Speaker 1: I'm gonna do U two truths in a lie, okay,
Speaker 1: which is something we've done in our live shows, but
Speaker 1: I have not done on uh this show.
Speaker 2: Uh and that's true. That's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh we do this in our live shows,
Speaker 1: where I usually do true truths in a lie about
Speaker 1: something from when we were envoy Mets World that I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you guys don't remember. But for today, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do something about my current life that I that I
Speaker 1: don't think you guys are going to be able to answer,
Speaker 1: which is Okay, writer, Writer's surprising fandom. Okay, what am
Speaker 1: I a fan of? Oh?
Speaker 3: I can't wait, I can't wait. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: Number One, I am a post Malone fan. If you
Speaker 1: look at my Spotify right now, my most listened to
Speaker 1: artist is mister post Malone.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Number two, I am a Twilight fan. I have read
Speaker 1: all the books, some of them more than once. I
Speaker 1: do not like the movies besides the first one. Number three,
Speaker 1: I am a Survivor fan. I have watched every season
Speaker 1: and have even participated in a fantasy football like league
Speaker 1: for Survivor.
Speaker 2: I am pray ye that you're not a Twilight fan
Speaker 2: because the books are awful, so I'm god I'm going
Speaker 2: with that only because I will literally think less of
Speaker 2: you if that's not true.
Speaker 1: Hugely successful books hugely successful movies.
Speaker 3: Means I read them. I'm not going to say. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to say I love them and think they're
Speaker 3: dear quality, but you know I enjoyed them.
Speaker 2: Please be a post Malone and Survivor fan.
Speaker 3: I will say that I think post Malone. I have
Speaker 3: a friend who has a father who's maybe maybe only
Speaker 3: five to ten years older than writer, and he loves
Speaker 3: post Malone, so I could see I could see there
Speaker 3: being some like middle aged food love for post Malone.
Speaker 1: I love that you would need somebody's father. In order
Speaker 1: to rationalize that I might like that need too old.
Speaker 3: I needed to go do are there any other old
Speaker 3: is there? I know?
Speaker 1: Do I know an old man? What other sad dad?
Speaker 1: I need some? Does post Alone count as sad dad music?
Speaker 3: It sure does.
Speaker 2: I liked his early stuff. I liked prem Alone, and
Speaker 2: I do also Survivor.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't be that shocking to me for writer to like
Speaker 3: since writer thinks a great vacation is jumping his entire
Speaker 3: family in the middle of the country. And saying, you know,
Speaker 3: go for yourselves, like every man for themselves. I I
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna go with you completely that the Twilight
Speaker 3: books are the lie.
Speaker 1: You are correct.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank god, Oh thank god.
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't have done books if I had done movies,
Speaker 1: if I had done but the fact that I went
Speaker 1: books and both of you have read them too, which
Speaker 1: I did not expect.
Speaker 2: Actually, no, I got halfway through the first one and
Speaker 2: I am a fantasy nerd, and I couldn't.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: See, I thought, because you knew I like horror stuff,
Speaker 1: I thought me, maybe the Twilight could slip in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, we know you're two pretentious to be into.
Speaker 1: That, but not too pretentious. Well, yeah, of course, I'm
Speaker 1: way too pretentious for most things.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 1: That's the point of this is that I can't stand
Speaker 1: reality TV, but I love Survivor.
Speaker 2: Have you watched them all? Oh?
Speaker 1: Watch them all? I am so into it. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're watching season forty five with Indy. We are loving it.
Speaker 2: But forty five seasons.
Speaker 1: I was on, Yeah, forty five seasons forty six.
Speaker 3: That is coming out two a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do two a year. And uh, And I
Speaker 1: was a part of a Survivor league for a couple
Speaker 1: of years. It was great. It was great. Uh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I actually we got into it when Alex was pregnant.
Speaker 1: We got really into Survivor and Amazing Race, which I
Speaker 1: had never been, like, I was so not into reality,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, when she was pregnant, that became
Speaker 1: our thing. And I think, you know, Indy could hear
Speaker 1: the Survivor and Amazing Race theme through the womb, so
Speaker 1: he loves her now. It's a great man.
Speaker 2: Nate Bargatzi's got that great joker. He's like, my wife
Speaker 2: and I watch Amazing Race and she says we should
Speaker 2: go on this and he's like, if you want to
Speaker 2: get divorced, that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Well that's That's the entire point of these shows, right,
Speaker 1: is to reflect on how you would be or how
Speaker 1: you would act. And with Amazing Race, it's actually quite
Speaker 1: helpful to be like, how would you? And with the
Speaker 1: Key too, it's fun to be like, do you see
Speaker 1: how this person is like turning on their partner in
Speaker 1: an awful way, or like they're being irrational or you
Speaker 1: can have those conversations. Uh, Survivor, you're just training how
Speaker 1: to be a sociopath. It's all correct. You're like, how
Speaker 1: do I lie to people better? So like, actually amazing
Speaker 1: Race I really think is helpful as a family. But
Speaker 1: Survivor we're like training into how to be psychopathic.
Speaker 2: Would you do if they did like Celebrity Survivor and
Speaker 2: they asked you to go on.
Speaker 3: Survivor should eats World?
Speaker 1: And I would Survivor? I mean it is miserable looking,
Speaker 1: it is miserable.
Speaker 2: But but you would go, uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Would they have me?
Speaker 2: They probably have, I don't know. You'd be on Kiev,
Speaker 2: be on camera again, and you.
Speaker 1: Have to be I mean like, I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I would be awful at Survivor because I would just
Speaker 1: be so don't yes. I would just be too honest
Speaker 1: and be like, oh I trust you, Okay, We're going
Speaker 1: all the way to the end. And I would just
Speaker 1: stick with it and I would get blindsided within like
Speaker 1: the second night. I would be like what people told me.
Speaker 1: They looked to me in the eyes, they shook my
Speaker 1: hand like you have to be a sociopad. That's the whole,
Speaker 1: that's the game. I can't do it, couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I can't even play like people play Where Wolf or Mafia.
Speaker 1: Have you ever played these games? Secret Hitler? I cannot
Speaker 1: play Secret Hitler. These are like fun what is what?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: It was a huge game, Like in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: this game came out. It's like it's it's actually it's
Speaker 1: pretty brilliant. It's fun, but I can't play it. It's
Speaker 1: you get you. You all have like roles in your
Speaker 1: part of a government, but one of you is secretly
Speaker 1: Hitler and you have to like convince other people to
Speaker 1: vote for you. It's you know, it's it's just a
Speaker 1: board game like Mafia or Where Wolf. These these games
Speaker 1: where you have to convince people to trust you, and
Speaker 1: then of course you're you're lying, you're faking it. I
Speaker 1: can't do it. I can't play any of those games.
Speaker 1: I'm always just like no, sorry, I'm Hitler. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: aware Wolf, I'm part of them Mafia. I just outright
Speaker 1: tell the truth. So I know I would be awful
Speaker 1: survivor Amazing Race would be great. It'd be great, Amazing Race.
Speaker 3: We should do Pod meets World, Amazing Grace. Let's so
Speaker 3: don't get three of us, three of us?
Speaker 2: Oh, Jesus, it doesn't sound like I would be good
Speaker 2: at that.
Speaker 1: You would be awful and amazing. Have you ever watched
Speaker 1: Amazing Race?
Speaker 3: No? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I don't know if you'd be all be
Speaker 1: pretty good?
Speaker 2: Could I sleep watching mash every night? Still?
Speaker 1: You have to travel and go into other cultures and
Speaker 1: other parts of the world.
Speaker 2: No, I try like traveling when I travel all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean right after, what's your favorite Post Malone song?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: No, I am obsessed with his album Austin. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything before that, but he put on an album
Speaker 1: last year called Austin. I have been listening to it
Speaker 1: none stop. I am it's just beautiful. I think he is.
Speaker 2: Think I've ever made a song in my life?
Speaker 1: Well, apparently it's mostly hip hop, which I do not
Speaker 1: listen to. But this, this album is like his rock album.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't really call it a rock album, but it's
Speaker 1: it's more, you know, singer songwriter, and I just think
Speaker 1: his voice is incredible and I'm like, oh, I genuinely
Speaker 1: love this album. Look, if we want to talk sad
Speaker 1: dad music, I am all about I have plenty of
Speaker 1: singer songwriter opinions and hot takes. But if we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about pop music or like what No, Okay,
Speaker 1: post Malone is as cool as I get, and I
Speaker 1: still he shows up on Super Bowl and I'm like,
Speaker 1: why does he have all that stuff on his face?
Speaker 2: Did he do the song from Spider Man Into the Universe?
Speaker 1: Yes, which is how I okay, that's how I know
Speaker 1: because Indy loved that song and was into it, and
Speaker 1: I was like, this great song which made me get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great song, should say I'm not through the movie? Yeah,
Speaker 2: great song.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Welcome to pod World.
Speaker 5: I'm Daniel Fishall, I'm rather strong, and I'm Wilford.
Speaker 3: So this week we are recapping season four, episode ten,
Speaker 3: Turkey Day. It originally aired November twenty second, nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3: The synopsis is after learning about prejudice among tribes in Africa,
Speaker 3: Corey and Sean want their families to celebrate Thanksgiving together,
Speaker 3: but run into a class divide that appears impossible to overcome.
Speaker 3: It was directed by Jeff McCracken. It was written by
Speaker 3: Susan Estelle Janssen. We can jump into the guest stars.
Speaker 3: Blake Clark is back as chedd Hunter, Ethan Sipple is
Speaker 3: Frankie Stacchino and Worth noting this is his last episode
Speaker 3: until that's season drive.
