Speaker 1: I mean, that's not I want everybody in the cabin
Speaker 1: now loft meeting.
Speaker 2: Meeting today.
Speaker 3: We're talking about episode two twenty called Chicago, a city
Speaker 3: that Lamore knows nothing about, so prepare to be educated.
Speaker 1: It's only the greatest city in the world. And it's like,
Speaker 1: if you go and look up like those surveys and
Speaker 1: it says greatest cities in the world, Chicago is always
Speaker 1: number one. So I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 2: Survey one person named Lamour and Morris.
Speaker 1: The survey says.
Speaker 2: I would, By the way, that's my dream to host
Speaker 2: that show.
Speaker 1: You want to host that show?
Speaker 2: I would love to host that show.
Speaker 1: As Steve if you can guess host. I know you
Speaker 1: guys are friends Steve.
Speaker 2: And I've never met Steve. If you ever retired, he.
Speaker 1: Wan't too good. He eating too good for me.
Speaker 3: No, but one day, Look, I could hosted in twenty years.
Speaker 3: I'm a longtime fan, longtime fan, longtime watcher, longtime listener.
Speaker 1: Same here. I love the family Feud and I love
Speaker 1: it for Steve. So if you would never host it,
Speaker 1: I don't know I would. I'm you're kidding me, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if Steve ever retired.
Speaker 3: But we did a two host format and then we
Speaker 3: would be like on each side to go like down.
Speaker 2: You know, it'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could host. I'll be like the audience correspondent.
Speaker 1: I'll just the camera would just pan to me. Every
Speaker 1: once in a while, I'll go, Mmmm, that ain't right. Hi,
Speaker 1: y'all crazy? That's what I would do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the reinvention. Okay, well twenty years Yeah, Chicago.
Speaker 1: Let's dive right in. You want to take this one?
Speaker 2: Yes, how did jess somehow get this? I thought this
Speaker 2: when I watched this.
Speaker 3: How did just somehow get a perfectly fitting Elvis costume
Speaker 3: in Chicago?
Speaker 2: The one they had but the.
Speaker 3: Other guy would have been ginormous on her from Ellie,
Speaker 3: that's just movie magic. That's a movie magic because you
Speaker 3: had to sell it. You had to sell it. You know.
Speaker 3: Maybe she put some clothes bins in the back or something,
Speaker 3: but yes, that's a totally different suit made for.
Speaker 1: Zoe or what we could do. What we could say is,
Speaker 1: you know backstory wise that she knew. So what she
Speaker 1: did was she would care that's a very Jessica day
Speaker 1: thing and prepped it and said, just in case I'm
Speaker 1: going to have a backup Elvis costume. But that's not
Speaker 1: what happened.
Speaker 3: That's how it happened. But I liked that theory in
Speaker 3: terms of like in the story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Deborah Maguire made two costumes for sure, one
Speaker 1: big one.
Speaker 2: That's it all right, next one?
Speaker 1: Okay, Hi, I have a question for the pod episode
Speaker 1: two twenty Chicago. Was it really Dennis Farina in the
Speaker 1: casket or a fake body? Thanks so much love the podcast.
Speaker 1: Rifka is it Rifka, Rika, No, that was I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna I was just gonna say Dennis did not sign
Speaker 1: up to lie in a casket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna say no too.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't him a doppelganger. Yeah, no, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and say that was not Dennis lying in
Speaker 1: that casket. In fact, I remember we were from a
Speaker 1: distance when you were looking at it. Like when I
Speaker 1: got there, I was like, oh man, that's that whoever,
Speaker 1: that's whoever was in there, looks exactly like him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think even at one point from
Speaker 1: wide shots it's just a fake. It's like a it's
Speaker 1: a body mannequin that's in there. Yeah. Nope, no, no, no, nope. Okay,
Speaker 1: next question, Hi from Chicago, Yeah, big big letters, Hi
Speaker 1: from Chicago. Bt W Was the Chicago episode actually filmed
Speaker 1: in Chicago? I know, La Mourn, You're from there and
Speaker 1: so is Jake. So was curious or was it filmed
Speaker 1: in La Slash somewhere else from Samantha. No, not in Chicago.
