Speaker 1: How have we gone this long without discussing the gum wall?
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's great, the gum wall. That is disgusting
Speaker 1: to think about that disgusting. I only remembered it because
Speaker 1: I love reading all of the comments from our dear
Speaker 1: listeners on Instagram. And this morning I was scrolling through
Speaker 1: comments and somebody said, when are you guys going to
Speaker 1: talk about the gum wall and the candy drawer in
Speaker 1: the kitchen? And I thought, yeah, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I said, I wrote back and I said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: the gum wall. I forgot about that. Can some please
Speaker 1: say what the gum wall was? Writer taking away? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: all I don't really remember because I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever used the gum wall. But so there was a
Speaker 1: wall is it behind the kitchen? The stairs the stairs
Speaker 1: down from the kitchen or you know, and the technically
Speaker 1: from where where Eric and Corey's bedroom is when they
Speaker 1: come down those stairs, so upstairs at that wall, there's
Speaker 1: like so listeners, the staircases on sets are very there.
Speaker 1: They go to literally nothing, They actually go to just
Speaker 1: another staircase that goes down on the other sidease that's
Speaker 1: usually thrown together exactly doesn't feel exactly safe back there,
Speaker 1: but a lot of fun happens back there. A lot
Speaker 1: of fun happens where you're getting yourself like hyped up
Speaker 1: to go out for your scene, if you're up there
Speaker 1: with somebody else because somebody else has to come down later,
Speaker 1: or you're coming you're going down the stairs with somebody,
Speaker 1: a lot of fun conversation happens, and a lot of
Speaker 1: coming and going came from that staircase. And somewhere along
Speaker 1: the line, somebody started sticking their gum that they had
Speaker 1: been chewing that they weren't going to chew on camera
Speaker 1: on the wall there, and it just grew and grew
Speaker 1: and grew. I definitely more disgusting germs, much may you
Speaker 1: excess to say, much like the bacteria, the wall itself
Speaker 1: grew and grew and grew. Well, this is one of
Speaker 1: those things once once, like you have a kid, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they start crawling under tables, And Indie started
Speaker 1: commenting on the fact that no matter what restaurant we're in,
Speaker 1: we could be in the nicest restaurant and there's always
Speaker 1: gum under the tables. It's disgust stay. I'm like, who
Speaker 1: are all these people at like, you know, a sushi restaurants,
Speaker 1: chewing gum and sticking it under the table, but without
Speaker 1: Now it's like become a joke. Indie checks every restaurant
Speaker 1: we're in. He's like, Dad, three pieces, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: He'll go to other tables if they're empty, and he'll
Speaker 1: check under there. He'll like count them up in the restaurant.
Speaker 1: And I'm always so baffled by it. But I guess
Speaker 1: we were doing the same thing. I don't remember participating that,
Speaker 1: you must we, but I definitely remember the candy drawer. Wait, now,
Speaker 1: going going to the gum wall though, that staircase coming
Speaker 1: down into the kitchen, if memory serves before we've had
Speaker 1: well yeah, not only that, but wasn't it also before
Speaker 1: we had the um student union in the later episodes
Speaker 1: where then we would run out and get introd in
Speaker 1: the student union. Didn't we go down those stairs originally
Speaker 1: to get introd in the very beginning of the show,
Speaker 1: like the first season or two, was like through the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it to be intro in front of the audience? Okay,
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think that I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think it was through Yes, I think you're right,
Speaker 1: that that's the way we came down. And then also
Speaker 1: it was probably during rehearsal too. I know I was
Speaker 1: I did not start the gun wall, but I know
Speaker 1: I contributed a lot to the gum walls because I
Speaker 1: chewed gum constantly. I was a massive gum chewer. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah. But and so the candy drawer. Who started that?
Speaker 1: I think that was props, wasn't it. Well? I think
Speaker 1: the candy drawer was started in response to the fact
Speaker 1: that our parents asked Craft Service to take sugar and
Speaker 1: candy away from Craft Service? Did they? So? I think
Speaker 1: it was in response, Yeah, I think because you know,
Speaker 1: they knew it was a set full of kids, and
Speaker 1: on most most TV shows and movies, craft services like crap.
Speaker 1: It's just like red Vine red sugar, just tons of
Speaker 1: food and nothing things and coffee exactly. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: think what happened is that the parents on our show
Speaker 1: gathered together and said, please, can we not have candy
Speaker 1: and gum and stuff like that on the Craft Service?
Speaker 1: And so it responds props provided us or maybe it
Speaker 1: was probably for the grown ups first a drawer that
Speaker 1: was like a secret just for the cast that we
Speaker 1: could access our own gum and our own candy, and
Speaker 1: then it just I seem to remember it actually started
Speaker 1: as a gum slash tic tac to. It was actually
Speaker 1: more like, if you need to freshen your breath, breath,
Speaker 1: this is where you go. And then it slowly became like, also,
Speaker 1: there's some Reese's pieces and some yeah, and then it
Speaker 1: became more and more of a candy drawer. Wouldn't it
Speaker 1: seems like that would be weird for our parents to ask,
Speaker 1: because truth be told, our parents didn't really have to
Speaker 1: deal with us for like a solid ten hours out
Speaker 1: of day. It seems like that would have been something
Speaker 1: our set teachers may have to take away for us. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: as somebody who has has constantly struggled with their weight,
Speaker 1: gaining gaining weight on a set is like the easiest
Speaker 1: thing to do because you're sitting around all day, you know,
Speaker 1: waiting for your scene to happen, with just tables of
Speaker 1: junk food everywhere. So it is it's one of those
Speaker 1: things that it's like, oh, man, and of course I'm
Speaker 1: not making the right health food choices. At sixteen or seventeen,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, they put a case of coke in
Speaker 1: my in my trailer every morning, and it was gone
Speaker 1: by the time I left. So did like six cokes
Speaker 1: a day. It's a lot more than six. And it
Speaker 1: was a lot more than six. It was like twelve
Speaker 1: to fifteen cokes a day. That was like my water
Speaker 1: will oh it's awful. Well, I mean you were really
Speaker 1: running on caffeine and continue it was well, I was sixteen,
Speaker 1: it was time to grow up. Um, So yeah it was.
Speaker 1: But it was true. I mean he would, I'm so,
Speaker 1: this is the worst thing in the world. Was his
Speaker 1: name Randy? What was our first craft service guy's name?
Speaker 1: Who was like the bigger guy. Craig took over. Craig
Speaker 1: took over in the later seasons from another Steve. Was
Speaker 1: it with like the mustache, Yes, the must and he
Speaker 1: was the nicest guy in the world. And he would
Speaker 1: put like a case of coke in in my trailer
Speaker 1: every morning, and maybe the whole case wasn't gone, but
Speaker 1: lots of it was. He was. He absolutely was. He
Speaker 1: was my cocca, my coke connection to Coca cola. For
Speaker 1: the record, it is Coca cola. Um, but it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was you could just gain weight. So and
Speaker 1: that's the first talk I had on the set was
Speaker 1: I did one scene where I had to hop over
Speaker 1: the fence and Michael pulled me aside and said, we've
Speaker 1: noticed that you're starting to put on some weight. Um
Speaker 1: it was around the time of a season. Was that
Speaker 1: wait at first season? Oh? Absolutely absolutely, This was probably
Speaker 1: half to three quarters the way through the first season. Um,
Speaker 1: it was. I got my first year. We can we
Speaker 1: can tell you're putting on weight. Um. And then I
Speaker 1: don't know if you notice. I came back second season.
Speaker 1: I was like thin because if you know which episode
Speaker 1: it is, when we get to it, when you see
Speaker 1: yourself hop over the fence, will you remember like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the week Michael talked to me. Yes, I
Speaker 1: believe I probably will because you're gonna see my larger
Speaker 1: than life frame trying to get over the tiny little fence.
Speaker 1: But it was no, I was I mean the disordered
Speaker 1: thinking we have around, Um, it's crazy. But I was
Speaker 1: also eating. I mean, I was like living by myself
Speaker 1: with my I was the first time by myself. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not with my eating, my parents cooking. I'm like
Speaker 1: having to make my own decisions and you're not making
Speaker 1: the proper decisions. When you're seventeen years old, you're eating
Speaker 1: all the crap that you weren't allowed to eat when
Speaker 1: your parents are regulating the food you had as well
Speaker 1: they should have where it's like you're going to have
Speaker 1: a green vegetable. I was like, I'm never doing that again.
Speaker 1: So to be fair, it's it's a learning curve. You
Speaker 1: don't know how your body reacts to things until you
Speaker 1: try it. You're like, you know, because there are some people,
Speaker 1: very lucky people who can eat whatever they want and
Speaker 1: and or they work out a ton, but like find
Speaker 1: that when you when you do live at home and
Speaker 1: somebody else is preparing meals for you and making the
Speaker 1: decisions about what is even stored in the house. Because that,
Speaker 1: for me, is what makes craft service so fun, is
Speaker 1: that it's a kitchen slash pantry that I had no
Speaker 1: control over choosing. So to me, it's like it's almost
Speaker 1: like grocery shopping. You go, what do you have exactly?
Speaker 1: What's what is that? We got one of those? I'll
Speaker 1: take one of those. I never have nine different cereals
Speaker 1: to choose from at home, So yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: was always like, oh my god, I've never thought of
Speaker 1: fruity pebbles and honeynut cheerios together. What a great eleven
Speaker 1: Am snack. You know, that was always how it was,
Speaker 1: like Reese's peanut butter cups and Honor pops. Of course
Speaker 1: that's a great combo. Yeah it was a coke, good morning,
Speaker 1: a coca in a cigarette, good morning. Yeah it was terrible.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely terrible. So yeah, well, welcome to Pots World.
Speaker 1: I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilfred l. Also,
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Speaker 1: where we saw the murder. I'm really excited about today's
Speaker 1: episode because you know, a couple of weeks ago, Um,
Speaker 1: I guess a few weeks ago, and now at this
Speaker 1: point we had Marty York on and he is very
Speaker 1: prominent in this episode, which is such a great episode.
Speaker 1: Season one, episode nine, Class pre Union. It originally aired
Speaker 1: November and um yeah, it's Mr Feenie gives an assignment
Speaker 1: to the class to predict where their life will be
Speaker 1: by their twenty year class reunion and core League gets
Speaker 1: a little help from Major League pitcher Jim Abbott like
Speaker 1: you do exactly. It was directed by David Trayner and
Speaker 1: again it's my breakdown says it was written by Ed Dector,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it has to have been Dector
Speaker 1: in Strouss, right, they weren't wrote together, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: with I think some of the IMDb breakdowns they'll just
Speaker 1: take like the first name, But it was Dector and
Speaker 1: Strouss were always a team. That was they were constantly together,
Speaker 1: like Laura Reynnolds and remember later we had the great
Speaker 1: female Patty carr Um. You know, they kind of always
Speaker 1: they always kind of wrote together too, so it was
Speaker 1: always like that that dynamic duo, which is great, Um
Speaker 1: Dector in Strouss. Do either of you have any memories
Speaker 1: of Jim Abbott from filming this episode? No, you know,
Speaker 1: I remember, I mean he was only there one day.
Speaker 1: He was probably only there on tape night. So I
Speaker 1: remember meeting him definitely and thinking he was a super
Speaker 1: nice guy. But was it even tape night. There's something
Speaker 1: that makes me think that it might have been a
Speaker 1: pre tape, like he wasn't even there for tape night,
Speaker 1: Like they ran him in for an hour or two
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, and that was pretty long. Applause. I
Speaker 1: thought that that was it's spontaneous and natural, and so
Speaker 1: did so did I when when I came back his
Speaker 1: plays with squirrels on Girl Meets World, and we didn't
Speaker 1: do that in front of the audience. So okay, this
Speaker 1: is this is a good time then for me to
Speaker 1: tell you the story. I just recently read an article
Speaker 1: where somebody was interviewing Jim Abbott and they asked him
Speaker 1: about his guest appearance on Boy Meat's World, and he said,
Speaker 1: and I don't again, this sounds crazy to me, but
Speaker 1: I have there was no reason Jim Abbott would lie,
Speaker 1: so it has to be true. But he said he
Speaker 1: was invited to set and he thought he was coming
Speaker 1: just to meet the kids. And when he got there,
Speaker 1: they basically handed him a script and said just just
Speaker 1: hop in and do the scene. And he was like what.
