Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what You Really miss podcast, The
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Speaker 1: sound good. And then our very wonderful sound team, a
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Speaker 1: mic goes crazy, so that you guys can listen with
Speaker 1: your listening ears. I'm losing my mind today as opposed
Speaker 1: you're not listening here exactly, No, truly, Okay. This is
Speaker 1: season three, episode seventeen, Dance with Somebody. This is the
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston tribute episode. Kevin, I don't know how we're
Speaker 1: on episode seventeen already crazy makes no running through these
Speaker 1: a lot faster than it takes to shoot them, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Well, that's for I am sure it feels
Speaker 1: so fast, right, exactly? Okay, this is the Whinny used
Speaker 1: in tribute episode. This is more of a character piece
Speaker 1: than a tribute episode, as one Ryan Murphy said, Is
Speaker 1: that right? Said that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, what was going on in the world, in the
Speaker 2: world somebody that I used to know. Oh, look, at
Speaker 2: that is number one in the country, shortly after it
Speaker 2: was featured on a Glee episode. I don't think Glee
Speaker 2: had anything to do with it, because that's already massive.
Speaker 1: Okay, we won't take the credit. No, not this number
Speaker 1: one movie, Think like a Man.
Speaker 2: Fun fact. I did not know that was based off
Speaker 2: of a Steve Harvey book. Oh, I remember that movie.
Speaker 2: I just did not know it was based off of
Speaker 2: Steve Harvey.
Speaker 1: Same. It was a big week in Glee news week.
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: We on April twenty sixth did our four number and
Speaker 2: it was seemingly a fan favorite. We've come to find
Speaker 2: out Paradise by the Dashboard Light. WHOA at Nashville, we
Speaker 2: were already a Paradise by the Dashboard Light. It feels
Speaker 2: that feels like season six, fully right, very strange. By
Speaker 2: that point, I think personally mentally, in our lives, we
Speaker 2: had gone through so much that it had felt like
Speaker 2: we had lived a lifetime. We had experienced the amount
Speaker 2: of things that people hoped to experience at some point
Speaker 2: in their lives, all within three years. It was just
Speaker 2: we had shot sixty something episodes, we had been on
Speaker 2: two tours, we had performed at the White House, been
Speaker 2: on Oprah.
Speaker 1: Been in a movie.
Speaker 2: It was all these weird things that you hope to
Speaker 2: achieve at some point in your life.
Speaker 1: All in one, one bundle of a three year experience.
Speaker 1: It truly was three years that felt like an eternity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think that's why it feels like it
Speaker 2: was season six to us, because we had just experienced
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 1: Right, well, this is okay, So Paradise by the Dashboard
Speaker 1: Light is coming up in season three in Nationals, which
Speaker 1: we will get to. On the road to Nationals, we
Speaker 1: come across a Whitney tribute that was directed by Paris Barclay.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, Oh Paris. Let me tell you, there were
Speaker 1: so many times in this episode that was like, ah,
Speaker 1: Paris reinventing the things that we've been doing already, do
Speaker 1: you know, like making a choir room number look different
Speaker 1: and exciting. That's right. Loved it the drama. Paris loved
Speaker 1: the drama on set. Okay, we have the wonderful Michael
Speaker 1: Melly back, Thank god, how will I know? By Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston just keep saying, by winning Houston, I want to
Speaker 1: dance with somebody. By Whitney Houston, saving all my love
Speaker 1: for You by Whitney Houston so emotional. By Whitney. It's
Speaker 1: not right, but it's okay. By Whitney. I have nothing
Speaker 1: and my love is your love. That's a lot of Whitney.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Whitney. But it's not even enough Whitney.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much more Whitney. You can't have
Speaker 1: enough Whitney. Where's the same StarSpangled banner even.
Speaker 2: Though no, no, no, no, look no.
Speaker 1: At least Richel was talking about it. Okay, yes again, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm great. We should never see anybody do that except
Speaker 1: for Whitney, Houstons Whitney Spears. This is Spears episode.
Speaker 2: This is the first time two consecutive tributes have aired
Speaker 2: in one season, and it's the second tribute episode that isn't.
Speaker 1: Written by Ryan Murphy. Oh you beat me to it.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm so sorry. That's okay. This is the second
Speaker 1: tribute to a deceased artist. In the first one was
Speaker 1: Michael Mark is not in It's not right, but it's okay.
