Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome to and that's why you really
Speaker 1: miss podcast Funk. She's steel on the baseline. Hi Kevin,
Speaker 1: Hi Jenna. We're almost at the end of the first season.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. If you've made it this far on our podcast,
Speaker 1: pat yourselves on the back. Thank you for sticking with us.
Speaker 1: We're proud of you, We're thankful for you, and I'm
Speaker 1: happy we didn't do it without you. Somehow tricked Jenna
Speaker 1: and to hanging out with me every week to do this,
Speaker 1: So we tricked each other, really tricked. Yeah exactly, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Um so funk Okay, okay. This episode aired June one,
Speaker 1: twenty ten, And when we when this episode came out,
Speaker 1: we were still on our first tour, right. We were
Speaker 1: in New York performing at Radio City. Very exciting, very exciting, legendary.
Speaker 1: What else you had already performed at Radio City before,
Speaker 1: hadn't you? I just imagine you had no. Thank you
Speaker 1: for thinking that. No, I had not, So this was
Speaker 1: like a really even like even extra big deal for you. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like the Radio City is like the mecca of New York.
Speaker 1: It's the Rockets. You think Christmas, you think you know,
Speaker 1: like I didn't. I didn't see a ton at Radio
Speaker 1: City except for like the Rockets. Yeah, I was really it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just like an iconic venue. Everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this was huge, This was a big deal.
Speaker 1: I remember when we did it. We we got to
Speaker 1: go up on that Marquis and take pictures. And I
Speaker 1: remember my mom and my family came to this and
Speaker 1: my mom and my sister were across street like watching
Speaker 1: us in the whole block filled up with people. I
Speaker 1: don't think I was up there. You did you not
Speaker 1: make it up there? Not not not only heights? Oh oh yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't. Yeah, some of us did. And I
Speaker 1: just remember my mom and sister telling me that they
Speaker 1: were concerned because kids were running into the street and
Speaker 1: they're you know, New York taxi drivers don't care if
Speaker 1: there's a human in the way, right, they're going to go.
Speaker 1: But that was so so insane for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: I also, do you remember like Chris had his birthday
Speaker 1: and we all went out, we went out to the
Speaker 1: Greenhouse right without it was. That was so much fun,
Speaker 1: wild times. That was crazy. That was really fun and
Speaker 1: then um, while we were in New York, I remember
Speaker 1: speaking of looking down at the street our dressing rooms,
Speaker 1: you could see out into the entrance to where the
Speaker 1: fans were, Yes, where the stage door is, if you will,
Speaker 1: and um, we would wave at fans and like talk
Speaker 1: to them and joke at them, and we were like
Speaker 1: joking about flashing them. We didn't. And and we also
Speaker 1: did elvis or Amzy Morning Zoo, which is where we
Speaker 1: got that insane chalkboard that you help on too for
Speaker 1: twenty years. Yep. And I just remember too. This also
Speaker 1: felt like we I think we had some crew members there.
Speaker 1: It was New York, so people were there. It's an
Speaker 1: easier city to get to people. You know, it's a destination.
Speaker 1: Jane and I came. Yeah, And I remember the stage
Speaker 1: door area when we would leave, because I think we
Speaker 1: did to Matinee at some point and we might have
Speaker 1: been being shuttled to and from the hotel to venue
Speaker 1: and kids were chasing our vans and it was mostly
Speaker 1: just so unsafe for people to be doing that. But
Speaker 1: it felt like I did feel like we were the
Speaker 1: Beatles for a second. Didn't remember that when you like
Speaker 1: the most stereotypical image of I don't know, like celebrity
Speaker 1: or fame or ever what have you to me was
Speaker 1: that of musicians getting chased by people in cars and things.
Speaker 1: And it was very surreal because you know, we felt
Speaker 1: like a glorified cover band. No, for sure, I think
Speaker 1: we named it as that was happening. We were with
Speaker 1: our amazing security, Clinton and Todden, maybe not Toddy at
Speaker 1: that point, but Clinton and we were on the bus
Speaker 1: and somebody said maybe you was like, this feels like
Speaker 1: the Beatles, or like what the Beatles had, like a
Speaker 1: this is like a taste of what they experienced. Girls
Speaker 1: haanging on the bus while we were at like a
Speaker 1: red light, and then the girl was running in flip
Speaker 1: flops and we were like, somebody, please stop her before
Speaker 1: she gets run over, Like it really was a safety issue.
Speaker 1: But it was also very cool to be in New
Speaker 1: York and performing had such an iconic theater and we
Speaker 1: had that incredible impromptu little rap party because it's we
Speaker 1: were ended there and that's where we ended up at
Speaker 1: the little bar. And it went from us being at
Speaker 1: tables like eating like normal people, and before we knew it,
Speaker 1: all the tables were moved out of the way, dance for,
Speaker 1: Dance for and do you remember um before that? That
Speaker 1: was the time that Ian and all of them came
Speaker 1: up on stage duringing like a prayer. It surprised us.
Speaker 1: And then there was also that cake they made that
Speaker 1: was the Radio City cake. It looked like the front
Speaker 1: of the marquis of Radio City and I was like this,
Speaker 1: I'll be I forgot about that. It's also when I
Speaker 1: got Naya to do because the last show and so
Speaker 1: everyone was acting a fool. Yes, but Ryan and all
Speaker 1: the bosses were there, so we didn't want to do
Speaker 1: too much. But I had convinced Naya and Chris Pooley
Speaker 1: are m d two? Um add a little extra hit?
