The Buddie System: A 9-1-1 Yapathon

Han, Cil, & Rachel
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Three friends uncover the surprising depths of a procedural show that masterfully balances laughable unseriousness with charming characters and heartwarming stories. The Buddie System Podcast embarks on witty, insightful conversations analyzing the characters and relationships on 9-1-1 through an elevated critical lens.

  1. 13h ago

    Sympathy is a knife (4x07: There Goes the Neighborhood)

    “I don't wanna share the space, I don't wanna force a smile This one girl taps my insecurities, don't know if it's real or if I'm spiraling” Hen Wilson's estranged mother shows up with zero warning, Buck Buckley has the worst first date of his life, and Michael Grant decides breaking and entering is a completely reasonable way to spend a Tuesday in 9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 7, "There Goes the Neighborhood.” Han, Cil, and Rachel break down Hen and Toni's long-overdue heart-to-heart, pull every receipt on Buck's sudden reappearance on the dating apps, and uncover what it means that Eddie Diaz is still living rent-free in his head even on a date with someone else. We dig into Hen’s relationship with her mother, from Toni showing up out of nowhere to the conversation where she finally tells Hen how proud of her she actually is. We talk through why Hen kept mistaking her mother's worry for judgment, what Toni was really protecting by having that private conversation with Karen first, and how this whole arc lands as the exact opposite of the crash-out Buck just had with his own parents in "Buck Begins." Bobby and David get roped into Michael's neighborhood-watch delusions, and it is somehow both the funniest and the most reckless thing Michael has ever done, up to and including the part where he breaks into a stranger's apartment alone, unarmed, less than a year removed from brain cancer we’re still not entirely sure is gone. Then we suffer through Buck's date with Veronica, which goes so badly he ends up debriefing Albert, Eddie, Maddie, and Chimney about it, all while insisting she was the problem. We clock the specific story he chose to open with: the poop call from "Fools," which was the call where Buck ribs Eddie about yelling at Christopher's teacher Ana. Buck had an entire career's worth of firefighter stories to pick from, and the one he reaches for on a first date is the one that's secretly about Eddie. We’re so sure. We clock the pattern of the Buddie Bad Omens Timeline: Eddie goes on one date with Ana, and almost immediately Buck is back on the apps. We're not calling it a coincidence, we're calling it an Ouroboros. We also trace it back to the cold open, where Eddie gets his ass slapped on a call while literally sealed inside a hazmat suit, his safe bubble away from people who want something from him, breached anyway. Buck's safe space has always been Eddie and Eddie's house, and once Eddie's dating again, someone (Ana) is encroaching on his bubble too. Buck is not consciously aware, but we notice that the moment Eddie starts dating someone else, the role Buck has within the Diaz family dynamic gets filled by Eddie’s girlfriend. And Buck is always left reeling without knowing why. “'Cause I couldn't even be her if I tried, I'm opposite, I'm on the other side I feel all these feelings I can't control, oh no, don't know why all this sympathy is just a knife” Episode title inspired by “Sympathy is a knife” by Charli xcx 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 What Do Eddie’s Neighbors Think is Going On with Buck & Eddie? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:53) Welcome to Dispatch (00:03:02) Our 4x07 “There Goes the Neighborhood” Review (00:10:27) Jaws of Life – Deep Dive (00:13:37) Needle Drop – Music Analysis (00:14:42) Buckapedia & Narrative Echoes (00:18:59) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:29:39) Hen & Karen – Translating Toni’s Unconditional Love, Questionable Delivery (00:44:32) Michael – Life on Hold, Telescope On 🔭👀 (00:59:33) Buck – Who Am I? Meh, Anyway, Time to Date! (01:14:42) Slow Burn – The Buck & Eddie Dating Feedback Loop (01:27:35) Buck’s Safe Space Is Eddie (01:40:17) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

    Sympathy is a knife (4x07: There Goes the Neighborhood)

  2. Jul 30

    Isn’t It Ironic (4x06: Jinx)

