Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, and that's what you really miss podcast.
Speaker 1: We're back. Thanks for being with us last week as
Speaker 1: we got through that. We are Season five, Episode four,
Speaker 1: Katie or Agaga ooh.
Speaker 2: This originally aired on November seventh, two thousand and thirteen.
Speaker 2: We had a little break after the quarterbacks, and now
Speaker 2: we're back and just sort of presenting the quarterback didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just move very much past it like a
Speaker 1: gust of.
Speaker 2: Wind, which is fine, you know now the way, sure,
Speaker 2: we're in this. I fully now you know we were
Speaker 2: prepared by people to be like this season's crazy from
Speaker 2: episode to episode. I fully understand it now, I get it.
Speaker 2: I get we were all just looking for something to
Speaker 2: distract ourselves, chaotic, like give us joy, give us big
Speaker 2: musical numbers, anything to distract Yeah, and I think it
Speaker 2: is thankful for that. Thankful for that.
Speaker 1: The number one song was Royals by Lord. Ugh.
Speaker 2: Little didn't we know that Lord would be there to
Speaker 2: change the game.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: The number one movie one of my favorite books of
Speaker 2: all time, Enders Game. He's not great Okay, great.
Speaker 1: This book is better. Book much better in Glean is
Speaker 1: this week. On October sixteenth, at the Pailey Center event
Speaker 1: honoring FX Network, Ryan had announced the Glee's sixth season
Speaker 1: would be its last, and he discussed having to come
Speaker 1: up with the new ending of the show in the
Speaker 1: week of Corey's passing. Kevin, do you want to read
Speaker 1: this quote that he says?
Speaker 2: Sure, Ryan said, I will not do my Ryan impression.
Speaker 2: The final year of the show, which will be next year,
Speaker 2: was designed around Rachel and Corey and Finn's story. I
Speaker 2: always knew that. I always knew how it would end.
Speaker 2: I knew what the last shot was, he was in it,
Speaker 2: I knew what the last line was, she said it
Speaker 2: to him. So when a tragedy like that happens, you
Speaker 2: sort of have to pause and figure out what you
Speaker 2: want to do. So we're figuring that out now.
Speaker 1: Okay, devastating. This was directed by Ian Brennan, another Great
Speaker 1: friend in a close Space. Yeah yeah, yeah, We've got
Speaker 1: Adam Lambert, We've got Damil Lovado. So fun. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is my favorite part of this hype episode are the songs.
Speaker 1: Most of the songs, there's only a few shockingly. It
Speaker 1: feels like there's a lot more.
Speaker 2: Because they are big numbers.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're right, we did Marry the Night that's performed
Speaker 1: by Star Child.
Speaker 2: Jenna. Were you in this music video?
Speaker 1: I'm kind of mary. Yes, I was in this music
Speaker 1: video with Lady Gaya.
Speaker 2: That's right. Jenna's been in the Lady Gaga video and
Speaker 2: a Katie Perry music. That's right.
Speaker 1: This is the episode. This is my episode. That's funny.
Speaker 1: I was in Lady Gaga's video. I was more in her.
Speaker 1: She directed this video. This is her directorial debut of
Speaker 1: her music videos. She did this and it was about
Speaker 1: a personal moment in her life. And we shot this
Speaker 1: like short film that was supposed to be inserted into
Speaker 1: the music video that never quite made it in because
Speaker 1: this music video is already very long. Yes, and so
Speaker 1: you see like snippets of if you look really, really close,
Speaker 1: you see snippets of me in this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see like the top of your head a lot.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was there for two days and she called
Speaker 1: Ryan and said, please let Jenna out. This is like
Speaker 1: a couple of I think of the year before or something,
Speaker 1: and so please let Jenna out of work so she
Speaker 1: can come to this music video and when Ryan Lady
Speaker 1: Gaga calls Ryan Murphy, Ryan Murphy says, Okay.
Speaker 2: Probably one of the only people.
Speaker 1: And got excused from being ugly for that moment. Okay.
Speaker 1: Applause by Gaga and that's performed by Artie Blaine, Marley
Speaker 1: Ryder and Sam Wide.
Speaker 2: Awake, performed by Jake, Katy, Tina and Unique and Rare.
Speaker 1: My favorite performer, New Directions and Pamela and Lansbury. Sorry
Speaker 1: the New the new band. That's for me so fun.
Speaker 2: Fact, Jenna, this is the first episode of season five
Speaker 2: that has a recap segment.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. The earlier ones didn't have that either. This
Speaker 1: is the fourth episode where all the members of a
Speaker 1: New Direction present in the episode have a solo. The
Speaker 1: first is the pilot, the second is Britney two point
Speaker 1: zero the thirties teen in the Sky with Diamonds. Wow.
