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Speaker 1: and strap in because we're going to reach Showmance. I
Speaker 1: watched this last night this morning. Gosh, this is a
Speaker 1: good episode. If I do say so myself, this episode
Speaker 1: is great. So we were This was a couple of
Speaker 1: months after we shot the pilot. We shot the pilot
Speaker 1: in late October of two thousand and eight, and we
Speaker 1: started shooting this in January two thousand nine, So this
Speaker 1: was the first episode back. We were fueled with the
Speaker 1: AMMO that we were picked up for thirty So this
Speaker 1: was the real start of the season for us, and
Speaker 1: it was the first time we had all seen each other. Um, right,
Speaker 1: I had Chris Chris and I had to move to
Speaker 1: l A. So we had to pick up and actually
Speaker 1: move here. Um, Kevin, you were already here, Ambers here
Speaker 1: had no but Lee had already moved by the Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: you're right, You're I don't know. I feel like she
Speaker 1: had placed in New York and in l a at
Speaker 1: the time. Um, but she did pick up and move
Speaker 1: as well. And um, yeah, so we were this was
Speaker 1: like a welcome back party episode. I will also say
Speaker 1: the side note, Um, do you remember, so we had
Speaker 1: a dance studio called the tin Shed that we used
Speaker 1: for the first two years Tinch was called the tinched
Speaker 1: because it was like basically a tin roof. Yes, and
Speaker 1: it was it was it was very right and not
Speaker 1: very big. Um. And this was the time we were
Speaker 1: all young. We were coming back for this to be
Speaker 1: series regulars on the show. None of us have ever
Speaker 1: done that before. And we were also as like kids,
Speaker 1: like struggling to financially, like stay above water. And I
Speaker 1: remember one of our first things that we all did
Speaker 1: together was go to Fox and be like, hey, can
Speaker 1: you give us an advance payment on this episode because
Speaker 1: we are all broke and it was really good bonding experience.
Speaker 1: And then in the tin Shed and then we also
Speaker 1: learned the number in this episode push it for like
Speaker 1: a full month, and we were we were living in
Speaker 1: that before we shot anything. Um, so let's get into yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go okay, a couple of things this episode does.
Speaker 1: We're established like we're calling back to the pilot, we
Speaker 1: have like Will in the car right opening up with
Speaker 1: the blue car kids in the parking lot, we're back
Speaker 1: in the dumpster and then it's immediately I feel like
Speaker 1: this episode is really about establishing rivalries, like lines are
Speaker 1: being drawn. So it's really like we're drawing lines, were
Speaker 1: establishing who's gonna hate who, who's going to love who?
Speaker 1: Just from the outset that's right, right, yes, absolutely, starting
Speaker 1: with Will and Sue and this is it, right, we're
Speaker 1: setting up like Sue Shoe always having to like fight
Speaker 1: for the glee club, fight for the glee club, get
Speaker 1: get more money, do the thing, and sees like ok bye, yeah,
Speaker 1: and also like you know, to call back to what
Speaker 1: Ryan said before or Sue calls us the Asland of
Speaker 1: Misfit Toys and that obviously now hearing him that that's
Speaker 1: how we thought about us, then makes sense they were
Speaker 1: using it really early. Yeah, that's right. And then the
Speaker 1: first slushy of of Showman's and it was blue this time,
Speaker 1: right instead of bread. Yeah, the blue really stained pretty badly.
Speaker 1: I will say did feel bad for le Is. She
Speaker 1: was getting a lot of all of us slushy and
Speaker 1: the blue really does stain you look like an avatar
Speaker 1: all the way down to your excuse, Um, okay, and
Speaker 1: then freak out. This number is horrible, I mean truly horrible.
Speaker 1: Do you remember recording it too, Yes, I do. We
Speaker 1: are all together in the recording stude. I think this
Speaker 1: is the last time we ever recorded this way where
Speaker 1: they recorded all our voices at the same time, and
Speaker 1: when we all went to the studio together, we all
Speaker 1: listened to everybody go into the booth and record, and
Speaker 1: then it got crazy and we didn't have time for
Speaker 1: it anymore. Um, and the freak out number was really funny.
