Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and that's when you really miss podcast. This
Speaker 1: is sectionals. That's not the title of the episode, but
Speaker 1: this is sectionals. We are at season three, episode eight,
Speaker 1: hold on to sixteen.
Speaker 2: Hello Kevin, Hello Jenna. We have been anticipating this episode,
Speaker 2: not necessarily because of the storylines, but I think selfishly
Speaker 2: because we get some incredible performances this episode.
Speaker 1: I'm Shook and I'm Shook.
Speaker 2: Jenna basically has an entire songes. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: talk about that because this really was sitting there with
Speaker 2: my jaw on the floor and this was just a
Speaker 2: really good one. There was a lot happening in terms
Speaker 2: of storyline. I think with all the competition episodes, it's
Speaker 2: a bit of a mess. You know, everything is intertwined
Speaker 2: because looming over all of it is the competition.
Speaker 1: But exactly let's get to sectionals.
Speaker 2: We it feels almost like this is only episode eight
Speaker 2: of the season, right, but it feels like it's a
Speaker 2: halfway point in terms of we're sort of wrapping up
Speaker 2: some storylines where it's like a clean finish, a clean
Speaker 2: break and setting up a clean slate for whatever comes
Speaker 2: after this correct, which feels nice.
Speaker 1: Feel right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I felt like last episode was the lead up, tie
Speaker 1: up of all the elections to get to sectionals, and
Speaker 1: now we're wrapping up sectionals to then get to regionals.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's dive in. Let's dive in. Let's get
Speaker 1: our our little news so we can get into these performances.
Speaker 1: What was happening in the news.
Speaker 2: We found Love is still number one. Twilight Saga Breaking
Speaker 2: Down Part one is still number one.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: A bunch of us went to as we did every
Speaker 2: single year, Trevor Projects Trevor Live Gala in La at
Speaker 2: the Palladium. Amber, Chris, Darren, Diana, Me, Harry Damien, and
Speaker 2: Jama and Jane all went. Darren performed, Amber performed, Harry,
Speaker 2: Mark Damien and myself presented. It was a great, great,
Speaker 2: great time. Those events were always so special. Also, if
Speaker 2: you're looking to do something good, look up Trevor Project
Speaker 2: and see if you can donate, where you can donate,
Speaker 2: how to donate and get involved because they're an absolutely
Speaker 2: incredible organization and vital to helping and saving so many
Speaker 2: lives of LGBT family members. You know, they're They're a
Speaker 2: great organization.
Speaker 1: For many, many years.
Speaker 2: So this episode directed by Brad Beeker because it's a
Speaker 2: competition all these yes, this is now his thing. Ross
Speaker 2: Maxwell wrote this episode. Well, he's on the script right right, right,
Speaker 2: of course. Now now my neighbor and I see him
Speaker 2: at Starbucks.
Speaker 1: I saw him at the picket lines when he was
Speaker 1: Glee day. That's right, Okay, the song is in this episode.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. So we have red solo Cup
Speaker 1: and will forever be ingrained in my memory. H survivor,
Speaker 1: I will survive ABC control man in the mirror, and
Speaker 1: we are young. I have chills just thinking about all
Speaker 1: these numbers. I don't even know what I was thinking
Speaker 1: going into this, like, oh, this is this is good, right,
Speaker 1: this is good. No, this is excellent.
Speaker 2: This is music excellence for Glee. Like a lot of these,
Speaker 2: it's weird, when you know, I feel like a lot
Speaker 2: of the time there's one, maybe two songs that are
Speaker 2: really ingrained in us, that we remember or that we
Speaker 2: know like made some sort of a impact impact. This
Speaker 2: one has so.
Speaker 1: Many Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 2: And I'm a you know me, I'm a sucker for
Speaker 2: a long stage performance. You know, I love the audition episodes,
Speaker 2: and so the fact that we get five numbers on
Speaker 2: that competition stage, Oh yeah, it's my dream. Give it
Speaker 2: to me, give it, and we get another one in
Speaker 2: the auditorium. So there are six performances in this episode
Speaker 2: alone on a stage.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, there's some fun facts for this episode, Kevin. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is one of three episodes submitted for the twenty
Speaker 1: twelve Emmys, the other two being Asian f and Yes.
Speaker 1: No Emmy nominations that year. We're Outstanding Guest Actress for DOT,
Speaker 1: Outstanding Maker Up for a Single Camera Series, the Outstanding
Speaker 1: Cinematography for a Single Camera Series. Wow, Go Crue. And
Speaker 1: this title refers to Sam's favorite lyric in John Millencopt's
Speaker 1: song Jack and Diane, which she said to Quinn hold
Speaker 1: on to sixteen as long as you can, which which
Speaker 1: is in a very very good scene between Adina and Diana.
Speaker 1: Ooh chilling. What else? What else? So fitting with this theme,
Speaker 1: this episode's theme of aging maturity New Direction setlist for
Speaker 1: sectionals chronologically covers a lifespan ABC's Childhood, Controls, Young Adulthood,
Speaker 1: and Man in the Mirror's Adulthood.
Speaker 2: Brought to you by the Jackson Family, Just Jackson five,
Speaker 2: Janet Jackson to Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: Hello, and filming began on November tewod following completion of
Speaker 1: the seventh episode the previous Day, which feels appropriate and
Speaker 1: right finish on November twenty first. The episode was shot
Speaker 1: in parallel with the ninth episode, Extraordinary Merry Christmas, which
Speaker 1: brings back lots of memories, good and mad, which began
Speaker 1: filming on November tenth. So this is when it started
Speaker 1: to get pretty crazy. There's a lot of fun facts, Kevin,
Speaker 1: tell me something there are.
Speaker 2: This is the only competition set list to have more
Speaker 2: than one song by the same group artists and musical
Speaker 2: the Jacksons. However, it can be argued that it isn't
Speaker 2: since Janet Jackson wasn't an original member of the group,
Speaker 2: but was a later member. It's always in the same
Speaker 2: family I account. This episode also contains the most songs
Speaker 2: Quinn has sung in a single episode, four Oh She.
Speaker 2: On iTunes for this episode, the summary included Harry as
Speaker 2: the name of Mike's portrayer, Harry Shum Junior instead of Mike.
Speaker 1: Well, that seems appropriate too.
Speaker 2: The competition of this episode is the only one in
Speaker 2: which Rachel doesn't participate during her high school career, which
Speaker 2: was weird. That felt very strange, very strange. Yep, Rory
Speaker 2: is the only new Direction member that doesn't sing in
Speaker 2: this episode, and it's only yeah, he's good. This is
Speaker 2: the second time that Rachel doesn't sing in the set
Speaker 2: list since twenty ten sectionals. This is my favorite part.
