Speaker 1: And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what you Really miss podcast. Today
Speaker 1: is season four, episode twelve, Naked. Let's get naked.
Speaker 2: Woo. There's a lot of nakedness in this episode. Does
Speaker 2: it make you uncomfortable? You made no?
Speaker 1: No, no. So what happened was here's what happened Kevin.
Speaker 1: About a month ago. We've been recapping for obviously a
Speaker 1: while now, and we had taken a break from the
Speaker 1: recaps and we were just doing guest episodes, I think
Speaker 1: at the time. And I popped back into my Hulu
Speaker 1: and put on Glee and it must have skipped a
Speaker 1: few episodes and it started on Naked. So I watched
Speaker 1: Naked like a month or two ago, and about about
Speaker 1: a third of the way through, I was like, hmmm,
Speaker 1: I think I've missed the things. The continuit is very off.
Speaker 1: And then I got to the end of the episode. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did watch the whole episode.
Speaker 2: You didn't even check before you got to the end
Speaker 2: of the episode.
Speaker 1: No, I just kept going. And then I got to
Speaker 1: the episode and I was like, what episode is this?
Speaker 1: Let me just keep seeing how many would have left
Speaker 1: to recap for this season, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I skipped quite a few. Oh sweet, sweet, this is
Speaker 1: my second time watching Naked this month.
Speaker 2: Was it better the first second time?
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think it was better the first
Speaker 1: just because I really enjoyed it. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: watch it again, right, A lot happens. The musical numbers
Speaker 1: are actually pretty great.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty solid episode.
Speaker 1: I did admittedly fast forward through all the musical members
Speaker 1: just to make my time a little bit shorter on
Speaker 1: this one. But I remember them all so vividly. That's
Speaker 1: what like. I'm like, oh, I remember these, now, these
Speaker 1: are great. These are all great.
Speaker 2: And I mean something about this episode. I remember all
Speaker 2: of these like filming.
Speaker 1: Filming, well exactly, Yes, very vivid episode of us filming.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it. So this episode aired on January
Speaker 1: thirty first, twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: There's a new number one song in the country. It
Speaker 2: was Thrift, shot by Maclamore and Ryan Lewis featuring Ones.
Speaker 2: And there's a new number one movie Hanson and Gretzel
Speaker 2: Witch Haunts. I do remember this.
Speaker 1: I want to see it.
Speaker 2: Didn't see it? Jenne. What happened to Glee News.
Speaker 1: On January thirtieth, the cast celebrated the five hundredth How
Speaker 1: were we have five hundred already? I don't know, it's stupid, okay,
Speaker 1: So we celebrated the five hundred musical performance shout while
Speaker 1: filming Season four, episode fifteen, Girls Parentheses and Boys on film.
Speaker 1: There was jackets, there's t shirts, there's lollipops. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there was celebrations. I don't remember which one this was,
Speaker 1: but wow, five hundred, how are we already here?
Speaker 2: I remember all these things. The jackets, a sweatshirts, a
Speaker 2: lollipop stickers. That was a big deal because they started,
Speaker 2: Like we said before, the camera crew was the one
Speaker 2: keeping track, and so they started celebrating like three hundred,
Speaker 2: four hundred became a bigger deal. And this became an
Speaker 2: even bigger deal.
Speaker 1: Okay, because it was Andrew Minchell who really kept track
Speaker 1: while the musical numbers our study cam operator. And at
Speaker 1: one of the hundreds, I think it was maybe four hundred,
Speaker 1: we had the ping pong balls. Do you remember those?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Were I don't know who wrote on them, but there
Speaker 1: were musical numbers on four hundred or however many musical numbers,
Speaker 1: And then we released them all. I'll never forget that
Speaker 1: one because that's a lot of time and effort. Not
Speaker 1: that other time, you know. But anyway, you know, shout
Speaker 1: out to our crew for keeping track of all of
Speaker 1: our musical numbers like that. How fun.
Speaker 2: I was at trivia a couple of months ago, at
Speaker 2: like a bar here, and the last bonus question was
Speaker 2: how many musical numbers did Glee do? I had the
Speaker 2: correct answer and the guy was wrong. Seven it's seven something, Okay.
Speaker 2: I forgot what it was he was off?
Speaker 1: What was he off by a lot?
Speaker 2: Like fifteen?
Speaker 1: Oh? Okay, I thought he was off one hundred.
Speaker 2: It was still in the seven hundreds. But I was
Speaker 2: just like, aren't you going to defer to me, sir?
Speaker 1: No our memories. I don't know that I would have
Speaker 1: had that one.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true. We had just talked about it, okay,
Speaker 2: so it was fresh, got it?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this episode was directed by our very own Ian Brennan.
Speaker 1: On paper, it was written by Ryan Murphy. We've got
Speaker 1: some really memorable songs in this episode.
Speaker 2: A lot of songs too. We are just like every
Speaker 2: episode just six songs. Seven songs.
Speaker 1: Torn by in a swap the Natalie and Brouleia version Centerfold,
Speaker 1: Hot in Her Okay a Thousand Years by Christina Perry.
Speaker 2: Let Me Love You Until You Learn to Love Yourself.
Speaker 2: Neo's second song he wrote called that Me love You.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, oh I didn't know that love song by
Speaker 1: the one and only Sarah Brillas.
Speaker 2: And this is the New Year by a great big World.