Speaker 1: But it was fun because we knew we had to
Speaker 1: be bad, and we knew the choreography had to be bad,
Speaker 1: so we're just like playing up. Yes, we were showing
Speaker 1: our best acting shop. Actually, this was my best work
Speaker 1: in the whole series. And both peak in this episode
Speaker 1: with our two lines, Um, Mercedes, Mercedes is like about
Speaker 1: to get kicked in the face. She's like helts and
Speaker 1: then not help. The no established very early, very early,
Speaker 1: very very early. And then um, Will says did you
Speaker 1: notice Will says John Travolta hand, Yeah, like, um, Saturday night, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's that must be what that was, right,
Speaker 1: because I was like, what is that? Um? I was
Speaker 1: hitting my mark though truly this number. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh God, that's so cringe e Um. So they're supposed
Speaker 1: to perform for the whole school, this number for the
Speaker 1: whole school, and all of us ugly kids are like,
Speaker 1: we're going to get slate. Yeah, I mean because we
Speaker 1: need to recruit more people, we need to tell people
Speaker 1: to qualify for regionals, and at this point we have
Speaker 1: five six M And then she was choosing a very
Speaker 1: antiquated number that no longer will slap with the kids,
Speaker 1: but because they won nationals or something with it back
Speaker 1: in the back in the day, back in the day,
Speaker 1: poor poor misguided chew. Mm. When the little Glee slate
Speaker 1: thing bumper comes up, do you remember that there was
Speaker 1: an alternate Glee intro. There was a whole There was
Speaker 1: a full animated Bryan showed us. Um. It was like
Speaker 1: a chicken in an egg, right. There was original song
Speaker 1: written by Adam Anders and like an animated opening. It
Speaker 1: was like a little chick who was like hatching and
Speaker 1: then like hopping around. Imagine if that was the opening.
Speaker 1: It was very not us at all. It was very strange.
Speaker 1: It was a good memory. I remember watching that and
Speaker 1: being like, no, we're on tour or something, and he
Speaker 1: showed us. Yeah. It was a while after that we
Speaker 1: were like, excuse me, um, I will say this episode,
Speaker 1: Jescelyn is acting acting at her finest. It is the
Speaker 1: most brilliant, um grounded comedy you will ever see. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we talked about her before, but like hats
Speaker 1: Off Man, Terry is unsung hero. It's that it's that
Speaker 1: balance of being absolutely diabolically crazy but you just can't
Speaker 1: help but and like watch her and love everything she's
Speaker 1: doing and doesn't feel like it's grounded. She takes like
Speaker 1: the boards on the page and like makes them sound
Speaker 1: so convincing that you're like, oh, I believe her. She's
Speaker 1: she's a real person, Yes exactly. She's not a caricature
Speaker 1: like you're a real which also makes me wonder, like,
Speaker 1: is this character based off of somebody? We need to
Speaker 1: find that out. Okay, well put it on the list
Speaker 1: because I was like, this is all very It's like
Speaker 1: some sort of like amalgamation of all the craziest things
Speaker 1: people have heard other people say, yeah, and it's probably
Speaker 1: it sounds outrageous, but it's probably been side Okay. So
Speaker 1: Will and Terry are looking at a model house for
Speaker 1: because Terry they have to expand, because their family is expanding.
Speaker 1: Her sister, Oh my god, Jennifer aspen I what also
Speaker 1: another comedic genius, the two of them together, and she
Speaker 1: comes in to the show and just everything she does
Speaker 1: physically and verbally is pure gold. Doctor Yeah, like gold,
Speaker 1: little tiny little nuggets. Um, She's she's the best. Terry's
Speaker 1: really out of her mind this episode and is saying
Speaker 1: incredible things about you know, and the and the kitchen,
Speaker 1: sacrificing her that's right, her breakfast nook and um, saying
Speaker 1: that she had all she has to do is give
Speaker 1: up Applebee's and they won't run the a C for
Speaker 1: a couple of some first couple of summers. It's this
Speaker 1: is where our daughter gay son will sleep. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously I do have a thing here, a point to
Speaker 1: bring up where I always have an issue with shows
Speaker 1: or movies where you see, like our main character or
Speaker 1: protagonist who is very likable with someone who was awful
Speaker 1: and like, especially through this, and I'm like, how did
Speaker 1: they ever end up together in the first place? Like
Speaker 1: I always am really sensitive to a bit of a
Speaker 1: pushover he is. But I'm like, I'm bringing this up
Speaker 1: now because I think what happens, and like, I think
Speaker 1: it's Jescelyn's performance at the end of this episode completely
Speaker 1: answered that for me, because at the beginning of this
Speaker 1: is like, there was no way anyone saw anything in
Speaker 1: her to like Mary because she is like this all
Speaker 1: the time. Um. Okay, So then we move on to
Speaker 1: the choir room and we see Mr Shoes first, um
Speaker 1: moment of rapping trying to appease the children with something
Speaker 1: more current with Kanye. But times have changed and times
Speaker 1: have changed, and I am and this would have never
Speaker 1: we never know, No, goodbye. Um. Anyway, We'll move forward
Speaker 1: from this and getting to this number. Like like the
Speaker 1: kids in the show, it was very fun, you guys
Speaker 1: was great. Yeah, it was actually really fun to do.
Speaker 1: It was like the first it was a different song.
Speaker 1: We would really enjoyed it. Like this was also establishing
Speaker 1: sort of how we recorded the rest of the music.
