Speaker 1: We got a lot of requests for everyone wanting to know.
Speaker 1: Did poor Wilfredell get his Christmas gifts? You had a
Speaker 1: lot of people concerned for you.
Speaker 2: A lot of as well. They should be your Christmas gifts.
Speaker 2: Will I got some of my Christmas.
Speaker 3: We had one lunch where we were supposed to bring
Speaker 3: presents and I forgot So I forgot them. And I
Speaker 3: still haven't seen you, guys.
Speaker 1: I've seen you, but I haven't seen this a couple
Speaker 1: of times.
Speaker 3: And I brought them the second time and just and
Speaker 3: I asked about them, and I'll never get him. Yep,
Speaker 3: they're sitting in my car Indies. INDI has been looking
Speaker 3: at the presence. He's like, what are these persons to
Speaker 3: me here? And then like he spilled tea on them
Speaker 3: when we were going to school the other board, they're
Speaker 3: already ruined.
Speaker 2: He's sorry.
Speaker 1: Presents, Okay, you know what I love?
Speaker 4: Love love?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Or strong King of leather jacket stolen
Speaker 1: out of his car, still keeps stills this car and
Speaker 1: nice things in his car? Well, they live in my car.
Speaker 1: Rider is your car parked in a secured parking?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 1: We'll see how a lot of those gifts stay in
Speaker 1: the car.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be great for the record. Danielle, What you
Speaker 4: got me?
Speaker 2: Love?
Speaker 1: What I amazing you got?
Speaker 4: You got me the awesome Converse All Stars Batman Edition
Speaker 4: from like the eightieth the eightieth anniversary Batman Edition.
Speaker 2: All Star shoes. They're so cool, so much fun.
Speaker 4: There's that joy of handing your gift to somebody you love,
Speaker 4: getting the gift.
Speaker 2: Back from somebody.
Speaker 1: Just tell us what they are your back.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to give away because there's a process.
Speaker 3: It's a whole especially with Will's gift. I have three
Speaker 3: gifts for Will and it's a whole cross. Really, your
Speaker 3: gift is just Sarah. I just thought it was the funniest,
Speaker 3: weirdest thing.
Speaker 2: So I hated the gift. Daniel I needed the gift.
Speaker 2: But Will got me a Instagram walking stick. He got
Speaker 2: a scam.
Speaker 3: Uh Andy loves scams, by the way, that's like his
Speaker 3: favorite thing is like a scam.
Speaker 2: He's obsessed.
Speaker 3: So he wanted to see the video because Will got me, Yeah,
Speaker 3: something that was like a survival walking It's.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be a walking stick for a six foot man.
Speaker 4: King.
Speaker 2: You'll only get three segments.
Speaker 3: What you bought was three segments of a walking stick
Speaker 3: that add up to.
Speaker 2: A hobbit walking stick. Maybe not even a hobbit.
Speaker 1: It's like maybe sixteen inches so.
Speaker 3: But it has a knife, it has like uh, it's
Speaker 3: it's very cool and it's like made of metal and
Speaker 3: it screws together.
Speaker 2: But it's I can't walk walk The.
Speaker 4: Guy the video the video, the guy's like literally fighting
Speaker 4: a mountain lion with breaking rocks.
Speaker 2: I get it in the mail. I'm like, what the
Speaker 2: is this?
Speaker 1: How they get a mountain lion and the air.
Speaker 3: And gotten me the other three segments. I'm still waiting
Speaker 3: and I, well, okay, let's go. Well you got me
Speaker 3: a walking stick and instead I got stuck walking stick.
Speaker 1: You know what I got from you?
Speaker 4: I got yeah, yeah, exactly three presents come in your.
Speaker 2: Way, my friend. You're gonna love them. You're gonna love them.
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna give you what I got you, but
Speaker 2: you love it.
Speaker 1: Will doesn't like the gift he got me.
Speaker 2: I don't at all.
Speaker 1: It's it's a very beautiful magnetic You may have seen
Speaker 1: them on the TikTok or Instagram. They're magnetic travel containers
Speaker 1: for your beauty products. So they're a beautiful like lilac color,
Speaker 1: and they have lids that you can unscrew and then
Speaker 1: you can put your moisturizer, you can put stuff in
Speaker 1: in there, and then they have like a picture or
Speaker 1: a name the word on top that tells you what
Speaker 1: they are. The problem that I've run into with them
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have to just figure out what they're
Speaker 1: used for is there's one for like contact solution. I
Speaker 1: don't wear contacts, and there's like a picture of an
Speaker 1: eyeball on it, and I'm like, what am I supposed
Speaker 1: to do about.
Speaker 2: Some sort of a I think.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 4: The funniest thing is we're on the plane a couple
Speaker 4: of days ago and I look at Daniel.
Speaker 2: I'm like, God, I hate your gift. We're having our
Speaker 2: normal conversation.
Speaker 1: I hate. She's like, you're kidding. I love my gift.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I'm like, did you use it? She's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't really need it.
Speaker 3: Will also got me a book holder like a little coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I put it together. Well, I'm it's still missing a.
Speaker 1: Divot, No, a couple of domes.
Speaker 3: I gave you the I know, but I need like
Speaker 3: two more to make it like really secure because there's
Speaker 3: two extra holes in it. But yeah, So it has
Speaker 3: a David Hume quote on one side and it's made
Speaker 3: out of wood, and it's like you can put a
Speaker 3: book and a coffee like a couple. And then it
Speaker 3: has a day Hume quote which is like an argument
Speaker 3: among friends or something.
Speaker 2: Is it exactly? But it was. It was so it's
Speaker 2: about friendship. It's a David Hume quote about friendship. It
Speaker 2: was like, this is perfect. And then a quote on
Speaker 2: the other side. You know, so you have a Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's awesome.
Speaker 4: I was very thoughtful with riders gifts and Danielle's gifts,
Speaker 4: buying something for Danielle.
Speaker 2: She has everything, and if she doesn't and she buys
Speaker 2: it for herself.
Speaker 1: I've tried to tell you to buy me jewelry. I've
Speaker 1: taken it again.
Speaker 2: It's odd to buy another woman jewelry.
Speaker 1: He goes. I had all these ideas, but they felt
Speaker 1: too daity. He's a example a weekend at Sandals. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just Dady. I can't take you for a weekend.
Speaker 1: It's like, I had this great idea. I'm so, what
Speaker 1: did I say to you?
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm walking around Victoria's Secret and I'm like.
Speaker 1: This, and I'm like, I can't, I can't buy here this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was dying. It was so funny too. Relationshipy,
Speaker 2: here's a diamond ring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from daniel to be friends with me forever and ever.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna smell you guys something next year.
Speaker 2: I'll make you both grappling.
Speaker 1: Honestly be the best thing. Okay, okay, you smelted us anything,
Speaker 1: I would put it in a shadow box and hang
Speaker 1: it in my bedroom. Who ever smelt it, dealt it.
Speaker 1: We talked about that.
Speaker 2: So you can see.
Speaker 3: In the corner I have Danielle's gift from last year,
Speaker 3: which is a Thomas Guide framed Thomas Guide.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it, Yes, And there's your floor. I got
Speaker 1: writer a fancy pen. I had a hard time, but
Speaker 1: then you are.
Speaker 3: It's a great pen. But then you also picked a
Speaker 3: book that we hadn't talked about but I've.
Speaker 2: Been wanting to read, which is amazing, which.
Speaker 3: Is the best year, film ever, best year ever. Nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety nine is the best decade. No, it's the best film.
Speaker 3: It's the best year. That's the whole pitch. It's a
Speaker 3: film critic. I'm blanking on his name, but you can
Speaker 3: look it up that he says that, like, nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: nine was this epic year. And I've heard this theory.
Speaker 3: It's based on an article he wrote. And I been
Speaker 3: talking about this book and I have never read it.
Speaker 3: So you got me exactly. I was like, have we
Speaker 3: talked about this?
Speaker 2: You're like, no, but you tell the rest of the
Speaker 2: Penn story though, Danielle.
Speaker 1: Okay, my favorite, so just the absolute best. We exchange
Speaker 1: our gifts. We actually went to lunch with our dear
Speaker 1: friend Jeff Manel, and after our lunch with Jeff Manel,
Speaker 1: we exchanged gifts. Two days later, again, a text from
Speaker 1: writer goes, hey, can you send me? Can you send
Speaker 1: me the link to the place that you bought my pen?
Speaker 1: And I go, oh, do you like it? And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it, but I've already misplaced it.
Speaker 2: I found it again.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know where it is right now, but
Speaker 1: he found it again during jury duty.
Speaker 2: Yes, but I mark my book.
Speaker 3: So my pens are always in books, you know, because
Speaker 3: I'm always reading like five or six books at.
Speaker 2: A time, and so I keep it in there.
Speaker 3: And then like you know, so I have to, Like,
Speaker 3: I always am grabbing a book and then finding a
Speaker 3: pen inside of it, So it's in one of my books somewhere.
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, so far. Welcome to Pod Meets World.
Speaker 1: I'm Daniel Fischel.
Speaker 2: I'm rather strong and I still want my gifts. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, I'm WILFORDO.
Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode. We are recapping season four episode
Speaker 1: fourteen Wheels. It originally aired January seventeenth, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: We have made seven nineteen ninety seven in the show
Speaker 1: airing the synopsis. Corey can't wait to break in his
Speaker 1: new driver's license by going on a road trip with
Speaker 1: his friends, but the plans hit a speed bump when
Speaker 1: Alan has a tough time letting his son grow up.
Speaker 1: It was directed by Jeff McCracken. It was written by
Speaker 1: Jeff Sherman. Did you guys have any just overall thoughts
Speaker 1: before I jump into guest Stars?
Speaker 2: I thought it was really sweet.
Speaker 3: It's a you know, it's a pretty dramatic episode, actually,
Speaker 3: I know. And it's great to see Rusty and you know,
Speaker 3: just getting to act and he's so real, so real,
Speaker 3: just a just a such an authentic actor. Do you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like, Rusty never has a false
Speaker 3: moment and and it's it's actually kind of shocking, like
Speaker 3: you know, in the opening scenes, I was like, whoa,
Speaker 3: Alan's like intense because he's so just plays the straight
Speaker 3: you know, like, and I thought it was sweet. And
Speaker 3: there's a lot of logic issues I had with this episode.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of weird like wait, why is
Speaker 3: that there? How did they get in time for that?
Speaker 3: And we're rewriting the whole history of Eric's license Day,
Speaker 3: which was an episode and we're just forgetting that. I
Speaker 3: don't know so, but you know, whatever it overall is,
Speaker 3: it was it was.
Speaker 2: A pretty good episode.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it well. I actually really liked it.
