Speaker 1: I have an update on my cat situation. What was
Speaker 1: there a cat?
Speaker 2: What cats?
Speaker 1: I got cats? You guys, situation that's getting an adoption?
Speaker 1: Made it sound like it was we got it. We
Speaker 1: got an updated. Okay around, give up? Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: Pick Pickles got out and this it was the wor
Speaker 1: Tickles went out. Pickles got out went wild. No, So
Speaker 1: we were so, we had a gathering, We had people over,
Speaker 1: people stayed late. We were like, did everybody close the
Speaker 1: door where the cat's? Okay? Yeah, yeah, we're fine. Wake
Speaker 1: up the next morning. Cannot find Pickles. Lucky, who's usually
Speaker 1: out and about and is the way more social. We're like, Lucky,
Speaker 1: where's pickles? Can't find Pickles? Can't find pickles? Okay, so
Speaker 1: Alex has luckily we have trackers on there, you know,
Speaker 1: but of course the tracker is not working in the house.
Speaker 1: So all we can get is a like the tracker
Speaker 1: to make a noise, like you push a button and
Speaker 1: you hear a yeah, but it's and we Alex can
Speaker 1: hit the button and sometimes deep somewhere in one of
Speaker 1: the rooms in the house, Alex Indy's bedroom, we hear
Speaker 1: a distantly and we're like, okay, Okay, she's got to
Speaker 1: be under the house. She's got to be under the house.
Speaker 1: So I go down through the crawl space. Nothing cannot
Speaker 1: find Pickles can't. So then I'm like, oh god, real
Speaker 1: problem is Pickles doesn't me out, Like Pickles can't make
Speaker 1: sound for whatever reason, like she just she can barely go, like,
Speaker 1: so we can't hear anything. So we're like Pickles, Pickles.
Speaker 1: So I'm bringing food down. I go under the house
Speaker 1: about seven times, yeah, because I know it's here, like
Speaker 1: we can hear the thing, right. And then I finally,
Speaker 1: let me say if I can share a photo with
Speaker 1: you guys, I finally crawl to the what is the
Speaker 1: end of my crawl space, like I'm seeing the cement
Speaker 1: foundation under my house? Yes, And I see a little
Speaker 1: hole like you know where the house ends. And then
Speaker 1: it seems like there's more going on, and Pickle sticks
Speaker 1: her little face down from this hole and I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did you get up there?
Speaker 2: Where are you?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, she's under the deck
Speaker 1: that's like off the back of our house. So then
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, we gotta we gotta lift up
Speaker 1: the deck because she can't come down where I can
Speaker 1: see her face poking through. She can't like crawl down
Speaker 1: and then up. I'm like, so, how did you get
Speaker 1: there in the first place. So then I'm like, so
Speaker 1: then I have to find the right tool to pry
Speaker 1: up the deck. Of course, the deck is not with
Speaker 1: regular screwdrivers. It's like these weird star screws, and I
Speaker 1: have to like get the special screws, and so, like,
Speaker 1: you know, forty five minutes, I finally start unscrewing the
Speaker 1: deck when we get like some of the deck off
Speaker 1: and I lift it up and there's just pure dirt
Speaker 1: under it, Like what, so she's not where is she?
Speaker 1: And then I realized there's a whole section of the
Speaker 1: house that I can't access, like a crawl space. Like basically,
Speaker 1: at one point somebody added onto our house and like
Speaker 1: didn't create cross space. So my crawl space ends where
Speaker 1: I'm like growing in the dirt, you know. I'm like, like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's only a foot under their house, and
Speaker 1: then it just ends where I can see her little face,
Speaker 1: but there's more beyond that, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: she got there. It's Narnia, right, No, So that is
Speaker 1: at this point, it's been six six hours of like
Speaker 1: leaving food out, trying to get her out. I've been
Speaker 1: under the house so many times, and I'm finally.
Speaker 2: Like, what do you do?
Speaker 1: You have to like call animal control? Like I don't
Speaker 1: know how, like do they have to destroy part of
Speaker 1: our house? Like she got stuck in there somehow? So
Speaker 1: I'm like calling all the different you know whatever phone
Speaker 1: numbers I can find online delight to see what she
Speaker 1: can do that could help. Well, there should be like
Speaker 1: a cat rescue team, right, because you feel like an
Speaker 1: idiot department. You need the patrol patrol, right, it seems
Speaker 1: like this happens anyway. I finally I get like the
Speaker 1: right animal people and they're like talking to me, and
Speaker 1: you know, they're having me send photos, which I would
Speaker 1: love to send this photo to you guys if I can.
Speaker 1: How do I do that? Gosh?
Speaker 2: Now we really do have a cat situation. I see
Speaker 2: before there was no cat situation. It was just as
Speaker 2: you know, we adopted cats. We had a cat situation.
Speaker 2: This is the definition of a cat situation.
Speaker 3: You need the paw patrol or god forbid, the CRT,
Speaker 3: the cat rescue team.
Speaker 1: I know the best part about this photo, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to come through. Is that
Speaker 1: it's one of those live photos. Oh so you can
Speaker 1: see that it's just a hole, and then she sticks
Speaker 1: her little face down, like if you watch it in
Speaker 1: the live it's.
Speaker 2: Obviously pickles God under there probably from outside, you know.
Speaker 2: She how it's a she right, she got in there?
Speaker 2: So how how so you walked around the outside of
Speaker 2: the deck looking to see if you could find her
Speaker 2: entry point, you couldn't.
Speaker 1: So under under the house, I find like a rapper
Speaker 1: that has been chewed out, and I'm like, oh, maybe
Speaker 1: she got in there and then couldn't get out that way.
Speaker 1: And I'm like that's the only thing I could think.
Speaker 1: So I get the people on the phone, I you know,
Speaker 1: finally get the call from like the guy who's like, well,
Speaker 1: oh wow, yeah, so she sees she can stick her
Speaker 1: head there, but then there's a whole little like valley
Speaker 1: between me and her that she still can't get Like.
Speaker 2: No, she can't get her bought yeah yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 1: And she's not coming when I put a food right there.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I get the person on the phone who's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll calm you know, we'll we have a trap. Is
Speaker 1: there a way to get a trap and they're like no,
Speaker 1: like I can't. I don't know how to get and
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, well we'll figure it out. We'll have
Speaker 1: to like break maybe break down like wall I like
Speaker 1: figure out how to like take this all apart. And
Speaker 1: I'm like okay. And then and then luckily my friend
Speaker 1: Ocean was staying with us, and he's like, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: there's an entrance to that section under the house that
Speaker 1: she must have crawled in, and it was completely blocked
Speaker 1: in the side the house, and we're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is it. Like this goes to that crawl space.
Speaker 1: And I had to move all this crap, like she
Speaker 1: had dodged all these piles of things to get in
Speaker 1: to find this way, and so I'm like, oh, so
Speaker 1: this is the access point. There's no cross So I
Speaker 1: finally moved that. I put the food down, and Pickles
Speaker 1: comes walking out, and then of course I'm terrified that
Speaker 1: like she's gonna run away, but she's been there for
Speaker 1: at this point, like eighteen hours, like all.
Speaker 2: Night and like baby Jessica, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: So I finally get her close enough where she's eating
Speaker 1: out of my hand, like grab her. But anyway, long
Speaker 1: story short, we saved Pickles. It was my entire day.
Speaker 1: And then like now, luckily, the cats are so terrified
Speaker 1: if the door opens and like you know, they peek
Speaker 1: out and like Pickles just runs back inside because.
Speaker 2: Like not today, Satan.
Speaker 1: In the future.
Speaker 3: One of the things you could have done is you
Speaker 3: get another cat that looks just like Pills and you
Speaker 3: pretend you.
Speaker 1: Call it and just don't Yeah, just don't tell Indy exactly.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of people could do that too. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: poor was so distraught. It was like, you know, the worst,
Speaker 1: but oh man, we made it. But yeah, man, having
Speaker 1: cats and you love them, it is a cat situation.
Speaker 3: You'll break your heart and not care what they're doing
Speaker 3: it either. That's the thing about cats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you I think the problem really isn't the cats.
Speaker 2: It's that your gatherings didn't respect the cats.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the hard No, here's the problem. Our
Speaker 1: cats are so stinking cute. When we have people over it,
Speaker 1: they always want to hang out with the cats. So
Speaker 1: when we had like Indy's birthday party, all the kids
Speaker 1: want to take turns going in to say hi to
Speaker 1: so even we lock them in a room because we
Speaker 1: know people are going in and out to use the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Even though we're having the party outside, people are coming
Speaker 1: in and out. We we can't just always be yelling.
Speaker 1: We put the cats in one room. Invariably they get
Speaker 1: out because kids are always going to pet the cats,
Speaker 1: say hi, they want like there there are kids who
Speaker 1: come just to see our cats, like they kind of
Speaker 1: don't care about it. Sounds like a terrible petting zoo.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you, just the two cats in
Speaker 3: a room is just the worst petting zoo.
Speaker 1: Ever or the best or the best I guess. Oh wow.
Speaker 2: Now cats I know can jump really high, but command
Speaker 2: is suggest a baby gate of sorts at the door,
Speaker 2: so that if the door that you don't worry about
Speaker 2: the cats like running just in between feet, they'd have
Speaker 2: to actually make like a leap over.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you do get that most cats
Speaker 3: are not bill size and can easily clear.
Speaker 2: I know, but what I'm saying is the quickness of
Speaker 2: like leaving a door open a crack and then a
Speaker 2: cat sneaking out on the bottom, versus like if you
Speaker 2: have a pretty tall baby gate that somebody maybe couldn't
Speaker 2: even step over, then if the door is open, I
Speaker 2: don't know. In order for the baby gate to work,
Speaker 2: you do need to be able to step over it,
Speaker 2: because then they don't have to take up and down
Speaker 2: the baby gate. So yeah, I don't know. Bill can Bill,
Speaker 2: even though he weighs like twenty five pounds, he's got ups.
Speaker 1: It's the radio because he's radioactive. I know his superhero.
Speaker 1: A totally separate note.
Speaker 3: Soon and I are having date night tonight, and hopefully
Speaker 3: Pickles is getting out.
Speaker 1: That's all I got to say about that.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, remember when you said Pickles got out and
Speaker 2: he said, is that of euphemism? He's been holding.
Speaker 1: On to that. Yes.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishl.
Speaker 1: I'm right or strong.
Speaker 2: So welcome to Season six, Episode three, Ain't College Great?
Speaker 2: It originally aired October ninth, nineteen ninety eight. The synopsis.
Speaker 2: Now Enrolled at Penbrook, Corey eagerly signs up for classes
Speaker 2: without real zing what he's getting himself into. When he
Speaker 2: visits his guidance counselor to try and fix his mistake,
Speaker 2: he calls on an old friend for help. Meanwhile, Eric
Speaker 2: and Jack find their sensitive sides for Rachel.
Speaker 1: Can we what can we talk about titles for a second?
Speaker 1: Is this a reference to something? Ain't college great? Is
Speaker 1: that like a is there a song? Is there a
Speaker 1: TV show? I bet got to be something?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Isn't isn't there something? Ain't something grand? Is that a thing?
Speaker 1: Ain't ain't life grand? Is that what? It sounds like
Speaker 1: a thing like that? Maybe I don't know. I never
Speaker 1: understood our titles, Like we never knew our titles when
Speaker 1: we were doing the show, remember, like did we the titles?
Speaker 1: We knew the numbers and we never talked. But then
Speaker 1: of course in you know, post post DVD life, everything
Speaker 1: is streaming, everybody searches for so the episode titles have
Speaker 1: become way more important than I remember, and they're strange
Speaker 1: to me, Like how the time I don't get the
Speaker 1: reference or it sounds like familiar. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's just because I remember it when we were
Speaker 1: shooting it or what like. But yeah, like this title
Speaker 1: just struck me as weird.
Speaker 3: Again, if you google anything like it, it just goes
Speaker 3: to our episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't feel like it's a direct reference.
Speaker 1: So we ain't gonna spray let us know more, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew that one. Yeah, and then yeah, I dream
Speaker 1: of FEOENI you know obviously that that's like an idea genie.
Speaker 1: Like there are some that I get and then other
Speaker 1: times I'm like, yeah, I don't get this one either.
Speaker 1: But remember that was.
Speaker 3: One of the things that Michael used to always do,
Speaker 3: is that he would give these really obscure references to
Speaker 3: things where we were like, what the hell are you
Speaker 3: talking about?
