Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith and.
Speaker 2: Daphne's Aniga an iHeartRadio podcast. So we've had a fan
Speaker 2: question about shooting in front of the iconic exterior of
Speaker 2: Melrose Place. The exterior was actually I think in Los Felis.
Speaker 2: I never had a scene out there outside of that
Speaker 2: wherever it is in Los Felis. I know we had
Speaker 2: a piece of it on like the inside of the
Speaker 2: exterior we had on on the soundstage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we did shoot like the first in the pilot,
Speaker 1: Andrew and I had that scene where he's I'm getting
Speaker 1: out of my car and he's trying to talk to me.
Speaker 1: That was in front. It must have been most feelis
Speaker 1: we were driving how far we drove all the time,
Speaker 1: Like our locations were all over town. We had a
Speaker 1: location over an hour away in Oxnard, So I guess
Speaker 1: it was just you get the call sheet, you look
Speaker 1: it up on your Thomas Guide, remember the Thomas Guide
Speaker 1: pre gps. You have to try to figure out where
Speaker 1: you're going. And we went there, so I guess we did.
Speaker 3: And for the building, I think they just picked this
Speaker 3: great looking Spanish apartment complex and it just happened to
Speaker 3: be in Las Filas. So they shot establishing shots and
Speaker 3: then just used them over and over as stocks farded.
Speaker 2: So maybe someone walking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we're going to arrive at the court aired first,
Speaker 3: we're going to use this establishing shot that we shot
Speaker 3: a long time ago in front of the actual apartment,
Speaker 3: which is the Las Fela. So when you confuse people,
Speaker 3: I think, like down the line, when fans would come
Speaker 3: to Los Angeles and they'd be like, I want to
Speaker 3: see Melros place, they'd go, you know there, it's not
Speaker 3: actually it's a it's not Yeah, mel Re's place itself
Speaker 3: is not going to.
Speaker 2: Have never lived there and yeah never we've never shot
Speaker 2: there really, but.
Speaker 3: That establishing shot comes up in our episode that we're
Speaker 3: about to.
Speaker 2: Recapt Yeah, the title, Yeah, We're ready for Love Money,
Speaker 2: We're ready, season ready, Season one, episode four.
Speaker 3: We're only on episode four. We have a long ways to.
Speaker 2: Go, lad, Yes, we did thirty six years.
Speaker 3: We need to go like if okay, So this was July.
Speaker 3: This one aired July twenty ninth, nineteen ninety two, and
Speaker 3: I did look it up. There were Summer Olympics going
Speaker 3: on in nineteen ninety two, just.
Speaker 2: Like, oh no, that was summer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: Do you want to know what what songs are popular? I?
Speaker 2: Do you do? My god?
Speaker 3: Well, I just have one for you and you may
Speaker 3: you may remember this that made ring a bell Sir,
Speaker 3: Mix a lot, Baby got back?
Speaker 2: Do you know that one?
Speaker 1: I can't believe it was that long ago. Wow, that
Speaker 1: feels more recent.
Speaker 3: Or maybe it's just like on a loop in your
Speaker 3: mind when I say the title, Wow, I like.
Speaker 2: I'm like looking at my notes, going, did she look that? Well?
Speaker 3: I just thought, you know, like, let's get looked it up,
Speaker 3: Let's get us let's back to that.
Speaker 1: Let's like I was thinking about, like thinking about the
Speaker 1: exterior night shoots. I was thinking, you know, it's so
Speaker 1: funny because back then, you know, none of us had kids,
Speaker 1: were all kids. I don't remember thinking about how late
Speaker 1: it was, like, you know, call time at ten o'clock
Speaker 1: in those feelers, okay, right, Like we didn't question it.
Speaker 1: We just sort of showed. I got my store mix
Speaker 1: a lot in my car.
Speaker 2: I'm just driving off cassette player, right Like, I don't.
Speaker 1: Remember questioning the schedule. You're just there from you know,
Speaker 1: six a m. Till midnight. You don't think twice about it.
Speaker 2: M hmm. Yeah, we just did well because it was
Speaker 2: ensemble and each of our scenes were separate, right like
Speaker 2: you might have a call from six am to whatever noon,
Speaker 2: and I would have one from three at three, and
Speaker 2: you would have one at you know, six at night.
Speaker 2: I mean there were just sometimes in the most arbitrary
Speaker 2: in the middle of the day.
Speaker 1: But also just the sheer number of hours. I just
Speaker 1: I just brought me back to think about that time.
Speaker 1: And Yow didn't even question it, like I didn't like
Speaker 1: now I would look at and how late am I working?
Speaker 1: What am I doing? It? Just show up there there's
Speaker 1: nothing paying youthful and youthful. And also remember so I
Speaker 1: know we're getting right into the episode, but we open
Speaker 1: on D and D advertising, which was spelling for the exterior.
Speaker 3: Of actual spelling productions. Yes, yeah, on Willshall Wiltshire Boulevard?
Speaker 3: Is that the Is it only me? I cannot say
Speaker 3: boulevard When I first said, I just say the whole
Speaker 3: thing will Boulevard. It's two times in house.
Speaker 2: Okay, now you dab you no, But when you came here,
Speaker 2: when you came here from the Midwest, did you first
Speaker 2: pronounce it will Shire? No, I didn't, but I didn't
Speaker 2: put it.
Speaker 3: I will say there's something wrong with it because also
Speaker 3: when we started doing like the promos and we'd have
Speaker 3: to go, hi, it's Laure Lane from Melrose Place, I'd
Speaker 3: be hi, it's Laure Lane from Moo's place, like what,
Speaker 3: I couldn't get it out. So Wilshire Boulevard, maybe you
Speaker 3: just shouldn't say I just need to announciate.
Speaker 1: Just stay around it gay the street.
Speaker 3: You know that sounds like right down right down the
Speaker 3: center of Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So this episode for Lover Money Season one, episode four
Speaker 3: aired July twenty nine, nineteen ninety two, and we open
Speaker 3: on Jake working on his motorcycle in the courtyard and
Speaker 3: Jane and Michael are returning from their run. How about
Speaker 3: that they're just like running along the streets of.
Speaker 1: Melrose and U.
Speaker 3: Michael immediately notices that Jake's motorcycle is dripping oil in
Speaker 3: the courtyard and he warns him that he's going to
Speaker 3: need to move that and oh, by the way, drop
Speaker 3: off your rent check, which is where when we find
Speaker 3: out that Jake is having trouble.
Speaker 1: Finding jobs, and Jake is do how immediately he was
Speaker 1: defensive and angry, like I'm like, wow, you're just out
Speaker 1: of the gate.
Speaker 2: Bad ye madam yep, already already angry, And Michael said
Speaker 2: exactly what I was thinking. He's like, dude's oil all
Speaker 2: over the pool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just like okay, okay, just maybe you know
Speaker 3: what this is where people make out.
Speaker 1: What are you doing fixing your motorcycles?
Speaker 2: This is the makeup you're going yard, dummy. Well, he
Speaker 2: just broke up with the sixteen year old, so he's like,
Speaker 2: I don't he's doing it on purpose.
Speaker 3: But that's where we learned that's Jake's going to need
Speaker 3: to go find a job. He's got to pay his rent.
Speaker 3: So that's establishing what we're going to do in this episode.