    “Well, life has a funny way of sneakin' up on youWhen you think everything's okay and everything's goin' right” The 118's new probie, Ravi, says the forbidden Q-word (quiet) and brings a curse down on the whole team in 9-1-1 Season 4, Episode 6, "Jinx." Han, Cil, and Rachel break down Bobby's terrible relationship advice, dissect Buck and Eddie's subconscious need to enter relationships at the same time, and catalogue exactly how much comp-het it takes to get Eddie Diaz to date a woman. We have a few nice things to say about our beloved peepaw, Bobby, before roasting him alive for another round of The Worst Advice Ever™. Projection might as well be Bobby's middle name at this point, and we clock it right alongside his habit of doling out advice without bothering to check where Eddie's head is actually at. We lose it over Eddie insisting he doesn't worry about things he can't control — seconds before a live power pole traps him inside the engine — genuinely one of the funniest things he's ever said. We also can't get over how his vehemently unsuperstitious streak sounds exactly like how he talks about religion (they're both giving repression.) Then we clown Bobby, Buck, Hen, and Chimney for peer-pressuring Eddie into a date with Ana Flores without ever asking him what he wants — they've all just decided his anxiety means he like-likes her. We break down the full comp-het pileup: the book club interrogation with the emotional support water bottle in hand, Eddie calling Buck a traitor for reading a book about women (and implying Eddie likes one), and the loaded "the universe is screaming at you and you refuse to listen" — a line that has nothing to do with the actual jinx and everything to do with the elephant in the room. Eddie picks the bad-luck episode to start dating someone new — and their very first date ends with the two of them jinxing each other. We're sure this isn't an omen dooming their whole relationship. “Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?” Episode title inspired by “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 What Buck and Eddie’s Love Languages Are – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 3x06 “Monsters” Synopsis, The Futon Critic 📺 RescueVerse 2026: Chicago: 9-1-1 Panel - Ryan Guzman, Kenneth Choi, Oliver Stark 📰 ‘9-1-1’ Star Ryan Guzman Has Learned to Roll With the Punches, by Max Gao for The Hollywood Reporter 📸 Behind the Scenes photos from the Fire Suppression Foam “Emergency”, 911onabc on Tumblr We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:28) Welcome to Dispatch (00:06:18) Our 4x06 "Jinx" Review (00:12:37) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:21:16) Bottle Episode... Adjacent (00:25:26) Needle Drop – Music Analysis (00:28:43) Buckapedia – Eddie's Faith, Santa Muerte, & Curanderas (00:34:52) Narrative Echoes – Parallels & Foreshadowing (00:41:49) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:47:56) Jinxed, Stuck in the Engine – Where's the Fire (Scene Dissection) (01:09:32) Bobby – Herding Cats (01:13:28) Bobby's Bad Advice Roast (01:26:46) Buck – Buck 3.0 (Installation in Progress) (01:31:31) Buck Cannot Believe Eddie Doesn't Believe (01:37:41) Buck's ADHD Strikes Again (01:41:22) Eddie – Denying the Jinx, the Signs, and Himself (01:43:59) Were Eddie & Ana Doomed from the Start? (02:01:59) Eddie Goes Through the Motions with Ana (02:08:18) Slow Burn – Eddie Doing What is Expected of Him (02:18:00) Friendship is Easy for Eddie, Dating... Oof. (02:36:14) "The Universe is Screaming at You" (02:45:37) How Do You Make a Love Interest Work for Eddie? (02:54:21) Take a Buddie With You & Outro "Hall of the Mountain King" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Isn’t It Ironic (4x06: Jinx)

  3. Jul 23

    You’re On Your Own Kid (4x05: Buck Begins)

