Some Kind of Burping Trash Hole

***Some Kind of Burping Trash Hole*** is the seventh episode in the first season of the T.V. adaptation of *Paper Girls*. It was released on July 29, 2022.

## Synopsis

Tiff confronts her adult self about the choices she’s made and KJ tries to help Mac grapple with her future as Larry and Erin call for back-up.

## Episode Summary

Tiffany watches a video of her adult self giving a valedictorian speech at her 1994 high school graduate. KJ and Mac go outside to talk about Mac’s future and need to find treatment for her future illness.

Adult Tiff takes preteen Tiff out for a coffee to tell her more about reality and how her perception of life when she was 12 is very different about her perception of life in 2019. She tells Tiff she’s adopted.

Mac and KJ go to visit Mac’s grave. They hear someone coming and hide. Alice Coyle leaves flowers at Mac’s grave. She sees two girls run off and looks confused.

Russ watches *Real World* with Erin. He asks Erin who she and her friends are and what they’re doing here. Larry knocks on the door looking for Tiff Quilkin. He realizes that Erin is a time traveler too and he tells her he needs to show her something. She tells Larry he gets killed by the Old Watch in 2019. He tells Erin he wants to do the right thing.

Erin sees her old bike in Larry’s truck. He explains it fell out of some “burping trash hole” and that the hole is still there. She tells him to take her there.

Juniper Plimpton tries on wedding dresses with her mom. She gets a call from someone about time traveling kids and a break in the timeline.

Alice drives and sees young Mac- she looks so confused. Mac and KJ run away but Alice chases them. She loses them and starts crying.

Tiff admits she got expelled from MIT. Russ tells Tiff that Erin left with some guy she knew - Larry. The Tiffs both get up, get Mac and KJ, and drive to Larry’s.

Juniper Plimpton arrives at Larry’s farm to see the folding. She tells them it’s a Class 2 Time Rip, not a folding.

The girls arrive at the farm and see a bunch of items of theirs from 1988 spread out on the farm. Mac throws a paper at the rip, seeing if it will travel, and it incinerates on contact. Meemaw calls Larry inside, complaining about a cat. Juniper realizes it’s not a cat, it’s an XK-11 recon probe. She tells them that the probe is sending a live update to the Old Watch about what’s happening. She guesses the Old Watch troops are going to come in an hour or less and that they will execute the girls for violating the time travel ban. Juniper tells them they have to run.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Riley Lai Nelet as Erin Tieng
	+ Ali Wong as adult Erin
* Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin
	+ Sekai Abenì as adult Tiffany
* Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle
* Fina Strazza as KJ Brandman
	+ Delia Cunningham as adult KJ
* Nate Corddry as Larry

### Recurring Cast

* Celeste Arias as Juniper Plimpton
* Rebecca Spence as Alice Coyle
* Meg Thalken as Meemaw Radakowski
* Andrew Eakle as Russ
* Charin Alvarez as Mother Plimpton

## Quotes

> You’re so focused on who you should be, and how to get there that you have no idea what you really like, really want, or who you really are.
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> Adult Tiff to preteen Tiff