Speaker 2: Bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Scheren Mitchell returns as Verna Hunter, also her last
Speaker 3: but for good. We don't ever see her again after
Speaker 3: it really yes, and then e j De La Pagna
Speaker 3: is back as Herman Stachino in more episodes than I remembered,
Speaker 3: IM more Herman than I ever could have remembered, but
Speaker 3: this is also his last episode.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Sharen doesn't come back. I I does
Speaker 1: somebody else play Sean's mom?
Speaker 3: No, right, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Wow, I loved you take off again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought there was a whole nother Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: I made up an entire storyline in my mind because
Speaker 1: she disappeared or yeah, well it.
Speaker 2: Might be alluded to maybe yeah, obviously because yeah, Blake
Speaker 2: comes back. I mean, yeah, there's yeah, but you also
Speaker 2: have Matt, your brother comes in. I know, a whole
Speaker 2: different thing with Matt.
Speaker 3: And Ned Bellamy as Luther. Most recognized as Waylan Forge
Speaker 3: in Twilight. Interesting. Interesting, But he's been in so many
Speaker 3: great things, from being John Malkovich to Seinfeld to Shawshank Redemption,
Speaker 3: and he was just seen in the Netflix movie Family Switch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he works all time.
Speaker 3: And then we have kay E Cutter as Herbert. He's
Speaker 3: a character actor with parts in The Last star Fighter,
Speaker 3: Bonanza LASTI twenty six episodes a Fighter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't recognize him from Starfighter.
Speaker 1: I didn't see Starfighters since I was probably six, But
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 2: Quote it right now, best movie ever.
Speaker 3: God. He was in twenty six episodes of Green Acres,
Speaker 3: seventeen episodes of petticoat Junction, and he's in Guys and Dolls.
Speaker 3: He passed away in two thousand and three at the
Speaker 3: age of seventy eight. And then we have Christian Jamioli
Speaker 3: as Carl. He's best known as portraying one of the
Speaker 3: soccer players stranded in the snow in the movie Alive,
Speaker 3: as where.
Speaker 2: I recognized him from.
Speaker 1: He was in Alive. Okay, yeah, go hold on which
Speaker 1: which which character is.
Speaker 2: The right hand the right hand man.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have.
Speaker 2: A line, He doesn't speak at all.
Speaker 1: That's so funny because he looks familiar to me too.
Speaker 1: I was like he was alive obviously from working with him,
Speaker 1: but I was like, yeah, but he never never has.
Speaker 2: A right alive.
Speaker 3: It was his first job. Alive was great movie. He's
Speaker 3: also appeared on Chicago Hope, n YPD, Blue Ray Donovan,
Speaker 3: and c n C I S Los Angeles. So overall
Speaker 3: thoughts on the episode, M hmm, it's.
Speaker 1: An interesting episode. There's a lot to like. There's a
Speaker 1: lot to like.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: There's some stuff not to like.
Speaker 3: I agree, some stuff not to like.
Speaker 2: The whole story didn't work for me, Like it seemed
Speaker 2: like this should have been a Fresh Prince episode.
Speaker 3: Mmm.
Speaker 2: Like, it's an interesting because they're so wealthy in Fresh
Speaker 2: Prints that there's a really huge.
Speaker 1: You're right.
Speaker 2: There, lower middle class of lower middle class family. I mean,
Speaker 2: it shouldn't be that huge, right it is.
Speaker 3: One of the things that I did not love was
Speaker 3: like a little bit of a similar to the way
Speaker 3: Amy was in that episode in the Wilderness Store where
Speaker 3: all of a sudden she was super naggy and we
Speaker 3: were like, has Amy ever been this character before? It
Speaker 3: made me feel bit like have the Matthews ever been
Speaker 3: this family before? They seem so down to earth, and
Speaker 3: you know, they're kind of they like cool music and
Speaker 3: they're a little hippieish here they're hippies.
Speaker 1: They were hippie.
Speaker 2: It does people that are connected to the Earth, and
Speaker 2: there was no there was no classes, and that's where
Speaker 2: they were, and he worked at a grocery storm and
Speaker 2: the idea that now they can't get along with people
Speaker 2: at a trailer park just that didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3: Also, the conceit that the trailer park community would come
Speaker 3: together after one really brief few moments of them being
Speaker 3: on the premises to get rid of.
Speaker 1: My big note was like, why didn't the Matthews should
Speaker 1: have done something in the opening? Rationalized if they parked
Speaker 1: their car in the wrong spot, or like, you know,
Speaker 1: they did something in that opening, But instead they just
Speaker 1: show up and knock on the wrong door with Hunters,
Speaker 1: And I know it would have been so easy to
Speaker 1: have them make a mistake, right like they just they
Speaker 1: insulted the trailer park in a way that totally unintentionally
Speaker 1: sets emotions.
Speaker 3: Try to do it with the underthing they did. Try
Speaker 3: to do it where the first thing he says is,
Speaker 3: so what you're saying is if a letter fell off
Speaker 3: my door, I wouldn't replace it. They tried, but.
Speaker 1: It was why would Herbert be upset? Like you know
Speaker 1: the whole I.
Speaker 3: Know I would was it Herbert?
Speaker 2: Why bring in it?
Speaker 1: Herbert because they think it's funny. They think it's funny
Speaker 1: that these I don't know. I yeah, I didn't love it.
Speaker 1: I think I think this episode is the result of
Speaker 1: the fact that the entire for first half of this season,
Speaker 1: they've really tried to develop the Hunters as like this
Speaker 1: other show. And so once you've done that right, it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we should combine these two shows. We should show the
Speaker 1: difference between these shows. It just doesn't quite work.
Speaker 2: It's also if this was their plan the entire time,
Speaker 2: how is this her last episode? Yeah, it's like you're
Speaker 2: developing this whole family and then you show them together
Speaker 2: and then we never bring her back.
Speaker 1: It was very It just didn't pop. It just didn't pop.
Speaker 1: It ends up about.
Speaker 2: These stars were great. The acting. Some of the acting
Speaker 2: was really spot on. You know, I didn't hate it.
Speaker 2: I did not like Eric's character at all in this episode,
Speaker 2: as brief as it was. He was just kind of
Speaker 2: a dick.
Speaker 1: Mister Turtleneck.
Speaker 2: You didn't like.
Speaker 1: Swaye jackets hoodie. I will I will make a statement
Speaker 1: that may be surprising to you, guys. I think this
Speaker 1: is my best performance in the history of Boy Meets
Speaker 1: World so far.
Speaker 2: Really, it's very good, really great, You're great.
Speaker 1: I am can I'm very hard on myself throughout watching
Speaker 1: this show. I think this is right or strong as
Speaker 1: Sean Hunter at his best. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: feel like I am not self conscious. I feel like
Speaker 1: I am dramatic without being too much, like that end.
Speaker 3: Where I thank you for being my friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah but all but from the class like where I
Speaker 1: give the thing like I just I just am like
Speaker 1: downplaying it. And the greatest moment in the history of
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World for me is my dance at the
Speaker 1: beginning with Ben and I jump up and it's funny.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is happening. I don't remember any
Speaker 1: of this, but I am so not self conscious. I
Speaker 1: am just having fun. And I think that this episode,
Speaker 1: and if I think historically, it makes sense that this
Speaker 1: follows the wrestling Ben and I have entered mind mold
Speaker 1: with this end. Yes, we are, I think after the
Speaker 1: trauma of going through the ww as together, we are
Speaker 1: so in sync with one another. I am clearly just
Speaker 1: enjoying working with Ben Savage, and the two of us
Speaker 1: are just bouncing off each other, and I am having
Speaker 1: so much fun. I could tell that I am as
Speaker 1: a teen actor, am having fun with Ben like and
Speaker 1: I think this just enters a new era for me
Speaker 1: as an actor that I could see like I don't
Speaker 1: remember this episode, but I could see like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: like me in a different mindset, Like I'm just relaxed
Speaker 1: and I'm having fun.
Speaker 2: And so I really that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: I thought the strongest part of this episode was you
Speaker 2: and Ben together. Yeah, it's fun between the two of you.
Speaker 2: That worked and the cuts that they were doing with
Speaker 2: like between the Matthews family and the Hunter family, the
Speaker 2: optical flips, the stuff, the showing the difference with the
Speaker 2: where the two of you are on a team and
Speaker 2: then you're trying to make each other feel better where
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, everything's great. Then you do the turn.
Speaker 2: You guys were great at the eisode.
Speaker 1: It's fun.
Speaker 3: The fun was palpable. Absolutely you could feel it. It
Speaker 3: was very it was jumping through the screen. It was
Speaker 3: like totally makes you understand, not that it has been
Speaker 3: confusing before, but it totally makes you understand why the
Speaker 3: Corey and Sean friendship is so beloved, Like why that
Speaker 3: relationship is looked up to and is like put on
Speaker 3: a pedestal as being, you know, true.
Speaker 2: Friendship behind Corey and Tepanga. I think it's Corey and
Speaker 2: t Panga and then there's Corey Sean.
Speaker 3: I think it's on the same level.
Speaker 2: I think that's possible too.
Speaker 3: I think it's on the same level that people go
Speaker 3: Corey and Sean and.
Speaker 1: The romance is a real thing. But it's funny because
Speaker 1: I felt it in the writing constantly, obviously from the beginning,
Speaker 1: but for some reason, this is the episode where I
Speaker 1: feel like it locked in in the performance, like Ben
Speaker 1: and I are just enjoying each other's acting, and my.
Speaker 2: Far the strongest part of this episode was the two
Speaker 2: of You's.
Speaker 3: So jumping into our recap, we start in Phoene's classroom,
Speaker 3: where I noticed for the first time a poster of
Speaker 3: just soup and it just says soup in big letters.
Speaker 3: Just wow, a clam soup and it says soup.
Speaker 1: But old on is it because of the cam drive.
Speaker 3: The who know? No, just like a piece of art soup?