Speaker 2: Kurt tells Sebastian that he doesn't like him or his
Speaker 2: CW hair pre grant becoming the flash on CW for
Speaker 2: ten years basically, and the ninth of the episode aired,
Speaker 2: many topics related to the show appeared as trending topics
Speaker 2: on Twitter. At one point, Dante, the writer ar executive
Speaker 2: producer tweeted six trending topics. Well, it was six trending
Speaker 2: topics exclamation point question mark, indicating that six of the
Speaker 2: nine available slots were filled by Glee related topics. Actually,
Speaker 2: and then he corrected to eight because hashtag white chocolate
Speaker 2: was also. As soon as Cord stepped on, he started
Speaker 2: trending Oliver turon well as he and Sue does not
Speaker 2: appear in this episode. Those are our fun facts. There's
Speaker 2: a lot that was.
Speaker 1: A lot, Yeah, Cord comes back. Cord comes back. But
Speaker 1: let's before we talk about that, Let's give me what
Speaker 1: is the what is this episode?
Speaker 2: In an attempt to recruit a few more members, Finn
Speaker 2: tracks down former teammates Sam Evans and convinces him to
Speaker 2: come back to the Glee Club. Tina comes to the
Speaker 2: defense of Mike and encourages him to pursue his dream,
Speaker 2: while McKinley prepares to host the big sectionalst performance.
Speaker 1: Wow wow wow Okay, okay. So, so Finn and Rachel
Speaker 1: are going to travel to Kentucky, which random, but they
Speaker 1: find Sam and they think he's performing, but he's working
Speaker 1: at a short club to support him with him and
Speaker 1: his family.
Speaker 2: I'd see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. He comes back to McKinley, and Sam is
Speaker 1: convinced he's gonna win Mercedes back now that he's home
Speaker 1: with the Glee Club, staying with Rachel and Finn. And
Speaker 1: and now we got little quarteryback, Thank goodness, because we
Speaker 1: needed it. We lost all of our Trouble Tones, you know,
Speaker 1: our members to the Trouble Tones. We lost Rachel. So
Speaker 1: Cord comes to the rescue. There's a lot of Quinn.
Speaker 2: In this episode, and it's good Quinn.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like this.
Speaker 2: Something is happening. Finally we're getting movement on this we
Speaker 2: geting stagnant storyline.
Speaker 1: Quinn is still off her rocker at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this episode. She has decided she's going now that she
Speaker 1: has leverage over Puck over Shelby, She's going to get
Speaker 1: Shelby fired, which then Trouble Tones won't perform. We're gonna
Speaker 1: win sectionals by default, which is not what we want.
Speaker 1: But really she wants to you tell Figgins about Shelby
Speaker 1: and Puff to get Beth back, and Rachel sees her, yeah,
Speaker 1: and she Quentin reveals that she's going to tell tell
Speaker 1: Figgins about this. She tells her plan, which I don't
Speaker 1: know why she tells her the plan.
Speaker 2: But she tells her that's what all villains do.
Speaker 1: They reveal their deepest, darkest secrets, just in a cool moment. Okay,
Speaker 1: Rachel's worried. Now, she's concerned because Rachel is a fierce competitor,
Speaker 1: and so she decides that she's gonna she's gonna keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Quit and so at sectionals. When we're
Speaker 1: at Sectionals, Ran, are you know costumes were getting ready
Speaker 1: to perform, Rachel sees her leave the auditorium and she
Speaker 1: knows what she's about to go do. Rachel stops her
Speaker 1: in the hallway for this wonderful scene and tells her
Speaker 1: that she is going to She's like, I know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. At least wait until the trouble to
Speaker 1: him to performed and tell Shelby before you do it?
Speaker 2: Doesn't this storyline obviously? I think it all all these
Speaker 2: storylines fit within the title of it with the title
Speaker 2: of the episode is trying to, I think imply, is
Speaker 2: that all these people are having to make these adult
Speaker 2: decisions dealing with things that are sort of above their
Speaker 2: pay grade, if you will, where they're not dealing with
Speaker 2: just high school issues. You're dealing with children and yes,
Speaker 2: relationships and livelihoods. And in addition to samsul storyline and
Speaker 2: Rachel's actually, even though she, like you know, generally operates
Speaker 2: from a place of selfishness and narcissism, I think her
Speaker 2: coming to several different versions of like what she wants
Speaker 2: Quinn to do or not do, seems like a more
Speaker 2: mature and fully formed person as you know, since she
Speaker 2: wouldn't have done that last season, right, And so I
Speaker 2: enjoyed seeing that because because she wasn't worrying about what
Speaker 2: she was doing on stage, they had her do all
Speaker 2: this stuff behind the scenes, so that that was really
Speaker 2: fun and interesting.
Speaker 1: No, totally. It was redeeming for Rachel to after doing
Speaker 1: the ballot stuffing the ballots and then her kind of
Speaker 1: turning back around and saying like, I've done this before
Speaker 1: and it doesn't feel good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's also like, let's let's just have the
Speaker 2: best team win, Like, let's level the playing field after
Speaker 2: coming off this thing that I just tried to like, yeah,
Speaker 2: fix an election.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: So she's trying to redeem herself.
Speaker 1: Yes, So Quinn's going to tell Shelby what she's going
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Thanks to the advice of Rachel. Again, it's like, if
Speaker 2: you're going to do it, the adult thing to do
Speaker 2: is let her know you're going to do.
Speaker 1: It, is true. I was like, oh, she's right, because
Speaker 1: Quinn says, I'm an adult and I can do what
Speaker 1: I want. Right.
Speaker 2: That's why this all kind of.
Speaker 1: Comes to its full circle. So this really great scene
Speaker 1: between the two of them. I really enjoyed watching this scene.
Speaker 1: This was like poigning for the episode. But we don't
Speaker 1: talk about this a lot ugly, right, Like how how
Speaker 1: kids are so eager to grow up? Yeah, so quickly.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was really poignant and really important
Speaker 1: to point out. And she's like, enjoy your time on
Speaker 1: this stage because you may never get it a can.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of that too. Throughout this episode.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of contemplation with Kurt and right
Speaker 2: and talking about especially with Quinn, about her future and
Speaker 2: if this is something that she's going to continue to
Speaker 2: pursue or not. And it's nice that you can see
Speaker 2: the characters having those conversations and how the Glee Club
Speaker 2: means different things to each of us or each of
Speaker 2: the characters. And it was coming off of an episode
Speaker 2: before that was so sort of disjointed. Having a really
Speaker 2: strong theme through every single storyline and plotline of this
Speaker 2: episode was really nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really solid. As I also appreciated, like Shelby Adina's
Speaker 1: performance in this was like so calm and collected as
Speaker 1: an adult in the way that a mature adult is
Speaker 1: going to react a teacher, hopefully because the way you
Speaker 1: hope somebody would react, right, Dang well, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to go enjoy my last hour. I know what I
Speaker 1: did is wrong, this is why I did it, and
Speaker 1: just kind of like very calmly giving Quinn a little
Speaker 1: bit of a lesson after Adena has already proven that
Speaker 1: or Shelby has proven that she's learned her lesson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just thought that scene was really well done.
