Speaker 1: So I've been writing fiction again for the first time,
Speaker 1: and like kid, and it's you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: different process. Like screenwriting is all about story and structure
Speaker 1: and dialogue obviously, and with fiction, I find myself, you know,
Speaker 1: getting more word obsessed, like vocabulary obsessed, which is a trap.
Speaker 1: It's like I was.
Speaker 2: Gonna say, that's yeah, that's the worst. You already just
Speaker 2: made me feel like I'm not gonna want to read yep.
Speaker 1: So so what I do is, like, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: start going down some thesarus rabbit hole, and like often
Speaker 1: it'll start with like, well, what's another word for I
Speaker 1: know that? And then and then of course it just
Speaker 1: becomes fun to like look up other words which means
Speaker 1: other words, and then what is that? And then it
Speaker 1: changes the whole sentence and then changes the whole paragraph,
Speaker 1: and then before you know it, I've wasted forty five
Speaker 1: minutes and I found myself in a vocab hole. So
Speaker 1: then the other night, like you know, everybody in my
Speaker 1: household is asleep and I'm awake, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need this thing, and I have to start to
Speaker 1: go on Amazon, thinking well, this will be an easy thing,
Speaker 1: and I find myself not able to find what I need,
Speaker 1: and I realize I am having a vocab problem, and
Speaker 1: I start going down the Tisaurus rabbit hole to shop.
Speaker 1: So I want to see if you guys can get this.
Speaker 1: I think you will way quicker than I will. I
Speaker 1: want to see if you guys can figure out what
Speaker 1: I needed and how and the word that I needed
Speaker 1: to find it. Okay, So I've got this new office,
Speaker 1: like outside of my house.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We converted this little like outside thing into my office. Okay,
Speaker 1: and it's been a whole process. I put in the skylight,
Speaker 1: I put in the bookshelves, the skylight, lee Twitter blast
Speaker 1: rains like you know it's but also like I just
Speaker 1: had to reorganize my life, like get my stuff in here.
Speaker 1: And of course I don't have a bathroom, I don't
Speaker 1: have water, I don't have coffee, So like you're constantly
Speaker 1: walking back to my house for all of these things, right,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I need, like I need something to
Speaker 1: carry a like a thermis, because I have a thermis
Speaker 1: now for my coffee, a water bottle, and my laptop computer.
Speaker 1: I wanted Here's what I wanted. I wanted something with
Speaker 1: handles so I could grab it with one hand because
Speaker 1: you know, I have a backpack, but I didn't want
Speaker 1: to put on my backpack every time I get and
Speaker 1: stuff my backpack. So I was like, I want something
Speaker 1: I can like pick up with one hand with handles
Speaker 1: and carry a thermis, a water bottle and my laptop
Speaker 1: computer at least back and forth to the house. So
Speaker 1: I go to Amazon. Is it?
Speaker 3: Is it like when you say like a roly thing?
Speaker 3: Are you talking like a like a tray?
Speaker 1: Like a oh okay, so we have satchel and we
Speaker 1: have tray right with good suggestions?
Speaker 3: Okay, starts Now what you're looking for?
Speaker 1: Trays? Weight, just flat, no handles right there, and I
Speaker 1: don't want it to carry it with two arms.
Speaker 3: Right, but like Ara, you'd want to trolley.
Speaker 1: Oh you think wheels? Now I can't do wheels because gott.
Speaker 2: What are those things called that have a handle in
Speaker 2: the middle. And it's like I'm pick and then and
Speaker 2: then a bunch of compartments around it.
Speaker 1: Right, I think you're getting there. You're so you know, like.
Speaker 2: Like I've seen them because I and so what they.
Speaker 1: Make those for bathrooms a lot actually for like shampoo.
Speaker 2: And you in college and you know.
Speaker 3: You're looking for a caddy.
Speaker 1: You're looking for.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay, a caddy.
Speaker 1: I went through so much pain and misery because I
Speaker 1: tried tray. Then it was like no, no, no, it's gotta
Speaker 1: have handle, so basket, don't you know? Satchel? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: took me down like purses and like over the shoulder.
Speaker 3: Back.
Speaker 1: Then I'm like, okay, it's a toat right, I want
Speaker 1: a tote. Guess what toad gives you? Just reusable yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing that has like a hard bottom. Right then I
Speaker 1: was like a valet, right, it's got to be masculine.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Valets are like little trays that you have like to
Speaker 1: put all your stuff in, but you leave it there.
Speaker 3: They're gonna go next to your sink. You can put
Speaker 3: your watch, you put all that.
Speaker 1: I just was going down this and like toads came
Speaker 1: the closest, but it never had a hard bottom. And yes,
Speaker 1: caddy was the thing.
Speaker 3: Okay, did you get a caddy?
Speaker 1: Look at my beautiful caddy.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is a beautiful caddies right? Really? Yes?
Speaker 2: Let me see the inside? Yeah okay, so I see okay,
Speaker 2: So in the middle, is that where you put your laptop?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I put, well, actually it's got a little
Speaker 1: compartment for the laptop, so I can do that. So
Speaker 1: then I can just have the middle for books and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then my water bottle, and then I've got this
Speaker 1: little guy from my thermos. Oh but forty five minutes
Speaker 1: easily forty five minutes of just rabbit hole googling the word,
Speaker 1: and I finally landed on caddy, and I was like,
Speaker 1: a caddy.
Speaker 2: Right to explain to our dear listeners what it looks like.
Speaker 2: How big would you say that rectangle is? I don't
Speaker 2: know what is that?
Speaker 3: You half by a foot? Yeah, that's what I was
Speaker 3: going to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a it's gray, right, nice leather handles, it's
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Felt material that it's like nice. And then yeah, it.
Speaker 2: Has a hard bottom, probably fake leather handles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, really glorious. Today is my first usage of it.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful caddy. It's beautiful cady.
Speaker 1: So now I'm gonna be You can see me caddying
Speaker 1: back and forth.
Speaker 3: You use that word, I don't think that's accurate.
Speaker 2: Well, you're still walking and you're carrying a caddy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think caddy everything everything you said though,
Speaker 1: is still better than vocab hole, which I still can't
Speaker 1: get out of my head.
Speaker 3: So yeah, very strange.
Speaker 2: You do not want to not on a vocab hole.
Speaker 1: That just sounds delicious. That's kind of exactly fall into
Speaker 1: a vocab vortex. Yeah, and not actually get any writing
Speaker 1: done and just feel like, oh, we could just play
Speaker 1: here all.
Speaker 2: D good about yourself anywhere.
Speaker 1: I'm so smart, I'm learning so much.
Speaker 2: What's all these words? I know?
Speaker 1: That's all these words I can grab onto? And how
Speaker 1: do they feel? How do they taste in my mouth?
Speaker 1: All these different words, like try them out? I think
Speaker 1: it's just the word that's throwing me out a problem.
Speaker 2: Not just just it's it's a it's a problematic word.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm right
Speaker 2: or Strong, I'm Wilford. Welcome to this recap of season four,
Speaker 2: episode thirteen, B and Bees B and B. What is
Speaker 2: this title?
Speaker 1: I don't get the title. I kept waiting for it
Speaker 1: to be explained because I had the same memory. I
Speaker 1: was like, why is it called B and B?
Speaker 2: So B and B it was it was written by
Speaker 2: Bludman and Busc.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's got to be that's gotta.
Speaker 2: Be Best Gangs B and B.
Speaker 1: It has to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so inside for the name of an episode.
Speaker 1: You know that that's what it was called while they
Speaker 1: were pitching story ideas, and they're like, you can always
Speaker 1: do B and b's B and B episode. That's hysterical.
Speaker 2: I'm going to call I'm going to text pluming. I
Speaker 2: have to know. I want an answer from him.
Speaker 3: It's got it has to be. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kept waiting for Corey and Sean to like refer
Speaker 1: to each other with like yest names or something like
Speaker 1: you and and like then it would just become the story.
Speaker 2: I was trying to think if there was another nickname
Speaker 2: for Sean that could start with a B, and it
Speaker 2: could have been boy and.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking, best friend.
Speaker 4: Actually that's you know, like yeah, our buddy and yeah,
Speaker 4: yeah bah, and you're writer.
Speaker 2: I can totally picture You're right that They probably said
Speaker 2: we have a B and B episode and they started
Speaker 2: calling it B and b's B and B episode and
Speaker 2: it and then it became just that's the name of it, okay.
Speaker 1: Or somebody else pitched it and they were like, well,
Speaker 1: who are going to give it to B and b Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they just thought that was too funny, too to.
Speaker 3: Gott to be.
Speaker 2: So it originally aired January third, nineteen ninety seven. The
Speaker 2: synopsis with mister Feenie out of town, Sean has the
Speaker 2: brilliant idea to finish his economics project by turning Peene's
Speaker 2: house into a bed and breakfast. Also, Eric stumbles into
Speaker 2: an unlikely new friendship. It was directed by Jeff McCracken.
Speaker 2: It was written, as we mentioned, by Mark Blutman and
Speaker 2: Howard Buskang, and guest starring the legendary Len Lesser as Arnie. Heck.
Speaker 2: You definitely know him as Uncle Leo on over a
Speaker 2: dozen episodes of Seinfeld. The minute I saw him, I
Speaker 2: was like, that guy, I know him very well from something.
Speaker 2: What is you didn't No, I couldn't picture, I couldn't
Speaker 2: figure out what it was. And then I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, he's Uncle Leo.
Speaker 3: Well they did a straight up Seinfeld reference. They did
Speaker 3: a straight like they walk in and they have him
Speaker 3: Seinfeld right away. So it's yeah, yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Funny because I, you know, Seinfeld is one of those
Speaker 1: things I've seen maybe like a dozen episodes, and I've
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. But I've never I've never been a completist,
Speaker 1: and yet you can't help but absorb everybody from the
Speaker 1: culture character. Yeah. So the second I saw him, I
Speaker 1: was like, well, this guy, do I only remember him
Speaker 1: from Boy? I was like, no, He's been in everything,
Speaker 1: and that's probably what it was. He just absorbed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't try to hide at this time with
Speaker 3: the Seinfeld references at all.
