Speaker 1: And That's what you Really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome to and That's what You Really
Speaker 1: Missed podcast. I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, And today's one of
Speaker 1: those days. We're racking our brains to remember the week
Speaker 1: of May eleventh, twenty in Glee history, when episode eighteen
Speaker 1: of season one aired laryngitis, because we were trying to
Speaker 1: remember what we were doing in the real world outside
Speaker 1: of the show, which was we were about to start
Speaker 1: our tour, first tour, yes, which was one of those
Speaker 1: things that you didn't imagine that you would be doing
Speaker 1: as part of a TV show. But there we were
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Arizona, in early summer, and it was hot
Speaker 1: as hell. Heather's from Scottsdale, yes, and so we she
Speaker 1: kind of knew the territory. I do remember that it
Speaker 1: was very hot, but we were in a dark room
Speaker 1: a lot of the time. Yeah, we were in a
Speaker 1: theater in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It felt like I think
Speaker 1: it was like a hundred degrees and I remember walking
Speaker 1: outside in the sun blinding our eyes and there was
Speaker 1: nobody around because of course nobody would be walking the
Speaker 1: streets and that heat, and it did feel like a
Speaker 1: ghost town like we we had like free rain. It
Speaker 1: was summer break sort of thing, summer brick. It was
Speaker 1: very exciting. It was my first time in two gay bars.
Speaker 1: I do remember I went to only went to one
Speaker 1: of those. I believe it was fun. I remember when
Speaker 1: Zach Woodley were at one and we got invited to
Speaker 1: go upstairs in this like secret room of this place
Speaker 1: to try expensive tequila, and I thought it tasted like
Speaker 1: light or fluid, so I didn't have the palette I
Speaker 1: have now. Was this the club where they announced that
Speaker 1: you were there? It was the same night, different club
Speaker 1: where you know, closeted. Me was in a gay club
Speaker 1: for the first time, and then like the cast of
Speaker 1: Glee is here, and we ran out of there so quickly.
Speaker 1: I was like, where's Chris. Get Chris, because at that
Speaker 1: point it was me, Chris, Kelly, and I think Megan,
Speaker 1: which was also funny because I obviously was not closeted
Speaker 1: to you guys. But by the time we got to
Speaker 1: La Jane Lynch came up to me after the show
Speaker 1: and was like, I heard you were a little gay boy,
Speaker 1: like in a sweet way, and I turned bright red
Speaker 1: and was like, She's like, oh, okay, never mind, Sorry,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have said that. I was like, no, it's fine.
Speaker 1: I just want other people to know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what my problem was. That's funny. I recently was back
Speaker 1: in Phoenix and went to a gay bar and I
Speaker 1: was like, I wonder if this is the same place,
Speaker 1: and it didn't look the same at all, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, my one memory of it is being
Speaker 1: in this like back bar. I knew, like geographically the
Speaker 1: opposite of what you would have done. Jennet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't remember anything geographically because I don't know geography.
Speaker 1: And I wandered through this crowd and I saw the
Speaker 1: back corner bar. I was like, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is it. I gave a drag queen tickets to the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she came, but it all happened better. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: the one gay bar. Yeah, it was really magical. I
Speaker 1: was happy to find it a billion years later. M
Speaker 1: very exciting. Do you remember too. So for this tour,
Speaker 1: Phoenix was our place where we were working out what
Speaker 1: the show was going to be, because there was still
Speaker 1: a debate of whether or not we were going to
Speaker 1: be in character the entire time or were we going
Speaker 1: to be ourselves? And we had skits. There were skits
Speaker 1: in this tour and the skits in this tool and
Speaker 1: during the first show there wasn't a consistent like, sometimes
Speaker 1: we refer to each other and as our real name,
Speaker 1: sometimes we refer to each other and our character names.
Speaker 1: I was in the wheelchair the whole time, so I
Speaker 1: was always ardy, right, And so it was a weird
Speaker 1: mix of we didn't quite know what we were doing yet,
Speaker 1: trial and error, and there was also the thing of
Speaker 1: the people behind the scenes who are running the tour,
Speaker 1: who that's what they normally did. They're like, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. It's gonna be like one Direction where
Speaker 1: there's people screaming everywhere. And then do you remember nobody cheered.
Speaker 1: We went out on stage and after each number like
Speaker 1: people applauded a little bit. And then we finished the show.
