WEBVTT - Moving in with Stephen Colletti • EP 902 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.440 First of all, you don't know me. We all about 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.280 that high school drama. Girl Drama, Girl, all about them 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:07.360 high school queens. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.440 We'll take you for a ride, and our comic. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.520 Girl sharing for the right team. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.640 Drama Queens, my girl girl fashion, but. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:16.439 Your tough girl. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:17.480 You could sit with us. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.239 Girl Drama, Queens Drama, Queens Drama, Queens Drama, Drahn the 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.400 Queens Drama Queens. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.840 Guys. I'm super amped, deeply in my feelings because we're 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.760 getting towards the end and it makes me want to 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.519 sob but also excited because I think we're in a 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.080 juicy place in the story. We are here for season nine, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.400 episode two, in the Room where You Sleep. The original 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.680 air date was January eighteenth, twenty twelve, and we have 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.839 a family member guest friend of the pod here with 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:49.519 us today. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.120 Take it away, Stephen, excited to be here, you guys. Wow, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.240 that's season nine. You guys made it. We did it 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.160 finish line as you could. It's it's there in the distance, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.560 you could see it. I mean, we only did about 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.640 I don't know seventeen eighteen episodes. Actual viewing episodes with 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.640 some Q and as for the Lagoda Beach Podcast, but 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.280 you guys, I don't know what what number episode you're on, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.320 but honestly, bravo, bravo. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.400 Oh no, it's a lot because there were one hundred 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.720 and eighty seven episodes of One Tree Hill. Yeah, and 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.320 we've done a recap for every episode and Q and 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.720 a's with you guys, and like special live shows, the 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:28.720 live show, and. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.920 How isn't seeing it? Everybody grew up before your eyes, 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.360 like from season one to oh my gosh, she's nine. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.080 I mean that's a it's almost ten years. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:43.679 It's kind of crazy. Also, God, this show started in 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.759 a time where the fashion was just so bad, right, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.800 it was so bad, like where were the tops of 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:53.200 our pants? We were just missing inches. It was wrong. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:54.600 But I'm glad. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.320 I'm glad we are where we are today. Do you 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.800 concur guest of honor, want to read this ynopsis for 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:01.600 the folks at home? 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.600 Oh? Sure, alright, you guys, Welcome to season nine, episode two. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.000 Here is the synopsis. Brooke discusses a new business venture 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.680 with her father, as Julian stresses about his own investment, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.400 Quinn convinces Clay to get help, and Millie struggles to 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:23.720 be honest with mouth. Meanwhile, Chris Keller the makes Alex 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.720 an offer she may not be able to refuse, and 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:31.320 Nathan volunteers to scout in Europe, leaving Dan with Haley 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:32.279 and Jamie. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.000 This episode it was great because there was stuff I 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:41.160 really liked. There was stuff I really disliked. Oh well, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.760 it's easy because there's only like one real source spot 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.000 for me, and that is, like, what the hell are 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:51.919 we doing to poor Lee Norris? And what is this offensive, lame, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.800 half baked attempt. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.440 At a storyline. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.760 I remember it happening and even and being like what's 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.720 going on? And Lee was just sort of like, I don't, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.080 I don't, I don't know, and I'm now watching the 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.519 episode it is. It's just so we're getting a little 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.160 ahead of ourselves a bolt. Let's just jump in because 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.280 now I'm hot in the biscuit about it. I I 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.960 don't understand because first of all, the first like Jerry 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:21.119 and uh Millie are talking about the station like it's 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.440 some huge thing. And then he for first of all, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.120 he walks into his first shot and he is he's 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.760 double fisting a hogie. I just thought like it was 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.080 so hat on a hat, like he's already in a 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.560 in like the air quotes like a fat suit. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:38.680 But here's the thing. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.920 I thought, It's like he's why is like, so he 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.920 gained some weight. He didn't look like morbidly obese or 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.480 like he was unhealthy. He just looked like a guy 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.560 who had gained some weight. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.600 And like it was this just. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.600 Weird, stupid, like and the bit apparently is that he's 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.760 gained weight. Like that's the punchline and we can't talk 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.360 about it with it. I just Lee's so good and 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.960 the character of mouth is so interesting and unique, and 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.760 the best we could do was put him in a 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:09.400 fat suit. