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Baywatch lives! After being tragically canceled at the end of Season 1, the lifeguards are back with some old friends, new faces, and far too many plot threads to keep straight in this supersized two part season premiere. Something deadly lurks beneath Santa Monica Bay. Mitch contemplates a promotion. Harvey covers himself in syrup. Shauni has dad problems. Baywatch might get a new boat. Ben works the switchboard! Thorpe is there too.  Join Zach, Charlie, and special guest Meg Joh (host of the podcast "Forever, Babe") as we go lobster fishing and plot dissecting in our very first ever quarantine episode! Follow @Baywatchwatch on IG and Twitter for more! 

Set design really shakes things up this season finale when a giant earthquake destroys Baywatch headquarters (and all of LA). Ceilings cave in and pipes burst with steam; it’s groundbreaking stuff! The earthquake leaves all our favorite characters rattled. Gina falls off a roof. Craig, Cort, and their lackluster acting are stuck in an underwater cave. Hobie tries to give Rocky a bath! And if that’s not scary enough, Shauni tells Eddie, “the ground isn’t the only thing shaky around here!” Will a manic pixie pregnant woman be introduced as a plot device to help Eddie come to his senses in time to save his relationship? Will David Hasselhoff’s committed performance pleasantly surprise audiences yet again? Will all our characters be reunited once more by the end of the episode?! Luckily us hosts are able to use our own earthquake expertise to help everyone appreciate the magnitude of this episode! Follow @Baywatchwatch on IG & twitter!

In the second to last episode of the season, Cort’s womanizing ways land him an invite on a sexy lady’s boat, and while they’re out at sea he just so happens to catch a glimpse of an “old friend” on another boat passing by. What a seemingly inconsequential coincidence except for the fact that he thought his old friend died years ago! This inspires Cort to get in touch with Kate, the maybe dead guy’s widow. THE TWIST?! Their relationship is platonic, which sends Cort cascading down a series of bad acting moments. Meanwhile our pals Mitch, Garner, and Craig decide to go hang gliding. THE TWIST?! Despite being well trained lifeguards they make astoundingly irresponsible decisions that send Mitch crashing and eventually getting bit by a rattlesnake. As if Mitch almost dying isn’t enough of a spoiler also in this episode; Eddie orders pizza and a sweet Muffy gets wet. Thankfully we have comedian and our own old friend, Cory Willis, joining us to help navigate all the DRAMA. Follow @burncoryburn and @Baywatchwatch on IG and Twitter!

A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF BAYWATCH WATCH! We got an actual script from this episode (The Big Race) and we did a table read with our guests Anna Salinas and Edgar Momplaisir! Does the script vary much from the episode that aired? Wildly so in many ways. You get the feeling that the director looked at the script and often said "Yeah, we're not gonna shoot that. We'll do this instead." Each of us read the part of 4 different characters in this script that features a high-stakes water ski race, Cort pretending to be rich for a good cause, and Shauni struggling to get over the death of Jill. Spoiler alert: Jill died last episode! We also get into a variety of topics including TV writing, lakes, the impending Streaming Wars, and of course Baywatch. You can follow Anna Salinas @badcomixbyanna on instagram/twitter, and Edgar Momplaisir @awfulgram on instagram and @edgarmomplaisir on twitter!

Sharks!!! There's sharks everywhere in Baywatch thanks to Bucky Allen's Ocean Grill Shark Derby. What do all of those words mean? Well, Bucky Allen is a sleazy guy that owns a restaurant by the ocean, and he's decided that the best way to drum up business for his Ocean Grill is to sponsor a Shark Derby, where fishers compete to catch the biggest shark and win a $25,000 prize. Eddie, Cort, Hobie, and Captain Thorpe are all doing their best to catch the largest shark, but Mitch wants nothing to do with the competition because he knows Bucky is human trash. Things take a turn for the worst when Jill makes a rescue in the ocean and is viciously attacked by one of the sharks "competing" in the shark derby. This puts her in the hospital and now Mitch is determined to get revenge on Bucky. But don't worry, everything will turn out alright by the episode's end, right? Right?! Ummmmm....

