Speaker 1: Writer, Has Indie started school? Oh? Yeah, ok? Week two? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you started on the twelve? Yeah, so soon everyone
Speaker 1: starts school in August? Now, wasn't it early? Laborde? It's
Speaker 1: such a thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, the amount of conversations I have with parents
Speaker 2: about this fact.
Speaker 1: It's so annoying. It's so dumb. We should just start.
Speaker 2: We should have year round school really and just take
Speaker 2: like four week breaks in between quarters or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's so weird. Well, yeah, it wasn't it. All this
Speaker 1: was based on being able to farm, wasn't it. No, Like,
Speaker 1: no joke. And I think that's where the school year
Speaker 1: was set up, is so that the kids work. They
Speaker 1: could work, Yeah, they could work the fields ridiculously early.
Speaker 1: And it's stupid because it actually costs.
Speaker 2: The the district a lot of money because of air
Speaker 2: conditioning costs because we have to air condition all through August.
Speaker 2: If we started at your labor day, it'd be so
Speaker 2: much cooler. But then we have four weeks off for Christmas,
Speaker 2: which makes no sense. We come back from like New
Speaker 2: Year's and we end up having like twelve days before.
Speaker 1: You know, are you honestly sitting here and saying something?
Speaker 1: In California isn't run efficiently. Can I don't buy that rider?
Speaker 1: I don't buy it. By the way, let's get on
Speaker 1: that new train.
Speaker 3: Adler had his first day of kindergarten today. We dropped
Speaker 3: him off and he made a friend. First of all,
Speaker 3: the friend he made is a basketball phenom.
Speaker 1: So in kindergarten, he's.
Speaker 3: So he's two years older than either I think he's
Speaker 3: in or maybe he's just one year. He's in first grade.
Speaker 3: We get there and nobody. Of course I'm early, you
Speaker 3: know me, what time do we need to be there?
Speaker 3: Seven thirty? We'll be there at seven twenty two. So
Speaker 3: we get there at seven twenty two, nobody's there and owl.
Speaker 3: Immediately we're on a basketball court and now there goes,
Speaker 3: I want a bask Let's go get a basketball.
Speaker 4: So he does.
Speaker 3: He goes and he gets a basketball and he starts
Speaker 3: shooting baskets, and all of a sudden, this kid comes
Speaker 3: up and he's like, can I play? And others like yeah,
Speaker 3: and he other shoots the like passes the basketball to
Speaker 3: him and the kid starts dribbling in between his leg
Speaker 3: just like yeah, like a pro.
Speaker 1: And like.
Speaker 3: Aler can barely throw the ball over his head. He
Speaker 3: tries to throw, He's like, I'm not very good, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh no, this is Odler, who's already a perfectionist,
Speaker 3: who we have to tell him you're not going to
Speaker 3: be good at everything you try right away. That's what
Speaker 3: practice is for, Like we already have to work on that.
Speaker 1: Now. The first kid he plays.
Speaker 3: With is like an abim and now there's like, I
Speaker 3: don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to come out. Thankfully, the kid was
Speaker 1: so sweet. I was worried he was.
Speaker 4: Going to be like I'm better than you, I'm.
Speaker 1: Olderbody, exactly exactly. He was so nice. He was like,
Speaker 1: why don't you come here?
Speaker 4: And he shot.
Speaker 3: He told him like how to get under the basket
Speaker 3: kind of close toward like a layup, and how.
Speaker 1: To shoot it.
Speaker 3: And within two little tips from the kid, Adler made
Speaker 3: two baskets back to back after not even being able
Speaker 3: to get the basketball up high enough to touch the rim.
Speaker 1: So it was great because we felt.
Speaker 2: It's a really ultimately very sweet one on one. If
Speaker 2: they're in a group, it's death, then it's on.
Speaker 1: And you can also say I think adults are like
Speaker 1: that too, and giant groups of people that's true. I
Speaker 1: have a question, Danielle what I mean. I know it's
Speaker 1: his first day, but what what do you what are
Speaker 1: the significant differences between like nursery, school or where he
Speaker 1: came and kindergarten. I mean, longer nap time. They still
Speaker 1: do nap time, because that's.
Speaker 3: That's times gone, that's we now know where it happens.
Speaker 3: At five is where it starts to go wrong. No
Speaker 3: more naps. It's also that now his kindergarten is with
Speaker 3: all the same the grades up through five. The preschool
Speaker 3: is the only part that's separated, so he is now
Speaker 3: officially a very small fish in a bigger pond. And yeah,
Speaker 3: no naps, more structure, so definitely more learning going on
Speaker 3: every day, although at his preschool there was some significant
Speaker 3: learning too, like either did learn to read in his preschool,
Speaker 3: but now they're going to really be focusing in on
Speaker 3: math and some reading. There's still no homework, which is good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and just yeah, we had a meeting with the teachers
Speaker 3: beforehand and they were like, what do you want him
Speaker 3: to focus on this year? And I said, I really
Speaker 3: would just want him to focus on like learning to
Speaker 3: be a really good friend and spotting other kids that
Speaker 3: may need a little help and knowing how to go
Speaker 3: to them and be a kind kid.
Speaker 4: I just that's for kindergarten, that's what I want.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 4: Sure, if he can.
Speaker 3: Really solidify the reading that he's learned a little bit
Speaker 3: in preschool, great, But that's essentially it. I mostly want
Speaker 3: him to focus on. Like my hope for my kids
Speaker 3: are that they are the kind of kids that see
Speaker 3: another kid who's maybe struggling and aren't a kid that
Speaker 3: piles on or makes it worse for that kid, but
Speaker 3: instead is like, can I help you?
Speaker 4: Do you need a friend?
Speaker 1: Like he's an emotional support addler. Correct, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: I want. I want Does he need a little vest?
Speaker 1: Mean to get him a little veast?
Speaker 4: And that's that we'd be able to bring him on
Speaker 4: planes exactly, I have.
Speaker 1: To bring into restaurants and stuff like that, Like he's
Speaker 1: allowed in Costco. He's an emotional support addler.
Speaker 3: I mean it.
Speaker 4: I want him to be that way just for me.
Speaker 1: I think that's great, that would work. Like now, I've
Speaker 1: been watching obviously a lot of Disney Channel original movies. Yes,
Speaker 1: at what age do they start teaching them all the
Speaker 1: singing and dancing routines for high choreography. How do they like,
Speaker 1: does that start now like early? Or he goes straight
Speaker 1: from karate into Broadway musical? Perfect? Perfect? Okay, good. I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure that we're all on board.
Speaker 1: Good God. Kindergarten is all about socializing. That's the whole point.
Speaker 2: It's just and just learning to like sit still for
Speaker 2: longer than you know two minutes.
Speaker 1: Do you remember your kindergarten teacher? Can you remember like
Speaker 1: even names? Yeah, missus Parker, she sucked, man, so honest,
Speaker 1: the kindergarten teacher suck. I had a horrible kindergarten here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what happened to you in kindergarten? I got kicked out.
Speaker 1: It was bad, Like I got kicked out of kindergarten.
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 2: Were you correcting the turble's office multiple times?
Speaker 3: I was Were they trying to do astrology or something?
Speaker 3: But as they're talking to somebody, make you say the
Speaker 3: pledge of allegiance. It wasn't grappling hook making day.
Speaker 1: I was just a trouble maker. I was were you
Speaker 1: just were you like, uh, the class clown kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and that's what was getting you kicked out? No, I
Speaker 1: was just you know, I was just a monster.
Speaker 2: I was in love with girls already, so I was
Speaker 2: just like, I don't know, I just care about my
Speaker 2: social life more than following the rules or doing anything.
Speaker 2: And you know, the joke is like it was the
Speaker 2: best thing for me to get in trouble because I
Speaker 2: had so much like guilt and shame about getting suspended
Speaker 2: from kindergarten that like, you know, and by the third
Speaker 2: time I got in trouble, like well, at the second
Speaker 2: time I got in trouble, I got sent to the
Speaker 2: principal's office.
Speaker 1: Was always just so terrifying.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, my parents were like, right, or what
Speaker 2: are we gonna do? You decide the punishment if you
Speaker 2: if you, you know, get in trouble again, I said, well,
Speaker 2: I'd have to go into my room and not come
Speaker 2: out all day. And so of course when I got
Speaker 2: in trouble again, it was like I had to go.
Speaker 2: And I remember it was like, right, I did this
Speaker 2: to myself, and it was like such a good lesson.
Speaker 2: And then I never really I mean first grade, I
Speaker 2: would get benched sometimes, but I was so terrified of
Speaker 2: getting in trouble that I became like a super rule
Speaker 2: follower still to this day. Yeah, I get nervous going
Speaker 2: through security at the airport, Like I always feel like
Speaker 2: I'm guilty and I've done nothing wrong, so I'm like
Speaker 2: and I you know, so it ended up being good
Speaker 2: for me to like experiment in kindergarten. But my teacher
Speaker 2: was just not very patient, and you know whatever, I.
Speaker 1: Was probably such a little paid in the ass. You're
Speaker 1: the only person I know to get kicked out of
Speaker 1: kindergarten ever, and the last person I would have picked
Speaker 1: to have that happened. I know, but it was out
Speaker 1: of Kindergary. It put me in line. It got me
Speaker 1: in line. How about you, Danielle, who's your teacher? I
Speaker 1: don't remember. You can't remember the name?
Speaker 4: Huh No, I don't remember. I have no memories, Yeah,
Speaker 4: memories at all. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We had the same one. My both my brothers and
Speaker 1: I all had missus Mullins. And in my head, she
Speaker 1: was eighty five years old, and I'm sure she was
Speaker 1: probably like late twenties.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you said that. I do remember that.
Speaker 3: I think she was eighty five years old. I don't
Speaker 3: remember her name, but she was a thousand years old.
Speaker 4: And my mom.
Speaker 3: My mom said to me, Danielle, she was in her forties.
Speaker 3: My mom actually said, I don't even think she was
Speaker 3: in her forties.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: But then I saw a picture. My mom was like, here,
Speaker 3: here's the lady who thought was eighty five. And I
Speaker 3: saw the picture of her and I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: definitely not thinking forties.
Speaker 1: Still, I still think she was older than that, but
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: That's where I met my best friend, Jessica, my best
Speaker 3: friend throughout my whole childhood. Jessica and I heard the
Speaker 3: story so much I feel like I have a memory
Speaker 3: of it, but I don't really. But we got dropped
Speaker 3: off and we were in front of each other in
Speaker 3: line up, and Jessica started to cry and she turned
Speaker 3: around and I said, please do not cry, because if
Speaker 3: you cry, then I'm crying. And so we just kind
Speaker 3: of like held lands together and made it through kindergarten together,
Speaker 3: and we were best friends all through elementary school.
