Speaker 1: With Christmas just around the corner, we wanted to celebrate
Speaker 1: the holidays the only way we know how with former
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World dialogue coach and Yule Tide expert Chris
Speaker 1: Kier with our very own Chris Kier's Christmas Corner to
Speaker 1: remind those who may have forgotten, or to fill those
Speaker 1: in who may have missed his interview episode. Chris, for many,
Speaker 1: many years had a pop up shop in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: one we visited last year, and he sells thousands of
Speaker 1: vintage and unique ornaments, dolls, Chotchkes, and Santa's he collected
Speaker 1: from all over the world and he even had a
Speaker 1: large Boy Meets World prop sign in his store that
Speaker 1: you could take a picture with. Well, this year, he
Speaker 1: decided to take his brick and mortar business online, and
Speaker 1: he's here with us to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Christmas and update us on the festive comings and goings
Speaker 1: of Chris Kier in December. So let's talk to the
Speaker 1: Saint Nick of Pod Meets World. Please welcome back, Chris Kier.
Speaker 2: Eh, where did that year go?
Speaker 3: Is what I want to know.
Speaker 1: I know, it feels like we were just with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look younger, say Danielle say yes, I do you do?
Speaker 1: You look fantastic. How is it going? How is your
Speaker 1: holiday season so far?
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. Last year I had the store. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I had it for twenty years, and the hardest
Speaker 3: part is finding a four month lease. Realtors open, term
Speaker 3: of calls, landlords won't. So what obviously happened was I
Speaker 3: closed the store for good last season. I'm glad you
Speaker 3: guys got in and will we missed you.
Speaker 4: I know, I'm sorry I wasn't there. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh it was great.
Speaker 3: And the thing is that I start January first, traveling
Speaker 3: and going around the world finding things, and I pack
Speaker 3: it all up, price it, so it's a whole damble.
Speaker 3: August rolls around. I'm hitting the pavement by myself, hitting
Speaker 3: knocking on doors. And I lucked out the last four years,
Speaker 3: and now I was pushing my luck. So now I've
Speaker 3: gone online, which I hate. I miss all. I miss
Speaker 3: seeing the people. That's the hardest part about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also just creating that atmosphere. I feel like
Speaker 2: that was so much of the fun. It was that story,
Speaker 2: just being like Christmas everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like going to the small Disneyland, right rider.
Speaker 3: It was experience. Yes, it was a world that I created.
Speaker 2: Discovery and all these little nooks and crannies of things
Speaker 2: that yeah, I mean, Indy was just lost in it.
Speaker 2: It was so fun.
Speaker 3: I love that because as kids, when I grew up Michigan,
Speaker 3: we had those little department stores that had that kind
Speaker 3: of charm, you know what I mean, Yeah, not at
Speaker 3: all like that. And well in Connecticut you must have
Speaker 3: had those old department stores. I had the windows that were.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely, Tea Fox and all those companies that
Speaker 4: they do up the Christmas windows and everybody go down
Speaker 4: and check it out and you sit on Standa's lap. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you knew this, but my
Speaker 3: father had men's clothing stores. I fear if I talked
Speaker 3: this last time a year ago, but I was raising
Speaker 3: men's clothing stores at nine years old up. So that's
Speaker 3: where the retail comes in for me. But he he
Speaker 3: did the windows. There were mechanical things in the windows
Speaker 3: of the parks had all of that. So my store
Speaker 3: had that retro feel. It was an experience from yesteryear.
Speaker 3: Maybe come back one day, you never know.
Speaker 4: I could definitely come back. It can definitely Christmases every year, Chris,
Speaker 4: it can definitely come back.
Speaker 3: But I miss the people. I'm missing the people. That's
Speaker 3: I'm missing more than anything.
Speaker 1: Well, what has the online experience been like?
Speaker 3: Well, it's not my thing, to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: I'm on a Apple call whatnot.
Speaker 4: If you guys have heard of it, good.
Speaker 3: I'm at Christopher Dashkire And what I do is, I
Speaker 3: literally it's my own qv she show. I am literally
Speaker 3: a host selling all these treasures I've gotten from around
Speaker 3: the world. But I go live and then people.
Speaker 2: Bid on it. It's what fun.
Speaker 3: I know, it's fun and I get comments, but I
Speaker 3: want to see the people. But it's fun and they've
Speaker 3: enjoyed it. And I also sell it on my website
Speaker 3: at Christopher Kire's Christmas Corner on Facebook. And so it's
Speaker 3: been it's been an interesting year. I got more time
Speaker 3: they've ever had in a long time, and I'm you know,
Speaker 3: I'm going to the gym more. I'm doing things for myself.
Speaker 3: I went to the Hollywood Christmas Parade. Some of you
Speaker 3: were in that.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Ben and I did it every year. Okay,
Speaker 2: I hadn't been.
Speaker 3: In twenty years. Because I had this door right and
Speaker 3: I kept waiting for the Boy Meets World float.
Speaker 1: It was Rodney Dangerfield.
Speaker 4: There, No, that would be amazing. I think he's unavailable.
Speaker 2: I never heard of you, honey, you ever heard of
Speaker 2: this show. It's a cute show.
Speaker 3: So it's been an interesting season so far. And as
Speaker 3: you can see behind me, I'm in the Caire Castle,
Speaker 3: which is high up in the Hollywood Hills. Have any
Speaker 3: of you been up your car? Did you ever get
Speaker 3: up your wheel?
Speaker 4: I was up there. I casta that's right.
Speaker 3: So since then I've done a lot of additions to it,
Speaker 3: and I've recreated the nineteen twenties field to the house.
Speaker 3: But behind me, I haven't been able to put this
Speaker 3: tree up. I have a twelve foot tree I didn't
Speaker 3: put up this year. But behind me is all of
Speaker 3: these vintage ornaments are from the nineteen forties, fifties and sixties.
Speaker 3: It's the museum people. A post video of this and
Speaker 3: close up to these ornaments on my Facebook page. But
Speaker 3: the thing is, I call it a memory for you guys,
Speaker 3: because what we do is we go to the garage.
Speaker 3: We take out a shoe box with little wrap things
Speaker 3: in tissue, right, and then we put Oh, Susie made
Speaker 3: this a kindergarten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, my aunt I.
Speaker 3: Had this other tree every year, so it becomes a
Speaker 3: memory tree. So that's what it is for all of us.
Speaker 3: It's not really Christmas. It's a memory tree. There's something
Speaker 3: about that, that feeling we get every year going to
Speaker 3: visit these little trinkets.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Do you have any you'd like to like? Do
Speaker 1: you have any you'd like to show off to us?
Speaker 3: Well, this particular tree, my grandmother had ornaments just like this. Here,
Speaker 3: this bird right here. I can't take off the tree,
Speaker 3: you might break, but the little clip on birds here,
Speaker 3: I can get this one here. This is something that
Speaker 3: had on the trees made in Germany, these clip on trees.
Speaker 3: You might recognize birds on the tree, you might recognize these.
Speaker 3: My grandmother had these, and so for me when I
Speaker 3: put these on the tree this year, I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my goodness, it's long gone grandmother, but she sure
Speaker 3: had that tradition of having me come over and put
Speaker 3: up the tree for her as a small kid. So
Speaker 3: I know what it's like. And you, guys, there's a
Speaker 3: way to put up your Christmas tree. People don't know this.
Speaker 3: If you're getting a live tree or an artificial tree.
Speaker 3: There's different ways for the artificial tree or the live tree.
Speaker 3: The first thing you have to do is set it
Speaker 3: in there and make sure it's not crooked, because they
Speaker 3: have a lot of fights with my family about.
Speaker 1: It being croudy oh, I remember those.
Speaker 3: So make sure it's set piece supply would around, set
Speaker 3: inside the squares around the trunk with the screws going
Speaker 3: into it. We'll keep it steady, okay. The other thing
Speaker 3: you have to do is this and listen carefully. If
Speaker 3: you're decorating only one side, which most people do, because
Speaker 3: against the wall or in the corner, you have to
Speaker 3: literally take two screw eyes, put it into the wall
Speaker 3: on either side of the tree, run wire for a
Speaker 3: while around the trunk and to the other one, so
Speaker 3: you're folding the tree in place. Because so many trees
Speaker 3: fall over during the season. You guys the.
Speaker 4: Wall of that In Connecticut, we did that in case
Speaker 4: my dad wanted the biggest tree possible, so we would
Speaker 4: have like a fifteen foot tree, and he needed the
Speaker 4: We had the wires and the eelets are there all
Speaker 4: year long and everything's just set up right dead with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you how your parents for me, they're great people,
Speaker 3: remember parents like me very boy's parents. So the thing
Speaker 3: is is you've got that set, then you start from
Speaker 3: the top with the lights. You do the lights first, okay.
Speaker 3: If you've shaped the tree with an artificial tree like
Speaker 3: this shoes, you pull two fronds out and one up,
Speaker 3: two fronds up, one up, So then when you get
Speaker 3: a nice ranch that's nice and clear. Okay. But the
Speaker 3: issue is this, you start from the top down doing
Speaker 3: the lights on each limb, and don't do more than
Speaker 3: three stands strands at a time. Have a nice strip
Speaker 3: that goes up the center with separate different outlets in
Speaker 3: the cord, and then you plug your lights into that.
Speaker 2: But if you do the.
Speaker 3: Strands back to back more than three, they're gonna blow
Speaker 3: the fuse. They're gonna blow the fuse inside the strand
Speaker 3: of lights, and then you're messed up.
Speaker 1: I love these tips.
Speaker 3: So then the other thing is that this is the
Speaker 3: biggest mistake you guys, everybody makes. They put the tree
Speaker 3: top or the star on last. You put on first,
Speaker 3: because you're lifting a kid, you're knocking off over runs,
Speaker 3: You're not going the tree trying to get on top
Speaker 3: of it. You put it on first, and you work
Speaker 3: from the top down.
Speaker 1: Very smart.
Speaker 3: And before you do all of this, because I have glass,
Speaker 3: I bilow a comforter around the tree. So when and
Speaker 3: I do drop my glass ornaments, they never break on
Speaker 3: my wooden floor.
Speaker 1: So smart, and.
Speaker 3: Keep moving around, keep moving around. But again going back
Speaker 3: to that top tree topper, put on first, work with
Speaker 3: the smaller ornaments on top down to the larger ornaments
Speaker 3: in the bottom. Right.
Speaker 2: It's just anti narrative. I just like the I like
Speaker 2: the climactic, like we finished the tree, let's put it on.
Speaker 2: It's just shame so appropriate. I want to do it narratively. Man,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I could do this. I think
Speaker 2: it's my story. Let's start with the end and now flashbacks.
Speaker 3: No, about the third year, when ornaments are falling off,
Speaker 3: the kid almost falls into the tree. I think time
Speaker 3: to realize, there's are doing a tree right. No one's
Speaker 3: going to know you put on last. But I get
Speaker 3: what you're saying, but it's so hard to do. Do
Speaker 3: you push that ladder?
Speaker 2: You know you're you're very practical.
Speaker 4: Now how far down the tree do you get before
Speaker 4: the wine and the crying starts? Because i know where
Speaker 4: it is in our family, and I'm just curious where
Speaker 4: because my we when when Susan hits anything from like
Speaker 4: an old dog, she grew up with something like that,
Speaker 4: and the tears start flowing, the wine starts pouring, and
Speaker 4: by the end it's justin Bieber on a loop and
Speaker 4: a blubbering mess. I'm a family tradition.
Speaker 3: That part of the whole thing, that's part of the
Speaker 3: whole experience. But you know, I've never been a person
Speaker 3: that lives in the past. Okay, I live in today
Speaker 3: and what I can do in the future. But I recall, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sure passed away last year, my best friend passed away.
Speaker 3: I think we talked. Oh no, it was shortly after
Speaker 3: my podcast, but he passed away, and I'm taking care
Speaker 3: of his whole collection of Christmas things. But he lived
Speaker 3: in the past and all of his things were the past.
Speaker 3: He never lived for today. And for me, I like
Speaker 3: creating memories today, Like I went alone to the Hollywood Parade.
Speaker 3: All my friends the past away out of la now
Speaker 3: so no one could go with me, So I went alone,
Speaker 3: but I created my own memory to go. So I
Speaker 3: think most of us we want to wallow in things.
Speaker 3: But I think if you wallow in it, it only
Speaker 3: perpetuates more sadness. But for me is to look at
Speaker 3: it and to say my grandmother loved.
Speaker 1: This, Yes, exactly to celebrate.
Speaker 3: Saying, oh I wish she was here, I wish she
Speaker 3: was here. We all start past when we're here. Sure,
Speaker 3: I think if living for today is enjoying what you
Speaker 3: do have, magnify what you do have.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of it.
Speaker 3: And you, guys, I got to thank you for some people.
Speaker 3: So last year when I had my store, I would
Speaker 3: venture to say close to two hundred do Boy Meets World.
Speaker 3: People came in to see me from Sacramento, from San Diego,
Speaker 3: from Palm Springs, from Arizona, drove in to meet me
Speaker 3: at my store to see this coast with the Santaland sign.
Speaker 3: It was the prop from the show. It was amazing
Speaker 3: and I picked up students from my acting classes just
Speaker 3: you were the guy from me. I heard your pod
Speaker 3: meets World of podcasts, Boy meets World podcasts, and I
Speaker 3: just want to get my kids in your classes, so
Speaker 3: I do zoom cap classes.