Speaker 2: The drummer for Starchild's performance and for the performance of
Speaker 2: Roar is Drew Stein, who is damiel Vado's drummer for
Speaker 2: her performances in real life.
Speaker 1: I did not know that.
Speaker 2: I did not know that either.
Speaker 1: Samba's applause teaser, which is insane, is a parody of
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga's Art Pop teaser picture with the plastic advisor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, come on, Lady Gaga re search now
Speaker 2: all that? That also was beautifully shot. Oh how funny
Speaker 2: what high school back then especially had that level of
Speaker 2: production and sam to have the taste to have that
Speaker 2: level of production.
Speaker 1: Phoebe's reaction to it.
Speaker 2: Jake's lion costume was inspired by the rum tug tugger
Speaker 2: from Andeloid Revers Musical Cats, obviously.
Speaker 1: Also one of my favorite moments in the show. This
Speaker 1: is the second Lady Gaga themed episode with another artist,
Speaker 1: this time obviously shared with Katy Perry, the first with
Speaker 1: theatricality that was also shared with Gusts.
Speaker 2: The songs that were sung were the last singles from
Speaker 2: Katy Perry and Lady Gaga's Teenage Dream and Borne the
Speaker 2: Sway eras, and the lead singles from the Prison and
Speaker 2: Art Pop.
Speaker 1: Eras fun I loved both of those eras for both
Speaker 1: of them. This is the fourth tribute episode in a
Speaker 1: row of season five.
Speaker 2: Wool.
Speaker 1: This is the only time this has occurred again. The
Speaker 1: season was like, what can we do to distract everyone?
Speaker 2: The song's applause and roar were released on August thirteenth,
Speaker 2: when technically it was supposed to be Spring twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: In the world of Glee, oh Mata.
Speaker 1: After applause was performed, the next scene shows Katy, Jake, Tin,
Speaker 1: and Unique squabbling about how amazing the performance they just
Speaker 1: saw was. Kitty even says did you just see what
Speaker 1: they did? Showing that they had watched the performance. However,
Speaker 1: they are wearing different outfits than the ones during applause,
Speaker 1: so it can't be the same day people change we do, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was must have been a production mishap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like there might have been a couple
Speaker 2: moments like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: When the episode begins, mister Hue says that they are
Speaker 2: six weeks away from Nationals. However, when Sue suspensic Glee
Speaker 2: Club members, he claims that there were only four weeks
Speaker 2: left early for Nationals, while only one week has passed.
Speaker 1: So even within the episode, we're scrambling here, okay, scrambling
Speaker 1: to write episode, scrambling to get things done. This is
Speaker 1: like when you have a writer, one writer write one
Speaker 1: scene and one writer write another scene, and then somebody
Speaker 1: doesn't put the pieces together. Look, but we love it.
Speaker 2: Whatever we gave you great performances. We love it, we
Speaker 2: new sets, we gave you costumes we did. We gave
Speaker 2: you crazy storyline. What more do you want from us?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, it's wild?
Speaker 2: Speaking of Here is the official episode summary, Jenna Okay.
Speaker 2: The members of the New Directions tackle their assignment of
Speaker 2: getting out of their comfort zones and determining whether they're
Speaker 2: more like a Katie, Katy Perry or Lady Gaga. Kurt
Speaker 2: holds auditions for his new band and must decide to
Speaker 2: feel let in the overly bold performer star Child Okay
Speaker 2: Adam Lambert. Meanwhile, Jake gets closer to breathe as he
Speaker 2: and Marley grow apart.
Speaker 1: We're setting the scene with Katie Orgada. This is the episode.
Speaker 1: It runs through both New York and McKinley, So let's
Speaker 1: start there.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you have Adam Lambert come onto the show,
Speaker 2: Oh my God, and his first song is Mary the Night,
Speaker 2: Oh my God. I didn't remember like how it exactly happened,
Speaker 2: but I knew I needed to hear it again. I
Speaker 2: was like, let me see this performance, because that is
Speaker 2: a match made in heaven.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 2: What a freak? How is his voice? That good.
Speaker 1: I have trouble understanding it because I'll never get over it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been in the world of Adam Lambert since
Speaker 2: like two thousand and nine. Yep, like we should be
Speaker 2: used to it. I will never get used to how
Speaker 2: good he is.
Speaker 1: No, agreed, Agreed, It's actually otherworldly. So Kurt decides to
Speaker 1: start a band with Danny and Santana, which is really fun.