Speaker 1: And what was it? What song was it? Was it
Speaker 1: the Boys Boys Mind? Yes? I think it was the
Speaker 1: Boy's Mine. It was like a Michael Jackson style hit.
Speaker 1: And she like did the Michael Jackson pose? Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no one's gonna knows that tickock me?
Speaker 1: No one's gonna know and no one did. I remember.
Speaker 1: I brought it up to Ryan like did you notice?
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I thought the song just skipped. We're
Speaker 1: not playing it off of CD. It's not going to
Speaker 1: hit a bump in the CD skips. That's not how
Speaker 1: this works. Um, all right, should we should we get
Speaker 1: into this episode? So this is an interesting episode because you,
Speaker 1: I think we have similar feelings about this episode, but
Speaker 1: differing feelings about this episode. I didn't hate it as
Speaker 1: much as I thought I would. Interesting, I hated it more.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I didn't hate it. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: it's the first time because coming into the season, because
Speaker 1: we're towards the end, there were episodes that you and
Speaker 1: I clearly remember disliking and every time I've been surprised
Speaker 1: so far where I really enjoyed all those episodes. This
Speaker 1: was the first episode that I felt like it was filler,
Speaker 1: you know, where I was like, Okay, we're at the end,
Speaker 1: what are we going to do? And you go it's
Speaker 1: I think almost every single time there's a song, it
Speaker 1: feels really weird and forced. Also, the whole thing was funk.
Speaker 1: I think Amber's face in the first choir room scene
Speaker 1: really sums up my entire feeling about this episode. Interesting
Speaker 1: because I think she's the viewer, you know, she's acting
Speaker 1: as the viewer in this of being like, is this
Speaker 1: how we need to be taught Funk Amber. There is
Speaker 1: also the like the scale of how cringey this episode is. Yes,
Speaker 1: her face is. She really was doing heavy lifting in
Speaker 1: the Eye region, and I think this would have been crazy,
Speaker 1: but well, I just totally unacceptable. Yeah, okay, So before
Speaker 1: we get into it, the for number one song was
Speaker 1: still MG featuring will I Am by a Shirt, and
Speaker 1: the movie was still Shruck Forever after which I still
Speaker 1: haven't seen. And we've still got our special vocal adrenaline
Speaker 1: frozen friends Adina and John A Finn, and we are
Speaker 1: missing miss Jama Mays in this episode. And this is
Speaker 1: the filler episode, the penultimate episode before our regional's moment.
Speaker 1: And again I do think this was flipped an airing order.
Speaker 1: I think we shot it, we did Funk, then we
Speaker 1: did theatricality and then journey to regionals. But I think
Speaker 1: for some reason you are correct. I think it's because
Speaker 1: Ryan thought this episode was not great they swapped it,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why you are correct, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so Ladie Keane is back directing this. Ian Brennan wrote it, well,
Speaker 1: you know all of them. Elie did so many episodes.
Speaker 1: She did she did a lot of episodes in the
Speaker 1: first first season. I also thought about maybe they swapped
Speaker 1: it because maybe American Idol was like their finale was
Speaker 1: around the time of theatricality or something like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think you may be exactly correct. I
Speaker 1: think that there was some reason why. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: makes sense. There were a lot of songs in this episode.
Speaker 1: Tell Me we have another one, Bites the Dust Um
Speaker 1: by Queen that Jesse, Saint James and Vocal journalin Do
Speaker 1: tell Me Something Good by Rufus and Chaka Khan, That
Speaker 1: Little Schuster Does Um Loser by Beck, That Puck and
Speaker 1: Finn and Hart Bamboo and Saint Maryson Harry Schuster, It's
Speaker 1: a Little Acafella's Momentum. It's a Man's War World by
Speaker 1: James Brown, performed by Quinn and the Unmed Mothership Connection,
Speaker 1: Good Vibrations by Marky Marking, The Funky Bunch performed by Finn, Hudson,
Speaker 1: Mercedes and Noah Puckerman and give Up the Funk by
Speaker 1: Parliament sunk by the new directions. I would also like
Speaker 1: to point out something else about the music, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed this. The vocals and the
Speaker 1: episode were mixed so strangely, you know, I did notice
Speaker 1: that it hasn't happened. So there's some episodes where depending
Speaker 1: on the scene, they'll mix the lead vocal a little higher,
Speaker 1: and it's always worked. There's some reason why they're doing it.
Speaker 1: This episode, it makes no sense. Another one bites the dust.
Speaker 1: It sounds like Groff's vocal is seventy percent of what
Speaker 1: you're hearing. Yes, everything else is buried underneath it. And
Speaker 1: then when it gets to give up the funk, you
Speaker 1: can't even hear Amber's ablebs at the end, and she's wailing,
Speaker 1: and they're like, and she's featured on screen singing, but
Speaker 1: it's her vocal is buried underneath everything, and all you
Speaker 1: hear is done mother. How Well, there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on during this time, and I feel like this was
Speaker 1: around the time at the recording studio when we would
Speaker 1: go in, we would hear from Adam or Alex. Was
Speaker 1: Alex around at this point yet his brother, Adam's brother.
Speaker 1: He becomes like our main guy for a while and yeah,
Speaker 1: we hear this has to be sent to Sweden, yeah,
Speaker 1: overnight and then mix and come back. And I don't
Speaker 1: know that there was always the case that it always
Speaker 1: got mixed there it was, it was okay, So it
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with it, no, because it was
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour thing. Their whole system was that
Speaker 1: we record in la while they make the tracks in Sweden,
Speaker 1: and then they mix the tracks in Sweden. So it's
Speaker 1: a full twenty four hour loop where we don't lose
Speaker 1: any time, got it? It was the I think it
Speaker 1: was in post production that they mess with the vocals
Speaker 1: and the actual episode because those are different than the recordings.
