Speaker 1: So I'm up here at my parents and one of
Speaker 1: the things about Okay, so you guys, you have made
Speaker 1: fun of my school that I went to. But yes,
Speaker 1: your school were you very much a haphazard situation. Let's
Speaker 1: let's put it that way. My school was called none such.
Speaker 1: It was wonderful for me. It was great for a
Speaker 1: lot of kids. But yes, in retrospect, there was some
Speaker 1: some some weirdness about it, and you know, some some things.
Speaker 1: But one of the coolest things is that we very
Speaker 1: illegally we found out because it got shut down. Like
Speaker 1: the next year we had welding class. Like we got
Speaker 1: to work with metal and whenever we wanted to.
Speaker 2: You learned how to smelt exactly. That's how you made
Speaker 2: your wife's ring.
Speaker 1: No, it's not, it is. We were like making sculptures.
Speaker 1: We were like doing like torching metal, like big pieces
Speaker 1: of metal. Yeah, dude, it was fun.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it.
Speaker 1: Was the greatest.
Speaker 3: Like and like we had made one teacher who was incredible.
Speaker 1: He was also my physics teacher and my French teacher,
Speaker 1: and he was like amazing with metal working. He was
Speaker 1: just a genius in all around. And he would just
Speaker 1: like sit there and work with us on whatever we
Speaker 1: wanted to make. So like I made for my parents
Speaker 1: and they still have it. I made this like candle holder,
Speaker 1: like twirling like a swirl. It took a lot of
Speaker 1: work and whatever. So one of the things about redwood
Speaker 1: trees is they're really easy to climb if you can
Speaker 1: get past the first ten to fifteen feet because there's
Speaker 1: no branches the first ten fifteen feet. Then once you
Speaker 1: get up there, it's like climbing a ladder. There's branches everywhere,
Speaker 1: they're all solid, and you just climb up and you
Speaker 1: can make it one hundred hundred and fifty feet in
Speaker 1: the air. It's amazing. But there were only certain trees
Speaker 1: on our property that we could climb because they would
Speaker 1: have like either another tree fallen next to it that
Speaker 1: you could get up to, or you'd have to find
Speaker 1: some way to get past the first ten fifteen feet.
Speaker 1: So in like eighth grade, I decided in my welding
Speaker 1: class to make a grappling hook. I love it, and
Speaker 1: I spent weeks making you know, a fool on Batman grappling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like, and I you know, it just became this
Speaker 1: like it was my focus. I'm like, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: able to climb so many trees. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: able to like, oh, we're gonna tree right, and so
Speaker 1: like I remember my buddy Tim, who was like a
Speaker 1: big welder two helped me and like we got this
Speaker 1: thing into perfect shape. I made this beautiful grappling hook
Speaker 1: and I've even put like a little thing on the
Speaker 1: bottom so I could tie a rope to it. And man,
Speaker 1: this was like back in the day when you couldn't
Speaker 1: just like buy grappling hooks. I'm sure now you just
Speaker 1: go on Amazon you can find like grappling hook but
Speaker 1: back then, like this is you know, you had to
Speaker 1: make yourself. So I made this thing, brought it home.
Speaker 1: I climbed like two.
Speaker 3: Trees before I lost it.
Speaker 1: We weren't just like somehow, Yeah, I think what happened
Speaker 1: is like I mean, it was glorious. Id it up
Speaker 1: like these there's a couple of rove trees that I
Speaker 1: couldn't make it up before I made it up. But
Speaker 1: then somehow I either like left it hanging in.
Speaker 2: A tree and he left it in a leather jacket.
Speaker 3: I left it in a leather jacket. He chose to
Speaker 3: leave me.
Speaker 4: You left an airport in a shuttle.
Speaker 1: So I've always had this, like, what happened to the
Speaker 1: great beautiful grappling hook that I made?
Speaker 2: Did you find it?
Speaker 1: So Shilah walks into the house yesterday, No, and he goes,
Speaker 1: you know what was wedged into a tree down there?
Speaker 2: You're kidding me?
Speaker 1: And so, just so we all know the difference between
Speaker 1: childhood imagination and reality, Let's think about the beautiful grappling
Speaker 1: hook that I had made, you know, the sleek's perfect one.
Speaker 5: Now the glory a little rested down and clearly got
Speaker 5: pretty bent out of shape because there's no way but this,
Speaker 5: this was the glory.
Speaker 4: Have you not seen that since high school?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 3: No, since eighth grade or yeah, ninth grade or whatever.
Speaker 2: Man, look at the glory being in a tree for
Speaker 2: thirty years.
Speaker 3: I melted all of this. I had to, like, you know,
Speaker 3: weld all the Oh.
Speaker 2: Man, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm gonna take it out and try and
Speaker 1: climb some trees today.
Speaker 4: Oh man, maybe the leather jack it'll come back.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll find the leather tagul at the top of the.
Speaker 4: Top of the tree.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Now.
Speaker 3: I believe I was saying, I can't believe it. Like
Speaker 3: I always thought, like why would it have gone anywhere?
Speaker 1: Like, how could it? How could a thing of metal
Speaker 1: just disappear in the woods? And sure enough it hadn't
Speaker 1: it just you know, took my brother to find it
Speaker 1: some thirty five years or whatever.
Speaker 2: Man, Wow, what was Shiloh out there doing just finding solid.
Speaker 4: Working with other grappling hooks?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I think what happened is because where he found it
Speaker 1: is like an area where my dad collects things like
Speaker 1: like garbage and stuff that is found like that.
Speaker 2: So I think you have an area where your dad
Speaker 2: collects garbage.
Speaker 1: Well, we have to do dump trips. We don't have garbage.
Speaker 1: You do now have garbage service, but we used to. No,
Speaker 1: we used to have to load all of our garbage
Speaker 1: and then like my dad would go every month or
Speaker 1: two months and take it to the dump. So there's
Speaker 1: an area of the property that is you know, this
Speaker 1: like small little crappy section where like crap that's going
Speaker 1: to the dump goes and Chila found it there. So
Speaker 1: it's like, uh so obviously my dad found it probably
Speaker 1: multiple years ago, doesn't even remember, and just threw it
Speaker 1: in there or threw it in that area thinking like
Speaker 1: maybe somebody needs this, and so.
Speaker 2: Wow, somebody does it. Somebody named bright or strong needs
Speaker 2: any year old, amazing, unbelievable. Well, congratulations to you. And
Speaker 2: now that I see what you're capable of making and
Speaker 2: the beauty of it, I'm gonna need to see your
Speaker 2: wife's ring to see if not.
Speaker 1: Great, much prettier and not as rusty, but same sort
Speaker 1: of globby action, you know, like welding.
Speaker 4: Just like, can you use it to climb a tree?
Speaker 4: Is thee?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Is it also a grappling hook?
Speaker 4: Can?
Speaker 1: I wait?
Speaker 4: I have I have a logistical question about said tree climbing.
Speaker 4: So you'd throw it up there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you.
Speaker 4: Then climb the rope? Free climb the rope or would
Speaker 4: you put your feet on the tree and use your
Speaker 4: feet and cause free climbing a rope is very difficult.
Speaker 4: You have to have knots, So you put knots in
Speaker 4: the rope right right, so you have like rips.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the idea is hopefully you can put brace
Speaker 1: yourself against the tree and just climb up and it's
Speaker 1: just the first ten feet whatever You get to that
Speaker 1: first branch and then you're just like I swear redwoods
Speaker 1: are the easiest to climb because then it's like it's
Speaker 1: just there's branches everywhere, and would.
Speaker 4: You climb up one hundred hundred and fifty feet Yeah, dude,
Speaker 4: like the one.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got interviewed for like entertainment tonight in
Speaker 1: a redwood tree. Like they came to interview us and
Speaker 1: they were like, you guys, climb those trees. Were like yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're like, we'll get up there and we'll do
Speaker 1: the interview from the top of a redwood tree. So
Speaker 1: there's actually somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know where it is, and.
Speaker 1: I'm sure my parents have a copy of it on VHS.
Speaker 1: But like we sat in because we had our different trees,
Speaker 1: like Shiloh had his tree, I had my tree, Like
Speaker 1: we had different you know, and I'd go up there
Speaker 1: and read and hang out. Like the Shiloh put a
Speaker 1: hammock on the top of his and I was sitting
Speaker 1: in it and it broke on me. Yeah, I like
Speaker 1: literally not a branch and yeah, I reading a book
Speaker 1: and like swinging in this thing and all the ropes
Speaker 1: just fray. It's terrifying. But yeah, but I mean they're
Speaker 1: really easy trees to climb, but you know you are
Speaker 1: really high. I mean, I'm a.
Speaker 2: Fifty per chance of dying, but they're easy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you got to die to hearing, which is awesome.
Speaker 4: It's how we all should go.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Pond, me to our old I'm Danielle Official.
Speaker 4: I'm right or Strong, and I'm wilfredell Well.
Speaker 2: The song so fast I'll never know. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: so good. Okay, Well, welcome to this episode Upon Meets World.
Speaker 2: We are recapping season four, episode three. I ain't gonna spray,
Speaker 2: let us know more. It originally aired on October fourth,
Speaker 2: nineteen nine. Before we jump into our recap, I wanted
Speaker 2: to let you guys know that we recently got an
Speaker 2: email from listener Melissa B. Who wanted to clarify some
Speaker 2: recent questions we had about adoption and guardianship. So she said,
Speaker 2: I am an adoption worker in Michigan, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to add to your discussion about guardianship and adoption. You
Speaker 2: guys summed it up really well, but I wanted to
Speaker 2: add that a guardianship dissolves when a child turns eighteen,
Speaker 2: versus the adoption is meant to be a lifelong and
Speaker 2: forever family. So adoption is a more permanent goal than guardianship. Nice,
Speaker 2: So that makes sense that any sort of guardianship you
Speaker 2: have is for only the time you're a minor, and
Speaker 2: interesting dissolves the minute that person becomes of legal adult.
Speaker 1: Ships overseen them through that period exactly.
Speaker 4: I also, I don't do social media much, but I'm
Speaker 4: guessing when I do do it, I don't do I did.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't cry as much as at the guardianship uh
Speaker 4: story videos as much as I do the ones where
Speaker 4: the kids find out they're getting adopted and like burst
Speaker 4: into tears. So that's a difference too, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that is a big We usually can
Speaker 2: tell the difference and stuff by whether or not you
Speaker 2: cry at it, correct, especially because you don't cry.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't occasionally again guardianship those will do it,
Speaker 4: and Sullivan Blues Letter from Civil War does it every time.
Speaker 2: So our synopsis for today's episode, Alan quits his job
Speaker 2: at the grocery store without discussing it with Amy, so
Speaker 2: in retaliation, Amy promises to also make a drastic decision
Speaker 2: without consulting the rest of the family. Nervous about the
Speaker 2: turn of events, Corey has Sean give him tips on
Speaker 2: being poor. It was directed by Jeff McCracken. It was
Speaker 2: written by Mark Blutman and Howard bus Gang and guest
Speaker 2: starring incredible character actor Dick O'Neill as mister Kimball. You
Speaker 2: may recognize him from The Jerk or around one hundred
Speaker 2: different TV shows, including Home Improvement, La Law, Cheers, Car
Speaker 2: fifty four, Where Are You? And three episodes of Man.
Speaker 4: And three good episodes of Mash Too. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 4: he was in eight Across, he was in Yeah, he yes.
Speaker 2: So did you talk to him about this while he
Speaker 2: was here this week?
