Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio podcast Welcome Too, and that's what
Speaker 1: you really missed. I Am Tina and I Am Already
Speaker 1: And this week is Ballad Ballad. It originally aired November
Speaker 1: two nine. The number one song in the country is
Speaker 1: what You Say by Jason Droulleau. Last episode it was
Speaker 1: um Down by Jason, So it's gotten de throned, throned.
Speaker 1: And the number one movie what was it to? Two twelve?
Speaker 1: What a time? What a time? Um, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of things that happened for the Glee FAMI this week. UM.
Speaker 1: P J. Bloom, the music supervisor, won the Outstanding Musical
Speaker 1: Supervision Award. And do you remember this, Jenna going to
Speaker 1: the Diversity Wards. I remember that. We want yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was one of our first awardship bonding experience to
Speaker 1: say the least. Yeah, it was interesting. Um. We went
Speaker 1: to the seventeenth Annual Diversity Awards held at the Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills Hotel and it was definitely like one of our
Speaker 1: first events altogether, and it was hilarious, just a little underproducer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we it was us and Ryan and we you know,
Speaker 1: and also we had been busy working and it was
Speaker 1: nice that we all got to get back together outside
Speaker 1: of work. Now the show was airing and we're getting
Speaker 1: to meet people, and I remember the cast of Heroes
Speaker 1: was there at the time, and I was very starstruck
Speaker 1: and very happy. Me too, good memory. I remember them.
Speaker 1: Also shout out to History of Glee on Twitter because
Speaker 1: they given every day it's like on this day in history.
Speaker 1: It's phenomenal. And I also would like to say that
Speaker 1: my girl Alexa on Twitter makes these incredible for picture
Speaker 1: summaries of every single episode we do on here. I
Speaker 1: love those and so look for those. I retweet them
Speaker 1: every week. Um, They're incredible. Thank you. She wants to
Speaker 1: be on the pr pay roll. I'll see what I
Speaker 1: can do. We're working on it, working on it all right.
Speaker 1: So this episode is balid and it's directed by Brad Falchuk,
Speaker 1: which I was watching it last night and I was like,
Speaker 1: who directed this? But I also feel like we weren't
Speaker 1: in a ton of it, So we were not we
Speaker 1: weren't in a ton of it. I had a line
Speaker 1: and then a song. I think I did too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the beginning, Kevin of us being very expensive extras. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean we've been expensive extras. Yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: did have our big last episode last episode, so to
Speaker 1: be fair, it was not our turn anymore, and we
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with Baby Gates. So the there
Speaker 1: was one thing. Did you notice there's no Sue Sylvester
Speaker 1: in this episode at all? Jane had a free week.
Speaker 1: What was missing. There was a lot of music, and
Speaker 1: there were um, some great guest stars. Um, yes, the
Speaker 1: guest stars. So a brief episode summary just before we
Speaker 1: get into it. Um, So we'll split up the glee
Speaker 1: club into pairs to sing ballads. But when Matt Rutherford
Speaker 1: gets sick, Will is forced to step in, and uh
Speaker 1: he winds up in a very sticky situation with Rachel
Speaker 1: or a spicy situation if you will. Um. And then
Speaker 1: we also have the continuation of Baby Gates. So that's
Speaker 1: the That's just an overview of what we're about to
Speaker 1: get into. A lot of uncomfortableness. This episode makes me
Speaker 1: feel queasy. Yeah, it's just I feel like most of
Speaker 1: this episode is awkward, which I think is great television,
Speaker 1: but it hurts me to watch. No, it is, it's
Speaker 1: really awkward. So so Mr Shoe tells the glee Club
Speaker 1: that the Sectionals conveniently has a new rule where every
Speaker 1: team has to sing a ballad. Mm hmmm. And and
Speaker 1: when Matt Rutherford obviously is out with with with the
Speaker 1: flu um right, no, no, no, oh, no, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking of the bird flu yet No, it's
Speaker 1: also Naya says this line the spider in the air,
Speaker 1: and she's she like her like laugh in the middle
Speaker 1: of it was very very real, honest, yeah, because it
Speaker 1: was like, what like, obviously this is a device just
Speaker 1: to be able to have an even number of Glee
Speaker 1: Club plus teacher, so that Rachel has to be paired
Speaker 1: up with Will, which you know, starts the whole plot
Speaker 1: point of Rachel having an uncomfortable and inappropriate crush on
Speaker 1: Mr Shoe. Um ny. It's reminiscent of Susie Pepper, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, Sarah drew amazing guest star, very funny.
Speaker 1: I thought she was the most excellent guest stars we had.
Speaker 1: She really set the tone for the episode, and this
Speaker 1: was even before she was on Gray's. So like, it's
Speaker 1: so impressive, you know, for somebody to come in where
Speaker 1: the show has not aired yet and she's coming in
Speaker 1: sort of blind and just crushes it. Absolutely incredible. She
Speaker 1: got it. But you know, you don't end up on
Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy if you're not great and like that those storylines,
Speaker 1: is April, I mean, I'm a fan. Um so Mr.
