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Speaker 1: doing a MUSICALE. And here we are about to recap
Speaker 1: on the one of the most infamous part twos or
Speaker 1: episodes of Glee. This is season six, episode five. This
Speaker 1: is the hurt Locker Part two.
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Speaker 2: is Glee News this week. On January twenty seventh, Glee
Speaker 2: the music the heart Locker Part two EP was really
Speaker 2: it released. It featured five tracks from this episode and
Speaker 2: released for a digital download only. Do you see the
Speaker 2: director of this episode, Babs Barbara Brown.
Speaker 1: This is something we have to talk about because I
Speaker 1: wasn't here for babs directorial debut. So Babs Barbara Brown
Speaker 1: was our script supervisor. And a script supervisor is somebody
Speaker 1: who sits on set every day and has the job,
Speaker 1: the loving job of making sure that everything is as
Speaker 1: close to continuous as possible. So the best way to
Speaker 1: explain is like, if you're like for me, a lot
Speaker 1: of the time, my hair would be one place or
Speaker 1: the other. On one side it would be forward or
Speaker 1: on one side it would be back and like and
Speaker 1: then in order for the cuts to make sense from
Speaker 1: take to take and seem to seen like, we'd have
Speaker 1: to she'd have to like literally make sure that every
Speaker 1: person in the choir room looked the same. She also
Speaker 1: did to make she was responsible for like making sure
Speaker 1: the days were correct and like overseeing like you know,
Speaker 1: say the episode was over four days, that everybody was
Speaker 1: on in the clothing for day two and so you
Speaker 1: know that's also wardrobe's job as well, to make sure
Speaker 1: that everything is in line. But like, she was the
Speaker 1: overseer of all of it on set and our lines
Speaker 1: as well, and she would watch every single take all
Speaker 1: the time. We would be like saying this, not that,
Speaker 1: and she'd be like, it's actually this, so anyway, so sorry.
Speaker 1: I hope that makes sense. But Babs was a fan
Speaker 1: favorite for all of us on set, and to have
Speaker 1: her direct, I'm sure was very exciting. She's the most kind,
Speaker 1: so wonderful human and I just I have a wonderful
Speaker 1: about this episode.
Speaker 2: Our second script supervisor on the show very little turnover,
Speaker 2: and the only reason we had a second one is
Speaker 2: because our first one, Carol Banker Banker, became a director
Speaker 2: as well, get it and so here's Babs, let's go.
Speaker 1: Okay, this was written by you and Brennan again, and
Speaker 1: so some of the songs were My Sharona performed by
Speaker 1: Dalton Academy, and then also You Spin Me Round, which
Speaker 1: is in the same set by Dalton as well.
Speaker 2: And then you have the Wonderfully. I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: good set by the New Directions. It must have been love,
Speaker 2: father figure and all out of love.
Speaker 1: The context in which they chose these songs is actually
Speaker 1: very very humorous. And let's talk about some of these
Speaker 1: fun facts and we'll get into the episode.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So this is the seventh episode where all the members
Speaker 1: of New Directions present in the episode have a solo
Speaker 1: The first of the pilot seconds is Britney two point zero,
Speaker 1: then Tina and this guy with Diamonds, A Katie Gaga
Speaker 1: and end of TOWERK and then the sixth is Homecoming.
Speaker 2: This is the sixth episode where every member of the
Speaker 2: New Direction sings a solo line, the others being Pilot,
Speaker 2: Brittany two point zero, A Katie or Gaga at the
Speaker 2: end of Tork and Homecoming.
Speaker 1: And this episode's the marks the first and last time
Speaker 1: in which no member of the main cast is featured
Speaker 1: in a song or their current main cast feature song. Wow.
Speaker 2: It is also the first episode since The Spanish Teacher
Speaker 2: season three episode twelve in which neither Rachel or Blaine
Speaker 2: are featured in a song.
Speaker 1: Wow. This is the second time the New Directions performed invitationals.
Speaker 1: In the fifth episode of the season, wearing blue outfits.
Speaker 1: So first was ro it's not taken. That's so funny.
Speaker 1: We kind of forgot there were invitationals, I guess.
Speaker 2: But yeah, when Sue says that she still has six
Speaker 2: or seven weeks to get Kurt and Blaine together as
Speaker 2: a meta reference to the number of episodes slash weeks.
Speaker 1: I caught that hour the end of this Okay.
Speaker 2: I love you know, I love that type of stuff. Okay,
Speaker 2: Sue is at it again, trying to mend relationships. You
Speaker 2: see Kesha, I said, mend, not mend you did you
Speaker 2: see the Texas? Okay, Sue is at it again, trying
Speaker 2: to mend relationships she thinks need mending. Meanwhile, Kitty helps
Speaker 2: Rachel find the perfect set list to win the invitational,
Speaker 2: and Sam recruits football player Spencer to join the glee Club.
