Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast missed. Really you what that end? Welcome?
Speaker 1: I hate you so much. This is and that's what
Speaker 1: you really missed. That hurt my brain so much. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Um, I'm Kevin, I'm Jenna in the reverse today. Um,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. This is the power of Madonna. Madonna, Madonna,
Speaker 1: Bobe Bogue. Though this is monumental episode for us. It
Speaker 1: is the first tribute episode of several that we end
Speaker 1: up doing. That's right, and you know I'm going to
Speaker 1: be It's a great episode. Well one. Ryan Ropy directed it,
Speaker 1: so leave it there. Um and and in preperation four,
Speaker 1: some of the cast also did a TV Guide magazine
Speaker 1: Glee Rocks Madonna episode or spread in the magazine, and
Speaker 1: we all had different looks for Madonna, which was very cool.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of promo for this one. Madonna
Speaker 1: gave Glee her catalog and I guess said, go forth.
Speaker 1: We also Kevin, well this one. Let's start with this one.
Speaker 1: Aaron on April twentieth, twenty ten, and the number one
Speaker 1: song was Rude Boy again, right, huh. Number one movie
Speaker 1: was now kick Ass, which I also haven't seen You've
Speaker 1: never seen kick Ass. Well, I'm not. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a lot of movies. You watched a lot of TV.
Speaker 1: You don't see movies. I'm getting better because the husband
Speaker 1: is a movie buff. So this week we also on
Speaker 1: April seventeenth, we won that award for Outstanding Comedy Series,
Speaker 1: and we also won the Future Classic at the eighth
Speaker 1: Annuel TV Land Awards, which was at Sony Studios in
Speaker 1: LA And I still have that my trophy. We got
Speaker 1: another trophy that we got to take home. Yep, I
Speaker 1: believe I still have that as well. Do you remember
Speaker 1: who was sitting at our table? No? I remember we
Speaker 1: got there and looking back and next to Jane was
Speaker 1: Ann Coulter and I was at first filled with rage,
Speaker 1: and then I was like, oh, I can't wait for
Speaker 1: Jane to see she's sitting next to Ankold We really
Speaker 1: I don't remember this, Yeah, And I was very confused
Speaker 1: as to why she was there, why she was sitting
Speaker 1: at our table. It's very inappropriate, it was very Additionally,
Speaker 1: we recorded that Future Classic Award the same night as
Speaker 1: the GLAD Awards. Do you remember that, Kevin where we
Speaker 1: went to watch I changed outfits, changed looks, and then
Speaker 1: we changed and went to the other one. It was
Speaker 1: a quick It was a quickie. It was that was
Speaker 1: a fun night. That was a fun night. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into this phenomenal episode with eight billion songs. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: so obviously we are all big Madonna fans, but I
Speaker 1: think Ryan was a huge Madonna fan, and Jane as
Speaker 1: well said that on her pot and when she was
Speaker 1: on the podcast. How many songs do we do in
Speaker 1: this episode? There's eleven songs, but we don't perform all
Speaker 1: of them. Some of them are just part of the score,
Speaker 1: which is also great sort of Willy was always could
Speaker 1: have been scored by Madonna music, but also like it's
Speaker 1: I think it's the only time we had like music
Speaker 1: quote unquote playing from the speakers in the hallway, So
Speaker 1: it was just yeah scored, which I was like, why
Speaker 1: don't we do that for more? It is a very
Speaker 1: good idea, so fun. So the songs in this episode
Speaker 1: are Ray of Light, Express Yourself, a mashup of Borderline
Speaker 1: and Open your Heart, Frozen, Frozen, Like a Virgin, Justify
Speaker 1: My Love, four Minutes, what it feels Like for a Girl,
Speaker 1: and Like a Prayer, Wow, what a selection. I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you pick? So you just do them all right,
Speaker 1: right if you're in the writer's room. So the episode summary,
Speaker 1: because this is obviously a Madonna tribute featuring only songs
Speaker 1: by Madonna. After Sue uses her love and inspiration for Madonna,
Speaker 1: she begins to train and ask her Cheerios to emulate
Speaker 1: her in every way, shape and form. Mister Shoe is
Speaker 1: concerned that the girls in the glee club are being
Speaker 1: disrespected and bullied by the guys, and Jesse St. James
Speaker 1: transfers to Pickinley High. There's also Sue is up to
Speaker 1: no good also with trying to do some things with
Speaker 1: the Cheerios and get some of the glee club members.
Speaker 1: And there's also a lot of virginity talk happening this episode.
Speaker 1: That is right, you know, high school things, high school things,
Speaker 1: but also like high school things, but in a hotel.
Speaker 1: I thought that was very funny. We'll get there, okay,
Speaker 1: so she would kick it off. Let's kick it off.
Speaker 1: We start with Ray of Light playing and we have
Speaker 1: an incredible cheero performance. Right after my favorite thing per
Speaker 1: usual Sue's journal and she's talking about how much she
Speaker 1: loves Sue and again, I mean loves Madonna and breaks
Speaker 1: a fourth wall by saying Madonna simply saying the word
Speaker 1: allowed makes me feel powerful, even in voice over, how
Speaker 1: I've worshiped her ever since I was a little girl,
Speaker 1: and that will come through, that will tie into her
Speaker 1: storyline through the rest of the episode. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like we break the fourth wall a lot, though, unless
Speaker 1: Ryan has something to do with it totally, because he
Speaker 1: can do whatever he wants. He's the glue god. So
Speaker 1: if he's like, we're gonna do this now, yeah, So
Speaker 1: Sue then makes it her prerogative admission to continue her blackmail.