Speaker 1: Maybe had a dentist appointment. Maybe it's also interesting because
Speaker 1: Puck had some interesting story like this episode, like very
Speaker 1: standalone one off episode scenes. If you will story of
Speaker 1: the gift bag. I'm I'm confused by the gift bag and.
Speaker 2: Scenes like that, right, And we were talking before it
Speaker 2: started recording with Sam Our, producer, about how that in
Speaker 2: the scene with Rachel and Santana making up, they are
Speaker 2: significant scenes, especially for those characters, but they're also sort
Speaker 2: of like what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: Like why?
Speaker 2: Kind of everyone's emotional.
Speaker 1: That's right, and it's a big everything is leading up
Speaker 1: to the graduation. Right, we have a few, you know,
Speaker 1: fifty or seventy days left like of school. So crazy
Speaker 1: that they're graduating this here, Like that's wild.
Speaker 2: I felt also reflective of I think personal relationships to
Speaker 2: an extent in real life. I think around that time too,
Speaker 2: there might have been some things in the press about
Speaker 2: people not getting along and all that, and I think
Speaker 2: this was sort of a way to like show that
Speaker 2: that wasn't true.
Speaker 1: Right, when Blaine and Encourage were talking about talking at
Speaker 1: Blaine's locker, the music note in his locker versus during
Speaker 1: a camera angle change continuity or switched it. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: weird unless they flipped it. Oh no, they couldn't have
Speaker 1: flipped it. Interesting, it's so strange, so weird. Okay, after
Speaker 1: so emotional Rachel Sis here in Santana wasted three years.
Speaker 1: That's saying you wet when they in fact sang three.
Speaker 1: It's really good season. So just a little mishap there,
Speaker 1: just a little some miscommunication. The lines of communication were missed,
Speaker 1: like literally they did one this year. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: oh lord. I really like them together though, always do,
Speaker 1: always do, And I think it's because I like the
Speaker 1: tension they have as characters, because they're both like leading
Speaker 1: ladies and are in competition but yet so different. So
Speaker 1: and we'll see more of that obviously in coming seasons
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Chris said I Have Nothing was the hardest song he
Speaker 2: had to do on the show thus far, and was
Speaker 2: really nervous about it. Yeah, I would believe that, terrified.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to touch a Whitney song. No, I
Speaker 2: I think it's very brave of anyone to do that,
Speaker 2: especially a ballad.
Speaker 1: I could hear Chris saying I didn't have a choice,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Like who wants that is an impossible mission.
Speaker 1: That's also a very high song for him. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know what Chris has. Chris has the acting
Speaker 1: chops to pull it off. He does he hit it
Speaker 1: because his voice is super high but also makes you
Speaker 1: feel it. So it's like, Okay, yes, he's not Whitney.
Speaker 1: Nobody is Whitney. And how dare they make a man
Speaker 1: try to sing that song? And how dare they not
Speaker 1: give her Amber more song? I mean, why was she
Speaker 1: just doing every song? All I want to hear is Whitney.
Speaker 1: That's all I want to hear. The same week as
Speaker 1: the Glee singles charted, Whitney's Whitney's the Greatest Hit Album
Speaker 1: jumped back to number one on the Billboard Top cattle
Speaker 1: Plug Albums chart and climbed seven spots number twenty and
Speaker 1: on the Billboard two hundred. I don't know, Kevin, we
Speaker 1: were talking about not taking credit, but.
Speaker 2: I don't know it was because they were like, I
Speaker 2: can't listen to these.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, to be fair, Whitney had just passed away,
Speaker 1: so like, of course everybody's listening to Whitney. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking credit for it either. Tell me what's going on.
Speaker 2: So this episode is about the Glee club covering Whitney
Speaker 2: Houston thanks to Will and M's uston plan, while they
Speaker 2: simultaneously come one step closer to their dream wedding.
Speaker 1: They get a wedding planner, wedding. Look, if you can
Speaker 1: afford it, build it into the budget, because let me
Speaker 1: tell you, your planning is or just don't have the
Speaker 1: wedding to stillope and save the money.
Speaker 2: I feel like to be a wedding planner you have
Speaker 2: to be a strong, strong, resilient person.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so. People bring out the weddings bring
Speaker 1: out the worst side of people aka bridezillas, And so
Speaker 1: you're dealing with people really high stakes and making life
Speaker 1: changing decisions that or transitions if you will, and like
Speaker 1: I just don't I bow down to them. Our wedding
Speaker 1: planners were amazing. But this is not about a wedding.