Speaker 4: And this my my hot take of the day is
Speaker 4: and Bill is phenomenal, He's obviously phenomenal, but russy Rusty
Speaker 4: is the best.
Speaker 2: Actor on this show.
Speaker 4: I he This one just cemented it to me again
Speaker 4: of just how layered and amazing an actor Rusty is.
Speaker 2: He's just I really liked it.
Speaker 4: Sue cried next to me several times, especially with all
Speaker 4: the show and Corey as a young kids stuff, and
Speaker 4: I know, but I Rusty is just so good. I mean,
Speaker 4: Bill's just the mainstay you get used to.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 4: The shocking thing would be seeing a bad performance from
Speaker 4: Bill because you just know it's not going to happen.
Speaker 4: But I think this is a good him being playful
Speaker 4: with Alan. It's amazing the two of them together. I
Speaker 4: just want to I know it's a kid show, but
Speaker 4: I just want to watch twenty two minutes of Alan
Speaker 4: and Feenie together with Betsy having Betsy come in to
Speaker 4: have that, because it is The adults in this show
Speaker 4: were so good and it hurts my heart area to
Speaker 4: know that as we get older they're phased out more
Speaker 4: because they're just incredible.
Speaker 2: But I fully enjoyed the episode season four.
Speaker 4: I'm unless season five, six or seven comes out of
Speaker 4: nowhere and is just, oh my god, this is amazing.
Speaker 4: How do you beat this season? It's a good episode
Speaker 4: after a good episode, after.
Speaker 3: Every episode is just I mean, yeah, and you see
Speaker 3: all the things that define Boy meets World in this scene.
Speaker 2: Yep. Agree.
Speaker 4: I don't know what they were doing, but man, it
Speaker 4: is it is firing in all cylinders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really great. My only complaint, like I said,
Speaker 1: some of the logic stuff I thought like I thought
Speaker 1: in that opening kitchen scene where there's you know, not
Speaker 1: the opening kitchen scene, but the scene where Corey and
Speaker 1: Allan are talking about what the plan is and that
Speaker 1: Corey wants to go, and Alan's like, well, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to go run some errands then and then you
Speaker 1: can have the car. I'm like, so the problem solved.
Speaker 1: Just go with your dad, take your dad to run
Speaker 1: the errands.
Speaker 2: Right, A lot of that, Yeah, well just now now it's.
Speaker 1: Fine, you get to do both because he's still going
Speaker 1: to go anyway.
Speaker 4: So it like some of that didn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: It's also they have no idea how old Morgan is.
Speaker 4: It's like, are you kidding? You got this year old
Speaker 4: girl driving her own little car, Like, what the hell
Speaker 4: is happening here on it? Yeah, it's weird that they
Speaker 4: treat her like she's like seven years old, but.
Speaker 2: It's that is funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't even think of that, but you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So guest starring Dan Lauria as Judge Lamb. It would
Speaker 1: be impossible to not know him as the dad Jack
Speaker 1: Arnold on the Wonder Years, working with Ben's real life
Speaker 1: brother Fred, and amongst his two hundred other credits, are
Speaker 1: Independence Day, Party of five, Seventh Heaven and Sullivan and
Speaker 1: Sons or Sullivan and Son mmm Worth noting he's still
Speaker 1: working a ton at seventy six years old, popping up
Speaker 1: on The Good Doctor just last year. He's almost eighty now, wow, right, crazy.
Speaker 1: Raymond O'Connor is Officer Dibble. He was park Ranger Bob
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six's action mega hit The Rock, but
Speaker 1: he also appears in movies like My Blue Heaven and
Speaker 1: Ryder Strong's My Giant Yep.
Speaker 4: Really, yes, he's been in everything. This guy's a character actor.
Speaker 2: First, so good.
Speaker 3: It's such a small part, but it's completely memorable. But
Speaker 3: that's what he does.
Speaker 4: He does these smaller roles where he just kills it
Speaker 4: in every role that he.
Speaker 1: Does in all He was on Things Seinfeld Who's the Boss,
Speaker 1: and Malcolm in the Middle. He sadly passed away in
Speaker 1: September twenty twenty three. It's seventy one years old. And
Speaker 1: then we have Ricky Dale as Marnie. She appears in
Speaker 1: two Boy Meets World episodes, with another in season five,
Speaker 1: but in the storied tradition of our show, she has
Speaker 1: a different character name in that one.
Speaker 2: And you know you know who she is, yes, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: So she is now a talent agent here in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and she is married with two kids. To Bury Safchick,
Speaker 1: a writer and producer for Boy Meets World. He wrote
Speaker 1: four episodes that start in season five, including Starry Night.
Speaker 2: So he wasn't a writer on our show yet in
Speaker 2: this way.
Speaker 1: I don't think yet, But I think he was a friend,
Speaker 1: was very close friends with Michael Keys in.
Speaker 4: The credits because I noticed him in the credit. But
Speaker 4: he's like part of the quote unquote production staff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like on the production side. But he was
Speaker 1: not a writer yet until season five. But it's so
Speaker 1: funny because the way memory works, the minute she popped
Speaker 1: up on screen, I said she she dated somebody or
Speaker 1: I just knew married. I said they weren't at the
Speaker 1: time of the show. I weren't. No, they weren't at
Speaker 1: the time of the show. I think, Well, actually, I
Speaker 1: guess we don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know because they had a kid by the
Speaker 4: by fifth or sixth I mean, their little one was
Speaker 4: on the set.
Speaker 2: Baby was on the set with us.
Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe they did. Because I was, like I
Speaker 1: asked Blutman last night I was like, what's the situation
Speaker 1: with Ricky Dale? And he's the one who told me
Speaker 1: married to Barry Safcheck And I was like, is that
Speaker 1: where they met? And he said, I actually don't know
Speaker 1: how they met, so they they were married or and
Speaker 1: I just knew when I saw her. I was like,
Speaker 1: we we knew her, Like we knew her more than
Speaker 1: just somebody who was there this one week. So it's
Speaker 1: just funny the way memory works. So jumping into our recap,
Speaker 1: we st art and Chubbies, Sean, Tapega, and Corey are
Speaker 1: all hanging out when Topega mentions that tomorrow is the
Speaker 1: big day. Apparently that's when Corey Matthews turned sixteen and
Speaker 1: mobile Sean tells them he's worked out all the details
Speaker 1: for their big birthday road trip. Corey assumes he can
Speaker 1: use his dad's car tomorrow because he's sixteen and it's
Speaker 1: his right. He's probably even filling up the tank for
Speaker 1: him right now. Sean gets serious, this is a life landmark.
Speaker 1: This is the first Corey drives road trip. We are
Speaker 1: merely guests of the car, the wind and destiny. Corey disagrees.
Speaker 1: The point is they are adults with cars who can
Speaker 1: see R rated movies. Tapenga refuses to go to an
Speaker 1: R rated movie with them, but Corey reminds her. Van
Speaker 1: Dam takes his shirt off and then I say, ah, uga,
Speaker 1: is this also a thing?
Speaker 2: Though? Is meaning?
Speaker 4: Like growing up my entire life, going to an already
Speaker 4: movie was never a thing.
Speaker 3: It was just he just just de Penn's family to
Speaker 3: family because I was the same way, Like basically from
Speaker 3: age eleven or twelve on, I just saw whatever. But
Speaker 3: if you weren't allowed to take it to a movie theater, yeah,
Speaker 3: like if you ever stopped from buying well, because I
Speaker 3: went to see Braveheart for my second or third time
Speaker 3: with some friends and we were all like fifteen, and
Speaker 3: I got into an argument with the person, man, how
Speaker 3: dare I was like, I've already seen this movie. I'm
Speaker 3: going it's okay, And like I convinced, and I think
Speaker 3: I think they recognized me too. But like anyway I
Speaker 3: argue my way into seeing Braveheart for the second or
Speaker 3: third time, they were they were going to kick me
Speaker 3: out because I wasn't with somebody over.
Speaker 1: Sap Jenson was stopped buying from ticket His mom would
Speaker 1: buy them for him because it was there was just
Speaker 1: didn't want to deal with.
Speaker 4: The I think it's also if you have older brothers,
Speaker 4: eventually you're just it doesn't going. Yeah, you're just going
Speaker 4: with your family and they're not going to leave one
Speaker 4: kid at home and you're not going to pick a
Speaker 4: PG movie we were just watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never had that, So yeah, I shout a uga,
Speaker 1: But like, also I make it seem like maybe I'm
Speaker 1: being sarcastic about it.
Speaker 2: Which I think is good fun.
Speaker 3: I mean I don't because you know, I don't know
Speaker 3: if it was written to be as I wrot because
Speaker 3: you played it, which is good because I think.
Speaker 4: The irony, the level of like, oh well, now I care,
Speaker 4: is you were given a line reading and then made
Speaker 4: it your own.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope that that's what it was, because I did think,
Speaker 1: like I don't understand. I like that that it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's going to make me go see it a little bit.
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 3: So yeah, later you say a wuga as a callback,
Speaker 3: and I realized, oh that later auga would have been
Speaker 3: funnier if this was.
Speaker 2: Earnest exactly, And I want it's fine, it's.
Speaker 3: So much better that you play it like to pengas
Speaker 3: so much smarter by above it and like a little like, uh, it's.
Speaker 1: Well, and it is one of the only times to
Speaker 1: Penga is a little smarter and above it in the
Speaker 1: rest of the episode, So I do appreciate that at
Speaker 1: least we have a little bit of it got nice
Speaker 1: outfits on though I'm still I'm still one of Charlie's angels.
Speaker 2: You are one of Charlie's angels. Hello.
Speaker 3: Dan Damn is kind of a thing in Boy Meets World.
Speaker 3: I know because because it becomes a big thing with
Speaker 3: me and Angela.
Speaker 1: Of the best women are men and so and see
Speaker 1: me when she's has tickets to see a Van Damn movie,
Speaker 1: it must mean she's the perfect woman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like Van Damn.
Speaker 3: Like it's so funny because what I remember from the
Speaker 3: nineties would be more like Schwartzenegger or like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: like sort Snegger is actually technically more eighties Okay, nineties.
Speaker 2: You're right, okay, two in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was the next he was the next big thing.
Speaker 4: He was like Time Cop and all of his.
Speaker 2: The only time I remember is Time Cop and it
Speaker 2: didn't do well. Actually I did. He talks about that.
Speaker 4: They ad it's when he turned down the fifteen million
Speaker 4: dollars deal from Warner Brothers because he didn't think it
Speaker 4: was fair enough, and then it was never offered a
Speaker 4: deal that's eyes ever again, Right, yeah, he did.
