Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, this episode of Boy Meets World is called
Speaker 1: the Eskimo. We have talked about it briefly in a
Speaker 1: previous podcast episode, but we are not gonna mention it
Speaker 1: throughout the episode. But we are aware that the term
Speaker 1: eskimo is a derogatory term seen by many as offensive.
Speaker 1: So it was recorded during a different time and we're
Speaker 1: not going to harp on it through the episode, but
Speaker 1: we did just want to acknowledge that we know it
Speaker 1: is not a term that would be used today.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if either of you are aware
Speaker 2: of this, but I'm I'm married a woman named Susan,
Speaker 2: beautiful woman, and we have a dog named Sammy. Nice
Speaker 2: and yeah, you're going to meet her some day, both
Speaker 2: the dog and my wife. You're gonna like them both.
Speaker 2: And so we walk Sammy twice a day. I usually
Speaker 2: walk her in the morning, Susan joins me. Sometimes. That
Speaker 2: conversation when Susan Susan joins me in the morning is
Speaker 2: usually normal husband wife stuff. What what are we eating
Speaker 2: later in the day, what's your day look like? Normal
Speaker 2: stuff like that. At night when we walk her after dinner,
Speaker 2: we've started to throw questions out at each other that
Speaker 2: spark entirely new conversations.
Speaker 3: Wow, spicing it up, spicing it up, and.
Speaker 2: Exactly this is after dinner. Let's talk about the dinner
Speaker 2: we just midnight exactly.
Speaker 3: So I have I have saved three of my favorite.
Speaker 2: Questions that have sparked conversation that I would like to
Speaker 2: throw out to the two of you. Oh, I love
Speaker 2: this great so question. The first, Okay, you wake up
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning and there's a billion dollars in your bank account.
Speaker 2: What is the first billion dollar baller thing you do?
Speaker 2: And it can't be like we pay off our mortgage,
Speaker 2: we put a put aside college. What's a frivolous baller
Speaker 2: thing you buy or do or change your life with
Speaker 2: the money you find in your account tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I mean, it can't just be like buying a second
Speaker 4: home is.
Speaker 2: No, mean it can if you're like, we've always wanted
Speaker 2: a home in London or something, so yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: you could. You could definitely do something like that. Some
Speaker 2: people it's the private jet, some people it's the boat. Like.
Speaker 2: The reason I'm asking is because Sue and I had
Speaker 2: exactly the same answer instantaneously.
Speaker 5: Really hold on, let me se if I can guess
Speaker 5: movie theater, buy your own movie theater.
Speaker 4: No, okay, your own buffet close? Are you serious? Private chef, private.
Speaker 2: Private chef, twenty four hour private chef, like full time
Speaker 2: private chef, every meal cater to perfectly cooked. Would be
Speaker 2: our first billionaire ball.
Speaker 5: And you would never do a private jet because it
Speaker 5: wouldn't be big enough to make you comfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even to me, that's they're kind of a waste
Speaker 2: of money. The new the jets out there, like the
Speaker 2: Delta United with the apartments on them. I get those nice.
Speaker 2: I'd fly on those, So that's ours would be, would
Speaker 2: be a private jef.
Speaker 5: Wow, don't really my okay, Like my real answer is
Speaker 5: just like acreage specific Northwest, like a bunch of acreage
Speaker 5: as much as I could, just like Oregon. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 5: like land with water that is not going to burn
Speaker 5: and be very valuable and you know, uh, fifty years
Speaker 5: when no one can live in Los Angeles anymore.
Speaker 4: That's like the practical answer.
Speaker 5: But no, the the really ridiculous answer is I would
Speaker 5: love to have brand new socks to wear every day,
Speaker 5: Like if.
Speaker 2: Every rest of your life, if I could just.
Speaker 5: Open up a brand new pair of like clean, brand
Speaker 5: new socks, and put them on every day because I've
Speaker 5: had that thought.
Speaker 4: I'm like every I hate I don't know, I just
Speaker 4: love the idea of like, oh, these are brand news socks.
Speaker 4: That's my ridiculous answer.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: A private chef's a really good one. I did think jet.
Speaker 1: I did think jet, but also I thought pretty high
Speaker 1: up there with private jet or private chef was diamond grill.
Speaker 4: Smiled. I had to look at a diamond grill. I
Speaker 4: was so disappointed. Would suck?
Speaker 1: I kind of want like the dentures version of a
Speaker 1: diamond grill.
Speaker 4: What about like diamond shoes?
Speaker 5: What if you could get like like diamond and crustalis
Speaker 5: or something like that, because then you can.
Speaker 1: Take well, maybe I would just put one diamond in
Speaker 1: each tooth.
Speaker 3: So my real ty just the diamond in. But with
Speaker 3: diamonds oh.
Speaker 4: Man, I find I find it so distracting.
Speaker 3: Me too, But I get that nose rings.
Speaker 2: I just then stare at your nostril the whole time
Speaker 2: someone a nose rings.
Speaker 4: I'm usually pretty cool with.
Speaker 3: What about diamond things?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, okay, vampire those are good though, Okay, okay, actually, wait, what.
Speaker 4: Am I thinking?
Speaker 5: I mean a library? Obviously I want like you know,
Speaker 5: the full on beauty.
Speaker 4: In the library with with with the one of the
Speaker 4: ladders of course, just just just like a whole separate Okay,
Speaker 4: so land somewhere in the Pacific Northwest that is just
Speaker 4: a giant library. And then like a little cabin I
Speaker 4: can live in, but then it's.
Speaker 2: A cabin next to giant library.
Speaker 4: Get to my own perfect beautiful like research libraries.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right. Question the second you come into a
Speaker 2: room and the room is empty, there's two switches, it's
Speaker 2: about time. Yeah, no, it gets worse. It gets so
Speaker 2: much worse. There's two switches and you have to switch
Speaker 2: one of them on. One of them fills the room
Speaker 2: with spiders. The other one fills the rooms with snakes.
Speaker 2: Oh which one do you do?
Speaker 1: Super easy for me, snakes, super easy, don't even have
Speaker 1: to think.
Speaker 2: But I do snakes too, Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Mean I don't love spiders at all, like I definitely,
Speaker 5: but a whole room really tell.
Speaker 3: Me this question? I feel I feel attacked. I feel attacked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have my legs and grill, and anytime we
Speaker 1: talk about anything, anytime there's spiders mentioned, I assume they're
Speaker 1: all under whatever wherever my legs are that I can't see,
Speaker 1: and now I'm scared to even be sitting in my house.
Speaker 5: Which is there any sort of size parameters? Are we
Speaker 5: talking spiders as big as a fist?
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be like spiders?
Speaker 4: Or is it just a diversity of.
Speaker 3: Can I can I take my headphones off while suck?
Speaker 5: I can't do the spiders have hair if they have hair,
Speaker 5: but Danielle has taken off her headphones.
Speaker 4: By the way, is.
Speaker 1: Now officially you let me know, you give me thumbs up,
Speaker 1: you make them give you the things.
Speaker 2: Up when we're done talking about the spiders.
Speaker 5: So really, what we're talking about here is Raiders of
Speaker 5: the Lost Dark versus Temple of Doom.
Speaker 3: Correct, because it was bugs exactly.
Speaker 2: And and I think it's because Danielle can't hear what
Speaker 2: we're saying. So we're just talking like and the fangs
Speaker 2: are coming in like this, and she has no idea
Speaker 2: what we're talking, locking her eyes too. Okay, good, all right,
Speaker 2: so we all.
Speaker 4: Right, I don't know. I think I I think I
Speaker 4: might actually go spiders.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we're good, We're good, everybody's answered there,
Speaker 2: we go, Okay, question the third and this one. We
Speaker 2: loved this one, but this one is very It takes
Speaker 2: some thought, excluding the day you were married or the
Speaker 2: birth of your children, and knowing you can't change anything,
Speaker 2: what is the one day in your life you'd like
Speaker 2: to relive?
Speaker 4: Oh, can't change anything.
Speaker 5: I really did have the thought this summer that I
Speaker 5: was living like the greatest day of my life.
Speaker 4: I might have told you guys about it, or even
Speaker 4: talked about on the podcast. I don't remember.
Speaker 5: But like, we woke up next to the Salmon River.
Speaker 5: We had you know, just sort of boon dock like
Speaker 5: camp out, and woke up just you know, the three
Speaker 5: of us in our van, woke up, made some food,
Speaker 5: drove a couple of miles to the spot, the secret
Speaker 5: spot that a friend of mine had shared with me
Speaker 5: on Google Maps, and he was like, you should stop here.
Speaker 4: And this is an Idaho. He's like, you should stop here.
Speaker 4: This is a great hot spring. And you know, Indy
Speaker 4: was like, didn't want to have to hike, and we
Speaker 4: were like, no, no, let's go. Let's go.
Speaker 5: And we hiked like two miles to just about like
Speaker 5: a quarter mile of cascading waterfalls nestled in this beautiful
Speaker 5: mountainous valley and the waterfalls were hot springs, so they
Speaker 5: were like one hundred and five degrees and it was
Speaker 5: just like one of the most gorgeous, like satisfying ends
Speaker 5: to a hike.
Speaker 4: And then we like you know, had we had packed.
Speaker 5: A lunch and we ate lunch and hung out in
Speaker 5: this pool and the view was incredible, and it was
Speaker 5: just being with my family and and then you know,
Speaker 5: going back to our van, hitting the road and doing
Speaker 5: another day.
Speaker 4: But it was just like one of those like perfect days.
Speaker 5: And I was sitting there like when we got back
Speaker 5: from the Hot Springs, I turned to Alex I was like,
Speaker 5: I think this might be the happiest day of my life. Wow,
Speaker 5: And just like so, you know, I'm so in love
Speaker 5: with my wife, I'm so just proud of my son
Speaker 5: and just having a great time. I was like, oh, so,
Speaker 5: I don't know, Like, yeah, that's and that was only
Speaker 5: you know, two months ago or whatever.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. It is a good one, Danielle.
Speaker 2: What do you got.
Speaker 3: Nothing but jealousy for a day like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, sounds like a good day. I haven't had
Speaker 1: one of those days in a while. Uh Man, I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's really hard. I think I would. I
Speaker 1: think it would probably be.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just between.
Speaker 1: It is tough because obviously, now that I have kids,
Speaker 1: all of my best days of like, I can't imagine
Speaker 1: wanting to relive a day that didn't involve them. But also,
Speaker 1: I think, knowing what I know now about and being
Speaker 1: an adult, there are probably days that I had as
Speaker 1: a kid that I would appreciate way more now to
Speaker 1: relive now, because I would be like, Wow, you know
Speaker 1: I wanted to be an adult so bad when I
Speaker 1: was a kid.
Speaker 3: Please, I just want to be an adult. I just
Speaker 3: want to be an adult.
Speaker 1: And I do love being an adult. I do think
Speaker 1: being an adult is better than being a kid. But
Speaker 1: I so didn't appreciate being a kid that I feel
Speaker 1: like maybe.
Speaker 3: I should have appreciated that more. So it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's I also don't think my best days of parenting
Speaker 1: are behind me. I still feel like my best days
Speaker 1: of parenting, at least my hope, if even in general
Speaker 1: for my own life, I'm always like, listen, my best
Speaker 1: days are still in front of me. So if I
Speaker 1: think about days I've had with my kids thus far,
Speaker 1: although some of them have been great. I think my
Speaker 1: best ones are still ahead of me, so I don't
Speaker 1: know that i'd want to relive any of the ones
Speaker 1: I've had now. I think I would pick something for
Speaker 1: my childhood. It would probably be something from the Boy
Speaker 1: Meets World time. I would probably relive one of those,
Speaker 1: you know, the final Tape night, or one of the
Speaker 1: days that we got to go to Disneyland, you know,
Speaker 1: like when they shut the park down and it was
Speaker 1: a yeah, and I got to be with friends, and
Speaker 1: you know, I would probably be one of those. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I can think of a specific day,
Speaker 1: but something like.
Speaker 3: That about you.
Speaker 2: Mine is definitely I see that. Mine came right to
Speaker 2: my head right away. It's, you know, other than the
Speaker 2: day I got married, which again which is why you
Speaker 2: exclude it, is the day I got Boy Me Twirl
Speaker 2: is arguably the happiest day of my life. I was
Speaker 2: with my dad. We were in Hollywood. You know, now
Speaker 2: that you live here, it's like, oh, okay, you're in Hollywood
Speaker 2: and you're by the the Groumand's Chinese Theater and you
Speaker 2: see the handprints and it's kind of like it's old
Speaker 2: hat now. But I'm sixteen. I just you know, pick
Speaker 2: up a payphone and call my agent pack in New York,
Speaker 2: thinking I had a terrible audition. He says, you got it,
Speaker 2: and my dad and I are jumping up and down
Speaker 2: in the street. I know the show has already been
Speaker 2: picked up for thirteen episodes. It's not like we're shooting
Speaker 2: a pilot. It was magic. It was magic. It's the
Speaker 2: only way I can describe it. So that day, I think,
Speaker 2: is the day that I would want to I mean,
Speaker 2: there's a ton and unlike Danielle, all my best days
Speaker 2: are behind me every day since Benett Tie for Downhill,
Speaker 2: but this is that day. Awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So what's interesting to me is like, you know, I
Speaker 5: kind of had those moments with previous jobs before pointings.
Speaker 4: Work right, like where I got something I was like, yes,
Speaker 4: this is the best job, and then of course the
Speaker 4: project doesn't work out, doesn't get picked up, and so
Speaker 4: I don't think of that.