Speaker 1: It's the same actual vocal, but the mix is different.
Speaker 1: Interesting for the interesting interesting. I don't know why. There's
Speaker 1: a good interesting point, all right. The episode summary. What
Speaker 1: happens in this episode, you know, not a lot. So
Speaker 1: the Glee Club gets bamboozled slapped across the face by
Speaker 1: Jesse St. James, which sends them into a tailspin. And
Speaker 1: then that's also sort of how um you know, Shoe
Speaker 1: comes up with his plan for the week, last minute plan,
Speaker 1: last minute plan, which then helps Mercedes and Quinn connect
Speaker 1: over some serious issues. It's like this serious thing going
Speaker 1: on while everybody else in Glee Club has lost their minds.
Speaker 1: And then Will and Sue have a very interesting Little
Speaker 1: Tango if you yeah, yeah, yeah, a fun revenge storyline. Right,
Speaker 1: do you want to talk about Jesse Saint James's storyline first? Sure?
Speaker 1: All right, So Jesse's named James transferred back to Carmel
Speaker 1: and he goes to Vocal Adrenaline. Goodbye, easy to just
Speaker 1: swap schools like this? No, okay, no, didn't think so.
Speaker 1: But you know what, maybe his transcripts were all there
Speaker 1: and he was just a click of a button. Who
Speaker 1: knows he's pretty? He is pretty. So he goes back
Speaker 1: to Vocal Adrenaline and and they end up performing for us.
Speaker 1: I don't randomly out of nowhere, just come back and
Speaker 1: perform another one Bites the Dust, which is an incredible
Speaker 1: vocal from I mean, they looked great. Yeah, but they're
Speaker 1: doing it as as a strategy that they always do
Speaker 1: to freak out their competition at regionals. So this is
Speaker 1: one of those episodes two where the episode title is
Speaker 1: mentioned about eighty times. So their plan is to psych
Speaker 1: us out, to send us into a funk funk if
Speaker 1: you will, if you will? Oh, and and then we
Speaker 1: go into so Rachel's very upset and we go into
Speaker 1: the choir room and Kurts like, I mean, it's going
Speaker 1: to take a lot more than that to like send
Speaker 1: us into a funk. And we find our entire choir
Speaker 1: room has been toilet paper, which is really fun to
Speaker 1: shoot in. You remember props. Can you imagine how long
Speaker 1: that took a lot of paper? You can't like reshoot
Speaker 1: that like once we start taking it down, but we didn't. No,
Speaker 1: I can see. It's very intentional about you see what
Speaker 1: we're perfectly splayed out one of us and we just
Speaker 1: stop as soon as we enter so we don't touch
Speaker 1: it and mess it up some to reset it like
Speaker 1: gout dot to the doilet paper. Yeah, and of course
Speaker 1: if you tell us not to touch things, we're going
Speaker 1: to touch them. Yeah. So so in retaliation, Puck and
Speaker 1: Finn decide that there because mister Shoe's like, well, let's
Speaker 1: get them back, right, Let's let's kind of like hit him,
Speaker 1: wear it hurts and do this bag and Punk and
Speaker 1: Finner like we got it, don't worry about it. Sho's
Speaker 1: got bad ideas. They're lame. And it was this funny
Speaker 1: voice over with Puck being like, obviously we knew it
Speaker 1: was gonna come down to us. Also, like mister Shoe
Speaker 1: being like get them back. You're like, WHOA hold up
Speaker 1: a second, mister Shoe crosses the line so many times
Speaker 1: this episode. Yes, agreed, Okay, let's just put that out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so pucking Finn slash all the Vocal Adrenaline range rovers,
Speaker 1: which it was very funny to watch, and also range
Speaker 1: rovers in high school. That's crazy. Um. Even though I
Speaker 1: was able to get myself a range Rover at this point,
Speaker 1: this was exciting. Yeah, in real life I was able
Speaker 1: to I've lived the dream of the range Rover and
Speaker 1: it's over and it's gone. But I went to a
Speaker 1: high school. I went to private school one year of
Speaker 1: high school. It's the only year I ever went to
Speaker 1: private school. I so did not fit. I could not
Speaker 1: afford private school. And I remember all these kids driving
Speaker 1: around and like really expensive cars. And I was getting
Speaker 1: dropped off by my mom every day in our old car,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, drop me out at the car.
Speaker 1: Who are these kids? I had just moved to LA.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know about this, right is right?
Speaker 1: I'm poor? Yeah? Anyway, So, so Vocal Adrenaline's gift with
Speaker 1: a very good booster club kids range rovers for their
Speaker 1: win and fucking Finn slash the tires and they end
Speaker 1: up in Fagin's office where they get in trouble and
Speaker 1: mister She's like, it's a harmless prank, which it's not,
Speaker 1: and Shelby car grin and not pressing charges and umh.
Speaker 1: And Finn comes to the rescue by saying that they'll
Speaker 1: get jobs and pay them back by the end of
Speaker 1: the year, which is also crazy that like Sheets and
Speaker 1: Things is not going to pay back for tires twenty tires,
Speaker 1: but anyways, um but they get a job at Sheets
Speaker 1: and Things and Terry's back. So Terry comes back and
Speaker 1: she has this really inappropriate crush on Finn. She sees
Speaker 1: him as mister Shoe. She gets has this really inappropriate
Speaker 1: crush on him after they sing Loser, which we'll talk
Speaker 1: about in a second, and it's do you also know
Speaker 1: when she was like, we'll just put it into the iTunes, yes,
Speaker 1: which I also feel like was a nod to what
Speaker 1: they did this episode in real life, And that's no shade.
