Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me. We all about
Speaker 1: that high school drama, Girl drama, Girl, all about.
Speaker 2: Them high school queens. We'll take you for a ride.
Speaker 2: And our comic girl cheering for the right teams, drama.
Speaker 3: Queens, my girl of girl fashion, but your tough girl,
Speaker 3: you could sit with us.
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Speaker 4: How Holly for hero Sason eight, Episode fourteen, Air date
Speaker 4: February eighth, twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: Oh, this was a fun one. Hi, guys, Hey.
Speaker 5: Guys, Hello, Hello, this was a fun one. I feel
Speaker 5: like we went through a stretch of just a lot
Speaker 5: of heavy, high stakes drama, and we've been getting this
Speaker 5: lovely reprieve of wild bachelorette, bachelorette parties, dogs on skateboards,
Speaker 5: this episode of Superheroes and Spandex. I mean, it's fun ride.
Speaker 4: We're just having fun now.
Speaker 3: It really does feel like coasting into the second half
Speaker 3: of season eight.
Speaker 2: Everyone in the writer's room was like, let's just have
Speaker 2: a nice time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: Do you remember how tired we would be when we
Speaker 5: would come back from Christmas because we had already been
Speaker 5: shooting for so many months, and it's like that second
Speaker 5: half of a twenty two episode season is just tough.
Speaker 5: It's I'm sure it was very welcome when we saw
Speaker 5: scripts that were light and fun. Yeah, because to come
Speaker 5: back to heaviness, it's just it's challenging, it's hard.
Speaker 4: It was just too much. There was so much of
Speaker 4: us lamenting. We really needed this.
Speaker 5: Yes, lamenting so many times you can nearly die in
Speaker 5: a season, right, That's it.
Speaker 3: I was going to say lamenting, suffering, almost dying. It's
Speaker 3: like at some point people needed a breather. And even
Speaker 3: the fact that Peter Kowalski, our wonderful DP directed this episode.
Speaker 3: Pete Pete is the jolliest man a so to have
Speaker 3: someone who's just jolly and sweet do some really kind
Speaker 3: of silly, lighthearted material with us, you can see how
Speaker 3: much fun everyone's having in the episode.
Speaker 2: I totally agree.
Speaker 4: All right, here's the synopsis. Brooke, Quinn, and Hayley decide
Speaker 4: to use their talents for greater good to help a
Speaker 4: young girl being bullied. Meanwhile, Julian takes on a directing
Speaker 4: job and helps out a friend aka mouth Chase. Mentors
Speaker 4: Chuck and Nathan and his fellow classmates stand up to
Speaker 4: a bully of their own written by Heroin Strauss. Yeah
Speaker 4: they did not, They didn't. I mean, it wasn't nothing.
Speaker 4: It was it was like, you know, it was something they.
Speaker 5: Know they did. Absolutely, am I incorrect? They did nothing.
Speaker 5: It was it was Clay who weirdly shows up in
Speaker 5: the back of the classroom.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yes, yes, no, you're friends.
Speaker 5: They just sort of like talk at a poker table
Speaker 5: while studying.
Speaker 4: That's right, you did something. But Nathan, and we got
Speaker 4: Quentin who played Michael in The blind Side, Quentin who
Speaker 4: was a lovely person. He came and played Nathan's classmate
Speaker 4: in this episode. But yet, No, they really didn't do
Speaker 4: anything but complain.
Speaker 5: Tommy was his character's name. Yeah, but yeah they didn't.
Speaker 5: And also, I mean, we're going to get to it,
Speaker 5: but I have thoughts about that scene of showing up
Speaker 5: an adult and now having also been in college. I
Speaker 5: just I that was a very TV moment as opposed
Speaker 5: to how it probably would happen in real life.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So one of my favorite things about this episode
Speaker 4: was the showcase once again of Brooks unbelievable ability to
Speaker 4: sew at rapid speeds so fast, goll Lee, you're talented.
Speaker 3: Thanks, you know, it's it's really it is her superhero skill.
Speaker 2: Really. Yeah, three outfits in three minutes, let's go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so funny because everyone's talking about their superpowers
Speaker 5: in the episode and no one at any point goes,
Speaker 5: by the way, you sewed three complete, different sized costumes
Speaker 5: in twelve minutes, by the way.
Speaker 3: With buckles and zippers and corsets and pleather and gloves
Speaker 3: and tight.
Speaker 2: Masks, laser cut masks. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also, you got it all right on the first try.
Speaker 2: Perfectly. Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: I would say your Brooks vision, in her instincts and
Speaker 5: her hand eye coordination to sew that fast would definitely
Speaker 5: be the superpowers of the episode.
Speaker 4: A true skill that actually would be really funny in
Speaker 4: a superhero movie, just superheroes that have totally useless skills.
Speaker 4: I mean it's not totally useless, but in the realm
Speaker 4: of life saving, you know, as superheroes do someone who
Speaker 4: just can sew at an unbelievable rate, it would be
Speaker 4: really funny.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this is still a thing, but
Speaker 5: do you remember when you used to go to like
Speaker 5: fairs and carnivals and there was that person where you'd
Speaker 5: pay like five bucks and if they would guess your
Speaker 5: weight within five pounds, and if they were wrong, you
Speaker 5: got like a giant prize. Like they were like scary, right.
Speaker 4: This sounds like vaudeville. How old are you?
Speaker 2: Fifty nine?
Speaker 5: But it's it's like I don't see it anymore. But
Speaker 5: it was. It was this thing whereas like people who
Speaker 5: unless there was some sort of secret trick I'm unaware of,
Speaker 5: like they could just eyeball a person and be like
Speaker 5: one point thirty two two fourteen, and whenever I watched it,
Speaker 5: they were always really accurate. But I'm wondering if because
Speaker 5: of the times we live in now, we kind of
Speaker 5: pulled that one back.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe we did. Are you are you feeling like
Speaker 4: this is that Brooks superpower that she just knows she
Speaker 4: can just guess everything that measurement.
Speaker 5: She just looked at her friends and was like, I
Speaker 5: know your exact sizes for spandex, your head, your glove.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's crazy. It was a head to toe costume.
Speaker 2: Boots, all of it.
Speaker 5: You had a pregnant belly. She's never made something for
Speaker 5: you pregnant before?
Speaker 3: What I've never designed anything for a pregnant person and
Speaker 3: here we are, Oh wait, that's not true.
Speaker 2: I made Peyton's wedding dress. Sorry. Still though, still, that
Speaker 2: wasn't spandex.
Speaker 5: I would also say another superpower of Brooks is a
Speaker 5: sleep fighting, which is always funny to me to see
Speaker 5: on TV. But you really sold it very very well.
Speaker 5: That was a great way to open was with sleep fighting.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 4: That was so fun, the like cartoon opening, all of
Speaker 4: the different drawings so original.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun to see her boredom be sort
Speaker 3: of highlighted in a way that worked for the story
Speaker 3: and was also just adorable.
Speaker 2: I loved the comic book strips.
Speaker 3: I love that even Alex gets made into one, you know,
Speaker 3: in front of the red bedroom sign.
