Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what you really missed podcast. It
Speaker 1: is Christmas everybody in Glee world. Ho ho ho, although
Speaker 1: they've been planting Christmas album seeds in the last episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been tiptoeing through the holidays. So this was
Speaker 2: season four, episode ten Glee. Actually the air date was
Speaker 2: December thirteenth, two thy twelve, Wow, twenty twelve the Apocalypse.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's right. So the number one song was Diamonds.
Speaker 1: Kevin's prediction was right. We are still number one and
Speaker 1: the number one is Skyfall.
Speaker 2: Jenna, have you done your homework?
Speaker 1: You know? I played it and I shall sleep. Wait
Speaker 1: did you actually start it? I started it. Steven actually
Speaker 1: put it on for me, and I fell asleep.
Speaker 2: How many minutes?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 1: I'm three?
Speaker 2: The credits fell asleep to Adele's sweet voice.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, of like the Shadow, and I know I
Speaker 1: turned it on and I fell asleep. So I tried.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna come over like one morning, start the
Speaker 2: day with Skyfall.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine. I could do a daytime movie. I
Speaker 1: love daytime movies. Okay, great, what else is happening? What
Speaker 1: else is so some Glee news. On December eleventh, Glee
Speaker 1: The Music the Christmas Album, Volume three was released. The
Speaker 1: album featured ten festive tracks. Oh I said ten, didn't I? Jenna,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear it. You called yourself out.
Speaker 2: I did ten festive tracks, you know. I swap them though.
Speaker 2: Things that need to have eat in I say with
Speaker 2: an i in and things that are actually spelled an ion,
Speaker 2: I say with an E.
Speaker 1: Very interesting.
Speaker 2: Six of the tracks were featured in this episode. This
Speaker 2: album was available for a digital download and CD did
Speaker 2: I do it? And you're giggling?
Speaker 1: And I like this album cover and in the back
Speaker 1: I like the colors. It's very esthetically pleasing to me.
Speaker 2: It's most pleasing, much better than like the bright red.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we're also giving like a little bit of
Speaker 1: like iconic vibes as well, So I'm into it. This
Speaker 1: episode was directed by Aunt Adam Shankman or dear friend,
Speaker 1: and it was written by on paper our dear friend,
Speaker 1: Matt Hodson.
Speaker 2: Look at that. So I was texting Adam about this
Speaker 2: episode yesterday. He was like, hmmm, He's like, I remember
Speaker 2: it was that. It was a crazy episode and that
Speaker 2: it was a little sad and there was a rose
Speaker 2: on a wheelchair. So, yes, exactly right, that is correct.
Speaker 2: He had a dream sequence. It's like that's He's like,
Speaker 2: were there sewing machines. I'm like, yes, that's.
Speaker 1: A good job, Adam, he's.
Speaker 2: A number in the library, is like, yes, yes, all
Speaker 2: those things are true.
Speaker 1: Likely actually like these different vignettes of different stories happening,
Speaker 1: Like I see what they were doing. But I also
Speaker 1: was like felt very spread thin in terms of storylines.
Speaker 2: Well, I got to spend a lot of time like
Speaker 2: one on one with Adam this episode, and I remember
Speaker 2: going into it him being like, Okay, there's three very
Speaker 2: disconnected storylines, yes, trying his hardest to like make them
Speaker 2: all work together, find some sort of cohesion. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: so I think that was the challenge of this episode
Speaker 2: for him. Yeah, not to speak for him, but that's
Speaker 2: those are the conversations.
Speaker 1: I no, that's because that's his job. You know. You're
Speaker 1: like creating the through line, right, the transitions, the ends,
Speaker 1: and the outs, and these were very difficult to do.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of music music, some music. There's Felis
Speaker 1: Namidad Sounds sung by Kevin.
Speaker 2: There's White Christmas sung by Kurtain Blaine.
Speaker 1: Ohonkah by Chack and Puk. My favorite number of episode.
Speaker 2: How dare You Syo? Bell Rock by Sam and the Cheerios.
Speaker 1: First Noel by Marley and have Yourself a Little Christmas
Speaker 1: by the new directions in Curtain Puck.
Speaker 2: Fun Facts Jenna.
Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. This is the first and only Christmas episode
Speaker 1: with the word Christmas in the title, the others being
Speaker 1: A Very Glee Christmas, Extraordinary, Merry Christmas, and the previously
Speaker 1: Unaired Christmas.
Speaker 2: This is the fifth episode containing a word play with
Speaker 2: the word Glee in the title, the others being Rocky, Horror,
Speaker 2: Glee Show, A Very Glee Christmas, Saturday Night Gleever, and
Speaker 2: most recently Glease.
Speaker 1: And Terry appears for the first time since season two's
Speaker 1: episode Funeral.
Speaker 2: I felt very lucky for that.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yes, Yes.
Speaker 2: Rory appears for the first time, also very lucky since
Speaker 2: season three's episode Goodbye. This is also his last appearance
Speaker 2: in this series. Oh but I love that he was
Speaker 2: a Christmas ghost. Yes, he was excellent at it, so good.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is the first episode this season in which Rachel
Speaker 1: appears but doesn't sing.
Speaker 2: This is also the first and only Christmas episode where
Speaker 2: Rachel doesn't sing.
Speaker 1: Stands proposal to Brittany marks the second time Sam proposed
Speaker 1: to somebody. There's a lot of proposals in this show
Speaker 1: for high school, but that's just my opinion. The first
Speaker 1: time was too Quinn in firt.
Speaker 2: Look, it was a small town. You know, people get
Speaker 2: married popping out babies early. I guess, so that's what happens.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: This was the first time Melissa filmed with Leah and Chris,
Speaker 2: and the behind the scenes feature for the episode, she
Speaker 2: said it was really cool having there was quote kind
Speaker 2: of a trip.