Speaker 2: He talks about that. He's like, I totally did. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Corey adds, the best part is we're seeing it
Speaker 1: in Atlantic City. To pang of questions why they go
Speaker 1: all the way to Atlantic City to see the movie
Speaker 1: and the boys slam their fists on the table because
Speaker 1: we can, Corey proclaims, tomorrow, I am a man.
Speaker 4: You also still need to be seventeen to get into
Speaker 4: an R rated movie, right.
Speaker 3: So yes, discuss that later at the rest of you're
Speaker 3: allowed in as long as somebody over seventeen buys.
Speaker 4: The ticket, right, but all three are supposed to be
Speaker 4: sixteen at this point, right.
Speaker 1: Right to Pega, just we.
Speaker 3: Both have our driver's license apparently, I yes, which if
Speaker 3: you did it in order to Panga is the oldest
Speaker 3: of the three of you, because she said to Panga
Speaker 3: and Sean got their licenses and now it was my turn.
Speaker 2: So I took that out.
Speaker 1: How do you know that Sewn hadn't already turned sixteen
Speaker 1: by the time we did my sixteenth birthday. We don't
Speaker 1: have a Shawn's birthday.
Speaker 4: No, I'm saying if he said it in order, if
Speaker 4: he said he said to Panga got a license and
Speaker 4: Seawan got So if he did in order, then you'd.
Speaker 1: Be the oldest, then I'd be the oldest. Yeah, was
Speaker 1: getting your license at sixteen a big deal to both
Speaker 1: of you? It was the biggest.
Speaker 3: Well, it was funny because I was watching this, I
Speaker 3: was thinking, is is getting your license as big of
Speaker 3: a deal in like Pennsylvania as it is in California?
Speaker 3: Because I know in California we.
Speaker 2: Were all obsessed, could not wait, You couldn't wait.
Speaker 3: But it was also the same and can you needed
Speaker 3: a car to get around, But I feel like when
Speaker 3: you have public transportation, like you know on in the
Speaker 3: East Coast, there's like there's trains everywhere, there's buses everywhere.
Speaker 4: Again Connecticut, where we didn't have, we our publicated, but
Speaker 4: it was not good. So we getting the license at sixteen,
Speaker 4: But it also wasn't he talks about his temporary license
Speaker 4: or like, and we didn't have any of that at sixteen.
Speaker 4: You were just driving. You didn't need somebody older in
Speaker 4: the car. It wasn't about. I think there's some places
Speaker 4: where it's like, well, now it's a Melissa.
Speaker 1: It was a rule even when I got my license
Speaker 1: you had to have for the first several months, you
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to have somebody.
Speaker 3: Under twenty under twenty yeah seat or something like. It
Speaker 3: wasn't I think that's still the case now. It's all
Speaker 3: the way until you're eighteen, I think in California.
Speaker 2: And there was something also with the light.
Speaker 4: You can't drive it the dark in some places, so
Speaker 4: it's we didn't have any of that.
Speaker 2: You have your license, that you don't have a license.
Speaker 1: I made the appointment for the dan V on my
Speaker 1: sixteenth birthday. I was at my regular school, so I
Speaker 1: was either not in the episode that week, or well,
Speaker 1: it's May, so we wouldn't have been working. We would
Speaker 1: have wrapped the season in March. So I was at
Speaker 1: school and I remember being in my dreaded science class.
Speaker 1: That teacher hated me because all I did in that
Speaker 1: class was talk. And I was sitting there, sating next
Speaker 1: to somebody, and I was like, yeah, it's my birthday
Speaker 1: and my mom's picking me up right after this class,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to get my license. And the teachers
Speaker 1: like Danny Ow and I was like huh. And he
Speaker 1: was like, do you have something you'd like to share
Speaker 1: with the whole class? And I was like no, I don't.
Speaker 1: Well then why are you talking? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, it's just it's.
Speaker 2: Because in the future, I'm going to have a thing
Speaker 2: called a podcast talk for That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3: Everyone's going to want to hear my thoughts about my
Speaker 3: private license go on, Dani.
Speaker 1: And I said, it's just it's my birthday and I'm
Speaker 1: going to get my driver's license, and he said, I
Speaker 1: beg you please stop talking. I promise you whatever you
Speaker 1: learn in this science class is going to benefit you
Speaker 1: more than talking about your birthday. Let's find this teacher now.
Speaker 1: Let's don't even remember their name. I just remember thinking.
Speaker 2: Oh, my professor science.
Speaker 1: It's my freaking birthday. Mister, could you just lighten up
Speaker 1: a little bit? Anyway? I hate science?
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: The waitress appears with the food. Who gets the clown burger?
Speaker 1: Corey hesitantly raises his hand, taking the andre with bells
Speaker 1: and whistles like a multi colored clown cap. He tells
Speaker 1: his friends, I collect the little hats. Yeah, funny, very Corey,
Speaker 1: very Corey. Cute, cute, and then we go to a
Speaker 1: commercial break. We come back, we're in the Matthew's kitchen.
Speaker 3: Alan, you guys watch backs anymore?
Speaker 1: You know what I wanted. I wasn't even gonna mention it.
Speaker 1: But now that you mentioned the opening credits, have you
Speaker 1: noticed that we are not doing a cold open and
Speaker 1: then the credits and then back into the show. The
Speaker 1: credits just start off the show and then we go in.
Speaker 1: Then we have scenes back to back, like this Chubby
Speaker 1: scene rolls right into the Matthews kitchen scene.
Speaker 2: No, I think it went to credits, went to credit.
Speaker 1: Now it starts on credits.
Speaker 2: Hmmmm. So our cold open is just.
Speaker 1: Our cold open is now part of exactly, it's just
Speaker 1: part of Act one. There's no like welcome you know,
Speaker 1: the credit like, it's just literally you start the show
Speaker 1: on opening credits. The song so I skip to answer.
Speaker 2: Answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know if it's going to stay
Speaker 1: this way or if we're going to get more cold
Speaker 1: opens in the future, but I did notice for the
Speaker 1: last couple episodes at least you're starting on credits. Alan
Speaker 1: walks in through the back door holding some cleaning supplies.
Speaker 1: Amy asks why he isn't at the store, and he
Speaker 1: says he had Eric open today because he has big plans.
Speaker 1: It's Corey's day. I'm going to take him to the
Speaker 1: d m V, watch him take his driver's test, and
Speaker 1: off to Woody's roadhouse. Amy smiles, Just like you did
Speaker 1: with Eric.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: What happened? You went with Jason Marsden to get your license? Yes,
Speaker 1: we all saw it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were just there were no one acknowledged your birthday.
Speaker 2: No, my birthday.
Speaker 3: Didn't have the test and come back to home having
Speaker 3: failed your test, and like.
Speaker 1: Having and then they have to drive, yes, yeah, and
Speaker 1: then they have to drive with his license.
Speaker 4: He lies about it and yeah, this is the same show.
Speaker 2: Yeah me world Yep, But.
Speaker 1: I was happy they were releast acknowledging a birthday. The
Speaker 1: Matthews seem to have turned around their weird relationship with me.
Speaker 2: Again. We have a fourteen year old little sister that is.
Speaker 4: A different little sister than she was, And sometimes she's eight, sometimes.
Speaker 1: She's sixteen, and sometimes she's three. They're just changing stuff.
Speaker 1: Alan nods, And my dad did it with me a
Speaker 1: Matthew's men's license state tradition, and I just wanted to say, sorry, Morgan,
Speaker 1: you're on your own. However, you're going to go get
Speaker 1: your license. It's not going to be with your father.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: We've talked about this before, but very I always say
Speaker 4: very briefly, and it will be very briefly.
Speaker 1: Will Yes, Am I wrong? Because we've talked about this.
Speaker 2: The only grandparent we've seen is Room McClanahan. Correct. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 4: We can remember why we never brought in another grandparent
Speaker 4: on either side ever again yep.
Speaker 1: Alan has also washed the car so it looks good
Speaker 1: in the picture he takes after Corey passes. Amy wonders
Speaker 1: does Cory know about these plans. Alan shakes his head. No,
Speaker 1: it's a Matthew's men's tradition. You don't have to tell them.
Speaker 1: It's just in the jeens and then hornhonnks from outside.
Speaker 1: It's Morgan, she barges. In Corey's driving a car, Alan
Speaker 1: questions without a license. He and Amy rush to the
Speaker 1: living room just as Corey walks in through the front
Speaker 1: door with Topanga and Sean. He passed his driver's test.
Speaker 1: He got his license, well his temporary one. At least.
Speaker 4: Who's car do you think he was driving? It's got
Speaker 4: to be Sean.
Speaker 2: Sean doesn't have a car.
Speaker 1: Rich, Yeah, rich, she says, later, just give me An ATM.
Speaker 1: I'll pay exactly she's got.
Speaker 3: But to Pega must have a job, right, Like she's
Speaker 3: the type of like she's achiever.
Speaker 2: That would have a job. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, she's yes, So she's like saving money
Speaker 3: for college already for sure.
Speaker 2: So they got to be into bed.
Speaker 4: Let's assume because he's coming in with the cleaning supplies
Speaker 4: because he was cleaning the car.
Speaker 2: You imagine that's what he said, he was cleaning it.
Speaker 2: So it's pretty for the picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Alan attempts excitement.
Speaker 2: Conflict because they could just take to Pega's car. Why
Speaker 2: does Corey need.
Speaker 1: The It's one of the things.
Speaker 2: I didn't understand that. Then he's for the keys. They
Speaker 2: could have just gone.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this problem.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, but they could literally just say, okay, Dad,
Speaker 3: I guess I can't have the car whatever or whatever.
Speaker 4: The contractor had been him not showing up until later
Speaker 4: in the night. Because they went instantly from getting the
Speaker 4: car to having the road trip in the car that
Speaker 4: they were already Yeah, this is this is thember they
Speaker 4: may at home, but no, because he says it course
Speaker 4: Corey's driving, because that's what Morgan says.
Speaker 2: There's a Corey's driving.
Speaker 4: The car was without a license, so why not just
Speaker 4: take the car that he drove in the actual test
Speaker 4: with there's a there's a lot.
Speaker 2: Of a lot of logical problems in this. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: great performances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Alan pats him on the chest, whish is
Speaker 1: him a happy birthday, and then solemnly walks away, and
Speaker 1: then the inmates in the audience give him an all.
Speaker 2: I don't want the audience to be doing the awe.
Speaker 1: You really don't like that.
Speaker 3: It's so obligatory and it's a television history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, have an audience that does things like a's and
Speaker 4: oohze and I mean that's like that's TV you.
Speaker 1: Cory asks his mom. Is it just me? Or were
Speaker 1: they happier for me? At the DMV. Amy admits Alan's
Speaker 1: a little let down. He kind of thought Corey would
Speaker 1: want to do this with his dad. Corey surprised they
Speaker 1: didn't have anything planned. Sean chimes in, boy, I went
Speaker 1: with my dad, which I think is funny.