Speaker 1: And he was nervous because he had no acting experience
Speaker 1: and he wasn't anticipating doing it and good and he's great,
Speaker 1: but he agreed. He was like, okay, sure, I'll do it,
Speaker 1: and he was literally just kind of thrown in. Jim
Speaker 1: had no intention in the bedroom though, So there's no
Speaker 1: way it was that spontaneous. But I wonder if it's
Speaker 1: a miscommunication between like his reps or like the MLB
Speaker 1: and him, you know, they're like, just go to make
Speaker 1: an appearance, and he doesn't understand what an appearance means
Speaker 1: because there's like a vacation, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And so, But of course, as far as the producers
Speaker 1: were concerned, he was guest starring on our show. Guest
Speaker 1: starring on the show takes not only that, but the
Speaker 1: whole the whole storyline focuses around the fact that Alan
Speaker 1: is trying to, you know, otherwise than what happens. Alan
Speaker 1: hears that story, he makes that face like hmmm, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about what I'm gonna do, and then he just
Speaker 1: nothing ever comes of it like it. It was very
Speaker 1: obviously written for the Jim Abbott appearance that he doesn't
Speaker 1: his memory is that he was just he thought he
Speaker 1: was just coming to say hi, and then he ended
Speaker 1: up getting thrown in and and he was really of
Speaker 1: us about it because he said, he you know, was
Speaker 1: an actor, but he was so good. I still have
Speaker 1: my ball. I still have the ball that he signed
Speaker 1: to me, really I do. I still have the ball
Speaker 1: that you can barely see the autograph, but it's there.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't know why I'm surprised considering
Speaker 1: you have the invitation to our season one Heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: rap party or something, and he he keeps you I
Speaker 1: do I keep. I keep all of my invites in
Speaker 1: my invite folder right here, which is full of everything
Speaker 1: I've been invited to. Thank you very much, And I
Speaker 1: know we'll get to it quickly, but can we talk
Speaker 1: about how the entire episode is about how Corey is
Speaker 1: such a Phillies fan and such a fanatic and wants
Speaker 1: to play for the Phillies. So they go and they
Speaker 1: get a New York Yankee to come and talk to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's obvious that they was like they just
Speaker 1: needed like a baseball player. So the last scene, he's
Speaker 1: literally dressed in Laker colors while talking to a Yankee
Speaker 1: about wanting to be a Philly Um it it was
Speaker 1: I just sat there watching it, like, Okay, this one's
Speaker 1: it's like you're you're a huge Filie fan, but you
Speaker 1: have a Yankees picture on your wall? I think not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so funny, but anyone will get to you know.
Speaker 1: What's funny is that I did notice the Laker colors.
Speaker 1: I don't think they cared about that at all. But
Speaker 1: I Lakers for sure, but not like Oh color Cam
Speaker 1: sports ball first and showed up and he gets the
Speaker 1: most touchdowns in the nets, right, that guy, he's the best.
Speaker 1: You got so many goals that you're so many weights,
Speaker 1: so many wickets were scored. Oh my god. I did
Speaker 1: think at the end of the episode, when Mincus shows
Speaker 1: up with the basketball and he goes, oh, I realize
Speaker 1: I have the wrong ball, I did think that's writer.
Speaker 1: That's right. Writer would have brought Jim Abbott's book to
Speaker 1: sign out of his giant Jean pocket. Can you sign
Speaker 1: your unauthorized autobiography? Thank you? It's the first edition. It's
Speaker 1: very exactly I rewrote the prolog. So I hope you
Speaker 1: don't like. Okay, So um, I am back in this episode.
Speaker 1: I am. I am a recurring cast member at this point. Uh.
Speaker 1: We have some guest cast as well. We have Christine
Speaker 1: Healy as Jane, Marty York as Larry as I already mentioned,
Speaker 1: Brittany English Stevens as Stephanie um Morgan's friend Christopher Cayer
Speaker 1: did one of the TV voices was our dialogue coach
Speaker 1: on Boy Meat's World. For this first season, at least
Speaker 1: and Um. Some of the other voices, Lisa E. Wilcox
Speaker 1: and Matt Kirkwood, they were Matt Kirkwood was one of
Speaker 1: our stand ins for all seven seasons. And Lisa Wilcox
Speaker 1: was Jeff Sherman's wife. She was a horror actor and
Speaker 1: she was Jeff Sherman's Elm Streets. Right, She's like she's
Speaker 1: on you. Four and five, Yeah, four and five. Lisa
Speaker 1: Wilcox did came and did a couple of things on
Speaker 1: the show, and Yeah, we had Matt Kirkwood, who was
Speaker 1: there for great and Chris Kaier the thing. Chris Kier
Speaker 1: was a great guy and an awesome dialogue coach. He
Speaker 1: was mostly there for Lily, I think at the time,
Speaker 1: but it was he was at the time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this has changed, but at the time he
Speaker 1: was the youngest ring master in the history of Barnum
Speaker 1: and Bailey. He was like twenty four years old when
Speaker 1: he became the ring master and went on the road
Speaker 1: and wrote this incredible book about what life on the train,
Speaker 1: because there was like a Ringling Brothers train that would
Speaker 1: go around the country and it was people o ding
Speaker 1: and dying and they wouldn't find him for like days.
Speaker 1: It was It's a great, it's insane story. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was this just this craziness about him being
Speaker 1: the ring master at like twenty four years old. Ye,
Speaker 1: it's a really cool story. Do you think he thought
Speaker 1: being on the set of Boy Meats World was equally
Speaker 1: as crazy? Do you think it was a nice reprieve?
Speaker 1: It's still wrangling animals, so knows uh. And then of
Speaker 1: course as a special guest star, we have Jim Abbott.
Speaker 1: And so in case you don't know, listener, who Jim
Speaker 1: Abbott is. He is like a truly legendary pitcher. He
Speaker 1: had a very impressive career with the Angels and the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and but most notably he pitched a no hitter and
Speaker 1: was born with just one hand, one hand with one hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he pitched a no hitter with one hand. He also
Speaker 1: has two hits. Have you ever seen how he does it?
Speaker 1: He in one motion, he throws the ball and as
Speaker 1: the balls leaving his hand, so he the glove gets tucked,
Speaker 1: and he throws the ball and his hand keeps going
Speaker 1: and it's right back into the glove. It's nuts. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely insane to see his coordination. It's it's incredible. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is a wild amount of talent and perseverance. So, um,
Speaker 1: I can't The no hitter is impossible seeming enough, But
Speaker 1: the two hits, which means he batted one handed and
Speaker 1: got two hits, I don't know how. I don't know
Speaker 1: how that talent exists. Um. I just I think it's
Speaker 1: amazing that he's such a legendary baseball player. And people
Speaker 1: are like, but tell us about boy meets World. Okay,
Speaker 1: no hit? Y Like, um, yeah, creezy, Okay, So let's
Speaker 1: jump into the recap. In the cold open um, we
Speaker 1: see Corey recording himself on a video camera. Do you
Speaker 1: guys remember the video cameras of the of that era?
Speaker 1: They were just monstrous? But this was also just kind
Speaker 1: of such a new idea, right that, Like, the kid
Speaker 1: has control of the camera, isn't it crazy? And I
Speaker 1: remember we did a couple episodes like this. Later on,
Speaker 1: we did a whole episode sort of making fun of
Speaker 1: reality TV, where Corey's like filming me getting out of
Speaker 1: the shower and stuff. Do you guys remember this? We
Speaker 1: did a couple of those. Yeah, is this the invention
Speaker 1: of the vlog? That kind of went through my head
Speaker 1: was it's like, there a couple of times we've kind
Speaker 1: of hit the future without even realizing it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's essentially a kid holding his phone filming himself. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: but this was a new idea. I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: my family was one of the first families to have
Speaker 1: a video camera. Uh my dad got one when we
Speaker 1: were like two and a half, and it's it's part
Speaker 1: of the reason that my brother and I became actors
Speaker 1: is because we were the only family with a giant
Speaker 1: video cameras. One of those Not only did you have
Speaker 1: a camera that was huge on your shoulder, you had
Speaker 1: to carry around a VCR on like in a suitcase,
Speaker 1: a strap that you wore, and it was like this complicated, crazy,
Speaker 1: clunky machine. But it was also how we started making
Speaker 1: movies as kids. Um so it was definitely the error
Speaker 1: where this was finally becoming accessible and everybody was filming themselves.
Speaker 1: I remember this reminded me also of a TV show
Speaker 1: that I had gotten very close to being on that
Speaker 1: I don't think it ever even aired. It was a
Speaker 1: big TV show I think NBC was producing maybe a
Speaker 1: season before Boy Meets World called News at twelve, and
Speaker 1: the whole thing was that a twelve year old was
Speaker 1: did their news report for their household, Like every night
Speaker 1: they would go up to their house or go up
Speaker 1: to their room and do a news report at a
Speaker 1: newsroom because they had their own video camera whatever. So
Speaker 1: they talked to camera and it was basically this scene
Speaker 1: or this structure of this scene as an entire sitcom.
Speaker 1: So funny. Yeah, I remember cameras to Our family also
Speaker 1: had one of those huge cameras in the little pack
Speaker 1: you are around, and I love watching all those old
Speaker 1: videos too. So Corey is interviewing his mom, dad, and
Speaker 1: sister on their way to Stephanie's birthday party, and Corey
Speaker 1: asks why the baby of the family gets better treatment
Speaker 1: and a golden necklace and why does the middle child
Speaker 1: get ignored and Rusty says, Alan says it's because he's
Speaker 1: the baby. Because the baby of the family doesn't prank
Speaker 1: call people in Canada, she gets better treatment. And they
Speaker 1: all put on coats to enter the cold tundra of
Speaker 1: Philly in November. Writer, did when you watched this, did
Speaker 1: you think? Okay, I'm apparently the only one who doesn't
Speaker 1: remember the part of our discussion and I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Guess what. Didn't care just didn't affect me because I
Speaker 1: connected a jacket. I don't know, but I am didn't
Speaker 1: affect you. So funny I saw I watched everyone putting
Speaker 1: them on, and I thought, yeah, it's November and Philly
Speaker 1: and look at how cold it is out there. It
Speaker 1: all makes sense. You know. The funny thing about this
Speaker 1: scene was to me, it shook because this episode for
Speaker 1: me because you kind of watch it through your own
Speaker 1: eyes when it comes to your character. Eric was such
Speaker 1: the forgotten man throughout a lot of these episodes. To me,
Speaker 1: I thought it was so funny that they're talking about
Speaker 1: how you know, you're taking one daughter out and I'm
Speaker 1: the forgotten kid and Eric's nowhere to be found. It's
Speaker 1: like he's not He's like not in the family at all. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's because you're the oldest brother. You don't know, I
Speaker 1: get it, but it was just understood that you had autonomy.
Speaker 1: It was just because later get more lines. Man, No
Speaker 1: it's not, it's because No, it's later Rusty Walker. Rusty
Speaker 1: walks into a scene later with Eric and basically ignores
Speaker 1: his entire existence. He walks in and just starts talking
Speaker 1: to Court like he glances over at me and then
Speaker 1: just starts talking to Corey. And every time I watch
Speaker 1: it with su She's like, it's like he doesn't realize
Speaker 1: he has another kid. Well, I think this is a
Speaker 1: good time to tell you that you are not the boy.
