Speaker 1: And That's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what you really missed a podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this is the season two
Speaker 2: premiere episode of Glee.
Speaker 1: Wompom.
Speaker 2: So last time Glee aired, it was over the summer,
Speaker 2: and after a couple months off and a tour and
Speaker 2: a European vacation slash press tourt, we went back to
Speaker 2: work the beginning of or the middle of July, beginning
Speaker 2: of August, and the first episode back, called Audition, aired
Speaker 2: on September twenty first, two thousand and ten. And this
Speaker 2: time the show was a hit. We knew it was
Speaker 2: a hit. Fox knew it was a hit, and so
Speaker 2: they moved us to an earlier timeslot because before, I
Speaker 2: think it was American Idol or leading, and so American
Speaker 2: Idol was the biggest sh on television. It was leading
Speaker 2: into our show, so we got big ratings. This time,
Speaker 2: they moved us up an hour into the primetime slot,
Speaker 2: which meant we could say and do certain things because
Speaker 2: there are more restrictions I guess on this time slot
Speaker 2: because more people watched it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Oh, and we did say a lot, which leads us
Speaker 2: to this, just as a blanket statement and preface for
Speaker 2: this episode, this episode has not aged well.
Speaker 1: The whole thing has not aged well.
Speaker 2: On the whole. We watched it and I texted Jenna
Speaker 2: and then she texted me, and we were like, how
Speaker 2: do we do this because there are so many jokes,
Speaker 2: inappropriate statements.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that that someone else back then, and that's it.
Speaker 1: It's like it didn't age well. It was a different time,
Speaker 1: like we wanted to acknowledge how far we've come and
Speaker 1: how much farther we have to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I remember talking to some of the our
Speaker 2: castmates of color about the show in hindsight, you know,
Speaker 2: over the past few years, and they would bring up
Speaker 2: certain jokes and things. And I was telling Jenny the
Speaker 2: other day that I think sort of my young white
Speaker 2: boyness insulated me from realizing the extent of what was
Speaker 2: being said in this episode and watching it back, it
Speaker 2: was sort of like a checklist of all the things
Speaker 2: that we can't and shouldn't say anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and even like because like a lot of the
Speaker 1: jokes were very we're very Asian focused racist, very racist,
Speaker 1: but also it was like back then, like we just
Speaker 1: had to take it almost, which was so eye opening
Speaker 1: for me, Like I just took it, which is kind
Speaker 1: of crazy because I probably didn't feel like there's another option.
Speaker 1: Well there wasn't. Yeah, I mean, I guess I could
Speaker 1: have spoken of but what I probably have lost my
Speaker 1: job perhaps, you know what I mean. Right, So it
Speaker 1: just we have come a long way, I feel, in
Speaker 1: terms of the way things have become unacceptable. And even
Speaker 1: I just felt like I was like, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is like like everybody's getting shit on, right, Like everybody
Speaker 1: has jokes about them is that are slightly personal, that
Speaker 1: like high true to the you know, real what was
Speaker 1: happening in the real world at the time, and so
Speaker 1: it felt like, oh, everybody was kind of doing it.
Speaker 1: So that's he made it okay for that in that moment.
Speaker 1: In that moment, it was.
Speaker 2: All getting made fun of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's just all they just used racist thing
Speaker 1: to like make fun of me and Harry and Jake,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So it's an it's an interesting thing
Speaker 1: to look back on, and we wouldn't have Hopefully everybody's
Speaker 1: learned a little bit more at this about how they
Speaker 1: I just the time and how we've grown, you know,
Speaker 1: and what we're learning and how we're going trying to
Speaker 1: do better.
Speaker 2: And I think you do see how you can do
Speaker 2: that successfully, and we will see that done successfully past
Speaker 2: this episode and the first season. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: instances where there's like crass jokes, but that don't rely
Speaker 2: on racism, sexism, ableism, right, any of the things that
Speaker 2: may be touched upon in this episode.
Speaker 1: Right right, right, right. And the interesting thing about I mean,
Speaker 1: and here's the other thing that's interesting thing about Ryan's
Speaker 1: shows in particular, are that he lifts up the unheard,
Speaker 1: unseen underdogs. And so while we have all of these
Speaker 1: things that we're addressing and going to move forward from
Speaker 1: and learn from, there's also like it's there's such a
Speaker 1: juxtaposition because he does uplift all, you know, just everybody
Speaker 1: and gives people a chance, and so it feels, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it just feels it's an interesting contrast.
Speaker 2: It just feels outdated. It feels outdated in context of
Speaker 2: the world, and it feels outdated even in the world
Speaker 2: of Ryan Murphy shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Let's talk about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's our sort of warning going into this, Yes,
Speaker 2: keep that in mind that we are aware more than aware.
