Speaker 1: Writer, did somebody tell me that the Phillies have asked
Speaker 1: us to throw out the first pitch? Um? We I
Speaker 1: became friends this this summer when I went to Alaska.
Speaker 1: One of the families that I was there with that
Speaker 1: the father is Um, a producer manager. He does theatrical
Speaker 1: events for the Phillies. So he said he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta do something at the stadium, Like you come,
Speaker 1: We'll do something. You guys can at least throw out
Speaker 1: the first pitch. But they also they do concerts. They're
Speaker 1: obviously like big concerts. Like when I saw him, he
Speaker 1: had just the night before had had Elton John out. Um.
Speaker 1: So I don't think we could sell out the stadium.
Speaker 1: But they also have like mini theaters. I think there's
Speaker 1: like other sections of the stadium where they do Philly
Speaker 1: sell out the stadium. Guys. Well, you know what's interesting
Speaker 1: is they have all those little kiosks everywhere, like the
Speaker 1: food kiosks. So one of those would be perfect size
Speaker 1: to do a Chubby's pop up. Those one of those
Speaker 1: would be good for you. Will you could just have
Speaker 1: a kiosk. I'll take over the stadium. Yeah, No, would
Speaker 1: be perfect size for a Chubbies pop up because it's
Speaker 1: not too biggest space and it's already set up, so
Speaker 1: it would probably work. Would I would want good food
Speaker 1: for Chubbies, Well, that's a good good burgers. That's a
Speaker 1: good question is is they'd have to be good burgers
Speaker 1: and what good dogs are? Just like what would be
Speaker 1: what would be at Chubbies Just cheese steak would be
Speaker 1: like the sort of know what if we just we
Speaker 1: just did green beans and jello, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: And everything's cold and you can't choke anything down. You
Speaker 1: can you can't take bites. You have to take fake
Speaker 1: bites of burgers and leave her stuff around with your fork.
Speaker 1: You put it towards your mouth and then just throw
Speaker 1: it over your shoulder. You start choking because they're not cooked.
Speaker 1: It's like Dr Peppy to lead it. I also have
Speaker 1: a have a dream of the Chubbies that we do
Speaker 1: things at having really good food. I think maybe because
Speaker 1: I seem to remember the Chubbies set actually having the
Speaker 1: worst fake food. For some reason, the food we had
Speaker 1: in the Chubby scenes was even worse than the food
Speaker 1: I remember from the cafeteria scene. I agree. I guess
Speaker 1: it's just burgers and fries. Don't don't don't last now
Speaker 1: more than you know what it should be like. You
Speaker 1: know what Chubbies should be like. It should be like Rubies,
Speaker 1: because Rubies was so Goobies is delicious. It's one of
Speaker 1: the best burgers I've ever had in my life. And
Speaker 1: it should be straight up like Rubies. Rubies is delicious,
Speaker 1: My absolute favorite Diamond Dot all time. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: we're doing it again. We're doing writers least favorite thing,
Speaker 1: which is starting our show off by talking about food
Speaker 1: Donald's food to talk about. You know, we all Sue
Speaker 1: and I made it three for three. I was telling
Speaker 1: Danielle before on the way home we grabbed McDonald's after
Speaker 1: the three of us McDonald's dot Our Lives show. It did.
Speaker 1: People will know my wife was with me, so I
Speaker 1: pretended I wasn't that hungry. Um, you know that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, like I guess I'll just order for me.
Speaker 1: Have I told that story? I must have told that.
Speaker 1: But there is a story. Didn't you. Didn't you have
Speaker 1: like a burger eating competition at one point in your
Speaker 1: adolescence With myself, it wasn't like I thought you were
Speaker 1: with your football team or something. And you ate like
Speaker 1: thirty something cheeseburger. It was seventeen. It was seventeen one
Speaker 1: sitting that's crazy that size? What kind the regular McDonald cheeseburgers? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: like like a happy cheeseburger. Correct. And I ran out
Speaker 1: of money like ten in and people in the restaurant,
Speaker 1: we're just buying me burgers because they wanted to see
Speaker 1: if I could eat them. So I was probably like
Speaker 1: I was probably thirteen, maybe it's like freshman in high
Speaker 1: school at this point, and it was it was just
Speaker 1: hey man, i'll buy him too, because I want to
Speaker 1: see if he can hold them down kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And I stopped at seventeen. Yeah, it was, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Yeah it was awesome. Yeah, I can't. I've never I've
Speaker 1: never watched like food eating competitions. I know that they're
Speaker 1: like remarkable, and people makes me watch them. On the
Speaker 1: fourth of July, we have to watch the hot dog
Speaker 1: eating contest. That's not something you should be forced to do.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant. The announcer for that genius is brilliant. It
Speaker 1: is truly genius. But it's mostly the watching them dip
Speaker 1: the buns into the liquid and then well, sometimes it's water.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like fruit punch and the fingers come out
Speaker 1: and it's just pink and disgusting and makes me sick
Speaker 1: to my stomach. Have you ever seen Joey Chestnut trained
Speaker 1: for the hot dog eating He's made like these mouth
Speaker 1: things where he just choose on him, so he builds
Speaker 1: up like his jawn muscle. He works in as if
Speaker 1: he's training for a sport. It's insane to watch this
Speaker 1: guy training to do this. It's they win money, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a really good amount of money, and
Speaker 1: it's it's there's apparently an eating circuit that can get
Speaker 1: really nasty, like they have. They have awful contests f
Speaker 1: a l like the brains and stuff reality show compete
Speaker 1: like about like the yeah, you're right, don't we make
Speaker 1: a Christopher guest movie and Will Will be the star
Speaker 1: than you? What a great idea? Have you seen? Chicken people?
Speaker 1: Is that what it's called the one? The so speaking
Speaker 1: of a Christopher guest type of movie, but that's actually real.
Speaker 1: It's either on Netflix or Hulu, and it's people that
Speaker 1: raise show chickens, so it's they show them like a
Speaker 1: dog show. But it's all that I have to, and
Speaker 1: you think it's fake, right, and it's not very real.
Speaker 1: It's complete and totally real. And the cross breeding. And
Speaker 1: I've been working on this one line of chickens for
Speaker 1: twenty years. It's it's worth a watch. Okay, I'll watch
Speaker 1: Chicken People. I'm into that. Welcome to Pond Meets World.
Speaker 1: I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm Writer Strong, I am Wilfredell. We
Speaker 1: watched an incredible episode. I have so much fun watching
Speaker 1: this episode. And I realized Writer had the correct memory
Speaker 1: or Will had the correct memory of of Lee doing
Speaker 1: the southern accent. We were both right, because then yeah,
Speaker 1: it was that was both of you. I think that
Speaker 1: was both of you because I was like, I remember
Speaker 1: a different one, and then I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it was both. I did not remember the tag of
Speaker 1: this at all, Like there were so many moments of it.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember every part of the show, none of this, none,
Speaker 1: but both this and the next episode are indelible to me.
Speaker 1: For some it's like it's like it's the middle of
Speaker 1: the season where right Or zoned out and came back.
Speaker 1: Because I remembered every line. It was so funny. The
Speaker 1: costumes like yeah, it's it's but I also just remember,
Speaker 1: I mean, this one's fun. It's differently right. We had
Speaker 1: a swing set of the stage building Shakespeare. I everybody
Speaker 1: in fun costumes and you got to see William Daniels
Speaker 1: doing Shakespeare. It was great, It really was. Well, let
Speaker 1: me tell, let us tell our listeners what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: This is the synopsis is that Corey gets cast as
Speaker 1: Hamlet in the school play, but when he thinks the
Speaker 1: material is too soft, he quits. It was season one,
Speaker 1: episode twenty, The Plays the Thing. It originally aired April.