Speaker 1: I understand, I get it, I get it, I do no.
Speaker 1: But this is exactly the drive that makes you a
Speaker 1: great actor. Man. You were you were always like, well
Speaker 1: I could do more? What do you need? What do
Speaker 1: you need? What? When to chew gum and walk what?
Speaker 1: I can do it all. At this point, it was
Speaker 1: like acknowledge his presence, Like, my God, acknowledge you have
Speaker 1: another kid? For God's sakes, jeez, that little Lily kid.
Speaker 1: Lily was really funny in this episode. I thought, like
Speaker 1: I thought Lily was legitimately funny in this episode was
Speaker 1: a this was a good Lily and Betsy episode. I
Speaker 1: thought it was really cute. Um. So then Alan warns
Speaker 1: Corey no home shopping, which I thought was funny because
Speaker 1: I just thought, yes, is I didn't really ever think
Speaker 1: of Corey as being like a home shopping binger, but
Speaker 1: who knows? Who knows what he was buying? And he says,
Speaker 1: and don't break my camera. So the family leaves and
Speaker 1: Corey of course immediately drops the video camera and Corey
Speaker 1: assumes he will be grounded, which is fine. I also
Speaker 1: I'd like to point out they have not You could
Speaker 1: tell they're still figuring out Corey's friends because he says
Speaker 1: my best friends when he says, you didn't let me,
Speaker 1: you didn't let me go to the movies with my
Speaker 1: best friends, and any other episode five on which would
Speaker 1: be my best friend. Yeah, yeah, so they're still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out the group. You could that that rung
Speaker 1: in my ears, You're right, And then we get our
Speaker 1: theme song. So we come back from our circus theme song,
Speaker 1: and um, we're in Mr Finie's classroom. Phenie is teaching
Speaker 1: a lesson on taxation without representation, and Corey is dressed
Speaker 1: as George Washington and Minkus is playing King George wearing
Speaker 1: a crown, and to Banka's back, I'm wearing the same
Speaker 1: dress I wore for the lip stick scene. So now,
Speaker 1: in the couple episodes we've seen me, I've only worn
Speaker 1: two dresses, white a stress and a purple a stress.
Speaker 1: Is this probably your second episode? Then? I think this, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is only my second episode. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: to me. It's it's nuts to think about that. I
Speaker 1: think the order probably when Corey's Alternative Friends and this
Speaker 1: episode and then we filmed the Halloween episode and they, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe because Marty said his last episode is the Halloween
Speaker 1: episode when her Yeah, right, so this would have been
Speaker 1: before that. Yeah, and so yeah, So Marty York is
Speaker 1: also in this. He's not yet feeling the effects of
Speaker 1: the death chair. It hasn't hasn't happened to him yet.
Speaker 1: Um and Poenie explains that if you don't understand history,
Speaker 1: you are doomed to repeat its mistakes. Corey wonders if
Speaker 1: every boring person in history is named George, and uh,
Speaker 1: he gets a bad look from Mr Feenie and for
Speaker 1: the first time, for some interesting reason, George Poenie placard
Speaker 1: on the front of his desk is cocked perfectly towards camera.
Speaker 1: It's not facing the front and not facing the front
Speaker 1: of the classroom, and is now facing just slightly out
Speaker 1: so we can see the giant George. You forgot his
Speaker 1: name was George. Here's a reminder. I know. It is funny,
Speaker 1: those little things you you recognize either I always think
Speaker 1: I always wonder if actors just notice them, or like
Speaker 1: people who work in entertainment just notice that stuff, or
Speaker 1: if fans watching also go, huh, that's strategically placed on
Speaker 1: an angle, because by the way, it could have not
Speaker 1: been so angled, and you could still perfectly read George Foenie,
Speaker 1: but it is really angled right towards camera. Um Corey
Speaker 1: says he's not interested in the past. He's only interested
Speaker 1: in his future, and that's because he's eleven years old
Speaker 1: and that's really what's um in front of him. So
Speaker 1: Phenie gives them an assignment, which, of course Phoenie is prepared.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if he knew it was going to
Speaker 1: go this way. My question for you. It seemed like
Speaker 1: he was like, well, I'm just waiting for a student
Speaker 1: to bring this up so i can have this assignment
Speaker 1: that I've had planned all day. Yeah, I mean, doesn't don't.
Speaker 1: They later in the episode make a reference to having
Speaker 1: done this assignment before too, So that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like something that he does. So do you
Speaker 1: think it was poorly written that it made it sound
Speaker 1: like George is coming up with this on the fly,
Speaker 1: or do you think that is a George phoene ism
Speaker 1: where it comes up on the flaw. It seems to
Speaker 1: come up on the fly, but it's actually been perfectly planned.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think it's a George phoene ism. Okay,
Speaker 1: me too. I think it's the fiction of the show good.
Speaker 1: I like it. I have no problem with that. He's
Speaker 1: just that omniscient gotch plan at all. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: that that quick and clever that he knows exactly what
Speaker 1: he wants them to do and how it ties in.
Speaker 1: Um So, their assignment is to think about their futures
Speaker 1: so that they can avoid the mistakes that they might
Speaker 1: make before they happen. He wants them to figure out
Speaker 1: what they will be in twenty years when they go
Speaker 1: to their class reunion in the year two thousand. Mincas
Speaker 1: coins it a pre union. Now. I'd like to point out,
Speaker 1: in a completely related note, my mother was adamant that
Speaker 1: the entire first season we braided my hair. It is
Speaker 1: so obvious. In this episode it was done by a
Speaker 1: crimping iron. It was pretty crimpy even it was done
Speaker 1: by a crimping iron in this episode the first two.
Speaker 1: So this is my third appearance on the show. This
Speaker 1: isn't my second episode. This is the third, the third
Speaker 1: episode I've been in that we've that we've seen so far,
Speaker 1: and this one you can see where the crimping start,
Speaker 1: where the iron starts in the hair, and at the
Speaker 1: roots it's still straight. And so I texted my mom
Speaker 1: and I said, Mom, I went on the air and
Speaker 1: I said, for the whole first season, you braided my hair.
Speaker 1: And she said, I think those two, those two episodes
Speaker 1: I had to braid your hair just took so long
Speaker 1: it felt like a whole season, she said, But you're right.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the episode two and it's definitely a crimping iron.
Speaker 1: And then I have a picture of me and you
Speaker 1: writer and Lee Norris, and my hair is in curler.
Speaker 1: And so because Lee is there, I know it's first season,
Speaker 1: which means eventually, in the same first season we go,
Speaker 1: we eventually get to the big Topanga curls. So the
Speaker 1: hair evolution just in season one was braid's crimping iron curlers.
Speaker 1: Why I remember this, but I think it's big curly
Speaker 1: like the big Topanga hair. When you do that great
Speaker 1: scene with Ben when you're playing with playing basketball with
Speaker 1: the sauce yes you're right, maybe the first tire like,
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but it is You're correct, and
Speaker 1: that maybe the first is it? Is it? Is it? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's I think that's the last episode. It's also big
Speaker 1: curly hair in this in the episode where I have
Speaker 1: a crush on you, is it? Yes, it's also big
Speaker 1: curly hair there. So so I don't know, we'll see there.
Speaker 1: There's about to be another hair evolution that's coming up
Speaker 1: in the but I just wanted to let everyone know againvolution.
Speaker 1: The memory on me not so good. But when I
Speaker 1: noticed but I'm wrong about something, I will point it out.
Speaker 1: This was a crimping iron. Mincas tells the class that
Speaker 1: he believes he's going to marry to Panga. She says
Speaker 1: she's flattered, but she doesn't know if she recognizes the
Speaker 1: institution of marriage. And Mincas says he's seen the future
Speaker 1: and it's me. So I did not remember this toll Topanga, Mincus,
Speaker 1: you did. I completely forgot it. But the second I
Speaker 1: saw it, I was like, well, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: Of course Mincas would be in love with Topanga. She's smart,
Speaker 1: you know, she's she's a good student. Like he, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that makes perfect sense. She's different. I
Speaker 1: mean it was that is that whole kind. I also
Speaker 1: love Danielle how not only you, but to Pango was
Speaker 1: completely unfazed by Lee saying, you know, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be together in the future. It was like you, you
Speaker 1: could the easy sitcom thing is like, uh, you, we're
Speaker 1: not going to happen, nerd. I mean something, no matter
Speaker 1: what it is. And this was just like you kind
Speaker 1: of considered it a little bit and then it was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it was just a completely different character than
Speaker 1: you're normally seeing. Well, it was it was sincere flattery.
Speaker 1: She was flattered. She really meant it. She was very
Speaker 1: flattered that he would consider her as a potential life mate.
Speaker 1: But the biggest problem is, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: believe in the concept at all. And it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with you. It's just the concept that that
Speaker 1: she's not sure she believes in. It's a really clever
Speaker 1: way to keep the same tension of like a character
Speaker 1: being rejected, right, but not make it the obvious, easy, simple,
Speaker 1: I don't like you. It was like more complicated and
Speaker 1: layer than that, which is really smart. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I loved it. Um and I did remember that that
Speaker 1: that that Mincas has a crush on Topanga and that
Speaker 1: Topanga is you know, kind of neutral on the subject um.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting because when we think about Lee not
Speaker 1: coming back for season two, Uh, it's another thing they missed,
Speaker 1: like they very easily could have had had Minca stuck around.
Speaker 1: There could have always been some of that ten Chin
Speaker 1: and yet we lost it with I mean, we lost
Speaker 1: so many great things when Lee didn't come back for
Speaker 1: season two, but that was one of them. Is that
Speaker 1: that was that was like a whole tension that just
Speaker 1: ended up being lost. Since we're talking about that would
Speaker 1: have been it could have Yeah, which who doesn't want
Speaker 1: to see more of those? Of course, since we are
Speaker 1: talking about Lee very quickly, so David Kendall uh, one
Speaker 1: of our awesome producers. Uh, he and I were texting
Speaker 1: back and forth and apparently because we addressed this on
Speaker 1: the show that Lee was in on the episode of
Speaker 1: Why Lee Didn't come back, he said he was actually
Speaker 1: in the room when the decision was made, uh, and
Speaker 1: it was exactly what Lee heard. They wanted to age
Speaker 1: up the show and it was a note from ABC.
Speaker 1: So he said that was exactly what it happened. So
Speaker 1: the whole arkle thing. He's like, I've never I never
Speaker 1: heard any of that. I never heard anything about Julio White.
Speaker 1: He's like, the story that Lee told is the story.
Speaker 1: That is what happened while we were in the room.
Speaker 1: So he had the story right right, and we did
Speaker 1: talk about it too that like at some point we
Speaker 1: jump up to like grade eight, we skip over grade
Speaker 1: seven and and it is happened. It did happen that
Speaker 1: they wanted to age us up. So um, well there
Speaker 1: you go. We know we know the truth. They wanted
Speaker 1: to age us up, and that's why Lee didn't come back.
Speaker 1: But we sure did miss him, that's for sure. So
Speaker 1: we are then in the cafeteria, Corey calls Sean Sean's
Speaker 1: future as a tire salesman, which is his dad's job. Boring, writer,
Speaker 1: what do you remember about this whole storyline for you
Speaker 1: and what you were going to be for your future?
Speaker 1: I just remember having fun, you know, being able to
Speaker 1: wear a fat suit, and that it was that the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Did they just stuff it with like pillows
Speaker 1: or it looked just like a pillow. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's just a pillow. But I just remember thinking it
Speaker 1: was funny and yeah, yeah, no, I mean this was
Speaker 1: a good episode for me, and you know, I had
Speaker 1: had stuff to do and jokes to say, and I
Speaker 1: remember being very comfortable. Yeah, this is definitely post Alternative Friends,
Speaker 1: So I felt like I belonged finally. You know, I
Speaker 1: seemed comfortable in my own skin in a way that
Speaker 1: other episodes I was not. Yeah, you do seem very
Speaker 1: comfortable and very sure of yourself, and um, in the
Speaker 1: nicest way possible, understate did like, just you're you're you're
Speaker 1: perfectly understated. You feel very real and reed. Um. So
Speaker 1: we're we're in there. We're in the cafeteria now, right.
