Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast?
Speaker 1: What podcast is this? That's what you really missed with
Speaker 1: Jenna and Kevin. That was beautiful.
Speaker 2: Jenna. You're proud of yourself, aren't you? On that one?
Speaker 1: No? Off the cuffs? Wow, she still got it, still
Speaker 1: got a kid's Hello, and welcome to the show today.
Speaker 1: We are doing Journey Regional.
Speaker 2: We did the kids. Yay, we made it. We seasoned
Speaker 2: one finale of Glee. Who would have thought? We sure
Speaker 2: didn't when we got cast on the show. You've heard
Speaker 2: from Ryan three times now and from Ian and a
Speaker 2: bunch of cast members that none of us really knew
Speaker 2: if we were going to make it this far, and
Speaker 2: most of us didn't think we would. But there we are,
Speaker 2: twenty two episodes.
Speaker 1: And a buttload more to.
Speaker 2: Go, and a lot of songs and a tour. And
Speaker 2: this originally aired on June eighth, twenty ten.
Speaker 1: Wow. How crazy? Wow?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that was late. Normally seasons ends the beginning
Speaker 2: of May sort of thing. But I think because we
Speaker 2: did thirteen at a weird time, then all that press
Speaker 2: stuff happened. Had we had a big break in between
Speaker 2: the first thirteen. Yeah, we had to catch up. But
Speaker 2: here we are on this week in Glee her story.
Speaker 2: We were in Emmy magazine. Do you remember doing this
Speaker 2: photo shoot briefly? I remember it very well and then
Speaker 2: a month Yeah, I don't know why. I remember it
Speaker 2: was downtown and this like studio loft thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all of us.
Speaker 2: I kept the vans from this photo shoot for years
Speaker 2: that I wore.
Speaker 1: Now did we shoot because I don't remember to shoot
Speaker 1: that well. I remember it being chaos because there were
Speaker 1: so many of us and they stacked us. Did we
Speaker 1: actually take those photos together or did they superimpose us
Speaker 1: in there's a group photo of girls and the group
Speaker 1: photo of the guys.
Speaker 2: I don't remember. I sort of think it was all individual.
Speaker 2: I yeah, they were just trying to make it work
Speaker 2: because you know, a month later we were nominated for
Speaker 2: nineteen Emmys. No big deal.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that When we got to the stages,
Speaker 2: there was a huge banner on our main stage that
Speaker 2: said congratulations on nineteen. It felt very obnoxious, like I
Speaker 2: felt embarrassed, but it was also very cool. But they
Speaker 2: did that every time every time. That's not one for
Speaker 2: Bagel Awards. We got a banner. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: Also on this day, Glee the Music Journey to Regionals
Speaker 1: was the album was released, and it featured six tracks
Speaker 1: from episode twenty two But when We're going to recap,
Speaker 1: including Don't Stop Believing the regional's version with all of Us,
Speaker 1: and the EP debuted at number one on both the
Speaker 1: US Billboard two hundred and Soundtracks chart, selling one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty four thousand copies of.
Speaker 2: What I Just Got goosebumps. I did not know that.
Speaker 1: The album became the cast third number one album on
Speaker 1: the bill What.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember that.
Speaker 2: That's crazy that an EP just from one episode was
Speaker 2: number one and sold one hundred and fifty four thousand copies.
Speaker 2: That's diabolical, you guys.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about it. I was like, how did
Speaker 1: we get to number one so quickly? All the time,
Speaker 1: like it was we really were here. Huge. It was
Speaker 1: a really huge shot. And sometimes people say it and
Speaker 1: like it hits like a brick Jenna's brick wall, but
Speaker 1: like this, like I'm like, oh, it was really big, yeah,
Speaker 1: really popular.
Speaker 2: We were bamboozled by it. We still are. And this
Speaker 2: was the most viewed episode of any new seasons of
Speaker 2: all the season finales of any new shows, the season finales.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: And I had almost eleven million viewers, and so we
Speaker 2: kept growing every single week, and you'll see in season
Speaker 2: two it just keeps growing even more.
Speaker 1: Now. I this episode, I was very weepy. I remember
Speaker 1: the whole time, and then I was weep be watching
Speaker 1: it back.
Speaker 2: I I was a little weepy watching it back as well,
Speaker 2: because there's a couple scenes that feel a little real,
Speaker 2: and this is I think goes to Ian's point about
Speaker 2: where they sometimes commentate on what's actually happening. And there
Speaker 2: is a speech Will gives to the kids about sort
Speaker 2: of the journey we've had and how much Glee Club
Speaker 2: means to everyone, and years from now you won't remember
Speaker 2: what songs you did, you won't remember each other's names,
Speaker 2: and it just made me reflect upon our group and
Speaker 2: how so far we've stood the test of that time
Speaker 2: thus far. But it is one of those things when
Speaker 2: you and I talk about this every week, we're like,
Speaker 2: do what songs did we do? And things do become
Speaker 2: a little blurry. And I was emotional watching Shoe give
Speaker 2: us that speech because I don't think we were tired.
