Speaker 1: And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, and That's what you Really miss podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Jenna Kevin.
Speaker 2: Oh god, we're already laughing because this episode we're talking
Speaker 2: about Season two, episode ten, a Very Glee Christmas, which
Speaker 2: aired on December seventh, twenty ten. But that's not why
Speaker 2: we're laughing.
Speaker 1: We're laughing because why are we laughing? Kevin?
Speaker 2: The week that it aired, we all went to London,
Speaker 2: London because we performed on X Factor to do Don't
Speaker 2: Stop Believing on December fifth, and that trip man oh man,
Speaker 2: oh man. We it was our first time altogether on
Speaker 2: like a trip of.
Speaker 3: This extent, and it was an easy work trip, I
Speaker 3: will say. So we did the xcractor, rehearsed, we performed,
Speaker 3: and then we were out and we were like, let's party.
Speaker 3: All the execs came.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything was there and it was like a three
Speaker 2: day trip. It was very very quick and well we
Speaker 2: had to get back and we also like it was
Speaker 2: us and Black Eyed Peas on that flight, per usual,
Speaker 2: they were also performing on X Factor. It was we
Speaker 2: were together during sound check.
Speaker 3: It was a really shwanky plane. It was the really
Speaker 3: big planes where they have like the bar in first
Speaker 3: class where you go sit at the bar. So we
Speaker 3: start in the lounge in lax and we're all in
Speaker 3: the lounge and we're like, let's drink. So we started drinking.
Speaker 3: There's a reserved sign that somebody cracks on the table.
Speaker 3: We get on the plane, there's pajamas.
Speaker 1: Waiting for you from the airline.
Speaker 3: We all got in the pajamas. Corey I remember being
Speaker 3: the first one got on the pajamas. As soon as
Speaker 3: he got on the plane. He comes out of the
Speaker 3: bathroom where people are boarding the plane. He's standing in
Speaker 3: these large black which it is socks. And we're all
Speaker 3: in these like amazing pods where you lay down and
Speaker 3: the flight's fairly long, and in the pod you can
Speaker 3: put down the table so that you can have dinner
Speaker 3: with somebody else. So Ni and I sat at that
Speaker 3: bar for a while. Then we sat and had dinner
Speaker 3: and I spilled my wine all over her. Then we
Speaker 3: fell asleep.
Speaker 2: Well, you also had an intervention with me, do you
Speaker 2: remember this, Because so we had just started filming the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl episode at this time, and we were I
Speaker 2: think we were filming two episodes at the same time
Speaker 2: in the middle of it, flying to England to go
Speaker 2: do this, and I was sick as a dog on
Speaker 2: all kinds of medicine, including prednisone, which is a steroid,
Speaker 2: and it turned me into a monster monster, which is
Speaker 2: also yeah crazy. It gave me the courage to to
Speaker 2: sing on Thriller. And then on the plane. I remember Corey,
Speaker 2: Corey and I had dinner together and then you and
Speaker 2: Naya were like one over from me. I think you're
Speaker 2: all like, so, hey, so why are you taking these steroids? Like, well,
Speaker 2: because I'm sick and you know, I'm so staked. I'm like,
Speaker 2: but it's not the antibiotic, right, I'm like no, Like, okay,
Speaker 2: I think you should stop taking them. No, And I
Speaker 2: was like why, Like how mad you have left? It's like, well,
Speaker 2: I just have a couple left, Like, yeah, you're not sleeping,
Speaker 2: you're acting crazy. You need to stop taking them and
Speaker 2: all of you. And I was like, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: you're right. I think I hadn't slept in days. I
Speaker 2: was losing my mind.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, poor Kevin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the beginning of the steroids for you.
Speaker 3: I feel like that was yeah, needed, needed, necessary, prescribed.
Speaker 2: Okay, but it was a hard lesson to learn. Oh man, sorry,
Speaker 2: but we got to London and we hit the ground running.
Speaker 2: Yes we did.
Speaker 1: We performed.
Speaker 2: We I mean we've talked about before when we've gone
Speaker 2: to London and we had security. This was a whole
Speaker 2: different thing because there were so many of us. There
Speaker 2: were so many security guards with us ever where we went.
Speaker 2: It felt very famous and very weird and oh huge
Speaker 2: shopping trips together and we made a lot of friends. Oh,
Speaker 2: we hung out with McFly.
Speaker 1: I you were a huge McFly fan.
Speaker 2: Yes, Amber and Jenna and I hung back. Everybody else
Speaker 2: left and we stayed an extra day to go to
Speaker 2: the Tron premiere. And London does premierees differently, like they
Speaker 2: are gigantic, and we went to the Tron premiere.
Speaker 1: Well, we have to talk about this too. I forgot
Speaker 1: I've come to yours.