Speaker 1: This is about Glee. This week's assignment is Whitney Houston
Speaker 1: because the kids have not moved on from mourning the
Speaker 1: loss of Whitney and it's been quite a bit of time,
Speaker 1: and so she suggests a will that they should do Whitney.
Speaker 1: It's similarly in the way that she mourned Princess Diana.
Speaker 2: That opening number, Oh my God, sensational perfect an a
Speaker 2: cappella walk through the school so good. That was beautiful,
Speaker 2: And I think this is the key when you are
Speaker 2: doing covers, like with Michael, when you have an artist
Speaker 2: who is so good and like almost uncoverable. The different
Speaker 2: versions of the songs, the different takes on the songs,
Speaker 2: I think are the key to making them work. And
Speaker 2: when you don't do that, you're not really giving an
Speaker 2: opportunity to the person who's covering them to do their.
Speaker 1: Best right because you're competing with Whitney and no one
Speaker 1: can come close to Whitney. I mean, mom, would you
Speaker 1: want to try? No, unless you're being paid for it
Speaker 1: on a TV show, in a contract where you can't
Speaker 1: decide what you say or say. I wouldn't know. This
Speaker 1: also makes everyone realize that there are only so many
Speaker 1: weeks let us go well before graduation for some of us,
Speaker 1: and a duet between Santana Rachel inspires them to finally
Speaker 1: make peace and be friends for the rest of the
Speaker 1: school year. And Puck gives out some goodie bags to
Speaker 1: the boys of the glee club as graduation approaches to
Speaker 1: show his appreciation, which we've talked about already. That's the
Speaker 1: only time I want to talk about the gift bags
Speaker 1: in this episode. I am.
Speaker 2: Santana's reaction to Will theorizing why the kids are taking
Speaker 2: Whitney's death so hard, is so good and so real
Speaker 2: and very much us. It's like, no, maybe just we're
Speaker 2: sad because Whitney was incredible. Like that said, it's not
Speaker 2: doesn't have to be that deep. It's just sad, you know.
Speaker 1: I feel like, also, we were singing a lot of
Speaker 1: Whitney on set, not that we should have been, but
Speaker 1: we were singing out of Whitney, and I feel like
Speaker 1: they heard it and they were like, oh.
Speaker 2: I mean it also sounds like yes capitalism.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, that's true too.
Speaker 2: Not to get too off track here, but you know,
Speaker 2: we were a pop culture based show, right, and so
Speaker 2: witness passing is someone like that. Like when Michael passed,
Speaker 2: we were bumping Michael music for a week.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So Brittany and Santana, do I want to dance
Speaker 1: with somebody? What a cute musical number. Santana has some
Speaker 1: good duets. Nice. She was just smashing it this episode. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 1: we smashing.
Speaker 2: Heather dancing with her. Heather's number also like props to
Speaker 2: hairs here, there's two numbers in one, yes, and that
Speaker 2: whole backlit stage thing. All the dancers are backlit and
Speaker 2: in shadow and like Heather's and there's also a different style
Speaker 2: of dance than she normally gets to do on the show.
Speaker 2: And it was just then you throw tiny dancer in there, Okay,
Speaker 2: Naya just towards the end, and she's just singing her
Speaker 2: face off.
Speaker 1: Get her in there in her cute little outfit, Paris
Speaker 1: smash it.
Speaker 2: I loved the art direction of that, and I also
Speaker 2: loved I really did like the Santana and Rachel duet
Speaker 2: because we do how many duets or numbers in the
Speaker 2: choir room. We've done countless numbers, but there was something
Speaker 2: about the way that number was shot and lit, the
Speaker 2: light streaming in through the hallway. It looked different. It
Speaker 2: looked exciting, It looked.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: They were very like music video asking that song that's
Speaker 1: Paris and him his you know, experience, and pasted with
Speaker 1: music music direction. But also it felt like we were
Speaker 1: transported back to the time like of Whitney and her
Speaker 1: probally like the lighting and it just like it felt
Speaker 1: it was very late eighties early now yeah, yeah, which
Speaker 1: I loved.
Speaker 2: In subtle ways. It's like all of a sudden they
Speaker 2: start you're in the choir room, the place we all know,
Speaker 2: and then just like that, the lighting just shifts a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. I noticed that too, quite a bit. The
Speaker 1: lighting in this episode actually.
Speaker 2: Like in that opening number where you have the spot.