Speaker 4: I can't remember. I must have, I mean I must have,
Speaker 4: but I can't remember because I knew, you know, he
Speaker 4: played Admiral Cox and so yeah, I mean I had
Speaker 4: to have. But he was a yeah, huge character actor,
Speaker 4: especially across television. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Absolutely Sadly, he actually passed away two years after this
Speaker 2: Boy Meets World appearance, at the age of only seventy.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, doesn't seem that at all.
Speaker 2: He's not old at all.
Speaker 4: That sucks.
Speaker 2: So as if, as if that wasn't enough character actor magic,
Speaker 2: we also have George Weiner, who appears as Frank and
Speaker 2: it would be impossible to not recognize him. He was
Speaker 2: everywhere in the eighties, including his scene stealing role as
Speaker 2: Colonel Sanders and Spaceballs. He has over two hundred credits
Speaker 2: all in the family, Fletch, fifty seven episodes of Hill Street, Blues,
Speaker 2: Married with Children, The Devil's Advocate, not another teen movie.
Speaker 2: It goes on forever, and he is still working, appearing
Speaker 2: in a Million Little Things, Reboot and Loot just last year.
Speaker 4: So yeah, he's been around forever. Awesome and Fletch too,
Speaker 4: oh so funny, so great.
Speaker 2: So do you guys want to talk? Overall impressions of
Speaker 2: the episode.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a totally fine episode.
Speaker 2: I liked it, loved it.
Speaker 4: I love to do I it. I loved watching Rusty,
Speaker 4: he was so good.
Speaker 2: I loved watching Betsy. Yeah, Rusty, Rusty, He's been given
Speaker 2: having them. And and I really in particular loved that
Speaker 2: when that kitchen scene and she goes, okay, you get
Speaker 2: to do that, so do I. And for one thing,
Speaker 2: the tension is so high at the opening of it,
Speaker 2: and part of it, I feel like is because there
Speaker 2: was very little audience reaction. It felt very like quiet
Speaker 2: and still in there, which made it feel very ominous.
Speaker 2: But the thing I loved is that my first thought,
Speaker 2: and probably what petty, angry little Danielle would do, is
Speaker 2: I'd want to make a bad decision like I was.
Speaker 2: I was thinking that purposefully to make him go, oh,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't do this. And that's where I thought, I
Speaker 2: wonder what she's gonna do. It's gonna be some almost vindictive.
Speaker 2: That's the first place I went to, is that her decision,
Speaker 2: I'm worsting you whatever, I'm you know, something correct, something
Speaker 2: like that, And instead it's just and I love that
Speaker 2: it was her, that it's hers that, like, this major
Speaker 2: life decision ended up being because of Amy, and because
Speaker 2: we have often said why couldn't it have been Amy?
Speaker 2: Why couldn't Amy do this? And in this one it
Speaker 2: was And I didn't remember it and I didn't see
Speaker 2: it coming, and so I really liked it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have to say, so far season four are starting,
Speaker 6: Gangbusters were three for three solid.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know that I loved one as much
Speaker 2: as I loved two and three. One. I liked, I
Speaker 2: liked it, I was on board for it. There were
Speaker 2: some things that I was like, huh, but boy, two
Speaker 2: and three and now what is this? Is this four?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: This is three?
Speaker 2: Three? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Very happy?
Speaker 2: Really, I really so far.
Speaker 4: And that's what everybody said. Everybody said, Oh, you guys
Speaker 4: are gonna love season four.
Speaker 2: We're only three episodes so far.
Speaker 4: So far, I'm happy. I'm happy we've made it this far.
Speaker 2: Because it's great, right or what are your thoughts? You
Speaker 2: said it was a fine episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, it just it it felt very like,
Speaker 1: you know, tight good, but also a little more like, uh, sitcomy.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what I was going to say, the kids
Speaker 4: on the stairs and some of my responses are very
Speaker 4: kind of sit commy.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, it felt very like it was like a
Speaker 1: which which is great, that's what we are. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm just used to Boy Meets World always having a
Speaker 1: little bit of weirdness to it or a little bit
Speaker 1: of like uneven like. And besides the dramatic like ends
Speaker 1: of scenes, which I thought were a little like whoa,
Speaker 1: that's cool and good, there wasn't that much that stood
Speaker 1: out or would separate this from like a home improvement
Speaker 1: episode or like a solid other family sitcom, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's so that's just a little that secret sauce
Speaker 1: that now I've come to expect from our show, and
Speaker 1: instead it was like a pretty Runald the Mill sitcom episode,
Speaker 1: you know, which is good and totally fine, but it
Speaker 1: did feel like a different show, in part maybe because
Speaker 1: I just haven't seen these actors carrying the show, and
Speaker 1: so maybe that's part of what I'm feeling is just
Speaker 1: like it felt like a different show. I could sort
Speaker 1: of see it as a sitcom because it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's not Corey, it's not Sean, it's not Eric, it's
Speaker 1: not Topanga, like we're there. But this was clearly just
Speaker 1: being driven by Rusty and Betsy, which is great for them,
Speaker 1: but it didn't feel as familiar. I'm not as comfortable
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 4: And the guests and the guest cast, all the guest
Speaker 4: cast were adults. It wasn't kid you know, so the
Speaker 4: storyline was all driven by adults, which is something we
Speaker 4: haven't really seen before.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 4: I felt the same way about it being sick commy,
Speaker 4: but I felt like, in a weird way, we needed
Speaker 4: a sit comy episode, like one that was kind of
Speaker 4: the Kids on the Stairs, Yeah, like a sorbet, you know,
Speaker 4: the Kids on the Stairs.
Speaker 3: A totally serviceable Boy.
Speaker 1: Meets World episode. You know, like this would be in
Speaker 1: the top fifty. Everyone would watch and be like, yeah, totally,
Speaker 1: but is it? Is it memorable? I mean beyond the
Speaker 1: fact that we now introduced the store.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Like I don't know if there's.
Speaker 1: A line I would quote or beat. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like came and went.
Speaker 4: But I had a couple of lines in this that
Speaker 4: I would quote quite a bit, and one of them
Speaker 4: was that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yees because you were doing straight up side felt
Speaker 1: like three different times.
Speaker 6: Tony made fun of me for that, and that's why
Speaker 6: I thought he was in this episode, because he would
Speaker 6: say that to me all year.
Speaker 4: Gap it's gap, I know, and I'm like, wait, is
Speaker 4: Tony not even in this episode.
Speaker 1: I used to say that when you did the Seinfeld
Speaker 1: line reading what like last season, I remember, this is
Speaker 1: the line that I always remembered and we would always
Speaker 1: quote to you. But then I was like, did will
Speaker 1: ever actually say that on the show or did we
Speaker 1: just do this offstet so to hear that it was
Speaker 1: actually on the show, it's like, oh okay, and it's.
Speaker 4: So blatantly Seinfeld like it is so blatantly.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's like an homage, right, I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: the idea was to do Seinfeld.
Speaker 4: But it was so blatant. It was just I wasn't
Speaker 4: trying to hide anything.
Speaker 2: Well, jumping into our recap, we start in the Matthew's kitchen.
Speaker 2: Eric comes down the stairs, announcing to Amy he's gonna
Speaker 2: do something he hasn't done in a very long time.
Speaker 2: He then hugs her and says, hold me, mommy. Amy
Speaker 2: pats is back and comforts him. He only applied for
Speaker 2: one job. There are plenty more out there, and his
Speaker 2: best Seinfeld impression will slash. Eric complains it wasn't just
Speaker 2: any job. It was the Gup. If anyone should be
Speaker 2: working at the Gup, it's me. Look, I'm Gap as
Speaker 2: he shows off his white T shirt, sweater, vest combo.
Speaker 2: Eric tells her even in the shower.
Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm Gap.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. Amy asks if he put put that
Speaker 2: on in his interview, and Eric says they told him
Speaker 2: he wasn't qualified, so he told him a monkey could
Speaker 2: work there.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Then Corey walks downstairs and says he was walking by
Speaker 2: the Gap yesterday and they had a monkey selling jeans.
Speaker 2: Eric shouts, I gave them that idea. Corey responds, next
Speaker 2: time you go out for a job, wear a diaper
Speaker 2: and smoke a cigar. People like that, and it's here.
Speaker 2: I realized at the beginning of the episode, I was
Speaker 2: just gonna say that.
Speaker 4: I was gonna I know exactly where you're going. And
Speaker 4: I was like, it can't be.
Speaker 2: Yes, it can't be there, and it has to be,
Speaker 2: because that'd be the only one. So on Disney Plus
Speaker 2: where I was watching it, it says up at the top,
Speaker 2: then it's a TV Y seven first, Yeah, tobacco depictions.
Speaker 3: I saw that too. I saw that too.
Speaker 1: I was like, did we ever smoke on the show?
Speaker 1: What is happeningbody?
Speaker 6: Is?
Speaker 3: The last episode too, because of the pipe in Ben's mouth.
Speaker 4: But that made sense at least a little bit.
Speaker 3: Well he's using a pipe or he's.
Speaker 4: Put in a pipe and has a reference to I
Speaker 4: said that to Sue. I was like, did we did
Speaker 4: we smoke? Did somebody smoking? She went, well, no, there's
Speaker 4: the cigar reference. It's like, oh, can't be That's.
Speaker 2: It, Isn't it funny? It's so weird.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you mentioned that.
Speaker 2: So funny. It's about a monkey smoking.
Speaker 4: We have to do it that we talk about. You
Speaker 4: don't even see the monkey smoking a cigar.
Speaker 3: Those monkeys can put on a lot of peer pressure.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what when you see the monkey smoking,
Speaker 3: what do you want to do?
Speaker 2: Cute is smoking or how cool a monkey is?
Speaker 1: I would rather you do heroin, Danielle. I would rather serious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: First time I ever bought weed was from a monkey.
Speaker 2: I think this this first exchange, the Gateway Drive.
Speaker 1: This exchange is when I was I mean, like even
Speaker 1: just hearing you do this synopsis that is like the
Speaker 1: most sitcom run of it is the gap. I was
Speaker 1: saw a monkey and then here he comes, saw a
Speaker 1: monkey and they're smoking. You should smoke. It was just
Speaker 1: like that kind of like when I into my head,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is like joking, big joke episode,
Speaker 1: Like this is just gonna be this. It's going to
Speaker 1: keep him rolling right And by the way, we I
Speaker 1: forgot to mention one of Ben's best episodes in a
Speaker 1: long time. He is so funny. In this episode. He
Speaker 1: kills itat again larious when he is a supporting comic
Speaker 1: like relief guy. He goes for it in a way
Speaker 1: that I think he doesn't when he has to carry
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: And so Corey's allowed to.
Speaker 1: Just be so funny.
Speaker 4: He's having so much fun.
Speaker 1: He's having so much fun in this episode, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: even in this little extrage, you could tell he's just
Speaker 1: like Love's coming in and being able to sing and
Speaker 1: walk away.
Speaker 7: It's so fun.
Speaker 4: They've also completely now changed his look. We talked about
Speaker 4: this last time, but he.
Speaker 8: Is now fully tight shirts tucked in with a belt
Speaker 8: with a belt.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah yeah. So a grumpy Allan appears just as
Speaker 2: Morgan comes in from the living room, asking for twenty
Speaker 2: five dollars for a class picture. Alan's surprised it's that
Speaker 2: much money. How big is your class? Morgan responds, The
Speaker 2: teacher said, if I don't pay today, they're gonna air
Speaker 2: brush me out. Alan opens his wallet, Fine, fine, take take.
Speaker 2: Corey butts in, telling Alan to keep his wallet open
Speaker 2: because he has pictures too. Alan asks what grade he's in,
Speaker 2: which Corey responds eleventh. Alan snaps his wallet shut. We've
Speaker 2: got enough of you also, eleventh grade.