Speaker 2: It was twenty two episodes. We didn't really know what
Speaker 2: was going on, and you can't know how applicable that's
Speaker 2: going to be to our futures, and it totally was.
Speaker 1: That's right. What were we yearing up to do after
Speaker 1: this episode?
Speaker 2: Well after it aired, we had already done tour okay, right,
Speaker 2: tour was wrapping up. So it was our first official
Speaker 2: hiatus because we started shooting the beginning of July, right,
Speaker 2: so we only had a couple a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: of doing nothing.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking through my photos right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you see?
Speaker 1: I see photos of only you and me?
Speaker 2: Sounds about right. Let me let me scroll back.
Speaker 1: We went to Monaco, oh yeah, oh my god. We
Speaker 1: went to the TV and Film Festival in Monaco, which
Speaker 1: was a wild, wild trip of a vacation. Then we
Speaker 1: went to London to do press Fergalle. Then we took
Speaker 1: a day trip to Paris, where you were very hungover
Speaker 1: and he slept on the tour bus. Then we went
Speaker 1: back and then I went back to New York and
Speaker 1: went home for a while, and I went to Brazil,
Speaker 1: that's right. And then we had all the Emmy Press
Speaker 1: that we did when we got back, we did that
Speaker 1: event at the Music Box. We'll get into all of that, right,
Speaker 1: and then we went to the Emmys.
Speaker 2: And we started we started shooting I said July beginning
Speaker 2: of July, but we actually started shooting the season beginning
Speaker 2: of August, so I think they delayed our start a
Speaker 2: little bit to give us that time and Jenna. This
Speaker 2: episode aired on June eighth, twenty ten. Those photos of us,
Speaker 2: of the paparazzi photos of us on the beach of
Speaker 2: Monica were taken on this very day and came out
Speaker 2: June tenth, So June eighth was the day Jenna and
Speaker 2: I became a famous celebrity couple.
Speaker 1: The most famous will ever be same this.
Speaker 2: On this day in twenty ten, we peaked, but we
Speaker 2: did it together.
Speaker 1: As weekly we we did it. We made ourselves, tagged
Speaker 1: ourselves as a couple. We were moving in together. The
Speaker 1: story worked out, I really did. Yeah, so hilarious. It's
Speaker 1: also where I went to Brazil during this hiatus. I
Speaker 1: passed out, Remember, I got burdigo. We went to Comic Con,
Speaker 1: we found out we were going to be only juniors,
Speaker 1: and we had another year in school. It was pretty
Speaker 1: a wild, wild journey.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Journey, Yeah, speaking.
Speaker 1: Of Journey, let's let's get into this episode. The number
Speaker 1: one song was still on MG featuring When I Am
Speaker 1: By a Sure, and the number one movie was still
Speaker 1: Shrek Forever After Ever After.
Speaker 2: Which, by the way, did you hear that their negotiations
Speaker 2: to make Shrek five and the original cast is.
Speaker 1: In I've got to catch up on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, all right, So in this episode we have
Speaker 2: it was directed by Brad Faulchuck written well, it says
Speaker 2: by Brad Peltchick. But as we know, all three of them.
Speaker 2: Josh Grobin is back, Graf is back, a Dina is back,
Speaker 2: and we just have we have everyone Live Newton, John
Speaker 2: Grace us with our presence one more time, and we
Speaker 2: have some greatest hits, I mean so much so A
Speaker 2: debut at number one.
Speaker 1: Until four one hundred and fifty thousand albums sold.
Speaker 2: What take us through?
Speaker 1: The song Shenna Faithfully anyway you want it, Love and
Speaker 1: Touch and squeeze and don't stop Believing all by Journey,
Speaker 1: performed by the Nude Erections. H Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Speaker 1: one of my favorite gle numbers ever Shooster with Love
Speaker 1: by Lulu over the Rainbow, uh performed by mister Shu
Speaker 1: and Uh Noah Parkerman. What's going on in this?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Give me an overview? Overview, Kevin?
Speaker 2: Okay, So basically what happens is it's Regional's time and Sue,
Speaker 2: of course, is up to no good. She gets herself
Speaker 2: on the judging panel and new directions and will completely
Speaker 2: spiral and freak out because they know if Sue's one
Speaker 2: of the judges, there's no way new directions are going
Speaker 2: to either place nor win, which is what they have
Speaker 2: to do for Figgins to allow them to keep the
Speaker 2: Glee Club happening and funded. So basically, it's what can
Speaker 2: we do and what does Glee Club mean to us?
Speaker 2: Even if we can't win. That's what's happening, you know.
