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Season One
Episode 1 - Pilot
- Owen explaining his very in-depth skincare routine to Paul and Mateo.
- Owen's insistence on his 'signature look' and the lengths he goes to maintain it.
- The exchange between the 126 team and the Racist Grandma, when she tries to fake a heart attack to avoid Owen's citizen's arrest. Also doubles as a Moment of Awesome for everyone not buying her “poor-me” bullcrap.T.K: Cap, we can't take her to jail if she's having a heart attack.
Owen: I know. Marjan, take her BP.Marjan: On it, Cap.
Owen: Maybe give her some mouth-to-mouth.
Ellen: No! Not her!
Marjan: So maybe you're not having a heart attack?
Ellen: I am. I definitely am! Can't you do it?
Owen: Not certified.
Ellen: Oh. How about him? (points to T.K.)
T.K.: Sure, ma'am, but just so you know, I am a homosexual. (tips his hat)
Ellen: Oh. (points to Judd)
Judd: No.
Ellen: He can do it. (Ellen points to Paul) I told you I am not a racist! You're not a homosexual, are you?
Paul: Oh, no, ma'am. But I am trans.
Ellen: (puts her hands up in resignation) Take me to jail. - Owen's nightmare where he goes bald and people would rather die than be saved by his bald head.
- Owen, Judd and TK tricking a conspiracy theorist into leaving a building that's about to explode by pretending they're "With the Resistance."
- Bonus points for Judd clearly thinking, “Are we really playing into this chucklehead’s dystopian delusion?”
- After TK is processed, and he resolves things with Carlos, he gets his belongings and prepares to leave the station. Then Carlos makes a light-hearted icebreaker about the earlier Bar Brawl and TK feeling numb:
- Carlos: Judging by your lip, I’d say mission accomplished.TK: (visibly surprised) Really? You’re busting my balls now?Carlos: Yeah. (smirks lightly) I guess I am.TK: (smiles despite himself before leaving)
- The scene where Carlos and Owen discover a woman fell from her balcony because she was trying to show off a yoga pose hanging from the railing.Carlos: What the heck did I just watch?Owen: Pride before the fall.
- Bonus points for Owen nodding approvingly when she explains how she became the top yoga influencer on YouTube.
- On their next group trip to the bar, TK ends up venting his frustration about Judd’s assumptions to Carlos over a game of darts. Carlos is mildly annoyed about this taking up their hang-out time, leading to this flirtation:
- TK: (indignantly) You know I’m holding a dart?Carlos: (unfazed) And I’m packing a piece.TK: (Beat) That’s hot.
- Michelle yelling at Owen to "Get a therapist!"
- Owen seeing Dustin (who he’d beaten up and vomited on the previous night) and very casually saying "’Sup."
- Marjan and Paul's reaction to the fact that Mateo handing out water to the crew made the news and not them.Marjan: I went into an upside down car.Owen: I used the jaws of life.
- Then there's Mateo's thoughts of him on TV:
Mateo: Do I look that swole in real life? Curls for the girls.
- The entire bull semen factory call, specially for poor Judd.
- Owen and Billy dragging each other.Billy: Yeah, me, I don't bother too much with surface level concerns like appearances.
Owen: Yeah, the camo hat made the point for you. - Sofia, one of the little girls he saves from the barking dog, compliments TK.Sofia: You know you have really big muscles?
Marjan: Trust me, he knows.
TK: (to Sofia) Thanks. - Owen practicing golf. Inside his office. He's... not great.
- The gang waking Mateo up in the middle of the night to quiz him.
- Owen's face when Billy calls him "Pretty boy."
- Though not played for laughs, Owen confiding in a bull with its head stuck in a car and comparing their situations is pretty funny.
- TK arguing with Owen about playing golf with Billy.TK: You just had to play golf with him?
Owen: (petulantly) Well, you don't play with me.
TK: Yeah, well I could learn!
- When dealing with a rattlesnake infestation, Judd runs out of Co2, that he and Owen were blasting the snakes with, so Judd throws the empty canister at the snakes before bolting out of the room.
- The 126 attempting to win Buttercup’s affection, with the dog only taking a particular liking to TK.
- The team help a little boy who got a toy car stuck up his nose. After successfully getting it out and leaving, the team gets another call from the same family, only this time, it's the father who got a toy car up his nose because he wanted to figure out how his son got it up there.
- It should be noted that Paul treated the boy and promised that it wouldn't hurt. When it did, the boy accused Paul of being a liar.
- If you look closely, you can see Marjan is trying not to laugh at the dad.