Speaker 1: I'm into it. And he holds open auditions because Rachel
Speaker 1: says she can't because she's busy with Funny Girl and
Speaker 1: she has to put all of her energy towards that.
Speaker 1: And he holds the auditions. We get we get star Child,
Speaker 1: we get to be graced with Mary in the Night.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for more of him. I'm sad we
Speaker 1: didn't get to work with him.
Speaker 2: Me too, you know yeah, I mean I would like
Speaker 2: to know what it was for people watching this, because
Speaker 2: the idea of having Demi Lovato Adam Lambert in a
Speaker 2: band together, it's like a fantasy. I never knew I
Speaker 2: had what a crew like absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, So he joins the band. We get, we
Speaker 1: getst our Child.
Speaker 2: But I was a little upset with Kurt yeah, because
Speaker 2: Kurt is like, no, it's going to be a note
Speaker 2: in Naya's reaction or Santana's reaction during the entire startup
Speaker 2: performance is so funny in the audience because like, mouth agape,
Speaker 2: how is this person so good?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: And then Kurt being the one to be like, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's too much like I'm sorry. We all remembered how
Speaker 2: you how you dressed from season one of how Dare
Speaker 2: You say? Somebody is doing too much? Luckily, Kurt comes.
Speaker 1: To his senses and senses and is going to allow
Speaker 1: him to join, thankfully.
Speaker 2: I really liked the scene between them, Yes, and then
Speaker 2: when you see Adam Lambert out of like the Star
Speaker 2: Child costume, Yeah, and it's like daytime.
Speaker 1: Elliott.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And like having that real conversation between like
Speaker 2: struggling artists was a really nice thing to have for sure.
Speaker 2: There's also Sue here. Sue's reigniting her war between herself
Speaker 2: and Will, which yeah, we do. And Sue says everything
Speaker 2: that Glee has warned to school is inappropriate and has
Speaker 2: a problem because she sees three into her office dressed
Speaker 2: in the iconic.
Speaker 1: The construction tape look, and then.
Speaker 2: You cut to Sue wearing the cage on her head
Speaker 2: talking about her colonoscopy, And I honestly, the very as
Speaker 2: heightened and crazy as a lot of the SOOO stuff
Speaker 2: is the moment when Bree's like, it's Katie or Gaga
Speaker 2: week and they're deciding if they're Katie or Gaga, and
Speaker 2: She's like, are they really going around saying it's their
Speaker 2: Katie or Gaga? That may be the most annoying thing
Speaker 2: they've ever done. And I really appreciated that, because if
Speaker 2: anyone knows all the things the Glee Club has done
Speaker 2: and kept track of it, it is Sue.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: And she absolutely hates them and finds them so annoying,
Speaker 2: but also she likes how annoying they are.
Speaker 1: Oh, she loves it. She thrives on it. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: needs it, she does. And she's going to suspend us,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. This is wild. We're like, uh, excuse me,
Speaker 1: Sue says. It appears to bol Shuster is taking up
Speaker 1: the age old question. That is vexed creepy pederasques some Socrates.
Speaker 1: Before Katie versus Gaga, it was Jackie versus Marilyn Betty
Speaker 1: versus Veronica, Mary Tom Lincoln versus Martha Washington. Why must
Speaker 1: we always choose between two female pop archetypes. Why can't
Speaker 1: we just be them all? You know what, she has
Speaker 1: a point.
Speaker 2: She's not wrong, she's not wrong. That was like the
Speaker 2: whole issue with Taylor versus Beyonce last summer. It's like,
Speaker 2: why are we pitting two successful women against each other?
Speaker 1: The most successful women. Yes, they're so different. They're not
Speaker 1: trying to be putting against each other. They're trying to
Speaker 1: create some good art.
Speaker 2: They're both great. There's a room for everyone.
Speaker 1: Literally, Okay, just let it be you guys, let it
Speaker 1: be Jena. So now back in McKinley, it is Katie
Speaker 1: Orgaga week. We find out our competition for Nationals is
Speaker 1: third Explosion.
Speaker 3: Jenna the moment, this is the moment where I have
Speaker 3: a full Tina has a full melt down and Kevin
Speaker 3: cannot contain himself.
Speaker 2: Kevin is a bad actor.
Speaker 1: That was really an honest reaction and it was so funny.
Speaker 1: I remember doing that. It was I couldn't keep it together.
Speaker 1: It's really funny because your reaction.
Speaker 2: Works didn't like have you do it back to back
Speaker 2: to back, like you just kept screaming at different levels,
Speaker 2: and I was losing it. And then obviously we were
Speaker 2: just like yeah, bigger.
