Speaker 1: And That's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio Podcast. Welcome to and That's what
Speaker 1: you really missed. I'm Jennaschwitz, I'm Kevin McHale. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for coming back for a third week in
Speaker 1: a row. Thanks to Ryan Murphy for an incredible two
Speaker 1: part opener to the launch of this podcast. Um, we're
Speaker 1: back here to chat about the pilot again. Are you
Speaker 1: watching recapping before we do that? I just want to
Speaker 1: The response has been absolutely crazy, So thank you to
Speaker 1: everyone who's been downloading and listening and telling your friends
Speaker 1: about it. My family's even listening. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm
Speaker 1: We're super appreciative. This is more than we could have
Speaker 1: asked for coming back, and you know, um, we we're
Speaker 1: just super grateful. So so, um, should we should we
Speaker 1: talk pilot? Let's talk pilot? How many times have you
Speaker 1: seen this pilot? Kevin, I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: I guess that's what we're here to do. I've seen
Speaker 1: it so many, like probably over a hundred times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I have to say I was not looking forward
Speaker 1: to watching it again, not because I don't love it,
Speaker 1: just because we've so many times I'm also not a looper.
Speaker 1: I don't watch things a lot. Oh that's interesting. I
Speaker 1: am an absolute looper. Yes, okay, I'm not one of
Speaker 1: those people that's seen Friends you know times. I saw
Speaker 1: it when it was on originally and haven't seen it since. Um.
Speaker 1: David and I have been watching National Treasure on the
Speaker 1: regular every night. Anyway, Okay, I digress. Let's do this. Um.
Speaker 1: This is season one, episode one, the pilot. Um. It's
Speaker 1: so freaking epic and it aired on nine after the
Speaker 1: American Idol finale. UM, let's chat about it. Tell me
Speaker 1: about the synops of this show, Kevin. Um. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: we are introduced to everyone. Introduced to the glee club
Speaker 1: that is sort of falling apart. Um. We're introduced to
Speaker 1: Will Schuster Um, a teacher, Spanish teacher with a good
Speaker 1: heart who wants to revive the glee club. We are
Speaker 1: introduced to Sue Sylvester and the Cheerios. Oh yes, the
Speaker 1: football team. We see that in Lime, Ohio Sports. Just
Speaker 1: like why Grip of Texas is number one, glee club
Speaker 1: is not important. They are the competitive teams at the school.
Speaker 1: But everything changes when the quarterback of the football team
Speaker 1: joins the Glee Club. Wow wow wow wow. So um,
Speaker 1: just to kick off the preamble to shoot this pilot recap, Um,
Speaker 1: Corey couldn't get down because he was Canadian to rehearse
Speaker 1: with us in the weeks like leading up to filming
Speaker 1: this physically couldn't get across the border. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: he would wait for a work visa. So Kevin, Me,
Speaker 1: Leah Amber and Chris we're all rehearsing a million different
Speaker 1: versions of Don't Stop Believing, and um, sit down, you're
Speaker 1: rocking the boat. And there was this this actor was
Speaker 1: coming to play Finn, yeah, and who I instinctually hated
Speaker 1: because he played villain. Yeah. He played the villain on
Speaker 1: the show called kyle x Why back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I had just seen it and that's where I
Speaker 1: knew him from. And I was like, I'm not looking
Speaker 1: forward to Like he supposed to be the star of
Speaker 1: the show and super nice and we're supposed to get
Speaker 1: behind him. But he's mean and I'm not excited to
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah, But also like he's Canadian, so
Speaker 1: of course he was going to be the nicest person ever.
Speaker 1: But he felt like this like magical character that like
Speaker 1: nobody knew and we all were bonding, and we're like,
Speaker 1: what happens when Corey comes and what happens when we
Speaker 1: we've all bonded and we're all friends and this other
Speaker 1: guy comes in? But lo and behold it was also
Speaker 1: it was the four of us. It was you, Me, Amber,
Speaker 1: and Chris for weeks and none of us knew Leah
Speaker 1: except you. And then yeah, and then we met Leah
Speaker 1: and then we started rehearsing with her, and then I
Speaker 1: don't know, two weeks or a week after that, then
Speaker 1: Corey came in. So it was a little one by
Speaker 1: one we all got together to form this little band
Speaker 1: of misfits. Now I'm thinking about this recap with Justin
Speaker 1: timber Now, I feel like we have to like bring
Speaker 1: bring in Justin and and and imagine him in the
Speaker 1: in this show now. I mean, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: such a like a stretch for people to imagine. I
Speaker 1: just think it's funny. It is. It's weird also, like
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have had the time, like in what world
Speaker 1: I think, but I would have liked to know if
Speaker 1: we were on Justin timber Lake schedule, though we would
Speaker 1: have been working a lot less like Justin is not available,
Speaker 1: Glee Club can't work today. He just shoot all of
Speaker 1: those exposition scenes immediately. Okay, let's get into it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there's also a billion songs in this episode,
Speaker 1: so there's there's a lot more than Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to go over. But I will say, um that
Speaker 1: watching this episode, I feel like it holds up. It
Speaker 1: looks great. It's so cinematic and also something for normal
Speaker 1: teen shows because I grew up watching a lot of
Speaker 1: them and still watch a lot of them. They're they're
Speaker 1: not normally I think shot with this level of care
Speaker 1: and attention. When Ryan was talking about that, like you know,
Speaker 1: the last episode of about his creative process, and I
Speaker 1: do think that's also besides the structure of the show
Speaker 1: and the music and the story, it's also I think
Speaker 1: how the show looked and was presented it was I mean,
Speaker 1: then when you come in there with a bang with
Speaker 1: Sue Sylvester talking about waterboarding in the first fifteen seconds
Speaker 1: of this show, Um, it's iconic. I mean that that
Speaker 1: line became so iconic. But I think they recorded like
Speaker 1: or shot like many many many different versions that Ian
Speaker 1: Brennan kind of threw out at her um. Also to
Speaker 1: note we were one of the last shows to shoot
Speaker 1: on actual film. Yes, I think that's why it also
Speaker 1: looked so good on film for a while. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: three seasons, I think. Yeah, um, okay, Well, and we
Speaker 1: were introduced to the villain right immediately immediately. Also, can
Speaker 1: you imagine the show without her? It wouldn't it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have worked. And also, just I forgot it opened like
Speaker 1: that for some reason. I thought it opened on Will
Speaker 1: Shuster's old car with like banged up car. Yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 1: It's that phenomenal cheerleading moment. That's right, that's right. Um.