Speaker 1: We were in a different kind of recording studio. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Ryan was actually there, which isn't I didn't normally wasn't
Speaker 1: he there? Am I misremembering that. No, no, you probably remember.
Speaker 1: I just don't remember because I feel like he was
Speaker 1: also getting to know. I think he was there. I
Speaker 1: think you're right. Well, I think he got ambered to
Speaker 1: yell yeah, and then they got me to sort of
Speaker 1: yell because I was like I can't reach this, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can just try it. And so we were really
Speaker 1: organically figuring out what people could do. Yeah, that's right. Um,
Speaker 1: you both you both slammed the number. It was really
Speaker 1: really good and slam dunk and and Mr she as well.
Speaker 1: Matt did as well. And then I mean she was
Speaker 1: just rapping. Here we go off to the races. We
Speaker 1: go the start of a movement really and like very
Speaker 1: justin Timberlake. Ok. Yeah, I mean you can't un see
Speaker 1: it now, No, No, that's it here alright. So then
Speaker 1: we go into the girl's bathroom and of course we
Speaker 1: go to our favorite and the pills Ferry um and
Speaker 1: she's I love this little shot of Rachel and her
Speaker 1: and the toilet and it's ex expertly written and acted.
Speaker 1: Also there's something I had noticed before where because Emma
Speaker 1: is such a cleaning obsessed person um that she stops
Speaker 1: stops washing her hands to go help Rachel. That is
Speaker 1: her job, right, she is the guidance, it is, but
Speaker 1: like that can overpower definitely. And I feel like these
Speaker 1: two scenes back to back really reminded me of sex education.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, very much. Yeah. It was like a really
Speaker 1: you're talking about really sensitive subjects and you're talking in
Speaker 1: like a way that is very informative and also with
Speaker 1: a bit of like the gag reflexing, like oh, when
Speaker 1: you're older, it's going to be an asset. So good.
Speaker 1: And then um, for those of you who don't know,
Speaker 1: like there's always these pamphlets. There would always be these pamphlets,
Speaker 1: even if you didn't see them in the scene. If
Speaker 1: you were in the scene, you'd be looking at them
Speaker 1: like while you were shooting. Um. Some of the pamphlets
Speaker 1: at m his office were ouch that stings, divorce, Why
Speaker 1: your parents stopped loving you? I can't stop touching myself.
Speaker 1: Right on the Silent Killer, my mom's bipolar and she
Speaker 1: won't stop yelling, wow, there's down there. And the last one,
Speaker 1: so you like throwing up understanding and overcoming bolliemo. Um,
Speaker 1: so Emma gives her the Rachel the um eating disorder.
Speaker 1: Um brochure, and she says she doesn't have me, she
Speaker 1: just wants to be pretty like Quinn. You know, there's
Speaker 1: something I think really endearing about Rachel and like, as
Speaker 1: wild as she may be a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: she's always very upfront with her feelings. She's never really
Speaker 1: trying to play a lot of games where she's just like, no, actually,
Speaker 1: I want to be pretty Quinn, even if it's outrageous
Speaker 1: like she's you know, she owns it. And I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that in her character because I also think that's
Speaker 1: very important to see where it's like, no, this is
Speaker 1: why she's doing this, and it's being caused by that,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about it, because if she wasn't, then
Speaker 1: you you're not able to really have the open dialogue
Speaker 1: that they have about it. And I do think that
Speaker 1: the balance of the scene is sort of um between,
Speaker 1: you know, the toilet bowl scene and then Emma's office
Speaker 1: scene are also I think, like um, the perfect example
Speaker 1: of walking the tight rope between the humor and the
Speaker 1: dark humor of it are all the satire of it
Speaker 1: all and also talking of out real things subjects, yes,
Speaker 1: and everything works together and independently of one another. And
Speaker 1: I think that was a masterclass and writing. Yes, and
Speaker 1: the three of them just bratty In and Ryan, like,
Speaker 1: it's so cohesive when you have such a small room,
Speaker 1: there's not too many cooks in the kitchen. It's just
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, it's very focused and
Speaker 1: um they wrote with the first three seasons by themselves,
Speaker 1: which is two episodes. Um. Okay, So then we um oh,
Speaker 1: and then we have to talk about the car moment
Speaker 1: because again I think that's top ten, maybe top five
Speaker 1: all time favorite Glee moments for me. Yes, yes, I
Speaker 1: think about it, so I love it. Also, this is
Speaker 1: one of the um it was in the pilot and
Speaker 1: it's in this episode, but it's sort of, um, goes
Speaker 1: away I think pretty quickly after this of music and
Speaker 1: other parts of the show that aren't us performing. So
Speaker 1: like in the pilot you had the steel drums, you
Speaker 1: had people from the guitar, and this episode in the
Speaker 1: beginning you have a guy in the guitar randomly in
Speaker 1: the hallway of jama Um. But then that's stuff sort
Speaker 1: of goes away as we're a little tight on time,
Speaker 1: you know, well yeah, because we end up doing that
Speaker 1: four songs in an episode, you do like ten songs
Speaker 1: an episode. I remember we would open up our scripts
Speaker 1: to see, like on the second page would be like
Speaker 1: the song numbers are like um titles, and we'd be
Speaker 1: so excited to like see what songs we were doing
Speaker 1: in the episode. And we'd look and it'd be like
Speaker 1: the whole page. You're like, oh my god, oh my god. Okay. Um.