Speaker 1: I think they told us like sometimes when they had,
Speaker 1: you know, the plot or like the buzzword that they
Speaker 1: wanted to use for an episode, they would just throw
Speaker 1: it in, which is why all these songs. I feel
Speaker 1: like Loser was a pitch from Corey. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe yeah, I feel like Corey or Mark would have
Speaker 1: pitched Loser. For sure. It was not how I thought.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think a Beck song would be in a
Speaker 1: funk episode, but here we are. I canna say, honestly,
Speaker 1: for the song itself, on the way that it was
Speaker 1: presented in the episode, I thought I did it a
Speaker 1: great job shooting it like it was. She kept it interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she kept it, you know, funny and weird, and it
Speaker 1: was like what do you do with that? Like as
Speaker 1: a director, I'd be like what do I do with this?
Speaker 1: So I thought she did a great job with it,
Speaker 1: especially because again, if I think we should just mention
Speaker 1: how we get into some of these songs where Tobolowski
Speaker 1: is like, where's my muzach And that's how we get
Speaker 1: into Loser, and to go and put on the music
Speaker 1: a boom, like what's yeah? No, just have their guitars there?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, That's where I set out loud no less
Speaker 1: than three times reminding myself and my friends who are
Speaker 1: watching with me last night, it's a satire. Okay, um okay,
Speaker 1: so then what tell me? No, I was just I
Speaker 1: had so a friend was watching this with me last
Speaker 1: night and he's never seen Glee, and he sat down
Speaker 1: like halfway through this episode. No, that's not through his eyes,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is not because if you know,
Speaker 1: if you were to watch this episode with no context,
Speaker 1: even with context, it's still odd and without context, he
Speaker 1: had questions and he didn't understand that it was a comedy.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, this is a comedy show. The
Speaker 1: first season at least is and then yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1: It was really enlightening for me. An interesting, Okay, what
Speaker 1: did they How did they respond? They were like, oh
Speaker 1: I was so worried. Okay, got it, Like everyone is
Speaker 1: so mean to each other, Like, yeah, it's a satire exactly,
Speaker 1: speaking of being mean. So Jesse Saint James calls Rachel
Speaker 1: out to the parking lot after they've been toilet paper
Speaker 1: and been yeah, thank you, range rover tires have been slashed,
Speaker 1: and he says to me on the parking lot and
Speaker 1: Rachel runs out again satire Smolmo running slowmore, running toward
Speaker 1: Jessie and she gets egged. That looked like it hurts
Speaker 1: so bad. And I remember Lea saying it got hurt. Um,
Speaker 1: she also had a double if you didn't notice, like
Speaker 1: there was at one point when she gets hit all
Speaker 1: over the place, you see it's a there's a wig
Speaker 1: and it's not her must have been her standard. But um,
Speaker 1: it was crazy and it kept me. It made me
Speaker 1: think of Never Been Kissed, one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 1: When she gets egged, which is so sad, but Jesse
Speaker 1: eggs her and the whole Vocal Adjournine team eggs her,
Speaker 1: and it was really sad. And then Rachel says, now
Speaker 1: I keep having nightmares of all the mothers of the
Speaker 1: little baby chicks coming at me for revenge, which yeah,
Speaker 1: and Vocal a Journaline for all the money they have.
Speaker 1: They're sure in the same outfits they were at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the episode. Sorry, I'm gonna be Debi downer
Speaker 1: this episode, pointing that rubbed me the wrong way. That's okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a hater. I guess I'm a hater today. Um,
Speaker 1: it's all right, we're all. We're all. We can be
Speaker 1: haters of some episodes, not all of them. So we
Speaker 1: talked about maybe the weirdest part of this episode, the
Speaker 1: Sue and Will feud thing that happens. Yeah, let's talk
Speaker 1: about that. But so when vocal Journaline tps and does
Speaker 1: the surprise performance for the new directions, somebody's like, how
Speaker 1: did they get in all their equipment? Which I loved
Speaker 1: they actually addressed because you know how many times things
Speaker 1: magically appear in the show, we don't dress them. And
Speaker 1: then Sue marches in saying, oh, I let I gave
Speaker 1: them keys. I did a sound check with them earlier,
Speaker 1: like I helped them, And then she goes on this
Speaker 1: whole rant about how she needs to blow out the
Speaker 1: wall because she's going to put in a new trophy
Speaker 1: for when she wins Nationals in the glee club loses
Speaker 1: regionals and she gets to take over the room and
Speaker 1: rightly so this pisses off Will, which starts, which starts
Speaker 1: off this whole almost fever dream of a storyline. Pause.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the breaking of this trophy? The throwing
Speaker 1: of the trophy? I don't remember it. Okay, I don't either,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I would have remembered something like that,
Speaker 1: But I think it was a real trophy, like I
Speaker 1: go plastic one. It wasn't like a dummy one or
Speaker 1: anything like that, and he actually had to like throw it,
Speaker 1: and I think I remember them being like, don't close
Speaker 1: your eyes because like then he want us to get
Speaker 1: particles or pieces and our eyes. We're like, we're fine,
Speaker 1: We're fifty feet away, right. Anyway, they're always very cautious.
