Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and that's where you really miss podcast. Yes
Speaker 1: it is Jenna, and yes I did lose my voice,
Speaker 1: and yes Kevin is jetlagged, and so we are struggling
Speaker 1: right now, but here we are. We're here for you guys.
Speaker 1: I just crazy.
Speaker 2: I'm I really like it.
Speaker 1: I'm doing my best to like project right now.
Speaker 2: This is Jenna's theater training. She has a degree in
Speaker 2: musical theater. She can place her voice differently. Last night
Speaker 2: you had no voice.
Speaker 1: I had no voice, and then today I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I kind of have a voice, but then it goes
Speaker 1: out away. It doesn't hurt.
Speaker 2: You sound like a little boy.
Speaker 1: It's just sad.
Speaker 2: He sounds so sad.
Speaker 1: I just hate it. It's like I I feel different
Speaker 1: than I sound, you know. Oh yeah, I sound different
Speaker 1: than I feel. Okay, well, let's just do this because
Speaker 1: you're on borrow time, you're in London right now, I
Speaker 1: have to go into your process for your new for
Speaker 1: not a new musical, but a musical. You're on like
Speaker 1: four hours of sleep, maybe less.
Speaker 2: I'm on two sessions of two hours of sleep. Well,
Speaker 2: I feel good, Jenna. I will hold this up. The
Speaker 2: voice is here. I'll hold this up for both of us.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, don't strain your voice either, because you
Speaker 1: need your voice. Okay, Season six, and we're in episode two.
Speaker 1: This is part two of the premiere. But we are
Speaker 1: doing this weekly. So this is homecoming and it aired
Speaker 1: on January ninth, twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: Just a rub salt on the wound.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The other thing about so we discovered last week they
Speaker 2: moved to Fridays. And the other thing is new shows, Like,
Speaker 2: don't premiere this soon after New Year's you wait, like
Speaker 2: two weeks after New Years. We are really just like,
Speaker 2: let's get these out of here.
Speaker 1: Well, let's just get them, get through.
Speaker 2: It, throw them at the wall.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So I mean, I love you know, the experience of
Speaker 2: being able to watch these two back to back, I
Speaker 2: think would have been really satisfying because seeing everybody back together,
Speaker 2: the gang's all here working together in a positive way.
Speaker 2: We have everybody now in charge of different glee clubs
Speaker 2: is really full circle and lovely to watch.
Speaker 1: Okay. In the news, number one song is blank Space
Speaker 1: by Taylor Swift again or still because.
Speaker 2: The number one movie is Still taking three?
Speaker 1: Where was she obvious? So on January sixth, the music
Speaker 1: Homecoming EP was released. It was five tracks from episode
Speaker 1: six or two, and it was for digital only. We've
Speaker 1: gone from CD now only to digital.
Speaker 2: More importantly, on January seventh, Chris One Favorite Comedic TV
Speaker 2: actor at the forty first annual People's Choice Awards.
Speaker 1: Wow. Look, I knew this.
Speaker 2: However, the category was not televised and Chris was not
Speaker 2: in attendance. Chris did share a celebratory post on Instagram saying,
Speaker 2: just find out about the People's Choice Award three years
Speaker 2: in a row. Thank you all so much. The category
Speaker 2: wasn't televised, so let me tell you how I am
Speaker 2: telling you now. I am forever grateful, humbled, and quite
Speaker 2: spoiled deserved. Yeah, dang and icon. This episode was directed
Speaker 2: by Brad Baker.
Speaker 1: Wow, so he did back to.
Speaker 2: Back Yeah, so you must have just prepped him at
Speaker 2: the same time.
Speaker 1: God to bless him. That is crazy. The only other
Speaker 1: person I believe who's ever done that on our show
Speaker 1: is there Stills correct. Nobody should have to do that.
Speaker 1: The songs were take on Me performed by all of.
Speaker 2: Us, Tightrope performed by Jane with the Warblers problem.
Speaker 1: We're performed by the Unholy Trinity Artie and the cheer.
Speaker 2: I got my whisper in on that. Well, let me
Speaker 2: make these royalties Mustang Sally performed by Roderick with Brittany
Speaker 2: Quinn and Santana of course.
Speaker 1: And then we have a Home performed by all the alumni,
Speaker 1: all the new new directions and Spencer.
Speaker 2: And Spencer fun facts. This episode was part two, like
Speaker 2: we said of the season six premiere, airing right after
Speaker 2: Lucier Like Me.
Speaker 1: And the title card pays homage to the cartoon drawings
Speaker 1: and the original music video for Take on Me as
Speaker 1: to do the transitions between several of the scenes, which
Speaker 1: I appreciate they kept going.
Speaker 2: This is also the final time in the entire series
Speaker 2: the title card changes.
Speaker 1: Whoa And this episode marks back as first appearance since
Speaker 1: the show's moved to New York after new directions. It
Speaker 1: feels like it feels like she never left.
Speaker 2: It was really good to see her, though, yeah, her
Speaker 2: pony jail is much longer. This episode marks the first
Speaker 2: appearance of Jane Hayward, Mason McCarthy, and Madison McCarthy.