Speaker 1: Everyone went crazy, and we realized the demographic of the
Speaker 1: audience was so far off from what they thought it
Speaker 1: would be. They thought it was going to be like teens,
Speaker 1: and it was teens and younger children and through their
Speaker 1: grandparents it was body and that was so people react
Speaker 1: differently in different demographics, and then people were reacting like
Speaker 1: they were watching a theater show and not necessarily a concert.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. It was the first night and every
Speaker 1: afterwards like did people like it? And we had to
Speaker 1: have sort of like a meeting to sort of dissect
Speaker 1: what was going on. And we realized because we were
Speaker 1: doing so many skits and in our characters, that people
Speaker 1: thought it was a theater show. So you don't clap
Speaker 1: in the middle of a theater show, really, and so
Speaker 1: we had to then add in bits to like involve
Speaker 1: the crowd, crowd participation, make them feel like, no, this
Speaker 1: is a concert. We're not putting out a theater show,
Speaker 1: even though this is like a musical theater type thing.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Well, what a memory, Kevin that I don't
Speaker 1: remember any of that. I just remember because I was
Speaker 1: just like, they hate it, We're not nobody. I was
Speaker 1: taking it very personally. Well. It's also it was like
Speaker 1: a new format for a TV show to go on tour,
Speaker 1: and I think before that high school musical had gone
Speaker 1: on tour, and that was a heavily skewed demographic in
Speaker 1: terms of you knew exactly who was showing up. It's
Speaker 1: Disney Channel. It's a young audience and kids will screen tweens. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: exactly with us, which is what they expected. I don't
Speaker 1: think people knew, right, you know, we met people when
Speaker 1: we were out getting recognized, and there was grandparents to children.
Speaker 1: So no, truly, I mean even like people would come
Speaker 1: to visit and said and on tour, like when they
Speaker 1: come up to us some coffee shops, they'd be like,
Speaker 1: my girlfriend really likes the show, but I love the show.
Speaker 1: It was very much that so the show, I mean
Speaker 1: this episode am aired on May eleventh, which also was
Speaker 1: Corey Corey's birthday, yea, and my dad's birthday. Oh and
Speaker 1: you know my mom's birthday is the same as Lea's day.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, and now we know that my mom's birthday
Speaker 1: is the same as Ryan's birth Ryan's birthday, and you
Speaker 1: and Harry and my friend Will and there was one
Speaker 1: other person, Marco's brother, Marco's brother. There's quite a few
Speaker 1: people with April twenty anyway, it's one of those days. Yes, Well,
Speaker 1: the tour was a hit, obviously after we figured it
Speaker 1: out with your memory, there was an experiment it wasn't
Speaker 1: and then didn't we also film at Radio City? You're right,
Speaker 1: we filmed at Radio City and we weren't really sure
Speaker 1: what it was for what they were going to do
Speaker 1: with it, but Ryan was like, let's just film it,
Speaker 1: and we never saw it. We should have asked Ryan
Speaker 1: if he has it, Oh, we gotta check him and
Speaker 1: ask let's ask him, because I need to pull that
Speaker 1: out of the archives. I would love to see that,
Speaker 1: especially you know shot the way it was shot. Do
Speaker 1: you remember like a steady camp was following Lee down
Speaker 1: the aisles for don't Random My Parade and like the
Speaker 1: whole thing. I remember too. At Radio City all of
Speaker 1: the Fox executives and Ryan everybody came and that's when
Speaker 1: they sort of fest up to it being like a
Speaker 1: pilot program. They're like, basically, we're doing this like we're
Speaker 1: not going to make any money this time, because as
Speaker 1: much as it's costing to put on this tour, we're
Speaker 1: not putting you on the road long enough to actually
Speaker 1: recoup all of that money. But if this is successful,
Speaker 1: then next season we'll do a bigger tour. And we're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, what does that mean? And it we broke.
Speaker 1: I think at the time the merch sales record at
Speaker 1: Radio City, right, and like it worked as successful? So
Speaker 1: next season get ready all right? What else was going on?
Speaker 1: Number one song nothing on You Bob featured Brutal Mars Right.
Speaker 1: The movie Iron Man two released on May seventh, with
Speaker 1: our friend Gwyneth Paltrow, our future friend, our future friend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then on the Stay. In two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: the Glee cast attended their season one premiere screening event.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1: How far we had come in a year? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean it was right when the show premiered, like
Speaker 1: after American Idol in two thousand and nine, we did
Speaker 1: that high school thing. And it is weird to think
Speaker 1: within a year than we were selling out Radio City. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nobody could have told the cast of Glee at that
Speaker 1: amphitheater that we would be on a tour selling out
Speaker 1: Radio City or like my home. And and yes, we
Speaker 1: can talk more about the tour another time. Let us
Speaker 1: know you guys if you want to hear more about
Speaker 1: tour number one, and also we'll ask Ryan about seeing it.
Speaker 1: That's where I got that tour was fun and Drea
Speaker 1: was fun. We went out of the night after Radio
Speaker 1: City to that restaurant that they rented out for us,
Speaker 1: and we got buck wild dancing on the I think
Speaker 1: you talked about this in the previous episode Dancing on
Speaker 1: the Tables. I was also able to like order sushi
Speaker 1: from my favorite place because which is now closed, our
Speaker 1: ip Codama, because I was home. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is this in my hood. It was a very
Speaker 1: good time, we very exciting. We got to go in
Speaker 1: a private chat for we'll talk about the next week. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this episode Laryngitis was special for a number of reasons.
