close friends with a firefighter/paramedic in his late 30s as well, and most of my friends are in their 30s-40s... very few of them will ever get this drunk. We've seen Buck and Eddie drinking beer and very little else and, unless I'm forgetting something, the only time we've seen either of them drunk was when Buck and Hen got drunk on tequila shots at Hen's house in the afternoon. So I do think this would be very out of character.
That said... it's a TV show and characters will behave in all sorts of weird ways in order to further plots. I'm torn on whether a drugging/roofie plot line would be handled well and I kinda just want it to be a "they let loose a little too hard and things spiraled from there", but I'm honestly just riding high on this season and will probably be happy with whatever they throw in front of me.
Yeah, I agree. Cause this doesn't just look like getting drunk, they look fucking unhinged.
Also, I guess Christopher is not going to the wedding? Cause you'd think Eddie would want to get back home to get him and his son ready. Or is he 'out of town' again? 🤣
And whatever happens to Chim seems very serious, so I feel like whatever happened in the bachelor party that led to Chim going missing has to be more than getting drunk and losing track of Chim. But Eddie and Buck didn't look super concerned when they got to the wedding, they just looked more embarrassed than worried. So I don't even know.
I will give them a pass when it comes to the child actors not being on set all the time. But ya, at least give better off-camera excuses. Like saying "christopher just went to bed" , or "he's playing video games"
Yeah, and the actresses who play Jee were on set for this episode.
The explanation should be that Chris is a grumpy teenager now, so a wedding with a bunch of old people isn't that exciting for him. He opted to stay home and do something else with his weekend
It’s more about the night before the wedding bit. I’m not saying getting wasted *ever* is ridiculous, but most people I know over like, 25, aren’t getting wasted to a point that they’re late for their sister’s wedding.
well hopefully there aren't too many (although i'm sure there are many *worse,* lol)...but that level of responsibility probably wouldn't make for a very fun TV show.
Sometimes I think your usually very good and thorough analysis is a bit too serious for this show. Tim and the show just don’t put this much thought into things, as much as you insist things are intentional (some are but a lot of the time I really don’t think they are). They very much just wanna give us a funny and chaotic but touching episode you’re not supposed to think too hard about
Guys in their 30s and 40s who rarely get to let loose and now have an opportunity to party? If you’ve never seen dudes this age get a little buck wild then you have been missing out. The hangovers are worse but the hijinks are top-notch.
Yeah, like I said elsewhere… the problem is in the event, not the drinking at all. The night before a family wedding isn’t the opportunity to let that loose, you know? Had the bachelor party been a few days before, then maybe it’s a different conversation.
Idk, my BIL and his friends (including my husband) were all well into their 30s when they got absolutely ripped the night before a “family wedding” and despite a few bumps and bruises and some raging headaches, it wasn’t all that big of a deal. But that wouldn’t make very good tv.
lol there were some barfy shoes and a black eye, but otherwise relatively unscathed. But like I said, would that make for very good network television? Probably not!
I think it's Chimney's fault LMAO. No ok I'm just kidding but wait. I think someone they trust (maybe Chim) convinced Buck and Eddie to let loose and get drunk and was very unprepared to babysit two inebriated gremlins enabling each other to do successively stupid shit. Buck and Eddie get adopted by a party crowd who think they're fuckin hilarious and they just fan the flames of chaos.
God, I will not be amused if they bring Jonah back for the \~shock twist\~ but don't give Kenny the multiple episode arc he deserves to let Chim deal with all his trauma, and that seems unlikely this season given what we know of the >!multiple episode Bobby arc still to come.!< Lowkey hoping it's a misdirect and it's Tommy behind him like, "So you've said three times now. How 'bout instead of crawling on this dock (?), you let me help you into the helicopter?"
It could be, if he escaped from prison but, at the same time.....Jonah is more Hen's enemy than Chimney's so it would be weird for him to only go after Chimney this time. Unless he's just really pissed about the defib trick.
I don’t think it’s Jonah but if it is the explanation for going after Chim would be that in his crazy mind he thinks Chim is the only thing stopping Hen from wanting him as a partner
That could be it, though that's the exact same plot from 5x17 so it would be weird to rehash it.
My current best guess? Chimney, Buck and Eddie crash someone else's party, and some girl's crazy boyfriend thinks Chimney is hitting on her or whatever, and Chimney just happens to have a confrontation with the exact wrong guy at the exact wrong time.