Speaker 2: Is a hard watch and I was dreading doing this one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we both were. Okay, so let's talk about
Speaker 1: what was going on in the world that was good.
Speaker 1: Teenage Dream was number one at the time by Katie Perry,
Speaker 1: which is very exciting and we will see that soon
Speaker 1: in Glee. The number one movie was The Town with
Speaker 1: ben a Flack and Jeremy Runner. I don't remember this
Speaker 1: like it being such a smash.
Speaker 2: I don't. I vaguely remember it happening, and then I
Speaker 2: remember like staying up there like it did really well
Speaker 2: for a long time. But damn you now, it's just
Speaker 2: like Marvel movies, right.
Speaker 1: And we were on summer break at the time, Kevin
Speaker 1: and we went to We went to Monaco, which we
Speaker 1: talked about last episode. We went to London, we went
Speaker 1: to Paris.
Speaker 2: And my first time all those places.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you were and was that our first
Speaker 1: trip to Paris? It was I didn't think it was right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first it was a mess.
Speaker 1: You, me and my brother, well, we were all so
Speaker 1: grossly hungover that day, but it was still really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've never been the same that our European vacation.
Speaker 1: One of the best summers of my life the.
Speaker 2: Same and I also think I probably shaved off several
Speaker 2: years of my life.
Speaker 1: I mean, for sure, the amount of things that we
Speaker 1: imbibed was it was alarming.
Speaker 2: And we just kept going. And the thing was.
Speaker 1: Twenties, you can do that.
Speaker 2: And there was one of the heads of Fox International
Speaker 2: who traveled with us. She could just go. She knew
Speaker 2: all the best like all the best restaurants to go to,
Speaker 2: all the best clubs to go to. And we were
Speaker 2: really hitting it. We were hitting and it was us
Speaker 2: and there was Tay Diggs and Zachary Levi and Jess
Speaker 2: Zor and this random assortment of people that we all
Speaker 2: happened to be in London at the same time.
Speaker 1: And in Monaco it was the It felt like summer
Speaker 1: camp for celebrities.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's Nina de brev and Ian Summerhall and Assandra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Wow.
Speaker 2: We live like lifelong friends there, didn't we.
Speaker 1: It was really fun.
Speaker 2: It was really really cemented our friendship in a different way,
Speaker 2: I feel like, because certainly, yes, we had already worked
Speaker 2: together and gone on tour for a year, but when
Speaker 2: you can travel with somebody successfully and not kill each
Speaker 2: other and become even closer.
Speaker 1: Well, this was before we had really moved in together,
Speaker 1: like I think we had moved our stuff in, but
Speaker 1: then we had left and so we hadn't even really
Speaker 1: lived together yet. So this summer, going into living together,
Speaker 1: to going into another season, going into losing Corey, to
Speaker 1: going into another well a world tour before and then
Speaker 1: losing Korey, it all really it started to really go uphill, yeah,
Speaker 1: before it went downhill.
Speaker 2: Yes, this was like the cementing of the foundation of like, Okay,
Speaker 2: nothing is going to break us because we are so
Speaker 2: close and tight. So when we ended up, So the
Speaker 2: thing was we went to Monaco the film Festival, and
Speaker 2: they went to London to do press and in London,
Speaker 2: Amber and Chris were on their own European vacation and
Speaker 2: we each had our own secure guard. It was the
Speaker 2: first time that we sort of had this quote unquote
Speaker 2: like celebrity status, and so we had a van, we
Speaker 2: had a security guard. Even Stephen, just Steven, and my
Speaker 2: brother was going to university in northern England, Durham, and
Speaker 2: I remember he was out of the country the entire
Speaker 2: first season of Glee, so he had been watching the
Speaker 2: show from the UK but did not understand the gravity
Speaker 2: of the situation. And he was coming out of London
Speaker 2: to meet me with my other brother who was visiting him,
Speaker 2: and I told him his name's Timmy. I said, we
Speaker 2: have a security guard and a van, so anywhere we
Speaker 2: need to go, they're going to come with us. And
Speaker 2: I'm the younger brother, and he's like, what we need security,
Speaker 2: We need a van. Well, just like we'll take the
Speaker 2: two we'll walk around Like who cares him? I go, yeah,
Speaker 2: But Fox is worried that there might be like some
Speaker 2: paparazzi or fans, and he goes, what with your ugly No,
Speaker 2: that's not gonna be a problem. And he shows up
Speaker 2: to the hotel and we go to get in the
Speaker 2: we go to walk to a pub, so I'm like, okay, yep,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go. It was our first afternoon there' and
Speaker 2: we walked to this pub and it was fine. The
Speaker 2: security guys with us, Steven and my brother are a
Speaker 2: little freaked out with Steven's like waiting outside and we
Speaker 2: eat and by the time we leave it, we start
Speaker 2: to get mobbed by fans on the street. And then
Speaker 2: we walked these two blocks, and Steven has to like
Speaker 2: get us through this crowd and into the hotel. And
Speaker 2: then Timmy's like, oh, oh, that's really weird. Why is
Speaker 2: that happening? And then later that night we were going
Speaker 2: out to dinner and then by that point there were
Speaker 2: people camping outside the hotel swarms, and we went out
Speaker 2: to a club, and then we lost Timmy in the crowd.
