Speaker 1: Ring Ring Ring Ring man, I please speak with Zoe.
Speaker 2: Oh hello, Lamarn, let's patch in Hannah.
Speaker 3: God, I forgot what it was like working with you guys.
Speaker 2: Hi, Eric, Hi, Hi, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you for having me. I'm excited.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, this has been I know it's been forever.
Speaker 6: I know, I know it's been the last time I
Speaker 6: worked with you guys, you were pregnant, Zoe.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, and I have My youngest is five now,
Speaker 5: so that's.
Speaker 2: A long time.
Speaker 4: That's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. So what's up.
Speaker 5: I'm so excited to talk about one of my favorite
Speaker 5: all time episodes of New Girl. Yes, yeah, me is
Speaker 5: a personal top three top three truly, I mean, so
Speaker 5: much awesome stuff going on. So wait, Eric, was this
Speaker 5: this wasn't the first one you did with us?
Speaker 3: Or was it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was the first one, because you did it
Speaker 4: quite a few, Yeah, yeah, three of them maybe yeah
Speaker 4: yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: I did the one in the Bar, I did the
Speaker 6: flashback episode in the bar, right, and then I did
Speaker 6: the one with Henry Winkler and Julie Haggerty.
Speaker 2: Or like, yeah, oh my god, that was him.
Speaker 6: Talking about trains. But but yeah, this was this was
Speaker 6: my first one. This was my first one, very exciting.
Speaker 3: Remember do you remember getting the call or did you
Speaker 3: have fret? Like how did you get on the New
Speaker 3: Girl director's circuit?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that was the year.
Speaker 6: It was kind of like my first year of directing
Speaker 6: a lot of at work TV episodes. I had done
Speaker 6: an episode of the Office the year before, and it
Speaker 6: was like that was like my first network TV thing,
Speaker 6: and then the following year that all the the Office
Speaker 6: episode is very well received, So like all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: like my dance card was full the following year, and yeah,
Speaker 6: it was really uh.
Speaker 1: And then you came on over to the greatest show
Speaker 1: and television, the.
Speaker 3: Humblest show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's it's all coming from Lamar inside the
Speaker 5: most humble.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I remember my first conversation though, when they went when
Speaker 6: I found out which episode I was doing it, they
Speaker 6: sat me down and said, so, we have to do
Speaker 6: a Ford commercial in this episode.
Speaker 5: You know what's funny is I remember actually, you know
Speaker 5: when it came out, it kind of like people kind
Speaker 5: of saying something out it, but it's.
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't matter at all.
Speaker 5: It was actually nice that we were able to say
Speaker 5: a brand name, because that's so what those things are.
Speaker 2: They're there to sell, you.
Speaker 5: Know, And it just happened to be that we had
Speaker 5: this like kind of Ford tie in, and it I
Speaker 5: think allowed us to have a bigger budget for the episode.
Speaker 4: Maybe I think so too. I think so.
Speaker 7: My question to you is, did you get credit for
Speaker 7: both directing a television show and also a commercial commercial reel?
Speaker 4: I did not.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, no, at least an opportunity, my.
Speaker 6: Friend, because it does it does feel like just it
Speaker 6: feels like a scene. It's so it's like very well
Speaker 6: integrated into the episode.
Speaker 5: Well, also I get stuck in the car and fall
Speaker 5: out of the car.
Speaker 3: We do a full show? Was that their pitch from Ford,
Speaker 3: like they wanted to do a car show or is
Speaker 3: that just what the writers kind of came up with
Speaker 3: and gave to you.
Speaker 6: I think it's what just what the writers came up with.
Speaker 6: Like I remember Fox, I think it's that Fox like
Speaker 6: had this deal with Ford and all the shows like
Speaker 6: on American Idol, it was easier they just like Ford
Speaker 6: would do those little music videos an American Idol, and
Speaker 6: I think like all the Fox shows had to like
Speaker 6: work forward into something at some point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's how it was pitched to.
Speaker 2: Me, but it kind of worked to I don't know better.
Speaker 5: Than there was another episode where I remember Lauren, I
Speaker 5: think you might. It was all the guys had to
Speaker 5: be like, this is so cool. We could open the
Speaker 5: trink with our foot.
Speaker 1: Was there was?
Speaker 5: There was?
Speaker 1: There were a few. There were?
Speaker 2: Yeah, was that Ford or was that something else?
Speaker 4: That round?
Speaker 1: I think that's it was the Foscape.
Speaker 7: I think that's what Damon called this car, the Foscape,
Speaker 7: the Ford Escape.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, and.
Speaker 2: Then brand courtesy of Samon.
Speaker 7: Folks, if you're just tuning in, we have a fantastic show.
Speaker 7: We are recapping episode five of season two Models and
Speaker 7: you know, obviously you've been listening. We've got writer director
Speaker 7: Eric Appel. Now obviously he just spoke about all the
Speaker 7: things that he's done. But where are you now? Obviously
Speaker 7: because a new girl, we've we've turned your life around.
Speaker 7: I made an honest man. Now to you tell us
Speaker 7: about what you're working on now? Obviously some great things
Speaker 7: working with some of my heroes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just I did a movie this past year
Speaker 6: for the Roku channel called Weird The Al Yankovic Story
Speaker 6: which is a y which is a like satirical biopic
Speaker 6: about weird Al Yankovic that we co wrote together and
Speaker 6: I directed and Daniel Radcliffe is is stars as as
Speaker 6: Weird Al himself and I actually.
Speaker 4: It did.
Speaker 6: I just got a I got nominated for a DGA Award,
Speaker 6: which is funny. We're sort of you know, it's like
Speaker 6: a satire of Awards movies and now it's like becoming
Speaker 6: a legit Awards movie, which is really funny.
Speaker 3: That's on brand for this town.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So folks, what we're gonna do now is we're
Speaker 7: going to jump right into We're gonna do things differently
Speaker 7: from what you've what you probably remember about the show.
Speaker 7: So we're going to recap this episode with the fantastic
Speaker 7: director Eric Appel. If you don't remember this episode, we
Speaker 7: encourage you to go watch it, but I'll dive.
Speaker 1: Right into it.
Speaker 7: It's CC's birthday and she's turning a young forty eight
Speaker 7: years old but.
Speaker 1: Africat held.
Speaker 7: But our girl is torn between the decades old tradition
Speaker 7: of clueless and promtal addresses with jess and and living
Speaker 7: it up at the club with her model friends. That's right,
Speaker 7: Nadia's back Nadia is back and she's drinking vodka through
Speaker 7: her butt.
Speaker 5: Sure what that is, but it's kind.
Speaker 4: Of there's a lot, there's a lot of butt ugging.
Speaker 7: But if you folks saw the episode, then you know
Speaker 7: what I'm talking about, not just being weird like I
Speaker 7: normally a Now, when she tries to merge her two worlds,
Speaker 7: just gets her feelings hurt and she gets her boobs punched. Now, meanwhile,
Speaker 7: Schmidt and Nick, they're also at the crossroads in their relationship.
Speaker 1: Schmidt gives Nick a.