Speaker 1: White Christmas, took hours to film. They ended up filming
Speaker 1: through the night with christ and Darren still Ice skating
Speaker 1: at three am. Well, I'd have to say they probably
Speaker 1: also like rented out the rink later once they closed
Speaker 1: or something, and so that feels like that was expected correct.
Speaker 2: Some of the real crew members can be seen during
Speaker 2: the performance of Hankah o'honnakah, like Ian Brennan, Megan Doyle,
Speaker 2: and Zach Woodley so good.
Speaker 1: That's partially why I said it's my favorite song was
Speaker 1: because like it was ridiculous, but it felt very meta.
Speaker 2: You also got to see some of the real Paramount
Speaker 2: Studios staff that we interacted with every single day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you got to see like the commissary, the.
Speaker 1: Aaron from the commentsary. Yes, it was crazy. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was very meta. This is Ian's second appearance on the show,
Speaker 1: the first being spend googled in All My Way.
Speaker 2: Linn, Puck and Jake are at Paramount. There was a
Speaker 2: shot of stage fourteen and that is one of the
Speaker 2: stages like les filmed on. That's correct, one of our
Speaker 2: like five or six stages.
Speaker 1: I was just at Paramount Pictures the studio filming a
Speaker 1: late night comedy show called After Midnight.
Speaker 2: Such a good show.
Speaker 1: It's a really great show. Taylor Toemless, it is great.
Speaker 1: I had such a blast, but it was it was
Speaker 1: a blast from the past. Like they had a golf
Speaker 1: cart pick me up. I parked where we used to
Speaker 1: park for base camp. Yeah, and the golf car pick
Speaker 1: me up and like literally took me down the sky,
Speaker 1: literally to where we usually get golf carted to stage
Speaker 1: fourteen and it has the plaque and it says Glee
Speaker 1: was shot here, and then there were a couple of
Speaker 1: things after it. Of course and then they took me
Speaker 1: through New York Street and all the way through past
Speaker 1: the commissary, and I was like, I just did this
Speaker 1: golf car ride that I saw in Hanaga.
Speaker 2: I come right yep.
Speaker 1: Fully, it was crazy, it was really crazy, but it
Speaker 1: was fun to be there.
Speaker 2: Jealous, I want to go back there. I've had friends
Speaker 2: send me pictures of the plaque. Yeah, anytime they've had
Speaker 2: to go on the stage.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since I've been back there.
Speaker 2: So the episode's summary is not is not the official
Speaker 2: Fox summary, So it's a little length here. Yeah, pang
Speaker 2: Amash the holiday film Love actually seemingly separate storylines come
Speaker 2: together to form one. Mary Glee episode already has It's
Speaker 2: a wonderful life inspired dream that changes his outlook on life.
Speaker 2: Kurt has a Christmas that he will never forget. Jake
Speaker 2: and Puck spend quality time together for Hanukkah. Meanwhile, as
Speaker 2: the end of twenty twelve draws near, Sam and Brittany
Speaker 2: lived their lives to the fullest, and Sue has a
Speaker 2: change of heart. A lot happened.
Speaker 1: A lot happened, Yes, a short amount of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, let's just go chronologically. This is how it happened.
Speaker 2: Okay already falls out of his chair, has a gigantic
Speaker 2: wound on his face. It's a big one, and is
Speaker 2: crying fake tears. By the way, I had them use
Speaker 2: the menthol thing in my eyes.
Speaker 1: Well, how does that work?
Speaker 2: So if you ever need to cry, I wasn't sure
Speaker 2: of the level of upset. I just need to be
Speaker 2: like angry. They have these like little sticks of the
Speaker 2: they almost look like chapstick sticks, and if you blow
Speaker 2: on the other side of them, it shoots out sort
Speaker 2: of like this menthal the air, which then makes you
Speaker 2: tear up. And you saw how red my eyes were. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and give so right before I had Kelly Mitchell and like,
Speaker 2: go for it. Do it? Do it to me so
Speaker 2: I could show up. Oh it works. I think that
Speaker 2: was the only time I ever used it.
Speaker 1: Like if it's not like an emotional scene where you're
Speaker 1: like and you're like you just have to be crying
Speaker 1: because of like something that happened twenty minutes ago, and
Speaker 1: like use the month all.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I didn't feel guilty about it this time
Speaker 2: because it was you know whatever. And also I'm not
Speaker 2: like Chris can cry, Leah can cry. You can cry
Speaker 2: very quickly. I'm not as quick. And there was something
Speaker 2: about this episode where we had so much to do
Speaker 2: that it felt like we shot everything very quickly. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, let me not be the reason.
Speaker 1: No. It's also just like a little bit of a
Speaker 1: detached storyline, like I would have used the month all
Speaker 1: probably for something like that, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was nice having a scene like Corey
Speaker 2: and I didn't have yea every now and then. We
Speaker 2: just have these like really sweet moments together, Like I
Speaker 2: like Artie and Finn's relationship, and so it was just
Speaker 2: a really nice thing to get to have with him
Speaker 2: where Artie didn't get to be upset that often like that.
Speaker 1: And what did you think about this storyline?
Speaker 2: I liked that they were showing sort of the difficulties
Speaker 2: of like something nobody thinks about, right of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this accident happened, and it probably feels really humiliating, right
Speaker 2: and it's like what am I supposed to do? Because
Speaker 2: time and time again, it's like there weren't ramps originally
Speaker 2: at the school. We have to raise money so already
Speaker 2: can join us for the competitions, where like always feeling
Speaker 2: like you're the person who is the drag on the
Speaker 2: situation or like people have to go above and beyond
Speaker 2: and then all because you're an afterthought, right.