Speaker 4: Yep. Eric should have gone to college three years ago. Right,
Speaker 4: boy meets world math. Yeah, it's total boy me because
Speaker 4: that means that Eric would then be a junior in
Speaker 4: college college. Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any You started in tenth grade, and
Speaker 1: we started in sixth grade, right.
Speaker 6: Right, and then they jumped you ahead season two again.
Speaker 4: We had two little sisters, you know what, moving.
Speaker 2: Right along doesn't matter. I just wanted. I just was like, oh, same, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's at least said out loud. We're in eleventh grade,
Speaker 2: and so next year when we graduate, it won't be
Speaker 2: a shock. Then it's a shock a little bit right now? Right, okay?
Speaker 4: Gotcha?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: And I love that joke. We have enough pictures of you.
Speaker 2: Alan begrudgingly opens his wallet again and says again, fine, fine,
Speaker 2: take take. He adds he's gonna work Sundays, even though
Speaker 2: he's not thrilled working there on weekdays. He takes a stand.
Speaker 2: He's going to do something about his job. Eric stands up,
Speaker 2: you can't quit. I can't support this family. I'm not
Speaker 2: a monkey. Alan's a little confused, but he lets it go,
Speaker 2: and then Alan says he's going to ask for a raise.
Speaker 2: Amy asks if that will make him happy. And he
Speaker 2: responds happier than I am now and I'm not coming
Speaker 2: back into this house until I get it, and he exits. Then,
Speaker 2: still in the Matthew's kitchen optical flip, Alan is standing
Speaker 2: awkwardly outside When Morgan asks why is Dad outside? Amy
Speaker 2: opens the door and asks, you didn't get it. Alan
Speaker 2: excitedly says he actually did get it. He told Pete
Speaker 2: they need to talk, and Pete told him there's nothing
Speaker 2: to talk about. Here's five thousand dollars. Amy's happy to
Speaker 2: hear this news, telling Alan come inside, sit in a
Speaker 2: nice chair. Alan admits he thinks he could have gotten
Speaker 2: even more. Amy insists, then sit in the nice chair
Speaker 2: and use the nice phone and call Pete and ask
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: Pete, now do we know? I wonder if our listeners
Speaker 1: will know?
Speaker 4: Is Pete the.
Speaker 1: Same boss that he had to confront in the Shady
Speaker 1: Mellon episode? Remember, because that was what the whole Shady
Speaker 1: Melon was, right, him practicing me going in to talk
Speaker 1: to his boss. I wonder if Pete was used back then.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't remember a name being used
Speaker 2: back then.
Speaker 4: I do, but I remember it as Shady Melon, right,
Speaker 4: So that's Yeah.
Speaker 2: That doesn't help, So Alan admits calling Pete wouldn't make
Speaker 2: much sense. Then he spills the beans, telling Amy, I
Speaker 2: don't work there anymore. I quit. Amy and the kids
Speaker 2: look at him shocked, while Alan acts like it's no
Speaker 2: big deal. He goes on with his dinner, asking Corey
Speaker 2: to pass him the potato potatoes. Not just one potato potatoes,
Speaker 2: whole potatoes. He goes on with his dinner, asking Corey
Speaker 2: to pass him the potatoes, and.
Speaker 4: Will you look like you were going to break here?
Speaker 2: Did you say?
Speaker 4: I'm just saying so, Ben, if you watch I rewound
Speaker 4: it like three times.
Speaker 1: If you watch.
Speaker 4: Change, Ben and I are like in the corners of
Speaker 4: the frame, like just in the corner. Ben for some
Speaker 4: reason and does this he put he says like to me,
Speaker 4: and I look like I am about to lose it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They then cut to singles of us where we're obviously
Speaker 4: you're fine, and then they cut back and I'm losing
Speaker 4: it again.
Speaker 1: So do you think he just improvised or just in
Speaker 1: one take like this to keep you from laughing made
Speaker 1: you laugh more?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Or I was whispering something to him as a joke.
Speaker 6: I couldn't see doing that over rusty, like, yeah, so
Speaker 6: something had happened where and if you watch it again,
Speaker 6: we I am right on the verge destroying this.
Speaker 2: It's so great because you are You're like this, Yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Was bad, and it is right when he says I quit, yes,
Speaker 3: right right after.
Speaker 2: You pass me the potatoes looks.
Speaker 1: You know that Ben had some in joke that he
Speaker 1: had been saying all week just for you guys, that
Speaker 1: he would never be able to stay in front of
Speaker 1: the audience.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, like probably either making fun.
Speaker 1: Of the word potatoes or like, you know, get your
Speaker 1: own potatoes or something.
Speaker 3: And then you guys knew it was coming.
Speaker 2: Or thinking about it yet with this gesture and then
Speaker 2: I'm like trying. It's very funny, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I wonder what was going on there? Me too, And
Speaker 2: so this is where I was thinking, like, it feels
Speaker 2: like there were laughs in it, but it felt like
Speaker 2: maybe this was shot without an audience. It feels very quiet, like,
Speaker 2: which I think adds to the drama. I felt very
Speaker 2: much like, and I guess part of that is maybe
Speaker 2: what you guys mentioned that I hadn't really thought of,
Speaker 2: is that it added a little bit more of the
Speaker 2: sitcomy element of like the bomb dropping and the face
Speaker 2: is all going ooo, but there was no audience ooh
Speaker 2: to it. So anyway, it just felt very dramatic.
Speaker 4: There were several times in this episode where one of
Speaker 4: us looked like we were going to break. And this
Speaker 4: the one of the reasons this episode might feel sitcomy
Speaker 4: is because this is one of the episodes where we
Speaker 4: were just trying to make each other laugh. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: so we would go over the top more like with Gap,
Speaker 4: like I'm trying to make you all laugh, and sometimes
Speaker 4: you can read that now that I'm watching it back,
Speaker 4: it's like.
Speaker 2: Ooh, there's another moment coming up here in the hallway
Speaker 2: where writer, I have to talk about it. It's so
Speaker 2: and I love it, but I'm also like, do you
Speaker 2: remember what was going on? Okay, So we're back in
Speaker 2: the Matthew's kitchen after a very serious commercial break. Corey,
Speaker 2: still in shock, says we're going to be poor, but
Speaker 2: Alan assures him they won't. Amy asks how could he
Speaker 2: do this without even discussing it with her. Alan shruggs,
Speaker 2: we're discussing it now. She's relieved.
Speaker 3: All of that was our cold open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a long, cold open all right, that's like
Speaker 1: a good five minutes or four minutes at least.
Speaker 4: Ye. Yeah, And it's two scenes but in the same set, right.
Speaker 2: Right, right exactly.
Speaker 1: So the first three scenes all take in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, interesting, plus a monkey smoking.
Speaker 4: So smoking, Tvy for monkeysmoke.
Speaker 2: Tv y seven Yeah, yeah, monkey, and Piper smoking.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 2: Amy's relieved and she asks, oh, so, no decision was
Speaker 2: made and Alan responds, no, a decision was made. Now
Speaker 2: it's time for the very important discussion that follows the
Speaker 2: making of a decision. Amy tells him, if we had
Speaker 2: discussed this before a decision was made, I might have
Speaker 2: gently pointed out that we have children to feed and
Speaker 2: bills to pay. Corey looks longing ley out the window
Speaker 2: and says, bye bye Car, Bye bye Car. Alan assures
Speaker 2: her he'd never put this family at risk. They have
Speaker 2: a little money saved, and one day he hopes to
Speaker 2: go into business for himself. That way Eric can come
Speaker 2: work for me. And then Eric, now a new NEPO baby,
Speaker 2: proudly tells everyone you hear that I'm gonna be responsible
Speaker 2: for the well being of this family. Corey then sadly
Speaker 2: says bye bye house, well giving me the same cute
Speaker 2: little house.
Speaker 1: And I love these asides with Corey works so well.
Speaker 1: It's one of these examples of like work editing and
Speaker 1: camera cuts or like make everything happen. Because if you
Speaker 1: actually watched him get up off the kitchen table, move
Speaker 1: to the door and then say bye bye car not funny,
Speaker 1: but you just cut to like a postcard of him
Speaker 1: saying bye bye car. The rhythm is controlled by the editing,
Speaker 1: and it's so damn funny. Yeah, but I was like, man,
Speaker 1: you couldn't do this in a why do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You have to do that in singles?
Speaker 1: You have to cut away and makes it's so punchy
Speaker 1: and great.
Speaker 2: It is so funny. It's also that's exactly what we
Speaker 2: talk about when there's perfect comedic relief. What's going on
Speaker 2: over here is very like heavy and serious, and then
Speaker 2: in just an instant you're into a really funny moment
Speaker 2: you get you get a little relief from the tension,
Speaker 2: and then you're back right into the tension. It's it's
Speaker 2: just incredible.
Speaker 4: It's also a very real adult conversation exactly how can
Speaker 4: you make a decision like this? Without consulting me. First
Speaker 4: happens all the time.
Speaker 2: I also very real kid fears.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that are funny. We're going to be We're gonna
Speaker 4: be poor.
Speaker 2: It just great.
Speaker 1: So Alan was trying to remember, how does this relate
Speaker 1: to the when didn't? Isn't this exactly what what Alan
Speaker 1: did when he bought the minivan a little bit. She
Speaker 1: had made the decision, but not fully made the decision,
Speaker 1: and then he just went and pulled the trigger. Is
Speaker 1: that what happened because it.
Speaker 2: Took her too long? She had been sitting on it,
Speaker 2: apparently for a few months, and he already.
Speaker 4: Picked the color and the model, so he went and
Speaker 4: bought it, right bastard.
Speaker 2: So Alan tells Amy, there's nothing to worry about. I
Speaker 2: made a good decision. Amy responds, fine, I made one too.
Speaker 2: Alan asks what decision that is, and she says, if
Speaker 2: you're allowed to make a unilateral decision about something which
Speaker 2: affects this entire family, then so am I? And Alan asks, well,
Speaker 2: what decision are you going to make? Amy shrugs, I
Speaker 2: don't know yet, but one day I will make a
Speaker 2: decision which affects this entire family because you did, and
Speaker 2: our relationship is an equal partnership, isn't it, Alan suspiciously responds, yes,
Speaker 2: Amy fake comforts him, but don't you worry, because I'll
Speaker 2: talk it over with you afterwards. And that's again another Remember,
Speaker 2: I was like, the tension in this scene and with
Speaker 2: this family right now is so high and I'm not
Speaker 2: really used to that. Like, I don't know that. I
Speaker 2: felt so much because even though we've talked about the
Speaker 2: comedic relief moments that Ben provided with those quick cuts
Speaker 2: and stuff, the fact that the family tension between Betsy
Speaker 2: and Rusty is still so high. I was like, who's
Speaker 2: I feel like we're on shaky foundation and I don't
Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: They're doing it in front of their kids and all that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I normally do not bring this stuff up. Uh, it's
Speaker 4: just weird to talk about kind of. But Betsy is
Speaker 4: so pretty in this scene.
Speaker 1: I know she is. I was looking at her like
Speaker 1: she's soundingly good looking, but she was you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, but you Rusty. But for some reason, I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's my angle of lighting, she was stunning.
Speaker 2: I know. I feel like this whole episode for her
Speaker 2: is a really really great episode.
Speaker 3: She looks given something to do.
Speaker 4: I know she's an actor.
Speaker 1: She's not just like yeah, you know mom in the
Speaker 1: background or one off line. She actually has like intention,
Speaker 1: she has layers, she has like subtlety. It's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really great episode for her. Gosh, I
Speaker 2: love it. So then we're in the school hallway. Corey,
Speaker 2: who is now fully committed to tight collared shirts and
Speaker 2: belts as I mentioned, is telling Sean the story of
Speaker 2: the whole sad mess he finds himself in. Sean responds, wow,
Speaker 2: and to think you were my only rich friend. Corey
Speaker 2: Perrexa'm comfortable, never rich, Sean tells him, indoorwhelming rich rich
Speaker 2: love rich Sean's definition, well, I just love it.