Speaker 5: So it's interesting that your pick is still like a
Speaker 5: resounding effect within your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, like definitely, Yeah, that's it. So those
Speaker 2: are those are walking questions and as more build up,
Speaker 2: I will continue to keep the good ones. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: we will we will go from there. I promise no
Speaker 2: more of the S word.
Speaker 1: Danielle, Okay, thanks, I can't handle any of those. I
Speaker 1: really have to check.
Speaker 2: Out rhymes with riders.
Speaker 5: I won't.
Speaker 1: I won't.
Speaker 2: I won't do that anymore.
Speaker 4: I promise, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Welcome to Pod meets World. I'm Danielle Fischel,
Speaker 1: I'm Spiderstrong.
Speaker 2: I will Fordell.
Speaker 1: So welcome to today's episode. We are recapping season five, episode thirteen,
Speaker 1: the Eskimo. It originally aired January sixteenth, nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: We're in ninety eight, We're in the eights? Were in
Speaker 2: the remember the eights?
Speaker 3: I kind of the synopsis.
Speaker 1: Sean tries to win tickets to the Super Bowl while
Speaker 1: Eric and Jack search for compatible soulmates. It was directed
Speaker 1: by Lisa Gottlieb, her one and only episode of Boy
Speaker 1: Meets World. She is best known as the director of
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty five comedy Just One of the Guys,
Speaker 1: but also was involved in the casting of the classic.
Speaker 3: Blues Brothers movie.
Speaker 1: This was her last credited job directing, but she went
Speaker 1: into the world of teaching, film and TV. What Stops
Speaker 1: at Columbia and the University of Miami, and it was
Speaker 1: written by Jeff Manel. Do you want to talk about
Speaker 1: our overall thoughts?
Speaker 2: First of all, I don't know how. I didn't know
Speaker 2: at the time that she directed Just One of the Guys.
Speaker 2: Just One of the Guys is one of the greatest
Speaker 2: movies that does not hold up even slightly in the
Speaker 2: world nowadays. But it was.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Just one of the Guys is one of
Speaker 2: those bad eighties high school movies. So what it is.
Speaker 2: It's about a girl who's writing for her school paper,
Speaker 2: and the school paper in the school that she's at
Speaker 2: doesn't want to print any of her articles. So to
Speaker 2: write a good article, she dresses like a boy and
Speaker 2: goes to another high school chick like me, essentially with
Speaker 2: way more misogyny, a nudity, and weirdness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's most kind of known as for like,
Speaker 1: the first place people of.
Speaker 3: That age saw boobs for the.
Speaker 2: First time, it was it was it's up there with
Speaker 2: Revenge of the Nerds, where you look back and you're like, ooh,
Speaker 2: this doesn't age well at all.
Speaker 4: But it's Just.
Speaker 2: One of the Guys, so that, Yeah, I'm surprised I
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance talk with her about that. Well,
Speaker 2: to answer your question, I did not like this episode.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, I was not was not a fan.
Speaker 4: Wasn't Lisa part of the Disney a fellowship?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a directing fellowship where they would bring
Speaker 5: directors who hadn't done television along and they would shadow
Speaker 5: for a couple episodes and then sometimes get an episode.
Speaker 4: So I remember her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's why she was around, because I
Speaker 5: remember her being around before, and then.
Speaker 4: It kind of being a big deal that she was
Speaker 4: doing an episode. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I honestly did not even remember being I thought
Speaker 2: I was not in this episode. When I remember the
Speaker 2: people talking about the the Eskimo, you were like, I'm
Speaker 2: not even in that one.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is gonna be great.
Speaker 2: I get to sit back and watch and I and
Speaker 2: and I didn't hate it by any stretch. My favorite
Speaker 2: to Panga so far. I thought you, Danielle were great.
Speaker 2: I thought your physical comedy was really really good. They
Speaker 2: gave you something to do, you were part of the crew.
Speaker 3: Loved that.
Speaker 2: I thought the Feenie storyline of what he was actually
Speaker 2: trying to teach I found to be very muddled in
Speaker 2: this episode. I didn't I didn't really get it. What
Speaker 2: happens at the end wasn't the assignment. I don't I
Speaker 2: don't get what Phoenie was trying to teach. I found
Speaker 2: that to be very strange. And then the bat story
Speaker 2: was kind of thrown in, so it was we've had
Speaker 2: some bangers in a row, and it's very hot. When
Speaker 2: I was watching this episode, I'm sure that didn't make
Speaker 2: me feel good either. Thirty eight degrees here at the house.
Speaker 3: H'm murky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't it. I didn't hate it, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't my favorite.
Speaker 5: This is this is one of those episodes that people
Speaker 5: mentioned to me a lot and I don't really remember,
Speaker 5: and I'm always kind of surprised that it's like a touchstone.
Speaker 4: Episode for yeah, some of our fans. And I remember thinking, like, oh, right,
Speaker 4: there was that Eskimo episode.
Speaker 5: What was that about? Like what was going on? And
Speaker 5: then I remembered, of course the Super or Bowl scene
Speaker 5: because we just had so much fun doing that one. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but like connecting it, like why were we trying to
Speaker 5: get Super Bowl tan? You know?
Speaker 4: And so so it was I was excited.
Speaker 5: I did to rewatch it. I ended up watching it twice.
Speaker 5: I find this to be a very strange episode. I
Speaker 5: just think it's weird. And yeah, I mean we can
Speaker 5: get into why hopefully while we're in it, But it
Speaker 5: was it was really off putting to me the first
Speaker 5: time I watched it through, and that's why I wanted
Speaker 5: to watch it again. I liked it better the second time.
Speaker 5: So this might be the first episode that I've watched
Speaker 5: twice in a row for this podcast, and so it's
Speaker 5: it's really interesting.
Speaker 4: It doesn't feel it feels unusual. It feels like a
Speaker 4: distinct episode.
Speaker 5: And I think that for some of our fans it
Speaker 5: might be their favorite or one of their best.
Speaker 4: But for me, I was just like, I don't I
Speaker 4: don't know how I feel about this.
Speaker 5: I think my big headline that I finally settled on
Speaker 5: is this felt like a Girl meets World episode. Ah interesting,
Speaker 5: and maybe you know, we can talk about why, but
Speaker 5: it felt like a Girl meets World episode to me.
Speaker 3: Interested You're right.
Speaker 1: I didn't think about that, but you're right, it does
Speaker 1: feel like a Girl meets World episode. I thought I
Speaker 1: did not remember that Lisa had been part of the
Speaker 1: Disney Fellowship program, but I thought there were some To me,
Speaker 1: it was very obvious that it had been directed perhaps
Speaker 1: by a first timer or someone who had never at
Speaker 1: least never directed our show before.
Speaker 4: Completely different camera style.
Speaker 1: Completely different camera style, camera style usually when you've got
Speaker 1: a show that's going, that's successful and doing well. One
Speaker 1: of the greatest aspects of what we do, and I
Speaker 1: hope that our listeners have felt it through this podcast,
Speaker 1: is the collaborative nature of.
Speaker 3: What we do.
Speaker 1: It is a group of people who are great at
Speaker 1: what they do, who love TV, who love the entertainment industry,
Speaker 1: all coming together to support the same goal, which should
Speaker 1: be putting out the best quality project you.
Speaker 4: Can version story that you can't hYP and.
Speaker 1: This and in this episode, I thought, some of what
Speaker 1: is taking me out of being able to pay attention
Speaker 1: to the episode were some of the camera choices which
Speaker 1: maybe just felt more film style and not multi camera style.
Speaker 1: And I thought, I wonder why no one said, let's
Speaker 1: let's do this, let's reblock, let's back up.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but either some of the blocking was
Speaker 2: really blocking.
Speaker 1: It was strange and it yeah, I I I do
Speaker 1: remember filming and loving that kitchen scene, the super Bowl
Speaker 1: scene so much fun.
Speaker 3: When you get to talk about chucked across the room.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I was rounded. I was like, is there some kind
Speaker 2: of matt I don't see because she's getting just tossed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was. It was so much fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So okay, well let's we'll we'll get into detail as
Speaker 1: we go. Let's jump into our guest stars. We have
Speaker 1: Tico Wells as a morning Zoo host DJ Johnny Latte.
Speaker 1: He appeared in movies like Universal Soldier and The Relic,
Speaker 1: and some classic TV shows like The Cosby Show two
Speaker 1: two seven and The Drew Carey Show.
Speaker 3: Versal Soldier That's where I knew him from.
Speaker 2: Oh my Gosh, she dies horrible death and Universal Soldier.
Speaker 2: That's a van dam movie. Okay, he gets he gets
Speaker 2: held down to the chair and a needle is thrust
Speaker 2: right through his face, back up through his head and
Speaker 2: out comes out his cheek.
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a big needle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dolph Lundgren does bad things to that guy.
Speaker 3: That's okay. From Okay, we have Mindy Spence's Jill.
Speaker 1: She was also seen in Step by Step, Seventh, Heaven,
Speaker 1: That seventy Show, and King of Queen's and appears to
Speaker 1: have left the business in two thousand and five.
Speaker 3: We also have.
Speaker 1: Carolyn or Caroline Keenan as Carol. She was another nineties
Speaker 1: TV regular with stops on Home Improvement, Step by Step,
Speaker 1: and Friends, and was also seen in the Replacements and
Speaker 1: most notably The Day After Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: She's great. She's done a ton of stuff. She's great.
Speaker 1: We have Greg Collins as Freezing Guy. Greg was an
Speaker 1: All American football player at Notre Dame who went on
Speaker 1: to play in the NFL for the forty nine Ers,
Speaker 1: Bills and the Seahawks, only to become a prolific character
Speaker 1: actor and stuntman. Listen to these nineties blockbusters. He appears
Speaker 1: in The Rock, Armageddon, Independence Day, con Air, Godzilla, and
Speaker 1: Enemy of the State. It reads like a list of
Speaker 1: Danielle's favorite movie It is seriously, yes, was.
Speaker 5: He like an on camera actor or a stunt performer
Speaker 5: in those movies?
Speaker 2: Both?
Speaker 4: Both? Both both question yeah, I want to have had
Speaker 4: many lines both Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's The second I saw him, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy was in everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he looks so familiar.
Speaker 5: Besides, yeah, it's funny because I mean I obviously worked
Speaker 5: with him in this scene.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I was also like, no, I know him
Speaker 4: from somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: We have Glenn Chin as Eskimo, another character actor best
Speaker 1: known for his work in fifty First Dates, Natural Born
Speaker 1: Killers and as the sumo wrestler and Naked Gun thirty
Speaker 1: three and a third. Glenn passed away in twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: at the age of seventy, and then our beloved stand
Speaker 1: in Matt Kirkwood returns to the show, this time as
Speaker 1: Lunatic John do.
Speaker 4: You think it actually said in the scripture? And one Lunatic?
Speaker 1: Then Max Miller as Bobby, So we jump into our recap.
Speaker 1: In Phoenie's classroom, Phoene is passing out graded papers and
Speaker 1: calls out Sean, he never turned his in. Corey pipes
Speaker 1: up he can explain. Phoene stops him he was speaking
Speaker 1: to mister Hunter. Corey continues, anyway, Sean and I think
Speaker 1: so much alike that we decided to write one paper.
Speaker 1: Phoene responds, then you wouldn't mind sharing your grade. Sean's
Speaker 1: into it and enthusiastically asks what they got. Phoene says
Speaker 1: it was a well thought out paper, so it deserves
Speaker 1: a B. Sean nods, very fair. Phoene proceeds divided by
Speaker 1: two and then he rips the paper in half. They
Speaker 1: now both get a D.
Speaker 3: It is upset. It's yeah, funny.
Speaker 1: Also, I did that math exactly the same way, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not sure how math with letters
Speaker 1: really make sense, but but it does.
Speaker 3: It works.
Speaker 4: But well it does.
Speaker 5: You can translate GPA out of grade letters to pronounce
Speaker 5: what four point is good. So there's a formula for
Speaker 5: figuring this out.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, so we're back to Sean not wanting to
Speaker 2: go to college.
Speaker 4: I'm so, I'm so my head was spinning.
Speaker 5: I'm like, where are we ex Seawan was going to
Speaker 5: college and upset that Corey wasn't going to the same one.
Speaker 5: I was just like, oh, we're just resetting, yeah, trying
Speaker 5: to go went to college before and then was going
Speaker 5: to study with Feenie.
Speaker 2: That was how Nity walked back into the classroom. So
Speaker 2: it's again now the Sean going to college or not
Speaker 2: going to college is just whatever they need for the
Speaker 2: episode at the.
Speaker 5: Time, right, which is only a I mean, it's season
Speaker 5: five is just a little dizzy because season four had
Speaker 5: Eric's wanted to get into college as a consistent arc,
Speaker 5: you know, and and how he was trying to do
Speaker 5: it changed week to week, but it went from the
Speaker 5: beginning of the season not getting to college to the
Speaker 5: end of the season getting into college. Like that was
Speaker 5: such a whereas with this, yeah, there's there's just no trajectory.
Speaker 4: There's no clear trajector.
Speaker 1: It also eliminates stakes because you want to care or
Speaker 1: root for something, and like, if we know there's a
Speaker 1: goal in mind and there's that tension of but is
Speaker 1: it going to happen, this is just like hmmm, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll see what we'll see what we need by the end.
Speaker 2: I also thought and again as the episode progressed and
Speaker 2: I saw how sean heavy an episode this was. It
Speaker 2: shows how well written Trina's character was and how important
Speaker 2: Trina's character was, which I found myself missing Angela because
Speaker 2: I was like, wait a minute, now we're talking about
Speaker 2: something super important with Sean and she's nowhere to be found, right.
Speaker 4: No reference to him even having a girlfriend, no talking.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you'd want I want to see these important
Speaker 2: life decisions now. Because the character is introduced so well
Speaker 2: and because there's such chemistry, I now want her involved
Speaker 2: in these stories.