Speaker 1: And then here we are with Mr Shu Um, justin
Speaker 1: Timberlake is here and um. And then this is the
Speaker 1: first of the kids. Kurt is thrown it into a dumpster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's something that Puck really likes to just throw us
Speaker 1: kids into dumpsters and porta potties. And but it's all
Speaker 1: I think. Also like the introducing all these characters in
Speaker 1: such a definitive way where you get to know everyone
Speaker 1: immediately beyond the wardrobe. You get to know, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is who Kurt is, this is his relationship, this is
Speaker 1: who Sue is. Um. The only character that's sort of
Speaker 1: unfolding as it goes as Will and his intentions. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a good guy, but everything else is I think,
Speaker 1: such a great introduction to each of the characters. So
Speaker 1: Justin Gaston it is, wasn't Justin Gaston was the one
Speaker 1: who he was one of the football players. He's a
Speaker 1: very good looking football player in the back only there
Speaker 1: for the pilot, right. And also I remember us like
Speaker 1: they were whisperings the whole time that he was dating
Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus. Well, yeah, I was sort of not star struck.
Speaker 1: Was like, what is he doing here? Because you know,
Speaker 1: I saw him in tabloids, like I saw him in
Speaker 1: paparazzi photos every single day updating Miley, and then he
Speaker 1: was there. There was a lot of that on the show.
Speaker 1: But I didn't know Jane was cast on the show.
Speaker 1: None of us did. No, we literally bombed into her
Speaker 1: during the pilot, and I was like, I think we
Speaker 1: had also been talking about how much we loved Jane
Speaker 1: because I think they referenced her, like Ryan said, and
Speaker 1: we knew they referenced her, but we were, you know,
Speaker 1: naive and ignorant to that. Oh no, No, they actually
Speaker 1: got the real thing, and we kind of we learned
Speaker 1: very much about Finn in this, like even like holding
Speaker 1: Kurt's jacket, you know, when he gets dumped into the dumpster.
Speaker 1: But did you notice that Um in the Spanish in
Speaker 1: the Spanish room, like Corey just like not being able
Speaker 1: to hold it together. I did. I feel like this
Speaker 1: was the first time I caught that. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but it was maybe because I haven't seen it so long,
Speaker 1: but it was the first time I saw him sort
Speaker 1: of like like when he tries not to laugh, like
Speaker 1: the sides of his eyes go up, like he tries
Speaker 1: to do this sort of like plastic surgery phase, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's like trying to keep it together, and you
Speaker 1: could tell it was like they have to cut before
Speaker 1: he completely it. Wow, there'll be a lot of that,
Speaker 1: and that that leads us to this is what I
Speaker 1: feel like was probably inspired by Ian's original script, where
Speaker 1: you have Sandy Ryerson, the outgoing glee club teacher, um
Speaker 1: placing an inappropriate hand on Ben blood cell. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that must have been sort of the
Speaker 1: bridge of this guy's terrible and inappropriate Yes, the little
Speaker 1: remnants of the original script, Yes, Yes, totally and it
Speaker 1: so it is a good way and to get Will
Speaker 1: into you know, heading up club. It's like it all worked.
Speaker 1: It was all transition. Also again just having another iconic
Speaker 1: comedic actor, um Steven Tabolowski, like like what throughout the
Speaker 1: whole series. I just remember like when we didn't really
Speaker 1: work with him very much, and so his scenes would
Speaker 1: be shot with Jane or you know, Matt and Jayma
Speaker 1: and like, and then we'd see them in our and
Speaker 1: our viewings are lunchtime viewings of the episodes, and my
Speaker 1: job would dropped the ground because he was just so
Speaker 1: he was like Jane Lynch level of like comedic genius.
Speaker 1: So they're very much counterparts to each other. They were. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was exhausting being around them because I
Speaker 1: was like, I can't keep up with either of you.
Speaker 1: And then we we meet, we go into the teachers
Speaker 1: loue time, which is personally it was that's where we
Speaker 1: hung out a lot. Yes, we did between in the
Speaker 1: teacher's lounge. Yeah, we played games in there. It's always. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where I introduced Mafia to everyone. It was close
Speaker 1: by the choir room, so we would leave when they
Speaker 1: would like the choir room and we go sit together
Speaker 1: and we were all loud, so it was far enough
Speaker 1: away where we wouldn't father the professionals. Um. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we meet can Tanaka here right, Um we see Sue again,
Speaker 1: and um, we learned that Sue is a horrible human being.
Speaker 1: Also maybe my favorite, one of my favorite lines of
Speaker 1: the entire episode. Irma, I'm going to take a phone er.
Speaker 1: That's an interview on my phone. I do remember being
Speaker 1: somewhere around when they were shooting that and like hearing
Speaker 1: those lines and being like, Wow, she's really funny phenomenal
Speaker 1: also fun fact Like, there's also this running gag where
Speaker 1: Sue never calls Emma by her real name, but the
Speaker 1: scene that's right, she actually does say Emma. I mean
Speaker 1: it's one and done, right, she says Emma and then
Speaker 1: never to be seen. No Ellen Dye eleanor Amelia, Edna, Dina,
Speaker 1: Elma Elmo, Um i jama. I mean Emma is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite characters. Um, she's just her outfits pop.
Speaker 1: She is like the epitome of like the Glee you know,
Speaker 1: colors and the bubble gum pop that Ryan was talking about. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think this is where we start to see
Speaker 1: like their little relationships start to bud right, and their
Speaker 1: chemistry is so good. That's so cute together. I also
Speaker 1: think it's Jammys, who plays Emma, is also one of
Speaker 1: the most wonderful, hilarious people I've ever met, and so
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of my love for her
Speaker 1: and also Emma is complained, like I don't know where
Speaker 1: one starts the other, one ends, one ends, the other
Speaker 1: one starts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear that. I hear that. Um,
Speaker 1: so this is this is okay, so this is the catalyst.
Speaker 1: This is where Emma tells Will that the glee club,
Speaker 1: you know, the glee teacher got fired. And Will's like,
Speaker 1: this is my chance to relive my high school glory
Speaker 1: and I am going to um head the glee club.
Speaker 1: And um this is also Figgins. Oh well sorry I'm jumping,
Speaker 1: but no, right, okay, yeah, he goes to Figgins and Veggins.
Speaker 1: Veggins was one of my favorite um it's like places
Speaker 1: to shoot. We also slept. I also slept on that
Speaker 1: couch a lot. But I feel like that is amazing
Speaker 1: and he is just a wonderful, kind human being. But
Speaker 1: he was just so freaking funny, and like when you
Speaker 1: got to do scenes with him, it was the best
Speaker 1: because you didn't get to do them a lot. It
Speaker 1: really did feel like we were very much the kids,
Speaker 1: and the adults were very much the adults, even though
Speaker 1: some of us playing kids were a little closer to
Speaker 1: the teacher's ages. But when you went into the scenes
Speaker 1: with them, you're in scenes with these comedic powerhouses, every
Speaker 1: single one of them. It's intimidating. It was very intimidating.
Speaker 1: It was very very hard to keep a straight face
Speaker 1: and actually be professional. But I was so scared all
Speaker 1: the time, and I didn't want to like upset Ryan
Speaker 1: Ian or Brad because everyone was so good and I
Speaker 1: felt like I tricked everyone hiring me. Yeah, absolutely, at
Speaker 1: least the entirety of the first season, Like and you
Speaker 1: don't realize that, like we're on each other, we're having fun.
