Episode 3.13: "Sometimes Scary Things Are Fun" - Don't Forget the Chickpeas Podcast

The long awaited train episode (3.13, “This is A Dark Ride”) is here, and so are our besties, Ellis, KC, and Dylan! We mention sanism, discuss bisexuality, and revisit Cameron’s cast for Deepa’s PLL birthday party. We reminisce about some of our past Halloween costumes and once again remember that Pastor Ted is a parent. Post-feminism is bad, Spencer! We massively fail at coming up with catchy public health slogans, but we make up for it with one about police abolition instead. It’s a good thing Adam Lambert didn’t join us because two of our friends raise some major red flags. Happy ghost train! 👻🚂

Theme song by Ashok R. Chandran and website by Rainbow Forge.

Chickpeas Oh My Gosh!

KC’s Tomato and Chickpea Flatbread! Make flatbread, marinate tomatoes and smash up the chickpeas – sounds delish!
It didn’t include chickpeas, but KC also made an incredible cake of Ali’s grave for Deepa’s PLL birthday party! (more party pics here)

A beautiful chocolate cake with a replica of Ali’s grave on it. Some flowers are placed on the grave and there is a red shovel stuck in the cake. There are also green coconut flakes around the cake to look like grass. KC is a genius

Deepa’s Musical/Literary Analysis

Deepa has a theory that Mona is the Phantom and Caleb is Raoul from Phantom of the Opera (Dylan agrees)
Spencer’s “You know how to whistle, don’t you?” line is from the movie To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; it’s based on a Hemingway book but it doesn’t follow the plot so we don’t have to talk about it (except to mention that Hemingway was a fuck)!

Cameron Gets (Mildly) Academic On Us

There is a huge difference between modern post-feminism, which is bad, and post-modern feminism, which is cool!

One Halloween, Cameron found creepy Ali flyers while out on the town for Halloween; another year, Cameron’s foot was in a boot, so she dressed up as Hanna Marin at a funeral after getting hit by a car

Five black and white printouts of photos of Alison with "A" written on them in red marker

A Snapchat screenshot of Cameron dressed up as Hanna Marin, wearing a lacy black dress, with the text "Got a secret can you keep it"

Other favorite costumes of ours include Deepa being Eve from WALL-E and Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Cameron as the Long Island Medium (KC, Ellis, and Dylan couldn’t find pictures of theirs 😢)

Deepa's Halloween costume circa 2009 as Eve from WALL-E; Deepa is wearing a black long-sleeved top with a white tube top dress over it that makes up Eve's body, with Eve's eyes pinned onto the dress at the chest and white gloves to make Eve's arms

Front of Deepa’s costume of Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is a modified hoodie with a brown front and white everywhere else, with horns and the beige arrow on the hood, and extra legs that are stuffed and hang off the sleeves

Back of Deepa's costume of Appa, which shows the long beige stripe down his back and his tail

Cameron dressed up as a slutty Long Island Medium wearing a ridiculously tall wig, a leather dress, and a large cross necklace

Things We Referenced Related to PLL

Janel Parrish playing the older sister in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
The PLL wiki suggests that Mona is meeting with Charlotte in Radley and that is who she gives the pills and bullets (why? who knows)
The ghost child is a call-back to the creepy story that Ali tells in the Halloween episode in season two (but NOT played by the same actor)
The Ali masks, which are made by that one creepy dude in exchange for secrets
Spencer’s heinous Mary Queen of Scots costume

Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL

How ugly the vampires look when they transition in Buffy
Snakes on a Plane – the movie as well as the song

Fashion Analysis

Best
Worst

For best, Ellis liked Paige going (baby) butch on us as Marlene Dietrich in the scene from Morocco where she famously kisses a woman, Cameron was into Hanna as Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, and Deepa, KC, and Dylan all loved Emily as Jane Fonda in Barbarella

Hannah dressed as Marilyn Monroe wearing a short blonde wig, a painted on beauty mark and a white dress with pleats starting at the waist

Emily and Paige walking arm and arm and smiling. Emily is dressed as Barbarella in a silver leotard looking thing with a big collar and black buckle detailing. Her hair is down and wavy and she is holding a gun from the movie. Paige is dressed as Marlene Dietrich in a black suit and top hat and white vest, shirt, and bowtie. She also has a large white flower on her lapel. As Hanna says, “They look like a wedding cake from outer space!”

For worst, everyone chose Hanna and Aria’s weird pre-Halloween looks – except for Deepa, who limited analysis to the costumes and therefore chose Aria’s, not because it looked bad, but because she was Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby