Speaker 1: And That's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome to you, and That's what you really miss podcast.
Speaker 3: I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, the one with the bad immunees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm coming to you live with strap throat.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Well, at least we're able to do this mobile.
Speaker 2: We should take it. We should start cataloging the illnesses
Speaker 2: I have during this because if people don't know, fun fact,
Speaker 2: my immune system is non existent.
Speaker 1: Crap.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, and if you talk to anybody that we
Speaker 2: worked with on Glee, they can also tell you that
Speaker 2: because I was.
Speaker 3: Sick all the time, all the time while we were
Speaker 3: also being worked to the bone.
Speaker 1: So it didn't help that we were on like very
Speaker 1: little sleep and.
Speaker 3: Very although do you remember that we used to get
Speaker 3: every once in a while, and maybe this is I'm
Speaker 3: making this up on the show, we would get a
Speaker 3: doctor to calm and give us some be twelve shots
Speaker 3: in the butt while we were having some real rough times.
Speaker 2: I believe there was more tour we did that.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, well and then we did it during waitress
Speaker 3: as well, so maybe that's why my brain.
Speaker 1: But yes, we did love that.
Speaker 2: Do you remember like so singers and performers, we need
Speaker 2: to perform live and sing. Sometimes your voice is gone
Speaker 2: because you're sick or whatever, and so in America it's
Speaker 2: very easy to call up a doctor and get like
Speaker 2: a steroid shot in your butt. Yeah, and it reduces
Speaker 2: the inflammation and you can sing and you're fine, go
Speaker 2: about your business. Do you remember when we were in Manchester,
Speaker 2: England on tour and so many of us were sick
Speaker 2: because it was I think our first like two consecutive
Speaker 2: days off had finally caught up with us. We were ill,
Speaker 2: and then we had the hardest time because you know,
Speaker 2: they don't just give out medicine like like Americans zo right,
Speaker 2: And we had to like scrounge to find a doctor
Speaker 2: who would come. We had to describe what we needed.
Speaker 2: And finally, right before the show, we were in a
Speaker 2: line and just like getting poked with a shot in
Speaker 2: the ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I had something similar on tour.
Speaker 3: I think it was the second one when we were
Speaker 3: here doing staples because I was living in my we
Speaker 3: weren't living together anymore, sad and I lost my voice
Speaker 3: and I called our doctor and he came and had
Speaker 3: to give me a story shot, I had no voice
Speaker 3: at all. I didn't think I was gonna be able
Speaker 3: to get through the tour at all, or we would
Speaker 3: have to use some pre record or something like that
Speaker 3: formed to and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, I'm not doing that. In La You're crazy.
Speaker 3: At Staple Center, all of our like everybody was there,
Speaker 3: like we're singing live, And within twenty minutes of that shot,
Speaker 3: my voice was completely bad for the rest of the night.
Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: We were not vocally prepared to go on tour. My
Speaker 2: voice was gone too fair.
Speaker 3: Look, I think we would have been vocally prepared if
Speaker 3: we weren't out partying as well and like living it up.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not talking about like until five and
Speaker 3: I was talking to like we want to like drinks
Speaker 3: out you know after Yeah, yeah, No, we weren't okay.
Speaker 3: This episode is the beginning of our run with Brad Beaker,
Speaker 3: who was a editor on the show up until this
Speaker 3: point and then got his first episode and this was
Speaker 3: his directorial debut on Glee and it was very exciting.
Speaker 3: Brad Baker would go on to direct many, many many episodes.
Speaker 3: We should have him on the show. And he continued
Speaker 3: to work with Ryan forever.
Speaker 2: He ended up getting some of the more difficult logistical
Speaker 2: episodes that we've mentioned before.
Speaker 1: Because they knows how to do yes.
Speaker 2: And you watch his episodes and there's no fluff, like
Speaker 2: he only shot what you needed, and so it was
Speaker 2: the days were usually pretty short or on time with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unless it was one of the like regional's resectionals
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 1: But he did that a lot too.
Speaker 3: So this is season two, episode six, Never Been Kissed,
Speaker 3: and the the original airdate was November ninth, twenty ten,
Speaker 3: so we are almost in Thanksgiving time.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: This is a gigantic episode for several reasons. Okay, but
Speaker 2: before we get into that, right, let's tease it with
Speaker 2: the state of the world. So the number one song
Speaker 2: was we Are Who We Are by Key Dollar sign
Speaker 2: h Kesha. Number one movie was Due Date with Robert
Speaker 2: Dwren Junior and Zach Gothnakis. But more importantly, the best
Speaker 2: news this week is that Glee the Music the Christmas
Speaker 2: Album was released on this same day the episode aired.
Speaker 2: It was the fourth soundtrack by the Glee cast, and
Speaker 2: it went platinum. Baby the Albums Christmas Album at number
Speaker 2: one of the Billboard Soundtracks chart, compeaked at number three
Speaker 2: on the Billboard two hundred.
Speaker 1: What.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was I believe our most successful album ever
Speaker 2: because Christmas music is going to do it to you.
Speaker 2: And I gotta say, Cam Davis and everyone just like smashed.
Speaker 3: It, right, also like h for sure, and then also
Speaker 3: like you still hear Glee Christmas music everywhere every season,
Speaker 3: Like do you also remember that this year this was
Speaker 3: the TV Guide We made the twenty ten hot list
Speaker 3: on tv Guide and we shot Glee covers, we sure did,
Speaker 3: and you, me and Harry were on a gleek went
Speaker 3: on the tv Guide cover.
Speaker 2: You know, thinking back about those things, like you see
Speaker 2: that getting on a tv Guide cover, getting any cover
Speaker 2: is a really big deal. It is hard, it is rare.