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of things I noticed about this
Speaker 1: scene that were very funny to me. Do you tell me?
Speaker 1: One of them is o Rito's that was one okay,
Speaker 1: which is great. Has a bag of that that the
Speaker 1: D is crossed off, and it's just I love that
Speaker 1: Ben and you can tell it's completely naturally doesn't realize
Speaker 1: he's doing it, but it's such an eleven or twelve
Speaker 1: year old thing to do, and he stops himself. At
Speaker 1: one point under the table is swinging his legs back
Speaker 1: and forth like you do as a kid, like you're
Speaker 1: sitting there and you swing your legs, and you could
Speaker 1: tell he doesn't even realize he's doing it, and then
Speaker 1: he goes, oh, geez, and he stopped swinging his legs.
Speaker 1: I thought that was great. And then for some reason,
Speaker 1: it's the only school that offers real salt and pepper
Speaker 1: shakers on the table um, which I thought was to start.
Speaker 1: You're never gonna give little kids the giant real salt
Speaker 1: and pepper shakers as if they're at a luxury restaurant.
Speaker 1: They always had little I didn't even well, just I
Speaker 1: noticed that. And then the extra that walks by, who
Speaker 1: there obviously is supposed to be another teacher, is a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven years old. Did you see the
Speaker 1: woman who walks by in the background, it's oh man,
Speaker 1: she makes Bill look like he's forty. So it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where it's just like, I wonder why
Speaker 1: they decide, like, well, we need somebody looks like a teacher,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, but does she have to be ninety?
Speaker 1: What I remember about these cafeteria scenes more than anything
Speaker 1: is the taste of that juice are more ready red.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that was because I had to drink at
Speaker 1: every scene in this and it was always like a
Speaker 1: kool Aid that they mixed and then refilled so they
Speaker 1: weren't like wasting packaging. So every every scene they'd come
Speaker 1: in and like refill that thing. And yeah, the flavor.
Speaker 1: I've never liked Koolid or any of those sort of drinks.
Speaker 1: So s it's sugar, I mean, just sugar. Yeah, I can.
Speaker 1: I can smell it. I don't remember the taste as much,
Speaker 1: but I can remember the smell and it stained. It
Speaker 1: would stain the color of your your skin like you
Speaker 1: drink the juice and above your lip. It would be
Speaker 1: like pink stained if somebody didn't get it off of
Speaker 1: you pretty quickly. Green Beans pretty much every time you said,
Speaker 1: for some reason, I remember jello, but there's not. I
Speaker 1: didn't see jello. So I remember eating jello a lot
Speaker 1: and drinking that weird thing. But maybe I just made
Speaker 1: that up. I don't know. Now. I think there was jello,
Speaker 1: not not this episode, but there was jello. But green beans, Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like green beans all the time. Uh. So
Speaker 1: Larry says he's going to be Phoenie when he grows up,
Speaker 1: and then he has one of the most famous Marty
Speaker 1: York lines, which is imitation is the sincerest form of
Speaker 1: butt kissing. It's a very big shine for mart New York.
Speaker 1: In the scene Um eating his oretos, and Corey says
Speaker 1: he's the only one of them with vision and he's
Speaker 1: going to be the center fielder for the Piladelphia Phillies,
Speaker 1: and Sean and Larry laugh at him because he's not
Speaker 1: even good in Little League. Corey says they need to
Speaker 1: be men with good jobs, and then Larry and Sean
Speaker 1: agree and then they bark like men a k A.
Speaker 1: Tim Allen, Yeah, I was gonna say it's a complete,
Speaker 1: totally yeah. But we've talked about how there were references there.
Speaker 1: There were there were allusions to the sort of home improvement,
Speaker 1: but it was clearly the number one show in the country,
Speaker 1: so like doing this was sort of like a Beavis
Speaker 1: and butthead reference. It was something familiar that the audience
Speaker 1: would be like, oh yeah, it was definitely just the vibe. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: he became a thing that you did every Oh no, wait,
Speaker 1: it never happened again. That was the thing I always loved.
Speaker 1: They tried something else, but that came from Tim Allen
Speaker 1: stand up, right, I mean he used to. Actually it
Speaker 1: was like his catchphrase essentially even before the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that kind of yeah, that kind of it was nuts.
Speaker 1: That sounded like like um oh, never mind, moving on. Okay,
Speaker 1: so dying dog. Yes, I let sound it a little
Speaker 1: bit like a dying dog. But also it sounded like
Speaker 1: our Cineo hall like, which that's the dog pound. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the dog pounds, so that's the same kind of
Speaker 1: what wait, can you do it? He does like he
Speaker 1: goes like he does like that kind of barking thing
Speaker 1: kind of I thought what he did was a thing
Speaker 1: that it was like confused man where he was like,
Speaker 1: oh he does that too, but he does this that
Speaker 1: as a man. As a man when he would like
Speaker 1: fix something or do something, he'd go like like, that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're barking at the thing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I go watch a stand up he does this kind
Speaker 1: of like I fixed the thing or like that kind
Speaker 1: of barky thing. Yeah. Alright, well Google it's worth Google. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're right, I'm going to spend the next hour just
Speaker 1: googling Tom. To spend an hour googling, you're googling wrong,
Speaker 1: my friend no our watching stand up? Oh god? Um okay.
Speaker 1: So then we are in the living room. Corey is
Speaker 1: doing his school project with his mom and making a
Speaker 1: baseball card. She says that she will be forty four
Speaker 1: years old at his twenty year high school reunion, which
Speaker 1: obviously makes no sense. She's lying about her age. Um.
Speaker 1: Morgan enters with a rainbow colored plastic like bead necklace
Speaker 1: and explains that she traded her mom's gold necklace too
Speaker 1: for that one, and Amy is obviously super concerned and
Speaker 1: she wants to get it back, but Morgan says, nope,
Speaker 1: she said black black, no trades back. So has anybody
Speaker 1: ever heard that before? Never before, never heard that before either.
Speaker 1: I think they just made it up. I think it's
Speaker 1: just a thing like kids would do, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also tell me why Amy is just cutting up
Speaker 1: random small pieces of paper. I did wonder what kind
Speaker 1: of business man? You gotta have business? I know, but
Speaker 1: at least make your business, keep your hands cut something.
Speaker 1: She's just taking small pieces of pa and cutting them
Speaker 1: into smaller pieces of paper. Was the greatest thing I
Speaker 1: did notice. A sitcom parrot fold laundry, put things away,
Speaker 1: but that ye cut cut cut paper into smaller paper.
Speaker 1: Maybe she was making confetti so that he could, you know,
Speaker 1: he could throw he could throw confetti. Um, So Mrs
Speaker 1: Matthews Amy calls Stephanie's mom and she hears, uh black black,
Speaker 1: no trades back. So even the mom is in on
Speaker 1: this and doesn't want to give back her gold necklace.
Speaker 1: And so then we're back in the classroom and we're
Speaker 1: at the mock reunion and Mincus, in an absolutely adorable suit,
Speaker 1: tells Phoeney that he grew up to buy out Microsoft
Speaker 1: and he married to Pa They just had their third
Speaker 1: child named Rainbow Einstein Mincus. I think that's so cute
Speaker 1: a combination of their of their too personalities. Corey tells
Speaker 1: Sean he can't believe he showed up as a tire salesman.
Speaker 1: Hold on Danielle. When when Lee came back for Girl
Speaker 1: Meets World, was there any reference to him having a
Speaker 1: crush on to Panga? There was? Okay, actually the first
Speaker 1: time you see Lee, um when he walked into the
Speaker 1: classroom because to Pango was there visiting Riley and was
Speaker 1: talking about being a lawyer. And Um, the door, you know,
Speaker 1: flew open and Lee was standing in the doorway and
Speaker 1: he went to Penga, which is a call back to
Speaker 1: an episode we haven't done yet. We haven't seen where
Speaker 1: that kind of started, so we'll see how how that
Speaker 1: like where that originally started. But it was, Yes, there
Speaker 1: was a little bit of the playing off of like
Speaker 1: I think Stewart Mancas makes a little bit of a
Speaker 1: joke about well you you made a mistake not marrying me,
Speaker 1: but it's all in good fun with Corey and whatever.
Speaker 1: So and who played his wife on Girl Meats World?
Speaker 1: Somebody somebody famous played his wife. Yes, so it was
Speaker 1: Kristanna Locan who played Mancus his wife. And I remember
Speaker 1: because I came and visited. Actually, Willie Garson was directing
Speaker 1: an episode of Girl Meets World and she was in it,
Speaker 1: and we reconnected because I hadn't seen her since she
Speaker 1: was in the episode where like Corey and Seawan are
Speaker 1: cheating on her because Corey's doing her and so that's
Speaker 1: like where we have the phone call. Were like listening
Speaker 1: to each other and like we have to meet up
Speaker 1: in the library. It was a very famous, funny episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she can't wait till we get to that too,
Speaker 1: because that's one of those episodes that feels like it's
Speaker 1: in the forgotten, like the totally forgotten years for me,
Speaker 1: where we will watch episodes, I'll be like, wow, this
Speaker 1: is well, it's because it was because Corey and Panka
Speaker 1: broke up, you know, for a couple of episodes here
Speaker 1: and there, and that was one of those episodes where
Speaker 1: you you, you might have been in it, but you
Speaker 1: probably had a small part because you were you know,
Speaker 1: you and Cory were broken up, and that was kind
Speaker 1: ofken up, right, so funny. So yeah, alright, well there
Speaker 1: you go. I can't wait until we get we have
Speaker 1: so you guys were gonna be doing this podcast for
Speaker 1: like fifty years. I thought about that last the other night.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, so we've been doing this
Speaker 1: for several we are now on episode soh man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be here forever. Well, by the way, you're also
Speaker 1: wrong at saying we've been doing this for several months.
Speaker 1: We've been doing it for like seven weeks. Oh wow, Okay, yeah, yikes, yeikes. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be last and we're gonna optical flip to
Speaker 1: six years from now. It's gonna be purposely not listening
Speaker 1: to any of the episodes of the podcast, so we
Speaker 1: can do another podcast where we listen to the podcast
Speaker 1: for the first time ever. Listen. It's like Will has
Speaker 1: never even heard any of these, So we've got to
Speaker 1: do a re listen of the rewind It's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: I love that. Will admits that he doesn't listen to
Speaker 1: any of the podcasts because I painstakingly listen to every
Speaker 1: single second, multiple times, trying to make tiny little cuts
Speaker 1: here and there to make it. You know, I do
Speaker 1: listen to but most most mostishly I love you, Will,
Speaker 1: but I don't believe you listen to that. No. I
Speaker 1: actually listened to and I listened to one last night.
Speaker 1: It was great. It was it was the Ladies of
Speaker 1: the Office, but it was a great podcast. Um, I
Speaker 1: was super excited. So it was, and you sounded great, amazing.
Speaker 1: That OMG is great. Yeah, Okay, So Corey tells Sean
Speaker 1: he cannot believe he showed up as a tire salesman
Speaker 1: and he shows up with a pillow in his in
Speaker 1: his uniform. By the way, your little um salesman onesie
Speaker 1: thing is so cute. I wanted now I want to
Speaker 1: wear it now. Yes, the jump suit it's so great.
