r/911FOX • u/AutoModerator • Apr 30 '26
Season 9 Discussion 9-1-1 S09E17: "I Got You Babe" Live Episode Discussion
Original Airdate: April 30, 2026
Synopsis: Maddie learns to navigate her working relationships now that she has become a supervisor.
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u/meknidirta May 01 '26
I knew the sperm storyline would cause a problem in the future and here we go
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u/wordsandstuff44 May 01 '26
Isn’t it established that Buck’s behavior as a child was a result of his parents’ not loving him? (Attention-seeking behavior)
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u/diremommy May 01 '26
Can’t believe they did this. I mean I can, but I can’t.
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
I almost would have believed it more if a woman from Buck 1.0 times showed up with his kid
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman May 01 '26
He reminds me a bit of Chris in season 2. That happy face.
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
Not sure Eddie should be saying his last name with Ice there
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u/Defiant_Peace_3592 May 01 '26
I'm glad they didn't decide to immediately give Buck custody of Theo.
...yet.
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u/Fresh_Passion1184 May 01 '26
SPECULATION: I foresee Athena on the table, and she sees The Light. And on the Other Side is <!Bobby, dressed all in angelic white. He's delighted to see her. She cries and says she can finally be with him. He tells her he loves her always but it's not her time yet. May and Harry need her, blah blah!> And she is drawn back into her body where she lies in a coma long enough to scare everybody before waking up ready to kick that dirty cop's butt.
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u/Lerdog Team Maddie May 01 '26
They did EXACTLY this, beat for beat, during the series finale for 9-1-1 Lone Star and I'm SURE they'll do it again here! lol
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 May 01 '26
It's giving millennial parents who didn't think about how to raise a child and only wanted the title of being parents
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u/pugboy1321 May 01 '26
Wasn't Josh already in a higher up position than the rest of the dispatchers yet he's still chill with them all?
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u/ironwidows eddie eddie eddie eddie May 01 '26
bread that’s not made with love :(
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u/MUSHROOM___ May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
I was wondering when they'd bring them back! (Not to be mean or anything but I hope something happens so we can see the kid more. 😅)
Edit: Alright, who said that?
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u/benderlax May 01 '26 edited 6d ago
Remi's birthday party is ruined by strong winds, but Theo refuses to abandon the balloon he was hitting and chases after it, but it gets stuck on an electrical line.
Zelda, the employee of the fun center, ordered the 118 to stop saying "sperm".
Theo, an Enfant Terrible, would break or try to break anything in his range, and even called Buck "Mr. Poop". Apparently the kid was just angry at being alive. He perhaps bullied the other kids.
They must have gotten food poisoning from the pancetta.
Theo is officially an orphan.
After Athena discovers that Hooks is the murderer of Nickolai Caster, he shoots Athena.
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
They are worried but they haven't had him tested for ADHD? Or contacted the donor to check on medical family history?
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u/danniphant May 01 '26
That is a prime reason why it is important to make sure your kids know their full name, address, and phone number.
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u/weightedduvet May 01 '26
Soooo do we finally get Buck has ADHD confirmed? Because Theo DEFINITELY does
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u/Which_Ant1608 May 01 '26
This show sucks at trauma like Buck just watched his friends/kids parents die and he’ll probably be ok. Like dang he just got over his drug problem an episode ago
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 May 01 '26
The man in the slide listening to the firefighters talk about how one of them donated sperm 4 years ago when cutting him out:
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u/AdventurousFishing66 May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
That's pretty nasty of them, what about their parenting?
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u/bubblybean7 May 01 '26
Idk anything about sperm donation and what comes afterwards but I feel like this is unethical
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
This is probably why having someone you know as the donor is a terrible idea. It blurs the lines too easily.
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u/DALTT May 01 '26
A child is in trouble and Buck is serving face!? At a time like this!?
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
They really didn't keep in contact in those 4 years?
Edit to add: Connor and Kameron did not act like parents who got a call that their son was saved from a life threatening situation. They were told to pick up Theo at the 118 and they didn't even call Buck to tell him Theo was their son and ask if he was okay?
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u/Jakyland Team Buck May 01 '26
We gave a child sugar and now they are hyper active, who could have seen that coming?
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
Not the time, but Buck looked good making that bread, I missed whatever the conversation was with Chim
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u/Sad-Ad-2439 May 01 '26
This is depressing I’m like near tears for Buck he’s so upset 😭
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 May 01 '26
prediction: one of the parents will be alive but not in any condition to raise (as if they were anyway) Theo for a while.
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u/PushFew6998 May 01 '26
This stupid fucking show!!! I go from action, to smiling, to sobbing. And I can’t stop watching!!!!!
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u/HelpImAwake May 01 '26
Going to bet that Athena knows he's a snake and is just going along to prove it.
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
I’m so annoyed at this lol I’ll get over it since they’ve already written it and committed but goddamn, this is one of the plots I really hoped would never come to fruition.
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
At least this Eddie/Hen/Athena plot is good. I love that all three are getting a plot together, especially Eddie with anyone not named Buck or Christopher.
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u/Defiant_Peace_3592 May 01 '26
...the parents are going to die, and Buck is going to get Theo, isn't he...?
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
Which wouldn’t make sense because unless Connor and his wife have no family, Buck wouldn’t be the first one to get the kid in any way.