Speaker 2: He was also Garvin on Everybody Loves Raymond And because
Speaker 2: we would be here all day if I listed off
Speaker 2: all his credits, here is just a small list of
Speaker 2: TV shows. He has appeared on Gun Smoke, Get Smart,
Speaker 2: The Monkeys, All in the Family, and Bonanza. He passed
Speaker 2: away in twenty eleven at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 2: And then we have Dina Dietrich as Gloria Heck. She
Speaker 2: was Dorothy's sister Gloria on The Golden Girls and appeared
Speaker 2: in mel Brooks's History of the World Part One, but
Speaker 2: is best known as Mother Nature in Chaffon Margarine commercials
Speaker 2: that ran for the entire decade of the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 2: and she passed away in twenty twenty at the age
Speaker 2: of ninety one.
Speaker 1: That's a reference. None of us get No.
Speaker 2: I don't understood Marjorie Margarine is.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know what Marjorie's is commercials, We wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's apparently like the flow of the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: And then we have Michelle Clooney as the bartender Kelly.
Speaker 2: She's in the Usual Suspects and is best known as
Speaker 2: Melanie Marcus on the US adaptation of queeris Folk and
Speaker 2: as the biology teacher Missus Finch on MTV's Team Wolf.
Speaker 2: And then we have Gladys Holland as Missus Nona Timmer.
Speaker 2: She was in Roland Emmerlick's Stargate movie and she passed
Speaker 2: away in twenty seventeen. So of our four guest stars,
Speaker 2: three have passed. I've left us since we take the show.
Speaker 2: I did just get confirmation that it is Blot and
Speaker 2: Bus Gangs B and B.
Speaker 3: You call that, Danielle. Yeah, let's jump.
Speaker 2: Into our recap overall thoughts.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to start?
Speaker 2: You start? Well?
Speaker 3: Used that I liked it, I mean, I thought it
Speaker 3: was an enjoyable episode. I remembered the bet storyline in
Speaker 3: this episode not at all.
Speaker 1: And when I mean not at all.
Speaker 3: I mean when Eric first walks down the stairs in
Speaker 3: the first scene, I thought, oh, they're just getting Eric
Speaker 3: out and he's not gonna be in this episode. Okay,
Speaker 3: I literally I mean when I'm when I say not
Speaker 3: at all. I have not even the slightest vague inkling
Speaker 3: of this best story I.
Speaker 1: Remember because I actually remembered it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I remembered the A story because you
Speaker 3: guys were so funny. I did not remember. I liked
Speaker 3: the B story, but man, I did not remember any
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: I did the second you sat at the bar and
Speaker 1: did the sliding the beer or their root beer whatever.
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, I remember this?
Speaker 3: Oh god, nothing, I mean nothing. It was weird, but
Speaker 3: overall I was enjoyable. I liked it.
Speaker 1: I remember this week so well because of the new sets,
Speaker 1: because we had this bar hotel bar set, and then
Speaker 1: of course we finally have the interior of Feenie's house,
Speaker 1: and then there's there's moments like I still know that song,
Speaker 1: I still know the Dutch and all of that, but
Speaker 1: I had I thought it was funnier in my mind,
Speaker 1: Like in my mind it was a bigger, funnier sort
Speaker 1: of more crazy episode, and I was actually like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of it's short, it's just kind of
Speaker 1: cute and like cool, and it's fine. But I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't love it, love it. It falls into a
Speaker 1: habit maybe for the first time that you know, the
Speaker 1: whole the universe thing, like I feel like that for
Speaker 1: a lot of Boy Meets World and especially in Girl
Speaker 1: Meets World, and I don't love that trope. And I think, here,
Speaker 1: it's fine and funny, but of course I'm just already
Speaker 1: kind of exhausted by it, even though this is the
Speaker 1: first time we've seen it in our recaps. So when
Speaker 1: that came up, I was like, oh, let's is this
Speaker 1: going to be the thing? And of course that becomes
Speaker 1: a thing to carry us through the last two scenes.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I just that felt easy and
Speaker 1: sort of like, oh, but I don't know if that's,
Speaker 1: like I said, my exhaustion from knowing that it's going
Speaker 1: to be a recurrent theme forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting is that I actually love the
Speaker 2: idea of a character who has no though I am
Speaker 2: obsessed with order in the universe and that things need
Speaker 2: to happen in this order. What I don't love is
Speaker 2: the direct looking up to the heavens and like, do
Speaker 2: you hear me? Now, maybe one of those in a
Speaker 2: series is a fine joke, but the continuing to go
Speaker 2: back to it as opposed to just the character being like, no,
Speaker 2: I feel feel unnerving because this is the way, this
Speaker 2: is the way justice is. It's a there has to
Speaker 2: be justice like justice in the world. I like that
Speaker 2: as a character thing. But you're right, I don't enjoy
Speaker 2: the looking up to the heavens and keep going back
Speaker 2: to that. But I actually did really enjoy this episode.
Speaker 2: I thought it was really fun to see Sean relaxed.
Speaker 3: And dumb again, dumb but street smart, combination.
Speaker 2: Capable and and also the thing we all love is
Speaker 2: Corey getting suffered into something where he stressed out and
Speaker 2: nervous about it. I really love that. I also will
Speaker 2: I have zero memory of this episode, not even your part.
Speaker 1: Is so great to Panga gets so much to do.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just a full fledged, like interesting dynamic.
Speaker 3: They officially once again have no idea who Peg is. No,
Speaker 3: you thought they were going somewhere with Topanga in the
Speaker 3: earlier episodes, like oh, they're actually going to develop.
Speaker 1: Hold on it, and then we can we get her
Speaker 1: in a French made costume. We find a way.
Speaker 3: To make that she's a rule breaker and and and
Speaker 3: I'm getting none of it makes any sense. They have
Speaker 3: no idea who t bang is officially again none. It's weird.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a farce. Everything is, you know, just
Speaker 1: thrown out the window for good laughs. That's the point. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's fine, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's a romp and it's and it's fun.
Speaker 3: It's fine.
Speaker 1: I do think that the universe thing, like listening to
Speaker 1: you talk about it, it's it's it's a it's really
Speaker 1: a sleight of handwriting trick, right, because it's a way
Speaker 1: to keep the tension alive but also resolve it all
Speaker 1: without having to actually resolve it all. And so it's
Speaker 1: funny and I think it works now, you know, but
Speaker 1: if we keep doing this, you know, and I have
Speaker 1: a feeling we do where it's like it's gonna work out.
Speaker 2: It was it was truly Riley's character defining thing, you know,
Speaker 2: is that she regularly was like, no, the universe wants this.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll see, we'll see how much how much
Speaker 2: it comes into play. Jumping into our recap. We start
Speaker 2: in the Matthew's kitchen. Eric is walking downstairs with a
Speaker 2: suitcase and a briefcase. You have a briefcase. Of course,
Speaker 2: Alan is right behind him. Eric is going to Boston
Speaker 2: for the camping show and his dad doesn't want to
Speaker 2: hear that meetings were missed because Eric was at the
Speaker 2: hotel bar dancing on tables. And the audience gets a
Speaker 2: gives a big laugh for that joke.
Speaker 1: We had at The audience was pump in this episode.
Speaker 1: But this first cut was very odd to me. It
Speaker 1: cuts to you with like an open mouth face, and
Speaker 1: the audience is already laughing yeah, yeah, And I was
Speaker 1: kind of like, I think a line. I thought maybe
Speaker 1: you had a response, and then they just kind of
Speaker 1: cut it for time or whatever, or what I realized.
Speaker 2: Was that they can see his face.
Speaker 1: But also what happens next is you know the book
Speaker 1: that like how to make Yourself Look Innocent, and so
Speaker 1: they had already knew that was coming because this was
Speaker 1: take two or three, and so when you give your
Speaker 1: open mouth innocent look, they went already because there are
Speaker 1: like a prepped audience that's already seen take one. So
Speaker 1: I realized, like after the fact that might.
Speaker 3: Be all that's happening though, either want another take on that?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, my face could have been way fair. That
Speaker 3: wasn't innocent, it was you could have done like a
Speaker 3: funnier innocent face for that. So yeah, but you're.
Speaker 1: Shocked indignant face already had a laugh and.
Speaker 3: I was they knew it, And because I remember nothing
Speaker 3: of this episode, I was like, oh, well that was
Speaker 3: fun to play Eric in this episode. It's nicely and
Speaker 3: everybody that was it. Yeah, that was finals week because
Speaker 3: it's all gonna be about Sean and Cora was like,
Speaker 3: all right, prepared for that, and then it was, oh god,
Speaker 3: there's a whole other storyline.
Speaker 1: Remember I remember so many of Bill's lines.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, of course Bill in this episode. This
Speaker 2: is just a clinic.
Speaker 1: But I think I think part of the reason I
Speaker 1: remember it is because Bill is he's one of these actors.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure we've talked about this a little bit,
Speaker 1: but day one, the performance is there. Day one table read, Yeah,
Speaker 1: day one memorized, never changes, and so if the lines
Speaker 1: don't change, you hear this. So I feel like, oh
Speaker 1: I saw these lines and these monologues, you know, these
Speaker 1: storytelling beats told exactly the same way all week long,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why they're so ingrained in my
Speaker 1: in my brain, you know, and.
Speaker 3: It still feels fresh, it's still He's just so good.
Speaker 1: He's just the consummate television actor. I'm a consent actor
Speaker 1: in general, but for television he is just there's not
Speaker 1: a false beat, and yet it was so consistent and good.
Speaker 1: Just but these are my favorite bill scenes I ever
Speaker 1: did with him. And that's why I'm amazed that I
Speaker 1: don't remember this at.
Speaker 3: All, because it's just the two of us talking him
Speaker 3: and parting wisdom, us now starting to talk more like
Speaker 3: colleagues and yeah, yeah, and it's really friends and it's
Speaker 3: really amazing. And that's why I was like, how do
Speaker 3: I not remember this at all? This is this is
Speaker 3: what I love. This is my favorite thing ever, and
Speaker 3: none of it.
Speaker 2: Eric is a ghast for you to even suggest that
Speaker 2: I would blow off the camping show to go party
Speaker 2: Hardy in Boston. That speaks volumes about our relationship. And
Speaker 2: then Corey appears Eric forgot his book How to Act
Speaker 2: Innocent When Your Father Accuses You. Eric Smier smiles awkwardly
Speaker 2: and admits, yess I better read it again, giving a
Speaker 2: goofy forest grin before giving up the act, and then
Speaker 2: he leaves for his big trip.
Speaker 3: Funnier joke. By the way, I thought about this as
Speaker 3: it should have been the cliff notes of that book.
Speaker 2: That is fun just.
Speaker 3: Very quick, very small. Should have read the whole book.