Speaker 1: Bigger, yeah, like egging me on, and I was like,
Speaker 1: let's go for it. Yeah we a release, and yeah
Speaker 1: I needed the release and you guys needed a laughter.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that we could do that together. So
Speaker 1: this week's sigment, it's gonna be Katie Perry Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1: The Katies obviously will sing Gaga songs, and the Gaga's
Speaker 1: will sing Katie songs. It's an interesting crew of who
Speaker 1: identifies with whom did.
Speaker 2: You get to pick? Like, do you remember being asked
Speaker 2: if you were a Katie or a Gaga or did
Speaker 2: they just pick for us?
Speaker 1: I don't remember being asked. I do think that they
Speaker 1: assumed because I did a lot of Gaga.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on the.
Speaker 1: Show, Tina was absolutely a Ga gay Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't know about everybody else. I feel like it was written.
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you did you get asked?
Speaker 2: No? No, But I remember we were all talking about
Speaker 2: it like what we would be in real life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, okay.
Speaker 2: But I was just really happy to get to do
Speaker 2: Gaga and if that meant I had to be a
Speaker 2: Katie technically edit care.
Speaker 1: I know I was a little bummed that I didn't
Speaker 1: get to do Gaga again, but applause was really worth
Speaker 1: it for you guys, So I'm I'm grateful for it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about applause. You guys did applause. Yes.
Speaker 1: Sam is also simultaneously trying to universon, trying to impress Penny.
Speaker 1: Penny is still here. Phoebe Stroll is still here. This
Speaker 1: is why I remember having more time with Phoebe was
Speaker 1: because you know, aside from Tina and the Sky was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel like I hung out with
Speaker 1: Phoebe a bunch, and she's here. She's here again. I
Speaker 1: love that she's still here. So Nurse Penny had told
Speaker 1: Sam that she had like this very dark, you know,
Speaker 1: music fandom, and yet she lied it's not it's actually
Speaker 1: her ex boyfriends who had these dark feeling loving feelings
Speaker 1: for dark music. So they don't have the same taste
Speaker 1: in music. And so Sam is going to woo her.
Speaker 1: He's going to woo her with his Gaga performance, and
Speaker 1: thinks thinks he's just going to do do the judge,
Speaker 1: do the trick.
Speaker 2: He's gonna I love Penny. She is a little weirdo totally,
Speaker 2: and I just love how like normal she seems, and
Speaker 2: then everything that comes out of her mouth is like
Speaker 2: sort of contradictory and off. Yeah, it's like I am
Speaker 2: very into everything that's happening.
Speaker 1: And Sam is like enamored by it. Yes, I love
Speaker 1: that they're cute. They're really really cute.
Speaker 2: They are really cute, rude, And I love Sam's whole
Speaker 2: campaign to do Gaga do Applause, that whole video, like
Speaker 2: we've mentioned that he makes to rile up the little
Speaker 2: monsters to come to the performance, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: nobody shows up to. He makes his whole video and
Speaker 2: puts it on everybody's computer, like it was the You
Speaker 2: two album that ended up on everybody's.
Speaker 1: Phone, and here here he is nobody's.
Speaker 2: Nobody shows up. I mean, I was like, that doesn't
Speaker 2: track for me. We are national champions. People would show
Speaker 2: up to see this.
Speaker 1: I'm also confused by the whole thing of like people
Speaker 1: getting suspended throughout this episode, Like Glee Club gets suspended
Speaker 1: and then Marley gets suspended.
Speaker 2: We have to talk about the Marley thing, but this
Speaker 2: Applause performance happens the rehearsal for this was chaos because
Speaker 2: you know, like in rehearsals, we don't normally have a
Speaker 2: lot of different things to work with. We normally, like
Speaker 2: you learn to dance, you get on stage where you're
Speaker 2: going to be shooting it, and then that's where you
Speaker 2: do everything. For some reason, they built like a fake
Speaker 2: stage in the Powerhouse, which is our dance studio. So
Speaker 2: they built a whole catwalk thing. Oh really in the Powerhouse,
Speaker 2: And then I had to figure out how to work
Speaker 2: that big like inflatable pillow thing, which was not working.
Speaker 2: It actually kept getting caught in the wheels, which I
Speaker 2: say in the lines, but like, yeah, it was a mess.
Speaker 2: And also because we're all doing different things and so
Speaker 2: you know, like us hurting cats, if we were not
Speaker 2: being given the attention of like what we were doing,
Speaker 2: we were just like to do.