Speaker 2: I forgot.
Speaker 1: This was the trip.
Speaker 2: Were on the red car.
Speaker 3: So we went to shop. We went shopping and we
Speaker 3: decided we're gonna wear what we we shopped in and
Speaker 3: we did jackets because it was really cold. And we
Speaker 3: decided that we were going to be supermodels on the
Speaker 3: on the carpet and not not smile and pose and so.
Speaker 1: If you google us at the truck here we.
Speaker 2: Look it's absolutely insane. We look horrible. Yeah, we're also
Speaker 2: five feet tall like models, the three shortest people in
Speaker 2: the entire cast Leah, I forgot.
Speaker 1: We hung back to do that. That was this trip.
Speaker 1: What a fun trip.
Speaker 2: We were using Dana's technic. Dana has like this, she
Speaker 2: like hums sort of when she's on the red carpet,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: It keeps your like your face relaxed to parents.
Speaker 2: So we were all like humming to each other and
Speaker 2: dying laughing in between.
Speaker 1: And the carpets were so the cameras were crazy.
Speaker 2: At that one. It was the best time. I had
Speaker 2: a great time.
Speaker 1: And then when we performed on Extractor, that was really fun.
Speaker 3: That was the first time, well one of the first
Speaker 3: times that we all did don't stop all together other than.
Speaker 1: Was it regionals that we did it sectionals last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was our first live performance OPRAH, right,
Speaker 2: and it was a different version and that was also
Speaker 2: weird because we weren't used to doing a lot of
Speaker 2: live TV performances, and you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: technical things that we had to work out, and I
Speaker 2: just those steroids were still hidden. And then whose idea
Speaker 2: was it for Amber or to do that thing at
Speaker 2: Simon Call's desk. I don't I think it was the
Speaker 2: producers maybe yeah, And she's like okay, sure whatever, and
Speaker 2: Simon like we've talked about it. Simon loved Glee. He
Speaker 2: was a big, big, big Glee fan.
Speaker 1: Oh very nice, so nice to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where we met one direction. They were on
Speaker 2: X Factor that season.
Speaker 1: And you love Cheryl Cole.
Speaker 2: I big Cheryl Cole fan. And I remember meeting her
Speaker 2: and I was like, I love your music. I have
Speaker 2: your album. She's like what It's like, yeah, are you
Speaker 2: kidding me?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: So I was living my very very best life.
Speaker 1: I mean we were all living on that trip. We
Speaker 1: really did live.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. You also to That's also where Brad
Speaker 2: Fuchuk came with us. I remember sitting in like the
Speaker 2: trailers behind the X Factor stages and he was sort
Speaker 2: of like, so you're gonna get to do pyt coming
Speaker 2: up and I'm like, wait what you let me about thriller?
Speaker 2: And I had another Michael song coming. You could have
Speaker 2: told me to like calm down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they buried the lead yeah.
Speaker 2: Fully, but it was just it was Kid's house. We
Speaker 2: never got like breaks like that in the middle of
Speaker 2: a season, so we really went like a free.
Speaker 1: Trip to London.
Speaker 3: I stole Tina's coat on that trip. I think I
Speaker 3: have some photos of it from the Christmas episode and
Speaker 3: I stole it and I wore it because I didn't
Speaker 3: have any winter codes.
Speaker 2: I remember they wanted me to lip sync and I
Speaker 2: lost my mind. You did? I did? And then watching
Speaker 2: it back like maybe I should have.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: That was also when one direction was there was on
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah did you say that before?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 3: Cool? Cool?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Excite again?
Speaker 2: Christmas episode our first Christmas episode, which was really I
Speaker 2: think a vehicle for the Christmas album, our best performing
Speaker 2: album ever.
Speaker 3: Obviously, there's a lot of music in this episode, a
Speaker 3: lot of music. What was going on in the world
Speaker 3: was number one song was Raise Your Glass, a new
Speaker 3: song by Pink which will be performed on Glee. And
Speaker 3: the number one movie was Still and should be Forever
Speaker 3: Harry Potter.
Speaker 1: I saw that beyond Kevin. Am I boring? You?
Speaker 2: Shut it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: The coffee come down? Okay. This episode was directed by
Speaker 2: Alfonso Gomez Rayjon. He's back, back, back again.
Speaker 1: That's right, And.
Speaker 3: There's about a thousand songs in this episode. Tell me,
Speaker 3: tell me about these songs, Kevin.
Speaker 2: Okay, the most wonderful day of the year. We need
Speaker 2: a little Christmas. Merry Christmas, Darling Baby, it's cold outside.
Speaker 2: You're a mean one, mister Grinch, Last Christmas and Welcome Christmas. Wow, Jenna,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of memories.
Speaker 3: You and I.
