Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and that's what you really miss podcast. It's
Speaker 1: a special, special day because I get to be with
Speaker 1: Kevin McHale.
Speaker 2: That's right, You're welcome. Welcome everyone. It's especially for all
Speaker 2: of you because I'm here with you.
Speaker 1: You graced us for your presence. We're so very lucky.
Speaker 2: You never know who'm going to show, but I did.
Speaker 1: He did, he showed up. Hello, everybody home to the show.
Speaker 1: I just have to say I have not sat in
Speaker 1: a live theater and I don't even know how long.
Speaker 1: And last night I saw The Whiz, which is a
Speaker 1: touring production that is going to be transferred to Broadway
Speaker 1: very shortly, and it is so damn good. I mean, Kevin.
Speaker 1: I was like Kevin would be hooting and hollering and
Speaker 1: standing and doing his things because I truly could not
Speaker 1: stop thinking about you. It was like the time you
Speaker 1: just immediately after I did in the intermission because I said,
Speaker 1: Kevin has to see this. The voices are like like
Speaker 1: imagine melted butter, and then you melt it again.
Speaker 2: It's I know exactly what you're talking. Good.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good and it's funny and it's colorful,
Speaker 1: and it's soulful and inspired and boy, oh boy, if
Speaker 1: you are in LA or if the production comes to you,
Speaker 1: or you're you go to New York, go see it.
Speaker 1: It is really really great.
Speaker 2: Do you know when it ends up on Broadway?
Speaker 1: I think like soon the Marquee is up, so March probably, yeah.
Speaker 2: This season. So okay, I need to get ticketswealtz.
Speaker 1: Here, you gotta. It just opened last night, so you
Speaker 1: have time. But yeah, we went, We went, and it
Speaker 1: was glorious. I'm so it was well worth it, well
Speaker 1: worth the visit.
Speaker 2: You know me, If you text me during intermission, then
Speaker 2: that's a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I won't. I won't make you go see a
Speaker 1: lot of theater, but this is you got to go.
Speaker 2: I do love the Wiz in general. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh it's so good. Okay, it's so good.
Speaker 2: How exciting? Though, you know, I love a revival that.
Speaker 1: Is just good. Every song is so excellent in its own,
Speaker 1: like on its own, and then you put these amazing
Speaker 1: vocalists on them and it is gold. I mean, I
Speaker 1: cannot wait for this recording. I am. I am literally
Speaker 1: waiting on Baated both I'm so excited they found this.
Speaker 1: Michelle Lewis, she's twenty four. She plays drothy and they
Speaker 1: found her on TikTok. What She's a star, like, such
Speaker 1: a big career ahead of her twenty four years old.
Speaker 2: Oh, Kyle's in it.
Speaker 1: M M. Kyle is very amazing, wonderful. He plays the lion.
Speaker 1: He's so good. Kyle is so stupidly talented, stupid.
Speaker 2: I saw that great and strange loop, strange loop, and
Speaker 2: I did a workshop with him. Oh that's right, and
Speaker 2: just like the most insane voice and like sweet person.
Speaker 1: He's so funny in this, so funny. Anyway, I'm so
Speaker 1: excited for them. It's going to be a great broway
Speaker 1: around there in such great shape. It's really excellent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very exciting.
Speaker 2: They weren't even getting paid for this. Jenna's just exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I don't lie, oh't lie anyway. It was
Speaker 1: worth the eleven o'clock I'll go heading home. Its right
Speaker 1: for me. Yes, I don't see eleven o'clock very often. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some music. This is season three, episode sixteen,
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Gleever.
Speaker 2: I have such specific memories and non memories of this
Speaker 2: and we'll we'll talk about it when we arrived there.
Speaker 2: But it was funny. I was like, why is my
Speaker 2: memory working this way with this episode? And then I
Speaker 2: saw the scenes happening and in real time could remember
Speaker 2: the feeling and I don't. I can't always do that
Speaker 2: most of the time, I can't, but I remember the
Speaker 2: feeling of how I felt during these scenes, Like That's
Speaker 2: why my memory is like this for this episode.
Speaker 1: That's so interesting.
Speaker 2: It was really strangers, very out of body.
Speaker 1: Okay, you.
Speaker 2: Need speaking of way, have you heard Beyonce's new country songs?
Speaker 1: No, Jenna, I know. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I look to you for all this, Jenna. Did you
Speaker 2: watch the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2: And did you see the Beyonce commercial?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh god, Okay, I don't know how we're going to
Speaker 2: get through this now.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was chasing a toddler, Okay. I sat
Speaker 1: down for usher, a toddler and me and and over tiler.
Speaker 1: It's probably the two times I looked at the screen.
Speaker 2: Okay, fine, fair, I'll allow it. I'll send you a
Speaker 2: link after this, Okay, I think you Okay. Anyway, Saturday Night,
Speaker 2: Gleaver in the News this week in twenty twelve and
Speaker 2: April seventeenth, We Are Young is still number one by fun,
Speaker 2: I mean also crazy that Jack Antonoff isn't fun. And
Speaker 2: then they had this like gigantic album one best new artist,
Speaker 2: but they're not new, like they've all they're all season
Speaker 2: musicians have been around for forever, right, and Jack Antonov
Speaker 2: becomes the go to producer for all things great female music,
Speaker 2: right like shortly after this water launching pad. Yeah, right, crazy,
Speaker 2: that is crazy anyway, the number one movie Hunger Games
Speaker 2: still you know, we're just keeping it the same because
Speaker 2: it is a gigantic snapshot. I feel like Hunger Games
Speaker 2: and We Are Young were just huge. Yeah, they changed
Speaker 2: music because of Jack Antonov. It changed movies because Jennifer
Speaker 2: Lawrence became a bona fide movie star after this.