Speaker 1: No, I like the storyline for you, and I liked
Speaker 1: I also like that you got to get up, because
Speaker 1: that's how I know you.
Speaker 2: I also think I took to heart a little bit
Speaker 2: and I could have been reading into something that was
Speaker 2: not real. Who knows, but I think after having so
Speaker 2: many episodes about real things that had happened to everyone,
Speaker 2: that there is that moment in this episode where the
Speaker 2: ghost of Christmas Past Damian McGuinty is saying that Artie
Speaker 2: is the glue, like steady and just like nice, and
Speaker 2: I was like, that felt like a nice shout out
Speaker 2: to Kevin. Yeah to me. And I don't think I
Speaker 2: was the glue by any means, but it was sort
Speaker 2: of like a.
Speaker 1: You're always a solid force in the club.
Speaker 2: I'm steady, you know, easily thrown down the boat down
Speaker 2: to clown like whatever, And so I did feel I
Speaker 2: remember talking to Brad at some point about it foul
Speaker 2: Chuck and him being like, yeah, you are the glue.
Speaker 2: He's like, that's not true, but.
Speaker 1: You get along with everybody though, everybody likes you like
Speaker 1: it's a it was just nice, it is.
Speaker 2: It was a nice, unexpected like little thing. And I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, they're not making fun of me.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's nice, yeah for sure. And and there's some
Speaker 1: funny like when you wake up from your nap and
Speaker 1: the wonderful life black and white and like the alternative
Speaker 1: alternate world is very funny. It's ridiculous, and Rory being
Speaker 1: Guardian Angel just makes it even better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the little things that happened Uglee Club, Becky
Speaker 2: being pregnant, Yeah, you got to do your stutter again.
Speaker 1: Weird, so weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, will Drunk.
Speaker 4: Is quite funny. And then Terry Baby Bless Like they
Speaker 4: were so much fun because also they were shot very
Speaker 4: quickly in terms of like the running around the school. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's really fun to do something like that because it's
Speaker 4: just go, go go, what is happening everybody, especially because
Speaker 4: the dream sequence everybody is on one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mistakes are very like everything's very heightened totally. It's
Speaker 2: already a show that has very heightened to stakes. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I also remember, like I do remember this episode being chaotic,
Speaker 1: like shooting wise, I remember being always rushed during this episode. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I feel like for somebody who doesn't get a
Speaker 1: storyline every episode and then your storyline is rushed, it
Speaker 1: frustrated me sometimes when that happened, because you're like, hmm,
Speaker 1: I don't get to do this every day, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, right, and it's it's hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I just felt like also because I didn't,
Speaker 2: you know, get a storyline that often that I just
Speaker 2: wanted to make I know, there's a lot to do.
Speaker 2: We're covering a lot of locations. That just takes up time, right,
Speaker 2: and so I just wanted to make sure like I
Speaker 2: was on it and I was doing it. And it
Speaker 2: also takes participation from the other people in the scenes,
Speaker 2: So like you're going in there and like Matt and
Speaker 2: Jesselyn are being crazy and hilarious, but like you know,
Speaker 2: they're going to be on their A game totally, and
Speaker 2: so you're going into the library and you have all
Speaker 2: those people and it's like you just need to make
Speaker 2: sure everybody is, you know, like on the same page
Speaker 2: and yeah, yeah, you getting through it because it's a
Speaker 2: lot for Adam and the ca route to move that
Speaker 2: often between these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't always do that on the show, like
Speaker 1: that fast.
Speaker 2: No, the Quinn dying thing that was Shankman was like,
Speaker 2: I do remember it being sad and there was a
Speaker 2: rose in the wheelchair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not coming back with them.
Speaker 2: No, we couldn't get her. So already, then gathers everyone
Speaker 2: because he doesn't like how I mean Kurt's being bullied
Speaker 2: and I already got bullied next to Kurt, like things
Speaker 2: are just out of whack, way out of whack, and
Speaker 2: so Artie's like, I'm going to get everyone together. I'm
Speaker 2: going to fix this, and then you have this crazy
Speaker 2: musical number.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you do police, not me, DoD. I remember
Speaker 1: this being crazy too, because I remember being like, what
Speaker 1: are we doing here? Why are we sitting behind sewing machines?
Speaker 1: What is Kevin doing standing? And where are we right now?
Speaker 2: It's interesting you say that because what I remember from
Speaker 2: filming it is how uncomfortable I was because everyone.
Speaker 1: Anybody knew what we were doing there.
Speaker 2: And now that you say that, it makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense because obviously in the scene people don't really
Speaker 2: know what's going on, so it works, right, But also
Speaker 2: imagine performing to a room full of people who are like,
Speaker 2: what is this or it doesn't necessarily feel like it's
Speaker 2: the scene they're acting. It's more like what is actually
Speaker 2: going on. So it feels very weird to be on
Speaker 2: the receiving end.
Speaker 1: Of I can't imagine. And then also like mind you,
Speaker 1: like these people were not together all the time anymore,
Speaker 1: like Harry was there, Rachel, and like Leah was there
Speaker 1: with us, not in New York like her, Like it
Speaker 1: was the oldly club with all the new people, right,
Speaker 1: and so we don't we don't we haven't on that yeah,
Speaker 1: like really really So.
Speaker 2: It's like Rachel and kurterback and then party standing like
Speaker 2: wait what, yes, exactly what has happened?
Speaker 1: And they like this isn't black and white? You're like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? And then I remember you learning
Speaker 1: this like on the fly in the room, Like I
Speaker 1: don't think you worked with Zach on this number prior
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 2: Like I think very quick, very quick rehearsal, like maybe
Speaker 2: the day before, a couple of days, Like I think
Speaker 2: there was a little something okay, but I hadn't been
Speaker 2: in the room or in the space like you saw
Speaker 2: me working it out, yeah in real time.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well it worked out
Speaker 1: really great. And I remember I saw the bts of
Speaker 1: this that Caylin did with Chris and he's like, only
Speaker 1: Kevin could pull something like this off. And I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: that's totally right, Like they picked the right person for this,
Speaker 1: they picked the right like actor do this because you're
Speaker 1: the only one who was like the glue down to
Speaker 1: do stuff down to clown and also make it work.