Speaker 1: I know that last week we talked about her Locker
Speaker 1: Part one end. It's a doozy. It's a doozy in
Speaker 1: every way shape or for me, it's a doozy. It's
Speaker 1: like bad reputation. It's it was not exactly, it was
Speaker 1: all out of sorts. Characters were not in character. It
Speaker 1: felt weird. The music felt different, like the whole thing
Speaker 1: just felt weird. I was like very prepared for this
Speaker 1: part too, me too, right. Do you feel like you
Speaker 1: were like, oh, hey, press play, here we go.
Speaker 2: There was a big sigh before it was a big
Speaker 2: inhale and a big exhale before the plunge.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, I have to say yep, I really liked
Speaker 1: this episode.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it as well.
Speaker 3: It's so funny. The Sue Tiny Sue saw doll what
Speaker 3: do they call it? Was?
Speaker 1: The elevator is some of the funniest I've ever seen
Speaker 1: on the show. I truly was like so tickled. The
Speaker 1: elevator was one of my favorite story. I love the music.
Speaker 1: I finaled. Sue singing her songs at the end was
Speaker 1: so funny and I really enjoyed this episode. Am I crazy?
Speaker 2: No? Because I was preparing to tell you the exact
Speaker 2: same thing. And I was like, she's gonna think I'm nuts.
Speaker 4: I was laughing aloud, Yeah, what is wrong? Do you
Speaker 4: think it was because last episode? Mm hmmmm mm change
Speaker 4: or lowered or adjusted our expectations in a way.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know, because if you had put
Speaker 1: Part two first, just you know, out of context, not
Speaker 1: storylines being you know, right, I would have still liked
Speaker 1: this episode.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as weird. It was weird.
Speaker 2: It was the regular Glee weird.
Speaker 1: It still had the feel of like the invitational happening
Speaker 1: and the characters wanting to get together, so like there
Speaker 1: was just all these like it was more character driven
Speaker 1: in character versus like Sue feeling so out of character
Speaker 1: in the last one. You know, it's still a little
Speaker 1: inappropriate the way that she's like talking about them, like.
Speaker 2: Just watching the.
Speaker 1: Videotape and like spying on that and the whole yeah,
Speaker 1: and kidnapping them in theory, like it all, it doesn't
Speaker 1: it doesn't flash out real well for her, but like
Speaker 1: in its own thing, like I thought it was so funny,
Speaker 1: so funny.
Speaker 2: You know what I think it is? And I think
Speaker 2: this is where sometimes and I don't think this is
Speaker 2: anything on the directors. I think this is how the
Speaker 2: episodes are written sometimes, like when LEDI got stuck with
Speaker 2: a bunch of those types of episodes where it's like
Speaker 2: putting a hat on a hat on a hat, where
Speaker 2: when the episode is written crazily like Part one, Yes,
Speaker 2: and then you do visual things that are that lean
Speaker 2: into it, I don't think it necessarily works as well
Speaker 2: well when you just sort of keep it visually simple
Speaker 2: and then let the dialogue be crazy and let you
Speaker 2: have your saw elevator with the bathroom moment, because you know,
Speaker 2: last week it was that you had the hypnotizing like
Speaker 2: circle thing in the background, and yeah, yeah there was,
Speaker 2: and there was a lot of time and the actual
Speaker 2: hurt Locker. Because we didn't have to spend much time
Speaker 2: in those scenarios, there was less hypnotizing this episode. I
Speaker 2: think that just helped.
Speaker 1: Let's go through some of these like story plotlines.
Speaker 2: We discovered last week with the hurt Locker that Sue's
Speaker 2: ultimate goal. Now it sort of seems like taking down
Speaker 2: the new new directions is like a hobby, but her
Speaker 2: real focus is getting Curt and blaming back together for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, we're going with it.
Speaker 1: I'm for it. I'm into it because I want them
Speaker 1: back together too, so let's just go with there.
Speaker 2: And also giving Jane so much fun stuff to do
Speaker 2: as a viewer. It's just what I want. And hers
Speaker 2: showing up as a waiter herd State with Walter and
Speaker 2: just insults him. Then he goes, well, how old are you?
Speaker 2: Jesuys thirty four?
Speaker 1: Also the fact that she's she blames Becky. It's all
Speaker 1: really really ridiculous. So Sue's going to create this idea
Speaker 1: this she's going to kidnap them, which is like not.
Speaker 2: So good, But we're gonna just but blow past.
Speaker 1: And it's an elevator. It's an elevator that they very
Speaker 1: willingly get into.