    “From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes, I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this” This week Han, Cil, and Rachel make the friendship bracelets, take the moment (or several hours) and wade into the psychological depths of Season 4 Episode 5 of 9-1-1, “Buck Begins.” We dive deep into one of the most demented, genius character origin stories the show has ever pulled off, unpacking the reveal that Buck was born a savior baby for his late brother Daniel and just how much of Buck's entire personality traces back to it. We bring the receipts too — actual psychology and medical research on emotional neglect, abandonment, and complex PTSD, because apparently every source out there studied Evan Buckley without knowing it. And of course, we drag Margaret and Philip Buckley through the mud for their station visit, because "we're proud of you for saving people like you were born to do" does not count as an apology! From there we follow Buck cross country, breaking down every job on his postcard tour (mixologist, ranch hand, aspiring Navy SEAL, we catalog all of it), Maddie's gut punch of a goodbye note, and how a guy at a bar in Peru saying "you go, we go" somehow rerouted Buck's entire life to L.A. We also get into Athena's one scene this episode doing more parenting in thirty seconds than the Buckleys managed in thirty years! Then there's Eddie, quietly rearranging his entire understanding of Buck in real time. We go on a real tangent about the Village People being extremely queer coded, and connect the dots between Margaret's "you think you're indestructible" and a certain someone telling Buck he's "not expendable" nine episodes later. He's also the first one to reach Buck in that fire, obviously, because nobody gets between these two being there for each other first. “You're on your own, kid. Yeah, you can face this. You're on your own, kid. You always have been.” Episode title inspired by “You’re On Your Own Kid” by Taylor Swift 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 What Did Eddie Say to Margaret & Philip Buckley? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 Interview: Jennifer Love Hewitt Talks Maddie's Season Nine Journey and Growing with '9-1-1', by Sophia Soto for Awards radar 📰 9-1-1's Oliver Stark takes us inside that Buck-centric episode, by Ruth Kinane for Entertainment Weekly 📰 9-1-1's Oliver Stark Reacts To Buck's Tragic Origin Story, Including How 'He Can Finally Start To Move Past It, by Andy Swift for TV Line 📰 '9-1-1's Oliver Stark Promises a Renewed 'Lightness' to Buck After His Origin Story, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 9-1-1's Oliver Stark Hints at What's Next After Brother Bombshell, by Emily Longeretta for Us Weekly 📰 '9-1-1': Oliver Stark on Buck's Pain Over Why He Was Born, 'Heartwarming' Reconciliation With Maddie, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap 🧠 Buck’s Armchair Psychology 🧠 📰 Carone, Touro Law Review, 2018. 📰 Carone, Christina. "The Minor Donor-Sibling Dilemma." Touro Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2018. 📰 ScienceInsights, "Babies Don't Remember Trauma, But Their Bodies Do," March 2026. 📰 Coates, Susan W. "Can Babies Remember Trauma? Symbolic Forms of Representation in Traumatized Infants." PMID: 27474085, 2016. 📰 Joyfeel Therapy, "Preverbal Trauma in Adolescents," April 2026. 📰 Winther Klippenstein et al. "Growth in the Face of Overwhelming Pressure." PMID: 34570621, 2021. 📰 NIH/ClinicalTrials.gov protocol document (NCT02105766). 📰 "Opinion: Savior Siblings Are Not a Solution." The Scroar. 📰 Sandra Kushnir, Meridian Counseling, May 2026. 📰 Wikipedia, "Emotional Neglect," citing WHO and multiple peer-reviewed studies. 📰 Jon Biddle, "Unraveling Emotional Neglect: How Complex PTSD Develops," Substack, 2025. 📰 Passionate Life Counseling. 📰 Wikipedia, "Abandonment (emotional)." 📰 Therapy in a Nutshell, "Rebuilding Healthy Attachment Relationships after Childhood Trauma or CPTSD," November 2025. 📰 Reachlink, "How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Relationships," March 2026. 📰 New Harbinger Publications, "Breaking the Cycle: How Childhood Abandonment Affects Attachment in Adult Relationships," March 2025. 📰 CPTSD Foundation, "The Long-Term Effects of Abandonment," February 2021. 📰 American Psychological Association Monitor, "When Trauma Becomes Complex," March 2025. 📰 Dr. Max Doshay, CEO of Monima Wellness, "CPTSD Awareness: Hidden Trauma Responses," September 2025. 📰 Psychology Today, "Complex PTSD" basics page. 📰 PMC/NIH, "Today I Can Look in the Mirror and Like Myself," PMC9201725. We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a...

    You’re On Your Own Kid (4x05: Buck Begins)

  4. Jul 16

    Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? (4x04: 9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?)