Speaker 2: Shelby is sort of the only adult character besides I
Speaker 2: would say the trifecta is Shelby, Bert and Carol are
Speaker 2: all like the only they're the only adult characters that
Speaker 2: aren't doing crazy things. Obviously, she's hooking up with a
Speaker 2: student that's crazy, but I guess in terms of like
Speaker 2: her mannerisms and like how she's acting, how she's portraying that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're very steady. They feel more real. Yeah, the rest
Speaker 2: of us are all like clowns and doing crazy things
Speaker 2: the entire time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, we'll continue to do so that's what.
Speaker 1: Our job was. But this is Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: really great episode for Quinn. She finds herself kind of
Speaker 1: back where she started and finding a little bit of
Speaker 1: closure and really coming to terms with herself and you know,
Speaker 1: redeeming herself by asking the Troupletones to come back to
Speaker 1: the New Directions. Huge win for for Quinn and for
Speaker 1: all of us, and so it's pretty great. And then
Speaker 1: also bringing them back to come and seeing the auditorium.
Speaker 2: There's so many storylines. I mean, Finn and Blaine have
Speaker 2: it out here, they get into it, and at first
Speaker 2: it was so jarring to me. It's like, what is
Speaker 2: happening the bag, yeah, and all of like, but they
Speaker 2: were so good together, and it was also like this
Speaker 2: weird masculinity battle.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to word this and not sound crazy,
Speaker 2: but I feel like a lot of times when Blaine
Speaker 2: is very different from Kurt, I think it's important to
Speaker 2: portray obviously the range in which gay people exist. They
Speaker 2: are not one thing, right, and having Blaine have like
Speaker 2: sort of this weirdly, I don't like, I've never felt
Speaker 2: violent in my life towards anyone, and he has this
Speaker 2: like outburst towards Finn, and Finn being football player, captain
Speaker 2: of the football team, he's the one who has sort
Speaker 2: of the you know, I was jealous. I was, and
Speaker 2: coming off of I don't know, maybe a couple weeks
Speaker 2: of reflection after outing someone, but it was a really
Speaker 2: nice I felt like juxtaposition between the two characters and
Speaker 2: how those type archetypes are normally portrayed in TV shows,
Speaker 2: and it was just a scene. But it's also been
Speaker 2: like coming to a head for a while since the
Speaker 2: season began, and so it was nice to be it
Speaker 2: was another one of those plot points getting wrapped up
Speaker 2: or like bursting that bubble, just like with Quinn storyline
Speaker 2: and now with this Finn and Blaine thing that was
Speaker 2: unsettled and then Finn's busy this episode, He's very busy.
Speaker 2: Then Finn goes to when he goes to get Sam
Speaker 2: with Rachel, I just have questions, how is a sixteen
Speaker 2: seventeen year old working at a strip club?
Speaker 1: Right? It's Kentucky kivin no offense.
Speaker 2: I mean fair, but like that I don't know about
Speaker 2: In the scene with the.
Speaker 1: Parents, yeah, I'm so sweet.
Speaker 2: Did you see that movie Finding never Land back in
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: The thing I remember from that movie is the scene
Speaker 2: where Johnny Depp's character talks to a young Freddie Hiymore
Speaker 2: after they've experienced some trauma, and he's like, oh, just
Speaker 2: like that, you're no longer a child, right, And that's
Speaker 2: all I thought about in the scene where it's like
Speaker 2: the parents, like we didn't want you to have to
Speaker 2: do this and then Sam being like no, I'm just
Speaker 2: so proud of us, Like what a beautiful minus the
Speaker 2: homeless jokes. It was really beautiful series of moments in
Speaker 2: that scene, and I.
Speaker 1: Yes, and once again Sam having to grow up too fast, right,
Speaker 1: having to become an adult too fast? Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: a really it's a nice way to reintroduce Sam. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nice way to.
Speaker 2: Such a good guy. No do you so? Do you
Speaker 2: remember filming Red Solo Cup?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? I remember filming that. I was like, number one,
Speaker 1: what is this song?
Speaker 2: What is the song?
Speaker 1: We did not know wrote this? None of us? None
Speaker 1: of Us is a fun, catchy song. I think it
Speaker 1: was stuck in my head for a while afterwards because
Speaker 1: it's so ridiculous. It's a red Soila cup and there's
Speaker 1: a song about it, but there's a song about it
Speaker 1: for everybody. So yeah, I just remember working with like
Speaker 1: having Quardy back, it was like so so nice. It's
Speaker 1: like a real celebrations I have quarters.
Speaker 2: It was. It was very real and it's such like
Speaker 2: a fitting number for him. It felt like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we're here, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's also like a freeform rock out number to
Speaker 1: shoot and we didn't know the songs, so we're like
Speaker 1: winging it and trying to make it work. And you know,
Speaker 1: it didn't have a ton of foo for all no
Speaker 1: around it. So we're just like, let's just have a
Speaker 1: fun time. We do.
Speaker 2: There was enough choreo to do. There was five other
Speaker 2: numbers coming that had a lot of choreos, so, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, more choreo than we've ever seen No.
Speaker 2: And this and we're we're young. It's just like, okay,
Speaker 2: let's just have a nice.
Speaker 1: Time, go for it. They're like I could see Zach
Speaker 1: being like just move yeah, just move around.
Speaker 2: And have a good time.
Speaker 1: And and then we have the band members and we
Speaker 1: are new directions Sam and the band members.
Speaker 2: I missed when the band members like came in and
Speaker 2: I looked up and I'm like, why is John Locke
Speaker 2: with long hair here again? But I loved it, Like
Speaker 2: there he was dancing with us on stage.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't even so funny.
Speaker 2: So we talked about this before, but we were at
Speaker 2: filming the prom episode when we found out Chord is
Speaker 2: coming back, and then it like spread like wildfire across
Speaker 2: the gymnasium floor. I don't remember that it wasn't prom
Speaker 2: We were filming some number in the gymnasium and I mentioned, nope, no,
Speaker 2: it was there was a stage. We literally have talked
Speaker 2: about it this season and I've already forgotten, but I
Speaker 2: remember somebody like a rumor started to spread, just like
Speaker 2: real high school and like wait, Chords.
Speaker 1: Coming back the world. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like there was a stage set up at
Speaker 2: the end, and I don't remember what it was. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but we were so excited, and I remember
Speaker 2: we didn't want a text chord because like, if this
Speaker 2: isn't true, then you don't want to get hopes up
Speaker 2: right right, And like the last we heard is like
Speaker 2: does he even want to come back?
Speaker 1: Right? We hadn't spoken to him, no, And.
Speaker 2: So I think there was like a cooling period where
Speaker 2: both sides got to take a minute to be like
Speaker 2: we need each other. We were so excited, obviously, I mean,
Speaker 2: white Chocolate is back, White Chocolate.
Speaker 1: I was giggling with those names, and that just him
Speaker 1: coming out. It was just it was very funny, very
Speaker 1: very funny. And then this is where Windy City was born.
Speaker 2: I think, yes, so.
Speaker 1: Windy City is Cords, adorable body rolls, that he does
Speaker 1: in white Chocolate. He does it in other numbers. He
Speaker 1: does it, and we are fun, right, we are young,
Speaker 1: he does it. We are fun. We are fun. He
Speaker 1: also did it, I think in Man in the Mirror.
