Speaker 1: It's nine O g one O engine with Jenny Garth
Speaker 1: and Tory spelling.
Speaker 2: Okay, omg ars Amy and I are here today to
Speaker 2: break it down for you. Season eight, episode thirteen, Comic Relief.
Speaker 2: Are you laughing?
Speaker 1: What you're laughing? Because of the title first comedy of
Speaker 1: all time? Like so very bad, so bad?
Speaker 2: Okay, I have a question for you. Do you like
Speaker 2: to go see stand up comedy in Jensen?
Speaker 1: Good ones? Good ones? I love it, Oh my god?
Speaker 1: But have you only gone to bad ones like I
Speaker 1: love going to like I've gone to big you know,
Speaker 1: like shows where Jerry Seinfeld or like you know Dane
Speaker 1: Cook back in the day when he was like selling out,
Speaker 1: like you know, Staples Center like that, and it's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Okay, I agree with that. I think back in the
Speaker 2: day it came from me going to some real bad
Speaker 2: ones like we see it the after dark, and me
Speaker 2: being like, oh my god, being nice. I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 2: I don't want them to think I'm not laughing.
Speaker 1: Oh you just courtesy laugh.
Speaker 2: No. And then I wanted to save my energy, so
Speaker 2: I would do this open mouth fake laugh and not
Speaker 2: fake laugh. Silent laugh would show bud you guys.
Speaker 1: Me, Oh do you never? Are you never? On TikTok
Speaker 1: with like comedians and it shows like clips of their work.
Speaker 1: It's so funny, like Nate BARGATSI to me is like
Speaker 1: hilarious right now. I would love to go see him
Speaker 1: in a big venue.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I feel like I'm friends with comedians and
Speaker 2: the good ones. I do love.
Speaker 1: Correct, this was horrible, like I know we haven't Okay,
Speaker 1: let me let me, I'll read the synopsis. Then okay,
Speaker 1: Brandon sneaks around, leaving Kelly with a bad feeling. Steve
Speaker 1: takes the stage and tells Jokes that he's been stealing.
Speaker 1: Valerie puts on a sexy little show, but Don is
Speaker 1: not ready to let Noah go. David starts working at
Speaker 1: a car wash called Rob. Doctor Monahan tells Kelly's you
Speaker 1: should find a new job. The car wash was named Rob.
Speaker 1: I thought he made that friend. Anyway you go, you
Speaker 1: say the director.
Speaker 2: Of the writer, so director was Chip Chalmers, writer John.
Speaker 2: I don't know this Lava Lava chilly interesting. I don't
Speaker 2: recall that writer.
Speaker 1: Well, he's not funny.
Speaker 2: Oh do you think me? They brought him ONNG so
Speaker 2: like this one's about comedy and he knows comedy better.
Speaker 1: The part that was so cringe tastic for me was
Speaker 1: when Ian so Steve is doing the audition for Comedy
Speaker 1: Night and everyone in the Peapad is laughing, and You're like,
Speaker 1: at home going, why are they laughing?
Speaker 2: This is so not funny wild enough. I could hear
Speaker 2: like Brian's real laugh there, so he was really laughing,
Speaker 2: like Ian was like pulling out like his Wait, was
Speaker 2: Brian there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh you mean at night, because Brian wasn't there for
Speaker 1: the audition. He doesn't work at the Peapad. It's Noah,
Speaker 1: a valerie and the staff, right, Yes, are you sure
Speaker 1: Brian wasn't there. No, I'm not sure. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but I just.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like I heard his laft standing behind. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was the audition part when Ian's doing like, you know,
Speaker 2: his kung fu and which he does again at the
Speaker 2: after Dark.
Speaker 1: It was so it's such bad comedy that I was like,
Speaker 1: that's what I don't understand if you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: like a comic storyline about comics, right, and I get
Speaker 1: that the ones were supposed to be bad, and that's
Speaker 1: why Ian Steve gets the gig, Like let him be
Speaker 1: funny and then he steals the joke. It's just the
Speaker 1: whole thing, and I'm like, you're an amateur who cares.
Speaker 1: Just Oh, that whole storyline just made me cringe.
Speaker 2: But part of it makes me feel like that was
Speaker 2: like Ian was just like going for it, like he's
Speaker 2: so funny on the spot. I know, but it wasn't
Speaker 2: meant to be good, right, that's the.