Speaker 2: Like it was. The whole thing was really just enjoyable.
Speaker 3: And I remember going into the office, like the art
Speaker 3: department office when we were getting this episode ready and
Speaker 3: seeing how they were doing all that stuff and just
Speaker 3: feeling really jazzed about what this was going to be
Speaker 3: like to play with. And I, you know, I love
Speaker 3: the scene where you come in and you basically catch
Speaker 3: me playing with like g I Joe figure.
Speaker 2: It's just so fun.
Speaker 4: It was a It was a really perfect setup for
Speaker 4: being out of work, not knowing what to do. She's home,
Speaker 4: She's so not a typical, you know, housewife, that old
Speaker 4: fashioned version of a housewife. You know, she just is
Speaker 4: like antsy and needing to do something with her hands
Speaker 4: and her time. And I really I thought it was
Speaker 4: really well done. The way Harrow and Strauss wrote this
Speaker 4: episode and the way that they would tied in all
Speaker 4: the little pieces, Chantelle's excitement, Quinn's excitement to just get
Speaker 4: to get out and do something.
Speaker 3: For it, for a secret or a scan or so
Speaker 3: adrenaline activity.
Speaker 4: Clay's just like, what do we have to can we
Speaker 4: we just got shot?
Speaker 5: Can we relax up?
Speaker 4: Just like no, I'm on, let's do it. Find me
Speaker 4: somebody else to fight. But all the little pieces tied together, Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it was It was fun using the crisis hotline
Speaker 4: as the as the way in it.
Speaker 2: All just all just worked.
Speaker 4: Everything came together well.
Speaker 3: And I like that we get to see you getting
Speaker 3: kind of pulled into Brooke and Quinn's desire for an
Speaker 3: activity on your own at the crisis center. When you
Speaker 3: start humming the Batman theme song and going Haley to yourself.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, we got her. And it's fun as
Speaker 3: an audience member to see Brooke and Quinn get Haley
Speaker 3: before Brook and Quinn know they've gotten Haley.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we had a ball. This was so fun
Speaker 4: to just do comedy, a whole episode of comedy. You know,
Speaker 4: before I got One Tree Hill. When I moved to
Speaker 4: LA from New York in my early twenties, I was
Speaker 4: the sitcom girl.
Speaker 2: Like I was.
Speaker 4: I would never got dramas. I was always doing sitcoms,
Speaker 4: all the pilots that I had done since I was fourteen.
Speaker 4: I was like the go to sitcom girl. And I
Speaker 4: got One Tree Hill and then I had to cry
Speaker 4: on command, which I kind of learned when I was
Speaker 4: on a soap opera for a couple of years. But
Speaker 4: but yeah, it was like, I just I've been crying
Speaker 4: on this show for so long.
Speaker 2: We all were.
Speaker 5: I was off camera so happy.
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh god, I was so happy to have some
Speaker 4: comedy in my life.
Speaker 2: God, it felt great to do this episode.
Speaker 5: Did kick Ass Like we we actually name check kick
Speaker 5: Ass a lot several times. So was it like a
Speaker 5: cross promotion or was it just the right time? I mean,
Speaker 5: because it was the popular movie, and we just asked
Speaker 5: if we could use their name. But you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, it was like weirdly specific, and we talked
Speaker 5: about it like at least three times.
Speaker 4: I think it had just come out and everybody was
Speaker 4: talking about and excited about it, right, and we had
Speaker 4: an that Halloween episode, and so it just made I
Speaker 4: don't know, so do you know behind the scenes on that.
Speaker 3: I don't remember. Honestly, I don't know where the obsession
Speaker 3: came from. But it felt really right, you know, certainly
Speaker 3: for me in this wanting to take the power back
Speaker 3: being able to do it, you know, with that movie,
Speaker 3: I remember tracked, but I don't know why it was
Speaker 3: such a focal point.
Speaker 4: I think superheroes were just having a moment, Like it
Speaker 4: was when everything right, like all the Marvel movies were
Speaker 4: starting to become a thing. Everybody was making a superhero
Speaker 4: show or a movie, and this was Yeah, it did
Speaker 4: that a lot, Like Yeah, so we started calming a
Speaker 4: lot on our show on pop culture things that were happening.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 5: It makes a good deal of sense because it kick
Speaker 5: ass as about two regular people who are just tired
Speaker 5: of it, and they so they're not they don't have
Speaker 5: any superpowers or even like super weapons or anything. So
Speaker 5: its sense. It was just odd because typically in our show,
Speaker 5: like in our universe, we're not actually like call like,
Speaker 5: we're not actually experiencing Well, you know that's not true though,
Speaker 5: because Julian's poster was a real movie. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: guess this isn't the first time. Yeah, we've done this
Speaker 5: because you know, typically on TV show that they're not
Speaker 5: actually talking about real life things, like everything is just
Speaker 5: sort of another piece of fiction from that universe.
Speaker 2: Skills had his whole notebook thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the notebook. But also like when gossip Girl was
Speaker 4: getting popular or they would do things that were we
Speaker 4: would sort of do you know, joke jokey things like
Speaker 4: Vampire Diaries. I feel like we were always commenting on
Speaker 4: things that not overtly, but there were all these sort
Speaker 4: of undercut commentaries on things that were going on. Right,
Speaker 4: Am I crazy? I feel like that happened a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it probably did. And just to completely
Speaker 5: hijack this, I have to go back and point out
Speaker 5: thanks to one of uh, our good buddy Easton reminded
Speaker 5: me that they these barkers, they weren't barkers, these vaudeville
Speaker 5: acts that would guess your weight. They would also guess
Speaker 5: your age too. Yeah, what a dangerous game. Could you
Speaker 5: imagine that your job is to guess people's age and weight?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I would I would lose all of
Speaker 5: the prizes on the first day because I would be
Speaker 5: wildly underguessing both for everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'd be like you somehow lost US ten thousand
Speaker 5: dollars worth of stuffed animals.
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, because I was trying not to get
Speaker 3: punched in the face.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was raised, right, guy, Come on, Okay, back
Speaker 5: to the show. Yeah, but the kick guessing it worked,
Speaker 5: and it was just it was so fun. I also
Speaker 5: really liked seeing Clay and Quinn just have a light scene. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's kind of giving her grief about the one picture
Speaker 5: he took of Millie diving for the bouquet, which was
Speaker 5: so fantastic, and it was like it was very easy,
Speaker 5: you just point and click, you know, but it was
Speaker 5: it's been so long because even though they've we've had
Speaker 5: a couple episodes since all of the Katie stuff, Like
Speaker 5: the last episode, if you remember, it was her telling
Speaker 5: him like I actually was stalking her, Like even then,
Speaker 5: it still wasn't liice. This is the first time we
Speaker 5: got to see the two of them like just being silly,
Speaker 5: just having fun. And I've missed that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially because their love story was born out of
Speaker 3: their friendship, their humor with each other, that kind of ease.
