Speaker 1: And That's what you Really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: and I heart radio podcast. Welcome to you and That's
Speaker 1: what you Really missed podcast. I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and
Speaker 1: today we are talking all things Mattress Season one, episode twelve.
Speaker 1: Come on down to Mattress Land. Um. What a wild
Speaker 1: and crazy and memorable experience this episode was. I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed this episode though, watching it or shooting it or
Speaker 1: both both both. I enjoyed watching more than I thought
Speaker 1: I would. There's a lot that happens, and we're in
Speaker 1: a lot of it, and I had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun shooting this thing. There's just a lot of memories
Speaker 1: in real life. When this episode actually came out, which
Speaker 1: was on December two, two nine, we had a very
Speaker 1: busy week. We did, because this is when it started
Speaker 1: to get gray. Yeah, because up to this point. Also
Speaker 1: when this episode aired, this was the highest most viewed
Speaker 1: episode after the pilot, so we were growing every single eventually. Okay,
Speaker 1: so um Empire State of Mind is still number one
Speaker 1: on the charts. And the Blind Slide The Black My God,
Speaker 1: The Blind Slide the movie with Sandra Bullock. I said
Speaker 1: that right um has slid up to number one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I was going. First it was the Sandra
Speaker 1: Bullock like come Back Yere because The Proposal was also
Speaker 1: a huge movie that year. So what happened in um,
Speaker 1: what happened with us this this uh this crazy week
Speaker 1: several things. So some of us did this um appearance
Speaker 1: in New York City and Brandt Park for like t
Speaker 1: J Max and Marshall's. We did a Carol Okey contest?
Speaker 1: Can you participate in that? Now? Did you know? I
Speaker 1: did do that either? Okay, I remember anything about that?
Speaker 1: UM unimportant. Next, and then we went to our first
Speaker 1: jingle Ball. I remember that. Yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 1: That was great. I feel very I felt very cool
Speaker 1: that I could get into jingle Ball. Well, you also
Speaker 1: said to me when we went to jingle Ball this
Speaker 1: current two year to talk about and that's what you
Speaker 1: really missed. You're like, have you been to jingle Ball?
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I don't think I've been
Speaker 1: to jingle Ball multiple times. Yeah, and I've been with
Speaker 1: you at multiple Yeah. So they're okay, that's how good
Speaker 1: my memory is right now? Okay, So we went to
Speaker 1: the jingle Ball and then UM, Kevin, do you remember
Speaker 1: going to the Tervor Projects cracked Christmas and at the
Speaker 1: Wheel Turns that was with Chris and Corey and I
Speaker 1: had just gotten off of a flu and my dress.
Speaker 1: They're real good, YEP. I remember that. And this was
Speaker 1: the beginning of a long relationship with Trevor Project. If
Speaker 1: you know what Trade Project is, it's a UM a
Speaker 1: resource center, hotline for UM LGBT people, UM suicide hotline
Speaker 1: you can text in. It's an incredible, incredible organization. And
Speaker 1: they were really small at this point. They didn't have
Speaker 1: like the text in chat room things that they have now.
Speaker 1: And we all went and I remember being so impressed.
Speaker 1: I also remember because I was like, you know, closeted
Speaker 1: that I was. I was like, I have to. I'm like,
Speaker 1: regardless off, I'm scared of people, the public finding out
Speaker 1: if I'm gere or not. I have to be involved
Speaker 1: with this organization. And we went every single year, Adam Shaman,
Speaker 1: we were presented, did all the things. UM. This week
Speaker 1: the Gale the music Volume two Jeez were just pumping
Speaker 1: them out was released. It had seventeen tracks, and UM
Speaker 1: didn't Volume one does come out? Yeah, well exactly, uh?
Speaker 1: And then Kevin, you didn't you guys do a photo shoot. Um,
Speaker 1: they got Vanity Fair photo issues, Yeah, which was felt
Speaker 1: very fancy. It was the first time I had been
Speaker 1: in you know, a I think a big like fashion
Speaker 1: important magazine like that. It was very jealous that you
Speaker 1: guys had to do that. And then I remember going
Speaker 1: to visit you and we had a singing in the
Speaker 1: rain thing and so we were all dressed in these hats.
Speaker 1: And so the issue with this for me was I
Speaker 1: was very excited about this. It meant a lot to me.
Speaker 1: But do you remember this is when I had my
Speaker 1: issue with strip where I kept getting recurring strep throughout
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, and nobody could figure
Speaker 1: out what was wrong with me, and I kept having
Speaker 1: to go to the doctor and they were like pumping
Speaker 1: me full of antibiotics. And in this photo shoot, I'm
Speaker 1: standing on a light pole like holding it, wrapping my
Speaker 1: arm around it. But I had had like I V
Speaker 1: things in my you know, my elbow, and I was
Speaker 1: using that to hold onto the light post. But I
Speaker 1: was trying to be like and they had like fake
Speaker 1: rain coming down and I could barely stand on this
Speaker 1: thing because it was so slippery, and I was trying
Speaker 1: to keep it all together. And I was so sick,
Speaker 1: and my arm wasn't so much pain because it's like
Speaker 1: on a wound, and yeah, and it's in public. It's
Speaker 1: on a very busy street in front of a very
Speaker 1: busy museum and getting to do one of the coolest
Speaker 1: things in my life up to that point, and I
Speaker 1: am Kevin. It was also really late at night, and
Speaker 1: I had lived down the block from there at the time,
Speaker 1: so I said, I'm going to come visit, and they
Speaker 1: blocked that whole straight up. I wasn't allowed to come
Speaker 1: and see you guys. And I was like, I swear,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm part of this. They know me, I know them,
Speaker 1: I know them, and they were like, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: So I drove by and I saw the rain going
Speaker 1: and you guys looked very fabulous from afar, and that's
Speaker 1: all I got was just a sheer glimpse into the
Speaker 1: world of the very painful than the fair shoote for
Speaker 1: you and then ended up being this really like small
Speaker 1: photo adventity, but you were inventity. Care. I was that's awesome. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's do it. Let's do it all right. So
Speaker 1: this is Mattress and Um. This aired December two, two nine,
Speaker 1: My gosh, and this was directed by Eldie Keene Here
Speaker 1: she is again, which I was like, wow. Eldie directed
Speaker 1: a bunch of episodes early on, so crazy. Um. This
Speaker 1: was written by Ryan Murphy and the Try the Holy
Speaker 1: Trinity um Ian Brennan and Brad Felt Chuck and Um.
