You're listening to Once, episode 215, the unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a Time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis.

I'm Jeremy Loughlin. And we just finished watching

this episode, The Bear and the Bow. So our thoughts are going to be a bit all over the place

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But this episode seemed a little bit of a slower pace, setting some things up, but we got to see Rumpel be the hero to mash the Fetitina.

Wow.

Oh, wait.

That was an obscure reference.

If you get that reference and you correctly identify it, we will figure out something to send you.

Yes. It might just be our hearts. Well, that seems a little over the top. I like my heart

right where it is, even though I keep it where everybody else keeps it. But Marita does have her

heart back. She does. I think Emma enjoyed putting that back a little too harshly, a little too much.

Let me give it just one more squeeze before I put it back in.

And she made a classic mistake of someone who's losing their footing, who's trying to sound like they're still in control.

I was done with that anyway.

It surprised me in a little bit that Rumpel did end up being the hero to pull the sword from

the stone. The reason I say surprise me is because it seemed like right at that moment when he said,

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