Speaker 2: Can I I have to I have to point out
Speaker 2: I love I love and shows when characters blindly accept
Speaker 2: stupid situations. Okay sometimes yeah yeah yeah yeah, the way
Speaker 2: Chris and and Darren we're so sort of it's also
Speaker 2: how they played it is what I love when they
Speaker 2: see the elevator, like, oh where did this come from?
Speaker 2: And they're just like no, It's funny how they do
Speaker 2: the same for already was here, I bet you. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm sure all of it was. But I love that.
Speaker 2: I love when characters are just sort of like to
Speaker 2: do blindly accepting the situation and blindly walking into an
Speaker 2: elevator that has a bathroom.
Speaker 1: This is I okay, the elevator really made me happy.
Speaker 1: This whole episode maybe happy, but this elevator, like it
Speaker 1: was a highlight.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 1: Detrap two characters. It's almost like I like these. It's
Speaker 1: like those episodes like en Seinfeld where they get lost
Speaker 1: in the parking lot and they can't or like when
Speaker 1: they're at the Chinese restaurant waiting for the reservation. There's
Speaker 1: something about that. It's so satisfying because it's so simple,
Speaker 1: yet it's like you can you're in it for the
Speaker 1: whole episode. I would have watched a whole episode of
Speaker 1: the two of them starking out the same and that's
Speaker 1: all you want because you love those characters. It's written
Speaker 1: so hilariously, and then you're also getting your Jane Lynch
Speaker 1: of it all, even if she's not in the scene.
Speaker 1: I'm dying.
Speaker 2: The whole setup is such a Sue setup that it's
Speaker 2: layered in that way where she's like woven throughout the
Speaker 2: entire thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean and more so like Jigsaw, Sue centers
Speaker 1: through a tiny hole in the elevator on a bike,
Speaker 1: and the way that they've operated her, she like knocks
Speaker 1: into the door, and like the physical comedy of Jigsaw
Speaker 1: Fu and the whole thing of like Them. It's showing
Speaker 1: up to the two of them and them just like
Speaker 1: being weirded out by but like not so weirded out
Speaker 1: by it, you know, like it's so crazy and yet
Speaker 1: they're like h And.
Speaker 2: It's also so cute that little montage of them like
Speaker 2: sleeping and then looking at each other and then eating,
Speaker 2: having a little picnic.
Speaker 1: Like com out in there, and like it just loved, loved.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, really good. I think it's a testament
Speaker 2: to everyone involved in front of the camera and behind
Speaker 2: the camera to make something like that work, just like
Speaker 2: in Seinfeld. It's like a masterclass and making something so
Speaker 2: simple be that effective.
Speaker 1: Everybody.
Speaker 2: We had Lena on the show that's right this episode,
Speaker 2: and she told.
Speaker 1: Us and she was right, and she has that jigsaus.
Speaker 1: I get it now, I get it. I don't think
Speaker 1: i'd ever seen this episode before, Like I think I've
Speaker 1: seen snippets of other episodes or like clips or things,
Speaker 1: but like, I don't think I saw any of this
Speaker 1: episode ever, and it really delivered.
Speaker 2: I absolutely have not seen this episode. I know I've
Speaker 2: seen stills of Jigsaus.
Speaker 1: Sasu on that bike too is I know I've said
Speaker 1: this already, but like, the bike is so comical and
Speaker 1: it's so tiny, and it really just made me. It
Speaker 1: made me kiggle like a lot. So I could talk
Speaker 1: about this all day.
Speaker 2: I wonder who has that now.
Speaker 1: I wish I could have Jigsaus do on the bike.
Speaker 1: That's all I want now.
Speaker 2: Somebody has to have it, right.
Speaker 1: So the whole idea is that they have to kiss
Speaker 1: or they'll be trapped in there forever. And it overlaps
Speaker 1: with the song that New Direction is in New Directions
Speaker 1: performance during the invitation all which we will now merge
Speaker 1: into that. But that kiss also, I was like, oh, sweet,
Speaker 1: sweet lady, lady, I just.
Speaker 2: Where are you going?
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to say anything, just give me the
Speaker 1: kiss all day long. I love them, I want them
Speaker 1: back together. I'm rooting for them. I know Spoilerer like
Speaker 1: we get a wedding, but like, just give it all
Speaker 1: to me, just give it all.
Speaker 2: This is the first time call me a hater, and
Speaker 2: I do love them together, but this is the first
Speaker 2: time that I'm fully on board with him getting married.
Speaker 2: Now I'm like, let's see.
Speaker 1: It, let's get this now.
Speaker 2: I also think that was their best.
Speaker 1: Kiss, agreed, And just like the kiss, I know, I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, this is getting steamy. But like the montage,
Speaker 1: the whole thing, like the music, the client, like the
Speaker 1: it all just it was like that was the episode.
Speaker 2: And then they're they're running through the hallway and they're
Speaker 2: all disheveled and their shirts.