Speaker 1: And there's a fun fact here. I know you said
Speaker 1: that this was the highest finale rating for a niche
Speaker 1: a series finale watched on TV at the time. In
Speaker 1: two thousand nine, ten Journey to Regionals was watched by
Speaker 1: ten point nine two million American viewers. That's right, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of people.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of people.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Talk to me.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Sue reveals she's a judge at regionals because
Speaker 2: she's a celebrity, and it's a celebrity panel of judge
Speaker 2: is obviously a glee clubs like, wan't, wan't, there's no
Speaker 2: way we can win. So mister Shue has a party too.
Speaker 2: He has all the kids over at his house, which
Speaker 2: seems suspicious to decide the set list, but the kids
Speaker 2: are all crying and upset. Do you remember shooting this.
Speaker 2: I remember shooting this.
Speaker 1: Very well, so so clearly in my mind, so clearly.
Speaker 2: I did not realize this was season one.
Speaker 1: I was just so I remember this a season one.
Speaker 1: I remember being so happy that we got to sit
Speaker 1: on mister Shoe's couch all night. I also remember having
Speaker 1: to cry again. It's not easy for me to cry.
Speaker 2: So like I told us, you warned us, you said,
Speaker 2: once you reveal you can do something, they're gonna have
Speaker 2: you do it over and over again. And here we go.
Speaker 1: There it is, and I just remember having to like
Speaker 1: stay in it the whole time. And it was a
Speaker 1: late night. It was like the last scene of the day.
Speaker 1: But I remember I remember Brad coming in. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what he said, to us, but I do remember
Speaker 1: him kind of I think, mirroring what was going on,
Speaker 1: like the we side with the writer's mirroring what was
Speaker 1: going on. I feel like there was something emotional going
Speaker 1: on in this group. Do you remember shooting this.
Speaker 2: I do. We were telling ghost stories, oh, because I
Speaker 2: think if I remember correctly, this was a Friday night,
Speaker 2: which means this was really really late. There was nobody
Speaker 2: else on Paramount shooting at this hour. It was probably
Speaker 2: midnight or one am. Paramount Studios shares a wall with
Speaker 2: a graveyard, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, and so there are
Speaker 2: all these stories about those backstages being haunted. Nia was
Speaker 2: telling a story about when she worked on the lot
Speaker 2: as a child with Red Fox and saw him pass
Speaker 2: away on that set, and was telling that story, and
Speaker 2: then we were looking up on our phone other stories
Speaker 2: about the ghosts and people's experiences, and so nobody was around.
Speaker 2: The set was really really dark. They had this like
Speaker 2: fake rain going on outside, so it felt so spooky,
Speaker 2: and we were freaking ourselves out so badly, and that's
Speaker 2: all I could think about when we were well, when
Speaker 2: I was watching the scene, everyone's like crying and upset
Speaker 2: and I do remember Brad coming in and I he
Speaker 2: was always really good at this, at relating it to
Speaker 2: real life and having us imagine like if this was
Speaker 2: the last time we ever got to do this, like that,
Speaker 2: trying to get us in that moment of look how
Speaker 2: far we've come, the friends we've made, all that we've achieved,
Speaker 2: and now it's coming to an.
Speaker 1: End, and meanwhile we're spooking each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ghost stories professional.
Speaker 1: Okay, that, thank you for that reminded us.
Speaker 2: D Cho then goes to Emma and asks for advice,
Speaker 2: and she reminds him of like, hey, this is why
Speaker 2: you love Glee. Also, by the way, I'm dating someone.
Speaker 2: He's a dentist named Carl, but we haven't slept together.
Speaker 2: Just FYI. Also, I don't remember Carl being mentioned this early.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I do remember Carl being
Speaker 1: mentioned this early because I remember in my mind stay
Speaker 1: most joining around the time cor joined. Yes, that's like
Speaker 1: my marker of like you who is joining or the
Speaker 1: time the time stamp. And then mister Shoe is driving
Speaker 1: in his beat up blue car. Yea pulls over the
Speaker 1: side of the road, has a very emotional car journey.
Speaker 1: If you will and he don't stop. Comes on the radio,
Speaker 1: he pulls over bursts into tears, and is magically inspired
Speaker 1: for his next trick to do a journey medley for Brilliant.
Speaker 2: You know, he had a great idea. He had a
Speaker 2: great idea.
Speaker 1: He did have a great idea. I honestly do think
Speaker 1: it's a good idea.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great idea. He smashed it that
Speaker 2: we'll get to it. So then it's regionals and they
Speaker 2: ian on the mike, introducing all the judges to Sylvester,
Speaker 2: Josh Grobe and leaving Newton John and local news reporter
Speaker 2: icon Er. I mean, he's just cold.
Speaker 1: Bill.
Speaker 2: So oural intensity performs love that Name, and they do
Speaker 2: a mashup of living Newton John and Josh Grobe and
Speaker 2: new directions. Of course, Spirals freaks out, Shoe walks in,
Speaker 2: is like, hey mm hmm, we're not doing this now.
Speaker 2: Do you remember also filming this scene, because I feel
Speaker 2: like Brad had he had sectionals where we had that
Speaker 2: other huge backstage green room scene and yes, of course,
Speaker 2: and this one I remember we were all scared of
Speaker 2: because the other one took so long and this one
Speaker 2: was not that.