Speaker 2: It's nice to see them back in some ease. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And Clay's line about I have a strict rule in
Speaker 5: my life where I don't do anything that people wouldn't
Speaker 5: be feel sorry for me if I died doing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I wrote that down.
Speaker 5: So good.
Speaker 2: Poor guy, he just wanted to jump off.
Speaker 4: A bridge with a rope tight around his ankles. Come on, Yeah,
Speaker 4: so sad, that's great. Yeah. There were some really good lines,
Speaker 4: and there were great lines. I mean, Chuck Chuck had
Speaker 4: so many great throwaway lines, like you want to come
Speaker 4: over for dinner it's meat night.
Speaker 5: Chuck had two moments that were they were such good
Speaker 5: lines because they were really funny and then equally tragic. Yes,
Speaker 5: one of them was that you want to come over
Speaker 5: it's meat night, which I thought was so funny and
Speaker 5: again very sad. And then later in the episode, the
Speaker 5: chase is like saying something like us your dad around
Speaker 5: and he says no, he goes, I was supposed to
Speaker 5: my dad last summer, but he bailed and chases like,
Speaker 5: what what happened? And he said his favorite kid rock
Speaker 5: cover band was playing Can't pass stuff like that up?
Speaker 5: And I was like, it's such a funny choice to
Speaker 5: make it a cover band of kid rock of kid
Speaker 5: rock and also like again but simultaneously wildly tragic.
Speaker 4: This is what makes these guys such great, such a
Speaker 4: great team as writers. They were really capable of doing that,
Speaker 4: And Chuck is a perfect character for it too, because
Speaker 4: that's man. I mean, that's the heart of so much
Speaker 4: comedy everything on top of it. You know, it's hilarious
Speaker 4: on the top, but when you go to the notes
Speaker 4: a little bit below it, you're like, ooh, what's going
Speaker 4: on that it caused that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're great, so smart.
Speaker 5: Another gem they had was when Alex goes to red
Speaker 5: bedroom and Mea is there and she's like, hey, I
Speaker 5: want to I want to record, and me is basically
Speaker 5: just like, nah, you can get lost, and she goes, cool,
Speaker 5: I'll go talk to Haley. Why talk to the greasy
Speaker 5: rag when you can talk to the mechanic.
Speaker 2: It's like it's so good, Like, okay.
Speaker 4: But this is why I'm not here for Alex. I'm
Speaker 4: so over her. Just it's just it's so manipulative. She
Speaker 4: shows up and she's super bitchy and creates this This
Speaker 4: is like narcissism one on one, Like she creates all
Speaker 4: of this drama. Mia is just minding her own business.
Speaker 4: She comes in, creates all this drama. MIA's upset with her,
Speaker 4: like because she's been insulting her, and then when she
Speaker 4: comes back, she's like, I really just wish we could
Speaker 4: be professionals. Well, I think you're an amazing artist.
Speaker 5: Like off, I'm sorry, no, no, I'm going to push
Speaker 5: back on this one because I feel like when she
Speaker 5: shows up she is sincere. Also, we finally got some
Speaker 5: acknowledgment of her kissing Chase during the Truth.
Speaker 3: Which, by the way, I was like, wait, how does
Speaker 3: Mia know about that? But whatever, at least it was acknowledged.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean her and Chase had sex the wedding,
Speaker 5: so maybe they've been talking. I don't know. They had
Speaker 5: that weird exchange at the bar, so I don't know
Speaker 5: what's going on.
Speaker 2: Wait, are you talking about chasing Mia?
Speaker 5: Chasing. Mia had sex at the wedding.
Speaker 2: Right and Alex kissed Chase.
Speaker 3: During Alex and MIA's truce at the fundraiser night.
Speaker 4: At the ball, I forgot about that. Yeah, okay, I
Speaker 4: missed that moment in the scene.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: So I felt like she showed up, and I mean,
Speaker 5: I mean, listen, she brought the edge quick. But I
Speaker 5: felt like she started off not trying to be a jerk.
Speaker 5: But then I do hear what you're saying. I think
Speaker 5: she got the littlest bit of pushback from Mia, and
Speaker 5: then she said something the effect of like, yeah, I
Speaker 5: know you guys were back together when I saw him
Speaker 5: kissing that five foot brown mole, Harry Mole.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she just kept attacking her. It's like when when
Speaker 4: you're minding your own business and someone comes in and
Speaker 4: starts attacking you and you get upset, and then they're
Speaker 4: just like, oh look, Europe, you're so upset.
Speaker 2: You're so volatile. You're like, am I you're hysterical? Or
Speaker 2: am I normal person? And you're a jack?
Speaker 3: Well I also think that, I mean to your point, Joy,
Speaker 3: It's like, we obviously talk about this stuff a lot.
Speaker 3: The narcissistic tendency of baiting, baiting and baiting and baiting
Speaker 3: and picking on and picking on and picking out, and
Speaker 3: when someone finally retorts being like whoa, you're really intense,
Speaker 3: or like oof a, what a bully, and you're like,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, You've been bullying me for how long?
Speaker 2: And I finally told you to go yourself? And now
Speaker 2: I'm rude.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, But what I like about this this
Speaker 6: is the fun part, right, This is when you know
Speaker 6: the writing is good because you can have a whole
Speaker 6: room full of people be like I actually identify with Mia,
Speaker 6: and then you've got people being like, no, I actually
Speaker 6: identify with Alex.
Speaker 3: Well, I see the dynamic here and that that's when
Speaker 3: I know something is working because depending on how you
Speaker 3: see it, saw it, maybe your own personal history whatever, Like,
Speaker 3: everybody's got a different opinion.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, that's good writing.
Speaker 3: So hats off, hats off to Heroin Strauss because they're
Speaker 3: making us like actually feel things.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, and because Alex wants something, So there's the
Speaker 5: added layer two of like is this just an act
Speaker 5: to get what she wants? Now that she always dies?
Speaker 4: And hey, friend, yeah, I'm going to be the bigger
Speaker 4: person here. Yes, I just want to let you know
Speaker 4: that I'm the bigger person. I just want you to
Speaker 4: You're like.
Speaker 2: Is that what's happening.
Speaker 5: I'm also a little surprised that we waited this long
Speaker 5: to showcase Janna's singing. Yeah, typically when we bring people
Speaker 5: in who have a musical talent, and maybe just because
Speaker 5: she got brought in primarily as an actor, I probably
Speaker 5: maybe they wanted an actress who could sing, you know,
Speaker 5: But I just I found myself going, she's really good.
Speaker 5: This song is great. I'm just surprised it took us
Speaker 5: a season and a half to see this.
Speaker 2: Nobody knew when she came in.
Speaker 4: She was just kind came in as an actor, and
Speaker 4: as she got her series regular part in the show
Speaker 4: and continued to you know, build her own career in
Speaker 4: pr and all that, then she went to a record label.
Speaker 4: I think I'm correct about this. So, Janna, if you're
Speaker 4: out there and I'm miss telling your story, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: but this is what I remember. That she went to
Speaker 4: a record label and was working on getting a deal
Speaker 4: and so, and I don't know how it went down
Speaker 4: with talking with show writers or creators or whatever and
Speaker 4: saying like, hey, can I sing but eventually that was
Speaker 4: done in tandem with her record deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were still living together. Oh you were,
Speaker 2: so you know the story about it, and I do.