Speaker 1: Okay, that one is very remember. Uh. There's a lot
Speaker 1: that happens. There's a calendar. There's some almost naked rachelness.
Speaker 1: There's naked brodiness. Oh no, naked brudness.
Speaker 2: Is the next episode. It's right, Yeah, it was naked.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's right.
Speaker 2: You just fast forward through it.
Speaker 1: Jenna, Well, you know I've seen it before, so.
Speaker 2: Some fun facts. Ryan stated on Twitter that the men
Speaker 2: of a Kinley calendar storyline had been an idea since
Speaker 2: season one. Wow, finally around to it.
Speaker 1: Finally. The rumor about Sue posing for Penthouse and taking
Speaker 1: horse estrogen was previously mentioned in a voiceover by Will
Speaker 1: in the extended version of the pilot. Huh, it's brought up.
Speaker 1: It's brought up again in season six and The Rise
Speaker 1: and Fall of Sue Sylvester, when the superintendent finds a
Speaker 1: copy of the magazine and sues hurt Locker sees hurt
Speaker 1: lock I can't okay.
Speaker 2: This marks the first appearance of Britney's bondou for two
Speaker 2: since season two episode Rumors, which I loved. What are
Speaker 2: you doing tonight?
Speaker 1: I'm so happy, so happy he came back. When the
Speaker 1: episode aired in Australia, the line where Sam was talking
Speaker 1: about selling his semen was cut from They're just.
Speaker 2: So pure There. Several names of websites are shown to
Speaker 2: have been altered when Rachel looks at Santana's sex tape online.
Speaker 2: For example, IMDb dot com is changed to icdb dot
Speaker 2: com and tumbler dot com is changed shoot rambler dot com.
Speaker 1: One of the descriptions underlink says sex is not dating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it was, Santana and I would be dating. And
Speaker 1: this is from season one, episode thirteen, sectionals the first
Speaker 1: hinto of Brittany and Santana romance.
Speaker 2: And at the start of the episode, a joke is
Speaker 2: made describing the Twilight Books as poop on paper. Later,
Speaker 2: Marlen and Jake sing a thousand Years, which is from
Speaker 2: the Twilight Saga breaking Down Part one.
Speaker 1: Ah, the irony.
Speaker 2: Love that Jenna do you want to do the episode summary.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'd be honored. The glee club puts
Speaker 1: together a calendar photo shoot for a fundraiser. Meanwhile, Apart
Speaker 1: in a student art film poses a moral dilemma for Rachel. Now,
Speaker 1: I know that we get we laugh that they're so short,
Speaker 1: but that's actually very succinct.
Speaker 2: It's not wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, where do we start we're doing? Are we
Speaker 1: talking about the calendar?
Speaker 2: Let's get some of these things out of the way.
Speaker 2: So the Warblers to carry on from last episode are
Speaker 2: getting disqualified because Sam and Blaine Blam if you will,
Speaker 2: figured it out, especially Sam and so now the new
Speaker 2: directions are back in for regionals and they need to
Speaker 2: raise four hundred dollars. I just it's so funny because
Speaker 2: it's like your budget for these shows you're doing. Surely
Speaker 2: there's four hundred dollars somewhere.
Speaker 1: And also it's much more than that realistically.
Speaker 2: Horny Tina comes up to the front of class and says,
Speaker 2: I know how to do this.
Speaker 1: You know who does to her for coming up an
Speaker 1: idea better than a bake.
Speaker 2: Sale entrepreneur, I have to say.
Speaker 1: We're doing a man of McKinley calendar this year.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: I mean she's really just in it to see Blaine
Speaker 1: without a shirt on too.
Speaker 2: There's something about the way in which you stare at
Speaker 2: Darren that is so creepreepy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it is really creepy.
Speaker 2: It's really good.
Speaker 1: It's really creepy though.
Speaker 2: I actually it's one of my favorite things where it's
Speaker 2: like Jenna's not there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: This I've never seen you do that look in real
Speaker 2: life ever.
Speaker 1: That is that is Tina.
Speaker 2: This like we know each other, so we worked with
Speaker 2: each other for so long, and the fact that like people, dude,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know what that look is.
Speaker 1: I don't know where she is right now.
Speaker 2: She's acting, she's an actress.
Speaker 1: It's so beyond crazy that like delusional. She lives in
Speaker 1: a delulu world at this point. So like it's just
Speaker 1: it's not even like you can find any kind of
Speaker 1: groundedness in it. I think that's why, like she's just gone,
Speaker 1: She's gone. She's so far down the whole. Okay, So
Speaker 1: Sam and Brittany end up in Fagin's office to find
Speaker 1: out that Sam has received the lowest s at score
Speaker 1: ever recorded at Making High and Brittany is a genius.
Speaker 1: So Sam kind of spirals this whole episode, whereas Brittany
Speaker 1: is brilliant and says she's the smartest personal art and
Speaker 1: Sam is starting to really like through this episode spiral
Speaker 1: and is using his body and his looks because he
Speaker 1: thinks that's the only thing that is going to get
Speaker 1: him for in this world, and that's going for him
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I love that the storyline feels classically, Yes, totally like
Speaker 2: the silliness of Brittany's now the smartest person in the world.