Speaker 1: We had two great little guest stars who were the
Speaker 1: Mattress store owner and the DP or the director John
Speaker 1: Ross Bowie and Chuck's spitler. We did smile from Millie Allen,
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about, Um, jump van Halen and then
Speaker 1: smile Charlie Chaplin. Um. Like I said, this was the
Speaker 1: most viewed episode, so eight point one five million viewers.
Speaker 1: That was a high for us. And at some point
Speaker 1: the originally the episode was called Once Upon a Mattress,
Speaker 1: but we couldn't get the rights to it. No, they
Speaker 1: had to change that Mattress. It is okay. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: this episode. There's a lot that happens. Yes, So basically,
Speaker 1: when the Glee Club is left out of the Yearbook
Speaker 1: due to budget cuts, almost everyone except Rachel is relieved
Speaker 1: they won't have to suffer the ridicule of past years,
Speaker 1: because it's known amongst the school's history that the glee
Speaker 1: club picture always gets defaced by the cooler people's right right,
Speaker 1: and Rachel tries to elevate the social status of the
Speaker 1: leae club by getting them cast in a local commercial,
Speaker 1: which causes drama, so much drama. And then finally Will
Speaker 1: discovers that his wife Terry has been lying to him
Speaker 1: about the pregnancy. Baby. It is peaking. Oh, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is it's happening. And also I think at this
Speaker 1: time to remember there writing this episode twelve we have
Speaker 1: is a one more episode before the break. We know
Speaker 1: at this point that we're coming back. I don't know
Speaker 1: that we did. I think by by by the time
Speaker 1: it was airing, Yes, but we didn't when they were
Speaker 1: writing it, I don't know. And so they had to
Speaker 1: like wrap up some of these storylines or or leave
Speaker 1: it hanging interested. So I needed the back nine. So
Speaker 1: this year book the Thunderclap. Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 1: It's a very very big deal. Obviously. Um the show
Speaker 1: starts out with like Will and the teacher's lounge, everybody
Speaker 1: getting a double dose of the bad news, which is
Speaker 1: Emma and Kin's wedding. Is the same day as sectionals
Speaker 1: because I'm not getting married, why any or And it's
Speaker 1: the fiftieth edition of the McKinley High School underclap and
Speaker 1: she walks in with a black eye and says she
Speaker 1: convinced Figgins not to let the glee club have a
Speaker 1: picture in the yearbook because it always gets you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, the face, it always gets drawn on.
Speaker 1: It would just relieve some of the pressure and the
Speaker 1: ridicule and the embarrassment for the glee club. Emma has
Speaker 1: some really good one liners in this episode. This is
Speaker 1: her one two three punch. That's not the saying. But
Speaker 1: she says the wedding was going to be in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: but then they told me I couldn't bring my own fruit.
Speaker 1: How cute, um. But then she goes on to talk
Speaker 1: about Kennan how he has a lot of flaws. Ken
Speaker 1: has a lot of flaws. He has seventy four flaws
Speaker 1: of yesterday. And then I think the best one of all,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, dude, did someone finally punch you? Sue
Speaker 1: looks like she has a black eye, but she actually
Speaker 1: got some work done and her cheer ducks removed, which
Speaker 1: she was in like rare form in this scene. It
Speaker 1: was really, really really marked that for my favorite line
Speaker 1: of the episodes, most likely. Okay, so then we go
Speaker 1: to the choir room, where do you remember shooting this?
Speaker 1: Of course, Well, Kurt's telling everybody that, um, not getting
Speaker 1: a photo in the Thunderclub is actually a blessing in
Speaker 1: disguise because um, he says, a yearbook photo would only
Speaker 1: fuel the flames of anti glee club terror and it
Speaker 1: gets defaced and we would be all, look real crazy. Um.
Speaker 1: When we were shooting this scene, Chris had a mouthful
Speaker 1: there was when it started, I just said out loud,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Chris couldn't get this. And then you
Speaker 1: watch it, and it was he had every random word
Speaker 1: thrown at him in this scene. And well, and and
Speaker 1: the hardest thing is like those one like when you
Speaker 1: have one line, it's actually harder than having a a
Speaker 1: stream of consciousness and a thought and having twenty lines
Speaker 1: because it's out of nowhere. You have to remember it
Speaker 1: out of nowhere and create context for yourself. Um. And
Speaker 1: for Chris it was like this like one of those
Speaker 1: famous pair you know monologues where nothing really there's no
Speaker 1: real stream of consciounessness so, um, poor Chris, but he
Speaker 1: nailed it. I remember, and we all had to like
Speaker 1: interject sometimes, and it was all this pressure where Chris
Speaker 1: has this really difficult monologue to say and then we
Speaker 1: have to interject, and like, who are we going to
Speaker 1: be the ones that mess his entire scene up for him? Right,
Speaker 1: He's like trying like holding on to We've all been there.