Speaker 4: So I missed.
Speaker 2: I missed seeing Angela. Frankly, I was like that's weird.
Speaker 2: Little it's not even there, so yeah, it was weird.
Speaker 1: Corey's upset, but Seawan is smiling. All right, still fair.
Speaker 1: Corey won't take it, mister Feenie. It's the middle of
Speaker 1: our senior year. Why are you being so tough on
Speaker 1: us with these assignments. Phoene's also had enough. You're right,
Speaker 1: let's forget about those d's. Make it to F's t
Speaker 1: Panga gets involved, begging mister Feene not to fail them.
Speaker 1: Phoene sighs ah. The Third Musketeer chimes in to Panga
Speaker 1: insists and f follows you around for the rest of
Speaker 1: your life. Corey's figured it out. We'll take your d's.
Speaker 1: Our college applications are already in. Sean mutters, yeah, well
Speaker 1: yours are. Corey is shocked, especially since he filled out
Speaker 1: Shawn's applications for him. Sean rolls his eyes. Don't start.
Speaker 1: What's the point People like me don't go to college.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is We've already had this conversation. Also,
Speaker 1: you went to college and.
Speaker 4: You loved it college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Phoene explains, do your assignments, mister Hunter, and
Speaker 1: you'll go to college. Well maybe, but Sean wonders how
Speaker 1: he'll be able to afford it if he gets in.
Speaker 1: There's so many things standing in the way. I did
Speaker 1: appreciate this being a factor that could be in Shawn's mind.
Speaker 1: I did appreciate, yes, the introduction to the idea that
Speaker 1: it's not whether or not Sean just wants to or
Speaker 1: has the drive, to the actual reality of how will
Speaker 1: I even afford it? I would have to apply for
Speaker 1: grants and then loans and jobs, two jobs and working
Speaker 1: like that. I love bringing that in.
Speaker 4: Let's bring that them.
Speaker 3: Oh good question.
Speaker 1: How Sean paying for that big, old, fancy apartment that
Speaker 1: he's in that he's never never.
Speaker 2: There on the river with three bedrooms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I guess is it is? It is the
Speaker 1: idea that Jack's covering.
Speaker 4: Might be helping a bit.
Speaker 1: Maybe, Yeah, Jack's paying for the apartment, so Sean's.
Speaker 3: Maybe the mob that he's.
Speaker 2: Still He's still dropping off boxes down by the docks,
Speaker 2: He's still working at Keller Mars. There's a lot going on.
Speaker 4: He's so busy, got that side gig as a surgeon.
Speaker 2: Babies, so much going on.
Speaker 4: What do you guys think was the pitch for this?
Speaker 4: A storyline? Like? What is the like what was the
Speaker 4: germ of the idea? Like what in the writer's room?
Speaker 4: What did they say? I The only thing I.
Speaker 5: Could think is like what if they have to stand
Speaker 5: on a billboard? Like is did they start with that
Speaker 5: or was it? Because it's it's a very bizarre set
Speaker 5: of circumstances to get us to a place where you
Speaker 5: do have some good scenes like this, the set piece
Speaker 5: of the billboard is interesting and kind of funny and weird,
Speaker 5: and then you have the great kitchen scene with the
Speaker 5: super Bowl like getting the super Bowl tickets and Topanga
Speaker 5: not being able to help. But I'm just wondering, like
Speaker 5: what the genesis of this storyline is, because it's it's
Speaker 5: it's really weird, right, why do you pitch it?
Speaker 2: How do you best in this episode?
Speaker 4: Yeah? What do you say?
Speaker 2: Like I don't know.
Speaker 5: Feenie is really hard on them and they have to
Speaker 5: defy their own characters, like you know, like what like oh,
Speaker 5: Corey's gotta not help Sean and and Tipanga's gotta stay out,
Speaker 5: you know, be quiet, and Sean's got to do something
Speaker 5: impossible on his own. Like that is such an abstract
Speaker 5: character based concept, and that's I think that's why it
Speaker 5: reminded me of Girl Meets World because I feel like
Speaker 5: Girl Meats World really lived in this zone of like
Speaker 5: self awareness of characters kind of spinning their wheels about
Speaker 5: their own characters, and like building a story out of
Speaker 5: those characters wheel spinning.
Speaker 4: And that's what this episode is.
Speaker 5: And it's it's not the same thing as a propulsive
Speaker 5: plot that reveals character.
Speaker 4: It's a plot built.
Speaker 5: Around characters and their flaws already and like then it
Speaker 5: doesn't even change them.
Speaker 4: It's a very it's a weird storytelling mode. I just can't.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl this year in nineteen ninety eight was
Speaker 1: January twenty fifth, This air the sixteenth. I bet it
Speaker 1: was literally the same way they plan around holidays. They
Speaker 1: were like, let's see the Super super Bowl episode. Let's
Speaker 1: do an episode to air the Supertowl, and they have
Speaker 1: to get tickets and then it's like, well, what do
Speaker 1: they each have to do?
Speaker 3: And then you know, eight.
Speaker 2: Ninety eight, the bronc goes one.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh my god, will God will?
Speaker 4: That would be crazy.
Speaker 1: Let's see Bowl champ the Green Bay Packers versus the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. The Broncos defeated the Packers thirty one to
Speaker 1: twenty four?
Speaker 4: What was ninety nine? Who won? Ninety nine?
Speaker 3: Will?
Speaker 2: Who won in ninety n I don't remember ninety nine
Speaker 2: because ninety seven ninety eight was when John Elway finally
Speaker 2: won his two Super Bowls. That's why had those stick out.
Speaker 2: This was after the Cowboys run in the early nineties
Speaker 2: of what ninety three ninety four? So yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: remember who won A nine nine. Actually it might have
Speaker 2: been Green Bay. It might have won in ninety nine.
Speaker 1: No, it was the Broncos against the Falcons, and the
Speaker 1: Broncos won again.
Speaker 3: They so they won.
Speaker 2: Ninety seven ninety eight that's what it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety eight ninety nine.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, another new thing we learned about Bill?
Speaker 3: Bill? Who's Bill?
Speaker 4: Who's Bill?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 3: Bill, Nice to meet you.
Speaker 2: It's nice to meet you too.
Speaker 4: It was good call.
Speaker 3: I'm not good Billy All Billy. Oh, that was originally
Speaker 3: supposed to be my name. Really, yeah, it's to be
Speaker 3: or Billy.
Speaker 2: But my brother's favorite show was Lost in Space, so
Speaker 2: they named me after Will Robinson Danger Will Robinson fro
Speaker 2: Lost in Space. I was named after a television character.
Speaker 4: Thought have you ever gone? By? William?
Speaker 2: When I do something wrong? Doesn't know that my older
Speaker 2: my mom calls me William, and my older brother Gary
Speaker 2: a lot of times.
Speaker 3: Calls that's cute.
Speaker 1: So Sean goes on to question why they're doing all
Speaker 1: these assignments in the first place. It's just busy work.
Speaker 1: What could we possibly be left to learn? Phoene gives
Speaker 1: him a death stare obviously disturbed by a comment like that.
Speaker 1: And right here is where some of the stuff started,
Speaker 1: where I was like, oh, new director. Here lots of
Speaker 1: super close shots, close up and blocked, weird blocking, and we're.
Speaker 5: Stacked at but where she brought the camera into the
Speaker 5: sephomore So we're inside the set doing these raking like
Speaker 5: two shots with close ups. It's a lot of singles,
Speaker 5: a lot closer. Everything is played as if it's a
Speaker 5: single camera show.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, but it also looks like when you've
Speaker 2: got Danielle who's who's not the tallest person in the world,
Speaker 2: and you've got it stacked. It looks like she's trying
Speaker 2: to find her lens like I'm I'm leaning forward to
Speaker 2: be on camera the whole time. It was very off putting.
Speaker 4: My feeling is that we did not do this in
Speaker 4: front of a live audience.
Speaker 5: It feels it feels the lower energy and like a
Speaker 5: little over rehearsed to me, and you know, there's there's
Speaker 5: like a lack of an organic quality that usually follows
Speaker 5: a lot of our show, or that accompanies a lot
Speaker 5: of our show. And I couldn't help but think, oh,
Speaker 5: it's because because she was really worried about camera and
Speaker 5: like she was thinking about it more and again that
Speaker 5: reminded me of Girl Meets World, because when directing Girl
Speaker 5: Meets World, we did a lot of stuff to try
Speaker 5: and get these kinds of shots, because this is a
Speaker 5: more contemporary multi camera style, like you know nowadays they
Speaker 5: try and get single like Disney Channel would always be
Speaker 5: like I need to see both eyes of her character.
Speaker 5: You don't let play things play in a wide you know,
Speaker 5: to try and make it feel less like a play
Speaker 5: less theatrical that's become the more contemporary style. It feels
Speaker 5: weird and boy, like I miss the you know, the
Speaker 5: sort of big wide shots where you see everybody's reaction
Speaker 5: to each other.
Speaker 4: This is like I don't get to see Phoene's face until.
Speaker 5: It cuts to him, you know, when he and Danielle
Speaker 5: are come and it's like right, you want to. I
Speaker 5: like seeing people engaging with each other in the same shot.
Speaker 5: That feels like more boys.
Speaker 4: World to me.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, I agree. Corey begins the damage control.
Speaker 1: He just means, we've been here four years and there's
Speaker 1: nothing really left that you can teach us. This does
Speaker 1: not make Feenie any calmer. Sean is stunned. Whoa look
Speaker 1: at Phoenie, Man, Pheenie, you okay? Phoene's stare never breaks.
Speaker 1: Corey whispers, this is the moment we talked about. Sean nods, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely gonna blow. Phoenie commands the boys stand up
Speaker 1: and asks the rest of the class to leave. Cory
Speaker 1: and Sean know this is bad. Tapanga tries to talk
Speaker 1: Feenie down. Can't you give them a makeup assignment instead
Speaker 1: of failing them? Feenie adds you'd better stay too, you
Speaker 1: little control freak, And I liked at least that finally
Speaker 1: we're just calling to Panga out for here's her new character.
Speaker 3: Control freak to Panga this.
Speaker 2: I thought I got optimistic at this point because I
Speaker 2: was like, ooh, angry Feenie. Something we haven't really seen
Speaker 2: a whole lot of Yeah, dressing down the kids for
Speaker 2: kind of being laxadaisical in class. And I was like, ooh, okay,
Speaker 2: this could really go somewhere, and then it kind of didn't,
Speaker 2: and I was like, right, oh okay.
Speaker 1: Right to Panga gasps and steps back. Phoene addresses the
Speaker 1: three of them. So, just because you sent in your
Speaker 1: college applications and nothing that I teach you from now
Speaker 1: on means anything to Panga nods. I was just having
Speaker 1: this discussion with them the other day. An angry Phenie
Speaker 1: interrupts her quiet. She whimpers, you yelled at me, But
Speaker 1: I'm Topanga and this again, this is very interesting blocking.
Speaker 1: I'm barely even in.
Speaker 3: The shot you can't see. It's like they you're on
Speaker 3: stilt trying to look around.
Speaker 2: It was we I mean, it makes me always wonder
Speaker 2: why this take, Like what are the other docks about?
Speaker 2: Like if this is the one you're using, it was right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Phoene turns to Sean. I want this assignment
Speaker 1: brought to my house by five pm this afternoon. Sean's
Speaker 1: taken aback this afternoon today, that's impossible. Phoene walks towards
Speaker 1: his chalkboard. Corey's worried. Shawn is still shocked that Phoene
Speaker 1: asked him to do something completely impassive. He might as
Speaker 1: well ask him to come up with tickets to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Meanwhile, Phoenie has written impossible on the chalkboard.
Speaker 1: He tells Sean his new assignment is to come up
Speaker 1: with two tickets to the super Bowl by the end
Speaker 1: of the week. Corey laughs, this is completely ridiculous. Phoene
Speaker 1: cuts them off quiet. Corey frowns, You yelled at me,
Speaker 1: but I'm Topanga.
Speaker 2: That was funny.
Speaker 1: Tapanga asks mister Feenie why he's so upset, and Phoene
Speaker 1: tells her she has an assignment as well, but out
Speaker 1: of other people's lives for one week. Otherwise you get
Speaker 1: an f t Penga gasps again, but I've never failed before.
Speaker 1: Phoene tells her there's a first time for everything. Corey laughs.
Speaker 1: That argument doesn't get you anywhere with her. Great joke
Speaker 1: is a funny joke, gast joke of the show, of
Speaker 1: the episode, of the episode.
Speaker 3: That's a funny joke.
Speaker 1: And you know what's funny is that I didn't remember
Speaker 1: what the context of the joke was.
Speaker 3: I've seen that before.
Speaker 1: Like I've seen that, I've seen that written, I've seen
Speaker 1: people make like talk about that, and I have thought
Speaker 1: I don't find it funny. It's annoying that he constantly
Speaker 1: talking about how far he wants to get with the panga.
Speaker 3: It's just kind of annoying. I think it's kind of gross.
Speaker 2: And then the way.
Speaker 1: It was in the scene and the way I was like,
Speaker 1: that's funny, that's a good joke.
Speaker 3: That's a good job.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know, really this is better than the
Speaker 5: Balkans or I think this is when soup, I mean
Speaker 5: when he says okay, sup.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, soup is great too.
Speaker 5: I wish Ben it held for like another five seconds,
Speaker 5: but it was such a great joke. And then even
Speaker 5: the guy saying you've ruined billboards for me. I know
Speaker 5: there's some witty stuff in this episode.
Speaker 2: There is, but that joke that to me is up
Speaker 2: there with like the I get I get as sick
Speaker 2: as you can get without.