Speaker 3: Okay, tell Shanna was going back and forth to Nashville
Speaker 3: a lot, like she was really starting to pursue this
Speaker 3: because she does to your point, Rob, I mean, she's
Speaker 3: got such a great voice, and you know, there was
Speaker 3: a lot of how do you figure out somebody's schedule
Speaker 3: and how is she going to go and do this?
Speaker 3: And how is she going to stay on the show,
Speaker 3: and so you know, it becomes easier to work out
Speaker 3: doing two jobs at once, which no movie studio or
Speaker 3: record label really wants to let you do unless it's
Speaker 3: mutually beneficial. Yeah, and so I think there was a
Speaker 3: you know, if my memory serves me correctly, I mean,
Speaker 3: my god, this is over a decade ago. But I
Speaker 3: don't remember if it was the label that got in
Speaker 3: talks with Warner Brothers or with Warner Brothers that gotten
Speaker 3: talks with her label.
Speaker 2: Obviously we'll have to have her come and talk to
Speaker 2: us about it again on an episode.
Speaker 3: But they worked it out, and yeah, I mean she
Speaker 3: was just like flying back and forth all the time.
Speaker 4: It did feel like it kind of came out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's a surprise on the show, That's what
Speaker 3: I mean. Yeah, for the character, you're like, wait what.
Speaker 3: And I do think they were smart at least two have.
Speaker 3: I liked that they had the her saying the thing
Speaker 3: everyone knew she'd never said on camera to Quinn at
Speaker 3: the hotel and Quinn being like, yes, you told me
Speaker 3: one million times during Brooks Bachelorette because everyone blacked out,
Speaker 3: So it was like, oh okay, like they nodded to
Speaker 3: their own surprise for the audience, I thought, in a
Speaker 3: very clever way. Yeah, But I do think when people
Speaker 3: are like, well that seems random, it's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: they had to get a deal done with the studio
Speaker 3: and the record label, and they weren't gonna worth talking
Speaker 3: about it until everything was settled. But yeah, then Jana was,
Speaker 3: you know, going back and forth out of our little
Speaker 3: apartment in downtown and going to Nashville and just I
Speaker 3: mean she threw herself into it like so full steamad
Speaker 3: and it was so cool to watch it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, super talented. But I do wish they had teased
Speaker 4: it out a little bit more. I wish there had
Speaker 4: been just more of a yeah overnight, like, oh, by
Speaker 4: the way, I've always wanted to be a singer.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean they're gonna let me sing on my
Speaker 2: next movie. You're like, what next movie? What singing? Yeah,
Speaker 2: There's so many.
Speaker 4: Ways to have done it and introduced it that this
Speaker 4: felt a little weak to me. But I'm glad we got.
Speaker 2: It in there.
Speaker 4: Rob, Sorry, you keep wanting to say something, you.
Speaker 5: Know, I'm just it's like, I wish I had that
Speaker 5: good of a talent that I could just like sandbag
Speaker 5: and randomly pull out a half later, like I show
Speaker 5: up and my bag of tricks has been exposed in
Speaker 5: like thirty minutes. You like, I've already peaked. You've seen
Speaker 5: all of my things, and it's like casually a year
Speaker 5: and a half into the job, She's like, oh, by
Speaker 5: the way, I can sing like a beautiful song like
Speaker 5: an angel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I write amazing songs too.
Speaker 5: Oh can you dance too? Like, oh, are you a
Speaker 5: triple threat? And just have been hiding it?
Speaker 4: She bust out her tap shooth seriously, so funny.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 5: The song was great. It worked awesome in the episode and.
Speaker 4: Chase, speaking of you know, Alex and Chase. I've loved
Speaker 4: that we got to watch him in a new role
Speaker 4: besides just being a bartender and being the guy that's like, oh,
Speaker 4: I can't decide between two girls, like to actually have
Speaker 4: a depth of character, to work with this kid and
Speaker 4: try and discover a new part of his character, his personality.
Speaker 2: Big Brother was a great choice also for.
Speaker 4: Chase, and fun for Steven. Really fun to watch him
Speaker 4: in that role because I never I don't know that
Speaker 4: I would have put I would have put skills there,
Speaker 4: I would have put mouth there.
Speaker 2: But Chase, who's always just.
Speaker 4: Been interacting with the adults, he does have so much
Speaker 4: to offer and to see like his kind heart and
Speaker 4: see so much more of him than just the guy
Speaker 4: that's being torn between two women's was really nice.
Speaker 5: Break I agree. Also, I mean, I'm I'm gonna say that,
Speaker 5: and this is a big statement given our show. In
Speaker 5: these characters' histories, but Chuck may have one of the
Speaker 5: most tragic backstories and lives of all the characters. I mean,
Speaker 5: his dad is obviously like a no show deadbeat, and
Speaker 5: when he does show, he's apt because advice clearly is awful,
Speaker 5: So he's just wasted space and his mom, we come
Speaker 5: to find out, is the woman who is day drinking
Speaker 5: in an empty trick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like this kidnas heady.
Speaker 5: I think, goodness, he gets Chase, who's actually earnest and
Speaker 5: excited to be there and trying to, you know, be
Speaker 5: a good role model for him. Yeah. And because I
Speaker 5: remember this storyline and where it's headed, it's it's great,
Speaker 5: but it kind of tells me. I've always thought like
Speaker 5: that Chuck's a dick, and now I'm like, yeah, but
Speaker 5: you know, you know, yeah, he gets he gets an excuse.
Speaker 4: That's the brilliance of Hero and Strauss again, that they
Speaker 4: saw they knew the storyline for Chuck. They've seen all
Speaker 4: the stuff that we've done, and he's always been a
Speaker 4: caricature of himself, his family. You know, we joke about
Speaker 4: why his mom's an alcoholic, you know, and it's like
Speaker 4: always a punchline. And instead of instead of actually treating
Speaker 4: it with the tenderness that it deserves, which even in
Speaker 4: the comedy, as you're saying, it's so tragic underneath it all.
Speaker 4: That's the brilliance of it is that you can treat
Speaker 4: something with tenderness by being honest about how humans behave
Speaker 4: or round tragedy, which often is making light of it,
Speaker 4: but trusting the audience to be smart enough to feel
Speaker 4: all those layers and really giving Chuck and his mom
Speaker 4: too these little moments where instead of them being caricatures,
Speaker 4: we actually really care about them and see their humanity.
Speaker 4: It added so much to our show, even that.
Speaker 5: Little moment of they kind of the in the very
Speaker 5: short amount of time that she was on camera. It
Speaker 5: was very efficient in that they humanized her a bit,
Speaker 5: because you're right, Joy, all she has ever been is
Speaker 5: a punchline. I don't even know if we've ever seen
Speaker 5: this actress before. I don't.
Speaker 4: We haven't, right, Yeah, I feel like we have, but
Speaker 4: maybe she just looks familiar.