Speaker 2: So I have a very vivid memory that just came
Speaker 2: back to me. We were waiting in line to go
Speaker 2: outside and we were handed jump ropes and told, of course,
Speaker 2: don't jump rope inside.
Speaker 1: Well, I threw back jump rope.
Speaker 2: And all the paint cans and pulled it down, and
Speaker 2: so I was I just remember getting pounded by you know,
Speaker 2: all these like paint cants and just covered in paint
Speaker 2: head to toe sitting there and I'm like in pain.
Speaker 2: I immediately start bawling, and the teacher grabs me by
Speaker 2: the shoulder and turns to everybody and says.
Speaker 1: You see, this is why we don't jump. And I
Speaker 1: just remember being like loved pain. I'm covered in paint.
Speaker 2: Like and she just immediately made an example out of
Speaker 2: me and just further humiliated me in front of the
Speaker 2: whole class. And I just remember my dad had to
Speaker 2: come bring me clothes and I was like changing in
Speaker 2: the bathroom, still crying, just feeling awful. So like there was.
Speaker 1: No sympathy for a missus Parker, No like, hey, how
Speaker 1: are you doing? Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself?
Speaker 1: Who's just let's make an example of writer. The troubles
Speaker 1: so much fun, these stories, it's just so much fun.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry, writer, are you okay?
Speaker 1: I got through it. You need an emotional support, Adler,
Speaker 1: so you can get you. You can't get you one.
Speaker 2: Great because Indy is not an emotional support, like say
Speaker 2: at nine, it's just drain, It's just how can I
Speaker 2: stress you out?
Speaker 1: Why are you not feeling what I'm feeling? Let me
Speaker 1: make you feel it. Oh, welcome to pod Meets World.
Speaker 1: I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm Rider Strong, and I'm wil Fredell. Oh.
Speaker 3: Today we are here to recap season five, episode twelve,
Speaker 3: Raging Cory. It originally aired January ninth, nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3: I cannot believe we are now recapping episodes that aired
Speaker 3: in ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 4: The synopsis.
Speaker 3: Alan is forced to reevaluate himself as a father when
Speaker 3: he notices that his relationship with his sons is lacking. Also,
Speaker 3: Sean and Jack have to share a room. It was
Speaker 3: directed by David Kendall. It was written by Barbie Feldman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Barbie, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Before we jump into our guest stars, did you guys
Speaker 3: have any overall thoughts?
Speaker 1: Perfect episode. I loved it, top five loved it, Top
Speaker 1: five episode of all time for me. I so it's
Speaker 1: so good season five starting to come along.
Speaker 2: I just thought this was by far the best episode
Speaker 2: of season five. Yeah, and like I said, top five
Speaker 2: episode of the.
Speaker 1: Show for me. You think it's better than the per episode. Yes,
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: Wow, really, yeah, I think it was really well balanced height,
Speaker 2: it's well balanced. Yep, it's all based in character. It's
Speaker 2: just everything, and then it has all the boy meets
Speaker 2: world heart at the end.
Speaker 1: It's clever. It's a story is great. The B story's great.
Speaker 1: They fins Bill perfectly like it is so good. I
Speaker 1: loved this episode.
Speaker 3: I really liked it too. I don't think I loved
Speaker 3: it quite as much as you guys did. And my
Speaker 3: only real complaint about it is the B storyline. I loved,
Speaker 3: But I'm just not sure why they had to be
Speaker 3: trapped in.
Speaker 4: That one room.
Speaker 3: Why couldn't Why couldn't we see your differences come into
Speaker 3: play in the kitchen as well, the way you cook
Speaker 3: differently or the like. I felt like we were seeing
Speaker 3: kind of the same scene again because we were in
Speaker 3: the same room and it was still so my issue
Speaker 3: was like just a set issue. It was like, I
Speaker 3: know the living room exists this week because we see
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so was it different? We'll get into that, Okay.
Speaker 1: Did it seem like it was painted? I think the
Speaker 1: whole apartment seemed lighter. Was it a different color something?
Speaker 1: It seemed like it went from tan to white, and
Speaker 1: I could totally be wrong, but it looked more cluttered
Speaker 1: and a different color, and all of that might be incorrect.
Speaker 2: I think it's just that the solution was the wrestling,
Speaker 2: and in order to create the wrestling, you just have
Speaker 2: to have the mattress on the floor.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was great. Too little core. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get in there. Okay, yeah, good, all right.
Speaker 3: So guest starring Steve Park, who is sometimes credited as
Speaker 3: Steven Park is the jump Master. He's a comedy vet
Speaker 3: with a resume full of impressive projects. His first role
Speaker 3: was as Sonny in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing,
Speaker 3: which led to becoming a cast member on the legendary
Speaker 3: sketch show in Living Color. Yep, and this is going
Speaker 3: to sound odd, but back in nineteen ninety one, he
Speaker 3: was one of the only Asian actors ever to star
Speaker 3: on a major television show.
Speaker 1: That's really impressing.
Speaker 4: Yes, is that not the most impressed ninety one?
Speaker 1: It was that late Oh my god.
Speaker 3: He'd appear in movies like Kindergarten, Cop Toys, and Falling Down,
Speaker 3: but he's best known as the scene stealing Possible psychopath
Speaker 3: Mike Yanagita in the nineteen ninety six Fargo from the
Speaker 3: Cohen Brothers.
Speaker 1: It's so good. It's Mike Keigia. Oh god, it was
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 3: If you've ever seen the movie, it would be almost
Speaker 3: impossible to forget his surreal scene that is truly unhinged.
Speaker 3: Steven would also appear on TV shows like Martin Friends,
Speaker 3: Matt About You, and Lawn Order, and recently joined the
Speaker 3: Wes Anderson Company of frequent collaborators, appearing in both The
Speaker 3: French Dispatch and Asteroid City.
Speaker 2: Now hold on because that Fargo scene is just legendary, legendary,
Speaker 2: and it's legendary because it is so bizarre. It comes
Speaker 2: out of like completely left field.
Speaker 1: But it does.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember, Will can you remember? How does
Speaker 2: that actually connect it? Actually, no, it does.
Speaker 1: It helps her solve the crime.
Speaker 3: No, she realizes she was lied to in that scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he well, I mean I guess kind of.
Speaker 1: But what it is?
Speaker 3: She goes back, if I had been lied to by him? Yes,
Speaker 3: maybe I have been lied to other people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember thinking it was like, this is a completely
Speaker 2: random scene that you could pull out and then be
Speaker 2: realizing like, oh no, it's essential to her solving.
Speaker 1: The crime and this bizarre like circuitous path but it
Speaker 1: was it was again, she doesn't learn anything in that scene.
Speaker 1: She gets a call from her friend afterwards who's like, no,
Speaker 1: she's fine. He was really harassing her for a while.
Speaker 1: You should you should call her. She's great because he says,
Speaker 1: my wife died of leukemia. You know, she thought she
Speaker 1: hard Margie and and then it was you know, you
Speaker 1: realize that none of that had actually happened, right, But
Speaker 1: she hears that that was a lie, and that's what
Speaker 1: makes her to turn back to the criminals.
Speaker 2: Nice people might also lying, which makes her think that, yeah,
Speaker 2: what's his name?
Speaker 1: And I remember talking to him specifically about this scene,
Speaker 1: and because he obviously I was a huge Fargo fan,
Speaker 1: so I was like, hey, man can and we just
Speaker 1: started talking about it, and he's like, I was amazed
Speaker 1: at how many people, he said, when I went to
Speaker 1: the screening and saw the film later, how many people
Speaker 1: thought it was funny. He's like, I was playing it
Speaker 1: as this guy is completely unhinged, playing it straight, and
Speaker 1: he said it just somehow became a comedy. Said I
Speaker 1: still don't understand that the magic that is so hard
Speaker 1: to nail down.
Speaker 2: Yea, And everybody plays it straight, even when it's a
Speaker 2: very funny scene, they commit as if it's deadly serious.
Speaker 1: And that's why. And you just saw he was unhinged.
Speaker 1: And every time when he gets up and goes to
Speaker 1: try to sit next to her and she's like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: please go. Yeah, just he was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So jumping into our recap, we are back in
Speaker 3: the Matthews driveway. I don't remember being here more than
Speaker 3: once I did.
Speaker 1: But it was a different set than the last garage,
Speaker 1: wasn't it. Yeah? I think I didn't. I don't remember
Speaker 1: that little wall that was I remember a little wall.
Speaker 1: Oh really, I thought it was just you saw the
Speaker 1: garage door and the hoop that was it, and I
Speaker 1: thought they expanded it more this time.
Speaker 3: It does seem like maybe it was a different angle
Speaker 3: where we saw more, like it was a bigger set
Speaker 3: this time. Oh yeah, yeah, I think the thing maybe
Speaker 3: there was a different angle to it where we saw
Speaker 3: more of it this time.
Speaker 4: But but yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, we get to hang out on
Speaker 3: the driveway quite a bit every episode.
Speaker 1: Now we're in multiple sets. We've never seen before. It is, so,
Speaker 1: I said to Sue halfway through, I'm like, when's the
Speaker 1: last time we were at the school? I know, I
Speaker 1: mean it's been a while.
Speaker 2: That always yuckson wants to do that.
Speaker 1: We it's not, well, yeah, it's I missed the old hall.
Speaker 3: Well, Eric and Allen are playing an intense game of
Speaker 3: one on one basketball. Corey walks out to find them playing. Okay,
Speaker 3: I got next, Alan explains there is no next score.
Speaker 3: This is for the Matthews Championship. Corey emphasizes that he's
Speaker 3: a Matthews too, and that Eric shoots and scores. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: you've got good basket ball for him.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I grew up my mom taught us how
Speaker 1: to play basketball. My mom played basketball all through high
Speaker 1: school and everything, so she taught all the boys how
Speaker 1: to play. We all played. I mean, you look, you
Speaker 1: look great, thank you.
Speaker 2: But beyond looking great, this celebratory dance moment, Oh, it's
Speaker 2: the best.
Speaker 1: It's great. It's absolutely great.
Speaker 2: And it was one of those moments I was like,
Speaker 2: I just want to I watched it like three times.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is so will just.
Speaker 2: Being funny again, Like, what did it say in the script?
Speaker 2: I can we find a copy of the script. I
Speaker 2: want to know what it said? Like, was that a
Speaker 2: line that was written where you just had to say?
Speaker 1: What? Like I did it? I'm the king? But it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You just have such joy. Eric is the King?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? You're so funny?
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh my god, I just want
Speaker 2: to go back and see how this came together.