Speaker 2: Sing a lot of these songs.
Speaker 3: Yes, we do, Thank Goodness, because you know what, every Christmas,
Speaker 3: I get a nice Christmas check.
Speaker 2: I leaned over to Austin. I was like, you hear
Speaker 2: those bumpump bumps on Last Christmas? Mortgage it for a
Speaker 2: couple months of the year.
Speaker 3: Well, Last Christmas was the big single that we were
Speaker 3: going to release, and we all sang on that and
Speaker 3: we did the bum bum bums.
Speaker 2: Like what you said, And if you've been listening, we
Speaker 2: don't normally, Yeah, we don't normally do backgrounds, but you
Speaker 2: mean Amber.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were all those are just three of us,
Speaker 3: I think, the three of us, and we were all
Speaker 3: in the studio together. I remember when they did their
Speaker 3: solos and everything too.
Speaker 1: We were there. Yeah, and it's a great song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, think it's a great song, Bump Bump Bumps. I
Speaker 2: hear it on Kiss FM every single.
Speaker 1: All the time, every single Christmas, you know, use it up.
Speaker 2: Also the most Wonderful day of the year. And I
Speaker 2: just feel like a lot of this is you and
Speaker 2: me yes together on like a lead. And I don't
Speaker 2: know why you and I sang so much of these songs.
Speaker 1: I don't either, but we did a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, most wonderful the day of the year. We didn't
Speaker 3: need a little Christmas. I was on as well. Last Christmas.
Speaker 3: I was on as well, and Welcome Christmas.
Speaker 2: And Welcome Christmas. I'm not even in that scene, but
Speaker 2: it's me singing the male lead of it, which also
Speaker 2: if you notice, so there there's a couple of things
Speaker 2: that happened with this episode. Because I think they made
Speaker 2: the album separately as a Christmas soundtrack. We're putting this
Speaker 2: out as a full thing, and so when it does
Speaker 2: get to the scene where we're all we can start
Speaker 2: so you know, in the beginning, when we're putting up
Speaker 2: that Christmas tree and decorating all that, and we're singing,
Speaker 2: and that version of it, Diana is singing lines, and
Speaker 2: the recorded version Chris is actually doing And I remember
Speaker 2: watching it and waiting for Chris to come up and
Speaker 2: sing these lines like, oh yeah, he's in the lead club.
Speaker 3: Here, Yes exactly, and I think they realized that and
Speaker 3: we're like, oh crap, we got to go back exactly.
Speaker 3: So it's Christmas Immickinley and we're we're trying to raise
Speaker 3: money for the Youth Homeless Shelter. But there's a Christmas Grinch,
Speaker 3: which is kind of the theme of this episode. Is
Speaker 3: the Grinch? Have the Grinch stole Christmas? Okay, it's Sevester
Speaker 3: gets in the way. And then also there's like another
Speaker 3: whole storyline that Brittany still believes in Sana.
Speaker 1: Which is very cute, and Rachel is trying to get
Speaker 1: back with Fin and using Christmas the Christmas spirit to.
Speaker 3: Move that along. Okay, so yes, we have done. We
Speaker 3: have decorating the tree. Glee is yeah, is doing it.
Speaker 3: And I would like to say I feel like this
Speaker 3: is the start of a tradition in the Glee episodes.
Speaker 3: I feel like a lot of shows from the UK
Speaker 3: have their Christmas episode and we started doing that this season.
Speaker 3: First season, we didn't do it because we didn't know
Speaker 3: when we were going to air in all of that, right,
Speaker 3: it was a whole different process. But now we knew
Speaker 3: we were picked up for a couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: And let's do some Christmas music.
Speaker 2: Yes, cash in those royalties.
Speaker 1: Still hear them every year.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Finn loves Christmas. Finn is like the leader
Speaker 3: of this episode, kind of without Rachel a little bit
Speaker 3: until the end, and Finn is trying to get everybody
Speaker 3: in the Christmas spirit, and Will comes in.
Speaker 1: He's like, where'd you get this tree from?
Speaker 2: What a mess of answers?
Speaker 1: It is a mass and it's so strange, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what is this whole thing happening?
Speaker 3: But Finn found the tree outside, and Puck, you know,
Speaker 3: took the displayed presence from the mall, and Santana's stole
Speaker 3: the director the decorations from our neighbor's house. And then
Speaker 3: Mercedes is like, this is kind of like a metaphor
Speaker 3: for the glee club, and yet we are still We
Speaker 3: won sectionals two years in a row, and yet we
Speaker 3: are still so ling.
Speaker 2: I would like to point out that here Finn says
Speaker 2: hed the tree, and in a couple of scenes later
Speaker 2: they say shoe found the tree, oh no, and there
Speaker 2: was there that was not made, storylines were changed or something, and.
