Speaker 1: Should we do the entire episode today in bad British
Speaker 1: accents and just never mention it.
Speaker 2: I think that'd be funny. We just won't even bring
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 1: That was a right good episode today, wasn't it like
Speaker 1: just offer Super Company?
Speaker 2: Even good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Feeney was a whole It was great steps.
Speaker 2: We won't bring it up.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, hello, brought me twelve.
Speaker 2: This is right? Is strong? That's right?
Speaker 4: Danielle official, Dane official, and I'm wild and the other
Speaker 4: guy right, Roger happy to be today, not an h said.
Speaker 2: In the next hour.
Speaker 3: So I have a question for you guys. I, as
Speaker 3: you may or may not know, we had to We
Speaker 3: had a beautiful little two day trip.
Speaker 2: To Disneyland planned that needed.
Speaker 3: To get canceled at the last second so that Jensen
Speaker 3: could go in for emergency gall bladder removal surgery.
Speaker 2: And it got me thinking.
Speaker 3: We talk a lot about trips we've been on or
Speaker 3: fun trips we've taken.
Speaker 2: Do you guys have like a worst vacation ever? Multiple
Speaker 2: hormal vacations as a kid.
Speaker 5: The way you said that was like, do you have
Speaker 5: a good vacation that you can remember? Okay, I started
Speaker 5: the contemporary, Like, I mean, this summer was brutal. I've
Speaker 5: talked about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6: It was just way too much, six weeks on the
Speaker 6: road in an RV. But when I look back at
Speaker 6: it now, I'm like, oh we did we went whitewater rafting,
Speaker 6: like we had so many great experiences. It was just
Speaker 6: exhausting and like I came back, you know, traumatized. Right
Speaker 6: when I was a kid, we went backpacking in Yosemite
Speaker 6: and everything went wrong. My parents hadn't had planned. We
Speaker 6: we got burrows animals to carry to carry our equipment
Speaker 6: because we were backpacking and I was only like eight,
Speaker 6: and my parents were like, oh, it'll be easier, we'll
Speaker 6: have We'll get these animals to you know, like they're
Speaker 6: they're basically donkeys to carry your your gear so we
Speaker 6: don't have to pack as much. And these where we
Speaker 6: got them didn't have Like it was everything was a disaster.
Speaker 6: Everything went wrong and nothing was according to plan, and
Speaker 6: these animals refused to walk for us. So my mom
Speaker 6: was like in the Semite valley, polling on this burrow
Speaker 6: and all these like tourists are taking pictures of well
Speaker 6: across a bridge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we only made it two nights into
Speaker 2: Yosemite and then my parents are like, forget it, We're
Speaker 2: turning around. And when we went home and we have
Speaker 2: such different vacation stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but no, I've been thinking about it. We know,
Speaker 1: we took the same trip every year when I was
Speaker 1: a kid growing up. We always went to Santabal Island, Florida.
Speaker 1: We did that for, you know, our week vacation that
Speaker 1: we always had. It was always fun. And I'm one
Speaker 1: of those guys it's and I don't want to jinx myself,
Speaker 1: but even if everything's going horribly wrong, I can still
Speaker 1: find the comedy and the fun in it.
Speaker 2: So usually, like you know, Sue and I will take trips.
Speaker 1: To Europe every once in a while and maybe everything
Speaker 1: isn't perfect, or you know, we at one time we're
Speaker 1: going to go on a wine tasting that then we
Speaker 1: read the thing and it was starting at like eight
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, and we're like, why are we
Speaker 1: going to be drinking wine? And then the van pulled
Speaker 1: up to get us, and it was a van. There's
Speaker 1: like fifteen people in a six person van, and I
Speaker 1: just remember going getting in there and she was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not getting in that, so we were like, no,
Speaker 1: pass us along, but we always find the comedy in it.
Speaker 1: So no, I've never had like one of those. And
Speaker 1: I've just jinxed it because we're about to travel again.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure that something horrible, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: losing bag, stuff like that will happen. But I haven't
Speaker 1: had one of those stereotypically really bad vacations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3: I also think like for writer, he's talking about his
Speaker 3: summer this being brutal, like he's already able to look
Speaker 3: back on it and be like, actually, in hindsight, a
Speaker 3: large part.
Speaker 2: Of it was fun. It was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jensen and I took a terrible vacation to Thailand.
Speaker 2: It was truly. You talked about this in your wedding
Speaker 2: vol It was our.
Speaker 3: Wedding, Yeah, it was. It was a large subject of
Speaker 3: our wedding vows. And yet it's maybe my favorite vacation
Speaker 3: I've ever been on. I don't I don't want to
Speaker 3: do it again because it wasn't good, but like the
Speaker 3: memory about it, well, so we had heard from everybody
Speaker 3: that they that Thailand was they wanted tourists, and that
Speaker 3: they'd be really happy to see you, and we just
Speaker 3: didn't feel that way. We felt like no one wanted
Speaker 3: us there, and we were like should we leave? Like
Speaker 3: I don't understand. We would ask people a question about like.
Speaker 2: Where did you go? Did you just go to Bangkok?
Speaker 2: Or no, Well we started in Bangkok.
Speaker 3: We had two days in Bangkok, which is forty six
Speaker 3: hours too many in Bangkok.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's not Bangkok's amazing. No, it's not.
Speaker 3: No time in Bangkok. You do not need to spend
Speaker 3: any time there.
Speaker 6: Time my Thai experience. I showed up in Thailand in
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety. I flew to meet friends who were living
Speaker 6: there for the summer. I travel, I left with forty
Speaker 6: eight hour notice. I decided to go to Thailand, ended
Speaker 6: up on a motorcycle getting offered drugs.
Speaker 2: I have a great story about Tyler. Anyway, I had
Speaker 2: a great time, but it.
Speaker 6: Was completely like on my own, like no plan, no
Speaker 6: idea where I was going, and had the best best summer.
Speaker 2: It was so much fun. Yeah, that was not our experience.
Speaker 2: We did not enjoy it.
Speaker 3: We had two full days in Bangkok over New Year's
Speaker 3: so and you know we're we're not big New Year's people.
Speaker 3: We're also not big party people, uh, and so we
Speaker 3: were both we were asleep by like nine. We woke
Speaker 3: up shortly after midnight, looked at each other and we're like, hey,
Speaker 3: happy New Year.
Speaker 2: Let's get out of Bangkok. And then we went up north.
Speaker 2: We went to change My.
Speaker 3: We did actually really amazing, gorgeous we love We did
Speaker 3: enjoy Change Mine.
Speaker 2: We liked it there, but you know, we went.
Speaker 3: I normally really will plan a vacation, like what are
Speaker 3: we going to do every day? Kind of at least
Speaker 3: have like a really everyday sort of loose idea itinerary.
Speaker 3: And for this one, I was like, let's just wander
Speaker 3: around and see what we see and find what we
Speaker 3: find and just kind of immerse ourselves in the culture.
Speaker 3: And that was a terrible idea. It was just a
Speaker 3: truly terrible idea. And yeah, we just did not It
Speaker 3: was not for us. We did not enjoy it.
Speaker 6: Thailand is so friendly in my experience, like it was
Speaker 6: the most touristy friendly place I've ever been.
Speaker 3: And that's what everyone had trouble we ended up figuring
Speaker 3: out was that it depends on when you go. When
Speaker 3: we were there, they had just had like a regime change,
Speaker 3: and the people were actually very unhappy and the they
Speaker 3: were like truly living in very extreme poverty that they
Speaker 3: had not been living in before. And and it was
Speaker 3: like they were like, oh yeah, no, right now it's
Speaker 3: different than it ever used to be.
Speaker 2: And that is how we felt.
Speaker 3: It was like this this I mean, it was a
Speaker 3: it's a it's very hard for me to enjoy a
Speaker 3: vacation when I feel like the people are truly suffering.
Speaker 3: And like I'm like, maybe this tourism, tourism, you want
Speaker 3: it there because you want to bring money into the place.
Speaker 3: But then also it felt like very much like the
Speaker 3: it was just I don't know, it just I felt
Speaker 3: awful there and I anyway, long story short, we did
Speaker 3: not enjoy Thailand, and yet my favorite vacation of all
Speaker 3: time wed We bonded in incredibly. We had different times
Speaker 3: where we both broke down, I just want to go home,
Speaker 3: but they were at totally different times of the trip,
Speaker 3: and so it was like we were able to, you know,
Speaker 3: give each other a pep talk to continue the vacation.
Speaker 2: Go buckers, buck up, buckers, You're gonna make it.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 6: I think that that's the key, Like I mean for
Speaker 6: me now with my wife, like she wants to plan everything.
Speaker 6: She wants to like book everything ahead of time and
Speaker 6: like know where we're staying.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, because I was.
Speaker 6: Always flying by the seat of my pants, which you know,
Speaker 6: like I've talked about in my child who was not great,
Speaker 6: it was very stressful. But I think as an adult
Speaker 6: it can be really fun to do that. So we're
Speaker 6: always trying to find the balance.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: It's like I want to plan ahead, but I also
Speaker 6: want a little bit of freedom, because it's true, like
Speaker 6: those disasters are the times that you come together or
Speaker 6: that you know, end up memory remembering for the rest
Speaker 6: of your life.
Speaker 1: Like those Yeah, we plan, we plan, we plan, and
Speaker 1: it's not down to the minute. But there's things we
Speaker 1: want to do in every city, Like for instance, we
Speaker 1: want to hit the best restaurants we can, So we
Speaker 1: plan ahead and we book the tables in those restaurants
Speaker 1: that we want to go to, because we know in
Speaker 1: London or in Paris or any of these places in
Speaker 1: Italy they're going to book up. So here's the restaurants
Speaker 1: we're going to go to at such and such a time.
Speaker 2: We love this thing. We found called with locals.
Speaker 1: So with locals, as you go to these cities and
Speaker 1: you get some kid who's twenty five, twenty six, who's
Speaker 1: you know, a student usually who will meet you somewhere
Speaker 1: and we'll walk it around to all the best places.
Speaker 1: It's like taking a walking tour of the city, but
Speaker 1: you're not with a group of people. It's just the
Speaker 1: two of you and one guide and they you can
Speaker 1: figure out which one of the tours you want, so
Speaker 1: you can do an architecture tour, you can do a
Speaker 1: shopping tour, you can do bars and restaurants, you can
Speaker 1: do so it's we love hitting that stuff up in
Speaker 1: every kind of city we go to. And then we
Speaker 1: usually take like a free day. We're we're gonna sleep in,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do whatever we kind of want to do.
Speaker 1: But we like to we like to know what we're doing,
Speaker 1: like to use our time. We also, the older we're
Speaker 1: getting our big fans of doing one place at a time.
Speaker 1: So it's like you get to a hotel and you
Speaker 1: get to park your stuff there. It's not we're here
Speaker 1: for two days and then we're on the train, and
Speaker 1: then we're here for three days and then we're on
Speaker 1: the train and then we're here.
Speaker 2: We would like to here's a hotel.
Speaker 1: We're gonna explore this city for four or five days,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go home.
Speaker 2: We're big fans of that now. Anyway, welcome Tou Pond
Speaker 2: meets World. I'm Daniel Fishl, I'm Rider Strong, and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 3: So today we are here to recap season three, episode eighteen,
Speaker 3: Life Lessons. It originally aired February twenty third, nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3: The synopsis tensions run high as exam week looms near.
Speaker 3: When mister Feenie refuses to alter the exam schedule, a
Speaker 3: group of thugs trash his house. It was directed by
Speaker 3: Jeff McCracken. It was written by Jeff C.
