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Speaker 1: miss and that's what you really missed with Jenna and
Speaker 1: Kevin and I Heart Radio Podcast. Welcome to you, and
Speaker 1: that's what you really missed. I am Jenna, I am Kevin.
Speaker 1: Welcome back for another week. Here we are getting into
Speaker 1: one of our most talked about episodes amongst each other.
Speaker 1: Do you care to elaborate on that? Kevin um, this
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily our favorite episode, but you brought up a
Speaker 1: good point, which was watching it again, how did you feel? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this week is Acafellas, right, and you're coming off of
Speaker 1: the high of the Pilot and Showman's, which are two
Speaker 1: excellent episodes. As Chris said, he likes Showman's more than
Speaker 1: the pilot, so it was up there. So then you
Speaker 1: come you get to Acafellas and you're like wow. And
Speaker 1: that's the way I had it in my mind, But
Speaker 1: watching it this morning, I had a very different feeling. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't love the actual storyline of of the Aqua Fellas.
Speaker 1: The other parts of this are um so great and
Speaker 1: it's like the beginning of Kirk coming out and it's
Speaker 1: the beginning of you know, Sue and the Cheerio is
Speaker 1: kind of like infiltrating the Gale Club, And so I
Speaker 1: felt very differently than I thought I would after watching
Speaker 1: this whole episode. Do you think it's because we're older
Speaker 1: now and I remember back then like this episode is
Speaker 1: all about the adults. I do remember that as well,
Speaker 1: Like we would watch some of the episodes and we'd
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, get to our part. Yeah, maybe that's
Speaker 1: what it is. We appreciate a more well rounded story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: before we get into it, let's talk about the state
Speaker 1: of the world when this episode aired. So this episode
Speaker 1: aired on September six nine. I think we were all
Speaker 1: in Australia for the first time. We flew to Australia.
Speaker 1: We had two big um press events. Um it was
Speaker 1: in Sney when Sydney went in Melbourne and it was
Speaker 1: the first time I ever went to a strip club.
Speaker 1: Remember that we pay We sang karaoke. I don't remember that,
Speaker 1: but I do remember karaoke. Oh yeah, we went. We
Speaker 1: we landed in Melbourne, Australia and went straight to a
Speaker 1: strip club. Did I go with you? I think so.
Speaker 1: It was very early, the sun was still up, that's right.
Speaker 1: We went out. It was raining. We got on the
Speaker 1: train um to get down somewhere and there was a
Speaker 1: big newspaper with Glee on the coffins. We were like
Speaker 1: that it was very weird, but really really cool. It
Speaker 1: was our first trip out of the country for the show,
Speaker 1: and the reception was very very warm, I mean why
Speaker 1: pretty unbelievable. So in both cities, Sydney and Melbourn, and
Speaker 1: we went to these events and again it's like two
Speaker 1: episodes in and we're like, oh, you know, we would
Speaker 1: be some signing, some autographs, meeting some fans. Thousands of
Speaker 1: kids showed up, thousands dressed like us, dressed in school uniforms.
Speaker 1: It was um and it wasn't It was like jarring
Speaker 1: and shocking. I think to us it was also because
Speaker 1: you were like, why you know it was it was
Speaker 1: like the first taste I think, and it wasn't in
Speaker 1: our on our terps. So it was really um. It
Speaker 1: felt different and it was sort of the first time,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better word, that we were treated
Speaker 1: or experience things. I guess for me that felt like
Speaker 1: we were sort of becoming known where we I don't
Speaker 1: know when we got to do things they when we
Speaker 1: got to do the Sydney Harbor Bridge climb, Like we
Speaker 1: autographed things and they put on a wall with all
Speaker 1: these other famous people were still up on that wall,
Speaker 1: by the way. So if you to Sydney and you
Speaker 1: go do the bridge climb, um our photo is there?
Speaker 1: Fun fact? Are you going to say it? We were
Speaker 1: out the night before till god knows when the morning,
Speaker 1: and um, I we all were partying like crazy and
Speaker 1: the next morning we get to the bridge climb or
Speaker 1: we're in the I'm in the hotel room getting ready
Speaker 1: and we get a call from the pr from Fox.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, you guys, just you know, like excited
Speaker 1: for the bridge climb. Just want to let you know.
Speaker 1: You get there, you sign your release forms and then
Speaker 1: you take breathalyzer test and you go up and I'm like,
Speaker 1: breathalyzer test. We um. I text Kevin. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: the hell we do? I think I'm still drunk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were all definitely still drunk wasted. And then we
Speaker 1: were looking at tips on how to shoved peanut butter
Speaker 1: hash browns what I read, but I know I didn't either.
