Speaker 1: And That's What You Really Missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's What You Really miss Podcast. This
Speaker 1: is a special special recap. It is Christmas time in
Speaker 1: Glee world and it's Matthew Morrison's directing debut. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm really keeping it in the fam. It's an extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, you witch. I did that episode Season three,
Speaker 2: episode nine, Extraordinary Merry Christmas aired December thirteenth, twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: We Found Love was still number one in the world.
Speaker 2: Well in the US. New Year's Eve featuring Galizon Leah
Speaker 2: Michelle was the number one movie. Remember going to that premiere?
Speaker 2: Did you go to that premiere?
Speaker 1: No, we couldn't go. I think Emer and I were shooting.
Speaker 2: Oh I went to that premiere. I brought my friend
Speaker 2: Amy because zach efron I was like, let me go
Speaker 2: get you, get your man for you.
Speaker 1: And Glee was also the concert movie was released on
Speaker 1: DVD and Blu ray in the US.
Speaker 2: So what a Christmas gift for everyone.
Speaker 1: So this episode was directed by Matthew Morrison and Marty
Speaker 1: Knoxon wrote it. We had Marty for a short while
Speaker 1: on the show. As a writer, and we've got some.
Speaker 1: We've got some quite a few Christmas songs.
Speaker 2: I mean there was a song that was cut. Including
Speaker 2: that song, ten songs were recorded and filmed for this episode,
Speaker 2: one of the most ever. Wow, so we have all
Speaker 2: you want for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Is you?
Speaker 2: Blue? Christmas River, extraordinary, Merry Christmas. Let its know my
Speaker 2: favorite things. Santa Claus is coming to town Christmas rapping,
Speaker 2: and do they know It's Christmas? And then the cut
Speaker 2: one was Santa Baby.
Speaker 1: Wow, Oh my goodness, Well that's in a whole album
Speaker 1: on its own.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Was There's some fun facts about this episode before we
Speaker 1: dive in, because I feel like there's lots of fun
Speaker 1: memories from this episode. This episode was there was, It
Speaker 1: was kind of all over the place. Though we had
Speaker 1: a variety shows, we've had storyline, a lot of storylines. Okay.
Speaker 1: The girl who acted as the younger version of Rachel
Speaker 1: in the episode of The Substitute when mister Shure was
Speaker 1: sick can also be seen in the do they Know
Speaker 1: It's Christmas scene? Your rewalk I guess we revisit the
Speaker 1: Christmas before the year before and Tina tells everybody the
Speaker 1: rewalk broke the next day.
Speaker 2: Which I remember in the scene, we're like, oh, so
Speaker 2: that's what happened to it, because we didn't know either.
Speaker 2: Is the company like that, because that sounds probably bad.
Speaker 2: Lucasfilm gave glead permission to use Chewbacca for a scene,
Speaker 2: but nothing else, which is why you don't hear any
Speaker 2: of the music that accompanies his appearance, like the John
Speaker 2: Williams theme. And I think that very obvious and funny
Speaker 2: reference to Puck and Finn not being dressed up as
Speaker 2: jedis and he's definitely not holding a lightsaber and any
Speaker 2: reference to that is merely a coincidence.
Speaker 1: Okay, there is a big sub section here of fun
Speaker 1: facts because there is a deleted scene one of the men.
Speaker 1: A very few scenes that have been released by Ryan
Speaker 1: Murphy on YouTube that you know, people have been able
Speaker 1: to see. So this was the box scene, and this
Speaker 1: scene was between Kurt and Blaine. You could see it
Speaker 1: on YouTube where Blaine gives Kurt a handmade promise ring.
Speaker 1: So the episode aired and it was teased before that
Speaker 1: there was going to be a significant curtain Blaine scene,
Speaker 1: and the phantom obviously went crazy. But then when the
Speaker 1: episode aired and the scene was not included, the fans
Speaker 1: went cuckoo banana pants into a spiral. So sources confirmed
Speaker 1: to the entertainment websites that the scene had been cut. Kevin.
Speaker 1: But but the problem is that that nobody saw it
Speaker 1: and as they teased it and they're like, what the
Speaker 1: hell is this scene?
Speaker 2: Yeah, people's hopes up and then crushed them very quickly, right,
Speaker 2: But there was a sort of rebellion.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm mm hmmm. The script the script. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the script for the episode appeared on an auction for
Speaker 1: Project Angel Food and two fans two fans decided to
Speaker 1: take charge and organize a fundraiser to bid on the
Speaker 1: script said script. They raised over thirteen thousands, all goes
Speaker 1: to Projecting for Food. We loved it. They got they
Speaker 1: got the script, and it became known as the Box
Speaker 1: Scene Project. And I mean, I think part of the
Speaker 1: reason behind the whole project was that this is written
Speaker 1: here that Glee got a lot of press remain streaming
Speaker 1: queer teenagers, But fans of the show say the actual
Speaker 1: moments of queer affection on the show were few and
Speaker 1: far between. So we saw a lot of current faw
Speaker 1: a lot of finn and Rachel affection lots of and
Speaker 1: apparently Finn and Rachel kissed more in a single episode
Speaker 1: than Curtain Blaine had in their entire relationship on TV. Also,
Speaker 1: Santana and Brittany barely being affectionate. So when it became
Speaker 1: clear that bits of those couples moments were hitting the
Speaker 1: cutting room floor, the fans took action and they felt
Speaker 1: like Lee may have been one of the most gay
Speaker 1: friendly TV shows, but the lack of equality and it's
Speaker 1: gained straight romantic relationships has been a thorn in the
Speaker 1: side of many fans.