Speaker 1: I have my memory of that. So Mr Shoe is on.
Speaker 1: It's not privy to the fact that we're all like, great,
Speaker 1: we're not going to be in the yearbook. But he
Speaker 1: insists that we have to be in the yearbook, and
Speaker 1: he decides to go to Figgins and Figgins is that
Speaker 1: the only way to get everybody into the yearbook in
Speaker 1: the glee club is for thousand dollars, which is wildly
Speaker 1: expensive for a yearbook photo. By the way, I was
Speaker 1: very anti yearbook, anti school things, so I don't remember. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have fought for the yearbook. Um, so Will
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, what about a quarter page? Um where
Speaker 1: and and Figgins It's like, okay, it's like three bucks
Speaker 1: or whatever where two members can be in it. So
Speaker 1: Biggins now recommends that they pick Finn in Santana. He says, now,
Speaker 1: I suggest you select a good looking cheerleader, not the
Speaker 1: pregnant one and the quarterback for the photos. Their faces
Speaker 1: are less likely to be scratched out with safety pins.
Speaker 1: And then at that moment, barges in because she's got
Speaker 1: some words that she hasn't been seen yet. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: so funny. Rachel barges in and she insists that glee
Speaker 1: clubs in the yearbook, and and Mr She's like, got it, Rachel,
Speaker 1: and she's like, thank you so much and leaves in
Speaker 1: her very Rachel whye. And then we go through this
Speaker 1: incredible bit of Rachel in her obsession to be photographed,
Speaker 1: to practice for the paparazzi and being a part of
Speaker 1: every club, which some of them just don't. I didn't
Speaker 1: remember watching this. He was laughing, because, like Leah's face
Speaker 1: and these is excellent. This is a very good episode
Speaker 1: for Rachel and Leah. She is absolutely nailing it because
Speaker 1: she's very good a physical comedy and like one of
Speaker 1: those things that we do, like in between takes and
Speaker 1: things of doing sort of impressions of our characters, and
Speaker 1: she was using all of those tools, the big smile
Speaker 1: and all that that's right. We were elevated in this episode. Um.
Speaker 1: But her in the clubs, I was like, oh, some
Speaker 1: of these didn't age well. No, so click that for
Speaker 1: it is funny? What oh it it's very fun because
Speaker 1: it's also like we know it's inappropriate at that time though.
Speaker 1: It is like we know this is wrong, and she's
Speaker 1: using these using it too in to her advantage in
Speaker 1: the wrong, wrongest or wrong ways. Um so, and then
Speaker 1: we had to Quinn in the library. We're not in
Speaker 1: the library very often, so this is exciting. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like this is we're going to start seeing the
Speaker 1: library because get more budget and bigger library. That's right.
Speaker 1: So we see quinnin library and she's looking at the
Speaker 1: yearbook and she decides that she doesn't she wants to
Speaker 1: be in the cheerios again. She needs to be relevant
Speaker 1: and I feel like she's a part of a part
Speaker 1: of something. And I gasped at this. I gasped. Um.
Speaker 1: She says, I want my kids to be able to
Speaker 1: look back at these books and see who I was,
Speaker 1: make them proud, not the bastard carrying now of course
Speaker 1: the ones will have when I'm married and ready. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: John Snow Um, I thought that was very very funny. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: what what what happens next? Then we go so then
Speaker 1: we're seeing how the Glee cub effects every single person.
Speaker 1: I mean, the yearbook affects every single person on the show.
Speaker 1: It's funny how one of these high school things becomes
Speaker 1: such a thing. It's very high school. I like lean
Speaker 1: into these high school things like this. And then Mr
Speaker 1: Shoe goes to tell Terry that he wants to buy
Speaker 1: an ad and use it for the glee club, and
Speaker 1: she says no five times, but he obviously does not
Speaker 1: listen because he has always prioritized the glee club. Um
Speaker 1: and gives Figgins a check to pay for it, and
Speaker 1: then he tells the good Club that they have to
Speaker 1: pick two captains for the photo, and then everyone very quickly,
Speaker 1: on purpose, unanimously votes for Rachel because they don't want
Speaker 1: to including Rachel. And I love that scene, like all
Speaker 1: the kids colluding to just like, yep, you can do
Speaker 1: it great, finally giving her the attention she wants, the
Speaker 1: spotlight she wants, and then Will is a little perplexed
Speaker 1: because this is the first time he seeing that the
Speaker 1: kids don't want to be in the photo and ask
Speaker 1: him afored advice, and then Emma apologizes for missing sectionals
Speaker 1: and tells her he thinks you can schedule the wedding
Speaker 1: on purpose. Oh drama. And then Will decides that Rachel
Speaker 1: needs a co captain and do you I remember filming
Speaker 1: this because this was the first time that Rachel already
Speaker 1: have a little one on one. Um, yeah, here's my
Speaker 1: bid for it didn't age well? Is everybody giving, you know,
Speaker 1: excuses of why they can't be the co captain? Mercedes
Speaker 1: says she can't no time kwanza yeah, um, and then
Speaker 1: Already says, um, you can't. I can't because we'll mess
Speaker 1: up a composition because if you lean over, it will
Speaker 1: look like you have stomach rolls. It's very funny. This
Speaker 1: scene was very funny. Yeah, and then I thought how
Speaker 1: this was the best and um, she says, no way,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to be in a picture with you.