Speaker 2: And it's also a Turkey Day. They've made sure you
Speaker 2: know it's Turkey Day. There's there's turkey, there's Thanksgiving everywhere.
Speaker 2: Gobble gobble.
Speaker 3: So Foene is teaching about the conflict in Burundi and
Speaker 3: explaining that it's leaking into Rwanda and Uganda. Cory stares blank, blankly.
Speaker 3: He's making these names up. Sean agrees, he's finally run
Speaker 3: out of stuff to teach. We're gonna have to put
Speaker 3: a bag over him and drag him out of the room.
Speaker 3: Foene focuses on class differences, saying they are a perennial
Speaker 3: source of misery on this planet, which is.
Speaker 1: A very interesting like take to make class. There's no
Speaker 1: reference to ethnic differences or like ethnic classes. It's just
Speaker 1: reduced to, oh, it's it's about class, which is a
Speaker 1: a very it like it. It's an it's it's a take,
Speaker 1: and then of course it plays into that. But you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but they.
Speaker 2: Did this same conversation already with time Machine and the
Speaker 2: Eloy and the Morlock.
Speaker 3: We had this one, right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is they're teaching the same thing with
Speaker 2: a different book, But that.
Speaker 1: One makes a little more sense because that's.
Speaker 2: Because that's exactly what it was about. That's what the
Speaker 2: book was about.
Speaker 1: But yeah, reduce it like there's no national identity, there's
Speaker 1: no ethnic identity, there's no tribal identity, there's no it's
Speaker 1: just religious related. No religious it's just we're gonna make
Speaker 1: this huge, complicated world. We're going to just spoil it
Speaker 1: down to class difference and the haves and the have
Speaker 1: nazas written on the board, which is super I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: which is why it worked with time machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was.
Speaker 1: Because that's literally what it is.
Speaker 2: That's exactly. So that's why I was like, Oh, they're
Speaker 2: doing this again, but different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to play Devil's advocate a tiny yes, I'm
Speaker 3: not even really playing Devil's advocate.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 3: But also, as we've mentioned in other times, where there
Speaker 3: have been mentions of literature or poetry or something and
Speaker 3: then it has a very loose thread connection to the storyline,
Speaker 3: I still think putting things out there that I still
Speaker 3: feel like you learn about it because, especially now rewatching,
Speaker 3: you can then go what was that about. I did
Speaker 3: a little bit of research because I wanted to know
Speaker 3: what we were talking about, and so I did then
Speaker 3: oh wow, didn't know about that? Interesting? And I think
Speaker 3: at the time, even though there wasn't a you know,
Speaker 3: world wide web to Google all your answers to even
Speaker 3: just speaking about a subject and starts conversations, brings things up,
Speaker 3: makes you maybe ask your teacher about it, makes you
Speaker 3: learn more about it.
Speaker 2: So you also have to earn the knowledge back in
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 1: And it is it is unusual for boy means world
Speaker 1: because we didn't we referenced literature, we referenced history, but
Speaker 1: current events is actually a pretty rare thing for us
Speaker 1: to hint on this heavy and and so it's it's yeah,
Speaker 1: in some ways, that's great, Like you lean into it, right,
Speaker 1: and like this is something that a lot of people,
Speaker 1: probably kids now, don't even really know about that. So
Speaker 1: carrying these names wanting yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2: I can never You never go wrong with Foeni in
Speaker 2: front of the classroom teaching. Mm hmm, like it just
Speaker 2: you can never. There's never a scene where you're like,
Speaker 2: oh man, they've got Phoenie at the chalkboard again. You're going, oh, okay, good,
Speaker 2: I feel comfortable. There's yeah, mister Phoene's teaching a class.
Speaker 2: That's always a good thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Phoene adds the class must do a paper on
Speaker 3: this topic during the Thanksgiving break, resulting in a loud
Speaker 3: groan from the class. Also, Phoene congratulates the class on
Speaker 3: another successful food drive this year and announces the winners
Speaker 3: are Corey Matthews and Sean Hunter, both telegraphing they knew
Speaker 3: the victory was coming. They spring up and start dancing
Speaker 3: to Penga complaints, this is so unfair. They just turn
Speaker 3: in the same cans year after year. And I hope
Speaker 3: you guys enjoyed my performance because I don't say another
Speaker 3: thing for the rest of your Yeah, Sean defends himself.
Speaker 3: The food bank gives them to my family. My family
Speaker 3: gives them back to the food bank. It's life in
Speaker 3: the food bank chain. Phoene reveals their winning prizes a turkey.
Speaker 3: They're not impressed, but then he pulls out a box
Speaker 3: of stuffing and they're impressed.
Speaker 2: Ooh so true.
Speaker 1: Turkey is the worst part of.
Speaker 3: An em great love turkey, Thanks for being.
Speaker 1: Turkey is the.
Speaker 3: Best no One.
Speaker 1: No one likes Thanksgiving because of the turkey. It is
Speaker 1: always a huge pain and we have to figure out
Speaker 1: how to make it work. It takes so much time
Speaker 1: the oven.
Speaker 2: You're bad at making turkey.
Speaker 1: No, she does bacon wrapped turkey with cornbread stuffing. It's delicious.
Speaker 1: As far as turkey goes, it still does not matter.
Speaker 1: Oh no Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, I'm going to your Thanksgiving in May.
Speaker 2: So yeah, great, you're doing it right. We won't We're
Speaker 2: not a writer. Yeah, writer, just won't be there. We'll
Speaker 2: give you a cheeseburger. But that's made of a veget vegetable.
Speaker 3: Vegetables, grape Now great, great. Now we're in the school hallway.
Speaker 3: Everyone files out and Corey tells Sean he can have
Speaker 3: the turkey, he'll keep the stuffing. No, Sean wants the stuffing.
Speaker 3: They agree it is the best part. They go back
Speaker 3: and forth hoover who should get the stuffing. Finally ask
Speaker 3: each other how can they have it together. It's very
Speaker 3: quick dialogue, very Tarantina esque.
Speaker 1: You guys, this is like this and we're doing a thing.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 3: I know. All of this was so fun for me.
Speaker 3: Corey proposes a plan. They eat the stuffing together, but
Speaker 3: problem is they both have to be with their respective families.
Speaker 3: So Corey suggests that their families have Thanksgiving dinner together
Speaker 3: and their parents, who've never really met, can get acquainted.
Speaker 3: Then the boys are ecstatic at the idea of a
Speaker 3: Hunter's Matthew's big event. But then optical flip. We're in
Speaker 3: the Matthew's kitchen and Alan is shaking his head. He
Speaker 3: doesn't want to spend Thanksgiving with the Hunters. Amy groans
Speaker 3: it's a family holiday, and Corey says, Sean is family.
Speaker 3: He explains that over at the Hunters they are absolutely
Speaker 3: delighted to have Thanksgiving with us another and it worked,
Speaker 3: and it worked. Delighted and the Hunters trailer. Chet sarcastically asks,
Speaker 3: go for a rider.
Speaker 1: Look delighted.
Speaker 3: He's holding the world's tiniest coffee cup.
Speaker 2: Did you guys? It's very small? It's so cute. Well,
Speaker 2: they've got to show that they don't have any money
Speaker 2: so they can't afford a regular size.
Speaker 3: I love it. He explains that it's unnatural to mix
Speaker 3: the classes. You're tampering with the primal force of nature.
Speaker 3: Verna defends her son, saying she thinks it's a great idea.
Speaker 3: Chet is befuddled. Have you been drinking? She explains, there's
Speaker 3: nothing wrong with having contact with a better class of people.
Speaker 3: Chet accuses her of being a social climber, and Verner responds,
Speaker 3: say what you will, but they're coming.
Speaker 1: Better class. I know, yeah, and why would he be
Speaker 1: against It's it feels very artificial, this whole seal. I agree,
Speaker 1: and I think, yeah, this side of the equation is
Speaker 1: just not great.
Speaker 2: No, like that the.
Speaker 1: Issue should have been that they are insecure immediately, like
Speaker 1: they don't want to have people over. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just like there's a million in ways to show
Speaker 1: the conflict and the fact that they're self consciously aware
Speaker 1: of like oh, they're better than us, they're richer than us.
Speaker 2: But it also leads the Matthews to being like, well,
Speaker 2: we don't want to go there and have Thanksgiving with
Speaker 2: them because they don't have a lot of money. It's like,
Speaker 2: what they've never been like that, They've never been that family.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we've gone out of our
Speaker 2: way to show that when the quote unquote richie rich
Speaker 2: people show up at the house, they're like, you know,
Speaker 2: they're yes, they don't get along with The problem.
Speaker 1: Should be one of culture, not of money, right, Like
Speaker 1: the conflict should be based on they, I don't know,
Speaker 1: watch crappy TV shows and don't read or whatever.
Speaker 3: Like they like to wear their boxers and you know,
Speaker 3: like for chet, I want to be in my boxers
Speaker 3: all day, right.
Speaker 1: Or they drink too much, you know whatever. They're real, right,
Speaker 1: they're like real cultural issues instead like to go to money,
Speaker 1: Like people don't think in terms of money. People don't
Speaker 1: actually talk in terms of money. They they they rational,
Speaker 1: Like I do believe that there are huge class differences
Speaker 1: between people, obviously, but I but the people don't experience
Speaker 1: class difference as class difference. They experience it as cultural difference. Right,
Speaker 1: So like you just think you're better than somebody because
Speaker 1: you're richer than them. You don't understand, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, so the fact that these characters are
Speaker 1: all consciously talking about their differences from each other in
Speaker 1: terms of money, it doesn't reflect reality. Like that's not
Speaker 1: the way people actually engage with one another. So it's
Speaker 1: it's completely.
Speaker 2: Facial to me. It yeah, it was very It was
Speaker 2: just strange for me.