Speaker 2: And of course Ryan has his finger on the pulse
Speaker 2: of everything, and he heard about it. So then he
Speaker 2: released the scene on YouTube and it's only one of
Speaker 2: the few times, so there's like a handful of times,
Speaker 2: and you can go watch it and let us know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you watched it, and it's apparent
Speaker 2: why it was cut.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's not exactly. No, no, no, it's a
Speaker 1: little lackluster.
Speaker 2: Yeah it did.
Speaker 1: Also, there was so much happening in this episode, which
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that while we would love to see that,
Speaker 1: we already know how they feel each other about each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing, and you don't need that scene to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly didn't move the platform at all.
Speaker 2: And now I'm more upset about Santa Baby being cut.
Speaker 1: I've watched it a million times. I'm upset that it
Speaker 1: got cut. Yeah, but I'm also like, what's happening?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so like, well, why was this in
Speaker 2: it in the first place? But also it's so good.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know it's so good, but also like I
Speaker 1: feel like it's in the episode, Like in my mind
Speaker 1: it's in the episode.
Speaker 2: Same I think because of like people online and like
Speaker 2: well the Christmas soundtracks as well, but I think it's
Speaker 2: become like part of the Lord or whatever, and so
Speaker 2: like it's just been in rotation so in my head
Speaker 2: and never was not part of the experience of the episode, to.
Speaker 1: Be fair well, we also when we do Snick's Missus
Speaker 1: every year, we usually go through clips and things and
Speaker 1: see if there's stuff we can use, and that one
Speaker 1: always comes up.
Speaker 2: Do you remember this thing with the box scene, like
Speaker 2: any of this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I vaguely remember online because of Twitter at the time.
Speaker 1: Like the fundraiser I remember that, and the script I
Speaker 1: don't actually remember like the whole thing being cut and
Speaker 1: like all of that, but I just remember the babble
Speaker 1: of like people raising money and all of that during
Speaker 1: the during that time, I mean, good for them, thirteen amazing,
Speaker 1: that's incredible. We have really amazing fans. Yeah, especially trying
Speaker 1: to keep the show to a certain standard, which that's right.
Speaker 1: Can't be mad at real love it. So this episode
Speaker 1: is about when the new directions are asked to perform
Speaker 1: at two different events on the same day, same time.
Speaker 1: They have a tough decision to make.
Speaker 2: Will they choose correctly and spread Christmas cheer or will
Speaker 2: ambition get the best of them?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Alreadie will what will happen?
Speaker 2: What a weird storyline?
Speaker 1: Well, I love you as direct or. I will say
Speaker 1: that I love this theme of you being in the
Speaker 1: position of a director. It's really great.
Speaker 2: I was I remember being very excited. So what happens
Speaker 2: is Shoe comes in and tells us that the local
Speaker 2: PBS station canceled their Yule log burning broadcast and the
Speaker 2: station manager has enlisted the Glee Club for a crisis special,
Speaker 2: and Shoe appoints already to direct it and already agrees
Speaker 2: to do it eventually for less than eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Mind you, I mean it was a few years ago.
Speaker 2: I mean still, I don't think the nineteen twenties it
Speaker 2: could have done this for eight hundred dollars, the advent
Speaker 2: of film, and it was inspired by Star Wars and
Speaker 2: Judy Garland and I just anytime I got to do
Speaker 2: directing things. I was just excited because I was trying
Speaker 2: to do a nod to Ryan always where my hands
Speaker 2: were placed, how I was talking a bit. I had
Speaker 2: to tone it down because I originally started doing like
Speaker 2: a full Riign impression, and obviously it made no sense.
Speaker 2: But I was just very excited to do that, And yeah,
Speaker 2: it was fun. It was weird. You know that scene
Speaker 2: in the auditorium after Rachel, which is funny, and I
Speaker 2: liked getting to do like a one on one little
Speaker 2: thing with her. And Artie's never really nice to Rachel,
Speaker 2: but it's like she's shocked by it. And that was
Speaker 2: always like a fun back and forth thing. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: guys are it's weird. Interaction with Sam about being like
Speaker 2: we're just doing joy joyed, ignoring Sam's advice and experience
Speaker 2: was weird.
Speaker 1: It's a little Artie. It tracks with the way I
Speaker 1: already act. Sometimes it does.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's just weird like for me as
Speaker 2: like a human.
Speaker 1: Non totally totally. It is funny though I already has
Speaker 1: a vision and he is just he's committed. He has
Speaker 1: committed and I appreciate it. And I thought all of
Speaker 1: this was very funny. I thought you were a little
Speaker 1: like Judy Garl and Star Wars thing in the hallway,
Speaker 1: That little like speech was very funny and very well delivered.
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, Kevin's really giving it and see
Speaker 1: it very funny.
Speaker 2: Well, you know where Kevin didn't give it is when
Speaker 2: the pretell eventually does show up to the shelter at
Speaker 2: the end, and I I must have been asleep.
Speaker 1: Oh everybody was Kevin do?
Speaker 2: And nothing I said came out correctly like I was
Speaker 2: not speaking like how normal human speaks.
Speaker 1: Well, I also have to say, granted, like for people
Speaker 1: who don't know who will learn in this episode what
Speaker 1: that was like for us that night, like that was
Speaker 1: the night before Thanksgiving break and it was a very
Speaker 1: late night. Everybody looks like there's they were just woken.