Speaker 2: This is this is what we've been experiencing, is like
Speaker 2: ever since we started this podcast. Our our sense of
Speaker 2: community and connectivity is just it's awesome. And you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's such as.
Speaker 3: From your your your people, to emails, a lot of emails.
Speaker 3: They want me to start my own podcast. I don't
Speaker 3: know how to start it, but I can. I'm the talent.
Speaker 3: So I've got to hire somebody who's gonna set it
Speaker 3: all up for me, and it will be my entertainment career.
Speaker 3: How to work on cruise ships, Walt Disney World, work
Speaker 3: in the circus, having people on from around the world
Speaker 3: I worked with through these years, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So I'm thinking about that a podcast, and.
Speaker 4: Then right around Christmas, it's got to be the Twelve
Speaker 4: Days of Caire.
Speaker 2: Yes, I see it.
Speaker 3: I visualize it because I've had so much time in
Speaker 3: my hands. What's my next? My next? I'm always into
Speaker 3: my next, and it's been enough time for me now
Speaker 3: that I put it all together to think, Okay, now,
Speaker 3: what's my next chapter going to?
Speaker 4: I love it in my life.
Speaker 1: This is the perfect opportunity for you to tell everyone
Speaker 1: who's listening, now, where can we find you? On whatnot?
Speaker 1: You said? It was Christopher dash Kaire. That's Christopher with
Speaker 1: a K.
Speaker 3: Christopher Kier is what is this?
Speaker 1: Christopher Kier on Okay, Christopher Kier Christopher with.
Speaker 3: A K, Yeah with a K, Christopher Kier on Whatnot?
Speaker 1: And then on Facebook, how can people find you.
Speaker 3: Christopher Kire's Christmas Corner if you're interesting Christmas things. But
Speaker 3: I still teach my classes, my acting classes for young people,
Speaker 3: and that's at Christopher Kire's workshop, which is on a
Speaker 3: Facebook as well. Okat And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: right now when I'm so proud of this, for those
Speaker 3: who have seen The Naughty Nine and the Disney Channel,
Speaker 3: my star pupil who started with me three years ago,
Speaker 3: Camilla Rodriguez is the lead in the film, the new
Speaker 3: Disney film and I'm still create stars. She came from
Speaker 3: me from out of town. We zoomed for a few
Speaker 3: months that she came and out to LA and she's
Speaker 3: worked so hard. So Camilla Rodriguez, remember that name.
Speaker 4: She's going to be very Yes.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Chris, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being here with us. We will make sure to bring
Speaker 1: you back with us next December. You are our Christmas expert,
Speaker 1: so thank you for all of your tips and tricks,
Speaker 1: and everybody you've heard. Now where you can find Chris yourself.
Speaker 1: Go reach out to him, send him some love. Check
Speaker 1: out his fantastic Christmas items. We just decorated our house
Speaker 1: this past weekend, and I got to relive all the
Speaker 1: moments of having my kids in your store. When we
Speaker 1: pulled out our Christmas tree skirt the box to store
Speaker 1: the ornaments we got from you. My little director's in
Speaker 1: sentence burner thing. I don't even know exactly what it's called,
Speaker 1: but it was so cool. And so he's got so
Speaker 1: many special little trinkets, and you guys should go check
Speaker 1: him out. Thank you so much, Chris.
Speaker 3: So much. Together before I go away, take care of
Speaker 3: you guys. Merry Christmas and happy Holidays to all you.
Speaker 4: Bye bye.
Speaker 2: Yeah we have we have a legendary I was gonna
Speaker 2: say when he was talking about the tree falling. We
Speaker 2: had one one year where I haven't talked about on
Speaker 2: the podcast. How obsessed my family is with charades and
Speaker 2: yeah and games where you act them out. So we
Speaker 2: had this legendary uh charades game in front of a
Speaker 2: Christmas tree. My mother in law completely took out Christmas.
Speaker 2: It was one of the funniest but also scariest moment,
Speaker 2: you know, we're all like who we're going And then
Speaker 2: of course now it's like legendary. I was like, this
Speaker 2: is about ten years ago.
Speaker 4: We still like, can you remember what she was charading?
Speaker 2: No? No, I just remember her like getting so into
Speaker 2: it and then falling and losing her balance, and it
Speaker 2: was like, no, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, welcome to Pod meets Christmas Official.
Speaker 2: I'm right or strong, and I'm will ba humbug for Dell.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so excited. This is the only thing Will's not.
Speaker 1: He's the only thing he's a ba humbug about.
Speaker 4: I am. It's true. I'm the happiest guy in the
Speaker 4: world Christmas all year long. You just don't care. No,
Speaker 4: I find it. I find you talk. You're the one
Speaker 4: who talks about commercialism all the time. It is stress, miss.
Speaker 4: It's it's starting earlier and earlier and earlier every year.
Speaker 4: It's just about buying the most ridiculous amount of gifts
Speaker 4: you can.
Speaker 2: No crazy, you have to buy anything.
Speaker 1: We don't even really everyone does, but everyone does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's one side of I mean, what about
Speaker 2: just like the I just because you like childlike imaginative things.
Speaker 2: It seems so you're ever.
Speaker 4: Christmas is never my thing. Community trying. I'm trying to
Speaker 4: get sad with whiskey. I mean.
Speaker 1: Everything you just said without the now five hundred dollars, well.
Speaker 2: Who cares about the but the lights, the light the like, oh,
Speaker 2: just just like the sense of like like he talks
Speaker 2: to you know, Chris was talking about how you don't
Speaker 2: want to like be sad. But I actually think there's
Speaker 2: something nice about like the Madelin like, oh, let's just
Speaker 2: embrace the sadness. Let's just like ozy up. Oh, it's
Speaker 2: so fun. I love the holidays because I was born
Speaker 2: in December, so I always associate.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, my birthday December.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, and my son was born in December. There's
Speaker 2: a lot to celebrates the December. What indies December twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: December twenty eight, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: Which is two elevens plus seven, which is the lucky number.
Speaker 2: So if it's two eleventh plus seventh plus you're.
Speaker 4: Making this uprider like worse, does Indy get screwed out
Speaker 4: of presence because he was born so close to Christmas?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I mean no, trust me, the kid does
Speaker 2: not know. We have to tell the grandparents, like one
Speaker 2: present each the first couple of years. It's gross. It's
Speaker 2: so gross, so we very much limit the presence. No,
Speaker 2: he gets screwed on celebrating because we can't have a
Speaker 2: birthday party with his friends because everyone leaves town for
Speaker 2: the hall. Yeah, and so we end up, like what
Speaker 2: ends up happening is we have like four birthday parties.
Speaker 2: We have like the one for one set of grandparents
Speaker 2: when we're with them, the other for the other set
Speaker 2: of grandparents, the one on the actual day when we're
Speaker 2: with him, the one best friend from.
Speaker 1: Stue just a one family thing on his actual day,
Speaker 1: and then start celebrating his half birthday big party on
Speaker 1: his half Briday right in June, you know, because then
Speaker 1: you get six months away from a birthday holiday thing.
Speaker 1: It's in the middle of the year. It's a reason
Speaker 1: to get everyone together. It's summer, you know, like at
Speaker 1: the beginning of summer. You guys just pick a random day.
Speaker 4: By the way, you're both invited. Sue and I definitely
Speaker 4: starting this year, have been talking about it for years
Speaker 4: and years and years, and we're absolutely doing it. We
Speaker 4: will be celebrating a second Thanksgiving in May. I'm dead serious,
Speaker 4: all the trimmings, exact Thanksgiving dinner, everything you get him.
Speaker 4: Were getting a bunch, and why six months from now
Speaker 4: we're doing it again.
Speaker 1: I'm there. I'm there.
Speaker 2: No, Turkey's overrated most of the I mean, I'll come,
Speaker 2: I'll come, dang out. I'll bring whiskey and I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna be I'll be whiskey in my I.
Speaker 1: Just would like to point out that the one who
Speaker 1: loves death is just happy about all of it. I'll
Speaker 1: be there. I love the Thanksgiving, I love the Christmas,
Speaker 1: I love the summer.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Everything. I love everybody.
Speaker 2: Did you love it this episode?
Speaker 1: Did you love a lot about it? We will discuss.
Speaker 1: We are here to talk about season three, episode twenty two,
Speaker 1: Brother Brother. It originally aired.
Speaker 4: Yeah, finally is what I would say.
Speaker 1: The finally you didn't like season three?
Speaker 4: No, I did like. I like see.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'll talk about it with Brummy's world.
Speaker 4: World to recap did not set season three by any
Speaker 4: stretch of the imagination. Okay, there's peaks and valleys.
Speaker 1: Like everything, absolutely so. It originally aired May seventeenth, nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six. The synopsis. After learning about all of his
Speaker 1: friends out of town, plans for the summer and his
Speaker 1: brother going off to college. Corey becomes worried about the
Speaker 1: prospects of spending the entire break by himself. It was written,
Speaker 1: It was directed by Jeff McCracken. It was written by
Speaker 1: Mark Bluman and Howard bus Gang. Quite a season three.
Speaker 2: Season two and three, it's like all that because they
Speaker 2: had like six and season two. I mean they're just yes,
Speaker 2: so much so.
Speaker 1: Guest starring Lindsay Ridgeway as Morgan Matthews. And this is
Speaker 1: Alex Desayer's final appearance on the show.
Speaker 2: Solid Solid Got a line? Does he even have a
Speaker 2: line he has? I think, I think where he talks
Speaker 2: to you, but then he's also in Chubbies. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's has a word, just there as an extra.
Speaker 1: If there's any other example of a more wasted incredible
Speaker 1: talent on a show ever, or Alex on season three
Speaker 1: of Boy Means yep. So we jump into our recap.
Speaker 1: In the school hallway, Eric is cleaning out his locker
Speaker 1: when mister Turner and mister Williams approach him with a box.
Speaker 1: They have a gift from the teachers before he leaves
Speaker 1: John Adams. Eric thinks it's a graduation gift, but mister
Speaker 1: Williams corrects him, it's a confiscation gift. He pulls out
Speaker 1: what looks like a folded bed sheet from the box.
Speaker 1: Eric unfolds it and says, my giant undervans.
Speaker 4: IOK, it's just a guess, a funny word, and as Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's funny.
Speaker 2: And you also become Seinfeld.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a perfect read. It's so funny. And
Speaker 1: then mister Turner pulls out his personal favorite, the feene Puppet. Ah,
Speaker 1: Little George, Eric exclaims. Turner says, we'll leave you two alone,
Speaker 1: and they take off. That's basically it for Eli.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: How do you guys feel about the whole puppet? The
Speaker 2: whole puppet?
Speaker 4: Well, the puppet became a famous thing, but I conflated
Speaker 4: it with the So this is the first of two
Speaker 4: Feenie Puppets. Okay, because the.
Speaker 2: Last episode really anti climactic to me, just like we
Speaker 2: did with the.
Speaker 4: Show the Fenie Puppet with where it's Eric's voice doing
Speaker 4: the Phoenie call. So this is this is a second,
Speaker 4: the first of two times we see.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes me feel better because I was like,
Speaker 2: this seems like a waste.
Speaker 1: Because we have seen a lot of Phenie puppets at
Speaker 1: our live shows, and so we especially like this. I
Speaker 1: think it is this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we really You only have the one
Speaker 2: beat with Corey, which is funny but not like amazing.
Speaker 4: Wait I'm wrong, No, I'm wrong. Our fans were just
Speaker 4: screaming at the radio. I'm wrong. The second puppet is
Speaker 4: an Eric puppet. It's not a Peenie puppet. This is
Speaker 4: the this is.
Speaker 1: It, Okay, this is it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like, well, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: maybe maybe in general, I feel like this episode could
Speaker 2: could have used a little bit of a re right
Speaker 2: and this you know, there was like a lot of
Speaker 2: good ideas and then just like this the execution, I
Speaker 2: was kind of like, wait, but I really like the
Speaker 2: emotional core of this episode. I think it's a nice
Speaker 2: way to end the season and to wrap up Eric storyline,
Speaker 2: which has been mostly played for comedy, to play it
Speaker 2: for drama. I love all those choices, but like even
Speaker 2: this the puppet, I was sort of like, Oh, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be some great puppet stuff, and then it was
Speaker 2: kind of like just okay, yeah, fine, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's not you like you obviously funny. It was just
Speaker 2: like and I you know, the actually like drive it
Speaker 2: right into the ground. And the next scene when you
Speaker 2: go to Corey, you're doing some puppet stuff and then
Speaker 2: Corey is just like I don't like the puppet ye,
Speaker 2: and then lose the puppet.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, wow.
Speaker 3: But I kind of.
Speaker 2: Felt like maybe they were just kind of like the writers.
Speaker 2: I feel like the writers were rushed. I think because
Speaker 2: of Disney World. Everything was a little rush this week,
Speaker 2: and I feel like they probably were riffing on thinking
Speaker 2: it was so funny with you and the fake Corey
Speaker 2: from the previous episode that it was like, give Will
Speaker 2: more props. We didn't work comedy just came up some
Speaker 2: props and they just said and then like didn't really
Speaker 2: think it all the way through or like work it
Speaker 2: all the way out because it just kind of okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I agree. I like the whole
Speaker 4: story like this of the brothers not all that stuff
Speaker 4: and Corey being left behind by everybody, and it's really
Speaker 4: his anger is really directed towards Eric, but even he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Know that those are all great ideas story beats.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but it was it got it, Yeah, it
Speaker 4: got very active.