Speaker 1: We were scared that this was going to take that long.
Speaker 2: And like he had blocked it in a way, I
Speaker 2: think if I remember correctly, before we had even gotten there, Yeah,
Speaker 2: to be more efficient than the time before we were
Speaker 2: learning no Yes.
Speaker 1: And that was one that the green room where we
Speaker 1: shot that we was on Paramount and it was actually
Speaker 1: some of the Ryan Murphy TV offices.
Speaker 2: That's right. We used a lot of Paramount for this
Speaker 2: because the hospital that comes up later on YEP is
Speaker 2: also just random halls at Paramount, but.
Speaker 1: That's where the writers hung out and their assistants and
Speaker 1: Ryan and Brad and Ian and all them. They had
Speaker 1: these like lofts basically, and these were the first version
Speaker 1: of the lofts that they had gotten and where their
Speaker 1: offices were, so they used that and I do remember
Speaker 1: it being much more efficient and much faster, and I
Speaker 1: was because there's just so much to do in this episode.
Speaker 2: So this is where we really get into it, so
Speaker 2: it's time for new directions to perform. And the scene
Speaker 2: at the start of it before we start going between
Speaker 2: Finn and Rachel and he walks over to her and
Speaker 2: says I love you really quickly. I was like this
Speaker 2: whole episode, I was just floored by Corey I know.
Speaker 2: I also, I have to say, so I saw that
Speaker 2: movie air the New Matt Damon Ben Apple.
Speaker 1: I did. I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2: I saw it and I can't fight this feeling comes
Speaker 2: on at some did you cry?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It got me good. And then I went home and
Speaker 2: watched this and I was like, Okay, I'm having a
Speaker 2: full Corey in my emotions day. Oh yeah, but he's
Speaker 2: so good and I know it, but like what pisses
Speaker 2: me off is like he was so such a good
Speaker 2: actor and I don't think we like necessarily told him
Speaker 2: that enough or yeah, yeah, and like the things that
Speaker 2: we miss out on getting to see him do right
Speaker 2: because he's so good anyway, So the little thing I
Speaker 2: love you right before and they do Faithfully, which is
Speaker 2: such a good version of the song.
Speaker 1: Oh they sound excellent.
Speaker 2: Faithfully is incredible.
Speaker 1: I love doing this on tour too. I'd like to
Speaker 1: listen to this on tour. Honestly, I'm not sick of
Speaker 1: the song. I'll listen to the Journey version. I'll listen
Speaker 1: to our version. I think it's incredible. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: And then we do love and touch and squeeze in
Speaker 1: anyway you want it, which uh. When we were rehearsing
Speaker 1: for this, this was the number where we did the Carlton, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught that. You guys, we
Speaker 1: do the Carlton. I yelled Jenna's arms, No, you did it.
Speaker 2: I did. When I was watching the girls and their bumpets.
Speaker 1: The bumpets were a whole other thing. The costumes were
Speaker 1: very itchy because they were the gold, like that gold
Speaker 1: itchy material. We were in them for so long and
Speaker 1: they smelled so bad. And those bumpets were a choice,
Speaker 1: a choice if you're.
Speaker 2: Too young to remember, the bumpet. The bumpet was the
Speaker 2: thing you'd put in your hair and to give it
Speaker 2: that volume, that height, and.
Speaker 1: Then hide it underneath more of your hair. And so
Speaker 1: I don't know what they were thinking putting us. We
Speaker 1: didn't really have a lot of say yet, none of
Speaker 1: the other competition we would. Will we ever look like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll see between this episode and season two episode one,
Speaker 2: glow Up, Glow Up, everyone just looks a little different.
Speaker 2: Skirts are a little shorter, makeups, a little heavier.
Speaker 1: Hair is a lot longer.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This was also when I was on I was
Speaker 2: sick per usual and was on some medication that I
Speaker 2: had an allergic reaction to, and my entire body and
Speaker 2: face broke out in hives and people were like, you
Speaker 2: look like you have horns growing out of your forehead.
Speaker 2: It was so bad, and Kelly had to take me
Speaker 2: to the er. He had to take me to Cedar Sinai,
Speaker 2: which was right up the block from where we were shooting.
Speaker 1: Were we shooting this number during that? Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And we had a full audience full of people. You
Speaker 2: saw like two levels of people. And yeah, just in
Speaker 2: the middle of the day, they had somehow they got
Speaker 2: me right. I was still in costume. They took me
Speaker 2: right in, they gave me all the stuff and we
Speaker 2: were at that theater for two days shooting, and even
Speaker 2: the next day I kept breaking out in hives. So
Speaker 2: I was on all this medicine. I remember when we
Speaker 2: came back to shoot towards the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I was on so much benadryl. But I had to
Speaker 2: stay awake and people were laughing at me because I
Speaker 2: was acting very crazy, drunk crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was at the Saban Theater. I'm real shore right,
Speaker 1: that's where when we shot that.