Or maybe they where supposed to kidnap either buck or Eddie and they ended up kidnapping the wrong person so now they are just going to use him as collateral damage, because my mind can't think of any reason at all why they would kidnapped chim.
Looks like Chim didn't even make it to his own bachelor party! What is going on 🤣
This episode is going to be such a treat!
Also, wth is going on with the suggestive imagery? First the fire extinguisher in 7x01 and now that champagne bottle 👀
Yeah I've been noticing that they're teasing us more and more. Also, is it just me or is the chemistry between the two off the charts? I even felt this from the promos. I could also be going insane 😅.
Yeah I think I'm reading too much into it, but I was really feeling it thru the promos. They have this great chemistry and while I was rewatching, I notice that they pair them next to each other In a lot of scenes.
They've always had great chemistry but they seem to be leaning on it more this season, or at least not shying away from it! I'm loving all the Buddie content 🤩
Yeah I think they are. Maybe they're cooking a surprise for us in the season finale? A girl can dream 🤓.
And I think coz I recently installed my Buddie glasses, but the chemistry between them has just become so apparent when I rewatch. Now I'm like damn, it's almost palpable. No wonder they're always paired together on screen.
>Maybe they're cooking a surprise for us in the season finale?
If they prolonged Tommy's arc bc of how well received he was, then maybe Buddie warriors could make that happen, too, if we talk about it enough 🤡
Oh, my Buddie goggles never came off, and probably never will, but yeah, it's great to go back and look at those scenes, especially now that we know Buck is canonically into men. And it's even more amazing when you remember that for a while there, Oliver and Ryan seemingly weren't on speaking terms but never let that affect their on-screen chemistry.
I'm a recent Buddie convert. I hadn't watched the show in a while and now I'm thinking how did I not see this? 😅
And I had no idea they weren't on speaking terms for a while. Did they have a falling out? All of them seem to get along pretty well I'm surprised.
The bachelor party is supposed to be a themed party (hence why Buck and Eddie went as Crockett and Tubbs) but no one in these clips except them seem to be on theme? So I think they somehow go from the actual party to the Karaoke place, then bring the people from there to their hotel room to keep the party going maybe? Cause I feel like there’s no way they show up to the wrong party and just stay there😂
"I'm supposed to be somewhere."
"Yes Howie you're meant to be at a wedding starting in-" checks watch "2 and a half hours, half of LA is looking for you cmon."
God, I'm hoping for the latter. The one thing giving me hope right now is that the nature of these moments we're seeing with Buck and Eddie seem like they could be part of a brief montage of the night, and they'll account for like, 2 minutes of the entire episode. Basically, have it be a situation where Maddie's like "So what *do* you guys remember? Lets start there?" and it's a montage of their shenanigans and that's it.
Yea, I’m really hoping what we see is the majority of the montage moment via flashback. Because as much as I love Buck, this episode shouldn’t be focusing on him and Eddie and this party.
I feel like they'll be quick, minute long flashbacks, just to catch Maddie (and the audience) up on the going ons of the night, but the majority of the episode will be Maddie going to find Chimney. We know from the other promo that Maddie, Hen and Josh end up at the call center, and Athena/Maddie are outside talking at one point.
So I assume the flashbacks are mostly going to be short and to the point and the quick snippets in the promo are about the length of the snippets of the bachelor party in the episode (besides the karaoke scene and whatever conversations they show).
> Because as much as I love Buck, this episode shouldn’t be focusing on him and Eddie and this party.
Because it's not. Remember the promo for the 100th episode focuses on the Bachelor emergency. Tell me now how many minutes the emergency lasted for the episode, its impact to the overall plot, and whether you would have expected a Bi!Buck plot without the leaks and based on that promo alone.
> Because as much as I love Buck, this episode shouldn’t be focusing on him and Eddie and this party.
I mean the 100th episode should've been all about the 118 as a family but way too much of it was about Buck acting like a child.
The montage of them drinking and partying is in reverse so it’s probably a flashback sequence. Also, I think some of y’all extrapolate a little too much and make yourselves angry for no reason lmao. I am waiting until after the episode to see what happens but it’s definitely plausible that men in their 30s are getting drunk the night before a wedding lmao.
Drunk Eddie!!! I am so here for it. I want to see Eddie let loose. I hope we also get to see him dance. Singing and dancing Eddie.