Speaker 1: It'll get to face and Rachel says, no, it won't,
Speaker 1: and she says Britney says, if it will, I'll be
Speaker 1: doing it. I'll be the one doing it. So Rachel
Speaker 1: then goes to good old Trustee suite Finn because he
Speaker 1: is a leader and he says yes, and you know,
Speaker 1: then insert Smile by Lily Allen, which we were very
Speaker 1: excited about this because Lily Allen was like coming up.
Speaker 1: Her album had come out. We were all listening to
Speaker 1: it on like, um, you know at our chairs in
Speaker 1: between takes. We love this album and I just am
Speaker 1: so uncomfortable watching this number. I might have passworded through
Speaker 1: it me too. I definitely fast arted this to be
Speaker 1: real because it felt like it was just inserted for
Speaker 1: the sake of yes, we need and in these early episodes,
Speaker 1: we don't. We didn't have that right. They all kind
Speaker 1: of moved the plot, they moved or they were really
Speaker 1: really like fun huge numbers with like big costumes and
Speaker 1: production value, but this one was like why is this here?
Speaker 1: Also feel like okay, it sort of felt like Ryan
Speaker 1: was throwing us a bone because we wanted this song
Speaker 1: in the show, and there was just a lot of
Speaker 1: um storyline in this episode, and I think they were
Speaker 1: just kind of like searching for the right material for
Speaker 1: the for the songs to fit, but there's just so
Speaker 1: much other good material in this In this episode, um
Speaker 1: Rachel also slaps pins. But at the end of this
Speaker 1: rad and the piano is also like really getting into
Speaker 1: that he's living living. I actually fast forwarded and then
Speaker 1: I um ended up Rad and he was moving Um okay,
Speaker 1: and then we we cut to Finn who is in
Speaker 1: locker room and getting um drawn and written on by
Speaker 1: Crofsky and a Zemio. I love Crofsky and Zemio together.
Speaker 1: I thought they were a really amazing, horrible bully duo
Speaker 1: and also got funny. I mean they were trying to
Speaker 1: draw Nazi symbols on the I mean the Hitler symbol
Speaker 1: on his face, which I thought didn't it wasn't good.
Speaker 1: But but the duo, we're starting to see the duo,
Speaker 1: which is your potato head, like you could you could
Speaker 1: write a high kup on his head because that was funny.
Speaker 1: That's very funny. I don't know if that was outlet
Speaker 1: or not. So's getting bullied by his own teammates Krofsky,
Speaker 1: who was not on the hockey team but on the
Speaker 1: football team, right. And then Rachel Rachel is going to
Speaker 1: be at the photo it's photo day for the glee club.
Speaker 1: She's waiting for her co captain and he's not showing
Speaker 1: and the photographer UM says he's gotta go because he's
Speaker 1: gotta He's like, sorry, I gotta go. Hurry up. Um,
Speaker 1: I've got to go show this commercial for my brother.
Speaker 1: And the she's like boo, she hears commercial. Um. And
Speaker 1: John John Ross Bowie, who is the guest star who
Speaker 1: plays the photographer and the director of the Mattress commercial.
Speaker 1: You may know him from Speechless or The Big Bang Theory,
Speaker 1: that little show, just that small tidy thing. Um. And
Speaker 1: he also comes back, you know, he goes back in Um,
Speaker 1: he ends up in the Glee Project. As I thought
Speaker 1: this scene was so strange, but the two of them
Speaker 1: are so good that they made it. Like she takes
Speaker 1: that break and looks in the mirror. Yeah, like there's
Speaker 1: all these My favorite parts of the show are when
Speaker 1: we get into those odd, weird, specific comedic things and
Speaker 1: then she goes and sits down and starts crying because
Speaker 1: she's trying to get the job. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was really very funny executed. Yeah, very very funny. I
Speaker 1: can cry out of one eye. So then, um, Rachel
Speaker 1: is you know piste Finn and Finn says, well, they
Speaker 1: said that I took the Glee Club photo. They'd make
Speaker 1: me choose between a Hitler mustache or buck teeth and
Speaker 1: I can't rock either of those looks, so you know,
Speaker 1: yeah whatever, which leads us into the commercial. The mattress
Speaker 1: part of this episode, which is the best part. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but it is one of
Speaker 1: it's our favorite party. So Rachel's in the glee club.
Speaker 1: She calls the meeting to session. She says that the
Speaker 1: glee Club is a rare opportunity to become stars. That
Speaker 1: we've been cast in a local commercial, and Tina is
Speaker 1: very excited. Um, and she says, hold onto your hats
Speaker 1: and get ready to sell some mattresses. All these numbers.
Speaker 1: I remember shooting all these scenes. They were like so quick.
Speaker 1: We were like in one off scenes of like I
Speaker 1: remember just this this episode moving very quickly. There was
Speaker 1: a lot to do. It's like, you guys don't matter
Speaker 1: right now. We don't need to do twelves. We don't
Speaker 1: need a coverage of twelve different people exactly, it's a group. Um,
Speaker 1: So now we're rehearsing. Now we're at mattress Land, which
Speaker 1: was a mattress store warehouse in like the middle of
Speaker 1: nowhere in California, and it was it was very hot.
Speaker 1: And if you watch this first thing where we're all
Speaker 1: lined up acting out the scene that we're supposed to
Speaker 1: do in this commercial, we're all a bit dewey. Well
Speaker 1: that we shot this after we were did the musical number.