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:16.280 Yeah, it's a real weird choice. And I don't know 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.440 if this bumped you, but when Millie's talking to Jerry 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.000 and is like, I'm worried for his health and this, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.640 that and the other, and Jerry basically alludes to how like, well, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.120 you know, we've all struggled, like because she went to rehab, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.039 and I'm like, well, wait a second, wait a second, 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.919 what is this? And truly I wonder did they just 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:43.960 run out of storylines? Did they run out of creativity? 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.720 Because these two having a super highly rated morning show 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:55.159 together is adorable and a whole universe that we could 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.600 be exploring, but the gag is that he's eating ice 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.599 cream on TV and saying he's not going to share 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.440 with his girlfriend and got fat, like. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.599 And there is no connective tissue between what's happening now 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.240 and anything that we have established with Mouth over the 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.800 previous eight seasons. It's not like we've alluded to maybe 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.880 him having a thyroid issue or like he's battled weight 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.320 his whole life. It's just it's like apropos of nothing. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.760 This thing just happens. And it's what's so jarring about 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:32.200 it is Season nine opened so hot, like the teaser 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.120 was everyone like, the steaks literally couldn't have been higher. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.240 Mouth's not even there. Okay, fine, but then we go 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.720 into episode two and there is so much about this 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.960 episode that is really masterful storytelling. Yeah, the Dan Scott 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:47.560 of it all. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:48.680 You know, these things that. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.600 Are happening, Clay and Quinn, you know, Alex and Chase, 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.800 and then it's just like it's completely off kilter. And 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:03.240 then there's Mouth and what I remember I remember back then, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.360 I honestly remember asking Lee is uh is our boss? 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:08.479 Is he pissed at you? 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.920 Is with you? Like? What's because it was it was 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:18.240 because clearly our writer's room was very good at storytelling. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:23.599 They provided pretty awesome stories for everyone so far this season, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.200 and it was just like, which one of these does 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:26.960 not belong? 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.599 And yep, I didn't get it, man. And it's so 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.480 funny because there's some some moments where I'm watching where 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.159 and it is nice throughout this season where there's some 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.800 lighter stuff with with the Chris Keller and Chase of 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:41.920 it all. It's a little bit of kind of like 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.200 a Buddy Cup thing that they that she have going on, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.960 and if sometimes I'd be like, does this kind of 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:49.920 is it taken out of some of these like really 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.160 again well written stuff that good storylines, what's going on 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.279 with Clay Quinn and with Brooke as well, and and 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.200 and of course with with Dan and and Nathan in 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.440 and it's like there's some there's some intense stuff and 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.279 then all of a sudden it goes pops over to 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.360 one of these scenes and I'd be like, oh, it's 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.839 kind of a little silly, but maybe it's fun to 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.920 have a little bit laugh here. But then I also 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.800 felt that when you get into the scenes with with 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.160 Lee and his suit and it was just like I thought, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.560 my mind was like, this feels like an idea that 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.600 came up when honestly somebody might have been like drunk, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.880 and it's somehow stuck and and and sod and it 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.400 just kind of made it much further that it shouldn't have. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.640 And especially yeah, when you think about Lee and his 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.560 character in the show, and I mean it's kind of 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.280 a it's ultimately, I think, a complimentally because it's like, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.360 all right, he can handle this, you know, let's let's 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.560 have Lee do it because he's professional and he'll do it, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.640 and he'll and he'll he'll rise to the occasion and 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.680 he'll commit. Yeah, it's and it's just unfortunate because it 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.920 does feel like it doesn't it doesn't belong well. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.320 And part of why it bothers me and I don't 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.040 I remember having the same feeling men, like what fight 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.920 did you get in with the head hauncho to deal 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.920 with this? And I think what irked me watching it 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.640 is there is no drama currently in Brook and Julian's world, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.000 and there we have great buddy comedy stuff as characters, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.559 and so I'm watching how well they're writing for us 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:30.960 and how just sort of baseless the writing is for 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:36.679 Lee and Lisa, who are credible comedians, And I'm like, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.800 so obviously you know how to tell a joke. Why 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.960 can't you just tell jokes for both couples? What are 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:42.600 we doing here? 