Speaker 1: Figgins to be like, here's what we're doing. We're gonna
Speaker 1: play Madonna's greatest hits to the PA system quite loudly
Speaker 1: through an entire school day, and Figgins is obviously like, no,
Speaker 1: blasting her delicious slicks would make it impossible for students
Speaker 1: to concentrate. And then she's like, I don't really care, right,
Speaker 1: Like she's like whatever, she like. Madonna didn't finish college,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a couple of people here who
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't finish high school. In the ship into New
Speaker 1: York and basically Figgins, yes, thinks that's insane, but she's like, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. What you call insanity, I call inspiration. Right,
Speaker 1: So her biggest dream is to pay homage to Madonna.
Speaker 1: And there we go. There's the thesis of the episode.
Speaker 1: And so obviously, let me know, Sue still has something
Speaker 1: over Figgins. She is holding the blackmail card over him
Speaker 1: with them in bed together. Yeah, so Sue based basically
Speaker 1: as always, gets her way, and she has this gaggle
Speaker 1: of Cheerios, the Cheerio team that can make her dreams
Speaker 1: come true by winning nationals. So she says that they
Speaker 1: have to start thinking and acting like Madonna, which akaa
Speaker 1: is like dating younger men and no longer acknowledging that
Speaker 1: any of them have last last names. And then you know,
Speaker 1: she says, it's like Madonna once said, I'm tough, I'm ambitious,
Speaker 1: and I know what I want. If that makes me
Speaker 1: a bit okay, I'm pretty sure she stole that line
Speaker 1: from one Sue Sylvester. No, really, she stole it from me.
Speaker 1: I said at first Palladium eighty seven. And obviously, for
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know that the Palladium was
Speaker 1: a theater and back in the day, a nightclub back
Speaker 1: in the day that turned into a theater where I
Speaker 1: went to many a rave m yeah, little m Hannah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so okay, so there were going to this number. We
Speaker 1: have our first of two crazy cheerio performances in this episode,
Speaker 1: and we're watching this number last night, right, yeah, and
Speaker 1: we were on like our usual cheer like hot cheerios,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, just wait for it, ray of Light.
Speaker 1: There are people on stilts cheerios on stilts, and David
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god. And those people, I know,
Speaker 1: we were obviously older than high school age, but those
Speaker 1: people were not even close. No, they've been doing this
Speaker 1: for years. There's just some grown assment. This number is incredible.
Speaker 1: I love that they got to sort of play, you know,
Speaker 1: it's we had all our good cheerios out. It was
Speaker 1: Hannah and Brittany, like everyone, all the Glee dancer all
Speaker 1: stars were all on this number. They're all on this
Speaker 1: entire episode, and you know, because we were not the
Speaker 1: greatest dancers. I liked it. There were two chairs numbers
Speaker 1: with actual professional dancers where you could really see Zach
Speaker 1: and Brooks expertise. Well. Also, Zach toured with Madonna. That's right,
Speaker 1: our choreographer toured with Madonna, so he is a very
Speaker 1: an og Madonna dancer, very familiar with obviously her music.
Speaker 1: I think he's in her documentary as well. Oh my gosh. Also, Kevin,
Speaker 1: did you notice that in Ray of Light, Um around
Speaker 1: six minutes when Madonna sings and I feel the McKinley
Speaker 1: athletic sign is reversed. Oh yeah, I didn't, So they
Speaker 1: must have flipped it in post for some reason. They
Speaker 1: flipped the shot. Yeah, they flipped the shot. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's interesting when during this performance, Shoe sneaks in to
Speaker 1: watch it and is shocked by it. Yeah, and obviously
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite. Sue is not happy
Speaker 1: to see him, and what does she say, Jenna, Oh hey, William,
Speaker 1: I thought I smelled cookies wafting from the ovens of
Speaker 1: the little elves who lived in your hair. I love
Speaker 1: that this episode is it's like scratching that itch of like,
Speaker 1: I'm now going to be obsessive about the hair jokes,
Speaker 1: and I think that's one of I don't know six
Speaker 1: or seven that end up happening in this episode. Yes, exactly, So,
Speaker 1: mister Shoecy, is this this thing that Sue is doing,
Speaker 1: and now he wants the glee club to also do
Speaker 1: Madonna because earlier he had heard the girls talking and
Speaker 1: the glee club where the girls are in the choir
Speaker 1: room and Rachel asks something private, and she comes up
Speaker 1: to the front of the room, of course, and she says,
Speaker 1: let's just say, hypothetically, we went to a Wiggles concert
Speaker 1: last Friday night, and then because my dad's weren't home,
Speaker 1: we went up to my room and started making out.
Speaker 1: It was erotic and romantic, and then he said, Jesse,
Speaker 1: we should do it and it's no big deal, and
Speaker 1: Rachel telling him no, because it is a big deal.