Speaker 7: Box of cookies, and the sincerity it throws Nick throws
Speaker 7: him way off. He just wants, you know, he just
Speaker 7: wants a turtle. That's it, and Schmidt is hurt that
Speaker 7: Nick doesn't think of him. Now, the next morning, Cec
Speaker 7: wakes up too hungover to do her modeling gig and
Speaker 7: just does not want her friend to get in trouble
Speaker 7: at work, so she offers to do.
Speaker 1: The job you spoke about that earlier.
Speaker 7: Now, the negative perception of modeling is shattered when miss
Speaker 7: Day learns firsthand how difficult it is to wear heels at.
Speaker 1: A rotating stage. I mean, come on, man, this is modeling.
Speaker 1: One I know how to do.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows how to do it.
Speaker 7: That Jesse makes a terrible model, obviously, but she remains
Speaker 7: a wonderful friend. Nick gathers up courage to be vulnerable
Speaker 7: with Schmidt. Everyone leaves this episode better friends. And that's
Speaker 7: what happened in this episode. And also Winston was there.
Speaker 3: I think, uh yes, Episode two oh five Models directed
Speaker 3: by the Eric Appella and written by Josh Melmoth his
Speaker 3: Wheelhouse Models.
Speaker 5: So what do you remember, Eric about directing this episode?
Speaker 6: Oh, man, I remember a lot about directing this episode.
Speaker 6: I actually there's actually a funny story about this episode
Speaker 6: that is like inn a pel Family classic.
Speaker 2: Ooh, we have to hear it.
Speaker 6: So I don't know if you know this or remember this,
Speaker 6: but the Model Scout. There's a flashback scene where young
Speaker 6: Jess and young c c are approached by a model
Speaker 6: scout and that is my wife. That is that is
Speaker 6: playing the play the Mottle Scout.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my god.
Speaker 6: But the reason that it's such a funny story is
Speaker 6: my my wife at the time was doing a lot
Speaker 6: of acting, doing a lot of commercials, little bit parts
Speaker 6: on TV shows and whatnot, and she got the call
Speaker 6: to come in an audition to play this model scout.
Speaker 4: Now, no one knew that she was my wife for
Speaker 4: acting like her last name was different, like as an actress.
Speaker 3: Yeah see, I was gonna say this was a whole NEPO.
Speaker 6: Baby, So your wife.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 4: So she told me.
Speaker 6: I remember her telling me, like, I'm I'm I just
Speaker 6: got called in for your episode, like thank you, and
Speaker 6: I'm like, I didn't put you up for this randomly,
Speaker 6: you got called in to play.
Speaker 4: The model scout. But I'm like, I feel it's weird.
Speaker 6: I pictured the mole scout to be like older and
Speaker 6: frumpier for some reason, right, So I'm like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: like it just feels I don't know, it kind of
Speaker 6: feels like I'm like, you're more of a model.
Speaker 3: Type, you know, winning all day long.
Speaker 6: But anyway, I'm like, I'm not going to tell people.
Speaker 6: I felt weird about telling people that.
Speaker 4: She was my wife, Like I didn't want to get
Speaker 4: her hired or anything, but you know, because.
Speaker 5: We're not hired, right, Yeah, Like you don't want to
Speaker 5: affect it anyway you want to didn't.
Speaker 6: Want to affect it anyway, but I did say, I'm like,
Speaker 6: don't so don't be bummed out if you don't get
Speaker 6: this because I you know, I don't know if people
Speaker 6: like maybe everybody's picturing someone different in this role too.
Speaker 7: My my question to you is do you do you
Speaker 7: how do you direct her?
Speaker 1: Is it fine?
Speaker 8: It's fine, but but anyway, so I I I'm like,
Speaker 8: I'm not going to weigh.
Speaker 6: In first, and Liz is the first person to weigh
Speaker 6: in and give her picks for the role, and she
Speaker 6: picks my wife first, and I was like, so then
Speaker 6: I chimed in and I'm like, hey, I didn't want
Speaker 6: to say anything, but that Johanna Parker is actually Johanna
Speaker 6: pell That's my wife.
Speaker 4: And I'm so glad that.
Speaker 6: You, like organically, you know, came to this, uh, picked
Speaker 6: her on your own.
Speaker 5: Well, I actually will say that that's most of the time,
Speaker 5: Like I know people who like are model agents and
Speaker 5: stuff like that, and they're usually kind of really like
Speaker 5: put together an attractive and like, so I think I
Speaker 5: think that's it was the right thing which I.
Speaker 6: Came to, which like I came to realize because I
Speaker 6: have to. I have a ten year old and an
Speaker 6: eight year old daughter, and we've been approached at the
Speaker 6: mall of a couple of times he's so funny, you know,
Speaker 6: by people who I think are just trying to get
Speaker 6: you to sign up for acts. Yeah, but by the way,
Speaker 6: my daughter's like, they want me dad.
Speaker 5: This is like, you know, I actually have a funny
Speaker 5: story about this. Like in high school, I was like
Speaker 5: hanging out them at the mall with my two friends
Speaker 5: and this super creepy guy came over to us and
Speaker 5: was like, you guys should be models, and we were like, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I was really skeptical because I was always suspicious.
Speaker 5: And I remember he was like, oh, some of your
Speaker 5: friends from He said what school do you go to?
Speaker 5: And we told him and he said, oh, some of
Speaker 5: your friends have modeled for me. And he had a
Speaker 5: book full of pictures and he had pictures of some
Speaker 5: girls from our class and we were like fifteen guys.
Speaker 2: It was very creepy.
Speaker 5: And then he gave us his card, and I remember
Speaker 5: my two friends were kind of.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, he thinks we're models. That's so cool.
Speaker 5: And I took the card and I hit it and
Speaker 5: I threw it away and my friend was like, oh,
Speaker 5: do you have that card? And I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 5: I don't have anymore because I didn't want anybody to
Speaker 5: get like catfish into like some kind of like you know,
Speaker 5: trafficking ring.
Speaker 1: You find out later that that man was Steven Spielberg.
Speaker 5: That man was not Steven Spieler. That man was more
Speaker 5: like Jeffrey Upscene. Jeff Yeah, but like very creepy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like yeah, you gotta gotta watch out for teenagers hanging.
Speaker 2: Out them all by themselves.
Speaker 6: But yeah, so that's my that's like my main That's
Speaker 6: why this episode is so you know, so special to uh,
Speaker 6: to us at my house. But I remember, I remember
Speaker 6: so much of it, and you know, watching it back,
Speaker 6: I watched it back last night and and you know,
Speaker 6: so many memories kind of came flooding back. It's so
Speaker 6: funny to know, you know, you watch a scene and
Speaker 6: you're like, that was day one. There's the first scene
Speaker 6: I shot.
Speaker 3: What was the first scene that you shot at this episode?
Speaker 6: The first scene was after the cold open. It was
Speaker 6: the first scene of act one. It was Nick watching
Speaker 6: the Turtle the Turtle documentary on TV. And yeah, Jess
Speaker 6: comes comes in dressed up to go out for the
Speaker 6: birthday party.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, how did you guys pick that outfit? This?
Speaker 3: What was it like? Ballet bellerina turned shirt walker.