Speaker 1: So this is probably like.
Speaker 3: This is the nineteen forties whatever movie you didn't know
Speaker 3: college great, like that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I wonder if somebody's compiled a list of like all
Speaker 1: the references that are in our titles, because that's a
Speaker 1: good idea, that would be good. We can look for that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: This episode was directed by William Russ mister Rusty Russ.
Speaker 2: The second episode it was written by Jeff Manel. Before
Speaker 2: we jump into our guest stars, do you guys have
Speaker 2: any overall thoughts?
Speaker 1: I enjoyed this episode quite a lot. Oh touch, I mean,
Speaker 1: I have major problems okay with me, and it's not
Speaker 1: just my it's not really only my performance which also
Speaker 1: but be Sean is really annoying in this episode, I
Speaker 1: would say negative Nelly, he's awful, and that whole dynamic
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. No, it's saved by the end.
Speaker 1: I think maybe it's the idea that you know, you
Speaker 1: like Topanga, Sean, and Angela are all like over Corey
Speaker 1: and then wait, we actually are there for him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is kind of nice. But that whole first half
Speaker 1: I was like, we suck.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like, it doesn't seem like the right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't fit with Sean to be stressed out about
Speaker 1: Corey being a dork, Like, yeah, that is anti Sean,
Speaker 1: Like Sewan is always the one who's fine. It's Corey
Speaker 1: who's stressed out. It's Corey who's nervous. Sean is like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be fine, it's gonna be cool. You're Corey.
Speaker 1: I'm Sean who cares. And it said Sean's the one
Speaker 1: that's like, which actually could have been a good good
Speaker 1: story of like Sean, we're more insecure and trying to
Speaker 1: be cool for the first time now that he's out
Speaker 1: of high school, and Corey's the one who's cool. Like
Speaker 1: there could been a dynamic there, but instead Chauncey just
Speaker 1: to brand and I was like, you suck. Dude, and
Speaker 1: it's just not fun to watch. It's like a weird vibe.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just harshing on Martian on Corey's mellow man.
Speaker 2: Yeah man. It's also it would have made so much
Speaker 2: more sense for all of us to be preoccupied with
Speaker 2: our own college stuff that we only have time for
Speaker 2: gentle reminders to Corey, like, oh, Corey, don't overextend yourself.
Speaker 2: I've gotta sign up for this, and I go running
Speaker 2: off and for you to be like, you know what,
Speaker 2: just need a pudding cup, Like if everyone's trying to
Speaker 2: encourage Corey to just Corey, It's okay, You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: Just and when he says he's signing up for these
Speaker 2: things for us to give him gentle warnings, but we're
Speaker 2: we should be so preoccupied with our own thing that
Speaker 2: would help then set up later. Oh well, we always
Speaker 2: knew you were gonna do this. That's that's the most
Speaker 2: Corey thing you could have done. We took care of it,
Speaker 2: and here's how we fixed it. So I completely agree
Speaker 2: with you. I actually really I also I enjoyed the
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the episode. I enjoyed certainly the acet line.
Speaker 2: I can't believe. I really can't. We're on episode three
Speaker 2: and there's still no new storyline for you at will
Speaker 2: and was.
Speaker 1: Going to be either actually like this one though, this
Speaker 1: one was good to me because it was based in
Speaker 1: character and you got to see all three of them
Speaker 1: play to something, you know, like and it was like
Speaker 1: riffing on them, knowing who they are, what their characters are.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I thought it would work. Finally that
Speaker 1: storyline worked for me. I was like, Oh, this feels
Speaker 1: feels right, it feels comfortable, and maybe it was just
Speaker 1: a matter of getting used to each other or what.
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, if this had been like the
Speaker 1: first one, I know, that's kind of impossible because I
Speaker 1: had to bring her in. But like, if this had
Speaker 1: been the storyline about the two of you guys trying
Speaker 1: to compete for her, it makes the most sense and
Speaker 1: it's the most fun and you're great in it, so
Speaker 1: it's totally fine, you know, like finally like, oh, you're right.
Speaker 2: If this hadn't been episode three of them trying to
Speaker 2: do it, it would have been no, it would be flawless.
Speaker 2: But instead I was like, we're still only doing.
Speaker 1: This because had you realized that his Ricky impression had
Speaker 1: actually been on the show. He's doing exactly, which is
Speaker 1: like at all, Like yeah, his.
Speaker 2: Well, your black, your.
Speaker 1: Blast shirt like the pirate shirt.
Speaker 2: And you're sticking your fingers in the candle. It's so funny.
Speaker 1: You like the actor episode, him going in and out
Speaker 1: of it. He's like, dude, that's her bras one of
Speaker 1: the funniest lies. Because it's like after all of this,
Speaker 1: like I'm still just this giddy, corny little boy, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, no, I I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: I had a kind of a realization with Boy Meets
Speaker 3: World that you need to see it almost as a
Speaker 3: bunch of different sitcoms as opposed to one continuous show
Speaker 3: all the way through. So I'm starting to like this
Speaker 3: version of Boy Mets World. My favorite kind of Corey.
Speaker 3: I love neurotic crazy.
Speaker 2: I know, season one Corey.
Speaker 3: Yes, my favorite kind of Corey. I agree about Sean entirely.
Speaker 3: But you know, once I got that in my head
Speaker 3: that it's like, Okay, this is going to be the
Speaker 3: Beast story for the rest of time. Now it's going
Speaker 3: to be Josh, Jack and Eric going after Rachel, and
Speaker 3: they're gonna have different versions of this, it's just what
Speaker 3: it's going to be and neurotic Cory and all of
Speaker 3: us in college.
Speaker 1: I was I was looking forward to you know.
Speaker 3: Some of the jokes obviously were not great, but overall
Speaker 3: I enjoyed the episode.
Speaker 2: I did thought it was I thought it was fun too.
Speaker 2: I was pleasantly surprised. Okay, guest starring. We have some
Speaker 2: character actor legends in this one. We mark Tim Shashan
Speaker 2: as guidance counselor. He was a very busy TV actor,
Speaker 2: appearing on shows like the Facts of Life, As the
Speaker 2: World Turns, George Lopez, and Er just to name a few.
Speaker 2: Will might recognize him as Phil Tatola in the Seinfeld
Speaker 2: episode The stand.
Speaker 1: In he took it Out. Yeah, great episode.
Speaker 2: He retired from the business and two thousand and seven
Speaker 2: and now teaches acting and is the chair and creative
Speaker 2: director of Savannah College of Art and Designs Performing Arts Department.
Speaker 2: Huh isn't that cool?
Speaker 1: Savannah as in Savannah, Georgia.
Speaker 2: Uh huh oh cool. And then we have William Wyndham
Speaker 2: as Ned, a well known character actor with a ton
Speaker 2: of credits, like playing doctor Seth Hazlitt on Murder. She
Speaker 2: wrote and commodore Matt Decker in Star Trek. He was
Speaker 2: also in a bunch of movies, but worth mentioning that
Speaker 2: his first film ever was To Kill a Mockingbird.
Speaker 3: Whoa.
Speaker 2: He also won the nineteen seventy Emmy for Best Comedic
Speaker 2: Performance by an Actor in a Comedy Series for a
Speaker 2: show called My World and Welcome to It.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: William passed in twenty twelve at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Then we have keone Young as Professor, another prolific guy
Speaker 2: with an uncountable amount of credits. He appeared in movies
Speaker 2: like Private Benjamin, The Even Stephens movie, Men in Black,
Speaker 2: three and North. But name a TV show and he
Speaker 2: was in it, aleas Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Golden Girls,
Speaker 2: Small Wonder. The list is long and insane. You may
Speaker 2: recognize him though from his time on some classics. He
Speaker 2: was Mister Wu on Deadwood and appeared in episodes of
Speaker 2: Sons of Anarchy and True Blood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, also a voice of Gi Joe. Oh Yeah.
Speaker 2: He is now a very active and award winning voice actor,
Speaker 2: most notably on High High, Puffy, Ami Yumi, and Samurai Jack.
Speaker 2: Jumping into our recap, Wow, we have so many new
Speaker 2: set alerts. We are in the hallway of the Penbrook dorms,
Speaker 2: which is very much before.
Speaker 1: We go any farther.
Speaker 3: The second guy, the guy who passed away in twenty twelve,
Speaker 3: Which part did he play?
Speaker 1: He was the guy on the docks on the correction
Speaker 1: next to Feeni. Okay, gotcha, got jay? Gotcha?
Speaker 2: Yes, we're in the Penbrook hallway. Dorms are designed very
Speaker 2: much like the Boy's Apartment hallway. Notice that as well,
Speaker 2: so listeners. Like when we explained the setup of the
Speaker 2: studio with the set, so maybe we could briefly explain.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the hallway either, was it.
Speaker 1: I think it was on the other side, so like
Speaker 1: after you're facing the audience, it was to the left
Speaker 1: of the audience on the audience, on the same side
Speaker 1: as the audience that was on the same side. So
Speaker 1: if you're looking at the audience, it was to the
Speaker 1: left of them, on the same side that they were on. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the opposite the union, the student union. The student union
Speaker 1: was to Yeah. The living room was on that side,
Speaker 1: wasn't it. It was more to the right.
Speaker 2: It was Phoene's classroom exactly.
Speaker 1: The hallway and the kitchen kitchen. Phoenie is still there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kitchen, I was still the kitchen. Side yard was there,
Speaker 2: and then on the other side of side yard was
Speaker 2: student union. Gotcha, Phoene's other side of Phoene's yard, gotcha. Okay,
Speaker 2: So Corey is an overly enthusiastic high fiving random strangers
Speaker 2: and aimlessly shouting college at the top of his.
Speaker 1: Same I love this.
Speaker 2: I love it. Sean quickly calms him down. They don't
Speaker 2: know anyone yet. He'd rather not be known as the
Speaker 2: Woo who boys. By the way, I liked this this.
Speaker 2: This was fine to me, you saying like, Okay, let's
Speaker 2: not be known as the woo hoo boys. This is
Speaker 2: totally fine. I have no problem. Like, let's just let's
Speaker 2: scope it out first, let's get a feel cool dude.
Speaker 1: But it would I think if Sean had been like
Speaker 1: overly obsessed with being cool cool and Corey was just
Speaker 1: sort of free and dorkey, going that's a good dynamic.
Speaker 1: But instead it's like Corey's kind of free and insecure
Speaker 1: and worried about being this and then Shawn's pissed at him.
Speaker 3: It's just like, but that just again proving Michael right
Speaker 3: when it comes to one major note, which is anger
Speaker 3: isn't funny and you're kind of playing it angry? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and it's it comes whereas if you were like he
Speaker 3: comes in, you're like, hey.
Speaker 1: Can you kick you know what? Why don't we get
Speaker 1: your pudding cup? Like you're the one who gives him? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's angry. I think it's
Speaker 1: just that if if Sean is cool what he's playing,
Speaker 1: he is cool and he's judging Corey, that guy sucks.
Speaker 1: Like if he's cool and he's fine with Corey being door,
Speaker 1: everyone loves him. But if he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: I'm cooler than you, Corey and he actually is sucks
Speaker 1: like he should be trying to be cool and not
Speaker 1: or I don't know, but as it is, like in
Speaker 1: this episode, he always loved Corey, doesn't know that Corey
Speaker 1: wants putting exactly think the Corey's family is going, what
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? He knows exactly what he's getting
Speaker 1: with Corey as a room mate. Why is this an issue?
Speaker 2: And it's what he wanted? Anything, it makes Sean more
Speaker 2: cool that his friend is the antithesis of cool.
Speaker 3: So it was a very different, Sean. This episode just
Speaker 3: completely different.
Speaker 1: The next thing that happens, what happens.
Speaker 2: Points to a door behind Corey. This is their room.
Speaker 2: Corey's wide eyed. We can't just walk in here. This
Speaker 2: is big. You can't just open this door. Sean's over
Speaker 2: the theatrics. We're not in high school anymore. That crap
Speaker 2: just has to stop.
Speaker 1: I don't mind that. I don't mind that because it
Speaker 1: was like a nice callback to the first episode of
Speaker 1: high school, which was actually our first episode of seventh grade.
Speaker 2: But yes, he opens the door and we're introduced to
Speaker 2: Corey and Sean's dorm room. It's a standard dorm room,
Speaker 2: but Corey's in awe. It's so beautiful. But Sean argues, no,
Speaker 2: beautiful is not a strong enough word. A better word
Speaker 2: is sucks.