- In the middle of TK momentously waking up from his coma, he notices Zoe at the foot of his bed and mistakes her for one of his nurses; Owen is slow and awkward to correct him.
- Once things settle (both after Zoe leaves to give the men privacy and after Owen tells TK about the events that led to his coma), father and son have quite a relatable conversation about the new developments in their love lives. Then Owen asks about Carlos’ visit— TK can only respond with a sheepish Face Palm.
TK: Okay, there is one more thing I have to ask, but… you gotta promise to give it to me straight.Owen: Sure, anything.TK: What’s the deal with that hot babe Zoe?Owen: (indignantly) First of all, she is not just a hot babe, she is the head of the psychology department at UT. […] (concedes) And she is a really hot babe.TK: (giggling) Yeah. She is. So, you gonna tell me how long you’ve been seeing her?Owen: When you tell me how long you’ve been seeing the cop.TK: (under his breath) Oh my god...
- A lightly amused Carlos points out to TK how long he’s info-dumped about boba, Billie Eilish, a sports game, and the underappreciation for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: a full six minutes.
- Mateo freaking out about breaking Owen's prized coffee maker.
Season Two
Episode 1 - Back In The Saddle
- Carlos's practical response to what to do if the military vehicle tries to shoot.Carlos: (with a “You seriously think I know everything?” face) Duck.
- The gang expressing what they missed before lockdowns.Paul: Live music.
TK: Nightclubs.
Mateo: Hugs. - TK complaining about being stuck with his parents during the quarantine.Owen: TK, did you use the last of my Naseberry Eye Exfoliant?
TK: Do you think I have a death wish?
Owen: That's unbelievable. You know, she also moved my hand towel, which I expressly asked her not to do-
TK: Dad, please don't freak out.
Owen: And her long, chestnut hairs are in my brush. Who does she think she is?
[...]
Owen: TK, can you tell your mother that I can put up with a lot, but I will not stand for someone stealing my last line of defence beauty products?
TK: No, I'm not gonna do that.
Gwyn: And will you kindly remind your father that he stole my beauty products for all ten years of our marriage, and this is no way to treat a guest!
TK: I'm not gonna do that either.
Owen: A guest? Ha, a guest stops being a guest after a month. Or four. From then on out, you are a squatter.
TK: Oh, God, Dad. Why?
Gwyn: It is not my fault that you allowed our only child to be shot right before a worldwide pandemic hit!
TK: (disgruntled Face Palm) Mom, why?! - Judd’s plan to distract a crossbolt shooter attacking Owen, Tommy and a cell tower worker? While Paul, Marjan and Mateo run upstairs to the apartment/ sniper nest, he and TK give the shooter (who turns out to be a woman) a surprisingly cute "Hey, You!" Haymaker with a burst of hose water to the face.
- Marjan, Mateo and Paul spare no snark about her absurd belief in cell towers spreading coronavirus after APD arrives to arrest the sniper as well.
- Buck's reaction to the Texas humidity.Buck: It feels like getting slapped with a wet towel.
- Buck recognizing Marjan.Buck: Wait, I know who that is! She's Firefox.
(Eddie and Hen shrug)
Buck: Firefox?
(Eddie shakes his head)
Buck: Wait, you guys seriously don't know who Firefox is? She's gone viral, like, five times. Total badass. I, uh, follow her on Instagram. ...Some reason she didn't follow me back. - Buck and TK going up to save Hen and Owen respectively.TK: Hey, you don't have to do this. There's no reason that both of us get fired.
Buck: Hey, my friend's up there too. She would do the same thing for me. ...I think. (Beat) She would. - Eddie begging Marjan to follow Buck back on Instagram.
- Buck (unknowingly) flirting with TK.Buck: Hey, if you ever find yourself in LA, we should get together.
TK: Sure. I gotta mention, though, I already have a boyfriend and it's pretty serious, so...
- Grace gets a call from a BDSM submissive who was in the middle of a play session when his dominatix suffered an anaphylactic reaction to bee stings. As he's tied up, Grace tries to give him some instructions to free himself, which the sub starts panicking over and refusing to donote . Grace then starts to motivate him by speaking like she was his dominatrix and is able to encourage the man to do what she "ordered", much to the confusion and amusement of her coworkers. One of them even quips "Fifty Shades of Grace" when the call finally ends.
- Owen and Gwyn beating Judd, Grace, Tommy and Charles at charades.
- Owen yelling out, “Never Tell Me the Odds!”Gwyn: Han Solo. It's a thing he does.
- Mateo calling TK's tattoo a beetle.TK: It's not a beetle, it's a honeybee.