Speaker 1: Maybe he does everywhere. So we call it the Windy City. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, Zach Woly makes all the craziest names. And
Speaker 1: another thing that's happening is Queen Tina is going to
Speaker 1: Queen Teina is gonna get Mike's dad to get on board.
Speaker 2: She really goes above and beyond and like it's definitely
Speaker 2: some questionable tactics.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, Mike, Yeah.
Speaker 2: But ultimately what a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So she's convinced, she is, she is willing,
Speaker 1: she's willed his father to make it to sexual. So
Speaker 1: she visits. She has a fight with Mike in the hallway,
Speaker 1: which I remember shooting with Harry. We hadn't getten Seine
Speaker 1: in a while, so I remember shooting this being mad
Speaker 1: at him, and these were really fun. It was just
Speaker 1: something else to do, like get I was like fast storyline,
Speaker 1: like something to do, and it was very It resonated
Speaker 1: with me because growing up so many kids were you know,
Speaker 1: this is all we wanted was to be in theater,
Speaker 1: to be on Broadway, all these things. And you know
Speaker 1: a lot of very kids, like friends of mine, didn't
Speaker 1: have their parents' support. And my parents didn't even really
Speaker 1: want me to do this as living because it is
Speaker 1: so hard. And when Mike's dad says like, do you
Speaker 1: know how hard this is going to be for you?
Speaker 1: I mean, my parents had said that to me at times,
Speaker 1: like do you understand how much harder this is going
Speaker 1: to be for you than other people? It's hard enough,
Speaker 1: and you, just as a mother, you're like, I get
Speaker 1: it now. I don't ever want my kid to struggle
Speaker 1: or to starve or to you know, you just want
Speaker 1: them to to be comfortable, but not at the expense
Speaker 1: of their happiness and their love for whatever. So anyway,
Speaker 1: this was really very It came from my heart when
Speaker 1: I was I was just able to like pull this
Speaker 1: out because it felt very true.
Speaker 2: It was and another one of those storylines of this
Speaker 2: episode of indicative of the character's growth, your relationship to
Speaker 2: one another, even how you're acting in the scene towards
Speaker 2: one another, there's like a level of maturity that wasn't
Speaker 2: there before. Also, I think it's because you do get
Speaker 2: sort of a more meaningful storyline totally. Could you like,
Speaker 2: how was that like when you're going into film that
Speaker 2: type of scene. Are you immediately like, oh I get this,
Speaker 2: I've been there, or is it one of those things
Speaker 2: that you look back on you're like, oh, yeah, that
Speaker 2: was actually rooted in a real place. But I wasn't
Speaker 2: necessarily aware of it at the time.
Speaker 1: No, I was fully aware of it at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was so helpful to have, totally. It's easy.
Speaker 1: It's much easier when you have something to work off
Speaker 1: of like that. Yeah. No, I definitely had that, and
Speaker 1: it makes it harder because you care so deeply about
Speaker 1: it and it feels so true and you try to
Speaker 1: find the place of which teen is coming from versus Genma,
Speaker 1: and you know that fine line also, but then you know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're the same. Sometimes they overlaps.
Speaker 1: Very true, very true. But yeah, I remember working with
Speaker 1: bad on this and like just chatting with him about it.
Speaker 1: He's so wonderful and so great about helping you get
Speaker 1: to where you need to be and giving you the
Speaker 1: space to do what you want to do, but also saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got that, so let's try something else. That's always
Speaker 1: a Bradbeaker, So you know a line and I, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. It was just very easy to pull from
Speaker 1: because obviously I was blatantly aware of this, and and
Speaker 1: and it worked out. You know, Mike's dad came and
Speaker 1: he showed up. It made me emotional. It didn't make
Speaker 1: me much when I watched it back in the day,
Speaker 1: but this time I was like, Oh, that's really meaningful.
Speaker 2: How was it filming? That's the Tina and Mike's dad
Speaker 2: Mike Senior scene, because I love that because you're also
Speaker 2: going in there again anytime Tina's with adults, like you
Speaker 2: got Figgins in the palm of your hand, you do
Speaker 2: what these parents are in the on your hand. The
Speaker 2: only time Tina is sort of not like the queen
Speaker 2: Bee is in the glee club. Like it's like we
Speaker 2: have that like running joke about how Tina keeps getting
Speaker 2: like ship on right outside of the glee club handles
Speaker 2: her business.
Speaker 1: That's true. She helps Rachel again, like.
Speaker 2: She's the manager. She's everybody's secret manager. You not only
Speaker 2: got Mike's dad to show up, you also submitted an
Speaker 2: application on Mike's behalf. I was like, wow, really it's
Speaker 2: very generous though. It is very genus.
Speaker 1: It is it is I would do that. I would
Speaker 1: do that. No, working with Kyng was really nice. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we had he had been in prior previous episodes,
Speaker 1: so always wasn't like brand new. But I was nervous
Speaker 1: shooting that one because I was driving the scene with him.
Speaker 1: But I also felt very supportive by him. Obviously, say
Speaker 1: to hand Er, he was a beautiful job. But you
Speaker 1: you know, and I want it. I watched this back
Speaker 1: and I don't know if I don't remember if this
Speaker 1: was a choice or if this was just Jenna doing
Speaker 1: Jenna everything Tina did. I think maybe this was Brad
Speaker 1: Beeker was so hopeful mm hmm. She wasn't angry, she
Speaker 1: wasn't fighting. She just believed so hard in what she
Speaker 1: was saying that she was so sure of herself. And
Speaker 1: so when I went when I was watching that scene
Speaker 1: last night, I was like, oh my god, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't think I would have played it like that now,
Speaker 1: but I like the way she we did it back
Speaker 1: then because it's just it's truthful to the youth.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say. It's it's almost like
Speaker 2: the naivety of youth coming out because like now you
Speaker 2: know too much, you know how fragile everything is, and
Speaker 2: like the blind optimism is like, well, I know it's.
Speaker 1: A lot harder. Yeah, totally like.
Speaker 2: To really make this happen. But yes, it does sound
Speaker 2: like a Bradbeaker Jenna collaboration, doesn't it. She's so hopeful.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's so true. Yes, and so coming in it
Speaker 1: felt a little it felt a little naive to me
Speaker 1: for Tina. You know, like if a kid like that
Speaker 1: said something like that to me now I would have
Speaker 1: an interesting reaction to it. So I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: it feels like it feels like a Brad thing that
Speaker 1: I think maybe he had said, like, let's play this
Speaker 1: this way. I think we tried it a few ways,
Speaker 1: but I think we played it this way throughout the
Speaker 1: whole thing, even with Mike. She does it or in
Speaker 1: the earlier so she's not so mad, she's not.
