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Speaker 3: So my wife just got back from Poland she got back. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they won the Audience Award, this third audience award in
Speaker 3: a row, which is amazing. Yeah, it's like the only
Speaker 3: award that this festival gives out and they want it,
Speaker 3: which is huge. And she just had such an amazing time.
Speaker 3: But one of the things that.
Speaker 4: She talked about was how cheap the meals were really
Speaker 4: really Yes, like they had amazing food with like huge
Speaker 4: groups of people, and and I was like, because we
Speaker 4: just came back from New York, I was like, not
Speaker 4: our experience.
Speaker 3: Was like not in America in general, but certainly not
Speaker 3: in New York City during our time. But anyway, it
Speaker 3: just made me think of times where I have definitely
Speaker 3: overpaid for meals and like been and I was wondering
Speaker 3: if you guys have ever had you heard that one
Speaker 3: story and my friend Chris told about he got stuck
Speaker 3: with sushi one time he went to a sushi place
Speaker 3: ordered got recommended by the chef. He was had like
Speaker 3: a special sushi place for his birthday with his girlfriend
Speaker 3: and he got the chef said, oh you should try this,
Speaker 3: you know, special sashimi, and ended up being six hundred
Speaker 3: dollars for like five pieces of money.
Speaker 5: It was like eight Well by the time they realized
Speaker 5: like maybe we should check on the price of this,
Speaker 5: they had only had like five pieces total and it
Speaker 5: was eight hundred bucks in Yeah, but like those two
Speaker 5: pieces of sushi were three hundred each or.
Speaker 2: Super It's so funny that you mentioned that because I
Speaker 2: literally yesterday or the day before, we have a bucket
Speaker 2: list restaurant we want to go to and plan your
Speaker 2: trip around booking this restaurant. So we're going to or
Speaker 2: trying to get into French laundry and so it's it's
Speaker 2: going to be and it's one of those things where
Speaker 2: you look at the reservations and for months they're booked up.
Speaker 2: So it's not like, hey, we're going to be there
Speaker 2: in April, can we get a table. It's like, oh,
Speaker 2: there's a table in April. I guess that's when we're going.
Speaker 1: Right, we'll go. So yeah, it's like a month's rent.
Speaker 1: It is, well, the.
Speaker 2: One they they the one they were doing, which I
Speaker 2: didn't want to do anyway, but it was like a
Speaker 2: caviar pairing with everything both. It was a set menu
Speaker 2: of one thousand dollars a person. So it's that's what
Speaker 2: I looked at.
Speaker 1: It was Sue. It was like, we're not doing that one.
Speaker 2: She's like, no, I don't want to do a cat
Speaker 2: the people when you're yeah, yeah, so that's a bucket
Speaker 2: list thing for me. I'd like to give that shah.
Speaker 2: There's two things I wanted I want to do because
Speaker 2: I very rarely plan stuff like that. I want to
Speaker 2: go to French laundry and I want to.
Speaker 1: See a del in concerts.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, those are the two things I really like
Speaker 2: that will also cost a thousand dollars. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: I think that'll be I think that's doable. The tickets
Speaker 2: to a del I think so that we're going to plant,
Speaker 2: we'll plan a Vegas trip around seeing Adele. But I
Speaker 2: really like Adele and i'd like to see her in concert.
Speaker 2: I think she'd be phenomenal, So that is something I
Speaker 2: definitely wanted.
Speaker 1: That would be fun. We we when we went to
Speaker 1: Thailand on our that actually that walk where I told
Speaker 1: you guys, when I was like, can we go? Can
Speaker 1: we walk to this thing? Yes, the freeway walk. On
Speaker 1: that walk, we stopped at a fruit cart. It was
Speaker 1: our very first day there, so I didn't have time
Speaker 1: to like figure out exactly what the conversion rate is
Speaker 1: for everything. But we stopped at a fruit cart where
Speaker 1: you know, they put some spicy stuff on the fruit,
Speaker 1: and we shared one large container of fruit, and they
Speaker 1: told us how much how much it was, and I
Speaker 1: just handed them the money and then walked away. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't I don't think that that
Speaker 1: actually made sense. I don't think that made sense. And
Speaker 1: I was and he was like why, and I said,
Speaker 1: I think we made I think I just said like
Speaker 1: fifteen American dollars or I think it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be like a dollar, like a US American dollar, and
Speaker 1: they literally just took one look at us and were like,
Speaker 1: it's it's thirty fifteen, and I was like, well, you're good.
Speaker 3: Good for them, you lost fifteen dollars. They ate for
Speaker 3: a month, Danielle.
Speaker 1: I am not complaining. The fifteen dollars is probably what
Speaker 1: we would have spent out here for the So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I definitely was like they that was
Speaker 1: not what they would have charged anyone else. That was
Speaker 1: definitely not what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you guys ever eat at the Pacific Dining
Speaker 3: Car downtown? Do you remember that place?
Speaker 1: I remember that that place was crazy.
Speaker 3: It was too cool. So I I lived downtown, you remember.
Speaker 3: I moved downtown and then I found out of the
Speaker 3: Pacific Dining Cars. It's it was in a train car.
Speaker 3: It was like a famous It was a big police thing, right,
Speaker 3: like a lot of cops went there whatever.
Speaker 1: But it was like super expensive and I had heard like, oh.
Speaker 3: It's this fancy restaurant, and so I took I decided
Speaker 3: to take my dad and his mother, so my grandmother
Speaker 3: and my dad because they were I don't know why
Speaker 3: it was just the two of them. They must have
Speaker 3: been visiting me in La or my grandmother must have
Speaker 3: been coming down for a special trip with my dad
Speaker 3: or whatever, and so I was like, I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: them out to a nice restaurant. I've heard about the
Speaker 3: Pacific Dining Car, and I think we went for brunch.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even dinner, it was brunch, and I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm buying, I'm getting this, and my dad couldn't eat.
Speaker 3: He ordered food and was so stressed out about how
Speaker 3: much money, like he could not eat, Like he started
Speaker 3: eating and then just had to go to the bathroom
Speaker 3: and throw up. And I remember I was like, it's okay,
Speaker 3: like I'm making this is you know, but it was
Speaker 3: like but just like it was just so for the
Speaker 3: price or the food from the price, like he could
Speaker 3: not swallow food. Well, you know, like hundreds of dollars
Speaker 3: for whatever it was like Pacific Dining. I don't know, like,
Speaker 3: but I was trying to be like here I thought,
Speaker 3: at the age of sixteen seventeen that I was like
Speaker 3: taking my dad out, taking my grandma out, and it
Speaker 3: totally stressed my dad out to a degree that like
Speaker 3: he couldn't eat, and like I'll never forget that.
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh god, you know, it's okay
Speaker 1: that I have this, but you know, he just couldn't
Speaker 1: handle it.
Speaker 3: And I remember my grandmother like ordered, of course, like
Speaker 3: the cheapest thing, but it was.
Speaker 1: Just like you know, yeah exactly, and I'm like, it's okay, guys,
Speaker 1: please let me do this.
Speaker 2: I don't mind paying a ton for food if it's
Speaker 2: worth it. I mind, you know, getting a crappy.
Speaker 1: Meal hundreds of dollars for me and it happens. You
Speaker 1: don't know until you already order it and.
Speaker 2: It happens, and then you're like, you've got to be
Speaker 2: kidding me. This isn't very good. We just ate, but
Speaker 2: we were just in New York. That Vietnamese place was
Speaker 2: pretty dark.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, was amazing that place. But you know a
Speaker 3: lot of times it's you can tell when you walk
Speaker 3: in and like the decor is where they spent all
Speaker 3: their money. I'm always like, not a good signe Like
Speaker 3: you know, if it's if it's like so hip and
Speaker 3: so much money went into like the setting, which can
Speaker 3: be nice.
Speaker 1: Atmosphere is important.
Speaker 3: I like a good atmosphere, but when that's like really
Speaker 3: like over the top, I'm always like, that's what I'm
Speaker 3: paying for more than the food.
Speaker 1: My mother in law used to love. For Christmas, we'd
Speaker 1: go to Lowries every year and celebrate. We'd get the
Speaker 1: minute they open up their Christmas reservations, like they do
Speaker 1: it like right around it's probably time to time to
Speaker 1: figure it out. I need to put it in my calendar.
Speaker 1: But it's like hard to get a reservation. They decorate
Speaker 1: for Christmas and it's a gorgeous steakhouse Prime Rib. And
Speaker 1: we carry on the tradition. Now that she's passed, we
Speaker 1: carry on the tradition. We write down when the reservations
Speaker 1: are open, we make a reservation and we take the
Speaker 1: kids in honor of her for our Lowry's Prime Rib dinner.
Speaker 1: And it's super expensive. And she used to say every time,
Speaker 1: she'd be like, this is the one time of year
Speaker 1: we do it. Enjoy it. We don't do it often,
Speaker 1: enjoy it. And so it's a really fun little tradition
Speaker 1: that we carry on for her. So when you find
Speaker 1: a good place that you love, it can absolutely be
Speaker 1: worth it.
Speaker 2: We just booked a New Year's place in Mystic, Connecticut
Speaker 2: because that's where we're going to be for New Year's
Speaker 2: back where we got married. And I was checking like
Speaker 2: every week, calling the place and they're like, no, sorry,
Speaker 2: we're not we're not open for reservations yet now, and.
Speaker 1: I called on the day.
Speaker 2: The guy was like, I actually just opened them up,
Speaker 2: like you'll be the first one on the list. I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, yes, we got our favorite restaurant in
Speaker 2: Mystic for New Year's.
Speaker 1: Which is not Mistic Pizza.
Speaker 2: I too, No, it is not Missed Pizza though. That's
Speaker 2: where our wedding rehearsal dinner was, which was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah you were there. It was a ton of well,
Speaker 1: welcome to Pod Meets World.
Speaker 2: I'm Daniel Fishal, I'm rather or strong, and I am
Speaker 2: officially hungry, and I'm well.
Speaker 1: So today we are recapping season three, episode twenty I
Speaker 1: Never Sang for My Legal Guardian. It originally aired a
Speaker 1: third nineteen ninety six. The synopsis Sean becomes frustrated over
Speaker 1: the disappearance of his birth father, just as mister Turner
Speaker 1: contemplates taking on a bigger role. Also, Eric becomes a tutor.
Speaker 1: It was directed by David Traynor. It was written by
Speaker 1: Kevin Kelton. What did you guys think? Overall impressions before
Speaker 1: I get into who our guest cast was.
Speaker 2: That was good?
Speaker 3: Great, Yeah, solid episode.
Speaker 6: I thought it was.
Speaker 1: Boring, really, I did. I thought it was boring.
Speaker 2: I thought it was the quintessential episode of not knowing
Speaker 2: what to do with a bunch of different characters.
Speaker 1: I thought the BT story was.
Speaker 2: Weird and not that great.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't awful, but it certainly wasn't one of my
Speaker 2: favorite episodes.
Speaker 1: Wow, I feel like.
Speaker 3: This was an episode that they probably had been holding
Speaker 3: on to until the end of the season. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: so for me, it tied up the Sean storyline in
Speaker 3: such a nice way. I was like, oh right, it
Speaker 3: feels like this could have happened right after you know,
Speaker 3: the double Lie, or like one earlier episodes from the season.
