Speaker 1: It's nine Ogen one O Engine with Jenny Garth and
Speaker 1: Tory Spelling. Welcome to another episode of nine on two one. OMG,
Speaker 1: we're very excited that you're here today.
Speaker 2: Amy.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to explain some housekeeping things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to tell everybody what's going on.
Speaker 2: Yes, we do have an update.
Speaker 3: And as look, as everyone knows, Tory has not been
Speaker 3: here for a bit, right, She's not been doing the
Speaker 3: show for a bit for many reasons. About two weeks
Speaker 3: ago she made the decision, which I'm sure was a
Speaker 3: really very tough decision for her. But she let us
Speaker 3: know about two weeks ago that she had decided she
Speaker 3: wasn't going to continue with the podcast. This was one
Speaker 3: hundred percent her decision. And look, two things can be true.
Speaker 3: We can be really bummed disappointed that she's not going
Speaker 3: to do seasons nine and ten with us with you, Yeah,
Speaker 3: while still wanting her to be happy and to be
Speaker 3: excited for her about the things she is working on
Speaker 3: and does.
Speaker 2: Want to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sad that she's not finishing this out with us.
Speaker 1: We started this together and I'm sad about that, if
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, Well, which I always am. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm also a really excited for the podcast to come
Speaker 1: into nine and ten because I know we have a
Speaker 1: lot of great stuff in store and everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: just getting past season eight. We did it, people, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna just finish so strong and also be I'm
Speaker 1: really happy for her. I'm excited for her to choose herself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think we had all decided together
Speaker 3: that today was the day we were going to tell everybody,
Speaker 3: And so that's why we're letting you know, you know
Speaker 3: right now what's happening.
Speaker 1: But don't go anywhere, stay with us. Amy and I
Speaker 1: are going to be here. I'm going to bring in
Speaker 1: some special guests to be exciting. You never know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen.
Speaker 3: We're really excited about the guest co hosts. We're going
Speaker 3: to have the special you know, guest stars we're gonna
Speaker 3: have on the podcast that are from nine oh two
Speaker 3: one oh.
Speaker 2: I think I feel really.
Speaker 3: Excited about seasons nine and ten, and I think we
Speaker 3: can be nostalgic about them too and really talk about
Speaker 3: the series as a whole and you have fun with it.
Speaker 2: Look, the majority of episodes we love.
Speaker 3: Sometimes there's a stinker or two, and that's okay, But
Speaker 3: I wanted to say to you, Jenny, like I'm excited
Speaker 3: about how passionate you are about nine oh two one oh,
Speaker 3: and how thrilled we are that you're going to finish it.
Speaker 2: Out for us, for all of us.
Speaker 1: For me, I can't stop like this has been the
Speaker 1: craziest like awakening of like remembering so many things in
Speaker 1: my life by by watching the show back and like
Speaker 1: getting back in touch with me the person playing Kelly Taylor.
Speaker 1: It's really like this really great experience for me. So
Speaker 1: I am it's very very kind of a little bit.
Speaker 3: We all were sad when people left nine two one oh,
Speaker 3: but the show, the show goes on, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of exciting things coming for the podcast. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I just want to say I'm super excited that you
Speaker 3: are going to finish the series.
Speaker 2: Me too. And also we'll miss you tour definitely, Yeah,
Speaker 2: everybody will miss you. But reunion time, reunion time.
Speaker 1: The Gang's altogether. Yeah, Yeah, it really isn't as bad
Speaker 1: as it has been.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: I think I feel it turning, Yeah, trying to turn,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Gabrielle Andrea coming back really brought much needed. It's sort
Speaker 3: of a camaraderie, a chemistry, a something.
Speaker 1: A sense of like like the way it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, what's that word nostalgic.
Speaker 3: And there's some sort of like ridiculousness in this episode
Speaker 3: that I can't wait to talk about. You know, we'll
Speaker 3: dig into it because there really is an interesting relationship
Speaker 3: with Andrea and Brandon, a much needed relationship that is missing.
Speaker 2: In some of the other episodes.
Speaker 3: Sort of someone that pokes Brandon and pushes him.