Speaker 1: Right. I remember when we were at the SAG Awards
Speaker 1: and Winter's Bone just had it was a season of
Speaker 1: Winter's Bone, and she came on the carpet. Nobody really
Speaker 1: knew who she was, like unless you'd seen the movie,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, she's the one to look out for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then she filmed this Silver Lenning's Playbook and
Speaker 2: something else and none of them had come out yet
Speaker 2: all of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah did it girl? Glee is this week on April nineteenth,
Speaker 1: and this episode aired on April seventeenth, twenty twelve. Cupcake
Speaker 1: Wars was filmed on the set. It was season six,
Speaker 1: episode three, Cupcake Champions Glee, and this was Aaron May
Speaker 1: and the cup artists created sweets inspired by Glee, and
Speaker 1: then the waitning treats were served to the Glee cast
Speaker 1: and crew. Now I have zero memory of this, but
Speaker 1: Kevin had been looking at a picture in a document
Speaker 1: where you are with Amber, the host of Cupcake Wars
Speaker 1: and holding cookcakes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you eat to do cooking? Of course I did.
Speaker 2: I also very much looks like I am in a
Speaker 2: shirt I borrowed from wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a like a purple piano project exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a random, random shirt. Amber looks like
Speaker 2: she's in costume, right, Because we also did this for
Speaker 2: Master Chef and so I loved this sort of thing
Speaker 2: because it was a break in the day. We got
Speaker 2: some treats and I ran out there and ate everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not a cocaine crowl but I am a
Speaker 1: Mastership girl. So we'll get there. But I don't love cupcakes,
Speaker 1: but you like sweets. Yeah, And the fact that like
Speaker 1: another show was doing a Glee theme show. It just
Speaker 1: felt crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like these things didn't really ever feel real old,
Speaker 2: like you never got really used to it.
Speaker 1: This was directed by Brad Beeker this episode, and there's
Speaker 1: that happens and Jay Groff comes back as Jesse Saint
Speaker 1: James and it's the first.
Speaker 2: Time he is an only time he's back and has
Speaker 2: no scenes with Leah. Well that's right, yeah, fun fact.
Speaker 1: So Alex Nolan makes his first appearance is Unique and
Speaker 1: tears that ship up. I mean, I was so nervous
Speaker 1: because I don't remember Alex coming into this episode and
Speaker 1: then you have that whole beautiful moment where you have
Speaker 1: out and you have a unique birth.
Speaker 2: And it's just funny, like that is Alex in real
Speaker 2: life all the time. And so to see Alex not
Speaker 2: being that first, it's like, Okay, we're acting, right, and
Speaker 2: then Unique happens. I'm like, and we're not acting. Alex
Speaker 2: is just like oozing oozing with charm and wit and
Speaker 2: just everyone knows like the stupid, just amount of talent
Speaker 2: right exactly, Like thank god Alex ended up on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank god right, so good and so fun and we
Speaker 1: just said the best time. It's it's crazy to me
Speaker 1: that he starts so early on because I really I
Speaker 1: just associate Alex with the new class. I do too,
Speaker 1: very much so because that's when we all kind of
Speaker 1: melded in a different way. Yeah, but man, oh man,
Speaker 1: Alex has does some bangers in this show, right.
Speaker 2: I was like, Yeah, let's just get this going. Can
Speaker 2: we get a highlight reel? Like, I just need to
Speaker 2: see all of the uniqueness.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's up there, all right, we gotta get
Speaker 1: him on. Let's talk about the songs in this episode.
Speaker 1: So can you do a lot of music? And it's
Speaker 1: all disco. You should be dancing by the Beg's Night Fever,
Speaker 1: Disco Inferno by the Tramps. If I can't have you,
Speaker 1: Beg's How Deep Is Your Love? Beg's Boogie Shoes by
Speaker 1: Casey in the Sunshine Band, More than a Woman, Beg's
Speaker 1: and Staying Alive Way for It, the Beg's. Damn, that
Speaker 1: is crazy.
Speaker 2: That's so many hits.
Speaker 1: I don't think I realized it was all of Beg's.
Speaker 2: I mean, because the whole thing is based off of
Speaker 2: that soundtrack. And the Beaches to the soundtrack and.
Speaker 1: Right, right, right, It's.
Speaker 2: Just it's a little funny. I feel like that we're
Speaker 2: doing a tribute episode for Saturday Night Fever, Right, that
Speaker 2: feels funny to me.
Speaker 1: Right, And like we've been on like this, like Top forty,
Speaker 1: like Streak recently, lots of current music, lots of pop music.
Speaker 1: So this feels like a departure from the norm of
Speaker 1: season three.
Speaker 2: But reminiscent of the earlier seasons because seventies hit and
Speaker 2: Satay Night Fever was a gigantic cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think also the fact that, like Will, we
Speaker 1: associate like a lot of disco with Will Schuster to
Speaker 1: use that clip.
Speaker 2: Of young Will that was shot during the pilot.