Speaker 1: It feels great and camaraderie and whatever, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're in a scene with Jane Lynch and
Speaker 1: I don't know what, I forget it. It's like him
Speaker 1: and I heard my goal hedgecock and it's like we
Speaker 1: will also have on It's like I don't know, Okay, again,
Speaker 1: we're I'm diegrassing from it's what we do. Yes, that
Speaker 1: that is what we do. But we have to talk
Speaker 1: about the fact that, um that Will Schuster is naked.
Speaker 1: Should we guess how long? How long are we into
Speaker 1: this before his shirt is off? How much time technically
Speaker 1: do you think it is? Do do? Do? Do? Do?
Speaker 1: I mean? I think four minutes? Do you think it's
Speaker 1: that quick? Mm hm? I yeah, I feel like I
Speaker 1: would have to say it's I think it's a little longer.
Speaker 1: I think it's maybe like twelve Are we twelve minutes
Speaker 1: into this? Can we get a check time check, time, check,
Speaker 1: and somebody check when under five minutes? You know? And
Speaker 1: this is what feeds the fuel of all the YouTube
Speaker 1: videos of Schuster cringing moments, ugly in a bath, shirtless shoe,
Speaker 1: shirtless shoe, Yes we have the teacher is shirtless and
Speaker 1: under five minutes. Welcome to Glee, everyone, Welcome to Glee.
Speaker 1: Um okay, I also to talk about the name of
Speaker 1: our gly club because Mr Schuster still shirtless? Still shirtless? No? No.
Speaker 1: The new directions sign up sheet goes up new directions,
Speaker 1: um and e W space directions right, Um, people didn't
Speaker 1: know this, like people still don't know, like massive fans
Speaker 1: that like Claudia and Jackie from The Toast, like Morning
Speaker 1: Toast still didn't know that New Directions is nude erections.
Speaker 1: That's what it's supposed to sound like. And also he's
Speaker 1: waking up in the middle of the night and I
Speaker 1: think that was that was definitely I I was probably
Speaker 1: a nod to the the original screenplay. Um, this is
Speaker 1: also little tidbit. Um, this is where we came up
Speaker 1: with Tina's last name. So in the script, yeah, so
Speaker 1: in the script, um, we were about to shoot this
Speaker 1: where we all walk up and we saw our names
Speaker 1: and then it cuts to our auditions and um, Ian
Speaker 1: was there, Brad was there. I don't know if Brad
Speaker 1: was there. Actually Ian and Ryan were there, and I
Speaker 1: walked up and um, I said, what is my last
Speaker 1: Like what am I going to sign my last name?
Speaker 1: And He's like see Tina see And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: what does it stand for? And He's like, Ian's like,
Speaker 1: that's a really good question. Why don't we do Cohen
Speaker 1: Cohen Cohen Chang? Um? Because my last name was is
Speaker 1: I don't know still is? I guess my maiden name
Speaker 1: is Ushkowitz. And he was. The people were just like
Speaker 1: floored by, you know, this little Korean American with like
Speaker 1: a Jewish last name. So this is a nod to
Speaker 1: Jenna and Cohen. Check yeah, I'm sweet. Also, wasn't there
Speaker 1: like a continuity issue with the sign up sheet? Was
Speaker 1: there that when you like it was originally written and
Speaker 1: it was like Tina, like you would write in a
Speaker 1: stutter as I did. I did shoot that once. We
Speaker 1: did shoot that once that it was like, um, like
Speaker 1: I wrote like I stuttered. But then I think they
Speaker 1: had me do it the other way just in case,
Speaker 1: and I think and then it cuts back to it
Speaker 1: and both yea and tenas do you remember these auditions?
Speaker 1: So then the auditions come up and I remember, yes
Speaker 1: that it was like late at night. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: a last minute decision or something. It was the last
Speaker 1: minute decision, which was my nightmare. You weren't here, right,
Speaker 1: You weren't there for it because I was. You were
Speaker 1: you hung out? I hung out because I wanted to see. Also,
Speaker 1: we were shooting in Long Beach and that was not
Speaker 1: close to I. For any of you geography nerds, I
Speaker 1: lived in Santa Clarita, which is northern l A so
Speaker 1: far you were, so it was wried and Long Beach
Speaker 1: was the opposite direction, and so I was in no
Speaker 1: rush to go back because I'm like, what am I
Speaker 1: going to do? I'm not excited to drive two hours
Speaker 1: home right now we were. I was honestly concerned for
Speaker 1: you because I was like, he's going to fall asleep
Speaker 1: with the wheel where sometimes, like early on you did
Speaker 1: sleep on my couch because we were like shooting till
Speaker 1: midnight and then had to be there at six um. No,
Speaker 1: this was actually yeah, So we were supposed to do
Speaker 1: this at the end of the shoot, like at the
Speaker 1: end of the week, and for some reason scheduling how
Speaker 1: TV works, everything that pulled up and I had not
Speaker 1: rehearsed this song yet. So Tina's original audition song was
Speaker 1: if I were a Bell from Guys and Dolls? Is
Speaker 1: that right? Guys and Dolls? I think so. And because
Speaker 1: my costume was like already and she was a sweet
Speaker 1: little girl. And then when everything switched over and Ryan
Speaker 1: decided she was going to be gothic and I went
Speaker 1: gothic like it was. I was stressed. I was really
Speaker 1: really stressed. Had they not addressed the that song issue?
Speaker 1: Yet after they changed your wardrobe, Um, they addressed the
Speaker 1: song issue. But I thought on the schedule that I
Speaker 1: had time, So okay, so you knew what song was
Speaker 1: going to be. I did know, We did know it
Speaker 1: was going to be I kissed a girl that had
Speaker 1: to get cleared, So I think they knew. I just
Speaker 1: hadn't gone, you know, even like I hadn't rehearsed it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I mean, to be fair, we were doing we
Speaker 1: were shooting how many hours a day and then still
Speaker 1: rehearsing for all the other group numbers and things, so
Speaker 1: there was a lot of free times. It was chaos.
Speaker 1: We also, I mean side note, we normal episode we
Speaker 1: would try to shoot in eight days. The pilot we
Speaker 1: shot over three weeks, not including the two three weeks
Speaker 1: of rehearsal prior to shooting. So there was a much
Speaker 1: longer time period in which it took to do all
Speaker 1: these things. And it wasn't because we had more time.
Speaker 1: We were still filling up all of that time with
Speaker 1: shooting things and rehearsing and recording figuring things out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we didn't have a system yet. It was not
Speaker 1: the well oiled machine and eventually became a couple of
Speaker 1: years later. Yes, um, so back then I kissed a girl. No,
Speaker 1: it was just it was wild and it was late
Speaker 1: at night. I remember being really tired and really stressed
Speaker 1: about it, and then Zach Woodley was I was like,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do with the choreographer? Honestly sorry,
Speaker 1: our choreographer, amazing choreographer who literally choreographed all seven numbers
Speaker 1: that we did. Um, it's mind blowing to me. I
Speaker 1: remember being outside the high school and Long Beach and
Speaker 1: you panicking and knew that fear of God in your eyes,
Speaker 1: and you were pacing around, and it was also very
Speaker 1: indicative of everybody's personalities of Amber was like okay, and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, I gotta get this right. I wasn't prepared,
Speaker 1: but I have to get this right, and you're pacing
Speaker 1: and Chris is sort of like went away. Literally he
Speaker 1: literally just disappeared and did his own thing. Yeah. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: it is very type of of me to feel very underprepared.