Speaker 1: Whole I think it was sort of meant to be
Speaker 1: good in the audition because everyone's laughing, and that's how
Speaker 1: he gets the job. And then the jokes they go
Speaker 1: flat up there the same steel joke. I don't even
Speaker 1: remember how that story ends. So dumb.
Speaker 2: He made Carly laugh and she's going through a hard time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: move and look I'm laughing, you're making me laugh.
Speaker 1: Dumb, yes, yes, super dumb. Okay, in the next dumb
Speaker 1: an we're done with that, tell me what you think
Speaker 1: of obviously, we have two parallel storylines. That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: That We've got Kelly getting fully sexually harassed by the
Speaker 1: doctor and how that plays out and everyone's reactions and
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, And then you have Brandon with the writer
Speaker 1: and she's being overtly sexual, yes, but you interpret it
Speaker 1: differently because of his reactions too, he kisses.
Speaker 2: Her right, Yeah, but you also view it differently in
Speaker 2: most because it's it it's a female doing it to
Speaker 2: a male.
Speaker 1: Well, I've been thinking about that a lot, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I My problem is they've made her to something too.
Speaker 1: It's so over the top.
Speaker 2: It's so overtly like diabolical in some way.
Speaker 1: Every line is inappropriate, and the calling and the and
Speaker 1: the way she behaves, it's all so too much that
Speaker 1: I don't find it. I don't find anything redeeming in her.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're just I agree with this.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like it's a bit fatal attraction, Like
Speaker 2: do you think there's gonna be She's gonna boil his bunny?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's I.
Speaker 1: Remember her, and I remember this whole thing that I
Speaker 1: can't remember what happens next.
Speaker 2: I don't know either.
Speaker 1: I just find both the storylines, and I obviously they're
Speaker 1: going for something, which is why they did them both
Speaker 1: at the same time. But it's almost diluting both storylines where.
Speaker 2: I'm like, like, the doctor feels creepy because of it.
Speaker 1: And she feels so over the top that I would
Speaker 1: have seen.
Speaker 2: She feels creepy to me, creepy, she's.
Speaker 1: So too much. And I also think Brandon, that's not
Speaker 1: his bag, Like he's not falling for that, so yet
Speaker 1: he's falling for it. And I'm like, you're making this
Speaker 1: character that would never fall for this, go for this.
Speaker 1: Kelly should be like you're gross by quit like or
Speaker 1: do or go tell someone? I don't know?
Speaker 2: That doctor is like he's next level.
Speaker 1: It's that both are so exaggerated. Then your reaction is like,
Speaker 1: whereas have they done them? Understated?
Speaker 2: Understated? Have you met this show? All?
Speaker 1: Right? When they in the very beginning, when the doctor
Speaker 1: it was a bit nuanced, and Kelly's like, did he
Speaker 1: didn't he? That is more how it goes.
Speaker 2: I agree, But in some way you could look at
Speaker 2: it and be like, oh, in men's DNA, it's it's
Speaker 2: how they what they think with and you know it's
Speaker 2: how so, but it's not Brandon you're right, correct.
Speaker 1: Correct, and him sneaking around it's just like, that's not
Speaker 1: Brandon's deal. So I'm like, why are you making him
Speaker 1: like she's cute the writer girl, but like Brandon's not
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: I know, And here we get the second call that
Speaker 2: he says was a print caller or what Kelly says,
Speaker 2: wrong number last episode? This time? Was it a crank call? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he's like, hey.
Speaker 1: Yes, Star sixty nine was around them.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It's just not it's not good storylines.
Speaker 2: It's interesting because Kelly does meet her because you know,
Speaker 2: she's like, what does she look like? And Brandon goes
Speaker 2: a normal girl. She's like, what is a normal girl?
Speaker 2: So she thinks it's because men don't notice at all,
Speaker 2: and that's why they're just like I don't know what
Speaker 2: he what she looks like? But yeah, that would have
Speaker 2: like keyed me. I would have been like normal, what
Speaker 2: do you mean?
Speaker 1: Like is it in your face? Is that the reason
Speaker 1: that I'm sort of like, what is it? Two in
Speaker 1: our face? Like maybe is it too captain obvious? Right?
Speaker 1: These storylines, yes, Like I can't even engage because it's just.
Speaker 2: Like either right, You're just like these are You're right?
Speaker 2: They cancel each other out, which is unfortunate, involves two
Speaker 2: of our means. You're not dumb, just not good.