Speaker 1: It was directed by David Trainer, written by Ed Dector
Speaker 1: and John Strauss, and as guest cast we had Ryan
Speaker 1: Tomlinson as the spear carrier. I remember him. Actually, the
Speaker 1: only thing I remembered was his face, because I saw
Speaker 1: him in the background. I went, that guy's got lines,
Speaker 1: like he he has lines, that's not an extra. I
Speaker 1: remember he was week. I guess because he's again like
Speaker 1: a just I have a very clear member of hanging
Speaker 1: out with him and talking with him, and yeah, so funny.
Speaker 1: I remember the overall feeling of this week being big,
Speaker 1: like oh, we get to wear costumes and we're doing
Speaker 1: a play, and like, I do remember that. I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember that, and I remember being very excited that
Speaker 1: I was Ophelia and um, knowing that like Lee and
Speaker 1: I got to work together kind of in that really
Speaker 1: funny way with him stepping on me. Like all of
Speaker 1: that I remembered, um, But then there were so many things,
Speaker 1: like I did not remember Ryan Tomlinson, and when he
Speaker 1: started speaking all the way at the end of the episode,
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa brand new character in the tag.
Speaker 1: That seems like something we've never done before. So let's
Speaker 1: jump into the recap. We start in Phoenie's classroom. Phoene
Speaker 1: walks in and asked the class to let out their
Speaker 1: most agonizing grown and then announces it's time for the
Speaker 1: springtime class play and everyone grows again. But he has
Speaker 1: been there, done that, writer. I know this. At the
Speaker 1: very opening part of the scene is that the girl
Speaker 1: that's you guys called see me, yes in the back
Speaker 1: in the back, I'm sure you are left, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the one behind Dusty, behind Dusty Yes, Okay, so I
Speaker 1: really noticed her today. I was like, oh, that must
Speaker 1: be see Me. And then and then Dusty has a
Speaker 1: real big part in this one. He's everywhere. Dusty is
Speaker 1: the star of the show Dusty, Where are You Dusty?
Speaker 1: Still searching for Dusty? So Phoene hypes up the selection
Speaker 1: this year and announces the class will be doing selected
Speaker 1: scenes from Hamlet. Phoenie tells Sean he will be a
Speaker 1: spear carrier, which doesn't have many lines to memorize. Topango
Speaker 1: will play Ophelia, a challenging role who goes insane. Topanga
Speaker 1: calls Corey a brillo head. I didn't know that that
Speaker 1: ever came back after that first episode. I think this
Speaker 1: might be the only time. It's also the only time
Speaker 1: I feel like Topanca's and insulting. I got the same thing.
Speaker 1: I kind of liked it because I kind of like
Speaker 1: that there's a part of her that's I don't know,
Speaker 1: there was something where fire. Yes, And I'm also still
Speaker 1: I'm still real, I'm still a kid. I still have
Speaker 1: this in my arsenal. And I know you don't like
Speaker 1: to call you, so here's what I'm gonna say to
Speaker 1: remind you to mind yourself. And there was something kind
Speaker 1: of cool about that, Yeah, kind of new to Panga. Well,
Speaker 1: there's something about this whole episode which is like everybody
Speaker 1: is aware of Corey's character, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: At the end of this scene, obviously it's like t
Speaker 1: up of like he talks all the time, he never
Speaker 1: takes anything seriously. That and you know, setting up Corey,
Speaker 1: and that's only possible after twenty episodes of establishing this character,
Speaker 1: and and and it's fun that everybody sort of knows him.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't know each other, of course, but
Speaker 1: it's just it just goes to show like how how
Speaker 1: a story can evolve, you know, when you've seen the
Speaker 1: same characters doing similar situations over and over again. So
Speaker 1: at this point we're very we can fun of him,
Speaker 1: we can make fun of each other, and yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 1: I also feel like this episode, obviously a number of
Speaker 1: the shows had aired, so this audience seemed like one
Speaker 1: of the first audiences that were straight up Boy Meats
Speaker 1: World fans. They were in, you heard, they were reacting
Speaker 1: to a whole bunch of stuff. It didn't seem like
Speaker 1: a forced audience that we had some of the beginning
Speaker 1: ones when people didn't know the show. It seemed like
Speaker 1: we're now starting to get audiences that were coming specifically
Speaker 1: to watch our show being done. It makes a big difference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely makes a big difference when you just otherwise
Speaker 1: have a bunch of people and they who are like,
Speaker 1: what are we watching? And now we've got to watch
Speaker 1: it three times in a row and now I'm bored,
Speaker 1: and now I'm fake laughing and now I'm doing this.
Speaker 1: But we're now they're in and you've got him from
Speaker 1: the second you start. It's it's great. It's totally changes
Speaker 1: the show. So Phoene says Mincus will play Polonius, but
Speaker 1: Minca says Polonius only has forty eight lines. He wants
Speaker 1: to play the lead instead. Phoeny says Hamlet is hard
Speaker 1: to cast because he gets on a lot of people's nerves.
Speaker 1: He makes a lot of mistakes, and he never that's up,
Speaker 1: And everyone does the slow turn to Corey and Corey says,
Speaker 1: what do I have a booger? Which I thought was
Speaker 1: very funny. And then we are into our opening credits
Speaker 1: and we end up in the Matthews backyard slash side
Speaker 1: yard backyard. Corey is practicing mini golf with Morgan pretending
Speaker 1: to be a windmill, waving her arms and her legs
Speaker 1: back and forth. And I thought this was interesting because
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it sets up that Corey like
Speaker 1: that Corey and Allen are going to be teamed up
Speaker 1: again in a mini golf tournament at the Jersey Shore.
Speaker 1: And it's the first time we've ever mentioned a Jersey Shore.
Speaker 1: There's no mention of even like a vacation ahead of time.
Speaker 1: It's just like I for a second was like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, where's the show taking place? What do you
Speaker 1: mean the Jersey Shore? Like what is going on? But
Speaker 1: it then ends up being that there they take a
Speaker 1: family trip to the Jersey Shore every year, and that
Speaker 1: they compete in a golf tournament. Is it just the
Speaker 1: four of you or there other people competing in this thing?
Speaker 1: I think it's supposed to be a family thing. It's
Speaker 1: always Mom and Eric versus Alan and Corey's like they've
Speaker 1: gotten seven years and that I didn't remember this storyline
Speaker 1: at all, Like no, because he does say I'm not
Speaker 1: going to lose again in front of everyone on the
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore, which makes me feel like it's a competition
Speaker 1: that you as a family are you two are like
Speaker 1: against each other, but there are also other people competing. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's like a big family. Like maybe it's like a
Speaker 1: market giant vacation like a like a work trip where
Speaker 1: all the families compete against each other or something. What
Speaker 1: does say market giant on the like when in the
Speaker 1: course that they end up building and yeah, I mean, like,
Speaker 1: is the idea there that that Alan and Amy built
Speaker 1: an entire like they made all that or they took
Speaker 1: it from And I think they made it. I think
Speaker 1: they tried to make it look because one of the
Speaker 1: things I noticed is like the one of the things
Speaker 1: looks like it's Morgan's dollhouse, so they kind of grabbed
Speaker 1: stuff that was there to kind of make it look.