Speaker 1: And she's also trying to pretend that this is not happening,
Speaker 1: like she's actually getting Jesse, because she told the glee
Speaker 1: club that that would be that she broke up with them,
Speaker 1: because they're all worried right about the conflict of interest,
Speaker 1: and all the girls are like, no, well, just don't
Speaker 1: say no. This city is crazy, by the way, like
Speaker 1: the things the guys have been saying to the girls,
Speaker 1: and all the girls like, yeah, that's just the way
Speaker 1: it is. It's wild. Well it's kind of true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Merced says, look, girl, don't ask me. The last
Speaker 1: guy I liked was the mayor of Gaytown, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get a guy mad at me for
Speaker 1: saying no. And then Dana Okay, to be honest, I
Speaker 1: forgot that we were still together at this point, well
Speaker 1: we weren't together yet really, because I and Wheels already
Speaker 1: was like, I'm pissed off because then we're like back
Speaker 1: together and you're telling me like how I should be,
Speaker 1: so like I don't know anyway. Yeah, so Tina, we
Speaker 1: flash whipped back to flashback. Tina's tells them about Larreatie
Speaker 1: and how you already says Kevin, do you want to
Speaker 1: give us her line? Reading god, thing was two years ago,
Speaker 1: So maybe lose the vampire makeup and consider some tighter
Speaker 1: feeding clothing. You got the power, and I believe you
Speaker 1: should work it more for going to be an item.
Speaker 1: Awful party, terrible, very good. So mister Shoes like wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: hold up, are you guys really having now much trouble?
Speaker 1: And he's like, Okay, maybe I'm not the one to
Speaker 1: do this, but maybe Miss Pillsbury is. So he recommends
Speaker 1: us to Miss Pillsbury, and Rachel says that she tried it,
Speaker 1: and she and that she suggested that Rachel talked to
Speaker 1: her rabbi, which in Rachel flashbacks like, um, I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm comfortable talking to my rabbi about this. There
Speaker 1: are also some incredible pamphlets. There was one yes in
Speaker 1: the backgrounds that help, I'm in love with my stepdad,
Speaker 1: I still breastfeed? How old is too old? Being easy
Speaker 1: as one, two three, And then there was one that
Speaker 1: just says loose back. No really. So when Wilson the office,
Speaker 1: he says he wants to help Emma in the sex
Speaker 1: department because or her sex talk department, because it's her
Speaker 1: blind spot. Obviously it's enough in the last episode, so
Speaker 1: with his help she can be prepared to answer the
Speaker 1: questions without needing to have sex. I think it's interesting
Speaker 1: this episode where obviously sex is a huge part of
Speaker 1: this episode, and then female empowerment is a huge part
Speaker 1: of this episode, where I think when you think of
Speaker 1: Madonna's career and her catalog, those are two of the
Speaker 1: first things you think of, right I who was at
Speaker 1: the forefront. Yeah, And I think that was such a
Speaker 1: great way to weave that end to everyone's storyline. It
Speaker 1: was perfect timing M. And then we get to the
Speaker 1: um the glee club. He writes Madonna on the board, right,
Speaker 1: and he asks what the glee club thinks when they
Speaker 1: see Madonna? And everybody has a different opinion. Some are
Speaker 1: Rachel says genius, Chritsis icon Palk says hall of fame, milf,
Speaker 1: which is true. Um, but he gives them the assignment
Speaker 1: for Madonna and the girls are like super excited, but
Speaker 1: the boys aren't. They're like, can't we do somebody like
Speaker 1: Pantera right version of Madonna? Which is not Pantera? But okay. Um,
Speaker 1: So Will's like, okay, guys, you you've been very disrespectful
Speaker 1: to the girls. You've been sexist, misogynistic, and then Britney says,
Speaker 1: when I pulled my handstring, I went to a misogynist M. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny, it's great. And the guys are still not down.
Speaker 1: They're not they're not about it right and the Rachel
Speaker 1: and Rachel's like, okay, I'd like to point out that
Speaker 1: Shoe once again is showing up the class unprepared. That
Speaker 1: is just step leaving it to us, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: runs across the Sue and he's like, I was inspired
Speaker 1: by like that you were just unprepared, You just didn't
Speaker 1: know what you were doing. But more importantly, we do
Speaker 1: express yourself, Kevin. Right before it started, I shouted out loud,
Speaker 1: come on, squirrels, do you believe in loud? That's all
Speaker 1: I think about every single time. I am so I
Speaker 1: watched it with Austin and Austin because the so express
Speaker 1: yourself starts and all of you are the girls, aren't
Speaker 1: these incredible Madonna outfits with the hair and the microphones?
Speaker 1: And you cut to the auditorium stage and you start
Speaker 1: doing the fist pumping move and I started doing that.
Speaker 1: I remember the choreography. I remember watching you do this
Speaker 1: so well. And it was one of those two times
Speaker 1: where because we got to have so much fun and
Speaker 1: like really play with these numbers, that our characters minus
Speaker 1: Chris in the audience were so the opposite of how
Speaker 1: we actually felt in real life, right, And it was
Speaker 1: one of those times where like we couldn't show how
Speaker 1: we actually felt because I remember watching the rehearsal of
Speaker 1: this and just freaking out, yeah and like cheering for
Speaker 1: you and running up on stage because it was it
Speaker 1: was it was, you know, one of our first girl numbers.
Speaker 1: We had the match ups and we have this, and
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be real, the girls were way better
Speaker 1: than the guys, and so well they're different. They were
Speaker 1: different well you know, but also, like my opinion, express yourself, like,
Speaker 1: this is a great song and it's so cool to
Speaker 1: watch all these women do Madonna's music. You were dancing
Speaker 1: so hard. I was dancing so hard that I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, John, tone it down. It's so good.
Speaker 1: Tone it down. But it was really fun and it
Speaker 1: was fun to actually dance, and it was fun to
Speaker 1: actually do like a real number versus like running around
Speaker 1: the stage. So I remember this as well and remember
Speaker 1: being like, oh, you guys can't be there were you
Speaker 1: weren't bored watching this at all? And then we were
Speaker 1: feeling your energy in between takes. So one of those
Speaker 1: incredible moments where like our job that day was to
Speaker 1: show up and watch an incredible performing Yeah Madonna. Yeah Okay.