Speaker 3: A h this is when things started to get chaotic.
Speaker 3: I was talking to Ian Brennan last night and he
Speaker 3: had said, this is when we this is episode is
Speaker 3: kind of when we started to realize we were really tired.
Speaker 3: So understandably, yeah, but Glee Club is still not cool.
Speaker 3: And Tina, Mike and Mercedes get slushy in this episode.
Speaker 2: Oh how was that? You looked like you were really
Speaker 2: feeling it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't great.
Speaker 3: Mine came late and so the timing was a little off,
Speaker 3: but it took me by surprise, and we couldn't move
Speaker 3: after because they want to get photos continuity photos, and
Speaker 3: so you're like burning your face is like burning. It
Speaker 3: wasn't a great one. But Amber was insistent upon having
Speaker 3: a on for her slushies so that her hair wouldn't
Speaker 3: get messed up, and so I insisted on having that
Speaker 3: had so my hair wouldn't get messed up. But also
Speaker 3: because if you have to do it again, it'll take
Speaker 3: a lot longer. So at least there was that yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: did you only do it once? I think we did
Speaker 3: this one twice. I think one was tice and these
Speaker 3: were green slushies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Christmas Spirit.
Speaker 1: That's not fun because it was a die. It was
Speaker 1: like die. Yeah, and it was just I think this
Speaker 1: was Harry's first slushie.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. I think we were really checking off the
Speaker 2: boxes because the next episode, who is Slushy Gate with me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was my second slushie I think, And this
Speaker 3: was and somehow you had still kno gone slushied.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, I was avoiding it. So Will's like,
Speaker 2: guys waning into the Christmas spirit, We're going to go
Speaker 2: around caroling and this school with real kids to raise
Speaker 2: money for the McKinley venta homeless children youth program, and
Speaker 2: then everyone fights it and Fen's like, no, we need
Speaker 2: to do this, and Rachel's like, oh, you know, you're
Speaker 2: being a leader. I think we can use this as
Speaker 2: an opportunity to get back together and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: So we go and perform need a Little Christmas and
Speaker 2: we get heckles.
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about this this scene for
Speaker 3: a second. Yeah, I should not have been in the
Speaker 3: front row of this, Jenny, you were fully reading.
Speaker 1: I can't. I couldn't find the beat. Do you remember
Speaker 1: we're rocking and everybody's.
Speaker 3: Going right, left, right, right, and I'm like a slow
Speaker 3: clock that's running out of battery.
Speaker 2: I forgot about the one you were reading. Is the
Speaker 2: last one, not this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you watch this though, I'm I'm off by
Speaker 3: like a millisecond so Christmas and I'm just off.
Speaker 2: I'm off too, But I really this is because Leah's
Speaker 2: pushing my shoulders, pushing me.
Speaker 3: If you go back and you look, Harry's laughing at
Speaker 3: me from the back row. Everybody's like, Jenna, get it right,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I can.
Speaker 1: I don't know, leash when.
Speaker 2: People have it when you're trying to do something that
Speaker 2: is really simple but you can't do like it happens
Speaker 2: to everyone and you just can't get it for some reason.
Speaker 2: It doesn't makes you feel crazy, and I just remember,
Speaker 2: it's not It's not gonna happen. I can't, do you think.
Speaker 3: Because I don't know, maybe because we recorded it, like
Speaker 3: there was something off in the music and the actual
Speaker 3: beat of the dance because.
Speaker 2: I was off too, right, That's what I'm thinking. Because
Speaker 2: I also think you and I were one of the
Speaker 2: only people that were actually singing it.
Speaker 1: Yes, we recorded this.
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of it. A lot of
Speaker 2: these songs are you me Amber and Yes Cory, Yes
Speaker 2: that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry. For some reason, I feel like we were all
Speaker 3: in the studio while these Christmas songs are happy, they're like,
Speaker 3: just get in there, just use them to the other.
Speaker 1: He go in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Had we known that we were going to make
Speaker 3: money off of every song you're on, I would have been.
Speaker 1: Like, I'll be there. Just count me in.
Speaker 2: You need a bump, pump pump, I got you.
Speaker 1: It's what I'm best at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had no idea. So then we get a
Speaker 2: shoe thrown at us and we're like, no, we can't
Speaker 2: do this. We're getting heckled. But the teacher throws a shoe,
Speaker 2: which is the ridiculing is pretty funny. So then Rachel
Speaker 2: tells Fenn to meet her in the auditorium and she's
Speaker 2: decorated it like a wonderland and tries the ifiny gift
Speaker 2: a song as an attempt to apologize, but Fenn's not
Speaker 2: having it and leaves and she's like, such a shame
Speaker 2: that Ava Club works so hard on the face.
