Episode 105- December 19th, 2023- Charlie Christmas Special 2: electric boogaloo
Lore-
Charlie’s death is confirmed to be from ingesting white phosphorus and blowing up
Charlie came from a candy cane rift from hell but can only stay for 24 hours, this is most likely a punishment for Ted and Schlatt
9:15 Schlatt grieves over Charlie’s death, most likely has some form of regret for Charlie’s death or at the very least misses Charlie
10:00 Ted sent Schlatt to “good boy ranch” which is basically conversion therapy but for men who cry too much because Schlatt was supposedly too emotional. This begs the question how much control Ted has over Schlatt’s life.
14:45 Charlie explains his spectral form which is sorta clear goo that takes 14 days for morph into his ghostly form. It is both a very disgusting and painful process.
Charlie hasn’t chuckled once all year which makes sense because he was in hell up until that episode.
40:10 Ted says if he’d had perfect vision he would’ve been able to stop 9/11 AGAIN. Assuming that this wasn’t a slip up on Ted’s part, that means Ted has stopped 9/11 once but there was a second one that he he couldn’t prevent. It’s a lot to take in I know.
The Other Guy’s ™️ origin: Schlatt saw him inside of someone’s house in Pflugerville and took him.
Charlie canonically “nogged” himself after hearing the unlimited bacon question
1:13:40 Charlie is sent back to hell
Ted and Schlatt speculate on how dead Charlie really is and begin planning on kill him a second time. Ted mentions that they’ll need ghost white phosphorus which means: 1) ghost can die 2) there is such thing as ghost white phosphorus and it is obtainable to them 3) Charlie is either deemed as a threat or at the very least an annoyance to Ted and Schlatt
My thoughts-
This episode was such a slay. I kinda became a real fan of CS a little bit after Charlie’s death so I didn’t understand how much Charlie added to the podcast until this episode came out back in December. He just bounces off everyone so we’ll and I appreciate the fact he pre-plans his bits beforehand, it makes me wish that modern cs threw in a few more bits in general. Charlie was an absolute delight and he made my job so much easier when he just kept dropping lore bits.
This would’ve been a 10 or 9.5/10 but I do have a gripe with this episode. Back when this episode first came out me and my mom decided to let my brother watch the special with us. (He really wanted to watch with us and I thought it wouldn’t be a issue because episodes with Charlie are normally more tame.) Then the Mr. Hands section happened and I have to live with the fact my brother knows what Mr.Hands is because I vouched for him. We did not finish that episode. Because of that one moment I’m giving it a 8/10, great episode but I’m holding a grudge.
Things I noted-
Is Catholicism canon in the CS universe? Like is it the confirmed religion or is that just a Schlatt thing?
The other guy in the background>>>
It’s just really funny to me that Ted took Schlatt to conversion therapy
14:00 Gas stations eggs mentioned
The egg nog and candy cane bit might’ve been a nod to Charlie’s old veggie bit
How did Schlatt make eating the hook part of the candy cane sound more gay than sucking on the straight part of it
Living for Charlie obsessing over Tucker
Ted is 100% right on his opinion on store bought vrs. bakery cookies
Charlie glitching made me think my phone was broken lol
(Original notes, updates, +a comment that made me giggle under the cut)