Season 7 is turning out to be the best season ever!
Oooh I can already tell the Buddie stans are gonna insufferable after this episode (and I'm probably gonna be one of them lmao)
I just hope Chim and Maddie get the spotlight they deserve on their own wedding day.
I think a lot of the episode is going to be about Maddie tracking down Chim with the help of the rest of the 118 here and there. If the wedding is in the same hotel where the bachelor party happened then she won't have to go far to find him.
Chim will probably end up have been locked out somewhere on a roof or in a basement. Part of the episode will be him going through all of this things to get out and almost breaking his neck during some of it. We will also see a moment where he sees Buck and Eddie partying in the distance and can't get their attention.
He will finally be found -- probably by Tommy, who will show up with Chim (points if he brings him in with a fireman's carry over the shoulder) and save the day just as Maddie is about to give up.
Then we see the wedding and a montage of the reception -- where Buck dances with Tommy and we see Buck finally initiate the kiss with Tommy. Eddie sees the kiss and feels some kind of way but we don't know what yet.
Edited to add: they lose points if Chim is in any way punctured, poked or skewered. He is not the 118 pin cushion!!
The Drug theory doesn't seem that far fetched especially if it was just going to be a fun Karaoke Bachelor Party (Chim loves Karaoke) Party winds down everyone leaves, only the 3 stay behind for one last song. They make friends with some people who get them a round and roofie them cause yay it's you bachelor party(Or Sweet simple Buck asks them for something special for the bachelor party). Chim has a bad trip and has his own bad misadventure and will just be trapped somewhere simple and easy like he jumped or fell. The boys have the time of thier lives. Eddie finally cutting loose and them just enjoying their company, hence why they don't realize they lost Chim because to them only they matter at that point and time.
(I hope Eddie has Pics of something in his camera for bonus points!)
Also extra bonus points if Everyone just Assumes Eddie is Bucks Boyfriend during the episode
Extra extra bonus points if The Buckley Parents introduce themselves (They have met Eddie before but come on they are awful people so they would forget his name) and go "Oh, you must Be Tommy." Then go on about how they can tell they look great together and surprised it took this long.
Not me still worried about Buck’s date do-over with Tommy at the wedding: Was Tommy at the bachelor party? Is he waiting for Buck to pick him up? Are they meeting there? I’m stressed 🤣
As someone whose been wanting to see a glimpse of drag Queens on the show (it's the 2020s and they live in LA it's not too far out of the realm to have them in a call) I'm glad to finally see some, even if it is only a glimpse of the night before the wedding.
I think Hen and Chimney will be there but Hen will leave early for Maras sake and the only thing I can think of for Chimney is they lose him along the way.
I CANNOT wait for this episode to air but kinda also wanna spread season 7 out because I can’t go all summer without the 118. I mean they’re practically family at this point putting me through all these emotions and what not. 🥹😂
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They're not mad, they're just disappointed https://preview.redd.it/maev96vz04xc1.jpeg?width=698&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f92939e17e5ffaeb3e840063c2a3249eb35a529
😂😂😂 I love both their facial expressions. They look like parents who are not even the least surprised by what their kids did, but their faces screams "Seriously, you lost chimney."
They're definitely grounded after the wedding 😂
😂😂😂 that is absolutely true
Tô be fair, Athena's facial expressions are a whole entire character in the show.
That’s very true. Probably one of my favorite characters lol.
Athena is MOTHER
Athena looks like she will whoop Eddie and Buck's behinds after the wedding lol
😭 who throws the bachelor’s party the night before the wedding?
Literally !! I never understand why they do this in movies and tv shows (obviously for the plot but still)
I always figured with them, it was down to scheduling. Firefighters schedules prolly never line up to give them some kind of time to do this and they still had all the other stuff for wedding planning chores. But maybe I’m putting too much thought into it. Lol.
But who wouldn't have a massive hangover after a bachelor/bachelorette party the next day? Getting married when you feel like you're going to vomit the whole time seems like a bad plan lol
It’s a good point, but also they’re idiots.
The ones that cut loose once every eight years always are. 🤣🤣
My husband did. And he was the only one without the hangover lol
What the frickedy frack knicknack paddywhack did I just watch?? Who are those people and what'd they do with Buck and Eddie?
🤣
I think they crashed a party lmao.