Speaker 1: So if you hadn't noticed up to this point during
Speaker 1: the back nine so far, Naya is progressively singing more
Speaker 1: and more and more and it's yes, thank God, and
Speaker 1: it seems like the creative team starting to recognize how
Speaker 1: damn good she was at everything yep, which leads us
Speaker 1: to the Boy's mind this episode. And this also goes
Speaker 1: to with our interview with Ryan where and he was
Speaker 1: talking about how it was so special that we got
Speaker 1: to spend so much time in between set scenes where
Speaker 1: he got to know us, because this episode is exactly
Speaker 1: a product of that. The Boy is Mine and the
Speaker 1: Climb there was also a lot of us getting to
Speaker 1: bond with Alfonso Gomez, who will be one of our
Speaker 1: resident directors, yes, who was amazing, did a great job,
Speaker 1: very artistic though. So sometimes there are some directors that
Speaker 1: would take really quickly Eric Stults, she takes done. There
Speaker 1: are some directors that some are men in the middle.
Speaker 1: And Alfonso really I got these like very special shots
Speaker 1: and he was very specific and so sometimes we would
Speaker 1: do it all and we weren't used to that. But
Speaker 1: it looks are like who is this? But they looked
Speaker 1: his episodes like we'll get two grilled cheeses, oh goodness, gracious.
Speaker 1: And if you watch American Horror Story, he became a
Speaker 1: central figure on that show with all of those like
Speaker 1: crazy from the ceiling to the floor, like spinning around
Speaker 1: type shots. That's all well Fonzie. So if we refer
Speaker 1: to him as Fawnsie, um, that's why. And that's him
Speaker 1: quite good friends with him too, Yeah, just he was
Speaker 1: like around and poor guy. I remember him like I'd
Speaker 1: seen him for ever around led and would just be
Speaker 1: like and he's a quiet guy, and we were the opposite.
Speaker 1: And I think you had a good impression of him.
Speaker 1: Kevin He's the only impression I can do. It's niche
Speaker 1: and it only works for a certain group of people,
Speaker 1: but he is the only impression I can do. And
Speaker 1: a little Ryan all right, and yeah, definitely right. And
Speaker 1: so this was technically written by Ryan, but we know
Speaker 1: it's the holy trinity Um Brad, Ryan and Ian. And
Speaker 1: we have guest stars Michael Malley who feels like regular
Speaker 1: UM Zach Weinstein very special guest star um Eve Gordon
Speaker 1: as Miss fret Hold as Zach's mom or a Sean's mom,
Speaker 1: and um actually think is in this episode. Everything is
Speaker 1: very funny in this episode. Yeah, we get we get Fink,
Speaker 1: we get a lot more thinks soon. And unfortunately there's
Speaker 1: no Jesseline or Jama, which is sad. You know, we
Speaker 1: need them. Tell us about the music, Kevin, tell me
Speaker 1: about them. We have some gigantic songs. We have Jesse's
Speaker 1: Girl by Rick Springfield. We have Lady as a Tramp
Speaker 1: by the cast of Babes and Arms. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Babes and Arms is, Jenna, it's a show. Well,
Speaker 1: I thought this was like a Frank Sinatra song. You know,
Speaker 1: they made it like Frank Sinatra songs. So I would
Speaker 1: have believed somebody covered it, but it's a Broadway song.
Speaker 1: I had no idea, all right, The Boy's Mind by
Speaker 1: Brandy and Monica, The Song of Our Time, Rose's Term
Speaker 1: by the cast of Gypsy, and One by You two. Specifically,
Speaker 1: it is the new version of one that features Mary
Speaker 1: jay Blige. It is. I wouldn't have known that it's
Speaker 1: the cover because I was obsessed with that cover and
Speaker 1: I was a little sad I didn't get to sing
Speaker 1: on this one. Oh No, but I was really happy
Speaker 1: they used the cover because I remember Bono also said
Speaker 1: he preferred that version because he hates how he sounds
Speaker 1: on the original version. Oh wow. A little tidbit break
Speaker 1: this episode down for us, Jenna, let's do it so
Speaker 1: A sort of throat affects Rachel's singing voice and she
Speaker 1: goes into panic mode. She's one of my favorite quotes
Speaker 1: of the series in this episode. Meanwhile, Kurt tries to
Speaker 1: change his persona to across his father get his dad's attention,
Speaker 1: and Puck tries to regain his social status by dating
Speaker 1: Mercedes after he shaves the mohawk. He was so sick
Speaker 1: about mohawk A lot to maintain. It was a lot,
Speaker 1: and it just made him so distinguishable out more. That's right,
Speaker 1: there was no hiding. Should we get into the episode
Speaker 1: to talk about some some memories here? So all right,
Speaker 1: Puck shows up at school and his mohawk is gone,
Speaker 1: you know, Hell's frozen over, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we realized that the mohawk gave him his popularity, that
Speaker 1: gave him his power, and now that it was gone,
Speaker 1: gone was his power and people being scared of him.