Speaker 1: So I feel like this.
Speaker 3: I guess it was just satisfying to tie up, like,
Speaker 3: oh right, we're back into like the storyline since ever
Speaker 3: since Chet entered the show, E've been kind of waiting
Speaker 3: for this. So that was the end of second season.
Speaker 3: So for me, I feel like this is it's starting
Speaker 3: to feel like that, you know, the serialization of Boy
Speaker 3: Meets World is really coming together, and of course just
Speaker 3: the Sean storyline.
Speaker 1: Just it's great. I was like, wow, this is I care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I loved the episode. I loved the storylines. I will say,
Speaker 1: you know, there is no other There's a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways I want to come at this. One is
Speaker 1: that sometimes we get criticism for holding Boy Meets World
Speaker 1: to maybe a higher standard than we would most other
Speaker 1: nineties sitcoms, especially kids sitcoms, and to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: people are right. It's a Friday night kids slash family show,
Speaker 1: and you're going to have some episodes that are just
Speaker 1: going to be played for Joki joke laughs, and there's
Speaker 1: not going to be like this deeper Boy Meets World stuff.
Speaker 1: But then you get an episode like this where at
Speaker 1: the end of the episode it's all rosy and happy,
Speaker 1: and yet every single person watching knows it absolutely is
Speaker 1: not that something bad is going to happen. This is
Speaker 1: not going to work out this. Everyone feels somehow a
Speaker 1: little bad about the positive ending of a show. You
Speaker 1: can't tell me that's a regular old nineties sitcom. That's
Speaker 1: actually that's kind of a drama. It's also very high level.
Speaker 1: Now here's my question.
Speaker 2: Do you think back in the day we can say
Speaker 2: that now because we know where it's going. Do you
Speaker 2: think back in the day when you saw it your
Speaker 2: first time, when it ended that way. People really thought
Speaker 2: this isn't going to go well. Yes see, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why when we get into the
Speaker 1: actual scene. I'll tell you why. Okay, there are some beautiful, subtle,
Speaker 1: absolute nods to the fact that what's going on on
Speaker 1: Chet's end is a little making sure sure, and so
Speaker 1: I think it is very obvious for anyone who's who's
Speaker 1: paid attention that this is not the ending of Turner
Speaker 1: having done everything he's done for Sean and the relationship
Speaker 1: they've formed, and no one I think is thinking, wow,
Speaker 1: look at that. All it took was for Sean to
Speaker 1: say something like I need you and I think you
Speaker 1: need me, and then for well, for Corey to go
Speaker 1: after him, and then that all of a sudden changes
Speaker 1: his mind. I think everyone, I think.
Speaker 3: I think the bottom line is the audience, because even
Speaker 3: even if you're not going to be forward thinking enough
Speaker 3: to like worry or to know that Chet's going to
Speaker 3: let him down again, I think that there's just the
Speaker 3: tension that is left when you kind of want Turner
Speaker 3: and Sean to be together again, like you kind of
Speaker 3: think that you know that Turner's better for Sean.
Speaker 1: In some ways.
Speaker 3: Yes, And so even though it's a happy ending that
Speaker 3: Sean gets his dad back, there's still the sense of, like, oh,
Speaker 3: but I wanted Sean Turner to like work their stuff out,
Speaker 3: and they don't work it out.
Speaker 1: You know, are they are? They work it out?
Speaker 3: They but you know the fact that he doesn't become
Speaker 3: the legal guardian and you kind of think that.
Speaker 1: Would be good for Turner too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's just that's just bittersweet, right, It's a
Speaker 3: bittersweet ending, and that's I love that that, you know
Speaker 3: that bittersweetness is is what makes a great set.
Speaker 2: I'm getting I was getting a little tired of angsty
Speaker 2: Sean for the nineteenth episode in a row where it's.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, buckle up. I know, I know, but it
Speaker 1: was all it is.
Speaker 2: It was also this is to me, I always say
Speaker 2: it's the quintessential one. But there was no reason to
Speaker 2: waste Alex's time on this show.
Speaker 1: No, agree.
Speaker 2: He did not need to be on Boy Mets World
Speaker 2: at all, and he could have gone off and started
Speaker 2: a much better career on a different show.
Speaker 1: Because they never used it. But you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: did they never use it?
Speaker 2: They had no idea what they're doing with this guy.
Speaker 2: He did not need to be there. I feel like
Speaker 2: we were wasting his time. And so this was the
Speaker 2: where I was like, what the hell is this guy
Speaker 2: even doing here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm sure, yes, in hindsight, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: And at the time I think Alex was thrilled to
Speaker 1: have the paycheck. Of course, of course, you know, and
Speaker 1: we love him to death, but god, what a waste
Speaker 1: of this man. I know.
Speaker 3: It's like, I feel like they had given up by
Speaker 3: this point. Yeah, the writers had given up.
Speaker 2: Episode that was just about his character the way everyone's.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately janitor one. Oh, right, but the gender budd was
Speaker 1: he was the teacher. That was great.
Speaker 3: But then the other one I was thinking is that
Speaker 3: the Subway episode had you know, it was just him
Speaker 3: and Turner had their own.
Speaker 1: Beast, the.
Speaker 3: Crazy ladies, right, and that was just a bummer of
Speaker 3: a storyline for them because probably would have been better
Speaker 3: if he had been more established. But yeah, other than that, no,
Speaker 3: and I think I think what happened is they did
Speaker 3: the fifties episode, they wrote him an entire scene, rewrote
Speaker 3: it without where he now he just only has like
Speaker 3: two lines or whatever to get Pat Marita in there,
Speaker 3: and I think they just gave up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like checked out. Is he in fourth season?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: This is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think Tony only has a couple episodes left, right,
Speaker 2: I mean Tony comes back for fourth season, but not
Speaker 2: as a regular.
Speaker 1: No. No, I think he.
Speaker 2: Did two seasons of the show. Yeah, pretty sure he
Speaker 2: did in a little full seasons and then a little.
Speaker 1: This is it.
Speaker 2: We're like five episodes away from never seeing Tony again.
Speaker 1: So crazy, Okay, So guest starring the return of Blake
Speaker 1: Clark as chat Hunter waiting and here Yes he's all
Speaker 1: Marine cut Yeah, and Bobby Phillips as Leu Anne, Bobby
Speaker 1: Jacobi as Jeff Lacy. We had Melvin in the nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety classic Tremors, as well as Homeboy Number two in
Speaker 1: Can't Hardly Wait? What's Yeah? Frank Novak as Desk Sergeant,
Speaker 1: a well established character actor with appearances on Perfect Stranger,
Speaker 1: Seinfeld Friends, Madmen, and Scrubs, but he also played Henry
Speaker 1: Kissinger in the Watchmen movie. Oh oh interesting Okay, And
Speaker 1: then we had Cindy A. Laura as Anita Worth noting
Speaker 1: her only other role was as party Girl Number one
Speaker 1: in Bikini Hotel, a film I had not heard of.
Speaker 1: What you have never heard a Bikini Hotel shocking, and
Speaker 1: she was party girl number one. Bikini Hotel two was better.
Speaker 1: It really caught the stride. Also worth noting, I was
Speaker 1: personal this episode I Never Sang for my Legal Guardian
Speaker 1: is a reference to the nineteen seventy drama slash musical
Speaker 1: starring Gene Hackman called I Never Sang for my Father. Interesting.
Speaker 2: I normally, if I don't remember an episode at all,
Speaker 2: which this one I did not remember at all, I
Speaker 2: will have some sort of inkling of remembering the title.
Speaker 1: Right. I don't remember ever even hearing this title. It's
Speaker 1: a weird title.
Speaker 2: It's a weird title, and when I saw it, I
Speaker 2: was like, is that really the name of this episode?
Speaker 2: I don't remember this at all.
Speaker 1: Well, it ties in with our Daniels red Jelapi geloppiness
Speaker 1: of Boy Meets World, which is I Never Sang for
Speaker 1: my Father from nineteen seventy must have been impactful or
Speaker 1: important to someone, whether that's Kevin Kelton or whether that's
Speaker 1: Michael Jacobs or somebody else in the room. But somebody
Speaker 1: decided those two things probably went together and they decided
Speaker 1: to name it that, But it means absolutely nothing to us, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So let's jump into our recap. We start in the
Speaker 1: school hallway. Corey runs at Sean, who looks like he's
Speaker 1: wearing a floral kimono in this.
Speaker 2: Like, everybody's got the longest shirts or sweaters that I've
Speaker 2: ever We've gone from layers to length exactly. It's amazing
Speaker 2: what's going on.
Speaker 1: So Corey is warning him they're going to be late
Speaker 1: for class. Sean is on the payphone trying to check
Speaker 1: his messages. I do not remember that being a thing.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember that?
Speaker 6: Really?
Speaker 2: Absolutely really sure? You'd have to have your code to
Speaker 2: type in what is like.
Speaker 3: You know, you have to call home to your answer
Speaker 3: machine and then type in, you wait for the bead,
Speaker 3: You have to hit weight, you have to hip star
Speaker 3: while the answer spit some announcement's going out, and then
Speaker 3: your code and you could like erase messages, replay, save
Speaker 3: them or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was. The thing if like an X New Year code,
Speaker 2: they could get in and change your message, they could.
Speaker 1: Do any of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then and then people got voicemail, which we
Speaker 3: would obviously be able to do that right from wherever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you uti to have to call your old self,
Speaker 3: your your own answer machine.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: I forgot all about that until we just walked through
Speaker 1: all those steps, and then I vaguely remember, yeah, he
Speaker 1: did used to be able to do that.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: So crazy. So mister Turner appears from his classroom or
Speaker 1: maybe it's the boy's bathroom, or maybe it's Phoene Weenie's office,
Speaker 1: depending on what floor of the tower we are on, yep,
Speaker 1: and Sean asks him for his secret code. Corey quickly
Speaker 1: answers it's one four three for mister Turner asks how
Speaker 1: do you know my secret code? Without hesitation, Corey says, easy,
Speaker 1: it's the same as your bank card. Oh, I owe
Speaker 1: you forty bucks. So did he go into his wallet
Speaker 1: and steal his bank card? Yes, and then actually took
Speaker 1: cash out. And this bumps me a lot because why
Speaker 1: is Corey so comfortable with Turner? Like, if this were Sean,
Speaker 1: I could see it being like, oh wow, talk about
Speaker 1: the boundary crossing. But because they live together and he's
Speaker 1: kind of like a father figure, but Corey, Corey feels
Speaker 1: comfortable enough what Turner to do this? Yeah, apparently I
Speaker 1: kind of liked it.
Speaker 3: I don't know, sort of, Like I.
Speaker 1: Mean, in general, I thought this was a good.
Speaker 3: Integration of Corey in this episode, because you know, normally,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna have Sean take over the storyline this much,
Speaker 3: Corey has completely disappeared, right And in this one, Ben
Speaker 3: has some fun stuff. He's funny. This is my favorite
Speaker 3: court drive the story forward.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is my favorite Cord.
Speaker 2: This is what we were saying in the episode Fuzzy
Speaker 2: where he comes in and somebody else is taking the
Speaker 2: lead of the show and he comes in and has
Speaker 2: some of the greatest one liners and all that, and they.