Speaker 1: The comedy thing was dumb, and this one I'm just like,
Speaker 1: this isn't.
Speaker 2: Good I'm worried that Brandon's going to actually sleep with her.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't remember either, but I know
Speaker 2: he wouldn't.
Speaker 1: He's all, but like, well don't I kind of do
Speaker 1: remember what happens? Actually?
Speaker 2: I do know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I do. Now, this is why they
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it, but now I do remember, I do.
Speaker 2: Why is Kelly not jealous of her when she does
Speaker 2: meet her? When she does meet her, and she's not like, uh, well,
Speaker 2: what do you do?
Speaker 1: Trusts her boyfriend, which Brandon is trustworthy. That's why the
Speaker 1: whole storyline is like dumb. I guess it is dumb.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm trying to think because she gotten. Is
Speaker 2: Kelly just not the jealous type at all?
Speaker 1: Like she trusts Brandon although she has her she's getting
Speaker 1: what do you.
Speaker 2: Mean he's burned her before? Emily Valentine like, what do
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 1: She didn't really know exactly all that. I know. Maybe
Speaker 1: it is Brandon. I don't know. They write him. They
Speaker 1: do him dirty a little bit. In another dumb storyline,
Speaker 1: David and the Fake Yeah, I like Noah and Donna
Speaker 1: just let them be.
Speaker 2: I like them, Who are you saying this to you? Valerie.
Speaker 2: Valerie doesn't think normal.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm just saying it's so stupid and dumb and
Speaker 1: the fake and like, come on.
Speaker 2: David, that's the thing he wouldn't But Valerie gets men
Speaker 2: convinced to do things that they normally wouldn't do. That's and.
Speaker 1: It's just like dumb.
Speaker 2: So here's what I thought. Like, I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: is that their comic like nod in this storyline because
Speaker 2: it was kind of an episode that would be like,
Speaker 2: you know, like I love Lucy, like it's not real,
Speaker 2: but like you know, and Valerie was going so over
Speaker 2: the top that I was like not a real way
Speaker 2: that I was like, oh is she trying to do?
Speaker 1: Like right? And it's kind of like Brandon and Steve
Speaker 1: have they're like, oh hey, you know to David blah blah,
Speaker 1: Like it was just like jokes, yeah, jokes, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. I think that this is the comic relief.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like Kelly comes out of the bedroom and like
Speaker 2: every and Steve and it's like, oh my god. After
Speaker 2: a few moments of that, I had to go back
Speaker 2: and check it. I was like, wait, wait, did Jason
Speaker 2: direct this episode because there was a lot.
Speaker 1: Like his sort of yeah, but Noah is getting jealous,
Speaker 1: which I also don't believe. It's like Noah never even
Speaker 1: really liked.
Speaker 2: Her, liked her.
Speaker 1: He definitely doesn't like her, now why would he be
Speaker 1: Wait wait, he never really liked her, maybe even if
Speaker 1: it was a little bit, but then after her whole thing,
Speaker 1: Noah's way too well, Noah's not going to like a
Speaker 1: girl that's so like money hungry and that whole thing.
Speaker 2: No And it's so me to watch that storyline and
Speaker 2: not get that part. Like I'm like, oh, I probably
Speaker 2: don't deserve him anyway, so I guess it's okay he's jealous.
Speaker 2: Like hearing you say it, I'm like, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: what is going on? He would never behave that way.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely so weird the way you're behaving go away,
Speaker 1: Like Noah should be that guy, like they try to
Speaker 1: make him cool, so make him fully cool. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: these like and if if Brandon's going to be the
Speaker 1: honest good guy, make him the honest good guy.
Speaker 2: I am so distracted right now. You guys can't see this,
Speaker 2: but Amy's making a point and she's putting her arm
Speaker 2: out and she is best arms.
Speaker 1: No no, no, So first of all, that's so nice.
Speaker 2: Like wave goodbye.
Speaker 1: Arms.
Speaker 2: At a certain age, you just have them.
Speaker 1: I was looking at them this morning, going, oh, yuck.
Speaker 1: I gotta start lifting weights or something.
Speaker 2: Kill for those arms.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I also have frozen shoulder just so bad,
Speaker 1: so bad. But please, anyone listening, please send in your
Speaker 1: tips on frozen shoulder, because oh it's like the worst anyway.
Speaker 1: Sidebar okay. In the full pivot to the car wash storyline.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I have one more thing to say about
Speaker 2: the Donna David Valerie Noah. When Noah and Donna get
Speaker 2: back together, did you see all that tongue.
