Speaker 1: I Am all in again. Oh it's just you.
Speaker 2: I Am All in Town meeting with Suzanne French and
Speaker 2: Tara suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome to another
Speaker 2: episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with myself, Tara
Speaker 2: and Suzanne.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 3: Hello, all right.
Speaker 2: So we are on season one, episode fourteen, that Damn
Speaker 2: Donna Reed, which aired February twenty second, two thousand and.
Speaker 3: One, which we had spoke.
Speaker 2: About last week that we think this could have been
Speaker 2: a Valentine's episode and it just like didn't happen. That
Speaker 2: didn't It didn't align with the network.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, there was. The scheduling might have been a
Speaker 1: little off because this was definitely more of a Valentiney
Speaker 1: kind of feel.
Speaker 2: And I hate to say it watching back, No, I
Speaker 2: think it's.
Speaker 3: The first episode in season one. I'm like, not my favorite,
Speaker 3: you know, I like Luke and Lurli. Everything else could go.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought it was cute ish, there were some
Speaker 1: I have a few bones to pick though, Okay, hit
Speaker 1: me the first question I had, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: The whole timing just seemed off, that with the dinner
Speaker 1: thing that Rory did because she went over there like
Speaker 1: in the evening. It was already after dinner by the
Speaker 1: time she went to Babbett's house. And then she hatches
Speaker 1: this whole plan and somehow carries out this whole plan
Speaker 1: and then Dean comes over for dinner. It seems like
Speaker 1: it would have been like nine or ten o'clock. Then
Speaker 1: I didn't understand how she put all of that together.
Speaker 1: First of all, that was the first thing is how
Speaker 1: did she make all of this happen in like an hour?
Speaker 1: Also she doesn't right, So yeah, so that's related to
Speaker 1: my other issue is how did she pull all this off?
Speaker 1: Because they I thought it was an interesting choice. I
Speaker 1: guess by the writers that they gave us a scene
Speaker 1: where she goes to Lane's to get the music, but
Speaker 1: we never saw how she got the dress or the food.
Speaker 1: Like it seems like if you were gonna give us
Speaker 1: one scene, it would be a scene of her getting
Speaker 1: the dress from somewhere, Like why did they need why
Speaker 1: did they feel the need to show us how she
Speaker 1: got the music, which she could have just turned on
Speaker 1: the radio and gotten music. But I want to know
Speaker 1: where this orange dress came from and the petticoats, and
Speaker 1: like I was more interested in that it.
Speaker 3: Was also the way she was like acting. I was like,
Speaker 3: this is not Rory.
Speaker 2: And I understand she was playing a character and making
Speaker 2: a point, but like I didn't buy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, her voice was really squeaky. She had like this
Speaker 1: little kid voice, and it was weird. So I don't
Speaker 1: know the whole I just I can't saying, like where
Speaker 1: did she get that dress from? I don't you know.
Speaker 1: She maybe she went to Miss Patty's or something, because
Speaker 1: you know Miss Patty always has That's true. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was weird that they chose to show
Speaker 1: the scene with Lane instead of the scene of her
Speaker 1: doing the other pieces of it, which right for questions
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Also, the fight with Dean, I was just like, okay,
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, it was just one
Speaker 2: of those things that I'm like, I don't really need this,
Speaker 2: Not that I get why it happened, but like I
Speaker 2: don't really care for this whole storylines.
Speaker 3: I think I didn't care for the fight, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It was it seemed very much like filler to me,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: It's like they got fourteen episodes in and they're like, well,
Speaker 2: we kind of ran out of ideas and it's not
Speaker 2: the it's like, what is it called that Amyan with
Speaker 2: Amy and Scott was. It wasn't sweeps, like it was
Speaker 2: just kind of like, yeah, mid February, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well in February used to be a sweeps month,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if it's still the case, but
Speaker 1: there used to. They used to do like bigger episodes,
Speaker 1: but I yeah, I don't know. I did like the
Speaker 1: Luke and Laurel I stuff. Yes, that was very cute.