Speaker 2: Up, yeah and about like nobody.
Speaker 1: Yes, everybody was panicked, but it was being it was
Speaker 1: so rushed getting those scenes of you coming in to
Speaker 1: the thing and saying your lines. I remember, I think
Speaker 1: you got that in one take, Like I think we
Speaker 1: had to do that in one take. Like I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: Like all of this stuff felt like it was so
Speaker 1: crazy and everybody looked a little cross eyed. Yeah it
Speaker 1: so we'll get there. But I will say, given the
Speaker 1: circumstances of what you had to do, how you had
Speaker 1: to do it, it was you did it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, yeah, but you know it could.
Speaker 1: Have been better, Okay, But I will say that the
Speaker 1: show itself, the show, the Christmas special turned out great.
Speaker 1: It was very funny. It was really fun to shoot.
Speaker 1: Matt actually had three cameras going, like a variety show
Speaker 1: would be shot back in that day. Now, Glee was
Speaker 1: only shot on a single camera at a time, well
Speaker 1: maybe two, but it's single camera, and this was a
Speaker 1: multi caam where there are three cameras going like a
Speaker 1: Friends or a Big Bang theory. And that's why you
Speaker 1: see us like turn to different cameras and you know,
Speaker 1: make different points of view. I don't know what am
Speaker 1: I saying.
Speaker 2: I remember the blocking for that, like it was all
Speaker 2: of that planned out. I mean it must have been,
Speaker 2: but I feel like that's the must it's such a
Speaker 2: long segment. Yes, I was not in it. I was
Speaker 2: not there. I had days off. But I don't remember
Speaker 2: how many days it was to film.
Speaker 1: All of that. It wasn't a lot, it was no no.
Speaker 1: I think it might have been two. I think they
Speaker 1: did the first segment with the four of them, and
Speaker 1: then I think we did Christmas wrapping into the end
Speaker 1: another day. I remember it was two days. I think.
Speaker 1: I think when they were shooting the Variety Show we
Speaker 1: were doing we were rehearsing Christmas wrapping.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love the Variety Show. Everybody's out of
Speaker 2: their minds and the best way amazing. Everybody looks great.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. The weird story with the necklace and
Speaker 2: getting online for it is hilarious. I love all the
Speaker 2: references like this is my best friend and roommate. All
Speaker 2: that being said, Christmas wrapping is one of the biggest
Speaker 2: sources of joy in my life. I'm so glad because
Speaker 2: I really loved that number. That number two. I can
Speaker 2: watch on repeat and I was like, I hope it's
Speaker 2: in it. I think it's in it. I think it's
Speaker 2: in it. And then you guys come bursting to the door,
Speaker 2: and I shouted, he's never been better.
Speaker 1: Oh so good, so good, like never been better. It
Speaker 1: was so much fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about learning that and doing it.
Speaker 1: I know it was. It was really fast. We were
Speaker 1: learning that, like I think Nya and Heather and I
Speaker 1: came in later to learn it after all the other
Speaker 1: wonderful dancers learned that number. But it was fast. I
Speaker 1: had never done that before Ribbons. I was like, what
Speaker 1: are we doing? But it was so much f on
Speaker 1: plug and play kind of thing. I had so much
Speaker 1: fun with Naya doing that number. It was just like
Speaker 1: you got to add your little flair. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We all looked really cute, like I loved Santa outfits
Speaker 1: I and then also the cameras. But I also remember
Speaker 1: that day being really fast, Like this whole episode to
Speaker 1: me felt fast, like everything we shot was like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in so let's just do it
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god. And I think we
Speaker 1: did Christmas mapping maybe a few, like maybe a few times,
Speaker 1: and that was.
Speaker 2: It, really, I mean, whatever, whatever it was, it worked.
Speaker 2: I also think because there was a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of these scenes were sort of long, Like you said,
Speaker 2: a lot of talking, so there was a lot the
Speaker 2: blocking of it, the staging of everything took a while,
Speaker 2: I remember, yeah, And I think there's also something with
Speaker 2: like maybe because it's Matt's first time directing mm hmmm,
Speaker 2: which I also thought he did a great job because
Speaker 2: some of these shots in your are hilarious.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, great, exactly.
Speaker 2: The timing of it is really really great. But I
Speaker 2: also think there's probably like a learning curve there too,
Speaker 2: where oh yeah, the discussion of okay, how do we
Speaker 2: want to cover this, where we're covering this from right,
Speaker 2: all of that stuff, I think, well, taking it up
Speaker 2: a little more time at the front end of.
Speaker 1: The totally well right, because I think it has to
Speaker 1: be rehearsed. Like on our show. We show up in
Speaker 1: the morning, we go through the scene, we talk through
Speaker 1: it with the director, we see what feels right, they
Speaker 1: market and then they light it and that's and then
Speaker 1: we go and get ready and then we come and
Speaker 1: shoot it right on a multiicam like the variety show
Speaker 1: we shot or the you know, the special show with
Speaker 1: the three cameras going at once. They rehearse all week
Speaker 1: for the the taping which ends up on which which
Speaker 1: is usually on a Friday night, and so when you
Speaker 1: shoot that, you're rehearsing all week with the cameras that
Speaker 1: where you're looking, where you're facing. It's much more theatrical than,
Speaker 1: ironically than our show, where like the cameras will find
Speaker 1: you and you just have to figure it out on
Speaker 1: the day versus the three camera operation. And so there
Speaker 1: was that, like we had to operate kind of like
Speaker 1: a multicamp for that small piece, and because the scenes
Speaker 1: were so long, You're right, it did take a little
Speaker 1: bit more work on the front end. For some reason, though,
Speaker 1: there's another Christmas episode that we do. It's an Atom
Speaker 1: Shankman one, and it's the one where you do please
Speaker 1: not was that wasn't in black and white? For some reason,
Speaker 1: I see Police Naviat in black and white. It is, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought.