Speaker 1: We were sweating. But um, we're rehearsing this number or
Speaker 1: the commercial as it was written, and the delivery of
Speaker 1: these lines is excellent. And I remember Mark's line delivery
Speaker 1: was cracking us up. We were fully losing it, losing
Speaker 1: it and and and ambers and it's just very funny. Um,
Speaker 1: But do you remember rehearsing for this, like, well, they
Speaker 1: had to. They put us on the sound stage right,
Speaker 1: like a separate sound stage because the mattresses wouldn't fit
Speaker 1: in the tin shed where we normally rehearse, and we
Speaker 1: were rehearsing really late at night. I remember it was
Speaker 1: like after we had shot something else. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: rehearsing these. These were real fun, except I was like
Speaker 1: worried my neck was going to get all crazy. I
Speaker 1: just remember too, because it was. Um, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of pictures online that I think we all took of
Speaker 1: each other and posted at some point of us like
Speaker 1: sitting around on these gigantic trampolines that they covered and
Speaker 1: fabric to look like mattresses, and we were climbing up
Speaker 1: places we probably weren't supposed to in this empty sound stage,
Speaker 1: like and I just remember we were left alone on
Speaker 1: those stages a lot, I think because Zack and Brooke
Speaker 1: had to go. I think, yeah, I think there was
Speaker 1: something another number being shot that needed their attention. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I remember laying on those mattresses for a very long time,
Speaker 1: and so it was like a nice little break respect
Speaker 1: on these little soft pads of this mattress and them
Speaker 1: also being like what what is this number? How are
Speaker 1: we choreographing this? And I think it was like I
Speaker 1: can do this, and they're like, great, do that because
Speaker 1: I can do it. For it and we have to
Speaker 1: look when we look at that number, like how there
Speaker 1: is going full acrobatics. Yeah, full acrobatics the entire time,
Speaker 1: like like pure wedding into a full split, like a
Speaker 1: middle split. I was crazy. She was doing her best cheerleader. Um,
Speaker 1: so what happens is and the scene is that the
Speaker 1: written scene that the director wrote after we do it
Speaker 1: sort of sucks and Rachel's like, we're a glee club
Speaker 1: and I love how we just whipped up this little
Speaker 1: van Halen number with all these harmonies, and also like
Speaker 1: how could this how could Mattress Land afford the rights
Speaker 1: to Van Halen for their commercial I remember McQuary being
Speaker 1: very excited about this number, very excited, um and doing
Speaker 1: the scream at the the beginning of that stuff. Also
Speaker 1: the scream is funny because I all, I think of
Speaker 1: his tour like hearing it so many times. Can you
Speaker 1: believe because we did Mattress on tour, we brought trampoline
Speaker 1: covered the mattress pads on tour. I don't remember, I
Speaker 1: like vaguely remember doing Mattress, but then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like Mattresses where I had put on the pajamas and
Speaker 1: then I had seven layers of clothes underneath because you
Speaker 1: just rip off another layer to do another number. Um,
Speaker 1: that was a crazy time. If you have people should
Speaker 1: go to find like recordings of that online or if
Speaker 1: you were there, can you like tweet us and tell
Speaker 1: us like did that feel as fever dreamy as it
Speaker 1: did for us? That? I think it does that? So
Speaker 1: then we do this number that was absolutely insane. Amber
Speaker 1: sings the highest notes no to me over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. I remember hearing the recording and was like,
Speaker 1: what is wrong with you? And she was just laughing hysterically.
Speaker 1: Um that numbers great though. It was like it performed
Speaker 1: really well, right, and um, it was just a lot
Speaker 1: of fun too. It was a lot of fun to do.
Speaker 1: But on the day we were shooting and they had
Speaker 1: to turn the air off because of the sound issues
Speaker 1: because it was like blowing and the sound and sounded
Speaker 1: so sensitive to it that you know, you would have
Speaker 1: heard that like whizzing, So they had to turn the
Speaker 1: air off. So we were doing all of those like
Speaker 1: crazy running, jumping, twisting, flipping in like heat and I
Speaker 1: remember being like, can we get some waters in here?
Speaker 1: And they brought the water from outside and it was
Speaker 1: like hot boiling, so we were drinking hot water from
Speaker 1: plastic water bottles and literally just dying. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was a really fun day. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we had really comfortable costumes, so we did well. We
Speaker 1: had white teaing tops underneath, so we were able to
Speaker 1: take off our button ups and like were those in
Speaker 1: between takes. But it was still really really There was
Speaker 1: also like a lot of um, we didn't know if
Speaker 1: I should have been bounced on the trampoline. But we remember,
Speaker 1: we did like it. Just you were laughing really hard.
Speaker 1: I was because I also like trying. I was just
Speaker 1: trying not to move my legs. I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know if this is right right,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. It was a different time.
Speaker 1: It was a different time. But what a great number
Speaker 1: it was. Really. Oh, Chris got injured. He went down,
Speaker 1: He had to go to the medic He did I
Speaker 1: completely forgotten nack. He tried to do a flip and
Speaker 1: he landed the wrong way. Yeah, it wasn't a lot.
Speaker 1: He did get injured. At we all got injured a
Speaker 1: lot that Chris went down on this one. Though. There
Speaker 1: was also like a thing in the behind the scenes
Speaker 1: for this episode that Diana said that Diana was losing
Speaker 1: her mind. Do you remember that Diana would always lose
Speaker 1: her mind. Diana would like towards the end of the night. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: when she got silly, she would get like cry cry,
Speaker 1: and she would make us all laugh the cutest. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: That was really that goes down as one of like
Speaker 1: the create the most fun memorable like musical numbers, just
Speaker 1: because of the sheer size of it of like the
Speaker 1: weird mattresses Ryan must have come up with. That's I
Speaker 1: feel like that sounds like a Ryan idea. It's really funny.