Speaker 1: Back a little, but not in like a romantic way,
Speaker 1: but in like a true friend forever kind of way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because even the other boys, Steve and David do
Speaker 3: not do that. They I guess we saw it a
Speaker 3: little bit when Steve was pushing back on Brandon trying
Speaker 3: to go to the other paper leave and that, but
Speaker 3: that was just so weird.
Speaker 1: It's just different when it comes from Andria.
Speaker 3: Even things different when it comes to and I like
Speaker 3: that she was so flawed and this we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Jumping In season eight, episode twenty seven Reunion
Speaker 1: aired April fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 3: Val drags David to the West Bever re union, but
Speaker 3: lies at the party, Janet is ditched by Steve and
Speaker 3: he doesn't say sorry. Donna protects Noah when other girls
Speaker 3: are on the chase. Steve runs into Ronda but doesn't
Speaker 3: remember her face. Andrea returns with a broken marriage and
Speaker 3: no medical degree from Yale. David sings a condom song,
Speaker 3: but it isn't a total fail.
Speaker 1: Directed by Chip Chalmers, written by Doug Steinberg. Ah, this
Speaker 1: makes sense now, the Chip Chalmers. Chip was a fun,
Speaker 1: fun director, Like there was always a sense of like
Speaker 1: happiness on the set.
Speaker 2: And yeah, the direct no pressure again.
Speaker 3: The acting is good, the directing is good. There's still
Speaker 3: some flaws.
Speaker 2: In the writing. There's something wrong.
Speaker 1: Let's just start the top, because you know what, I'm confused.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited about our reunion. First of all, weird
Speaker 1: because one of my best friends, Chlorina, told me she
Speaker 1: was going to her high school reunion in the other
Speaker 1: year and I was, ohic attack for her. And then
Speaker 1: now this shows about the reunions so well.
Speaker 2: And this is I mean, this is a five year reunion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3: So all the like acting like, oh I didn't recognize you.
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, five three years later, it's not enough
Speaker 1: time to like change that much. But this is it
Speaker 1: starts with val wanting to attend the nineteen ninety three class.
Speaker 3: Reunion, which I get, and also we kind of need
Speaker 3: her there, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, she makes it fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So David does not want to go. He's like, I'd
Speaker 1: rather gouge my eyeballs.
Speaker 2: Okay, but here's what's ridiculous about that.
Speaker 3: David doesn't want to go because he's a failure writing
Speaker 3: commercial jingles.
Speaker 1: David's like embarrassed. He's a little like, you know, his
Speaker 1: egos is a little blurred because he didn't hit it
Speaker 1: big the way he thought he was going to or
Speaker 1: he was supposed to or whatever.
Speaker 3: I need to talk about so many things, But do.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about David's condom commercial jingle? Because
Speaker 1: first of.
Speaker 3: All, yes, and also the slow clap at the end
Speaker 3: when he sings the condom commercial, just like this is
Speaker 3: what I'm really doing, guys, the the condom condom and
Speaker 3: then everyone stands there and then the one dude.
Speaker 1: Amy, we're not there yet, you are? You know what?
Speaker 2: Every time? Okay, we got to.
Speaker 3: Get to the reunion first, all right, So are we
Speaker 3: going like an order I don't know you.
Speaker 1: I prefer order because there's a beginning of middle and
Speaker 1: whatever you.
Speaker 2: Want to do. Whatever you want to do, right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna jump around you.
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna drive me nuts. Okay, So, but
Speaker 1: then David is volunteered to perform his hit because he's
Speaker 1: like his star one hit Wonder and do some noddling
Speaker 1: on the keyboard with his condom jingle.
Speaker 3: First of all, writing jingles. Do you know how many
Speaker 3: people want to be writing jingles?
Speaker 1: I'd like to write a jingle.
Speaker 2: Correct. That's why I'm like, what in the world.
Speaker 1: Jingles are like the most important thing in a society.
Speaker 3: You know how much money people make on jingles and
Speaker 3: theme songs.
Speaker 1: Because they stick with you?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 3: Alan Thick wrote Facts of Life Different Strokes. He sang
Speaker 3: some of them. Yeah, he wrote Facts of Life. I
Speaker 3: think with Gloria Loring, who I think appeared on an
Speaker 3: episode of nine or two and Oero.