Speaker 1: And you're like, this is really cute. And I remember
Speaker 1: being confused while I was there, but really enjoying watching
Speaker 1: it this time around.
Speaker 2: I was scared because I remember my feelings of it
Speaker 2: are from how it felt to shoot it. I don't
Speaker 2: so in my head, I imagine it also was a
Speaker 2: little awkward, you know, watching it, But watching it back,
Speaker 2: I was actually very relieved. I was like, I think
Speaker 2: this sort of works. I think I buy it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know me, I'm the first one to be like,
Speaker 2: oh did not nail that?
Speaker 1: See yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I see what you were
Speaker 1: trying to do there. I see what already was trying
Speaker 1: to do there.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's sort of I was like, I
Speaker 2: can see that. I'm just not paying attention to any
Speaker 2: of you, Like I'm just like you're on Cameravich. Just
Speaker 2: go to America.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right, don't worry about these other fuckers. I
Speaker 1: already know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: There's also like one moment I think where I'm performing
Speaker 2: to Leah and I think I'm like, I'm just going
Speaker 2: to fuck with people, yeah, because they all look so confused,
Speaker 2: so I'm just going to be like, yes, exactly, let
Speaker 2: me get you involved.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you did.
Speaker 2: And it was also thing like I don't speak Spanish,
Speaker 2: like you're gonna have me sing in Spanish?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean it was hardly any Spanish, but you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like all.
Speaker 1: Songs sometimes, how I felt like it was like Gongham style,
Speaker 1: like we have a running theme here. I don't speak
Speaker 1: Korean and I should I don't.
Speaker 2: It's very you had to do a full song. I
Speaker 2: will not say this was my Gungham style, because you
Speaker 2: really had to.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I'm just I'm I'm writing out the
Speaker 1: parallels here, Okay.
Speaker 2: It was one of those things like oh, yes, I
Speaker 2: get a storyline, like wait.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly exactly, like oh this is the one, this
Speaker 1: is the one, okay, yeah, here we go make it work.
Speaker 2: It's also funny and like a personal little parallel that
Speaker 2: I liked was when I was in the boy band
Speaker 2: back in the day. Our first music video was inspired
Speaker 2: by It's a wonderful life opening up and all that stuff,
Speaker 2: and so that's right. This is cute.
Speaker 1: This is cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little circular moment, but already wakes up
Speaker 2: and it's like, you know what, things, things aren't so bad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like it. Like this, everyone's friends, this is our family,
Speaker 2: and I know, feel more important. You know, maybe I
Speaker 2: was complaining behind the scenes. Maybe that's how I don't
Speaker 2: know how I got this, But.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think you were complaining behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: I think they wanted to integrate a Christmas somewhat Christmas theme,
Speaker 1: right it, and it worked out for you. It worked
Speaker 1: up party to be that person.
Speaker 2: Do you like love? Actually?
Speaker 1: I love love? Actually? Yeah, I don't think this has
Speaker 1: anything to do with love.
Speaker 2: Actually, though it doesn't. They tried, like we didn't even do.
Speaker 1: The postcards, you know, like the the posterboard. We should
Speaker 1: have done that. Somebody should have done that. Blaine should
Speaker 1: have done that for Kurt. I don't know. It's okay,
Speaker 1: though I get it. It's the vignettes. It's fine. It
Speaker 1: all worked. It was a cute episode overall, though, like
Speaker 1: for Christmas episode, I did enjoy it. I just felt
Speaker 1: a little stretched then because there was just so much
Speaker 1: going on. Kurt is saving up for Niata because obviously
Speaker 1: got in, so he's staying in New York for Christmas,
Speaker 1: and then Rachel leaves and Bert surprises him, so he's
Speaker 1: here with bad news for Christmas. But it's okay. So
Speaker 1: Bird has prostate cancer and he says they caught it early,
Speaker 1: so he's in good spirits. But like, Merry Christmas, I
Speaker 1: have cancer. Burt really gets it, you know, with his
Speaker 1: heart and his you know, with this now is diagnosis
Speaker 1: is like so sad, but he does surprise him also
Speaker 1: with Blaine coming to you New York and they actually
Speaker 1: got to go to New York and they actually got
Speaker 1: to ice skate in Bryant Park and they sing the
Speaker 1: adorable song White Christmas in the BTS. Also for this,
Speaker 1: Darren like brings his camera what were those cameras they
Speaker 1: used to give us they call the cameras or whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like brought it with him and like kind of
Speaker 1: documented behind the scenes of it all. But I remember
Speaker 1: them like creating like was it a platform to shoot
Speaker 1: on the ice with Andrew Mitchell? Or did Andrew Mitchell
Speaker 1: just get on ice skates because I would That wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me either.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, there's no way he done on ice. Fifty five pound.
Speaker 2: Camera, Yeah, that's it seems like a very big safety hazard.
Speaker 1: Chris. Also, the last time we rollerskated was at the
Speaker 1: roller rank in season and he twisted his ankle or wrist, wrist,
Speaker 1: here's wrist, and so I was concerned, but I'm glad
Speaker 1: that he made it unscathed.
Speaker 2: I was like, also, luckily it's those two, because if
Speaker 2: they asked me to be on the ice, I really,
Speaker 2: you'd have nothing to shoot. I would just be hugging
Speaker 2: the wall. I'm terrible.