Speaker 4: Suck.
Speaker 1: Shan would be so stoked on this road. The guy
Speaker 1: grew up in a trailer park. His room at the
Speaker 1: apartment was a literal pig style. This is the joke
Speaker 1: should be that. Corey's like, ohh and Sean is like, dude,
Speaker 1: you can you believe how big this is?
Speaker 3: Look, seld Moon, there are walls like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah done, Oh my god, it doesn't have wheels. Look
Speaker 1: at this, There's so many easy jokes that could have
Speaker 1: been to the same point, but instead, like they just
Speaker 1: threw Sean under the bus, like it doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 1: Like you would be stoked, dude.
Speaker 3: You should have walked in, ripped off the sheet and gone,
Speaker 3: there's not a single bloodstain on this mattress something like that,
Speaker 3: where it's like it's Xana do yeah. There.
Speaker 1: You know a million different things we could have made
Speaker 1: that were jokes, but not yeah, not that. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a very character for Sean.
Speaker 2: It was Sean says, give me a spoon. I'm digging
Speaker 2: a tunnel right now. Corey ignores Sean's negativity and innocently
Speaker 2: opens up a pudding cup. Shawn's draw drops, wow, you
Speaker 2: brought pudding to college. Corey's taken back, what I brought
Speaker 2: one for you, which was so sweet, so cute. I
Speaker 2: bought one for you. Sean shushes him and gives him
Speaker 2: a small rundown on college. One oh one, no pudding,
Speaker 2: no woohooing. Okay, Corey catches on, this is a chance
Speaker 2: to reinvent ourselves, right, we can be anything we want.
Speaker 2: Sean shakes his head. No, you can be yourself, just
Speaker 2: without the pudding, because I swear on my mother wherever
Speaker 2: the hell she is, if I get to be known
Speaker 2: as pudding Boy's best friend, I will kill you.
Speaker 1: Would have been ten times funnier if I actually took
Speaker 1: putting from him walking yeah, like literally, if I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: after this, we're don and then Sewan would have been likable,
Speaker 1: because then it would have been like yours, you want
Speaker 1: to be cool, but flail in. You actually want the
Speaker 1: pudding too? Would It's such an easy fix and same dialogue.
Speaker 1: But I'm eating the pudding while I'm giving him the
Speaker 1: speech perfect you know what, like.
Speaker 2: I brought one for you? Oh thanks, so.
Speaker 1: Sweat anyway, no more pudding. How funny is that?
Speaker 2: Exactly? It's so funny. Cory is as jolly as can be.
Speaker 2: You can't ruin my mood, Sean. Then Alan, Amy and
Speaker 2: Morgan appear at the door. Alan is rolling in a
Speaker 2: giant trunk. I think when you bolted from the car,
Speaker 2: yelling college college, you forgot something. Corey's eyes light up
Speaker 2: my pudding trunk. Sean dramatically cringes, and Amy believe her
Speaker 2: little boys in college. Then Corey breaks in awkward silence. Hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for raising me. See you, Morgan pipes up. Come on, guys,
Speaker 2: let's go. Time is money see you in four years.
Speaker 1: Of course, she's dressed like a real kid her age exactly.
Speaker 1: Thank god. It was like, oh she wasn't in footy pajamas?
Speaker 2: How great? Well, how grades and propeller head.
Speaker 1: She's just holding the lollipop. Okay, I'm off to the sandbox.
Speaker 1: So funny, I was.
Speaker 2: I've never obviously I'm the oldest of two, but I
Speaker 2: would imagine my feeling is that as the youngest, when
Speaker 2: your siblings are both out of the house, that's got
Speaker 2: to be a fun feeling.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. She's got to have a new sibling born.
Speaker 1: I know that's the different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I became Yeah, I became an only child, which
Speaker 3: both my brothers were at college, and it was just
Speaker 3: my parents and I forever.
Speaker 1: It was great, love my brothers. But it was still
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to be Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm like, she's got to be stoked. Corey
Speaker 2: admits I'll miss you, Morgan. Her tone changes, that's not
Speaker 2: fair and she runs to runs to him for a
Speaker 2: big Amy and Alan pyle on and look to Sean
Speaker 2: to join them. He grins, Ah, sure, why not. They
Speaker 2: all embrace. Then Amy starts to get emotional. I'm going
Speaker 2: to miss my baby boy. Corey says she didn't get
Speaker 2: like this for Eric. Amy suddenly turns serious. He doesn't
Speaker 2: know we're here, does he? Alan quickly bolts for the door.
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here. They're gone as quick as
Speaker 2: they arrived, leaving Corey and Sean alone again.
Speaker 1: So I have a question.
Speaker 3: So Susan actually had a question, and it was one
Speaker 3: I'm not sure was ever answered. Do we ever establish
Speaker 3: how close Penbrook is to where we live?
Speaker 1: No? Man, it's all Philadelphia, right, So.
Speaker 3: Right, so they're still in Philly, the apartments close to
Speaker 3: where they grew up, the apartments close to the apartment
Speaker 3: to the college. But we never say it's like, hey,
Speaker 3: you're a mom of only a half hour from home,
Speaker 3: Like we don't ever get that specific.
Speaker 1: No, but it should be right, because I feel like
Speaker 1: Penbrook would be in Philadelphia City center. And how do
Speaker 1: we establish that the Matthews there's like two towns that
Speaker 1: would kind of narrowed down to right, Oh, Chester and no,
Speaker 1: you guys remember Westchester? No, don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what they were. Don't remember they were.
Speaker 1: They were about thirty to forty five minutes from Philadelphia, proper, Okay,
Speaker 1: so figure probably half less than an hour. I will assume, right,
Speaker 1: because it's a suburb that they I mean.
Speaker 2: We also in just the last episode, will Eric had
Speaker 2: gone from his apartment, which we're assuming is close to Penbrook,
Speaker 2: his apartment, back to the Matthew's house, and back, all
Speaker 2: within the span of a night. When we thought.
Speaker 1: It's Sitcom walking distance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, just like one thousand miles from Philadelphia, North
Speaker 3: is still in the continental United States.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Corey turns to his best friend so excited, we're here.
Speaker 2: We're in college. Sean grinns, Yeah, it's pretty cool. Then
Speaker 2: to Pank and Angela up here at the door to
Speaker 2: Panga playfully announces they found some college guys. Corey alerts Sean.
Speaker 2: She means us. Corey states the obvious, Well, the four
Speaker 2: of us are here at Penbrook, and Angela suggests they
Speaker 2: check it out. The girls leave together, but Sean keeps
Speaker 2: Corey behind. We're in college. Now, nobody knows us be cool.
Speaker 2: Now back in the hallway with a student playing an
Speaker 2: acoustic guitar. Corey tries to act casual. We have hallways,
Speaker 2: rooms and co ed bathrooms. Just then a girl walks
Speaker 2: into the bathroom. Corey smirks at Sean. You see Seannie.
Speaker 2: In college, girls are not called girls, they're called co eds.
Speaker 2: But then a man walks into the same bathroom. Corey
Speaker 2: whispers to his friends a joke that would not fly now,
Speaker 2: boy is she butch Angela clarifies that the co ed
Speaker 2: bathroom is for men and women at the same time
Speaker 2: to Pega ads just like on Ali McBeal, just another
Speaker 2: show that's on at the time.
Speaker 1: It was a huge hit.
Speaker 2: Whatever show.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I never watched it.
Speaker 2: Oh I loved that show.
Speaker 1: Do people still love it or is it one of
Speaker 1: those things that was like it was a big cultural
Speaker 1: moment that came and went.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, yeah it was. That was Dan Baby and
Speaker 3: all that right, he knows whistling, and there's.
Speaker 1: A lot of life.
Speaker 2: And also her very short skirts for business. It was
Speaker 2: like a real like, oh my gosh, do you see
Speaker 2: this woman who's a professional woman, she's wearing these very
Speaker 2: small skirts. It reminds me of the inspiration for Topanga.
Speaker 2: When she cut her hair that outfit that what you
Speaker 2: called my skirt a belt. And then when we saw
Speaker 2: Tapanga in the mailroom with Phil Leads, when she was like,
Speaker 2: I suggested something and it became a law. I was
Speaker 2: also wearing a short skirt. Then it was like Topega's
Speaker 2: business attire was heavily influenced by Alan McBeal, Corey mocks
Speaker 2: her and Worth, noting the subtitles say like Cartman, I was.
Speaker 1: Gonna say, it's Cartman.
Speaker 2: It's it says it even in the subtle it's so
Speaker 2: so do.
Speaker 1: You think I said Cartman voice in the script or
Speaker 1: do you think Ben just did Cartman?
Speaker 2: I think Ben just did that.
Speaker 1: I think it just said what wouldn't have been otherwise,
Speaker 1: Like it's so not Corey to mock to Peg totally bad,
Speaker 1: is totally fat, Like he might have just done it,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like the line was not even there,
Speaker 1: and because.
Speaker 2: He may have just said let her go in let
Speaker 2: her go in there, and then they.
Speaker 1: I don't think they would have written that except that
Speaker 1: Ben would have just done it and it's funny. We
Speaker 1: all would have laughed and then yeah, he was like
Speaker 1: can I say this? And they're like, yeah, yeah, funny.
Speaker 2: Angela assures him it's no big deal, and Sean says
Speaker 2: he's going in the three enter as Corey stays behind
Speaker 2: and Winds come on. I just got comfortable going in
Speaker 2: front of guys. And then we're a college registration. There
Speaker 2: are tons of background actors here and our four new
Speaker 2: students are all signing up for various college classes.
Speaker 1: Student union looking weird because it has that like desk
Speaker 1: in the front, so it's a strange introduction to the space.
Speaker 1: But it's a big set though.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you remember that the cavernous set all
Speaker 3: because you have the eating area, you had.
Speaker 1: That, the pool table, the outdoor table, the outdoor table.
Speaker 1: That was an enormous set. It's a it's a really
Speaker 1: I was interesting to be seeing it for the first
Speaker 1: I'm ever, you know, or since I was in it
Speaker 1: and thinking, because it reminded me a lot of Girlley's
Speaker 1: World sets. Yeah, actually reminded me a lot of the
Speaker 1: coffee shop set from Girlmy Tour. Like I didn't realize
Speaker 1: how much that coffee shop was modeled on this because
Speaker 1: it had the outdoor table just like this and the
Speaker 1: couch with the you know, it's like, wow, this is clearly.
Speaker 3: You're you're both in the production side of television, and
Speaker 3: maybe it's such a different aspect of television that you.
Speaker 1: Might not know the answer.
Speaker 3: But what is something like a set like this cost?
Speaker 3: Is this one hundred and fifty thousand dollars?
Speaker 1: This is a million dollars? Like, how much does it
Speaker 1: cost to build a set like this? Fifty thousand? You
Speaker 1: think to do the whole set? Okay, yeah, I like
Speaker 1: that much. The most expensive part is like the paint
Speaker 1: and the fixtures, you know, because the walls are just plywood, so.
Speaker 2: It's sure most of it's rented. Probably, right.
Speaker 4: I can't tune you in here. We did get some
Speaker 4: emails last time you had this conversation. They said that
Speaker 4: network is closer to what writers saying and shows that
Speaker 4: have to be a little scrappy or can do that
Speaker 4: for twenty to.
Speaker 1: Thirty Okay, right, good, good to know. Interesting.
Speaker 2: Our four new students are all signing up for various
Speaker 2: college classes like psych one oh one, introductory business, and
Speaker 2: one apparently called Let's Make Bread, which.
Speaker 1: Is the only class I wanted to take. Did you
Speaker 1: see that? That's great?
Speaker 2: Corey looks around the room with admiration. This is where
Speaker 2: we will determine who we are and what we know
Speaker 2: for the rest of our lives. Sean tells him to
Speaker 2: shut up again, and Tapanga reminds him they're only freshmen.
Speaker 2: There's really no big decision to make yet. It's just
Speaker 2: anything that says one oh one or intro two. Corey
Speaker 2: disagrees that's the safe route. He was studying his course
Speaker 2: guide last night, and the old Corey would have gone
Speaker 2: down that road of safe and easy courses. But he
Speaker 2: refuses to be trampled by the masses registering for a
Speaker 2: little course he likes to call introduction for mediocrity. Sean
Speaker 2: asks if he's done with his diatribe. He is. They
Speaker 2: all dispersed a register, leaving Corey to look around at
Speaker 2: the various options. He lands it a course that no
Speaker 2: one is in line for. He nods at the professor
Speaker 2: sitting there and jokes that the rest of the students
Speaker 2: are cattle.