Speaker 1: She explains what a ballot is and Brittany thinks it's
Speaker 1: a mail duck. But one of the best lines it
Speaker 1: is it's actually goes down in history is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite lines. Um. And Kevin, do you remember that
Speaker 1: in the BTS you say that every song is driving
Speaker 1: the storyline. Everybody's emotions are coming through the songs, which
Speaker 1: makes it so much more heartfelt than when you're watching it.
Speaker 1: That sounds nice. It does sound really nice. We're in
Speaker 1: a really good mood. I was, But I do agree,
Speaker 1: And I do think that's when Glee was best where
Speaker 1: when we used because it wasn't all the time, but
Speaker 1: we tried to, especially in the beginning, to use the storylines.
Speaker 1: Are the the music as part of the storyline to
Speaker 1: move the storyline, UM further, But I and this one
Speaker 1: especially because the whole you know, thesis of what the
Speaker 1: ballot is supposed to be. Um, that's also sort of
Speaker 1: the thesis of what the music is in the show itself,
Speaker 1: where the music is used to be able to say
Speaker 1: things that we can't say, um, or more effectively that
Speaker 1: we can say through song than through actually just talking. Um.
Speaker 1: I bet the ducks in the heats. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the second part of the best line that the duck
Speaker 1: is in that. Um, and so we pick out the
Speaker 1: glue members pick out their pair out of a hat
Speaker 1: reminiscent of SmackDown, and Tina picks the other Asian, which
Speaker 1: is slightly appropriate. Um, Mercedes in Puck get matched up,
Speaker 1: Artie and Quinn, Uh, Finn and Puck and Santana and Brittany.
Speaker 1: Obviously as I noticed that. Look Diana when pigs Quinn
Speaker 1: little does she know? You guys will have a blooming storyline.
Speaker 1: Um so Matt, yeah, yeah, so we we kind of
Speaker 1: covered them that Rutherford is now. Part of the plot
Speaker 1: is that he's gone this episode. Yes, Um, we get
Speaker 1: into the ballad with Mr Shoe and Rachel because Mr
Speaker 1: Sho has to step in to be with Rachel. And
Speaker 1: this is my guest, Kevin. This song makes you uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: All of these songs make me uncomfortable, I have to
Speaker 1: say so, not because they're bad. I had to fast
Speaker 1: forward through a couple of these music. What that uncomfortable?
Speaker 1: You don't like uncomfortable humor? Um, I appreciate it, like
Speaker 1: the Comeback with Lisa Kudro, I think is the best
Speaker 1: show ever, but I had to watch it in like
Speaker 1: five minute increments because it made me so uncomfortable. Fair enough,
Speaker 1: fair enough, UM. So this is endless love and this
Speaker 1: number for me. I really enjoyed this number, UM because
Speaker 1: I like the uncomfortability of it, Like, I think it's funny.
Speaker 1: I think, um, the performances were very good. And this
Speaker 1: is when Rachel realizes that she has a crush on XR.
Speaker 1: Shoe and it is really weird. It's so weird. I
Speaker 1: really like the weirdness. Um. And then we have we
Speaker 1: have Kurt's kind of monologue over over this. The crushes
Speaker 1: are happening this episode. It's yes, all the crushes. Rachel's
Speaker 1: like hot hot teacher, Kurt's totally um excited about Finn,
Speaker 1: and Finn's not stoked about it. He's uncomfortable. He's uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Rachel says, I never noticed this before because he's always
Speaker 1: trying to destroy my career. But Mr. Sho has really
Speaker 1: I hate it. Oh um. And then we go into
Speaker 1: the Susie Pepper of it all, where Will's confiding and
Speaker 1: Emma like, I don't know how to do this. What
Speaker 1: do we do? And then Sarah Drew comes on playing
Speaker 1: Susie Pepper and regales us with the tale of how
Speaker 1: she was obsessed with him. Would call in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, which is so good this flashback, and
Speaker 1: then Terry picks up the phone. It was listening, little psycho,
Speaker 1: this is what his wife. And if I don't get
Speaker 1: enough sleep and my end of the presence won't work,
Speaker 1: and then I'll go crazy and I'll kill you. She's
Speaker 1: got one. She's got like two scenes in the They're
Speaker 1: incredible every time. Oh my gosh. So then Mr Shoe
Speaker 1: has to set Susie Pepper straight in this flashback, and
Speaker 1: so she decaid she's gonna eat that pepper in the world.
Speaker 1: She goes into a coma for for days, and that's
Speaker 1: when we destroys herself. Back to destroys her, Sophic isn't
Speaker 1: cut back to Will telling Emma that's why he can't
Speaker 1: break the news to Rachel. So because girls can't handle it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which we're not we're weak right week, We're week we
Speaker 1: can't handle things only child birth. Um, so We'll has
Speaker 1: this idea. He brings Emma in to sing a song
Speaker 1: to Rachel. This is the one where it makes me
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable. But I do love don't stand so close
Speaker 1: to me and young girls like I love those songs.