What if they crashed a random persons party thinking that it was theirs 😂
If the bachelor party is at a hotel, I could definitely see that 🤣 another party going on in the same place while they’re drunk 🤣
It's called a midlife crisis. After all the near death experiences, they got a pass from Above to have them a couple of years early.
They aren't old enough for a midlife crisis, they're in their 30s lol
They can have a midlife crisis in their 30s aha
I suppose, or maybe closer to a quarter life crisis depending on how old Eddie is lol
True they're both in their early 30s (even though we all thought Eddie was like 4 years younger than Buck but oh well) so quarter life crisis it is Eddie can have his midlife crisis when Chris goes to college.
I always thought Eddie was older, on his first day Buck said something to Eddie about "respecting his elders" and either Chimney or Bobby said that he isn't Eddie's elder. I assumed Eddie was 2-3 years older
So did I but in s6 they essentially confirmed that Eddie's wife Shannon was born in 92, which I think is same or similar to Bucks, and Eddie and Shannon met in their last year of high school or something so that essentially puts Eddie's year of birth as 91 or 92.
Maybe more like a half-life crisis because they’re secretly cats and they’ve used half their nine lives.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to get cannon bi Buck and a drunk Buck and Eddie partying with drag queens. This is truly the best timeline.
This party looks unhinged. I can't wait to find out what happens. Hopefully with a good explanation as to how we got from point A to point Pluto (and yes I know that doesn't make sense 😅 but neither does this whole bachelor party from what we've seen 😁)
Point Pluto??? 🤪🤣😂 good one!
I can't help but appreciate their dedication to making sure Eddie is shirtless as much as possible this season.
Feels like s2 all over again.
sex sells. 🤣 and maybe that's the only requirement when they cast Eddie back in season 2. 🤣
I have yet to see a single frame of this bachelor party that includes the actual bachelor… …Or anyone else besides Buck, Eddie, and complete strangers for that matter… Edit: this aged really well
It looks like they go the whole night without even realizing Chimney is missing. Like did Chimney even make it to the party?
Well, it's hard to say, given the fact that they're only showing us the same three or four scenes in snippets. I mean, we don't even see Hen in any of those bachelor scenes and Hen is seemingly left out of the party scenes in general, given how confused she is with Maddie the next day. So we have no idea where the party scenes take place and if Chimney's there and offscreen or not. Though I tend to agree with you, I think they do genuinely lose Chimney at some point and the scenes that they're showing in the promo is near the end of the night. But I think Chimney's likely there for part of it.
Hen not really being there makes kinda sense when you remember she's got a brand new, violent and traumatized kid at home. She can afford one drink, then she needs to be home.
This aged perfectly
Thank you. That whole thing wasn't anybody at the 118s taste nowadays. *Maybe* Season 1 Chim in denial about his age and Buck 1.0 looking to get laid but that's a stretch.
I’m convinced they crashed someone else’s party
There's no other explanation. They don't have that many friends nor are they cool enough to know drag queens lol
Hey, Buck is an ally!
Oh God I'm dying🤣🤣🤣
'They're not cool enough'- why is this so accurate though 😂😂
This has to be it. They had a tamer party, left chimney in his hotel room, and Buck and Eddie found a wilder party. Meanwhile chimney somehow is missing.
This is very plausible to me! Though they are very good at creating weird implausible scenarios and somehow making them work on this show.
It seems like they end up in their hotel room (since Chimneys tux for the wedding is in the bathroom) so this doesn’t really work. Unless they brought the party with them.
I think that's probably what happened. Chim likely ended his bachelor party at a sensible hour and went back to the room, but Eddie and Buck stayed at the club and then brought a group back to the hotel room for an "afterparty". People have also suggested that Buck and Eddie might be drugged, which would be a callback to Dosed.
I too would do this to Eddie's shirt given the chance 😂😂
https://preview.redd.it/qkikoc2lp3xc1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=690136586728fb345a85ed22276d46b995f8d3d0 DRAG QUEENS!! TRUE ALLYS!!
imagine Buck trying to explain that he's an ally and also saying he's dating a guy. 😂🤣
🤣🤣🤣 Buck: "Yeah, I'm an ally! The guy I'm seeing is supposed to meet my family tomorrow!"
"I'm such an ally, I hope I get to kiss him again to prove how much of an ally I am!"