Speaker 3: I should have read the whole book.
Speaker 2: That's funnier. Punch up, little punch up. Phoene bolts in
Speaker 2: panic as he greets the family, then quickly asks if
Speaker 2: there's a lock on the back door. Just then Sean
Speaker 2: barges in. Phoene size too late. Sean is frantic. I
Speaker 2: don't get the assignment. I want to drop economics, business figures, numbers.
Speaker 2: I just can't keep it in my head.
Speaker 5: Woo do you remember doing this? It's a woo who woo.
Speaker 2: Phoene tells him it's simple. All he needs to do
Speaker 2: is create a business, pretend he's running it, and write
Speaker 2: a report. Sean feign's an understanding before revealing he still
Speaker 2: doesn't get it. Wooooo. He begs, let me drop the course.
Speaker 2: No hunter has ever made it in business? Why cause
Speaker 2: me agony? Phoene shrugs. I like it, he tells, Sean
Speaker 2: to sit because it's quiet time. Phoene hands Amy his
Speaker 2: house keys. He's thankful she's looking after things while he's
Speaker 2: away this weekend. Amy asks if there's a number at
Speaker 2: the hotel where they can reach him, just in case,
Speaker 2: and Phoene responds, I'm actually staying at a lovely bed
Speaker 2: and breakfast. Corey chimes in, good for you living in
Speaker 2: someone else's house, eating someone else's food, and we noticed
Speaker 2: Sean sitting right next to him, drinking the Matthew's apple
Speaker 2: juice and eating their.
Speaker 1: Banana back to season one eating I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it so much. Unfazed, Sean asks Phoene,
Speaker 2: what's that run you like? Two bucks? Amy's eiys a
Speaker 2: room in a nice bed and breakfast can go for
Speaker 2: as high as two hundred dollars a night. Phoene reveals,
Speaker 2: not this one. And I didn't understand. Is that supposed
Speaker 2: to be that his is more expensive or no?
Speaker 3: I think it's less expensive. I think what they were trying,
Speaker 3: and because we're now dealing with twenty twenty four prices
Speaker 3: and things, two hundred dollars a night for something doesn't
Speaker 3: sound to But in nineteen ninety seven, what They're essentially saying,
Speaker 3: is some of those can go for eight hundred dollars
Speaker 3: a night, And Phoene's like, not this one. I think
Speaker 3: that was what they were going.
Speaker 2: With, right, Like, I couldn't afford two hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Right exactly on its teacher salary, got it.
Speaker 2: Sean mutters two hundred dollars a night. Wow, he might
Speaker 2: have a plan. Phoene unveils multiple flash cards he's made
Speaker 2: to indicate what needs to be taken care of while
Speaker 2: he's gone, like plants to water, plants that need vitamins,
Speaker 2: and plants that need to be rotated to get mornings on.
Speaker 2: He kisses Amy on the cheek, saying she'll do fine,
Speaker 2: before running out the door. Amy throws Phoene's flash cards
Speaker 2: on the table and turns to the boys.
Speaker 3: Just don't kill them, Just don't kill them. Great, it's
Speaker 3: a great joke.
Speaker 1: It's a great joke, this whole thing. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's character based, it's believable, it's giving Betsy something to do,
Speaker 1: something to react to. It's just good writing and good acting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was also so reminded of the phoene An episode,
Speaker 1: like almost identical setup, like yeah, here are my keys
Speaker 1: for the take care of it. Let's see what happened.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, Cory and Sean are gonna grab those keys.
Speaker 1: I know that, we actually don't.
Speaker 2: You don't actually grab them. We don't see any of that,
Speaker 2: but we do see new sett alert, Phoene's house, Peenie mouse,
Speaker 2: the house eats salad alone. I could not stop pausing
Speaker 2: for details.
Speaker 3: I know some great one.
Speaker 2: Did you guys look around the house a little? Did
Speaker 2: you pause?
Speaker 3: I was dying to see. So there is and I
Speaker 3: couldn't see who it was. There is a framed picture
Speaker 3: on the mantle.
Speaker 2: Is it the Asian woman who looks like is she Asian?
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell. Because it's such low death. I can't
Speaker 3: see who it is.
Speaker 2: I thought it looked like maybe an Asian woman in
Speaker 2: a kimono, or it could have been a person in
Speaker 2: a cap and gown, makes more sense, but it was hard.
Speaker 2: It was hard to tell. The low death is.
Speaker 3: You can't tell.
Speaker 2: I did not understand what was going on in Peeney's house.
Speaker 2: And then there was a framed woman on the mantle
Speaker 2: who could have been Carrie Russell. If Carrie Russell had straight.
Speaker 3: Hair, maybe ex students maybe that have made been important.
Speaker 2: And then was just trying to find the dead bodies
Speaker 2: to see if there were any Is there a map?
Speaker 1: Is here's where I buried?
Speaker 2: Over here the planters?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's also.
Speaker 2: Like an eagle crest with a little American flag in
Speaker 2: the middle of in the middle of it above the fireplace.
Speaker 3: Of the fireplace.
Speaker 1: I didn't love this set, and I wasn't sure if
Speaker 1: it was just the set decoration or the lack of
Speaker 1: like like recognition that we're in Phoenie's house. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we're we're I say it, but it just
Speaker 1: didn't feel like as much of a thing, maybe because
Speaker 1: we're already there, Like maybe it should have been us
Speaker 1: opening the door and like what we.
Speaker 2: Should have started on more of a master and there
Speaker 2: should have been a camera move. It should have been
Speaker 2: a set piece.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: It's just like watering a plant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was.
Speaker 2: No like wow in the inner sanctum of Phenie totally.
Speaker 1: And then you know, and I think this is partly
Speaker 1: because it has to become a B m B. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have that much personal time going to say it's
Speaker 1: it does feel like the hotel. Hotel.
Speaker 3: It does right, but it also does it. It feels
Speaker 3: like they so they tried to do Fhienie so much
Speaker 3: that it wasn't really Phoeni. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Genericallyposed to specific it was a caricature of Feni for
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 3: It was like, okay, everything would there's a credenza.
Speaker 2: There are also so many plants. We could have been
Speaker 2: in a nursery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: There's so many.
Speaker 1: Plants, not really well placed, just kind of there.
Speaker 2: Like a tomato plant hanging in the middle of a spot.
Speaker 2: So Corey is watering a plant while Sean investigates, what
Speaker 2: are you doing? It's just a house. Sean disagrees, this
Speaker 2: is Phoene's house. There's got to be I don't know,
Speaker 2: some shrunken heads, some eyeballs and jars. Corey questions why
Speaker 2: he'd have that, and Sean explains he took them from
Speaker 2: me last year. Great writing, funny love it. Sean gives up.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go jump on Phoene's bed, just like I've
Speaker 2: always dreamed of. Corey continues the chores. When he sees
Speaker 2: his history paper sitting on the table, conveniently accompanied by
Speaker 2: a red pen, he exclaims Phoenne, you fool. He picks
Speaker 2: up the paper and reads, Corey, you fool. Put down
Speaker 2: the paper and step away from my walnut. Cridunzo.
Speaker 3: I know the cadenza had to come back, Cri Dunzel.
Speaker 3: I don't get this joke.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: No, I get the one that cadenza right. But Phoene's
Speaker 3: not gonna know that. He's going to walk in and
Speaker 3: see that Corey's paper is graded in A and go
Speaker 3: I must have done that and not remember that's.
Speaker 2: Why he wrote on it, Corey, you fool.
Speaker 3: It just makes that it's not a great joke to me,
Speaker 3: where it's like because none of that makes any sense.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: I think it's totally just a callback to I think
Speaker 1: they loved in the singled out episode, the like yes
Speaker 1: my plaid valise at the airport, and it's like a
Speaker 1: play on that Corey like that.
Speaker 3: You fool, Like the way it's a chest or a
Speaker 3: quiz or something upcoming where it's like, this isn't for you, Corey,
Speaker 3: don't worry, you know, because finding his own paper to
Speaker 3: grade doesn't make it, doesn't make it.
Speaker 2: I also was like, wait a minute, how he he
Speaker 2: was so sure Amy was taking care of the plants.
Speaker 2: Why is he leaving a note for in here?
Speaker 1: I know I had all the thoughts to guys relaxes
Speaker 1: TV show. It's a kid's show.
Speaker 2: My god, you're right right, it's so serious.
Speaker 3: It's nice, and it's nice that you're always the voice
Speaker 3: of reason, right, the.
Speaker 1: Voice of good times, relaxation and reason.
Speaker 3: Just have fun down in your vocab hole.
Speaker 2: God, it's just it's just a show from g I. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, he'll.
Speaker 1: Make me grumpy about having fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Seawan'screen from upstairs then appears back on the stairs. It's okay,
Speaker 2: I thought I saw a poster of me, but it's
Speaker 2: just a mirror show. Historical hysterical joke.
Speaker 1: That is yeah. I was like, what this is?
Speaker 3: I mean, the best line.
Speaker 2: Plus joke, he says, the house is nothing like he's
Speaker 2: ever dreamed of. Three bedrooms, beautifully decorated. But the best part,
Speaker 2: he's got a six foot round tub. Corey points out
Speaker 2: the man's got a bathe Sean adds with jets. Corey
Speaker 2: raises his eyebrows. Oh, cooky, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Seawn announces he has an idea for his economics project
Speaker 2: and leaves, so Corey tries to continue watering the plants,
Speaker 2: only to admit I don't want to be alone in here,
Speaker 2: and he quickly darts out of the house, spilling water
Speaker 2: as he goes everywhere. The pink carpet, I know, interesting car.
Speaker 3: It is like a pink carpet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we see the Boston hotel exterior with
Speaker 2: a fancy limo and a painted out on ing. Wow.
Speaker 2: Eric sits down at the hotel bar, explaining to the
Speaker 2: bartender that his name is Dylan Turtleneck. Oh yeah, turtle Eric.
Speaker 3: This is this is definitely the nineties where you got
Speaker 3: the suit and like the or the turtle neck.
Speaker 1: I think it looks good, but it's just so funny
Speaker 1: because we just did the One Woman Show where it's funny.
Speaker 1: Went from mocking it mocking.
Speaker 2: It like a turtleneck on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're in. We're in peak turtleneck phase.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're in. We're in Eric's turtleneck face.
Speaker 1: I mean we're turtleneck's A problem is this like because
Speaker 1: I went I used to wear a turtleneck and it
Speaker 1: was cool, and now like if I ever consider a
Speaker 1: turtle deck my wife just says.