Speaker 1: This mashup is incredible. Some of the masters who do
Speaker 1: in the show that don't mash well, this one does.
Speaker 1: This one absolutely does. Um again had a fast forward.
Speaker 1: I thought, um Leah was incredible in this episode, and
Speaker 1: yes I did feel her reaction to like Wise Mispiel's
Speaker 1: very here. But then also Jayma and Leah clapping at
Speaker 1: Mr Shoe at the end, it's it's very funny. I
Speaker 1: mean he went full out. He's doing a full, full
Speaker 1: number for the two of them around the piano again,
Speaker 1: back around the piano, which I feel like, if you're
Speaker 1: a student, you're like, well, this teacher is giving me
Speaker 1: a right now. He's not marking this percent really um
Speaker 1: And And the intention was that Will is going to
Speaker 1: have her listen to the song lyrics, but that didn't work. Backfire,
Speaker 1: she gets the you know she loves the song and
Speaker 1: loves that he performed for her. So then we get
Speaker 1: to see crazy Susie and Rachel in the hallway together.
Speaker 1: Jump scare, Susie's back. She's back, She's present day now, Susie.
Speaker 1: Susie's here. Um. And then even creepier, which I actually
Speaker 1: think this is really creepy, is when Rachel hands Mr
Speaker 1: Shoe the beer at home when he gets home to
Speaker 1: his house. It's so good though I thought that it
Speaker 1: turned slightly into a horror movie. And then Terry, Terry
Speaker 1: is like, well, she's a very good cook. She showed
Speaker 1: like a student shows up at your house. You knew
Speaker 1: something was going to happen. There was silence while gets home,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, there's Rachel in his
Speaker 1: home cooking meals. Weird. It's a little inappropriate. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a lot of inappropriate, but it's inappropriate. But Terry
Speaker 1: is like happy that she's there because she's cleaning and cooking.
Speaker 1: She let her in, you know. And then she said
Speaker 1: Terry needs the help because of her baby. And then
Speaker 1: Will tries to find out what's happening with the belly
Speaker 1: and she freaks out and runs away with her postules
Speaker 1: her like bloody postules or whatever pus do. Um. So
Speaker 1: then Mr she takes Rachel I left. How this was
Speaker 1: a shot. I think it's beautifully shot. It is. We
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of We're not in a lot
Speaker 1: of cars in Glee. I mean we are, but not
Speaker 1: a lot of moving cars. And um, just like Rachel
Speaker 1: sitting in the back of the car by the way,
Speaker 1: like a like a like a little little girl sitting
Speaker 1: in the back of the car um and then singing
Speaker 1: a song, which like, it's an interesting way to do
Speaker 1: a song. Ugly. I mean, there are really no rules
Speaker 1: which we've learned, but to not for it to not
Speaker 1: be a dream sequence or or a glee club performance.
Speaker 1: But her just like hitting a cassette in the car
Speaker 1: um it works for her character though it does it
Speaker 1: does work for the character. It's also funny that he
Speaker 1: just cuts her off. I love I do love that.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing that this song was going to be
Speaker 1: in this episode, and I didn't think I was very excited.
Speaker 1: I liked that they were, you know, pulling up some
Speaker 1: pop hits from the past and this is crush, Sorry,
Speaker 1: this is crush. Who's saying crush? Jennifer Page saying crush
Speaker 1: uh smash hit. It was a smash. Yeah. I'm also
Speaker 1: enjoying at this point, we're a good portion into the
Speaker 1: first season and you know, Lea's singing pop songs like
Speaker 1: we're all getting I think used to seeing different genres
Speaker 1: and it was just fun to get to see everyone's
Speaker 1: seeing different genres that they were used to. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: branching out for sure. Um. I I love the Susie
Speaker 1: and Rachel stuff. Um it's like crazy meeting crazy and
Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot of conversations in the
Speaker 1: show and do I'm just curious why they end up
Speaker 1: in the bathroom all the time. I mean it's I
Speaker 1: think and all high school shows the bathroom as where
Speaker 1: a lot of these secret, more important conversation is the
Speaker 1: place to hide. Hey, it's like a it's a teenage
Speaker 1: place to hide. Also, it's like we sort of we
Speaker 1: didn't talk about at this point Rachel. Rachel has not
Speaker 1: only gone to his home, she's given him a tie
Speaker 1: to where, which sparks this whole thing where I want
Speaker 1: you to think of it every time I think of me,
Speaker 1: every time you wear it, and it's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is so wrong and creepy. And then Susane is like,
Speaker 1: get it together, girl. But here's the thing, like we've
Speaker 1: all had crushes on teachers before, and we've all acted inappropriately,
Speaker 1: not all of us. Jenna, I wish I had a
Speaker 1: hot teacher. We definitely had some hot teachers, and we
Speaker 1: also had um, some hot women teachers. And I knew,
Speaker 1: like all the guys kind of like we're doing an
Speaker 1: eye over. So I don't think this is super far fetch.