Speaker 1: Are cute, so cute. Yeah, obviously they're rushing because like
Speaker 1: they missed everything. So I get it.
Speaker 2: But we need once a cheater, always a cheater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's he gonna do? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh, we know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. Okay, So now Rachel uh has
Speaker 1: has two days, very much in mister Shoe fashion, has
Speaker 1: two days to get the glee club together, build a
Speaker 1: glee club, get a set list, and go. And Kurt
Speaker 1: had suggested getting Kitty in there, so well, Kurt's stuck
Speaker 1: in an elevator. Rachel is going to try and recruit
Speaker 1: recruit Kitty. This whole thing I didn't know happened. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh that is in.
Speaker 5: Had no idea, like, oh, and it's great, Like she
Speaker 5: gets a nice emotional scene filled with hilarity.
Speaker 2: She's a little softer than when she was originally brought
Speaker 2: into the glee club.
Speaker 1: It's yep, they left her. She you know, the only
Speaker 1: reason she's there. So she's feeling a little vulnerable. Rachel
Speaker 1: convinces her that, you know, she loves to sing and dance,
Speaker 1: and so it was really nice scene with the two
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: And I also love that she calls Rachel out just
Speaker 2: like you said, yeah that it's you know, very mister
Speaker 2: shoe of you, and I can't tell if it's sweet
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Literally, And then even better, so like they cheat,
Speaker 1: they cheat, they go in and they get the the
Speaker 1: past coode. Well, Katy has the past codes to sue emotional,
Speaker 1: emotionally vulnerable songs, a locked password and coded file that
Speaker 1: they get. I love that and the song choices for
Speaker 1: this for the writers were a plus plus. I love
Speaker 1: these songs. By the way, I thought everybody sounded excellent
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed them. What I enjoyed even more
Speaker 1: was like watching Sue like her journey from like hearing
Speaker 1: them and like being angry about it, like how did
Speaker 1: you get these to them? Like being completely moved and
Speaker 1: like singing along and Sam singing along in the audience
Speaker 1: and the Glee Club like came through. And I really
Speaker 1: appreciated new directions, the new new directions, hearing everybody sing
Speaker 1: everybody like obviously we loved his voice, like give it
Speaker 1: to us all day. But then we got Billy and
Speaker 1: we got Laura and Samantha, and it just really it
Speaker 1: was very quintessential New Directions and I was like, here
Speaker 1: for it. I was like, you sit on those stools.
Speaker 2: And I also thought it was quintessential Glee in the
Speaker 2: way that it wove in the silliness during these like
Speaker 2: really nice musical numbers. Yes where I also just like
Speaker 2: I love characters accepting a dumb thing like an elevator.
Speaker 2: I love a break in and a password moment, and
Speaker 2: love the scene with Kitty in the stall with Becky
Speaker 2: and the off brand Mexican twinkies bribing her. I thought
Speaker 2: that was so good. And then you have all these
Speaker 2: sort of montages like during you know, you have the
Speaker 2: curtain Blaine montage happening, and then you have Sue coming
Speaker 2: in and being funny just like you said, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it didn't take away from the performance at all. And
Speaker 2: little things. I love also seeing like Becca's growth. I mean,
Speaker 2: she was good from the first episode she was in, yeah,
Speaker 2: even though we found out she had never been on
Speaker 2: a set before. Right, But like the little looks she's
Speaker 2: throwing between Rachel and Sue. Sue, We're just so satisfying
Speaker 2: because you don't have to say anything, you just see.
Speaker 2: There's so much of that in this episode where there
Speaker 2: there's looks between Rachel and Sam because there's that whole
Speaker 2: thing going on, yes, and then Rachel and Sue and
Speaker 2: all while this music is going on. And then Sue,
Speaker 2: you know, when they announce it one and it's new directions,
Speaker 2: sorry to bury the lead. They She's like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: all they did was sit on stools. She's constantly making
Speaker 2: fun of the actually new directions.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, excellent all around. Like you said, like
Speaker 1: just everybody provoted, everybody in this episode.
Speaker 2: Like I also have another thing I want to say
Speaker 2: kudos too. I hate when, for example, this is there's
Speaker 2: a world in which this hypnosis storyline plays out in
Speaker 2: a way Rachel and Shoe have that moment, you know,
Speaker 2: where Rachel is saying, you know, you're right, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: and she's like, well, I don't really forgive you for
Speaker 2: the things you did, like getting Sam to steal my mail,
Speaker 2: and she's like huh and they said sue and that's it, right,
Speaker 2: But there's a world in which they're like, oh, we
Speaker 2: have to get revenge or we have to plot to
Speaker 2: get we have to do some sort of other plot
Speaker 2: to make her admit that it was her and Baba,
Speaker 2: I hate that, yes, and obviously why it didn't happen.