Speaker 1: My favorite moment with the Phoenie puppet comes up right
Speaker 1: now when Eric sticks his hand in the puppet and
Speaker 1: mimics mister Feenie detention, mister Matthews. Eric repeats himself swinging
Speaker 1: the puppet around, just as Phoene walks by and Phoene says,
Speaker 1: what are you doing with this ridiculous thing? Eric says
Speaker 1: it's just a dummy, and Phoene glares at Eric, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking to you.
Speaker 2: Come on, you thought that was great. It's because it's
Speaker 2: a lot of dummy. You would never call it a dummy,
Speaker 2: you'd call it a puppet. So why are we saying
Speaker 2: this line? It's over from the previous episode. I don't
Speaker 2: know what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's I just like seeing Feenie and Eric together. I
Speaker 1: just think they're funny and they're But you're right the
Speaker 1: word you have.
Speaker 2: A puppet, you can do a beat where like if
Speaker 2: Phoene came up and started talking to him and he
Speaker 2: started talking back as the Phoenie up in and ignoring, like,
Speaker 2: there's so many funnier things that could have happened here
Speaker 2: that I was like, Oh, Eric, oh that's that's all
Speaker 2: we're gonna.
Speaker 4: Do well, you know what the joke. You know what
Speaker 4: the joke is is Phoene has said the same thing
Speaker 4: so many times that Eric now has the puppet and
Speaker 4: he's saying exactly what Phoene's saying. At the same time.
Speaker 2: He just so he's able to like mouth along with him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, there's so many better bits. Yeah. Also for
Speaker 4: somebody who went on to do voices for a living,
Speaker 4: I'm doing a horrible mister impression. It's no not could
Speaker 4: you do a better one?
Speaker 2: Now? Good?
Speaker 4: But I have to hear it. Tough.
Speaker 2: Bill's tough.
Speaker 4: He's tough because even he made up his own accent exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you slip into a British thing very typically you do.
Speaker 4: It's almost winchester esque. It's very It's yeah, he's a
Speaker 4: hard one to imitate. I don't know if I can
Speaker 4: do it. It was bad. The impression was bad.
Speaker 1: So Phoene asks him, have you heard from more colleges?
Speaker 1: Eric says he was turned down by Penn State and
Speaker 1: BU and it looks like he'll be going to his
Speaker 1: first choice, North Southwestern San Diego State University. Phoene shrugs, ah, yes,
Speaker 1: old nswsds U U. Eric tells him he's on the
Speaker 1: waiting list. He should get his acceptance any day. Then
Speaker 1: it's goodbye, Philamadelphia. Here's a few things that threw me.
Speaker 1: When Phoene says, ah, yes old nswsds U, I assumed
Speaker 1: he did that because that's not a real college, like
Speaker 1: the way he says, oh, yes, the Old. I so
Speaker 1: then when I later when there was a letter from
Speaker 1: the college or Corey asks specifically, did you hear back
Speaker 1: from them, I was like, wait, that was real? He
Speaker 1: really was, like it was a little confusing to me.
Speaker 4: It should have been a different school that was actually
Speaker 4: real and kind of what they would call a lower
Speaker 4: tier school, something that would have been a safety school. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was a real thing instead of going for the
Speaker 4: one joke, which.
Speaker 1: Right, the old and yeah, it threw me. I was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. There were a couple of moments here
Speaker 1: where I was like, I'm not sure. Yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 1: that that bumped me a little bit because right away
Speaker 1: the way he responds, I'm like, that's not a real thing.
Speaker 1: He's making that up.
Speaker 4: We've already done that with forus, so we figured it right.
Speaker 4: The same kind of thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then Phoene asks if Eric has any summer plans,
Speaker 1: and he says, I'm going to travel. I'm spending two
Speaker 1: months in two months in my car and I'm going
Speaker 1: to see all fifty states. Phoene asks, how do you
Speaker 1: intend to drive to Hawaii? Eric tells him I'm going
Speaker 1: to drive till they start speaking Chinese. Then hang A Yui,
Speaker 1: and I again, because of the fifty states joke, I
Speaker 1: also thought he wasn't really going on a road trip
Speaker 1: in his car for two months.
Speaker 4: It's they seem to kind of be playing it for
Speaker 4: one joke at a time, as opposed to it meaning something.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Well, I just feel like this is clearly setting up
Speaker 1: what this episode is, Like, what are Eric's plans? He's
Speaker 1: they want you to know he's waitlisted, he's waiting to
Speaker 1: hear his final word, and he does have plans that
Speaker 1: he's going on a road trip this summer. None of
Speaker 1: this bothered me, None of it bumped you, Okay.
Speaker 2: I was always like, Okay, that makes sense. I mean
Speaker 2: it's just Eric being the college bother game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I didn't. I didn't love these scenes, Like
Speaker 2: I like, again, I think I could have used to
Speaker 2: rewrite and could have been funnier, but but no, it
Speaker 2: didn't bump me as like a reality question or like
Speaker 2: what's happening? I knew what was happening, Yeah, I just
Speaker 2: didn't didn't love it.
Speaker 1: So then we continue in the school.
Speaker 2: But also, like Eric going by himself on a road trip,
Speaker 2: really you just can kind of see that, you know, okay,
Speaker 2: but then you have no friends at your graduation dinner.
Speaker 2: That is the saddest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: So nearby, Corey walks up to Tapanga. This is the
Speaker 1: outfit that I'm wearing in my funko pop. It's taken
Speaker 1: directly from this scene.
Speaker 4: Interest interesting clothes this week, I sure did, to the
Speaker 4: point where I even noticed them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was it. This was nineties. Let me tell.
Speaker 2: You you know. I bet what happened is you probably
Speaker 2: tried on like ten different outfits for Florida, and then
Speaker 2: they were like, well, let's say three.
Speaker 1: Keys and just keep going, just keep using them. So
Speaker 1: didn't we have finals last week? Our finals was two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Why are we still at the school? Why
Speaker 1: are we all still here?
Speaker 4: There were some logistical questions I had later too, where
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: Like, huh, we had finals and then the next week
Speaker 1: we went to Florida and now we're leaving.
Speaker 4: The school at school, I know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I was a little confused by all of the
Speaker 1: things that we were that all the plans.
Speaker 2: So, uh, say, Ben is wearing a shirt that I
Speaker 2: would wear today. It is really beautiful Denim. I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: this is like one of the first times on boy.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: In soup for the last for I don't know why,
Speaker 4: and I'd love to talk to Sarah about this, but
Speaker 4: for the last three or four weeks, all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: we just went with super long clothes. Yeah, all the
Speaker 4: clothes have now gotten We went from layers to long.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm tucked in. I decided her tucking in every episode.
Speaker 2: Now I'm wearing a white shirt underneath the shirt and
Speaker 2: then I'm tucked in with a belt which you playing
Speaker 2: basketball later, You've got the shirt. Yeah, that's what you need.
Speaker 2: You need to block your you need to block your
Speaker 2: arms to make it really hard to move. Obviously, that's
Speaker 2: what you wear when you play basketball. When you play
Speaker 2: so dumb, Oh my god, buddy.
Speaker 1: So Corey announces here we are, me and you last
Speaker 1: day of school. Back together. They kiss, and he repeats
Speaker 1: back together, and they kiss again. He laughs and asks,
Speaker 1: did I mention we're back together? She smiles and tells
Speaker 1: him to refresh your memory, and big shocker, they kiss
Speaker 1: again with no woos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no I don't because it's annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is.
Speaker 4: But I mean, there's always.
Speaker 2: An but this is not a cute scene. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we get it. Guys. Well, I'm glad you make fun
Speaker 2: of it later. But man, I was like, don't do
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that we are still in the
Speaker 1: midst of the Big Bang grow Out of ninety six.
Speaker 1: This is not to be, you know, confused with the
Speaker 1: less important Big Bang that started the universe. But my
Speaker 1: bangs are being grown out, and so they are no
Speaker 1: one knows what to do with them there. Some of
Speaker 1: them are this way, some of them are this way.
Speaker 1: My hair's in a ponytail. It's not working. Later, we
Speaker 1: wear a headband to get them pulled back, and that's
Speaker 1: a little better.
Speaker 4: But I'm sorry to tell you this, Danielle, but your
Speaker 4: bangs are actually only six thousand years old.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, Corey says I'm completely secure with our relationship,
Speaker 1: and if you want to spend your summer away at camp,
Speaker 1: I'm totally okay with it. But we get the sense
Speaker 1: that he is not to Peng is thrilled. That is
Speaker 1: so mature. Corey adds, because I'm going with you. She
Speaker 1: tells him it's an all girls camp, and he retorts,
Speaker 1: what times swimming? It's only one summer. We'll have plenty
Speaker 1: more together to Pega explains, because she's reasonable and normal,
Speaker 1: and Corey groans, I know, but this is the most
Speaker 1: important summer of our lives. It's the summer of our
Speaker 1: fifteenth year, and if we don't spend it together, we'll
Speaker 1: never get it back. Tapega responds, that's really sweet, but
Speaker 1: it'll only make our sixteenth summer all the more special.
Speaker 1: Corey then pleads, I'll pay you a thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: hang out with me. She says, this time is going
Speaker 1: to fly, and before you know it, we will be
Speaker 1: back together. She kisses Cory huh, and he.
Speaker 4: Also reaches for his pocket like he's got it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's the thing. Also, by the way, we glossed by it.
Speaker 4: But what time swimming is the best joke of the
Speaker 4: entire show. Oh really, really, I think because it's just
Speaker 4: fast and quick and to the point, and it's it's
Speaker 4: an all girls, well what time swimming? That's the that's
Speaker 4: the solid that's the most solid jokes.
Speaker 2: Yep, I think I think something. You know, this episode
Speaker 2: is just a lot of exposition. It's a lot of
Speaker 2: con so much dialogue, and I think that this is
Speaker 2: this scene is now that I'm hearing you recap it,
Speaker 2: I'm realizing, like, yeah, I think it's lacking story because
Speaker 2: the motivation for the whole story is is Corey being
Speaker 2: upset that he's being left alone for the summer. And
Speaker 2: I think it could have been stronger maybe if he
Speaker 2: had had a plan or hadn't been expected. But like
Speaker 2: we're starting off, he knows to Panka is going to
Speaker 2: summer school or summer camp. He's not going to see her.
Speaker 2: Like it's weird that he's It's just it would have
Speaker 2: been better if he like reacts to something like he's
Speaker 2: not reacting anything. He's just coming in upset.
Speaker 4: And Salen tries to I think Alan tries to explain
Speaker 4: that later by saying, is that really what you think
Speaker 4: you're mad at? Because totally they know that he's really
Speaker 4: upset that it's actually that Eric's leaving right right, So
Speaker 4: it's Alan even says like, you know, he comes in mad,
Speaker 4: but it's not about that. It's like he hasn't yet
Speaker 4: figured out that tot.
Speaker 2: And I like the idea of like him seeing the
Speaker 2: room with you moving out and getting upset about it.
Speaker 2: My problem with this episode is that Corey's likability is
Speaker 2: just plummeted by the fact that he's already upset and
Speaker 2: angry from a moment one. We don't get to see
Speaker 2: it like come out of sadness. You know, it gets
Speaker 2: to a place where there's sadness and there's connectivity with you.
Speaker 2: But it's hard for it was hard for me to
Speaker 2: care and to root for.
Speaker 4: Him, for he does minutes. He does come in angry
Speaker 4: right off the.
Speaker 2: Back, right, and it's demanding and like I'm gonna pay
Speaker 2: you to stay, and it's like, well that's all. Like
Speaker 2: I want him to be a little more discombobulated, like
Speaker 2: you know, more stressed out Corey, more anxious and nervous
Speaker 2: Corey than like angry and upset at everybody and accusatory Corey.
Speaker 2: Because and and that it could have easily been fixed
Speaker 2: by just having him react like sad at first instead
Speaker 2: of immediately being like, don't leave me, don't go, you know,
Speaker 2: and then it's like or.
Speaker 1: To reverse it, have to Penga be sad and have
Speaker 1: him be kind of as much as I want you,
Speaker 1: it's good for you because.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have my summer with my brother. And then
Speaker 2: it's a turn and then I'm like and then I'm
Speaker 2: on his side because I'm like, yeah, he did well
Speaker 2: with Topanga, and then Eric's let Corey.
Speaker 4: He also lets Topanga know that it's fine to.
Speaker 1: It's fine for him to exactly make him look.
Speaker 4: Normal if he does that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would have been that would have been my choice.
Speaker 1: So Topanga walks away, leaving Corey to admit to himself,
Speaker 1: well that was a brave front. As he sighs and
Speaker 1: sits on the bench while he's moping. The Phoenie Muppet, Muppet,
Speaker 1: the Feenie.
Speaker 2: Don't get us sued, the muppet, the puppet just so
Speaker 2: dirty puppet does sound dirty. It's what happened when you get.
Speaker 4: That's right, man, puppet going.
Speaker 2: It's late night and you're alone.
Speaker 1: Just you need to stop right now, Okay, So the
Speaker 1: Phoenie puppet pops up behind him, asking, what's the matter,
Speaker 1: mister Matthews, you seem a little down, Little George continues,
Speaker 1: perhaps some more history homework would cheer you up. Corey
Speaker 1: tells Eric to knock it off. He's not a big
Speaker 1: fan of his Feenie puppet.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, wow, Eric is being so nice.