Speaker 2: But when we're shooting so many hours, this all the
Speaker 2: planning for that happens and we have no idea that
Speaker 2: it's happening. And then we get like ushered into We're
Speaker 2: told at some point like, oh, there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: photo shoot for tv Guide, right, and then we get
Speaker 2: ushered into one of the sound stages connected to our
Speaker 2: main sound stages, and there's a little setup and we
Speaker 2: have about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: And they did multiple covers, so there was like Finn
Speaker 3: and Rachel, there was our our Love Triangle, There's a
Speaker 3: Quinn and Puck and all of these ones. But yes,
Speaker 3: it usually like a cover shoot takes a whole weekend
Speaker 3: and there's a lot, a lot that isn't integrated into
Speaker 3: the preparation and the shoot itself.
Speaker 1: But we literally were like, it's like a blink of
Speaker 1: an eye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and next thing you know, like, oh, we're on
Speaker 2: the cover of TV gunt. You don't even real it's
Speaker 2: in the middle of your workdays. You don't even realize
Speaker 2: what's happening.
Speaker 3: It is one of my favorite covers though, my favorite
Speaker 3: photos that I have. Yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 2: I love it and I love that I got to share
Speaker 2: it with the two of you. That was special. It
Speaker 2: was party. They had a TV Guide party that we
Speaker 2: went to.
Speaker 3: Vaguely it was at the Sols Hotel. It was at
Speaker 3: the W Oh the w that's right. It was on
Speaker 3: the roof, right, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what what it was? It was messy, was it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: There was somebody else that I'm friends with on another show.
Speaker 2: Oh and she had a little too much, you know.
Speaker 2: It happens and we were all trying to avoid her,
Speaker 2: and Amber was like, you guys are terrible people. I'm
Speaker 2: walking her to her car and I was like, you're
Speaker 2: an excellent, excellent person, Amber, your.
Speaker 1: Parents are really branding. And I was like, I want
Speaker 1: no party.
Speaker 2: No, it was really embarrassing. I'm like, we're at literally
Speaker 2: a TV Guide party.
Speaker 1: This is where a house party.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know what to do. But
Speaker 2: I met Brandy. Do you remember we met Brandy?
Speaker 1: Amber was you wouldn't remember.
Speaker 2: Oh my, I embarrassed myself so hard, but we met Brandy.
Speaker 2: I even think I got her number somehow, and she's like,
Speaker 2: I want to come to stop And I think I
Speaker 2: tried to arrange for her to come to set some point,
Speaker 2: but it never obviously happened.
Speaker 1: But I, oh.
Speaker 2: Was I star strike, Like I also needed to be
Speaker 2: walked out to my car because it.
Speaker 3: Started out I probably scored it. You out okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: So this is a big episode because this is the
Speaker 3: beginning of Brad Peeker. As I said, it is also
Speaker 3: the debut of Darren Chris, which we will get into.
Speaker 3: We would meet Blatane for the first time. We also have.
Speaker 2: Some pretty heavy Max Adler.
Speaker 1: Got a lot more.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've got a lot more for Coach Beast as well,
Speaker 3: and at Ray Jones, who this is her first stuff
Speaker 3: with like all the all of the Glee Club, Dot
Speaker 3: actually received an Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Speaker 3: nod for her work on the second season, and they
Speaker 3: submitted this episode.
Speaker 2: Because Dot was excellent in this episode.
Speaker 1: She's an angel like I also love.
Speaker 2: So this is the return of Puck after got punished
Speaker 2: irl releasing an album. He's now back and has a
Speaker 2: gigantic storyline.
Speaker 1: So I would say that let's start.
Speaker 3: This is where we've set the precedent that usually if
Speaker 3: a cast member gets in trouble, leaves, acts out, does something,
Speaker 3: they usually come back and they get a huge difference.
Speaker 2: I will say when we allude to people getting away
Speaker 2: with things, and we're not here to be gossipy, however,
Speaker 2: but when we allude to if people act up or
Speaker 2: get away with things, they don't get punished, this is
Speaker 2: sort of what we're referring to where a lot of times,
Speaker 2: like Jenna and I would feel like, do we need
Speaker 2: to start acting crazy crazy? And then we get a
Speaker 2: storyline out of it because it seemed like the squeaky
Speaker 2: wheel sort of.
Speaker 1: Thing got yeah, the gold yeah, and so.
Speaker 2: But you know, we weren't really anyway. So you know,
Speaker 2: Puck gets a big storyline, and I'm involved in storylines,
Speaker 2: So no complaints.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny that you also said like, I
Speaker 3: don't really remember this episode. I didn't either, to be fair,
Speaker 3: but you were all over this no recollection.
Speaker 1: Did you remember as it started? You were like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is that episode.
Speaker 2: Yes. What I remember about it is two scenes.
Speaker 1: One love, one Love and the.
Speaker 2: Scene in the hallway where already convinces Puck to let
Speaker 2: Lady sort of rehabilitate Puck to him and we do
Speaker 2: that really inappropriate hand finger thing.
Speaker 3: And David literally gave me his hands last night and
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously that was Mark's idea, and we were like
Speaker 2: it got kept. Yeah, We're like, should we do this?
Speaker 2: And no one knew what it meant. You know, the
Speaker 2: adults on set didn't know what it meant. So it's
Speaker 2: our handshake.
Speaker 3: Stop stop, I know, you know, teenagers. Yeah, teenagers. Okay,
Speaker 3: sorry I interrupted you before. Was there something else I
Speaker 3: want to say?
Speaker 2: No, there was those two scenes. That's all I remember.
Speaker 2: But I think what I also remember leading up to
Speaker 2: this episode is we had heard that there was going
Speaker 2: to be a new We heard about the Warblers, right.