Speaker 1: Oh so beautiful. Oh god, we weren't in this episode
Speaker 1: draft yet, nor did we need to be. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but so emotional. Was great. They sounded great, it looked great. Oh.
Speaker 2: I also liked about that number that it looked like,
Speaker 2: you know, me, like high school kids. Choirographed it in
Speaker 2: like a really good way, and I mean it does
Speaker 2: a compliment to Zach and Brook, like, yeah, it looked realistic,
Speaker 2: like they were having so much fun with each.
Speaker 1: Other, not like us talking about we have we have
Speaker 1: no budget and then like having like lights, costumes, sets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. Simultaneously, Quinn's feeling down about being
Speaker 1: in a wheelchair and Joe who offers to go to
Speaker 1: physical therapy with Quinn because he cares about her, and
Speaker 1: they do this very cute number in the choir room,
Speaker 1: and very cute number, very good for their voices. This
Speaker 1: is where I talk about the like where they talk
Speaker 1: about the character character piece. I'm like, okay, like we're
Speaker 1: moving plot along with songs versus just doing a tribute
Speaker 1: where you like Michael throwing it all in there Madonna
Speaker 1: Madonna exactly, exactly. There's more story than there is music,
Speaker 1: and so it is. This is a departure from the
Speaker 1: usual norm of our tribute episodes. And then they do
Speaker 1: they go to Pete together and it is sexual.
Speaker 2: That pet session was every very hot and heavy teen
Speaker 2: boys nightmare.
Speaker 1: Well and she's like is that And I was like, wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's too into her and he doesn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: He's very attracted to her. He talks to Sam about it,
Speaker 1: and Sam's like, look, you gotta figure it out. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think I feel like, yes, this is
Speaker 1: realistic in the world of like kids figuring out their
Speaker 1: hormones versus their core beliefs. But I was like, wow, Sam,
Speaker 1: really you decide if you want to get closer to
Speaker 1: her or closer to was it closer to her closer
Speaker 1: to Yeah? I was like, wow, Wow, this is interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was working as a stripper, I
Speaker 2: had sex. It's like, it's just unrealistic.
Speaker 1: You can't I'm it's really funny. I didn't see this.
Speaker 1: Quinn Joe storyline coming though, Oh I did. I didn't
Speaker 1: remembered it. Hm, I think you were. I just like
Speaker 1: it wasn't something. But anyway, Quinn's feeling insecure, but she
Speaker 1: feels like Joe who turned her down because they almost
Speaker 1: kissed and he turned her down. Like was She's feeling
Speaker 1: insecure about being in the chair and she has this
Speaker 1: very sweet little bathroom scene. Let me tell you, we
Speaker 1: love those bathroom scenes. Oh. I love shooting those bathroom scenes.
Speaker 1: I never like a few in the season that we
Speaker 1: had that the girls all were together. One of them
Speaker 1: was like I think when we did the class picture
Speaker 1: with Eldi when Leddie Keene was directing. Anyway, we hang
Speaker 1: on the bathroom and it's just like a gab sash
Speaker 1: with the girls if everybody's getting along, like we're all
Speaker 1: just hanging and it's a quick quick scene. You're in
Speaker 1: and out. It's usually at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Like it was really fun. Those were really fun. I
Speaker 1: don't remember doing that scene, to be very honest with you,
Speaker 1: but I always remembered loving doing girl scenes in the
Speaker 1: back girls see.
Speaker 2: I think you can feel that as a viewer though.
Speaker 2: I enjoy watching those like that all of the ones
Speaker 2: in our show, and like I think of that one
Speaker 2: in Euphoria season so good Oklahoma, because you do have
Speaker 2: that like everyone stays in that confined space and like
Speaker 2: hangs out or the normal scenes, and so there's no way,
Speaker 2: I think there's no way for that not to translate,
Speaker 2: and you just feel it's so it's such a joy
Speaker 2: to watch those scenes.
Speaker 1: I love a bathroom scene in a high school so jealous.
Speaker 1: It's also right a passage.
Speaker 2: I feel like every high school show or movie there's
Speaker 2: always the guys or the girls.
Speaker 1: A bathroom. You're right, You're totally right. Whether are kids
Speaker 1: sitting on the toilet by themselves, eating lunch in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: smoking weed in the bathroom, doing something weird in the mathroom,
Speaker 1: school through the bathroom exactly exactly. Yeah, So they do
Speaker 1: that number and they are. Their relationship is a budding.