Speaker 3: So then going to D and D Advertising, Allison our
Speaker 3: little advertising I want to be exect. She's making all
Speaker 3: the right moves answering the phone, and she's congratually an
Speaker 3: executive on the phone on this on a stock split.
Speaker 3: She's like, I know what to say and I'm going
Speaker 3: to say it and.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get some ends with the higher ups.
Speaker 3: And Rick from the mail room notices her phone etiquette,
Speaker 3: compliments her on it, and also hands her a donut.
Speaker 2: Yes, very flirting.
Speaker 1: Zach Gallaghan who we remember like and yeah, I'm now
Speaker 1: a very recognizable.
Speaker 3: Fakemlin Yes fromtally like years before, like nineteen eighty four
Speaker 3: or something like.
Speaker 2: And he's had a long career and it was really
Speaker 2: fun to see him as.
Speaker 3: Your flirty, flirty co worker baby.
Speaker 2: It was a super cute and flirty scene.
Speaker 1: Adorable.
Speaker 3: So then we find that Jake's looking for a job
Speaker 3: at a coffee shop. Goes up to one of the
Speaker 3: staff and saying, hey, I can do this. I know machines,
Speaker 3: I can I can operate that espresso machine. But the
Speaker 3: guy assumes Jake is an actor writer or model, which
Speaker 3: is like a quintessential La reference. You know, a good
Speaker 3: looking guy, you must be you must be an actor model.
Speaker 2: Yes, And also it's annoying and you don't want to
Speaker 2: hire them because they're going to leave. If they have
Speaker 2: an audition, they'll just leave. The cappuccino overflowing. I mean
Speaker 2: they have like they come and go. So he's like no,
Speaker 2: He's like, oh no, gross, I make you know.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, I work on instruction. I'll be perfectly
Speaker 3: suited for this to operate. His fresh machine, but the
Speaker 3: coffee guy, he's also had a long career Simon Tuppleman.
Speaker 2: He was the kind of recognized them. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 2: he was great.
Speaker 3: Actually he was great. Yeah, he's done a lot of voiceover,
Speaker 3: big voiceover guy in gaming.
Speaker 1: I think he's funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 3: He was very skeptical of Jake's ability to make a
Speaker 3: coffee and it gives him a shot. Anyway, we'll see
Speaker 3: how that turns out. And then back at the exterior
Speaker 3: of D and D again on what Bulvard on Wilshire Boulevard,
Speaker 3: Laura nicely said, very enunciated. That's where Alison is sitting
Speaker 3: outside at Lune with this new little UH co worker.
Speaker 1: Ris seems very promising, you know, at first.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's very cute, very flirty.
Speaker 2: Turns out he's the boss's son.
Speaker 3: Yep, he's the son of the client that they're trying
Speaker 3: to get this advertising campaign right for sun Ray sunscreen.
Speaker 3: And that's where we're also introduced to Lucy Cabot, who
Speaker 3: is Deborah Dare and she's one of the D and D.
Speaker 3: Is she your boss at D and D?
Speaker 1: Alison, she's a vice president at D and D who
Speaker 1: also had a long career in soap operas before she
Speaker 1: came to us.
Speaker 3: Didn't she actually have a soap opera at the same
Speaker 3: time as she was doing Melrose Like in later seasons?
Speaker 3: Didn't she overlap and both.
Speaker 1: Of these jobs simultaneously sounds so familiar.
Speaker 2: Crazy, she was a proan imagine she was great.
Speaker 1: I cannot imagine.
Speaker 3: Well, so she's she's the she's the boss that Allison
Speaker 3: is trying to she's trying to sort of grow into
Speaker 3: her shoes, and she looks up to her as a mentor,
Speaker 3: and and she's becoming friends with this coworker Rick. And
Speaker 3: then Rick asks Alison out to dinner and she's a
Speaker 3: little wary, like, I don't know, officer romances. Doesn't sound
Speaker 3: like risky business. Also a reference to a nineties movie.
Speaker 3: But then we here's the first time we see Alison
Speaker 3: in a vest. Did you guys notice her vest?
Speaker 1: I did? I wrote that down vest over a tea.
Speaker 3: It was kind of a bad vest. It wasn't a
Speaker 3: cute vest.
Speaker 1: It's a lot going on. There's a lot going on,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was definitely a sign of the time.
Speaker 2: But vests were big then, vests were very cho wore
Speaker 2: some best I wore vests, and well this is later,
Speaker 2: let's I know a few months later. But they're back now,
Speaker 2: aren't they? Yeahs coming back.
Speaker 3: But I didn't find that there were enough vests in
Speaker 3: this episode alone that I made kind of a vest count.
Speaker 2: Count.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a kiss counter shirtless count. This is
Speaker 3: actually a vest count.
Speaker 2: Episode, and this is the first vest I really liked
Speaker 2: the wardrobe in this in this episode for many reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know the vest we all noticed it.
Speaker 3: So then back at the coffee shop Jack Jake is
Speaker 3: foaming the milk he's learned how to operate that little
Speaker 3: steamer thing, and his boss Kurt is hovering giving him
Speaker 3: a hard time, and Jake is rolling his eyes, like
Speaker 3: why can't we just have like regular just coffee? Do
Speaker 3: we need the half cap cappuccino all the thing? But
Speaker 3: in walks uh a girl who looks an awful lot
Speaker 3: like Winona Writer in this moment.
Speaker 2: It's not Michelle Johnson. And she came back because I
Speaker 2: was surprised to see her because I had stuff with
Speaker 2: her later.
Speaker 3: As joke the character, Yeah, because she came back.
Speaker 2: She was like Jake's bad boy, his hou, his past.
Speaker 2: She was bad news.
Speaker 3: She's going to come back, but this is the first time. Yep,
Speaker 3: she's going to come back. And then they have that
Speaker 3: line another sort of noir reference. So the in last
Speaker 3: week's episode, we had like the whole noir opening for
Speaker 3: episode three, and then there's there's this line when she
Speaker 3: walks in and she's like all the cappuccino joins in l.
Speaker 2: A you had to walk in.
Speaker 1: I noticed a line. I noticed the line she said,
Speaker 1: did you get this one? I love the way you
Speaker 1: bury that nozzle?
Speaker 3: Super awkward, but it started, it started with a casablancaes
Speaker 3: for reference, and then we then we seek right.
Speaker 2: Down, let's her mind is where we really are? And
Speaker 2: then I do remember though she Michelle had a she
Speaker 2: was discovered and put in Do you remember that movie eighties?
Speaker 2: I think it was a eighties movie. Blame it on Rio,
Speaker 2: Blame on Rio. She was like the girl to me.
Speaker 2: Moore was in that too, Michael Caine.
Speaker 3: It was a huge movie and she was the teenager
Speaker 3: with Michael Caine, fresh new thing who and then she
Speaker 3: again also a super well yep, not making that movie today, No, no,
Speaker 3: thank you. But yeah. So so Jake is feeling a
Speaker 3: little defensive of his job and no, I'm you know,
Speaker 3: and she says, wait, I might have an opportunity that
Speaker 3: you would be interested in to make a lot more money.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, I'm I'm good here, I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna he made this coffee for whatever. But he
Speaker 3: does learn that Perry is an art dealer in this scene,
Speaker 3: so we'll see where that goes. Back at the apartment building,
Speaker 3: Rnda and Matt are at the mailboxes, So makes his
Speaker 3: first appearance and Ronda is complaining about her bills. Matt
Speaker 3: is upset because they're cutting funding from the Halfway House
Speaker 3: where he is volunteering, and Ronda offers to help out.