Speaker 2: I remember us being in the ten Sad and Dance
Speaker 2: rehearsal and remember knowing that there was another singing group
Speaker 2: coming on, but it was all sort of like hush hush,
Speaker 2: like we were busy to filming the episode before, we
Speaker 2: didn't really know what was happening. They were casting, and
Speaker 2: then Zach I think it was Zach came in and said,
Speaker 2: this song you're doing is really good, and we all
Speaker 2: crowded around and he played it for us, and we
Speaker 2: were all sort of envious because it was such a great,
Speaker 2: great cover reminiscent of you know, the original don't Stuff
Speaker 2: Believing with those backgrounds yep. And I just remember like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is going to be huge, Like this is so
Speaker 2: so good, And we were just really excited to like
Speaker 2: see what the Warblers were going to be because we
Speaker 2: did not know at all that they were going to
Speaker 2: be around permanently, yeah, or anything like that. So it
Speaker 2: was an exciting, exciting time when we all got to
Speaker 2: meet Darren, and it was also fun to get to
Speaker 2: see Max Adler get to act.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when when Darren came on set he
Speaker 3: was wearing pink sunglasses. He always wore those pink sunglasses,
Speaker 3: and he showed up in a Michigan T shirt. I
Speaker 3: was dating somebody at the time who had also gone
Speaker 3: to Michigan or from that's right, and knew Darren, and
Speaker 3: so I went up to Darren was like, we have
Speaker 3: mutual friends. He was also kind of in the musical
Speaker 3: theater scene. I mean he definitely was not kind of
Speaker 3: he was in the musical theater theater scene as well.
Speaker 3: So like the names were being thrown, I was like,
Speaker 3: I know of this kid, and he had done so
Speaker 3: much before already that like in his own you know, original.
Speaker 1: Making way that he does and.
Speaker 2: The Harry Potter of it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And so I remember like him coming
Speaker 3: on to set and being like, oh, I kind of
Speaker 3: know you, but I didn't know he was going to
Speaker 3: be Kurt's boyfriend yet.
Speaker 2: I I didn't know him at all. I he just
Speaker 2: like came on and felt like he had always sort
Speaker 2: of been there, Yes, that's right, but it felt different.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is like the start of
Speaker 2: like Kurt getting a boyfriend is going to be a
Speaker 2: really big deal totally, and so it was. It was
Speaker 2: so interesting that I have somebody knew come on and
Speaker 2: take on that responsibility because we had been living in
Speaker 2: that world and seeing how Chris gets approached publicly by
Speaker 2: fan and how much Kurt means to people, and then
Speaker 2: to have somebody come on, like, I hope you're prepared
Speaker 2: for this, because it's going to ye totally.
Speaker 1: If there's anybody that was prepared for it, it was Darren
Speaker 1: say that he.
Speaker 2: Can just handle it like he's it all just rolls
Speaker 2: off the.
Speaker 3: Back, literally, nothing fazes him.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the songs in this episode.
Speaker 2: We have one Love by Bob Marley, Teenage Dream by
Speaker 2: Katy Perry, Start Me Up, Living on a Prayer by
Speaker 2: Rolling Zones, and bon Jovie. I mean, the girls smashed
Speaker 2: it like it's so good and you sound great on it,
Speaker 2: and I have issues with it, and I'll point them
Speaker 2: out when we get there. Stop with the Name of Love,
Speaker 2: Saush for your Mind, Mashup Supremes.
Speaker 1: And Vogue, So good, so good it was.
Speaker 3: It's a weird one, but yeah, I love we loved
Speaker 3: that one. Shooting you guys shooting that one We loved.
Speaker 2: You loved Chord. Chord was still new, and I remember
Speaker 2: Cord stepping out for his solo and all of you
Speaker 2: literally gasped and giggled and started like what you're doing
Speaker 2: right now? Your hands on your face. There was no acting.
Speaker 2: Everyone was so enamored with Cord, like he's our little
Speaker 2: baby brother.
Speaker 3: Yes, like a little puffy, so charming and so cute, and.
Speaker 2: You guys melted and it was crazy.
Speaker 1: We were surprised, though.
Speaker 3: I think he came out of nowhere and he like,
Speaker 3: he just fit in with you guys, like you guys
Speaker 3: all hold this like very high standard of like being
Speaker 3: yourselves and these things like Corey looks like a fool dancing,
Speaker 3: but he's so committed and it's so cute, and everybody
Speaker 3: looked that way, and Cord just like fit right in
Speaker 3: with that, and I was like, wow, he really feels
Speaker 3: comfortable here and that that's awesome. But yes, we were
Speaker 3: totally smith.
Speaker 2: I also feel like the girls didn't have as nearly
Speaker 2: as much time with cord A at this point as
Speaker 2: all the boys did. There was a lot of boy
Speaker 2: centric scenes with him, and so this was sort of
Speaker 2: like we know we had done numbers with him without
Speaker 2: you guys, so right.
Speaker 1: And then you rehearsed all this stuff with him, and
Speaker 1: so you had a lot more time with this. But
Speaker 1: he's so the sweetest. The whole number was just so cute.
Speaker 1: You guys all looked really great. All right.
Speaker 3: So the episode summary of this this episode is a
Speaker 3: big part of it was that Kurt makes a new friend.
Speaker 1: In a new glee club and a new school while
Speaker 1: he continues to deal with Karowski bullying him at McKinley.
Speaker 1: Finn and Sam come up with this idea to use
Speaker 1: Coach Beast for a way to cool down.
Speaker 3: And it it Beast finds out, gets her to quit,
Speaker 3: and Tine is also involved in.
Speaker 1: That, and then Puck and Alaradie strike up in unlikely friendship.
Speaker 1: Where do you want to begin?
Speaker 2: I mean, okay, let's talk about I mean the story
Speaker 2: this episode is really crazy because I think when people
Speaker 2: think about this episode generally, all that you really remember
Speaker 2: is the Warblers, right, Darren getting introduced, Kasi bullying Kurt
Speaker 2: and kissing him, and like that's sort of the main
Speaker 2: thing because that has ramifications throughout the rest of the series.