Speaker 1: The calendar, the boys dressing up for a calendar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then you know Sam having that
Speaker 2: dilemma questioning his value as a human because of some
Speaker 2: sat score like whatever, and then all the friends stepping
Speaker 2: up and stepping in to be like, uh huh, we
Speaker 2: love you, Gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: I gotta say that video with him. It reminded me
Speaker 1: of the Pie with Emma Pillsbury showing Will the video
Speaker 1: of like why he is doing Glee Club and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is so. I think it's sweet.
Speaker 2: I think it's sweet. It was really sweet.
Speaker 1: It was, and I think Chord get a great performance.
Speaker 2: Chord phenomen no notes, no, no, I can just imagine
Speaker 2: how hungry he was during this. He probably was a
Speaker 2: maniac because like behind the scenes, whenever he had to
Speaker 2: have a shirt off, he wasn't eating. I mean he
Speaker 2: was not doing it in a healthy way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just wasn't fueling his body.
Speaker 2: No, and so he was usually like saving one hundred
Speaker 2: percent of his energy for when the camera was on.
Speaker 1: That's right, Like, oh, poor guy, he has to take
Speaker 1: off his shirt a lot too.
Speaker 2: Yes, all those I love all these like gem scenes,
Speaker 2: this workout montage of Hot in Her was insane and hilarious.
Speaker 1: That song, it was ridiculous, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: is happening here?
Speaker 2: But also what is happening when all the boys have
Speaker 2: ridiculous bodies?
Speaker 1: That's what Tina said. She said, this is the hottest
Speaker 1: group of Glee boys that we've had.
Speaker 2: Yet, because there's that one shot of Blake and you're like,
Speaker 2: he's jacked.
Speaker 1: Jacked, I mean between Jacob Blake, Cord, Darren, like, everybody
Speaker 1: looked great.
Speaker 2: I was so happy to take off my shirt because
Speaker 2: let me tell you that Artie and Kevin Parallels were strong.
Speaker 2: I was like, I cannot take it and I'm sitting down.
Speaker 2: So you were thrilled with that storyline. Yeah, I was like,
Speaker 2: let me keep this on few. I was like a
Speaker 2: mushy baby.
Speaker 1: Sweet little Artie tells Finn that he's he's insecure, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to pose and of shirtless, and it's like
Speaker 1: something he wants to keep for himself. And Finn, being
Speaker 1: the sweet muffin he is, not always reacts this way,
Speaker 1: but he did the right thing and this one and
Speaker 1: just said, then don't do it. I thought that was
Speaker 1: very valiant on his part. She played the role of
Speaker 1: teacher and not forced you to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was good.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget you and the leprechaun Alphathe when you
Speaker 1: came out of your trailer and we were on the
Speaker 1: golf cart going somewhere and I remember you chasing behind
Speaker 1: us and you're like dancing. I have this photo of
Speaker 1: you like in an Irish jig like pose, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever get that out of my head.
Speaker 2: I loved it. I love getting to dress up those things.
Speaker 2: Those things were ridiculous. You guys were insane, and like
Speaker 2: all that. I was a little jealous of not being
Speaker 2: in that full workout number as well, because the boys
Speaker 2: are insane and like all those by the way, like
Speaker 2: all those during the photo shoot when Sam has a spiral,
Speaker 2: it has to be. I love that he and Blaine
Speaker 2: have this very serious conversation that is so funny. Yes,
Speaker 2: it was so funny, but it was so serious. But
Speaker 2: how easily Cord is lifting that weight. Those weights are
Speaker 2: like made out of foam.
Speaker 1: No, no, there styrophone.
Speaker 2: Literally they weigh nothing. But I thought it was so funny.
Speaker 2: But I enjoyed all of those things because it's just
Speaker 2: like the campiest of camp.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is sweet, though, so sweet sweet.
Speaker 2: I was also glad that, like, you know, carrying on
Speaker 2: from last episode where we discover how you feel about
Speaker 2: Blaine and how Blaine feels about Sam. But all those
Speaker 2: times Sam sort of walking shirtless, Blaine is keeping it together.
Speaker 2: He's not being like Tina.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's scene when Sam comes in shirtless and
Speaker 1: she's with Blaine, and that she sees Blaine. She asked
Speaker 1: him to go to the mall, and then Blaine sees
Speaker 1: Sam and like this whole like love laser that's happening.
Speaker 1: He is keeping his cool. I think for character purposes
Speaker 1: that had to stay that way. Tina's acting no chill,
Speaker 1: she has no choll something said as buns and his
Speaker 1: it's then he he said, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, it's because you didn't get that kiss. So
Speaker 2: now she's just like, you know.
Speaker 1: Just wait, just wait. She goes even farther, so just wait.
Speaker 2: And he's clocking it like he's clocking all your stuff like.
Speaker 1: He's he is, but I think he's a little blissfully.
Speaker 1: He's like he's he's just choosing to ignore it.
Speaker 2: Well, because if you don't ignore it, it's a real problem.
Speaker 1: I actually don't remember why we were doing this though,
Speaker 1: it being so far fetched, like for some reason it
Speaker 1: felt real to me, and maybe that's because I was
Speaker 1: just trying to make it make sense for Tina. But
Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember it being like crazy, like
Speaker 1: even in the next episode when the vapor rape comes,
Speaker 1: like we'll talk about that when we get there, But
Speaker 1: I don't even remember it being that crazy. Then. It
Speaker 1: was only until after the aftermath at all that I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, oh, is this all really crazy?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's because I mean, I know the
Speaker 2: answer to that where we've at this point in filming.