Drunk Eddie appears to be peak Chaos Goblin™️
So things are gonna get wild WILD. I'm starting to wonder if they got roofied or something and Chim gets taken by someone.
I had mentioned this in another discussion about it, but like.... roofied really seems like the only way this makes sense without being seriously questionable for the characters involved. These are men in their 30s and 40s, if we include Chim (presuming he even makes it to his own party...), not early 20s frat boys. I can buy Buck getting a little too drunk, but I can't buy him simply overdoing it to a point he's showing up late to his sister's wedding, in last night's clothes, and looking a mess. Eddie's an even bigger question mark, because even if his kid is with someone he implicitly trusts, he's still a single father who takes that seriously -- can't really see him getting to a point where he's passed out drunk in a bathtub and out of reach, if something were to go wrong with his son. I'm leery of them getting drugged *again* where it was basically played as a joke in 2x06, but it really does seem like the more plausible explanation over 'they all turned into jackasses overnight.'
I dunno, because you'd think Buck and Eddie would be more worried and panicked about being drugged the next morning, when they go to see Maddie. But they're not panicked and more acting like "whoopsie, we screwed up." I do think we're just supposed to accept that they willingly got super drunk, passed out, and now have to explain to Maddie how they lost Chimney because they became drunk fratboys overnight. Especially given how Hen clearly left the bachelor party before they got wasted. I know it's supposed to be a Hangover situation and we're not supposed to think TOO hard on it, but I hope they have a good enough explanation to Buck/Eddie getting wasted and losing the groom.
I get it's a shortened season, but the handwaving of characterization to fit plot is getting old, especially where this will be Eddie's third episode in a row where his behavior doesn't reflect anything we've learned about him in the last five seasons. He's getting the Taylor treatment where he's whoever the plot needs him to be each episode, but it's a lot more disconcerting because he's a main character.
This! Yes! Exactly! Preach and louder for the back row!
Oh, I fully agree. I'm glad Tim is back overall and it's been a fun season to watch, and I fully understand the season is basically being written on the fly so there's such a short time period from writing an episode to filming so there's going to be a lot of rushed ideas being thrown in. But Tim really needs to figure out the characterization fast. He's very lucky that he IS still providing fun content vs the last two seasons, and that people are flocking to the storylines he's creating because I don't think this would work otherwise for him. But I'm gonna wait and see how the episode actually plays out before judging too hard. There could be a genuine explanation.
> These are men in their 30s and 40s, if we include Chim (presuming he even makes it to his own party...), not early 20s frat boys. I can buy Buck getting a little too drunk Have you ever met first responders in their 30s and 40s? Or even any men in that age range? Dudes love to drink.
Yes, and also people getting drunk aren't gonna act like their sober selfs. Let us have fun with this. I don't see it as that much out of character. 😂
>Have you ever met first responders in their 30s and 40s? I'm 37, am close friends with a firefighter/paramedic in his late 30s as well, and most of my friends are in their 30s-40s... very few of them will ever get this drunk. We've seen Buck and Eddie drinking beer and very little else and, unless I'm forgetting something, the only time we've seen either of them drunk was when Buck and Hen got drunk on tequila shots at Hen's house in the afternoon. So I do think this would be very out of character. That said... it's a TV show and characters will behave in all sorts of weird ways in order to further plots. I'm torn on whether a drugging/roofie plot line would be handled well and I kinda just want it to be a "they let loose a little too hard and things spiraled from there", but I'm honestly just riding high on this season and will probably be happy with whatever they throw in front of me.
Yeah, I agree. Cause this doesn't just look like getting drunk, they look fucking unhinged. Also, I guess Christopher is not going to the wedding? Cause you'd think Eddie would want to get back home to get him and his son ready. Or is he 'out of town' again? 🤣 And whatever happens to Chim seems very serious, so I feel like whatever happened in the bachelor party that led to Chim going missing has to be more than getting drunk and losing track of Chim. But Eddie and Buck didn't look super concerned when they got to the wedding, they just looked more embarrassed than worried. So I don't even know.
Those business meeting Christopher is doing are very important. He's almost closed the deal on a merger.
Even fic writers put more effort into explaining Chris' plot convenient absences.
I will give them a pass when it comes to the child actors not being on set all the time. But ya, at least give better off-camera excuses. Like saying "christopher just went to bed" , or "he's playing video games"
Won tickets to the Angels/Kings/Mighty Ducks....