Eddie has become infatuated with a troubled ghost that is running around the shores and cliffs of Baywatch in a long, white gown, with a lavendar ribbon in her hair. She's obviously from another time period because a modern ghost from 1990 would probably be wearing something neon with lots of accessories and maybe some sunglasses too. Eddie's determined to help her out but everyone else thinks that she's a figment of his imagination brought on by stress from the death of his lifeguard partner, Kirby. He even breaks up with Shauni to spend more time chasing after the ghost. Hey, we've all been there before. Elsewhere, Hobie is helping out his friend Katie, who needs to find a new home for her dog, Rocky, or else he'll sent by her parents to the pound. This leads to an entertaining montage where the dog playing Rocky shows off his acting chops. Jill take note! There's also a C story involving Cort and an old timey diving suit that is so boring that they wrap it up halfway through the episode. A big twist in this episode comes when we find out that Eddie is in fact a ghost himself. Just kidding, that's the surprise ending of The Sixth Sense!

Cort takes Eddie and Shauni out to an illegal casino boat for a fun day of betting in tuxes, but unfortunately this leads to Eddie developing a gambling addiction and losing all of his money. It's ok though because he decides to borrow money from the casino so he can gamble some more. Wait, that's a terrible idea! Now Mr. Danvier, the owner of the casino boat, is intent on getting Eddie to pay back his debt immediately or else something terrible is going to happen to him. Meanwhile, Mitch is in a relationship with Ms. Keller from last week's episode and they are madly in love with each other and ready to have a Baywatch montage together. But Hobie's intent on breaking them up after Ms. Keller doesn't give him good grades in her class. Not to worry though because Cort's about to pick up a pair of dice on the casino boat and roll the 1998 film starring Nicolas Cage... Snake Eyes!

Cort gets punished for a not-that-dangerous parasailing incident by being assigned to train new lifeguards at Raging Waters water park. He brings along Eddie to help and together they put lifeguard hopefuls through training that mostly consists of riding the fun water slides at the park. But it's not all fun and games because someone at the park is causing damage by smashing meters and loosening bolts on slides. The episode gives us two prime suspects: Tad, a wannabe lifeguard that doesn't make the cut and is also extremely jealous of Eddie, and Joe Maddon, a middle-aged man that comes to the park every day without going in the water and instead says strange things to Eddie and the others. Back at Baywatch headquarters, Shauni is suspended by Thorpe for appearing in the new Sports Week calendar in her Baywatch bathing suit, but she's positive she never gave anyone permission to use her photo. Don't worry lifeguard/lawyer Craig is on the case and ready to help her out. We also have Mitch getting disappointed by Hobie's school teacher Ms. Keller who recently canceled the school field trip to Baywatch. He's sure it's because everyone believes in a non-existent stereotype that lifeguards just sit around all day looking at girls and getting tan. If all this wasn't enough there's also an unbelievable chase throughout the water park that includes one of the most dangerous stunts ever on a very steep water slide. Plus, there's a final scene involving Mitch and Ms. Keller at a beachside restaurant that is very odd and completely unnecessary. This is a GREAT episode of Baywatch and we highly recommend you watch it!

Craig needs a vacation after his shoe is thrown by Cort at a WWII era naval mine that a fisherman reeled in causing it to explode. So he decides to take Eddie & Cort on a little surfing adventure down in Mexico. But trouble arises when his jeep is stolen by criminals led by an evil American named Regler, who oppressively rules the local town of Mira Flores. And this isn't just any town because Cort used to date Ines, the owner of the saloon, but he left without saying goodbye one day so now she's ready to cut his throat with a broken beer bottle. There's also an inappropriate storyline where Hobie is trying to become Shauni's new boyfriend while Eddie is down in Mexico. It's just gross. And Captain Thorpe is told by his wife to move out of the house because she's tired of being married to him and wants a divorce. But Thorpe seems ok with it because he's decided to go "trolling for chicks" each night with Mitch. What an episode!

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