Speaker 1: It is a really funny idea, like the kids getting
Speaker 1: a local commercial format and dream comes true. Um did?
Speaker 1: I started out doing local commercials, and also people would
Speaker 1: talk about trampolines and I'm like, well, this feels like
Speaker 1: it's a full circle moment for me. Yeah, exactly. Wait,
Speaker 1: so what commercials did you do? Um? I did? The
Speaker 1: first thing I ever did was for the local, like
Speaker 1: local w B, which ended up being CW, but it
Speaker 1: was w B, and I did it for local affiliates,
Speaker 1: so I had to say like, oh, when you're tuned
Speaker 1: into blah blah um. And then I did like a
Speaker 1: radio shack industrial commercial. Yeah, I did a lot of industrials.
Speaker 1: I did like a Blockbuster industrial thing too. Those aren't
Speaker 1: things anymore. I don't think, no, I doubt it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So baby let's talk about baby gate because this is
Speaker 1: um Well, Jescelyn apparently called it um her Terry's Reckoning,
Speaker 1: or she called this episode the reckoning because this is
Speaker 1: the reveal she I don't think she gets enough credit.
Speaker 1: How good she is I think, is like so awful? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: she she is the you know we're we're rooting for
Speaker 1: Emma and and well here, so of course Terry is
Speaker 1: going to be the one that's the evil villain that's wrong,
Speaker 1: wronging Will left and right and kind of a bit
Speaker 1: we want we want the adultery. But why is she
Speaker 1: so Excellent's questionable? So Will is going through the drawers
Speaker 1: looking for a tie, and some reason is going through
Speaker 1: Terry's you know, he's looking for his pocket square, which
Speaker 1: is what I was like, Okay, I believe this, then yes, right, um,
Speaker 1: and then find the little pregnancy belly. And honestly, Terry's
Speaker 1: lie was actually pretty legit. I was like, I believe that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a kindra level lie. Yes, she said it
Speaker 1: was for trying on clothes for when you were going
Speaker 1: to look like you were pregnant. Also, I have to
Speaker 1: say I was trying to think like, if I pulled out,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look so obvious, you know what. The look
Speaker 1: in his eye was like, oh, this is starting to
Speaker 1: make sense. All of these fictions were confirmed. Yes, So
Speaker 1: he comes out and confronts Terry, and um, this is
Speaker 1: a really well beautifully acted directed shot scene. I think
Speaker 1: the show I think so far that it's that very
Speaker 1: loose camera handheld, handheld like there's not it's just you're
Speaker 1: kind of following them around in this like very in
Speaker 1: the action intimate moment. Yeah, exactly, And and then Terry's like,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just going to reveal us all. So
Speaker 1: she tells him the plan was too. He's like, what
Speaker 1: about when the baby was born? And she says, what
Speaker 1: we were going to get Quentin's baby. I was a
Speaker 1: little freaked out because it looked like he was going
Speaker 1: to hit her, didn't they. I felt like the whole time,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, is he going to
Speaker 1: hit her? Like this is He was really scary. I
Speaker 1: felt like because someone who doesn't ever get angry, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, You're like, it looks he
Speaker 1: grabs her wrists and I was like, oh no, yeah
Speaker 1: it was. It was definitely like him about like a
Speaker 1: tea kettle, like about to explode of this. I think
Speaker 1: this is one of up there too. For my favorite
Speaker 1: lines of the episode of this marriage, it's something this
Speaker 1: marriage only works because you don't feel good about yourself.
Speaker 1: That is wild very throws it in there in the
Speaker 1: middle of this argument, and it's like, what a line.
Speaker 1: Very dark, very dark? Um, But you know what's good
Speaker 1: it is because he's angry. He's not going to say
Speaker 1: at home, so thank god there's a pile of mattresses
Speaker 1: waiting for him, kind of because that's going to really
Speaker 1: poopoo on the whole bale club. So yes, he leaves
Speaker 1: and he goes to school and he he sleeps on
Speaker 1: one of the mattresses. It's like Princess and the Pa
Speaker 1: with all the mattresses lined up like that. Um. And
Speaker 1: did you notice that you can see his marks on
Speaker 1: the floor when he drops the mattress on the floor.
Speaker 1: They left the mark in there. So our marks are
Speaker 1: where we stand. But normally if there's like a shot
Speaker 1: with your feet and it, they take it out and
Speaker 1: you kind of have to use your best guess where
Speaker 1: they put like a tiny little dot. And they left
Speaker 1: his red mark tape in that. We did. All of
Speaker 1: us had our own colors. Um, that sweet sweet camera
Speaker 1: Ben would put down for us. Um, But I had
Speaker 1: bright pink. What was your Kevin? Blue? Mind switched? I
Speaker 1: think originally I think it was gray because of my wheels.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes because there were so many characters, at
Speaker 1: some point they had to double tape, so some people
Speaker 1: would be green and blue because there was just too
Speaker 1: many of us. But I had bright pink the whole time,
Speaker 1: and when somebody would sub in for Ben and would
Speaker 1: give me a different color, i'd I think I have
Speaker 1: a photo of like fifteen different marks for like fifteen
Speaker 1: different people that I'll try and and so we can
Speaker 1: post it. But um, um anyway, so Emma, um, he's
Speaker 1: a problem, and Emma says he needs to focus on
Speaker 1: his own life but she would never do that to
Speaker 1: Terry but gets it not what he was expecting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it was actually a really honest, like grounded scene.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, like I get it. She's
Speaker 1: like you're big, you know, uh like a big one
Speaker 1: to lose or whatever the quote was, but you know
Speaker 1: it was, um, Yeah, it was a really honest scene,
Speaker 1: which I really appreciate it because you know, after like
Speaker 1: she's everything she says does come from a place of
Speaker 1: like sincerity and really really meaning to do well. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's nice like and then and amidst all this
Speaker 1: chaos and mattresses and arguments that you know, she does
Speaker 1: often say the unexpected, but it's because I think it's
Speaker 1: the reasonable and real thing. Yeah, it's nice. So all
Speaker 1: of these three storylines have come to a bit of
Speaker 1: a boiling point and then everything starts to unravel because
Speaker 1: Sue's doing her That's how Sue sees it, very inappropriate,
Speaker 1: sees corner. Oh, it's it's bad. Her delivery is amazing.