Speaker 1: So nice, so awful. The last episode he just built
Speaker 1: a whole.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: He did so much for Corey. Yeah, he covered for
Speaker 2: him the whole time and without question and said, I
Speaker 2: do it because I care about you.
Speaker 1: I care about you, and I want you, And he
Speaker 1: gave him the advice to go after her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, will you're saying because there was a
Speaker 2: period where they were considering spinning your character off, right,
Speaker 2: it wasn't here, and it wasn't here. This makes so
Speaker 2: much sense. Yeah, I thought they were teeing up that
Speaker 2: you were going to leave. And it does make sense.
Speaker 2: You were graduating from high school. You could have easily
Speaker 2: had your own shows. Eric Like easily it could have
Speaker 2: been Eric in college and this is just belonged to Eric.
Speaker 4: And I'll show you where it had. I know the
Speaker 4: scene so it's the.
Speaker 2: End of season four, or but it was the end
Speaker 2: of a season, it must have been, right.
Speaker 4: I don't even think it's the end of a season.
Speaker 4: I think it's like in the middle, because we were
Speaker 4: having meetings with ABC and we I mean we probably
Speaker 4: got five or six meetings in.
Speaker 2: God, I thought for sure this was it because I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is a great setup for Will
Speaker 2: to go on to a new show that would yeah, okay, wow.
Speaker 1: So Eric reveals himself, come on, core I thought everything
Speaker 1: was great now that you into Panger are back together,
Speaker 1: big kiss, back together, big kiss, He calls out the
Speaker 1: part writer. Just despised, Corey tells Eric to stay out
Speaker 1: of his personal life, and Eric says to Pang is
Speaker 1: leaving for the summer, and I'm sorry, but that's got
Speaker 1: nothing to do with me. I've got one week left here.
Speaker 1: Let's make it great, just like old times.
Speaker 2: Wonderful what.
Speaker 1: He puts Corey on the shoulder and walks away, as
Speaker 1: Corey wonders aloud, what old times?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: I guess the reaction there, yeah, I don't know. That's
Speaker 2: where I just wanted it to be more like, I
Speaker 2: don't know something about Corey just rubs me the wrong
Speaker 2: way the whole.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you well again, I think you hit I think
Speaker 4: you hit the nail on the head. Is it just it?
Speaker 4: Michael used to always tell us, don't play anger, and
Speaker 4: Ben's playing anger, and it just shows that it makes
Speaker 4: him less likable. I think. I think if it built
Speaker 4: to an angry scene, that's the fun thing.
Speaker 2: That's what's great. Yeah, I think, But if it comes
Speaker 2: from a place of being hurt first and like sort
Speaker 2: of yeah, like what if he had really been asking
Speaker 2: like what old times? Like he's suddenly realizing like, really,
Speaker 2: I don't know, did.
Speaker 3: We have good times?
Speaker 2: And then he's like, in the course of the episode
Speaker 2: realizing I'm I'm upset that that Eric was never there
Speaker 2: for Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The problem is that it's like telegraphing right off the bat,
Speaker 2: I'm set and I'm angry, and we're a right to be.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I've never once addressed this with
Speaker 1: you before. It's all happening right now at A at
Speaker 1: A one hundred, and.
Speaker 4: We're an awesome brother a week ago, just one week.
Speaker 1: Ago, and that was maybe great, and now I want
Speaker 1: more of that. So then wow, that, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's just our cold open. That's my god, that is
Speaker 1: a big.
Speaker 2: Forty minutes in our episode.
Speaker 1: I mean big cold open likely, Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: set up, lots of information we just had to digest.
Speaker 2: And I wasn't in it either. You're a few times
Speaker 2: Sean is not in the hallway with.
Speaker 1: Well, that's because you're in the New Settler the park
Speaker 1: and you guys are playing basketball in black leather boots,
Speaker 1: black tight denim jeans and tucked in shirts and button ups,
Speaker 1: just like NBA players do.
Speaker 2: Yes, you do sports.
Speaker 1: That is how you do the sports.
Speaker 4: How you do sports ball.
Speaker 2: Did you see the way I go to block his layup?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm almost extending my arm all the way.
Speaker 2: I almost.
Speaker 1: Did you know what a layup is?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like, it's when you're it's right before you spike.
Speaker 1: Spike it, spike after you get a hat trick, which
Speaker 1: is right.
Speaker 2: Or if you as long as you don't get called
Speaker 2: on icing, you're spiking the.
Speaker 4: Peyton manning basketball.
Speaker 2: Yes, so the Wayne Gretzky.
Speaker 1: The Wayne break one. So Corey says, okay, fine to
Speaker 1: Pega is going to camp as he scores one on
Speaker 1: Sean and it's an all girls camp. But there's no
Speaker 1: threat there and it's more time for us the boys
Speaker 1: of summer. Sean breaks it to him, I'm going to
Speaker 1: spend the next two months traveling with my dad. Did
Speaker 1: you think it all right? Or like, wow, you've turned
Speaker 1: into Chet Hunter? You travel all summer with your family?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: In real life?
Speaker 2: I mean in real life?
Speaker 4: In real life, yes.
Speaker 1: You jet, Yeah, you just but like you don't abandon
Speaker 1: your family. You just take him with you. You travel
Speaker 1: travel for every summer with him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you think of it in the moment, he said,
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 4: I was like, well, yeah, that's I remember when you
Speaker 4: first pulled up your house in Minneapolis too. You got
Speaker 4: out and you were like, where.
Speaker 2: Are we having dinner?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wow, it's it's full morph So he asks Sean, I
Speaker 1: thought you were staying home this summer, and Sean tells
Speaker 1: him I am. That's the beauty of a mobile home.
Speaker 1: Wherever you go, you're home.
Speaker 2: But now my mom took the mobile home, so we
Speaker 2: don't have a trailer, right.
Speaker 3: Didn't we move?
Speaker 2: Where did we move into when Chet decided to take
Speaker 2: me out of turn?
Speaker 4: I think you moved into Uncle Mike's trailer because Mike
Speaker 4: was gone.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, he got busted or something. So now
Speaker 2: we're taking do you.
Speaker 1: Say Uncle Mike's trailer was gone.
Speaker 2: That's right because it last. Yeah, so I guess we
Speaker 2: just got a new trailer.
Speaker 4: With the.
Speaker 1: Waiters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he got times by a new house.
Speaker 1: That's what he did. And now we're driving around them
Speaker 1: and you're going around for two months because he can.
Speaker 1: Sean asks if Corey is okay, and Corey tries convincing
Speaker 1: him he's fine. He tells him I can do without
Speaker 1: my best friend and my girlfriend for a couple of months.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: He sits on a bench next to an older lady
Speaker 1: who's feeding real pigeons.
Speaker 4: We had real pigeons, I said the same thing. I'm like,
Speaker 4: we had birds on the set. When it just happens.
Speaker 1: What is the sesame street? And next to a sandbox
Speaker 1: with real kids?
Speaker 4: And the swing going back just made me want to
Speaker 4: swing the whole time. Is like, I let me go
Speaker 4: on to swing.
Speaker 1: Have you done it in a while?
Speaker 4: It makes remember you to New York. We wanted to
Speaker 4: go out. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: You get you get a little in your crystals in
Speaker 1: your ear.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, there's fluid that has crystals in your ear,
Speaker 4: and when you're young, it's more fluid, and the older
Speaker 4: you get it starts to congeal, which is why things
Speaker 4: like roller coasters and stuff like that make you more nauseous.
Speaker 2: And you can also like have like extreme vertigo, Like
Speaker 2: I completely lost it one night out of nowhere, could
Speaker 2: not walk. I had such bad vertigo and I laid
Speaker 2: down on the couch. And apparently the way to fix
Speaker 2: it is you have to have one like kick you up. No,
Speaker 2: they have to like like grab you by your arms
Speaker 2: and and the whole idea is to like knock the
Speaker 2: crystals in your ear back into the place like bazy.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so glad. I'm so glad I'm young and
Speaker 1: they don't have any of this stuff. I'm so glad.
Speaker 1: I'm always funny. Uh. And so he sits on next
Speaker 1: to a sandbox with real kids and he asks, Sean,
Speaker 1: it's not like I can't make new friends, right. The
Speaker 1: pigeon lady then shoves a piece of bread into his mouth.
Speaker 1: I thought this was a very funny bit. Did you
Speaker 1: not see it?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That was okay.
Speaker 1: You weren't watching, or you didn't see it, or I
Speaker 1: saw it.
Speaker 2: I just didn't think it was that good of a bit.
Speaker 1: I thought it was cute.
Speaker 4: I was like, Corey, Tony.
Speaker 1: He's a bird, he's a bird lady, and he got
Speaker 1: that's that's my favorite Corey. This Corey Corey where he
Speaker 1: is trying to convince everyone okay and he's become a
Speaker 1: bird lady in one second and somebody's putting bird and
Speaker 1: food food in his mouth like that. I like that.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I wanted to see more of. Was Tvin.
Speaker 1: He was okay, feed the birds, feed the birds, feed
Speaker 1: the bird.
Speaker 4: Yes, this was a Jeff Jeff Sherman moment.
Speaker 2: Do you want to explain that?
Speaker 4: Well, his parents, his father and uncle, were the Sherman
Speaker 4: brothers who wrote all the music for Mary Poppins and everything,
Speaker 4: so they wrote. His dad wrote feed the Birds. It
Speaker 4: was like his baby that song. So I'm guessing that
Speaker 4: had something to do with the feeding the birds.
Speaker 1: That sounds good.
Speaker 2: Do you think they tied? Did you think these pigeons
Speaker 2: had clipped wings?
Speaker 1: Yes? No, no, you had to right, Yeah, they're not there.
Speaker 1: They were not going to deal with pigeons that were
Speaker 1: now trapped in our seventy five foot rafters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true too. Yeah, I could have gotten him
Speaker 4: down with grapes and then caught the grapes.
Speaker 1: In my mind, that's true. You could have caught a
Speaker 1: pigeon mouth. Throw a pigeon up, catch it in your mouth.
Speaker 4: I'm right down there. I could do it the first time.
Speaker 4: I couldn't repeat it, but I could do it the
Speaker 4: first time.
Speaker 1: I I just thought that I was really happy that, like,
Speaker 1: I was only in a handful of episodes this season,
Speaker 1: and then they had left over money at the end
Speaker 1: of it, and they were like, let's build a new set.
Speaker 1: Let's get real pigeons, Let's get real children, and a
Speaker 1: pigeon lady and.
Speaker 4: A pigeon lady, and let's go there.
Speaker 1: So then we're in the Matthew's kitchen. Corey announces to
Speaker 1: his family, I've decided I'm spending my summer in Atlanta
Speaker 1: selling international flags at the Olympic Village. Alan tells them, no,
Speaker 1: you're not, and Corey responds, well, then this summer blows.
Speaker 2: So this is the ninety six Olympics and this is Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Can I have to Can you guys go with
Speaker 1: me for a little bit of a wild ride here?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: Okay, of course, it is worth noting, much like The
Speaker 1: Simpsons tells the future all the time, this is quite
Speaker 1: a joke for Boy Meets World. It was that summer
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six that the Olympics would eventually take
Speaker 1: place in Atlanta and in the Centennial Olympic Park, where
Speaker 1: there would be a bombing that killed one person and
Speaker 1: injured one hundred and one hundred and eleven people. And
Speaker 1: I'm reminding you, Corey says, this summer blows. What the
Speaker 1: heck hold on?
Speaker 2: This an eleven brother, He's an eleven brother.
Speaker 1: This whole event was recently immortalized in the movie Jewel,
Speaker 1: about security guard Richard Jewel, who was falsely accused of
Speaker 1: planting the bomb. Here's where it gets a little weirder.
Speaker 1: This past weekend, Jensen and I ran into the actor
Speaker 1: who played Richard Jewel and there are kids played together.
Speaker 1: Is this not insane that it all happened within days?
Speaker 2: Nope, not insane.
Speaker 4: Home.
Speaker 1: So we just had a live show in Atlanta International
Speaker 1: Event and I look good in Jewel to you cannot
Speaker 1: tell me these things.
Speaker 2: You were wearing jewels in your life, and you like jewels.
Speaker 1: I like them.
Speaker 4: I like them.
Speaker 2: Singer Jewel. You like listening to Jewels music is great?
Speaker 2: I yes, this is all coming together.
Speaker 4: It were coming around Christmas time, and the man who
Speaker 4: actually did the bombing's name was Eric Robert.
Speaker 2: Rudolph Rudolph, Rudolph Rudolph.
Speaker 1: Got you guys.
Speaker 2: It is so nice.
Speaker 1: I so glad we're all on the same page. I'm
Speaker 1: really thank you. I thought I was crazy. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad you guys agree with me. Amy chimes in, This
Speaker 1: summer's barely started. Just in case you need to be
Speaker 1: reminded that Corey predicted the future. Then Corey interrupts her
Speaker 1: and I already got no Topanga, I got no, Sean,
Speaker 1: I got nothing. Alan reminds him, your brother's here for
Speaker 1: another week. He's about to tell everyone about his upcoming trip,
Speaker 1: and this is where I went, Oh, so he really
Speaker 1: is driving for two months alone. Corey scoffs, I'm not
Speaker 1: really interested in Eric's trip.
Speaker 4: Sure, Dick, No, he's he's he's what is it transference,
Speaker 4: he's you know, he's angry.