Speaker 1: And the one the one line that made me laugh
Speaker 1: was when Luke comes out with the trash and he
Speaker 1: runs into Dean and Dean says, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: Luke says, I'm looking for a chick.
Speaker 2: Yes, honestly, that part like I actually really love the
Speaker 2: like can you come over? I have a chick like
Speaker 2: goose and it's like it's so like what like out
Speaker 2: of context that I actually loved when Luke comes and
Speaker 2: he's like, oh, there really is age like he thought
Speaker 2: it was a booty call basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Well, and the whole like diner
Speaker 1: scene where they like came so they.
Speaker 2: Were so close and they were like kneeling on the
Speaker 2: floor together. I was like, yeah, I you know in
Speaker 2: that moment, mind you, I've seen this so how many times?
Speaker 3: I was like are they gonna kiss? Like I was
Speaker 3: even like.
Speaker 1: I know not no matter how many times you see,
Speaker 1: or like is this gonna be it?
Speaker 2: I also was like where's his hand placement? Like is
Speaker 2: it like on her back? Like I was just so like, oh,
Speaker 2: like first time watcher.
Speaker 1: I did love that storyline. And then at the end
Speaker 1: when Emily gets Loreli to admit that maybe she's got
Speaker 1: some feelings, I did like that part of it. But
Speaker 1: other than.
Speaker 2: That, I did I also thought like the part like
Speaker 2: to tie it all of the what we didn't like,
Speaker 2: and I'll at the end when they're like, oh, Apricot
Speaker 2: ran out, I'm like, so now we're just losing. I
Speaker 2: understand the joke of like we're not pet people, but
Speaker 2: I was just like I don't know. I was just
Speaker 2: like okay, like I don't really care for the storyline
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was interesting. And when Richard and
Speaker 1: Emily were talking about going to Europe and they're like,
Speaker 1: it's just not in the budget every year, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? You guys have no budget.
Speaker 3: That's so true.
Speaker 1: What are they ever worried about money?
Speaker 2: Apparently this episode and that was it, Like they just
Speaker 2: I wonder if the writers were like, let's make them
Speaker 2: like a tad like relatable, yeah, but like one episode
Speaker 2: yeah maybe speaking of just like in general, I didn't
Speaker 2: realize my cousin has never watched Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: She came over and I.
Speaker 2: Had it like on pause in the background, and she's like,
Speaker 2: you know, I've never watched, Like she knows all about it.
Speaker 2: She's like, I've never watched it, and I'm like, are
Speaker 2: you kidding? So she just started and she's on like
Speaker 2: episode five of season one, and I was like.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 2: And she's like, man, Rory's really annoying. And I'm like
Speaker 2: she's good, now keep going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the best of Rory.
Speaker 2: But it's so funny because it reminds me of like
Speaker 2: watching with Danielle. Because Danielle like you know, really didn't
Speaker 2: know what was coming. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: she doesn't know who Logan is. Like my cousin was like,
Speaker 2: I know Mile of Vntimilia isn't it, but like who
Speaker 2: does he play? And I was like, let's just wait
Speaker 2: until you get there, Like it's so exciting to like
Speaker 2: have those conversations.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's fun. We'll have to bring her on her
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Hopefully she keeps going.
Speaker 2: She's she's pretty good at sticking with a show. But
Speaker 2: it's so funny. I sent her a meme of Emily
Speaker 2: and Richard that I on Instagram, and she's like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I need to get to this episode. I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: this is season five, so you gotta keep going. It
Speaker 2: was the take me to Reno quote.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's always a popular one in our house
Speaker 1: because my son goes to school in Reno.
Speaker 3: So we're funny.
Speaker 1: We're always making jokes about that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: I saw the clown pillow.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean the clown pillow basically was a paid
Speaker 2: actor in Seame one.
Speaker 3: He had a spot on the.
Speaker 1: Couch yep, yep until Dean threw his jacket.