Speaker 1: And he's noticing that Mercedes is now a cheerio, she's
Speaker 1: totally up to her social status and thinks, well, maybe
Speaker 1: I need to go after her because she can make
Speaker 1: me popular. After he gets thrown at the dumpster, and
Speaker 1: he has this you know, aha momentum fun fact. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed this, but there's a on
Speaker 1: the waste management sign on the trash band that he
Speaker 1: gets thrown into. It's spelled incorrectly. Yeah. I wonder if
Speaker 1: they had to do that for like legal reasons. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but it's like trademarked or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That seems pretty general. That's funny, yeah, or somebody just
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to spell right, which is fine, um,
Speaker 1: so Puck tries to go after Mercedes, saying all kinds
Speaker 1: of offense appropriate inappropriate things, calling her the black girl
Speaker 1: several times. I'm like that emoji with the teeth. Um
Speaker 1: he was very funny this episode. He doesn't get to
Speaker 1: do a lot of silly comedy, I think, And it
Speaker 1: was and he's a funny kid, Like he really did
Speaker 1: make us laugh a lot. And then and then because
Speaker 1: of Puck and Mercedes actually Mercedes actually being wooed by
Speaker 1: Puck even though she really kind of knows exactly what
Speaker 1: this is. It takes us to the Santana and Mercedes
Speaker 1: singing the song of the Century, the Boy's Mind, because
Speaker 1: Quinn has given her heads up, because Quinn's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about Puck breaking your heart. I'm worried about
Speaker 1: the ramifications of Santana of you going after Santana's man
Speaker 1: like good luck. And then after the assignment when he
Speaker 1: does Ladies a Tramp with Mercedes, Santana is like, no, no,
Speaker 1: this will not stand. We're not having this. So do
Speaker 1: you want to talk about Boy's Mind? Basically, and this
Speaker 1: is also where tour comes in handy. You need to
Speaker 1: go watch some bootlegs because somehow when we were sitting around,
Speaker 1: we'd have our chairs in our director's chairs, cast chairs
Speaker 1: in a circle in the middle of the sound stage
Speaker 1: while they're setting up shots, and Nia starts doing this
Speaker 1: Monica impression, which involves a lot of neck movement and
Speaker 1: head bobbing and hair moving, and she did this incredible,
Speaker 1: incredible spot on monica impression. And Ryan comes up, because
Speaker 1: this was happening probably during Madonna, right when Ryan was around,
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you He would show up out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, like just appear like a phantom and be like,
Speaker 1: what are you all laughing at? And so we're like, Naia,
Speaker 1: do the thing, Please show him and he was dying laughing.
Speaker 1: And then what do you know, in the next episode
Speaker 1: or two episodes there it is. I would say, Amber
Speaker 1: also sounds phenomenous. Oh my god, it's it's literally my dream.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe. It felt like a coup, like we
Speaker 1: had tricked Ryan into doing the thing we wanted to do.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes we definitely try before, Like Ryan listened
Speaker 1: to this and it worked. You just had to make
Speaker 1: him think it was his idea, you know, And then
Speaker 1: he's like, let's do this thing. I came up with
Speaker 1: her great and so I remember Naya. She went to
Speaker 1: record it, and then afterwards she was like, well, I
Speaker 1: tried to do the full Monica impression, but Adam wouldn't
Speaker 1: let me, and she threw it in there. She definitely
Speaker 1: got it in. If you notice, it's sort of like
Speaker 1: how she pronounces some of the vowels and the verbrato
Speaker 1: on some of the wards dude things dud do like
Speaker 1: And there's a shot if you go watch the number
Speaker 1: where she's at the piano and her Amber started the
Speaker 1: piano and Amber walks to perform to the kids, and
Speaker 1: when she leaves the piano, yes, it's her last shot
Speaker 1: at the piano. She puts her hand up and she
Speaker 1: does this nice thing. And that was part of the
Speaker 1: original impression that she did for us, and she snuck
Speaker 1: it in there, and it got in there. Her ability
Speaker 1: to put in inside jokes constantly and keep a straight
Speaker 1: face was unmatched, unmatched. It's so good and it's so funny,
Speaker 1: so good. And I discovered when I was sort of
Speaker 1: like looking you know this episode up, I found her
Speaker 1: doing this on that first tour and she does full
Speaker 1: Monica impression. Yeah, she watch some recordings on YouTube. It
Speaker 1: is full Monica and then a bit with the recorded version,
Speaker 1: you'll see what we're talking about. Then that is the
Speaker 1: boy is Mine. I mean, there's not much else to
Speaker 1: say other than the fact that it's brilliant and we
Speaker 1: couldn't we literally couldn't be happier that it was in
Speaker 1: the episode, and we weren't probably jumping up and down
Speaker 1: when we saw it in the Scriptum. So Mercedes quits
Speaker 1: the cheerios the end of it goodbye and says, nobody
Speaker 1: quits the cheerio as you either die or I kick
Speaker 1: you off. But at some point Mercedes the jig is
Speaker 1: up right, like she's got back to Gale Club. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so can we just at some point during this, him
Speaker 1: trying to woo her, says Blacks and Jews have a
Speaker 1: history of sticking up for each other, and Wikipedia says
Speaker 1: that King Martin Luther loved the Jews. I can I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a cringe line for later, but he just
Speaker 1: it would like he joins a black church. It was
Speaker 1: sort of like the same thing he did to get Rachel.