Speaker 2: No love turtlenecks on men. I do love them on women.
Speaker 2: Susan Will's wife wears a turtleneck better than anyone I've
Speaker 2: ever seen.
Speaker 3: She loves it.
Speaker 2: And I have tried to then emulate Susan and I
Speaker 2: have bought turtlenecks, and I look terrible.
Speaker 1: Men men can't wear turtle necks. It's not in any
Speaker 1: era or like. It's not cool.
Speaker 2: It's not cool. It's not cool. It looks a little
Speaker 2: doweebee and a man. There's something a little dweebish about
Speaker 2: a turtleneck on a man. But but if you love it,
Speaker 2: do what you want, you know, honestly.
Speaker 1: At this point in our lives, damn good on this
Speaker 1: he does.
Speaker 3: He does.
Speaker 1: Look he's pulling off a turtle neck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is. He's pulling it off.
Speaker 1: But it's nineties.
Speaker 2: It's nineties.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little.
Speaker 3: And I'm like nineteen. So it's you.
Speaker 1: At least you're not like swimming in your suit like
Speaker 1: I am. For the rest of this episode.
Speaker 2: I know you do have a but you know what,
Speaker 2: I even like that because it's a little mob bossy.
Speaker 2: It feels a little like mob suit. Do you get
Speaker 2: your suits at the same place you buy your Jinko jeans?
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 1: Can I just get something bad here?
Speaker 3: I totally could have said that I want to be
Speaker 3: to be able to fit my keys in the pocket
Speaker 3: for a novel in this suit.
Speaker 2: So Eric says he's Dylan high Tower and he's the
Speaker 2: CEO of a mid sized venture capitol group. He adds,
Speaker 2: you might look for me on the cover of next
Speaker 2: month's four Bees.
Speaker 3: Four Bees.
Speaker 2: Again, great joke, so funny, really well written. The bartender laughs,
Speaker 2: You're just at high school, you work for your daddy.
Speaker 2: This is your first convention and it's pronounced Forbes.
Speaker 1: What what came first? Will? Because this is something that
Speaker 1: you've definitely absorbed into your actual humor, the mispronunciation of work.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I do it all the time, and it's one of
Speaker 1: my funniest bits and never never goes to work. And
Speaker 1: yet I've realized Eric did it because Yalobez and you
Speaker 1: do this all the.
Speaker 3: Time, and the whiskey in my personal life.
Speaker 1: Brought it into that. I think it's such a will
Speaker 1: thing and just I'm like, whoa it was on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so funny it is.
Speaker 2: So she asks what what his real name is, and
Speaker 2: Eric is exposed. I'm not telling. The bartender asks, so
Speaker 2: what are you drinking, mystery boy. Eric tells her Bruski.
Speaker 2: She asks, rupe Bruski. If that's all you're allowed to
Speaker 2: give me, then sure. Eric agrees. She pours the root
Speaker 2: beer in a glass and then adds, but I will
Speaker 2: do this. She slides the glass across the bar and
Speaker 2: a different hand catches it. We hear a voice. I
Speaker 2: believe you're supposed to catch it.
Speaker 1: Mister awkward camera shot alert.
Speaker 2: I know what happened there, just trying.
Speaker 1: To stage the reveal, and you know that they just
Speaker 1: went bigger, bigger, No, no, no, we can't see him.
Speaker 1: We have to you know, It's just like and it became.
Speaker 2: Became a full thing. But there almost seemed like there
Speaker 2: was a cut in the middle of the slide. It
Speaker 2: was like it wasn't one continuous shot.
Speaker 1: And I guess, well, there's set. I mean you could
Speaker 1: see that they had to adjust, they had to pull
Speaker 1: off the wall, like because they decided they were going
Speaker 1: to be two scenes in here. There's a scene later
Speaker 1: where you guys are seated at the like downward downstage table.
Speaker 1: But then they wanted to have this bar scene, so
Speaker 1: it is a well designed set. But what that means
Speaker 1: is they had to pool the state of the camera
Speaker 1: right wall out and get a camera up there to
Speaker 1: get that shut to have you guys, and it's just
Speaker 1: kind of it does feel a little awkward. You know,
Speaker 1: it's because it's the whole scene.
Speaker 3: But the whole scene kind of feels awkward, but only
Speaker 3: because it's rare to see two characters on camera where
Speaker 3: the were me for instance, where I'm downstage, down in my.
Speaker 1: Back right, I know, right, and that's where they have
Speaker 1: to get the camera upstage in order to shoot you.
Speaker 1: And it just feels it turns, it turns, the fourth
Speaker 1: wall changes, right, so it can't help but feel a
Speaker 1: little jarring. It's'll connect it. It's an interesting thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But again I loved just Bill and I working
Speaker 3: together and they're really now it's now it's off to
Speaker 3: the races with Eric and Feenie, which I love so much.
Speaker 2: Really did not remember that I remember, I mean you
Speaker 2: had mentioned it when we first started the podcast that
Speaker 2: some of your favorite stuff was working with Bill, and
Speaker 2: I remember thinking like, yeah, I know, you guys worked together,
Speaker 2: but I truly did not remember how much they set
Speaker 2: you guys up like a buddy comedy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not just wacky will no time. It
Speaker 1: seems like this if you think about it.
Speaker 3: Chip at this point to though, we're the only characters
Speaker 3: that aren't paired up. So you know, you got Corey
Speaker 3: and Sean. Now Tapang is coming in the mix. So
Speaker 3: it's Corey, Sean and Tapanga. Amy's got Alan, they all
Speaker 3: have the one. He's gone, Tony's gone. So you've got
Speaker 3: Eric kind of floating in the wind, and you've got
Speaker 3: Phoene kind of floating in the wind. And somehow when
Speaker 3: you make it just worked. You know that it was
Speaker 3: like what if we put those two together?
Speaker 1: Yep ye, classic good storytelling, like taking two characters who
Speaker 1: are extreme opposites forcing together somehow funny and it worked.
Speaker 3: It just yeah, it definitely works. But can't I wish
Speaker 3: I remembered this.
Speaker 2: The minute we hear his voice, Eric and the audience, no,
Speaker 2: it's mister Feoenne, Eric admits, what a remarkable and horrifying coincidence.
Speaker 2: Feoene agrees horrifying. Indeed, what are you doing in Beantown?
Speaker 3: I just love him saying bean Town Beat in town.
Speaker 2: Eric responds, hiding from you and I failed? Why must
Speaker 2: you stalk me? So Feeney apologizes for bursting his balloon,
Speaker 2: but he's waiting for someone else. Eric questions Corey, which
Speaker 2: again I love, Yeah, continuing the idea that you have
Speaker 2: to either be in school or gardening, and if you're
Speaker 2: not with me, you must be with Corey. So funny. Uh,
Speaker 2: Phoenie exclaims, No, I'm waiting for a special lady friend
Speaker 2: of mine to have dinner in the hotel.
Speaker 1: Eric, can you never just say special lady friend?
Speaker 2: Right? I love saying lady friend. I don't say special
Speaker 2: lady friend, but I love I like a gentleman friend
Speaker 2: and a lady friend.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's I always think Big Lebowski's my special lady friend.
Speaker 3: It's like I seen that movie.
Speaker 2: I've never seen, never seen Big Ki.
Speaker 1: Can we do a Big Lebowski recap?
Speaker 2: Are you due that ties in with your audience?
Speaker 3: But should No?
Speaker 1: I've never wants the audience here is that you've never
Speaker 1: seen Big Lebowski. We're gonna, dude, send us letters to Melissa.
Speaker 3: Letter.
Speaker 2: I mean, we could have an entire podcast that would
Speaker 2: go on for years if it was just writer and
Speaker 2: will play movies that Danielle's never seen, because I've there
Speaker 2: are so many things I've never seen, but that's one
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 1: Be super condescend. You've never seen let us let's do
Speaker 1: film school and Godfather says.
Speaker 3: Movies, Danielle, just sit down and if you've.
Speaker 1: Ever heard what a director does.
Speaker 2: But honestly, I could use an education in all of it.
Speaker 3: I think our next podcast, frankly, should be movies that
Speaker 3: were important to us as a kid.
Speaker 2: Okay again, I have one I can get, will bet
Speaker 2: you there is more stuff than that.
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 2: There's Jurassic Park and Titanic and anything.
Speaker 1: And biggest movies of all time and I don't remember,
Speaker 1: couldn't avoid them.
Speaker 3: Have you seen Titanic or Jurassic Park because we could
Speaker 3: watch those. Yeah, yeah, we've we've seen those things.
Speaker 2: We've seen those. Okay, great, well.
Speaker 3: Then then I'm done. I guest over.
Speaker 2: Eric didn't know Phoeney had someone special in Boston. Phoene
Speaker 2: says he's never told Eric about her before, for the
Speaker 2: same reason you don't talk about your girlfriends to me.
Speaker 2: Eric makes an uncomfortable face. It's squeamy because it's squeamy.
Speaker 2: Peenie nods precisely. But now that you've asked, Eric interrupts,
Speaker 2: I didn't. Phoene continues, Anyway, Elizabeth is someone I've known
Speaker 2: for fifteen years, someone I care about deeply. He sadly
Speaker 2: states that her teaching career is as important to her
Speaker 2: as his is to him, and she works and lives
Speaker 2: out of Boston. Eric unenthusiastically responds, a female feenie, yay,
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: And then I kind of wanted to see her. It's like, oh.
Speaker 3: This this actually wanted to see her too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So so what let's go back into the Freeny
Speaker 1: prequel show. All right, is this like a friend when
Speaker 1: he was married? Is somebody who is that part of
Speaker 1: the drama.
Speaker 3: After I think it's after the wife. Yeah, and it
Speaker 3: was the first kind of thing he found after the wife,
Speaker 3: But it was never you know, that first when you
Speaker 3: have after the big breakup or your divorce, whatever it is,
Speaker 3: and it rebounds, it's never the like, no matter how
Speaker 3: much you feel about this person, you never capture that
Speaker 3: original feeling. It's never like, fully there. I think that's this.
Speaker 1: Phoene just can't commit.
Speaker 2: Maybe they met at a teacher conference.
Speaker 3: Exactly because Phoene's Phoene's PTA.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, right, So Eric asks how often do you
Speaker 2: see each other? Phoene says three or four times a year,
Speaker 2: and every so often one of them asks the other
Speaker 2: to give it all up and move so they can
Speaker 2: be together.