Speaker 1: But there was something about it that like we felt
Speaker 1: like we needed something like really strong and really like
Speaker 1: I don't know, commanding, and something that maybe would like
Speaker 1: shock Mr Shoe. So Zach came up with this move
Speaker 1: that you know, the hip hit. That felt insane. I
Speaker 1: mean it really felt insane, but also felt really right.
Speaker 1: It felt really right. It also didn't help you sort
Speaker 1: of like get over the nerves of like I have
Speaker 1: to be ridiculous now what we're doing. Yes, and those um,
Speaker 1: those audition songs were some of the only things that
Speaker 1: we recorded. We we did live um probably ever so
Speaker 1: we sang all of that live with Brad Ellis on
Speaker 1: the piano, UM, whereas as most of you know, we
Speaker 1: lip sing and would prerecord all of these songs and
Speaker 1: UM previous to shooting them. But you all sounded great.
Speaker 1: It's very kind. That's very very kind. I was very nervous. UM.
Speaker 1: But these audition songs, I feel like really also set
Speaker 1: kind of the tone. UM. It also was reflective of
Speaker 1: how we rehearsed in real life. Do you remember one
Speaker 1: of the first days of our vocal rehearsals, everyone had
Speaker 1: to go around and do the audition songs. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: right because we were our first group number was Sdaniel
Speaker 1: Rock in the Boats. We have been working on that
Speaker 1: and then it was like, oh, let's just go over
Speaker 1: these just in case, and then Amber, you and Chris saying,
Speaker 1: and that was the first time that we had ever
Speaker 1: heard each other saying yes, and we were all floored. Florida, Florida.
Speaker 1: Everybody was so different and so it was just it
Speaker 1: was really, that was really, it was magical. That's a
Speaker 1: really cool moment. We should also like take a running
Speaker 1: tally or make some notes for questions we want answered
Speaker 1: by Ryan. We can do true or false. And then
Speaker 1: at the end of the episode sent him a voice
Speaker 1: note because there's gotta be the slushy comes out of
Speaker 1: nowhere and yeah, I feel like that was an Ian
Speaker 1: thing too. We gotta ask Ryan's even ever had a slushy? Well,
Speaker 1: let's put that on the list. You've never had a slushy? Like,
Speaker 1: have you even tasted you had a magical goodness of
Speaker 1: a slushy? Probably? Not? Probably, I can't imagine him having
Speaker 1: a slushy. No, that queen has never stepped into a seven.
Speaker 1: Somebody's missing, No, he doesn't. I love that. I love
Speaker 1: doing a Coca cola and a little cherry in my
Speaker 1: slafe when I was obviously you gotta make okay. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: that's a good one though. Let's let's clock that one
Speaker 1: for Ryan and then we're into a little Rachel introduction
Speaker 1: montage in the MySpace era that we all survived. Yeah, um, um,
Speaker 1: some of these comments were on the space page were incredible,
Speaker 1: like any sort of other comedy that came through because
Speaker 1: of Ian Ian wrote all of Sue's stuff, where all
Speaker 1: of these I'm going to scratch up my eyes. If
Speaker 1: I were your parents, I would sell you bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know that you very much know the tone
Speaker 1: of the show very quickly. Um. And then also did
Speaker 1: you see that when Rachel states that she tries to
Speaker 1: post on her MySpace page every day, um to keep
Speaker 1: her toweling alive and growing. The when the cheerios are
Speaker 1: watching it on the benches, um, in the gymnasium, it
Speaker 1: says in the boxes say similar videos. It stays there
Speaker 1: in no other video post continuity. Let me just stay
Speaker 1: here right now here, and now that continuity in our show.
Speaker 1: Poor poor poor Carol Banker and um Babs because I
Speaker 1: just called her Babs. Perhaps was script supervisor. God bless
Speaker 1: them because they're just angels. Um. They had to keep
Speaker 1: track of like when our hair was in front and
Speaker 1: when our hair was in back, and like all of
Speaker 1: these wild things that just don't track right, and there's
Speaker 1: so many people in every scene. It's just so hard.
Speaker 1: It's so hard. Berhabs would be like Jenna Hair, Jenna Hair,
Speaker 1: um about Rachel's like laptop stickers, hot stuff. It's really
Speaker 1: is gold. Also sing all the time whenever I see
Speaker 1: a hot boy, I go I love him, And it's
Speaker 1: from this. And also because I knew nothing in musical
Speaker 1: theater except Phantom of the Opera, this was my introduction
Speaker 1: to the song on my own well, your song that
Speaker 1: no one had ever heard of, Welcome on My Broadway.
Speaker 1: I feel like every time we go through these episodes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like this was the first time I
Speaker 1: heard that song. Yeah, I get used to it. We've
Speaker 1: trained you, Okay, So we go into our first rehearsal
Speaker 1: um and this was a very nerve racking scene for me.
Speaker 1: This is your solo, this is your moment. It was
Speaker 1: my soul. We also did pre record this, but I
Speaker 1: was so flat that it sounded live. It was before
Speaker 1: they started fixing us. Well. They wanted this to sound scratchy, right,
Speaker 1: to be like a shop moment. No, it sure sounded scratchy,
Speaker 1: sounded great. So this was really a fun number to
Speaker 1: rehearse as well. We rehearsed in Hollywood and just like
Speaker 1: getting you getting I remember you getting used to the wheelchair, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and all very much at this time that we all,
Speaker 1: I think we all were very similar to the characters.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of like team building getting to
Speaker 1: know you going on. And that was our first group
Speaker 1: scene with Ryan because he was directing it. We got
Speaker 1: in trouble and the scene we got in trouble, we
Speaker 1: couldn't stop I couldn't stop laughing. We all couldn't stop
Speaker 1: laughing because he asked us to all kind of look
Speaker 1: up at the ceiling and like look like be sad
Speaker 1: and like think about what was coming next. And he
Speaker 1: kept like, remember he kept throwing things at us from
Speaker 1: behind this like um from where he was in video
Speaker 1: village vaguely and and he just kept like having us
Speaker 1: improv things and making Curt say stuff and dying laughing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I laughed through this entire pilot
Speaker 1: um and he was like, Okay, you can't do that selfishly.
Speaker 1: I just remember I wasn't originally supposed to be pushed
Speaker 1: into the wall in the scene, and he's he said,
Speaker 1: let's try it, and I was like, okay, and just
Speaker 1: absolutely murdered my knees. But you know, it's all good.
Speaker 1: I'm fine. Um. And it's the first Rachel storm out.
Speaker 1: It is the first racial storm out, one of one
Speaker 1: thousand fifty two. Um. I I love this number though.