Speaker 1: So then we go into the principle's office, which is
Speaker 1: so cute because it's the first like, yes, I think
Speaker 1: it's the first time Rachel and Finn are sort of
Speaker 1: on something and um also caught in the principal's office, Kevin.
Speaker 1: We end up in the principal's office together, which is
Speaker 1: also really fun. That's right, it was. It was. We
Speaker 1: were very lucky to end up in the principle's office.
Speaker 1: To Phil, we were we were, um, this is the
Speaker 1: justin Timberlake reference number two of the show. That's right,
Speaker 1: just timber like Clarkson and Robin Thinker on the cover
Speaker 1: of these flyers that Sue was so upset about that
Speaker 1: they made copies of um or four cents each, but
Speaker 1: the dropping of the drink and the whole thing of
Speaker 1: like the copy machine. It's just ridiculous, will not stand this. Um,
Speaker 1: so the child copy machine is on for the cheerios,
Speaker 1: which is absolutely also just ridiculous, like the cheerios rule
Speaker 1: at school. Um. And then Finn and Rachel apologize for
Speaker 1: using the copy machine. Yes, she insists in doing the
Speaker 1: song for the assembly right, well, because their point of
Speaker 1: doing this was so they put so they can get
Speaker 1: cooler kids, and they need to do a cooler song
Speaker 1: to get these kids. And he is very adamant about no,
Speaker 1: we're going to do this song that nobody wants to
Speaker 1: hear and waited. Um. And then and then Rachel goes
Speaker 1: in for it and asks if to go into my
Speaker 1: one of my favorite team wants to practice after school,
Speaker 1: but he can't because he a celibacy club. Okay, so
Speaker 1: then we get shirtless shoe wait I just I also
Speaker 1: wanted to point out that this was early Sue and
Speaker 1: so the antics were not that high yet, like the
Speaker 1: things she was going to throw at them to try
Speaker 1: to subvert their success. This was like, oh, they're using
Speaker 1: the copy machine, not a big deal, Like we are
Speaker 1: just warmer because Sue goes full demon pretty quickly. That's right, all, everybody,
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Speaker 1: Back to now, Shirt, Let's shoot again, Shirt, Let's shoot um.
Speaker 1: This was I think seventeen minutes into the show. That
Speaker 1: was minutes um. But this is also a really great
Speaker 1: This is where I saw Jesselyn's acting and I was like,
Speaker 1: I just can I take a class from her? Class
Speaker 1: from her? Um? She gets upset that she can't have
Speaker 1: a grandpoi a and you know when when is somebody
Speaker 1: going to finally start giving back Kevin. Yeah, she can't
Speaker 1: get a win. It's so hard for her, really hard.
Speaker 1: I did think this was a weird shoehorn And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we're back at the school and
Speaker 1: Figgins is scrubbing off. I feel like they wrote something
Speaker 1: more and it got cut because why why was he
Speaker 1: at why was shoe back at the school at nighttime
Speaker 1: and full and full teacher outfit? But for the story,
Speaker 1: we need it because she um asked to become the
Speaker 1: janitor to get some extra extra money for Terry and
Speaker 1: the ab and so he does it, and and now
Speaker 1: Mr shoe is has a full time job and another job,
Speaker 1: and Terry only works probably a quarter of the time
Speaker 1: at sheets and things. And then we're back to daytime
Speaker 1: at the school for Celibacy Club, which is really funny.
Speaker 1: It's a great, great scene. We're getting a lot more
Speaker 1: Diana in this episode and it's wonderful. It is wonderful,
Speaker 1: like like early Quinn is like the best, the best,
Speaker 1: the best. And also then we meet Jacob in Israel I.
Speaker 1: Also Josh Sessman, who plays Jacob in Israel is so good.
Speaker 1: But I think I also don't even realize he came
Speaker 1: in this early, like oh yeah, I didn't. I did
Speaker 1: not remember that. We'll have to get him in UM.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Jacob in Reel, it's yes Celibacy Club. She
Speaker 1: has the Rachel's partner with him um. And this sets
Speaker 1: up also like the best joke in the whole episode.