Speaker 1: I love the end of you.
Speaker 4: I can't work with it. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So is a great Beast story. Yes, it's it's short,
Speaker 1: and it's not much like we don't have much to do,
Speaker 1: but all the little beats are really.
Speaker 2: Fun, so funny. Corey tells them, well, whatever they were,
Speaker 2: they aren't that anymore. He never realized how easy he
Speaker 2: had it. Sean laughs, you had it easy, all right,
Speaker 2: and here's where.
Speaker 4: You are, like you're about to break breaking.
Speaker 2: While also talking to it. Yes, it's so funny. I
Speaker 2: wanted to ask you because you say you had it easy,
Speaker 2: all right, you with your breakfast in the morning, your
Speaker 2: lunch is in the afternoon, your dinners at night eaters.
Speaker 4: Eas you're eaters, and then you start like you start laughing.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's so read it that way, that's funny.
Speaker 1: I was. I didn't.
Speaker 3: I usually am like I could tell that I'm breaking.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was.
Speaker 2: That's the thing is that I didn't know that it
Speaker 2: was a break. It felt like there was a choice
Speaker 2: you were making with your mouth, like you were imitating
Speaker 2: someone else like you, similar to the way Will was
Speaker 2: doing Seinfeld. I was like, are you doing Hannibal Lecter?
Speaker 2: Are you doing? Because you were like, you're like your breakfasts.
Speaker 2: It was like there was a growl to your mouth.
Speaker 2: It was and I didn't know. I was like, is
Speaker 2: it a break or is there something?
Speaker 3: I didn't read it as a break.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't read it as a great performance.
Speaker 2: But I feel like there's an inside joke you don't remember.
Speaker 1: No, I mean in general, like watching my performance this episode,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's I'm I'm again low energy, like
Speaker 1: I'm doing like I'm sort of holding back or like
Speaker 1: not committing for some reason. Like I can tell that
Speaker 1: I again might might not have liked this episode or
Speaker 1: or just didn't didn't because I didn't have much to do,
Speaker 1: Like I'm just there for the jokes, so I think
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of feeling like joke delivery machine, so
Speaker 1: I can kind of I could tell that I'm not
Speaker 1: into it, like I'm not fully committing all that it's
Speaker 1: so funny.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't really, I didn't pick up on that.
Speaker 1: The only scene that I was like, oh, I was
Speaker 1: having fun was me and Corey and Chubbies. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I was like, Ben and I are having fun there,
Speaker 1: and I liked doing that. But like all of this stuff,
Speaker 1: I was like, I can tell, I'm just kind of phone.
Speaker 4: In and again to me the Eaters. It was another
Speaker 4: sign exactly what Daniel saying. It's another sign that we
Speaker 4: were like trying to make each other laugh bigger with jokes,
Speaker 4: like let's see how big week.
Speaker 1: That's probably true. That's probably true is that Ban and
Speaker 1: I were probably yeah, I probably was doing a new
Speaker 1: reading on this moment right to just try and make
Speaker 1: him break or something, yeah, but I only think I
Speaker 1: was breaking. Usually I could tell another yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like there was some sort of inside joke.
Speaker 2: There was something going on, and Corey Ben also looks
Speaker 2: like he might break, but he doesn't. He responds, they
Speaker 2: put the food in front of me, and Sean tells
Speaker 2: him you're my friend, and I'm going to teach you
Speaker 2: how to be poor. It's not going to be easy.
Speaker 2: And then he says, because you come from a world
Speaker 2: of many pants, which this world.
Speaker 1: Of many pants is a great line. It's a great.
Speaker 2: Line, frontline. It's not going to be easy to teach
Speaker 2: you how to be poor because you come from a
Speaker 2: world of many pants.
Speaker 4: So good, they put the pants in front of me.
Speaker 2: His response, that's exactly, they put the pants in front
Speaker 2: of me. Sean admits, Corey sound since here. When was
Speaker 2: the last time you slept inside? Corey answers last night.
Speaker 2: Sean throws his hands up in the air and walks away,
Speaker 2: I can't work with you.
Speaker 4: I can't work.
Speaker 2: And then our recent high school graduate, Eric walks in
Speaker 2: sasheg through the hall, saying hi to students, pretending he's
Speaker 2: some cool older guy. He stops when he sees Phoenie,
Speaker 2: so weird that.
Speaker 3: Eric's already graduated, Like when you walked in and you
Speaker 3: were doing.
Speaker 7: Your things, like why is he doing this whole pit?
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, right here, he's the guy
Speaker 4: still hanging out at high school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just weird that we've already done every episode of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Hey, mister Feenney, how's it going? By
Speaker 2: and By? Phoene responds fine, bye and By then asks Eric,
Speaker 2: how does it feel to be back in the old
Speaker 2: school hall? And boy, I'm really happy to see the
Speaker 2: two of you back together. I know it fels nice.
Speaker 2: Eric looks around. They miss me, don't they. Phoene says, yes,
Speaker 2: we've brought in a crisis counselor to help the students
Speaker 2: deal with their loss. Eric agrees, I think that's a
Speaker 2: great way to begin the dealing process. Phoene stares at him,
Speaker 2: and Eric realizes he wasn't being serious. Phoene asks, I
Speaker 2: take it you're here to set up a tutoring schedule.
Speaker 2: Eric admits that he was, but now he doesn't think
Speaker 2: tutoring is going to be necessary for him. Phoene reminds him,
Speaker 2: I thought we agreed colleges. Look favorably on students who
Speaker 2: acknowledge their scholastic shortcomings and try to rectify them. Eric
Speaker 2: says his dad is starting a family business and has
Speaker 2: generously offered him a position within the firm, so his
Speaker 2: futures assured. Phoene questions what kind of business is it.
Speaker 2: Eric thinks for a second and admits, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't really matter because this weekend the Matthew's
Speaker 2: mend are attending the bro Boss Franchise Exposition Opportunity Extravaganza
Speaker 2: at the airport comfort In. Phoene exhaustingly shakes his head
Speaker 2: and says, where dreams are born, Where.
Speaker 4: Dreams are born? Whatever read in this fantastic whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like a follow up joke to the North Southwestern Universe.
Speaker 1: It's like the same sort of absurd name with Phoenix.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is just cut the Phoenie's.
Speaker 2: Face afterwards and being exactly.
Speaker 4: First of all, pretty sure I still have that jacket
Speaker 4: really sleeve that's blue and brown? Yes, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: I still have that. I mean, wait, not not if
Speaker 4: Disney's listening. Disney's listening, I don't, but if they are
Speaker 4: coming for you, pretty sure I.
Speaker 2: Have that you still have that sock dud, don't you
Speaker 2: don't say on the apse? Okay, So then we get
Speaker 2: an exterior of the airport comfort in Yes, and once
Speaker 2: we're inside some more expense of looking set design. We've
Speaker 2: got money in season four? Yeah, clearly Eric dressed in
Speaker 2: a tie and perhaps a Swede jacket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm rocking this weight?
Speaker 2: Can I Can I tell my favorite Swede story about what.
Speaker 1: I love at? You have a Swede story about Will?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: God, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, can I share it?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 2: Let's see if riter remembers. So when we were in Philly,
Speaker 2: there was a night that you and writer had a
Speaker 2: couple of drinks and Will had gone shopping that day
Speaker 2: and I joined you guys late after you had had
Speaker 2: a couple drinks.
Speaker 1: And this is when we were upstairs in the right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, Will, who has recently started enjoying in the very
Speaker 2: slightest amount buying clothes and figuring out a style for himself,
Speaker 2: trying trying to be like you know, I actually do
Speaker 2: feel good when I put in some effort to what
Speaker 2: I want to wear. And so he had gone shopping
Speaker 2: that day, so he was excited to tell me about
Speaker 2: his purchases and he goes, gosh, we went, Sue and
Speaker 2: I went to Banana Republic today and I bought Roy
Speaker 2: bought a really nice hoodie. It's really nice. It's swayed,
Speaker 2: and I go Swede hoody and he goes, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: really nice. And I looked at the price tag and
Speaker 2: I was like, Sue, why is this Why is this
Speaker 2: so expensive? And she was like because it's swayed, and
Speaker 2: I was like sweet, yeah, And then I bought I
Speaker 2: bought a Swede jacket too. I bought straight jacket and
Speaker 2: I was like, huh wow, I didn't I don't even
Speaker 2: think I've seen a Swede hoodie. Yeah, it's really nice,
Speaker 2: it's really nice.
Speaker 4: Sight I see him.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know a few days later and he's
Speaker 2: wearing a gorgeous cashmere.
Speaker 4: And I go, oh, wow, look at that.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 4: And he goes, yeah, this is the one I bought
Speaker 4: that day that I told you about.
Speaker 2: I go, oh, Kashmary goes yeah, it's Kashmir and I go,
Speaker 2: that's the way you said that saying it was Swede.
Speaker 2: He's like, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: Before, Kashmir versus Swede.
Speaker 3: I love it, and I get yeah.
Speaker 4: The next day she was like, that's okay. Don't you
Speaker 4: understand that's that's not Swaye. I'm like, of course, not Swayet.
Speaker 4: Its Kashmir.
Speaker 1: To be very questioning about a Swede hoodie makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's like a Swaye jacket. You can
Speaker 3: be like, yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 4: A Swede hoodie, I was like, in a suede sweater
Speaker 4: is what? Because I had a I bought a sweater
Speaker 4: in a hood.
Speaker 2: Right right, We're both like, this is a lot. But
Speaker 2: the hoodie, I was like, the sight I want. I
Speaker 2: know that what he's saying he wants me to give
Speaker 2: him an excited response to this. He's saying it because
Speaker 2: he wants me to be happy for him. But all
Speaker 2: I keep thinking about is swayed hoodie sounds disgusting.
Speaker 1: This doesn't.
Speaker 2: Awful.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: And you spend a lot of money on it. Huh.
Speaker 4: This is why I don't drink a lot.
Speaker 2: Just imagine how hot a Swede hoodie is.
Speaker 4: I want somebody to now make and send us Swede hoodies.
Speaker 1: Very expensive.
Speaker 2: It's just my favorite, one of my favorite will stories.
Speaker 2: So I thought this is the perfect place to tell it.
Speaker 2: So Eric tells Alan somewhere out there lies our bright,
Speaker 2: shining future. They're trying to decide where to start, and
Speaker 2: Alan decides, well, since he's been in food his whole life,
Speaker 2: they can eliminate everything from spaghetti in a bag to dust.
Speaker 2: Falafel sergeant, And then we see a man nearby dressed
Speaker 2: like a sergeant passing out falafelk falaful sergeant.
Speaker 1: Just the words are funny one of the second like
Speaker 1: German based food joke, because then we're into like strudal. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And I was trying to find the connection. I was like,
Speaker 1: is this Germany? I was like, it's just words. It's
Speaker 1: just like it's this is all very funny words.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and Eric adds that since he's been in school
Speaker 2: his whole life, he wants to eliminate anything where you
Speaker 2: have to shower with guys, what job would that be?
Speaker 2: What are we eliminating?
Speaker 4: It's very strange.
Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, the whole time, all I'm looking
Speaker 1: at is the signs in the back of behind Yes,
Speaker 1: stop the poop, Like, what is this?
Speaker 3: I know, it's like it's I didn't.
Speaker 2: Think that too. I thought they're giving away a joke
Speaker 2: that must be coming up, but like all behind it,
Speaker 2: it just says I was.