Speaker 2: We're so used to doing like crazy things, rocky horror
Speaker 2: early on, you know, like we're doing heightened things all
Speaker 2: the time, and so the crazyer the storyline sort of
Speaker 2: the more we lean into it just because like, okay,
Speaker 2: we have a question storylines because that is not our position,
Speaker 2: Like you were not no, like you were not a writer. No,
Speaker 2: it's sort of like a thing unless something is like
Speaker 2: morally yeah, off face, like you don't question that you're
Speaker 2: hired to do your job. They're hired to do their job.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, So I.
Speaker 1: Mean it's crazy, Gale, That's like, yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: It's really crazy. In my memory, I don't remember being
Speaker 1: like this is really crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: With Sam's story here about in the middle of all
Speaker 2: this craziness of him using this calendar to sort of
Speaker 2: justify his self worth, Blaine also was like, we need
Speaker 2: to have a little comp to Jesus and sets up
Speaker 2: a meeting with Emma, which is really sweet and presents
Speaker 2: some college options and he's still not necessarily sold. And
Speaker 2: then we get that video together.
Speaker 1: It's the it is that's quintidentially to It's very sweet.
Speaker 1: It's very sweet on Blaine's part. We love seeing all
Speaker 1: the characters speak so kindly of Sam. Sam needs to
Speaker 1: hear it. His reaction is so sweet. It's all really sweet.
Speaker 1: I love this storyline for him.
Speaker 2: Did you not feel like there were real life? I mean,
Speaker 2: is a very attractive person objectively, and so when you
Speaker 2: have a pretty character talking about the challenges of being
Speaker 2: pretty and it does not feel stupid or gratuitous. It
Speaker 2: felt to me when he's talking about like, oh, people
Speaker 2: are already more open to my impressions because they're already
Speaker 2: they buy it because of how I look. They're willing
Speaker 2: to give me a chance, like pretty privilege. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: like some points like there was like this is you
Speaker 2: know it's another thing that Glee is talking about that work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know. The thing is that Court
Speaker 1: is he's like a puppy dog, but he's so good
Speaker 1: at what he does, and his song writing skills are
Speaker 1: also like off the charts, and I think sometimes its
Speaker 1: Chord doesn't feel like he's always taken seriously And maybe
Speaker 1: I'm putting words in his mouth. I'm not speaking for him,
Speaker 1: but I feel like to me sometimes even I could
Speaker 1: be guilty of lik being like, oh, Cord, you're so cute, like,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it, but he really is very deep
Speaker 1: and like he once you get to know him, like
Speaker 1: is very carrying, very deep, and so I I could
Speaker 1: definitely see this mirroring in some ways, not quite like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the weight loss thing, you know, all that, but maybe
Speaker 1: during this journey where he has to be Charlotte, sometimes
Speaker 1: they all act a little crazy, Like all the guys
Speaker 1: act a little crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that could have been the writers around him
Speaker 2: seeing losing weight for you know, and working out and
Speaker 2: eating sweet potatoes artlet guys.
Speaker 1: For sure. No, that's that's totally right.
Speaker 2: That's totally right, because I even't felt like watching the
Speaker 2: Artie storyline. I was like, this feels a little similar
Speaker 2: to how you would feel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course they have to take they know us
Speaker 1: well enough at this point. They're not taking things like
Speaker 1: even the Tina storylines of it all. Like obviously the
Speaker 1: Tina dating falling in love with a very out gay
Speaker 1: man came from my high school experience of like notoriously
Speaker 1: dating gay men, not that I knew they were gay,
Speaker 1: just a record. There's some like they like to write
Speaker 1: to what they know and the truth, and it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I was never like, oh wait, I was never fully
Speaker 1: offended by it.
Speaker 2: No, all the time it was good. It was like,
Speaker 2: oh these are things.
Speaker 1: It works, and it happened about.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't don't already immediately when this calendar
Speaker 2: idea gets brought up, it's like, can we objectify the
Speaker 2: girls too?
Speaker 1: Bro? Can you leave it to Artie? Leave it to Artie?
Speaker 2: Like what this problem?
Speaker 1: So glad we weren't in it. I had so much
Speaker 1: fun shooting that though.
Speaker 2: With the photo shooting, Yeah, how was that?
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. They were so ridiculous. Everybody
Speaker 1: was really just having a good time with it, like
Speaker 1: it was. The costumes were insane, the people like the
Speaker 1: poses they were making. Everybody's just it was a really
Speaker 1: fun episode and maybe that's why it six sticks out
Speaker 1: so vividly in our minds, like we had. I had
Speaker 1: so much fun shooting this.
Speaker 2: And Ian is such a fun director too. Yes, that's right,
Speaker 2: and he's.
Speaker 1: Someone I'm sure he was like throwing he can kind
Speaker 1: of yeah, exactly. It's only Ian Brand and Ryan could
Speaker 1: do that, where they could throw you a line or
Speaker 1: change something on the spot. Very rarely happened otherwise, even
Speaker 1: with Ryan. Mostly not even Ian her Brad as much.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I was so good and uh yeah
Speaker 1: I loved I loved Tina being a director for once.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice to see her in a position
Speaker 2: of power.
Speaker 1: So funny, right, Yeah, Tina lately, I know she likes
Speaker 1: she's taking on her her duty and responsibility as a senior.