- Mateo getting a tattoo that says 'Guardian Angle' instead of 'Guardian Angel.' Paul and TK have a very appropriate Double Take.Paul: My man has a typo permanently tattooed on his back.
TK: That is unfortunate.- Followed by TK and Paul begging Marjan to tell Mateo about the tattoo instead of them.
- Tommy immediately clocking that Gwen is pregnant.
- The candidates who audition to take the place of Tim are hilariously ill-prepared: one of them is incredibly clumsy and ends up running over Nancy's foot, leaving her out of commission for the rest of the episode, the second one decides the best course of action to calm a distraught family member is to head-butt him, and the third faints at the sight of an eye impalement.
- Tommy and Charles’ argument turns into a food fight, that the twins join in on.
- Owen being unable to destroy Enzo's bowl until the end of the episode because it's too beautiful.
- TK calling both his parents "anal retentive control freaks."
- Mateo walks out of his house only for it to explode a few seconds later. He very nonchalantly says, "I need better friends."
- Owen gifts TK and Carlos a blender to celebrate them moving in together. The blender's name is 'Marlon Blendo.'
- Owen continuously having to correct Carlos on his name when they’re both off-duty.Owen: (exasperatedly) For the love of God, just call me Owen.
- Not played for laughs, but Owen sadly playing Solitaire on his computer is very funny.
- Mateo, Marjan, and Paul gossiping about Owen being depressed. ...Only to realize he can hear them.Owen: In case you were wondering, I am not sad, I am not depressed, despite what some blabbermouth might have told you.
- The 126 having an intervention for Owen.TK: Know that this is a safe space and there's absolutely no judgement.
Owen: Says the guy who lured me into an ambush. - Owen's reaction to Marjan complimenting him: "This is a good intervention. I like this."Judd: That's it?
Marjan: (sheepishly) Yeah, that's it. - Judd pointblank telling Owen that he's depressed.
- Owen's reaction when Paul says he's not really taking care of himself.Owen: I'm not taking care of myself? I'm sorry, is there anyone else in this room who has a six step skincare regiment?
- Buttercup eating Gwen's Sloth Slow Tea Infuser.
- Owen calling painting his bathroom "A restorative act of meditation."
- Owen monologuing about the importance of limes before he tries to segue back to the point of his budget plan.
Season Three
Episode 1 - The Big Chill
- Nancy very subtly asking TK to tell her why him and Carlos broke up.Nancy: It's funny how it works though, isn't it? In the rig. As in life. Once you pinpoint what the problem is, you're already halfway to solving it.
TK: (exasperated) I guess. But, you know, sometimes the problem isn't as simple as a perforated carotid or virtual decapitation.
Nancy: Right. but that's why we roll as a team, right? When we put our heads together there's no mess we can't clean up...
TK: I'm not telling you why Carlos and I broke up, Nancy.
Nancy: Why are you being so annoying about this?!
- TK being very optimistic about his MacGyvered rescue plan.Tommy: TK, are you sure about this?
TK: Don't worry, Cap. I did a bunch of these back in the day in Central Park. This is no different!
Nancy: You're using a bedsheet as a life ring and a laryngoscope as an ice pick. It's different!
TK: Valid point!
- All of TK's dream sequences with Dream!Gwyn. They even call-back to the Slow Sloth Tea Infuser.Dream!Gwyn: (while making cookies) The only thing missing is the secret ingredient, you remember?
TK: (Beat) Love?
Dream!Gwyn: Toffee. Close, though. - Owen and Marjan singing together in the car.Marjan: I'm still mad at you.
- Dream!Gwyn needling TK into admitting what the hell happened for Carlos to be ranting at him, though said reason isn’t played for laughs.TK: (with some hurt and annoyance) Why does everyone assume it’s only my fault? I’ll have you know there was fault on both sides.Dream!Gwyn: (disapprovingly) Tyler Kennedy. You’re not really going to lead with that, are you?TK: Why do I even have to tell you? You already know, you’re just a figment of my imagination.Dream!Gwyn: Figment or not, I am still your mother.TK: Alright, fine. Remember when Carlos' townhouse burned down?Dream!Gwyn: Who could forget? So many innocent hoodies lost their lives that night.
- TK having to ask if Gwyn is really there when she arrives at the end of the episode with a stroller.
- Owen and Catherine discussing their opinions about the acting abilities of Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey in the movies they’re familiar with.
- Mateo accidentally walking in on one of Owen’s one-off dates. And because he’s an abysmal secret-keeper, rumors about these dates have spread throughout the station to the point that the firefighters have nicknamed Owen “Captain One-Night Strand.”