Speaker 1: So then we get into like a hodgepodge of stuff,
Speaker 1: the Cheerios mess, you know, an action where because Sue
Speaker 1: has now challenged the Cheerios to date younger men, Brittany
Speaker 1: and Santana are on a mission. Brittany says, guess who
Speaker 1: I'm dating, Wes Brody. He's super cute. He plays soccer
Speaker 1: with my sister. He's seven and he's in a madonal
Speaker 1: and she's in a madonalau, which is awesome. And then
Speaker 1: Santana remember she needs a funny, younger man or be
Speaker 1: kicked off the cheerios, and Brittany reminds her that finished
Speaker 1: three days younger than her and super dumb, and how
Speaker 1: to get a man to follow you forever is to
Speaker 1: take his virginity. So Santana, I love that we get
Speaker 1: so much Naya in this episode. The first episode, we
Speaker 1: really get more Nya, and she's so funny and sings
Speaker 1: and forms her ass off. So Santana then tells fin
Speaker 1: Aka fin as sense it's high time you losses big
Speaker 1: v and that everything about him screams virgin. She says,
Speaker 1: you're about as sexy as a cabbage tratch kid, it's
Speaker 1: exhausting to look at you. And he says that he
Speaker 1: is in love with Rachel, but Santana tells him the
Speaker 1: truth and says that he is. She is still dating Jesse.
Speaker 1: I like that. Santana's always like, no, why are all
Speaker 1: you like children still playing these games. Yes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: figured out life. I know what's going on. I'm reading
Speaker 1: people get it to get there, and Santana says it's
Speaker 1: a when when do they have sex? For both of
Speaker 1: them but her? And then Emma called Sue into her
Speaker 1: office and wants to know why, Um, there's Madonna's is
Speaker 1: playing every heor but her office, and Sue says, well,
Speaker 1: it's simple, Arlene. You don't deserve the power of Madonna.
Speaker 1: You have none of her self confidence, her power over
Speaker 1: her body, or her sexual magnetism simply, but you have
Speaker 1: all the sensuality of one of those pandas down at
Speaker 1: the zoo who refused to mate. I had, uh your
Speaker 1: intercom disconnected? Oh and then Rachel. We caught the Rachel
Speaker 1: who tells Finn that they should do a mash up
Speaker 1: of Madonna's co captains um and then Finn confronts her
Speaker 1: about Jesse and asks why she lied. Yeah that was
Speaker 1: that was brutal. Oh yeah yeah. And she's like, but
Speaker 1: as a friend, like you know, we should support each other.
Speaker 1: And he's like, um, I thought this number was such
Speaker 1: a cool, an incredible and fun um homage to Madonna.
Speaker 1: Madonna that looks oh my God, I remember makeup and
Speaker 1: wardrobe had a fun time with this one. I do
Speaker 1: love Ryan's directing so much. I thought this whole episode
Speaker 1: was directed so well. And you know there's something about
Speaker 1: like that when he directs in you know, next episode,
Speaker 1: Paris directs the simplicity, yes of how like intentionally simple
Speaker 1: to really showcase like the realism of being in high
Speaker 1: school amongst all this very surreal things going on around
Speaker 1: and so like them in the hallway with all these
Speaker 1: incredible Madonna looks was so much fun and like, what
Speaker 1: a great way to honor I mean, how many I
Speaker 1: tried to keep count of how many looks there were,
Speaker 1: but there was one for every significant Madonna era. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there are eight Madonnas. Yeah, there were a lot.
Speaker 1: But it was Yeah, it was a really cool homage
Speaker 1: that this song hash up is really great. It was
Speaker 1: shot really well, Corey on the drums like Leah's singing.
Speaker 1: It was like it just it was so it was
Speaker 1: like an elevated version of No Air do you remember exactly?
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, give me this um and
Speaker 1: Ryan loaves of Hallway shots true and then we well,
Speaker 1: Finn agrees to lose his v card to Santana after
Speaker 1: this number, yeah, right after this number and um. Then
Speaker 1: Sue confronts Will all this happening like in the hallway, right,
Speaker 1: lots of action. That's where high schools are really alive
Speaker 1: in the hallway. And then Sue hears that the glee
Speaker 1: club's doing Madonna number. So Sue confronts Will about all
Speaker 1: of this, gets mad and says it's in her contract
Speaker 1: that only she can do it. He says no, she
Speaker 1: insults his hair. He and then he insults her back
Speaker 1: her hair, and who's standing there watching this whole thing
Speaker 1: curtain and they see Will insult Suit by saying, by
Speaker 1: the way, how do the Florence Henderson looked working out
Speaker 1: for you? And oh, maybe you should try setting a
Speaker 1: new setting on your flow beat. Oh snap, and Sue
Speaker 1: and then starts throwing kids and curtain. Mercedes are like,
Speaker 1: listen here, Sue, we have an idea because we said
Speaker 1: that we were going to do our own project for
Speaker 1: Madonna week. And no, sorry you go no, no, it's fine.