Speaker 2: Sherman. What did you guys think? Bizarre episode?
Speaker 1: Actually it was bizarre, I actually, and we'll get into it,
Speaker 1: other than a completely unnecessary and useless best story that
Speaker 1: just should not have been there for any reason whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Anytime Bill is driving the story, I'm in yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it was cool to have a Feenie episode,
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: Finally, the thugs in the leather a new set of
Speaker 1: thous It's so ridiculous and the bat story shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been there at all.
Speaker 2: But anytime I can watch Bill Act, I'm one hundred
Speaker 2: percent it is super interesting.
Speaker 6: I wonder if this pitch originated with the regular bullies,
Speaker 6: like because there's three guys, there's yep, there's three dudes.
Speaker 6: Introduced Patrick Renner, by the way, I didn't remember it
Speaker 6: was on our show, Like, yeah, he was sometimes you
Speaker 6: Switch on our show, did you know? I don't forgot
Speaker 6: that I knew I remembered him. I mean obviously I
Speaker 6: knew him, but I didn't realize he was ever on
Speaker 6: our show.
Speaker 2: It was so weird. I was like, what he didn't
Speaker 2: even speak for the first.
Speaker 3: Like three Like what I actually was wondering through halfway
Speaker 3: through the episode?
Speaker 2: Was he a background actor on the show?
Speaker 1: Like he didn't speak for someone I thought I knew
Speaker 1: he was on the show. I thought when I saw him,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is the one that Ryder
Speaker 1: must have where he met originally.
Speaker 6: Because I had already done Summertime Switch after the first season,
Speaker 6: so I had already known him and hung out with
Speaker 6: him and like we've been friends, like we'd hung out,
Speaker 6: But I completely forgot that he was ever on Boy
Speaker 6: Mets World, the other guy, Aaron Metchik Is there's an
Speaker 6: interesting story. He's not the main bullies, the other like sidekick.
Speaker 6: He was my pen pal when I was nine years
Speaker 6: old and lay Miz because he was in a touring
Speaker 6: company of Lei Miz, so he was Camvroche and he
Speaker 6: was the same age. So at the same time that
Speaker 6: he that I was performing Laymz in San Francisco, he
Speaker 6: was doing it in Washington, d C. On a tour,
Speaker 6: and so we would we would send letters to each other,
Speaker 6: like we found out that these other yeah, so like
Speaker 6: Larissa and me and like the other kids that were
Speaker 6: doing leay Miz would have we were pen pals with the.
Speaker 2: Other Layman's kids.
Speaker 6: And then we eventually got we I eventually met each
Speaker 6: other after we had finished doing the show, and I
Speaker 6: saw him perform lay Miz because he was still doing
Speaker 6: it after I had quit.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, and then.
Speaker 6: He ended up guests starring on Boy Meets World. And
Speaker 6: I remember this week hanging out with him. I remember
Speaker 6: driving him home one night with Rachel was in my car.
Speaker 6: So it's the three of us, and but I don't
Speaker 6: think i've seen him since so this might have been
Speaker 6: the last time I saw him.
Speaker 2: So you saw you saw him perform in the role
Speaker 2: you did? Yeah, who was who was better? I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously no, I don't obviously you know.
Speaker 6: I was never a good singer, so I was never
Speaker 6: a good Gavroche when it came to singing. But it Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean I remember liking his performance.
Speaker 2: He was great. It was super fun. I really enjoyed
Speaker 2: this episode. I really liked it.
Speaker 3: I think the B storyline is crazy, yeah, and just
Speaker 3: unnecessarily bad.
Speaker 6: The B storyline just comes out of nowhere, and I
Speaker 6: was like, I literally thought I had missed.
Speaker 2: The first scene of me is so weird.
Speaker 6: I think they just like, I think they rewrote this
Speaker 6: episode last man or something weird happened it.
Speaker 2: Oh was it? Let's do a B story where Eric
Speaker 2: dates Amy's friend. Yeah, And it's.
Speaker 1: Also I we talk about them writing from life for
Speaker 1: writer and I always dated older women.
Speaker 2: I mean I think they started writing to I think
Speaker 2: that's what it was. I mean because although, who were
Speaker 2: you dating at this time?
Speaker 1: I I might have been with Jill at this time. No,
Speaker 1: I couldn't have been. She was so Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know, but it was pre love, so
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure who it was, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was just so I like you writer.
Speaker 1: I was like, did I we like hopped in the
Speaker 1: middle of this storyline?
Speaker 2: I missed that's first scene with her. I was like, what.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you guys keep referencing things that happened off camera,
Speaker 6: and I was like, did I miss I literally rewound
Speaker 6: I was I missed the scene where Yeah, so I
Speaker 6: think it was just it's just a poor beginning to
Speaker 6: that storyline. She's amazing, she's great, and I remember an
Speaker 6: actor God remember her? And so when she does that
Speaker 6: take when she looks at the the picture and realizes
Speaker 6: who you are, Yes, it was such a great acting bait.
Speaker 6: I was like, this woman's incredible.
Speaker 2: She was she was great. No, I remember her specifically,
Speaker 2: but we'll get we'll get into all.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, okay, so guest starring Lisa Aki or Aky,
Speaker 3: that is the woman we're talking about as Brenda Marsh
Speaker 3: she would have later. She would later appear on shows
Speaker 3: Fraser Time, Cop Sliders, and three episodes of The Sentinel.
Speaker 3: Ian Bowen as Denny. He has worked steadily since the
Speaker 3: nineties and now currently plays Ryan on Yellowstone, one of
Speaker 3: TV's biggest shows. Aaron Michael Metchik as Jake, so Michael
Speaker 3: Jacobs knew him from The Torkal Sens where he played
Speaker 3: Steven Torklsen.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3: And Patrick Renna as Kyle. Another Sandlot alum, joins the cast.
Speaker 3: He played Ham in the movie and is now very
Speaker 3: very good on TikTok. If you guys are ever on
Speaker 3: TikTok oh, Yeah, he's incredible on TikTok. And then we
Speaker 3: have Anastacia Horne. She returns as Christy, which is very
Speaker 3: rare for Boy Meets World, a small female character who
Speaker 3: has come back with the same name. Yeah, she was
Speaker 3: in What I Meant to Say, where Corey told Topanga
Speaker 3: he loved her. She's the one who became clingy and
Speaker 3: forced Eric to say it too. You may know her
Speaker 3: from Kids Incorporated before she was on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 2: Okay, I d s oh, looks like we made Sorry,
Speaker 2: oh kids Incorporated, it's incorporated names. Yeah course, sorry. I
Speaker 2: didn't know that very much Kids Incorporated growing up, I didn't. Okay.
Speaker 2: I think maybe I was a little too young for it,
Speaker 2: were you maybe? Maybe, maybe that was.
Speaker 1: I think that was one of those shows, like The
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse Club, that they kept doing different versions of
Speaker 1: over the years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we start our recap in the school hallway, Corey, Sean,
Speaker 3: and Topanga stumble upon a teacher hanging up the final
Speaker 3: exam schedule. Corey is worried he didn't see it coming.
Speaker 3: Topanga is panicking. Three in one day, Sean reads on
Speaker 3: English chemistry and history with only ten minutes in between.
Speaker 2: That's not enough time to study.
Speaker 3: I thought, is a really funny Sean joke that that's
Speaker 3: where you find all your time to study for the exams.
Speaker 2: And to pack us back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just welcome back, Welcome back to Panga,
Speaker 3: and I loved that was. I think one of the
Speaker 3: things I liked about this episode. Although there are some
Speaker 3: weird little critiques I'll mention as we go through, but
Speaker 3: one of the things I loved is that this was
Speaker 3: one of the things I have liked in the past
Speaker 3: when to Panga has been there, just seeing her as
Speaker 3: one of the gang, not tied to how she pertains
Speaker 3: to Penga, Corey's girlfriend.
Speaker 6: She's just one of the three of us, like you know,
Speaker 6: taking the stand at the end I thought was great.
Speaker 6: It was like, oh, this is the trio. It felt like, yeah,
Speaker 6: that was nice.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 3: There were some odd choices to still exclude me, which
Speaker 3: i'll i'll talk about, but overall felt really nice, like
Speaker 3: felt really nice to be there. So Tapega says, do
Speaker 3: not even try to call me for the next two weeks.
Speaker 3: I will be in Communicado, and I break Did you
Speaker 3: see me?
Speaker 2: I missed it. She's walking away, she's laughing. I can't
Speaker 2: give you. I can't look Ben in the eye. It's
Speaker 2: a joke between you and Ben, I think, because you
Speaker 2: say yes and she is losing it. I am just
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you noticed that. I watched it twice, like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, it's so funny.
Speaker 3: I totally break uh to Peanga leaves, Sean says, wow,
Speaker 3: that's guts. We're studying and she's off to Mexico. The
Speaker 3: crowd of kids around Corey and Shawn all grown about
Speaker 3: the schedule, and Corey assures them, if we devote the
Speaker 3: next two weeks to studying in the library.
Speaker 2: We got no problem. And just in time, we get
Speaker 2: an optical flip.
Speaker 3: The camera cuts to Corey and Sean various locations with
Speaker 3: their unopened books and their laps not studying, and they're
Speaker 3: at home watching TV, at Turner's watching TV, at Chubby's
Speaker 3: watching TV.
Speaker 2: Job has a TV. Suddenly that's where you go for
Speaker 2: everything in this town. It does make.
Speaker 3: Sense that Chubby's would be the sports bar burger place
Speaker 3: that like that they would have a TV for that
Speaker 3: kind of thing.
Speaker 2: We've just never utilized it. So I love that they
Speaker 2: did it, and we probably never will again, probably never
Speaker 2: not see it. No, never.
Speaker 3: And now we are at the school cafeteria, Corey and
Speaker 3: Sewn are finally studying, and Corey announces final start in
Speaker 3: two days. How did this sneak up on us? What
Speaker 3: kind of sick evil mind would think of a final
Speaker 3: schedule like this? And right on time, Feene walks by,
Speaker 3: slyly saying hi gang, and for the first time we
Speaker 3: see the Topanga is sitting with them, which I thought
Speaker 3: was a very weird director's choice to not open on
Speaker 3: an establishing shot of the three of them, like it's
Speaker 3: the two of you, and he's like, Sean, it's snuck
Speaker 3: up on this.
Speaker 2: How do we not see this?
Speaker 3: And then when we see Phoene walk by we realize, oh,
Speaker 3: Tapega's there too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we should have actually been included in the
Speaker 6: montag montage, but they couldn't rationalize that because.
Speaker 2: Pa would study study. Yeah, right, So it's a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit weird because Tapanga is both involved
Speaker 3: in this storyline of the final schedule being not great,
Speaker 3: but also not a part of it in the sense
Speaker 3: that she's not slacking off like they are.
Speaker 2: So it feels a little like.
Speaker 3: What's going on, but still happy to be there, not
Speaker 3: going to be there exactly. Corey stands up to Feenie
Speaker 3: and about this final schedule. It's either got to be
Speaker 3: a mistake or a joke and Shawn, Butson, let's say
Speaker 3: you're not really funny. Phoene responds, and you're not really studying?
Speaker 3: I suggest you do, and he walks away. Tapanga tells
Speaker 3: the guys, you know, if we buckle down and study,
Speaker 3: I'm sure we would have no problem at all.
Speaker 2: And I did think there.
Speaker 3: So was Topanga not studying these last two weeks or
Speaker 3: is she just what has she been doing?