Speaker 3: I gotta say, there's like a theme. She will have
Speaker 3: a winter Wonderland on that stage every year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of the Christmas tradition.
Speaker 1: That's right, Rachel's Winter Wonderland.
Speaker 3: So the choir room, the kids come in to find
Speaker 3: the choir room destroyed, You're right, and everybody's really upset,
Speaker 3: and Finn is like still, you know, moving with this
Speaker 3: Christmas spirit, and he's like this, we've got to we've
Speaker 3: got to keep keep on and we can't. We can't
Speaker 3: let this down. So Rachel tells Finn that be you know,
Speaker 3: they are the leaders of the glee club and so
Speaker 3: they have to put this all behind them and lift
Speaker 3: the Christmas spirit for the glee club. So they go
Speaker 3: Christmas shopping and Christmas tree shopping and they go to
Speaker 3: the Christmas tree lot and she's still trying to kind
Speaker 3: of get him back, which is kind of sad, but
Speaker 3: he's not into it.
Speaker 1: But then they do last Christmas and they find a
Speaker 1: lovely tree and they kiss even though he's still not into.
Speaker 2: It, but against his better judgment, and he kisses her.
Speaker 3: And then he officially breaks up with her. Oh, and
Speaker 3: she wears a pine air freshener for him. So and
Speaker 3: the gifts are stolen, but I was.
Speaker 2: Happy that we didn't have to be there for the
Speaker 2: lot at nighttime.
Speaker 1: I was thinking that because I was like, that's our backgrounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was like I remember being like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're not in it, because I think we keep saying
Speaker 2: this is where things got crazy and we were probably
Speaker 2: pulled elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, probably doing the super Bowl episode. Right.
Speaker 3: So everyone goes Gift of the Magi quote unquote to
Speaker 3: raise money for the homeless kids after the gifts are stolen,
Speaker 3: and the guys are going to give their watches and
Speaker 3: the girls are going to cut their hair, and nobody
Speaker 3: actually really read the book.
Speaker 2: What is Gift of the Magic?
Speaker 1: It's a book?
Speaker 2: Why does everybody know it? And Glee Club?
Speaker 1: It's like it's like there's like an old like it's
Speaker 1: a fable. You didn't read it in school?
Speaker 2: No, I mean, I'm from Texas. We just learned about
Speaker 2: the Alamo so over and over and over again. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's god.
Speaker 3: It was. It was a short story. Actually I don't
Speaker 3: really remember the actual synopsis of it. But they buy
Speaker 3: like there's a wife and a husband. They buy each
Speaker 3: other secret gifts for each other with very little money
Speaker 3: because they have very little money, and there's.
Speaker 2: Something everyone knows the story.
Speaker 3: Well, I learned about this in school, so I definitely
Speaker 3: assume that most people knew about it. But we actually
Speaker 3: find that the gleague called doesn't. Actually, no, they do
Speaker 3: know the name because you know Rachel and like somebody
Speaker 3: brought it and Rachel brought it up or somebody. But
Speaker 3: it's Santana's line about she's like, oh.
Speaker 1: No, it's fine, this is even really my hair anyway.
Speaker 2: I love that line.
Speaker 3: But all the girls are going to cut their hair,
Speaker 3: and Will thank Goodness comes in and puts a pause
Speaker 3: on it, and he says that we're really going to
Speaker 3: go out and we're going to find people who really
Speaker 3: need Christmas spirit and sing for them because we're still
Speaker 3: very lucky and charmed. So the glee club ends up
Speaker 3: singing to the teachers and the teacher's lounge to raise
Speaker 3: money for homeless kids.
Speaker 2: That's the one where you're reading off of the music
Speaker 2: stand in front of you.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a music stand, okay, so take take advantage
Speaker 1: of the opportunity.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is this is not like a drag
Speaker 2: at all, Because I was thinking how lucky you were
Speaker 2: to have it in front of you, because it's yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a weird song to remember, a lot of foule
Speaker 2: who sounds, you know, And I was I'm remember I
Speaker 2: don't know why I have such a distinct memory of
Speaker 2: standing in video village and the next room watching you
Speaker 2: guys do this.
Speaker 1: Because you didn't have to be in it, so you
Speaker 1: were like, hey, yeah. I was like, that's guys, that's
Speaker 1: my voice.
Speaker 2: Does anyone care? That's should we take my voice out?
Speaker 1: I sang on this one.
Speaker 2: This is the one. Tim Davis had to come into
Speaker 2: the booth with me and because I could not get it,
Speaker 2: get it, and he was literally, okay, it's coming up.
Speaker 2: It's do do do do do, and I'd be okay
Speaker 2: and I just repeat it.
Speaker 1: Was I there.
Speaker 2: I feel like I remember that. I feel like you were.