Speaker 1: That sounds familiar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and yeah, facts of Life Different Strokes. I think
Speaker 3: I've talked about this, but there's a version of where
Speaker 3: Robin Thick did like a Mother's Day special and he
Speaker 3: sings the theme songs but kind of makes them Robin
Speaker 3: thicky and let me tell you, never in my life
Speaker 3: have I been like was different strokes like a.
Speaker 2: Top ten hit. It's so yes, And then they do
Speaker 2: that you take the good, you take that right? He
Speaker 2: makes it like soul and I'm like, I think I
Speaker 2: love you.
Speaker 1: Ro I have the question, who's this new sorority batch?
Speaker 1: Is this a news person in the show that I've
Speaker 1: never seen before? I actually been here before.
Speaker 3: Everyone in the high school didn't go to the high school.
Speaker 3: I've never seen it before, any of these people.
Speaker 1: I mean, we never really showed any of the other.
Speaker 2: People, but not really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was weird because also too, the metro La
Speaker 1: is the magazine that's got Noah on the cover. Oh yeah, Like.
Speaker 2: It was so strange because he doesn't go to the
Speaker 2: high school. And it made no sense.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand what were they talking there? Were they
Speaker 1: talking like shit about everybody in the little pamphlet for
Speaker 1: the reunion that was apparently passed out out of the game.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you how a reunion works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me, because I've never been to one.
Speaker 3: This is how a reunion works. And I am these
Speaker 3: people's exact age. You get like a weird email. Hey,
Speaker 3: we're having a reunion at the Veterans Hall seven o'clock
Speaker 3: on the ninth and you show up. There's no pamphlet,
Speaker 3: there's no year book, there's none of the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Feel like talking badly about everybody.
Speaker 2: That's let me tell you what.
Speaker 3: There also wasn't a stage where Brandon Walsh gave like
Speaker 3: a heartfelt speech with a full spotlight on him.
Speaker 1: Oh, they don't have that, Like people don't get to
Speaker 1: make speeches.
Speaker 3: And was it supposed to be at the school? You
Speaker 3: also don't have your reunions at the school. The key
Speaker 3: to the gym, by the way, that looks like no
Speaker 3: key has ever looked. Did you see the key to
Speaker 3: the gym? It wasn't the key.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It was like I don't know a key from.
Speaker 3: Like a jewelry box, like.
Speaker 1: These are the things that you notice. I guess, Oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, that's not the key to the gym.
Speaker 2: That's the Kapa Kapa gamma key, Like do you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like it was just a fake key.
Speaker 1: Noah, I guess. Was supposed to be interviewed by the
Speaker 1: Young Entrepreneurs magazine, but somehow it got messed up and
Speaker 1: now he's on a metro la and Donna about how
Speaker 1: he's just he's like such this, But don't you think
Speaker 1: the reporter would have like tapped into oh wait, he
Speaker 1: was just on trial for a sex offense.
Speaker 3: Also five minutes, Donna, stop being annoyed all the time,
Speaker 3: just stop like you got this hot dude.
Speaker 2: Be happy.
Speaker 1: I think she's just kind of have fun with it.
Speaker 2: But she was so like a little man, she got
Speaker 2: a little pee.
Speaker 3: You didn't even mention me. And then yes, who was
Speaker 3: that sorority woman? Like who what?
Speaker 1: Then Andre shows up at the airport and everything's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. She's having a freak out on the payphone.
Speaker 2: Because oh, oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Having probably they're split up, they're divorced and they're co parenting, which,
Speaker 1: trust me, I get it, it's challenging.
Speaker 3: But obviously, like they had to inform us, inform us
Speaker 3: of this quickly right at the top payphone scene. Mind you,
Speaker 3: everyone has a cell phone in nineteen ninety eight, Like
Speaker 3: probably she probably would have had a cell phone, I think.
Speaker 1: So was it still like the big brick one, or
Speaker 1: was it the flip flippy flip flip well, Andrea didn't
Speaker 1: because they don't have a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Sorry, so she's screaming on the payphone and then does
Speaker 3: the old okay as they walk up, I'm just.
Speaker 1: Like so cute though, the Brandon and Kelly go to
Speaker 1: pickup at the airport.
Speaker 2: That seems real.
Speaker 3: And also you could still like go in to the
Speaker 3: airport in this time, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like no one goes to the inn anymore, yet.