Speaker 3: He's going to be making meals for kids teens, and
Speaker 3: she offers to help out. And Sandy walks by with
Speaker 3: address for Alison's date. So a lot is happening in
Speaker 3: the courtyard all at the same time, and Ronda media
Speaker 3: is like squirrel.
Speaker 2: Shy object for a second.
Speaker 3: I'm talking to Matt dress.
Speaker 2: I'm all going to help you. I'm totally dedicated. You
Speaker 2: can trust me. Oh what's up? Yeah that was Rhonda?
Speaker 2: Do you know what?
Speaker 1: Matt volunteers at the halfway House where he works at
Speaker 1: the Halfway House. I am not even sure worked at
Speaker 1: the halfway House.
Speaker 3: He must, you must have some He's definitely a do gooder.
Speaker 3: That must be his actual job, not just volunteering.
Speaker 1: But I think that is his job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's how that's where we sort of learned
Speaker 3: the first thing about Matt besides him just being everybody's
Speaker 3: nice neighbor.
Speaker 2: Here's what he does.
Speaker 3: He's the do gooder and he is a good guy,
Speaker 3: and he did I think when Rhonda had that squirrel moment,
Speaker 3: he sort of like was like kind of his out
Speaker 3: on that scene.
Speaker 2: Was Matt going like what the heck was that? You know?
Speaker 3: And Doug's watching the episode with me and he's like,
Speaker 3: I remember there were a lot of scenes where I
Speaker 3: sort of like finished on a like what just happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, because the dress was called the come and
Speaker 2: Get Me Dressed? Yeah yeah, and so Sandy's like, I'm
Speaker 2: loaning my come get me dressed to Jane, and Ron
Speaker 2: is like, that's my come get me dressed.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It was a lot, so he he got to
Speaker 3: have a justified eye roll or a head shaking out.
Speaker 3: And then back in Allison's bedroom, she is trying on
Speaker 3: the dress, thanking Sandy for the dress, wondering if it's
Speaker 3: really right for her for her date with Rick. When
Speaker 3: Billy walks in shirtless, right, was that the first shirtless
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: I did write down a shirtless for that, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, why just because we need to there's
Speaker 1: several people in the house, I'm going to walk out
Speaker 1: without my shirt, Like, yeah, for a long it's a
Speaker 1: long scene to be shirtless. That's before they started putting
Speaker 1: the kibosh on the shirtless and like, all right.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah.
Speaker 3: Andrew's like, all right, that's what they tell me. We're
Speaker 3: all just two hours and shirtless for no apparent reason
Speaker 3: except I know I'm gonna be answering to the door
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be another guy.
Speaker 1: It made sense later then I was like, oh, that's why.
Speaker 1: But for most of the scene, I'm like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's nice, but why he just hanging around shirtless?
Speaker 2: I just thought it was funny to see like all
Speaker 2: four of you in this tiny little room, and like,
Speaker 2: it just felt so funny to me. Awkward. You usually
Speaker 2: see like two people in a scene and you know
Speaker 2: it's in the courtyard and you're someone's leaving and someone's
Speaker 2: going and then they all come in here, and can
Speaker 2: I just tell you what I thought was really weird?
Speaker 2: And I want you to answer it. The doll, the
Speaker 2: shelf of dolls in your bedroom? Did you notice the
Speaker 2: shelf crammed with dolls? Floor to see dolls? Forget the
Speaker 2: teddy Bear on the bed. I'm just saying, like, what
Speaker 2: were they saying? Do you remember this at all?
Speaker 1: Those were my dolls? Thinking about this like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: because I think Billy makes a joke about it at
Speaker 1: some point. It was like one of those strong character
Speaker 1: choices that just was never really dressed.
Speaker 3: But because it's a big like you didn't make the
Speaker 3: character choice, so we're assuming, like set.
Speaker 1: I did make a choice. Was it was written in
Speaker 1: It was like that I had. It was kind of Allison's,
Speaker 1: you know, her control her organization, like I have the
Speaker 1: shelf of dolls, Everything has my label on it. It
Speaker 1: was part of that initial character.
Speaker 2: I was really wondering choices because there's so many ways
Speaker 2: to show that, and I just thought, what are these dolls?
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting we should pay attention to when they
Speaker 1: just disappear. I'd I don't never really day it just
Speaker 1: sort of somebody came in and the night and just
Speaker 1: removed men.
Speaker 3: Address these. Let's get rid of this.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many dolls. You need to have
Speaker 2: a story about them or something we're not going to.
Speaker 3: Tell you about. This is where they should go.
Speaker 2: Nobody mentioned the dolls.
Speaker 3: I want to be honest, I didn't notice them, So
Speaker 3: now I'm going to start looking for it.
Speaker 2: You didn't, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice them either.
Speaker 3: I didn't know well, but imber so if they're still there,
Speaker 3: I'm going.
Speaker 2: To be looking. I mean, because there's a small room
Speaker 2: and the reason I think I noticed and that there
Speaker 2: are four of you in there and you can't really move,
Speaker 2: so they're just there behind you. And I'm like, what
Speaker 2: is with these fifty dollars she has?
Speaker 3: It gives us something to look for.
Speaker 1: That so funny.
Speaker 2: Definitely will they or will they not be? The will disappear?
Speaker 1: So and uh.
Speaker 3: Anyway, so she's getting ready for this date, trying to
Speaker 3: decide if the dress is too much, and Billy is
Speaker 3: giving her advice, saying, just keep it to business, just
Speaker 3: stick to business, just talk about business, and then he
Speaker 3: of course has to go answer the door when Rick
Speaker 3: is knocking, and he answers shirtless in a towel, not
Speaker 3: only as you shure, he's just wearing the towel, which
Speaker 3: you know has a full conversation doing that, which exactly is.
Speaker 2: In a full on suit like he's going to a mixture.
Speaker 2: But he did.
Speaker 3: He did have like the eyeball, like the shot where
Speaker 3: he had to like thing didn't tell that about yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: what do I know? We watched his eyes go yees, yeah,
Speaker 3: got it, he noticed.
Speaker 2: But Billy just listened to his tie right then or something,
Speaker 2: just to confuse us. Where is this going?
Speaker 3: But yeah, so Billy uh says No, I'm just the
Speaker 3: roommate and just have Alison back by one thirty at
Speaker 3: the latest, which is yeah, that's a very late bedtime
Speaker 3: for a working girl.
Speaker 1: It's so late girl. I said, how about nine fifteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going on my pajamas by nine thirty.
Speaker 2: By ten, yeah, please give me back a way earlier
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 1: Rick.
Speaker 3: But there they go. They go out on their date.
Speaker 3: It's a very romantic restaurant with white tip cloth and
Speaker 3: and they're getting to know each other.