Speaker 2: No, but I want to see it come from I
Speaker 2: do too.
Speaker 4: I want him to earn it and not have been
Speaker 4: angry the entire react to something I.
Speaker 1: Know Eric has then angry. Oh, you're right, core We'll
Speaker 1: put my entire cross country trip on hold so you
Speaker 1: can tell us how great the park is. How is
Speaker 1: that monkey bar restoration coming? Where does that come from?
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: It should have been? If they are gonna go with
Speaker 4: Corey being angry all the time, it should have then
Speaker 4: just been Eric being confused about why he was angry. Yeah,
Speaker 4: meeting his anger with more anger exactly.
Speaker 2: Well, you say a lot of reasonable things. Between this
Speaker 2: and then a bedroom scene, I kept being like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Eric's awesome. Eric has been so nice and so great,
Speaker 2: and like, what the hell now?
Speaker 4: I get it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And by the way, I do think looking back
Speaker 1: over all the episodes, especially of this season, there have
Speaker 1: been a lot of times Eric has been not the nicest,
Speaker 1: a bit of a jerk to his brother. I have
Speaker 1: no problem with the idea that Corey is suddenly feeling right.
Speaker 2: It just he needs to react to something concrete. He
Speaker 2: can't point to anything and say Eric, besides the fact
Speaker 2: that Eric's leaving right, Eric is not doing anything anti
Speaker 2: Corey like, and it should be Corey should be able
Speaker 2: to point to an actual story event, like we had
Speaker 2: a plan and you bailed on me.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, if that.
Speaker 2: Had been the beginning of the episode, or even to
Speaker 2: Benga and him had a plan and she bailed on him.
Speaker 2: But like, none of it. It's just all talk. It's
Speaker 2: just all my summer was going to be this, and
Speaker 2: it's like okay, well that's all abstract and so it's
Speaker 2: hard to connect to if it had been a real
Speaker 2: story point, like Corey had a plan for the summer,
Speaker 2: he was going to do this with Sean, then this
Speaker 2: with the Panga and this with Eric and then it
Speaker 2: all fell through. But instead it's just we get to
Speaker 2: spend all the time, No we don't. Well now I'm pissed.
Speaker 4: And it's like the other thing that they could have
Speaker 4: done is he just he's faking it the entire time
Speaker 4: until one small thing like the baseball yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or just seeing the rooms. Just seeing the room
Speaker 2: could have been emotional, right like yeah, which also emotional.
Speaker 4: Who packs their whole bedroom to go to college, But
Speaker 4: we'll get into that. Nobody does that. You bring some clothes,
Speaker 4: you bring some you don't bring the stuff on your
Speaker 4: walls and stuff like that. You don't pack your hold.
Speaker 2: Everybody keeps their bedroom until they're forty seven years old.
Speaker 5: Not everyone's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Tried.
Speaker 4: I've tried a hundred times. They will not let my
Speaker 4: father will not let me make people pack up their rooms,
Speaker 4: especial college.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh my god, look all not everybody yet. Not
Speaker 2: everybody has like an extra room that their parents can
Speaker 2: just keep open. I don't know, man, Like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, most people don't they go, especially because you're still
Speaker 4: nineteen or twenty. You go to college, you decorate your
Speaker 4: room how you want it, and you're still coming home
Speaker 4: to your house most of the time. You're not moving
Speaker 4: your entire bedroom to your college dorm.
Speaker 2: That's just you don't.
Speaker 4: You come back and you've got your little stuff and
Speaker 4: occasionally take a trinket here or there. Eric is like
Speaker 4: boxes of trophies from when he was like I'm bringing
Speaker 4: my Little League trophies with me to college. I know.
Speaker 1: You you go to college, you do kind of want
Speaker 1: like a new start, like my grown up room.
Speaker 2: This is your room. Yeah, it's yeah, you got to
Speaker 2: get that pulp fiction poster. Yea yeah, there's always like
Speaker 2: the same Force Marley poster. It's it's like every college
Speaker 2: dorm in the nineties, that's where the big spot.
Speaker 1: Uh, train spotting was a big one. Yeah, y, Corey says, defensively,
Speaker 1: it's a jungle gym. Why don't you tell us how
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the Grand Canyon in four and a
Speaker 1: half minutes? By donkey and I love the way, he says, Bye, donkey, donkey, Dunky,
Speaker 1: Bye donkey donkey. Amy tells the boys to stop sniping.
Speaker 1: Eric says it'll stop for good when I leave next week.
Speaker 1: Corey laughs, there's Eric always leaving. Why should I be surprised? Hey,
Speaker 1: core want to shoot some oops? Oh wait, here comes Janis?
Speaker 1: Or Hey Core want to ride to school? Oh wait,
Speaker 1: my friends want rides. Eric responds while leaving, I'd like
Speaker 1: to stay and take some more abuse, but oops, I've
Speaker 1: got more packing to do, and we hear the live
Speaker 1: audience wins they kind of do it?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Morgan tells Corey, I'll be your friend this summer. Corey
Speaker 1: grabs her hand and thanks her. Then Morgan realizes, Oops,
Speaker 1: I forgot I have day camp. Amy pats Corey on
Speaker 1: the shoulder and asks what he's really upset about. Corey admits,
Speaker 1: I'm upset that the pang is going to camp. How
Speaker 1: could she do that? Amy reminds him she's fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: She has a right to go to camp. Corey responds,
Speaker 1: you guys never sent me to camp. Alan and Amy
Speaker 1: reveal we tried to send you to camp when you
Speaker 1: were eight, but we had to take you home every day.
Speaker 1: You sent us letters telling us they were conducting medical
Speaker 1: experiments on you. Corey says they were they were.
Speaker 4: I love how he starts. How Alan starts, so are
Speaker 4: you and yeah? Great?
Speaker 1: Corey met Amy assures him this is going to be
Speaker 1: a great summer. Corey asks you really believe that? She nods, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. And then we're in Eric and Corey's room,
Speaker 1: a rare appearance in season three.
Speaker 2: I know, and probably maybe the last time we ever seek.
Speaker 2: I was, Oh, you're right, Celary's in there. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: but so so because Eric doesn't move out, you just
Speaker 2: come back to this room next season.
Speaker 1: I think, so, I think this room's here. The whole
Speaker 1: time I started to get sad.
Speaker 2: I was like, maybe this is the last time we
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 4: No, it's the last time we see Alex, but it's
Speaker 4: not the last time the bedroom.
Speaker 2: Okay, but so what how does that last scene resolve?
Speaker 2: I don't understand, like, is Corey feeling better about Eric,
Speaker 2: because then he walks into this scene and we just
Speaker 2: repeat the fight from the previous scene, like.
Speaker 1: Well, no, he comes in ready to make amends. Corey
Speaker 1: comes in and actually he tries to fix things. So
Speaker 1: Eric's packing when Corey walks in and tries to lessen
Speaker 1: the tension by saying, I know this week hasn't been
Speaker 1: the easiest for any of us, but uh, and then
Speaker 1: he gets distracted by the state of the room. Look
Speaker 1: at this mess. Eric surveys the scene. Yep, many years
Speaker 1: to pack away. Corey responds, yeah, but look at my bed.
Speaker 1: The bed is made, but it's got a sock on it.
Speaker 1: Eric tells him that's actually how you left it this morning.
Speaker 1: But when Corey disagrees, Eric responds, fine, I'll move my sock.
Speaker 1: Eric fixes the mess. I know your summer's off to
Speaker 1: a rough start, Corey, but look at the good I'll
Speaker 1: be out of here in a week and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have the entire room to yourself. Corey shakes his head.
Speaker 1: I've always had this room to myself. Eric asks what's
Speaker 1: that supposed to mean? And Corey says, come on, the
Speaker 1: way you treat me, and you got to ask. You
Speaker 1: ignore me. You never actually did anything with me because
Speaker 1: you wanted to and Eric Eric says, what am I
Speaker 1: supposed to say to that? Corey? You're three years younger
Speaker 1: than me. I have my own friends. Corey asks, and
Speaker 1: where will your friends going to be next year? You'll
Speaker 1: all be at different colleges, but I'll still be your brother, Eric,
Speaker 1: Eric sarcastically responds, you're right, Corey, terrible brother, and he
Speaker 1: continues to pack his stuff away. Corey grabs a baseball
Speaker 1: from the pile. What are you doing with this? Eric
Speaker 1: says he's taking it to college. Corey says, that's my
Speaker 1: Mike Schmidt autographed baseball. Eric says he signed it for
Speaker 1: both of us, and Corey tries to grab the ball back.
Speaker 1: This starts a small little tug of war over the possession.
Speaker 1: When Eric comes out victorious, he says, you're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: this is your ball. You want it here? Catch, and
Speaker 1: then he throws the baseball out the open window.
Speaker 2: Windows open.
Speaker 4: But how close we are tois? I'm surprised we didn't
Speaker 4: hear a smash next door exactly.
Speaker 2: That would have been a good beat.
Speaker 1: It would have been funny. Corey lunges at him. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you just did that. Eric dodges the attack.
Speaker 1: Please don't do that because you're going to get hurt.
Speaker 1: And then they start shoving each other back and forth.
Speaker 1: Eric slams Corey onto the bed, pushing him so we
Speaker 1: can't get up. This is very real filling will How
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 4: But it's also exactly the same fight as exactly, Hey,
Speaker 4: don't you're gonna get hurt. It's all the same. I mean,
Speaker 4: like even the dialogue the same, the same. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: then it just ends with the weird wrestle tussle, which
Speaker 4: is a real brother fight. Brothers don't throw punches, mostly
Speaker 4: some do. But it was exactly the same as I
Speaker 4: was waiting for Tony and Alex come in and go.
Speaker 4: You guys realize you're fighting each other? Right, It was
Speaker 4: just it would have been great, But yeah, it was
Speaker 4: matchos matchews, matchews. You realize you fight each other?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think they were a little hooked on that
Speaker 2: scene still, Yeah, and they.
Speaker 1: Wrote, well, what do you remember about wrestling Ben like that?
Speaker 1: Do you remember anything about the choreographing of it?
Speaker 4: Or I didn't even remember that we fought?
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 4: Nothing, nothing whatsoever. So, yeah, I imagine we had we
Speaker 4: had fun. Ben always got into this.
Speaker 1: Just make something, just make it up. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember.
Speaker 4: I'm yeah, I've I've been working with Ben. Was always fun,
Speaker 4: especially with the physical stuff. So I'm sure we like,
Speaker 4: all right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna do
Speaker 4: this and we're gonna grab onto each other. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm sure we had a good time, but I remember
Speaker 4: none of this whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Alan and Amy run into the room and immediately pull
Speaker 1: Eric off of Corey. Alan asks, what's the matter with
Speaker 1: you too?
Speaker 2: Amy always know that something's going on.
Speaker 1: I was waiting for you can hear the feet on
Speaker 1: the floor, yeah, or like you hear like.
Speaker 2: I mean hear you guys aren't being loud, like if
Speaker 2: you were screaming.
Speaker 1: They still have a monitor, like a baby monitor in
Speaker 1: the room. They anitor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I was kind of like again,
Speaker 2: like they had to break up the fight, right because
Speaker 2: it was a repeat beat of what happened in the hallway, right,
Speaker 2: and so it was like, oh, let'll just have the
Speaker 2: parents run in. But it doesn't actually make sense to me.
Speaker 1: No, you're right. There's really no way they would know.
Speaker 1: But Amy els, this is our last week altogether, and
Speaker 1: it's your last week sharing this room. Eric announces, I
Speaker 1: don't have to share it for another week. I don't
Speaker 1: really need this anymore. I'm out of here tomorrow. Commerciall
Speaker 1: break and then we're in the Matthew's living room. Eric
Speaker 1: storms downstairs as Amy and Alan or right behind him.
Speaker 1: Alan tells him he is not leaving tomorrow. Eric insists, yes,
Speaker 1: I am. Alan sternly explains, maybe you didn't hear me.
Speaker 1: You are not leaving tomorrow. You haven't gotten your letter
Speaker 1: of acceptance to college yet. Eric tells him, I'm on
Speaker 1: the waiting list. I'm not giving this trip up. Amy
Speaker 1: tries to calm him down. You're upset about your brother,
Speaker 1: and you are not thinking this through. Trying to get
Speaker 1: Eric to stay, she says, maybe when you're a parent
Speaker 1: and your first child is about to leave home, you
Speaker 1: will understand that every day, every minute, makes a difference.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have a random question that might be did
Speaker 2: the living room look different to you? Guys?
Speaker 4: No, no, not that I there's something you can you
Speaker 4: put your finger on.
Speaker 2: Busier, It felt like there were more stuff on the
Speaker 2: walls or in the background, I don't know, just look
Speaker 2: different to me. I was like suddenly aware of the
Speaker 2: living room in a way that first of all, we
Speaker 2: haven't seen the living room in a long time, but
Speaker 2: I was looking at it, going, something's different about the.
Speaker 1: Different or change the family picture because it was Lily
Speaker 1: and the family picture.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know, man, something I want to go
Speaker 2: back to the family photo. I don't know. I I
Speaker 2: felt like something was different this whole set every time
Speaker 2: we went we're in the set this episode, I was like,
Speaker 2: what's different? Why does this not feel right? It felt
Speaker 2: like a different color or something in the background. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's a giant plant. There was something that I was like,
Speaker 2: this doesn't feel the same to me. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is. So if ore more, I gotta go
Speaker 2: back to yeah more. Astute viewers can our listeners can
Speaker 2: can let me know if they've noticed anything. It's something
Speaker 2: about the living and felt off to me.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Eric asks, you don't think I'm freaked out about
Speaker 1: leaving going to college, being on my own, doing my
Speaker 1: own laundry. I'm having nightmares. White's easy, Dark's easy. What
Speaker 1: about my white shirt with black stripes?
