Kate's Fertility Treatment | "Katie Girls" (303)
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What is the main topic of this episode?
On today's episode of That Was Us, we're diving into Season 3, Episode 3, Katie Girls. Everyone rallies around Kate as she undergoes egg retrieval surgery. Both Randall and Kevin go on personal journeys to connect with different parts of Jack's life. And Rebecca must decide between the comfort of her previous life or the excitement of a new one.
Hello, friends. Hey, guys. Hey, it's Jack.
What were you just doing? We just had lunch.
And Sterling literally just finished this episode.
Did you even finish it? I'm close. I'm like five minutes from having the whole thing done.
All right, we'll wait. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, no, go ahead. It's time to go. No, we'll just look at the camera.
It's time to go. Oh, you guys, there are lots of questions being answered in Katie Girls, right?
Yeah.
I mean, I think we could just jump right into how the episode starts. And it's sort of a flash, flash, flashback to the 50s with a doting wife and a husband who just comes home from work. The wife is just like... putting dinner on the table, pouring a drink. Little girl sort of posted up in front of the TV and then clocking the dynamic between her parents, right?
The good old days.
The good old days.
You know what I mean?
And I think we come to realize that that is... That's young Rebecca Pearson, Rebecca Malone.
That's right.
And her parents.
The only Rebecca not played by you?
The only Rebecca not played by me, but Taylor was watching it with me. He's like, oh, they did this before they casted your parents in real life. I was like, well, no, Elizabeth Perkins had been cast, but I don't think you'd met Tim Matheson yet. I'm not sure. Had we?
No, I don't think we had.
Because he looks nothing like Tim Matheson.
There you go.
Just, you know, we don't always nail it. Right?
You course correct when you can.
We course correct.
This is also the youngest version of Rebecca that you did get to play in high school. And you're 16?
16, yeah.
We got pigtails going on?
We don't have pigtails. We just sort of have the flippy bob.
Okay. Yeah. With the hard bangs.
With the hard bangs.
Curtain bang.
And there were braces at one point. They didn't end up using the braces.
And they took the braces off. They took the braces away. A bridge too far.
A bridge too far.
Well, it's interesting because in that sort of evolution of things and you watching your mom at that time in schools, and it's still in schools today, like home economics is like a class that a lot of folks will take. And in that time, I guess it was dominated by the girls and shop class was dominated by the boys. And you sort of reminiscing on what you've seen in your household, your mom just sort of like waiting on everything for her dad. And you're like, you know what? I don't know if that's what I want to recreate for myself. So you're like, I'm opting out of this home ec thing, I'm going to go do me some shop class, right?
She doesn't know what she's doing.
She doesn't know what she's doing, but there's a nice boy over there that, you know, let the saw do its thing. It'll take care of itself. And so you let the teeth do its thing. You're like, thanks. Appreciate it. And this dude, his name is Alan. And I think this is one of the things that you can't trust about a dude named Alan. I don't know if it's A-L-A-N or A-L-L-E-N.
I think it's A-L-A-N.
You think so?
I think so.
Was that on the call sheet?
I want to say it was.
But that's why you can't trust them. You just don't know. You can spell it two different ways. And if I can spell your name two different ways and they sound the same, I don't know about you, sir.
I don't know about you.
Hot take.
Hot take. Right there. Hot take. Zoom in. But he delivers quite the line. He says, they've never seen anyone like you. And they never will again. And they never will again.
Right. It turns out that this young man is the same young man, not so young anymore, a little bit older, who we see on the doorstep. Just showing up, kissing people. Kissing my mama.
Yeah.
That's right. While my daddy was like, yo, I thought you left the jacket. I thought I was supposed to. That was a sign. But there's even like after the kiss and she comes in, it turns out that Alan's moved away for some time and he just showed back up to come back for the girl specifically.
What is the significance of the fan trivia segment?
Thank you.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode?
0:11–24:13
2
What challenges does Kate face during her surgery?
24:13–1:05:01
3
What insights do the characters share about family dynamics?
57:34
4
How does Kate confront her younger selves?
28:04
5
What role does nostalgia play in the episode?
5:20
6
What is the significance of the fan trivia segment?
0:01–25:28
7
How do the characters support each other through challenges?
25:28–1:05:01