Speaker 1: So Sue two shares with them. She's like, I wasn't upset,
Speaker 1: but her parents weren't around a lot because they were
Speaker 1: famous Nazi hunters, um and um. When she was six
Speaker 1: years old, Madonna's True Blue came out inspired her and
Speaker 1: her handycapable sister used to dye her hair with whatever
Speaker 1: chemicals they had in their in their house, and that
Speaker 1: she's actually jealous Will's hair ammonia napalm. So Mercedes says
Speaker 1: what everybody is thinking. She's like, wait, that would make
Speaker 1: you like thirty and she has twenty nine. So they
Speaker 1: were convinced you to let them use the cheerios to
Speaker 1: help her with a new look, and they're like yes,
Speaker 1: So we get into Vogue the shot for shot remake
Speaker 1: that Arretie directed myself obviously, and was that and that
Speaker 1: was your impression of Ryan? It was inspired by I
Speaker 1: tried to do more of a respectful impression of Ryan
Speaker 1: in front of Ryan, which I was scared about doing,
Speaker 1: and then I just think it was I am Arretie's
Speaker 1: not gay, so I had to rein it. Yeah, fair enough, yep, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's interesting. Maybe it's not that interesting,
Speaker 1: but selfishly, I had no desire to direct at this time.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's fun. That Artie is a director.
Speaker 1: Kevin would never direct. And now I've several music videos.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. I think I believe that it's life
Speaker 1: imitating art. I think art imitating life. So maybe Artie
Speaker 1: is the reason I started directing music videos. Wow. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this music video, the full song, a full shot for
Speaker 1: shot remake, I mean in this video are incredible. It
Speaker 1: felt like we were transported back to like the eighties. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love how serious it was, and so and like
Speaker 1: Jane looked beautiful and like it just they all everybody
Speaker 1: like it was perfectly lit. They spent so I think
Speaker 1: they spent a whole, like more than a day on
Speaker 1: this time. Um, and go watch it if you haven't, seriously,
Speaker 1: just go watch this video. So it's perfect. Um, and
Speaker 1: so Kurtain Mercedes are like, yay, we did it. I
Speaker 1: wonder what what looks she was going to come out
Speaker 1: wearing today and um, and then Kurt's like, oh and
Speaker 1: Sue was in cone Bra sorry signing out real quick.
Speaker 1: Back to that music video. She we changed the lyrics
Speaker 1: where it's like will Schuster, I hate you, she's a
Speaker 1: vest dance on her like there. We couldn't lit do
Speaker 1: that every time. There were a couple times where I
Speaker 1: recorded two different versions of like, oh, really saying Artie
Speaker 1: or Mercedes in a song and um, and then not
Speaker 1: saying it doing the original lyric because you had to
Speaker 1: get permission to do that. But do you think Madonna
Speaker 1: just gave express consent or just you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you want? I think? So, I mean, yeah, it seems
Speaker 1: this is huge. Yeah. Um. And because of Figins Vegins,
Speaker 1: Sue goes back to being her own her her own
Speaker 1: self because Biggin says, you're a powerful woman. You don't
Speaker 1: need to be anyone else. You're an original, just like Madonna.
Speaker 1: Don't lose that quality, right, So she's saying that everybody
Speaker 1: needs to reinvent themselves, um, starting with the two of them. Um.
Speaker 1: And and then we get into this this the sex talk,
Speaker 1: the virginity of it all, so we know sum Finn
Speaker 1: has decided to lose his virginity to Santana. Once that happens,
Speaker 1: there's this virginity domino effect, if you will. Rachel then
Speaker 1: meets up with Jesse in the library and it's so
Speaker 1: I love the scene so much. The book falls and
Speaker 1: she's like Sondheim, m very funny, and she tells him
Speaker 1: that she is ready, and well he's like, no pressure
Speaker 1: I'm going to be ready whenever you're ready, and she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. How do you feel about watching Gruff put
Speaker 1: on this sexy ma'am? I buy it? I buy it.
Speaker 1: He puts his arm up like on the stacks and
Speaker 1: he's like, whatever you want. I'm sorry I pressured you.
Speaker 1: I take it. What do you think I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Obviously hot? Um? So all right? So yeah? No so hot?
Speaker 1: Okay so um blushing. And then Emma is catapulted into
Speaker 1: this this need after Sue tells her that she's not,
Speaker 1: you know, she doesn't deserve to listen to Madonna, that um,
Speaker 1: she needs to be like the big Moe and take
Speaker 1: control of herself. And she says, I'm planning on doing
Speaker 1: the nasty with you tonight at your place. For play
Speaker 1: shall begin. It's seven thirty sharp, okay, ye, So we
Speaker 1: have like a virgin which intercuts between three couples and
Speaker 1: it's a great number, great great number sort of vignette.
Speaker 1: You don't know if it's a dream sequence or not.
Speaker 1: It's three vignettes between Rachel and Jesse, Finan Santana and
Speaker 1: this dodgy motel room. And then what Emma and Will
Speaker 1: and Rachel's cape. It's so good. I think this number musically,
Speaker 1: how the voices are intertwined, yeah, and mixed, and the
Speaker 1: choreography between this and also if you go listen to
Speaker 1: the four like Naya is singing yes on this song
Speaker 1: and it's like the first time, like yes, of course
Speaker 1: give Naya the ab libs. They're so good, right. I
Speaker 1: think they realize they're like, oh, we can give her stuff,
Speaker 1: and like we should give her more. I also, I
Speaker 1: love I know you said this, but I love Jamie's voice,
Speaker 1: I know. And the cutting of the editing of this
Speaker 1: number two is so good. It's so so good, and
Speaker 1: it ends with us back. You know, it all started
Speaker 1: at the top of the scene and we don't know
Speaker 1: who actually went through with it. A little cliffhanger, all right,
Speaker 1: So we learned this is what we learned, Okay. We
Speaker 1: learned that Rachel didn't sleep with Jesse because it would
Speaker 1: be like sleeping with the enemy, because she doesn't have
Speaker 1: the support of her team teammates and she's not ready.
