♪ happy birthday, dear ella ♪
- Bah-gah!
♪ happy birthday to you ♪
- Bah-gah! Now, go for it, ella.
no, no, not silly string!
Hey, no, no!
Oh, my god! Oh, my god!
Get this thing off of me!
I don't want to die!
- Everyone, stay back.
- All right, he's good! He's good, he's good!
- Okay, pal, let's get you up.
- You all right in there? - Whoo, hey.
Everything's fine.
Nothing to see herrre.
- It's just a parrot who got a little bit charrred.
- Oh, whoa, whoa, it's okay, it's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
- This happens every month. - Every sign a waiver?
Did y'all sign a waiver? - Oh, no. It-it's okay.
He's okay. He's fine. He's fine. He's fine.
- ♪ well, I'm hot-blooded ♪
♪ check it and see ♪
♪ I got a fever of 103 ♪
♪ I'm hot-blooded ♪
- Oh, man.
I'm really never gonna see my puppets again.
- You okay?
- The fiery mascot really brought back bad memories.
The smell of burning felt really turned my stomach.
- Aw, I know it's painful, but it'll get better with time.
- It's been 14 months.
When is the hurtin' gonna stop?
hi, gampy.
- Is that my favorite fire-fighting pirate?
- Commish.
Tell the commish I said hi. - Gampy, ike says hi.
- Who the hell is ike? - You know ike.
I work with him.
- Oh. Uh, hello, sir.
- That's one of the idiots that burned down my station!
- It's... it's not ike.
Tell him it's not... stop. - Stop what?
- You're looking at someone else.
This isn't ike. Lucy! Turn the phone around.
What's the matter with you? - Oh, oh, oh. Sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Say it was a different ike.
- What's up, gampy?
- What happened to the mascot?
- Oh, petey the parrot, chief. - I don't care. What happened?
- Costume caught fire. Silly string.
- Fucking silly string. It's worse than glitter.
You guys are supposed to monitor
Candle-lightings at birthday parties.
- We had two heat-exhaustion calls.
And that stupid dickhead parrot was supposed to wait for us.
- Chief, can I speak to you?
- Uh, we got to go check davy jones' locker.
His torches might be burning too hot, so...
- I don't need an excuse. Just leave.
- Sorry, chief. - okay. Great.
Chief. - What happened today
At the birthday arrrchipelago? - Silly string fire.
- Ah, fuckin' silly string, huh?
nothing good comes from it.
and, uh, where was your crew?
- Well, we had multiple heat-exhaustion calls.
And paulie jumped the gun on the candles.
He was supposed to wait, so... - Paulie who?
- The parrot. Paulie the parrot.
- It's petey. - Oh, my bad.
Petey is my nephew.
So how do I explain that to his mother?
- Well, hopefully his mother is one of those parrots
- That speaks english. - really?
Do you mind if we parley, terry?
I'm starting to get the impression
That you don't like this job.
- That's not true, sir.
- You don't know the mascot's name.
- Pete the parakeet. - Petey the parrot.
Pirates have parrots, not parakeets.
- What's the difference?
- I don't know, actually.
This is a special place, terry.
I need someone who's gonna loot and plunder with me
On this voyage.
- Well, I will loot and plunder with you on the voyage, sir.
- Good, 'cause life is too short
To do things you don't want to do, terry.
And I'm sure you don't want to make me
Make you walk the plank.
- What? - I'm joking. Oh, come on.
Sometimes I can make a pirate joke, too, you landlubber.
- hey. - Right?
- Just batten down the hatches, hmm?
Not a joke. - Okay.
- Hey. What did skipper say?
- Dead men tell no tales.
- Ha ha! "weekend at bernie's," yeah.
- I got some good news from gampy.
The rebuild on station 24 is done.
- Good for the tfd. - That's not all.
Turns out they're understaffed.
He said it would be a headache
To pull people from other stations,
So I suggested he take us back.
- Ha! Yeah right. He would never do that.
- He said yes! - Oh! Stop lying.
- What? - Yes!
- We're all going back to station 24, just like that?
it's almost too easy, luce.
- What about andy? Is andy coming back?