- The gang is utterly stunned to realize Owen's talk of alien involvement in Earth from giving Eisenhower technology to the differences of races wasn't to calm down some weirdo, he believes it.Owen: Who do you think built the pyramids?Mateo: ...The Egyptians.Owen: (giving a "Yeah, right" laugh) Okay.
- Judd's complete and utter disbelief his newfound son is... a vegan.
- Grace getting Rickrolled when waiting on a credit card company.
- Owen and Tommy hiring a ringer to beat the police at the softball game.
- At the beginning of the game, Owen tells O’Brien, "If there's gonna any ass-handing, it's gonna be my hand on your ass!"Cop: Did he just...?
- Until their ringer arrives, most of the 126 members save for TK are hilariously unskilled at hitting the ball or striking out any of the cops.
- The firefighters and the cops get into a full on brawl. Hard Cut to Owen and Tommy with a shiners on their faces.
- A quick one in the midst of the heaviness of TK’s drug withdrawal in 2017:TK: Everybody's looking at me, Mom.
Gwyn: It's the curse of the Strand men.
TK: I don't think it's for the cheekbones this time.
- Gwyn leaving Owen a talking macaw named Ginsberg in her will. Though the real reason is a bit more complicated beyond it being funny.Ginsberg: Sleep on the couch, butt-face!
- Ginsberg interrupting Owen's meditation.Owen: Feathered spawn of Satan has taken up residence in my living room.
Ginsberg: Bitch and moan, bitch and moan. - TK and Tommy having to confront a very angry Crazy Cat Lady.
- Carlos' "rage-punching."
- TK very casually making food while Grace and Carlos talk.Grace: Oh, I'm sorry, did I interrupt lunch?
TK: No, this isn't lunch, [Carlos] eats like six times a day. - Carlos still not quite understanding pop culture— this time relating to video games, live-streaming and the trash talk that comes with both.
- A dispute over how many people Owen punched recently.
- Catherine tells Owen her ex-husband Patrick will drop by who's "the spitting image of you." Owen meets Patrick...who appears to be in his 70s, a nebbish attitude and balding. Naturally, Owen starts fretting that's how Catherine sees him.
- This leads to Owen and Catherine arguing about her supposed "daddy issues", with Owen declaring he’s breaking up with her. At which point in comes Catherine's ex, Patrick...Junior - the Patrick Owen met earlier was his father. And it turns out he not only looks like Owen but has the same interests to boot.
- After Patrick Junior leaves, Owen tries to apologize but Catherine coldly walks out as Owen realizes he just let one misunderstood name and his own insecurities ruin his relationship.
- There turns out to be more to Carlos’ envy of Cooper, but after finally meeting him in person— well, it ain’t hard to think he’d interrogate the man over a drink about his history with TK if the two of them hadn’t already established professional boundaries. And though he ultimately decides to trust Cooper at the end, Carlos’ remark about running a background check evidently reads as “mess with my boyfriend’s health and I will professionally end you.”
- Dave’s somewhat buffoonish moments in the Ryder household as he tries to be a helpful guest for the rest of the week. And amusingly enough, Judd’s much calmer about them while Grace is constantly flabbergasted and annoyed.
- Carlos’ Facial Dialogue goes from confused, to disgusted, to resigned as TK eagerly introduces the wild lizard (who he names Lou) from the episode’s first call into the loft like an excited kindergartener.
- It then comes to a head when Lou escapes from the fish tank in the next scene sequences:
- First, TK goes to feed Lou mealworms… and notices that the lizard isn’t in the fish tank. He starts looking around, first finding Lou on the couch while an unaware Carlos asks if TK wants to watch something on TV.
- TK then decides to seductively agree to keep Carlos’ attention occupied, but is clearly awkward and distracted himself while feeling the top of the sofa for the lizard…
- …Until he jerks back and apologetically cringes, finding that it got onto Carlos’ shoulder. The panic from both men is immediate.
- It then comes to a head when Lou escapes from the fish tank in the next scene sequences:
- Owen's secret fear of clowns.
- When TK decides to wake Carlos to discuss his will and propose to him, the latter rapidly sits up and panics about a potential fire or the return of Lou. TK’s just able to assure him otherwise through his laughter.
Season Four
Episode 2 - The New Hot Mess
- Nancy and TK laughing at Tommy for being awkward after Trevor stops by the station, both to thank her in-person and take up her offer of a date.
- Iris grilling Carlos and TK about why they want to get married.Iris: (to TK) Is it because you're short?
TK: ...I don't think I'm short.
Iris: Was it because being a paramedic is less dangerous? I mean, some people would say that's cowardly but I don't think so. I think it's smart.- Which devolves into...