Speaker 1: Card I guessed though, when he threw it, I was like, oh, mister,
Speaker 1: she was good, Yeah, yeah, okay, continue one. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: while Rachel is you know, also Will is mad. Rachel's
Speaker 1: upset about this whole breakup, and She's saying, you know,
Speaker 1: destroyed at the heart of the team's heart, then destroy
Speaker 1: the team. And then Will of course with light bulb
Speaker 1: and so he starts courting Sue. Really, so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of late night they're at the school by themselves
Speaker 1: after hours, not sure why. Darkness, yes, darkness. And so
Speaker 1: Sue comes into the choir room late one night and
Speaker 1: Will was like, Hey, I need to ask you some questions.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm wondering about this idea for regionals, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's you know, too suggestive. Can I
Speaker 1: do it for you? And after he also had been
Speaker 1: complimenting her skin for what felt like an eternity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and God Jane is just so good. So she's I'm
Speaker 1: never just not like flabbergasaid about how good she is
Speaker 1: in all of these different weird situations. She sells anything
Speaker 1: and it makes everything work. Yep, makes everything work. So
Speaker 1: he performs tell me something good. Um, it made me uncomfortable. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I have to say, Malik good, Malik? Did he did?
Speaker 1: I think it was? It's like I don't want to
Speaker 1: watch my parents. Yes, blurt it was, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't like that. Yes, I agree, And then Sue's
Speaker 1: like what's happening, and she's journaling and being like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I think I have a crush on Will Schuster.
Speaker 1: Like now I'm actually picturing his head on the pillow
Speaker 1: next to me when I wake up, and it's attached
Speaker 1: to the rest of his body. A lot of murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, the journal drawing. Did you see the
Speaker 1: drawing of Will Schuster? That must have been Jason. Who's
Speaker 1: you that right, one of our crew members jasone incredible artist. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was used to draw all of us in character
Speaker 1: and like give us cards and like with our characters
Speaker 1: drawn on them like he was amazing, So he must
Speaker 1: have drawn that. Um. That in the journal that picture illustration.
Speaker 1: That was a good spot. He probably did. He was
Speaker 1: sure it looks familiar. It looked familiar. So around that
Speaker 1: time Will comes in, brings her flowers toim atch her
Speaker 1: her track suit, and then she says she hates them,
Speaker 1: but then he surprises her with her favorite I don't know,
Speaker 1: workout whatever gummies or something or something supplements and asked
Speaker 1: her out on a date. And she shows up in
Speaker 1: her track suit and pearls pearls. Because this whole time
Speaker 1: it sort of it feels like him flirting with her.
Speaker 1: It happens over several scenes and it's going on and
Speaker 1: on and on, and then when it finally gets to
Speaker 1: breadsticks and she doesn't show up and she realizes she
Speaker 1: got stood up and shows up at his house and
Speaker 1: they have this whole fight and it was very, very rewarding.
Speaker 1: I thought Will slash Matt did a very good job
Speaker 1: of it. Was hanging with Jane in this in terms
Speaker 1: of the actor chops fair enough. It was really fun
Speaker 1: to watch them play and do something that they don't
Speaker 1: normally get to do with one another, like each other
Speaker 1: right right, Very satisfying, No, was satisfying. They also is
Speaker 1: like the roles were reversed, which is like fun I watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, in all this, to me, the best part
Speaker 1: was that after this, she has an emotional breakdown and
Speaker 1: doesn't leave bed for four days. But we see that
Speaker 1: because all the cheerios without their ponytails, because I clearly
Speaker 1: don't know how to do them without her, they're falling apart.
Speaker 1: And you see Heather go through with Jacob and Israel
Speaker 1: being loved me also her shirt backwards, Naia crying it's
Speaker 1: so good, and Kurt being like, look, obviously she sucks,
Speaker 1: but some of these girls need the scholarships to go
Speaker 1: to college. And Will feels bad and he goes into
Speaker 1: her apartment. Now do you remember I remember talking to
Speaker 1: Ian about this because he was so excited. We had
Speaker 1: never seen Sue's apartment or house before, and he was like,
Speaker 1: she's going to be a hoarder. It's all trophies, it's
Speaker 1: a hoarder's house. It's funny. I mean, he loves those
Speaker 1: shows he wanted he was talking about like he's obsessed
Speaker 1: with like the QVC hoarder, like couponing. He's like he's
Speaker 1: very interested in all of that. So this makes total sense,
Speaker 1: and that house is very funny. It also gives me atred,
Speaker 1: like I can't look at it for too long. No um,
Speaker 1: but it's very funny. It's very laying there in her
Speaker 1: track suit for you and he gets her back and
Speaker 1: she ends up winning nationals again, and there's that incredible
Speaker 1: little TV moment and this weird moment of almost a kiss,
Speaker 1: Oh do you I she brings she with Heather and Naya,
Speaker 1: she brings her national trophy into Will's house and that
Speaker 1: was cute because they're like uncomfortable and then sorry mister shoe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then she's like kiss me and he says no.
Speaker 1: Then she says no, I'm not going to do this.
Speaker 1: Even your breath stakes some mediocready perfect. It's awkward and
Speaker 1: it's funny. Here's the thing I don't think the show
Speaker 1: this episode is called funk. I think it's called funky.