Speaker 5: My favorite is that that Ben looks to me and
Speaker 5: I just give him the space like yeah, I heard you,
Speaker 5: like like he's somebody noticed, Like like it was almost
Speaker 5: like did you get it?
Speaker 4: Do you get it?
Speaker 5: Do you get I'm talking about talking about I'm talking
Speaker 5: about you know, and I just go, I gotcha, Like
Speaker 5: it's We're all I had of you, dude, Like that
Speaker 5: is that was funny?
Speaker 2: So funny.
Speaker 1: Now, Phoene addresses Cory, since you feel so responsible for
Speaker 1: your friends, I put their fate in your hands if
Speaker 1: either of them fails, So do you. With that, he
Speaker 1: storms out of the classroom, giving Sean a little shove
Speaker 1: and leaving the three in shock. Sean sarcastically says, thanks
Speaker 1: a lot to Panga, and that starts a little runner
Speaker 1: through the rest of the show.
Speaker 4: I think it was this scene Phoene walks out of
Speaker 4: a door that doesn't exist. He walked to the other side,
Speaker 4: like the door is behind the students to the classroom
Speaker 4: in this turn towards the turns towards the chalkboard, and
Speaker 4: they added a door sound. We've never seen a door over.
Speaker 3: There, you I've got I did not know.
Speaker 5: I was like, what you couldn't have him crossing? It
Speaker 5: was It's the weirdest thing. I was like, wait, what
Speaker 5: And then they I could tell they had to add
Speaker 5: a door sign because our door sound. And then what
Speaker 5: I realized is like, right, they couldn't show they were
Speaker 5: Actually it was a wing wall that she was shooting
Speaker 5: up in. That's why we're getting all those close ups
Speaker 5: that coverage, right. Honestly, think what happened is I think
Speaker 5: that she, coming from film, like a film perspective, was
Speaker 5: getting a lot more coverage than usual, and she was
Speaker 5: trying to get and when they got in the editing room,
Speaker 5: they were excited and they were like, look, we can
Speaker 5: see their faces. Let's use these shots, when, of course,
Speaker 5: sometimes it just is better just play the scene and
Speaker 5: a wide and like I think this confrontation with Phoenie
Speaker 5: and you like gasping, would have played better in a wide.
Speaker 4: But if you have this like cool looking shot that kind.
Speaker 5: Of feels a little more cinematic than normal episodes, I
Speaker 5: could see our producers or our executives at the studio
Speaker 5: or whatever being like.
Speaker 4: Let's use that shot, you know.
Speaker 5: So I feel like she might have provided too good
Speaker 5: of shots or too too you know, and in just
Speaker 5: too many options, too much coverage, Yeah, too many options,
Speaker 5: and then they use it and it kind of killed
Speaker 5: the energy.
Speaker 4: That's that was my take. I don't know, but anyway,
Speaker 4: I think what.
Speaker 5: Happened is she was in the set with the cameras
Speaker 5: and Phoene's exit, then you couldn't actually show his exit
Speaker 5: because there's no door there and he just walks off
Speaker 5: the set.
Speaker 4: So they added this door sound.
Speaker 2: I want to hear the door sound?
Speaker 1: Wait, why couldn't so even if she had a camera
Speaker 1: in the doorway. So that's obviously that's something you shoot
Speaker 1: as a special that's something you shoot as a pickup.
Speaker 1: You get the rest of the coverage you need, then
Speaker 1: you drive the camera up and you shoot through the door.
Speaker 1: Why couldn't they have gotten his exit before they brought
Speaker 1: the camera into the doorframe.
Speaker 4: Because there is no door. There is no door there.
Speaker 4: That's a point. They're pretending that there's a door.
Speaker 5: So I think it's can't can't it go out the
Speaker 5: other way?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean it's so it's interesting because
Speaker 3: then he.
Speaker 4: Would have crossed he would have crossed.
Speaker 3: Through, he would have to pass you guys.
Speaker 5: Like all of our faces and between just realized like
Speaker 5: it's better for if he abandons them by walking away,
Speaker 5: you know. Obviously it was like composition based, right, like
Speaker 5: the composition of the shot of a three or four
Speaker 5: shot that he exits by you know they liked that better,
Speaker 5: even though it made no directional logic with the actual.
Speaker 4: Set, so they went with it because of the That's
Speaker 4: what I mean. I think she was thinking more storyboards.
Speaker 4: She was thinking more.
Speaker 5: Like, this is a cool shot to just walk off here,
Speaker 5: and then there's no reason for him to walk that direction,
Speaker 5: so then they just add a door sound to make
Speaker 5: it clear that he's exiting.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 1: Well Worth noting this episode would never be allowed in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four as the Super Bowl has since become
Speaker 1: very litigious with media using their name in scripts or
Speaker 1: for promotional use. So unless they are an official sponsor
Speaker 1: or speaking about it for the news, you cannot say
Speaker 1: super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Oh come on in your programming? Yes, can you say Horse?
Speaker 2: Are you still allowed to say that? Because come on,
Speaker 2: that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Oh that's why you hear so much talk about the
Speaker 1: Big Game for sweepstakes or on the radio, because the
Speaker 1: NFL sees any attention to the name as a violation
Speaker 1: of their trademark.
Speaker 5: All right, well, let's start a competition, a big yearly
Speaker 5: event called Horse. I love to get everybody together and
Speaker 5: we shovel Horse, and then we can sue everybody.
Speaker 4: Who ever uses that word.
Speaker 3: The word and we'll make millions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll make millions, and all as a dirt pile
Speaker 4: and some horses.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: I will send cease and desist to everybody who tries
Speaker 2: to bring horse into their.
Speaker 3: Speaking of cease and desists. A lot of lawyers do.
Speaker 1: Argue that this is an overstep, saying they only have
Speaker 1: this ability for stores having things like a Super Bowl sale.
Speaker 1: The networks are just extra cautious.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, Stephen Colbert was still on Comedy Central
Speaker 1: and referred to it as the superb Owl.
Speaker 3: Okay, that works.
Speaker 1: There you go, same smelling, just putting the emphosis in
Speaker 1: a different place. So then we are in the guy's apartment.
Speaker 1: Eric is on the porch drinking coffee and reading a book.
Speaker 1: It's not the porch, it's the balcony. He's on the balcony,
Speaker 1: which is.
Speaker 4: Kind of a cool set. I know.
Speaker 2: I didn't think we ever went back out to the balcony. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which we're going to start using that, but no, I
Speaker 2: had again, didn't even think I was in this episode.
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, oh there I am, Well
Speaker 2: there I am.
Speaker 5: Why did this need to be oh, because you find
Speaker 5: the girls, we find the girls. The idea is that
Speaker 5: these the girls that you find the end of the
Speaker 5: scene are the girls that you end up dating.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think that's what they're going for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Ok.
Speaker 1: The coffee pot placement needing to be on the edge
Speaker 1: on the balcony instead of from the table where you're sitting,
Speaker 1: just so we can have a reason to get you.
Speaker 3: All of it is so it would have been great.
Speaker 4: If at the end of the scene you accidentally knocked
Speaker 4: the coffee pop sorry.
Speaker 3: Killed her.
Speaker 2: I want the one, get the other one? Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I mean there's so many Yeah, no, terrible, I mean,
Speaker 2: and it is, it is. It just was very forced, like, oh,
Speaker 2: the coffee is right over there.
Speaker 1: Jack walks outside to join him. I didn't hear you
Speaker 1: come home last night. Must have had a pretty good
Speaker 1: time with your date Eric aka Sparkly Vampire Edward Cohen
Speaker 1: thanks to some particularly bright lights. Did you not notice
Speaker 1: how pale and sparkly you know? Oh, yes, you you
Speaker 1: look like you've got you had a diamond facial you like, yes,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 4: You smell his hand through the screen to smell.
Speaker 2: Him just maybe it was booty dust.
Speaker 3: It never nuts.
Speaker 2: It could be stripper booty dust. Maybe Eric was just
Speaker 2: out there enjoying the night.
Speaker 1: It was it was I was like, wow, there's also
Speaker 1: some new lighting. I'm not sure what's going on here,
Speaker 1: so he casually responds, the evening began at seven. It
Speaker 1: started with some intimate pre dinner conversation at a quaint,
Speaker 1: little Mexican place. I happened to know, came back here,
Speaker 1: and let's just say, my clothes were off within five minutes.
Speaker 1: The inmates in the audience hoot and holler at this thought,
Speaker 1: and then Jack corrects him while pouring from a coffee
Speaker 1: pot that I mentioned precariously resting on the ledge.
Speaker 3: You opened your big mouth.
Speaker 1: She walked out, yate alone at Taco Bell, came home,
Speaker 1: took off all your clothes, and were asleep by eight.
Speaker 1: Eric responds, how'd you do? That's that's funny. It's funny.
Speaker 4: It is one of the callback to the ripping your
Speaker 4: pants off because nobody is home. Yeah, bye bye pants.
Speaker 5: That's what he should have said, said, I'm home alone,
Speaker 5: bye bye pants.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Not to get off on a tangent. And we can
Speaker 2: make this just a yes or no naked sleeping yes
Speaker 2: or no, no, no.
Speaker 4: No, I used to, but not anymore.
Speaker 2: Underwear but I no, yeah, no no no naked sleeping bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would probably bring it back then we have,
Speaker 5: Now that we've talked about it, I might go to
Speaker 5: naked today.
Speaker 4: You know, what I noticed is that the first time
Speaker 4: I slept naked in my dreams, I was naked. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was like which actually sounds kind of fun. All right,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go for it. Tonight's the night. Bye bye underwear.
Speaker 4: All right. I love that.
Speaker 3: However you currently are whatever. Actually, okay, that's funny. Gosh, okay,
Speaker 3: jack'size not as good.
Speaker 1: The guys are frustrated, but agree it's not them, it's
Speaker 1: the women, all of them. Jack declares it's time to
Speaker 1: be more choosy, find women who are more compatible. Eric agrees,
Speaker 1: suggesting they embark on a mission to find their perfect companions,
Speaker 1: their soulmates. Just then, Jack looks over the balcony and
Speaker 1: notices some girls.
Speaker 3: What about them?
Speaker 1: Eric immediately starts yelling, hey, you too, No, not okay,
Speaker 1: you too.
Speaker 4: You too?
Speaker 3: It was funny, that's all funny.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I like I like this.
Speaker 1: I like this setup for a thing between Jack and Eric,
Speaker 1: and I love the idea that then it's just two
Speaker 1: randoms you pick, and I love it.
Speaker 2: This scene was funny.
Speaker 3: It was very funny.
Speaker 1: Then we're in the Matthew's kitchen to Pengishon and Cory
Speaker 1: are all stressed, gathered together and listening to the radio
Speaker 1: as we've never done.
Speaker 4: It's like that portable TV. Yeah we had in the
Speaker 4: kitchen counter.
Speaker 3: And I'm just like resting my arm on it.
Speaker 1: Like here we are the three friends Hayking hanging out
Speaker 1: from this radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go radioing.
Speaker 5: I actually was reminded of season one, the betting episode
Speaker 5: a couple of times, because we listen to the radio
Speaker 5: and that on the kitchen counter, and then we're jumping
Speaker 5: up and down grabbing the phone just like this. You're like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is kind of a fun callback to that Corey
Speaker 5: Shawn energy from season one.
Speaker 2: You're right, it is has just been the three of
Speaker 2: you in the kitchen together since season one.
Speaker 4: No, no, I'm.
Speaker 5: Also I don't think the three of us were ever
Speaker 5: just three of us in season one even.
Speaker 2: Well, no, Panga puts the lipstick on her face, it's
Speaker 2: the three of you.
Speaker 4: I walk in and then she walks out.
Speaker 5: But yeah, oh no, you're right, because I sit down
Speaker 5: and goes go because we look like horses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: So Sean has written down four can't miss ways on
Speaker 1: how to get Super Bowl tickets. Corey asks for the
Speaker 1: best one. Sean's best idea so far is I go
Speaker 1: back in time to the first Super Bowl when tickets
Speaker 1: weren't that hard to get.
Speaker 4: It's our time machine.
Speaker 3: It's our time machine.
Speaker 2: It brought Ben's response, I don't need to hear the
Speaker 2: ready to hear the other three. That's great, a legitimate
Speaker 2: laugh for me. I don't need to hear that.
Speaker 3: I don't even need to hear the other thing.
Speaker 5: It's interesting to me how much Corey oscillates between being
Speaker 5: as dumb as Sean right, and the letting Sean know
Speaker 5: that he's being dumb and like it's just basically whichever
Speaker 5: one's funnier for the moment.
Speaker 4: Yes, they will have Corey play right.
Speaker 1: To Bega breaks in with some common sense. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna go back in time, you could do the original
Speaker 1: assignment and we wouldn't be in this mess. She realizes
Speaker 1: what she's doing, so she stops herself and sayings la
Speaker 1: la la la. Corey reminds her that butting in, even
Speaker 1: in musical form, is still butting in. Sean realizes that
Speaker 1: was his next idea to ask t Banga they need
Speaker 1: advice from her. She reminds Sean that if she gives
Speaker 1: them advice, she gets an F. Sean rolls his eyes.
Speaker 1: You can get one stinking F in your life, Tapega argues, no,
Speaker 1: she can't. She's worked very hard to be perfect up
Speaker 1: till now. Seawn's disgusted. I am throwing up. I am
Speaker 1: throwing up all over you, which I thought was funny. Then,
Speaker 1: as if by magic, the radio DJ asks, are you
Speaker 1: ready to win some Super Bowl tickets? To Pega's eyes widened.