Speaker 5: I actually, that's so funny that you say that that
Speaker 5: was a dress I had at home.
Speaker 2: That was my dress really and uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was like a dress that.
Speaker 2: My my friend was a designer. And I love that dress.
Speaker 5: It's gorgeous, and I like, it's actually really like it's
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's like it's not like it's
Speaker 5: it's ready to wear, but it's like, really, it was
Speaker 5: a really nice dress. But I brought it in because
Speaker 5: I knew that it was like a body condress that
Speaker 5: I felt like looked good on me. So I know
Speaker 5: they wanted like a body condress. So I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, I've.
Speaker 2: Got one.
Speaker 1: Body con dress. Is what is a body condress?
Speaker 5: Body condress is like a really form figure like tight dress.
Speaker 5: It's like Kardashian. It's something that has stretched to it
Speaker 5: and is normally really tight. It's like a dress that
Speaker 5: has has some some some it's.
Speaker 1: Like a it's like a box of brief but for all.
Speaker 2: Over exactly exactly. But a dress that's yeah, that's nice,
Speaker 2: that's nice, that's.
Speaker 5: What yeah, every yeah, yeah exactly, And and I feel
Speaker 5: like that's kind of like what the Kardashians always wear
Speaker 5: They're always in body con. So yes, that that dress. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and you know what I remember, I remember so much
Speaker 5: about shooting this episode, like it felt like legendary to me,
Speaker 5: like our whole you know, like everything about it felt
Speaker 5: like legendary. But then what I realized watching I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: but the guy's part of this episode was totally legendary too,
Speaker 5: Like give a.
Speaker 2: Cookie, Get a Cookie?
Speaker 5: Is like is one that a lot of people quote
Speaker 5: and are always asking, you know, Jake and Max about
Speaker 5: all the time they I think someone thought, I remember
Speaker 5: when we talked to Malmoth that that a lot of
Speaker 5: people had thought that that was improvised, that give a cookie,
Speaker 5: get a cookie, Get a cookie, give a cookie. You
Speaker 5: know that that was improvised, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was written.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's the cross section of you know, great directing, great writing,
Speaker 5: and great acting right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that scene, that was a memorable scene. I remember
Speaker 6: Jake like actually like real tears, like getting emotional in
Speaker 6: moment like.
Speaker 4: I And.
Speaker 6: It was like pretty early in my directing career, and
Speaker 6: you know, I remember just like, wow, this is crazy,
Speaker 6: this is crazy. I didn't it was unexpected in that moment,
Speaker 6: but it was like really like I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, he's like really going for it.
Speaker 2: This is amazing, This is amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the girls are flying fists and the boys are
Speaker 3: just crying.
Speaker 7: In moments like that when you're working with a guy
Speaker 7: like Jake Johnson, who we come to know as a
Speaker 7: person who probably can't read.
Speaker 1: So I mean, and I.
Speaker 7: Say that in Jess, but he loves to improvise, like
Speaker 7: he loves it a lot. Now does that throw you
Speaker 7: off when you come on the show, you know, like
Speaker 7: you said so early on your directing career, with a
Speaker 7: cast of people that love to improvise and a crew
Speaker 7: of writers and showrunner who love to improvise, How did
Speaker 7: you work with that?
Speaker 1: How did you deal with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean luckily that's sort of so I came
Speaker 6: from the upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Like I started there,
Speaker 6: you go, Yeah, Like I started at UCB in two
Speaker 6: thousand and two in New York, and you know it
Speaker 6: was on like a house improv team there with like
Speaker 6: Ellie Kemper, and I kind of came up with that
Speaker 6: whole that that whole generation of you know, Adam Pally
Speaker 6: and Ben Schwartz and Aubrey Plaza and Donald Glover like
Speaker 6: those were all my you.
Speaker 4: Know, classmate in improv class back in the early two
Speaker 4: thousand so, And I honestly, I think that's kind of
Speaker 4: what got me hot.
Speaker 6: Like I was sort of the new face in like
Speaker 6: directing you know, network TV comedy, and there was so
Speaker 6: much improv across a lot of shows from the office
Speaker 6: to I did a lot of happy endings episodes as well.
Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, because I was someone that could just
Speaker 6: get in there and like roll with the improv and
Speaker 6: pitch new things and just like I kind of knew
Speaker 6: how It's just a world I came from, like a
Speaker 6: very collaborative comedic world.
Speaker 7: Were you allowed to pitch a lot of stuff here
Speaker 7: on our show, you know, I know there's some certain
Speaker 7: parts the Russian cartoon, you know what I mean, the
Speaker 7: Russian car, the monkey Cracker thing, like there was an
Speaker 7: animation to.
Speaker 2: It really does look like me.
Speaker 5: It really, I really do resemble that.
Speaker 6: That was so that was so good and like the
Speaker 6: music that Ludwig wrote for it, and yeah, like that
Speaker 6: whole Monkey Cracker.
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny.
Speaker 6: There's a part in the episode there's like this dance
Speaker 6: Monkey part. I'm like, I wonder if the song dance Monkey.
Speaker 6: You know that song dance Monkey?
Speaker 4: Have you ever heard that?
Speaker 6: Oh, there's there's this like pop song from a couple
Speaker 6: of years ago called dance Monkey, and.
Speaker 4: Really I knew it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, I wonder if this was somehow influenced by
Speaker 6: like this dance Monkey episode where she's telling Jess dance Monkey.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the monkey Cracker thing monkey Cracker.
Speaker 3: Were you involved in like directing the animation or did
Speaker 3: that just come fully packaged to you?
Speaker 6: No, the animation was like a fun surprise for me
Speaker 6: when I saw the episode.
Speaker 3: That circle.
Speaker 2: Wolcoh.
Speaker 5: I actually remember Josh Mammoth like coming up to me
Speaker 5: like when we were shooting later, because they were like
Speaker 5: still working on the animation, like while we were shooting it,
Speaker 5: but like a few episodes later and was like, do
Speaker 5: you want to see the monkey Cracker thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And I was really, I'm like, I've never I never
Speaker 5: knew how much I looked like a Russian monkey.
Speaker 2: It sells crackers, yes, because I can being like how
Speaker 2: am I how are they going to make this monkey
Speaker 2: look like me?
Speaker 5: And I'll go, oh, okay, I get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all the eyes. It's the eyes on the banks.
Speaker 5: It's the eyes and the banks the monkey. Yeah really
Speaker 5: had really good banks.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, the eyes and the banks do all
Speaker 6: the heavy lifting.
Speaker 3: Yeah truly, Eric, I have to ask you about meeting
Speaker 3: Rebecca who plays Nadia, Yeah, for the first time. Were
Speaker 3: you uh surprised by her when she changed from her
Speaker 3: beautiful a British accent into her crazy Nadia accent? Did
Speaker 3: she improv any of those crazy lines in that cold open?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean I can't remember what exactly she she improvised
Speaker 6: or what was thrown out to her in the in
Speaker 6: the moment, but the transformation of her getting into that character,
Speaker 6: yeah was it was pretty amazing and so funny the
Speaker 6: random things that you know, come out of her character's mouth.