Speaker 1: This was a really fun little number. And I also
Speaker 1: love if you look at that choir room, it's obviously
Speaker 1: not the choir room that we used the rest of
Speaker 1: the series. Tell people, tell the people what they want
Speaker 1: to all. Because what we did was over the first
Speaker 1: um season and a half we reconstructed most of these
Speaker 1: locations so that when we start episode two filming, we
Speaker 1: have reconstructed most of the school. So there's a brand
Speaker 1: new choir room that after a real choir room that
Speaker 1: we shot at in Burbank, and then the auditorium and
Speaker 1: the halls were made to look like it and everything.
Speaker 1: The auditorium wasn't built. I think it wasn't done until
Speaker 1: a couple episodes end of season two, and it is
Speaker 1: almost a foot by foot reconstruction of the auditorium at
Speaker 1: the high school we shot in the Long Beach. That's crazy,
Speaker 1: but they made every obviously for filming courses, they expanded
Speaker 1: every single room to make it a little bigger and
Speaker 1: easier to light. Um, because that choir room I remember
Speaker 1: shooting in the one that sit Down Your rocking. The
Speaker 1: boat was shot and the pilot was very small and
Speaker 1: hot and dark and very dark, yes, and but it
Speaker 1: was really cool. It's like such a it's a smaller version.
Speaker 1: So if you go and you look at the pilot
Speaker 1: and then you look at the new choir room in
Speaker 1: the next episode, you'll see the next episode probably, um,
Speaker 1: you'll see like a little bit of difference, but it's
Speaker 1: pretty spot on. Kudos to our um our department, the crew,
Speaker 1: amazing crew. Um. All right, let's keep let's keep going.
Speaker 1: So Figgins tells you that they need the auditorium for
Speaker 1: um for a Is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You
Speaker 1: gotta make money somewhere. And the only way he can
Speaker 1: have it is if if we make it to regionals,
Speaker 1: and if Glee can stay, the Glee club can stay
Speaker 1: if we win regionals. So there and lies the entire
Speaker 1: crux of the Glee clubs existence, as we are going
Speaker 1: to start working towards competitions and competition to competition because
Speaker 1: we were fighting for our survival and at every turn
Speaker 1: Susilvester is trying to take us down, and so is
Speaker 1: Figgins writing for our survival. I like, yeah, um alright,
Speaker 1: so sheets and things, Um, this is where we meet Terry.
Speaker 1: Evil Terry who was a Ryan Murphy alum justin gil
Speaker 1: Sing who was on nip talking got killed off, um
Speaker 1: weirdly in a very r rated manner. But Cheats and
Speaker 1: Things is really just haroard bamboo. Like, it's just all
Speaker 1: these little quirks that made the pilot even more colorful
Speaker 1: and you know, created that world that Ryan was talking about.
Speaker 1: I also think Ryan loves the bead Beth and Beyond
Speaker 1: moment because do you know how many times I've talked
Speaker 1: to him on the phone and he has made jokes
Speaker 1: about bed Beth Nyond? But has he ever really been
Speaker 1: in a bed bathroom? And this is like a slushy?
Speaker 1: Can we add that to the list you've ever been
Speaker 1: into a bad bathroom Beyond? Because I don't think he's
Speaker 1: ever been in one. Honestly, Um, this is Terry. This
Speaker 1: is where she sets the scene. She's upset because she's
Speaker 1: working four hours a day, three days a week and
Speaker 1: having dinner by herself and that is just unacceptable. Truly unacceptable.
Speaker 1: And also this is where Schuster runs into ex glee
Speaker 1: club teacher, disgraced goolee club teacher Sandy Ryerson, who is
Speaker 1: a proud drug dealer and is loving it. I mean,
Speaker 1: how times have changed, right, I mean now weed is
Speaker 1: legal in so many states. And back then, back then,
Speaker 1: we were bribing, we were blackmailing, we were children chronic glove. Um,
Speaker 1: that's okay. So we find out that he's a dragdale
Speaker 1: right now. So in fact, Stephen Toblawski and Groundhog Day,
Speaker 1: his character was named Ned Ryerson. It's Sandy Ryerson. What
Speaker 1: I love little things like that? What a nugget, Kevin? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I found it all by myself. Um, okay, alright, so
Speaker 1: we're now we're back at school, because why wouldn't we
Speaker 1: be back at school? Alright, So Emma steps in Gum,
Speaker 1: which is like her worst nightmare, literally her worst nightmare.
Speaker 1: But the costume is so good, Oh it's the best.
Speaker 1: And the shoe is good, and how it shot is
Speaker 1: so pretty cute and the credit card it's just so cute.
Speaker 1: It's really cute. Yeah, it's so cute. Um, But this
Speaker 1: is it, this is where we go. This is off
Speaker 1: to the races. We go. Emma convinces or suggests to
Speaker 1: Will that she finds somebody popular to jointly. And she's
Speaker 1: not wrong. She's always there supporting Will. Why why she
Speaker 1: always supporting Why? I don't know. We have yet to
Speaker 1: find out. The episode is not over yet, alright, So
Speaker 1: this scene where do you go to find the popular kids?
Speaker 1: You go to the football team. Obviously, um, this is
Speaker 1: where Schuster gives his pitch to the football team. Puck
Speaker 1: farts on him. You know, it's normal teenage boy antics
Speaker 1: and the locker also, I mean is it? I also
Speaker 1: think that's setting a precedent of like a lot of
Speaker 1: scenes with teachers and kids happening in the locker room.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of weird honestly though. It's it's a
Speaker 1: good set, Kevin, Yeah, it was. It was a good set.
Speaker 1: You're right, another one they recreated. There's also they talk
Speaker 1: about grays Natomy and the scene which just shows you
Speaker 1: how long grays Natomy has been on the air. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's it's been on since I was a newborn.
Speaker 1: Harry wasn't even on Glee yet and now Harry, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's wild, you know, good for them because
Speaker 1: I freaking love Graysonatomy, support Harry and grays Anatomy. That's right. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so nobody signs up. But this number, God, this number
Speaker 1: gives me chills every time I watch it. Um, really
Speaker 1: it creeps me out. Really, I think it's so good.
Speaker 1: I think it's good, and he sounds great, but also
Speaker 1: it's like creepy then Mr Shoe creeping on a naked boy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: teen teen boy not okay, it's not okay, But I
Speaker 1: will say, Corey, I love this song. I love of
Speaker 1: Corey and I love this this like intro to him.