Speaker 1: Not listening to anything being said.
Speaker 3: I'm just like what it was, all these hidden jokes.
Speaker 2: Right then, a man walks up and says, I couldn't
Speaker 2: help it overhear your career consternation. What you're looking for
Speaker 2: is something fresh, something new, a business with unlimited growth
Speaker 2: opportunities where you can be your own boss. Does it
Speaker 2: sound good so far? Eric immediately answers, that's exactly what
Speaker 2: we're looking for. The man asks, do you have a dog?
Speaker 2: Eric blurts out yes, Alan Hester correct I'm saying they
Speaker 2: do not have a dog. Eric leans into Alan and whispers.
Speaker 4: We'll get one.
Speaker 2: Don't blow this, don't blow it. Eric tells the man,
Speaker 2: we have a small dog. The man explains that over
Speaker 2: seventy five million Americans have a dog, and every day
Speaker 2: those dogs leave behind a great deal of shell, we say.
Speaker 2: Alan whispers to Eric, I think we've heard enough. Eric
Speaker 2: stops him. Let's see where this is going. And I
Speaker 2: love this dynamic because it's exactly what you would expect
Speaker 2: for the kid fresh out of high school, eyes as
Speaker 2: big as saucers, ready to believe the first person who
Speaker 2: comes up and talks to him. This could be it, Dad,
Speaker 2: I don't need to stop ruining my chances and for
Speaker 2: Alan to be like I can see this coming from
Speaker 2: a mile away. This is not what we want. I
Speaker 2: just I think it's a great dynamic. The man continues,
Speaker 2: No one is picking up this stinky mess on our lawns,
Speaker 2: on our parks. So what to do? He grabs a
Speaker 2: sample from his booth and he starts to spray mist
Speaker 2: in the air, saying it's the solution to all this.
Speaker 2: Alan recoils from the mist, but Eric asks the man
Speaker 2: what is it, to which he responds, poo Perrie, Alan size,
Speaker 2: and the man continues Pooperrie deodorizes, sanitizes, glamorize it. He
Speaker 2: sprays it directly in Eric's face, and Eric smiles, saying,
Speaker 2: ooh o cake. There's a real product.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but was it real back then?
Speaker 4: It wasn't, right, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think so. And because poop Perrie is not for
Speaker 2: anything for dogs, it's for humans. Yeah, it launched Taraja's head.
Speaker 2: It launched in two thousand and seven. So the current
Speaker 2: poop Perrie you spray on the water in a toilet
Speaker 2: bowl before you go, so you walk into a bathroom.
Speaker 1: I thought it was just an after spray, which is.
Speaker 2: What they say, after the smell of pooh has already
Speaker 2: wafted into the air. If you spray it, it creates
Speaker 2: a layer on the surface of the water, so when
Speaker 2: the poop drops in, it's days under the surface of
Speaker 2: that smell, eliminating.
Speaker 4: You are you are you selling this?
Speaker 8: Is that you are daniel Fish that brings you poopoop
Speaker 8: for free by Danielle fishl Oh.
Speaker 4: I love that, it really is.
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful product. So yeah, anyway, it is now
Speaker 2: a real thing. I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 4: Do you actually use this stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we had it. We have it.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, it's great, right, I guess I guess we
Speaker 1: should reach out for them for sponsors.
Speaker 2: I can do the ads. I can speak to you.
Speaker 1: We just did one.
Speaker 3: We're charging overtime.
Speaker 4: This did a sixty right there.
Speaker 2: Alan grabs Eric, telling it let's go. Eric tells him, no,
Speaker 2: I want to make this my life. The poopery man continues.
Speaker 2: The figures are irrefutable. If each pet owning American purchases
Speaker 2: only one can of poopery, this franchise is worth over
Speaker 2: forty billion dollars, catapulting Poopery Ink to the number one
Speaker 2: corporation in America. Alan questions whether anyone will buy it,
Speaker 2: and the man responds, well, now you sound like my.
Speaker 4: Wife's a great response.
Speaker 2: It's good walking away. Eric asks, so that's the leader
Speaker 2: so far right, dad, Alan admits, sadly it is sun
Speaker 2: But there are many business opportunities to consider, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure we'll find the exact right thing for us. And
Speaker 2: then we get another little optical flip. Back in the
Speaker 2: Matthew's kitchen, Eric is holding two plates of strudel and
Speaker 2: there's a wide array covering the dining table. Amy asks
Speaker 2: the men you want to open an Ogner's house of Strudel.
Speaker 2: Eric says yes, there's one hundred and forty nine varieties,
Speaker 2: and every month they assure me that frau Agner comes
Speaker 2: out with a new flavor.
Speaker 1: I know that, you know that during the week they
Speaker 1: went through like fifteen versions of Oh anything right. It's
Speaker 1: optical flip to Eric, committed to a ridiculous product, and
Speaker 1: it's like you could you know the writer's room even
Speaker 1: if we didn't rehearse fifteen years they went through like sixty.
Speaker 1: They just sat they're riffing on what it could be,
Speaker 1: and it is funny to me that they landed on
Speaker 1: just kind of funny word, you know, strudel frau, which
Speaker 1: again is like this German like, it's just it's.
Speaker 4: But it's also why it makes no sense that Eric
Speaker 4: has twenty strudel that are open and on disposable plates
Speaker 4: for some reason to be served ready to be served
Speaker 4: at the house. It's just yeah, it's it's a funny
Speaker 4: visual and a funny noise essentially is yeah.
Speaker 2: I do imagine they had a ton of fun throwing
Speaker 2: random things. It could have been out, you know, out
Speaker 2: in the writer's room. I will say I wish it
Speaker 2: were a non food item, since the very first thing
Speaker 2: Alan said was I want to stay away from food.
Speaker 2: So I wish they could have picked something equally as funny,
Speaker 2: but that could it was an edible Yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 2: edible because with then we are he threw out the
Speaker 2: very first principle that Alan set us up with.
Speaker 1: So that's that was I also think wacky inventions are funny,
Speaker 1: you know, like there you know, and dumb wacky inventions
Speaker 1: like it's a knife that also does the you know whatever,
Speaker 1: there's like so much of an opportunity to wade hoodie.
Speaker 1: Why would anybody want.
Speaker 2: To show hoodies.
Speaker 1: Sweet house of sweeties, house SWOOTI love it, Eric's House
Speaker 1: of Swooties.
Speaker 2: Do you like to be swooty? Put on our sweeties?
Speaker 1: You want to be hot?
Speaker 4: Even when he's freezing cold outside, Try swooty.
Speaker 2: Oh, Cory sadly says, so. Now my future depends on
Speaker 2: a Bavarian named Dogner. John warned me about this. Amy's
Speaker 2: hoping Alan isn't buying into this strudal idea. He tells
Speaker 2: her he isn't in the hands or a pamphlet for
Speaker 2: his first choice, a rapid marked it's a convenience store,
Speaker 2: and Alan figures it's a perfect for a guy like him.
Speaker 2: It's a business he already knows. Amy corrects him, it's
Speaker 2: a business you already hate. Alan's I hated working for
Speaker 2: somebody else. This would be different. I'd run my own store,
Speaker 2: run it my way. Amy says, you're still selling lettuce.
Speaker 2: You know this is not what you want. Alan gets defensive,
Speaker 2: telling Amy he can't seem to win with her. He
Speaker 2: included her in this decision, like she originally wanted, but
Speaker 2: now she's trying to talk him out of something he
Speaker 2: kind of sort of maybe wants. And I love that
Speaker 2: a great read. He goes into it thinking you're gonna
Speaker 2: say something that I really really want, and then shows
Speaker 2: you how he's really feeling.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: Amy jokes with that kind of passion. Who am I
Speaker 2: to stand in your way? Eric butts in and says hello,
Speaker 2: is this obvious only to me? Strudel Alan yells at
Speaker 2: him naptime and Eric walks away telling him he's.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you're right, and again this is another seinfold
Speaker 1: right Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's also it's these moments that made this so sitcomy,
Speaker 4: Like he didn't need Eric hopping in going what about
Speaker 4: the strude ole? It's that thing that takes it to
Speaker 4: like the but I thought, I.
Speaker 2: Actually love you popping in because you think here's your
Speaker 2: opportunity to show you that my idea is better than
Speaker 2: your idea. The nap time button is the thing that
Speaker 2: makes it a little where it's not a grown man.
Speaker 2: It's like getting told by his daddy it's nap time.
Speaker 2: It's still funny, but it is. It is a little
Speaker 2: more of our sitcom moment. Than we're used to getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is this episode just feels very
Speaker 1: I mean, in some ways, it's almost too rhythmically perfect,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean, Like it's too tight.
Speaker 1: This this sort of like im bum boom optical flip
Speaker 1: and then set up and it's like it's great. But
Speaker 1: what I like about Boyb's world is that it often
Speaker 1: has these weird rhythmic moments that kind of break from
Speaker 1: that and you're like, well, that's a you know, that's
Speaker 1: a joke that goes on a little on too long,
Speaker 1: or you know, it's like weird syncopated rhythms and stuff
Speaker 1: that like that. This one just felt very tight. It
Speaker 1: felt like, oh, perfect, Okay, you did the thing, and
Speaker 1: this is a perfect example of that.
Speaker 4: It is. It's very comic, but yeah, it's still it
Speaker 4: worked for me, but it was still very Yeah, I
Speaker 4: got I felt that same. It was almost like, you know, again,
Speaker 4: I go to the kids on the stairs and some
Speaker 4: of the reactions we had.
Speaker 1: It's like a perfect triangle of you know, you in
Speaker 1: the middle and Stummman and then them. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alan tells Amy he's looked at every possible job
Speaker 2: opportunity and this makes the most sense. Amy Scoff's telling him,
Speaker 2: this isn't about making sense, this is about spending the
Speaker 2: rest of your life doing what you want to do.
Speaker 2: Alan explains, I want to run my own store, and
Speaker 2: I want you to be happy for me. He asks
Speaker 2: if Amy's behind him on this decision, and she says no.
Speaker 2: Alan walks away dejectedly and tells her thank you for
Speaker 2: your support.
Speaker 6: But I love that she's not supporting him because she
Speaker 6: knows he won't be happy. That's the whole Like it's
Speaker 6: it's not, Hey, I'm I'm not going to support you
Speaker 6: because I'm just not going to support you, or or
Speaker 6: I'm feeling condictive so I'm just gonna shoot down your idea.
Speaker 4: It's like, no, you're not. I know you well enough.
Speaker 2: You're not exactly And it's obvious here, but she makes
Speaker 2: it even more clear in this next scene. In Matthew's backyard,
Speaker 2: Alan is setting up a sleeping bag and Amy jokes,
Speaker 2: one little disagreement and you're walking out on me. Alan
Speaker 2: pokes back, and I'm taking Eric a couple of nights
Speaker 2: under the stars, a little hiking through the wood, some fishing.
Speaker 2: That's where I do my best thinking. I got to
Speaker 2: try and figure out what to do with the rest
Speaker 2: of my life. Amy admits she would never stand in
Speaker 2: the way of something Alan really wanted. Alan tells her
Speaker 2: this isn't about what he wants to do, this is
Speaker 2: about his responsibility to this family. He feels completely helpless.
Speaker 2: Amy assures him he only feels helpless because he's stuck,
Speaker 2: and it's all right to take a risk. She won't
Speaker 2: support this rapid mart idea because it won't make him happy,
Speaker 2: and she can only support Alan's happiness. And this is
Speaker 2: one of those times where it was a great parent scene.