Speaker 6: And yeah, she was so such a blast to work with.
Speaker 6: There's that really funny moment with the the Wilmer Vilderama.
Speaker 6: But I remember her, like the accent on saying his
Speaker 6: name was really funny.
Speaker 4: It was just like a slight Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember, but it was.
Speaker 7: It was great about that is that that was a
Speaker 7: callback from this from season one?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: I would just mentioned she mentions him about all the
Speaker 7: things about America that she likes. I think that was
Speaker 7: what the bit was, and Wilmer Valdorama was one of them,
Speaker 7: and it was to see that.
Speaker 6: She meets she meets a guy at a bar who
Speaker 6: pretends to be Wilmer to go home with her.
Speaker 7: One thing that I found interesting about this episode was,
Speaker 7: and I want to question you guys about this, the
Speaker 7: the relationship between Nick and Schmidt. Nick being uncomfortable, He's
Speaker 7: uncomfortable and weirded out that Schmidt thinks about him. Is
Speaker 7: that is that weird to you guys, that your friend
Speaker 7: would tell you that they think about you often.
Speaker 2: That's a friendship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that we're very thoughtful about each other.
Speaker 5: We say I love you to our friends, we say
Speaker 5: think about.
Speaker 2: You, what we say I miss you.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's very I think I think it's
Speaker 5: a guy thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe the guy.
Speaker 3: All the time.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You tell us from a male perspective, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Would you think it was weird if your friend, Yeah,
Speaker 5: if your friend was like, I think about you, like,
Speaker 5: but you're I feel like you have a lot of
Speaker 5: female friends, La morn.
Speaker 3: We think about you, we think about you, and we
Speaker 3: think about you. Yeah, we love you there.
Speaker 7: Yes, I do have a lot of a lot of
Speaker 7: female friends, but I have a lot of male friends.
Speaker 7: And you know, I have a list. I have a
Speaker 7: list of men that I think about, and it's very
Speaker 7: it's a very short list.
Speaker 6: Jesus, and that's my.
Speaker 1: Brother, Jesus. I think my brother.
Speaker 7: I think my brothers all the time, right, Yeah. And
Speaker 7: then Lebron James.
Speaker 2: That's it, your friend, Lebron.
Speaker 1: My personal close friend, Lebron Jason.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think for me, like in my not now that
Speaker 6: I'm in my early forties, I feel like I'm more
Speaker 6: maybe in touch with my emotions with male friends, and
Speaker 6: I would be able to say things like I think
Speaker 6: about you. I feel like, you know, younger when I
Speaker 6: was single, and you know it just yeah, it's I
Speaker 6: think maybe it would have been weird I came home.
Speaker 5: I think once you're I think the dividing line is one,
Speaker 5: once you're a dad, you can say I think about you,
Speaker 5: but before maybe yeah, maybe not not that you can
Speaker 5: or can't, but I just mean maybe a guy who's
Speaker 5: a dad has like an emotional perspective that's different from
Speaker 5: like a single guy.
Speaker 3: You know, they're in the struggle and they see someone
Speaker 3: else in the struggle and they're just reaching out across
Speaker 3: the divide.
Speaker 2: Bets are off once you're a dad.
Speaker 6: It's funny that, but that storyline is so great. I mean,
Speaker 6: I love that, just kind of the commentary on masculinity
Speaker 6: and men male friendships and told in such a simple way,
Speaker 6: like that entire story takes place in the apartment.
Speaker 2: It's all metaphor too.
Speaker 5: It's like one hundred percent, Like it's like the cookie
Speaker 5: is the metaphor for thinking of someone, and then the
Speaker 5: turtle or the tortoise is the metaphor or like you know,
Speaker 5: friendship or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's It's it's nice you could definitely yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, I felt like both the kind of guy
Speaker 5: storyline and the girls storyline were both little like one
Speaker 5: act plays.
Speaker 3: I know. But the thing I forgot about it is
Speaker 3: really the whole episode is answering the question would you
Speaker 3: still be friends with them if you met them today?
Speaker 3: And that's what both Nick and Jess are facing, right.
Speaker 3: I thought I forgot that that that was the thing
Speaker 3: that joined it together.
Speaker 5: Would you judge a friend that became a model, right?
Speaker 2: Like? Would you? Yeah? I'm asking you.
Speaker 3: No, I'm happy if someone is happy. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: happy for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's funny. You you get why. It's like
Speaker 2: more like Jess is like, is like you.
Speaker 3: Came from a protective place.
Speaker 5: A protective because she knew her as a kid, and
Speaker 5: that's not how she thought of her.
Speaker 2: I think, you know that's right.
Speaker 3: I think that was.
Speaker 2: For people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't judge someone who became a model, but
Speaker 5: maybe like if you're friends with somebody from when you're
Speaker 5: you know, seven years old, and you know, you think
Speaker 5: you're the same, and then one of you ends up
Speaker 5: becoming a model, and then there are a lot of
Speaker 5: kind of like surface level things that go into that, right.
Speaker 1: But but could drink it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, a lot of it I think is like
Speaker 6: the circle that.
Speaker 2: She runs it exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, we see that, and we see that come
Speaker 7: to like in this episode when you're trying you're trying
Speaker 7: to fit in a little bit with her friends. Oh yeah,
Speaker 7: to see you know, I thought that was a very
Speaker 7: fun funny, interesting scene. Talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 7: Even from the creation standpoint, Eric, there's the the dancing,
Speaker 7: the mocking. It was also funny to me.
Speaker 3: And then the boob fight, like, oh I have so
Speaker 3: many things to say about this boob fight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the boob fight is really great.
Speaker 3: Do you remember say they offered us. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you remember this, Eric, if we needed any protection?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I was like, I think we're okay.
Speaker 3: We both are like, I think we're fine, we're.
Speaker 4: Out, But they were didn't You didn't have pads for that?
Speaker 3: No, but I do remember being offered like, do you
Speaker 3: need any protection around your boobs in case? I think?
Speaker 3: I was like, I think we can figure out how
Speaker 3: to fake this to look real. We're not really going
Speaker 3: to fall off.
Speaker 7: And you know it because my friend I watched the
Speaker 7: episode last night with a buddy of mine and he
Speaker 7: and and he knows that I'm you know, like prepping
Speaker 7: for the recap. And he goes, and he goes, he goes,
Speaker 7: I need to know how bad that hurt.
Speaker 1: He goes, and I said, the pads on.
Speaker 5: Guys think that boobs like hurt more than they really.
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
Speaker 5: Don't you think, Hannah, that they get this idea that
Speaker 5: they're some correlation between like boobs and testicles.
Speaker 2: They're very different.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that they're bad or they think
Speaker 3: it's like they're they're junk that like boobs are like that.
Speaker 3: I think there's that confusion.
Speaker 2: Sensitive on that level.
Speaker 3: That's right. But I also think that we have trust
Speaker 3: that nobody's going to punch anybody, because I remember seasons
Speaker 3: later when I had to do the scene where I
Speaker 3: kick next you see kicks Snick in the dick, right,
Speaker 3: and I was like, we're gonna fake it, like there's
Speaker 3: this or I punch him. I punch him in the
Speaker 3: deck and in a bar. I remember that. And they
Speaker 3: asked Jake, They're like, do you want to cup? And
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, it's just a fake thing.