Speaker 2: But somehow this show The Bumper is Finn and Sam
Speaker 2: talking about how they found these two girls who won't
Speaker 2: sleep with them, basically, and Finn's like, well, what I
Speaker 2: do to stop myself from going all the way? And
Speaker 2: we have a great callback to at the very beginning
Speaker 2: of the show have the mamman on the windshield, and
Speaker 2: so Finn basically is like, look, you need to find
Speaker 2: your own thing. And so in that moment, Coach Beast
Speaker 2: is yelling at Artie and she's picking a wedgie and
Speaker 2: Sam was like, great, I found my thing. This very
Speaker 2: quickly spirals out of control because then Sam goes to
Speaker 2: mentally use Beast in this way when he is hooking
Speaker 2: up with Quinn shortly after, but he says out loud
Speaker 2: Beast and she gets. Quinn's not happy about it. But
Speaker 2: then the boys tell the other boys aka Mike Chang,
Speaker 2: who then tells his girlfriend Tina, and so Tina's like, oh,
Speaker 2: let's see, let's see if like this is actually true.
Speaker 2: Let's put it to the test. But it's not Mike
Speaker 2: who's the one that needs it. Tina, Tina a la
Speaker 2: Sam a couple of scenes earlier, closes her eyes and
Speaker 2: thinks of Beast it's like saying, it's like, close your
Speaker 2: eyes and think of England. The whole time I was like,
Speaker 2: close your eyes and think of Beast, and all of
Speaker 2: these incredible shots of Dot Marie Jones doing different thing
Speaker 2: with a ballet are smarting the meat.
Speaker 1: It is so good.
Speaker 3: It's so good. She does such it's so it's very
Speaker 3: like Niptucky. You know, it looks very niptucky to me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just Dot Dot the amazing actress and hilarious angel.
Speaker 2: I have to say, I think this is some of
Speaker 2: your finest work. You are hilarious. You and Harry are hilarious.
Speaker 2: And this this little nuggle that's like sprinkled in this
Speaker 2: episode and you guys eat it up and I love
Speaker 2: that it's you. And like in that scene at the end,
Speaker 2: you know when well before we get there. So what
Speaker 2: happens is Quinn is obviously upset about it, goes to
Speaker 2: Sue and is like, I don't know what to do
Speaker 2: because clearly Sam is hooking up with Coach Beast, and
Speaker 2: Sue is like, well, I'm looking away to get her fired,
Speaker 2: so you need to publicly confront him and make it loud,
Speaker 2: and she does, and Coach Beast hears it and gets
Speaker 2: yell at all, so by Mike Chang to stay away
Speaker 2: from his girlfriend, and so Will finds out right and
Speaker 2: Will confronts the glee club and says the boys and
Speaker 2: and girl in your face, Like it's such an insane storyline,
Speaker 2: but I love it because it's so high school.
Speaker 1: It is very high school.
Speaker 2: It's very inappropriate, and leave.
Speaker 3: It, chick, Tina to have like the weird to be the.
Speaker 2: Also your costume, like your costumes.
Speaker 3: This episode these This was the moment, Kevin, This was
Speaker 3: the moment. This is the turning point. Well maybe not,
Speaker 3: we're getting there. Actually that's a lie. But this was
Speaker 3: on the way to that moment where I thought I
Speaker 3: can't do this anymore. But yes, my costumes were getting
Speaker 3: more extreme.
Speaker 2: Yeah they looked really cool though. Yeah yeah they With
Speaker 2: Kurt when he first gets pushed in your.
Speaker 1: On his outfit, I mean, are you joking?
Speaker 2: No, Train, but your outfit was just as good, like
Speaker 2: you both were like fashion, fashion.
Speaker 3: Fashion, fair, fair, fair, fair fair. Yeah, this was lou
Speaker 3: like giving her her moment to these.
Speaker 2: Guys really getting to play.
Speaker 3: I feel like Tina and Kurt, you can't do that
Speaker 3: on which is like, yeah, so Will finds out, and
Speaker 3: so Beast confronts Will.
Speaker 1: About it because she trusts him and she's the only
Speaker 1: person who she can trust in this school.
Speaker 2: And I Will so much together, you know, like they
Speaker 2: have like a really sweet friendship.
Speaker 1: They do.
Speaker 3: They do they and it's nice that they have each other.
Speaker 3: They're like kind of the underdogs outsiders, like like he
Speaker 3: says in the show.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like when she first entered the scene, Sue
Speaker 2: tried to get Will to use her as a common enemy,
Speaker 2: like they're like enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Speaker 2: But really, I mean their collective enemy is Sue Sue.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they have that bomb strengthen numbers.
Speaker 1: That's right, crazy Sue, which we'll talk about her competti
Speaker 1: se Well. Will decides to give a chur straight I mean,
Speaker 1: not comfortably or willingly, but he feels like it's probably
Speaker 1: the right thing to do based on their trust.
Speaker 3: And she she takes it very personally as one would.
Speaker 1: And and it leads her to quit the quit her
Speaker 1: position as coach Beast. Then we get to the scene
Speaker 1: where he is a summoned by a note from Becky
Speaker 1: to go to the auditorium to meet Sue. Sue is celebrating.
Speaker 1: She says, do you notice the cannons, I've gotten my
Speaker 1: budget back. We guys, coach Beast quit because of your
Speaker 1: glee club. Your glee club did this, these mean children.
Speaker 1: And then the confetti cans explained.
Speaker 2: She has a great line too, about you know, songs
Speaker 2: about being ugly or whatever it is that you guys
Speaker 2: do in there.
Speaker 1: It's just so good, and.
Speaker 3: The confetti cans explode, and Sue's laugh is just even
Speaker 3: when you hate Sue so much, then the scenes are
Speaker 3: so freaking funny.
Speaker 2: I remember them shooting that scene or talking about shooting
Speaker 2: that scene, how they were going to do it with
Speaker 2: the cleanup, like you need to get it once one.
Speaker 1: It's like a slushy.