Speaker 1: It was kind of crazy because I feel like that
Speaker 1: whole that that number, watching that number was very focused
Speaker 1: because of the camera. But I agree everybody was doing
Speaker 1: their own freeforma.
Speaker 2: It was chaos because then also figuring out like what
Speaker 2: works for everyone, where like Cord has these gigantic wings
Speaker 2: that are not easy to move with and maybe He's
Speaker 2: not the most coordinated dancer, so like, how do you
Speaker 2: figure out how.
Speaker 1: To navigate that?
Speaker 2: Right? What does the platform inside the gigantic top hat
Speaker 2: look like? But I just said, like all the departments
Speaker 2: just absolutely killed at this episode.
Speaker 1: It was such a spectacle to watch, and I'm so
Speaker 1: grateful for that number. I love that number. I know
Speaker 1: you guys loved doing it. I remember it. That was
Speaker 1: really really a great one. It was shot beautifully.
Speaker 2: It was shot just like the music video, like it
Speaker 2: was crazy.
Speaker 1: Totally, and everybody looked psychopath like in it. Y'all looked crazy,
Speaker 1: But I loved it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what it's like if they tell us
Speaker 2: to just like, there's no way you could be too much.
Speaker 2: That is the most fun you can possibly have.
Speaker 1: You guys were great. It was really really great.
Speaker 2: And I remember so Matt Peacock, that's when a key
Speaker 2: was around, right, Yeah, we were trying to like learn
Speaker 2: how to do the art pop thing with the hands afterwards,
Speaker 2: and I got to do the art pop makeup. I
Speaker 2: also think it was maybe my favorite vocal I've ever done.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, sound great.
Speaker 2: I think it might be that also might be why
Speaker 2: I love this number. So much. But you love the
Speaker 2: judge run again.
Speaker 1: You know you sound great. The song is great.
Speaker 2: Everyone was so good.
Speaker 1: Everybody was it was a plus plus. Sorry, I just
Speaker 1: rated the number.
Speaker 2: You're not wrong. Well, then Marley get suspended.
Speaker 1: Right, why for not wearing a bikini? No, doesn't she
Speaker 1: get suspended because she she put herself in front of
Speaker 1: her and before everybody else.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, she's not doing the assignment.
Speaker 1: She's dancing throughout it, acting crazy, but.
Speaker 2: It's because like the outfit that she was supposed to
Speaker 2: wear made her feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Right, which is also insane, Like.
Speaker 2: It's like you're never you're never beating the creepy allegations.
Speaker 1: I know, you know. Claudia Astrey on the Toast was
Speaker 1: talking about this this morning about Glee and how she
Speaker 1: actually hates mister Shoe more than anybody in the world.
Speaker 2: And the more I watch it, I'm like, the thing,
Speaker 2: the thing that is aging the worst out of the show,
Speaker 2: mister true some of the ship, mister Shoe says.
Speaker 1: I know, it's crazy. Yeah, I also like think I
Speaker 1: should be bothered more by the fact that, like Penny
Speaker 1: is technically the nurse at school. But I guess because
Speaker 1: she's a college student still, and she's like interning, like
Speaker 1: they're like making out and holding hands, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it doesn't bug me. It doesn't
Speaker 1: bug me, but it's not appropriate.
Speaker 2: I feel the exact same way.
Speaker 1: So Jake is like kind of bored with like the
Speaker 1: redundancy of like what they do every weekend, like going
Speaker 1: to like breadsticks and watching a movie, which sounds great
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, this sounds ideal.
Speaker 1: I will date Marley, yeah exactly. And obviously she gets suspended,
Speaker 1: but like he's kind of like feeling this like stuck
Speaker 1: in a rut feeling, and then bree in her like
Speaker 1: plan to take down the glee club, which you know
Speaker 1: is always the head Cheerios job. It's gonna like try
Speaker 1: and woo Jake, I guess, and he's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm like super in love with Marley. I'm good.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be doing this. And Riley's like,
Speaker 1: you should do it, you should do it. Go choreograph
Speaker 1: for the Cheerios, Jake, because you can dance. Not a
Speaker 1: good move. So Jake has been like I have a
Speaker 1: trouble with Jake. In this episode, a little bit because
Speaker 1: like he's like I've waited and I've been really patient
Speaker 1: with you, and I've been kind and I've listened, and
Speaker 1: like now I really want to make out with the
Speaker 1: integer boobs and like do stuff. And she's like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't really, I'm not that person and I'm not
Speaker 1: this you know Katie, and like that you think I am,
Speaker 1: and like.