Speaker 2: I feel like you did this, but you knew the
Speaker 2: song better than I did. It was easier for you.
Speaker 1: And I think I had a melody.
Speaker 2: That's why I had all these random bits that didn't
Speaker 2: really fit together, but they fill in all the gaps,
Speaker 2: got it well.
Speaker 3: I feel very lucky that we got to sing on
Speaker 3: a lot of the Christmas stuff, at least for this
Speaker 3: first album. Okay, So Brittany still believes in Santa and
Speaker 3: your realization is already realizing that Brittany still believes in
Speaker 3: Santa is very funny, Kevin, very very funny.
Speaker 2: I don't remember doing a lot of this. I don't storyline, really,
Speaker 2: I don't because and I'm now realizing the things I
Speaker 2: don't remember as much are because we were literally filming
Speaker 2: multiple episodes at the same time at this point, and
Speaker 2: so I had no idea where we were, where we were,
Speaker 2: what we were doing. But Yes, already realizes, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Britney still believes in Santa Claus. We have to keep
Speaker 2: that dream alive.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 2: Enlists the help of the entire glee club, which is
Speaker 2: really sweet. No one puts up a fight and like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: and so we go to the mall, the same mall
Speaker 2: we use every time, and yeah, do you remember this vaguely?
Speaker 1: Is this target? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is our target run.
Speaker 1: This is target run. We all well. Also, though along
Speaker 1: with this storyline in the Rewalk, I thought this was
Speaker 1: seasons later.
Speaker 2: I did not realize the rewalk was this episode me neither. Okay,
Speaker 2: it came up, I guess.
Speaker 1: I was like, this cannot be the rewalk, And then
Speaker 1: it was the rewalk and no idea. Okay, So yes,
Speaker 1: we were at the mall and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of downtime and I mean a lot of downtime and
Speaker 1: I don't know why. And we decided we had a
Speaker 1: lot of security with us Clinton, our main security had
Speaker 1: security from Fox was there with us, and we decided
Speaker 1: that we wanted to go to Target.
Speaker 3: It was a part of the mall. Yeah, And we
Speaker 3: all went in and they were like, are you sure?
Speaker 3: You guys all want to go together? And we decided
Speaker 3: we were going to decorate our trailers because we got
Speaker 3: nicer trailers for season two, right, they were new.
Speaker 2: We had like the nineteen seventies trailers for season one.
Speaker 2: Season two they were rema Yes.
Speaker 1: So yes, we decided we all wanted to go and
Speaker 1: decorate our trailers.
Speaker 3: So we got blankets and candles and we got a
Speaker 3: bean bag Ottomans exactly and just things throw pills, and
Speaker 3: we came out with like our security was holding ball.
Speaker 2: We did a full like what is that nineties show
Speaker 2: like Supermarket Sweep or whatever. We were really on a
Speaker 2: time crunch kids making money for the first we.
Speaker 1: Did go to Target with security. That was the time
Speaker 1: to go because we couldn't.
Speaker 3: We didn't have security on our own time, so it
Speaker 3: was actually really nice to security to.
Speaker 2: Go to Turkey Box. Oh my god, So everybody has
Speaker 2: a set on Sama's lap. And then when Brittany actually does,
Speaker 2: she asks for Santa to grant already the ability to walk,
Speaker 2: and he's like no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 2: This is backbaring terribly because we can't do that. And
Speaker 2: so then already Sam and Puck ask Beast to dress
Speaker 2: up as Santa to convince her, and she's like, okay,
Speaker 2: I'll do it. And then side note, you got to
Speaker 2: break into her house. It's okay, it's gonna be unlocked,
Speaker 2: and her parents already know this plot is wild.
Speaker 1: It is wild. And then the fact that Beast takes the.
Speaker 3: Santa beard off, I thought like, oh, she's gonna reveal
Speaker 3: herself in this scene.
Speaker 1: I was like, did she reveal herself? And yet Brittany
Speaker 1: still believes the Beast.
Speaker 2: Is Santa when this She's already seen three different Santa.
Speaker 2: She's seen mal Santa, she sees Grinch Sue who was
Speaker 2: destroying the t and Sue realizes like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: she thinks I'm actually Santa. So she doesn't really give
Speaker 2: up the gig either, which is so nice of her. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then there's Beast who gives like a really beautiful
Speaker 2: moving speech, but it disappoints Brittany still when she's given
Speaker 2: an explanation of why you know, Santa can't make Artie walk.
Speaker 3: Right, and then yes, and then and then Brittany is
Speaker 3: upset and she's lost her Christmas spirit because she Sanna
Speaker 3: has told her now that you're not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to walk, and You're.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm fine, I'm good, don't worry about me.