Speaker 1: We tried to find peanut butter but we couldn't and
Speaker 1: then we ordered I remember we ordered like room services
Speaker 1: browns and shoved hash browns down our throats hoping that
Speaker 1: like it would soak up the rest of the alcohol.
Speaker 1: So these photos of us were actually like I had
Speaker 1: my sunglasses on, it was the sun, and it was
Speaker 1: also because I was wildly hungover. We had we had
Speaker 1: had a great night that we were really you know,
Speaker 1: kids living it up like. It was definitely that sort
Speaker 1: of trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and taking care of pretty well.
Speaker 1: We also shout out to the Fox International people like
Speaker 1: Pam Jackson, what incredible correct, We'll we'll have to talk
Speaker 1: to Pam at some point, but she um would take
Speaker 1: us on these trips. I don't know how she did it,
Speaker 1: because we were all over the place and crazy and
Speaker 1: going out and she had to make sure that we
Speaker 1: were on time and doing you know, the professional things
Speaker 1: we were obligated to do, but while also enjoying our downtime.
Speaker 1: It's noble and Pam Jackson is just a ray of sunshine,
Speaker 1: and she would. She took Jen and I many places
Speaker 1: around the world after that, and so I feel very
Speaker 1: very thankful. Stories we'll share those threads, Okay, so um,
Speaker 1: we we digressed quite a bit back to what's happen
Speaker 1: because that trip was monumental for us. It was it
Speaker 1: was it was the number one song in the country.
Speaker 1: Was I got a feeling by the Black Eyed Peas
Speaker 1: hands down sends memory. I can hear that song in
Speaker 1: my bones. I mean, like we've said it before and
Speaker 1: we'll say it again, I'm sure. But Black Eyed Peas,
Speaker 1: because this album was out and these songs are out
Speaker 1: at that time, and we were coming up at the
Speaker 1: same time, we were doing everything together basically, every award show,
Speaker 1: every appearance, even trips we took. They were always there
Speaker 1: for it. Yep, yeah, yeah, we're on the same plane
Speaker 1: with them, you guys again. Um. It was also when
Speaker 1: this aired. Um, it was the week of the Emmys,
Speaker 1: but it was too early for us to be nominated
Speaker 1: for anything. We were only airing our third episode. Let's
Speaker 1: get into the episode yet, Yeah, let's do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Kevin, I think Kevin and I were chatting and
Speaker 1: I like to try we'd like to try something with
Speaker 1: you guys. We'd like to try a recap format and
Speaker 1: and you can tell us if you hate it, but
Speaker 1: I think we should try this. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: have these hour long shows are structured into three acts,
Speaker 1: but also three main storylines. Do you have your A
Speaker 1: storyline your B storyline and you see storyline and sort
Speaker 1: of order of importance or screen time is A, B
Speaker 1: and C um they're tiered in that way. So we
Speaker 1: thought we maybe we talked about it in that way
Speaker 1: because there are so many of us in every single
Speaker 1: episode that to talk about the main plot points of
Speaker 1: some of these A, B and C storylines and go
Speaker 1: at it like that and then give you some of
Speaker 1: our bts and memories because I think that's more fun
Speaker 1: to talk about anyway. All right, so let's try it,
Speaker 1: um all right? So in Aca fellas um in the
Speaker 1: A storyline, Will is inspired, if you will, by his
Speaker 1: failure to um go after his dreams as a performer.
Speaker 1: As Quinn said, like did you ever audition after like
Speaker 1: after school or like perform or did you even try?
Speaker 1: Which like that Delirie was great. Um. So Will's parents
Speaker 1: are also in town, which Victor Garber and Deborah Monk
Speaker 1: like this is the beginning of like the big names,
Speaker 1: you know, movie stars, TV stars where you're like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Also someone so didn't see them, you didn't
Speaker 1: get to work exactly. And also someone that like on
Speaker 1: the show. We weren't privy to this knowledge or these
Speaker 1: conversations that these people were going to be coming on
Speaker 1: the show, So it was shocking to us to get
Speaker 1: to work and you see their name on a call sheet,
Speaker 1: like Victor Garber, what is he doing here? Mr Andrews.
Speaker 1: Mr Andrews. And then Debora Monk, who also like another
Speaker 1: like queen of comedy, who also is forever embedded in
Speaker 1: my mind as um uh the mother in Center Stage.