Speaker 1: It's budding, and they're very key.
Speaker 2: And I do think it's nice that Quinn's been through
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: Quinn.
Speaker 2: Just take a seget and to think about the things
Speaker 2: Quinn has been through in three seasons.
Speaker 1: She said a baby.
Speaker 2: She went from being popular like number one cheerleader to
Speaker 2: like the pregnant outcast and the glee club.
Speaker 1: Then going under the bleachers and smoking Siggi's and dyeing
Speaker 1: her hair to then getting in a car accident.
Speaker 2: To steal her baby back right, planting drugs.
Speaker 1: Very dark. She's had quite the arc. Yeah, I'm worried
Speaker 1: about her. Where will she end up? Normal guy at Yale?
Speaker 1: That's so bad? Should we talk about Will and Emma? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because what out of nowhere? Well, it's like, we got
Speaker 2: to get married. You got to get married in May.
Speaker 1: Does he want to get married in May? I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then hires a wedding planner to like speed up
Speaker 2: the process.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 2: When he actually has that conversation with the wedding planner,
Speaker 2: a by the venue in a stage so the glee
Speaker 2: kids can perform.
Speaker 1: He's scared that the kids aren't going to come back
Speaker 1: for his wedding, which Finn's his best man, so he's
Speaker 1: definitely coming back for hit the wedding.
Speaker 2: Get some friends your own age, will.
Speaker 1: Schuster, right, And then that all the kids he's worried
Speaker 1: aren't going to come back from college. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, so we're definitely going to be there.
Speaker 1: All the seniors aren't going to come back. So yes,
Speaker 1: he gets the the Ohio Wedding Planner to speed up
Speaker 1: the process. I have to be completely honest with you.
Speaker 1: I don't remember if they get married or not. We're
Speaker 1: being really honest in this episode. So I've been thinking
Speaker 1: this whole time. Don't you trust you? Guys, We're just
Speaker 1: we're watching, We're just like you. They know more.
Speaker 2: The weddings I remember attending are Burton Carroll, Burton Carroll,
Speaker 2: and then the double wedding. What the double wedding in
Speaker 2: the barn?
Speaker 1: Oh, the barn but the bar, Yes, of course. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're planning their wedding. Who knows if it's going
Speaker 1: to happen or not. They're impending wedding. That clock's a
Speaker 1: ticken and Will and Emma have this you know, sweet
Speaker 1: little storyline that's kind of brushed over, but not really
Speaker 1: about him freaking out the Glee Club's not going to
Speaker 1: make it. Yeah. The big storyline, it feels this episode
Speaker 1: is Kurt cheating on Blaine, emotionally cheating on Blaine.
Speaker 2: Kurt is stepping out via text.
Speaker 1: He really is is taking it a step farther than
Speaker 1: he should, two steps further than he should be fair.
Speaker 1: Kurr meets a.
Speaker 3: Guy at the UH music store, Yes, at the music
Speaker 3: at the record store, which who okay, best by just
Speaker 3: took out all their products, like their their media out
Speaker 3: of their stores.
Speaker 1: They no more CDs. I'm actually surprised that they still
Speaker 1: had it anyway, I digress. Kurt meets Chandler and he's
Speaker 1: helping him find a song, a Whitney song for his
Speaker 1: callback for Niana and Ohio. You know, imagine it's hard, yeah,
Speaker 1: And he gives him his number, he gives them his
Speaker 1: memory in his member and Blaine's Kurt's just texting like
Speaker 1: very freely about with Chandler and then telling Rachel about it.
Speaker 1: I was like, if you want to do this, you
Speaker 1: don't tell. But here's the thing. Kurt doesn't think he's
Speaker 1: doing anything wrong, and I think that's why he's kind
Speaker 1: of open about it, and Rachel's like smiling through it. No. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Kurt Is also has this really nice scene with Bert,
Speaker 1: his dad, Michael Melly, who is in Congress now coming
Speaker 1: back from DC, and they're talking about this sweet storyline
Speaker 1: about a kid leaving the house, you know, flying the coop,
Speaker 1: going to college and they've been avoiding talking about it
Speaker 1: and haven't done their Friday dinners. And gosh, I miss
Speaker 1: Burt and Kurt scenes.
Speaker 2: Because that Bert dialogue. Whoever wrote that scene beautiful earned
Speaker 2: their paycheck that way that scene. I was just aghast
Speaker 2: the whole time time, Like this is dialogue and Michael
Speaker 2: O'Malley is delivery. I mean, they're on a different show.