Speaker 1: Took it slightly to the next level.
Speaker 2: And this one where at the point now he's driving
Speaker 2: parts of the story. But that's my favorite kind of Corey,
Speaker 2: And I think I think this will go away. My
Speaker 2: guess is in the next episode or two, it's going
Speaker 2: to be all about Topanga again, and that's going to set.
Speaker 6: Up the story.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean we can tell just because the
Speaker 1: next episode we can tell that it's our our Florida episode,
Speaker 1: which is oh is this that the next one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow, I am boling if I don't look forward either.
Speaker 1: The name when you if you watch on Disney Plus,
Speaker 1: it comes right up like the minute the episode ends,
Speaker 1: it says the name of the next episode, and I
Speaker 1: was like, it's something like it has Disney in it. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: the happiest place on Earth. Oh okay, so it is.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, we already go to Florida.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe that. We I can't. Let's not we
Speaker 1: cannot even dive into that. I haven't seen the episode yet,
Speaker 1: but I'm already flabbergasted. Amazing. So Sean says his dad
Speaker 1: hasn't called in two weeks, and mister Turner tells him
Speaker 1: not to worry too much. There could be a million reasons.
Speaker 1: Corey grees, yeah, didn't he say he was on his
Speaker 1: way to the Vaticand of is it his old friend
Speaker 1: the Pope. Well, there's only one phone, and it's in
Speaker 1: the Pope's bedroom and you do not want to go
Speaker 1: in there. So Sean was hoping he'd get to see
Speaker 1: his dad and he takes off. Corey tells Turner, we
Speaker 1: got a big problem with Sean. I mean, this one
Speaker 1: goes way beyond puberty, which I say, all the time
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I had no idea where that was from, but I
Speaker 2: always say it's the beginning of a great tradition.
Speaker 3: The other one I remember that's coming up probably next
Speaker 3: season is anchovy Anchovy.
Speaker 1: Remember anchivy, I'm a little He's.
Speaker 3: Like a circling shock and I'm a little anchovy, And
Speaker 3: I go, you mean anchovy?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Any It's like such a basic.
Speaker 3: Dumb joke, but it works so well executlyb Yeah, puberty doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't why is it so funny? It doesn't.
Speaker 3: It is the joke that just Corey has never said
Speaker 3: this word aloud and he's only read it, so he
Speaker 3: just mispronounces it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the joke is. It works, it
Speaker 1: works just I love that. It's just a little idiosyncratic
Speaker 1: thing to have about a character where they just say
Speaker 1: certain words a little wrong or different with one hundred
Speaker 1: percent confidence. Like I just love it. I do that
Speaker 1: in my real life all the time, do you know
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 3: Well, this one reminds me of I mean, because some
Speaker 3: people do say mature as opposed to mature, and like
Speaker 3: that is a debate, right, Like you can say it
Speaker 3: both ways. So it kind of works with pooberty, I
Speaker 3: mean puberty.
Speaker 1: So mister Turner corrects him, you mean puberty. Corey nods
Speaker 1: and says, yeah, puberty. So Corey says he has to
Speaker 1: get Chet out here. Sean hasn't seen him since he
Speaker 1: took off after his mom, which was a year ago.
Speaker 1: So timeline of boy meets world hands we're at about
Speaker 1: a year mark. Mister Turner admits, I don't think he's
Speaker 1: coming back real soon, Matthews. He reveals it a few
Speaker 1: months back. Chet sent the paperwork to make him Shawn's
Speaker 1: legal guardian. Corey is shocked and understands why Shawn's been
Speaker 1: so bummed out lately. Mister Turner agrees it's a big
Speaker 1: step for him and for me. It's difficult enough just
Speaker 1: living together in that mousehole of an apartment, and Corey
Speaker 1: tells him he has to do something. Turner agrees, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. Corey says, you know what, You're a good guy.
Speaker 1: Here's the thirty bucks I owe. Yeah, he corrects him forty.
Speaker 1: Corey nods that's a good memory and walks away. See
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 3: I look at this, inserting Corey into Shawn's drama that
Speaker 3: Corey is taking on Shawn's drama.
Speaker 1: Is so great.
Speaker 3: It's such a great story device, like because you know,
Speaker 3: I can be the engine, you know, and I can
Speaker 3: bring the steaks, but then Corey has to feels I
Speaker 3: need to do something about it, and bringing him in
Speaker 3: Turner together for that, like we're in on this together.
Speaker 3: We care about this person.
Speaker 1: I love all that. My only thing I bumped against,
Speaker 1: and by the way, it's not a major thing. My
Speaker 1: only thing is I could never imagine Corey doing this
Speaker 1: to Feeni and I would actually as as a character.
Speaker 1: I would think Corey would be like, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's mister Turner, like even even him. So for me,
Speaker 1: my only bump up against it was that that requires
Speaker 1: a level of boundary crossing that I feel like Corey
Speaker 1: wouldn't do. Corey wouldn't do. I could totally see Sean
Speaker 1: doing it, especially with mister Turner, because hey, John, we
Speaker 1: share a house. It's I was gonna pay you back,
Speaker 1: Like I could see that. So, but I love everything
Speaker 1: else you're saying. I just kind of bumped against. WHOA
Speaker 1: what is this new Corey who feels so comfortable with
Speaker 1: mister Turner. He's he's taking on a little bit more
Speaker 1: of confidence we haven't seen him have before, but I
Speaker 1: love the way he's that's also integrated into the story.
Speaker 2: Exactly what Feeneye warned against, though, was that if he's
Speaker 2: going to live with you, with you and you know
Speaker 2: you're crossing a line, there's that blur of teacher friend
Speaker 2: whatever it is. And now we see it starting to
Speaker 2: leak into Corey as well, where it's yep, you know,
Speaker 2: it's like that's oh yeah, it's just you know, my
Speaker 2: best friend is living with this guy. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 2: that's still your teacher, still, mister John.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, then we're in Turner's apartment. Sewn and Turner enter
Speaker 1: with Seawn in mid complaint. I'm just saying I didn't
Speaker 1: like any of the apartments we saw. Turner tells him
Speaker 1: to be specific, and Sean clarifies the first one absolutely
Speaker 1: no furniture. Turner clarifies it was an unfurnished apartment. Mister
Speaker 1: Turner questions why he's being so difficult, and Sean begs
Speaker 1: to differ. He didn't mind the nice duplex in a
Speaker 1: condo community, but you said it was too expensive. Corey
Speaker 1: runs into the apartment excitedly. Good news. The duplex in
Speaker 1: the condo community. I talk them down, and look what
Speaker 1: they're throwing in. He opens a binderful of sample carpets.
Speaker 1: Corey advises they go with the shag because it feels
Speaker 1: good in between your toes, and like this. I love
Speaker 1: this peak, Corey. I love it the best. Where Corey
Speaker 1: is now suddenly a realtor because he realizes that there
Speaker 1: are perks and he gets super into it and he
Speaker 1: throws himself full bore. I love that, yep, really good.
Speaker 1: So Sean asks what's wrong with right here? We have
Speaker 1: furniture everywhere, and the neighbor's the best, wonderful people who
Speaker 1: mind their business. On que Eli walks in telling a
Speaker 1: neighbor to quit looking at him like that. Turner asks
Speaker 1: what's going on and Eli responds, remember when missus Dupachak's
Speaker 1: husband died and she said she would never look at
Speaker 1: another man. She's over him and I'm scared. Turner says,
Speaker 1: you know you could do worse than missus Dupchack. In fact,
Speaker 1: I've seen you do worse than missus Dupchack. How many
Speaker 1: times could I say missus jeep check in this recap,
Speaker 1: not even being sure how to say it. Let's let's
Speaker 1: see so far three, let's see how many men. Eli
Speaker 1: sarcastically tells him, this building's going to miss that wit
Speaker 1: when you're gone. And when is that happy day? Mister
Speaker 1: Turner says, as soon as Sean finds a place that
Speaker 1: he likes. Sewn butts in. Since every but he's talking
Speaker 1: about me like I'm not here, I might as well
Speaker 1: not be here. He storms out, but Corey tells mister
Speaker 1: Turner he thinks moving into a new apartment is brilliant.
Speaker 1: Then Corey runs out of the apartment, shouting after Sean,
Speaker 1: wait up, I've got some linoleums that will knock your
Speaker 1: socks off.
Speaker 2: And this is so, this is where angsty Seawan started
Speaker 2: to get. Nobody was talking about you, like talking about
Speaker 2: Sean like he wasn't there. He was part of the conversation.
Speaker 2: Then the conversation went between the It wasn't like they're
Speaker 2: deciding his life. Well he's not there at all. It
Speaker 2: wasn't that well, if they're going to talk about him.
Speaker 1: It's like they weren't doing that even a little bit,
Speaker 1: not even slightly. He's acting out, yes, yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was feeling hurt. It was feeling hurt. Was Yes, it
Speaker 1: was a little.
Speaker 3: Much for me about it. It was a little mope
Speaker 3: about it. Well, get ready, Bill, you got four seasons
Speaker 3: of mopey angsty in your face with his emotion Sean. Okay, okay, sorry,
Speaker 3: we he's emotion too much for you.
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, you do you need me on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go. If you guys are all just
Speaker 1: gonna sheese about me when I'm right here, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're just gonna like, what was it?
Speaker 3: My acting?
Speaker 1: Is my acting? No, it's fine. I'll just go. You
Speaker 1: gotta get I'm just gonna sign off by acting? What
Speaker 1: by acting? God? I will say I loved this episode.
Speaker 1: I wish they did find a different exit for Sean
Speaker 1: because I also thought the same thing. Well, he just
Speaker 1: said one thing, which is when Sean finds a place
Speaker 1: that he lives, And I wish there could have been
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more of like a joke of like,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, you guys make your jokes. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go meet up with so anything, just because I
Speaker 1: understand why they needed to get you, why they needed
Speaker 1: to get Sean out of the apartment, but I did
Speaker 1: think he could have found there could have been a
Speaker 1: different exit for it, from zero to real fast. This
Speaker 1: is also peak Ben, like he's this everything we're saying,
Speaker 1: all of that. It is so funny him running out.
Speaker 1: I've got some linoleums that I'll knock you off in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: This this ending of the season seems to like we've.
Speaker 1: Locked in our characters, you know, like yeah, and you know, for.
Speaker 3: Better or worse. Like I think it's good now. I
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna get real sick of it as it
Speaker 3: goes on. You know, Will's already sick of it. But
Speaker 3: I do think that this becomes the pattern, right, is
Speaker 3: that that Sean is overly emotional and sensitive and bitchy
Speaker 3: about it. I guess you could say Will, and then
Speaker 3: Corey is this sort of nerdy like trying to make
Speaker 3: everything you know and and and neurotic and overthinking things,
Speaker 3: and like that's going to be the dynamic. Which you
Speaker 3: can see why, right, because it works, like you're going
Speaker 3: to see inside of it is so funny.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to see it switch a bit.
Speaker 2: But you were once again, and clearly season three was
Speaker 2: Sean was the star of the show. I mean, clearly
Speaker 2: the entire season well, no, they I.