Speaker 2: She wasn't watching TV. She had to have been studying.
Speaker 2: I mean, she's Topanga. Well, that next scene you're like
Speaker 2: breaking down and reciting phrase words. So I think the
Speaker 2: idea is that you're rattled in you were there and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I just feel like it's a small little thing.
Speaker 3: But maybe had she just said, you know what, guys,
Speaker 3: I bet if you just buckle down for the next
Speaker 3: two days, she could have made it a little more
Speaker 3: about them.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I know she's rattled and she
Speaker 2: it's such a small try to figure out. They're still
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how does Topanga?
Speaker 3: How is Topanga super smart and a good student but
Speaker 3: also part of the storylines that really put against the
Speaker 3: exactly right, so exactly yes, yes, so just then a
Speaker 3: guy in a leather jacket.
Speaker 2: Leather jacket alert real girl.
Speaker 3: And then a fast girl who's really a guy in
Speaker 3: a leather jacket and his gang member friends walk up, telling.
Speaker 2: So many gangs in this school.
Speaker 1: By the way, there's so many bully clicks that are
Speaker 1: going around.
Speaker 2: It's insane. It's pretty crazy. This school.
Speaker 3: That's it's a leaning tower. They each have their each
Speaker 3: floor has its.
Speaker 1: Own bullies, set of bullies everything, and they don't know
Speaker 1: each the tower exactly.
Speaker 6: But also at the trailer barg I mean like everywhere
Speaker 6: has that's.
Speaker 2: Just jackets, bullies that are three or four member gangs.
Speaker 3: Everything in the Matthews live on the one nice street
Speaker 3: in this neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Entire neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It is so strange, all these small little gang clicks that.
Speaker 3: This new leather jacket gang comes up saying that the
Speaker 3: problem will disappear when you get rid of FENI.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's that's what the plan is. These three
Speaker 1: students com we have to get rid of the teacher
Speaker 1: that's been here for thirty five years. This is the plan.
Speaker 1: Are they threatening to murder this guy?
Speaker 3: I meant a very dark storyline?
Speaker 1: What they have they put a hit on mister Foenie.
Speaker 1: Is that the leather Clad gang really going to do something?
Speaker 6: I was relieved to find out they just I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: they just break a window, because the way that this
Speaker 6: scene goes was like, are they talking about knocking them
Speaker 6: out or getting killed this guy?
Speaker 2: You know what they're going to there?
Speaker 3: Actually, this is this is the first storyline where we
Speaker 3: talk about murdering Phoenix exactly. You'll be surprised to know
Speaker 3: this repeats many times throughout the series.
Speaker 1: Once it just made you get long for the days
Speaker 1: of the old bullies that would just threaten to punch
Speaker 1: you in the face as opposed to actually putting murder
Speaker 1: hits out on mister Phoene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well why they walk away after threatening to murder
Speaker 3: him to Panga shivers and she admits, those guys give
Speaker 3: me the creeps. Finally somebody says it, and then Corey
Speaker 3: announces to the whole cafeteria, you know, gang, the only
Speaker 3: feenie will listen as if we organize and show strength, right,
Speaker 3: And this feels like a callback to The Union's episode
Speaker 3: where Corey gathered everyone together. The whole cafeteria cheers and
Speaker 3: Corey asks, so you're with me? The camera cuts to
Speaker 3: the entire group of kids now at Chubby's. I am
Speaker 3: not there again, just nub studying. Everyone is watching TV
Speaker 3: and not studying for the upcoming finals. And I thought, here,
Speaker 3: it's funny that a TV show would do a storyline
Speaker 3: around how watching television takes.
Speaker 2: You away from your studying.
Speaker 3: It's such a distraction and it's such an addiction that
Speaker 3: even when you know you shouldn't be doing it.
Speaker 2: You have to do it.
Speaker 3: So then we're in the school hallway, Corey shan in
Speaker 3: the entire massive anti Finals crew, a lot of kid
Speaker 3: background actors this week. They approach Turner and Corey tells them,
Speaker 3: we go to school all year, and I'll be honest,
Speaker 3: we don't like it. And now it's the end of
Speaker 3: the year and we got to take all these finals
Speaker 3: about stuff we've learned and have naturally forgotten about.
Speaker 2: We're very upset.
Speaker 3: The rest of the kids not an agree in unison,
Speaker 3: and Turner tells them it's a tough schedule, but that's
Speaker 3: what school is all about, and Corey whispers, well, people
Speaker 3: are starting to crack. Just then to pank the speeds
Speaker 3: by reciting elements from the periodic table and super speed.
Speaker 3: Corey whispers to Turner, and she's not even in chemistry.
Speaker 3: Shawn adds, Phoenie's schedule is a conspiracy. Man. It's exactly
Speaker 3: like the government not telling us about the aliens living
Speaker 3: in our old trailer park. Corey nods and smiles. Mister
Speaker 3: and missus Monroe, Sean nods and ads and their little
Speaker 3: dog too. Sean was a little tommed along before his time.
Speaker 2: I don't know who that is. Who it's you know what?
Speaker 2: I knew it I wrote right here. They won't know
Speaker 2: who this is.
Speaker 3: He's a lead singer and guitarist for Blink one eighty two.
Speaker 3: He okay, okay, good, we're on something.
Speaker 2: He Oh, he's an alien guy. Yes, he's been into aliens.
Speaker 2: And when they were when all.
Speaker 3: Of the talk of aliens was all very very conspiracy theory,
Speaker 3: and oh, you're a wacko schmacko for believing in aliens.
Speaker 3: And then this past year he was rather vindicated a
Speaker 3: few times about his his alien stuff. Anyway, little history
Speaker 3: lesson there for you?
Speaker 2: For you boys? Pop culture? Is that really history or
Speaker 2: just pop culture history? Pop culture?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: I think the story, Yeah, I think you're more.
Speaker 1: Tom Green frankly writer.
Speaker 2: He was a lead singer. No, I'm kidding. Hum. Green
Speaker 2: was a comedian. Comedian. Okay.
Speaker 3: Corey says it's not enough. We're taking all these finals,
Speaker 3: but why does he have to jam them together? Turner
Speaker 3: tells them it's a reasonable question. I'll talk to Feenie
Speaker 3: and I'll get a reasonable answer.
Speaker 2: And then Tony had a haircut.
Speaker 1: You can tell Tony has had Oh, yeah, he definitely
Speaker 1: had a haircut.
Speaker 2: I didn't, so he must have gone. Yeah, he had.
Speaker 6: I've also decided to tuck in my shirts. This is
Speaker 6: entire episode your shirt talking.
Speaker 1: I know why because it was written on the card
Speaker 1: that we would have hanging in our clothes shirt.
Speaker 6: I have a completely new look, like I'm finally wearing
Speaker 6: open shirts and tucked in with.
Speaker 2: The didn't notice an open shirt episode. I was like,
Speaker 2: what is this a new style?
Speaker 6: I wonder if that was like me making that choice
Speaker 6: or no, No, probably.
Speaker 2: No, definitely, probably.
Speaker 3: Absolutely talk insure fuse belt where this shirt opens.
Speaker 2: That's what happened year, and.
Speaker 3: Then we smashed that to Feenie's classroom. It's another little
Speaker 3: optical flip. Phoene says no, and Turner tries to reason
Speaker 3: with him, but Phoene doubles down. I am not changing
Speaker 3: my finals policy to suit the whims of a few
Speaker 3: disgruntled students. Turner argues the students may have a point.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be easier if they spread them out a bit,
Speaker 3: and Phoene says, yes, that would be much easier. And
Speaker 3: if we ask them simpler questions, that would be easier.
Speaker 3: Still if we had no tests, I know, it's so
Speaker 3: good if we just happened, if we just put on
Speaker 3: party hats and played the hokey pokey.
Speaker 7: They might even load party costumes.
Speaker 2: No, but that whole.
Speaker 1: But it's also this is the the kind of the
Speaker 1: the new school teaching versus old school teaching, and you know,
Speaker 1: what is it to be a teacher? And yes it
Speaker 1: is easier on the students, but are we supposed to be?
Speaker 1: I love just kind of them going after each other
Speaker 1: where it's like, no, I think the students might have
Speaker 1: a point and he's like, no, but that's.
Speaker 2: Not where we're here. We're here to I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was cool because you're seeing some of that in
Speaker 1: school now, where it's like, well, we're taking away some
Speaker 1: testing and we don't need to do this and we
Speaker 1: don't need to study this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: And it's like is that good? Is that bad?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: What are we going to find out? As? What's the
Speaker 2: future going to show us?
Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite things about Boy Meets World
Speaker 3: when the adults both have reasonable points and there really
Speaker 3: is no right and there really is no wrong, but
Speaker 3: you see them talking it out.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's so great.
Speaker 3: So Turner points out, if you lose the hokey pokey thing,
Speaker 3: I think you're onto something. He asks Phoenie can't you
Speaker 3: at least hear them out in Phoenie size, I will
Speaker 3: always have time to listen to my students, which I love.
Speaker 3: Then Turner walks out of the classroom to give the
Speaker 3: students eagerly waiting outside the news, and Corey asks if
Speaker 3: the schedule has changed. Turner explains, he agreed to listen
Speaker 3: to one of you, so a point a leader.
Speaker 2: Do you hear that? He said a point leada because
Speaker 2: he couldn't talk about his sister.
Speaker 3: Students all awkwardly wait around until Corey steps out of
Speaker 3: the group to pick up a quarta and he notices
Speaker 3: a quarter on the floor, and then all of the
Speaker 3: students step away and they start to applaud him.
Speaker 2: Got him, ha ha, what a weird bit. We're so bizarre.
Speaker 2: It was so bizarre.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was just going to be they
Speaker 1: were going to step back and leave Corey there by himself.
Speaker 6: This is where if the whole episode just doesn't I
Speaker 6: don't know, Like this is where the episode feels weird.
Speaker 6: I love Phoene storyline, but I feel like the problem
Speaker 6: is the tension, Like you have to introduce three new
Speaker 6: thugs we've never met before in order to propel the
Speaker 6: story right, and basically like Corey, Seanpanga don't have much
Speaker 6: to do, Like we're just kind of bystanders until that
Speaker 6: final scene. I don't know, It's just it's like it
Speaker 6: would be better if Sean was the one actually teeping
Speaker 6: the house or doing you know, but because because like
Speaker 6: we've said before, Seawan can never actually be a bad kid.
Speaker 6: He's always got to be like on the verge of
Speaker 6: being a bad kid. But actually, like it would have
Speaker 6: been better if he was the one doing it, Like, actually,
Speaker 6: I don't think Sean would ever do that to Feoene's
Speaker 6: house though.
Speaker 1: I think then the storyline becomes you don't know what
Speaker 1: you're doing with these new thugs and you end up
Speaker 1: at Foene's house and are you gounn you are?
Speaker 2: Are you not gonna do? But then it becomes a
Speaker 2: Sean episode, which we've already.
Speaker 3: Had a ton of in a row, and then we
Speaker 3: would be like, oh, here we go again, where Sean?
Speaker 2: What is Sean gonna do?
Speaker 3: If you don't if you don't change the schedule, I'm
Speaker 3: running away now you're gonna threaten delete.
Speaker 2: What is doing? What is Corey doing in this episode?
Speaker 2: Like he's just trying to convince he's reluctantly the leader.