Speaker 1: They don't go to the gate. I mean you even
Speaker 1: go to the airport.
Speaker 2: Me I pick people up, but definitely curbside in your car.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mostly I'm like.
Speaker 3: Can you just come over to lot A like I'm
Speaker 3: in Latte. I don't even pull up the circling. The
Speaker 3: circling drives me nuts.
Speaker 1: Well, what I did love was when they were back
Speaker 1: at the Beach Department and Brandon and Kelly and Andrea
Speaker 1: are hanging out and they're just laughter coming from the kitchen,
Speaker 1: and it made me so happy to hear somebody, anybody
Speaker 1: laughing on this show, like having a good time, because
Speaker 1: nobody does that anymore. The characters never laugh and like
Speaker 1: have a you know, celebrate.
Speaker 2: It should be loose and fun.
Speaker 3: I think that's sort of maybe one of the struggles
Speaker 3: of season eight. It's like it's so dramatic and heavy,
Speaker 3: and it's like, can we just have some fun. I
Speaker 3: also loved now it got weird. I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 3: the scene where Andrea goes to the paper. I'm like,
Speaker 3: what a great moment that Andrea is gonna go in
Speaker 3: there and see what they're doing and be impressed, you know,
Speaker 3: like they really are doing something.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: The part that got weird is suddenly Janet says I'm
Speaker 3: your date.
Speaker 1: And makes it aco taco because yes, she's like, is
Speaker 1: she just doing that to save Steve's from embarrassment about
Speaker 1: having a date? Or of a sudden she just is like,
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 2: A real date, and she literally loves him.
Speaker 1: Gets invested out of nowhere. Did we see her thank you?
Speaker 1: Did we see her like inklings of liking you know?
Speaker 3: The most we saw to me was when the three
Speaker 3: of them were sitting together at that strange ceremony awards
Speaker 3: ceremony and it was Janet, Steve, and Brandon, and you
Speaker 3: kind of got the like, oh, this is cool more Janet, right,
Speaker 3: and you kind of she's getting really in the in
Speaker 3: the groove with them, and she's sort of a part
Speaker 3: of the group. It was so weird how they transitioned
Speaker 3: them to being a cop.
Speaker 1: They do that because is this Janet being a little
Speaker 1: presumptuous or is she taking a risk to get something
Speaker 1: that she really wants?
Speaker 2: Can I do a quick rewrite? Here's what I would have.
Speaker 1: Done in the newspaper office.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is how I would have write storyline. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much. Sorry, please indulge me.
Speaker 3: So I don't mind that she's sort of like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm your date, kind of like, look, you got a date.
Speaker 2: I'm your date.
Speaker 3: And she knows it's not a real date. Yes please,
Speaker 3: and he knows it's not a real date. But they're
Speaker 3: going through the motions, right, they're going through the motions,
Speaker 3: and up comes you know, you don't even have to.
Speaker 2: Get rid of Rhonda necessarily.
Speaker 3: Like she's sort of like, you're hut, Steve, like whatever,
Speaker 3: and Lindsay's kind of sorry, Janet, Oh, okay, Steve's sort
Speaker 3: of like the big big man on campus.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool. And then there's like a dance, right, and
Speaker 2: during this dance suddenly they realize, oh my god, okay,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 1: Just want to say I love this this rewrite again. However,
Speaker 1: it's the tropiest thing I've ever heard. Huh, totally, But
Speaker 1: that's why it works. See why they write the tropes over.
Speaker 3: And over and over, and it's like, I would be
Speaker 3: okay with a trope here. I'm even trying to figure
Speaker 3: out how we could get the whole stupid shower thing
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I.
Speaker 1: Love Steve being on stage naked.
Speaker 2: Totally, so maybe there's a way. Like Okay, I got it,
Speaker 2: I got it. They have this.
Speaker 3: Moment where they almost kiss, they're sort of starting to
Speaker 3: have feelings for each other, but then it's like, no,
Speaker 3: that's so weird.
Speaker 2: We work together.
Speaker 3: So then he goes with Ronda with the key and
Speaker 3: he gets like, you know, burned by Ronda no clothes,
Speaker 3: comes out on stage and Janet's like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: and so then she just goes home. Right, So instead
Speaker 3: of the weepy cry cry, he comes to Janet's very tropy.