Speaker 2: And then do you remember Pam Jackson from Fox. She
Speaker 2: reaches out, the door, opens the door, reaches out, grabs Timmy,
Speaker 2: Timmy's six four, pulls him into the van, and there's
Speaker 2: paparazzi by this point following us everywhere. And he turns
Speaker 2: and goes, oh, I like this van in security. I
Speaker 2: get it now, I like it. It's like yeah. And so
Speaker 2: it was a really eye opening experience for us because
Speaker 2: to see somebody who had physically not been in the US,
Speaker 2: which has been our entire experience of Glee, right, and
Speaker 2: someone who's obviously very close to me look at me
Speaker 2: and see metal news things, Yeah, like, what the hell happened?
Speaker 2: I've only been gone for like ten months.
Speaker 1: The world everything changed, never the same.
Speaker 2: But that was our experience, and now going back into
Speaker 2: season two, we were, you know, like, oh we're famous now.
Speaker 1: Well also if you I mean, we open on everybody
Speaker 1: looking real tan with some real good hair.
Speaker 2: Rachel Berry's got mini skirts and a blowout.
Speaker 1: Everybody was looking real like a little bit of a
Speaker 1: blow up this season round. Yeah. We uh, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty crazy episode, like we said, but you know, at
Speaker 1: least everybody looks good.
Speaker 2: Everybody looks good. I I was like, even I look
Speaker 2: a little different.
Speaker 1: Harry Shum's abs looked wicked good.
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, so fine, really going into this using
Speaker 2: the full extent of there's body. You know, we made
Speaker 2: him dance at every possible moment the first season and
Speaker 2: second season, like, you know what, take your shirt off?
Speaker 1: Oh, the guys had to take their shirts up a lot. Okay,
Speaker 1: should we do this? Should we just get into it?
Speaker 1: Chat about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get into it. So this episode was directed
Speaker 2: by Brad Foutchuk, keeping it in the family.
Speaker 1: Yay.
Speaker 2: On paper it says it's written by Ian but we
Speaker 2: know it's all three.
Speaker 1: We meet just and Goals be this episode, our friend
Speaker 1: Cheyenne Jackson, We have some of the usual suspects. We
Speaker 1: also meet Coach Beast for the first time. Our sweet
Speaker 1: sweet Dot Marie, the special guest we had was previously
Speaker 1: known as series as Jake Sires Zyrus as Sunshine Corson.
Speaker 1: And we also meet mister Sam Evans, the Sam Evans
Speaker 1: court Over Street. So, uh, we're going to get into it.
Speaker 1: What songs we're in this episode, Kevin.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean some hits like the budget there was budget,
Speaker 2: so we empire, State of Mind Okay by Jay Z
Speaker 2: and the chu Keys, Telephoned by Gaga, Billionaire by Chraviy
Speaker 2: McCoy and Bruno. Listen from Dreamgirls and What I Did
Speaker 2: for Love from a chorus line. I mean, those are
Speaker 2: some bangers.
Speaker 1: I mean, truly all.
Speaker 2: It's really crazy and I think for us, like this
Speaker 2: episode is really about we met like a lifelong friend
Speaker 2: in court Over Street and in Dot Marie Jones.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, My goodness. Yeah, this is the beginning
Speaker 1: of the start of something new. So this episode just
Speaker 1: a quick overview. We've got some new faces that are
Speaker 1: going to give our glee Club veterans a run for
Speaker 1: their money, some new challenges, a little bit more competition
Speaker 1: and jealousy because the glee club needs another member because
Speaker 1: our funding is name cut and we lost.
Speaker 2: Who do we lose Matt Rutherford?
Speaker 1: That's right, well the last night and then we lost Jesse,
Speaker 1: So now we need another glee club member. And we
Speaker 1: have a new football coach that brings a rivalry between
Speaker 1: Sue and the coach Beast, and Will has remorse about
Speaker 1: how he pranked and was very unwelcoming to her because
Speaker 1: she ends up being such a darling, darling person.
