Paper Girls S1E7
Now: Episode 7 "Some Kind of Burping Trash Hole"
Mini Tiff is watching a recording of Raver Tiff's high school graduation in which she was valedictorian Class of 1994. Mini Tiff is looking with wide doe eyed while everyone literally don't share the same sentiment. 7 more years, Erin continues to whine.
On the outside is Mac and KJ. Mac is being a little aggressive that KJ wants to be proactive about Mac's cancer that future her will eventually die of. She wants to be able to treat it in the early stages but Mac is very...idk just very nihilistic about it. That's pretty much the scene the entire time. Mac just doesn't want to avoid in evitable.
While Tiff is all overly happy but Raver Tiff dead ass just says the Valdictorian Tiff is full of shit and it about to get hit with a truckfull of a reality check. Being young and the ever so annoyingly optimistic Tiff she is can't comprehend what she even means so she continues with the rainbows and butterflies BS. Raver Tiff decides she needs some one on one time with her and takes her out to a nearby bakery.
Poor Erin gets left behind. Mega sad face.
After they sit down, Mini Tiff takes a look at her mug which says "Don't Know, Don't Care, and It Doesn't Make Any Difference" which triggers into the deepest conversation any of the paper girls have had yet since they time travelled.
The thing with Tiff is that she is stuck being so gung ho that if you want something to happen, it will happen. Raver Tiff says that nahhhh bro life is just one big colossal gray matter. It's okay to not aim high because if you reach too high and the planets don't align you will a have one hella existential crisis. Raver Tiff says that the only reason Mini Tiff has all these aspirations is because it's what their mom wanted not what actual Tiff wanted and Mini Tiff hasn't reached that clarity yet. Mini Tiff being Mini Tiff doesn't comprehend and then Raver Tiff lays it bluntly that she is *gasp* adopted. Ouch.
Mac and KJ head on over to the cemetery to peek at future Mac's tombstone. After a brief intro to her relatives also residing do they finally reach her own tombstone. They have a quick chat with Mac mentioning that how little money was spent on her tombstone. I'm talking like bare minimum tombstone which Mac figures their finances must have been REALLY rough. Thing get interrupted when they hear someone coming so they duck out behind a tree. It's Alice, Mac's stepmom who came alone to visit her grave.
Erin is still at the apartment and I guess Russ, Raver Tiff's boyfriend watching The Real World and they both have casual chit chat. Pretty funny they kept this scene in this show because it ads absolutely nothing to the show but I am glad it's here.
Knock at the door and it's 1999 Larry! I guess he did end up utilizing the white pages to find them. Erin is absolutely livid at the very sight of him.
She begrudingly steps outside with him when he says it's pretty urgent. Before Larry could say anything further Erin snaps at him and says that he has a gnarly AF death in the future. Harmless '99 Larry is like 😰 Like, come on, bro! He says he wants to do the right thing and almost gets into an existential crisis of his own doubing the STF and everything. He seems pretty genuine when he says he doesn't want to cause any harm to anyone and he starts to almost cry. Poor dude having all of this shit laid out on him and see the reactions of Tiff and now Erin and he's starting to crack.
Erin being the sweet girl she is apologizes for her agressiveness but yeah...his future is still being burnt to ashes by the Old Watch.
Off in the distance she notices her bike that 1988 that is in the back of his truck and inquires where the devil that came from. This is when Larry discloses that this weird purple cloud is burping out random shit. Erin immediately requests to be taken to his farm.
1998 Larry whips out his phone and proceeds to call an STF emergency contact. Looks like this turns out to be Juniper back in Episode 1 but due to their interaction, it is apparent this is before they were in a relationship. She looks alarmed and immediately asks for his location.
Back at the cemetary, Mac is just thinking out loud that WHY out of all people that her stepmother would be the one to visit her grave. In the midst of them talking they would out in the road where a car nearly runs them over. FUCK it's actually Alice! They both make a break for it and run and in the meantime Alice tries to follow them and even gets out of her car to look for them but can only get so far before breaking down in tears. Sad scene.
Tiff 1 and Tiff 2 get back an empty house and Raver Tiff instantly jams out to Whitney Houston's "It's Not Right But It's Okay" single. and of course Mini Tiff goes on in another fucking tangent for her to lay all that shit on her. Raver Tiff assures her that it is best to just rip the band aid off. This is honestly getting so annoying for me personally to keep watching this shit but yeah this goes on for another couple of minutes of Mini Tiff literally yelling at Raver Tiff lecturing her as if she knows more about life then she does. She demands her to reenroll back to MIT and get her shit together.
Nope.
She got expelled. Which explodes into an even bigger argument between them in which Mini Tiff keeps saying she is hindering herself behind her real potential. She may be right to an extent but yeah there are sometimes extenuating circumstances that happens in life to throttle your shit up and this is what she has a hard time comprehending.
Russ, enters the house. The ask where Erin is at. Like a bat out of hell they both zoom the fuck back out the door.
Switching scenes back to Larry's farm, Juniper arrives and she means business not up for a friendly chit chat. The three of them march on over to the purple cold sore that is in Larry's farm. She concludes that this is not a folding but a time rift where it just burps up random shit from across all timelines. Erin asks if it can be travelled through but Juniper says now. Here's to hoping that it closes soon because according to her nothing good will come from it should this continue.
KJ and Mac are sitting at the steps reeling from the bomb Mac dropped that today is actually her birthday! Mac reminisces about her stepmother that her death not only compelled her big brother to turn his life around but his step mom too whom she only remember as a lackluster maternal figure in her life and didn't think cared about her. She is amazed and impressed that maybe she is worth a shit.
Bonding gets interrupted when both Tiff's coming barrelling down the stairs to round up the troups so they can ALL now go down to Larry's and party it all up.
When they get there Mini Tiff gets all crunk with Larry demanding to know where Erin is and is quelled when Erin turns the corner to tell them to chill her roll and get to the back because there are bigger fish to fry.
Upon going to the back of the barn they are all bewildered and perplexed seeing all this random shit being burped up. Upon closer inspection, Tiff actually finds her missing walkie in the midst of the junk. Only took her 6 episodes to find it! KJ even finds her hockey stick too.
Larry's mom shouts for him urgently and says that there is a cat in the house. Oh dear. Except it is not a cat.
Juniper opens the metal covering and it is revealed to be a probe from the future. It is sending a signal to the Old Watch hella into the future and now they are ALL BUSTED! Time is not on their side at this point and now they have to act fast. Juniper whips out her shotgun and comes back into the house and pew pew.
She continues to explain to this innocent group of people who have no idea WTF is going to happen because in under an hour Old Watch will send troops down here to secure the timeline, trigger ablution and kill anyone who does not belong in the timeline. Which are the paper girls. The only thing they can do at this point is run.
The series finale is next!