Speaker 1: Right, they used it and cut it where they shot
Speaker 1: it and cut it. Yeah, Okay, there's some fun facts
Speaker 1: in this episode.
Speaker 2: My favorite part. I love fun facts.
Speaker 1: Let's go tell me.
Speaker 2: Okay. This is the first tribute episode not written by Ryan, Well,
Speaker 2: not to Ryan on the page. Yes, but Ryan's in
Speaker 2: that room telling everybody what's happening.
Speaker 1: That's what always.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the second episode to be a tribute
Speaker 2: to a film, after a Rocky Horror, Glee show.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: It's the second episode to be a tribute to an album,
Speaker 2: the first being Rumors. Obviously best fun fact Jenna, Uh,
Speaker 2: do you want to say it? No, you say it?
Speaker 2: The disco floor used in the choir room is the
Speaker 2: actual disco floor from Saturday Night Fever. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: really cool. And I don't actually know that I remembered that,
Speaker 2: but now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: we knew that. When we were shooting. I think we
Speaker 2: knew that, and I think by that point we were like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, that's crazy. But also, all right, this
Speaker 2: is a long day. That's my feeling of this episode
Speaker 2: was just like.
Speaker 1: One really long day. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because there's not I mean you can tell
Speaker 2: by the song list going into this episode there's not
Speaker 2: a lot outside of the songs take up a majority
Speaker 2: of this episode, that's right. And this dialogue scenes are
Speaker 2: very expeditious. They trim the fat, you say only what
Speaker 2: you need to say, and then we're out into another song.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's efficient because there's this not a lot.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of time, No a lot happening. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Blaine is seen in class with both Mike and
Speaker 1: Brittany despite being younger. Yes, we can call that honors
Speaker 1: a pe whatever. You know. I took classes with younger
Speaker 1: and older students when I was in school. When asked
Speaker 1: how old Blaine actually was, Ryan said, Blaine is ambiguous.
Speaker 1: Darren had said that he had no idea how old
Speaker 1: Blaine is, as when he first joined the show, he
Speaker 1: was told Blaine was a year older than Kurt, but
Speaker 1: then was somehow a year younger when he transferred. So
Speaker 1: beat that because no, And and when Ian was talking
Speaker 1: about it, I remember he was like he was supposed
Speaker 1: to kind of be this like time doesn't really existing,
Speaker 1: and that's and I think that's why they It was
Speaker 1: started that way. And then when we started getting into
Speaker 1: like talking about senior year and juniors and blah blah
Speaker 1: blah and all of these things like it it had
Speaker 1: to be and so a lot of these things were ambiguous,
Speaker 1: Like Ryan said, Blaine yes, and that's how we found
Speaker 1: out we were juniors and comic gon on a panel
Speaker 1: in front of hundreds of people. This is the second
Speaker 1: time that Quinn doesn't speak at all in the episode,
Speaker 1: and the first time was in the Spanish Teacher If.
Speaker 2: Only we could say the same thing about ourselves.
Speaker 1: Rory and Sugar are not in this episode, shame.
Speaker 2: And we missed them.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Curt is.
Speaker 1: The only one to interact with all the Glee Projects
Speaker 1: season one characters as of this episode.
Speaker 2: Chris is the best acting partner, like put them in there,
Speaker 2: put them in training, wheels off deep. Chris is warm
Speaker 2: and hilarious.
Speaker 1: May get better. We'll always make it better too. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: when Will was talking to Thing about his feature in
Speaker 1: the classroom, that amazing, wonderful scene. You can see he's
Speaker 1: already begun teaching history as the line of succession is
Speaker 1: written on the board behind Will and arrious history posters
Speaker 1: cover the walls.
Speaker 2: Interesting. This is the first time another show choir competition
Speaker 2: is seen that New Directions does not participate in. And
Speaker 2: More Than a Woman is the first song this season
Speaker 2: that features only the active couples of the Glee Club
Speaker 2: at the time of filming, Britannaventel, Tyke and Clay.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the third time Sue is seen in
Speaker 2: an outfit not related to a track suit. It's like
Speaker 2: once per season that's all you get.
Speaker 1: Very very rare sighting.
Speaker 2: Yes, and there's some cool behind the scenes stuff. My
Speaker 2: favorite there's this time lapse video, yeah, of Disco Inferno
Speaker 2: being filmed. Yeah, Harry got into time laps at some point, yes,
Speaker 2: and it.
Speaker 1: Was probably this episode. Yes, Harry would always document a lot,
Speaker 1: he'd always have his camera up and document it well.
Speaker 1: And then Darren as well. So they have a lot
Speaker 1: of footage, a lot of deep footage in the vault between.
Speaker 2: Two of them, Like Megan Doyle, there's everything fault. Yes,
Speaker 2: So this episode, the Glee Club does disco and a
Speaker 2: tribute to Saturday Night Fever in order to help Finn, Santana,
Speaker 2: and Mercedes figure out what to do after they graduate.
Speaker 2: Will's assignment is songs from the movie that would show
Speaker 2: how they feel about their lives. It's a little crazy
Speaker 2: the premise, right, like forcing these kids in front of
Speaker 2: everybody to think about again, what are these like monumental
Speaker 2: life changing decisions and trying to rush that is insane.