Speaker 1: I also love how again nobody else in the family
Speaker 1: exists and it was called Corey's golf course. We'll get
Speaker 1: into that later trauma. Also, Alan does say he put
Speaker 1: the imperceptible groove in part of it, so that yeah,
Speaker 1: so he did it himself, which again I'll get into
Speaker 1: when we talk about it. Where did anyone come up
Speaker 1: with the time for this? Parents easier to just drive
Speaker 1: to the Jersey Shore than it does to building building
Speaker 1: any of this. Really can't afford the drive there, but
Speaker 1: you can afford a nine whole mini golf course in
Speaker 1: your past, your own backyards. In your own backs backside yard,
Speaker 1: Yes exactly. Eric comes out and he asks Corey for cash,
Speaker 1: and Corey, very very in a very nondescript kind of
Speaker 1: throwaway way, says, I'm allowance boy three. Now right, we've
Speaker 1: had We've had three risk boy, allowance boy, not sidekick,
Speaker 1: but something like accomplice. This is the first one that's
Speaker 1: like he can tell he's not really committed. He's like
Speaker 1: a boy's like, are we still doing this? We're still
Speaker 1: doing this one still in the script and I am
Speaker 1: once again they've decided now just full grund. Yeah, it's great,
Speaker 1: it's really cool. And you've just gotten a haircut. I
Speaker 1: could tell. I was like, Will's hair looks like it
Speaker 1: was cut that day. It probably what but yours, I
Speaker 1: noticed is steadily getting longer, longer than the one they're
Speaker 1: just keeping the fugitive. It was like, oh, just let
Speaker 1: him have long hair. Yeah, your hair, he's gotten so
Speaker 1: long it's starting to curl again. It's like they straightened it,
Speaker 1: but it's also still starting to In real life, I
Speaker 1: would get wigs because they would just flip out on
Speaker 1: the side. So that's why they would straighten it on
Speaker 1: the show to keep it sort of contained in real life,
Speaker 1: especially because like back then, I was washing my hair
Speaker 1: every day, Like every time I would take a shower,
Speaker 1: I would shampoo my hair, which, yeah, and it just
Speaker 1: means that your hair gets super frizzy because I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put any product in anything. My hair was just gigantic
Speaker 1: and all over the place and flip it. It's funny though,
Speaker 1: because there's times where it comes back around and curls
Speaker 1: in and it almost looks like a mustache. It does.
Speaker 1: It comes this way and comes it's very Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's such a hair show. You know who else looks
Speaker 1: like they just got a haircut in this episode? Dusty really? Yes,
Speaker 1: In one of the classroom scenes maybe even that opening scene,
Speaker 1: there was a great shot of Dusty and I was like,
Speaker 1: Dusty fully just got a haircut. I mean, he must
Speaker 1: have had a haircut the day before. It is crisp.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you so. Eric says that they cut
Speaker 1: salaries five percent at the market. And Eric says, if
Speaker 1: Corey gives him five dollars, Eric will throw the golf
Speaker 1: tournament this year. What does Eric need five dollars so
Speaker 1: badly for? Right? And even if you cut five of
Speaker 1: your salary, you still don't have five dollars. I mean,
Speaker 1: you are living penny penny my friend. He to mouth
Speaker 1: apparently for Eric, because it's like, I'll throw, I will
Speaker 1: throw the tournament, I'll do all this stuff. I know,
Speaker 1: I thought I thought the five dollars was I guess
Speaker 1: they had to find the balance between asking Corey for
Speaker 1: an amount of money he might actually have and maybe
Speaker 1: you're collecting more money from other people. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're throwing the tournament for five bucks, imagine what
Speaker 1: you do for God, I don't even want to know
Speaker 1: what Eric would do for fifty dollars. So they're going
Speaker 1: back to our old theory. That kind of makes sense.
Speaker 1: So if it's a Market Giant thing, because then when
Speaker 1: he says we had to cancel a vacation, it's alan
Speaker 1: not just canceling it for the family, He's canceling it
Speaker 1: for all employees of Market Giant, to which kind of
Speaker 1: gives it more gravitas. I think if that's accurate or not,
Speaker 1: I mean they're just not clear. Now. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a like really loose premise. They're like, let's
Speaker 1: just there's a vacation and then they have to cancel it. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the kids that don't handle it like okay, I could
Speaker 1: be I mean that's the thing is like with sitcom.
Speaker 1: You know, it could be a rewrite that came in
Speaker 1: the day before we were shooting, and then you're like,
Speaker 1: tell the art department they've got to build an entire
Speaker 1: golf course in the backyard and they have twelve hours
Speaker 1: to do that. I mean there's so many times and
Speaker 1: stuff like that would happen, right, like, uh, that's just
Speaker 1: the nature of the beast. Like if if a b
Speaker 1: storyline suddenly changed, everybody would have to get different wardrobe
Speaker 1: or different props, and you know, and it sends like
Speaker 1: fifty people into like no sleep mode for two days,
Speaker 1: you know, productions, intense productions that we would just show
Speaker 1: up and be like, look minute, your golf course actors,
Speaker 1: and we were just every credit. Yeah, thank you so
Speaker 1: much to the props, art department, everyonebody, but everybody that
Speaker 1: helped us, because we never probably gave you the proper
Speaker 1: credit as the self absorbed young actors that we were,
Speaker 1: like we got square guns, like yeah to drive to
Speaker 1: nine places to go get that at three o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, thank you. And then I couldn't find the
Speaker 1: one the producers wanted, so I built this one from
Speaker 1: the heart in my own house. Were like, thanks so much, Jeff,
Speaker 1: it's Jared whatever like that. You know, that was not true.
Speaker 1: We were not like that. That makes us sound very bad.
Speaker 1: We actually were not like that, not towards, not later.
Speaker 1: I think at the beginning we were all still so
Speaker 1: star star struck of kind of being there. At least
Speaker 1: I know, I was that it was still the magic
Speaker 1: of TV. It wasn't the work that tons of people
Speaker 1: were putting in, you know. So, yeah, thank you. I
Speaker 1: can't believe all this comes together magically. Can do? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Corey says he doesn't need Eric to rig the tournament,
Speaker 1: but then Eric hits a hole in one and says, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do. And then we're back in Phoenie's classroom. The
Speaker 1: classes rehearsing Hamlet, with Corey rattle off Hamlet lines. Eventually
Speaker 1: he calls it garbage. Corey thinks he can make the
Speaker 1: play better and tells Pennie to make it like die Hard.
Speaker 1: He says, all Hamlet does his talk even when no
Speaker 1: one is there. Phoene says Hamlet is one of literature's
Speaker 1: most human characters with consequences and decisions. And then to
Speaker 1: Panga walks in her Ophelia dress. And I remember this costume,
Speaker 1: of course, because it is everything little Danielle loves more
Speaker 1: than anything. Coffee sleeves. It was. We could have almost
Speaker 1: just warned that as to Panga, Like fact, there was
Speaker 1: an episode where you just showed up in that. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody would have batted an eye. It would
Speaker 1: have just been like, oh, this is part of the
Speaker 1: character exactly. It's not that much different. And I go.
Speaker 1: Growing up, I was absolutely obsessed with the Little Mermaid's
Speaker 1: wedding dress where she had those big poofy white sleeves,
Speaker 1: and so as a kid, any dress with a poof oh,
Speaker 1: I loved it. So I remember, oh, yeah, the big
Speaker 1: sleeve thing. I don't I don't get it, but it
Speaker 1: looks like the Pioneer woman. Now listen, they're girls there.
Speaker 1: There's like girl hot and guy hot. Things that girls
Speaker 1: think are hot most guys are like what is that?
Speaker 1: What do you doan? And then the things that guys
Speaker 1: think are hot we just don't care about. Maybe not yeah,
Speaker 1: because it was super addresses like that. She came out
Speaker 1: and she's like what do you think? I was like,
Speaker 1: I think it looks like you're on the wagon train.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to say? Like, what what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Are we cooking over an open flame tonight?
Speaker 1: Like what's happening? She's like this is the style? Like okay, great,
Speaker 1: whatever made Dr Quinn exactly exactly? It's what it looked like.