Speaker 3: But you graciously offer to take Brittany home and make
Speaker 3: sure that she's going to be okay, and magically a
Speaker 3: rewalk appears.
Speaker 2: I remember the discussion about this rewalk. I feel like
Speaker 2: I just feel like it was talked about so much
Speaker 2: because it's a sensitive topic, of course, and this was
Speaker 2: new technology where it wasn't a widely available thing, and
Speaker 2: it was just trying to appease sort of, you know,
Speaker 2: both of their dreams already's dealt with it before. This
Speaker 2: is Brittany's new dream for Arty, and I think a
Speaker 2: lot of it was just this. They have the sensitivity
Speaker 2: in the nature of the storyline of how do we
Speaker 2: do this and properly? Yeah, properly, And then I remember
Speaker 2: I had like fittings for this rewalk thing. Yes, I did,
Speaker 2: And now.
Speaker 1: The rewalk is an interesting It was an interesting mechanism,
Speaker 1: but it also felt like their little nod and I
Speaker 1: could be wrong to Christmas Girl for Timmy saying God
Speaker 1: blesses everyone and having being.
Speaker 2: Able to I think it was, and I think it.
Speaker 2: You know, the whole storyline was bring the whole glee
Speaker 2: club together in the most non controversial way, you know,
Speaker 2: carolink to that are classrooms. Everyone was pissed then the
Speaker 2: then the tree gets scrapped and everything gets stolen, and
Speaker 2: like there was bad stuff happening, and this was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: everybody's on team Brittany, and that's keep the dream alive
Speaker 2: for her.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2: And they're sort of like, where did this come from?
Speaker 2: Because no one actually knows, and so they all just
Speaker 2: chalk it up to a Chris's Santa Claus miracle. Now
Speaker 2: I thought it was Beast, Yeah it was, but only
Speaker 2: Beast knows that she doesn't tell anyone. Well, I was not,
Speaker 2: and he said it was Santa He is, like it
Speaker 2: might have been Beast, but it also might have been Santa.
Speaker 2: I also love how Dot says Santa Claus. That feels
Speaker 2: like a very dot thing. I did think that was
Speaker 2: not scripted Santa Claus. So the other thing that's happening
Speaker 2: in this episode are the adult bolts.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Will is obviously alone, having Christmas alone and has brought
Speaker 2: up several times in this and Ema says, you can't
Speaker 2: do that, so you should, you know, come over with us,
Speaker 2: and he's like, I think we need our space. And
Speaker 2: then Dot comes in and says we're doing or Beast. Sorry,
Speaker 2: It comes in and says we're doing a secret Santa right,
Speaker 2: and Will gets Sue and so, in a panic, not
Speaker 2: knowing what to get for Sue beyond a dog, robot
Speaker 2: and a soul, he goes to see Dalton Kurta at
Speaker 2: Dalton and before he gets there, you know, curtain Blaine
Speaker 2: do a beautiful rendition of Baby It's cold outside the
Speaker 2: first curtain Blaine do it. Yes, a big moment, it
Speaker 2: was a big song.
Speaker 1: It is a big song. Did very well and Chris
Speaker 1: had a very easy episode.
Speaker 2: I was thinking that it's like this is a day
Speaker 2: of shooting for him.
Speaker 1: Damn boy, him and Darren. So Will asks Kurt for
Speaker 1: help Christmas shopping because he has super secret Sanna. I've
Speaker 1: anknownst to him that everybody is super secrets Hannah, and
Speaker 1: she rigged it and she hates Christmas, but she actually
Speaker 1: really loves the gifts.
Speaker 3: So Beast and Emma and Will are obviously upset when
Speaker 3: they find out that Sue has rigged secrets Hannah, and
Speaker 3: they're they're in cohoots not let her get away with it,
Speaker 3: So Will and Beast they take her gifts away and
Speaker 3: they're donating them to the McKinley Vento for homes kids.
Speaker 3: And Sue's the Grinch. Sue is literally and metaphorically the
Speaker 3: Grench in this episode, and she does you're immune one,
Speaker 3: mister Grinch, and that's where Britney sees her.
Speaker 2: This whole bit is so good, dressed up like the dog,
Speaker 2: and yeah, and Heather dressed up, Brittany dressed up like
Speaker 2: Cidey lu who I think it's really Alfonso can make
Speaker 2: a beautiful composition. That means he can. Some of these
Speaker 2: shots were just beautiful, gorgeous.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so Sue is the Grinch in this episode,
Speaker 3: and it kind of intertines with everything else. But then Sue,
Speaker 3: here's the glee club singing, and then her heart grows,
Speaker 3: you know, one hundred times, and she sees everybody singing
Speaker 3: in the choir or not in the choir.
Speaker 1: And the teacher's lounge and she kind of tears up
Speaker 1: just a little.