Speaker 1: That's right, I don't ever forget it. Obviously an iconic movie. Well,
Speaker 1: they are encouraging MAT's We're sorry Mr Show's behavior, um
Speaker 1: because like by saying how proud they are and he
Speaker 1: should go after what he wants and um so Mr
Speaker 1: Shoe ends up starting a boy band. Yes, And I
Speaker 1: feel like this might have been inspired by the fact
Speaker 1: that all that was talked about in the press for
Speaker 1: a minute was that Matt was previously in a boy band.
Speaker 1: That's right, you think that's right? I think so. And
Speaker 1: I also think it was a really good way for
Speaker 1: us to get some, like I said, like adult screen time,
Speaker 1: to see some of these adult characters that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen that much of in the first two episodes and
Speaker 1: see their talents and ability to power a bamboo and
Speaker 1: tanaka Will Schuster And also who John play was a
Speaker 1: guest star, John Lloyd Young, who was dating Lea at
Speaker 1: the time. It's not the reason he got on the show.
Speaker 1: I mean he was a Tony Award winning um actor
Speaker 1: in a hit Broadway musical. He just happened to also
Speaker 1: be Leah's boyfriend at the time. So and around us Yeah,
Speaker 1: um so John John Lloyd Young in there as well.
Speaker 1: Um so the Acapollas do so well. Mr Print Principal
Speaker 1: Figgins sees their performance at that like dive bar where
Speaker 1: Emma Pillsbury is just swaring living and they perform at
Speaker 1: the PTA event where the one and only Josh Groban
Speaker 1: is going to come and um that's thanks to Sandy Ryerson.
Speaker 1: I mean also, I also love that in the middle
Speaker 1: of this storyline that the boy band sort of starts
Speaker 1: to break apart, where you have the Howard bambooze that
Speaker 1: was never my dream. Cantonaka is the pressure is on,
Speaker 1: yeah and saying you know, like this really gets my
Speaker 1: girlfriend going in the in the bedroom. And that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the why I think his motivation for
Speaker 1: hanging on to this this boy band if you will, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and to keep it together. They recruit Finton
Speaker 1: and Puck to be in this thing, and so then
Speaker 1: also it's like how did they get away with They
Speaker 1: performed at the PTA meeting, which is like in a
Speaker 1: full auditorium with full lighting and stage design. Um, and
Speaker 1: students and teachers are performing. I want to sex you up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, it's a different time. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I remember them um filming this and um,
Speaker 1: were you there, Kevin, I don't have any memory of
Speaker 1: this note I don't see. I don't think you were then.
Speaker 1: I think it was mainly the girls and um, I
Speaker 1: do remember Cris being there, but I don't remember they
Speaker 1: kept the straight straight boys away. Um no, because because
Speaker 1: Puck and Finn were in the performance. That's right, I
Speaker 1: was the only one not there, which we have to
Speaker 1: talk about. Why you also didn't visit with local adrenal
Speaker 1: and artist just like missing from this episode. But um,
Speaker 1: we were there in law Manhattan Beach. We shot this
Speaker 1: where the p t A performance was and I remember
Speaker 1: hearing the music and them and we didn't get to
Speaker 1: see them. Re her sisters all at all, so we
Speaker 1: didn't really get to see them performed. But I remember
Speaker 1: meeting Josh Groban, um, being very star struck. I was
Speaker 1: very jealous about that. I listened to his music all
Speaker 1: throughout high school. I mean just we sang you raised
Speaker 1: me up at my high school graduation. Know he was
Speaker 1: doing the song for the Polar Express. Josh Grobn was gigantic.
Speaker 1: He was easily selling four or five million albums per album,
Speaker 1: just rolling them out, like come on, jeez. And then
Speaker 1: you know we have finite high school boys performing with
Speaker 1: teachers in a very inappropriate PTA performance. Um. And also
Speaker 1: then Josh Grobin comes in with a wonderful, wonderful subplot
Speaker 1: of Sandy Ryerson's promise. You know, Josh Groban to be
Speaker 1: there because their pen pals, but Josh Grobin actually is
Speaker 1: serving him some papers and also asking him to stop
Speaker 1: stalking a restraining order, and it's I do love how
Speaker 1: everyone is there and everyone is so awkward and uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and even Victor Garber, you know, at the end, which
Speaker 1: is really sweet scene with Matt about he inspired me
Speaker 1: to go back to school and like, I'm sorry about
Speaker 1: Josh Cobn. I do just how weird Josh Groban playing
Speaker 1: himself on it. Fun fact, he said he was in
Speaker 1: Ohio because he was inducting Run Teams into the Rock
Speaker 1: and Roll Hall of Fame. He actually didn't in real life,
Speaker 1: but Run Teams he did get inducted into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame that year, so there's a little credibility to that.