Speaker 3: And he was like, I want a cup and I
Speaker 3: was like, he's like just in case, I know neither
Speaker 3: Zoe or I wanted patting or protection cuts.
Speaker 5: Off to post production and the folly artists on this.
Speaker 5: This was like I I I can't say enough how
Speaker 5: much the the post production sound had to do with
Speaker 5: the comedy of the scene, and like it's a super
Speaker 5: funny scene that works and is written really well, directed
Speaker 5: really well. It's funny, but it doesn't work unless you
Speaker 5: have that like slap slap, slap Slappit there was no sound.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make a lot of it.
Speaker 5: Doesn't make any sound, Yeah, but the sound makes it
Speaker 5: just it just makes.
Speaker 1: It funny because I always thought boops had sound.
Speaker 6: And my my favorite part is it is which which
Speaker 6: was improvised. It just kind of came out in the moment.
Speaker 4: Was when you start going what you start yelling what
Speaker 4: at each other?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Because that's what guys to right when they're mad.
Speaker 3: That's right. We got brought up in that.
Speaker 2: What what what.
Speaker 3: The other weird memory that came flooding back to my
Speaker 3: mind is that I think they were setting up for
Speaker 3: the the boob Fight because we're doing it downtown, right,
Speaker 3: and it's like weird.
Speaker 2: It was a warehouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so gross. And I remember Liz was
Speaker 3: there and Josh was there, and you were and I
Speaker 3: was we were just hanging out and I feel like
Speaker 3: Liz just like lit up like a Christmas tree and
Speaker 3: you were standing there to Eszoey. I feel like, and
Speaker 3: it was we just gotten confirmation that Jamie Lee Curtis
Speaker 3: and Rob Reiner were going to play your parents. I
Speaker 3: remember that moment and I had to sit down. I
Speaker 3: was like, are you joking? That to me was just
Speaker 3: like the hugest casting of like these huge You were.
Speaker 5: Like, these are the sheakest wind chimes. These are the
Speaker 5: sheakest wind chimes. Are if anybody who gets that gets that?
Speaker 3: And I was, yes, I call my like, I called
Speaker 3: my parents. I was like, oh my gosh, like our show.
Speaker 3: I just felt like which was a great show and
Speaker 3: it was beloved. But I was like that just like
Speaker 3: elevated the whole thing. And I was going to be
Speaker 3: sitting in a room with these two incredible people and
Speaker 3: maybe they would come back and keep being the parents,
Speaker 3: which they did. But I remember that moment sitting up
Speaker 3: for a slat boob fight in a downtown wherehouse and
Speaker 3: hearing that these two huge, you know, movie people were
Speaker 3: going to join our show.
Speaker 7: Of excitement when you heard about them being cast versus
Speaker 7: when you heard about me being cast in the show.
Speaker 3: And now I know what they are.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, there's some really funny stuff that
Speaker 5: I loved, Uh the pops back with the like models
Speaker 5: and stuff like Eric talk about that, like just the
Speaker 5: flashback because I thought it was so funny they had them.
Speaker 4: There's the one table, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Like table table is flat?
Speaker 6: Yes, the table is flat. I can't I can't remember
Speaker 6: where we shot that. It's so funny little pops like
Speaker 6: building a set just for like one little apartment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, I remember because we shot it on
Speaker 3: the same day. We just like flipped it a little
Speaker 3: bit and we shot it on the same day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, did that would was was that girl that played
Speaker 6: the model? That was her only episode she was in,
Speaker 6: right or was she? Yeah?
Speaker 5: But there were all well yeah, and then the other
Speaker 5: girls who are the models in uh in the warehouse
Speaker 5: scene and were really funny and everybody like totally committed
Speaker 5: to this like model stereotype that yeah, yeah, in a
Speaker 5: funny way, like really being like the sidekick of sidekicks
Speaker 5: of Nadia, Yes.
Speaker 4: And just being terrible to Jets.
Speaker 2: Yes, monkey monkey dance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like that's.
Speaker 6: Always a fun thing for people to play. Is just
Speaker 6: like they're being terrible to just but they don't even realize.
Speaker 4: How terrible they're being.
Speaker 6: Like they're having the time of their lives and Jess
Speaker 6: is just like absolutely crushed by what they're doing to her.
Speaker 4: It's like a really fun tone to hit.
Speaker 7: There's a moment in this which I found it'd be
Speaker 7: very very interesting and weird at the same time.
Speaker 1: Well, just yes, is it? Ask the guys if you
Speaker 1: know once the guys, I.
Speaker 4: Know what this. I know exactly what you're gonna say.
Speaker 7: And she asked the guys. She's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 7: are you guys? Did you guys watch porn together again?
Speaker 4: Yeah? It's always so awkward, it's.
Speaker 1: So it's such a weird thing.
Speaker 7: I don't I have never done that. I'm gonna just
Speaker 7: say it now, Eric, have you.
Speaker 6: Done that and born with guy friend? No, that's a
Speaker 6: very private experience.
Speaker 4: No, that would be so weird. But it's so funny.
Speaker 6: I would love to know what, Like if Josh like, who,
Speaker 6: who's who pitched that.
Speaker 4: Exactly because it's such a funny minute.
Speaker 3: Text him right now and ask Josh if he's ever
Speaker 3: watched porn with a friend.
Speaker 5: The level of weirdness, the level of weirdness that the
Speaker 5: cookie brings up, is the level of weirdness that watching
Speaker 5: porn amongst friends would bring up. And that is a
Speaker 5: high level of weirdness. So I think it's a I
Speaker 5: think really it's a commentary on how weird the cookie
Speaker 5: made everybody.
Speaker 6: Well that can't Yeah, I love And then all the
Speaker 6: details that also come out about Schmidt, like aside from
Speaker 6: the cookie, the other things that he does that you
Speaker 6: never get to see, Like there's a joke about him
Speaker 6: doing turndown service, Like every night pillow he puts a
Speaker 6: chocolate on his pillow, Like you don't like the chocolate, No,
Speaker 6: I love the chocolate.
Speaker 2: They just eat themselves.
Speaker 4: Then and then you get to see a flashback.
Speaker 6: I think Nick and Schmidt's uh the first time they met.
Speaker 3: Right their origin story, Yeah, yeah, all of that talked with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Nick's got that mustache. He's like he looks like
Speaker 6: a deadhead. You know, he's like in a tied eye.
Speaker 6: He's got this weird mustache. I think he has a
Speaker 6: fanny pack on.
Speaker 4: I remember.
Speaker 6: What was really fun was their you know, their their
Speaker 6: dorm room that you got to see because it's the same.
Speaker 6: It was also one of the really really fun things
Speaker 6: for me about directing the show is like, oh, I'm
Speaker 6: like the first show I did was The Office, but
Speaker 6: then this show, it was like, oh, everyone's my age,
Speaker 6: Like I'm making a show, you know, I'm directing a show.
Speaker 4: About yeah, my age.