Speaker 2: And she like hops up to like suggest the idea
Speaker 2: immediately in front of the class. It feels good, crazy.
Speaker 1: Tina, there she goes. So also happening in the McKinley
Speaker 1: halls are that Sue and Finn are going head to
Speaker 1: head over the calendar Finn. Finn basically holds this Penthouse
Speaker 1: photo shoot, the centerfold that Sue did in the past, over.
Speaker 2: This rumored Penthouse photo shoot.
Speaker 1: Rumored Penthouse photo shoot.
Speaker 2: So Sue doesn't want the calendar to happen.
Speaker 1: And we need the money obviously, you want to raise it.
Speaker 1: And then Finn saying, well, you did it, and.
Speaker 2: She denies it, and.
Speaker 1: He finds it quote unquote, and she admits like she
Speaker 1: hadn't seen it in a long time and goes to
Speaker 1: pull it out and it is in fact not her centerfold.
Speaker 1: But then Finn has on tape that she has admitted
Speaker 1: that there is in fact a centerfold photos from house.
Speaker 2: When she's confessing, first of all, I love Corey and
Speaker 2: Jane going at it in this way. I think this
Speaker 2: is so great, great. But when he comes back there
Speaker 2: and it is like I found it here it is
Speaker 2: and she's like, I feel like taking a game at
Speaker 2: that glorious taco right now. And she says glorious taco
Speaker 2: like twice during that scene. I was like, I need
Speaker 2: to jump off this balcony. I don't know what's so funny.
Speaker 2: I missed that.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that in a while, Like, no, it's great,
Speaker 1: it is so good. And Sue just respecting Finn for
Speaker 1: being you know, a good can kind of enemy or
Speaker 1: whatever she called him, and no, like kind of having
Speaker 1: a little bit more respect for him at that point,
Speaker 1: you know, sing and say I get your emmo.
Speaker 2: Finn is actually planning for regionals. Regionals does not happen
Speaker 2: until the season finale. Normally, if she was in charge,
Speaker 2: regions would be next.
Speaker 1: To that assignment would be on the day. You guys
Speaker 1: are get.
Speaker 2: Shocked because I almost kept watching him like, oh, I
Speaker 2: want to see what we do for regionals. Not close.
Speaker 1: We just lost some times, so we're making it for
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, Brittany also has Marlee, so this
Speaker 1: Brittany Marley kind of duo is still happening. And Brittany
Speaker 1: very cute.
Speaker 2: I love them together, very different.
Speaker 1: Marley comes on fondue for two. It's like the cheese
Speaker 1: is really hot and uh, she realizes that she loves
Speaker 1: she loves Jake. They could be cast as Bella Edward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just irresistible. But they do a number that they rehearse
Speaker 1: for regionals which is actually a Yeah, it's actually a
Speaker 1: Twilight Song theme song.
Speaker 2: But I love this song who Christina Perry and they
Speaker 2: smashed it of it beautiful love them together. It was
Speaker 2: a really sweet number two. I like that it was
Speaker 2: just the two of them. Yeah, stage like it was
Speaker 2: really nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was really good. And we get to hear
Speaker 1: Jacob sing twice this episode.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Marley goes to say I love you, but
Speaker 2: stops herself.
Speaker 1: So this is where when I was watching it and
Speaker 1: writer and Jake were still friends or like became friends,
Speaker 1: and like he's helping him with Marley. I was like,
Speaker 1: something's off here.
Speaker 2: When did this happen?
Speaker 1: Because they had just gotten in a fight about Marley.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is not right anyway. He helps writer,
Speaker 1: helps Jake and helps him in by telling him to
Speaker 1: sing a song Inkley Club, and he sings, let Me
Speaker 1: Love You? Are you kidding me with this? This is
Speaker 1: one of the best numbers of the season. Jacob Artist
Speaker 1: a triple, double, quadruple plus. And then do you remember
Speaker 1: when we shot up with Kevin and they had the
Speaker 1: orchestra come in and the strings play and they actually
Speaker 1: so the band doesn't normally play, they pretend to. The
Speaker 1: instruments don't normally make sounds, the strings when they play,
Speaker 1: they actually just have to play in order for it
Speaker 1: to look real. And we got a full serenade by
Speaker 1: this orchestra on top of the pre record, and it
Speaker 1: was so gorgeous.
Speaker 2: And none of us had ever heard Jacob sing like this.
Speaker 2: And if you could see all of our reactions the
Speaker 2: entire time, there's everyone's just staring at him. In the beginning,
Speaker 2: I look over to you, Jennet, because I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, I know, I know, we were all obsessed
Speaker 2: with this.
Speaker 1: I love this cover. I think he's delicious in this.
Speaker 2: Like you should like go back and watch our reactions
Speaker 2: because They're one of those times when we're not acting.
Speaker 2: We were just like, support the boy. This is unbelievable,
Speaker 2: so good. What a perfect number, truly sit there, and
Speaker 2: what a perfect song for the storyline. I don't know
Speaker 2: if what was first, the storyline or the song. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because it worked so well
Speaker 2: and I have goosebumps now. It was so sweet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh I played that one to I think I had
Speaker 2: him send that to me when he did, just play
Speaker 2: it mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And then he says I love you and she says,
Speaker 1: I love you back. He writes it in the calendar.
Speaker 1: He doesn't actually say it, but then he writes it
Speaker 1: in the calendar, and she says I love you back,
Speaker 1: and now they're in love.
