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No Helmet Required
by Uncle Brian, Auntie Sarah, & Auntie Caren
Your Uncle Brian, Auntie Sarah, and Auntie Caren recap the Hallmark original dramatic series, Cedar Cove. Their commitment to detail renders actually watching the show unnecessary.
Episodes
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Cedar Cove S3 E8
Olivia and Will squabble. Paul and Alex date. Jack and Jeri blow up. Grace plans her own wedding shower.
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Cedar Cove S3E7
"Runaway" Grace and her hair are planning a wedding (to Cliff, not to one another). Jack and Jeri have issues with their imaginary boss at the imaginary newspaper for the greater Seattle metropolitan area. Justine just wants to HEEEELP, and Mary Ellen has the blues.
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The 2020 Hallmark Christmas Season Under Wraps
After recapping A Christmas Carousel, Uncle and the Aunties give a retrospective of the 2020 Hallmark Premieres, including top 5 lists, disappointments, and goals for 2021.
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A Christmas Carousel Part 2
We're still in Ancadia!
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A Christmas Carousel Part 1
Uncle and the Aunties travel to Hallmark's Ancadia because 'Tis the Damn Season.
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Christmas at Dollywood
It's a Christmas of Many Colors at America's Smokey Mountain theme park.
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Cedar Cove Spinoffs, Season 3 BONUS Epi
In the age-old tradition of marketing a new show to an already loyal audience, Cedar Cove is considering a number of spin-off possibilities. Which ones would you watch? Uncle Brian's "Stranded," Auntie Caren's "All That, and Pies, Too!" or Auntie Sarah's "On Zhe Road"? Or perhaps our podcast...
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Cedar Cove S3E6
Baseball! Fisticuffs!
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Cedar Cove S3E5
A mysterious stranger comes to Cedar Cove. Is it Seth 4?
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Cedar Cove S3E4
All hell breaks loose at Olivia's waterfront estate when invited guests clash and uninvited guests stir the pot.
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Cedar Cove S3E3
The whole town must gather for a town photo! Will and Warren team up for some nefarious shenanigans. Who are you shipping? #Pauliva or #Olijack?
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Cedar Cove S3E2
Justine needs a job! Peggy is still on meth. Olivia just can't make up her mind!
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Cedar Cove S3E1 Part 2
Stories A & B in the first episode of Season 3!
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Cedar Cove S3E1 Part 1
Cedar Cove returns! The judgmental judge is back with new love interest. New characters to hate-watch! And a fisherman's benefit complete with grilled food bar and balloons. WHOO!
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Cedar Cove S3 Insiders' Guide
Guide to our inside jokes. Why is Seth 2 a block of cheese? Why does Luke howl his dialogue in our recaps? Is Jeri real or imagi-jeri? Did we leave anything out? Tweet us @nohelmetreqd!
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Cedar Cove S2E12
All the cliffhangers in this season finale! What will happen in the love triangle of Justine, Seth 2, and Luke? And the love triangle of Cliff, Grace, and Alex? And the creepy triangle of Bob, Peggy, and Colin McFadden? And Ian, Cecilia and their half-wanted baby? And Eric, Warren, and Warren's...
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Cedar Cove S2E11
Even though this episode is called Stand and Deliver, it features neither Edward James Olmos nor Lou Diamond Philips. Brian references the time he made "Cherry Orbach" ice cream. Oh yeah, and stuff happens in Cedar Cove!
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Cedar Cove S2E10
Both Shelly (yay) and Colin McFadden (boo) are back in Cedar Cove. Grace stress-eats a lot of cookies. Justine and Cecilia enjoy a wholesome Jimmy Dean sausage breakfast. Jack is tested and Olivia's plan falls apart.
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Cedar Cove S2E9
Conflicts comes to a head for our favorite would-be young parents, Ian and Cecilia! Justine makes a grand decision about "what to do with her life." Jack gets an irresistible offer. Fecal artist Warren Sagget gets a new girlfriend and commences a new scheme involving Eric. Olivia is tired of…
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Cedar Cove S2E8
Uncle Brian helps us discern the parallels between Cedar Cove and The Scottish Play.
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Cedar Cove S2 BONUS Table Topics
The characters of Cedar Cove answer personal insight questions!
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Cedar Cove S2E7
The new Assistant District Attorney is in town and she's all sex and justice. Someone from Jack's past shows up in Cedar Cove to cast doubts in Olivia's mind. Justine is ashamed of her fiery feelings for Teen Wolf Luke Bailey.
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Cedar Cove S2E6
Luke comes before Judge Olivia Lockhart! Cliff has a proposal for Grace (not that kind, calm down!). Eric wears a hard hat and practices his power posing.
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Cedar Cove S2E5
This episode's got it all! Legal and financial drama! Armed services drama! Job drama!
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Cedar Cove S2E4
Justine auditions for the role of therapy dog to handsome-yet-traumatized vet, Luke. Grace and Olivia confront Grace's ex, Dan, and his new cliche, oops girlfriend, at their Mc Mansion. Labor and income issues benight Eric's future.
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Cedar Cove S2E3 Part 1
Stories B, C & D. Treehouse, Grace's house, Justine & Seth 2 no longer playing house.
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Cedar Cove S2E3 Part 2
A story: Are Eric & Shelly going to make it? Jack and Olivia fight over a key.
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Cedar Cove S2E2
Baby nonsense! Restaurant nonsense! Private Investigator nonsense!
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Cedar Cove S2E1
Season Premiere! What will become of Mary Ellen and John Bowman? Of Seth 2 and Justine? Shelly and her baby? Why is the ghost of Dead Jordan floating around the Cedar Cove hospital?