Speaker 2: It works so well too, And it's also refreshing because
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of this stuff you got
Speaker 2: was Tina being like super emotional mm hmm and like
Speaker 2: a but like intentionally, it wasn't like it was a
Speaker 2: choice you made. It was written that way or on
Speaker 2: the day you were pushed to do that, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: and it's nice to see like other because obviously you're
Speaker 2: extremely talented and good and have all these other layers
Speaker 2: and levels to give. So it's nice when you see
Speaker 2: that and dealing with an adult, dealing with a boyfriend,
Speaker 2: dealing with a teacher, and see how Tina is a
Speaker 2: little different each of those things. And yeah, it's so
Speaker 2: fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Thanks. It was fun to do. It's always fun to do.
Speaker 2: You're so talented.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're so nice. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's hard to watch yourself back and remember those times.
Speaker 1: Just watch yourself back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you should be proud of yourself that you
Speaker 2: were really great in this episode.
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You were not only were you acting sound, you were singing.
Speaker 1: This was fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, just real quick. It's sectionals. Shoe Harriet to have
Speaker 2: a set list ready and the street continues alive and
Speaker 2: while Shoe has not prepared and leaving leaving it up
Speaker 2: to everybody else to figure it out. I'm shocked, like,
Speaker 2: why are you here, sir? What are you even doing?
Speaker 1: It's like his the epitome of mister Shoe is when
Speaker 1: he comes in at the end of Fun at the
Speaker 1: fun number. Yeah, I'm here, We're like where a few bit. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's also the glee club members were fully on the
Speaker 2: glee schedule because we learned things in like two hours
Speaker 2: and then how to go film it immediately right, and
Speaker 2: we were like fine, like that's just what we have
Speaker 2: to do, and you can shoot around it and make
Speaker 2: us look good. But high school students have a full
Speaker 2: academic day, they have clubs after school, they have friends,
Speaker 2: they have things to do, and you want them to
Speaker 2: pull this out.
Speaker 1: And also come up with that choreography for.
Speaker 2: Three numbers and a night like come on, get out
Speaker 2: of here. Like we were adults that were hired for
Speaker 2: a professional job and we were barely managing it. And
Speaker 2: that was with all the Melodiine in the world.
Speaker 1: I'm dying, I'm dying. That's really funny. That's really funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we were again once again it's left up to
Speaker 1: the kids, and yeah, we pull that out, We pull
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: I like the friendly banter between the Trouble Tones come
Speaker 2: in right before the show and like we've decided Benjiez
Speaker 2: is so good in this whole thing. Give her an inch,
Speaker 2: but you know, everyone decided that if on the Troubletnes,
Speaker 2: that if Troubletnes win, that anyone in the new directions
Speaker 2: who wants to join for regionals can And it is
Speaker 2: just so good the reactions. Everyone's pissed off. Ooh, Quinn
Speaker 2: coming in hot, looking at Shelby. It's wonderful teen teen drama.
Speaker 1: We also have to rewind back to for one second
Speaker 1: to when Sam after read Solo cup and Santana comes
Speaker 1: in and reads that letter from her a tiny little book. What.
Speaker 2: I really loved it, and it's also I love because
Speaker 2: we're just I was a little nervous because you're coming
Speaker 2: off of this whole thing happening between Santana and Finn,
Speaker 2: and like, are these jokes going to land? How are
Speaker 2: they going to be received? And then Sam is just
Speaker 2: smiling and it's it's really cute.
Speaker 1: Okay, So yes, the Troubletones come in, there's some friendly banter,
Speaker 1: and then we're at sectionals and Vanessa's Sugar's response to
Speaker 1: Jiggles the clown. That one shot made me cackle.
Speaker 2: Every time every time the camera catches her in this episode,
Speaker 2: I was laughing. She's doing something every single time the camera.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about these numbers, Jenna sectionals.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, wish where do you want to start?
Speaker 2: What you want to start? Let's start from the beginning
Speaker 2: it Yes, I mean Lindy Pears the voice coming in.
Speaker 1: Just such a great number. Two, just a great number selection,
Speaker 1: Like the song itself is so good, it's catchy. I
Speaker 1: was dying laughing when Rachel and Kurt were singing along.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, I wish we honestly had more of
Speaker 2: the banter between the three of them, the competitiveness, because
Speaker 2: it is really fun, because it's all lighthearted. Because they're
Speaker 2: all the same, they'll understand each other. Yes, the bloodshed, yes,
Speaker 2: but great number. It felt like a vocal journal. The
Speaker 2: number almost.
Speaker 1: Totally had to write Yeah, well for yeah, I love
Speaker 1: that song. So I was feeling it.
Speaker 2: It was very very good.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the trouble Tones here's the funny part. The
Speaker 1: Trouble Tones come out to record there to do their number,
Speaker 1: and their hair was curled to the gods and okay,
Speaker 1: do you remember, Kevin, we're about to shoot this number. Okay.
Speaker 1: They had bumpets in their hair, they had curly hair.
Speaker 1: That's nothing. They came out and had the craziest curly
Speaker 1: hair I have ever seen. It was the tiniest curly
Speaker 1: iron and they were it was wild. Yes, thank you,
Speaker 1: that's the word I was thinking for. And it was
Speaker 1: vetoed and somebody up above said absolutely not, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: It was the right call because it would taken away,
Speaker 1: truly taken away from the Numberneyiano Corney Platt, and I said,
Speaker 1: what is your hair? Who was one of the troubleton answers.
Speaker 1: So we had to take a pause and they had
Speaker 1: to go take every trouble tone back to that makeup
Speaker 1: trailer and they had to redo their hair. Already running
Speaker 1: behind and they're scrambling to try to see what else
Speaker 1: we could do to shoot because we weren't ready, and
Speaker 1: we had a break. We had a while. It took
Speaker 1: like an hour.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of trouble tones.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that's not an easy fix their hair
Speaker 1: from Carl Yeah, exactly. But it was the right choice
Speaker 1: because it would have taken away from that insane choreography,
Speaker 1: which I law.
Speaker 2: This number, Are you joking? I was watching it and
Speaker 2: it was I was probably so annoying. Austin was sitting
Speaker 2: there with him like god gott Huldre shoulder.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do that number so badly.
Speaker 2: Me too. You and I were learning it fully.
Speaker 1: We were learning it. I remember like Hannah dancing and
Speaker 1: we were going backwards. It was so good.
Speaker 2: That it was so they have their arms out, they
Speaker 2: got out front into the sides and they.
Speaker 1: Slap each other and then the one over the head.
Speaker 2: Yes, lady sang. There was so much lazy stripper. There
Speaker 2: was a shot of Lindy's when they cut the Vanessa
Speaker 2: and she's doing full lazy stripper phase and it is incredible.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was so good. It is one of my
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite numbers.
Speaker 2: It's also one of the best mashups the show has
Speaker 2: ever done.
Speaker 1: So good, they sounded so good, and I just love
Speaker 1: Amber and I together because it's so happy.
Speaker 2: I mean, we need I'm sure there already is one,
Speaker 2: but like a Mercedes Santana playlist or like an album, yes,
Speaker 2: we need a compilation of that because the hits after hits,
Speaker 2: there's nothing they don't touch that doesn't turn to gold.