Speaker 2: Because okay, at least oh yeah, in school? I like,
Speaker 2: did we slap her?
Speaker 4: Did I slap her? Did she like what happened? Something
Speaker 4: happened with her at school?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You guys had a little kerfuffull of some fight.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But I just liked that rather than because they
Speaker 5: could have just had her drunk at the bar and
Speaker 5: didn't even say anything. But I like that she rather
Speaker 5: than throwing herself at Chase, even though she's kind of
Speaker 5: doing it, she says, if I weren't off men right now,
Speaker 5: So it's kind of like, oh, so she's aware her
Speaker 5: husband is a dud. She's struggling, you know, like it
Speaker 5: was just it was just enough to go like, okay,
Speaker 5: there's a human being there, as opposed to just like
Speaker 5: a punchline and a cautionary tale.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also think it would have been it would have
Speaker 3: really been a hat on a hat after Mia and
Speaker 3: Alex fighting over him, to have like another random woman
Speaker 3: just throwing herself at It's like, guys, this is not how.
Speaker 2: People interact in the real world. So yeah, it's to
Speaker 2: your point.
Speaker 3: It's nice because it it gives us a backstory for
Speaker 3: her to know that she's been in a struggle with this,
Speaker 3: you know, with Chuck's dad, her ex. However she identifies
Speaker 3: him in her life. It sounds like they're split, if
Speaker 3: you know, the guy hasn't seen his kid in a year.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it just gives a little bit of extra depth,
Speaker 3: and then it gives us information as an audience when
Speaker 3: we're hearing all these terrible things that Chuck's dad says
Speaker 3: to him, these sort of terrible life lessons that he's
Speaker 3: giving this young boy you know, and you go, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm beginning to get the picture here of why that
Speaker 3: kid acts the way he acts, of why he might
Speaker 3: be competitive with his best friend, of why he might
Speaker 3: be acting out.
Speaker 2: In a way. And it is really nice to see,
Speaker 2: just like a grown up who cares, try to be
Speaker 2: a mentor.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, there are very few instances in which being
Speaker 5: raised by a pack of wolves would have been preferable
Speaker 5: to your actual parents. And I think Chuck may qualify.
Speaker 4: You may qualify because what is that.
Speaker 5: My dad says guys can bail on each other all
Speaker 5: the time. It's like, your dad's terrible.
Speaker 2: He's the worst. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And when Chuck, oh, I forgot about this moment, you know,
Speaker 4: you do this punch thing where he punches Chase and
Speaker 4: he's like, you just got chucked. You know. It's like
Speaker 4: funny at first, but when he invites Chase to dinner
Speaker 4: and Chase starts saying, oh, I can't really do that
Speaker 4: or like it wouldn't be appropriate or whatever, Chuck immediately
Speaker 4: regresses and punches him as like, oh, it's the joke again,
Speaker 4: ha ha, you know, just trying to cover up the
Speaker 4: immense pain of feeling rejected by somebody he's just starting
Speaker 4: to trust again. There were so many layers in this
Speaker 4: storyline and it was so quick in the episode, but
Speaker 4: the more we talk about it, the more impressed I am.
Speaker 5: Also, it was great because I love Stephen and I
Speaker 5: think he hasn't been given a lot to do on
Speaker 5: the show. Yeah, he's just sort of been the like
Speaker 5: guy between two gals. So this was really nice to
Speaker 5: get to give him the opportunity to play a different speed.
Speaker 5: And I loved because we see how earnest he is,
Speaker 5: like the fact that he shows up wearing a pilot's
Speaker 5: hat and that he got a second pilot hat for Chuck.
Speaker 5: It's like, and he's waiting out in front of the car,
Speaker 5: I thought like, Oh, he's actually putting effort in, like
Speaker 5: he cares right. And then that Chuck walks out and
Speaker 5: goes nice hat do they make him for guys and
Speaker 5: slaps it out of his hand. Was so funny, and
Speaker 5: it made me feel so bad for Chase that he's
Speaker 5: like he's putting himself out there and this nine year
Speaker 5: old just absolutely bodies him.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. I love I love too, the way
Speaker 2: every storyline really has to do.
Speaker 4: With different ways to deal with your bullies. I mean,
Speaker 4: Chuck's always been a bully, except when he kind of
Speaker 4: became friends with Jamie, but through being a bully, he
Speaker 4: was a bully first. And then the way that I
Speaker 4: guess Alex and Mia feel like they're kind of bullying
Speaker 4: each other all the time. I mean, whatever that storyline is.
Speaker 4: But but yeah, everything kind of all ties together.
Speaker 5: What did you guys think about the Clay showing up
Speaker 5: in the classroom scene.
Speaker 4: I thought, in real life the teacher would probably not
Speaker 4: have let him talk so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a big hero moment, and you go,
Speaker 3: this is cute.
Speaker 2: But what Yeah, what did you think of it?
Speaker 4: Wrong?
Speaker 5: To me? I laughed, you know, because it joins exactly right.
Speaker 5: It's like, if someone's in your class who's not a student,
Speaker 5: you don't entertain that, especially when they're trying to prove
Speaker 5: you inadequate or wrong. So the fact that he humors
Speaker 5: me and like lets me and then asks me a
Speaker 5: question back, I was just like, and it's just odd
Speaker 5: because he's not it's not really like owning the guy.
Speaker 5: He's not really rubbing his nose anything. He's just like
Speaker 5: not the real world.
Speaker 4: It just I wish Clay had brought the actual basketball
Speaker 4: player that he was talking about, or was a football
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 5: Football, Yeah, Troy, the guy he just signed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wish he had actually brought the guy. Yes,
Speaker 4: that would have been something that stopped the class well, and.
Speaker 2: That probably would have made Kellerman pause.
Speaker 3: But the thing that I sort of couldn't get over
Speaker 3: was that he was essentially showing you deference and respect
Speaker 3: in his own classroom, where he's made it clear that
Speaker 3: he doesn't respect anyone. Yeah, anyone's experiences, anyone's opinions, anyone's BMI.
Speaker 3: Like he's literally fat shaming a male athlete. Like the
Speaker 3: whole thing is so he he doesn't care about other
Speaker 3: people's feelings or experiences, and then he just is wrapped
Speaker 3: with attention while Clay's on me and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't get it well.
Speaker 5: And it was also odd because there was a perfect
Speaker 5: opportunity for Clay to go, Yeah, a top ten NFL
Speaker 5: draft just got some by one of your students because
Speaker 5: of this gay like he had an opportunity to really
Speaker 5: big up Nathan, and instead he kept it all about
Speaker 5: the agency and therefore himself because he never establishes a
Speaker 5: connection and it was just like, this isn't your fight,
Speaker 5: and why wouldn't you take that opportunity to be like
Speaker 5: one of your students did exactly that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the only I totally thought that too.
Speaker 4: But also I think I giving Clay the benefit of
Speaker 4: the doubt that he wouldn't have wanted to cause more
Speaker 4: trouble for Nathan because at this point there was you're
Speaker 4: just a total stranger. But if he was tied to Nathan,
Speaker 4: then it would have.
