Wow, we are SO sorry for the long delay in posting, we recorded this in November 2025 and then took an accidental break of…a year? 😅 But we’re back! Today we’re discussing episodes 3.14, “She’s Better Now” and, 3.15, which is unfortunately called “Mona-Mania”. Toby refers to A as his boss and we finally see the Hastings’ hot tub! We realize that only women go to Radley, and Cameron fails at lock-picking. Why couldn’t Spencer and Mona just be co-captains of the academic decathlon? Don’t watch Stranger Things anymore, we forgot that it’s full of Zionists. We promise we won’t be away for as long before the next episode, listeners!

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

Chickpeas Oh My Gosh!
Sports Corner with Cameron
  • The race is a 10K, which is weird as most community and fundraising races are 5Ks
  • Charity races and sports philanthropy – why do we promote the idea of a healthy able body to raise money for diseases?
  • The problematic framework of “fighting” cancer and the battle metaphor, which also labels patients as warriors
  • Girl V. Horse – a 4-part ESPN 30 for 30 podcast series about a woman who tries to race a horse to get a sense of control over her body and her life after experiencing epilepsy. Entertaining and surprise queer!
Deepa’s Literary Analysis
  • Byron is actually not an English professor?? what???
  • Alison’s diary entry about blackmailing Byron includes her writing the word “sumpin’”, a thing teenagers say all the time
Things We Referenced Related to PLL
  • The horrifying time Aria and Ezra had sex to a cover of “Every Breath You Take”
  • The black and white movie Aria is watching is Night Must Fall from 1937 and includes a character who is faking disability, sigh
Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL
  • Broadchurch’s skateboarding child who reenacts (?) the night of the crime (??)
  • Sex scenes in media, including: 
  • How to Get Away With Murder intercutting sex scenes with Lila’s autopsy 
  • Stranger Things having Barb be murdered while Nancy and Steve have sex for the first time (also fuck this show and free Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸)
  • Desert Hearts having a really beautiful one
  • Blue Is The Warmest Color having a bananas one
  • The Handmaiden’s symmetrical sex scenes
  • The possibly anachronistic hat box in Mulholland Drive
Fashion Analysis

For best, Cameron liked Hanna’s black dress with birds (not on Spencer!) and flowers; Deepa, while hating the scene where Mona gets bullied with a cow brain, did really like Mona’s preppy outfit in it

For worst, Aria was the unanimous winner with THREE heinous outfits; Deepa disliked her snakeskin belt and leopard print top, while Cameron hated her weird t-shirt for the race with an American flag printed on a skull

  • Aria is wearing a black leather dress with a sweetheart neckline. She is wearing a giant multi-colored snakeskin belt over it and a beige cap-sleeved cover up that ends right before the neckline of her dress.
    Aria is wearing a black leather dress with a sweetheart neckline. She is wearing a giant multi-colored snakeskin belt over it and a beige cap-sleeved cover up that ends right before the neckline of her dress.
  • Aria is wearing a leopard print skirt, a yellow shirt with a leopard on it and a black and white striped blazer and a chunky gold bracelet. She has one arm crossed over the other and is standing in a bathroom with Spencer and Emily.
    Aria is wearing a leopard print skirt, a yellow shirt with a leopard on it and a black and white striped blazer and a chunky gold bracelet. She has one arm crossed over the other and is standing in a bathroom with Spencer and Emily.
  • Aria has her hair in two braids. She is wearing a gray tank top with a giant skull that has an american flag on it. She has an unzipped black hoodie with grommets over it and her hands are in her pockets.
    Aria has her hair in two braids. She is wearing a gray tank top with a giant skull that has an american flag on it. She has an unzipped black hoodie with grommets over it and her hands are in her pockets.

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