Speaker 2: Because it's a wonderful life reference. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not crazy.
Speaker 2: No, So I wasn't sure if that was this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: That's why I didn't know Chris Christmas wrapping yet.
Speaker 1: Was in this Okay, okay, okay. Along with that the
Speaker 1: the special, which I think.
Speaker 2: Also should have been the whole episode.
Speaker 1: I totally could have been just like commit to the
Speaker 1: black and white, yes, classic in that tone.
Speaker 2: Like I would have Yes, I would have could just
Speaker 2: watch walk in real quick to that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jewey, how fun that you had to
Speaker 1: work with Chewey and then all these us getting to
Speaker 1: like meet him and do all those photos. It was
Speaker 1: such a special day. Yeah, I mean it was like
Speaker 1: a half day that he came in.
Speaker 2: But it was so special, felt like a holiday on set, yes,
Speaker 2: like nobody was working.
Speaker 1: The stage was set for River, like we were all
Speaker 1: just we were there for it. That was awesome.
Speaker 2: Speaking of River, how does the Lee Club never have
Speaker 2: any Sandmans in this?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: How does the club never have any money to get
Speaker 2: to any competition? But we have the money again to
Speaker 2: build these beautiful Christmas.
Speaker 1: Sets, I'm and then our Christmas tree alone, Yes, exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: So along with the holiday special, it's landing on the
Speaker 1: same night at the Homeless as the Homeless Shelter that
Speaker 1: we had already said we were going to volunteer at
Speaker 1: and perform and help because Sue.
Speaker 2: Got already Kurt and Blaine into the office, which is
Speaker 2: always fun.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a funny scene and.
Speaker 2: Insulted us while also trying to get us to do
Speaker 2: something nice and give back. And so yeah, we agree
Speaker 2: to it, and then obviously double book ourselves. Classic Christmas
Speaker 2: party mistake happened.
Speaker 1: And then Already's like, well, I'm sorry, we choose the
Speaker 1: Christmas special already again.
Speaker 2: This is why already people don't already because he does
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 1: I mean, but he to be fair, Sue is really
Speaker 1: chat on us before. So not that it's not about Sue,
Speaker 1: it's not about Sue, but his points aren't wrong exactly.
Speaker 1: It's also not right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just you don't double book yourself and then pick
Speaker 2: the thing that is not helping the people that you
Speaker 2: agreed to help in the first one, right, Like I
Speaker 2: think that's that's the issue. Yeah, for once, he didn't
Speaker 2: say something that was completely wrong. He just they're all
Speaker 2: sort of doing the wrong. It was all of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we wanted to be on TV.
Speaker 2: It's fair, you know.
Speaker 1: And and Sam is the only one aside from Quinn,
Speaker 1: who will go with Sam to volunteer, and I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that's that we will end up going and
Speaker 1: you know, we show up.
Speaker 2: Well. Sam also is like helping Rory because Rory can't
Speaker 2: go home for Christmas, and he's Ory's Christmas sponsor. And
Speaker 2: when Sam tries to sort of like storm out because
Speaker 2: we're not celebrating Christmas the way he thinks you should
Speaker 2: be celebrating it, Rory doesn't go with him and sort
Speaker 2: of creates this divide. So when the Christmas social actually happens,
Speaker 2: Rory pulls up and is like, I'm not doing it
Speaker 2: as scripted. I'm doing like a nicer thing in the
Speaker 2: spirit of the holidays.
Speaker 1: It's very sweet.
Speaker 2: It is very sweet. Little Damien, so Quinn and Sam
Speaker 2: are at the homeless shelter, and after Rory pulls that,
Speaker 2: then everyone you know, realizes, oh, we're doing the wrong thing. Crap,
Speaker 2: we've already been on TV for a little bit. This
Speaker 2: is good en, So let's hoof it on over to
Speaker 2: the homeless shelter and bring them the set dressing, Oh
Speaker 2: my God, with the gravy and sing a song that
Speaker 2: feels mildly offensive, inappropriate. And so I got to say, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's it's a crazy song.
Speaker 1: Okay, I need At the time, it didn't phase me.
Speaker 1: Oh at the time, singing that song while in the
Speaker 1: circumstance you were singing in it, and like as it
Speaker 1: was written, it didn't face me as bad as I went.
Speaker 1: I watched it and was like, oh my, like those
Speaker 1: lyrics like what are we doing? Oh? Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: I don't think I remember that either. Obviously, this night
Speaker 1: was very particular night, and I don't remember anything from
Speaker 1: this night. But everybody sounds real good on that.
Speaker 2: Hold on, let's let's hold this thought because I think
Speaker 2: we should come back to this because the best part
Speaker 2: of the the best part of the story of making
Speaker 2: this episode. So just to briefly talk about the other
Speaker 2: part of this episode is Rachel gives Finn this Christmas
Speaker 2: list and she wants these five items, and it's really
Speaker 2: adamant about these five items. Is crazy.
Speaker 1: But I have to ask you also, though, Yeah, isn't
Speaker 1: Rachel jewish?
Speaker 2: Christmas can be for everyone?