Speaker 1: But you know, well, clocks a different it was a
Speaker 1: different time and gap year wasn't even a thing yet. Kevin,
Speaker 1: where you it does seem a little antiquated, like you
Speaker 1: have to know what you want to do. But I
Speaker 1: think we can focus what we can focus on. What
Speaker 1: I think maybe mister Shu was trying to get at
Speaker 1: was like the motivation to try to figure it versus
Speaker 1: like figuring it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it is nice to see Will
Speaker 2: teaching investing.
Speaker 1: In yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think what I best at too was yes,
Speaker 2: investing in like personal lives when it's not crossing a
Speaker 2: weird boundary, right, And like the storyline with each of
Speaker 2: them is ends up being really special. It's important to
Speaker 2: these characters going forward.
Speaker 1: That's right. Okay, So overall, I think all of these
Speaker 1: storylines fit into this one storyline, which graduation is coming up.
Speaker 1: We open up with Will saying like he's a little
Speaker 1: nervous for some of the seniors who don't seem to
Speaker 1: have a plan for their future yet or have thought
Speaker 1: about it. And so the theme for Nationals is vintage
Speaker 1: I guess, which I don't know that I even knew
Speaker 1: that while we were shooting. And so for inspo, we'll
Speaker 1: decide to do Saturday Night Fever for this.
Speaker 2: Week, and you get an opening number two you should
Speaker 2: be dancing with Blaine and Brittany and Mike, and it
Speaker 2: comes in like that doesn't really happen. Also, like the
Speaker 2: structure of this episode, I think because there is so
Speaker 2: much music, like You're just slam here's an opening musical
Speaker 2: number which feels like an actual musical, which is fun.
Speaker 2: It does put you into that tribute episode mode. It's
Speaker 2: a little Michael, Yeah, reminiscent of Michael. I think we
Speaker 2: should talk about this Mercedes storyline. Oh Mercedes. So Mercedes
Speaker 2: is part of the trio that Will is sort of
Speaker 2: putting on blasted from everybody, right, And I was personally
Speaker 2: just very happy that Amber was getting a storyline right
Speaker 2: like this, right, there was no Tater Tots involved.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, it's just it's being.
Speaker 2: Kids, yes, And it's like there's more Sam Sades, which
Speaker 2: we know we love and again yeah, just so cute.
Speaker 2: And she decides that she gets up there and she's,
Speaker 2: oh my god, can we talk about that number? I mean,
Speaker 2: k H Disco Inferno.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy. I remember watching it being like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, they.
Speaker 2: Were a full girl group, the three of them.
Speaker 1: I love them, We love them like they're.
Speaker 2: An actual like that is the Troubletones basically, yes, and
Speaker 2: like they fire is there just feel I keep thinking
Speaker 2: about you know what when We've had these episodes with
Speaker 2: fan questions and fans coming on about how the level
Speaker 2: at which some of the Glee Club was performing completely
Speaker 2: set unrealistic expectations for what people should expect high school
Speaker 2: to hear. And that's all you could think about watching
Speaker 2: them because it felt so perfect and polished, like this
Speaker 2: is an actual record, like put it on the radio,
Speaker 2: put them on tour. There's no notes.
Speaker 1: No notes. Do you remember we shot? Do you think?
Speaker 1: I can't remember, But it feels like sitting in the
Speaker 1: choir room that day when we're sitting like you know,
Speaker 1: the seats are a little bit below and we're watching
Speaker 1: It was a Saturday.
Speaker 2: It might have been we started to get into that.
Speaker 1: Territory here Saturday shooting when we had when we were behind. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: I love to see that and her scene like just
Speaker 1: sort of owning up to it, like I want to
Speaker 1: be one of the greats.
Speaker 2: I want to be a recording artist. I need to
Speaker 2: to start. Yes, which is so real and all these
Speaker 2: entertain things are I mean that can be applied to anything,
Speaker 2: and it was. It's always nice when the Glee clup,
Speaker 2: which is so fantastical and like sarcastic does some of
Speaker 2: that stuff for It's like, okay, I don't who knows
Speaker 2: how to do that? You know how times you and
Speaker 2: I get asked like how does somebody find an agent
Speaker 2: or a manager?
Speaker 1: I know, I know it is true that Mercedes is
Speaker 1: the most relatable I think of the group, well, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say most, but I feel like it
Speaker 1: was for me the most relatable. I want to move
Speaker 1: to LA or I want to go pursue this, but like,
Speaker 1: where do I start? It's very scary versus like a
Speaker 1: Rachel who knows exactly what she wants, exactly where she's going,
Speaker 1: exactly where she's aiming, or what her goals are. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, she's the minority in this of like yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I really liked this storyline of somebody who
Speaker 1: had goals other than Broadway and musical theater. That's kind
Speaker 1: of like the world we were in with Clee a
Speaker 1: lot and Mercedes, you know, being honest about it. But
Speaker 1: then Sam posting it Sweetcord posting these the video of
Speaker 1: her so she could see like how she impacts others,
Speaker 1: you know, and not just be like a recording artist
Speaker 1: was really so sweet. Why can't we have more.
Speaker 2: Of them true to the times, like that was just
Speaker 2: starting people getting famous off of YouTube, off of vine.
Speaker 2: Never mind where we are today, Oh yeah, forget it.