Speaker 1: It felt weird to see us out on a date
Speaker 1: like in a restaurant I think grown up. That feels
Speaker 1: very grown up. It did. I thought, oh, that looks
Speaker 1: very grown up to me. Yeah, which, of course we
Speaker 1: were in our twenties. We were going on dates like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you as if he's the son of the
Speaker 3: sun ray sunscreen, like maybe he's got money money.
Speaker 1: Also, I think we spend so much from in the
Speaker 1: courtyard in the apartment that to see us out in
Speaker 1: the world on a real looking date, it was fun
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 3: And it was an actual restaurant, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: It was an actual restaurant people walking by on Melrose
Speaker 1: and it was on Melrose Avenues. It was outside you
Speaker 1: could see the Great Greek restaurant.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it was one of the first times
Speaker 2: on the show there was there were you anyone was
Speaker 2: in a restaurant. So I know later over the course
Speaker 2: of all our years there were tons of restaurants scenes.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but I think they shot on Melrose a
Speaker 3: lot early on. It was like, use as much of
Speaker 3: Melrose as do you remember the restaurant?
Speaker 1: It was no, but it was read across the Green
Speaker 1: Greek probably look it up. But I do remember the
Speaker 1: excitement of shooting there, Like first we would shoot there
Speaker 1: and and I had I was in an acting class
Speaker 1: on Melrose Avenue who sometimes Greco was his name, and
Speaker 1: uh so I would be an acting class sometimes when
Speaker 1: you guys were shooting, and I would come out of
Speaker 1: my acting class and see you guys shooting my gos
Speaker 1: like time warp.
Speaker 3: It was always like because shooting on a place like Melrose,
Speaker 3: you know, they have to bring all those trailers and
Speaker 3: all those like set up like base camp, like somewhere
Speaker 3: in the neighborhood. It was a big like high we're here,
Speaker 3: wasn't really subtle, So the whole neighborhood is like, what
Speaker 3: is going on when there's a you know, a TV
Speaker 3: or movie shoot on a busy street like that?
Speaker 2: And was it at night?
Speaker 1: It was at night. And the shift from before we
Speaker 1: were on TV, and people like what do you you
Speaker 1: have to explain it? Like with this the show it's
Speaker 1: a DV sho to when it became more popular, was
Speaker 1: so it was so severe, like the people that would stop,
Speaker 1: they had to keep the crowds away. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of noise. There was a lot of people wanting
Speaker 1: to come close. It was so different. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: here we just sat there nobody cared. People walked by it.
Speaker 1: It was fine because we probably shot it before we're
Speaker 1: even on the air.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Probably.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really fun to see those locations and and
Speaker 3: there you are having your little romantic sort of get
Speaker 3: to know each other. And Alison decides to tell Rick
Speaker 3: about an idea she had for for a campaign idea
Speaker 3: for the sunscreen company. Yep, I mean I can't say
Speaker 3: I was surprised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keep it inside, Alison, don't take the quiet part
Speaker 1: out loud. But you know she was just just assuming
Speaker 1: a naive and trusting and trusting. She's from Wisconsin. Alison
Speaker 1: dolls have a doll next at.
Speaker 2: The table, and then next they come back to the
Speaker 2: courtyard and Rick is walking Alison back to her apartment
Speaker 2: and they start making it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Alison made.
Speaker 1: The kiss out since first makeout in the courtyard, there
Speaker 1: were many, but this is my first guest star they
Speaker 1: brought in for me to make out with.
Speaker 2: Billy's Piero's.
Speaker 3: We should start is how many guest stars did you
Speaker 3: get to make out with?
Speaker 2: My brain doesn't remember.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my own very best. Because there was
Speaker 1: a time when everyone talked about what a slut Amanda
Speaker 1: was was sled. Amanda was, but she and I actually
Speaker 1: did account. I'd actually made out with more people. But
Speaker 1: because they brought guest stars in for me to make
Speaker 1: out with, you didn't count them as much. But because
Speaker 1: she was sleeping around in the apartment building of characters
Speaker 1: and it sort of stuck to her, I was like people, No,
Speaker 1: I was because I kind of didn't stick to Alison.
Speaker 1: She still got to be the nice girl. But I
Speaker 1: was like, are we not? Is no one paying attention?
Speaker 1: They bring in a new guest star every other week
Speaker 1: for me to make out with in the courtyard, which
Speaker 1: we should nickname the Kissing Courtyard because that's well there.
Speaker 3: And I think it's a good time to start the count.
Speaker 1: I'm starting my own will I will be in charge of.
Speaker 1: I'm starting a new list of Allison's guest star makeout opportunity, Allison's.
Speaker 2: Conquest star opportunities. The star kisses.
Speaker 1: That's adorable. I'm going to think of something better.
Speaker 2: You get to us.
Speaker 3: We we'll find out what the title of this.
Speaker 2: Alice's out Okay, I think you should keep looking for.
Speaker 3: Billy notices. He peeks out the window shades, because if
Speaker 3: you're going to kiss in the courtyard.
Speaker 2: Somebody's going to see you so and he.
Speaker 1: Sees some kissing your platonic boy, probably everybody, probably all
Speaker 1: everybody's looking out their window like who's doing it now?
Speaker 1: Because it was a constant kiss your board lookouts to
Speaker 1: use making out.
Speaker 3: But then, can we talk about the next thing that
Speaker 3: happened in the courtyard the next day? Yeah, Ronda is
Speaker 3: rehearsing her new workout routine by the pool, but she's
Speaker 3: doing it full onto the camera. Yeah, like onto the camera,
Speaker 3: and she's like booking and she's looking at the camera.
Speaker 3: It's very strange.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it was.
Speaker 2: That seemed like a direction thing, yes, you know, and
Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't it was.
Speaker 3: It was an odd direction because it was a little
Speaker 3: jarring to go to the courtyard and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden she's doing this boogie down routine. But she
Speaker 3: was like fully committed and did her thing. But just
Speaker 3: the the shooting of at the angle, like to have
Speaker 3: her square to the camera, sent her frame and looking
Speaker 3: in the lens was bizarre, a little jarring.
Speaker 2: And Allison's leaving for work.
Speaker 3: Sandy comes downstairs in a bikini asks about the date
Speaker 3: and suggests maybe that she should model for Sunray Sunscreen.
Speaker 3: And then Matt comes out of the apartment reminds Rhonda,
Speaker 3: don't forget five pm.
Speaker 2: You're coming to help me, make you committed. You're coming,
Speaker 2: and in.
Speaker 3: Walks Perry looking for Jake, yes, and knocking on the
Speaker 3: door of his apartment. Sandy's sunning herself in her bikini
Speaker 3: tells Perry that Jake isn't home.
Speaker 2: When can I tell him? Who's call in? Just tell
Speaker 2: him that Perry with a secretary.
Speaker 3: There's there's a little bit she bantered there between.
Speaker 2: These and you know, I love anyone noticed her choker
Speaker 2: so nineties Perry's yes, she wore it more than one scene.
Speaker 2: She wore in the next one too, which with that
Speaker 2: fabulous outfit in the art gallery with the collar to
Speaker 2: hear and yeah, stretchy pants up to hear. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But she had this classic uh choker from the nineties,
Speaker 2: like this thick black band with this like a star
Speaker 2: or something hanging like we're like so big back then,
Speaker 2: and yeah, like they're just I don't think that's translated.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're in now with this kind of
Speaker 2: resurgence of the nineties. But I just totally remember Joe.