Speaker 1: Like is that just Will being Will? Like I wish
Speaker 1: I remember? Don't so fun Oh.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, it says, and he celebrates and I want
Speaker 3: to celebrate.
Speaker 4: And then that's what Will did.
Speaker 1: So he scores.
Speaker 3: Alan yells no in defeat, Eric does a little celebration dance.
Speaker 2: Eric is the King.
Speaker 3: Alan laughs he'll need a rematch, but Eric reminds him
Speaker 3: the new season starts tomorrow. They give each other some
Speaker 3: playful punches, and Eric tells his dad not to get
Speaker 3: fat in the off season. He runs off to hit
Speaker 3: the showers, leaving Corey and Allan alone.
Speaker 1: Advice, well, wait wait till we come back, Wait till
Speaker 1: we come back. I'm not gonna allow you to talk
Speaker 1: about yourself like that. Well, you're right, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: was too fat not to.
Speaker 4: Hear you that's blocking your ears.
Speaker 1: That's the problem.
Speaker 3: Yet, Corey challenges his dad to a game, but Alan
Speaker 3: says he's wiped. He just played two hours of racketball
Speaker 3: with Eric this morning. Corey points out that he was
Speaker 3: willing to play with Eric again, and Alan argues that's
Speaker 3: because it was for the championship. Corey tells him this
Speaker 3: game can be for their championship. He begins to dribble,
Speaker 3: but Alan stays put. He tells Corey he's got nothing.
Speaker 3: Corey aggressively passes the ball to his dad and Alan
Speaker 3: catches it with a tired huff. Maybe tomorrow, all right,
Speaker 3: Corey pushes back, what if Eric's not around? Alan's confused,
Speaker 3: but Corey won't elaborate. He tells his dad to just
Speaker 3: give him the ball. Alan refuses, why so you can
Speaker 3: throw it at me again. Corey reaches for the ball
Speaker 3: and tells him to forget it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: They're in a bit of a tug of war, both
Speaker 3: pulling for the ball and neither letting go, until Corey
Speaker 3: gives up and sends Alan flying backwards, falling to the
Speaker 3: ground on his back. He angrily asks Cory, what's wrong
Speaker 3: with you? Corey begins to apologize, and then Amy and
Speaker 3: Eric come walking outside.
Speaker 4: Concerned.
Speaker 3: Amy asks what happened and Alan throws his arms in
Speaker 3: the air. Ask your son. Alan walks away and everyone
Speaker 3: is silent until a shocked Eric tells his mom. I
Speaker 3: swear I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: Did anybody else find? And again it yeah, completely works
Speaker 1: for the story. But Alan was really tone deaf and
Speaker 1: harsh to Corey. See, you were waiting for him to
Speaker 1: be like, look, I'm exhausted now, but we'll play, you know,
Speaker 1: give me tomorrow, you and me. It was just like, no,
Speaker 1: I got nothing, I know, And so it was like, wow, No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't in a bad way. Again, I think that's
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to.
Speaker 2: Being the father to a son who always wants my attention,
Speaker 2: you just reach a point where you're like.
Speaker 1: Dude, I've said, I mean, he's he says all the things.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm just tired, not now, and it's like
Speaker 2: and he just doesn't Corey doesn't take the hint. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, it's it's it's it's understandable from both sides.
Speaker 1: I think, Oh, no, I agree, but.
Speaker 2: I wish ball had been a little bigger. I actually
Speaker 2: think because like, there's no sound that would have brought amy.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: So if he had.
Speaker 2: Gone back and pounded against the garage door like right
Speaker 2: that and then fallen, it would have made money.
Speaker 1: On that makes it as it was.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like it's this is a silent, weird,
Speaker 2: awkward fall, and you're like, did Corey really do that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: So I wish I could go back and do a
Speaker 2: little more stunt work or you know, choreograph that a
Speaker 2: little better.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I have no complaints.
Speaker 4: Matt thought, Yeah, I do agree.
Speaker 3: I know. I I like you said, writer, I see
Speaker 3: it from both sides, and as the parent of two sons,
Speaker 3: I regularly have to remind myself that even if I'm
Speaker 3: totally exhausted from the thing I just did with one kid,
Speaker 3: if the other kid also now wants to do that
Speaker 3: same thing with me, I probably need to do it
Speaker 3: at least for a little bit, because it does they
Speaker 3: They do internalize a lot of well, you're doing this
Speaker 3: with them, and you're and what are you doing with him?
Speaker 1: And what about me?
Speaker 3: And they take a lot of that on and so
Speaker 3: even if you just say like all right, man, I'm
Speaker 3: real quick I'm real tired.
Speaker 1: Let's play Best to seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's not even exactly or horse or something
Speaker 3: where you're like, I want to I want to spend
Speaker 3: the time with you, but I don't have the energy
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 4: A full game.
Speaker 3: Because his point that he makes you were just ready
Speaker 3: to play again with Eric is so valid that you
Speaker 3: were like, come on, let's go again and you're like,
Speaker 3: no way, man, it starts tomorrow. And then when you're like,
Speaker 3: what about me, no, not you? Yeah, that part's hard.
Speaker 1: You know what. The parenting trick that I've learned is
Speaker 1: when Indy.
Speaker 2: Says like, Dad, let's go blah blah blah, do whatever,
Speaker 2: and I really don't feel like it. I just say sure,
Speaker 2: and then whether we do or not, it might not
Speaker 2: end up happening. And it's but if I say, you
Speaker 2: know what, man, I'm not going to do it, then
Speaker 2: it's on a fight.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: So I just kind of habit.
Speaker 2: Like okay, and then like we walk outside to go
Speaker 2: swimming or do whatever, and then he kind of loses
Speaker 2: interest and changes his mind during notes, does okay, and
Speaker 2: then you do it you want.
Speaker 1: It works like a charm.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a fight. It's like when everybody starts
Speaker 2: digging it, and that's what I thought. Here is like,
Speaker 2: you know, Alan didn't feel like playing with Corey. He
Speaker 2: just said no, hoping that they would.
Speaker 1: Just go away. But Corey's like why not? Why not?
Speaker 2: You know, and then it becomes a thing and then
Speaker 2: everybody has to dig their heels in.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not going.
Speaker 1: To mention this again because we've talked about it eight
Speaker 1: thousand times. But Rusty's so good, it's ridiculously He's just
Speaker 1: such a good actor that every moment is so.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy to have a family episode. It's so
Speaker 3: nice to not have it be focused on on kid
Speaker 3: relationship like love relationships. It's so nice to have it
Speaker 3: be about the family.
Speaker 1: Nice. Ye.
Speaker 4: So then we're in the guy's apartment.
Speaker 3: Seawan's lying on the couch reading a magazine when we
Speaker 3: hear a terrified scream in a crash.
Speaker 4: Coming from Jack's room. He casually yells.
Speaker 3: Out, oh yeah, the super told me to tell you
Speaker 3: that the people above us let their bathtub overflow, and
Speaker 3: whatever you do.
Speaker 4: Jack walks out of his room, not.
Speaker 1: See what magazine I was reading. Could you guys figure
Speaker 1: it out? I didn't know I didn't look. To be honest,
Speaker 1: it's like that it's gonna be one of ours. What
Speaker 1: kind of magazine was Sean reading. I don't know what
Speaker 1: curious like, didn't they have couples? Was a couples one
Speaker 1: of them that we had. There wasn't a wedding one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a wedding one, and there was one called Couples. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was very strange.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was. There was a couple of fun little see,
Speaker 4: we gotta go back.
Speaker 3: So he angrily finishes the sentence, don't poke at the
Speaker 3: big bubble on my ceiling. Sean wonders, Oh, so you
Speaker 3: got the message, Jack says, yeah. Just now whole room
Speaker 3: is flooded and I have half a bathtub hanging over
Speaker 3: my head sewn shrugs, So stay in my room, and
Speaker 3: then we optical flip to Sean's rooms.
Speaker 1: Sean's room. Oh my god, just look at that room.
Speaker 1: It has anxiety filled that room. It's like, oh geez, But.
Speaker 2: I guess I probably lived like this myself. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to think, like I did not become person no, I
Speaker 2: mean this is really gross, but yeah, I used to
Speaker 2: just you know, throw stuff around like I wouldn't care
Speaker 2: like at that age.
Speaker 1: There's also a big difference between dirty and messy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it both freaked me out, but yeah, stress, yeah,
Speaker 2: stuff everywhere.
Speaker 3: Oh there are clothes and food piled on the floor
Speaker 3: and a mattress. Sean's standing happily in the middle of it,
Speaker 3: while Jack looks around in horror.
Speaker 4: Jack wonders if this is where.
Speaker 3: All the trash tenants put down the shoote ends up,
Speaker 3: which is a very funny, very funny joke. Sean asks
Speaker 3: if he's calling him a pig, but Jack argues a
Speaker 3: pig would never live in here. Sean scoffs, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and he pulls back a curtain to reveal a giant pig.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the pig barely? I don't mean I
Speaker 1: didn't remember this at all, really, Cory, Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's so great.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this is exactly what happens when
Speaker 2: you buy a little pig. Because you know, we got
Speaker 2: a pay for our backyard school when we were doing
Speaker 2: that during the pandemic, and man Tosino got bigger and
Speaker 2: bigger Spanish for bacon, huh yeah, and yeah, and like
Speaker 2: you know, we don't have the school going anymore. But
Speaker 2: after two and a half three years of the school going,
Speaker 2: that pig was getting tusks and getting bigger. It didn't
Speaker 2: get this dark like you know, but it went from
Speaker 2: being a cute little pink baby pig too real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask, do we do we think
Speaker 3: they're trying to imply that this this whole time you've
Speaker 3: had little course.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's exactly what they're saying so much.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: By the way, this was I think.
Speaker 4: Things for them to keep continuity on.
Speaker 1: Right. They finally get one right and it's little gory,
Speaker 1: which means that's the best episode. Oh yeah, that's amazing episode,
Speaker 1: So comfortable feeling. I mean, his beats is great too.
Speaker 1: Some of his comedy beats are just spot on in this.
Speaker 1: And I feel like they've.
Speaker 2: Built on what happened in the last episode, the Christmas episode,
Speaker 2: where it was like the tension between us, the differences,
Speaker 2: the France stuff. It's like, oh, finally, this is all
Speaker 2: what should have been in those.
Speaker 1: First few episodes. That's great.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not played for drama, played for comedy too.
Speaker 1: It's really helpful.
Speaker 4: Where's your bacon Pig now?
Speaker 2: With the teacher started the school on his own property,
Speaker 2: so he brought the pig to lives with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't seen him for about a year now.