Speaker 2: He doesn't actually lead this rebellion. He's not studying, but
Speaker 2: he also kind of knows he has to do the
Speaker 2: work anyway. So it's like it's it's it's it's like
Speaker 2: he's sort of in between, like he doesn't stand for anything,
Speaker 2: and as a result, the episode doesn't have like this
Speaker 2: narrative propulsion, like it should be him standing up to Feenian,
Speaker 2: like actually organizing the kids to do something and I'm protesting,
Speaker 2: like the union episode.
Speaker 6: But instead he's he's just reluctantly over their quarter. Now
Speaker 6: he's the leader. So it just feels weird.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel pointed. I don't know it needed
Speaker 2: a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I agree with you if Corey. If Corey had been
Speaker 3: so riled up, you know what we need to do.
Speaker 3: We need to take it to let's take it to
Speaker 3: his house. And then they vandalized it and he was
Speaker 3: like whoa, whoaah, this was too far and it was
Speaker 3: really on his shoulders. But instead they didn't want to
Speaker 3: put that on because then you really do like this
Speaker 3: is this becomes a dislikable kid. So then they needed
Speaker 3: to have well, Corey is a reluctant leader of a
Speaker 3: group that has a potential rival leader, where the rival
Speaker 3: leader wants to take things too far where Corey would
Speaker 3: never take it. It is a messy storyline that would
Speaker 3: have been better a little simplified, but also would have
Speaker 3: made it difficult to raise the stakes enough.
Speaker 1: I also I kind of like the messiness in this
Speaker 1: one though, because I like that Corey was never the
Speaker 1: one in this episode who was passionate about moving the exams.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, we got a bunch of exams,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you got to move it, or we got
Speaker 1: to do something. He's like, wait, what what do you
Speaker 1: guys talk? And then he's now the leader. He kind
Speaker 1: of gives a half assed kind of stab it. Let's
Speaker 1: get them, let's get it moved, and then he walks out.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I got, I got nothing.
Speaker 6: Like he doesn't want a mentionine to do with this,
Speaker 6: but imagine if he did, Like, because right now, the
Speaker 6: big emotional weight is Phoene's retirement, right Like, that's the turn,
Speaker 6: but Corey doesn't have any responsibility for that. Wouldn't it
Speaker 6: be great if Corey was somewhat responsible for FIENI wanting
Speaker 6: to retire. Instead, it's like he's not, he's completely absolved.
Speaker 6: He's just a bystander this entire.
Speaker 1: I kind of liked him being a bystander in this one,
Speaker 1: if I'm honest, because it's like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see him like we've seen the one where he gets
Speaker 1: the Union kids together and he's leading the rebellion, Like
Speaker 1: I've seen that already. I kind of like him just
Speaker 1: being a dude in school who's watching this happen and
Speaker 1: then watching his neighbor go through this existential crisis that
Speaker 1: he's involved in. But because then we have that scene
Speaker 1: later in the hallway where he's like, you know, you
Speaker 1: knew this was going to happen, Sean, and you didn't
Speaker 1: do anything about it. And you're the one who's like, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: you started this whole thing, and he's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of my responsibility too. He doesn't
Speaker 1: realize he was a part of it because he kind
Speaker 1: of wasn't yeah, And I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that he's just more the leaf on the
Speaker 2: wind in this one.
Speaker 1: Instead of the driving force of we've got to oh
Speaker 1: and now it's gone too far, it's more just like,
Speaker 1: I'm a dude watching this guy who I grew up
Speaker 1: next to go through this crisis, and it's because all
Speaker 1: of us have as students have changed in his mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so there's something to that more than Corey being
Speaker 1: the lynchpin of Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, kind I kind of liked it. Frankly,
Speaker 2: I liked that as I.
Speaker 3: Did enjoy just I was invested to see what was
Speaker 3: going to happen. I didn't feel bored. I didn't feel
Speaker 3: like this is too messy and convoluted and all over
Speaker 3: the place. I kind of just liked, like, ooh, how
Speaker 3: is this gonna how is this going to resolve?
Speaker 2: And I also love the idea of.
Speaker 3: Seeing the dynamic between somebody who's been doing a job
Speaker 3: for a very long time giving themselves their own little
Speaker 3: test of like, have I am I no longer a five?
Speaker 3: Am I no longer in touch?
Speaker 2: Was there something in my dinosaur? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Am I a dinosaur? Am I not the best person
Speaker 3: to deliver this message anymore? Have I aged out of this?
Speaker 2: And? I love I didn't. I did enjoy that. So
Speaker 2: but here's my.
Speaker 1: Question, Because we keep getting leather jacketed thugs, why.
Speaker 2: Can't they just be like jocks.
Speaker 1: Why can they just be like the three of the
Speaker 1: football guys or wrestling guy?
Speaker 2: Why do we have.
Speaker 1: To keep creating these leather jacket Well, that's what I wonder.
Speaker 6: If he was waiting for Danny and the guys and
Speaker 6: they were just realized like, oh, we can't keep bringing
Speaker 6: them back for some reason, or I don't know, like.
Speaker 2: Where's where's Stanky for Keno? Now? Like Ry isn't he
Speaker 2: around at least?
Speaker 1: Like what's going on at the Yeah? Just seeing those
Speaker 1: three thugs again, I.
Speaker 3: Know I'm ready to I'm ready to stop seeing new
Speaker 3: jacket gangs. I am you exactly, I'm ready to I'm
Speaker 3: ready to enter nineteen ninety six, yes, and leave the
Speaker 3: fifties leather jacket gangs behind.
Speaker 2: Sorry to become one of the I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 3: Sean happily announces, all right, Corey, you're our leader, the
Speaker 3: tough guy. Denny tells Corey, if you can't change that
Speaker 3: old dinosaur's mind, we will, And again he's back to
Speaker 3: just chilling Phoenie. He's gone take out the darkest storyline god.
Speaker 3: Corey tries calming him down, saying, listen, I've known Phoene
Speaker 3: since I was in diapers. He adds, I ate his
Speaker 3: dirt for crying out loud, and then we're in Phoenie's classroom.
Speaker 3: Phoene greets Corey as he enters. I understand you have
Speaker 3: some concerns about the finals. Corey stutters, yes, yes, I do,
Speaker 3: because you gotta admit three finals in one day is
Speaker 3: kind of tough. Phoene asks how long has the exam
Speaker 3: schedule been posted? Corey says a couple of days, and
Speaker 3: Phoene corrects him two weeks. Phoene then asks how long
Speaker 3: have you had to study the material? And Corey says
Speaker 3: two weeks and Phoene corrects him again all semester and
Speaker 3: you come to me now, how can I take you?
Speaker 2: Seriously?
Speaker 3: Corey starts a very bad argument with Okay, I didn't
Speaker 3: want to use this, but we're neighbors, right, Remember when
Speaker 3: I was a kid and I ate all that dirt
Speaker 3: and you were good enough to call boys in control?
Speaker 3: And Phoene confesses I wanted my dirt back.
Speaker 2: I love that line so funny. I wanted my dirt back. Oh,
Speaker 2: it was so funny.
Speaker 3: And of course Bill with the perfect delivery, and it
Speaker 3: had just enough mustard on it that you knew he
Speaker 3: was covering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. This is a scene you can
Speaker 2: see from the pilot. This is this is the pilot
Speaker 2: scene over again, dancing.
Speaker 6: I just love seeing Corey and Phoenie back in this
Speaker 6: situation being like, yeah, but come on.
Speaker 2: You like me. I just love it it, I love it.
Speaker 3: So Corey goes on, well, I guess I want you
Speaker 3: to do that again, you know, one lifelong friend to another.
Speaker 3: Phoene Lenz leans in and says Corey. Corey casually responds, George.
Speaker 1: How often has Bill called him Corey? I think is
Speaker 1: this is the first time or one of the one
Speaker 1: of the first times?
Speaker 2: Right, Wow, that didn't even hit me. You're right always.
Speaker 1: Too.
Speaker 2: When he said Corey, he's like, oh, it's always, mister Matthews. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I did not. That didn't even hit me.
Speaker 3: So then Foene points to the door and tells him
Speaker 3: to get out, and we're back in the school hallway
Speaker 3: and as Corey walks out, all of the students are
Speaker 3: applodding and cheery, cheering. One of the tough guys who
Speaker 3: is not the main guy, Denny and not Patrick, Renna asks, so,
Speaker 3: what's the new schedule look like, Corey announces to many
Speaker 3: of you, it will look much like the old schedule.
Speaker 2: But I, as your leader, I got nothing.
Speaker 3: Denny tells Corey, You've had your chance. Now it's time
Speaker 3: to do things my way.
Speaker 2: Very scary.
Speaker 3: Corey asks what his way is, and Denny responds, Phoene
Speaker 3: has made our lives miserable, h forever and.
Speaker 2: Now great lines I react to back.
Speaker 3: And now it's time to give him back a little
Speaker 3: of what he gave us. The rest of the crowd
Speaker 3: cheers him on like an angry mob on January sixth,
Speaker 3: and the entire group follows. The entire group follows after Denny,
Speaker 3: even Sean. Corey stops Sean and asks what he's doing,
Speaker 3: and Sean admits, Corey, I hate these exams, and he
Speaker 3: walks away.
Speaker 2: Wow, I doesn't want to get his learn on Sean.
Speaker 2: He's not there. He's going to go grab his leather jacket.
Speaker 1: He's about to joining the leather gang, the leather jacket gang.
Speaker 3: And then we are back in the Matthew's house. The
Speaker 3: doorbell rings and Eric opens the door to a pri.
Speaker 2: Like, did we miss a scene? Why is Eric gertude
Speaker 2: the door to miss random woman and referencing all this
Speaker 2: conversation that happened without us seeing sitting by himself on
Speaker 2: the couch reading Shakespeare. I know I said the same thing.
Speaker 2: I was like what, and then I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: Because there's finals we know that Eric also has vinyls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes sense. But it was just it was jarring. Yes,
Speaker 2: the whole thing was jarring.
Speaker 1: I remember working with her very briefly, obviously, and I
Speaker 1: remember actually as actors working on the scenes, and it
Speaker 1: was one of the few times where a guest star
Speaker 1: came in and we spent time with the director and
Speaker 1: spend time afterwards kind of well, if I move here,
Speaker 1: if I do this.
Speaker 2: We were ad libbing stuff.
Speaker 1: It was. Working with her was really fun, and I
Speaker 1: remember distinctly thinking, wow, I wish we had more to do,
Speaker 1: Like I wish we had more scenes, because there's something
Speaker 1: I felt, very relaxed, very comfortable.
Speaker 2: She was giving as much as she was taking. It
Speaker 2: was great. She was she was She was a lot
Speaker 2: of fun.
Speaker 1: I mean the the scene the last line of this
Speaker 1: where I say, hey, let's let's leave before you get
Speaker 1: any older, and she's like, hey, that's funny.
Speaker 2: That was the two of us just riffing at the end.
Speaker 1: Wow, And so that was none of that was written,
Speaker 1: and she was the first one to kind of shoot
Speaker 1: it back as she got us like, oh wow she's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really funny. I loved that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So a pretty older woman there by the way, very
Speaker 3: reminiscent of Maitland Award.
Speaker 2: I saw her and I was like, wow, she interesting.
Speaker 3: Okay, so she says hi. She shakes Eric's hand, telling
Speaker 3: a surprise Eric. Her name is Brenda. Eric realizes who
Speaker 3: she is and says, oh you are be didn't get
Speaker 3: the message from his mom. They had car trouble and
Speaker 3: can't make it. Where are they coming from?
Speaker 2: There? None of them? I don't get what's happening. If
Speaker 2: she's setting her up with Turner, which is why there?