Speaker 1: It was Eminem not you know, when you think of
Speaker 1: Eminem you also think of Josh Grobin, so it does
Speaker 1: make sense. Sure. I also this is um Also the
Speaker 1: episode we're will point out that Emma mentions John Stamos
Speaker 1: for the first time, right, which I'm sure it was
Speaker 1: influenced whether they knew or not that they wanted John Stamos,
Speaker 1: I'm sure to play to be a part of the
Speaker 1: show at some point. I'm sure that was a Ryan
Speaker 1: thing that was like, let's or it was inspired by
Speaker 1: and they're like later in life, they're like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: get let's get John. Maybe it's that's sort of like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's make a character like Jane Lynch. Oh, let's just
Speaker 1: Jane Lynch, fair enough. Maybe it's that trying to articulate
Speaker 1: thank you, you know for that. Yeah, and um Stamy
Speaker 1: does join later. I mean I did love I I
Speaker 1: like seeing the boys do some questionable dancing and singing,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty it was uncomfortably straight. Yes, is right.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why we don't like it. Maybe that's it's
Speaker 1: like always in every Broadway show there's like one dad song,
Speaker 1: you know, a thousand per set, and the Aka Fella
Speaker 1: storyline is the Dad Dad song. VI, it's the glove song.
Speaker 1: And I'm nailing hammer on head. There you go. Alright,
Speaker 1: so let's talk. Let's talk about the let's get to
Speaker 1: the good. What are we doing this episode? So Glee
Speaker 1: clubs upset because Shoe is not a good choreographer and
Speaker 1: we hated his song in the last episode, the song Choys.
Speaker 1: We hate his choreography. We just hate Mr Sho. He's outdated,
Speaker 1: you know, And we're well, Rachel's got some motives. She's
Speaker 1: trying to win, and she's upset about she knows that
Speaker 1: what he's giving us is not going to happen. So
Speaker 1: people want scheming. We get some scheming from the Cheerios,
Speaker 1: Sue and Quinn and Santana, which we get to see
Speaker 1: so much more of Nia in this episode, and some
Speaker 1: very good nuggets of comedic brilliance from her excellence excellence. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: I do love I feel like you know, as the
Speaker 1: show progresses, you get less of the Diana and Nia
Speaker 1: dynamic in this form, and they are so good together.
Speaker 1: They're very, very funny, and like I just love Early Quinn,
Speaker 1: Early see Antana, who are like millions of Sue like
Speaker 1: it's shows. It's so quintessential to this, like villain versus
Speaker 1: the nerd in school and I love that cliche and
Speaker 1: I love that, you know, like Sue get was these
Speaker 1: high school kids things to do, some mischievous plots to
Speaker 1: pull off, but then like high school things happen and
Speaker 1: they get distracted, like, well, we tried to do that,
Speaker 1: but you know, so and so is mad at this person,
Speaker 1: so we couldn't do it. Um, So they set up
Speaker 1: to hire Um, Dakota Stanley to Stanley, you're Stanley up. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I got hired Dakoda Stanley to choreograph because he choreographs
Speaker 1: are vocal adrenaline and the whole thing here is that
Speaker 1: he is so intense and so good that the new
Speaker 1: directions will never be able to cut it and will falter.
Speaker 1: So I remember shooting these scenes with whit Herford, who
Speaker 1: played Dakota Stanley hilarious. Um, we were cracking. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: one with all of us where he's like criticizing us.