Speaker 6: So the college flashback, it's like, oh, this is when
Speaker 6: I was in college, and this dorm room looks like
Speaker 6: my dorm room y you know, like there was a
Speaker 6: fight club put like Nick had a fight club poster
Speaker 6: on the wall, and.
Speaker 4: You know, just getting to see some.
Speaker 2: Of those yeah things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how much did you get to inform like their
Speaker 3: wardrobe or that whole dynamic that kind of happened, or
Speaker 3: how Schmidt looked or was that all Liz?
Speaker 4: I think that was all.
Speaker 6: I think that was a lot of Liz, Like, you know,
Speaker 6: I had a little bit of input on just yeah,
Speaker 6: some of the some of the things in the room
Speaker 6: and what the room looked like. But I remember when
Speaker 6: we shot the scene, you know, there was a there
Speaker 6: was just a really long like there was so much
Speaker 6: improv in that we just kind of let those guys go.
Speaker 6: Like once you get you know, Schmits in that costume
Speaker 6: and like, yeah, they're just both in these like.
Speaker 5: A lot of inspiration, a lot of scope for the
Speaker 5: imagination there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I can't remember what exactly was scripted and
Speaker 6: what wasn't. But Schmid was eating hard ramen, like just
Speaker 6: the noodles, like crunching on ramen noodles.
Speaker 1: I've seen people do that weird.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, Nick's like throwing them in his mouth, but
Speaker 6: try to get him to catch them one.
Speaker 4: There was like a gag reel or something, or does
Speaker 4: it play during the.
Speaker 3: End credit credits body slammed?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, the body slam is actually in the episode.
Speaker 5: But but at the end they're they're like just there.
Speaker 4: Was just like so much gold.
Speaker 1: Throwing the food at his mouth. I think that's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was. There was so much, so
Speaker 4: much gold in that.
Speaker 5: Do you remember that that Cake Dude's part at the
Speaker 5: end was like a reshoot?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did not, I did, I was you weren't.
Speaker 5: There because I actually remember that, like and I will say,
Speaker 5: I actually believe this to be like a perfect episode,
Speaker 5: but that that piece they were like trying to figure
Speaker 5: out how to make the end work exactly so that
Speaker 5: all kind of came together, and that Jake really didn't
Speaker 5: like the cake dudes part, and that he talked about
Speaker 5: cake dudes for like years afterwards.
Speaker 3: He was like, and then it's.
Speaker 5: Just cake dudes, like he's cake dudes as a thing.
Speaker 5: But I remember we shot it really fast, like you
Speaker 5: weren't even there, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we shot it really fast.
Speaker 5: At the end of some like other episode, like when
Speaker 5: we were shooting another episode, they were just trying to find,
Speaker 5: you know, the ending that they could you know that
Speaker 5: would fit in you know, twenty one minutes and thirty
Speaker 5: five secs.
Speaker 6: I can't can you remember what the original ending was?
Speaker 6: It was a scene it was everyone around the table.
Speaker 6: It was around the table maybe or something, and that
Speaker 6: there was cake there.
Speaker 5: I don't remember, but yeah, it's funny. I don't remember
Speaker 5: what the original one was, but it probably.
Speaker 4: Might have it. You know, they used to send you
Speaker 4: a DVD, your director's cut.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, but it.
Speaker 5: Was probably too long because like, do you like everything
Speaker 5: lived and died by this, like twenty one minutes and
Speaker 5: thirty five seconds and everything was like that. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's still true and network TV today, but but like
Speaker 5: now we watch so many shows that are on streamers
Speaker 5: and you know, cable and everything. But but it's like
Speaker 5: it had to be over by then and and there
Speaker 5: was no wiggle room.
Speaker 6: I remember that this one was kind of tough in
Speaker 6: editing to get it down to time.
Speaker 2: I bet very much.
Speaker 1: Winston dialogue so much, the whole Winston storyline.
Speaker 4: There was a c story with Wednsday.
Speaker 7: Winston stories on the laptop and it gives why Sage
Speaker 7: advice from over the screen.
Speaker 6: But there was Yeah, I remember, I want to say
Speaker 6: that my director's cut was like seven minutes over time
Speaker 6: or something.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, really long.
Speaker 6: Because I because the so much episode real Estate was
Speaker 6: taken up by that by the car show, which is
Speaker 6: this big set piece. Yeah. Remember we talked about it,
Speaker 6: Zoe being like, you're like a real Lucille Ball moment.
Speaker 5: Yes, And I was so I loved how that, Like,
Speaker 5: I thought, it was so much fun to do and
Speaker 5: to work on. And I also have to give props
Speaker 5: to Monica Bronjer, who's my stunt double.
Speaker 2: Yes, She's absolutely.
Speaker 5: Amazing and like anything that was like unsafe for me
Speaker 5: to do, Like, she just was like so there and game,
Speaker 5: and she would like always like watch me get my
Speaker 5: body language right and then could be so funny and
Speaker 5: then do something totally dangerous at the same time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but that was such a fun sequence to work on.
Speaker 5: And I I.
Speaker 2: Actually I also.
Speaker 5: The two like car the car announcer, and then I
Speaker 5: actually know one of those guys who was like the
Speaker 5: car rob rhiness. He's really funny guy, but yeah, and
Speaker 5: then the other guy who's like announcing I don't remember
Speaker 5: that actor's name will have to have to get it,
Speaker 5: but they when he's announcing, he's he's like trying so
Speaker 5: hard to keep it professional, but I'm so unprofessionally my
Speaker 5: eyes like like uh.
Speaker 4: Uh heavy eyelash.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was such a funny thing that like the
Speaker 6: eyelashes were too heavy for your own. Like Jess is
Speaker 6: so her element as a model that like she can't
Speaker 6: even handle like she has weak eyelids.
Speaker 5: Weak eyelids. But it is true because I actually know
Speaker 5: friends that like don't wear makeup at all, and if
Speaker 5: you try to put makeup on them, they're so confused.
Speaker 5: You know, it's like it really throws Stump off their game.
Speaker 5: But it's also like the heels too. They also put
Speaker 5: me in the highest possible.
Speaker 3: Doesn't make a comment to about it. He's like, what's
Speaker 3: on your face?
Speaker 2: Yeah, your face something?
Speaker 4: So I just.
Speaker 5: Actor that played the okay, Yeah, well he was great too.
Speaker 5: You know a lot of really great people in this episode.
Speaker 3: I just got a text him, Josh, I'm about the
Speaker 3: watching porn with your uh friend platonically? So I said,
Speaker 3: who pitched the watching porn together with a platonic friend? Joke?
Speaker 3: Did this happen to someone? And he goes, I don't
Speaker 3: remember who pitched it. It's a good point though, And
Speaker 3: I said, did this happen to you ever? You know,
Speaker 3: he's got to ask, and he said, no, it has not.
Speaker 3: But it's funny and I feel like, you see it
Speaker 3: referenced in movies. Guys will be like, let's go watch
Speaker 3: porn and it sounds horrible.
Speaker 6: I can't not imagine that being an enjoyable experience.
Speaker 7: Unless your friends at porn star and you're just critiquing
Speaker 7: no works.
Speaker 2: One does you have to?