Speaker 4: What then?
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna slip into a Seinfeld A
Speaker 2: little bit more then and you're still my own laundry.
Speaker 2: I was like, wait, wait, and then.
Speaker 4: That That line and then one other line later are
Speaker 4: the only things I remember about this entire episode. But
Speaker 4: I distinctly remember that, what about the white shirt with
Speaker 4: the black stripes? With things? I think I said that
Speaker 4: for years after I was started to do my own laundry,
Speaker 4: I feel like a white shirts, like what do I do?
Speaker 1: What do I do with this?
Speaker 4: What do I do? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Alan says this tough on everyone. Eric says that's why
Speaker 1: he's just taking off now. Amy reveals they have a
Speaker 1: goodbye dinner plan. Eric says if they move the dinner
Speaker 1: to tomorrow night, he'll stay one extra day. Alan says
Speaker 1: they'll think about it and tells Eric another little bit
Speaker 1: of advice. You take that extra day and try to
Speaker 1: figure out what is bothering your brother. And again, why
Speaker 1: is it Eric's responsibility to try and figure out what's
Speaker 1: going on with Corey? I felt like this. The overall
Speaker 1: note I have that bums me out about this is
Speaker 1: that Corey is making this whole thing about him, and
Speaker 1: he's not expressing himself. Well, he's acting angry, and then
Speaker 1: it's like on everyone else to figure it out.
Speaker 2: I know. There's a weird thing, Like, you know, there's
Speaker 2: a sort of a delusion that everybody has as a
Speaker 2: child and as a teenager, which is that you're the
Speaker 2: protagonist of your own story, right, that you're like the
Speaker 2: star of your own sort of TV show. Except in
Speaker 2: the world a Boy meets World, everybody else also acts
Speaker 2: like that, do you know what I mean? So Corey's
Speaker 2: suffering from that delusion, and yet the whole show also, right,
Speaker 2: it's yes, like Sean is always like, well, I'll just
Speaker 2: be your best friend no matter what, and t Penga's
Speaker 2: like I'll be your girl no matter what, and all
Speaker 2: the families like tiptoeing around Corey. It's like, but this
Speaker 2: is this is not great behavior, Like this is this
Speaker 2: is the precisely the kind of thing that as a
Speaker 2: teenager you learn to move away from to recognize. Eric
Speaker 2: also has feelings to Panga has her own life, Sean
Speaker 2: has it like and that is like I feel like
Speaker 2: that's ultimately where the episode kind of lands, right, like
Speaker 2: he is acting but in the meantime, everybody's sort of
Speaker 2: catering to this delusion in a way that doesn't feel great.
Speaker 2: I was kind of like, no, like.
Speaker 4: All fairness, he is the star of his own town.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean, right, you know, no exactly, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's a weird it's a weird way of thinking
Speaker 2: about it, but it's it's yeah.
Speaker 1: Because normally I would say like, this isn't I love
Speaker 1: the parenting on Boy Meets World almost every single episode,
Speaker 1: and in this one I wanted to be like, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the conversation. Maybe they need to with Corey
Speaker 1: about the idea that listen, there's something here and you
Speaker 1: need to get to the bottom of what you're feeling,
Speaker 1: and it's your responsibility to fix it with your brother
Speaker 1: before he goes very rightfully on his next journey for
Speaker 1: where he is. But instead they kind of put it
Speaker 1: on on Eric.
Speaker 2: For last episode. It's okay that you psychopathically stalked your
Speaker 2: girlfriend want to be all the way to Florida or
Speaker 2: like the end of the episode was like, well, at
Speaker 2: least you got her, you got her back, you got
Speaker 2: the girl, Cory, you did a good job. It's like, Nope, dude,
Speaker 2: like you are stalking a woman and like that's awful.
Speaker 2: That is awful behavior.
Speaker 4: You're also left without telling us, and yes, flew to
Speaker 4: Florida on a cargo plane. At She's yeah, problems.
Speaker 1: So Eric tells them, I've shared a room with him
Speaker 1: for fifteen years. I have no idea what's bothering him?
Speaker 1: And Alan responds, maybe that's your answer. So then we're
Speaker 1: at Chubby's, because where else would this goodbye party be?
Speaker 1: Of course it's at Chebys. Amy is holding graduate Eric's arm,
Speaker 1: saying she's so glad he stayed.
Speaker 2: All the regulars are invited.
Speaker 1: Yep, no one dinner party is really cool.
Speaker 2: There's no dinner, there's no real No.
Speaker 1: There was food, nobody had eaten it, nobody ate it.
Speaker 4: It was burgers, but yet all and the fries are
Speaker 4: just sitting out uncovered, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Talking to ketch Up so I'm king soda. But the
Speaker 2: first time it was weird.
Speaker 1: You've got a bad drinking class, Like it looks.
Speaker 2: Like I'm drinking a beer.
Speaker 4: It's like, yes, Sean doing you got very perfectly stacked burgers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one's touched the food, so we couldn't even
Speaker 1: we couldn't even pretend that the party had already happened,
Speaker 1: and these were just the people who hung around like
Speaker 1: family after we had no food has been eaten. None
Speaker 1: of Eric's friends are here, but Corey's girlfriend and Cory's
Speaker 1: best friend are here, which we.
Speaker 2: Have to give a line to. Even Corey's friends could
Speaker 2: come or whatever. Yes, it's like, but then what is
Speaker 2: been doing like that?
Speaker 1: I don't know that was holding onto us. I don't
Speaker 1: get it. The cameras, I know.
Speaker 2: But like this hasn't been quite set. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this scene was gave me a little gave me
Speaker 4: a little adgitive watching this.
Speaker 1: I agree this whole thing was. This scene felt very
Speaker 1: uncomfortable to me. So Corey's got his arms around to
Speaker 1: Panga and Sean. They're swaying back and forth uncomfortably. Amy says,
Speaker 1: considering how he feels about Seawan and Tepanga leaving for
Speaker 1: the summer, we thought that this would be a good
Speaker 1: idea to invite them there. Sean tells Corey, take your
Speaker 1: arms off me, man, you're making me nervous. Corey continues
Speaker 1: swaying with Topanga until she also maneuvers out of the
Speaker 1: way of the odd moment, and then we see mister
Speaker 1: Feeney who initiated what do you say? Uh huh he says,
Speaker 1: am I also making you uncomfortable?
Speaker 4: Uh huh. Okay, it was weird. It was like run
Speaker 4: over or it's not a shorng joke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was waiting for like a good response that
Speaker 2: could have been a laugh, but instead it's like played.
Speaker 1: For just the discomfort, and it.
Speaker 4: Was the whole thing was very Strange's not funny, No, not.
Speaker 1: Funny, not great poene who initiates a toast saying he
Speaker 1: has something more to say. We also see Turner and
Speaker 1: mister Williams are there. They probably don't say single word.
Speaker 1: Morgan Brown's oh no, the Feenie has more to say.
Speaker 1: Alan tells her he's going to be your principal one day,
Speaker 1: but in reality that's not actually a problem for her
Speaker 1: because he followed us into college. Yeh, she's totally saying.
Speaker 4: She's fine, She's fine.
Speaker 1: And then Phoene gives a nice little speech about being
Speaker 1: proud of Eric and ads. I brought a little gift.
Speaker 1: I took the liberty to pull this and have it
Speaker 1: framed your high school diploma. Everyone cheers except Corey. Eric, thanks, Foene,
Speaker 1: I know how much you hate to be touched, but
Speaker 1: give me this one. He pulls him in for a
Speaker 1: hug and Peoene pats him on the arm, looking uncomfortable, saying,
Speaker 1: all right, Eric, all right. Alan runs up to Corey.
Speaker 4: Hatey.
Speaker 1: Don't you want to say something? Tapanga encourages encourages him.
Speaker 1: Come on, he's your brother, you should say something. Corey
Speaker 1: tells her. No, I don't have anything planned. Eric announces
Speaker 1: this diploma, which signifies my intelligence belongs as much to
Speaker 1: you as it does to I. Phoeni corrects him me.
Speaker 1: Eric responds, I included you. I included you, Corey Van
Speaker 1: Yell's attention everybody. He toasts to my brother Eric, who's
Speaker 1: moving out, and not just for four years, probably forever.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know him. He starts to get
Speaker 1: choked up as he continues, and now I probably never
Speaker 1: will fifteen years in the same room, Eric, fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Corey shakes his brother's hand and says, good.
Speaker 2: Nothing specific to complain about, and also I just want
Speaker 2: him to say that for me, you remember the time
Speaker 2: you I had this plan, and like the line in
Speaker 2: the kitchen, that is the most potent is when he
Speaker 2: says about like oh I got to go hang out
Speaker 2: with Janis, which we've seen before, and that makes sense, like, oh,
Speaker 2: Eric is too focused on girls. If he could say
Speaker 2: in this moment, like do you remember when I was
Speaker 2: going to do this with you and you bailed on
Speaker 2: meat on that date with so and so and what
Speaker 2: about the time, But instead he just guilt trip, yes,
Speaker 2: just anything. But instead it's like this vague, abstract guilt
Speaker 2: trip that it's I'm just like, shut up, Corey, it's
Speaker 2: not your dinner, Like, I know, sit down, kid, and
Speaker 2: like why is nobody saying that, Like, hey, buddy, this
Speaker 2: isn't about you. Shut out, don't have line.
Speaker 1: That's wow, I know, I agree, and I agree to
Speaker 1: it stinks because I love the concept of.
Speaker 2: The heeling abandoned by the older brother. It's an emotional
Speaker 2: connectivity that we should feel. I love it too. It's great,
Speaker 2: it's a beautiful sentiment. It just is so like poorly
Speaker 2: delivered it again, you're.
Speaker 4: Right, though, writer. It starts he's because they started him
Speaker 4: at anger and that's where he's paid. So by this
Speaker 4: point you're just like, I don't care about it, And then.
Speaker 2: The reveal is that he stole your your your letter letter.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's actually ruining your freaking life, and like
Speaker 2: no punishment for that, no acknowledgment. No, you're just kind
Speaker 2: of like, oh, okay, well least I'll open it now.
Speaker 2: And it's like, wait a minute. So Coory not only
Speaker 2: is emotionally making everybody scramble and feel bad for him
Speaker 2: even though other people are totally fine and doing their life,
Speaker 2: he's also going behind your back and stealing your acceptance letter.
Speaker 4: No, but it's true. It's it's very Yeah. It was again,
Speaker 4: there was no build to it. There was no specific
Speaker 4: reasoning for it. There was no I mean, it was
Speaker 4: just angry.
Speaker 1: It's seen still felt angry. Even though I think it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be choked up. I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: it was super choked up. I felt like it was
Speaker 1: still like a.
Speaker 4: It should have been.
Speaker 2: I'm going into the scene, I'm gonna have a positive attitude,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give a good speech and he starts to
Speaker 2: do it and he can't finish it because he starts
Speaker 2: starts an overwhelmed and he has to leave. Then I
Speaker 2: would be like, oh, poor Corey, he's really sad about
Speaker 2: his brother. Yeah, but he said, it's like you suck?
Speaker 2: Can you suck? Can you suck?
Speaker 1: Okay, dude, I know, Okay, bye bye, No cool story,
Speaker 1: bro exactly, I know, I know. So Ory shakes his
Speaker 1: brother's hand and says goodbye. I hope you have a
Speaker 1: nice life. I really do. Good Okay, oh right, thanks
Speaker 1: me too, bro Ham. He looks at everyone else at
Speaker 1: the dinner and apologizes to them before walking away. Drama quin, Okay,
Speaker 1: this next part. I can't wait. We're in the Matthew's kitchen.
Speaker 1: Eric was getting ready to leave, tells everyone cars all loaded.
Speaker 1: Amy asks, are you sure you can't stay for breakfast?
Speaker 1: I could fix you an omelet, toast, pancakes, muffins, pizza.
Speaker 1: Eric asked, you just want me to stay get empty?
Speaker 2: Did you guys notice the exterior for.
Speaker 1: This, Oh, the house?
Speaker 2: It looked yeah, the house. No, they completely over color
Speaker 2: corrected it to make it look like sunrise. So it was.
Speaker 2: It was so weird looking.
Speaker 4: It was weird.
Speaker 2: It looked like like a post apocalyptic like a movie
Speaker 2: where it's like, you know, the sun has been blotted out.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is going on? It's all radioactive?
Speaker 2: Like yeah, because the colors because like color correction wasn't
Speaker 2: that great back then. You couldn't do like power windows
Speaker 2: where you could just select the sky. So in order
Speaker 2: to make the sky look like a sunset, you have
Speaker 2: to like create all change all the colors. So the tree,
Speaker 2: the house, the grass looks like radio. It's so weird,
Speaker 2: looking like one is going on a head to go back.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh, they wanted it to be sunrise, but
Speaker 2: they couldn't do that because they didn't want to get
Speaker 2: new footage of us. So yeah, to make the sky pink,
Speaker 2: they had to like completely overcolor correct the hole.