Speaker 1: And this is the sixth episode where every member of
Speaker 1: New Directions sings the soul Line, the others being the pilot,
Speaker 1: Brittany two point zero, Tina in the sky a Katie
Speaker 1: or Gaga, and the end of work Okay.
Speaker 2: Official episode summary put Coins, Santana, Mercedes, Brittany, Arty, and
Speaker 2: Tina all return to McKinley for Homecoming and help Rachel
Speaker 2: and Kurt recruit for the new Glee Club.
Speaker 1: I remember coming back for this. It was really fun
Speaker 1: to shoot this, Like take on Me was really fun.
Speaker 1: I remember we were back at Bernstein in the cafeteria yep,
Speaker 1: making fools of ourselves. Also in the in the room
Speaker 1: where you were drawing the cartoon on the I have.
Speaker 2: Lots of photos of filming that number, yeah right.
Speaker 1: And then getting Noah in there, and then of course Homecoming,
Speaker 1: which also feels like an afterthought, but like we did
Speaker 1: that at night and it was very cold on Paramount.
Speaker 2: I don't remember doing that. I was Washington.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I have of us doing that.
Speaker 1: We didn't do that. That's why, like you and I
Speaker 1: were like kind of in the like the beginning part,
Speaker 1: and then that was like kind of it and of us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were behind the buses.
Speaker 2: Like a lot got it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were really there. Overall, it was really fun
Speaker 1: to see everybody. But I will say this was not
Speaker 1: my favorite episode.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I enjoyed watching it. I had a
Speaker 2: good time. It was entertaining. It was sort of like
Speaker 2: all the things I like about Glee on the entertainment side.
Speaker 2: It's not like we're saying anything profound in this episode,
Speaker 2: but seeing the new kids perform, and like I said earlier,
Speaker 2: I really like having everybody back and working together, and
Speaker 2: it's not we're not in everybody's drama. And there was
Speaker 2: something what I really liked and what set it up
Speaker 2: for me was the dinner at Shusters where everybody's there
Speaker 2: and you have Blaine in charge of Warbler's Shoe, in
Speaker 2: charge of Vocal Adrenaline, and Kurt and Rachel in charge
Speaker 2: of New Directions, and it was like, that is really
Speaker 2: cool and it feels right, and it feels like, of
Speaker 2: course it's not going to be friendly, even though they're
Speaker 2: saying we're going to make it friendly. It's a new
Speaker 2: take on how we're going to do this and how
Speaker 2: we operate. And then immediately, you know, Jane moves from
Speaker 2: Warblers to New Directions, so I enjoyed all of that,
Speaker 2: and it was just it was so nice seeing everyone
Speaker 2: and seeing everybody perform.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I liked that aspect of it. That
Speaker 1: was my favorite part of it. Was like watching them
Speaker 1: come back in this new iteration and like being the
Speaker 1: leaders and like kind of going at Like I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed when when Rachel takes or really when Jane approaches
Speaker 1: Rachel and says, like, I'm gonna switch. I don't really
Speaker 1: want to be in the war Warers anymore. They don't
Speaker 1: want me there, so like I'm I'm going to transfer
Speaker 1: if this is what I want, and like then blame
Speaker 1: being like, okay, it's over the playing nice kind of
Speaker 1: thing that mister Shu had initially you know established, Yeah, yeah, established,
Speaker 1: and so I like that aspect of it. I just
Speaker 1: felt a little I don't know, I you know, I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed the less characters, the more more focused storylines
Speaker 1: like we had. I agree, this still has that element
Speaker 1: to it, like it's very organized and focused, but like
Speaker 1: it just felt like a little like we could have
Speaker 1: gotten there faster.
Speaker 2: I I think I like it for that for the
Speaker 2: reasons you don't like it, because I feel like it
Speaker 2: was a much more natural and organic way to introduce
Speaker 2: all these new people than than what happened last time.
Speaker 2: Like that felt very disjointed and all over the place,
Speaker 2: and like we're forcing these people in here, where this
Speaker 2: sort of felt like there was some resistance. They're not
Speaker 2: all just like yeah, we're gonna do it. It was
Speaker 2: like woven in between everything else going on. I thought,
Speaker 2: like you said, much more organized, no, no fair way
Speaker 2: in a different way than last time, which was also nice.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they weren't just sort of copying and pasting
Speaker 2: and like, you know, the little bits of like Rachel
Speaker 2: running through the locker room and side note, I just
Speaker 2: would like to flag the sexual things, like Santana says
Speaker 2: it when she references her like sexual prowess luring people.
Speaker 2: And these people are in high school in underage first
Speaker 2: of all, I know, and then Rachel going through the
Speaker 2: locker room saying, I'm not looking at anything. I'm just like,
Speaker 2: this is crazy. It's a little it's a little weird
Speaker 2: when you're that close in age to the high schoolers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, but it's only a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're comedic geniuses, so they sold it. And
Speaker 2: it's very funny, let's talk about Rachel.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, okay, great, I mean we're still we're talking
Speaker 1: about her, So let's talk about let's talk about it
Speaker 1: exactly the So the guys all make a pact, all
Speaker 1: the head coaches now Rachel, kurk Wilblain all make a
Speaker 1: pact to obviously play nice, and there's no poaching of stealing,
Speaker 1: which spoiler alert, there's kind of poaching stealing immediately and
Speaker 1: and Rachel, we're back at McKinley and Rachel Kurt are
Speaker 1: trying to establish a brand new glee club and Rachel
Speaker 1: puts up the list and Kurt's like, Okay, you need
Speaker 1: to be more proactive than this. We're not going to
Speaker 1: find people if we don't. So she hears this like
Speaker 1: voice which is Noah's voice in the hallways, and uh,
Speaker 1: She's like asking, how does that transition happen? So she's
Speaker 1: in the hallway and she and Rachel agrees that Kurt's right,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, it's like everybody's magically there.