Speaker 1: And another Jean Claude van Damn reference. Listen, we've got
Speaker 1: a fan on staff, right, there's gotta be because if
Speaker 1: we we've had we'll have several over seven years, we
Speaker 1: have Sean Claude van Damn references. It was one of
Speaker 1: our writers. Like there's a Arnold Schwartzegger references we've met,
Speaker 1: I mean, the relist. They were all. It was just
Speaker 1: the arrow of like I mean, I still was the thing, right,
Speaker 1: Like there's Neeson taken movies the last ten years ago,
Speaker 1: Like every every decade has like that figure. By the way,
Speaker 1: yeah it's but also not to get off topic, but
Speaker 1: how many times can your kid be taken before it's
Speaker 1: just your fault? There's like taken four an hour or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, maybe you're just not responsible. It's like
Speaker 1: I've never seen it I've never seen. The first one
Speaker 1: is brilliant, The first one is amazing, and then you're
Speaker 1: like the second one, it's like I'm being taken again,
Speaker 1: Like really maybe the same person. Well, now they get taken,
Speaker 1: the parents get taken and the kid helps them. And
Speaker 1: then by the third one you're like, Okay, you just
Speaker 1: suck at this parenting thing, like maybe this is not
Speaker 1: in your forte I know, I'm sorry, I don't want
Speaker 1: to get off, but it's like by the third one,
Speaker 1: you're gonna come on, you, come on now. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't be invested if you're gonna be
Speaker 1: this lazy. I can't. Was this the first time Jedediah
Speaker 1: was was mentioned? You've mentioned Jedediah before, right, because because
Speaker 1: bookstore the base game, right, and the book and got
Speaker 1: you right and the Unicorn bookstore, Rainbow Unicorn bookstore, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and here he's so's yes and Jedediah jedted I had
Speaker 1: made his costume last night and m I and I
Speaker 1: did at that age, like that's what I took home
Speaker 1: back four. I loved to say that. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: idea that it was like that was the joke that
Speaker 1: a guy can sew was weird to me even then.
Speaker 1: I remember being like, but I liked so well. Before
Speaker 1: we even got to the sewing, Joe Corey says he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to wear tights and said maybe if Hamlet
Speaker 1: had worn pants, he could have made a decision or two,
Speaker 1: and then Topanga calls him out and asks if that
Speaker 1: was a sexist joke, and Corey says, well, that's what
Speaker 1: I was shooting for, which was great, like just exactly
Speaker 1: I actually, it's exactly right. You did it. I called
Speaker 1: you out for it, and you were like, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I did. That's that totally worked for me. It was
Speaker 1: mine follow up with the sewing that I was like,
Speaker 1: that's a cheap shot, and you could kind of tell
Speaker 1: me Ad didn't quite go for it. There was a
Speaker 1: like at all, It's like why, I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: I think we could have just cut that line, could
Speaker 1: have just because I think it ends with Corey being like,
Speaker 1: that's what I was hating for. It was a hat
Speaker 1: on a hat and the second hat wasn't that funny.
Speaker 1: It's a great joke. The Yeah, that's what I was
Speaker 1: going for. Yeah, that's what I was shooting forward totally worked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a weird music cute? Did anybody else here?
Speaker 1: There was? Just right after that the music change in
Speaker 1: a very bizarre way, and it was like, what really
Speaker 1: really weird music change right there? You didn't hear that?
Speaker 1: Corey says, if Pheny won't listen to his ideas, then
Speaker 1: he quit it. Which quit it? It was cute. I
Speaker 1: like that. He put his hand on his heart too.
Speaker 1: I quit it. And then he walks out and then
Speaker 1: we're in the school hallway very quickly. Sorry, why did he?
Speaker 1: I didn't fully get why he quit. It's just because
Speaker 1: seen he wouldn't wouldn't change the play and he didn't
Speaker 1: want to wear the cost he didn't want to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't change the costume for Corey. We I mean
Speaker 1: he also starts the saying hating the character, and right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I need to be like die Hard and why
Speaker 1: can't we do this? It's yeah, it is. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a whole overhaul. But the straw that really broke
Speaker 1: the Corey's back was the type Penny, can we just
Speaker 1: go back for a second. I very distinctly remember the
Speaker 1: Jimmy Deane sausage theory line. Really do you remember this?
Speaker 1: Because I remember being like, what, I didn't get it
Speaker 1: at the time. Of course I didn't know who Francis
Speaker 1: Bacon was. I didn't, you know. It's like such a
Speaker 1: weird little but yeah, I totally That's what I remember
Speaker 1: so much about this episode. Obviously, like with my costume
Speaker 1: later and the facts, that's probably why. But even lines
Speaker 1: like that. I didn't remember the sewing line, but I
Speaker 1: remember the Jimmieting sausage line. Have you ever had had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and talked to a you know,
Speaker 1: a Shakespeare historian or Shakespeare expert and jokingly said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's Francis Bacon could have written them all and watched
Speaker 1: the color drained from their faces. No, I've never had
Speaker 1: that experience. That seems like a very niche experience to have,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're talking with your Shakespeare scholars. I
Speaker 1: have a friend Shakespeare historians historians, And if you made
Speaker 1: the joke, yes, because a friend of mine was this
Speaker 1: is a Shakespeare storian. And when I say that to her,
Speaker 1: I saw one of our on running jokes like when
Speaker 1: when you know so when Bacon was writing all the
Speaker 1: plays and she's like, well, you just please. It's like
Speaker 1: one of our favorite. You know, your normal Shakespearean jokes
Speaker 1: that you have with people. Of course, all of you
Speaker 1: who have had that experience, please send us an email.
Speaker 1: I don't I can't wait for that happen. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for anybody who's had that experience and made that
Speaker 1: little Francis Bacon joke and then seeing the color drain
Speaker 1: from their face. Yes, and tott if meet world is
Speaker 1: hit us up exactly. So we're in the school hallway.
Speaker 1: Sean asks Corey if Phoenie will give in to Corey's ideas,
Speaker 1: and Corey says Phenie has no choice. No one else
Speaker 1: knows all the lines. And then Mincus comes up behind
Speaker 1: them in the hallway wearing you oh, just in his
Speaker 1: all black vest suit thing, and he's reciting Hamlets lines.
Speaker 1: He jokes about doing the role with a Scandinavian accent
Speaker 1: and walks off, saying, softer now. The Pherophelia mysens be
Speaker 1: always seems remembered, which I remember when he said it
Speaker 1: at the table at the table read Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember it? No? I know, but it's so funny. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just brilliant. I he did it at the table
Speaker 1: read just it was the kind of laugh where you
Speaker 1: have to fully reset the show almost where it's like
Speaker 1: it is such an explosive laugh and every and then
Speaker 1: it just kind of trickles off and then it starts
Speaker 1: over again and you're like, okay, okay, okay, we have
Speaker 1: to get back into the read. It was hilarious and
Speaker 1: then all week and it just never got less funny.
Speaker 1: And watching it now, I was like, that's the moment
Speaker 1: I remember more than anything. Right after he walked off
Speaker 1: the at with doing the Swedish Chef, which is hysterical,
Speaker 1: I wrote, how does he only have two episodes left? No,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I'm sorry. I know we've talked
Speaker 1: about it a hundred times, but I don't get how
Speaker 1: you watch these performances. Possibly the biggest mistake of boy
Speaker 1: Meat's world history easily easily, in my opinion, the biggest
Speaker 1: mistake in boy Me's world history. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, this episode is mildly funny without it's
Speaker 1: a funny episode, I will be honest. Jensen's a little
Speaker 1: concerned that the show won't be funny anymore. He's like,
Speaker 1: how's this show even going to be funny without him?
Speaker 1: So I don't know it is. It's the end up
Speaker 1: day and I just keep going to that kid standing
Speaker 1: next to Harley in hallway and Harley is his best friend.