Speaker 1: Then Finn, we learn, lies and tells Rachel when they
Speaker 1: share that he didn't sleep with san Antono. But he
Speaker 1: did it, but it didn't mean anything, so it felt meaningless,
Speaker 1: and she told him that she did do it right,
Speaker 1: so they lied to each other. And then we come
Speaker 1: to find out that Emma also didn't do it, and
Speaker 1: she didn't sleep with Will like Rachel didn't sleep with Jesse,
Speaker 1: and you know, she has some issues. She doesn't know
Speaker 1: why she does this, so she's embarrassed and Will wants
Speaker 1: to get her some counseling to get her help with
Speaker 1: her issues. And they have a no dating policy until
Speaker 1: his divorces final, which I thought was a very hute scene.
Speaker 1: But when is that? And he had filed the hippoc already,
Speaker 1: so thought that was cute. And then we have even
Speaker 1: bigger drama because Jesse, seeing James, joins the glee club.
Speaker 1: He just happens to have parents who winter in Bali
Speaker 1: and an uncle that lives in their district who he'll
Speaker 1: stay with. And this takes us like basically into our
Speaker 1: kind of feeds into our next episode. But Mercedes and
Speaker 1: Kurt obviously have been like laying the groundwork this whole episode.
Speaker 1: They're not happy that Jesse has joined the glee club.
Speaker 1: It will you know, they won't. It'll keep them from
Speaker 1: getting even less solow than they already have, so they
Speaker 1: decide to join the Cheerios and they do four minutes,
Speaker 1: which again another massive number. This number was so much
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Oh my god, so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: It was an explosion of joy again, everyone dancing so
Speaker 1: hard and Chris and Amber sound it looked great. They
Speaker 1: sounded great. They looked great. I was like, also fun
Speaker 1: to get them perform outside of Glee Club. It's fun
Speaker 1: to see them do that. Like, see these characters do
Speaker 1: that outside of Glee clubs liberating. But mister Shus not
Speaker 1: happy about it. He's pissed and he would have liked
Speaker 1: the heads up. And Mercedes like, oh, you mean the
Speaker 1: same way you gave us a heads up before not
Speaker 1: giving us a solo almost every week Solar and Kurt says,
Speaker 1: mister Schue. Mercedes and I talked it over and we
Speaker 1: love being in Glee and here's the important part, but
Speaker 1: being in Cheeros will give us more opportunities to shine.
Speaker 1: So we're doing both. Oh Snam, they're not leaving Glee Club. Ah.
Speaker 1: And then Sue says, which is the final hair inside
Speaker 1: of the episode, insult of the episode. I think Chipper
Speaker 1: up Tiger. You know, I was down at the pharmacy
Speaker 1: today and they're having a monster sale on Depth. Depp
Speaker 1: is a hair gel and once again I'm making fun
Speaker 1: of your incredibly stupid haird Do you remember dep No?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, which is why this little explainer is really
Speaker 1: helpful for me for people my gosh, well, Depth is
Speaker 1: like it was around the time of Madonna and it
Speaker 1: was really strong. Okay, so then the boys weird the
Speaker 1: boys with the boys number what it feels like for
Speaker 1: a girl, which I love this number. And Puck's still
Speaker 1: like not down with this whole thing. He's like throughout
Speaker 1: the whole episode, it's been like move He's Madonna. Like,
Speaker 1: we're just saying a great number, thank you very much. Um,
Speaker 1: but this number is so so good. Did you did
Speaker 1: you like this number? Did you guys like the number?
Speaker 1: To doing it? I shooting it was sort of, you know,
Speaker 1: like weird and we're all just sort of staring at
Speaker 1: each other around on a piano. UM. I remember recording
Speaker 1: it was fun. Yeah, I love this version. I I
Speaker 1: sort of revert to like my boy band ad libs
Speaker 1: in this song because it was the only, the one
Speaker 1: and only time there wasn't a guide vocal for the
Speaker 1: ad libs, and then Alex or Adam whoever was recording
Speaker 1: the vocals was sick, and so they just let me
Speaker 1: do whatever I want. And then they kept like all
Speaker 1: of my ads really, you know, yeah, it's all boy bandy,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was. I thought we all sounded
Speaker 1: really nice together. He did. I like when they slowed
Speaker 1: things down like that, and like the role reverse. I
Speaker 1: think it was also taking a song like this up
Speaker 1: was not the biggest Madonna hit to use as a
Speaker 1: teaching moment and to show the song to a different
Speaker 1: audience is also great and very smart because it's a
Speaker 1: great song. Oh great. And then we get to Tina Nartie.
Speaker 1: Do you remember shooting the scene. Yeah, so the first
Speaker 1: scene is or you go off on Artie and you're
Speaker 1: into the camera and I correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: But remember Ryan, as you said before, loves all the
Speaker 1: hair and the big movements, and so he kept wanting
Speaker 1: you to just go crazy into I look wild. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wild. He's like bigger, bigger, And I think I
Speaker 1: used probably the last take where you were just going
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. I was like, okay, well just I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Then that's right. And you were laughing
Speaker 1: and then yeah, so this scene that we did together.