Speaker 2: And I'm not a writer, but you know when shows
Speaker 2: do that needlessly, create some drama like that, and it's
Speaker 2: just as a waste of time because you know how
Speaker 2: it's going to end up anyway. And so we did that.
Speaker 2: We just like, you know, trim the fat. Let's just
Speaker 2: say and you move on.
Speaker 1: And we know.
Speaker 2: I was so thankful for that. It's like, thank you,
Speaker 2: gleet love what's happening here, like really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Add it to the list of things that she has done,
Speaker 1: because she's been wildly inappropriate this whole episode.
Speaker 2: But two episodes in a row were like, ladies should
Speaker 2: be in prison.
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't stealing nail like a federal Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's getting somebody else to.
Speaker 1: Do it, right. It's bad.
Speaker 2: It's bad. But the flip side of this is that
Speaker 2: Rachel happens to snap when Sam is under some sort
Speaker 2: of trance, saying he like want trying to get Rachel
Speaker 2: to use the terrible size, which is also a really
Speaker 2: lovely moment. Yes, yes, and he's like, I don't know
Speaker 2: what's been going on with me. There's just gaps of
Speaker 2: time that are missing, and she just is like, Okay,
Speaker 2: you can make it up for me if you find
Speaker 2: seven people. Also, are we just going to forget that
Speaker 2: we're supposed to have twelve people for this invitational?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just changed it for the purpose that they
Speaker 1: have only of seven cast members. Yeah, okay, you know
Speaker 1: it's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine with it. And I was like, why
Speaker 2: did we bring it up in the first place? Also,
Speaker 2: we skipped over this, and I thought this was a
Speaker 2: really funny and weird thing. What Sue stating the rules
Speaker 2: after vocal adrenaline has already presented, which was also it
Speaker 2: seems like oh, we should have thought of that before
Speaker 2: we wrote the first episode, and I don't.
Speaker 1: We just let's just put it in because.
Speaker 2: And I think it's so good. I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 2: I don't care what the motivation of it was, but
Speaker 2: it is so funny. All these little things just work perfectly.
Speaker 2: Where in the last episode they do all these weird things,
Speaker 2: you're like, I don't know about that one, or I
Speaker 2: don't know about that one. I know this, love it all.
Speaker 1: I love it. Also Jake Sase's boy, so's ridiculous. Okay,
Speaker 1: we skipped over. Also the Dalton Warblers and their performances.
Speaker 1: So obviously Blaine is not he's missing, he's stuck in
Speaker 1: the elevator, and the Warblers are going to perform anyway.
Speaker 1: They do a really great job. Did you feel like now,
Speaker 1: obviously for the purpose that she makes the joke about
Speaker 1: new directions just sitting on stools, and it's her songs
Speaker 1: and it's ballad and heavy, and they're not doing huge
Speaker 1: dance numbers like Vocal Adrenaline and you know, all the tricks.
Speaker 1: Like the Warblers also felt a little different than normal,
Speaker 1: like they didn't feel like Dalhold Academy, like steps, step touch,
Speaker 1: you know, snaps. It felt like more vocal adrenaline driven
Speaker 1: because probably just for the juxtaposition of those two being
Speaker 1: like the big showmen and then us kind of doing
Speaker 1: the heart thing in the New Directions. But it didn't
Speaker 1: feel like them at all. I was like, where did
Speaker 1: these Warblers come from? Is this like a new generation
Speaker 1: of Warblers where they're tumbling and doing literally like break dancing.
Speaker 2: Fully, I fully agree with you, and I think it.
Speaker 2: I think your instinct is completely right on why they
Speaker 2: were sort of vocal adrenaline doubt because it had to
Speaker 2: be that death juxtaposition against the sort of boring new directions.
Speaker 1: I will say it was very good.
Speaker 2: It was so good. Also, there's a whole new crop
Speaker 2: of dancers in there, and one of our friends JP
Speaker 2: was in there. I took a video and sent it
Speaker 2: to him. He's like, oh, that was a good one,
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, yeah, I'd never seen it before.
Speaker 1: It was really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I mean they are dancing.
Speaker 1: Dancing. That's the thing. The Warblers don't dance dance, they move,
Speaker 1: they step touch it. It's like an intentional well that's
Speaker 1: what we call ours too. But you know, new directions,
Speaker 1: but anyway that I just had.
Speaker 2: To still it was a little murky. It was like
Speaker 2: this could just be vocal adrenaline and Blazers.
Speaker 1: Agreed, which they may have pulled some.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they did. Okay, I know this is not
Speaker 2: correct to say, but I feel like if any of
Speaker 2: us can say it, I can say it. I like
Speaker 2: all the gauge you did.
Speaker 1: They were quiet after There were a lot, not all
Speaker 1: of them, right, but there were.