Speaker 1: It's just that how far you're willing to cross that line? Right?
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a lot of young teachers that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, people had like they were like, okay, my
Speaker 1: kid had this girl definitely has a proct you know. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Susy confronts Rachel in the bathroom and she tells
Speaker 1: her to get that mildly attractive group back. She's like,
Speaker 1: get yourself, you know, smack across the face, find some
Speaker 1: self respect, and get yourself that that semi groove back.
Speaker 1: So Rachel, Um, Rachel's going to kind of like kick
Speaker 1: it back up again, and um, she brings him a
Speaker 1: flower for for an apology, which is that sorry for
Speaker 1: being crazy, and and then and she's like, I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: He's like, this is inappropriate. They were both kind of
Speaker 1: this conversation was about to happen from both ends, but
Speaker 1: it ended up being a couple in all five at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. Um, so that's the that's
Speaker 1: that's the crush. That's a big part of the episode.
Speaker 1: But that's like the big crush storyline. I also think
Speaker 1: we should like maybe started tally. This is Rachel's third
Speaker 1: crush again though it definitely racks up. But yes, it
Speaker 1: is high school. A good gust of wind will give
Speaker 1: you a different crush. And everybody it's trendy. You know
Speaker 1: who's the trendy guy at that time or the teacher
Speaker 1: whatever our person right um here, and then we're into
Speaker 1: like a big part of Baby Gate. This is a big,
Speaker 1: most serious part of Baby Gates. We meet Quinn's mom
Speaker 1: for the first time. Um, Quinn is getting ready for
Speaker 1: the chastity ball. Quinn's parents played by the incredible Greg
Speaker 1: Henry and Charlotte Ross and Greg Henry. Um is the
Speaker 1: most serious for me from Scandal. After this, that's what
Speaker 1: it is. I was like, I know this man, he's
Speaker 1: so infuriating on the show, so good that he did
Speaker 1: his job. He definitely did his job. Yes, So we
Speaker 1: have Mr and Mrs for Bray and um Quinn decides
Speaker 1: that she's going to have Stan over for dinner and um.
Speaker 1: But going back to the chastity ball, she's trying on
Speaker 1: her dress alone with her mom with the chastity ball,
Speaker 1: and it's getting tighter. This is reminiscent of me with
Speaker 1: RuPaul's drag race putting on my costumes. And it was
Speaker 1: definitely getting tighter. But you were not right and I
Speaker 1: wasn't as far along. Um and and this is where
Speaker 1: we realized that the mom kind of knows, Judy kind
Speaker 1: of knows. But oh, Mr for Bray um invites Finn
Speaker 1: over because he wants to meet in so he has
Speaker 1: him up for dinner, um and and then and you
Speaker 1: also their relationship where Mr. Fher Bray comes in and
Speaker 1: you know they're going to go get pour themselves another
Speaker 1: drink and Mrs Bray is like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: think it from me. I'm your wife, and so you
Speaker 1: see the dynamic and it's all stacking up to be
Speaker 1: a little difficult if she's going to be a teen mother,
Speaker 1: right right, right right, So then we pop over to
Speaker 1: Kurt and Finn who are paired together for the ballade,
Speaker 1: and they're practicing in the auditorium and Finn is um stressed.
Speaker 1: So Kurt, this is where we see the beginnings of
Speaker 1: Kurt and Finn. Yeah, and we're going to start to
Speaker 1: see the dynamic of you know, them becoming family and
Speaker 1: also Kurt having a crush on Fin and all the things.
Speaker 1: But he is stressed, Finn stressed over the baby, and
Speaker 1: so Kurt is going to guide him and have him
Speaker 1: saying I'll stand by you. With his motive, you have
Speaker 1: to pass forward this I did. I okay, I can't
Speaker 1: watch Corey sing I'll stand by you. It's I not
Speaker 1: because it's awkward, it's just too emotional. I got emotional
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah maybe I should have, maybe it would
Speaker 1: have been healthy, but I was not emotionally prepared to
Speaker 1: do it. Um. That's also when I lost it when
Speaker 1: we did the quarterback was during that number. It's just like,
Speaker 1: to me, that was his first mm hmm, big solo
Speaker 1: m hm, and he sounds so good on it and
Speaker 1: the storyline, UM was devastating, and in this episode it's
Speaker 1: really sweet and yeah, I can't, I can't do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean as crazy as the storyline is getting the
Speaker 1: baby gate like he is the grounding force in all
Speaker 1: the baby gates, I think. And he's just phenomenal in
Speaker 1: this episode. Um, well, I stand my, I'll stand my
Speaker 1: is really great. He does sound really good. He also
Speaker 1: does sing to the Sonic, which is so weird and
Speaker 1: yet somehow it works, like I totally believe it and
Speaker 1: I thought it was weird and cute. Um, but this
Speaker 1: is the obviously the moment where Vin's mom Romi she's
Speaker 1: one of my favorites and he she catches them and
Speaker 1: he's upset and she said, she doesn't even have to
Speaker 1: you know ask, Well she does, but you know she knows.