Speaker 1: But the boys don't put two and two together? Or
Speaker 1: they have become hard of hearing, or have they have
Speaker 1: been given an unrealistic plot point.
Speaker 3: By the writers. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: I don't know which one it is. Everyone's funniest and oblivious.
Speaker 1: Sean asks, if I was a pair of Super Bowl tickets,
Speaker 1: how would I find me? Corey admits it's an interesting question.
Speaker 1: Sean another question, why would Phoene make up such an
Speaker 1: impossible assignment? The NFL music plays behind them, but it
Speaker 1: hasn't affected them at all. Tapega brings the boombox directly
Speaker 1: to the kitchen table to get their attention. They have
Speaker 1: the last Super Bowl tickets in the known universe, and
Speaker 1: there's only ten more chances to win, so call now
Speaker 1: to Pega is trying so hard to get their attention,
Speaker 1: but Corey shouts, will you turn down the radio? We're
Speaker 1: trying to thank you to Pega runs across the kitchen,
Speaker 1: running around the room, striking the Heisman pose. Corey yells
Speaker 1: at her no jazz or size in the kitchen. The
Speaker 1: DJ announces that he's down to the five final callers.
Speaker 1: Topega now frantically holds two items she got in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: a bowl and a can of soup. Famous scene alert.
Speaker 1: Corey tries to guess as to Panga plays a game
Speaker 1: of charades, bowl and can.
Speaker 3: There's trouble in the Balkans. He puts a.
Speaker 1: Piece of food in her mouth like she's lassy and asks,
Speaker 1: is that what the radio said?
Speaker 4: Girl?
Speaker 1: She spits out the food and tries again. This time
Speaker 1: he realizes the word is soup. He asks, soup or bowl?
Speaker 3: All right? Soup so funny? All right?
Speaker 1: Soup to Pega growls and jumps on his back, forcing
Speaker 1: his head to the boom box. The DJ says there's
Speaker 1: only one chance left to go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Corey and Sean jump up for joy, forcing Topanga to
Speaker 1: fly backwards and land on the bums.
Speaker 2: Yes, I around this like three times you flew off
Speaker 2: his back. I mean that was a good hit, bigs.
Speaker 3: It was fun. I don't remember there be I don't
Speaker 3: remember ever being hurt. Do you remember me ever being hurt?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: But do you remember doing this the scene?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: How do you you have positive memories of this scene?
Speaker 3: I don't have bad memories of the scene, right I should?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I liked the scene watching it, but I got very
Speaker 5: stressed out and I realized, like, oh right, this was
Speaker 5: like a tough like this was like a lot.
Speaker 4: Of over like redirecting being done. It was like it
Speaker 4: was like.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, do it this way. Try, you know,
Speaker 5: like now just jump on feet are the thing? Like
Speaker 5: I just remember being like stressed out and like there
Speaker 5: was Michael redirecting. There was a lot of like how
Speaker 5: to make this funnier, how to make it bigger, you know,
Speaker 5: and like watching I'm like, yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 5: funny beats in here, but I got stressed out watching it.
Speaker 5: I was like, am I stressed out right? And I
Speaker 5: was like, oh right, because we were like beating this
Speaker 5: to death try and you know, and it is.
Speaker 4: It's a very.
Speaker 5: Funny, funny written scene, but it, like the rest of
Speaker 5: this episode, it.
Speaker 4: Didn't feel light to me, like I wish it just
Speaker 4: had like a lighter, more spontaneous touch to it.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: Definitely think you're right that there was no audience and
Speaker 1: it was missing that charge of energy from us.
Speaker 5: And I just feel like, you know, like Ben feeding
Speaker 5: you the thing is like a really funny bit, but
Speaker 5: it felt pre planned. It didn't feel like I'm watching
Speaker 5: Corey make a decision grab a thing, like you could
Speaker 5: have played that a little slower, but instead it feels like,
Speaker 5: let me hit the beat that we're hitting and then
Speaker 5: let me hit the beat where we do this and
Speaker 5: let me you know. And I was like, yeah, listen
Speaker 5: to each other a little bit more, guys, like, you know,
Speaker 5: enjoy the scene.
Speaker 4: I could tell that. I don't know, I felt like
Speaker 4: we were.
Speaker 5: Kind of stressed out and I got stressed out watching huh,
Speaker 5: But still very funny scenes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it worth it.
Speaker 1: I guess probably still could have been funnier, maybe with
Speaker 1: a little bit more maybe if it would have been
Speaker 1: a little bit more relaxed, but also maybe because there
Speaker 1: was no audience, our relax axed pace did actually hurt
Speaker 1: the comedy. So I don't know, it's hard to it's
Speaker 1: hard to tell. It's like there is such a fine
Speaker 1: line between something seeming too well planned out and also
Speaker 1: very specific beats being funnier than passive beats. So it's
Speaker 1: exactly you know it is. It's a hard it's a
Speaker 1: hard line to walk.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's anything anybody would really notice, but
Speaker 4: I noticed that, Oh my gosh, I'm getting the same
Speaker 4: feeling in my body watching I was like, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: So I would also say, Danielle, you're a very good
Speaker 2: physical comedian. And I'm surprised after this they didn't do
Speaker 2: more of this, yeah, because it was really funny. The
Speaker 2: physicality was hysterical, and I was like, why didn't they
Speaker 2: go into this more? Like why isn't a panga more
Speaker 2: klutzy or we learned something about her where we get
Speaker 2: more of this? Because you were really good at it,
Speaker 2: It's like this didn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I do just remember, and I know I've been asked before.
Speaker 1: People have been like, when you did that?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 3: Was that a stunt? Double? Did you have a pad?
Speaker 1: And I remember that No, I did not, And I
Speaker 1: remember being excited by the fact that I got to
Speaker 1: do that, like I got to actually do that stunt.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily remember feeling stressed about that aspect of it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we were overrehearsed, but I think I was
Speaker 1: more just like, this is cool that I get to
Speaker 1: and it's going to look good.
Speaker 3: And it did.
Speaker 1: It looked good. It looks real, And I remember telling
Speaker 1: people like, no, I think I really just did that.
Speaker 1: Then when I watched it, I was like, yes, of
Speaker 1: course I remember this, Yes I really did it.
Speaker 2: But even the heisman stuff, even the smaller stuff, like
Speaker 2: just the physicality was very funny. It's like, why don't
Speaker 2: they write to this more?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would have been fun. I do enjoy physical comedy. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that would But that stunt would never happen today.
Speaker 4: You would never send an actor. Never.
Speaker 1: It would have a pad and you'd have to shoot
Speaker 1: it differently, and it'd make it look like the actor
Speaker 1: went flying and in some ways good, that's a good thing,
Speaker 1: but it is someways funny to see in some ways bad.
Speaker 3: It sure was funny to see me do it.
Speaker 1: Ye Corey is now shouting, they're giving away tickets to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Sean adds, we almost missed it. Thanks
Speaker 1: a lot to Panga, he says, looking at the radio,
Speaker 1: pretending he's looking at Topanga.
Speaker 3: Did you notice that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, oh my gosh, I can't believe writer didn't notice it.
Speaker 1: As a director, I am back by the stairs, and
Speaker 1: you lean over the table as if where I am
Speaker 1: is on the floor in front of the back door.
Speaker 4: See that's what I mean. It was coverage.
Speaker 5: We were getting ridge, so it was like, let's bring
Speaker 5: the camera over here to get Seawn's shot right or
Speaker 5: your eye lines over here. It wasn't within the same
Speaker 5: scene right, which.
Speaker 2: We never did. It was just we're gonna, you know what,
Speaker 2: forget the cameras are here. You guys do your play,
Speaker 2: will do our thing. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 1: Because they go from you going thanks a lot to
Speaker 1: Panga to then me looking at you and it's like
Speaker 1: there's no universe where we buy. He's looking at her.
Speaker 1: It's it was so disorienting. It was very interesting.
Speaker 4: I love that you and I would have never noticed
Speaker 4: any of the stuff. That not a thing. What do
Speaker 4: I say?
Speaker 1: No, nope, never thought of it, never thought of it once.
Speaker 3: What do these directors even do?
Speaker 4: You don't need to to us.
Speaker 3: They just work with the actors.
Speaker 4: They just a good job.
Speaker 5: They tell us scene again from the top, ask us
Speaker 5: what we feel exactly?
Speaker 3: Nope, yeah, I'll tell you.
Speaker 2: Guys are good for anyway. Just let us do it.
Speaker 1: He runs to the phone and dials the radio station.
Speaker 1: When someone picks up, Sean excitedly shouts to Corey, I'm
Speaker 1: collar twenty.
Speaker 3: They jump up and down, and then Sean.
Speaker 5: Pauses, fact, I did full facting. I did not wait
Speaker 5: at all. It's like, literally.
Speaker 3: Dial but is that or is that?
Speaker 2: Pace?
Speaker 3: Pace it up faster.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that you were able in the first call, though,
Speaker 2: to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was believable.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, I loved it. You had me there, you
Speaker 2: had me at hello Sean.
Speaker 1: Sean pauses, I gotta do what and then there is
Speaker 1: quite an abrupt jump to the outdoor scre billboard. It's
Speaker 1: the w k Z n outdoor billboard. We see a
Speaker 1: few people standing on the ledge of their sign that
Speaker 1: reads radio because you only have to use one of
Speaker 1: your senses.
Speaker 3: And now you know what this is from.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, that's that's the that was the ABC yellow campaign.
Speaker 2: Yeah is your friend? I mean they even with the
Speaker 2: circle where it was, I mean that was the straighten
Speaker 2: that year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Actually right now, do you think they did that as
Speaker 2: a joke about ABC or do you think ABC was like,
Speaker 2: this should be part of our campaign.
Speaker 5: I think our team did it as a joke. Let's
Speaker 5: just make it look like the campaign that that ABC
Speaker 5: is doing right now.
Speaker 2: So kind of a slight f you to the campaign there.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm like, this is awful. Are they
Speaker 2: doing and then we're making fun of it? Or are
Speaker 2: they doing it like this is fun and this is
Speaker 2: kind of an homage to what ABC's doing.
Speaker 4: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: I don't I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe sort of neutral.
Speaker 5: I think it's sort of like because the audience would
Speaker 5: have also been able to recognize it, right because it
Speaker 5: was literally what was being on couple on TV that
Speaker 5: all the bumps and stuff would have that color scheme,
Speaker 5: so I think they were like, let's just do it
Speaker 5: in the same scheme as you know.
Speaker 2: I think it was just sort of are Okay.
Speaker 3: What was the set situation? I don't remember.
Speaker 4: This is why I.
Speaker 5: Think we didn't have an audience, because it had to
Speaker 5: be an elevated set in order for there to be
Speaker 5: that ladder to climb up and for this wide shot,
Speaker 5: and there's several of these wide shots. I think it
Speaker 5: was like to the left of the audience, we took
Speaker 5: over that whole area, like when you're facing the audience
Speaker 5: to their left.
Speaker 4: We just took over this whole air.
Speaker 5: I remember it being a very strange week because we
Speaker 5: had to have this giant billboard and then we also
Speaker 5: had to have the area where they were underneath the billboard,
Speaker 5: and they were completely separate. So like where the people
Speaker 5: are staying in the DJ and all that stuff is
Speaker 5: going on is in a different see.
Speaker 4: Connected to this.
Speaker 5: This was just isolated green screen, so it had green
Speaker 5: screen behind it, I think at least for this shot,
Speaker 5: and then the rest of it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a very weird week. I mean I
Speaker 4: remember it being very strange.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, So then we are down on the sidewalk
Speaker 1: at the DJ's makeshift studio. Hey, hey, this is Johnny
Speaker 1: Latte from one oh two point five Wazne.
Speaker 3: Such a good jail, So good Johnny Latte, Morning Zoo.
Speaker 1: The camera zooms out to show Corey and topang Us
Speaker 1: standing by the booth with a handful of other spectators,
Speaker 1: all bundle up, bundled up in winter attire. Johnny Latte
Speaker 1: informs us that at sixteen degrees right now, as an
Speaker 1: aggressively shivering man is hauled away in a gurney, there
Speaker 1: are only three freezing contestants left, and there's a small
Speaker 1: group of well wishers cheering them on. Then one of
Speaker 1: the well wishers yells jump. Johnny also points out that's
Speaker 1: the obligatory lunatic. Johnny Ltte will be back with our
Speaker 1: thirty two of the Super Bowl madness. Right after a
Speaker 1: message from the Bahamas and now the Bahamas ad starts
Speaker 1: to play with a jingle, and the jingle is we
Speaker 1: are warm and you are cold.
Speaker 3: We don't need a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I at this point was so frustrated that we were
Speaker 1: this far into the scene and I still had no
Speaker 1: idea what what's going on? What's going on? What did
Speaker 1: they have to do. What is sean?
Speaker 3: What's what's it's something outside?
Speaker 4: There's Oh, you're right, they know.
Speaker 2: They never explained what I thought the same thing. I
Speaker 2: was like, sowa are they is it an outlast other people?
Speaker 3: Is that no idea?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh wow. The DJ never explains, not at all.
Speaker 1: He just we're just here, here we are, it's cold,
Speaker 1: we're outside, it's the morning zoo. And it's like he
Speaker 1: talks a long time. I'm half a page in the
Speaker 1: text that I'm typing on my computer, going when are
Speaker 1: we going to hear?
Speaker 3: What? What's the what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: It was so I was just the locations, the eye lines,
Speaker 5: because the ladder is actually behind the onlookers. The reality
Speaker 5: is the onlookers would be facing it. So when Matt
Speaker 5: Kirkwood yells jump, he's looking I think it a direction of.
Speaker 3: He's looking at the DJ, look at the DJ, and.