Speaker 1: So Phoene's not staying at the hotel, He's at the
Speaker 1: B and B, right, and they don't spend the night together.
Speaker 1: So he comes to this hotel and then he comes
Speaker 1: back to just hang out with Eric.
Speaker 2: Well we talk about that at talk about that a
Speaker 2: little bit later when he says he's having dinner with her,
Speaker 2: but then he asks Eric if he wants to go
Speaker 2: for a bowl of pasta.
Speaker 3: And I was like, Phoenie, why.
Speaker 2: Just because she said no to moving back to Philadelphia
Speaker 2: with you, why are you not still hanging out with her?
Speaker 2: Is he waiting for marriage? I think he and Tipanga
Speaker 2: have very shared values. I didn't know really, So Eric wonders,
Speaker 2: you never took her up on it. Phoenie replies, nor
Speaker 2: is she me. The asking and saying no has become
Speaker 2: a bittersweet ritual between us. This year. It's my turn
Speaker 2: to pop the question. Eric Coyley asks, what if she
Speaker 2: says yes. He laughs, she won't. She'll just smile and
Speaker 2: ask can't we keep things the way they are? Then
Speaker 2: I'll go home. Eric adds to me and Corey again,
Speaker 2: I love it. Phoene gives him a look, you're killing
Speaker 2: my story. And I could very easily see a spin
Speaker 2: off where these two Eric and Feenie moved to Boston
Speaker 2: just called Beantown fian Town. And then we're back at
Speaker 2: Phoene's house. Sean walks downstairs dressed in a full structure
Speaker 2: suit that's three sizes too large, a.
Speaker 1: Large and like the collarless shirt, it just.
Speaker 3: Collar the collarless everything. I mean they even mentioned it
Speaker 3: and was it clueless? Yes, where's my collarless whatever? I mean,
Speaker 3: it's that was the look.
Speaker 2: It was the look. Corey, doing his chores, asks what
Speaker 2: are you doing here without me? Sean says he's here
Speaker 2: to work on his school project, and Corey hesitantly asks
Speaker 2: why here. Sean admits I don't have an answer that
Speaker 2: wouldn't upset you. Can you rotate those two plants just
Speaker 2: a little. Corey isn't dropping it? What's your school project?
Speaker 5: Sean?
Speaker 2: No, don't tell me, yes, tell me, tell me, but
Speaker 2: lie you.
Speaker 3: Can great line too.
Speaker 2: Sean handsom is board and Corey reads a bed and breakfast.
Speaker 2: He aughs, there's nothing to worry about, but then he
Speaker 2: continues to read the flyer two hundred bucks a night.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, sewn even came up with some advertising. Sean
Speaker 2: proudly nods, just a little sign up at the airport
Speaker 2: near duty free. Corey admires the hard work, flipping to
Speaker 2: the next page. Guests have already checked in, given him
Speaker 2: credit cards the Timmers. Just then, an elderly couple walks downstairs,
Speaker 2: forcing Corey to quickly stand up. Who are you? The woman,
Speaker 2: in somewhat of a Dutch accent explains, we are the Timmers.
Speaker 2: Corey looks at the credit card. Of course you are.
Speaker 2: Sean softly acknowledges he's going to scream now, and then
Speaker 2: Corey on cue screams, shann cute act, cute little setup. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love everything, love all of it up. Yeah, cute.
Speaker 2: We come back from commercial break, where at Phoene's house,
Speaker 2: Corey is still screaming and Sean defends himself. Phoeney left
Speaker 2: us the keys to his house. He knows this is
Speaker 2: going to happen. He wants this to happen.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that too, that Sean is
Speaker 1: so confident, because come on, he's omniscient.
Speaker 3: He knows, and I just know he left the key.
Speaker 3: This is like the clever.
Speaker 1: Self awareness, you know that I really like. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: it gets too obvious near the end of the episode,
Speaker 1: I was rolling my eyes, but here it's fun.
Speaker 2: Like I agree, completely agree. Corey's flailing his arms. Ah,
Speaker 2: Sean scolds him, if you're gonna stay at my bed
Speaker 2: and breakfast, you're gonna have to keep your voice down.
Speaker 2: The more parks are upstairs napping. Corey turns his flailing
Speaker 2: into a whimper. Sean explains, nolyweds. They're here on the
Speaker 2: honeymoon package. The Timmers are holding a vase of Poene's
Speaker 2: and Corey yells at them to put it down. The
Speaker 2: woman responds, we out of the timmers. Sean says he'll
Speaker 2: handle it, suddenly able to speak perfect Dutch to the cup.
Speaker 1: Although we don't even explain it anymore, Sean can just
Speaker 1: do it for yourself.
Speaker 3: That will always be Amsterdam to me. We'll always just
Speaker 3: be walking the streets of Amsterdam, just saying that.
Speaker 1: It started in the plane. It's started in the plane.
Speaker 1: You and I sit next to each other on the
Speaker 1: plane and me being like, so do we know? I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you say hi? Or I had like a
Speaker 1: guidebook and you were like, well you know Dutch, say
Speaker 1: you know, that's all we can say. You're like, teach me,
Speaker 1: you're Dutch. So I taught you how to save these
Speaker 1: and that's all we could say. Going to hash bars
Speaker 1: and telling people throw in the air exactly.
Speaker 3: In fact, everything you see is to coop ye remember that.
Speaker 2: The man obliges throwing it up in the air and amusement.
Speaker 2: Corey asks Sean the more parks in the timers. That's
Speaker 2: it right, Sean nods, But just then a new loud
Speaker 2: couple walks in. Sean greets the couple, the Hecks, Arnie
Speaker 2: and Gloria from Boca. They booked through the last minute club.
Speaker 2: Arnie yells to his wife, I wanted to stay in
Speaker 2: a Ritz Carlton. It's a bed and breakfast. It's a
Speaker 2: little foofye no.
Speaker 3: And this is where there's a direct Seinfeld reference. Oh
Speaker 3: really yeah, so in because then he comes into I
Speaker 3: wanted There's no mini bar, no Maceadamia's. And in an
Speaker 3: episode of Seinfeld. So a Laine gets a suite at
Speaker 3: the plaza and she has to give it to Jerry's parents,
Speaker 3: who then trash it. And they also bring in Uncle
Speaker 3: Leo who's there, who eats too many macadamia nuts and
Speaker 3: his whole joke as he's just in the background rolling
Speaker 3: on the bed going no, no more nuts, no more nuts.
Speaker 3: So it's had to when he mentions the Macademians like, okay,
Speaker 3: they're not and that's.
Speaker 1: Like a reference within a year of it happening. I
Speaker 1: mean we're on the air at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a straight up Seinfeld reference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so crazy. Well, the couple argues a bit and
Speaker 2: Sean casually tells Corey, I threw a few bucks to
Speaker 2: the Cabby's that way. They tell them the hotels are full,
Speaker 2: and they bring him right here. Corey loses it, screaming
Speaker 2: to the guest out, I want you all out. Sean
Speaker 2: tries to calm the situation. This is our bell hop.
Speaker 2: He's rude and obnoxious. Alreadie is impressed. I like him,
Speaker 2: then hands Phoene's vase to Corey to put it in
Speaker 2: his room. Cory's in shock, leaning into Sean, I have
Speaker 2: to kill you now. Gloria then asks where the good
Speaker 2: shopping is, and Sean responds, why don't we ask our concierge.
Speaker 2: He rings a bell and then Tapega walks down the
Speaker 2: stairs in a cute little business suit. Corey can't believe it.
Speaker 2: Not you, Topanga. How could someone as sweet and honest
Speaker 2: as you get mixed up in one of Sean's evil schemes,
Speaker 2: Tapanga tells him because of this, and then she answers
Speaker 2: the hecks, why don't I show you to your sweet
Speaker 2: and then we can map out your day arny hands
Speaker 2: or some money by yourself, some heels, She shrugs. It's
Speaker 2: a living so object.
Speaker 1: To man or do it for money on her heels.
Speaker 2: It's like she's not really gonna buy heels, I don't think.
Speaker 3: But she I'm so so with them all.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, yeah, it's a little I mean, you're just
Speaker 1: you're there.
Speaker 3: For the jokes, yeah, but not even to Panga jokes.
Speaker 3: They're not even to Panga. I mean, how could she
Speaker 3: not have been the voice of it. There's so many
Speaker 3: things you think about where they could have thrown her in.
Speaker 1: I like the reversion, right, like the idea that like
Speaker 1: Corey expects her to be against it, and then she
Speaker 1: is for it. It's just give her a good reason
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 3: But what you should easily do is, I can't believe
Speaker 3: you're doing this? How could you possibly?
Speaker 1: Baba?
Speaker 3: You know I've told you this is not gonna end well,
Speaker 3: no matter what you'd actually, the best shopping you want
Speaker 3: to do is on Fifth Street. You're gonna want to
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. It's like, if you get some job.
Speaker 2: Right, she can't help. She's she can't help, but be
Speaker 2: good at it because she's helpful.
Speaker 3: Right, something like that, to give her pretty clever something.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, accidentally, great a right job? Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and somehow keeps helping. They go upstairs, leaving Corey to
Speaker 2: scold Sewn. You will get caught. Sean corrects him, We
Speaker 2: will get caught. Corey had the key, He's the one
Speaker 2: who let him in. As far as Phoene's concerned, Corey's
Speaker 2: the brains. Corey's intrigued the brains. I rather like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. I love that term, and like Corey's
Speaker 1: kind of like, well, maybe I could be the bad one.
Speaker 2: Cory makes Sean promise that when Phoene gets back, he
Speaker 2: will find his house exactly as he left it. Sean agrees,
Speaker 2: just as the Timors appear behind him, asking in Dutch
Speaker 2: if yet another vase from Phoene's house is for sale.
Speaker 2: Sean responds in Dutch, do you remember this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah? In fight all hit teen us is to Coop.
Speaker 2: So good, and he says yes, and everything you see
Speaker 2: is for sale. Corey nods, completely unaware of what the
Speaker 2: three are saying. And then we're back at the Boston Hotel.
Speaker 2: Eric is still at the bar and the bartender says,
Speaker 2: it's sweet of you to wait for your What is
Speaker 2: he exactly? Eric answers, he's my next door neighbor and
Speaker 2: they used to be my teacher, and he's real concerned
Speaker 2: about where my life is going. What would you call that?