Speaker 1: It looked soft and cozy and worn in and I
Speaker 1: absolutely love it, and I did. I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: you if that was a real fat suitor for its
Speaker 1: just a pillow. But you don't really quite remember, no,
Speaker 1: I don't. I just remember saying a line like, oh,
Speaker 1: my dad'st my uncle's fat, I'm to be fat. That
Speaker 1: was like a big joke. But that's so funny you
Speaker 1: said the jumpsuit, because the jumpsuit has become like the
Speaker 1: l A mom uniform, every every mom, like yeah, really,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh it's the it's the hottest look in
Speaker 1: l A right now, like for the last like five
Speaker 1: years it's been. It was maybe even longer, like I
Speaker 1: remember when Indie started going to school, it was like
Speaker 1: all the moms would be showing up in those like
Speaker 1: old school jumpsuits because they're super comfortable. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: become it's become the look. So it's funny that you
Speaker 1: picked up on that, Danielle, and now you gotta get one.
Speaker 1: You gotta get I mean, I would be lying if
Speaker 1: I said I don't have one. I do have one.
Speaker 1: The funny thing about the mom's loving jumpsuits is that
Speaker 1: jumpsuits are actually the most impractical. They make absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: Every time you need to go to the bathroom, you
Speaker 1: have to take off all your clothes like a kindergartener.
Speaker 1: But it makes no sense. Yeah, well true, But I
Speaker 1: mean now, thankfully women's clothes are starting to be made
Speaker 1: with pockets, which is great. Like even dresses have pockets,
Speaker 1: which is the best. If I find a dress with pockets,
Speaker 1: I'm buying it the same thing, exactly the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's the best. Um. By the way, I don't even
Speaker 1: use them. I don't want to put anything on them,
Speaker 1: my hands. But I like having like a dress with
Speaker 1: pockets I can put my hands in. I mean, occasionally,
Speaker 1: if I'm going for a walk or I'm going somewhere,
Speaker 1: I just want a chap stick in, a credit card
Speaker 1: or something in my in my pocket, I will use them.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I just want to put
Speaker 1: my hands in up eyes. Um. And so then to
Speaker 1: Panga shows up and she is wearing a toga and
Speaker 1: she is now twenty years later, she is the President
Speaker 1: of the United States. Don't you have to be thirty
Speaker 1: five to be the be a president? So why didn't
Speaker 1: Phoenie say to her sorry, but this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: You're only thirty two in twenty years, you can't be president.
Speaker 1: It really egged me that A didn't think that at all.
Speaker 1: So that's my point is that he nitpicks Corey for
Speaker 1: not thinking through his plan pass and to pas you know,
Speaker 1: coasts right through as being president, when really he would
Speaker 1: he should say like, no, you would be maybe you know,
Speaker 1: you're on your way there, you'd be you're a senator,
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're whatever. Not a single follow up
Speaker 1: question really for for you know, Phenie destroys Corey. But
Speaker 1: to Panga's like, yeah, you'll figure it out. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he says wow. Well he does say it's ambitious that
Speaker 1: like you, oh, you know, that's that's ambitious of you.
Speaker 1: And she says, well, not many people want the job anymore.
Speaker 1: Now that I've disbanded the military and disbanded and eliminated
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons, the position is not as seductive. And it's
Speaker 1: funny that this is the episode with Jim Abbott because
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I wasn't there when Jim Abbott was there.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the Jim Abbot storyline at all, because
Speaker 1: it wasn't my storyline but I remember this, this toga
Speaker 1: wearing to Panga speech so vividly because truthfully, it went
Speaker 1: it was so over my head at the time, like
Speaker 1: I had no you know, I was twelve. I had
Speaker 1: no adult understanding of politics or none of it. So
Speaker 1: to me, it just felt like a bunch of words
Speaker 1: that someone told me to say, just babble about what
Speaker 1: my my vision was for twenty years from now. And
Speaker 1: yet in in the last decade it has been sent
Speaker 1: to me via social media. It kind of goes viral
Speaker 1: every year when like a new group of people discovers
Speaker 1: that Tapanga said this, and it lands and people are like, man,
Speaker 1: this is awesome. And so I have got to relive
Speaker 1: this moment, you know, many times over the last several years,
Speaker 1: and it is something that was just it stuck out
Speaker 1: to me as being so much fun to do, even
Speaker 1: though it really didn't make much sense to me at
Speaker 1: the time. You know what I remember about this, I
Speaker 1: remember when you said the line about breeding stock, but
Speaker 1: put on the ground for breeding stock. There was such
Speaker 1: a visceral reaction from the audience, Like the audience loved that.
Speaker 1: It was like a clapping, cheering kind of moment. When
Speaker 1: I says that men are kept underground for breeding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I as I was watching the episode, I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: just last night, I'm like, that's the scene where you
Speaker 1: were amazing in the first episode in Corpy's Alternative Friends,
Speaker 1: but you weren't yet part of like they didn't know
Speaker 1: what they were going to do with you. And and
Speaker 1: I remember watching last night going if they had a
Speaker 1: moment of I wonder if we should have to pay
Speaker 1: and join the cast that disappeared with this scene in
Speaker 1: my opinion, because it was just it was such such
Speaker 1: a unique character that then you were hitting the jokes.
Speaker 1: It was you were different than anybody else on the show.
Speaker 1: And then to get that reaction from the audience, I
Speaker 1: thought that was the moment where if I'm Michael, are
Speaker 1: one of the producers and I was on the fence,
Speaker 1: I would have been like that, no, she's okay, she's
Speaker 1: got to join us permanently. It just it did. That's
Speaker 1: how it hit me. It was like, it was perfect.
Speaker 1: It's a character. It's a voice of female empowerment to
Speaker 1: write like on a show that has jokes like men
Speaker 1: run run, krunk krun, So it's nice to it's nice
Speaker 1: to offer the alternative and it was a great, great
Speaker 1: balance for the whole show. Yeah, especially again you know,
Speaker 1: opposite Corey, the very stereotypical boy. Um this this Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I mean I feel very lucky that I
Speaker 1: got to play the character. Like, especially when I see
Speaker 1: these moments, I think, man, that's so cool. What a
Speaker 1: cool character first for an one to have to get
Speaker 1: to play. And then I'm like, and I got to
Speaker 1: do it about that's yeah, I feel really. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you're talking about sitcom characters, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say like to Pango, but characters that they try to
Speaker 1: make completely different and unique are of the time really annoying.
Speaker 1: Like they try to do something that's so different and
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, that character is just annoying as hell.
Speaker 1: And to Pango was never that. It was It was
Speaker 1: never that kind of like I don't want to Okay,
Speaker 1: can we please cut away from this? This is just
Speaker 1: brutal at this point. It wasn't that at all, which
Speaker 1: is I think kind of not only a testament to you,
Speaker 1: but how she was written, because man, that easily could
Speaker 1: have been the wacky, quirky girl who it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's annoying. Well, you know, A big part of it
Speaker 1: is that she's so confident. You know. We talked about
Speaker 1: this with Mincas a little bit too, But I think
Speaker 1: the character of to Pango being so unfazed by uh
Speaker 1: Corey's criticism of her and everybody else sort of being like,
Speaker 1: you're weird, and she never feels a need to defend it.
Speaker 1: She never feels the need to convince anybody else that
Speaker 1: they should think like her. She just presents and she's confident,
Speaker 1: and she's tough and strong, and it's wonderful. It's it's
Speaker 1: so it's not it's not a quirky character trying to
Speaker 1: change everybody else. It's just a quirky you know. It's
Speaker 1: just a different character being different, And it's it's also Danielle,
Speaker 1: And you have to tell me, Danielle, if if you
Speaker 1: did this as an acting choice, if somebody gave you
Speaker 1: this note, or how it came up, but it was
Speaker 1: whether it was an insult, whether it was I'm going
Speaker 1: to marry you in the future. No matter what was
Speaker 1: said to Topanga, she takes a moment and considers it
Speaker 1: every single time, no matter what it is. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's because you're weird and she'd like take a moment
Speaker 1: and go like, well am I Like, there's there's always
Speaker 1: that that beat which made it's so unique. That's actually
Speaker 1: it's funny you say that, because that's what I was
Speaker 1: going to say to writer's point about Tapanga, the thing
Speaker 1: I love most about her is that everything is a
Speaker 1: discussion to her. She doesn't actually feel absolutist about anything.
Speaker 1: She feels like, you know, when Corey says, you're not
Speaker 1: going to shave your legs, she goes, I haven't decided. Again,
Speaker 1: everything is She's measured and she thinks about things and
Speaker 1: nothing is right and nothing is wrong. It's all just
Speaker 1: a matter of what will I decide. And it's the
Speaker 1: same thing when in this episode, Minca says he's going
Speaker 1: to marry her, and she says, wow, that's incredibly flattering,
Speaker 1: but I haven't quite decided that I recognize marriage. Everything
Speaker 1: to her is on the table, nothing's off the table.
Speaker 1: And I love that about her. I love that there's
Speaker 1: there is no insulting her because that's just a perspective
Speaker 1: and and that perspective deserves the same amount of weight
Speaker 1: as this perspective and let's discuss. And I just I
Speaker 1: find that I'll find that endlessly endearing about her. It
Speaker 1: adds a layer to you think of the consideration she
Speaker 1: had to go through before deciding all men needed to
Speaker 1: be put underground for breeding, which which is what I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about what happened, And this episode is
Speaker 1: about history, so she probably looked over history and decided
Speaker 1: that nuclear weapons men have always been in charge. What
Speaker 1: do we do. We can't completely get rid of them,
Speaker 1: we have to, but we can remove them from judgment making. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love I just I love it. It's it's very
Speaker 1: well done. Um So, then Larry does come to the
Speaker 1: reunion dressed exactly like Mr Feenie, and Mr Feenie calls
Speaker 1: him over and calls him a poser and uh again
Speaker 1: a little bit of Marty York shine. He says he's gonna,
Speaker 1: you know. Foenie asks him, you know, what's curriculum and
Speaker 1: he says, I can look it up. He says, what's tenure?
Speaker 1: I can look it up? And yeah, he actually does
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, this was a great This was
Speaker 1: the This was an episode where if if another friend
Speaker 1: was going to stick around, this was the episode where
Speaker 1: we would have seen it fully work. Corey also did
Speaker 1: a lot of work on his project. I'd like to
Speaker 1: point that out that he actually legitimately did a lot
Speaker 1: of work on his project. Yes, when Corey comes up
Speaker 1: to the front and he says to Phoenie, Okay, are
Speaker 1: you ready for me, he's all excited and he says
Speaker 1: that he's a legendary baseball player and he has a
Speaker 1: cereal box with his face on it. Um. He also
Speaker 1: says he dropped out of high school in eleventh grade
Speaker 1: because he got a six million dollar per year contract.
Speaker 1: And Phoenie says Corey didn't think his assignment through though,
Speaker 1: because since it's not finance, it's not as financially stable
Speaker 1: as he thinks. He gives Corey an incomplete, which is
Speaker 1: an eye even lower than n F. Like, that's down them,
Speaker 1: that's a good job. I actually wrote that down was
Speaker 1: like that's a good joke. That's a good joke. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I I like, I do think Corey did
Speaker 1: a lot of work on this h on his presentation.
Speaker 1: But I also really like and appreciate Phoene's argument here
Speaker 1: because it is true that money, when given a ton
Speaker 1: of money, is certainly when you're young. If you don't
Speaker 1: know we've we've seen it with endless celebrities and famous people.
Speaker 1: If you don't know how to handle money, if you
Speaker 1: don't know what to do with money, because nobody ever
Speaker 1: taught you how to use money. And by the way,
Speaker 1: our school doesn't our school system doesn't focus enough on
Speaker 1: how like I graduated high school without anybody in school
Speaker 1: teaching me any of that kind of stuff. You go
Speaker 1: through all of that, and it's just kind of like,
Speaker 1: I guess you're just everyone just assumes your parents are
Speaker 1: going to teach you that. But what if your parents
Speaker 1: don't know how to do that? I mean, I think
Speaker 1: for the baby boomers, there was like a home economics
Speaker 1: course that everybody had to take, but for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: that's just been dropped from the American curriculum. No home
Speaker 1: economics at the time. Home economics then, and when I
Speaker 1: took because I took home Mac too. Homec was sewing
Speaker 1: in cooking. That's what home Mac was. Absolutely we learned
Speaker 1: how to sew, when we learned how to cook, that
Speaker 1: was our home economic The idea of like balancing your
Speaker 1: books and well, wait, let's figure out what our budget
Speaker 1: is for the month, and let's figure out how much
Speaker 1: we're making as opposed to how much is going out?