Speaker 2: They're so good together.
Speaker 1: It's true, that's true, not saying the rest of us.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like they're always it's always serious and it's
Speaker 2: really meaningful, grounded dialogue with one another. Yes, and Bert
Speaker 2: has a way to like beautifully delivered concepts that are
Speaker 2: hard and like big.
Speaker 1: Everything. Yes, you're right, You're right. It was beautiful. It
Speaker 1: was really beautiful, beautifully done, written, executed, directed. It was
Speaker 1: really really really well done. And that leads into Chris's
Speaker 1: song or Kurt song. But man, I miss I miss
Speaker 1: Michael Malley.
Speaker 2: So before we get to Chris's song, we have Darren's song. Okay,
Speaker 2: because Blaine finds out about the texts, right, and he's
Speaker 2: really pissed off, and like we've all been there, we've
Speaker 2: all picked up the partner's phone and looked through it.
Speaker 2: Maybe when we shouldn't have. Right, have you done that, Jenna,
Speaker 2: No ever? Okay in my past, yes, yes, like when
Speaker 2: you're young, when you're in high school.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah you have to yeah, do it.
Speaker 2: And it's like, oh that I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 1: But maybe I needed to, right, right, yes, but don't
Speaker 1: do it. But if you did relatable Kurt saying it's
Speaker 1: okay and Blaine saying it's not right but it's okay.
Speaker 1: Good on Darren. You know, he did the best he
Speaker 1: could with that life, just making it work. This number.
Speaker 1: It brings back a lot of memories, many memories, a
Speaker 1: lot of memories. So we didn't learn this song. We
Speaker 1: didn't even know the song was coming until maybe that morning,
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of background vocals, and then
Speaker 1: there was a lot of acting during those background vocals
Speaker 1: that we had to be delivering. If you notice in
Speaker 1: the choir room we're all singing backup vocals the whole time,
Speaker 1: but then having to act awkward and weird, like we
Speaker 1: didn't want to be there.
Speaker 2: And you know, when you're a fan of somebody's music,
Speaker 2: you think you know the lyrics, like you think you
Speaker 2: know all these lyrics to Whitney Houston songs.
Speaker 1: You don't, you don't, but when you're on camera, and
Speaker 1: it turns out we didn't know any of them actually,
Speaker 1: And so we get these wonderful lyric sheets from Tim
Speaker 1: Davis that are color coded obviously, and have all the
Speaker 1: breakdowns of all the ooze and the ads and the
Speaker 1: lyrics and the lead vocals, and there were a lot,
Speaker 1: I mean there were a lot. There was like fifteen
Speaker 1: different colors on that sheet.
Speaker 2: I remember there was multiple sheets because normally you could
Speaker 2: put it onto one page, so everything there were multiple
Speaker 2: pages of this.
Speaker 1: So we're doing that number and we're on stage in
Speaker 1: the auditorium doing the one. We're all kind of standing
Speaker 1: behind the desk, right and we were hooligans that day.
Speaker 1: I remember we were hooligans and we didn't know what
Speaker 1: was going on. We were acting full and nobody knew
Speaker 1: the words.
Speaker 2: Why didn't I distinctly remember not knowing anything about this.
Speaker 1: We walked on set and we were like where are
Speaker 1: we right now? I'm not kidding, like being like, what
Speaker 1: are we doing here? And I don't know if maybe
Speaker 1: it wasn't scripted, And then they decided to bring us
Speaker 1: all in because of the back of vocals there's something
Speaker 1: like that, but I think it probably was felt very
Speaker 1: out of place, like we were like, what are we
Speaker 1: doing here?
Speaker 2: We're never normally that unprepared.
Speaker 1: Yes, agreed, we were just moderately unprepared most of the time.
Speaker 1: So I have this blue dress on and I remember
Speaker 1: you guys pinning, pinning, safety pinning the lyrics to the
Speaker 1: back of my dress so that you could cheat and
Speaker 1: look at my back to know the words. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I could do I was you were in
Speaker 1: front of me, and the next way, that's right, what
Speaker 1: am I going to do? So we were the idiots
Speaker 1: who didn't have anything, And and then there's a shot
Speaker 1: of like us, we're staring with Leah and she's like
Speaker 1: fixing her hair like before, like as if the take
Speaker 1: is about to start. And I was like, oh, they
Speaker 1: were rolling and like we didn't know. My mouth is
Speaker 1: not doing a single word correct. That was a mess.