Speaker 2: She since it's a bat signal, the glee bat signals, literally,
Speaker 2: and everybody is just there.
Speaker 1: Well, we perform, we're all there. Of course, Tina gets
Speaker 1: is late again and nobody waited for the rental car
Speaker 1: and I pressed on the car. At that point, I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this is funny now, you know, like
Speaker 1: at this point, I'm like, okay, I can't.
Speaker 2: Say it's come back around. It got to the point
Speaker 2: where it was like rude and then funny, and then
Speaker 2: now this is just sad and forced, and now it's
Speaker 2: really funny. Yeah, yeah, and shut up Tina.
Speaker 1: So she's there and everybody's gonna sing. They're all there
Speaker 1: for Homecoming technically, but they they end up doing the
Speaker 1: take on me. Now, this number was like cuckoo because
Speaker 1: Brad kept telling us like there's gonna be the cartoons
Speaker 1: and he went around with his iPad and he showed
Speaker 1: us the original video and we were like, oh, I
Speaker 1: get it, I get it. So you just have to
Speaker 1: like trust Brad Beaker because like I feel like he
Speaker 1: always has like a plan and you're like, it's just
Speaker 1: kind of look great.
Speaker 2: Like he's great at explaining it. Not every director would
Speaker 2: explain the plan, and it's really helpful.
Speaker 1: Show it to us. Yeah, he's like here you go,
Speaker 1: like the no secrets, you.
Speaker 2: Know, well, especially when so these numbers and if you've
Speaker 2: been following along with this podcast. We don't necessarily love
Speaker 2: the process of shooting the numbers that go through a
Speaker 2: lot of different rooms in the school, because it's really
Speaker 2: tedious and takes a lot of time for a little
Speaker 2: you know, like you're in a room for ten seconds
Speaker 2: passing through, do a little jig and move out, and
Speaker 2: it just takes so long. This was no different. However,
Speaker 2: when you are prepped and know exactly what's going on
Speaker 2: and what it's going to look like, or have some
Speaker 2: sort of idea, it helps you, I think, appreciate the
Speaker 2: process a little better.
Speaker 1: I was also kind of like just in it because
Speaker 1: like we had had a break and like you know,
Speaker 1: we were happy to be there, and.
Speaker 2: Just everybody was happy to be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're all back together and the gang was all
Speaker 1: back together, and we did this ridiculous number. We all
Speaker 1: look insane. Everybody's collars and like costumes and hair. Kevin,
Speaker 1: do you remember when we were at Bernstein in the cafeteria.
Speaker 1: There's like two very distinct stories. I remember you, me
Speaker 1: and Diana were hanging out and we were making like
Speaker 1: weird videos of like inspirational quotes and we were like
Speaker 1: doing them to the camera like really, oh oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of free time on we did.
Speaker 2: We had so much free time, like we just done.
Speaker 1: Like a ton of time, like cooping off with Diana.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of pictures of me and Naya.
Speaker 1: Okay, so well, when we shot it, the obviously the
Speaker 1: cartoon were like the picture frame that everybody's jumping through
Speaker 1: was put in in post, but what we used to
Speaker 1: shoot it was like just like a wooden frames, just
Speaker 1: like four long skinny frames put together, and the guys
Speaker 1: were carrying them and Rachel's Everybody's jumping through the and
Speaker 1: coming out in costume. Well, I remember having to jump
Speaker 1: through that, and I remember Core jumping through it and
Speaker 1: falling flat on his face. He tripped over the bottom
Speaker 1: board and he went coupling right on the ground. And
Speaker 1: I will never never forget it. So funny. That would
Speaker 1: make sense.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember us like being back in the
Speaker 2: like behind the kitchen area and the cafeteria for a
Speaker 2: really long time. I don't know, why.
Speaker 1: Are your chairs were back there?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's that would make sense. I'm glad you remember
Speaker 2: these things. I just have fragments of memory some reason.
Speaker 1: This is very vivid in my mind.
Speaker 2: Once it came up, I was like, oh, yes, I'm like,
Speaker 2: ah this watching this altogether. You know, we haven't taken
Speaker 2: that much time between seasons. Yeah, it feels so different
Speaker 2: because when we were filming this, there was such a
Speaker 2: big break right between the last episode of last season
Speaker 2: and all of us being here for this episode, and
Speaker 2: a lot of us hadn't seen each other. So much
Speaker 2: had changed in the world with each other, and so
Speaker 2: you know, like people are growing up and getting married
Speaker 2: and all those things, and so it was such like
Speaker 2: a big you can see, the vibes were like so
Speaker 2: good in this episode between everybody. Everyone is genuinely laughing.