Speaker 1: Oh I love ice skating.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm so bad at it. I never I want
Speaker 2: to go ice skating with you. But you're graceful.
Speaker 1: I learned how to skate very early in my life,
Speaker 1: and so like I, I don't know that I call
Speaker 1: myself graceful now at this point, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I would pick it up quick quick again. I won
Speaker 1: my third grade competition what ice skating? It wasn't anything intrickate.
Speaker 1: It was like, can you skate backwards? Can you skate
Speaker 1: in like a circle and stuff like that?
Speaker 2: But I can't do any of those things.
Speaker 1: I love ice skating, I was.
Speaker 2: I was very jealous. I saw that. I was like,
Speaker 2: are they actually there during this time of year? And
Speaker 2: you saw like the Rockets had their sign up and everything.
Speaker 1: I was really jealous of them being there at that time.
Speaker 1: It was really so allous at the Millionaire.
Speaker 2: We were always like, how do we get a free
Speaker 2: trip to New York out of this?
Speaker 1: And I remember like somebody texting us during it, neither
Speaker 1: Shankman or Zack of them, like at shooting because I
Speaker 1: think we were also shooting at the same time. I
Speaker 1: don't know what we were shooting though, was there.
Speaker 2: It must have been the next episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, possibly.
Speaker 2: When Blaine pops up as his surprise and it's like
Speaker 2: you are happy to see me?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: It was something about the storyline is breaking my heart
Speaker 2: mm hmmm, because I don't Kurt, you know, isn't super
Speaker 2: stoked about it. It feels like that, right, right sort of?
Speaker 1: But then like Blaine's talking about coming to Sniata and like
Speaker 1: he is excited about it, like I thought he was
Speaker 1: genuinely excited about it.
Speaker 2: I did too. I think, you know, he just got
Speaker 2: some news that his dad has cancer, right.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised by somebody that he's like, they're still kind
Speaker 1: of in this like in between.
Speaker 2: As as I see them together.
Speaker 1: Though totally this storyline with Puck and Jake though, I mean,
Speaker 1: so Puck is in town. He's writing a screenplay because
Speaker 1: he's a screenwriter now, I guess, and so he invites
Speaker 1: Jake to stay with him in La. Come to find
Speaker 1: that it's actually the pool he cleans, and they get
Speaker 1: they're like squatting for a weekend or whatever. But Puck
Speaker 1: is actually just lonely and like. But but all to say,
Speaker 1: they do hanak ohannaga because they're Jewish, right, and they
Speaker 1: do Hannakhnaga. They take him, he takes them on the
Speaker 1: paralount lot. And the reason they do hannakahonnica is because
Speaker 1: they have to show them their chops and get somebody
Speaker 1: to notice them. I'm not sure that this made any
Speaker 1: sense to me at all, but I loved it, Like,
Speaker 1: let's just pick out of a hat how they're going
Speaker 1: to sing a song.
Speaker 2: You know, if if you don't live in La, this
Speaker 2: is what people do all the time. You know, people
Speaker 2: are just in the streets.
Speaker 1: Singing or on a TV lot singing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's not true.
Speaker 1: Don't But they're on the golf cart, which Megan Doyle
Speaker 1: is driving. I was like, is that Megan. And then
Speaker 1: they go through the commissary where you see Aaron outside
Speaker 1: like yelling at them employee, like yelling and waving. He's
Speaker 1: actually the employee who worked at the commissary and he
Speaker 1: was always so nice to us and you always remembered
Speaker 1: like all of our names, like our first names, and
Speaker 1: he was and it's just it felt so meta. I
Speaker 1: was like, they couldn't have done a different lot, but
Speaker 1: of course, budgeting wise, they're gonna put us on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also nice to have that, Like I'm glad
Speaker 2: that you got to like sneak in behind like the curtain,
Speaker 2: a little see behind the curtain, a little bit you know,
Speaker 2: of like this is our this is where we.
Speaker 1: Said funny And then like the shots in New York
Speaker 1: Street where they're doing that movie The Gangster Movie, you
Speaker 1: see them at Video Village, which is the director and
Speaker 1: the script of supervision everybody and it's Ian. Yeah, just yelling,
Speaker 1: and you see the side of our real stage. But
Speaker 1: then they go to have dinner with their moms. We
Speaker 1: meet Puck's mom for the first time, and we meet
Speaker 1: Jake's mom the first time.
Speaker 2: I would just like to point out the logistics of
Speaker 2: what happened here, because there's all this talk about how
Speaker 2: you know it's expensive to travel between like Ohio New York.
Speaker 2: These guys just went to LA real quick and back
Speaker 2: after getting kicked out right, and Jake's like, I'm a sophomore,
Speaker 2: I can't move to LA. But like they yeah, the
Speaker 2: sophomore runs away for a little bit on motorcycle. This
Speaker 2: time this timeline is wild, crazy, but they get they
Speaker 2: get their parents together, their moms together.
Speaker 1: Like don't doesn't go well, it doesn't go well, No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go out first, but then they like they
Speaker 1: start to bond over their father.
Speaker 2: I can't sit across the table from Ayesha Tyler and
Speaker 2: just not fall in love.
Speaker 1: Well, of course, are you sure? By the way, we
Speaker 1: have to have on the show is has been a
Speaker 1: good friend of ours for many, many, many men years,
Speaker 1: and she was podcasting before anybody was podcasting. I just
Speaker 1: just say that I'll probably tell her if we get
Speaker 1: her on the show that I was on her podcast
Speaker 1: that she had fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: She's also like the kindest, Yes, like sweetest obviously, she's
Speaker 2: so funny, so funny.
Speaker 1: It's also been in everything.