Speaker 2: And why are did she meeting.
Speaker 1: At Turner's house or are they meeting somewhere neutral? Why
Speaker 1: are they coming to the Matthew?
Speaker 2: They were having a double date. They were going to
Speaker 2: have a double dates, were going to go out.
Speaker 3: She was going to introduce them on a double date.
Speaker 3: Way did they say that or did you guys just know.
Speaker 2: We had to figure this out.
Speaker 6: That's where I was sitting there, going what scene I missed?
Speaker 6: You just set up this scene.
Speaker 2: It's I didn't put that together. You both did. There
Speaker 2: probably was a morning scene written where, like, you know,
Speaker 2: Corey was getting breakfast and they talked all this out
Speaker 2: and they just decided to cut it and explain it
Speaker 2: all on this scene and it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It's like started in the middle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because then she says, you know, they have car
Speaker 3: trouble and they can't make it, and so Brenda takes
Speaker 3: off her jacket, revealing a short red skirt and says, oh, well,
Speaker 3: I guess it's just you.
Speaker 2: And me, Which was my question. Why isn't it just
Speaker 2: the two of them?
Speaker 3: If it was going to be a setup for them,
Speaker 3: why not still let Turner come over and just sorry, guys,
Speaker 3: we have car trouble wherever we are, who knows where
Speaker 3: we are before this day ahead with your date, but
Speaker 3: go ahead, sorry, we won't be able to make it tonight.
Speaker 3: So anyway, totally understand why she thinks you are Jonathan Turner.
Speaker 1: Wait do you that's I'm asking do if you walked
Speaker 1: in and saw me, did I look like at that
Speaker 1: age I could be old enough to be a high
Speaker 1: school teacher?
Speaker 3: I don't think you look young enough to be her
Speaker 3: teenage son.
Speaker 2: Okay, bye bye that she.
Speaker 3: Sees you and doesn't like stare you down and go hello, teenager,
Speaker 3: I can see how that could happen.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, gotcha? Gotcha? Okay, I was wondering about that.
Speaker 3: But so she walks past the couch and Eric responds, yeah,
Speaker 3: just you and me and the collected works of Billie
Speaker 3: Bob Shakespeare as he holds up his book, and Brenda laughs,
Speaker 3: Amy told me you're very devoted to your work. She
Speaker 3: then notices the family photo of the Matthews and realizes
Speaker 3: who she is flirting with, and this moment where she
Speaker 3: realizes it is great.
Speaker 2: She's great. She said, that's a hard thing to sell,
Speaker 2: and yes, pulls it off. It's funny, it's natural.
Speaker 3: Yep, great actor, really really great, and she says, oh
Speaker 3: my god. Eric laughs, Yeah, I know, I was hitting
Speaker 3: puberty the exact moment they took that picture, and Brenda clarifies, Oh, no,
Speaker 3: I thought you were Jonathan Turner. Your mother was fixing
Speaker 3: us up tonight. Brenda admits she feels very stupid. Eric
Speaker 3: assures her, I'm actually kind of flattered. Look my mom
Speaker 3: called and canceled mister Turner, which is now why we
Speaker 3: this is the first time we figure out that that's
Speaker 3: why he isn't here. So okay, a lot of just
Speaker 3: exposition to tell us.
Speaker 1: What's going on here, and also pre cell phone, so
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be like you'd get a text a call saying, hey,
Speaker 1: this has been canceled.
Speaker 3: Right right, and I haven't had dinner yet. So let's
Speaker 3: say we go. Great, I have a bite ski the
Speaker 3: confidence I know on this.
Speaker 2: Kid, shoot your shot sometimes really just oh.
Speaker 3: He grabs his coat and he says, let's get out
Speaker 3: of here before you get any older. She follows and says,
Speaker 3: that's funny.
Speaker 2: That's fine.
Speaker 3: She get the sense that she doesn't really think it's
Speaker 3: that funny, really really good.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is quite a storyline.
Speaker 8: Just this is quite a storyline, a storyline twenty eight
Speaker 8: and eighteen, twenty eight.
Speaker 2: And eighteen, and she very quickly was like, yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: let's go on a date kid.
Speaker 8: That's there was not a second of hesitation. Yeah, put
Speaker 8: the year old gay, my friend's son. I'll take my
Speaker 8: friend son. I will I'll do it. Yep, you know
Speaker 8: what you called my blood, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: There's no hesitation. Let's go grab a mike.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm in done, done, let's do bit. I'm into
Speaker 3: bite skings.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. You and me chuck e cheese right now.
Speaker 3: They won't let me leave unless we've both have the
Speaker 3: same numbers on an exactly I'm this is.
Speaker 2: The child you came in with.
Speaker 1: Yes, very strange storyline for a number of reasons, like
Speaker 1: just thrown in there. The story just starts in the middle.
Speaker 1: It's a weird age difference. Dating the kit It's not
Speaker 1: even a random date. It's dating Amy's Fred. Whole thing's
Speaker 1: very strange, very strange.
Speaker 3: So then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. It's later in
Speaker 3: the night. Corey walks into the kitchen and here's a
Speaker 3: loud commotion coming from the backyard. Kids are vandalizing Phoene's
Speaker 3: house with toilet paper, shaving cream, and wet paper towels.
Speaker 3: They smash a window and the lights turn on. Phoene
Speaker 3: quickly runs outside, but the perpetrators have run off. Corey
Speaker 3: watches the entire thing happen from inside the kitchen. Phoene
Speaker 3: looks shocked and very upset, and we hear sad ass
Speaker 3: music sad and Sad as music witnessing, they lock eyes
Speaker 3: with each other. It's just fu Peenie and a salad
Speaker 3: for one was in a rout.
Speaker 6: So we've completely lost the boy's bedroom like this entire season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, never no no jacket. Uh No, that
Speaker 3: was INA's room Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we have been We've lost the boys bedroom
Speaker 2: and gain Chubbies.
Speaker 1: You wonder if it's if that's what they swapped they
Speaker 1: did for now. They turned the boys bedroom into a
Speaker 1: swing set and Chubbies was more a every week kind
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 2: And here's where I'll tell you, I think one of
Speaker 2: the strengths of the storyline was doesn't necessarily have an
Speaker 2: amazing payoff, but one of the strengths of the storyline
Speaker 2: was the only thing I cared about through the rest
Speaker 2: of this episode was was Sean there? I'm kick his.
Speaker 3: Oh if was part of the van Sean was there
Speaker 3: and whip creaming or shaving creaming Poenie's house. I was
Speaker 3: gonna I was going to be furious at you. I
Speaker 3: figured they weren't doing it, but like they set it up,
Speaker 3: they want us to think that maybe you were there.
Speaker 3: You left with them, you said I hate these exams,
Speaker 3: and and you left with them, and the next time
Speaker 3: we see them, this is going on, and and Sean,
Speaker 3: you weren't with Corey.
Speaker 2: Corey walks in from wherever he's been, and so I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: If this is the moment where they do have Sean
Speaker 3: act like a bad guy and now feeling pretty comfortable
Speaker 3: now speaking as an audience surrogate, if they do have
Speaker 3: Sean actually do something bad instead of just saying he's
Speaker 3: always on the cusp of doing something bad, I can
Speaker 3: tell you I don't like you. I was so inside
Speaker 3: thinking what if Sean's there. I was like, if that kid,
Speaker 3: if that kid, I was so I was going to.
Speaker 2: Be actually and.
Speaker 1: Oh man, they did set it up to where you
Speaker 1: could easily have been a member of the new LJG Gang.
Speaker 1: I mean it absolutely could have been there for leather Jacket,
Speaker 1: because hair guys there LJG Baby for this school, so
Speaker 1: you could have. But I don't think they were going
Speaker 1: with that. I think they were going with it was
Speaker 1: all about FIENI at this point. That's what the story
Speaker 1: shifted to, and.
Speaker 2: Just Bill being built, just all the music, Yes, a
Speaker 2: little much, a little much but I still like it.
Speaker 2: I loved it. And all the emotion that plays across
Speaker 2: his face. You read everything on his face. It was
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 1: He was disappointed and sad and I can't believe it happened.
Speaker 2: And you were Oh god, I was there for all
Speaker 2: of it. I was there for all it. Any of
Speaker 2: you ever vandalized a house? No, do you have a house? Well,
Speaker 2: I guess you have a story. Well, Will has a story.
Speaker 2: Well I don't have No, I have no stories. You
Speaker 2: must have egged the house. Well, tell us a hypothetical story,
Speaker 2: hypothetical story about you. Halloween back in Connecticut could get
Speaker 2: a little crazy. Really, there were times that I had
Speaker 2: friends that had friends. You had friends girls. Let's put
Speaker 2: it this way. No, I think we've established that. All right,
Speaker 2: you're done. We got our own.
Speaker 1: Version of l j G back back, and yes, of
Speaker 1: course we t peed and we and smoked cigarettes. And
Speaker 1: when my friends then got into grabbing, like you know,
Speaker 1: wanting to uh do like cherry bombs and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: I was out, like I'm not good with with on fire.
Speaker 3: I had a I had had a cool ant, like
Speaker 3: a cool ant you know, uh huh.
Speaker 2: She would let us go te ping. Wait, she'd let
Speaker 2: you go.
Speaker 3: She got paper and she'd take us, she'd drop us off.
Speaker 3: She parked the car nearby so in case we got
Speaker 3: caught run away car.
Speaker 2: You kidding me? Yeah? Wow? Yeah. What do you do
Speaker 2: when you TP out? You're just like covering the house.
Speaker 3: And you're just throwing it over the trees and it
Speaker 3: gets stuck and it's like all there everywhere to do
Speaker 3: some like elevated ruder stuff like take saran wrap and
Speaker 3: put it like the combine the two door that the
Speaker 3: front doors together so that they can't open their front
Speaker 3: door the front door.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. Yeah, you can do.
Speaker 3: We never did anything like that. We just t peed,
Speaker 3: and we always picked somebody that we had a crush
Speaker 3: on to TP like something like a good sign. He
Speaker 3: usually usually meant there was something we had a crush
Speaker 3: on you.
Speaker 1: He's like, Wow, if this guy likes me, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to spend all tomorrow with his parents cleaning this out,
Speaker 1: cleaning this up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna he's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna he's
Speaker 3: gonna be so happy I did this.
Speaker 2: He's really gonna like me. Trying to get this thing
Speaker 2: out of this land and David. This is what I
Speaker 2: didn't know where David lived. G P Jonathan Taylor Thomas's house.
Speaker 2: That would be amazing.
Speaker 3: I do have a really great picture of me though,
Speaker 3: in a huge oversized sweatshirt and sweatpants, and we had
Speaker 3: we got caught pretty early on this one time, and
Speaker 3: we had still the four packs of toilet paper were
Speaker 3: still in their like plastic wrap, and I was grabbing
Speaker 3: all of them to not leave the evidence behind. And
Speaker 3: we have a picture of me running down the street
Speaker 3: looking like the stapeoff marshmallow man with all the things
Speaker 3: of Tepe's second my sweatshirt. It's pretty great. Yeah, wow, right,
Speaker 3: you missed out. You were just feeding your horse, Susie,
Speaker 3: you were, and with the dead.
Speaker 1: Body in it, making dead bodies and yeah, doing your
Speaker 1: magic show.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's how it is.
Speaker 3: So then before we are in Phoene's classroom, we have
Speaker 3: a wild exterior. We like tilt and zoom into a
Speaker 3: window of the exterior of the school.