Speaker 2: Love it classic setup, you know, giving a common enemy
Speaker 2: where the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right, yes,
Speaker 2: So Sylvester and Will team up to take down beast yep,
Speaker 2: and the kids go out and try to recruit some
Speaker 2: new students. So here's what happens. Figgins cuts the glean
Speaker 2: chair's budget because there's a new football coach, and coach
Speaker 2: Beast demands that the football team has bigger budget because
Speaker 2: she's a champion coach brings in the most money mm hmm.
Speaker 2: And so Sue and Sue team up to try to
Speaker 2: take her down with a bunch of pranks and hilarity,
Speaker 2: and I mean, yeah, this goes into you know things
Speaker 2: you said in the beginning. So they ordered twenty five
Speaker 2: pizzas for bees during the first practice, but at backfire
Speaker 2: she plays it off, you know, has the students eat it.
Speaker 2: They have operation mean Girl in the faculty lunch room
Speaker 2: where Sue and Will Dolan her set at the table,
Speaker 2: don't let be sit at the table right right, and
Speaker 2: all of these things eventually add up. It's very high school,
Speaker 2: but for adults it's the same thing what kids do
Speaker 2: to each other. And Beast ends up, you know, crying
Speaker 2: in the locker room and the kids catch her, and
Speaker 2: then she takes it out on Finn and Artie as
Speaker 2: he tries to join the football team.
Speaker 1: Right, So already wants to join the football team because
Speaker 1: he wants to get his girlfriend back. He wants Tina back,
Speaker 1: and he's been not a great great boyfriend to Tina.
Speaker 1: I mean, really, you were pretty shitty boyfriend. He's my
Speaker 1: language to Tina based on what I saw, what I
Speaker 1: watched in this episode, I don't disagree. And Tina falls
Speaker 1: in love with Mike Chang at Asian Camp, which we'll
Speaker 1: just leave that there.
Speaker 2: I would like to think that I don't remember me
Speaker 2: doing this voiceover at all, because I heard my voice
Speaker 2: saying these words and gasped. Because one I have no
Speaker 2: recollection of doing it right, and two it's just not
Speaker 2: good racist. Yeah, well, I mean the whole storyline is
Speaker 2: fairly rais.
Speaker 1: You couldn't well, and like we just have to talk
Speaker 1: about the fact that like Tina, Tina and Mike's last
Speaker 1: names are the same Chang, which is not really good. Correct,
Speaker 1: Like they're not We're not the same Asian Chang is
Speaker 1: not Korean and anyway we learned. But I mean the
Speaker 1: fact that Tina and Mike last so long. Like I
Speaker 1: love working with Harry. We had the most ridiculous storylines
Speaker 1: and things, and Harry is just a joy to be with.
Speaker 1: But why you gotta put the Asians together there? Right?
Speaker 1: It all began here. So Alreadie convinces Finn to help
Speaker 1: him get on the football team in a very you know,
Speaker 1: high school way like that his intention is to get
Speaker 1: a girl and to look tough, and and Beasts takes
Speaker 1: it the wrong way because she is feeling very vulnerable
Speaker 1: and doesn't want to look like the bad guy.
Speaker 2: Again, and Sue and will to just mess with her
Speaker 2: like a kid in a wheelchair.
Speaker 1: Having to say no, right, exactly crazy, but which she
Speaker 1: will end upon the football team anyway. And and so
Speaker 1: that scene, though, I was like, wow, let's just let's
Speaker 1: just watch Dot Marie.
Speaker 2: Act act like act great emotion in this episode.
Speaker 1: What an awesome what an awesome intro and.
Speaker 2: Dot Dot will come on here, But can I cannot
Speaker 2: say enough nice things about Dot Dot is a goddamn
Speaker 2: ray of sunshine.
Speaker 1: And literally an angel, like a living angel, and is
Speaker 1: one of.
Speaker 2: The nicest, sweetest, most thoughtful, caring, like the way she
Speaker 2: can just cry like roamy because they wear their heart
Speaker 2: so externally on their sleeve and they love so hard
Speaker 2: and so fully that to see Dot even play someone
Speaker 2: who's like angry or full of rage is so against
Speaker 2: how she is as a human being correct or like
Speaker 2: if you if you mess with their people, like she'll
Speaker 2: get angry. But she is just the best, the best,
Speaker 2: and little did we know, like what a treat we
Speaker 2: were in for it to get to work with her
Speaker 2: right now so many years.
Speaker 1: It's true, It's very true.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 1: So the crew gets bigger, the cast gets bigger. It's
Speaker 1: the beginning, and then along with the coach beast, the
Speaker 1: kind of coach beast punking that Sue wants to keep going.