Speaker 2: Everyone is just having a great time, so grateful and
Speaker 2: happy to be there and just just because we got
Speaker 2: to hang out. It was really really fun.
Speaker 1: It was now. I love that. I I think when
Speaker 1: we were filming with like a wooden frame, I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know this is going to turn out. You
Speaker 1: just like trust in Brad Baker. But I love the
Speaker 1: way it turned out. I thought it was so much
Speaker 1: fun and like different, and you know, it was like
Speaker 1: a fun way back and for everybody to be together.
Speaker 1: But we have to talk about the Unholy Trinity and
Speaker 1: doing problem because I have I don't remember this and
Speaker 1: it is insane, Like everybody looks and sounds really good
Speaker 1: and it's really fun and I don't remember it. So
Speaker 1: now I need you to tell me about shooting this.
Speaker 1: Nya sounds incredible.
Speaker 2: Nya sounds so good.
Speaker 1: Her best impression of Ariana will also putting Nya's spin
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she was going for it. I think she
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, I'll do this. Oh yeah, so that number.
Speaker 2: For those of you who know, you know, you'll understand
Speaker 2: what I'm alluding to. But it was interesting that Naya
Speaker 2: had to sing that song mm and she did not complain,
Speaker 2: She did not say anything negative about it. She was like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to sing the shit out of this. Yeah
Speaker 2: she did, and we just had a good time. I
Speaker 2: was ready to sit there and sort of like gossip, like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, can you and she was just like, no, no,
Speaker 2: this is my job. I'm showing up. I'm clocking in,
Speaker 2: as she would say, and I'm doing it. That day
Speaker 2: was also just so much fun to be in a number. Also,
Speaker 2: with them being a number I used loosely. I was
Speaker 2: was behind a chain link fence whispering.
Speaker 1: You were like running down the like rolling down the
Speaker 1: bleachers with them, like it was really fun. I really
Speaker 1: liked that number.
Speaker 2: It was on a personal level, really boring to shoot
Speaker 2: for me because I'm so far away from everybody most
Speaker 2: of the time. And then we were shooting that scene
Speaker 2: with Becca at the end of the sun was directly
Speaker 2: in our eyes, those of us on that side, and
Speaker 2: so they were like those things that were like, get
Speaker 2: me off of this field. Yeah, but we got to
Speaker 2: spend the day with them and Becca and Billy and Laura.
Speaker 2: So it was so we.
Speaker 1: Meet Billy and Laura and they're on the cheerios currently
Speaker 1: and Kitty now is mad because and I love that
Speaker 1: she brings this up or that it was written this
Speaker 1: way of like why would I join the glee club
Speaker 1: or get anybody to join it? When you guys treated
Speaker 1: us that way after we left, it was like they
Speaker 1: just got ditched and it was like slightly I mean
Speaker 1: on the nose of like yeah, no, of course, like
Speaker 1: see you later, but there they were. Becca was back.
Speaker 1: It was good to see her. Kittie's back in a
Speaker 1: different way again.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of good reference to that. I think Yeah,
Speaker 2: the writer's doing a really good job so far this season.
Speaker 2: I think it's the end of last season of like
Speaker 2: checking those things, like and making sure we're calling ourselves out,
Speaker 2: like the characters bad behaviors and all these things, which
Speaker 2: we did a lot in the beginning of the series.
Speaker 2: I think we like didn't do that as much and
Speaker 2: then in the middle, but I really love that it's
Speaker 2: come back in full force.
Speaker 1: So Madison and Mason ask if they can audition together,
Speaker 1: which I love their like quirky little like duo. It's
Speaker 1: so funny. They're my favorite.
Speaker 2: Are they there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I really like them. I think they're like at
Speaker 1: the end of the episode when they're like nottitute our
Speaker 1: onn horn Tute.
Speaker 2: Their chemistry is so.
Speaker 1: Good, really good. I think they were friends before. I
Speaker 1: think they knew each other, or maybe they just like
Speaker 1: bonded because like like Noah said, like they just you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, they had each other. But it
Speaker 1: was really great. We've also got the Roderick thing happening
Speaker 1: where Rachel hears his voice like a handful of times
Speaker 1: leading up to us actually finding him. But she's enlisted
Speaker 1: the the Alums to help find Cleeve Club members obviously
Speaker 1: we try to woo them with our musical talents. But
Speaker 1: we go and we chase Roderick. Do you remember shooting
Speaker 1: that too? Like these are so clear in my mind. Yes,
Speaker 1: she did, looking at the air bench of like where
Speaker 1: his voice was, and then running into the library and
Speaker 1: we found him, and I remember thinking, like, this poor
Speaker 1: kid is brand new. I remember them telling you us
Speaker 1: like he's pretty new at everything, like and we're all
Speaker 1: just like all the ogs are just like hovering over him.
Speaker 1: But he was so sweet and so good.
Speaker 2: It's so sweet and that he it comes through like
Speaker 2: he's perfectly cast. Yeah, written perfectly for him.
Speaker 1: Also, was that a new library?