Speaker 2: Of moisture.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: I love this next bit because then Rachel goes up
Speaker 2: to Shoe and says that you're divorced and miss Pillsbury
Speaker 2: married another guy. I guess we'll be spending Christmas Eve alone,
Speaker 2: damn girl. And then she invites him over to her house.
Speaker 2: And this relationship between this teacher, I mean, students will
Speaker 2: never not mystify me a bit. But you know, I
Speaker 2: was thinking, m hmm, not that anybody asked, but I
Speaker 2: watch a lot of teen shows and this is a
Speaker 2: common teacher involvement. Yeah, because the teacher makes a big
Speaker 2: difference in these kids' life, and you know, they're they
Speaker 2: become actual friends. Sure, but the thing is is that
Speaker 2: normally those teachers also have adult friends outside of school.
Speaker 2: I don't think she does.
Speaker 3: Right, right, that's the issue. Or and that she was single,
Speaker 3: so he's just by himself with these kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's th good is the thing.
Speaker 3: So Will's home by himself and he finds Sue there
Speaker 3: and she gives them a tree and gives back the
Speaker 3: kids for the orphans, and also a razor to shape
Speaker 3: the chia pet, and then she surprises him, which feels
Speaker 3: out of characters for Sue. But then I'm like, okay, fine,
Speaker 3: I'll buy it. And the Holy Club comes and spends
Speaker 3: our Christmas you with Sue, which I was thinking, also.
Speaker 1: Don't they need to be with their families, right, But
Speaker 1: that's okay.
Speaker 3: And then one of my favorite lines of the episode
Speaker 3: was like, I thought you hated the holidays soon and
Speaker 3: she said no, and just hate you.
Speaker 2: I really, you know. I thought in the beginning of
Speaker 2: this episode that I was not going to really enjoy
Speaker 2: it that much because it's like a weird themed one
Speaker 2: off episode that has nothing to do. But there's just
Speaker 2: something so special about Christmas episodes or holiday episodes in general,
Speaker 2: where I was thinking back to some of my favorite
Speaker 2: teen shows and they do things like this, and it's
Speaker 2: okay that it is not a regular told episode because
Speaker 2: it feels warm and it's nice to see these characters
Speaker 2: that you love or hate all get to do something
Speaker 2: a little different together.
Speaker 1: For sure, I don't particularly love our Christmas episodes, but
Speaker 1: I think it was part of it was shooting them,
Speaker 1: because they felt large. But also it's like the Friends
Speaker 1: with Thanksgiving, like I look forward to those episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was the very first time I understood the
Speaker 2: Christmas episodes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, because I think I
Speaker 2: had a lot of attachment to it, like you do.
Speaker 2: Of they were hard to film, and because there was
Speaker 2: by that point, you're like really in the middle of
Speaker 2: a season and everything's chaos, but yeah, the Friends episodes,
Speaker 2: you would look forward to those Thanksgiving episodes, and you
Speaker 2: look forward to these episodes and the music. And I
Speaker 2: enjoyed it. I surprised myself. Oh wow, Yeah, not that
Speaker 2: I thought I would hate it. I just liked it
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, for sure, I get it. I get it. Okay,
Speaker 1: should we do some tarty takes?
Speaker 2: Yes, let's go for it. Let's do it cringe moments
Speaker 2: aka Auchi's.
Speaker 3: Well. The fact that.
Speaker 1: Brittany thinks I can't tell the difference between elves and
Speaker 1: slaves was like mm hmm, a little off to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that came up like three times, two or
Speaker 2: three times in a row. You also asked for Asian Santa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I did. I thought that was a Mike's thing.
Speaker 2: I know, That's what I felt. That's why I felt
Speaker 2: out of place.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there were no real dancers, but I would say
Speaker 3: the worst dancers were you and me in that front row.
Speaker 3: Just we really did not need a little Christmas.
Speaker 2: We couldn't get it.
Speaker 1: We suck. It wasn't good.
Speaker 2: Best song mmmm, best song is hard.
Speaker 1: I would say maybe Wham.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I agree with that because that was
Speaker 2: the sort of single and that still gets played every year.
Speaker 2: It's crazy everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Best performance by a problem oh, I mean the rewark obviously,
Speaker 3: and the best lines Okay, so mine was kind of
Speaker 3: a cringe, but also Brittany's delivery of the line to
Speaker 3: the elf when she's going up to see Sanna and
Speaker 3: she says, just now that you have rights. And also
Speaker 3: the chia pet line about.
Speaker 1: Will's hair.
Speaker 2: I think mine was. I think mine was Santana about
Speaker 2: her hair. Most of it's not mine anyway.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 2: I love that one.
Speaker 1: That's a very good.
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Speaker 1: This is exciting.
Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, there are there, I mean there are tons.
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