- No, no, definitely not... He's working full-time
For his uncle's carpet company now.
- I thought he didn't love that job.
- No, he's in the showroom now,
And apparently it's pretty low-key.
- Oh, is that what he's looking for?
Something low-key? - Low-key's cool.
So, dad, what do you say?
- Best of luck to you.
- Oh, come on.
You hate this job. - I don't hate this job.
- Is this about uncle eddie?
- Eddie has nothing to do with it.
- We can get him to come back, too.
- It's not about eddie!
Besides, I hear he's got a new job, so...
- Okay, well, gampy said we can go to the station.
So why don't you come with us
And see what they've done to it?
Wow. Both: Whoa!
- Unbelievable. - This is amazing.
- Son of a bitch. - This is our station.
- Shiny! - oh, baby!
A lot different than when we last saw it, huh?
- Yeah. There's actually a roof.
look at this...
New workbench, washer-dryer.
- Granny, what's wrong, man. You okay?
- I just got a little shiver
Remembering my puppets, you know?
- Just take it slow, man.
Lot to take in.
Aw, man.
What the hell?
Didn't the door used to be here?
- Oh, I heard for structural reasons,
They had to move everything a few inches to the left.
- Yeah. No, I've heard of that. That makes sense.
You can kind of tell.
- Huh.
- Whoo. - So?
- It looks good. - Yeah?
- We should burn down our station more often.
Hey, you guys!
Look at this.
Whoa! They redid everything. Are you kidding me?
Look at the kitchen! It's brand-new.
And new chairs! Whoo!
Wait, there's a vibrating button.
- Ha. Eddie always wanted one of those.
I'm gonna go look around.
All right.
I'm gonna go check out the bunk room.
Damn!
It really is a game of inches.
- Certainly seems like there's more space around here.
- Right?
Oh!
- Granny, why didn't you save us?
- You let us burn!
Shame! Shame!
- What? - Uh, it's just...
I'm really impressed with this new fridge.
- Whoo.
- Hey, guys.
There's a great new captain's office.
Eddie would love it.
Oh, and there's actually a bidet in the chief's bathroom,
Which I know he'd want to use.
- Yeah, but what did you think?
I think I miss the place.
I'm coming back to station 24.
- Whoo! - Yeah!
- Yes! - Awesome!
- Yay.
- On one condition.
Eddie comes back, too.
He was my right-hand man after all.
- Okay.
Let's go get uncle eddie.
All right!
- Whoo! Getting the team back together!
- Whoo! Oh. - Oh, jesus.
- Wait, this was a push before, though, right?
- His blood pressure's dropping.
We're losing too much blood.
- I know, I'll give him my blood.
- Will that work? - Absolutely. I'm o-negative.
- Don't go to the light!
- Rhonda, this isn't how it works.
- Research says people don't know how it works,
So it's okay. - Yeah, but if she gave him
A person-to-person transfusion like this...
the chances of her killing him
Are remarkably high... Like, he's gonna die.
- People don't care, eddie.
All right. Uh, let's cut.
Uh, can we get nick up in here
With some more soot, please? - Okay.
- Ed penisi, technical consultant.
- Hey! What's up, guys?
- Oh, cap, when you said you were working
For a different fire department,
This is not what I pictured.
Looks like a tv show or something.
- It's the new rhonda shimes spin-off of "pittsburgh fd."
It's called "pittsburgh fd: Seattle."
It's pretty good. - Oh, cool.
- Huh? - Oh.
- Whoo. Look at uncle eddie.
You've gotten so big... Time.
- Yeah. Little more sitting around
Than I'm used to, but I'm not complaining.
- Hey, captain eddie.
Thanks for the tip with the helmet earlier.
I owe you one. - Yeah, you got it, cassie.
- Wait, cap. Who's that girl? I think I know her.
- Oh, that's cassie carrison, the lead actress.
She's a crossover from "pittsburgh fd: Austin."
- No way. Cool. - Oh, that's why.
- She's huge in australia.
- Was she in "dugglywumps"? - Yes.
And also she was on that australian soap opera
"great barrier reef housewives" or something like that.
I don't know. Oh, thank you, hannah.