Speaker 1: I think it's like it really sets the tone. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's adorable. Um, he's like a big puppy and
Speaker 1: he's just adorable and so endearing and immediately makes us
Speaker 1: love Finn. Yeah, we love Finn alright. So she who
Speaker 1: pretends to find chronic lady and he blackmails him. I
Speaker 1: actually remember this scene when they were filming it because
Speaker 1: it was like one of our first days filming, and
Speaker 1: it was like the first scene of the of the pilot, right,
Speaker 1: the first that seemed that was filmed, the first thing
Speaker 1: that they filmed on the pilot, And then we were
Speaker 1: there very shortly after to do something ridiculous. We're rehearsing
Speaker 1: don't stop. Oh we were. Yeah, that was the same
Speaker 1: day we found out Jane was on the show. Oh,
Speaker 1: and that's the day we ate cake. And that was
Speaker 1: the day I got replaced as Finn Standon by actual Finn.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, don't stop Kevin O. So Kevin would play
Speaker 1: Finn and don't prsals got it? Got it? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: my memory, that's right, and your gut and then you
Speaker 1: had to go sit in your chair. I felt Yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt so sad. And then I had to go
Speaker 1: learn how to play guitar. You actually had to learn
Speaker 1: how to play that bass though it was it was
Speaker 1: an electric guitar. Oh, electric guitar. Sorry, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: very hard. Believable but hard. Was it believable enough? Kevin?
Speaker 1: It was believable. I tried my heart. I did it.
Speaker 1: I also like, how did they get this past people
Speaker 1: at Fox? You know, for all the things that an
Speaker 1: executive calling the show what they called it at the time,
Speaker 1: and people champion, you know, having Dana and Jenny champion
Speaker 1: the show. But you didn't have a scene where there's
Speaker 1: a teacher creeping in the showers and then blackmails a kid,
Speaker 1: you know, with drugs. I do remember reading the pilot,
Speaker 1: and this is what made me love the pilot was
Speaker 1: that the show was dark and didn't care Irreverend and
Speaker 1: just like, oh yeah, we're gonna black male high school
Speaker 1: students and league club. And I remember at my apartment
Speaker 1: building where I lived, laughing out loud and takes my
Speaker 1: manager like, yes, I need to hush for the show.
Speaker 1: It m hmm. I don't even remember when I first
Speaker 1: read this script. Honestly my memory, I don't remember that either.
Speaker 1: That's when there was a character named Away became and
Speaker 1: that role, as we know, was made for Chris. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just Golden Globe winning Nobody, no big, all right.
Speaker 1: So then we go into the amazing background on Finn
Speaker 1: and that awesome montage with Romey royse Mott and it's
Speaker 1: just so good too. That denim outfit so good. Put
Speaker 1: it in the Smithsonian rowe looks great. I just that
Speaker 1: that really Also, I was like, we didn't see that.
Speaker 1: So when we watched in the pilot, we were like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is awesome. Um, and then we going to You're
Speaker 1: the one that I want, right, yes, which was the
Speaker 1: first thing we ever rehearsed with Corey. That's right now now,
Speaker 1: now real quick, this is where Rachel touches Tina's she does,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, you didn't see that? Oh yes, and the
Speaker 1: number she does remember that makes it. Yes, that was
Speaker 1: the whole thing because she kissed a girl and she
Speaker 1: liked it. But then that all went away. Um, but
Speaker 1: that was like a weird one off moment. I think
Speaker 1: we were just figuring things out and Tina could still
Speaker 1: like it, do you know what I mean? Like in
Speaker 1: this day and age, Gina could still like it. Tina
Speaker 1: is a bisexual queen, that is right, and she's office
Speaker 1: when he's talking to Finn. Also, this is like where
Speaker 1: we get an intro to all these incredible props that
Speaker 1: we see a lot in Emma's office later on of all,
Speaker 1: like the random pam flashers and signs, like in his
Speaker 1: offices you could land a prison son and everyoneuld already
Speaker 1: helped the kids, which was so good. The children are
Speaker 1: Mamma like the bean, like the bean. Well everybody that
Speaker 1: was actually really helpful for me, honestly, Lama like the
Speaker 1: bean because everybody was calling in Lima. I still have
Speaker 1: to think about it respect to have to go RSP
Speaker 1: E C T S B. All right, So then we
Speaker 1: go back to Terry and Will. But this really takes this, honestly,
Speaker 1: let's be roll. This really takes this too. Where Will
Speaker 1: wants to take us on a field trip, right, like
Speaker 1: this is the whole point of that, right yeah, And
Speaker 1: we get to see more of home life is not
Speaker 1: all it's cracked up to be. And Terry is really
Speaker 1: into her craft closet and really into this American puzzle
Speaker 1: she's doing. We love that. We love that, um all right,
Speaker 1: so we'll need chaperones and who else? Who else? Kevin
Speaker 1: obviously just the sweet tweet, nicest little teacher on the planet,
Speaker 1: sweet tweet Emma Um, Emma signs up. She's very excited.
Speaker 1: This is where we see the dough ide look of
Speaker 1: the iconic do ide look of jam Amy's and Emma Pillsbury.
Speaker 1: It's also when the scheming gets going, when you know,
Speaker 1: Finn has to get a football practice because let's going
Speaker 1: this trip and pucks like that doesn't sound right, It's
Speaker 1: not gonna gets mad because he's got a crush on him. Eminem.
Speaker 1: It's all this and it is also the first time
Speaker 1: we get to this field trip, and it's also the
Speaker 1: first time all these people, all these characters are connected together.
Speaker 1: So pause for a second, but we can like in
Speaker 1: the recap, eminem, Um, my daughter's name is Emma, which
Speaker 1: we know now, but yeah, I kept saying to David.
Speaker 1: We were like, what are people are going to call her? Um? Like,
Speaker 1: what's her nickname going to be? And I was like,
Speaker 1: is it going to be Eminem? And He's like what?
Speaker 1: And I was like, where did I hear that? It's glee?
Speaker 1: You got accepted by your own job. But this is
Speaker 1: how bad my memory, Eminem. I was like, where am
Speaker 1: ir for? Okay? The character Emma is incredible? Yes, exactly, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so all the characters coming together and this
Speaker 1: was our last day of filming and this was really sweet. Um.
Speaker 1: This is also the first time we saw vocal adrenaline.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Performed? Yea, and in Kevin and Jenna's
Speaker 1: life and in um Ardentina's and we had a lot
Speaker 1: of well, I had a lot of friends who were
Speaker 1: answers and vocal journaline. And then you go back like
Speaker 1: Harry Shum's wife Shelby is in the number that's right, Brooklifton,
Speaker 1: our other choreographer, was in this number, and so was
Speaker 1: her sister, I mean all our and then all of
Speaker 1: our friends. Yes, and then a lot of these dancers
Speaker 1: ended up going on tour with us. That's right, um,
Speaker 1: so this is the first time we also see um
Speaker 1: the flashback of Quinn. Yes, Quinn Fabre, Diana Gron And
Speaker 1: Diana was the last person to be cast on the show,
Speaker 1: so we didn't really know her either until we started
Speaker 1: filming the show, right yeah, well, I mean sorry after
Speaker 1: the pilot, but like um, yeah, we didn't work with
Speaker 1: her at all, which she felt also the phantom character
Speaker 1: at this shoot on this day, I remember asking um
Speaker 1: Ian about casting her because I knew she was We
Speaker 1: had already started shooting and they hadn't cast the Queenn
Speaker 1: Rule yet, and I had so many friends who had
Speaker 1: audition for her, including like Ashley Benson who went on
Speaker 1: to be um and I remember Ian saying, we can,
Speaker 1: We'll get in on here and ask him about it.