Speaker 1: I love this scene because, like you're right, with Ryan
Speaker 1: and Paris, it's very grounding and it's very quiet, and
Speaker 1: I love these quiet scenes that like, we don't often
Speaker 1: get to do as much as like Finn and Rachel
Speaker 1: and you know, some other characters. So I thought this
Speaker 1: was sweet. I also think this is one of those
Speaker 1: scenes where it's a testament to how I think it's sweet.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do. Where the scene was not
Speaker 1: written in this way. Do you remember this? That's right.
Speaker 1: It was completely different, and the blocking was weird, like
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be entering the room where you were,
Speaker 1: you know, and Ryan was like, oh no, this doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And so because it's Ryan and he's in charge, he
Speaker 1: stopped for I don't know, ten fifteen seconds and sort
Speaker 1: of had a far away look in his eyes and
Speaker 1: then was like, Okay, we're going to do it here.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do. You come in, You're going
Speaker 1: to be at the piano together, a sweet intimate moment,
Speaker 1: and then rewrote the scene before our eyes and gave
Speaker 1: us new lines. And it was one of those things
Speaker 1: where we rehearsed it, and I was like, wow, like,
Speaker 1: thank god he was here to do it, because this
Speaker 1: feels so much more right. It was so much better
Speaker 1: for us and made it so much more effective for
Speaker 1: the characters. That's right. No, I remember that. I knew
Speaker 1: there was something special about this scene. I was like,
Speaker 1: what was that? Yeah, because it was nothing like that
Speaker 1: being seen and yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think why. I was like, I
Speaker 1: took to the quiet and it's like, yeah, the stillness
Speaker 1: of it, because it was much different than what I
Speaker 1: had remembered it being. And selfishly I did like that
Speaker 1: it was a mature, real conversation where already said some
Speaker 1: stupid shit earlier and you actually apologize. He learned something
Speaker 1: and apologized and yeah, you know, yeah he saw the light,
Speaker 1: he saw the ray of light. That's right. And then
Speaker 1: we kiss. Oh my gosh, we kiss again. At this
Speaker 1: point I was like, I don't even I don't think
Speaker 1: it was a second thought. No, this was much easier.
Speaker 1: The first one was like in a dimly lit hallway first, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Now we're like whatever, um, and then we we go.
Speaker 1: We cut to the hallway where Jesse will Finn is
Speaker 1: apologizing to Rachel telling also saying that he was wrong
Speaker 1: that he had a crush on her, and she's like,
Speaker 1: you would have crush on me, which is very sweet.
Speaker 1: Sweet and and and then Jesse comes in and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know we have some beef, so let's just take
Speaker 1: it to the parking lot and have a sing off.
Speaker 1: It's very funny. Um and Finn actually surprises them all
Speaker 1: and says, no, I'm going to try and stay away
Speaker 1: from your girl, and welcome to the new directions. Then
Speaker 1: let me walk you through a new number, oh way wild,
Speaker 1: And we go to the last scene, which is like
Speaker 1: a prayer, which, yes, I mean we all have a
Speaker 1: very soft spot for this number, don't we. We do
Speaker 1: we did on the first tour, we did on the
Speaker 1: second tour? Did we do in the second tour? No? No? No?
Speaker 1: Were you sure? No? But no? I don't think we
Speaker 1: did it on a second tour. Did you know we
Speaker 1: started rehearsing for the tour like right around the time this,
Speaker 1: I think like a month after this. That makes sense? Yeah? Anyway, um? Well,
Speaker 1: Also fun fact, Amber's family was in the first row
Speaker 1: of this quiet Amber's mom is right behind her, and
Speaker 1: then her sister is right to them, the right of
Speaker 1: Amber if you're looking at her, And that was really fun.
Speaker 1: It was so sweet. I love there's one shot of
Speaker 1: them together and it's just so so sweet. This number
Speaker 1: is very powerful. Yeah, it was really fun to perform,
Speaker 1: and it was our first number was groff that's right.
Speaker 1: And I would also just like to point out that
Speaker 1: this production with a full choir is performed exactly for
Speaker 1: no one. It's kind of like the pyrotechnics at vocal Adrenaline.
Speaker 1: What doesn't matter, Kevin, does it matter? There were so
Speaker 1: many times right this episode I was like, this is
Speaker 1: a crazy show. People watched this right, and I can't
Speaker 1: take myself out of it. I know it's hard any
Speaker 1: objectivity to being like, if I just saw this on TV,
Speaker 1: what would buy? Were people just breaking into song? There
Speaker 1: are people dressed Madonna going through the hallways where there's
Speaker 1: a full choir behind us, singing like a prayer. I
Speaker 1: obviously love it, but I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I agree, I can't. Sometimes I can take myself out
Speaker 1: of it and sometimes I cannot. Yeah, but I like
Speaker 1: this number a lot. I like this number, how it
Speaker 1: made me feel when I was shooting it, in all
Speaker 1: of us being together, and then I also really liked
Speaker 1: this number from Afar and just being a walk an
Speaker 1: audience viewer. It was also nice to have really great,
Speaker 1: a really great vocal singing moment with Amber and Lea
Speaker 1: together because they're pitted against each other so often that
Speaker 1: they're both getting an opportunity to shine their characters opportunity
Speaker 1: to shine on this number together. Do you also remember
Speaker 1: on our tour, on our last show at Radio City,
Speaker 1: this was we turned around and when the choir was revealed,
Speaker 1: it was all of our people. It was Ryan, I cried,
Speaker 1: being and Brad and Zach. They were dressed in the
Speaker 1: gowns and they surprised us. So as we turned around
Speaker 1: after Lea does her you know solo, and the curtains open,
Speaker 1: and I mean I would bald. I cried through that
Speaker 1: whole thing. I think we all did. I just feel
Speaker 1: like our backs were turned to the audience because we
Speaker 1: were just like, oh my god, it was really cool.