Speaker 2: I would also like to point out if you there's
Speaker 2: a shot during Faithfully when it's on Leah. If you pause,
Speaker 2: it's the first shot I think of her in profile
Speaker 2: as Finn looks at her. You can see the dummies
Speaker 2: in the audience, and if you keep pausing it, you
Speaker 2: see the dummies in every shot of that audience. So
Speaker 2: it's usually on the edges. So if you look like
Speaker 2: two to three people in or out of the edge
Speaker 2: of the aisle, you'll see all of these dummies.
Speaker 1: I have to take a screen shot.
Speaker 2: And I also saw Aaron Krueger and I saw Kelly
Speaker 2: from Makeup there in the end of the first row,
Speaker 2: like our makeup department. So I also don't know if
Speaker 2: we were short on people for the audience, but we
Speaker 2: had some of the crew in there as well.
Speaker 1: Wow wow wow, I remember laughing at doing don't stop
Speaker 1: with the key change.
Speaker 2: Also, we did not record it like that. No, I
Speaker 2: haven't confirmed this, but when we get Adam anders On here,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll ask him, because I think they did that
Speaker 2: after the fact, which is why we all sound a
Speaker 2: little album monkey.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. I think they played it and we
Speaker 1: were like, what is that?
Speaker 2: They needed the drama, the excitement.
Speaker 1: No, it had to be different than the original don't
Speaker 1: stop before, but we did not record it that way.
Speaker 1: And then after the performance, which I mean it was
Speaker 1: it was really fun to shoot, but I also remember
Speaker 1: it being like, it's just those are those two days
Speaker 1: were like laborious, They're a lot, they're long, they are hard,
Speaker 1: Like you just have to like show up when they
Speaker 1: ask you to show up, do your thing, perform a
Speaker 1: thousand times, go to rehearsal at night. After we get
Speaker 1: out of hair and makeup, we go on the stage,
Speaker 1: rehearse again for the next day, go home, sleep, wake up,
Speaker 1: come back and do it again. And they're like please.
Speaker 1: I remember every actor like Brad Beeker did a lot
Speaker 1: of these competition episodes in later seasons, and he would
Speaker 1: just be like, just bear with me. We got this.
Speaker 1: Just we're in this together and we're just gonna do it.
Speaker 2: So because it can feel like you're not doing anything
Speaker 2: because it takes so long, so you feel like like
Speaker 2: what are we actually accomplishing, And so you just had
Speaker 2: to like trust the process that they know what they're
Speaker 2: doing and they're shooting, you know, bit by.
Speaker 1: Bit, and your feeds hurt so bad. You guys were
Speaker 1: the meals all day, Well, shees are terrible. Okay. So
Speaker 1: then then we come off of performing. We're very happy
Speaker 1: with that. We think we have a chance at winning.
Speaker 1: And Quinn's mom shows up, Yeah, and she says that
Speaker 1: she left her father and she wants her to come home.
Speaker 1: And Quinn, what I thought she was going to respond
Speaker 1: with was like where were you, you know, to like
Speaker 1: stand up for me, but her water bricks and she's
Speaker 1: gonna have a baby.
Speaker 2: And then we have one of the most insane that's
Speaker 2: brilliant performances ever.
Speaker 1: It's very Ryan Murphy. It's a very Ryan Murphey montage.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant. I watched that and I was like, draw
Speaker 1: to the ground. Imagine watching that in your living room
Speaker 1: for the first time, not knowing what's coming, and you're
Speaker 1: watching that, like the vocal adrenaline in that in the
Speaker 1: circle with John Groff in the middle, like like like
Speaker 1: a Hua being birth. It's brilliant. It's so good, it's
Speaker 1: so good, and they I have to say, I was
Speaker 1: watching this and I think I texted you while I
Speaker 1: was watching the vocal agrenalin number because those dancers are
Speaker 1: doing it. It is that combo is so intricate and
Speaker 1: and like you cannot do that unless you are a
Speaker 1: professional dancer like they were doing it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, at least Zack and Brook it to
Speaker 1: like show off their their dancing choreography skills, because they
Speaker 1: show off their stand in a line still with us so.
Speaker 2: Exactly, like Zach Woodley and Brooke Lifton are incredible, and
Speaker 2: it was also probably such a treat for them to
Speaker 2: get to work with professional dancers and also.
Speaker 1: US vocal adrenaline. Like that number. They probably rehearsed for
Speaker 1: like a day and they learned it that fast. And
Speaker 1: we rehearse for like twenty days to do a stand
Speaker 1: in a lot a straight line.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's they absolutely got that so quickly.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt. Also seeing Haley who was one of
Speaker 2: the dancers and she went on tour with us so young,
Speaker 2: with Graf basically that whole number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she looks so good. They looked so good.