Speaker 3: I really try to go for it once because that
Speaker 3: was a lot of confetti.
Speaker 2: Oh, and that confetti gets everywhere.
Speaker 3: We would notice Will's each shot, his confetti's like a
Speaker 3: little bit different because like confetti's like like glitter, you
Speaker 3: can't like always quite get it right, but it's everywhere.
Speaker 3: So Will tells the glee club that Beast quit and
Speaker 3: the glee club is surprised, not sure why. I guess
Speaker 3: we're kids, so we're surprised. But he everybody is very upset,
Speaker 3: and so Finn and Sam go apologize, and Will goes
Speaker 3: to actually find Beasts and tries to talk to her
Speaker 3: as well and says, the kids really love you and
Speaker 3: they are really sorry, and.
Speaker 1: And then this scene. Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3: I remember reading it in the script and thinking like,
Speaker 3: do we have to but I do. Look, it feels
Speaker 3: like it was threading the needle to Kurt and having
Speaker 3: never been kissed and Beast never been kissed, and it
Speaker 3: was like that was the point, see to get to.
Speaker 3: All the rest was kind of getting there, which was
Speaker 3: actually better than this point. See that happened. But okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's so uncomfortable. I know, it's just strange. This is
Speaker 3: not necessary, like.
Speaker 2: She want you to be her first kiss, like sir,
Speaker 2: that's pretty presumptuous.
Speaker 1: But Will was doing he was opening the door for
Speaker 1: her to then actually just of men. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's so weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just very the whole scene. I was like, no, no,
Speaker 2: don't do it, because I couldn't really remember, but I
Speaker 2: felt like he was going to do it, because of
Speaker 2: course he would.
Speaker 3: And then he did it, and I was like I
Speaker 3: was dreading it I was dreading it, but but it
Speaker 3: was an important scene with or without the kiss.
Speaker 1: Yes, for Dot and Beast to.
Speaker 3: Be vulnerable reveal these things, it really makes you love
Speaker 3: her even more and see the softer side of her
Speaker 3: and kind of understand her because on the on the
Speaker 3: outside you she is not your typical female coach and
Speaker 3: so like just to see her as like open up.
Speaker 1: And to understand her more was really great for the show.
Speaker 2: I also thought it was interesting because in an episode
Speaker 2: that you have two introduction of two more gay characters,
Speaker 2: you then have her state I'm not gay, right. It
Speaker 2: was like they probably they got to clear it up
Speaker 2: for people. It's like, not every character in the show
Speaker 2: now is going to be gay. We do have some
Speaker 2: straight characters.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, definitely, even though Dot is gay right exactly
Speaker 3: in real.
Speaker 2: But Darren and Max aren't. So you had to balance
Speaker 2: it out. You know, we were all playing different characters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're actors. Actors.
Speaker 2: So to get Beasts to not quit, the boys perform
Speaker 2: their mashup and apologize for Beasts in the choir room
Speaker 2: to try to get her to smile because she's such
Speaker 2: a good smile and we do our mash up. You
Speaker 2: know where the girls lost their mind for one quart
Speaker 2: over Street understandable.
Speaker 1: So wonderful, What a wonderful number.
Speaker 3: I loved the number. I loved the mashup, I loved
Speaker 3: the performance. I loved the costumes. I thought it was
Speaker 3: so cute and so charming. It's just wonderful. I love
Speaker 3: boyf versus girls.
Speaker 2: I do too. It was it was a really weird
Speaker 2: it was. I remember recording it and they had all
Speaker 2: these like really intense back up. I mean, my ad
Speaker 2: libs don't like Michael Jackson like aggressive, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, you were on that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I remember, like Corey, Corey assumed that
Speaker 2: every ad lib was just mine. When we were filming.
Speaker 2: I was like, Corey, that's your voice. Was like, yeah, Corey,
Speaker 2: that's that's you. He's like I did that. I was like,
Speaker 2: what you must have. And I remember bringing him over
Speaker 2: to the sound and you can solo out all the things.
Speaker 2: I'm like, can you solo these? Because I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: that's Corey and that's not me, and yeah, and that's I.
Speaker 3: Remember that they pulled the wall out for this one
Speaker 3: when they were shooting it, and I remember it being
Speaker 3: very efficient the way that Brad Beeker shot this.
Speaker 1: And that was with.
Speaker 3: Us, and you guys were just really cute, really really cute.
Speaker 2: Well, I can't wait to talk about yours. Let's get
Speaker 2: into that.
Speaker 1: Yeaheah, let's talk about that.
Speaker 3: So along with this whole never Been Kissed storyline with
Speaker 3: Beast Shoe has the competition list for Sectionals and that's
Speaker 3: how the Warbars are introduced. And then we get into Dalton.
Speaker 3: But the assignment for the week is boys versus Girls,
Speaker 3: and the tournament is announced and the girls come up. Well,
Speaker 3: then it gets kind of switched up, right. Everybody's kind
Speaker 3: of bored with that whole idea. So mister Sue decides
Speaker 3: that the girls have to do something that the boys
Speaker 3: would normally do, and the boys have to do something
Speaker 3: that the girls would normally do. Yeah, and so it
Speaker 3: just adds another level, another, an extra challenge, an added
Speaker 3: challenge to the tournament.
Speaker 2: On attempt to really like appease Kirk because he's just
Speaker 2: getting abused left, right and centered by Karowski and so
Speaker 2: he wants to be with the girls. Will's really adamant
Speaker 2: no and has this like really good one on one
Speaker 2: with him, and through that then decides to give the
Speaker 2: girls and boys an extra challenge like you said, right,
Speaker 2: but when you guys do your number, I was so
Speaker 2: excited to watch this because yeah, because even though you
Speaker 2: guys weren't on Vitamin D.
Speaker 1: We looked like it energy you know, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: You didn't forget that, and everyone is singing in it.