Speaker 4: That's pretty crazy, even I did I with my dad.
Speaker 1: And then back in the kitchen, Alan is doing the
Speaker 1: dishes when Corey walks into talk. He apologizes he didn't
Speaker 1: know what was such a big deal to him. Tapenga
Speaker 1: got her license and Sean got his, so they wanted
Speaker 1: to be with Corey when it was his turn. Alan
Speaker 1: assures his son it's okay, but his demeanor is telling
Speaker 1: a different story. Cory asks, without reading the room at all,
Speaker 1: cool enough for you to give me the keys? Alan says,
Speaker 1: why not? I got a couple errands to run. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind being chauffeured around for a change. On cue,
Speaker 1: Sean walks in, so road trip you got the keys yet?
Speaker 1: Alan's disappointed. Oh you meant your friends? Okay? Corey stutters, no,
Speaker 1: you could come to Sean yells what. Corey shoots him
Speaker 1: a look, and Sean does read the room. Kind of
Speaker 1: a road trip would it be? Without? Good? Old miss?
Speaker 1: Really well done, though, rider. Were you proud of your
Speaker 1: performance here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, good, yeah good. I'm happy. Alan gets the hint.
Speaker 1: I do have a couple of errands to run. It'll
Speaker 1: take me a couple of hours. But when I come back,
Speaker 1: the car's all yours, all right, buddy, So again, he's
Speaker 1: still gonna go run the errands. Corey could just take
Speaker 1: him and say to his friends, I'll be back in
Speaker 1: a couple hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll come pick you up in a couple.
Speaker 1: Everyone gets there want yeah mh. Corey responds, if you're
Speaker 1: all right, I'm all right. He hands the keys to Alan,
Speaker 1: who immediately leaves for his errands. Corey's sad, but he
Speaker 1: turns to his friends, I've waited sixteen years, right, I
Speaker 1: can wait a couple hours. And then we're in the
Speaker 1: Matthew's backyard, Corey's and paidcent waiting outside when Morgan drives
Speaker 1: up in a toy jeep that's for three year old rulds.
Speaker 2: She looks like she's fourteen at this point, I know,
Speaker 2: and it's like.
Speaker 1: What she barely fits in this thing. It's like, it's
Speaker 1: what are you supposed to be?
Speaker 2: For three toddlers?
Speaker 4: She takes up the whole front seat by herself, and no,
Speaker 4: how old is this girl?
Speaker 1: She says, I'm Corey, I'm sixteen, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: Atlantic City to see an R rated movie. Corey gets up,
Speaker 1: Let me help you make the matinee and he aggressively
Speaker 1: pushes the car down. We don't know how, and she screams, Daddy.
Speaker 1: Alan appears right on time, watching Morgan's speed away in
Speaker 1: the distance. Wow, we'll get her.
Speaker 4: Go.
Speaker 1: Corey awkwardly says hi, and Alan responds, look, I know
Speaker 1: I told you a couple of hours, but one thing
Speaker 1: led to another. You know how it is? Corey actually
Speaker 1: tells him No, I have never actually had the car,
Speaker 1: so I don't know how it is. Alan hands Corey
Speaker 1: the keys. The car is yours. Go do what you
Speaker 1: want to do. Frustrated, Corey follows his dad into the house.
Speaker 1: What I want I wanted to do was go on
Speaker 1: a road trip with Sewan and Tepanga, who waited here
Speaker 1: for five hours and then realized they had lives and
Speaker 1: went home. Alan responds, I know in no car they
Speaker 1: went home.
Speaker 4: And is this supposed to be the same day as
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember the same day as Chubby's in
Speaker 4: the very beginning.
Speaker 1: No, tomorrow, that was birthday tomorrow, so he woke up.
Speaker 2: In the morning.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to get the time he woke up
Speaker 4: in the morning. He went they got the license, got
Speaker 4: it at like eleven o'clock in the morning. He comes
Speaker 4: back in the store, Eric store this morning.
Speaker 1: The Mathews were cleaning up breakfast plates, right, so figure
Speaker 1: Alan gets back in the morning.
Speaker 4: Five o'clock at night now five five thirty, and he's like,
Speaker 4: he's taking the whole day kind of.
Speaker 3: Thing, and he's had two major plans a birthday dinner
Speaker 3: at Chubby's which was hought to reveal, and birthday breakfast
Speaker 3: post driving test. And he didn't tell Corey any of this.
Speaker 3: I mean, I kind of feel like Alan has a
Speaker 3: little bit of respond At first, I was like, come on,
Speaker 3: this is the I still thought the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's like, you're not saying But then he addresses that later,
Speaker 4: which I like is Alan says, you know, in all fairness,
Speaker 4: I didn't actually.
Speaker 1: Keep tell tell you stuff was gonna happen.
Speaker 4: So I like that they at least brought that one
Speaker 4: point up, as opposed to.
Speaker 1: They all, yeah, they do at least acknowledge that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Alan responds, fine, go pick them up, take them for
Speaker 1: a drive, just make sure you're back in time for
Speaker 1: your birthday dinner. Corey gets upset. No, there was nothing
Speaker 1: ever mentioned about a birthday dinner. Alan asks why anyone
Speaker 1: would have to mention it. They've had dinner on his
Speaker 1: birthday every year since he's been alive. Corey emphasizes, I've
Speaker 1: never been alive with a license, so this year road trip.
Speaker 1: Alan doesn't back down. We'll see you at Chubby's in
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. Chubbies, where else would they go of?
Speaker 1: Corey shouts, Dad, that's barely even worth it. Alan has
Speaker 1: heard enough. Fine, give me the keys. Corey angrily hands
Speaker 1: them over, and Alan walks out. Eric, who saw the
Speaker 1: whole fight unfold, asks Corey, what's the matter? Birthday?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 1: Something got you terribly, terribly sad? Did you also see me?
Speaker 2: So I saw you were their fight. You can see
Speaker 2: me walking in the background, and then.
Speaker 4: You don't see me for I like, I'm obviously just
Speaker 4: waiting outside for you. By then there's a big pause
Speaker 4: before the actor.
Speaker 1: But you know what's funny is that I did think
Speaker 1: unless you have been on that set, I don't know
Speaker 1: that the timing feels off to anyone else. Think exactly
Speaker 1: how it would take for you to have come from
Speaker 1: the upper.
Speaker 4: Part of that I was hiding. But for everywhere else
Speaker 4: it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2: It makes for me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so funny.
Speaker 2: Get ready for some soda can acting. Oh yeah, here
Speaker 2: it comes. I always do the tap tap, I do
Speaker 2: that in real life.
Speaker 1: Realized. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I just love watching you do your bits is.
Speaker 4: And I got a toothpick for a toothpick, You're just
Speaker 4: freaking Brad Pitt over here with your business.
Speaker 3: No, totally, it's great. It's it's I just love it
Speaker 3: because I could see it for what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I thought the same one a business going on.
Speaker 3: But it makes me It does make it more casual,
Speaker 3: you know, because otherwise, what are you doing, Like you
Speaker 3: literally are walking into the kitchen and then have line
Speaker 3: expository you know, having this expository seat with Cory. But
Speaker 3: it works because you're like just hanging out and doing
Speaker 3: my happened?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cory starts when you were sixteen, Eric cuts him off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had the same great hair. This feels a little
Speaker 1: bit like the old Cory and Eric.
Speaker 4: Felt the same way, did you, Yeah, it was that
Speaker 4: same old dynamic. That's one of the things I liked
Speaker 4: about this episode was it was like a father son
Speaker 4: episode Corey and Alan and snarky older brother. Eric, Yeah,
Speaker 4: wisdom Feenie, but wisdom for Alan. Yeah, it was. It
Speaker 4: was a modern take on an old school Boy Eats
Speaker 4: World episode and again up there yes, a whole lot
Speaker 4: of logistical problems, but the actual vibe of it I
Speaker 4: liked to totally.
Speaker 2: And you know, it's interesting, like the is this the
Speaker 2: most conflict we've had between Alan and Corey?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the episode that this goes back to
Speaker 1: is the the Boxing Gloves.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say it's the gold the Golden Gloves one, but.
Speaker 4: That was more uh, Corey doing something dangerous to avoid
Speaker 4: the confrontation, right, as opposed to them going at it.
Speaker 4: I think this is really the first time where they
Speaker 4: because even Tapangy even says, you and your dad always
Speaker 4: have a good relationship.
Speaker 1: Right, the hell's going on?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: So this is it is that kind of angsty father
Speaker 4: son thing, which is great.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that, Yeah, Corey continues, Did dad still
Speaker 1: treat you like you were six? Eric admits no, it
Speaker 1: made him feel old and he went out and bought
Speaker 1: a cemetery plot. But it's not nearly as bad as
Speaker 1: he's treating you. Corey responds, because he likes you better.
Speaker 1: Eric doesn't sugarcoat it. Yep, that and he still had
Speaker 1: you around. Corey doesn't get it, he still has Morgan.
Speaker 1: Eric blains you're his last son, son, how you're old
Speaker 1: enough to drive away and leave him alone with Morgan?
Speaker 1: Who goes to and Corey finishes art class art art
Speaker 1: for girls.
Speaker 3: For men and boys? Who does art hand? And now
Speaker 3: where did Morgan come from? She was last scene in
Speaker 3: traffic in her car. She literally stop to get.
Speaker 4: Her laundry, not to pick up her laundry in her
Speaker 4: little car.
Speaker 3: Think about it as in right, she actually had to
Speaker 3: make a quick change because this is all one scene.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, it was out in the backyard, so we
Speaker 1: shot it separately, I mean, unless we did a camera,
Speaker 1: unless we swung a camera at the kitchen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but it's all supposed to be fault right,
Speaker 3: I mean when we walked into the kitchen and then
Speaker 3: she appears.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: My guess is yeah they did because if memory serves that,
Speaker 4: when he pushes her car, her car was.
Speaker 1: On a rope and pulley system.
Speaker 4: So they pulled it towards the cameras because they wouldn't
Speaker 4: just let him really nearly kick.
Speaker 2: It out and whatever happened, they kind of guided it.
Speaker 4: So they probably did that almost as a stunt, so
Speaker 4: we probably shot that once or twice.
Speaker 2: It wasn't to get dressed.
Speaker 3: But as far as the show is logic that the
Speaker 3: show makes me absolutely And she's also not going to
Speaker 3: ballet class because they're going to the dinner, So why
Speaker 3: is she dressed in her ballet outfit. She's just dressed
Speaker 3: in this to dance, to hang out. It's a television show,
Speaker 3: right man. But this is where I was like, none
Speaker 3: of this is making for me, Like all the time,
Speaker 3: it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it's like a series
Speaker 3: of good scenes, it's in the scene itself, but the
Speaker 3: setup it's like it's just not rigorous.