Speaker 3: Jack is terrified and decides he's going to sleep on
Speaker 3: the couch and on que Corey rushes in, he needs
Speaker 3: to sleep on their couch because he got into a
Speaker 3: fight with his dad. Jack says, everyone gets into fights
Speaker 3: with their dad. Then Corey clarifies that he knocked his
Speaker 3: dad down.
Speaker 5: Did he?
Speaker 1: I think that's how he feels good. He did.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Jack admits that's not quite as common. Again, great read
Speaker 3: from Matt and he walks on.
Speaker 2: It's definitely a line rate though, Oh, Michael Jacobs, that's
Speaker 2: not as common because it's not as common, that's not
Speaker 2: as combat. It's just like I'm just gonna throw this
Speaker 2: out there and walk away. I was like that was
Speaker 2: such a linery yep.
Speaker 3: Corey explains he wanted to play basketball with his dad
Speaker 3: like Eric does. Sean wants more, wants to know more
Speaker 3: about this fight, so does he have to leave the
Speaker 3: house in shamee? Do you get his womaning?
Speaker 2: I just like the everything about this, the fact that
Speaker 2: like I sit down and start eating crackers. It's like
Speaker 2: close crackers out of nowhere, and yet it feels like
Speaker 2: a great Corey Sean scene. But we're not, like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, we're finally like located somewhere.
Speaker 1: Like we're so.
Speaker 2: Often just standing facing each other in hallways or in
Speaker 2: and so it was so nice to have us just
Speaker 2: like actually listening to each other, talking to each other,
Speaker 2: giving good advice, bad advice, and it's just it's just
Speaker 2: like amazing. And I don't know, like I just it
Speaker 2: just felt like I felt relaxed. I felt like everything
Speaker 2: about it was just this is one of the best
Speaker 2: scenes I've seen in a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely felt relaxed and in a great way.
Speaker 1: Liked what was it? I mean you talk about there's
Speaker 1: certain people that are like, well, you know, when a
Speaker 1: show's been on this long or whatever, you guys are
Speaker 1: on autopilot, you do this. But you notice the difference
Speaker 1: with directors. I mean, we've seen it from the beginning,
Speaker 1: so it's there's some comfortability that with Kendall when he
Speaker 1: comes in.
Speaker 2: That just it just makes us all sing. It makes
Speaker 2: us all sing.
Speaker 3: Yes, So Corey explains that he didn't hit him, he
Speaker 3: shoved him. He doesn't understand why his dad does all
Speaker 3: these things with Eric, but he won't do them with him.
Speaker 3: Sean jokes and one of my favorite jokes of the show,
Speaker 3: why is it afraid You're gonna hit him?
Speaker 1: Again?
Speaker 3: Corey dives into Eric and his dad's relationship. They do
Speaker 3: everything together. They're even planning to jump out of a plane,
Speaker 3: while on the other hand, all Corey and his dad
Speaker 3: do are talk. Shawn as shows Corey that he has
Speaker 3: a great relationship with his dad. Corey doesn't want to
Speaker 3: be the guy his dad simply talked to. Great conversations
Speaker 3: aren't memories to back on. Sean insists they have good memories,
Speaker 3: like that time you.
Speaker 1: Beat them up. You're going to talk about that for years.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: It is so good. We're going to talk about that
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 4: Let's just love it.
Speaker 3: And then we're in the Matthew's kitchen now in a robe.
Speaker 3: Alan still looks angry while making a sandwich. There's a
Speaker 3: loud knock on the door, causing Alan to jump and
Speaker 3: throw bread in the air.
Speaker 1: It's Phoenie.
Speaker 4: He's also in a robe.
Speaker 1: A couple of things, sorry, a couple of things, very
Speaker 1: very well. We'll be brief about this because it's Rider's
Speaker 1: favorite subject. Which is food off brand mayonnaise. I understand
Speaker 1: they can't do a regular brand, but come on, okay,
Speaker 1: there's no pickles in the pickle jar. It's literally just
Speaker 1: pickled juice. There's not a single pickle in the entire jar,
Speaker 1: So why do you have that out? And then he
Speaker 1: spills the bread everywhere and then Phoenie comes in. Bread's gone,
Speaker 1: it's not on the floor anymore. So just we can
Speaker 1: move on. But just then, what does Phoene do? He
Speaker 1: just mayonnaises, mayonnaises some bread.
Speaker 3: But the other half of the sandwich is already made
Speaker 3: because he just puts that on top and there's already meat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a good director move, though, we've all had to
Speaker 3: make that move. So you're gonna mayonnaise the bread, the
Speaker 3: other stuff's already prepped.
Speaker 2: Yes, Because he takes alan they don't want to have
Speaker 2: to watch him actually make us build the business is perfect.
Speaker 1: Because exactly you have to see him do something. Oh
Speaker 1: it's so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and then that's all you have to replace
Speaker 3: the next time. Just take off the mayonnaise piece, throw
Speaker 3: that away, get a new one.
Speaker 1: I want Phoenie's robe too, Oh do I want? It's
Speaker 1: like kind of smoking jacket. Can I tell you that
Speaker 1: phoenees fits our fire?
Speaker 3: It's the three as phoenees fits her fire, I fits waits.
Speaker 4: Our foot apostrophe, oh fits.
Speaker 1: Oh again, we're just taking fits is out of words?
Speaker 4: Okay, exactly.
Speaker 1: I thought it was gray. Yeah they're gray. Is that
Speaker 1: srure for gray? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: For great.
Speaker 3: Alan asks what he's doing there at two o'clock in
Speaker 3: the morning, and Phoene remarks, I know what happened this
Speaker 3: afternoon between you and Corey. I've waited for you. I've
Speaker 3: waited for Corey. Nothing so nobody came over. Something like
Speaker 3: this happens. Somebody should come over.
Speaker 1: Oh it's perfect. It's a person meta. It's the best
Speaker 1: way to comment on their roles. Like they've tried this before.
Speaker 2: Remember when Amy goes to Phoene and it just didn't
Speaker 2: quite work. Whereas like this where Phoene's like stressed out
Speaker 2: because he can't oh so solid.
Speaker 1: Just saw me. He was pacing in his house like
Speaker 1: he started slow and then it got worse and worse
Speaker 1: and worse, and then fight.
Speaker 2: He just couldn't take it any more to go over
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, And you know, Bill plays it perfectly,
Speaker 2: which is not angry, just anxious, stressed out, worried he's
Speaker 2: going to be able to sleep tonight because of this.
Speaker 1: If you nobody's thinking of him, like, how does nobody
Speaker 1: think of me?
Speaker 4: It's so good, It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite Phoene moments of the entire series.
Speaker 1: Agree really is so completely agree. Alan stares at him, confused.
Speaker 1: Phoene reminds him, he knocked you on your keyster man.
Speaker 3: You're obviously upset, so can we please talk about it
Speaker 3: so I can get some sleep. Alan lets him in
Speaker 3: and offers a late night snack, and Phoene helps himself
Speaker 3: to the sandwich ingredients. Alan says, it's one thing for
Speaker 3: the boys to ask for your help, but I am
Speaker 3: a capable adult and I can handle this on my own.
Speaker 3: Phoene stops the sandwich making. You're right, and I am
Speaker 3: sorry that I intrude it on your privacy. He takes
Speaker 3: one step toward the door and Alan blurts out, he
Speaker 3: pushed me down, George. Phoene does a quick one eighty
Speaker 3: and starts making his sandwich again.
Speaker 1: Can'ts turn It's just perfect.
Speaker 2: That is actor factor blockage actor, turn around.
Speaker 3: God, just absolutely beautiful everything about it, and he says, right,
Speaker 3: it doesn't sound like Cory. Alan agreed, he knows if
Speaker 3: anything's wrong, he can come and talk to me. Talking
Speaker 3: is the basis of our relationship. Phoene doesn't hesitate. Maybe
Speaker 3: that's what's bothering him. Alan takes that in You never
Speaker 3: stop teaching, do you, George. Phoene points a sandwich in
Speaker 3: Alan's face, saying, next time, don't keep me up all night,
Speaker 3: and he walks out to think.
Speaker 2: About how efficient that scene is. Like he actually gives
Speaker 2: Phoene advice. But it's not too many words, it's not
Speaker 2: it's just it's literally two lines. Yes, Gory, we always talk.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Boom boom, I'm out of here. I'm out of here.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the sandwich.
Speaker 3: Also now and now he can go to sleep because
Speaker 3: he's given the advice. He feels he knows he's going
Speaker 3: to be on It's just it's anything about it's beautifulfect.
Speaker 3: Back at the guy's apartment, we are now in Shawn's room.
Speaker 3: Sean is fast asleep, although all the lights on the
Speaker 3: room are on. Jack is next to him in bed,
Speaker 3: but his eyes are wide open the audience, you.
Speaker 5: Get a woman who yeah, I was like, okay, like
Speaker 5: maybe there's some homeo about it, but.
Speaker 1: That's disgusting. It was just two good looking young men
Speaker 1: in bed.
Speaker 2: I would have I would have taken out the woos
Speaker 2: if I was in charge of the show too, if
Speaker 2: I directed this episode, I'd be like, even if the
Speaker 2: audience did that, we're not gonna leave that in because.
Speaker 4: It's it is a little strength, it's starring.
Speaker 1: Now I have a question, how do you do that
Speaker 1: if it's if it's WU, if the WU is live
Speaker 1: on the day. Isn't that on any track though? But
Speaker 1: isn't it also not picked up by the booms that
Speaker 1: we would have on our I don't think. Maybe way
Speaker 1: in the distance, but you'd be able to bring that.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: If those microphones can pick up the audience, then there's
Speaker 3: no reason for boom mic ever to be in the shop.
Speaker 2: The super directional direction, that's what they have to tilt.
Speaker 2: They have to rotate from one actor to the other.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, so you could isolate just one of those
Speaker 2: mics and be fine. You also usually have enough room
Speaker 2: tone that even if you eliminate.
Speaker 1: It wasn't of silence to insert there. Yeah, gotcha, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a little weird. Also, Jack has an astronaut pillow.
Speaker 1: Did you notice that he's got a space pillow going?
Speaker 1: Which is great.
Speaker 3: Jack decides to turn off the lights and Sean wakes
Speaker 3: up immediately. Are you insane? He quickly turns the lights
Speaker 3: back on. Our trailer park was right next to an
Speaker 3: off ramp. All night long, truck headlights shone through the window.
Speaker 3: The light comfort me, comforts me. Jack jokes, that's a
Speaker 3: really lovely story and make a great children's book. Here's
Speaker 3: another great children's book. Good night light, and he turns
Speaker 3: the light back off, wishing a good night to Sean.
Speaker 3: And then the pig, Shawn immediately turns the light back on,
Speaker 3: reminding Jack that he's a guest in this room, so
Speaker 3: he needs to start acting like it.