Speaker 1: It's always like I'm going to leave my Jewishness. It's
Speaker 1: it is funny um, but it's also very wildly inappropriate.
Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy. So this leads us to our inside
Speaker 1: joke number two, which was also a thing we showed Ryan. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: this was okay, this is amazing. Leah Lead had this
Speaker 1: thing where she bad sings, and because she has such
Speaker 1: a phenomenal voice, the juxtaposition of her bad singing is
Speaker 1: so good. It's it's cringing, it's off key, it is piercing,
Speaker 1: and it's so freaking funny. And she would do it
Speaker 1: all the time. We'd ask her to do it all
Speaker 1: the time on set, in between takes and when she's
Speaker 1: up in the choir room kind of like when she
Speaker 1: did the climb, like standing there. She would do it
Speaker 1: with a song and she had the ability to like
Speaker 1: just get just off key enough that you're like, oh God.
Speaker 1: And we made her do it for Ryan and he
Speaker 1: was laughing. And so that is the name of our episode,
Speaker 1: because she would the face she performs the climb with
Speaker 1: is the face she always does her bad singing with
Speaker 1: where she's like, she's not aware, but she knows something
Speaker 1: is up. You know, I think something's wrong. You were
Speaker 1: all I remember her joining the climb and because it
Speaker 1: wasn't she did it live, so she wasn't singing to
Speaker 1: pre record because it obviously wasn't a recorded, recordable thing.
Speaker 1: She had an earwig in and you can see it,
Speaker 1: go back and see it in her right ear when
Speaker 1: she looks at mister Shoe. She has the earwig in
Speaker 1: so she can keep time and hear the track. But
Speaker 1: she's singing and there's no music. So imagine us in
Speaker 1: the choir room with silence, with her singing the climb.
Speaker 1: And this is the first time. Phonzie also was directing
Speaker 1: and didn't really know us, and we all are all
Speaker 1: trying to keep it together. Yeah, but it was so hard.
Speaker 1: I'm crying thinking about it. There was a shot of
Speaker 1: me right before she starts singing, and I'm also I'm
Speaker 1: already laughing. It's hard. It's really quick. I'm I'm doing
Speaker 1: my frowny face to keep from smiling, and I'm turning
Speaker 1: away from her before she's even started, and I got
Speaker 1: caught i camera doing it. Because I also remember her
Speaker 1: being like, guys, you got to stop while thing because
Speaker 1: I kind of get this done because she we were
Speaker 1: making her laugh. Um, but the only way for us
Speaker 1: to not laugh was to make confused faces, which were worked.
Speaker 1: It worked for the scene. Harry's face was phenomenal in this.
Speaker 1: My gosh, that was so funny. I was laughing. It
Speaker 1: makes me want to cry. Um, it's so funny. Nothing
Speaker 1: I think every in my life has made me laugh
Speaker 1: harder than when she would do those impressions or that single.
Speaker 1: I used to tell her when I have a bad day,
Speaker 1: I'm going to call you, and I think I did
Speaker 1: once and I was like, just give it to me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to call you in like ten seconds. I
Speaker 1: need you to be She picked up the phone and
Speaker 1: just started singing terribly, and I was crying. It's so
Speaker 1: never got old, never got old, all right. So in
Speaker 1: the storyline, Rachel gets laryngitis and she she realizes, as um,
Speaker 1: we're warming up in things that, which is a very
Speaker 1: cute montage as well, that people aren't pulling their way
Speaker 1: they've stopped singing. Um, So she gets she bribes ICs
Speaker 1: with Candy to bug the choir room, and all of
Speaker 1: her suspicions are confirmed and Finn's definitely not singing because
Speaker 1: obviously Jesse's getting all of the solos and everybody else
Speaker 1: just kind of yeah, and then Jesse Corey for some
Speaker 1: reason or Finn, sorry, Finn goes with Rachel to the
Speaker 1: doctor's appointment and I thought that was very His performance
Speaker 1: was very funny. The doctor's appointments are very funny in
Speaker 1: the show. Um, he's like, you're never going to sing again,
Speaker 1: Jess kidding. But then we get into one of our
Speaker 1: most iconic songs, which Ryan Murphy confirmed in his last
Speaker 1: interview that g SEC James was named so that Corey
Speaker 1: or Finn rather Sorry, I keep calling Corey that Finn
Speaker 1: could sing this number, and this number is just when
Speaker 1: I think of Corey, this is the number, that's the one.