Speaker 1: But earlier on we go to UM we go on
Speaker 1: location and I remember shooting this with Um Kurd and
Speaker 1: we're say, this is where you kind of set up
Speaker 1: the Kurt's car with the Lincoln and you know him
Speaker 1: driving that car and UM, there was a last scene
Speaker 1: of the night that we shot with him in the convertible,
Speaker 1: UM getting in the car and we had like run
Speaker 1: out of time, and it was like one of the
Speaker 1: first times I think I realized like, oh, you can't
Speaker 1: like really go over without like costing a lot of
Speaker 1: money to the production. UM. And I think we did
Speaker 1: that in like one take. I think that was like
Speaker 1: a very very rushed thing. And I remember having a
Speaker 1: line and being so excited that I finally had a
Speaker 1: line and I got I think I got to do
Speaker 1: it once and I was like that's it, that's it. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, another incredible vocal a journal performance. I mean
Speaker 1: I never I just love when they put them in
Speaker 1: the air and then they get on the floor and
Speaker 1: it was just like, God, they're so good. Um. Fun fact,
Speaker 1: the girl in vocal Adrenaline outside by the garbage cans
Speaker 1: who is holding um the other dancers hair back is
Speaker 1: Shelby Shum, who is or was at the time Harry's girlfriend,
Speaker 1: but now they are married with a child, and you know,
Speaker 1: and she's a friend of ours. But that is Shelby
Speaker 1: Shum that we get to see, one of the best
Speaker 1: people on the planet. And then also, Kevin, did you
Speaker 1: know that Dakota Stanley was actually Cheyenne Jackson was supposed
Speaker 1: to play Dakota Stanley? What so he was supposed to
Speaker 1: play to go to Stanley? And I texted him this
Speaker 1: morning because I was like, I feel like I know this,
Speaker 1: like he was supposed to play this role. Um, he responded,
Speaker 1: and I started to read you the text, let me
Speaker 1: get it. So I wrote him a voice I said,
Speaker 1: I sent him a voice message and he said, I said,
Speaker 1: did you was it true that you were supposed to
Speaker 1: play Dakota Stanley? He said, hey, hey, yes, that is true. Um,
Speaker 1: I was supposed to play that part. Um. Actually I
Speaker 1: traveled to l A. I had my fitting and I
Speaker 1: got the flu and I was so sick. He was
Speaker 1: like insanity at the time. He was doing Broadway at
Speaker 1: the time, so a poor guy. I was lying on
Speaker 1: the floor in the costume shop and it was lu
Speaker 1: Irick that came in and she was taking care of
Speaker 1: me and it was such a bummer. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: was my I thought my Glee moment was over until
Speaker 1: Ryan said, oh I have something else for you. Um,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, it is very very true. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: thank I he got to come back, I know, because
Speaker 1: you know, what a what a looker. It's a shame.
Speaker 1: He's not talented either. No, yeah, exactly, it's terribly terribly
Speaker 1: untalented and really ugly. So we'll have Hyanne on the podcast.
Speaker 1: He was also one of those people Broadway people. I
Speaker 1: didn't know who he was, and then I remember hearing
Speaker 1: him saying for the first time and just like, well,
Speaker 1: that's not humanly possible or fair, but exactly like what.
Speaker 1: So Sue also tries to get to pretty terrible success
Speaker 1: um Quinn and Santana to pick off the Glee club
Speaker 1: one by one to mess up their relationships, their morale,
Speaker 1: all that sort of thing, which brings us to sort
Speaker 1: of the sea plot of this episode, which is the
Speaker 1: best plot, the best plot where Mercedes is noticing that
Speaker 1: everybody's coupled up, and she in her bff kurt Um
Speaker 1: are seemingly close and friendly with one another. So Quentin
Speaker 1: and Santana swoop into encourage that love interaction, and it
Speaker 1: keeps happening, um until some of the new directions step
Speaker 1: in and be like, we're having a game engine. So
Speaker 1: the game engine was really fun to shoot, and I
Speaker 1: remember being so excited I got to say Lady Fabulous,
Speaker 1: hurts Lady Fabulous. Um. That was really Uh. We didn't
Speaker 1: have like attend to do in this episode, so it
Speaker 1: was really fun to shoot these little like one offs.
Speaker 1: But um, we were very involved in this Bust Your Windows.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like I was invested in this number.
Speaker 1: I mean basically, yeah, I think our memory of this
Speaker 1: is Bust Your Windows because coming into this show or
Speaker 1: the season, during the pilot, Amber and I had been
Speaker 1: talking about and I think it was Amber and Ryan
Speaker 1: they had been talking about Jasmine Sullivan. Somehow came up.
Speaker 1: Amber and I were gigantic fans of Jasmine Sullivan. Um,
Speaker 1: it was her first album had just come out and
Speaker 1: Buster Windows was the single, and it was the first
Speaker 1: time he sort of listened to what we were saying
Speaker 1: about the music and put it into the show and
Speaker 1: then gave her this gigantic and in sane performance that
Speaker 1: I love that It ends with you broke my car,
Speaker 1: You broke my heart, You broke my heart. It's so
Speaker 1: and I do you like we all went and watched
Speaker 1: we I mean I feel like we we watched every rehearsal,
Speaker 1: We watched this being filmed, like this was this was
Speaker 1: it for us. This was like our first music video moment.