Speaker 1: I love the relationship. Is Quinn pregnant and the moment
Speaker 1: that Romy cries but doesn't cry when she hugs him
Speaker 1: is heartbreaking. It actually breaks me. It breaks me every time.
Speaker 1: And her in her Canadian text, you know it makes
Speaker 1: sense also knowing Romi in real life, because I feel
Speaker 1: like she is so like her emotions are always just
Speaker 1: right there, like she's happy. She said, she's like she'll
Speaker 1: give you everything. She's not. It's just she's an open book. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you see why she's such a good actor, I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, and moments like that, we're like,
Speaker 1: oh god, you're almost crying, and it's worse than if
Speaker 1: you were crying. It's like the teeter of the is
Speaker 1: she or isn't she? That gets you because you're on it,
Speaker 1: the uncertainty. So did you notice, Kevin that a fan
Speaker 1: actually um wrote in and told us that when Kurt
Speaker 1: is playing the piano, they playing the piano. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's wearing a light tan pants. And then when they
Speaker 1: do a close up of his hands, the pants have
Speaker 1: changed because it wasn't Chris's hands, um d and whomever
Speaker 1: was the stand in was wearing jeans. Weird. That's a
Speaker 1: good one. But do you think normally they would have
Speaker 1: put him in pants, the stand in in pants, but
Speaker 1: they must have said on camera. They must have said like, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to see it, you know, Um, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to change. So then the next that happens
Speaker 1: is Quinn has piste that Finn has told his mom
Speaker 1: because she doesn't want her parents finding out and is
Speaker 1: worried that Carol is going to wrap her out right,
Speaker 1: which like, my mom is going to tell your mom right?
Speaker 1: Fair enough? And then there's this whole thing with Kurt
Speaker 1: thinking that he's setting Finn up um for the to lose,
Speaker 1: basically because whatever he's going to do is not going
Speaker 1: to work. And then Finn will see how girls are
Speaker 1: stupid and a waste of time, and then right, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not through us like a sixteen or fifteen
Speaker 1: year old might have thought this through um. Kurt's voice over,
Speaker 1: by the way, where I don't know why I find
Speaker 1: his stupidity charming. I mean, he's cheating off a girl
Speaker 1: who thinks the square root of four is rainbows. I
Speaker 1: mean it's Kurt's voiceovers really make this episode. I think
Speaker 1: it's next. The next scene is Kurt and Finn picking
Speaker 1: out an outfit in the basement for him to go
Speaker 1: over and meet the parents. And it's really sweet because
Speaker 1: they talk about their parents. I think it's sweet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: God didn't hear that, because that was the thing we'd
Speaker 1: always say, because he likes sweet. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: swiling is sweet, but sweet, yes, Um. You hear them
Speaker 1: talking about their single parents together and they have this
Speaker 1: deeper understanding of them keeping keepsakes and meaningful things about um.
Speaker 1: Their other parents are no longer with them, and it's
Speaker 1: a really nice you know, and amongst all this hilarity
Speaker 1: and absurdity again this grounding moment of setting up, like
Speaker 1: you said earlier, for the future of um Bert and Carol.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. And then kurts like, you know what you
Speaker 1: should do, use your voice when you go over there,
Speaker 1: sing to them, because that's gonna work. See, that's awkward.
Speaker 1: The situation is awkward. That's what makes me uncomfortable. I've
Speaker 1: been dreading this scene for weeks. But here we go.
Speaker 1: I actually went and visited them because they're The house
Speaker 1: that they shot this in was close to where I
Speaker 1: was living, and so I went over and I think
Speaker 1: I visited them on that wasn't a set, that wasn't built.
Speaker 1: It was a real house. I think it was a
Speaker 1: real house. It makes sense. I mean it was big,
Speaker 1: so that makes sense. I'm pretty sure. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't Maybe I'm wrong. No, I believe you. Um
Speaker 1: So they go and they make a toe. Mr Ferret
Speaker 1: is going to make a toast, which you know, Mr
Speaker 1: Bres like, oh his toast. She's a little drunk um
Speaker 1: And then fing goes to the bathroom in the middle.