Speaker 5: Yeah, are there porn critics like.
Speaker 1: They have the award show? I think they got the
Speaker 1: award show. I've never heard.
Speaker 6: The thing about it is though, like when you know,
Speaker 6: if watching porn like getting turned on or something, is
Speaker 6: like a vulnerable moment, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 6: you can't control it. And I think, like, if that's
Speaker 6: what the awkwardness is about, it's like, oh, I feel
Speaker 6: too exposed.
Speaker 3: Like credit music.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, it's like a sixth grader getting like a
Speaker 6: boner in sweatpants.
Speaker 2: Any questions like that just brought back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: My daughter is in fifth grade, my eldest daughter, and
Speaker 6: uh yeah, it's like the year when like the sex
Speaker 6: ad and stuff starts to happen.
Speaker 4: Oh, no, she's comes home from school. She's like, Dad,
Speaker 4: have you heard of a boner? Do you know what
Speaker 4: that is?
Speaker 6: A kid had a boner six grade?
Speaker 3: Did they have more like trapper keeper so that they
Speaker 3: could just if they walk down the hall.
Speaker 6: I'm like, if that sixth grader knew that you were
Speaker 6: at home telling your dad he had a bone at school,
Speaker 6: he would never forget it for the rest.
Speaker 4: Of his life.
Speaker 2: Die he would die.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's like one of those memories from inside out
Speaker 6: that like turns into the core memories.
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, do you know what time it is?
Speaker 9: It's meme alert timemable moments. Every once in a while,
Speaker 9: there is something that will happen in a scene of
Speaker 9: a movie or a TV show that will shatter the
Speaker 9: walls of said show, something that will stand out in
Speaker 9: a project so much so that fans will refer to
Speaker 9: that scene and not even have seen the show. Now,
Speaker 9: in this episode, we've stumbled across another iconic moment in
Speaker 9: New Girl history, and we've already spoken about it. This
Speaker 9: one is truly a fan favorite. Gave me Cookie, Got
Speaker 9: you Cookie? Now, that meme is a shorthand for wanting
Speaker 9: to express fond emotions but being unable to do so
Speaker 9: in a straightforward manner. So let's talk specifically about the
Speaker 9: filming of that scene and some of the things that
Speaker 9: you remember. The type of cookie that was apparently that's
Speaker 9: a very special.
Speaker 2: Cookie, black and white cookie.
Speaker 7: Black and white cookie. I thought maybe he would have
Speaker 7: given the cookie to me, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a black and white cookie that he
Speaker 6: bit into a star of David. So it's like, the
Speaker 6: gesture is it's just such so misguided. The sentiment is there,
Speaker 6: but he went about it the wrong way.
Speaker 7: Now, I remember, Zoe, you said that it was that
Speaker 7: that was scripted, That wasn't an improvised moment scripted?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all scripted.
Speaker 5: And I remember specifically Jake in because people have asked
Speaker 5: about that that moment a lot in like, you know,
Speaker 5: I remember Q and As, and I remember people saying,
Speaker 5: like people always asking if that moment was improvised, and
Speaker 5: always Jake Johnson was like, no, that's Josh Melmoth all
Speaker 5: the way, who is by the way, when we started
Speaker 5: New Girle, he was a junior writer, like he had
Speaker 5: only I think done been on one other show. And
Speaker 5: like first I remember it was like I was like,
Speaker 5: this guy is hilarious.
Speaker 2: And just so fun.
Speaker 5: And like like game, you know, he's just he's a
Speaker 5: fun he's a fun writer to work with.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Have you guys seen this meme go around? Have you
Speaker 1: have you seen this eric at all?
Speaker 6: I have seen I've seen it in the wild a
Speaker 6: couple of times, and.
Speaker 4: I'm always like tickled to see that pop up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean I think.
Speaker 6: Quite a few times I've seen it pop up and yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh my god, I can't believe it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I remember that the cookie thing at the table read
Speaker 6: killing Like I remember everyone Fox and twentieth and I
Speaker 6: remember everyone just saying like, no notes, you know, like
Speaker 6: after the table read, you discuss everything they give notes
Speaker 6: on on, you know here little things you know to
Speaker 6: change in the script or to plus up and focus
Speaker 6: on a little bit more. And I remember it was
Speaker 6: like the gimme cookie, got you cookie? The cookie thing?
Speaker 6: We no, no, it's excited to see it.
Speaker 3: And also like set the foundations so deeply for the
Speaker 3: rest of this series, for the audience to understand how
Speaker 3: deeply these men love each other, you know, in a
Speaker 3: spoken way like Jake had to say it, you know,
Speaker 3: Nick's character had to say it. And I just feel
Speaker 3: like that was something that just set up so much
Speaker 3: comedy then and so much stuff that was just understood
Speaker 3: by the audience and for the rest of the series,
Speaker 3: which is why I feel so important to the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to see Nick get vulnerable in a way like that,
Speaker 6: like he makes fun of Schmidt for crying earlier in
Speaker 6: the episode, and you know, then then to then he
Speaker 6: starts crying. You know, it's like such a great moment
Speaker 6: aside from being hilarious, it's like just works on an
Speaker 6: emotional level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, such a great scene.
Speaker 3: Should we dive into a little True American?
Speaker 5: Yes, we're back and it's time for True American regular listeners. No,
Speaker 5: we've switched up the game a bit when we have
Speaker 5: a guest for the show and now we try to
Speaker 5: get the truth of their experience on the show.
Speaker 2: Eric, are you ready?
Speaker 5: In episode one of season two, Schmidt decides to throw
Speaker 5: a party after he gets his penis cast off to
Speaker 5: announce he's ready to have sex again, which just saying.
Speaker 2: That is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: And the guest list includes a writer from Crank Anchors
Speaker 5: was that writer you? And would you attend Schmid's party?
Speaker 6: That writer was not me? Unfortunate and sure, I love
Speaker 6: a party. I will Who is the Crank Anchors writer?
Speaker 5: I remember this episode and I watched it recently, but
Speaker 5: I don't remember them saying I think they he said
Speaker 5: the right, the writing staff from Crank Anchors. I think so.
Speaker 5: They were always those like lists that were funny. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you would go to Schmidt's Penis cast On.
Speaker 4: Party?
Speaker 2: I mean, how well would you have to know Schmidt
Speaker 2: to attend?
Speaker 6: I mean I would go if I barely knew him.
Speaker 6: I like putting myself in situations that will yield a
Speaker 6: story that I can tell me too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so funny.
Speaker 5: A lot of people have this are like, have so
Speaker 5: much social anxiety, and I'm not. It's not that I don't.
Speaker 5: But I love an awkward moment, like I love if
Speaker 5: I can have an awkward moment, like I'm excited about it.
Speaker 5: And so if I get invited to a party where
Speaker 5: I know nobody, I kind of am like.
Speaker 6: Ooh, yeah, yeah, i'd be I'd love to be a
Speaker 6: fly on the wall at that party, you know, sort
Speaker 6: of yeah, in the corner on my phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: There's low expectations of you when you're that guy at
Speaker 3: the party.
Speaker 1: I can't be at an awkward party. I can't.