Speaker 1: He proceeds, must have been the last, like the last
Speaker 1: era of signing up in person for classes, right, because
Speaker 1: I was already doing it online. Actually I remember, I
Speaker 1: think we were doing it via phone. So you would
Speaker 1: call and they would have been right in this year,
Speaker 1: you would call and have to like enter the right
Speaker 1: like code for the right class, and then it would
Speaker 1: tell you you are registered for you know, philosophy one
Speaker 1: oh one or whatever. Yeah, that's what would you get.
Speaker 3: Just I was like if you were trying to get
Speaker 3: into the same class as a bunch of people, and
Speaker 3: was it like trying to win concert tickets?
Speaker 1: You know what it was is you would get assigned
Speaker 1: like a fifteen minute period that you could call in
Speaker 1: so like and that if that was assigned by what
Speaker 1: grade you were. So if you were a senior, you
Speaker 1: had like you know, the the hours, like the seniors
Speaker 1: got the first and then so it went by class
Speaker 1: so by the time, and of course that worked out
Speaker 1: because like the seniors weren't trying to get into the
Speaker 1: one on one classes around. But yeah, so it was
Speaker 1: all on the phone, that's right. And we also got
Speaker 1: email addresses. That was like a big new thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: email address was your your school dot edu. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: we did it on the phone. But by the time
Speaker 1: I was at Columbia, which was two thousand, everything was online.
Speaker 1: Like by that it was you.
Speaker 2: Know, the last the last great sign up in person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seems fun like walk around and be like you.
Speaker 2: Look to see like, oh, like that cute person, and when.
Speaker 1: The professors be there, like at their table for their class.
Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to recruit. I love this idea. Let's go
Speaker 2: back the sweet nostalgia of being in person.
Speaker 3: Oh god, if I had a time machine to go back,
Speaker 3: the last thing I'd be doing would be going back
Speaker 3: to sign up for college questions.
Speaker 1: Are you find it better.
Speaker 2: To hear this writer?
Speaker 1: The idea that you could take a classes like all
Speaker 1: the random things. Doesn't that excite you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: But it would be the list of the top machine,
Speaker 1: top of the list, top of the think of the difference.
Speaker 2: Okay, will You'd be in a crowd, Will's automatically out,
Speaker 2: You'd be signing up for courses. Will's like, no, thanks, writer,
Speaker 2: first place I'd go back to tons of people.
Speaker 1: The idea of like going from here to the bookstore
Speaker 1: to get the books for the class, like coming to
Speaker 1: find like I remember piling like you know, you'd get
Speaker 1: to sign up for these courses and then you just
Speaker 1: get to go and be like, oh, I need all
Speaker 1: twenty five of these books, and I just get to
Speaker 1: like make my shelf for the year. Oh it's the best.
Speaker 1: I'm look I'm gonna get to read all of this.
Speaker 2: Oh when would you read your syllabus?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Hey, I got it. Yeah, but you don't. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't get your syllables. You showed up in class,
Speaker 1: and then you'd get it and be like oh, and
Speaker 1: I'd be so excited. Yeah.
Speaker 3: You are third on the list of picking what we
Speaker 3: do with the time machine for the record, you get Joyce.
Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong learner. I'm going to be that old guy.
Speaker 2: Me too.
Speaker 3: But then, instead of using the time machine to go
Speaker 3: back to sign up for History one on one, let's
Speaker 3: just go back to the Battle of Agon.
Speaker 1: Court and see what happened.
Speaker 2: Okay, Corey proceeds to sign up, but only then we
Speaker 2: see that he's now a student in existentialist thought and
Speaker 2: its effect on quantum physics. And then we're at the
Speaker 2: Guy's apartment. Rachel is sitting on the couch in her robe,
Speaker 2: with tissues scattered all around her, in a bucket of
Speaker 2: cheese balls on her lap. Jack and Eric walk out
Speaker 2: of their rooms. They have to get going, so.
Speaker 1: We gotta keep track. Does Rachel wear this robe or
Speaker 1: a short robe every episode? Every so far? Okay, every single.
Speaker 2: Episode YEP, so far, Episode three three.
Speaker 1: It's like, seems like it's a requirement. She's got to
Speaker 1: be in a robe at some point.
Speaker 2: But Rachel immediately bursts into tears. Jack calls Eric an
Speaker 2: idiot for making her cry. Rachel wales, Rachel, that's what
Speaker 2: my boyfriend used to call me. The boys are confused.
Speaker 2: Eric jumps in, there's going to be plenty of time
Speaker 2: for that stroll down memory lane later, Babe, I got
Speaker 2: to get there before hooked on phonics gets filled up.
Speaker 2: Jack looks for Eric, who's scarfing down a bowl of Cereal,
Speaker 2: to show some sympathy. Can't you see she's upset? Were
Speaker 2: you eating cocoa puffs?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but it looked good. Is so great?
Speaker 2: I love Cereal me too, but I don't need it,
Speaker 2: but I should what you don't need?
Speaker 1: Don't you know? Cereal's really not good for you, so
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. That's very very Everything.
Speaker 2: Else you eat is so good for you, So.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you very much, no Cereal. I wish I
Speaker 1: would you have a say you have a twice a year?
Speaker 2: That's true? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, really, yeah?
Speaker 2: I know he doesn't He like treats. Himself on his birthday,
Speaker 2: and then occasionally if we're at a con, he'll go
Speaker 2: with me. Because the problem is Sue's probably not that
Speaker 2: is as excited about McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Of course, my personal trainer wife. No, she's not as
Speaker 1: excited about McDonald's as I am. So no, when so.
Speaker 2: When you're around me and I'm really excited about it,
Speaker 2: you're happy to have a friend. Exactly, I got it,
Speaker 2: I got it, Okay. Eric tries to study his crying roommate. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I don't have your power of perception. Rachel looks at
Speaker 2: them with me, Scara running down her face, and Eric
Speaker 2: aggressively shouts what Rachel bursts into tears again. Everything Eric
Speaker 2: sees this is a good sign. Everything's out. Now, let's
Speaker 2: get out of here, hurry. But Rachel doesn't move. I
Speaker 2: just don't know what I'm doing here. We had plans,
Speaker 2: we were going to live together, we were going to
Speaker 2: go to college together. Her sadness intensifies. It remembers ye
Speaker 2: that before.
Speaker 1: Because that's actually not what they said they well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess she gave up Yale for their.
Speaker 2: Toll for them to go to college here. Yeah, very similar.
Speaker 2: We were going to get a doggie. Jack sits with
Speaker 2: her and empathizes, feels like your whole world is turned
Speaker 2: upside down. Right. She doesn't answer, but she uses his
Speaker 2: shirt sleeve as a tissue. Jack continues, school's about to start.
Speaker 2: You're living with two guys you don't even know in
Speaker 2: some strange town.
Speaker 1: Everything just got a good opportunity sert a little bit
Speaker 1: of specificity about who this ex was. It could have
Speaker 1: easily been like.
Speaker 2: He's never going to come up again, though he's not important,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: But he could define the terms of this this storyline,
Speaker 1: Like this storyline is about them trying to be something
Speaker 1: they're not right right, So I don't know. It's just
Speaker 1: it's so generic.
Speaker 2: I think the good news is so I actually she
Speaker 2: is less.
Speaker 1: So generic. It's such a bummer, Like it could have
Speaker 1: been very easy to see, like, oh, she was dating
Speaker 1: a rock and roll guy who was really cool, and
Speaker 1: now she wants or a sensitive guy or a nerdy
Speaker 1: guy whatever, and then she could be defined somewhat.
Speaker 2: But I'm really glad they didn't define the boyfriend to
Speaker 2: help us define her. But it would have been a
Speaker 2: really good opportunity for him to say, who were you
Speaker 2: before the boyfriend, Who were You? What do you like?
Speaker 2: Because that's that's what you have time for now, no
Speaker 2: more needing to check in with him or worry about him.
Speaker 2: You've got time for you become the best version of
Speaker 2: you who are You? But nobody cares. Nobody nobody on
Speaker 2: the show, none of the characters actually care of get
Speaker 2: around getting to know her. No, they just care about
Speaker 2: winning her affections.
Speaker 1: But that finally does become the point of the storyline.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's part of why I like the storyline, is
Speaker 1: that she's allowed to have a layer of like, you know, manipulated.
Speaker 1: She manipulates Eric in that scene. Yeah, too good effect,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like, oh, she is actually smart,
Speaker 1: she is trying, you know. But that's it's just a layer.
Speaker 2: It's not but we don't even really get to know
Speaker 2: her anymore that layer it only it's only a matter
Speaker 2: of her saying, like, no, what I like about you
Speaker 2: is that you are funny, and what I like about
Speaker 2: you is that you are sensitive. So now I've really
Speaker 2: nailed down those two characters We've already gotten to know
Speaker 2: over multiple seasons. One's really funny, one's really sensitive. Got it.
Speaker 1: It's also it's just the object of their affections exactly. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm saying it's not.
Speaker 3: It doesn't do the Kate beckhamsale test at all, because
Speaker 3: all she talks about is boys the whole time, if
Speaker 3: either her ex boyfriend or the new guys.
Speaker 1: Guys, and I don't I bet you. Rachel's never allowed
Speaker 1: to be in a scene with another girl and just
Speaker 1: and at all like alone without without it. I can
Speaker 1: think of I can think of one right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can think of one scene. It's only the girls
Speaker 1: pang his wedding. Yeah, yeah, with the parasols.
Speaker 2: Correctly, Yeah, I did remember that there is one with
Speaker 2: the parasols.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Rachel says, that's exactly how she feels. She applauds Jack
Speaker 2: for being so sensitive. Eric watches on John on the floor.
Speaker 2: Rachel just wishes there was some way she could pull
Speaker 2: herself out of this, so Eric chimes in. He has
Speaker 2: the perfect thing. Jack tells him it's not a good time,
Speaker 2: but Eric insists it's always a good time for.
Speaker 1: Will do it.
Speaker 3: I don't remember, so they taught me this I had
Speaker 3: before is a real thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe we had created it.
Speaker 3: No, because I because I remember Michael and everybody like
Speaker 3: looking at me during run or during table reading. I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know this, what is this? And
Speaker 3: so it's what in a cat.
Speaker 2: Wood little man by windows stood saw a rabbit hoping.
Speaker 1: By knocking at the door or something like that at
Speaker 1: the door.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And irritated, Jack tries to interrupt, but Rachel joins in.
Speaker 2: Help me, help me, help me, he said, for the
Speaker 2: hunter shoots me dead. They look to Jack to join in,
Speaker 2: but he does not. Instead, she gives Eric a big hug.
Speaker 2: He is so much fun. Eric smiles ear to ear,
Speaker 2: yay me, yay me. Then she hugs Jack again, and
Speaker 2: you are so caring. She walks upstairs to get ready
Speaker 2: and admits, if you two were one guy, I would
Speaker 2: be in real trouble.
Speaker 1: Set up, set up up.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, in a cabin in the woods is a
Speaker 3: nursery rhyme.
Speaker 1: Okay that I guess. There's a lot if you go
Speaker 1: check it out. It's yeah. I never knew this either.
Speaker 3: I didn't either, but apparently it's a famous nursery rhyme
Speaker 3: from back in the day.
Speaker 1: That's all because I remember everyone looking at me like
Speaker 1: sing it, and I was like, I have no idea
Speaker 1: what this is in New York and nine.
Speaker 3: Exactly writers, exactly what town from nineteen?
Speaker 1: How do you not know that?
Speaker 2: Eric laughs, but then he has an idea. One guy
Speaker 2: Jack instantly stops him. No, and then our big moment,
Speaker 2: this is this feels like our first scene in the
Speaker 2: student union, because even though we saw the first the
Speaker 2: student union, in the first one, it's kind of unrecognizable.
Speaker 2: For one thing, there were how many extras do you
Speaker 2: think we're in that first student union scene?
Speaker 1: Fifty? I know it seemed like it like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I recognized, so it was crowded.
Speaker 2: It was really crowded.