Speaker 3: Feel like there's the two storylines. There's the Tapanga storyline,
Speaker 3: and these are the Seann storyline, and those are the
Speaker 3: two things driving this entire season, right, And they clearly
Speaker 3: had like kind of three parts of each one, right, Like,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be we're gonna break Shawn up from his dad,
Speaker 3: We're gonna we're gonna put Corey to Banga together, break
Speaker 3: them up, and then probably get them back together by
Speaker 3: the end of the season, which I'm assuming Disney it's
Speaker 3: gotta be yes, right, yeah, And so yeah, do you
Speaker 3: guys get back together at Disney, right?
Speaker 1: That's yeah, I think so. I don't. I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it may be a two parter maybe not,
Speaker 1: though we kiss in front of the fountain at Epcot,
Speaker 1: so that's at the end of that episode unless it's
Speaker 1: a two parter episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we only have two episodes left, so that's amazing.
Speaker 3: So they're just clearly wrapping up the season by like
Speaker 3: establishing the Sean thing, you know, finishing out the Shawn's
Speaker 3: story here, and then they're gonna finish out the Corey
Speaker 3: to pay right.
Speaker 1: They want to put a bow on the end of
Speaker 1: season three only to break the bow in season four,
Speaker 1: probably you might know. Yeah, okay, So then we're in
Speaker 1: the school hallway. Eric runs down the school hallways. Mister
Speaker 1: Phoeney stops him, saying, I love the energy of a
Speaker 1: rededicated and enthusiastic scener off the class. That's a senior
Speaker 1: you did ye? Senior year is my favorite anyway in
Speaker 1: my giant sweat year, I was, Eric corrects him lunch.
Speaker 1: Phoene says it wouldn't be a bad idea if you
Speaker 1: took this pep to the classroom, and Eric responds, well,
Speaker 1: if you start serving mash taters, maybe I will. Mister
Speaker 1: phoene says he'll take it under consideration and adds I
Speaker 1: have your paper on European monarchies. Eric sees it and
Speaker 1: shockingly asks a d. He works really hard. He asks
Speaker 1: what went wrong? Without hesitation. Feene responds, I'd have to
Speaker 1: say the fifth grade when you took that ride in
Speaker 1: the dryer, A new possibility, new theory.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's been left on a roller coaster over and over.
Speaker 1: What's happened to you? This happened to me in dryer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, it didn't happen to you unless somebody
Speaker 1: puts you in it. Did you put yourself into the dryer?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I was playing hide and seek with my brother Greg, Greg,
Speaker 2: and we had one of those dryers that when you
Speaker 2: shut the door, it automatically turns on. So he put
Speaker 2: me in the dryer and shut the door, and I
Speaker 2: went the boomp bomptil. My mom heard it and opened
Speaker 2: the tryer and got me out. It actually happened to me.
Speaker 1: How you must have been tiny twenty years old? I was,
Speaker 1: I was, I was twenty two. This was last month. No,
Speaker 1: I was probably four, Oh my four or five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Magret crushed, He claims he didn't know.
Speaker 1: Did what happened? Did your cigarettes get crushed? Cigarettes crushed?
Speaker 1: My cal? He did?
Speaker 2: My brother crushed my smoke. I will say this, I
Speaker 2: came out static free. That's quite a dryer, which is great.
Speaker 2: But yes, this actually and I forgot about this line.
Speaker 2: I think I told Bill about that when I was
Speaker 2: like that actually happened to me.
Speaker 1: And Greg claims to this day it was in an accident.
Speaker 2: I don't believe. Yeah, I was in the dryer. Was
Speaker 2: a little kid famous for del family story.
Speaker 1: No wonder, you're so funny, that's what it is and
Speaker 1: looks like this exactly Andrew hair. That's what I feel like.
Speaker 1: I love it. Oh my goodness. Okay, well another theory.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that it immediately becomes a hair reference, though,
Speaker 3: I mean it is most like Boy.
Speaker 1: Meets World Michael Jacob's hair obsession thing. Otherwise I'd have
Speaker 1: hair like Cory's right, exactly, because the worst Eric, how
Speaker 1: dare you with curly hair? So Eric pleads to Feenie,
Speaker 1: This grade's going to kill my average. Can I do
Speaker 1: another paper? Mister Phoene says he has a better idea tutoring.
Speaker 1: Eric questions, I thought all the tutors got together and
Speaker 1: agreed to never work with me again. Phoene says his
Speaker 1: thought was to make Eric a tutor what what he knows.
Speaker 1: I see how being a tutor is good for Eric, Like,
Speaker 1: of course, if you're going to tutor or something, you
Speaker 1: have to know it inside and out, and it helps
Speaker 1: you learn the material yourself. So I get that. But
Speaker 1: I mean, at one point on the show, Eric had
Speaker 1: less brain activity than a mouse. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: this is the best idea for the other children in
Speaker 1: the school. Maybe don't give him students.
Speaker 3: I think it's not the best storyline in general. It's
Speaker 3: not horrible, but it feels like it needed one more turn.
Speaker 3: I agree, you know, like the the fact that it
Speaker 3: just works out kind of exactly how you think, like right,
Speaker 3: And even Eric even calls him out. He's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I see what you did there, mister Foene, and he
Speaker 3: explains exactly the beats of the story, and then Phoene
Speaker 3: goes like, yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's it.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, where's the extra, Like, where's the
Speaker 3: twist where I don't know?
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know what. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just wanted one more like turn instead. It was like, oh,
Speaker 3: that that really is because you see it coming, just
Speaker 3: see and I was like, Oh, he's gonna get his
Speaker 3: grade better by tutoring somebody who's dumber than him.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. Pretty much feels very first drafty to me. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I still like it. I gotta be honest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't bad. It was fine. Fine.
Speaker 2: I think that's a perfect word for it. It was fine fine, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was fine.
Speaker 1: Eric laughs and asks him when he took his ride
Speaker 1: in the dryer, but phoene serious, and he asks if
Speaker 1: Eric knows Jeff Lacey. Eric nods, yeah, he's a guard
Speaker 1: on the basketball team. Phoene says, Lacey has athletic scholarship
Speaker 1: offers to twenty different colleges, but he needs at least
Speaker 1: to see average to get in, and Eric says, so
Speaker 1: if I tutor this kid, he turns pro makes millions.
Speaker 1: What do I get out of this? And phoene responds
Speaker 1: the joy of helping someone learn. Eric clarifies been no money,
Speaker 1: and Phoeney shrugs and admits, you get used to it.
Speaker 1: You get used me too. So good. Nearby, Corey walks
Speaker 1: up to Sean and asks if he's decided on the
Speaker 1: condo yet. Corey found out from the landlord that there's
Speaker 1: another offer, but he did a little dancing and bought
Speaker 1: us another half day sewn question he did so good.
Speaker 1: Sean questions us Corey, what's in it for you? And
Speaker 1: Corey excitedly tells him if he runts ten places, he
Speaker 1: gets a cruise. Sean says there isn't going to be
Speaker 1: any move. He's been moving around since he was a
Speaker 1: kid and he's sick of it. Sean wants the next
Speaker 1: move to be his last. Corey reminds him Turner's doing
Speaker 1: this for him. He's a great friend. Sean agrees, yeah,
Speaker 1: a friend, emphasizing that he's not his dad. And then
Speaker 1: we're in Turner's apartment and Eli is sampling Turner's cooking.
Speaker 1: John this does not taste like chicken alrange. Turner snaps back,
Speaker 1: I told you to taste it, not suck the meat
Speaker 1: off the bone, and Eli replies, someone's got their apron
Speaker 1: on a little too tight. Turner reveal in forty eight
Speaker 1: hours he's going to become Shawn's legal guardian. It's what
Speaker 1: he needs. Besides, I've come this far, might as well
Speaker 1: go the distance perfectly time. Sean walks in just as
Speaker 1: Eli stands up to leave, and Eli says something like
Speaker 1: that will change your life forever. Sean's confused about Eli's brother.
Speaker 3: And you didn't bother either of you guys that, Like,
Speaker 3: I didn't get clarity on what legal guardian means, Like
Speaker 3: it seems like this term, do you guys know what
Speaker 3: it means? Like, do you have any senses?
Speaker 2: Because Spencer was my legal guardian? Okay, yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: just kind of like a temporary, Yeah, it's shouldn't John
Speaker 2: have already been the legal guardian? If he's like, yes,
Speaker 2: I think he's becoming his right.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not an official adoption, because the difference
Speaker 1: is an adoption. You would then be Turner's son, like
Speaker 1: you become essentially the same as blood, you're his son.
Speaker 1: A legal guardian is I take legal responsibility for everything
Speaker 1: this person does as if they were my child. But
Speaker 1: it's not adopted, right, And what you have been doing
Speaker 1: is just I have been I have been a guard
Speaker 1: I've been basically doing my best with this kid. But
Speaker 1: if he were to go, say, blow up another mailbox
Speaker 1: or something, no one could hold me legally responsible for him.
Speaker 3: Yes, it, but you also can't legally do anything for him.
Speaker 3: So like at this point, right, if Sean has gotten
Speaker 3: into trouble, which he has this entire season, this entire year,
Speaker 3: like if he ends up in a hospital, Turner can't
Speaker 3: do anything.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's important to have a legal guardian.
Speaker 3: So it seems ridiculous that he hasn't.
Speaker 6: Entire year.
Speaker 1: What I'll say later is that later on, when we're
Speaker 1: talking with Alan and Amy in the kitchen and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: what you know, that's just another temporary situation. I kind
Speaker 1: of had the like a little light bulb went off
Speaker 1: and be like, wait a minute. To be honest, this
Speaker 1: whole season, I haven't felt like you living with Turner
Speaker 1: was a temporary situation, right. That was never like brought
Speaker 1: up along the way of like, well, it's still not
Speaker 1: sure we're going to stick with this, like I had
Speaker 1: felt like it was more like that had already happened,
Speaker 1: that he was your legal guardian and that you lived
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 2: It would have been too much for them to have
Speaker 2: said he was already the legal guardian and there are
Speaker 2: possible adoption papers, and that would have been.
Speaker 3: Too much, too far. So what would be too far?
Speaker 3: Step have been Yeah, no, I don't know. I guess
Speaker 3: you're you're right, Like it just felt like a band
Speaker 3: aid to me. It felt like a story band aid.
Speaker 3: It felt like a term that I was kind of like, wait,
Speaker 3: because obviously it's about adoption, right, Like that's what the story.
Speaker 3: It's an adoption storyline. It's like do you adopt this
Speaker 3: kid or not? And to put that pressure on Turner
Speaker 3: and to put that pressure on Sean is great. It's
Speaker 3: just this legal guardian thing. Just felt a little right
Speaker 3: fiffy to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, if they had just implanted in
Speaker 1: a previous storyline for Sean to point out to Corey
Speaker 1: or to somebody else, hey, this is still temporary. It's
Speaker 1: not like we've you know, it's not like we've signed
Speaker 1: any papers or anything. This is like if Sean had
Speaker 1: reminded everybody this was only temporary a couple more times,
Speaker 1: maybe this would have felt more like here's the moment,
Speaker 1: but you know.