Speaker 2: And I was a little bummed by that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, and this was that I get the
Speaker 3: visual joke of her and her yeah git hard. It's
Speaker 3: it's funny, but yeah, at the sacrifice of any logic.
Speaker 4: So having not sorry but not having children at all.
Speaker 4: I also get that. For I don't think one's I
Speaker 4: don't think they're trying to say that one's better or
Speaker 4: worse than another. I think it's definitely fathers and sons
Speaker 4: and fathers and daughters.
Speaker 2: No, they're not.
Speaker 4: I think just the father daughter father son relationship is different.
Speaker 4: I would imagine it would be, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I mean, sure it's different. But the idea that he's
Speaker 1: only sad because it won't be the same to take
Speaker 1: Morgan to get her driver's license, like, it's weird.
Speaker 4: It's like again I imagine, because it's like it's a
Speaker 4: father and his boy. It's like, this is my boy.
Speaker 4: I'm taking my boy to go get his driver's license.
Speaker 4: Where it's like, you know, it's my daughter. It's again,
Speaker 4: I don't have.
Speaker 2: Kids at all. And ballet, which.
Speaker 3: Art, he doesn't like it. It's like, therefore he's not
Speaker 3: going to love her. It's like, I don't know ballet.
Speaker 1: I guess I get what they're doing.
Speaker 4: Art makes no sense. It's like, what, you can't be
Speaker 4: a male art first of all. Also talk to Bryshnikoff
Speaker 4: about being a male ballet dancer. But it is, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the whole thing is very it's the nineties stereotypical exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Eric tells him the only reason he ain't cruising down
Speaker 1: the turnpike with his arm around to Panga and Sean
Speaker 1: in the backing Woo woo woo is because Morgan's his
Speaker 1: first daughter and not his third son.
Speaker 4: Why so many a wugas and woo woos in this episode,
Speaker 4: as this happened several times.
Speaker 1: I love them. I don't know the sounds. There's so funny,
Speaker 1: there's so many. Also this runner of the sun Son.
Speaker 2: Yeah, also odd, a little bit of a little.
Speaker 1: Bit of an odd choice with some runners. I have
Speaker 1: another one later that I'll mention. Uh So, Cory turns
Speaker 1: to look at Morgan, who now has a juice box,
Speaker 1: and she says what And then there's a bit of
Speaker 1: an optical flip to the Matthews living room and we
Speaker 1: see Morgan still in her ballet uniform, but now it's
Speaker 1: paired with a football helmet. Corey's crouched behind her as
Speaker 1: a quarterback set hike. He waits a second and then
Speaker 1: throws it at her back. She complains, why'd you do that?
Speaker 1: He explains, because I called a button hook you woman.
Speaker 1: That's actually then.
Speaker 4: They also last forty five minutes, and you're right. She's
Speaker 4: still in her ballet outfit and now they're playing football.
Speaker 1: And she says, right in the scene, I have to
Speaker 1: go change for your party, So why did she put
Speaker 1: it on to make the joke? Morgan's had it. If
Speaker 1: you don't stop yelling, I'm going upstairs to play with
Speaker 1: Barbie and Skipper. Corey pleads don't, please, don't do that,
Speaker 1: and he grabs a pair of boxing gloves, forcing them
Speaker 1: on Morgan's hands. He instructs her to hit him. She
Speaker 1: then sends a right hook to his face, throwing him
Speaker 1: over the couch. He heels from the floor. Now we're
Speaker 1: getting somewhere. Morgan tells him, I have to change into
Speaker 1: my party dress for your party. Corey emphasizes, no dress
Speaker 1: wear pants, keep the helmet on, and call a doctor.
Speaker 1: And that's where we know the greatest woman is a man.
Speaker 1: And then I do think.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is cute to see Lindsay running around
Speaker 2: like with.
Speaker 3: The helmet, I mean totally yeah, that is torrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is she even see her in the party scene?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: She's there, Yeah, she's there, she is she is She's
Speaker 1: sitting across from Allan. Okay, no, wait to pink is
Speaker 1: sitting across from Ellen. She's got to be across from Betsy.
Speaker 1: Is she in the scene?
Speaker 4: I'm not even sure she's in the scene.
Speaker 2: Barely on camera.
Speaker 3: She's in like, gotcha the wide shot and then the
Speaker 3: rest footage. Yeah, the coverage goes to the other side,
Speaker 3: so you don't really see her.
Speaker 1: So then we're in Chubbies. The camera flips again, revealing
Speaker 1: Sean and Corey at Chubbys. Shawn whispers, I don't want
Speaker 1: you to think I'm not having a dandy time at
Speaker 1: Chubby's where we always went because we could walk here.
Speaker 1: But could we just do the cake thing and then
Speaker 1: hit the open road? And this is the first time
Speaker 1: I think we've acknowledged that we live within.
Speaker 2: Walking distance of Chubbies.
Speaker 1: Cool, yeah, pretty cool. Tapangaleens in to join the conversation.
Speaker 1: Can you stop telling Corey to ditch his own birthday party?
Speaker 1: And then she scolds Corey, put a smile on your
Speaker 1: face and behave yourself. So now I have taken on
Speaker 1: the role of nagging woman, which I only imagine means
Speaker 1: Betsy should be in a bikini. Then we have all three, right,
Speaker 1: and then we would have all three of the of
Speaker 1: the types of women that exist in the world, a nag,
Speaker 1: a manly woman, and a hot woman.
Speaker 4: Well, no, we were all there, actually missing the hot
Speaker 4: woman because you've taken over nagging. Betsy can still be
Speaker 4: mom because there is just mom.
Speaker 1: You're right, you are allowed to just be a mom.
Speaker 2: You're allowed to just be the mom.
Speaker 1: Sometimes mom is mom and a nag. But I'm hot.
Speaker 1: But you're right.
Speaker 4: You can do you can do sub sections of those
Speaker 4: three categories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, exactly.
Speaker 1: Alan leans in to join the conversation. We rented the room.
Speaker 1: We don't have to whisper. The camera widens and we
Speaker 1: see the table consists of Corey to Pangashan, Alan, Amy,
Speaker 1: and I wrote Morgan, so Morgan was Therember. Corey apologizes
Speaker 1: and thanks his family for the party. But there's this
Speaker 1: movie we're trying to make. Alan asks what movie? One
Speaker 1: hundred and one Dalmatians. Sean tells Corey to grow up.
Speaker 1: We're going to see the new Van dam movie. Alan knows,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be an R rated movie. Corey pleads, come on,
Speaker 1: I'm sixteen, I'm not a little kid anymore. And then
Speaker 1: the same waitress we saw earlier walks in. Here's your
Speaker 1: clown burger. I told them it was your birthday, so
Speaker 1: they threw in an extra hat and Corey shouts whoo,
Speaker 1: and then trying to hide his excitement. Let's out a monotone.
Speaker 1: It's really cute. Alan tells the son. Understand, you're sixteen,
Speaker 1: and yet you have to be seventeen to get in
Speaker 1: without an adult. Corey's defeated. Fine, no movie.
Speaker 2: Alan as weird out by the set as I was, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the fourth wall, and it's really small.
Speaker 3: It looked almost like green screen because of the way
Speaker 3: that the It's like, yeah, so they brought in a
Speaker 3: wall behind Alan and Amy and it doesn't like fill
Speaker 3: in all the space. But yeah, it's it's just bizarre.
Speaker 3: I was like it was it was happening in my head,
Speaker 3: and I was like, are we in Chubbies. I almost
Speaker 3: wish we had just either done it in the main
Speaker 3: room of Chubbies or just created the new restaurant sets.
Speaker 1: I thought we were in my head, we were in
Speaker 1: the same room as the room with the pool table,
Speaker 1: you know that.
Speaker 2: I thought that it's supposed to be, well, that's where.
Speaker 1: We shot it, but like it's not. It's actually supposed
Speaker 1: to be like a separate room, a private dining room
Speaker 1: in Chubbies. That's somewhere maybe in the back, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the one to the left past the phone.
Speaker 1: I know like that. Why can't we just say another
Speaker 1: restaurant and then just be in a different spot exactly.
Speaker 2: They could have dressed this exact room with a different
Speaker 2: Chewbay's and made it a franchise a chew Bays.
Speaker 1: You're right, well, Alan thanks him, and Sean assures, no, Biggie,
Speaker 1: there's got to be tons of other stuff we can
Speaker 1: do in Atlantic City. He nudges Cory, let's hit those tables. Huh.
Speaker 1: Corey knows this isn't going to help their case. You
Speaker 1: really don't want to do anything at all, do you,
Speaker 1: Alan says he's not just going to give his blessing
Speaker 1: to sneak into an R rated movie in a different state.
Speaker 1: Amy tries to calm him down, but Corey shouts back
Speaker 1: that he wasn't asking for his blessing. He just wanted
Speaker 1: to go somewhere with his friends. Alan scolds his son,
Speaker 1: you think because you got a license, you can do
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Corey eels, no, he doesn't care where
Speaker 1: he goes with his friends. He just wants to go. Alan, now,
Speaker 1: in that calm, mad dad way, says, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what you want to go on a road trip with
Speaker 1: your friends? That's the first adult decision you're going to make.
Speaker 1: He sets the keys on the table. There you go, pal,
Speaker 1: Corey stares his dad down before grabbing the keys and
Speaker 1: telling his friends it's time to go. Tapanga hesitantly stands
Speaker 1: up and tells.
Speaker 3: Amy al she like you the way Corey articulates this.
Speaker 3: I just want to go somewhere. Do you guys remember
Speaker 3: getting in your car and just car? Of course, we
Speaker 3: talked about your dire, we talked about you and me
Speaker 3: driving and just like parking up. And I remember so
Speaker 3: many nights where I would get in my car go
Speaker 3: pick up a friend or two, and then we'd.
Speaker 2: Be like, where are we going? And we have nowhere
Speaker 2: to go? And it just didn't matter.
Speaker 3: It was just a car. I would give you that.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, wait where we car? Just we have
Speaker 3: to go somewhere.
Speaker 4: I still do that on occasion, really ye. On occasion,
Speaker 4: I'll be like, I'm just going for a drive.
Speaker 2: She's like yeah, and it's so interesting. I have no
Speaker 2: no goal in mine.
Speaker 4: I'll just take different roads and drive around sometimes. Oh
Speaker 4: and not only that, but I'm doing it in a
Speaker 4: big suv and I stop every about every mile just
Speaker 4: to burn a thing of gasoline and oil.