Speaker 2: She answers, I'd call that a friend. Eric seems less sure.
Speaker 2: Any a friend? Okay? The bartender tells Eric, I get
Speaker 2: off work in ten minutes and you seem nice. How
Speaker 2: about I buy you dinner?
Speaker 1: Whoa will and the older ladies.
Speaker 2: Eric, ladies who know he's not even old enough to drink.
Speaker 3: They set that up to where it's like, you are
Speaker 3: clearly not twenty one, so you can't.
Speaker 1: By the way, you look very old in this episode.
Speaker 1: You do look sure, very mature. I was like, Will's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're looking like twenty five. Yeah, So it's
Speaker 1: surprising to me that the joke in that first scene
Speaker 1: is that she immediately knows your nose, because yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you with in the dialogue you're overstepping,
Speaker 1: but here I was like, well, actually looks Yeah, it
Speaker 1: makes sense that this woman might flirt with him.
Speaker 3: But now I have a question again the giant rewrite machine.
Speaker 3: Do you think it would have been better in the
Speaker 3: first scene if instead of revealing Feenie by sliding the
Speaker 3: root beer, because then it means that she might not
Speaker 3: know that Eric is the right age if she does
Speaker 3: go to serve him alcohol and you hear Phoene say
Speaker 3: something like sensors wouldn't have allowed it, you know, even
Speaker 3: if Poene steps in and he's like he's like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: you get it.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, I mean, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that's one of those debates we
Speaker 1: would have had, you know, during a note session.
Speaker 3: But we do whole you do whole episodes later, don't
Speaker 3: you you're drinking underage where.
Speaker 1: It's a special episode, right, Yeah, I think you, like
Speaker 1: trying to get alcohol has to be immediately shut down.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be my thought is that they would
Speaker 1: have immediately been like, no, you can't make a joke
Speaker 1: out of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that was the only strange thing about this
Speaker 3: for me was they literally set it up to where
Speaker 3: she instantly knows he is can't, isn't old enough to
Speaker 3: drink right, and then kind of ask.
Speaker 1: About them right well, and then this also like I
Speaker 1: understand that there's this necessary tension of like Eric having
Speaker 1: to choose between yeah, the girl of his dreams and Phoenie,
Speaker 1: but it also kind of doesn't make sense because you
Speaker 1: could you go have this whole moment with Phoenie and
Speaker 1: then you could still go out with the girl the end.
Speaker 3: Of Lady asked for dinner, He goes, you want to
Speaker 3: go to dinner, but Phoene's already been to dinner. I know,
Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to really set up your
Speaker 2: friendship and the idea of you going off to have
Speaker 2: a one night stand with the bartender doesn't doesn't propel
Speaker 2: any story forward, right, No, totally Yeah, So anyway, the
Speaker 2: du two bartender is just asked Eric out to dinner,
Speaker 2: and Eric responds, as long as it wouldn't interfere with
Speaker 2: my loyalty to my friend. Perfect timed. Phoene walks into
Speaker 2: the dining room. The cougar bartender wonders, isn't that him now?
Speaker 2: Without turning around, Eric replies, it has to be because
Speaker 2: something good was going to happen in my life, and
Speaker 2: she laughs something really good. Wow, just going, my gosh,
Speaker 2: the she's not even wearing another jacket. Imagine how fast.
Speaker 1: Making out?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. For sure the audience whoo hoo's loudly
Speaker 2: because they really want to see this one night stand happen.
Speaker 2: Eric tries to make this work, but see, it's my
Speaker 2: first convention away from home, and dinner with a lady
Speaker 2: bartender would be He turns around to look at Phoene,
Speaker 2: who looks sad as hell. Eric announces, I hate everything.
Speaker 2: The bartender sweetly kisses him on the cheek the same
Speaker 2: way Phoene kisses Amy Matthews, Yeah, gaining another woo from
Speaker 2: this incredibly saucy audience.
Speaker 1: Horned up crowd who orned on the crowd.
Speaker 3: It's a crowd that is ready to nash. Let me
Speaker 3: tell you is bad. You got where you can get
Speaker 3: Listen Prisoners.
Speaker 2: Prisoner Phoene's sitting alone at a table, looking glum, wishing
Speaker 2: for a salad. Probably Eric sits with him and asks
Speaker 2: if he's all right. Phoenie answers. Every year I look
Speaker 2: forward to seeing her, and every year we part company,
Speaker 2: knowing that we care for each other, but not enough
Speaker 2: to give up the lives we've made.
Speaker 1: Now, when this happened, I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be something a little more like something would have turned.
Speaker 1: And I was araied that she didn't show up.
Speaker 2: I thought she did she was dead.
Speaker 3: I thought I thought she had met somebody else and
Speaker 3: told him that she was marrying somebody else.
Speaker 2: That's great, she was committing, but to somebody there, That's.
Speaker 1: What I thought about, because this didn't feel like enough
Speaker 1: of a turn. It kind of feels like the same
Speaker 1: scene we've already had, just a little deeper, which.
Speaker 3: Because aren't they then going to do the same thing
Speaker 3: next year? I mean, nothing's changed so that the relationship
Speaker 3: hasn't ended. They're going to do exactly the same thing
Speaker 3: next year.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I can see the idea though
Speaker 2: that for whatever reason this, Phoenie goes, why do we
Speaker 2: do this? Because because it does become about why won't
Speaker 2: I take the risk? And his question then to himself
Speaker 2: is is it about the person not being worth the risk?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And then he can end one in the tag a
Speaker 1: little bit too, because he sees the old couple and
Speaker 1: it's like, maybe he will go back to a listen bit.
Speaker 1: So it's about him, not about her. If it was
Speaker 1: out of his control, like she had already rejected him
Speaker 1: or chosen somebody else, right, then you wouldn't have that
Speaker 1: helpe in the tag. Oh okay, we talked.
Speaker 3: God, I got to see this prequel because I want
Speaker 3: to see Phoenie actually in love. I want to see
Speaker 3: that so badly, right. I mean we get to see
Speaker 3: it later obviously with Bolinger, but I want to see
Speaker 3: that early Phoene and that the love of his life.
Speaker 2: No, I do too, Eric is thrilled. You pop the question.
Speaker 2: She said yes, and you're stuck good. Phoenie admits no,
Speaker 2: she said no, we always say no. Why do we
Speaker 2: always say no? Eric bluntly states, because you don't really
Speaker 2: love each other. And Phoene asks, how would you know that,
Speaker 2: mister Matthews, And Eric says, if you did, you'd risk
Speaker 2: anything for that love, even lives you've made and find comfortable.
Speaker 2: Peene wonders if at this stage in his life his
Speaker 2: risk taking days are over. Maybe he never appreciated the
Speaker 2: value of taking a risk, and that's why he's missed
Speaker 2: the chance at true love. And I wanted this yell
Speaker 2: a second time. You mean because your marriage to Lillian
Speaker 2: was real love?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, this besides the like, I couldn't get over
Speaker 1: the fact that Will's holding a root beer like a beer,
Speaker 1: which is just to me crazy, but.
Speaker 3: I was either nursing it or I'm on like my
Speaker 3: eleven root beer the night.
Speaker 1: Beyond that awkwardness, this is I kept. I was having
Speaker 1: this very bizarre experience watching the scene, being like, what,
Speaker 1: why is this so familiar? It's because this is the
Speaker 1: most Will I've ever seen. Eric, you are so relaxed,
Speaker 1: like you feel like you weren't doing bits you were
Speaker 1: also doing like because you know, I feel like you've
Speaker 1: had modes. You're either like you know, being funny or
Speaker 1: being very emotional and dramatic and instead in this scene,
Speaker 1: you're just like, you know, you're he's the one that's
Speaker 1: having this sort of moment when you're just being a
Speaker 1: supportive character, and it was so fun to just see you.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, this is what dinner with Will's like.
Speaker 1: I felt Will for like the like a pure Will.
Speaker 1: Throughout this entire scene. I was like, this is so
Speaker 1: if anybody wants to know what Will is actually like
Speaker 1: when he's not on this is it. This is what
Speaker 1: like wilfred ell, this is this is dinner with Wild
Speaker 1: And it was a good feeling. It filled me with light.
Speaker 1: So you know down the line when I you know,
Speaker 1: when if you ever leave my life or van, I
Speaker 1: know that I can watch this scene and get the
Speaker 1: same feel.
Speaker 2: Eric tries to relate, I felt that same way when
Speaker 2: I broke up with Debbie. He leans in, you remember that.
Speaker 2: Phoenie quickly responds no. Eric explains he's still plugging away
Speaker 2: because he believes true love can come at any time.
Speaker 2: Phoene states, until then, I will continue my life teaching
Speaker 2: my students. Eric, who learned this from a nearby horned
Speaker 2: up bartender just minutes ago, says Phoene has more than
Speaker 2: his students. He has his friends. Phoenie nods if you
Speaker 2: haven't had your dinner yet. I thought we might grab
Speaker 2: a bowl of pasta on the North End. Eric's size.
Speaker 2: It's his first night in Boston. He was thinking of
Speaker 2: something a little riskier. Maybe you and me can go
Speaker 2: out hit the town, check out the action. What does
Speaker 2: that mean?
Speaker 1: I do strip club?
Speaker 3: Yeah, strip club like code? I don't my entire life.
Speaker 3: I have no idea the code. The code I always.
Speaker 1: Knew, like when you work on a film and you're
Speaker 1: you say you're going to check out the local ballet.
Speaker 3: Wow, code for sual, code for going.
Speaker 1: It was a code. When we were doing Cabin Fever,
Speaker 1: That's what everybody said, like, oh, if you check out
Speaker 1: the local ballet, and it was like, oh, strip club, right.
Speaker 1: I would have been sitting at a ballet by myself,
Speaker 1: going where the hell is everywhere is everybody?
Speaker 2: They told me they were going to go at this
Speaker 2: ballet action.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is the action? What does that mean?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 2: Maybe? I mean the other thing is because I would
Speaker 2: think normally that this means let's go to a bar.
Speaker 2: You can't even get into a bar. I've already been
Speaker 2: over that, so they can't even go bar hopping or anything.
Speaker 3: So, Danielle, have you ever been to a strip club? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, probably more than both of you can bee.
Speaker 1: I'm probably sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is where I was wondering if Phoene
Speaker 2: wanting a second dinner makes no sense to me, and
Speaker 2: it did make me think is he hiding something? Did
Speaker 2: she not show up? If she did, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It just was confusing to me that he was still hungry.