Speaker 1: They're talking about um not um you know, erupting too
Speaker 1: soon and we see Finns flashback of the flashback is
Speaker 1: really the highlight of my life and of this episode.
Speaker 1: It's everything is so good in this episode. I also
Speaker 1: love that romy Um. It's like still in the denim
Speaker 1: outfit that she was in a decade earlier. Like she
Speaker 1: she she talked about that times have changed. No, no,
Speaker 1: like who says we need a father figure? Um, and
Speaker 1: then and then we're we go into it. We get
Speaker 1: into we get into it right, we get into it.
Speaker 1: Do you remember filming the scene. We filmed the scene
Speaker 1: in the auditorium. We have like a meeting where Rachel
Speaker 1: is telling the group that we need sex. We gotta
Speaker 1: sell sex, and that's how we're going to get people
Speaker 1: right before we do the actual performance. But on the
Speaker 1: day of actually shooting it, we shot this I think
Speaker 1: last and we were all we had shot push it
Speaker 1: all day we were doing this scene and then we
Speaker 1: were losing our minds because Chris would go blood blood. Actually,
Speaker 1: when when I watched it, I said, bo YouTube video
Speaker 1: a little boy Corey's faces in this entire episode when
Speaker 1: he's trying to be like flirty or like young like
Speaker 1: and he does this a little smart thing. Every everybody
Speaker 1: was firing in this scene. It was a quick scene,
Speaker 1: but everyone sort of doing their little stick and it's
Speaker 1: very satisfying to watch, is very satisfying, and we were
Speaker 1: all enjoying very much. So I think those short scenes
Speaker 1: were really fun to shoot two because they're like in
Speaker 1: and out and you just like you have a little
Speaker 1: bit of fun than you get out. Um, so we
Speaker 1: do push it and they were like, I mean we
Speaker 1: talked about this in the Chris episode on the Chris Interview,
Speaker 1: but like we we rehearse this for like weeks, So
Speaker 1: we were just literally on each other for weeks, crawling
Speaker 1: on our knees, crawling on our knees. Um. Really, you
Speaker 1: especially really threw your body down on the ground. You
Speaker 1: were just down there. It's just I was ready to
Speaker 1: go for it. Tina was really just going for it,
Speaker 1: pointed out too, like we didn't want to do freak
Speaker 1: out that was from but push it. It's from six,
Speaker 1: Like that's not very current either. Yeah, but eight six
Speaker 1: is like a different time and it was like a
Speaker 1: hip hop song, so it's a different fel that's that. Um.
Speaker 1: I was belly laughing watching that number again. It's it's
Speaker 1: really really that moment where I forgot what like Kurt
Speaker 1: Smack's fantastic and then he looks over at all of
Speaker 1: his friends like freaking out. Um, It's it's there. It's here.
Speaker 1: In this episod, there are a couple of references of
Speaker 1: like gay beings bad and being scary, but it was
Speaker 1: a hit. Everybody loved it. Oh when um when she
Speaker 1: was introducing the glee club and says that, um, like
Speaker 1: there you know for coming that they used to rule
Speaker 1: the school back in his day, and then he's mounting
Speaker 1: a comeback or whatever and then sued sort of chuckles.
Speaker 1: She puts her hand in front of her face and
Speaker 1: just starts laughing. The reactions between Jama and Jane and
Speaker 1: this number are phenomenal. Oh, I missed it. Homes to
Speaker 1: go back and watch that. Oh god, you yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta watch it. Just watch them, you know what we're doing.
Speaker 1: But this was, I mean forever one of the most
Speaker 1: fun numbers, and we did it on tour. We also, yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, we did do it on tour because you
Speaker 1: have to have push it in there where we're doing
Speaker 1: things on top of each other. Um, when we did
Speaker 1: this number, remember we had a lot of time downtime
Speaker 1: off stage or like on the stage behind the curtain
Speaker 1: before they opened it up. And like we all like
Speaker 1: we like we're still getting to know each other, so
Speaker 1: like we would sit in a circle and like talk together.
Speaker 1: That whole day was really really fun. Like it was
Speaker 1: the first musical number we had done. We were drinking
Speaker 1: red bulls, we were like hanging out, um, you know,
Speaker 1: since the pilot, and like it was really just like
Speaker 1: still very much like um a Kumbaio circle if you yeah,
Speaker 1: because it was also such a departure from Stop that
Speaker 1: it was really exciting for us to get to like
Speaker 1: play that and also like show our crew and like
Speaker 1: the extras and things about, Like, I mean, we were
Speaker 1: all performers, and it's like not normal that you get
Speaker 1: to perform within a performance really, and so it was
Speaker 1: like this multilayered way of um getting to interact with
Speaker 1: each other and getting to know each other and also
Speaker 1: the people that we would spend the next six years
Speaker 1: working with. That's right, I get used to it. This
Speaker 1: show is smut um. So Rachel ends up apologizing to
Speaker 1: Mr shoe Um, but Figgins is thrilled. He's thrilled. He
Speaker 1: says he hasn't seen a student body excited like this,
Speaker 1: So he gets all of his he gives them songs
Speaker 1: pre approved. Sue is not happy and demands resignation, and
Speaker 1: like the delusion of dissolution of Glee, club. It's pretty great,
Speaker 1: very yeah. Um. And then and then we go into
Speaker 1: one of my favorite scenes of the episode as well.