Speaker 5: Yes, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, maybe put a bigger target on his back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think also Nathan doesn't have
Speaker 5: his degree yet, so he shouldn't be practicing as an agent.
Speaker 5: So right, it's well, this skeleton guy is a jerk,
Speaker 5: you don't want to give him that information to a
Speaker 5: good point.
Speaker 4: But even more the reason why than the actual football
Speaker 4: walking in and being like, hey, one of you know,
Speaker 4: somebody one of your students or maybe not.
Speaker 5: Just like.
Speaker 2: I'll never mind, I take it back. I just I
Speaker 2: think it would have made more.
Speaker 5: You're right, Joy, How cool would that moment have been
Speaker 5: if it had been Clay talking and going hold on
Speaker 5: a second, hey, Troy, how much did we how much
Speaker 5: was a signing bonus? And then Troy's and outside the
Speaker 5: class going I was sixty eight million.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and hugs and a hug and a.
Speaker 5: Hug exactly and a hug. It's not too late to
Speaker 5: reshoot that scene, right, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Totally absolutely well, we'll figure out how to pay for it.
Speaker 5: I loved also because there were parts of the episode where,
Speaker 5: like just going back to the bowling, I loved that
Speaker 5: there was the moment of like there was a great
Speaker 5: blend of blurring reality and then also sticking to it, like, yeah,
Speaker 5: there's this great moment when Quinn walks into the room
Speaker 5: when Haley and Brook are talking and I think maybe
Speaker 5: she turns to leave, and suddenly Brooke is behind her. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: I can't let you do that, and true Batman style,
Speaker 5: and of course Quinn is like what the hell Like,
Speaker 5: So that was one of those ones where it's like
Speaker 5: we sort of bent the rules and I loved it.
Speaker 4: And when the girls enters with the bushes, is that
Speaker 4: what you're gonna say?
Speaker 5: Yes, because with the flipping, I was like, oh what,
Speaker 5: And then of course we see you all awkwardly stepping
Speaker 5: over the hedge.
Speaker 7: I'm like, perfect, yeah, yeah, it's actually just it's how
Speaker 7: cool we think we look and then you see that
Speaker 7: we're just We're just a couple of awkward gals.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And there's another great line. I think maybe it was
Speaker 5: a Hailey. It was either Haley or Brook when uh,
Speaker 5: it's in a discussion about standing up to these bullies
Speaker 5: and someone's like apprehensive and the line is relax, their
Speaker 5: kids not crips.
Speaker 2: Brook says it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well done.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: There were a few things I have in the episode
Speaker 3: that gave me a giggle, like being when I say
Speaker 3: to Haley, no one's gonna hit a pregnant lady.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she goes, you want me to use my onborn
Speaker 2: baby as a human shield. It's like just the humor
Speaker 2: that they gave to us in this I really had
Speaker 2: a nice time with.
Speaker 4: It was just so much comic timing. I love that
Speaker 4: they just wrote the jokes and trusted us to handle
Speaker 4: them because it was so fun, the three of us
Speaker 4: being able to play off of each other and it
Speaker 4: wasn't set upset up, laugh it was pure, just like
Speaker 4: they just wrote it real and we we were able
Speaker 4: to you know, insert the just in our relationships, insert
Speaker 4: that comedy. But I loved this scene with the three
Speaker 4: of us.
Speaker 2: Being so ridiculous in front of these girls.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine, especially now as a mom, that I
Speaker 4: go into high I mean, I go into the middle school,
Speaker 4: in the high school, and I see these kids all
Speaker 4: the time. If I showed up with two of my friends.
Speaker 3: In span spanding masks trying to protect I mean, thank
Speaker 3: god Haley.
Speaker 4: Did have a trick up her sleep, because I think
Speaker 4: it worked. But I mean, and she's like missus Scott,
Speaker 4: so mortified, so embarrassing.
Speaker 5: Quinn getting overly excited was such a wonderful Quinn moment. Yes,
Speaker 5: and you, guys happened even in the height of all
Speaker 5: of the three of you being amped. You had to
Speaker 5: be like, hey, hey, hey, I'm.
Speaker 4: Shut her bug. This is after she's taking the photos
Speaker 4: with the camera backwards. Didn't either of you notice that
Speaker 4: I didn't, Yes, completely backwards. She just taking photos of
Speaker 4: herself over and over again. But it looks like the girls.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: The whole thing is so absurd.
Speaker 5: It's absurd and it's great and it was fun also
Speaker 5: funny and absurd. Let's talk about Julian's commercial. Yes, the
Speaker 5: TC the THCHG. Has that ever been done? On the show.
Speaker 4: But for that reference, oh no.
Speaker 5: Wow, well that was that was great because it was
Speaker 5: just a thing.
Speaker 4: It was just becoming a thing. I mean, marijuana wasn't
Speaker 4: legal almost anywhere except maybe Colorado or Oregon or something,
Speaker 4: but like THHC was not. I don't think it was
Speaker 4: legal at that point. I don't know that dates the show.
Speaker 5: That like a pot reference was a was a big deal.
Speaker 5: So here's what I thought was so funny about it was. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's at the end of it, right, if you go
Speaker 5: back and watch closely, Lee finish her mouth finishes his take.
Speaker 5: Julian calls cut and for some reason, he's in mouth
Speaker 5: is sitting on a little mini sofa. For some reason,
Speaker 5: there was an ad on his hands and knees behind
Speaker 5: the couch. Watch when he calls cut, that little guy
Speaker 5: who has a line or two sorry, the smaller guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he just.
Speaker 5: Stands up from behind, like that's something you would only
Speaker 5: ever do if like a to have off camera dialogue
Speaker 5: red ye.
Speaker 3: Where someone has like the fishing wire that's pulling the
Speaker 3: door open because it looks like the house is haunted.
Speaker 5: The camera is five feet away from Lee, like there's
Speaker 5: no reason on earth that they wanted to have this
Speaker 5: poor guy on his hands and knees behind the couch.
Speaker 5: Yet as soon as cut is called, he pops up,
Speaker 5: which I was like, this is incredible. Why is it happening?
Speaker 5: And then the fact that like fifty crew members appear
Speaker 5: for this local commercial. The clap out League gets is
Speaker 5: the kind of clap out as an actor you get
Speaker 5: when you are wrapping a show after like nine seasons. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's incredible. The budget for this local commercial was that
Speaker 5: of like a super Bowl commercial.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was pretty amazing, But why.
Speaker 5: Was Here's the thing too, There's no way that was scripted.
Speaker 5: You don't ever get that specific in the action text,
Speaker 5: which makes me wonder, was Pete just being funny?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 5: Why was that? Why was that young man behind the couch?
Speaker 4: I can see it happening, you know, depending on what
Speaker 4: time of day they had they shot it. I mean,
Speaker 4: everybody was just having a good time on this episode,
Speaker 4: it seems like, and Pete being the jolliest guy ever.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it was just like, yeah, okay, we just
Speaker 4: need to fill it in a little bit more. You,
Speaker 4: I don't know, crouch down behind the couch. You go
Speaker 4: stand over there and hold the boom, like, let's just
Speaker 4: fill it in and get it done.