Speaker 1: It's a funky smell. You're right, there's a funky stench
Speaker 1: to it. It's teena boy rock smell. Also, mister Schuster
Speaker 1: in the choir room going funky Dad. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, oh boy. There's a lot of fringe moments
Speaker 1: like there were also a lot of this whole episode
Speaker 1: to me, is like the whole nod in a wink thing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: where I think the writers knew exactly what they were
Speaker 1: doing and you exactly hope heard some of the stuff
Speaker 1: was and we're referencing it within it. They were also
Speaker 1: between us a lot of inside things like the funk.
Speaker 1: Get was like sort of making fun of the runs
Speaker 1: we do that then Ryan would do behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: It's the exact same. That's why we laughed in the
Speaker 1: choir room because it's all familiar and like some of
Speaker 1: the dances we do later on and give up the
Speaker 1: funk or our personal dances with each other. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of referential things. Yes, and we had we
Speaker 1: had to keep it light. Okay. So meanwhile, Terry and
Speaker 1: Will are officially divorced, which happened very quickly. They the
Speaker 1: paper just as divorce. I mean, what else is there
Speaker 1: and it's just it's divorce. Sometimes the show feels like
Speaker 1: a cartoon to me, and I like it. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that is a very good analogy. Sometimes you just have
Speaker 1: to you have to look get it that way. Sometimes
Speaker 1: Will so Will is depressed, he's kind of um, he's
Speaker 1: in a funk, and that's obviously where he got his
Speaker 1: last minute lesson from um and he's inspired, and he
Speaker 1: when he's meeting up with Ryerson, Ryerson's you really want
Speaker 1: to do this? Ryerson reminds him that vocal adrenaline has
Speaker 1: a weakness and that they have never done a funk
Speaker 1: number and they don't know how to do it. Because
Speaker 1: there are people still consulting with Sandy Ryerson, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He has to beating underage boys in the pilot inappropriate.
Speaker 1: He has to come back here because because Steven Tablowski
Speaker 1: has to come back. That's where he's a communic genius.
Speaker 1: He is a communic genius even though he shouldn't be
Speaker 1: allowed back. And the whole time Sandy Ryerson's like him
Speaker 1: done a funk number. And then Will comes into the
Speaker 1: classroom like, guess what, there's our lesson. It's like, you've
Speaker 1: got your lesson from Sandy Ryerson. Right's not right, right,
Speaker 1: it's not right. So this kind of catapults this whole
Speaker 1: Quinn situation. How Mercedes is like, good, I got the
Speaker 1: funk lesson. I got it, and Quinn's like, excuse me,
Speaker 1: what about me? And everybody laughs, and Mercedes thinks it's funny,
Speaker 1: and Quinn feels like she has lots of anger and
Speaker 1: passion that she has to share, so she is going
Speaker 1: to be the first to share in the choir room.
Speaker 1: The next day with her assignment, we get into this
Speaker 1: is a man's world, which for so many reasons, this
Speaker 1: is just the most the weirdest, one of the weirdest
Speaker 1: things will ever witness. Only is what I think. It's
Speaker 1: the unwed Mothership Connection, which, by the way, if you
Speaker 1: didn't notice, is a play on The Parliament's fourth album
Speaker 1: that Give Up the Funk is on and it's called
Speaker 1: Mothership Connection. So the unwed Mothership Connections. See what happens
Speaker 1: when you put in a song and time you got
Speaker 1: a whole storyline. So all of our friends, dancer friends
Speaker 1: come in and play pregnant women who do this very inappropriate,
Speaker 1: weird mother dance, which kind of reminds me of the
Speaker 1: waitress ballet contraction ballet. Yes, and it's weird, it's really weird.
Speaker 1: But our friends Audrey and Courtney and all of them
Speaker 1: are doing this crazy wild swan swan Lake fans number pregnant.
Speaker 1: It's inappropriate and uncomfortable. I remember when we were shooting it,
Speaker 1: laughing and being like what where are we right now?
Speaker 1: But Diana sounds great on this and this is totally
Speaker 1: up her alley. She's a funky gal. She loved singing
Speaker 1: the song, he could tell, and she was just living
Speaker 1: her best life, like take away the pregnancy pad underneath,
Speaker 1: Like that is Diana. Yeah, true, truly, this is the
Speaker 1: most Diana number, like the Say Little Prayer numbers are, Quinn,
Speaker 1: this is Diana, Diana exactly she was living. Um. I
Speaker 1: also remember watching this but on paper we're like, what
Speaker 1: is this number? And then watching it we had a
Speaker 1: great time because it every while the choreography is insane
Speaker 1: but also incredible. Yeah. Yeah, it's so weird and wonderful. Um.
Speaker 1: And then so Quinn also earlier on pre pre music
Speaker 1: pre song talks about being oppressed by the man right
Speaker 1: and Mercedes. This is where we're que Mercedes reaction. Please
Speaker 1: don't go here, please Amber, Amber, please help us, And
Speaker 1: I thought, oh boy, And you know, Elodie was one
Speaker 1: for that. I do feel like all of those shots
Speaker 1: were thrown in because Elodie needed them, because I remember
Speaker 1: Elodie walking up to us being like, what are we
Speaker 1: going to do? Yeah? What are we gonna do and
Speaker 1: I can just picture her seeing Amber giving these reactions.