Speaker 1: This is Finn, this is this is his this is his.
Speaker 1: Don't ring in my parade, that's right, Like this is
Speaker 1: his thing. He did it on the tour. Every every
Speaker 1: night we would dance backstage to it and ordered under
Speaker 1: this stage. Really, Jenna, how would you dance to the song?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, the girls had a changing room under
Speaker 1: the stage, a quick change room where we would change
Speaker 1: our coustumes real fast. And somehow along the way we
Speaker 1: turned into like us pole dancing and stripper strippering. As
Speaker 1: we were undressing, strippering, stripping, um stripping as we were
Speaker 1: undressing and changing into our next and we had like
Speaker 1: a little bit of a long stretch in this one.
Speaker 1: And so Kevin heard about it and he came in
Speaker 1: and he would see us literally in our fish nets
Speaker 1: with our thongs like fully, with our legs in the air.
Speaker 1: Day it was full stripped tease. It was so much fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was great. Wait was this the tour that I
Speaker 1: peed in the bucket? Second tour? Bucket? No, you stripped
Speaker 1: teas second tour? No, No, because there wasn't. We didn't
Speaker 1: have that stage underneath. Stripped Jesse's Girl a second tour?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, okay, so never mind, I take it back.
Speaker 1: But you'll have to wait now to hear about the
Speaker 1: pee in the bucket if you haven't heard about any yea, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So does Jesse's Girl Jesse's Girl, which it becomes an
Speaker 1: iconic number. But then Rachel ends up losing her mind
Speaker 1: and she finds she loses her will to live. Um,
Speaker 1: she is just she has no purpose anymore, or they're
Speaker 1: told she she's told she has to have surgery, which
Speaker 1: is a very scary thing, and as a singer, it
Speaker 1: is a scary thing if you have to have anything
Speaker 1: down to your voice when your throat. Um. So Finn
Speaker 1: decides to take Rachel to m see his friend Fredder
Speaker 1: and he doesn't pre empt any kind of information with Rachel.
Speaker 1: So when they go to see him, Um, he's in.
Speaker 1: She sees a photo of him and he's in his
Speaker 1: football uniform and everything. But they go to visit and
Speaker 1: they learn that the wonderful Zac Line scene, who is
Speaker 1: an incredible actor who was actually a paralyzed actor from
Speaker 1: the waist down. He does a beautiful job of playing
Speaker 1: Sean fred Hold who in the show ingly also had
Speaker 1: an accident, a football accident and was also paralyzed. And
Speaker 1: I remember Lean telling coming back after shooting these scenes
Speaker 1: because we didn't meet Um, I didn't meet Zach not
Speaker 1: until tour he came to exactly, I didn't need him
Speaker 1: till after. And UM remember Lea being so moved by
Speaker 1: working with him, and um just crying. You can see
Speaker 1: in her scenes the whole time she's just crying. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's real, Yeah, definitely real. Um. And it's beautiful. I mean,
Speaker 1: they really do a beautiful job with it. And this
Speaker 1: this is the beginning of like falsie handling. These like
Speaker 1: very heavy scenes and kind of like the more traumatic
Speaker 1: stuff of Glee, like, um, so beautifully really so beautifully yeah,
Speaker 1: um a great storytelling. They get to sank together at
Speaker 1: the end, which just broke me. I agree, yeah, just
Speaker 1: crying right. Um. I thought it was interesting. There's an
Speaker 1: MPR article that they did on Zach that came out
Speaker 1: the day that this episode came out, and he didn't
Speaker 1: say anything bad about you know, you being in the
Speaker 1: wheel share or anything like that. He just asked for
Speaker 1: equal opportunity, for there to be opportunities for you know,
Speaker 1: paralyzed actors to work and not just in paralyzed roles.
Speaker 1: You know, like he can do more than that. It's
Speaker 1: like not being pigeonholed. And she just just this one thing,
Speaker 1: which I think is so beautiful. It's also important to
Speaker 1: have him on. I think that was sort of like
Speaker 1: a we're paying attention, we're listening, like, yeah, we're learning. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: And when they sing, so Rachel offers him obviously, Wait,
Speaker 1: so let's go back. So Rachel's in the in the
Speaker 1: hallway and she's eating cereal and she's in her pajamas.
Speaker 1: She looks on kempt and Fins like what is going on?
Speaker 1: And she's like, I can't get out of bad. I'm miserable.
Speaker 1: I'm like tinker Bell, I need applause to lift. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. It just tickles me so much. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so good, so good. It's so funny to see.