Speaker 3: Wore some of those oh yeah chokers back in then.
Speaker 3: Sidney probably woh yeah, Sidney wore everything in style or not,
Speaker 3: she was the choker this she's the arts one Sydney
Speaker 3: when she comes on the scene. But also like Sandy's
Speaker 3: bikini in this same very like vintage up. Yeah, like
Speaker 3: very cute, styly but vintage not at all in the nineties.
Speaker 2: Like she's advocating for herself. I'd be good for the
Speaker 2: sunscreen modeling, don't you think?
Speaker 3: I did notice that her her she got darker and
Speaker 3: darker as like as the scene went on, like her
Speaker 3: body makeup got reapplied.
Speaker 2: As I really close up, it.
Speaker 3: Was like, whoa, she's gotten a lot of sun in
Speaker 3: the forty seconds.
Speaker 2: She really Wow, that's such an inclusing thing.
Speaker 3: You noticed, dolls.
Speaker 2: I noticed there's things. There's so much chopped up.
Speaker 3: So Alison gets to work and there's an envelope with
Speaker 3: a rose on her desk and in walks her boss,
Speaker 3: Lucy Cabot, and you take this up. Alison takes her
Speaker 3: that opportunity to introduce herself, tells her that she's excited
Speaker 3: about the sunscreen account. Do you remember the first scenes
Speaker 3: in D and D, like, does it feel like the
Speaker 3: same D and D or does it feel like a
Speaker 3: different version than than where it kind of landed?
Speaker 1: Well, because I moved into the bullpen. Oh true, right,
Speaker 1: you're the receptionist. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think then we must have had a set by then,
Speaker 1: right when it moved into the office, And so.
Speaker 3: Was the when you were shooting the scenes at the
Speaker 3: receptionist desk? Was it like it wasn't a full set?
Speaker 3: Was that like a did they set that up like
Speaker 3: in our production?
Speaker 1: Suggestible? I feel like it was there. Maybe it's not.
Speaker 1: Maybe we just did the of course we did the
Speaker 1: X years there. It must have been on the sound stages.
Speaker 1: It's just funny. I remember it as being there, But
Speaker 1: that can't be right.
Speaker 2: Because soundstage, because it looked like it was a sound stage.
Speaker 2: But was it a whole set or I just I
Speaker 2: don't remember.
Speaker 1: I was thinking it was about a block at the
Speaker 1: spelling offices. I think I'm just so naive that it's suggestible.
Speaker 1: I think, well, we walked in the front door, it
Speaker 1: must be in there. Oh, but I think you must
Speaker 1: be right. It must have been. It must have been video.
Speaker 1: I don't remember I remember Deborah being at at Santa Clarita,
Speaker 1: so it must have been there, because why would she
Speaker 1: get ready there if we weren't shooting there.
Speaker 2: Definitely huh.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 3: Then so Matt comes into the teen shelter. He's got
Speaker 3: his scucies, is already for this big night and he
Speaker 3: needs his help. And Ronda shows up and he and
Speaker 3: but not to help. She's showing up to say she
Speaker 3: can't help that, I'm double booked and I've got to
Speaker 3: teach in the rugby's class. And she lets him down
Speaker 3: and he's clearly disappointed. Yes, But back at D and D,
Speaker 3: Allison is overhearing Rick pitching her sunscreen idea to Lucy
Speaker 3: and seeing that they're responding positively to it, and she
Speaker 3: knows it's her idea. But I was very proud of Alison.
Speaker 3: She stands up for herself, Yes, right away, and she
Speaker 3: confronts him, even if he's going into the men's room
Speaker 3: to try to get away from her. She goes into
Speaker 3: the men's room after him and says, how Dario is
Speaker 3: very proud of her for doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before hr she goes right to the boss and
Speaker 1: Lucy says, you got to get a tougher skin, which
Speaker 1: I think was really true of the times, right, you
Speaker 1: had nowhere to go. You had to just tough en
Speaker 1: up if you wanted to be a woman in business,
Speaker 1: and you had to just definitely the.
Speaker 2: Son of the times. Yeah, like you don't get away
Speaker 2: with that anymore. It's like, no, you changed the density
Speaker 2: of your skin. Yeah, mine's fine.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but I think it actually was good advice.
Speaker 1: I think it was good advice, like you're going to
Speaker 1: have to grow up if you want to be in
Speaker 1: this in this kind of world.
Speaker 3: And she also points out that like, ooh, this is
Speaker 3: delicate because Rick is, you know, this big client. It's
Speaker 3: the son, and I don't want to rock the boat.
Speaker 3: So you're gonna have to be you know, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to toughen up, and you've got to take this one.
Speaker 3: You got to take one for the team here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's because Rick is the son of the client
Speaker 3: that they're trying to impress, and so, you know, would
Speaker 3: it have been the same response had it not been
Speaker 3: that sort of tricky situation, if it had just been
Speaker 3: another co worker stealing your idea, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, but it's like a being a parent and you
Speaker 1: have two kids and one because they did it, they
Speaker 1: did it, who do you believe? So she's kind of like, look,
Speaker 1: he brought the idea to me, yep, and you should have.
Speaker 1: You should have brought the idea to me like it
Speaker 1: was on you. I think it was actually a good lesson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tough enough, Alison.
Speaker 3: So then back at the coffee shop, Jake's boss Kurt
Speaker 3: is giving him a hard time, telling him he's making
Speaker 3: the coffee wrong, and he's like, I've had.
Speaker 2: It, forget it.
Speaker 1: Shockingly, Jake is mad yep, takes off his apron, throws
Speaker 1: it down, and walks out.
Speaker 3: He's been there only a couple hours. I don't think
Speaker 3: I'm a couple. It's only been a couple hours. But
Speaker 3: he's had it, and he says, I don't need your
Speaker 3: five dollars, And that was probably gonna happen. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: it really only took a couples. This was not a cliffhanger.
Speaker 3: We did not need to do each other next episode
Speaker 3: to find out. But five dollars an hour. He said,
Speaker 3: I don't need your five dollars an hour, which is
Speaker 3: personally my sign of the.
Speaker 2: Times for the episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, but then another sign of the times. He goes
Speaker 3: to a payphone to call Parry and says, let's talk.
Speaker 3: So turns out he wants to hear about her idea.
Speaker 3: After all, He's desperate, so he goes to Perry's art gallery,
Speaker 3: where Perry tells Jake about her idea, that she's actually
Speaker 3: made a small fortune selling paintings to this guy and
Speaker 3: his friends. And I think, you know, we should scam
Speaker 3: these guys. You should pretend like you're the artist. You're
Speaker 3: hot new artist. Trust me, they'll believe it. It's a
Speaker 3: great idea. We'll make tons of money. Here's how we're going.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 3: And she starts painting him, painting his t shirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they start mixing each other up with paint. And
Speaker 2: let's put it this way. They had a real painting date.
Speaker 2: They had the painting date that Alison Billy, the opposite
Speaker 2: of Alison and Billy had on that episode when they
Speaker 2: were like go up and down, go up and down.
Speaker 2: In this they painted each other and end up against
Speaker 2: the wall and.
Speaker 1: There were visible tongues there. She came and she had
Speaker 1: her tongue out about three feet from wows we got
Speaker 1: to keep it in a little bit.