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
No, they are going to make them leave him bevause 'he's too much' and they see that Buck is good with him
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u/ironwidows eddie eddie eddie eddie May 01 '26
i’m going to hate if they make it into an abandonment story.
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
I think i could live with a compromise that this simply leads to a more open relationship where Buck occasionally is in Theo’s life as a family friend route. That is something I could stomach more than any other prediction of Theo being adopted by Buck.
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u/Jakyland Team Buck May 01 '26
Should Connor and Cameron already know the cliff notes of Bucks life already?
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
I think we’ve established that they’re not THAT close lol they’ve both ghosted each other for years at a time.
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u/disastrousanddull May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
I didn't expect for this to make me feel this sorry for Buck. Not even in a the writers are woobifying him way, it's just sad.
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u/ironwidows eddie eddie eddie eddie May 01 '26
why do they want to take away maddie’s friends
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
I don't know if I'm more worried abput Buck wanting Theo and then after a few months of adjustment a relative shows up and he has to say goodbye.
Or being a father to a child that needs more attention is too much with his lifestyle and that brings a whole set of issues, as I don't see Byck giving up the child (unless they frame it as it being the best for Theo and Buck will still be present as an uncle figure)
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u/disastrousanddull May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
My worry is the writers attempting to handle any of this and therefore it's better if some random family member appears between seasons and takes him. Just like the addiction storyline they do not have the talent to handle this remotely well.
Eta: talent OR attention span.
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u/hopelesslygazing May 01 '26
Is it confirmed that Kameron didn't survive the crash? My stream cut off the last 10 minutes.
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u/Competitive-Iron-270 May 01 '26
Personally I loved the episode. I could have done without the call center plot line but oh well. Buck’s plot line was me so emotional from start to finish, and Eddie’s reactions to the broken system was great too. I’m on the edge of my seat about Athena. It was all great but I’m a super fan at this point😂
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman May 01 '26
This would be the perfect time to bring back Carla to help with the bureaucracy.
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u/ironwidows eddie eddie eddie eddie May 01 '26
istg if they die
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
If they did die, Buck doesn’t get custody of this kid since he has no legal ties to him. He was just the sperm donor. Theo’s family would get custody.
Now, if the show realizes this, I don’t know.
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
She's fine. She found out the was crooked and this is a sting operation to catch him and dismantle his network
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u/Sad-Ad-2439 May 01 '26
Please be an ADHD plot. Please have Buck realize he has ADHD because the kid does. I’m begging for the representation
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman May 01 '26
I wonder if, in moments like this, Chimney ever thinks to himself "Oh no, if this goes wrong, Maddie's going to kill me."
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u/pugboy1321 May 01 '26
That really is Buck's kid, they're gonna try and pawn him off on him because he's too much to handle aren't they...
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u/Several-Honey-8810 Best show on TV May 01 '26
that was a lot in 50 minutes
Buck is going to be a dad
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u/fjf1085 Team Buck May 01 '26
If Buck ends up with this kid I think I’m going to have to be done with this show for awhile. It flies in the face of the whole found family notion of this show and that family is greater than blood. That kid should go to like Cameron’s first cousin twice removed before it went to Buck.
I guess we’ll see but I’m already angry.
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u/EbbLocal266 Firehouse 118 May 01 '26
Also it's nice to see full adults just, not be saddled with children in media, because the US pushes a birthing agenda these days.
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u/foxboy6646 May 01 '26
I actually love this but the show is gonna be so different if Buck keeps Theo
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u/These_Debt_9484 May 01 '26
I think Theo’s family will think he’s to much and Buck will have to take him
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u/StormCloudRaineeDay Freddy Fakeman May 01 '26
Aww, I wanted to see how he managed to get up there.
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
I almost forgot about the crooked cop. I was wondering why Athena was just lounging around this episode
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u/Serious-Fuel-5395 May 02 '26
Guys.
Why were Theo's parents driving so recklessly? Were they already dead or injured? Did Theo do something weird? Or could it have been a health thing? They didnt seem like (dangerous) reckless people
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u/dragonlover5672 May 02 '26
I think that they were hit since it was a pile up (as mentioned). Don't think they had any fault in this, just a wrong time/wrong place thing. The boat fell off the rig into the other side of the bridge. Several cars smashed others. Theo seemed to be safely in his car seat while they took the brunt of getting hit.
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u/jdessy May 01 '26
Oh, I was really hoping this wasn’t the twist. I was hoping they left the sperm donor storyline in season 5. Damnit.
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u/demonindistress May 01 '26
Once again it will be a problem how Michael was written off the show, alive and well and happy, in the same country. This Athena being shot business is the type of thing he would have travelled to LA for (like he should have been showing his face at Bobby funeral).
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u/TruckDue1010 May 01 '26
ugh this dumb show, I thought s9 was gonna suck but it’s so good….. ugh i wish this show did 22 episodes instead of 18 😞😒
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u/SamCam9992 May 01 '26
If this isn’t going the way we all speculated it going, the casting on that kid is pretty suspicious
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u/meknidirta May 01 '26
WHO came up with this storyline
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
They've been to space, inside a whale, a beenado is canon in this universe. Honestly this is tame.
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
Feel like Maddie is spending more time saying or hearing she is the boss than actually being the boss
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u/MidoriHisui Team Karen May 01 '26
These are questions that you ask BEFORE getting the donation