Speaker 1: We in fact, we shot that in all to Dina,
Speaker 1: all to Dona, California. And I remember it because as
Speaker 1: we were driving through, we just kept talking about how
Speaker 1: beautiful the houses were, you know, Jake, Zoe. And at
Speaker 1: one point, I want to say, Jake said, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is a great neighborhood, Like I could see myself
Speaker 1: living over here. And I want to say he ended
Speaker 1: up near is near? Yeah near, He's on that part
Speaker 1: of and that part of La that town, that part
Speaker 1: of you know, the city.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: The real fact is that New Girl never shot out
Speaker 3: of La Yeah, like in the surrounding communities, Like we
Speaker 3: never traveled.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 3: Remember like the year before, didn't Modern Family do an
Speaker 3: episode in Hawaii or something like it used to be?
Speaker 3: And like literally, just like the small previous generation of sitcoms,
Speaker 3: there was always like a destination episode where they would
Speaker 3: shoot somewhere else.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: Maybe they show had done well enough and they gave
Speaker 3: like a little.
Speaker 2: Retreat and they said, go shoot in a fun place.
Speaker 3: But New Girl never never shot outside of La never ever.
Speaker 1: But boy did we help. We did.
Speaker 3: Boy, we really thought I think it was modern family
Speaker 3: went to Hawaii the year before, and then our show
Speaker 3: came out, and then it hit and it was doing
Speaker 3: really well. We thought like, ooh, I wonder where they're
Speaker 3: gonna send us. It almost felt like a given that
Speaker 3: we were going to get to go somewhere, and then
Speaker 3: it just never happened, like just things change and economies changed,
Speaker 3: and it just I guess switched and we never got
Speaker 3: to go and shoot somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I know we could have went to Kenya,
Speaker 1: Cape Town, well, Johannesburg Action Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, the fans were there, but no.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Next one is a baggy I cannot wait to hear
Speaker 3: you guys talk about the Chicago opener Pete comedy. That
Speaker 3: juxtaposition between Nick's news and the gang's voices gets me
Speaker 3: every time. The Helium by far some of the best
Speaker 3: lines and scenes in this one, I know, CC isn't
Speaker 3: in it, but between Winston pretending to be dead and
Speaker 3: then Schmid calling him a ghool, to Schmid hiding behind
Speaker 3: the door when Nick comes in after having one dozen beers,
Speaker 3: Winston saying, am I right? And looking at Nick just
Speaker 3: right when he does it to Schmidt and the casket
Speaker 3: scene perfection. Oddly enough, though, I always fast forward through
Speaker 3: the part where just sings. I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: just that I don't particularly like that Elvis song, but
Speaker 3: I cringe every time that part starts. How many of
Speaker 3: the scenes I mentioned actually were scripted or were they
Speaker 3: more ad libbed? How many takes did you all have
Speaker 3: to go through on some of those hilarious scenes? Love
Speaker 3: the inside look at the show on the podcast. I'm
Speaker 3: so happy I can stream it because watching it when
Speaker 3: it was on those six seasons just wasn't enough. Six seasons,
Speaker 3: seven seasons. I guess we did six in a bit,
Speaker 3: six in a bit. Love the show from Katie.
Speaker 1: Katie, Katie, what if this is interesting, Hanna? What if
Speaker 1: Katie just didn't know about the seventh season and hasn't
Speaker 1: seen it? Katie, Katie, I got news for you.
Speaker 2: Wow. Hidden eight seventh season, Hidden eight episodes just list
Speaker 2: laying around. You should find them, Katie.
Speaker 3: If you haven't found them, you should find them.