Speaker 1: So to writer's point, it's very very early in the
Speaker 1: morning after nuclear bomb. After the nuclear bomb has dropped,
Speaker 1: she's still in her robe. Amy is still in her robe.
Speaker 1: Alan reminds Eric, don't forget to say goodbye to your brother.
Speaker 1: Eric admits he hasn't seen him this morning. Alan says
Speaker 1: he slept on the couch. He's pretty embarrassed about last night.
Speaker 1: Eric says, there's nothing to be embarrassed about, and he
Speaker 1: walks into the couch room to let him know. And
Speaker 1: now we're in the living room. Eric announces, Corey, get up,
Speaker 1: your brother's leaving. But Corey isn't on the couch. He's left.
Speaker 1: Amy says, he said he was going to the park
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to Panga. Maybe he already left. Eric,
Speaker 1: clearly sad, says, well, just tell him goodbye and give
Speaker 1: him a hug for me. Alan explains, we'll hug him,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's gonna make Corey feel any better.
Speaker 1: Still worried about how Corey is feeling, even though Corey
Speaker 1: left on the day, his morning his brother is leaving,
Speaker 1: Eric says, well, I'm just going off to college. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm still his brother. Alan explains, Now it's just going
Speaker 1: off to college, then it's gonna be just getting married,
Speaker 1: just having kids. But you will never be the same
Speaker 1: brothers you were upstairs sharing that room.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 1: Absolutely correctly shares that's not his fault. But he's the
Speaker 1: older brother, and Amy adds, yes, but it's not Corey's fault.
Speaker 1: He's the younger brother. So it's no one's fault.
Speaker 2: Right, So why do we cater to the ones who
Speaker 2: are we out and like making everybody's life miserable?
Speaker 1: Like wit, just sit down, b go live your freaking life.
Speaker 1: Eric emphasizes he's three years younger than me, he's got
Speaker 1: his own girlfriend, he's got his own buddiest. I bet
Speaker 1: he'd understand me now, and Alan tells him it sounds
Speaker 1: like you have a lot more in common now. Eric admits,
Speaker 1: I never really looked at it like that. I guess
Speaker 1: Cory and I could be friends now. Amy says, his
Speaker 1: girlfriend's leaving him for the summer, so you better feel
Speaker 1: bad for him brother, and his best friend's leaving him
Speaker 1: for the summer. And now his brother, who he's never
Speaker 1: really had the chance to get to know as a friend,
Speaker 1: is leaving forever, and Eric asks, but why aren't you
Speaker 1: guys upset, Alan tells him, well, we got to know you.
Speaker 1: It's okay, you can leave. Amy, Pat's Eric on the shoulder,
Speaker 1: your father and I know you're a good guy and
Speaker 1: you have a good heart. You've always made us proud,
Speaker 1: hass has he though? Has he always made a brack?
Speaker 4: Yes, he's made nothing but right decision after right.
Speaker 2: This whole scene is just exposition. Here's how I feel,
Speaker 2: here's how you feel, how we feel, And just get
Speaker 2: to the part where they hug each other goodbye, because
Speaker 2: it actually did get me a little bit It's pretty
Speaker 2: emotional watching Betsy.
Speaker 4: Starts here up.
Speaker 2: And I do love the idea of, like, you know,
Speaker 2: saying having a scene about saying goodbye to your college.
Speaker 2: Like this should just be about Eric all this Cory stuff.
Speaker 4: It should just be like.
Speaker 2: Corey's gone, Oh that sucks, he's a bummer. Now let's
Speaker 2: just talk about Eric leaving and how sad, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, let's make that a scene instead of catering
Speaker 2: to the you.
Speaker 1: Know, absolutely, Alan stutters and pulls out his wallet. He's
Speaker 1: not very good at that. He gives Eric a few bucks,
Speaker 1: you know, for emergencies. Eric asks what about the gold
Speaker 1: cart and Alan immediately responds no, no. Morgan runs down
Speaker 1: the stairs. She wants to give him something. She hands
Speaker 1: him fluffers, her stuffed teddy bear. He's honored. It's her
Speaker 1: favorite thing, Morgan.
Speaker 2: He seem a little old to be wearing footy pajamas
Speaker 2: and carrying around.
Speaker 1: Why is she wearing footy pajama You can tell that.
Speaker 2: There was this like, let's let's infantilize her a little bit.
Speaker 2: We just have to make her cute for the scenes.
Speaker 2: And it's like, no, Like Lindsay's a good actress. It's
Speaker 2: a funny. She's already developed this like.
Speaker 4: Supposed to be eight, she says eight in the scene. Okay,
Speaker 4: so she.
Speaker 2: Looks a little older, and I know I wanted her
Speaker 2: to just act a little older like that.
Speaker 1: Why couldn't she just be in regular pajamas?
Speaker 2: Yes, And I also think it would have been cuter
Speaker 2: if she's actually trying to be older, yes, and handing
Speaker 2: him her teddy bear to show that.
Speaker 1: She's what the thing is to say that, she says,
Speaker 1: I'm eight. What do I need a teddy bear for?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: She came into it with the false con with normal pajamas,
Speaker 1: pretending to be listen, I'm clearly right, and because for
Speaker 1: me and I'd like it to watch over you and
Speaker 1: for her to then be having a hard time letting
Speaker 1: go of the bear.
Speaker 2: Yes, and also the bear looks brand new and that
Speaker 2: anybody has had for more than a year or time.
Speaker 1: It's that I slept with, which was short for bunny.
Speaker 1: I got it on the day I was born. I
Speaker 1: still have it, and it was It's a little cloth
Speaker 1: thing that I wore all the seams out of. It's
Speaker 1: now this long and thin and completely unrecognizable because it
Speaker 1: is so.
Speaker 2: Love they get dirty, chewed up.
Speaker 1: It's not yes, oh my children and their lovies. We're
Speaker 1: all going to die from whatever bacteria is in there.
Speaker 1: It's where we are all going to die. So he
Speaker 1: Eric asks, are you giving it to me for luck?
Speaker 1: And she tells him no, I'm eight years old. What
Speaker 1: do I need a stink and bear for? Eric asks
Speaker 1: you're gonna miss me Morgan, she responds, I already do.
Speaker 1: As they give each other a big hug. This is
Speaker 1: her first really like non sarcastic, very sweet scene we've
Speaker 1: seen from her. So I guess there's nothing left to
Speaker 1: say but goodbye. I love you all very much. Amy
Speaker 1: starts to cry, and she pulls them in for a hug,
Speaker 1: saying they love him too. Alan and Morgan join in
Speaker 1: to give him a big group hug, but there's no Corey.
Speaker 5: Do you think we knew that we were picked up
Speaker 5: for a fourth I was thinking the same thing, because
Speaker 5: this might have been the way that they were trying
Speaker 5: to end the whole show. No, I think we knew
Speaker 5: we were coming back for we must have known. I
Speaker 5: think this is the first year we knew we were
Speaker 5: coming back, Like, actually knew we were coming back I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we must have, because I don't know. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: end this season this way. If it was potentially the end,
Speaker 2: it would have been a Corey thing. It would have
Speaker 2: been absolutely But it is interesting in this episode because
Speaker 2: it's about Eric and Corey. It does harken back to
Speaker 2: the pilot and the first the first season, in the
Speaker 2: sense that he's the younger brother or the middle brother
Speaker 2: who's getting overlooked right like, and yeah, I really wish
Speaker 2: I could. I like that return, I like the return
Speaker 2: to that idea, and I wish they.
Speaker 4: Didn't return their return. I wish, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: Alan tells him, go on, you want to beat the
Speaker 1: rush hour. Eric is walking out and leaves fluffers at
Speaker 1: the door for Morgan. Amy and Alan smile at Eric
Speaker 1: as he leaves, while Morgan is hugging Alan so she
Speaker 1: doesn't have to watch. Eric shuts the door and Amy
Speaker 1: walks over to Alan crying cry. Very emotional little scene.
Speaker 4: They tried to do the Radar thing for Mash It
Speaker 4: didn't work. When Radar's character leaves, he has it bear
Speaker 4: with him the whole time he's in the war, and
Speaker 4: when they he leaves, Hawkeye comes back into the swamp
Speaker 4: and the bear is sitting on hawkeyes like like cocked,
Speaker 4: and they're all sitting there pouring drinks and they look
Speaker 4: down and they just pick it up and they go
Speaker 4: buy radar and it's like he came a kid and
Speaker 4: he left a man. Like it worked perfectly, and this
Speaker 4: one it was just kind of like there's a new bear.
Speaker 1: He's just leaving right. Well, you also were just handed
Speaker 1: the ban.
Speaker 4: It wasn't there was nothing.
Speaker 2: Is that The Run and Running Cowboy episode of Mash or.
Speaker 4: Jane Radar Season eight, Season eight?
Speaker 1: I think will what wrote the scene?
Speaker 4: I would love to have.
Speaker 1: So now we're at the park at night.
Speaker 2: No sunrise. No, it's a nice it's a nice violet
Speaker 2: light going on.
Speaker 4: So is it supposed to be I didn't know when
Speaker 4: it's night?
Speaker 2: No, it's later that morning.
Speaker 1: Later that morning it got darker. It got darker.
Speaker 2: Sunrisey.
Speaker 1: It's not sunrisy. He drove halfway to New Jersey, he
Speaker 1: says in the scene, and then turned around and came back.
Speaker 1: It's nighttime all day and Topanga is getting picked up
Speaker 1: by a bus at the park, at the park to
Speaker 1: start her camp at night. Hey, everybody, come on into park.
Speaker 1: Come on into camp. Welcome, here's your bed mate. Don't
Speaker 1: drink too much because we can't don't don't have time
Speaker 1: to show you where the bathrooms are. Get into your
Speaker 1: bed and go to sleep. It's the first night of camp.
Speaker 1: It's nighttime. We've been there for twelve hours.
Speaker 2: I thought it was still just later on that morning.
Speaker 2: I thought it like night or you seway to Jersey
Speaker 2: would only take him? Like get darker?
Speaker 1: What why would it be getting darker? It's not getting
Speaker 1: You saw the blown out house at sunrise, there was
Speaker 1: light outside. Why would it still be dark at the pot?
Speaker 2: I thought that this was I don't I didn't read
Speaker 2: this as nighttime. I didn't read this as dark. I
Speaker 2: read this as like morning, magic hour lighting.
Speaker 4: Okay, but it's magic hour, not magic day. So if
Speaker 4: he's already they had the whole scene and then drove halfway, how.
Speaker 1: Long would it take to get from Philly to New Jersey?
Speaker 2: Only like an hour or two?
Speaker 4: But then again, how is it still twilight?
Speaker 1: It's two hours later, it's like dusk for four minutes.
Speaker 2: I think I think they got They really liked the
Speaker 2: idea of like a sunrise. Look, yes, absolutely, so that's
Speaker 2: what they're aiming for and it's just a little too
Speaker 2: dark for your taste. Yes, it's sunrise. It's the whole
Speaker 2: like early morning. The summer's beginning, and we're going off
Speaker 2: onto new adventures and everybody saying goodbye, and you're just
Speaker 2: saying it's too dark. It is dark.
Speaker 1: It was nighttime, dark, magic hour morning for How long
Speaker 1: is magic hour?
Speaker 2: As long as it takes to make it aesthetically pleasing?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I didn't get it, but it's really weird
Speaker 1: to me. Corey and t Bank are sitting on the
Speaker 1: swings and Tabanga admits, I don't know if I want
Speaker 1: to go to Penga says, usually I'm really looking forward
Speaker 1: to camp this time, I'd rather spend the summer with you,
Speaker 1: and that scares me. I want you to have a
Speaker 1: good time at camp. Okay, I'm completely secure, Corey says,
Speaker 1: and then he follows it up with you swear on
Speaker 1: your life it's an all girls camp. Tapega grabs his hands.
Speaker 1: She wants him to have a great time this summer.
Speaker 1: Cory ashers or don't you worry about me? He walks
Speaker 1: over to the same pigeon lady, once again feeding her friends.
Speaker 1: He sits down next to her and opens his mouth
Speaker 1: for her to stick bread in it again. Sean then
Speaker 1: arrives Corey. I can't leave you like this, man, Corey
Speaker 1: asks what he's doing here? Me and my dad are
Speaker 1: hitting the road, so I figured i'd say goodbye. A
Speaker 1: horn honks and Tapega says, that's my bus. Another horn
Speaker 1: honks to the tune of luck Kukaracha, and Sean says,
Speaker 1: that's my house. Tapega says she should get going and
Speaker 1: pulls Corey in for a kiss. I'll miss you, Sean says,
Speaker 1: I'll see you in a couple of months. Okay. Corey
Speaker 1: nods yeah, take care of yourself, Sean. They give each
Speaker 1: other a bro handshake and a hug. Corey is now alone.
Speaker 2: Sean and Topanga completely ignore each other.
Speaker 1: Yes, so.
Speaker 2: Great to have like a group hug or like a conversation.
Speaker 2: Do I care that I'm not seeing you? Do you
Speaker 2: care that you're not.
Speaker 1: Sell What I think really is happening is that the
Speaker 1: truth is where I'm not going camp. I'm going with
Speaker 1: you for the Summer's right.
Speaker 4: As you walked off, Sue looked at me and she went, oh,
Speaker 4: they're hooking.
Speaker 2: Up, so it's like, yeah no by like protagonist of
Speaker 2: the show gets all the attention. Everybody else is just
Speaker 2: we're just all decorations and.