Speaker 2: Phoene asks, you mean cruise for chicks and eric smirks
Speaker 2: and their mothers. But I'm pretty sure you mean and
Speaker 2: their grandmothers.
Speaker 3: What I've got to especially interested.
Speaker 2: In a thirty five year old forty year old woman.
Speaker 3: I got a question, Yeah, what if dinner with Phoenie
Speaker 3: and his lady friend really means they were doing the
Speaker 3: deed so they didn't eat, which is why he's now
Speaker 3: hungry afterwards, Like they're having that conversation in bed about
Speaker 3: do you want to be with me forever? No, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to do that. It's like, okay, totally see
Speaker 3: each other three or four times a year. They meet
Speaker 3: at this hotel. They're not he's staying at the B
Speaker 3: and B. So it's like, it's not they don't spend
Speaker 3: the night.
Speaker 2: By the hour.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's where she's staying. They go sad.
Speaker 1: I wish they could have made that a little bit more,
Speaker 1: you know, explicit, because that would have been that's even
Speaker 1: sadder that Phoenie's like, you know, I actually kind of
Speaker 1: want more, right, right, and he wants more and they
Speaker 1: always do every year.
Speaker 3: They just do each other essentially every year, a couple
Speaker 3: of times a year, and then I'm hungry and he
Speaker 3: wants exactly. Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Guys, I don't know. I think we've maybe thought too
Speaker 2: much about it, and I thought.
Speaker 3: Enough about it.
Speaker 1: Sitcom guys, relax, stop think you can you just have
Speaker 1: fun with the shows A, B and B. They both teacher,
Speaker 1: it's funny, old guy funny wants to get it on.
Speaker 2: Eric admits I don't understand this friendship. Phoene throws his
Speaker 2: arms up. Neither do I. They walk out, leaving behind
Speaker 2: a bartender who was, by the way, a way less
Speaker 2: risky move than going you have a sure thing. Yes,
Speaker 2: maybe she's got a friend Grandma, grandma exactly. Then we
Speaker 2: are back in Phoenie's house. Corey now in a tucks
Speaker 2: joyfully plays the piano as Tapanga and the Bed and
Speaker 2: Breakfast guests gather around him singing.
Speaker 3: In Unison, I love how Cory plays the piano though,
Speaker 3: it's one of my favorite.
Speaker 1: He's just sitting at the piano. You remember this, Danielle,
Speaker 1: You don't love it all week long? This that the
Speaker 1: greatest thing. Okay, So this was It was so fun
Speaker 1: because first of all, Ben just loves singing and loves
Speaker 1: that you can have. How much fun he's having. He
Speaker 1: just like this has been in his element. So the
Speaker 1: idea that he got to like play. So they during rehearsal,
Speaker 1: they brought a piano in onto the side of the stage,
Speaker 1: like not even in the set, but on like a
Speaker 1: real piano and do the side of the stage, which
Speaker 1: is just when I think about that, like how cool
Speaker 1: is life when you're on a set And they're just like,
Speaker 1: we need to rehearse for the week, Let's see a piano.
Speaker 1: So Ray Colcord sat at the piano and taught us
Speaker 1: all this song and we sat and we all sang.
Speaker 1: I thought I sang it in the episode because I
Speaker 1: remember singing it all together and Bill calling me out
Speaker 1: for being a horrible singer. Really yeah, yeah, yeah. We're
Speaker 1: all like by the line of the Silvery Moon, you know,
Speaker 1: and just coming up with all the bits of like
Speaker 1: by the mood but and having so much fun and
Speaker 1: Bill just being like, hmm, someone, someone's off, someone's off.
Speaker 1: And then he just pointed to me and he's like
Speaker 1: and I think this one here, and we just laughed.
Speaker 1: I will never forget it, because you know, like I'm
Speaker 1: not a great singer. I'm always off key.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, Bill Daniels just called me out.
Speaker 1: He laughed and walked away, and I was like, he's right.
Speaker 1: Remember that so much fun because I mean I remember Betsy.
Speaker 1: Betsy is a great singer and loved singing, so she
Speaker 1: was like a big part of it. And she and
Speaker 1: Ben used to always do musicals to get They would
Speaker 1: always be seeing musicals and like backs, and so this
Speaker 1: was just such a fun moment, you know, and you
Speaker 1: can see how much fun Ben's having with it. It
Speaker 1: was so great.
Speaker 2: And I don't like singing and I don't like musicals,
Speaker 2: and so I was probably just like get this week
Speaker 2: over not having fun this week French maid out exactly.
Speaker 2: I was probably excited about that was not quite as
Speaker 2: bast You.
Speaker 1: Actually dressed up as a French maid for first week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, I would have been a French maid
Speaker 2: as a job. I probably would have taken that role.
Speaker 3: Did you have to be French? Can't you just cleaned
Speaker 3: it up?
Speaker 2: That's that's boring, that's boring. You have to wear you
Speaker 2: have to wear the acoutral uh so. Arnie is especially
Speaker 2: getting into the song. The song ends and they all
Speaker 2: tip Corey for his performance. Shawn appears on the stairwell
Speaker 2: telling everyone there's news from the honeymoon suiteet. The more
Speaker 2: parks have eaten. The crowd cheers and excitement. The Panga
Speaker 2: reminds Gloria, don't forget about the sunrise nature walk tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Wear comfortable shoes. Arnie asks to Panga, chocolate mint, she
Speaker 2: doesn't hesitate right on your pillow. Arnie turns to Corey,
Speaker 2: mister lucky. Corey looks at to Panga lovingly. I know
Speaker 2: Corey counts as tips forty two.
Speaker 1: The entirety of the relationship I have not just may developed,
Speaker 1: we have not developed.
Speaker 3: She's a good.
Speaker 2: About their relationship.
Speaker 1: Like the Flintstones. They have a lot of shared interests.
Speaker 3: According to Will, No, it's one thing.
Speaker 1: One episode. Yeah, that's all that matters. She likes the
Speaker 1: stuff he likes. We're good.
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 3: How about they both likes the same stuff instead of
Speaker 3: she likes what he likes.
Speaker 1: That's all she just needs to say, I also like
Speaker 1: this you like.
Speaker 2: He tells Sean, Now we can afford that public defender,
Speaker 2: and he emphasizes, I cannot do time.
Speaker 3: We can afford the public defender is a great line.
Speaker 2: Great line, Sean laughs. They won't get caught. They've grown
Speaker 2: as schemers. Sean has finally rubbed off on Corey. He's
Speaker 2: as shady as him now and he just has to
Speaker 2: deal with it. Corey responds, wrong, the universe will catch
Speaker 2: up to us. I trust the universe. Sean says. The
Speaker 2: universe better hurry up because they're all leaving tomorrow. All
Speaker 2: we have to do is make it through breakfast, and
Speaker 2: we didn't get caught. Corey panics, we have to get
Speaker 2: caught at breakfast. He points up at the sky. You
Speaker 2: hear me. Sean stops him. Wait a minute, are we
Speaker 2: feeding them at breakfast? Corey nods there it is. So
Speaker 2: it's all very confusing.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's almost really funny because the idea
Speaker 1: is like close the idea is, and I think Corey
Speaker 1: just needed to set it up a little bit more
Speaker 1: like something's gonna happen, right, that's gonna be the thing
Speaker 1: that we didn't think about. That just set up a
Speaker 1: bit there. It is is like the universe is right,
Speaker 1: but if you had just made it a little more specific,
Speaker 1: because it's it is kind of funny.
Speaker 2: It actually we sometimes we've made jokes before about tea
Speaker 2: teeed up.
Speaker 1: This is a case of actually, well, the problem is,
Speaker 1: I think, and this is the problem with the whole
Speaker 1: universe thing is that it's it takes away tension between us.
Speaker 1: If Corey is angry with the universe or pointing everything
Speaker 1: to the universe, it takes away from the two of
Speaker 1: us debating or arguing. And I'm super confident and cocky
Speaker 1: and don't care and I'm not phased by him, and
Speaker 1: he's not yelling at me anymore. So it loses tension.
Speaker 1: It actually dissolves it. If you had been turning to
Speaker 1: me being like something's gonna happen and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: the you know, and then I'm like ooh, I didn't
Speaker 1: think about breakfast. Then it's on me. Then he can
Speaker 1: say there, I don't know, it's a little yeah.
Speaker 2: No, you're right.
Speaker 1: And then the pancakes.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the pancakes. It's not very.
Speaker 3: Funny, very funny, it's so funny.
Speaker 2: So then we're in the Matthew's kitchen, Alan, Amy, and
Speaker 2: Corey are just sitting down for breakfast. Alan reaches for
Speaker 2: a giant stack of pancakes at the table, but Corey
Speaker 2: slaps his hand away. I think it's only fitting that
Speaker 2: we our heads and give thanks for the food in
Speaker 2: front of us. Amy and Allen are suspicious, but they
Speaker 2: bow their heads anyway. Corey pushes them lower. Then Corey
Speaker 2: begins to say thanks and starts throwing pancakes blindly over
Speaker 2: his head to Sean, who we see in the backyard sideyard,
Speaker 2: catching every single pancake. I cannot believe you don't remember this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we only would have done it like the
Speaker 1: one time, right, like during rehearsal, we never would have
Speaker 1: had pancakes. So it was just finally on the tape
Speaker 1: day they would have brought them in and like they
Speaker 1: would have to catch us. Yeah, thought the ability to
Speaker 1: throw from kitchen into the backyard and me actually catch it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, I don't remember.
Speaker 2: It, but I mean I do know. We used to.
Speaker 2: I think, at least I think we used to cut
Speaker 2: more corners during rehearsal and run throughs now. I am amazed.
Speaker 2: It's never, it's never. Not once caught me off guard
Speaker 2: that on day one for producer run through all the
Speaker 2: props and everything everything props. I mean day one rehearse,
Speaker 2: we rehearse with full props's are you going to have
Speaker 2: your purse? Put your purse on? Are you going to
Speaker 2: have that? Grab that? Now? We every single smart.
Speaker 1: It's smart. It puts more of the onus on the
Speaker 1: writing to stay the way it is, like you know,
Speaker 1: like leaving it more sort of improvy and like open.
Speaker 1: It actually allows for more rewrites. But that's interesting that
Speaker 1: they're getting more nailed down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and.
