Episodes 1.04 & 1.05: "Different Is Good"

Don't Forget the Chickpeas

In this episode, we covered 1.04, “Can You Hear Me Now”, and 1.05, “Reality Bites Me”. We get our first Alex (yay!) and a new dad (boo). We discuss Toby’s masculinity, Mona’s love for Hanna, shoes on furniture, and strategies to cope with watching Ezra’s scenes. We also spend way too much time talking about Homecoming even though the dance doesn’t happen in either of these episodes. “Follow me, end up like me!”
Episode Transcript: Read it on Buzzsprout!
Chickpea Recipe: Deepa’s Chana Masala!
Corrections:

• This will come up in the next podcast episode, but Deepa and Cameron are both incorrect in saying that Melissa doesn’t give out the Homecoming Queen crown in the Homecoming episode
• Deepa’s also incorrect in saying that Maya won’t be around for a while after these episodes
• Cameron briefly mentions a reference made to Dissociative Identity Disorder in one of the episodes, but uses the older term “Multiple Personality Disorder”

Foot Vision: An artist’s rendering (so that we don’t have to show our actual feet on the internet)
Fashion Analysis: Our best and worst outfits!

Literary Analysis:

• Deepa tried to find a good disability studies analysis of To Kill A Mockingbird but the best thing Deepa could find was this book that appears to have two interesting essays on the topic (chapters 13 and 14)

Things We Referenced Only Sort of Related to PLL:

• In case you didn’t know, the actor who plays Ezra’s college friend Hardy (who was later one of the stars of Suits) is married to Troian Bellisario

Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL:

• Elite and Samu’s macaroni
• Clueless and Tai & Travis’s first meeting
• Grey’s Anatomy and Meredith barging into the therapist’s office
• Friday Night Lights and the Taylors at school dances
• Lord of the Rings and hobbit fashion

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