Speaker 3: So Ched announces over my big dead body. Then we
Speaker 3: get what I can only call a modified optical flip,
Speaker 3: where we're back at the Matthew's kitchen. Sean excitedly tells
Speaker 3: Corey his folks are totally up for it. Corey says
Speaker 3: the same, It's going to be great. And then hilariously,
Speaker 3: you both turn away from each other and you look
Speaker 3: like you might vomit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I had to positive orwind to watch both of
Speaker 2: you because both your faces were just so good.
Speaker 3: It's so good and it feels like ah hijinks and
Speaker 3: just in the best way possible.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: Then we go to a commercial break and we're back
Speaker 3: in the Matthew's kitchen. Allan, while holding a normal sized
Speaker 3: coffee cup, hangs up the phone. It was verna hunter
Speaker 3: with a pre Thanksgiving Day tip for them. Apparently there
Speaker 3: are a lot of stray animals around the trailer park
Speaker 3: of Vicious Goat in particular, so don't wear red and
Speaker 3: don't make any jerky movements. Amy offers maybe we should
Speaker 3: wear camouflage, but Alan explains, no, that upsets the bear.
Speaker 1: And this rusty is incredible. I know.
Speaker 4: He is so funny in this episode, not only funny,
Speaker 4: but also like later, the delicacy with which he approaches
Speaker 4: like the conflict with them. He is just no, He's
Speaker 4: such the consummate actor and totally took it for granted.
Speaker 2: One I said, literally said the same thing to Sue.
Speaker 2: We were watching it last night, and I looked at
Speaker 2: her and I was like, I wish I knew how
Speaker 2: good this man was when we were there. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: crushes it on a daily basis, and he was so
Speaker 2: good at the efforts.
Speaker 1: It's just effortless. This is actually a very difficult role
Speaker 1: that he's playing in.
Speaker 3: This episode, and you never you.
Speaker 1: Never judge him as a character for judging them, And
Speaker 1: that's really tricky because the way it's written, Alan and
Speaker 1: are being pretty weird, like it's.
Speaker 3: Not great, and Amy has one later that just makes me.
Speaker 1: Go, what so good? Rust? He is so good?
Speaker 3: I would like to point out, because we just talked
Speaker 3: about it in the scene before this is actually exactly
Speaker 3: what we're talking about. The cultural differences, the fact that
Speaker 3: don't wear red. There's a wily goat loose on the
Speaker 3: property and the goat might attack us, and wearing camouflage, no,
Speaker 3: that will upset the bear. That kind of stuff of
Speaker 3: like I don't want to go there, there's.
Speaker 1: A goat totally.
Speaker 3: That kind of thing is is would would totally make
Speaker 3: you feel.
Speaker 1: Like uncomfortable without knowing why you're uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: But yeah, exactly so they did do it, because we
Speaker 3: did just criticize the fact that they the premise was
Speaker 3: set up.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's very tough. Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's easy. You know. I think as a writer, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to write this, you're trying to write class difference.
Speaker 1: That's a very tough thing to show, and especially to
Speaker 1: appeal to your audience, right, which is a mainstream American
Speaker 1: audience which has people that live in trailer parks, people
Speaker 1: that live in nice houses, and like, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you get your your audience on the side
Speaker 1: of all of these characters. It's tricky, man, Like, it's
Speaker 1: a tough episode. And I you know, we did it
Speaker 1: when we showed the trailer park before we did it
Speaker 1: by making Shawn's family criminals, right, that was the like out,
Speaker 1: that was the way to be like, isn't this family
Speaker 1: crazy because they're all criminals, not because they're poor, And
Speaker 1: then here it's just, yeah, it's tricky. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't have the answer. I don't I think maybe
Speaker 1: it's flawed from the outset, Like maybe you just don't
Speaker 1: do this kind of episode because it's too it's too hard.
Speaker 3: It's because they do again, they do the same thing
Speaker 3: talking about how do you show it? Even though it's
Speaker 3: not necessarily a great example, but the unters they show
Speaker 3: it there too, by like, oh, I just assumed that
Speaker 3: was broken. So you think I would have something broken
Speaker 3: in my house and I just wouldn't fix it. Why
Speaker 3: would I do that? So it is, it's hard, and
Speaker 3: I think they tried, and I think in the ways
Speaker 3: that they tried, they did a really good job of it.
Speaker 3: It's just it is. It's a tough it's a tough setup.
Speaker 2: It is, But that's why I think, like I said,
Speaker 2: I could see this as a Fresh Prince episode where
Speaker 2: it's like the uber wealthy family going to the trailer
Speaker 2: park family makes more sense than I mean, they've done
Speaker 2: episodes where the Matthews are struggling for money. Where what
Speaker 2: are you going to do about this? What are we
Speaker 2: going to do about that? So they're not different enough
Speaker 2: in class for this setup to work for me? Yeah? Right.
Speaker 3: I do appreciate the effort, though, I will say, yeah,
Speaker 3: I appreciate the effort, especially since so much of the
Speaker 3: show is bill around Seawan's character to actually really do
Speaker 3: an episode.
Speaker 1: And I love the naivete of children being friends and
Speaker 1: their parents friends like well, my favorite line is is
Speaker 1: I think it's at the end of this scene that
Speaker 1: Rusty says we'll get to it, but I feel like
Speaker 1: he says something to the effect of like just we'll
Speaker 1: get to it.
Speaker 3: We'll get to it, okay. So then Frankie appears at
Speaker 3: the door and announces, out of respect, I come to
Speaker 3: you the father of Morgan Matthews to discuss a dating situation.
Speaker 3: Alan turns to Amy and frantically whispers, call the cops.
Speaker 1: I love all the cops of a dated situation.
Speaker 3: It is so funny.
Speaker 1: And this is where I was like, Wow, Ethan really,
Speaker 1: it's so interesting that he is the sort of sole
Speaker 1: survivor of the second season, Like he's the only one
Speaker 1: of all the bullies, of all those characters that we've introduced,
Speaker 1: Adam Scott Blake, like we've had so many different versions
Speaker 1: of like and he keeps coming back. It's so fascinating,
Speaker 1: Like he really, he really was just such a great
Speaker 1: presence and such a good actor.
Speaker 2: You can also argue though, that other than the one
Speaker 2: episode with Harley, he was also the character that they
Speaker 2: gave the most depth to Yes, where it was like
Speaker 2: you got to see more of him, They gave him
Speaker 2: another color than just the funny bully in the in
Speaker 2: the hallway, so you could keep bringing him back because
Speaker 2: it was like, oh, there's so much more. And then there's,
Speaker 2: of course just the fact that Ethan was just such
Speaker 2: a good act.
Speaker 1: But think about what that started with. That started with
Speaker 1: a gay joke, Like that's literally what the character was
Speaker 1: written as. He was supposed to be the big, tough
Speaker 1: guy who then says, what are you saying? I'm gay? Right,
Speaker 1: But that was his first line, and the joke there
Speaker 1: was that this character has nuance and depth beyond being
Speaker 1: just a big guy, which is just a one off
Speaker 1: throwaway joke until it becomes this season's long character. It's
Speaker 1: pretty brilliant.
Speaker 2: It's pretty it's also because of how good he was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it truly is how good he was.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so it's not for frank eats for his
Speaker 3: little brother, Herman, who appears from behind him holding a
Speaker 3: bouquet of flowers. Frankie nudges Herman forward, just as we practiced.
Speaker 3: Herman begins deer Matthew's family, especially the father. I request
Speaker 3: the presence of Morgan Matthews for an after dinner piece
Speaker 3: of pumpkin pie. Frankie explains, word around the trailer park
Speaker 3: is you'll be on the premises Thanksgiving Day. Morgan excitedly
Speaker 3: asks for her parents' permission, and it is granted. Frankie
Speaker 3: excuses himself, if we are to have a female visitor,
Speaker 3: we must tidy up the trailer. But before they go,
Speaker 3: Frankie offers a word of caution. Alan cuts him off.
Speaker 3: We know about the goat. Herman emphasizes, do not underestimate him.
Speaker 3: He is wiley.
Speaker 2: He is Wiley.
Speaker 3: And it's a perfect little scene. I love it. Great scene.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 3: Then we're in the trailer park. Corey leads his family
Speaker 3: to the Hunters with excitement, which includes Will wearing a
Speaker 3: turtle neck and a sway.
Speaker 1: Switch, and then is Rusty also wearing jacket.
Speaker 2: I think his is brown brown?
Speaker 1: Pretty? You guys are you guys are the Swede family.
Speaker 1: Everybody's looking so like they've clearly lay.
Speaker 2: People.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just amazing. You're just like suddenly an eighties yuppie villain,
Speaker 1: Like you know, you're just.
Speaker 2: Like, yes, the show, Yeah, making sure that we win,
Speaker 2: we win the summer thing at the rich Kids camp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it's. It's summertimes. Sometimes you just think
Speaker 1: you really should be carrying a racket. That would I
Speaker 1: mean it, that's what I racket.
Speaker 2: It's like, when did we ever see the Matthews like this?
Speaker 2: I mean this was never seen.
Speaker 1: Also, you guys own an outdoor store, like you think
Speaker 1: you'd be comfortable with like outdoorsiness.
Speaker 2: Door stuff.
Speaker 3: So they're finally going to see where his best friend lives.
Speaker 3: Amy realizes she forgot her person in the car. She
Speaker 3: doesn't want it, but she doesn't want to leave it
Speaker 3: in the car. Alan mitts, I don't want to leave
Speaker 3: the car in the car, but we're stuck with it.
Speaker 3: Eric times in, just give me the keys, I'll get
Speaker 3: the purse. Alan asks, and when would you be back?