Speaker 1: It's really bad performance, incredible subject matter exactly. Um, so
Speaker 1: she needs the mattress commercial. She's like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take them down. And then um Quinn asks Sue if
Speaker 1: she can be in the cheerio photo, but she says no,
Speaker 1: and then tells her that the glee club can't compete
Speaker 1: in Sectionals because they really stepped in it. Because what
Speaker 1: happened was is that that commercial they made made them
Speaker 1: lose their amateur status. Because Sue goes on to tell
Speaker 1: Figgins un tells the glee Club was it says that
Speaker 1: was in a commercial and accepted payment because they received
Speaker 1: the mattresses, So they don't qualify to be amateurs anymore.
Speaker 1: It's been revoked and they're no longer eligible for Sectionals
Speaker 1: and they can't return the mattresses because one of them
Speaker 1: was opened and slept on. And this is where Sue says,
Speaker 1: there's a stack of mattresses in the choir room, pile
Speaker 1: as high as the empty hair gel bottles in the
Speaker 1: dumpster outside of your apartment. I love that she she
Speaker 1: fits in several several several very good um and and
Speaker 1: Will admits that he slept on the mattresses because he's
Speaker 1: thinking of leaving Terry and against us. While I can
Speaker 1: see that one coming at so good, I love too.
Speaker 1: And she's talking about Will, but looking at Figgins, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't see that one coming at all. These scenes
Speaker 1: are I have a new appreciation for these scenes of
Speaker 1: Like in Figgin's office with the three of them, it's
Speaker 1: just excellent. And then fig feels bad, but also you know,
Speaker 1: also says like his hands are time and Clee clubs over.
Speaker 1: So Quinn, to our surprise, is going to go and
Speaker 1: blackmail Sue. That's right. She's in her cute little cherry
Speaker 1: off it with her cute o bump and um. She's
Speaker 1: telling Sue that she knows that she gets all this
Speaker 1: free swag from the Cheerios in the past years. And
Speaker 1: if she's like certainly you wouldn't want Figgins finding that out,
Speaker 1: or the Cherios would also be banned from competing. So
Speaker 1: in return, Quinn demands one a full page photo to
Speaker 1: be given to Glee Club for free, because the Sterios
Speaker 1: have like sixteen or six I don't remember. And she
Speaker 1: also demands that she's back in the Cheerios and and
Speaker 1: she was like, yeah, whatever else, you're ruthless, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna Stephanie in the back. You remind me of a
Speaker 1: young sul Sylvester, right um. And Quinn's like, maybe not. Actually,
Speaker 1: we'll take the photo, but I don't want to be
Speaker 1: back on the Sios exactly. So she says she's rather
Speaker 1: be a part of a club that's proud to have her. Remember,
Speaker 1: I have to say to like, this is really summing
Speaker 1: up how the only I mean, the only person who
Speaker 1: has had a really big significant story arc so far
Speaker 1: in these episodes is Quinn. She's gone from president of
Speaker 1: the C A Celibacy Club hb i C running ship
Speaker 1: and here she is now sticking her neck out for
Speaker 1: the Glee Club, the people she hated, and now when
Speaker 1: she gets the opportunity to be back on the Cheerio
Speaker 1: She's like, no, actually, it's a nice redemption arc for her.
Speaker 1: It's true. That's very true. Quinn as some pretty good arts,
Speaker 1: I mean, along with some pretty crazy storylines. But um,
Speaker 1: and then Mr Shoe this is one of Lad's signature
Speaker 1: moves in the scenes where you shoot back and you
Speaker 1: see everybody. And Mr Shoe tells the glee club that
Speaker 1: since he's the one who slept on the mattresses, he's
Speaker 1: um fired from sectionals, but but they can still compete
Speaker 1: and that they deserve to compete for all their hard work.
Speaker 1: And the Glee clubs like, we can't do this with that,
Speaker 1: and Mr Shoes like, but you just did the mattress
Speaker 1: commercial and if you can't without without me there, then
Speaker 1: I haven't done my job. And Rachel's like, thanks, Mr Shoe,
Speaker 1: just no questions asked um, and he's like, I want
Speaker 1: you guys to smile really big in this Glee photo
Speaker 1: that s is giving you. And I thought that was
Speaker 1: really sweet. UM. And the this photo that we took,
Speaker 1: I have this, we have this everywhere, we have it framed. UM.
Speaker 1: It was a big, like personally like a really big
Speaker 1: moment because it also felt like we're our second to
Speaker 1: last episode if we were coming back yet when right,
Speaker 1: And it felt like a really really special moment. It
Speaker 1: was the first picture we had of us like that,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. I was like, wow, we're all together. So
Speaker 1: it was a really sweet and this okay, so this scene,
Speaker 1: I mean this whole episode because we're in a lot
Speaker 1: of it, but there's not a lot of like storyline
Speaker 1: for us. We're all kind of like improvising in our characters.