Speaker 5: And it's a I was like, whoa, you know. So
Speaker 5: when Corey like suddenly climbs up, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2: That's it's just it's also you've got to, I imagine,
Speaker 2: because he doesn't explain it. You've got to be up
Speaker 2: there and outlast the other people, like it's basically a
Speaker 2: throwback to the twenties flag sitting, flagpole sitting. You got
Speaker 2: to be up there really cold, but other people are
Speaker 2: allowed to come up and hand you hot chocolate.
Speaker 4: I know I had the same question. It is Corey
Speaker 4: going to be a contestant, now just come up and
Speaker 4: here's a blanket and hot chocolate.
Speaker 3: Like, I don't think they'd allow that.
Speaker 2: Okay, it was the whole thing was so thrown together,
Speaker 2: this scene where it was like, what what's happening?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sean kicks the speaker off the billboard ledge so
Speaker 1: he doesn't hear any more of that song. Luckily, Corey
Speaker 1: comes walking up the ladder, just missing the falling speaker
Speaker 1: that would have ailed him, but.
Speaker 3: Still singing we are warm and you are cold. Corey's
Speaker 3: brought him some hot chocolate.
Speaker 5: I love that he's in the audience down there listening
Speaker 5: to the radio when the DJ is live right in front.
Speaker 4: Of him, just so he could have this moment.
Speaker 2: None of By the way, it's not a ron is
Speaker 2: supposed to be a Phoene lesson episode This isn't a rawn.
Speaker 4: Don't know what it is? God, what's the last guy?
Speaker 1: Why couldn't he just have the song stuck in his head.
Speaker 1: Why did he need to have headphones on? Why couldn't
Speaker 1: he just be like us so catchy.
Speaker 2: Well, it's because everybody's not facing the DJ, so they're
Speaker 2: not actually listening to what they're saying, So you need
Speaker 2: to also have the headphone seeking here.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Sewn is ecstatic and frantically pours from the thermos into
Speaker 1: the cup, but catches a glance at his fellow contestant,
Speaker 1: who is also dramatically freezing.
Speaker 3: Sean tells Corey, I can't do this, this isn't right.
Speaker 1: He walks over to his opponent and takes a big
Speaker 1: swig of hot chocolate right in front of his face.
Speaker 1: He screams yeah and laughs, maniatically the man size.
Speaker 3: That's it. I don't even like football. I like billboards,
Speaker 3: and you've ruined this for me.
Speaker 4: That is, I mean, that line is so great landing.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, the billboards. I wanted to be close
Speaker 3: to a billboard.
Speaker 4: I mean god, that I mean to me, that is
Speaker 4: like quintessential brilliant. Michael Jacobs like, here's the spot.
Speaker 5: For the joke, right, and the joke is, you know
Speaker 5: the guy is going to cave in the face of
Speaker 5: Sean's cruelty, and then you add this extra layer of
Speaker 5: irony to I mean, just brilliant. I'm so funny football,
Speaker 5: I'm just here for the billboard.
Speaker 4: So smart. It is so smart.
Speaker 3: Corey is ecstatic.
Speaker 1: There's only one more guy Sean has to outlast to
Speaker 1: win those tickets. Sean admits, I can't win this Cory.
Speaker 1: Corey tries to encourage him. Of course he can win,
Speaker 1: but Sean simply points to the other guy. It's a
Speaker 1: man and a big winter coat, happily sitting on the
Speaker 1: ledge of a billboard eating an ice cream cone. Corey
Speaker 1: whispers the other guy's inn Eskimo. Sean nods he's from
Speaker 1: the Inuit tribe. He comes to Philadelphia with his family
Speaker 1: every January for summer vacation. The man cheerfully sings, I
Speaker 1: am warm and you are cold. Sean says, I really
Speaker 1: thought I had a chance to go to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but I guess I never really did. There's always going
Speaker 1: to be an Eskimo standing in my way, isn't there.
Speaker 1: Corey says he'll help him down. As Sean figures out
Speaker 1: this whole thing was impossible, Corey thinks Feoenie knew that.
Speaker 1: And then we're in Phoenie's classroom. Phoene's at his desk,
Speaker 1: and Corey and the gang barge in. All right, we
Speaker 1: got this one figured out. Phoene asks, you got the
Speaker 1: super Bowl tickets? Sean grins. This was never about the tickets.
Speaker 1: Phoene raises an eyebrow. It wasn't. Corey's very proud of himself.
Speaker 1: You don't think we know you. You don't think we
Speaker 1: know that when you're teaching us something, we should look
Speaker 1: for the lesson behind the lesson. We figured this one
Speaker 1: out all by ourselves. Tapanga ads and I didn't even
Speaker 1: help them, mister Feenie. Sean explains, even though we thought
Speaker 1: something was impossible, we still should have tried, because that's
Speaker 1: all you want it to. Panga brags. You see how
Speaker 1: I haven't given them any advice on what to say.
Speaker 1: I don't fail, I don't. The three give each other
Speaker 1: a big group hug as. Corey asks, aren't you proud
Speaker 1: of us?
Speaker 3: Mister Feenie. Phoene is unmoved.
Speaker 1: Where are the super Bowl tickets? The three of them
Speaker 1: burst into laughter.
Speaker 3: Good joke, mister Feenie.
Speaker 1: Topanga begins to speak, mister Feenie that, but Feeni interrupts her. No,
Speaker 1: miss Lawrence, all you had to do was stay out
Speaker 1: of it. Phoene asks them again, in a very serious tone,
Speaker 1: where are the tickets? Sean tells him he really tried.
Speaker 1: Corey adds, and we know that's what you wanted. Phoene
Speaker 1: shakes his head. You have no idea what I want.
Speaker 1: He stands up. Get the tickets or fail. Tapanga begins
Speaker 1: to say, mister Feenie, but he cuts her off again,
Speaker 1: stay out of it or fail. Corey tries to reason
Speaker 1: with him, and Peoene cuts him off as well. Help
Speaker 1: them both or fail. He walks away without another word.
Speaker 1: As the three of them stand there shocked, Sean states again,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot to Panga.
Speaker 5: I think this might be the same with the door
Speaker 5: way walk away walk. Oh yeah, this might because I
Speaker 5: think that's a dramatic walkout. So the rest of the
Speaker 5: episode felt very strange to me, And when I watch
Speaker 5: it a second time, I kind of started to get
Speaker 5: an idea.
Speaker 4: Why this is the end of.
Speaker 5: The episode, Like we do learn the lesson exactly right,
Speaker 5: Like nothing changes, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I don't it's all muddled. What is he trying to teach?
Speaker 2: And they learned what he's trying to teach. They figured
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 4: And it's and it's just we haven't been suffered enough.
Speaker 4: It's like Feeny just gets to.
Speaker 5: Yell at us and then we learn the same lesson.
Speaker 5: We just do it more like Sean just works.
Speaker 4: Harder and it's what we've done all the things exactly, still.
Speaker 2: Doesn't do exactly. The assignment was not to go to
Speaker 2: the super Bowl. It wasn't go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And that's what Sean did, is he ends up at
Speaker 2: the super Bowl saying, look, nothing's impossible. Well, for all
Speaker 2: we know, he snuck in and didn't The assignment was
Speaker 2: to get super Bowl tickets, which he never did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did sneak in.
Speaker 4: I just don't know.
Speaker 5: I just feel like this the more the more touching
Speaker 5: scene and at the end, you know, with Corey and
Speaker 5: Topanga and Feeni, they're all saying the same thing that
Speaker 5: they say in this verbatim, like no one the lesson
Speaker 5: doesn't change. And that's why it was like, wait, what
Speaker 5: is this episode about?
Speaker 4: And it seems like it's about.
Speaker 5: Phenie punishing us, like it seems like it's about FIENI
Speaker 5: torturing us and like, I don't know it. It's it's
Speaker 5: just not that like I just wanted the best lessons,
Speaker 5: best feeni lessons are revelatory, right, It's like through the
Speaker 5: experience you'll reveal something and like ah, and we've had
Speaker 5: that up until now. But then the rest of the
Speaker 5: episode it's just like authoritarian I told you you did it,
Speaker 5: or you're not enough for it.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a weird tone.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, well, I do think I walked away
Speaker 1: from the episode thinking I I kind of felt like
Speaker 1: the lesson was, actually, your good attributes could actually could
Speaker 1: you They could be taken to a fault. You know,
Speaker 1: we've all heard the saying of like, oh she's kind
Speaker 1: to a fault and you know it's because oh she's
Speaker 1: so kind people and taking advantage of her she doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know, those kinds of things. And I do think
Speaker 1: the idea that like Corey loves his friend so much
Speaker 1: that at the beginning of the episode, what he was
Speaker 1: doing to help him was trying to put his name
Speaker 1: on a paper he didn't really write and give him
Speaker 1: a good grade that he wouldn't have otherwise earned, and
Speaker 1: that that is not actually that's enabling, that's not helping
Speaker 1: your friend. And Topanga, who is a control freak and
Speaker 1: wants to see everybody succeed like I did walk away,
Speaker 1: got them to thinking, yeah, and that for Sean, I think.
Speaker 4: You know, don't give up like that.
Speaker 1: Seawan is always so quick to say, my circumstances will
Speaker 1: stop me, and so I shouldn't even bother because I have.
Speaker 4: An easy way out. But we've all learned all our lessons.
Speaker 5: My mind now that literally everything you've just described we've
Speaker 5: already gone through and we still have what ten more
Speaker 5: minutes of the episode, And I'm not sure why, except
Speaker 5: to really drill this.
Speaker 4: Point home felt plotting to me. Yeah, P L O
Speaker 4: D D I NG like plotting, Like it was like
Speaker 4: right next beat and.
Speaker 5: Just hit it harder and hit it harder, to the
Speaker 5: point where the final moment where Feenie grabs your hands
Speaker 5: like in this like really affect.
Speaker 4: I was like, I know what, this isn't right. This
Speaker 4: is not Feenie. Like Phoenie's the guy who won't say
Speaker 4: I love you by the end of points.
Speaker 5: He's the guy who would never he would walk away
Speaker 5: from that scene and leave you.
Speaker 4: Guys to be like a ha.
Speaker 5: So it's like it's like we had to. It's a
Speaker 5: doubling down, Like the whole episode ends here and then
Speaker 5: we just.
Speaker 4: Do it again.
Speaker 1: Right, we're back at the guy's apartment, Jack sitting at
Speaker 1: his laptop as Eric walks down the stairs. What are
Speaker 1: you doing? They're gonna be here any minute. Jack says
Speaker 1: he has a psych test on Monday. Eric's eyes, this
Speaker 1: is why you'll never end up with any woman worth having.
Speaker 1: He slams Jack's laptop shut. We finally found two girls
Speaker 1: that are different from any other girls we've dated before.
Speaker 1: Jack asks how they're different, and Eric explains, because they're
Speaker 1: coming back. They're coming back because there's compatibility. Now, we
Speaker 1: haven't seen your first date with We didn't know there
Speaker 1: was a first date, so now we're just told this
Speaker 1: is a second date.
Speaker 5: Confused, it's like, oh, they those girls from the balcony, right,
Speaker 5: we don't they haven't.
Speaker 1: So there were the girls from the balcony and you've
Speaker 1: already had a date with them and it went well,
Speaker 1: and now they're coming back.
Speaker 2: Coming Did you see any food signs or did the
Speaker 2: back change?
Speaker 5: And there it's completely different there's a bar. Now's that island.
Speaker 5: That bar island never existed a bar, and.
Speaker 2: Then there's cabinets behind where there need to be food pictures.
Speaker 4: I know, they totally different.
Speaker 5: For the date scene, they needed two separate sitting areas,
Speaker 5: and so they created this barstool citting.
Speaker 4: Area, which I think we're in now.
Speaker 2: The rest of Yeah, but it's a different apartment.
Speaker 3: Is amazing.
Speaker 1: Jack argues, I'm studying so I can get my soulmate
Speaker 1: a nice life someday. Eric retorts, do like me, become
Speaker 1: a secret agent. Once you're in the CIA, they take
Speaker 1: care of you for life, or they kill you.
Speaker 5: That's good advice, by the way, I know this is
Speaker 5: classic Wilfredo, like figuring out some great business with your
Speaker 5: shirt time, but you don't.
Speaker 4: Actually tie your shoes. It's it's great business.
Speaker 5: It's perfect because you have you know, like it's just
Speaker 5: good acting to like give yourself something to do so
Speaker 5: you're not just standing there and.
Speaker 4: You're doing it perfectly. But that you know. I watched
Speaker 4: the episode twice.
Speaker 5: The second time I was like, he just kind of
Speaker 5: tugs on his laces that are already tied.
Speaker 4: I love it, but if.
Speaker 2: I had to do it over again. I would go
Speaker 2: the extra beat with the joke and absolutely have Eric
Speaker 2: and velcros shoes totally abbs like he doesn't know how
Speaker 2: to tie is. She would never mention it, but Eric
Speaker 2: always wears velcro shoes. I would go the extra mile
Speaker 2: if I had to.
Speaker 4: Do it together.
Speaker 3: That's so funny. Right then the doorbell buzzes.
Speaker 1: Eric excitedly whispers soulmates, but Jack's still not convinced. What
Speaker 1: are the chances we find two girls who are anything
Speaker 1: like us? Eric providently asks back, what are the chances
Speaker 1: we didn't? But you already know you guys have already
Speaker 1: gone out on a date.
Speaker 4: With Well, that's what I understand. Like their team, that's
Speaker 4: why they had What if we didn't? I don't understand
Speaker 4: that line.
Speaker 3: It's a romp. No it didn't.
Speaker 2: Again, this whole bet story seemed very and it's not
Speaker 2: a bad beat story.