    "I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" This week Han, Cil, and Rachel RSVP to the family dinner from hell as we tackle Season 4 Episode 4, "9-1-1, What's Your Grievance?" Chimney gets handed a secret that’s more of a ticking time-bomb, Maddie invites Margaret and Philip to town for reasons that perplex both Buck and us, and Buck shows up armed with de-escalation techniques from therapy. Because apparently seeing his own parents requires hostage negotiation prep. We break down the famous “Love Me Anyway” scene, the score's literal ticking clock underneath Buck's meltdown, and why we think this episode does the real emotional heavy lifting to set up “Buck Begins.” We also dig into Maddie's blind spot for the Buckley parents, the one perfect big-sister moment she gives Buck right before everything blows up again, and Chimney's full-body conflict-avoidant spiral trying to keep a secret that he doesn’t even think should be kept. At least he got to diffuse one bomb in this episode, amirite? Rachel dives into the loaded Cagney & Lacey reference Athena makes about Buck and Eddie. Plus we clock in for a full married behavior audit: Eddie is the only one who saw and understood Buck without knowing the childhood trauma, he memorized Buck’s calendar and routines including emergency therapy sessions, and other totally normal best friend things. Then we give a play-by-play of every emotion Buck is punching in the gym scene while Eddie steadily validates, supports, and grounds him. We love partners having each other’s backs. "You caged me, and then you called me crazy I am what I am 'cause you trained me So who's afraid of me?" Episode title inspired by “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” by Taylor Swift 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 What If Eddie Went To the Buckley Family Dinner? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 ‘9-1-1’ & ‘Lone Star’: Aisha Hinds & EP Tease Hen’s Balancing Act, a Buckley Family Secret & More, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 ‘9-1-1’s Kenneth Choi on His Hopes for a Maddie & Chimney Wedding, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 ‘9-1-1’: Kenneth Choi on Chimney Almost Exploding Over the Buckley Family’s ‘Deep, Dark Secret’, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap 📰 9-1-1 Finally Reveals Buck's Family Secret, Which EP Calls The 'Missing Piece To Explain Who He Is', by Andy Swift for TV Line 📰 9-1-1 Creator Tim Minear Reflects on Season 9 – INTERVIEW, by Sophia Soto for Nerdtropolis We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1…🚨 (00:00:54) Welcome to Dispatch (00:04:24) 9x04 “9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?” Review (00:14:43) Jaws of Life – Deep Dive (00:18:49) Production & Behind the Scenes (00:22:08) Red String Corner & Buckapedia (00:23:56) Narrative Echoes – Parallels & Foreshadowing (00:27:26) ⚠️ Danger, Danger Eddie Diaz! ⚠️ (00:32:31) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:36:42) May – Earning the Big Girl Chair (00:44:39) Chimney – Defusing Two Bombs, One Secret (01:01:03) Chimney Truly Sees Buck Now (01:14:28) Maddie – Carrying What Was Never Hers to Carry (01:25:21) WASPy Buckleys & Maddie Catching Strays from Her Parents (01:40:47) Opening Pandora's Baby Box & Buckley Family Lore (01:46:58) Buck – Love Him Anyway 😭 (02:05:53) “Love Me Anyway” – The Monologue of All Time (02:18:52) The Buckleys Make Buck Feel Small (02:24:53) The Brother Bomb Drop (02:27:39) Slow Burn – Bi Buck & Buddie Watch (02:34:10) Eddie’s in Buck’s Walls – Buck & Eddie in the Gym (02:41:17) Buck Begins is Calling 👀 (02:43:36) Take a Buddie With You & Outro

    Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? (4x04: 9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?)

