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  • Funny Moments:
    • When, right after Lenny humiliates Jack yet again, Drake lights some newspaper on fire and shoves it into Lenny's bathroom stall. Hilarity Ensues.
    • The goose joke (probably Lenny's misdirected revenge for the flaming paper gag) - a live goose gets stuffed into Jack's locker. The moment he opens the door, more Hilarity Ensues.
    • While repeating the Initiation Ceremony for a new firefighter, Jack, Lenny, and the others are left speechless when he declares that he's gay. Then the new kid opens the curtain with a grin, saying, "I got you guys!" and revealing that Captain Kennedy warned him about the prank and told him how to turn it around on them.
  • Heartwarming Moments: After the terrible Christmas Eve apartment fire, both Jack and Lenny get medals of commendation. The person presenting the medals? The girl whose life they saved.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • Dennis's death, with his brother just a few feet away.
    • Tommy getting severe facial burns from a ruptured steam pipe. He survives, but is horribly disfigured and is afraid of what his son will think when he sees him.
    • Jack's death, but especially the next scene, where Linda is tending to their children as the chief and a priest pull up to the house in the red car, and the final mourning scenes begin. Anybody in the military or in public service knows that if department brass and a chaplain show up at your house, it is never good news.

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