Speaker 2: Yeah they're great.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, let's talk. Okay, So how many of the
Speaker 1: scenes I mentioned actually scripted or were they just ad libbed?
Speaker 1: How many takes did you all have to go through
Speaker 1: on some of those hilarious scenes. So when I was
Speaker 1: sitting in bed and I was pretending to be dead
Speaker 1: with with Schmidt, a lot of stuff didn't make the cut.
Speaker 1: And because Max was just improvising a ton because I'm
Speaker 1: just lying there and he's doing all this stuff and
Speaker 1: you know, he's being max full Max, and a lot
Speaker 1: of times I'm laughing. So we have to when it's
Speaker 1: on my coverage, you have to keep redoing it and
Speaker 1: retaking it. So on that I can't tell you exactly
Speaker 1: how many takes, but we went through a lot that
Speaker 1: was true for and typical for our show period, and
Speaker 1: in general, we would go through a lot of different
Speaker 1: takes because honestly, it's just a cast of a bunch
Speaker 1: of funny people and when we get together, our goal
Speaker 1: on the day, yes, is to get the scene done,
Speaker 1: but it's also to make each other laugh to it,
Speaker 1: to have fun, and I think we all do a
Speaker 1: great job of kind of messing with each other. So
Speaker 1: on that scene, I could tell you it took a lot.
Speaker 1: That opening moment when we're talking with the helium balloons
Speaker 1: and you got Bill Burr going in on you know,
Speaker 1: not the opening one, but the opening one wants to
Speaker 1: get to the Chakai.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was like an all star stand
Speaker 3: up comedy past.
Speaker 2: Like they let him go.
Speaker 3: They let him go and improv and ad lib and
Speaker 3: get and it supposed to be a family dynamic, right,
Speaker 3: and you want that to feel authentic, so a lot
Speaker 3: of improv.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I had the most fun just kind of being
Speaker 1: around that environment and being a part of people who
Speaker 1: are considered legends, you know what I mean, Like those
Speaker 1: actors are considered legends in the comedy realm, and to
Speaker 1: say you were a part of something like that is fantastic.
Speaker 1: And then Jake was there too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that opening scene with the helium it does
Speaker 2: get me. I really love that moment.
Speaker 3: It does make me laugh because it's just all the nightmares.
Speaker 3: Your friend comes fully vulnerable and pours their heart out
Speaker 3: with the most terrible news to you, and what can
Speaker 3: you do? Saying nothing makes you look like a jerk.
Speaker 3: You gotta say something, But saying something with a helium voice, Yeah, there's.
Speaker 1: No way out, no way out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chicago.
Speaker 3: That would have been cool if you guys had got
Speaker 3: to shoot it in Chicago.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy. I wanted to and obviously I
Speaker 1: wanted to, and I thought when we read it, that's
Speaker 1: what was going to happen.
Speaker 3: I remember that. I remember when we read it. I
Speaker 3: remember you asking, you were like, do we get to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And you know, and obviously that didn't happen. But
Speaker 1: what they did was they brought in so they have
Speaker 1: these snow machines that will shoot fake snow all over
Speaker 1: the trees and over the ground. And then they would
Speaker 1: take these blankets of cotton and just like wrap certain
Speaker 1: trees in it and wrap like certain lawns in this
Speaker 1: to make it look like it was the dead of
Speaker 1: winter in Chicago. Uh. And and some of the houses,
Speaker 1: like I said, in that Alta Dina area do resemble
Speaker 1: certain parts, especially like the North side of Chicago, certain
Speaker 1: parts of that area. And yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: they did a great job of making it feel that
Speaker 1: way and looked that way even when they cast like
Speaker 1: Nick crawled hexs funny, so so funny. But yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: Great, great episode, What a great episode. Thank you for
Speaker 3: these great questions. We love holding these loft meetings.
Speaker 2: Yes witch, Yeah, all right, that's the show. Join us
Speaker 2: on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: D recap season two episode twenty one, First Date.
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