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.160 And that was the up. They would have like three 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.280 lines and then the scene, the scene would be over 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.880 like this is yeah, I don't I don't get it. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.120 It's so brief. It was very very odd, very very odd. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.400 And you're saying like it's a credit to Lee, and 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.800 you're right, I mean, because Lee sold it, he committed, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.360 But it was a disservice to the show and to 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.600 the fans because you took the character of Mouth, who 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.960 is so integral to the show. He's like the moral 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.280 compass in a lot of ways, you know, and you 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.160 made him a punchline that wasn't even funny. And then unfortunately, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.160 you tied Milly to it because she's his partner, so 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.960 now she's stuck in these like very like lopsided scenes 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.560 that don't make sense where there are no steaks or no. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.199 It's just like it's because I. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.600 Love both of them as actors, and I just I 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.439 just found myself every time we had to cut back 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.439 and watch them, it was like watching good actors do 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.400 their best with really material. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:45.439 Yeah, I will say hats off to Lee because I 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.880 was so shocked at how funny the moment was where 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.800 he kissed her on the cheek and goes, what got 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:53.760 a little mail on you? 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.480 Yeah, it was like. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.720 And I don't know if it was scripted or not, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.679 Like I don't And and that's exactly it. Like the 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:10.080 the level of leaning into it. It's such a testament 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.040 to them. But when you have actors as good as 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.880 those two, just write them better. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.640 So anyway, watching Lee over the years in that show, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.400 like there was never a day where if I caught 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.880 some of his scenes that that dude was ever offe Like, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.439 nothing fades him. He's such a vet, such a pro. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.560 I always enjoyed watching him because he came so prepared. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.080 He was never really phased by any that you know, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.280 whether it's it's a ton of people in trick a 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.280 lot going on, or just you know, him and Millie's 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.959 you know, sitting together. Yeah, he just was nails all 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:48.880 the time. And so I that's what I was thinking 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:50.679 watching I was like, man, they give it to him, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.400 they I get you could handle it. Yeah, he would 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.840 rise to the occasion, but yeah, it was, Yeah, it was. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.079 It was interesting And don't rememberactly how that came about 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.200 or what the story was, but I'm curious to know 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.040 who's bad idea continue to push through and actually make 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.360 it into the script. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.880 Yeah, it's It feels like it had to be someone 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.600 higher up pushing it through, because I just find it 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.840 hard to believe that with the talent in our writer's 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:23.520 room that no one thought they couldn't beat that storyline. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.960 You know, it's like the best joke wins. There's no 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.160 way that that talented group of writers went can't top that. Nope, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:36.920 that's that's it. That's the pinnacle of creative storytelling. Yeah, no, no, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.520 So that was That was kind of my main My 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.360 main gripe is just like, yeah, they deserve better and 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.160 they're so good, and yet we're having him do this and. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.560 I don't remember where it goes, but my goodness, I 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.280 hope it doesn't stay for too long. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.120 Same and I thank you because I lost my train thought. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.920 That's what I was gonna say is I don't remember 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.760 where this goes, so I I so hope that in 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.640 a few episodes I'm able to go I was wrong. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.440 It actually was a great foil for something else. I hope, 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.640 I hope I get to eat Crow on this, But 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.960 because I don't, I'm just reacting to what I know, 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.520 which is like just this episode, and I'm like, oh, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.120 come on, guys. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:20.480 Yeah. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.560 Also, I remember Lee kind of like because I know 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.480 it's gonna go on for a couple episodes. I didn't 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:31.040 watch ahead too much, but I remember that. You know, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.080 he has to go to work now a couple hours earlier, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.640 his first up, and the call time is six thirty 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.960 for everybody. He's in there at like four thirty in 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.199 the morning. Because a lot of our days are club together. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.200 It's like if you see the scenes between Millie and Mouth, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.120 like they're gonna shoot all that in one day, and 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.319 so you know they're gonna be there all day and 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.000 they're gonna start early, and Lee's going to work. I mean, honestly, yeah, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.000 he's going. He's first, probably one of the first people 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.400 to the yeah, to the studios to do all that. 