Speaker 2: It's fun.
Speaker 4: I just I just bring I bring gas and oil
Speaker 4: in the back and I just put it in.
Speaker 2: The tone.
Speaker 1: Also runs over dogs. He just sees them in the.
Speaker 2: Would never dogs. I'd hit a person before I hit
Speaker 2: a dog. My God.
Speaker 1: I can honestly say, I think the greatest memory years
Speaker 1: of my life, like if I had to say, like
Speaker 1: the greatest times of my life that I felt at
Speaker 1: that time were sixteen and seventeen, when I first had
Speaker 1: my license and I first learned to drive. And we
Speaker 1: used to do a family reunion every year where family
Speaker 1: who lives in San Francisco and we lived in Orange County.
Speaker 1: We would meet in San Luis Obispo because it's exactly
Speaker 1: the halfway point. And I would sometimes my family would
Speaker 1: leave before me because I was working on Boy Meets World,
Speaker 1: and so they'd go up on like Thursday night, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to go until we were done
Speaker 1: on Friday. So I'd drive by myself from where we
Speaker 1: were working in La to San Luis Obispo, listening to
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg's Doggie Style with my windows down and just
Speaker 1: the best times of my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Beto me. I was driving up and down the
Speaker 2: stags all the time.
Speaker 1: You were going from northern Califorea.
Speaker 2: Time, and I loved it. I would choose to drive
Speaker 2: as opposed to flying because it was just.
Speaker 4: The freedom and the car and it's quiet and it's
Speaker 4: just you and you're in control of everything, the music
Speaker 4: and the speed.
Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons I love.
Speaker 4: Still having my first car is I can still go
Speaker 4: back and kind of recapture that feeling of being in
Speaker 4: my first car.
Speaker 1: Still it's just the greatest, just the greatest. The Pega
Speaker 1: stands up and hesitantly tells them, I don't know. Part
Speaker 1: of me knows I shouldn't get in that car with them.
Speaker 1: And then there's the other side of me, which isn't
Speaker 1: sensible or mature at all, who wants to get in
Speaker 1: that car with them and go, oh, I just run
Speaker 1: through it. And I have a jacket on so I
Speaker 1: can't act. And I think she don't have a jacket
Speaker 1: on them.
Speaker 3: Care if you had played there's any bigger, like, if
Speaker 3: you had committed to it more, it would have been
Speaker 3: a worse.
Speaker 1: I could have at least slowed down. I could have
Speaker 1: at least pronunciated my words enunciated. It's enunciated. I said,
Speaker 1: pronunciad enunciate, and pronounce became pronunciate. Well, that's what list
Speaker 1: from now on.
Speaker 4: I also like that they're at least acknowledging to Panga's character, Yes.
Speaker 2: That she has a little bit of a something at least,
Speaker 2: and it makes sense right she would be the rule follower.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. So she concludes, thank you for your attention
Speaker 1: at this very difficult time. Amy asks her husband, Funny,
Speaker 1: you were going to go after them, aren't you? Alan
Speaker 1: says no, he is not. On cue, Eric walks in
Speaker 1: holding a cord Mustang shaped birthday cake.
Speaker 3: This is where I was just like, God, damn, I
Speaker 3: love Eric. You're so damn likable. So it's like your
Speaker 3: position on this show is so wonderful that it's like
Speaker 3: we had this really dramatic scene and then it's just
Speaker 3: like I'm already anything you do, Like you just walk
Speaker 3: into that room and I'm like, oh, what a breath
Speaker 3: of fresh air. Wheelism, Like it's just so it's so good,
Speaker 3: Like the chemistry and like the arrangement of this character
Speaker 3: into this dynamic. I just like I'm like already, like
Speaker 3: I love anything, no matter what. You nail it with
Speaker 3: the birthday song, and it's great. But I was just like, oh,
Speaker 3: it was such a warm feeling I had for you, you know,
Speaker 3: And it's.
Speaker 4: That it was so great when I was still doing cameos,
Speaker 4: this was my go to song for everybody's happy birthday.
Speaker 4: So I've setten this song eight hundred thousand times.
Speaker 2: And the irony is we did this because you could.
Speaker 1: We can't afford now.
Speaker 2: But back then you had to pay, so you can
Speaker 2: nervous you anymore. That's no.
Speaker 3: They finally released their family released the license. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: up until that's why in movies all throughout, like movies
Speaker 3: up until ten years ago or whatever, they all would
Speaker 3: always start Happy Birthday and it would get cut off.
Speaker 3: So you'd start happy and you would never get all
Speaker 3: eight notes. Is if you hit eight notes or.
Speaker 4: There's a different version of the song, you would do
Speaker 4: that to. It's like, yeah, it is so great.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know they released it. That's good news. Yeah,
Speaker 2: happy birthday too you that's free.
Speaker 1: So Eric is singing and now classic rendition of Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1: Eric finishes his song, his vision covered by the dessert
Speaker 1: and when he realizes Corey isn't there. He asks, I
Speaker 1: miss something, didn't I? Well, sing the Happy Birthday song
Speaker 1: for us.
Speaker 5: Oh gee, it's his day of birth, his first day
Speaker 5: on Earth. Happy bur er er Earth Day. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: okay forever.
Speaker 1: And then we go to commercial. We come back. We
Speaker 1: are in Alan's car, Corey's driving with the Penga shotgun
Speaker 1: and Seawan in the back. Here we are on our own,
Speaker 1: driving down the open road, just me, my Topega and
Speaker 1: my Sean with a big full moon behind us. To
Speaker 1: Penga corrects him, those are headlights the car behind them monks,
Speaker 1: and Corey frantically yells, come around me, come around me please.
Speaker 1: He was so good everything about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, actually talked about.
Speaker 4: His performance, which is pretty great throughout this entire episode.
Speaker 2: We got me yea so good. But this come around me,
Speaker 2: come around me please.
Speaker 3: Oh it's and this is just so funny.
Speaker 1: It's so stinking me. Come around me please. Sean asks
Speaker 1: Corey to drive a little faster because there's about twenty
Speaker 1: cars jammed up behind them, and Corey explains, I happen
Speaker 1: to be cruising at what's it say? I can't look
Speaker 1: down or we'll crash to Penga reads eighteen miles an hour.
Speaker 1: Corey shocked, I'm up to eighteen. I hope this thing
Speaker 1: has air bags. They're passed by a bike and Corey
Speaker 1: finally tells them he'll go faster. How much farther to
Speaker 1: Atlantic City? Sean admits, what's the difference. We're all gonna
Speaker 1: die here.
Speaker 4: But Sean, your response where it's like, go around me
Speaker 4: to the bike and it already went okay.
Speaker 1: It's already. It's so good. That's great to Panga adds,
Speaker 1: I think we should call your folks and tell them
Speaker 1: we're okay. Corey refuses to call his dad. Kids have
Speaker 1: to call to Panga doesn't understand Corey and his dad
Speaker 1: have always gotten along great, He responds, because I've always
Speaker 1: been safe and dependable Corey. Well, tonight, a new Corey
Speaker 1: is born, dark, wild, Corey built for speed.
Speaker 2: I wanted him to say danger boy.
Speaker 3: I was like, come on, do a callback tonight, I'm
Speaker 3: danger or maybe like danger boy becomes danger man, like
Speaker 3: I want to. I just I wanted that callback because
Speaker 3: it's such an old school Corey line. It's like literally
Speaker 3: verbatim him in the roller Coaster episode. Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: it's so funny.
Speaker 1: The engine starts to roar as Corey picks up speed
Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, he smiles, look at me,
Speaker 1: I'm breaking the law, and then right on cue, which
Speaker 1: has become a bit of a trope in this episode,
Speaker 1: sirens go off behind him. Corey admits, we all saw
Speaker 1: that coming out.
Speaker 2: I'll saw that coming.
Speaker 1: Now we're in a courtroom, new Settlert. The gang enters,
Speaker 1: following a police officer. Corey says, with all due respect officer.
Speaker 1: He looks at his badge Dibble. I was on a
Speaker 1: country road going twenty six miles an hour. Dibble ads
Speaker 1: in a twenty five mile hour in a twenty five
Speaker 1: mile zone. Son Sean tells him to forget it. It's
Speaker 1: a stinking speed trap. Tapenga begs him to call his dad,
Speaker 1: but Corey refuses again, so Officer Dibble concludes, then I
Speaker 1: guess you'll see the judge. Corey scoffs one mile over
Speaker 1: and you call him the judge. Don't you people have
Speaker 1: anything better to do in this town? Dibble corrects him,
Speaker 1: it's not a town, it's a speed trap. A speech,
Speaker 1: he says, they can avoid tryaltogether if he just pays
Speaker 1: the fine, which is two hundred dollars. Corey laughs for
Speaker 1: on mile over. Officer dibble corrects him again, it's a
Speaker 1: speed trap. Is this not getting through to you? And
Speaker 1: then this is the runner, the second runner? Is this
Speaker 1: not getting through to you? Tipanga asks Tory again to
Speaker 1: call his dad. No way, I'm calling my dad. Is
Speaker 1: this not getting through to you? I'm not sure? Is
Speaker 1: this not getting through to you? Is funny?
Speaker 4: It's it almost sounded angry and dismissive to the way
Speaker 4: that he said it to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was a little little harsh.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a punch. Cory sits down, ready
Speaker 1: to face the judge, and dibble yells all rise. The
Speaker 1: court of Judge Hubert Lamb is now in session. Cory
Speaker 1: asks Judge Lamb, I think I'll take my chances. And
Speaker 1: then we get the cameo of Dan Lauria, known to
Speaker 1: TV viewers as a very stern and angry father, and
Speaker 1: this leaves Corey speechless and terrified that.
Speaker 2: I wrote this part for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I guess I remember. I remember this being
Speaker 1: a conversation about, like we want.
Speaker 2: To a father son episode and we're going to get
Speaker 2: the famous far.
Speaker 1: To try it together.
Speaker 2: Brothers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, man, like all the Judge stuff kind.
Speaker 2: Of I don't know. I didn't quite well, just I didn't.
Speaker 3: Quite always get it, like yeah, animals, the balloon animals.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the speed trap thing coming back at
Speaker 3: the end is it's like a brilliant yeah, like rterly thing,
Speaker 3: but on the whole and it's not really his performance.
Speaker 3: It's just a little like, I'm just not sure. Are
Speaker 3: we supposed to be scared by him? Are we supposed
Speaker 3: to think he's crazy? Is the idea that this whole
Speaker 3: town is crazy? Like it just it felt a little
Speaker 3: uh in between, like we didn't push it farther, like
Speaker 3: I don't know, I just didn't quite get it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. I don't know. And I
Speaker 1: mean it's funny you mentioned the ending with the speed
Speaker 1: trap thing. I normally would have been really hit with
Speaker 1: the sentimentality of it, and instead I was like, oh, wordplay,
Speaker 1: it's a a bunch of wordplay in the end.