Speaker 2: Some of them where I was like, Sue has lost
Speaker 2: their mind. But the way she's just openly saying.
Speaker 5: Like just throw in and look, there's gay.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of gay writers in that writer's room,
Speaker 2: so they're writing.
Speaker 1: These jokes, right, and so it's like one Warbler's credit
Speaker 1: is really gay.
Speaker 2: Warbler exactly, and.
Speaker 1: Then there's another one, Kevin other really gay Warbler.
Speaker 2: I love those things. We haven't talked about that in
Speaker 2: a long time, where Ian would write or the writers
Speaker 2: would write those things into the script and stage directions
Speaker 2: or character names that are just that is the real
Speaker 2: tone of the show, and so I like it. I
Speaker 2: know it's a little offensive, but it's pretty harmless in
Speaker 2: this in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And so I oh we also can we talk about
Speaker 1: Michael Hedgecock? Oh my god, excuse me?
Speaker 2: So remember and also what was was he spying for
Speaker 2: Sue or something? It seemed very I know.
Speaker 1: Well he's not. They lost all their funding and so
Speaker 1: what is he doing there? I don't it feels crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. But anytime we can
Speaker 1: get Hitchcock on stream, yeah, I want to see it,
Speaker 1: give it to us so to I know we're going
Speaker 1: all over the place, but I know, whatever to wrap
Speaker 1: up this Sam and Rachel storyline. You know, he's doing
Speaker 1: his like sort of cord thing in the audience at
Speaker 1: the end, and then they have this look from Rachel,
Speaker 1: I say, and she like smiles and looks, you know,
Speaker 1: smirks and looks down and it's like considering it. And
Speaker 1: it feels like groundwork is being laid. Hmmm.
Speaker 2: Now for the million of the time, I have no
Speaker 2: idea what happens, but that's but that's what we're clearly
Speaker 2: being fed.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, I missed that last one.
Speaker 2: But okay, there's so many good Sue lines.
Speaker 1: I just I.
Speaker 2: Like, I God, it's good.
Speaker 1: So Sam is brought in by Kurt for help and
Speaker 1: he's gonna go and get Spencer, and Spencer he's going
Speaker 1: to join the glee club. Spoil out of there. He's
Speaker 1: coming in. He comes in at the very end after
Speaker 1: they've won correct in the in the choir room, kidd,
Speaker 1: he's in obviously now we've got Spencer in. It was
Speaker 1: really sweet that scene.
Speaker 2: It was and it was nice to also see him
Speaker 2: just sort of drop his guard for a second.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really like this whole Spencer. I like Spencer
Speaker 1: in general. If I love this character, I like this
Speaker 1: for the show. I think it really I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think it moves it in in the right direction.
Speaker 1: And I also really appreciated Seam referencing Finn again, Like
Speaker 1: I yeah, I really, I just it was sentimental in
Speaker 1: a way, and it was like in a really weird episode,
Speaker 1: and I was like, just bring it back, bring it
Speaker 1: back to the ground a little bit, where like getting
Speaker 1: closer to the ground, you know, we're hovering.
Speaker 2: Correct And that whole monologue that Spencer gave was also
Speaker 2: very real where it was really funny and like also
Speaker 2: a nice take in the previous episodes where he's just
Speaker 2: like sort of the post post post modern gay right,
Speaker 2: but it's a very real thing in gay communities all
Speaker 2: around the world, where you still have that part of you.
Speaker 2: It's like, even though it's coming off like he's all
Speaker 2: confident and strong and he's choosing to be this way,
Speaker 2: that's who he is underneath it. Now we've discovered why
Speaker 2: he's doing it, and it isn't necessarily the most natural
Speaker 2: part of him, right, and so he is putting on
Speaker 2: this facade to fit in. And it's also nice that
Speaker 2: it is Sam. Sam's a character that is doing this, yes,
Speaker 2: which is pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it puts Sam in like the leadership role
Speaker 1: that we talked about in like when we were at nationals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: our last yeah yeah, yeah, he'll get turned into the
Speaker 1: same thing for me.
Speaker 2: You know. It's funny. But as we're watching this, I'm like,
Speaker 2: we're going to start remembering all these things now because
Speaker 2: we're watching it, I fear it's all just disappearing as quickly.
Speaker 1: As a game ohing as fast as it came. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate the callback to some of these things
Speaker 1: is because in Glee, it's so it's so quick to
Speaker 1: move on from the thing that we once did. Kind
Speaker 1: of maybe like our memory. Maybe that's why it's because
Speaker 1: it's so fleeting and fast.
Speaker 2: Fault.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's everybody else's fault. They've bet for our own
Speaker 1: memories and we take zero accountability for that. So but
Speaker 1: I appreciate the watching these kids or these adults who
Speaker 1: were you know, once former students or our former students
Speaker 1: like turn into the leaders of the group. So I'm
Speaker 1: very happy there.