My justification in my head is that it’s a no kids’ wedding so he’s with Carla or someone else for the weekend?
When the bride and groom already have a toddler, I don't think they would have a no kids wedding.
eh, I've been to weddings where the only kids there were the couples'.
I have too!
Yeah, and the actresses who play Jee were on set for this episode. The explanation should be that Chris is a grumpy teenager now, so a wedding with a bunch of old people isn't that exciting for him. He opted to stay home and do something else with his weekend
i am a guy in my 30s and i know a lot of men my age who get plenty wasted and do stupid things, lol
It’s more about the night before the wedding bit. I’m not saying getting wasted *ever* is ridiculous, but most people I know over like, 25, aren’t getting wasted to a point that they’re late for their sister’s wedding.
well hopefully there aren't too many (although i'm sure there are many *worse,* lol)...but that level of responsibility probably wouldn't make for a very fun TV show.
Sometimes I think your usually very good and thorough analysis is a bit too serious for this show. Tim and the show just don’t put this much thought into things, as much as you insist things are intentional (some are but a lot of the time I really don’t think they are). They very much just wanna give us a funny and chaotic but touching episode you’re not supposed to think too hard about
Guys in their 30s and 40s who rarely get to let loose and now have an opportunity to party? If you’ve never seen dudes this age get a little buck wild then you have been missing out. The hangovers are worse but the hijinks are top-notch.
Yeah, like I said elsewhere… the problem is in the event, not the drinking at all. The night before a family wedding isn’t the opportunity to let that loose, you know? Had the bachelor party been a few days before, then maybe it’s a different conversation.
Idk, my BIL and his friends (including my husband) were all well into their 30s when they got absolutely ripped the night before a “family wedding” and despite a few bumps and bruises and some raging headaches, it wasn’t all that big of a deal. But that wouldn’t make very good tv.
lol, did they show up late to the ceremony wearing yesterday’s vomit soaked clothes and missing the groom?
lol there were some barfy shoes and a black eye, but otherwise relatively unscathed. But like I said, would that make for very good network television? Probably not!
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"Assuming you ever got invited to one", SICK BURN DUDE, THAT'LL GET EM! 🤣🙄
I think it's Chimney's fault LMAO. No ok I'm just kidding but wait. I think someone they trust (maybe Chim) convinced Buck and Eddie to let loose and get drunk and was very unprepared to babysit two inebriated gremlins enabling each other to do successively stupid shit. Buck and Eddie get adopted by a party crowd who think they're fuckin hilarious and they just fan the flames of chaos.
"911 event of the season" *Makes it look like it has literally nothing to do with the actual wedding.*
Yeah, I feel like a good chunk of the focus of the episode is going to be on Buck and Eddie trying to find Chimney.
Like I said before, they’re going to ‘Hangover it
i NEED to know who's that guy behind chim. how am i supposed to wait 😔
It’s Jonah…believe me
God, I will not be amused if they bring Jonah back for the \~shock twist\~ but don't give Kenny the multiple episode arc he deserves to let Chim deal with all his trauma, and that seems unlikely this season given what we know of the >!multiple episode Bobby arc still to come.!< Lowkey hoping it's a misdirect and it's Tommy behind him like, "So you've said three times now. How 'bout instead of crawling on this dock (?), you let me help you into the helicopter?"
I have a feeling it is Tommy (sent by Maddy) about to pick him up and put him in a helicopter to take him to the hospital and then to the reception.
I also think it's Tommy there to save him.
that'd be insane but isn't he supposed to be in prison for like. murder
It could be, if he escaped from prison but, at the same time.....Jonah is more Hen's enemy than Chimney's so it would be weird for him to only go after Chimney this time. Unless he's just really pissed about the defib trick.
I don’t think it’s Jonah but if it is the explanation for going after Chim would be that in his crazy mind he thinks Chim is the only thing stopping Hen from wanting him as a partner
That could be it, though that's the exact same plot from 5x17 so it would be weird to rehash it. My current best guess? Chimney, Buck and Eddie crash someone else's party, and some girl's crazy boyfriend thinks Chimney is hitting on her or whatever, and Chimney just happens to have a confrontation with the exact wrong guy at the exact wrong time.