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.520 That's another reason why it was confusing, you know, because 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.320 it wasn't as though they just realized, oh, we're over 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.240 budget and we need to find what's a storyline that 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.600 will cost us zero dollars. No, they had to design 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.839 a custom suit around his body, which is not cheap. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.480 And make prosthetics for his face and neck. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.800 So it's actually it's a storyline that's going to cost 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.840 more than a normal storyline. So again, it just it 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.800 didn't make sense because it's it wasn't like, well, we're 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.360 saving a ton of money here, so it's actually sort 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.880 of a necessary band aid. It's like, right, no, this 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.760 is costing more than arguably all of the other storylines 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.359 because those are just locations. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.000 Yeah, it's weird. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.280 Listen that said, The rest of the episode was a banger. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.360 Agreed, loved it. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.520 One of the things that that caught me was like, man, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.160 what a perfect kind of grenade to throw into this 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:55.160 last season with the arrival of one Harry Johnson, mister 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:00.600 Chris Keller. Uh you know, watching him, it's he's so good, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.319 so fine. I've heard, you know, I'd heard over the 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.240 years we've never worked together, and heard all the stuff 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.640 about him, and to have the opportunity to work with 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.680 him in this season and see him up close a lot. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.280 What a fun character. Yeah, what a great character that 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.839 he just he rocked and he's nothing like Chris Keller. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.160 So it's what's so cool just I mean, he's such 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.160 a sweetheart, such a good dude, and Chris Keller is 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.400 such at douche, and he knocks it out of the park. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:32.040 I think sometimes that that works best, like someone who's 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:38.240 so kind playing someone who's not it. There's something that 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.160 happens in the energetic alchemy where the jokes get funnier. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.240 And what killed me about this episode in particular the 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.560 way he comes in in nine oh one is so good. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.720 But the best gag in this episode is that even 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.160 though he's the worst, he's making everyone around him better. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.840 He's making Alex his music better. He's alone with Chuck 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.120 for five minutes and he has scored Chuck's show tune 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:09.720 like every single time you leave him and hope he 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.680 gets what's coming to him when you get back to him. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:19.600 He's made someone's day. And it's just it's it's comedic poetry. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.760 I love it. And Tyler again commits to the bit 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.560 so hard that you can't help but love him even 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.240 though you kind of want to, like give him the 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.200 double eyepoke that my kids used to do to each 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:33.280 other in the fifties. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:35.200 And this is. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:40.840 Another testament to just how well written and well thought 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.880 through this episode was that, Yeah, they did this amazing 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.040 twofer that started off with a hilarious joke, which is 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.640 that Chris Keller wrote the freaking toaster pastry jingle that 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.120 n was singing last year. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.800 He's saying, so that blew my mind. That alone. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.840 I just thought, like, this is so funny that, like 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.080 this infamous song, we're actually finding out this infamous character wrote, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.000 which is like perfectly on brand, right, And I thought 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.440 that was it. But no, because then that actually became 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.800 the device for Alex to sort of take a cheap 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.120 shot at him, for us to get a glimpse at 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:23.400 the actual vulnerability of Chris Keller. And that was such 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.320 a good moment because Tyler is such a good actor 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.840 that how do you not love getting to see him 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.640 drop his guard and be honest. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.120 Yeah, him getting to be vulnerable and speak about regret 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.280 and to own it kind of veneer off of No, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.120 everything I do is great, and that you know that 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.040 pays my rent and dea da da da to drop 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:53.360 it and be human. It plants that little seed that 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.239 you see in Alex. For the rest of the episode, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.040 she goes back to Julian for advice, which we haven't 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.080 seen her do in Why you Know. It's this thing 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:08.879 where you get what's germinated in her mind based on 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.480 his vulnerability, and it's a better device than if he 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.840 had just been like the cocky guy saying some you know, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.760 passing off some shtick and making her self conscious. It's 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:28.480 the vulnerability about the opportunities he let go that make 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.359 her afraid to let something go. And I thought, like, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.680 how refreshing and new that moment. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:35.920 Rob. 