Speaker 1: None of that was ever addressed anywhere in Connecticut. And
Speaker 1: you guys had a lecture city We did, we did?
Speaker 1: We did you know a writer? Seriously, if Trin did
Speaker 1: any come up with the idea for this podcast, we
Speaker 1: would never have had the opportunity for you to make
Speaker 1: fun of me for this stuff. Oh my gosh, what
Speaker 1: we had to learn to sew and cook on the prairie. Right,
Speaker 1: of course, after butter after we turned bank, we turned
Speaker 1: a butt her, and then we went to our to
Speaker 1: to take a bank out. And that's the way it was.
Speaker 1: That's how we did us in Connecticut, sir. Sorry fellow nutmakers, Sorry,
Speaker 1: fellow nutmakers. So funny. We are back in in Corey's room. Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: I'm stopping right there. I purposely have not said anything
Speaker 1: because I was waiting for one of you to bring
Speaker 1: it up. Is nobody going to mention the twelve year
Speaker 1: old girl in the classroom who obviously wanted to be
Speaker 1: the show A girl who's in the background dress an
Speaker 1: entire full pink show girl outfit. I didn't. No one
Speaker 1: is going to mention this, but me really didn't full
Speaker 1: Vegas show girls outfit with the head shoe and burlesque
Speaker 1: it literally and I'm gonna make bank. Dude. I am
Speaker 1: watching with my wife, and Sue's going, what the hell
Speaker 1: is that? What the hell? Like? She wants to be
Speaker 1: a burlesque dancer? What they're in a hot I didn't notice,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm gonna keep my mouth because
Speaker 1: I know one of them's gonna bring it up. Somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna bring it up. They have to bring it up.
Speaker 1: A full burlesque dancer outfit is in the classroom. Do
Speaker 1: you think the choice for that was just because they
Speaker 1: wanted like a bright, pretty I wonder if they just
Speaker 1: because I believe background actors have to provide their own wardrobe,
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't be surprised if they said, bring Halloween
Speaker 1: costume or bring a costume that could be a job,
Speaker 1: and they just sort of, you know, maybe because there's
Speaker 1: a there's one one extra she's dressed like a doctor,
Speaker 1: one of them, you know, there's Marty dressed like and
Speaker 1: then you're you're all milling in the background, including Ben like.
Speaker 1: This is one of the few scenes where Mr Feeney
Speaker 1: takes time with other students it's one of the few times,
Speaker 1: so he takes time. It takes time with Marty, he
Speaker 1: takes time with Topango, which again it's only like her
Speaker 1: second or third episode, so it's not like she's a
Speaker 1: regular on the show yet. And then Corey comes up
Speaker 1: and in the background, you're all they're kind of milling
Speaker 1: in this group, and in the group it looks like
Speaker 1: the village people are behind you. It's it's like there's
Speaker 1: a cop, there's the burlesque dancer, there's you know, the doctor,
Speaker 1: and talking about the fact that you have to you
Speaker 1: can't talk obviously, so we have to sit there and
Speaker 1: be mouthing to each other dialogue. Yeah, but I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I just had to bring that up. I can't believe
Speaker 1: nobody mentioned very funny. I did not notice. I want
Speaker 1: to go back and watch it again. Now, um that's
Speaker 1: all you'll see the next thing now that when you
Speaker 1: watch this, by the way, this funny. By the way, writer,
Speaker 1: I know that typically background actors have to bring their
Speaker 1: own wardrobe, but I think when they require them to
Speaker 1: have something like this, like something kind of over the top,
Speaker 1: those are provided. Like I doubt that show Girl costume
Speaker 1: was hers. I bet it was something they just put.
Speaker 1: They just picked somebody and put went to the follow
Speaker 1: store and bought ten outfits. Are like work, exactly, throw
Speaker 1: this on twelve year old, we need sexy nurse outfit? Like,
Speaker 1: come on, it's just weird catwoman in the background. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: like what do you? What do you want to be?
Speaker 1: And so we're in Corey's room and Corey takes down
Speaker 1: his Jim Abbott poster. Eric says his future is a
Speaker 1: sports car and there's going to be cheerleaders in it,
Speaker 1: but Corey buzz kills him with his economic facts and
Speaker 1: calls him a poser. And is this the scene where
Speaker 1: then Alan walks in and will you felt forgotten? Forgotten, forgotten?
Speaker 1: It's like he walks in, he like, the only thing
Speaker 1: he doesn't do is spit in my face and walk by.
Speaker 1: Before we get to that, Before we get to that,
Speaker 1: we talk about Will's pose. Oh, because I think I
Speaker 1: think this is one of those moments where it's probably
Speaker 1: after we already did the episode where you threw the
Speaker 1: bag and made the sound yeah, and that you ended
Speaker 1: up making a very similar sound. I was like, that's
Speaker 1: where you know the script he strikes a pose and
Speaker 1: you added the which probably the joke because otherwise it's
Speaker 1: just a weird pose, but you like, punctuated with that sound,
Speaker 1: it's like a great Wilford LL acting rank like, oh,
Speaker 1: this makes that funny, because otherwise it's like it's okay,
Speaker 1: but well, it's also in a way making fun of
Speaker 1: my oldest brother Gary, who was an amateur bodybuilder and
Speaker 1: would actually go and like in those little speedos beyond stage,
Speaker 1: making those poses like Arnold Chartzenegger. So yes, uh crazy,
Speaker 1: I also thought. And then when I watched it again,
Speaker 1: I saw, I thought, I saw I was wrong, But
Speaker 1: lying on the bed, the way I was lying on
Speaker 1: the bed and reading the magazine is exactly the same
Speaker 1: place and what I'm doing in the opening title credit,
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, did we do the same thing?
Speaker 1: But it's a different shirt, So that I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe they had pulled it from that or
Speaker 1: we did it on the same day, but obviously wasn't.
Speaker 1: But it's like, oh, let's put him on the bed
Speaker 1: and do that stuff. And then again the Phillies fan,
Speaker 1: the die hard Phillies fan having a Yankee poster on
Speaker 1: his wall, not a chance, but but he was. He
Speaker 1: loved Jim Abbott, not he was just a like my
Speaker 1: husband actually is very much a He's a die hard
Speaker 1: Clippers fan NBA. He loves the NBA, but he loves
Speaker 1: lots of teams because he likes individual players, or he
Speaker 1: likes the story like I like Tom Brady. I hate
Speaker 1: to say that, I'm but I'm I was. I was
Speaker 1: a Patriots fan, so I'm a Brady fan. So I
Speaker 1: get that. But it's uh, it was obviously who And
Speaker 1: I'm curious. This is what I'd like to know about
Speaker 1: with the writers. Was this written for Jim Abbott, like
Speaker 1: when like when they were pitching, the story was like,
Speaker 1: and we're going to get Jim Abbitt because of everything
Speaker 1: he went through in the perseverance that he had. Or
Speaker 1: was it like we're going to get a baseball player,
Speaker 1: let's see who we can get. I bet it was
Speaker 1: written for Jim Abbot. I think so too. I think
Speaker 1: so too. I'm hoping. I think they knew he was inspirational, motivational,
Speaker 1: he was obviously, you know, extremely hot at the time,
Speaker 1: and he they knew his history, he had, you know, college,
Speaker 1: and I think it I think it's perfectly worked out.
Speaker 1: I think I think a lot of our writers were
Speaker 1: from New York, right from the New York area, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they were Yankees fans. And
Speaker 1: I think Michael's Michael was a Yankees fan. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I have no idea. So Corey is being
Speaker 1: a big bummer. Alan enters and says, you know, are
Speaker 1: you guys ready for dinner? And he does, say, hey guys,
Speaker 1: are you ready for dinner? And Will says no, but
Speaker 1: I'll do anything to get away from this bummer, Captain
Speaker 1: bummer face or whatever I said, Captain Bummer. And you
Speaker 1: walk out, and then Alan and Corey have a dream.
Speaker 1: I have a dream. I don't know what. It's a
Speaker 1: dream written down there, dream things. We enjoy a dream sequence.
Speaker 1: They're dancing on the movie Upset Down. It was just
Speaker 1: so weird. I think we should recycling. We should just
Speaker 1: do an episode work. Danielle just starts recapping like complete nonsense,
Speaker 1: and we just have to play along like we should do.
Speaker 1: For you just say and now the penguin Watson and
Speaker 1: starts talking. Just remember about the penguins just trashed the
Speaker 1: dressing room. You could write a real dreaming problem that
Speaker 1: Amy's is she was she right? Do you think they
Speaker 1: wrote it for the giraffe? Or but it's really weird.
Speaker 1: I'll never get the smell of sardines out of my name.
Speaker 1: This would be great. It would actually be a great
Speaker 1: improv podcast where's just people recapping the show that never existed,
Speaker 1: and we have to go along with it. Pretty We
Speaker 1: just have to keep telling memories for a show that
Speaker 1: never existed. If there's one thing doing this podcast has
Speaker 1: made me realize is that I want to do so
Speaker 1: many more podcasts. I want to just keep doing. If
Speaker 1: you want to start podcast I just you know what,
Speaker 1: I have too much time on. There's nothing I want
Speaker 1: to be doing with COVID right now. Let's do more
Speaker 1: of it. We've got one three more hours today. We
Speaker 1: can do podcasts. Oh my gosh, okay, there, I do
Speaker 1: want to talk about what What is the poster you
Speaker 1: have above your bed? There is a Pam Anderson esque
Speaker 1: looking Baywatchee lifeguard poster above Eric's bed, and I thought
Speaker 1: for sure you would remember who. I couldn't tell if
Speaker 1: it was family Anderson. Okay, there there is one. We
Speaker 1: paused it to write a note about something, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, so maybe you know if you don't pause.
Speaker 1: I happened to pause right on the shot, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what is that? What is that poster? I
Speaker 1: thought the random poster over the bed, but missed the
Speaker 1: show girl in bright paints in the center of the scene.
Speaker 1: I love that the things my listen. If I'm in
Speaker 1: the scene, you better believe my eyes are only on
Speaker 1: one thing, even if it's the back of my head.
Speaker 1: I am looking at him. You can tell you're like,
Speaker 1: the crimping started an eighth of an inch down, you'll
Speaker 1: notice exactly. I'm like, if you notice on the right
Speaker 1: lower half of my head. But there was a bear
Speaker 1: in scene exactly. Okay. So Corey asks his dad if
Speaker 1: someone ever told him he couldn't be the manager of
Speaker 1: a supermarket, and Alan says, well, that actually wasn't his dream.
Speaker 1: But as you get older, your dreams change, and his
Speaker 1: actual dream was that he wanted to build bridges, and
Speaker 1: he gave that dream up as his dream of a
Speaker 1: family came true. And Rusty tells Corey that now his
Speaker 1: new dream is to be the father of a Phillies
Speaker 1: center fielder. And this moment kind of made me to
Speaker 1: your up, Wow, not that long ago, Jensen said, he said,
Speaker 1: it's it's just crazy now that I have two kids,
Speaker 1: how much I think about my like my the things
Speaker 1: I want for myself are not even self centered anymore.