  5. Jul 9

    The Lone Star Crossover with 911TVNEWS

    Han, Cil, and Rachel go on a road trip with 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 2, Episode 3, "Hold the Line," the crossover event where the 118 crosses paths with the 126 during a wildfire tearing through Texas! Our buddie Trent from 911TVNEWS joins us to help break down the world of 9-1-1: Lone Star and how it treats our familiar visitors Buck, Eddie, and Hen once they're dropped into it. Trent gives us the full download on why Lone Star has always operated like 9-1-1's edgier younger sibling, and we get into how the wildfire splits the two crews up: Eddie, Judd, Marjan and Paul on one team, Buck, TK and Mateo on another, and Hen and Owen stuck waiting out the fire together in an old trauma-filled mine, and what each pairing ends up revealing about the characters from both shows. Then Han, Cil, and Rachel spend the back third of the episode doing what we do best: cataloguing every second Eddie spends talking Buck up to a woman he just met, tracking exactly where Buck's own eyes keep wandering, and adding yet another entry to the ever-growing Eddie Diaz queer coding file — because apparently no show is safe from it, not even someone else's. A big shout-out to Trent for joining us for another ADHD-filled round of 9-1-1 chaos! If you’re living under a rock and aren’t following Trent, fix that! You can find him on Twitter at @911TVNEWS and on Instagram @911verse. 📔 Articles & References From This Episode 📔 🫂 Eddie and Buck’s Dinner At the Diaz’s (How the 118’s drive-by visit to Helena & Ramon’s house went) – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 '9-1-1' & 'Lone Star': Aisha Hinds & EP Break Down the Crossover's Bonding Moments, by Meredith Jacobs for TV Insider 📰 Lone Star' creator takes us inside the wild(fire) crossover episode, by Ruth Kinane for Entertainment Weekly 📰 '9-1-1' Star Aisha Hinds on Hen and Owen's Deadly 'Lone Star' Crisis, Bonding Over Incredible Trauma, by Jennifer Maas for The Wrap 📰 9-1-1 EP On Buck And T.K.'s Awkward Exchange In Lone Star Crossover, by Andy Swift for TV Line We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Previously on 9-1-1… 🚨 (00:00:56) Welcome to Dispatch (00:02:25) Introducing 911 TV NEWS (00:06:12) What Differentiates Lone Star in the 9-1-1 Universe? (00:13:20) 2x03 “Hold the Line” Review (00:19:01) Jaws of Life – Production Deep Dive (00:28:20) Red String & Buckapedia Corner (00:39:00) Parallels & Narrative Echoes (00:53:27) Flashover – Episode Themes (00:57:08) Hen & Owen – Leaders Recognize Leaders (01:19:29) Buck & TK – Father Figures and Foreshadowing (01:34:53) Eddie, Judd, Marjan, & Paul – The Competence Squad (01:46:45) Slow Burn – Buck, Your Type is Showing (01:59:50) Eddie Keeps Choosing Buck (02:06:52) Eddie’s Chemistry with Women But Not Romantically (02:12:51) Marjan Clocks Buddie Co-Parenting Immediately (02:19:26) Outro & Take a Buddie With You!

    The Lone Star Crossover with 911TVNEWS

  6. Jun 19

    Eddie Diaz's Terminal Case of Comp-Het (Pride Rewind)

    🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month Rewind | Originally released January 8, 2026 It’s fine, it’s cool, Eddie can tell a priest “I’m straight,” but we know the truth. This week Han, Cil, and Rachel take a thorough look at Eddie Diaz’s dating history with our rainbow glasses to spot the complex layers of queer coding! Eddie famously says, “I hate being forced to date, feels like I have to perform,” in Season 6 Episode 14 of 9-1-1, “Performance Anxiety.” Buck and Hen are not the only people who raised their eyebrows at that statement, and luckily for you we do have time to unpack all that! If you look up compulsory heterosexuality (comp-het) in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of Eddie Diaz trying to pick up women at a golf course. This episode may sound like an Eddie Diaz roast, but we’re just reporting the news. This just in, Eddie cannot get it up (romantically) for women, and we’ve connected all the dots from his dating history in this episode to show you why. Think of it as a heterosexual post-mortem on why his relationships with Shannon, Ana, Marisol, and Kim failed spectacularly. You can kiss the clone of your dead ex-wife Date a former nun, let her catch you cheating You can say that you choose this life Break a new heart, another comp-het victim Well, good luck, Eddie! 📔 Articles & References 🫂 What If Eddie Had Dated Tommy? – Check out this week’s Patreon-exclusive Best Buddies Mini-Segment here! 📰 Ryan Guzman Reacts to the '9-1-1' Season 7 Finale's Biggest Twists, Collider 📰 ‘9-1-1’ star Ryan Guzman reflects on Eddie’s journey leading up to Season 9 in exclusive interview, YardBarker 🎞️ Take a Chance on Me, edit bu hedwiglitz on Twitter We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:30) Queer Coding, Demisexuality, and CompHet (00:03:32) Eddie Performing with Shannon (00:24:45) Bobby's Role in the CompHettery (00:30:27) Eddie Performing with Ana (00:52:10) Performance Anxiety (00:58:46) The Date with Vanessa (01:09:12) Eddie Performing with Marisol (01:32:11) Eddie's 7x05 Performance (01:38:11) Eddie's Performance with Kim (01:47:08) Outro & Take A Buddie With You

    Eddie Diaz's Terminal Case of Comp-Het (Pride Rewind)

  7. Jun 11

    Buck Unknowingly Confesses His Feelings (8x11 Pride Rewind)