Speaker 2: So here's my problem with this number. Tell me every
Speaker 2: time you sing, the camera's never on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens a lot, and I.
Speaker 2: Was really pissed because you sound really good and you
Speaker 2: don't get to sing like rock music that often.
Speaker 1: Thanks, it happens a lot.
Speaker 2: But I will say I think there was. I think
Speaker 2: it was an editing thing because it happened several times
Speaker 2: where the camera was not on the person singing.
Speaker 1: Yes fair. I think Badger had to get used to
Speaker 1: that also perhaps, but also additionally, mine were riffs, right,
Speaker 1: A lot of my stuff was riffs, or maybe just
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 3: It was like leads on the choruses, like we were
Speaker 3: featured voices, and that's so much like every two that's right,
Speaker 3: that's right, it would.
Speaker 1: Be me and then Leah, I mean and Leah, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I forgot I sang on this.
Speaker 1: I was like is that my voice? Again? Kind of
Speaker 1: like Corey, You're like, did I do that?
Speaker 3: But but yes, fair enough that I was like a
Speaker 3: lot of the time, you wouldn't know that I sang
Speaker 3: out a lot of these.
Speaker 2: Well, also happens soon we forget because if we only
Speaker 2: have four or five a song, we go record that
Speaker 2: in about fifteen minutes, and then we go about a
Speaker 2: day and forget. Yeah, we completely forget.
Speaker 3: Yes, So more importantly in this, in this kind of
Speaker 3: storyline with the tournament, was is Kurt being bullied to
Speaker 3: no end by Krofsky? Really unhappy? It's just not manageable
Speaker 3: or sustainable violence.
Speaker 2: It's really how he's getting.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised that, Like mister, She's like, is there anything
Speaker 3: I can do?
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, get him out of here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: And so Kurt goes to visit Dalton and he has
Speaker 3: a whole new experience and he needs Blaine, who is
Speaker 3: also gay and out in his school. And not everybody's
Speaker 3: gay Dalton, but there are more game and that are
Speaker 3: out and you know, probably there than McKinley, and as.
Speaker 2: Blaine says, they're rock stars. So everything that Kurt wants
Speaker 2: is represented. The Warblers in a Blaine, it is something
Speaker 2: that he didn't even know existed, and you get to
Speaker 2: see him finally meeting another out gay person his age
Speaker 2: and like the weight that he's been carrying every day
Speaker 2: at his school and also at his own school when
Speaker 2: we were all teamed up for the boys, the boys
Speaker 2: aren't particularly nice or supportive of him at all, and
Speaker 2: so he's completely abandoned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was now watching this also as a viewer
Speaker 3: teenage dream which became like a don't Stop where it
Speaker 3: was like almost played too much. We heard it too
Speaker 3: much after a while, right, it was like definitely running
Speaker 3: to the ground, like don't stop. I watched you Garan't
Speaker 3: do that and I was like, oh my god, what
Speaker 3: a stunner, Like don't very charmed by him. I as Blaine, Like,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I got to having some distance from it. I could
Speaker 2: understand it better now, I think when it was happening,
Speaker 2: because the number when we started, like don't Stop Believing
Speaker 2: was a very simple number, right, but it was so
Speaker 2: charming and worked really well. But by the point that
Speaker 2: we got to this episode, we had done Rocky Horror
Speaker 2: and Madonna and Brittany and our numbers were out of
Speaker 2: control and they were great and big and expensive. And
Speaker 2: then to have Teenage Dream come along that was sort
Speaker 2: of like a reset where it's very simple, there's not
Speaker 2: a lot of choreography, and it's one hundred charm And
Speaker 2: I think at the time I was confused as to
Speaker 2: why it was so popular, Like I knew the cover
Speaker 2: was good, was like.
Speaker 1: This performance is fine, right.
Speaker 2: But watching it now, like also I would have died
Speaker 2: if I was a viewer. I tried to consume as
Speaker 2: much gay media as possible, there was not a lot
Speaker 2: of it, and watching them run through the halls in
Speaker 2: slow motion holding hands, I know I would have been
Speaker 2: obsessed with this.
Speaker 3: I was, really I was really obsessed with it. When
Speaker 3: I watched it last night, I was like, this could
Speaker 3: have seemed so cheesy or corny in some viewers, like
Speaker 3: in in one point in time, but like I get it.
Speaker 2: Now, but also like that's great. Let it be cheesy,
Speaker 2: like this was on Fox at eight PM. And to
Speaker 2: have even if two thousand and nine or corny romantic
Speaker 2: gay storyline of high schoolers, I love that. Like whether
Speaker 2: it's good or bad or everything in between, right, like
Speaker 2: letting the whole group of people have that shown on
Speaker 2: the show that was watched by families was really special.
Speaker 1: I also will say like the blame storyline in this
Speaker 1: episode had so much substance to it with Kurt, or
Speaker 1: rather the Kurt storyline in this episode with meeting him
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, I just I really appreciative
Speaker 1: of it. And having Kurt have somebody else in his
Speaker 1: corner other than his dad and like the semi the
Speaker 1: glee club, but not really like another gay man like
Speaker 1: in his corner, Yeah, encouraging him and supporting him, Like
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what that would have been like for
Speaker 1: somebody who was either closeted or the only gay person
Speaker 1: out in their school or feeling like hurt in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, to have like a Blaine or a
Speaker 1: hero in their life, like I you know, you imagine people. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really I just thought it was like really
Speaker 1: well done and important to have.
Speaker 2: And it was nice to see them. They're pretty opposite
Speaker 2: in their characters as well. Yeah, And so Krosky's abusing
Speaker 2: Kurt continuously this episode, and then when Blaine comes around,
Speaker 2: Blaine's like, you know, you just got to stand up
Speaker 2: to him, courage, and so after getting shoved for the
Speaker 2: eight billionth time, Kurt follows Krossky into the boy's locker
Speaker 2: room and calls him out and is like, what the
Speaker 2: hell is your problem? In this really powerful, serious scene, right,
Speaker 2: and it's really going at it and just like punch me.
