fun story, I knew there was going to be some kind of surprise returning voice so I deliberately did not look at the credits or transcript to not spoil myself, and I almost didn’t recognize gerry when he showed up. I heard his first few lines and thought “is it–wait, I’m not sure. that doesn’t quite sound like him?” and it was because he sounded happy. he sounded happy and well adjusted and just a little manically frazzled from having surprise visitors so early, and that sounded so different from the ghost gerry we know that I almost thought he was a different person. and gertrude sounded exactly as wary and grouchy as usual 💖. the alternate timeline may have gifted gerry the chance to be the friendly peppy painter he never got to be in a past life, but in every lifetime gertude “gee gee” robinson is destined to be a bit of a motherfucker.