Speaker 2: One of my biggest pet peeves about musicals or movies
Speaker 2: that involve the music business is some of the tropes
Speaker 2: and cliches and how it's like, I don't think anybody
Speaker 2: working in the music business was a part of making
Speaker 2: these movies. But Mercedes saying that and how she doesn't
Speaker 2: know how to get into it is perfect, right, is
Speaker 2: so grounded in the realities of the entertainment business. And
Speaker 2: Sam just like posting that thing and they're not overly
Speaker 2: doing it. She had four hundred and twenty something likes
Speaker 2: or views or comments. Yes, and so it was nice
Speaker 2: that it was as crazy and out of this world
Speaker 2: as Glee can be. That that felt actually very realistic. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I agree, and aspirational and something that anybody could do right.
Speaker 2: Obviously not anybody can sing like Amber, but the premise
Speaker 2: of it, it's like, yeah, these are the real questions
Speaker 2: and these are the some of the ways to go
Speaker 2: about doing it. I just really liked it. I was
Speaker 2: very happy. It was refreshing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the whole storyline of like kids not
Speaker 1: knowing what they want to do with their lives and
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out and changing their minds and
Speaker 1: you know, these three different perspectives of like or approaches
Speaker 1: to things was a really relatable topic. And this is
Speaker 1: why I get like why you love the the more
Speaker 1: high school drama. Yeah, and the reality of like the
Speaker 1: stakes being high because they were for us at that point,
Speaker 1: like everybody was doing their college applications and what were
Speaker 1: they going to major in? It It meant what you
Speaker 1: were going to do for the rest of your life,
Speaker 1: and nobody told you, like it probably won't be what
Speaker 1: you do for the rest of your life, you know.
Speaker 2: And it feels like the clock is ticking, especially when
Speaker 2: you have people like the Rachel's who know what they're
Speaker 2: doing and they're talking about what they're doing all the time.
Speaker 2: And as much as you want to distract yourself and
Speaker 2: be like I'm fine, I have time, it feels like
Speaker 2: there is this countdown, in this impending doom of like
Speaker 2: times running out. I knock out right because it feels
Speaker 2: like it's closing in. There are submission deadlines. What are
Speaker 2: you going to do? What are you going to be
Speaker 2: you're only comparing yourself to other people around you.
Speaker 1: Well, that leads us to Finn, because thing is directly
Speaker 1: impacted by Rachel, who does know what she wants and
Speaker 1: is so clear on it that she's like get on
Speaker 1: board or see you later, you know kind of thing,
Speaker 1: And so he's feeling very lost. Obviously, he decides he's
Speaker 1: not going to move to La with Puck because that's
Speaker 1: not his dream. But you know, and to be fair,
Speaker 1: Rachel says, like this isn't you don't have to do
Speaker 1: what you have to do it for yourself, not just
Speaker 1: for me, but it is really to like he's feeling
Speaker 1: the pressure of somebody knowing so deeply and so clearly
Speaker 1: what they want and he doesn't quite know. And you
Speaker 1: don't want to be affected by that either, right, you
Speaker 1: don't want to be like influenced by that, I think.
Speaker 1: So they all try to help Finn and his number,
Speaker 1: his disco dancing, it's just Corey, Like I think it's
Speaker 1: funny because when you think of all Corey I always
Speaker 1: think about like him trying and dance for her soul,
Speaker 1: so serious, trying to get it right, not really understanding
Speaker 1: like the concept of it, and the only time was right, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, and like sometimes like really frustrated and so
Speaker 1: it's like so many when somebody says in the Eugenior
Speaker 1: like I can't remp my head around it, like some
Speaker 1: people like dance just isn't that. And I think for
Speaker 1: Corey though, was not. It's not what it was in
Speaker 1: his fortype, but at some point I think like I
Speaker 1: think he embraced it at some point and was like, okay,
Speaker 1: just like use it right, Finn's not the dancer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they wrote for it too, which was nice.
Speaker 2: So then those moments like we could cheer like ourselves.
Speaker 2: The characters are cheering for Finn.
Speaker 1: And we're cheering for Corey. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But his dancing the storyline was I thought so beautiful
Speaker 2: and so beautifully acted.
Speaker 1: I mean, the idea that he could take this any
Speaker 1: storyline that he has and it can be so minuscule,
Speaker 1: so small and even not really supposed to be the
Speaker 1: main storyline of the episode, and he made it though.
Speaker 2: What made it sure felt like it was That's what
Speaker 2: that's my takeaway from this episode. It's not even disco, No, it's.
Speaker 1: In learning what he wants to do. Watching Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Fever realizing. But that scene with him and Will was
Speaker 1: so beautiful.
Speaker 2: The writers like really went in on these storylines like
Speaker 2: they fit each character perfectly. Yes, and they all ended
Speaker 2: up with something really nice, yeah and heartwarming at the end.
Speaker 2: But they gave each of these characters, especially Finn, these
Speaker 2: moments to really like challenge the characters. It's challenging Corey
Speaker 2: as an actor, and challenge the audience to like see
Speaker 2: these characters in a different light and a more relatable light.
Speaker 2: Scene with Will for both of them, I thought they
Speaker 2: both just did really great, great job.
Speaker 1: Yeah when inceans, I mean I did one of those
Speaker 1: quizes online. I was supposed to tell you what job
Speaker 1: you'd be good at, and my result was impetitive eating champion.
Speaker 1: I was like me too, Yeah I could do that.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed doing more than a woman.
Speaker 2: It was so cute.