Speaker 7: I hate awkward and uncomfortable situations. I met Julia Luis
Speaker 7: Dreyfus once at a party and she was talking to me.
Speaker 7: We were having conversation, but because because I was so
Speaker 7: nervous around her and uncomfortable because I had never met
Speaker 7: her before that, I stopped talking to her and turned
Speaker 7: around and walked away because I panicked. I panicked. I
Speaker 7: was like, she's going to find out that I'm stupid,
Speaker 7: Like she's gonna know that I'm an idiot.
Speaker 1: And then I just left. And my sister's like there
Speaker 1: was like why would you watch? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 7: She was talking to me, and you know, there's like
Speaker 7: a little like a little stagnant part of the conversation
Speaker 7: and now it's your turn to participate, and your brain's.
Speaker 5: Like get out, get out, get out.
Speaker 2: Your flight or fight started going.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that's not horrible, because it's a great story. Actually,
Speaker 5: something embarrassing just happened to me, and I was like,
Speaker 5: very kind of actually kind of excited to maybe tell
Speaker 5: you guys about it. And it just feels like a
Speaker 5: good moment that I was, like in my neighborhood. I
Speaker 5: walked past the coffee shop and I saw Don Cheetle,
Speaker 5: who I know and he's like one of my favorite
Speaker 5: actors ever and so like I'm still starstruck by him
Speaker 5: even though I've known him a long time. And I
Speaker 5: was like, I saw him, I got so excited.
Speaker 2: I was like, done, it's so in. He was really nice.
Speaker 5: And then I walked away. And then next time, I
Speaker 5: was like near a mirror. I like looked in the
Speaker 5: mirror and I realized that I'd gotten dressed in the
Speaker 5: dark and I was wearing like a sweatshirt and that
Speaker 5: i'd take my kids to school. I'd like got dressed
Speaker 5: really early in the dark. Jonathan got home like late
Speaker 5: from New York, and I was like didn't want to
Speaker 5: wake them up, so I grabbed a sweatter and it
Speaker 5: had like stains all over, and then the kids had
Speaker 5: like spilled stuff. So then I had to like write it,
Speaker 5: like write an email to Don Chia, like hey, so
Speaker 5: like don't judge me.
Speaker 3: Well I'm okay.
Speaker 5: I felt really good about that like running into but
Speaker 5: I might have had like crazy like coffee stains.
Speaker 3: All over me. So anyway, there you go.
Speaker 2: When you meet your heroes, sometimes.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 6: My big I get anxious that people aren't going to
Speaker 6: remember who I am.
Speaker 2: Me too, Zoe, It's Zoe Hi, Zoey Nation.
Speaker 6: Now remember, Yeah, here's what we here's how we know
Speaker 6: each other. And it's like, of course, I like, I've
Speaker 6: done that a couple of times. People are like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I know, I know who you are.
Speaker 1: I know you want to.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, but it is good to remind people out of
Speaker 5: context because there's so many people people like a lot
Speaker 5: of times, like people see so many people like I
Speaker 5: always say it just says my dad used to always
Speaker 5: do that. He'd be like, Caleb, it's Caleb like and
Speaker 5: it was good. I could tell, like, you know, it's
Speaker 5: good to, you know, remind people because of out of
Speaker 5: context problem.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, because I'm not gonna lee. Even people introduce
Speaker 7: themselves to me, and we've met a million times. I
Speaker 7: most of the time I do not know their name.
Speaker 3: I just forget names all the time. I'll know that
Speaker 3: I'll go like, yeah, what's up, Yeah, Mark or Mike,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty good if I know people, you know, like,
Speaker 5: but uh, but sometimes you just don't know people well
Speaker 5: enough to know their name, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Eric, we got one last little segment
Speaker 3: here for you.
Speaker 5: Okay, Nick's Box, Knicks Box is brought to you by Hyundai.
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Speaker 3: So welcome back to this segment where we crawl into
Speaker 3: the back of Nick's closet and pull out the memories
Speaker 3: that the cast and crew of New Girl have kept
Speaker 3: hidden for years. You've done a few episodes of New Girl.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite all time favorite memory from working
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 6: Oh boy, okay, give me a second to think, give
Speaker 6: me a second thing about this one.
Speaker 4: You know. I think.
Speaker 6: It's probably the scene in the last after the final
Speaker 6: episode that I directed. It's this it's shooting this train,
Speaker 6: this scene where Terren Tarn is rambling on about trains
Speaker 6: and improvising that was something where.
Speaker 2: He improvised funny, like a ton of.
Speaker 6: Just facts about trains. He's like just a dud of
Speaker 6: a boyfriend of like a guy that just starts dating
Speaker 6: and and yeah, so that's the episode. She loves his
Speaker 6: parents by Julie Haggerty and Henry wink hen are like
Speaker 6: the best loveliest people in the world. And it's just
Speaker 6: this like awkward dinner where she's like, gotta break it
Speaker 6: off and it's like and yeah, I remember just uh yeah,
Speaker 6: him just going on and on and on about trains
Speaker 6: and and everyone just like so dying, dying, laughing.
Speaker 7: Dirk he's so funny and asked him if he I said,
Speaker 7: I said, are those real facts about trains?
Speaker 4: He said, no, I mean, great improviser.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so we do this segment called Where's the Bear.
Speaker 1: Bear?
Speaker 3: Because there is this big fan rumor that there's a
Speaker 3: bear in every single episode you have directed multiple episodes.
Speaker 3: Did Liz or any writer producer ever tell you, we
Speaker 3: just need to make sure that we have a bear
Speaker 3: somewhere in an episode, A little toy bear, a bear
Speaker 3: on the wall, ever? Said you, Oh my.
Speaker 6: Gosh, I I'm not sure about the bear thing. I'm
Speaker 6: I think I sort of. I think there's something some
Speaker 6: bear reference in in that in like the Latvia scene.
Speaker 1: I think there was a lot Via episode.
Speaker 3: Because in this episode there's a bear in Winston's room.
Speaker 3: So the fan theory checks out for this episode.
Speaker 4: Okay, it checks out for this one.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I was told about the bear
Speaker 6: in this episode.
Speaker 3: But see, it's amazing.
Speaker 4: If it's there, it's there, possible.
Speaker 3: If it's there, it's there, you can't see. This is
Speaker 3: a point for me. Thank you, Eric, Thank you.
Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Eric.
Speaker 5: We might have to have you back to talk about
Speaker 5: some of some of your other episodes if you're.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would, I would. I would love to. There's
Speaker 6: I mean, there's so many fun memories. Yeah, the next
Speaker 6: one I did is like a flashback episode.
Speaker 4: There's more.
Speaker 6: There's Schmid in the at the Christmas Tree lot Winston
Speaker 6: in Latvia. Yes, yeah, so there's Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 6: of really really fun stuff. I would love, absolutely love to.
Speaker 5: Okay, that would be amazing because this was such so
Speaker 5: much fun. Thank you for thanks for taking the time
Speaker 5: and and visiting, revisiting, and.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. It was it was great to
Speaker 4: see all of you again.
Speaker 3: So nice see you.
Speaker 1: It's such a pleasure to see you, brov.
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