Speaker 3: There was no intimacy coordinator, no intimacy coordinator, and he
Speaker 3: lifts her up but against the wall and they make.
Speaker 1: I mean that is something to talk about. Like with
Speaker 1: kissing scenes, I always like working with people. A lot
Speaker 1: of experiences go what do you think? Like, what is
Speaker 1: your idea about kissing scenes? Some people really kiss, some
Speaker 1: people close mouth. My vote is open mouth, no tongue,
Speaker 1: because they want to look like a real kiss, but
Speaker 1: you don't want to like she.
Speaker 2: Did it on purpose. I felt like it was very like.
Speaker 3: It and let's shoot it right close up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was the characters. I mean, they're trying.
Speaker 2: They're doing everything to show.
Speaker 1: Us something to say is the character and another to
Speaker 1: go out another actor with your tongue like that, Well
Speaker 1: it's really.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, let's let's this is some sign of
Speaker 2: the times as well.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: We didn't have intimacy coordinators and pretty much actors could
Speaker 2: do whatever they want and you had to like say stop.
Speaker 3: And it's a really awkward thing for the director advocate.
Speaker 2: But it's funny court because Grant said to me early
Speaker 2: on when I came on the show, He's like, we
Speaker 2: do proper kissing, which is open mouth and no tongue.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, so I think you were like,
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway. I was like, I wasn't planning on,
Speaker 2: Like I've been doing this for a while too. I
Speaker 2: know that you open mouthed, no tongue. Okay, well, but she.
Speaker 1: Didn't have It looks bad if you have this passionate
Speaker 1: scene and their mouths are pursed and it looks like
Speaker 1: they're kissing, right, But it's also a lot if they're
Speaker 1: like really making out. You're like, oh my.
Speaker 2: Goodnessney, because I would think it would be a censor
Speaker 2: thing too, But I just listen. I also think it
Speaker 2: was very right for the characters. I mean, listen, they
Speaker 2: have all this energy to get up. They clearly are
Speaker 2: these grifter, edgy people from the past.
Speaker 1: I agree, But you create the illusion.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, I'm just saying, but what they don't.
Speaker 1: Put your tongue out as you're walking through the door
Speaker 1: heading for the kids.
Speaker 3: You have to like, like, we could have probably gotten
Speaker 3: that amount of pass She did it more than one.
Speaker 2: They did it, and I didn't see him do it
Speaker 2: because he came from the soap operas. Heap opera kissing.
Speaker 3: Well, he knew the ground rules, I wonder should but
Speaker 3: then they ended up all over this canvas.
Speaker 1: With their paint and everywhere, and paint is paint button
Speaker 1: marks on the canvas.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're going to get there, and we're totally on
Speaker 3: the same page about this. First but first, hang on that.
Speaker 3: We find out that Ronda is trying to talk to
Speaker 3: Matt while he's swimming in the pool, and I have
Speaker 3: to say Matt was having his first storyline in this
Speaker 3: episode because he keeps appearing he's actually having.
Speaker 1: Shirtless scene and the pool.
Speaker 3: Shirtless stude, right, and he's like, he's he's angry, he's
Speaker 3: he's disappointed, and he tells Ronda that she's self absorbed,
Speaker 3: and she says in retaliation, well, we can't all be saints, Matt,
Speaker 3: which was like sort of an interesting accusation that leaves
Speaker 3: him thinking about hmm. But then back in Allison's room,
Speaker 3: she's in bed eating ice cream.
Speaker 1: With a teddy giant wooden spoon.
Speaker 3: Giant I mean not a little bit of a regular spoon.
Speaker 1: Huge, I know, and not like a pint of ice cream,
Speaker 1: like a half gallon of ice cream with a huge
Speaker 1: wooden spoon.
Speaker 4: And c yeah yeah, and the Teddy Bear? Yeah camera,
Speaker 4: were the dolls trauma in our own way?
Speaker 3: Were the dolls in that scene?
Speaker 2: I have to know they're opposite.
Speaker 3: Okay, so they were off camera?
Speaker 2: Bear, you knew they were there. The Teddy Bear was
Speaker 2: right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And Billy comes in and just like my poor girl,
Speaker 2: what with the wooden spoon girl?
Speaker 3: All the other ones are in the dishwasher.
Speaker 2: That seemed like a situation where the props like this
Speaker 2: is all we have. Let's just go with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, and she sort of tries to blame Billy, well,
Speaker 3: you told me to talk about business and then this
Speaker 3: happened whatever, and he gives her a pep talk and
Speaker 3: says you can go back to work and show them
Speaker 3: what you made up. So it gives her another pep talk,
Speaker 3: so off she goes. She goes back to work, and
Speaker 3: Lucy is sort of now Lucy the boss is telling
Speaker 3: coming to her and sort of apologizing like, hey, listen.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be disgruntled.
Speaker 3: Oh But instead of being annoyed by that, Allison is like, well,
Speaker 3: actually I have more ideas, and to her credit, Lucy says, great,
Speaker 3: want but why don't you work with Rick on them
Speaker 3: and present them, which can.
Speaker 2: Then come to the thing.
Speaker 1: I love this, Yes, very satisfying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seeing Alison standing up for herself and getting how
Speaker 3: to take things into her own hands. So back of
Speaker 3: the art gallery, here's where we get to talk about
Speaker 3: this art. So Perry, Perry comes into the art gallery.
Speaker 3: It's the night of the presentation. There got these potential buyers.
Speaker 2: And she's snorting cocaine and we're.
Speaker 3: Not going but first she's introducing Jake is the new
Speaker 3: artist right to this potential buyer. And here's where we
Speaker 3: reveal the canvas and it's just got these blobs of
Speaker 3: color the that are all these round prints.
Speaker 2: Which yeah, what did you think they were?
Speaker 1: Butts?
Speaker 2: Boobs?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: What did you think they were? Deaf? Totally boobs and butts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like cocaine but.
Speaker 1: Not like they were making like they were doing but yeah,
Speaker 1: like like let me lift you out there.
Speaker 2: And also what did the prop guy actually do to
Speaker 2: make that art? Do you think he just like went
Speaker 2: around like put this on the floor and yeah, like
Speaker 2: what was that to like? Was it they kind of
Speaker 2: like pillow a sponge.
Speaker 3: It's all at illusion, it's art making art making in
Speaker 3: every color like primary color, butts and boobs on this
Speaker 3: art campus. So then after they do that and then
Speaker 3: present the art, we go back to D and D
Speaker 3: and we see that Rick and Allison are having this
Speaker 3: like brainstorming meeting, and we find out that Rick doesn't actually.
Speaker 1: Have any ideas, not much of a brain there.
Speaker 3: M yeah, you go, Allison exactly. But here's another vest.
Speaker 2: She was wearing a vest in the sea.
Speaker 1: It was the times. I remember those very fitted T shirts, right,
Speaker 1: I remember those very fitted, like stretchy white T shirt.
Speaker 3: With a giant vest.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was like an oversized Yeah, bodysuits, remember bodysuits.
Speaker 1: Yes, those are back in style.
Speaker 2: Thouit.