Speaker 1: He should have been embarrassed though.
Speaker 2: For the nakedness or for how weep well.
Speaker 1: I felled him birs because that's what they're doing with
Speaker 1: the Steve character. Eight years later, correct story, correct answer, reunion.
Speaker 1: But I felt, honestly like man I in that sucks.
Speaker 3: And how about when he goes to Janets and he's like,
Speaker 3: I had to go all the way to the flower mart.
Speaker 2: These are really hard to get.
Speaker 3: And it's like the flower Mark's not upen at Midnight's
Speaker 3: her like, no, you went like Sevy is the best
Speaker 3: you're gonna do to get flowered. But he's like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's really hard to I would have loved it to
Speaker 3: be more like comedy, like okay, you know they have
Speaker 3: this moment, yeah, we feel the tension, but oh, it
Speaker 3: doesn't happen. And then he gets dragged away by Rhonda.
Speaker 3: He's in the shower, she steals the clothes, he's out
Speaker 3: on stage naked. Janet's like, oh my god, he's Naja clown,
Speaker 3: you know whatever. And then she goes home because like
Speaker 3: she's not who cares. And then he shows up and
Speaker 3: he's like, hey, I just wanted to come over because
Speaker 3: we didn't really get to say goodbye. And what I
Speaker 3: realized is I wanted to kiss you boom.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't love it that she was crying. It was
Speaker 1: so weird and that's not Janet.
Speaker 3: Janet's fun, thank you, and she's not weak, don't make
Speaker 3: her like, oh no, oh, Sneve, I want a real date.
Speaker 2: You need to treat me right.
Speaker 3: It's like she's in on it, dude, she knew it
Speaker 3: wasn't a real date. And then he needs to chase
Speaker 3: her like I realized after Ronda stole my pants that
Speaker 3: you were the one, and then it's like, yeah, kiss
Speaker 3: give me that.
Speaker 1: It's so good. I would definitely enjoy this episode more totally.
Speaker 1: I should have had you on staff.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I think that the it's the writing for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you like how cute Andrea looked in her
Speaker 1: running outfit when she was running with Brandon.
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: I love that scene actually, and that sort of took
Speaker 3: me back nostalgic, right. I feel like we've had scenes
Speaker 3: where the two of them are sort of is it
Speaker 3: ta tet? I don't know how you say it, like
Speaker 3: like a kind.
Speaker 1: Of like Jeb like, yeah, it's like a little dance, yes,
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hi, it's Jenny Garth, host of the I Choose Me podcast.
Speaker 1: This week Monica Lewinsky. Yes, that Monica, the one the
Speaker 1: world tore apart. She's still standing. She's back and done hiding.
Speaker 1: It really felt like it was one of those situations
Speaker 1: where you literally do or die. Monica stared down shame
Speaker 1: and came out the other side. And she is here
Speaker 1: to change what you thought you knew. And it's sort
Speaker 1: of not over until we try it. A conversation that
Speaker 1: will inspire you to choose yourself starting today. Listen to
Speaker 1: I Choose Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Did you notice that David
Speaker 1: called Andrea? Andrea?
Speaker 2: Oh, I missed that?
Speaker 1: When he says hello to her, not seeing her for
Speaker 1: however many years, he says, Andrea.
Speaker 2: No, stop, I swear, how did I miss that?
Speaker 3: I would have lived for that, because you know, I
Speaker 3: hate when they do Brandon Brendan.
Speaker 2: I'm like, his name's not Brendan.
Speaker 1: Wait, but she says in I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 1: the jogging scene. I think it's the jogging scene. She
Speaker 1: says to Brandon. He says, you have your whole life
Speaker 1: out of you. You're twenty two, and she says, it's
Speaker 1: twenty two going on forty two. And did you dude, wait,
Speaker 1: did you see forty two in real life? In IRL?
Speaker 1: She forty two in the scene. I laughed, Well, rain
Speaker 1: figure it out. I do the math, because you know,
Speaker 1: I laughed. She forty two.
Speaker 3: All you have to do is when was When was
Speaker 3: Gabrielle carteris born?
Speaker 1: That's extreme.