Speaker 1: They're not even things that I want. They're all about
Speaker 1: trying to make my kids dreams. Like, whatever those dreams are,
Speaker 1: I want to help make those come true. And hearing
Speaker 1: him say that that, like his dream now is to
Speaker 1: become the father, it just it made me. It made
Speaker 1: me tear up again. It's one of those things that
Speaker 1: would have, I guarantee you was less than a thought
Speaker 1: in my head at the time that we were taping
Speaker 1: the show, but now stands out to me as so
Speaker 1: important to this episode, um and just overall to the
Speaker 1: theme of the show. It's it's just yeah, it made
Speaker 1: me feel emotional. Yeah, well, I mean, I just love
Speaker 1: that the end of the scene, and this is one
Speaker 1: of the first times that this has happened in this show,
Speaker 1: because you know, usually the end of a scene leaves
Speaker 1: Corey and conflict right at the point of the scene
Speaker 1: is like, now, what is core are you going to do?
Speaker 1: And the end of this scene is Rusty and conflict.
Speaker 1: When Rusty hearing what Ben said and considering it and
Speaker 1: he we know that he's going to have to take
Speaker 1: the action, and that is like a shift in perspective
Speaker 1: for the show that I thought was really effective and nice.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I'm suddenly really curious what is
Speaker 1: how does you know Alan Matthews feel about this and
Speaker 1: what is he going to do about it? And that
Speaker 1: was cool. I mean it goes back to what we
Speaker 1: talked about when the This is really the third episode
Speaker 1: now where there's been a conflict between Phoenie and Matthews,
Speaker 1: which is and that's great. Yeah, it's super I love it.
Speaker 1: It's a very fruitful territory to to get, you know,
Speaker 1: theme and character out of. It's wonderful. It also but
Speaker 1: it also shows the benefits and the necessity of a
Speaker 1: fully well rounded education and that doesn't necessarily just mean
Speaker 1: the teacher in your school. It also doesn't just mean
Speaker 1: your parents. It means you you're taught from a number
Speaker 1: of different sources. And there that's we love that. Where
Speaker 1: it's it is it's Alan kind of going like I
Speaker 1: think he even said, I don't care what Phenie says,
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want, where he's like just
Speaker 1: gonna openly contradict like no, no, no, he does. He's
Speaker 1: he's not you know, he's your teacher. He's not omniscient.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, he's not right in this situation. Um,
Speaker 1: And these these are some of my favorite scenes, I think,
Speaker 1: the Alan and Corey scenes. And these are scenes I
Speaker 1: didn't remember as much as I remembered the Corey Phoene scenes.
Speaker 1: So when I see these Alan Corey scenes, these are
Speaker 1: incredible scenes between the two of them. They're great, and
Speaker 1: there are there are a lot of them. I mean
Speaker 1: there are more than I remember too, and they're awesome. Yeah. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: Corey ends the scene on a bit of a bummer note.
Speaker 1: He says, Dad, it's time to forget about my baseball dreams.
Speaker 1: You have to wake up and face the facts. And
Speaker 1: he walks out, and like writer said, we then see
Speaker 1: Alan in conflict what is he going to do? And
Speaker 1: then we are downstairs in the living room. Now, I'd
Speaker 1: like to go back to the beginning of the episode
Speaker 1: to discuss just really briefly. I knew Stephanie, the friend
Speaker 1: who was having the birthday party, that she was having
Speaker 1: a real boy orring birthday party based on what Lily
Speaker 1: was wearing to the birthday party. She was in that like,
Speaker 1: I guess she could have been having a fancy tea
Speaker 1: party like that. Maybe that was for the party, but
Speaker 1: the way she was dressed, I was like, what five
Speaker 1: year old kid is having a party where people want
Speaker 1: to wear tights and fancy shoes and a big puffy
Speaker 1: dress and the gold necklace. And then it all made
Speaker 1: sense when the front door opened and here is Stephanie
Speaker 1: and her mom Jane, and they are dressed. Look what
Speaker 1: is this. This is like the middle of the day
Speaker 1: and they are so fancy pants. Yeah, they're also so
Speaker 1: here's the here's the problem I had with this. This
Speaker 1: is now the second time a an adult female character
Speaker 1: has shown up on the show, and they're awful. Was
Speaker 1: the mensa, Yeah, they're terrible people. Yes, Well, I think
Speaker 1: the point is going back to what we talked to
Speaker 1: vote a MENSA episode, positioning the Matthews as working class,
Speaker 1: you know, as sort of more real and against the
Speaker 1: snobbery of you know, the rich elitists, coastal elitists. Call
Speaker 1: it what you want, but I think it was you know,
Speaker 1: it's always important for television shows too, for the family
Speaker 1: on a television show to be um identifiable, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think a kind of easy way to make
Speaker 1: a family identifiable is to bring in the alternative, right,
Speaker 1: like bring in somebody who's patently awful, a terrible family.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, showing somebody who's rich and
Speaker 1: snobby is just a really easy way to do it.
Speaker 1: You know, this this didn't It never felt real, right,
Speaker 1: Like it didn't feel like the person could ever exist.
Speaker 1: And I think that's for me, the problem with the
Speaker 1: scene not you know, I think there there there might
Speaker 1: have been a way to make it a little more subtle,
Speaker 1: a little more because the once they walk in, you
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. We're just gonna play out this joke. Um,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I had the same thought. I was like
Speaker 1: with the Mensa act, I kind of got it because
Speaker 1: it's like the snobbery comes from this, Like but this
Speaker 1: is like a family that they're friends with, where these
Speaker 1: people have so much money, and you know that she
Speaker 1: makes a reference to I don't have to work and yeah,
Speaker 1: practically has an English accent exactly. It's not going to
Speaker 1: get back the necklace when you've got I mean, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was so cartoony and ridiculous, and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: so every time they're going to bring on an actress
Speaker 1: who's over the age of twelve, they're going to make
Speaker 1: her awful. Like it was like, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, I think it's all about just showing
Speaker 1: how cool Amy is. You know. It was just like
Speaker 1: making Amy and the Matthew is a cool family that
Speaker 1: you identify with. Was this whole scene to me though,
Speaker 1: was just so sitcomy, cartoony, over the top, terrible kind
Speaker 1: of it was a bad scene. So Jane, the mom says,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, I can't give you back the necklace,
Speaker 1: not because of the value of the necklace, but because
Speaker 1: of Stephanie's attachment to it. And um, you can tell
Speaker 1: that Amy has some sort of plan because she is
Speaker 1: very relaxed about it. She's like, I wouldn't even think
Speaker 1: twice about asking, don't worry about it. And then we
Speaker 1: are back in the kitchen and Morgan has made brownies
Speaker 1: and she's showing her all of these different different things
Speaker 1: and exactly the setting setting setting up hits, these beats
Speaker 1: and that kind of like hold your horses like all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Was great, exactly, And this is
Speaker 1: this is a very tough scene to direct. I mean,
Speaker 1: two very young actors talking to each other with no adults,
Speaker 1: you know, sort of anchoring the scene. So I can
Speaker 1: imagine this was like something that everybody's off stage holding
Speaker 1: their breath, like come on business and business. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: realized like this is a nightmare scene for a production.
Speaker 1: There is a continuity problem in this one. I always
Speaker 1: my brains notices that the brownies Brownie I noticed appear
Speaker 1: and then go back to the other place. You think
Speaker 1: they're like right in front of her, and then she
Speaker 1: moved him over. It did they did jump. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh cotton anything, but it was. It was so good
Speaker 1: and they both held her own and so we go
Speaker 1: back out to the living room and Stephanie. That's where
Speaker 1: Stephanie is saying she doesn't have to work. And then
Speaker 1: Morgan and Stephanie come out from the kitchen and Stephanie
Speaker 1: has removed her dress. She's just got like a tank
Speaker 1: top on and she has plastic just got a plastic
Speaker 1: tiara on her blossom hat has been stolen, and um,
Speaker 1: we realized that Morgan has done Yeah, it's such a blossom.
Speaker 1: So she she reveals her ruse that she has done
Speaker 1: black Black note trades back for and gotten all the
Speaker 1: things that she wanted, including the keys to the car,
Speaker 1: and we get Betsy getting the cute little button on
Speaker 1: the end, which is, can you understand it's not the
Speaker 1: value of the car, it's Morgan's attachment to it, followed
Speaker 1: with the awesomely natural thumbs up they both give each
Speaker 1: other okay, And then so later we see Eric on
Speaker 1: the phone and you're having a conversation about a girl
Speaker 1: and you were you were an innocent bystander and a
Speaker 1: girl had you pinned up against the lockers and you
Speaker 1: were kissing. And then, by the way, your clothes fit
Speaker 1: perfectly here Will Did you notice that as well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you weren't wearing Yeah you you were wearing a well
Speaker 1: structured outfit. Yeah I saw that as well. Are you joking?
Speaker 1: I'm serious? Sweaters? Nothing actually said something at this point,
Speaker 1: or they just started No. No, I would never say
Speaker 1: anything about clothes. I don't know anything about clothes. But
Speaker 1: there was one side where it just looks like I
Speaker 1: look like a melted candle, where it's just like I've
Speaker 1: just melted into the couch and it's just kind of
Speaker 1: this weird rump like I was waiting to just go,
Speaker 1: like I'm not giving on solo back. I caught him
Speaker 1: fair and square. Um yeah, so it's um, it was exactly,
Speaker 1: but it was. Uh. The thing that struck me was
Speaker 1: these are always my lines or something along the line.
Speaker 1: You were it was always going to be something about
Speaker 1: girls or something about kissing when all else fails, something
Speaker 1: about a girl. And so here's what, I here's what. Then,
Speaker 1: So then Corey runs in and he grabs the phone
Speaker 1: from you and hangs up and and he just closes
Speaker 1: the antenna, and I was like the whole rest of
Speaker 1: his seat. I have a question. He says, call her back,
Speaker 1: and then Eric says, are you kidding? I don't even
Speaker 1: know who that was? Yeah, I don't a joke. That
Speaker 1: sounds like a joke, but I don't get exactly it
Speaker 1: structured like a joke. Is it that you were actually
Speaker 1: talking to a boyfriend of a girl who caught you
Speaker 1: kissing his girlfriend? Like, no, no, no, no, I thought
Speaker 1: I was talking to another girl. He was defending himself.
Speaker 1: It was like there were so many girls after Eric
Speaker 1: that he doesn't even know which one he was defending
Speaker 1: himself to when you've got that, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a significant other of the girl and you were like
Speaker 1: you were like called you and was upset you were
Speaker 1: kissing my girl or something. No, Okay, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was that. It could have been. I don't think it.
Speaker 1: I think again. I think it was words coming out
Speaker 1: of my mouth shaped face, and that's all that it was.
Speaker 1: It was just girl, girl, girl, girl, girl, girl, girl, girl.
Speaker 1: What Jim Abbott? Yeah, So Corey announces that Yankee pitcher
Speaker 1: Jim Abbott is in the kitchen. Eric and Cory are
Speaker 1: shocked and they literally scream when he comes in. Jim
Speaker 1: Abbott gets the room McClanahan treatment, he walks in, audience
Speaker 1: goes wild, and he then sits down on the couch
Speaker 1: and tells Corey a story about how a coach once
Speaker 1: told him he wouldn't make it in the major leagues,
Speaker 1: but look at him now, and that coach also told
Speaker 1: him how important education was and got him to apply
Speaker 1: to the University of Michigan. Has a lot of dialogue,
Speaker 1: a lot of dialogue, a lot of dialogue, and it's
Speaker 1: also confident and comfortable and relax He's yeah, great, he's
Speaker 1: great for not being and apparently not knowing that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be on. I mean, it's like, my good, he
Speaker 1: nailed it. By the way, it is a very boy
Speaker 1: meets world thing to never even address the fact that
Speaker 1: he only has one hand. I think that that's genius.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's something so important to acknowledge
Speaker 1: and rec That's like a big note for me because
Speaker 1: I kept waiting for it to happen. I kept waiting
Speaker 1: even after the scene. I mean, maybe not to acknowledge
Speaker 1: it while he's there, but I thought for sure in
Speaker 1: the tag or in the backyard with Phoene the next scene,
Speaker 1: that there would be some reference to Corey saying and
Speaker 1: he you know, he only has one hand and I
Speaker 1: can do it, and and I was so impressed that
Speaker 1: it never was mentioned. I thought that was I feel
Speaker 1: like it would a lesser show would have made me
Speaker 1: would have heard that on the head right, And instead
Speaker 1: it was like, no, we're not even gonna need to
Speaker 1: reference it now, because that's not the point. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think that's really really super smart.