Speaker 2: And I always expect someone like that. Maybe this is
Speaker 2: just like imposter syndrome, but something like that, who has
Speaker 2: met everybody, who was adored in loved by everybody, to like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's okay if she doesn't necessarily remember me
Speaker 2: sort of thing. But throughout the years, she is always
Speaker 2: the exact same person, always remembers you, always has time
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Love having her on the show and that she.
Speaker 2: Has not changed and she's just the best. Cannot say
Speaker 2: enough nice things about her.
Speaker 1: We just saw at a Christmas party last year, and
Speaker 1: like it's like we never left her.
Speaker 2: No. I saw her outside the gym like a couple
Speaker 2: of months ago, and she's just like about to get
Speaker 2: run over in the street. I'm in my car and
Speaker 2: we're like talking and she's just like I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I love her. Oh, it was weird to meet Puck's
Speaker 1: Nam after all this time. Very weird and just like
Speaker 1: just like that, like they just pop up ye wait
Speaker 1: and then see it uh and then see ya. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Puck is going to move back to Lima, right.
Speaker 2: Do you think they needed more of the OG's back
Speaker 2: on the show.
Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to push that whole La thing for
Speaker 1: all this storyline, Like I think it was a far
Speaker 1: cry to begin with. So they're like, just get them
Speaker 1: back here, right, Yeah, I do. I do think that
Speaker 1: it's been nice to have them like Harry an Amber
Speaker 1: for Greece and then like you know, Naya the last episode,
Speaker 1: so like it's just it's nice to have them back,
Speaker 1: and I think they're realizing that.
Speaker 2: So it is weird to not have I didn't remember
Speaker 2: that people just left after season three like this.
Speaker 1: I know I forgot too, but I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of people do start coming back a lot. Diana,
Speaker 1: I like, this feels very weird.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2: I do. I do remember though, you and I being
Speaker 2: like like we're lucky to have been juniors last year.
Speaker 1: Totally. At first, I was like what the hell, and
Speaker 1: now I was like, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because nobody knew how it was going to work
Speaker 2: at the time. I don't even think the writers did
Speaker 2: and it's sort of like, as you're figuring it out,
Speaker 2: you see how much involvement people have, and yes, of
Speaker 2: a child god.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then so this other storyline is Brittany and
Speaker 1: Sam with the Mayan Calendar or the Mayan Apocalypse and
Speaker 1: the my encolendar, and it's so ridiculous. So I forgot
Speaker 1: they were dating. Thought they were dating. So they think
Speaker 1: they have only a few days left to live, and
Speaker 1: so they decide they're going to tell everybody that what
Speaker 1: they really think of people, which I thought was really funny.
Speaker 2: I love watching them, yes, because their emotions are just
Speaker 2: always right there for you to see. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and beast participating in this with the wedding and the
Speaker 2: locker room, mind you, the boys locker room.
Speaker 1: I was like, this has to be in on this,
Speaker 1: like she has to know, right because I was like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, when they wake up in the bedroom
Speaker 1: and now I can we stived it and now we're married.
Speaker 2: I also was it did Brittany like wake up, I'm
Speaker 2: like sleeping on the floor or something like that. It's
Speaker 2: like so there was no like funny business. It was
Speaker 2: just purely transactional.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, the world didn't end. But they also didn't
Speaker 1: really get married. He's new, but they they tell us
Speaker 1: the truth in that meeting in the library. And when
Speaker 1: I tell Tina that acting is irresponsible, m h, I
Speaker 1: was like, where they really talking to me?
Speaker 2: It's also like having it come from those two is
Speaker 2: just the funniest, the something about it, Like I they
Speaker 2: would also do that in real life. And also those
Speaker 2: are the two people you'd want to hear it from.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take events to it at that point.
Speaker 2: No, you know, like if Heather and Chord were like,
Speaker 2: you shouldn't be acting anymore, like okay, fair understood, Okay.
Speaker 1: She'd probably do it with that tone too, like that
Speaker 1: in that whisper, you know, yeah, and I'd be like, okay.
Speaker 2: It always because like Heather and Chord can be brutally honest,
Speaker 2: but they have a way about them where they can't
Speaker 2: just say conversation, m it's a charm. There was all
Speaker 2: that crazy stuff going on though, like that movie twenty
Speaker 2: twelve came out. People were losing it. Were they Oh
Speaker 2: my god? Yes, people were out of their minds. That's
Speaker 2: what I love when like Glee gets a little like referential,
Speaker 2: socially referential, like this fair enough.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that actually that people were getting crazy
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. So there's an observatory here called the Grip
Speaker 2: of the Servatory, and inside it they have a planetarium.
Speaker 2: And during that time, for like the next year, they
Speaker 2: had a whole show based off of this of why
Speaker 2: people think the world is going to end? They dispel
Speaker 2: it and then give you a whole, like incredible history
Speaker 2: of like the Mayans and it's and there's the stars
Speaker 2: and it's. It was very incredible. I saw it so
Speaker 2: many times.
Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't know about that.
Speaker 2: Yes, leaving under our rock. Okay, but we lived through it,
Speaker 2: you know, we made it. We did.
Speaker 1: At least we didn't get married. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: The only saving grace here is that they didn't end
Speaker 2: up really getting.
Speaker 1: Married, right, Yeah, that's ry Beast was in on it.
Speaker 1: So that was one of my favorite storylines of the episode.
Speaker 1: Two was the mind calendar. As crazy as I.
Speaker 2: Loved all these storylines a lot, it kind of.
Speaker 1: Reminds me of the Christ mouse that comes at some
Speaker 1: point when Sam gets the mouse. Yeah yeah, okay, So
Speaker 1: the last storyline that's happening in this episode is Marley
Speaker 1: and her mom, Millie Rose, and so Sue in secret
Speaker 1: Santa Faculty gets Millie, She's like, who the heck is
Speaker 1: Millie Ros? And she puts two and two together because
Speaker 1: Beast tells her her daughter's in glee club. M Uh,
Speaker 1: they don't have a Christmas tree, Marley and Millie, they
Speaker 1: don't have a lot because obviously, you know, they're spending
Speaker 1: money on Marley's therapist for her disorders. And so Sue
Speaker 1: overhears it and she softens, kind of like the Grench again.