Speaker 2: Yes? I was just about to say. The reason I
Speaker 2: remember so much, like I have so many of these
Speaker 2: memories for this is because it all felt so new, right,
Speaker 2: and like the library might have actually just been completely new.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: I think it was too, and so that's why I
Speaker 2: like even having our chairs like in the kitchen of
Speaker 2: the cafeteria was different, complete library.
Speaker 1: And they were like, we're not going to build the
Speaker 1: library back, so like let's just shoot it all location,
Speaker 1: you know, do you know what I mean? They're not
Speaker 1: think you're right, sad at season six, like the end.
Speaker 2: I think I think he might be I think.
Speaker 1: It was burned.
Speaker 2: I think might be right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think we shot it at the end
Speaker 1: of like the Aha number, like after that we were all.
Speaker 2: There, m hm, Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: that's making look at this memory so.
Speaker 1: Weird because I mean, the rest of the series, we know,
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Anything, but this was a significant time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. It was so roder singing we get
Speaker 1: him to audish and when we come front him to audition.
Speaker 1: Really also when Rachel scares him away.
Speaker 2: I like Rachel just going back to her. You know,
Speaker 2: when you go for the holidays or something on your
Speaker 2: parents and you become a teenager again. It was Rachel
Speaker 2: back at McKinley, going into her crazy Rachel barrymode. And
Speaker 2: I've learned I am now the instructor of this glee club, Yes,
Speaker 2: which I did enjoy.
Speaker 1: Yes for sure. Before we get into a rotter number
Speaker 1: and mustin Sally, can we talk about Puck, Quin, Tina
Speaker 1: and Sam and Mercedes going to get the conservatives at
Speaker 1: the tea party.
Speaker 2: It's also a very good demonstration of where we've come politically.
Speaker 2: The Tea Party was a hot thing for a second
Speaker 2: and then it just became mega right, like this was
Speaker 2: the foundational texts.
Speaker 1: Yeah for Mecca, God help us. Tina is like and
Speaker 1: literally I was gonna like take a video ta, I mean,
Speaker 1: like what is wrong? Because I was like current what
Speaker 1: is wrong with America? Jess Oh very funny? Uh okay.
Speaker 1: For some reason, though, that scene I thought was a
Speaker 1: scene that we shot while we were in the episode
Speaker 1: that I do with Diana and Lauren Potter.
Speaker 2: We might have been shooting some of these things like.
Speaker 1: Dually because it feels now that's when my memory goes,
Speaker 1: and I like thought that was something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the next episode, I think maybe. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think there was a lot of that going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, They're like get everybody, well they can, yes.
Speaker 2: It's all available.
Speaker 1: We weren't even uncontracted, so they had to get us
Speaker 1: in when we could get in.
Speaker 2: Yep. There's two moments in this episode that I really loved,
Speaker 2: and I think the first one is my first well okay,
Speaker 2: the first one's in that conservative club where the guy's
Speaker 2: preaching about how he hates homosexuals and everything else and
Speaker 2: then Mercedes just gives it to him. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: for the Warblers, when the Warblers are protesting having Jane audition, right,
Speaker 2: they're like, well, the sexual tension might be weird, and
Speaker 2: Blaine's like, well, aren't most of you guys gay And
Speaker 2: they're like no, it's like to all of you have girlfriends.
Speaker 2: They're like yes. He's like, oh okay, sort of feels
Speaker 2: similar and like those happening in both schools.
Speaker 1: Yes, for sure, yes, yes, we'll get there. Yeah, sorry, no,
Speaker 1: it's fine. So Roderick does come to audition. I also
Speaker 1: remember sitting up in that the rafters for that. That
Speaker 1: was fun. And the on Holy Trinity. Do you remember
Speaker 1: listening to him saying that for the first.
Speaker 2: Time absulutely it was like insanity. That's also how I
Speaker 2: feel watching Samantha Ware Yep, where obviously we weren't there
Speaker 2: for that and watching this episode and we'll get to that,
Speaker 2: but watching Noah Yep, we were all like, oh, oh,
Speaker 2: that's what we were all supposed to be doing. The
Speaker 2: males I go because the women on the show have
Speaker 2: always been so strong, like so not even close to
Speaker 2: the guys, and he showed up. I was like, I
Speaker 2: was like, all right, my good Well, it's like it's
Speaker 2: in good hands. It's like it should be, like when
Speaker 2: Kurt revealed Kurt and Rachel reveal at the end, like
Speaker 2: this is the new and improved glee Club. That's how
Speaker 2: it should be. And it does sort of sort of
Speaker 2: feel like that the beginnings of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are you don't cut yourselves short,
Speaker 1: because you guys are very talented on your own ways.
Speaker 2: It's just that we had like I think we're all great.
Speaker 1: Vocalists, ye vocally like the women like.
Speaker 2: Zomb Yeah, Powerhouse, Go Go No.
Speaker 1: I mean I could listen to his voice all day
Speaker 1: long on anything. He could literally sing me, like a
Speaker 1: cookbook or the ab season. I'd be happy.
Speaker 2: And Rachel also is like I like her as a coach,
Speaker 2: as a teacher. She had the little moment in the
Speaker 2: beginning with him, but by the time he's auditioning, she
Speaker 2: goes to complete other direction, like where the headphones do.