Speaker 2: And we've sold enough calendars almost to get to regionals.
Speaker 2: We did everything we needed to do.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 2: I did love the Once the calendars come out and
Speaker 2: like Becky's there, wow wild stuff that sort of like
Speaker 2: fanfair high school stuff. I love the kids waiting in
Speaker 2: line and autographs and signing it and.
Speaker 1: This music that plays throughout that like like throughout the episode,
Speaker 1: so funny, very ian, Yes of him And then over
Speaker 1: in New York, there's something else happening.
Speaker 2: So Rachel gets offered a student film, but it requires
Speaker 2: her and she's like all in, and but it requires
Speaker 2: her to be topless. She agrees but clearly has some doubts,
Speaker 2: and Brody's like, yeah, yeah, I go for it. It's
Speaker 2: all good, and she's like, I'm the strong girl in
Speaker 2: Brody like to move in, like I can do this,
Speaker 2: and Kurt it's like, oh no, of course you're not
Speaker 2: doing it. Meanwhile, at the kitchen table, which was hilarious
Speaker 2: but also that's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who does that. Nobody eats breakfast like that with
Speaker 1: people around that you don't know that well. But he's
Speaker 1: just trying to make a point to Rachel that she
Speaker 1: should be proud of her body and the whole thing
Speaker 1: and I don't know, this whole storyline was like, I'm
Speaker 1: glad she didn't end up doing it, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: we got to see we got Santana and Quinn out
Speaker 1: of it. I didn't hate the storyline at all, but
Speaker 1: I was like, this whole like Brody thing and like
Speaker 1: being proud of your body. I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not my favorite.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I also think that it's not about You're
Speaker 2: not being proud of your body.
Speaker 1: No, exactly, it's being an actor and coming across something
Speaker 1: like this because generally, if you get an audition, it'll
Speaker 1: say nudity required, yeah, and you can accept or deny.
Speaker 2: I mean it was pretty I mean she when you
Speaker 2: actually get to her filming it, it's pretty great. She
Speaker 2: keeps sailing cut. I remember watching this when they screened
Speaker 2: it for us, and this scene had me losing it.
Speaker 1: Cut. But other little crew getting naked, it's wild, and
Speaker 1: then they're also the band. Yes, but also that we
Speaker 1: getting we're getting Quinn and Santana coming and being an
Speaker 1: actual voice of reason, which is so funny. Santana being
Speaker 1: like it's probably a student film about Grandma having Alzheimer's study, and.
Speaker 2: The two two too, which is also very true.
Speaker 1: Two weeks are going to feel about the new thing.
Speaker 1: It's smart, it's very smart. It's a student film. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be good.
Speaker 2: They're all so good together. I think it's curiating about
Speaker 2: it is that there's not more of it, And obviously
Speaker 2: at the end of the episode it's alluded to that
Speaker 2: Santana's going to move to New York. But it's like,
Speaker 2: I want the three of them together.
Speaker 1: I know it's just a good one.
Speaker 2: Their chemistry is insane. And then can we have to
Speaker 2: talk about love song? Because I didn't realize I tweeted about.
Speaker 1: This after I watched it, you did like today, this
Speaker 1: time or last time?
Speaker 2: No, last night? Oh, because I was like, I didn't
Speaker 2: know it was this good because I probably watched it.
Speaker 2: I mean I watched it in the screening and that
Speaker 2: was probably it, to be honest. Yeah, And oh my god,
Speaker 2: the joy and their performance all like their inside looks
Speaker 2: to each other. H the three part harmony for most
Speaker 2: of that TV edit, which is like in the chorus
Speaker 2: and they all have like one line and a bridge.
Speaker 2: It's so beautifully divided. Yes and yes who.
Speaker 1: I just never would have thought that song that's exactly
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 2: Would have worked at that level. But it was like
Speaker 2: the joy of seeing them all together. They're all just
Speaker 2: like jamming on a stage and being friends and friendly
Speaker 2: like RL. And it was also like we haven't worked
Speaker 2: together in a long time, and these characters haven't seen
Speaker 2: each other in a long time. It's all these layers
Speaker 2: of look we still got it, Like we're still good, yeah,
Speaker 2: and like we're still friends, and then the characters are
Speaker 2: doing the exact same things as the real life people are.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And of course it was just seeing like all our
Speaker 2: friends together and sounding great again, and I was happy.
Speaker 2: I was emotional. Yeah, I was just sort of flabberg
Speaker 2: acid because you don't normally get the three of them
Speaker 2: singing together in harmony like that.
Speaker 1: No you don't, long, I don't remember the last time
Speaker 1: we got that, no, they I think. Also, the song
Speaker 1: itself is like one of my lea favorite Sarah songs,
Speaker 1: like Sarah's a bundle of other fantastic songs that I love,
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, oh, okay, I love song, like
Speaker 1: you know, probably the most well known, the one that
Speaker 1: put her on the map, Like whatever, I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's probably like initially why I don't remember it
Speaker 1: like that, you know, like cool, great, But to watch
Speaker 1: it back now you're like, oh, that's so nostalgic. Fans
Speaker 1: must have been crapping their pants at that point for
Speaker 1: the three of them like that, and then also for
Speaker 1: them to sound that good and to actually like elevate
Speaker 1: the song.
Speaker 2: There was a full fan contingent, who are love song
Speaker 2: like got.