Speaker 2: Is Corey Matthews doing the camera work here? It seemed
Speaker 2: a little jarring. It was jarning. Yep.
Speaker 3: Well, Phoene is teaching a class about abolitionists and John Brown,
Speaker 3: who thought he was a hero because of his night rates,
Speaker 3: and he adds John was eventually captured and hanged by
Speaker 3: the neck for his crimes. While walking by the three
Speaker 3: thugs in class, he then says that will conclude the semester.
Speaker 3: Phoene reminds them finals are tomorrow, and I want to
Speaker 3: wish you all the best of luck. The students boo
Speaker 3: him as he says this. Then Tapanga walks up to
Speaker 3: mister Phoene, asking will the chapter on the Continental Congress
Speaker 3: be included in the test. Phoenie chuckles and says ms Lawrence.
Speaker 3: Tapanga abruptly stops him and says wait, wait, as she
Speaker 3: holds a voice recorder up to his mouth. Phoene assures her,
Speaker 3: you've done the work all semester. I have no doubt
Speaker 3: that everything you need to know you already know. Topega
Speaker 3: yells back, Continental Congress, yes or no. Phoene speaks into
Speaker 3: the recorder and says yes, Miss Lawrence, and she leaves.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I remembered that. Really I don't.
Speaker 1: I cannot tell you why. It was because I remembered.
Speaker 1: I remembered my b storyline because of the woman that
Speaker 1: I worked with. I remembered nothing from the A story,
Speaker 1: and then I remembered you with the tape recorder.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, is this the Continental Congress? And You're
Speaker 2: like Continental.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know why I remember this line,
Speaker 1: but I fully remembered that line stuck in my head.
Speaker 2: Don't know why. Well, you're a fan of US history.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. Maybe that's what it is. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: am I love you as sisty.
Speaker 3: So Corey then walk except to Phenie and says, look
Speaker 3: what happened last night? I was at the library, and
Speaker 3: Phoenie tells him, no one is accusing you. I know
Speaker 3: you better than that. Corey admits I think what those
Speaker 3: idiots did was way out of line, and Feenie nods,
Speaker 3: I must agree. I haven't always been popular with my students,
Speaker 3: but I have always had their respect until last night.
Speaker 3: And now my poor little heart is just even more
Speaker 3: broken for Feenie. Feenie goes on forty years ago, when
Speaker 3: I was a new teacher, there was a very small
Speaker 3: faction of students who were frustrated, but the majority of
Speaker 3: them wanted to learn. Now, with each passing year, I
Speaker 3: find that authority and respect have wrought it away and
Speaker 3: that small faction is now the majority, and Feenie.
Speaker 1: Continues, I watch our show, Phoenie, yep, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: write sixties. Sixties A new teacher, oh, trying to get
Speaker 1: their respect, and the small faction of Leather Jacket Gang
Speaker 1: there actually like.
Speaker 2: Belong right when there was still a thing. Oh, got
Speaker 2: it be?
Speaker 1: So you have like Frankie Stakeino's grandfather is one you
Speaker 1: could have. You could bring in random characters that were like,
Speaker 1: he's been teaching them their family for generations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Leslie, Leslie's Wesley's dad. Yeah, Leslie's dad. Really good.
Speaker 2: That show we haven't written or created yet is so good.
Speaker 2: It's amazing in my head. Yeah, I've already. I'm on
Speaker 2: season three.
Speaker 3: So Phoene continues, You know, mister Matthews. At the end
Speaker 3: of each school year, I also take a final exam.
Speaker 3: I examined my effectiveness as a teacher, and I wonder
Speaker 3: what have I taught? Who have I reached this year? Well,
Speaker 3: this year, after seeing what was done to my house,
Speaker 3: I realize they have finally reached me. Cory asks what
Speaker 3: he means, and Phoene says, I believe the term was dinosaur,
Speaker 3: wasn't it. I'm an old dinosaur. Corey tries to tell.
Speaker 2: Him that's a good thing. People love dinosaurs.
Speaker 3: You got your Barney's, your Jurassic Parks, and who could
Speaker 3: forget about Dino Flynnstone as he mimics Dino's barking noises
Speaker 3: so cute. Phoenie reveals I'm retiring at.
Speaker 2: The end of the year. Bu bom bomb.
Speaker 3: The official announcement will be very soon. Just then, Denny
Speaker 3: and his stupid leather jacket and his stupid leather jacket
Speaker 3: friends walk into Poenie's classroom and Denny threatens, if you
Speaker 3: don't move it until later in the week, feoene, we
Speaker 3: ain't gonna show. Finally, I was like, that's a reasonable threat. Yes, yess,
Speaker 3: that makes sense. I'm not coming as opposed to take
Speaker 3: care of it mine.
Speaker 2: You're going to kill you? Yeah, ash.
Speaker 6: But then also the obvious response is like you just
Speaker 6: if you don't show up for the desk.
Speaker 2: Okay exactly what he says.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's right, And of course if you don't
Speaker 3: take the exam, it is my right to fail you.
Speaker 3: So we see that Sean is now a new addition
Speaker 3: to this group. Makes sense though, because we know he
Speaker 3: has a leather jacket, and Denny addition, is a group right, Wow,
Speaker 3: that works too, and Denny adds, I wish I could
Speaker 3: have seen his face when he saw his house, and
Speaker 3: Corey tells Denny I did.
Speaker 2: Jake goes up to him and asks, Matthews, you kiss up?
Speaker 2: What'd you tell him?
Speaker 3: He starts to put his hands on Corey, but Sean
Speaker 3: breaks it up, telling him Corey's cool. He wouldn't have
Speaker 3: squealed and I liked this part. Corey laughs and says,
Speaker 3: does that make me cool?
Speaker 2: Sean? Is that what makes you so cool?
Speaker 3: And he walks away from the group, including Sean. Then
Speaker 3: we're in the school hallway. Sean follows after Corey, telling
Speaker 3: him to lighten up. You're the one who said we
Speaker 3: should stand up to Feeni and Corey Eel's back. I
Speaker 3: didn't say to vandalize his home. Sean gets defensive.
Speaker 2: I wasn't there. I didn't do anything.
Speaker 3: And this is where I wanted it to be a
Speaker 3: bigger kind of a reveal that you weren't there, Like
Speaker 3: I was hoping for there to be more of a
Speaker 3: moment about you not being there instead of that's fine.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. I didn't even think that though. I
Speaker 2: was so just there was no chance Sean was over there.
Speaker 2: But I guess he just knew. I didn't.
Speaker 3: I wanted to know for sure, but it was such
Speaker 3: a kind of a throwaway line. I wasn't there, I
Speaker 3: didn't do anything. It's like, oh, thank God. I literally
Speaker 3: was like, hallelujah. I still like this kid. Corey pokes him,
Speaker 3: but you knew about it, and Sean asks, what was
Speaker 3: he supposed to do? Stand up and says stay away
Speaker 3: from Phoene's house, and Corey says, you didn't stop them, Sean,
Speaker 3: and I think that makes you responsible. And Sean follows up, well,
Speaker 3: you're the one who started this whole thing, and Corey nods,
Speaker 3: I think that makes me responsible too, And then very
Speaker 3: loud guitar music plays, just extremely loud guitar music plays
Speaker 3: there for some reason. Then we're in Phoene's house, Alan,
Speaker 3: or we're outside Phoene's house. Alan and Feenie. You are
Speaker 3: finishing up cleaning the last of the vandalism out there,
Speaker 3: and Phoene thanks him, and Alan admits he couldn't reach
Speaker 3: the eggs towards the very top of the house. But
Speaker 3: a Feoene throws a bunch of cheese up there. On
Speaker 3: a hot day, he'll have one heck of an omelet,
Speaker 3: and Phoenie laughs, you're one funny man, Alan, Alan reminds him,
Speaker 3: I know this bothers you, but remember it wasn't the
Speaker 3: whole school, just a couple of kids, and Phoenie responds, well,
Speaker 3: you're right, but it really bothers me. And then Alan,
Speaker 3: who is in a sensible denim jacket. Yeah he's a
Speaker 3: good guy, turns out a good guy who's in a
Speaker 3: leather jacket, but walks down. But they put him in
Speaker 3: a slightly gang Yeah it's a busy it's more of
Speaker 3: a bomber jacket, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So he walks up to Phenie and he looks around
Speaker 3: the house, asking what's going on in PHOENI jokes, we
Speaker 3: had a wild toga party, mister Turner, sorry we didn't
Speaker 3: invite you. Turner confronts him, I heard this rumor you're retiring.
Speaker 3: What's that all about? And Phoene says he's worked long enough.
Speaker 3: This just feels right now. He adds to finally have
Speaker 3: time to garden, to read a good book, to travel,
Speaker 3: to eat a salad alone for dinner. Okay, he didn't
Speaker 3: say that part, but I added that part to do
Speaker 3: the things that I love. Turner clarifies, you love teaching.
Speaker 3: Come on, don't give these goons the power to change
Speaker 3: your life. And Phoenie asks, you don't garden, do you, Jonathan?
Speaker 3: He says no, but I can see where that toilet
Speaker 3: paper plant would come in handy sometimes, and Phoenie declares,
Speaker 3: I am surrounded by funny men, so good, and then
Speaker 3: Turner apologizes. Phoene continues, here in the garden, at the
Speaker 3: end of each season, you see the results of the
Speaker 3: seeds that you planted, and even on a particularly bad season,
Speaker 3: there was still growth. So mister Turner, sorry, but I
Speaker 3: must admit these days I prefer the garden.
Speaker 2: Boy. The only thing missing was an art Garfunkle song exactly.
Speaker 2: I would have really been hooked. That was it? Just
Speaker 2: crying all night?
Speaker 1: Just that's how I know when I see Daniel crying,
Speaker 1: I'm like our Garfunkley.
Speaker 3: Well, then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. In case you forgot,
Speaker 3: Eric is dating Amy's friend. Eric walks down in a
Speaker 3: very structure mall store, shoulder.
Speaker 1: Pad and suit it was like I went to a
Speaker 1: Talking Heads concert.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and stole his suit as I walked out.
Speaker 2: Was like, what am I? A bunch of small children
Speaker 2: packed together? It's perfect because it's overdone? Is trying just
Speaker 2: too hard?
Speaker 9: Too much?
Speaker 2: It was good, but the biggest gray suit they can
Speaker 2: get a circus tent. It was pretty big.
Speaker 3: So then Eric asks, can you see it your little
Speaker 3: boys in love? Alan asks, so, really, what's this one's name?
Speaker 3: Eric responds, Brenda Brenda Marsh. Amy looks up from cooking
Speaker 3: and says, oh, that's funny because I work with a
Speaker 3: Brenda Marsh and then her eyes go wide as she
Speaker 3: realizes what is happening. Eric smiles as Amy pleads Eric, no,
Speaker 3: you can't date Brenda Marsh. Eric asks it's because she's Canadian, right,
Speaker 3: and Amy clarifies no, because she's older than you. Alan
Speaker 3: asks an older woman, huh, Eric adds an older foreign woman.
Speaker 3: Amy groans to Alan he cannot go out with her.
Speaker 3: I was setting her up with Jonathan, which is a
Speaker 3: fair argument here. Yeah, yes, yeah, Eric, buts in, hey,
Speaker 3: now she showed up and he didn't find does key
Speaker 3: buzz loses wee bus, which, although it rhymes is not
Speaker 3: a very good argument here.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 6: It is a argument would just be like, we get along,
Speaker 6: we were actually interested in each other, so who cares?
Speaker 2: But I do like that he is eighteen, right.