Speaker 1: It's very sweet, and then it really comes off with
Speaker 1: a twist. Um, the picnic scene, the rehearsal. Um, it's
Speaker 1: really sweet because you get to see like Finn and
Speaker 1: Rachel and Finn kind of like complimenting her and like
Speaker 1: you could just be as good as her. It's it's
Speaker 1: just it's those feel good moments that you kind of
Speaker 1: like where the show slows down a little bit, um,
Speaker 1: that I really appreciate. And then also the oddity of
Speaker 1: then turning around and having a full picnic on the stage.
Speaker 1: That's glee for you right there, And even in likely
Speaker 1: as voice, you can hear like, oh, well look at that,
Speaker 1: I've set this up for you. Um. It was the
Speaker 1: knowing a knowing line. Um. And then the mailman yep,
Speaker 1: the full car crash mailman. It's his O face was
Speaker 1: so good. Oh, it's so good. Comedy so good. And
Speaker 1: then even better than we just go up from there
Speaker 1: at the doctor's office. Um. Oh no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Um, you're right, don't doubt yourself. He doesn't
Speaker 1: find there is no baby. There's only a fake baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something I've learned. This is no longer called a
Speaker 1: hysterical pregnancy. What is it called a false pregnancy? Well
Speaker 1: obviously yeah, but if you google it, like people used
Speaker 1: to call it back in the day. So it's actually
Speaker 1: a thing though, where people like have fake or have
Speaker 1: symptoms pregnancy symptoms, but they're not actually pregnant. Whereas Terry
Speaker 1: thinks that her baby fill out because that's what happens. Um,
Speaker 1: So then we we we move on from there. We think,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, well that there's that storyline, but just
Speaker 1: hold on to your horses. That we were heading into
Speaker 1: one of the most iconomical numbers of all time. So
Speaker 1: I texted Kevin last night, um when we were watching this,
Speaker 1: because um, I'm like, oh my gosh, I remember like
Speaker 1: hearing it over the pre record as it's that when
Speaker 1: they were shooting it, because we were like on set,
Speaker 1: I think, or getting ready to shoot something, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, I wonder what they're doing
Speaker 1: in there, and like we peeked in and we saw
Speaker 1: them shooting and it was awesome, and then you know,
Speaker 1: it becomes iconic. But watching it back for the first time.
Speaker 1: This is the first time that I felt like we
Speaker 1: really saw Nyaum in the show, and I fully burst
Speaker 1: into tears. I fully burst into tears. Um. It's like,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be an interesting, hard time
Speaker 1: to watch the show. Um, but it's also like watching
Speaker 1: her in her element also is like joyous too. I Um,
Speaker 1: she and Heather were just dancing the thet We also
Speaker 1: see Heather for the first time in this episode in
Speaker 1: the Celibacy Club, and I was you had warned me
Speaker 1: about that the crying, so I was prepared. But I
Speaker 1: think because there hasn't been too much yet of Santana
Speaker 1: that I'm sort of keeping it at pay. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. I'm sitting in the I sat in
Speaker 1: the choir room with Ryan for a while while they
Speaker 1: shot that number because I was obsessed with it. I
Speaker 1: remember when they rehearsed it. I would go watch and
Speaker 1: I remember when they were shooting it a little compact
Speaker 1: and yeah, I was learning the choreography on the side
Speaker 1: of course you were. I really loved it all right. Well,
Speaker 1: then Queen apologizes to Sue. She's like, what the hell
Speaker 1: are you doing? But then she decided she's going to
Speaker 1: have minions. So they're going to spy, which again it's
Speaker 1: like you've dropping spine. It's the whole thing. Um turning
Speaker 1: up the dial on the sabotage, the subser sabotage. And
Speaker 1: the next thing that happens is quite a sweet and
Speaker 1: romantic moment between Will and Emma. And then I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 1: my god, though, what a what a creeper? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: there's a there's a pregnant wife at home and and
Speaker 1: the writers have Will and yet we still root for them,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's still route for them, and it's really cute,
Speaker 1: and the little chalk moment, it's really really I mean,
Speaker 1: they're both in the wrong. They both know, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: totally right, but like Will Will come on, well, like
Speaker 1: you you gotta know better, messy messy. But again, you know,
Speaker 1: Glee goes there, Glee goes there. Jame is irresistible. I
Speaker 1: get it, you know when you feel cute. Okay, So
Speaker 1: then um, Terry makes Will dinner. We're back at Will's
Speaker 1: house and she's like, I gotta tell you something and
Speaker 1: he's like what, And you look into his sweet dough
Speaker 1: eyes and you know, curly, curly, justin Timberlake hair, and
Speaker 1: she's like, I can't do it. It's a boy. She
Speaker 1: backs out and genders the baby what what um, and
Speaker 1: then also is like, let's make sacrifices. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be a great wife. And little do we know it
Speaker 1: starts the beginning of the end. But then you see
Speaker 1: her be I mean, obviously it's not motivated by something sweet,
Speaker 1: but what she's saying it gave me a glimpse of
Speaker 1: who she might have been, like Terry that Will might
Speaker 1: have fallen in love with. She's all of a sudden
Speaker 1: like deflates and becomes like a real human for a
Speaker 1: second of like a compassionate, pathetic person because she knows
Speaker 1: what she's doing is wrong. Good Yeah, yeah, good point.