Speaker 1: And the pig has a name. It's little Little Cory.
Speaker 1: Yeah the reveal.
Speaker 3: Jack restlessly moves around, Fine, good night, little Corey. He
Speaker 3: looks at Sean, good night pig. Sean smiles at the
Speaker 3: improvement and says good night. Just as things have calmed down,
Speaker 3: Sean presses play on a bedside boom box and crickets
Speaker 3: begin to chirp. I can't believe it crickets, Sean explains,
Speaker 3: it's a tape.
Speaker 4: Sounds of the trailer park helps me sleep.
Speaker 1: I knew instantly where this joke was going, and I
Speaker 1: loved every second, Like I know what's gonna happen, and
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what they did with this.
Speaker 1: But oh god, it's such a good setup.
Speaker 4: Jack shrugs.
Speaker 3: It actually is kind of soothing, and with that he
Speaker 3: begins to doze off. But then we hear a semi
Speaker 3: truck honking and.
Speaker 1: A woman yelling as dogs bark in the distance. A
Speaker 1: man yells drop the weapon.
Speaker 3: And come out, yes, and then there's a loud gunshot.
Speaker 3: Jack good, it's hysterical. Jack has heard enough and he
Speaker 3: turns off the tape. He grabs his brother's shirt and
Speaker 3: shakes him, get up, Get up. Sean doesn't budge, so
Speaker 3: Jack turns off the light switch, which it wakes Shan
Speaker 3: up immediately. He tells Jack, I wouldn't have asked you
Speaker 3: to they here if I knew you were going to
Speaker 3: be so weird.
Speaker 1: Jack is furious, I'm weird. You know what puts me
Speaker 1: to sleep?
Speaker 3: A glass of milk, not the truck that delivers the milk.
Speaker 3: He goes for the low blow. But you'll have to
Speaker 3: excuse me. I was raised in an actual house.
Speaker 4: And the audience.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a shot across the bow.
Speaker 3: My friends fighting words yep. Sean gives his brother a
Speaker 3: death stare. As long as you put it that way,
Speaker 3: I'd be happy to turn out your lights. Sean throws
Speaker 3: a punch, but missus Jack's face completely. They both now
Speaker 3: have their arms raised, ready to fight. Jack warns him,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't man Piedmont Prep Boxing Team.
Speaker 1: Little dance. Yeah, Matt's best performance. It is. It is.
Speaker 1: He's hysterical, he gets it, just builds the laugh with
Speaker 1: that dance. It's like his legs.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's unbelievable. It is so funny. He swivels his
Speaker 3: hips and dances around, trying to scare off Sean. Sean
Speaker 3: lowers his arms. You know, if I really wanted to
Speaker 3: hit you, I would have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will.
Speaker 2: I wish, I wish I could go back, because we
Speaker 2: could have just made more of a bill out of that,
Speaker 2: like me being like what are you doing? And then
Speaker 2: him like doubly down doing it again, like you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, we could have gotten probably two
Speaker 2: more lives out of just my reaction of being like,
Speaker 2: is this weird dance that's not fighting? There's another beat there,
Speaker 2: just in the physical comedy that we I wish.
Speaker 4: You could have been done your hands day there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how we're gonna play it right. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I see how you want to fight? Shut this out?
Speaker 1: So funny.
Speaker 3: So Jack, still in a fighting stance, responds, when you
Speaker 3: want to, I'll be right here. He plops it back
Speaker 3: down on the bed, pulls the covers over his head,
Speaker 3: asleep in the dark like normal people. Sean seems hurt.
Speaker 3: And then it's the next morning at the guy's apartment.
Speaker 3: Corey is fast asleep on the couch and Tapanga is
Speaker 3: trying to wake him up. He refuses, I don't want
Speaker 3: to get up. I hit my father. That's got to
Speaker 3: be a bad sin. If this were the Bible, I'd
Speaker 3: be a father, Smider, I'd be Cory, son of Alan
Speaker 3: the bruised.
Speaker 2: This dialogue is so smart, it's so funny, like all
Speaker 2: these biblical references and like it's the first time for us.
Speaker 1: Barbie yes, and she's so great. It's so strange and
Speaker 1: funny and just off the I love dialogue. That's just
Speaker 1: off the beaten path. It's just completely different. It's great.
Speaker 3: Ta Pega tries to tell him that he has a
Speaker 3: great relationship with his father, but Corey cuts her off.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be here. If they find you with me,
Speaker 1: they'll stone you. Save yourself to Panga, daughter of Miriam. Miriam.
Speaker 1: But that's not her name. Is it?
Speaker 4: My mom?
Speaker 3: You know it's it's it's a biblical name, because he
Speaker 3: says son of Alan, right he does.
Speaker 1: He says, you're right. I didn't know if he was
Speaker 1: trying to set that up where she's now. It's that
Speaker 1: was they were going to make her Miriam, because I
Speaker 1: don't think we've have we said Chloe yet, Isn't it Chloe?
Speaker 1: Isn't Jed and jedda guy and Chloe.
Speaker 2: He said that a long time, Jeded Diane. Chloe's saying, right,
Speaker 2: that's first couple of lines. Yeah, okay, yeah, No, I
Speaker 2: think Miriam is just a better biblical name.
Speaker 1: It's yeah. Tapega insists that he go home and talk
Speaker 1: it through with his dad.
Speaker 3: Corey says that's all their relationship is, which is nothing
Speaker 3: like his dad's relationship with Eric. He screams, I want
Speaker 3: to do stuff too. I never want to talk to
Speaker 3: him again. Just then Alan opens the door and Eric
Speaker 3: stands behind him. He grabs Corey by the shirt. You're
Speaker 3: coming with us, Cory sheepishly asks, can we talk about this?
Speaker 3: Alan yanks him outside and closes the door, as Topanga
Speaker 3: watches and laughs. Give a big I really wanted the
Speaker 3: audience to know it was okay, it was big.
Speaker 1: It was a big, kind of almost like Mom said, Tommy,
Speaker 1: kind of like a hundred percent of blast.
Speaker 3: Everything's fine, We're fine, and it's fun and funny, and
Speaker 3: you can also laugh and smile.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was.
Speaker 4: It was not my finest moment, okay.
Speaker 1: And then we are skydiving quite an escalation.
Speaker 3: Coury, Allen and Eric are sitting in the plane dressed
Speaker 3: in jumpsuits and wearing helmets.
Speaker 1: How was this shot?
Speaker 4: Will uh?
Speaker 1: I mean we had the half fuselage of an airplane
Speaker 1: kind of opened up and and it was just a stage.
Speaker 1: It was essentially just a big.
Speaker 2: Must have been like when you guys are actually jumping
Speaker 2: out and you show the like the reverse, Yeah, was that?
Speaker 1: Like? Did you did they turn the whole few had
Speaker 1: the whole thing turned around and then and then we
Speaker 1: had giant matts, you know, pads, and then it was
Speaker 1: up in the air. It was up. It was probably
Speaker 1: raised by about five feet, maybe five or six feet.
Speaker 1: So much fun shooting it. But the thing I remember
Speaker 1: the most, and you can see Ben reacting to it,
Speaker 1: is that we're all yelling yes, and because it was
Speaker 1: super funny, Rusty was yelling right in our ears and
Speaker 1: it hurt so badly, and you can see Ben going
Speaker 1: like like he's kind of wincy because and then you
Speaker 1: see Rusty even pushing it far or where he is
Speaker 1: just screaming right into our ears, and I distinctly remember
Speaker 1: being like he's gonna shatter my ear drum, Like he's
Speaker 1: literally going to shatter my ear drum.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: We had so much fun shooting this scene.
Speaker 2: I have such a profound memory of the first run
Speaker 2: through when you guys did this, and really, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I remember dying like we were sitting there because you know,
Speaker 2: of course I hadn't seen the rehearsals for these scenes
Speaker 2: until the run through, and I remember all of us
Speaker 2: just like crying with laughter because because of course there's
Speaker 2: no actual engine sound there's no noise, so when you're
Speaker 2: doing the run through, you guys were just yelling at
Speaker 2: this level that was like what is happening? But it
Speaker 2: made all these lines, which I think at the table
Speaker 2: whead had been okay, kind of fun. But when you
Speaker 2: guys committed to the like the fact that you're screaming
Speaker 2: these things. How come we don't have the relationship you
Speaker 2: and Corey have. I just remember crying, laughing and being like,
Speaker 2: this is the funniest Our show has ever been, And
Speaker 2: watching it again, I'm like, this is a perfect scene.
Speaker 1: This is a perfect great scene.
Speaker 2: The turns, the way that it's like resolving one story
Speaker 2: but then just opening up another one with Eric, It's
Speaker 2: so freaking good and you guys are amazing.
Speaker 1: I just want to watch the three over and over
Speaker 1: again and so far because Steve Parker, Steven park is
Speaker 1: so good as well. I mean he comes in and
Speaker 1: kind of sets the tone too. Yeah, but it is.
Speaker 1: We just had so much fun shooting this scene. I
Speaker 1: distinctly remember just enjoying each other as actors and like,
Speaker 1: you can't it's cartoonish. You can't go too big, I know.
Speaker 1: So when you get that kind of like all the
Speaker 1: parameters are off. It's like, as big as you go,
Speaker 1: the funnier it's going to get.
Speaker 3: And the other thing that made it so great is
Speaker 3: that the dialogue is so grounded, yes, in the absurd,
Speaker 3: that it's perfect because it's very earnest, grounded dialogue about
Speaker 3: real relationships in such an absurd setting.
Speaker 1: Exactly, so so funny, you might as well be having that, yeah,
Speaker 1: a deep heartfelt conversation on a merry go round or
Speaker 1: you know, on a slide or something.
Speaker 2: But it was, Yeah, we had absolutely beautiful And it
Speaker 2: also made me think about the fact that Rusting was
Speaker 2: a hanng li.
Speaker 1: Yeah, while we were doing it right, Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: actually went with him.
Speaker 2: You drove him one time, right, a couple of times.
Speaker 1: So I had to drive his truck back. You have
Speaker 1: to drive, Yeah, you drive, so you take I'd never
Speaker 1: driven his truck before, which I ended up buying by
Speaker 1: the way off of him and then was stolen from
Speaker 1: my house.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He had no die, Like there wasn't a gauge that
Speaker 1: worked anywhere in the truck, so you didn't know how
Speaker 1: fast you were going, if there was gas, if you
Speaker 1: were turning left or right. Nothing worked. And the first
Speaker 1: time I ever drove it. We drove up this tiny
Speaker 1: little path to this huge hill and parked on a cliff,
Speaker 1: and he takes out his hang glider, jumps in. He's
Speaker 1: like bye, and take jumps off the cliff, just by himself.