Speaker 2: So after the invitational, when New Directions wins and Vocal
Speaker 2: Journaline does not, the lead vocalist of Vocal Adrenaline, Clint
Speaker 2: threatens mister Shoe and it's sort of this moment of
Speaker 2: is this guy going to get mister Shoe fired? Then
Speaker 2: if mister Shoes out of a job, is coming back
Speaker 2: to McKinley, But that spot's already been filled.
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 2: So I don't know where that's leading, and maybe you
Speaker 2: know it's.
Speaker 1: Because clearly the fun part of not knowing, so is
Speaker 1: he coming back?
Speaker 2: Is he coming back? And maybe they need him to
Speaker 2: come back so Rachel can like get her mojo back
Speaker 2: and go off and do something else. But they're clearly
Speaker 2: setting this up to motivate show to be leave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am, I am curious because I do remember
Speaker 1: for two thousand and nine. It's the final episode, right,
Speaker 1: He's there, right, And I'm like, but didn't you get there?
Speaker 1: And we were so deep out of it at that
Speaker 1: point that, like, I don't think that I even asked
Speaker 1: that question. No, we were just saying we were reading this, senior,
Speaker 1: and it was the final episode of the series, to
Speaker 1: be fair, so like you know what I mean, we
Speaker 1: were just going back to two thousand and nine and
Speaker 1: we were like deep in that whole thing. But I
Speaker 1: I did think about that. I was like, oh, mister,
Speaker 1: she was there.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't even think I have I didn't
Speaker 2: even think that. I don't think I knew that he wasn't.
Speaker 2: That's how out I'm in any of these episodes. So
Speaker 2: I don't think I even realized that he was never there.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, okay, Well he does do vocal adrenaline for
Speaker 1: longer than one episode, which I appreciate too, Like I
Speaker 1: appreciate the time and the breath that we have in
Speaker 1: these episodes like New York, where things can play out
Speaker 1: in a longer, kind of drawn out way where it
Speaker 1: actually gets a proper arc. So I'm looking I like this.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that I'm not you know, we complain about
Speaker 1: some of the things that move too fast. So here
Speaker 1: we are, we're living in it.
Speaker 2: I like it all. And it's like, I know this
Speaker 2: is a part one and part two episode or arc
Speaker 2: for everyone, including like Sam's storyline and Will's storyline, like
Speaker 2: everyone is split up over these two episodes, but it
Speaker 2: is refreshing and it is nice, and I yes, I'm
Speaker 2: loving the new kids.
Speaker 1: Loving the new kids, loving the whole like leadership, like
Speaker 1: we've got Sam a Ppe, and we've got Rachel and
Speaker 1: Kerr and we've got Jarrin and we were like I.
Speaker 2: Really like, oh my god, wow.
Speaker 1: Well I didn't take pe or gym.
Speaker 2: I have not heard it called pe in so long.
Speaker 1: Is that like gan equated? Is it not called that anymore?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: But I just I don't even think about that. He's
Speaker 2: just like the football assistant right assistant coach of football.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, I thought he was.
Speaker 2: Like he probably is, but that would have been a
Speaker 2: fun class. We only saw it in dodgeball. We should
Speaker 2: have gotten more pe.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, in my high school, we took dance. That's wild,
Speaker 1: Martha Graham. What we did, Martha, We did jazz, we
Speaker 1: did Fosthy did all okay, oh my god. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: high school was so small.
Speaker 2: We didn't even have, oh my god, any extracurriculars like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's sad.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I loved it. I wasn't a boy band.
Speaker 2: I was doing that stuff after school. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Of course you were like watching the TV, like learning
Speaker 1: the in sync videos like of course. Yeah, okay, let's
Speaker 1: grade these performances because that is the end of the
Speaker 1: hurt Locker series.
Speaker 2: And who knew who knew that we would we were
Speaker 2: going to feel.
Speaker 1: I feel joy from that episode. I think about Jake
Speaker 1: Sasu and I laugh. Okay, my Sharona love ay ay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: these are great and you spin me around even better. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: it must have been love given an A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'll give.
Speaker 1: This okay minus then Father Figure a A and then
Speaker 1: all out of Love A plus.
Speaker 2: I need to go down to that figure.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I gotta go listen to
Speaker 1: the the the extended version of Father Figure, because when
Speaker 1: he opened his mouth, I said.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, and they put that on the book and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh boy, I need this episode to
Speaker 2: be over so I can go listen to this. It's
Speaker 2: so good. Okay, what a gift.
Speaker 1: Let's do some tarty takes, cringe moments, Okay, I have
Speaker 1: I have one that's not sueer related, but all of
Speaker 1: suit but I have won this not Sue related.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So Rachel refers to the Season four newbies as these terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible things that I don't even want to repeat. And
Speaker 1: my jaw was on the ground. I said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: oh my.