Speaker 1: I I do remember. They were just like at a
Speaker 1: lost because the network wouldn't approve anyone, right, but the
Speaker 1: network loved Diana as they should and here she here
Speaker 1: she The rain begins yeah, the rain begins. Um uh,
Speaker 1: this is the cute little um PB and J share
Speaker 1: with the sandwich and uh. Someone commented on Will's outfit
Speaker 1: in the scene that his leather jacket he looked like
Speaker 1: Spike from Buffy the Vampires And they're not wrong. I'm
Speaker 1: not wrong about that. That's that's pretty great. Kevin's eyes
Speaker 1: like wow. Um. And this is one of Tina's only
Speaker 1: lines in the pilot. It ye, where did it doomed? Um?
Speaker 1: It was so good this number. Um. I remember also
Speaker 1: like our reaction laughing at this one too. I just
Speaker 1: laughed at the whole pilot. This was also when we
Speaker 1: came back. After the pilot got picked up and we
Speaker 1: got back, we had about a month to sort of
Speaker 1: start rehearsing and get in fighting shape, dancing shape sort of.
Speaker 1: Where do you remember Brooke and Zack started teaching us
Speaker 1: this numbers and you did the lift with me the
Speaker 1: little like, um, you were my partner. It's also when
Speaker 1: I everyone convinced me and start drinking protein shakes because
Speaker 1: I didn't know what they were and I didn't realize
Speaker 1: you needed to work out in addition to having protein shakes,
Speaker 1: So I just started gaining a lot of points. Stop stop,
Speaker 1: stop stop, you're like the caltate bars. I was that.
Speaker 1: I was so dumb because we were finally on the
Speaker 1: lot in Paramount and you know they have a little anyway,
Speaker 1: we don't need to use that, but no, no, we
Speaker 1: have to use that. That number was so good. It's
Speaker 1: also crazy to think about and what they were too
Speaker 1: good and what world would we ever be able to
Speaker 1: compete with them? I'm not sure we ever did. I
Speaker 1: know now we didn't, but that we we talked about
Speaker 1: this on the show. They write this into the show.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not our fourteme. That's not what we do.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of heart, okay, and a lot
Speaker 1: of we have heart. Okay. So we go home and
Speaker 1: Terry is throwing herself a party. Obviously she put up
Speaker 1: there's a congratulation science behind her um and she has
Speaker 1: glasses of champagne, which she's pregnant. Well, she's also not
Speaker 1: in the right state of mind. No, that's right, she's
Speaker 1: everything's falling apart, like Finn got caught going to the show.
Speaker 1: That's Harry is saying she's pregnant? Is she is? She?
Speaker 1: And then this this little scene that I love so
Speaker 1: much that we shot where Will tells us he's quitting
Speaker 1: and I actually cried is the first of many cries,
Speaker 1: one of the first of many times when Artie is
Speaker 1: magically up on the stairs for some reason. That's right,
Speaker 1: I remember I carried me out there. It's okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. I also was wondering, like why everyone was
Speaker 1: so emotional because we just got together, like Will just yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know, the stakes are high. Everything matters in
Speaker 1: high school. Right. Do you remember when you're in high
Speaker 1: school and your tests, everything has everything matters, everything matter.
Speaker 1: The true test of a great high school show is
Speaker 1: to be able to capture those moments. And Ryan mentioned
Speaker 1: that of your first where everything feels so heightened, your
Speaker 1: first brushes, your first loves and heartbreak, and tests are competitions,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, everything is absolutely the end of
Speaker 1: the world. And for the glee club, this was the
Speaker 1: end of the world, except Rachel had other ideas. Um
Speaker 1: and then this really sweet seen also right, is right
Speaker 1: after this My Memories where where Emma kind of shows
Speaker 1: Will something which was cut out but no, but I
Speaker 1: can't even imagine it any other way. But that scene,
Speaker 1: it's that music that they play. It was the scoring
Speaker 1: that they play in every of those heartfelt moments, and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh god, I got got again. Um. That
Speaker 1: makes me emotional every time I watch it. Um. And
Speaker 1: then she has his solo that's right, which was originally
Speaker 1: Viva la Vida colay I also which I also can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I think this was right. Let's put this down for
Speaker 1: Ryan Choue or falls. That song Vio Levida didn't get cleared.
Speaker 1: Uh huh m. Copley said, not today, not today, not today. Um,
Speaker 1: all right. So this is also like the beginning of
Speaker 1: Rachel and Finn that we see, right, it's a very
Speaker 1: good scene of Rachel being out of her mind and
Speaker 1: fronting Finn and Finn sort of folding but feeling guilty
Speaker 1: about just always conflicted, a slight conflict. And then and
Speaker 1: then we also see Quinn and Santana that's right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we don't know how horribly mean they are or
Speaker 1: how brilliant they are, okay, um, And then it's your
Speaker 1: your swan song already, thank you very much. What was
Speaker 1: that like being in the porter body? Was it a
Speaker 1: real porter body? It was a real porter potty, but
Speaker 1: it was brand new. It was very clean, so I'm
Speaker 1: not traumatized any sort of but like also wasn't comfortable
Speaker 1: and it was tight, and I remember sort of like
Speaker 1: cutting up my knuckles. It was a little question of no.
Speaker 1: I just felt it was one of those This was
Speaker 1: the first thing I shot for the pilot, and it
Speaker 1: also just was so much fun to get to. I
Speaker 1: really felt like I was in a big production, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm in the outfit. Yeah, I'm in the porter potty,
Speaker 1: like I'm in the thing. There's props, there's like I
Speaker 1: really got to like use everything around me and that
Speaker 1: was so much fun. Um and when party comes back,
Speaker 1: sorry porter body comes back in a later episode named
Speaker 1: that episode, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either.
Speaker 1: Typical okay, anyway, sorry, keep going trivia that she can't
Speaker 1: even answer it. I just remember being in a porter buddy,
Speaker 1: that's all. Remember. This is also the first time I
Speaker 1: got to hang out with Corey and I admitted to
Speaker 1: him that I was resentful. Did he laugh? He must
Speaker 1: have laughed, and he I think he was shocked that
Speaker 1: I had seen Kyle's wife. I brought my mom to
Speaker 1: set that day, and she was really like she didn't
Speaker 1: like seeing me in the wheelchair. Really, yeah, Betsy, she
Speaker 1: was just like it just I don't want you, like
Speaker 1: to get injured or anything. Oh okay, I'm I guess
Speaker 1: acting mom acting acting. It was such a It was
Speaker 1: a great day though. It was a great experience, and
Speaker 1: I got to hang out with everyone. That's right. But
Speaker 1: also this is where Fenn proves he's actually a good
Speaker 1: guy and he rescues me. He gets mad at his
Speaker 1: own friends and brings me back to the glee club
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, guys, don't count us out yet.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, we're back. We we skipped, I wasn't so wrong.
Speaker 1: We This is later the tape of him and Nationals.