Speaker 2: Out of the kitchen or the living room, they're in
Speaker 2: the backyard, and I absolutely love the supporting the concept
Speaker 2: of we support you taking a risk. You don't have
Speaker 2: to go off of just well, what about my responsibility?
Speaker 2: How will I make sure that immediately I have money
Speaker 2: that I can count on coming in. It's okay to
Speaker 2: take a risk if it's going to mean lifelong happiness.
Speaker 2: And I just that I love them having this there's
Speaker 2: this story and her presenting that idea to him.
Speaker 1: That there are values beyond just making money too and
Speaker 1: having a job, right, and that that that that he
Speaker 1: of course knew that when he quit the job, but
Speaker 1: now is feeling the pressure, and she is going to
Speaker 1: then be the one to say, let's hold.
Speaker 4: Out for let's remember why you did the.
Speaker 1: Real problem exactly, Like, we're not going to just put
Speaker 1: a band aid on this situation, which I think so
Speaker 1: many people fall into that trap, you know, whatever the
Speaker 1: issue is, particularly when it comes to jobs, like it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just you get scared. You know, you want the money,
Speaker 1: you want the whatever, the security. You just go right
Speaker 1: into the role that is easiest for you instead of
Speaker 1: taking the bigger risk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you look up in forty five years
Speaker 4: has gone by and you've been at the same job.
Speaker 4: That happens a lot, so yeah, tough.
Speaker 2: And then we're in the science research building. We know
Speaker 2: that because the sign outside the school says.
Speaker 1: It research building. But it's just again just science. But
Speaker 1: if you think about how much they put into this
Speaker 1: scene so Danielle can have a part in the episode something,
Speaker 1: why couldn't it be more something like you guys could
Speaker 1: have been hatching this play.
Speaker 2: We could have been in the school hallway. But to
Speaker 2: build now this set probably didn't cost a whole lot
Speaker 2: of money.
Speaker 1: But the costumes three extras, well, two extras.
Speaker 2: One of them is our dear Mattie Nelson.
Speaker 4: Matt he brought in the shampoo.
Speaker 2: Yeah gosh, it was Yeah, me too, me too, And
Speaker 2: it was so wonderful to see him and he looked great,
Speaker 2: and it just filled my heart with me too. So
Speaker 2: Cory and Shawn are sitting in chairs wearing capes. Is
Speaker 2: to Panga tries convincing Corey that taking part in a
Speaker 2: research study is a ridiculous way to make money. If
Speaker 2: she needs if he needs cash that bad, she'll just
Speaker 2: lend it to him. And I cannot stand the sound
Speaker 2: of my voice. It's just so bad. And in these
Speaker 2: moments it's when I really now totally understand what Michael
Speaker 2: was telling me, because I remember him telling me all
Speaker 2: the time, lower your voice. Lower your voice. Wherever your
Speaker 2: voice is coming from, that's not where your voice should
Speaker 2: come from. It sounds like it's and I was just
Speaker 2: always like, but I'm not, I'm not doing anything with
Speaker 2: my voice. This is just what my voice sounds like.
Speaker 2: But I hear it, and I go, please lower your voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's it's you know, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: But to me, it's not so much like a tone,
Speaker 1: or it's not about the pitch, it's more about coming
Speaker 1: from a place of like weakness, because because because you're
Speaker 1: adding energy to a scene, but if you're coming over
Speaker 1: top of it and you're coming up from a higher place, it's.
Speaker 3: Not as compelling.
Speaker 1: It's it's more it's more like annoying or coming it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel real, you know, when you're really coming from
Speaker 1: a place of like God, it's so dumb, right like
Speaker 1: that to give the note that it's about being too
Speaker 1: high is like completely backwards to me, because the note
Speaker 1: should be where's the intention coming from.
Speaker 3: Is it coming from a place of strength or is
Speaker 3: it coming from.
Speaker 1: A you know?
Speaker 3: And I yeah, like there's a way to give.
Speaker 1: That note, to make it to get the result that
Speaker 1: you want, which you're.
Speaker 2: Right, because I never knew, literally never understood that that's
Speaker 2: what he was talking about. And I didn't even realize
Speaker 2: watching the scene that that's what was bothering me about it.
Speaker 2: But I'm I'm pushing, I'm going up here.
Speaker 4: Please don't do this is at all.
Speaker 2: Oh man? And it isn't. It isn't good. It feels
Speaker 2: like bad acting because you're right, it's coming from as
Speaker 2: it's coming from the wrong intention.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the intention is.
Speaker 1: The intention is to just be in conflict with Corey
Speaker 1: and to be telling him not to do this thing.
Speaker 1: And I mean that's not just it's bad writing too,
Speaker 1: or you know, like there's a way to make this work,
Speaker 1: I think, and to have you be in conflict with him,
Speaker 1: but from a place that's not just telling him what
Speaker 1: to do and coming you know. Yeah, and I can't
Speaker 1: remember what you're saying. You can't remember what you were
Speaker 1: saying because there's no argument there. It was just up
Speaker 1: to pegas against this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I was coming. I think I
Speaker 2: was reading it like they're about to do it right now.
Speaker 2: I have to stop you.
Speaker 4: This is my only.
Speaker 2: Second to stop you, as opposed to look at me, right,
Speaker 2: this is a bad idea. You don't need to do
Speaker 2: this if you need it, so anyway, you're right. But
Speaker 2: to me, it just came across because I know Michael
Speaker 2: always told me to lower my voice. To me, it
Speaker 2: was like, oh gosh, that voice is annoying. Anyway, Corey,
Speaker 2: after a little look from Sean, tells her. Sean says,
Speaker 2: I've got to learn to provide for myself. To Panga responds,
Speaker 2: then get a real job. Corey looks at Sewan again,
Speaker 2: who urges him to say his next line. Sean says,
Speaker 2: I'm in no position to pay taxes right now. I
Speaker 2: love so good. I love how worldly Shawn is about
Speaker 2: these issues. Yeah, here are the problems. You have to
Speaker 2: be unemployed because you can't pay taxes. I just love it.
Speaker 2: He's so in. Sean points to the lab text these
Speaker 2: guys don't even know These guys don't even want to
Speaker 2: know our real names. To Pega says they're both lunatics,
Speaker 2: and Corey responds, we'll see what you think after we
Speaker 2: get our hundred bucks, and to Penge is shocked just
Speaker 2: for testing out a new shampoo. Corey yells yep, whispers
Speaker 2: to Sean, you sure there's nothing to worry about. Shawn
Speaker 2: assures him it's shampoo. They only test it on humans
Speaker 2: so they can say they don't tell test it on animals.
Speaker 2: This is very much like.
Speaker 1: Can we just talk about hair obsession?
Speaker 3: It's hair back to hair.
Speaker 1: Right after the episode, we did up a haircut, like
Speaker 1: we are just man.
Speaker 3: There's hair on the brain, hair on the brain.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely so intense, big hair. Then matt Nelson alerts yay.
Speaker 2: A man in full biohazard gear comes out of the
Speaker 2: lab holding a beaker full of green liquid with a
Speaker 2: pair of tongs far away from his body. But then
Speaker 2: he drops the beaker on the floor and the green
Speaker 2: substance starts to smoke. Then the biohazard man aka our
Speaker 2: very own Mattie Nelson runs away terrified as a loud
Speaker 2: alarm sounds throughout the building. Sean and Corey look at
Speaker 2: each other freaked out. So that was the matt Nelson
Speaker 2: appearance that I just love. We're back in the Matthew's.
Speaker 2: Eric and Alan are returning from camping, and Eric beams
Speaker 2: that this is what they need to do with their lives,
Speaker 2: become mountain men. Alan asks what do you think that
Speaker 2: pays Phenie's in his yard and yells over Ah the
Speaker 2: intrepid woodsman returning to the safe harbor of suburbia. Did
Speaker 2: you bag any trophies? Alan braggs you bet we did.
Speaker 2: Eric got a.
Speaker 1: Fit that your backpack looks like it weighs exactly half
Speaker 1: a pound.
Speaker 3: It's like overloaded and.
Speaker 4: Very very strong. I don't want to bring up this
Speaker 4: conversation again as it's been beaten to death at this point.
Speaker 4: But where are they coming from? I know, where are
Speaker 4: they coming from?
Speaker 2: Behind the side camera conceded.
Speaker 4: I know, but it's like, it doesn't mean it's it's
Speaker 4: just like, where are you coming from? I don't get it. Well.
Speaker 2: Also, we know that the car. Even in the same episode,
Speaker 2: Corey was looking out the door downstage to war camera
Speaker 2: for my car. So their car is parked over there
Speaker 2: on the other side.
Speaker 1: And that's where the minivan was when they would look
Speaker 1: at that too.
Speaker 4: Yes, so where that's all. And I was like, I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna bring it up on.
Speaker 2: The other side. You're right, I know, listen, it's whatever
Speaker 2: we need it.
Speaker 4: Needs to be exactly. It's the yard.
Speaker 2: It's the yard.
Speaker 1: I noticed was the lovely lighting.
Speaker 2: A nice violet light.
Speaker 1: It's more orange, yeah, sunset. Yeah, they are trying to
Speaker 1: I think it's evening right, Yes, I think so too,
Speaker 1: to make it look nice and rosy.
Speaker 4: And I remember too, I think we did one take
Speaker 4: of this and then Michael was like, give them beards.
Speaker 4: So we went back and they you saw there's like
Speaker 4: makeup breasting and I both had.
Speaker 1: Like makeup makeup because.
Speaker 4: Never mentioned because Apparently when you camp you also just
Speaker 4: roll around in dirt. But yeah, we came so we
Speaker 4: came in and we had the beards put in. Uh
Speaker 4: so you can see we've got like that's so dunny.
Speaker 2: I also thought it was just dirt on their face,
Speaker 2: like they yeah.
Speaker 4: Those are beards. Those are beards.
Speaker 2: So Eric pulls out a mason jar with a tiny
Speaker 2: goldfish in it. Phoeney squints, I imagine he put up
Speaker 2: heck of a fight. Eric reveals I was actually just
Speaker 2: filling up my toothbrush cup. He kind of just swam
Speaker 2: right in there, right in there. And Amy then walks
Speaker 2: out to greet the boys, and she notices how refreshed.
Speaker 2: Alan seems that sleeping under the stars points you to
Speaker 2: a new career. Alan admits, I don't know what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do for the rest of my life, but nothing
Speaker 2: can give me half the satisfaction I get waking up
Speaker 2: next to that beautiful cedar lake. I really thought he
Speaker 2: was going to say, waking up next to my beautiful wife,
Speaker 2: and then he went directly to the beautiful cedar lake.
Speaker 2: And right, sure, sure, the Cedar Lake. I'm sure it's.
Speaker 4: Gorgeous, beautiful place.
Speaker 2: Beautiful place. Phoene comments, shame you can't capture that somehow
Speaker 2: and keep it on your desk. Alan tells Amy, the
Speaker 2: only thing wrong with this weekend was that you weren't there.
Speaker 2: He begs her, let's go up again next week you
Speaker 2: come to. Phoene ads, might I suggest, for the sake
Speaker 2: of communal bliss that you outfit yourself with one of
Speaker 2: those two person sleeping bags that are currently on discount
Speaker 2: of Kimmels and smiles, saying, George, you rascal. How do
Speaker 2: you know about those? Phoene tells them, I go camping.
Speaker 2: I don't fish you do the math.
Speaker 4: Phoenie is.
Speaker 3: Double sleeping bag, Phoenix, what.
Speaker 1: Sleeping bag do.
Speaker 2: You think he's going with?
Speaker 1: The dentist in the woods takes a salad heads salad
Speaker 1: and the double sleeping bag Lettuce.
Speaker 4: Oh god, it changes the title for I don't want
Speaker 4: to wash lettuce anymore. Oh god, it just changes the title.