Speaker 1: We were a mess.
Speaker 2: And if you notice, I don't know if it was
Speaker 2: because of the lighting. I had to keep my head down.
Speaker 1: It was the lighting.
Speaker 2: I think it was the lighting. And I think did
Speaker 2: we try to have lyric sheets taped to the back
Speaker 2: of the desk?
Speaker 1: We tried to take them down below the camera. I
Speaker 1: think it was, yes, but we also.
Speaker 2: Couldn't look down, like I couldn't move my head to
Speaker 2: actually see where the lyric sheets were.
Speaker 1: Harry close up was so funny. We were just acting
Speaker 1: cuckoo that day.
Speaker 2: I also love when Blaine has an insane number like this,
Speaker 2: like with his brother, where he's on the auditorium stage,
Speaker 2: so dramatic.
Speaker 1: Committed, yes, committed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the reactions to him performing in the choir
Speaker 2: room almost looking back at Kurt like what is going on?
Speaker 1: Is going on? You love that love.
Speaker 2: And props to Paris again for you know, inventing new
Speaker 2: ways to make the auditorium interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh he's props to Paris, props to Paris. And I
Speaker 1: like the tension between Kurt and Blaine. Yeah, it can't
Speaker 1: always be rainbows and butterflies with them, right.
Speaker 2: And they're oh my god, they're scene with Emma love.
Speaker 2: Are you qualified to do this? No?
Speaker 1: When she hides the pamphlet like sing to sing a song?
Speaker 1: Why don't you try and sing a song? Very funny.
Speaker 2: All of Blaines like points are so valid. Also, Kurt
Speaker 2: would have been done for me if we were together
Speaker 2: and he was snapping at the white staff to hurt
Speaker 2: it up for cheesecake cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, Please says please stop slipping bronzer
Speaker 1: into my moisturizer, and Krit says you look good with
Speaker 1: a little color, and Plane says, I only use the
Speaker 1: lotion on my hands. It looks weird if a person
Speaker 1: just says, Tanny so good. That scene is so good.
Speaker 1: It's so good. We love those scenes with Emma. The
Speaker 1: Chandler texts also to Kurt are very funny. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you caught them, but are you an astronaut?
Speaker 1: Because your smile is out of this world. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure you're Cleopatra in another life. You've got a great
Speaker 1: asp that was insane. Can you see it in my voicemail?
Speaker 1: I want to make your voice my ringed very inappropriate, Chandler,
Speaker 1: because that also leads you to believe that Curt mentioned
Speaker 1: he had a boyfriend. He definitely did not. He definitely
Speaker 1: did not.
Speaker 2: Because if somebody's coming on to you like that, you're like, hey,
Speaker 2: just FYI, I'm with someone. So we got to keep
Speaker 2: this PC right. Yeah, it's but here, this is the thing.
Speaker 2: You can't even so Kirk just have not been doing that.
Speaker 2: I mean the youth, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2: They're all young and hot and horny.
Speaker 1: We're in high school. We forget that, like we're in
Speaker 1: high school, right, They're most sound decisions were so then
Speaker 1: Kurt performs his song and I was taken aback because
Speaker 1: it's so pointedly. It's so pointed at Blaine. But we
Speaker 1: just come off that really beautiful scene between Burt and Kurt,
Speaker 1: and it's like, damn, it's full of fire after this
Speaker 1: sentimental sean yes, and everyone's uncomfortable again. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: Parish is making the choir room look beautiful again once again,
Speaker 1: like yeah, that's help. I was like, where did that
Speaker 1: come from? But it gives him something to do, I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It is Whitney. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that makes a difference, but a prop is always good.
Speaker 1: We need more mics. I don't know about that. I
Speaker 1: love a mic bands, but also like, do you need
Speaker 1: a mic in the choir room? I don't know when
Speaker 1: have we ever talked about it? Fine? Fine, well again,
Speaker 1: Chris did a great job. That is a very hard,
Speaker 1: very high song for him to say and that's a
Speaker 1: that's a Whitney. That's an icon. Oh my god, that
Speaker 1: is an iconic number by Whitney. I short circuited. That's
Speaker 1: an icon.
Speaker 2: That's an and Whitney are both icons.
Speaker 1: That is correct. That is correct in different ways. I'm
Speaker 1: not comparing Kurt to Whitney's. They are in their own right.