Speaker 5: You go like you're hide and go seeking behind the couch,
Speaker 5: the only actor in the shot. Okay, there was one
Speaker 5: other moment that made me laugh out loud for absolutely
Speaker 5: the silliest of reasons. It's the very end of the episode.
Speaker 5: You've all come home, and it's now Quinnstern to come home,
Speaker 5: and she's being cute and flirty with Clay and she
Speaker 5: pushes him down on the bag bed and she's like,
Speaker 5: shut her, Bug's gonna get you. And then she holds
Speaker 5: her hand up in the air. She snaps and the
Speaker 5: lights go off, which means they have to have some
Speaker 5: type of clap or such a lash. Yeah, And if
Speaker 5: they had a clapper situation, then that would have meant
Speaker 5: every time Katie shot the gun, the light would have
Speaker 5: gone off and on. And I just thought it would
Speaker 5: have been so funny if when she shot Quinn, the
Speaker 5: light went off, went walk back over, turn it back on,
Speaker 5: go back to her spot, shoot walk back over, turn
Speaker 5: it back.
Speaker 4: Or flip it up and like try and clap while she's.
Speaker 5: Holding the gun and or just shoot the ceiling like boom,
Speaker 5: she shoots Quinn. Then she shoots the ceiling. That would
Speaker 5: have been such a tremendous moment to see. To see
Speaker 5: Katie caught off guard by the clapper.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absurd. The clapper saves lives.
Speaker 5: It's such a dumb thing to point out, but it
Speaker 5: really really cracked me up. It's great, okay, you know
Speaker 5: who absolutely walk off home run Antoine. She has this
Speaker 5: amazing moment. First of all, so good to have Lisa back,
Speaker 5: and so good to have Mouth and Milly back because
Speaker 5: they're adorable together. I love the moment, by the way,
Speaker 5: when is sort of confiding in Julian about how He's like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, and Julian shows him the picture of
Speaker 5: Millie diving for the bouquet, and he's like, does this
Speaker 5: look like a woman who wants to take things slow?
Speaker 5: But it's at the scene at the table in Skills
Speaker 5: and Mouth's apartment when he asks, when Mouth asks Millie
Speaker 5: to move in, and all of a sudden, they cut
Speaker 5: from this close tight two shot sort of back to
Speaker 5: like a kind of like a bigger, wider shot, almost
Speaker 5: like a master and you see Skills get up from
Speaker 5: behind the couch, doesn't say a word, just reaches between them,
Speaker 5: grabs a fry and then Pat's mouth on the shoulder
Speaker 5: and walks out. But like, do yourself a favor and
Speaker 5: go back and watch the that moment, because the expression
Speaker 5: on Antoine's face is perfect.
Speaker 2: Is it just totally like stoic, just like he's like,
Speaker 2: I'm not here.
Speaker 5: No, no, it's like he's it's sort of like he's
Speaker 5: proud of mouth. And it's also about for in time. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's like this knowing, like at a boy. So the
Speaker 5: fact that they gave him no words is perfect because
Speaker 5: his face says it all. And the choice to steal
Speaker 5: a French fry is great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I watch it on my phone, so I think
Speaker 4: I was just he was probably a little too small
Speaker 4: for me to notice his facial expression there, So I'll
Speaker 4: have to go back and watch that.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 4: He always made such interesting choices, Antoine, so fun and.
Speaker 5: Last but not least, so if you broke the fourth
Speaker 5: wall at the end. Have we ever done that intentionally?
Speaker 3: I don't think we had, but it was it was exactly.
Speaker 3: It was something Peter really wanted and so we talked
Speaker 3: a lot about the way that it worked in Ferris Bueller,
Speaker 3: and we just went for it.
Speaker 2: Did they do it.
Speaker 4: In kick Ass as well? Was that kind of the I.
Speaker 3: Don't remember, not to be honest, but I do know
Speaker 3: that we shot that both ways just in case the
Speaker 3: studio didn't like it, So making it in the episode
Speaker 3: was cool for all of us.
Speaker 2: We were like, all right, the vision worked.
Speaker 4: Did you get to keep any of the art of
Speaker 4: you as the Dazzle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they gave me.
Speaker 3: When we wrapped that season, they gave me like a
Speaker 3: framed storyboard of a couple of those shots that were
Speaker 3: really sweet.
Speaker 4: I'm super into you being a superhero, Like, where do
Speaker 4: we start this campaign? I need as my next Marvel
Speaker 4: superhero tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You'd be great. I'm so into it. All I want
Speaker 2: to do is stunts and run around.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure Hollywood's listening.
Speaker 2: Great Hollywood, if you're listening, Hello, super serious hair.
Speaker 4: You know, this is the mistake that they make in
Speaker 4: a lot of these I mean, Marvel's getting it, but
Speaker 4: there's just such a lack of comedy, in my opinion,
Speaker 4: in some of these superhero movies that I this is
Speaker 4: what I is what you love about Indiana Jones or
Speaker 4: what down he did in Iron Man. You know, it's
Speaker 4: just so brilliant because that's the real life that you
Speaker 4: need to relate if you're going to watch something that
Speaker 4: is super reality.
Speaker 2: To be able to.
Speaker 4: Watch something that has has its roots down dropped into
Speaker 4: real human feelings like this is terrifying making jokes you
Speaker 4: know what we would do if we were in the
Speaker 4: middle of a really scary situation. Especially the female superheroes,
Speaker 4: there's always this sense of like the Laura Croft of
Speaker 4: it all, like I'm so sexy, look at me, instead
Speaker 4: of like, where is the superhero woman who can fall
Speaker 4: like be sexy but also fall on her face and
Speaker 4: be like that definitely was not my plan.
Speaker 2: I want to see about the humor, I know.
Speaker 5: I think that's part of the reason Guardians of the
Speaker 5: Galaxy was so successful. Yes, because like Iron Man worked,
Speaker 5: but that was that was a lot of just Downy
Speaker 5: doing that's him, Yes, that's just him bringing his own thing.
Speaker 5: Whereas Guardians was intentionally funny. There was dialogue that was
Speaker 5: very funny, and then they brought in people who could
Speaker 5: do funny, and I think that's why it worked so
Speaker 5: well because it was sort of a new tone we
Speaker 5: hadn't seen yet. Yeah, in Big tent Pole superhero movies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm dying to watch a woman be a superhero
Speaker 4: like that. I really have not seen it, but I
Speaker 4: would love to.
Speaker 5: Do.
Speaker 4: We want to do an honorable mention. I think so
Speaker 4: a good mind to Michael Mays. I thought Michael was great.
Speaker 4: Sorry to interrupt, Yeah, I just I thought he nailed it,
Speaker 4: every piece of it. He actually seemed to understand a
Speaker 4: level of the depth that they had written for him.