Speaker 1: You know, is mine river d this one? The rumor
Speaker 1: has it.
Speaker 2: Are you like what hits on hits on hits.
Speaker 1: And then they just follow the ground. I was like,
Speaker 1: just take me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, oh god, it was so good.
Speaker 1: It was so good.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to watch it again.
Speaker 1: After this. Forgot who won, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the Trouble.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, obviously that's who we were voted for.
Speaker 1: You forget us.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. I didn't remember the thing about the
Speaker 2: hair because I was watching it and goes, what's happening
Speaker 2: with Heather's hair? Was like, I don't know. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: It was a rush a rush mix, it was a
Speaker 1: band aid.
Speaker 2: Those days were hard. There were a lot of people.
Speaker 2: We were all there. You were shooting all that in
Speaker 2: a day so or two.
Speaker 1: You're rushing. At least we were in our home turf.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: We don't have to go anywhere else would And then
Speaker 1: we get in new directions. ABC.
Speaker 2: Jenna, Jenna, you're gonna say, and you're gonna take this compliment.
Speaker 2: You looked incredible and you sounded even better. Wow, you
Speaker 2: sounded so good. Oh thanks, I like you were just like,
Speaker 2: this is my moment. I'm going to nail it. She's ready.
Speaker 2: All those other girls are out of here. Give me
Speaker 2: this song and you showed up. You're like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 2: going to act my ass off this episode, and I'm
Speaker 2: also going to sing it too, Like can you keep
Speaker 2: up with me?
Speaker 1: That's very nice.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 1: ABC. Seems like such a weird number to me, Like
Speaker 1: it's not a song that I would naturally wanted to
Speaker 1: like listen to on the rags, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, So it felt a little lackluster to
Speaker 1: me as a so like one of Tina's few solos.
Speaker 1: But my nieces love.
Speaker 2: It, and I think in context with how it's being used,
Speaker 2: it's really great. I also there's something about, though, like
Speaker 2: your voice, like your energy on that song, because I
Speaker 2: think growing up with it and hearing like Baby Michael
Speaker 2: sing it, it's like, well, no one can do that.
Speaker 2: It's so singular, totally anybody else doing it. It's it
Speaker 2: sounds so dumb, but it sounds like a new song
Speaker 2: in a way, because you can't do it little Michael
Speaker 2: was doing. Yeah, and your voice is extremely different than his,
Speaker 2: and it still works so well on it. Oh, thanks,
Speaker 2: I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm glad. This was one of the This
Speaker 1: is one of the first times I remember working with Alexanders.
Speaker 1: Really Alex did this number with yes, yeah, and so
Speaker 1: this is one of my first because I hadn't saying
Speaker 1: a time of this season, So this is one of
Speaker 1: my first.
Speaker 2: You know what, not that I doubted you, but you're
Speaker 2: right because I think he did just pop in season
Speaker 2: three heavily yes, And we hadn't sung a bunch.
Speaker 1: Yet, so we were like, who is this new guy?
Speaker 2: And he and if you listen to our interview with
Speaker 2: Adam Anders's brother, Alex was very particular and meticulous. Oh yes,
Speaker 2: we would all make jokes about it, but could he
Speaker 2: get a vocal out of you could? But he got
Speaker 2: a vocal out of all of us. Of us yes,
Speaker 2: And the demo singers like mind stopped out a couple
Speaker 2: of times. I think they also got harder, at least
Speaker 2: on my end, and then we were matching those and
Speaker 2: so we were all being pushed vocally and then you
Speaker 2: have a vocal producer who's gonna make sure you're going
Speaker 2: to hit those notes how the demo singer did it.
Speaker 2: And so I think all these vocals from here on
Speaker 2: out are really like growing and like this was not
Speaker 2: your normal style of music that you would normally ever sing.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't. It wasn't and it was high.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't think you realize how high your
Speaker 2: voice is when I first heard you sing that first
Speaker 2: rehearsal before the pilot, And what did you sing?
Speaker 1: What did I sing?
Speaker 2: Amber sing? Respect? Do you sang a Broadway song?
Speaker 1: If I were a bell?
Speaker 2: Maybe the silent? I don't know, No, I think maybe
Speaker 2: if I were something like that.
Speaker 1: Well, if I were a bell was supposed to be
Speaker 1: my audition song on the show because Tina was supposed
Speaker 1: to be geeky, so she was going to sing if.
Speaker 2: I were Is that a high song?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 2: And okay, that was probably it because I just remember,
Speaker 2: like she is hitting those notes and it looks easy.
Speaker 2: That's funny, and your voice is so strong.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I have voice. But anyway, this is not
Speaker 1: the genre of my my my usual genre.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I there's one thing Alexanders is going to do.
Speaker 2: It's going to get you to sing whatever genre you
Speaker 2: need to do.
Speaker 1: It's so true. I can hear his voice in my
Speaker 1: ears right now. Scoop not be like hey, they say,
Speaker 1: and he'll be like he'll do.
Speaker 2: It, and yeah, you would see for you was helpful though, like,
Speaker 2: damn it, I didn't they do that, And the amount
Speaker 2: of times I yelled at him like yeah, but you're
Speaker 2: not in here, like just do that, Like I can't
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: He would get a both A lot of us though.
Speaker 1: That was fun to record, though, I remember, and it's
Speaker 1: so fast. It's just so fast. To imagine doing a
Speaker 1: song like that right for you'd imagine it takes hours.
Speaker 1: It probably took forty five minutes because there's no time
Speaker 1: for anything else. It's just hurry up and then I'll go,
Speaker 1: We'll fly that, just keep going. It was. It's really
Speaker 1: fun though, a fun number, A fun, fun number to do.
Speaker 1: Tina was it was Tina's time to shine. Then we
Speaker 1: have control, which you had said in the last episode,
Speaker 1: makes much more sense now that with Quinn's storyline, because
Speaker 1: it was fully Diana giving us that first intro. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well what a number, what.
Speaker 2: A weird song, what a number?
Speaker 1: I didn't I don't know why I would have. I
Speaker 1: never would have thought they would.
Speaker 2: Have put that one in there, out of the whole
Speaker 2: Janet catalog, that one. I mean, I think it's solely
Speaker 2: because of that. It's just to have Diana have Quinn
Speaker 2: do that. Talking intro at Shelby, and I.
Speaker 1: Think it's like fit the adult model that we're talking.
Speaker 2: About, right exactly. But I mean Janet's got one of
Speaker 2: the most stacked catalog catalags, YEP catalogs and music history
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: That's that's the one. That was the one. But then
Speaker 1: we get to Me and a Mirror, which also awesome,
Speaker 1: sound great.
Speaker 2: I was losing my mind for usual because of course
Speaker 2: the demo singer for that one for me nice, so.