Speaker 1: I actually think they have chemistry and are cool.
Speaker 2: I like them for even for me, I was like, whoa,
Speaker 2: because it was my tongue I was seeing, and I
Speaker 2: was like, that was a lot to see on camera.
Speaker 1: I'm over David. I don't understand, Like I just oh,
Speaker 1: stop it. He should have immediately gone back to the
Speaker 1: after like the whole thing. So now he works at
Speaker 1: the car walk. He does, yes, And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I like that he protected the guy, befriended the guy.
Speaker 1: But going to the parents' house seemed a bit extreme
Speaker 1: for me for someone you met yesterday.
Speaker 2: I had to go back and rewind I was like,
Speaker 2: what did I miss something? Why would you do that?
Speaker 2: Is that in character? Either? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, because he's not He's not Brandon, right, that's what
Speaker 1: Brandon would do, right, David's the guy that would kiss
Speaker 1: the reporter a lady writer lady.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's like Ariel all over again.
Speaker 1: Correct, it's just Ariel.
Speaker 2: Oh my. They're mixing characters up because it's people writing
Speaker 2: that don't know the initial characters.
Speaker 1: The dad is over the top. It's all like, how
Speaker 1: do I explain this? That to me? The writers are like, hey, audience,
Speaker 1: this guy has a bad dad who doesn't accept him,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna make him so aggressively bad. When it's like,
Speaker 1: there's no nuance in any of these storylines.
Speaker 2: Can I look up the writer because remember I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know this.
Speaker 1: Writer because lava chilli.
Speaker 2: Because now I'm like just.
Speaker 1: Two on the nose or something's not let me figure
Speaker 1: it out for myself.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think for a show like this, you
Speaker 2: kind of if you bring a new writer in, they
Speaker 2: have to go back and see how the characters have developed.
Speaker 2: Because you're right, fans know at this point, eight seasons in,
Speaker 2: they know their characters and what they would and wouldn't do.
Speaker 2: And that's where the problem lies.
Speaker 1: Tone, the tone, it's just all like, oh, but who
Speaker 1: allowed this? I don't know. That's why everyone says this
Speaker 1: season is so like messy.
Speaker 2: Don't say it, you were about to say it.
Speaker 1: It's just messy, just messy.
Speaker 2: John Loveacilli he's an American actor who Bann's career in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three as Marcus Santorro in The Lords of
Speaker 2: Discipline Paramount's adaptation. Uh okay. Then he was on Minetoba
Speaker 2: but no one cares the rocketeer ny PD Blue maumr.
Speaker 2: She wrote the practice oh twenty one Jem Street. He
Speaker 2: was an actor on all these things. He was an actor.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mention him being well right, let him write this?
Speaker 2: H what's the connection?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Amy, Please? What is going on? What?
Speaker 1: What? Just like, Hey, nice to meet you. Do you
Speaker 1: want to write the biggest show on television?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: What is the connection? Was he friends with? What is? Oh?
Speaker 1: Boy? But I mean, here's the thing. I can't blame him,
Speaker 1: because it's not like this is the only bad episode
Speaker 1: this season. I'm not going to blame him. They're all
Speaker 1: kind of bad.
Speaker 2: Sometimes. You know, one off scripts would come in because
Speaker 2: someone had a great idea.
Speaker 1: Sure, sure, yeah, so.
Speaker 2: They would come in with an episode they would write,
Speaker 2: and then the other EPs and writing staff because we
Speaker 2: had a whole writer staff would kind of get a
Speaker 2: thinking and yeah, make it more. Yes, great, great storylines,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna kind of break down the characters for you.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: My thing is like, this is not just it's bad,
Speaker 1: but it's just equally bad as the rest.
Speaker 2: It's interesting because when I watched it, I was like,
Speaker 2: m I really judging it because I don't like bad
Speaker 2: stand up comedy. I thought it was really that that
Speaker 2: was really and then it just like fuzzed it all
Speaker 2: over for me. For the rest of.
Speaker 1: That that was particularly the low.
Speaker 2: But now breaking it down with you, it's like, wow,
Speaker 2: every storyline here was just really bad, really bad, yeah,
Speaker 2: because it just didn't feel organic to the care characters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're bad, disservice bad.