Speaker 1: She's like, yes, keep doing that. This is what we need,
Speaker 1: right and it helps in the later up seeing nice
Speaker 1: scene between the two m So, um, we'll let's dump
Speaker 1: to that, because Quinn and Mercedes have this very nice,
Speaker 1: emotion like sweet scene, which I feel like in spirit
Speaker 1: of like twenty twenty three or twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 1: you know, the Black Lives movement. Um, we were just like,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking giving clet Glee credit, but like we
Speaker 1: just started to skim the surface of like this a
Speaker 1: little bit, and I was Okay. I mean, it's a touch,
Speaker 1: like a droplet of water, but I was like, Alrightley, okay, okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't think I realized at the time either
Speaker 1: what was happening in this crazy episode. You're still sprinkling
Speaker 1: in something significant and that matters in that something that
Speaker 1: deserves seeing much more dialogue. Yeah, exactly. But they really
Speaker 1: do kind of, um find like this common ground of
Speaker 1: feeling on the outs, feeling like they don't belong, feeling
Speaker 1: like they you know, Quinn being pregnant and Mercedes being black,
Speaker 1: and so there's definitely this really nice friendship that we
Speaker 1: This is the beginning of the Quinn and Mercedes friendship
Speaker 1: that we see, which I was like, it's a very
Speaker 1: unexpected one, but I really like it. And so Mercedes
Speaker 1: very generously has already asked her parents if Quinn can
Speaker 1: move in because she can't live with Buck anymore. And um.
Speaker 1: And so after that Good Vibrations performance, well, yeah that
Speaker 1: number was not funk, not funky, um wild, yes, a
Speaker 1: rap song would. But they're dancing is a plus plot
Speaker 1: to get them. Honestly, I will have to say, like,
Speaker 1: the two of them were probably are the least coordinated
Speaker 1: dancers that we had in the glee club and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah for sure, and Corey would be first to tell
Speaker 1: you like, can't dance. Um, but the two of them
Speaker 1: actually Zach got them to like move and in sync
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, Okay, they can do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And which was like frustrating because Zach would always be like,
Speaker 1: I've seen you guys move. I know you can do this.
Speaker 1: I know you're frustrated in other numbers, but like, I've
Speaker 1: seen you do this before, so this is proof you
Speaker 1: can hand right, here's the pudding. Yeah, and then say
Speaker 1: you can't exactly, so they do good vibrations. It's not
Speaker 1: it's not a funk song, it's a rap song. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it had to be thrown in there because I guess
Speaker 1: we had to have that number. And then all things
Speaker 1: kind of resolve and we're back at our final number
Speaker 1: of give up the song, which um is taking us
Speaker 1: to regionals. Uh, I mean how we did? We performed
Speaker 1: for Vocal Adrenaline all in their cool sweatshirts, which I
Speaker 1: was like, can I have that sweatshirt? I know? Right?
Speaker 1: Shoe calls them back to be like meet us three
Speaker 1: pm at the auditorium, and like what we show them
Speaker 1: is this number, and they're mad at it. They're like
Speaker 1: scrim happening. And then we come out and all these
Speaker 1: outfits that feel wrong. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: I was wearing. I don't know what I was wearing either,
Speaker 1: And I don't know what I was wearing. I was
Speaker 1: wearing a flat rimmed baseball cap with a bandana underneath,
Speaker 1: a crazy yellow tank top and some wild pants. I
Speaker 1: was wearing orange and camo, Like you kind of look
Speaker 1: like Justin Bieber. But this memory was really fun. Do
Speaker 1: you remember shooting it. We were in Long Beach, right
Speaker 1: was christ and chennawit there that day. Why do I
Speaker 1: have this memory of her stopping by because I think
Speaker 1: she was in town and I have a memory of
Speaker 1: her coming by just be like, oh my god, my children,
Speaker 1: and I like, my friend was there? Or I think
Speaker 1: Marco Marco was there, right, Marco was there? Was Naw?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think she visited this day like
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing since you've been gone? Really,
Speaker 1: I think so, because we hadn't really spent that much
Speaker 1: time with her since the show had become as successful
Speaker 1: as had become, and then it was like we saw
Speaker 1: her and she was like, oh my gosh, like, look
Speaker 1: what's happening. I think she was there. I think you
Speaker 1: might be right. Well, but we had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun performing this and Dana, who's from the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: got to do her this face. That's what this. If
Speaker 1: you see us put our hands in front of our
Speaker 1: faces and come to do that weavy thing, that's a
Speaker 1: Diana move. Then got on gleat, which was great, and
Speaker 1: if you listen to E forty or he goes this face,
Speaker 1: that's what that is. We were crazy during this number
Speaker 1: and I think Elodie was like, just go for it. Whatever, yeah,
Speaker 1: and um, we were dancing. A lot of it was
Speaker 1: free we call this free form rock out, So Zach
Speaker 1: would lay our choreographer'd be like okay, and then free
Speaker 1: form rockout, which meant we get to do whatever we want.
Speaker 1: And that was always my nightmare. And when we did
Speaker 1: the line, the disco line of like, um down the middle,
Speaker 1: it's my work line. Yeah, the soul train line, thank you,
Speaker 1: it's actually my worst nightmare. I don't like improvising dance moves.
Speaker 1: It's not my thing. I don't this song wasn't really
Speaker 1: my thing. So I was like, oh gosh, so I
Speaker 1: did the sprinkler. I think are some crazy great yeah whatever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: But than me, I just fist pumped. Well, Harry looked
Speaker 1: the best, Heather looked, you know, like just leave it
Speaker 1: to the pros. Nia did the Nia dance, She did
Speaker 1: do the Dia dans. Yeah that was great, but yeah
Speaker 1: that was improved. And we were just living our lives
Speaker 1: and we were also exhausted, and I think we were
Speaker 1: like the end is near and basically how I feel
Speaker 1: now after that is like, let's just get to the finale.