Speaker 3: Eric answers not coming back, is disappointed he's never taking
Speaker 3: them anywhere ever again. Amy is also surprised by this
Speaker 3: family's negative attitude. Morgan then says she has to go
Speaker 3: to the bathroom, and Amy quickly retorts, not here, honey,
Speaker 3: hold it till we're home. Alan tells Corey to get
Speaker 3: the purse, leaving the Matthews to find the trailer on
Speaker 3: their own, and then we do a small little time lapse.
Speaker 3: The Matthews seem lost. Which one did Corey say it? Was.
Speaker 3: Alan points to a trailer that reads the Unters. That
Speaker 3: has to be the one, and the Age must have
Speaker 3: fallen off in the last twister flood or go to attack.
Speaker 2: There was also funny. There was a pretty funny line
Speaker 2: before where he says, Eric says to Corey, which one
Speaker 2: is it? And he goes, it's that one down there,
Speaker 2: and Eric says, O, you mean the one that looks
Speaker 2: like all the other ones. Okay, great, so it is.
Speaker 2: It's just it's so out of character for Eric, but
Speaker 2: it was a funny line.
Speaker 3: All the trailers look like all the other trailers. A
Speaker 3: man who is not Chet opens the door. Alan asks
Speaker 3: if the Hunters live there, and the man corrects him no,
Speaker 3: we are the unders like it says right there on
Speaker 3: the sign. Alan admits, so I thought the age had
Speaker 3: fallen off. The man is defensive. You think of a
Speaker 3: letter fell off my name? I wouldn't replace it. Alan stutters,
Speaker 3: they're nice people, nice lost people. The man guesses they
Speaker 3: aren't from around here, and Morgan tells them they live
Speaker 3: over in Cedar Heights and is this the first mention.
Speaker 2: Of Cedar n So and you add heights to something, it.
Speaker 3: Becomes very wealthy. The man responds, La di da, I
Speaker 3: hear that Cedar Heights is quite the lovely neighborhood. Amy
Speaker 3: explains they're having dinner with the Hunters and wonders if
Speaker 3: he can tell them where that is. The man points
Speaker 3: to the trailer next door, sarcastically, saying he won't keep
Speaker 3: them any longer because the Jet Hunters are probably looking
Speaker 3: forward to their visit, and then he rudely slams the door.
Speaker 2: Wait did you not see it? I broke Rusty? Did
Speaker 2: you really? I broke Rusty? So I obviously like I
Speaker 2: did that wave at the end after the door was shut,
Speaker 2: and Rusty looks right at me and starts laughing. He
Speaker 2: turns and then he's covering his mouth amazing as he's
Speaker 2: knocking them out. I pause, and it's like, I did
Speaker 2: I broke Crusty? So I full on broke Crusty at
Speaker 2: that season. I was so happy with that. I was proud.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: So they take a few steps over to the Hunter's trailer.
Speaker 3: It's now clean and festively decorated. Amy knocks on the door,
Speaker 3: and inside Sean prepares his parents. They're here. Big smiles. Everybody.
Speaker 3: The Matthews enter still minus Corey, and Alan pulls out
Speaker 3: a nice bottle of wine he brought. Chet politely thanks him,
Speaker 3: but explains, we had a very good wine plan for
Speaker 3: this evening's festivities, a whole box of it right in
Speaker 3: the refrigerator. Alan assures them they don't need to drink
Speaker 3: the wine he brought, he'll just save it for another time.
Speaker 3: Chet grabs the bottle back from Alan. They'll drink his
Speaker 3: wine since he went through the trouble of bringing it.
Speaker 3: Verna comes up with a solution, why don't we pour
Speaker 3: both our wines into a big bowl and add some
Speaker 3: bananas and oranges and have ourselves some friendships Sangria terrible idea.
Speaker 3: Anybody who drinks wine knows that's a bad idea. Chet
Speaker 3: whispers to her, nobody wants that, and she sternly emphasizes
Speaker 3: they do. She sends Chet to go get some tiny
Speaker 3: umbrellas from the kitchen while she serves the Matthews or Dervs.
Speaker 3: She presents a grow year and pecan log. Amy hands
Speaker 3: the dish she brought over to Verna, and Verna stares
Speaker 3: at it admiringly. She knows the pecan log is not
Speaker 3: as fancy as what they would have served at their home,
Speaker 3: And I like all of this. I like that Verna
Speaker 3: is in her mind thinking of, well, how would they
Speaker 3: serve it, what would they do? And in her mind
Speaker 3: they would have fancy little umbrellas in their drinks, and
Speaker 3: so she made sure she had those things. And even
Speaker 3: the dish that Amy brings over that then when she
Speaker 3: hands her that dish, she looks at it and she
Speaker 3: feels inferior because of her mismatched silverware that we learn
Speaker 3: about later. All of those things are things that people
Speaker 3: have felt in one time or another, especially now with
Speaker 3: like Instagram and all the ways we're able to show
Speaker 3: or influencers show their home lives and you open up
Speaker 3: you see the inside of their refrigerator and you go,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, am I supposed to have dozens of
Speaker 3: little plastic things inside my refriger to organize all my berries?
Speaker 3: Like I didn't know I was supposed to have that
Speaker 3: we have at one time or another. Everyone can relate
Speaker 3: to feeling as like, man, I'm not doing it. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm not doing this the way it's supposed to be done.
Speaker 3: So I actually think with the amount of limited stuff
Speaker 3: they were able, there are a few things that later
Speaker 3: make you go e. But overall, so far I'm right
Speaker 3: on board with all of this. Have you brought over
Speaker 3: a bottle of wine?
Speaker 1: I think Will's Will's criticism is exactly right. There's not
Speaker 1: there's they're not rich enough, right, We're not a stab
Speaker 1: and also they're not comfortable, like nobody's a snob. The
Speaker 1: Matthews are so nice. You have to make Eric a
Speaker 1: snob in order to make any of this work. But
Speaker 1: they're actually trying so hard to be accommodating because they
Speaker 1: have to be likable, cool people, which they are, right,
Speaker 1: So there isn't really a conflict here, So it's it
Speaker 1: feels generated like if the Matthews were rich people like
Speaker 1: in in Fresh Prince of bel Air, exactly right. They're
Speaker 1: used to money, they expect to have money, and it's
Speaker 1: okay for them. It's like part of their character that
Speaker 1: they're snobs. And that's the fun of it is seeing
Speaker 1: the snobs be taken down. In this case, you can't
Speaker 1: be snobs. They can't be snobs. They're actually very cool,
Speaker 1: so you have no conflict, so you're generating conflicts. So
Speaker 1: it feels to me it feels like Verna is being
Speaker 1: crazy and that ends up being what it becomes is
Speaker 1: that she's she's generating conflict where there isn't conflict, and
Speaker 1: so they just make her the crazy woman over the cheese.
Speaker 1: When an actuality, it could be a good conflict, but
Speaker 1: you have to then establish at the Matthews expect certain
Speaker 1: things like they shouldn't be but you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: have them be upset about the cheese.
Speaker 2: They have a question. I have a question, and I
Speaker 2: swear to God, I'm not saying this as a joke.
Speaker 2: I'm not making light. It's a truly honest question that
Speaker 2: I'm asking because I wrote it down. Do you think
Speaker 2: they were kind of trying to write verna like maybe
Speaker 2: she has a bit of a mental illness.
Speaker 1: No, I think that's the only thing they could do,
Speaker 1: because you can't it. You can't. The Matthews either have
Speaker 1: to be snobs treating her poorly and she has to
Speaker 1: be reacting to that, or she has to be so
Speaker 1: insecure that she acts like a crazy person. And that's
Speaker 1: the way they went, because you can't write this conflict
Speaker 1: without having real class issues. But the problem is there
Speaker 1: isn't a real class issue, so right, because everybody's being
Speaker 1: nice and everybody's happy and there isn't a problem. But
Speaker 1: then she has to be so insecure that it is
Speaker 1: like a mental illness. And I think it's not good.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's funny.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think if they did that
Speaker 2: on if they were doing that on purposes, maybe like
Speaker 2: she keepsake, she took off. You heard stuff about my
Speaker 2: mom is this and you know, back in the day,
Speaker 2: And I wonder if now that we've met her, if
Speaker 2: maybe there was a conversation where it's like, maybe she's
Speaker 2: got a bit of a mental And that's not what
Speaker 2: they would call it in the writer's room. They would
Speaker 2: have been like she's kooky or whatever, but maybe she
Speaker 2: has a bit of an action, has a bit of
Speaker 2: a man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right. I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: they backed themselves into that corner, right, Like in order
Speaker 1: to generate conflicts, to generate the scenes, they have to
Speaker 1: make her ridiculous. You know, she's like eating the cheese.
Speaker 2: Even chets, like have you been drinking?
Speaker 1: Yeah, when she's serving the In the next scene where
Speaker 1: she's like I wanted to it's like, yeah, she's like
Speaker 1: lost it. That's the only way that they can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a bummer.
Speaker 3: Amy assures her it's exactly what she would have served.
Speaker 3: Verna disagrees, you would have served the port wine, cheddar
Speaker 3: and the ceramic croc. Eric perks up. Yeah, remember you
Speaker 3: gave it to the mailman that one Christmas. Alan stuffs
Speaker 3: cracker in his mouth to shut him up. And I
Speaker 3: actually still like all of this. I like, I still
Speaker 3: like all of this. The one thing I'll agree is
Speaker 3: too far is when in that next scene I'm not
Speaker 3: even sure what it is, where she's like staring flat affect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she looks like break literally looks like she's
Speaker 2: had a mental break.