Speaker 2: Well. We did have third eye blind though in the
Speaker 2: interro songs, so that's cool.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I meant to talk to you guys
Speaker 1: about the intro songs. They are just like working so hard,
Speaker 1: like they're spending all their money on the intro song.
Speaker 1: They're like, if we just start with a cool song,
Speaker 1: people will like this show.
Speaker 2: We don't have to pay much for a writer. It's
Speaker 2: never written before cool.
Speaker 1: I feel like the intros are just they've really like
Speaker 1: rocked it up too. It's kind of like edgy and
Speaker 1: you're like.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, and you know this season, the season is starting,
Speaker 2: I think, or was it last season we got a
Speaker 2: new showrunner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they changed sort of that intro.
Speaker 2: So everything started to get a different five.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of like we can fix our company,
Speaker 1: you know, like say you own some fast food restaurant
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know, what's gonna fix it? If
Speaker 1: we changed the logo and you're just like, it's not
Speaker 1: fix it. Like if we make this more red instead
Speaker 1: of orange, everyone's going to come eat our burgers.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, what's next week?
Speaker 1: Something terrible?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, stop it?
Speaker 1: No, yeah, what is going to happen to? I think
Speaker 1: we have to finish out these storylines.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, she's going to find out about the kiss.
Speaker 2: So next episode, Season eight, episode fourteen, Santa, Nos, it's Christmas,
Speaker 2: It's Christmas. What is happening? That happened already.
Speaker 1: No, By the way, I'm still feeling the effects of
Speaker 1: the time change. Wow, the jet lag is real from
Speaker 1: the one hour. Oh, I don't know. What do you
Speaker 1: think of this episode? And like in general right now,
Speaker 1: what is your feeling?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not feeling very good about it. After you
Speaker 2: broke it down from me.
Speaker 1: It's like, but it's sort of oak, it's so dumb,
Speaker 1: it's fine almost okay, Yeah, it's like, okay, fine.
Speaker 2: We didn't talk about Kelly being the model for Domin's photoshop.
Speaker 1: First of all, how she's like, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: modeling anymore. Let me get my book, Like it's just
Speaker 1: like sos. And then what happens they love her? Is
Speaker 1: she going to model more? Now I'm trying to remember,
Speaker 1: how about you hiring models? Like you're just hearing models? What?
Speaker 2: Because I deal with all of it, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I sort of blanked. I sort of blanked on this
Speaker 1: storyline part.
Speaker 2: I didn't remember this.
Speaker 1: Then the creepy doctor sees her photos.
Speaker 2: It's also right, so that's the whole reason.
Speaker 1: I think that's the photos fell out of the purse
Speaker 1: and she's like, those are mine, don't look the whole
Speaker 1: thing is just right.
Speaker 2: Was he say if you want to work in preschool
Speaker 2: or like.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's terrible? Is he? Are we done
Speaker 1: with him?
Speaker 2: He's a monster. I don't think so, because Brandon now
Speaker 2: at least is not just like right diffusing. He's acknowledging it,
Speaker 2: which thank god, but he's saying, if this happens again,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to like tell someone again. It's okay, right,
Speaker 2: it already happened once, and he told her basically it
Speaker 2: wasn't happening.
Speaker 1: So like, my thing is, she's working for whoever the
Speaker 1: higher the Wyatt clinic, and then she goes and works.
Speaker 1: Remember she was at the one place and drove the
Speaker 1: van and then she was at the doctor. Just go
Speaker 1: back to that lady and say this creepy doctor, I
Speaker 1: don't want to work there anymore. Move me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very it's kind of un Kelly to not
Speaker 2: say something. She's been through enough and mean victimization in
Speaker 2: so many ways and this shit, God, that's like season eight.
Speaker 2: She's been through hell and back like I think she
Speaker 2: at this point would call this doctor out quick.
Speaker 1: Totally get that out of there. He's mean and scary, creepy, creepy.
Speaker 2: Oh does this doctor and Emma end up together?
Speaker 1: Remember when he rubbed her neck?
Speaker 2: He's grossing gross makes me a puke. So how do
Speaker 2: I feel about this episode?
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to rate it.
Speaker 2: Like, rate it like a six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the girls looked hot, though everybody looks good. I
Speaker 2: was watching for the fashion, fashion, the makeup's good this season.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to really like Noah. I kind of like Noah.
Speaker 2: Clearly I did too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Six, it's just very sixsh.
Speaker 2: Six seven six seven.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, talk to you later, see you next week.
Speaker 2: I love Yeah