Speaker 1: She kind of you know, lays off towards the you know,
Speaker 1: the mid episode, Sue gets Brittany to accused coach of
Speaker 1: inappropriately touching her, which is also really bad. I mean
Speaker 1: the doll. The doll is funny, that is not the
Speaker 1: circumstances are just not like, it's not good. It's not good.
Speaker 2: I was shocked for a second. I thought I was like,
Speaker 2: oh this this, surely this can't be what is happening
Speaker 2: in the scene.
Speaker 1: But you know, I did appreciate like we finally had
Speaker 1: the voice of reason back and mister Shue like he
Speaker 1: came back and was like, Brittany, so you can ruin
Speaker 1: somebody's life by doing this, Like we've already addressed the touching,
Speaker 1: the inappropriate touching. Obviously, Ian told us like he had
Speaker 1: heard his real choir teacher had had that right, those accusations,
Speaker 1: and then also with you know, Stephen Toubleski playing Sandy
Speaker 1: Ryerson in the whole thing, but this was like another
Speaker 1: level of that, especially at a prank when it's not true.
Speaker 1: She knows it's not true. Sue's out of her mind,
Speaker 1: like a different level. Right, well, apologize it's a beast,
Speaker 1: and Sue's pissed off about this and brings them dog
Speaker 1: poop cookies and Sue says, are you turning on me
Speaker 1: in public? The two of you are making a very
Speaker 1: serious mistake today, the likes of which have not been
Speaker 1: seen since the Mexican Indians sold in Manhattan to George
Speaker 1: Washington for an upskirt photo of thet Z Ross. Oh god,
Speaker 1: you know, all the things that says in this are
Speaker 1: wildly inappropriate, to the point where I was like, how
Speaker 1: did we get away with any of this?
Speaker 2: Which is crazy because as we go into this next storyline,
Speaker 2: like I said, there were different things that we couldn't
Speaker 2: say at eight pm mm hm that we could get
Speaker 2: away with at nine pm. And I don't know if
Speaker 2: they were doing that just out of an abundance of caution,
Speaker 2: But when we did Billionaire, I couldn't say damn, right,
Speaker 2: I had to say like dang or darn or something.
Speaker 2: But yet we can say all this other stuff, right. Well,
Speaker 2: it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the censorship has a very it's it's very strange, right,
Speaker 1: It's like very specific rules that there's probably like a
Speaker 1: huge gray area with insulting.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The second storyline that we're going to talk about is
Speaker 1: that obviously the glee Club needs a new member. Now
Speaker 1: we are down one and we can't compete without another member.
Speaker 1: But obviously we are suffering because Jacob Bennerserrol wrote a
Speaker 1: blog over the summer about Glee Club and it's given
Speaker 1: the Glee Club a bad rap and nobody wants to audition.
Speaker 2: I mean, JBI does this crazy sort of like Perez Hilton,
Speaker 2: I imagine inspired vlog for the episode, definitely, and it
Speaker 2: absolutely addresses everything that was said about all of us
Speaker 2: online in real life, totally about the show, about the characters,
Speaker 2: and I love that it's poking fun at it. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, it starts to get a little crazy,
Speaker 2: right because it starts, I think, and we see in
Speaker 2: this season a lot there's some mining from our real
Speaker 2: lives that are put into the episodes, and we're going
Speaker 2: to reference that a lot because it does happen a lot.
Speaker 2: And I remember having a conspiracy theory back then that
Speaker 2: I thought there was somebody on set who is intentionally
Speaker 2: stirring the pot right get stories to bring back to
Speaker 2: the writers. I have never been able to confirm that,
Speaker 2: but so much of our lives ended up in this story.
Speaker 1: Oh truly, and the whole blog, you know, Jacob and
Speaker 1: Israel life confirming or denying his whole video is the
Speaker 1: cringe of the episode. Essentially, I don't even want to
Speaker 1: go into like the topics because it's just all bad.
Speaker 1: It's all really bad. But like you said, it definitely
Speaker 1: mirrored something like a lot of the things that were
Speaker 1: made up about us. So in encouraging somebody to sign
Speaker 1: up for the glee club, we are, we go, we
Speaker 1: take it to the streets. We go to the courtyard,
Speaker 1: which will this is the first time we see the
Speaker 1: courtyard in It's at Bernstein High School. If you live
Speaker 1: in La it's like in the middle of Hollywood, essentially
Speaker 1: pretty close to Paramount And go.
Speaker 2: To the Netflix headquarters right and we will.
Speaker 1: We will spend a lot of time there doing a
Speaker 1: lot of numbers in the courtyard and throughout those stairwells
Speaker 1: you'll see a lot and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But we you've also noticed there's new sets as well,
Speaker 2: so this is part of that whole. We have Bernstein
Speaker 2: in addition to Cabrillo High School, which is in Long Beach,
Speaker 2: and then we have a library, bigger library that we're using.