Speaker 3: And a bunch of them also went to John Adams
Speaker 3: because I recognized obviously a bunch of our extras are back,
Speaker 3: and I was like, thank god they didn't get all
Speaker 3: new extras. We still have a whole bunch of the
Speaker 3: same extra.
Speaker 2: I did notice some very tall people, very tall, also
Speaker 2: some very built people. It was like they added some
Speaker 2: like yes, college sexuality, Yeah they did.
Speaker 1: They added some swags. They did.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: Corey is reading a quantum physics textbook written by David
Speaker 2: Glazier and Peter Tulo. Do you guys know Peter toolo. No, okay,
Speaker 2: we were trying to decide. I suspected it was somebody
Speaker 2: who like owns a prop house or worked at the
Speaker 2: prop house, and so when David Glazier pitched the idea,
Speaker 2: Jensen said, he looked up Peter Tulo and he works
Speaker 2: in the same field. He's also his IMDb credits as
Speaker 2: art department on different shows.
Speaker 3: So Glazer is the inventor of glazer Pops exactly.
Speaker 2: Corey uh Well, deep in concentration to Pengashan and Angela
Speaker 2: arrived carrying books themselves to bank asks if he's already
Speaker 2: done registering, and Corey says yes. He even bought each
Speaker 2: of them a Penbrook sweatshirt. He lays it on the table.
Speaker 2: Go Penguins.
Speaker 1: I want a Pembrook sweatshirt. I want an original Pembrooke sweatshirt.
Speaker 1: I wonder where they're at. Where they are I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can find them online? Right? A real one though,
Speaker 1: Like I want like one of those? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Sean looks at him with disgust. Don't ever do that
Speaker 2: to pegasifts through Corey's text, buffs like.
Speaker 1: Why is Sean?
Speaker 3: I know no one likes Judge Sean No, stop and
Speaker 3: never Ben judge Sean, it never happened, he wins, and
Speaker 3: for him to say, don't ever do that.
Speaker 2: If anything, it's so cute. Yes, I love that he's
Speaker 2: like excited about Penguin to Pega sifts through Corey's textbooks
Speaker 2: quantum physics, theoretical calculus, inorganic chemistry, forensic pathology. Corey examines
Speaker 2: the sweatshirt he's laid out. Is this your son, mister.
Speaker 1: Johnson's so funny, such a great joke.
Speaker 2: Oh good, Angela shakes her head. Corey, how do I
Speaker 2: put this delicately? Could you be a bigger moron? He's confused.
Speaker 2: Why would you ask me that? Why? And that's again
Speaker 2: more Ben reads like for sure though, Ben with his.
Speaker 1: Was having so much fun this week. Oh yes, this
Speaker 1: is a great episode for him. Yes, I feel like
Speaker 1: the pressure, like once the pressure is off the Corey
Speaker 1: to Panga stuff, which is so funny to think about.
Speaker 1: Like we said, these two episodes, it's like we gotta
Speaker 1: wrap up all the stuff from the last season and
Speaker 1: then it's just like reset a lot of ways. This
Speaker 1: is the first episode of the season. It's just you
Speaker 1: have to like finish up the drama from the last season.
Speaker 1: I wish I would have so much more freeing for
Speaker 1: pen It's an actor like this is just better, this
Speaker 1: is fun.
Speaker 2: Like I wish I would have noticed Topanga wearing an
Speaker 2: engagement ring. She wearing the ring Amy gave.
Speaker 1: Hers didn't I didn't notice.
Speaker 2: I wish I would have paid attention. I will make
Speaker 2: a note to pay attention next time.
Speaker 1: So I will never I actually remember shooting this scene
Speaker 1: because it was one of the few times it's Steve
Speaker 1: hayfer Our a d gave me some honest feedback, because
Speaker 1: you know, usually we didn't get like after feedback from
Speaker 1: like stage managers, you know. But I was like, we
Speaker 1: were at we were at the audience read and it
Speaker 1: was not I was not getting laughs. And I remember
Speaker 1: just being like, man, what's happening? And like now I
Speaker 1: can see like it's just not funny like Sean is.
Speaker 1: But I also and and I remember Steve being I
Speaker 1: was like, what's happening is I said? I asked him,
Speaker 1: I'm like what, and he was just like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just not as good as it was earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: He was very honest with me. He's like, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: not doing it as like I forget how he phrased
Speaker 1: it exactly, but I remember being like, oh, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: yeah it's not And now I can see like I'm
Speaker 1: pushing too hard. There's a beat where I laugh at
Speaker 1: Corey and then I like yell at him. It's like
Speaker 1: nah no, and it's not good. It's like I'm too aggressive.
Speaker 1: It's Sean being negative anyway. I just it's one of
Speaker 1: those few memories I have of, like, you know, getting
Speaker 1: feedback from somebody who you usually don't get feedback from,
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, I know it's not working writer, and
Speaker 1: being like yeah, he's right right now, I see it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it really still didn't work, so I didn't
Speaker 1: didn't fix it even have to get in the note.
Speaker 3: It made me wonder something and you could tell me
Speaker 3: that I'm totally wrong. But do you think Eric me
Speaker 3: pushing the comedy so hard is making other people push
Speaker 3: their comedy too, Because I'm doing I like everything. I'm
Speaker 3: not picking my beat. But it seemed like you kind
Speaker 3: of were in this episode like I think I'm going
Speaker 3: to hit more comedy beat and I.
Speaker 1: Do you think I'm off? No, I just think that
Speaker 1: the Sean is lost in this episode and then like
Speaker 1: me is a very small part, Like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: only in a couple of scenes, so I think I
Speaker 1: was just checked out this week. But it just doesn't
Speaker 1: feel right. I don't like my performance, but I also
Speaker 1: still like the characters. I don't know which comes are
Speaker 1: totally different. It's not it's a totally different Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just not fun. Like it's a bad vibe. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a downer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Angela responds, because your college career is over before
Speaker 2: it starts. Corey chuckles. Someone's jealous, but Tapega agrees you've
Speaker 2: taken on an impossible load that will eventually crush you
Speaker 2: to death. Corey is still grinning. I know, but I
Speaker 2: figure we'll have ten or twelve good years together. First,
Speaker 2: Sean laughs a little. That was a good one, but
Speaker 2: then he gets serious again. Right, all I wanted you
Speaker 2: to do is stop with the pudding. Do you even
Speaker 2: know what quantum physics is? Yeah, you start to laugh, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's an awful beat.
Speaker 1: It would have been so I mean, and I think
Speaker 1: what had happened is I had been getting huge laughs
Speaker 1: for that right during the week because I've probably been
Speaker 1: more natural, and then I just got more and more
Speaker 1: pushed and more and more expect didn't of like the
Speaker 1: laugh and it just sucks.
Speaker 2: But so when are you saying you realized, like when
Speaker 2: did you ask Sean we were doing with Sean.
Speaker 1: Steve for the right after that laugh right there?
Speaker 2: Like yeah, but I mean on what day of the week?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Can I peach something to you? Can I suggest something
Speaker 2: that all week? You have been getting laughs from the
Speaker 2: people who wrote the Sean this, Sean this joke. They
Speaker 2: thought it was funny, but when the audience saw it,
Speaker 2: they were like, I don't understand what Sean says. It
Speaker 2: wasn't about you, like there being something you needed to
Speaker 2: do differently. It's just that the audience is a more
Speaker 2: honest feedback source because they know the character the same
Speaker 2: way you know the character, and the writers who you
Speaker 2: know also obviously know the character, but can decide this week,
Speaker 2: let's make Sean do this thing, and then they think
Speaker 2: it's funny, but everyone else is like, I'm sorry, I'm confused.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I think it's it's but either way,
Speaker 1: I pushed harder, like I just kept going, and it's
Speaker 1: like not funny. It's like, doesn't get funnier, just.
Speaker 3: Well, it's also sitcom is very difficult in that comedy
Speaker 3: that's over rehearsed a lot of times.
Speaker 1: Is no longer funny. And all you do in sitcom
Speaker 1: is rehearsed first, so you rehearse all week long, and
Speaker 1: you could be hitting the same joke a thousand times
Speaker 1: and it's like it just rings dead in your ears
Speaker 1: after a while, where it's like and that's that's something
Speaker 1: I had a hard time understanding, Like I never really
Speaker 1: quite understood that, Like I would think there's a way
Speaker 1: to hit the joke, and I just have to do
Speaker 1: it the same way every time. And of course the
Speaker 1: more you do that, you lose that organic human quality
Speaker 1: that actually invites an audience in And I would I
Speaker 1: would invariably beat comedy to death because I would think, oh,
Speaker 1: I just need to hit the and it's like I
Speaker 1: wish somebody had just grabbed me and been like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what's more interesting being real? Like just being
Speaker 1: spong like you know in the comedy, because I would
Speaker 1: play drama for reality, but when it came to comedy,
Speaker 1: I would play it for like, let me hit the
Speaker 1: joke in the right rhythm with the right beat, over
Speaker 1: and over every time, and you can feel it with
Speaker 1: something like this, it just wasn't working. I's also a
Speaker 1: very child actor thing like you.
Speaker 3: And you know, I learned how to say a joke
Speaker 3: when I was ten, so I have to keep saying
Speaker 3: and it's yes.
Speaker 1: But it's also the way that we got notes. We
Speaker 1: were told like, this is the way to do it.
Speaker 1: Just do it this way and it will be funny. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that is true to a certain extent, But if
Speaker 1: it doesn't have that human quality, that spontaneous spon that's
Speaker 1: what people respond to, a spontaneity. They don't actually respond
Speaker 1: to a good performance. They respond to real life like reality,
Speaker 1: you know, and and being on the edge of not
Speaker 1: knowing what's going to happen next that draws people in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: So Sean asks, do you even know what quantum physics is?
Speaker 2: Corey is dumbfounded. Hi, that's what they're going to teach me.
Speaker 2: If I knew what it was, I would have tooken
Speaker 2: quantum physics too, now, wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I might be my favorite line of the whole show.
Speaker 1: Too, Wouldn't I laugh so bad?
Speaker 2: Sean glances at the text and tells Corey it's gibberish.
Speaker 2: Cory scoffs, it's not gibberish, you're gibberish. He gathers his things.
Speaker 2: It's new and exciting, just like me, So nuts to you,
Speaker 2: you jerks, and then he storms off every everything. It's
Speaker 2: so funny, also.
Speaker 1: Ben Savage, acting the idea.
Speaker 2: Of it's new and exciting, just like me, and then
Speaker 2: to use a phrase like so nuts.
Speaker 1: To you, nuts to you, straight from nineteen thirty three, So.
Speaker 3: Nuts to you, so nuts to you, your jerks.
Speaker 2: So funny to me.
Speaker 3: But it's also the joke we would always do to
Speaker 3: each other. It's like, I'm not you're gibbering, like we'd
Speaker 3: always throw the thing back. Yeah, you're the your brain's
Speaker 3: got the shell on it, like we would always do that.
Speaker 2: But then he spots his quantum physics professor. He rushes
Speaker 2: to him, my friend seems to think I've taken on and.
Speaker 1: Impossible speaking of head off. That's what is the worst.
Speaker 1: Why do I speaking of head off? Oh my god.
Speaker 2: But then he spots his quantum physics professor. He rushes
Speaker 2: to him, my friends seem to think that I've taken
Speaker 2: on an impossible load with this class, and that I'm
Speaker 2: going to have some trouble with the course material. The
Speaker 2: professor says he can decide for himself if he gives
Speaker 2: him a brief synopsis on the first day we start
Speaker 2: off with and then he transitions into actual gibberish noises.
Speaker 1: That I would have Do you think they auditioned him
Speaker 1: or do you think they just cast him? I mean,
Speaker 1: because I would have loved to have seen the auditions
Speaker 1: for this, Like you know, having like forty people come
Speaker 1: through and do their own version of gibberish would have
Speaker 1: been so much fun to see and to be able
Speaker 1: to pick whose gibberish is the funniest.
Speaker 2: It really cracked me up and it made me I
Speaker 2: haven't tried it, but it made me feel like I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't. I could never do this good of.
Speaker 1: Gibber I couldn't either. I couldn't either. Could yes, you could,
Speaker 1: but he was he was paid like not too fast,
Speaker 1: so it's still sounded like it's like English. It's so
Speaker 1: hard to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so hard to do.
Speaker 1: Have friends who used to be able to do this.