Speaker 3: But Alison is showing her grit. She's got moxie, she's
Speaker 3: got an idea. So then we get back to the
Speaker 3: art gallery where Jake walks in on Perry finding that
Speaker 3: she's snorting cocaine in the back room after they've presented
Speaker 3: this art.
Speaker 1: Which she very graciously offers to him because she's a
Speaker 1: good hostess, and he is like, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Not I want offered her anymore everything.
Speaker 3: Here's here's another Like you said, daft, this was That
Speaker 3: was another scene there's a huge room, a ton of
Speaker 3: background actors, Like they populated that art gallery like a.
Speaker 2: Crowd of people, all the hipstery kind of artsy nineties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't a club so much, but it was
Speaker 3: populated with a ton of back card actors. And then
Speaker 3: so Jake refuses to cocaine, says, she's pathetic. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to sync that low. In fact, I'm odd of here.
Speaker 3: And he goes and he has another angry moment. Instead
Speaker 3: of just saying I'm out of here, he's got to
Speaker 3: like take the art off the wall and you know,
Speaker 3: demonstrate just how pissed he is, Like I don't even
Speaker 3: want to, you know, follow through with this plan.
Speaker 1: I see him having a lot of road rage incidents.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably a part of his life.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, he's he might be shooting himself in
Speaker 3: the foot here, like could he have maybe walked out
Speaker 3: and still gotten the money, But no, he needs to like,
Speaker 3: you know, stand up for what he believes in and
Speaker 3: show everybody that no, he's not not going to do
Speaker 3: this in this way. So Matt's working in the courtyard.
Speaker 3: He's got a book of stuff in preparation for his
Speaker 3: next assignment at work, and Alison walks in and they
Speaker 3: have a conversation about work.
Speaker 2: And this next scene in D and D I just love.
Speaker 2: So Allison is in there and she and Rick are
Speaker 2: with his dad, the client right of the Sun's sun
Speaker 2: Ray sunscreen, and also Lucy's in there too. It's time
Speaker 2: to present their ideas, and they present their ideas. Allison
Speaker 2: goes first, and she presents a fantastic one. Oh and
Speaker 2: then he as goes first. She has this whole thing.
Speaker 2: There's a family and all on the beach and she's
Speaker 2: up there standing in front of them with an excellent presentation,
Speaker 2: very unique, you're so welcome and all that extra work
Speaker 2: you do for our shooting. But Rick's idea was and
Speaker 2: then and then so he loves it, shoots to the dad.
Speaker 2: He loves it, and she's really impressed. And then he's like,
Speaker 2: well interesting, interesting, So son, what do you got And
Speaker 2: he's like, oh yeah. He gets up there with this
Speaker 2: pathetic two paneled Well, here's someone before sunscreen cancer, and
Speaker 2: then here's someone after they use our product, this wonderful sunscreen,
Speaker 2: beautiful regular face. It's like everyone looks at each other,
Speaker 2: You're going, holy crap. Who is this loser. Eddie goes
Speaker 2: thanks son anything else, and that's when you step in
Speaker 2: and say, well Rick, what about this idea? And he's like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, well Rick had this wonderful idea. And then
Speaker 2: you come in and save his ash.
Speaker 3: She saves the day in a very giving, very generous way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she gives it.
Speaker 3: I don't know what, and this sneaks in her.
Speaker 2: Then you even explain why you have all the pages
Speaker 2: because you're like, well he left them here, here are
Speaker 2: your pages again. And so he's like, thank you.
Speaker 3: Very very grateful bailing him out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe didn't have to do that, but you
Speaker 1: know that's who you are.
Speaker 3: But I think again, this is an indication of like
Speaker 3: neatly wrapping up, like everybody's learned a lesson here, and
Speaker 3: we need to all finish on a high note, like
Speaker 3: let's just make a feel good moment.
Speaker 1: Before breaking bad. You could have a bad guy hero,
Speaker 1: you could have an anti hero, because I would have
Speaker 1: liked it better, honestly, if she had just done her
Speaker 1: good job and then just sat and let him hang
Speaker 1: himself out, hang himself and not have to step in
Speaker 1: and protect his ego, because what's the lesson there? Here
Speaker 1: Lucy's saying you have to toughen up and be tough.
Speaker 1: She should have just left it. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be mean, as we say, like say what you mean,
Speaker 1: but don't mean, but you can still like sit back.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry we had to it. But that was
Speaker 1: sort of like at the time, and we see it
Speaker 1: in show. It's a little sachrony. It was a sign
Speaker 1: kind of leaned on that in the beginning.
Speaker 3: For a second, we were gonna have this lesson about
Speaker 3: being ruthless at work, right, and then she goes in
Speaker 3: and she's gonna do that for a second, but then
Speaker 3: it's like softened by going, oh, but I can't actually
Speaker 3: be like all.
Speaker 1: But also doing a good job and not rescuing people
Speaker 1: isn't being ruthless. So I think it's kind of a
Speaker 1: complicated thing, like she wasn't really being ruthless, she was
Speaker 1: doing a good job. Her his bad job spoke for itself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, And also did you notice so John McCann,
Speaker 3: the actor who played the mister dan Worth, the dad
Speaker 3: the client, he turns up later. He will turn up
Speaker 3: later another season as a completely different character. He does
Speaker 3: in seasons two and four. I think he's gonna come.
Speaker 3: This is I'm just like giving you a heads up.
Speaker 3: He's going to be in seasons two and four as
Speaker 3: an attorney, like a recurring attorney character that some of
Speaker 3: our characters that need attorneys down the line. Had a
Speaker 3: great I'm not exactly sure like what the story like,
Speaker 3: but he's going to show you. Yeah, that's great. So
Speaker 3: they liked him enough as mister dan Worth, but they
Speaker 3: thought we'll bring him back as somebody else later. So yeah,
Speaker 3: then we go.
Speaker 2: We cut to Ronda dancing and I saying that she
Speaker 2: was working out. She's doing amazing.
Speaker 3: Did you guys jaide, did you hold your breath a
Speaker 3: little bit?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Please? No extreme close up please, Like I was holding
Speaker 2: my breath like, please, Matt, don't walk in with stretchy.
Speaker 3: Man doing Ronda's moves. I don't want to say that,
Speaker 3: And Matt was holding her. Doug was holding his breath
Speaker 3: like because I may watch the episode with me. He's like, no,
Speaker 3: I didn't have am I gonna dances like?
Speaker 1: But yeah?
Speaker 3: There that again. I think that that set is the
Speaker 3: production offices of our testage. That would just they put
Speaker 3: the ballet bar up and that was really good.
Speaker 2: Well, all the Neon signs and had all those pastel colors. Yep,
Speaker 2: it's just the colors of that era.
Speaker 3: But again they're like, they have to work on this
Speaker 3: choreography and do all this like prep work just to
Speaker 3: shoot those scenes with the aerobics happening and stuff. And
Speaker 3: sure enough, like we said, Matt walks in to apologize
Speaker 3: to Ronda her being a little bit too hard on
Speaker 3: her and that he doesn't want to lose his best friend.
Speaker 3: So they make up and and Ronda makes him join
Speaker 3: the class, which is when he like reluctantly starts trying
Speaker 3: to do the moves and whatever. My son Jack walked
Speaker 3: in that really he's like, oh my god, dad, it's
Speaker 3: every Sun's you know, favorite thing to make fun of
Speaker 3: their dad.
