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9-1-1 Recap: Mister Cellophane
If this truly is Hen’s best birthday ever, she might need to raise the bar.
At first, I was convinced this was a plan cooked up by Karen and the kids — pretending to forget a birthday is a classic TV trope, after all — but once Hen noted that she hates surprises, I figured this was true negligence. “It’s okay to take up space in this world instead of making yourself smaller.” It’s a pretty good speech until it suddenly becomes about Hen’s birthday (see, projecting), though that does at least clue the 118 into the fact that they’ve made a huge mistake. Back at home, Karen — who has received an urgent call from Chimney — apologizes profusely, but her last-minute gift doesn’t make up for the fact that the most organized woman in the world forgot her own wife’s birthday.
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