Speaker 1: No, it is to everybody. But she doesn't mention Honkah
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: No. She does an ad lib at the end, though,
Speaker 2: which is hilarious when she's ringing the bell and people
Speaker 2: coming up, everyone's like, happy Christmas, Merry Christmas. She's like.
Speaker 1: She always knew her character.
Speaker 2: Yes, Like Rachel being this like wild about these five
Speaker 2: Christmas gifts is why she ended up number twelve on
Speaker 2: that list of the most disliked TV characters of all time.
Speaker 2: I was like, why is she like dang like the
Speaker 2: like unbearable sweet Finn?
Speaker 1: It really yes, I know, I mean obviously we've you know,
Speaker 1: Finn needs to redeem himself a little bit after the
Speaker 1: last few episodes that the Hayway he had of making
Speaker 1: some questionable choices. But I it is. It's not a
Speaker 1: little cuckoo. It's cuckoo. It's really yeah, google coogole banana pants.
Speaker 1: She's gone off theat rails and she is very focused
Speaker 1: on these Christmas presents. I'm not sure why. I think
Speaker 1: maybe it's it's like when Chris Christmas comes around and
Speaker 1: you finally have a love and like your expectations are
Speaker 1: so high for everything, like that's Christmas. Ever, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like it was a joke and inside jokes with
Speaker 1: the writers. That was like Christmas can suck and like
Speaker 1: where you're people can act like Bridezilla crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a very good display of that.
Speaker 1: I will say this. The sou Pig is very funny.
Speaker 2: It is. I mean, I thought it all was very funny,
Speaker 2: but it's also damn she is on it, but how
Speaker 2: sweet the little strong I might have teared up.
Speaker 1: I did tear up, and then when you pull out
Speaker 1: the earrings and I was like, and why am I crying? Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was I like the range of emotions I felt
Speaker 2: in that scene. I'm like, Rachel, you need to cut
Speaker 2: it out, and then crying.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I will say Corey without doing very much in
Speaker 1: this episode, Like I guess he does enough in the episode,
Speaker 1: but like not doing all that much has a like
Speaker 1: he doesn't say as much as Rachel does and yet
Speaker 1: still his arc is it had us in tears.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also we talk about when he was during the
Speaker 2: Christmas special Santa Claus Is Coming to Down he sounded
Speaker 2: like Veru Springsteen so good.
Speaker 1: It was so we know Brad loves Springsteen.
Speaker 2: So I also did love the very beginning of this
Speaker 2: episode when Rachel and Finn are having the first initial
Speaker 2: conversation and Rachel's like, how did you know was a
Speaker 2: Kurt and then he walks by.
Speaker 1: It was me.
Speaker 2: Loved Daddy so so funny, and I liked it like
Speaker 2: that shot I thought Matt did a great job with
Speaker 2: and like the zoom in on her empty ear lobe,
Speaker 2: without an erring was also very funny, very funny.
Speaker 1: Do you also remember watching Extraordinary Merry Christmas being shot
Speaker 1: and I was like, we were like, what is happening?
Speaker 1: I remember shooting them shooting that. We had not nemer
Speaker 1: One not heard the song ever, obviously because it's Norton. Also,
Speaker 1: I was like, I've never heard the song before. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's happening in the happening in this scene
Speaker 1: and they're doing the most ridiculous, insane number.
Speaker 2: It felt like we were all on drugs. Thank you, right,
Speaker 2: It felt like we were hallucinating.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is very out of body and they're both.
Speaker 2: Like on it and like hyped up.
Speaker 1: Well they're trying to impress you already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well good people need to bring it.
Speaker 1: With the episode now. After watching it, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this fits with Rachel's crazy in this episode.
Speaker 2: I think Diana was napping.
Speaker 1: Diana was napping this entire just openings.
Speaker 2: Like respect. I was like, Dana, welcome to not having
Speaker 2: a storyline in an episode.
Speaker 1: This is what it feels like, this is what happens.
Speaker 1: We snooze.
Speaker 2: It is hard. I was talking to my friend he
Speaker 2: is on a show currently and they just started production
Speaker 2: back and so he had like his first day back
Speaker 2: and he had one line in the scene. It's a procedural.
Speaker 2: I won't say what what what it is. And he
Speaker 2: was like, you know, having one line and a scene
Speaker 2: it's sort of worse than having all the lines. It
Speaker 2: was like, yes, I know, take it from someone who
Speaker 2: that's what I only exclusively did for six seasons.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's it's mind, but yes, yeah. He seems so
Speaker 1: counterintuitive that it would be, well, you're like, what's my
Speaker 1: line again? I feel like every time we'd be in
Speaker 1: the Chuiry and I'd be like, what's my line again?
Speaker 1: And who do I come out?
Speaker 2: And there are that's going to fuck this up for
Speaker 2: everybody totally to do.
Speaker 1: But you're like, whose line do I come aufter? What
Speaker 1: am I saying? Because it comes out of nowhere?
Speaker 2: And then Joe fuck it up and trying to rectify
Speaker 2: it in terms of story and character. Sometimes you just can't,
Speaker 2: like no, this just has to be brought up and
Speaker 2: you're just the vessel to do it. But it's a
Speaker 2: weird thing.
Speaker 1: It is a weird thing. The lighting on in the
Speaker 1: final scene where we did you know, do they know
Speaker 1: it's Christmas on Jane is excellent. I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened on the rest of us Jane Haggard, but she
Speaker 1: looks great. She also looks like she's in her own scene,
Speaker 1: like they shot her out or something. It was like,
Speaker 1: shoot Jane, and then you cut to this whole.