Speaker 3: I love The idea for the bet story is great.
Speaker 2: They they each date girls that are like the opposite
Speaker 2: and they try to switch them classic sitcom three's company kinds.
Speaker 4: Doesn't it feel very obvious?
Speaker 2: Of course a little too much.
Speaker 4: I love the idea.
Speaker 5: I actually think both the actresses are great, Like, I
Speaker 5: think it's a very but it felt, especially when it
Speaker 5: gets to the slapping blocking like it just all felt
Speaker 5: like so on the nose.
Speaker 2: I like the idea of the bet story. The execution
Speaker 2: I did not think was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Eric opens the door and two pretty blonde girls walk in.
Speaker 1: Eric smirks, boy, do we have an evening planned for you?
Speaker 1: Jack joins in a wonderful little French restaurant with only
Speaker 1: four tables, seven courses and we can linger for hours.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Jack has like the full date planned, but he was
Speaker 1: also studying for his psych test.
Speaker 3: On Monday and had to be convinced to go in
Speaker 3: on the date.
Speaker 5: Eric Schut's a ROMP episode was written by Ai.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: AOL Messenger version.
Speaker 3: Yeah you've got seen.
Speaker 1: Eric shouts, hope you brought your fat pants ladies.
Speaker 2: Kind of a great line. I want to use that now.
Speaker 1: Jack's date laughs a little too hard at that joke,
Speaker 1: and then Eric's date announces I love French food, but
Speaker 1: I can't stay too late because I have an exam
Speaker 1: on Monday. But Jack's date has other plans. Hey give
Speaker 1: me a couple of tacos and I'm a happy girl.
Speaker 1: Jack is confused, but I got these reservations. Then the
Speaker 1: girl points to her math and yells, tackle.
Speaker 2: People do this to me all the time.
Speaker 3: But this was a this was a Corey thing did this.
Speaker 5: So it's the show referencing a different character characters in joke.
Speaker 5: Maybe in the Boy Meets World universe there was taco
Speaker 5: place where they did this as their commercial.
Speaker 4: Like their low.
Speaker 5: Commercial was a guy tacoll so everybody sort of knows
Speaker 5: it as like a band.
Speaker 3: That guy was named Michael Jacobs.
Speaker 4: Yes, give me live readings. No, no, it's wow taco.
Speaker 2: It's Miguel Jacob's taco house, Miguel.
Speaker 4: Let's make commercials.
Speaker 5: Let's go into AI and have Miguel Taco commercials where
Speaker 5: somebody points with their au taco Miguel's Tacas nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Jacobs Jacobs, Miguel Jacob's Taco cos. No, we don't.
Speaker 4: I want to.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Jensen just wrote Jacob.
Speaker 2: Miguel Jacob taco cassa. Yes, that's it.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Okay, is it a taco pointing to his own like
Speaker 5: a cartoon taco taco?
Speaker 7: A cartoon taco with his side pointing to his mouth
Speaker 7: Miguel Yacosa.
Speaker 2: Oh this is the best. Oh you have to chart
Speaker 2: this pop up.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Eric agrees, I love tacos. But then
Speaker 1: his date reminds him about Jack's reservations. She and Jack
Speaker 1: both say in unison, we can't just not show up. Man,
Speaker 1: I was a good read by me.
Speaker 3: Huh. Then Jack's date had my finger over the word.
Speaker 2: Man it Man, what's that up in the road ahead?
Speaker 4: What is this?
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 2: What is this thing called love?
Speaker 4: I remember all of those.
Speaker 5: We do that all the time because it's like the
Speaker 5: ultimate bad actor thing to do.
Speaker 3: It's like to just completely misread a.
Speaker 5: Sentence, but like read it correctly. Just not talk about
Speaker 5: human van.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I just had a full flashback.
Speaker 2: Do you think you are? Were?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 4: Who do you think you are? Anyway?
Speaker 3: We would do this all the time, all the time.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Indy had this exact thing happen in his class or
Speaker 5: when he was doing the Little Mermaid play.
Speaker 4: One of the one of the actors.
Speaker 5: You know, seven years old or whatever, and I forget
Speaker 5: what the line was. It was like, oh, some friend
Speaker 5: you are or some friend you turned out to be
Speaker 5: Sebastian is the line. Okay, she said some friend you
Speaker 5: turned out to be Sebastian and he was like, what
Speaker 5: is why was she saying it like that? And He's like,
Speaker 5: I kept wanted to say somebody didn't want to tell
Speaker 5: the other students, and then finding the teacher, like the
Speaker 5: weeks of rids On. Finding the teacher was like, why
Speaker 5: are you saying some friend you turned out to be Sebastian?
Speaker 4: And so Andy just thought this was the funniest thing.
Speaker 5: I was like, findy and so I told him all
Speaker 5: of these ones where I was like, we have the
Speaker 5: exact same things, so he knows.
Speaker 4: Them now too. We say them all the time.
Speaker 3: Oh god, I think he was anyway.
Speaker 1: That is as you guys were doing that, I was
Speaker 1: a teenager again. Oh man, my stomach truly, my stomach
Speaker 1: hurt smif from laughing. Eric asks if everyone's ready, and
Speaker 1: they head out into the hallway. While standing at the elevator,
Speaker 1: Eric asks his date, Jill, if she has any brothers
Speaker 1: or sisters.
Speaker 3: Jill nods one sister.
Speaker 1: We were separated when my parents got divorced, but I
Speaker 1: reconnected with her when I came to Penbrook. Pretty weird huh.
Speaker 1: Jack and Eric stare at each other and disbelieve. Jack
Speaker 1: asks his date Carol what she's studying. She responds, you
Speaker 1: don't need to study for what I'm gonna do. Once
Speaker 1: you're in the CIA, they take care of you for life.
Speaker 1: Eric follows up or they Carol finishes his sentence, kill you,
Speaker 1: kill you. The girls get into the elevator and Eric
Speaker 1: quickly pulls Jack aside. I want Carol, Jack a grease.
Speaker 1: Jill's perfect for me. Jack and Jill. Why didn't we
Speaker 1: see it before? Eric shrieks Eric and Carol. The boys
Speaker 1: wiggle their hands together as they let out happy shrieks
Speaker 1: before joining their soulmates in the elevator.
Speaker 3: My stomach hurts, how do.
Speaker 4: You spell Miguel Jacobs? By the way, I'm already developed AI.
Speaker 3: I already got one.
Speaker 2: Guys, I'm currently working on the design.
Speaker 4: I got it. I already got one great one.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's why a cop? Or I think
Speaker 2: it's And we assumed listener is gonna say, no, you
Speaker 2: have to use a why all right?
Speaker 1: I think you have to use a y right so
Speaker 1: that you get the proper pronunciation.
Speaker 3: So, oh my god, I wrote everything to the designer,
Speaker 3: and his own response back was what about feet? Does
Speaker 3: he have feet? Oh? Does he have feet?
Speaker 2: Question?
Speaker 3: You don't have feet. I'm want to eat the taco.
Speaker 4: Literally the first one that popped up. It's terrifying how
Speaker 4: good it is. That's the first one that came up
Speaker 4: on Ai.
Speaker 3: You guys, it's so good.
Speaker 4: It's pretty perfect. You know what.
Speaker 1: This is better than what was in my mind. In
Speaker 1: my mind, we were seeing the profile of the tao,
Speaker 1: the side of the taco. But this is so much better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at this big wide mouth. Oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is perfect, and it says Miguel Jacob's Taco cossat. So
Speaker 1: then we are back on the WKZN billboard. It now
Speaker 1: reads I'm going to the super Bowl thanks to WKZN,
Speaker 1: with a picture of the Eskimo.
Speaker 5: The restaurants should be sponsored by w KZEN. There should
Speaker 5: be like, oh yeah, brought to you.
Speaker 1: On the back Sean sitting on the ledge all alone.
Speaker 1: Corey and Tapanga walk up and spot Sean. Topega says,
Speaker 1: I told you he'd be here, and Corey argues, no,
Speaker 1: you didn't. You were waiving a dollar and yawning at me.
Speaker 1: Tapanga shouts, bill board, how much simpler, could it be?
Speaker 1: They walk up the ladder, still arguing, and the start
Speaker 1: of another handful of very crazy camera angles. Sean yells
Speaker 1: at them, Hey, Lucy, Ricky, I'm up here trying to think.
Speaker 4: You get your head stepped on. It was funny. I
Speaker 4: love the panga dynamic in this.
Speaker 3: I love the idea that they're Lucy and Ricky. That's
Speaker 3: that's good.
Speaker 2: Again, favorite topanga so far, arguably of the series. This
Speaker 2: is my favorite tapanga, so at least of the modern tipanga.
Speaker 2: Of the modern tapanga, this is my favorite version right here,
Speaker 2: like you're part of the gang. They finally wrote something
Speaker 2: for you, and it's like Topanga's here. So that was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They finally make it up to the ledge and Corey
Speaker 1: asks what he's thinking about. Sean says, whenever I've wanted
Speaker 1: anything in my life, there's always been an Eskimo standing
Speaker 1: in my way. Corey turns to Tapanga for advice. She
Speaker 1: starts playing charades, but Corey doesn't get it. She just
Speaker 1: shouts metaphor. It's all very funny, and I don't know how.
Speaker 1: I don't know how Tapega doesn't fail the assignment. I
Speaker 1: guess we just choose not to share that I told
Speaker 1: him stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, no one understands the assignment.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's true that way, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sean continues, Remember when you went to summer camp and
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford to That was an eskimo. He grew
Speaker 1: up in a trailer park. Everyone else had a house.
Speaker 1: That's another eskimo. Sean explains, there's so many things standing
Speaker 1: in my way, but he's had enough. He declares he's
Speaker 1: going to the super Bowl. Corey reminds him he has
Speaker 1: no tickets and no way of getting there. Sean says
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. People like him don't get anywhere because
Speaker 1: they don't believe they can get there. He's his own
Speaker 1: worst eskimo. Corey tries reasoning with him, he doesn't need
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. Sean knows I do have to go
Speaker 1: somewhere because if I don't, I'll never go anywhere. He
Speaker 1: tells Corey to be his best friend and get out
Speaker 1: of his way. Corey obliges, and they all watch Sean leave. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the lesson Sean didn't necessarily have when they
Speaker 1: went back to the classroom. Before Sean came back going
Speaker 1: you just wanted me to try. But that isn't true.
Speaker 1: He wanted him to realize if you always see an
Speaker 1: obstacle and decide, well, there's my obstacle, it's I'm not
Speaker 1: ever going to push past it and I just turn
Speaker 1: back and go, isn't that good enough?
Speaker 3: No, that isn't ever going to be good enough in
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 4: It's doubling down. Yeah you didn't you didn't run a marathon.
Speaker 4: You just sprinted, but you just got to go.
Speaker 5: It's fine, It's just more of the same, right, It's
Speaker 5: just like you have to go further.
Speaker 4: You haven't been punished enough. You have both go.
Speaker 1: You haven't realized that you're you're the person who's stopping you,
Speaker 1: not the actual obstacle. I think in the first when
Speaker 1: you first went to the classroom, you were like, oh,
Speaker 1: I worked my hardest until there was a true roadblock
Speaker 1: that I couldn't imagine a way around.
Speaker 3: And then I said, well I did the best that
Speaker 3: I could.
Speaker 1: But Feenie was saying, no, you have to go even
Speaker 1: past that, and you have to realize that you're so
Speaker 1: far the thing that stopped you every time, not about
Speaker 1: the money, not about the and maybe that idea as
Speaker 1: a big ole. You got to pull yourselfself up by
Speaker 1: your bootstraps thing, you know, if you really want to
Speaker 1: afford it, you work two jobs and you do it overnight.
Speaker 1: Like There's maybe some of that in there, But ultimately
Speaker 1: you did in this scene teach yourself something about your
Speaker 1: past that you did not know in that previous scene
Speaker 1: in the classroom.
Speaker 2: But he never got the tickets.
Speaker 3: That we know of. That we know of.
Speaker 1: He may have done a grateful dead thing and waved
Speaker 1: his finger up in the air outside of the super
Speaker 1: Bowl asking for a miracle, and somebody said, hey, you
Speaker 1: can have my extra ticket.
Speaker 3: We don't know. I do wish they explained that a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think Sean just broke into the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: I know, I think so too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Sophie, he turned Sean into a criminal.
Speaker 1: Yes, then we're back in the guy's apartment. They are
Speaker 1: in different outfits.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: So this is the third date, Date three, third date.
Speaker 1: The didn't see date one. We saw the beginning of
Speaker 1: date two. This is now date three. This is sex
Speaker 1: date right right, this is the time when it happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Eric makes his way over to Carol as Jack sits
Speaker 1: next to Jill on the couch. Carol wins as Eric
Speaker 1: stares into her soul. She wonders why he's so close
Speaker 1: to her, and why is he even sitting next to
Speaker 1: her in the first place. She thinks he's confused. Eric
Speaker 1: grabs her hand and holds it to his chest. You
Speaker 1: think I'm confused. Your name is Carol, you want to
Speaker 1: work in espionage. You love tacos. You have no idea
Speaker 1: what color amber is. Now, who's confused? She pulls her
Speaker 1: hand back. I am, and you're sitting even closer to
Speaker 1: me now. Meanwhile, Jack is explaining to Jill, and are
Speaker 1: we supposed to ad buy that they don't hear.
Speaker 2: Each You can't hear anything. Well, they're almost six feet away.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, got it.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile Jack is explaining to Jill, your studies are important
Speaker 1: to you. You appreciate French cuisine, and you want to read
Speaker 1: the Sunday Times book review section in an unfurnished apartment
Speaker 1: while you lie on the hardwood floor with your lover
Speaker 1: massage in your bare feet. Jill shrugs, yeah. So we
Speaker 1: cut back to Eric, whose legs are now propped onto
Speaker 1: Carol's while he nuzzles his head into her shoulder. She's
Speaker 1: had enough. Now you're way too close. You're hitting on me.