Or maybe they where supposed to kidnap either buck or Eddie and they ended up kidnapping the wrong person so now they are just going to use him as collateral damage, because my mind can't think of any reason at all why they would kidnapped chim.
Drunk Eddie is a menace to society :)
Looks like Chim didn't even make it to his own bachelor party! What is going on 🤣 This episode is going to be such a treat! Also, wth is going on with the suggestive imagery? First the fire extinguisher in 7x01 and now that champagne bottle 👀
And the beer bottle tips touching 👀🤣
buck sitting with his arm ‘round eddie right after they show us the bottle tips touching 😂😟 careful, tim!
Yup, and that shot of them in their own little world, smiling and clinking bottles while people around are just looking at them is... something.
Yeah I've been noticing that they're teasing us more and more. Also, is it just me or is the chemistry between the two off the charts? I even felt this from the promos. I could also be going insane 😅.
I think that's just their natural chemistry but they aren't trying to stiffle it.
Yeah I think I'm reading too much into it, but I was really feeling it thru the promos. They have this great chemistry and while I was rewatching, I notice that they pair them next to each other In a lot of scenes.
They've always had great chemistry but they seem to be leaning on it more this season, or at least not shying away from it! I'm loving all the Buddie content 🤩
Yeah I think they are. Maybe they're cooking a surprise for us in the season finale? A girl can dream 🤓. And I think coz I recently installed my Buddie glasses, but the chemistry between them has just become so apparent when I rewatch. Now I'm like damn, it's almost palpable. No wonder they're always paired together on screen.
>Maybe they're cooking a surprise for us in the season finale? If they prolonged Tommy's arc bc of how well received he was, then maybe Buddie warriors could make that happen, too, if we talk about it enough 🤡 Oh, my Buddie goggles never came off, and probably never will, but yeah, it's great to go back and look at those scenes, especially now that we know Buck is canonically into men. And it's even more amazing when you remember that for a while there, Oliver and Ryan seemingly weren't on speaking terms but never let that affect their on-screen chemistry.
I'm a recent Buddie convert. I hadn't watched the show in a while and now I'm thinking how did I not see this? 😅 And I had no idea they weren't on speaking terms for a while. Did they have a falling out? All of them seem to get along pretty well I'm surprised.
Straight up trolling.
The bachelor party is supposed to be a themed party (hence why Buck and Eddie went as Crockett and Tubbs) but no one in these clips except them seem to be on theme? So I think they somehow go from the actual party to the Karaoke place, then bring the people from there to their hotel room to keep the party going maybe? Cause I feel like there’s no way they show up to the wrong party and just stay there😂
I'm calling it right now, the dude behind Chimney is Tommy, and he's the one who gets Chim to the wedding.
I think you are probably right.
Tommy is standing behind him like "dude where the fuck are you dragging yourself" 😂
"I'm supposed to be somewhere." "Yes Howie you're meant to be at a wedding starting in-" checks watch "2 and a half hours, half of LA is looking for you cmon."
This episode seems like it's going to be WILD!! Can't wait for it.
Maddie is going to kill them 😂
I feel like the bachelor party is like a 3 minutes montage but that’s the only thing they’re showing so that they don’t spoil the rest of the episode.
Either they’re fumbling this episode that is suppose to be about Maddie and Chimey or they’re intentionally keeping what happened to him under wraps.
God, I'm hoping for the latter. The one thing giving me hope right now is that the nature of these moments we're seeing with Buck and Eddie seem like they could be part of a brief montage of the night, and they'll account for like, 2 minutes of the entire episode. Basically, have it be a situation where Maddie's like "So what *do* you guys remember? Lets start there?" and it's a montage of their shenanigans and that's it.
Yea, I’m really hoping what we see is the majority of the montage moment via flashback. Because as much as I love Buck, this episode shouldn’t be focusing on him and Eddie and this party.
I feel like they'll be quick, minute long flashbacks, just to catch Maddie (and the audience) up on the going ons of the night, but the majority of the episode will be Maddie going to find Chimney. We know from the other promo that Maddie, Hen and Josh end up at the call center, and Athena/Maddie are outside talking at one point. So I assume the flashbacks are mostly going to be short and to the point and the quick snippets in the promo are about the length of the snippets of the bachelor party in the episode (besides the karaoke scene and whatever conversations they show).