Speaker 2: It almost I don't you know what scene I would
Speaker 2: love to have seen back in the back and maybe
Speaker 2: we kind of saw it a little bit, but maybe
Speaker 2: more in depth would have been like an Allan mister
Speaker 2: Turner scene about what taking.
Speaker 1: That's what I want, Yeah, that's what I want.
Speaker 3: I want more of the the amy and Allan of
Speaker 3: it all is the weirder part to me, because I
Speaker 3: feel like they would have stepped in and signed on
Speaker 3: as legal guardians just in paper, like they would have
Speaker 3: just done it to so somebody's there for Sean, because yeah,
Speaker 3: it seems like it's it's it's not as big of
Speaker 3: a deal for them because they already have kids to
Speaker 3: like be legally responsible for Sean. And it seems like
Speaker 3: they would do that right, like, and somebody.
Speaker 1: Has to be That's the thing.
Speaker 2: You seem like, you can't just crash in your couch.
Speaker 2: You give something happens, something respons you can't.
Speaker 3: Sign for filter, you know what I mean? Like you
Speaker 3: can't do anything unless you have a legal guardian.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 1: So Seawan is confused about Eli's parting words, and Turner
Speaker 1: says he thought Sean was eating dinner at the Matthews tonight.
Speaker 1: Sean says, Nah, he's tired. He wants to turn in early.
Speaker 1: Then Sean notices the chicken a la tang. What's the
Speaker 1: special occasion? Turner's got a date, but he tells Sean
Speaker 1: he can easily stretch the meal three ways. Sean goes
Speaker 1: through the mail. He finally got a letter from his dad.
Speaker 1: Apparently he's at a truck stop. In reading. Sean then
Speaker 1: tosses the envelope in the trash. Turner asks why he
Speaker 1: did that, and Sean says, that's fifty miles away.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 1: The least he could do is come visit me. Turner
Speaker 1: tells Shawn he spoke to an attorney today, just a
Speaker 1: couple of signatures and he's Sean's legal guardian. Sean asks,
Speaker 1: I thought you did that months ago. Turner admits he
Speaker 1: got the forms, he just never got around a filling
Speaker 1: him out. Sean scoffs, oh, I'm so sorry my life
Speaker 1: didn't fit into your busy schedule. Turner tries to calm
Speaker 1: him down, cut me some slack. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: do the right thing, and Sean says Turner, and Sean says, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you are. He leaves and looks at John, Hey,
Speaker 1: enjoy your date, and my heart just absolutely breaks because
Speaker 1: you wanted some of the chicken. Oh for a different reason. No,
Speaker 1: I just this is where my heart absolutely breaks for Sean.
Speaker 1: And I'm fully hooked into Sean meets World. Like I
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: It was a little much for me, but you know,
Speaker 3: I have to remember it's a kid's show, because like
Speaker 3: I feel like you could just say, hey, enjoy your
Speaker 3: date and walk out right but two lines earlier. But
Speaker 3: instead it's going to be you know that, it's it's
Speaker 3: always got to be like a little pushed a little
Speaker 3: more explained. Sean's got to look him in the eyes
Speaker 3: and say.
Speaker 1: Oh, you don't care about me, puppy.
Speaker 3: Dog and I was like, that's where the like over,
Speaker 3: I agree acting over.
Speaker 2: It was the writing to me where you need It's like,
Speaker 2: how many scenes can he can somebody say something that's
Speaker 2: not that big a deal where it's like, hey, I'm,
Speaker 2: you know, doing my best here, where Sean then.
Speaker 1: Takes it the wrong way and walks out angry. It's
Speaker 1: like that how many times?
Speaker 3: I mean if he just if he just threw if
Speaker 3: Sean just threw the letter away and it's like, well,
Speaker 3: you know he's there, he's fifty miles away. Could have
Speaker 3: and then he starts to go out there and John's wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get the legal paperwork. Oh you should have
Speaker 3: done that months ago and close the door the AO
Speaker 3: like you're right done. It would have had this and
Speaker 3: it would have felt like oh god, but instead I
Speaker 3: got to stop up and stare.
Speaker 2: Or even make it like I felt like I felt
Speaker 2: like Sean was was, I don't know, taking everything.
Speaker 1: Out on Turner more than he probably should have.
Speaker 2: And I would like to they tried to throw in
Speaker 2: a line here or there like I know you are, John,
Speaker 2: but I I can see a softer side of Sean occasion,
Speaker 2: like it's there's an anger about his dad, and he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to take it out on Jonathan. So it's
Speaker 2: like I could have played that. I would play that
Speaker 2: a little more up where it's like look like turning
Speaker 2: at the door and going, I know this isn't you.
Speaker 1: I just need to figure some stuff out, like something.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean even just that we're having this conversation
Speaker 3: as a tribute to the complexity of point of.
Speaker 1: Course, I mean, no sitcom has this these this many layers.
Speaker 3: I mean, like my, my, my issue, like my complaint
Speaker 3: right now is that because of the age group of
Speaker 3: the audience, and and and and wanting them, we have
Speaker 3: to make the subtext text right, like you have to
Speaker 3: have to bracket it the sort of yeah, we have
Speaker 3: to explain why Sean is upset.
Speaker 1: We have to put it up.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, like and and and I think my
Speaker 3: design or to be more subtle or to make it
Speaker 3: more clever is of course, to make it more of
Speaker 3: a drama, or to make it more of a like
Speaker 3: a realistic show. Then a sitcom really has any right
Speaker 3: being right, Like I kind of been wanting it to
Speaker 3: be like a drama play. But that's mostly because I
Speaker 3: do feel for Sean, I do feel for the setup
Speaker 3: is very good, the storyline is great and like we've
Speaker 3: earned it. Like I feel like this show has gotten
Speaker 3: to a place where so I just kind of wish
Speaker 3: we could have gone there.
Speaker 2: I don't know, how do you do either of you know,
Speaker 2: did anybody, any producers, writers, anybody that was involved the show,
Speaker 2: did any of them adopt somebody? Because this isn't the
Speaker 2: first time this comes up, We do it later with Tommy.
Speaker 2: There's like adoption is kind of a theme on our show.
Speaker 2: Does anybody know if anything?
Speaker 1: I think it just goes along with the theme of
Speaker 1: that you don't have to be blood to be family.
Speaker 1: So adoption, I just want to think it's the idea
Speaker 1: of community and taking care of each other. It is
Speaker 1: a big theme for you know. So then we are
Speaker 1: in Chubby's. Eric is tutoring Jeff new caretor alert. He's
Speaker 1: at Chubby's and while Eric's asking him questions, Jeff has
Speaker 1: a fry basket pressed up against his face. He's wearing
Speaker 1: that very cool John Adams letterman jacket. Eric asks, all right, Jeff,
Speaker 1: here's an easy one. Who was the king of France
Speaker 1: before Louis the fourteenth Jeff's confused. Eric encourages him, come on,
Speaker 1: this is going to be on the test. It's Louie
Speaker 1: the Jeff answers king. Eric turns it into a game.
Speaker 1: All right, last minute of play. You answer one question,
Speaker 1: we win the big game. Just then, two girls walk
Speaker 1: up to the booth and one asks Jeff, is that
Speaker 1: your Porsche outside. Jeff looks at Eric and shouts, yes,
Speaker 1: we win. Jeff asks sorcal totals yeah. Jeff asks if
Speaker 1: the ladies would care for a little ride. Eric void's
Speaker 1: looking at the girls, because we know Eric likes girls, girls, girls, girls, girls.
Speaker 1: He tells Jeff look away because they're studying, and Jeff asks,
Speaker 1: is that all you straight see students care about? Which
Speaker 1: I love that line, It's so funny. Eric assures him no,
Speaker 1: but he promised Phoeni. Besides, you can't fit four people
Speaker 1: in a Porsche. Jeff turns to Eric and says we
Speaker 1: can if they sit on your lap. Eric jumps up
Speaker 1: and says break down. Eric asks Jeff who painted the
Speaker 1: Sistine Chapel, and Jeff answers correctly Michaelangelo. Then he tells
Speaker 1: Eric I'm just kidding, and he asks who the real
Speaker 1: painter was as they walk up the stairs. That was
Speaker 1: that was his only scene. No, he says, another scene?
Speaker 1: Does he come? He comes back on the hallway? Do
Speaker 1: come back? Yeah? He comes back? Does he there's another? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's I think he does. I think that's it. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Yeah, they almost three.
Speaker 2: Pretty sure that's it, I think, because because Feenie hands
Speaker 2: Eric the test.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I thought there's another studying scene where I
Speaker 1: thought you have another scene with him.
Speaker 3: Now I thought I thought we saw him in the
Speaker 3: hallway walking around, but maybe not thought that was it.
Speaker 1: Well, we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Eric burges into the kitchen,
Speaker 1: announcing to Alan, Amy and Corey that he had a
Speaker 1: waste of a night. I just spent three hours in
Speaker 1: a Porsche speeding around with a pretty girl in my
Speaker 1: lap Alan sarcastically responds, I hate it when that happens.
Speaker 1: Amy asks who has a Porsche, and Corey butts in.
Speaker 1: The school's all American point guard is being tutored by
Speaker 1: the school's all American cheesehead. Eric tells Corey to go
Speaker 1: get the phone, and he smacks him on the head.
Speaker 1: When Corey says, I don't like Corey being mean to Eric.
Speaker 1: I don't either. I don't like it. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is funny. I don't like it. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's worth it.
Speaker 3: I don't like making fun of Eric being I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't, you know, like I like when Corey is
Speaker 3: like I like when all the characters are baffled by
Speaker 3: Eric's lack of intelligence and sort of like what you
Speaker 3: don't you don't, But when Corey like is pointedly making
Speaker 3: fun of him, I was like, no, dude.
Speaker 1: Stop that. I know. I don't know. It really rubbed
Speaker 1: me the wrong way. It was weird. It sounded like
Speaker 1: a Morgan line. It sounded like a yeah, totally definitely.
Speaker 1: The second Ben said it, I was like, whoa.
Speaker 3: And then when you like hit him, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it spars.
Speaker 1: To be brother beating up on the little brother. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's how.
Speaker 3: She's But I also didn't I always didn't. I didn't
Speaker 3: love it when Eric was too mean to Corey either.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess I just don't like insult humor all that much.
Speaker 3: I know, but our show, it really doesn't fit.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. Amy says she's proud yet confused,
Speaker 1: Alan asks if they could be sued, which I also
Speaker 1: thought was an interesting line, Can we be sued? Just then,
Speaker 1: Sean burst through the door and says hello to Amy
Speaker 1: and Allen, then quickly asks if they can leave. They
Speaker 1: both tell him no, and he says, dang, I need
Speaker 1: another plan. Corey suggests they just go outside.
Speaker 3: Your angsty Sean meets dumb Sean, which I kind of
Speaker 3: like a plan.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, guys, but I was staring
Speaker 2: at this leather jacket, just hoping a flap was going
Speaker 2: to go open and we could see like the inside
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 1: Now I am just staring at study it every single episode,
Speaker 1: trying it. It's not a bomber jacket. You're not even
Speaker 1: allowed to sing the song anymore. You're not allowed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hold on to the memories because that's all we have.
Speaker 1: Because you cannot keep your hands.
Speaker 5: On the jet, hold on to the jacket exactly.