Speaker 1: It was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 2: Graf does incredible like he he's also I think I
Speaker 2: think that was the best lip sync performance of anybody
Speaker 2: out of that first season. He is so perfectly on
Speaker 2: the spit is flying out of his mouth, always graff
Speaker 2: trademark yep, staple, and I think I just think it's
Speaker 2: like perfect him sitting down on the piano and doing
Speaker 2: everything his lips sink is always meticulous.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. I also don't think I read this in
Speaker 1: the script. I mean, I don't think I was reading
Speaker 1: the full script, to be completely honest, by this point.
Speaker 1: I think I was reading like you're like searching for stuff.
Speaker 1: But I when this. I remember watching this at lunch
Speaker 1: with everybody and being like, what.
Speaker 2: I don't remember this either. I don't know if it
Speaker 2: was written this way.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was. I think this was probably
Speaker 1: a concept of Zac and Ryan came up with like separately.
Speaker 1: But I was very impressed and did not remember that.
Speaker 2: I can't say, like Diana matching the parts of Bohemian
Speaker 2: Rhapsody with what she's saying and having Amber, and I
Speaker 2: thought Mark in there was doing a great job of
Speaker 2: being shocked and disgusted at the same time, and so
Speaker 2: that insane, insane thing. And so she has her baby
Speaker 2: Bohemian Rhapsoty is performed and is executed to perfection per
Speaker 2: usual best part, and Rachel didn't go to the hospital.
Speaker 2: She watches vocal journaline and runs into Shelby and is like, hey,
Speaker 2: you should come teach Ugly Club view directions with Sho
Speaker 2: and she's like, no, I can't do this anymore. I
Speaker 2: need a family. And she says, well, Quinn just had
Speaker 2: a beautiful baby girl, and guess who shows about the hospital.
Speaker 1: Shelby and they're in the little nursery which doesn't really exist.
Speaker 1: I don't know why in the hospital you see these nurseries.
Speaker 2: No, I've been there. They used to have these, okay,
Speaker 2: because when my sister had her baby twenty three years ago,
Speaker 2: oh my god, it was like that there was a
Speaker 2: window and you could I would go up to it
Speaker 2: and you could see all the babies.
Speaker 1: No, these days after COVID, they leave the baby in
Speaker 1: the room with you unless you last. Oh yeah. So
Speaker 1: literally you go to they like gurney you with the
Speaker 1: baby in your arms, and then they have a little
Speaker 1: like moving uh fascinette for the baby. It's clear in
Speaker 1: the room with like a little drawer of lar dark
Speaker 1: darkness and stuff and that's it and then leave you
Speaker 1: to it. You can request like can you take the
Speaker 1: baby away? But I'm like I'm noting that, Like but
Speaker 1: that changed during COVID anyway, I've never seen the that
Speaker 1: that glass wall.
Speaker 2: But and so Shelby ends up talking to Quinn and
Speaker 2: Puck at that little windows, staring at it at the baby,
Speaker 2: and Puck says the baby's name is Beth, and Shelby
Speaker 2: then adopts her and names her Beth.
Speaker 1: No so cute.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the judges are deliberating, oh my goodness, and she's
Speaker 2: out of control, and the lady Newton John is saying
Speaker 2: the wild wildless thing, wildest stuff to Sue, and you know,
Speaker 2: started off being mean about new directions, being well, I know,
Speaker 2: I feel very bad. I don't care who comes in
Speaker 2: for a second or third, but I know who's coming
Speaker 2: in last. Right after hearing how horribly Olivia Newton John
Speaker 2: is talking about them, which is a reflection upon Sue,
Speaker 2: because then they all turn on Sue being like, you're
Speaker 2: not a celebrity.
Speaker 1: What are you doing here, You're living in Ohio. You're
Speaker 1: gonna stay here, We're gonna leave you and going to
Speaker 1: LA and I do have to stay. Them playing elevated
Speaker 1: versions of those songs. It's very funny.
Speaker 2: I love that kind of stuff. I'm a sucker for.
Speaker 1: That well, if you're cool enough to like do that,
Speaker 1: then like you're a cool person, is what I think.
Speaker 2: That's true. And it comes down to where Sue actually
Speaker 2: starts defending the new directions and it's sweet and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: how's this going to go? M h, But what happens, Shenna.
Speaker 1: We end up losing. We still don't know who where,
Speaker 1: how the judge is actually voted individually, but we do
Speaker 1: know as a majority, vocal Adrenaline wins and we didn't
Speaker 1: even place no, we didn't feed in place pathetic and
Speaker 1: that's and for us, we think at that point, steaks
Speaker 1: are really high. That's the glee club. That's it to
Speaker 1: each other again. Yeah, goodbye.
Speaker 2: Guess who's not having it? Emma, Emma. Emma's in there
Speaker 2: going at it like WWE style with Figgins screaming and
Speaker 2: it's fun, always fun. Will and Emma have this moment
Speaker 2: in the hallway right after and she's like, you can't
Speaker 2: just give up, like you have to fight for glee
Speaker 2: club and he's like, you're not just talking about glee club,
Speaker 2: are you, and he kisses her and the hallway during
Speaker 2: the school day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what.