Speaker 1: They were brilliant. They they could do fake gibber and
Speaker 1: they would go They would do it for like an hour,
Speaker 1: and it was we would be dying because they could
Speaker 1: just keep it up. And they, for whatever reason, they
Speaker 1: had figured out the right consonant to vowel sounds so
Speaker 1: didn't sound like a foreign language, because that's a trick, right,
Speaker 1: You don't want it to sound like another You want
Speaker 1: it to sound like the English phrasing and the English
Speaker 1: monotone quality, but still be completely gibberish. It's really hard
Speaker 1: to do. It's because if you're doing like a fake friendship,
Speaker 1: you can like find fake other languages. But to do
Speaker 1: fake English that isn't that is still gibberish. It's really hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really good, And then he says we focus on
Speaker 2: and then he does more gibberish noises. Corey is confused.
Speaker 2: Then another professor walks up and starts talking gibberish too.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can try.
Speaker 2: I say, that was pretty good, but my instinct is
Speaker 2: to do it super fast, like writer said, And the
Speaker 2: idea is that you have to. It has to sound
Speaker 2: more like worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it can also be so much exaggerated him off
Speaker 1: that it's obvious that you're making a joke.
Speaker 2: It's it's really hard.
Speaker 1: It's tough. And you said you saw who the second
Speaker 1: professor was, Bob Tishlar. That's Bob Titslar. Oh yes, oh
Speaker 1: my god, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: So great, so great. So Bob Tishler walks up and
Speaker 2: he starts talking gibberish, and then the teachers go back
Speaker 2: and forth with gibberish until they tell Corey, excuse me,
Speaker 2: we have a staff meeting. Corey doesn't know what to do.
Speaker 2: He slowly turns to his friends and assures them everything's fine.
Speaker 2: And then we're in the guidance counselor's office. Corey is
Speaker 2: pacing in front of his counselor, voicing his concerns, even
Speaker 2: mentioning the gibberish he heard. He finally asks, is there
Speaker 2: any way that you could possibly get me out of
Speaker 2: every course I signed up for this year? The council wonders,
Speaker 2: you're feeling overwhelmed? Well, you are not alone in feeling that, son,
Speaker 2: And then he turns his head and takes some of
Speaker 2: a sandwich.
Speaker 1: Such a great beat.
Speaker 2: I love moments like that, just like hell, just this
Speaker 2: guy is so uninvested in Corey's life and story that
Speaker 2: he's like, I'm still gonna eat his sandwich. Oh, it
Speaker 2: makes me laugh so much. Corey is worried that he's
Speaker 2: ruined his entire life in a day, but the counselor
Speaker 2: assures him he can drop any course he wants and
Speaker 2: pick up anything that's open. Corey is relieved. He'll take
Speaker 2: anything that's one on one or an intro to the guidance.
Speaker 2: Counselor instantly announces those are gone without any emotion at all.
Speaker 2: Corey understands that they're gone, but like you said, he's
Speaker 2: made a horrible mistake. He asks his counselor to fix it.
Speaker 2: The man reveals, well, I can't do that. Those courses
Speaker 2: are closed. Corey understands that they're closed, but he reminds
Speaker 2: the dean that he made a horrible decision and he
Speaker 2: takes full responsibility for that. He begs his counselor to
Speaker 2: please help him. The man calmly states, he can't do that.
Speaker 2: Those courses are closed. Do you know that one in
Speaker 2: three students won't make it through their freshman year. Corey
Speaker 2: is freaking out. Why are you telling me that, the
Speaker 2: counselor explains, because college isn't for everyone then, and if
Speaker 2: you find simple course selections so overwhelming. Perhaps you need
Speaker 2: to consider if this is for you. Ooh yikes. Corey
Speaker 2: reminds him he's the guidance counselor. Corey gets into trouble
Speaker 2: and he's supposed to guide him out, but the man
Speaker 2: reminds him this is college, the real world. The relationship
Speaker 2: he's talking about doesn't exist here. He gives a fake
Speaker 2: apology and then says bye bye. Corey is shook.
Speaker 1: I don't remember there being guidance counselors in college. There
Speaker 1: were deans student deans like deans are student, but I
Speaker 1: don't remember guidance counselor die. This seam was kind of
Speaker 1: I was also like, didn't we already do this with
Speaker 1: Eric thinking that PHOENI would be at college and he's not, Like,
Speaker 1: this is the same joke as think about that. You're right,
Speaker 1: it's the same beat. In some ways, I kind of
Speaker 1: like this guy's funny, but I also think the scene
Speaker 1: could have been a lot shorter, Like the joke is
Speaker 1: just like I want Foene, Phoene's not here. I got
Speaker 1: to go get Phoenie like that's all it is. And
Speaker 1: instead it's like I was kind of like, where's this
Speaker 1: going and why are we doing this back and forth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but now we've got to get to
Speaker 2: Jackson Hole. Jackson Hole, Corey is scolding someone. You lied
Speaker 2: to me. You filled me with all this education, but
Speaker 2: you never prepared me for life. We pull out to
Speaker 2: reveal Feoene is sitting on a dock with a friend,
Speaker 2: both decked out and fishing gear. He simply responds, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: have we met? And then there's a commercial break, and
Speaker 2: then we're back in Joy on a plane all the.
Speaker 1: Way to Jackson Hole. Jackson Hole. Gotenie to come back.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, well eventually.
Speaker 3: First, well, I love how I do to explains how
Speaker 3: he got there too. It's like my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: In the world.
Speaker 2: Corey reiterates to Feenie that he failed him, and the
Speaker 2: teacher agrees several times.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 2: Corey continues, I'm in way over my head and I
Speaker 2: have no idea how I got there. Phoene grabs a
Speaker 2: few drinks from a cooler and smiles, It's good to
Speaker 2: see you, mister Matthews. Corey nods, it's good to see you,
Speaker 2: mister Phoene. That's a nice hat, pointing to a real
Speaker 2: local looking cap with lures pinned to it. His former
Speaker 2: teacher wonders, anyone know you're here? Corey asks, you mean,
Speaker 2: does everyone know? I screwed up college on my first
Speaker 2: day and flew to Wyoming on my air miles.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Phoene wonders, air miles. Where did you get those? Corey explains,
Speaker 2: pudding labels baby got me to Omaha bust In. From
Speaker 2: there I met of a Native Native American and a
Speaker 2: militia guy. Casino's good government bat oh god, the.
Speaker 1: Whole run was just one of my favorite things ever.
Speaker 2: So he asks Feoene how retirement's going. Phoene says he's
Speaker 2: having a wonderful time. After forty years of teaching, setting
Speaker 2: his alarm to wake up with the sun, he now
Speaker 2: wakes up whenever he wants to. And then he has
Speaker 2: a big breakfast with some of the boys. Corey wonders,
Speaker 2: you got boys? Phoeney points to the old men fishing
Speaker 2: around him. I do, and then we do whatever our
Speaker 2: hearts desire. For example, today we decided to go fishing.
Speaker 2: Corey wonders, that's all you do all day is just fish.
Speaker 2: Phoene explains that there's more to it than just fish.
Speaker 2: They swap stories, enjoy the outdoors, and more importantly, each
Speaker 2: other's company. The old man next to him pipes in,
Speaker 2: I had company once until my son in law stole it.
Speaker 2: Phoene responds, easy, Ned, you'll blow your pace maker. Corey
Speaker 2: doesn't get it. So if I understand this correctly, you guys,
Speaker 2: you do absolutely nothing. Phoene begins, I wouldn't characterize Ned
Speaker 2: cuts him off. Nope, he's got it. Corey assumes no pressure,
Speaker 2: no commitments, no way to screw up at all. Phoene
Speaker 2: wonders why he'd fly all this distance just to insult him.
Speaker 2: Corey can't believe it. Insult you, No, I envy you.
Speaker 2: This is the next best thing to being in a coma.
Speaker 2: He puts his arm around Phoenie and pulls him in closer.
Speaker 1: See, I like, I like this idea. Like I like
Speaker 1: the idea that Corey wants to be an old man.
Speaker 1: That's like, no, I could just get right to the
Speaker 1: old man party. Yeah, but this doesn't make any sense
Speaker 1: with Corey wanting to be in coll Like. The whole
Speaker 1: opening is like, I'm so excited. This is the new
Speaker 1: phase in life and I get to do things and
Speaker 1: learn a bunch of stuff, and now he's reacting to
Speaker 1: like any pressure by saying, I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: it didn't none of this made sense. Like I like
Speaker 1: the storyline, but I feel like you could have just
Speaker 1: tweaked it a little bit. Corey's scared of college because
Speaker 1: of the responsibility. To begin with, yes, and then he
Speaker 1: gets some responsibility, and then it backfires, and then he
Speaker 1: goes here and realizes he can retire, you know, and
Speaker 1: be an old man. I don't know, this doesn't quite track.
Speaker 1: It's just like whatever it needs.
Speaker 2: To thought of it as being that Corey is always
Speaker 2: excited at the beginning of a big life change, and
Speaker 2: then things go terribly horribly wrong, and he then goes, oh, gosh,
Speaker 2: and then he goes, oh, I guess that's inevitable when
Speaker 2: you have a big life change. So he flies to Feenie,
Speaker 2: who's also just had a big life change, and instead
Speaker 2: of it being like and Phoenie is flailing, which he is,
Speaker 2: he just doesn't know that, he goes the I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no way to screw this one up. This is
Speaker 2: the big life change I need because I always screw
Speaker 2: it up. So to me, it just felt like to me,
Speaker 2: it just felt like the most Corey of all things
Speaker 2: to be like, you mean I could jump right to retirement.
Speaker 2: How has no one presented this to me?
Speaker 3: Or he is one of those guys we've all met,
Speaker 3: the people whose entire life is changed by the last
Speaker 3: book they read.
Speaker 1: And that's that's Corey. Like he's you know, they go
Speaker 1: on the honeymoon and I've got.
Speaker 3: To open a coconut stand and I've got it, like
Speaker 3: he he's that guy where somebody says something and his
Speaker 3: whole life has changed for twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 2: Well we're back at the apartment. Eric is huddled over
Speaker 2: a lone candle while wearing a black man blouse as
Speaker 2: classical music plays on a boombox.
Speaker 1: This is peak. This is I'll never look batter than
Speaker 1: in this.
Speaker 2: We're very tan. I was like, did Will go to Hawaii?
Speaker 4: Tan?
Speaker 1: Hair?
Speaker 3: I for some reason got the nine O two one
Speaker 3: oh Mutton chops going on, like that's the look for me.
Speaker 1: This this is peak.
Speaker 2: Will right here hot hot Wilfred Ell.
Speaker 1: Downhill from from this moment on listen.
Speaker 2: I had a great season, You're gonna have a great season.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for you. It's great. It's so great, congratulations,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. Thank you. Andy watched the opening credits
Speaker 1: or I started. He was going to bed and I
Speaker 1: was like, no, no, I got a watch. So then
Speaker 1: I started. He's like, wait, can I watch? I was like, no,
Speaker 1: go to bed. It was paused, and he's like, who's
Speaker 1: that redheaded girl. I was like, oh, well she just
Speaker 1: got out, and who's that. He didn't know who Matt
Speaker 1: Lawrence was. I was like, well, that's my half brother.
Speaker 3: Men' you.
Speaker 1: He's like, why is your hair so short, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, it looks awful and my hair looks yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I didn't remember my hair being
Speaker 1: cut this short anyway. And I was like that's Will.
Speaker 1: He's like fats Will. Oh my god. I'm like, get
Speaker 1: out of here, go to bed. So I kicked him,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he didn't recognize you. He's like, who's that
Speaker 1: blonde guy. I'm like, that's Will. He's like highlights and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, writer, I like your short hair.
Speaker 1: I do. I like credit looks off.
Speaker 2: I didn't pay attention to the opening credits, but like
Speaker 2: in this episode, I thought your hair looked great. At
Speaker 2: the start of the college stuff, I was like, wow,
Speaker 2: I like this short hairstyle.
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of Eric long hair? Do you
Speaker 1: like Eric short hair better?
Speaker 2: I like Eric long hair. Yeah, you mean you're right?
Speaker 1: This this is the perfect missing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the perfect. This is this is peak,
Speaker 2: this is peak hot.
Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, it's all downhill from here.
Speaker 2: Jack walks in and stares at his roommate. Eric feels
Speaker 2: his judgment. Oh it's you get lost. Jack asks what
Speaker 2: he's doing, and Eric answers, shut your cake hole, Irene.