Speaker 1: So they go outside and Shown says, now that your
Speaker 1: parents have left the room, what are you doing tonight?
Speaker 1: Corey responds, well, I'm showing a three bedroom at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: That's the best man, so funny, that is the best joke.
Speaker 1: Sean says they're going to see his dad. He's in Redding,
Speaker 1: which is less than an hour away by motorcycle. Cory's excited,
Speaker 1: he's in. He questions if Turner will be able to
Speaker 1: fit them both on his bike though, and Sean says
Speaker 1: Turner isn't coming. It's just you and me, and we
Speaker 1: hear a loud ooh yeah from the audience. They can
Speaker 1: sense trouble when they see it and are somewhat instructed
Speaker 1: by the audience warm up guy to react loudly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I was thinking, like, how different is this
Speaker 3: than what they did to go to Peoene's cabin?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And yet you could it's a fine line. And
Speaker 3: it's interesting that the show is walking it because like
Speaker 3: you could tell that Sean's thinking this is normal, Shenanigan,
Speaker 3: it's with Corey, and then that you have to make
Speaker 3: a distinction because Corey would probably just go I mean
Speaker 3: Corey does right, he does his mission with Tobango right,
Speaker 3: Like a scene later, what is us on the motorcite
Speaker 3: You're in a full size Hardy It doesn't it seem
Speaker 3: like the very obvious thing right now is the chorus
Speaker 3: says no, but let's take the bus and let's go right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, and they'd go yeah right, so like
Speaker 3: what yeah, but then you got to make sure.
Speaker 1: That Sean crosses a line jail, So Corey nervously tells
Speaker 1: Sean to count him out. Seawn ensures him it's just
Speaker 1: a little field trip. What's the worst that could possibly happen?
Speaker 1: Optical police station. We cut right to a police officer
Speaker 1: telling Shawn he has one phone call, and Sean jokes,
Speaker 1: you guys really say that? Huh, that's cute, and then
Speaker 1: we take a commercial break.
Speaker 3: It kind of bumps me out that we don't ever
Speaker 3: see the motorcycle, Like, doesn't it feel like it doesn't
Speaker 3: it feel like such a cheat that I never like
Speaker 3: even if and obviously we're not going to see me
Speaker 3: ride in a motorcycle down the freeway or whatever, but
Speaker 3: like just seeing the bike somewhere, like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's kind of.
Speaker 1: A I think the bike has made enough of a cameo.
Speaker 1: I think we can picture the bike. The bike doesn't
Speaker 1: need its own shot. You just want at an.
Speaker 3: Excuse you ride riding a motorcycle with.
Speaker 1: Your leather jacket. Yeah, you're a fast guy.
Speaker 2: Not not a full size Hardy at fifteen Do I take?
Speaker 3: I take? I mean, obviously the helmet is in the
Speaker 3: apartment the next scene, but.
Speaker 1: You actually just hold the helmet like this, but think
Speaker 1: of the same thing you think it's supposed to be,
Speaker 1: just because that's how Turner is the only way you've
Speaker 1: seen it with the was an X man on the
Speaker 1: front on the handle. You have a sidecar, and the
Speaker 1: X men is in the sidecar exactly Tony's accident.
Speaker 2: By the way, completely gone the sisod he is once
Speaker 2: again from Westport, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: What do you mean Matchew's Do you mean it's like
Speaker 1: you don't know you should not be riding a motorcycle?
Speaker 2: Sean?
Speaker 1: Do you have some disdain for him? My disdain for you? Disdain.
Speaker 1: So then we come back into Turner's apartment, Sean and
Speaker 1: Turner walk in. Turner is frustrated. Nice way to spend
Speaker 1: a date, A little dinner, a little wine, and a
Speaker 1: little prison. Sean jokes, at least you got dinner. Turner
Speaker 1: isn't playing. He says it was stupid and dangerous, and
Speaker 1: he was a dangerous stunt. He polt what if he
Speaker 1: lost control of the bike, and Sean yells, I didn't.
Speaker 1: Turner reminds him he could have hurt someone and Turner
Speaker 1: would be legally responsible. Sean says, Oh, that's why you're
Speaker 1: so upset. You don't want to be legally responsible for me.
Speaker 1: Turner says, that's a cheap shot, and you know it.
Speaker 1: Sean fights back and asks why he took his sweet
Speaker 1: time to file for guardianship. Turner wonders if this is
Speaker 1: what everything's about, and Sewn argues, this is what everything's about.
Speaker 1: It's my life. Chet and Turner both have their lives,
Speaker 1: and Sean feels like he has nothing. Turner says he
Speaker 1: would have taken him to see his dad, and Sean
Speaker 1: says he's tired of feeling like a guest wherever he goes.
Speaker 1: Turner understands going from a single guy to raising a
Speaker 1: fifteen year old was not on my to do list.
Speaker 1: I offered to get us a bigger place. You don't
Speaker 1: want any part of it. And in this moment, I
Speaker 1: really loved turn I love Turner, but I feel like
Speaker 1: in this episode he talked a little too much to
Speaker 1: Sean about all of the changes it's meant for him.
Speaker 1: I felt like, I love that this is a major
Speaker 1: life change for Turner, and Turner should talk about it
Speaker 1: with Eli. I can even see him talking about it
Speaker 1: with Sorry, but I did feel like this is would
Speaker 1: withhold some of this, you would make Sean feel bad.
Speaker 3: That's that's the same thing about, you know, subtext becoming
Speaker 3: texts Like I think if Turner held back in these scenes,
Speaker 3: it would be it would be. It would would require
Speaker 3: more work on the audience's part to lean in and
Speaker 3: understand his motivations. But you're right, it could have very
Speaker 3: easily been in a side with Eli.
Speaker 1: Someone else a great to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a scene with Eli would have been nice. I
Speaker 3: think they just ran out of time, you know. Plus
Speaker 3: we get the the war of the leather jacket sensitive
Speaker 3: leather jacket wearing guys.
Speaker 1: He's got his brown.
Speaker 3: Leather, I got my black leather jacket, and we are
Speaker 3: we are sensitively coming.
Speaker 1: At each other sensitive fast. Yeah. Well I'm hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm more hurt. But I'm a kid guy. Guys
Speaker 1: are both from New York. So Sean snaps back, Well,
Speaker 1: you've had the guardianship papers for months and you still
Speaker 1: haven't filled them out yet. Turner's eye, Well, maybe we're
Speaker 1: both afraid to make this living arrangement permanent. Sean agrees,
Speaker 1: maybe they are, and we get a nice little emotional
Speaker 1: music swell to end the motion of music's well, well,
Speaker 1: you guys are both in leather jackets. And then we're
Speaker 1: in the Matthews living room. Corey answers the door and
Speaker 1: it's Sean with a box in a Duffel bag, saying
Speaker 1: he's got good news. Cory Corey reminds him there's no
Speaker 1: such thing as good news. Before I've had my grape nets.
Speaker 1: I love old man Corey.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite, pretty wonderful ye.
Speaker 1: Sean says he's going to store some stuff at the
Speaker 1: house before he settles in. He's moving back to the
Speaker 1: trailer park, not with his mom or dad, but with
Speaker 1: uncle Mike. Corey reminds Sean, you said you would only
Speaker 1: make one more move, and it had to be the
Speaker 1: right one. There's a lot of laughing here between you
Speaker 1: and Ben. Did you see that writer where I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure I couldn't part of the scene or not it's
Speaker 1: what I wrote, Yeah, it wasn't. It didn't feel like
Speaker 1: you guys were breaking. It was a choice. There were
Speaker 1: choices to be laughing through some of this, and I
Speaker 1: was like, was it a break that felt less controlled?
Speaker 1: The same thing? Was it a way to really a
Speaker 1: recovery take?
Speaker 3: We had already broken this multiple takes, and this is
Speaker 3: the one that we held it. Probably they were like, fine,
Speaker 3: let's move on, just keep it. Yeah, we'll just laugh
Speaker 3: through it. And we made it part of heart and
Speaker 3: I usually noticed, but.
Speaker 1: Notice I literally wrote, was this a break or a choice?
Speaker 1: Because it's a recovery. It's a recovery take. So funny
Speaker 1: Sean tells him he can't keep waiting for his dad
Speaker 1: to come home. He has to get on with his life.
Speaker 1: At the trailer park, he'll be surrounded by family and
Speaker 1: the FBI agents who surround them. And then there's a
Speaker 1: little bit more of an upbeat music swell here. So
Speaker 1: now we're telling us how to feel. And then we're
Speaker 1: in the Matthew's kitchen. Eric runs down the stairs to
Speaker 1: see his parents eating breakfast. Amy asks how studying went
Speaker 1: with Jeff and Eric responds, nagnagnag, what are you my mom?
Speaker 1: And Amy sarcastically says, yes, what a joy it is.
Speaker 1: Eric apologizes and says he shouldn't take his anger out
Speaker 1: on her. That's what Corey's for. Eric jokingly yells for Cory.
Speaker 1: Eric explains, I recite the entire history of Europe to
Speaker 1: this kid, and he tells me I can burp through
Speaker 1: my ears, and then he does it. And Jeff has
Speaker 1: twenty colleges begging him to come there, and Eric can't
Speaker 1: even get into one. Alan assures him he will get
Speaker 1: into college and he will have earned it.
Speaker 2: I just want to say very quickly, I love Amy
Speaker 2: and Allen so so much, and I'm getting a little
Speaker 2: tired of only seeing them.
Speaker 1: In the kitchen.
Speaker 2: It says, the only time you see him is in
Speaker 2: the kitchen somebody's running in.
Speaker 3: I think it's that way for the rest of the show,
Speaker 3: until they'll never see their bedroom again. I know it
Speaker 3: never will be in the living room, even like it's
Speaker 3: so funny that they've just.
Speaker 1: Been we saw them making out so much in season.
Speaker 1: Now they just eat a lot of baked goods.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well maybe so you you know.
Speaker 1: But you get gotten heavy.
Speaker 3: And then they used to make an effort to date
Speaker 3: nights or there was a real sense of this like ongoing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and even just them how to parent, like that's gone away.
Speaker 2: It is, it's just you run in there in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: You have a couple of lines they take, and I
Speaker 2: just think about.
Speaker 3: How boring that must have been for them.
Speaker 1: As as I couldn't imagine, you know.
Speaker 3: Just a sounding board for these teenage actors to do
Speaker 3: their storylines.
Speaker 1: And you're like, yeah, I know. And the scene could
Speaker 1: have taken place at night after the studying, you know,
Speaker 1: they couldn't. We could have walked in on them, Megan out.
Speaker 2: Sure, or in the living room or in the back
Speaker 2: or sideyard or something, I mean, just different.
Speaker 1: So Eric thinks maybe he has an untapped talent. He
Speaker 1: picks up an apple and pretends it's a basketball. He
Speaker 1: shoots for the sink and sends it right through the window,
Speaker 1: saying he shoots, he sucks. Do you remember this, Will, No,
Speaker 1: It's so crazy.
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 1: I can't believe. When the minute I saw the glass break,
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, Will's gonna definitely remember something about that.