Speaker 1: But your your dad doesn't bat an eyelash at eighteen
Speaker 1: and twenty seven?
Speaker 3: Well, but that's their they're dudes, but even dads.
Speaker 2: He takes a moment and then he's like, all right,
Speaker 2: here's the wallet, here's yeah. I think my dad would
Speaker 2: have said something had happened. He stops. Eric, how old
Speaker 2: is she? Eric smiles, didn't twenty seven year old when
Speaker 2: you were eighteen?
Speaker 1: Will? My parents didn't know I was dating seven year old?
Speaker 1: There is a very big difference. She was also thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 6: I only dated older women and to no one cares
Speaker 6: at the time. I mean sometimes, I mean I would,
Speaker 6: I would. I would pursue women that would care, that
Speaker 6: would be like, you're too young for me. But as
Speaker 6: long as the woman didn't care, no one would bad
Speaker 6: deny about me.
Speaker 2: This is a really good opportunity to talk about that.
Speaker 6: The double standard there, double stand there double standard that
Speaker 6: huge doublestand.
Speaker 3: Oftentimes dudes have no problem and actively seek out women
Speaker 3: that are significantly younger than them. That an eighteen year
Speaker 3: old girl would be a totally acceptable person for a
Speaker 3: twenty seven year old guy to date, and yet in
Speaker 3: the reverse it would be maybe talked about and she
Speaker 3: would probably be given ish for it. And it's one
Speaker 3: of those things where I say, it's funny that the
Speaker 3: issue is not like, well, if guys can do it,
Speaker 3: I can do it too, as opposed to maybe what
Speaker 3: we should say is it's generally inappropriate. Now it's a
Speaker 3: pretty big over generalization to say every single person is
Speaker 3: you know, and every single time it's inappropriate. But I
Speaker 3: feel pretty confident saying if Adler were a twenty seven
Speaker 3: year old dude, I would in no way, shape or
Speaker 3: form be happy if he decided to date a fresh
Speaker 3: out of high school or in this case, a currently
Speaker 3: in high school person. Ye, Alan stops Eric, how old
Speaker 3: does she? Air smiles twenty seven? Alan responds, oh, well,
Speaker 3: in that case, well you can't date her a lot.
Speaker 3: Which again this is now just the storyline that Alan
Speaker 3: is a bro dude, and he he's got to be.
Speaker 2: He's pretty much fine with it.
Speaker 3: It's just the mom who's gonna have a problem with this,
Speaker 3: amials Alan, she is too old for Eric. Alan stops her. Honey,
Speaker 3: hold on a second, Eric, how old are you now?
Speaker 3: Twenty four, twenty five forty? She sighs he's eighteen. Alan
Speaker 3: pretends to gasp. No, he's laughing through this again, Cuz.
Speaker 2: Dude, Rose dads crow dats yep.
Speaker 3: Eric gets in the middle of them. Come on, she's
Speaker 3: okay with it. I'm okay with it. When two mature
Speaker 3: adults make a connection, oh, come on, you never got
Speaker 3: me a pony. The Matthews were no Lennon king stronger
Speaker 3: thing down.
Speaker 2: I was like, I got no Susie. I got no
Speaker 2: Susie here.
Speaker 1: Also, did you hear what I did with my voice?
Speaker 1: I don't know why I was doing that. When I
Speaker 1: was like when two adults, well, first, I deepen does
Speaker 1: like when two adotes get together over that pony, I
Speaker 1: was like.
Speaker 2: Oh, starting my voice work, well, I like it.
Speaker 3: Amy grabs Eric Brenda is older than you, more sophisticated,
Speaker 3: more experienced.
Speaker 2: Does this make sense?
Speaker 3: Alan hands Eric has wallet in his keys and tells
Speaker 3: him to wake up. When he gets in, Amy looks
Speaker 3: at Eric dejected, saying he'll be the one on the
Speaker 3: couch and like that. There is just nothing Amy can
Speaker 3: do to stop her son from dating her work friend.
Speaker 2: It's very strange, such a weird storyline. Also, where is
Speaker 2: her work? What is her work? Do we know she's
Speaker 2: she's the gallery, but she's a lady and she's.
Speaker 6: Working at brick Split levels been around for a while.
Speaker 3: So then they're in Chubbies. Obviously it's the only place
Speaker 3: you can go. Brenda and Eric are on their date
Speaker 3: and she tells them this place is kind of funky.
Speaker 3: Eric explains, I tried to get reservations at that restaurant
Speaker 3: you like so much, and she clarifies, oh, Chateau le
Speaker 3: Fondula and Eric ya nods, yeah, okay. Eric asks, did
Speaker 3: I mention you look lovely tonight? And she says, yeah,
Speaker 3: you did.
Speaker 1: Eric.
Speaker 2: Thanks. She continues, so tell me what do you do
Speaker 2: when you're not in school?
Speaker 7: Which, oh, that's got you, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: What do you do when you're not in school? What
Speaker 2: do you do when your teacher isn't giving you homework?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, she says it, like that's not already
Speaker 3: the deal breaker?
Speaker 2: Do you travel? What do you think? He lives at
Speaker 2: home with his mom? Is daddy, what kind of stupid
Speaker 2: question is this? Have you been to Europe?
Speaker 9: I love?
Speaker 2: I love that Europe is like the height of world.
Speaker 2: Going to Europe you have around?
Speaker 3: So Eric scoffs, you kidden last summer, I bummed my
Speaker 3: way through Pittsburgh. Brenda starts laughing and Eric has to
Speaker 3: clarify I'm serious. Brenda asks, have you been to Europe?
Speaker 3: Feels like she already knows this answer, and he just
Speaker 3: tells her no, just Pittsburgh, but there is a large
Speaker 3: Polish community there. Eric says, I just realized why the
Speaker 3: service here is so slow. They don't have any waiters.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to go up there and order as something.
Speaker 3: Eric approaches the counter and then Turner walks over because
Speaker 3: where else would he be?
Speaker 1: See, that's the thing that was weird is I was
Speaker 1: going to say, it makes perfect sense that Eric would
Speaker 1: bring her to Chubbies because he's a kid and he's
Speaker 1: young and does to show how young he is. But
Speaker 1: then guy.
Speaker 3: So uh, Turner says, Eric looks sick. He said what
Speaker 3: did you order? So I don't get the same thing?
Speaker 3: And Eric asks, mister Turner, you ever been to Europe?
Speaker 3: And Turner responds yeah, oh, but the food here is
Speaker 3: nothing like it. Eric grabs Turner and brings him over
Speaker 3: to his booth with Brenda. Eric announces Jonathan Turner Brenda Marsh.
Speaker 3: Turner smiles and shakes her hand. Oh yeah, hey from
Speaker 3: almost the other night. Brenda stands up and smiles as
Speaker 3: she shakes his hand back, and then she giggles at
Speaker 3: absolutely nothing because she is turned.
Speaker 9: On by That's right.
Speaker 3: Really really nice of her though, to give her work friends,
Speaker 3: high school son a chance. She you know, I thought
Speaker 3: so that was really nice. She at least was like, listen,
Speaker 3: who am I to judge?
Speaker 2: Yes? Right? What do you do when you're not doing
Speaker 2: your homework? What do you do when you have to
Speaker 2: color outside the line? She wanted to get inside that
Speaker 2: giant suit.
Speaker 3: I can't help it. Eric breaks the silence. All right,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. I've got a study, you know, exams.
Speaker 3: He leans into Turner and asks if you guys hit
Speaker 3: it off, will this help me? And Turner immediately says no.
Speaker 3: As Eric's walking away, a girl runs up to him
Speaker 3: to say hi, and Eric asks her, so, Christy, you
Speaker 3: ever been to Europe? She says no, but during the
Speaker 3: summer her family's going to Pittsburgh. He nods and asks
Speaker 3: marry me, and.
Speaker 2: Then they cut it.
Speaker 1: You can actually see her she says okay as they're
Speaker 1: cutting away, which was a great line that she just
Speaker 1: adds in so they you can see the visual of it.
Speaker 2: But they took out the audio as they're cutting away.
Speaker 2: They didn't want people to then be like, what's going
Speaker 2: to happen with that storyline?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Is Eric getting married? But it was great?
Speaker 3: Yuh So, then we're in the Matthew's kitchen to Panga
Speaker 3: and Corey are studying, and she asks him to tell
Speaker 3: her about the great Gatsby. Corey proudly says, the best
Speaker 3: hockey player of all time? Next, writer, who are they
Speaker 3: talking about?
Speaker 2: Wayne Gretzky? Wow? Yes, wow, wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And how many touchdowns did Wayne Gretzky score in his career?
Speaker 2: He? Uh, he had? He was called for I seemed
Speaker 2: the most on the cupcakes I've noted. Did he do
Speaker 2: something great? He was? He was the great one. He
Speaker 2: was great. He's the best of all time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then Sean runs through the door. They're at school, Denny
Speaker 3: and those jerks, and they've got a bunch of people
Speaker 3: with them too. They're up to something something bad.
Speaker 2: I like though that. Sean is like you, yeah, right,
Speaker 2: let's go. Let's go make sure it was just like that.
Speaker 2: We're gang. The three of us are all in this together. Yes,
Speaker 2: the lamest meeting.
Speaker 3: And I also have a denim jacket on, so you
Speaker 3: know I'm a good person.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we all go running out of the house to school.
Speaker 2: New set alert. Yeah, this new set alert outside of
Speaker 2: John Adams the same spot where different different different exterior YEP,
Speaker 2: with some spray paint. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: When they arrived, it has a real twenty one jump
Speaker 3: street vibe. There's spray paint everywhere. Teenagers are yelling and
Speaker 3: slamming garbage cans to the ground. It's like bringing to noise,
Speaker 3: bring in defunk. There's painting all over the walls. They're
Speaker 3: throwing traffic cones everywhere. Someone even wrote die Die Die
Speaker 3: Die Feene was another one on the other side.
Speaker 2: It's like this is real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man level, Sean says he's going to call the cops.
Speaker 3: Sean says, there's no time. This is our school. I'm
Speaker 3: not turning my back. I sleep here every day. It
Speaker 3: does a great and great mix of you showing passion
Speaker 3: and reality for the situation, and also still being able
Speaker 3: to throw a joke in there that actually will be
Speaker 3: a lot funny, very funny. Corey tells him, but the
Speaker 3: police are trained in handling unruly crowds, and Sean scoffs, oh,
Speaker 3: come on, and I could have used a really nice, quirky,
Speaker 3: dorky call back here.
Speaker 2: I still love that nickname.
Speaker 3: Corey says, all right, I'm right behind you, and Sean
Speaker 3: yells out, hey, Denny. Denny turns around and says, hey,
Speaker 3: hunter man, you're just in time. Here's your spray can. Sean,
Speaker 3: with the power of the leather jacket, smacks the spray
Speaker 3: can out of his hands and says, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: Denny pushes a pair of pliers against Sean, sending him
Speaker 3: stumbling backwards, and he asks, you're gonna stop me. Denny says,
Speaker 3: I didn't think so. Corey steps in and yells, guys,
Speaker 3: come on, why are you doing this. Patrick Renna, who's
Speaker 3: barely said a word up until this point, explains to
Speaker 3: show Feeni, We're not going to take his stinking tests,
Speaker 3: and Denny adds, oh, yeah, we are. We're going to
Speaker 3: take his stinking tests. Right off his stinkin' desk. STI tests,
Speaker 3: stinkin guy.
Speaker 2: We're not just gonna vanalyze the school. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: the test. The stinking desk, stinking off the stinking desk,
Speaker 2: that stinking Phoenie. Thank you for stinky.