Speaker 1: No one.
Speaker 2: He literally just drive him up a mountain and he
Speaker 2: jumps jumps off it, jumping and down. Have you planned
Speaker 2: where to pick him? Then he says yeah, And then
Speaker 2: well no, I don't pick him up. I where we
Speaker 2: left he drove. He drove us to where I parked
Speaker 2: my car, and so we leave from there. I drop
Speaker 2: him off. He jumps off a cliff.
Speaker 1: I drive back to where that is like seven or
Speaker 1: eight miles away, which is where he's going to land,
Speaker 1: and I take my car and I go is it's bananas,
Speaker 1: but his bananas. What he was doing, it's so cool.
Speaker 1: What a cool dude like that is like what he
Speaker 1: did on a weekend. And he's like he will you
Speaker 1: want to drive for me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But the thing is amazing. He runs you you I've
Speaker 1: never seen anybody do this up close, and he you know,
Speaker 1: he runs the hang glider, the giant thing up. He
Speaker 1: jumps off and then in one kind of move, he
Speaker 1: lifts up his legs and zips himself into this thing.
Speaker 1: So now he's in like a You're also like there's
Speaker 1: a wire behind you, I think, holding your back up.
Speaker 1: So he's like zipping himself into this thing as he
Speaker 1: Then they try to catch thermals, so you just like
Speaker 1: a bird, You're in this thermal and you're just watching
Speaker 1: him just go up and up and up, and it's
Speaker 1: just I also remember.
Speaker 2: There's like one day a year, I don't know if
Speaker 2: they still do this one day a year where they
Speaker 2: open up Yosemite Valley to hang gliders and Rusty got
Speaker 2: He was like one of the you know, he won
Speaker 2: the lottery like they did a lottery for like who
Speaker 2: got it, and so he got to fly. We use
Speaker 2: Smity valleys like one of you know, a few hundred
Speaker 2: hang gliders who got released one And I remember him
Speaker 2: telling me this and just be like you're in saved.
Speaker 1: Should we go hang gliding? Should we go hang gliding?
Speaker 1: I really want to go.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm totally al tandem. I'm not going to go
Speaker 2: by myself, but you can go tandem. We're strapped to
Speaker 2: somebody who knows how to do it. But then do
Speaker 2: you also remember when he wrecked. Yes, he came back.
Speaker 2: He came back to work one time, all screwed up
Speaker 2: because he had crash landed.
Speaker 3: How come we weren't allowed to like the same thing.
Speaker 3: You couldn't anything, We couldn't roller blade or do anything.
Speaker 3: And Rusty's out there jumping off mountains.
Speaker 1: Because he didn't care. What are they going to do?
Speaker 1: Fire him? We were like rule of biting kids. You know,
Speaker 1: if I hadn't gotten kicked out of kindergarten, I probably
Speaker 1: would have. You've been there too. I would go bungee
Speaker 1: jumping first season, so I know, I remember, Well, that'll
Speaker 1: be an episode.
Speaker 2: I was skydiving this at eighteen, so I was skydiving
Speaker 2: within this year ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Well this will, but hang gliding will be one of
Speaker 1: the segments, and you're going to hate this.
Speaker 3: Yes, an instructor screams over the loud engine. You've said,
Speaker 3: cessfully completed the ground course. Welcome to your first jump.
Speaker 3: Alan and Eric are enthused, while Corey's wide eyed, unable
Speaker 3: to hide his nervousness. He raises his hand and shouts,
Speaker 3: I actually wasn't paying attention on the ground and I
Speaker 3: feel I shouldn't be allowed up here, Eric explains, and
Speaker 3: everything in this entire scene is screaming, which is great.
Speaker 1: You know what I love.
Speaker 3: It's the drama, like will the shoot open or not.
Speaker 3: Corey complains to his dad, this isn't fair. When you
Speaker 3: hit the ground, you were not ten thousand feet above it.
Speaker 3: Alan tells him this is something Eric and I have
Speaker 3: been talking about doing. There's no reason you shouldn't be
Speaker 3: a part of it. Corey asks, So this isn't because
Speaker 3: I pushed you down. Alan admits, well, yes it is.
Speaker 3: If you're that upset about something, I have to take
Speaker 3: a hard look at what I'm doing wrong. Corey says,
Speaker 3: I just feel like I want to do things with you,
Speaker 3: not just talk about stuff. Alan assures him that he
Speaker 3: doesn't do stuff with Eric because he doesn't want to
Speaker 3: do them with Corey.
Speaker 4: It's just the way he and Eric relate.
Speaker 3: Eric shouts back, Dad just doesn't see you as much
Speaker 3: of an action adventure guy like he sees me. But
Speaker 3: it takes guts to get up here in the first place.
Speaker 3: You don't have to jump.
Speaker 4: Corey argues, No, no, no. If this is what you
Speaker 4: guys do, I'm with you, guys. Alan tells him.
Speaker 3: If you want to jump, you jump, or if you
Speaker 3: want to play basketball or baseball or whatever, I'll be there.
Speaker 3: Just promise me one thing. I don't want to lose
Speaker 3: that part of our relationship that I consider most special.
Speaker 3: Here's where it turns for everyone. Corey yells what and
Speaker 3: Eric screens back what, and Alan does the same what.
Speaker 3: Corey and Eric want to know what is most special?
Speaker 3: Alan reveals I love when we talk. Cory and Eric
Speaker 3: are surprised.
Speaker 2: If our writers had known how legendary a certain line
Speaker 2: would have been, this would have been a great time
Speaker 2: for Russy to just say.
Speaker 1: They want you to take the roles right what who
Speaker 1: they want, and then move on. It would have been
Speaker 1: like the nowadays.
Speaker 2: We would have done that, but at the time we
Speaker 2: didn't realize how much that was, like the most quarterble line.
Speaker 4: That's so funny.
Speaker 3: Corey and Eric are surprised, you do. Alan tells Corey
Speaker 3: he loves his opinions and views on things. He wouldn't
Speaker 3: trade their talks for anything. Corey yells back, you tell
Speaker 3: me this now, Eric asks, while replaying the entire relationship
Speaker 3: with his dad in his head. Yeah, what good is
Speaker 3: it to play basketball or throw a football if you
Speaker 3: don't have good conversation, right dad, The instructor yells, they're
Speaker 3: at the jump point in the rare but not impossible.
Speaker 3: Event that your shoot fails to deploy, you just pull
Speaker 3: on your red ripcord, which will engage your backup shoot.
Speaker 3: Alan's eyes widen, What do you mean fail to open?
Speaker 3: Eric adds, what do you mean deploy?
Speaker 1: Eric is still Erica.
Speaker 3: The instructor ignores their questions, Ready to go. Corey is
Speaker 3: the first to stand up, but Alan stops him. Now
Speaker 3: that our relationship is back on track, why don't we
Speaker 3: just go home basketball or something. Cory is fired up.
Speaker 4: Why because you're.
Speaker 1: Afraid I can't keep up with you? Guys will watch this.
Speaker 3: And then we get a shot from outside the plane.
Speaker 3: Corey is standing in the doorway and then he jumps
Speaker 3: without hesitation. Alan and Eric are shocked. He did it.
Speaker 1: Alan tells Eric to go get him, but Eric has
Speaker 1: something on his mind.
Speaker 3: Get him. I love it, He wonders, how come I
Speaker 3: don't have that special relationship like you have with Corey.
Speaker 4: Alan doesn't get it. What Eric asks?
Speaker 3: Do you value my views and opinions on things? Alan
Speaker 3: stares out the plane and notices. Oh his shoot open good.
Speaker 4: Eric brushes it off.
Speaker 1: That's great. Listen, all we ever do is buddy stuff.
Speaker 4: We have nothing.
Speaker 1: I want more, he says.
Speaker 3: Alan has to listen to his views on philosophy, politics,
Speaker 3: and what makes the world go round.
Speaker 4: Alan has heard enough.
Speaker 1: Jail looks at him and then tumbles out, and.
Speaker 3: Eric puts his goggles on in shrieks talking to you
Speaker 3: before jumping.
Speaker 4: Out after his dad.
Speaker 2: Perfect scene, Yeah, perfect scene. Every character is true to themselves,
Speaker 2: the jokes are there.
Speaker 1: I just love it so much. Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 4: It really was so beautiful.
Speaker 2: Hold on, before we move on, can we take a
Speaker 2: break for a second because I just got a text
Speaker 2: that I want to share. It's from my friend Letty
Speaker 2: up in Seattle. She said, Hey, guys, Letty here is
Speaker 2: she texted me and Alex just saw on front page
Speaker 2: news ari E Danielle's breast cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 1: Hope she's okay.
Speaker 2: Just so you know, I've been putting off my exam
Speaker 2: for years because I'm scared my grandmother had it. Because
Speaker 2: of her story, I'm going to bite the bullet and
Speaker 2: schedule my check up. Please know that she influenced at
Speaker 2: least one person to action by speaking up about it.
Speaker 2: Obviously many more too. Hugs do you both and Andy
Speaker 2: hope we can hang again.
Speaker 1: Suit. So I just wanted to let you know I
Speaker 1: just got that text well because the news just broke today.
Speaker 4: So that's so sweet.
Speaker 1: Thank you, that's aw thank you should be proud of yourself.
Speaker 1: Definitely thanks.
Speaker 3: I actually am two of my best friends who I
Speaker 3: had been avoid avoiding telling because truthfully, it seems like
Speaker 3: every every one of their friends in the last year
Speaker 3: has somehow been diagnosed with cancer.
Speaker 4: And I know how hard it's been on her.
Speaker 3: She's been confiding in me about like, oh, it just
Speaker 3: seems like everywhere I turned, my friends are getting cancer.
Speaker 3: And so when I found out, I truly was like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I want to protect her from this, and
Speaker 3: so I didn't tell her, and my intention was always
Speaker 3: to tell her before the news broke, but then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, it was like newsbroke because didn't tell her,
Speaker 3: And she texted me this morning and was like, first
Speaker 3: of all, I'm so mad at me, mad at you.
Speaker 3: You don't need to protect me. I wish you would
Speaker 3: have told me, and she said, but more importantly, both
Speaker 3: her and her girlfriend have been putting off their mammograms.
Speaker 3: They've just been too busy and they're just putting it off.
Speaker 3: And she said, and today we're making our appointments and.
Speaker 1: Good changing lives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that is truly world. You know, we've talked
Speaker 3: about it before. None of us like being in the news,
Speaker 3: even when it's something and that's like kind of out
Speaker 3: of your control. It gives me major agua to know
Speaker 3: I'm in the news.