Speaker 2: And then in my head, I was like he had
Speaker 2: to have been instructed to throw the jacket on top,
Speaker 2: because if that pillow was that close in the camera shot,
Speaker 2: I'd be looking at the clown the whole time.
Speaker 1: It's true, it was like a third person sitting on
Speaker 1: the couch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a paid actor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Although the plot didn't thrill me. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of cute little cultural pop culture references and a
Speaker 1: few little inconsistencies that I did catch, like clown pillow.
Speaker 1: We got that one, And then in that same scene,
Speaker 1: that same opening scene, the Dean's salad box was opened
Speaker 1: and then it was closed, kind of depending on the take.
Speaker 2: Did you notice the hangars and Luke's diner that I
Speaker 2: pointed out the other day still there?
Speaker 1: Look okay?
Speaker 2: So when he's like before, sorry, I'm jumping around before
Speaker 2: they like go and sit in that corner where his
Speaker 2: dad had written like an order, there's like this like
Speaker 2: rack and it has a bunch of crap on it,
Speaker 2: like okay, and then on the side there are blue
Speaker 2: hagers and those are the same blue hagers. In my head,
Speaker 2: I'm like, was it just me?
Speaker 3: Or was Luke's diner a little messier than usual?
Speaker 1: It seemed dingier, like the balls looked dinny.
Speaker 3: I thought it was just me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that's we're supposed to think, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it needs to be repainted. It looked kind of gross.
Speaker 1: But that order, Like why was his dad kneeling on
Speaker 1: the floor writing orders on the side of the cabinet.
Speaker 2: And also it was in the doorway, so like Luke
Speaker 2: has definitely seen it just walking in out of the
Speaker 2: kitchen a hundred times. Yeah, yeah, I mean I understand
Speaker 2: the point, but it was a bone to pick and
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: Like six inches off the floor, like really like his
Speaker 1: dad would have been sitting on the floor writing on
Speaker 1: the furniture. I didn't. That was a little weird.
Speaker 2: To me, with like a sharp like he found like
Speaker 2: a sharpie, I get, like, I don't know, it was weird.
Speaker 2: And it also threw me off as he was taking
Speaker 2: an order.
Speaker 3: But he owned a.
Speaker 2: Warehouse or sorry, a hardware store. Yeah, so what order
Speaker 2: is he taking?
Speaker 1: Well, it's a small town. He probably would take orders
Speaker 1: and then deliver them later or something.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: But when you say take orders, I feel like we're
Speaker 2: ordering a hamburger and fries.
Speaker 1: Or maybe like set it aside and now you know
Speaker 1: they'll true.
Speaker 2: I think the way he said he took an order,
Speaker 2: I'm like, but he owned a hardware store.
Speaker 1: He didn't own them, right, It's not like the customer
Speaker 1: was standing right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just it was just a funny way
Speaker 3: of warding it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a boom mic in the shot it
Speaker 1: was like bright green, and it's in the scene where
Speaker 1: where Taylor's in the diner and they're talking about repainting
Speaker 1: the diner and laurel Li sings the painting song. So
Speaker 1: right after lorele I says there's trouble in River City
Speaker 1: and it cuts to Luke, you can see like the
Speaker 1: green mic drop into the shot Man.
Speaker 2: Season one had a herd Boom boom operator had a
Speaker 2: rough time, I know.
Speaker 1: So the one of the pop culture references, whether it
Speaker 1: was inadvertent or not, when lorel I says trouble, there's
Speaker 1: trouble in River City. That's from the song from The
Speaker 1: music Man, which was filmed right there on the Warner
Speaker 1: back lot in Stars Hollow. So I just thought that
Speaker 1: was a fun little like music Man, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if you google it, there's a video of
Speaker 1: the song and they they're like, Into's market I'm like,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's not Dosie's marketing. Yeah, sixties, But
Speaker 1: so that was that was a fun little thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see and then bab Bat okay, Babat never disappoints.