Speaker 4: Away, trying to make it look like you didn't really
Speaker 4: like each other. And around the corner, make an app
Speaker 4: make an ass.
Speaker 1: So Corey grabs a basketball and pretends to be an announcer
Speaker 1: Corey Matthews. He looks for the open man. It's Corey Matthews.
Speaker 1: He passes it to Matthews. Matthew sees Matthew set up
Speaker 1: for the three. He feeds Matthews. Matthews shoots his shot
Speaker 1: that is so terrible and off base, lands in Eric's hands.
Speaker 4: Which is a great callback to him doing the same
Speaker 4: thing when he was left alone in the house and
Speaker 4: was it season one where he's.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought that was.
Speaker 4: A great callback to that's a great recognize that that's
Speaker 4: like he's alone. Yep, so cute.
Speaker 1: Eric says, looks like your team could use some help.
Speaker 1: Corey says, thought you'd be halfway to Jersey by now,
Speaker 1: and Eric admits I was. Then I realized here I
Speaker 1: am going off to college and didn't even get a
Speaker 1: proper goodbye from my brother Corey tells him, I'm you're
Speaker 1: here too, because I never got to tell you I'm
Speaker 1: sorry for the way I've been acting. Eric shrugs it off.
Speaker 1: They're brothers, brothers fight. I go back to why couldn't
Speaker 1: it just be light here? Why couldn't there just be
Speaker 1: some sun.
Speaker 4: By the way, it's an hour and thirty two minutes
Speaker 4: from Philadelphia to New Jersey, So if he got halfway there,
Speaker 4: he's forty five minutes each way. It's an hour and
Speaker 4: a half after twilight in the morning.
Speaker 1: And that's with zero track thick let's it's it's a
Speaker 1: work morning. I don't under I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: I just why could there not just be some sunlight?
Speaker 1: Somebody had to be like, no, I really like this
Speaker 1: dark scene.
Speaker 2: There's probably Jeff McCracken. He was probably like Jeff, let's.
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to Jack. I have I like
Speaker 1: to have a one.
Speaker 4: I have a note.
Speaker 2: He was he was coming back from Florida. He was overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Just turn the light, spake it dark?
Speaker 2: What we have a swing set this week, dude, Jesus
Speaker 2: Christ and you know, you know, Michael was like, it's
Speaker 2: gotta look pretty it's morning, and he was like, Jesus okay, fine,
Speaker 2: make violet Jesus.
Speaker 1: Okay. Uh they're brothers, brothers fight, Eric says. Corey says, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like it when we fight, you know. And
Speaker 1: I also don't like it when I do things like this,
Speaker 1: and then he pulls out a letter and hands it
Speaker 1: to Eric. It's his letter from North Southwestern San Diego
Speaker 1: State University. Says he, I mean truly, he says, he
Speaker 1: took it from the mailbox. Yes, I guess I wasn't
Speaker 1: ready to let you go. I mean, I've always liked
Speaker 1: you as a brother, but I'm starting to like you
Speaker 1: as a friend. Eric's face changes as he opens the
Speaker 1: envelope he didn't get in and the read you do
Speaker 1: will is perfect.
Speaker 4: Thank you. This is the moment I remember because during
Speaker 4: run through, I remember doing it and Alex coming up
Speaker 4: to me and going you got me, Oh yeah, I
Speaker 4: got me with that, And I remember I'll always remember
Speaker 4: that moment because it was like I so respected him
Speaker 4: as an actor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you were like, I'm never going to see
Speaker 1: you again.
Speaker 2: See you later.
Speaker 1: That It's such a good moment. It's such a good moment.
Speaker 1: Jensen gasped. He was like not he it totally got him.
Speaker 2: He was like, it's so you know, Eric has just
Speaker 2: always been the goof off, like the funny guy to
Speaker 2: see you drop any pretense.
Speaker 1: It's such a bod And the fact that we didn't
Speaker 1: play into any sort of Oh the joys of Hollywood magic.
Speaker 1: He worked hard for a few months and it saved.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make it. It's really like, yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: still didn't work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you were a crappy tea.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 2: It is a little intense that there's like no alternative
Speaker 2: to college. I think, like there is no alternative to
Speaker 2: which I mean, I guess did it really feel that
Speaker 2: way in the nineties or is it just specific to
Speaker 2: the boy Meates world works. I feel like a lot
Speaker 2: of parents I know now are like, I'm cool with
Speaker 2: my parents. My kid's not going to college, like a
Speaker 2: lot of people exactly.
Speaker 1: A lot of trade, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: The idea of like that you have to go to
Speaker 2: college in order to be a functioning member of society
Speaker 2: has really just not aged well. But I also don't
Speaker 2: think it was that important back then either.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. It had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with like. My mom is a first generation American. Her
Speaker 1: parents came here from Malta and they looked down on trades.
Speaker 1: My my my mom would have been a makeup artist
Speaker 1: from the time she was immediately out of high school.
Speaker 1: She knew all along she that, but her parents were
Speaker 1: both like, no, we came here to America so that
Speaker 1: you could do something better than that. Yeah, And my
Speaker 1: mom was just like, Okay, then I guess I'll be
Speaker 1: a stay at home mom because she didn't want to be.
Speaker 1: She didn't want to go to college. She was she
Speaker 1: didn't love school, and so she then, you know, my
Speaker 1: parents got married at twenty one and she had me
Speaker 1: at twenty three, and she didn't become a makeup artist
Speaker 1: until she was in her fifties.
Speaker 2: So there there was an amazing mom.
Speaker 4: She was.
Speaker 2: She was the world's.
Speaker 1: Best, the world's best. I'm not saying that that's that
Speaker 1: that's a bad choice or that she wasn't great at it.
Speaker 1: She obviously was. And it worked for our family because
Speaker 1: my dad, you know, was definitely like the type to
Speaker 1: go out and work a lot, and my mom was
Speaker 1: able to be home and provided the life that I've
Speaker 1: been able to have because she was able to take
Speaker 1: me back and forth and do all those things. But
Speaker 1: my mom's my mom's dream like she's like, I know
Speaker 1: for she knows for a fact the only reason she
Speaker 1: didn't pursue it earlier was because in her family it
Speaker 1: was looked down upon.
Speaker 4: So it's also the first thing that they're out of
Speaker 4: high schools now is metal shop. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 4: wood shop and all that kind of stuff where it's like,
Speaker 4: go learn to learn a skill. My god, I know,
Speaker 4: make a fortune being a plumber, electrician. You know how
Speaker 4: much money those people make.
Speaker 1: It's insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Corey, you know, Eric didn't get in, and
Speaker 1: Eric explains it was my mistake thinking I could slack
Speaker 1: off for three and a half years, work hard for
Speaker 1: two months and get in. Man, I really wanted to
Speaker 1: go to college. And like I am for this whole episode,
Speaker 1: my heart's just breaking for Eric because, yeah, Corey jumps in,
Speaker 1: you will take a couple of cut courses over the summer.
Speaker 1: I bet you'll get into an even better school. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're right. Eric agrees, maybe I can find a school
Speaker 1: a little closer to home. Corey responds, I know where
Speaker 1: there's an open bed. Think about it while you're gone
Speaker 1: across the country. Eric tells him, Nah, that trip was
Speaker 1: to celebrate. There's nothing to celebrate. Cory asks, you kidding
Speaker 1: a trip like that, that's something you'll never forget. Eric
Speaker 1: tells Corey he's right, maybe there is something to celebrate.
Speaker 1: I am going to take that trip first thing in
Speaker 1: the morning. Cory asks, why wait? Eric laughs and says, I, okay,
Speaker 1: So here is another point that maybe it's night. First
Speaker 1: thing in the morning. I gotta go home for you
Speaker 1: to pack. They could leave tonight if he had all
Speaker 1: day to go home and pack. Anyway, moving on.
Speaker 4: He's got to pack up his whole hill.
Speaker 2: Want to die on this hill?
Speaker 1: This is the I do. I think it's okay to die.
Speaker 2: It is ridiculous lighting okay.
Speaker 1: Cory asques why wait? Eric says, like, okay, I gotta
Speaker 1: two months on the road. Can't think of anybody else
Speaker 1: I'd rather share the car with.
Speaker 2: Why Why what changes? I'm kind of I'm starting to
Speaker 2: like you as a friend, and I wanted to know why? What? What? What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Why? Where is the specific concrete example of how these
Speaker 2: two have connected, or had expectations to spend a summer together.
Speaker 2: It got ruined in the course of this episode, and
Speaker 2: now do they why do they come back together? It's
Speaker 2: just decisions made for abstract conceptions.
Speaker 1: I do think there's a little bit of missed opportunity,
Speaker 1: not like this new thing I'm learning about you makes
Speaker 1: me like you more, although that's what's written, but I should.
Speaker 2: Stole list except or in my rejection letter. Yeh, you
Speaker 2: manipulated me emotionally, you guilt tripped me, you made a
Speaker 2: horrible speech in my thing, and I've come all this
Speaker 2: way back to say, uh, I'm going away and goodbye.
Speaker 2: But now I'm going to invite you to come with me.
Speaker 2: Because they're such.
Speaker 1: A earlier in the scene with Alan and Amy, he
Speaker 1: specifically says, oh, we have more in common. Now, I
Speaker 1: guess I've never thought about that, So I guess it's
Speaker 1: more about missed opportunity, Like, here's an opportunity that's presenting itself,
Speaker 1: which is a good opportunity for us to actually get
Speaker 1: to know each other, to see if we like each
Speaker 1: other as opposed to I wish they did not set
Speaker 1: it up that I already like you. I'd like to
Speaker 1: spend two months with you more about why don't we
Speaker 1: use this summer getting to know each other.
Speaker 2: Right, let's stats go on this advance.
Speaker 1: Let's go on this adventure together that we have the chance,
Speaker 1: and let's see, I don't really know you as as
Speaker 1: a as a more adult, mature person with your own life.
Speaker 1: Let's let's do with this together. That would have been
Speaker 1: kind of fun. And then I have no idea what
Speaker 1: happens in the next episodes, but I would have loved
Speaker 1: it if then they're just at each other's through. I
Speaker 1: don't like you. I figured it out. Corey says, this
Speaker 1: is going to be a summer they'll never forget. Eric
Speaker 1: tells him things always seem to work out for the best.
Speaker 1: Corey responds, I've always believed that, and we end with
Speaker 1: a freeze frame of Eric patting Corey on the shoulder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, freeze frame free Does he always believe that?
Speaker 1: Or was that Amy's believe? Has Corey really believed everything
Speaker 1: was going to work out?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, he's been a whiny protagonists talking about the anagonist,
Speaker 2: a winetagonist, just constantly complaining about all the other characters
Speaker 2: not catering to his needs, and he was very so
Speaker 2: the last two episodes.
Speaker 4: Corey's been very unlikable. To me, Yeah, they kind of
Speaker 4: ended this whole season. They really ended with a whim. Well,
Speaker 4: really the last two, I mean really the last two
Speaker 4: back to back. It didn't end great.
Speaker 1: Season three, well, then we're in the tag. We're in
Speaker 1: the Matthew's kitchen. Eric announces to everyone. On day two,
Speaker 1: we see Virginia and Washington d C. Phoeney tells them,
Speaker 1: don't forget to give yourselves at least a day in Boston.
Speaker 1: Corey agrees, the cheers bar maybe they'll know my name.
Speaker 1: Phoene responds, I was thinking more along the lines of
Speaker 1: Bunker Hill, Old North Church. Eric looks at Corey. Remember
Speaker 1: we're on a strict budget. Amy nudges Alan. He pulls
Speaker 1: out his wallet and tells the boys see Washington. As
Speaker 1: he hands them some more money. Morgan gives them a
Speaker 1: thumbs up and says, you guys are good together. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all we need. The Rhodes calling, Corey and Eric
Speaker 1: say their goodbyes to the family and to mister Feeney.
Speaker 1: Alan reminds them part of the deal of the strip
Speaker 1: is that you check out some colleges along the way,
Speaker 1: and Eric scoffs, that's the whole reason. We're going to
Speaker 1: lane Ball State, Memphis State.
Speaker 2: State, State State. So good at the door State.
Speaker 1: Now outside, Corey tells Eric, what makes you think I
Speaker 1: would want to spend my summer, the summer of my
Speaker 1: fifteenth year, seeing a bunch of colleges. Already, Corey's making
Speaker 1: this trip about him, this summer of his fifteenth year, this.
Speaker 2: Summer of my fifteenth year. Not that you are going
Speaker 2: to ruin my summer. I am the protagonist of the show.
Speaker 2: To my needs, and what are my needs? Girls and bikinis.
Speaker 1: Let's go making a huge deal out of going to
Speaker 1: an all girls school.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna go check out ladies at the beaches.
Speaker 1: Yep, so great, Eric says, because we're seeing them on
Speaker 1: our way to hear and Ane's Corey a piece of
Speaker 1: paper that says Myrtle Beach, South Beach, Fort Lauderdale, South
Speaker 1: Padre Island, and Malibu. Eric ads Smith Sony and they
Speaker 1: both yell, and they both laugh and yell yeah right
Speaker 1: as they grab their duffel bags and head out to
Speaker 1: see the bikini chicks, while Corey gilts Topanga for being
Speaker 1: at an all girls camp. And we close it.
Speaker 4: It really ends with yes, yeah, yeah.
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