Speaker 1: Also story wise, leading up to this, you know, after
Speaker 1: the gay invention and the plotting by the Cheerios, Mercedes finally,
Speaker 1: you know, addresses it with Kurt, and Kurt says that
Speaker 1: he's in love with somebody else and on camera we
Speaker 1: see he's looking at Finn, but then Rachel comes into
Speaker 1: frame and he just says, it's Rachel. And at this
Speaker 1: car wash. Were you at this car wash? I think
Speaker 1: we were. Yes, we were. We were at the car wash,
Speaker 1: but like we were, I was watching something, but I
Speaker 1: was definitely more concerned, more hidden behind the car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was just really focused on learning the choreography. Yes,
Speaker 1: very professional of me, yes, yes, yes. And so Mercedes
Speaker 1: launches into this whole number because she throws something through
Speaker 1: Kurt's windshield, his paper thin windshield. Yes. Absolutely, And some
Speaker 1: of our like BFF dancers were in this number. Hemo
Speaker 1: is in this number, Hanna Hannah who was Beyonce dancer. Um,
Speaker 1: it's truly like gangs all here between Vocal Journaline and
Speaker 1: buster Windows. It was every dancer ever And I was
Speaker 1: like yelling at the TV of this morning again. I
Speaker 1: was so excited to hear, and we did that on tour.
Speaker 1: She came out and an escalate on tour. I was
Speaker 1: getting ready during this number, so I never really got
Speaker 1: to see as much as I probably would have liked UM,
Speaker 1: but this was, Yeah, it's a highlight for me. And
Speaker 1: then and then it leads us to the really nice
Speaker 1: scene where Mercedes apologizes for throwing you know, busting his
Speaker 1: windows and um throwing something in his Lincoln and that's
Speaker 1: I cheered up and Kurt comes out. Cheered up when
Speaker 1: Kurt came out, And that was a really big deal
Speaker 1: because that wasn't seen on TV on network TV especially
Speaker 1: hardly ever, and I think for a teen to do it,
Speaker 1: UM was also a huge deal and to have that
Speaker 1: supported in such a big way like if you're on
Speaker 1: network TV. Back then it was like that was your
Speaker 1: way of being exposed to as many viewers as possible,
Speaker 1: or like TV has changed, you know, the landscape has changed.
Speaker 1: But back then that was a very very big deal. Um.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to, um, make sure we didn't miss
Speaker 1: Kevin that there is shirtless shoe in this episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you have a time stamp on that? I do
Speaker 1: what I do? It is seven minutes and fifty three seconds.
Speaker 1: Are we like three for three? Shirt? Listen every episode
Speaker 1: so far thousand per cent. He's um making out Terry
Speaker 1: talking about like how being in a boy man was
Speaker 1: doing wonders while we know that Terry is actually just
Speaker 1: trying to actually get pregnant, you know, as you do
Speaker 1: take your shirt off in addition to bust your windows.
Speaker 1: I I skipped over this before. But going back to
Speaker 1: probably my second favorite scene to shoot was the choir
Speaker 1: room seeing where we are getting berated and insulted in
Speaker 1: every horrible way by Dakota Stanley. Um, but I remember
Speaker 1: when we shot that, Um, we were having such a
Speaker 1: hard time not breaking the hardest. This was also a
Speaker 1: night shoot, like or late at night. I remember it
Speaker 1: was like one of our last things up and it
Speaker 1: was really hard and he was actually like, wait, was
Speaker 1: holding it together so simple, like not a wink, didn't blink. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're trying to but it's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he was professional, we were not.
Speaker 1: We could and he was just spitting out these insults
Speaker 1: and these things. I also feel like, um, when Leah
Speaker 1: walks up to him at the end, when they sort
Speaker 1: of realized that the glee club realized that they don't
Speaker 1: need him, that what's special about them is that they're
Speaker 1: different and they're not never going to be and this
Speaker 1: is important to remember going forward. One thing is that
Speaker 1: New Directions is aware that they will never be as
Speaker 1: good dancers as Vocal Adrenaline, So when we start competing
Speaker 1: against one another, that makes more sense. And also when
Speaker 1: before she storms out says like and I'm taller than you,
Speaker 1: I feel like that must have been and I have it.