Speaker 1: Phoenie, stinking stinky thanky for keo say that's five times fast.
Speaker 2: Panga asks, I so look out of place here. I
Speaker 2: thank god we've got to peg it.
Speaker 1: She's got our back here with my new How.
Speaker 2: About you guys, You guys just tried studying. Oh no,
Speaker 2: to pego, We've never thought of that.
Speaker 3: Thanks for that suggestion, you and your stupid stinky denim jacket.
Speaker 2: Stinking denim jacket, good girl denim.
Speaker 3: Now, Renna is on a roll and he responds, who
Speaker 3: needs that phoene teaching anyway? It's all about dead old
Speaker 3: guys like him, And Denny tells him he doesn't teach history.
Speaker 2: He is history.
Speaker 3: He doesn't care about us your heels, of course, he
Speaker 3: cares about you.
Speaker 2: Writers.
Speaker 6: Just watch Grease over and over and over again, and
Speaker 6: it's like we never never got out of that.
Speaker 1: Boy boy, crazy boy, Like what are you gonna break
Speaker 1: into song? It's so strange all the way, like, what.
Speaker 2: Are they doing? It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It is so like waiting for I'm telling you, we
Speaker 1: don't get Feenie out of here. See, we're gonna punch
Speaker 1: him in the mug, like, what the hell is happenings?
Speaker 1: Talk about them stinking tests.
Speaker 3: I love imagining all of our writers watching Greece at lunch.
Speaker 2: It's all right, we got to watch Greece again again.
Speaker 2: Let's watch what.
Speaker 1: Too.
Speaker 2: We're taking this to the second level to everybody.
Speaker 1: Really, oh man, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Corey yells, of course he cares about you.
Speaker 3: He's trying to push this little nugget of education past
Speaker 3: your baseball statistics and your criminal record.
Speaker 2: Right here, An he Pokestanny on the forehead.
Speaker 3: Denny scals, if you touch my head again, I will
Speaker 3: break your stinking finger. He hasn't say stinking, but Corey
Speaker 3: takes his hand away. You see, I learned something, Sean says.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something I learned from Phoenie.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 3: You guys can come down to the school yard because
Speaker 3: you've got freedom of assembly. I'm talking about Amendment one
Speaker 3: of the Bill of Rights, and Corey questions Sean. Sean
Speaker 3: admits accidentally read the chapter. Sean continues, I learned they've
Speaker 3: got the right to peaceably assemble. But the second you
Speaker 3: guys broke that lock, you broke the law, and I
Speaker 3: got the right to call the cops.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Denny asks about Phoenie, why are you defending him? What
Speaker 3: has he ever done for you? Sean points to the
Speaker 3: bolt cutters in Denny's hand and asks, you see how
Speaker 3: I don't have any in mine. That's what he's done
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: This is also two episodes in a row where Sean
Speaker 1: is threatened to call the cops on somebody.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, because.
Speaker 1: When we're at this swinging trailer park you were, you
Speaker 1: were also having to call the cops.
Speaker 6: Yeahe let's go to now is I'm just gonna drop
Speaker 6: a dime and very I you know again, confrontations with
Speaker 6: a thug like right, gangsters everywhere, and y Sean standing
Speaker 6: up to them.
Speaker 2: I'm going to call the pol.
Speaker 1: We're going to leave this swinging party in a half
Speaker 1: hour forty five minutes, and I'm going to call the cops.
Speaker 2: Yes, And mister Feeney opens the door and asks.
Speaker 3: Breaking down the door to take your finals, mister Burgess
Speaker 3: This makes all the kids run away, leaving behind Jess, Corey, Seawan,
Speaker 3: and Tapanga. Mister Phoene asks, so, mister Hunter, you do
Speaker 3: listen in class sometimes, Sean responds, some days you're talking
Speaker 3: so much, I can't sleep. I cross my arms here
Speaker 3: for everyone to gather that it's cooled outside, because I
Speaker 3: will probably not speak again at all for the rest
Speaker 3: of the scene. But I need to act alive, and
Speaker 3: so what I do is I cross my arms with
Speaker 3: a little bit of a shiver.
Speaker 2: Okay, you've got a jacket on, so you're working your
Speaker 2: way through.
Speaker 3: I'm having a hard time. I'm having I'm having a
Speaker 3: hard time acting in this show.
Speaker 2: Acting day for Danielle.
Speaker 3: It's just it was hard and I wanted you guys
Speaker 3: to know that the nott those guys give me the creeps.
Speaker 2: But it's a little and those guys give me the
Speaker 2: eb gbs.
Speaker 1: So now are they going to jail? Because opens the door,
Speaker 1: he knows who they are. They have bolt cutters, they've
Speaker 1: written die on the school. They've vandalized him. Do you
Speaker 1: think Phoenie then calls the cops.
Speaker 3: Well, it kills him because we don't ever see these
Speaker 3: guys acounts.
Speaker 2: I think, I think a body count between the Matthews
Speaker 2: houses exactly. That's why all dead kids. It's all fertilized kids.
Speaker 2: I love about his gard metaphor, and they grow. Jonathan,
Speaker 2: you are better than others because I was just now
Speaker 2: it's a majority of kids in my garden, and I
Speaker 2: don't have a big enough garden for the Did you
Speaker 2: enjoy the tomatoes, Jonathan, that's a great like. We've picked
Speaker 2: up on an underlying theme here, murder kids and using
Speaker 2: them to plan to plan his garden.
Speaker 3: Oh Man Sokry asks Feenie what he's doing here so late,
Speaker 3: and Phoene tells them, I'm preparing your final exams.
Speaker 2: You're not the only ones who worked hard on these STPs.
Speaker 2: Sean smiles.
Speaker 3: I heard Phoene's making them real hard so we can
Speaker 3: cram some more of that knowledge stuff into our heads.
Speaker 3: Phoene responds, you think these are tough, mister Hunter, wait
Speaker 3: until you see what I have in mind for.
Speaker 2: You next year.
Speaker 3: Kory asks next year, and Phoenie confirms yes, mister Matthews,
Speaker 3: perhaps this old dinosaur still has a few hundred million
Speaker 3: years left in him. Sean adds, we got to be
Speaker 3: out of high school by then, And I chuckle because
Speaker 3: even though I am on the show, I am sometimes mute,
Speaker 3: and I must act.
Speaker 2: My only decision, like it would be nice if it was.
Speaker 3: Responsive or it is in response to us, but it
Speaker 3: isn't really super clear, but it is that it is
Speaker 3: in response to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he also made it off camera, which is strange,
Speaker 1: but that's like me dating an older woman all off.
Speaker 3: Camera, right, all, yeah, exactly to make the decision off
Speaker 3: Well he did or did he just make the decision
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 2: Which is what I think it is.
Speaker 3: I think it is that he was on the other
Speaker 3: side of the door, heard what Sean had to say,
Speaker 3: heard what Corey had to say, heard me say.
Speaker 2: How about you lady, You gentlemen just study, and he
Speaker 2: was like, Wow, those three I'm going to follow them
Speaker 2: to college. Yeah, that's what I think. I'm going to
Speaker 2: raise their children, and we're all going to be together forever.
Speaker 3: We're all going to be together forever. But the other
Speaker 3: kids and the other kids make for great mulch. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So Phoene smiles. He shooes us all off, and he
Speaker 3: looks around at all the damage to his school, and
Speaker 3: he starts to clean up. Just as he starts, we
Speaker 3: see a piece of garbage held out to him and
Speaker 3: re reveal it's Corey. Still with Sean and Tapanga. We
Speaker 3: all band together to help him clean up the mess.
Speaker 1: No, it's nice.
Speaker 2: And then we're in the school hallway.
Speaker 3: Everyone once again runs up to a piece of paper
Speaker 3: on the wall with their final exam scores. Corey covers
Speaker 3: his eyes until Shawne can't look to Penga starts reading
Speaker 3: out all of the grades C, C, C D. Sean
Speaker 3: Lasson says, boy, to Pega, you did pretty lousy. She explains,
Speaker 3: those are your grades, Sean, He exclaims in true happiness,
Speaker 3: Oh yes, she's very cute. Corey reads his grades next
Speaker 3: B B, B minus C plus B to Pega nudges
Speaker 3: him and says, boy, Corey, you did better than you thought.
Speaker 3: And Corey says, you know this is encouraging. He yells
Speaker 3: to all the students, people studying really is the way
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 2: Are you guys with me?
Speaker 3: They all scream yeah in unison, he yells, then follow me,
Speaker 3: and who needs to know what Tapenga got on her finals?
Speaker 1: Not me?
Speaker 2: Who the hell cares?
Speaker 3: We are back at Chubbies they're all gathered around the
Speaker 3: TV again with no books in sight, and I'm finally
Speaker 3: there for this one, y Panga is there? I am
Speaker 3: watching TV and the episode.
Speaker 2: What do you think the cast of Boy Mets World watches?
Speaker 2: What's what was our? What TV shows were we watching?
Speaker 2: Seinfilm Friends?
Speaker 1: Well, no, it would have been would have been right
Speaker 1: after school, right, Isn't that where he leaves, So it's
Speaker 1: like three four o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: There was no TVO you weren't. It was whatever was on,
Speaker 2: So it's probably like a Judge Judy kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something along those lines is probably what's on People's
Speaker 1: Court back in the days, right, right, some sort of
Speaker 1: TV that's weird between say two thirty and five thirty.
Speaker 2: You would know you are the TV expert here, It's true,
Speaker 2: so you back in the day you had to it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you find that kind of stuff because because your
Speaker 1: your soap operas were done already and primetime hadn't started,
Speaker 1: so it was that kind of like you know, game
Speaker 1: show lull.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right before you get into the evening news correct correct,
Speaker 2: People's Court ish kind of stuff like that. A lot
Speaker 2: of talk shows stuff like that. Rickey Lake things like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, all right, Well, thank you all for joining
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Speaker 2: If you don't take care of that march, we will.
Speaker 2: Oh We're gonna kill that march.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: So join us for our next recap episode, which is
Speaker 3: season three episode nineteen, I Was a Teenage Spy, which
Speaker 3: originally aired April.
Speaker 2: Twenty sixth, nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're getting into our first yeah time travel episode.
Speaker 2: I cannot any weight? Yeah, does it go back to
Speaker 2: the fifties? This is Yeah, I think this is the show.
Speaker 2: We're just continuing the.
Speaker 6: Grease stuff they were really actually really want And then
Speaker 6: they were casting I think has everybody from like Happy
Speaker 6: Days Yeah and all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my god, this is so funny. They were
Speaker 2: going through with fifties teenage whatever. Yeah. Yeah, weird.
Speaker 3: And I don't I mean, I don't mean to make
Speaker 3: us feel old or anything. But we had a group
Speaker 3: of kids come to the house for Halloween, but we
Speaker 3: had somebody notice our jukebox and they were like, is
Speaker 3: that a juke box? We said yeah, and he was like,
Speaker 3: is it from the seventies? And we said it's actually
Speaker 3: from the sixties. And then another kid who was with
Speaker 3: the group of kids said, did you see they have
Speaker 3: a jukebox from the nineties? And I realized the nineties
Speaker 3: are as far away from them as the sixties were
Speaker 3: for us when we were so you think about how
Speaker 3: we feel about the nineties, that is how our writers
Speaker 3: were feeling.
Speaker 2: About the sixties. Six sixties. Yeah, it's a little crazy.
Speaker 2: So anyways, sense LGG.
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