Speaker 3: But I actually really like that we see And I
Speaker 3: guess maybe you know, as somebody who has had a
Speaker 3: lot on her plate at different times all the time
Speaker 3: and wants to be a good hostess and also wants
Speaker 3: to be all of these different things. I have felt
Speaker 3: many times like, no matter how many times, no matter
Speaker 3: how much preparation I have put into hosting something, I
Speaker 3: forget something. And because I am so hard on myself
Speaker 3: and because I am such a perfectionist, it isn't a
Speaker 3: thing that I give myself any grace for it. Becomes
Speaker 3: failed again. Couldn't do it, couldn't somehow didn't And so
Speaker 3: I like that we see this thing in her where
Speaker 3: she goes she had overthought it. Do I do the croc?
Speaker 3: Do I do this? Do I do the croc? Do
Speaker 3: I do this? Then you pick something and you go
Speaker 3: I should have chosen the croc. I think the croc
Speaker 3: would have been what you chose. And I like that.
Speaker 3: I like that she has this insecurity and yet she
Speaker 3: wanted to take it on because she wants a happy
Speaker 3: family home life and she wants her son to have
Speaker 3: to have the kind of home where he invites his
Speaker 3: friend's family over her own. Insecurity about where she is
Speaker 3: lacking totally works for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if I wonder if it's worth thinking
Speaker 1: retroactively from the next scene that's.
Speaker 3: Just the next scene, because I do agree that that
Speaker 3: next scene is like Wow, what happened here? And I
Speaker 3: would have liked for it to have changed about something
Speaker 3: other than the gosh darn cheese, which I understand that
Speaker 3: cheese is supposed to be a runner. That's funny, But like,
Speaker 3: I love the moment later where we find out the
Speaker 3: mismatched silverware that she's embarrassed by that.
Speaker 1: The reason they're.
Speaker 3: Using plastic is because she would rather use plastic than
Speaker 3: let them see. They have purchased their silverware piece at
Speaker 3: a time from thrift stores. And I just loved that.
Speaker 3: Amy explains he's not just our maleman, he's my biological father.
Speaker 3: But he doesn't know that I know. Verna explains that
Speaker 3: Hickory Farms is still open, so she'll go buy the croc.
Speaker 3: Now Check quietly approaches her on her way out. You're
Speaker 3: acting as daffy as your aunt Lucy, who nobody speaks of.
Speaker 3: Verna just wanted tonight to go well.
Speaker 2: She really has a mental illness.
Speaker 1: It's just not a good joke.
Speaker 2: It's a terrible joke, but interesting character, but terrible joke.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, right, Chet reminds her it can't go
Speaker 3: well if she runs off into the night like some
Speaker 3: cheese crazed banshee.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's about who we are and who they are. We're
Speaker 3: different and no amount of cheese is going to change
Speaker 3: the fact that tonight is not going to go well.
Speaker 3: And I told you so right on time.
Speaker 2: Corey.
Speaker 3: Here's this conversation and enters And I also like that
Speaker 3: as a character Chet. It doesn't actually make sense for Chet,
Speaker 3: which is what's I think bumping us. But I like
Speaker 3: the idea that a character already has in his mind.
Speaker 3: These people don't like us because we're we're different than them,
Speaker 3: and so everything you, everything they say, you see through
Speaker 3: the lens of judgment. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: Che is the ultimate chameleon who fits in everywhere, charms everybody,
Speaker 1: and also exactly thinks of himself as rich and successful
Speaker 1: like Chet would think, I can be, I can I
Speaker 1: can drink tea with the president bread, I can do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's best friends with everybody, like so the idea that
Speaker 1: he would ever decide that he can't get along with
Speaker 1: these is ridiculous. If anything, it should be that he's
Speaker 1: over compensating. He's trying so hard to fit in with them,
Speaker 1: and she's like, what are you doing? Weird different? Like
Speaker 1: that should be the dynamic. Yeah, yeah, it's a bummer completely.
Speaker 1: I will say something about Blake's performance in this moment
Speaker 1: was wonderful to me. I was, like I wrote down, I.
Speaker 6: Was like, Blake is such a good actor because he's
Speaker 6: he's he's able to be this over the top ridiculous
Speaker 6: character and yet in this moment completely real and completely believable.
Speaker 1: And in the next scene with all the trailer park people,
Speaker 1: I was like, Blake is such a good actor. He's
Speaker 1: genuinely he's not just a funny character actor. He's a
Speaker 1: genuinely great actor. He's so president in these moments. I
Speaker 1: just I don't think I recognized that at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I look at this now and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is just a great actor nailing the scene.
Speaker 2: He should have had his own show.
Speaker 1: He should his own show. He could have carried an
Speaker 1: entire sitcom. He is so he's so three dimensional, he's
Speaker 1: so likable, and he doesn't even have to do much,
Speaker 1: like he could just be in the present and he's
Speaker 1: so engaging.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I think the problem comes and it's not her
Speaker 2: fault at all, but his character changed when they brought
Speaker 2: on Verna. It just everything changed with Verna, and there
Speaker 2: was something something. I think it wasn't better, it was
Speaker 2: just different when when it was just just Check.
Speaker 1: We should have had Chet and Sean in the trailer
Speaker 1: apart on their own. They could have been their own
Speaker 1: like dynamic, And.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Blake does end up doing a ton on My
Speaker 3: name is Earl that's probably the closest he ever.
Speaker 2: Was doing movies all over with the Bill Holler Comedy
Speaker 2: Tour and everything that was so big, especially in the nineties,
Speaker 2: there's no reason for given.
Speaker 1: The opportunity to be a fully realized character like a
Speaker 1: really like a father, a sitcom like something that where
Speaker 1: he has this kind of you know, like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: could have done it.
Speaker 2: He could have carried absolutely, oh easily yea.
Speaker 3: So, now sporting his mom's purse, Corey walks up to
Speaker 3: Sean and quietly asks, how could you let this thing
Speaker 3: fall apart?
Speaker 1: Before you get very trendy for today by the way,
Speaker 1: Oh yes, guys are now all wearing fanny packs and
Speaker 1: like over the shoulder bags. I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is actually he could look.
Speaker 3: For me with yea with Sean argues it's bigger than me.
Speaker 3: It's bigger than both of us. Very well played, great line.
Speaker 3: Bigger than me, bigger than both of us. Corey says,
Speaker 3: they have to hold this thing together world history. Really
Speaker 3: good writer, I'll never get better.
Speaker 2: This is it. This is the writer speak, writer.
Speaker 1: Speak, acting writer. I think so because after this I
Speaker 1: take myself way too seriously. For whatever reason, I was
Speaker 1: like one great out of my head and just having
Speaker 1: fun this episode.
Speaker 2: So we've got peak writer in acting and peak Danielle
Speaker 2: looks wise, Wow, we're just down all downhill.
Speaker 3: Corey says, they have to hold this thing together. Sean
Speaker 3: looks at him. Lose the purse and I'll take you seriously.
Speaker 3: Corey responds, but it goes with my shoes. I like
Speaker 3: that in a moment where we have to do a
Speaker 3: typical hey man, get rid of that purse. Corey responds,
Speaker 3: very seriously, but it goes with my shoes. We balance
Speaker 3: it out a lot on the show, where sometimes we
Speaker 3: make the easy, obvious joke and then balance it out
Speaker 3: with the very you know sure. Amy walks over to Chet,
Speaker 3: is everything okay? Oh, Verna's just having one of her bouts,
Speaker 3: and then we see Verna nervously shifting cocktails, umbrella over
Speaker 3: foam cups. Chet whispers to Amy, you have any female
Speaker 3: calming pills in that purse? She admits, not that I
Speaker 3: and she admits not that I can spare. It's I
Speaker 3: just want to know what pills they are and if
Speaker 3: I could have some. Okay, thank you. Then there is
Speaker 3: a knock at the door and Eric quickly announces that's
Speaker 3: my lift, thanks for having me. Alan stops him before
Speaker 3: he can walk out. Nobody's getting off this island, Gilligan.
Speaker 3: Chet opens the door and it's mister under from next door.
Speaker 3: They're having an emergency meeting of the trailer park Homeowners Association,
Speaker 3: and he strongly suggests that try to Chet attends, Chet
Speaker 3: camped he's got company, but Luther emphasizes again it's an emergency.
Speaker 3: Chet tells everyone to party on before leaving with his neighbor,
Speaker 3: and now outside the trailer, a confused Chet turns the
Speaker 3: corner to see a large group of men in flannels
Speaker 3: angrily waiting for him.
Speaker 1: Such an old talk about how we felt like this.
Speaker 3: It felt like that farmhouse, yes over there, over there.
Speaker 1: It's just it would have been so easy to rationalize,
Speaker 1: like they parked the car in the wrong place, right, whatever.
Speaker 1: But the fact that the outsiders, it just becomes a
Speaker 1: caricature of trailer park people. And it's a bummer. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's the guy's great, the guy who comes up
Speaker 1: as Herbert Herbert, yeah no.
Speaker 2: And this is also the thing that you that you
Speaker 2: were talking about earlier. Writers there they're trying to show
Speaker 2: the cultural difference. So apparently there's this cabal of men
Speaker 2: that get together at the trail. I mean it doesn't.
Speaker 2: It's it's like you have to make a criters in
Speaker 2: Hollywood trying to write what they think life that a
Speaker 2: trailer park is.
Speaker 1: Like, or just make a cartoon of it in order
Speaker 1: to make it work, when the actual reality of two
Speaker 1: families not getting together and not understanding one another even
Speaker 1: though their kids are friends is such a great theme
Speaker 1: and it's so good, Like that's such a great thematic,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's just you got to make a cartoon
Speaker 1: of it. It's a bummer.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. So an old man with a walking stick
Speaker 3: slowly makes his way to the front, and Chet is
Speaker 3: startled to see him. Yes, it is I Herbert. Chet
Speaker 3: hopes this is just to wish him a happy Thanksgiving
Speaker 3: and that he hasn't done anything to emerge Herbert from
Speaker 3: his deep seclusion. Herbert gives a long speech about a
Speaker 3: land that was below the freeway overpass, and men who
Speaker 3: saw the land and knew it was good and trailer ready.