Speaker 3: And I was a little like, yeah, I just like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, how like our show on into Panga
Speaker 3: scared of this Corey, Like, we're sometimes supposed to be
Speaker 3: scared of this situation and we're supposed to laugh at it,
Speaker 3: and we're supposed to think the judge is really harsh,
Speaker 3: and then we're supposed to think he's kind of a
Speaker 3: kooky in person, and then he's like.
Speaker 2: Actually, it's like father figure. I just could not wrap
Speaker 2: my head around. And yeah, so that's.
Speaker 4: What Judge Lamb likes to do. He likes to keep
Speaker 4: you on your toes. That's Judge La.
Speaker 3: But if that was if the point of the scene
Speaker 3: is that, like every time we're in the scene, everybody
Speaker 3: like I do, like the all rise right after Corey
Speaker 3: sits right, Yeah, if that kind of thing had kept happening,
Speaker 3: Like it's just like every time we think we're in
Speaker 3: some situation.
Speaker 2: It completely changes. But it just wasn't big enough for me.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, It's it's not bad, it's just
Speaker 3: a little like I was just I felt a little lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Then we're in the Matthews house. There's
Speaker 1: real home video of Ben shown masquerading as Corey.
Speaker 2: It's so with wrestling figures. How great is that?
Speaker 1: What I said? I said, I can't believe they really
Speaker 1: he tied in wrestling, which we have absolutely sold as
Speaker 1: a passion and an interest of Cory's. And apparently Ben
Speaker 1: had wrestlers.
Speaker 2: Did you hear now? Could you hear the voice?
Speaker 4: So they had rusty dubbed voice exactly, there was some
Speaker 4: original voice over there. Well, now there's also some original
Speaker 4: voice from his family, and did you hear like he said,
Speaker 4: he's like and here's iron cheek. He's a good guy.
Speaker 4: And then you heard somebody in his family go, no,
Speaker 4: he isn't like he was. Yeah, you could hear you
Speaker 4: could hear different, like I.
Speaker 3: Remember when we played for the audience that still had
Speaker 3: the original audio, so really so yeah, when he makes
Speaker 3: the goal and we played it for the audience, the
Speaker 3: audience heard Ben's real dad saying.
Speaker 2: Ben, Ben, you did it.
Speaker 3: I remember I'm.
Speaker 2: Watching these and just thinking, oh my god, this is so.
Speaker 2: She was a horrible kid. Come on, cute little kid? Yeah,
Speaker 2: cute little kid?
Speaker 1: Oh man. And yeah, there's also visible Fred Fred in
Speaker 1: the background too. In one of the videos we see later,
Speaker 1: so we see footage of little Ben slash Corey's birthday,
Speaker 1: Alan sits on the couch smiling ear to ear, and
Speaker 1: then another video of Ben Slash Corey is shown now
Speaker 1: playing with his WWF LJN toys, telling us Iron Chic
Speaker 1: and Big John Studd are bad guys. And then Ben
Speaker 1: Slash Corey is playing soccer and he scores a goal.
Speaker 1: He's so happy, and then we're back on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1: Amy walks down just as Alan's turning off the video.
Speaker 1: She puts her arm around him, assuring him that Corey
Speaker 1: is okay. Alan says, I know he's just trying to
Speaker 1: prove something to me, to us, I just feel bad.
Speaker 1: Amy defends Alan. You guys had plans. He broke them.
Speaker 1: Alan admits they didn't really have plans. He just assumed
Speaker 1: Corey would run and wake him up and drag him
Speaker 1: down to the DMV like he always used to wake
Speaker 1: him up and drag him places. Amy adds when he
Speaker 1: was and Alan finishes her thought younger. Amy reminds him
Speaker 1: when Corey was five years old, he dragged Alan out
Speaker 1: of bed to show him his lost tooth. Alan says, well,
Speaker 1: I miss that. Amy explains he's growing up. He's not
Speaker 1: doing anything wrong, and Alan grunts, well, I'm growing up too,
Speaker 1: Amy assures him, and you're not doing anything wrong either,
Speaker 1: she embraces him, just as Morgan walks downstairs. Mom, you're
Speaker 1: gonna help me do my hair? What? Alan volunteers? How
Speaker 1: about I help you do your hair? She's confused, Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Alan admits, yes, I am kidding you,
Speaker 1: and he plops back down on the couch.
Speaker 2: Kamie can't understand.
Speaker 1: Girls don't hair, men don't do hair. She's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Amy kisses him before she goes upstairs to help. Now
Speaker 1: alone again, Amy presses play on the home videos, and
Speaker 1: we see a slow motion video of little soccer playing
Speaker 1: Ben slash Corey waving, and then we're in the Matthew's backyard.
Speaker 1: Alan's looking down in the dumps holding a football, wishing
Speaker 1: he had three boys, and Poenie appears. I've got one
Speaker 1: thing to tell you, the sad.
Speaker 2: Dad, like these two scenes. I mean, I understand why
Speaker 2: we had to have you because Betsy had to be
Speaker 2: a part of this, and like, yeah, it's but it
Speaker 2: is all just out there listen in a post Malone.
Speaker 3: Uh huh No, it's the national He's it's full on set,
Speaker 3: like real.
Speaker 1: I've got one thing to tell you that's gonna make
Speaker 1: you feel real. Good. Then I've got another thing to
Speaker 1: tell you that's going to scare the hell out of you.
Speaker 1: Which one would you like first? Alan picks feel good.
Speaker 1: Phoene says, ultimately, the reason I never had a son
Speaker 1: is because of the sheer weight of responsibility for another
Speaker 1: human life is so enormous. I didn't know if I
Speaker 1: was up to it. Alan surprised, Come on, you're a teacher.
Speaker 1: Your whole life is about kids, Phoene corrects him, My
Speaker 1: job is about kids. My life is my own, unlike yours,
Speaker 1: which hasn't been your own since the day Eric was born.
Speaker 1: Alan asks if Phoene's calling him a hostage, and Phoenie exclaims, yes,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I'm saying. You're a hostage to extreme
Speaker 1: emotional joys and disappointments, which your children will bring you
Speaker 1: for as long as you live. Alan connects, one day
Speaker 1: you're putting on training wheels, the next you're teaching them
Speaker 1: to drive. Of course, the first thing they want to
Speaker 1: do is drive away from you. There's the hell out
Speaker 1: of him. Alan then asks Phoenie for the part that's
Speaker 1: going to make him feel good, and Phoene wearily responds
Speaker 1: that was the good part.
Speaker 2: This whole scene, like the way he walks into.
Speaker 4: It, everything, yep, everything, It's just he walked him in
Speaker 4: a purpose like you could tell you just got to call,
Speaker 4: got to do with and we know exactly what, we
Speaker 4: know what.
Speaker 2: It is so funny and.
Speaker 3: Yet it's still a you know, beautiful sentiment. It's ye perfect,
Speaker 3: It's just this is a scene for the ages man.
Speaker 3: This is probably like top ten world scene for me.
Speaker 2: Absolutely agree with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: The two of them together, two people that are just
Speaker 4: know their craft, playing off of each other and getting
Speaker 4: some free backstory about children, I.
Speaker 1: Guess for both of them, who have in their own ways,
Speaker 1: one as a father and one as an as a teacher,
Speaker 1: have spent now the better half of their lives to
Speaker 1: invested in raising children, and yet from different perspectives, just
Speaker 1: so great. So Alan inquires, how bad is it? George
Speaker 1: Phoenie says he just had a phone call from Corey.
Speaker 1: He calms Alan by saying he's all right, it's nothing
Speaker 1: like that. Alan's relieved until Feenie tells him he's on trial.
Speaker 1: He's on trial. His reading, he's on trial. He's on trial.
Speaker 3: And there's another logic point I was like, but if
Speaker 3: he's when did Corey get away to make the phone call?
Speaker 2: Like, I know, he's literally standing in front of the
Speaker 2: judge the whole time.
Speaker 3: Is that all happening? And then he says, Okay, hold on, Judge,
Speaker 3: I am gonna call someway.
Speaker 1: Can I get my phone call?
Speaker 4: I just want to I was like, I don't know, man, Again,
Speaker 4: the logic that it didn't logistically make sense this episode.
Speaker 4: The sentiment was there, and the acting was there, and
Speaker 4: some of the dialogue was there, but the.
Speaker 2: Logistics were kind of just all over the place. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then back in the courtroom, Officer Dibble tells the
Speaker 1: judge he clocked Corey's vehicle traveling in excess of the
Speaker 1: posted speed limit. Corey slams his hands on the table
Speaker 1: one mile over. Judge Lamb explains, the law is the law, boy,
Speaker 1: and we obey the law in my courtroom, and if
Speaker 1: you speak out a turn again, I'll hang you, he
Speaker 1: says as he holds.
Speaker 2: Up So what I mean this is? Again?
Speaker 3: I was like, it's a little news, so it's obviously,
Speaker 3: but it's also like supposed to be really be threading.
Speaker 2: It is kind of intense.
Speaker 1: It's like it's very, very threatening. I know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a little crazy. I was shocking. Corey wonders you would
Speaker 1: hang me on my birthday. The judge is surprised. It's
Speaker 1: your birthday under oath, Cory swears it. The judge slams
Speaker 1: his gavel. You want a dog or a hat. Corey's
Speaker 1: in shock because the judge starts to blow up a balloon,
Speaker 1: asking if he'd like a sword instead. We see Tapanga
Speaker 1: and Shawn an officer Dibble, who are just kind of
Speaker 1: standing there to Panga and Shawn are shocked. And that's
Speaker 1: obviously coverage we need so that Dan Lauria can be
Speaker 1: handed animal.
Speaker 2: Can do a lot of things. But he's apparently not
Speaker 2: a balloon artist. You made balloon animals. It's actually not
Speaker 2: that hard. It's pretty hard, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Like the twisting is you know, I mean, obviously it
Speaker 3: would be hard to do under the pressure of a scene.
Speaker 3: But I'm surprised we don't actually see him do any
Speaker 3: of the folding a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know what it is. It's not about being difficult.
Speaker 1: It's sound. Oh of course, yeah, it's the sound. So
Speaker 1: he eventually hands the sword to Corey. Sean gets permission
Speaker 1: to sidebar with him. Sean warns Corey, the first thing
Speaker 1: I learned on the street, which I also love on
Speaker 1: the street, is that any judge who spontaneously makes you
Speaker 1: balloon toys will, at the end of the day actually hang.