Speaker 1: And there are other times in the show where we
Speaker 1: either mentioned or don't mention something that maybe should have
Speaker 1: been mentioned, and we'll talk about those when they come up.
Speaker 1: But this is one of those times where I think
Speaker 1: it was really done very well that it wasn't even mentioned.
Speaker 1: Um And so he mentioned that he had a coach
Speaker 1: who also told him about how important education was. And
Speaker 1: he says that you, Corey have a dad who wants
Speaker 1: his kid to have big dreams. And he can tell
Speaker 1: that because he was sent sixty three telegrams by Alan
Speaker 1: Matthews Trams sending telegrams. Seriously, stop, I need to stop.
Speaker 1: You need to make sure that he knows what's going
Speaker 1: on immediately. Stop. You need to make sure he can
Speaker 1: It's like, what the hell you don't know what a
Speaker 1: telegram is? I mean I kind of do, but not really,
Speaker 1: Like what's the what is the actuality of sending a telegram? Like?
Speaker 1: What would the process have been to send a telegram?
Speaker 1: You would call an operator and they would transcribe a
Speaker 1: message for you and send it via code. Right, I
Speaker 1: mean again, it depends on what you're talking. The old
Speaker 1: school telegram, you literally would go to a Western Union
Speaker 1: and they would when you would write it down. You
Speaker 1: would write it down and they would did you either
Speaker 1: write it down or tell it to somebody and they
Speaker 1: would transmit it via Morse code, and there was a
Speaker 1: little punch telephone, so they would say stop after every
Speaker 1: That's how you would know what it was. So it
Speaker 1: would be yeah, you know, Jim Abbott, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find you. Stop. I'd like you to come to Obviously
Speaker 1: you used these in Connecticut. No, we didn't have this technology.
Speaker 1: We did not have this at all. We were still
Speaker 1: smoke sings exactly exactly. Well that's the way, of course. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the messenger pigeons were really greatly planning to tend to
Speaker 1: dinner bow for everybody in the town. We got to
Speaker 1: come in here. Everybody is that Yes, uh no, we
Speaker 1: didn't have to. We didn't have this technology in But
Speaker 1: like realistically, so Alan, who doesn't know Jim Abbott, you're
Speaker 1: telling me that in nine three I could have picked
Speaker 1: up a phone, somehow gotten an operator on the phone,
Speaker 1: and then said send this message to this stranger. How
Speaker 1: does that operate? Or know how to get in touch
Speaker 1: with how it works. I think it would have been
Speaker 1: like he would have sent it to the Yankees. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like, I don't know how that would have happened,
Speaker 1: because it would have been explained the internet to me exactly,
Speaker 1: we're not we don't start with me. I'm the rider dying. Well,
Speaker 1: my friend, I believe it functioned kind of like it
Speaker 1: was like a facts. It was a pre dates the
Speaker 1: facts in the sense that it was a way to
Speaker 1: get a written message immediately anywhere in the world, and
Speaker 1: it was still being used for like banking, and uh,
Speaker 1: I know that in theater this is the only real reference.
Speaker 1: There is a tradition of sending a telegram on your
Speaker 1: opening night. You would get a telegram delivered to your
Speaker 1: dressing room door, and it was a tradition that people
Speaker 1: would send telegrams on opening night. You would get one
Speaker 1: that would say, you know, grats on opening night, and
Speaker 1: then it would say mayored was like this, which means
Speaker 1: crap in French. But it became that was the tradition
Speaker 1: for like you said that when you got a telegram
Speaker 1: on opening night, I don't know that that was my
Speaker 1: experience with telegrams. That the original I mean all of
Speaker 1: the original phone quote unquote phone lines that criss crossed
Speaker 1: the country. Those were telegraph lines because there obviously wasn't
Speaker 1: a phone at the time, so it was all Morris
Speaker 1: code that would go from one side to the other,
Speaker 1: and it was all those old Tommy d d D
Speaker 1: D D D d D that that's a telegram. Why
Speaker 1: he's sending one in ninety three, let alone sixty three
Speaker 1: of them to a stranger who then shows up at
Speaker 1: his home included the Matthews address. So Rusty makes the joke.
Speaker 1: Alan makes the joke, what you only got sixty three them?
Speaker 1: So he sent significantly more. And then all the kids
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood show up to get their baseball signed
Speaker 1: and Macus brings the wrong ball. Dusty is in this group.
Speaker 1: Dusty are our background actor that we have tried. We're
Speaker 1: still searching for Dusty. This is a great time to
Speaker 1: remind you. If you are one of our background actors,
Speaker 1: please please get in touch with us. We want to
Speaker 1: talk to you. You can email us at pod Meats
Speaker 1: World Show at gmail dot com. Um So, we are
Speaker 1: in Corey's backyard. He's playing baseball while he's actually just
Speaker 1: throwing the ball up and catching it. And it's a
Speaker 1: life throw for how long it lasts in the end
Speaker 1: to throw up there for and he throws it a
Speaker 1: mile and a half somehow in front of him, but
Speaker 1: it comes to them behind him. Well, I think it
Speaker 1: bounces off. I think he's bouncing it off the house.
Speaker 1: Is that what he's doing? I think? So, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's my husband's an only child, and that's like what
Speaker 1: he's spent at least eight percent of his life doing
Speaker 1: is throwing a ball against a wall and having it
Speaker 1: come back to him. So when I watched by himself
Speaker 1: just through, that's that's literally all he did. So I
Speaker 1: that's what immediately, I what I thought he was doing. Um,
Speaker 1: the ball gets lost over Phoenie's fence. Phenie picks it up,
Speaker 1: throws it in the trash again. So mean, so unnecessary.
Speaker 1: He says, when you start respecting my property line, I'll
Speaker 1: start respecting your property I know. And he can't stand
Speaker 1: these people. Uh. Corey announces to Phoenie that he has
Speaker 1: decided to be a baseball player after all because a
Speaker 1: friend of his dad's. He doesn't want to drop any names,
Speaker 1: but it's Jim Abbot gave him some advice. So now
Speaker 1: he is going to play baseball, but only after he
Speaker 1: goes to college. And Phoenie then rewards Corey for thinking
Speaker 1: about the assignment more and he gives him all of
Speaker 1: his confiscated balls back by dumping them over the property line. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you're right writer that there would have been a
Speaker 1: million opportunities for Corey to have mentioned, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know that he only has one hand, and they
Speaker 1: just never mentioned it. It was a really smart decision. Um,
Speaker 1: And so then yeah, I love it. So then we're
Speaker 1: into the tag. We're in the living room. Amy and
Speaker 1: Alan are watching TV. It seems like maybe they're watching whatever.
Speaker 1: That version of the Bachelor or The Bachelorette was some
Speaker 1: sort of dating show game and that's where those voiceovers
Speaker 1: came in that you can kind of hear Chris Kayer,
Speaker 1: you can kind of hear some of the people kind
Speaker 1: of in the background a little bit. Yeah, And Alan
Speaker 1: asks if it ever bothered Amy that he didn't become
Speaker 1: an engineer like he dreamt of, And he says, do
Speaker 1: you think of me as a failure? And she says
Speaker 1: he has a great job, respect, three beautiful children, and
Speaker 1: a wife who's ready to make out. And they start
Speaker 1: kissing on the couch. Corey is videotaping them from behind
Speaker 1: the couch. He jumps up so creepy, I know, So creepy,
Speaker 1: so creepy, he asks them to do something interesting because
Speaker 1: this kissing stuff isn't going to hold the audience's attention,
Speaker 1: and it quickly becomes a chase scene as Rusty Alan
Speaker 1: runs him off to bed, and I was contradictory moment though.
Speaker 1: He's like, do something more than this kissing stuff. And
Speaker 1: then he's like, but give me some action, like a
Speaker 1: second player. What do you want the kissing you don't eat,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come up and videotape. My parents would say
Speaker 1: this isn't enough. Let me see some action. It was like,
Speaker 1: it was just wow, Yeah, that was I found that
Speaker 1: really weird. I probably would have spent more time thinking
Speaker 1: about that if I wasn't so distracted by the awesome
Speaker 1: crop top Rusty was wearing he had when he goes
Speaker 1: running up the stairs. You can see his entire lower back.
Speaker 1: He's wearing like a cut off um henley, like a waffle,
Speaker 1: like a waffle henley that was cut and it's kind
Speaker 1: of crop toppy, And again, just one of those choices
Speaker 1: they made that were they're just the cool parents, you know.
Speaker 1: But they also had to take the time to digitize
Speaker 1: out Rusty's lower back tattoo. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know that about him. Is he has one
Speaker 1: of those lower back right you like there was anything
Speaker 1: digital yet, digitize optically, erase exactly. So it's a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't know that about Rusty. Yeah, he's got
Speaker 1: a he's got a fairy tattoo on his lower back.
Speaker 1: Really cute. Um. So, we got a letter in our
Speaker 1: email box about this episode, and I wanted to close
Speaker 1: out by reading you this letter. It is from telegram.
Speaker 1: It was a telegram. It was it's Morse code. So
Speaker 1: give me a few minutes to figure it out. And
Speaker 1: he says, Hi, thank you so much for doing this podcast.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to let you know that as a
Speaker 1: ten year old boy, the Jim Abbott episode sealed the
Speaker 1: sealed the deal for this being my favorite show ever.
Speaker 1: I was born with amniotic band syndrome, which for me
Speaker 1: means that only two of my fingers are fully grown
Speaker 1: and the rest only grew to one or two joints.
Speaker 1: When I wanted to play Little League baseball as a
Speaker 1: kid in the early nineties, I had to figure out
Speaker 1: how to throw and catch with the same hand because
Speaker 1: only one of my hands is capable of closing a
Speaker 1: baseball glove and also throwing a baseball. Jim Abbott had
Speaker 1: pioneered this technique of throwing and catching with the same hand,
Speaker 1: and I copied it so that I could play baseball.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, Jim Abbott was my hero and favorite
Speaker 1: baseball player, and I even met him once when he
Speaker 1: was doing a motivational tour of some kind in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Boy Meat's World was already my favorite show in the
Speaker 1: fall of because like Corey, I was constantly anxious about
Speaker 1: whether I was cool or not, and like Corey, I
Speaker 1: have very curly hair, which did not lend itself to
Speaker 1: the cuts that most of my friends had. Then Jim Abbott,
Speaker 1: my hero, showed up, and I remember screaming to my
Speaker 1: family Jim Abbott is on Boy Meat's World and watching
Speaker 1: the rest of the episode in complete shock and admiration.
Speaker 1: It's like our entire show was made for him. That
Speaker 1: I was a super fan from then on. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard so many layers of why people
Speaker 1: love the show, which are true for me too, But
Speaker 1: I thought you might like to hear my Jim Abbott angle.
Speaker 1: His disability isn't mentioned in the episode, but it was
Speaker 1: just incredible to me to see him as an inspirational
Speaker 1: person to Corey after he had been such an inspiration
Speaker 1: ation to me too. Anyway, the show isn't was amazing.
Speaker 1: It's relaxed and be yourself message has been a lifelong
Speaker 1: lesson for me. That's really cool. Isn't that great? So anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you for that letter. That was really wonderful. Like
Speaker 1: writer said, so, this entire episode was just for you.
Speaker 1: So thank you guys for being here with us for
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