Speaker 3: They all had a common purpose, and there was peace
Speaker 3: upon this land until today, when Chet brought outsiders into
Speaker 3: their midst Chet assures them they're very nice people, but
Speaker 3: Herbert insists they're not from around here, and they look
Speaker 3: down upon them. The old man shouts enough, Jerry Springer's on.
Speaker 3: The crowd leaves and.
Speaker 1: That's pretty hysterical. The way he sets up the Jerry
Speaker 1: Springer thing is like, you think you're just trying to
Speaker 1: what does he say, Blake. Blake says something like you're
Speaker 1: just trying to rile up people's emotions, like you're just playing.
Speaker 1: And then he's like, well, we got to go watch Springer,
Speaker 1: which is exactly what Spring is so great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Springer being on is is a
Speaker 3: good out.
Speaker 1: The outsiders things like I wanted I wanted them to
Speaker 1: be outsiders. If if you're gonna make.
Speaker 3: Wait, they're also inside the trailer. They're not even it's
Speaker 3: not sitting in the middle of the place and they're looking.
Speaker 3: They're giving scowling looks, and or somebody walks their goat
Speaker 3: and they're like, oh gosh, that's nothing.
Speaker 1: Would have been to have Eric do something right. Eric
Speaker 1: have been the clueless yuppie kid thinking he could write whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't know, do something that that is a faux
Speaker 1: Paul within the trailer park community that, yes, that's all
Speaker 1: this emotion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it hits on a woman that turns out to
Speaker 2: be married to one of the guys at the trailer
Speaker 2: park or something like that. Yeah, something strange, but it's yeah.
Speaker 3: So Luther reiterates, get the Matthews out of the trailer
Speaker 3: park now. And then we go to a commercial break,
Speaker 3: and we're back in the Hunter's trailer, now surrounded by cheeses.
Speaker 3: Verna sadly holds out her spread to the Matthews and embarrassment.
Speaker 3: Corey and Shawn watch from the couch. I told you
Speaker 3: this was a great idea, Sean responds, it's an episode
Speaker 3: of cops waiting to happen. Verna apologizes to Alan and
Speaker 3: Amy about her previous erratic behavior. She'd like for them
Speaker 3: to just get back to their uneventful wiki wiki Hawaiian Luau.
Speaker 2: Was Did they ever set that up that there was
Speaker 2: a Luau themed Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: The idea is that she's delusional, but she is right hallucinating.
Speaker 3: And so then she doesn't.
Speaker 1: The idea is that she is a crazy woman like
Speaker 1: that she is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chet bursts into the trailer. I hope you all
Speaker 3: enjoyed your dinner. Thanks for coming. Let's do this again,
Speaker 3: next share it some neutral third party or for space.
Speaker 3: Sean says they haven't eaten yet, and Chet grabs Verna
Speaker 3: and Sean. It's a the small talk part of the evening,
Speaker 3: so the Matthews can talk amongst themselves and the Hunters
Speaker 3: will do the same, and they walk outside. Now the
Speaker 3: Matthews are alone with Corey trying to ease the tension.
Speaker 3: Eric points his finger at Corey. He did this to them.
Speaker 3: Eric could be at home in his nice, comfortable house
Speaker 3: which is built into the ground, but Corey had to
Speaker 3: drag them to the center of Looneyville. So again another
Speaker 3: reference to being ready being crazy.
Speaker 2: And also when when was Eric ever about like you're
Speaker 2: not we're our house is built into the ground, like
Speaker 2: we're this is all about our family thinking, at least
Speaker 2: Eric thinking we're better than these people.
Speaker 1: But this, I think, and that is that could have
Speaker 1: been a good way to go. Actually think. I think
Speaker 1: Eric being a clueless yuppie who thinks everybody has like
Speaker 1: widescreen TVs and like, you know, like it could have
Speaker 1: been a clueless pretentiousness or whatever.
Speaker 3: The football game on, but it's a TV the size
Speaker 3: of a.
Speaker 1: Hostage radio or whatever. Yeah, yeah, but instead it's yeah it's.
Speaker 3: Alan says he'll handle this in shouts that's a good game.
Speaker 3: I'm missing. Amy then jumps in assuring Corey meant, well,
Speaker 3: I know that Shawn's got your best friend, but we
Speaker 3: never really made friends with his parents. Cory asks why,
Speaker 3: just because dad makes more money than Sean's dad, that's
Speaker 3: why we can't sit down and have a nice meal together.
Speaker 3: Alan tells Corey he won't realize this until he grows up,
Speaker 3: but being right is not necessarily enough to change the
Speaker 3: way people feel.
Speaker 1: That's the line. That's the line that I love. It's
Speaker 1: like so loret intelligent line delivered by rusty fatherly advice
Speaker 1: that is actually brilliant and deliver exactly effortlessly. And man,
Speaker 1: what a what a line. I was like, still thinking
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: I was like, I know, I liked it too. I
Speaker 3: especially liked it because I liked that it was in
Speaker 3: my mind, making it clear that we're not trying to
Speaker 3: say that the Matthews are outright judging these people, that
Speaker 3: the Hunters actually feel bad about themselves and therefore everything
Speaker 3: everything the Mathew say comes off to them as a
Speaker 3: perceived slight because they are viewing it through the lens
Speaker 3: of insecurity, and that then eases the tension needed to
Speaker 3: come from the Mathew side, because you're already setting up.
Speaker 3: Even if we don't do anything that makes them that
Speaker 3: should make them feel insecure, they're going to feel insecure anyway,
Speaker 3: and it's going to be hard for them to accept
Speaker 3: us into their home. So yeah, it's that. I liked
Speaker 3: that part. We cut to the outside of the trailer,
Speaker 3: where the Hunters have congregated. Chet says, I told you
Speaker 3: what would happen if you invited those aristocrats down here.
Speaker 3: Sean asks if he's going to kick his friend's parents out,
Speaker 3: and Chet tells him no, but he is going to
Speaker 3: hurry them along. Just then, Corey, Eric and Morgan walk outside.
Speaker 3: Chet frantically asks, what are you doing here where you
Speaker 3: can be seen through a scope. Corey says they're just
Speaker 3: taking Morgan over to herman's trailer. Chet offers Sean to
Speaker 3: go with them so he can show them Matthews how
Speaker 3: the locals like to walk real load to the ground.
Speaker 3: Sean tells Corey he's sorry, and Corey says he's sorry too.
Speaker 3: Then Sean leads the way doing a military crouched walk
Speaker 3: and the others follow in the same manner, and then
Speaker 3: we're back in the Hunter's trailer. Alan, Amy, Verna, and
Speaker 3: Chett are all eating together and Chet hurriedly shouts ready
Speaker 3: for pye. Alan says he just got his turkey, and
Speaker 3: Amy asks, don't you think we ought to wait for
Speaker 3: the kids. It's a Hunter family tradition, Chet explains, the
Speaker 3: kids don't eat and it's time for pie. Allan tries
Speaker 3: cutting his turkey and he breaks his plastic fork. What's
Speaker 3: that make three, he jokingly asks. Verna hands him a
Speaker 3: giant bag of plastic forks, and Amy comments, I guess
Speaker 3: it's good to have a big old bag of forks around.
Speaker 3: Alan says this time he'll try and find a sturdier one.
Speaker 3: Chet huffs, Ory, you could go easy on the one
Speaker 3: you got. Alan agrees he'll just use the little forky
Speaker 3: part of the one he's got. Erna says, yeah, so cute.
Speaker 3: Verna says, if our dinner guest is not comfortable with
Speaker 3: our plastic wear, I think it's only right we accommodate
Speaker 3: him with a regular metal fork. Chet suggests everyone gets
Speaker 3: a metal fork then, but Verna is uncomfortable because her
Speaker 3: forks don't match. Amy tries to be relatable. She remembers
Speaker 3: when her and Allen's forks and spoons didn't match when
Speaker 3: they were first starting out first. That's the line that
Speaker 3: I was like, maybe, like, would she have ever said that?
Speaker 3: Would that be something?
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a good Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just don't think it played all that great. Like I
Speaker 1: feel like this this moment could have used another tape
Speaker 1: because I think the point is that she says it
Speaker 1: not thinking, but the way Betsy delivers it almost sounds
Speaker 1: like she's considering it, and then it doesn't land like
Speaker 1: it should land awfully, like it should be like oh,
Speaker 1: and instead that's not how it's blade. So I could
Speaker 1: have used another take a little. Jeff McCracken note.
Speaker 3: This because was very awkward, and Amy realizes her mistake.
Speaker 3: Verna hangs her head in embarrassment. Alan addresses the elephant
Speaker 3: in the room. The four of them just aren't working.
Speaker 3: Amy appreciates that they went out of their way for them,
Speaker 3: and Verna gets it. Sometimes what's important to realize is
Speaker 3: some folks just don't blend well together, and Alan says,
Speaker 3: doesn't make it anybody's fault, and Amy assures them the
Speaker 3: kids will understand, And then we're at the trailer park
Speaker 3: outside Frankie and Herman's house. Corey and Sewn are helping
Speaker 3: set up this backup dinner outside of the Stacchino's trailer,
Speaker 3: and Corey admits, I know we're having dinner with that.
Speaker 5: This is Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand where the kids are supposed to be eating.
Speaker 1: I thought they were calling over for just for pie.
Speaker 1: Why Morgan wanted to go before they eat doesn't make.
Speaker 3: Anything, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And why now they thought they were going to be
Speaker 2: eating at the Hunter's trailer and before dinner to go
Speaker 2: have dinner? Yea?
Speaker 3: Is he not joining them for thanks saving?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I figured Va Vader was doing a Thanksgiving brawl somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, when we were doing the recap for last week,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you know, Vader will be right
Speaker 1: this episode, but not in this.