Speaker 2: Well, he also like threw out, like you know with
Speaker 2: any other girls, this would have happened so long ago,
Speaker 2: and like I've been so good, impatient with you and
Speaker 2: she's like yeah, um brom okay again, that wouldn't fly
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: That just wouldn't be good if that was on now.
Speaker 1: So he gets pissed and he goes off and he
Speaker 1: meets up with Brie and something bad's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: They're not even like sugarcoating it. He's like where can
Speaker 2: we go someplace it's private and she's like, I'll bring
Speaker 2: my coat because I don't want to get grass staines
Speaker 2: on my uniform? Like what dirty literally dirty.
Speaker 1: Poor Marley. Everything was going so well.
Speaker 2: Bria is up to no good, no never is. I
Speaker 2: don't trust her.
Speaker 1: She's cuckoo.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely could go.
Speaker 1: So then Tina, Kitty, Jake and Unique who are the
Speaker 1: Gagas see the scene. They have that scene where they're
Speaker 1: like all panicking. They've seen you guys perform applause. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, it was amazing. It
Speaker 1: was amazing, you guys. But Tina comes, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Tina being reasonable and sound, I don't know. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Gaga is like spectacle and all this, but like it's
Speaker 1: actually about the music and like the honesty behind it.
Speaker 1: So I do appreciate Tina being sound the sound voice
Speaker 1: for once. And then they come up with Wide Awake
Speaker 1: and they send them stools on the stage. It is
Speaker 1: a nice juxtaposition to what you guys did in applause.
Speaker 1: I did appreciate it. I'm not gonna lie, this is
Speaker 1: not my favorite song.
Speaker 2: I need to clarify that. Do you mean in general
Speaker 2: this is not your favorite song? Or do you not
Speaker 2: love the version we did?
Speaker 1: I like the version we did. I love the song
Speaker 1: Katie song. I like the version that they came up with.
Speaker 1: The final product didn't slap for me the way I
Speaker 1: hoped it would.
Speaker 2: Jenna, Jenna, Jenna, you know it's fine sometimes you don't
Speaker 2: have good taste.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just like my vocal isn't my favorite. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is about it. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: slap the way I wish it would.
Speaker 2: I think you sound great. I think this number is great.
Speaker 2: I think it goes into the file with three and what. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think all these like slow songs? Are you guys
Speaker 2: sitting on a stool parking Barkin? I think what's the
Speaker 2: other one? The other Florent song?
Speaker 1: Shake it out?
Speaker 2: It out?
Speaker 1: Whoa?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this. I think those other ones may
Speaker 2: be better. Yeah, but I think this is up there.
Speaker 1: WHOA fascinating? It was out of the blue wall. Well yeah, Alex,
Speaker 1: all of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think all of your voices are so different, right.
Speaker 2: It is nice to in the midst of all this spectacle.
Speaker 2: It is really nice to have this version. And I
Speaker 2: think it just worked with all of you.
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad. I think I'm too close to it.
Speaker 1: I just you know, sometimes.
Speaker 2: You ready to hear first. Jenna hates this version. Wow,
Speaker 2: I can never trust your opinion again.
Speaker 1: Putting words in my mouth. Okay, Anyway, I do appreciate
Speaker 1: I appreciate the number. I appreciate the version. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the stark difference of your guys' performance versus ours.
Speaker 2: Were you bummed at all that you didn't get to
Speaker 2: have like a huge Kadie number or no, because we
Speaker 2: end up doing Roar.
Speaker 1: No, because we ended up doing raar. And we were
Speaker 1: also put in those out just Katie outfits for the
Speaker 1: scene prior to it. It was psychopath psychopath those outfits.
Speaker 2: I mean, hats off because costumes were incredible and.
Speaker 1: They were just doing it this episode. No one that
Speaker 1: we were in the wrong costumes like, It's just they
Speaker 1: had so much work to do between applause and Katie's
Speaker 1: and the dagas. It's really amazing. We have to talk
Speaker 1: about Jake being in the rum.
Speaker 2: Tum Tugger at so good. I'm just about to spit
Speaker 2: out my drink. When I was watching this.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, I could not look at him while we were
Speaker 1: shooting this. Melissa Buell, who did our makeup, did this
Speaker 1: make up for him. I have pictures I will share.
Speaker 1: He's just sitting on that stool and I cannot get
Speaker 1: over it. It's I was like, oh my god, it's this episode.
Speaker 1: This is the episode is my favorite one of my
Speaker 1: favorite moments from the entire time shooting this series was
Speaker 1: watching Jacob in that outfit. It's just so funny. He's
Speaker 1: just so game and he's just like dancing in it
Speaker 1: and going for it, and the character is just so
Speaker 1: the opposite of this that it just is so perfect.
