In today’s episode we cover PLL episodes 1.08, “Please Do Talk About Me When I’m Gone”, and 1.09, “The Perfect Storm.” We discuss the SATs, gender in high school and the show’s horrible intersexism, Alison’s gay literary references, people needing to eat food, completely unrelated musicals, and jewelry in coffins. We attempt to play High/Low and spend way too much time trying to remember future plot points. We hope you find this charming and not annoying.

Chickpea Recipe
  • We’re not writing it up because we discuss it in the episode and it’s incredibly simple! Just, hot tip: don’t microwave cans
Cameron Gets Academic On Us
Things We Referenced Related to PLL
  • Ravenswood! The best PLL spin off 
  • Vivian Darkbloom – Ali’s alter ego in a brown wig
  • Deepa didn’t have real literary analysis in this episode, so Deepa will just mention here that Vivian Darkbloom is an anagram of “Vladimir Nabokov”, lol
  • Glee actors who show up in PLL:
  • Oliver Kieran-Jones, who plays Adam on Glee (Kurt’s New York boyfriend) and Colin on PLL (the guy Spencer sleeps with once in London)
  • Adam Lambert (does he even need introduction?), who plays Starchild on Glee and himself in the best PLL episode of all time
Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL 
  • How everyone confides in the Taylors in Friday Night Lights and it’s not weird, it’s just weird when it’s Ezra
  • How we constantly get the musicals Be More Chill and Dear Evan Hansen mixed up
  • Someone thinks that Be More Chill is just Dear Evan Hansen on helium!
  • And some thoughts on gender in both musicals 
Fashion Analysis

We (gasp) did not agree on all our outfits this time! Deepa liked the outfit Hanna wore to Ali’s memorial, while Cameron liked Spencer’s SAT outfit – but only with the coat on

Hanna standing at a podium at Ali’s memorial service. We can see Hanna from the waist up, and she is wearing a blue dress with a black belted blazer over it and two necklaces, one long and one short.
Hanna standing at a podium at Ali’s memorial service. We can see Hanna from the waist up, and she is wearing a blue dress with a black belted blazer over it and two necklaces, one long and one short.
Wide shot of Hanna; we can now see that the dress is about knee-length.
Wide shot of Hanna; we can now see that the dress is about knee-length.
Wide shot of Spencer walking in the school hallway next to her mother. She is wearing a knee-length greenish-brown trenchcoat-like jacket with large black buttons, over a white button-down shirt and a sweater-vest.
Wide shot of Spencer walking in the school hallway next to her mother. She is wearing a knee-length greenish-brown trenchcoat-like jacket with large black buttons, over a white button-down shirt and a sweater-vest.
Closer shot of Spencer standing next to lockers looking concerned; the lights are out so it’s a little harder to see the outfit but we see it from the waist up.
Closer shot of Spencer standing next to lockers looking concerned; the lights are out so it’s a little harder to see the outfit but we see it from the waist up.

Meanwhile Cameron hated Aria’s SAT outfit, which Deepa unfortunately liked (full disclosure, Deepa would probably wear that dress of Aria’s if given the opportunity)…while Deepa disliked Hanna’s white jacket

Close-up shot of Aria from the waist up, standing next to lockers. She is wearing a short-sleeved dark blue dress with little silver clasps all over it, with what seems to be a dark red and black striped tank top underneath.
Close-up shot of Aria from the waist up, standing next to lockers. She is wearing a short-sleeved dark blue dress with little silver clasps all over it, with what seems to be a dark red and black striped tank top underneath.
Wider shot of Aria walking in the library, where we can see that she is also wearing black tights patterned with flowers.
Wider shot of Aria walking in the library, where we can see that she is also wearing black tights patterned with flowers.
Wide shot of Hanna walking into the yearbook room; she is wearing jeans with a pink and white top (or possible two tops layered) with a white jacket.
Wide shot of Hanna walking into the yearbook room; she is wearing jeans with a pink and white top (or possible two tops layered) with a white jacket.
Closer shot of Hanna where we see more of the jacket, which has big lapels.
Closer shot of Hanna where we see more of the jacket, which has big lapels.

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