Speaker 1: It was really sweet, and I have such vivid memories
Speaker 1: because everyone I was coming off my back injury and
Speaker 1: so this was like dancing again and I was like, God,
Speaker 1: damn it. But I was in flats. You notice they
Speaker 1: put me in all flats because I couldn't wear anything
Speaker 1: with a remote heel at all or any kind of incline.
Speaker 1: But we did this number on the wheel dance floor
Speaker 1: and you know the circles when they looks like you're
Speaker 1: like spinning and they're doing the close ups. It was
Speaker 1: Andrew's camera on this like sea stand that just kind
Speaker 1: of turned like a like a carousel. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: just followed it. So we're like staring into the camera
Speaker 1: with Andrew behind us, like supposed to be looking at
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be looking at Harry, and you're straight
Speaker 1: into the camera. So weird leave it to Breadbeaker to
Speaker 1: do shots like that. But it was so weird, so funny.
Speaker 1: But we all stood around village when each person went
Speaker 1: and we were like cheering for everybody. It was really fun.
Speaker 2: It was really great. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved it too. I enjoyed shooting
Speaker 1: that one. What did it make you think of when
Speaker 1: you did it? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: I thought it was that scene Titanic, you know, and
Speaker 2: they're dancing on the table. Every time one of those
Speaker 2: things I think about its Titanic when.
Speaker 1: They like spin really fast and the Yeah, I'm disappointed
Speaker 1: I didn't think of them.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked, But it's okay. It's out of the field. Damn.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I got it. I got it now. I
Speaker 1: was probably thinking that when we were shooting it. Probably
Speaker 1: I was so excited.
Speaker 2: My main memory from this episode is your back injury.
Speaker 2: Really oh yeah, just being so calm because I didn't
Speaker 2: really do shit in this episode. So I was sitting
Speaker 2: there like around dance floor, watching everything, and so I
Speaker 2: was when you don't have anything to do. Oh, there
Speaker 2: was a full shot of me where I am not
Speaker 2: present behind the eyes. Oh, I'm like looking off because
Speaker 2: you know, normally, like I pride myself and they can
Speaker 2: cut to me and I'll have something for this. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's the thing I got caught Jenny. I would because
Speaker 2: I came on you. Okay, can't you should still be acting,
Speaker 2: you know, like, yeah, I was fully not present because
Speaker 2: I had nothing to do. So I was completely just
Speaker 2: checked out and I was and you were coming to
Speaker 2: me to talk about your back injury. I was watching
Speaker 2: you in the flats and I was just like, how's
Speaker 2: it going. I was scared because you can't put Jenna.
Speaker 2: Jenna was pregnant doing drag race and doing the splits,
Speaker 2: like if you put her on stage or in front
Speaker 2: of a camera. She's going to go full I know.
Speaker 1: You can't not. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2: So I remember being very worried and then bored.
Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair, that's funny. Well, I appreciate your worry.
Speaker 1: You're concerned.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, Jane had a back injury. It's
Speaker 2: always yellow. I attach it to Halo sunshine. You have
Speaker 2: an injury injury. This disco, I don't know why the.
Speaker 1: Yellow comes to it's like yellow alert. Yeah. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: these numbers were really fun to do. Even though there
Speaker 1: was it just felt like it still feels out of
Speaker 1: place for where we were in season last episode music.
Speaker 2: Wise, music a little jarring, but it was fun to
Speaker 2: like because the Beg's. You also realize the Beg's are
Speaker 2: not a group to necessarily cover unless you're doing a
Speaker 2: very different version, because those bitches could sing in like
Speaker 2: a very specific way.
Speaker 1: It's high. It is so high.
Speaker 2: Was do you remember recording it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like the girls at an easier time probably, Well.
Speaker 1: Right, that's it. I don't think they are peculiar for us.
Speaker 1: So the guy is that's a lot for them, that's
Speaker 1: a lot. You really have to like clench your butt
Speaker 1: just get up. That's like a true singing thing, like
Speaker 1: sometimes you just got a clencher. But yeah, okay, Vinn
Speaker 1: decides that he actually does want to become an actor.
Speaker 1: He watches Saturday Night Fever, he watches the movie.
Speaker 2: He actually does the lesson, probably the only one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely didn't watch it. He definitely he wants
Speaker 1: to go to the actress studio, which is ironic because
Speaker 1: we've said before they were just on Corey was just
Speaker 1: on the Actors Studio with a few of the other
Speaker 1: cast mates, so it felt like life imitating art, art
Speaker 1: imitating life.
Speaker 2: A little meta.
Speaker 1: But he's going to be an actor, which I love,
Speaker 1: and he's going to go to New York for himself
Speaker 1: and to meet you with Rachel See.
Speaker 2: And that's also being influenced by the people you're around,
Speaker 2: because he's still in the arts, but doing his own thing.
Speaker 1: Right, not musical theater, not a real actor. And then Santana,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, just wants to be famous.
Speaker 2: Just one number is this like beautiful, this beautiful number?
Speaker 1: And then this monologue.
Speaker 2: I did not remember what was coming, and I about
Speaker 2: fell out of the chair because like, of course, this
Speaker 2: is what she would say and of course it's another
Speaker 2: like it's probably true but also probably a defense mechanism.
Speaker 2: It's all very Santana.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it is very Santana. Oh god, very funny.
Speaker 2: And Brittany's response to it, M this sex tape. Oh,
Speaker 2: Artie the first one to come in and comment on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you're the least threatening of the guys.