Speaker 2: So that was that was a good guffaw out of
Speaker 2: oh so cute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, watching Doug Dancy, but I thought Doug was very cute,
Speaker 3: so cute. And then wrapping up the d and D story,
Speaker 3: Lucy approaches Alison saying, I know what you did, and
Speaker 3: you build him out and yeah, Alison admits she did it,
Speaker 3: but she did it for herself, but she knows she
Speaker 3: took herself.
Speaker 2: Off the pass track and then we have Jake talking
Speaker 2: to Sandy offers to buy him a burger. You know,
Speaker 2: it's so funny that whole longing between the two of them.
Speaker 2: They have a nice chemistry. So I don't know what
Speaker 2: we're going to see ahead with them, but we start
Speaker 2: this whole series with them having had a pass, which
Speaker 2: isn't on the show, but they imply it all the time.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, she definitely likes him. Yeah, it feels very
Speaker 1: one sided.
Speaker 3: It doesn't. Yeah, well, I feel like.
Speaker 2: They had a fling at least because she's always saying, well,
Speaker 2: you like he dumped her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how fair. It feels like she still carries
Speaker 1: the torch for him.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, that they had something. But anyway, but.
Speaker 3: Here's where he comes to terms with his lesson, like
Speaker 3: lesson learned that is, you know, his past came back
Speaker 3: to tempt him. Yeah, and seemed like a good place
Speaker 3: to hide. And Sandy says, well, she became an actress
Speaker 3: to hide from her past. And that's when Jake concludes
Speaker 3: he's going to need to sell his motorcycle for money
Speaker 3: because he's super desperate. One of the exteriors it might
Speaker 3: have been them or shoes. I thought I spotted Scottie Shooters.
Speaker 2: I spotted it.
Speaker 3: Was it shooters. Yeah, did you see Scotty did the cross.
Speaker 3: It was like an establishing shot and it was right.
Speaker 3: And so they shot these estalishing shots.
Speaker 2: They used crew members.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they would just throw the crew members at there.
Speaker 2: And it was also the pool guy opening and when
Speaker 2: you come into a scene cleaning the pool, that always
Speaker 2: he was off in the pool. That's so funny.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm glad it wasn't just imagine gay more attention.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so fun Yeah, be guys are good.
Speaker 3: You'll see it again because it's absolutely will Yeah. So
Speaker 3: then at the bike shop, Jake is trying to sell
Speaker 3: his bike, but he's saying, there's not really enough. You know,
Speaker 3: I can't really offer him enough money for it.
Speaker 2: I have all these other bikes I have to sell.
Speaker 2: And then he looks at it.
Speaker 3: It's like a beautifully done bike, and he decides, well,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe you could tell the mechanic he could
Speaker 3: have a job here, because it's really nicely done.
Speaker 2: Whoever built this bike, you know, they built them up from.
Speaker 3: The so this could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
Speaker 1: He seems the mechanic mechanic than a resta.
Speaker 2: Totally, this is the right place for him to be.
Speaker 1: Works on the bikes, shirtless he is.
Speaker 3: I imagine there'll be an opportunity face when do I start. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So that wraps up his story neatly. He's got a
Speaker 3: job and it's right where he should be. And then
Speaker 3: wrapping up the Matt storyline. Back at the teen shelter,
Speaker 3: he's working in the kitchen when Rohnda and the Sandy
Speaker 3: and Alison come in. Can you talk to us about
Speaker 3: your entrance in that scene?
Speaker 2: That was well this really I was.
Speaker 1: Looking at that thinking that because it's so not the
Speaker 1: Melrose we remember, right, Yeah, three of us coming in together,
Speaker 1: were standing there in a row, there to help, And
Speaker 1: I've got a play cherry tomatoes. I'm like one of
Speaker 1: my offering cherry tomatoes and pickles church mids and all
Speaker 1: of I think, I say to these kids, I'm offering
Speaker 1: these like.
Speaker 3: A Mediterranean you know. Yeah, but do you remember the
Speaker 3: song you were singing? Do you remember that you had
Speaker 3: to sing almost the entire verse.
Speaker 2: Of what do you mean should be singing a song?
Speaker 2: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: The three of you were singing yeah, and you had
Speaker 3: kept having entire bart walked it out. Yes, you had
Speaker 3: to walk into the kitchen, walk around the camera, coming
Speaker 3: on the other side, going ah, be the like you
Speaker 3: guys are all yes, yeah, And that's like and not
Speaker 3: just that much of the song you did, like a
Speaker 3: lot of it.
Speaker 1: It's right, right, right, we did a lot. And that's
Speaker 1: the kind of thing like that was that kind of
Speaker 1: all coming together or doing a show in the barn
Speaker 1: ending that wouldn't happen anymore, because what is strange because
Speaker 1: in the beginning it was as if we were the
Speaker 1: only eight people in the world and everything happened among us, right,
Speaker 1: we do everything together with friends together, and then our
Speaker 1: lives started outside.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the episode, everybody just like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's been a good week. We all resolved our things.
Speaker 3: I got my job, Yes, you taught your coworker a lesson,
Speaker 3: and Ronda and mad are still friends all as well.
Speaker 1: And it's also why not a ton of people were
Speaker 1: watching it at this point.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have to say that that was that
Speaker 2: last scene in this episode was a perfect example of
Speaker 2: the before y yeah, three of you showing.
Speaker 3: Up resolve cute. It wasn't a meat cute. It was
Speaker 3: a resolved.
Speaker 1: Resolved Yes, it's a wonder we weren't all there together, right,
Speaker 1: like everybody didn't come to help out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Billy sing the rest of the song together. Well, okay,
Speaker 3: So overall, I noticed this was the episode of the vests.
Speaker 2: So that was I think outfits all together. It wasn't
Speaker 2: just vast like. I really thought that that one that
Speaker 2: Perry was wearing in the art gallery, with that white
Speaker 2: collar that went halfway down all our I mean that
Speaker 2: was so nineties. Yeah, and with her stretchy black pants
Speaker 2: that went all the way up to here and then
Speaker 2: the blouse, yeah, very art and choker again. I just
Speaker 2: thought that was so arty nine yes, archy style.
Speaker 1: I thought of it as like our workplace episode, like
Speaker 1: everybody had a work conflict and it felt so sort
Speaker 1: of yeah, big work, this conflict, and I just but
Speaker 1: there was no drama, like nobody had a real drama.
Speaker 1: There was the tongue. There was a little bit of
Speaker 1: drama with the drama, but there wasn't any like nothing
Speaker 1: that we didn't have any big steaks anywhere, right, That's
Speaker 1: where we're missing. There were no big emotionals, and it
Speaker 1: wrapped up so neatly, so I'm I'm getting really ready
Speaker 1: for you guys to come on we Attle.
Speaker 3: We're gonna, yeah, we have a little ways to go.
Speaker 2: We bring some drama.
Speaker 3: But I was happy that. I was happy to see
Speaker 3: that Matt had a storyline. I know, yeah, a couple
Speaker 3: of cool T shirts. We're learning a little bit about
Speaker 3: Matt here, so like, hopefully it'll be more to come.
Speaker 1: There will definitely be more to come. Yes, good times.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next time, all right, Yay,