Speaker 1: This is now, so then we now is when we
Speaker 1: actually watched that. See, this is how bad we are.
Speaker 1: We're not even good at recapping, even with papers in
Speaker 1: front of us. Don't say we Jenna, I um okay.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So Emma now shows the old typically at
Speaker 1: Nationals now that Will has left and has a job,
Speaker 1: like an accounting job or applying for He's applying for
Speaker 1: an accounting job. Money for the baby, the baby, the baby,
Speaker 1: which we don't we think is real. Yeah, the baby's coming.
Speaker 1: The baby's coming. Um. And then here we are and
Speaker 1: this is it. This is the number that took. I
Speaker 1: think we did seventy five times um for five different
Speaker 1: renditions that were wrong, all wrong. Um. And here we do,
Speaker 1: Here we are, Here we go Kevin. I was working
Speaker 1: out yesterday and the song that opened up my workout
Speaker 1: was a remix I don't stop believe n did you
Speaker 1: run out? I almost jumped off my trampoline. This song
Speaker 1: follows us everywhere we go once a day, maybe if
Speaker 1: we're off in the world. Ya, everywhere we go. Um.
Speaker 1: And this was also the first of how many times
Speaker 1: six or seven times six? And then we did like
Speaker 1: it was the five of us and it was a
Speaker 1: twelve of us and then some of us did it
Speaker 1: and I don't even know we did it once when
Speaker 1: when Quinn was Quinn was pregnant and throwing up the
Speaker 1: burrito baby. Um, six times, six times times and the
Speaker 1: gang gets a number together to convince not even to
Speaker 1: convince you to come back. We do it for ourselves,
Speaker 1: that's right. And then Shoe sees it and it is
Speaker 1: a beautiful ending of him coming in crying. We see
Speaker 1: Sue and the cheerios, piste off Puck angry. Everyone's in.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows everybody's in. Also, um uh, this is when
Speaker 1: we got in trouble with Ryan. We didn't even get
Speaker 1: to ask him about it, but this is when we
Speaker 1: got in trouble with Ryan. We were footing around on
Speaker 1: Will's coverage, which now we know from Ryan saying it.
Speaker 1: That was also like such a massive moment of like
Speaker 1: Matt Matt Morrison crying when he's watching us, and we
Speaker 1: were like making dirty dance moves in the back and
Speaker 1: Rand was like, you guys like humping each other and
Speaker 1: he's like, you guys, you have to be serious and
Speaker 1: do this dance number. And I don't think I ever
Speaker 1: fussed around with Ryan directing ever again, never again, ever again.
Speaker 1: It's also because he was so fast and knew exactly
Speaker 1: what he needed to do, and so like I never
Speaker 1: footsed around when he was on set. No, it was
Speaker 1: a good it was better to learn that lesson early on. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, we were. And we're also like he probably
Speaker 1: felt bad yelling at us too because we were so young. No,
Speaker 1: we deserved it. Absolutely. It was also late at night.
Speaker 1: Um and that's that's the pilot, you guys, that's the pilot.
Speaker 1: For the hundred thousands times that we've seen it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you've probably said, you know what, she still got it?
Speaker 1: She got it. I will say, well, we'll go through
Speaker 1: this series and you'll hear us when episodes don't got
Speaker 1: it and that pilot is still the one. So every week,
Speaker 1: UM Tardie takes. This is our version of yeah who,
Speaker 1: This is our version of UM class superlatives. So we're
Speaker 1: going to give you our takes each week on the
Speaker 1: following categories UM start with cringe moment, Kevin um, it's
Speaker 1: it's got to be shirtless, Schuster, and under five. I
Speaker 1: was also going to say Stephen Tobolaski, UM touching touching
Speaker 1: a student or Sandy Ryerson touching a student right right right, Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: worst dance move. I think that was. You're the one
Speaker 1: that I want where Tina gets tatas touched. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a great one. Okay, the song don't Stop obviously the
Speaker 1: best line. I mean, sentimentally, being part special makes you special.
Speaker 1: But also I have to I have a phone, or
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes on the top one with
Speaker 1: a major media outlet, I'll probably do it on my iPhone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was love that best performance by a prop porter potty. Yes,
Speaker 1: um didn't age well, Sandy Ryerson, Um, the marijuana aged well.
Speaker 1: The greatest anatomy mentioned right. Absolutely, Shanna Rhimes knows what
Speaker 1: she's doing. So um. One of my favorite segments we're
Speaker 1: gonna be doing is should be found on TikTok uh.
Speaker 1: And we're starting this off because the ship you guys
Speaker 1: say is out of this world is wild and so
Speaker 1: we want to take this opportunity to debunk some myths
Speaker 1: and some hot takes that aren't so hot. I feel
Speaker 1: like we got to start with the one on the
Speaker 1: one Ken Ken Leah Michelle read barely, but I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: Obviously she can read. I don't know why. Of course
Speaker 1: she can read, you guys, she can read, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. Stupid, I'm sorry you come at me, but
Speaker 1: like stupid, Thank god, I'm glad she posted some yeah
Speaker 1: that was funny about it and leaned into it. It's
Speaker 1: very very good, but like what why it's been on
Speaker 1: for years too. I can't wait for these tiktoks because
Speaker 1: I'm not on TikTok like I don't. I don't go
Speaker 1: on TikTok very much. Well, mothers don't go on TikTok. No,
Speaker 1: I don't go on TikTok. I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: you bringing me all of them so we can talk
Speaker 1: about them. I just wanted to get this one out
Speaker 1: of the way because everyone asks us single day just
Speaker 1: be done with it. I even know about this one,
Speaker 1: which says a lot. Yeah, let it go, let it out, goodbye.
Speaker 1: And now that we've debunked that that little nugget, that's
Speaker 1: the end of our pilot episode. We're super so excited
Speaker 1: that we got to um kick it off with Ryan
Speaker 1: Murphy and with this episode, we're super super super grateful,
Speaker 1: like we said before, UM for all of your support
Speaker 1: and listening and subscribing, like this is unreal and we
Speaker 1: we can't wait to keep going with you guys. Okay,
Speaker 1: I sent him the voice note. What did he say?
Speaker 1: Did he respond? He responded, he just responded, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: um too that he's never had a slush He said, false, um,
Speaker 1: And so he has on and he's been into a
Speaker 1: seven eleven He said, I live at seven elevens as
Speaker 1: a kid because I'm from Indiana. Okay, fair enough, and
Speaker 1: then he said false. Of course, I've been to bed
Speaker 1: Beth and Beyond and frequently them often. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: forget like he's from he's like from Middle America. Okay,
Speaker 1: yeah and then true. Um Copoay was supposed to be
Speaker 1: in the pilot. UM, it didn't clear for the pilot,
Speaker 1: but obviously later they did clear right right. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Ryan, Thanks Ryan, thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us for the pilot episode. UM, come back on Thursday
Speaker 1: because we have a very special guest. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited, Little Chris Cooper is going to be here.
Speaker 1: UM see you on Thursday. Bye bye bye. Thanks for
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