Speaker 1: Though also this is a this is a meaningful one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Storm, who did the demo for me, has
Speaker 2: like the craziest, coolest, raspiest sort of Michael voice, and
Speaker 2: so then I was like, I can't do this, like
Speaker 2: how I was supposed to match him, like he sounded so
Speaker 2: cool without trying to imitate Michael, right, But it was
Speaker 2: just it was a lot of fun, and I remember
Speaker 2: feeling like I won a small prize because when I
Speaker 2: do the that was not in the demo and I
Speaker 2: always just do that anyway, Yes you do, And I
Speaker 2: did it in the booth and Alex was like, I
Speaker 2: think I was, so I was going to record a line.
Speaker 2: I did that as like a warm up the track
Speaker 2: was already recording and I was doing something after it,
Speaker 2: and I just did it to like get in the mode,
Speaker 2: get in the mood of it. And he's like, oh,
Speaker 2: let's keep that. I was like, oh, like he kept
Speaker 2: something that wasn't already like predetermined.
Speaker 1: It storms it says it was yours.
Speaker 2: I remember we were shooting this and Amber was in
Speaker 2: the audience and she ye. She's like, Kevin, you sound good.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, thank you. She's like your pocket.
Speaker 2: This is the best pocket you've ever had. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, Like it means so
Speaker 2: much coming from the voice herself, Amber Riley truth and
Speaker 2: like talking about something like the pocket. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that means a lot to me, especially on a Michael's
Speaker 2: song like thank you so much. And she said that
Speaker 2: early on, like I think she heard it for the
Speaker 2: first time, like after the first take and she said it,
Speaker 2: and I was I was just filled with joy the
Speaker 2: rest of the time we were filming it. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I did something right.
Speaker 1: It gives you a vocal compliment. She doesn't do it
Speaker 1: unless she no. She said to me the other day
Speaker 1: during Stick Smiths when I was recording some stuff. She goes,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean yes.
Speaker 2: We actually side note, we were talking about your voice
Speaker 2: as you're recording, and your voice now has the range
Speaker 2: it's always had, but you have like this really cool
Speaker 2: rasp like smokiness to it.
Speaker 1: It's called me tired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it is. It's good. It's really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I need you to because you need to let the
Speaker 2: people know that your voice has gotten better.
Speaker 1: John's tired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever it is, it's working.
Speaker 1: Oh. Thanks, that's very nice. I take it. I'll take
Speaker 1: it from both of you.
Speaker 2: But these three numbers, that was like the most intricate
Speaker 2: choreo we've ever done.
Speaker 1: I am shocked that we all got that. I was thinking, like,
Speaker 1: how were we doing this?
Speaker 2: But were we? Though? Because there were a couple of shots,
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, Corey didn't get that. Corey was great
Speaker 2: most of the time. But you put Harry front and
Speaker 2: center and to pull focus on purpose. This is very smartly.
Speaker 1: Exactly not only is he part of a big part
Speaker 1: of his storyline is that, but also just put Harry
Speaker 1: in front distract the rest of us.
Speaker 2: General that the reaction when his dad comes in and
Speaker 2: you look and you're just like you just give this
Speaker 2: little like whoops, and you keep going and you recover
Speaker 2: and he looks at you as like the example of
Speaker 2: like okay, keep going, the show must go on. And
Speaker 2: it was so sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember we doing slower mark and Brad Beakers
Speaker 1: like what did it? I was like, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? We're doing slow mo in this number. But
Speaker 1: Brad Beaker always knew when.
Speaker 2: He was talking. He had a vision.
Speaker 1: Do what you do? What he said? Those really cool shots,
Speaker 1: You're like what is this? He's like, this is a
Speaker 1: rocket camera, Like what is that? He's the best. He
Speaker 1: always got everything done Brad Beaker. At some point, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was this one or later in time,
Speaker 1: he would come out with one of those whiteboards that
Speaker 1: was like you do projects on the trifold ones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he'd get every list of every shot you need
Speaker 1: and then he would mark it off with a marker.
Speaker 1: When you got it, it'd be like trouble time to
Speaker 1: be seeing this seeing that, and he would just market
Speaker 1: it was. Rad Beaker also would wear a wig. He
Speaker 1: would bring the wig out when it was like a
Speaker 1: night shoot or something like this to remind us that
Speaker 1: to keep laughing and he did that on American Horror
Speaker 1: Story as well. The Wig lived on good.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm so glad, especially on some of those sets
Speaker 2: where you just need the days are long, you need
Speaker 2: a little levity.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, exactly, so all to say I think it's
Speaker 1: a three way tie because wow, wow, wow, I think
Speaker 1: this is one of the best competitions of the series,
Speaker 1: which our producer Sam had said and I was like,
Speaker 1: you're crazy. And then I watched her last night and
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, these really slap. They all slap.
Speaker 2: I've never heard you say.
Speaker 1: Well, it's because I shouldn't say it ever again. They
Speaker 1: just left so hard. There's nothing, no other words for it.
Speaker 1: I was really moved by all of them.
Speaker 2: It was so good, like I just wanted to I'm
Speaker 2: now upset that, like we didn't like the competition. Episodes
Speaker 2: weren't just forty minutes of competition.
Speaker 1: Why not? Well, I do do paradise by the dashboard light,
Speaker 1: which is forty minutes on its own. At some point, Yes.
Speaker 2: I took a sip as you said that, and I
Speaker 2: almost just did a spit tap.
Speaker 1: Well, didn't like it.
Speaker 2: I blacked out that day.
Speaker 1: I actually the dust for light is actually I watched
Speaker 1: it the other day.
Speaker 2: By the way, this podcast has absolutely ruined my YouTube algorithm.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm so screwed. If anybody comes over and like
Speaker 2: on my YouTube on the TV, it's.
Speaker 1: Justly yeah, I'm gonna watch Paradise by the Dash for
Speaker 1: Light after this. I think the game now for me
Speaker 1: is which which dresses do we wear with which performance?
Speaker 1: Because that's always how I remember them.
Speaker 2: Well, what's tricky is for this one, it wasn't the
Speaker 2: last time we were all white for a competition. We
Speaker 2: do it again in a couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: There's only so many colors you can wear in a competition,
Speaker 1: right anyway, So then we then we get to, uh,
Speaker 1: we are young.
Speaker 2: I forgot about it.
Speaker 1: I remember record doing this number. I didn't record on
Speaker 1: this vocally, but I didn't really know this band or song.
Speaker 2: Yet nobody did. So this is so Adam said it
Speaker 2: in his interview that he fought Ryan on this version
Speaker 2: of it, right, and I guess or something. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: the song had just come out and it was one
Speaker 2: of those things where it got used in a commercial
Speaker 2: and around the same time, but nobody knew this song
Speaker 2: and so like the history of this song is is
Speaker 2: that the placement on Glee and then the placement in
Speaker 2: the commercial blew the song up to be the biggest
Speaker 2: song in the country. And we didn't do that often,
Speaker 2: especially like we did that with songs that were already
Speaker 2: previously big, like don't Stop Believing it was already a
Speaker 2: gigantic song in its own right.
Speaker 1: We were so discovering songs in any way.