Speaker 1: It's just so perfect. And then Alex has unique has
Speaker 1: the Cupcake and Katie outfit, and when Alex would sit
Speaker 1: on the risers without the seats in the choir room,
Speaker 1: the cupcake skirt rot like like I don't know how
Speaker 1: to explain it, but it like rises up into its
Speaker 1: like into like one skirt and you could just see
Speaker 1: his feet and it looked like he was like one
Speaker 1: and a half feet like from the head to the foot,
Speaker 1: and it's just absolutely ridiculous. We all looked insane.
Speaker 2: You have a picture of that, don't you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I gotta find it. Jena Zuka, who's
Speaker 1: on costumes, posts that every year for Alex's birthday, and
Speaker 1: it's her favorite thing to do because we love that
Speaker 1: photos so much. That was a fun thing to seem
Speaker 1: to shoot everyone seeing everybody in their costumes and like again,
Speaker 1: just moments of like absolute ridiculous. Levity was like what
Speaker 1: was needed in that time and back and I were
Speaker 1: like so worried about being in like bikinis, but she
Speaker 1: looked great.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of like dieting going on.
Speaker 1: There was this episode and going on. Corn had to
Speaker 1: be shirtless. Darren was shirtless. It was crazy.
Speaker 2: Cord when he asked the diet mind like outer body, yeah,
Speaker 2: which is also why it makes sense, like when he's
Speaker 2: like pitching Gaga stuff and he's like like, oh yeah, he's.
Speaker 1: Hungry, starving, starving, hydrated, poor guy on his roor oh
Speaker 1: my godnybody.
Speaker 2: Everyone was naked. I remember being so clothed, so the
Speaker 2: opposite of naked, and just taking photos of everyone, like,
Speaker 2: good for all of you, you all look wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna sit over here in my safari.
Speaker 1: I remember being like, oh no, this is my house.
Speaker 1: Oh no. But War was really fun to shoot. We
Speaker 1: had so much fun. We were going for it. I
Speaker 1: remember really really dancing, swinging on that uh Tarzan rope
Speaker 1: and you in the chair. We all sat in the
Speaker 1: back of the theater in the auditorium and watched everybody
Speaker 1: as they took their turn, and everybody was cackling. I
Speaker 1: mean Kevin with the chair. I don't know when they
Speaker 1: thought to do that, but it was absolutely outrageous. It's
Speaker 1: my favorite. I have photos of it of you on
Speaker 1: that thing on that swing. Were you scared to be
Speaker 1: on the chair on the swing.
Speaker 2: No, when any of those like crazy things happen, or
Speaker 2: like when they strapped the chair into the worthly thing
Speaker 2: at the Honible a couple episodes, I never doubted the
Speaker 2: safety of anything there, Like I truly was just like, whatever,
Speaker 2: whatever's gonna happen. They would also like test it out before,
Speaker 2: of course with somebody else in the chair. Of course
Speaker 2: that should have been scary, but I was just we
Speaker 2: were all so game for anything that I were just
Speaker 2: like me like wheeling into the pool, like I really
Speaker 2: wanted to try like the crazier things.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. I loved Roar. I loved doing that number.
Speaker 1: I loved recording that song. I loved watching it. Everything
Speaker 1: about Roar makes me really really happy.
Speaker 2: I mean, the art direction, the art department was just incredible.
Speaker 2: I don't know how the costumes again, Oh it was shot.
Speaker 1: Everybody so good with lots of photos that day.
Speaker 2: There's so many I can't find I must have deleted
Speaker 2: them or something. But I had all these photos of
Speaker 2: all of you in those outfits, and.
Speaker 1: I have lots of like us fanning ourselves because it
Speaker 1: was so hot. We were like dancing so hard and
Speaker 1: like I was, I think I was sitting in your
Speaker 1: chair Barberrella like.
Speaker 2: So I got to be like an observer to all
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny. I was just.
Speaker 2: And again meant probably more to us than we realized
Speaker 2: we needed at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, mentally, definitely that's the episode. So Mary the Night.
Speaker 1: Let's rate Mary the Night A plus plus. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: applause A plus A plus plus, Wide a wee A
Speaker 1: A plus, roar A plus plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A plus plus.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is their best A plus plus episode we've
Speaker 1: had so far.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're only going to have four numbers,
Speaker 2: you better make them A plus incredible, Okay, and I
Speaker 2: think they all were. I also, like I would just
Speaker 2: like to say, Adam Lambert, all those dance moves on
Speaker 2: the floor, like really couldn't get enough of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do some hearty takes cringe moments.