Speaker 3: If she is forty two, seventy four, seventy no, so
Speaker 3: she was born in wit years old?
Speaker 2: Was she born?
Speaker 3: Say it's sixty five, seventy five, eighty five, ninety five,
Speaker 3: she was thirty something.
Speaker 1: Man, I really wanted her to be forty.
Speaker 3: Two so it could be like correct, But the wink
Speaker 3: was still there for me, Like she's like, oh, she
Speaker 3: was born in sixty one, so seventy one, eighty one,
Speaker 3: ninety one, ninety two, ninety three, ninety four.
Speaker 2: And if i've six nyts on, so she was thirty seven,
Speaker 2: not that far off. No, Like it was a good
Speaker 2: little huh winky.
Speaker 1: Wink, but there was some other little winky winks. Did
Speaker 1: you notice?
Speaker 2: Give it?
Speaker 1: Okay? When VAL's talking, oh, save by the bell? She
Speaker 1: said no. But first she says, oh, did you guys
Speaker 1: get into a little tiff?
Speaker 2: Oh I missed that one.
Speaker 3: But the saved by the bell one was loud and clear.
Speaker 3: She saw us saved by the bell. So look, that's
Speaker 3: good writing. There's some writing in there. Doug.
Speaker 2: That was great, But Doug, there was some that was
Speaker 2: just terrible.
Speaker 1: Ug oh man, I just I loved it. When they
Speaker 1: do finally get to the reunion, and you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to go to the ring, n I'm watching it.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at everyone's benefits. I'm wondering why.
Speaker 3: And then the fashion still just blurs for me, like
Speaker 3: none of the fashion and stands out.
Speaker 2: I cannot even remember what you wore.
Speaker 1: Black dress?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, actually you looked good.
Speaker 1: And then two people were wearing you look the same
Speaker 1: kind of color of silvery purple, Donna, you looked good.
Speaker 2: The black looked good.
Speaker 1: I was boring.
Speaker 3: Do we want to talk about, okay, the storyline with
Speaker 3: Ross Weber.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's a questioner.
Speaker 2: We'd never actually heard his name before.
Speaker 1: I feel like Ross sounds familiar.
Speaker 3: I don't know, because we knew that there were we
Speaker 3: knew during high school that this happened, right, yeah, that
Speaker 3: was but we basically know and we know that they.
Speaker 2: Were like Kelly's a slat like that kind of vibe. Right.
Speaker 1: Well, no, because she told the whole story about how
Speaker 1: she got raped by this guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but did we ever know his name? I feel like.
Speaker 1: I heard the word Ross at some point in my life,
Speaker 1: or maybe I'm getting that confused with the prop master
Speaker 1: Ross could be probably is Nope, never heard of him.
Speaker 3: I mean I knew immediately when it was good acting right,
Speaker 3: You're sort of like, oh.
Speaker 1: But I felt bummed, like I wonder her to have
Speaker 1: a good time at the reunion.
Speaker 2: True, true, but I feel like.
Speaker 3: My favorite part was the like the nod at the
Speaker 3: to Tiffany to Valerie. So anyway we'll get to that.
Speaker 3: That's this is the problem with Valerie. She's terrible, except
Speaker 3: she's also not terrible.
Speaker 1: She no, she's terrible, but she does she is a
Speaker 1: girl's girl sometimes like she does come in for the save.
Speaker 3: Or almost like she wants to use her her ballsiness
Speaker 3: her her sort of like I'm afraid I'm gonna attack you.
Speaker 3: She loves using it that she will even use it
Speaker 3: for her worst.
Speaker 2: Enemy, Kelly Taylor. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: Like she is gonna throw down with this dude and
Speaker 3: freak him out.
Speaker 1: It's so confusing because then you want to like her totally.
Speaker 2: I was like, but I honestly, we.
Speaker 1: Already liked her because she's like HIVW Malone, I work
Speaker 1: with the poor I was like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: in love with her. All of a sudden, she just
Speaker 1: was making me laughing a.
Speaker 2: Whole, Like you can be anyone you want in a reunion.
Speaker 2: How is Japan? Japan was great after we went to
Speaker 2: wherever I was.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be fun to go to a
Speaker 1: reunion and just make everything up.
Speaker 3: These days, you can never even do that because anyone
Speaker 3: everyone knows what everyone's doing.