Speaker 4: I don't like it. I don't like to do things
Speaker 4: I don't We are not a click baity show, we don't.
Speaker 3: We just so I it has been like a little
Speaker 3: agit like I feel, I feel the anxiety of knowing
Speaker 3: everyone's talking about me today. But I know for sure
Speaker 3: that text you just shared with me writer is exactly
Speaker 3: It's exactly the reason I did it, and I'm so
Speaker 3: happy to hear that it's making a difference in people,
Speaker 3: and I hope it continues to do that.
Speaker 4: So thank you for sharing that with me.
Speaker 3: All right, So then we're back on the Matthews driveway.
Speaker 3: Corey and Alan are playing one on one. Eric barges
Speaker 3: into their game and stands right in front of Alan.
Speaker 3: You jumped out of a plane rather than talk to me.
Speaker 3: Alan laughs, No, you're exaggerating. The wind sucked me out
Speaker 3: like a vacuum. Eric gets in his face. You hit
Speaker 3: the ground and started running, Alan retorts momentum. Eric says
Speaker 3: he wants to talk like he does with Corey. Alan
Speaker 3: reminds him they're in the middle of a game here.
Speaker 3: Then Eric grabs the ball and begs his dad to
Speaker 3: talk to him. They yank the ball back and forth
Speaker 3: until Eric pushes Alan down, sending him falling onto the
Speaker 3: ground again. Amy and Morgan rush out, and Amy asks
Speaker 3: if Corey pushed him again. Corey just points to Eric,
Speaker 3: who's staring at his dad in shock. Morgan leans down
Speaker 3: to help her dad up. He quickly puts his arm
Speaker 3: up in terror.
Speaker 1: Stay away from me.
Speaker 2: The kids are turning so good.
Speaker 3: The family is once again in turmoil, and we're back
Speaker 3: at the guy's apartment. We're in Shawn's room. Jack and
Speaker 3: Sean are sitting silently on the bed, now back to back,
Speaker 3: which also I did love this. Why are they sitting
Speaker 3: back to back? They just need to get away from
Speaker 3: each other and there's nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: But it's the next line that sells the whole thing.
Speaker 5: To me.
Speaker 3: Jack asks if Sean's awake, and he answers, oh, what
Speaker 3: kind of moron are you?
Speaker 1: Are you just sitting back to back you awake? What
Speaker 1: kind of moron are you?
Speaker 3: Jack exclaims, I can't take this. You live like a
Speaker 3: pig and you do weird things during the night. Sean
Speaker 3: asks weird things? And Jack reveals you talk in your
Speaker 3: sleep and you snore. Sean laughs, that's impossible. Either he
Speaker 3: talks or he snores. You can't do both. Jack Prest's
Speaker 3: play on the bedside boom box. We hear Sean snoring
Speaker 3: and then saying I'm going to the market to pick
Speaker 3: up some eggs. He snores again, and then he talks
Speaker 3: about eggs and rubbing them together to.
Speaker 4: Start a fire.
Speaker 2: How many times do you think the writers were just
Speaker 2: riffing on how can we make this? But I also,
Speaker 2: isn't there a no clown, no recurring joke with have
Speaker 2: we already done that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Would have been nice to have a little little absolutely
Speaker 1: right clown.
Speaker 2: Reference where I'm like, hello, clown, or I don't know,
Speaker 2: like I'm doing some version of no clown.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: Yes, that would have been cute.
Speaker 3: So he takes the tape out, only to realize that
Speaker 3: Jack has recorded over his sounds of the trailer part.
Speaker 3: Jack sarcastically says, yeah, go to the car wash and
Speaker 3: buy a new one. Sean says, knowing well that Jack
Speaker 3: knows this, I don't own a car, and if I did,
Speaker 3: I would have the pride to wash it myself. He
Speaker 3: calls his brother a hoity toity, stuck up middle class
Speaker 3: snot And I thought it was interesting that they chose
Speaker 3: middle class.
Speaker 1: Middle class, Yes, upper middle class or upper class upper class, yeah, Jack,
Speaker 1: collar or something?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Jack starts cleaning up the room.
Speaker 3: Just because you live like a pig doesn't mean I
Speaker 3: have to, and Sean tells him he must because this
Speaker 3: is his room, and he dumps a garbage can on
Speaker 3: Jack's head. Jack retaliates by throwing dirty laundry at Sean
Speaker 3: and the pig lets out a squeal from behind the curtain.
Speaker 3: Jack jumps in fear and Sean yells at him, you're
Speaker 3: upsetting my pig. Now again another great directing use of
Speaker 3: the pig, like even though you don't see the pig. Ever, again,
Speaker 3: they got a nice close shot of the pig behind
Speaker 3: that curtain, And now we're gonna buy.
Speaker 1: Anytime we hear it, we buy. It's there. You just
Speaker 1: know it is great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really good. So Jack antagonizes him make me.
Speaker 3: Sean does not stand down. Then the two jump on
Speaker 3: each other and they fall to the ground. This is
Speaker 3: the moment where I was like, why can't we see
Speaker 3: this in another part of the house because I do yeah,
Speaker 3: I do love that you guys are just so different
Speaker 3: and you're forced to come to terms with it. But
Speaker 3: I feel like we could have seen this in the
Speaker 3: kitchen with cooking, or it could have been in the
Speaker 3: living room.
Speaker 1: I think what they were going for is the thing
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do when you get two cats that
Speaker 1: don't get along, is you literally throw them together in
Speaker 1: a bathroom and you make them get along. It's like
Speaker 1: you cover them with tuna and you throw them in
Speaker 1: there until they become friends. And I think, just to
Speaker 1: sen you what they were trying to do, they were
Speaker 1: just trying to be economical, like they knew they were
Speaker 1: one of us wrestling. But you're right, it would have been.
Speaker 1: I mean, even the start of the scene is weird,
Speaker 1: like what's happening. We're both being so stubborn that We're
Speaker 1: sitting back to back and not going to sleep. It's
Speaker 1: like just you know, picking up where the last scene
Speaker 1: kind of already kind of resolved it. So it's a weird,
Speaker 1: awkward start. It would have been better to have a
Speaker 1: conflict in the kitchen that then leads it, but it would.
Speaker 2: Have take.
Speaker 1: Let's just get right to it. Yeah. I also can
Speaker 1: never get over sleeping without some sort of a cover,
Speaker 1: a sheet or a cover like just blank mattress to
Speaker 1: me is one of my creepiest feels. It's like, I know,
Speaker 1: it gives me such the yuck just even thinking about that.
Speaker 3: I could never sleep without a thing. No on top
Speaker 3: of me, No, you need, you need a thing, at
Speaker 3: least a sheet. And even that, I'd like something a
Speaker 3: little heavier, but sure, yeah something So then we're in
Speaker 3: the guy's apartment. Later, Eric's pacing on the phone. Hello,
Speaker 3: Philly General, have any middle aged men been admitted this
Speaker 3: afternoon with basketball injuries? He pauses, then asks that many.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: Then Corey walks in the front door. Eric throws down
Speaker 3: the phone and nervously checks the hall.
Speaker 4: How'd you find me? Corey stares at him, perplexed.
Speaker 1: You live here? Eric, shakes his head. Not anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm volunteering for the Witness Protection program. Corey tells him
Speaker 3: he didn't witness a crime, but Eric thinks he did.
Speaker 3: I hit my father and I saw the whole thing.
Speaker 3: By this time tomorrow, I'll no longer be your brother.
Speaker 3: I'll be doctor Abraham Shapiro of Pasi Passaic, New Jersey, cardiologist.
Speaker 4: This whole runner will just perfect will for them.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I love the way that you know.
Speaker 2: Corey overreacts but makes it all this like anxiety, and
Speaker 2: Eric overreacts and is just like I got to plan
Speaker 2: amount of and it's like so big and completely different directions.
Speaker 2: They both overreact, but Corey makes it all about him,
Speaker 2: and Eric is like, well, now I just got to
Speaker 2: change my life.
Speaker 1: That's just what I am. That's it.
Speaker 3: I'm a violent offender and I must go elsewhere to
Speaker 3: become a surgeon, have to leave Eric Matthews behind and
Speaker 3: become someone new. Yes, Corey tries to ease his mind.
Speaker 3: Their dad is fine, but what's gotten into him? Eric says,
Speaker 3: all we ever do is pala a round. You know,
Speaker 3: That's what our relationship is. I want to talk to
Speaker 3: him too, Corey assures him.
Speaker 4: You and Dad talk.
Speaker 3: Eric siys, we talk about the Sixers and the Flyers
Speaker 3: and the bay Watch chicks. I want to talk about
Speaker 3: important stuff like you guys do. It's time people learned
Speaker 3: who the real Eric was. Then the phone rings, Eric
Speaker 3: answers it without missing a beat, Doctor Shapiro, Sobby and
Speaker 3: the business you do afterwhere you look at Corey like, sorry,
Speaker 3: you got to take this real quick.
Speaker 4: Sorry, it's important.
Speaker 1: Was just trying to make Ben laugh at that point.
Speaker 3: Then we're back in Sean's room. Sean has Jack in
Speaker 3: a headlock, shouting at him. You come in here, you
Speaker 3: criticize my room, you spook my pig, and you turn
Speaker 3: out my light. Jack breaks free and grab Sean, so
Speaker 3: Sean flips him back around. I like the way I live.
Speaker 3: Maybe I wasn't born with my life on a silver spoon.
Speaker 3: Jack says he likes the way he was brought up too.
Speaker 3: The only thing he didn't like was that he didn't
Speaker 3: know his brother. Then he pushes Sean down. He pins
Speaker 3: him on the mattress. Say uncle, Sean pleads, I don't
Speaker 3: know who my uncle is.
Speaker 1: To know him too. Oh this whole thing is so funny. Now,
Speaker 1: this I remember from the run through because this was
Speaker 1: also killing it. And when you'd finally got to Uncle
Speaker 1: Dave in the bar business, brought the house down. It
Speaker 1: brought the house down. It was so good.
Speaker 3: It's just so funny. Sean gets up and pins Jack's
Speaker 3: arm behind his back. Jack screams, his name's Dave. He's
Speaker 3: in the corrugated box business. I can't breathe. Sean releases
Speaker 3: his grip. We weren't fighting about the messy room, were we, Jack?
Speaker 4: Laughs?
Speaker 3: Just think all those years we didn't know each other.
Speaker 3: We could have been beaten the crap out of each other.
Speaker 3: Sean smiles too. I've waited seventeen years to do this,
Speaker 3: and then he rock bottoms Jack back onto the mattress.
Speaker 3: Jack reverses the move and quickly pins him down.
Speaker 1: Say uncle to your big brother. Sean screams, uncle uncle Dave.
Speaker 4: In the box business.
