The Big Three Hit Puberty | "Changes" (503)
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What emotional changes are the Pearson family facing in this episode?
On today's episode of That Was Us, we are diving into season five, episode three, Changes. The Pearson family is pushed in new emotional directions. Randall navigates big shifts with Tess, Kevin and Madison confront some hard truths, and Kate and Toby take a meaningful step towards adoption. Meanwhile, new characters reveal there's more to Laurel's story.
How do new characters impact Laurel's story?
What up, y'all?
What up? Ch-ch-ch-changes.
A lot of changes. A lot of things that I didn't remember until I saw it. You know what I'm saying? The opening of the episode, I was like, oh, wow. I love it when he does... Sometimes I just saw Dan the other day and grabbing a drink or whatnot, and he was giving me a paradise pitch.
He loves a pitch. He loves to corner you. He's really good at it.
What challenges do Randall, Kevin, and Kate face in their relationships?
I mean, he is the ultimate pitcher, but he does love to corner you. Would he do this for you guys during the course of the show? Totally. Like you'd see him at an event or something, he'd be like, oh, wait.
Here's the thing.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'd come up to you and he's like, so check this out. What do you think, how do you think Ronald feel about being gay? And I'd be like, huh?
Yeah, you're like, wait, what's the context?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, trust me, it's going to work out. It's going to be great.
I was like, okay. You're right. He's excellent at it. But I could just imagine what the writer's room was with these particular ideas of like, wow, this is a big swing.
But here we go. He has a way of like, what is it? He throws people that we've never seen at all. Whatsoever. Right. But now the audience has been schooled. So now the audience is just waiting. Right? Because we've done it enough times. We're like, all right, who is this Asian man and his granddaughter?
Because the episode opens on a grandfather and granddaughter fishing. They're going fishing.
And immediately you're like, are we back in Vietnam? Like, what? Like, how is this related?
Yeah. We don't know anything. And then he just drops it. And then he goes to the titles. And then he goes into the show. You're like, all right. And you forget about it.
You do. Until it comes back around again. Until it comes back around. Until we're like, who are these people?
Yeah.
How is the theme of body image addressed in the episode?
How are they related?
How are they related to the Pearsons?
Yeah. Yeah. It's good. So changes. Everybody's going through a lot of stuff.
Which one do we... Do you want to just finish this sort of fishing situation? Or no, you want to go to Jack and Rebecca, the pediatrician with the teens?
I want to do the fishing, but then I like the reveal last.
Okay, okay, okay. So we could go to Jack and Rebecca, the pediatrician.
Okay, cool, cool, cool.
with the teenagers, all three of them are going through puberty at the same time, which is like walloping mom and dad. No.
New doctor. You guys, I have a 14 year old. I can't imagine having three.
At the same time, going through all of those emotions.
At the same Mickey-Ficky time. Mickey. Mickey-Ficky. Like, they're all synced. Like, you know, like, we all have cycles. Some may manifest in other ways, but, like, to have three kids going through it, oh, Lord have mercy.
But also, this was the first episode that I really clocked. I was like, aww. Everyone's voices are changing too.
I was about to say, it made me think, I was like, how much longer do we have them? Because they really were.
Yeah.
To see Lonnie Parker and Mackenzie.
It was not too, too much longer.
Yeah, because I feel like they're about to get phased out for good. Because I don't think they're in season six.
Just the last episode.
Just the last episode, right.
In the last episode that we've recorded during season three.
Right.
Yep, yep, yep. Yeah. That's right. They look good. They look like, you know, Lonnie's got his boys. So does Parker. Parker does too. And then Mackenzie's like, She's a giant.
She's so tall. So tall. That became one of the harder issues, too, is that she started to outpace the boys a little bit in terms of her height. I find that it's always been the case. You know what I mean? It's just sort of like she was so... almost as tall as both of us that like, it's ridiculous because Chrissy is so tiny.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What emotional changes are the Pearson family facing in this episode?
0:00–0:33
2
How do new characters impact Laurel's story?
0:33–1:00
3
What challenges do Randall, Kevin, and Kate face in their relationships?
1:00–2:23
4
How is the theme of body image addressed in the episode?
2:23–41:29
5
What insights do the hosts share about body image and pressure?
41:29–41:45
6
How do the hosts prepare for intimate scenes on set?
41:45–42:12
7
What challenges does Randall face in finding a new therapist?
42:12–42:31
8
How does the episode address themes of adoption and family dynamics?
42:31–1:24:03