Speaker 1: At the end, of the toast and in the middle
Speaker 1: of the toast, in the middle of the and he
Speaker 1: calls Kurt Finn in the bathroom is one of I
Speaker 1: think collectively our favorite things ever the karate chap. I
Speaker 1: also thought it looks like the ross thing that he
Speaker 1: does in the Bruce Willis episode of Friends. Absolutely. Um,
Speaker 1: but Corey, like doing that to the mirror is just
Speaker 1: iconic in our minds. Um. And then Finn is singing
Speaker 1: You're having my baby, which I hate this song. What
Speaker 1: a crazy song. I know, like Paulinka is a legend,
Speaker 1: but this song is you haven't met Baby. That was
Speaker 1: also something we did for years after was that line
Speaker 1: I hate this song? Yeah, me too, anybody else I remember? Also,
Speaker 1: like there's a BTS moment where that Dana said she
Speaker 1: kept laughing because Corey was singing the song to her
Speaker 1: and Corey would forget his lines as soon as he
Speaker 1: saw Dianna having a hard time not laughing. But how
Speaker 1: could you not is insane and like she's looking horrified
Speaker 1: during it, and the parents at first aren't realizing what's happening,
Speaker 1: and then they very quickly realize it. And then and
Speaker 1: then the line in the bathroom might have to go
Speaker 1: without think I'm pooping. Oh my god, brilliant. This whole
Speaker 1: sequence is so good. It's really awkward. Um. But then
Speaker 1: it gets into the good stuff. Like we're getting into
Speaker 1: the good stuff. Um. Number when we get to see
Speaker 1: we start to see Dan is acting. Um. And this
Speaker 1: is when they the dad is going to tell him
Speaker 1: to leave and then tell her to leave because he
Speaker 1: doesn't know who his daughter is anymore. The scene is
Speaker 1: written so well um and Brad directed this beautifully and
Speaker 1: it's just all around like a really great scene. The
Speaker 1: whole thing of like anymore. He says, who are you?
Speaker 1: I don't recognize you at all. I'm your daughter who
Speaker 1: loves you. I just need my daddy to hold me
Speaker 1: and tell me heartbreaking, and then he just walks off.
Speaker 1: There's that little hope where he walks up and you
Speaker 1: think maybe she's like please, and she's like sort of
Speaker 1: bouncing up and down like desperate, and then he just
Speaker 1: walks away, goodbye, goodbye dad. And then Finn takes her
Speaker 1: to his house to the basement, um, and Carol's doing
Speaker 1: laundry and he comes down with Quentin and says he
Speaker 1: get you know, Quinn got kicked out of her house,
Speaker 1: and of course Carol, sweet sweet Carol says you can
Speaker 1: stay here as long as you need, and that's seen.
Speaker 1: Also it's just quiet and easy. And I think that
Speaker 1: was the thing about Brad directing episodes too. Um. I
Speaker 1: always remembered his acting. He'd be like, is that right,
Speaker 1: and he'd be like, just say it and just do it. Simple,
Speaker 1: say it and it'll do it. The work on its own,
Speaker 1: and um, we got to see that here is really
Speaker 1: beautiful and Finn does a great job and all three
Speaker 1: of them, I mean great actors. Um. And then back
Speaker 1: to Finn and Kirk. Yeah, then there's the Finns sort
Speaker 1: of coming clean about what happened at dinner, and then
Speaker 1: Kurt feels bad and it's sort of coming clean about
Speaker 1: right his motives and love of him, and then Finn
Speaker 1: that doesn't get it. Yeah, well Kurt confesses him and
Speaker 1: I honestly love you, and Finn thinks it's the song,
Speaker 1: so which is great and honestly it's great. Um, And
Speaker 1: I realized we literally have not been in any of this,
Speaker 1: except for when I say that my rosation has been
Speaker 1: acting up because of the baby gate. Yeah, not that
Speaker 1: we you know, whatever, it's all happening. It is happening,
Speaker 1: and they have this whole I think it's a bit insane,
Speaker 1: but I like them together, Pucking Mercedes. They they're paired
Speaker 1: up and unlikely pairing again, and um, you know, Puck
Speaker 1: gets angry, and I thought the acting is really actually
Speaker 1: really good in the scene as well, of like Puck
Speaker 1: talent Mercedes that he's the father and um, and then Mercedes.
Speaker 1: It's like there's no like huge arc in the scene.
Speaker 1: It's just like, um, yeah, but get over it. Basically,
Speaker 1: it was like what teenager also would pause for ten
Speaker 1: seconds to be like, no, wait, let me give you
Speaker 1: some insightful perspective. But maybe she does. I bought it
Speaker 1: because she's great, yeah, the whole thing. And then she's like,
Speaker 1: we're singing for them, and how stupid am I? Halfway
Speaker 1: through lean on Me, Oh, I was like, oh, Quinn
Speaker 1: was my duet partner, and so I know we're seeing
Speaker 1: it to both of them, but I'm also saying this
Speaker 1: is my duet, but not a little bit. Yes, I
Speaker 1: didn't even think about that. I was so excited to
Speaker 1: do lean on Me well in real life, like when
Speaker 1: we did it right, we went to the studio together, right. Uh, No,
Speaker 1: we didn't, So why do I have a memory of
Speaker 1: doing this together? Is that sweet Caroline in my mind?