Speaker 2: Other scene that's going one Lynch. You get to ask
Speaker 2: for like the better the special lighting.
Speaker 1: You know, well obviously she has. She's a vet like
Speaker 1: she is. She gets what she wants. She can do
Speaker 1: it ever, although she would never ask for that, but
Speaker 1: just give it to her. How did you feel about
Speaker 1: all Tina's hats in this episode, Jenna, It's very funny.
Speaker 1: I loved Winter Tina. I'm down with Winter Tina. I
Speaker 1: think it's very funny. I think also some of my
Speaker 1: dresses were a little basic, and so Lou was like,
Speaker 1: let's just keep her flair going. Oh wait, all I
Speaker 1: went for Christmas is you? Oh yeah, never sounded better.
Speaker 1: Thank you Amber for giving me the best version of that.
Speaker 1: And when we were doing the number that was really fun.
Speaker 1: We took a photo on set from somebody's phone of
Speaker 1: the girls and before you know it, it's being used
Speaker 1: for press for everything, and This was before social media
Speaker 1: where like people could pull your Instagram post off and
Speaker 1: use it for whatever. This was like I'm not kidding
Speaker 1: by the grove in La on the digital billboard. I'm
Speaker 1: driving and I see our photo and I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Like that was literally a iPhone photo that
Speaker 1: was not a professional photo, nor was it intended for
Speaker 1: us to use. But obviously we're on sets, so whatever,
Speaker 1: we're all in makeup and hair.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they used it for like promotion.
Speaker 2: Well that was like the following season when we showed
Speaker 2: up to do our galley images for the Yeah, for
Speaker 2: the promos, they had one of the whole you know,
Speaker 2: we run between like five different setups and these are
Speaker 2: going to be the promos for the whole gear. One
Speaker 2: of the setups, the reference was all of was my
Speaker 2: Instagram and it was all of my selfies that I
Speaker 2: had been taking in the choir room. So they wanted
Speaker 2: us to like re do that. Oh I walked past
Speaker 2: the board, you know, like you said that like a
Speaker 2: board of like what the inspo is vision board?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, And I walked past my that's machete.
Speaker 2: Why are my Instagram photos on here? Stop?
Speaker 1: That's really funny. Yeah, hmm, okay, let's just talk about it.
Speaker 1: Let's just get to it, because I feel like we're
Speaker 1: just we're we're dancing around it.
Speaker 2: So around this time, hopefully it doesn't get mad at me,
Speaker 2: because I do feel like partly this is I can
Speaker 2: tell the story because I was partly involved. Our ratings
Speaker 2: had started to dip a little, okay, and we had
Speaker 2: enjoyed two very solid years of success and really great ratings,
Speaker 2: and it was the first time they had started to
Speaker 2: go down in a significant way. And because I was
Speaker 2: the one who's always checking, I was reporting back and
Speaker 2: we all knew and so I don't know who came
Speaker 2: up with it. It might have been like a group thing,
Speaker 2: but we were sitting there in that fake homeless shelter
Speaker 2: set for a very long time. Yeah, and we were
Speaker 2: not performing the number like we were like sitting at
Speaker 2: the tables.
Speaker 1: This is where we started a rumor. Yes, okay, I
Speaker 1: reguely remember this.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You've been holding this close to the chest until we
Speaker 1: recorded this. So I'm just because nobody knows, oh so good,
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So I talked to Leah. I don't know if I
Speaker 2: talked to Corey I think I think we did.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm hmm, we did, and you're a part of it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We talked like off of the set, like there was
Speaker 2: like a hallway right outside the set and we're like, okay.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm sitting across the room. What if
Speaker 2: I pretend to take a picture of Jenna and in
Speaker 2: the back edge of frame is or Corey and Leah
Speaker 2: being like a little extra snugly or kissing or holding
Speaker 2: hands or something.
Speaker 1: I forgot.
Speaker 2: It was, yeah, I wonder if I have the photo? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it's online, And I said, I'll put it
Speaker 2: up and like wait a little bit for people to notice,
Speaker 2: and then I'll delete it. Like I did something wrong,
Speaker 2: because the intention was we're going to get rumor started
Speaker 2: that Corey and Lea are dating, and keep watched the
Speaker 2: show and then we'll get to make more seasons of it.
Speaker 1: I'm dying. I'm dying. I forgot about this, and so.
Speaker 2: We were all very nervous and it was like, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 2: let's do it, like okay, and I remember looking over
Speaker 2: at you and I had my phone on set, which
Speaker 2: I was I shouldn't really have had.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Well, there was a lot of waiting around the night,
Speaker 1: and we were.
Speaker 2: Really bored and beyond the point of like we're stressed. Obviously,
Speaker 2: we're probably not going to make it home tonight to
Speaker 2: go back to our families.
Speaker 1: Most people didn't make it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think ye, I don't think any of us did.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and so I do it. I post it
Speaker 2: and I'm like updating. Everyone's like, what's going on? Ten
Speaker 2: people noticed. I'm like, no, no one's noticing, no one's
Speaker 2: saying anything. And then at the first reference one person
Speaker 2: said something, I deleted it and checking Twitter, and then
Speaker 2: it got picked up and was like all.
Speaker 1: Over the entertainment sights. Yes, wow, but this was so.
Speaker 2: Then in January was the SAG Awards and we were
Speaker 2: at then after party and Leah sits me down and
Speaker 2: she's like, did you know hmm, we had actually started
Speaker 2: dating then nobody knew. We of course, everybody found out
Speaker 2: shortly thereafter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, She's like we were dating.