Speaker 1: Is comedy for years. Yeah, so yeah, it's such a
Speaker 1: shame and harp on it, I know. Anyway, Okay, Corey
Speaker 1: calls him Prince Hoggendoes, which I also thought was very
Speaker 1: funny line that I didn't remember, and says Peney will
Speaker 1: beg for him to come back to the play and
Speaker 1: it'll be like hambo okay, pretty good, pretty good. And
Speaker 1: then we're in the Matthews kitchen. Corey tells Eric he
Speaker 1: just sank eighteen in a row. But Eric says the
Speaker 1: tournament has been canceled because of the pay cuts at
Speaker 1: the market and now they can't afford to go on
Speaker 1: the trip. But Corey says Alan is the boss. He
Speaker 1: can do whatever he wants. And then he goes into
Speaker 1: the Matthews living room. He asks Alan why they're not
Speaker 1: going on all over the place. She's sewing his shirt.
Speaker 1: There's a hole in his shirt. She has to fix it.
Speaker 1: It's very real though, because if you think about it,
Speaker 1: there they have three children. He's the you know, the
Speaker 1: the general manager of a grocery store, which is probably
Speaker 1: a you know, pays well but not an exorbitant amount
Speaker 1: of money. And she we kind of is also is
Speaker 1: a homemaker, but it is also a part time real
Speaker 1: estate agent, though that hasn't come back. I mean money,
Speaker 1: you would be a very real issue for this family
Speaker 1: that they're addressing it. Yeah, because if you think about
Speaker 1: the fact that they probably had to live on a
Speaker 1: very strict budget, where you have this much money per
Speaker 1: month for food, this much for clothes. If you lose
Speaker 1: five percent of your income, you're going to have to
Speaker 1: do some re shuffling. It's not like it's not like
Speaker 1: you just that's nothing, you know. So I can see
Speaker 1: why maybe the bills were all out because they were
Speaker 1: trying to do a rebudget. That makes sense, not just
Speaker 1: that all the bills were due, but let's pull them
Speaker 1: all out, see what we spend on average, and let's
Speaker 1: see where we can cut, where we can tighten. And
Speaker 1: of course the first thing that goes is the family vacation.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's the first thing that goes. It has
Speaker 1: to be, even though it was and this is kind
Speaker 1: of what I liked about it. You're a family in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: a drive to the Jersey Shore is not a ridiculously
Speaker 1: long drive. You're with your whole family. It's a good
Speaker 1: fun place to go, and it would be in budget
Speaker 1: of a kind of a lower middle class family, which
Speaker 1: is what I think they are. Um So I liked
Speaker 1: that it was. It was very real. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: we can't go to Hawaii this year. That's things. It's
Speaker 1: like first class, right we go, No, we go. We
Speaker 1: get into the car as a family and we drive
Speaker 1: and we go play a mini mini golf tournament. And
Speaker 1: it's also shows why Corey is looking forward to it
Speaker 1: so much, because they do it every year and it's
Speaker 1: like the big family vacation. I thought it played very
Speaker 1: very real to me, this whole kind of storyline, which
Speaker 1: I thought was cool. I'd like to make a suggestion
Speaker 1: that they everyone just has to lose one layer problem again,
Speaker 1: That's what I say to remember save some shirts. Speaking
Speaker 1: to shirts, I was watching this episode with my wife
Speaker 1: and she went too much patterns in this scene. Have
Speaker 1: you noticed Betsy's wearing a flower print sweatshirt on a
Speaker 1: flower couch. Ben's wearing like a everybody's wearing different patterns,
Speaker 1: and then she's got like what she's sewing is like
Speaker 1: a pattern, a pattern, a pattern. It's like whoa. Once
Speaker 1: she pointed it out, you can't unsee it. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh god, yeah, too much pattern. It's like they must
Speaker 1: have shown up on Thursday night, Like I can't belie
Speaker 1: if nobody caught it. Like that's funny. I love. I
Speaker 1: love when hearing like what your family each other's family
Speaker 1: members point out about things. It makes me want to
Speaker 1: go back and rewatch the whole episode. Um So, Alan
Speaker 1: says that it wasn't up to him. It was Bob
Speaker 1: Williams who made the decision for the pay cuts, and
Speaker 1: Corey asks why he can't just fire Bob Williams, and
Speaker 1: Alan says he can't fire the district manager that's one
Speaker 1: of his bosses. Amy asks Corey what he suggests, what
Speaker 1: he suggests they do about it, and Corey says they
Speaker 1: should go in there and talk to everyone and if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out, he should just quit. And then
Speaker 1: he ends by saying, throw some weight around, trust me
Speaker 1: feels good. I thought that was again to Will's point
Speaker 1: about how real this all feels. All of this is
Speaker 1: just so real for a kid, where you really do
Speaker 1: I remember being a teenager and thinking I knew everything,
Speaker 1: and like, God, why don't my parents just ask me more?
Speaker 1: I'd fixed this for them if they would just ask me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, trust me, it's working. Okay, it's what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: and it's totally working for me. My life is great
Speaker 1: at twelve, so I kind of have this down. I
Speaker 1: think I figured it out at your age. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: And then we're back in the Matthews kitchen. Alan is
Speaker 1: weirdly sitting on the island looks like Hamlet, looks like
Speaker 1: Hamlet post. I did not even put that together. And
Speaker 1: definitely no, I didn't sit on the island that Hamlet.
Speaker 1: It's a total Hamlet post and the Hamlet. I didn't
Speaker 1: put it together. But I'm also not super familiar with Hamlet,
Speaker 1: to be honest, so I didn't put it together. And
Speaker 1: I was like, what, why would he sit on the island.
Speaker 1: There's a perfectly good share right there. It's the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, the roe draped over, it's talking talking
Speaker 1: to the melon, which is talking to the skull. So
Speaker 1: it's straight Yeah, all right. I hope I'm not the
Speaker 1: only person who didn't know. I hope there were other
Speaker 1: listeners who are like, oh, otherwise it's just me. So
Speaker 1: you really are the only one that hasn't had a
Speaker 1: Shakespearean talk with a Shakespearean historian. Wow, yeah, I really am.
Speaker 1: I apparently that's like very common, not in my life.
Speaker 1: Um so uh. And then he just leaves by the way,
Speaker 1: just leaves the melon. I know, we didn't even we
Speaker 1: didn't even get all that. He's sitting on the counter.
Speaker 1: Amy walks downstairs. He asks if Amy sees him as
Speaker 1: a spear carrier or if his employees just see him
Speaker 1: as a pushover company man. Amy and Allen know he
Speaker 1: needs to talk to Bob Williams, and Alan practices what
Speaker 1: he's going to say in the form of a cantaloupe.
Speaker 1: He does it at first, very common, rational, weirdest looking cantaloupe.
Speaker 1: I remever, sank you that's all said the entire night.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is that? Is that? Is that
Speaker 1: a coconut? Is it? Harry? Is it supposed to look
Speaker 1: more like a skull? Maybe? But I was like, what
Speaker 1: is that thing that they're holding? I thought that the
Speaker 1: dramatic lighting, the moonlight lighting, which is coming from a
Speaker 1: skylight above them, Like why is the why is there
Speaker 1: moonlight coming from directly above? This episode had very dramatic
Speaker 1: lighting and change because you know later with Bill, which
Speaker 1: makes sense, but this lighting was so over the top
Speaker 1: and him sitting, but the cantaloupe in the lighting just
Speaker 1: looked weird, like I think it could. I think it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be slightly rotten so that when he
Speaker 1: drops it it explodes. I mean, like, I think that's
Speaker 1: the point. And if if you have a fresh candleloupe,
Speaker 1: if you drop it from the three ft or four feet,
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to have that big break that.
Speaker 1: But Sue said the same things, like what the hell
Speaker 1: is that? I thought the exact same thing, And then
Speaker 1: just now when you said, oh, it's like when he's
Speaker 1: talking to the skull, the very first thing that popped
Speaker 1: in my mind was, Oh, that's why the that's why
Speaker 1: the candleloupe was like that. It was narrow. It's narrow
Speaker 1: and kind of tall, the way a skull would be.