I love this gig... Best gig I've ever had.
Wild horses couldn't drag me away.
- This is free? - Every day.
- Cap, this job is "noyce."
- So, anyway, the station's ready.
I'm gonna go back, and I was thinkin'
We shouldn't go back without our captain, right?
- You expect me to leave all of this?
They lent me a convertible. - Oh, wow.
- Thanks, hannah.
- You should see the station, though.
Your office is redone.
There's vibrating buttons on the lounge chairs now.
Oh, and I have a bidet in my bathroom.
You can use it whenever you want.
- I have a bidet in my trailer.
- Cap, this is so awesome.
I can't believe you... - Ike, zip it.
- No, I know. I-I... - Lucy, he's right.
I love it here.
I get to pitch rhonda shimes ideas.
I'm learning all kinds of new things.
- Points! Points!
- A little warning, pal. - Yeah.
- That actually was the warning... "points."
That means watch your back, something's coming through.
- Listen, I was saying,
It would be great if you came back.
- My father fired me.
- We could get him to change his mind.
- He owes me an apology.
- He's not gonna apologize to you.
- Then I'm not coming back.
- Hey, eddie, can you help me get these suspenders off?
I can't figure them out. - I'll be right there, cass.
- Cheers, legend. - Cheers, big ears.
actors, am I right?
- Wow. - Take it easy.
okay, best job ever.
- Ike, shut up.
- He wants an apology from his father?
There's no way. - There is a way.
You got to grovel. You want me to grovel for him?
- If you want to get him back here, yes.
That's what I did to get us back here.
Hey, sometimes it's worth it.
- Did you see his ass?
I know, right? It's huge.
What's in there, pudding?
oh, man.
Granny... - Hmm?
You okay, man? You seem tired.
- I just haven't been sleeping well lately.
- I think we've got something that's gonna cheer you up.
- Okay, granny, ike and I got you something
To make you feel more at home in the new station.
- Come on.
- Come on, you didn't have to do this.
- Eh, it's an present. Come on, man.
- I didn't even get you guys anything.
- Nah, just open it. - Don't worry about it
Come on.
oh, my!
A brand-new fireman bob puppet?
Thanks, guys. - Yeah.
- Wow.
Granny...
- Don't let him burn, too, asshole.
- Aah!
I can't take it anymore. I see dead puppets.
Everywhere!
- Granny, wait. Granny!
- Are you fucking crazy?
An apology?
- Wolf boykins is the one who blew up the station.
- And eddie was the captain on duty.
- And I was the chief.
- And I ain't apologizing to you either.
The only reason you're coming back
Is because of my perfect, angelic granddaughter
Used her sorcery on me.
- Dad. May I call you dad?
- No.
- Eddie wants to come back.
- How about you apologize to me?
- For what? - For quitting.
- No way. - Grovel.
- I'm sorry for quitting. - Say you'll never quit again.
- I will never quit again.
- "thank you for making me chief
Because I married your daughter."
- I am not saying that.
- You want eddie back, you'll say it.
Thank you for making me chief
Because I married your daughter.
- Okay.
I accept your apology.
- You do? - Yeah.
Groveling is not a good look on you, terry.
- So you'll apologize to eddie, though?
- You're so pathetic that, yes, I will apologize.
- As long as he apologizes to me first.
- For what? - For burning down my station!
- Fine.
I'll see what I can do.
- Damn it! Come on!
This meteor's too hot!
It's melting the forceps.
- His oxygen's low. We need to hurry!
Damn you, meteorite!
- Rhonda, technically, if a meteor hits somebody,
They would die instantly.
And, of course, if they survived,
Anything hot enough to melt those forceps
Would burn right through his chest cavity.
- Thanks for that, eddie.
Hey, I hear the beef-jerky truck
Just showed up.
Why don't you grab something? - Come on!
- Where do they keep coming from?
Okay, sure. Yeah.
Take me next time!
- Yeah, buddy, I will take...
- Hey, eddie.
- Hey, terry. Hang on a second.
Mango habanero bag, please.
- You want some beef jerky? - Yeah, always.
Let me get that.
- Hey, I told you, everything's free... here.