Speaker 1: It, got it okay, and discovered that totally get it yeah.
Speaker 2: And I totally understand it. And I it's nice to
Speaker 2: almost rediscover something because I feel like I have my
Speaker 2: go to songs that I listened to every now and then,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is a new one. It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: And then also Liah Sing's torn in the beginning with
Speaker 1: when she's trying to decide whether to do the film
Speaker 1: or not, and she does it and I love this song.
Speaker 1: Obviously this is very nostalgic for best millennials. That song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like EATRL time. But also having like new Rachel
Speaker 1: or Old Rachel was so great.
Speaker 2: I love it was really great and also such a.
Speaker 1: Well done musical performance.
Speaker 2: Smashed it because you see how differently she does play
Speaker 2: old Rachel and old Rachel, and also her old Rachel
Speaker 2: makee fun of her hair and makeup.
Speaker 1: It was so funny. She's like fair, great, great number.
Speaker 1: And then we do this is the New Year with
Speaker 1: all the McKinley people again. We're back together, everybody, people
Speaker 1: are in love. We raised money, we're going this regionals.
Speaker 1: We're going to regionals, and we did this number and
Speaker 1: I like vividly remember shooting this number because it was
Speaker 1: kind of freeform rock out and we just like they
Speaker 1: had the camera really up close on stage and we're
Speaker 1: singing and they're all these like odd pairings like Tina
Speaker 1: and Ryder singing together. It's just like new Kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and our group has kind of like melded at this
Speaker 1: point as friends and I never forget this one. I
Speaker 1: love this number.
Speaker 2: It was like a fun number. Yeah, this free from rockout.
Speaker 2: Ones were like if you show up to school and
Speaker 2: it's like class canceled. Yeah, awesome, because like that's what
Speaker 2: it always felt like when we got to do those things.
Speaker 2: And yes, it's a great song. It's perfect for the storyline.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where all these songs are
Speaker 2: really clicking for what's going on and they feel right.
Speaker 1: Yes, and they're nice to listen to, nice to watch,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I don't know just.
Speaker 2: Even how they divide it up that song at the end.
Speaker 2: Each line applied to each storyline that these people were
Speaker 2: going through, and like that thought and consideration between what
Speaker 2: sounds good, what works for the story, what's going to
Speaker 2: visually work was just all all there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Well, let's write some numbers then, because I
Speaker 1: think we're going to get a good rating this time.
Speaker 2: Torn I'll give it a minus.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, I'll give it a minus. Give us somewhere
Speaker 1: to Gough Centerfold hunt in here, I give an A.
Speaker 2: I'm giving it a B plus.
Speaker 1: Okay, fine.
Speaker 2: As fun as it was, I don't think it was
Speaker 2: a great mashup. The mashup I do not think worked.
Speaker 2: I don't think like the music itself. I see what
Speaker 2: you're saying. Yeah, Chord was a much better rapper than
Speaker 2: I thought he would have been. I will say that,
Speaker 2: And I think the number was fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun to watch.
Speaker 2: It was a thousand years beautiful A A.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I give it an A.
Speaker 2: Let Me Love You plus A plus plus plus plus.
Speaker 1: Love Song A plus, A plus. This is New Year A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a solid A minus A plus average right there, Like,
Speaker 1: that's really solid.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed. I enjoyed this Let Me Love You.
Speaker 2: It was really special to us. We all as a
Speaker 2: group have at that point hadn't flipped out about a
Speaker 2: musical number in a really long long time. That's right.
Speaker 2: I so distinctly remember the feeling in the room of
Speaker 2: like Jacob, I know Darren.
Speaker 1: About it when he came on the podcast. He was like,
Speaker 1: are you kidding? Like so memorable?
Speaker 2: I remember and rehearsal when he hits the second chorus
Speaker 2: and he goes the octave up and Falsettoh, we all screamed.
Speaker 2: We all screamed, Well, we hadn't heard it yet. It's
Speaker 2: hid hiding. And a lot of times, I think when
Speaker 2: we're filming these numbers, a lot of times it's about
Speaker 2: remembering how you felt when you first heard it, and
Speaker 2: so we'll rehearse it for the crew and camera and
Speaker 2: all of that, and so when we do go to
Speaker 2: film our reactions, a lot of it is just imitating
Speaker 2: what we did maybe an hour or two before we
Speaker 2: heard it for the first time, because those were our
Speaker 2: real reactions, and of course the characters would react like that.
Speaker 2: It's right minus. You know, Melissa had like some things
Speaker 2: to do, right, she was acting boy oh boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chartie takes Chartie takes us.
Speaker 2: I mean again, Brittany talking about the eating disorder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the financy storyline, like Sue Sue talking. There's this
Speaker 1: one line that she says to him that I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, And maybe it's not cringe but it
Speaker 1: was just like, Wow, it isn't the underage smart pedaling
Speaker 1: non teacher Finn Hudson not satisfied with making a mockery
Speaker 1: of the American education system. By your new presence at
Speaker 1: the school, you have besmirched the dignity of such every
Speaker 1: day here, as is this woman with cross disease whose
Speaker 1: name I do not know, by bringing dark spectr of
Speaker 1: pornography to these hollowed hats.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that leads us to also the idea of
Speaker 2: having an underage boys posture was yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: it will be allowed to do that in school. No,
Speaker 2: And then Kitty's jokes about Joe's hair. I mean it's
Speaker 2: just just not yeah, okay, dance move I think I
Speaker 2: guess Kitty being lifted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally from the bird's eye view from that, yeah, crazy, that.