Speaker 1: That was really cool, good good memories. I loved this episode.
Speaker 1: I love this episode. I think the writing is great,
Speaker 1: the song selections were great and not necessarily obvious either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all very good. Great, should we do some
Speaker 1: tardy takes? That's a day okay? Um, cringe moments aka
Speaker 1: ou cheese. I mean the guys being awful to the girls.
Speaker 1: You know, some Ardie and Jesse moments were very cringe
Speaker 1: and also like Puck being weird about singing songs by
Speaker 1: a female artist. Fair enough cringe, fair enough. Um, I
Speaker 1: would say, uh, trying to get the girls to date
Speaker 1: younger men, but not that I don't mind girls dating
Speaker 1: younger men. Brittany was dating a seven year old, right, Um?
Speaker 1: Worst dance move honestly, they weren't none. No, because it
Speaker 1: was Madonna, there were I think we shud talk about
Speaker 1: best dance moves. Nah, I think. I think the stilts
Speaker 1: were hilarious and great. Oh god, I think four minutes
Speaker 1: is also a really good four minutes was incredible, and
Speaker 1: I think the girls number was very very good. Oh right,
Speaker 1: that's probably my pick. So best song? God, this is
Speaker 1: really hard. I mean Vogue or Right of Light, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like a Virgin, I don't know. Oh, I
Speaker 1: will say my favorite song just because of the Glee versions,
Speaker 1: I will say, like a Virgin or what it feels like. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like this versions. I was saying what it feels like.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's a good one. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they're all really good performance by a prop. Okay. Do
Speaker 1: you remember, Oh, come on, squirrels, express yourself. Those monocles
Speaker 1: we had to wear kept whipping us in the face
Speaker 1: and I got like a full on bruise on my
Speaker 1: face because I was dancing so hard in the monocles
Speaker 1: were flipping up. They're so long, and so I would
Speaker 1: say the best performance by a proper worst performance by
Speaker 1: a prop would be the monocles. I would also say
Speaker 1: the head mics. There were two numbers with head mics,
Speaker 1: and this number okay. And then the best lines. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think you got this, you said earlier. I think
Speaker 1: that's the one. Okay. Well I have two, okay. So
Speaker 1: the first one is Sue's about the elves in the hair.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, William, I thought I smelled cookies wafting from
Speaker 1: the ovens of the little elves who live in your hair.
Speaker 1: Because that one really lived on forever, it did in
Speaker 1: Glee history. The other one I have is when Mercedes
Speaker 1: and Kurt are in Sue's office. Kurt says, Mercedes is black,
Speaker 1: I'm gay. We make culture. Yeah, that was a really
Speaker 1: good those Curt and Mercedes in Sue's office are some
Speaker 1: of my favorites. And Mercedes is Black, I'm gay. We
Speaker 1: make a culture is absolutely incredible. Okay, Jenna, Okay, are
Speaker 1: you ready for some shit we found on TikTok. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do things a little differently this week. All right,
Speaker 1: What so this is something that we are going to
Speaker 1: put on TikTok. What so all of our TikTok and
Speaker 1: social media people have been talking about. Obviously, ted Lasso
Speaker 1: season three is coming out, Yes, and a big thing
Speaker 1: of ted Lasso is that Believe sign you know that's
Speaker 1: in the locker room yep, above the door. And when
Speaker 1: we were researching before Jane came on the show, Vicky,
Speaker 1: our incredible producer, came across when Jane hosted SNL and
Speaker 1: twenty ten and they did a Glee sketch and it's
Speaker 1: sidekis being Shoe and the theme for the week is
Speaker 1: Believe and Yes, and Fred Armison does a very good artie.
Speaker 1: It's phenomenal, and christ and Wigg then comes in as Gilly,
Speaker 1: So it's a whole gilly sketch. So Jason Sidekis, it's
Speaker 1: suddenly Lee Club become with the perfect theme for their
Speaker 1: medley for regionals and they have to listen to their hearts,
Speaker 1: and Rachel says that the perfect theme would be Believe,
Speaker 1: and so this Dakis is like, we are going to believe,
Speaker 1: and it all becomes about the Believe theme, and of
Speaker 1: course they do, don't stop believing. And so our conspiracy is,
Speaker 1: did this plant the seed for Jason Sidekis to use
Speaker 1: Believe as ted Lasso's sort of theme sign? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's so brilliant. Yes, I'll send you watch the sketch.
Speaker 1: I'll send you the sketch. It's hilarious. And are you
Speaker 1: guys gonna make a TikTok about it and put it?
Speaker 1: And I think we're gonna have to put it on.
Speaker 1: Then that's what you really missed TikTok oh? I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. This is great. I also do you
Speaker 1: have any memory of this? No? I have, I had
Speaker 1: zero memory. I remember watching Jane's s n L. So
Speaker 1: I just have a bad memory. I guess because I
Speaker 1: saw that Vicky said, um Vicky was sending it and
Speaker 1: she was like Fred Armison plays you. I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: how do I not remember? You got played me? She's like,
Speaker 1: you guys must have been doing a lot if you
Speaker 1: don't remember that, Like, yeah, because I'm a huge as
Speaker 1: that's funny, crazy, but you should go watch it, go
Speaker 1: find it. We're gonna put it on TikTok um. And
Speaker 1: that's that. That's Madonna. That's where you really missed. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: next week we have Home, which is think. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to miss that one. That's great, and um,
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