Speaker 1: I think it probably was because she She would do
Speaker 1: that a lot at the end of scenes, and they
Speaker 1: were usually pretty funny, very funny. Um. Also, that was
Speaker 1: the first time we heard Franquantine. You remember that dragging
Speaker 1: your knuckles on the cropt and Frankintine was Corey's Twitter
Speaker 1: handle in the beginning, um, before all of us like
Speaker 1: decided to go back to our regular names, which Kevin
Speaker 1: can't because somebody has his handle anyway. Um um. And
Speaker 1: and then we get to my favorite scene of the
Speaker 1: whole show episode what's favorite Sue was office Kevin, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Um No, Sue is angry at the Cheerios
Speaker 1: Quinn and Santana for um not succeeding in bringing down
Speaker 1: the Glee Club so that she can get her budget
Speaker 1: back up and um right, and and this is the
Speaker 1: suit quote which will make it into tarty takes because
Speaker 1: this is this is the quote of the episode. I'm
Speaker 1: going to ask you to smell your armpits. That's the
Speaker 1: smell of failure and it's stinking up my office. And
Speaker 1: then Naya brilliantly, brilliantly crying and running out because she
Speaker 1: gets her tanning boot. Um tanning privilege, tanning privileges so good.
Speaker 1: I also love and that scene to where sus watching
Speaker 1: videos of her Cheerios on the TV doing performances, just
Speaker 1: replaying factor. There are also some really speaking of great
Speaker 1: quotes anytime um Will Schuster's mother opened her mouth. Um, oh,
Speaker 1: Debor Monk with the Debor Monk and Josh grow up
Speaker 1: at the end and she's I've maybe never seen a
Speaker 1: better drunk performance. You know, it is hard to play
Speaker 1: drunk successfully. And she was very good, excellent. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is a masterclass. I didn't have to show my bosoms.
Speaker 1: Why didn't I just get up to the mic and
Speaker 1: grab mite? Did where are your boobies? They're they're melting away. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I asked that because Kevin has boobs from RuPaul's drag Race.
Speaker 1: That's where I asked where your boobies were? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we should do speaking of it, we should do a
Speaker 1: little Should we do a mini episode about our experience
Speaker 1: on drag Race? Yeah, we let us know, people, let
Speaker 1: us know, let us know if you want to hear
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, and then go bug Brooklyn Heights and
Speaker 1: money exchange and to come on it. Yeah all right, um,
Speaker 1: And that's the episode that is no, not so bad.
Speaker 1: And I it was fun that they played with the dynamics.
Speaker 1: There is less Sue in this episode. There's less of
Speaker 1: the kids, but it is nice. Just every once in
Speaker 1: a while, you gotta break it up, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really I did enjoy seeing like Howard bambooing in
Speaker 1: and like Kender Knoka and everybody. I think, just like
Speaker 1: Jennifer Aspen's character at Kendra. Howard Bamboo was also a
Speaker 1: fan favorite for us. We loved Howard Bam and also
Speaker 1: a singer like it sounded great in this episode. Right,
Speaker 1: that's right, he's really crushing it. Okay, tardy takes, Tarty takes.
Speaker 1: Um just a reminder for people, Uh, this is our
Speaker 1: version of superlatives. So we want to give you our
Speaker 1: takes each week on some of the following categories. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's start with the cringe moment. Honestly dancing, just
Speaker 1: the dancing, the straightness of the boy band. The Akafellas
Speaker 1: were the second hand embarrassment, but I think that was
Speaker 1: by design and it was beautifully done. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: yes it is intentional. Yeah, it also works for the
Speaker 1: worst dance move again, I mean anything anything they were doing.
Speaker 1: But I do have to point out, um, I remember
Speaker 1: when we watched this performance of I Want to Sex
Speaker 1: You Up. When Corey starts singing and he gets that
Speaker 1: little sly like I'm trying to be sexy face. We
Speaker 1: were such suckers for that because it was so good
Speaker 1: and it was so adorable and so funny. So that
Speaker 1: was one of my best like little moments of the
Speaker 1: episode because he sort of did that should intentionally, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was messing with us. What was your favorite song
Speaker 1: in this episode? Bust your windows out the gas viously obviously?
Speaker 1: Um what about the best line we we had that
Speaker 1: one to Yeah, smelling your armpits um and the best
Speaker 1: performance by a prop. I would say the vomit into
Speaker 1: the trash can? Does that count as a prop? Oh?
Speaker 1: I was going to say the rock that was hit
Speaker 1: into the windshield our powers combined. Okay, that's a solid episode.