Speaker 2: She's like, we started like dating that week again, and
Speaker 2: I was like, so it was just random.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a witch. I was like, oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yes, So we didn't we didn't know. I'm sure we
Speaker 2: didn't told.
Speaker 1: You yeah, but we didn't know at that point.
Speaker 2: You're right, No, we didn't. We didn't know for like
Speaker 2: another two months.
Speaker 1: No, it was a it was a minute. It was hot.
Speaker 1: They didn't.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Like it's almost impossible to have a relationship
Speaker 2: when you're working together like that and then you have
Speaker 2: all of us like no, no, no, So it made
Speaker 2: a lot of sense that they kept that.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I forgot about that. I thought you were
Speaker 1: just talking about the drama of leaving us wanting to
Speaker 1: leave Diana half aslee literally asleep on the floor.
Speaker 2: I remember I was acting up that night. So there
Speaker 2: was this voice memo that Naya had sent me. I
Speaker 2: cannot say what it was. It was not appropriate, something
Speaker 2: that should not be played in a professional environment, but
Speaker 2: it was so funny. Oh and I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: going to play this over.
Speaker 1: The list speak. You were acting a fool.
Speaker 2: That was really this was actually really really bad. Because Phil,
Speaker 2: who was running our sound, did not I had I
Speaker 2: had someone to distract him.
Speaker 1: Oh, Kevin, that's so bad.
Speaker 2: It's so bad and so unprofessional, and I'm so sorry,
Speaker 2: and I apologized. I thought everyone was.
Speaker 1: Like like holiday break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, they plugged in the phone. I played it.
Speaker 2: It was like a ten second clip of her saying
Speaker 2: this joke, and he ran over and looked horrified, horrified,
Speaker 2: and I instantly like sobered up, basically in my like
Speaker 2: delirium of whatever I was doing. And I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my god. And I'm someone who doesn't break the rules.
Speaker 1: Ever, you don't.
Speaker 2: I hate it well, and also like he's the nicest person.
Speaker 2: You don't do that. This is his job, and anyone's
Speaker 2: going to get in trouble, it's going to be him
Speaker 2: because he's charged his Michie. Yeah, because there were a PA.
Speaker 2: There's a PA system because we were singing a song,
Speaker 2: so there were speakers brought into the set that we
Speaker 2: were all, you know, like lip syncing too. And then
Speaker 2: I played it over that and I felt I am
Speaker 2: eternally sorry for that.
Speaker 1: He's okay, So Phil forgives you.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there was.
Speaker 1: There's definitely a respect for your department and not crossing over. Yes,
Speaker 1: like hair, don't touch somebody's hair if you're in wardrobe,
Speaker 1: don't touch the sound machine if you're an actor, don't
Speaker 1: you know. It's just there's just things. So it's a
Speaker 1: very particular function in which how how we are behave ourselves.
Speaker 1: But we were also fools.
Speaker 2: It was so unprofessional inappropriate, like I don't but nobody
Speaker 2: was like now, the higher ups were there and so
Speaker 2: luckily I didn't get in trouble.
Speaker 1: But that was how it was, just Leo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was bad. It was no one really knew
Speaker 2: what happened, so like Nya was really the only one
Speaker 2: who caught it because she knew what and Phil obviously
Speaker 2: caught it because it was coming from the sound system
Speaker 2: and he's like professional, A new where that had come from, right,
Speaker 2: So it didn't end up being like a big thing.
Speaker 2: It was more between like me and Iya.
Speaker 1: But I remember that.
Speaker 2: I feel bad.
Speaker 1: It was it was a weird night.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was really a weird night and it was a
Speaker 1: long night. And it was also like a weird scene.
Speaker 1: You're like, what are we shooting? What is this song?
Speaker 1: We're in a homeless shelter, like it felt.
Speaker 2: It was just a clunky episode and it's sort of
Speaker 2: like what everybody hates about holiday episodes and they don't
Speaker 2: like move the plotforward in any way. It's a weird one.
Speaker 2: Should we do some tardy takes?
Speaker 1: Okay, cringe moments Auchi's.
Speaker 2: A lot of homeless jokes.
Speaker 1: Well, the dune, they know it's Christmas. I think doing
Speaker 1: that in the Homeless Shelter is in Auchi.
Speaker 2: And also like, is this the second episode or two
Speaker 2: in the last three episodes where Rachel is saying some
Speaker 2: weird homeless joke?
Speaker 1: But also how funny were those intros on the Holidays?
Speaker 1: Very funny, very funny. I love doing stuff like that,
Speaker 1: shooting stuff like that, because it was just it was
Speaker 1: like something different and be ridiculous.
Speaker 2: There's like an extra sense of comfortability. Yeah, exactly, we
Speaker 2: probably were really going forward with him.
Speaker 1: Best dance move Christmas Wrapping, I.
Speaker 2: Mean the entirety of Christmas wrapping. Actually, if we have
Speaker 2: to name one, there's the one hip. Yeah, like the
Speaker 2: hips going around and the whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like a lasso move lasso and then in the
Speaker 1: front and then the thing. But what about the kick
Speaker 1: in the back?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the kick in the back.
Speaker 1: My back was sore for days.