Speaker 1: That's right. That's right. Um, and that's the episode that's
Speaker 1: fun Yeah, that's it. It is funny. I feel like
Speaker 1: you and I don't have a lot of memories from
Speaker 1: that episode, um, because at that point I think we
Speaker 1: were like the well had run dry. I remember being there,
Speaker 1: I just don't being there. Yeah, it was just being
Speaker 1: like a little like dead behind the eyes. Fully, I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think theatricality was supposed to be
Speaker 1: this one because we had started rehearsing for regionals during theatricality. Correct, Yes,
Speaker 1: very good, Kevin. Should we do some Tardie takes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do some speed round TARTI takes. Okay, cringe, moment's Outcheese.
Speaker 1: There's a million um the Sue and Will seduction. I
Speaker 1: picked the Will overstepping he um over sharing with the
Speaker 1: Glee Club. You actually, I did wrote this. I wrote
Speaker 1: this down because I was shocked at it, the fact
Speaker 1: that he was like I just finalized my divorce, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I yelled at the screen, I said
Speaker 1: what I share that? And then Santana speaks up and
Speaker 1: addresses it, which I was thankful for. It's like, thank God,
Speaker 1: I don't even think they cut to her. I think
Speaker 1: they her voices. No, she was, she was laying on
Speaker 1: the chairs. Okay again, I think fully sums up how
Speaker 1: everyone felt about this episode. Never have you ever seen
Speaker 1: anyone laying on the chairs in the choir room. Worst
Speaker 1: dance move I mean, I mean, but it's good and
Speaker 1: bad is good vibrations. I gotta say, there's some cringe.
Speaker 1: Give up the funks in there that we're just some
Speaker 1: were great and some were just not right. Best song none,
Speaker 1: not another one bites the dust. Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 1: I think we peaked early, Yeah, we did peak early
Speaker 1: in this one. And then performance by a prop. I
Speaker 1: think all of the trophies for sure, the one that
Speaker 1: broke the hoarders, the national one. Yes, trophies were winning.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when Tina got hit in the head
Speaker 1: with the trophy in a later season? No, Sam Cord
Speaker 1: moves and he hits me in the head and I
Speaker 1: go down. No no, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, not on
Speaker 1: purpose by accident in a scene and I go down.
Speaker 1: It's very funny. You're is there is it in the
Speaker 1: actual cut? Or Oh it's with chums. It's when we
Speaker 1: go into chums. Oh sorry, anyway, trophies galore u best lines.
Speaker 1: I think we have the same one. Okay, we did.
Speaker 1: We wrote him here. It's the same one. So they're
Speaker 1: in the office. They're talking about the prank, the slashing
Speaker 1: of the tires, and will goes, look, nobody got hurt.
Speaker 1: It was a harmless prank, and sou goes, that's what
Speaker 1: they said about a young man in Chicago in eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy one who thought he'd play a harmless prank on
Speaker 1: a dairy cow of one old of one Missus O'Leary.
Speaker 1: He success successfully ignited its flatulence, and the city burned.
Speaker 1: William that young terrorist went on to become the first
Speaker 1: gay president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. What I
Speaker 1: had to rewind it and listen to it, like three
Speaker 1: more try to do because I thought so weird. I
Speaker 1: was like, I didn't know. I'm like, are we talking
Speaker 1: about one of the great fires in Chicago? We're talking
Speaker 1: about mad cow disease? Are we talking about? Like what? God?
Speaker 1: It was so good. It was how didn't let field?
Speaker 1: But it worked so well? Jane just killing it again.
Speaker 1: It was okay ball also with the line um to
Speaker 1: Adina about being um, I can't even remember what he
Speaker 1: said to her, but it was like, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: very inappropriate, and Sue's reaction of like glaring at him
Speaker 1: was flawless. It was absolutely flawless. Um Jenna the ship
Speaker 1: we found on TikTok today. It was very exciting because
Speaker 1: it has almost nine hundred thousand views, wow, two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand likes, and somebody threw an incredible twenty fourth Glee
Speaker 1: themed birthday party. What yes, Um, it's really great. Click
Speaker 1: on it, watch it by um McKenna Renee. And they
Speaker 1: have karaoke, people are dressed up in costume. They have
Speaker 1: food themed as like rice Crispy treats it looks like
Speaker 1: but with Cheerios. There are all kinds of wonderful. They
Speaker 1: have big pictures, they have gold star balloons, people and
Speaker 1: Cheero's outfits. Fondu for two, they have the top slushies.
Speaker 1: They even have like a quiz looking thing. It was.
Speaker 1: There are paper plates with our faces on them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is great. It's really really good. You check it out.
Speaker 1: Because it is twenty twenty three or twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: whenever this was people are still having Glee parties wild,
Speaker 1: but this is great. It's great work attention to detail.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sending that, Thank you for having the party.
Speaker 1: Hope we had a great birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday
Speaker 1: per usual. Thank you for sending that in. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening. Next week is our finale of season. What
Speaker 1: we did it? Wow? This is very exciting. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: And we have lots of memories. I end up in
Speaker 1: the hospital at one point, so what Yeah, I went
Speaker 1: to the er during the filming of Journey to Regionals.
Speaker 1: I remember this now. A lot happened. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Um. Thanks for joining us, Thanks for
Speaker 1: sticking with us. We can't wait to wrap this season
Speaker 1: up and get on to the next one. We're just
Speaker 1: getting going. One season almost down, five to go and
Speaker 1: a couple of tours and a movie that no one
Speaker 1: watched it And that's what you really missed. Bye bye
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