Speaker 1: So I think that's why they have you do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know he has been coming and say it.
Speaker 1: It's it would be really bad, like with you. It's
Speaker 1: just not that. Why, Jenna, why you answer that yourself, Kevin,
Speaker 1: He says, okay, yeah, okay, so exactly. Yes. So Brittany
Speaker 1: releases a sex tape they made and uh to help her,
Speaker 1: but she says, everybody whose famous has eight and infamous
Speaker 1: sex tape, And Santana kind of was like, Brittany, why
Speaker 1: did you do that? Very kindly though very kindly. She's
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: I loved how Santana dealt with Brittany. Yeah, yeah, meant
Speaker 2: to No nobody's reaction except Santana's. That was a deep
Speaker 2: understanding of Brittany.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she thought she genuinely thought she was doing
Speaker 1: something good for her.
Speaker 2: You know Matt Hodson gets a lot of ship for
Speaker 2: some of this. Hmmm, but his name is also on
Speaker 2: this script and the right thing is going down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very good. And then in the end, which is
Speaker 1: very nice, Brittany and Sue helps Santanna get a full scholarship,
Speaker 1: a full ride to the University of Lowville for cheering,
Speaker 1: and even though cheering isn't exactly what she wants to do,
Speaker 1: She's going to college. It's a way in. Yeah, go Brittany,
Speaker 1: Sue streak. Yeah, yeah, I'll take it. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: last very long, I don't think.
Speaker 2: But it never does. But she's doing life changing things
Speaker 2: for people here. This is great, This is true. She
Speaker 2: is pregnant, she's feeling feeling the feelings. Now you Nick,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Alex and you all get in here.
Speaker 2: Look again, I don't know what type of security or
Speaker 2: lack thereof McKinley had, because people were just walking in
Speaker 2: and out of the school, my school, my middle school. Wait,
Speaker 2: before Gleet, this would never have been allowed to happen.
Speaker 2: You couldn't just walk in and out of school without
Speaker 2: like checking in and stuff. Anyway, Wade shows up in
Speaker 2: the hallway, introduces themselves to Curt and Mercedes says, the
Speaker 2: biggest fan, and they love it. This trio also magical.
Speaker 1: I love the three of them.
Speaker 2: And asking them like coming to them like queer entertainment senseys,
Speaker 2: what do I do? Because Wade wants to perform as Unique,
Speaker 2: who is a woman and dreams of being Unique and
Speaker 2: knows the power that Unique has. And then Sue catches
Speaker 2: wind of it and tells Kurt and Mercedes to encourage
Speaker 2: Wade to do it because she thinks it's going to
Speaker 2: sabotage them. So you're right, the yeah, and that will
Speaker 2: knock Vocal Journaline now and then New Directions has a
Speaker 2: better chance at winning nationals. YadA, YadA, YadA. And they
Speaker 2: try and they give Wade the shoes, the high heel shoes.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, go do it, which is a little
Speaker 2: you know, it's like I couldn't believe they actually did
Speaker 2: it because their intent was bad.
Speaker 1: Right they did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Because at first they said, don't do it because,
Speaker 2: like we know, the ridicule in this very conservative place,
Speaker 2: You're just going to put yourself through a lot that
Speaker 2: you don't need to, right, And then after Sue encouraging
Speaker 2: them to, you know, do the back. They do it. However, Unique, Unique.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Like, are you kidding?
Speaker 2: Weak?
Speaker 1: Coming in hat?
Speaker 2: That's Tony Win or Alex No for you on that stage,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's you see that, and it's someone who's undeniable.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: It's beyond just the character when you're able to do
Speaker 2: that as a performer at any point, like wrap it up,
Speaker 2: that call to day that, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's go home. Just everybody else go home.
Speaker 2: And like John Groff getting on that stage trying to
Speaker 2: yell Unique was crazy crazy. Also, why were those wings full?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, because it was everybody
Speaker 2: just shocked that, I guess, honest, Unique, I guess.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: But do all these other people know who Wade or
Speaker 2: Unique is?
Speaker 1: No? I don't think so. Maybe Mercedes and that called everybody.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: No, But a star is born.
Speaker 1: Well star was born, and we had the infamous Johnathan
Speaker 1: Groff spitting oh yeah, oh yeah, we love it, we
Speaker 1: love it. Alex Noles, this is only the beginning.
Speaker 2: This is an Alex Nel fan club over here.
Speaker 1: Trouble turns no Alex Nole. Yeah, let's read these numbers.
Speaker 2: Kevin, Oh my god, Okay, so you should be dancing.
Speaker 2: I give it a B plus. Oh you give it more?
Speaker 1: Are you giving any minus for the dancing? I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the dancing was really nice. Yeah, but I'm giving it
Speaker 1: a B plus and the plus is for Darren's splits.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he really kept up with them, he did.
Speaker 1: I feel I just want to dance. Nobody wants to
Speaker 1: dance in between them. No, exactly, he really did.
Speaker 2: Okay, night Fever B B B for Beg's, B for
Speaker 2: Beg's and BE for me being bored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, during Let's Go Inferno, A plus, A plus plus. Yes,
Speaker 1: if I can't have you A plus. I feel like
Speaker 1: my back was really bad during that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I think you were miserable during that
Speaker 2: episode because of that.