Speaker 1: And also some of the like in dense would be
Speaker 1: like I sockets nose, So I I think it was
Speaker 1: a very conscious choice for it to also yes a
Speaker 1: little rotten so that it would get the looks like
Speaker 1: a skull exactly. That looks mel exactly. It just looks weird,
Speaker 1: though I find it. So it was melon, Yes, melon,
Speaker 1: not a melon. I like. I don't like that. I
Speaker 1: don't trust that melan. I didn't either. It's a shifty melon.
Speaker 1: Shady about that melon. Melon, that's our new T shirt.
Speaker 1: Shady melon. Alan holds a sunglasses, shady melon. That's a
Speaker 1: shady melon. That's a melon with a past. Trust that
Speaker 1: mel just got out of jail. I just don't trust it. Man, Like,
Speaker 1: you can sleep on the couch for a week, but
Speaker 1: then you gotta be out of here. Melon. I just
Speaker 1: can't do it. And then he steals all your booth exactly.
Speaker 1: We all know that. We all know that melon. We
Speaker 1: all have that melon in our lives somewhere. So after
Speaker 1: Amy leaves, Alan says to the bob cantaloupe, let me
Speaker 1: show you what I've always wanted to do to your head.
Speaker 1: And he drops the cantaloupe, which splats on the floor,
Speaker 1: and then he turns around and he just leaves it there,
Speaker 1: but he walks away, saying, now my wife would call
Speaker 1: that cranky. Just goes upstairs. I guess he's the first
Speaker 1: one up and plans on cleaning it up, but now
Speaker 1: later that she had to clean it up. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: just like with woman. Yeah, I can't go to sleep
Speaker 1: if there's a one dirty dish in the sink, I
Speaker 1: can't do it. So the idea of going to bed
Speaker 1: with a broken, shady melon dishes over and just leaving
Speaker 1: them at your house, I had this very much the
Speaker 1: same will. I love doing dishes. I love doing dishes.
Speaker 1: I put on music like so and I cook together,
Speaker 1: and then I put on some music and the water
Speaker 1: is all nice and warm and everything gets all soapy.
Speaker 1: I love doing I don't care. I don't do them
Speaker 1: in your batman under pear or sometimes it depends on
Speaker 1: how I'm feeling. That's not washing away job. I hope
Speaker 1: that you put on a cape every tipe, dishwashing cape
Speaker 1: you No, I like to feel I don't know the dishes, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I like the feel of it there. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 1: I don't care about doing dishes like I have. I
Speaker 1: use my dishwasher. I basically just rinse everything and put
Speaker 1: it in the dishwasher, because you know, obviously big things
Speaker 1: you wash. But I am very much a person who
Speaker 1: feels my environment really sets the tone for my mood
Speaker 1: that day. And if I'm in a very cluttered kind
Speaker 1: of claustrophobic thing, I will feel out of sorts. And
Speaker 1: so at night, after the kids go to bed, I
Speaker 1: spend twenty to thirty minutes walking around picking up the things,
Speaker 1: moving things back, making sure everything's like in its place
Speaker 1: and cleaned. And then I can like look around the house,
Speaker 1: turn off the lights, and go to sleep and wake
Speaker 1: up the next day like ready for a new day.
Speaker 1: Do you make your bed first thing in the morning. No,
Speaker 1: I actually don't make my bed first thing in the
Speaker 1: morning because Jensen sleeps in later than I do. So
Speaker 1: I wake up and come downstairs, have my cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: do my little morning meditation, and then get the kids up.
Speaker 1: Then when once Adler's gone to school, then I get
Speaker 1: ready for my day. And that's when the bed gets made.
Speaker 1: That's like my feet hit the ground, and because Sue
Speaker 1: gets up before me, but my feet hit the ground
Speaker 1: and the bed is made in like thirty seconds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to have to start with the hospital corners.
Speaker 1: Not that I mean I like it. I like a
Speaker 1: nice clean bed. You know, there was that admiral who
Speaker 1: gave that great, that great speech at the one of
Speaker 1: the graduations. I forget his name, but he gave one
Speaker 1: of the most famous speeches a couple years ago that
Speaker 1: people watch we talks about the first thing you should
Speaker 1: do is make your bed, because then if the rest
Speaker 1: of your day is terrible, you've already accomplished one thing,
Speaker 1: and when you come back at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you get to get into a nice clean bed, and
Speaker 1: you get to accomplish one thing first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1: The next day too. It was really cool. So I've
Speaker 1: but I've been like that since I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I always made my bed. I just yeah, you know
Speaker 1: who doesn't make their bed? Shady melon shade even when
Speaker 1: he's on he soils every We all know that melon.
Speaker 1: So we're in this hallway. Sean arrives in his costume.
Speaker 1: He is now polonious. When Corey dropped out, you look
Speaker 1: so great this scene. Writer, you could tell that I
Speaker 1: just love wearing the fat keeping I keep doing like
Speaker 1: little fat jiggles, like facides and I'm like, I'm an
Speaker 1: actor in a costume. Let me be funny. And the
Speaker 1: death scene gets a dial all over the place so great.
Speaker 1: Seawan says, it's really cool because an Act three, scene four,
Speaker 1: Polonius dies and then you acted out and the way
Speaker 1: you bounce off the lockers and fall to the ground
Speaker 1: jump up. Man, it was so fun. I was like
Speaker 1: having fun through you. This is the first time we
Speaker 1: kind of see Sean excited about something at school. I think, right,
Speaker 1: it's like the first you see him light up because
Speaker 1: of a project at school. It was a cool side
Speaker 1: of him that you really got to see before. And like,
Speaker 1: Sean clearly should have been a theater major, Like he
Speaker 1: clearly should have been in theater. He loves it. He
Speaker 1: loved it. And I hate to do this because I
Speaker 1: hate calling out background, but a young woman walks through
Speaker 1: the scene right when you are both there, and it
Speaker 1: goes to the locker behind you, and she's not good.
Speaker 1: She's got a weird like she's making this weird face
Speaker 1: as she walks by, like somebody just told her something
Speaker 1: horrible or some complex. You know, it's but I noticed
Speaker 1: her because she was alone, just stands there at the light.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's awkward. It's just bad
Speaker 1: direction in general, because like I think they had to
Speaker 1: keep the hallway empty for me to be able to
Speaker 1: do the death scene. So they were like no, so
Speaker 1: it's like a completely empty hallway except recording and me.
Speaker 1: And then she comes in after my death scene and
Speaker 1: it's just awkwardly there alone. It's it's bad torect weird.
Speaker 1: It was weird in the room right now. I actually
Speaker 1: horrible time mean that. I didn't mean, no, she's just
Speaker 1: it's like somebody just told her her uncle was shady melon.
Speaker 1: That's why it came out. It's Sarah. She comes in
Speaker 1: that this kind of weird look at her face and
Speaker 1: then just has to stand there and you're right, it
Speaker 1: is just bad direction, bad direction, Like it was so
Speaker 1: because I noticed, and I didn't think she was bad.
Speaker 1: I just was like, why why am I noticing this person?
Speaker 1: It's because she's the only one in the hall. But
Speaker 1: maybe that's what Maybe that's what it was. It was
Speaker 1: just it was so so weird that it came off
Speaker 1: as she was dad when she was and it was
Speaker 1: just direct. Also, it never bumped me if it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have bumped me if there was nobody in the hallway,
Speaker 1: because you guys are in play rehearsal. It seems like
Speaker 1: it seems like there are other the kids are doing
Speaker 1: other things, so it was basical correct exact classes in
Speaker 1: session right now. Yes, So Seawan says Mincus is doing
Speaker 1: pretty bad as Hamlet and that Mincus won't back out.