Speaker 1: I mean it's always never Yeah, it's always fun to
Speaker 1: see her. I thought it was funny when she came
Speaker 1: into Laureley's kitchen and Lorlai asked her if she wants coffee,
Speaker 1: and she says no, but Lorelei makes her up anyways
Speaker 1: with cream and sugar, and then they finished their conversation
Speaker 1: and she leaves the house with the cup of coffee
Speaker 1: in her hand.
Speaker 3: I love that, honestly. It's such a bad bad thing
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: It's totally a bad bad thing, yeah, larele I, I guess,
Speaker 1: yeah it was, but it was so funny because she
Speaker 1: says no coffee and then Lorelai knows to just make.
Speaker 2: It for Yeah, I did, like I did like Laureley's
Speaker 2: tied eye blue shirt this episode and the black puffer
Speaker 2: that was cute very two thousand and one, Yeah.
Speaker 1: For sure. One other, like minor little inconsistency thing was
Speaker 1: when Rory was feeding the kitten, which it was always
Speaker 1: you know, I love cats, so it was nice to
Speaker 1: see a little orange kitten. But Rory had a mixer,
Speaker 1: you know, like you like a hand mixer, like you
Speaker 1: would mix cake batter or something with I don't know now,
Speaker 1: I have had cats for my entire life, and we
Speaker 1: have never used a mixer. To make cat food.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just hope she's not mixing that with
Speaker 2: whatever she's making for Dean, because she's not a cook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But so the mixer was on the table in
Speaker 1: front of her, and then all of a sudden, like
Speaker 1: the angle changes and it's like on the counter behind her,
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of funny. But I don't
Speaker 1: even know there was a mixer there in the first place.
Speaker 2: I realized that we saw the inside of Babbett's house
Speaker 2: at the wake. Yeah, and because no one was in it,
Speaker 2: it seems so much bigger, Yeah, like like longer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it was you could see like really the
Speaker 1: setup better because it wasn't full of people, like the
Speaker 1: kitchen dining area and then the couch.
Speaker 2: And the the height of everything just still throws me
Speaker 2: off because like, like Dean is tall, like Maury, but
Speaker 2: like who.
Speaker 3: Built a house that short? Right, it doesn't look that
Speaker 3: way from the outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But then when Dean came in the door and
Speaker 1: he had to.
Speaker 3: Like he's like, yeah, I was like, damn, he's tall.
Speaker 3: I mean, he is tall, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just I just love the quirkiness of Marian Badbad
Speaker 1: and like that house just seems to fit them.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, could you imagine, like every time you
Speaker 2: wake up you have to bend your whole body to
Speaker 2: get through another room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he loves her like the show, that's true.
Speaker 1: And then one other fun little background thing I noticed
Speaker 1: was in the scene where they're where Rory and Dean
Speaker 1: are eating the dinner. The song Johnny Angel was playing
Speaker 1: in the background is very soft, and so I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard it or not, but
Speaker 1: that the song was sung by Shelley Fabret, who played
Speaker 1: the daughter in the Donna Reed show.
Speaker 3: Oh a callback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like a little tie into to the
Speaker 1: whole thing. So cool. You know, maybe because Rory researched it,
Speaker 1: maybe she found that out and then that was why
Speaker 1: she picked that music.
Speaker 2: I mean, knowing Amy and Dan, that was yeah planned
Speaker 2: and yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And then let's see what did I have? Oh we
Speaker 1: got a little bit of the Troubadour at the end. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that was good to see him. I got Christopher,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I was just gonna say, so it
Speaker 1: sets up the next episode. Yeah, and Christopher, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I it's kind of icky how she told her to
Speaker 1: take her shirt off with his teenage daughter standing.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, see that was weird. It was really
Speaker 2: hot until he opened his mouth. Yeah you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: Kikky, Like why would you say that in front of
Speaker 1: your teenage daughter and be like you know this is
Speaker 1: how men? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be funny, I guess, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Also, it just made me realize, like, so, okay, when
Speaker 2: you first watch this show, it makes you think that
Speaker 2: Rory has not seen or heard from her dad since
Speaker 2: she was a child. That's how it plays out. Like
Speaker 2: she doesn't recognize him at first. It takes her like
Speaker 2: it there's a.