Speaker 1: Always just being crazy different. Yeah, a lot more that
Speaker 1: Walker room all new, right right, right, right, right.
Speaker 2: Money.
Speaker 1: So the Gleek Club takes it and does empire state
Speaker 1: of Mind. And I prefer the tour version of this
Speaker 1: then watching this in real life because I don't know
Speaker 1: what I was wearing or what I was doing. I
Speaker 1: just thought I was in a costume shop living. But
Speaker 1: I really love the song. And I don't love the
Speaker 1: performance of this number in the episode. But I love
Speaker 1: the song so much and it will live in infamy
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: I think it's hilarious having me Corey and Mark do
Speaker 2: j Z. I do think that's hilarious. But yeah, this
Speaker 2: number was so much fun to do on tour the best.
Speaker 2: I was fully like out of my mind. I was
Speaker 2: fully in it every single night on tour, just shouting
Speaker 2: like an idiot.
Speaker 1: We loved it.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have been No, we loved it. We were
Speaker 2: big fans here for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we see two potential members. We see a
Speaker 1: Sunshine and we see Sam Evans tapping their feet singing along.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh my god, we're gonna go get them.
Speaker 1: So Finn goes and he hears very much like how
Speaker 1: mister Shoe found Finn singing in the shower, he finds
Speaker 1: Sam Evans singing every Rod says it's thorn naked hot
Speaker 1: and yeah, looking so good and with his little beaver cut,
Speaker 1: Cordy looking so young, and then Rachel going to the
Speaker 1: bathroom and finding Sunshine in there and just basically saying
Speaker 1: that she's going to looking for a background member of
Speaker 1: the glee club, amongst many other wildly inappropriate things that
Speaker 1: I do know that there's some of that that was
Speaker 1: taken from a YouTube of Celine Dion that we like,
Speaker 1: a montage that we watched a lot, and so I
Speaker 1: know she was like imitating Celeene and some of that,
Speaker 1: But anyway, it's yeah, more importantly, she they sing telephone
Speaker 1: for like one second and we hear Sunshine, who has
Speaker 1: a voice, and Rachel's starting to get competitive, and then
Speaker 1: Sue coming in and saying shod up, which is so
Speaker 1: I love those moments because it's like, oh, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna break out into song in the bathroom in
Speaker 1: high school. And then Sue's like, no, we're not, and
Speaker 1: let me just bring it back down and we're we're,
Speaker 1: you know, making fun of ourselves again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was one of my favorite moments
Speaker 1: of the episode.
Speaker 2: Also, just the way you know how Rachel of course
Speaker 2: goes about it in that way where I want someone
Speaker 2: to join it as a body, but not someone that
Speaker 2: can actually contribute anything. And then Finn goes on and
Speaker 2: find Sand and it's so wholesome and convinces him to
Speaker 2: like sing with the guys, and I love that scene
Speaker 2: of him standing there and the guy's sort of, you know,
Speaker 2: grilling him ish like, dude, your mouth is huge. How
Speaker 2: many tennis balls can you fit in there? And Sam says,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've never had balls in my mouth.
Speaker 1: Of you.
Speaker 2: It's very it's very accurate to how the guys were,
Speaker 2: and for sure, then we do Billionaire, which I had
Speaker 2: so much fun doing, and I just remember spending so
Speaker 2: much time with Cord this episode. I got to spend
Speaker 2: quite a bit of time with Cord, yeah, and Dot
Speaker 2: these first few episodes. And like the scene where Beast
Speaker 2: is yelling at me and Finn in the locker room,
Speaker 2: that's sort of where I remember we were talking. It
Speaker 2: was me, Mark and Corey talking with Cord about like,
Speaker 2: do you think you're going to be Kurt's you know,
Speaker 2: boy friend?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that what's going to happen? He's like oh, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I have no idea, and so we were
Speaker 2: I remember us him looking at us like, is that
Speaker 2: the role I auditioned for?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: Nobody knew what was happening, and I did text Ryan
Speaker 2: and I asked him if if Kor's character Sam was
Speaker 2: supposed to be Kurt's boyfriend, and he said no. I
Speaker 2: think we sort of had that rumor amongst us, and
Speaker 2: maybe it just was not true.
Speaker 1: Well, and I think I think they were amidst the
Speaker 1: casting for Darren's role at the time as well, Like
Speaker 1: we knew that was coming, and so we heard that
Speaker 1: there was going to be a new cast member and
Speaker 1: it was going to be Kurt's new boyfriend. And so
Speaker 1: I think when we saw Hotcore come in, the timing
Speaker 1: was all right and that we were like, yeah, there,
Speaker 1: you're going to play this person. And so I think
Speaker 1: that was the kind of where where it came, where
Speaker 1: it came from that rumor. You see how it rose.