Speaker 1: It's lum ship. That didn't age. Well. Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: But I think the whole Sandy Ryerson thing of like
Speaker 1: not being like is he allowed in the faculty faculty room?
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm just allowed fifty feet near children. It's
Speaker 1: it's like it doesn't work. It wouldn't work, but it's funny.
Speaker 1: It just wouldn't work in this day and age, and
Speaker 1: it's like, is it funny? I don't know. Am I
Speaker 1: going to get in trouble for that? I don't know. Also,
Speaker 1: it was it was funny because of how like uncomfortable
Speaker 1: and um improper. It was like we're like, oh, are
Speaker 1: we allowed to laugh at this? I don't know, right right, right,
Speaker 1: right right. I do have to say also, the like
Speaker 1: insults we got by um Dakota Stanley, those probably were
Speaker 1: not that that it's probably not gonna fly um. And
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, the thing that h well for me
Speaker 1: was like, it's still still works is like Kurt coming
Speaker 1: like the Kurt storyline of like coming out, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just that that sweet moment at the end. And
Speaker 1: something I really appreciated this time was, um, what Mercedes
Speaker 1: immediately said to him. Immediately, it was like, we are
Speaker 1: your people. You can trust the Glee Club to support
Speaker 1: you exactly who you are. You don't need to feel
Speaker 1: ashamed of that where everybody wants a friend like that
Speaker 1: and like what a great friend Mercedes was immediately to Kurt.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was also very very important to
Speaker 1: to show kids and adults of how to um treat
Speaker 1: the situation and also sets us up for you know,
Speaker 1: the Burton Kurt thing coming next episode. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I had to actually like pause the
Speaker 1: play it automatically went into pragers and I had to
Speaker 1: pause it, but I didn't want to because it's so good.
Speaker 1: I was saying honorable mention. Best quote was Josh Groban
Speaker 1: loves a blousie alcoholic. I love an honorable mention. They
Speaker 1: were just firing firing jokes off in these episodes, truly. Um, Jenna,
Speaker 1: I have a surprise for you. It's your favorite segment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ship we found on TikTok. Yes, give it to me. So, UM,
Speaker 1: there was this TikToker who pointed out that she wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily sure um if this was intentional or not, Like
Speaker 1: these were backhanded like credits that UM Ryan Murphy does
Speaker 1: on his show. So for example, in UM in the
Speaker 1: American Horror Story, he one of the credits some of
Speaker 1: people were like pale person number one, Pale Person number two.
Speaker 1: And then in Glee, she noticed that, Um, some of
Speaker 1: the Warblers were credited as UM super gay Warbler, Super
Speaker 1: gay Warblers, Super gay war There's a whole section of
Speaker 1: like Mason trub blood is he was in several episodes
Speaker 1: as super gay Warbler. And then there's someone else that
Speaker 1: was labeled as other really gay Warbler. So it turns
Speaker 1: out it's true and he does do that for that,
Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense to me because so
Speaker 1: you don't see this on the show obviously, but in
Speaker 1: the scripts, um, I feel like Ian would do this
Speaker 1: a lot, and the stage directions he would write in
Speaker 1: all these jokes and descriptions of people that would never
Speaker 1: be seen on camera. But we're just so funny it
Speaker 1: will make us crack up. So having characters named this
Speaker 1: for the resume funny. You know. I'm just still very
Speaker 1: impressed with people and how deep of a dive it go.
Speaker 1: Me too. That's why if you're on TikTok and you
Speaker 1: come across these things and you have questions, d m
Speaker 1: it to our account on TikTok, which is at that's
Speaker 1: what you really missed, and maybe we're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 1: We probably will, because we definitely will. This is fun
Speaker 1: and this is fun for me to surprise Jannat with this.
Speaker 1: This is a good I'm enjoying this. I'm enjoying not
Speaker 1: having to do it and and being told you're welcome,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Our incredible producers are coming through TikTok,
Speaker 1: so shout out to them for messing up their algorithms
Speaker 1: to discover these things. Um, well that is Acafella's for y'all. Um,
Speaker 1: how do I'm pleasantly surprised and taking accountability for the
Speaker 1: fact that, like I probably had lower expectations than I
Speaker 1: should have. And also that's super excited about Preggers next week.
Speaker 1: So come back next week and recap Preggers with us,
Speaker 1: and we have some really great Yes, yes, you might
Speaker 1: be able to guess it, you might not, um and
Speaker 1: what a what a treat Jenna? What a spoiler? Anytime? Anytime?
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