    Han, Cil, and Rachel are back in Buck Buckley's brain for Pride Month, and it is not pretty in here. Buck can't sleep in his best friend's house, accidentally admits he has feelings for Eddie mid-argument, and spends an entire episode insisting there is absolutely nothing to see here. We’re clocking every accidental confession, suspicious deflection, and "he's straight, therefore I’m not in love with him" for our own enjoyment, and yours. Featuring the morning after, the scoff heard round the world, and Maddie knowing since season two. This is our 8x11 special cut down to just the Buddie of it all to celebrate the disaster bisexual that is Evan Buckley. Happy Pride! 📔 Articles Mentioned 📰 ‘9-1-1’ Creator Says Buck’s Buddie Denial Is Not the End, but ‘It Doesn’t Mean I’m Making Promises’, The Wrap 📰 9-1-1 Boss Tackles Maddie’s Million-Dollar Question: Is Buck in Love With Eddie? Plus, Inside [Spoiler]’s Return, TV Line 📔 Fanworks Mentioned: 🎬 I Won’t Say I’m In Love, Buck edit by nebulastarlights, TikTok 📈 “Buck” and “Eddie” Spoken Name Graph by jackwhiteprophetic, TikTok 🎨 8b Color Theory Thread by sammyunhinged, Twitter We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon or Ko-Fi for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Fire Fam Chats, New 9-1-1 Episode Livestreams, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters: (00:00:00) Zero Brain Cells (00:05:15) First Choice, Always Eddie (00:13:37) Ravi Escapes and Buck Feels Dumped (00:15:56) Tommy Clocks the Competition (00:20:14) The Morning After (00:25:30) The Scoff Heard Round the World (00:33:24) Tommy Was After Eddie the Whole Time (00:37:40) What Eddie Would Have Seen (00:39:58) The Baking Was Never About Tommy (00:42:21) It Wouldn't Be So Crazy (00:46:49) Do You Hear Yourself (00:55:13) Wrong Couch Right House (00:59:46) Eddie Has a Silver Star (01:08:17) Maddie Knows

    Buck Unknowingly Confesses His Feelings (8x11 Pride Rewind)

  8. Jun 5

    Would You Rather: 9-1-1 Edition (2nd Anniversary Special)

    Come celebrate The Buddie System's 2nd anniversary (and Rachel’s birthday!) with an hour-long, 9-1-1-themed game of Would You Rather! Rachel serves as the Question Czar, doling out unhinged scenarios featuring our favorite disaster firefighters and fam from the 118 for Han and Cil to navigate, make impossible choices, debate answers, and spiral accordingly. With hypotheticals ranging from weighing whether we’d rather get relationship advice from Buck or from Eddie (oy vey, that’s a loaded question), to choosing between explaining AO3 tags to Bobby Nash or fandom discourse to Athena Grant — get ready for The Buddie System at our silliest! We are @buddiesystempod everywhere: TikTok Twitter Instagram Facebook Watch The Buddie System podcast episodes and our live reactions to the most recent 9-1-1 episodes on YouTube! Support us on Patreon for perks and extra content like access to our exclusive Discord, Early Access to Episode Live Reactions, Behind the Scenes Podcast Content, and more! The Buddie System is a Nerdvergent Media production. Music by DIV!NITY Chapters (00:00:00) Rachel's Birthday Special 🎉 (00:01:42) The Rules of “Would You Rather” Engagement (00:02:51) The Buckleys vs. The Diazes 🦃 (00:04:39) Love Advice from Two Very Qualified Men (00:08:12) Emotional Support Kitchen vs. Trauma Elevator (00:15:38) Disney Adults, Dosed Chimney, and Chaos (00:18:04) Surviving 9-1-1's Los Angeles (00:19:28) Explaining Queer Coding to Eddie (00:22:58) Priest Eddie: The Final Form? (00:25:00) Christopher Roasts You, Hen Judges You (00:25:52) AO3 Tags with Bobby Nash (00:28:14) Date Night, Unfortunately (00:30:46) 24 Hours In Buck’s Head, 5 Minutes in Eddie’s (00:36:31) Owen Strand Ruins Everything (00:44:58) Ravi Knows Too Much (00:48:52) The Buddie Endgame Dilemma (00:49:20) Would We Survive Knowing the 118? (00:54:45) Take a Buddie With You

    Would You Rather: 9-1-1 Edition (2nd Anniversary Special)
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Three friends uncover the surprising depths of a procedural show that masterfully balances laughable unseriousness with charming characters and heartwarming stories. The Buddie System Podcast embarks on witty, insightful conversations analyzing the characters and relationships on 9-1-1 through an elevated critical lens.

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