Speaker 3: I didn't remember the glass actually breaking when the doll was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I don't remember. I didn't remember anything about
Speaker 2: this storyline. I didn't remember anything about this episode. I
Speaker 2: didn't remember the title, none of it, None of it,
Speaker 2: all right, I.
Speaker 3: Have a feeling because I didn't really remember this episode either.
Speaker 3: Now that I know that we were going to Florida,
Speaker 3: I have a feeling we rushed through this episode knowing
Speaker 3: that we were going to Florida, So we were all preparing,
Speaker 3: like you think about it, as a crew, as a
Speaker 3: as a cast. We would have known at this point
Speaker 3: for sure about all the Florida stuff where we were
Speaker 3: still and Will would have been so pissed.
Speaker 1: That he's not going see that he's making right.
Speaker 3: And that's why trains directing this too, because McCracken was
Speaker 3: prepping to direct all Florida right for two parts.
Speaker 1: Will checked out. Will checked out. He was like, this sucks,
Speaker 1: It's probably great. It was really awesome. Imagine it was
Speaker 1: a fun trip. So and sticks out his hand saying
Speaker 1: he pays Eric, slaps money in his hand and announces
Speaker 1: earburbs it is then and he walks off. How much
Speaker 1: are windows that Eric just has the amount of money
Speaker 1: necessary in his packet. Windows are expensive as hell too.
Speaker 1: It's like I got little tiny squares, probably one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty bucks. And yeah, he's not working at the
Speaker 1: grocery store anymore, is he. I don't know, I'm not
Speaker 1: getting paid to tutor, probably not. Corey enters, and he
Speaker 1: tells his parents when Eric goes off to college, that
Speaker 1: big room of ours is going to seem mighty lonely.
Speaker 1: Alan wonders, what's your ankle? Corey comes clean. Sean needs
Speaker 1: a new place to live. Amy asks about mister Turner's,
Speaker 1: but Corey says it's not really his home. Alan explains
Speaker 1: there's always room for Sean here, but it would just
Speaker 1: be another temporary solution. Amy thinks he needs something permanent.
Speaker 1: And this is where I was like, wait, I think
Speaker 1: I may be the only one who didn't already think
Speaker 1: we had decided this was a permanent situation with Sean
Speaker 1: and Turner. I was just like, but you know, I
Speaker 1: can see how the whole idea for Sean would still be,
Speaker 1: But when does my dad come back? But if his
Speaker 1: dad doesn't come back, I thought we were all in agreement.
Speaker 1: You were living with Turner. It's also been an here.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, I know, a whole year. So
Speaker 1: Alan asks what what Sewan's dad has to say about this,
Speaker 1: and Corey says, who knows? No one talks in that family.
Speaker 1: Alan says, if Sean were his son, he'd like to
Speaker 1: be consulted about his future, and the table is now
Speaker 1: set for Blake Clark's glorious return to Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1: And then we get a new exterior of the roadside diner.
Speaker 1: Corey and tapenga who new character, A learn new character
Speaker 1: this girl and she shows him or anything about that
Speaker 1: like page twenty two, Age twenty two, unnecessarily here we are.
Speaker 1: She walks into the bar, looking very out of place
Speaker 1: because this place has a lot of shady characters who
Speaker 1: wear plaid and they have sleeveless jean shirts tooool. Corey
Speaker 1: tells her to act natural, and she says, okay, but
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spit's funny. I like it. Cory
Speaker 1: scans the bar and doesn't see Sean's at anywhere. To
Speaker 1: Pang is ready to go back on the bus. That's
Speaker 1: how you know they didn't take a motorcycle get there there,
Speaker 1: he uses, because they are on a mission. Corey walks
Speaker 1: away into Pega Praise. I really hope I don't have
Speaker 1: to use the bathroom. Corey approaches the pool table and
Speaker 1: taps a gentleman on the shoulder. Everyone nearby stares at
Speaker 1: him silently, and he continues, now that I've broken the ice,
Speaker 1: anyone here Noah guy named chet hunter. The man responds
Speaker 1: by rubbing the blue chalk on Corey's nose. Corey thanks
Speaker 1: the man he did forget to chalk his nose today.
Speaker 1: A couple starts arguing at the pool table, and the
Speaker 1: woman walks right up to Corey and says, you look
Speaker 1: like you know how to treat a woman, right. Corey's
Speaker 1: only able to muster out, oh tingle.
Speaker 3: It's a bumber that the guy can't have any lines right.
Speaker 3: There is the classic like you don't have to pay
Speaker 3: for a guest star. She just has to like finish
Speaker 3: a fight. We just hear her like last line, and
Speaker 3: the other guy just like or even the chalk guy
Speaker 3: doesn't get saved.
Speaker 1: She asks if he knows how to dance, and he says,
Speaker 1: teach me please. She pulls him in and they start
Speaker 1: to slow dance. Then to Haannga walks over and asks
Speaker 1: Cory if he really thinks this is a productive use
Speaker 1: of their time. The woman turns to tell Tapanga she
Speaker 1: found Corey first, and to Penga scoffs, don't make me laugh.
Speaker 1: The woman asks if she'd like to take this outside
Speaker 1: and to Pega yells, yeah, I would, and Corey giggles
Speaker 1: to himself and says, oh, this is great. And then
Speaker 1: we see Chet busting a table when he notices Corey,
Speaker 1: and he says, Lord, love a duck. Is that who
Speaker 1: I think it is? Corey says it's me, Corey Matthews.
Speaker 1: Chet is disappointed. Never mind, never mind, never mind. Corey
Speaker 1: reminds him he's Sean's friend. Chet's happy to see him
Speaker 1: and says, step into my office, which is just an
Speaker 1: empty table. He asks Cory if he thinks what he
Speaker 1: has in his hand his pie, because he got it
Speaker 1: out of the dirties. It's either that or dim sum.
Speaker 1: Corey asks if Chet is working there. He says he
Speaker 1: is until he pays off some parking tickets. Then he's
Speaker 1: back on the road looking for his lovely wife Verna.
Speaker 1: He asks Corey if he's ever been married, and Corey
Speaker 1: tells him he's fifteen. Chet assures him, don't you give
Speaker 1: up hope. Verna and I were sixteen before we got hitched.
Speaker 1: She wanted to wait until she got out of the navy. Man.
Speaker 1: Blake Clark is funny with every single line. Every line
Speaker 1: just every line, he's let's do the math, because doesn't
Speaker 1: Jack is older than me and my half brother. Really,
Speaker 1: this is where you're going with it? I don't we
Speaker 1: don't even remember.
Speaker 3: Really, so Verna is not his mom? Vern is Verna's
Speaker 3: not Jack's mom.
Speaker 1: Right, but she has your mom? No, she's not.
Speaker 3: If he got married at sixteen? What Verna's not Shawn's
Speaker 3: mom either? No?
Speaker 2: I think isn't that what we find out later that
Speaker 2: she's I don't think she's shun Let's.
Speaker 1: Keep track, write it down. Let's do what our writers
Speaker 1: could not do. I'm doing it, actually, keep track, keep
Speaker 1: put it in a notebook. Put in journal, your notebook,
Speaker 1: mister German. I'm on hot, professor, add it to your journal, professor.
Speaker 1: Jack continues, So Cortes, what brings you up here? Corey says,
Speaker 1: Sean's confused and he really misses his dad. So is Tepega?
Speaker 1: Still fighting? The local outside is taking he's going on
Speaker 1: there right, Andrey doesn't care. He thinks it's great and
Speaker 1: he's fine with it. He brings her out here.
Speaker 2: Fifteen year old is fighting a local twenty to thirty
Speaker 2: something year old outside the truck stop.
Speaker 1: But he's having a nice conversation. He's of it, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: We see who his real friend is. Jet says, I
Speaker 1: miss him too. He is a good boy. Corey tries
Speaker 1: convincing him to come back for Sean, but Chet thinks
Speaker 1: he's better off where he is. Turner sends him Sean's
Speaker 1: report cards, tests, and a picture of Sean with his
Speaker 1: new girlfriend. We think this is still Larissa. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: That's why I said, no girlfriend. Who's that? It's got
Speaker 1: to be right through it. It's the only one that's
Speaker 1: ever been set up as a girlfriend, So that's what
Speaker 1: I was figuring. I figure it has to be Larissa.
Speaker 1: Corey makes it a point that mister Turner is great
Speaker 1: for Sean, but he is his friend, not his father.
Speaker 1: He continues as the camera shakes and zooms out of it.
Speaker 1: Did you guys notice the camera move? Yeah, h yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of like an awkward It was
Speaker 1: a bobble, Yeah, shake, it was a bobble. There was shake,
Speaker 1: a bibble and a yeah, if you love him, you
Speaker 1: would come back for him. Chet pauses and says, I
Speaker 1: love him. I love him so much, I can't go back.
Speaker 1: He gets up and says, tell Sean. His daddy says hey,
Speaker 1: and then Pega and the other woman walk in together
Speaker 1: seemingly happy, and she tells Topanga, you tease that hair,
Speaker 1: you'd be six feet tall to Pega gives in and
Speaker 1: tells Luanne she'll do it. Luanne turns to Corey and
Speaker 1: tells her in her Southern accent, lamb chop, you have
Speaker 1: another cup of coffee. This may take a while, and
Speaker 1: we walk up, so hold on.
Speaker 3: So he just ends up in jail with Sean, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: he gets he So think of this like what I
Speaker 3: don't understand then, Like, why couldn't the story be that
Speaker 3: Corey convinces him to go back for.
Speaker 1: Because it's one of the things I mentioned at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the episode. Chet I think uses that as
Speaker 1: an excuse to have Turner pay off his bail. He
Speaker 1: was never on his way to Sean because he says
Speaker 1: he was on his way to Turner's place, but he
Speaker 1: got pulled over sitting on a bunch of park tickets.
Speaker 1: I think that's a lie, and he was just leaving
Speaker 1: town again.
Speaker 3: So Corey just completely fails in his mission to convince him.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't think anything would have convinced chest Chet.
Speaker 1: I think Chet thinks it's what he's saying is true,
Speaker 1: that he might love me, but I'm no good for him,
Speaker 1: and so it is. We'll talk about it when we
Speaker 1: get into the police station stuff, because I think there
Speaker 1: are a lot of subtle but if you're really paying attention,
Speaker 1: signs that Chet is using this as an opportunity to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's so interesting. So it has this like
Speaker 3: wrap up sitcom structure, but it's all built on the
Speaker 3: coincidence that he gets arrested the same nights that Shawn does.
Speaker 1: And he's confused as like whoa huh, and then gets
Speaker 1: talked into staying by Sean, and he only really says
Speaker 1: for sure he's doing it when he realizes he has
Speaker 1: somebody who will bail him out.
Speaker 3: But it's weird then to have the Corey moment because
Speaker 3: it doesn't pay often anyway, except that Corey thinks it does,
Speaker 3: and Sewan.
Speaker 1: Correct thinks it does, and that Sean thinks it and
Speaker 1: maybe later in another episode we'll find out that it didn't,
Speaker 1: that that was never his plan and that he had
Speaker 1: a different plan. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's still trying to get Verna back or do you
Speaker 2: think he's really just running from Sean.
Speaker 1: No, he said he just yeah, he just he wants
Speaker 1: his own life. He wants to be a childless jingle man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean children are difficult.