Speaker 2: It's really it's really fun to.
Speaker 1: Her in an element that we haven't seen her before,
Speaker 1: but yet like we knew she would be good at
Speaker 1: you know, yes yeah. And we also see Madison and
Speaker 1: uh uh Mason audition during home technically, so they have
Speaker 1: all auditioned, and now, well, let's talk about Jane.
Speaker 2: So Jane shows up at at Dalton and Blaine is
Speaker 2: sort of feeling himself like this is going great and
Speaker 2: where I'm supposed to be YadA, YadA, YadA, And then
Speaker 2: she shows up and throws a wrench in sort of
Speaker 2: his plan, and she's like, I want to audition for
Speaker 2: the glee club, I mean for the Warblers, and he's resistant.
Speaker 2: He's hesitant at first, and brings it up at that
Speaker 2: dinner with Shu and kurtin Rachel and they're all like,
Speaker 2: don't be an idiot history and he changes pretty quickly
Speaker 2: and sees it, and then you have that you know,
Speaker 2: he brings it to the Warblers. They have that debate
Speaker 2: about it where they're all not gay.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: They decide to let her audition.
Speaker 1: Which is also like crazy. They're like with the talent
Speaker 1: decide and you're like gross, you guys grow.
Speaker 2: Well, and she calls it out, which I think is great.
Speaker 2: That's also refreshing. There's something about it feels more like
Speaker 2: gen Zers coming in, even though it's only been one
Speaker 2: school year. Different. It feels like a new generation where
Speaker 2: they call things out. You have like postmodern gay on
Speaker 2: the show who's about to be the villain, and that
Speaker 2: all feels refreshing and very different, Like the show started
Speaker 2: with culture being one way, and because the show is
Speaker 2: on the air, we've now sort of like raised this
Speaker 2: other generation and then new kids coming on the show
Speaker 2: are written in a way to sort of display that
Speaker 2: teach us Yeah, which I really I really enjoy. But
Speaker 2: Jane eventually changes her mind and decides to audition with
Speaker 2: tightrope after having a one on one with Rachel who
Speaker 2: helps her figure out, you know, what she's going to
Speaker 2: do to audition, And that was a nice moment, like
Speaker 2: woman to woman because Rachel hasn't always been a girl's girl,
Speaker 2: but as.
Speaker 1: The teacher, I think she's taking on this new position
Speaker 1: of leadership where this is when you know they're still
Speaker 1: playing nice too, where she's like helping her audition for
Speaker 1: a different glee club that's going to be a competitor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she never was like a good girl's girl. She didn't
Speaker 1: always know how to connect that way, or other girls
Speaker 1: didn't know how to take her, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Yeah, Yeah, but yeah, that was a nice
Speaker 1: moment for them, and she's like helping her kind of
Speaker 1: figure out what's in her music playlist versus like what
Speaker 1: she should be singing.
Speaker 2: And she does tightrope, taking somebody's phone and going through it.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh god, yeah, we don't do that.
Speaker 1: We don't do no. It's like when you share your
Speaker 1: screen on Zoom, You're like, yes, yeah, anyway she does. So,
Speaker 1: so Jane performs tyrope. Wow.
Speaker 2: I remember the rehearsal. So we were rehearsing for something else,
Speaker 2: resumably take on me, but I remember Brooke and Zach
Speaker 2: talking about the tyrope. I was like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 2: know this. I love this, And so I remember like
Speaker 2: doing it with them because they were still working out
Speaker 2: the dance for it and we were talking about it.
Speaker 2: And that number was great though, and she sounds so good.
Speaker 2: She really really loved it. I want the twins to
Speaker 2: have their own like breakout moment, like yeah, they've gotten
Speaker 2: having this episode. But she's great. And then the Warblers
Speaker 2: are just you know, men are gonna men, Men are
Speaker 2: gonna men.
Speaker 1: And even though and then and Blaine goes out of
Speaker 1: his way and he's like, look, I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: say that, I'll quit and I'll leave and I'll put
Speaker 1: myself on the line for you. What we don't know
Speaker 1: is that we find out later. Obviously you mentioned Rachel.
Speaker 1: She's gonna go to rachel And says her parents, so
Speaker 1: she can transfer wherever she wants. And she doesn't want
Speaker 1: to join a group of like boys that won't like
Speaker 1: don't want her there, that she'll be like fighting for
Speaker 1: solo all the time anyway, which is kind of true.
Speaker 2: Completely fair, like when you know, when you know they
Speaker 2: don't want you, do you have to be exactly.
Speaker 1: So Jane AND's the friendly competition by joining McKinley, and
Speaker 1: so she is now part of the glee club. So
Speaker 1: it's her Roderick to start. And then we obviously get
Speaker 1: Madison and Me soon.
Speaker 2: And speaking of Jane, Sue has her. She's back to
Speaker 2: her old ways. I don't think she ever stopped. She's
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how now to dismantle the glee
Speaker 2: club again because legally, through the school district, she can't
Speaker 2: do anything. They're independently funded, like everything is by the book, right,
Speaker 2: And so she decides to recruit postmodern gay Spencer's being
Speaker 2: recruited won by the glee club. He has a great
Speaker 2: scene with Kurt and Kurt's like, I have a modern
Speaker 2: family to think, which I also thought was that's probably
Speaker 2: my favorite lie in the entire episode, A little meta meta.
