This week, we cover 2.02, “The Goodbye Look”, and 2.03, “My Name is Trouble”! We discuss apologies, ableism, Ali flashbacks, whether there’s anyone buried in the DiLaurentis yard yet, and of course, the most chaotic characters. We use too many phrases from cooking shows, and Cameron sings a Deepa not-so-original song for us. 

Theme song composed by Ashok R. Chandran.

Chickpeas Oh My Gosh!
Deepa’s Literary Analysis
  • Ezra quotes Joseph Campbell in his goodbye speech to his Rosewood High English class. Unfortunately Joseph Campbell was an anti-Black, antisemitic, racist, sexist, homophobic fuck, and the “Hero’s Journey” is trash
Things We Referenced Related to PLL
Things We Referenced Completely Unrelated to PLL
  • CSI: Miami’s Wing Chicks!
  • The Danby scout being Community’s banana man (content warning for zombies. yes, zombies)
  • Scouting in Friday Night Lights
  • Sooo many Kesha songs (We’ve decided the hummus song is referencing The Harold Song, a not super popular Kesha song from 2010)
Fashion Analysis

Just like last week, our favorite outfits were by Spencer and Mona, including Spencer’s scarf + button-down combo, Mona’s green top, Spencer’s plaid poncho, and Spencer’s cute white jacket with what Deepa didn’t realize was an owl shirt until Deepa screencapped this, oh Spencer

Emily, Spencer, and Hanna are talking in a bathroom. Spencer is wearing a denim button-down that is open at the neck tucked into a black skirt, with a patterned red and white scarf around her neck and her hair loose.
Emily, Spencer, and Hanna are talking in a bathroom. Spencer is wearing a denim button-down that is open at the neck tucked into a black skirt, with a patterned red and white scarf around her neck and her hair loose.
Mona is sitting at a counter at a cafe wearing a dark green top with ruffled short sleeves. She’s smiling at Hanna, who is offscreen.
Mona is sitting at a counter at a cafe wearing a dark green top with ruffled short sleeves. She’s smiling at Hanna, who is offscreen.
Spencer is taking off her coat after just having entered her house; she is mostly in shadow, but we can see that her jacket is plaid in a sort of poncho style.
Spencer is taking off her coat after just having entered her house; she is mostly in shadow, but we can see that her jacket is plaid in a sort of poncho style.
Spencer looks very concerned while watching Toby speak to someone offscreen. Spencer is wearing a blue-green top patterned with tiny owls, tucked into dark jeans, with a white light jacket over it that has large metallic buttons.
Spencer looks very concerned while watching Toby speak to someone offscreen. Spencer is wearing a blue-green top patterned with tiny owls, tucked into dark jeans, with a white light jacket over it that has large metallic buttons.

For worst outfit, Cameron hated Hanna’s top with random holes and zippers, while Deepa was most offended by Aria’s feather hair extensions

Hanna stands in the hallway of her house talking to Ashley offscreen, looking frustrated with her thumbs hooked in the belt loops of her red jeans. She’s wearing a cream-colored top over a black tank top; the top is assymetrical and has ruffles on one side of the sleeves, as well as largeeye-shaped holes that show the black cami underneath.
Hanna stands in the hallway of her house talking to Ashley offscreen, looking frustrated with her thumbs hooked in the belt loops of her red jeans. She’s wearing a cream-colored top over a black tank top; the top is assymetrical and has ruffles on one side of the sleeves, as well as largeeye-shaped holes that show the black cami underneath.
Close up on Aria smiling; her hair is parted in the center and she has several brown and white feather hair extensions visible
Close up on Aria smiling; her hair is parted in the center and she has several brown and white feather hair extensions visible

Two other outfits we called out: it’s not necessarily terrible, but Aria’s layered long tank top was SO of the early 2010s, while Alison notably wore a cute outfit for once in a flashback! Good job, Ali

Aria is leaning against a desk, talking on the phone. She’s wearing a long dull red tank top over a black cami and black jeans; the red tank top goes down to her mid-thigh. She also has a necklace that is a thin chain with a very large pendant hanging below her chest.
Aria is leaning against a desk, talking on the phone. She’s wearing a long dull red tank top over a black cami and black jeans; the red tank top goes down to her mid-thigh. She also has a necklace that is a thin chain with a very large pendant hanging below her chest.
Close up of Ali talking to someone offscreen. We can only see her from the chest up, but she is wearing a light gray sleeveless dress with spaghetti-straps and a necklace
Close up of Ali talking to someone offscreen. We can only see her from the chest up, but she is wearing a light gray sleeveless dress with spaghetti-straps and a necklace
Wide shot of Alison talking to Jason outside their house while he storms off angrily, while Hanna and Emily sit on a picnic blanket on the DiLaurentis yard. We can now see that Ali’s gray dress goes down just above her knees and is belted.
Wide shot of Alison talking to Jason outside their house while he storms off angrily, while Hanna and Emily sit on a picnic blanket on the DiLaurentis yard. We can now see that Ali’s gray dress goes down just above her knees and is belted.

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