Speaker 2: Well, not to mention that he has three that we
Speaker 2: know of, right, yeah, so he doesn't see any of.
Speaker 1: Them, right, Yeah, he doesn't seem to love Eddie anymore.
Speaker 1: So then we're in the school hallway. Eric stops mister
Speaker 1: Feoenie in the hall and says, before you grade the midterms.
Speaker 1: Phoeni inter repts him, saying he already has and will
Speaker 1: The little gasp you do in the middle of the
Speaker 1: line is so funny. Yeah, Phoene says, I already, haven't
Speaker 1: you go? It's so good. Eric tells Phoene he worked
Speaker 1: really hard with Jeff, but you can't teach somebody if
Speaker 1: they don't want to learn, mister, and he pulls out
Speaker 1: Jeff's test and Eric notices the grade you gave Jeff
Speaker 1: a C plus. Phoenie corrects him, No, you did. Eric
Speaker 1: thought Jeff was a lost cause. Phoene says he doesn't
Speaker 1: believe in lost causes, and he hands Eric his graded
Speaker 1: school test. Eric tells Pheenie. He didn't finish his sentence,
Speaker 1: he just put a uh what so so good? That
Speaker 1: was funny? Yeah, yeah, Pheenie reveals that's his grade. Eric
Speaker 1: begins to give a long winded speech thanking everybody, when
Speaker 1: mister Feoene cuts him off. Oh give it up, man,
Speaker 1: it's just one test. However, congratulations. Eric puts two and
Speaker 1: two together and figures out mister Feenie's master plan to
Speaker 1: help him and Jeff both achieve better test scores. Eric
Speaker 1: calls Phoene a sly slide dog. Eric walks away, and
Speaker 1: Phoene shakes his head. Got lucky on that one. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just a story. That's the story.
Speaker 3: It's the story you kind of thought was going to happen.
Speaker 1: Did you notice the watch you're wearing in this? Was
Speaker 1: this your own watch? I did notice the watch I
Speaker 1: was wearing.
Speaker 2: No, I think it's the wardrobe watch that I wore
Speaker 2: for three seasons, which Eric gets in like the second episode,
Speaker 2: trying to set it. Yeah, I think it's that same one,
Speaker 2: and it never worked. It was just like there were
Speaker 2: no works inside, so it was just this dead digital
Speaker 2: watch that I was wearing on. But yes, I did
Speaker 2: actually notice that that along with my gigantic shirt it is.
Speaker 2: It's like everybody, it's like I went to the Talking
Speaker 2: Heads concert, took all his wardrobe and just was wearing
Speaker 2: that everywhere.
Speaker 1: So yeah, giant clothes all of a sudden, giants. So funny. Well,
Speaker 1: then we surprisingly find ourselves back in the police station.
Speaker 1: Chet walks in and we see Sean. He's shocked and
Speaker 1: he asks dad. Chet's just as surprised Sean. Sean asks,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Chet tells him, I guess
Speaker 1: I could ask you the same thing. He gives Sean
Speaker 1: some advice smile whenever he finds himself in custody. Nobody
Speaker 1: ever Billy Club a happy man, Every Billy Club to
Speaker 1: happy man. So funny. Sean asks how Chet even managed
Speaker 1: to find him here, and Chet changes the subject better
Speaker 1: question how'd you find yourself here? Sean admits he moved
Speaker 1: out of Turner, so his plan was to move in
Speaker 1: with Uncle Mike, but his trailer's gone. A cop found
Speaker 1: Sean sleeping in the park and brought him into the station.
Speaker 1: Chet asks if they turned on the swirly lights when
Speaker 1: they brought him in. Those are fun Sewan asks his
Speaker 1: dad if he's had any luck finding his mom, and
Speaker 1: Chet says he saw her a couple of months ago
Speaker 1: and he had her cornered in Mississippi, but she dove
Speaker 1: off the riverboat. The woman swims like a seal, he says.
Speaker 1: Sewn asks how long he's going to keep chasing her,
Speaker 1: and Chet responds, I just want to give her enough
Speaker 1: time to clear her head. Sean reminds him it's been
Speaker 1: a whole year, and Chet jokes, woman's got a big head,
Speaker 1: but then he admits it's true. If your mama wanted
Speaker 1: me to catch her, she would be caught. So Sean
Speaker 1: asks what's next. Chet says, we get you out of
Speaker 1: here and back to Turner's where you belong, and Sean
Speaker 1: suggests maybe he can stick around here for a while,
Speaker 1: and Chet says, there ain't nothing in this town for me,
Speaker 1: and Sean responds, yeah, there's me.
Speaker 2: Oh great moment, hmm, great moment my heart.
Speaker 1: Chet explains, I left you at Turners because in my
Speaker 1: mind it was a better place, and Sean replies it
Speaker 1: was a good place, but I wouldn't call it better.
Speaker 1: It wasn't you. It wasn't home. Besides, I need you,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking you need me. Chet reminds him, I
Speaker 1: ain't that good of a cook, and Sean smiles, you
Speaker 1: can't be any worse than mom. Chet and Sean they
Speaker 1: laugh about that, and Chet says, I'm gonna do something
Speaker 1: I haven't done since you were a very little boy.
Speaker 1: Sean excitedly asks in a job, and Chet tells him
Speaker 1: heck no, and then he gives him a big hug.
Speaker 1: Boy meets world does that better than anybody, breaking up
Speaker 1: the super sentimental moment with a nice laugh, and then
Speaker 1: the police officer announces, Hunter, you've been bailed So notice,
Speaker 1: up until this point, other than Chet saying I'm not
Speaker 1: much of a cook, he has not in any way
Speaker 1: implied he's going to stick around and that anything Sean
Speaker 1: has said has changed his mind. And then he says.
Speaker 1: The cop says, Hunter, you've been bailed out. Chet asks
Speaker 1: which one and he says the little one. Then Turner
Speaker 1: storms in and sees the pair of Hunters. Chet says,
Speaker 1: look at me, Teach, I'm a bad seed. I was
Speaker 1: on the way to your place when I ran into
Speaker 1: a speed trap and a pile of unpaid parking tickets.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe that story. I do not believe
Speaker 1: in any way he was going. We know he wasn't.
Speaker 1: He already says, let's get you back to Turner's. So
Speaker 1: unless he was going to go to Turner's just because
Speaker 1: Corey had convinced him, he should at least say, hi,
Speaker 1: I don't buy this story at all that that's where
Speaker 1: he was going. So Turner asks who's bailing Chet out?
Speaker 1: And Chet says, well, he'd be much obliged for the
Speaker 1: help so he can get out of there and take
Speaker 1: care of his boy. Turner asks what he mean. Chet
Speaker 1: excitedly announces, I'm staying. Wouldn't be much of a father
Speaker 1: if I didn't. Then he tells Turner his job is done.
Speaker 1: Seawan asks to talk to John alone for a minute.
Speaker 1: Chet walks away, but says I'd step outside, but they
Speaker 1: would shoot me. Turner assures Sean, I don't even need
Speaker 1: to ask. I can tell this is what she wanted.
Speaker 1: Sean smiles in relief. It's just like we said, we
Speaker 1: knew this wasn't forever. Turner shrugs. A roof and a bed,
Speaker 1: Shawn adds and a good friend. Turner smiles a nod,
Speaker 1: saying the best. Sean thanks him, adding you put up
Speaker 1: with a lot. They do a little bro handshake and
Speaker 1: Turner tells him I'd do it again, and we get
Speaker 1: a nice little freeze frame with Chet perfectly placed behind
Speaker 1: Turner and Sean. And that's when I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't feel good about this. I'm supposed to feel good.
Speaker 3: It's resolution, but it's not really.
Speaker 1: It's just and we know it is just beginning. And
Speaker 1: how it's all going to fall apart, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I know it's going to and I love it.
Speaker 1: So then we're in Turner's apartment. Sean comes down the
Speaker 1: stairs carrying a box of his stuff.
Speaker 3: Corey helps me, so that is the bedroom. That's where
Speaker 3: Sean was sleeping. Apparently SE's now we know.
Speaker 1: So Chet tells Sean, I'll meet you downstairs. One more
Speaker 1: parking ticket in our home gets the Denver Bootell you,
Speaker 1: Chet yells out the window. Hey you kids, get off
Speaker 1: my front porch. Corey wishes Sean good luck. Sean thanks
Speaker 1: him for tracking down his dad, and Corey responds, we're friends.
Speaker 1: We help each other out. That's what we do. Sean
Speaker 1: admits there's something he's wanted to do for a long time,
Speaker 1: invite Corey to his house for dinner. Corey asks who's cooking,
Speaker 1: and Sean tells him you are. Corey thinks about it
Speaker 1: in answers huh.
Speaker 4: He does the huh yeah second, the second personal life.
Speaker 1: He was doing it all the time, all the time,
Speaker 1: And that's definitely this.
Speaker 3: I love it so much.
Speaker 1: I'm there. And then Chet returns, this is just about it.
Speaker 1: As he unplugs a TV. Sean interrupts, Dad, that's Turner's TV.
Speaker 1: Chet tells him, you've been here a year. Besides, teacher
Speaker 1: shouldn't be watching television anyways, and he walks right out
Speaker 1: the door with it, and Sean follows. I did like it.
Speaker 1: I like the episode. Can't wait to see where it goes.
Speaker 1: And he steals the TV just like he steals the
Speaker 1: episode exactly, and he steals your heart.
Speaker 3: He steals my heart away. Yeah, he's still a criminal.
Speaker 3: It's actually it all kind of works.
Speaker 1: I know, I like it. I like it, and I
Speaker 1: liked the b storyline too. I think, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I sure had there been a little little twisty twys twist,
Speaker 1: something that we didn't see coming, as opposed to like,
Speaker 1: well we see this coming, yep, you saw it, and
Speaker 1: it was and it's good. But yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1: But I still I really like this episode. I really do.
Speaker 1: And it is the most drama you could fit into
Speaker 1: something that's truly still a sitcom.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think the comedy is say, you know,
Speaker 3: the fact that it's a comedy is Ben and and
Speaker 3: Blake bringing it.
Speaker 1: Like Ben and Blake bringing it. Yep.
Speaker 3: They get a laugh like every other line, and that's
Speaker 3: so necessary.
Speaker 1: Didn't hate it, but it wasn't my favorite. That's what
Speaker 1: I would say. You hate Sean, just admit it. Sean
Speaker 1: is awful Sean.
Speaker 2: I can't stand him, and I hope he ends up
Speaker 2: on the streets. That's why I'm watching is because I
Speaker 2: hope everybody did it.
Speaker 3: Up in the streets. He just got barely save. You
Speaker 3: had to beg for his father to watch, sleeping in
Speaker 3: a park and then sleeping in the park. His uncle
Speaker 3: took off, his mom took off. Turner wasn't ready to
Speaker 3: be his legal guardian, not enough for me, and now
Speaker 3: his dad has taking him under false pretenses.
Speaker 1: We don't know that yet, We don't know that, don't
Speaker 1: feel it, we can feel it. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to work out great. I think people will dig it.
Speaker 1: I think people will dig it. Join us for our
Speaker 1: next episode recap Season three, episode twenty one, The Happiest
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