Speaker 3: There's a pause before she goes.
Speaker 2: Over to him, and then like, also, wouldn't you I
Speaker 2: understand he's wearing a helmet, but like why didn't you
Speaker 2: kind of know like the person's body type, Like yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe not Rory, but like Laura I would like.
Speaker 3: This is someone she's known her whole life. You just
Speaker 3: wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: And then also when he said it right away, like
Speaker 2: you know, his voice right exactly, it just it just
Speaker 2: threw me off, Like I understand. To the viewer, we're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, we got Rory's dad. But then, like
Speaker 2: the show continues and you're like, well, they're not like
Speaker 2: that strange, you know what I mean, Like because this
Speaker 2: doesn't she talk to him all the time supposedly or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, theoretically they call each other, and they've implied before
Speaker 1: that they see each other like on holidays, so I guess,
Speaker 1: say at Richard and Emily's house or something. But I
Speaker 1: definitely did notice that pause before Rory ran up to him,
Speaker 1: because she like she didn't immediately realize it was him.
Speaker 1: So that kind of implies that they probably don't see
Speaker 1: each other very often. But you're right, Laurel, I should
Speaker 1: have recognized his voice.
Speaker 3: And then when he says that his parents just moved.
Speaker 3: Haven't his parents always been there?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He said, he said they came back to Connecticut
Speaker 1: and going to visit them, I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it just was it was just yucky that, like he
Speaker 1: comes to Connecticut to visit his parents but not to
Speaker 1: visit his daughter. I don't know. He's just right, Oh,
Speaker 1: I was good.
Speaker 2: I came to visit my parents and I thought I
Speaker 2: just swing by and see my daughter, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: Like an afterthought, like well, I'm gonna be there anyway,
Speaker 1: so I guess I might as well go see.
Speaker 2: It's like when you go to like I don't know,
Speaker 2: for me, like I go on a work trip to
Speaker 2: New York and I'm like, well, I have friends in
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 3: We should try to make an effort to see them.
Speaker 2: You know. It's like one of those like but my
Speaker 2: child exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: I would make a point to see my child.
Speaker 2: But you know what, that kind of sets up Christopher
Speaker 2: just perfectly in my opinions, I totally agree. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just funny because I wonder if like Amy and
Speaker 2: Dan had this concept of who Christopher is and then
Speaker 2: it changed along the way. But like this initial meeting
Speaker 2: was like yeah, as someone who's viewed the show before,
Speaker 2: we're all just like, okay, well this doesn't seem to
Speaker 2: add up right right.
Speaker 1: And I know I don't want to get to ahead
Speaker 1: because we're going to talk about it in the next episode.
Speaker 1: But Lurlay was not pleased to see him. It's it's
Speaker 1: not like in you know, later on where she's like
Speaker 1: Google eyed over him. She was like, you know, what
Speaker 1: are you doing here? You know?
Speaker 3: Unnounced?
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, I'm kind of surprised that she let Rory
Speaker 2: on the motorcycle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I yeah, I thought she should have protes to
Speaker 1: that a little more. Well, maybe she figures since the
Speaker 1: speed limits only like seventeen.
Speaker 2: It would be you'd like tip over the motorcycle when
Speaker 2: you're at the red light.
Speaker 3: Actually no, there's no red light yet. That comes in
Speaker 3: way later that.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well I think that's all I have.
Speaker 3: Is there anything else ye had?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Not my favorite, but about to get more interesting
Speaker 2: because the next episode is season one, episode fifteen.
Speaker 1: Christopher returns, looking forward to it. That'll be a good conversation.
Speaker 1: We'll see you then meeting adjourn. Hey everybody, and don't forget.
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