Speaker 1: Eric softly asks, am I. Carol throws his legs off
Speaker 1: of her. Yes, what is going on here? Eric stares
Speaker 1: into her eyes. Don't you see we were meant for
Speaker 1: each other. The reason I want someone like you is
Speaker 1: because you're someone like me. She softly slaps him on
Speaker 1: the head. She's here to see Jack. She thought he
Speaker 1: and Eric were best friends. Eric nods best friends. We
Speaker 1: support each other entirely. Then, and what can only be
Speaker 1: described as an optical camera pan, Jack shouts to Jill.
Speaker 1: Eric's a moron. I lay out his clothes in the morning.
Speaker 1: You and I belong together. We're like peanut, butter and jelly.
Speaker 1: We're like jelly and jelly. Carol makes her way over
Speaker 1: to Jack. She's not comfortable here. Jill tells Eric she'd
Speaker 1: like to leave. Eric is disgusted. I'm with Carol, how rude?
Speaker 1: Great read?
Speaker 4: I wrote?
Speaker 1: Amazing read. Jack pleads to Jill. At least let me
Speaker 1: walk you home. That way we can talk and you
Speaker 1: can see how right we are for each other. Carol
Speaker 1: just wants to know what's going on here. Eric asks,
Speaker 1: we were just switching you around. What's the big deal?
Speaker 3: The girls slap the boys across the face.
Speaker 2: In Udison, the roommates switch big Seinfeld thing.
Speaker 3: They just stole it.
Speaker 1: Jack says they were just trying to form serious and
Speaker 1: meaningful relationships. Eric adds, with a couple of hotties who
Speaker 1: have the same interests we do. Don't you want that too?
Speaker 1: He turns to Carol, I know you do. He turns
Speaker 1: to Jill. You I don't know what you want, Carol
Speaker 1: admits I. Carol admits we just went out with you
Speaker 1: because we thought you were cute. Jill adds, besides, who
Speaker 1: would want to be with someone exactly like ourselves? Nobody
Speaker 1: makes a sandwich out of jelly and jelly. That would
Speaker 1: be tedious and redundant. Jack looks at her lovingly. We
Speaker 1: have the same volc tabulary. Eric turns to Carol. We
Speaker 1: could look those words up together. But she doesn't want
Speaker 1: to look those words up with him. She wants someone
Speaker 1: who can tell her what they mean. Jill adds, I
Speaker 1: spend all day with me. You seemed like fun, and
Speaker 1: now we'll never know. With that, The girls leave now alone.
Speaker 1: Eric declares, we learned an important lesson here today. Jack
Speaker 1: looks like finding soulmates isn't going to be as easy
Speaker 1: as we thought. Jack suggests, maybe the girls taught us
Speaker 1: we were too aggressive and we just have to sit
Speaker 1: back and let the universe bring our soulmates to us.
Speaker 1: Eric grins, you're a wise man, Jack Hunter. Then we
Speaker 1: cut to the hallway outside the elevator. Jill and Carol
Speaker 1: are not so patiently waiting, arms folded. Jill breaks the silence.
Speaker 1: I guess they're actually not coming after us.
Speaker 3: Carol laughs. Those idiots, what they learned.
Speaker 4: The wrong lesson. They were supposed to go out and
Speaker 4: chase them down, and the girls would have been fine,
Speaker 4: and they would have been soulmates for her.
Speaker 3: But why would they have girls? Would they?
Speaker 2: Did it now be Eric and Carol and Jack and Jill?
Speaker 5: Or Yeah, they just gave that whole speech that that's
Speaker 5: no they should be.
Speaker 2: So that'll be the original.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So you guys just learned the wrong lesson.
Speaker 4: As the joke like, if you had listened to them, you.
Speaker 5: Would have learned the lesson, like we should try it,
Speaker 5: make it make it work with the girl who's not
Speaker 5: like me.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll go after her and make it work.
Speaker 5: But instead you guys were like, well, we don't need
Speaker 5: soul mates, or let's wait and they'll come to us.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, all right, but that's not that's not
Speaker 1: what Eric or Jack wanted.
Speaker 2: But we're boys, doesn't.
Speaker 6: Okay, doesn't matter what you want.
Speaker 1: And then we're back in Phoenie's classroom. Corey enters with Tapanga.
Speaker 1: He's failed, mister Feoene. As we speak, our young Sean
Speaker 1: is foolishly rolling westward towards San Diego and certain disappointment.
Speaker 1: Phoene perks up, did he get the tickets? Corey explains no,
Speaker 1: He said the tickets didn't matter. He said nothing mattered
Speaker 1: and that he'd find a way in Phoenix smiles.
Speaker 3: That's what he said.
Speaker 1: Corey answers, Yeah, I was standing in front of him
Speaker 1: and he asked me to move out of the way
Speaker 1: so he could go. Phoene approaches Corey, clearly happy with
Speaker 1: the way things turned out. Did you move out of
Speaker 1: the way, mister Matthews. Corey nods, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: really felt like I should. I know, the assignment was
Speaker 1: to help him succeed, but he didn't need my help
Speaker 1: on this one. Corey concludes he was going to do
Speaker 1: this on his own no matter what. Guess I failed. Huh,
Speaker 1: Phoene smiles. On the contrary, you passed with flying colors,
Speaker 1: and so does mister Hunter. Corey's demeanor changes, Of course
Speaker 1: we did, and clearly you've wasted all your time. As
Speaker 1: I continue to comprehend nothing, Phoene sits down next to him.
Speaker 1: Sean isn't going to go to college and succeed because
Speaker 1: you want him to. He has to want to and
Speaker 1: believe that he can. The only way he can do
Speaker 1: that is on his own without your help. Corey wonders,
Speaker 1: then why did you want me to help him? Phoeni explains,
Speaker 1: you need to know you won't always be able to
Speaker 1: to Panga smiles as she realizes, pretty soon we're all
Speaker 1: going to have to do things on our own without
Speaker 1: someone's help, right, mister. Phoenie to Penga continues, I think
Speaker 1: I know why you've been so upset, and I think
Speaker 1: I know why you're going to keep giving us assignments
Speaker 1: every day until our last day with you. Phoene warns
Speaker 1: her she's butting in to Pega nods, Yeah, I am
Speaker 1: so fail me. That's life, Pheenie reminds her you won't
Speaker 1: be perfect anymore. To Penga shrugs, well, no one should
Speaker 1: be perfect. You learn from failure, and I need to
Speaker 1: know that, right, Phoenie's the one that's taken aback. Now,
Speaker 1: you just yelled at me just so much.
Speaker 4: So much thematic time. I know, here's the theme of me.
Speaker 5: Here, here's the theme of your character, and here's the
Speaker 5: way I feel about our themes, about the themes of
Speaker 5: our character that you're talking the thematically about you. Oh
Speaker 5: my god, they know which is it's just very heavy
Speaker 5: handed and very sentimental.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just yelled at me, But I'm mister Phoenie.
Speaker 3: To Penga smiles. One day you're going to have to
Speaker 3: let us go.
Speaker 1: One day you won't be able to teach us anymore,
Speaker 1: and you can't be sure if we're going to be
Speaker 1: all right. Phoene pauses for a moment. Life is a
Speaker 1: lot tougher than school, my DearS, Corey ads, but the
Speaker 1: right thing to do is just step aside and let
Speaker 1: us live it. We learned that because you taught it
Speaker 1: to us. He grabs both of their hands and holds
Speaker 1: them tight while they smile at him with admiration.
Speaker 2: And no Sean there for kind of this important I
Speaker 2: mean moment and scene.
Speaker 1: Nope, a scene that's like about you going to college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well then we're in the tag. We are
Speaker 1: in Chubby's. A crowd is gathered around the TV as
Speaker 1: Alan shoots ooh, what a game. Eric adds this is
Speaker 1: the best super Bowl since Super Bowl XX. Tapang is confused.
Speaker 1: She asks Amy, this makes them so happy. Morgan, who
Speaker 1: found herself in the episode, shakes her head in despair.
Speaker 3: What else is on? Amy tells her like football, never
Speaker 3: not a single one of them?
Speaker 2: Okay, wait a second super Bowl XX was super Bowl
Speaker 2: twenty one by the Giants.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, really I want to google.
Speaker 2: Oh it was the Patriots that lost by that. Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2: This is refrigerator Perry one. Okay.
Speaker 1: Amy tells her that Fox is counterprogramming with America's worst
Speaker 1: family atrocities. Alan butts in, you change that channel, You're
Speaker 1: going to be on that program.
Speaker 2: Good shot at Fox. By the way, at the time,
Speaker 2: that was just a straight up shot.
Speaker 4: Of yeah, you think the super Bowl this year and
Speaker 4: that's maybe.
Speaker 1: It was also in California, so it was probably a
Speaker 1: big deal for Yeah.
Speaker 2: But Fox at the time was doing like Worst Bear
Speaker 2: Attacks and all that. Remember the shows that were like
Speaker 2: so these were great. That was a great just shot
Speaker 2: at Fox at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Eric and Allan start to cheer loudly in bump chests.
Speaker 1: The rest of Chubbies joins in. Once the celebration calms down,
Speaker 1: Phoene stands up and excitedly shouts, look at that. Alan
Speaker 1: is confused, Look at what the play's over? Phoene explains,
Speaker 1: he's looking at the crowd. Look at the boy holding.
Speaker 3: Up the sign.
Speaker 1: Corey notices it too, the one that says, hey, Phoenie,
Speaker 1: nothing's impossible. He and Phoene look at each other, grinning
Speaker 1: from ear to ear, and the audience sees none of it.
Speaker 1: Where's that insert crowd?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, we had a good run.
Speaker 2: There's got to be a dud occasionally. You can't have
Speaker 2: a banger every week.
Speaker 4: I just don't know if this is a dud.
Speaker 5: I think it's just a strange one, you know. And
Speaker 5: I actually think if this had come earlier in season five,
Speaker 5: we would have been probably delighted. Like if this came
Speaker 5: after the first couple episodes, we'd be like, oh cool.
Speaker 5: But the last this coming in a round of like
Speaker 5: great Angela episodes and like sort of a return to
Speaker 5: the sense of boy meets world magic.
Speaker 4: This just felt this just felt.
Speaker 3: Off yea off, Yeah, but you got to do it.
Speaker 4: We really did pick it apart.
Speaker 1: I feel like once, I feel like what I've realized
Speaker 1: for a lot of our critiques on episodes is that
Speaker 1: we feel like there could have been a simpler way
Speaker 1: to get across the lesson, and this one feels like
Speaker 1: they took an idea like I would have, and maybe
Speaker 1: we would have been critical of it had it been
Speaker 1: more of a romp. But an episode about trying to
Speaker 1: get tickets to the Super Bowl sounds fun but mixed
Speaker 1: with a real convoluted Feeney lesson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, new director, new direct ca.
Speaker 1: And a b story that maybe so Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think maybe it needed a little bit of pairing down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe maybe it tried to do too much too many.
Speaker 1: Las tried, yes, lots of spinning plates.
Speaker 2: And I'd like to know where Sean is at this point.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know where in his academic career he is,
Speaker 2: because it's starting to change every week.
Speaker 3: Right, I thought you were going to say you wanted
Speaker 3: him to drop a pin. You want to know what I.
Speaker 2: Always said, I know exactly where writers I have a
Speaker 2: camera set up in his sear I know where.
Speaker 3: You have a Google You're following him, right, I do.
Speaker 2: I'm shutting it down tonight though, as he goes back
Speaker 2: to naked sleeping.
Speaker 3: Right, you don't want to see that.
Speaker 5: We got into the car this weekend Alex and she
Speaker 5: got an alert on her phone that was like you
Speaker 5: were being followed by an air tag or there was
Speaker 5: an air tag. We're like, what what did somebody? And
Speaker 5: we're like sitting there going what is going on? And
Speaker 5: then my son's friend from the back seat was like,
Speaker 5: We're like, do you have an air taxit?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, my mom has an air tag on my backpack.
Speaker 5: But isn't that interesting? It warns yeah, stock that you
Speaker 5: were like, somebody's tracking you.
Speaker 4: I know, I had no idea yea, But.
Speaker 5: Alex and I were like, what did somebody put one
Speaker 5: in your car and took it? Took a little too
Speaker 5: long for all of to pipe up in the backseat.
Speaker 4: We're like, well, yeah, that would have been good.
Speaker 3: That would have been Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you heard us freaking out about the air tag,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe mention that.
Speaker 2: That's a great name.
Speaker 3: Oli.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of the I always.
Speaker 1: Join us for our next episode recap, which is season five,
Speaker 1: episode fourteen.
Speaker 3: It's a big one heartbreak Corey.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I saw this on the list intro to Lauren ski Lage.
Speaker 3: Huge episode Ski Lodge.
Speaker 2: Already Ski Lodge, Ski Lodge. Well, Topang and Corey have
Speaker 2: been have been happy for like four episodes now, so
Speaker 2: it's time for him to get some strange We all
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 3: Thank what's this question?
Speaker 1: I know, Yeah, it's already Ski Lodge episode. So that
Speaker 1: originally aired February sixth, nineteen ninety eight. So I was
Speaker 1: right when we talked about when this aired January sixteenth.
Speaker 1: We was our last episode before the super Bowl on
Speaker 1: January twenty fifth. We didn't have another episode air until
Speaker 1: February sixth, so this was our super Bowl episode.
Speaker 4: Gotcha? All right?
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