Speaker 2: Social media is just like the demise of so.
Speaker 1: Many really putting a damper on my phone.
Speaker 2: Right, Like it's so weird when you bump into someone.
Speaker 3: You're like, I loved that picture of your dog the
Speaker 3: other day when you guys were in talking Like.
Speaker 1: It's weirdly thing, but you put it up there.
Speaker 2: So right, and you want people to see it.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. Did you notice, okay,
Speaker 1: when Andrea, when Andrea is speaking, or I think it
Speaker 1: was Brandon because Andre didn't speak, or she did, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. Okay, they're in the spotlight and the whole
Speaker 1: crowd at the reunions watching every Brandon have his b
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did you notice in the very front when
Speaker 1: they would show like the group the big audience. There
Speaker 1: were two extras that looked just like Kelly, same haircut,
Speaker 1: no and same black dress. And then it was one
Speaker 1: that was supposed to looked so much like Donna ready
Speaker 1: hair to hear in a purple dress.
Speaker 2: Were they like your stand ins?
Speaker 1: Then here's what I'm thinking. I think that they wanted.
Speaker 1: They were saying, oh, Jenny Tory, you don't have to
Speaker 1: come in for this big wide shot. We have we
Speaker 1: have you guys covered, meaning somebody that looks like you
Speaker 1: from a distance. Okay, So then they shot it with that,
Speaker 1: and you know, I froze right on that frame. I
Speaker 1: was like, wait a second, that looks not like them.
Speaker 1: A nice Zunian and Zumian. First of all, Donna perfect
Speaker 1: hair color match, Kelly perfect hair match. But Donna's hair
Speaker 1: is down, and in the in the episode at the reunion,
Speaker 1: Donna's hairs up. So here's here's how I see that going.
Speaker 1: So they were told that she was gonna wear her
Speaker 1: hair down, last minute hair change, she decided to wear
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that could have been that.
Speaker 1: So it was very weird that these two lookalikes were
Speaker 1: in the audience for me particularly, and when I did
Speaker 1: zoom in on them, though, I was like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: is that is that me in tour?
Speaker 2: Or it was like your I thought, is that?
Speaker 1: Wait? Are those the Marlin brothers when they played the
Speaker 1: White Chicks? Because that's when you get real close.
Speaker 2: That's what it looked like. I couldn't take my eyes
Speaker 2: off the slow clap guy. Like every time I just
Speaker 2: kept seeing the slow clap guy.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, but he had a big on
Speaker 1: camera moment.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this question.
Speaker 3: What do you think about the fact that aunt Andrea
Speaker 3: and Jesse are getting divorced? Just sort of in a
Speaker 3: big picture okay, sort of like the odds were against them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I never really liked that Jesse guy anyway.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I liked him fine, but it was like
Speaker 2: the look, remember when.
Speaker 1: He was flirting with the bartender Curl.
Speaker 2: Did he kiss her?
Speaker 1: I didn't?
Speaker 2: She fully? But remember she fully had the fling with
Speaker 2: a doctor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but that's Andrea.
Speaker 3: Look that the odds were against them. They met, they
Speaker 3: were so young, they got pregnant.
Speaker 1: Sobby timed, were tough in the school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was I suppose it tracks. It's just
Speaker 2: a little bit like.
Speaker 3: So much in one episode WHOA you kind of don't
Speaker 3: even have time to think about that whole thing because
Speaker 3: you're like, it was weirdly.
Speaker 1: Like this was an episode of this moment, but it
Speaker 1: was also because it was a reunion. It felt like
Speaker 1: there was so much in it that that was pulled
Speaker 1: from high school days. Yeah, like it felt I kind
Speaker 1: of felt. That's why I kind of liked it because
Speaker 1: I felt like I was back when the show was fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about hammering the tile.
Speaker 1: The tile that's just been Kelly is a slut has been.
Speaker 1: They kept that up.
Speaker 3: That five years, ten years, eight years because it was
Speaker 3: freshman sophomore year.
Speaker 1: Who looks that did that in the hallway. He didn't
Speaker 1: get in trouble, and they actually kept it up.
Speaker 2: I just kept it like no one's gone into the
Speaker 2: bathroom and seen that, or no.