Speaker 1: I like seeing Rachel kind of off her game. It's
Speaker 1: fun to see UM's so dramatic about everything. So it's like, right,
Speaker 1: of course she has tonsils like she's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: I get it together, um. And that's kind of what
Speaker 1: this spearhead, this thing, this idea for Finn to be like,
Speaker 1: get your shit together. I said, you don't have it
Speaker 1: that bad. Yeah, let's let's talk about perspective. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And then Rachel obviously knows and she gets her voice back,
Speaker 1: and she offers Zach to have or Sean to get
Speaker 1: voice lessons, and they sing one together. We break into one.
Speaker 1: Did you like doing one? Kevin? I? Did? I just remember?
Speaker 1: Weren't we saying that we were dressed like a gap
Speaker 1: ad white converse? Yes, I'm sure, I think, goes Zach Woodley.
Speaker 1: This is our gap ad moment. We do these a
Speaker 1: lot too, with Fonzi because we do um uh, what
Speaker 1: of god? That was one of us and we're all white.
Speaker 1: Remember por poor Alfonso, you guys Alfonso? Did he do
Speaker 1: fix you too? Oh? God, we tortured this poor man.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. It was always him, probably because
Speaker 1: he was the sweetest. He would never get mad, and
Speaker 1: we abused him because we serious serious numbers. We could
Speaker 1: not control ourselves. We lose it and the more serious
Speaker 1: it was, the more we started laughing. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know people who get laugh attacks at funerals. That's
Speaker 1: how we behaved. We'll fix you. It was the worst
Speaker 1: and we'll get there. He was really the worst. That
Speaker 1: was embarrassing. So the other thing that's happening in this
Speaker 1: episode is Kurt Kurt, because the assignment for the week
Speaker 1: was everybody to find their voice because Rachel has lost
Speaker 1: hers or people aren't singing, and so you need to
Speaker 1: pick a song that really represents who you are, which
Speaker 1: is why we get all these great solos. Kurt, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, is really threatened with what's going on
Speaker 1: with Burt and Finn, and Finn's getting treated to all
Speaker 1: these like sports ball games. He's you know, he's going
Speaker 1: to football games, and Kurt's like, okay, I need to
Speaker 1: get it together. He missed Hero's practice because you're so upset,
Speaker 1: and Sue confronts him, and Sue's like, how do you
Speaker 1: know you're gay? Have you kissed a boy? Have you
Speaker 1: kissed a girl? Like your generation? She says, See, that's
Speaker 1: the problem with the generation. You're obsessed with labels. So
Speaker 1: you like show tunes doesn't mean you're gay, means you're awful,
Speaker 1: which is ac very funny. Um, now not accurate, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's for the joke Jenna. And and so he's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, Sure, I'm gonna try this thing, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden goes on this John Mellencamp trip
Speaker 1: where he starts dressing in flannel and Bert is like,
Speaker 1: what's happening? Okay, we'll go with it, and things ain't
Speaker 1: that America? After? I feel like that was also a
Speaker 1: Brad foul truck moment. She had to write all of this,
Speaker 1: But the scene where he's making out Brittany and purposefully
Speaker 1: puts the thing on to knock come down and Bert
Speaker 1: comes down and wants him to see and Bert says,
Speaker 1: Michael Malley the brilliant Sure he is says either what
Speaker 1: we when you decide, let me know and it Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is always so poignant and it really is so
Speaker 1: impactful and every time it gets me. And also it's
Speaker 1: the show constantly is going sort of like high low,
Speaker 1: where you have like the comedy of them making out
Speaker 1: in him being like, what do boys lips taste like?
Speaker 1: You smell like this? Then she's met you know, boys
Speaker 1: really like my armpits. And then Bert comes down and
Speaker 1: has that really touching, grounded scene, right, and the show
Speaker 1: is constantly swinging back and forth between this within a scene. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that is I think, great, impressive. Yeah, so he's
Speaker 1: over that, he realizes this isn't probably working for me,
Speaker 1: gets upset. Finn and Bert are still have a great relationship,
Speaker 1: and Bert's like, look, this is why I'm doing this,
Speaker 1: you know, like he's opening up to me when we
Speaker 1: have these one on one and like he deserves this.
Speaker 1: It's okay. And then Kurt burst into Rose's turn and
Speaker 1: has I have pictures of this of his name and lights.
Speaker 1: It was this really phenomenal performance Chris just like Blade.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was nominated for an Emmy for this
Speaker 1: episode that I believe that, and he didn't win unfortunately, whatever,
Speaker 1: but a golden globe later. It's fine, Yeah, next year,
Speaker 1: it's this year, and it was just like a really
Speaker 1: phenomenal thing in Bird's there to see him, and it's
Speaker 1: sort of like you don't need to try to change
Speaker 1: who you are to like make me love you type thing.