Speaker 1: So what happened was I went in there. I also,
Speaker 1: my voice sounds really weird on this song, and I
Speaker 1: think I was imitating the guide vocal because it was
Speaker 1: someone who didn't normally sing my demos, and I really
Speaker 1: loved his voice, and I think I was just trying
Speaker 1: to sound like, Yeah, it's like when Cia writes a
Speaker 1: song for somebody else and they always mimic her voice
Speaker 1: because she sounds so cool. I think that's her intonation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's what I was trying to do. That's
Speaker 1: actually very funny. But I think this arrangement, um, thank
Speaker 1: you Adam and Tim Davis. UM, it's absolutely incredible. And
Speaker 1: I couldn't record this song to save save my life.
Speaker 1: I had an emotional breakdown. I couldn't do it. It
Speaker 1: was so hard and absolutely losing it. And we got
Speaker 1: to the bridge and at the beginning of the end
Speaker 1: for you, I couldn't do it, and like it's okay,
Speaker 1: you know what. Um. It was like a couple of
Speaker 1: simple lines and for some reason I could not get
Speaker 1: it sung. The way they wanted it to be sung,
Speaker 1: and I got yanked, I got pulled out of there,
Speaker 1: and I gets, Okay, we're gonna have somebody else come
Speaker 1: do it. And then you came in to do it,
Speaker 1: and I told you, and then you started texting me.
Speaker 1: You're like, I can't do this. Scenon to have a day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So they combined both of us in that section because
Speaker 1: neither of us can do the full take, and so
Speaker 1: I think it's like two lines or something. We're like,
Speaker 1: you do the first half and I do the second half,
Speaker 1: or vice versa or whatever. I forgot about that. Um,
Speaker 1: it was a mess. And the actual filming of it.
Speaker 1: People should go listen to this if you have it
Speaker 1: in a while, because unfortunately they cut out Amber's verse
Speaker 1: and Amber again, it is just like a freak of
Speaker 1: nature and sounds incredible. But when we filmed this, do
Speaker 1: you remember that they can't Corey and Danna from knowing
Speaker 1: what we were going to do, so they didn't go
Speaker 1: to rehearsal, they didn't know, they hadn't heard the version.
Speaker 1: They were not allowed to be anywhere near this number
Speaker 1: until we were going to shoot it, that's right. And
Speaker 1: then when they came in. This was the first time
Speaker 1: they had seen it, at least the first time we
Speaker 1: did it for them, and they shot their reaction for
Speaker 1: their Courage coverage. Yeah, and um, I think in Diana's
Speaker 1: BTS she had said that she was going to be
Speaker 1: bawling what she was Um, but that's a really cool
Speaker 1: acting exercise or that was definitely bradfel truck. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: try it. And um we also had Brittany doing the
Speaker 1: ear again in the number. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: sweet moments and I was watching all these people do
Speaker 1: different things with each other and the interactions and it felt, um,
Speaker 1: you know, like what Paris says. Yeah, it felt like
Speaker 1: one of those real teen loose We're just enjoying each
Speaker 1: other's company. Um. I high five with Naya in it.
Speaker 1: And I watched that and I was not well, not
Speaker 1: well like not well. Um, but the number was really
Speaker 1: really sweet and I remember doing that and that was
Speaker 1: the first time they brought I think I had a
Speaker 1: picture of this they brought out. It was so hot
Speaker 1: on set, I don't know why, and we weren't really dancing.
Speaker 1: It was so hot that the makeup artists had ordered
Speaker 1: for us the musical numbers so that they could keep
Speaker 1: us cool during the musical numbers. Personal fans, so we
Speaker 1: had those like mini fans. Yeah. I think this was
Speaker 1: one of the first ones, and those were like the
Speaker 1: plastic ones. It wasn't until like next season that you
Speaker 1: we got those like high powered fans that really worked well.
Speaker 1: It was like a Beyonce fan. Um. Anyway, So that's
Speaker 1: that was pretty much the episode. Blade, the romances, the crushes,
Speaker 1: and a whole lot of baby gate. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: the biggest, the most important thing that came out of
Speaker 1: this is baby gate. Ye. Parents, parents not out, that's right,
Speaker 1: secrets out? Should we do some party takes? Party takes
Speaker 1: do do do? Um? Okay, so cringe moments a k
Speaker 1: A cheese Paris Barclay. Um. I have to say. One
Speaker 1: of the things was you're having my baby and I'll
Speaker 1: stand by you, and um crush and endless love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that just about covers it. I think those
Speaker 1: two storylines are really really difficult. I agree and like
Speaker 1: have a teacher, but again like not so far from
Speaker 1: the truth. I don't know. Um. Worst dance move I
Speaker 1: gotta say, will standing on the piano and jumping during
Speaker 1: that matchup was a little off. Um, So the best
Speaker 1: song I think was your vocals on lean On Me,
Speaker 1: and this is I picked that before I knew the
Speaker 1: story that I had to pick up the pieces. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I literally had to pick up That's really funny. I
Speaker 1: don't remember. There's the thing that I've always noticed the
Speaker 1: times that I've had the biggest challenge or I've struggled
Speaker 1: the most recording a song, like when they have to
Speaker 1: fix me the most, is when I like my vocal
Speaker 1: the most. I like how I because my voice automatically
Speaker 1: sort of sounds like it has melodine and auto tune
Speaker 1: on it, not because I'm on pitch, but it is
Speaker 1: something about like a technically speaking that nobody cares about.