Speaker 2: It's incredible, and you know all of his points about
Speaker 2: like I am not like you. We don't like the
Speaker 2: same things, so the only thing we have in common
Speaker 2: is that we're both gay, Like that is it? Why
Speaker 2: do they send you to recruit me? And then sus
Speaker 2: Sylvester calls him in and is like, sees the evil
Speaker 2: potential in him? And I like this because Sue's not homophobic,
Speaker 2: She's just evil all around to everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, equal opportunity for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and tries to talk him into it and enticing
Speaker 2: him with a Tom Brady fleshlight and he doesn't like it,
Speaker 2: and he's like, do better, and she respects that. And
Speaker 2: I think Marshall is doing a really good job going
Speaker 2: up against Chaine Lynch. That is not an easy gig.
Speaker 1: It's not an easy gig. I like it to shape
Speaker 1: with Marinkay. I like this. I like this a lot.
Speaker 1: I I like Spencer too, Like, I like this is
Speaker 1: not so easy, you know what I mean? She has
Speaker 1: sides of it, like obviously the club wants him obviously Jane.
Speaker 1: You know, Sue Sylvester wants to recruit it, but I
Speaker 1: really like this. It's not so and of course we're
Speaker 1: going to get him, but it's okay.
Speaker 2: It's a good it's a great little setup. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: and we haven't seen it's always been like female cheerios
Speaker 2: with Sue and like the right, yeah, put a put
Speaker 2: a gay in there. If you really want to scheme?
Speaker 1: Can we talk about Becky's.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy she's there.
Speaker 1: He too. It's not the same without her, and the
Speaker 1: xylophone's back, which is like the grease thing, and she's
Speaker 1: doing the she's in charge, she's bringing her taser. She's
Speaker 1: gonna drop anyone.
Speaker 2: Who's like her and Jane are so good together and
Speaker 2: she like and four and she rips the thing out
Speaker 2: of her hands. It's like they're just so good together.
Speaker 1: So good and uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean a lot happened. That's like they
Speaker 2: did a lot in a short amount of time, and
Speaker 2: it feels it felt well paced. I just I think
Speaker 2: what everybody is saying about these new characters in this season,
Speaker 2: I see it what I so, I'm excited about it
Speaker 2: because the setup feels pretty good. What I don't love,
Speaker 2: on like a technical standpoint, is like how the show
Speaker 2: sort of looks. It looks like very bright, Like we
Speaker 2: went from shooting sort of it was dark and on
Speaker 2: film the first two seasons looked really cool. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: now just I think it looks a little.
Speaker 1: Right, okaed Yeah, you know, the more I think we've
Speaker 1: talked about, like the more I talk about it, and
Speaker 1: like the more we dive into it, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it wasn't so bad. And I don't think this episode
Speaker 1: was bad by any means. I really enjoyed a lot
Speaker 1: of it. They were just moments that I was like,
Speaker 1: we could have moved a little bit faster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially I mean our show moves fast, so you
Speaker 2: do notice that like when it doesn't you're used to
Speaker 2: a certain pace.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, totally. Maybe I'm just like adjusting to the
Speaker 1: like new norm of Glee where it's like not as
Speaker 1: many people, but don't worry, it'll come back. Uh Okay,
Speaker 1: Well that's pretty much the episode in a nutshell.
Speaker 2: I want to know what you guys listening, what you
Speaker 2: guys think of this episode, yeah, and the interest especially
Speaker 2: to last time this happened, or what.
Speaker 1: You thought about these guys pre watching the whole season six?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? What would be initial thoughts?
Speaker 1: Can you know compared to at the end. Let's write
Speaker 1: some performances.
Speaker 2: Okay, take on me. I'll give it an AIM minus
Speaker 2: tightrope A plus yeah, probably problem a.
Speaker 1: A US think Sally A plus A.
Speaker 2: Plus home A minus minus. Yeah, I mean budget. We
Speaker 2: had fireworks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I was around for that part.
Speaker 2: We were, we were, We're in the shot.
Speaker 1: This is fair. It's funny because I remember something, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember everything.
Speaker 2: That's why I was like, wait, you and I are
Speaker 2: in the very back, very behind us.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's very very late at night.
Speaker 2: It was, and I think you and I were probably
Speaker 2: just like sleepy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally okay, uh a, Tarti takes some cringe. Okay,
Speaker 1: well obviously the tea party Patriot Club. It's very cringing.
Speaker 1: And it's actually the cringiest thing is that it's so
Speaker 1: relevant still, yeah, more relevant than ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gross, Artie wasn't great this episode. Drawing Quinn's boobs
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were drawing Quinn's boobs right, It was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: that is like past the line, like you always like
Speaker 1: toe the line is already, but like this one passed
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh yeah it was. It was very strange.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, calling sugar hot like it was just not well,
Speaker 2: sugar is hot.
Speaker 1: I don't think that was cringe as much as I think, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a pattern of behavior that is not acceptable.
Speaker 1: Already agree, yes, best dance move problem I oh right problem?