Speaker 1: Good point, Kevin. Um, did we bring it on home? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's bring it home, Kevin, bring it on home. Take
Speaker 1: a bow. Okay, So this wasn't in the original showman,
Speaker 1: so if I'm correct, I could be wrong, but um,
Speaker 1: there was something missing I think, and it was either
Speaker 1: another song or whatever, but it was it was at
Speaker 1: it later and um, Leah ended up having to go
Speaker 1: record this. I remember at like nine pm on a
Speaker 1: Monday night and we were shooting it at like nine
Speaker 1: pm on a Tuesday, UM. And so I remember going
Speaker 1: into the recording star that they called and like you
Speaker 1: have to go in tonight, and I had like out
Speaker 1: in my car and I went to the recording studio
Speaker 1: and Leah was finishing up her um the song, and
Speaker 1: then Amber and I went in and did the background vocals,
Speaker 1: so we were those are actually our voices on the
Speaker 1: background vocals of this song, um that we did. And
Speaker 1: and then I remember Zach was choreographing this last minute
Speaker 1: again because you know, we were just like thrown into
Speaker 1: it and Mercedes and Tina in the back doing our
Speaker 1: woos and whos, and Zack's like, all right, so we'll
Speaker 1: do arm arm arm, and then you bring your hand
Speaker 1: in and you know, move your fingers and we called
Speaker 1: that the tickle the ball. So go back and watch
Speaker 1: that number and you see our harm hand hand hand
Speaker 1: tickle the ball. Um. But that number was like a
Speaker 1: last minute moment. But you also get the glee hand
Speaker 1: up you know number we didn't don't stop. Um, they
Speaker 1: do it in that number as well, that's right. I
Speaker 1: also I didn't realize how musical theatery this song was
Speaker 1: sung because as time goes on, everyone was sort of
Speaker 1: like brought into like the pop vocal think of like
Speaker 1: how to sing like that, because we do a lot
Speaker 1: more pop songs going forward. But I feel like because
Speaker 1: Rachel is the Broadway girl and like the anders were
Speaker 1: probably like this is what works for her character, it
Speaker 1: was done very much Broadway style. You're right. And I
Speaker 1: also think that the music for maybe the first thirteen
Speaker 1: episodes was more character or the singing was more character driven.