Speaker 1: And you start to see like characters bloom, like especially
Speaker 1: like Puckerman and Finn with the weights like in the
Speaker 1: locker room doing that was really funny and like they
Speaker 1: thought of that, and um, you know us doing the
Speaker 1: makeup and stuff, and like you just see like, um,
Speaker 1: the very famous like looks that you see in the
Speaker 1: choir room and these characters kind of like really us
Speaker 1: figuring out who exactly we are or yeah, which was
Speaker 1: really fun and like very funny. I just chuckled a
Speaker 1: lot during this episode. And I remember to Smile was
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's favorite song, and that's we recorded it the
Speaker 1: week after and it felt and I didn't know like
Speaker 1: this for some reason that came out after this is
Speaker 1: his favorite song, and I had just learned that and
Speaker 1: at the time it was a very big Michael Jackson fan.
Speaker 1: It was just like it meant a lot for you know,
Speaker 1: us to be doing this song. It ended up actually
Speaker 1: singing this at a Trevor Project event years later. Really,
Speaker 1: yeah saying it? Are we saying it at the white House?
Speaker 1: White House? Yeah? Well we have a story about the
Speaker 1: White House, but we can leave it for another time.
Speaker 1: Remember that one that was that that was a smile.
Speaker 1: They're like, keep smile cut true colors. Anyway, another smile
Speaker 1: was terrible because I couldn't sing it any you hated it, Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: and that's that is the penultimate episode of the first thirteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I obviously the the yearbook photo does get to face,
Speaker 1: but like it's great and we love it, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's almost like schools out. You know, you took your
Speaker 1: final exams, you still gotta show up to school and
Speaker 1: so next episode is a big deal. Next episode is
Speaker 1: the final exam. I actually was like tempted to keep
Speaker 1: going and watch it. Okay, should we do some Tarty takes,
Speaker 1: Jenna Tarty takes. Let's do it all right, um, cringe moments,
Speaker 1: ak owches, I pick sues corner. I mean, is a
Speaker 1: couple of things I'd have to do the same. I
Speaker 1: have to say, like the Kuan's a bit m hmm
Speaker 1: it feels, and the Hitler mustaches, a rice patty hats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Yam diet, but that's also a non to Brad
Speaker 1: felt check who ate like so many sweets like an
Speaker 1: inside joke. Yeah, okay, worst dance move smile, smiles weird,
Speaker 1: the first smile, the first the best song jump yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that goes along with best performance by
Speaker 1: a prop. It has to be the mattresses trampolines that
Speaker 1: numbers insane and really just turned it out, um, and
Speaker 1: then things that didn't age well, it's anytime Sue has
Speaker 1: opened her mouth. In this episode, she says, all I
Speaker 1: want it's just one day year when I'm visually assaultedged
Speaker 1: by heavioeys and fatties, Like what, you just want the
Speaker 1: meteor to hit you know? You know there's an asteroid
Speaker 1: that like flew really close to Earth, like the closest
Speaker 1: ever been in to Earth. So I feel like that
Speaker 1: is appropriate. It's fine, just take us out at this point,
Speaker 1: just go for it. Oh my god. Okay, So best
Speaker 1: line there's a lot. I think, Um, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I think mine's a tie between Terry saying this marriage
Speaker 1: works because you don't feel good about yourself, and then
Speaker 1: Sue with the tear ducks saying, I got myself a
Speaker 1: bit of an eye lift, and while we're there, I
Speaker 1: told to go ahead and yank out those tear ducks.
Speaker 1: Wasn't using them. I also, um had to go back
Speaker 1: and find this one because I loved it so much.
Speaker 1: It was Sue that she says, what if I were
Speaker 1: to innocently murder you will, I'd still have to go
Speaker 1: to trial. Liked to probably get off for justifile homicide.
Speaker 1: When their faiths off this, I was like what I
Speaker 1: was crying? Okay, Jenna, bring it? Are you ready for shure?
Speaker 1: We found on TikTok It's going to make you so happy? Oh?
Speaker 1: Is it okay? Should I watch it? Yes? Watch it?
Speaker 1: So um it is a beautiful like fan cam of
Speaker 1: Figgins Figgins um all his like clips cut together. He's
Speaker 1: like speaking to the camera and waving to the camera.
Speaker 1: So the person who uploaded it Mia done, baby, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I pronounce it said might be the best
Speaker 1: edit I've ever made, And I agree I don't know
Speaker 1: what else you've edited, but this is and incredible. This
Speaker 1: is insane. We need to get ball in here. We
Speaker 1: need to send the stickball because Figgins is truly just
Speaker 1: an m v P. He truly is you aloud? Watch it?
Speaker 1: It's ten seconds of pure unbridled joy. Like, if you're
Speaker 1: ever down, just watch this better. And it's too. I
Speaker 1: r s by the Cuckoo dolls as well. It's really beautiful,
Speaker 1: it's romantic, it's everything you wanted to be. Thank you
Speaker 1: for sharing, and that's all we got for you everybody. Thanks,
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, keep sending them because so many
Speaker 1: people sent us the Fagans video and it works. We
Speaker 1: saw it and it's absolutely incredible, So keep tagging us.
Speaker 1: We are seeing all of it, We're collecting all of it, um,
Speaker 1: and I like to be able to show these things
Speaker 1: to Jenna. I love. Thank you for joining us for Mattress.
Speaker 1: Yeah twun to next week for sexual Alls. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I might have to go watch it now. No, no,
Speaker 1: don't do it. Um, Thanks for recapping Mattress with us.
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