Speaker 2: You, actually hanging.
Speaker 1: Cory holds his sword close. It's mine and I'm not
Speaker 1: sharing it. Judge Lamb asks what brings a freshly licensed
Speaker 1: sixteen year old kid from Philly all the way out there?
Speaker 1: Corey explains, I wanted to drive, so I just drove.
Speaker 1: My dad refuses to accept that I'm not a little
Speaker 1: kid anymore. To Penga interaps, introducing herself to the judge.
Speaker 1: She will pay Corey's fine if he just tells her
Speaker 1: where the nearest ATM is located, and Teppanga is rich.
Speaker 1: The judge laughs, there's no ATM. They're in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere, and this feels like a poor business plan
Speaker 1: for a speed trap. There must be an easier way
Speaker 1: to get money.
Speaker 2: Also, couldn't Tapega have offered this the second they walked in?
Speaker 1: Well, sure, but she was trying to get him to
Speaker 1: call her dad, so I at least go with the
Speaker 1: idea of she wants him to call your dad. She's
Speaker 1: been wanting to call him since the car ride.
Speaker 3: We should let them know, and he says, I'll not
Speaker 3: call him my dad. Okay, well, then let me just
Speaker 3: write a check or get some cash out.
Speaker 1: But they don't have a ATM, which again for a
Speaker 1: speed trap town who's clearly trying to make money. I
Speaker 1: feel like there's a better business plan, Tapanga pleads. Is
Speaker 1: all I can say is Corey is a very nice
Speaker 1: boy who never hurt anybody, and if you do anything
Speaker 1: to him on his first day of driving, then I
Speaker 1: just think you are a mean mean Judge Lamb slams
Speaker 1: his gavel down, cutting to Panga off dogger hat. She
Speaker 1: excitedly responds, can it be a princess.
Speaker 2: At because she's girly funny.
Speaker 1: I'm into ballet and art. The judge grants her request.
Speaker 1: Topanga puts the extremely tall and purple balloon hat on
Speaker 1: her head and she sits back down with Sean satisfied,
Speaker 1: and then Alan walks into the courtroom. The judge notices,
Speaker 1: but Corey and the gang do not. Judge Lamb tells
Speaker 1: Corey he'll drop all charges if he takes this quarter
Speaker 1: and calls his dad to tell him he was wrong?
Speaker 2: No, how long is this trial? But also like, how
Speaker 2: does he know?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think maybe he assumes it's his tad,
Speaker 3: but does the has the judge known everything about the
Speaker 3: whole father son conflict?
Speaker 1: Now he just that just that he says, my dad
Speaker 1: refuses to let me grow up. That's why, and that's
Speaker 1: why he handed up here. He did say that my
Speaker 1: dad refuses to believe that I've grown up. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to drive with my friends. And in the way
Speaker 1: that adults on this show seemed to know.
Speaker 2: Everything and be able to like psychically communicate.
Speaker 1: He and but also now the judge is going to
Speaker 1: give him a quarter to make a phone call. But
Speaker 1: earlier we know that Corey apparently had a quarter and
Speaker 1: made a phone call to How would the judge know
Speaker 1: that he didn't already call Allan?
Speaker 2: And it would have been so much easier had if
Speaker 2: Piene just said I just had a call from Sean
Speaker 2: or I just had a call from.
Speaker 4: Topanga and all of it solved. That's all you need.
Speaker 4: One of them walked out and made the phone call.
Speaker 4: But he said I had a call from Corey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it would have been a nice way to
Speaker 1: involve us.
Speaker 2: Can we talk about Rusty's jacketsible?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is it jacket? No?
Speaker 3: I don't think it's reversible. I think it's just a
Speaker 3: cool denim jacket with like interesting flare because it looks
Speaker 3: like there's a possibility that you can always like it
Speaker 3: and make an actual Jeane jacket on.
Speaker 2: Maybe.
Speaker 3: But man, I just loved it. I was like, I
Speaker 3: want this right now. I would wear that today. I'm,
Speaker 3: you know, basically trying to get that look right in here.
Speaker 1: Like, man, so you are the Alan Matthews of our podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's true. What what are we? The Dan Lord Golden Retrievers. Okay,
Speaker 1: Corey refuses, he doesn't believe he's wrong. Alan reveals himself.
Speaker 1: I don't believe I'm wrong either. Corey says he didn't
Speaker 1: need to come there. Alan scolds him. George Foeney told
Speaker 1: me you called You should have called me, Corey asks,
Speaker 1: so you could prove once again what a little helpless
Speaker 1: kid I am. Alan sternly responds, you will always be
Speaker 1: my son, whether you are six or sixty, and your
Speaker 1: problem is my problem. I am always going to be
Speaker 1: there for you. Corey shouts back, I want you to
Speaker 1: treat me like an adult. And then the judge intervenes,
Speaker 1: I've heard enough. Corey Matthews and Corey Matthews's father approach
Speaker 1: the bench. They take their spots, and he declares, I
Speaker 1: hereby sentence you to two years. Corey is confused. Today
Speaker 1: is your sixteenth birthday. Son. That means you have two
Speaker 1: more years of being a kid. You're luckier than most
Speaker 1: who appear before me. He then turns to Alan and
Speaker 1: I sentence you to take those two years and cherish
Speaker 1: them because they go by too fast. Alan agrees they do,
Speaker 1: don't they. The judge smiles. It's a speed trap wordplay,
Speaker 1: wordplay episode. We get a freeze frame of Corey and
Speaker 1: Allen looking at each other. Freeze frame.
Speaker 3: It's an interesting episode because it really is like so thematic. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because Corey and his dad don't actually.
Speaker 2: They don't really resolve.
Speaker 3: They just sort of get more comfortable with their situation. Right,
Speaker 3: They just both have to acknowledge it.
Speaker 2: They have to one of them from the other person's side. Right,
Speaker 2: That's all. That's all it is.
Speaker 1: You know what I just remembered.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: Michael Jacobs is a huge fan of He was a
Speaker 1: huge fan of the Twilight Zone really uh huh, big
Speaker 1: big fan of the Twilight Zone, and a couple there
Speaker 1: were a couple of episodes in particular that were his
Speaker 1: like favorite favorite. But I think in a lot of
Speaker 1: ways this episode, now that I think about it, with
Speaker 1: the weird town and the all the things that.
Speaker 2: Are altering universe to play out there, Yes.
Speaker 1: I feel like this was obviously it's a Jeff Sherman episode,
Speaker 1: but I feel like Michael may have taken some Twilight Zone,
Speaker 1: you know, because it also just feels like the You
Speaker 1: could say that the entire episode was somebody saying I
Speaker 1: want to do an episode about how raising children is
Speaker 1: a speed trap, and you could picture somebody driving and
Speaker 1: like going through a speed trap, and then Michael like
Speaker 1: thinking about it and being like, just like, I guess,
Speaker 1: like life, the real speed trap is raising children, and
Speaker 1: that is this That's the elevator pitch of this episode.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the elevator pitch of this episode is
Speaker 4: always Corey gets his license. True, that's because they do
Speaker 4: that in every sitcom, So Corey gets sure.
Speaker 1: But for the Boy meets World of it All, just
Speaker 1: an episode where it's about more than that. It's about
Speaker 1: how you know, driving, growing up too fast in the
Speaker 1: years and the missing out and all of that.
Speaker 3: So it's such a counterpoint to eric A license episode, though,
Speaker 3: which was just wrong, right, Like that was literally just
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the same situation, right, somebody gets their
Speaker 3: license and gets in trouble, or in Eric's doesn't actually
Speaker 3: get his license and still gets But in both cases
Speaker 3: you have teenagers getting their license or almost getting their
Speaker 3: license and then having a night out, and one becomes
Speaker 3: like a farce comedy of situation, and this one really
Speaker 3: just becomes thematic drama.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yep, absolutely. So then we're in the tag,
Speaker 1: we're in the Matthews living room. We see another home
Speaker 1: video of young Ben slash Corey playing, this time driving
Speaker 1: joy car.
Speaker 2: This won't hurt my head a little bit because seeing
Speaker 2: like a real living room like that was obviously not
Speaker 2: the Matthews living.
Speaker 1: Room, right at least not their first not the one
Speaker 1: we see their old house.
Speaker 3: I gout, but it just looks so real. It's like
Speaker 3: a real and I was like, and then we cut
Speaker 3: to our like very stagey set and I was like,
Speaker 3: this is this feels weird, Like I don't mind, like
Speaker 3: the videos when they were outside. But when we're like,
Speaker 3: can see somebody's living room with like people million about
Speaker 3: in the back, I was like, Oh, that feels so
Speaker 3: much more real than our show, which is just like
Speaker 3: an odd like I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, but you can't pass up an opportunity when
Speaker 1: you have real life Ben baby Ben a car in
Speaker 1: a video.
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 1: And then we're back on the sitcom. We see the
Speaker 1: Corey and Allen are watching the video together. Alan Pats's
Speaker 1: son on the show and wishes him a happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Corey thanks him and then asks when Alan thinks there
Speaker 1: will be tension between them again, which I thought was like,
Speaker 1: who says that?
Speaker 2: Who doesn't?
Speaker 1: When do you think we'll fight next?
Speaker 3: Michael jacobsy character, Now that I'm sixteen, I'm feeling this
Speaker 3: way about my.
Speaker 1: And we've resolved this conflict, Our next conflict will be
Speaker 1: it's just very interesting. So Alan admits, the next time
Speaker 1: we fight, it'll be over your choice of college. They
Speaker 1: start to nudge each other, play fighting. Corey tells his
Speaker 1: dad he's not going to college. Alan pushes back, then
Speaker 1: it'll be over the job you get, Corey tells him
Speaker 1: circus clown. Alan continues messing with him. I guess it'll
Speaker 1: be over the woman you're gonna marry. Corey gets serious
Speaker 1: to Panga and I have already run off to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Alan shouts to Amy and she yells right back, no
Speaker 1: more kids. Alan looks at Corey and shrugs, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm stuck. Corey agrees, and the two start to pretend
Speaker 1: fight again. We end on a freeze frame of Corey's
Speaker 1: feet jumping in the air and Alan's fists ready to
Speaker 1: throw a few punches.
Speaker 2: And luckily Alan does have another boy later.
Speaker 1: He sure does. Later in the series, he ends up
Speaker 1: with another son. Thank so you don't have to worry.
Speaker 1: He's not stuck.
Speaker 2: He can do it all again with another kid he loves.
Speaker 2: It's cute to see Ben and Rusty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fighting wrestling Mott daddy kids.
Speaker 2: This is the way they actually were on set too.
Speaker 1: They were they were like, thank you all for joining
Speaker 1: us for this episode of Podmeats World. Our next episode
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