Speaker 1: My love is your love, Jenna. What did you think
Speaker 1: when you had to record this, Kevin? Oh? I hated it.
Speaker 2: I hated I hated everything I did. I Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was upset about my performance in it, but it was
Speaker 2: really nice after having an episode of everybody going through
Speaker 2: their personal issues, they're coming to terms with the school
Speaker 2: year ending, half the people leaving, it felt really really
Speaker 2: nice in old school Glee. And I think since Paris
Speaker 2: hit it out of the park with Dog Days that
Speaker 2: he sort of gets free rein to make those vibe
Speaker 2: and yeah, rehearsal vibe performances and it feels good. It
Speaker 2: felt really good. I love that number now though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was great. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: just quintessentially and just like my Amber. Yeah, exactly. Please,
Speaker 1: guys were great. You guys are very good. I wanted
Speaker 1: more of that actually you an Amber, No, I didn't
Speaker 1: need to do anymore. No, no, no, that was I was
Speaker 1: just saying you left me warning more, not less. That's
Speaker 1: a good thing, you know, I'll take it. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: great these performances, Kevin. Oh, yes, I was waiting for this.
Speaker 1: How will I know? A plus? Yes, I want to
Speaker 1: dance with somebody? A A damn it, I hate when
Speaker 1: we agree. Save what all my love for you? I
Speaker 1: really liked it. It would be plus.
Speaker 2: I'll go okay, so emotional, I think I like this
Speaker 2: more than you did, and go A plus.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm giving it an A. It's not really
Speaker 1: but it's okay, be mine. I have nothing B plus
Speaker 1: my love is your love. Hey as okay, cringe moments
Speaker 1: AKA out jeez. The cheating, yes, the cheating, and then
Speaker 1: also sam more of saying like you can give up
Speaker 1: your belief. That whole conversation, Quinn, Yeah, okay, best dance move,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Brittany, Yeah, I want to dance with somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was incredible. The leg kick, that floor work,
Speaker 2: it was exceptional.
Speaker 1: Best song. How will I know? How will I know?
Speaker 2: Agreed, prop Well, your answer is obviously going to be
Speaker 2: the goodie. I think that Princess Dianna pamphlet for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one. Okay, it is the Goody Bags.
Speaker 1: That's worst performance by a prop best line, Oh, I
Speaker 1: think Brittany. Brittany has this really good line to Quinn
Speaker 1: in the choir room where she says about dancing with
Speaker 1: Santana and all of us, and then she says, and Quinn,
Speaker 1: You're still dancing in my dreams and you can fly
Speaker 1: and breathe fly.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go serious with this one and
Speaker 2: say a berntline.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: You know you and me, we made each other men.
Speaker 2: Just sometimes I want my sweet little boy back.
Speaker 1: Okay, you did it. I think that's the first serious
Speaker 1: quote we've had this whole maybe and maybe the last.
Speaker 1: Okay performance MVP. This is so hard, you know, it
Speaker 1: was so spread out between everyone. It was.
Speaker 2: I feel like, I feel like it's got to be
Speaker 2: Chris or Darren.
Speaker 1: Can we give it to both? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, let's give it to both. Okay, So Jenta shit,
Speaker 2: we found ow the TikTok friend of our podcast, the
Speaker 2: good old Icon TikTok Icon Max. So do you know
Speaker 2: that Chris is part of Rose's turn is like going
Speaker 2: viral on TikTok at the moment, and people.
Speaker 1: Have made some really really incredible It's the beginning, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: And Max's is when I go to the gym once
Speaker 2: but I still look the same.
Speaker 1: But there are so many, and I implore you to
Speaker 1: watch all of them. That's really funny, very very good,
Speaker 1: very good.
Speaker 2: Yes, because somebody, I think Austin showed it to me
Speaker 2: somebody else's I was like, wait a second.
Speaker 1: Is that Chris, Oh my god?
Speaker 2: And then I saw that there were like hundreds of them.
Speaker 1: Wow yeah, wow m Thanks for that, Kevin, and thanks
Speaker 1: for that Max anytime, and anybody posting about that that
Speaker 1: makes me laugh. Thanks for listening to another episode. This
Speaker 1: is the Whitney Tribute, and I would love to hear
Speaker 1: what you guys think about the Whitney tributes. So it's
Speaker 1: different from our tribute, so right in and it's been
Speaker 1: a pleasure, y'all. And that's what you really missed.
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