Speaker 2: And then Rachel tells Sunshine to show up for auditions,
Speaker 2: gives her an address to a crackhouse.
Speaker 1: Hey, y, it wasn't It wasn't an active crackhouse though,
Speaker 1: so that it made it okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine, and Sam didn't show up to auditions
Speaker 2: because of which he saw what Coach Beast did to Finn,
Speaker 2: and he decides to stick with football, and now he
Speaker 2: becomes the quarterback, and unbeknownst to us, because of Rachel
Speaker 2: Shenanigan's Sunshine gets recruited by Vocal Adrenaline once she goes
Speaker 2: back to you know, sort of apologize to Sunshine and
Speaker 2: who do we meet at the new Vocal Adrenaline coach.
Speaker 1: Right, Dustin Goldsby our friend, our beautiful friend, Shiane Jackson.
Speaker 1: But we have to go back and talk about how
Speaker 1: Sunshine actually did say it didn't audition for new directions
Speaker 1: and made it in and sang listen and wildly sang
Speaker 1: that song that we were all just literally hooting and hollering.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 2: I lost it.
Speaker 1: I mean it was whild to watch watch them do
Speaker 1: that number.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, I mean, we had all seen Jake
Speaker 2: aunt Oprah right, like had.
Speaker 1: You yoh yeah, yeah, I knew all about Jake at
Speaker 1: that point, like we it was a big get for us.
Speaker 2: Yes, and a vocal list right like good lord and
Speaker 2: so sweet and quiet and just had this insane voice.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that again was not us acting. We were
Speaker 2: really actually losing it. The only one who had to
Speaker 2: act in that scene was Leah. She had an upset
Speaker 2: exactly exactly. So Finn is pretty upset at Rachel for.
Speaker 1: For doing that. It's really bad, and Rachel's you know,
Speaker 1: and actually gives her like a little bit of like
Speaker 1: a come down to earth, like, let's you have to
Speaker 1: be honest with yourself. Which I really like that scene
Speaker 1: because I love Rachel and Finn so but then Rachel
Speaker 1: sings what I Did for love. She gives us all
Speaker 1: the tears, all the fields. It's an iconic song, so
Speaker 1: it's very exciting to do that, and eventually in the
Speaker 1: Glue club will come around because like, what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do? Hate Rachel? Whatever? Now.
Speaker 2: So the other thing that's happening this episode is Quinn, right,
Speaker 2: so everybody's sort of doing their own thing, you know.
Speaker 2: Finn gets sort of like kicked off the football team
Speaker 2: because the already thing. Quinn is trying to audition for
Speaker 2: the Cheerios again and basically gives it this to like, look,
Speaker 2: if you don't put me on the team, there will
Speaker 2: be hell to pay. And Finn shows up to audition
Speaker 2: and one of the funniest scenes ever because he has
Speaker 2: nowhere to go because he was kicked off the football team.
Speaker 2: And he shows up and does this incredible, incredible dance,
Speaker 2: if we can call it that, and Will tries to
Speaker 2: convince Beast not to kick fin off the team, and
Speaker 2: that's the moment he realizes what he did to Beast
Speaker 2: and lunchroom was super mean and decides to switch his story.
Speaker 2: And so, after finding out Santana got the boob job,
Speaker 2: Sue demotes her and then makes Quinn captain.
Speaker 1: And Quinn he leverages the churches to bring in money
Speaker 1: for her competity Cannons and I just have to talk
Speaker 1: about Corey's audition for the Cheerios. Just for one second,
Speaker 1: I was howling. It's so good, it's so freaking funny,
Speaker 1: and it's exactly who Corey is. That is Corey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was not acting.
Speaker 1: It brought me so much joy to watch that I
Speaker 1: think I forgot about it, and I love I could
Speaker 1: watch Teerio auditions all day long.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I wish we had a super cut of
Speaker 2: just Teerio.
Speaker 1: Auditions, right, can somebody teas?
Speaker 2: Yeah? If we could do that, that would be fantastic.
Speaker 2: The other thing that was great in this episode was
Speaker 2: the fist fight between Quinn and Santana, which is one
Speaker 2: of our things. We would quote it forever after that.
Speaker 1: She has a mother, She's a mother, she has a family.
Speaker 1: Oh god, delivery was just so so right, so right,
Speaker 1: And who doesn't love a cat bite.