- A truck full of free beef jerky?
- Mm-hmm.
- You really do have it good here.
- That I do.
- Listen, the reason I came here is to tell you
That your father has agreed to apologize to you.
- He did? - Yeah.
- Jerky. - Mm. Thank you.
Wow. - Provided...
You apologize to him, too.
- For what? - The station burning down.
- Not gonna happen.
- Hey, hey, what do you mean "not gonna happen"?
What are you talkin' about?
Hey, I humiliated myself for you.
- Not my problem.
- Hey, wait a minute.
Hey! Don't you walk away from me.
Hey, it is your problem.
- Terry mcconky, this is rhonda shimes,
Creator of the show.
- Oh. - The terry mcconky?
Eddie's always going on about you.
"terry this, terry that."
- Oh.
Rhonda, uh, my wife, vicky, and I very much enjoy
Your programs.
We've watched all 32 seasons of "grey's academy."
Yeah, so...
- What's happening, eddie?
- The air bottles have run out of air.
Hang on. - Oh.
- Damn it, eddie, I went in there and ate crow for you.
He did the thing where he makes you repeat
What he says, even though you don't want to.
- Oh, I hate when he does that. - I did that for you!
- Good. You should have. - What does that mean?
All right, all right.
- Did you ever think that maybe you're to blame
For this, too? - Me?
- You quit.
You didn't help me because you had
One foot out the door to pirate world.
- I had nothing to do with you getting fired.
That was between you and your father.
- Yeah? Well, I'm not coming back.
And you can thank yourself for that.
- You know, eddie, the only bigger ass
Around here than you is your ass.
hot points.
- Hot points you! I'm going back to pirate world.
- That your mate? - No, he's not my mate.
Ah, damn it.
- What's going on? - Hey.
- There he is.
Thanks for coming, man.
- We know you've been struggling,
So we wanted to connect you to your ghost
So you can lay it to rest.
We're gonna have a séance.
- You guys, I don't need a séance.
- Come on, please, sit down. Join us.
- All right. - Okay.
Fine.
- So we're gonna connect to your puppets.
This is gonna be for the best. - This is a wa-gee board.
Apparently it's magic. We haven't tried it yet, but...
- Never done this before, so, um...
- We're just gonna dive in. Three, two, let's go.
- Fireman bob, if you're out there,
We seek to connect with you.
Both: Are you here...
- With us? - Right now?
- Okay, uh, my arms feel
Like they are just floating right now.
Granny, this is freaky.
I swear to god I am not moving this thing at all.
- Uh, y?
Y. - This is...
A little scary and pretty exciting.
- E.
- I think it's trying to spell something.
Let...
- D? What does "yed" mean?
D? - Hey, you guys.
You know what? - You said for sure.
- We don't need to do this. It's okay.
- Why don't we talk to fireman bob directly?
- Yes. There is another way.
granny, if you'll indulge us
One more time.
- Fireman bob, we are here to connect
And just are gonna keep our eyes closed in prayer
And... and love and deep understanding
And all things...
- If we open our eyes, and we say three, two, one.
- Oh, god! - It's okay, granny.
It's okay. It's okay. He's here to forgive you.
- Do you think I'm a crazy person?
- No. - Do you think I need
Forgiveness from a burnt puppet?
- You've been seeing ghosts, granny.
- Ugh, look, I've been struggling with my memories,
And that's understandable.
But it doesn't mean that I think
That my puppets are ghosts.
That's insane.
- Wait, wait, wait. Not in front of him.
I mean, we want to keep him in this dimension.
We don't want... - Okay, look.
I appreciate what you guys are doing, all right?
But most of all, I'm just glad to be back here with you guys.
I love you, all right?
I'ma be all right.
But did you have to go and burn a perfectly new puppet?
- We had good intentions. - I know you did.
- Thanks for coming, granny. Oh, well, you blew that.
- I told you the puppet was a bad idea.
- He's really freaking me out, actually.
Yeah. Let me get rid of it.
- Wow.
I like what they've done with the place.
- Oh, you got to be fucking kidding me!
- What the hell are you doing here?
- Lucy...