Speaker 1: Find if the scripts are changing less than compared to
Speaker 1: like back in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Yes, the scripts definitely change less. But also you know
Speaker 2: there are times where sometimes whether it's network or it's
Speaker 2: an EP, who will say, listen, we've we've I love
Speaker 2: what's based like the basis of what's here but these
Speaker 2: individual characters need to have, you know, and then then
Speaker 2: kind of significant stuff will change. But yeah, nothing like
Speaker 2: what we used to do. We're on a tape night,
Speaker 2: walk out and a pencil down a page and rewrite,
Speaker 2: nothing like that.
Speaker 1: But I also feel like you would have avoided some
Speaker 1: of the problems that I remember all having, which is
Speaker 1: a prop showing up on tape day and it being correct,
Speaker 1: what is wanted?
Speaker 3: And what what?
Speaker 1: What is this? This can't be right, and then you
Speaker 1: can't go and get it. So like having all the
Speaker 1: props and art department stuff as early as possible is
Speaker 1: only good really.
Speaker 2: And it helps you as a director too, because you
Speaker 2: know whether or not something is going to work, and
Speaker 2: if it's not going to work, what you are going
Speaker 2: to need in order to make it work. And everyone
Speaker 2: can start to have time to do that. So I mean,
Speaker 2: because I do I've thought before, like we didn't used
Speaker 2: to do that. We didn't have props on day one,
Speaker 2: but you know, I feel like by the time we
Speaker 2: got to network run through, you would have had something
Speaker 2: to catch maybe. So then we're in Phoenie's house, Corey
Speaker 2: walks down the stairs triumphantly. We did it. The upstairs
Speaker 2: is and shambles, and every dish Phoenie owns is in
Speaker 2: the sink. He wants to get caught so he can
Speaker 2: be at peace without punishment. Corey's world loses both form
Speaker 2: and meaning. Sean questions, you were one of those kids
Speaker 2: that enjoys getting enjoyed getting such a great beat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so funny, Corey admits, I always deserved it. Gloria heck
Speaker 2: down the stairs with cleaning supplies. You made us feel
Speaker 2: so welcome. We all tidied up after ourselves. Oh and
Speaker 2: Nona did all the dirty dishes. Cory raises his arms
Speaker 2: to the sky. Don't you know it's us? Corey says
Speaker 2: he's not comfortable with this. In the old days, they'd
Speaker 2: be standing there patting themselves on the back, and then
Speaker 2: the doorknob would start turning. And then the doorknob does
Speaker 2: start turning, and as Corey predicted, Phoene Waltz is in.
Speaker 2: Corey thanks the universe for caring about them, but then
Speaker 2: Feene notices he forgot his overnight back. He needs to
Speaker 2: run back to the cab to get it. This can
Speaker 2: still be pulled off. All they have to do is
Speaker 2: get their guests checked out. In the next fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: Corey refuses, it's over and he is at peace the
Speaker 2: group of guests and magically walk out of the side group.
Speaker 2: Gloria tells her husband that they need to leave in
Speaker 2: the next five seconds so they don't miss their flight.
Speaker 2: The Timmers agree to split a taxi with them, and
Speaker 2: Corey and Sean watch the conversation in awe. Sean thanks
Speaker 2: them for staying, reminding them he has their deposits and
Speaker 2: we'll hold their rooms for Christmas. Corey reminds him Feoene
Speaker 2: is right outside the door, so it's over. He's going
Speaker 2: towards the white light, but on cue. Arnie tells the group,
Speaker 2: let's go out the back way. I want to take
Speaker 2: that bench with me. Just as the group leaves, Phoene
Speaker 2: walks back through the front door. Sean exclaims, here she is,
Speaker 2: mister Feenie, your house does she look the same? Cory's
Speaker 2: ready for the punishment, but Poene admires the credenza is
Speaker 2: nicely polished, plants look well sunned. Corey points to Sean
Speaker 2: that the statue is missing. Arnie took it. Phoene then
Speaker 2: also notices it's gone. Corey shouts, I confess all is
Speaker 2: right with the world. From the side room just beyond vision,
Speaker 2: Arnie hands Cory the statue. Sean quickly hands it to Feenie,
Speaker 2: saying they were just giving it a quick polish. Phoene
Speaker 2: tells the boys they did a wonderful job. Cory is stunned,
Speaker 2: and Sean walks toward the front door. As they're walking away,
Speaker 2: Phoenie asks how much money did you actually make? Cory
Speaker 2: throws his hands in the air, thank you so much,
Speaker 2: and he gives Foenie a big hug. He points to
Speaker 2: the sky. I knew you still cared about me.
Speaker 1: Oh did you notice the giant break?
Speaker 3: No? Oh? Oh yeah? Oh for you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I lose it. This is one of the
Speaker 1: clearest times where we are just completely breaking character. And
Speaker 1: I think what was supposed to have up it is
Speaker 1: that it was written as both of us doing the
Speaker 1: and then you just I'm doing and he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: He goes out, and then we look at each other.
Speaker 1: You can see him turn look at me like I
Speaker 1: didn't do it, and I'm looking, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: We clearly just and they kept it, and they kept it,
Speaker 1: and they kept it. It's so funny. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that is just us like looking at each other like
Speaker 1: you and I don't know if it was him being
Speaker 1: intentional or me. Maybe it was like we were supposed
Speaker 1: to do so, but we were out of sync and
Speaker 1: we're just laughing at each other for being out of sync.
Speaker 2: So funny. I love it when they use those You
Speaker 2: wonder like was that the best they had or did
Speaker 2: they also.
Speaker 3: Just like the energy. I have a quick question, not
Speaker 3: to go back to a very old conversation that we've
Speaker 3: had a thousand times, but in Feoene's yard that we
Speaker 3: see all the time, the dead bodies, the dead body owed, uh,
Speaker 3: the Azalea yard, is there a bench?
Speaker 1: There's no there's like there have been those chairs that
Speaker 1: he sat right with Corey, right.
Speaker 3: But he says, let's go out the back. I want
Speaker 3: us to take the bench.
Speaker 2: It could be the back side where it could be
Speaker 2: like beside you're talking about where you think is the backyard, right?
Speaker 2: Because remember his because isn't his car? Isn't that where
Speaker 2: he parked his car?
Speaker 3: Again, I know it's an esher house. I was just
Speaker 3: every time. Now there's a little nugget, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, hmmm, yeah, I don't I don't know, guys, it's
Speaker 1: a nineties sitcom.
Speaker 3: Relax, just have fun.
Speaker 2: Fun, So glad you're here to remind us to just.
Speaker 1: You know, some people over analyze this stuff, but you
Speaker 1: really too deep and they care too much.
Speaker 2: You know, when we were talking about our roles on
Speaker 2: this podcast, writer is the fun one was just exactly,
Speaker 2: were like writers here to provide the joy and the
Speaker 2: fun and the compensation.
Speaker 1: You guys want a dance, so a TikTok video. Come on,
Speaker 1: who's gonna lipsyick? Nope, come on, you guys. I don't
Speaker 1: have any fun anymore.
Speaker 3: I feel like the world might be coming to an end.
Speaker 3: Something's happening.
Speaker 2: Sean asks Pheenie how he knew, and Phoenie admits it
Speaker 2: was actually the cab driver. I gave him my address.
Speaker 2: He said he knew the place well, and I should
Speaker 2: get the room with the jacuzzi. Sean says, the cabs
Speaker 2: and then you break again, Right, that's the moment I
Speaker 2: was remembering.
Speaker 3: Then you break again, ye.
Speaker 1: Deep wort the cab driver. That's awful.
Speaker 3: Sure, it's kind.
Speaker 1: Just kick out some hard working the immigrants who's completely
Speaker 1: hooked me up all weekend long. Exactly weekend long. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna stuport him.
Speaker 3: Awful.
Speaker 2: Cory asks, so, I guess you want the money back.
Speaker 2: Phoene responds, I think that'd be appropriate. Sean hands him
Speaker 2: the cash and asks how much trouble he's in. Phoene's
Speaker 2: astounded at the amount of money they made the usual
Speaker 2: mister hunter. Sean's confused, and Phoene explains he took a risk,
Speaker 2: and I happen to have a soft spot now for
Speaker 2: risk takers. Corey whispers to his best friend, take another
Speaker 2: risk and ask for the money back. Sean doesn't hesitate.
Speaker 2: Can I have the money back?
Speaker 3: That's you? Don't that you not stopping in between the
Speaker 3: two like running over. It was the perfect way to
Speaker 3: read that joke. It was. It really was for the
Speaker 3: money back. Can we have the money back?
Speaker 2: That's high praise coming from you?
Speaker 1: That was great.
Speaker 2: Phoene tells him, yes, you can. When you're in college,
Speaker 2: you already prove to yourself that you have a future
Speaker 2: in business. That and a college education, you'll do fine.
Speaker 2: Sean smiles. He's going to be okay in this world.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have to be a criminal. And I love
Speaker 2: the way this this the way this is all resolved,
Speaker 2: so kind of like, hey, I don't have to Rob
Speaker 2: Banks is hilarious, Like I love that Corey tells him,
Speaker 2: And the universe is a better town for that could
Speaker 2: have done with one less universe and less universe thing.
Speaker 2: Then we're in the tag. We're in Phoenie's house. Continuing,
Speaker 2: Phoene repeatedly knocks on the door to his bedroom, but
Speaker 2: he gets no response. He yels, I understand that you're
Speaker 2: the honeymoon couple, and I appreciate the fact that you've
Speaker 2: paid for two nights, but I must insist that you
Speaker 2: vacate my bedroom immediately. Checkout time is now to Panga
Speaker 2: nonchalantly creeps up behind him in a French made outfit
Speaker 2: carrying cleaning supplies, but quickly darts away when she sees Phoenie.
Speaker 2: No one apparently clued her in.
Speaker 3: It's just bailed out Onney.
Speaker 1: Just get to Panga in a French maid.
Speaker 5: Out of it, do it.
Speaker 2: Phoene leans back into the doorway. It's not that I
Speaker 2: can't identify with two young people in love. I was
Speaker 2: young ones. I know that when love comes, you must
Speaker 2: seize it lest it slip away through the sands of time.
Speaker 3: I was young.
Speaker 2: Once the door finally opens and it is an extremely
Speaker 2: old couple looking extremely happy. Phoene is stunned it first,
Speaker 2: but then he lets out a little chuckle as soft
Speaker 2: piano music plays in the background. He says to himself,
Speaker 2: perhaps I still am. It would have been funny if
Speaker 2: he had the bartender on speed dial here. Thank you
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