Speaker 1: He asks Corey to come back to the play as
Speaker 1: a favor. Shawn says he may have to quit, but
Speaker 1: too many people are relying on him, and even his
Speaker 1: dad is coming to watch the play. So you actually
Speaker 1: don't say that you may have to quit. You say
Speaker 1: you will not, absolutely not. You've got people who rely
Speaker 1: on you, which I thought is so cute. We see
Speaker 1: Sean have responsibility and he takes it seriously and he
Speaker 1: likes it. And that your dad, who possibly abuses you,
Speaker 1: it's gonna come and watch you in a school boat,
Speaker 1: is your dad? Shady melon is kind of a shady
Speaker 1: melon is kind of a shady melon. Corey realizes he's
Speaker 1: alone as the quitter after Sean rejects his offer to
Speaker 1: play hoops and runs to catch up with his friends.
Speaker 1: By the way, Dusty one of the people who walk
Speaker 1: by when you go, hey, wait for me, and he
Speaker 1: shakes his head like no way, dude, and walks off.
Speaker 1: And then you say, if they disobey me again, I'll
Speaker 1: sit on emphasize fat suit with a little yeah, so
Speaker 1: get one of one of the many dusty features in
Speaker 1: this episode. And then we're in the school theater. Mincas
Speaker 1: is rehearsing and he's facing the back of the stage.
Speaker 1: Phoene stops him and tells him to put on his
Speaker 1: glasses so he can face the correct direction. And even
Speaker 1: though Minca says glasses aren't right for the period piece
Speaker 1: and also almost stepping off the stage and and Build
Speaker 1: stopping him was hysteric commitment. Man, he was going to
Speaker 1: do it unless it was great. Yeah, it really was
Speaker 1: really well done. And also I love that you can
Speaker 1: tell Lee Wade like sixteen pounds because just stopped, He's
Speaker 1: like putting his full weight on your stomach and you
Speaker 1: have to act like it means something. I know. I
Speaker 1: also love the fact that Mincus is bad at something
Speaker 1: I know, just flat out bad at it, and everyone's
Speaker 1: kind of stuck with Mincas doing this this thing, which
Speaker 1: I look that he's bad at it for funny reasons.
Speaker 1: You know, he's bad because it takes it too serious,
Speaker 1: exactly super close into it. It's great, but he's just
Speaker 1: he's not good at it. It's it's hysterical. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Mincas tries to do his Hamlet lines in a Southern
Speaker 1: accent with his foot onto Panana. Oh my gosh, it's
Speaker 1: so funny. He does such obviously, he does such a
Speaker 1: great Southern accent, and Penga can't breathe, so she pushes
Speaker 1: him off, and then he says, I can't work like this.
Speaker 1: I can't work like this. I remember remember that. I
Speaker 1: remember this that I remember, guys, I've said it my
Speaker 1: whole life, not remembering that. It was. Anytime I'm anywhere
Speaker 1: and something isn't working, I'll say I can't, I guess.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know where it came from. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was like in a movie or something I saw,
Speaker 1: or like I didn't help. And then I watched the
Speaker 1: episode and I had to pause, and I said, I've
Speaker 1: been saying it my whole life. You've been quoting, quoting
Speaker 1: your own world, And I didn't know I've done that
Speaker 1: with multiple lines, like multiple things, and already this season
Speaker 1: I've seen a few of them. Yeah, and this is
Speaker 1: this is definitely one of them. Like, well, I know
Speaker 1: the inflection, and it's because there were great moments in
Speaker 1: our lives, like we were there on show night. Lee
Speaker 1: delivered the line like this. Obviously he probably delivered it
Speaker 1: like it all week, and it got to laugh every rehearsal.
Speaker 1: It gotta laugh every table read. So it's just like
Speaker 1: grained in our brains is like a funny way to
Speaker 1: say something, but it actually doesn't make sense to anybody
Speaker 1: else reference to our own show. Yeah, I can't believe
Speaker 1: we do that. That's embarrassing, is it? Or is it
Speaker 1: actually kind of cool? Well? He was cool, but also
Speaker 1: I'm like embarrassed that. Then if anybody were to say
Speaker 1: to me, like, oh, that's funny, I would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just made it up, Like I don't know, I would.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I thought I actually got it from
Speaker 1: I must have seen it in some movie somewhere. I
Speaker 1: never would have thought it was a boy meets world line.
Speaker 1: But I've been saying it my whole life, and writer
Speaker 1: has too. It's so funny, all right, the best Leonora's okay.
Speaker 1: Phoenie ends rehearsals for the day and Corey asks how.
Speaker 1: He asks Phoenie how the play is going, and Phoene
Speaker 1: says not, Well, Corey admits he didn't think his qudding
Speaker 1: would affect the place so much, and Phoenie says he
Speaker 1: didn't either, to be honest. Corey says he'll come back,
Speaker 1: but Phoenie says Mincus is his Hamlet, and he offers
Speaker 1: Corey the spear carrier role, and then he says there
Speaker 1: are no small parts, only small actors. Corey says he
Speaker 1: didn't have quit if the school was doing something cooler,
Speaker 1: like scenes from the Terminator or a Steven Seagal soliloquy.
Speaker 1: And then Penny turns off the lights and recites Hamlet,
Speaker 1: and we see the amazing William Daniels do Shakespeare. Shakespeare awesome,
Speaker 1: it was awesome. What other kids show would do this?
Speaker 1: I mean, we were at Heart quote unquote a kid
Speaker 1: show and you've got William Daniels doing Hamlet. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: you know we we we recap that episode with the
Speaker 1: kid gloves, with the graduate shot, and you say, I
Speaker 1: felt like this whole episode was an excuse for that.
Speaker 1: This felt like this whole episode could be an excuse
Speaker 1: for this scene. And it's worth it. And this is
Speaker 1: what you do. This is what you do. You set
Speaker 1: up a moment where you allow Bill Daniels to deliver
Speaker 1: a Shakespearean moment and it's totally worth it. And ex
Speaker 1: also to the credit of the episode. What a great
Speaker 1: idea to have a bunch of kids and basically it's
Speaker 1: an episode of BTS behind It's a BTS episode behind
Speaker 1: the high school like a junior high school play, you know,
Speaker 1: which is like a great idea where you can you
Speaker 1: let kids go with tons of hijinks. And then Bill
Speaker 1: Daniels as Hamlet is just and from an acting standpoint,
Speaker 1: watching him just let the words do the work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean when you get Shakespeare, which is which is
Speaker 1: so funny because it's it's essentially what Lee is doing
Speaker 1: as Minkus in the show is he's putting so much
Speaker 1: into it and he's he's getting so big and Bill doesn't.
Speaker 1: Bill just kind of and he says the words and
Speaker 1: perfectly and and feels the sentiment and just lets the
Speaker 1: words do the work. And it's brilliant. It's so brilliant.
Speaker 1: What a scene. It was just Yeah, totally worth the
Speaker 1: price of admission. Yeah. In fact, well I would say
Speaker 1: the lighting and the music I bothered me because I
Speaker 1: felt like it was trying too hard to like say Hey, kids,
Speaker 1: this is a dramatic moment that scares Corey when the
Speaker 1: reality is like the words, we're doing it. Bill's perform
Speaker 1: was doing it in a way that's more intrusive that
Speaker 1: the show was sort of like hideon and underlying it.
Speaker 1: And Bill didn't like his performances, like how he probably
Speaker 1: would actually have played Hamlets the ghost, you know, like
Speaker 1: how he would have actually played it if he were
Speaker 1: casting that role, which is the better way to go. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: in a weird way, I wish they had pulled back
Speaker 1: on the lighting and the dramatics of it a little
Speaker 1: bit more, because it was it was just this understated
Speaker 1: performance where he just he's saying the words and you
Speaker 1: feel the sentiment and you got I got a chill.