Speaker 4: Horrible you do it?
Speaker 1: It does this scene from like, well, this entire scene,
Speaker 1: I guess, because I was gonna say, from here on,
Speaker 1: it's just such set up, like exposition, set up, exposition,
Speaker 1: and it's like they try and do it a little
Speaker 1: Phoene sex joke. It's all just like, okay, let's just
Speaker 1: lay this out. You all see, it's just like setting
Speaker 1: up maybe there's a Wilderness store. I know. The guy
Speaker 1: at the Wilderness store there that's closing down down the street,
Speaker 1: let's go check it out.
Speaker 2: Doesn't say it's closing down, I know, but you could
Speaker 2: just feel it coming everything.
Speaker 1: You're just like, why are we talking about this?
Speaker 3: Why is this scene?
Speaker 4: You didn't I didn't know I was in the show
Speaker 4: and I didn't remember.
Speaker 2: No, no, you I know you you only see it coming writer,
Speaker 2: because you know, oh, that's probably the story.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. But there's also no conflict in
Speaker 1: this scene, like Amy and Alan are not and there's
Speaker 1: no longer any conflict between the two and them, so
Speaker 1: there's nothing driving the story for it. So it's literally
Speaker 1: just exposition to set up whatever because it's a weird scene.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here like we just did this. We didn't
Speaker 1: feel this way about that? You know what also makes
Speaker 1: you feel this way about that? Another store that you'll
Speaker 1: go to in the next sity. It's just like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's just get to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, have you eaten anything yet this morning? Writer? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I have okay bakfast this morning and had an extra
Speaker 1: half a cup of coffee before we start, because I
Speaker 1: knew you.
Speaker 2: Were going to kiss you at your best. See what
Speaker 2: you're happy is?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, he's gonna be about happy. Best is grumpy.
Speaker 2: I love you.
Speaker 4: This is the This is on the same day you
Speaker 4: found your grappling hook yesterday.
Speaker 3: Okay, I mean it looks like a murder weapon. You
Speaker 3: really about it. It's like, I'm just gonna hold it
Speaker 3: up whenever you guys are mean to me.
Speaker 1: No, no, oh god.
Speaker 2: Okay. So the crowd gives some big old hoots and
Speaker 2: hollers for horned up Feenie, and he says, anyway, I
Speaker 2: was down there this morning having a talk with my
Speaker 2: old friend Ed Kimball, who's having some kind of sale.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you pop over there until Ed I sent you.
Speaker 2: Alan knows Kimball's it's one of his favorite stores. Just then,
Speaker 2: Corey walks out, asking if there's any update in their
Speaker 2: current situation. Alan points out that there is. This weekend,
Speaker 2: they're going up to the mountains and they're gonna sleep
Speaker 2: on the ground. Corey groans, oh, we've lost everything, everything,
Speaker 2: And then we're in Chubbies. Corey grabs a burger from
Speaker 2: the counter and he sits down ready to devour it.
Speaker 2: Sean comes running down the stairs, asking Corey what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Corey panics and he hides the burger and thoughts Sean
Speaker 2: would be doing his little puppet show downtown, which always
Speaker 2: brings in.
Speaker 4: The I love that it's just this random life of Sean's.
Speaker 4: We don't know anything about.
Speaker 1: This scene, by the way, is like just for the jokes,
Speaker 1: Like this is like one of those we rarely have
Speaker 1: on the show where it's like literally just just for
Speaker 1: funny because there's no real resolution or I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just us being Corey and Sean together and it's funny,
Speaker 1: but also doesn't make much sense because why are we
Speaker 1: He's he not allowed to eat meat?
Speaker 4: I think it's it's expensive expensive, Yeah, okay, if.
Speaker 2: You're teaching about to be bore, it's real food.
Speaker 3: You have meat, you okay?
Speaker 4: And bread?
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I watched that had been a little clear, so I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, do they have some sort of vegetarian pact?
Speaker 1: What I know?
Speaker 2: Well, I thought of that because I knew you were
Speaker 2: a vegetarian. So I was like, oh, is there is
Speaker 2: there a right or strong but.
Speaker 1: You know where I I just wanted to, like, you
Speaker 1: ordered food in a restaurant and it was meat. If
Speaker 1: it was that those like three steps, but instead it
Speaker 1: was like how dare you eat meat?
Speaker 3: And went right to there. I was like, oh wait,
Speaker 3: did I miss something?
Speaker 1: Why where.
Speaker 7: Food?
Speaker 3: You paid money for that? We're supposed to be in
Speaker 3: the dumpster right now?
Speaker 1: Like that would have made sense, you know, like but anyway,
Speaker 1: either way, Ben is hysterical, and he could tell that
Speaker 1: we're just having fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you guys are having a blast.
Speaker 4: Although thank I'm glad that he ordered the burger that
Speaker 4: you always get that always comes cut in half.
Speaker 2: So Sean repeats, what are you doing? Corey reveals the burger.
Speaker 2: It's not mine. I found it. It's not like I
Speaker 2: paid for it. Sean reiterates, in a slow, angry tone.
Speaker 2: I said, what are you doing? Corey starts to break
Speaker 2: down and cry, admitting he's eating meat.
Speaker 4: And me then is that?
Speaker 2: Peek peek? Ben? Sean responds, you disgust me, man, Corey pleats,
Speaker 2: but I like me. It's my parents' fault, Sean. They
Speaker 2: raised me. They gave me an allowance, saundries comforting in
Speaker 2: my dear sweet Cory, there's no shame. There's two types
Speaker 2: of people in this world, people like you who always
Speaker 2: manage to get by, and people like me, who are
Speaker 2: lucky enough to have people like you in their lives.
Speaker 2: Cory thanks him and says, you want have Sean gladly
Speaker 2: takes it. It's how the poor survive. And then they
Speaker 2: clink their burgers together in a cheers.
Speaker 1: So cute, Such a random but fun beast, you know.
Speaker 2: And then we're in Kimball's more insane wonderful set design,
Speaker 2: a new settler that sticks around. Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see. I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever got to act in this set. Really, no memories
Speaker 1: of acting in the set, so I don't think ever
Speaker 1: appears here.
Speaker 4: A huge, deep, multi leveled set. I mean, I remember
Speaker 4: we were We did episodes where we shot just around
Speaker 4: the rock climbing wall, we did episodes where we're going
Speaker 4: up the back stairs. I mean it was like this
Speaker 4: was a big deep It's well designed, it's.
Speaker 2: Cool, yeaheah, it's very cool. So Eric is testing stuff out,
Speaker 2: telling Allan, this is nothing like our fishing rod the
Speaker 2: aforementioned store owner, Ed Kimball tells him that's a McMillan.
Speaker 2: Alan adds, top of the line, my boy now put
Speaker 2: it down gently. It is impressed by Alan's knowledge of
Speaker 2: fishing gear, and Alan introduces himself as a friend of
Speaker 2: George Foeney. That says, yeah, he likes the little chats
Speaker 2: they have. He just wishes phoene would buy something once
Speaker 2: and all.
Speaker 1: This love this runner way cheap thiean cheap feenie who
Speaker 1: just talks and talks and.
Speaker 2: Talks and doesn't buy anything.
Speaker 1: And just I love other perspectives on Feedie where he's
Speaker 1: not just the authority but also kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's like a janitor bud in him. It's like
Speaker 1: a little side relationship that I can love.
Speaker 2: Yet I do too. Corey pat points out a huge
Speaker 2: kayak in the store, asking Alan how cool it would
Speaker 2: be on the lake, and Eric a, it's not nearly
Speaker 2: as cool as this tent. Check this out. He reads
Speaker 2: a tag that claims it can survive wins up to
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour. Morgan pops out of the tent.
Speaker 2: I'm not going Alan compliments Ed he has all the
Speaker 2: best toys at his store. As the boys peruse the goods,
Speaker 2: Amy thanks Ed for indulging her husband. He really loves
Speaker 2: this store. Ed can see that, and it looks like
Speaker 2: their kids do too. Eric climbs approximately one foot of
Speaker 2: a fake rock wall, announcing, I can see men's sportswear
Speaker 2: from here.
Speaker 4: I don't like heights.
Speaker 2: There we go. Yeah, it's a really wonderful store. Amy continues,
Speaker 2: how long have you had it? Ed explains, well, it's
Speaker 2: been in the family for about forty seven years. I
Speaker 2: was going to leave it to my son, only I
Speaker 2: had a daughter and she married an orthodontist and moved
Speaker 2: to Palm Beach. It's actually up for sale. He wants
Speaker 2: to spend some time with his grandchildren in the South.
Speaker 2: Ed admits, you know, I was just mentioning this to
Speaker 2: George Poenie the other day. Amy responds, realizing this setup.
Speaker 4: So it was Phoenel.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 4: I wish there was more exposition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should talk about it. Mormon could get out.
Speaker 2: To the surface, highlighted a little bit. I love it,
Speaker 2: underlining me too, I loved it. Gamy chills. Pheene mentioned
Speaker 2: you were having a sale. She looks over at allan
Speaker 2: who's admiring some lanterns, and asks, mister Kimball, I know
Speaker 2: it's none of my business, but did you make a
Speaker 2: good living from this place? And he says some years
Speaker 2: are better than others, But if looking forward to coming
Speaker 2: to work every day was any indication, then I've done
Speaker 2: very well.
Speaker 1: I wanted him to pick up a snow globe of
Speaker 1: Cedar Lake right at that moment and be like, right,
Speaker 1: and here, I have Cedar Lake right on my desk,
Speaker 1: Right on my desk, I just have this little snow glope.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've heard of it, Cedar Lake.
Speaker 4: It's a good rewrite.
Speaker 2: Amy nods, I suppose you have all your buyers lined up,
Speaker 2: and says there's been a few nibbles, but it's always
Speaker 2: been a family business, and he wants to keep it
Speaker 2: that way, even if it's not his family anymore. Amy
Speaker 2: looks over at her whole family staring at an array
Speaker 2: of lanterns, deciding which one to get for their camping trip.
Speaker 2: Eric and Corey are arguing over which one is better,
Speaker 2: even though they are the same lanterns. When Alan points
Speaker 2: that out, Corey responds, this is why I plan to
Speaker 2: be an accountant.
Speaker 4: I plan to be an accountant. Class's so cute.
Speaker 2: Alan brings the lantern to check out and says they
Speaker 2: better leave before they buy up the whole store. Amy smiles.
Speaker 2: I already did, Alan laughs.
Speaker 3: Thirty second contract?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like what is she handing out and shake contract?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: But they hand over a notebook right, like there is
Speaker 1: something passed from Amy to down as they come over.
Speaker 2: It's probably those things you do in movies where you go,
Speaker 2: make me your best.
Speaker 4: Job, right, and you slide across, and you slide.
Speaker 2: It across and you go done. It's like that's literally
Speaker 2: what it was.
Speaker 3: I how did you pick the store?
Speaker 2: She apparently chatted about their bank accounts right before they left,
Speaker 2: and I was aware of what they had and how
Speaker 2: they would do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's also probably not cheap, right, I mean, no
Speaker 4: even buy a whole store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're you're buying like the inventory that's in there,
Speaker 2: that's already been paid for.
Speaker 1: What about the building itself? Is that what she's buying
Speaker 1: or is it just the business?
Speaker 4: And she's got the better So there's but there's the business.
Speaker 4: And she wasn't she was a real estate agent, so
Speaker 4: she cheapest.
Speaker 1: It could be half a million dollars.
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 4: I was thinking half a million to a million.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's a cheap.