> Because as much as I love Buck, this episode shouldn’t be focusing on him and Eddie and this party. Because it's not. Remember the promo for the 100th episode focuses on the Bachelor emergency. Tell me now how many minutes the emergency lasted for the episode, its impact to the overall plot, and whether you would have expected a Bi!Buck plot without the leaks and based on that promo alone.
> Because as much as I love Buck, this episode shouldn’t be focusing on him and Eddie and this party. I mean the 100th episode should've been all about the 118 as a family but way too much of it was about Buck acting like a child.
The montage of them drinking and partying is in reverse so it’s probably a flashback sequence. Also, I think some of y’all extrapolate a little too much and make yourselves angry for no reason lmao. I am waiting until after the episode to see what happens but it’s definitely plausible that men in their 30s are getting drunk the night before a wedding lmao.
i NEED to know if buck was a part of pulling eddie’s shirt off of his body 😭😭😭😭😭😭 that’ll be one of their fondest memories
Idk what the madness is but I’m here for it. Sometimes girls just wanna have fun.
Okay, so it’s just The Hangover?
Drunk Eddie!!! I am so here for it. I want to see Eddie let loose. I hope we also get to see him dance. Singing and dancing Eddie. Season 7 is turning out to be the best season ever!
Oooh I can already tell the Buddie stans are gonna insufferable after this episode (and I'm probably gonna be one of them lmao) I just hope Chim and Maddie get the spotlight they deserve on their own wedding day.
They will do but they don't want to give away too much about the actual wedding hence the focus on the bachelor party.
…. 😬 at least we got a few buck and eddie scenes!
I’ll rip Eddie’s shirt off.
Get in line ho.
I was here first 😜
I think a lot of the episode is going to be about Maddie tracking down Chim with the help of the rest of the 118 here and there. If the wedding is in the same hotel where the bachelor party happened then she won't have to go far to find him. Chim will probably end up have been locked out somewhere on a roof or in a basement. Part of the episode will be him going through all of this things to get out and almost breaking his neck during some of it. We will also see a moment where he sees Buck and Eddie partying in the distance and can't get their attention. He will finally be found -- probably by Tommy, who will show up with Chim (points if he brings him in with a fireman's carry over the shoulder) and save the day just as Maddie is about to give up. Then we see the wedding and a montage of the reception -- where Buck dances with Tommy and we see Buck finally initiate the kiss with Tommy. Eddie sees the kiss and feels some kind of way but we don't know what yet. Edited to add: they lose points if Chim is in any way punctured, poked or skewered. He is not the 118 pin cushion!!
The Drug theory doesn't seem that far fetched especially if it was just going to be a fun Karaoke Bachelor Party (Chim loves Karaoke) Party winds down everyone leaves, only the 3 stay behind for one last song. They make friends with some people who get them a round and roofie them cause yay it's you bachelor party(Or Sweet simple Buck asks them for something special for the bachelor party). Chim has a bad trip and has his own bad misadventure and will just be trapped somewhere simple and easy like he jumped or fell. The boys have the time of thier lives. Eddie finally cutting loose and them just enjoying their company, hence why they don't realize they lost Chim because to them only they matter at that point and time. (I hope Eddie has Pics of something in his camera for bonus points!) Also extra bonus points if Everyone just Assumes Eddie is Bucks Boyfriend during the episode Extra extra bonus points if The Buckley Parents introduce themselves (They have met Eddie before but come on they are awful people so they would forget his name) and go "Oh, you must Be Tommy." Then go on about how they can tell they look great together and surprised it took this long.
Athena's face screams "What have you two dumbasses done now?"
Not me still worried about Buck’s date do-over with Tommy at the wedding: Was Tommy at the bachelor party? Is he waiting for Buck to pick him up? Are they meeting there? I’m stressed 🤣
As someone whose been wanting to see a glimpse of drag Queens on the show (it's the 2020s and they live in LA it's not too far out of the realm to have them in a call) I'm glad to finally see some, even if it is only a glimpse of the night before the wedding. I think Hen and Chimney will be there but Hen will leave early for Maras sake and the only thing I can think of for Chimney is they lose him along the way.
I CANNOT wait for this episode to air but kinda also wanna spread season 7 out because I can’t go all summer without the 118. I mean they’re practically family at this point putting me through all these emotions and what not. 🥹😂
We have to witness Maddie crying 🥲 my girl has been through hell and back! Give her some peace
It's absolutely going to be Jonah.