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.760 I'm glad he brought that moment up because I'd written 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.359 down as one of my favorite moments of the show 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.840 was that right when you're saying the guard comes down, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.760 and yeah, you see the vulnerability. It really gives it 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.879 out a layer to the Chris Keller of it all, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.640 which was really really well done. 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.000 And they did such a good job of actually making 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.000 him three dimensional, you know, the fact that he is 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.400 good at his job, and they show us how he 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.880 does it, you know, so he demonstrates value. He's not 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.760 just there to be an asshole. And then we see 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.720 this glimpse into his vulnerability and him actually sharing his mistakes, 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.399 you know, hopefully for the betterment of Alex all of 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.560 that just fleshed him out so much, which makes him 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:24.880 that much more lovable and just awesome as a character. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.200 Yeah, and he's just so funny. He's just so damn Yeah. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.760 Like I called him, I was like, Buddy, I'm loving 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.280 watching you on this show because like, like like you said, Steven, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:39.119 he is one of the sweetest men in the world. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:39.879 He's the best. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.240 He's nothing like Chris Keller. But oh my god, does 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:48.840 he play a douchebag so believable and just so well. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.280 And make him so likable you can't mean there of course, 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.800 there's those moments where you're like, oh the can Chris Keller, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.640 Like what an ass? What an ass? But then there 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.199 are these other moments when show that vulnerability or I 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.479 mean even at the end you listening to him sing 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.280 as we're getting out of the episode. What a really 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.399 really cool way to tie put a bow on the 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.919 episode him singing and just having that little intimate moment, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.080 very very cool. It's like, if you were already sold 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:17.760 on Chris Keller, you see that at the end of 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.320 the episode, like, oh man, I love this character. I 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:21.120 love watching him. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.239 And what I thought was so smart too, is the 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.960 more human he's getting and even you see how enamored 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:29.760 with him Chuck is, and he wants to do his 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.920 hair like Chris. And then he's calling himself Chuck Skolnik 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.240 and the third person like Chris Keller does, and you're 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.080 gold that. I just I love him, even though I 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.560 want to hit him. And then he shows up at 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.520 Nathan and Haley's and just undercuts all the good he's 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:50.879 been doing. And James played it so perfectly because he 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.200 was so deadpanned a joy and just said my wife 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.880 doesn't tell me things anymore. And I was like, this, 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.280 it's just so well done. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.480 What does James say at the door? How that line 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.520 written down? He's like, why do I say these things? 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:06.639 He says something right before he opens the door and 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.080 it's Chris Keller there. He says to himself that really 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.080 it was a great delivery. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:26.920 Yeah, speaking of funny things, let's just rewind real quick 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.120 to the start of the episode. So, first of all, 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:33.119 the panic, the opening shot of Brooke and Julian waking. 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.760 Brooke really wakes up in the path. He's like because 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.959 she doesn't hear the kids, and as a parent, I 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.919 was like, that is so real and so freaking funny. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.040 But cut to we find out it's Victoria has the 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:50.880 twins in the kitchen. My new favorite thing is watching 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:57.080 Austin House Food because his delivery when he said he says, 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.679 oh my god, I love coffee cake while he's just 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.600 in hailing it, and of course Brooke is not okay 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.520 because why is Victoria in their house with the babies 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.320 and he just can't be bothered to address it as 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.880 day next time is quiet babies, coffee cake? 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:11.639 Amazing? 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.240 It was. He was just so funny, man. Yeah, it 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:16.760 killed me. 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:24.640 I loved like getting to do physical comedy in this 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.000 way was always my favorite part of the show. And 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.040 just the fact that we were able to have that 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.520 the panic, what's going on? There's there's the humor in 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.520 the sit up, in the look around, run into the room, 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.080 you know, somebody fuck them. They're gone back into each other. 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:42.840 He's on the ground. He tells me to hit him, 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.639 and I slibb him across the face, all because we 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:49.920 can't understand the picture of Victoria Davis in like a 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:55.000 nineteen fifties housewife, apron and two perfectly behaved babies in 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:59.159 the high Trick. It it just kept getting better and 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.520 it's like, that's the joke you want to build. It's 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.920