Speaker 1: Oh. Jack raises his armory. It's just wonder all the
Speaker 1: boy meets world heart. Yeah, a great set piece of wrestling.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just perfect. And after this you buy
Speaker 1: them as brothers. Yep, Oh, this is it's about time.
Speaker 1: You're right. It should have been done in episode one,
Speaker 1: something like this but Jack is Jack, Sean is Sean,
Speaker 1: and you buy that they have some sort of relationship
Speaker 1: moving forward.
Speaker 4: It's great, Yeah, it's it's really nice.
Speaker 3: It's like a comforting It's like a nice comforting feeling
Speaker 3: to see you guys go through this.
Speaker 1: And to have that relationship with Jean clearly didn't have
Speaker 1: with either Eddie or Stacy. Yes. Yeah, it's nighttime.
Speaker 3: In the Matthews family driveway, Alan is playing basketball all
Speaker 3: by himself. He shoots and Amy catches his airball. She
Speaker 3: asks what the score is in Alan sihs sons two
Speaker 3: Dad nothing. He wonders what he's doing wrong. Amy asks
Speaker 3: if he really wants to know, and Alan immediately defends himself.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing anything wrong. I am a very good father.
Speaker 3: Amy agrees, you're a very good father to your son
Speaker 3: and your daughter. Alan reminds her they have two sons,
Speaker 3: and Amy smirks, she's made her point. Remember how we
Speaker 3: always wanted a boy and a girl. He nods, and
Speaker 3: she continues on the way to getting there. We got
Speaker 3: two boys, two complete boys that want a complete relationship
Speaker 3: and ship with their dad, and now they're calling you
Speaker 3: on it. Alan insists they do have complete relationships with him.
Speaker 3: Amy shakes her head, no they don't. Alan immediately agrees, no,
Speaker 3: they don't.
Speaker 2: Gets a great scene, Morgan gets a good scene, Amy
Speaker 2: gets a good scene.
Speaker 1: Every single character to Panga maybe not smile and.
Speaker 2: I thought it was well written in all the biblic
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I mean, think about how many characters
Speaker 2: we have on the show, and this is an episode
Speaker 2: that strings them all together. Dean character perfectly uses them.
Speaker 2: It's just it's magnificent, it is.
Speaker 3: It's really a great episode. Amy emphasizes that Corey gets
Speaker 3: his mind and Eric gets the wide world of sports.
Speaker 3: Alan says that's just the way they are together, but
Speaker 3: Amy explains that he is the father. He has defined
Speaker 3: the relationships. He should be proud. They want more. Alan
Speaker 3: gets it, we have two boys. Well that's even better.
Speaker 3: She smiles, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: It isn't about that he's a better dad to one
Speaker 3: or the other. It's that he's he's a great dad.
Speaker 3: If they were only one kid one, yes, exactly. And
Speaker 3: so I loved that because when he said your son
Speaker 3: and your daughter, I was like, are they trying to say,
Speaker 3: like which one?
Speaker 4: But it isn't about that.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I absolutely thought.
Speaker 1: There would be like a one size fits all dad.
Speaker 3: Yeah for son right well, And it is a really
Speaker 3: smart thing. As a parent, you do naturally cater to
Speaker 3: whatever your kid's strengths are. That's kind of what you
Speaker 3: default to. Like, Oh, Adler is definitely super athletic, and
Speaker 3: so Adler is going to have that automatic bond with
Speaker 3: both Jensen and I, who are both athletic and competitive.
Speaker 3: We're going to be able to bond with him about
Speaker 3: that very easily. But if we don't also focus on
Speaker 3: the other side of that, the more emotional needing to
Speaker 3: talk things outside, it would be totally one sided. So
Speaker 3: it's something that if you don't actively think about it
Speaker 3: and make sure you're part, you're making sure you're making
Speaker 3: a well rounded person, you could easily default too.
Speaker 1: So there's also love the message. There's also something very
Speaker 1: interesting in and you've I've heard this from a number
Speaker 1: of people that didn't necessarily get along with their dad,
Speaker 1: that something like sports is a language they can always
Speaker 1: speak where it's just oh, if we just sit down
Speaker 1: and we just talk about the Mets, or we just
Speaker 1: talk about you know, the Philly whatever it is, then
Speaker 1: there's a bond there that forms over this shared interest
Speaker 1: and that becomes the relationship is just we talk through sports.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, okay, I got it. Yeah. Well, we're
Speaker 1: in the hallway of the guy's apartment.
Speaker 3: Eric's waiting for the elevator, wearing a fake mustache and
Speaker 3: a steposcope around his neck. Oh, he's also holding a
Speaker 3: doctor's bag. He nervously looks around. A neighbor walks past him,
Speaker 3: and Eric shoots him an awkward thumbs up. Right then
Speaker 3: the elevator opens and Alan and Corey are standing inside.
Speaker 3: Eric slowly backs into the elevator, never seeing his dad
Speaker 3: and his brother. Alan greets him doctor Shapiro. Eric tries
Speaker 3: to run, but they grab him and pull him in
Speaker 3: deeper into the elevator.
Speaker 1: And then you see what I do right before it closes,
Speaker 1: no right but to make Rusty laugh. And you saw
Speaker 1: him kind of break. I take the stethoscope and I
Speaker 1: just put it on his heart.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: So it's like it was like trying to.
Speaker 4: Read so funny.
Speaker 1: And then we were at the museum News sets, Baby Man, Maney, Money, Money.
Speaker 1: This is where I was like, is this why we
Speaker 1: were stuck in Sean's bedroom? We had we had museum money.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it was. Gougenheim money to burn my
Speaker 1: friend exactly.
Speaker 3: Corey, Eric and Alan walk in together, and Eric asks
Speaker 3: why they brought him here. Alan explains, I wanted to
Speaker 3: do something with you that I've done on occasion with Corey.
Speaker 3: Corey says he came here on a field trip once
Speaker 3: and he really liked it, so he decided to take dad.
Speaker 3: Alan fills in Eric what we like to do is
Speaker 3: we pick out a piece and then we guess what
Speaker 3: the artist is trying to say. Eric points to a
Speaker 3: nearby sculpture, asking what they think about that one. It
Speaker 3: looks like two metal beams connected to another board with
Speaker 3: like a ringed planet inside it. The three men place
Speaker 3: their hands under their chins, deep in thought.
Speaker 2: Okay, I remember this well, do you. Isn't this the
Speaker 2: episode where Rusty just said gibberish because he couldn't remember
Speaker 2: his line. I'm pretty sure you guys were all had
Speaker 2: your hands into your chin and it was his line
Speaker 2: and it was like.
Speaker 1: Beat and he just went you remember this moment.
Speaker 2: He didn't know his lie, but he just said something
Speaker 2: and you guys were like whoa, And then you couldn't
Speaker 2: keep it together for the rest of.
Speaker 1: The taping because Rusty just forgot his line and he
Speaker 1: just said like, you're damn what, Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: tot hilarious about that. Oh my god, that's right he did.
Speaker 1: He just went like, yeah, what is what you bed
Speaker 1: just couldn't keep it together. You're like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: He's like, let me look at the pages.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: So Alan asks Eric what do you think the artist
Speaker 3: is trying to say? And Eric has no idea. He
Speaker 3: walks around the piece, trying to observe it from every angle.
Speaker 3: Corey reminds him it's abstract, and Alan adds there's no
Speaker 3: right or wrong answer. Eric eventually answers monkey unkey. Corey
Speaker 3: and Allan give each other a confused glance, but Eric
Speaker 3: continues two monkeys. They're fighting over a coconut, which symbolizes
Speaker 3: the father monkey's attention. Alan says this may not have
Speaker 3: been a good idea, Eric keeps going. My interpretation is
Speaker 3: that the artist is illustrating a very painful situation where
Speaker 3: the father monkey has two sons but only one coconut.
Speaker 3: So he splits the coca ut in half, but only
Speaker 3: half a coconut isn't enough for either son. Alan agrees
Speaker 3: with Eric, and Eric snaps out of his deep thought.
Speaker 3: What kind of artist do you want to talk about now? Neoclassism, Impressionism,
Speaker 3: photographic art as Aladam's American Landscape. He's probably my favorite.
Speaker 3: But you didn't know that, Alan admits, no, I didn't.
Speaker 3: How does Eric know about all this? Eric shrugs, I
Speaker 3: learned about it at school. We just never talked about it.
Speaker 3: Didn't think you'd want to hear it from me. Alan's
Speaker 3: clearly surprised, and Eric continues, I just always tried to
Speaker 3: be the person I thought you wanted me to be.
Speaker 3: Alan pat's Eric shoulder and smiles. He'd really like to
Speaker 3: hear what he has to say about another piece, and
Speaker 3: they walk off. Ry stays behind, watching his dad and
Speaker 3: brother with a big smile on his face. He takes
Speaker 3: one last look at the piece they all just analyzed
Speaker 3: and notices a placard right next to it. It reads
Speaker 3: Monkeys with Coconut dom Eric's a gainess. Corey can't believe it.
Speaker 3: He laughs and walks toward his family. So then we
Speaker 3: are in the tag in the Matthews driveway. Alan's taking
Speaker 3: down the basketball hoop. As Morgan walks out dribbling a basketball,
Speaker 3: she asks what he's doing, and he declares.
Speaker 1: Taking down this hoop. No good can come from it.
Speaker 3: He sits down and asks her. We have a pretty
Speaker 3: good relationship, right, Morgan shrugs. I guess, so, he continues,
Speaker 3: We talk right, She nods, he asks, and we have fun, right. Morgan,
Speaker 3: who looks mildly concerned, now responds yeah. Alan chuckles, I
Speaker 3: should have had all girls.
Speaker 4: She smiles.
Speaker 3: They give each other a high five and a loving hug,
Speaker 3: and that's our perfect little episode.
Speaker 4: Great, so great, so good.
Speaker 3: So join us for our next episode recap, which will
Speaker 3: be season five, episode thirteen, The Eskimo, aired January sixteenth,
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I don't think I'm in that literally, I think
Speaker 1: this is one of my one of the episodes. I
Speaker 1: thinkhere Michael came out to me and it was like
Speaker 1: you got the week off, go home, like okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think I could be wrong. This is a
Speaker 1: classic episode. A lot of people love this. Next episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember not liking it that much, but I
Speaker 2: think it was just because we didn't have our normal directors.
Speaker 2: A new director, even though I liked her, I think
Speaker 2: it felt off, but I don't I can't wait to
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 3: I know, I don't remember a single thing about it.
Speaker 3: It's a super Bowl episode, okay, yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh good? Yeah yeah, I kind of remember that week,
Speaker 1: so I yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 2: Well.
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