Speaker 1: Just ran it will something funny to say. He'll make.
Speaker 2: Sensitive. All right, Rachel's gonna come back here and see
Speaker 2: that I'm sensitive and all man and not half man
Speaker 2: like you're sorry, tushy. Jack congratulate Jack congratulates him. You're
Speaker 2: officially in the idiot Hall of shame. Eric channels some zen.
Speaker 2: That hurts me, but I understand where it's coming from,
Speaker 2: and it's okay. Jack says, Rachel is going to see
Speaker 2: right through this, but Eric says he's wrong. She's gonna
Speaker 2: fall deep into my trap of sensitivity. Jack begs him,
Speaker 2: as a friend, do not make a fool of yourself.
Speaker 2: Eric repeats the sentiment he's asking him not to make
Speaker 2: a fool of himself. Then he reveals a big grin.
Speaker 2: How is that, man, It's like looking in a mirror.
Speaker 1: It's a face off so good. It's actually like a
Speaker 1: like the perfect impression of him.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's perfect. And then he does the sawing of
Speaker 2: your and then it's so funny. He then makes emotions
Speaker 2: in reference to the recent Nick Cage movie Eric, Jack Jack, Eric,
Speaker 2: you don't even know who you are anymore. Then Rachel
Speaker 2: walks in. Eric immediately summons some tears. Hello Rachel. He
Speaker 2: reaches to cue the music and dramatically sits back down
Speaker 2: with his candle. Rachel wants to know what's the matter,
Speaker 2: and Eric explains it's the children.
Speaker 1: It's right, this is Puppies and Friends today. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is where you got.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 1: So good. The children, children, the children. It's slightly different,
Speaker 1: it's not quite fully evolved. Ricky, Ricky, you discovered here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, But my gosh, it's so fun. This
Speaker 1: is like this is what I was like, Oh, man,
Speaker 1: sitcom is so good when it's like this is peak sitcom,
Speaker 1: Like somebody a character that's so well established, no big
Speaker 1: set pieces, just a funny shirt and you're trying to
Speaker 1: do something that's out of character. We all know what's
Speaker 1: out of character, and we are with you. It is
Speaker 1: so fun. It is like, this is what multicam can
Speaker 1: do better than any anything else, any other form. So good.
Speaker 2: It also is like it's it's the where the Office
Speaker 2: really defined what it means to watch cringe television. This
Speaker 2: is like below that. It's a little cringey, like you're
Speaker 2: embarrassed for him, but mostly it is so along for
Speaker 2: the ride and laughing. It's like the perfect amount of gosh.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what he does next. It's
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 1: Right, we don't have we don't have Jack looking at
Speaker 1: the camera going like, can you believe he's doing this
Speaker 1: they always needed to do in all those you know,
Speaker 1: reality but in multiicam you just have to go with it.
Speaker 1: You just like everybody's fully committed to this completely fake reality,
Speaker 1: which is so fun.
Speaker 2: She's concerned what children, to which Eric responds, all of them,
Speaker 2: they're just so little. Please don't make me go on,
Speaker 2: because the world is a melancholy place where human relationships
Speaker 2: must rise to the forefront of our two brief experience
Speaker 2: on this insignificant swirling blue orb until we'reished, like a
Speaker 2: flickering flame. Eric touches the candle and then jumps, oh,
Speaker 2: that's hot.
Speaker 3: That was all so I remember during the first run through,
Speaker 3: I added touching the candle and then Michael pulled me aside.
Speaker 3: Afterwards He's like, I'm gonna add ou that hot. I'm like,
Speaker 3: all perfect, So that was all Michael coming right now?
Speaker 1: That like all right, great, so funny.
Speaker 2: Jack scoffs at the theatrics, but Rachel gives Eric a
Speaker 2: big hug. That is the most sensitive thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: Jack is shocked, while Eric holds Rachel's embrace with pure glee.
Speaker 2: She asks, would you go with me to do laundry?
Speaker 2: Jack can't believe what he's hearing. Rachel admits, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I just need to be alone with Eric. Jack asks
Speaker 2: you do, and Eric responds she do. He makes his
Speaker 2: way to the door by pushing his friend onto the
Speaker 2: couch by his face. I feel your pain, but get
Speaker 2: out of my way. Eric turns to his beloved and says,
Speaker 2: with a smolder, we've got to attend to the delegates.
Speaker 2: Opens the door for her, and as she waltzes right
Speaker 2: through it, he turns to Jack and drops the facade
Speaker 2: She's going to see right through me, isn't she. He
Speaker 2: grabs her laundry basket and picks up a piece of clothing. Dude,
Speaker 2: this is her bra His friends out the door.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm definitely a little confused with I was like,
Speaker 1: why is the laundry room where he wants to go?
Speaker 1: And then I was like, Oh, the joke is going
Speaker 1: to be that she's going to get him to do
Speaker 1: things for her, like get him to do the laundry,
Speaker 1: get him to do I thought. I thought it was
Speaker 1: going to be like she's going to make Eric do
Speaker 1: all this stuff like cook dinner. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's going to be clever because you see her make
Speaker 1: the turn, like, oh yeah, she tries to pretend right.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, oh yeah, it ended up
Speaker 1: being something different. But I was like, why the laundry room.
Speaker 1: Why is that exciting to Eric?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think other than I guess just being
Speaker 2: alone with.
Speaker 1: Her, alone with her and her under and her.
Speaker 3: Unmentionables, women's bras pretty sexy, always funny, always funny.
Speaker 2: And then we're back in Jackson Hole. Corey's now sitting
Speaker 2: in Phoene's chair, wearing his own fishing gear, possibly dozing off.
Speaker 2: Ned casually asks him, nice day, huh Walter. Corey nods yep.
Speaker 2: Then an enthusiastic Phoene appears, who's up for a movie.
Speaker 2: Ned likes the idea, but asks, why don't we wait
Speaker 2: till it rains. Phoene asks why they can't do it now,
Speaker 2: and Ned points out the obvious. We're fishing. The fish
Speaker 2: are really jumping. Phoene disagrees, no, they're not. I haven't
Speaker 2: seen a fish once since I've been here. Corey advises,
Speaker 2: through a bucket hat that's covering half his face. Take
Speaker 2: it easy, George, We've got the rest of our lives
Speaker 2: to catch a fish. Ned agrees, Walter makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense, George. Phoenie argues, no, Walter doesn't. I know, No,
Speaker 2: he doesn't. And his name is not Walter, it's Corey.
Speaker 2: Ned counters Corey is too young and named to be here.
Speaker 1: Phoenie agrees, Corey's a really old time. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just definitely don't think of Corey as like a
Speaker 1: young hip and Nam.
Speaker 2: No, I know, definitely not him.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Phoene agrees Corey is too young to be here. I'm
Speaker 2: too young to be here. He turns his attention back
Speaker 2: to Corey. I've indulged your little fantasy for a weekend,
Speaker 2: hoping you'd come to your senses, but obviously no one
Speaker 2: here comes to their senses. Ned is offended. Don't insult
Speaker 2: our way of life, Phoene admits, I'm just not ready
Speaker 2: for your way of life. Corey is unaffected. Will miss you, George.
Speaker 1: Of Walter.
Speaker 2: Phoene lifts Corey by the arm and pulls him off
Speaker 2: the pier. Back to school, Walter. Then we're in the
Speaker 2: boys laundry room. Rachel and Eric are doing laundry together.
Speaker 2: Eric says, I'm glad you noticed the sensitive side of
Speaker 2: me as well as the devil may care side. Rachel
Speaker 2: leans on the door, giving Eric a seductive glance. You
Speaker 2: have it all, everything a girl could want. She slams
Speaker 2: the door shut and locks it. Eric nervously thinks her,
Speaker 2: but why'd you lock the door? Rachel says, if it
Speaker 2: was open, somebody could come in. Eric, while throwing dirty
Speaker 2: clothes onto the ground, thinking it's going into the laundry.
Speaker 2: I guess, eh, finishes her thought. Yeah, then they take
Speaker 2: the best machines.
Speaker 1: I just don't know whether to bring up the obvious
Speaker 1: that like, this feels like a porn seed, like this
Speaker 1: is a riff on a porn seat and right, like
Speaker 1: that's the joke is that she suddenly becomes it becomes
Speaker 1: like the fantasy laundry room scene in a porn film.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, so ironic that the actress
Speaker 1: ends up doing.
Speaker 2: True, except then that same joke applies to every time
Speaker 2: a woman decides to man handle a man on Boy
Speaker 2: Meets World.
Speaker 1: And okay, but a bit like she's playing into a fantasy,
Speaker 1: which to me.
Speaker 2: Is even more weird because you've done this for every
Speaker 2: woman at one point or another, where it's been like
Speaker 2: it's time take me, and in this case it's.
Speaker 1: Out of character.
Speaker 3: I also don't get they've established Eric has has had sex,
Speaker 3: so why does this now freak him out? Like the
Speaker 3: woman who he wants to have sex with now wants
Speaker 3: to have sex with him and he's now scared by it.
Speaker 2: Well, and also he's never been with her in this
Speaker 2: situation for all he knows, this is exactly who she is.
Speaker 2: They've known her for two episodes and they've never seen
Speaker 2: her in the bedroom, so like to act like whoa,
Speaker 2: who are you? I don't know who you are. It's
Speaker 2: just it's it is pretty weird. But yes, writer, I
Speaker 2: would agree with you that this feels very porn adjacent,
Speaker 2: if not for the idea that then I would have
Speaker 2: to say every time a woman has tried to manhandle
Speaker 2: a man, lock the door behind him? Where on it?
Speaker 2: Where a jersey?
Speaker 1: Every episode episode? Porn adjacent is my new favorite phrase
Speaker 1: I think I've ever heard. It describes a lot of
Speaker 1: media it does. You're right, my suggested reels on Instagram's
Speaker 1: only horn Jason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're TikTok.
Speaker 1: It'll always just be like, bounce like a bouncing lady.
Speaker 2: What all these women do, jump rope?
Speaker 1: It's ladies, books and cats. You've got the strangest I
Speaker 1: g no cats, but books and butts definitely.
Speaker 2: Rachel laughs, but her tone quickly gets serious. No, silly,
Speaker 2: I brought you here because I've never found you more
Speaker 2: attractive than I do. Right now, she aggressively hurls Eric
Speaker 2: on top of a washing machine and grabs his legs.
Speaker 2: I am so hot, are you? Eric is eager. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm hot. This dryer's on fluff. Rachel smirks, so am I?
Speaker 2: Then she begins to unbutton his shirt. He asks what
Speaker 2: she's doing? This shirt is clean. Rachel keeps going, I
Speaker 2: just want to smush it up a little bit. Eric agrees,
Speaker 2: schmushing's good. I like shmushing. But then he stops her
Speaker 2: and hops off the dryer. He says, this is wrong.
Speaker 1: She's hurt.
Speaker 2: What's the matter. Don't you want me? Eric can't deny it.
Speaker 2: But not in the laundry room. He always figured if
Speaker 2: they ever did this, it would be in some romantic
Speaker 2: fleabag motel. Rachel is unfazed. She pushes him against the wall.
Speaker 2: If you went to all the trouble to be the
Speaker 2: perfect man for me, the least I could do is
Speaker 2: be the perfect woman for you. So there's our answer.
Speaker 1: That's what that is? This he wants that, she thinks
Speaker 1: he wants the porn stars. What kind of right?
Speaker 2: And it also again, what I'm pointing out is that
Speaker 2: our writers have written women to be the male fantasy
Speaker 2: of what a woman is. And so here out of
Speaker 2: the mouth of a woman, she's pretending to be the
Speaker 2: perfect woman.
Speaker 1: Right, which is better than better than just being that
Speaker 1: right layer of depth, There is a layer. I yeah,
Speaker 1: your your point that the layers actually been utilized in
Speaker 1: the opposite direction many times on this show, Okay, And
Speaker 1: it's like why would Eric, like I think it needs
Speaker 1: just one extra touch, like one thing that she does
Speaker 1: that's a little gary to this room to make out
Speaker 1: with her at least, like he's not like why is
Speaker 1: this freaking him out? Like that one thing like she
Speaker 1: pulls out a whip or where it's like, oh, oh
Speaker 1: now it's too far, Like I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3: She just snaps on a rubber glove but doesn't say anything,
Speaker 3: and it's like, oh.