Speaker 2: God, my mom catching strays.
Speaker 1: Left and right. I can't, I said, oh, oh, okay.
Speaker 2: It was very out of character. This really set up
Speaker 2: of the joke was funny. Is that you know she's
Speaker 2: so like narcissistic she didn't learn any of their names.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious. Yeah, but then it gets dark real quick. Yes,
Speaker 2: and then Sue's jokes about Karowski were also in line
Speaker 2: with that too.
Speaker 3: Weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, best dance move, I mean the Warblers you're
Speaker 2: doing flips and splits and things. There was a move
Speaker 2: where they like get on the risers from the sides
Speaker 2: and do like a flip into a sit with a
Speaker 2: straight leg and a leg bent, and it was so
Speaker 2: clean and I was like, WHOA.
Speaker 1: I said, they brought in some new Warblers today.
Speaker 2: Yes, I also like more of the Warblers being characters,
Speaker 2: like more dialogue from different warblers and things. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: enjoying that.
Speaker 1: We've had like a lot of warblers, so like it's
Speaker 1: time best song.
Speaker 2: Father Figure. Yes, I know we said.
Speaker 1: All out of love we love but father Figure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's performances by prop Jake saw So.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also the elevator sign New Elevator, so funny, really good.
Speaker 1: One of the ones that I loved, and it was
Speaker 1: more about the delivery than the line itself. Was when
Speaker 1: they're watching the video and Becky says, this is like
Speaker 1: a dream sequence. How could you film that? And says okay,
Speaker 1: Becky shut up, rowing it's honny.
Speaker 2: No Jenna, Jenna. That is one of my favorite moments
Speaker 2: in Glee. Ever. I said, Jerry, this looks like a
Speaker 2: dream sequence. How did you.
Speaker 1: The whole thing is so good? God? Why did I
Speaker 1: don't know it did though it did. It's the two
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: Like golly lean into it like on the rooftop singing,
Speaker 2: come what may get out of here? Really dream sequence?
Speaker 2: So Lauren Potter, oh my gosh, come on, give her
Speaker 2: an inch?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like last episode, you know, she had this huge storyline,
Speaker 2: like so much good physical comedy, and then she's also
Speaker 2: dramatic and and this she's just has like two lines
Speaker 2: is just killing.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: That's the line. No, really in the century.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, Okay, great, I'm glad that were a line
Speaker 1: there performs MVP.
Speaker 2: Honestly, Jane and Lauren. I think it's just Jane again
Speaker 2: for me. Okay, it would be an honorable mention for
Speaker 2: Christ and Darren Christ and Darren too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Jane really good?
Speaker 2: Oh god, Okay, so shit. We found on TikTok making
Speaker 2: Faye and Brandon's splinner yeah and pronouncing that correctly. Are
Speaker 2: doing press for their new movie, Drop and Brandon. They're
Speaker 2: asked what their first professional acting job was, and he
Speaker 2: admits that his first one was an extra on Glee
Speaker 2: and she guessed it correctly, and it was in Baby
Speaker 2: One More Time when he is hanging out with Corey
Speaker 2: and fist bumps him in that basketball scene a Baby
Speaker 2: one More Time, And that brings me so much joy.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, isn't it incredible?
Speaker 1: I also love that that's like people's first acting jobs
Speaker 1: who are now like making it. I'm like that really
Speaker 1: ages us.
Speaker 2: Oh god fully, wow. I love that also, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: how long ago Glee was.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, go Glee honored. All right, Well that is
Speaker 1: the our Locker Part two. Thanks for joining us for
Speaker 1: on that journey. The next episode is we're almost halfway
Speaker 1: through the end of the series. Don't talk, what will
Speaker 1: we don't Well, we will recap what the world needs now,
Speaker 1: which is next. And there's lots of music and also
Speaker 1: one of my some of my favorite comedians in our
Speaker 1: show that we got to meet and hang out with
Speaker 1: of all time, So Jennifer Coolidge and right, duh.
Speaker 2: Duh, you're right.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Coolidge was like my idle like comedic idol Briant
Speaker 1: like I was obsessed with her and I felt I
Speaker 1: was very starstruck when she came on.
Speaker 2: So did you watch all the Christopher guest movies like
Speaker 2: I did growing up that Jane Lynch and Jennifer coolid
Speaker 2: Dread Yes, and Hitchcock Yes. Yeah. So this is was
Speaker 2: a It.
Speaker 1: Was everything I could have hoped for and more To
Speaker 1: come back and hear that they were all these an
Speaker 1: amazing guest stars. I was like, oh man, I am.
Speaker 2: I have some good Coolidge stories from filming those episodes
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: Well I can too. So funny and oh my god, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll get there.
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