Speaker 1: One's been like Lejander hasn't been, Like, we should probably
Speaker 1: take this down.
Speaker 2: What did you think of this Brandon speech?
Speaker 1: I didn't listen to it.
Speaker 3: I was sort of like zoning out, looking around, not
Speaker 3: meaning looking around my house, but like looking at him this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I was like.
Speaker 1: I was busy looking for the lookalikes.
Speaker 2: It was a little Brandon.
Speaker 1: It was Brandy because he was basically like, we're all
Speaker 1: here trying to make ourselves look good and lying. But
Speaker 1: the whole moral of the story is that we should
Speaker 1: all be happy with who we are and where we
Speaker 1: are and then fall from the side.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And then it's very like I'm Brandon Walsh
Speaker 3: and there's like this spotlight on him, and it's just
Speaker 3: like it's almost like some writers in the room are like,
Speaker 3: we've got to find a moment where we really shine
Speaker 3: a light on Brandon Walsh and make him the you know,
Speaker 3: the class president and the greatest guy ever and the
Speaker 3: But no, there.
Speaker 1: Was like just a big moan in the audience when
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm Brandon Walsh. They're like, again, but
Speaker 1: the guy.
Speaker 2: It's very Trophy, even though I wrote it Trophy.
Speaker 7: It's like, let's give Brandon the spotlight moment where he's
Speaker 7: like the hero, and let's give Steve the like you're
Speaker 7: the class clown antics you're naked, and let's give David
Speaker 7: the I just can never seem to make it.
Speaker 2: But here's a.
Speaker 1: Tune littally noodle noodle Noodle condoms on the condom condoms.
Speaker 1: Like it's just like I didn't even get their jingle though,
Speaker 1: because he's like, try something condoms, Yeah, don't use I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: It's not effective because neither of us know the brand
Speaker 3: of condoms.
Speaker 1: He was saying, what was the one he was selling?
Speaker 7: Right, like Cosco condoms.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is he saying Costco?
Speaker 1: It was weird, but yeah, I have to say there
Speaker 1: were parts of it that brought me back to earlier
Speaker 1: nine or two one oh years, like season two and
Speaker 1: three and four, where it was like fun and antich y. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was right embarrassing and I kind of like.
Speaker 3: There was some positives, right, Like, there was lots of positives,
Speaker 3: and it was amazing to have Andrea back.
Speaker 1: I know. And then is she staying back? Do you know?
Speaker 2: No, she's gone.
Speaker 1: She just came back from so nobody ever even said
Speaker 1: goodbye to her. No, they did. Kelly Brandon didn't take
Speaker 1: her back to the airport.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: But we kind of end on Steve, don't we.
Speaker 1: Lucky knock.
Speaker 3: I went to the flower Mart downtown which isn't open.
Speaker 1: And then we see Janet crying, which was just such
Speaker 1: a wrong choice.
Speaker 3: You're right, that was Yeah, she just did it, did
Speaker 3: her dirty. I'm like, look, we get it. We gotta
Speaker 3: we gotta quickly get to you and Steve being together.
Speaker 3: But there's such a different way to do it. We
Speaker 3: just did not need this at all, and the Donna
Speaker 3: Noah stuff.
Speaker 1: Like, well she does. I mean she does have reason
Speaker 1: to be nervous and not trust him because of the
Speaker 1: whole valve.
Speaker 2: True. True, he didn't write the article right, and it's
Speaker 2: just like, also, who cares?
Speaker 3: So you're dating like the hottest guy around and then
Speaker 3: isn't there some sort of like she sticks it to
Speaker 3: the sorority girl kind of a vibe in there? Yeah,
Speaker 3: like somehow she kind of uh, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: parts were wahlah, but parts were great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you give it? What do you give it?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to give it an eight? What whoa?
Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: What went through my body is like, how can I not?
Speaker 3: Like it's a reunion Andrea's back.
Speaker 1: It's true, Steve got naked in a spotlight. I'm in
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would just be a rude if I didn't
Speaker 2: give it an eight.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I have every hope that next week
Speaker 1: is going to be even better. Next week's episodes is
Speaker 1: season eight, episode twenty eight, skin Deep. I'm curious, me too. Whatever.
Speaker 1: We'll see you guys next week, Thanks for joining us