Speaker 1: Do you remember Chris getting the song Rose's Turn? I
Speaker 1: know he wanted this song so bad, and I know
Speaker 1: he had been pitching this song so hard. Really I
Speaker 1: did not know this, Oh my gosh. I mean Chris,
Speaker 1: I think I knew this song. Yeah, no you didn't,
Speaker 1: but but Patty LAPONI did. I mean, there's a million
Speaker 1: people who've done it, and it's so iconic and it
Speaker 1: was so brilliant and the fact that he got a
Speaker 1: sign kind of like roxy Heart in Chicago. I was
Speaker 1: change the lyrics. Yeah, I was just blown away. And
Speaker 1: I was so happy for him. He was so excited
Speaker 1: to do it. I remember going that day to see
Speaker 1: it to watch him. Yeah, do it, because gosh, what
Speaker 1: a nun better never sounded better? What a great number,
Speaker 1: What a great number. Also, if you haven't seen Billy
Speaker 1: Porter doing this and the commercial break of the Tony's
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Um, YouTube that it is
Speaker 1: pretty brilliant. That's right, literally, just like off the cuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is unbelievable. Um, that's the episode, and that's that's
Speaker 1: the episode. You guys, you're in dry Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 1: That's it. Nice. Lots of memories, I you know, with
Speaker 1: now no thing that Chris really wanted this song. This
Speaker 1: episode really hit hit. It was you know, I think
Speaker 1: them listening and giving everybody what they wanted truly, which
Speaker 1: was great. Nice. We had a great time we did.
Speaker 1: This was an episode built storylines around these songs, which
Speaker 1: is so fun. Blast okay, party takes, tardy takes, Daddy takes,
Speaker 1: cringe moments. I think right off the bat, Puck just
Speaker 1: referring to Mercedes black Girl as black Girl not once
Speaker 1: but twice, but maybe three times was not my favor.
Speaker 1: Specifically for me. I think it was the girl you
Speaker 1: got more curves than a nissan Ad and the way
Speaker 1: he says it, Um, yeah, I'm sure I let that
Speaker 1: sit there. The worst dance move, okay, I pick the
Speaker 1: best dance Oh great, and I'm going with the Naya
Speaker 1: head bob for Monica. Absolutely, that's it. That's that's the
Speaker 1: one best song, Kevin, I mean, I know, I'm I
Speaker 1: will go with the Boy's mine. I'll go with Jesse's Girl.
Speaker 1: We'll call it even great, Okay great, I love that
Speaker 1: for us. It's a tie. Yeah performance by a prop
Speaker 1: Kurt and lights on the stage. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yea yeah yeah better. That's good. And the best line
Speaker 1: what do you got? What do you love? I'm like
Speaker 1: Tinger Bell thin, I need applause to live so good.
Speaker 1: I think mine is the so you like show tunes.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you're gay, just makes her awful. And
Speaker 1: there's also another moment in that scene too, where she's like,
Speaker 1: I check out of this conversation a minute ago. I
Speaker 1: gotta remember remind myself to not stop and talk to students.
Speaker 1: Even when she's not really in an episode. She's in
Speaker 1: an episode. She shows up, says the greatest shit ever
Speaker 1: heard out, and the check clears. Yeah, um, okay, are
Speaker 1: you ready for the ship we found on TikTok? Are
Speaker 1: you ready? I'm ready? Okay. There is this TikTok called
Speaker 1: Glee is My Therapy, and they rank the songs in
Speaker 1: their opinion of every single episode. So if you go
Speaker 1: to their TikTok. Yeah, it's actually pretty great. So for laryngitis,
Speaker 1: for example, they okay, they ranked the climb at number seven.
Speaker 1: I'm going to disagree obviously. Yeah, maybe they don't know
Speaker 1: the story. You know, they don't know the story, that's right.
Speaker 1: And then um, pink houses well made in America, ladies
Speaker 1: a tramp one okay, Rosa's Turn, Jesse's Girl, and the
Speaker 1: Boy is Mine. They got some of those right, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they got the top three correct. That's awesome. Um, but
Speaker 1: go to their go to their TikTok. It's pretty great, okay.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm going to go through here and
Speaker 1: see what they say about all of us. Yeah, please send,
Speaker 1: all right, I will send. Yeah, So go check him out.
Speaker 1: Thank you for tagging us in these things, and thanks
Speaker 1: to all the TikTok accounts that are i guess dedicated
Speaker 1: to Glee. Things still mind blowing, and that is laryngitis.
Speaker 1: We have a very exciting episode next week, Kevin. That's right,
Speaker 1: more of us, Jenna, It's like Wheels Part two and
Speaker 1: more of us, but more of you dancing. That's right. Yes,
Speaker 1: as huge, it's as huge, as huge as it's huge,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Yeah, I can't wait. I decided to
Speaker 1: watch it. I almost watched it last night. Same. All right,
Speaker 1: Well thanks for joining us, you guys, um, that's what
Speaker 1: you really missed. I took your line, Vin, and that's
Speaker 1: what you really missed. It's in caps, Jenna. See you
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