Speaker 2: I guess she's come a long way from the Grinch.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The scene though, where she's sang like the decadency
Speaker 1: of like how she doesn't need all this and like
Speaker 1: for Christmas was pretty funny. What does she say? Did
Speaker 1: I really need to cut down a seven thousand year
Speaker 1: old Bristol cone pine to hang on it? Becky, I
Speaker 1: just made a call to a guy in the antiquity's business.
Speaker 1: He's got contacts in the luxury toothpick market. You and
Speaker 1: I are going to sell in this tree, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get the proceeds to a very important cause. And
Speaker 1: she killed the tree, but you know she's given it back.
Speaker 2: And also she does break into their house. But I
Speaker 2: guess she's giving them something, so maybe it's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was really sweet.
Speaker 1: It was I liked the storyline, and I liked how
Speaker 1: she gave back to them and they gave them a Christmas.
Speaker 1: I do want to point out that, like Marlee and
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know, like I don't know their life,
Speaker 1: but Marlee and Millie's house is quite large and nice looking.
Speaker 2: I mean, it definitely looks.
Speaker 1: It's not like a small apartment that they're scraping.
Speaker 3: It was white.
Speaker 2: Sam's family living out of a motel.
Speaker 1: Right, this is a two story la looking home.
Speaker 2: Maybe they inherited it and it's paid off. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: You know, mm hmm. That's all I got for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't anyway, I'm just pointing it out, just
Speaker 1: pointing it out. But the best of this storyline was
Speaker 1: that when Millie went to go say thank you to Sue, Yes,
Speaker 1: and she comes in and she's like, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for what you did from Marley and me.
Speaker 1: And I was like, please let there be a Marley
Speaker 1: and Me joke. Please let there be a Marley Me joke.
Speaker 1: And there was, and Sue says, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: What you're talking about nothing to do with the making
Speaker 1: of that film. And I felt victorious in that moment.
Speaker 2: I was like, this show is so stupid.
Speaker 1: I love it. Oh so good, Like I hope they
Speaker 1: named her Marley for this ungeous.
Speaker 2: Just like naming John Graff's character Jesse for the one song.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter exactly, it's worth it.
Speaker 2: It hits.
Speaker 1: It works so well. It's a very sweet thing. And
Speaker 1: then you know, we all obviously all sing because we
Speaker 1: have to have a group musical number at the end
Speaker 1: for Sue. Do you remember this shooting this number, Kevin?
Speaker 2: I do. As soon as I saw the outfits, I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, yes, I remember this. We took a
Speaker 2: lot of photos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you traded outfits. I think, what really fast,
Speaker 1: There's something that I feel like there was a memory
Speaker 1: of you wearing something that you shouldn't have been wearing.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a I'm complaining.
Speaker 2: No, you might be right.
Speaker 1: We took we had a lot of downtime on the stage,
Speaker 1: and I do remember taking a lot of photos on
Speaker 1: this stage was very pretty. You were wearing Becca's boots. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I have a picture of you. Wait, what in Becca's boots.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, Beca and I swapped those a lot.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I have another photo of you guys, but
Speaker 1: Beca's wearing your loafers in this.
Speaker 2: So gross. It's so gross.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting. But you guys are definitely traded outfits. But
Speaker 1: I thoroughly enjoyed the downtime on that one because we
Speaker 1: had a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: I also love Sue just saying don't tell me they're
Speaker 2: gonna perform for me on this auditorium stage with fake snow,
Speaker 2: and like, yep, this is exactly what I predicted.
Speaker 1: I feel like we always have to have that. Of
Speaker 1: course we do the fake snow for Christmas a Christmas episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, should we rate these numbers?
Speaker 1: Please not be DoD.
Speaker 2: You never want to bore people, And I just remember
Speaker 2: trying to work so hard to like be quick and
Speaker 2: efficient so I wouldn't bore you guys.
Speaker 1: I always felt that way too. I'm like everybody. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was this prostracting, like the feelings that we get
Speaker 1: from being.
Speaker 2: Bored, and I know I never would get bored. You're like,
Speaker 2: this is your job. I'm here to like show up
Speaker 2: and do the thing.
Speaker 1: But you felt like other people to get bored.
Speaker 2: But I think when you're not aware of like your
Speaker 2: resting face, so people might not have been bored. It
Speaker 2: just felt like.
Speaker 1: I will tell you, I had to shoot something the
Speaker 1: other day on my phone, some content for social media,
Speaker 1: and I had to reshoot it because I looked so
Speaker 1: unhappy and I actually wasn't I have like sad trout face,
Speaker 1: Like sad trout face where it's like constant, you know,
Speaker 1: like disdain on my face. And I was like, They're
Speaker 1: going to make me reshoot this because I look really unhappy.
Speaker 2: Right, You and Austin have a similar resting, snaky mug.
Speaker 1: People say like, are you okay? I'm like, I swear
Speaker 1: are we good all the time?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: Okay, so least not be done A sure a evenion A.
Speaker 1: I almost gave you an A plus just because of
Speaker 1: like it was hard.
Speaker 2: I was shocked. I did floor work. You did do
Speaker 2: I was sliding on my knees.
Speaker 1: Let's let's just utilize them, yes.
Speaker 2: Spending around on that desk. I was like, these are
Speaker 2: things I never thought I would have done.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: It was so good White Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was really sweet.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, it was really it was sweet hankah, ohhonkah.
Speaker 1: You are we writing the song or we're writing the
Speaker 1: music video.