Speaker 1: And then like yeah, exactly, then we go into pop
Speaker 1: recording mode. Exactly right. I love this episode. I do too.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's so really excellent. It's just
Speaker 1: every part of it is so good. Every character is
Speaker 1: really good. It's cohesive, it's smart, it's witty, it's like
Speaker 1: there's like soft moments. It's really and it really sets
Speaker 1: us up right, Yeah, I have to say, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't really there's not a lot of for me
Speaker 1: like things at an age. Well, in this episode, like
Speaker 1: I feel like it was pretty damn solid. Should we
Speaker 1: do some tarty takes, tardy takes, let's takes all right,
Speaker 1: so a cringe moment. I feel like my dancing in
Speaker 1: gold Digger is a cringe moment. I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot and gold Digger that okay,
Speaker 1: so let's just call gold Digger now is a cringe
Speaker 1: moment a little bit. I mean it kind of has
Speaker 1: to be, though. I mean the number, yeah, okay, minus
Speaker 1: you a number, Um, worst dance move Okay, so along
Speaker 1: with my dancing and gold Digger um to trying to
Speaker 1: get Finns like to dance drang gold Digger so good
Speaker 1: but also wild because that wasn't choreographed. I don't know,
Speaker 1: no way, that's definitely something that would do right in
Speaker 1: the middle of it. Um. I think the best song
Speaker 1: of this episode. I think it's a little prayer. I
Speaker 1: have to agree it's the best number of the best song,
Speaker 1: and like, what a good introduction to those three iconic
Speaker 1: The best line, the best I feel like, I feel
Speaker 1: like one of Terry's lines, What is somebody going to
Speaker 1: finally give back? Um, there is no there's no baby, yeah, Terry,
Speaker 1: Terry Schuster, anything she says in this episode. Best performance
Speaker 1: by a prop Oh, the pamphlets and this office. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: those pamphlets are absolutely incredible. That's right, Um, Like you said,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're we did okay with the age
Speaker 1: well didn't age well moment except for Golder. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 1: there's inappropriate jokes in here and things, but I think
Speaker 1: that was I think it worked too crazy, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think crazy. I think everything works in here. So the
Speaker 1: ship we find on TikTok Jenna, there's this TikTok that
Speaker 1: really grinds my ears um and it did keep me
Speaker 1: up one night. And so there are blind items I
Speaker 1: somehow stumbled across Glee blind items on TikTok. It's a
Speaker 1: dark place. Nobody do it because honestly, it's why I
Speaker 1: stay away, stay away. None of it's true. Anyway, there
Speaker 1: was one about Chris not writing his books and that
Speaker 1: he had a ghostwriter for the first one, and I
Speaker 1: was so upset because I like, I literally saw him
Speaker 1: write this book, Like we actually saw him. Do you
Speaker 1: think a ghost he's going to have a ghostwriter for
Speaker 1: nineteen books? You out of your like Anyway, I could
Speaker 1: go on, but I won't, and I forgot to ask
Speaker 1: him when he was here. So I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just gonna call him. Yeah, I call him
Speaker 1: and just to debunk it from the horse's mouth. I
Speaker 1: mean also He probably hasn't heard it, so we should
Speaker 1: just tell him. I that is wild. I'm sorry. Do
Speaker 1: you think he's gonna answer? That would be embarrassing a girl?
Speaker 1: Oh hey you answered, Thank god. I'm with Jenna. We're
Speaker 1: doing the podcast. Yeah, I know this is um so okay,
Speaker 1: there's this TikTok rumor about you that no, I'm not
Speaker 1: a furry. My god, we wouldn't judge you if you were.
Speaker 1: We don't keep shame on this podcast. Referring to no, no,
Speaker 1: that one I would have been fine with. I would
Speaker 1: have put on the costume and come over the question
Speaker 1: I have. Someone's said that you had a ghostwriter for
Speaker 1: your first book, first first Land of Stories book, and um,
Speaker 1: we know this is not true. Yeah, we know it's
Speaker 1: not true, and we saw you write it like in
Speaker 1: between takes. Can you just for the people settle this.
Speaker 1: Did you have a ghost writer or did you write
Speaker 1: your own damn book? Oh god, I wish I had
Speaker 1: a ghostwriter. Better. It couldn't have been better. I think
Speaker 1: you're doing it right. I'm embarrassed to ask. I'm even
Speaker 1: embarrassed to ask you, but I did. We just had to.
Speaker 1: I could even look at my first book because I'm
Speaker 1: so embarrassed because I feel like I wasn't even literate
Speaker 1: when I when I wrote it. Well, you you had
Speaker 1: a lot of experience with the rest of the other eighteen,
Speaker 1: so each one gets better and better. Number nineteen. Sorry
Speaker 1: to bother you with this stupid thing. Thank you always
Speaker 1: bothered me with stupid things. Okay, okay, famous last words, Okay,
Speaker 1: bye bye. Um. Yeah, I'm a little embarrassed that I
Speaker 1: called Chris about that, but I I feel like that
Speaker 1: is the best possible response to that, to that, and
Speaker 1: that will be that. Also, make sure you go follow
Speaker 1: our TikTok account. It's at that's what you really missed,
Speaker 1: So go do that. We'll make some TikTok's exciting. People
Speaker 1: can send us things, we'll talk about. Jenny, you stay
Speaker 1: off of it, Kevin, you can tell me what it happens.
Speaker 1: I just I still think it's a very dark place.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's not for you. It's fine. Yeah, no, at
Speaker 1: least yet. Um. I really love this episode. Me too,
Speaker 1: Me too. I Next week is another story, but we'll
Speaker 1: go there another time, another time. But thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to our recap of Showman's Um go back if you
Speaker 1: haven't listened to our wonderful conversation with Chris cole for
Speaker 1: from last week on Thursday and um, subscribe, rate review,
Speaker 1: tell your friends and go follow us on TikTok And
Speaker 1: the next episode is Aka Fellas. Now there's definitely gonna
Speaker 1: be some second embarrassment in that one. That's right, See
Speaker 1: you next week, See you next week,