Speaker 2: And then Rachel walks up, has no reaction to it,
Speaker 2: and it's like, mister she, we'd like to see you
Speaker 2: in the auditorium.
Speaker 1: You know, unfazed. Honestly, I have to say, as a
Speaker 1: teenager in high school, like pretty unfazed. Like maybe that
Speaker 1: would have been drama, but who knows, maybe not. So
Speaker 1: we get to the auditorium and mister Shoe comes and
Speaker 1: we're all sitting there and we dedicate the performance to
Speaker 1: mister Shoe, and we all go around and we talk
Speaker 1: about how he's affected and how he's impacted our lives.
Speaker 1: And I remember shooting this and I remember Brad saying
Speaker 1: it's okay to cry. That's all I remember him saying,
Speaker 1: is like, bring on the tears basically.
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, here's another reflection of my
Speaker 2: failures and inabilities as an actor. Everyone's going to be
Speaker 2: crying except me.
Speaker 1: Here's the interesting thing that we were all crying that
Speaker 1: I think it would be more interesting to see somebody
Speaker 1: not crive.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's why I did it. You know, there's
Speaker 2: an intentional choice.
Speaker 1: And we performed this numbers.
Speaker 2: Did you know this song to serve with love.
Speaker 1: No, I did not.
Speaker 2: I do not either, And I remember I I couldn't
Speaker 2: remember any of it while we were shooting it. I
Speaker 2: was having such a hard time remembering the backgrounds well.
Speaker 1: The background loocals were very complicated on this one because
Speaker 1: it was kind of like a cannon or around where
Speaker 1: Leo was singing the main chorus, and then we were
Speaker 1: kind of echoing it and the timing was all off,
Speaker 1: and I don't you know, we learn those things, like
Speaker 1: Tim Davis comes ten minutes before we start shooting and says, okay,
Speaker 1: this is how it goes, and we're like okay.
Speaker 2: And it's like when you're doing a full like dance
Speaker 2: number you can swing your arms or hair in front
Speaker 2: of your face from you don't when you're just sitting
Speaker 2: there and it's tears and emotional like dream of little dream,
Speaker 2: there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: You're naked, or like true colors, you just nay.
Speaker 2: Know the actual words, which sucks.
Speaker 1: But I did get cheery eyed. I did get cheery
Speaker 1: eyed watching it, and so does mister Shuster and he's
Speaker 1: very appreciative. And then we see Sue in the background
Speaker 1: crying or tears in her eyes not crying. Let me
Speaker 1: just rewind she's slightly crying.
Speaker 2: Sue then meets to in the choir room, and I
Speaker 2: want to talk about this scene because I do not
Speaker 2: have any recollection of this line. She comes into this
Speaker 2: room is as barren as me, just like really quickly
Speaker 2: just says it, throws it away and moves on.
Speaker 1: She has a lot of really good lines in this scene.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was crazy. I mean basically what happens after
Speaker 2: saying insane things to him like you're a good teacher,
Speaker 2: will Now, I don't like you so much, but I
Speaker 2: admire you and your work and the work you're doing
Speaker 2: with your kids. And she's basically like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to lose you as an enemy.
Speaker 1: Right, I want to ridicule your hair. I want to
Speaker 1: make fun of you for cheering up more than Michael
Speaker 1: Landon in the sweeps weeks episode of the Prairie and
Speaker 1: Ce Sylvester doesn't want to live in that kind of world.
Speaker 1: So also fun fact, misters, she was packing up the
Speaker 1: choir room when she walks in, and that that Wiener
Speaker 1: dog porcelain thing he's holding is actually from his choir
Speaker 1: room and it was his teachers, his music teachers, and
Speaker 1: while Sue is giving Will backhanded compliments, she it is
Speaker 1: revealed that she actually did vote for New Directions to win.
Speaker 2: And she went to Figgins and is like, give them
Speaker 2: another year.
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to blackmail you. And that's it.
Speaker 1: And so we get another year. That's how season do.
Speaker 2: And Will gives us the number of his own somewhere
Speaker 2: over the rainbow.
Speaker 1: And Mattie Maddie performs that that was like something that
Speaker 1: he had performed four and he plays skulele, so he
Speaker 1: I guess they wrote that in Yeah but for sweet
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a great number. Yeah, really nice and I
Speaker 1: that is pretty much the end of season one. That's it.
Speaker 2: The New Directions will be back. You get another year
Speaker 2: to being nice for a brief moment, because she needs
Speaker 2: She's just competitive, right m hm. And somewhere deep down
Speaker 2: there she has a heart.
Speaker 1: Somewhere deep down she does have a heart. Jane has
Speaker 1: said that. And of course, and of course we're going
Speaker 1: to get another europe New Directions. Who's who are we kidding?