Speaker 3: Corey admits his parents have been acting like jerks. Sean
Speaker 3: says his parents didn't exactly go out of their way
Speaker 3: to make them feel welcome either. Why can't they just
Speaker 3: hang out together?
Speaker 2: Were they acting like jerks? I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's his parents go out of his way. I feel
Speaker 3: like that's the thing.
Speaker 2: They feel like their parents went out of their way
Speaker 2: to welcome them into the trail.
Speaker 1: Everybody's working.
Speaker 2: Yes, That's why none of that made sense to me.
Speaker 2: It's like, wait a minute, everybody was really trying here,
Speaker 2: get that, Like, sorry about my parents, what did they do?
Speaker 2: Sorry about my parents? What did they do?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think in order for this episode to work, you
Speaker 1: have to make one set of parents or both sets
Speaker 1: of parents caricatures, and our show, to its credit, was
Speaker 1: not willing to do that, and so you end up
Speaker 1: having to offload the caricatures to help people were crazy
Speaker 1: people in order to make the Hunters crazy, or you
Speaker 1: may burna anxious and neurotic in or to make that okay.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Matthews are so nice and the Hunters
Speaker 1: are so nice. It's everyone really really, it should have
Speaker 1: been that we've never met Sean's family before this episode,
Speaker 1: and then you just make Sean's parents ridiculous, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it would have been a fun episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Frankie walks out holding a turkey in answers.
Speaker 3: Adults are not narrow minded by nature. They can, however,
Speaker 3: be set in their ways. He compares them to the
Speaker 3: Whotos and the Tutsis. They pass on hatred throughout generations,
Speaker 3: so it's what they've grown accustomed to. Corey wonders, are
Speaker 3: we the only people on this planet who don't know
Speaker 3: who the Hutoos and the Tutsis are?
Speaker 1: And this is where I move on Ben's laugh, never
Speaker 1: walking a laugh his laugh, So yeah, I start moving
Speaker 1: in front, like Ben has the joke about the Hutuos,
Speaker 1: and I am like completely I ruined his joke. So no,
Speaker 1: to writer.
Speaker 2: Several notes will hold.
Speaker 3: Sean should have holds, but he doesn't. He instead admits
Speaker 3: they're rants, maybe working for them though Corey asks, you
Speaker 3: mean if we knew better, we wouldn't be friends. Sean
Speaker 3: says he's happy they don't know better. Great natural raid.
Speaker 3: Frankie announces the table as in order, it's time for
Speaker 3: them to eat. Corey hesitantly asks if it's okay they join,
Speaker 3: and herman exclaims there is always room for more at
Speaker 3: our table. Luther is now watching from nearby, joined by
Speaker 3: a man I can only describe as having serial killer vibes.
Speaker 2: Frankie explains from life, Corey.
Speaker 3: Explains their family thanksgiving custom of going around the table
Speaker 3: and saying what you were thankful for. Eric, happy to
Speaker 3: be one step closer to eating, says he's thankful to
Speaker 3: be spending Thanksgiving with his family and all his friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Actually, the first thing he says is
Speaker 2: kind of dickish. Again, He's like, I'm happy. It's like
Speaker 2: you can't even just say something nice about It's just
Speaker 2: it wasn't very Eric this week. The Rue characters.
Speaker 3: I thought it was just a matter of I'm star
Speaker 3: I'm ready to get to the.
Speaker 1: Mill is kind of funny actually, and lean into it
Speaker 1: a little bit more, I guess not but but but
Speaker 1: but the the point is that in this context, he's
Speaker 1: a yuppie, right, Like the point should be that he
Speaker 1: expects a big TV and nice things and that they
Speaker 1: certainly doesn't have it. And it's suddenly like I'm out
Speaker 1: of my element. I don't know how to act. And
Speaker 1: that would have been really funny, and it would have.
Speaker 2: Been funny just but they didn't do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So he's also thankful that they're taping the game.
Speaker 3: Frankie is thankful for their guests and the food they
Speaker 3: can provide Herman then lovingly looks at Morgan, I'm thankful
Speaker 3: to be sitting next to this delicate blossom who has
Speaker 3: won my heart.
Speaker 2: So cute.
Speaker 3: Morgan says she's thankful to be sitting at the kids table.
Speaker 3: Then Sean looks at Corey. I'm thankful you're my friend.
Speaker 1: Great, beautiful, wonderful Corey Sean moment. I mean, that's why
Speaker 1: this episode does ultimately work. Work is because the Corey
Speaker 1: Sean dynamic is amazing, but also just the storyline is great.
Speaker 1: I love this idea of like, yeah, because it's so true,
Speaker 1: Like we have already and my kid's only nine, we
Speaker 1: have friends that we're friends with mostly because our kids
Speaker 1: get along, you know, and you know that that olner
Speaker 1: continues as they get older. And that's so interesting. That's
Speaker 1: such a cool dynamic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Corey responds, I'm thankful that my parents taught me
Speaker 3: to like people for who they are, even if they
Speaker 3: weren't lucky enough to be raised that way themselves. And
Speaker 3: then it's revealed that Amy, Alan, Chet, and Verna are
Speaker 3: nearby and shocker, they've heard everything. Alan admits I feel
Speaker 3: about two inches tall. Chet says that's two inches taller
Speaker 3: than he feels. Amy asks if they can all try
Speaker 3: this again, and Verna says it would be a shame
Speaker 3: to waste all that cheese. Chet then walks over to
Speaker 3: Luther and his night stockersh Pal, offering them a spot
Speaker 3: at their emergency meeting of the human race. Alan clears
Speaker 3: his throat and asks the kids if they have room.
Speaker 3: Corey smiles, There's always room for more at our table.
Speaker 3: Alan pulls up a seat for Verna, and Chet accommodates
Speaker 3: Amy with a lawn chair. Luther and sketchy flannel man
Speaker 3: disgustingly watch on and slink away, presumably to hide some
Speaker 3: of that man's victims in a nearby freezer. Yes, and
Speaker 3: then everyone cheers their red drinks and celebration of their
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving dinner, and we freeze on a picture of unity.
Speaker 3: And then we're in the tag Phoene's classroom, back from break.
Speaker 3: Phoene is handing back the graded papers on the Hutus
Speaker 3: and the tutsis congratulating the class on above average performances.
Speaker 3: Phoene purposefully passes Sean and he asks, don't I get mine?
Speaker 3: Did you recycle it already? Phoene motions to Sean to
Speaker 3: come up to his desk. Can't just fail me privately,
Speaker 3: he gotta brave heart me up here. Phoene asks, I
Speaker 3: simply wondered if you would read your paper to the
Speaker 3: class starting here. Sean is confused, but he reads aloud.
Speaker 3: I spent this Thanksgiving with the Hutus and the Chutsis,
Speaker 3: which is surprising because he lives in Philadelphia and he
Speaker 3: thought that kind of prejudice based on class differences only
Speaker 3: happened in underdeveloped countries. Sean turns to Phoenie, asking if
Speaker 3: that's enough. He's getting vertigo from facing the opposite way
Speaker 3: in the classroom, and Feenie urges him to go on.
Speaker 3: People can be just as cruel in a developed country.
Speaker 3: And the thing that gives Sean hope is that if
Speaker 3: children are educated about the dangers of prejudice and intolerance,
Speaker 3: there will be a reason for Thanksgiving in the future.
Speaker 1: And this, you know what My problem as an actor,
Speaker 1: a major problem as an actor, is my my tendency
Speaker 1: towards sentimentality. And I will always play the sentimental moment,
Speaker 1: and this I play against it perfectly. It's really good, Sean,
Speaker 1: just being goofy Sean and saying something incredibly sentimental, and
Speaker 1: I play against it. I was so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at that right. He did it right, dude, like
Speaker 1: just throw it away and I did it very away.
Speaker 3: But it's ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, very Williams.
Speaker 1: I should have been watching him as an actor and
Speaker 1: just taking my lessons instead. Maybe we got three more No,
Speaker 1: we got three seasons of mope, mope, mopiness hitting it
Speaker 1: on the head, mopiness. I mean, maybe not this season,
Speaker 1: but certainly from five, five, six, and seven.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to see Phoenix.
Speaker 3: I know you don't know.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the cold episode lately? I know I
Speaker 1: think I'm just screaming and crying. I believe I'm screaming
Speaker 1: and crying to the pop.
Speaker 2: Have to see.
Speaker 3: Phoene states, that's the best work you've ever done, mister Hunter.
Speaker 3: He pulls out a red sharpe C minus.
Speaker 2: Sean is thrilled.
Speaker 3: Phoene shakes his head, laughing, Sean got an A plus.
Speaker 3: Phoene assures him, I'm just as shocked as you are.
Speaker 3: Topanga and Corey are smiling proudly at Sewan as he
Speaker 3: walks back to his seat. Shawn teeses Corey, I'm better
Speaker 3: than you are now, and we cut to Phoenie, who's
Speaker 3: smiling happily at his desk, and that's our episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man could have used to rewrite because that that
Speaker 1: opening with the classroom opening and closing with the classroom
Speaker 1: is so great. The conflict of the issue of Sean
Speaker 1: and and Corey wanted to bring her families together is
Speaker 1: so great. I do think that the all of them
Speaker 1: ending up at the table to get at there's so
Speaker 1: much good about this episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually think if we really for me, at
Speaker 3: least I can point to on one hand moments that
Speaker 3: didn't land well for me, and the rest of it
Speaker 3: I loved. Yeah, yeah, you know, Yeah, there are a
Speaker 3: couple of moments and a couple of beats that I
Speaker 3: go ooh, that needs some retooling, But overall great, I
Speaker 3: still really like this episode.
Speaker 2: Cool good.
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