Speaker 2: There's a couple things. First of all, like we said,
Speaker 2: Marley getting suspended by shoe. Yes, yeah, it is so weird.
Speaker 1: It's it's weird and also so weird, like she won't
Speaker 1: wear a bikini. Yeah, like the whole suspension thing and
Speaker 1: why is actually just not okay?
Speaker 2: And then to add salt on the wound, then Jake
Speaker 2: saying he's not pressuring Marley while he's pressuring her, like
Speaker 2: Marley is going through it by all the men.
Speaker 1: And she's just gotta come back and do racking ball soon,
Speaker 1: so don't you worry.
Speaker 2: I also have I think Brie don't be the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know why, because she's not funny
Speaker 1: and there's like no redeeming like we don't know her yet,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like there's nothing redeeming about
Speaker 1: her character that like you're like, oh, but.
Speaker 2: But I think with like Quinn, Santana and Kitty, they'd
Speaker 2: say horrible, horrible things.
Speaker 1: But it was funny, but it was funny. These are
Speaker 1: just mean.
Speaker 2: I don't think I think bre is written different.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: She's mean, she's just like mean. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Best dance move, I mean, Mary the Night, Mary the Night, Yeah,
Speaker 1: best song, Marry the Knight, I would like to say
Speaker 1: that our producer, producer Sam has voted for wide Awake Jenna.
Speaker 1: We don't always pick her picks. I love you, Dane, Jenna.
Speaker 1: We have different sometimes we have it's just it's the
Speaker 1: viewer versus the person who was in it. Like, it's
Speaker 1: just sometimes it's different and I can't I can't separate
Speaker 1: the viewer from being in at this time.
Speaker 2: I have a hard time with this because it's like,
Speaker 2: what do we normally say best song or best like?
Speaker 2: Is that different than the whole performance? So applause, I
Speaker 2: might go applause or right away I'm going on plause. Okay,
Speaker 2: then I'm going to stay right away.
Speaker 1: Whatever performance by a prop.
Speaker 2: You're a hater. Honestly, I kind of want to say
Speaker 2: my wheelchair on the vine, I vote.
Speaker 1: I vote that too. Maybe you're hat in it too.
Speaker 4: Best line there There was a time when there was
Speaker 4: a line where Sue says bs before Sue, which made
Speaker 4: me a goal, and Alex had.
Speaker 2: Some crazy as lines.
Speaker 1: Alex really did.
Speaker 2: All this stuff of the zoo. Let me autocorrect that
Speaker 2: where you I tried breaking into the zoo to get
Speaker 2: a slave. Tigers plot twists a lineman doesn't have a zoo.
Speaker 2: Why did we think it did so good?
Speaker 1: Jake saying about the kid the rum Tum Tiger is seriously,
Speaker 1: I look like a gay thundercut. So good.
Speaker 2: He's not wrong, Yeah he's not performance MVP. I mean
Speaker 2: it's a hard one. It's such an ensemble episode.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 2: I think I feel like the music is the star
Speaker 2: of this episode.
Speaker 1: The Chord. I you know what I was gonna say, Chord.
Speaker 1: Chord has been really solid in his whole stuff with Penny,
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, okay, let's go Chord.
Speaker 2: He's acting. He's giving body, you know, just for the
Speaker 2: amount of torture he put himself through for the body.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: So should we found on TikTok to lift the veil
Speaker 2: a little bit. We are recording this on Halloween surprise, right,
Speaker 2: and so there is a TikTok of Cheach his name
Speaker 2: is Cheech Underscore doing the full nine Leaks Coach Ras
Speaker 2: addressed as Coach Ras Wigan and it is. It's so good,
Speaker 2: a full forty two seconds of pure magic. I think
Speaker 2: you should all go watch it function because what a monologue.
Speaker 2: Memorizing the entire monologue, good for you? Love it? I mean,
Speaker 2: and you know we love Sam was Washington, we love Ross.
Speaker 1: What would we do without ros? Okay?
Speaker 2: Well, Jennett, oh god, do you know what next week is?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, Kevin, you know what. Look, I'm enjoying the I'm
Speaker 2: actually in the headspace now that I understand that we
Speaker 2: need this craziness.
Speaker 1: I will take.
Speaker 2: Cringey moments, things that we shouldn't have done over the
Speaker 2: seriousness of what was actually happening, you know, with Corey
Speaker 2: and everything. So I'm prepared to see some questionable numbers. Whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm for it.
Speaker 1: We need let's try it. Let's just try it. You know,
Speaker 1: we have no choice, no exactly, So we're going for it.
Speaker 2: This is where we're going.
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