Speaker 1: I remember sitting in those seats being like, please somebody
Speaker 1: help me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I remember you being in pain, pain a lot. I
Speaker 2: think you even had like the medic might have come
Speaker 2: to help you a couple of times.
Speaker 1: You're so right, I had these like light king patches. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was. I was really struggling. Still. It wasn't this
Speaker 1: wasn't like the up and up.
Speaker 2: This was you weren't out of the world deep in it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like it got irritated like very quickly during night fever,
Speaker 2: so like it was immediately back on.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, was that even in that number?
Speaker 1: And then I was like I could have not been. Yeah, okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: we digress. How deep is your love? B plus? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: solid number. I love that song. Yeah Boogey Shoes, I
Speaker 1: mean A plus plus.
Speaker 2: That's just wild, more than a woman a a mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Staying alivee with the white suits. We were, uh, we
Speaker 2: were giving it. I remember my back must have been.
Speaker 2: I have a bunch of photos from this this number,
Speaker 2: like behind the scenes, like one of my trailer and suits,
Speaker 2: and I like the suits.
Speaker 1: I remember I must have been on a happy day
Speaker 1: that day, like a good back day, because I don't
Speaker 1: we were all given it.
Speaker 2: So what I think happened for you was, I think
Speaker 2: we only had that floor for like a day or two,
Speaker 2: and I think we shot all of that and that's
Speaker 2: when you're back was not okay.
Speaker 1: Because they were not going to all out. I was
Speaker 1: in most of them. Yeah, you're right, You're right. We
Speaker 1: did only have that flare for a few days. Okay,
Speaker 1: I give it a a B plus.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: It's fine. It's it's typical. I think that's why.
Speaker 2: It's like, how many what are you going to do
Speaker 2: with another disco number?
Speaker 1: Right? Put us in cool, cute looking suits and give
Speaker 1: us some good choreography. This episode is like if you
Speaker 1: love disco music, great, we had some great performances. The
Speaker 1: storyline was good.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Did I love this episode?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not really, but it's one of those ones where
Speaker 2: sometimes the music makes up for the storylines. This is
Speaker 2: one of those ones where I think the storylines that
Speaker 2: were happening made up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think disco has been back in a big way
Speaker 2: for the past couple of years, and this episode now
Speaker 2: seems much more prevalent and like important then back then.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Okay, let's do some tarty takes, auchies, cringe moments.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the sex.
Speaker 2: That's just you can't do that. You can't. It's I
Speaker 2: think that's illegal.
Speaker 1: It is okay. She could have filed the lawsuit, but
Speaker 1: instead she was very understanding.
Speaker 2: There were some mature moments in here, you know, there
Speaker 2: were oh yeah, okay, best dance move. There was a
Speaker 2: lot of dancing you.
Speaker 1: Should be dancing I think was the best one.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean they danced non stop. I mean Boogie
Speaker 2: Shoots was also really good. I know, but I want
Speaker 2: to give it to you should be dancing, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's give it to Jaron. Yeah, okay. Best song.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm going to go with this in Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: obviously we're biased.
Speaker 1: Yeah there, Okay, best for Ruins by a prop.
Speaker 2: I think the disco floor.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, Kevin. I'm going with the VHS tape.
Speaker 1: Oh that's very good. Nine watching seeing that, Well, the
Speaker 1: kids today would be like, what's half? And that hurts? Okay.
Speaker 1: Best line. There's a lot Sam's lying about. You ain't
Speaker 1: no skim milk, baby, You're the cream rising to the top.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's absolutely cringey or absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Brittany had some crazy ass lines. The
Speaker 2: number one I see how you keep your car, so
Speaker 2: you could totally be on hoarders. You just need to
Speaker 2: start storing your poops in the trunk and I'm sure
Speaker 2: they'll book you. Also, the thing about the bull testicle,
Speaker 2: I drove all the way Spencer.
Speaker 1: You need it.
Speaker 2: You know it came with a pair, but I got hungry,
Speaker 2: so it tastes just like a chicken testicle. It feels
Speaker 2: like a hitchcock. I feel like a hitchcock was written
Speaker 2: that joke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely.
Speaker 2: Also I think. Okay, Sue fully reads will It says, oh,
Speaker 2: let's be honest, William, you've been out of ideas since
Speaker 2: Madonna week. Why don't you just embrace that lazy, horrible,
Speaker 2: triackly style of teaching and the signs of a famous album,
Speaker 2: you know, calling ourselves out, you.
Speaker 1: Know, let's do it, let's do it. Yeah, performance MVP Croy, Yes,
Speaker 1: pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so the ship we found a TikTok this week.
Speaker 2: This is a pretty special one. I have been sent
Speaker 2: this for the past forty eight hours tame by everyone. Yes,
Speaker 2: Amber sent this to me. Yes, and it is justin
Speaker 2: fukum hm doing the best, most accurate impression of Rachel Berry.
Speaker 1: It's the detail, the eye movements like it's so well
Speaker 1: thought out and very funny.
Speaker 2: The detail like everything, the editing, the music, the outfits,
Speaker 2: the storyline, like what all right?
Speaker 1: Well that is thank you for sharing that with us. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Next week is dance with Somebody. It's Whitney, Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Oh God, I sneak peeked into it. After watching this episode,
Speaker 1: was like, oh my.
Speaker 2: God, what did you see? What did you sneak peak?
Speaker 1: How I know?
Speaker 2: Oh god, I'm not ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really good. Okay, come back next week. Thanks
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