Speaker 2: It's worth it. I might watch this number again. After
Speaker 2: best song, I'm gonna say Christmas rapping again.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to say all I went for Christmas
Speaker 1: is here. Yeah, I mean, what a great version prop
Speaker 1: prop prop prop the lightsaber that think, does chewbac account
Speaker 1: as a prime Yes, yes, Yes, the whole costume. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Chewy costume. There was a lot of crops in
Speaker 1: this episode because he's also glad he did his like
Speaker 1: classic Chewy thing though, I'm so glad to let him
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Also, the Christmas wrapping ribbon was very good.
Speaker 1: I love that number. That's lie.
Speaker 2: Oh there's a there's quite a few, I know. I
Speaker 2: like I said, I like the Kurt says, this is
Speaker 2: my best friend holiday roommate Blaine Anderson.
Speaker 1: I love the scene with you guys in Sue. I'm
Speaker 1: very happy when and it was just a random grouping
Speaker 1: we didn't we don't see often. And so Sue says,
Speaker 1: Wheels Porcelain other gay f tied is upon us. And
Speaker 1: everyone knows that Christmas is a time for forgiveness. So
Speaker 1: I decided to forgive you for having no talent in
Speaker 1: ruining the American songbook one match of at a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is I think that's probably the best, very
Speaker 2: good ruining the American songbook one hm. I also like
Speaker 2: already's talking about the premise for the Yes special and
Speaker 2: he's saying in the perfectly appointed living room of Kurt
Speaker 2: Hummel and Blaine Anderson cheek swank shellet, the tree towering
Speaker 2: and opulent, the fireplace draped in garlands, the stockings be jeweled.
Speaker 2: Curt and Blaine, the perfect hosts, have invited their friends
Speaker 2: to drop in for an evening of Noel Coward esque
Speaker 2: banter and fun happy cheer Field songs. Perfect supposed to play.
Speaker 1: Yes, Noel Coward, that's right in a movie, in like
Speaker 1: the Biopick or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know that happens. Still, I think.
Speaker 1: I think that would be up to Chris.
Speaker 2: We need to text him and be like, hey, what
Speaker 2: about that movie? We need to see you back on
Speaker 2: screen please.
Speaker 1: I think his screen days are over, but you never know.
Speaker 2: Do you think you think he doesn't want to?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's like, you know, he's got his writing, Like,
Speaker 1: who needs that? I know it's Rihanna when you're like
Speaker 1: a twelve time New York seller.
Speaker 2: He is Rihanna of Glee.
Speaker 1: He is Rihanna.
Speaker 2: She doesn't need any music ever again because she's.
Speaker 1: Like killing maybe for fun, maybe for fun. He'll do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she did the super Bowl. He can show a
Speaker 2: movie performance.
Speaker 1: MVP.
Speaker 2: I think Leah was very good this episode. I think
Speaker 2: everybody in that Christian special was like on one it
Speaker 2: was quite good. Yeah, like I'm not entirely sure. Maybe Chris, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was excellent with this episode as well.
Speaker 1: Leah, Chris Corey.
Speaker 2: I might go with Leah.
Speaker 1: Let's do Lean Corey this week.
Speaker 2: Okay, Lean Corey. That feels right for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. It's a pro po.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, shit, we found on TikTok Jenna. There are
Speaker 2: three links in here. I need to watch all of them.
Speaker 1: Oh, there, all of them.
Speaker 2: They're by the same TikToker. His name is Adam the pianist,
Speaker 2: Adam McMillan. Go follow him. So he got this new
Speaker 2: keyboard and they have like an a cappella sound for
Speaker 2: the keys, and he calls it his well like glee board.
Speaker 2: Your keyboard has the Glee sound, and he does like
Speaker 2: the intro music, he does, the background music. He does
Speaker 2: if Star Wars was on Glee.
Speaker 1: My jaw is on the ground.
Speaker 2: Yes, you have to watch all of them because he.
Speaker 1: Does Fantom of the Opera on the glee board, which
Speaker 1: is also like so fast.
Speaker 2: He's such a good he's like an active pianist, obviously obsessed.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite thing ever.
Speaker 2: It is so good. Yeah, like, if there's a if
Speaker 2: there's a remake, we know who needs some tickled.
Speaker 1: I am genuinely tiggle. This is a you don't really
Speaker 1: going on. I'm about to get into a hole.
Speaker 2: Yes, just to go for it, because that's what happened
Speaker 2: to me earlier.
Speaker 1: This is incredible. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. You're brilliant. Thank you for thank you.
Speaker 2: Like we got tagged in it so many times.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2: Isn't it so good? There's so many of them. I
Speaker 2: was really impressed. And he was doing some of the
Speaker 2: yeah music.
Speaker 1: Of our scoring so many times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, impressed, I got the scoring my brain. Well, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I'm someone these food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all need food. On that note, thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to another episode of And That's what you really missed.
Speaker 1: This was the Christmas episode stay tis I understand. We
Speaker 1: were all the chaotic, is what we were? Just like
Speaker 1: the episode, Yes we were.
Speaker 2: We did it on purpose. It was a theme.
Speaker 1: There's a next season three episode ten Yes no where
Speaker 1: we do we fell in love with one of our
Speaker 1: the most famous iconic moments in the series and we
Speaker 1: have the infamous Nini Leeks who joins the cast, which
Speaker 1: what a joy.
Speaker 2: Honestly one of the best scenes ever in the history
Speaker 2: of Glee. Her and Sam at the pool just get
Speaker 2: into it. I literally I fast forwarded ahead just to
Speaker 2: watch that scene. We love Meani, Okay, very exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So come back for Yes.
Speaker 1: No, that's what you really missed.
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