Speaker 2: Right, And so this song was sort of the first
Speaker 2: and maybe the last time we ever really broke a
Speaker 2: song like that. Not solely I'm not saying I'm not
Speaker 2: claiming soul responsibility on behalf of Glee, but it was
Speaker 2: this weird thing because then it did extremely well on iTunes.
Speaker 2: And also it was such Adam was right, like the
Speaker 2: arrangement was rate, how everybody was layered into it, like
Speaker 2: how the parts were divvied up. It would just worked
Speaker 2: really well. Everyone sounded so good and talk about having
Speaker 2: no choreography.
Speaker 1: Literally it felt very dog Days to me. Oh, the
Speaker 1: way we were shot and the way we were kind
Speaker 1: of like just having fun with it and then having
Speaker 1: the trouble tons come in you get that emotional, you
Speaker 1: know element, and then Santana and Rachel getting Santana. It's
Speaker 1: like it was all just it all just came the
Speaker 1: f together.
Speaker 2: I really like these numbers, especially if you have an
Speaker 2: episode that has a lot of choreo in it and
Speaker 2: then you have all of these emotional slash celebratory just
Speaker 2: like kids being kids.
Speaker 1: You know. This one reminds me of also is a
Speaker 1: number one Teagan in Sarah when we did Teake in Sarah,
Speaker 1: and then also when we did This is the New Year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very similar.
Speaker 2: Vibe, and they felt weird to shoot totally, but I
Speaker 2: think they were so effective on on camera.
Speaker 1: I could watch this episode over and over again. How
Speaker 1: one are my favorites of the series.
Speaker 2: How did this? How did all this music fit in
Speaker 2: this episode? Because there also was so much story. I
Speaker 2: am so confused. This is like that problem you know
Speaker 2: when people say, like, explain to me how my car
Speaker 2: can take up an entire lane, but also a double
Speaker 2: decker bus fits within the same lane, and you're like,
Speaker 2: I don't understand that math. I don't understand the math
Speaker 2: of all this music fitting in because it felt like
Speaker 2: it was those scenes were short. I guess they were.
Speaker 2: Sam did get recruited very quickly and back into the
Speaker 2: lead club within seconds exactly.
Speaker 1: The scenes were short, but they were they were all
Speaker 1: very effective.
Speaker 2: Economic I guess is the word. The scenes were economic.
Speaker 1: Totally. Yeah, these performances were so good, so so good.
Speaker 1: That's the episode, folks, we got to do tarty takes.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Honestly after an episode of Cringe. Last episode of Cringe.
Speaker 1: There's not so many which I appreciate.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was the there were a couple of
Speaker 2: references to like homelessness that I was.
Speaker 1: Like, right, right, right, okay, we'll go with those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't think of any others. I'm sure there were
Speaker 1: some best Oh god, Windy City, I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, trouble Tones. It's specifically the the I have
Speaker 2: to stand up to do it and show you Jenna.
Speaker 1: This, this, this, this thing. Oh, I like this the
Speaker 1: one where they do.
Speaker 2: It's like what it feels like, it's like young white
Speaker 2: girls seeing a drag queen for the first time, or
Speaker 2: like I was just gonna It's cut to Vanessa Hudgens
Speaker 2: saying I'm really into voguing right now. Best song I
Speaker 2: think I will survive as well. I think we are
Speaker 2: Young is great?
Speaker 1: Oh, I like we're young but I think, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think so too, just like that's what I'm listening to, That's.
Speaker 1: What i'll yeah, yeah, yeah, totally prop theth Notebook.
Speaker 2: I think the Notebook did a lot. I love, like,
Speaker 2: why does Santanna have a notebook of joke?
Speaker 1: She held it with you.
Speaker 2: I love that Santana has a joke book because that
Speaker 2: makes sense. She always has so much material.
Speaker 1: We'll ever see it again.
Speaker 2: That's the funny part.
Speaker 1: Best line the speech.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a lot of great one liners. But
Speaker 2: I did love when Kurt was like I don't like
Speaker 2: you in the Grant was like, oh great, I don't
Speaker 2: like you either.
Speaker 1: Grant's good. Go with those one liners. Yeah, fashion gets.
Speaker 2: I will say Grant is the nicest, friendliest person, right,
Speaker 2: and I've said it before, and like watching him in
Speaker 2: these episodes where he's awful and like me is really disconcerting.
Speaker 2: Oh well yeah it is. Obviously Grant is super sexy.
Speaker 2: Don't you tell me?
Speaker 1: Performance MVP.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Jenna, Jenna, I think it's your week.
Speaker 1: What I think?
Speaker 2: No, I think you're the m v P this week. Jenna.
Speaker 2: You were acting, you were dancing, you were singing, you
Speaker 2: were smiling, you were power you were standing in your power.
Speaker 2: I think it's you, Jenna. Whatever you want to say,
Speaker 2: that's what I want to say.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jenna is Reday.
Speaker 1: I don't think Tina would ever get performance.
Speaker 2: You did it. You did, Queen Tina.
Speaker 1: There's maybe one episode that you get.
Speaker 2: This is it. This is one of them.
Speaker 1: I'll enjoy it.
Speaker 2: There's going to be more. Ship we found on TikTok.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this is. It is so weird.
Speaker 2: I had never seen it before. Abcz on TikTok posted
Speaker 2: this and it said shows you forgot about and it's
Speaker 2: called You're Skidding Me and it's a skit about Glee
Speaker 2: and there's people playing all of us. And I'm so
Speaker 2: confused by this.
Speaker 1: Okay, it seems like to me, they say the teacher's
Speaker 1: fifteen meets minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we really go home and they break into song.
Speaker 1: Do they do that every week where the teacher is late?
Speaker 1: Everything here? And then they do another.
Speaker 2: Show and it must be like, what is this show?
Speaker 1: It feels like a skit on they do one every
Speaker 1: week and then there's different flat parodies.
Speaker 2: I mean, and it's very accurate.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is it is very accurate. Wow, all right,
Speaker 1: isn't it crazy? This is Just check it out and
Speaker 1: let us know what you guys do.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
Speaker 1: Kooky aby sees OUs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean check it out. I love that there
Speaker 2: are like they must do incredible sketches.
Speaker 1: Now you need to go Australian show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean, how did we not know about this?
Speaker 1: Well? We love those Aussies, so yeah.
Speaker 2: We sure do.
Speaker 1: So nice?
Speaker 2: This is crazy wild. Wow, I feel like I'm going insane.
Speaker 1: Okay you are.
Speaker 2: I can't watch it anymore, you can't do it? Okay.
Speaker 2: Next week we have Extraordinary Merry Christmas, which has all
Speaker 2: I want for Christmas is you and it? So you know,
Speaker 2: oh Jenna has do they know it's Christmas? I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to spill secrets.
Speaker 1: I have photos, I have memory. You're gonna spill more
Speaker 1: secrets than I because you have more memories of this
Speaker 1: than I do. But I gotta watch it because who knows? Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us for a whole on sixteen. Really
Speaker 1: enjoyed this episode. Hope you guys enjoyed it as much
Speaker 1: as we do.
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