Speaker 4: He wasn't just saying lines. He really like there was
Speaker 4: some stuff underneath his performance that I appreciated for a
Speaker 4: kid that age totally.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, you know, our department and wardrobe,
Speaker 3: because they really without their comic strip in those costumes,
Speaker 3: this might not have been so funny. It might have
Speaker 3: just been really embarrassing. And I thought they really helped us.
Speaker 3: They helped us get over what we were all a
Speaker 3: little anxious about when we read this script and we
Speaker 3: were like, who ate an edible and wrote this?
Speaker 2: Like what is going on? And they helped us pull
Speaker 2: it off. So really, you know, hats off to those teams.
Speaker 5: I'll give my honorable mention to the gentleman who ate
Speaker 5: an edible and wrote this script. They did a fantastic job. Yes,
Speaker 5: all right, listener question, Oh okay, nickname clow motion. If
Speaker 5: someone asked you to describe your character by recommending one
Speaker 5: episode for them to watch, what episode would you recommend?
Speaker 4: Ooh, it might be this one. To be honest, I
Speaker 4: mean you see all sides of Hayley. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: sorry if it's crazy, but like, you get to see
Speaker 4: all sides of hers. She's a goof she's a teacher.
Speaker 4: She handles, she takes control, handle situation. She's always kind
Speaker 4: of bouncing around, handling and solving things for people all
Speaker 4: the time. She's a trusted friend. She's a mom, she's
Speaker 4: a wife. She's a goofball. She's also like serious and
Speaker 4: really cares about people. What you see in the crisis Center,
Speaker 4: I think you get to see it like the whole range.
Speaker 4: So sure, eight fourteen.
Speaker 5: Except they're going to watch the second episode and be like,
Speaker 5: where's all the spandex? But no, that's good.
Speaker 4: Just for Haley. I would say this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how about Brooke.
Speaker 2: God, I really don't know.
Speaker 3: We're so far in you know, part of me thinks,
Speaker 3: to your point about this episode for Haley, I'm like, wait,
Speaker 3: would the Bachelorette episode be so funny for Brooke, and
Speaker 3: then part of me goes to, you know, the one
Speaker 3: at the end of season six where she finally admits
Speaker 3: to Julian that she loves him, you know, on the
Speaker 3: movie set because she really had to process.
Speaker 2: Some things, and oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Then there's some high school stuff. It's like in what
Speaker 3: stage and place?
Speaker 2: You know? That feels tough, But I guess, you.
Speaker 3: Know, to the point of the person asking, yeah, if
Speaker 3: you really wanted to get to know one of us
Speaker 3: in one episode, I guess when we're more adult, it
Speaker 3: makes sense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what about the one where Victoria you find out
Speaker 4: Victoria is the one that sabotaged the company and she
Speaker 4: comes in and.
Speaker 2: What were you guys fight it was? She had that
Speaker 2: great line, Yeah it's prison mother or something like that
Speaker 2: when we fought in the store. I feel, unless.
Speaker 4: I'm blending episodes together in my mind, I feel like
Speaker 4: that episode was pretty well rounded for Brooke because you
Speaker 4: got to see her relationship with her mom, her company,
Speaker 4: the thing's falling apart, how she's handled it, her integrity,
Speaker 4: the struggle that she's wrestling with between being you know,
Speaker 4: being a good boss and a good person and trying
Speaker 4: to save herself and her work and maintain her relationships,
Speaker 4: and there was a lot to Brook in that episode.
Speaker 5: I also don't think you could go wrong with the
Speaker 5: Bachelorte episode. I agree with you because you see a
Speaker 5: pretty full spectrum of who Brooke is, starting with the silliness,
Speaker 5: ending with the grace towards Sylvia, and that's true. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: to see a really good thorough picture.
Speaker 4: Of Brook and that yes, oh and her willingness to
Speaker 4: have to admit about Yeah.
Speaker 5: Truth I think is I don't know, high school Brook.
Speaker 5: But I agree with you. I would sort of go
Speaker 5: I would skew adult because that's like who everyone's growing into.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think that one would do it.
Speaker 2: What do you think for Clay?
Speaker 5: You know, I think the episode where he proposes to
Speaker 5: Quinn with Logan in there with the Green Lantern.
Speaker 2: Ring, Yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 5: I think you really get a glimpse of Clay's world
Speaker 5: and what's important to him. I think he's also figured himself.
Speaker 2: Out a lot by that and his personality you can
Speaker 2: really see there too. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's really settled in himself. So yeah, I would
Speaker 5: say that episode is a really good snapshot of who
Speaker 5: I think he.
Speaker 2: Is great question close, Yeah, good one. Well it's been
Speaker 2: a real folks, let's do it.
Speaker 5: Most likely to guess age and wait at a fair.
Speaker 4: Oh, most likely.
Speaker 5: To organize a flash mob.
Speaker 4: I mean I would totally do that person. I don't
Speaker 4: think Haley would.
Speaker 2: No, it's funny. My my initial person reaction was Lisa Goldstein,
Speaker 2: Oh really really yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, because she's such a good dancer, and you know
Speaker 3: she was a Disney princess for so long. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: she's used to the parades, and he's in a flashmob
Speaker 3: kind of a choreographed parade.
Speaker 2: It is. That's where my head went immediately.
Speaker 4: I feel like you would probably not volunteer for that job,
Speaker 4: but you also would be really good at it though,
Speaker 4: So because you are, I think you'd be a good coordinator.
Speaker 4: So if somebody gave you that job at like for
Speaker 4: their wedding, Like one of your friends was like, I
Speaker 4: need you to organize a flash mob for my wedding,
Speaker 4: I think you'd be all over it.
Speaker 3: I would be so stressed, but I would not let
Speaker 3: him down. I'd be like, God, I hate that.
Speaker 2: It's me. I have to find a choreographer now.
Speaker 4: If I ever get married. Again, I'm putting you on
Speaker 4: the project. I agree, just for fun.
Speaker 5: She was out of her comfort zone doing that, though,
Speaker 5: And let's be honest, we saw the way she danced.
Speaker 5: I don't think showing anyone how to dance, so no,
Speaker 5: I don't think it would be that.
Speaker 2: It's fair.
Speaker 3: That's fair after seeing how seriously he took his ushering
Speaker 3: job at Brooke and Julian's wedding, I would say, skills,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't expect.
Speaker 2: It, but I think he would crush it, Skills and
Speaker 2: Jamie if you sent them out to make that happenable. Yeah,
Speaker 2: where's that episode?
Speaker 5: I could also see Mouth organizing something like that for Millie.
Speaker 5: He just seems he just because he's just so sweet.
Speaker 5: I could just see if that was something she liked, because,
Speaker 5: like we obviously know, ballerinas are a thing for her.
Speaker 5: I could see him going out of his comfort zone
Speaker 5: for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, we've solved it, folks, We've done it. Everyone.
Speaker 5: Next episode is season eight, episode fifteen, Valentine's Day is over.
Speaker 3: See that makes it sound like everyone's fun is also
Speaker 3: coming to annou No?
Speaker 2: Oh, no, is it? Do we know?
Speaker 5: I don't know what happened to you to find out.
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