Speaker 2: Was insane, having those paths on the floor like it
Speaker 2: was hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's so strange, crazy best song let Me love You,
Speaker 1: Let Me love you.
Speaker 2: Let me love you. But I do need you to
Speaker 2: know that love songs up there fair enough. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: have a soft spot obviously for letting me love you,
Speaker 2: but you do love love song. It's it's now, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: This performance by your prop.
Speaker 2: There was a lot. There were this tanning guns, there
Speaker 2: was the fondue, there's Lord Tubbington.
Speaker 1: The Sugar First coffee. Yes, the calendar, I I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you have to go to the calendar, right.
Speaker 1: And also the bar bell Sam's starphone barbels.
Speaker 2: Those always work.
Speaker 1: I know. It make me so laugh so much. Okay,
Speaker 1: best line.
Speaker 2: I am gonna be selfish here, okay, and choose an
Speaker 2: artie line.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2: You want me to spend the next few days carefully
Speaker 2: paging through decades and decades of engage pornography. You've come
Speaker 2: to the right place. He's such a creeper, such a creep.
Speaker 2: I remember doing that. I remember, like Corey and I
Speaker 2: just having a great time filming.
Speaker 1: Old Rachel, You're not a porn star, even though your
Speaker 1: hair and makeup like it makes you look like one.
Speaker 1: New Rachel. That's mean, Old Rachel. I'm sorry, but your
Speaker 1: hair has gotten a little out of hand. New Rachel pointing.
Speaker 1: I'd love that she's talking to herself. Uh performance MVP
Speaker 1: cord I had a CORDI yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, yes, absolutely, Okay, Jenna, Yeah, ship be found on
Speaker 2: TikTok for it. So it is Joe Shaw on TikTok.
Speaker 2: He's wearing a shirt that says, oh my god, sang
Speaker 2: this on Glee and he's at a Keen concert. And
Speaker 2: not even at a Keen concert, he's at Glastonbury, which
Speaker 2: happened a couple weeks ago, and he's singing the song
Speaker 2: Darren sang and it's phenomenal, and I just I was like,
Speaker 2: I wonder if they hate that. It's also like he
Speaker 2: showed up just for that. We love it. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Somebody said Coldplay sang the Scientist and I was like,
Speaker 2: they also sing this song Glee and he said, I
Speaker 2: did this last night cold Play too.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow.
Speaker 2: Somebody saying I've never heard Keen sing the side, but
Speaker 2: I've heard Darren sing it. It's great. I love so
Speaker 2: much that lead singer's voice is just magic.
Speaker 1: Oh it's better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I mean, we talked about with Darren. But
Speaker 2: I was so excited when Keene it was just their
Speaker 2: music was on the show.
Speaker 1: Because I know that was also a very memorable one
Speaker 1: for me. That in the Courtyard of course, yeah so good,
Speaker 1: well that is naked.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed that episode though I did too.
Speaker 1: Even though I had to watch it twice, I did
Speaker 1: enjoy it.
Speaker 2: You know, I think once I reframed my head into viewership.
Speaker 2: Just a classic teen show and you we're dealing with
Speaker 2: teen things, and there's great performances from people and great music,
Speaker 2: and it was funny. It was absurd. There were some
Speaker 2: wrong things, some right things. Oh my god, wait before
Speaker 2: we go, I just need to talk about the bumper
Speaker 2: of this episode. Yeah, of Andrew and Rod. Oh my freaky.
Speaker 2: So the press coverage of the Warblers getting kicked out
Speaker 2: and found of roid, rage, of voids whatever, and Andrea
Speaker 2: has her full freak outs. I can't believe it. This
Speaker 2: is what they think this news now and they like
Speaker 2: zoom out and she's like taking off her mic and
Speaker 2: his screaming. He is like I went to school for this.
Speaker 2: It was really good.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen them in a while.
Speaker 2: No, then Rod coming back with after the break before
Speaker 2: wing Squirrel, who's also a doctor. I've missed them, Rod,
Speaker 2: you forget Like there were so many people on this
Speaker 2: damn show. I know so many bits that like.
Speaker 1: We've used over the years, like there were with them,
Speaker 1: really Ron a little bit, but not not Andrea.
Speaker 2: M Wow, it's a full team effort. Everybody's pulling their weight.
Speaker 1: Well so far, you're so good season four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not mad at any of this, you know
Speaker 2: who I need more, I need more unique.
Speaker 1: We're getting there, don't worry, I know.
Speaker 2: But like the past two episodes, not enough Alex nol.
Speaker 1: We're getting traveling the next episode.
Speaker 2: Two it's just like I don't even know if we
Speaker 2: saw Alex last episode. So there's one quick shot during
Speaker 2: like no scripts, and then the performance is obviously and
Speaker 2: so this was sort of like a similar thing. We've
Speaker 2: got to the group number at the end, like, okay,
Speaker 2: finally yes, next episode definitely, Oh my god, next episode, Jenna,
Speaker 2: I know, don't even it's Deva and we are getting
Speaker 2: some numbers. Oh my god. I might have to go
Speaker 2: watch it right now. I already did, did you mm
Speaker 2: hmm wow? Ready, Okay, I'm very excited to watch it.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll come back next week and recap with us.
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