Speaker 2: You're not going to punch the gay out of me?
Speaker 1: Like ooh wow, yeah, some writing, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then Kroofski grabs Kurt's face and kisses him, and
Speaker 2: Kurt is.
Speaker 1: Stunned, as I think all the viewers probably.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we find out one that that was Kurt's
Speaker 2: first kiss.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But he also immediately goes to tell Blaine about this
Speaker 2: whole experience, and Blaine shows up at McKinley to confront
Speaker 2: Kroski with him, right, And it's very like sort of
Speaker 2: Darren in this where it's like low key about it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like I completely see through you, Like it's not that
Speaker 2: big of a deal, Like this is who you are.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of us, You're not alone, and that
Speaker 2: you're acting out because you don't know what to do
Speaker 2: with it, all right, and Karowski is stunned, silent, and
Speaker 2: you have this really beautiful scene that sets up their
Speaker 2: relationship and that stairwell where they are so different, and
Speaker 2: Kurt's sitting there in the midst he's never been kissed before,
Speaker 2: and Blaine is just like, a right, let's get a lunch.
Speaker 2: He doesn't play into it at all, but is there
Speaker 2: for him. He doesn't have to say all the other
Speaker 2: things because he's been through it before and we haven't
Speaker 2: seen that yet, which it's nice to be able to
Speaker 2: see that, but it also you know, it's now shown
Speaker 2: Kurt another world and going back to McKinley to the
Speaker 2: same old is going to be difficult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, stay two, stay tune.
Speaker 3: Okay, So before we get in, before we end this episode,
Speaker 3: my god, there's a huge storyline we haven't all right.
Speaker 3: So Puck comes back from his his time off on
Speaker 3: the show, and Ju went to Jubi and he comes
Speaker 3: out and he's got this whole facade on that like,
Speaker 3: you know whatever, they're scared of me. But we've come
Speaker 3: to find out that he hates that place and is
Speaker 3: never going back. So he makes already his community service
Speaker 3: so he doesn't have to go back, and says that
Speaker 3: there's a crip or.
Speaker 1: Something, which I was like, okay, now, let's not But.
Speaker 2: Later the probation officers that that Puck said he was
Speaker 2: hanging with the crip, but he meant cripple and.
Speaker 1: A gang member, like a reformed gang. Yeah. Yeah, so.
Speaker 3: He takes he takes already on and and he's going
Speaker 3: to help you. I don't know he's going to treat
Speaker 3: you like can unity service, which is an issue, but okay, I.
Speaker 2: Mean it seems grateful because I already needs some social
Speaker 2: help and Puck seems to be able to do anything
Speaker 2: he wants. Right. Yes, I don't know how this busking
Speaker 2: scene happened.
Speaker 3: Okay, first, I don't know where the idea came from.
Speaker 3: But I was like, okay, now we're in the courtyard
Speaker 3: of Bernstein and they're doing a number. Now, remind me
Speaker 3: about this day, Kevin, because I do remember that it
Speaker 3: was raining, and I think I saw you after this
Speaker 3: scene was shot and you.
Speaker 1: Were like, it was raining all day. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: did it anyway.
Speaker 3: Now, normally on the show, if it's raining outside, we
Speaker 3: will cancel the day, or we will change a scene
Speaker 3: and do something in interior and do it another day.
Speaker 1: Tell me about this day.
Speaker 2: No, we were not canceling. And also you know it
Speaker 2: was one of the seven days that it rains of
Speaker 2: the year, and I think one of those days you
Speaker 2: have a huge location, you have all of these background actors.
Speaker 2: And also that day was if you notice by the
Speaker 2: weather the curtain Blaine scene in the stairwell with Korowski
Speaker 2: because it's everything is all wet still, and so I
Speaker 2: think it was just a light drizzle. So we shot
Speaker 2: when we could really quickly. It's a really simple number.
Speaker 2: And also Brad Beeker is pretty expeditious and like, there's
Speaker 2: rain on my glasses and a lot of oh yeah,
Speaker 2: which is like not a great look when you have
Speaker 2: thin hair, and we just did it. I mean, I
Speaker 2: love this song. I love this version of the song.
Speaker 2: Watching it in the episode of Lotokle confused as to
Speaker 2: why it was happening, and Artie can just look at
Speaker 2: a bunch of ones and no, it's three hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: But you know, I either here nor there. But my
Speaker 2: favorite part of this whole storyline is already admits the
Speaker 2: Puck that he was dating Brittany and he wants to
Speaker 2: get her back, and he's like, great, we'll go on
Speaker 2: double date with Santana and Brittany and myself and you
Speaker 2: and you just had to follow my lead, do the
Speaker 2: opposite of your instincts. And so there's that scene where
Speaker 2: we go in and we're really terrible to Brittany and Santana,
Speaker 2: but Heather and Nyo were so funny, so funny.
Speaker 1: And so funny.
Speaker 2: They ate it up and we could to do this
Speaker 2: really fun scene at Breadsticks, which I never got to
Speaker 2: spend that much time in. So I was very excited.