Speaker 1: What could it have been? What could it have been
Speaker 1: that would have fit t GIF? Because I mean it's
Speaker 1: to me, it's the idea that she like, actually, you know,
Speaker 1: if you could imply that he was hoping to like
Speaker 1: kiss her, but she's actually going to, Like if she
Speaker 1: like cleared off a table and was like, let's do
Speaker 1: it right here, right, But I guess I wouldn't been
Speaker 1: too explicit for a kid's show. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I think that's what they were doing with
Speaker 2: the buttoning of the shirt is like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: she's already trying to take my clothes off, just like
Speaker 2: trying to kiss me. I think that's kind of what
Speaker 2: was supposed to be happening, which is what makes him
Speaker 2: jump off, like, oh my gosh, you're undressing me. That's
Speaker 2: more than I was anticipating.
Speaker 3: This is also clearly pre Jersey Shore, when smushing is
Speaker 3: what what sex was, that's what they just like, Hey,
Speaker 3: I smush, we smushed last night, we got a smush.
Speaker 1: So it's Aron saying I like smushing. You are not
Speaker 1: ready to have sex.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 1: If you it's like you call it, you're not ready. Good.
Speaker 2: I don't like it. No, you somehow always know the
Speaker 2: thing to say that makes me go too far man
Speaker 2: toom Eric.
Speaker 1: Smoosh.
Speaker 2: Eric wiggles out of her grip. This isn't you. I
Speaker 2: don't like this you. Rachel sternly asks, then what do
Speaker 2: you want me to be? Sensitive? Funny brunette. Eric admits,
Speaker 2: I want you to be yourself. If you're not yourself,
Speaker 2: then what are you? Rachel answers somebody else. Eric nods,
Speaker 2: and if you want to be in a relationship with me,
Speaker 2: then I want you to be there, not somebody else,
Speaker 2: and then he realizes what she's done. Oh I get it,
Speaker 2: Rachel grins, and I want you to be the funny,
Speaker 2: wonderful person you are, because that's how I like you.
Speaker 2: Promise me you're not going to change. Okay, Eric scoffs, okay,
Speaker 2: on one condition, put me back on the dryer. She
Speaker 2: giggles and hoists him back up and they laugh at
Speaker 2: the fun So then we are in the guidance counselor's office.
Speaker 2: Corey is back, this time with Foeni. The guidance counselor
Speaker 2: explains to him, I understand you've dedicated your life to teaching,
Speaker 2: but that was at the high school level. This is college.
Speaker 2: Phoene asks, high school serves to prepare you for college?
Speaker 2: Am I correct? The man pushes back, there are five
Speaker 2: thousand incoming freshmen who were able to register. Correctly, he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Perhaps he wasn't adequately prepared. Dt F down to fight.
Speaker 3: Down. I frankly thought the audience was going to have
Speaker 3: a bigger reaction than they did.
Speaker 1: It was, yeah, but I thought I was gonna be like,
Speaker 1: what a strange scene. Yeah, this whole thing is weird
Speaker 1: because I was like, are they really gonna have Phoene
Speaker 1: get Corey out of this situation? And then they don't?
Speaker 2: Actually, no, he doesn't he doesn't have the power do anything.
Speaker 1: You just know there's nothing we can do here. Corey.
Speaker 1: Let's go. But it's so why did you come all
Speaker 1: the way from Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole to
Speaker 1: do this and you can't do anything? And so the
Speaker 1: lesson it was a winded moment. I was like, but
Speaker 1: why do we need Phoenie to come in and like
Speaker 1: goods blazing.
Speaker 3: It's also it's the same scene with Eric that we
Speaker 3: saw before, but Eric did it by himself. Like Eric
Speaker 3: didn't have Phoene there with him when he went to
Speaker 3: Dean Bolander, Like, this is the same.
Speaker 2: Didn't he have imaginary Phoene? Wasn't that the episode?
Speaker 1: No, this is the one where it was like it
Speaker 1: was the big scene with with I'm with Bonnie and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to come to this school. I
Speaker 1: missed my interview. It's like he did it himself.
Speaker 3: We're Corey needs Phoenie to come and help him, and
Speaker 3: then Phoenie can't really help him, doesn't help him.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I also just the joke of this being his nephew
Speaker 2: is like what where he goes? He says, okay, the
Speaker 2: inmates ooh, as Phoenie crouches down to the counselor's eye level.
Speaker 2: You know something, Myron, out of all my nephew's eye
Speaker 2: hu the most.
Speaker 3: It's like, what, Also, how do you miss the joke
Speaker 3: of not having him eating something else when you walk.
Speaker 2: In sandwich sandwich?
Speaker 1: Ye as he's eating. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: there was, like there was a major rewrite to this
Speaker 1: whole Yeah you think, I bet you. Originally Phoenie got
Speaker 1: Corey out of the situation, and then there was a
Speaker 1: network note that was like, what you can't do that.
Speaker 1: I feel like there was a rewrite where they were, well,
Speaker 1: we could keep the shape of Phoene saving Corey, but
Speaker 1: we can't actually have Phoene save Corey, so we'll just
Speaker 1: have our cake and eat it too. And it's like,
Speaker 1: but it's a weird sequence. I don't you know. It's
Speaker 1: nice to have Foenie back, obviously, like we need to
Speaker 1: keep Phoene of course, of course.
Speaker 2: And I do think it's the spark of Phoenie can't
Speaker 2: stay away. You know, we were able to rescue him
Speaker 2: from Jackson Hole and now he's he's back that.
Speaker 1: Retirement that it's not for funny, Yeah, that's funny. I
Speaker 1: just don't need him in this scene.
Speaker 3: Right, okay, Nor should he be there, Frankly, it should
Speaker 3: be Corey getting himself out of the trouble he put
Speaker 3: himself in, and he's in college now.
Speaker 2: And he can't. Yeah, exactly, we could go right to
Speaker 2: this next part at the student union, where he's like,
Speaker 2: I already talked to the counselor, and Phoenie's like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're just gonna have to deal with it, you know.
Speaker 2: So Phoene tells Corey there's nothing to be done, and
Speaker 2: he leads him out the door. The guidance counselor calmly
Speaker 2: tells his uncle mother will be calling you, and Phoene
Speaker 2: pretends to be frightened. Then we are outside the student union.
Speaker 2: Phoene is trudging ahead of Corey. I'm sorry, I feel
Speaker 2: like I failed you. Maybe it's just as well I retired,
Speaker 2: Corey argues back as they enter the union. No, the
Speaker 2: most important things I learned from you have nothing to
Speaker 2: do with the courses anyway. What I learned from you
Speaker 2: was mostly about life and how to make friends and
Speaker 2: how to help support the people you care about. The
Speaker 2: gang appears behind them and Sean agrees that's what she
Speaker 2: taught all of us. How you doing, mister Feenie. Phoene smiles, howdy.
Speaker 2: To Panga chimes in, thank you for bringing my Walter home,
Speaker 2: and she gives Cory a kiss. Corey tells the gang,
Speaker 2: I'd love to chat, but mister Feenie and I we
Speaker 2: got to start studying for quantum whatever it is I
Speaker 2: signed up for. To Pang A handsom a slip of paper,
Speaker 2: and Corey's confused. She explains, it's your schedule. You have
Speaker 2: two classes with me and three with Sean. I figured
Speaker 2: you'd want it that way.
Speaker 3: So wait, they all I hear, yes, so they all
Speaker 3: took an extra class.
Speaker 2: Originally there are three of us, okay, we each took
Speaker 2: an extra class. Then we dropped one and made room
Speaker 2: for him. But he somehow has five classes and there
Speaker 2: are three of us. So two of us gone two
Speaker 2: extra classes.
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, and also how could he Yeah, it's like it's
Speaker 1: kind of like what wait what I like the message
Speaker 1: that like, oh yeah, friends take care.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course he's so predictable that we all said,
Speaker 2: we know what's happening. How do we preemptively fix the situation?
Speaker 3: Yes, I also love how once again Phoenie knows everything
Speaker 3: where he's like, we got to get ready because Phoenie's
Speaker 3: got to teach me quantum physics.
Speaker 1: He knows everything.
Speaker 2: It's okay, okay, So Corey can't believe it. How'd you
Speaker 2: do this? T Benga explains, we each signed up for
Speaker 2: an extra class, and then Angela continues, and then we
Speaker 2: dropped one, and Sean concludes and signed you up instead,
Speaker 2: And how did you do this? To Bega smiles, Hey,
Speaker 2: we had the same teacher you did, Phoene smiles at
Speaker 2: his students's soft music plays in the background. Corey takes
Speaker 2: a look at his new schedule. So I'm ready to
Speaker 2: start college now, Phoenie nods, I think you are, mister Matthews,
Speaker 2: I think you all are. There.
Speaker 3: We go.
Speaker 1: I still don't get it. I still don't get I
Speaker 1: still don't get what happened. But it's very sweet. Phoene
Speaker 1: taught us we took care of our friends. But baby,
Speaker 1: said Corey. The bottom line is Corey such a baby.
Speaker 1: You can't ever figure out life. And when Phoene's not there,
Speaker 1: we pick up the slack.
Speaker 3: But wait, so like so like, they all went and
Speaker 3: joined So let's say making one up English one oh one,
Speaker 3: Sean joins English one oh one Topanga, then joins English
Speaker 3: one on one, knowing she's gonna drop English one on
Speaker 3: one to let Corey have English one on one?
Speaker 1: Right? Is that the logic? Right? But how did he
Speaker 1: get registered? Like that's what I'm saying. I don't understand
Speaker 1: his registration information, and like.
Speaker 2: Yes, then we signed him instead, right, But then why
Speaker 2: have to sign yourself up to drop it?
Speaker 1: Why not just sign him up?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Right? I don't understand, Well, logic, You're right, I don't know,
Speaker 2: because we signed one an extra one for us, then
Speaker 2: we dropped it and signed.
Speaker 1: We signed up in case he did what he does,
Speaker 1: which is that he signs up for bad classes because
Speaker 1: he will.
Speaker 2: Because why would we writing our name on the list.
Speaker 2: Why didn't we? Why didn't Corey Matthews right under me?
Speaker 1: Because then he would have known that he was signed
Speaker 1: up for that class when he was going to go
Speaker 1: sign up for all the classes he did sign up for. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the idea is that we covered his butt by
Speaker 1: signing up for extra classes that somehow I also signed
Speaker 1: up for three of them. So you and Angela signed
Speaker 1: up for three classes that I was in. Gotcha, it's
Speaker 1: a snoot.
Speaker 2: Because the sentiment is so sweet. That's sweet, so sweet.
Speaker 1: It's a sweet wrong. It's a swamp.
Speaker 2: It's a swamp, all right. We jump into the tag.
Speaker 2: We're in the apartment hallway. Rachel makes Eric promise not
Speaker 2: to change who he is. He makes sure you like
Speaker 2: me how I am. She nods very much. Eric reminds
Speaker 2: her I do have a sensitive side, you know. Rachel grints,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Can I have my braw back? Please? Eric tries to
Speaker 2: stay straight faced. Nope, Rachel smile wide and see you
Speaker 2: are funny and nobody should change the way they are.
Speaker 2: Then she opens the apartment door and we hear squeaking.
Speaker 2: Jack is dressed up in a clown costume, riding a
Speaker 2: little tricycle in the kitchen and squeaking its tiny bell. Eventually,
Speaker 2: Jack accidentally tips it over and falls directly onto his face. Unaffected,
Speaker 2: Eric asks Rachel laundry room. Rachel agrees, yeah, laundry room.
Speaker 2: She helps Jack back onto his feet and drags him
Speaker 2: out the door, while Eric stays behind. Before he's pulled outside,
Speaker 2: Jack boasts Erek, I'm going to the laundry room. Eric
Speaker 2: nods before yelling, next time, ask before you borrow my bike.
Speaker 2: He recurs, of course, it was.
Speaker 3: The scene ended with Jack going I'm going to the
Speaker 3: laundry room in the and that was the end. And
Speaker 3: everything else I just threw it in front of the
Speaker 3: audience and forget that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next time, just ask before you borrow my bike.
Speaker 2: He recovers the fallen tricycle and coddles it while carefully
Speaker 2: carrying it back to his room. Yep, Well, thank you
Speaker 2: all for joining us for this episode of Podmeets World.
Speaker 2: Our next episode will be season six, episode four, Friendly Persuasion.
Speaker 2: It originally aired October sixteenth, nineteen ninety eight. As always,
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