Speaker 2: Particular part which used to think two hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: I don't think Wilderness store in that, not with a
Speaker 4: McMillon inside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with the mcmillions.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, okay, and you know, but that's
Speaker 1: a that's a sizeable business.
Speaker 4: Loan a quarter to a half a million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to say, She says for the down payment,
Speaker 2: they have to tap into Eric's college fund. So what
Speaker 2: do you think they have an Eric's college fund?
Speaker 4: I mean fifty grand?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's right back, then fifty grand would pay
Speaker 1: for two years of yeah exactly, No, maybe two years
Speaker 1: of college, right yeah yeah maybe. Well, if you go
Speaker 1: to a state school, could pay for all of college, right,
Speaker 1: which Eric probably would.
Speaker 4: Maybe they wouldn't even have fifty grand in there. I
Speaker 4: mean he's a grosser. She does everything. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's financial.
Speaker 2: She mention they are getting alone. Yes, so there are
Speaker 2: still terms to this deal that need to be worked out.
Speaker 2: It probably needs to be appraised this business, but they
Speaker 2: have agreed that their family. In principle, their family is
Speaker 2: going to take over this Kimball's family business.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 7: Ain't going to spray, Ain't going to spray let us
Speaker 7: no move?
Speaker 1: Do you know there was titles of reference to a
Speaker 1: song Ain't Gonna study War no More? You guys know, No,
Speaker 1: I think that's what the reference is. I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: spray let us no More is a reference to a
Speaker 1: classic song folk song, I ain't gonna study War no More. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like dump by the riverside.
Speaker 2: If the person who wrote the script is to be
Speaker 2: trusted at all, you're wrong. I wrote to Mark Blutman
Speaker 2: last night because I also wanted to know is is
Speaker 2: the title in reference to something? Because I had seen
Speaker 2: when I googled I ain't gonna to see what else
Speaker 2: came up? That folk song came up. A couple of
Speaker 2: different things came up. He said, no special meaning, just
Speaker 2: felt it was what Alan was feeling. And then he said,
Speaker 2: I think this is the episode with the job expo.
Speaker 2: We had Cake dress up as the Opportunity carrot, and
Speaker 2: then I ended up cutting it out. And here's a
Speaker 2: picture of Blutman and Buskang and Manel dressed in a
Speaker 2: carrot costume opportunity, and then it apparently got cut out.
Speaker 1: See they were riffing on so many different Joe last
Speaker 1: this week, so they cut up the care.
Speaker 3: I bet you the.
Speaker 1: Title was Michael, and it came from because he would
Speaker 1: know the folk song. And there's no way. Yes, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna spray let us no more. Yes it's a reference.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna study war no more.
Speaker 2: Amy, You are probably right. Alan laughs. Looks like my
Speaker 2: whole family likes your store. Ed correct him. It's not
Speaker 2: his store anymore. Your wife just bought it. Amy says,
Speaker 2: the man's store was up for sale, so I bought it.
Speaker 2: Alan is shocked. You can't just do that. Ed confirmed
Speaker 2: she just did in a reasonable manner. We came to terms.
Speaker 2: Alan pulls Amy aside, telling her I understand what you're
Speaker 2: trying to do, but you just can't, and Amy stops him.
Speaker 2: I can't what you owe me a big decision, buddy,
Speaker 2: one that affects this whole family. Well, you're standing in it.
Speaker 2: Eric and Morgan are in shock. And this is where
Speaker 2: what Will's talking about. You guys all climb up the
Speaker 2: stairs and you actually have your mouth.
Speaker 4: Over it was like Christmas More.
Speaker 1: You guys are just in a course line. It was
Speaker 1: very yeah, picture perfect POSTCARDI y yep.
Speaker 2: Eric and Morgan are in shock hearing this. Corey grabs
Speaker 2: a big jar of beef jerky and asked, said, so
Speaker 2: this is all my beef jerky.
Speaker 1: Which is greatause the meat thing does come back, looks
Speaker 1: so funny.
Speaker 2: It's still there. He doesn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2: I already own this beef.
Speaker 4: So the beef jerky, I have a story. I have
Speaker 4: I have a beef jerkey story.
Speaker 7: Oh tell, oh.
Speaker 2: Wait, oh my gosh, I kind of remember this story.
Speaker 2: Please explain it.
Speaker 4: This is so So the beef jerky is sitting on
Speaker 4: the table. First of all, you can if you watch
Speaker 4: it throughout the scene, it keeps moving. So the label
Speaker 4: is one way, then it's another way, then it's this way.
Speaker 4: Then it's because you guys keep picking that. So Ben,
Speaker 4: we're like, Ben, eat some of the beef jerkey. It's like,
Speaker 4: I'm not eating the beef chert. I don't know how
Speaker 4: long it's been there. I'm not eating the people for like,
Speaker 4: Ben eat some of the beef jerkey. He's like, I'm
Speaker 4: not going to do it. So Rusty walks over. He goes,
Speaker 4: what you're not going to do? And he opens the
Speaker 4: beef jerkey, pulls out a stick, takes a big, old,
Speaker 4: sloppy bite, rips one and half throws it back into
Speaker 4: the jar of beef jerky and then shakes it up.
Speaker 4: So now there's one in.
Speaker 2: There, touched everything else.
Speaker 4: It's everything.
Speaker 6: So he then goes, what's better, Ben don't have the
Speaker 6: guts to do it. Ben's like, oh yeah, and he
Speaker 6: reaches in, grabs a stick himself, takes a giant bite
Speaker 6: and it's exactly the stick Rusty had just eaten, and
Speaker 6: he bit into Rusty's slobbery like the same spote.
Speaker 4: He's like it, throws the thing away and we lost it.
Speaker 4: I mean we laughed for a half an hour, he liked,
Speaker 4: and he grabbed exactly the slobbery one that Rusty had
Speaker 4: and shoved it into It was so funny. I will
Speaker 4: never forget that. Oh it was great.
Speaker 2: That's good. So Eric responds, Hey, Dad, how great is this?
Speaker 2: I'm going to be working for you. Amy tells him,
Speaker 2: I'm glad you feel that way, because we're going to
Speaker 2: have to tap into your college fund for the down payment.
Speaker 2: Eric asks, hey, Dad, how great is this? You're going
Speaker 2: to be working for me? Amy laughs, how about partners?
Speaker 2: Eric says that's even greater, even greater.
Speaker 6: It was like that kind of those kind of responses, Yeah,
Speaker 6: even greater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Alan admits to Amy he still doesn't know about
Speaker 2: all this. Amy asks, what's not to know? Are you
Speaker 2: afraid you're going to be happy? Now? You look around,
Speaker 2: and if you can tell me from your heart that
Speaker 2: none of this is going to make you happy, then
Speaker 2: we will walk out that door and we will discuss
Speaker 2: something else. And in this moment is when I noticed
Speaker 2: that Ben is still walking around with the jar. Alan responds, no,
Speaker 2: I believe the deal was that I don't get to
Speaker 2: discuss your decision, right. Amy nods and says that's right.
Speaker 2: They kiss, and Alan thanks her. You heard the lady
Speaker 2: wrap it up. And I know it's a little sit comy,
Speaker 2: but I think it's so sweet. Love it and it's
Speaker 2: so sweet and it's so beautiful. And I was so
Speaker 2: happy that this whole thing ended up being Amy's doing,
Speaker 2: and it was a nice little ribbon throughout the episode
Speaker 2: that she was going to get to make a decision
Speaker 2: to pay him back. And that the way she ended
Speaker 2: up paying him back was by making a dream come
Speaker 2: true that he didn't even know he had.
Speaker 4: And now they just have to qualify for the loan.
Speaker 2: Exactly family TV show, ladies and gentlemen. And then we're
Speaker 2: back and Kimball's for the tag. Ed is teaching Alan
Speaker 2: and Eric about accounts, payable and receivable, and it assures
Speaker 2: them and they shouldn't have a problem. Eric nods, pretending
Speaker 2: like he can handle it, and then to his relief,
Speaker 2: Allan says they're going to hire someone. Then Phoene walks
Speaker 2: in and Alan quickly welcomes him to our new shop.
Speaker 2: Phoene genuinely congratulates Alan and asks if he can browse
Speaker 2: a bit. Allan says, of course, pick something out. You'll
Speaker 2: be our first sale. Ed rolls his eyes and comments,
Speaker 2: not likely.
Speaker 7: Love it too.
Speaker 2: Phoene curmudgeonly shouts, eighteen dollars for socks.
Speaker 4: Come on, man, it's so great.
Speaker 2: It's what we always think of when we think of
Speaker 2: the Azaleas. Yep, it's come on, gorgeous. Kimball argues back.
Speaker 2: They're thermal, they're double layered, and they're fully moisture proof.
Speaker 2: Phoene spits back, they're eighteen dollars and their socks. I'm
Speaker 2: a teacher, not a heart surgeon.
Speaker 4: Which is a great callback from had that's what he
Speaker 4: played in Sane Elsewhere he played a heart. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: that's the joke, is that he was a surgeon.
Speaker 2: I think that you're the TV expert around here, and.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the sock expert. There's no such thing
Speaker 1: as moisture proof. Moisture wicking is what you wanted to
Speaker 1: wick the moisture away from your skins.
Speaker 2: All right. If for a moisture proof you could never wash.
Speaker 1: No, just what does moisture proof being? That would be well.
Speaker 4: You'd wear them, wear your rubber, So wear them with
Speaker 4: your swede hoodie.
Speaker 2: Eric reroutes the conversation, telling Phoenie he'll show him some
Speaker 2: snow shoes. Phoene asks why he would be interested in
Speaker 2: snow shoes, and Eric whispers, there are no snowshoes. He
Speaker 2: walks with Phoenie. So funny.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a little more of a beat,
Speaker 1: like more of Phoenie bee, like, oh god, and then
Speaker 1: you can walk like a step better if you had to,
Speaker 1: like take him into a tent.
Speaker 4: In a giant sweater. And do you see the sweater
Speaker 4: I'm wearing? Is like he goes to my knees.
Speaker 2: I know, this is the biggest sweater I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: like a dress. He walks with phoeniean distress, saying, I'm
Speaker 2: an idiot. I don't know anything about numbers and accounts.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring this whole store crashing down. We're gonna
Speaker 2: end up living in a box in the park. Phoene responds, well,
Speaker 2: there are some socks over there that would keep you
Speaker 2: quite warm. Great joke. Great callback. Eric begs Phoeney to tutor.
Speaker 2: I mean he needs to learn how to run a business.
Speaker 2: Phoenie emphasizes Eric needs a full education. He wants Eric
Speaker 2: to be prepared. Eric asks, will you prepare me? Feenie obliges,
Speaker 2: meet me at school and we'll work out a schedule.
Speaker 1: Great cheat, to keep these characters together, great cheat. We
Speaker 1: need this because there's no way they can let Eric
Speaker 1: out of the hallway with Genie like you just need that.
Speaker 1: You need it too well established.
Speaker 2: Yep, it is perfect. Phoene announces, I think I will
Speaker 2: buy that pair of socks. Ed's offended. Oh sure, wait
Speaker 2: till I sell the store, then you buy something. Eric
Speaker 2: proudly holds up the cash. Here it is dad our
Speaker 2: first sale. They tape the bill to the register to
Speaker 2: commemorate it, and I teared up. I loved it. I
Speaker 2: was so happy. I really, I really enjoyed this episode.
Speaker 2: And even with its a little bit of sitcomym too.
Speaker 1: If the most criticism you can give a sitcom is
Speaker 1: that it's it's a sitcom, exactly, it's criticism.
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Speaker 2: Fishing for Verna Oo. I bet we get a Verna here?
Speaker 2: Oh get originally aired Yes, It originally aired October eleventh,
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six. Uh writer, send us out.
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