Told me they were doing the big ribbon-cutting ceremony
For the new station.
She said they had
The big scissors waiting for me.
I've been "parent trapped."
- She said she found my recipe-nisi book
And that it didn't burn in the fire.
Was that a "parent trap"? - It was.
And your book did burn. - "parent trap."
- I don't appreciate being "parent trapped," young lady.
- You two should be ashamed of yourselves.
Dad put himself out there, and you both crapped on him,
And now he's gone, and you're gonna fix it.
Gampy, apologize. - No way.
- You set an example right now.
Sorry I fired you...
When you burned down my station.
- Okay. - Close enough.
You, apologize.
- No way. - Apologize!
- Okay. Jeez.
I'm sorry you think I burned down the station,
When you know it was wolf boykins.
- Close enough.
Now figure out how you're gonna get my dad back here.
- Whoa. - Wow.
She really knows how to get to me.
Jeez, your ass is huge.
- What? It's muscle.
- Thank you, jeff.
- Are churros free?
- For me, it is.
- Seems like a pretty good place to work.
- There some reason you're here?
- So I was thinking about going back to station 24,
And I was wondering if you wanted to come with me.
- Did you dad apologize to you? - Yeah. Lucy tricked us.
- "parent trap"? - Yeah, a good one.
- Good for her.
- All right, terry...
- What are you doing? - Terry mcconky...
- Oh, jesus. - Will you make me
The happiest fire captain in the world
And say yes to coming back to station 24 with me?
- Say "terry, you're the best chief ever."
- Ha ha ha ha. Okay, we're doing this?
- Yeah.
- Terry, you're the best chief ever.
- "terry, you won the shrimp-eating contest in 1997."
- Terry, you won the shrimp-eating contest
Back in 1997.
- Say "terry, I will never have sex in your office."
- Terry, I will never have sex in your office.
- That's a lot to promise. Think you can live up to it?
- That's how much you mean to me.
And, yes, I do.
- Eh, get up. - Ahh.
Ah. Oh, my god.
That's so weird. How did that happen?
- Yeah, I figured.
Friends?
All right, peace offering. Have a churro.
- It's... churro. - Yeah, churro.
That's what I said. - No, no. Choo-ro.
- Chor-o. That's what I'm saying.
- Okay. And thank you. I accept.
Although I probably shouldn't,
'cause I got to dump some junk from my trunk.
- I was gonna say that.
You're lookin' a little haunch-y.
- It's very haunch-y. Here you go, parrot.
- Yeah, thanks, bubble butt.
- What did you say?
- Oh! - Okay. All right.
Wow. Your ass really packs a wallop.
- Let's get out of here. - Yeah. Let's get out of here.
Here.
- Hey, look at this guy, huh? - Whoa-ho-ho.
- The old uniform makes your butt look smaller.
- I know it. Slimming. - Oh.
- Man, it feels good to be back in uniform.
You look good, too, chiefy. - Thank you.
Hey, aren't rhonda shimes and "pittsburgh fd: Seattle"
Gonna miss you? - Ah, who cares?
They never listened to what I said.
I think I was just eye candy.
- Box alarm, engine 24, rescue 42,
Respond on the box. - Let's do it.
- Priority one, to 29th street and lotus.
- It's a pull. Ah, I'm getting it.
Oh! So close. - Come on.
- Hey, who's gonna be the technical consultant
On that tv show?
- Ah, well, it just so happens I found them a replacement.
I think he's gonna be perfect for them.
- And eddie really recommended this guy?
Not sure why.
- Now, here's a tip from a real firefighter.
So there I am... I'm on the 60th floor
By myself. - Hold on, mate.
There's no buildings that tall in seattle.
- Not important.
- So I'm up there on the 60th floor by myself...
- Wait a minute. Didn't you work in tacoma?
- You guys are really getting hung up on the details.
The point I'm trying to make is when you deliver that line,
It's got to be epic.
Can I give you a line read? - Sure.
- The only way that fire's gonna win...
Is over my dead body.
And scene. Huh?
- Great, yeah. Perfect.
- Points! - Oh! My scapula!
- Yeah, can we get an ambo for dingo over here?
- It's wolf.