Speaker 1: There's like a sound quality, like a sonic quality, and
Speaker 1: so when my voice is overly fixed, it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: that different. And so like lean on Me is fixed
Speaker 1: because they had to because I was not crushing it
Speaker 1: that day. And it's one of those things where when
Speaker 1: you have a song, um where there's a lot of
Speaker 1: us on it, we can go record it in thirty
Speaker 1: minutes and it's fine in and out. That was a
Speaker 1: really challenging song that I probably did not have time
Speaker 1: to properly warm up for or learn totally and how
Speaker 1: to go in there. And just like, it's also hard
Speaker 1: to not try to duplicate the people that you are
Speaker 1: like hearing your guide, because they do sound so good
Speaker 1: that you're like, I'm I'm always doing that with like artists.
Speaker 1: I like, I'm trying to like get there, you know,
Speaker 1: um replicate the um. But I agree, I think lenam
Speaker 1: means the best song. Obviously I listened to that version
Speaker 1: of all the time. Obviously you do when you listen
Speaker 1: to this one, Okay, and then by a prop I
Speaker 1: think the pepper absolutely, the pepper in the jar. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: there's something that the things that age well and didn't
Speaker 1: age well. There's one thing that didn't age well for
Speaker 1: me was um, when Quinn's mom says, maybe you haven't
Speaker 1: been exercising you. Yeah, when she's has the chastiny dress,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh god, no, not the thing. It's
Speaker 1: also very informative of their relationship. Yeah, yeah, the parents
Speaker 1: and yeah, not the best but best line Kevin. Um.
Speaker 1: I for me, I think I'm gonna go with Finn
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. I gotta go. They don't think I'm
Speaker 1: taking a poop. I think I'm booping. Um, I think
Speaker 1: second runner up is I think the ducks in the
Speaker 1: hat is so good. I also like your line though,
Speaker 1: all the would you say all the baby dramas making
Speaker 1: my rosatia act up is very good. Um, it's funny
Speaker 1: because I should have said excella because I have excellent
Speaker 1: and so Emma has exma now really excellent. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: at those genes at work, I know. Gosh well, anyway,
Speaker 1: art imitating life, art, life imitating art. Yes, okay, So
Speaker 1: should we found on TikTok this week there's a mistake
Speaker 1: that was caught from later on. It's during the you
Speaker 1: know STD episode and yes, that's right, and it's during
Speaker 1: the scene where I'm telling the boys that I have
Speaker 1: the STDs. Um, so on TikTok um millens be in.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm mispronouncing this. And Kirsten posted this because
Speaker 1: in the background, um, we we referenced that everyone we're
Speaker 1: watching ar lists and if you actually look at what's
Speaker 1: on the TV, it's real Glee credits. Oh yes, so
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a little Easter egg that was
Speaker 1: put in there because it's you see, like PJ bloom
Speaker 1: on the actual Yeah, so if you watch the scene
Speaker 1: they cut two in the TV in the background, if
Speaker 1: you pose it, it's fully just credits. It's because they
Speaker 1: didn't have to get the rights to it exactly easy
Speaker 1: like just actually put it on the TV, queue it up,
Speaker 1: and so anytime we show it it's absolutely fine, which
Speaker 1: I love. You know, shout out to the actual people
Speaker 1: making the show and not are less. I know Vicky,
Speaker 1: a producer, is a big Artless fan, so she might
Speaker 1: have been disappointed that wasn't the real credits. But you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's free, free nine night. That's a
Speaker 1: great um. I hope. I'm I'm still really enjoying these
Speaker 1: TikTok's great because they're not gonna stop, so keep sending
Speaker 1: him in, please keep tagging us um. I also want
Speaker 1: to just shout out Kirby again. She's the one who
Speaker 1: posted the TikTok of the Riverdale cast watching Shoe breakdancing.
Speaker 1: But then she, to get extra meta, posted a reaction
Speaker 1: to the podcast talking about her video, which is also great.
Speaker 1: So thanks for doing that. It's hilarious and feel free
Speaker 1: to post more reaction videos everyone, because we're going to
Speaker 1: find your videos and we're going to talk about them.
Speaker 1: To be prepared next week is haierography. There's so much
Speaker 1: to talk about. Yes, sure, yeah, yeah, um. I love
Speaker 1: this episode, so join us next week. Thanks for hanging
Speaker 1: with us again, and uh, that's it for now. And
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