Speaker 2: I always think our fights look so good and real,
Speaker 2: and I loved how they were shot. Yeah, and this
Speaker 2: is one of the best, if not the best. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, Like last season there was the one where
Speaker 2: Finn and Putt you know, fight each other in the wheelchairs,
Speaker 2: and that looks super crazy and real, and I love
Speaker 2: this one. I mean, that's that's sort of the episode, folks.
Speaker 2: If you can get through all that, then we're set
Speaker 2: up for some conflict for the next for the following
Speaker 2: twenty one episodes, and it's exciting.
Speaker 1: The next couple of episodes are pretty exciting. So we
Speaker 1: got through, We got through our premiere, and we're getting
Speaker 1: set up for some really exciting things coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so.
Speaker 1: Let's do some tarty takes.
Speaker 2: This should be fun.
Speaker 1: Here are some cringe moments aka oucheez. I had quite
Speaker 1: a few.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's all about go for it, Jenna, all.
Speaker 1: Right, this is these are my bullet points. You don't
Speaker 1: speak English to Sunshine. That whole scene in the bathroom
Speaker 1: was a real cringe. Telephone itself actually was cringey to me.
Speaker 1: I didn't love it, that number Asian camp, just the
Speaker 1: thought of it, the idea of it, cringe e Rachel
Speaker 1: says Sunshine, who is a Filipino that was also stuck
Speaker 1: stuck out to me amidst the many cringey things, and
Speaker 1: also the Brittiy doll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that, and like the entirety of like
Speaker 2: Jbi's vlog in the beginning, I would say it was
Speaker 2: a real setup for not success. Oh yeah, worst dance move, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, Cheerio finch Cheerio audition, best dance move Finn Cheerio audition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's that. Can't be beata one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the song Empire state of Mind obviously.
Speaker 1: Obviously performance by a prop.
Speaker 2: The poop cookies ew.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, all right, or the twenty five pizzas.
Speaker 2: How's that twenty five pizzas? There's a lot of food
Speaker 2: if you can call that food.
Speaker 1: Let's go with the food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, best line, I mean I said it a
Speaker 2: second ago. But she has a family. She's a mother
Speaker 2: was my favorite part for sure.
Speaker 1: Sue's shut up was a good one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And she Brittany during the girl fight was stop the violence,
Speaker 1: stop the violence.
Speaker 2: So good? Oh god, all right, it's very very good. Okay,
Speaker 2: are you ready for some ship we found? Okay. So,
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, the official Barbie trailer movie
Speaker 2: came out by Greta Gerwig. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: saw it.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 2: And then with the official posters, which took the Internet
Speaker 2: by storm, and someone made Glee versions of the Barbie posters.
Speaker 1: Oh the Barbie meme poster, yes, yeah, please stop. Really
Speaker 1: of all the Glee characters, yes, and it's very good.
Speaker 2: The name on TikTok is black that can't dance.
Speaker 1: Jesus, Oh my gosh. Wow. These are really.
Speaker 2: And if you go on to their TikTok they have
Speaker 2: them all together and like for example, Ambers or Mercedes,
Speaker 2: is this Barbie is a lover of Tater tots?
Speaker 1: Nice? Is this Barbie is possessed by snakes?
Speaker 2: Rachel's Is this Barbie is not homophobic? She has two
Speaker 2: gay dads? Oh my god, they're very very good. Go
Speaker 2: on it and check it out. It's pretty incredible. Darren's
Speaker 2: this Ken is wearing too much hair job.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. These are great. Well, thank you for
Speaker 1: sharing that with me. And also Black I can't dance.
Speaker 1: Thank you for making that. Wait, they forgot Kevin did
Speaker 1: they make They didn't make it, Kevin one.
Speaker 2: That's fine. There's already ones out there. A lot of
Speaker 2: people did this and they're all fantastic. All right, So
Speaker 2: just search the internet for the Glee poster, Glee club memes.
Speaker 2: I mean, in twenty twenty three, people are still making
Speaker 2: Glee things hilarious. Next week we have our second, our
Speaker 2: second huge episode, artist episode. It's Britney slash Britney.
Speaker 1: I am excited about talking about this and not excited
Speaker 1: to talk about this.
Speaker 2: I'm excited, Okay. I think we have some things to say.
Speaker 1: We definitely have some things to share. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of things to share now, knowing what we know
Speaker 1: now about Brittany and her conservatorship and all of it,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of things that I have thoughts about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and because I think we had, for at least
Speaker 2: one day or two days, had experience with.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: But this episode, if I remember correctly, was great and
Speaker 2: so much fun. And also Heather is dream what a
Speaker 2: dream the best? And John Samos Yes, so come back,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about Brittany. Brittany, we got through this episode.
Speaker 1: We did, we got through it. And thanks for sticking
Speaker 1: with us for this one.
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