TK: Being a paramedic at the 126 comes with plenty of danger.
Carlos: The paramedic that TK replaced got killed in the field.
Iris: That's so sad.
TK: Yeah. By a lava bomb.
Iris: That's cool! But still sad.
TK: And last year, during the blizzard, I was rescuing a kid trapped under some ice and I got really bad hypothermia, ended up in a coma and almost died, so...
Iris: I thought you were shot?
TK: (beat) That was the other coma.
Iris: How many comas have you been in?
TK: Oh, just the three, but only two since I moved to Texas. So, yeah.
Iris: (to Carlos) That seems like a lot of comas. - Owen commiserating how bad most of his male friendships are.Owen: Do you think it's me?
- Tommy confiding in Owen.Tommy: I'm having sex dreams about my pastor.
Owen: Oh!
Tommy: Yeah. What are you talking about?
Owen: It's not that, but I'm... I'm flattered.
Tommy: You weren't in the dream.
Owen: No, that you chose to share it with me.
Tommy: Well, I'd feel dirty sharing it with anyone else.
Owen: ...Thank you?
- The gang have to pretend to fail saving a sex doll named Chrissy for a man with an attachment disorder. Nancy gets... a little too into it.Nancy: (giving Chrissy CPR) Come on, Chrissy! Stay with us!
TK: (dully) Her pulse is dropping, Cap. We're losing her.
Nancy: No, damnit! Live! Live! - Owen's fake excuse for his black eye.Owen: I walked into a door.
Rose: Eye first?
Owen: It was the doorknob. - Rose and the FBI have been listening in on the listening device given to Owen. Apparently long enough to hear "An alarmingly off-key rendition of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'."Owen: That is a very difficult song to sing.
- The password for the super secret base is '1-2-3-4-5.'
- TK and Carlos are getting annoyed by how Owen is going crazy on the wedding planning. They go to Carlos' mother Andrea to have her talk him down, the woman swayed when she realizes Owen wants a gluten-free wedding cake. The two adults talk...and to TK and Carlos' horror, she and Owen end up agreeing on the cake, the selection of flower arrangements, and going even bigger overall on the wedding than either wanted, scaring them out of the kitchen.TK: …What just happened?Carlos: Our worst nightmare, that’s what happened.
- Marjan instantly catching that Owen wants to throw her a welcome-back party. She reluctantly accepts it as long as Owen doesn’t go too grand on the celebration… which he does anyway.
- While helping Owen prep the finger foods, which includes three different canapé variations, TK and Carlos look on and muse about how lucky they got with firing him from the wedding planning.
Carlos: [Owen]’s still not over us not letting him plan the wedding, is he?TK: We’ve just gotta let him figure it out on his own. And you know what? I think we may have dodged a bullet.Carlos: …In the shape of a canapé. (both he and TK snicker)
- Everyone is astounded to see Mateo's video chat of his cousin Marvin...who looks exactly like him. They actually assume it's some sort of prank until the video starts answering them.
- Mateo's dream after getting blackout drunk takes the form of a kitschy sitcom, complete with an opening credits sequence, a laugh track and cheesy one-liners.
- As he and Carlos discuss why Carlos is reluctant to be a father, TK brings up the children he’s loved spending time with (which the latter cites as “all other people’s kids”). Then he brings up Lou— who Carlos recalls escaping, but not him and TK keeping.
- When the 126 heads to a pile of cow manure that a farmer accidentally dumped on two drivers, they are stunned and amused— Marjan and Owen most of all— to find that they’re treating the Geralds couple. Record-breaking smugness ensues:
- Owen, Judd and Marjan take their time giving options to the couple on if they can wait for a few hours to be dug out or if the person in charge of equipment can outfit them with gas masks. When Mitch asks who said person is, Marjan gives a hilariously mocking curtsy, while he and Lila groan in despair.
- With only one good option for the humiliated couple to both keep their dignity and get out of the dung, Marjan decides to dig them out on one condition: that they thank the 126 team for the aid and promise not to sue. Marjan films the whole thing, then pans over to show her followers their fancy purchase-cum-recently dirtied sports car.
- If there wasn’t enough karma to rub in the Geralds’ noses, that sports car was bought with the donation money they received for their home.
- On a call involving a furious pregnant woman, one of Marjan’s seemingly-perfect dates, Fauza, is revealed to have the biggest dealbreaker out of her four picks: he’s married to said woman, and is a serial adulterer to boot. Naturally, Marjan angrily cancels their date, while Owen loudly voices his disappointment in the man.