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Book Detectives: Susan Sontag
Uncle and the Aunties consider a first edition Susan Sontag reader with a passionate inscription.
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Book Detectives: V for Vendetta
Guest Metal Mike brings a case before the detectives: a love email from college frosh KBufflao to her star-crossed lover, Danaman. Did these two crazy kids make it? We sure hope so!
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Book Detectives: Virginia Woolf
So much depends upon a yellow pear. The detectives scour Virginia Woolf's The Years to trace the meaning of a meandering list of food references found within the text. What does it all mean? Who is the author of the list? And why was he/she reading Woolf at the Hyatt Regency in Maui?
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Book Detectives: Oscar Wilde
Four inscriptions, or is it three? Is it Giorgia or George who is coming of age? Get a load of The Pastels!
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Book Detectives: Tropic of Cancer
Mysterious drawings abound, bookending one young person's travels from East to West.
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Book Detectives: The Paris Years
The Aunties Sarah and Caren and Uncle Brian consider a note from Patrick to Pat, inscribed in a Henry Miller biography.
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Book Detectives: Wuthering Heights
While on hiatus from the Cedar Cove recaps, Auntie Sarah, Uncle Brian, and Auntie Caren put on their book detectives hats and tackle a mysterious inscription from Holly to Alan on the inside cover of Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
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Cedar Cove Season 1 Wrap Up
Looking back on the inaugural season of Hallmark's Cedar Cove. Uncle and the Aunties have brought some multiple choice, T/F, and open-ended questions for discussion. Commentary from Cousin Lindsey. Hiatus until the holiday movies get underway!
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Cedar Cove S1E13 SEASON FINALE
CHRISTMAS CONTINUES AT CEDAR COVE! Eric returns and for some reason, Shelly is happy to see him. Olivia and Jack come to a new understanding about their relationship. John Bowman is resigned to a meaningless urban life. Bob decorates the Thyme & Tide.
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Cedar Cove S1E12
It's Christmas in Cedar Cove! A beautiful and very pregnant stranger comes to find work and a place to stay. Olivia struggles with Jack's decision to move back to Philly. Seth 2 has big plans for him and Justine. And...why are the FEDS snooping around Cedar Cove?
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Cedar Cove S1E11
Jack turns down the sportswriter job in Philly. Shit hits the fan with Grace and Will. We find out John Bowman's secret! Stan recreates a life-size Dead Jordan's Remote Control Boat. Is Jack's canoe seaworthy? Find out in S1E11.
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Cedar Cove S1E10
Olivia is being sued! Warren has a heart attack! Jack goes back to Philly! Plus the saddest dinner ever. Boats: is a boat ever just a boat?
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Cedar Cove S1E9
Contrived love triangle perpetuates among Olivia, Jack, and Stan (come on!). Seth 2's boat has feelings for Justine. John Bowman gets more mysterious. Grace has two suitors! Jack wants to build a canoe.
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Cedar Cove S1E8
THE BACHELOR AUCTION for "pet adoption." How much would you bid for a date with Moon? Or John Bowman? Time to open your checkbooks, because hey, it's for a good cause.
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Cedar Cove BONUS The Enneagram
In this special BONUS episode, Auntie Sarah, Auntie Caren, and Uncle Brian analyze the Cedar Cove characters using the Enneagram personality typing system. We read from The Ennegram Made Easy and Are You My Type? Am I Yours? (referred to as the "cartoon books" in the podcast) by Renee Baron and...
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Cedar Cove S1E7
Cedar Cove meets the the prison-industrial complex! Lenny the felon pops up in town looking for work. The mystery of the trash fire. Stan goes to counseling! SEX WEEKEND IN SEATTLE! Woodworking with Bob Belden!
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Cedar Cove S1E6
Seth 2 is missing in Alaska!!! Also, Jack and Bob go fishing, Olivia contemplates a sex weekend in Seattle with Jack, things continue to remain tepid between Mary Ellen and John Bowman, and the new cowboy, Cliff, gets a library card! Listeners, the sound gets a little buzzy for a few minutes in…
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Cedar Cove S1E5
The Westin divorce, Eric is the worst, and Grace must save the library! Judge Lockhart adjudicates a bitter case that hinges on lasagna and gendered division of labor. Tension between the Griffith men escalates. Balloons and baskets abound at the last-minute save-the-library fundraiser.
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Cedar Cove S1E4
The mystery of the dead guy! (The other dead guy, not the stroke victim.) Also, it's the Art Walk! Which is background to the continuing saga of Justine and the burgeoning desires of Mary Ellen (Grace's daughter) for hunky, taciturn artist, John Bowman. Also, our suspicions are confirmed that…
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Cedar Cove S1E3
Jack's son Eric is a lazy millennial! Charlotte & the stroke victim. Jack and Olivia's love life receives whiny monkey wrench in the form of Eric, his weed-scented progeny. Charlotte finally learns how to knit. The saga of Justine and Seth 2 continues. We meet Cowboy Cliff!
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Cedar Cove S1E2
In which all the cast members get tarted up (glammy hair and pencil skirts!) and flooded with golden light. We meet Olivia's best friend, Grace! Seth 2 replaces Seth 1; Uncle and the Aunties have opinions about this "update." Olivia's mom, Charlotte, befriends a mute stroke victim. We meet Bob &...
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Your Uncle Brian, Auntie Sarah, and Auntie Caren recap the Hallmark original dramatic series, Cedar Cove. Their commitment to detail renders actually watching the show unnecessary.
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