Speaker 2: Oh tightropepe too. I'm going to say problem, there's cheerios.
Speaker 2: I miss a cheerio on that long beach.
Speaker 1: Remember, yes, exactly. Best song.
Speaker 2: I mean like I lost Sally.
Speaker 1: But I think most thing Seally wins. Agreed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I also really loved home, Like what a great
Speaker 2: song for that. They nailed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked it. Okay, Uh performance by prop.
Speaker 2: That frame that we carried around.
Speaker 1: Also the golf cart, you know, so behind the scenes moment,
Speaker 1: uh leah, that golf cart, Like do you remember the
Speaker 1: golf carts? The user drive us all over the place
Speaker 1: on in those on the paramount lot. If you step
Speaker 1: on the gas too hard, it's a very jerky step
Speaker 1: like it it accelerates really fast. And they did one
Speaker 1: take where they started moving the golf cart and Leah
Speaker 1: fell off the golf cart, like off the back completely. Yep,
Speaker 1: she was fine, by the way, Yeah, okay, best line.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of really good lines. I think
Speaker 2: that one for me about from Spencer about my family
Speaker 2: his whole like monologue during that scene. Also, it was
Speaker 2: very very good, very good.
Speaker 1: I also liked the to your journal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's sorry I found it. Look, you're naive
Speaker 2: if you don't think you're standing on our shoulders. Okay,
Speaker 2: you owe the Glee Club, please, I owe Modern Family.
Speaker 1: Brittany saying if you want to get Blaine back, first
Speaker 1: you promised him you're gonna burn all your clothing until
Speaker 1: you're gonna start asking like a normal person. And then
Speaker 1: I think you should really start getting honest with him
Speaker 1: about following your life's the ambition, which is becoming America's
Speaker 1: top Barbara push impersonator. And then also when Brittany says
Speaker 1: that's Quinn.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, liar. Also when Sam says Quinn had
Speaker 2: sex with the Latina lesbian and they run out, and
Speaker 2: that's fully Diana just cackling like that's not Quinn laughing,
Speaker 2: that's Diana performance MVP.
Speaker 1: I think it was really good in this episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also think honorable mention to the to the newbies.
Speaker 2: I think I'm just going to say the newbies, okay.
Speaker 1: Great, we love that.
Speaker 2: I think they really are.
Speaker 1: Both are important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they held their own you know, not easy. No,
Speaker 2: maybe we're just not intimidating. Maybe that's what it is. Okay,
Speaker 2: should we found on TikTok Jenna. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know how much I love Legos, but I do.
Speaker 2: And this combines my love of Legos and mine and
Speaker 2: the people's love of Run Joey Run and Lego Gleek,
Speaker 2: which I cannot believe exists. Did a full reenactment.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing, but you can't hear it because I have
Speaker 1: no voice.
Speaker 2: But they built McKinley and recreated the music video and
Speaker 2: Lego form.
Speaker 1: This is so funny, this account. It's hilarious.
Speaker 2: So the comments are so good. Babe, wake up, Lego
Speaker 2: Run Joy run to this drop. This should be a
Speaker 2: exam or something.
Speaker 1: Funny. Stop the violence they do when they with the
Speaker 1: Quinn and Santa. Yes, oh my god, this is really good.
Speaker 2: Is that unbelievable?
Speaker 1: Oh? I love it?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. They have to blame it on the alcohol.
Speaker 2: Hold on the girt's wearing a cape.
Speaker 1: I yeah, this is so funny. Mm hmmm, I'm dead wow,
Speaker 1: And of course ran. Honestly, this is the best version
Speaker 1: of Reno I run.
Speaker 2: Oh, so we found one that you like, I like it,
Speaker 2: or that you don't hate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: That is beautiful work.
Speaker 1: That is really good, really really wow.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: People are so talented and have so much time on
Speaker 2: their hands. I mean, god, that's not it. That's not
Speaker 2: even a drag. I mean I have so much time
Speaker 2: on my hands. I don't do anything with it.
Speaker 1: Exactly, it's like productive. Well, thanks for coming along for
Speaker 1: this ride. Rye had zero voice and where Kevin is
Speaker 1: completely jet lagged, but managed to hold hold himself up
Speaker 1: the whole time. This was part two of season the
Speaker 1: season six opener, and we're off to the races on
Speaker 1: season six. Let's do this.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for next episode. You know that Carol King
Speaker 2: episode we didn't know existent.
Speaker 1: I can't with that. We're just we're insane.
Speaker 2: Go do your throat coat tea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna speak for the rest of the day.
Speaker 2: Perfect. How does that work with two little kids?
Speaker 1: That's the best thing ever. Mommy can't talk. I know.
Speaker 1: I said to her today, mommy lost her voice. Last night,
Speaker 1: I said, mommy lost her voice. She has to go
Speaker 1: to sleep now. And this morning she said, mommy's voice
Speaker 1: came back. I said, kind She said, where did mommy's
Speaker 1: voice go? It's gone.
Speaker 2: It's so cute now.
Speaker 1: I know. It's like it's like pure pan shadow or something. Anyway,
Speaker 1: there's a children's book in that Mommy lost her voice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a Little Mermaid versus a ticket. Come on, okay, anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for joining us, you guys.
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