Speaker 2: New Directions gotta stick around because Fox picked us up
Speaker 2: for another season. That's right, and that is season one, folks. Wow,
Speaker 2: can you believe it. I love this episode. I loved
Speaker 2: it so much that I kept going and started to
Speaker 2: watch season two immediately after.
Speaker 1: I didn't, but I did love this episode A lot,
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot a lot very well. That episode.
Speaker 2: If you watch season one straightened the season two, it's
Speaker 2: a bit jarring, I think, because, like we said, we
Speaker 2: do like a little different, some of us more than others.
Speaker 1: We we definitely and season two. The start of season two,
Speaker 1: I always say these episodes, the kickoff episodes have like
Speaker 1: a lot of exposition again, and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just they never fully meet the expectation of like a
Speaker 1: season premiere for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it because it's
Speaker 2: pretty dick crazy TARTI takes Jenna, let's do it the
Speaker 2: last one of the season. I say this, like we're
Speaker 2: not gonna be back.
Speaker 1: Next week, right, cringe moments aka oucheese.
Speaker 2: I would say, Will and Emma sing in the hallway. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I seems inappropriate.
Speaker 1: I'm with that one. I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Also, I Livington john says some crazy crazy things and
Speaker 2: that judging room. But also I sort of like she
Speaker 2: can do whatever she wants.
Speaker 1: That's right. I agree, that's why I didn't pick that because.
Speaker 2: Worst dance move.
Speaker 1: Jenna's arms in the Carlton.
Speaker 2: I would also like to point out best dance move.
Speaker 2: I mean the vocal adrenaline, the girls flying through the air,
Speaker 2: the birth of John Groff through the arms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just say Bohemian Rhapsody is the best dance move.
Speaker 2: The whole thing, the best song.
Speaker 1: Oh man. I mean, I feel like I want to
Speaker 1: say Faithfully.
Speaker 2: Oh, I say, it's a tie between Faithful and Boheman Rhapsody.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, we can pick one in one and call
Speaker 1: it gred best performance by a prop. I think the baby.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that too much. Does the baby
Speaker 2: count that beautiful newborn? Yes? You want to know something
Speaker 2: so disturbing? What that baby's a teen now?
Speaker 1: No, we need to find that baby.
Speaker 2: I was watching it and Marco turned to me that
Speaker 2: baby's a teenager, and I had to pose it and
Speaker 2: catch my breath.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh boy, yeah, that baby is thirteen years old.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, I hate that for us.
Speaker 1: I hate that.
Speaker 2: I hate that.
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks for that.
Speaker 2: You're welcome anytime. Favorite lines of this episode.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, this sounds like kind of cringey, but also, oh,
Speaker 1: really the delivery is excellent, Jane Jane and Will. Will
Speaker 1: says I should shake her hand and Sue says, not
Speaker 1: unless you got some insanitizer. I've seen that car you drive.
Speaker 1: I don't want to catch poor it said old boy.
Speaker 2: She says poor, I don't want to catch poor. I
Speaker 2: think my favorite line was Dana's screaming shut up, shut
Speaker 2: up during the birthing.
Speaker 1: It's so good, so good. Okay, and and tell me,
Speaker 1: tell me what you found.
Speaker 2: Jenna should be found on TikTok. It is a Chicago
Speaker 2: drag queen by the name of Annie Andrews. If you
Speaker 2: go on TikTok her TikTok is, it's Annie Andrews and
Speaker 2: she does the full Quinn. She does It's a Man's World,
Speaker 2: Oh my God, the pregnancy belly, and she does the
Speaker 2: Bohemian Rhapsody birth scene and it's not her playing Bohemon Rhapsody.
Speaker 2: They're playing the actual episode version of it. So she's
Speaker 2: doing all the lines that does and it is incredible.
Speaker 2: So I mean, if you are in Chicago, go check
Speaker 2: out Annie Andrews because this, you know, if you're watching
Speaker 2: this season of Dragons, past season of Drag Race Lucy
Speaker 2: Laeduca got some flat for not having a pregnancy bellion
Speaker 2: when she did her Beyonce look. And let me tell you,
Speaker 2: Annie Andrews had the pregnancy belly.
Speaker 1: She absolutely does have the pregnancy bellion and she is
Speaker 1: giving Okay, wow, it's so good. Drag Queen's doing Glee.
Speaker 1: I mean, yep, it's nothing better.
Speaker 2: Quinn deserved better.
Speaker 1: That's funny, very good, very good.
Speaker 2: Thank you Annie Andrews.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we did it. That is season one, you guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sticking with us. That was really fun.
Speaker 1: And like Ian said, it's Murderer's Row this season. I
Speaker 1: love that. And I can't wait to recap season two
Speaker 1: with y'all.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're just getting started, Jenna, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: we're just getting started. Thank you for listening. Thank you
Speaker 2: for being with us this long. We're so excited to
Speaker 2: be doing this and so happy to be like reading
Speaker 2: all of your feedback. Keep tagging us and these tiktoks,
Speaker 2: and we'll see you next season next week.
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