Speaker 1: Where are you now?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I didn't know. I didn't know the Nightmare
Speaker 2: of bread Sticks. Okay, this is my introduction to the
Speaker 2: Nightmare of bread Sticks. And we got do the scene
Speaker 2: and it was insane and also already doesn't have a
Speaker 2: lot of redeeming moments, but him paying the bill not
Speaker 2: running out, I was thankful for. And then basically it
Speaker 2: all comes crumbling down because Puck is pitching to the
Speaker 2: girls into already that he was this macho man and
Speaker 2: nobody messed with him in Juvie and it was so
Speaker 2: easy he could go back anytime. But then he gets
Speaker 2: called out by the probation officer and is given an
Speaker 2: ultimatum of twenty four hours to actually find community service
Speaker 2: or you're going back to Juvie and then AARTI confronts
Speaker 2: him and says you you're acting insane, basically that you
Speaker 2: just have to go do like community service. That's fine
Speaker 2: and already then you know, pitches, I'll help you in geometry,
Speaker 2: past geometry, whatever it is. You go to the community
Speaker 2: service and then no harm, no foul if this doesn't
Speaker 2: work out, and that seems that they have a little
Speaker 2: inappropriate handshake, and that's basically it. I thought it was
Speaker 2: like the sweet little insight into puck a moment into
Speaker 2: already desperately trying to be something else but actually getting
Speaker 2: the upper and being able to help somebody else. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it was fun. I had a really fun time doing it,
Speaker 2: and it felt light and fun, and Mark was fun
Speaker 2: to work with.
Speaker 3: It's a very unlikely pairing that I really liked a lot,
Speaker 3: and you guys were very good together and Mark's Your
Speaker 3: performance was great always, but Mark's performance was also very good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: not that I'm surprised that his performance was very good,
Speaker 3: but like, you don't see a lot of pug and
Speaker 3: to give a bad boy some layers like that, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's actually kind of difficult to do. And he's still
Speaker 3: so it was very likable and I just relatable and
Speaker 3: very very cute. It was very very cute pairing.
Speaker 2: I think it was also Mark in real life was
Speaker 2: the bad boy like comparatively to the rest of our group. Sure,
Speaker 2: and so I think he was putting in the work.
Speaker 2: He wasn't necessarily like a big actor before this or
Speaker 2: acting a bunch before this, and so right, you know,
Speaker 2: I think we never knew what we were going to get,
Speaker 2: and he was always rising to the challenge of you know,
Speaker 2: the storyline, and yeah, I think you're right. This episode showed.
Speaker 1: That that's that has never been kissed.
Speaker 2: What an interesting episode.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it, though, really you were dreading it.
Speaker 3: I was dreading it because I think I thought it
Speaker 3: was a different episode, which we'll talk about when we
Speaker 3: get to that episode.
Speaker 2: Wait, which episode do you think it was?
Speaker 3: I can't remember the title of it, but I'll tell
Speaker 3: you when I get there.
Speaker 2: Was it a Night to Forget or whatever?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, not that one. I mean not too but.
Speaker 3: All right, you want to do some tarty tapes, let's
Speaker 3: do some tarty takes. Okay, So the cringe moments aka oucheez.
Speaker 3: I feel like mine is probably Puck taking you on
Speaker 3: his community service and calling you.
Speaker 1: A crypt.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a couple. I think, I think us
Speaker 2: maybe doing that handshake in the hallway was probably not great. Also,
Speaker 2: like all the things with Beast, maybe we're auchies a
Speaker 2: bit right.
Speaker 1: It was redeemed, but it wasn't right.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not, but it's okay.
Speaker 3: So we switched this this category to best dance move,
Speaker 3: but I have a worst dance.
Speaker 2: Okay, go for it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to point out.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna point fingers, but you got to go
Speaker 3: back and watch Teenage Dream some of those some of
Speaker 3: those dances were definitely trying to get some camera time
Speaker 3: it in.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: The best number though, my best dance moves were obviously
Speaker 3: the boys.
Speaker 2: I disagree. No, the girls were crushed it and you
Speaker 2: got those cool little editing effects you know we.
Speaker 1: Used before first time we had.
Speaker 2: Okay, best song, I think just because Teenage Dream is
Speaker 2: so popular, I'm gonna go with the girls mashup. Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love it. I really love it.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I really love your guys in this mashup.
Speaker 2: That's not always fuss.
Speaker 1: You know each other, fair fair fair, uh pressed for
Speaker 1: performance by a.
Speaker 2: Prop Oh maybe I mean the microphone stands in the
Speaker 2: girls number you guys really things.
Speaker 3: I think the cleaver in Dot's hand, in Coach B's
Speaker 3: hand in the meat, the meat cutting. Anything of those
Speaker 3: dream sequences where where Dot was doing that was I
Speaker 3: thought were excellent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: And the best line.
Speaker 2: So I think my favorite line honestly anytime Santana and
Speaker 2: Britney spoke in this episode. But I think Santana is saying,
Speaker 2: can I just say, this is what happens when people
Speaker 2: don't put out? Everyone just put out, we would have
Speaker 2: a winning football team. Wild wild.
Speaker 3: I I also really liked. I don't know it's my
Speaker 3: favorite quote. But when we were talking about our competitors
Speaker 3: for our next sectionals, Mercedes is like, wait, how are
Speaker 3: we going to compete against a bunch of adorable people?
Speaker 2: It is very good? So should we found in TikTok?
Speaker 2: Are you watching it? Yeah? So Juli and Ernesto on
Speaker 2: TikTok made this video and they said there are two
Speaker 2: types of people on vacation. One of them is reading
Speaker 2: a book about slavery and holocaust. After explaining in depth
Speaker 2: about the book, turns and says what are you reading,
Speaker 2: and the guy is reading sorry not sorry by one
Speaker 2: Naya Rivera and says, I'm reading about how much fun
Speaker 2: Nya Rivera had on Glee. It's cute. Go buy the
Speaker 2: book if you haven't read it. It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Thank you Yuli and Arnesto for making that. It's very good,
Speaker 2: a great, great video and also like makes me want
Speaker 2: to be on vacation well permanently.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, teleport me there, tet me.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. Everyone, what an episode. This
Speaker 2: was a big, big epis history and her.
Speaker 3: Story, her story. Thanks for joining us. Come back next
Speaker 3: week for another recap and.
Speaker 2: That's what you really missed.
Speaker 1: See you next week.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the listening, and follow us on Instagram at
Speaker 2: and that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to
Speaker 2: write us a review and leave us five stars. See
Speaker 2: you next time.