Speaker 2: I think it's the music video.
Speaker 1: Okay'm moving in an any then I'm going.
Speaker 2: To give it a B plus.
Speaker 1: Okay, great jingle bell rock a we even talk about it,
Speaker 1: we didn't. Yeah, I mean anything he does first, Noel,
Speaker 1: I mean she sounds beautiful. Have yourself, merry little Christmas,
Speaker 1: B plus, B plus. Okay, it's kind of boring. Let's
Speaker 1: see some party takes. Okay, cringe moments when you tell
Speaker 1: Roy to speaks close so you can't understand him. I gasped.
Speaker 2: I didn't do a little bit. I giggled.
Speaker 1: But it's not right.
Speaker 2: The weight jokes enough. Yeah, they're just getting worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's done. We're done with I'm done with it.
Speaker 1: It's the baby, We're done. Best dance move.
Speaker 2: Your floor work, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Best song, hold on shout out to me doing impressions
Speaker 2: of everybody else's dance moves.
Speaker 1: Wendy City, Harry Yeah, breakdancing.
Speaker 2: It was all Zach Woodley and Brooke. Yeah, and we
Speaker 2: were all doing which was very fun for me to
Speaker 2: get to do.
Speaker 1: It was great. I love the Little Ode too. Everybody yeah,
Speaker 1: best song.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm hmmm. That's hard.
Speaker 1: It is a hard one.
Speaker 2: Because I sort of feel the same about all of them.
Speaker 2: I agree, I know what yours is.
Speaker 1: No, don't say yeah, no, I don't think so. If
Speaker 1: I'm reading favorite song of the episode.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, for least Nevi.
Speaker 1: Dad, Okay, great, let's go with Listnovidad if you feel
Speaker 1: the same about it. Kevin's wins performance by a prop.
Speaker 2: There's so many props. This is a shout out to.
Speaker 1: The prop department in this episode.
Speaker 2: The Beneton Sweater was doing a lot of heavy lifting
Speaker 2: this episode. You know, it was just it got mentioned
Speaker 2: several times, it.
Speaker 1: Did, and then she got it. The Beasts Mayan Altar
Speaker 1: sat up was also oh yeah, okay, we.
Speaker 2: Will go to the fake baby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, best line, best line. I'm going with Marley and me.
Speaker 2: I think that. I think that's correct. I also think
Speaker 2: Honorable mentioned it. Sam and Brittany's vows. Yes, very very good.
Speaker 1: Just Sam and Brittany altogether.
Speaker 2: After I do Felice Navidad, Finn says that was so gay.
Speaker 2: I did enjoy that. It made me chuckle obviously, like
Speaker 2: that's not okay to say.
Speaker 1: But no it's not.
Speaker 2: Is it okay for me to say? That's okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so, performance MVP Kevin McHale.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got it. I can't pick yes, you can.
Speaker 1: I'll just go with what you say, be honorable mention
Speaker 1: into Heather in court.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay. So the TikTok should be found on TikTok
Speaker 2: this week, you guys, every week. There are so many options,
Speaker 2: and it's just very impressive. But this is the first
Speaker 2: time I've seen Glee used in a wedding speech like this,
Speaker 2: minus maybe the one I gave it. Jennis, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know how often Glee gets what your speech is.
Speaker 2: But a dad is giving a wedding speech about his
Speaker 2: daughter and it is so good. And this is Emma
Speaker 2: Warbler two four two, and he says he's talking about
Speaker 2: things she likes, and he talks about if you hear
Speaker 2: a song, you can just ask his daughter was this
Speaker 2: and Glee and she can give you the season, the
Speaker 2: episode and possibly the episode name. And then he tests
Speaker 2: her and she does it, doesn't even catch it. She
Speaker 2: gave him the episode name to jump by Van Halen.
Speaker 2: She's like yes, season one episode ten, Mattress Wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: like roasting her at her wedding about Glee and I
Speaker 2: love it. So thank you Emma for being a real one,
Speaker 2: a real gleek. And thank you to Emma's dad for
Speaker 2: recognizing so good the dedication exactly. And her name is
Speaker 2: Emma Jenna yay.
Speaker 1: Emma Pilsbury, Emma Stanley. There's so much Glee.
Speaker 2: Love or season one episode twelve. Sorry if I got
Speaker 2: that wrong, look at me. I don't even know Glee.
Speaker 1: Actually, everybody, we do.
Speaker 2: Love a Christmas episode. How does this fall into like
Speaker 2: your ranking of the Glee Christmas episodes?
Speaker 1: It's pretty high on the list of the Christmas episodes.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. I liked your storyline though none
Speaker 1: of them intersected, I liked each single storyline. Yes, and
Speaker 1: it felt like it didn't just fall into the Christmas episode,
Speaker 1: it fell into the storylines within the show.
Speaker 2: Yes, correct, Sorry I found it. Yeah, that was a
Speaker 2: really good answer. But I would like the people to
Speaker 2: know that we just edited out like ninety seconds silence.
Speaker 1: I was stuck for a second. But you're welcome.
Speaker 2: I'm actually crying. Oh god, I needed that to thank you.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, I have no thoughts, no
Speaker 3: thoughts at all, just vibes usually my brain anyway, Okay, well,
Speaker 3: thanks for listening to me, actually with us and recapping.
Speaker 1: Steady Hawkins is coming and it is a doozy, so
Speaker 1: get ready.
Speaker 2: Oh and thank you to Adam Shankman for directing that
Speaker 2: episode because it was complicated. There was so much much
Speaker 2: to do and Adam is just like a bright light.
Speaker 2: And really also because he's a choreographer, yes, he fully
Speaker 2: did and always brought so much energy to every single scene.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we love some Adam Shankman. Love you for listening,
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