Speaker 1: It was like, wow, that's how it's supposed to be. Well,
Speaker 1: he proves Corey wrong. It does scare and interest him.
Speaker 1: And guys, when we had Bill on the show, didn't
Speaker 1: he say Hamlet is a role he wished he had played.
Speaker 1: You know, That's what Bonnie said. Was it Hamlet or
Speaker 1: was it McBeth? It was Hamlet. I think it was Hamlet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was. I think we asked him if
Speaker 1: there was anything he ever wanted to play, and Bonnie
Speaker 1: said he should have done Hamlet. Well, we are in
Speaker 1: the Matthews living room. Eric gets excited, thinking Alan has
Speaker 1: come home, but it's only Corey Amy and Allan um.
Speaker 1: Amy says Alan went down to talk to the regional
Speaker 1: manager about the pay cuts, and Corey says Alan can't
Speaker 1: talk to Bob Williams because they'll fire him, and he
Speaker 1: goes to stop him, but then Alan comes through the door.
Speaker 1: Alan says it wasn't the easiest meeting he's ever had,
Speaker 1: and he didn't get the money he wanted. He didn't
Speaker 1: quit even though he was tempted, and he because he
Speaker 1: didn't want to let his family down. Corey says he
Speaker 1: wishes he didn't quit his play because he let a
Speaker 1: lot of people down and compares being a lead in
Speaker 1: a play to being a dad. Morgan yells to Amy
Speaker 1: that Alan is home so they can start, but Amy
Speaker 1: runs up to tell her not yet. Corey says it's okay,
Speaker 1: they're not going to the Jersey Shore, and he's okay
Speaker 1: if he never sees Goofy golf again. Alan says, then
Speaker 1: he's going to be really disappointed when he sees what's
Speaker 1: in the back Can we just take a step back that?
Speaker 1: I love that. When then when Corey makes a comparison
Speaker 1: like it's like being a dad, rust He's like, no,
Speaker 1: you know, like you're trying to make a connection here.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was funny because that's what the
Speaker 1: episode is doing, right, The show is trying to make
Speaker 1: this connection. I like that we just addressed it like.
Speaker 1: Corey's like, it doesn't actually less it and Rusty's like, no,
Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense at all. I thought that
Speaker 1: was a great little touch to say the thing and
Speaker 1: then dismiss it. Yeah. So then they run to the
Speaker 1: backyard and he sees Goofy Golf is set up and
Speaker 1: he says how much he loves Goofy golf. Corey says
Speaker 1: it's great because now they don't have to drive to
Speaker 1: the Jersey shore to play. Morgan, Eric and Amy come
Speaker 1: out in their gear to play golf and offer Alan
Speaker 1: and Corey one chance to back out now, and Corey
Speaker 1: says he quit quitting, and uh, there you know, it's
Speaker 1: revealed that there's a their cheaters. There's a imperceptible quite
Speaker 1: were cheaters on Corey's uh personal golf course. That. No,
Speaker 1: it's not the Matthews family golf course just for core
Speaker 1: It's not my family, it's just Corey. Forget. There is
Speaker 1: the one who was the most disappointed about the thing
Speaker 1: being canceled. I had a professional sign made for the
Speaker 1: love of God like it was like hand calligrapheed. What's
Speaker 1: what's going on here? You got other kids allan so
Speaker 1: much money. He's still bad at TV dad. You know
Speaker 1: what I will never get over. Look at me, TV Dad.
Speaker 1: I try too. There's real there's real feelings under these
Speaker 1: huge long flannel shirts and hands and feelings are feelings
Speaker 1: under here. This is how you turn a normal kid
Speaker 1: into shady melon. That is how it is happened. If
Speaker 1: in the sun and then we get a really fun
Speaker 1: tag or a bright it's the tool theater. The Hamlet
Speaker 1: play is on. Mincus is doing his hamlet. Corey and
Speaker 1: another student, actor Ryan Tomlinson are playing the spear carriers,
Speaker 1: and he is just so bored. He says, if I
Speaker 1: was any more bored, I'd be dead. Corey tells to
Speaker 1: have some pride, make being a spear carrier his own.
Speaker 1: So the other student walks over to Sean and pops
Speaker 1: his inflatable belly with the spear, which for some reason
Speaker 1: and immediately makes all of us start fighting each other.
Speaker 1: Once your thing is is popped, your belly is popped,
Speaker 1: and you push him. The rest of us just start
Speaker 1: pushing and shoving each other, which makes absolutely no sense,
Speaker 1: but it's sure is funny. Minca's falls off the stage
Speaker 1: and everyone starts pushing each other. To Panga and Dusty
Speaker 1: are fighting. I was very excited about this. Eventually, Corey
Speaker 1: pushes to Panga off the stage with the back of
Speaker 1: his spear and he's the last one left on spage
Speaker 1: stage and he has this perfect little moment of doing
Speaker 1: a little a little jig, and Indy was jumping up
Speaker 1: and down on the couch like and I was like,
Speaker 1: what is going on? What do you He's like, he
Speaker 1: just loves the chaos. He's like and he's like he's flexing,
Speaker 1: he's showing his muscles. He just thought it was the
Speaker 1: funniest thing that, like, Corey took over the show and
Speaker 1: ruined everything. Oh Andy was so happy. He's just like
Speaker 1: bouncing up and down at the end of this episode.
Speaker 1: So do we have a too much shirts? Uh? No?
Speaker 1: I did. I did actually record but it wasn't much
Speaker 1: more than like, what are you doing? He's just like
Speaker 1: he was bouncing off. I was like, you just love
Speaker 1: chaos was basically what I just said was all it was.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing that shows you perfectly. Again, we
Speaker 1: keep talking about this. Indie got something out of the show.
Speaker 1: We got something out of the show. It's it worked
Speaker 1: for everybody. Yea four quad you know this actually did.
Speaker 1: This did remind me of my real life. My first
Speaker 1: acting job. I played a guard in some horrible children's play.
Speaker 1: I was five years old my first play, and my
Speaker 1: brother and I were just guards. We had no lines,
Speaker 1: and we decided to come up with a bit in
Speaker 1: the front of the state. We just had to stand
Speaker 1: at the front of the stage for an entire like
Speaker 1: scene while this stuff was going on, and we my
Speaker 1: mom built us. My mom made our costumes. We had
Speaker 1: these was like a Russian I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the play was, but we were like Russian guards. We
Speaker 1: had these like big furry hats that my mom sewed
Speaker 1: for us. And we decided to come up with a
Speaker 1: whole bit where I pulled out a carrot and started
Speaker 1: eating it and then he like made me put it
Speaker 1: away and then like and then I tried to do
Speaker 1: it again, and he like went and grabbed the carrot
Speaker 1: for me and like walked to the other side of
Speaker 1: the stage and then he starts eating the carrot like
Speaker 1: this whole like and we just came up with this
Speaker 1: whole bit. And it got to the point where, I
Speaker 1: mean we only did the play I think, like three
Speaker 1: times over a weekend, but it got to the point
Speaker 1: where everybody was laughing at us and we were stealing
Speaker 1: the show. You know, this is a bunch of like
Speaker 1: eight year olds behind us, and we were like the
Speaker 1: younger kids that were just given the Like Anyway, I
Speaker 1: totally thought it was like this actually happened in my life,
Speaker 1: like where I was basically a spear carrier and trying
Speaker 1: to come up with a bit to steal the show. Wow.
Speaker 1: Do you think you told the writers about this experience
Speaker 1: and they were like, we're gonna so I wrote this episode,
Speaker 1: is what we're saying. Yes, basically you didn't create this podcast,
Speaker 1: but you did write this episode, and you did give
Speaker 1: you credit where credit is due. Shady Melon, I'd like
Speaker 1: to thank you for coming up with the dear for
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